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power, and the Britomart, GO horse
gunboats, in tow for Plymouth. The vessels had
proceeded as far as Dungeness, when a heavy
squall struck the Julia, and nearly swamped
her. Her fires were extinguished by the water,
and her pumps became choked with the coals.
In consequence of this occurrence, the Vigilant
was compelled to return with the vessel to Sheer.
ness to have the water got out, and she is under •
going the necessary repairs. It is known that
gun vessels similar to the Julia have, by their
own power, steamed to China and back ;
and it is thought that if the Julia had been
allowed to steam to her destination without being
towed she would have arrived safely without any
accident. The Vigilant again left Sheerness on
Tuesday to convey the Britomart to Plymouth.
The Rattler, 17, screw steam sloop, 951 tons, 200-
horse power, which has recently been launched at
Deptford, has arrived at Sheerness, in tow of the
Widgeon and African steamtugs, to be fitted for the
steam reserve. Her engines are to be supplied by
Messrs. Maudslay, Son, and Field.
The Esk and Highflyer, undergoing repairs in
dock at Portsmouth, are in a very defective state,
the first-named especially so. Their dates for com-
pletion at the hands of the shipwrights' depart-
ment has been deferred, the Esk from the 9th of
May to the 31st of August, and the Highflyer from
the 30th of May to the 12th of July. The Glas-
gow,serew, frigate, has also been deferred in her
appointed date of completion from the 30th of April
to the 4th of June.

Four lifeboats for the use of her Majesty's vessels
employed on the West Coast of Africa, the first in-
stalment of the number ordered by the Admiralty,
have been received at Portsmouth Dockyard from
Mr. J. White's Medina Dock Shipbuilding'Estab-
lishment, at West Cowes, Isle of Wight.
The iron-clad screw steamship Defence, 18,Capt.
Richard A. Powell, which left Portsmouth on the
17th inst., arrived in Plymouth Sound on Tuesday
evening. On the 19th, when off Start Point, a i
gale from the eastward was experienced. The ship
was run to the westward, and when 100 miles be-
yond the Scilly Islands was, on the 20th, hauled to
the wind, and tried on all points under steam and
and under sail, during a strong gale from east-
north-east. The Defence has proved herself easy
at sea, rolls very little, and steers well. The
greatest speed attained under steam and canvas was
13 knots ; under canvas only, 101 knots.
The following appointments and promotions have
been made at the Admiralty :—Lieut. W. G. Dou-
glas to the Ajax, additional, for the Coastguard;
Richard C. Dyer, master, to the Royal Adelaide,
for the Cuckoo ; John W. Lowe, master, additional,
to the Russell, for the Coastguard; Edward P.
Roberts, master's assistant, to the Swallow; T. E.
Buckle, engineer, to the Mullet ; J. Lanksburg,
first-class assist.-engineer, to the Mullet; W. E.
Presgrave in the Indus, James Clark in the Bull-
dog, John Hancock (a) in the Emerald, Thomas
Rose in the Gannet, and Reginald C. Oldknow in
the Edgar, have been promoted to first-class assist.
engineers ; It. H. Trubshaw in the Cadmus, George
Simpson in the Asia, S. R. Brumage in the Doris,
and Thomas Barnes in the Cameleon, have been
promoted to acting first-class assist.-engineers;
John Simpson, acting first-class assist.-engineer to
the Royal Adelaide, for the Cuckoo, when the latter
is put out of commission ; J. E. B. Warrington,
acting second-class assist.-engineer, ito the Mullet ;
and James M'Graw, confirmed as second-class
assist.-engineer in the Centurion.

NEWSPAPER
XTRAORDIN.ARY C.R
AN ASTROLOGER PUN
At the Thames Police-court on •
Lombard, an Irishman, about 35.yearF
is elcz-lf and dumb, .and who has been.kr some-frmo
imposing upon industrious and ignorant people by
pretcuding -to cast nativitieu -and foretel- future
events, was brought beforo Mr. Woolrych, charged
with unlawfully exercising the profession of a for-
tune-teller and astrologer, obtaining money by
false pretences, committing -a criminal assault on
Mary Ann Baker, a young woman, aged 20; and.
lastly, with committing an indecent assault on her
sister, Jane Baker, who is 18 years of age.
Such a detail of imposture, credulity, and profii-
gacy was perhaps never before detailed in a court
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Ann Baker, a healthy looking, round-feud
woman, about 40 years of age, said she was the wife
of a sawyer, and was dwelling with her family in
Rugg's-court, Limekiln-hill, Limehouse. On Sun-
day last the prisoner was introduced to her by a
neighbour as an astrologer and fortune-teller, who
could remove spells and cast nativities. The pri-
soner wrote on a small slate, " I can rule the planets.
Give me ls. lam deaf and dumb." She gave him a
shilling to rule her planet. (Laughter.) He asked
me where he could see my daughter. He called ou
Sunday evening and saw her.
Mr. Woofry eh here looked to the prisoner's stock
in trade, which consisted of a well-thumbled edition
of the " Manual of Astrology," with horoscopes and
nativities of kings, queens, and other distinguished
personages, " Zadkiel's Almanac," and scraps of
writing with quotations from it, roughly executed
diagrams and nativities, and the " planets," as they
were called, of some of? the prisoner's dupes. The
penmanship of these productions was good, but the
orthography was very defective. The following
may be taken as a sample of the whole :—" Thy
Planet is changed thy luck his good Service thiss
year. Marriage 1864 and a public house 1866.
Children 9, a good husband and a faithful one. You
wil not travell, but you have many deaths of chil-
dren. You bury your husband when you are 36
years of age, and wil marry again to a tradesman
of the wood work. You will be a happy woman in
the second mariage, and wil bend life about your 78
year of age, never to want, allwayes plenty to shus-
tain life. The Cross is Broke, and very hard Set it
was to get it broke." Another scrap of paper con-
tained the following warning :—" Remember the
things I told you wil not come to pass if the spell
is not filled up as I began it, it must be filled. Tell
her if she Begins to tell what I don it is all no use
to her."

Mary Ann Baker, aged 20, said the prisoner came
to her mother's house on Sunday; he wrote that she
must go up stairs. The witness then went into a
long detail of the prisoner's conduct, and, after a
series of most disgusting ceremonies, violating her
person. The witness was strictly questioned by
Mr. Woolrych, and she said—l could not help what
he did. He moved his hands up and down my face,
and took the bone out of my stays to measure me.
I was giddy, when he put his hands over my face,
and should have fallen had he not held me up by
the shoulder. His hands smelt as if he had been
washing them with tobacco. He made me pay him
3s. 6d., which was all the money I had. He said
as I was a servant girl, he world take ss. for break-
ing the spell, and I must pay him Is. 6cl. more on
Tuesday next. He gave me a paper, and on it.was
written that I was not to tell any one, and the cross
was broke.

Jane Baker, a diminutive girl, sister of the-last
witness, said she was eighteen years of age. She was
left alone with the prisoner, whoexpressed in writ-
ing that she had a cross in her side, and if she did
not have it out there would be a spell upon her for
life. He then tried to serve her as he did her sister,
but she would not let him, and threw down the
chair and called her mother downstairs, and her
mother asked her what she was crying for.
--
Mr. Woolrychl wish your sister had acted
with the same determination as you have done. Did
you believe what he said ?
Witness—No, sir. I believed it was all rubbish.
I did not believe him from the first, and when I
found out what ho was doing I thought he was a
nasty, filthy, indecent man.
The whole of the evidence was plainly written
down by Mr. W. Livingstone, the chief usher, and
given to the prisoner to read.
After he had finished reading the evidence, he
wrote on a slate that he was out of work six
months, and when he came to London he was a
beggar. He gave the woman and her daughters a
lot of papers with horoscopes and nativities on
them. He bought the ticket book, " Manual cf
Astrology," for ls. The first woman he met with
gave him is., her husband the same, for casting
their nativities. The girls told lies of him in some
respects, but he was guilty of a good deal of what
they said, and he was sorry for it.
Mr. Woolrych said he regretted very much that
special circumstances prevented him committing
the prisoner on the capital charge. Such a filthy
profligate scoundrel as the prisoner deserved to be
sentenced to a long term of penal servitude. He
believed Mary Ann Baker was a willing dupe. He
thought it would not be useful or proper to commit
the prisoner for trial. The prisoner was acquitted
of the first charge, but upon the second, for using
subtle means and obtaining money under pretences
of fortune-telling, breaking spells, and casting
nativities, he sentenced him as a rogue and vaga-
bond to three months' imprisonment and hard
labour, and for the assault on Jane Baker, which
was not with her consent, he sentenced him to two
months' imprisonment and hard labour. The second
sentence to commence on the expiration of the first.
The sentence was communicated in writing to
the prisoner. He read it and then broke out into
a paroxysm of rage ; stamped up and down the
dock, tore his hair, and made use of menaces to-
wards the witnesses. Roche, the gaoler, quickly
seized him, and conducted him to the lock-up. The
prisoner is a vulgar-looking fellow of fair com-
plexion, with a large and ragged head of hair,
giving him a wild appearance.