The Sun.
London, England, 1865-04-17 00:00:00

Murder on the High Seas,

At the Ilford Petty Sessions, on Saturday, before J. G.
Fry (chairman), N. Powell, J. C. Davis, Esqs., and Major
Stuart, George Ward, 26, a native of Galway, a seaman on
board the ship Moravia, was charged with feloniously kill-
ing and slaying, on the 4th inst., on board the above ship,
John Smith, a native of Belfast, a British subject, while off
the English Channel. The ship came into the Victoria
Docks on Thursday, and the prisoner who, since the day
of the alleged murder, has been kept in irons, was given
into the custody of Mr. Todman, Inspector of the Thames
Police, by Captain Patten, of the Moravia, sailing under
the United States flag.
At the preliminary investigation of the case to-day the
first witness called was Horace C. Brown, who said—l am
second mate of the ship Moravia, of Bath, Maine, United
States. On Tuesday, the 4th inst., the ship was at sea off
the Lizard. The prisoner George Ward was a seaman on
board the Moravia. Between eight and nine o'clock in the
morning I heard some loud talking in the forecastle of the
ship. I went down and saw the prisoner holding a seaman
whom we called Tom by the jacket or throat, I cannot say
which. He held the knife now produced in his right hand.
I heard him say, " You son of a —." I took hold of the
prisoner, and took the knife from him. The captain and
mate of the ship came to my assistance, and the prisoner
was put in irons. I saw a wound in the left side of the
man Tom, and blood was flowing profusely down his pants.
There was blood on the knife. The deceased lived about
twenty minutes after the occurrence.

John Peterson—l anfa seaman on board the ship Mo-
ravia, of Bath, Maine, U.S. On the 4th of April inst., I
was in the forecastle with the prisoner and the man Tom,
since deceased, and four other men. The prisoner and
the deceased were sitting on a chest together. They
began quarrelling, and stood up to fight. The de-
ceased struck the prisoner with his open hand on
the face. The prisoner then knocked his head against
the head of the deceased. The deceased said, "You are
trying to hurt me," and the prisoner then struck him again
The deceased then struck the prisoner two or three times
and threw him down. I told them to leave off, and they
did so for a time. They then both stood up and began
fighting. The deceased threw the prisoner down again,
and kicked him when he was down. I told them to leave
off. They did so, and stood up close together. I then sow
blood running from the left side of the deceased, and the
prisoner held up his hand with a knife in it as if to strike
the deceased. I then got hold of his arm. The deceased
also got hold of his wrist. Prisoner called the deceased
the " son of a —." The second mate then came up and
took hold of his arm, and the knife away from him. The
deceased fell down and bled very much, and was carried
aft. He died about twenty minutes after the occurrence.
The prisoner was then put in irons.

In answer to the bunch as to whether he had anything

to say,

The prisoner said—l know nothing at all about it. We
were both drunk. I wish the case adjimirned, that I may
have the assistance of counsel.

Mr. Inspector Todman applied for the case to be remanded
as he had further evidence to adduce.

The bench remanded the prisoner till Saturday next.
In the meantime the American consul will be communicated
with, as the offence, having been committed under the
American flag, though a British subject, will, by the 6th
and 7th Viet., chap. 76, according to the 10th article of a
treaty signed at Washington on the 9th of August, 1842,
it is presumed, be claimed as a prisoner to answer for the
offence by the American Government.
The prisoner, who is a slender man, was then removed
from the dock.

FATAL ACCIDENT AT HOLLOWAY.—On Saturday
two men were working in the new sewer which is
being constructed under the Seven Sisters-road, Holloway,
when, without the slightest warning, a large portion of the
hording gave way, and fell upon them. One of them,
named John Cooke, was completely buried. The other
man, named Joseph Scales, fell, severely injured about the
head and face, and, having been extricated, was removed
to St. Bartholomew's Hospital. The body of Cooke was
not got out till several hours had elapsed, although the
most strenuous exertions were made by a large' body of
workmen to remove the superincumbent earth. The un-
fortunate man was quite dead. A coroner's inquest will
take place on the body.
SHYNESS AND DIIESS.—We are inclined to think
that shyness proper and simple is connected in some
way with the primitive conception and judicial ordinance
of dress as a covering. Shyness, acting on undisciplined
instinct, always manifests itself by an endeavour to hide
whatever is bare and exposed about us. The child among
strangers turns away its face, contracts its shoulders, and
either conceals its hands, or uses them to cover a more sen-
sitive feature. The boor uses incredible expedients to put
his feet out of sight—whatever betrays the outline of his
form. A writer in the Saturday Review says :—" There are
two things that an Englishman detests, especially in even-
ing dress—one is, to be obliged to pose where he can be
generally observed—the other, to have no comfortable mode
of disposing of his hands. It is a common saying," he
continues, " that Englishmen can never meet together
without eating ; but it is not because they are a pecu-
liarly gluttonous people, but because eating puts them
at their ease. When your legs are fairly stowed under
the table, and your hands are busy with the knife and fork,
there is no difficulty about attitude. Directly the question
of attitude is settled, an Englishman's heart begins to open.
His proverbial shyness does not arise from his being timid
or proud, but simply unready." But why, we ask, is he
unready, but because shyness directs his thoughts to the
exposed points in his position ? Why, in addition to the
other reasons, is he at ease at dinner, but because other
eyes, are off duty ? We are never so shy as when others
stand by and see us eat. The highest accomplishment of
training—the greatest victory over raw nature—is to be
able to sit at perfect ease with the outline of the form
visible. We see this even in women not used to a full
evening toilet—an ordeal which nothing but education
and practice can enable them to sustain—but in men no
doubt much more conspicuously. And if it is so in loose
modern costume, what must it have been in the days of
Sir Charles Grandison and silk stockings ? This may
have had something to do with the proverbial awkward-
ness of scholars in those days, when dragged from their
colleges to the light of day, without the protecting shel-
ter to leg and knee of the academic gown. Their
shamefacedness was more akin to shyness than heart-
modesty. A Turkish woman, veiled and swathed from
head to foot, from all accounts is not shy ; but set her
before the stranger she inspects so boldly in English cos-
tume, and she would bo overwhelmed. A mask makes its
wearer unbashful, not from sense of concealment, which is
felt to be fallacious, but simply because the face is covered.
It is the same with the coquettish veils we see worn. The
delicate web of lace touches the cheek, drapes it to the
imagination, and sometimes gives to the eye a courage
which can hardly be maintained on its withdrawal. When
Cherry Picksniff, on the eve of that wedding-day that had
no dawning, held her Moddle's hand, and veiled the trans-
action with the extreme corner of her shawl, she testified to
a principle. Possibly the love of accessories to the toilet to
which some natures are addicted, as it were extending the
personality to extraneous things, has its source in tlie senti-
ment, the hand sharing with the face the pains of uniform
exposure. The stick, the fan, the snuff-box in civilised
circles—the Kentuckian's knife, or the Greek's string of
beads in simpler forms of life—are all expedients for for-
getting this difficult member ; and even where display is
the object, veiling the exhibition by the artifices of affecta-
tion. Our view, then, is that people are reserved at al ,
hours of the day or night ; sun or shade, twilight or candles,
makes little or no difference ; but that nobody is shy in the
dark.—Blacicwood's Magazine.

ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL, GRAY'S-INN-ROAD.
Tho number of patients relieved at this hospital during
the week ending April 15 was 3,188, of which 992 were

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HER MAJESTY.

WINDSOR CASTLE, April 15.
The Queen, accompanied by her Royal High-
ness Princess Helena, walked and drove in the
grounds yesterday afternoon.

Her Royal Highness Princess Louise also walked
in the grounds, attended by Lady Churchill.

Sanday.
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The Queen, their Royal Highnesses Prince Alfred,
Princess Helena, and Princess Louise, Prince Leo-
pold, Princess Beatrice, and the Duke of Cam-
bridge, and the Ladies and Gentlemen in Waiting,
attended Divine servicethis morning in the private
chapel.

The Hon. and Very Rev. the Dean of Windsor
administered the Sacrament of the Holy Communion.
Her Majesty, accompanied by her Royal High-
ness Princess Lonise, drove out to dropmore yes-ter-
afternoon, attended by the Hon. Mrs. Bruce and
the hon. Lucy Kerr. Major General Seymour was
also in attendance on horseback.
Their Royal Highnesses Prince Alfred and
Princess Helena went out riding, attended by Lady
Churchill, Colonel the Hon. A. Liddell, and Lieut.
Haig.

Princess Beatrice took a carriage drive.
His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, at-
tended by Lieut.-Col. H. Clifton, arrived at the
Castle yesterday.

The King of the Belgians.
His Majesty the King of the Belgians, attended
by Count de Moerkerke, Dr. Doepl, and suite, Will
according to the latest arrangements, leave Windsor
Castle to-morrow (Tuesday) afternoon, and return
to the Continent. His Majesty will travel by the
Charing-cross and South-Western Railway to
Waterloo, and thence by the Charing-cross and
South-Eastern Railways to Dover. It is anticipated
that Bing Leopold, who will reaeh Dover about six
o'clock in the evening, will remain for the night at
Birmingham's Lord Warden Hotel, and embark for
Brussels the next day.

His Royal Highness Prince Alfred, attended 1)7
Lieutenant Haig, visited the Chapel Royal of St. George
yesterday afternoon, and remained during the whole of
Divine service.

His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge
left Gloucester House, Piccadilly, on Saturday, on a short
visit to her Majesty at Windsor Castle.

The Earl Bathurst is, we are informed, in very
unsatisfactory health.

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Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston are sur-
rounded by a select family party at Brocket Hall, Hertst
including the Countess of Shaftesbury and the Ladies
Ashley, Viscountess Jocelyn, and Hon. Miss Jocelyn.
Viscount and Viscountess Holmesdale are enter-
taining a select party at Linton Park, their seat near
Maidstone.

Viscount Hamilton, M.P., returned to town on
Saturday, from visiting tlmir Royal Highnesses the Prince
and Princess of Wales, at Sandringham, in order to accom-
pany the Earl Cowper on his mission to Copenhagen.
Field-Marshal his Highness Prince Bariatinsky
and the Princess Bariatinsky have left Claridge's Hotel for
Combe Royal, South Devon. • •

The Marchioness of Kildare and her infant
daughter are both going on favourably by the latest se"
counts from their seat in Ireland.

The Earl and Countess of Derby have been►
detained in town by the indifferent health of Lady Con-
stance Stanley. Her ladyship was much better yesterday.
The Earl of Dalhousie and Lady Christian Maul°
haVe left Claridge's Hotel for Brechin Castle, N.B. .
The Earl of Sefton, accompanied by major-
General Lord Henry Percy, Colonel the Hon. Dudley
Carleton, and the Rev. Frank Hopwood, will leave town
to-day for Portsmouth, to embark on his mission to Lisboa
to present to the King of Portugal the Order of the Garter
from her Majesty. The noble earl is expected to be absent
from England about six weeks.

The Earl Cowper takes his departure for Den-
mark at an early hour this morning on his mission
to present the Order of the Garter to the King of Denmark
from the Queen. Attached to the mission are the follow-
ing gentlemen :—Viscount Hamilton, the Hon. James
Stuart Wortley, Col. Towers (of the Coldstream Guards),
the Hon. Evelyn Ashley, and the Hon. Edward Scott Gif-
ford. Sir Charles Young (Garter), Mr. Albert Woods
(Lancaster Herald), and Mr. Win. Courthope (Pursuivaut
and Registrar) will also accompany the noble earl as offi-
cers of the Heralds' College. The Earl Cowper and party
proceed to Copenhagen by way of Brussels, Cologne, and
Kiel. They expect to arrive at Copenhagen on Fi iday
next.

WHY THERE ARE NO GOOD MAID SERVANTS NOR'
A-DAYS.—W hat education does for the boy, in whom
its finer lessons are blunted by rough field-work, it doeo
with still more striking result in the girl, whose new pa'
lions are encouraged by residence in a gentleman's family
Her ideas of refinement do not give her a distaste to house-
hold work, for there is an instinct of cleanliness and smell
order in most women's minds, which education developer
rather than weakens; but as far as she is educ,atedi
the .modern maid perceives and resents with quicker
perception that tone of curt exaction from her own
sex by which so many mistresses try to establish their
authority. Some who pass unchallenged as " ladies " in
general society, address and direct their servanis with
peremptory air, of which probably they are themselves
unconscious. There is a traditional style of speaking to
servants which comes down from the days in which Great
Britain was a slaveonwing country. Orders are often given,
not with distinctness and precision, which are never offen-
sive, but with a sharpness, if not snapishness, which is
thoughtlessly supposed to suit the communication, but
which the intelligent servant feels to be needless, if not
wanton. Why should not a lady speak to her maids as she
does to any one else ?--Clumbers's Journal.

A NEW AMERICAN YACHT.—A New "York paper
gives the foilnwing description of a yacht which
has recently been built at Cleveland, Ohio :—" The Octavio,
is schooner rigged, and is constructed in the most substan-

tial manner, entirely of American wood, principally white
oak, with combings and finishings of hard pine, chervil
curled maple, black walnut, &c. She is of 430 tons burthei,
146 feet length, 25 feet breadth, 14 feet depth, with 250
nominal and 700 actual horses' power. She is calculated to
consume at the rate of lflb. of coal per horse power per
hour, and with 200 tons of coal on board can make the cir-
cuit of the globe. Her propeller is 9ft. bin. in diameter,
with 4ft. bin. pitch. Her engines are a combination of both
the low and high pressure styles—a union of the locomo-
tive and marine descriptions—making the vessel, with her
estimated rate of speed of 14 to 18 knots, a sort of locomo-
tive on water. The engines have a surface condenser, cal-
culated to use steam at the rate of 751 b. to the inch. Di-
mansions of cylinders, high pressure, 18in. by 18in. ; low
pressure, 36in. by 18in. 'The cylinders are connected, and
move on a beam. The steam first goes into the small cy-
linder, and after having performed its functions there goes
into the larger one, and thence into the surface condenser,
where it is returned to the boiler at a temperature of about
125 deg. The boilers are of the ordinary marine tubular
kind, with about 2,000 ft. heating surface. The Octavio
has two cabins—the state cabin forward, officers' cabin aft.
The state rooms and saloons are forward, with pantrieol
closets, storeroom, &c. ; together with a children's nurserly
which is supplied with all family conveniences. She CO
handsomely accommodate about 20 guests, without inter"
faring with the quarters of the officers. Her complement
of crew will be 15 men. Although a purely American no-
tion, being constructed entirely of American material, and
her seams sealed as if with some purely American her-
metic solution, she will sail under British colours. The
Octavia is estimated to be worth $150,000."
THE HORNS ASSEMBLY ROOMS, KENNINGTON."'"
Messrs. Stacey and Kelly gave the first of a series
of " Anti-Spiritual Conversaziones" at the above rooms on
Wednesday evening last. After a short address, in which
the opinions of Mr. Addison and Mr. Coleman were freely
discussed (much to the satisfaction of the former gentle"
man who was present), a committee was formed, and the
two anti-spiritualists were bound (one, as we were given
to understand, by the "Tom-fool's knot), and then locked
up in the cabinet. After a very short time they appear°'
with the ropes in their hands. They then tied themselveo
up, and were again locked up in the cabinet. This tilo
the dulcet strains of music were heard, and magic hands ar
peered, and with a few more of such Davenport demon"'
strations, finished the first part of the entertainment. The
second part consisted of the dark seance. The audience Were
requested to join hands in order that neither mortal net
spirit should enter the magic circle. Messrs. Stacey and
Kelly were securely fastened to chairs, the knots on the
ropes being sealed. No sooner were the lights extinguisheci
than fiery guitars, banjos, accordions, tamberines, balls'
&c., flew about the room in every direction, and deport°a
themselves in the roughest manner possible. The Del°
were then brought in and the two gentlemen were dig"
covered firmly tied and the seals unbroken. They thenassured the company that they had received no spiritil A
aid, and that the, extraordinary sights they had witnesSe'
was only a clever illusion. With this we perfectly agree:,
and congratulate Messrs. Stacey and Kelly on being able
to accomplish as much without the aid of spirits as , 0
Davenports do with them. There was a numerous audieecoei
which departed highly pleased with their two hours
mystery.

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