The Daily Times. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-06-14 00:00:00

COMMERCIAL FRAUDS. In * tnemorial recently addressed to the Board of Trade <and published in the Money Market Review of hue 0), Mr. W. F. Spackman, jun., furnishes the fol lovi* recapitulation of the losses —amounting to an aggregate of nearly four millions sterling—which have 6eezi snstained during the last three or four years through the inadequate system of audit of the accounts of public e wigivanies Royal British Bank.—Stopped payment in 1856. The taw& was caused by making advances to directors and others on improper and insufficient securities. Capital, £2084.100; deposits, £540,000 ; on which 15s. ia the pawl has been returned ; deficiency, ss. in the _Round, £135,400; total, £335,000. Tb.e Tipperary ilia.a.—Failure caused by the frauds of 88011eit. Accounts were wilfully falsified. Capital, : 46 600, 4 460; deposits, Ci 00,000; total, £1,200,000. I believe the whole has ibeeli lost. TLe Loadon and Eastern Bank.—ln this case the Utorieus Colonel Waugh appropriated to himself an %mount equal to the whole paid-up capital of the bank, and has since absconded and set his creditors at defiance. The loss exceeds £250,000. The Western Bank of Scotland.—Capital paid up 4600,000 ; deposits, £6,000,000 ; total, £7,500,000. EVery effort has been nude to prevent a complete ex- Posur• of the affairs of title bank. I do not know if any return has been made to - the depositors. At the evert estimate, the entire paid-up capital has been lost —Z 1,500,000. Via Crystal Palace Company.—The frauds of .nobson, committed by tampering with the transfer books, entailed a loss of £lOO,OOO. The Great Northern Railway Company.—Redpath's %%Ids, committed in a similar manner to Robson's. The auditors here were greatly at fault, as I understand that dividends were paid on a larger amount of stock wait had been issued. Loss, £250,000. The 'Onion Bank of London.—The frauds just dis ered, committed by the head cashier, William George lb . 'Winger, by means of a fictitious pass book, represent 141g fite account between the Union Bank and the Bank " &gland. The frauds are said to have extended over Pficied of fire years, and with a proper check in the 4 , ll (l4;;Or:Aght to h av e been detected in the first half-year. 4 4055, £63,070. Totallosies to the public, £3,898,070. ttrE l / 4 1RT of TBtE ROYAL COMMISSIONERS 4214 , 1 NATIONAL DEFENCES This report, dated February 7, wafi•issned yesterday. In the outset of the report, the Commissioners state %sir . opinion that a fleet alone is insufficient for the 44 feiCe of the United Kingdom. The introduction of lit iesan and other causes have operated to our disadvantage. The amportance of an efficient Channel fleet is, however, fully recognised. The consequent necessity for protecting dockyards is, therefore, laid down. The difficulty of Presenting the landing of an enemy is admitted ; and the Commissioners proceed to consider the means of defence against an enemy when landed. Our regular 41 1111 y is, and must always be, small ; and volunteers sould . not at first be able to meet the regular disciplined soldiers of Continental armies on anything like equal terms. The'conimissioners say, having carefully weighed the foregoing considerations—" We are led to the opinion that neither our fleet, our standing army, nor our volunteer forces, nor even the three combined, can be relied on as sufficient in themselves for the security of the kingdom against foreign invasion." They then pro teed to direct their attention especially to fortifications. "There seems no reason to doubt that such troops as ten be got together from the disembodied, or less per feetly.trained, portion of the militia, with local or other volunteers, would, with an admixture of regular soldiers, be able to defend our dockyards against very superior Mailers of perfectly disciplined soldiers." The cora eaissioners indicate that either an increase of the army ar fortifications is absolutely necessary, and they com- Pare the cost of the two. it would eost about £8,000,000 rat the outset, and 'toady £4,000,000 afterwards, to double the number of regulitt troops now at home, viz., abaft 66,000 men, excinsive of 'the Indian depots; and this would not be ati extraordinary increase if the aid of fortifications were be rejected. The same £8,000,000 expended in for 'entacnas would be far more effectual for the defence of th e L ioekyqrds than any increase of the regular army, w o w . incitlesktifily provide barrack accommodation for acme t hoisands of men, and would entail no future annual eharje. It laid down that we cannot fortify the whole Jusseilable patio)" of the coast, and that forti legions s h o old be restricted to vital points. The royal Clockyards are vital points, so also is Woolwich. The Uzi question is the cost. The amount of special estimate is £10,390,000, of Ahicli sum £1,885,000 is for the purchase of the land, *7,005,000 for the fortifications recommended for erection, £501,000 for the armaments of works, and 41,000,000 for floating defences. To this must be added £1,460,000 for works already sanctioned and in aourse of erection—t N 9 whole amounting to £11,850,000 es detailed below. The` places to be fortified are Ports koUth and Plymouth, w h . ich would absorb £5,820,000 ; Pembroke, £765,000 ; Porti l end, £630,000 ; Chatham, £1,350,000 ; Woolwich, £701,000; Dover, 335,000 ; Xedway. and Sheerness, £450,000; Cork, £120,000. The total cost includes the provision of barrack accommodation, for the most part bomb-proof, for about 3 0,000 men, and for nearly double that number when the works are fully garrisoned for the defence. This accommodation must have been equally provided under any other system of defence, and is already ur gently pose d to fortify. required in many of the places it is pro SKOCEING SUICIDE OP A POSTMASTER.—On Monday. / horning the inhabitants of Stafford were startled by the intelligence that Mr. Henry Cook, postmaster, had shot himself, with an immediate fatal result. The event took place about nine 'o'clock, and the suicide was effected by means of a pistol, which blew off a Piece of the temple. Dr. Day was immediately in attendance, list no medical aid could avail the un uaPPYinau. Mr. Cook had been postmaster at Stafford between three and four years, having formerly filled a similar situation at Windsor. During his occupancy of the office great improvements have been introchited in the management of the establishment, and he was melt zaspeeted by the inhabitants. His health had for some months been i n a precar i ous s t a t e , a nd there can be no doubt that the rash ad had been committed under severe Mai depression. Deceased was 63 years of age : and un married. EXTRAORDINARY CASE OF LIBEL. CHARGE OF ADULTERY AGAINST A SURGEON THE VERDICT. COURT OF EXCHEQUER. (Sittings at Nisi Prius at Westminster, before Mr Baron Wylde and a Common Jury.) BAINES V. BROWN. This extraordinary case was resumed for the third day on Tuesday morning. Mrs. Annie Burroughs was called and examined by Mr. Macaulay—l am the wife of Mr. Burroughs. I married him thirteen years ago. I have one child, a son, ten years of age. I have an aunt named Miss Smith, and had lived with my aunt from the time I was seven. She adopted me when my father died, and had no acquaintance with Dr. Brown before he made arrangements about his children, a boy and girl, seven and nine years of age. Mrs. Baines occupied a room upstairs, next to Prior's, the groom. The little girl slept with her. The boy slept with his papa. There was an expedition to Worthing in June, I had not previously observed anything between Mrs. Baines and my husband. I afterwards found him constantly in the nursery, and I told him to desist, as he had no right there. He said it was non sense—he denied going there, and said something about my being jealous. Some time after I came from Worth ing. On October 3rd, he came into my room and said he was ill. I got into bed, and as he did not come down for some tinie, I went to look for him, and saw him coming downstairs. (The witness here burst into tears.) They were the stairs from the passage leading to the nursery. He was in his shirt. He may have been 10 minutes or longer. He was two or three stairs down. I heard him whispering, and I heard Mrs. Baines reply. I could not hear what they said. I was in the doorway, so as not to be seen, as I had gone to the dressing room, and not finding him thought there must be something the matter. I asked him how dare he go there, and said that when Dr. Brown returned I would report to him, and have her turned away. He said he had been to put out the man's candle, and that Mrs. Baines had thought it was Jane, and said " Good night" to him. That was all that was said that night. When Dr. Brown returned I reported the matter to him in the presence of my aunt. The next morning Mr. Burroughs came to me in the greenhouse and said, " I have called out to Mrs. Baines, and said you have accused me of being in her room—l shall not dine at home to-day." Mrs. Baines was going for a holiday that d a y, _ _ and left ten minutes after Mr. Burroughs—between 11 and 12. He returned in the evening, and she returned at nearly the same time. She then came into my bed room. She said, "You accused your husband of being in my room." I said " I did, Mrs. Baines, but he had no business to tell you ; I will not have my husband's thoughts stolen away by anyone." She admitted he was constantly in the nursery, and she could not answer for his views. She said he had not been in her room. She said, "Do you wish me to leave ?" I said, " Not at present." I distinctly say I did not say I saw him come out of Prior's room. I said "If you give me your wort there has been nothing of the sort, I exonerate you." I said to the cook I would not have Prior's candle left burning, for I would not have Mr. Bur roughs going about the house to put out his candle, and told her to see it was always put out. The night of a party we had about a fortnight after this I saw Mrs. Baines coming out of my husband's dressing room, and he had his coat and waistcoat off. I told him he had better go and dress in my room, as all his things were there. He said nothing. Previous to that, on the same day, she had been decanting wine in the cellar with him. I never gave her any directions to go into the cellar with my husband. A fort night before I left home she became my servant, because I objected not to have control over her. Differences arose between us all, and I said I would not have Dr. Brown or the children unless I had perfect control over Mrs. Baines. She frequently went out in the evening unknown to me, but sometimes she asked. I recollect her child's death. The night be- fore the funeral I saw my husband and Mrs. Baines whispering on the landing. Dr. Brown was then at home. I said to sly husband, " I detest, I abomi nate the sight of you." I tore my hair, I dashed my head against the wall, I was frantic. He said, " Come and play whist." Miss Smith and Dr. Brown were there, but I did not say what I had seen. I did not then charge him with what had happened elsewhere. I did not play cards that night. The same evening and the next morning Dr. Brown intervened to reconcile my husband and myself. He charged me with excitability of temper, and said I ought to be more forbearing. My aunt was present when he said this. My aunt interposed, and took Mr. Burroughs' part. I went to Cowfold to the child's funeral the following day. Mr. Burroughs had not spoken to me that night or the following morning. I objected to go to the funeral, but my aunt and Dr. Brown begged me to go, and I went. When we were in the inn at Cowfold Mr. Burroughs was crying. I said to him, " Forgive me my passion." He kissed me and shook hands with me, and Dr. BrOwn joined our hands together. When the ceremony was over, my husband put his arms round Mrs. Baines's waist, and led her on to the pavement. He helped her into an open fly. On the 3rd of December (the Monday evening) he was going out as usual. He very rarely spent his evenings at home. I asked him to stay, and he said I did not want him when Dr. Brown was at home. I said " Such an accusa tion must be made to Dr. Brown himself when he comes home, before me." He made no reply but went out. He had never made such a remark about Dr. Brown before. He never complained before that. He seldom returned till one or two in the morning. On December 8 I telegraphed for Dr. Brown. On the Tuesday I told my husband I intended to have a Christmas tree party. He said he would have no more parties. On Wednesday, the 7th, my aunt did not come down to breakfast. He went to her room, and, on his return, said she was determined to leave, as my temper was so bad, and had advised him to send me away. I went to her, and asked her how she dared to separate me from my husband. She flew into a passion, and said she would leave. He said he would send me away, and I said, "Do not for the sake of my I was taken with spasms and knew nothing more till the evening. That same day he took my little boy to the theatre. He brought him home and made him sleep with me and went out again. He never slept in my bed after that. It was the next morning I telegraphed to Dr. Brown. I sent the child to his father to ask who I should send for. The child returned with the message that my husband did not care. (A Mrs. Thomas here came into court, when Mrs. Burroughs said, " Oh, may I leave ?" She was then taken out of court in violent hysterics). _ Mr. Macaulay—Could there be any arrangement by which this lady would be less subjected to the inspection of certain persons in court ? Mr. James—l do not know what my learned friend means. Though my client is a lady's servant and his is a lady, my client has as good a right as anyone else to be in court. I cannot conduct my cause unless she sits here to instruct me. Mr. Macaulay—These hysterics are evidently caused by the apparition of Mrs. Thomas. The jury having interposed, Mrs. Thomas took her seat in another part of the court less directly opposite the witness box. After a delay of a few minutes, Mrs. Burroughs returned, and the examination was proceeded with—l again sent the child to ask his father to come to me. He came to my bedroom door, and I asked who should I send for, as I must have some one to advise me. I said, " Shall I send for your brother Frank ?" He said, " He would not attend to you." I said, "Shall I send for Dr. Brown ?" He said, " Yes." On the 9th, the following day, 'my husband and Dr. Brown Were out riding the whole day. On the Sunday following my husband went to London. On Tuesday, the 13th, Mr. Frank Burroughs came —my aunt had telegraphed for him. On the evening of that day Dr. Brown brought Mrs. Baines into my room. My aunt was there. This was before the outbreak between my husband and Dr. Brown. I was crying very much because Mr. Bur roughs had said in the morning to Mrs. Baines, " Either you or I must leave the house, because Prior (the groom) has been making accusations against us." My husband had said he would clear the house of the whole kit of us. When Mrs. Baines came into the room she knelt down, and said, " Forgive me—it is not my fault." She kissed my hand. I believe I said "Go to Mr. Burroughs and tell him so." I never saw Dr. Brown again while he was in our house. Mr. Frank Burroughs told us to go into the room and not to make such a noise. I was cry ing, and all the children were crying. When I was at church, and my husband was at home with Mrs. Baines, I did not say to her I was glad my husband had been with her and that she had not been left alone. When Mrs. Baines lost her child I went into her on the Sunday, and put my lips to her forehead, and told her not to grieve. We went to London on the Wednesday by Mr. Frank Burroughs' express desire. Miss Smith and my son went with me. Mr. Frank Burroughs took lodgings for us in Guildford-street. On the Friday my husband and Mr. Frank Burroughs came to me in Guildford-street. He said—" If i did not come back 1 should never see him again." Mr. Frank Burroughs was there. I said—" When you have shaken hands with Dr. Brown, whom I have been the means of turning out of the house, I will return." I said this because he had said to me—" Annie, we have both been deceived by a lyigg villain." These were the first words he said. Of course I knew who he meant by his manner. By my beingi the means of :turning Dr. Brown out of the house, I meant by his interference on my behalf. There had never been any intimacy between me and Dr.l Brown beyond that befitting a mistress of a house and a guest. Except when my husband said I did not want him when I hail Dr. Brown, he never complained of my demeanour to him, nor made any suggestion about it. Dr. Brown was very much engaged in photograph ing all day long, except at dinner time. I wrote a note to Dr. Brows, enclosing his letters. Besides that note and the i tejegram, I never held any communication with him. The note merel y ' bere reference to thy health of Dr. Brown's children, and to ordinary topics, and was signed, "Yours sincerely.") Rcarnination continued—lt is not true that my hus band and I lived happily until Dr. Brown came to reside with us. We had differences at times—great tr.fferences. On the Saturday I got the note from my husband, commencing " Dearest Annie." I returned with him on the Sunday night. On the Saturday night my husband slept in Guildford-street, but not in my room. I had written to him that I would return if he would do as I desired about shaking hands with Dr. Brown, have all my ser vants back, and turn all the remains of Mrs. Baines' family out of the house. I had heard from Mr. Frank Burroughs that Mrs. Brown, Mrs. Baines's mother, was keeping house for him. I did not know Mrs. Baines had returned, and was there. On the Sunday he asked me to return, I asked him if he had done as I asked. He said no, he had not, and would not do so. He went on his knees and asked me to return, and said he should become a beggar if I did not do so. He then went to Forrest-hill fur his child. At five o'clock he returned with a note from his mother, begging me to return, and thus urged I did so. I remained in my husband's house until the 4th of January. I never left my room all the time. I was suffering from low fever. My husband came to me three or four times during that seventeen days. On one occasion he brought Dr. Winckworth to see me. I said I should like to go from home for change of air, but my husband took no notice. Dr. Winckworth had advised change of air. I believe I was really ill. I went away with my aunt and child on the 24th, and Dr. Brown met us at the station, and accompanied us to the lodgings. I went to see Mr. Webb, my solicitor, on the Monday, with the view to right myself. I have filed a petition against my hus band in the Matrimonial Causes Court. I concealed my address by my attorney's advice. In all the lodgings I was in Dr. Brown never slept under the same roof with me. There has never up to this moment been any undue familiarity between Dr. Brown and myself. I wrote a letter to my husband on the 25th of February. Cross-examined—I was in Norfolk-street. I put no date to the letter. I expected my husband's reply through Mr. Webb. Dr. Brown had not written to me during the 17 days after I returned to my husband, nor did Ito him. Ido not know how he happened to meet us at the station. My aunt was constantly writing to him. I did not know Dr. Brown was to meet us at the station. I believe my aunt did, but I can not say. I was ill. I went to the Adelphi the night after. Dr. Brown was one of the company. I do not believe I ever went to Mrs. Dalliston's with Dr. Brown alone, my aunt and little boy having gone on before. I told my aunt, Miss Smith, to tell my hus band that I wanted to go to town to see the Billings. They called at my lodgings while I was out with Dr. Brown. My aunt said on my return that the Billings had been there and said it was not proper. I had gone with him to Pratt, the chemist, in Oxford-street, as I had a bad foot and leg. Mr. Billing married my cou sin. He is a clergyman. I said I would go with her to the Billings, and explain the position we were in. We left the lodgings in Stanhope-street, because the drains were so bad. We left Stan hope-street on the sth of January, and went to Westbourne-terrace. Dr. Brown was there for an hour or two. We were sitting by the window watching for him to come. He came two or three hours after we arrived. I don't think he was there on the 9th. My son wrote a letter to his father without any address. The envelope is in my disguised hand. The child in his letter asks his father to write to him. I have never from that day to this given my address to my hus band. We remained at Westbourne-terrace a fort night. The defendant called there five or six times. He dined or took tea there when he came. I don't think he was there ten'times. I never went out with him there without my little boy or my aunt being with us. I was not constantly walking about London with him and my child. From Westbourne-terrace we went to Southend. The doctor came down there two or three days after ; he was an invalid, suffering from diphtheria, at the time lodgings were taken for him. Before the lodgings were taken for him he slept at the Royal Hotel. My aunt kept up acorrespondence with him. I saw the letters. His children remained with me about 10 days. We often went out together there. He breakfasted and took his meals with us. He passed the whole of his time with us, and we never went out without his accompany ing us. We were 13 or 14 weeks at Southend. From there we went to Nelson's Portland Hotel, Portland square, and remained there one night. The defendant called upon me the next morning. 111,Y aunt had tele graphed to him. He did not drop in "promiscuously." He had advised us previously to go there. We addressed him at 33, Great Russell -street. We were not surprised at his calling there. The defendant took the lodgings at Downshire-hill, Hampstead, at my aunt's request. We remained there a fortnight or three weeks. He was constantly there, and might have remained as late as eight or nine o'clock at night—certainly not so Lite as eleven o'clock. I did .not go in a cab with him and my servant to London. He hailed the omnibus on Hampstead-hill, and put ine and my servant into it. I never went with him to London. I once went with him and my little boy to my present residence. I decline to say where it is, for fear of my child being taken Trom me ; but upon being told she must, she said, at "4, Ashburnham Cottages, Highbury." I took lodgings at the house first, but afterwards I took the whole of it in my aunt's name. The Doctor frequently calls and leaves about 'ten o'clock. He has never slept there. He resides in Tavistock-street. He has not paid me any money for his continued entertainment. I believe he has lent my aunt money. I don't know that he has paid the expenses of the house. My aunt's plate is at Dr. Brown's banker for money he has advanced her. Part of the money has been spent on the establishment. He might have dined there three or four times, but he usually comes to tea, and spends the evening, from seven to nine &clock. I believe he has lent my aunt have no means. He lent her some at Southend, and she gave roe n e ev ed er . him her ings in the Divorce Court. Ido not impute adultery been with me t p o la m te y as at see torn ar e i y tY 's . to the plaintiff on the night of the 3rd October, when relative B r t o o w t n he has p my husband said he had been up to put out the grooms ' candle. I don't charge her with having with having done so. between the I st and 6th com mitted adultery with my husband then. I charge her of November, when I was away from home — the scene, th e groom must describe. Jane Howard, the woman who has been with me ever since I left hoine first, told me of it ; on that I have made the charge. Jane Howard first told me of it on the night Mr. Burroughs threatened to turn me out of the house. I told Dr. Brown of it at Southead. I believe he knew of it before. After Mr. Burroughs said he would not dismiss her, and after I saw her in his dressing-room at the time of the party, I put my husband's clothes in her charge. I was excited, and tried to think it was not my husband on the stairs. My aunt left me at one time, and then Mrs. Baines attended on me when. I had spasms. She never complained of my temper being intoler able until the time of the dreadful quarrel. Mr. Frank Burroughs took me 'to Guildford-street ; he said in doing pa he should offend his brother, but it was an act of humanity. I was willing Dr. Brown should never become again an inmate of the house—all I wanted of him was to shake hands with Dr. Brown and exonerate me. I never asked for Dr. Brown to be admitted into the house again. My husband was frequently away in the daytime, and I was in the habit frequently of being in the photographic room alone with Dr. Brown, but not more when my husband was away than when he was at home. The room was in the yard, where the servants were about. I have been in the room locked in with him when he was taking photographs. The room was locked to prevent the children from coming in to disturb the taking of the portraits. By Mr. James.—Had he got your likeness in his bedroom ? Witness (hesitating)—Well, he had Mrs. Baines's likeness there as well—(laughter)—and many others. I believe I had his photograph in my bedroom. Mr. Burroughs asked me to sit up with Mrs. Baines's baby ; I declined, being too ill, and Mr. Burroughs went and sat up with it until four o'clock in the morning, an d on his return I reproached him for his conduct. I told Dr. Brown, when I was sueing for a separation, what had occured with my husband at Hailsham. M y husband's conduct before`' marriage was publicly known ; it was in the newspapers. Re-examined—Dr. Brown never made a model of my mouth. He prepared the wax, and I made the model myself, for fear of the doctor's hurting me. My husband was in the room at the time. I never told Mrs. Baines that the defendant had taken a model of my mouth. The model was taken before Mrs. Baines entered the service. lie once put his hand on my shoulder when I was in his bedroom, and old Mrs. Burroughs was present. It was about unpleasantness about the children. By Mr. James—The doctor's children are not now with me. By the Judge : The servants told me of the groom's story, and that Mrs. Baines often walked out at night with Mr. Burroughs., I consider a part of the £ll6 arrangement is due to me. The doctor's children are at school now, and will be with me in the holidays. Ann Itudgeman deposed that Mr. Burroughs used to go into the nursery and Mrs. Baines into his dressing room. She had known him remain in the nursery for an hour when the children were not there. He was alone with Mrs. Baines. The door was open. Mrs. Baines did not remain longer than ten minutes at a time in the dressing-room with Mr. Burroughs. The door was partly open on each occasion. • She noticed that, latterly, the visits were more frequent. On ony occasion she saw Mrs. Baines run out of the day nursery, and Mr. Bur ropgha standing close against the wall in the nursery. She afterwards told witness that she had come down from her bedroom ; that Mr. Burroughs was standing in the room to frighten her. She asked witness if she bad seen Mr. Burroughs, and she replied, Yes." She had known them to In in tip 40441 g-room and nnrserY THE DAILY TIMES, T talking with the doors nearly shut. Mrs. Baines told us in the kitchen that Mr. Burroughs had said she should not garter below the knee, as it would spoil the shape of her leg. (Laughter.) Jane asked her how it was master knew where she tied her garter. (Laughter.) Mrs. Baines replied that he saw it as she was going up the cellar stairs. Mrs. Baines was often alone with Mr. Burroughs iu the cellar. She used frequently to go out evenings about the same time Mr. Burroughs went out. On one occasion witness put the children to bed for Mrs. Baines, and she desired her to say she was gone to bed it she was inquired for. When Mrs. Burroughs was at the theatre the plaintiff and Mr. Burroughs were together in the day nursery for about au hour. He then left and fetched Mrs. Burroughs home. The door was not quite shut. Mr. Burroughs sat in front of the fire, and Mrs. Baines near the table. He used to laugh and talk more with Mrs. Baines than the other servants. Mrs. Baines said " She could not say Mr. Burroughs had not kissed her, because he had." Cross-examined —She left because Mrs. Burroughs left. Dr. Brown took her to Mr. Holmes's, at Capel, near Dorking, where he resided some time. She was still living with the Holmes's. Dr. Brown spoke about the sad affair, and Mrs. Burroughs leaving. Jane told him of what she had seen of Mrs. Baines's going on as she ought not to have done. Witness had said nothing. She afterwards admitted that she had told him about the nursery and the dressing room. (Laughter.) She waited upon Dr. Brown when at Capel, but he had not spoken to her about it. Prior went to Capel in Mr. Holiness service. Mr. Holmes is a large farmer. Prior had not gone out with the doctor with a large cockade on his hat. (Laughter.) She left Holmes's service a week ago, because they could not agree. Jane Howard left Horsham and found Mrs. Burroughs, three or four days after the latter had left. Dr. Brown told her to join Mrs. Burroughs. She told Mr. Lloyd, upholsterer, Horsham, that she had not seen anything improper between Mr. Burroughs and Mrs. Baines. By the Judge—Had you seen anything improper ? Witness—No. By the Judge—Then what you told Mr. Lloyd, was true ? Witness—Yes. Some of the times Mrs. Baines went out at night was when her baby was ill. Re-examined —Mr. Lloyd said, if you have not seen anything improper, you cannot make much of that. (Laughter.) Jane was chaffing him, and Mr. Lloyd said Jane was jealous that Mr. Burroughs had not given her medicine instead of Mrs. Baines. (Laughter.) The further hearing of the case was adjourned till Wednesday. The case was resumed yesterday morning, when the examination of witnesses on the part of the defendant was continued, but their evidence was so unsatisfactory as to call for frequent interruptions on the part of the jury, who have more than once expressed an opinion that it was simply a question of damages. The learned Judge himself was compelled, in one instance, to threaten a committal. As we learn by telegraph, a verdict has been returned for the plaintiff with £350 damages. EXTRAORDINARY CASE OF ROMAN CATHOLIC PROSELYTISM. On Mondry afternoon the Norwich magistrates were occupied with a case of very considerable interest and importance ; the Rev. Canon Dalton, priest of the Roman Catholic Chapel in St. John's Maddermarket, Norwich, two jewellers named Beha, and an auctioneer named Foulsham, being summoned with reference to an attempted flight from Norfolk to the metropolis of a young gentleman named William Henry Vansittart, son of Mr. W. Vansittart, M.Y. for Windsor. Mr. Van sittart attended to watch the proceedings, and was further represented by Mr. Carlos Cooper, barrister, of Norwich ; the parties on the other side being defended by Mr. W. L. Mendham, the town-clerk. William Henry Vansittart, a youth about 16 years of age, was then examined. He said—l am the son of Mr. W. Vansittart, M.P. for Windsor. My father lives in Dover-street. He is a Protestant in religion. On the 25th of May, I was placed with the Rev. Mr. Hodgson, rector of Rackheath, Norfolk, for the purpose of being educated, and in order that I might be out of the way of the priests. I remained at Mr. Hedgson's till Saturday, between five and six o'clock. On the morning of that day I left his house, and came to Norwich. I went to the Catholic chapel, in St. John's Maddermarket. I looked about for a little while until I heard some one tap at a window. It was Canon Dalton. Lie asked me what I wanted. I said I wished to speak to him. He then asked me into the house, and when I had got in I told him I had run away from school. He asked me who my father was, and I told him he was member for Windsor, and a Protestant. I told him that I had been at school in the country at Rackheath. He asked me if I had any Catholic relations, and I told him I had. I also told him that I had seen a Catholic priest at Rackheath ; that I was acquainted with some Catholic priests, an d also knew Bishop Grant, of Southwark. He gave In a a glass of wine,and after-I had taken it I felt rather stupified. was asked to have another glass, but I did not take it. I went with him to mass, and after it was over, accom panied him to his private room. He asked me to break tast with him, and inquired what I was going to d o. I told him I was going to London to see the Bishop o f Southwark, and he then offered to advance me som e money for the purpose of paying my railway f are. I said I had got a watch to dispose of. He looked at it and said I ought not to take less than two guinea s for it, as it was a very good watch. He then said h e would take me to a German watchmaker's named Beha, and get him to buy it of me, adding that, if my father saw I was determined, he would no doubt let me become a Catholic, as I wished. Mr. D a l ton gave me a little relic of the immaculate conception. (Laughter.) When we got to Beha's, Mr. Dalton asked one of the Beha's to speak with him privately. He afterwards said to him in my hearing that I had got a watch to dispose of, and asked him to buy it. Beha looked at it, and said it would not be of any use to him. Beha afterwards took the watch away, an d when he came back said he had sold it for 15s. Canon Dalton gave me 6s. more to make up a guinea for my railway fare. He then gave me his card, said he hoped the affair would go off pleasantly, asked me to write to him, and then left. I was having dinner with the Beh as when a police inspector came in. Mr. Cooper—What induced you to leave Mr. liodg son's ? Witness—l had seen an old Italian priest. I think his name is Giugini, or something like that. I saw this Italian priest about on the Tuesday befor e I l e ft Mr. Hodgson's. Mr. Hodgson had left his hom e on the . Tuesday for the purpose of celebrating a marriac,e, had seen the same Italian priest when I was at school at Brighton, about three weeks or a mouth ago. I s aw him crouching down under a hedge, so as not t o b e noticed. He had on a large loose cloak, and a little Italian hat, and his features were rather muffled up. I had some conversation with him. It was through the persuasion of the priest that I was induced to leave. As soon as he came up he said to me, "How do you du, my hope you young friend ? lam very glad to see you. I - you will not dese rt our faith. " He also sai d , "Before we proceed further, I must get you to take a most solemn oath upon this holy relic not to say that you have ever seen me, or that I have been here." I took the oath upon the relic. He then said, "As you still wish to become a Catholic, I will advise you (as your school.. fellows vulgarly call it) to cut and run. Remember, whatever you are doing it is for the glory of God." I asked him what I should do. He said there were plenty of Catholic chapels about, mentioniug the Jesuitical one in Willow-lane, Norwich. He then kissed me on the forehead, and said, "Adieu, carissimug ; we shall meet again," I had no idea of leaving Mr. Hodgson, before this conversation. Saturday afforded the first opportunity of leaving. I attempted it on Friday, b ut without success. In cross-examination the witness said : I also men tioned to Mr. Dalton Mr. Bowyer, M.P., as a gentleman whom I knew in London. Mr. Bowyer is a very dis tant relation of our family. When I got to Londo n j[ was first to communicate with Mr. Bowyer, and wh en my father saw that I was determined, Canon Dalton said he had no doubt that he would give in. Mr. Vansittart, M.P., on being sworn , stated that the youth who had been the subject of inquiry was his only son. As regards his own religious opinions he was a strong Protestant. His son was originally intended for. the navy, and he had obtained a nomination for him. The boy failed, howev er , to pass the very severe examination, as he could not grapple with mathematics and double decim a l s. He was then placed with a Mr. Jansen, who kept a military seminary at Brighton. Mr. Jansen was in the habit of taking some of his pupils abroad with hi m during the summer vacation, and as he (Mr. Vansittart) thought it would be 13 very advantageous thing that his son should see the continent, he permitted him to go. The boy had spent' his last winter in Ireland, with some relations ; when he came back he seemed restless and uncomfortable, and on his going back to Mr. Jansen's he showed evident symptoms of having imbibed Roman Catholic principles. Perhaps, when abroad, he had been struck with the chapels and the "nunneries" connected with the Roman Catholic re ligion. He was telegraphed for to Brighton, and on going down he found the boy had been secreted some where in a place known to a Mr. Clery, a Roman Catholic priest. He called on Mr. Clery, and insisted on his son being restored to him. Mr. Clery agreed to do so, and afterwards, on looking about for a good Pro testant clergyman in the country, he (Mr. Vansittart) heard of Mr. Hodgson, and sent the boy to him. The Mayor, after consulting with the other members of the bench, stated that they considered the case a very serious one. They should remand it for a week, and iq the meantime issue a warrant for the apprehen sion of a person called Father Giugini. All the parties summoned were admitted to bail. TUE Rry. J. BONWELL.—In the Court of Arches, yesterday, this case was advanced apother stage, and is n9w ripe fur fAtiler hearing, RSDAY, JUNE 14, i 8662 CURIOUS REVELATIONS AS TO THE GALWAY PACKET CONTRACT. Revelations have unexpectedly been made respecting the manner in which Mr. John Orrell Lever and his friends " worked up" the Galway contract. The Transatlantic Irish Line forms no exception to the modern mode of obtaining Government assistance. We have "promoters," "agents," and " dangltrs on the lobby," and regular agreements strictly drawn up between the promoter and the agents he employed. The public understood that the inquiry respecting the Galway contract was all over, when suddenly the com mittee announced on Friday that they would hear some evidence from Mr. George O'Malley Irwin. Mr. Lever, Mr. George O'Malley Irwin, and a Mr. Thomas Knox Holmes, met at the Golden Cross Hotel, London, on the 2nd of June, 1858, to settle a treaty intended to be advantageous to all the high contract ing parties. Mr. Holmes was represented as all but omni potent with the members of Parliament, and, happily, in high favour with Governments, whether Conservative or Liberal. A word from him was the making of a company, his frown was its destruction. Mr. O'Malley Irwin also thought himself powerful either as an enemy or a friend, and both gentlemen set no small value on their services. They were to use their best efforts, and to exert all their powerful influence, in order "to procure a subsidy from Government, or from any persons having power to obtain or grant such subsidy from Government, in favour of John Orrell Lever, in the matter of the Galway Line." On the other hand, Mr. Lever, having a high estimate of the value of their services, engages to reward them liberally. If the subsidy amounted to the sum of £172,840 per annum, then Mr. Lever was to pay to Messrs. Irwin and Holmes the sum of £lO,OOO. Should the subsidy be less or more than £172,840, then he was to reward his indefatigable agents with a sum of money having the same proportion to the subsidy granted as £lO,OOO bears to £172,840. Nothing could be more clearly or concisely expressed than the terms as they are stated in legal documents presented to the committee. But small fish, as well as great, were to be enclosed in the net. There was a chance that the Government might not be induced to bleed, and provision had to be made that the labours of the two gentlemen should not be altogether fruit less. The Midland Great Western Railway of Ireland is to be "influenced" and coaxed into granting a subsidy or subscription in the matter of Mr. Lever's " projected undertaking of starting the Indian Empire steam vessel in an experimental trip from Galway to America and back." The proportionate reward to be given to Messrs. Irwin and Holmes are laid down with all the exactness of an arithmetical progression. If the subsidy or subscription amount to £3,000, they are to receive but £lOO. If to £3,500, they are to get £l5O. £4,000 is to produce £250. £4,500, £350; £5,500, £450; and, to stimulate exer tion, if the subsidy exceeds £6,000, the agents were to receive £l,OOO. All, no doubt, very satisfactory to the parties immediately concerned. Great was the uproar raised by the Liberal members when Lord Eglinton granted a subsidy to the Galway line. Lord Eglinton knew the wants of Ireland, and granted the aid of the State to an endeavour which he sincerely believed to be made for the purpose of opening up Irish resources. He knew nothing of Mr. Lever, and could know nothing of these proceedings. It was to the Galway Line he granted the subsidy, not to Mr. John Orrell Lever. But, according to Mr. O'Malley Irwin, the influential parties whom he " worked " were all Liberals of the first water. There is but one Conservative in the list of personages won over by the insinuating chloroform of Mr. Irwin. Baron Rothschild, Sir J. Duke, Messrs. Peabody and Scholfield, Lord Clanricarde, the Duke of Leinster, Colonel French, &c., were the patriots upon whom he manipulated. Had Lord Eglinton refused to listen to such parties, he would have been accused of rejecting a grand national endeavour, because the noble men and gentlemen who supported it were of politics opposite to his own. Mr. O'Malley Irwin, according to his own account, worked hard. He introduced Mr. Lever to the parties named above ; he induced Mr. George Alexander Hamil ton to receive a deputation; he drew up memorials, " which distinguished people signed ;" he went to the Irish Office, to the Post-office, and the Admiralty. Nay, with a bundle of pamphlets under his arm, he waylaid Lord Derby,walked beside that nobleman from St. James' Park to the Treasury, " where he was left at the door." The fragment of his conversation with Lord Derby which he remembers is not over complimentary to his Galway friends, for "he wishes that a wisp of hay was stuffed into the mouth of some of the Galway chaps," a phraseology expressive, no doubt, but not very classical. But Mr. O'Malley Irwin's own opinion of himself throughout the business is, that he acted with " very great tact and consummate judgment." Mr. Lever, as all the world knows, did obtain the contract, and Messrs. Irwin and Holmes wished to receive their £5,200. Five thousand two hundred pound's is a large sum, and one not to be parted with on the moment. Mr. Lever thought twice about the matter, and then decided not to pay. A writ is served upon him in the joint names of Messrs Irwin and liolmes, and Mr. Lever answers that by a plea of fraud, under the advice of Mr. Chitty. The commit- tee partly examined Mr. Lever, but ceased to do so when it was found that a trial for the amount claimed wil take place on Thursday ; but he said quite sufficient, when under examination, to show that his estimate of the services of his agents is wonderfully small, indeed. The Galway Line must be judged of, not by its pro moters, but by the benefits it confers. The trial will determine bet ween Mr. Lever and these influential gentlemen. But one thing is already proven—namely, that, the parties who were most urgent with Lord Eglinton belonged to that section of the House which afterwards accused him of political corruption because he granted their request.—From the Irish Times (a Dublin daily paper) SERIOUS CHARGE AGAINST A MINISTER. - Henry Hatchett Corrard, an Independent minister, residing at Small Heath, Birmingham, was, on Monday, charged with a disgusting offence. The prisoner was appre hended on Sunday, at Leamington, after preaching a sermon at a church in that town. Two CHILDREN FOUND DEAD.—Ou the morning of the 3rd inst., six young children—the eldest not more than eleven, and the youngest scarcely five years of age --went out a crow-nesting unknown to their parents, and lost their way in the hills which separate Kirkurd from Broughton parish, in Peeblesshire, owing to the dense fug whi c h th a t n i g ht preva il e d, and which ended tu a heavy rain with east wind. The two youngest were found quite dead within a few yards of a shepherd's lonely dwelling skirting the mountains, into which the four survivors had found their way more dead than alive. NEW COLONY AT THE RED RIVER. Intelligence from Red Ri ver points t o t h e conc lu s ion that the pro ject of erecting it into a separate colony will give as much satisfaction as anything else that could be done. Some of the colonists are in favour of annexation to Canada ; but the more the question is considered the less powerful do their arguments appear, and the stronger does the party in favour of a separate colony become. The objections to annexation are obvious and powerful. There would be small guarantee for the proper administra tion of the affairs of a colony, distant from 1,200 to 1,500 miles from the seat of administration, and not entitled to over one or two representatives in an assembly of 120 members. Besides, it is not to be expected that Canada would be willing to incur any extraordinary expense fcm such a colony, from which she could expect no adequate present return, and perhaps not during the present generation. On the contrary, if the affairs' of the colony are administered on the spot, they will be handled by meu who understand them ; it will be self-government, instead of government by another province, situated at an immense distance and to whose revenue the Red River colonists would contribute out of all proportion to what they at present pay. There are some of them who think that even the government of the Hudson's Bay Company would be tolerable com pared to this. The erection of a separate colony will give the local magistrates an opportunity of satisfying such ambition as it is permitted the inhabitants of a very young colony so indulge; and this will, no doubt, be a conside ra ti on . O n th e whole, I incline to the opinion that the project of the Imperial Government will give as much satisfaction at Red River as any other that could have been adopted. —Correspondent of the Canadian News. A CANTING THlEF.—Robberies of poor-boxes having been committed a few weeks back in different churches in Paris, the police were ordered to be on the watch, and after a while one of them on duty in a church perceived a sanctified-looking man, w h o carried a prayer - book under hi s arm, grop i ng in a poor-box with a short stick, to which glue was attached. When this person had left the church, the officer tapped him on the shoulder, and said that he must accompany him to the commissary of police. "I !" exclaimed the other, casting up his eyes to heaven. " Yea, you !" " But what have I done ? I have just been praying in the church !" "You have been doing something else than praying ; you have attempted to steal money from the poor-box!" " You are mistaken, my dear sir," answered the man ; adding, "May God parden you fur your injustice in suspecting me—as I pardon y ou w i t h a ll my h eart! " "Amen !" responded the officer, " but come to the commissary !" When before that official, the man said he was a Belgian, named Ver mesch, and on being searched, a box containing glue, and a small stick to which glue still adhered to one end, were found on him. "Is it with such things that boxes in churches are robbed ?" remarked the commissary. "Not by me, I assure you," answered the man, "and the proof is that I have the glue to employ as a remedy for corns." "But how comes the stick to be covered with glue ?" "Because, sir, every Sunday, after vespers, Igo into the country to endeavour to catch birds." On Thurs , day he was brought before the Tribunal of Correctional Police on the charge of robbery, and tbough with raised eyes and clasped hands he in a whining tone protested his innocence, he was eoadcmued to fifteen. months' HD prl9Onnießt, THE INSURRECTION IN NEW ZEALAND. DESCRIPTION OF THE BATTLE. The Sydney correspondent of the Times gives a graphic sketch of the unfortunate affair in New Zealand between the military and the natives. Ile says : The native discontent in New Zealand has burst into open insurrection. Notwithstanding that the Governor collected all the available naval and military resources at his command, and fully paraded them before any con flict began, Wirimu Kingi remained undaunted, and prepared for attack. There is a deliberateness and deter mination about his conduct which betoken a settled purpose and a long-meditated scheme. The insurrection is still local, though it is spreading ; some even of his own tribe stand aloof from him, and the powerful neighbouring tribe of the Waikatos, who occupy the centre of the island, have repudiated all connection with this movement. Still he puts himself forward as the representative of an idea that has great fascination for the native mind—that of the restoration of a Maori nationality, and its preservation by the refusal to alienate any more land to the colonists. This idea, under the name of the "King movement," has agitated the natives for some years past, and led to much discussion among them. Some, afflicted at the decay of their race, have earnestly contended that their only hope lay in a consolidation of the various tribes under one monarch, and the strict retention of the land they still possessed. Others have contended that such a position of hostility to the white race would only commit them to a hopeless struggle, and that it would be better for them to surrender frankly their distinctive nationality, and by coming under English law strive to attain to English civilisation. The immediate cause of the quarrel was the sale of a small piece of land by Te Teira. Wirimu Biagi for bade the sale and obstructed the survey, though without offering personal violence. The Governor could not admit this opposition, as the seller was anxious to sell, and his title was undisputed on any valid grounds. The interrupted survey was completed, under the pro tection of the troops, on the 13th and 14th of March, the seller being present, and pointing out the bounda ries. The rebel natives offered no opposition beyond erecting a slight " pah " that commanded the road between the land and the town, and threatening inter ruption to the carts carrying supplies to the troops. The firmness of the mounted escort, however, overawed resistance, and there was no collision brought about. Shortly afterwards the pah was evacuated on a summons to that effect from the Governor. This, however, was the last act of submis sion, and from that time Kingi assumed a position that made a conflict inevitable. On the night of the 15th, he built another pah, of considerable strength, in a corner of the purchased laud about a mile from the camp, and his followers performed the war-dance. A further act of defiance was exhibited by them next day, when they began to pull up the survey pegs and make fires along the line. On the 17th, the officer in com mand of the troops sent a written summons to the pah, but its reception was refused, and the messenger was warned off. Patience had now reached its limit, and it was resolved to drive the natives from their pah. They thus succeeded in causing the first shot to be fired by the Europerns—a point to which they attach great importance. Shortly after noon Colonel Gold, who was in com mand, opened fire. He had with him two 24-pounder howitzers, one 12-pounder howitzer, and one rocket tube. He had also with him 300 soldiers of the 65th, 25 men from the Niger, and a mounted escort of colonists. As the troops advanced, the natives blew a born in token of defiance. The artillery opened at the respectful distance of 800 yards, on the north west angle of the pah. After a few discharges, the natives ran up a red flag on their flagstaff, indicative of their determination to resist. The guns were then moved round to the west side, and planted this time within 200 yards, the distance being gradually reduced to 150 yards. A fresh move was sub sequently made round to the north side. While this last movement was being effected some natives were seen to be leaving, and, under the impression that they were cowed and beating a retreat, some of the mounted escort rode close up, but were received with a volley that killed one of them on the spot ; and two privates, who were in the rush to the rescue, were wounded, of whom one died subsequently. The men were with difficulty restrained from making a rush at the pah. It was now evening, and the ammunition was expended. The pah had been greatly knocked about, but not destroyed or rendered untenable. The guns were withdrawn, breastworks thrown up, and the troops camped under arms on the seaward side of the pah. For a long time during the darkness the natives kept up an incessant fire, which did no harm. After breakfast Colonel Gold advanced his guns to within 30 yards of the stockade, and opened a heavy fire with shell and common case shot. When at length a broach was made a rush took place immediately, when, lo! the pah was found empty. The natives had retired during the night on the side that remained unguarded, having left only two or three behind to keep up a deceptive firing. The pah, on investigation, was found to consist of 10 chambers excavated in the clay and communicating with each other, and capable of holding 250 men, though not more than 150 were lodged in it. The chambers were overlayed with rafters and a layer of fern and earth, about two feet thick. The whol e was surrounded by I: double fence, filled in with earth and fern, and loopholed for musketry. Provisions for two months were found stored up. Though rifle-proof, this native fortification had been considerably knocked about by the artillery. It was destroyed by the troops, who then returned to camp. The news that the natives had all escaped capture was heard with dismay by the colonists, who loudly condemned the commanding officer for not bringing his artillery into closer quarters at first, and " rushing" the pah over night, or at least surrounding it so as to pre vent escape. From the testimony of one of the natives who has since been into the camp, it appears that they were terribly frightened at the effect of the artillery on their defences, and that though none were killed, a great many were wounded. The natives, after recovering from their fright, began to construe the engagement as a victory, and the effect of this indecisive action on the native mind was soon seen. Manahi, a Taranaki chief, who had quite recently taken the oath of allegiance, began with his men to Plunder the neighbourhood. A party of 100 volunteers, supported by a company of 200 of the 65th, were sent out to look after him, and halted within half-a -mile of his encampment. But Colonel Murray, who was in command of the regulars, declined to take his men into the bush; and the volunteers, though anxious to advance, would not do so unsupported, anti so they returned to town without doing anything. Natives now begun to muster round Manahi, and two days after this ineffective reconnoitre news arrived that three settlers and two lads had been found murdered. Great anxiety was then felt for several families, number ing about 35 souls iu all, who were still in the bush, and who, it appears, had congregated in the house of Mr. Brown, the Episcopalian clergyman. An expedition was organised to bring them in, and this led to a second and more de cisive engagement, that takes rank as the battle of Wai reka. The expedition consisted of about 80 volunteer rifles, 60 militia, 25 of the naval brigade, and the light company of the 65th—in all about 260 men, under the command of Colonel Murray. The two former parties followed the beach, the two latter took the road. Starting at about 1 o'clock, the first-named, after a short march, perceived the natives on the opposite sida of a stream in front of them, principally in the valley of a small affluent, their pah being entirely on the ridge between themselves and the sea. The Europeans advanced in skirmishing order, and then began an irregular fight, principally in the flax gullies at the mouth of the little stream and on the fiat above, in which the attacking party made up by their superiority in weapons for their inferiority iu point of numbers. After about an hour of this irregular firing the naval brigade, who bad come by the road, appeared on the inland side of the gully, and, getting into pretty close quarters, did considerable execution. In another hour they were joined by a detachment of the 65th, who also proved very useful. The greater portion of the regulars were halted about three-quarters of a mile off, and did not take part in the engagement. Notwithstanding their losses, the natives were so numerous that they managed to enclose the volunteers and militia on two sides. The ammunition these latter had brought with them was nearly expended, and their position was getting critical. They sent a messenger to Colonel Murray to tell him how they were situated, but without getting either sympathy or help. He returned answer that his orders were to be home before dark, and that, as they had got into a mess with out his orders, they might get out of it ; and he forthwith sounded the recall, taking back with him the naval brigade, whose commander, Lieutenant Blake, had been wounded at the commencement of the action. The volunteers, thus left to themselves, and expecting every moment to be "rushed," reserved what little ammunition they had left, and, thinking a retreat dangerous in the face of an expected attack, hastily protected their position as well as they could by a low breastwork of logs and straw. Shortly after dark they heard a great cheering, and could manage to see that the flag iu the pah was down. They were preparing ' to join in the rush, but, there being no response to their own cheer, their leader thought the whole thing a ruse to withdraw them from their cover. It was however, no rues, but a most fortunate diversion effected by Captain Cracroft, of the Niger, and 50 o f hi s men, who, a rriving late, "rushed" th e p a h with cutlass, bayonet, and revolver, took the flags, and returned on the road and over, took the troops, reaching town with them about half-past six. The natives had been so astonished by the sudden assault of Captain Cracroft, that they quitted their attack on the volunteers, and returned in haste to the defence of their little stronghold. The volunteers, finding themselves no longer mottled, began, at seven o'clock, cautiously to effect their retreat, bringing their wounded with them, and reached home a little after midnight. About half a mile from home they met a relief party, which had been rather tardily despatched in search of them. The num ber of the natives engaged in this contest is estimated at from 600 to 600. It is thought that at least 100 were killed, and it is known that 10 influential chiefs fell. On the European side, the loss was only 2 killed and 11 wounded. The effect of the engagement was in this respect very decisive, though the immediate object of bringing in the settlers was not achieved. That, however, was effected safely on a subsequent day, the natives baying fallen back into the bush. The want of harmony between the regulars and the volunteers has created a very bitter feeling in the small community of New Plymouth. The latter complain that while bearing the brunt of the fight they were cruelly abandoned, and but for the timely and unex pected assistance of Captain Cracroft they would have been cut off to a man ; while the military men complain that the volunteers, from their rashness and ignorance of the art of war, are always getting into useless scrapes, and expecting the soldiers to get them out again. The volunteers declare they will not serve under Colonel Murray again, and. ask to be enrolled with the naval brigade. The Governor, in order to moderate the vehemence of the prevalent feeling, has personally besought the editors of the local journals not to discuss the subject. Meanwhile he has sent to Australia for help, and his request has been promptly responded to. All the vessels of war on the station have left for Taranaki ; the City of Sydney has started from here with 120 men of the 12th Regi ment, 40 artillerymen, and 6 sappers, with a large supply of ammunition. The City of Hobart has also been chartered to take 216 soldiers from Melbourne. The force thus concentrated will, it is hoped, be sufficient to bring the war to a speedy conclusion. week's AP RIL 2 l. later We have received by sailing ves se l s a news from New Zealand. There had been no more fighting. Some further particulars are given of Captain Cracroft's gallant attack on the pah. It appears that the Niger arrived from Manakau after the expedition had started from Taranaki, and that the captain, finding what was going on, landed at once with fifty of his men, and hastened to the scene of action, and, though it was dark on his arrival there, he resolved at once on storming the pah. Having, harangued his men, and promised £3 to the man that pulled down the rebel flag, and finding the practice of a rocket tube he had brought with him altogether too unsatisfac tory for his ardour, it was left behind in charge of a small party, and the pah was "rushed." No single man could claim the honour of seizing the flag, the rush was so instantaneous. Four of the men were severely wounded, but great execution was done among the natives, who were shot and bayoneted as they tried to hide themselves in the chambers of their pah. The rebel flag has been publicly presented by Capt. Cracroft to the Governor of New Zealand, who has ordered the staff of it to be properly inseribed with an account of its capture. The steamer Airdale had sailed from Manakau for Taranaki, taking 85 men of the Goth Regiment and a supply of warlike stores.' tan oda edg- able for ock. :asei iing Mist sat led ing by ital lis ng 64 d 0 ~f t niTRAORDINARY'ATTEMPT TO MURDER A CHILD BY BURYING IT ALIVE. At the County Magistrates Court yesterday (before /flessrs. Wm. Rathbone and Thcs. Brocklebank), a case Tag heard which divulged a most singular and extra rdinary attempt to murder a child, by its mother btarying it alive. The mother of the child is named kun Murphy, and up to the 11th of this mouth she was ft inmate of the West Derby Workhouse, where the .0 bild was born on the 31st of May. On Monday last $ he discharged herself from the Workhouse, taking the I dant with her. On the evening of the following day, Mr. Thomas Harris, a gardener in the service of evemiah Chaffers, Esq., was proceeding along Anfield toad, Cabbage-hall, he heard cries, apparently those of a kild buried beneath the ground. - Upon searching in ' tl ke direction from which the cries appeared to proceed, k e discovered beneath some earth and sods in an Ljoining shrubbery a little girl about a week old, • tked, and nearly dead from suffocation. He imme cli ately gave information to the police, and in company • ith James Money, police•constable 579, took the child to the West Derby Workhouse, where it was identified by' some of the inmates as being the daughter of Ann M tqphy, the pauper who left the house on Monday. s tl le officer went to the residence of Ann Murphy in ti ?per Beau-street, Liverpool, and on seeing her asked for • tile- child. The woman replied that she had sent it t p Glasgow. She was then, after being cautioned, eht trgtd by Mr. Gough with concealing and exposing het: child with intent to murder it. The prisoner let ated very much surprised at this, but after several itradictory statements admitted that she had left the ehi ad in the place named. She afterwards said, " I 'do' et believe it would have died because I bad not bap sd it." At the hearing of the case yesterday Mr. zgh, the governor of the Workhouse, was first called. •said—" This woman, Anne Murphy, was admitted into -the West Derby Workhouse on the 12th of May last. On the 31st of that month she was delivered of a fermi ' , child, which was christened Susan. The child Was a very peculiar looking one ; I don't recollect ever Seein g one like it before : it had two teeth marks. On Monday last the prisoner and her child left the Work house, :and on_the following day police-officer 579 and Mr. Thomas Harris brought the child to the Work house, saying they had found it buried beneath some 'sods Anfield-road. I admitted the child, and soon Merits stamission some of the paupers recognised it as the one which was born on Monday. I also saw the teeth marks and identified the child. The officer and Myself proceeded to the residence of Ann Murphy, in * Upper Beau-street, and upon . telling her with what she Was charged she *said, " I don't think it Would have 'died, because it had not been baptised." The officer took her into custody. • James Money was then called. He said, I received information at 8-30 last night that a child had been 'found beneath some sods in Anfield Road. From information gathered froMthe books of the workhouse Gough and myself went to Beau-street and saw the IPrisauer. I cautioned her before she said anything and %he admitted leaving a child there, but said it would sot die because it wasn't baptised. I then took her into custody. As Mr. Harris who found the child could not give 'evidence yesterday the case was remanded until he can appear. The child is still suffering from the effects of its Irutal treatment, and its recovery is extremely doubtful. lariat praise is due to Mr. Gough and to Mr. J. Money for - their exertions in the discovery of the woman ; but fee them she would probably have escaped. THE SICILIAN REVOLUTION. LETTERS FROM PALERMO. The following are extracts from the letters of the special correspondent of the Tines : GA.RIBALDI Hi THE STREETS. In the afternoon Garibaldi made a tour of inspection round the town. I was there, but find it really im possible to give you even a faint idea of the manner in which he was received everywhere. It was one of those triumphs which seem to be almost too much for a man. The most wonderful thing I ever saw in this way was the reception of Napoleon and Victor Emmanuel at Milan, just about a year ago, and I am almost inclined to think that the one yesterday was more extraordinary. The entry of the sovereigns was something more formal, which prevented the full expression of popular enthusiasm. They were on horseback, and surrounded by their guards, while the popular idol, Garibaldi, in his red flannel shirt, with a loose coloured handkerchief round his neck, and his worn wide-awake, was walking on foot among those cheering, laughing, crying, mad thousands; and all that his few followers could do was to prevent him from being bodily carried off the ground. The people threw themselves forward to kiss his hands, or, at least, to touch the hem of his garment, as if it contained the panacea for all their past, and perhaps coming sufferings. Children were brought up, and mothers asked on their knees for his blessing ; and all the while the object of this idolatry was as calm and smiling as when in the deadliest fire, taking up the children and kissing them, trying to quiet the crowd, stopping at every moment to hear a long complaint of houses burnt and property sacked by the retreating sol diers, giving good advice, comforting, and promising that all damages should be paid for. TREASURE GIVEN UP. Yesterday afternoon (June 1) the Finanze, a large building in the Toledo, was given up by the royalists. No one supposed that the money had been left in the building, but so it was ; the Neapolitans were so sure of their position that they did not think it necessary to pro vide for emergencies, and so above 5,000,000 ducats, or above 41,200,000, remained in cash. The exact sum is 5,444,444 ducats ; out of this only about 100,000 ducats are government property, the rest private deposits. M. Crispi, the Secretary of State, went there in com pany with the cashiers and comptrollers of the establish ment; a proas-verbal was drawn up and signed by the above -named employe's, as well as the captain in com mand of the post. He had about 125 men with him, who were allowed to retire with arms and baggage. They had only one man wounded, which is easily explained by the good position they held, and by the fact that no regular attack was ever undertaken against them. While in their posts, they amused themselves with firing from sheltered positions at all passers-by. Even since the armistice two men are said to have been killed close to the Porta Felice. From the papers found it appears that 792,000 ducats were taken out of the government funds to defray the war expenses, which were rather heavy, as the soldiers have received double pay ever since the beginning of the disturbances. THE SEIRRI AND THE SOLDIERS. On one point only the people are implacable, and that is the deatk of the sbirri, who are hunted down like wild beasts, and shot wherever they are found. In the first days, especially, there were regular hunting expeditions undertaken against those best known, and many were killed before anyone could interfere. If one recollects what misery the espionaage of these people had entailed on the population, one can scarcely be sur prised at the popular fury against them. The desertions still continue, and, strange to say, mostly among the non-commissioned officers, sergeants, and corporals. HORRORS OF THE BOMBARDMENT. One might write volumes of horrors on the Vandalism already committed, for every one of the hundred ruins has its story of brutality and inhumanity. It is, above all, in the quarters to the right and left of the Royal Palace, mostly inhabited by the poorer classes, and thickly crowded with monasteries, that the horrors can be witnessed by everyone who walks up. In these small houses a dense population is crowded together even in ordinary times; the fear of the bombardment crowded them even more; a shell falling on one, and crushing and burying the inmates, was sufficient to make people abandon the neighbouring one and take refuge a little further on, shutting themselves up in the cellars. When the royalists retired they set fire to those of the houses which had escaped the shells, and numbers were thus burned alive in their hiding places. All about the neighbourhood of the Albegeria the air is charged with the exhalations of the corpses imperfectly covered by the ruins, and with that greasy smell occa sioned by the burning of an animal body. If you can stand the exhalation, try and go inside the ruins, for it is only there that you will see what the thing mea ts. You will not have to search long before you stumble over the charred remains of a human body, a leg sticking out here, an arm there, a black face staring at you a little further ou. You are startled by a rustle, you look round and see half-a-dozen gorged rats scampering off in all directions, or you see a dog trying to make his escape over the ruins; myriads of flies rise up at your approach, and you hurry gut, i n or d er to escape their disgusting and poisonous contact. I only wonder that the sight of these scenes does not convert every man in the town into a tiger, and every woman into a fury. It is stated that Kossuth is at present in Paris. The Newstead Abbey estate was offered for sale yes terday. The highest bidding reached £121,000, when the auctioneer announced that the reserve bid was £lBO,OOO. THE EMPRESS AND THE ZOLTAVES.—Letters from Nice speak of the impression left in that town by the Zouaves of the Guard :—" The Empress Dowager of Russia frequently spoke to the sentinels as she passed them, and she one day told the persons round her that she never could have expected to find common soldiers possessed of such perfect tact and rare intelligence. All those who were spoken to about the English Crimean medal immediately evinced a generous embarrassment, and endeavoured to avoid the questions addressed to them by turning the conversation to another subject. The Grand Duke Nicholas, who was at Nice with his mother, was also very partial to the Zouaves; he knew most of tho officers, addressed them by name, and frequently entered into conversation with the non-commissioned officers and privates. One day, two Zouaves who saw an old man knocked down by a carriage, took him up in their arms to carry him to his house. While doing so the Empress happened to pass in her carriage, and, seeing the soldiers engaged in their kind act, stopped and offered them two 20f. pieces. The Zouaves, thank ing her Majesty for her kind attention, said, The money will be more useful to this poor man, and we beg your Majesty to allow us to offer it to him.' The Empress, much affected at this kind action, felt pleased at repeating it," • • svorting :Ifuttitigtnre. NEWTON EACES.---YEsTERDAy. Master Bagot Birdcage • Baronet Weasel Horace Miss Julia TRIAL STAKES. NEWTON lIANDICAP. Twelve ran. AfAIiERFIELD PLATE. ............ Seven ran. HAMPTON RACES. -YESTERDAY. MIDDLESEX STAXES. Claire Borderer King Forest Confusion .. Little Lady Audrey Sever ran. INNKEEPERS' PLATE. Four ran. CLAREMONT STAKES. STAND PLATE. RACING FIXTURES FOR 1880. Southampton Odiham Bibury Club JUNE. 15 Winchester. 19 Newcastle... 20 Chelmsford.. dTAMES STEWART AND co., OFFER THEIR CELEBRATED "JJ " WHISKY, 8 years old, at MartelPs Old BRANDY, Pale or Brown 24s. Finest Sehiedam HOLLANDS, incases.... 300. 6: 345. per Dos. PI PP in wood London, Plymouth, or Bristol GIN, full 12s. strength PI IN ANY QUANTITY FROM ONE PINT UPWARDS. JAMES STEWART & CO., 'WHOLESALE WINE AND SPIRIT MERCHANTS, AND BOTTLERS OF ALES AND PORTER, • QUEEN INSURANG►E-BUILDINGS, 11, DALE-STREET. YT S H . 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Falloon, Captain James Peat to Mary Edgesznitta, eecond daughter of the late F. Codd, Esq., of Devonport. DEATH. On the 11th inst., at Manchester, whilst on a visit to her 'laughter, Mrs. Edward Brooke, Caroline, wife of Thomas Alston, Esq of Southport. law INVENTION.—ThS NkW FOUNTAIN Pas. ---A greater annoyance than a bad steel pen can hardly be met with—the, difficulty is to get a good one. Amongst the recent improve ments the new " fountain pen," just introduced by Rudball and Co., is the best we have ever seen. By a simple but elec.- tive contrivance the ink is retained in mums a fountain, by mes of a second inverted barrel, above the writing nib, and this barrel can be taken out at any time, so the pen can, be kept perfectly clean without any chance of being corroded. Anothur feature in this pen is, that one dip in the ink wil last for five minutes' quick writing. The pen itself is of the finest description, and in merchants' offices, hanks, and indeed in every place, it will. be found to fill a want felt by every one up to tills time. We have tried this splendid pen, banded to us by :fir. E. T. Hall, South John-street, and can pronounce it perfect, and we are sure all who use it will give a full verdict in its favour. HOLLOWAY'S FILLS •ND OINTNIENT.—LOWIICSS of Spirits, Hypochondripism, Insanity. These formidable diseases are usually caused by a disordered condition of one or more of the digestive organs, and most deplorably commence at the meri dian of life. The distressing symptoms need no enumeration : they are known in some degree to the wisest and best of man kind, as well as the weakest. Whenever tho liver, stomach, and kidneys are roused, the morbid feelings and ideas vanish. To effect this happy result, nothing mo':e is needed than tric tion over those organs with, Holloway's Ointment, whilst Die Pill* are likewise taken. The change of thought is immediate, happy, and lasting. Those whom these medicines have c confess that their influence over the mind is magical.