The Sun.
London, England, 1862-12-06 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

WINDSOR CASTLE, DEC. 5.
The Queen and her Royal Highness the Princess Helena
walked and drove this morning,

The Right Hon. Sir George Grey arrived at the Castle
yesterday, and had an audience of the Queen.
His Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury was presented
to her Majesty, at an audience this morning, by the Right
lion. Sir George Grey, Secretary of State fur the Home
Department, and did homage on his appointment.
The Rev. Lord. Wrothesley Russell was the Deputy-
Clerk of the Closet in Waiting.
has succeeded the Countess of
C chdeo npause Duchess
sy
oi
fn

The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council sat yester-
day. An appeal from Canada, ,6 Trigg° v. Lavalltie (part
heard), was concluded. Judgment was deferred. An ap-
peal from Agra, " Muhesluurain Singh v. Kishnanuad
Misr," was commenced. The Lords present were—Lord
Kingsdown, Sir J. Coleridge, Sir E. Ryan, Sir L. Peel,
and Sir J, Colville.

Despatches were reeeived yesterday at the Colonial-office
from the Lord High Commissioner of the lonian Islands.
Despatches were sent to the Government of the Cape of
Good Hope, Natal, and St. Helena.

AMERICAN RAILROAD ACCIDENTS.—pert Of a
rain was destroyed on the Algiers railroad on the 17th

ult. by the explosion of ammunition in a car behind the
tender. The accident is supposed to have been caused by a
spark from the cigar of some imprudent smoker. Eleven
persons were killed and 17 wounded. On the 21st, a dark
and foggy morning, when the passenger train to Boston
reached the Charlestown-bridge the draw was found to be
open. The engine and tender plunged into the river, and
were soon submerged out of sight. The smoking car, in
which were a number of passengers, was thrown forward
with all the passengers in a heap. The remaining cars were
uncoupled in time to avoid taking the plunge. Many of the
passengers in the smoking car succeeded in making their
escape by jumping from the windows and saving themselves
by bwimming, while to others were thrown planks taken
from the bridge. Four persons were killed, and several
more or less injured. The train was going slowly at the
time.
ATTEMPTED FRAUD BY A FEMALE—At the Man-
chester police court, yesterday, Adelaide Cecilia Monk, a
respectable looking woman, was brought up charged with
attempting to obtain money by false pretences from the
North-Eastern Railway Company. Mr. Cobbett, solicitor,
who appeared for the company, stated that the prisoner
made a claim on the company for some luggage which she
professsed to have lost at Thorpe Arch, in Yorkshire. The
amount of the claim was £l5O. Her statement was that
she travelled from Thorpe Arch to Manchester on the 15th
November last, and that her luggage, which had been put
into the hands of the railway servants, was lost on the way.
The company, however, were prepared to prove that not a
single ticket was issued to any person from Thorpe Arch
to Manchester on the 15th November, and they also

found on inquiry that no luggage had been left
at Thorpo Arch on that day. Their inquiries also
tended to show that the prisoner had not been out of Man-
chester at all on the 15th of November. Mr. Hawker, the
superintendent of police on the line, gave evidence that the
prisoner represented to him that she had come from London
to Thorpe Arch, and that she left the same place the next
day, having in her possession two tin trunks and one large
hair trunk containing clothes and money. She said that
on arriving in Manchester she found the trunks had been
taken in some other direction, and that in consequence she
had been unable to take her passage to America, whither
she intended going. Mr. Hawker also proved that no

ticket to Manchester was taken out at Thorpe Arch on the
15th November. A man named Birkbeck, living at Ard-
wick, said that the prisoner had lived in his house for seve-
ral weeks, and that she had never been out of Manchester
on either the 14th or 15th November. The magistrates
remanded the prisoner for some days to make inquiries into
her case. She is said to be an American.
ROBBERIES BY POST OFFICIALS.—NECESSITY
FOR REGISTERING MONEY LETTERS.--Henry Borah, a
messenger, lately in the employment of tho post- office at
Bolton, was indicted at the Liverpool Assizes yesterday for
stealing the half of a £5 note, which had been posted at ono
of the pillars under the prisoner's care. The letter was ad-
dressed by Mr. James Ward, of Bolton, to Messrs. C. Tay-
lor, of Gomersak, near Leeds, but it never reached its des-
tination. On the 14th November a brother of the prisoner
offered the half of a £5 note (subsequently identified by Mr.
Ward as the note he had posted) to a Mr. Bradshaw, pawn-
broker, of Bolton, but Mr. Bradshaw suspecting that a
robbery had taken place, had the boy taken into
custody. The lad said his brother had given him the note,
and when the prisoner was apprehended htnesmaiedrethyalhDeahvaidd
found the half mote in the street. The jury found the pri-
soner guilty, with a recommendation
Ross, another letter carrier, pleaded guilty to two indict-
ments for stealing letters. He was sentenced to penal
servitude for four years, and Sorah. to 12 months' imprison-
ment with hard labour. Mr. Commissioner Gurney, in

passing sentence, said that after the recent Post-office
order to the remistre.tion of 11101107 latter., persona who
persisted in putting money in ordinary letters were highly
culpable for placing unnecessarily temptation in the car-
rier's way. He should refuse the expenses of witnesses in
such cases.
ESCAPE AND SUICIDE OF A LUNATIC.—On Tues-
day evening a young lady named Hodgson, who had been
three months in the asylum at Mount Head, near Otley,
belonging to Dr. Smith, of Leeds, made her escape between
5 and 6 o'clock in the evening; the woman who keeps the
lodge, hearing the gate close, supposing it was her daughter,
who was expected home, not going out to see what was the
matter. A short time afterwards a mason, named Moon,
and his companions, on their way from Ilkley to Burley,
came up, and found a crinoline and a head-net on the bank
of the river. A struggle was heard in the water, and upon
looking closely they saw something floating on the surface,
but, the river there being very deep, and none of the party
able to swim, they did not venture in. They, however,
threw
strap,
which appeared to touch the
hand out to be a woman, but she was
either
to take hold of it. The poor
rew outifn what a
t a
ie leathern e
or
noweth er n
turned
unwilling
creature then gave a loud scream, and having turned on
her back and uttered two or three shrieks, she sank. The
body was not recovered till Wednesday afternoon.
FAROE AND ICELAND.--" In his Pen and Pencil
Sketches' published by Longmans, Mr. Symington has
given to the public a rich mine of information regard-
ing a corner of the world which as yet may be said
to be almost a terra incognita to tourists and book-
makers. Tho illustrations are numerous and well
executed, and with the graphic descriptions of
the letterpress the reader cannot fail to realise
vividly the scene through which the author's pleasant pen
and ready pencil have chosen to conduct him. An appen-
dix is added giving a number of Icelandic stories, poems;
and other specimens of their literature. Hints for tourists
are not forgotten. The book is valuable for the large
amount of general information which it contains on -the
physical features and phenomena of Iceland."—John
o' Groat Jotonal.
A CORSICAN SOLDIER CONDEMNED FOR MURDER.
—The military tribunal of Chalons has just tried a young
soldier of the 52d Regiment, named Pietri, a native of
Corsica, on a charge of having murdered, on the 3d Nov.,
a young man named Raussin, the son of a farmer, residing
at Saint Memmie, near Chalons. It appeared from the
evidence, which agreed with the accounts given at the
time the murder took place, that M. Raussin and his son
were returning home from one of their fields, with a load
of green fodder, on the top of which they were seated,
when they came up with two young men, one of whom
was a grocer at Chalons, in shooting attire, with a fowling
piece, who lay on the ground dead drunk, and the other
the prisoner, who was somewhat loss intoxicated. The
latter asked M. Raussin to allow his companion to ride to
Chalons on the fodder. The farmer refused on the ground
that it would be dangerous to place a man in such a
condition on the top of a load among the scythes and
forks lying there. This refusal so incensed the prisoner
that he seized his companion's double-barrelled gun,
ran after the cart, and, aiming at young Raussin,
killed him dead on the spot. He then discharged the other
barrel at the father, but missed him ; the shot, however,
struck a rake hanging at the back of the load. All these
facts were proved by the evidence of M. Raussin, and many
other witnesses deposed as to the drunken state of the sol-
dier and his companion, especially the servants of a farm-
house where they had drunk four bottles of wine. The pri-
soner, when asked what ho had to say in his defence, stated
that he had gone out with Regnaud for a day's shooting
Towards evening they went to a farm-house to obtain re-
freshment, where they got intoxicated, and ho had not the
slightest recollection of anything that occurred from the
time they left the house till alter his arrest. He conc:uded
with expressing the remorse he felt for the dreadful results
of his drunkenness. Tho prisoner's counsel declared that
his client was in reality a madman when he committed the
crime, and implored for him the benefit of extenuating cir-
cumstances; but the tribunal, deeming intoxication no ex-
cuse, unanimous;y declared the charge of murder fully
proved, and condemned the prisoner to death.
EXTRAORDINARY MEASURES OF THE POLICE
FOR THE SUPPRESSION OP GAROTTING AND OTHER ROB-
BERIES WITH VIOLENCE.—The metropolitan and City
Police authorities are making extraordinary efforts to sup-
press the monstrous crimes of garotting and other street
robberies, effected with violence, which are now of nightly
occurrence in the metropolitan and suburban districts. At
nightfall additional constables are placed on the various
beats, and who confer with each other on meeting. A large
number of detectives and officers in plain clothes are also
employed as patroles, the whole being under the superin
tendonce of an inspector of each division, assisted by ser-
geants and acting sergeants, selected from the most active
and intelligent constables. The haunts of thieves are
watched vigilantly,
and their movements reported, the ruf-
flans, however, in some instances manage to elude the vigi-
lance and activity, of the police, despite whose exertions
several robberies have been committed. These are supposed
by the police to have been effected through the means of
scouts (principally females), who signal to their accomplices
when a policeman is near or absent as the case may be,