The Sun.
London, England, 1855-11-19 00:00:00

LLOYD'S SHIPPING.—(This Day.)

LONDON, Nov. 19.—Wind this day at noon, N.B. ;
moderate breeze and dull hazy weather, with drizzling
rain.

PORTSMOUTH, Nov. 18.—Wind N.E.—Arrived—Lady
Bute, from Callao for Leith, with damage to starboard
bow and stanchions, covering board split, &c., from con-
tact with the barque Edina, Nov. 15, off St. Kathezine's
Head; Ellen, Honduras; harmony, Quebec, fur New.
castle; H.M.S.'s Vixen and Gleaner, eastward • H.M.S.Arrogant, Biel; Des, Woolwich. Sailed—Great Britain
(6.5. tpt. 187), for Constantinople; Arabia (s. tpt.), Con.
tAntinople.

(PER ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)
SOUTHAMPTON, Monday Morning.
Arrived.—Effort., Clara, and Leonora, from Sunderland ;
Florida, Newport ; Edward and Mary, Jersey ; Henrietta,
Skive ; Sylph, steamer, Dublin ; Silence, Portsmouth ;
Henry Dundan, Quebec.
Sailed. John and Edward, for Newport; Mary Ann,
Cardiff; Sylph, steamer, London.

LIVERPOOL, Monday Morning.
Arrived.—Gazelle, from Palermo ; Amelia,Vallaviciosa;
Trinity yacht and Adelaide, Denia ; Jean Maria, Nantes.
KINGSTOWN, Nov. 17.

Wind S.S.W.
Arrived.—Clara, from Memel ; Good Intent, Adelaide.
QUEENSTOWN, Nov. 17.

Wind S.E.
Arrived.—Edward Warburton, from Athens; Mary,
Epaminondas, and Arfow, Syra; Stamboul, Girgenti ;
Ide, Salonica ; Dale Park, Sierra Leone.
Sailed.—Comoro, for Marseilles Emma, Hamburg ;
Robert Watson, Constantinople ; Golconda, Malta ; Eliza
Keith, Quebec; Anglesey, Savannah.

GREAT SOUTHERN AND WESTERN (IRELAND) RAIL-
WAY.—A. meeting of the shareholders of this important
company was held in their board-room in Dublin on Sa-
turday, Sir E. 111`Dormel, chairman of the company,
oreiiding, for the purpose of considering a proposition
for the purchase of the proposed line of railway between
Roscrea and Parsonstown. The proposed line will be
twenty-two miles in length, and is estimated to cost about
120,0001. It was objected to the proposition for pur-
chase that according to the act of Parliament it could
not be legally effected on their part, or the sale on the
part of the other company, until half the capital for the
projected line should have been subscribed and expended.
The chairman, however, read an opinion on a case laid
before Mr. Hope Scott, the eminent English counsel,
which was to the effect that they might legally proceed
with the purchase at present, and a motion authorising
them to do so was actor tingly carried.

THE ALLEGED MURDER OF A CHILD BY ITS 'MOTHER,
IN CHELSEA.—On Friday last, it will be remembered, a
Mrs. Allen, of Poulton-street, Chelsea, appeared before
the sitting magistrate, at the Westminster police court,
charged with the murder of her chill, by drowning it in
the river Thames, during the dense fog then prevailing.
It appeared from the evidence that two other of her chil-
dren, also, by some means found their way into the
river, but were rescued, and restored to animation. The
body of the third, a boy about seven, had not been re-
covered at the time of the examination, and some doubt
was even en.tertained as to whether it had really been
drowned. Yesterday, however, this doubt was set at
restby the finding of the body, which was
near Vauxhall-bridge, not far from the bank of the
againstr
The poor little fellow evidently struggled hard
his fate, for both hands were firmly clenched, the one
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THE LATE TRAGEDY IN B
great deal of the recent specutotalllil
ignorance of the fact
would
Glon. For
have prevented a
For instance, Dr.
Forbes Winslow writes in
bore on it
palpable
strangulation.ex-
These were remarked by
ternal marks of body, and
their viewing the were pointed to
that the body of the young man
er The face was also livid ; the
them by the coron •
the jury on
drawn up under the bedclothes. All these
knees were
facts left no their
doubt on the minds of the jury that the
young man died by strangulation, and hence, this fact
eynipresent to the minds of all who took part in the
• uiry, the absence of that reference to it in the mepro-
ceedings of the inquest which excites the surprise of per-
It is, however,
sons who read the report unassisted by the view of the
body.
of the body that a jury
from evidence
in gained by a view
a great degree arrives at, and
is bound by the law to arrive at, their verdict. This
fact of strangulation once settled,
the arguments of those
who contend for a natural death are done away with,
and with them the necessity of the post mortem examina-
tion upon
which they insist.—Brighton Herald.
THE CASE OF THE Ex-PROVOST OF LEITH.--We have
referred, says the Scottish, Press, more than once to this
case, expressing an opinion of the excessive severity of
the sentence passed on this man, whether as regards the
particular charge with its concomitant circumstances, or
the age of the individual—and that through this severity
the law has driven sympathy away from itself and into
a dangerous channel—namely, with the criminal.
Greys
the learn that a memorial, addressed to Sir G. li
fc re
Leith,t a ry ,by the
is being extensively signedalready
Heded to the
appended to it. The memorial havinga
inhabitants ant) lot:let sSoemore than 500 names being.
and sentence
circumstances attendant on the convictionircumstances of this
continues : " Having regard to the
and to the age
particular case as established in evidence,
of the party (approaching to 70 years) doomed to trans.
portation beyond seas for the period of 15 years, a Strong
this community that the
•
and general feeling pervades
law would be vindicated, and the justice of the case
to one of imprisonment.
of the sentence
met, by a change
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The
Dean of Faculty ( r. n g ), says the Sottish,
the case as follows :—" I h
aye con-
sidered Press, remarks on
indictment,
the notes of e • vidence taken by
the
counsel at the trial, the verdict, and the
the prisoner's
sentence, end I am satisfied that the sentence is much
is at
more severe than all warranted by the general prac-
tice the court. The gravamen of the charge, as
proved,
consists entirely of the lewd handling of the two
girls on one occasion, and for a very short time, accom-
panied by no bodily injury of the slightest consequence
to either of them. There is no example that lam ac-
quainted with of such an offence being visited with a sen-
tence of transportation. lam disposed to recommend an
appeal to the royal mercy, founded on the unexampled
severity of the sentence, especially when viewed in con-
nexion with the prisoner' age. It appears to me. by 12_
means improbable that her Majesty may be advised to
order own° mitigation of the puuishment.7