The Sun.
London, England, 1863-09-09 00:00:00

.NO. 22.215

MRS. GREY'S NEW" NOVEL.
Just ready, in 3 vols.,
GO OD s ocIET Y.
By MRS. GREY,
Author of " The Gambler's Wife," &c.
Hurst and Blackett, Publishers, 13, Great Marlborough-
stri et.

NEW NOVEL by the Author of "COUSIN GEOFFREY."
Now ready at all the Libraries, in 3 vols.,
LEFT TO THEMSELVES.
By the Author of "Cousin Geoffrey," dm
" A very touching story. It is one of the most clever boors
of the season."—United Service Mag.
Hurst and Blackett, 13, Great Marlborough-street.

ZADKIEL'S ALMANAC for 1864. Price 6i.
Fiftieth Thousand. Contains a full Report of the
Action for Libel and Verdict gained by the Editor. Stinging
reply to the Critics of the Press. Letters from H.R.H. the
late Prince Consort to Zadkiel !

London : G. Berger, Holywell-street, Strand, London.

EGYPTIAN HALL.-MR. J. K. LORD.
F.Z.S., Nightly in his popular Entertainment, entitled
" AT HOME IN THE WIL DERNESS."

Admission-55., 35., 25., is.

T H E
0 X F O R D,
e, OXFORD STREET, W.
THIS EVENING, will be performed Operatic Selections
from Sir Henry R. Bishop's THE SLAVE and Halevy's
MUSKETEERS (first time in England).
Principal Artistes—Miss Russell, Miss Ellison, Messrs.
Green, Bernardi, Huish, &c., with full band and chorus.
Conductor, Mr. F. Jonghmans.
Flute Solos by Drew Dean, &c.
Comic, by UNSWORTH ("or any oilier man "), Eugene,
W. Randall, A. Lloyd, and George Hodson.
Also, a Pei formance by Herr SCHALKENBACH on his
wonderful instrument, the PIANO ORCHESTRE, contain-
ing a full baud of 40 instruments.
The HALL has just been newly Decorated and Ventilated,
and is one of the most Beautiful in the Metropolis.
Open at 8 o'clock. Admission, 6d. ; stalls and balcony, Is. ;
private boxes, 10s. 6d.

CANTERBURY HALL " GHOST."—In order
to gratify the curiosity of nightly-increasing crowds,
Mr. C. MORTON has transferred the representation of Pro-
fessor Pepper and Henry Dirks, Esq.'s, world-famed spectral
Illusion, " THE GHOST," from the Picture Gallery to the
Concert Hall, where a new and elegant stage is erected,
affording a more ample view of the Illusion from Stalls, Bal-
cony, and body of the Hall. He has also arranged for Mr.
A. Silvester to give (with all that gentleman's latest im-
provements and effects), REPRESENTATIONS EACH
EVENING, at Ten o'clock.

All the other Musical and Pictorial attractions as usual,
including Operatic Selections, &c. ; Ernsworth (the modern
Demosthenes), Eugene, Arthur Lloyd, George Hodson, &c.

ROYAL ALHAMBRA PALACE. The
GHOST ! The GHOST 1 ! The ONLY COMIC
GHOST ! ! !—The beautiful FAIRY FOUNTAIN.—A
Grand Divertissement by Signora Rachele and Mariannina
and Signor Guiseppe Francesco, assisted by a corps of
Twenty young Ladies—Selections from favourite Operas :
Principals, Miss M`Gregor, Mr. Albert, Signor Georgini, and
Mr. Vernon Rigby.

NICO SI A, the Great Violinist, will make his
Third Appearance in England THIS EVENIA G
and Every Evening, at the ALHAMBRA.

Doors open at 7—commence at half-past 7.

ARGYLL ROOMS, Windmill-street, Piccadilly.
Th se elegant Rooms, entirely and costly redecorated,
are NOW OPEN for the Winter Season.
The musical department is under the directorship of Mons.
Jullien, conductor of the band. This celebrated band will be
called for the future "The London Band."
Manager of the Rooms—M. GRENET.
Sole Lessee, R. R. BIGNELL.
Admission, ls.
Doors open at 8 o'clock.

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especially recommend their improved Family Tea, reduced
to 3s. 2d. ; Souchong, reduced to 3s. ed. ; mixed Assam, re-
duced to 3s. Bd. ; and the finest Assam, reduced from 4s. 4d.
to 3s. 11d, per lb.
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vented instrument for severe cases of deafness. It fits into
the ear, not perceptib:e, removes sinp,-inr, noises in the head,
and enables deaf persons to hear distinctly at church and at
public assemblies.—S. and B. SOLOMONS, 39, Albemarle-
street, Piccadilly.

MONEY PROMPTLY ADVANCED by a
Private Gentleman upon FURNITURE (without
removal). Leasehold and Freehold Property, or Reversions,
,te., in sums from £2O to £soo.—Mr. Howard, 18, Queen-
street, Cheapside.

TO Persons in WANT of MONEY (in Town
or Country).—A GENTLEMAN is willing to MAKE
ADVANCES of CASH, without delay, to respectable persorp,
(male or female), on their own security. The utmost secrecy
can be relied on.—Apply (if by letter enclose four stamps) to
W., at Mr. Robertson s, Accountant, 40, King William-street,
London-bridge, E.C.—Money advanced on Dock Warrants.

KEATING'S PERSIAN INSECT DESTROY-
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to the Producer at the International Exhibition, 1862,
This Powder is quite harmless to animal life, but is un-
rivalled in destroying Fleas. Bugs, Flies, Cockroaches,
Beetles, Goats, Mosquitos, Moths in furs, and every other
species of Insect.

-Sportsmen will find this an invaluable remedy for destroy-
ing Fleas in their Dogs, as also Ladies for their Pet Dogs.
Being the original importer of this now invaluable article,
which has found so great a sale that it has tempted others to
vend a so-called article, theublic are therefore cautioned to
observe that the packets of p
the Genuine Powder bear the
autogragh of ThouAs KEATING
Sold in packets, ls., 2s. 6d., and 4s. 6d. each, or post free for
14 or 36 postage stamps, by Thomas Keating, chemist, 79, St.
Paul's-churchyari, London, E.C.

ARMY CONTRACTS.
Commissariat Office,
Aldershot, 2€l September, 1863.
TENDERS will be received at this office, until
noon, on WEDNESDAY, the 30th September, 1863,
from persons who may be willing to enter into Contract for
the supply of

FORAGE,
in such quantities as may be required, from Ist November,
1863, to 3,st October, 1861, for the use of Tier Majesty's
Forces stationed at Aldershot Camp, and within the com-
mand.
Forms of Tender and Conditions of Contract may be ob-
tained on application at this office, by letter or in person,
between the hours of ten and four o'clock.
The Tenders must be properly filled up and signed, and
delivered at this office (under closed envelope, marked on the
outside "Tender for Forage"), and no Tender will be noticed
unless made on forms obtained from this office, and delivered
by the hour appointed.

HENRY B. MORSE,
Deputy Commissary-General.

•, -, , .
THE STN, LONDON, WEDINESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 9, 1863..

Naval and Military Intelligence.

THE NAVY.

The Speedwell gunboat, 428 tons and 80 horse
power, now fitting for service in the inner basin at
Woolwich, was yesterday commissioned by Mr. G.
Metter for Commander George Cottam, late of the
Recruit, the officers and crew of the latter vessel
having been transferred to the Speedwell. The
crews are berthed for the present on board the re-
ceiving ship Salsette, as the Speedwell is not ex-
pected to be ready for sea before the end of October.
Her armament will consist of one 68-pounder,
95cwt. pivot gun, two 24-pounder howitzers, and
two 20-pounder Armstrong guns. Commander
Cottam has borne the brunt of much hard and dan-
gerous service. His appointment to the gunboat
Speedwell is therefore a matter of surprise, and is
accounted for on the supposition that the Speed.
well is the only vessel of that class now to be com-
missioned, and that the gallant Commander's ser-
vices ►ill be requited shortly by his removal to a
more honourable command.

The steam storeship Industry, Master Comman-
der Youel, has returned to Woolwich from her trial
trip after repairs, and is under orders to sail this
morning in charge of Mr. Barnes, Admiralty pilot,
at 5 o'clock, on her voyage for the West Coast of
Africa. On going down to Woolwich from the Vic-
tualling-yard at Deptford, she was struck by a
brig,
the which
Industry was
seriously damaged. The only in-
jurysustained
was the destruction of
her lifebuoy, which was "replaced at Woolwich.
The sailing ship Rosabund, Captain Arthur
Symmers, yesterday made fast inside the T pier at
Woolwich Arsenal, and commenced shipping 16 12-
pounder Armstrong guns, waggons, and complete
battery appurtenances for the 4th, 7th, and 10th
brigades Royai Artillery at Montreal and Quebec.
The Pelorus, 21, screw corvette, 1,464 tons, and
400-horse power, ordered by the Board of Admi-
ralty to be commissioned immediately, at Devon-
port, by Capt. Henry Boys, will have a complement
of 260 officers and men. The Pelorus was launched
at Devonport in 1856, and was first commissioned
at that port by Capt. F. B. P. Seymour in July,
1857, and sailed from England in September fol-
lowing, and was employed on the East India, China,
and Australian stations until paid off in December,
1862. In March last she was placed in the north
basin at Keyham, to have her machinery taken out,
preparatory to her defects being made good. She
was taken out of dock in June and was masted on
the 13th of July, and returned to Keyham to be
rigged, stored, and armed for the Ist class reserve.
She made a trial of her machinery on the 28th of
August, and returned into harbour. Capt. Boys
served in the Edinburgh, 72, as midshipman, and
was much applauded during the operations on the
coast of Syria, and was wounded at the bombard-
ment of St. Jean d'Acre. After further serving on
particular service at the Cape of Good Hope, on the
coast of Africa, and on the south-east coast of
America, on the 14th of May, 1853, he was pro-
moted to the command of the Express, 6, on the
last-named station, and paid her off in September,
1856. He obtained post rank on the 17th of
October, 1857.

CELEBRATION of the TERCENTENARY of
the BIRTH of SHAKSPEARE, at Stratford-upon-
Avon. The Tercentenary Committee (of which Sir Robert
N. C. Hamilton, Bart., K.C.8., is Chairman) are now receiv-
ing SUBSCRIPTIONS, and they may also be paid to the
account of the Tercentenary Committee, at the Stourbridge
and Kidderminster or Warwick and Leamington Banks,
Stratford-upon-Avon ; Messrs. Greenway, Smith, and
Greenway, Warwick ; or their London agents, Messrs.
Smith, Payne, and Co , Messrs. Hanburys and Co., or Messrs.
Glyn and Co., bankers, London.
The Tercentenary Committee, in submitting the subscrip-
tion list to the nation, most earnestly appeal to the admirers
of Shakspeare for their aid and assistance. The Committee
rest their claims upon the ground that Stratford is not only
the birthplace of Shakspeare, but the centre of attraction to
all admirers of the great Poet's works, and that it was his
home, the town he loved, and where he lived and died.

ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-R OAT
INSTITUTION

_
(Inoorporated by Royal Charter).
PATRONESS—Her Most Graelous Majesty the Queen.
PRHSIDENT —Vice-Admiral the Duke of Northumberland,
E.G., F.R.S.
CHAIRMAN—Thos. Raring, Esq., M.P., F.R.S., v.p.
DEPUTY-CHAIRMAN—Thomas Chapman, Esq., F.R.S., V.P.

The Tamar, 3, iron screw troopship, 2,812 tons
and 500-horse power, which was recently launched
at Millwall, is being brought forward for commis-
sion at Sheerness with all possible despatch. Capt.
Fred. Henry Stirling and Mr. Edwin Wise, master,
have been appointed by the Board of Admiralty to
the Cumberland, 24, guardahip of the steam re-
serve at Sheerness, for service in this ship. She
has been surveyed by Capt. Mends, C. 8., Director
of Transports, assisted by Capt. Wise, the Capt.-
Superintendent of Sheerness dockyard, together
with other officials, and the result was pronounced
very satisfactory. Capt. Stirling obtained the
rank of Lieutenant in May, 1848, and served in
the St. Vincent from November following until
April, 1840, when he removed into the Castor, 36,
and served at the Cape of Good Hope until the close
of 1851. He served in the Penelope, 16, on the
West Coast of Africa, from February, 1852, until
promoted to Commander, March, 25, 1854; com-
manded the Wasp, 13, on the South-East Coast of
America station from July, 1856, until paid off at
the close of 1858 ; and was commander of the Hero,
92, attacl.ed to the Channel Squadron, and on par-
ticular service from March, 1859, until promoted to
pest rank, November 19, 1860.
The screw steam sloop Wrangler, 4, Commander
H. 13. Beamish, which left Sierra Leone, August 1 ;
St. Vincent, 13th; and Fayal, 30th, arrived in Ply-
mouth. Sound yesterday morning. She left at Sierra
Leone the screw steam troopship Megvera, 6, Com-
mander Samuel H. Henderson, and the screw steam
gun vessel Sparrow, 5, Commander the Hon. Ernest
Cochrane. The paddlewheel steam frigate Odin,
1$ Commodore Lord John Hay, left for England
on the 21st of July. The Himalaya was off St.
Vincent on the 9th of August with troops, out-
ward bound. The American steam-sloop Kearsage
was at Payed. The Wrangler has brought home
four naval invalids from the squadron, and five sea-
men belonging to the ship Cariboo, of Liverpool,
Capt. Cameran, belonging to Samuel Lawrence and
Co., which took fire 360 miles west of St. Vincent,
on the 20th of July.
Liver-
pool bound to B The Cariboo was from Liver-
ombay, with coals and machinery.
The mate was in the hold with a lantern, and fell
over a coil of rope. The lantern dropped from his
hand, and set some turpentine on fire. The crew,
26 in all, were
picked up by a Scotch bark 100
miles west of St. ar
• incent. The Wrangler expe-
rienced fine weather until Saturday, when enter-
ing the Channel, since which strong northerly and
westerly winds
have prevailed. Several cases of
fever have occured
0/1 the passage, but none have
pros ed fatal, and the crew are now quite healthy,
The Wrangler was
commissioned on the 4th of
April, 1860, and has been constantly engaged on
the coast of Africa.
The following i
apnl3nt
——ments and promotions were
made yesterday at the Admiral Ca t James
C. Prevost, to the Gibraltar; Lieut. ty :
Stratford Take,
.
Lieut. the Hon. Francis G.
Crofton, Lieut. Sebas-
tian Gassioi, and Lieut, Cecil F. W. Johnson, to the
Pelorus ; Lieut Henry S.
—4ndys, to the Speedwell;
Staff Commander Benjamin
Gib-
raltar ; Christopher Albert, Renaud, to the
master, to the Pelorus ;
R. M. Curry, master, to the
Speedwell ; John Jones,
master, to the Scylla B. James
as. Anderson, surg.,
to the Pelorus ; William Rodney, surg., to the
-"
Scylla; Charles M'Shane, s
go to the Gibraltar ;
Dr. Robert Hay, acting assist..surg.,
to the
Pelorus ; William Carleton, acting assist.-surg., to
the Scylla; Dr. Walter Reid, acting assist.-surg.,
to the Gibraltar; Albert T. 4
-. Roberts, paymaster,
W. to the Pelorus; Warburton, paymaster,
to the Scylla ; Thomas R. C. a, Gray, paymaster,
to the Gibraltar; Alfred Clements, assist.-pay-
master, to the Scylla; Frederick E, Perkis and
Alfed G. Montagu, assist.-PaYmasters, to the Gib-
raltar; James E. Ray, assist.-paymaster to the
Pelorus ; E. S. M. Power, assist..
paymaster, in
charge, to the Speedwell; Jame, B. Rawlings,
assist., Paymaster, to the Excellent; John W. Sec •
combe, clerk, to the Pelorus
; Charles G. Ancell,
clerk to the Scylla; C. E. Grant and Richard
Harris, clerks, to the Gibraltar ; Charles J. Bolt,
assist.-clerk, to the Speedwell ; John B_ Creagh,
assist: clerk, to the Pelorus ; Henry W. Hunt, assist.-
clerk to the Scylla; Abraham Turner and John D.
Taylor, assist.- clerks, to the Gibraltar ; and F. E.
Thompson, master's-assist.- to the Speedwell.
The following appointments have bet,n made in
the Royal Naval Reserve : To be Lieutenants—
Henry Welchman Cing and William Stewart.

Adventure, for the undermentioned colonial sta-
tions :—Two non-commissioned officers and 70 gun-
ners for Canada ; 10 men for Nova Scotia ; and one
sergeant and 30 men for Bermuda. A party of 13
non-commissioned officers and sappers of the Royal
Engineers will proceed from Chatham garrison
with the detachment of the Royal Artillery, which
will be under the command of Capt. T. A. de Mo-
leyns and Lieut. S. Alleyne. Yesterday Lieut. E.
Johnson, Lieut. M. H. Hayes, Lieut. E. F. Cam-
bier, Lieut. H. Roberts, and Lieut. F. B. Knox, of
the first division of the Depot Brigade, left head-
quarters and proceeded to Woolwich, where they
embark with draughts of Royal Artillery, under
orders to proceed to India for service in the Madras
Presidency.
Some important trials were made at Chatham
yesterday with a pair of the new description of
military pontoons which have been introduced into
this country from Austria, the object being to test
their buoyant powers under every variety of circum-
stances. For this purpose the two pontoons tested
were floated up the Medway to the Ordnance-wharf,
where the trials were made by a numerous party of
officers and men of the Royal Engineers, acting under
the instructions of Lieut.-Col. Louell, C. 8., one of the
heads of departments at the Royal Engineer esta-
blishment. The peculiarity of the Austrian pontoons
tried yesterday is that their shape is altogether dif-
ferent from that of the ordinary Blanshard pontoon
in general use in the British army, which re-
sembles a huge cylinder, and being formed of
zinc, or some other equally light metal, and made
perfectly watertight, is possessed of extreme buoy-
ancy. The shape of the Austrian pontoons is ex-
actly that of the flat-bottomed river barges, and the
material of which they are composed is_ thin plate
iron firmly rhetted together. The length of each
is 26ft, and width sft 6in, with a depth of about 3ft,
The weight of the pontoons used in the trials yes-
terday was not stated, but it was believed to be be-
tween one and two tons each. When brought up to
the wharf to receive the ordinary planking they
were found to be exceedingly buoyant, but at the
same time rather unsteady. Eight or ten Royal
Engineers, all of whom were first weighed, were
ordered to enter each pontoon, when scarcely any
difference could be observed in their draught of
water. Preparations were next made for form-
ing a raft, and a number of old 42-pounder
solid shot, weighing, in the aggregate, nearly
three tons, were placed on the planking in a solid
pile, in addition to which about a ton weight of
the cast-iron skidding used in transporting
the heavy guns was also shipped. The total
weight placed on the pontoons, inclusive of that of
the officers and sappers, was probably between five
and six tons, but as the pontoons are stated to be
capable of sustaining a dead weight of 5601 b. to the
foot, this had little effect in bringing them down to
the depth anticpaced. With the planking stores,
&c., on board, the unsteady motion previously ob-
served altogether ceased, and the raft was almost
motionless in the water. The trials yesterday left
no doubt as to the exceeding buoyancy of these pon-
toons, but the grave objection to their use will be
their unwieldly shape and character, and the diffi-
culty which must exist in transporting them as
part of the materiel of an army. This could be in part
obviated by forming each section of the pontoon into
a kind of waggon, placed on'wheels, easily removable
when the pontoon is required for aquatic operations.
Their great depth would render them well adapted
for the stowage of stores.

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Yesterday the inquest wa - r en'rellA.
- -ai
hampton on the body of Willie - enea
of
Ann Corbett, of Dudley, depose hat on a IPri-
day, a month ago, a woman came to her at her
house in Towereoreet, Dudley, and asked her to
be allowed to sec a house which she (witness) had
to let. She went away, saying she would go and
tell her husband. This was iu the dusk. Sho at-
' terwards returned, and told her her husband's name
was William Smith, and that the house would suit
him. Witness gave her the key, and did not see
her again. The house remained locked, and a few
days afterwazds witness's husband went to the gas
works and found that no one worned there of the
given name. At length William Johnson got into
the house by en upstairs' window, and came down
and forced oprn the front door. On the following
day (Thursday) Mr Shaw and his family took the
Na, housev,femtri,,
art
d running andwoman
upstairs,y i
lying
ogn i
upstairs
,pea:ntmadif,r someba!v
l crying,o t their
Witness c , a
There'sil d
herselfr en ,
gave ad legn
ala of aWoman, up into the attic, and having seen the foot
Womcan, ran back down stalls and
of the house.rm.
The, police then took possession_
Mary Eliza Field, the
w.
said that on the Saturday
as
round, night
of a railway guard,
ghr,
a 1
loiu
house fortnight
e
the woman Steadman
she saw her at a
quarter past 12 at the door of the
which e fse hr ee
afterwards took. She was dressed n
and a lilac body. The skirt was drawn a dark skirt
head, which was without a bonnet, i
toev
eesrs did
her
"tar
not see her again. Yesterday (Monday) she
saw
the body exhumed. By the clothes she could
rcognise that the body was that of the same woman
she had been speaking of.
Elizabeth Farnell, mother of the man Ciienery, was
recalled. She averred she was the wife of the man
with whom she was now living. She saw the body
that had been taken out of the grave. It was in the
tool-house of the cemetery, and the witness Was
satisfied in her own mind that the body was that of
Rosannah.
A letter was here produced by Mr. Nesbitt, sur-
geon, of Wolverhampton, which was found in the
pocket of the woman exhumed. The envelope was
addressed to "Mrs. Welleham, Post-office, Willen-
hall" (Mrs. Farnell sometimes called herself by that.
name). The letter inside was as follows :
July 31, 1863.
My dear Mother,—l have been trying to get work at
Birmingham, and I cannot get any, I cannot live this un-
happy life any longer. You know the reason that I have
never known what it was to have one day's peace since she
came back. I cannot get work, or, mother, I would; and I
am too tired of this work altogether. It is not selling—it is
begging the people to buy. Tell that party if I could have
got anything to do I would have done according to promise.
Witness continued—There was no signature to
the letter. The writing was that of her son. Wit-
ness also identified a purse found on the body of
the exhumed woman as that which Rosannah used
to have in the market. She could not tell whom her
son referred to when he wrote " tell that party."
She knew nothing of her son having "no peaee
since she came home." When she last saw her eon
he said, " Mother, you look very bad, come and
have a glass of port wine; I have got some money,
for I have received it from that party, and I have
got it here," pointing to his breast. Her son never
complained to her of having been robbed by any one
but the deceased woman.
Mr. Francis A. Nesbitt, Mountford-place, Wol-
verhampton, surgeon to the South Staffordshire
General Hospital, &c., deposed that in obedience to
the coroner's order he proceeded to the cemetery at
Dudley on Monday, Sept. 9,1863, at 3 p.m.,to be pre-
sent at the exhumation of the body of the deceased
woman. The body was much decomposed, The hair
" •
r
(of a brown colour) had all fallen from the
scalp,
the eyes from their sockets, the flesh from the
cheeks, and several teeth from the mouth Parts
of her dress were removed for analysing. The re-
mains evidently belonged to a full
developed though a small woman,
and well
and bore no
marks of violence. It was impossible
the cause of death. No bones werefractured,to and
as far as could be found there was no internal
injuric s.
Henry Gibbons sworn—l am a surgeon,
at 28, Stamford-street, in this town.
residingamGis°
medical officer to the Wolverhampton Union-hou '
and the Fever Hospital. On Friday, Aug. 14,
at'
about a quarter after ten o'clock in the morning, as
I was proceeding along Bqston-street to attend to
my public duty at the union, I was, when opposite
No. 4 Court, accosted by several people, who ap-
peared to be in a very excited state. I was informed
that a man had just been found dead in an upstairs
room in that court. As soon as a key of the house
was procured, I entered the house and went upo
stairs. At that time the effinviuna was almost in-
tolerable. I did not at that time make any thorough
examination. By the direction of the coroner, and
in conjunction with Mr. Shadweil, surgeon of this
town, and Mr. Keogh, senior surgeon of the South
Staffordshire General Hospital, I have since done
so. After examining the room we then adjourned, to the dead-house at the union to make thepost,,
mortem examination. The body was black, -aNcLI"
very much decomposed, and after minutely do.
er'ahs
t ,
ing the course of the examination, the witness
eon-
' tinued—l have made an analysis and •
examination of the stomach and it allerQ''e°Pic
thes contents, and
various matters found in
stomach did not reveal an
tr room. The
a.ce of oison.
The mattress, the straw, and the stains on the floor
m
revealed traces of human blood in considerable
quantities. The sheet had upon it ordinary gas tar,
y
as had also the skin of the o b d
. From the inves gation and examination, lam of opinion, first, that
the deceased died from injuries to the head and
great
loss of blood (apparently several quarts) ;
seeoid
that these injuries and this violence were inflilteci by some person or persons other than the deceased
himself ; third, that after death the bodY
out, and the pillow placed under its was
head laid
;
fourth, that after death the body was painted or
brushed over with tolerably hot gas tar (this pro-
bably with a view of preventing detection from
smell as long as possible) ; and, fifth, that the sheet
and counterpane were placed on the body and tucked
under the head by some person or persons other
than the deceased.
The Coroner then said he thought it would be
better for them to adjourn the inquest to enable the
police to make a further investigation of the circum-
stances. The identification of the woman Stead-
man, however, was now complete.
Two or three other Wolverhampton witnesses
then identified Steadman by her clothes.
Mr. Gibbons afterwards remarked that there was
one thing he wished to state to the jury. The mat-
tress beneath the head of the deceased was stained
with a large quantity of blood. Another large
quantity had also been shed upon the centre of the
surface of the mattress, and both pools of blood bad
met. He was therefore of opinion that not only
the head had been injured but also another part of
the person.
A Juror—We can do no better than adjourn.
The Coroner (to the jury)---We can get no fur-
ther at present.
Policeman Bealey—We cannot find any one who
avr them together, or who sa
ever s W heron the road
after she left Wolverhampton.
A Juror remarked that much had
court that ought to be said inbeen said out of
evidence.
The Coroner said that if
whom lived near the de any of the jury, all of
forward any one ceased's house, could bring
whose statement would tend to
elucidate the matter, they ought to have it produced.
The C j
(,Droner ad
fortnight, for
ourned the inquiry to that day
further evidence.

MICE .....
STAMPED ....sd.

THREE FEDERAL CHIEFS.

(From the new number of " All the Year Round," just
published.)

SECRETARY WILLIAM SEWARD.
Mr. Seward may be forty-eight or fitty ; his hair,
rt little in disorder, is light mingled with grey; hip
eyes, deep sank beneath his eyebrow?, are small.
but very sharp; his aquiline nose presents a wry
decided curve; his whole countenance reveals clever-
ness and intellect. He is an excellent companion,
very merry, very lively, and familiar from the first
shake of the hand. His manners are so free and
cosy, that they almost excite suspicion at the outset.
One is apt to believe that craft cannot help lying
hid behind so frank an exterior, But such is nat., at
all the case. Mr. Seward is a capital fellow, very
open, and a bit of a joker. Everybody knows, too,
that although Mr. Lincoln is at the head of the
Government, the real man of importance, the verit-
able chief of the Republican party, is Mr. Seward.
Rich, independent, gifted to a high degree with
the impassioned, aggressive, boastful, facetious elo-
quence whichpieases Anglo-Saxon meetings, he early
acquired great popularity, When the Republican
party had to choose a candidate for the presidency,
Mr. Seward's supporters were sufficiently numerous
to cause alarm. By a clever decision he avoided the
risk of a check. He offered his support to Mr. Lin-
coln. The move succeeded, and he took for himself
the next post after the presidency—the secretary-
ship of foreign affairs. He speaks no language
besides English, and knows little about Europe;
although he has the habit of saying with an em-
phasis which is somewhat comic, that he spent se-
veral years at the principal European Courts to
acquire the art of governing men.

PRESIDENT ABRAHAM LINCOLN.

A few minutes after Mr. Seward's entrance, Mr.
Lincoln made his appearance. His stature is so
much above the average that he might be styled a
giant, were not the word—the expression of
strength and power in the biblical and mythologi-
cal senses—now confined to the vocabulary of tum-
blers and showmen. His countenance bears no
marked character, but approaches to the Celtic
type of Auvergne, with a long head and a sharp
nose. His hair is very black, as is also his beard,
coming to a point after the American fashion. If
this physiognomy expresses benevolence and frank-
ness, his attitude and manners are those of a modest,
nay, a timid person. Perhaps his embarrassed ad-
dress—which communicates itself to those with
whom he converses—is nothing more than the diffi-
culty experienced by men of his height in conceal-
ing it a little, and maintaining their equilibrium.

GENERAL NI‘CLELLAN.

Each of the great European armies offers a well-
characterised type of officer, beneath which type
individual peculiarities of manner, language, and
even constitution, in some sort disappear. An
English officer does not resemble an Austrian officer ;
a French officer differs from a Russian officer.
M'Clellan reminds you of the type of the French
Artillery officer. The reason is, that he was edu-
cated at West Point school, which is a mixture of
the French Military and Polytechnic schools. The
student of West Point speaks foreign languages,
principally French. In respect to literature, science,
and military art, he has been nursed in the worship
of the great European models. Consequently he is
a stranger to that narrow patriotism, that national
exclusiveness, which concentrates all the ideas,
studies, and admiration of tL,e Americans upcn
America. The study of pure science and mathema-
tics has inspired him with a taste for theoretical
speculations which is shared by few of his country-
men. He is polite, discreet, reserved. He has ac-
quired the art of appearing modest, and of obtaining
respect by unpretending manners. He is able to
conform to the habits and customs of the strangers
with whom he comes in contest, and he practises
every rule of the most scrupulous urbanity with a
certain dash of republican pride which is wanting
neither in charm nor in dignity. This class of men,
so different from the Yankees, does not seem to have
hitherto obtained, in the direction of public affairs,
a share proportionate to the merit, the knowledge,
and the conscientious integrity which distinguish
the majority of its members.

Suicide on the Railway at Wandsworth.

_..._ -
An inquest was held on Monday evening
at the
Union Workhouse (Wandsworth and Clapham
Union), Wandsworth, before W. Carter, Esq., coro-
ner for the eastern division of Surrey, on the body
of Daniel Lane, a bricklayer's labourer, who met
his death on Saturday morning under very extra-
ordinary circumstances.
James Saunders, the driver of an engine on the
Brighton and South Coast line, stated that on Sa-
turday last, about 10.50 a.m., he left London for
Victoria with a train which was to stop at all the
stations. They stopped at Balham, and were to
have stopped at New Wandsworth. Half a mile
before reaching that station witness had shut off the
steam with a view of stopping there, when he saw
a man (deceased) standing beside the fence, near
the Patriotic Fund School. When the train was
within eight or ten yards of him he stepped between
the metals with his back towards the approaching
train, which was then proceeding at a rate of be-
tween 25 and 30 miles an hour. Witness whistled for
the breaks to be put on the carriages, and he him-
self put the engine break on. The man appeared to
be watching the approach of the train. He was
overtaken almost instantaneously, but the train
could not be stopped until it had proceeded nearly
500 yards. Witness
ing at once went to the front, and
g
on to the lamp-iron, which
found deceased han
had caught him at the back of the neck and entered
ton he base
oof the s, kull. His toes had been dragging
g the
tor
theu n
Care
,
The body was taken down and com-
mitted of the plate-layers, and witness
proceeded with the train. From his manner, wit-
ness was sure that the deceased meant to destroy
himself.
Evidence was then given to show that the un-
fortunate man had been suffering in his head.
The jury returned a verdict, "That the deceased
had destroyed himself while in a state of temporary.
insanity," and, in reply to the Coroner, the jury
declared that the engine-driver and other railway
officials were entirely free from blame,