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

The Yelverton Marriage Case.

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

LORD PALMERSTON AND THE HERBERT ME-
MORIAL STATUE.—The Salisbury Tow❑ Council
have resolved to entertain the Premier at luncheon after the
ceremony. Accommodation will only be provided for a
small party, numbering between 100 and 200. The Mayor
and Corporation, with the committee, will receive Lord
Palmerston at the railway station, and accompany him to
the Council House, where an address will be presented,
and the inauguration of the statue will take place immedi-
ately afterwards. Some of the blocks of granite which are
to form the base of the pedestal arrived on Monday.—
/P iltshl76 :Mirror.

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

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

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

A soldier, named Pierre Valin, has just died in
one of the charitable asylums in Paris, after being
subject to a singular mental aberration ever since the
battle of Solferino, where he was wounded in the head by
a musket shot. The wound soon healed, but the man,
though apparently in good health, fancied himself dead
from the time ho received the injury. When asked how
he was, he invariably replied—" Ah I you are asking about
Pierre Valin ? Poor fellow I Ho was killed at Solferino
by a musket shot in the head. What you see here is not
Valin, but a machine made in his semblance, and so badly
put together that you ought to get another in its stead."
In speaking of himself he never said " I," or " me," but
always " it." He would sometimes remain for days in a
state of complete immobility, and so insensible to pain that
neither mustard poultices, blisters, pricking, nor punching
was felt by him. He would often refuse to eat, saying—
" It does not want anything, it has no stomach."
A GRATEFUL OFFERING.—WhiIe the ship Ada-
mant, of London, was recently on her homeward
voyage from Calcutta, it was decided by her commander,
amounteedN to 14s. Captain*
;which Lifeboat
LiLodwiek, the military officers on board, and the
ship's officers and crew, to
Institution. bstu imns Crown, ~ make a penny subscription in aid
a id
of the funds of th
atupttaioinn.
Blro'hwens,ubo-
-8 criPti°l2-f
the Royal Naval Reserve yesterday sent yesterday to the Lifeboat

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

(REUTER'S TRLEGRAMS.)

FRANCE.

PARIS, JUNE 19.
The Prince of Orange has gone to Fontainebleau,
where his Royal Highness will pass a few days.

PARIS, JUNE 18, EVENING.

The Notes upon .the Polish question addressed to
Russia by the three Powers were despatched to St.
Petersburg this morning.
The King of Sweden has congratulated the Empe-
ror upon the victory of the French at Puebla.
The rumour that M. de Sartiges, the French Am-
bassador at Turin, and M. de Talleyrand, Ambassa-
dor of France at Brussels, are about to request leave
of absence from their diplomatic posts is unfounded.
The Emperor has arrived in Paris, and has pre-
sided at a Cabinet Council.

The Patric of this evening publishes an article,
signed by M. Delamarre, reviewing the atrocities
committed by the Russians in Poland, and declaring
that no hopes can be entertained of any benefit
arising from diplomacy. The writer calls upon
France, in conjunction with other frien,dly nations,
to intervene actively for the re-establishment of an
independent Poland.
La France asserts that, upon learning the capitu-
lation of Puebla, President Juarez decreed the
transference of the seat of Government to San Luiz
Potosi. This decision is presumed to indicate an
invention of not defending the city of Mexico.

The Bordeaux papers contain the particulars of a
conflict which took place in that city on Tuesday,
between the military and a number of carriers.
The latter attempted to prevent the running of
the trains which the Southern Railway Company
had established to connect the harbour with the
railway station, the carriers affirming that these
trains were prejudicial to their interests. One
soldier was wounded, and about a dozen persons
were arrested.

Judgment has been delivered in the lawsuit be-
tween M. de Villemessent, the editor of the Figaro,
and M. Didier. The latter has been sentenced to
two months' imprisonment and to pay a fine of 500 f.
BOURSE, June 18.—The English funds have ar-
rived with a rise of 9, but the only effect on this
market has been to give a check to the downward
movement. Threes, for the Account, are unvaried
at 69f 50c. Railway Share Market without ani-
mation, The following are the closing quotations :
41 per Cents. 97 20 , Italian Loan 73
Do. end month... Do. end month 73

3 per Cents
Do. end month 6B 65
Credit Mobilier 1217 50
1)o. end month 1220

New ditto
Do. end month 74 05
Russian
Austrian .. —

Bank Shares
Spanish Threes....
Credit oncier 1375 Home Debt

RAILWAYS.

Cash. Account.
Orleans 998 75 .. 997 50
Northern
New. ditto — --
Lyons and Aledituranean 1042 50 .. 1042 50
Geneva 450 460

Southern

. _
Western
Eastern ....
Sardinian 425 -- .. 423 75
Austrian
Lombard
North of Spain
Saragossa..
Ditto to Barcelona .... 372 50 .. 377 50

SPAIN,
DON JUAN DE BOURBON.

MADRID, JUNE 18.

The Infanta Don Juan de Bourbon has addressed
a letter to the Queen of Spain, tendering his sub•

mission.

The Marquis Miraflores has declined to consider
the subject until after the repeal of the law under
which the infanta was exiled.

ITALY.

TURIN, JUNE 18.

In the Chamber of Deputies to-day Signor Min-
ghetti, the President of the Council, continued his
speech upon the policy of the Ministry.
He believed that the military convention between
France and England would be effectual for the re-
pression of brigandage. He admitted that France
had made every effort to prevent this source of
uneasiness. The Government had done all in its
power with regard to Italy to protect the national
rights ; with regard to Rome, to offer guarantees of
spiritual independence; and with regard to France,
had shown its readiness to enter upon negotiations
on the basis of non-intervention. France wet at
Rome in spite of herself, in presence of three
contradictions,—viz., against the principles of
1789, the system of non-intervention, and the
accomplishment of that united Italy which she
had assisted to create. He expressed his confi-
dence in the Emperor, wto understood the spirit
of the time.

As regarded the foreign policy of the Ministry
generally, Signor Minghetti pointed out how, amid
the complications of European politics, Italy might
bring about the solution of the questions at issue.
Respecting home policy, tke relations of the States
of the Church to Italy were incompatible with the
spirit of justice and liberty. Italy would always
preserve moderation against the attacks of Rome.
Signor Minghetti concluded :—" I rely upon your
confidence for the re-establishment of the former
majority of the Government." (Applause.)
After some personal explanations between Sig-
nori Minghetti, Rattazzi, and others, the general
debate was brought to a close.
" The Italian Government," says the Esprit
Public," has decided on sending an extraordinary
embassy to China. The professed object of the
mission is to choose places for establishing new
Italian consulates, but we are able to assert that its
real object is the conclusion of a treaty of commerce
with the Emperor of China. The gentleman selected
as the head of the embassy is Commander Negri,
formerly secretary-general to Gioberti at the
Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and at present direc-
tor-general of the consular service. He is a man of
great talent, and has chosen as his secretary M.
Ressmann, a native of Trieste, who has devoted his
life to the union of Istria with Italy. M. Negri
was at Paris two days since, and had an interview
with M. Drouyn de Lhnys,
who promised him the
support of the French consuls in China. He has
since left for London, with a view to obtaining the
same from Earl Russell.

A COLD HEADER!—`° But it must be so cold,"
said Sylvia, shuddering and giving a small poke to
the fire to warm her fancy. " Cold 1" said her father,
" what do ye stay-at-homes know about cold, a should like
to know. If ye'd been where a were once, north latitude
81, in such a treat as ye' ha' never known, no, not i' deep
winter, and it were June i' them seas, and a whale i' sight,
and a were off in a boat after her; an' t' ill-mannered brute
as soon as she were harpooned, ups Nvi' her big awkward
tail, and struck t' boat in her stern, and chucks me out int'
t' water. That were cold, a can tell the' I First, I smarted
all ewer me, as if
my Ain were suddenly stript off me ;
and next every bone i' my body had getten t' tooth-ache,
and there were a great roar i' my ears an' a greatdizziness my eyes; an' t' boat's crew kept throwing
out their oars, an' a kept clutching at 'em, but a could no
make out where they was, my eyes dazzled so wi' t' cold,
an' I thought I were bound for 'kingdom come,' an' a
tried to remembe' t' Creed as a might die a Christian. But
all a could think on was, What is your name, Mor N
an' just as a were giving both words and life, they heerd
me aboard. But, bless ye, they had but one oar; for they'd
thrown a' t' others after me; so yo' may reckon, it were
some time afore we could reach t' ship ; an', a've heerd tell,
a were a precious sight to look on, for my clothes was just
hard frozen to me, an'
my hair a'most as big a lump o' ice
yon iceberg he was a-telling us on; they rubbed me as
misses there rubbed t' hams yesterday, and gay' me brandy;.
an' a ha' ne'er getten t' frost out o' my bones for a' then:
rubbin', and a deal o'brandy as I 'avo ta'eu Talk o
cold 1 it's little yo' women know o' cold I"—,Sylvia s Lovers,
by Mrs, Gaskell,

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