The Sun.
London, England, 1863-06-19 00:00:00

The Yelverton Marriage Case.

There are some curious movements going on in
this case by Major Yelverton and his friends. In
our last number it was stated that the House of
Lords had ordered the respondent peremptorily to
answer in a week ; and so late as the 2d of this
month the Major's agents applied for a further ex-
tension of time to lodge their case, and obtained
leave till the 2d day of July next. They had thus
been, by repeated requests for delay, granted six
months to prepare a case which, considering all that
has occurred, ordinary mortals might have imagined
could have been prepared in one. This, it is true,
is their matter, with probably good reasons for de-
lay ; but what is the meaning of the obtaining this
additional time, of this peremptory order of the
court that the respondent should answer in a week ?
We confess it is difficult to comprehend the object
aimed at. Mrs. Yelverton was in London last month
with her agents preparing for the hearing; she is
now, and has been for borne time, at her lodgings in
Crawford's, where, it may readily be supposed, this
sudden change has surprised her. Of course her
agents will apply for time to put in whatever an-
swers may be necessary; meanwhile she is trying
to get here reparation for that shamelessly slander-
ous letter which Mrs. Forbes published against her
in the Examiner immediately after the Judges of
the Court of Session had declared her to be, what
she has all through asserted herself to be, the law-
ful married wife of Major Yelverton.—Caledonian
Mercury,

LORD PALMERSTON AND THE HERBERT ME-
MORIAL STATUE.—The Salisbury Town Council
have resolved to entertain the Premier at luncheon after the
ceremony. Accommodation will only be provided for a
small party, numbering between 100 and 200. The Mayor
and Corporation, with the committee, will receive Lord
Palmerston at the railway station, and accompany him to
the Council House, where an address will be presented,
and the inauguration of the statue will take place immedi-
ately afterwards. Some of the blocks of granite which are
to form the base of the pedestal arrived on Monday.—
TF Mirror.

Yesterday morning, at a meeting of the Liver-
pool Local Marine Board, Captain Sproule, the
chairman, presented, on behalf of the Emperor Napoleon,
a gold medal and diploma to Captain Joseph Michel, of the
brig Mary Waugh, of Liverpool, for service rendered by
Captain Michel to the French navy in Mexico.
THE CROPS IN CANADA.—The Toronto Globe
says :—" The weather of the past week has been of
the most favourable character, and the progress made by
the corps has been remarkable. From every quarter of the
province the reports concur in speaking in the most promis-
ing terms of the full spring grains. We learn from a party
who has just completed an extensive tour through Bruce
and Grey that spring wheat never exceeded its present
promise, and that peas and oats are even more advanced
than in more cultivated sections. Unless some great
calamity overtake us, the country bids fair to be blessed
with a most abundant harvest."

SPIRITUAL COMMUNICATION FROM GOVERNOR
WALL.--My name is Joseph Wall. I was Lieute-
nant-Governor of Goree, acting as Chief in July, 1782. I
caused a man to be flogged without a trial. I ordered Ser-
geant Armstrong to receive 800 lashes. He died in five
days afterwards. The &aid of Admiralty offered a reward
for my apprehension. I absconded, and went to live on
the COntinent, mostly in France and Italy. In 1797 I re-
turned to England. I was taken up in 1802, 20 years after
I had flogged Armstrong to death. I was tried, convicted,
and hanged. Colonel Crawley is accused of having
hastened the death of Sergeant-Major Lilley, if not
of having killed him, by illegally confining him in a
Black Hole. I won't say that Colonel Crawley murdered
Sergeant-Major Lilley. I don't know that he did. Spirits
never know anything of the kind. We cannot tell who did
the Road murder. We only know what the papers tell
you. They say that Crawley committed a crime that
amounts to murder. What they say is corroborated by the
Duke of Cambridge. If it is true, Colonel Crawley ought
to be tried for it. Should it be proved against him he
would deserve hanging more than I did. The man I caused
to be flogged was a mutineer among mutineers. He was
not a respectable non- commissioned officer. Mrs. Brownrigg
tells me to give you her compliments. Good night.—. Punch.

EGYPTIAN GROUSE.—A covey of 19 of the "pin-
tail," " sand grouse," or "Egyptian grouse," was found
last week near Scarborough. The birds are rare visitants to
these lands, although of late they have been met with in
various places on the coast. On Tuesday Mr. J. Wilson,
of Flotinanby, shot two brace and a half out of the covey
above named, a brace of which has been presented to the
Mayor of Scarborough, for his museum.
DAMAGES AGAIN ST RAILWAY FURNACES.—A case
was tried in the Jury Court, Edinburgh, before Lord
Barcaple, on Friday, Sa urday, and Monday last, in which
Messrs. Cooper and Wood, bottle manufacturers, Portobello,
claimed £l,OOO damages against the North British Railway
Company for injury sustained by the house and grounc,s of
Baileyfield, Portobello (of which the pursuers are proprie-
tors), from smokf., dust, and gases discharged from the
defenders' works for converting and hardening iron rails.
A large number of scientific witnesses, including chemists,
medical practitioners, architects, and horticulturists, were
examined on both sides. The evidence was to a great
extent conflicting, but it seemed to be proved that the
vegetation had, since the erection of the furnaces, been con-
siderably injured, and that the comfort of the occupation
had been interfered with. The jury were divided in opinion,
but by a majority of nine to three they found for the pur-
suers, with £2OO damages.

A soldier, named Pierre Valin, has just died in
one of the charitable asylums in Paris, after being
subject to a singular mental aberration ever since the
battle of Solferino, where he was wounded in the head by
a musket shot. The wound soon healed, but the man,
though apparently in guod health, fancied himself dead
from the time he received the injury. When asked how
he was, he invariably replied—" Ah 1 you are asking about
Pierre Valin? Poor fellow! He was killed at Solferino
by a musket shot in the head. What you see here is not
Valin, but a machine made in his semblance, and so badly
put together that you ought to get another in its stead."
In speaking of himself he never said " I," or " me," but
always " it." He would sometimes remain for days in a
state of complete immobility, and so insensible to pain that
neither mustard poultices, blisters, pricking, nor punching
was felt by him. He would often refuse to eat, saying—
" It does not want anything, it has no stomach."
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