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His ROYAL HIGHNESS THE DUKE OF CAMBRIDGE
appeared in the Court of Chancery on Tuesday.
Shortly after the Lord Chancellor entered the court
it was intimated that the Duke was about to present
himself to take the customary oaths as Commander-
in-Chief and a member of her Majesty's Privy
Council. The Lord Chancellor immediately left his
chair, met his Royal Highness at the entrance, and
came with him on the platform, when the oaths
were administered by the Deputy Clerk of the Crown,
the Lord Chancellor and the bar standing during the
ceremony. The Duke then bowed and retired.
THE CASE OF ALICIA RACE was on Wednesday de
tided by Lord Campbell, at the Court of Queen's
Bench. The circumstances of the case are these :
Alicia Race's father, who was a sergeant of Marines,
was killed at the battle of Petropaulovski in Septem-
ber, 181$4, leaving Alicia and a son surviving. A few
days before his death, Sergeant Race left the
guardianship of' his children to his wife, who is a
Roman Catholic. Alicia was baptized and brought
up as a Protestant, which faith her father professed,
wont to a Protestant school, and the mother, after her
husband's death, and in compliance with his request,
continued to train up the children as Protestants.
The son was placed at a Protestant school in Hamp-
shire by the commissioners of the Patriotic Fund, and
Alicia, a girl under ten years of age, at the Sailors'
Orphan School in July, 1855. Subsequently the
mother removed the son, a boy under twelve years of
age, from the school in Hampshire with his own
consent, and applied to remove Alicia also in October
last, intending, as was alleged, to educate them as
Roman Catholics. Alicia Raoo refused to return to
her mother to be educated in the tenets of the Roman
Church. This was the point brought before the
Queen's Bench. Counsel on both sides were agreed
about the facts, acd a habeas corpus had issued
to the matron of' the Sailors' Orphan Girls'
School at Hampstead, to bring up Alicia Raoe with
a view to her being delivered up to her mother,
in order that she might be placed in a Roman
Catholic school. The motion was resisted by the
Patriotic Fund commissioners on the ground that
the wishes of the child, who was unwilling to be re-
moved, ought to be consulted ; and secondly, because,
under the circumstances, the mother's was not the
proper custody, inasmuch as the father of the child
died a Protestant and had always brought up his
children as Protestants, and when the mother placed
the child at the school in question she professed to
be carrying out her deceased husband's wishes in
having the child educated in the Protestant religion.
Lord Campbell decided against any election of the
child and in favour of the right of parental control,
upon the rule of law which gives to the parent the
custody of the child, moral and physical, until the
age of fourteen. Alicia Race was then ordered to be
delivered over to her mother.

THE CHIET Berm, in delivering judgment this
week in the case of " Kemp v. Covington "—in which
the question as to whether a person who had been a
member of a firm was responsible for the liabilities
of that firm after that person had ceased to be a
partner of it, was decided in the negative and a rule
obtained—on the application of plaintiff's counsel
for their lordships' sanction to appeal to the Court of
Error against their decision, said that the court
would for the future adopt extreme caution in sanc-
tioning appeals to the Court of Error, as in the case
of " Kingsford v. Merry " some unfortunate mistake
had arisen, by which the facts presented to this court,
and on which it formed its decision, were not pre-
sented to the Court of Error. It therefore behoved
the court to be cautious in giving their countenance
to allow causes to be taken to the Court of Error.
Mr. Baron Martin, having concurred in what had
fallen from the Chief Baron, said that the case had
been taken to the Court of Error on a statement of
facts which were in no way akin to those which came
before the court below, which were based on the
Chief Baron's notes, and on which that court formed
its judgment. The appeal to the Court of Error
should be based on what the court below had adjudi-
cated, and not on a statement of facts totally at
variance with those which transpired in the court below
The Chief Baron said all eases of appeal to the
Court of Error ought to be submitted to the court
below, and he should in future exercise great caution
in reserving points for the opinion of the court
above. In the case of "Kingsford v. Merry," which
had caused some stir in the commercial world, the
Court of Error would have decided as this court had,
had the facts before that court been similar. Such
was not the case, however; they were far different.
THE HUSBAND OF Mns. BACON has, on the confes-
sion of his wife, been arrested for the murder of his
two children. The man for some time past has pre-
varicated so much in his statements to the police,
and exhibited such confusion of manner on being
cross-questioned, that, in the minds of the police,
there has been from the first very little doubtiof the
man's complicity, if not positive guilt. At the re-

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examination of Mrs. Bacon on Wednesday a paper
from her was handed to Mr. Elliott :
Cook ( the gaoler): The prisoner tells me, sir, that she
does not feel equal to the task of addressing you ; but she
has handed me this piece of paper, which she wishes your
worship to read.
Mr. ELLIOTT (looking at the paper handed to him) said,
" She wishes me to read this paper, does she ?"
Cook : She does, sir.
The most intense anxiety was here manifested on the
countenance of every person in the crowded court, and
all eyes were directed towards the bench, when Mr.
&wow rose from his seat, and, with some emotion. read
aloud from the paper in his hand the following startling
statement:—

Sir.—l must confess lam an innocent person, and he who
committed the dreadful deed Is my husband; and there was no
money on the drawers. lie took the little boy downetairs, put
him in a chair, stud there eta his throat. He then went upstairs
and cut the little baby's throat.

MARTHA B►CON.
Bacon was at once arrested, and, after a brief
examination, remanded. After his removal Mr.
Elliott gave directions to Mr. Young to write by that
night's post to the authorities at Stamford, and state
that it was his (Mr. Elliott's) wish and desire that
the body of the prisoner's mother, buried there last
May twelve months, should be at once exhumed and
subjected to a regular medical inquiry, as there were
very strong reasons to suspect that she came unfairly
by her death. It appeared that the deceased dined
with her son (the prisoner) on the Sundqy, and was
at once seized by illness, such as that produced by
the administration of arsenic, and died on the follow-
ing Tuesday. Mrs. Bacon has since confessed the
details of this horrible murder; from which it ap-
pears that Bacon attempted to murder her also.
IN THE BANKRUPTCY EXAMINATION, on Monday, of
the Rev. J. C. Edwards, Mr. Mason, an attorney and
creditor, was a violent opponent. In reply to ques
tions from this creditor, the insolvent said that in
London he bad written articles for newspapers and
magazines. He had written pamphletq, one of which
was entitled " Can a Jew sit in Parliament; and if
not, why not ?" On account of that pamphlet he had
received 150 guineas from Mr. D. Salomons.

Mr. Mason : And how mulch from Baron Rothschild ?

Insolvent: Nothing. TLat is for the future.
At a subsequent stage the insolvent desired to ask
some questions of Mr. Mason which he thought would
have some bearing upon the question of character.

Insolvent: Did you ever officiate in the pulpit of a
church of England because a client of yours had been
arrested and taken to York Castle ?
Mr. Mason : I decline to answer.

Did you not put on the hands and gown of a minister,
and in them ascend the pulpit, and then read to the congre-
gation a written sermon ?
Mr. Mason : I decline to answer.
Did you not go to the Archbishop of York and confess
what you had done?
Mr. Mason : I have already said I decline to answer.
Insolvent : Then, your Honour, I think, if a man could
be guilty of such conduct in the house of God, I may look
with complacency upon any opposition he may attempt to
make.
The CHIEF CommisstoxEn: He is not the first of the
profession who has done such a thing.
The case was ultimately adjourned till the ninth
of February.
COLONEL GORDON, late of the Royal Artillery, was
attacked and robbed by garotters on Friday week
last, on the Shooter's-hill Road, near the " Blue.gate,"
on Woolwich.common, when he was attacked by
three artillerymen, who seized him by the throat,
and succeeded in carrying off all the property about
his person, including a silver snuffbox and a purse
containing a quantity of silver. Since the above oc-
currence orders have been issued by the commandant,
General Sir F. Williams, by which 170 men are
stationed every evening as pickets along the different
line of roads leading to and from the barracks.

S WARD AND ANDERSON were re examined at the
Mansion-house on Wednesday. Witnesses who had
been employed to cash certain forged cheques pro
duced were brought forward, but failed to identify
the prisoners as the persons who had employed them.
One witness, a Mrs. Boxall, recognised them both
as having on two occasions been at the Crown and
Anchor, Southwark. The first time they came they
wanted refreshment, and some "boiled beef" was
sent out for them.

A POOR WEAVER, one Swift, of Henley, near
Manchester, last week destroyed himself in de-
spair. A slate and paper were lying near him,
containing an explanation of the motives which
had led him to commit the fatal act, and a few words
of advice and farewell to his children, written in a
good bold hand. Ile had written that be saw no
prospect of a poor man getting more than a mere
pittance for his labour in this country, that he
was tired and weary of struggling for the bare neces-
saries of existence, and hopes that God will forgive
him for the step he was about to take. He also leaves
directions for his funeral, and place of interment ;
and says that about as much money will be found in
his belt as will inter him respectably ; and concludes
by expressing a hope that his children (from whom

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he has been separated for some time) will conduct
themselves properly in all respects. A verdict of
" Temporary insanity " has been returned.

THE INCONVENIENCE OF BECOMING A BANK DIEECTOB.
on private solicitation was shown at the Court of Com-
mon Pleas on Tuesday, when the name of one of
the directors of the Western Bank of London was
dragged before the public in a very unceremonious
manner. The case was that of " Rankin v. Payne,"
and the action was undefended. It was stated
that the plaintiff was chief clerk to a stock-
broker in the City, and that the defendant was
engaged in promoting public companies. Some time
ago the defendant was engaged in promoting the
formation of the Western Bank of London, which
had since been firmly established, and he undertook
to pay the plaintiff 501. for every director whom he
could obtain for the hank. At the instance of the
plaintiff Major General Bagnall agreed to become a
director, and the plaintiff now sought to recover from
the defendant 501. for obtaining the general's name.
Mr. Jus ice Willes said that the contract above stated
was illegal, and as it was an illegality which he
thought affected the public, he directed that the case
should be postponed for the purpose, as was under-
stood, of enabling an application to be made to amend
the pleadings, so as to raise the qne,tion.
AN ACT OF SUICIDE, coupled with an attempt at
murder, has been committed at Birmingham. A
grainer, one Keatley, who lived very unhappily with
his wife, on Tuesday morning, about eight o'clock,
attacked her and struck her a tremendous blow on
the head with the poker, fracturing her skull. The
poor woman managed to escape into the back court
crying for assistance. Her neighbours rushed in,
but not in time to prevent Keatley from cutting his
own throat. Surgical aid was speedily at hand, but
the man died in a few seconds. His wife lies in a
precarious state.
THE E BURY- STREET COWSHED NUISANCE WaS
adjudicated on by Mr. Paynter at the Westminster
Police court on Tuesday. Mr. Paynter entered into
a lengthened review of' the evidence on both sides,
and made an order against defendant, as follows :
That his number of cows should be reduced to
ninety; that the district yurveyor of St. George's, and
one appointed by defendant, should consider what
alterations could be made in the sheds, subject to
his (Mr. Paynter's) approval ; regular whitewashing,
and the pavement constructed with such an inclina-
tion as to allow the slop to run off more readily, and
the grain reservoir to be emptied and cleansed.
THE POST-MORTEM ExastusaTros at Chesham, on
the body of the wife of Philip White, a shoemaker of
that town, has resulted in the discovery of the pre-
sence of arsenic in deceased's stomach. A coroner's
inquest was held on Monday. Professor Taylor gave
his evidence, and deposed to the presence in the
stomach of deceased of sufficient arsenic to destroy
life :

The body of the deceased was not penetrated with arsenic
to the extent he had known in other cases, but that might
have arisen from the poison being taken only a short
period before death, so that it had no time for lifftision, or
it might have been taken some period before death, and
retinved by what was technically called elimination, or the
throwing of the poison out of the body. Few persons lived
more than three days after taking arsenic, and the appear•
antes presented in this case were such as were commonly
seen when the poison has proved fatal in two or three days.
There was no arsenic dissolved in the stomach. The ap-
pearances were consistent either with a recent administra-
tion of arsenic in a large dose, or an old administration in
several small doses.

Evidence was adduced to prove that the prisoner,
shortly before his wife's death on Christmas-day, had
purchased half an ounce of arsenic of the town
chemist. The jury, after some consultation, returned
a verdict of " Wilful murder," and the prisoner was
committed for trial.
A LAWYER, Mr. Mark Barnard, of' 18, Sherrard-
street, Golden-square, destroyed himself by cutting
his throat on Wednesday morning.
THE MASTER of the brigantine Hannah Jane, of
Belfast, has been committed for trial at Plymouth
on the charge of murdering the cook of the vessel,
while at sea, on the 3rd of July last.
Two MEN, Archer, a discharged footman from the
service of Lord Suffield, and one Kelly, have been
arrested on suspicion of having effected the late
robbery at Gunton-hall, Lord Suffield's seat n
Norfolk.

CERTAIN CHANGES in the War Department are
announced. The office of Deputy SecrAtary will,
like that of Secretary at War, be abolished ; and Sip
Benjamin Hawes now becomes permanent Under-
Secretary of State, Mr. Peel retaining the Parlia-
mentary Under Secretaryship, and Colonel Mundy
obtaining a military command. The office of
Secretary to the Ordnance will also be abolished.
Mr. Godley, now Director-Oener it of Stores, will be
Assistant Under.Seoretary to the department under
the new organisation.