The Sun.
London, England, 1863-03-12 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, MARCH 12, 1863.

Assault on the Editor of the " Figaro."

LAW INTELLIGENCE—March 11.

A general subject of conversation in Paris during
the last two or three days is an attack, of which M.
de Villemessant has been the object, at his own re-
sidence, on the part of a member of the Legislative
Body. The motive of this act of violence was the
following article in the liga7o on the projected
marriage between M. Ed. About and the daughter
of Madame Denain, of the Theatre Francais ;
" The Figaro ought to know everything, even
that which is a mystery to the rest of the world.
Now, everyone is ignorant that at the present time
M. Edmond About is on the point of bidding adieu
to a bachelor's life. The young and bril-
liant writer is in a few weeks to marry
the daughter of a ci-ch-,vant dramatic nota-
bility of the Theatre Francais, retired in a
—fromage r. The mother is a clever woman,
still young, and who was rather more celebrated
for beauty than her talent ; the future bride, who
is charming, brings a portion of half a million in
cash ; as much in diamonds, precious stones, valua-
ble lace, &c., and, moreover, expectations estimated
at 1,200,000 f. or 1,500,000 f. Just to think that so
many poor writers pass all their lives over their
desks to go at last to die at the Maison Dubois or
at Sainte-Perine, whilst it has only required one
campaign for M. About to become a millionaire, like
Villars, after the battle of Denain !"
The following are the particulars of the case as
published by M. de Viilemessant in the Figaro—
" Oar number of last week contained the fol-
lowing paragraph On Wednesday night my
residence was violated, and my vigorous consti-
tution alone saved me from being the victim
of an infamous outrage. I had the imprudence,
cut of respect for the present position of the
guilty party, to treat him as a gentleman. After
eight hours' reflection, he sent a written answer re-
fusing all kind of satisfaction. I have now, there-
fore, only to have recourse to the tribunals, and
have already lodged my complaint.'
On the evening of the same day the Prcsse pub-
lished the following answer :

COURT OF DIVORCE AND MATRIMONIAL
CAUSES.
(Before the Judge-Ordinary and a Common Jury.)
DART V. DART.

This was a petition by a husband for a judicial separation,
on the ground of cruelty. The respondent pleaded that she
had not been guilty of cruelty ; that if she bad committed
any acts of violence they were provoked and justified by
her husband's misconduct; and that ho had been guilty of
cruelty which entitled her to a judicial separation.
Dr. Wambey appeared for the petitioner, and Mr. E, C.
Clarkson for the respondent.

Rich. Dart, the petitioner, is a coach lace manufacturer,
living in Bedford-street, Covent-garden. H 3 made the ac-
quaintance of the respondent by calling upon her as a tract
distributor of an Independent chapel shortly before the death
of her first husband. He continued his visits to her when
she was a widow, and on Aug. 1, 1857, they were married.
According to Mr. Dart's account he discovered soon after
the marriage that his wife was in the habit of drinking more
than was good for her, and that her temper, especially when
she had been drinking too much, was very violent. He de-
scribed a number of quarrels which had taken place between
them on various subjects, many of them ending in acts of
violence. Among other complaints that he made against her
was that of annoying him in the presence of his workpeople
and customers. She also used to keep him awake at night by
talking. n one occasion, after he had been kept awake iu
this way until 8 o'clock in she morning, he got out of bed to
dress himself, meaning to go downstairs. She ran to the
door to try and get possession of the key, but he pushed her
to the ground, and prevented her from doing so, and he
said that they then went to bed and slept comfortably.
He described several other " tussles " of the same kind,
in which he had been obliged to hold her arms and restrain
her violence, and she had struck him in the face with her
fist, and had broken his spectacles. In October, 1860, she
threw a tea caddy at him, and threatened him with a knife,
and he called in a policeman. She made a disturbance in

the street, and was taken before a magistrate, who bound
her over to keep the peace and sent her to prison, where she
remained for a fortnight. She used some threatening ex-
pressions as to what she would do to her husband when she
was released, and he thereupon presented this petition. A
girl in Mr. Dart's employment, named Jane Bowes, and
other witnesses were called to corroborate his evidence.
Mrs. Dart was called on the other side, and denied many
of the acts of violence 01 which her tathband had aceusea
her. Their quarrels, as she represented, arose from her re-
monstrances with him about his faniiliaritywith Jane Bowes.
She complained of his going with Jane Bowes to prayer
meetings at 6 in the morning and to chapel afterwards, and
of his being on ene occasion in her bedroom, where he had
gone, he said, to see how the weather was. It was admitted
on behalf of the respondent that her jealousy of Jane Bowes
was without any foundation ; but it was contended that it
accounted for the respondent's conduct, and that Mr. Dart
might have restored peace to his household by removing
her chief cause of complaint. Mrs. Dart further accused her
husband of having given her a black eye and knocked her
down and committed other acts of aggravated cruelty.

" ' A person who acknowledges that a note in a
journal this day applied to him begs us to announce
that he protests against the assertions contained in
the said note.'

I had yielded to advice and resigned myself to
await the trial before publishing the particulars of
the infamous attack made on my person ; but
the lines published by the Presse compel me to
adopt another course. Moreover, as a report
has been set afloat that M. Didier had thrown his
card in my face, and that it was I who refused to
fight, I cannot allow public opinion to be misled for
a single moment, and therefore now state the affair
in full as follows :—On Wednesday evening, about
a quarter past six, a person came to my residence,
who gave the name of Didier, and, instead of wait-
ing in the ante-chamber, which was lighted, fol.
lowed my servant into a dark passage. I was at
the moment in Madame de Villemessant's room at
the farther end of the apartment. I told the ser-
vant to show the person into my study, and I im-
mediately rose to go and receive him. A lamp
burning in the chamber I was leaving threw its light
on me and left my visitor in complete obscurity. As
Iwas bowing to him, :I received several blows on my
head and body from a loaded cane. I immediately
rushed forward, and seizing him with one hand,
struck him several blows with the other, defending
myself as well as I could without knowing who wasmy
assailant. My wife hearing the noise of the struggle
which passed without a word being exchanged,
cried out, Help, help.' My valet and another man-
servant were soon on the spot, and the latter seized
my antagonist by the throat and held him so tight
that he could not utter a word. I then sent for the
commissary of police, and hastened to reassure my
wife, who had been crying for help till she lost her
voice. I next returned to the ante-chamber to get
sight of my aggressor's face, but during my momen-
tary absence my servants had imprudently allowed
him to escape. As he went away he said, 'I am
Henri Didier, deputy to the Legislative Body; I
have given it to him well.' All this passed in less
time than is required to relate it. Such are the
facts which were a few minutes after consigned to

The Judge Ordinary, in summingup, said that the dread•
ful and inveterate habit of drunkenness, which explained so
many of the matrimonial miseries exhibited in this court,
appeared to him to be the key to the conduct of the respon-
dent.
The jury found a verdict for the petitioner.

COURT OF ADMIRALTY.
(Before Dr. Lut:hington and Trinity Masters.)
THE ELIZA. BENCKE-SALVAGE.

The Court was occupied during the whole day in taking
evidence in this case. The examination of the witnesses was
not completed at the time of adjournment.
Dr. Waddilove and Mr. Clarkson appeared for the sal..
vors, Mr. Brett, Q.C., aad Mr. V. Lushington for the
owners of the ship.

a proces verbal by the commissary of police. A
physician, who had been sent for will bear witness

to the traces of violence left on my person. My left
hand with which I had held my cowardly assailant,
was covered with blood which was not mine.
I may add that I have no acquaintance what-
ever with the person named Didier, that his
name has never been mentioned in the
" Figaro," and that in coming to my house he
had no motive, avowable or otherwise, for so doing
even in the character of a bravo man who comes to
demand satisfaction for an offence of eny kind."
The same evening M. de Lescure went to M. Didier,
in the name of M. de Villemessant, to inform him
that the latter intended to send two gentlemen
whom he had selected as his seconds to de .nand
satisfaction. To this intimation M. Didier replied
by the following note ;

"Paris, sth March.

"Sir,—l will give M. de Villemessant any Lon-
°arable reparation. Satisfaction in money is quite
sufficient _—Accept, &c., H. DIDIER."
On Thursday morning M. de Villemessant's seconds
—M. Henri de Pere and Baron de Bazancourt—
received the same answer, and M. de Villemeosant
then decided on lodging a complaint with the Pro-
cureur-Imperial. Here, however, an obstacle
arises. M. Didier, being a member of the Legisla-
tive Body, cannot be prosecuted witbout the
authorisation of the Chamber, which will be
demanded by the Procureur-Imperial if M. de
Villemessant persists in prosecuting; and should
it be refused, M. de Villemessant will wait till alter
dissolution. On Friday, however, M. Didier
changed his mind, and wrote to M. de Villernes-
sani's seconds that he was willing to fight. The
editor of the Figaro then consulted his seconds and
the Marquis du Hallay, all well versed in the code
of honour, and it was unanimously decided that he
should abide by M. Didier's first answer, and so
the matter stands for the preßent.—Galignani.

HAINALULT AND EPPING FORRESTS.

A Parliamentary return has just been issued show
ing the nature of the rights possessed by the Crown
over-these forests. It appears that Hainault and
Epping Forests, commonly so called, constituted
what is or was properly called Waltham Forest.
As regards Hainault Forest, the Crown has no
forestal rights in or over that forest, since by the
Act 14 and 15 Viet., c. 48 (1851), and the award of
the commissioners made in pursuance thereof, bear-
ing date the 6th day of November, 1852, the forest
of Hainault was disafforested, and an allotment of
Or. 3p. of land, in lieu and satisfaction of the fore-
stal (and other) rights of the Crown in and over the
same forest, was by such award allotted to her
Majesty in severally, discharged of all common and
other rights. The nature of the Crown's forestal
and other rights in or over Hainault Forest, before
its disafforestation, and the nature of the Crown's
forestal rights (remaining undisposed of), in or over
Epping Forest, will be seen from the following
extracts from the fifteenth report of the corn-
missionera appointed under the Act 26 Geo. 111.,
C. 87, to inquire into the state and condition of
the Woods, Forests, and Land Revenues of the
Crown, dated the 28th of March, 1793, and pre-
sented to the House of Commons, and ordered
to be printed on the same day, viz., " The
Forest of Waltham, which comprises the two
extensive fillets of land commonly called Epping
Forrest and Hainault Forest, is situated in the
south-west part of the county of Essex, and adjoins
the counties of Middlesex and Hertford. The lands
which belong to the Crown in this forest exclusive
of some detached parts granted by lease are situated
in the part called Ilainault Forest, or more properly
East and West Hainault Walks, and lie within the
parishes of Barking and Dsgenhatn. We have not,
met with any proof of the Crown being entitled to
any other lands within the forest than those com-
prehended in the foregoing statement except such
as are held under lease from the Crown, and are in-
cluded in the schedu!e annexed in our first report as
part of the demised land revenue. The Cri,wn has
in this, as in other forests, an unlimited right to
keep deer in all the unenclosed woods and wastes
within the perambulation, unless some parts have
been disafforested by grants which have not come to i
our knowledge. The extent of the open forest s
not inconsiderable, the King's woods in the E ist
and West Hainault containing, by statute measure,
2,939 acres, and the rest of the open forest, in which
the soil belongs to private proprietors, containing
by computation about 9,000 acres. In both the
Crown has the unlimited right to keep deer."

have charge of refractory cells. After the death of Evans
I took the prisoner. I searched him. I locked him up. I 1
visited him shortly after. I asked 'aim, "Why did you stab
Mr. Evans ?" Prisoner said, "Is he dead ?" I replied,
" I don't know." He said, " I hope he is ; I intended to
murder him." I said, " Well, but you must have had some
motive for it ; what was your motive ?" He put his hand
out and said, " There, Mr. Douglas, I must have done it ,
for I took my Bible down during dinner-time, and swore I
would take his life when he opened the door, or on the first
opportunity." I then said, " You never would have done
that without some motive ; what was your motive ?" He,
said, "There was something between him and me that you
don't know of." I said, "Would it not have been more
manly to strike him with your fist ?'' He made no answer.
I did not then know whether Evans was dead or seriously
hurt. I did not then talk more. After that we talked fre•
quently. We did not talk of the subject again. The chap•
lain, Mr. Doby, in my presence, went in to the prisoner,
who ordered him out of the cell ; and on the same night,
about 8, the prisoner asked me if I thought he would be
allowed to have a priest• while at Dorchester, as he was a
Catholic. I said, I supposed that he would ; I did not
know.

Cross-examined—He had been in a refractory cell about
five or ten minutes after the occurrence—within an hour—
when he had this coxversation. He was then excited, but
seemed to know perfectly what he was talking about. He
did not tell me what it was between him and Evans. I did
not ask him. I don't know if Evans was a regular warder.
He was trades warder.

Mr. Houghton, recalled—l am a surgeon at the prison
at Portland. I was called on the Bth of September to see
Evans, about ten minutes past five o'clock, in the in-
firmary. 1. was there when he arrived. He was then
dying, and could not speak nor swallow wine. I examined
him, and found a wcund under the right ear, in the neck.
I saw a knife. The wound was two inches and a half deep,
separating the carotid artery, the jugular vein, and the great
vein of the neck. It also passed to the root of the tongue.
He died shortly after—less tuan five minutes from that.
The blow must have been very violent. It could undoubt-
edly have been made by the knife produced. Evidently it
was done by the knife. The bone was turned up, -which was
done by a twist of the knife. I afterwards saw Preedy. I
had only once seen him in the infirmary during six months.
I think 1 saw him in the evening. I saw nothing particu •
lar. Ho left three days afterwards for the County Prison.
I was present at the examination before the justices. He
made ts !statement before them. lle asked if the man was
dead. He made a statement, and appeared calm. I observed
nothing of unsoundness of mind—no inconsistency denoting
insanity. 1 have never setn an instance of latent insanity.
I have heard of them. A violent blow on the head might
produce insanity. It would possibly develope a previous
tendency. I don't know if that is more than possible, I
have not had a great deal of experience in insanity. I be-
lieve, upon an exciting cause, it might show itself again
where there was previous insanity. It is where genital—
if not hereditary, insanity might possibly be latent, and
then break out. It would be likely to du so upon an exciting
cause arising. It is doubtful if it is so in various cases of
mania. Ido not say it could not be so. It might. I have
not seen homicidal mania. I don't know if that or suicidal
mania might so develope.
Re-examined—l had him under my charge from the Ist
to the 10th of May. I saw nothing peculiar,—only a small
boil on his finger.
George Underwood—l am superintendent of police. I
received the prisoner on the 13th of September. I brought
him in a fly. I talked to him on the way about this event.
He talked very rationally. When we came to Chiel Church,
at Portland, there were some Merry-Andrews tumbling in
the street. He laughed at them. I said, " You don't feel
your position much." He said, " No, I want to keep that
out of my head. I don't want to talk much about that at all."
He then wanted to know how long it would be before he
was tried. I said, "In March." He said "he hoped he
should keep his spirits up as well as the man did who shotthe
detective." I said, " What man do you mean ?" H e said
" Don't you recollect, when a man was fetched from abroad,
that he shot the detective coming back ? If I can keep up
my spirits as well as that man did, we'll have a regular
flare up the morning I am hung." He told me the chaplain
had visited him at Portland, and he told him he did not
want to see the old b--, for he was a Catholic. He said,
" I am sorry I killed the man, as the warders tell me he
was a very good sort of man and had a large family. lam
sorry for the family." He said, "They have been treating
me wrong altogether. If you do a little thing they punish
you. They worked me up, so I determined to kill the first
that came." He was very quiet.
Cross-examined—He did not tell me how he was worked
up. lam sure he said he would murder the first that came.
I can recollect it quite well. He did not say anything about
his being murdered himself. He said it would have been the
first that came. He was referring to Evans's death, I have
no doubt. I have nothing to do with Dorchester Prison.
Mr. J. V. Laurence—l am governor of Dorchester Gaol.
Prisoner came in on the 13th September. His conduct at
first was very violent. It continued more or less violent
until the 16th November, Since then his conduct improved;
infant it was very good, with one or two exceptions. I re-
peatedly spoke to him about his violence. I advised him to
behave well, and on one occasiou I asked him the cause of
his conduct generally, Once he said it was to keep up his
spirits. 1 cannot say the exact Ivordri—the effect was to
keep his thoughts from dwelling on his position. I asked
him to tell me the reason of his behaviour, and I inferred
it was that he did not like to be alone. Upon that I spoke
to the magistrates. He was removed into a ward with
others. While in my custody I think he has known what
he was about. In my judgment he was sane, and Ido not
think his violence proceeded from insanity.
Cross-examined—His violence was very great, just as to-
day—that is once or twice. I think he had his senses about
him on those occasions. He destroyed everything that was
given him, and consequently he was naked for two days,
and not so violent then, but would destroy the clothes. His
body was not black or blue from cold. He must have been
cold. I put himwith others for his better conduct when he
said he did not like to be alone. I put him with others by
leave of the magistrates, their order being necessary. There
were people with him to prevent injury to himself. He put
his legs through the glass. I don't know if he tried to put
his head through the bars. He was very gentle at times.
He had more than one tame sparrow in prison in the
ward to which he was removed. I believe he caught three
in the yard and had another given to him. He was careful
of them. One was injured, and he took it under his care.
He tended it carefully. It died. He was distressed at its
death. He was in great sorrow at the death of the sparrow.
By the Judge—He destroyed his clothes ? Had he a bed ?
• Witness—He had destroyed the mattress and rug. I
can't speak positively ; he was left naked through the night.
• Mr. J. Good—l am surgeon of the gaol at Dorchester. I

have frequently seen the prisoner in the gaol, twice a week
and oftener— not much under medical treatment. 1 have
frequently seen him violent. In my judgment he knew
what he was about. In my opinion it did not proceed from
insanity. I never saw him under such circumstances
as would make me think him insane.

Cross-examined—His conduct was better after being
with others. I have confidence in my opinion about ques-
tions of insanity from my experience. If I have formed my
opinion deliberately I adhere to it.

The witness was cross-examined as to his evidence on a
former trial, with a view of shaking his decision.
Mr. Curme, the partner of the last witness, who some-

times attended for him at the gaol, corroborated him as to
the state of mind of the prisoner. He admitted that he
was now under great excitement, but he thought a good
deal of it was assumed.
By the Judge—lf he had had concussion of the brain in
early life, would the disgrace and misery of penal servitude
create such excitement as to produce derangement of the

reason ?
Witness—lt might.
The statement of the prisoner was read, in which he said
that the man had tyrannised over him and made him lie
with his clothes out of the bed, and had told him that his
mother had died during the last week, and that he had
murdered her, and would be murdered himself, and this had
driven him mad.
Mr. Prideaux then addressed the jury for the prisoner.
They were to say whether he had committed murder of
malice aforethought. The prisoner had said he had done
the act, but not intentionally. He had shown his respect
for truth by not at first pleading not guilty, and yet this
man was accused of shamming maniacal violence which re-
sembled that of the wild beast more than that of a human
being. If it was shamming ho was the most accomplished
actor that ever lived. When he understood what he was
about he had shrunk from telling an untruth. Let them
look at the circumstances under which the act was com-
mitted. The murderer generally selected seclusion for the
perpetration of such an act. There were numbers
;im-
mediate discovery was certain. In consequence of his good
conduct ho had been selected to be a " cleaner," to carry the
knives to his unhappy fellow convi3ts, and at such times he
might have had a better chance of escape than he had when
ho committed the act, and yet he had not selected that time
for the committal of this act. There had not been any evi-
dence to show any motive for the act. The wild statements
made by the prisoner were more consistent with his inno-
cence than bis guilt. There was a fact most simple but most
touching; his gentleness towards, his love of those who were
kind to him. He was acutely sensible to kindness. The
man who stood before them for murder had shown the most
tender love and care for a wounded sparrow, and when it
died he grieved and wept over it. (Here the prisoner was
sensibly affected.) When a man's feelings were strong it
frequently happened that he was led into the commission of
that which was wrong. The medical man admitted that
where the brain had once been diseased some exciting cause
would reproduce, and would produce what they had seen to-
day, maniacal fury. He thought the evidence he should
call, however deeply they might grieve at the sight they
had that day witnessed, would show that the prisoner could
not have been responsible for the act he had committed. It
was only when the predisposing cause arose that the insa-
nity was exhibited—reason was deprived of her seat in the
brain. He could not dive into the heart of any man, there
was but One who could. They must endeavour to find, by
the feather in the air, which way the wind was blowing;
but some cause might have arisen in his heart which had
produced that state of mind which at one time had pre-
exist:A. There was a delusion in his statement of the war-
der coming to his cell and telling him that his mother was

Ann Edwards—l am the mother of the prisoner. I mar-
ried Mr. Edwards after the death of the prisoner's father.
I remember an accident to him hen only four years old,
injuring his head severely, blood flowing from his nose and
mouth, and he was very sick. The sears are on his head
now. Was like other children before this accident. After-
wards was very restless in his sleep and cried and howled
during the night. He did not do so before the accident.
This lasted until he was 13. Slept in my room after the
accident, He was very strange in his manner. While at
school he was again beaten on the head; and afterwards,
when he was 13, my present husband beat him violently
about the head. He did not live with me after that. I saw
him from time to time, and he did not always know what
he was about.
Cross-examined—He cried and screamed in his sleep. He
did not seem then to be right. I used to bathe his uead.
He never seemed stupid before the accident. Was at school
from seven to ten years old. Then lived with me and learnt
to read and write. He was 13 whenhe left me to live with
his aunt. Prisoner worked for nine months with his step-
father. I believe he has been a soldier in the 85th.
When the mother looked round and saw her unhappy on
she fell down in an agony of grief, exclaiming, " Oh, my
poor soul" The prisoner upon this again became violent,
but he was so manacled that three men were able to manage
him.
Mary Smith.—l am aunt of the prisoner. Prisoner was
an intelligent lad before the accident. He was very poorly
when I saw him after the accident. Some time after I saw
the mark on his head. Et seemed to have been a heavy
blow. I saw him frequently afterwards. He seemed stupid
and passionate after the accident. I don't know if he was so
before the accident. Was a very curious boy. Would never
do as other children. Was always the same afterwards
We never thought him right, nor the neighbours. Always
seemed frightened when left alone. From what his mother
told me I fetched the prisoner away. I saw the blood from
the cane, and marks upon his head and body. .1-1 e seemed

to have been much hurt. From that. time he lived with me.
I took out a summons against the prisoner's stepfather.
Prisoner lived with me about three years. I had to move my
lodgings frequently in consequence of his conduct being
strange. I applied to a magistrate in London to have him
placed somewhere. He did not always seem to know what
he was about. He never slept soundly. ki e got out of bed
one night but did not know he had done so in the morning.
Witness here detailed several ecceu ti is acts of the prisoner.
Other children teased prisoner. He slept in my room. Hs
would never sleep alone. He was then about 13 years old.
He came home to me once with his head shaved. He was
then over 14 years old. He had been away four or five
months. He was ill when he returned. He said he had
been in the workhouse for three months, and the nurse
told him he had been mad. He did not know what had been
done to him. I have often heard him moan in his sleep.
He never answered. I never believed him to be quit e right.
He was a col poral in the army. He has always been the
same.

Cross-examined--He was 13 years old when he came to
me first. His being frightened at the carpet-.bag was a
my mother's, when he was seven years old. He was sullen
sometimes, and very violent. He would not go to school
much. He lived about three years and a halt with me. I
was obliged to leave my lodgings through his conduct.
Used to cry frequently. I did not see his t teptather beat.
him, I saw several lumps on his head. He said the nurse
at St. Gilea's Workhouse told him he had had a Lever,
None of his employers would keep him. Had worked at
printing and bootclosing. Was 17 years old when lie joined
the army. Sad left me two years before. sever remem-
bered his dreams.
Re-examined-1 asked him about his dream in conse-
quence of what I heard him do in his sleep.
By the Judge—l have been married and had children.
Prisoner was sent to a House of Occupation. He had robbed
his mother. Was committed to the House of Occupation
after a consultation with the police, for we did not know
what to do with him.
Mr. Poulden having addressed the jury in reply,
The learned Judge summed up the case to the jury. The
prisoner could not be found guilty unless they were satisfied
that he was a moral agent, knew what he was doing, and
that it was wrong. They must not allow their judgment to
be diverted by the painful scene they had witnessed that
day. The surgeons had stated that in their opinion the pri-
soner understood what was going on. The learned judge,
having explained the law to the jury, read over great part
of the evidence. There was no doubt this young man com-
mitted the act, and he was not to be exonerated if he knew
what he was doing and that it was wrong.
The jury retired for about 20 minutes, and then returned
a verdict of guilty.
The learned Judge, having put on the black cap, then
addressed the prisoner. You have been convicted, after a
very patient investigation of all the circumstances of your
case, of the heinous crime of wilful murder. Evidence has
been given by near relatives of yours of peculiarities in your
character and conduct in early years, on which, no doubt,
it was hoped the jury might be induced to take a merciful
consideration of your case; but they, as firm men—
having the plain facts before them that you, having on
no former occasion given any symptoms of insanity, did rush
out of your cell and with the knife in your hand stab Chas.
Evans to death—have found you guilty. It is impossible
for me to say, after the attention we have paid to your case
that I see any reason to find fault with the verdict of the
jury. As I have no alternative by law lam bound to pro-
nounce upon you the sentence of death. I entreat you be-
fore I pronounce that sentence to attend for a few minutes
to the exhortation which I feel it my duty, as a matter of
charity and kindness to you, to address to you, You will
be taken from the place where you now are back to prison,
and there you will have every opportunity of preparing
yourself to obtain that mercy from Heaven which you can-
not expect on earth. You said in prison that you did not
choose to be attended by the chaplain of the gaol. and that
you desired to be attended by a clergyman of the church
to which you belong. You have only to ask for the at-
tendance of a clergyman of your own persuasion and you
may be quite sure that your desire will be granted; and I
implore you to lose no time in availing yourself of the
services of a spiritual adviser in whom you place confidence.
Do not delude yourself with hopes of pardon. I see no-
thing that would warrant me in giving you encouragement
to entertain any such hopes. The best thing you can do
is at once to prepare yourself for another world by repent-
ance and prayer, and attending to the exhortations of the
rev, gentleman who will be with you. If you do so you
will have more peace of mind than you can expect at this
moment. You will find in the advice he gives you
more consolation than you can now form an idea of.
You must be punished in order that an example may be set
to others disposed to evil deeds like yourself; but remem-
ber that you have, in the dreadful calamity which has
overtaken you, this great consolation, you will not die a
sudden death, without time for preparation, as Charles
Evans did. You will have time to make your peace with
Almighty God. The learned judge then passed upon the
prisoner the awful sentence of death, at the conclusion of
which the prisoner bowed very reverentially. He was then
surrounded by officers, five of whom had guarded him,
although so manacled that he could scarcely move, and he
was removed in quiet.
During the commencement of the sentence the bells were
heard ringing a merry peal, which, however, was put a
stop to by Mr. Coombs, the under-sheriff, to whom much
praise is due for the manner in which the court has been
kept.

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS, March 11,

(Before the Assistant-Judge.)

Elizabeth Young, 18, described as a
,laundress, was in-
dicted for unlawfuly attempting and endeavouring felo-
niously to commit the crime of self-murder.
It appeared from the evidence that about half-past one
o'clock on the morning of the 14th of Feb., the prisoner,
who was in the company of a young man, was seen by a
policeman in the New-road, Hammersmith. He had not
long passed them when he heard a splash in a pond that
was near to the place. The policeman made his way to the
spot, and found the young woman in the pond, lying on
her back. He pulled her out, and she was then insensible.
The man soon afterwards returned, and the policeman
asked him to fetch a surgeon, but he refused to do so, and
in a very careless way said she did not want a surgeon.
She said she had thrown herself into the pond because she

was tired of her life.
John Grant, a labourer, was called, and, in an-wer to
iuestions troul the Assistant-Judge, said that three weeks
Ago he was with the prisoner at a singing-room at Ham-
mersmith, She was alone when he met her, but he did not

dead, and that he had to be murdered. What a state of I go away with her. He saw her the next day, and stayed mit
anxiety was in his mind when he believed that he had with her until a late hour at nleht, He went part of the
murdered his mother, and that be was to be murdered for way home with her, but she threatened to drown herself if
it! Would not that be a clue to judge of his state of mind ? he did not go hack with her. He struck her because
friendshe e
The prisoner's mother is still living.) Murder was the was drunk, and she had struck him,
She had a
eigning object in his mind, and immediately the act was who attended her at the Hammersmith
Police-court, 11:
committed the first expression he uttered was " Murder !" believed her aunt, and she offered to take he.r home
before wit
i
It was the one thing preying upon his mind. With a her. They had a few words together the n. ght
wild, frantic cry he repeated that word several times, and about a young man, and the prisoner told him ether
he had committed the act when his mind was wrong other young man had said that if he caught them tog
and his reason suspended. He had been brooding over he would pay him out. He subsequently saw the youl:1,
it in his cell for an hour and a half until his brain was man referred to, and he denied having said anything er
turned. What was the something he spoke of as being be- the kind. This led to an altercation between them, and Ire
tween him and Evans but the delusion in his mind that admitted that he then did strike her. She then said that 0-
Evans had told him he had murdered I,is mother, and he did not go back with her she would crown hereslf, and
must be murdered for it himself P Thy could not he said she might go and do so. that the
doubt that he had the greatest affection for his mother, The prisoner • leaded guilty, and expressed her great con-
and the niement the delusion of his having murdered her trition for what she had done.
got possession of his mind all was lost, and he said he felt The Assistant-Judge said that the situation of the wit'
he must do it, and he had taken down his bible, and upon ness Grant was one of the most disgraceful it which any
it had sworn that he would kill the first who came. Was it man could be placed.
an act improbable for hire with his diseased mind to come Mr. Herwood Harwood (one of the magistrates on the
mit ? It was his fate on the day in which the remains of bench)— Your conduct has been heartless and disgraceful,
the beloved Prince Consort were consigned to the tomb to for I saw you laughing while you have been in the witneee-
be engaged in the trial of a charge of mender. That was a box.
day of sorrow and affliction. This was a day—albeit a time This witness, who bad hitherto maintained atone of the
for penitential sorrow and self-abasement—in which every- most brazen effrontery, now assumed one of great subens-
thing was to be lost, sight of in the heartfelt joy and thank- sion, saying he-was very sorry for it, and this would be e
fulness ofa grateful nation raising up their voice to Heaven war i gto hint.
in praise and thankfulness to Almighty God for the na- The Assis ant-Judge said he hoped that the prisoner bad
tional benefits which they trusted would follow. Here alone seen the great crime which she had attempted to commit;
was sorrowing and bitterness ; there was a cloud of glo an but, to allow the chaplain to visit her, he should deter pass'
over them ; their hopes were converted into misery and ing sentence until the text session Then, addressing tha
anxiety instead of hilarity and joy. Let them not mar the witness Grant, he said that, to mark their sense of him, ha
day by condemning an unhappy maniac to an untimely should refuse to allow him any expense out of the county
end, funds.
Thomas Curtain and Martin Case were in icted for steal-
ing two pairs of hoots, the property of Thomas Piper.
Edward 'Wilkins, police-constable 65 E, said that on the
3d March he was spoken to, and saw the prisoner Certain
running in Red Lion-street. He lest sight of him for ale*
minutes, and then he saw the prisoners together. He caught
Curtain, and found a pair of boots upon him. Before
he
(witness) spoke to him he said, " All right ; I've got theni•
Thomas Barnett, a carver, of Macclesfield-street, city-
road, confirmed this evidence.
Tbejury acquitted Case, and found Curtain guilty.
A previous conviction was proved against Curtain.
The Assistant-Judge sentenced him to be kept in Pena
servitude for four years.
John Watts, 60, sawyer, was indicted for fraudulentll
obtaining from William Gatehouse the sum of 58., within'
tent to cheat and defraud.
The prosecutor said he lived at No. 65, Broad .street,
Lambeth, and was a brush-board cutter. On Friday, the
13th of February, the prisoner took him to Starch-greent
Hammersmith, and showed him a number of chesnut trees
which had been recently felled. He said that there were
of them altogether, that he had bought them that moraine
for 155,, and had paid for them. Witness agreed to bug
them for 355., and paid him ss. on account, or as deposit
money. The prisoner agreed to send the timber home, but
after waiting for some days, and finding that the timber
was not forthcoming, prosecutor made inquiries of the
owner of the land, and then satisfied himself that the Ply
sener had not bought the timber. He paid the prisoner
the ss. in consequence of his statement about purcheen3
the timber and his right to sell it, and believing that hla
statement was true.
George Axton, brickmaker, and leaseholder of certalo
land at Starch-green, Hammersmith, called Bassene-Pert:
The last witness called had been to him and pointed ea'
the [ lace where he had 12 chestnut trees, which had been
cut down since Christmas last. The prisoner had not bought,
them, and had no right to sell them. He knew nothing 0'

him.
Edward Brooks, of Brook-green, timber dealer, said be
saw the lt chestnut trees belonging to Mr. Axton felled
4
B issene-park, and he inquired if they were for sale, 01e
was informed that they were not. About a month ago he
walked with the prisoner to the place and pointed out the
trees to them, and asked what he thought they were Worth
it he could buy them. tie said they were worth from 20 t°
265. After that Mr. Axton informed him that they wer:
not for sale. He never told the prisoner that he had bough
them, and that h, could buy them of him.
Atter a long consultation, the jury acquitted the prisoeert

COUNTRY MARKETS.

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LYNN CORN.
White . 51s to 53s j Barley .... 37s to 382
it .d ..
Beans 3Bs to 42s 1 Oats .2os to 20
New .. .to—s I Peas.. —.s to -'44

HULL CORN. Od
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Old red
New white .. „
New red .... ,
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Barley.... English malting 3ls Od to 385 '''
Grinding 27s 6d to 205 t)(
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Grinding
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Friesland and Dutch osl3d to 031'3
0-13 d
Swedish and Danish
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New pigeon
New tick.
Egyptian
l'eas Foreign boilers .. .. 45s Od
0006odaddd
to 125
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Indian Corn
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crushing
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Rape cakes 6 5 oto 6 ' o
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NEWARK—WEDNESDAY.
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t antield Moor Bates l2 0
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Anthracite
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ouch Hetton ...16 6
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9
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Tzimdon Hartlepool l6 0
Whitworth l4
..... a
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Haswell .......17 0
12 9
Riddell
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1t..68; sold. 38.

Foreign Mail Packet List.

MAILS DUE.
itu:,,,ralia and Mauritius, via Southampton. Mar.
via Marseillesnlar 15
Linehil and Cape Verds, by British pack 44. Mar 6
Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, and St. Ilekna
Mar' 3
China, Penang, and Singapore, via Sotrilanipn,/„Mar.
via Mar,eil:es al 6
Falkland Islands
Gibraltar, via Southampton .....
4.
India Calcutta), and Ceylon, vik South,mpton..Mar• 15.
via Marseilies....l"ar. is,
India (Bombay), via Southampton
via Marseilles Mar.
Portugal....
Malta, Egypt, and Aden, via Soutliampr
via Mar Neill- . NO' A
Mar.
Newfoundland

Oporto anti Vigo
U. S. and Brittsh N. Aniorica, L) Brit. it kk , Mar'

by U.S. imcL . . , 6,
by CisnadiaT. , :A(1. , Mar ,0
W.C. of Africa, Madeira, and Teneritle....
12
Bahamas, via New York

Mexico. -
All parts of West Indies, including Chili, tu. (Feb 28
California..na I T-itt•lt Columbia. .

MAY.—On tho 11th inst.,Bairt 67,th Russell-square,s the wife °f
Bowen May, Esq., of a son.
PELLEW.—On the 11th inst., at Kensington, IlenrY
Pellew, Esq., of a son.
TIPPING.—On the sth inst., at Devonport Hall. hesbiret
the wife of Lieut.. Col. Tipping, of a daughter.
Marriages.
BRENT—SNOAD.—On the 10th inst., at Ashford,
Daniel Brent, of Queen's College, Cambridge, to Em h'
daughter of the late Rev. E. IL Snood, M.A., of Ash'
ford.
DOUGLAS—MoonE.—On the sth inst., at CharlcortilL'
Bath, Caroline Annie, the second daughter of WilliaL;
Douglas, Esq., late Madras C.S., to C. 1-linton Moot
Esq., of the Royal Canadian Rifles.
WYMAN—LUCAS.—On the 12th inst., at Holy Trinil;
Kentish town, Edward Frank, youngest son of Chart:::
Wyman, Esq., of Snaresbrook, to Edzobeth Su-anlo,'"
only daughter of the late Wm. Lucas, Esq., of 1101/
stead.

Deaths.
AYLIE.—On the 6th just., at Shrewsbury, David A-Oef
c E aged 45.
Esq., •
FISHER.—On the 9th inst., at Winterbourne, near rot'
bury, Elizabeth, wife of W. Fisher, Esq.
FENNER.—On the 6th inst., Thomas Paris Fenner,. Esicl;
of Broxbourne, Herts, and Linden Lodge, Peeldl'i
aged 80.
STARKIE.—On the 11th inst at his residence, 4, St"ncif
Charing-cross, James Starlie, Esq., aged 77. on o
f
URE.—On the 10th inst.
at Park-street, London, Nr3%ert
' r
Ure, Esq.,
late of Brook-street, and formerly M.l • °
Weymouth, aged 86.
WAITE.—On the 6th inst., at Dudley-;rove, Padling
tear
John Doughty Waite, Esq., late of Shipi,on House. 12
Abingdon, Berkshire,

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Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in the Cotua4"
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