The Sun.
London, England, 1863-11-14 00:00:00

TIM SUN. LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 14, 1863.

LAW INTELLIGENCE—This Day.

COURT OF DIVORCE.
(Before the Judge Ordinary.)
EVERY V. EVERY.

This was a petition presented by the wife, praying for
dissolution of marrriage on the ground of cruelty, desertion
and adultery.
The petitioner, Sophia Every, said she married the
respondent in 1851 at St.;Geerge's Church, Camberwell ;
it was a runaway match. After the marriage they lived
very comfortably in the Albany-road, and several other
places, but in a short time the respondent's conduct alto-
gether altered. He used to insist on Pier giving him
all the money sha had got, and when she had none to give
him, he used to insist on her going to her father, who kept
a coffee-house, and borrowing some from him. For peace
and quietness she did so on several occasions, but when she
refused to go any more he turned her out of doors. The
father eventually discovered the conduct of the respondent,
and refused to give the petitioner any further assistance in
the shape of money, but willingly allowed her to return
home in order to escape the illtreatment and outrageous
conduct of the respondent. Mrs. Every shortly after her
residence with her father acted as waitress in the shop, and
there the respondent was enabled to see her very frequently.
The result of the meetings was that he persuaded her to
return to him, he promising to do everything in his power
to make amends for his past bad conduct. In a short
time, however, the old course of illtreatment commenced
and after all her savings had been expended he said,
he was determined to have more money out of her, and he
did not care how she got it. While she was living at her
father's she had saved sufficient to purchase a gold watch
and chain, but this the respondent soon turned to account,
the money raised upon the articles being spent in dissipa-
tion. She was again compelled to leave him and return to
her father's house. While she had been residing with her
husband after her last return she had, unfortunately for
herself, told him that she had some further savings, to
the amount of nearly £5O, in the hands of her father, and
immediately an opportunity presented itself he made a de-
mand upon the father for the property of his wife. The
father refused to give up the money, especially as his daugh-
ter stood in need of it, having but a short time recovered
from her confinement. The respondent, however, issued a
writ against her father for the recovery of the money, and
having obtained it, he engaged some lodgings in Islington,
and there introduced and resided with another female as
Mrs. Every. •

Three witnesses, named Phail, Carter, and Clark, gave
evidence which clearly proved the adultery. _ _

The Judge Ordinary said the case had been satisfactorily
made out, and decreed a rule nisi, with costs against tho
respondent.

The Civil Service.

FOREIGN. OFFICE.--The Hn. F. Leveson has been
appointed to a clerkship.
WAR•OFFICE.-Mr. F. I. Culverwell and Mr. A.
S. S. Moody have been appointed to be civil assis-
tants in the Survey Department, Southampton ; and
Mr. A. Douglas to be civil assistant in the Survey
Department, Perth.

INDIA-OFFICE.—A junior clerkship in thelAc•
countant-General's department has become vacant
by the death of Mr. I'. H. Baird.

THE POST-OFFICE.----Mr. I. J. Byrne has been
appointed a temporary clerk, London; and Mr. J.
King a clerk at Darlington.
COURT OF PROBATE.---A vacancy for a super-
numerary clerk has been caused by the promotion of
Mr. W. J. Heard. A vacancy for two assistant
clerks of searches has been caused by the promo
tion of Messrs. W. H. Fleming and J. D. Wiliam
Mr. E. A. Wilde has been appointed secretary to
Sir J. P. Wilde, Judge Ordinary of the Courts of
Probate and Divorce ; Mr. W. G. Middleton, third
assistant clerk of calendars, has been promoted to
be third assistant clerk of seat pb. to st., vice Mr.
H. H. Harper, resigned ; and Mr. W. G. Vincent,
assistant to the record keepers, to be third assistant
clerk of calendars.

CUSTOMS.—Mr. T. Bacchus has been appointed
a clerk in the searcher's office, London; Mr. R.
Bennett a clerk for general duty, London ; Mr. H.
Brown a clerk in the tea office, London ; Mr. F. H.
Candy a clerk in the imports and exports depart-
ment; Mr. C. P. Fleck a clerk in the examiner's
office; Mr. C. B. Foot a clerk in the imports and
exports department ; Mr. J. Collins and Mr. J.
Palmer, out-door officers, London; Mr. W.
J. Henshil wood an out-door officer, Greenock;
and Mr. C. O'Callalaan an out-door officer,
Drogheda ; Mr. G. Haggar, first class
clerk, has been promoted to be principal
clerk ; Messrs. W. H. Ashmead and W. Reid,
second class clerks, to be first class clerks; Messrs.
J. A. Coates, J. Doherty, J. J. Barnard, and J.
Wetnyss, third class clerks, to be second class
clerks ; Messrs. C. J. Hofferneister, J. Fallon, IV.
H. Low, E. Fradd, J. E. Wallace, and C. S. Barnes,
fourth class clerks, to be third class clerks; Messrs.
J. Hort, R. H. Riper, R. H. Clarke, F. C. Ham•
mond, J. Rochford, J. Chambers, H. Kirby, G. A.
Page, fifth class clerks, to be fourth class clerks;
and Messrs. J. F. Luscombe, G. B. Halltum,
H. J. Brown, H. A. Wotton, W. John, S. Bowes,
F. G. Heath, W. G. Muir, J. H. Thomas, and P.
Iruing, 6th class clerks, to be sth class clerks in the
Tea and East India Department ; Mr. A. Ross from
the ninth to the eighth, Mr. J. Borthwick from
the 10th to the oth, Mr. T. Castello, from the 11th
to the 10th, Mr. F. G. D. Cooper, from the 12th to
the 11th, and Mr. S. Robertson from the 13th to
the 12th clerkship at Leith.
INLAND REVENUE (Stamps and Tax Branch).—
Mr. F. Nicholson, surveyor of taxes, has been re-
moved from Rugby to Dartford; Mr. W. Duncan,
surveyor of taxes, from Merthyr to Rugby ; and
Mr. H. Forder, surveyor of taxes, from Caistor to
Merthyr. Excise Branch—Mr. R. Harris, super-
visor, Bristol, third district, has been appointed
supervisor of Cheltenham district ; Mr. J. Thurston,
supervisor, Belturbet district, Drogheda collection,
to be supervisor of Colchester district ; Mr. C. Good-
acre, examiner, to be supervisor, Belturbet district;
Mr. G. Fletcher, officer, Glasgow, 6th division, to
be officer of Chesterfield division; Mr. J. Laidlaw,
officer, Glasgow, 3d division, to be officer of Glas-
gow, 6th division; and Mr. D. M`Pherson, dropped
officer, Forres division, Elgin collection, to be
officer of Glasgow, third division.
IRELAND—Mr. R. Topham, has been appointed
second clerk to the Judge of the Landed Estates
Court, Ireland.—Civil Serrice Gazette.

MARKETS—This Day,

COVENT GARDEN.

The supply of fruit was small, but with most descriptions
of vegetables the market was well supplied. Generally
speaking, the demand ruled steady at about previous rates.
The currency ruled as follows :

FRUIT.

s. d. s. d.
Pine apples 8 0 to 9 0
Colonial do., each 0 0 to 0 0
Grapes,per lb 3 0 to 6 6
Foreign do 1 0 to 1 6
Melons
Nectarines, per dz 0 0 to 0 0
Apples, per hf-sv. 1 9 to 3 6
Pears, per do
Oranges, per 100..5 0 to 10 0
Lemons, per 100 4 0 to 8 0
Gooseberries hf sveo 0 to 0 0
Strawberries pr pt 0 0 to 0 0

O. d. 6 d
Mulberries,prpt..o 9to 1 0
Cherries, per lb. 0 oto 0 0
Foreign ditto, puno oto 0 0
Filberts, per lb 0 9to 1 0
Walnuts, per 100 1 oto 2 6
Cobnuts, per lb 0 oto 0 0
Almonds, per bus 0 oto 0 0
Figs, per doz. 0 oto 0 0
Peaches.. • 0 oto 0 0
Currants, per h.sv 0 oto 0 0
Plums, per db.
Greengages, pr do. 0 oto 0 0

M, Nadar's Geant Balloon at the Crystal

Palace.

Captious critics often complain that the Crystal
Palace has not fulfilled the high ao3thetic purposes
for which its original promoters appealed to public
support. It is useless to discuss the reasons for
this—perhaps the public, which showed no taste for
the doses of artistic or scientific edification tendered
in its hours of pleasure, is chiefly to blame ; but, at
any rate, the now managers deserve the credit of
having thoroughly accepted the lower rule forced
upon them by commercial considerations, and of
carrying it out with indefatigable zeal and enter-
prise. Not to mention the innumerable series of
concerts, filwershows, fancy fairs, grid j7es of all
descriptions which enliven every month of the year,
it is to the Crystal Palace that we have all learnt to
look for our first introduction to any of those ex-
traordinary" sensation" attractions, which rehearsed
first, as it were, before some distant Continental or
Transatlantic audience, attain at Sydenham their
zenith of fame and reward. It was in the transcen-
dent heights of the central transept that 131ondin
first displayed to English eyes that wondrous nerve
and skill which had given an additional attraction
to Niagara; and though M. Leotard was not new
to English audiences when he first appeared at the
Crystal Palace, it was there that they had the best
opportunity of admiring the grace and power with
which he winged his daring flights. The memory
of season-ticket holders will supply many other
instance of the assiduity shown in mini-
stering to their amusement. The latest novelty
is the Geant balloon, with which M. Nader and
eight companions, at the end of last month, per-
formed their perilous voyage from Paris to Nion-
burg, and which all but carried the passengers
to death's door. This Leviathan of the vother now
floats, fully inflated with atmospheric air, in the
centre transept, nearly filling the southern end ; and
over and above the interest it excites from the
dangers through which it has passed, its enormous
yet graceful proportions will attract general admi-
ration. The novel car, which is, in fact, a small
cottage in wicker-work—such as Robinson Crusoe
would have counted almost a palace, is suspended
from it, and round it are ranged the anchors, buffers,
hoops, axes, and all the various rigging with which
aeronauts provide themselves for the navigation of
the heavens. The Geant is by far the largest
balloon ever yet made. Its entire height, including
the " compensator"—a small balloon under the large
one, containing a reserve of condensed gas—and the
car, is close upon 200 feet, and when fully inflated
it will contain 215,363 cubic feet of gas. By way
of comparison, it may be remembered that the great
Nassau balloon, in which Mr. Green made his
famous voyage from Vauxhall to Weiburg, in
Nassau, in 1836, only held 88,000 cubic feet. For
greater security it has two skins, both of white silk
—the outer coloured a yellowish white—of the finest
quality, and of which more than 20,000 yards were
consumed in the manufacture. All the gores are
entirely hand-sewn, and the work occupied 300 men
and women for more than a month. M. Nader tells
us that the towers of Notre Dame would only
overtop it by about 45 feet; but perhaps we shall
give the best idea of its magnitude to English
readers by saying that it could not be got into one
of Captain Fowke's great domes. It seems here
almost to knock its head against the high roof of
the centre transept, and, looking at its vast bulk,
one can imagine the mingled terror und wonder
which seized the Hanoverian peasants when they
saw the giant monster tearing through the air at
the rate of 60 miles an hour, dashing down every-
thing before it, and apparently hurling its living
freight away to certain destruction. It is easy to
understand, too, how hard it must be to control the
enormous body of gas so as to manage a safe descent,
and novices in aeronautics may be permitted to
doubt whether, until the valve machinery is im-
proved, safe voyages can be performed by balloons
of such a size. M. Nader himself attributes the
unfortunate issue of his last trip more to the defi-
ciencies of the valves, which did not permit the gas
to escape with sufficient rapidity, than to the failure
of the anchors. The Geant is calculated to lift 4-1
tons, but the utmost it has actually done is to raise
35 soldiers, who were crammed into the recesses of
the car on the day of the last ascent from the
Champ de Mars. The car will, probably, be
with many a chief object
of interest, and it cer-
tainly is a great cariosity in its way. In its out-
side appearance
it is not unlike, on a small scale,
one
of the caravans to be mot with at the outskirts
of country fairs or by the side of a gipsy en-
campment ; and its interior may remind many of
singular sojourning places which shippers
advertise as commodious saloon cabins.
about 15ft. long by 12ft. wide, and is parti-
lY
Iftt
aihtoconesi
etseid°tiosff into a captain's cabin, with sleeping berth,
four small cabins with berth, washing room, and
printing and photographic operating rooms. It is
fitted with wheels on moveable cities, so that there
may be no difficulty in the return, supposing a
descent to be effected far from ordinary means of
transport. There are windows and doors on each
aide, but after all there does not seem much room
for nine people to turn in comfortably ; and the sen-
sation must have been something like being slung
up to the top of one of Pickford's warehouses in a
good-sized wine hamper. For those who prefer the
open air there is the roof, with which a strong high
bulwark running round makes a kind of airy terrace
or quarter-deck. It was here that the whole party
was huddled together in the last half-hour of their
perilous journey, ire which they were whirled more
than 20 miles, clinging for dear life to the cordage,
bumped violently against the ground every two
or three minutes, and expecting at every bound
to be crushed to death. Our readers have no doubt
perused with interest the vivid account of this
perilous flight which we extracted from the foreign
journals at the time, and M. Nadar, though still
smarting, grows quite enthusiastic in relating their
hair-breadth escapes. " Apres tout c'etait beau,"
he cries, as a soldier might sum up the compressed
excitement of half an hour' hard fight. The balloon
itself, though it frequently beat the earth with its
head, does not show many signs of its wild career,
beyond the rent which was made by the axe of the
courageous Godard, and one or two others which
it received in tearing through a forest. The car,
which is strongly built of ash, rattans, and osiers,
with internal stays of inflated india-rubber, is more
seriously injured, and the aide which was dragged
the ground, hanged against trees,
tisondlofinng along
finally burst through the telegraph wires, bears
evident marks of its ill treatment.

M. Nadar has accompanied the balloon to this
country, but does not contemplate making any ascent
with it here, at least for the present. In fact, he is
still hardly able to move from the effects of his acci-
dent ; and, moreover, before trying another voyage
it will be necessary to make some improvements in
the machinery of the balloon, particularly in the
valves. An adventure like the last would not termi-
nate so harmlessly in a thickly populated country
like England, as in the sandy plains of Hanover.
Like our own Mr. Coxwell, Mr. Nadar presents
himself to us as something more than a mere
aeronaut de spectacle, whose only ambition is to
minister to the amusement of the multitude. In a
different way he aspires to turn his ballooning ex-
perience to scientific uses. He seems to look for-
ward to a time when the air, like the sea, will be
the highway of nations; when the heavens will be
filled with the commerce of nations, and even when,
if so minded, men may build iron-plated balloons as
they are now building iron-plated frigates. In a
word, M. Nadar believes that be is on the high road
to the solution of that problem which has baffled
ingenious contrivers of all ages, from Dlodalus
downwards, and that be can give to man the some
mastery over the air as he obtained over the sea.
Of balloons, pure and simple, strange to say,
M. Nadar has no great opinion. It is by an
adaptation of the powers of the screw.—.,' the
holy screw" as a French saran calls it—that he
The
balloonoon
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tooni 0
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on
lig. practice his
is
only the prologue to a more perfect flyingr, machine
which will be completely under man's control, and
which will spring upwards,—

"Into the wild expanse, and through the shock
46 Of fighting elements, on all sides round
" Environed, win its way."
The balloon he ellis a mere toy—his cerWnly is on

a Gargantuan scale—and it is simply for the pur-
pose of raising funds to carry out his experiments
that he has built and is exhibiting the Geant. Not
being competent to speak of M. Nadar's scientific
acquirements, we can do no more than wish him
better success in this important investigation than
has attended his predecessors; but cool daring and
undaunted perseverance are always honoured here,
and of these qualities M. Nadar has shown sufficient
proofs to entitle him to a hearty welcome in this
country.—Times.

The Sanson of the Reign of Terror.

---4 -----

Before arriving at this eminence, he passed
through a variety of strange experiences. He and
his father, Jean Baptiste, beheaded the famous
Lally De Tollendal. M. Sanson works up the
story of the execution into a romance. Lally, when
a young man, he says, happened with a party of
friends to lose his way, and was taken in by Jean

Baptiste Sanson, who that night gave his marriage
supper. After the ball, having learnt his host's
name, Lally asked to see the touts of his trade, and
had his fancy greatly taken by a particular sword
with which Sanson promised, in case of need, to
behead him. Thirty-five years afterwards he was
beheaded accordingly. The old man came with the
intention of merely looking on, but the young Chas.
Henry having made a false stroke which inflicted
only a wound, the old man seized the sword and cut
off Lally's head himself. The present M. Sanson
says that his grandfather told him this story. There
is a difficulty in point of dates about it which makes
the whole matter 'suspicious. Jean Baptiste San-
son, we are told, was seven years old when his
father died in 1726. He was, therefore, born in
1719. But Lally was beheaded in 1766, and if
banson's marriage took place thirty-five years
before—namely, in 1731—he must have been mar-
ried at the early age of 12. This makes a consider-
able hole in the fidelity of M. Sanson's traditions.
Soon after executing Lally, Chas. Henry Sanson
had to execute the Chevalier De la Barre, who was
supposed to have been guilty of profanity at Abbe-
ville. A crucifix had been disfigured, and as it was
proved that Do :a Barre had on another occasion
passed a procession without taking off his hat, he
appears to have been made responsible. He showed
wonderful courage at his execution, refusing even to
kneel down, and Sanson, to make up for his mistake
in the case of Lally, cut off his head so neatly that
it did not fall for the first moment. The execution
of La Barre was one of the last of the old aristo-
cratic executions. Several others which took place
before the French Revolution are referred to by
M. Sanson, but they are not interesting except for
their horror, and the history of the crimes which
led to them is thrown into a quasi-romantic shape.
He gives a long account, for instance, of the last
occasion on which the punishment of the wheel was
employed. A young man who had killed his father
—as he said by accident, as the Court found by
design—was sentenced to undergo this punishment
at Versailles in 1788. The mob rescued him, and
burnt the wheel and the scaffold on the spot. One
of their number is represented as observing very
appropriately to Sanson, " Laissons I'enfer au bon
Dieu." The wonder is how so hideous a spectacle
was ever permitted. The description of it makes
the blood run cold. The criminal's arms and legs
were smashed in eight places with an iron bar, he re-
ceived a ninth blow over the chest, and was then laid
over a wheel placed horizontally on the scaffold till
he died. This punishment was horribly common.
It was, for some strange reason, the favourite
punishment of the Parliament of Paris, and when
they decided on appeals from inferior jurisdictions,
the common result, if we are to believe M. Sanson,
was'the substitution of the wheel for the gallows.
Such, up to the time of the Revolution, were the
official duties of the Parisian executioners. Their
descendant gives a singular picture of their private
Jean Baptiste Sanson was very fond of
anatomy, and had a great practice amongst both
rich and poor, of whom, as his grandson observes,
the first paid him very handsomely, whilst the
others received advice gratis. He was a very
busy man. There was a good deal of correspon-
dence about provincial executions, and, as he was
at the head of his profession, all the young coun-
try executioners used to come to his house as
pupils before entering on their own professional
careers. The executioners formed a kind of clan;
for obvious reasons they intermarried almost exclu-
sively amongst each other. Jean Baptiste had a
large family, and his sons became executioners in
every part of France. They used to come home at
Christmas, and in order to avoid the difficulties
which arose from the variety of Christian names,
the servants (who were assistant executioners)
spoke of them as M. do Strasbourg, M. d'Orleans,
Scc., the head of the family or caste being " M. de
Paris."

Jean Baptiste Sanson was a good deal reduced
from the splendour of his ancestors in the matter of
money. His ancient. droit de havie was commuted
for 16,000 livres a year, very irregularly paid. At
one time he received from the Regent 50,000 livres
in Law's notes. These were the greenbacks of the
period. " I have them still," says M. Sanson, "in
the pocket-book where they were put at the end of
the audience." M. Sanson's own recollections of
the vestiges of the old regime in which he and his
ancestors played so singular a part are exceedingly
curious: He recollects an old man, called Ches.
neau, who gave him a gun in 1803, and who was
then a sort of pensioner at large in the family house
of M. de Paris. This old man had been a servant
of the Comte de Charolais, who laboured (falsely
according to M. Sanson) under the imputation of
having shot a tiler to amuse himself, and of having
been pardoned by Louis XV., with the pleasing
observation that a pardon was ready for any one
who liked to assassinate the Comte de Charolais.
From the service of the Comte de Charolais, he
passed successively into those of Louis XV. and
Louis XVI., whom he served as a gunmaker. In
the course of his career, Sanson cured him of a
wound caused by the bursting of a gun ; and when
his last master was turned out of house and home
by the Revolution, Rl. Chesneau betook himself to
his old friend the executioner. By way of paying
for his board, he made him all sorts of handsome
arms, and at last took to grinding the knife of
the guillotine, and setting its grooves to rights,
He thought the least he could do for his old friends
was to have their heads cut off promptly and
smoothly. " Tuez-les," he said to the servants,
peisqu'on vous y force, mais ne les massacrez
pas."
The luxurious and patriarchal position of the
executioners passed away, like other picturesque "
but cumbrous institutions, after the
Revolution;
but, for about two years, the Sanson falililo
put into such a position as no
people evreLU werepd
led
before in a civilised country. Charles Henry San-
son kept a journal during the Reign of
which his grandson, who Terror, of
well remembers
republished the greater part. 'There
him, has
sameness about it which is not u
after day comes a long list fnimpressive. Day
0
to all the world, others completely persons—some known
he and his assistants obscure—whom
twenties, and at 1 put to death by tens, by
last b
the scenes which h y fifties at a time. Some of
of the Rio e describes, such as the execu-
tionthe Girondins, B
g,and those of Charlotte Corday,
matters of h* Anton, and Robespierre, are
Istory, but a few are less
well known.
perhaps the most singular is
the account
of
the old Parliamt the execution of the magistrates of
forty years shu
had ofParis, from whom for nearly
anso
taken
h• uo
older s. was,
he says, horrified
at what he had to do, and at the
dit;nitied
courage of the sufferers. One venerable
old President encouraged him in his task :—" Faites,
la loi nithne injuste est toujours is loi." The par-
ticular men were no doubt worthy of pity and
respect, but the thought of their own senten
er, ces,i.he
wheel, the pincers, and the torture-chamb recalls
other recollections. There is something very im-
press:ye in tier destruction by the very man who
had at their bidding performed such. indescribable
cruelties. Of all the revolutionary executions, those
of Fouquier Tinville and Hebert perhaps inspire
the most disgust. T.te brutal ferocity of the first
ruffian and the contemptible cowardice of the second
are illustrations of the capacity of human nature
for infamy which will hardly be surpassed.—Satur-
day Bcriew.

SECOND EDITION.

SUN OFFICE, HALF-PAST 4 O'CLOCK.

THE POLISH INSURRECTION,

KONIGSBERG, Nov. 9.
The Ostdeutsch, Zeitung says :—" Notwithstand-
ing the storms and rains of autumn, the want of
seasonable equipment, and the heavy reverses lately
sustained, the Poles do not draw back from the
work once begun ; and the still animated, active,
and crowded life at the scene of operations tell us
that much more blood will yet saturate the unhappy
land, and thousands fall before this strife of despair
and destruction comes to an end."

THE TRIPLE MURDER IN A CAB.
CORONERS' INQUEST CONTINUED

Yesterday morning, Mr. Carter, coroner for East Surrey,
held an inquest at the Hose an
of
6a tlianleialvverinli,ialmVairinuenrt:
road, Camberwell, on the body d
the husband and father of the female and two children who
were found dead in a cab, under the terrible circumstances
the pro-
ceedings
i‘r
alreadyl.s
Huberto generally
Iv o Wood,
k, n o
attended to watch.
solicitor,
on the part of the relations of the deceased,
Inspector Tanner, of the detective force, was and
present by
direction of the Commissioners of Police.
Mr. Charles M'Culloch said the deceased was in
vice. His name was Samuel William Hunt. Ho had b 807"
in our service about three years as traveller, and When ar:
home, assistant in the shop. I last saw him alive last Men..
day. He was then in the shop attending to business. lie
remained till half-past seven. I did not notice anything
out of his usual manner, which was reserved and morose,
but to me he was always very respectful. I have com-
plained to him about incivility to customers, and he made
no reply, but seemed to regret he had done anything to dis-
please any person. I never gave him any order to procure
the aconite. I had received an order for oil of rosemary
and oil of juniper, and it was given to the deceased. The
direction given him was a written one, but T know nothing
about the aconite or oil of almonds, The rosemary and
juniper was sent to the place as directed, bat nothing fur-
ther had been heard of the aconite and almonds, neither
had been discovered.

George Gooll, of 5, Ann's-place, Camberwell, cabman,
said he was on the rank at the corner of the New-road on
Saturday evening, when a female and two children hired.
him to drive them to the Eastern Counties Railway. After
he had driven a short distance a gentleman hailed him from
the path, and said he wanted to go to the Eastern Counties
Railway, He said he knew the lady, and it was all right.
When he had driven as far as the corner of Worship-street,
by the direction of the man he pulled up at a chemist's
shop, when the woman got out, and went into the shop.
After remaining there a short time, she re-entered the cab,
and told him not to drive up to the platform, but to set them
down before they came to the entrance. He did so, The
man paid the fare, and he then drove home. The deceased
man is the person who hailed me after the woman and chil-
dren had first hired me. He was positive about the mat-
ter. He had quite sufficient opportunity to see his
features. He had no doubt about the matter at all.
The only luggage was a small parcel carried by the woman.
It was about 7 o'clock when they arrived at the railway
station. He saw Hunt at the station house, and then ho
said he was quite certain it was the same person as paid
him his fare at the Eastern Counties Railway station. On
that occasion he wore a moustache, but it hnd since been
shaved off. He gave his information to the police imme-
diately atter reading the particulars published in the papers
on Monday evening.

William Parker, the cabman, who was engaged to drive
the deceased parties to the Royal Oak, Paddington, and
who gave his evidence at the inquest held before Dr. Lan--
kester on Monday last,was then examined, and repeated his
statement with respect to the parties inside his cab taking
some beer at a public-house in Bishopsgato-street. HE,
said ho was certain it was the Inas who held the
pot upside down after the beer was drank,
as he saw his hand and coat sleeve eut of the
cab window. When the man got out of the cab he
did so as quick as it was possible to do, and closing the
door after him he paid 4s. for the fare, and told him to
drive them safe to the Royal 03k, saying they would be
all right by the time they got there. Ile never hoard the
slightest noise in the cab. Ile idonlified the deceased
as the man who hired him to drive from Bishopsgale-
street to Bay swatei, on Saturday, and who got out of the
cab at Furnival's-inn.

Mr. Currey, surgeon, at St. Mary's Hospital, said he
had made a post mortem examination of the three
bodies, and upon that he had come to the conclusion that
the woman and the two children died from the effects of
either prussic acid or cyanide of potassium.
Cyrus Fay, a chemist, of 18, Norton-folgate, said—On
Saturday evening a woman came to my shop and asked for
two draughts for a gentleman who had taken a little
too much to drink. She wished them flavoured with cinna-
mon and cardamons. I mado up two draughts of bicordone
of potash, sal volatile, compound tincture of cardamons
and cinnamon water, for which she paid me. She also
bought a medicine glass, but before paying for it she asked
me if I would allow her to take it to the cab to ask the gee.
tleman whether it would do. She returned, saying it would
not answer, and she then purchased a small tumbler in a
case called a medicine glass. lam certain there was
nothing else in the mixture I sold the female but what
have stated.
William Imrie, hairdresser, 420, Strand, said last Wed•
nesday or Thursday a gentleman came into my shop and
said he wanted to purchase a moustache. I sold him a
frizzy one, and fastened it on his upper lip. He asked me
if it lookod natural, and I told him it did, and he left the
shop with it on. It altered his appearance very much. I had
a good opportunity of looking at his features. I have seen
the deceased, and I am positive he is that person.
The Coroner said that was all the evidence which would
be laid before them. There did not appear to be any doubt
as to the deceased being the destroyer of his life, and the
question for them to decide was whether he committed the
deed whilst labouring under insanity, or whether he adopted
that course in order to escape the ignominy of being pub.
was then cleared, and on the admission of tho
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murderer to-night, between the hours of 9 and 12.
The inquiry then terminated.

LONDON GAZETTE—Last Evening

INDIA OFFICE, Nov. 11.
The Queen has been graciously pleased to nominate and
appoint his Highness Seramudi Rajahye, HindosTrink
Raj •Rajender Sree Maharajah Dheeraj Sewace Ram Sing,
Bahadooor of Jyepore, and his Highness Furzund Dilbund
Rasekool Itahquad Dowlut-i-Englishia Rajah Suroop Sing,
Bahadoor of Jheend, to be Knights of the Most Exalted
Order of the Star of India.
WAR OFFICE, PALL-MALL, Nov. 13.
78th Regiment of Foot—Lieutenant-General Sir Patrice
Grant, G.C.8., from the 104th Foot, to be Colonel. vice
General Roderick Macneil, deceased.
104th Regiment of Foot—Major-General George Bell, C__7•l3:
to be Colonel, vice Lieutenant-General Sir Patrick Gran
G.C.13., transferred to the 78th Foot.
WAR-OFFICE, PALL-MALL. Nov. 13.
Royal Regiment of Artillery—Captain Hickman Henry Cll4B.
Molesworth to be Lieutenant-Colonel, vice manna_
Wade, retired upon full-pay ; Second Captain
duke Charles Lawson to be Captain,
" Walter Chidiock Nan€
upon Second Ca Captain
Palmer' placedh M,Nlahon
otartihn,;
vice Brevet-Major Edmund
Charles vjliesteopAtb°el°CB:l;
porary half pay; Lieutenant
to be Second Captain, vivo La
Second a
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James Nicholson, to be
stus Salm e .
Lawson ; Lieutenant 'Stuart
Gentleman Cadet Arthur Atigu
tenant, vice Lawson ; Gentleman.3",,,,,,t, vice Nicholson.
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Royal Engineers—Lieutenant deceased. , Sergeant.
Lewin Morgan, to be Lieutenant,
Q artermaster, vice Young,
vie
to be u John Thomas Twigge to be
Charles thed©' o
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retired full pay, Royal
being honorary only. O'Grady,

—S-Wathuirldealyi,°°:ll::
onfcliblat'AttuleGAon.
division
rdheirse dhafto forward, 7111 ,
ttohkeeliGoenf
salute,
rode along
AN INCIDEIiinT AlTineCl
sling, and his noble countenance still pale
left ana in a
from thej wound received at Gettysburg. Every tongue
19th, waitinwighaastofrhoelitot
yto rend the air with shouts, for Hood's men.
t. gallant. leader. But he waved his hand for
Blwodavcsene—teh:eilest their cheers should attract the enemy's
artillery, and said, as only that good-hearted Gene-
"l would say, " Buys, I am glad to see you ; you must
whip this blttle here." There was something awfully
beautiful and solemnly prophetic of the issue of the
day in the murmured vow, " not loud but deep," that
run along the line, " We'll do it, General." They greeted
him with the waving of their hats in the air, and when,
shortly after, they were ordered to advance, they did so with
the wild shouts and impetuosity characteristic of Southern
blued; and the Yankees of Rosencranz' army will long
remember and as long lament the day they first met Hood's'°hev
division on the gory banks of the Chickamauga. -
Conquer, but their leader fell," and when it ver seaests of
told
" General Hood is wounded," the writer saw h
many a battle .scarred veteran wet with tears. Since
death of Stonewall Jackson the loss of no ma
Hood.
deeply deplored as that of Major-General John
hee nth
so
o
He is regarded by the soldiers as the n
second Stonewall hta
Jackson of our army now.
still live to fight and win his country
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