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Mallet. She was invariably asking for money. I told
1 him to consult his father.

Cross-examined by the Queen's Advocate—A.l2'er the se-
paration of Mr. and Mrs. Fitzgerald I had an interview
with Mrs. Bettesworth. I advised her that her daughter
should return to her husband. She said, " I.‘ ould you wish
her to live with an adulterer ?" I replied, if I thought he
was so I should not have urged the return of his wife. I
told her I thought she ought as a mother do all she could
to restore happiness.

John Smith Fisher, a cabinet-maker, residing at lien-
sington•.--He used to attend to matters in Mr. and Mrs-
Mallet's house, which was in that neighbourhood. In
1859 he saw Major Fitzgerald there. He had seen them
together in the drawing-room. He had seen him there in
1890. Mr. Mallet was from home when he saw the major
at his house.

The case was procecdiug when we went to press.

COURT OF BANKRUPTCY.
(Before Mr. Commissioner Pane.)
RE CHARLES LUKE TRACY.-FAILURE OF AN AFRICAN

TIERCIIANT.--A CLAIMANT TO A PEERAGE.
This was an adjourned examination meeting of this
bankrupt, described as of Fenchurch-street and Stamford-
hill, African merchant.

The bankrupt attributed his difficulties to prosecuting a
claim to the Tracy Peerage on behalf of his brother. The
debts to creditors unsecured, £2,260, and the deficiency on
the whole account amounts to 4991 Some of the debts
are described to be partnership debts due chiefly to City
merchants and brokers, when bankrupt was a partner in the
firm of Tracy and Co. Among the doubtful debtors is his
brother, Matthew Tracy, late of Kensington-gardens-
square, and now residing abroad, £625 for expenses in-
curred on his behalf, and to securo which he, in July, 1861,
executed a bond to pay a sum of £2,000 two years after he
attained the title, &c.

A creditor opposed on the ground that the bankrupt had
obtained goods and money when he had no reasonable
prospect of means to pay. The bankrupt had run a shop
bill, and in payment offered bill of exchange by his brother,
and received the difference in cash, but on the bill becoming
due it was found that the brother had left his place of resi-
dence and was an outlaw.

Mr. C. E. Lewis said he must object to anything which
the brother might have done. The bankrupt had advanced
money for him, and had taken some small bills. The
creditor admitted that the bankrupt had asked for a renewal
of the bill at a short date, but the creditor refused, and sued
the bankrupt, and took him in execution, which compelled
him to come to i his court. The bankrupt's private expen-
diture was very small, and almost all the partnership debts
had been paid off.
His Honour ranted the order of discharge.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE—This Day

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

WILFULLY DAMAGING ONE OF TURNER'S PICTURES IN
THE NATIONAL GALLERY—COMMITTAL FOR TRIAL.—
William Stephenson, a tall man, of shabby genteel appear-
ance, described as "an author, of no home," was charged
before Mr. Knox with wilfully damaging one of Turner's
pictures, in the Turner Room of the National Gallery, the
property of the trustees.

The picture is numbered 519 in the catalogue, the sub-
ject being "Regulus Leaving Rome."
Edward Paine, curator in the National Gallery, and
having charge of the Turner Room, deposed—Yesterday
afternoon, about five minutes to four o'clock, I observed
the prisoner in the Turner Room standing before the picture
numbered 519 in the catalogue. I saw him make four or
five pokes at the picture, and I then handed him over to
Inspector Dunning.
Mr. Knox—ls the picture damaged ?
Witness—lt is, sir, I seized the prisoner's hand to see
if he had a knife in it, but he had not.
Mr. Knox —Were there any other persons about the pri-
soner, so that ho might have been pushed against the
picture ?

Witness—There were four or five others, but they were
behind, and not close to the prisoner.
Mr. Knox—Did you see his hand touch the picture ?
Witness—l did; and I seized him before it left the pic-
ture. It was deliberately done.
Inspector Eleser Denning, A division, said—l am the
inspector of police at the National Gallery. About 2 o'clock
yesterday afternoon I was informed by the last witness that
a picture had been damaged. I watched very closely, and
about 10 minutes afterwards I saw the prisoner near the
picture with his hand uplifted.

Mr. Knox—Had the picture at that time been damaged ?
Inspector Denning—lt had, sir. As soon as the prisoner
saw that he was observed he moved his hand, and leaned on
the railing for about 10 minutes, and then walked away and
sat down on a chair for about two hours, and about five
minutes to four the last witness handed the prisoner over to
me for damaging the picture. I looked to see if the pri-
soner had a kr ife in hie hand, but he had not. I then
asked him for his eye-glass, having. seen him at 2 o'clock
with one in his hand, but instead of giving me the eye-
glass he took from his pocket a penknife ; and on my ask-
ing him if he had used it that day, and for what purpose,
he said, " for stabbing a picture." I then examined the
knife, and found on the blade a little paint. I asked him
what be did it for, and he replied, "I was very much ex-
cited. The misty state of the picture, and the dislike I had
for the man made me do it."

Mr. Knox—What is the picture ?
Inspector Denning—" Regulus leaving Rome."
Mr. Knox—ls there any serious damage done to the
picture?

Inspector Denning—The keeper is here, and will speak to
that. On the way to tho station the prisoner said" If I had
not been detected I should have given myself up to you be-
fore I left the Gallery." He also said he had no friends or
relatives, and came from Newcastle.
Mr. Knox—Was there any incoherence in his speech
besides what you have stated ?

Inspector Denning—There was not.
Mr. Knox—Nor anything to inspire you with the belie:
hat he was of unsound intellect ?

Inspector Denning—Not anything, Sir.
Mr. Ralph Nicholson Wornum, keeper and secretary of
the National Gallery, said—My attention was called to the
picture five minutes after the damage was first committed.
I then found eight injuries, one being about one inch and a
quarter in length—four others are stabs, the knife not going
very ter through the canvass. On the second occasion I
found there were altogether nine injuries, four of them being
chips by which the paint had been broken off the canvass,
but the canvas had not been perforated.
Mr. Knox—Can the picture be repaired so that we shall
not have to regret the destruction of the picture.
Mr. Wornum—lt can, sir.
Mr. Knox—l am glad to hear that. Prisoner, do you
wish to say anything ?
Prisoner—l have to express my regret that I did it. I
acknowledge that I did it and leave the matter in your
hands. I was in a state of excitement at the time.
The depositions having been completed, the prisoner
was committed for trial,

THAMES.

ROBBERY BY A PAUPER.—Robert Lawson, an infirm,
half-deaf old man, was brought up before Mr. Partridge,
charged with stealing 11b. of old rope, the property of the
Guardians of the Poplar Union. The rope was stated to
be of the value of three halfpence,

Mr. Spratley, superintendent of labour, stated that he
served out 4lbs. of old rope to the prisoner yesterday (Wed-
nesday) morning, and he was to pick it in the stone yard.
That was the day's work allotted to the prisoner. In the
afternoon, at four o'clock, he weighed the rope that had
prisoner, been pic picked, It f
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sup-
plied to him in the morning. It was Government rope,
with a red cord string passing through it. The prisoner
had since expressed great contrition, and said he was very
sorry for what he had done.

Mr. Partridge—What relief has this old man, and how
long has he been chargeable to the Poplar Union.
Witness—He has been an inmate off and on these four
years. He bas been lately receiving out door relief to the
extent of 6s. per week, for which ho is only required to pick
four lbs. of oakum per day; he was formerly a rigger.
The prisoner said he was very sorry for what he had done
—he was guilty.
Mr. Partridge sentenced the prisoner to 21 days' impri.
sonment and hard labour.

M. RENAN'S LATEST BLASPIIEMY.--The world

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that word), the author of the Vie de Jisus argues in a re-
cent number of the Revue des Deux Mendes, will go on im-
proving, till at last, perhaps, some colossal intelligent crea-
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Will pass the limits of his planet. A single power will
really govern the world—namely, science, spirit." Then
follows a passage to which the rest has served as an
introduction, and which deserves to be translated in full :
—" God will then be complete, if the word God is made the
synonym of all existence. In this sense God rather will
be than ie ; he is in feri ; he is on the way to make
himself. But to stop there would be a very incomplete
theology, God is more than total existence ; he is at the 1
same time the absolute. lle is that order in which ma.
thematics, metaphysics, and logic are true; he is the
place of the ideal, the living principle of the good, the
,
beautiful, and the true. Thus viewed, God fully and
unreservedly, is;
he is eternal and immutable, without
progress or becoming.
REPRESENTATION OF WARWICKSHIRE. --Mr.
Spooner has announced that
in consequence of his great
age, he shall retire from the representation of Warwick-
shire at the next general election. The Conservatives have
determined on starting for the vacancy, which will be thus
caused, the llon. Charles Lennox Butler, son of the 13th
Baron Dunlooyne,
a deputy-lieutenant of the cotuity,