The Sun.
London, England, 1864-04-21 00:00:00

DEPUTATIONS TO GARIBALDI.

A deputation from the City Reception Committee, in con-
junction with a deputation from the Working Men's Recep-
tion Committee, waited upon General Garibaldi last night
at half-past 11 o'clock, at Mr. Seely's residence, 26, Princes-
gate, for the purpose of representing to him the great dis-
appointment that would be felt by the people of England
should he depart from this country without, at least, paying
his promised visit to some of the large towns. The deputa-
tions, which were kindly received by the General, were
introduced by Mr. Wilfrid Lawson, M.P.
Mr. BEALES, having read to the General the resolution
adopted by the City Committee yesterday evening, urged
upon him the propriety of his reconsidering his determina-
tion to leave England without visiting the provinces, which
would be a great disappointment to the people. He trusted
the General would not yield to the influlnces which had
been brought to bear upon him, but carry out, if not to the
full extent, at least some part of the programme which had
been laid down for him.

Mr. CREMER, on behalf of the Working Men's Commit-
tee, read the resolution agreed to last night by that com-
mittee, similar in its purport to that adopted by the City
Committee. He said the statements put forth with respect
to his health were looked upon by the working men as mere
subterfuges to cover the other intentions, and they gene-
rally believed that undue influences had been used to induce
him to take so sudden a departure. He was the guest not
of a party, but of the whole people, and so convinced were
the people that his intended departure was not the result
of his own wishes that they implored him not to disappoint
them at the bidding of any clique, to whatever class they
belonged.

Several other members of the deputation having spoken
to the same effect,

General GARIBALDI, with much emotion said,—"l feel
deeply grateful to the people of England for the honour they
have conferred upon me—an honour of which I feel myself
unworthy. The reception I have received from all classes,
but especially from the working classes, will never be for-
gotten by me. I much desire to visit my old friends in New-
castle and the North. I will consider if I can, consistently
with my promise, alter my determination, and will write a
note expressing my intention to my friend Mr. Beales to-
morrow (this) morning.
The deputations then took their leave, ogain urging upon
him the propriety of visiting some of the larger towns, and
thanking the General for receiving them at so late an hour
of the night. The General had just returned from dining
with Mr. Gladstone. Both tho City and Working Men's
Committees meet again this evening.

The Malta Times mentions the death under pain-
ful circumstances of a promising young officer of the
Royal Engineers, Lieut. Gifford, who had been sent
out from England with his corps to assist in
demolishing the fortifications of Corfu. Tidings
have just been received that be bad been killed by
a fall from his horse. He was much beloved by his
fellow officers.

MURDER AND SUlCTDE.—Yesterday morning Dr.
Lsnkester held an inquest at the Silver Cup, Cro-
mer-street, Gray's-inn-road, on the bodies of John Thomas
Pearce and Keziah Pearce, his wife, who, it will be re-
membered, were found on Monday morning last with
their throats cut at No. 6, Leigh-street, Burton crescent.
The jury' proceeded to the house to view the bodies
which lay in the condition in which they were tounJ
They ware in a back room on the ground floor, each lying
face downwards. The furniture seemed undisturbed. One
thing, however, attracted the attention of the jury, and that
was that the stove was partly cleaned, witu one brush on
the hob, and the fire laid ready for lighting. The woman
appeared to have fallen nearest the door, as though
she had endeavoured to get out of the room. Mrs. Martha
Page identified the body as that of her deceased daughter,
who was 43 years of age. She had been married about a
twelvemonth to John Thomas Pearce, and lived very un-
happily with him owing to his drunkenness. She was afraid
to leave him, as ho had said if she did so he would kill her.
Henry Page, brother to the deceased woman, gave similar
testimony, but added that she had told him her husband was,
without cause, jealous of her and 3 oung Mr. Ashley. Pearce
and his wife had lived together ever since his sister was 17,
but he believed they had been lately married. Alfred Isaac
Ashley said his father carried on business at No. 5, Leigh-
street. The deceased woman was their housekeeper, and
the husband also lived there. Their sitting-room was the
back room on the ground floor, and they slept in one of the
attics. They had been there 6 or 7 months. He believed
that there had been some difference between them, owing to
the liusteand wishing to leave that house. Mrs. Pearce had
told him that it was owing to jealousy respecting witness,
but there was no foundation for such a thing. On Monday
morning, about 8 o'clock, witness came downstairs and
found their bedroom door open, and was surprised at finding
the passage door locked. On going into the kitchen he saw
blood coming through the flooring of their room and run-
ning down the wall. lie then called is a police-constable.
Pearce conducted himself at times in a strange manner.
James Odell, 28 E, described the position in which he found
the bodies, a hammer, and knife covered with blood, in the
room. Mr, James Thomas Paul, divisional police surgeon,
found them both dead. The woman was lying behind
the man. She had a contused wound on the crown of the
head, laying the bone bare. There were two wounds on the
neck, one above the other, each separating all the large
vessels. One of them showed that the windpipe and gullet
had been cut through, and the instrument had passed into'
the back of the spine. The blow on the head was such as
would be produced by a hammer similar to the one before
the Court. The cause of death was haemorrhage from the
wound in the throat. There being no blood upon the
hammer could be accounted for by the headdress being
struck, and so preventing the immediate escape of the
blood. Harriet Hampson identified the deceased man as
her son. He was 48 years o age, and worked at St.
Katharine's Docks, in the bottling department. Ai,out
eight weeks since sbe visited him, whin her daughter-in-
law told her she was afraid her husband was going mad like
his father, who had been insane ten years. She feared he
would kill her. Her son had also told her that he thought
he should go mad, like his father, Mr, Paul showed that
tho whole of the vessels of the throat of deceased had been
divided, producing death from the self-inflicted wound.
The jury returned a verdict in the case of the woman, of
I, Wilful Murder against John Thomas ;Pearce," and in
that of the man "Suicide while in an unsound state of
mind."
ANTIQUITY OF MAN.—M. Eugene Robert has
addressee a new paper to the Academy of Sciences
against the supposition of man's co-existence upon earth
with the mammalia now extinct in Europe. He remarks
that the fact of the teeth of the Uraus Spaceus being found
perforated for the purpose of stringing them together for
necklaces, proves nothing else but that these teeth were
found in a fossil state many ages after the death of the ani-
mal by the races of men existing within the historical times;
and that the same may bo said of the other bones displaying
traces of carved figures on their surface. Moreover, dilu-
vian man is supposed to have been no bigger than the pre-
sent race of Laplanders; how, then, can they have
frequented caves inhabited by the colossal bear with
a prominent forehead that has received the name of
Uraua Spelaus? Surely they cannot have attempted
to attack it, and must have carefully examined the cave be-
fore making it their residence. As for the fragments of
elephants' tusks bearing marks of human workmanship,
they appear to be much more ancient than the bones of
bears and other animals disseminated among the strata of
the caverns. The primitive inhabitants, no doubt, found
them in digging the ground, and carried theta into the
caverns to examine and work them, If they had lived at
the same time as the elephant and rhinoceros, would they
not have carved such striking figures upon their bones,
rather than reindeer, oxen, horses, and wild boars ? And,
instead of copying the figure of the modern bear,
would they not have sooner copied the very striking
one of the great fossil species above alluded to?
Again, although the elephant and rhinoceros may have
lived in Europe, such a thing is absolutely inad-
missible for the hippopotamus, which can only live in rivers
the temperature of which is constantly warm ; transported
to Europe, it might have lived in summer, but never through
the winter. The number of ages stated to have passed
since the time when man and the large mammalia are sup-
posed to have co-existed in Europe, M. Robert thinks quite
insufficient to account for any radical change in the general
temperature so as to render our part of the world fit for
those animals. Without denying the acuteness of this line
of reasoning, we cannot forbear observing that M. Robert's
arguments do not by any means remove the stubborn fact
that all the carved bones, &c., wore found imbedded to-
gether with human jaw bones in a formation considered by
geologists to be much enterior to our present one. Either
the theory of the antiquity of the drift is wrong, in which
case the greatest geologists of Europe are wrong also, or
man existed with the animals in question ; there is no
escape from the hems of this dilemma,