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

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

THE YELVERTON CASE.

HOUSE OF LORDS.—THIS DAY
TELVEhTON V. LONGWORTH (OR YELVERTON).
This morning a large number of Peers, in addl.
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 in 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 recsived a letter Iraqi one of the
witnesses in the case. He could of course teke 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.
Tae 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 pat the truth simply without
trick or • disguise before those who were pri-
vileged to judge. That was what he desired
to do. He could not do os'eerwise than look
in the face the abominable representations of his
client's conduct and motives throughout these
melancholy tiarsactions. He could not but know
that the case he was to meet was one which lap.
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.betore them in the position of ape
pellant. In milder language, that view of the ape
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 Deas, 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 learned 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 some 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
Longworth's early history. Le:he was brought np
in the Roman Catholic religion, in a convent. Sbe
had a great taste for music, 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 Tennyson, 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 evidently
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 frees
dom which existed between them. (rile 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 curious to see 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 respondent that he was a con-
firmed bachelor, because in one of his letters he told
Miss Longworth that he had no " intended," and
that he was bound to an arm-chair at the United
Service Club, Was anything so extravagant as
this ? What knowledge of human nature on the
part of a man in high official position. All of course
Major Yelverton meant to say was, that there was
nothing in Miss Yelverton's way except the arm-
chair at the Club, and he asked with some concern,
whether such matters were to be determined in
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.
Ile 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
learned
not sesttl.
was
which had been imputed to her in connection with
theTnete was
gentleman
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
Toogood, the solicitor, having read the heads of the bill, the
ohairman, in moving the formal resolution approving of the
bill, congratulated the proprietors on having possession
of a line from which the mist ;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 :—" Hantaiwenfachoukouangtsongmou ; Biblio-
theca Sinologica, ale Wegweiser zur Sinologischen Lito-
ratur."— The Reader.

OUR ENGLISH WORD " HUMBUG'•' has been
engrafted into the German language. " Nicht alles is
Humbug" is the title of an essay in the Magazin fug• 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,qland to meet the expenses arising out of the native
War. The last of the number is a letter of Mr F. Peel,
written from the Tieasury Chambors on Wedn,.sday last,
the substance of which is that in the opinion of their lord-
ships the rare and peculiar combination of circumstances
which is necessary to justify a guarantee of a loan contracted
for a colony exists in the present instance.

The Fatal Accident at Egham.

EGHADI, 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 grsteful
terms of the attention paid to him by Mrs Morton, the
landlady, and her servants, independently of the hospital
nurse who is in attendance, 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 be resumed this morning at 12 o'clock, the bodies
have all been removed front the Railway Inn since the in-
quest was formerly opened on Thursday last. The remains
of Messrs Glegg and Hall were removed on Friday, those
ofMessrs field on Thursday, and the
body o iienkg's clerk, was buried in Egham
Cemetery fC
° onPI tirl
Saturday Mr P
and
a d\
wV
afternoon in the presence of a great
number of persons.

Colonel Tolland, one of the official,inspectors of railways
from the Board 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 1N
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QUEST.
The inquest to ascertain the cause of the death of Robert
Wilkey, Edwin Hall, Joseph Clegg, John Coppard, and
Wm. Winfield was resumed this morning at 12 o'clock, at
the Literary and Scientific Institution, Eghaw.
Colonel Yolland was present to watch the proceedings
in behalf of the Board of Trade,
bG,roafY''S-hi:etreet,
The following gentlemen
were also present :—Mr F. Clarke, for the brothers of Mr
Robinson, of Jermyn-street, and Air Newman, of Chelsea,
for Mrs Hall; Mr
fTorrig:ir;t3
CAllerggC;humbrb,
Loatm.
Brighton, for
Mrs Trigg; Mr Rawlings, of Roraford, for Lee and
Trainer, the engine-driver and fireman ; Mr Crombie,
the law clerk, Mr Frederick Clarke, the secretary, Mr
Beattie, the engiaeer, and Hr Godson, th© superintendent,
were also presenton behalf of the South-Westerrn Railway
Company, _

The jury, with Mr William Gardener, as foreman, having
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 to the
gradients, tha stations, and the signals, then the time of
starting and arrival; and, lastly, whether the code of sig-
nals were properly exhibited and observed on the night in
question.

The case was prooeding when xe wen,
to press.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE—This Day,"

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

SINGULAR CASE OF ROBBERY AND VIOLENT ASSAULT.
—Charles Peissor, a German, was brought bofere Mr.
Knox for committal on the charge of robbing and violently
assaulting Charies Scl.emmel, a tailor, living at 7, King_
street, Soho.

The prosecutor said the prisoner lodged in the same
house, 7, King-street, On the 25th May the prisoner was
in his room, and while le 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 (prosecutor) afterwards became insensible. On re-
covering himself a little he went to a doctor's, locking the
room door after him, bu on hie return, although the door
was still locked, he fortad that some one had been into his
room—the top panes of a window having been broken--
the bed was on fire, and a drawer which he left closed
was open, and an umbrella, 41 yards of cloth, a pair of
trousers, and a pipe Lad been abstracted.
Evans, 113 C, deposed that or, taking the prisoner into
custody he said he clic not do it.

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

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

In his defence, the cris,ner said he was not. at the house
on the day in question and he could produc3 witnesses.

Mr Knox coinmittec] the prisoner for trial, stating that
,he prisoner e,,uld pnduce 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 no-
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 Moz imhque c,,me from the lake dis-
trict. Our plan was to sail round the east shore and north
end of .;Nyassa ; 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 on foot, 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 dwell.
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.E. till we came to the lake and
marched along its shores. On coming to Kotakota 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.

Ina letter to Admiral Washington, he said—

The sight of the new dhow gave me a hint, which I may
mention. She was 50ft long by 12ft, and ft deep. I would
never think of carrying more than the engines and boilers
past cataracts like ours. One could build a hull more easily.
At the foot of the lake there are many trees 30ft high with•
out a branch, and 3ft in diameter.
To Sir R. Murchison, he continued—

They pay one fathom of calico (value one shilling) for a
boy, and two for a good-looking girl. Yet the slaves would
not pay but for the ivory they carry, A trader with 20
slaves must pay at least the price of one slave per day for
their sustenance. It is a joint ivory and slave trade which
alone renders the speculation profitable.
He wrote to Admiral Washington—

I knew this of old, but Captain Wilson, of the Gorgon,
has lately discovered it, and mentions it in his last " Slave
Trade Report." It was the knowledge that I was working
towards undermining the slave trade of Mozambique and
Iboe by buying up the ivory, that made the Portuguese
exert all their obstructive powers. I trust that operations
in the interior, under a more able leader, will not be lost
sight of. These will do more to stop the slave trade than
all the cruisers, and without them I see no hope of the
Portuguese giving up slavery.

His letter to Sir Roderick Murchison then Imo
ceeded thus—

This is the crowning place for nearly all the slaves that go
to Quilea, Iboe, and Mozambique. A few go down to the
end of the lake, and for cheapness cross the Shire. But here
lies the great trade route to Katanga, Kazembe, &c. The
Babisa are the principal traders, and the Manganja are the
cultivators of the soil. The Arabs—the same we met
before—were very civil. They came forth to meet us,
and presented rice, meal, sugar-cane, and a piece of mala•
chits. Leaving them we went due west, and in three days
ascended to the edge of the plateau, which from below
looks like a range of mountains. The long ascent, adorned
with hill and dale and running streams, fringed with ever-
green trees, was very beautiful to the eye, but sore for the.
legs, often causing us to puff and, blow as if broken winded.
The heights have a delicious but peculiarly piercing air. It
seemed to go through us. Five Shupanza men, who hall
been accustomed all their lives to the malaria of the Zan-
zibar delta, were quite prostrated by that which to me was
oxhilirating and bracing. We travelled about ninety miles
west, then turned up to the N.W. The country is
level. The edge of the plateau is 3,410 feet above the
sea. At the Isangwa of the lake the height shown is 3,270
feet, The direction of the streams verifies these appropriate
heights,andyour famous hypothesis too,for the Isangwaot the
lake finds itsway backwards to the Nyassa ; another, called
the Isanwa of the Moravi, flows to the westward and enters
the Zambesi Zumbo, The feeders of these rivers are boggy
valleys with pools in their ' courses. %Ve were said to have
crossed one branch of the Mortals, or Moitawa, which flows
W.N.W. into a small lake called Bemba. The valleys in
which the rivers rise closely resemble those in Londe or
Lunde.; but here each bank is dotted over with village,,
and a great deal of land is cult,vated. The vegetation
is more stunted, and the trees covered with flat lichens
like those on old apple trees in Scotland, and a long
thready sort like orchilla shows a humid climate. We
were going in the direction whence a great deal of
ivory is drawn by the people on the slave route, and
this induced them to put hindrances in our way, refus-
ing to sell food, and misleading us. The time that could
be spent with safety had expired, our European food was
expended, and dysentery fell upon us. I was under ex-
plicit orders not to take any long journey, but have the
Pioneer down to the sea by the earliest flood. I might have
speculated on a late rise in the river, but did not like the
idea of failing in my duty with the vessel, and gave up fur-
ther progress, The temptation to go on was that Lake Bemba
was said to be bui .10 days distant. Thence, according to
native and Arab report, :sues the River Luapula Luapula,
which, flowing westward, fora the Lakes Mofa or Mofae
and Moers ; then passing the town of Cazembe, it turns
round to the north and is lost in Zanganaa on the west into
the River Kasai easterly, where I formerly erased the river.
All agreed in asserting that no river flowed eastwerti into
Lake Nyassa. Two small ones do, but at a distance of say
89 or 90 miles from the lake; the watershed is to the west.
One should have no bias in investigating these questions by
the aid of travelled natives; but I had a Strong leaning to
a flow from Zanganyika into Nyessa. I wes sLoutly opposed
by all, and I had crossed so many running stream; which,
from entering the lake among weeds, had not been observed
from the boat in our first visit, that before reaching Kotakota
I had come to the conclusion that a large river was not
needed to account for the perennial flow of the Shire. lam
sorry to give only native information instead of observa-
tions by my own eyes ; but having been confined to work of
much more importance than exploration, the above was all
I could do when set free. The work on which I had la-
boured for years has all been spoilt by the Portuguese
slave hunting. As we (the steward of the Pioneer and
myself) were on our metal not to overstep the limited time
at our disposal, it may be worth mentioning that we
travelled 660 geographical miles in 65 travelling days,
averaging twelve miles per day in strait lines. The now
leaves on the trees of the plateau were coming out fresh and
green there, and we reached this on the 31st of Oct., to find
ail except the evergreens by the streams as bare of leaves as
in mid-winter.

To Admiral Washington he writes in con-
tinuation :

We now went duo west on the great slave route to the
Babisa Katanga and Carabe, for say 90 or 100 miles, then
turned up to the N.N.W., but before we had gone far our
time was expired. We had ascertained that the watershed
was clearly to the west. After crossing the branches of the
Loangwa of the lake, we had the Loangwa of the Moravi
which enters the Zambesi at Zumbo. We were on a level
plateau, 3,440 ft above the sea, in lat. 12.46 8. A rivulet
called Motela, or Motawa, flows N.N.W. into Lake Bemba,
which is said to be the source of the Loapula. This
flows westward, and forms two lakes, Aloero and Mofu or
Mofue, then passes the town of Cazembe, and is lost in
Zanganyika. These were the reports we heard, and though
Bemba was said to be ten days distant I was afraid to
speculate on a late rise of the river in view of Lord Russell's
explicit orders not to undertake a long journey. All reports
agreed that no large river flows into Lake Nyassa from the
north. Two small ones do. This agrees with the general
watershed. Nearly all the travelled natives and the Arabs
mentioned that the Loapula, or Luapula, flows into Zan-
ganyika. I thank you for the charts of the Bovuma, and I
shall endeavour to take soundings, not on the bar, for these
is none, but opposite the mouth. The cnly thing like a bar
is at half ebb and up to the time the tide turns, when the
water, rushing out of the river, falls from three or four
fathoms into 19 fathoms. The water tumbling into deep
just at the mouth might swamp a bcat, but no sooner does
the flow begin than all is smooth. I believe that the
Bovuma may be navigable for a vessel of light draft during
eight or nine months in the year.
Shupanga, Feb. 10.

I intend to go northwards —perhaps to Bombay—inseS;ch
of a market f or tke Lady Nyassa, thorn being no probability
of our disposing of her at the Cape.
The following is to Sir R. Murchison :
Shupanga, Feb. 10.
The river rose in tremendous force on the 19th of J anu •
ary—much later than usual. This extracted many a, groan
from me, for it was plain that I had plenty of time to have
examined Bemba, the beginning, I suppose, of the drainage
system, which finds an outlet of the Congo, Mofu, or Mofue,
which was seen, I believe, by Monteiro in his journey to
Cazerebe. We travelled part of our way on the route from
Quilon to the same chief. I hope a report of my being
murdered has not reached you or my family, as they may
believe it the more readily on account of the loss already
sustained, 1 have never known any difficulty with an in-
terior tribe, or any other engaged in slaving.
A paper was read by the Secretary, from Mr

Cooley, respecting certain portions of the district
over which Dr Livingstone had journeyed, and
written on a previous occasion. Mr Cooley also
contributed a map in explanation of his particular
views. He took particular objection to the three-
tion which Dr Livingstone had given to the
northerly part of Lake Nyasss. Mr Cooley placed
the northern portion of the lake considerably more
to the torth-west than did 1)r Livingstone—in fact,
to a divergence of almost 45 deg.

Upor this paper a very animated and interesting
discussion ensued, in which Captain Speke, Captain
Kirk, Mr Macqueen, and several other gentlemen
took part.
Captain Kirk, who had travelled with Dr. Living.
stone is the very neir.bourhood of Lake Nyassa,
and had taken observations of is b:aringo, con-
firmed the direction which the doctor had given it,
and contended that Mr Cooley was altogether
wrong, and that the position which had been as-
signed to the lake by Dr Livingstone was known
400 years ago.

Upon the proposition of the Chairman, votes of
thinks were given to Dr Livingstone, Captain
Kirk, and Mr Cooley.

Death-bed of Major-General J. Stuart.

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The following notice of the last hours of the
gallant and disttnguishe'l Confederate soldier Major
General Jeb S!uart, is from the liielemond
Examiner :

" No incident of mortality since the fall of the
great Jackson has occasioned more painful regret
than this. Major-General J. E. B. Stuart, the
model of Virginian cavaliers and dashing chieftains,
whose name was a terror to the enemy, and familiar
as a household word in two continents, is dead,
struck down by a bullet from the foe, and the whole
Confederacy mourns him. He breathed out hie
gallant spirit resignedly, end in the full possession
of all his remarkable faculties of mind and body, at
22 minutes to 8 o'clock, Thursday night, at the resi-
dence of Dr. Brewer, a relative, in Green-street,
i❑ the presence of Drs. Brewer, Garnett, Gibson,
and Fontaine, of the general's staff, Rev. Messrs.
Peterkin and Kepler,and a circle of sorrow-stricken
comrades and friends.

"We learn from the physicians in attendance
upon the general that his condition during the day
was very changeable, with occasional delirium, and
other unmistakable symptoms of speedy dissolution.
In the passing moments of delirium the gallant
general reviewed in broken sentences all his glori-
ous campaigns around M'Clellan's rear on the pen-
insula, beyond the Potomac, and upon the Rapidan,
quoting from his orders, and issuing new ones to
his couriers, with a last injunction to make haste.'
"About noon, Thursday, President Davis visited
his bedside, and spent some 15 minutes in the dying
chamber of his favourite chieftain. The President,
taking his hand, said, ' General, how do you feel P'
He replied, Easy, but willing to die, if God and
my country think I have fulfilled my destiny and
done my duty.' As evening approached the gene-
ral's delirium increased, and his mind again wan-
dered to the battle-fields over which he had fought,
then to wife and children, and again to the front.
A telegraphic message had been sent for his wife,
who was in the country, with the injunction to
make ail haste, as the general was dangerously
wounded.

"As evening wore on the paroxysms of pain in-
creased, and mortification set in rapidly. Though
suffering the greatest agony at times the general
was calm, and applied to the wound, with his own
hand, the ice intended to relieve the pain. During
the evening he asked Dr Brewer how long he
could live, and whether it was possible for him
to survive through the night. The doctor
knowing he did not desire to be buoyed by false
ho;es, told him frankly that death, the last enemy
was rapidly approaching. The general nodded, and
said, ' I am resigned if it be God's will ; but I would
like to live to see my wife. But God's will be done.
Several times he roused up and asked if she had come.

" To the doctor, who sat, holding his wrist, and
counting the fleeting, weakening pulse,be remarked,
Doctor, I suppose I am going fast now. It wilt
soon be over. But God's will be done. I hope I
have fulfilled my destiny to my country and my
duty to my Gud.'
" At hatt-past seven o'clock it was evident to the
physicians that death was setting its clammy seal
upon the brave, open brow of the general, and they
told him so—asking if he had any last message to
give. The general, with a mind perfectly clear and
possessed, then made disposition of his staff and
personal effects. To Mrs General R. E. Lee he
directed that the golden spurs be given as a dying
memento of his love and esteem for her husband.
To his staff officers he gave his horses. So parti-
cular was he in small things, even in the dying
hour, that he folly exhibited the ruling passion
strong in death. To one of his staff, who was a heavy
built man, he said, ' You had better take the
larger horse—he will carry you better.' Other
mementoes he disposed of in a similar manner. To
his young son he left his glorious sword.
" His worldly matters closed, the eternal interests
of his soul engaged his mind. Turning to the Rev.
Mr. Peterkin, of the Episcopal church, and of which
he was an exemplary member, he asked him to sing
the hymn commencing
"'Rock of ages cleft for me,
Let me hide myself in thee.'

he joining in with all the voice his strength would
permit. He then joined in prayer with the minis-
ters. To the doctor be again said, lam going fast
❑ow. lam resigned. God's will be done.' Thus
dies General J. E. B. Suiirt."

Railway and Public Companies in

Parliament,

Yesterday, in Lord St.:nley's committee on the East
London Railway Conany's project, Mr. Round sought to
establish a locus stanch fo: the Great Eastern Railway Com-
pany in opposition to the bill, on the ground of comp, tition
with the East Louden and City portions of their undertak-
ings, but the committee, after hearing' Mr. Serjeant Beilasis,
Q.C., on the other aide, decided that the Great Eastern had
no locus stands' in that particular respect, as their petition
against the bill, while containing other geneml allege tions,
did not specify their intention: to oppose on the pyinciplo of
competion. The remainder of the, sitting was occuptad with
the evidence of Mr. Burke on the engineering features Of the
proposed line. The bill for the Stonehouse and Nails-
worth Railway was rejected, and Mr Coleridge, Q.C.I
stated the case for the Worcester, Dean Forest, and Mon-
mouth Railway Bill, which proposes to empower that com-
pany to make a line of eight miles from a junction with
• their authorised line of 1863 at Newent to the Gloucester
and Dean Forest line of the Great Western at North Ham-
let, near Gloucester; to lay rails for the narrow gauge on
the portion of the line of the Great Western Railway from
the intended junction therewith into its stations at Glouces-
ter; to contract with the Great Western for its working,
and to raise £150,000 by new shares and £50,000 by loan.
Witnesses ware examined by Mr Somerset for, and by Lir
Venables and Mr Hill against, the measure. Another case,
opened by Mr Denison and opposed by Mr MerewethEr, for
the London and North Western, was that of the Shrewsbury
and Potteries Junction Railway, which seeks incorporation,
with a capital of £500,000 in shares and £166,000 loan, to
construct eight extensions, the two leading ones being, first,
one of 20 miles, from Hanley via Burslem and Tunstall,
and thence south-eastward under the Grand Junction to
Market Drayton, The second, of nine miles, from the latter
at Hodnet to the Shrewsbury and Crewo line of the London
and North Western about two miles no th of Shrewsbury,
with six other short connecting links, with power to contract
with the London and North Western, Great 'Western, or
South Staffordshire, to construct, or work or use. After
hearing counsel and taking evidence on the traffic and en-
gineering, the committee passed the bill for the Carmarthen-
shire Railway for extensions to the South Wales, Great
Western lines, for a line of 10 miles to the mountain branCh
of the Llanelly Railway, and to the Southpit and llutlryn
Collieries, the capital required being £225, 000 in shares and
d
£75,000 loan. The bill for the Hereford, ' Hay,
Railway is withdrawn. In the Lords the bill for Ratnmells
and Bre
Patent Improvements in pneumatic railways and tubes was
passed, and the opposition to the bill for the improvements
of the sewage of Edinburgh and Leith occupied the com-
mittee of which Lord Monteagle is the chairman.

SINGULAR T CITY CUSTOM.—" SWEARING ON
GRAVES" BY TRH CITIZENS.—In early dins, the
citizens of London were at liberty to discharge themselves
from all pleas of the Crown by " wager of law," or :n other
words by the oath of his "Jury of Compurgators." As,
however, in the progress of such criminal plea his selected
compurgators might die, a custom prevailed in the City of
London for the accused party—or perhaps others—to testify
solemnly on oath upon the graves of the deceased who had
been summoned as cornpurgators, precisely as to their in•
tended verdict. The foregoing custom was repealed by the
9th charter of Henry 111., after which it was disallowed.—
City Frey.