The Sun.
London, England, 1863-07-29 00:00:00

LONDON GAZETTE—Yesterday.

Her Majesty, on a representation of the Right
Honourable the Lords of the Committee of Council on
E,,ucation, has appointed Horace Waddington, Esq., M,A. ,
of University College, Oxford, to be one of her Majesty's
Inspectors of Schools.
WAR.OFFICE, PALL MALL, JULY 28.

Ist Regiment of Life Guards—Cornet and Sub-Lieutenant
the Hon. Reginald Arthur James I'aibot, to be Lieute-
nant, by purchase, vice Edward Heneage, who retires ;
Thomas Henry Clifton, Gent., to be Cornet and Sub-
Lieutenant, by purchase, vice the Hon. R. A, J. Talbot.
3d Dragoon Guards—Surgeon Robert Marshall Allen, hav-
ing completed a period of 20 years' full pay service, to be
Surgeon-Major, under the provisions of the Royal War-
rant of Oct. 1, 1858.
7th Dragoun Guards—Cornet Henry Bulkeley to be Lieu-
tenant, by purchase, vice Edward Henry O'Dowd, who
retires; Evan Aubrey Thomas, Gent., to be Cornet, by

purchase, vice Bulkeley.
sth Lancers—Major Frederick Beswick, from half-pay, late
Depot Battalion, to be Majoi ; Captain and Brevet Major
Francis Richard Charles Grant to be Major, by pur-
chase, vice Beswick, who retires; Lieutenant and Adju-
tant Edward Francis Weaver to be Captain, by purchase,
vice Brevet Major Grant; Cornet Ludovick Montefiore
Carmichael to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Weaver;
Cornet Godfrey Clement Kynnersley Baldwin, from the
16th Lancers, to be Cornet, vice Carmichael ; Lieuten-
ant Frederick Sedley to be Adjutant, vice Lieutenant
Weaver, krumoted.
9th Lancers—Captain Erskine's promotion bears date 10th
July, 1863, and not as stated in Gazette of that date.
13th Hussars—James Tardy Hone, Gent., to be Cornet, by
purchase, vice Thomas Edward Stopford Hickman,
whose appointment has been Cancelled.
20th Hussars—Lieutenant Elliot Henry Macnaghten has
been permitted to retire from the service by the resigna-
tion of his commission.
21st Hussars—Lieutenant Fletcher Hayes Grant has been
permitted to retire from the service by the resignation of
his commission.
Royal Artillery—Captain and Brevet Lieut.-Colonel John
Desborough to be Lieut.-Colonel; vice Brevet-Colonel
Murray Octavius Nixon, deceased Second Captain
Charles Frederick Cockburn to be Captain, vice Brevet
Lieut.-Colonel Desborough ; Lieut. Henry Edmearles to
be Second Captain, vice Cockburn; Gentleman Cadet
Edwin Henry Hayter Collen to be Lieutenant, vice
Edmeades ; Gentleman Cadet George Frederick Darley
Sutton to be Lieutenant, vice Charles pusher Foulger,
deceased ; Second Captain and Brevet-Major Andrew
Hugh Bogle to be Adjutant, vice Second Captain Alex-
ander Hadden Lindsay, appointed Brigade-Major.
Royal Engineers—Lieutenant Spaight's appointment is
vice Jackson, removed from the army consequent on the
sentence of a General Court Martial, and not by the
sentence of a General Court Martial as previously stated,
Coldstream Guards Lieutenant and Captain George
Robert Fitz Roy to be Captain and Lieutenant-Colonel,
by purchase, vice Lord Eustace Henry Brownlow Gas-
coyne Cecil, who retires; Ensign and Lieutenant Denzil
Hugh Baring to be Lieutenant and Captain, by purchase,
vice Fiiz Roy; Gentleman Cadet Charles Napier
McMurdo, from the Royal Military College, to be Ensign
and Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Baring.
9th Foot—Ensign Robert Dillon Hare to be Lieutenant,
without purchase, vice James Edward Henning, deceased ;
Gent Cadet Archibald Graham Wavell, from the Royal
Military College, to be Ensign, without purchase, vice

Hare.
9th Foot—Staff Assistant-Surgeon Henry Walker to be

_
Assistant- Surgeon.
20th Foot—'tall Assistant-Surgeon William Hausman, to

be Assistant-Surgeon.
21st Foot— Staff Assistant-Surgeon James Land, M.D., to

be Assistant-Surgeon.
26th Foot—Major Henry Torrens Walker to be Lieutenant-
Colonel, by purchase, vice Lieutenant-Colonel and Brevet
Colonel Andrew Timbrell Allan, who retires ; Captain
George Bent to be Major, by puchase, vice Walker;
Lieutenant Henry George Ramadge to be Captain, by
purchase, vice Bent; Ensign Wm. itigsby Brown to tw
Lieutenant, by purchase, vice tiamadge ' • ,entleman
Cadet Hans Robert Rathbone, from the Royal Military
College, to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Brown ; Staff
Assistant-Surgeon William Armstrong to be Assistant-
Surgeon.
36th Foot—Gentleman Cadet Arthur Herbert William
Kennedy, from the Royal Military College, to be Ensign,
by purchase, vice Stainsby Henry Pigott, who retires;
Staff Assistant-Surgeon Tertius Ball, M.D., to be Assis-

tant-Surgeon.
37th Foot —Captain William Worsley Worswick, from the,
3d West Indian Regiment, to be Captain, vice Joseph
Jones, who exchanges.
54th Foot—Lieutenant Matthew W. Edward Gossett to be
Adjutant, vice Lieutenant Joshua G. Jebb, who resigns
the appointment.
64th Foot—Ensign Almeric George Spencer to be Lieute-
nant, by purchase, vice Henry Frederic Scobell, who
retires; Gentlemen Cadet Frederic Buckley Campbell,
from the Royal Military College, to be Ensign, by pur-
chase, vice Spencer.
78th Foot—Lieutenant Thomas Mackenzie to be Captain,
by purchase, vice Thomas Clement Belmore St. George,
who retires;, Ensign William Thorp to be Lieutenant,
by purchase, vice Thomas Mackenzie; Gentleman Cadet
Hugh Gough Grant, from the Royal Military College, to
be Ensign, by purchase, vice Thorp.
98th Foot—Gentleman Cadet Charles Forbes Calland, from
the Royal Military College, to be Ensign, without pur-
chase, vice Archibald Rowan Hamilton, cashiered by sen-
tence of a general court-martial.
103 d Foot—Lieut. Alexander Wm. Bradfield Caldecott to
be Adjutant.
107th Foot—Lieut. Fredk. Wm. Leman to be Adjutant.
Royal Canadian Rifle Regiment—Chas. Harrison Hignett,
Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Thos. H. Selwyn
Donovan, promoted.
3d West India Regiment—Captain Joseph Jones, from the
37th Foot, to be Captain, viceWorswick, who exchanges.

IMPERIAL PAMMONT 1 SPORTING

HOUSE OF COMMONS—Yesterday.
The SPEAKER took the chair—for the last time this
Session—at 20 minutes to 3 o'clock, There was a fair at-
tendance of members.

RETURNS.
A number of unopposed returns were agreed to.
NEW WRIT—PONTEFRACT—ELEVATION OF

MR. R. M. MILNII§ TO THE PEERAGE.
On the motion of Mr. BRAND, a new writ was ordered
to be issued for this borough, in the room of Mr. R. M.
M lines, who had resigned. The motion was met with some
cheers, and appeared to afford general satisfaction to the
house, it being understood that he is to be elevated to the
peerage.

REMOVAL OF RAILINGS ROUND PUBLIC

STATUES—LABELLING. PICTURES.
Mr. E WART asked the F Commissioner of Works
whether the iron which surrounded the statue of
Achilles in Hyde-park, and those which surrounded other
statues, would be removed, as iad been done successfully,
with respect to the statue of Charles the First at CL
aring-
cross, and that of George the Third :also, whether, on the
water-colour drawings of Turner and othera:lists exhibited
at South Kensington, labels would be
public information as to the subjects, and the painters
d, giving the
o
inivf
such water-colour drawings ?
Mr. COWPER replied that the railings round the public
statues had been removed without any damage ensuing,
and so far as authority extended, he should direct entaserge,
re-
moval of any railings or other obstacle which obstructed
the view of public statues or their pedestals It was the
duty of the authorities connected with our picture galleries
to affix descriptions to the various pictures, and the names
of the artists.
BANKRUPTCY ACT RETURNS.
Mr. MURR.a gave notice that early next session he
should call attention to the fact that the
sated ly bankruptcy
promi retuserns
had not been laid on the table, though re pd,
as required by th e
HreE cent act.
T METRIC SYSTEM.
Mr. EWART intimated that early next session
sub je he should
seek leave to introduce a permissive bill on this ct.
BENCHERS.
Sir G. BOWYER gave notice that early next sess
ion
he he should introduce a bill to regulate the proceedings fbenchers.

STANDING ORDERS.
Mr. AYRTON intimated that early
should propose an alteration in the standing
o is
t give ample time for the consideration l?dextorSeesrBsi°,nsobase
stages. f in all their
THE ALIENATION OF THE lONIAN ISLANDS.
Mr. D. GIAIFFI m intimated that next session he
should ask the First Lord of the Treasury whether the
Secretary of S ate for Foreign Affairs had not recently ex-
pressed an opinion that the Crown could not alienate any
of its possessions without the consent of Parliament.
NATIONAL EDUCATION (IRELAND).
Mr. BUT C gave notice that next session he should move
an address to the Crown on this subject.
PRECEDENCY OF MAYORS AND LORD
PROVOSTS.
Mr. BR 'J WN- WE S I'HEAD askedthe Secretary of State
for the Home Department whether he had received a com-
munication, from the Lord Mayor of York, on the question
which had arisen between the Lord Provost of Edinburgb
and the Lord Mayor of Dublin, and claiming, on the part
of the dignity of the office of Lord Mayor of York, prece •
dente next to that of the Lord Mayor of London; and
whether he would direct that the claim of precedence of the
Lord Mayor of York over both the Lord Provost of Edin-
burgh and the Lord Mayor of Dublin, be settled by the
proper authority ?
Sir G. GREY replied that the Lord Mayor and Corpo-
ration of London were entitled by charter to personally ad-
dress the Crown, so that the precedence of the other Lord
Mayors and the Lord Provost could not arise. (Laughter.)
THE CASE OF CAPTAIN MELVILLE WHITE.
Sir G. BOWYER asked the Under Secretary of State for
Foreign Affairs whether the Senate of Hamburg had yet
accepted the friendly office of arbitrator between her Ma-
jesty's Government and the Government of Pert in the
case of Captain Melville White; whether any agreement
had yet been signed by her Majesty's and the Peruvian
Government, fully establishing the bases upon which this
case is to be arbitrated, and how much longer it was likely to
be before the claims of Captain Melville White against the
Peruvian Government would be definitively settled ?
Mr. LAYARD replied that the exact terms of the arbi-
tration had not yet been definitively settled ; but he hoped
that no great time would elapse before a settlement was
arrived at.

THE lONIAN ISLANDS.
Mr. D. GRIFFITH asked the First Lord of the Trea-
sury what would be the nature of the guarantee to be
entered into to prevent the future acquisition of the lonian
Islands by any other power than Greece; and which of the
European powers would be the parties by whom that gua-
rantee would be executed ?
Lord PALMERS't ON replied that no step could be taken
in the direc,ion indicated without the consent of the powers
that were parties to the original protectorate by Great
Britain;

SUEZ CANAL.
Mr. D. GRIFFITH asked the First Lord of the Trea-
sury whether there was any truth whatever in the assertion
made by M. Lesseps, in his report to the shareholders of
the Suez Canal, in which, for the purpose of palliating or
defending the employment of forced labour on that work,
he undertakes to say, "The Company of the English
steamers, in their establishment at Suez, is provided by the
Egyptian Government with the porters and labourers neces-
sary for the embarkation and debarkation of their cargoes,
by means of forced labour (travail obligatoire)
Lord PALMERS lON replied that he could not be
answerable for the opinions of M. Lesseps. (Laughter.)
The Government did not know whether what was stated
was a fact or not. No doubt when the firman of the Sultan,
advisedly enforced, was put into operation, all the labourers
would have the benefit of the concession.

M.—This Da,

GOODWOOD RACES—Tins DAY.

BY ELECTRIC TELEGRLFR,

GOODWOOD STASES.
7to 4 agst Anfield (taken)
100 to 15 agst Bellman (taken)
100 to 15 agst Blondin (taken)
10 to 1 agst-Balham (taken)
100 to 7 agst Wasp gelding (taken)
20 to 1 agst Magnum Bonum (taken)

CRYSTAL PALACE.

Early yesterday the brass band contest com-
menced. Twenty-one bands competed, seven being
placed respectively at three stations in the gardens.
At platform No. 1 the judges were Messrs. Hurst
and Hanson ; at No. 2, Messrs. Smythe (Royal Ar-
tillery) and Charles Godtrey, sen. (Coldstream
Guards) ; and at No. 3, Messrs. Baguet (60th
Rifles) and T. Coward (organist, Crystal Palace).
When the various bands had each done their best,
there was a general assembly of all the musicians
in the Handel orchestra. The concert that then
ensued was conducted, as usual, by Mr. Enderby
Jackson, some of whose own compositions were
amongst the most attractive features of the pro-
gramme. On the conclusion of this concert a con-
test commenced between the twelve bands which
nad been selected as best among the twenty-one,
namely, the Brighton, Civil Service, Albion Mills,
Blandford, Kirkstall, Leyburn, Cornwall, Dews-
bury, Darlington, Doncaster, and Kirkbriston.
After a prolonged competition, the prizes were
awarded as follows :

First Prize, £3O, together with free gift of superb massive
cup, worked in aluminium gold—Blandford Band, Mr. R
Eyers.
Second prize, £2o—Dewsbury Old Band—Mr. Jan
Peel.
Third prize,
£ls—Matlock Bath Band,
Mr. James
Grooms.
Fourth prize, £lO --Darlington Band, Mr. H. Roggen.
In addition to the general prizes here named, a special
prize of £lO in money, together with a free gift of splendid
cup, elaborately worked in aluminium gold, was awarded
to the Brighton, Ist Susses Volunteer Artillery Band.
The following Special Solo Prizes were also
awarded : .
Ist. A silver gilt and richly engraved cornet-a-piston,
price £2o—Mr. Robert de Lacy, Solo Cornet of the Leyburn

Band.
2d. An electro-plated and gilt e legantly chased baritone
horn, price £2o—Thomas Hunt, 010 Tenor of the Bland-
ford Band.

The Mysterious Di
illcoverKof a Skeleton at
MwalL

Yesterday morning
Mr. H. Rsfiles Walthe w,
deputy coroner for East Middlesex, held an inquiry
i i
at the Queen's Head, Higli-street, Poplar, respect-
ing the death of a person unknown, whose skeleton
was,dis+ered some feet beneath the surface of the
ground, ea Thursday last, at Millwall.
John Itarris, 22, Dock-street, Poplar, said that
on Thursday last he was exavating tor a dry dock
at Mr. Dulchen's ship-yard, Folly-wall, Mill-wall.
About seven feet under the surface he found a
skeleton. For three feet down there was gravel,
and four feet under the surface of the clay the
skeleton was found. The gravel had been placed
on the spot within the last few years. He heard
people say that there had been a creek at that place,
and that the gravel had been put there to fill it up.
Dr. W. Peliew Bains said that he had examined
the remains and found them to consist of the
skeleton of a tall female. The height was about
sft. 7in. The teeth were all present and were in
perfect preservation, and from their condition he in-
ferred the age to have been between 20 and 30
years. The size of the pelvis and the comparative
smallness of the head were ponclusive as to the sex.
The Isle of Dogs is exactly seven feet below high
water mark, and the skeleton being found about
seven feet beneath the surface, it was about the
level of low water mark. It was therefore quite
possible that the body might have been floated to
where it was found by the river. The blue clay
in which it was embedded had a preservative effect,
and the body might have been there for fifty or
even possibly one hundred years. It must have
been there for more than two or three years, as the
bones had been permeated by the blue colour of the
clay. The bones bore no mark of injury, and
though some few were absent, the skeleton was a
very fine and complete one,
The Coroner asked whether the workmen had
searched for the remains of clothing, coins, &c.
The witness Harris said that they had dug down
some distance, but had discovered no trace of any-
thing but the bones. The place appeared not to
have been disturbed for some length of time.
The Coroner having summed up,

The Jury returned the following verdict :
" That the remains of the deceased female, unknown,
were found dead at the Folly-wall, Millwall, de-
posited seven feet beneath the surface of the earth ;
but how, when, or by what means the said female
became so buried there the evidence was not
sufficient to show."
Tao proceedings then terminated.

HEALTH OF LONDON.

(From the Registrar General's Report.)
With the progress of the summer months the mortality
continues to rise, in consequence of the increase of the diar-
ri_cea or cholera, fatal chiefly to infants, that is peculiar to
the season. The deaths in the three weeks ending the 18th
of July were successively 1,187, 1,287, and 1,364. In the
week that ended last Saturday a further increase occurred,
and 1,452 is the result.
The average number of deaths derived from 10 corres
ponding weeks (viz., the 30th in each of the years 1853-62),
is, after correction for increase of population, 1,253, from
which it appears that the actual number of deaths in last
week was 200 in excess of the estimated amount.
The deaths from diarrhoea, which had been in the pre-
vious weeks 91 and 148, rose to 233 last week, of which 178
were among infants less than a twelvemonth old. Besides
the number reckoned under diarrhoea there were 20 from
cholera, two of which cases were returned as Asiatic. On
the 21st inst. a labourer, aged 33 years, died in the North-
street Infirmary, Popular, of cholera Asiatica (36 hours) ;
and on the 20th inst. in the Workhouse of St. George,
Southwark, a chaff-cutter, aged 74 years, of cholera Asiatica
(5 days), consecutive fever (3 days). It may be asked
whether the sanitary condition of Islington is not capable
of improvement in some parts of the district. There has
been much scarlatina in it; and last week the deaths from

diarrhoea were 22.
There is reason to hope that the further spread of small
pox in the metropolis has been checked. The deaths by it,
returned last week, declined to 34, which is lower than any
previous weekly number since the end of March. A seventh
part of the mortality from this disease in the week occurred
to persons who are stated to have been vaccinated.
There were 110 deaths from scarlatina; 15 of which were
in Islington, and 9 'nth° sub-district of Sr. Peter, Walworth.
Last week the births of 994 boys and 898 girls, in all
1,892 children, were registered in London. In the ten cor-
responding weeks of the years 1853-62 the average number
(corrected) was 1,818.
At the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the mean height
of the barometer in the week was 29.699 in. The readings

fell to 29.321 n. on Wednesday, and lose to 29.97 in. on Fri-
day. The mean t, mperature of the air in the week was
57.3 deg., which is 4• ) deg. below the average of the same
week in 43 years (as determined by Mr. Glaisher). The
mean daily temperature was below the average throughout
the week, and had also been )4elow it on the last three days
of the preceding week. The lowest night temperature 3c -
curred on Sunday, and did not exceed 381 deg. The highest
day temperature was 74 deg,, and was obtained also on Sun-
' day. The range of the thermometer on that day and also
in the week was therefore 35.3 deg. The difference between
the mean dew .point temperature and air temperature was
6.9 deg. The mean degree of humidity of the air was7B (com-
plete saturation being represented by 100). The air was un-
usually dry on Sunday. The humidity was only 63, but on
Tuesday it rose almost to saturation. The wind was gene-
rally in the south-west. Rain fell to almost nine-tenths of
an inch, about half of which fell on Tuesday. The mean
of tie highest temperatures of the water of the Thames was
66 2 deg. ; that of the lowest was 64 deg.

THE SOUTHERN CONFEDERACY.

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sitions as to the military genius of Gen. Lee, but it
may be remarked that the circumstances under which
war is conducted in this country necessitate abnor-
mal action on the part of Gen. Lee, which in pre-
sence of the disciplined armies of Europe, com-
manded by enterprising generals, might be hazard-
ous in the extreme. There are men y dozens in
this tatterdemalion army who have been (not to
speak of skirmishers) in 32 engagements, and yet
have never known one decided repulse. Surely,
with men of this stamp, enthusiastic about their
general, and animated with a deep sense of
the batter outrages which th 3 Yankees have inflicted
upon every State in the Confederacy, some risk may
be ventured on? It seems that little more was wanted
than the safe transference of Gen. Lee's army from
Fredericksburg to Pen r sylvan ia to insure a t least sub-
stantial successes for the Confederacy, and to de-
monstrate the worthlessness of Gen. Hooker's re-
peated assurances to his Government that " he had
Gen. Lee just where he wanted him"—" that it was
impossible for Gc.n. Lee either to advance or to fall
bick," How safely and dexterously this transfer-
ence has been made your readers are now aware.
Nothing shall persuade me that any amount of
force which the North can spasmodically throw
into the field, backed by all the prestige "of the
Grand Ariny of the Potomac and
women
mitsCoelrt
n commander—
an to beder—
an army which is believed at this
numbrically superior to Gen.Lee's—frcoamn cruettuoffrnainngd
prevent
the Confederate
General
when he likes and where he likes into Virginia,
should occasion arise. In the meantime, so long as
he is on Pennsylvanian soil the North will be sup-
porting both armies, to say nothing of the extem-
porised soldiery thrown into the field by Penn-
sylvania in her agony, and likely to be thrown out
of the field by the shriek of the first Parrot shell
which bursts over their head. The contempt enter-
tained by Napoleon's Old Guard, by Wellington's
veterans of Orthez or Toulouse for citizen soldiery,
could not be more sublime than that which is felt
by the tried ragamuffins of Gen. Lee.
The actual crossing of the Potomac, which was
effected by Generals Lee and Longstreet at Williams-
port on the 25th inst., and by various divisions of
the Confederate army at the same point, and at
Shepherdstown about the same date, had in it much
of the enthusiasm which accompanied the last entry
of the Confederates into Maryland before the battle
of Sharpsburg. It was then the impression of
the Southern army that they were entering into
the friendly State of Maryland, ground down
under the iron heel of a despotic Government,
and anxious and willing, upon the first opportu-
nity, to arise and burst its bonds. But the unmis-
takeable sympathy of Hagerstown, Boonsboro,
Sharpsburg, and other small towns in Western
Maryland with the Federals, the jeers and taunts
of the women at the expense of the rebels, have
taught the latter to expect in the western counties
of Maryland no more aid and comfort than would
be extended to them in Massachusetts. The men
stare gloomily but timidily on the invaders, getting
abjectly out of the way as the Confederates stalk
through the streets ; and whatever spirit is left in
the population finds expression, as usual, from the
lips or by the gestures of the women. To-day, as
General Hood's division of Texans was passing in
front of a house, a young lady showed herself osten-
tatiously in front with a small Union flag pinned
on her bosom. One of the Texans, with an air of
great respect, remarked to her, " You had better
lower that flag, madam ; our boys are tigers at
breastworks, especially when they mount the Yankee
colours."

(From the Specie Correspondent of the Times.)
ILEADQUARTERS OF GEN. LEE, NEAR CHAM-
BERSRURG, PENNSYLVANIA, June 29.
Up to the present time nothing can exceed the
success which has attended the onward march of
Gen. Lee across the border of Virginia and the heel
of Maryland, up the rich Cumberland Valley, and
deep into the bowels of the State of Pennsylvania.
If my recent letter from Berryville has ever reached
England your readers will understand with what
admirable dexterity the large army of the Confede-
rates has moved from Fredericksburg into the
Northern States, snapping up the force of Gen Mil-
roy at Winchester en route, and masking its ex-
tended lines behind the gaps of the Blue Ridge,
firmly held as they were by Gen. Lee. This advan-
tage has been gained without striking a blow, ex-
cepting those which have been interchanged in the
brisk cavalry skirmishes between Gen. Stuart and
Gen. Pleasanton. In my last letter I alluded to the
serious wound which Major Von Bercke, the chief
of Gen. Stuart's Staff, contracted in one of these
skirmishes. It will be a matter of interest to those
Englishmen who have lately visited the Confede-
racy, and who have most of them carried away agree-
able recollections of Major Von Borcke, to learn that
this gallant Prussian (Slicer, who has likewise suc-
ceeded in gaining the affections and admiration of
the whole of Gen. Stuart's command, has hitherto
progressed favourably, and that he has not en-
countered the danger which I apprehended for him
when last I wrote—the danger, namely, of his being
taken prisoner, although two Federal officers actu-
ally entered the house in which he lay wounded.
The bullet is still, I fear, buried in the muscles at
the back of his neck; but I understand that no
danger to his life is apprehended, unless the slough-
ing of the wound subsequently injures an artery.
The movement of an enormous army like Gen.
Lee's, with its vast ammunition or ordnance trains,
its weary length of waggons, laden with the infinite
stores of the Quartermaster-General's and Commis-
sary-General's departments, its interminable bat-
teries of artillery, to say nothing of brigade after
brigade of infantry, and squadron after squadron of
cavalry, can be compared to nothing but the action
of mighty forces in the laboratory of nature, the
bursting of the St. Lawrence at the commencement
of each May through the penthouse cf ice which has
for seven months controlled its limbs, the upheaval
of strata among the volcanic summits of the Andes.
Any time during these last 10 days a traveller might
sit by the wayside in the Valley of Virginia, or on
the edge of the Potomac—that Rubicon which the
Confederates have at length crossed to teach their
pertinacious enemy some of the anguish which Vir-
ginia, Tennessee, Louisiana, North Carolina, and
Mississippi have in different degrees so long en-
dured—and at Hagerstown in Maryland, or at
Greencastle in Pennsylvania, and wonder at the
endless files of footmen and horsemen, accompanied
by troops of negro camp-followers which passed
before him, the men still ragged and unkempt, but
hardly one without good substantial shoes; the mules
and horses for the most part sleek and fat, the army
altogether in infinitely better case than I ever saw
it before. It is not likely that any such traveller
would occupy his post long without being subjected
to any amount of " chaff," all the more so if his
dress or appearance offered any salient points of
attack. With jest and song and banter for each
and all that they met, with saucy cheers as they
tramped through Pennsylvanian hamlets to the
tune of " Dixie" villainously interpreted by a Con-
federate field band, heedless of the half-cowed,
half-menacing looks of the groups of Yankee men and
women, the ragged rebels press insolently forward,as
though defeat and discomfiture were possibilities not
dreamt of in their philosophy. Within the county
of Franklin, of which Chambersburg is the county
town, hardly a horse, or mule, or head of cattle has
escaped the Confederates; and it is hard to see,
even if the Confederate army was withdrawn to-
morrow, how the harvest, which lies thick and pro-
mising in many a fair field, could be saved or gar-
nered. The farmers gather ruefully in the streets,
emboldened by the impunity which they have
learnt from the experience of the last fortnight is
everywhere extended to them by the Confederates,
and moodily discuss the future and anathematise
President Lincoln and Governor Curtin and General
Hooker. But it is a strange commentary upon this
war, especially in the eyes of one who has during
these last four months visited hundreds of
Southern towns, and encountered hardly a soul but
old men and young boys and women, to see thou-
sands of young and middle-aged stalwart men
standing idle in the marketplace, glaring as fiercely
as they dare at their ragged invaders, but declar-
ing that "it is none of their business to fight.''
Surely, if the men of Chambersburg are not goaded
into rising by the presence of their foe, by the
seizure of all their horses and cattle, and by grie-
vious exactions in the shape of any number of
rations, paid for, it is true, in Confederate scrip, but
demanded at their hands by the Southern army, it
is hard to say what amount of pressure will con-
strain the men of Pennsylvania to acquit themselves
like men. Hitherto, though I have conversed with
many of them, and have heard the measure of their
irritation against the Confederates expressed in
various keys, there seems, so far as I can discern,
no sense of individual responsibility among the
men, no consciousness that the tread of an invader
on their soil is the worst of pollutions, There
has been, it is true, some little " bushwhacking',
as the Confederates advanced, but it has been
checked by the capture of the offenders, some 15 or
20 in number, and their dismissal as prisoners to
Richmond. When General Ewell first occupied
this town some five days ago he immediately caused
a search for muskets to be made, and discovered
some 500 or 600 of them, which, as he had no wag-
gons to spare to carry them to the rear, and as all
his own men were armed, he caused to be destroyed.
It is safe to say that there is no town throughout
the length and breadth of the Confederacy which
Would not have sent each of these muskets into the
field against an army of Yankee invaders, in the
hands possibly of old men and boys,
in he hope
that some Federal
straggler might be picked off
and their advance arrested until a sufficient force of
men might begathered
If any proof
were
to meet them face to face.
with which
hre wanting of the inferior earnest-
nesswith the South, the North fighting as compared
itChambersburg
is to be found in the aspect of
the streets of
trbersburg this day. It is hardly
conceivable that
arms
itiadegrading apathy should con-
tinue, or that if
oarndanoystho
are Promised to them by Go-
vernor Curtin,
ther authority, the men of
Chambersburg
azlittle towns in this neigh-
bourhood would refu
atzepair to any designated
spot, and to strike pro
the invincible
thßaut,t,euxepetpottbhye
present time, I am bound to r f"is.
vague threats of what
female
Northern
army is going to do, and by denunciations
of the Confederates, comparing tne,
to Pharaoh's
army marching to the Red Sea,
Pennofsytlywaneilia,
and
borne the presence, first of the army
now of that of General Lee, like Issachar crouching
down between two burdens.
It must not be supposed that when General Lee
gets deeper into Pennsylvania, and, above all, if he
should ever cross the Susquehannah river, it is his
intention to keep open his long lines of communi-
cation with Virginia, Hitherto, although we are
nearly 30 miles from the Potomac at Williamsport,
the line of communication, though exposed to much
hazard, is open, and couriers with despatches pass
to and fro. But it is certain that the time is at hand
when the movements of Gen. Lee and his army will
become known to Richmond only through the jour-
nals of the North. Your readers will imagine with
what difficulties I am beset in my attempt to get
conamunications to England, intercepted as I am
about to be from Richmond, and in the heart of the
enemy's country. It will doubtless be pronounced by
military critics in England that Gen. Lee is sinning
against the orthodox rules which guide the art of
war when it is known that he has turned his army
adrift in a hostile country, with no open base, no
line of communication. The authority of Napoleon
will perhaps be invoked against him, and specially
will the Emperor's famous letter to his brother,
King Joseph, be quoted, in which the opinion is re-
corded that a general who acts without keeping opea
communication with his base deserves to lose his
head. This is not the moment to enter into disqui-

June 30.

This day has witnessed a change in our apparent
programme. Harrisburg and the Susquehannah are
no longer our destination, but reports of the move-
ments of the grand army of the Potomac, now no
longer under the command of General Hooker, bat
instructed, as is rumoured, to General Meade, a
Pennsylvanian General lately in command of the
sth Corps of the Northern Army, have decided
General Lee to turn his face eastward, and confront
the only formidable enemy which be has to fear.
Our eyes, therefore, are looking unto the hills,
which are the continuation of the Blue Ridge
which strikes southward from Harper's Ferry
across Virginia, whereas the range which we are
this day to cross strikes northward, though at a
lower elevation and only for a short distance, into
Pennyslvania. Upon this same range of hills
was fought last autumn the battle of Sharps-
burg, at a point considerably nearer to the Potomac
than the pass which wo shall cross to-day, and in a
different State. These hills are not unlike a diminu-
tive Jara, with pretty sylvan scenery interspersed
with rich meadows of clover and hay, and watered
by small sparkling streams. The population seems
almost entirely German, containing in its midst a
large Quaker element, with conscientious object-
Lions to war, never so heartily expressed as when it
comes to their own threshold.

Doubtless the peaceful population of the Cumber-
land Valley is under the impression that it has seen
war in its most terrible aspect, and that nothing
which Virginia or any other Southern State has en-
dured can be compa red with the desolation which
the Confederate army has left in its track. " 0 for-
tunati nimium, sua si bona norint!" It is not neces-
sary to go further.than a few miles across the border
into Virginia to see how the Federals make war,
and to compare their system with that of General
Lee. In a dozen instances in the dozen miles which
separate Martinsburg from the Potomac—a region
which is rgarded by the Confederates as tainted by
the influence of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad,
and strongly Yankee in its sympathies—l noticed
large farmhouses and all their outhouses and farm
buildings given to the flames. " Who destroyed
that house ?" was the first question of every passer-
by. "The Yankees." " Who lived there ?" "A
strong Secessionist." It/is waste of time to talk of
rails universally burnt, agricultural instruments
destroyed, horses, sheep, and cattle stolen without
a word of compensation, havoc and wilful rapine
and ravage sown broadcast over Virginia. We are
now in Pennsylvania. Every motive which ordi-
narily guides human. action prompts to direct re-
faliation ,but here is the programme of General Lee

THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JULY 29, ;07.7.1

His daughter was called, and corroborated her father. Per-
kin's, Altree's man at the time in question) stated that he
was in the George when Altree locked it up and left it on
the night of the 29th, and that he went to bed soon after,
and did not get up till about half-past 7in the morning,
and therefore did not roll away ale with anybody on that
night; but that he did do so between 7 and 10 on the night
of the following Tuesday the 2d of December. It was con-
tended for the prisoner that it was an undoubted fact that
ale was rolled away from the George in the night time by
Altree and his man, and that a mere mistake in the parti-
cular night would not constitute perjury; that though Per-
kins was called it did not follow that Altree had not another
man who might have been engaged in roiling ale on the
night of the 29th; and that, if so, there was no corrobora •
live proof in denial of the defendant's evidence, and that the
daughter's evidence really amounted to nothing.
The jury found the prisoner not guilty.
This case concluded the business of these assizes.

NORTHERN CIRCUIT.—NEWCASTLE, July 27.
(Before Mr. Justice Mellor.)
James Anderson, aged 22, and Wm. Richardson, aged
30, both blacksmiths, were charged with assaulting and
robbing James Crombie, at Wal!send, on the night of the
18th April last, and stealing from him £33 3s. in gold and
silver.

J uries.)

MOORE AND ANOTHER V. FLETCHER.

Mr. Davison prosecuted, and Mr. C. Foster defended the
pris)ners.

It appeared that Mr. Crombie kept a shop near Wallsmd-
quay, and lived abou t a mile off, and that his custom was on
Saturday L ights t o leave his shop about 10 o'clock and walk
home, taking with him the contents of his till. On the
night of the 18th of April he thus left his shop, and was
walking home with his shop door key in his hand and about
£27 in golf in his trousers' pocket, and about £5 10s. in
silver. On arriving near his home there is a by-path,
through a ropery-walk, which is a near cut to his house, and
he went by this path. He had not proceeded far when he
saw two men before him walking the same way. He passed
them and immediately received a violent blow on the head
with some weapon which knocked him down; the men then
got upon him, and tore from his pocket a pound of ground
coffee which he was taking home, which they stuffed into
his mouth and eyes, seizing him at the same time by the
throat. He was nearly choked, and in his struggles he
struck one of the men on the face with the door key which
was in his hand, wounding him under the left eye. He be-
came at last exhausted, and begged them to spare his life
and take his money. They then tore open his trousers and
pulled out the pocket containing his money, with which they
made off. On the ground they left a weapon called a Mor-
gan rattler—a bludgeon made with gutta percha loaded with
lead—and a piece of cloth torn apparently from a coat in
the struggle. The prosecutor gave a description of the men
who had attacked him, and on this and other information
the prisoners were taken into custody. The prosecutor swore
positively to Anderson being one of the men. He had then
his whiskers; he was now close shaved. He believed the
other man to be Richardson, but he would not swear to him.
In the first instance a man named Hackson, who had once
been convicted, was visited by the police, and suspicion at-
taching to him, he a week after the robbery stated that one
day, a fortnight before the robbery, the prisoner Richard-
son, whom he had not known before, asked him if he would
join in a good thing. On asking what it was,
Richardson
said, " It was to rob Mr; Crombie as he left his shop with
his money en Saturday night, and that he had got two Mor-
gan rattlers, and it was all right." The witness did not go.
It was also shown that Richardson when taken into custody
had a wound under his left eye, which his sister had 'Joni-
ticed for him the morning after the robbery at Newcastle.
It was further shown that the coat worn by Anderson when
taken into custody corresponded in quality and colour with
the piece of cloth found, which it was suggested had been
torn from the sleeve. Both prisoners were at work at the
time at the works of Mr. Lester, the iron shipbuilder on the
Tyne.

For the defence it was contended that Mr. Crombie's
opportunities of observing the prisoners were limited. The
prisoners were both in work, and no money had been traced
to them. The story told by Hackson was a most impro-
bable one, and evidently told to shield himself from sus-
picion. His conduct in the matter and his past reputation
rendered him unworthy of credit, and the description given
by Mr. Crombie of one of the men who robbed him more
closely resembled this witness than the prisoners. Witnesses
were then called to prove an alibi, showing that both pri-
soners had been in Newcastle on the night of the robbery,
drinking at a publichoa.se till 9 o'clock, and Anderson was
met in Newcastle at half-past 9, and Richardson took a
lodging at 10, and went to bed soon after ; this being 4.1
miles from the scene of the robbery, which took place about
half-past 10. The landlady of the lodgings, however, did
not observe that Richardson had any wound on his face, nor
next morning when he left ; but there was no doubt that
next morning his sister had dressed a wound on his face.
In reply the learned counsel for the prosecution contended
that the Saturday night when he lodged in Newcastle must
have been some other Saturday night, otherwise the land-
lady must have observed the wound on his face if there was
,one then ; and it was not shown how he got the wound his
sister dressed, which it was contended had been made by
the prosecutor with the key.
His lordship having summed up, the jury, after an ab-
sence of half an hour, returned a verdict of Guilty.
His lordship sentenced Anderson, against whom there
was a previous conviction, to 12 years', and Richardson to
10 years' penal servitude.

HOME CIRCUIT.—MAIDSTONE, July 28.
CIVIL COURT.
(Before Mr. Baron Bramwell.)
FRESCHER V. FRUITER.
This was an action by the husband of a lady engaged as a
ballet-dancer by the well-known aetor and manager of the
Lyceum Theatre for dismissing her before the expiration of
the season. The defendant denied the engagement for a
season, and that was the question in dispute.
Mr. Sergeant Ballantine and Mr. Laxton were for the
plaintiff; Mr. Hawkins, Q,C., and Sir G. Honyman were
for the defendant.
It appeared that there aro other similar actions pending,
The lady herself being examined as a witness stated that
she had been engaged for the season by defendant's manager,
at a salary of X 1 a-week. This was in January, and she had
continued to dance at the theatre in the " Duke's Motto"
until the 22d of May last, when she received a letter from
the manager to the effect that her services would not any
longer be required after the expiration of a week ending on
for an engagement. He direc'ed
the 29th of May. Ste said the theatrical season would last
eight or nine months. The theatre was still open, and the
him
me
danced before him, and he engaged
" engaged at the theatre." That
"Duke's Motto" was still being performed.
After that she saw Mr. Barnett,
Cross-examined—She said she was first engaged by a Mr.
tPneet ti t .
ballet Sehnet
iar se kl
ye d.
That was a fortnight afterwards. There was
no written engagement. There had been no complaint to
itwheaers
all He
treasurer.
t ena t toldt
Tehern
passed. shewas
her of her dancing, but Mr. Pettit was always complaining
of the ballet. She denied that he ever told her he should
have to give her notice. She took her salary every week
from Mr. Barnett. She saw him after her dismissal, and
the
told him when she saw him that she was engaged for
dismissed by Mr. Fechter, had brought actions.
season, to which ho assented. She denied that she asked him
to intercede for her. She showed Mtn the letter of dismissal,
yanoudngheseemed to know nothing abeut it. Several other
ladies,
dismissed
There was no fixed time for a season, but the time she had
stated was usual with a good theatre.
Re. examined—She said she saw Mr. Barnett on the 24th
of May, having had the letter of dismissal on the 23d. She
was in the " regular" ballet. The house was still open and
filling every night.
This was the plaintiff's case:

For the defence Mr. Pettit was called and denied that
the engagement was expressed to be for the season, and Mr.
Barnett, was also called, and swore that when nothing was
said about the duration of the engagement it was by the usual
understanding terminable by a week's notice. The young
ladies who had been dismissed had been, he said, replaced
by others. As to the alleged conversation with the plain-
tiff, he denied that he ever said she was engaged for a
season, and he said she only expressed her regret at her dis-
missal. The season was till the 7th of August.
Cross-examined--He said he might have said that he
would use his influence to obtain her re-instatement.
Re-examined--He swore positively that he had said
nothing to the effect that her engagement was for the season.
Mr. Oscar Byrne, who said he had been ballet master for
40 years and in the profession 60 years, stated that ballet
dancers who were really au fait had written engagements,
and there was an understanding that others might go at a
week's notice, and might be dismissed at such notice.

Cross• examined—The witness said he was sure all the
ballet dancers were well aware of this as the usage. Pressed,
however, as to what he should do in the case of a young
lady not previously engaged at a regular theatre, ho said he
should tell her of it.

Mr. Sergeant Ballantine, in reply, said his learned friend
knew a great deal of these matters, and he himself knew
something of them—from reading. (Great laughter.) And
he argued that it was pretty plain the lady had never been
engaged for the season, and he urged this especially, because
it was more probable that she should recollect the matter
more correctly than the manager, who had so many other
matters to attend to. And, as to the alleged complaints about
the lady's dancing, why everybody knew—at least his
learned friend knew—that ladies were not engaged merely
for their legs, but a little also for their looks. (Laughter.)

The learned Baron, in summing up the case to the jury,
said it was scandalsus that the action should have been
brought down therefor trial. In the first place, even taking
the young lady's account of the matter, so far as the con-
tract was concerned, it seemed to be placed beyond a doubt
by Mr. Barnett's evidence that the season would end on the
7th of August, and as the engagement was only at £1 a
week the damages would in any view be less than £2O. The
case, therefore, might have been tried in the county
court, and even if the action were in the superior courts
it need not have been brought down there for trial, but
might have been tried in London, thus avoiding the very
serious expense of the maintenance of the parties and wit-
nesses at the assizes, and the cost of travelling down to that
town. The attorney for the plaintiff had brought the case
down there for trial for purposes of his own, or in the hope
of deterring the defendant from resisting the claim ; because
he might far better have paid the demand than defended

the action,even if he succeeded, unless he could recover his
costs, which he might not be able to do. It was too bad that
such Brael bases should be brought down for trial at the
assizes at such heavy expense to the parties. nowever, it
did not appear that for this the plaintiff was responsible,
and it ought not, of course, to prejudice their decision. As
to this, there was no doubt a great deal of force in the ob-
servation of the learned serjeant, that the lady was more
likely to recollect the matter than the manager. On the
other side, there was strong contradictory evidence, and
many confirmatory circumstances, especially the evidence
of Mr. Byrne. It was very true that, as the learned ser-
geant had observed, ballet dancers were not engaged merely
for their dancing—(a laugh)—but then, on the other hand,
juries were not unlikely to be influenced by the looks of a
pretty girl in the witness-box—(laughter)—and they must
be on their guard against such influences, and be careful to
give a verdict only according to the evidence.
The jury, after some consideration, found their verdict for
the defendant.

MIDLAND CIRCUIT.-LINCOLN, July 28.
NISI PRIUS COURT.

(Before the Lord Chief Justice of England and Special

This was an action for money lent and for interest.
Mr. Macaulay, Q.C., Mr. Sergeant Hayes, and Mr. Field
were for the plaintiffs; and Mr. Boden, Q.C., and Mr.
Flowers fir the defendant.

The plaintiffs are the executors of a Mr. Moore, and in
this action they sought to recover a sum of £BO5, lent by
their testator at different times to the defendant. Mr. Moore
had been a farmer, but in 1843, being then advanced in
years, he went to live with his brother-in-law, a Mr.
Lake, of Little Steeping, and retired from business. He
had about £7,000 or £B,OOO, which he lent out at interest
to different persons. He rarely took any security for the
sums so lent, but merely caused the borrower to sign a me-
morandum acknowledging the receipt of the money. Soon
after he went to live with Lake the latter died, but Moore
continued to live in the same house with his niece, Lake's
daughter, who acted as his housekeeper. At this time the
defendant was in the habit of visiting Miss Lake as a suitor,
but Moore seems to have disapproved the intimacy. In
consequence of this disapproval Moore and his niece sepa-
rated, and she ultimately married the defendant. Moore
removed to Mareham-le-fen, and lived there till his death
in October of last year, at the age of 94. Soon after the
defendant's marriage with Miss Lake their relations with
Moore seem to have improved, and in 1853 the defendant
had received £196 of the testator, for part of which he had
given a note, and for the rest merely a memorandum in
writing. By the end of 1858 this amount was increased to
£629, and at the time of the testator's death it amounted to
£BO5, the sum sought to be recovered. Atter the testators
death there was found a memorandum among his papers in
the defendant's handwriting containing the amount of each
separate advance, and the dare at which it was made, and
on the back of the paper there was, also in the defendant's
handwriting, a note of the payment of £26 4s. 9d. by way
of interest in 1854, and a further sum of £8 expressed to be
paid as half a year's interest on the 12th of December, 1861.
The executors thereupon wrote to the defendant to ask for
payment of this sum of £BO5 and interest, or for some se-
curity. The defendant replied in a letter dated the 27th
of November, 1862, in which he said that he " owed
neither principal nor interest, as Moore gave him it several
years ago." The executors being dissatisfied with this reply
instructed Mr. Babington, of Horncastle, to write to the de-
fendant, but got no answer. In April, 1863, they instructed
Mr. Bean, of Boston, to ask for payment, and received a
letter from Mr. Toynbee, of Lincoln, stating that the money
had been given by Moore to the defendant with the under-
standing that he was to pay 2 per cent. interest for it so
long as Moore lived.
The defendant's case was that his wife, Moore's niece, had
a small freehold which was subject to a mortgage for about
£750, and that it was arranged between him and Moore that
the money was to be given to the defendant to pay off this
mortgage, but that the defendant should pay Moore 2 per
cent. upon it by way of acknowledgment until his death. The
defendant had always kept down the interest on the mortgage
but did not pay off the principal till the summer of last year.
In support of his ease he produced a book, which purported
to contain entries of his transactions with Moore ; but these
entries did not follow one another in chronological order, and
several leaves had been torn out of the book. The defen-
dant's wife had been present at the time when some of these
sums were advanced, but was not called as a witness, al-
though Mr. Macaulay, in opening the plaintiff's case, had
challenged the defendant to put her into the witness-box.
The jury returned a verdict for the plaintiffs for the full
amount claimed.

WESTERN CIRCUIT.—EXETER, July 28.
(Before Mr. Justice Willes.)
Ellen Mailes was indicted for the manslaughter of John
Chapple, at Wolborough, on the 30th of June.
Mr. Holdsworth was counsel for the prosecution, and
Mr. Folkard for the prisoner.
It appeared that on the 30th of June John Chapple went
to his house and sat down at a table. The prisoner lived in
an adjoining house, and she went into the deceased's house
and sat down behind the door. Chapple ordered her out of
the house, and he got up and went towards her to put her
out. He caught her by the hand, and she got hold of him
by the throat. A scuffle ensued, and Chapple got hold of the
prisoner's hair, which he twisted round his hand. They went
all round the kitchen, the prisoner sticking Chapple several
times in the stomach and neck. A person who saw the affray
tried to separate them, and said, " The man is dying." He
never spoke again, and died the same night. The deceased
was in a delicate state of health. A surgeon was called in.
He found the deceased in bed and undressed ; he was then
in a dying state. Apoplexy was the cause of his death,
which might have been brought on by the excitement of
the struggle. The brain was quite a pulp.
The jury, after having retired for 20 minutes, found the
prisoner guilty, but strongly recommended her to mercy on
the ground of the provocation she had received. She was
sentenced to one month's imprisonment with hard labour.
James Bragg was indicted for a burglary in the house of
Ann Boundy, and with stealing therefrom £2 in money,
some knives, and other articles, at Colebrook, on the 28th
April.

Mr. C. A. Turner prosecuted, and Mr. Cox defended the
prisoner.

On going down stairs on the morning of the 28th April,
it was discovered that Mrs. Boundy's house had been broken
open; the shop had been entered, and £2 odd taken out of
the till, and several knives and other articles had been taken
away. There was blood on the window through which the
burglar had entered. To bring the offence home to the pri-
soner, it was shown that he was late out on the night before
the burglary. The next day the prisoner was seen by the
police with blood on his smockfrock and trousers. This
created suspicion, and the policeman took him into custody,
and, upon searching him, found most of the stolen pro-
perty in his possession.

T. W. Saunders, who appeared for the prosecution,
" like to call the first wife to explain the facts.
said ho shout,. —I am surprised to hear a learned
Mr. Justice Willes— .
Judge propose to do such a tru,
Mr. Carter said the fact was that the second wife knew
of the first marriage and of the separation.
Mr. Saunders said the first wife had £3OO, and the ;Id-
soner had broken open the drawer and taken the money and
spent it.
Mr. Carter said that was not evidence, and that the Re-
corder of Bath ought to have known.
Mr. Justice Willa said, as no evidence was called, the
case must be left in the hands of the Court, and he should
sentence the prisoner to be imprisoned with hard labour for
six weeks.

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

- The prisoner was found guilty, and was sentenced to
seven years' penal servitude,
Elizabeth Thomas was indicted for the wilful murder of
her female child, not named, at Devonport, on the 2d of
July.

Mr. Cox prosecuted, and Mr. Lopez defended the pri-
soner.

This was one of those painful cases of which we had one
at Dorchester last week. The facts were very simple and
were not disputed, and the only question was the state of
mind of the prisoner at the time the unhappy act was com-
mitted. The prisoner was a married woman, having a hus-
band and four children, the youngest of whom was only three
weeks old. On the Ist of July the prisoner, who always
evinced great affection for her children, was observed suck-
ling her infant, and performing for it a mother's offices.
The prisoner's brother, named Dyer, lodged in the pri-
soner's house. He came down early in the morning of the
2d of July and went into the prisoner's room. Th 3 hus-
band was in bed asleep. The prisoner was not there, but
her brother saw the baby lying on the rug on the floor with
its throat cut.

James Dyer was called. He said—l went into the pri-
soner's room before 6 o'clock that morning. The husband
was in bed asleep. I saw the body on the rug. I looked
at it, and saw that its throat was cut. My sister was not
there. I went to the door, and saw my sister coming up
stairs with a pitcher of water. I said, "Oh, Elizabeth,
what have you done to the baby ?" She looked at me very
innocently, and said, "I have cut its throat." She went
into the room and sat down on a chair, and seemed like some
one lost. I said, " Oh, Elizabeth, what did you do this
for ?" She said, " I dont know." I said, " What did you
do it with ?" She said, "A razor;" and she reached it
from the table. She said she had been working hard all
night, and thought she should kill all in the house. I then
went for a surgeon. When I came back the child was just
dying. The prisoner said, " The Lord has forsaken me,
and the Devil has gained the mastery over me. Oh, why
did he order me to wean the child ? I tried to do it two or
three times. I got out of bed in the night, and first I
thought I would do it, and then I thought I would not do
it, but some one said She must do it.' I thought I was
going to die, and that the child had better die first." I
remained, and she told me to put everything out of her
reach, for fear she might kill some one else. Some time
before this she said she thought she and her husband were
going to die, and that the children would come to the work-
house.

Cross-examined—Mr. Cole, the surgeon, had told her if
she did not wean the child it would wean her. She had
always been a good and affectionate mother to her ehildren,
and a good wife. She had lost her mother and two children
within the year. There had been insanity in the family.
Other witnesses were called, who spoke of the prisoner as
having been a particularly good and affectionate mother.
They had observed a great change in her manner of late.
The Judge said it was perfectly clear that this poor
woman bad acted under fl, delusion that she was doing some-
thing for her child's good by sending it to a better world.
The jury acquitted the prisoner on the ground of insanity,
and she was ordered to be detained during her Majesty's
pleasure.

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TIMES.—The elevation of Mr. Monckton Milnes
to the Peerage by the title of Baron Houghton will
take no one by surprise. His name has more than
once been designated for this honour in rumours of
that kind which are officially called premature, and
has been favourably received by the public. Few
people would agree beforehand as to the precise
theory upon which the ranks of our hereditary
nobility should be recruited; but there is a sort of
tacit understanding in high quarters, to which the
country is more or less privy, which generally ex-
cludes unfit randidates, if it does not always secure
the promotion of the worthiest. The popular text
books of our Constitution inform us that the grand
prize of hereditary nobility is reserved for the
greatest ornaments of the House of Commons, the
heads of the legal profession, and officers who have
earned it by eminent achievements by land or sea.
Practically, we know that it is not so, and that in-
dividuals who have none of those titles in a trans-
cendent degree sometimes find their way into the
Upper House, and, what is more, prove very useful
members of it. Here, as elsewhere, it is a combina-
tion of qualities which is in request, and the fortu-
nate possessor of this combination not only wins
favour and success but frequently justifies it. This
is exactly Mr. Monckton Milne's case. To a high
social position ,and sufficient wealth he_ unites an
honourable literary reputation, a long political-ex-
perience, and a good deal of that prestige which 'is
the joint result of recognised ability and character.
In what may be called the secondary questions of
politics, and in the semi-political questions which
are better discussed outside the House of Commons
than within its walls, he has taken a very active
and influential part. Until lately there were Jew
persons in Parliament who felt so warm an interest
in continental politics, or who had anything like
the same acquaintance with them, and very few in-
deed who had thought and written so much about
such matters as national education, sanitary reform,
and the treatment of criminals. These merits
and accomplishments are not the elements of
Parliamentary fame, but they are of great
value in themselves, and certainly contribute
to adorn a seat in the House of Lords. Mr.
Milnes does not belong to the highest rank
of poets, or statesman, or philanthropists, or econo-
mists, but he is enrolled as a working member
in all of these classes, and has done a greater
amount of good service for the public than
many more conspicuous men. To this rather
than to any claims upon the gratitude of the
Liberal party, we must attribute the choice of the
Premier. It has no political significance whatever.
Mr. Monckton Milnes's temperament is not that
of R partisan, and his seat has been too secure
to make it necessary for him to profess uncompro-
mising adhesion to any political leader. Perhaps
his career has been as nearly independent as that of
any of his contemporaries that can be named, and
the difficulty of counting on his vote must have
given successive whippers-in on both sides a good
deal of trouble. When he was called a Liberal
Conservative he never conformed to the traditional
policy of Conservatism, and when he became a
Conservative Liberal he was constantly rebelling
against party discipline and taking up some line of
his own. When there was an open breach in the
Liberal camp between the followers of Lord Rus-
sell and those of Lord Palmerston, Mr. Milnes
sided with the latter; but when a fresh issue was
raised on the Conspiracy Bill, he was found both
speaking and voting against his late chief. In his
subsequent conduct he has shown similar insubordi-
nation,especialiy on the famous measure for the aboli-
tion of the East India Company. Opinions may
well differ as to the wisdom of this couree of action,
but Mr. Milnes is at least entitled to the credit of it
as a proof that be does not owe his peerage to poli-
tical subserviency. If he cannot be said to deserve
it as Wellington and Brougham deserved it, he
deserves it far better than most of the country gen-
tlemen who have been ennobled by virtue of terri-
torial influence.

Thomas Christopher Cope was indicted for bigamy.
The prisoner pleaded " Guilty."
Mr. Carter said he appeared to defend the prisoner. The
fact was that the prisoner had been separated from his first
wife by a legal df,ed of separation, and people in that Glass
of life believed that that was tantamount to a judgment of
the Divorce Court.
The Judge asked if the second wife was here.

DAILY NEWEL—Simultaneously with the proro-
gation of Parliament is announced the death of a
Peer who of late had taken a conspicuous part in
its deliberations. The Marquis of Normanby will
not be remembered as a statesman. He, however,
filled a number of the most important offices in the
State, and obtained the distinctions which we are
accustomed to consider the reward of eminent pub-
lic merit. He was in succession Governor of
J.,maica, Lord Privy Seal, Lora-Lieutenant of Ire-
land, a Secretary of State, and Ambassador at Paris;
and as marks of the favour of his Sovereign he re-
ceived the Grand Cross of tee Order of the Bath and
the coveted Garter, besides an accession of rank in
the Peerage, having inherited only the title of an
earl. The circumstances and interests in connexion
with which the late Marquis is best known to the
majority of the newspaper readers of to-day are so
different from those amongst which he established
his title to the gratitude of the Whigs, acknow-
ledged in his honours and promotions, that some
explanation is necessary to make his possession of
them intelligible. There can be no doubt that at
Dublin, where he was able to make himself very
popular—being accepted, on O'Connell's recommen-
dation, as " the best Englishman Ireland ever
saw"—he was exceedingly useful to the Government
of the day. In no other position, however, can it
be said that he achieved any remarkable success ;
and it is only on the supposition of personal merits
greater than any which can be submitted to the
vulgar judgment, but nevertheless known and
ap-
preciated by those who guard the fountain of hon-
our, that the favours accumulated upon him can be
accounted for. On this high and mysterious ground,
however, our readers can have no desire to trespass.
The noble lord's early Parliamentary career was
promising. He was the ardent advocate of Liberal
measures in the unreformed House of Commons, and
stood up manfully for Catholic Emancipation and
Parliamentary Reform when to do so was not an
idle pastime. The declension which made him in
his latter days the equally earnest advocate of the
deposed Princes of Italy, and of that Prince under
whose yet remaining throne the marauders of
Naples find shelter, is a political phenomenon too
common among our noble Liberals to deserve
special reprobation.
POST.—Yesterday's American mail brings us no
tidings of importance respecting the movements of
the Federal and Confederate armies in Virginia.
Lee has proceeded unmolested in the direction of his
old camping ground to the rear of Fredericksburg,
and the line of the Rappahannock is by this time
once more defended by a Southern army. Meade
has not yet followed his opponent across the Poto-
mac, and some weeks, if not months, may probably
elapse before the rival armies once more meet on
the battlefield. In New York, the riots which oc-
casioned so serious a sacrifice of life and so great a
destruction of property, have not yet been brought
to a close. In Staten Island, in the vicinity of the
city, the depot and water-station have been de-
stroyed, the negro shanties have been burnt, and
many of the occupants slaughtered in cold blood.
Between the military and the citizens several colli-
sions have taken place, in which many lives were
lost on both sides. On the morning of the 17th
inst. quiet was said to have been restored, but, as it
would appear, mainly through the instrumentality
of a large military force which had been despatched
to the assistance of the civic authorities by the Go-
vernment at Washington. The direction which the
course of the war in An erica has recently taken
makes it more difficult than ever to speculate on the
possible period 01 its termination. The final result
is as little enveloped in doubt as it has hitherto
been. The Southern Confederacy has made a more
successful if not a more gallant stand against
Northern aggression than even its warmest friends
at this aide of the Atlantic at first anticipated. As
for ourselves, we admitted that the Southern States
might be overrun by the armies of the North, though
wo denied the possibility of holding in military Suc-
jection a population of six millions spread over so
vast an extent of territory as that comprised within
the area of the seceded States. The success which
has attended the Southern efforts to secure indepen•
dence has been so great as to be well-nigh inexplica-
ble. At every point of its extensive confines the in-
fant Confederacy has gallantly, if not in all cases suc-
cessfully, resisted the numerous and well-appointed
armies employed to invade it. With ports blockaded
by a hostile fleet, and with but slender means for
providing from its own resources munitions of war,
the South found itself obliged to equip gigantic
armies. It was not, however, daunted by what to
many would have seemed a hopeless task. It sus-
ceeded ; its armies took the field, and, in almost
every instance in which they came in collision with
the more numerous and better appointed battalions
of the North, the former proved victorious. With-
out a navy the South has succeeded in retaining
possession of its fortified seaports, and has with
but two or three privateers inflicted considerable
damage on the Northern mercantile marine. Until
three weeks since, a Confederate garrison retained
possession of a town on the banks of the Mississippi
against the combined operations of a large army _

and an efficient fleet. In the south-east, Federal
armies'have been unable, for upwards of two years,
to do more than effect lodgments on the coast which
have been unproductive of any practical advantages.
In Virginia, and on the Northern frontier, the
operations of the Southern armies have been most
-
brilliant and resccs'sslul. The capitals of the two
c,sderations are asals
130 miles apart, and on the
intervening ground hi ter-
rible
battles of the prose,
lve been fought the most
ms-
at war. Over chat narrow,
strip of territory the e
y
es of the North have never
been able to force the
times, littler as manyir way. Four different
attempt beet treacle, but alwas
diffe. -ent generals, hits the
-s with the same ill
success. Nor had tee sn content with 81113-
South ha,
-
ply repelling invasion. Twice ha,
ve its forces crossed
the Northern frontier and furnishes I themselves with
supplies from the Northern States, Within the last
month has a Southern army penetrats9d many mile&
to the rear of Washington, and, after
isaving fought
during three consecutive days a bloo.iY
though
,sf
un-
decisive battle with the picked army the North,
retired laden with spoil, and almost ent.;rely unmo-
lested by those who in irony alone could
be termed
its pursuers. That Gen. Lee will once m "ire place
himself on the defensive, and content himse
with
covering the approaches to Richmond, there ,aan be
tittle doubt. It is, however, lay no means clear that
the Federal Government will be in a condition to re-
new with any prospects of success the invasion Qf
Virginia. The Northern population has now been'
pretty well drained of all those whom love of excite-
ment or desire for plunder could induce to join the
Federal ranks_ Although the respective numbers
of the populations of the North and South are vastly
disproportionate, stiLl the refusal of the former to
submit toe con scriptien, which has been long since,
assented to by the latter, places them on nearly
equal terms. The Northe:n President has by this
time enrolled as many soldiers as he is likely to
obtain, whereas the Chief Magistrate of the South
a
can with ease fill up the vats ncies which recent
losses have occasioned in his ranks. General Meade
will not without reinforcements be' able to do more
than make a feint of invading Virginia. The sur-
render of Vicksburg will enable General Grant to
employ his army elsewhere, but then it must be
recollected that a large number of the regiments
composing it have almost completed their period of
service, and will, at the expiration of that time,
demand their discharge. The same remark applies
to a considerable portion of the troops composing
the Army of the Potomac. It is not probable, t here-
fore, that the Federal Government will be able to
turn their successes in the West to practical account,
so the prospect of annihilating the Southern armies,.
or of subjugating the Southern population, must be
considered as remote as before. We are now in
the third year of the war, and, except w here great
rivers have afforded access to fleets of gunboats, the
North has made but few territorial acquisitions
within the limits of the Southern Confederation.
The border State of Virginia still remains in pos-
session of the South, and the Potomac now, as i-wo
years since, marks the boundary line on the nort.h.
east between the Federal and Confederate territory..
Those who still fondly cling to the belief that the
North is warring for the abolition of slavery would
do well to mark the incidents which attended the
recent popular demonstrations in New York. The
negroes, wherever met, were indiscriminately
sacrificed to the fury of the mob. On the loth of
the present month not a coloured man was to ba
seen in the commercial capital of those States which
we are told are exhausting their treasure and the
life-blood of their citizens in order to effect the
emancipation of the negro race. But why were
they not visible ? They had fled and concealed
themselves through a not unfounded apprehension
of being massacred by their friends. The institu-
tion of slavery may in one sense be considered the
cause of the present war ; and as the citizens of the
North curse the war, they equally curse those who
have been the involuntary cause of it. The Free
States have emancipated their slaves but they have
never stripped them of their servile character. Is
theory, a negro in New York is as free as an Anglo-
American, but in practice he still remains no better
than a slave. The negroes who were slaughtered
in the streets of New York were identified with and
accepted as the representatives of the slaves of the
Southern States, and treated as the latter would be
treated if the North was in the ascendent—that is
to say, got rid of. We do not suggest that the
Federal Government would slaughter the coloured
population of the South—but they would deport
them to Liberia or elsewhere. " The question," par
excellence, in America is how to dispose of the negro
population. This question in the South admits of
easy solution. There, a negro is a slave, but he pos-
sesses a recognised status, and has the strongest pos-
sible claims to care and attention at his master's
hands. In the North, on the other hand, a negro is
free ; but in the best of times he is the pariah of so-
ciety, and at a period of commotion is hunted to
death like a beast of prey. Should the accounts of
the recent riots in New York reach the plantations
of the South, we doubt extremely if a slave in the
latter would willingly exchange his condition for
that of a free citizen in the commercial capital of the
Union.

COUNTRY MARKETS.

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LEEDS—TuEs DA.Y.

To-day the demand for wheat was not so good as oil
Friday. Sales, however, made progress at that day's quo-
tations. Other articles were about the same.

MARKET HARBOROUGH-TUESDAY.

White wheat, 47 s to 53s ; red, 44s to 48s per 36 stone.
Malting barley at —s to —s per qr. ; grinding, 28s to 310
per 30 at. Oats, old, 24s to 275; new, 19s to 22s per 24
st. ; beans, 38s to 42s per qr.

LIVERPOOL—TUESDAY.
At our market to-day there was a small attendance both
of millers and dealers, and wheat experienced a slow sale,
at a reduction of ld per cental on Friday's prices. Fine '
fresh samples of flour command late rates; inferior slow-
Indian corn was in moderate demand, and 3d per qr down,
Oats and oatmeal in fair request. Barley and peas un-
changed.