The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-07-18 00:00:00

COURT AND TABLE TALK.

His Royal Highness the Prince Consort, attended by
Major-General the Hon. C. Grey, left Osborne on Mon-
day morning for Buckingham Palace, to preside at a
meeting of the Statistical Congress, about to assemble in
London.
The Earl of Clarendon and Lady Constance Villiers
have returned to London.
His Royal Highness the Prince Consort arrived at
Buckingham Palace, from Osborne, at half-past two
o'clock on Monday afternoon attended by Major-General
the Hon. C. Grey. The Prince lauded at Southampton
from the royal yacht Fairy, and travelled by a special
train on the southwestern Railway to the private station
at Vauxhall.

At a quarter to four the Prince left the Palace, and
his Royal Highness opened the International Statistical
Congress, at. Somerset House, at four o'clock. Earl
Spencer, Lord Waterpark, Major-General the Hon. C.
Grey, Colonel Seymour, C. 8., and Lieutenant-Colonel
Ponsonby, were in attendance.
His Royal Highness returned to the Palace at five
o'clock, and received delegates from several foreign
countries and from her Majesty's colonial possessions,
who were severally introduced by the Right Hon. T.
Milner Gibson.

His Royal Highness the Prince Consort paid a visit
in the afternoon to the Hereditary Grand Duchess of
Mecklenburg-Strelitz, and afterwards went to the South
Kensington Museum, attended by his Equerry in
Waiting.
The Prince Consort honoured the performance at the
Royal Italian Opera, Covent-garden, with his presence
in the evening. Lord Waterpark and Lieut.-Colonel'
Ponsonby were in attendance.

Mr. Ewart, of Liverpool, and Mr. Watson, had an inter-
view with the Right. Hon. T. Milner Gibson on Monday,
at the office of the Board of Trade.

THE CHILD MURDER AT ROAD.

Sir G. C. Lewis, Home Secretary, has despatched
Inspector Whicher, of the metropolitan detective police,
to Road, for the purpose of endeavouring to dissipate
the mvstery'whih still hangs over the murder of the
child of Mr. Kent.

The inspector reached Trowbridge from London on
Sunday evening, and proceeded ou Monday morning to
Road, where he had an interview with the magistrates
by whom the inquiry has been conducted. In the
course of the conference Elizabeth Gough, the nurse-
maid, was brought before the Bench and was liberated.
After sitting for about two hours with closed doors, the
representatives of the press were admitted.
The Rev. R. Crawley said the magistrates had little
to communicate beyond the fact that Inspector Whither
had been sent down from London, and that the investi-
gation was now placed in his hands. A reward would
be immediately offered—Xloo by the Government and
£lOO on the part of Mr. Kent, to any person giving
such information as should lead to the conviction of the
perpetrator Af the crime, together with a free pardon to
any accomplice not being the actual murderer. The
nursemaid had been discharged, and had been informed
that she was at liberty to go where she liked, and she had
stated her intention of returning to the discharge of hor
duties at Mr. Kent's house.

It was then announced that the inquiry would be
adjourned till Friday next, and in reply to an inquiry
whether the proceedings on that day would be public it
was stated that in the event of any evidence being then
takers on oath the public and the reporters would be
admitted, but that at present the magistrates were
unable to say what course would be pursued.
Mr. Lopez, magistrate, wished it to be known that
the house had been re-examined and re-searched in
every possible way ; and that every inmate, except
the infant, had been called on to state what they
knew in reference to the matter. The best super-
intendents of the force had been engaged in the
investigation, and it was only an act of justice to
the police and to the magistrates to state that they
had used their utmost exertions in endeavouring
to trace out the.guilty party. The two servants men-
tioned by Mr. gent as having formerly lived in his
.employ, and as being parties likely to have had au
against him, had both been found out by the police, and
It was proved that they were many miles distant from
the scene of the murder on the night of its occurrence.
He (Mr. Lopez) was only sorry that the magistrates had
no more information to communicate to the press in
reference to this extraordinary case.
At the conclusion of the sitting Inspector Whicher,
accompanied by Superintendents Foley, Woolfe, and
others of the county constabulary, proceeded to Mr.
Kent's residence, and made a further inspection and
search of the premises.

The practicability of removing a child about the age
of the deceased from its bed without waking it, or dis-
turbing the persons sleeping in the same and adjoining
rooms has been tested by the police, and has been
accomplished in three instances.

Mrs Ross, the mother of the champion rifleman, is
daughter of the late Colin M'Cree, Esq., of Cornhill,
Perth, who was a large planter in Demerara and South
America. She is a lady of comparatively short stature,
but many of her feats with gun and rod are recorded
along the banks of Tay and on the moors and rivers in
Aberdeenshire, and many a heavy salmon has she landed,
and brought down not ir few moorfowl. One of her
shots is well known among the tenantry on the estate
of Aboyne, where in 1849 or 1850 Mrs. Ross killed a
grouse with a single rifle bullet at a distance of a hun-
dred yards.
ARCIUEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE OF GREAT BRITAIN AND
IRELAND.—The sixteenth annual congress of this asso-
ciation will be held at Gloucester during the ensuing
week, Lord Talbot de Malahide being president, and
under the patronage of the Lord Lieutenant and Lord
Bishop of the diocese. The presidents of the sections
are :—History : Sir John P. Boileau, Bart. Antiquities .
Dr. Guest, Master of Gonville and Caius College, Cam-
bridge. Architecture : Professor Willis, of Cambridge.
No richer locality than Gloucester could have been
selected by the society.---Bristol Mercury.
FRIGHTFUL LEAP OF A MARE.-o.n. Sunday morning
week two dray agricultural horses, belonging to Mr.
WM. .Clark, of Helhe.ad Hall, near Kendall, were
grazing on the.coramou land, near the hall, known by
the name of Halhead Nab, or more commonly known as
" Hollin Nab," being the north end and termination of
Cuuswick Scar, and when the two horses had reached
the extreme point of the "Nab," they were observed
by Mr. Clark, who was walking in some fields at a short
distance, to suddenly become restive, am then corn-
-menced plunging and kicking at each other, and in the
affray Mr. Clark observed the mare to slip and lurch
on the edge of the Scar, as if she were tailing over, but,
suddenly recovering herself, she made a leap down the
fearful, precipice, among the sharp edges of the rock and
loose stones at the bottom of the Scar— then fell, and
rolled over. Mr. Clark instantly haitened to the spot,
and quite expected to have found his favourite mare
crushed and killed where she fell, but the reader may
judge of his surprise and joy when, on reaching the spot,
he found the mare quietly grazing amongst some scroggs
near the place, and, beyond some half--a-dozen scratches
on her breast and flank, caused by her rolling over the
sharp stones, nothing the worse frost her frightful leap,
which, on being measured by Mr. Clark, was found to
be rather over fifteen yards. We saw the mare carting
on tlie day after her leap, and she has been regularly at
work since.—Kencial Mercury.
A WORD ON BEHALF OF Tilt GERMAN BANDS.—It
is a Chet that it is a very gainful speculation for the
poorer children of the "Fatherland" to unite in those
harmonious troops, and to spend a few months amongst
us, or even:a few years. They are for the most part
respectable lads, and the sons of respectable people.
During their stay amongst us there is little to be said
against them—much in their fa,votr. There is but one
case in my recollection—it occurred the other day—in
which a German band, has been brought up for manoying
a family er neighbourhood after they had been warned
to, move off. Has any one ever seen any of these
German musicians drunk about the street ? I never
have. They have done much to cultivate and refine
the national taste for instrumental music, and we may
fairly say that what we give them is tor value received.
Their instrumentation is generally good--at times excel-
lent and faultless. It may rtot, perhaps, be sufficiently
known how far these wanderers have inoculated us with
their fondness for music. You will find them not only
about the streets of London—which is their title to
mention here—but in all the watering places and
large country towns—nay, in our very • villages and
country houses—in all tea-gardens, and Tivolis, and
dancing places. The humblest dancers in our day can
have as good music to dance to as that which regulated
the courtly steps of the mistresses and mastf,•.4s a thei
grandmothers and grandfathers. Then; is no reason to o
I regret that the old trio of harp, fiddle,
and cornopeau,
which so long constituted the instrumental music of the
London streets, is at an, end.—Qnce a, Week.
THE BLocirap or SAN BLAB.—\4 have by the
American pc.pers an explanation af, the.blockadrz of San
Bias hc,rhour, on the west toaet of Mexico, by the
English, It appears flott, 5, system of smuggling
Mexican coin had. I)een, bow on far some time, and San
Bias was n thief depot of this bullion export. The
_
" Lib
-e-34" trees got possession of the town, auld TC.nly 'Watched the conduct of the British
lvta suspeeted of being implicated. They.loChuoihstu him in
paid the
the act, and took him into custody ti
duties, which amounted to $i(000. The steamers Alert
d they threatened to
and Amethyst were aff
the coast,
dannot make good ti
blockade Maxatlau if they
yswaeure airditiaser:nt
510,000 extracted from the
tchoednsul. The eitize-ta, jid
the amount, protesting that they
proviticial government
to 'he 'wo
steamers then steamed down• which
they blockaded, landing a. ganisc% CaPtain
Urenwelt, of the ApettlYs.t• lb:e—" Liberal" force, toy
maintain its glaund, consent°'d to indemnify the, consul,'
and tilia having:lOn done, the siege was raised, the
Alert steanain.F, lt-way. Such is the American correspon-
dent's version of the affair. The English version will,
no doubt, vary very considerably,