The Sun.
London, England, 1864-12-20 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, TULSDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 20, 1804.

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into the square, accompanied by the princes and
general officers, and made a hearty inspiriting
speech to the men, which was received with loud
cheers. The King said
" I see your return with joy from a war brought to a
glorious end, When I permitted the newly-formed regiment
of the Guard, united in one division, to take part in this war
it was my intention to give these young regiments an op-
portunity of making for themselves a history. They have
fulfilled this intention in the highest degree, and have
fought with distinguished bravery. The same remark ap-
plies to the older established troops here assembled, who
have added a new and unfading leaf in this war to the gar •
land of fume adorning their honourable history. I rej )ice
to see so many collected around me who have so distin-
guished themselves by bravery that I was able to confer
upon them my visible thanks as a lasting recognition of the
claims the army has to the thanks of [myself and the
fatherland. I have determined that all digs and standards
that have been borne on the theatre of war shall for the
future bear upon the banderol the riband of the newly
granted war medal, and those which were carried at Duppel
or Alien the corresponding riband of the memorial cross
celebrating those engagements. And it is my conviction
that these newly decorated il tga and standards will be fol-
lowed in future by my brave troops with as much devotion,
valour, and, with God's help, victory, as I am proud to ac-
knowledge with my Royal thanks that they have been in
the war just brought to a glorious close."

The King then gave the word to fall in, and the
troops formed for the march into the city, His Ma-
jesty rode in front followed. by Prince Friktirich
Curl, and Generals, and their suites. In the rear
came the different regiments who had taken part
in the late campaign.

Amid the cheers of the people the King entered
the capital. As his Majesty passed through the
Brandenburg..gate the troops stationed in the Paris-
square saluted, and the bands struck up the National
Hymn, The King proceeded with his staff to the
middle of the Linden promenade, where it was pro-
posed to pass the returning troops in review.
The regiments entered with bands playing, and
as each passed through the Brandenburg-gate it was
saluted with presented arms and three loud cheers
by the regimen'A, of the Old Guard stationed at the
Paris square. When all the regiments had passed
in the Old Guard returned to barracks.

In the meantime the returning troops, headed by
the band, had marched down the linter den Linden,
where they were greeted on all sides by loud cheers
and the waving of handkerchiefs, and almost buried
under wreaths and garlands of flowers. At the
statue of Frederick the Great the troops formed for
the march past, which took place in the same order
as the regiments had entered. The carriage con-
taining the Queen, the Queen Dowager, and the
Crown Princess halted close to his Msjesty, while
the rest of the Royal Princesses surveyed the spec.
tacle from the windows of the Palace.

The two regiments of the Grenadier Guards were
led past the Royal carriage by the King, while the
Crown Prince, riding to the right of General von
der 111u1be, headed the infantry brigade of the
Guard. Then followed the infantry, the riflemen,
and the pioneers. The Artillery, led by Prince
Carl, brought up the rear.

The march being concluded, the colours were
carried into the palace. The number of Dannebrogs
borne by the Guards amounted in all to 17.

Naval and Military Intelligence.

The division at Aldershott under the command of
Leut.-Gen. Sir J. L. Pennefather, K.C.8,, marched
from the camp on Thursday morning to take up a
position on the Hog's-back, with a view to obeek
the progress of an enemy advancing upon Alder-
shott from the southward by way of Godalruing.
For this purpose Puttenbam village and common
were selected by the Lieut.. Gan. as the principal
points of our position, frcm their offering many
defensive facilities, and commanding the only road
open to a large advancing army, which would have
its right bearing upon Guildford. The Cavalry
-Brigade and 1) troop Royal horse Artillery, under
the command of 111jor-Gen. Hodge, marched from
A iderahott by v, ay of Ash, Aahagreen Railway
station, and thence to the Heg'e-back, forming the
left of the intended position, with its left resting
near the third milestone from Guildford. The
Royal Scots Greys, under the command of Col.
Darby Griffith, C. 8., formed the left, and a
squadron of this regiment, under the com-
mand of Capt. Prendergast, proceeded en patrol
duty on the road in the direction of Guildford. The
Royal Dragoons, under the command of Major
Ainslie, formed on the right of the Scots Greys,
and at the same time the 14th Hussars, under the
command of Lieut.-Col. Thompson, proceeded to the
village of Puttenham, and formed the advance of
the army. Toe D troop, under the command of
Lup position near the vil-
lage, occupying an elevated ut
et .naCol. Mitchell,
piece of ground on
p btim. m
The Ist Brigade and the E
t com o
ntack
and F
Be command
-Brigade, Royal Artillery,
under th
or-Gen. Taylor, marched
through Adt
e sch Batteries,
tdh
at ofr and l% a j
Tongham, and formed the
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centre of the position on Puttenham downs. The
59th, and 85th Regi-
ments,Aßiraijg;
Major homer,
ietuotnmodneesrri,sttaheneddcoocfmot hml.ea3nlds to,
f Lieut.-Col. Eager,
Grey respectively. The B
and F Batteries, commanded by Capt. Phelips and
Major Mackenzie, unlimbered and brought the
guns into position, overlooking Puttenham. The
2d Brigade, under thßates, with three guns
gcommand of Major-General
tins of the Royal Artillery,
marched through Bigoi,t_
green, and formed on the
nearH
h Royal
there,d leading to Seale. The 2d
Rifles, commanded by Capt.
Farquharson, proceeded to the southward and
formed the advanced Post of the infantry. The Ist
Battalion 14th Regiment, commanded by Colonel
Battalion°g a k
60 t
Budd, formed the right of the army on the Hog's.
back ; and the 62d Ragiment, under the command
of Colonel Ingall, formed on the left of the
14th. The 3d Brigade) under the command of Col.
Ingall, C. 8., formed on the left of the 14th. The
3d Brigade, under the command of Col. Munro, C.B,
Brigadier, marched by way of
y Aldershot-bridge to
Ash and Ash-green, and thence proceeded to the
Hog's-back, forming on the right of the cavalry.
The brigade consisted of the 39th, 75th, and 83d
Regiments, under the command of Major Currie,
Lieut.-Col. Gordon, and Lieut.-Col. Hankey, re-
spectively. The whole of the troops were in posi-
tion at 11 o'clock, when Geo. Pennefather, attended
by his Staff, rode over the lino of defence, and than
proceeded to the advanced post on Puttenhamacom-
mon. The signal having been given, a few guns
were fired by the Royal Horse Artillery from the
eminence on the common. Gen. Hodge then brought
his brigade down from the "back," with the excel)*
tion of the three troops of the Greys thrown out on
the left of the high road. The Cavalry Brigade
formed in line on Puttenhamaccannian, advanced by
echelon of regiments from the centre, retired by al%
ternate squadrons, and re-formed line. Gen. Taylor
advanced his Brigade by line of regiments, and after
clearing the road of the supposed enemy formed line
on the ground which had been occupied by the
cavalry. General Bates also descended the Howe-
ick with the 14th and 62d Regiments, and formed
line in rear of General Taylor by alternate lines. A
few other mar oeuvres followed to check the enemy,
supposed to be coming on in force against this point,
and the proceedings were shortly afterwards brought
to a close, and:the troops returned to quarters, which
the infantry reached about 2 o'clock, some of the
regiments having been under arms six hours. The
field-day was one of the most remarkable in which
the Aldershot Division has been engaged for some
time, not only on recount of the scene of action,
which was about seven miles from the Camp, but for
the selection of the position and the admirable man-
ner in which all branches of the service were handled
by the commanding officers.
The half-yearly inspection of the cadets of the
Royal Military College, Sandhurst, and of the Rid-
ing Troop and detachment of Royal En.;--
tioned there, under the e" --
made on

Royal Oak.

0 -.yea sta-

_....wand of Col. Lucy, was
uesday by rield.Marshal the Duke of
ron c rkA P of nAramissioners. The Doke)

atteneed by his Staff, and accompanied by the
Commissioners, arrived shortly after nine o'clock
when a Royal salute was fired by the Royal En-
gineers, under the command of Capt. Hale, The
Duke then proceeded to the lecture-room, where
the cadets were already as3embled, and addressed
them for about 20 minutes, pointing cut to them
the proper course to pursue to become masters of
their profession. The Duke and party subsequently
breakfasted with Lieut. Gen. Sir Harry Jones and
a number of officers of the College at the Governor's
house, and at half-I-.lst 10 arrived upon the parade,
when the cadets were formed i❑ line, with the de-
tachment of Dragoons (mount“-,)on their right and
the detachment of Royal Engineers on their left.
The Duke, who was received with the usual ea!u'e,
minutely inspected the line, fled the cadets then
marched past i❑ open column of grand divisions in
slow and quick time. They then performed the
manual and platoon exercise under the command of
It. I.T. Fox, and the bayonet exercise under the com-
mand of R. U. 0. Johnstone. Several battalion move.
meats followed, under the command of It. U. 0.
Guyon and U. 0. Rogers. The several exercises
and movements were well performed, and the Duke
expressed the highest satisfaction at the appear-
ance and discipline of the cadets, and, after visiting
the riding school and the gymo.sium, proceeded to
the Staff College, which he inspected in every de-
partment, and with the same result. After lunch-
ing with the officers studying at the Staff College
and a number of guests, among whom were Lieut.-
_

Gen. Sir J. L. Pennefather,—K C. 13., Lieut.-Gen.
Kuollys, &c., the Duke left for London. The
Cnrismas vacation in both colleges commenced on
the following day.
The Secretary of State for War has decided that

the huts at Aldershott Camp, appropriated to mare
ried soldiers shall in future be occupied by four,
instead of five families.

The regimental returns at Aldershott, just issued,
show the following average number of points and
olassification per cell. of men at target practice at
that station on the f:Oth of November, 1864 :—Com..
miesariat Staff Corps—figure of merit, battalion,
24.02 ; best company, 2504; best shots, first period,
51 points; second period, second class, 48 points,
2d Dragoons—figure of merit, battalion, 2328; best
troop, 2700; best shots, first period, 53 points;
second period, second class, 43 points, 14th Hussars

—figure of merit,battalion, 2284; best troop, 24 66;
best shots, first period, 44 points; second period,
second class, 36 points. Ist Royal Dragoons—figure
of merit, battalion, 20.93 ; best troop, 2481; best
shots, first period, 60 points; second period, second
class, 47 points. 39th Regiment—figure of merit,
battalion, 57 40; best company, 69 G 3; marksmen
per cent., 2; best shots, first period, 58 points;
second period, second class, 49 points ; third period,
first class, 25 points.

The Lords of the Admiralty have arrived at a
decision with regard to the squadron of wooden
vessels which have been for some time lying idle
on the stocks at Chatham dockyard in various
stages of progress, but on neither of which has a
single hand been employed for some years past, all
the available workmen having been withdrawn
and attached exclusively to the ironclad ships
under construction at that dockyard. The wooden
vessels on which all work has been suspended in-
clude the Bulwark, 81, 3,716 tons, 800 horse power;
the Belvidera, 39, 3,027 tons, 600 horse power; the
Menai, 22, 1,857 tons, 400 horse power; the Rein-
deer, 17, 950 tons, 200 horse power ; and the My r-
naidon, 4, 693 tons, 200 horse power. An order
was yesterday received at the mlster-shipwrightte
dep,.rtraent directing the Belvidere, the Mensi, end
the Reindeer to be taken to pieces, and their :irob,:ts
and materials to be used for the general service of the
dockyard. The Bolvidera was Mid down several years
since as an improved 50 gun frigi:te of the same cldts
as the Dryad, building at Portsmouth dockyard, arid
.3ome others, bat when rather less than one third I

completed all work upon her was suspended. It was
subsequently proposed to complete her es an iron-
clad, which would have mcessitated her Lcing " con-
verted," but as the Admiralty hlvo at length set
their faces against any further conversions of vessels,
this idea was abandoned, and she will at onca be
taken to pieces, her timbers being well seasoned from
the length of timo the frigate hss been in frame.
_ _

'The Menai, o❑ the,adjoining slip, wcs laid down for
a 22-gun screw corvette, of greater tonnage than
some of the old line-of.battle sailing ships, and was
one of the last of the wooden ships at Chatham
dockyard from which the shipwrights were with•
drawn. The Reindeer, the other vessel ordered to
be taken to pieces, has further advanced towards
completion than any of the others, and a short time

since it wig understood that she was again to be
taken in hand, instructions having been received

'rom Whitehall directing her to be surveyed and a

report made upon her state and the length of time

it would take to bring her forward for launching.
Subsrq!lent orders, however, directed that she should
be broken up. At present no instructions have been
received at the dockyard as to the Bulwark, which
is one of the old type of 90. gun two•decke:s of the

Z-!alousclass, subsequently completed as an ironclad,
The Bulwark is about one-half fiaished, and as she
is the only large wooden vessel at Chatham not

ordered to be taken to pieces, it would seem pro-
bable that she may be completed as an ironclad,
which would necessitate the removal of one of her

decks, besides other important alterations. The
engines of 800-horse power (nominal) constructed
for the Bulwark are now in the ironclad frigate

The screw of her Majesty 'a corvett e Niger, 13 guns,

:n basin at Woolwich, and fully rigged and stored
For service, was yesterday shifted to alter the incli•

nation of her fans, which it is expected will increase

her rate of speed.

The iron paddlewheel vessel Oberon, at Woolwich,
is ordered to be fitted with an experimental verti.

cal tubular boiler, the invention of Capt. the Hon.

Arthur Cochrane, C. 8., which is in course of con-

struction at the Thames iron works at Blaokwall.

The Oberon has undergone a complete overhaul ;
her iron hull has been thoroughly repaired by the
factory department of Woolwich yard, and the in-
terior has been well coated with Day's patent ma-

rine composition, ordered to be employed in the
whole of her Majesty's iron ships, Some consider-

able delay has been occasioned in completing her
refit in consequence of the non-arrival of the new
boiler,otherwise the ship would have long ago been

ready for sea.
The screw steam sloop Mutine, 17 guns, under
thorough refit at Woolwich, is ordered to be ready

"or service and removed from the hands of the fee-

tory and shipwright departments on the 31st.
A batch of 40 second.class lads belonging to the
flagship Fisgard at Woolwich were yesterday re-
moved to the training ship Dauntless, Coastguard

service in the Humber. The number entered during

the past month amounted only to 77, being confider..
ably below that required by the Admiralty order,
Amounting to 30 per week.
The following appointments wrre tnade era Satur.
zlly at tht Admiralty—G. Whalley, nominated
to a naval cidetEhip ; E. J. B. Bird, chief engineer,
to the Cadmus; B. F. Piue, chief ougineer, to the
Highflyer ; H. Knight, engineer, to the Cadmus ;
J. Sumner, engineer, to the Highflyer; J. Adams,
assistant engineer, to the Hightlyer ; H. J. Les and
J. D. Cht%ter, assistant engineero, to the Cadmus,

COLLISION AND SHIPWRECK IN THE CHANNEL

—FIVE lire DROWNED,—About scvort o'clock onE;i4tv
evening last the smack Lemon, Hulehing3 master, of Pad-
stow, came into collision, nine miles south by cast of the
Lizard, with the schooner Cathetine, Roberts master, of
Barmouth. The latter weed he so much injured that
she sank immediately. 'dna with the whole of her crew, five
in number. Tile 01,D •
however, clung to a rope, and
was picked re us, th'etalu '
Lemonwafer- after be' ing 20 minutes in the
..... The captain's son was one of the crew. The
Lemon had her bowsprit and topmast carried away, and
put into Penzance on the following day. The Catherine
was bound from Portmadoc for Milton, with a cargo of
slates, and the Lomon was from Cork for Plymouth, cargo
not stated,—lnsemo Xernin,q News,

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Ist Surrey Head-quarters.

The somewhat novel proceeding of laying the
foundation stone of Volunteer headquarters took
place on Saturday afternoon at Camberwell, in cou-
nexion with the Ist Surrey Rifle Vo'.unteer Corps
'leis regiment has very commodious head-quarters
at Peckham, Lut as the ground on which these
stand will be required by a railway company, l 2
whom compensation will be paid, a large spec,: of
ground title been taken within a few hundred yard,
of Camber reellsgreen, and a large drill-hall, with
every requisite for an t xoensive battalion, kas beer
commeresd there. Cul. M•M ludo, the Inepcctei
General, had accepted the invitation of the regimen!
to perform the ceremony of laying the stoee, end
notwithstanding that the weather was most until.-
vourable for outdoor display a very large concourse
of people had assembled to witness the proceedings.
The G Company of the London R;fle Brigade, under
Captain Sewell, acted as a guard of honour, and the
Ist Surrey was under the command of Major Irvine,
in the unavoidable absence of Lieutenant Colonel
Macdonald. The Rev. Daniel Moore, the Golden
Lecturer, and Chaplain of the Ist Surrey offered
prayer, and Major Irvine made a short address to the
assemblage, After referring to the fact that the Ist
Surrey Regiment was within a few hours of being
the first body enrolled in the present volunteer
movement, the first being the Ist Lancashire, he
went on to trace the progress the regiment had
made, and stated, amid the loud cheers of his hearers,
that so firmly did the corps believe in the perma-
nence of the movement, that the site of ground on
which they stood had been taken for a term of 99
years. The stone, which bore a suitable inscription,
having been adjusted in its place, Col. 1114Murdo
declared it " well and truly laid." He said, perhaps,
the general public were not aware of the use of
headquarters, and he might, for their information,
state that headquarters bore the same relation to a
regiment that a capital bore to a country, being so
situated as to be easy of access to all, and being the
centre of all authority. He dwelt t.pon the
importance of all volunteer regiments hav-
ing headquarters, and expressed himself RS
being convinced of the permanency of the
movement, for, he said, those who were volunteers
now would find their children growing up with the
same feelings which had animated them, and join-
ing the regiments of which their fathers were the
first members. He concluded by expressing his
regret at the absence of Colonel Macdonald and
wishing the Ist Surrey the success which he said it
certainly deserved for the spirited undertaking
which had been inaugurated that day. Major
Irvine then presented the Inspector-General with
the trowel with which the ceremony had been per-
formed, and called for three cheers for the gallant
officer, to whose efforts he attributed the success of
the movement. These were given with hearty
good will, and Colonel M'Murdo, in responding,
said that it was owing to no Government, and it
was certainly owing to no efficer in connexion
with the Government, that the Volunteer move-
ment had arisen and gone on so success
fully as it had. The movement Las its
origin in the loyal aspirations of the people,
and the feelings which had originated it had and
would maintain it in all its integrity. A vote of
thanks was given to the Chaplain, who very briefly
acknowledged the compliment, and the Volunteers,
headed by the excellent band of the Ist Surrey
marched to the Peckham headquarters,
where the members of the London Brigade, who had
formed the guard of honour, were hospitab)' enter-
tained by their comrades of Surrey.

The Anti- f obacco Society.
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At the Westminster Policc-court yesterday- Mr Thomas
Reynolds, secretary of the British Anti-Tobacco Society,
10, Camden-.q Aare, Camden--town, appC..ireti tolt Su-Winona
charging that he did feloniously and directly cause to be
rrecivcd by Mr Charles Edward Inm.s, knowing the con-
tents Iherc9f, a writing demanding of the said C. E. Innes,
with menaces, cud without any reasonable cause, the sum
of 49 drillings.

Mr Innee,a chair in the War-office, was at the Barnes
Railway Station on the sth D..cembee, and having arrived
a long time before the train by which he was to depart be •
came due, he seated himself at the end of the platform,
which was uncovered, and began smoking. A person came
up to him, accompanied by a porter of the company, and
requested the porter to take his name and address, for in-
fringing the bye-laws of the company, and he said he was
an agent of the British Anti-Tobacco Society. Mr Innas
gave his name and address, and put his pipe out at once;
and afterwards wrote a letter to the secretary cf the society
as follows :—" Sir,—This morning one of your society's
agents took down my name and address, at Barnes Station,
for smoking. Will you allow me to submit to you the fol-
lowing explanations, which he will bo able to corroborate.
Ist. Having more than half en hour to wait for the
next train, I was sitting in the open air away from
the station, and annoying nobody. 21. That on
being requested to desist I at once did so. On
these two grounds I believe that, though I have
made myself liable to your society's action in letter, I have
not done so in spirit. Hoping this will meet with your
favoruable consideration, I remain your obedient servant,
C. a INNEs," To which he received the following reply:
—" Dec. have no power to act in the matter to
which your letter refers. I am deputed to pay the rewards
offered for the conviction of offenders as described in the
bills which are in circulation, and those who spend thei
time in efforts to got the rewards would justly complain if
they were not allowed to secure that object.—l am, sir, your
obedient servant, THOMAS REYNOLDS (secretary)." This
was succeeded by the knowing : " British Anti-Tobacco
Society. Established 1853. 10, Camden-square, Camden
New-town, London, N.W. President, H. E. Gurney,Esq.
Vice-President, The Right Hon. the Earl of Mayo, the
Very Rev. the Dean of Carlisle, Sir W. C. Trevelyan,Bart.,
the Rev. Sir N. Chinnery, J, Leigh, Esq., B. Scott, Esq.,
N. Janson, Esq., J. R. Jeffries, Esq., S. Morley, Esq.,
W. H. Ewing, Esq., H. Pease, Esq., J. Compton, Esq.. R
Charlton, E,q,, G. Thomas, Esq., T. Thompson, Esq., Sir
W Johnston, and R. Barrow, El. Secretary, Mr. T.Rey•
nolds." The above was in print and written under it the fol-
lowing :—'• Dec. 7, 1864.—Sir,—I sent your letter to the
gentlemen who have offered rewards for the conviction of
smokers. I send you on the other side a verbatim copy of
their reply. It remains with you to decide whether the case
shall be proceeded with, or whether you pay the fine and
avoid the costs and exposure.--I am, sir, your obedient ser-
vant, Tnomls REYNOLDS, Secretary. P.S. I will not
allow any steps to be taken till Thursday morning." 1. he
letter referred to as enclosed was then put in, and was as
follows :—" Dear Sir,—The reward is offered to be given
upon conviction. If the offender confess his fault and pay
the fine 40s, he may avoid a prosecution, and the rewards
shall of course be given, in addition to what may be ob-
tained from the guilty party. The parties are thus secured
against loss of time, The present case seems dein If the
smoker will not arrange matters quietly, nd must be pro-
secuted, the instant he is convicted the complainants legally
claim, and shall receive the reward, as well as the £2 to
which the offender is liable by the laws of the railway com-
pany."

Mr Selfe here said he thought the case had failed upon
the point that there was no absolute demand of money, but
merely a suggestion that complainant might pay. Mr Selfe
then asked Mr Lewis to explain to whom the 40s was to go.

Mr Lewis replied to the man who discovered the offence,
which was made clear in the letter complained of.
Mr Selfe—No ; he was to receive the rewards. If any
one offended against the bye laws of the company, and
thereby made himself liable to a penalty, the fine went to
the Queen, and it was highly indecent, to say the least of it,
to induce any one to compromise an offence to divert the
penalty from her Mojezty's exchequer, and put it into their
own pockets. It was the phrase, "If the offender confess
his fault and pay the fine of 405," that had induced him to
grant the summons, as it was really asking the complainant
to pay there.
Mr Lewis said that it would be given to the porters and
others.
b had no more right to it than either
Mr Lewis pointed out that to sustain this e if:nee a man
ho eirr A Sleri fLc'wbsiserlvicad d. they
must be put in fear, and complainant had not ba€n.
Mr S.:lib ohs. rye(' that on legal grounds this case failed.
because the money must be demanded, but hero it was only
suggested. It had been decided that such a suggestion, even
where it was intimated that property would be destroyed,
and the person who wrote the letter could give information
about the destruction of the property, was not a demand,
nor a menace. Mr Innes had behaved like a gentleman in
the transaction, and so far from being menaced or in a
fright, ho thought that the defendant was more likely to
have been in a fright at these proceedings than Mr Innes
had been, and the menace must be such as to put a man in
personal fear, and Mr Innes had not been: therefore the
case technically failed, Ho did Act kit there as aA

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or impropriety in gentlemen c'rculating placards df 1114 krt. P
fie must repeat he thought it very improper to attempt 0
divert from the crown floes which belonged to it when an
offence had been committed, and he suggested they had
better just change their title to the Anti-British Tobacco
Society, which would confer an unmitigated amount of good.
Mr Morley inquired whether it was not a misdemeanour
at common law ? Was it not competent for the mag,is4 rate
to commit the defendant under the 18th of Elizabeth, cap. 5
(an act to redress disorders in common informers) by which
it was enacted that if any person should, by colour or pre-
!ence of process, or without process upon colour or pretence
of any mat ter of offence, &c., should be guilty of an offence).
Mr Selfe observed that his colleague and himselr, in an-
ticipation of the bearing of this case, had looked closely into
the matter, and had found by the statute of Elizabeth that
it only referred to cases in which process might he taken in
a superior court. Althouz,h magistrates, by some of the
cans they had referred to, had concurrent jurisdiction with
!he super tor courts, yet this was not a case c,guisable in a
-uperior court, and therefore proceedings could not be takm
before him unthr the statute.
The eummcns vas then dismissed.

Murder in Durham.

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Since the dreadful murder of old Mrs lia'liday,
at
liebbletret, near Chester-le.street, the County of Durham
has happity been ire from any crime approximating to
ieliberate taking of life. A shocking event, however, has
Just cecurred which has put an end to this impunity from
crimes of a capital nature. A dreadful wife murder has
taken place at a small colliery village of The Spen, near
Winlaton, county of Durham. This village is situated
Arent a couple of miles from Winlaton, and is on the bor-
ders of the Chopwell plantations. The Chopwell estate,
some few years ago, was brought under the attention of
Parliament, and some curious revelations as to its injudi-
cious management came out in the diseuesion on the sub-
ject. The estate on which the plantations are was for-
merly the property of the unfortunate Earl of Derwent-
water, and was confiscated to the Crown in 1715, and is
now under the charge of the Greenwich Hospital Commis-
sioners. The village of The Spen, and the colliery attached
to it, which bears the well-known name of the Garesfield
Colliery, is situated on the borders of these plantations.
The colliery is the property of the Marquis of Bute, and is
worked by his agents. It was sunk about 1800, and Ilea
continued working ever since. It produced a famous coking
coal, and the coke made from it is recognised as the best
made. The colliery is managed with much ability by the
viewer, Mr. Green. Amongst the pitmen employed at this
colliery was a hewer named Matthew Atkinson, aged about
45. He had worked there for several years, lived iu a small
cottage iaThe Spen with his wife, Ellen Atkinson, a woman
aged 43. She was better known in the village and neigh.
beurhood as Nelly Atkinson. They had no family. Atkinson
appears, from all we can learn, to have been a quiet, decent,
orderly conducted man in his daily intercourse with those
around him. He was unfortunate in his wife. His life
was embittered, his comfort destroyed, his home rendered
miserable by the dissipated habits of his wife, the unhappy
murdered woman. We are informed that he bad found
kindness and severity alike ineffectual for her reformation.
Uproar and disturbance, arising out of Mrs Atkinson's dis-
sipated habits, became at length so frequent, that when the
neighbours heard them they ceased to regard them as of
any importance. On ono occasion Atkinson was brought
up by his wife for assaulting her. This will account fur
none of them interfering to prevent the perpetration of
this dreadful and afflicting case of wife murder. We may
mention here as a most remarkable circumstance that the
pitman Smith, who was hanged at Durham about four years
ago for the murder of Batey, a slater, near Winlaton, lodged
with Atkinson and his wife, who at that time lived at Blay-
don-on-Tyne. As in the present case Batey had been at a
shooting match, and was murdered by Smith on his return
from it. On Saturday Mathew Atkinson was present at a
shooting match held at Hopson, a small colliery village on
the other side of the river Derwent, and situated between
Tanfield and Burnopfield, the latter famous as the scene of

the mysterious murder of the young surgeon, Mr Sterling.
Atkinson appears, unfortunately, to have taken too much.
drink while at the match, and when he set out for home
was undoubtedly the worse for Yquor. He reached his own
home between 10 and 11 o'clock. On getting inside he
found his wife in ben, and from what has since transpired
there is good reason for supposing she had been drinking.
The miserable man would seem to have lost command of
himself at the sight, and infuriated by this and the drink hs
himself had taken, he commenced a furious and murderous
assault upon his wife. Shrill screams issued from the cot-
tage. At first the neighbours did not pay much attention to
this; but the uproar at length became so terrible and fi:reo,
the shouts of some one within the cottage so agonising,, that
the affrighted neighbours gathered round the door of the
unhappy couple to ascertain the cause. T..° sounds they
heard that some one was using the firuirons, and giving
fierce and deadly blows, while at frequent intervals groans
and cries were heard from some one within the room. The
n&ghbours were of course dreadfully alarmed at what they

heard, and knocked at the door to ascertain the cause, end
'lading no attention paid to the summons, they eCu wptcd
open the door. Atkinson called out in tones of anger t hat be
would oho)t the first, that attempted to come in. They ;lo
loft the neighbourhood of the door, and not long aiterwards
Atkinson himself came cut and walked about cutside
about a quarter of an hour, talking to seine of the neigh-
bours. At the end of that time he said to one of them ‘•
go back and finish the No ono seemed to attach
any weight to the dreadlul threw ; or at least if they
their coLduct would seem to have bi,eu shockingly callous
and indifl rent in not preventing the miserable man frcoa
completing the horrid tragedy. Ile returned to the house,
and recommenced his savage assault upon the unfortunate
womand, and continued it until ho became alarmed at seeing
that his wFe was really dying film his brutal treatment.
This appears to have somewhat sobered him, and he would
thus seem first to have in some degree realised the dreadful
position in which his blind and drunken fury had placed
him. lie called the neighbours in. They found tho poor
woman lying on the floor; a shocking mass of blood and
bruises. They lifted her upon the bed, but she only gave
two sighs an then expired. Information of the horrid crime
was immediately given to the police, and P.C. Harrison,
who is stationed at IVinlaton, was soon on the spot, anti
apprehended Atkinson for the murder of his wife. He was
afterwards conveyed to the Blaydon lock-up by Sergeant
Wood, where he now remains. When the police entered
the house the scene which presented itself was truly hor-
rible. The floor of the dwelling apartment where the mur-
der had been committed was literally covered with the blood
and hair of the murdered woman, as if she had been dragged
about when the tragedy was being enacted. The poker, the
tongs, and the coalrako were bent in such a manner as to
render them useless as weapons, and they also were covered
with clotted blood and matted hair. The fire shovel too had
been used by the murderer, and some ghastly work must
have been done with it, Its handle was smashed and the blade
coated with blood; and not satisfied with the weapons ho
had already used, the murderer had taken up the handle
of the house brush, and in striking his victim had broken it,
twice. The body of the murdered woman when Dr Callender
arrived, a short limo before the police got to the spot, pre-
sentcd a shocking appearance. It was one mass of bruises
and wounds. She was then dead. On the left temple was
a large wound two inches long and of the same width; her
left arm was broken, and four fingers on the right hand
were also fractured, On her legs were cuts and bruises, and
w h e t hcearn inhoeta had
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piece had been hacked out.
Since the removal of the murderer to the Blaydon lock-
up he appears deeply to feel the awful nature of his posi-
tion, and exhibits signs of great contrition and prostration
of mind,—.Newcastle Chronicle.

THE MAORI WAP..—If this war should unfor-
tunately once more break out, no blame can be
attached to the naval and military forces which were origi-
nally employed in bringing the rebels of New Zealand to a
proper sense of their duty. We fear, however, from the
which
morew we
fightinghav e receivedbefc byine last mail,that
i d
will
peaceable condition ; but come what may, we have the
before the iss reduced to a
satisfaction of knowing that perfect unanimity reigns be-
tween the members of the two services. There is a total
absence of jealousy on the part of soldiers and sailors, Bnl
all vie with each other in awarding honour to those whet
deserve it. As a proof of this, we mat say that we have
seen an extract taken from a letter written by an officer
high up on the staff of the military Commander-in-Chief,
in which, after alluding generally to the fight at
range, the writer makes the following complimentary 01%.
sion to Commodore Sir W. Wiseman :—" The Cotntnoderes
behaved like a • brick' at Tauranga, and went about amidst
a hail of bullets as unconcernedly as if he had been
walking
about the streets of London." We donot this - insert brief
but spirited statement merely to prove that bravery is not
an uncommon quality with naval officers of rank, but to
show that an amiable feeling' to exalt their cauirades of the
sister service reigns amongst the land forces stationed in.
New Z •alautt.—Aniiy 67;(1
13REAKFAST is EvE LAG', ,pa 'hie practitioners,
and the medical woiession generally, recommend ciecoa
as being the moot hcalthf al of all Leverages. When the doe-
trine of homceopathy was first introduced into this country,
there were to b.' obt heed no ',reparations of cocoa either at-
tractive to the taste or acceptable to the stomach ; the nut
was either su:iplied el the crude state, or so unskilfully
manufactured as to obtain little notice. J. Ep, s, of London,
Ilomceopathic Chemist, was induced in the yc ir 13 a to turn
his attention to this Subject, and at ri n.:111 succeeded, with
the assistance of elaborate michincry, in bcing the first
to produce an article pure in its composition, aid cc refined
by the perfect trituraton it receives in the process it passes
throrgh, as to be most acceptable to the delicate stomach.
For general use Epps's Cocoa is distinguished as an invigo-
rating, grateful breakfast beverage, possessing a most deli-
cious aroma. Dr. IlrussAll, in his wo:k, "Food and its
A.dulteratio E,," says -"Cocoa contains a great varlet% of im-
portant nutritive principles—every ingredient necessary to
the growth and sustenance of the body." Again: "As a
nutritive, cocoa stands very much higher than ether coffee
or tea." Directions—Two teaspoonfuls of the powder in a
breakfast cup, filled up with boiling water or milk. Secured
in tin-lined alb., and llb. labelled packets, and cold by
all groc;.l.b, conlectiQncrs, and chentigts.- [A.Dyx.]