The Sun.
London, England, 1864-06-14 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, JUNE 14, 1864.

TEE YELVERTON CASE.

HOUSE OF LORDS.-THIS DAY
YELVEaTON V. LONGWORTH (OR YELVERTON).

This morning a large number of Peers, in addi-
tion to the law lords, were present, it being known
that the case for Major Yelverton (the appellant)
had been closed, and that the case of the respondent
had been entered upon.
The Lord Chancellor, Lord Brougham, Lord
Kingsdown, Lord Chelmsford, and Lord Wensley-
dale, took their seats at 20 minutes to 11.

The Attorney-General said he had to discharge a
most anxious and important duty. It was not ren
dered less so by the manner io which the case had
been presented to their lordships by his learned
friends. In such a case as this counsel were placed
in a much better position than their clients, for,
however scandalous and gross might be the asper-
sions cast upon the respondent—

Lord Bronghem (interrupting) said most empha-
tically that he had recaived a letter frcyn one of the
witnesses in the case. He could of course tike no
notice of it beyond saying that it was highly im-
proper for any one to write to a peer, who was one
of the judges, in such a case.
Tne Lord Chancellor expressed his assent.
The Attorney-General said the best way for
counsel to meet such aspersions and misrepresenta-
tions as those to which he had alluded was by en-
deavouring to put the truth simply without
trick or disguise before those who were pri-
vileged to judge. That was what ho desired
to do. He could not do otherwise than look
in the face the abominable representations of his
client's conduct and motives throughout these
melancholy transactions. He could not but know
that the case he was to meet was one which im-
puted to his client from a very early period gross
corruption on the part of the respondent towards
the appellant for the worst of purposes. That was
what had been imputed to the respondent by the
person who stood before them in the position of ap.
pellant. In milder language, that view of the ap-
pellant's conduct had been adopted by the Lord
Ordinary in this case. He did not find that the
Lord President had committed himself to such
opinion, and he had to maintain the cor-
rectness of the view of the facts which
had been presented by the two other judges, Lord
Curriehill and Lord Dees, who were of opinion
from first to last that the motives and conduct' of
the respondent were pure, and such as became a
lady in her circumstances. He should succeed in
proving to their lordships that there was no founda-
tion for the base and unworthy motives which had
been imputed to her. It would be a step towards
the proof that there was no foundation for the claim
which his learred friend had urged before their
lordships. It would be important for him to exa-
mine the facts applicable to the period which pre-
ceded the first visit of these parties to Scotland.
As these were facts simply and totally unconnected
with law, he would endeavour to place before their
lordships acme few details of the history of the
correspondence which had taken place between
them. He should adopt for his text the words
which had been used by Lord Curriehill. The
!earned gentleman went at some length into Miss
Long worth'e early history. She was brought up
in the Roman Catholic religion, in a convent. She
had a great taste for mu:ic, was well skilled in
painting, and was very fond of poetry. This last
circumstance being indicative of the frame of mind
she has constantly exhibited in her correspondence.
They would find in those letters indications of a
mind imbued with the poetry of Tennyscn, Long-
fellow, Shelley, and other poets of our time—a
dreamy poetry, consisting of sentiment tinged with
intellectuality. Of this class of poetry her mind
was evidently full. Her taste was highly
cultivated and developed, but was evident),
not furnished with any real knowledge of
the business of the world. At the same time
it was clear that Major Yelverton was addicted
to intellectual pursuits—not pursuits indeed as
those which engaged Miss Long worth's mind. They
both professed a knowledge of mesmerism or clair-
voyance, but whether or not either of them believed
in it it was of course impossible for him to say.
Major Yelverton was also a man who was accus-
tomed to throw over conventionalities, and this
accounted to a great extent for the apparent free.
dom which existed between them. (fee learned
gentleman read some extracts from the earliest
letters which passed between the parties in confir
mation of that view. He also pointed out that
Major Yelverton first addressed her by her Chris-
tian name, while for a long time afterwards she
addressed him by his surname in the usual
way between persons not thoroughly acquainted.
It was not until he remonstrated with her at calling
him my dear Mr Yelverton, that she spoke of him
by his Christian name. After this he called her
Miss Longworth again, and then came some playful
correspondence, after which they called each other
by their Christian name, as appeared in the corres-
pondence). Their lordships would clearly perceive
from these facts on which side the familiarity rested.
There was throughout these earlier letters a great
deal of badinage, and it was curioas to sea how
these innocent expressions were seriously torn to
pieces by the judges in Scotland, one of whom (the
Lord Ordinary) had said that Major Yelverton
had declared to the respondert that he was a con
firmed bachelor, because in one of his letters he told
Mi,s Long worth that ho had no " intended," and
that he was bound to an arm-chair at the United
Service Ciub. Was anything so extravagant as
this? What knowledge of human nature on the
part of a man in high official position. All of course
IVlajor Yelverton meant to say was, that there was
nothing i❑ Miss Yelverton's way except the arm-
chair at the Ciub, and he asked with some concern,
whether such matters were to be determined i❑
courts of justice by persons who judged in such a
way. This arm-chair was a constant subject of
joking between them, and clearly had no serious
meaning about it. At length Miss Longworth wrote
a serious note to Major Yelverton, communicating
to him the death of her father, and then Major
Yelverton began to make serious advances to her,
and asked her if she 'thought that hereafter on
meeting again—"shuffled up in the pack," as he
expressed it—they would recognise each other
from sympathy, if not from personal recollection.
He did not wish to put upon this passage more
than it meant; but he did wish it to bear what it
meant, and that meaning he thought was clear
from the passages which followed, as well as from
other expressions in the correspondence which fol-
lowed. The learned Attorney-General read many
passages, contending that the charge of grossness
which had been imputed to her in connection with
them was not sustainable.

The learned gentleman was proceeding with his
address when we went to press.

TOTTENHAM AND HAMPSTEAD JUNCTON RAIL-
WAY.—A special general meeting of this company
was held at No. 1, Poets' Corner, Westminster, yesterday,
in accordance with the standing orders of the House of
Lords, Captain Arrow in the chair, for the purpose of con-
sidering, and, if thought fit, of approving, the provisions
of the following bill now pending in parliament :—" A bill
for authorising the Tottenham and Hampstead Junction
Railway Company to make railways to join the Midland
and Great Eastern Railways; and for other purposes." Mr
'roogood, the solicitor, having read the heads of the bill, the
chairman, in moving the formal resolution approving of the
bill, congratulated the proprietors on having possession
of a line from which the most important results for the
future might be anticipated. Mr. Reed seconded the
motion, which was agreed to,and the proceedings terminated.
SOMETHING LIKE A WORD.—Chinese Literature
is making way in Germany. Here is the pleasant name of
a handbook for the use of students, just published at
Frankfort :—" Hantee wenfachoukouangtsongmou ; Biblie-
theca Sinologica, ale Weg.veiser zur Sinologischen Lite-
ratur."— The Reeder.
OT;R ENGLISH WORD " HUMBUG" has been
.n '...rafted into the German language. " Nicht alles is
Humbug" is the title of an essay in the Magazin fur die
Literatur des Auslandes.
GUARANTEED LOAN TO NEW ZEALAND.—Yes-
terday a return was made to Parliament of various papers
relating to a proposal that Parliament should guarantee a
loan of £1,000,000, to be received by the Government of
New Z,aland to meet the expenses arising out of the native
war. The last a the number is a letter of Mr F. Peel,
written from the Treasury Chambers on Wedn sday last,
he substance of which is that in the opinion of their lord-
'hips the rare cud peculiar combination of circualstances
which is necessary to ja,tily a guarantee of a loan contracted
for a colony exists in the present instance.

The Fatal Accident at Egham.

EGHAM, TUESDAY, 9 a.m.
We are glad to learn, upon inquiry this morning, that
Louis Ray, the young man whose feet were amputated in
consequence of injuries received in the sad accident on the
South-Western Railway here on Friday evening last, is
progressing favourably, Mr Clarke, surgeon, of Staines,
and Mr Furnivoll, also a medical practitioner in the locality,
have been unremitting in their attentions, and frequent
parcels of jelly, fruit, and other invalid comestibles have
been repeatedly sent from the Lord Steward's Department
of her Majesty's Household at Windsor, and from Marl-
borough House. The patient, who is a Frenchman, still
remains at the Railway Inn, where he was taken after the
accident, and he speaks in the highest and most grateful
terms of the attention paid to him by Mrs Morton, the
landlady, independently of the hospital
nunrdslead,hvioainsdr servants,inheattendance and his aunt, who is also here.
With respect to the unfortunate persons who were killed,
and into the circumstances of whose deaths the enquiry
will o'clock, the bodies
have all been removedßailway Inn since the in-
quest
bwearsesfouru resumed this
opened
frommorningthel2on
Thursday last. The remains
of Messrs Glegg and Hall were removed on Friday, those
of Messrs Wilkey and Wingfield on Thursday, end the
body of Coppard, Mr Padwick'a clerk, was buried in Egham
Cemetery on Saturday afternoon in the presence of a great
number of persons.

Colonel Yolland, one of the ofEcial,inspectors of railways
from the Buard of Trade, visited the spot yesterday in com-
pany with Mr Scott, the traffic manager, and Mr Godson,
the general superintendent of the line, and subsequently to
the gallant colonel's inspection, the remnants of the broken
van and carriage were removed, so that, so far as outward
appearance is concerned, all trace of the sad calamity has
disappeared.

THE INQty EST.
cause of the death of Robert
xvTilkheeyi,nEqudewstintoHail, ascertain
Joseph
e Clegg,
John Coppard, and
Wm. Winfield was resumed this morning at 12 o'clock, at
the Literary and Scientific Institution, Eghain.
Colonel Yolland was present to watch the proceedings
e,
The following gentlemen
were also present.:—Mr F. Clarke for the brothers of Mr
in behalf of the Board of Trade,
Trigg; Mr Chubb, of Gray's-inn, for Mrs Hall; Mr
Robinson, of Jermyn-street, and Mr Newman, of Chelsea,
for Mrs Clegg; Mr Lamb, of Ship-st,net,
Brighton, for
Mrs Trigg; Mr Rawlings, of Rumford, for Lee and
Trainer, the engine-driver and fireman; Mr Crombie,
the law clerk, Mr Frederick Clarke, the secretary, Mr
Beattie, the engineer, and Mr Godson, the superintendent,
were also present on behalf of the South-Westerrn Railway
Company.
The jury, with Mr William Gardener, as foreman, having
signals;
the code of
then th
answered to their names, the Coroner said that at the pro
ceedings on Thursday he had pointed out the evidence he
should require. He should first take evidence as
tistmoeof
the
sig-
nalssgtraardt iiwennegrt es:nptdrhoa:rerrstations,
and,
exhibited andlasattnlhyde, observed on the night in
question. .

The case was proceeding when se wen* to press.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE—This Day.

3IARLBOROUGH-STREET.

SINGULAR CASE OF ROBBERY AND VIOLENT ASSAULT.
—Charles Pcisser, a German, was brought befere Mr.
Knox for committal on th© charge of robbing and violently
assaulting Charles Schemmel, a tailor, living at 7, King_
street, Soho.

lodged in the same
house,l'he os
7p,rKiencgu_t:tr said
Bing-street,
the
.On
n the 2 prisonerst h m a y
the prisoner was
in his room, and while he was doing something at the fire-
place the prisoner came behind him and seized him by the
neck and tried to break it. He defended himself as well as
he could, when the prisoner took up the irons from the fire-
place and tried to smash his head. The prisoner then left,
and he (proiecutor) afterwards became insensible. On re-
covering himself a little he went to a doctor's, locking the
wasroom stilld oor
locked,af ter him,h he
found but on
that his is
somareturn, o
ne had been into his although the door
room—the top panes of a window having been broken—
the bed was on fire, and a drawer which he lett closed
was open, and an umbrella, 4k yards of cloth, a pair of
trousers, and a pipe had been abstracted.
Evans, 113 0, deposed that on taking the prisoner into
cusrody he said he did not do it.

Hannah Swingiski, residing in the same house as the
pr isecutor and the prisoner, stated that she was looking
out of window when she saw the prisoner leave with the
prosecutor's umbrella in his hand.

In answer to a question from the magistrate, Sergeant
Bently said that several articles belonging to the bed had
been burnt through, and that the fire could not have been.
accidental.

In his defence, the prisoner said he was not at the house
on the day in question, and he could produca witnesses,
l‘lr Knox committed the prisoner for trial, stating that
the prisoner could produce his witnesses on the trial,
Committed.

Royal Geographical Society.

LETTERS FROM DR. LIVINGSTONE.

At a meeting of the Royal Geographical Society,
which was held at Burlington House last night—
Sir R. I. Murchison in the chair—two letters were
read from Dr. Livingstone, one of which had been
addressed to Sir R. Murchison and the other to
Admiral Washington. After the disposal of some
formal business, the secretary read the following
letter :

Murchison's Cataracts, Dec. 4, 1863.
My dear Sir Roderick,—The despatch containing inst, ue-
tions for our withdrawal, though dated the 2d Feb., did not
reach me till the 2d of July, when the water had fallen so
much that the Pioneer could not be taken down to the
sea, To improve the time, therefore. between July and the
flood of December, I thought that I might see whether a
large river enters the lake at the north end, and also
verify the impression that most of the slaves drawn to
Zanzibar, Iboe, and NI ezimhque acme from the lake dis-
trict. Our plan was to sail round the east shore•and north
end of Nyasiu ; but we very unfortunately lost our boat by
five of our natives trying to show how much more clever
they were than the five Makololo who had the management
of it. It broke away from them in a cc mparatively still
reach of the river, and rushed away like a shot over the
cataracts. We then went forward onvfoot, and struck NW,
so as to come to the latitude of the north end of the lake
without coming in contact with the Mazite or Zulus, who
have depopulated its shores there. But we soon came on a
range of mountains running north and s .uth. The valley
on its eastern base was 2,000 feet above the sea, of remark-
able beauty, and well supplied with streams of delicious
cold water. The range, at least 4,000 feet above it, forms
the edge of the high table land on which the Maravi dw,ll.
We were falsely informed that no people lived on the other
side, and went along the valley till we came out. at the
neck of the lake—the bold mountainous promontory, Cape
Maclear, on our right, and the hills of Tsenge in front.
Again going north-west we came to a stockade which
the Mazite bad attacked the day before, and we saw
the loathsome evidences of the fight, and wishing to
avoid them turned N.B. till we came to the lake and
marched along its shores. On cowing to Rotakota Bay.
lat. 12.55 S. we found two Arabs busily engaged in tran-
sporting slaves across by means of their boats, and building
a dhow, to supply the place of one said to have been
wrecked.