The Sun.
London, England, 1863-12-14 00:00:00

BOOKS RECEIVED.

A Woman's Ransom. By the author of Grandmotheeo
Money. 3 vols. Hurst and Blackett.
For Better for Worse. Edited by Edmund Yates. 2 vole.
Maxwell and Co.
Anecdotal Memoirs of English Princes.
Davenport Adams. 2 vols. Newby.
Desk Book of English Synonyms. By John filherer.
Groombridge and Sons.
A Spring and Summer in Lapland. By an Old Bushman*
Groombridge and Sons.
How I Won My Spurs. By J. G. Edgar. Illustrated.
S. 0. Beeton.
The Boy's Own Volume. Illustrated. Edited by the
Publisher. S. 0. Becton.
Scenes from the Drama of European History. By W. H.
Davenport Adams. Virtue Brothers and Co.
The Tiger Prince. By William Dalton. Virtue Brothers
and Co.
The Gentlewoman. Chapman and Hall.
Knowledge for the Time. By John Timbs. Lockwood
and Co.
The Life of Goethe. By George Henry Lewes. Seoond
Edition. Smith, Elder, and Co.
Tho Sporting Rifle and its Projectiles. By Lieut. James
Forsyth. Smith, Elder, and Co.
Lost but Not For Ever. By the Rev, R. W. Vanderkiste.
Nisbet and Co.
The Last of the Cavaliers. New Edition. Richard

By W. K•

Bentley.
What is Your Name ? By Sophy Moody. Richard
Benl ley.
The Destiny of Nations : as Indicated in Prophecy. 13/
the Rev. John Cumming. Hurst and Blackett.
The House of Elmore. By the author of Grandmother'o
Money. Chapman and Hall.
England's Workshops. By Various Writers. Gtoour
bridge and Sons.
Poems. By B. H. Farquhar. F. Pitman.
Marjorie Fleming : a sketch. By John Brown, 31.13/1
author of Rab and his Friends. Edmonston and
Douglas.

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT—This DgYi

The December session of the Central Criminal Coe'
commenced this morning at the S6ssions House, Old Bai
before the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor, Mr. Alderman
Finnis, the Recorder, Russell Gurney, Esq., Mr. Alderman
Bosley, &c.

Owing to the short time that has elapsed since the las%
session the calender contained a list of only 50 prisoners fot
trial.

The grand jury having been sworn,
The Recorder, in delivering his charge, said there were
only four cases affecting human life, and only one of them 5
charge of wilful murder, in which a young woman was
charged with causing the death of her infant child'
The question for the jury in that case was whether that
violence was actually inflicted by the prisoner for the Pur.
pose of causing death, or whether it might arise frOU
ignorance and accident. There was also a case in which
woman was charged with the manslaughter of her husband.
He thought if they were satisfied the injury was inflicted by
the prisoner they would have no difficulty in returning
a true bill. There was also a case in which a singer
at a Music Hall in the neighbourhood of Well-close-square
was charged with the manslaughter of a mariner. From
the evidence of the surgeon it appeared that had the de:
ceased not been drinking the blows might not have caused
death. If the Jury were satisfied that the death was caused
by the blows it would be their duty to send the case for
ther inquiry. The other case of manslaughter was that in!
which a cabman was charged with causing the death efaer
elderly lady, and the only question in the case was whether
the prisoner was driving in a furious and reckless Wien-eti.
and thus caused the aeath of the deceased, or whether it
was the result of accident.
MAKING A FALSE DECLARATION.

Richard Farnham Ridley, a gentlemanly-looking man,
Regiments
aad who had held a commission in one of
Indian War,
of Dragoons, and served in the Crimef4in(cl:
feted under the
for which he had received medals, was indicted
Declaration Act,
18th section of the Unnecessary. 0
under the following circumstanliceeds
to Mr. Strutt, a solicitor
It appeared that he had applied
himself as acquainted with
in Adelphi-terrace, introducing
in the army in India, for the
Mr. trutt's son, ans__m
of
money under his reversionary
of his representations, an applioati":
purpose of raising u
ill of Mr. Farnham, to pay off his debts ;
de to tho British Mutual Loan and Investment
was ma Bridge-street, Blacktriars, for a loan of £3OO,
Society in
ainntde,rienstcuotndsecqr
consequence
which was afterwards advanced by them on a promissory
note and mortgage of the reversion (representel to be worth
,i
£3,003), and the statutory eclaration. It afterwards turns
out prisoner had previously
assigned his interest in the re-
version to Mr. W. F. Ncwtun, of Mayfair, for £l5O. ,
The Jury found the prisoner guilty, and he was sentenced
to eight mouths' imprisonment.

DEATII OF Mr. GODFREY, BANDMASTER OF TILE
COLDSTREAM GUARDS.—A large numbir of our readers
will hear with regret of the death of Mr. Godfrey, the
veteran bandmaster of the Coldstream Guards, which
honourable position he had filled for nearly 40 years. Some
of the most popular instrumentalists of the (I,y had been.
under his tutorage, Mr. Godfrey was, we hear, in his 7514
year, and had the esteem of his officers, and likewise those
under his command. Ho was only ill a few hours.
THE LATE GALE.—M. Leverrier, Director of the
Paris Observatory, states in an article that he has published_
on the late gale, that it assumed the form in France of
a terrific cyclone, whose centre moved southwards. 1'?0
damage effected by it seems to have been fully as great in
France as in England.
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