The Sun.
London, England, 1865-04-12 00:00:00

rHE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY ILVENiNG-', -APRIL 12, 186

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT—This day.

(Before Mr. Baron Manual and Mr. Justice Montague
Smith.)

PRIVATE LTJNATIC ASYLUMS.

Sophia Leander was brought up to receive judgment.
She had been found guilty at a previous session for keeping
more than two lunatics' in an unlicensed private asylum.
Baron Channell said that Baron Martin, who tried the
case, had been anxious to deal leniently with the prisoner,
and had allowed two or three sessions to elapse without
passing sentence, in the hope that the defendant might see
fit to obey the law. The defendant would be ,sentenced
to one month's imprisonment, without hard labour, and to
pay a fine of £5O to the Queen.

PELIZZIONI'S CASE-THE SAFFRON-HILL
MURDER.

Serafino Pelizzioni, who was some time since convicted
of what was popularly known as the Saffron-hill murder,
and sentenced to death and respited, was arraigned on an
indictment charging him with unlawfully and maliciously
wounding Alfred Rebbeck, a potboy, at the Golden Anchor
public-house, Saffron-hill, on the 26th of December last.
The prosecution was directed by the Home Secretary in
consequence of Gregorio.Mogni having since the conviction
of Pelizzioni been tried and convicted of manslaughter.
When the indictment was read to the prisoner he was
asked whether he would elect to be tried by an English jury
or by a mixed jury of Englishmen and foreigners, he said
ho would prefer a mixed jury.
Sergeant Ballantine, who defended the prisoner, said
he had been informed that no foreign jury had been sum-
moned, although it was arranged on Monday that the trial
'should take place to-day.
Baron Channel said that as far as his experience went
it was always the practice to summon a foreign jury when-
ever a foreigner was to be tried.
Seegeant Ballantine, on the part of the prisoner, said he
should elect that the case should be tried by an English
jury.

Baron Channel and Justice Smith agreed that they could
not take the learned sergeant's admission in a criminal case.
He must consult with his client.

The whole of the matter was then explained to the pri-
soner, who shook his head and appeared dissatisfied. Mr.
Hemp, the clerk of the court, then put the question to him
again, and the prisoner said he should prefer a mixed jury.
Another long conversation took place, and at length the
prisoner said he would be tried by an English jury.
The ju.ry found the whole of the male prisoners guilty,
except Roberts, who was found guilty of receiving the
property, knowing it to have been stolen.
The female prisoners were acquitted and discharged.
Scotty and Hurley were then placed beside their com-
panions, and indicted for burglariously entering the pre-
mises of Mr. Johnson, of Threadneedle-street. They pleaded
Guilty.

Sentence was deferred until the other cases against the
prisoners were disposed of.

NEW COURT.
(Before Mr. Justice Shee,)
THE ACCIDENT IN THE BLACKHEATH TUNNEL.

James Jones surrendered to an indictment charging him
with the manslaughter of John Cummings and four others,
on the 14th of December, in the Blackheath Tunnel.

After hearing the evidence for the prosecution the judge
decided that the prosecution could not be maintained, and
that there seemed to have been a great deal of irregularity
on the part of the company.

The defendant was then discharged, the jury remarking
that the company were much to blame for not having
skilled persons to act at signal stations.

THIRD COURT.
(Before the Recorder.)
THE BURGLARY AT MR. WALKER'S.

William Jeffery, 27, carpenter ; Thomas Brewerton, 27,
confectioner ; Thomas Caseley,c23, sign-writer ; and David
Roberts, 41, silk weaver ; together with Martha Jeffery/
Ann Caseley, and Louisa Brewerton, were indicted for
feloniously breaking and entering the shop of John Walker
and stealing 400 watches, 150 chains, divers brooches,
rings, &c., value £6,000, and the sum of £7O in money.
The evidence was merely a repetition of that offered
at the Mansion-house during the examination of the wit-
nesses. The case was so fully reported in The Sun on each
of those occasions that a republication of it would be
but needless repetition.
The prisoners were all defended by counsel, exeept
Caseley, who acted for himself. He cross-examined the
police much in the same style as he did at the Mansion-
house, but he did not materially alter the effect of the
evidence given against him.
The•prisoners Price, alias Scotty, Hurley, and Wilkin-
son, were not included in the indictment relative to Mr.
Walker's robbery. They will be tried with the others for
the burglary at Mr. Johnson's, Mr. Abraha's, or Mr.
Bennock's.

After some evidence had been given the case was ad-
journed until to-morrow.

Extensive Robbery of Bank of England

Notes.

This morning Detective Sergeant Webb, of the City
police, apprehended a porter named Samuelson, in the em-
ploy of the Bank of England, on a charge of stealing a case
pocket-book, containing a large quantity of bank notes.

Samuelson has been in the service of the Bank for 30
years. In October last, a clerk in the dividend department
of the Bank of England had occasion to leave his desk for
a few minutes—the case containing the notes was lying on
the desk, but on his return it was not to be•found. The
authorities instituted a mos diligent inquiry into the affair,
but nothing was elicited to point out the guilty part. The
case contained 2 notes for £lOO, 4 for £5O, 16 for £lO, and
38 for £5.

The numbers were at once printed and circulated
through the country, and the notes were ordered to be
stopped. Nothing further was heard of the robbery until
a few days ago, when two of the £lO notes came into the
bank from parties at Hull who had cashed them. The
circumstance was made known to the police, and an officer
was instructed to proceed to Hull, and the result of his
inquiry led to his returning to the Bank of England and
apprehending Samuelson, who was identified as the per-
son who presented the notes, in question. On Webb
searching Samuelson he discovered the whole of the re-
mainder of the stolen notes concealed on him.

MARKETS—This Day.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.--This Day.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

ASSAULTS ON LICENSED VICTUALLERS.—George Speake,
a young man, was charged before Mr. Tyrwhitt with being
drunk and disorderly, and assaulting Mr. Thomas Ken-
drick, landlord of the Running Horse, Duke-street, Gros-
venor-square.

Mr. Kendrick said that on the previous day the prisoner
came to his house, annoyed his customers, insulted his
wife, and made use of disgusting language. The prisoner
left, but returned again and renewed his disgusting lan-
guage. He then tried to eject the prisoner, when he
struck him (Mr. Kendrick) a violent blow in the eye,
blackening it, and he then gave him into custody.
In answer to Mr. Tyrwhitt, Mr. Kendrick said the pri-
soner was drunk at the time, and was a regular pest to his
house.

Mr. Tyrwhitt fined the prisoner 20s. or 14 days.
Daniel Ward, a wood carver, was charged with assault-
ing Mr. Walter Dunstan, of the Coach and Horses, Little
Compton-street.

Mr Dunstan said the prisoner was in the habit of com-
ing to his house several times a day, and had always to be
turned out in cousequence of his annoying the customers
by drinking their drink. Yesterday the prisoner came in,
and, in consequence of the bad language he made use of,
he attempted to put him out of the house, when he seized
hold of him and struck at him, and nearly tore all the
clothes off his back. The piisoner was a wood carver by
trade, and could earn £3 a week, but instead of doing so
went from house to house annoying the customers.
Mr. Tyrwhitt ordered the prisoner to find one bail in £5
to be of good behaviour for two months.
INDIFFERENCE TO PUNISIIMENT.—TWO girls, named
Bridget Riley and Catherine Carrity, were charged with
begging in Conduit-street.

While in the dock they both appeared very penitent, but
as soon as they were committed for 14 days each, they
began dancing, and singing " Slap bang, here we are
again," at the same time clapping their hands.

Detector's Broadside on Quacks and

Quackery !

Dr. COURTENAY'S bold, dashing, slashing pam-
phlet, entitled, " Revelations of Quacks and
Quackery "—being a reprint of a remarkable series
of Letters, published by him originally under the
pseudonym of " DETECTOR," week after week, in
the columns of The Medical Circular, and here re-
published in a formidable brochure of 72 pages
octavo—Dr. Courtenay's daring, pitiless, and un-
compromising pamphlet is really and truly, we
would say, ACapital Substitute for the Pillory ! There
are certain offences against public decency and
public morality, in regard to which we are some-
times almost disposed to regret the abolition of the
punishment of the Pillory. And it is against one
of these—it is against one of the very worst of these
that Detector, that is to say Dr. Courtenay, has
opened up his terrific, ripping, tearing, annihilating
Broadside ! With a bold and, we would almost
say, self-sacrificing devotion to the interest
of the public disdaining to think of the
pitch and filth he is constrained to handle in
doing it—Detector, resolutely buckling to the un-
enviable task he has set himself, resolutely seizes,
one after another, upon a whole set of these Quacks,
fastening them, one after another, as he seizes them,
in the Pillory of his Pamphlet. It is for all the
world like the actual realisation of Tenniel's ruthless
cartoon in a back number of Punch--wherein it
may be remembered one of the Dr. Henery-genus
was being -pelted with some of his own medical
abominations! Detector's labours in another way
might be regarded as having been undertaken in
imitation of one of the most famous of the labours
of Hercules, namely, that of cleaning out the stable
of Augeas. So far as the feather-endl...of a single
pen could do it, Detector has cleared out his stable,
that stable the doors of which he has not hesitated
to fling wide open to the public at large !
And he has " gone in " at this effort of his towards
.making a clean sweep of it, so resolutely and
with a will, as the sailors have it, that his (De-
tector's) grey goose quill, we will hope, may prove
for the Quacks and for Quackery like a very twig
out of the besom of destruction.

The British Disaster at Dewangiri.
- -4*--

The following is an extract from a letter from
the officer who commanded the Royal Artillery at
Dewangiri on the occasion of the recent disaster to
our arms :

Koomerekottah, February 7, 1865.

I never thought that I should have to write such a
letter as this. We have been most soundly thrashed by
the Bhooteahs, and, what is far worse for me, they have
got my guns, not taken in fight, or I should not be here
to tell it, but thrown away in our retreat for want of
means to carry them. To begin at the beginning :
about four a.m. on the 30th of January, our camp at
Dewangiri was suddenly turned out by yells, shrieks,
musket shots, and every horrible noise that it would be
possible to be awakened by. We rushed out in our night
costume, and I got my men to their guns. It was pitch
dark, only illuminated by the constant flashing of muskets
on every side. Our camp was literally surrounded. Young
Urquhart, with his Sappers, was hard pressed, and he him-
self was one of the first shot down while leading his men
at a charge. We at last drove the enemy off from one part
of the camp after another, getting rid of the last about 9
o'clock. We then found that, out of a force of seven officers
and 400 men, one officer was killed, one wounded, and 50
men killed or wounded. It was a large proportion. We
" accounted " for a large number of the Bhooteahs, and
took a few prisoners, all of whom stated the Bhooteah force
to be 5,000, and that the Rajah had sworn to turn us out.
We laughed at the idea, and sent off to Gowhattee for
reinforcements. The letter got there that evening, and
on the Ist of February we got an answer to say that
our force was ample, and that no reinforcements would
be sent. That evening our principal supply of water was
cut off, and we had no men to hold the source of it. By
the 2d of February the enemy had advanced and cut off
the best pass to the plains. On the 4th they held a hill
which completely commanded our camp, and, to add to
our troubles, our water was very nearly gone, and there
was not sufficient for drinking purposes for another day.
It was accordingly decided that we should retreat that
night to the plains by one of the passes which was still
open. I got 50 men of a native infantry regiment to help
to carry my guns. They couldn't be dragged ; they had
to be taken off their carriages and carried. We started
at 1 a.m. on the sth. The wounded came first, carried by
200 men of the 43d Regiment Native Infantry ; then my
guns, with 50 of the same regiment. These men who were
told off to help me with my guns all bolted, and left mo
with 16 artillerymen to shift for ourselves. We struggled on
for about a mile up a very steep, bad path. At last I found
it was out of the question attempting to carry the guns
further. We were perfectly alone, expecting every instant
to have these savages on us. It was no use sacrificing
the mon as well as the guns, so I spiked the latter and
threw them into a ravine. Pushing on, we nrst came on
two of my own wounded men, deserted on the road.
We took them on, and then came upon a Sepoy
deserted in the same manner. It was now getting light,
and I saw we had completely lost the rest of the force.
About 7 a.m. the Bhooteah yells were heard in our rear.
By this time I had picked up about a dozen straggling
Sepoys and a lot of camp followers. These latter bolted
the, moment they heard the Bhooteahs, which was a good
thing for us. I got the rest together, and kept the
fellows at a distance by constantly turning and letting
the men who were carrying the wounded get on a bit.
At one time my small party was completely surrounded.
Our only chance was to attack the lot in front. I took
all the men I could spare (only eight), and gave them a
volley at 20 paces, which made two bite the dust ; then
with a rush we put them to flight. They still continued
to follow us up, but kept a respectful distance, evidently
seeing that men who were fighting for their lives were
not to be trifled with. How rejoiced I felt when I first
saw the ,plains ! I knew all was right then. I got all my
men safely into camp here at sunset, having brought out
four wounded men and several sick who had been de-
serted by the men told off to escort them. We had been
16 hours marching. My men behaved splendidly. I wish
I could say the same for all the others. I wish they
would hand over to my tender mercies those who deserted
the sick and wounded. They ought to bo hung. I don't
think any blame can attach to me for throwing away the
guns. In my own conscience I feel perfectly clear, but oh!
so small. To be beaten by the men we have been despis-
ing is too much, and I feel thoroughly sick.

The Lady Victoria Long Wellesley has recently
purchased Bolney Lodge, Cuckfield, Sussex, from Admiral
the Hon. Sir Frederick Grey. Lady Victoria Long Wel-
lesley has resided for some time in Sussex, where her ac-
tive benevolence and philanthropic efforts for the good of
the poor have won her the regard and esteem of all
classes.

TROUBLES ON THE FRONTIER.—A little while ago
ago, when the river was frozen over below Detroit,
a man from Toronto attempted to cross with a team of
horses and waggon. He had previously provided him-
self with a passport, setting forth his age name, size,
colour of the eyes and hair, peculiarities, physical con-
dition, and future prospects, for which he paid the usual
fee. With this key to unlock the gates of Uncle Sam's
exclusiveness, he anticipated no trouble in making his
entrance into this "land of the free and home of the
brave." He proceeded to cross the river on the ice
opposite Wyandotte, although not intending to land at
that point. The road being better on the ice than on the
land, he designed to keep near the shore and travel on
the ice. Ho was espied by the military guard stationed
at Wyandotte, who brought him up with a round turn
and demanded his passport. Having never travelled in
monarchical Europe, and being ignorant of the nature
and use ol a passport, he did not know it was simply for
exhibition, but supposed it was a sort of ticket of admis-
sion to the country, which was to be given up at the door,
as one hands over his card to the doorkeeper of a circus.
He accordingly handed over his passport, supposing him-
self to be inside the lines, and proceeded on his journey.
When opposite the fort he was again saluted by the guard
and his passport demanded. Having already disposed
of the useful document, he was, of course, minus,
and informed the guard of the manner in which
he had disposed of it. But this was not sufficient.
His own story, uncorroborated by any witnesses,
was not credited, and he was ordered to cross back to
Canada without delay. Furthermore, ho was ordered
to cross the river in a straight line, deviating neither to
the right nor left on penalty of being shot. Being
terrified by the threats of the guard, and the loaded
muskets :pointed at his head, he attempted strictly to
follow out their instructions. When he had reached the
middle of the stream he discovered that the ice was
unsafe, and shouted to the guard information of the fact.
But they still kept their guns pointed at him, and told
him to proceed straight. Rather than risk his life by
being shot, ho preferred to risk it on the strength of
the ice. But he had not gone far before his horses broke
through, and he saved himself from drowning with
some difficulty. Still the guard refused to allow him to
land or to allow any one to go to the rescue of his horses.
After his earnest supplications help was sent to get
the horses out of the water, and the man was made a
prisoner and conveyed inside the fort. Ono of the horses
was drowned, but the other was saved, and is said
still to be in the possession of a man at the fort. The
owner, after being kept a prisoner for some time, was con-
veyed across the river, and told never to bo caught on this
side again. The result of these operations is, that the man
has lost his team, and somebody has the horse which was
saved.—Detroit Free Press.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE,

BETTING AT MANCHESTER—TuEspir.

Speculation at the Subscription Rooms this day was
very insignificant, few commissions being in the market.
A "dead set" was made against Chattanooga for the Two
Thousand Guineas and Derby, 25 to 1 being offered against
him for the Guineas and 50 to 1 for the Derby, and in con-
nection with the latter race his stable companion, Con-
gress, declined to 1,000 to 2 (offered). For the City and
Suburban Handicap The Grinder and Mail Train closed
equal favourites at 9 to 1 each, and Lampoon remained at
his old price, 20 to 1 (taken and offered). The Lion was
firm at 10 to 1 for the Chester Cup, but 100 to 3 was
offered against the Highfiyer's dam colt. Closing prices :

CITY AND SUBURBAN.
9to 1 agst Grinder (taken)
9 to 1 agst Mail Train (taken)
100 to 6 agst Paris (taken and offered)
20 to 1 agst Lampoon (taken and offered)
20 to 1 apt Lady of Covordale (offered)
100 to 3 agst Moulsey (taken and offered)
40 to 1 agst Planet (wanted)
TWO THOUSAND.
7to 4 agst Liddington (offered)
100 to 30 agst Breadalbane (offered)
100 to 6 agst Bedminster (taken)
100 to 6 agst Ariel (taken and offered)
25 to 1 agst Chattanooga (offered)
CHESTER CUP.
•
10 to 1 agst Lion (taken and offered)
11 to 1 agst Lord Zetland (offered)
100 to 7 agst Ackworth (offered)
100 to 6 agst Victorious (offered)
100 to 3 agst The Clown (taken)
100 to 3 agst Highflyer's dam colt (offered)
200 to 1 agst Industry (offered)
THE DERBY.
11 to 2 on the field (offered)
50 to 1 agst Chattanooga (offered)
1000 to 2 agst Congress (offered)

RACING FIXT

Newmarket Craven l7
Durham
Canterbury Spring
Abergavenny 2O

Newmarket Ist Spring 1
Chester 9
York Spring
Salisbury lB
St. Columb l6

Redditch
Chelmsford
Manchester Summer 7
Ascot l3
Beverley l4
Liverpool
Alexandra Park 2O

Newmarket July
Carlisle
Worcester
Abingdon
Stamford l3
Winchester lB

RES FOR 1865.

Thirsk 2l
Cardiff 25
Epsom Spring

Salisbury lB
Not Herts Yeomanry 19
Bath 23
Harpenden 26
Epsom 3O

Hampton 2l
Newton
Newcastle
Odiham
Bidbury
Stockbridge

Nottingham
Southampton l9
Chesterfield
Goodwood
Down Royal Corp —

AUG'

UST.

Brighton 1
Brighton Club
Lewes 4
Huntingdon
Wolverhampton
Reading
Egham l5
Royal Windsor l7

York
Plymouth
Lichfield 2B
Devon and Exeter 29
Derby Summor BO
Weymouth 3l
Baden 3l
Stockton
SEPTEMBER.

Monmouth 2l
Manchester Autumn
Newmarket Ist Oct 26
Walsall

Leicester 7
Doncaster
Brecon lB
Richmond
OCTOBER.

Northallerton 5 Newmarket Ho. 11
Newmarket 2d Oct 9 Vincennes
Vincennes

ROVE

Liverpool Autumn

:HER.

Shrewsbury

LONDON GAZErTE---Last Evening.

WAR-OFFICE, PALL-MALL, APRIL 11.

53d Regiment of Foot—Major-General Charles William
Ridley, C. 8., to be Colonel, vice Lieutenant-General
Frederick Maunsell, tmnsferred.to 85th Foot.
_

85th Foot—Lieutenant-General Frederick Maunsell, from
53d Foot, to be Colonel, vice General Sir John Wright
Guise, Bart., G.C.8., deceased.
21st Hussars—Captain and Brevet-Major Edmund Armi-
tage Hardy to be Major, vice .Henry Robert Grindlay,
who retires upon half-pay.

Ist Regiment of Foot—Staff Assistant-Surgeon William
Snowdon Hedley, M.D., to be Assistant-Surgeon, vice
Wm. White, appointed to the Military Train.
2d Foot—Staff Assistant-Surgeon Bernard James Finegan
to be Assistant-Surgeon, vice Frederick Murray Chalk,
deceased.

4th Foot—Quartermaster Cornelius Godfrey, from a Depot
Battalion, to be Quartermaster, vice John Newoy, de-

ceased. . •
11th Foot—Captain Alex. Gordon, from the 14th Foot, to
be Captain, vice A. F. De B. Dixon, who exchanges.
13th Foot—Lieutenant Anthony Edmund Donelan, from
the late sth West India Regiment, to be Lieutenant, vice
Wm. Lea Smith, who retires upon temporary half-pay.
14th Foot—Captain and Brevet-Major Charles Marshall
Foster, from 32d Foot, to be Captain, vice A. Perry, who
exchanges ; Captain Augustus Frederick De B. Dixon,
from 11th Foot, to be Captain, vice A. Gordon, who ex-
changes.
20th Foot—The Commission, as Instructor of Musketry,
of Lieutenant George Frederic Harris, to be antedated
to 6th April, 1864.
26th Foot—Lieutenant Charles H. Dougherty, from the
74th Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Hardy, who exchanges.
32d Foot—Captain Adam Perry, from 14th Foot, to be
Captain, vice Brevet-Major C. M. Foster, who ex-
changes; Ensign the Hon. James Bruce Ogilvy to be
Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Walter Philip Walshe,
who retires ; Wm. Henry Iremonger, Gent., to be En-
sign, by purchase, vice the Hon. J. B. Ogilvy.
35th Foot—Quartermaster John Robertson, from a Depot
Battalion, to be Quartermaster, vice Michael M'Lough-
lin, who retires upon half-pay.
50th Foot—Staff Assistant-Surgeon Owen Owen to be
Assistant-Surgeon, vice George Frederick Davis, who
resigns.
60th Foot—Arthur Pepys, Gent., to be Ensign, by pur-
chase, vice the Hon. Augustus W. C. Ellis, who retires.
73rd Foot—Staff Assistant-Surgeon William Sparks, Mar-
tin Price to be Assistant-Surgeon, vice Francis Henry
Macfadin, appointed to the Military Train.
74th Foot—Lieutenant Simeon Harrison Hardy, from 26th
Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Dougherty, who ex-
changes.

THE VOLUNTEERS. LONDON SCOTTISH.—On
Monday evening, No. 3 Company met at the Wel-
lington Tavern, Spring-gardens, on the occasion of the re-
tirement from the company of Captain Conway, who had
recently resigned his commission in the regiment. The
chair was taken by Ensign Puckle, who, after proposing
the various patriotic toasts, gave the toast of the evening,
" The Health of Captain Conway," in a highly eulogistic
speech, and at the' close presented him, on behalf of the
company, with an album, containing the portraits of all
the men under his command. The toast was drunk
with Highland honours. Captain Conway replied in feel-
ing terms, and said that, though he had resigned his com-
mission, he had not entirely severed himself from the
corps, but was enrolled on the list of honorary members,
and he should continue to take an interest in all things
connected with his late company. He thanked them sin-
cerely for the handsome present they had made to him,
and he should treasure it up to the last day of his life. A
vote of thanks to Ensign Puckle closed the proceedings.

SCULLER'S RACE FOR £5O.—A rowing match, in
outriggers, for the above sum, took place yesterday,
from Putney to Mortlake. The men were both well known
in boating circles, and were Thomas Wise, of Hammer-
smith, and John 31'Binney, of Richmond. Mr. Marsefield
was referee ; Mr. Wilson umpire for Wise, and Henry
Kelley for M'Kinney. Citizen L accompanied, with a
large freight. The betting was 2tol on Wise, who had
the station. Wise, soon after the start, obtained the lead,
and held it all the way ; and although M'Kinney rowed a
desperate stern wager, and was game from first to last, his
opponent, who is his junior by 16 years, possessing youth
and strength, was too good for him, and beat him by three
lengths. Time, 25 min. 30 sec.
THE PRITCHARD CASE.--On Saturday,
Gemmel, Procurator-Fiscal, was engaged examdin3tllrg.
Mr. Henderson, of the firm of Burton and Henderson
grocers, Sauchiehall-street, and the teller of the ein
cross Branch of the City of Glasgow Bank,
connec-
tion with the serious charge against theptrnis3noinor.eiriebnudtewrsiotnh
reference to a cheque which he presentedh _arch,
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THE LATE MR. COBDEN.—At a meeting of the
town council of Birmingham yesterday, the mayor (31r.
Henry Wiggin) proposed, and Mr. Alderman Holliday
seconded, the following resolution, which was carried
unanimously:—That the council desires to jnin in the uni-
versal sympathy so feelingly expressed in all parts of the
kingdom for the family and friends of the late lamented
statesman, Richard Cobden, by whose untimely death the
best interests of commerce and humanity have sustained an
irreparable loss." A similar vote was carried at Bradford.

ACTS OF PARLIAMENT.—There were ten public
and three local acts passed on Friday last, when Parlia-
ment adjourned, making sixteen public and three local
statutes in the session, which commenced on the 7th of
February.
SUICIDE FROM A LOVE AFFAIR. Yesterday a
young woman, named Caroline Williams, destroyed herself
by swallowing a quantity of laudanum, in consequence of
a quarrel with a young man to whom she was to have been
married having broken off the match.

THIRD EDITION.

SUN OFFICE, G o'CLocK.

CITY BE rTING—This Day.

NEWMARKET HANDICAP.
3to 1 agst John Davis (taken)
sto 1 agst Tomato (taken)
10 to 1 agst Wandering Minstrel (taken)
10 to 1 agst Grace Darling (taken)

CITY AND SUBURBAN.
6to 1 agst Grinder (taken)
9to 1 agst Mail Train (taken)
20 to 1 agst Perfumer (taken)
20 to 1 agst Lampoon (taken)

CHESTER CUP.
14 to 1 agst La Toucques (taken)
16 to 1 agst Victorious (taken)
20 to 1 agst Gratitude (taken)
33 to 1 agst Buckfoot (taken)
33 to 1 agst Mail Train (taken)

THE TWO THOUSAND.
2to 1 agst Liddington (taken)
3to 1 agst Breadalbane (taken)
12 to 1 agst Broomielaw (taken)
16 to 1 agst Ariel (taken)
20 to 1 agst Chattanooga (taken)
40 to 1 agst Archimedes (taken)

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The Russian Squadron in the Baltic.

(REUTER'S EXPRESS.)
ST. PETERSBURG, April Bth.

The Message,. de Cronstadt gives the enumeration of the
vessels of the War Marine destined this year to undertake
excursions for practical navigation in the Baltic sea. There
will be a squadron of ironclad; consisting of the frigate
Sebastopol, 18 guns, two rams, the two-turretted gunboat
Smertsch, and 11 single-turretted Monitors. By the end
of the summer the above will probably ba joined by the
ironclad frigate Petropavlowsk, 26 guns, and the armour-
plated battery Kremil, of 18 guns. The squadron will also
comprise several paddlewheel frigates and sailing vessels
as an escort to the monitors and turretted gunboats. Irre-
spective of the smaller vessels, the screw frigate Grand
Admiral, of 78 guns, will also cruise in the interior, having
on board, it is said, their Imperial Highnesses the Grand
Dukes Alexis Alexandrovitch and Nicholas Constan-
tinovitch.

Besides the vessels already absent the following will leave
this year to cruise abroad. The screw frigate Pereswett
42 guns, for the Mediterranean ; the screw corvette Askold,
liguns, the steam clipper Izouroud, and the screw gunboat
Sobol for the Pacific Ocean. The vessels that will return
to Cronstadt are the following : from the Mediterranean,
the squadron of Rear-Admiral Lesowski, consisting of the
screw frigates Alexander, Nevski and Oleg, the screw cor-
vette Witiaze, and the steam clipper Almaze ; and from the
Pacific Ocean the screw corvette Kalevala, the steam clipper
Abrek, and the sailing transport Guiliak.
The Riga Gazette says—Upon the proposition of the
Committee of the Courland Nobility, Count Schovalow, the
Governor-General, confirmed on Feb. 19 last the abroga-
tion of the right of corporal punishment granted by the
Courland regulations, in the case of the peasants, to the
rural police, landlords and public functionaries, restricting
such right of correction to schools and the lower order of
domestics.

The Nauvelliste de Kertsch announces, under the date of
Feb. 28, that the whole extent of the Sea of Azof as far as
the eye could reach from the topof the Yenikale lighthouse
is free of ice, so that the lighting up of that building was
resumed on the 19th of that month. On the 18th naviga-
tion was opened in the port of Berdiansk.