The Sun.
London, England, 1863-12-29 00:00:00

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OSBORNE, Dec. 28,
The Right Hon. C, P. Villiers arrived at Osborne
on Sunday, and had an audience of her Majesty.
Dr. Watson and Dr. Jenner also arrived from
London.

The Queen and Princess of Wales drove out thill
morning.

The Prince of Wales and Prince Alfred went O 0
shooting, attended by Lieutenant-General the Hap•
C. Grey, Lieutenant-Colonel the Hon. D. de 105'
and Lieutenant-Colonel Keppel.

The Right Hon. T. H. S. Sotheron-Esteour!
M.P., and Mrs. Sotheron-Estcourt, have left FarrancLO
Hotel for Estcourt, near Tetbury.
The Hen. Capt. Elphinstone has left the Brune
wick Hotel, Jermyn-street, for Newport-Pagnell.
Major and Mrs. Wombwell have left the St'
George's Hotel.

Madame de Pereira and family have left the
Brunswick Hotel, jermyn-street, on their return to Paris.
Mr. M'Cann, M.P., and Mrs. M'Cann have left
Brown's Hotel.

M. Gounod's " Faust" has been produced at Noll
Yhrk, with Miss Kellogg as the heroine.
TRACTION ENGINES ON COMMON ROADS.—A SP'
vial meeting of the waywardens of the Favershal
Highway Board was held yesterday for the purpose of COu;
sidering a resolution, of which notice had been given f"
the previous meeting, to the effect that in the opinion of the
Board the use of locomotives on the public highways Its
dangerous and inconvenient to the public, and therefore
that an application be made to the Home Secretary, under
the powers of the 24th and 25th of Victoria, cap, 70, to pro'
hibit the use of all kinds of locomotives on any highway'
whatever within the district. The motion was supported
by Mr. Carter, the deputy-chairman, who contended ths t
the engines were altogether unsuited to the roads in the
district, and that their passage to and fro was exceed-
ingly dangerous. An animated and lengthened discussion
took place, from which it appeared that steam traction and
ploughing engines were now most extensively used in Kest'
there being as many as 20 working in that district alone. it
was also contended that there was more danger by 01
passing of traction engines by night than by day. Several
of the owners of the engines, including Messrs. Aveling
and Porter, of Rochester, who have made upwards of 100.
of the engines, attended, and argued against the suicide
course proposed to be adopted. On a division only tw°
hands were held up for the prohibition, and more than 60
against it, Lord Harris, who is a large Kentish landholder/
voting with the latter.
THE QUEEN AS A RULER.—Of the deep and
ready interest which the Queen has manifested ill
every great public event, whether calamitous or glorious,
which has occurred during her reign, she has given wore
than one memorable proof. We most of us remember s re"'
markable letter from her Majesty to Lord Palmerston which
was read in the House of Commons on the occasion o',
certain Ministerial explanations between that nobleman
and Lord John Russell, in which she intimated her,
pleasure that no important despatch should bo issued
from the Foreign Office until she should have been made
acquainted with its contents, and her pleasure taken
thereupon; and it is well known that she required to bc
kept thoroughly informed as to the nature and the groundit
of every Ministerial decision on the great questions of til°
day, so that, without in the least degree hampering the
action of the Cabinet, she might be able to exercise an lade'
pendent judgment on the course of affairs, and to discuss
them intelligently with her advisers. During the Crimean
war her sympathy with each day's tidings was painfully
intense ; no one who witnessed it can ever forget the eager-
ness with which she questioned every competent messengeer
from the scene of danger as to all the details of that heroic
struggle, and the prompt and spontaneous tenderness with
she sought to alleviate the sorrows both of sufferers and
mourners can never be effaced from the memories of either.
There was a vigilant solicitude in her every word and
action throughout that sad and terrible crisis of our history
which perhaps did more than any other incident in her reign
to endear her to the nation's heart. It was a perfect coin
munity of feeling, reaching from the hovel to the throne.
Victoria _Magazine for January.
A WOMAN KILLED BY HER HUSBAND IN LIVER'
POOL.—On Saturday evening last an unfortunate
occurrence took place, resulting in the death of a woman
named Catherine Lewis, wife of Richard Lewis, a master
carter, residing in Church-street, Soho. It appears that on
the evening in question Lewis returned home' and found
his wife in the yard preparing provender for the horses
which ho kept, and the dwelling louse which adjoins the
yard being closed, he asked her for the key to
open the door, She was then partially intoxicated, and
was unable to furnish him with the key, and
getting alarmed she ran to her sister's in Bennett-street.
The house in the meantime had been entered by means of a
ladder, by which a man named Radcliffe, in Lewis's employ,
scaled the outer wall, and Lewis then went to his sister-in-
law's and brought his wife home. Radcliffe and a man named
Williams, also employed by Lewis, accompanied the latter
into a publichouse, where they had some drink, and the
deceased also bad drink in the same place. On reaching
home Lewis and the deceased remained together apparently
on friendly terms, and nothing more was thought of the
unpleasantness which had originally arisen. It seems that
Lewis, when alone with his wife, made some further mis-
understanding with her respecting the disappearance of
some bed-clothes, and while she was sitting in a chair ho
dealt her a blow on the neck with his hand, which caused
her almost instant death. He made every exertion to revive
her, but his efforts being unsucce:sful, he obtained the atten-
dance of Dr. Taylor, Springfield, but the medical gentleman
on his arrival pronounced life to be extinct. Lewis, wh°
has been habitually a sober man for a considerable tiwe'
wail deeply affected at the unfortunate issue of the dispute,.Willand when taken into custody shed tears copiously. He '
be brought before the magistrates for examination this day
(Monday).—Liverpool Courier.
A DELIRIUM OF NIGHTMARES.—Every supersti'
tion that has ever disturbed the soul of ignorant
man lent some one awful feature to the crowd of hideout;
images uprising in this man's mind, Awful Chaldean gods
and Carthagenian goddesses thirsting for the hot blood of
human sacrifices, greedy for hecatombs of children fig
shrieking into fiery furnaces, or torn limb from limb by
savage beasts ; Babylonian abominations ; Egyptian Isis °r
Osiris ; classical divinities with flaming swords and Pale!
impassible faces, rigid as the destiny whose type they were,
ghastly Germanic demons and witches—all the dread
avengers that man, in the knowledge of his own wicked-
ness, has ever shadowed for himself out of the darkness of
his ignorant mind, sw4lled that ghastly crowd until the
artist's brain reeled, and he was fain to sit with his head 112

his hands, trying, by a great effort of :the will, to exorcise
these loathsome phantoms,--Miss Braddon's John March-

mont's Legacy. -
BAVARIAN MORALITY AND INFANT MORTALITY•
—ln Lower Bavaria, illegitimate births are one in four ; in
the Palatinate, where freedom from vexatious laws

(through the introduction of the Code Napoleon) produces a
less proportion of crime, more contentment, and far greater
prosperity, they are one in nine—and in Saxony and Prus-
sia, one in 13. In Munich, in one year, there were 1,762
legitimate and 1,702 illegitimate births—nor is it rare for
the illegitimate births in one month to exceed the legiti-
mate. But the worst side disclosed by these statistics is
the proportion of deaths. In the whole of Bavaria more
die under 14 than over—and the number that die beforeijuber
ecahailedhrietz!
attaining one year is four times as great as tdil:
between
which comes next to it, grown-up people who 9,
60 and dan7do.onlTyh6a2t,oiso,oinpeornaaenyselmoovreer tlhie.inwas6Ofl
the greatest
dren 63,000 were under one year,
EAGLE.—twOeerin
60 and 70.—Wilberforee's Social
number of deaths above 14 were IG,iofooeLOwln,:::.
of U. aptain Martin, and
MUTINY ON BOARD TOE puenozpcl4o.
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chartered blayarAngleemsosarf:mt•
for Sydney with a g.
011 ees . 0 a she returned 'MPerosoelye
and Co. were the const,, .
crSunday
. andii the evenint, the crew was taken into cus-
tody on a c theat thhieghpasleiacse.. 0
ffiAcbeoiunt
Dseavleen,
o'clock Captajd
the statement which led to the interference
stated that a day or two after he left
the ship was off the coast of Wales, some
distastreet,nceLiverpool,
o lfdrcowmeni.haesnHeeee
requesting to
Holyhead, the crew mustered and came aft,
him. He asked whether they had any
complaint to make, and said if they had he would take it
down upon his official slate for transfer to the log. They
did not, however, make any complaint, but returned for a
short time forward. Afterwards they again came aft, seized
the captain, tied him with a rope, placed him in his state

room, and stationed a sentry at the door. At tho same time

they secured the two mates: They then reversed the course

of the ship and came back to Liverpool, keeping the captain
a prisoner until their arrival in the Mersey, Soon after the
vessel entered the river a boat came off, and the steward,

acting under the captain's orders, got the boatman on
board. The captain lay upon the table in the cabin and
feigned sleep, while the steward got the log-book and other
documents, tied them about him, and got into ithe boat,
leaving a rope hanging over the ship's side as he did so.
The captain then jumped up, rushed past the sentry, got
upon deck, slipped over the side into the boar, and escaped
to shore. Upon the receipt of this information at the po-
lice-station, Inspector Horne, Inspector Cairns, Detective
Beattie, and 12 constables went off to the Golden Eagle,
and there took into custody ten of the crew. , Yesterday the
ten men were brought up at the police-court, when the
captain's statement was received, aid the case adjourned.