The Sun.
London, England, 1863-03-04 00:00:00

Commence at 7.

THEATRE-ROI/Al , HAY MARKET.
Lessee, Mr. J. B. Buckstone.
THIS EVENING, at Seven o'clock, will be performed
CUlt AMERICAN COUSIN. Asa Trenchard, Mr. Buck•
.tone ; Lord Dundreary, Mr. Sothern.
Alter which, a new and original Extravaganza, entitled
RASSELAS, PRINCE OF ABYSSINIA ; or, The Happy
Valley. Rasselas, Miss Louise Keeley.
Concluding with MRS. WHITE.

THEATRE-ROYAL LYCEUM OPEN, under
the Sole Management of Mr. FECHTER.
THIS EVENING, March 4, to commence with an Original
Sketch, entitled A SUDDEN ATTACK. Messrs. Shore,
Carden, H. Widdicomb, Miss Henrade, and Mrs. Lee.
After which, at a Quarter to Eight, a New Romantic
Drama, in Three Acts, and Pr3logue, entitled THE
DUKE'S MOTTO, by Paul Feval and John Brougham.
'The principal character will be sustained by Mr. Pechter,
supported by Messrs. G. Vining, J. Brougham, H. Widdi-
combe, W. M`lntyre, P. Charles, Garden, Raymond, H.
ißutler, Dawson ; Misses Carlotta Leclercq, Kate Terry, E.
J..avenue, and Elsworthy.
Mr. Phelps and Mr. W. Montgomery are engaged, and will
shertlY appear.
VW.. open at half-past Six, performance to commence
at Seven. Private Boxes, £2 12s. Bd., and £2 2s. Places
regitUred. Stalls, es. ed. ; Dress Circle, ss. ed.; Upper
Circle, 4s. Od. Prices at doors—Stalls, Cs. ; Dress Circle, ss. ;
Upper Circle, 4s. ; Pit, 2s. ; Gallery, ls. No half-price. Box-
ittace open daily from 11 till 5. The public are entreated to
take notice that no charge is made to the occupants of boxes,
'pox places, or stalls, either for playbills or for the safe keep-
ing- of hats and cloaks : and that the attendants in
whatever all arts
03/ the house are forbidden to receive any gratuities
Stage-Manager, Mr. G. Vining. Acting-Manager, Mr. H.
Barnett.

ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE
Lessee and Manager. Mr Undue.
THIS EVENING. an entirely new and original romantic
drama, in four acts, by Lewis Filmore, Esq., entitled THE
W INNING
james, ac. ; Miss Amy Sedgwick, Miss Murray, and Mrs. H.
31arston.
To conclude with the Drama of ALL THAT GLITTERS
jg NOT GOLD. Messrs. Fitzjames, Belmore, Vezin, and
C. SeTton ; Misses Constance Aylmer, M. Jones, and Mrs.
H. Mai stop.

NEW .11 HKATRE-11.0 VAL,
r.
B. DLPHL—
Sole Proprietor' and Manager, M A
W Eebster.
THIS EVENING, the new comedietta, entitled A
GREY MARE. Mr. J. L. Toole and Miss Marie Wilton.
To be followed by ON'S TOUCH OF NATURE. Mr. B.
Webster, Mr. Billington, and Miss H. Simms.
After which, A VALENTINE : Messrs. J. L. Took, Paul
Bedford, Miss Kate Kelly, and Miss Seaman.
Concludiuu• with THE GAMBOLS OF ARTHUR AND
BERTRAND AND GEORGE DE BARNWELL ; Messrs.
J. L. Toole, P. Bedford, Stepheueon, C. J. Smith, Romer ;
Miss Woolgar. Terminating with 11i9 Transformation Scene.
Commence at 7.

The Weather.—Sun Office, March 4, 1863.

THERMOMETER.
Highest since Noon yesterday ~ 41
Lowest during the night ..... .. 28
54
This day at Noon . •
Barometer-29.69.
Wind—Southerly ; light, with fine weather.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
THIS DAT,—Morning, lh. 40m.—Afternoon, lh. 59m,
o-moßatow.-Morning, 2h. 14m.—Afternoon, 2h. 31m,

THE WEDDING SUN.

ON TUESDAY, 10TH MARCH,

Will be published

AN EXTRAORDINARY EDITION OF

rite gun.
SUPERBLY PRINTED IN COLOURS,

With Illustrations by the First Artists.

THE SUN OF TEAT DAY,

Altogether unprecedented in Newspaper
Printing,

Will contain

MEMOIRS of the PRINCE and PRINCESS.
IN DANISH AS WELL AS IN ENGLISH.

'ITH
A Full Account of the Marriage Ceremony.

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LONDON, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 4, 1863.

In the House of Lords yesterday, the Prince and
Princess of Wales' Annuity Bill was read a third
time and passed. The Bills of Exchange and Notes
Metropolitan Bill was read a second time, and the
Naval Coast Volunteers Act Amendment Bill passed
through committee.
Their lordships then adjourned.
In the House of Commons, Mr. Gißsorr said, in
answer to Lord ENFIELD, that the Government did
not intend to appoint a Royal Commission to in-
quire into the various schemes of metropolitan
railways ; bat the Board of Trade had been
directed to inquire into the various schemes,
and the house would see the report. In reply to
Mr. Ferrand, Lord C. PAGET said that the first
maval lord, Sir F. Grey, did not receive any depu-
mtion from dockyard men during the election for
Devonport ; afterwards he did, however, and they
complained of the rules in regard to promotion, and
he presented the petition to the Admiralty, but it
'was not desirable to alter the rules laid down. On
the motion for the second reading of the Municipal
Elections Bill, which purported to carry an election
17 means of voting papers, Mr. G. HARDY moved,
as an amendment, that the bill be read a second
time that day six months. A debate ensued, when
Lord PALMERWrON said that this bill being certainly
a branch of the ballot, the objection be felt to that
measure determined him to vote against it. A divi-
sion then took place, when the second reading was
Some other business was trans-
lost ny 93 to 58.
acted, and the house adjourned at a quarter past
seven.

The news by the Europa, although not Containing I ship has contrived in a surprising manner to pre-
that the
matter of much importance, clearly shows serve the verdant freshness of youthful credulity.
grand boast of the Federals regarding view:6llra
'We fear the explanation is rather to be found in
and Charleston is mere moonshine. The wonder- that obstinate and unreasoning opposition to a
ful canal, which was to change the course of the I reform likely to shake many seats, which
Mississippi and leave the fortress at the 1, too many of our leading statesmen contrive
k,
mercy of the besiegers has proved a to veil
under virtuous and patriotic platitudes.
first; ; " Cowardly:, 4,
failure, as we foresaw from the dishonest," " an-English," are adjec-
and the only way to subjugate their determined I tives readily and continually applied to secret
enemy will be by a long and protracted siege, for l voting. As if bribery and intimidation wero espe-
which the Federal Government are unprepared ; cially English virtues l
No doubt some sincerely
and, even if they possessed the requisite siege-guns and conscientonsly
oppose it on those grounds and
and material, they would never be secure from a such we would remind that we are not living in
bold and dashing sortie from their determined Utopia. It would be desirable no doubt for every

man to give his vote free and unchecked by any LATEST INTELLIGENCE•
motive save his own political unvictions. Men
ought not to bribe or be bribed, they ought not (REUTER'S TELEGRAM.)
to submit to threats or to intimidation.
On the same grounds we might leave our street
doors open, for men ought not to steal. So long,
however, as human nature:remains what it is, prac-
tical experience and not Quixotic theory must be
our guide, and as surely as the thief and the bur-
glar will make the careless householder repent his
want of prudence, so surely will unscrupulous poli-
ticians extort a vote from needy or timorous elec-

tors so long as the means are left in their
power. It is idle to indulge in fruit-
less lamentations over the evil—idle to
preach electoral purity, and meanwhile put the lever
and the screw into the hands of the candidate. Lord
PALMERSTON has certainly not given stability to
his tottering cabinet by his speech or his vote last
night. They were probably quite in accordance
with the wishes of too many among his supporters as

well as among the occupants of the opposite benches.
The country at large, however, will regard this
new specimen of reform legislation with less satis-
faction, and be inclined to ask " Where is the liber-
ality of our Liberals?"

The month of March has been long memorable in
,he annals of time, from the Ides of Smug CASA&

n the old world to the 4th of March in the New.

This is the day when ABRAHAM LINCOLN assumed
the purple power of the United States—united in
name, but dissociated, in fact, as much as day and
night, and aptly represented by the all-wise white
Abolitionist as by his swarthy but rejected brother
of African lineage. And much as the supreior race
of ADAM revolts at the inferior organ of mind in
the New World, what has the great arbiter of the

West gained by his incomparable intellect, in the
exercise of uncontrolled despotism against the poor
slave and his indomitable master of kindred flesh
and blood. He who was but the other day his
friend in partnership and brOther in iniquity, so far

SPAIN.
THE MINISTERIAL CRISIS.
MADRID, MARCH 3 (Evening).

The Ministry will be completed to-morrow.
It is asserted it will immediately re-open the
Chambers, and will request authority to.collect the

taxes.

The Cortes will not be dissolved.

FRANCE.

The Constitutionnel says that Lord Palmerston, in
establishing with much adroitness the right
.of
England to interfere in the affairs of Poland, had
given the tone to the English press. The Pays
states that the news from Poland are quite different
to those of yesterday, anct only chronicle the suc-
cesses of the insurgents. The journal goes on to
say that, allowing the Poles to exaggerate their
victories, the Russians are more likely to do so.
But whatever way it is the struggle still continues,
and no one can say for certain how it may termi-
nate•

as profit resulted, from equal participation in
slavery. What are the PRESIDENT'S feelings this
day ? Dies he remember the Ides of March? Does
he exult in the present or dread the future ? Poor
ABRAHAM LINCOLN !—out of all the many candi-
dates for his office but two short years ago which of
them would change places with him now ? Not
even that poor slave but lunaticfreeman, who shook
hands with him on the sad day of his emancipation
from one thraldom to be precipitated into another,
with all his imperfections on his head—a freeman
without a brother, yet a bondsman in his own
esteem ! He finds no sympathy, meets no friend—
is pushed aside by his fellow freemen as a plague
to be shunned—and faint and weary, roams in the
world like an outcast in the wilderness. This is
what Mr. LINCOLN calls a military measure to eman-
cipate the slave. What delusion—and for both
alike ! If the PRESIDENT has missed his purpose,
the slave has surely missed his destiny. Was there
ever such fatuity in Government, or such misery in-
flicted under such specious philanthropy ? The
prize is freedom, and the wages death. And this
emanating from the merciful dictator of a Christian
Empire, composed of many vaunted abodes of free-
men and conservators of the human race !

Pride goes before a fall, as the proverb runs, but
we have never seen such a fall as this of the PRE-
SIDENT of the United States—
,4 Since he miscalled the Morning S
Nor ?oan, nor fiend has fallen so far."

L'Opmzone Nationale, of this morning, remarks
that there has been considerable uneasiness felt the
last two days in Paris respecting Polish affairs,
owing to the despatches continually sent from War-
saw by the Russian authorities, who represent the
combat of Malogoszcz as a great Russian victory,
whereas the insurgents were, it is said, the con-
querors. After commenting on the prospects of the
patriots, which it thinks hopeful, L'Opinion ex-
presses its fear that little is to be expected from
English diplomatic intervention, as that Govern-
ment is chiefly busy in remonstrating with the King
of Prussia, in order to deprive France of the temp-
tation to seize upon the Rhenish provinces.
Le Siecle bids the Poles have hope, for their
hour is coming. Their most powerful auxiliary will
be found in the disaffection of the Russians,
heightened as it will be by the eventful third of
March, and the voice of ,all the provinces of
Russia will unite with the cry for independence
uttered by the heroic Poles.
The Meniteur publishes the following:--
" A report from General Forey, addressed from
Orizaba to the Minister of War, under date Jan. 25,
gives an account of the preparatory operations of the
expeditionary corps from the 9th of the same month.
As a consequence of the movement of the army
towards Puebla, the line of Jalapa has been aban-
doned; the occupation of that place uselessly isolated
forces intended for a more active part in the plans
of the general-in-chief. In their different move-
ments of concentration, our troops have had several
encounters little calculated to increase the enemy's
confidence. The most important of them occurred
on Dec. 28, between Jalapa and Puente Nacional ;
three companies of the 62d there routed numerous
guerilleros, who had 50 men killed and a considerable
number wounded. General Bazaine, leaving a
garrison at Perote, took his departure thence on the
20th of January with his own troops and those of
General Marquez. His design was to establish him-
self atTepetitlan on 23d, thus drawing nearer toGen.
Douay, who was preparing to leave San Andrea to
march in the direction of Nopacalucan. The ma-
teriel of the artillery and engineers has arrived at
Orizaba from Vera Cruz. General Forey is sue••
cessively despatching convoys towards the higher
plateaux. The siege train and all the batteries of
the reserve were already on the road. Supplies of
provisions are constantly passing along the road
leading to Quecholac. The sanitary state is satis-
factory ; the means of transport are daily increas-
ing; in short, everything is preparing for the on-
ward movement of the army."
THE BOURSE, March 3.—The settlement con-
tinues to go on in a satisfactory manner. The
market has been buoyant, and a fair amount of
business done at an improvement on the closing
rates of yesterday. For the end of the month,
Threes are now firm at 70fr. 30c. Railway Share
Market firm, but with little variation in prices.
The market again receded towards the close, and
eft off as follows :

And fallen, too, in the boast of his boundless power,
trampling over the liberties of his own people in
the ruthless endeavour to crush those of his anta-
gonists. We have said some time ago that the
Fourth of March would be fruitful of events—and
now that the day has come, we wonder what has

happened. Had we now the great Atlantic cable
in being—what would not the Old World give for
a little table-talk with the New—not under the
rose, but under the waters of revelation ? And
what an abyss must the Western daughter of free-
dom have fathomed in her two years of frantic
labour, and yet she persists in her forlorn fanaticism !
The blood runs cold in the very contemplation of
the damning horrors now rearing their guilty heads
above the waves of affliction ! Humanity shudders,
and can but weep.

4t per Cents. 99
Do. end month.... —7 77

Bank Shares 3370
Credit toncier 1525
Piedmontese Fives
Italian Loan 69 50
Russian
Austrian
Spanish Threes 52 50
Home Debt —

3 per Cents
Do. end month 7O 10
New 3 per Cents
Do. end month —
Credit M0bi1ier...,1220
Do. end month 1235 —.

Had Mr. LINCOLN, however averse to emancipa-
tion by virtue of his oath to preserve the Union
intact and indivisible, yet leaning to mercy's side,
made a virtue of necessity and boldly set the slave
free once and for ever at the beginning, irrespective
of friend or foe, the deed were magnanimous, and
would have been hailed with rapturous acclamation
by the civilised world. And more—such a stroke
of generous statesmanship would have combined his
friends and distracted his enemies. Rebellion would
have been quashed in its turbulent dream of resist-
ance, and all discordant feelings and commercial
misunderstandings mutually arranged to the satis-
faction of all. But the evil genius of Domination
would brook no advice; and hence what a world of
havoc and waste of life and property have ensued.
Presumption, on the one hand, goaded by ambition,
provoked resistance on the other. The lust of empire
in the North begot independence in the South,
and the struggle grew the more fierce as the rela-
tionship became the dearer from the recollection of
the7past and the apprehension of the future, till
frenzy roused their animosities into one common
hate and savage determination to dare the worst.
There is uo hate like that of brothers—and sadly
have the heroic hearts of America confirmed its
truth,—for in proportion as the stronger made sure
of crushing the weaker, just in the same spirit of
hope did the weaker rise in the desperate fervour of
its might, and trusting in the goodness of its cause,
not only resist but actually overpower its rival, thus
proving that the race is not always to the swift nor
the battle to the strong. To despise not your
enemy, would have saved the North tens of thou-
sands, and the South many a widowed mourner in
these days of sorrow and mutual tribulation. And
what avails it all? The dream of conquest is as
fallacious as ever. They triumph hut profit not.
Their victories are only prolific of slaughter—and
still they strive for conquest to the grave.
This fourth of March must be a day of anguish to
Mr. LINCOLN in his meditations, even if his expedi-
tions prove successful. He cannot heal the past nor
predicate what the future has in store. Already
his own most intimate friends and advisers begin to
waver in their faith to him while they despair of
their country. None have courage to speak out
what all feel, and the very action of Government is
hurried on with a recklessness of consequences
that seems to echo the consciousness of their fears.
It must be a terrible trial of power shorn of re-
spect from the fatuity of its hopeless career. Never
was promise and performance so much at fault.
And yet they go on—but whither ? If forced to
abandon Charleston, will success at Vicksburg be an
equivalent for consolation ? but if he fail at both
while his evil genius keeps in the ascendant, will
Mr. LINCOLN wish to see another fourth of March
in the fallen fortunes of his Republican empire ?
We guess not. Bat he will—Remember March,—
, the fourth of March, remember !

RA IL"

'AYS.

Cash. Account.
Orleans lllB 75 .. 1118 75
Northern
New ditto
Lyons and Mediterranean 1190 .. 1185
Geneva.... 405 .. 406 25
Southern 792 50 .. 797 60
Western - .. 560
Eastern
Sardinian 368 75 ..
Austrian
Lombard
North of Spain
Saragossa 697 50 .. 700
Ditto to Barcelona

Amongst the anticipatory tributes of welcome to
H.R.H. the Princess—a spirit-stirring Epithalamium by
James Orton, author of the "Enthusiast," has made its
appearance, It is being set to music as an anthem by
Captain Horton Rhys (otherwise Captain Morton Price),
the lessee and manager of Sadler's Wells Theatre, where
it will be sung by the composer himself and his company on
the evening of the Marriage Day.
►STEAM HAMMER MAKING AT PATRICROFT.—
Messrs. Nastnyth and Co. of the Bridgewater
Foundry, Patricroft, are now engaged in the manufacture
of a hugo steam hammer for the Woolwich Arsenal. The
standards or supports of the hammer are to be 26ft. 6in.
high, and will each weigh 20 tons, though hollow through-
out. The hammer will weigh 17 tons, with a fall of 9ft ;
this great weight and fall being necessary for its work of
preparing the plates for our iron-clad ships. The weight
of one cylinder and its fittings will be 10 tons, the founda-
tion for the anvil 40 tons, and the anvil 120 tons ; total,
227 tons. In a recent experiment at the foundry, it was
found that three of the furnaces could melt the quantity of
metal required for the first standard casting in little more
than three hours, whilst the filling of the mould will not
occupy more than three minutes. The weight required to
cover the mould to counteract the expansion of the air will
be over 200 tons.

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The Freeman's Journal states that the Marchio-
ness of Londonderry (wife of the present Marquis) has been
received into the Roman Catholic Church.

LIBERTY (P) OF THE PRESS IN SPAIN.—The
Conternporaneo of Madrid, in the last number
which has come to hand, has replaced its first article by the
following lines :—" First, at nine o'clock this morning a
Government agent came and suppressed three paragraphs
of our leading article. Secondly, at half past nine another
agent came and prohibited six other pargraphs. Thirdly,
at a quarter to 10 a third agent called and suppressed the
remainder of the article. This incident is entirely new in
the annals of the press. Yet, it is said, Spain possesses a
constitutional Government l''

The mail from Guayaquil has brought a remi
tance of £1,770, on account of the dividends of gquaclOr!

AMERICA.

(REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.)
QUEENSTOWN, TUESDAY.

The Royal Mail steamship Europa, from Boston
on the 18th and Halifax on the 22d ult., arrived
here at 4.30 p.m. to-day. She brings 54 passengers
and 277,400 in specie. She landed all mails and
five passengers, and proceeded at 4.45 p.m. ; all
well. The Europa was detained one day off Hali-
fax by fog.

(PER EIIROPA:)

NEW YORK, FEB. 17 (Evening).

The Federal commanders of the vessels blockading
Charleston have forwarded an official refutation of
General Beauregard's report that the blockade was
raised. They declare they never quitted the block-
ading line usually occupied by them, and that no
vessel of any description crossed the bar after the
Confederate rams returned to Charleston.

The Federal garrison on Roanoke Island was
anticipating an attack from the Confederates, who
had collected 100 small boats, and were concen-
trated upon the mainland. The Federal Com-
mander had telegraphed for reinforcements.

General Hunter has assumed the command of the
forces lately arrived at Hilton Head from Beaufort,
and General Foster has returned to North Carolina.
The Governor of Virginia has addressed a letter
to President Lincoln, informing him he would an-
flinchingly retaliate for any improper treatment of
citizens or soldiers of Virginia.
An order has been issued prohibiting the circula-
tion of newspapers among the army of the Potomac.
Some doubts are entertained of the Vicksburg
Canal being made available.
The Democratic members of the next Congress
have been invited to meet in New York on the Bth
of March.

The resolution calling a Convention at Louisville
has been defeated in the Senate of the Illinois Legis-
lature.

A resolution has been introduced in the Confede-
rate Congress to maintain the right to free naviga-
tion of the Mississippi for the citizens of the States
upon its borders or the borders of its tributaries.

The .New York World thinks that Mr. Seward has
made a great mistake in repelling the friendly
suggestions of the Emperor Napoleon, and considers
that it is the duty of the North to prepare itself for
fresh complications, which the recognition of the
South must introduce into the struggle.
The Confederate steamer Oreto is said to be
blockaded in Kingston by two Federal vessels.
The North American, Asia, and Bavarian have
arrived out.

FEBRUARY 19, Evening.

The Senate has passed a bill authorising the Pre-
sident, in all domestic and foreign wars, to issue
letters of marque. The authority conferred by the
act is limited to three years. A proposal to grant
this authority for the suppression of the rebellion
only was voted down during the discussion of the
bill.

Mr. M'Dougal, of Carolina, expressed his opinion
that before the meeting of another Congress the
United States would be involved in a foreign war,
and he wished the country to be prepared.
The Senate has passed a Conscription Bill ren-
dering till citizens, and those who have declared
their intention to become citizens, between the ages
of 20 and 45 years, liable to perform military duty
when called out by the President. The districts
are made to correspond with the Congressional dis-
tricts, with assistants. He will perfect an en-
rolment once a year. Persons enroled are subject
for two years to be called into service, to serve for
three years or during the war, on the same footing
with the present volunteers, advance pay and bounty
included.

The President can draught at any time with 10
days' notice to draughted men. Substitutes may
be furnished or commutation made—none exceed-
ing 300 doll. Draughted persons refusing to re-
port will be treated as deserters.

It is supposed that both the Conscription and
Letters of Marque Bills will pass the House of
Representatives by a consider able majority.

A rumou► is current in Richmond of a programme
in the North-West for forming a North-Western
Confederacy.
The report that newspapers were forbidden in the
Army of the Potomac is incorrect.
The Federal turreted gunboat Indianola has run
the Vicksburg b!ockade in safety.
Another Federal expedition has left New Orleans

for Bayou Teche.
The Confederate General Hindman's army in
Tennessee is said to be demoralised. Three hundred
of his troops were frozen to death in marching from
Van Buren.

Two members from Louisiana have been admitted
to seats in the House of Representatives.
The Senate of the New York Legislature has re-
jected the complimentary resolutions to General
M'Clellan.

It is denied that the Harriet Lane has escaped
from Galveston.
COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.
NEW YORK, Feb. 17, Evening.
Money easy. Gold, 58,/, per cent. premium.
Exchange on London—bankers' bills, 175.
Stocks very firm. New York Centrals, 118 - ;
Illinois, 921; Erie, 761,.

February 19, Evening.
Money easy. Gold is much excited on account
of fears entertained of French intervention. The
last price was 63k per cent. premium.
Exchange on London—bankers' bills, 180 to 181.
Stocks tending downwards. New York Central,
119 ; Illinois, 921; Erie, 761.
Cotton dull—middling upland, 90c. Flour, good
inquiry, 10c. higher. Wheat and corn, extensive
demand and 2c. higher. Provisions and sugar
steady. Coffee quiet. Molasses very firm.

EXTRAORDINARY DISCOVERY OF GOLD IN
SUSSEX.—A few weeks ago a labourer in the service
of Mr. Adams, a farmer, at Robertsbridge, turned up about
eleven pounds' weight of solid gold in a field. From its
appearance he took it for old brass, and sold it as such, for
6d. per pound. It subsequently found its way into the hands
of a fly driver in Hastings, who had been a gold digger in
California, and he recognised its true value. The matter,
however, reached the ears of the lord of the manor, and the
fly-driver, whose name is Stephen Willett, was taken into
custody for refusing to give up the gold or account for its
disposal. The charge was investigated at Battle on Satur-
day last before B. N. Combo, Esq., the prisoner being do-
fended by Mr. Lewis, of London, who contended that" the
justices had no jurisdiction. This appearing to be the ease,
the charge was dismissed.
THE SHIELDS POISONING CASE.—NEWCASTLE-
UPON-TYNE, Monday.—By consent this case came
before the Under-Sheriff of Northumberland and a special
jury this morning. Mr. Maule, Q.C., and Mr. Kemplay
appeared for the plaintiff (Mr. Gillespie), and Mr. Manisty,
Q.C., and Mr. Jones for the defendants (Fenwick and
Peart). The plaintiff is a seaman, residing at North Shields,
and the defendants aro partners practising as surgeons in
that town. They were engaged in attending upon the wife
of the plaintiff, and on the 11th October, 1862, a draught was
sent from their surgery for her to take. About an hour and
a half after taking the draught she died in convulsions. She
was interred, but from circumstances which afterwards
transpired, the body was exhumed again. It was then as-
certained that she had died from the effects of poison con-
tained in the draught, a quantity of strychnine having by
some inadvertence been compounded with her medicine by
some of the defendants' assistants. The plaintiff brought
an action against the defendants to recover damages for the
loss of the services of his wife, laying the damages at .i 1,200.
The case was settled to-day, without going into evidence,
by the defeutlanta agreeing to pay the plaintiff £5OO and all
costs in the case.
BIRTH IN A CAL—On Wednesday evening a lady?
belonging to Dundee, gave birth to a child in a cab while
being driven home.