The Sun.
London, England, 1863-12-08 00:00:00

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MADAME TUSSAUD.S.--A full length model of Sir
John Lawrence, the newly-appointed Governor-General of
India, may be seen at Madame Tussaud's ilistorical Gal-
lery in Baker-street; and in the Chamber of Physiognomy
is a model of Hunt, who recently poisoned his wife and two
children in a cab, and who afterwards committed suicide by
poisoning
gRhE A
iraselu *—
On tho morning of
the sale—or the attempted
ted sale—about half-an-hour
before the official arrival of the auctioneer—a little crowd was
gues that were nailed upon green-baize
always collected on Ludgate-hill turning over the fluttering
leaves of the cat&
boards at the doorway, or looking at the great picture with
was displayed so as to catch the eye of passers-by at
th
which the trap was baited on that particular occasion, and
which
ogle window in front. The greatest part of this crowd
consisted of a number of middle-aged men, who were made
up to play a part in such a manner, that they ought not to
have deoeived a child, A ragged-edged yellow collar on a
starch-caked yellow shirt, a high black stock worn threadbare
at the sides, a well brushed thin black dress coat, and rather
shiny black trousers that would bear no violent exercise, a
pair of mended Blucher boots, and a pair of ragged cotton
gloves, is not thecostumo usually worn by wealthy collectors
of art. Yet these were the highly polished men who were
supposed to be regardless of money when a Rubens or a
Corregio came in their way, and who, if not investing for
themselves, were the confidential agents of Lord Mumblepeg,
a devoted buyer of pictures, who was prevented by paralysis
from attending personally at the sales. Poor wretches;
they looked with their clean-shaven, melancholy faces, as if
the slightest whispered invitation to a substantial dinner at
a snug warm City tavern would have thrown them off their
balance, and have caused them to fly, like a cloud of swal-
lows, from the barren feast of paint. Inside the auction-
trap was a sprinkling of eager confederate dealers ; the four
or five porters, who were probably "junior partners," and
who looked like prizefighters ; and the usual number of
"picture agents." As soon as a promising stranger entered
the room, it was the business of one of 'these latter men to
fasten on him, and to explain the beauties and defects of
the collection under sale. It must always be delish
a man of refinement, to have such agreeable guides at his
elbow, and to overlook their flavour of onions, tebacc?, °n(l
stale clothes, in admiration of their intense appreciation of
tful to
art. There can, of course, be nothing to jar the mesa sen-
sitive nerves in hearing a thick hoarse *tinging-house
voice enlarging upon the minute rendering of the crown o
thorns, or in seeing a grimed knobby finger half hooped with
brassy rings,
D s "All lhe Year
employed in pointing out the hidden touches
of the eganY in the g --
ara en,-
Round," just ptiNislicd.

SECOND ]ERITION.

SUN OFFICE, HALF-PAST 4 O'CLOCK.

ITALY,

MESSINA, DEC. 8.
Advices received here from Conetantinople state
that naval armaments in Turkey continue.
Eight more corvettes have been, ordered to bo
built.

MALTA, DEC. 7.
The English fleet has quitted Greece, leaving
only two ships at the Pi,xus.

TEE CRAWLEY COURT-MARTIAL,

(FROM OUR OWN- REPORTER)
SIXTEENTH DAY.

[rhe following appeared in the Third Edition of " Thc
Sun" of last evening]
ALDERSHOT, Monday Morning.
The members of the Court did not assemble till 11 o'clock
this morning, having remained in consultation in their
private room an hour.

When the Court broke up on Friday evening the subject
of Dr. Barnett's evidence, relative to certain statements of
Mrs. Lilley as to her husband's drinking habits and other
matters, was under consideration, the prosecution urging
that the witness should be allowed to state all that Airs,
Lilley said on that occasion.
The President stated the circumstances of the case, and
said that the matter had been referred to the Judge Advo-
cate-General, who had stated that if the questions proposed.
by the prosecution were put it would not invalidate the
proceedings, and that It would not invalidate the pro-
ceedings if refused to be put. On receiving this informa-
tion the Court decided that the matter should be fully in-
vestigated. The Court now called upon the prosecutor to
proceed with any further evidence he might have to adduce.
Sir A. Horstord said he could not say that the case for
the prosecution was closed until the Court asked Dr. Barnett
the questions proposed.

The President said the matter would be thoroughly sifted,
but they saw objections to putting the question at the pre..
sent period.
The Court again retired, and after an absence of an hour
and a half, the President announced that the Court had
been closed for the purpose of considering a remark of the
prosecutor. The Court had decided on referring the matter
to the opinion of the Judge Advocate General, and in the
meantime to proceed with the cross-examination (by the
Court) of the witnesses for the prosecution.
Sergeant Edward Mills was recalled.

The Court—You have stated in your examination in chief
that you have frequently seen Sergeant Major Lilley drunk.
Specify the particular occasions alluded to.—The first time
was in 1844, at Mr. Daniel's, the Three Crowns, Parlia-
ment-street, Nottingham. I saw him drunk at Mr. Wil-
liams's, the Victoria, Newcastle-upon-Tyne; also at Bala-
klava, when he was in company with Sergeant Major
'Moreton, He sent me down for three bottles of gin and
gave me a sovereign to pay for them. I saw him drunk
st Scutari on Christmas-day. On that occasion I pulled
off his boots, and covered him up in bed. I saw him
drunk at Durham, when we were on recruiting service
there. I also saw lima drink in the female hospital,
which he occupied when the regiment first marched into
Mhow. On the day we marched into Mhow I was regi-
mental orderly serg,ant. I went up to my tea, and ho
ordered me out like a dog. He was then drunk and I went
away without my tea. At Burhampore I saw him drink in
his tent on the lino of march, That is all.

The Court—Did you report him as being drunk on the
day you were orderly sergeant, and say you saw him drunk ?
—I did not.

Did any one else, to your knowledge, see him drunk on
those occasions P—Not to my knowledge.
Lieutenant Fitzsimons recalled.

The Court—When ordered on the 2Gth of April to place
the three sergeant majors under arrest why did you ask
whether a sonny should be placed over them ?—I do not re-
collect whether Col. Crawley said he would ask the major
general whether a sentry was to be placed over the sergeant
majors, or whether I proposed it to him. Of course, if they
were to be placed under close arrest, it meant having a
sentry placed over them.
You have stated distinctly that when ordered to place the
sergeant majors under arrest you asked whether sentries
should be placed over them. Reconcile your two answers ?
—I did ask the question. lam not certain whether my
commanding officer first spoke to me about it or not.
Who defined the post of the sentry first placed over Ser-
geant Major Lilley when ordered into close arrest on the
96th of April, 1862 1-1 believe it to have been the acting
regimental sergeant major after receiving a written order
from me.

Did you define the post of the first sentry ?—I do not re•
collect.

Who drew up the orders for tho sentry first posted over
Sergeant Major Lilley F—The first order was given to me
by Colonel Crawley in his own handwriting.
Did you sign them and show them to the sentry, and
have them hung up at his post F—As far as I remember I
must have done so. All orders to the sentries were signed
by me and hung up at the main guard. The orders were
not hung up at the post, but at the main guard, in order
that they might be read out to the sentries before they went
to their posts.

You have stated that a few days subsequently to the
arrest of Major Lilley you laid a written order for the
posting of the sentries before Colonel Crawley for approval,
Who wrote those orders ?—They must have been written
by one of my clerks. I cannot say by which one.
Did you dictate those orders ?—I gave the general mean.
ing of the orders to the clerk.
Did you approve them before submitting them to Colonel
Crawley ?—Yes ; I read them through.
In those orders was the post defined for the sentry over
Sergeant Major Lilley ?—lt was not defined further than it
was mentioned that they were not to lose sight of him day

or night.
On receiving Colonel Crawley's order to the effect that the
sentries over the
should be placed inside, eo
that they shou:d not lose sight of their prisoner night or
day, what alteration did you make as to,the sentry over the
sergeant major F—On receiving that order I gave over the
ser t
written order, which was approved of by Colonel Crawley,
to the acting regimental sergeant major, and told him to
have the sentries post,ed accordingly.
Was he posted in accordance with the orders he had re-
ceived from Colonel Crawley P Did you visit the sentry at
his post ?—lt is my belief he was posted accordingly. I did
not go to the post, as I bt
lore stated. I only went to the
door of the first bungalow"
I saw the sentry on his poet in
the second bungalow.
If you saw the sentry on his post, describe the position of
the post ?—ln the first bungalow I went to the back door of
the room No. 4, and the sentry came to the door and opened
it. I did not see his post in the first bungalow. When I
went to visit the sentry he has frequently come and opened
the door for me himself.
How did the sentry know that you were at the back door
when he came out to you ?—I have called for the sentry.

You have already stated that you considered it was Your
duty to see the place where the sentry was posted. You
now acknowledge you failed in your duty on that point. Is
it so ?—So far as not going in to see him on his post I did.
Did you ever take measures to prevent any improper in-
terference with Mrs. Lilley by the sentries ?—No, I never
gave any orders except :hose I received from my command-
ing officer.
IV here was the post of the sentry in the first bungalow ?
—I always believed it to have been at the door of the bed-
room—that is, in case the sergeant major was in the bed..
room. As there were several rooms the sentry had to go
about from room to room after him.
Did you communicate to Colonel Crawley your belief that
the sentry's post was at the door of the bedroom ? Ido not
recollect having spoken on the subject.
Were any orders given that the sentries should not inter-
fere with the privacy of Mrs. Lilley F—l never received
orders to that effect, nor did I ever give any.
Where do sentr.es usually give up their orders P—On.
their post. effect no
Was there any order about the bedroom ?—I rec
order about it. to you on the
Where did the seutry give up his orders
first bungalow ?—At the door of No. 4 re°l°'
What led you to believe that the sentry was at the door
of the bedroom F—From the orders which he gave up to
me, that he should not lose sight of the prisoner night or

day. not to lose sight of the
Was the sentry so posted as
p--If he carried out his ordoirs
sergeant major night or day
he must have been,
difference in the orders given for the
as he was in the house with him.
Was them any
posting of the sentries over the three sergeant majors ?
No, I don't recollect 00r:
Was there »n 9 alteration made in the orders during the
time you were adjutant?—No.
Were the two troop sergeant majors, Wakefield awl
Duval, married or single ?—Single.
The Court shortly afterwards adjourned.

LORD STAMFORD S STUD.—We have received
authority to state that Lurd Stamford has repurchased
Cambuscan, Archimedes, and the horses bought by Mr.
Ten Broeck, Mr. Cartwright, and Mr. Wadlow and they
will hereafter be trained by W. Butler at Newmarket.
--,Fporting Gazette.

THE FAMOUS VINEYARD Or CLOS-VOrGEOT.is of
such repute that " when a French regiment marches past,
it halts and presents arms I" Mars taking off his but to
Bacchus I

'lle Official Journal of Warsaw states that in
the districts of 743,12108 C and of Hrubleszow there are
no longer any considerable bands of insurgents to
be seen ; but small detachments make their appear-
ance from time to time marching tormrde the
frontier.

Smithfield Cl ub Show in the Agricultural

A natio.a tin tt, in addition to all its textile,
mine-
ral,ando"cher it idus tries, employs other X 200,000,000
sterling of tena.nts' capital in the production of corn
and meat, and many millions more in the manufac-
ture of machines and manures which entice mother
earth to bestow good gifts upon her hungry child-
ren, may well be proud and conservative of its agri-
culture. Eugli.sh husbandry has its colleges, its huge
*3ocieties, its fine implement factories, its model
drainage works, its scientific farmsteads, and its last
great achievement is tillage by steam power—many
hundreds of ploughs and cultivators now following
the wire reps.) along the deep furrow or through the
rapidly-riven staple either of clay or lighter soil ;
while Egypt, the West Indies, France, and other
countries h ave successfully adopted these inventions.
But a bon nteous harvest, with its concomitants of a
bad mark et, has confirmed the fallacy of John Bull's
farming mainly for bread-corn ; and when he has
got his malt tax reduced and all his other grievances
righter',, it will still be in the fat-stock show that
the true exponent of his progress must be found. It
is the British farmer's especial business to supply
joints and steaks and chops and rashers to an im-
mense shopkeeping and manufacturing nation; and
consumers as well as producers are directly inte-
rested in such wonderful displays as that now col-
lected in Islington Agricultural-hall. Let our
citizens cultivate an acquaintance with the men who
feed them, and good must result, should it be only
a mutual combination against those ignominious
purveyors to metropolitan appetite who poison us
with fleshmeat unslaughtered or diseased.
If the large number of visitors in the Hall yester-
day afternoon is any index of the gathering that
may be expected to-day, and for three following
days, at a n admission fee of is., the attendance will
be exceedingly large. In flae morning the show
was hoc oared with a visit by his Royal Highness
the Prince of Wales, the Crown Prince of Prussia,
and the Duke of Brabant, who were duly received
by the President, Lord Walsingham; the Vice-Pre-
sident, the Duke of Richmond; the President elect, '
Lord Tredegar ; Mr. Brandreth Gibbs, the hono•
rary Secretary ; Mr. Sidney, the Secretary to the
Hall Company ; and by the stewards and judges.
As a whole, the Show is fully equal to any of its
predecessors ; in number of entries, superior to any
yet seen at Baker-street or Islington, the cattle
classes alone comprising 240 animals, or more than
60 in excess of last year.
The Devons have come up with about their usual
excellence. Mr. Robert Wortley's prizo steer is a
good beast, with some weight as well as quality
about him ; Mr. Heath's prize ox, a rare specimen
of meat, well developed in all its best parts, cover-
ing an e:ipanded frame upon fine bone. General
Hood's second prize ox, from the Royal farms,
though splendidly fed, is too narrow in the hind-

quarters of roasting beef, and some critics will pre-
fer the Earl of Leicester's third prize ox. Mr. John
Overra an's first-prize cow, " Fanny," is more like
modd of what a Devon should be ; Mr. Heath's
second-prize cow, too lumpy with fat; and General
Hood's third-prize cow, " Hyacinth," heavy, with
splendidly firm ripe meat.
The Herefords made a grand show, and seem de-
terrained to tread very closely upon the heels of the
ho rthorns. Last year was the glorification of the
crass-breeds ; this time both the chief honours have
been won by pure breeds—the silver cup for the
best ox or steer in the Hall being won by a Here-
ford, and the silver cup for the best cow or heifer
by a shorthorn. Mr. Heath's ox, which was not
shown at Birmingham, is extraordinarilyfuli of good
points, and one of the best animals exhibited of late
years. Mr. Aldworth, Mr. Symonds, and Mr. Phil-
lips also exhibit animals of considerable merit. The
younger, or steer class, is not so commendable, the
three prizes going to specimens of only moderate
quality. General Hood's, here, first, was not even
-noticed by the judges at Birmingham, end Mr.
Shicley's second prize beast won the first prize in
Bingley-hall; but no good critic can disagree with
the present award of merit. Owing to illness the
gem of this breed, Mr. Groves's heifer, which took
the Birmingham prize as the best Hereford, has so
fallen off that she has gained here only a second
prize; the first place being taken by Mr. Bettridge's
heifer, " Young Beauty," which was second at Bir-
mingham. General Hood's cow, from the Royal
farm, is of beautiful quality, but nut of any great
weight or dimensions.
Shorthorns mair.e a great feature in the hall. Mr.
Baker's Birmingham gold medal ox is here again
the best male animal of his breed, though yielding

the championship of the hall to the Hereford. Mr.

"Thompson's first prize steer was only highly com-
mended at Birmingham; and the Duke of Beau-
fort's steer, which won the third prize there, is
here placed so low in the scale as to get no honour
at all. Exceedingly good shorthorns are shown
by Lord Radnor, Mr. Hulbert, Mr. Sisman, and
Mr. Thompson. Mr. Swinnerton's second prize ox
has many deficiencies in spite of its great fame and
weight of flesh; and why is a " commendation"
given away to a somewhat narrow, flat-sided, and
hollow-sacked white steer from the Royal farm ?
Mr. Swaisland's very perfectly finished heifer,
" Oakbud," which gained the gold medal as best
female and the Innk eepers' plate as best animal
in Bingley-hall, hero stands aga in without a
rival, winning the silver cup as best female in
the show. She has both Bates and Booth blood,
with an intermingling of Mason and Cartwright
--hat notwithstanding her wonderfully even ac-
14:ttlation of flesh, possessing that precise firm-
eYet elasticity of touch which a judge likes
to e
feel, We miss in her the rare charm of cha-
racter,ta etb_eu handsome head and fine docile eye,
and
Tempest,: yerior style, so noted in Sir Charles
toria" :seach," and Colonel Townehy's " Vic-
strauttouß,santy's Butterfly," of a few years back.
sir.ir. paulimetiatrawberry heifer is very pretty, and
Thr„ :athird prize heifer, also, of great
merit.
judge: clews made a somewhat difficult
task for the
.11eir class. Mr. Lynn's very
handsome but loose;
first at Birtaill:niadling cow is here second,
eelipsegdatbn ;
though
Mr. Abbott's fairly
third; and both
Mr. Matthew's level,
fine-boned
handsome, • eau"
There is an extensive and capital
Norfolk and
of the use-
ful red Sussex cattle.
about an average in quality, in
Longhorn Suffolk polls
-we have a considerable i,iar"o",ie_mt.. classes
though the number of entries is small.
The
merit,
t h
cattle classes are exceedingly fine. yrr, nSco
dc,
-West Highland (the Birmingham "beetl Ssceoyt, 8
with red-brown shaggy coat, and spreading horns,'),
is one of the most extraordinary animals breed
has produced—one square, thick, wonderfully deep
framed carcass, all prime beef, as it were, almost to
the hoofs. The Scotch polls are also exceedingly
good, Mr. M'Combie's great Aberdeen being first,
and Mr. Heath's rare Galloway second—both placed
as at Birmingham. Mr. Sewell Read shows a good
Irish ox, and Mr. Bennett a very good Welsh runt.
Among the cross-breeds, the best are Mr. John Over-
man's large Devon and shorthorn, partaking, of the
latter character ; and Mr. Allan Pollok's admirable
cross between a shorthorn and Galloway. The classes
cf Extra Stock are very large, and so are some of the
animals exhibited ; but quality, rather than mere
bulk, wins the palm, Mr. Birkbeck's Devon and
Mr. Packe's white heifer taking the two prizes.
Mr. Giblett shows a good Alderney, and Mr.
'Whitby a greater curiosity in the shape of a pretty
red and white Brittany milker.
t Reviewing all the cattle classes, we may charac-
rese them as presenting few animals of the highest
orderof merit, and, while distinguished for general
excellence, not carrying this superiority through-
out ; that is, the classes are good, but there are, un-
fortunately, Beye ra
l instances of plain and very ordi-
nary butchers' beasts.
Not every exhibitor seems
to remember that
best-grained roasting
want economy in flesh, the
if weigh,"—that like our
with a minimum of
our steaks juicy and tender,
and not like piecesW out
of
" a portmanteau, "warranted
solid leather.
One feature observable in these yearly exhibitions
of live stock is the fleetuatin
of the g,rather than steadily
•
advancing merit gold-medal beast. d the
best sheep and swine. You cannot
go year'a,c:l.
to the Smithfield Club marvels, and year
pronounce
to be better and more valuable than its prec'ee:ch
of 12 months b,..forc, nor is the Prize-winner of
to.