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the 501. she wanted. The case was heard through,
and then, after a long contest between the jury, one
being for a farthing damages and the other eleven for
forty shillings, a verdict was taken for the plaintiff
with 40s. damages.
A BURGLARY as bold as successful was effected at
Messrs. Emanuels, the well known jewellers and
goldsmiths, on the Hard at Forum, between Satur-
day night and Sunday morning last, and property to
the value of 3,0001. effectually carried off. The rob-
bers, who throughout the affair appear to have
displayed the peculiar ability of their order to the
highest degree, effected an entrance at the back of
the premises in Wickham-street, through an unin-
habited ale and porter store, the door of which was
only secured by a padlock. Once in the store-house,
closing the door, they ascended to the upper storey, '
got through the root', and passing on to the roof of '
Messrs. Emanuel's workshop, picked a hole out., got
through, descended the stairs, broke open the lower
door, and crossed the small yard separating the house
from the workshop. The kitchen window of this
Was speedily forced, and a clear route through the
lobby of the house into the front shop at once ob-
tained. The burglars then appear to have carefully
examined the stock, and, confining themselves to
articles of small bulk, proceeded to collect the most
valuable rings, brooches, bracelets, &c. Only one
watch of high finish was taken, and one revolver.
The robbers having gathered about 3,0001. worth of
jewellery, retired as they came in safety. One of
the members of the firm and his family were in the
house at the time, and he admits to have been
alarmed by a noise once or twice, but, after opening
his bedroom door, attributed the noise to an adjoin-
ing house. The burglary, moreover, was committed
close to one of the borough police-stations, whilst
the front entrance of the premises is within a dozen
paces of the dockyard gates, where the dockyard
sentries and police are at all times stationed. No
clue as yet has been obtained to the robbers.
ALICE GREY was brought up on Wednesday a
second time before the magistrates at Wolverhamp-
ton, charged with perjury in the ease of the two boys
Randall and Perry, convicted of robbery on her evi-
deuce. After a very brief investigation, the prisoner
was fully committed to take ber trial at the next
Stafford assizes. In appearance she has grown pale,
but seems to have lost none of her self-possession by
imprisonment. On being asked the usual question,
it' she had anything to say in her defence, she re-
marked, " I think you are very prosy, that's all I
have to say." An intimation that bail might possibly
be found was decidedly negatived by the magistrates,
and the prisoner removed to the county gaol.
THE CASE OF DR. VAUGHAN, WhiCh SLOOd for trial
at the Central Criminal Court on Thursday, has
been removed by certiorari into the Court of Queen's
Bench, application being made to a judge at cham-
ber; for that purpose on behalf of Dr. Vaughan,
when an order was made for the writ to issue.
A RIVAL IMPOSTOR TO ALICE GREY Was last week
arrested at Canterbury, in the person of one Mary
Chippendale, a young woman who has exercised her
talents for the more simple object of gaining for
herself a comfortable home for a certain period, and
then decamping with anything of moderate value at
hand. She is believed to have lived upon the public
in this way for the last two or three years : at one
time imposing on some pious old lady, representing
herself as afflicted with relicious doubts, and seeking
the aid of an instructor to guide her in the right
path ; at another appealing to the Catholic priests of
the neighbourhood, as the daughter of a Baptist,
hating her father's creed and longing for the true
faith, to reach which she broke away from the house
of her cruel parent, but unhappily fell into the water-
butt, and so claimed shelter, clothing, and kindness.
At another time she is the niece of Dr. Hook, then
a lone girl rudely assaulted, then an heiress in
search of her grandmama. This last character
fortunately ruined her. Playing off this last character,
with a liver-coloured setter as her companion, and her
dupe as her friend, last Friday, at Canterbury, the in-
spector of police detected her in some manner, and
apprehended her as an impostor. The next day she
was brought before the magistrates, and was re-
manded for a week to enable evidence—which,
from all reports, will not be wanting—to be got
together.
THE GREAT FRAUD CASE OF DAVIDSON AND GORDON
VMS tried this week at the Central Criminal Court,
before Mr. Baron Alderson and Mr. Justice Coleridge.
The trial opened on Wednesday, with several indict-
ments. On the first of the two counts the prisoners
were charged with having after their bankruptcy
embezzled and secreted a certain portion of their
estate, in the shape of money, to the amount of
2,6001., and three bank-notes of 5001. each. Mr.
Ballantine, in opening the case for the prosecution,
proved the date of the adjudicature of their bank•
ruptey on the 21st of June,lBs4, and of two duplicate
notices of adjudicature having been served, in con-
tradiction to the evidence given on a former trial,
Mr. Ilamber, the Messenger of the Bankruptcy
Court, taking this opportunity to admit and correct

SATURDAY,

his previous error, in deposing that he had only left
one duplicate. Evidence was then produced to prove
the delivery, on the 17th, to different firms, by the
prisoners' orders, of spirits to the value of 4,300/. ;
that in the course of May the prisoners received
acceptances for upwards of 2,6001.: that on the same
day a cheque for the amount was presented at the
Union Bank, and cashed in five 5001. notes and one
1001. note; and that on that very night the prisoners
were seen at sea on board the Dover and Ostend
boat. On the 27th and 29th of June, and the first
week in July, three 5001. notes of the five previously
paid by the Union Bank were received by three
mercantile firms in London from Aix-la-Chapelle
and Antwerp, and it was with the embezzlement of
these notes that the prisoners were charged. At
this period of the proceedings Mr. Baron Alderson
took objection that there was no evidence to prove
that these three 5001. notes had ever actually been
possessed by the prisoners. Mr. Ballantine urged
that there was sufficient to go to a jury upon thse
points, but Mr. Baron Alderson said be saw no
evidence to prove the fact. Mr. Sergeant Byles,
for the defence, argued that no act had been com-
mitted which constituted an offence within the juris-
diction of the court, that the fiat of bankruptcy was
not issued till the 21st of June, when the prisoners
were abroad, and that the court under such circum
stances had no jurisdiction. Mr. Ballantine then
abandoned the charge of "embezzlement of notes,"
and continued the second count for " embezzlement
of money," which be contended was supported by
the evidence in the account-books kept by the
prisoners when abroad, showing an expenditure after
the issue of the fiat of bankruptcy. Mr. Baron
Alderson, intimating that the prisoners were charged
with expending English moneys, whereas it was
proved that they expended foreign moneys, declined
on the suggestion of Mr. Ballantine to amend the
indictment, and pointed out that the real matter for
the court to consider was, whether the prisoners
had committed any offence over which the court had
any jurisdiction. Mr. Ballantine then argued the
case in favour of the jurisdiction of the court with
great ability, but at the close of his address Mr.
Baron Alderson and Mr. Justice Coleridge argued
that there was no evidence to prove an offence com-
mitted in this country, and the jury accordingly
returned a verdict of Not Guilty. On Thursday and
Friday the prisoners were again put upon their trial,
charged with having within the last three months of
their bankruptcy obtained from their creditors goods
under false pretences, and with intent to defraud.
The delivery of large quantities of goods from
various firms within the time specified was proved
in six cases; and evidence being given to show that
the prisoners, since 1853, bad raised money upon
false warrants, the case for the prosecution was
closed. Mr. Sergeant Byles made an able defence
on the part of Davidson, contending that, although
his conduct rendered him amenable to punishment
under the Bankruptcy Act, it did not make him
liable to the penal consequences of the act under
which the indictment was framed. The court ad-
journed at the close of the learned sergeant's
address, and on Friday resumed the case, when Mr.
Montague Chambers argued upon similar points in
defence of Gordon. Mr. Justice Coleridge summed
up with great care, and the jury, after a brief
consultation, returned with a verdict of Guilty. The
learned judge then sentenced the prisoners to two
years' imprisonment and hard labour.

THE case of Mr. Nash v. Lord Ernest Vane
Tempest was tried at the Queen's Bench on Tues-
day, before Lord Campbell and a special jury. This
case has already been so frequently before the public
that the facts are patent. No new points were
elicitt,d, except the habitual drunkenness of Mr.
Nash, and his general mismanagement of the
theatre ; and Lord Campbell, in summing up, pointed
out to the jury that Mr. Nash did not complain of the
assault, but of the pecuniary loss he had been sub.
jected to by the conduct of Lord Ernest. The
learned judge then went through the evidence with
great care, commenting severely upon the gross mis.
management of the theatre, and recommending
moderate damages. The jury returned a verdict for
251. damages.
THE HOME SECRETARY is about to enforce the act
of Parliament compelling parents to subscribe
towards the cost of supporting their children when in
the Reformatories. Mr. W. Morgan, of Birming-
ham, has been intrusted by Sir George Grey with
the important functions of agent to the Secretary of
State tor the purpose of taking proceedings under the
Youthful Offenders Acts for recovering contributions
towards the maintenance of children detained in the
Reformatories. This appointment extends over the
counties included in the Midland, Oxford, and
Western Circuits, and includes nearly all the prin-
cipal Reformatories at present established in Great
Britain.

THE BURNOPFIELD Mumma, murder shows signs of
being cleared up. Richard Rayne and John Cain
were brought before the Newcastle magistrates on
Wednesday, charged with the murder of Mr. Ster-

DECEMBER 22, 1855.

ling. The evidence given simply proved the fact of
the prisoner Rayne having come to Durham on the
2nd of November and pawned a watch, and that a
blue button found on the ground within a few feet of
Mr. Sterling's body corresponded to a set, minus
one, on a waistcoat found in Cain's house. The
prisoners were remanded till the 28th.

BAKER, THE FOOTMAN, who in a fit of jealousy
blew out the brains of his fellow-servant girl,
Naomi Kingawell, at the house of his mistress, Mrs.
Poynder, of Southampton, on the 14th of October,
was tried on Thursday at Winchester before Mr.
Baron Parke. The facts of the case are fresh in the
memory of our readers. The prisoner had long
known and was extremely fond of the deceased, who
treated him rather capriciously, when in a sudden
tit of jealousy, or passion he purchased a pistol with
pcwder and ball on the 13th of October ; and the
next day, entering the kitchen, he suddenly blew out
her brains. The evidence of the cook, who saw the
whole transaction, of the surgeon who certified to
the cause of death, and of the gunsmith who sold
the pistol, having been heard, and the confession of
the prisoner read, Mr. Cooke in defence pleaded in-
sanity, and appealed to the life and religious princi
principles of the prisoner in support of bis view. Mr.
Baron Parke then summed up, pointing out that it
was for the jury to consider whether the prisoner
was insane, but warning them that a wide distinc-
tion must be drawn between jealousy, a strong
passion, and insanity. The jury, after a short con-
sultation, returned a verdict of Guilty. Mr. Baron
Parke, having put on the black cap, then proceeded
to pass sentence. Addressing himself at first to the
prisoner upon the horrible crime he bad committed :
" Yeu have," said the learned judge, " under the influ-
ence of agitated feelings, in conse4uence of being
rejected by the young woman upon whom you had
placed yonr affections, from a feeling of jealousy and
revenge, you have premeditated and carried into
effect that horrid crime. You left her not a single
moment for reflection, not an instant to think of her
past life, or to implore her God for that mercy which
we all require, but in an instant you took away her
life. You have allowed that wicked passion of jea-
lousy and revenge to take entire possession of your
mind without exercising that control and reason
which we all presume you possessed." The learned
judge then passed upon the prisoner the sentence of
death. The prisoner had dropped senseless on the
floor during the address of his counsel, and the
attendants were bathing his temples and supporting
him in a chair during the greater portion of the
trial. He appeared now to be more dead than alive.
MR. BARON MARTIN, according to the Morning Post
of Wednesday, did not, in the Wooler case, make use
of the expression imputed to him with regard to
suspecting some second person of having poisoned
Mrs. Wooler. The Post states, on " good authority,"
that the attacks which have been provoked by the
alleged remark have originated in a total miscon
ception of what was said by the learned judge. Baron
;Martin, at the close of his summing up, said that
there was no evidence to convict:the prisoner " or any
other person " of the crime for which Mr. Wooler
was indicted, and that, had ha allowed his imagina-
tion to play over the case, his suspicions would
rather have rested anywhere than on him.

Miss Florence Nightingale has, we believe, been
honoured by receiving from the Queen a most dis-
tinguished mark of her Majesty's appreciation and
esteem. An autograph letter, accompanying a
jewelled ornament of great beauty to be worn as a
decoration, has lately been sent by the Queen as a
graceful acknowledgment of Miss Nightingale's ser
vices by the highest lady in the realm.
St. Paul's School held its annual meeting on
Thursday, for the purpose of delivering the winter
orations and receiving the prizes. The ball was
gracefully decorated with a Russian trophy of arms
and helmets captured by St. Paul's boys before
Sebastopol, and hung with the flags of the allies.
Dr. Kyuaston the high master and a crowded
assembly were present, and orations with dramatic
representations from the plays of Aristoplianes,
Shakspear, Eschylus aedbere, given with great
effect.
The Common Sergeantship has become vacant by
the resignation of Mr. Commissioner Bullock. Mr.
Prendergast, Q.C., Mr. Ryland, Mr. Locke, and Mr.
Russell Gurney, are all candidates for the office.
The Hon. George Denman has declined competing
for the office. The salary of the Common Sergeant
is worth 15001., and that of the Commissioner 10001.
a year.
Mr. May has been appointed by the Queen to the
office of First Clirk Assistant of the House of Com-
mons, vacan thy the resignation of Mr. W. Ley.
A cast from the face and head of Mr. Rogers has
been taken by M. Beynes, for the purpose of execut-
ing a correct bust,

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Cabal anb Vilitarg

The Duke of Argyll has decided to send out imme-
diate instructions to the officers of the Army Post-
office in the East to open money-order offices for
the transmission of money to the United Kingdom,
at Constantinople, Scutari, head-quarters of the
army, and Balaklava.
General Lord Seaton, the Commander of the
Forces in Ireland, has arrived in Dublin from the
camp at the Curragh, the severity of the weather
having forced his lordship to discontinue his field-
days until the ensuing spring, when it is his intention
to open the season by a course of practice in artillery
aid Minie rifles. _ _ _ _ .

Orders have been received at Pembroke dockyard
from the Admiralty for the immediate construction
of four more gun-boats. The Ist of March has been
fired for their delivery.
Each captain selected to command the gun and
mortar boat flotilla for the ensuing year's Baltic
campaign, will have, attached to his squadron, a
line-of•battle ship armed en flute, as a store and
depot ship.
The iron mortar-boat lately towed to Portsmouth
from Bi,kenhead has undergone a series of effective
trials within the past few days at Spithead, which
have thoroughly tested its powers. 150 rounds were
tired with 201 b. charges, and many of the rounds in
rapid succession, less than three minutes intervening
between each discharge. The vessel sustained no
injury beyond starting the bulwarks and light-
framed woodwork on deck. The mortar-bed, con-
sidered too elastic, has had some of the elastic
material removed, and another trid will shortly
take place.
The commanding officeri of the Irish militia
regiments have been ordered to proceed to London
for the purpose (1 meeting the Ministt.r of War and
the Commander•in-Chief, and conferring as to the
practicability of a general volunteering from all
embodied regiments of militia into the regular forces.
It is added that after this course shall have been
acted on, the ballot will be resorted to for the
purpose of filling up the vacancies thus created in the
militia corps.
Colonel Trevor, Inspecting Field 0 cer, Dublin
district, has been suddenly attacked with a dangerous
illness.
An entire assimilation of the uniform of all officers
is spoken of as intended by the Admiralty, as well as
an increase of pay to the paymasters and clerks.

1215

THE TREATY WITH SWEDEN.
(From the Moniiewr of Thursday.)
Imperial Decree promulgating the Treaty con•
cluded Nov. 21, 1855, between France, the United
Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and the
Kingdoms of Sweden and Norway:—
Napoleon,
By the grace of God and the national will Emperor of
the French ;
To all present and to come, greeting:
Upon the report of our Minister of State iu the depart.
ment of Foreign Affairs have decreed as follows :
Art. I. A treaty having been concluded at Stockholm,
on the 21st of November of the present year, between
Fiance, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland,
and the United Kingdoms of Sweden and Norway, and
the ratifications of this act having been exchanged on the
17th of the present month of December, the said treaty, of
which the tenor Is as follows, will enter into full and entire
execution.

TRELTY.
His Majesty the Emperor of the French, her Majesty
the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and
Ireland, and his Majesty the King of Sweden and Norway,
desiring to prevent all complication of a nature to trouble
the European equilibrium, have resolved to come to sit
understanding with the object of assuring the integrity of
the United Kingdoms of Sweden and Norway, anti have
named Plenipotentiaries to conclude a treaty to this effect,
viz. :

His Majesty the Emperor of the French, Charles Victor
I.obstein, Officer of the Imperial Order of the Legion of
Honour, Grand Cross of the Royal Order of the Polar
Star of Sweden, Commander of the Order of Christ and
Chevalier of that of the Conception of Portugal, his Extra.
ordinary Envoy and Minister Plenipotentiary near his
Majesty the King of Sweden and Norway :
Her Majesty the Qucen of the United Kingdom of
Great Britain and Ireland, M. Arthur Charles Magenis,
her Extraordinary Envoy and Minister Plenipotentiary
near his Majesty the King of Sweden and Norway :
And His Majesty the King of Sweden and Norway, M.
Gustave Nicholas Algernon Adolphe Baron Stierneld, his
Minister of State and of Foreign Affairs, Chevalier and
Commander of his Orders, Grand Cross of his Orders of
St. Olaf of Norway, &c., &c.
These, after receiving respectively full powers, found in
good and due form, have agreed as follows :
Art. 1. His Majesty the King of Sweden and Norway
engage not to cede to Russia, nor to exchange with her,
nor to permit her to occupy any part of the territories
belonging to the Crowns of Sweden and Norway ; his
Majesty the King of Sweden and Norway also engages not
to cede to Russia any right of pasturage, or fishing grounds,
or similar rights, as well upon the said territories as upon
the coasts of Sweden and Norway, and to repel any preten-
sion that Russia may rsise to establish the existence of
any of the aforesaid rights.
Art. 2. In the event of Russia making to his Majesty
the King of Sweden and Norway any proposition or
demand, having for its object the obtaining either the ces-
sion or exchange of some part of the territories appertain-
ing to the Crowns of Sweden and Norway, or the power of
occupying certain points of the said territories, or the tete
awn of the rights of fishing. pasturage, or any other upon
these same territories, and upon the coastal of Sweden and
Norway ; his Majesty the King of Sweden and Norway en-
gages to immediately communicate this proposition to his
Majesty the Emperor of the French, and to her Britannio
Majesty; and their said Majesties will on their past en-
gage to supply to his Majesty the King of Sweden sad
Norway naval and military forces sufficient to co-opeiMe
with the naval and military forces of his said Majesty, hi
the object of resisting the pretensions or the aggressions
of Russia. The nature, importance, and the destination
of the forces in question shall, the case occurring, be
agreed to with a common accord between the three
powers.
Art 3. The present treaty will be ratified, and the
ratifications exchanged at Stockholm as quickly as
possible.
In testimony whereof the respective plenipotentiaries
have signed it and aflixed their seals.
Done at Stockholm. the 21st Nov.. the year of grace,
18.55. (Signed) V. LOURTEIN.
ARTHUR MAHENIR.
ST1E101114).
Art. IL Our Minister the Secretary of State for the De-
partment of Foreign Affairs is charged with the execution
of the present decree.
Done at the Palace of the Tuileries, Dec. 19, 1855.
NAPOLKON.

Seen and sealed with the State Bead,
fly the Emrsana.
The Minister of
Foreign Affairs,
WALEWSKI.

The Keeper of the Seals,
Minister of Justice,
ABBATTCCI.

The Baron de Lejetme, who is about to leave Paris for
Ispahan, to convey to the Shah of Persia the deco-
rations conferred upon him by the Emperor, is also
the bearer of the ratifications of a treaty, not purely
commercial, signed between France and Persia four
months ago.
A treaty of commerce between England and Swit-
7erland has been approved by the Federal Council of
Berne, and recommended for adoption to the Diet.
The treaty is said to differ little from one lately con-
cluded between Switzerland and the United States.
The subject of the Principalities is reported to be
finally adjourned, and Count Coronini is woe•
quentlT to resume the command time.