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CROYDON, Saturday Night.
During the early part of the week the inhabitants
of this town were kept in a state of excitement owing
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to the revels going on at what is now termed the
people's pleasure fair ; but however great the excite-
ment had been during the days the carnival lasted,
it was considerably increased this morning, when
the inhabitants were alarmed by a disastrous fire
breaking out,which continued its ravages for hours,
destroying property estimated at several thousand
pounds. The scene of the disaster was Lansdowne-
road, East Croydon, at the back of the parish
church. On the ground were erected a great
many
houses, containing about 12 rooms each. These
buildings had been roofed in, but were not quite
finished, and some contained a large stock of build-
ing materials, such as sashes, doors, &c., and unfor-
tunately the whole or principal portions of themen's
working tools were in the structure at the time the
fire commenced. The first intimation of the out-
break was from one of the builders, who seeing
flames round one of the cupboards in the centre house
of the row, raised an alarm, and having summoned
the different workpeople to the spot, they made an
attempt to get the fire extinguished, but their
efforts were unsuccessful, and in the course of a
few minutes the building in which the disaster com-
menced became encircled in flame. The fire ex-
, tended with such rapidity that in less than a quarter
of an hour the adjoining houses became ignited. In
a very brief period two engines belonging to the
Board of Health attended, as well as that of the
Croydon Volunteers. The whole of this force at
once went to work, but the flames continued their
ravages, and eventually no less than seven of the
magnificent buildings became fired, and such a for-
midable aspect did the conflagration at length as-
sume that a telegraphic message was sent to London
for additional assistance. Head Engineers Metcalf
and Izzard at once started to the spot with one of
Shand and Mason's land engines, but by the time
they reached the scene the fire had nearly spent
itself.

ENI.

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STAMPED &LI
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GREAT ST. JAMES'S-HALL.—WORLD of
MAGIC, Second Sight, and " Begone,"Dull Care,"
every evening at 8. A Day Performance. Saturday, at 3.
" The most varied entertainment in the metropolis."—Vide
the Press. Admission, is.

Launch at Messrs. Maudslay, Son, and
Field's, East Greeuwich.

was carried on by land, and that the passage of the
desert contributed to improve the hygienic condi-
tion of the caravans by isolating and dissipating the
morbid elements they carried with them. Now-a-
days, on the contrary, thanks to the facility and re-
sources of steam navigation, it is by sea, and in a
very short space of time, that these voyages are-in
great part accomplished by the aid of packets upon
which are crowded thousands of Musulmans of every
nationality. This accumulation, added to the short-
ness of the passage, is certainly one of the causes
which most contribute to the development of epi-
demic centres.

must have puffed out. The deceased said that he thought
the bag held about 411bs. of powder.
Capt. Coffee said that it was just possible that the bag
might have been cut by the shovel, but no powder could
well have been puffed out. It was the extreme caution of
the deceased in. putting in the shovel over the powder that
seemed to have cost him his life ; for if the shovel had not
been there he would simply have been thrown down by the
explosion.

The shipyard of Messrs. Maudslay and Co., at
East Greenwich, wore on Saturday afternoon an
appearance of gaiety in very striking contrast to the
grim ugliness for which the shipyards on either side
of the Thames are generally so conspicuous. The
visitor passing up and down the river may be quite
sensible of the importance and greatness, as indus-
trial undertakings, of these yards ; but he may also
be allowed to entertain a legitimate regret that it is
impossible to combine ever so little of the dulce with
so much of what is unquestionably the utile. He
may sigh for the days when a trip on the Thames
meant something more and something better than
a journey in a shabby steamboat down a muddy
river, crowded with barges and colliers, and flowing
between two unbroken lines of wharves,warehouses,
ironworks, shipyards, or the like. But to this uni-
form mass of ugliness, the yard of Messrs. Maudslay
presented, as we have said, on Saturday afternoon a
very agreeable contrast, on the occasion of the launch
of the first vessel which the firm has ever built. The
yard was decorated with flags, as was also the ves-
sel about to commence her career on the water ;
and the large number of well-dressed ladies and
gentlemen gathered together to witness the launch
imparted great animation to the scene. Messrs.
Maudslay have hitherto been distinguished as
engineers, and it is only lately that they have
turned their thoughts to shipbuilding. The vessel
launched on Saturday is being consecrated for the
Iron Screw Colliery Company. Her keel was laid
on the 18th of May, and • the work has been well
pushed forward, so that a comparatively short space
of time will suffice to finish her. The vessel, which
is designed on Henwood's patent dynamical prin-
ciple, is, in length, 182 ft. 6 in. ; breadth moulded,
27 ft. 6 in. ; depth moulded, 18 ft. ; her register
tonnage is about 530. She is classed AB at
Lloyd's, but is said to be considerably stronger in
many respects than is required by their rules for
vessels of this size. She is the first vessel of any
size that has been launched from East Greenwich,
and considerable interest was consequently felt in
the affair. The list of invited guests was a large
one, and the general public contributed no small
number of sightseers. Shortly after two o'clock
the signals were given to make ready for the
launch, and the workmen began to knock away the
supports from beneath the keel. When all was
ready the crowded state of the river made it neces-
sary for some little time to keep the vessel still on
the stocks ; but at length the word of command
came, the last support was knocked away, and,
amidst general cheering, the vessel glided swiftly
and: smoothly into what imaginative writers per-
sist in calling her " native element." The task of
christening her fell on Miss Maudslay, who per-
formed the duty to admiration, in the right way,
or, what was of still greater importance, at the
right moment. The "Lady Derby," as she was
named, was no sooner fairly in the water than
than a rope was passed over her bows, and she
was towed into the Victoria Docks to receive her
masts, engines, and boilers. These engines are of 90-
horse nominal power, but will work up to 500 or 600
horse power. The launch having thus passed off
with complete success, another little word—not dis-
similar to it in appearance or pronunciation—was
heard to pass from the mouths of the company —in
short, after the launch came the lunch. A very
handsome collation had been laid out in front of one
of the extensive workshops, and the guests were well
disposed to accept the hospitality of the firm, for the
wind was strong and keen, and admirably calculated
to give one an appetite. Before the company sepa,

PROFESSOR and the Misses ANDERSON.—
Farewell season. World of Magic. Second Sight, and
the original Indian Basket Trick, in conjunction with Fre-
deric (the great) Maccabe, the unrivalled ventriloquist, mimic,
and character actor.

TIREDERIC MACCABE, Ventriloquist, Mimic,
ac.. In his original entertainment, "Begone, Dull Care,"
Miss Mary May," " Early in the ;Morning." Balcony, 2s. ' •
reserved seats, 3s. ; stalls, ss. ; at Mr. Austin's office, St.
James's-hall, 23, Piccadilly.
A. NIM3IO, Acting Manager.

Dr. Ross said that he heard from some of the men that
deceased seemed to have observed his danger when too late,
for he cried out " Good God," just before the explosion.
The Coroner having summed up,
The jury returned a verdict "That deceased died from
decapitation arising from an accidental explosion of gun-
powder while instructing the Ist Tower liamletsEngineers
in blowing up a stockade."

QTODARE.-191sT REPRESENTATION.—
THEA VRE OF MYSTERY, EGYPTIAN HALL.
MARVELS in MAGIC and VENTRILOQUISM, by Col.
STODARE. The REAL INDIAN BASKITT TRICK, and
INS TANTANEOUS GRO WTH of FLOWER TREES, as
introduced for the first time in this country on Easter Mon-
dal, April 17, 1865, by Colonel Stodare, and only performed
by him and the Indian Magicians.
Every evening at 8 (Saturdays included), also on Wednes-
day and Saturday Afternoons at 3. Stalls at Mitchell's, 33,
Old Bond-street, and Box-office, Egyptian Hall. Admission,
Is., 28., and 3s.

These new circumstances call for a surveillance
and control over the operations of embarkation and
transport of the pilgrims, which seem to have been
hitherto altogether insufficient. It is intelligible of
what high importance it is that the sanitary condi-
tion on board these packets should not be disguised
either by the commanders of those vessels or by the
authorities which pronounce their admission to free
pratique. It is permitted to hope that if a system
of observation and surveillance had existed at the
point of a departure, and if exact reports upon cases
of illness arising during the passages had attracted
the vigilance of the local sanitary authorities in
time, they would have been able to extinguish or
isolate the centres of inspection, the influence of
which has successively extended to Syria, to the
coasts of Asia Minor, and to a portion of southern
Europe.

Capt. Coffee said that it might be a consolation to the
deceased's mother and other relatives to know that not only
all his comrades, but Sir John Burgoyne and the deputy
adjutant-general, appreciated the excellent qualities, scien-
tific and otherwise, of the unfortunate sergeant.

"Almost miraculous."—Vide Times, April 18,1865.

Extraordinary Charge of Conspiring to
Cheat and Defraud.

CHRISTY MINSTRELS, St. James's Hall,
Piocadilly.—The only original and veritable legitimate
CHRISTY MINSTRELS Every Night at 8, Saturdays at 3
and 8, retaining all the specialties and old favourites who
originally created the reputation of the Company. Fant• uils,
55.; stalls, Is • unreserved seats, 25.; gallery. Is. Tickets at
Austin's, 28, Piccadilly.—Manager, Mr. Frederick Burgess.

John Crofts, a young man of respectable appearance, was
brought before Mr. Ellison, at Worship-street Police-court,
on Saturday, by Bull, warrant officer of this court, who
had taken him on such authority a few hours previously
while attending his duties as clerk of the Submarine Tele-
graph Transmission Offices, in Threadneedle-street, charged
with having on the 7th day of June last, and other days,
unlawfully conspired with others to obtain from Edmund
King the sum of £l6.
Mr. Beard having stated at great length the minnte par-
ticulars of the case, which he observed was one of a re-
markable character, fraught with systematic cunning, re-
gretted that two other persons, named Charles Mills and
David Coppin, known as "betting men," against whom also
warrants were out for complicity in these transactions, did
not now stand by the side of the prisoner in the dock. As
in many other instances of a similar nature nefarious prac-
tices had come to light entirely from a split having occurred
among the confederates, most probably in consequence of
an unfair or alleged unfair division of the spoil, and a vast
deal of evidence must necessorily be heard, but at present
the prosecutor's would be amply sufficient.
Mr. J. Barnard, managing clerk to Mr. Joseph Smith,
defended the prisoner, and great interest was attached to
the proceedings.
Mr. King, of 13 A, Grosvenor-street, Islington, was then
sworn. He deposed—l am a builder. I became acquainted
with the prisoner at the bar about four months since, at the
Cambridge Music Hall, in Shoreditch. Shortly afterwards
I met other persons there against whom I have charges to
prefer in connection with this. The first money transac-
tion I was concerned in with them was tossing for money.
Prisoner was not with them on the first occasion, but was
afterwards. I considered it fair tossing. Prisoner did not
toss himself, but bet upon it. A person named Saul Cohen,
besides others, was present while tossing was going on, and
he took a principal part in the betting. I lost by betting
about £4O, perhaps more. At the time the Newmarket
Spring Meeting took place I backed a horse called Plutus.
My bet was with Cohen, believing at the time he was bet-
ting for his master, a Mr. Hall. I backed Plutus for, I be-
lieve, £l6. A man named Copping apparently backed
Plutus, and then induced me to do so. After the bet, and
on the same day, I found that a horse named Student had
won the race, and that I had lost my money. On or
about the 31st of August last I was at a supper at Kite's
Coffee-house in Commercial-street, Shoreditch. Cohen,
Copping, and others were likewise present. Copping left
the room, saying he was going to fetch the cards, and he
returned with a pack, and proposed playing at "blind
hookey." I and prisoner took part in the game. I be-
lieved that the players knew no more of the game than I,
and that the play was fair. I lost £l7, and declined
further play. I paid a few pounds to Cohen and Copping,
and on the following day gave a cheque for the remainder,
Cohen then proposed another wager—viz., that he would
be blindfolded, and point out afterwards any one of three

T H E. 0 X F O R D.
6, OXFORD STREET, W.

The Osibrd and Canterbury Hall Company (limited).
SIXTY-SIX, by J. Offenbach, performed by
Misses Russell, Barrie, Walmealey, Tyrell, Ellen Reid, Ma-
dame Maria, and Miss Fitz Henry ; Messrs. A. St. Albyn,
Husk, Evans, W. Williams, and Senors Tivoli and Spagnoli,
with full Band and Chorus.

From all the facts we have just mentioned, sire,
we are led to deduce the conclusion that the present
time is truly opportune to bring about the meeting,
at an early date, of a diplomatic conference, in
which should be represented the powers interested,
like ourselves, in the reforms demanded by the pre-
sent organisation of the sanitary service in the East,
and which, after having studied the questions to
which we have the honour to solicit your Majesty's
attention, should propose practical remedies. The
members of this conference would have especially
to examine whether it would not be necessary to
establish, at the points of departure and arrival of
pilgrims returning from Mecca—that is to say, at
Djeddah and Suez—sanitary administrations having
an international character which should secure their
independence, and give to their management all
possible guarantees of loyal impartiality. We may
reckon upon active co-operation upon the part of
the Eastern Governments, whose States in the pro-
gress of these epidemics are the first to suffer from
the ravages of the scourge and from the interrup-
tion of commercial relations.

Conductor, Mr. F. Jonghmane.

Ballet, Comedy, Burlesque, &0., by—the celebrated D'Au-
bans. Messrs. Duriah and Davis, and the Misses TESSY
and SARA. LiUNNISS.

NOTICE.—The Oxford has been entirely Redecorated,
Altered, Newly Lighted, and Ventilated, and now is one of
the most agreeaZde places of resort in the kingdom.—OPEN
EVERY EVENING at Eight o'clock.

The official report describes the damage done as
follows :—" Two ten and twelve-roomed houses, un-
finished, burned out ; two others nearly destroyed,
and three severely damaged by fire and water."

The Classical Ballet, entitled TH It BRIDAL of BEAUTY,
in which the Misses TESSY and SARA GUNNISS will
appear THIS EVENING.

The HUNGARIANS —The Brothers and Sister KIRALFI
will have the honour of introducing their National Dances
in oo stume every evening.
_ _ _ _

Admission—Area, 6d.; stalls and balcony, ls. ; private
boxes, 10s. ad.

If, as we venture to hope, your Majesty deigns
to accord assent to the considerations we have the
honour to present, the Emperor's Government
should hasten to place itself in communication with
foreign cabinets, in order to combine, by common
agreement in a conference, a generality of measures
whose necessity is demonstrated by recent and sor-
rowful events.—We have the honour, &c.,
DROUYN DE LHUYS, Minister for Foreign Affairs.
ARMAND BEHIC, Minister of Agriculture, Com-
merce, and Public Works.

The Frightful Accident to a Volunteer

Instructor.

On Saturday Mr. John Humphreys (Middlesex Coroner)
opened an inquiry at the Queen's Hotel, Gascoigne-road,
Victoria-park, into the circumstances of an explosion of
gunpowder at the Tower Hamlets volunteer drill ground,
by which Sergeant William Dransfield, of the Royal En-
gineers, was killed and dreadfully mutilated.
The court was crowded and numerous officers and pri-
vates of the let Tower Hamlets Engineers, of which corps
the unfortunate deceased was the drill instructor, were
present to witness the proceedings.
The jury having been impanelled, proceeded to view the
body of the deceased, which presented a deplorable appear-
Juice_ the nnfortunam 1),..a L., ieg peen severed from
the trunk and become charred and blackened by the explo-
sion of the powder. The scene of the occurrence was then
inspected by the coroner and jury. The practice ground
of the Tower Hamlets Engineer Volunteers is a slip of
land railed off Victoria-park on the north side, and close to
the road. At one end of the drill ground is the shed for
containing tools, &c. At the other is a two-gun battery.
Near the battery a poolof blood bya rough stockademarkod
the spot where the deceased was killed. A small hole about
the size of a hat had been made, and in it the deceased
placed a bag of powder to blow down the stockade ; the fuse
evidently exploded prematurely, and hence the accident.
The deceased was a man of good education ; he had
been educated at Harrow. He was subsequently employed
on the South Western Railway, but becoming tired of the
calling he enlisted in the Engineers at Chatham.
Mr J. Brown Ross was the first witness called—He said,
I am surgeon to the Ist Tower Hamlets Engineer Volun-
teers. I knew the deceased. His name was William Drans-
field, and he was 82 years of age. He was sergeant in the
Engineers, and attached to Chatham, and was government
instructor to our corps. I was not present at the accident.
Donald Glass, sapper, said—On Thursday evening I was
at drill in the drill ground, Victoria-ground. The deceased
was present as instructor. We assembled about 8 o'clock.
Part of the instruction was the blowing up of a stockade.
The company was divided into an attacking and a defend-
ing party. I was with the deceased in the attacking party.
It was part of the manceuvre that we should take the stock-
ade, and then blow it up. It was a quarter to 9 when we
proceeded to do this. Others were with me, and the de-
ceased on one side of the stockade. The explosion was to
be made by the deceased. He gave orders that when he
said the word "Ready" the company were to right about
face and fall down. We were to lie on our faces. All could
hear that order, and we had been previously cautioned to
the same effect. The deceased placed a bag of powder in a
hole in the ground on our side of the stockade. It was to be
ignited by one of Boxer's fusees. I assisted in tying it to
the bag, or rather in the bag. The operation consists in
placing the fuse into the mouth of the bag, like a finger into
a glove. If it was put in up to " 19" (the figures marked on
the fuse) it would take 19 seconds to fire the bag. We put
in the end only, and after the composition had burned to
the bottom it would blow out a few grains of powder in
the hollow of the fuse, and so light the powder in the bag.
I do not believe there was any powder loose about the bag
outside. The fuse was fastened in 50 yards from the stock-
ade, and Sergeant Knox carried the bag to the hole. I was
4 or 5 yards from deceased when he was igniting the fuse.
He gave the word "Ready," as he had the light in his
hands before applying it to the fuse. The light was some
kind of fuse. There was a spade shoved in under the
stockade, over the bag of powder. The moment I saw
him apply the light, I as well as the others turned round
and fell down. I looked back over my shoulder, and
I saw Dransfield blown backwards. He never uttered
a sound. The quantity of powder in the bag was
about 21bs. I scrambled to deceased and took his head
from under his back. With the exception of the skin at the
back his head was blown from his body. There was only
time to right about and fall forward from the time of the
ignition to that of the explosion. I cannot explain how
it came to pass that the explosion was so prompt. I have
been 7 to 8 months attached to the engineer regiment.

articles which had been touched while he was in the dark.

A man named Solomons bound the eyes of Cohen, and one
of us touched the article. I did so sometimes. There were
three wine glasses placed in a straight line on the table. I
lost about .£1 with Cohen, who started the betting. Three
months since prisoner met me at the Cambridge Music-hall,
and in the course of conversation observed " Charley Ray-
ner, the trainer at Newmarket, has been very intimate with
my father, and still-correspends with him. lie has told him
some very good things about horse racing. The other day
ho met him in the street and promised to write to him as he
had no time to stay and talk." About a week after that ho
(Wittman) mot rricronow .8-coira in the and the
latter said to him, "My father has received a letter from
Charley Rayner. What it is about I don't know, but think
it must be something about a horse for one of the great

rated success was drank •to " The Screw Collier
Company," anti with that very proper exception, no
attempt was made to drag out the proceedings by a
string of those complimentary toasts full of sound
and signifying .nothing—with which many of us are
unfortunately but too familiar. Thus the affair went
off in the best possible manner, and the only cir-
cumstance adverse to the propitious influences of the
occasion was the unexpected and lamented death
late on the previous day of Mr. M‘Patrick, one of
the members of the firm. It was impossible to post-

handicaps. I believe it must be a good thing, as my father
talks about purchasing a public-house. It must be very pri-
vate, too, for he has locked it in a desk where he keeps his
private papers." Copping said to him, " You must get some
keys and procure the letter, as if it is about a horse we
must back it before the weights come out." Copping said
he would get some keys himself, and prisoner premised to
let us know if the letter was about a horse. Two days
afterwards I again saw the prisoner at the same place.
Copping was present. Prisoner said Copping had got some
keys for him, and the desk was opened. On the following
Saturday I met prisoner in Commercial-street, and he pro-
duced tt letter which he asserted was from Rayner. The
contents advised that a horse named Lampoon should be
backed for the Cambridgeshire Stakes, that it was the best
thing the writer had ever known, that it must not be backed
in town, that Holt and Crook, of Leeds, were the best per-
sons to transact business with, and that it was important to
keep the matter a profund secret ; the letter was signed
Charles Rayner. Witness continued—l showed the letter to
Copping, who said, " Mr. Holt used to put up when in
town at the York and Albany, Regent's-park. I know him,
having seen him on race courses. I wonder if he would
recognise me." Prisoner then proposed that he, I, and
Copping, should go to the Albany on the following day and
ascertain if Mr. Holt did still put up there. Consequently
on that day (Sunday) all three went to the York and Albany.
Copping asked the waiter if Mr. Holt still frequented there,
and whether he had been there that day, or if it was pro-
bable that ho would call again. The waiter said a person
named Holt had been there, and in all probability would
call again. Copping told the waiter if Mr. Holt did come

pone the launch ; but, out of respect to the memory
of the deceased gentleman, the affair was carried
out with less gaiety or festivity than otherwise
would have been.

Report upon the Cholera•

PARIS, OCt. 7.
The following report to the Emperor, drawn up
by MM. Drouyn de Lhuys and Armand Behic, has
just appeared :
Sire,---At the commencement of the last invasion
of the East by cholera, your Majesty's government
was preoccupied with the dangers which the appear-
ance of that scourage threatened to the general
health of France. Under the inspiration of this pre-
cautionary idea, the immediate dispatch to Egypt of
a [medical mission was decided upon, not only for
the purpose of bringing enlighted assistance to the
victims of the epidemic, but also to study the causes,
the march, and the character of the malady, in order
to arrest its progress as much as possible, and pre-
vent its introduction upon the territory of the
Empire.

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in its birth than to impede it upon the route. It is
sufficient to oppose to it, upon each of the stages it
traverses,eommereeand y
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offer to the public health guaran-
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and confirmed by the unanimous re ports of the phy-
sicians manifestly proves that the epidemic has been
imported into Egypt by
pilgrims returning from
Mecca and Djeddah. Thus it is alleged that the
cholera exists every year among the caravans of
Mussulmans arriving in these holy cities, after fa-
tigues and privations of every kind which render
them more liable to the malady. This predisposi-
tion is singularly favoured by the state in which
these multitudes live—camping in the open air, ex-
posed to a torrid heat, and to the influence of the
pestilential miasma given forth by heaps of impu-
rity and the putrid remains of animals offered in
propitiatory sacrifice. These permanent causes of
infection have been still more active this year, by
reason of certain facts which may again occur, and
which we consider we ought to point out to your
Majesty's attention.
Upon the one hand, the number of pilgrims col-
lected at Mecca for the Kourban-Beiram (feast of
sacrifices) was, owing to a particular circumstance
of the Mussulman rite, far more considerable than
in preceding years. The number of individuals of
all ages and both sexes arrived from the various
Mahometan countries to go through the consecrated
ceremonies was estimated at not less than 200,000,
and the quantity of sheep and camels slaughtered,
the offal of which was abandoned upon the ground,
exceeds a million. It is not astonishing that this
agglomeration of human beings and this enormous
quantity of animal substances in decomposition
should have developed in exceptional proportions
the conditions of insalubrity which the pilgrims
habitually encounter.

• while we were there to ask him to look in upon us, and in
about three-quarters of an hour a person entered who re-
presented himself as Mr. Holt.

It was here suggested that at so late an hour it would be
impossible to finish the examination of the prosecutor, who,

in answer to Mr. Beard, merely farther observed that he
had by the nefarious transactions of the prisoner and his

associates been defrauded of between £2OO and £3OO. A
future day was appointed for the further hearing, and then

Samuel Cohen, of 22, Primrose-street, Finsbury, who was

•
asserted to be an unwilling witness, although it was upon
his statement on oath that the warrants were granted, was
bound over in the sum of £lOO to appear at the next ex-

amination and give evidence. His sworn statement was
that he (Cohen) knew David Copping and John Crofts

(the prisoner); that he was present when they arranged
between them how each was to toss so as to enable them
to win, one of the plans being that when the hand was
placed square on the table the coin was to be a head, and
when across the table it was to be a woman, or tail ; that
this was in relation to transactions with the prosecutor
King ; that they induced him to back horses ; that Copping
requested him (Cohen) to get Ring to back a horse galled
Plutus for the Newmarket Spring meeting, and that it was
known shortly afterwards on the same day that the
race had been won by Student; that King therefore
lost £l6, which was paid him (Cohen), and by him to
the others; that on another occasion Copping said, "I
shall make £2O by cards to-night of King," and that he
did make £l7 at the game of blind hockey, &c., he know-
ing the cards; that subsequently he (Cohen), at the request
of Copping, assumed the name of Hall, a well-known cha-
racter on the racecourse, and passed as him to further the
plans of Copping and the prisoner.
Mr. Barnard said in reference to the charge that the well
known remark of one story being good until the other was
heard was applicable in this instance. All he asked at pre-

Capt. J. Ambrose Coffee said—l am the commandant of
the Tower Hamlet Volunteers, and was in charge of the
regiment on the night in question. This night attack was
being made because I am obliged, though commandant, to
carry out and obey the orders given by the Grill instructor
from the War-office. Sergeant Dransfield was about four
years attached to our regiment, and he was very enthusi-
astic. He proposed a night attack, and I inquired as to its
safety. He assured me there was no danger, and on Thurs-
day night we were rehearsing what was to have taken
place to-night. I asked him particularly if there would be
time given by tho fuse for the men and himself to get out
of the way, and he lighted an artillery fuse and threw it
down before the men. It took some time to burn, and
seemed safe. He proposed that I should take command of
the defence. I posted my men and defended my earthworks,
firing at the enemy until he gave the signal. We then ran
as hard as we could supposing that the enemy had entered
the earthworks. At 50 yards I halted my men, and drew
them up in front of the enemy. We waited for the explo-
sion. While waiting there was an explosion and a man
cried out, " The sergeant is dead or wounded." I sent my
men everywhere for aid, but when I got up poor Drans-
field's head was off his body. He had been 12 years in the
army. At the War-office, and wherever he was known, he
was highly respected. His name was down for promotion.
He had been educated at Harrow, and ho knew thoroughly
the science of engineering. He was a careful man.
Sergeant Edward Knox gave corroborative evidence.

sent was that his client, a respectable young man, holding

a responsible situation, be admitted to bail.

Mr. Ellison observed that this was a most grave and seri-
ous matter, and upon the evidence it was shown that for-
gery had been committed. The prisoner would stand re-
manded, bpt might put in bail to the amount of £2BO.

A WISE DOG.—A curious fact has occurred in an
isolated country house in the neighbourhood of Toulon.
A person flying from the epidemic came to seek an asylum
there, and was perfectly well received by the occupants ; a
watch-dog only, after having smelt at the new coiner, left
his master, and took up his quarters in an adjoining house.
On the following night the guest died of cholera, and the
dog returned.—Galignani.

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follows its employment.

Edward Kendall, sapper, said that he saw the deceased
light the fuse. He knelt on his left knee, and rested his
right hand on the spade. He struck the fusee (just as if
he was going to light a cigar), and as he passed it to the
fuse the explosion took place. The fusee threw off sparks
all:around as he moved to light the fuse. Witness thought
that some grains of powder were loose about. When the
deceased forced the bag under the stockade, and shoved the
spade after it, in witness's opinion some grains of powder

Upon the other hand, it is to be remarked that in
former times the principal movement of pilgrimage