The Sun.
London, England, 1865-10-11 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 11, 1865.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.—This Day.

COURT OF BANKRUPTCY.
(Before Mr. Commissioner Goulburn.)
IN RE THE REV. R. W. L. TOLLEMACHE.

This was a second bankruptcy, the bankrupt being de-
scribed as a clerk in holy orders, of Leigh, formerly of
Hammersmith and Foltham. No accounts have been filed,
and the case was adjourned until the proceedings under
the first bankruptcy shall have been disposed of.

were brought before Mr. Paget charged with being drunk
and disorderly last night in the York-road, Ratcliff. They
were also charged with being concerned with others in
assaulting and robbing Captain John Harkness, master of
a merchant ship, and now dwelling at 25, Bromley-street,
Stepney. He appeared to be injured, and there was a
serious bruise over his left eye. He said that he was pass-
ing along the York-road, close to the North London Rail-
way, last night at eleven o'clock, when two men and the
female " baulked" him. They all "run aboard of him at
once," and one man jumped on his back. Another hit him on
the head with a piece of wood or some other instrument. His
eye was terribly swollen last night, and it had gone down
since. His pocket-book was taken. It contained £1 10s.
in gold, and ss. in silver. His gold chain, an old one for
which he gave £ll 10s., and which he now valued at £9,
was detached from his watch and stolen. He was much
ill-used. He made as much noise as ho could, and informed
a policeman of the robbery. He drank considerably last
night, but he was sure the prisoner Francis was one of the
thieves.

In answer to questions by the woman, the prosecutor
said he was in a beershop, and saw her before the robbery.
Ile was followed out of the beershop and robbed.
Other evidence was given implicating the woman in the
outrage and robbery. She was roman,/ed until Monday.
Regan was sentenced to seven days' imprisonment for being
drunk and disorderly.

Great-Western Railway of Canada.

MEETING THIS DAY.

The ordinary half-yearly meeting of this company was
held at London Tavern to-day—Alderman and Sheriff
Dakin, the president, in the chair.
After the usual preliminaries,

The CHAIRMAN moved the adoption of the report and
statement of accounts, already published, which was
agreed to. lie then said that he was glad to be able to con-
gratulate the shareholders on the gleam of sunshine that
had broken through the circumstances which once indi-
cated storm and disaster. He thought the directors were
entitled to much praise for their exertions, by which the
undertaking was enabled to surmount the disasters to
which he alluded. He ccnsidered the report showed, as far
as possible, the progress of the affairs of the company. Their
receipts on capital account during the half-year amounted
to £674 Os. 10d., and the total receipts up to July 31st were
£5,146,349, and deducting the disbursements there was a
balance to the credit of the company on capital account of
£26,982 18s. 2d. There had been an increase in the
expenditure as compared with the corresponding
period of last year, but the expenses which they
incurred were rendered unavoidable by their position.
They had to provide accommodation by an extension of
their station, both for passengers and goods traffic, at the
important city of Toronto, from which their station was
two miles distant, and they were also compelled to incur an
outlay for a new station, and also for works which were
indispensable. The expenses of the half-year warranted
the directors in not recommending a dividend of more than
2 per cent. ; but on the improving aspect of their affairs
there was every reason to believe that before long that
dividend would be considerably increased. (Hear.) A
valuable arrangement had been effected, by which the
loss sustained in the conversion of their American funds
would, for the future, be avoided. The decrease which
had taken place in their traffic arose from exceptional
causes, namely, the severity of the weather during the
winter season, the stoppages on American connecting
lines, and the impediments in the way of traffic
by the adoption of the passport system. How-
ever, the improving prospects of business generally
afforded ground for hoping that there would be a corre-
sponding improvement in their receipts, to which hope the
abundant harvest in Canada in no small degree contributed.
A satisfactory arrangement had been made with the pro-
vincial Government relative to the postal service, which
would continue in operation for four years. The appeal
of the Commercial Bank of Canada, which was argued
before the Judicial Committee, had been dismissed with
costs, but there were certain points, sub judice, which were
still to be considered. Very encouraging informa-
tion had been received with respect to the oil districts
of Bothwell and Enniskillen, which were situated
on the company's line, and American and other capitalists
were making large purchases of land and sinking new wells,
in consequence of the improvement in regard to so impel--
taut an article of commerce as oil. (Hear, hear.) The
chairman concluded by referring to the satisfactory footing
of the relations of the company with the American con-
necting railways.

After some discussion a resolution was agreed to, sanc-
tioning a proposed arrangement between the company and
the Atlantic, Great Western (Buffalo) Extension, and the
Erie and Niagara Railway Companies.
The proceedings terminated with a vote of thanks to the
chairman and board of directors.

COURSE OF EXCHANGE—Last Evening

Amsterdam Short. 11 19
Ditto 3 Months. 12 2
Rotterdam .. — 12 2f
Antwerp - 25 62
Brussels
Hamburg
Paris

11 19i
12 2f
12 2/
25 70
25 70
13 Di
25 35
25 67k
25 70.
121-3-
11 27-1-
11 27k
29i
48
48
25 80
25 771
25 77
25 80
25 80
25 80
511
61

Ditto 3 Months. 25 57}
Marseilles
•

Frankfort. on tho Maine
Vienna
Trieste —

1211:
11 22f
11 20

Potersburgh -
Berlin

Madrid — 471
Cadiz
Leghorn
Milan
Messina
Genoa — 25 75
Naples — 25 75
Palermo
Oporto — 514
Lisbon — 514

THE BRITISH POSTAL GUIDE containing the
chief public regulations of the Post-office has just been
published by order of tho Postmaster-General.

A pamphlet has just been published recommend-
ing an application of homoeopathy as a curative agent
of the cattle disease.

FRENCH ACADEMY OF SCIENCES.—NearIy the
whole of last sitting was taken up with papers
on cholera, and we are happy to state that the communica-
tions are in general are of a nature to deprive the epidemic
of all its real terrors. It is now proved beyond a doubt,
from facts collected throughout Europe —l. That
Asiatic cholera is in all well-authenticated cases pre-
ceded by premonitory symptoms. 2. That these symptoms
may be removed with the greatest ease, and with the
certainty that, once romeved, the dangerous period need
not bo feared. 3. That a wholesome strengthening
diet, and the commonest attention to the state of the
general health of the individual, will prevent the
occurrence of any alarming symptoms ; and 4. That
ignorance and imprudence, habitual neglect of cleanliness,
and unhealthy dwellings, are the only causes of fatal cases,
that, in short, cholera is a disease much less to be dreaded
than typhus fever and other epidemics by which wo aro
often unconsciously surrounded. From this general summary
of the papers presented to the Academy we will now pro-
ceed: to a few particulars. Dr. Piotra-Santa states
that in the course of the period beginning with
quarter,
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the Ist of September, 1853, and ending on the
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of Dr. Blondel, Inspector-General of Public Assistance,
show that out of 4,740 cases registered in that
year, 4,359 were preceded by premonitory symptoms; that
in the other 381 cases the question of premonitory symp-
toms was not properly sifted, so that nothing certain
could be known about them ; and that the efficacy
of a preventive cure is the only point on which all the
physicians of the Paris hospitals are agreed. All the
numerous observations collected in England, France, and
Italy, tend to confirm this view. Dr. Jules Guerin, in a
second paper on the same subject, expresses himself as
follows :—" I have long persisted in pointing out the prac-
em
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diarrhoea, I have said, and you stop cholera. That is suf-
ficiently precise, but not sufficiently known. I regret to
say that physicians are still seeking the specific which is
to revive a dead body, instead of making known the period
during which the disorder may be cured. But what science
cannot do with the limited means of publicity at its dis-
posal, the Administration can." Hero the writer enters
upon the excellent English system of house-to-house visi-
tation, whereby, out of 130,000 persons treated in the 15
principal cities of England, only 6,000 narrowly escaped
real cholera, and only 250 actually got it ; and then con-
cludes with announcing authoritatively that the Adminis-
tration has organised a complete system of effectual pre-
ventive
measures should the epidemic invade the capital
of France for the fourth time. Dr. Mourin, Secretary-
general of the Statistical Society of Marseilles, in a paper
on this year's invasion of cholera in that city, calls it a
pseudo-epidemic,the disease coming on slowly, and rather
incling to malignant or typhus fever. The prophylactic
or preventive treatment succeeded perfectly there. Poverty,
fatigue, and weakness were the predisposing elements in
all the cases observed. Opiates were found very useful,
but diluted with a little water, because much drink causes
irritation. To all this overwhelming mass of evidence
in favour of the existence of premonitory symptoms,
another contributor, a Dr. Pollan'', opposes a flat
denial of the fact, supporting his assertion by a sort of
scientific quibble. Ile says that diarrhoea cannot bo con-
sidered premonitory, because no one can foresee whether it
will degenerate into cholera or not. We need not point
out the utter puerility of this argument.

Capt. F. Scott, A.D.C. to the Queen, Flag-
Capt. to the Port Admiral and Naval Commander-
in-Chief at Portsmouth, Sir M. Seymour, G-.C.8.,
resumed the command of her Majesty's ship Victory
at Portsmouth on Saturday on return from leave of
abs,cnce.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

NEWMARKET SECOND OCTOBER MEETING.
TUESDAY.
THE CESAREWITCII.

Rarely has there been such an uninteresting event as the
first of the great autumn handicaps appeared on paper to be.
The Cesarewitch and Cambridgeshire of old times—i.e., 30
years ago—boasted such horses as Faugh-a-Ballagh, The
Baron, Lanercost, Alarm, and many others of almost equal
fame among the roll of competitors. Lately there has been
a sad falling off in quality, and this year the acceptances for
the first-named race, commencing with Dr. Syntax and
terminating with Morris Dancer and Le Papillon, showed
nothing but what was second-rate in form. Wo presume
that it is.much more difficult to handicap mediocre horses
than good ones, and to this cause must be assigned the
bad acceptance in a numerical point of view.

Salpinctes and Alabama have kept their position as first
and second favourites, the former with great firmness.
Rumours of a trial with Privateer yesterday somewhat
affected Mr. Ten Broeck's horse, and the former, who from
the combined causes of his owner's health and tile, hard
ground had retrograded in the betting, came again with
some force during the afternoon. Mr. Savile we were happy
to see on the heath, and the welcome rain had removed the
other obstacles to his starting. The Danebury stable has
had so many irons in the fire that the public have been
rather diffident in its selection. Lansdown, at the first ap-
pearance of the handicap, was mentioned as a good thing,
but he speedily went back into obscurity. Yesterday John
Davis was the horse ; this morning it was Gomera, or
rather last night that a furore sot in about Colonel Baillie's
mare, which ended in her being nearly as good a favourite
as Salpinctes. Zephyr has been strongly supported, and
at the eleventh hour the Oaks winner has thrown a
little "quality" into the affair by being announced as a
starter. •

The rain has done much towards increasing the field,
which but for it might have been smaller. As it was, 27
runners were telegraphed, and after a comparatively short
delay despatched to one of the most level starts ever seen.
But little opportunity is afforded at Newmarket for that
"stock-taking" so interesting to all sportsmen. Saddled,
some at the Stand, others at the Ditch, it would require
the fleetest of hacks and the sharpest of eyes to see them
all. They, doubtless, looked in splendid condition, as
horses prepared for a great event would naturally be, and
as they came through the gap and ascended the rise the
old comparison of a charge of cavalry might well have
been applied. On they came, but in the Abingdon Mile
bottom the bolt of many was shot, and the yellow jacket
and scarlet belt of Salpinctes was seen in the Tan, going
well. Gratitude, the second last year, was pressing him
hard, but little Scorey rode with a clear head, and, although
much exhausted, landed his horse in by a head. John Davis
proved himself a very good animal by getting third place
under the weight he carried.
Hardly so many people were present as we have remem-
bered, but still the scene partook of the usual Cesarowitch
features.

Prince Amadeus, attended by the Marquis d'Azeglio and
hie suite, was on the Jockey Club Stand, which was
crowded with the usual aristocratic habitues of New-
market.
The weather was delightful.

The Town Plate of .£5O, for 3-yr-olds and upwards;
. weight for age. The winner to be sold for 200 sovs.
T.M.M.

Lord Westmoreland's Orloff, 3 yrs, 7st 71b (Morris) 1
Captain Machell's Target, 3 yrs, 7st 71b...(J. Grimshaw) 2
Mr. Beadman's Threadbare, 3 yrs, 7st 71b (Hibbard) 3
Betting-5 to 4 agst Orloff, and 7to 4 agst Target.
Orloff got away in advance, made the whole of the run-
ning, and won cleverly.
Selling Handicap Sweepstakes of 10 soya. each, for 2-yr-

olds and upwards ; the winner to be sold. for 100 sovs.

T.Y.C. 11 subs.
Mr. Naylor's Gazza, Ladra, 4 yrs, 7st 41b (Parry) 1
Mr. R. Ten Broeck's Czarina, 3 yrs, Bst 41b ...(Murray) 2
Mr. W. G. Craven's No Name, 4 yrs, 7st 71b ...(Morris) 3
The following also ran :—Bishopton, Bella, Juneaton,
and Fanny.
Betting-3 to 1 agst Bella, sto 1 each agst No Name and
Fanny, 6 to 1 each agst Juneaton and Czarina.
Fanny, in company with the favourite, Gazza Ladra, and
No Name, made play into the dip, when Bella dropped back
and Mr. NayloT:s filly headed Czarina and came on with a
slight lead, which she improved as she came on, and won
very easily by a couple of lengths. Czarina finished a similar
distance in advance of No Name ; Bella was fourth, and
Bishopton next. The others were beaten off.

The Cloarivell Stakes of 30 sovs each, 20 ft, for 2-yr-olds

colts, Bst 101 b ; fillies, Bst 81b ; winners extra. T.Y.C.

43 subs.
Duke of Beaufort's Rustic, 9st 21b, inc 61b ex (Fordham) 1
Count F. Lagrange's Young Monarque, Bst 131 b, inc
31b ex (H. Grimshaw) 2
Capt. Grey's Chronometer, Bst 131 b, inc 31b ex (Custance) 3

The following also ran —Potomac, Sans si, Dalesman,
Willie Sharpe, and Stoneham.

Betting---5 to 2on Rustic, 6to 1 agst Young Monarque,
and 10 to 1 agst any other.

They left the post nearly in a line, and ran abreast for
some 50 or 60 yards, when the favourite took a slight lead
of Young Monarque and Chronometer, who were closely
attended by Sans si, Potomac, and Willie Sharpe, Dalesman
taking a line to himself on the lower ground. On entering
the dip Fordham increased the lead, and in a few strides
further had all his horses beaten, and won in a canter by
half-a-dozen lengths ; Chronometer finished a bad third,
Potomac was fourth, and Willie Sharpe fifth ; Sans si,
Dalesman, and Stoneham were beaten off.
Handicap Sweepstake of 15 sous. each, 10 ft, for 3-yr-olds
and upwards. Ab. M. 4 subs.
Mr. Q. Angell's Attache, 8 yrs, Bst 101 b (Parry) I
Baron Rothschild's Camball, 8 yrs, Bst 81b (Daley) 2
Betting-6 to 4on Attache.

Camball jumped away in advance, and made the running
to within 50 yards of the chair, where Attache came out,
and won a fine race by a head.

The Cesarewitch Stakes, a free handicap of 25 sovs each,
15ft, with 200 added ; for 3-yr-olds and upwards ; win-
ners extra. The owner of the second horse to receive 50
sovs. out of the stakes. Cesarewitch Course. 65 subs.
The highest weight accepting being Bst 71b, it has been
raised to Bst 121 b, and the others in proportion.
Captain King's Salpinctes, 3 yrs, Gst 31b (Storey 1
Mr. W. Robinson's Gratitude, 5 yra Bst 41b (11. Grimshaw 2
Mr. Hugh Smith's John Davis, 4 yrs, Bst 121 b (inc. 71b ex.
(Fordham 3
Mr. Mackenzie's Brown Bread, 3 yrs, 7st 131 b (Challoner 4
Mr. Graham's Regalia, 3 yrs, Bst 91b (inc. 71b ex.)
(Osborne) 0
Mr. E. Brayley's Pear Diver, 5 yrs, Bst 81b (Cannon) 0
Mr. Sa,vile's Privateer, 4 yrs, Bst 6lb (Loates 0
Mr. W. G. Bgnnett's Buckfoot, 4 yrs, Bst 51b...(Hughes 0
Mr. H. Delamarre's Vertugadin, 3 yrs, Bst 31b (Hullock 0
Mr. L. Wakeley's Claxton, 4 yrs, Bst llb (J. Adams 0
Mr. St. George's Solon, 4 yrs, Bst llb (Lynch 0
Mr. C. T. Perry's Fantail 5 yrs, Bst (W. Boyce 0
Baron Rothschild's Calista g., 4 yrs, 7st 121 b (Daley 0
Mr. Barber's The Clown, 4 yrs, 7st 111 b (Snowden 0
Mr. J. Gilby's Count Cavour, 5 yrs, 7st 81b--(Whiteley 0
Mr. R. Ten Broeck's Alabama, 4 yrs, 7st 51b (S. Adams 0
Baron Rothschild's Zephyr, 3 yrs, 7st 51b ...(Kitchener 0
Mr. Jackson's Elland, 3 yrs, 7st 51b (inc. 91b extra)
(J. Grinishal 0
Sir J. Hawley's Merry Wife, 4 yrs, 7st 41b (Carroll 0
Lord Wilton's Nuneaton, 4 yrs, 7st llb (inc. 31b extra

(Morris)
Mr. E. Brayley's Endsleigh, 3 yrs, Est 101 b (Murray)
Mr. Bevill's Ostregor, 3 yrs, Est 91b Ofibberd)
Colonel Baillie's Gomora, 3 yrs, Est 81b (11. Day
Mr. Eskrett's Edinburgh, 3 yrs, Est 71b (H. Covey
Mr. Parker's Farce, 5 yrs, Gst 41b (lleartfield
Mr. Williams's Defy, 3 yrs, sst 121 b (II Clark
Mr. W. Treen's Morris Dancer, 3 yrs, sst 121 b

(Fluxtable) 0
Betting.-5 to 1 agst Salpinctes, 10 to 1 each agst Go-
mera, Privateer, and Morris Dancer, 11 to 1 agst Alabama,
12 to 1 agst Zephyr, 100 to 8 agst Farce, 100 to 7. agst
John Davis, 30 to 1 agst The Clown, 40 to 1 agst Brown
Bread, N to 1 each agst Solon, Vertugadin, and Regalia,
66 to 1 each agst Elland, Gratitude, and Count Cavour.
_ .

Precisely at the time set down the 27 riders were ex-
hibited on the telegraph, and shortly after they reached
the starter, who at the first attempt effected an excellent
start. After they had taken their places the running was
taken up by Endsleigh, who, with Ostregor, Privateer,
Buckfoot, Gomera, and Merry Wife, in a body, came on
slightly in advance of Elland, Brown Dread, Morris Dancer,
Gratitude, Alabama, and Salpinctes, and to these succeeded,
wide on the left, Farce, Zephyr, Solon, The Clown, and
Vertugadin, and in the extreme rear came John Davis,
Pearl Diver, Regalia, Fantail, and Nuneaton. They re-
tained these positions as they came through the Ditch
Gap, but on crossing the flat they became distributed,
and ran wide to the Rowley Mile post. Here Ostregor
headed Endsleigh, and came on with a clear lead, which
he retained to within a couple of hundred yards of the
Bushes-hill, where the pair were beaten, and were imme-
diately headed by Salpinctes, who took his place in the
centre of the course, closely attended by Brown Bread,
Elland, Gratitude, Merry Wife, and Farce, the latter being
wide on their left, and two or throe lengths in their rear
came the heavy weights, John Davis and Regalia, close
in whose track were Solon, Gomera, Buckfoot, Alabama,
and Privateer. Half way down the hill Elland was beaten,
followed in a few strides further by Alabama and Farce,
and when fairly in the Abingdon Milo bottom Gratitude
and John Davis joined the two leaders; but as they com-
menced the ascent for home Brown Bread broke down, and
was immediately headed by Gratitude, who half way in the
cords got to the favourite's girth; but was never able to
quite get up, and was beaten, after a splendid race, by a
head ; John Davis finished third, a couple of lengths in
their rear ; Brown Bread was fourth, close up with whom
was Merry Wife fifth, Farce sixth, and Regalia seventh ;
then came Elland, Buckfoot, Alabama, and Privateer, who
headed the next lot, in the rear of which were Morris
Dancer, Vertugadin, and Count Cavour.
The Royal Stakes of 200 sovs each, 120 ft, for 3 yr-old
colts, Bst 71b ; and fillies, Bst 21b ; winners extra. The

owner of the second horse to receive back his stake.

A.F. 10 subs, one of whom pays 25 sovs ft.
Duke of Beaufort's Todloben, Bst 71b (Fordham) 1
Mr. W. Morris's Jack o' Lantern, Bst 71b (Oustance) 2
Mr. J. Parker's Voltigeur, Bst 71b (11. Urimshaw) 3

Betting-5 to 2 on Todleben. Todlebon took a clear
lead, followed by Jack o' Lantern to the Abingdon Mile
bottom, where the latter gradually drew up, but was never
able to reach the winner, who won after a fine race by a
head ; a head between the second and third.
Sweepstakes of 5 gm each, with 25 sovs added, for 2-yr-

olds and upwards ; weight for age. The winner to be
sold for 70 sous. Rutland Stakes Course. 8 subs.
Capt. Machell's Indian Star, 2 yrs, 6st 121 b. _ _

J. G 1
Mr. Jenning's Lady Kinghorn, 3 yrs, Bst 1 ( 01b rimshaw)

. (IL Urimshaw)
The following also ran :—Shoobra colt, Clotilde filly
Venturous, Antidote, and Spice.

MIDNIGHT BETTING.
CANIERIDGE§HLRE.
100 to 7 agst Salpinctes
100 to 6 agst Custard Castle'
100 to 6 agst The Duke
100 to 6 agst Provisor
20 to. 1 agst Wedding Peal
40 to 1 agst Copenhagen
40 to 1 abet Gomera
50 to 1 agst Breadalbane
100 to 1 agst Exchequer
100 to 1 agst Regalia

1000 to 70 agst Harry Brailsford, Holstein, Curtain
Lecture, Elland, and Jupiter coupled.
3000 even on Gratitude agst Wedding Peal

The Charge of Shocking Cruelty to a Wife.

--s

George Price, the historical line engraver, late of 7,
Offord-road, Barnsbury, who was charged with causing
the death of his'wife Francis Price, by a series of ill treat-
ment and bad conduct towards her—the particulars of
which were fully reported in our columns on the first and
subsequent occasions—was again placed at the bar before
Mr. Baker for re-examination.

_ .
Tho court was crowded to excess, and the Marquis
Townsend was accommodated with a seat on the bench
beside the magistrate.-

Mr. Chipperfield, instructed by the Society for the Pro-
tection of Women and Children, appeared again to pro-
secute, and Mr. Lewis as before defended the prisoner.
Mr. Chipperfield said he proposed to call one witness
more in order to complete the case on the part of the pro-
secution. The witness he proposed to call was one of two
who were in attendance on the last day, but who were not
examined in consequence of the late hour to which the pro-
ceedings were protracted. She was a domestic servant
living near to the deceased, and had been frequently sent in
by her mistress, Mrs.-Indermaur, with refreshments. He
would adhere to the rule his Worship had laid down, and
limit the evidence to within a fortnight or throe weeks
before death.

Mary Murphy said she was servant to Mrs. Indennaur,
of 9, Offord-road, Barnsbury. She knew the deceased, and
was often in her house with food, and that continued up to
Mrs. Price's death. Sho was in the house sometimes throe
times a week. When she took in tho food the prisoner used
to answer the door, and sho asked if sho could seo Mrs.
Price. He used to say his wife was lying down, and she
could not see her then. He used to take the food, but Mrs.
Price told her about four times in his presence that ho had
not given her the food she had taken. Within about three
weeks of the death of the deceased, she was in Mrs. Price's
room. She had asked if she could go in to get the room
ready for the doctor. A short time afterwards the prisoner
went into the room stupidly drunk, and threw himself
across the deceased, and she asked her to take him off.
She (witness) said, "You are not inclined to smother the
lady on her dying bed," and he said, "Yes, I am." She re-
membered seeing the prisoner doing something to the de-
ceased in the mouth.

Cross-examined----On the occasion she spoke of he was
stupidly drunk. During the three years and nine months
that she had lived opposite to the deceased she had never
seen him sober three months together ; in fact, she had
never seen him sober three days together.

Mr. Chipperfield said that was the case for the prosecu-
tion, and on the evidence adduced he had to ask the magis-
ti ate to send the case for trial.

Mr. Lewis, for the defence, said it had been laid down
over and over again by the authorities that the intent must
depend on the state of mind of the accused at the time the
act imputed was committed, and he submitted that if the
prisoner was stupidly drunk, as the witness had sworn, he
could not have had the intent which was now charged
against him. But, apart from this isolated case of alleged
ill-treatment, there were three points which the learned
magistrate would have to consider, whether the deceased
died from natural causes ; secondly, whether death was
accelerated by ill treatment ; and lastly, whether the pri-
soner, by his acts, had caused that acceleration of the death
of his wife. The learned gentleman then contended that it
was shown by the witnesses for the prosecution that they
supplied the deceased with food, &c., out of their own re-
sources, and that therefore she could not have died from
starvation. The supposition of ill-treatment by the prisoner
was, he argued, negatived by the fact that ho called upon
Mr. Gowland in March last and entreated him to visit the
deceased as a medical man at her own home. The prisoner
also requested his neighbour, Mrs. Sellers, to visiit the suf-
ferer, and that invitation had been accepted. Was that the
conduct of a man who sought to accomplish the death of
his wife by a course of ill-treatment and cruelty ? Much
had been introduced into the case to create a feeling of
prejudice, but it could not be forgotten that the coroner's
jury had returned a verdict of " death from natural causes."
Mr. Barker observed that with the finding of the coro.
ner's jury ho had nothing whatever to do. He had simply
to act upon the sworn evidence which had been adduced
before him.

In conclusion, Mr. Lewis maintained that the medical
evidence would not justify the committal of the prisoner.
Mr. Joseph Turner, whom Mr. Lewis then called, said
—I reside at King-street, Soho, and am a hatter. The
prisoner's wife was my sister. I have a brother named
Charles William. The last two or three months I have
seen my sister two or three times a week, and within eight
days I saw her four or five times. 1 will not say I saw
her every week, but I saw her oftener than any one else.
On those occasions she was confined to her bed. I have
sent her food. The prisoner has been present on nearly
every occasion when I have visited my sister. Whenever
he has been present my sister has never complained to
me of insufficiency of food. During the•time I have been
present I have never seen him unkind. He was generally
kissing her, and saying "My dear wife." The only thing
I ever saw unpleasant was when the prisoner attempted to
kiss his wife when he was in liquor. 1 took him away,
because my sister told me to do so. When I have been
present my sister has had food. On one occasion I saw
him take a plate of food to her, and heard her tell him to
take it to the children; but I do not know who sent it.
The deceased died on a Tuesday, and I was with her on
the Monday, the day before she died, and the Tuesday ,
pre-
ceding her death, as well as the Sunday preceding the Tues-
day. I did not see her with food on either of those three
days I have mentioned. The week previous to her death I
took her some brandy, and my wife gave her some of it.
I placed the bottle at the top of the bed, and the nurse took
it off the drawers and said, " Don't let him see it." She
placed it at the foot of the bed, and there were three other
bottles there, under the clothes, all containing a red liquid.
On that occasion I was there, I think, between two and
throe hours. Whilst I was there no wine came in from
other parties.

Cross-examined by Mr. Chipperfield—l have been friends
with the prisoner since he came from America. Whilst he
has been in the Offord-road I have occasionally been out
with the prisoner, and I may have had a glass with him.
Within the past two or three months he has been frequently
the worse for liquor, and has been more excited. He has
been worse since my brother locked him up in Whitecross-
street for money for the food and clothes he supplied to my
sister. I was at the prisoner's house on the night before
my sister died. The prisoner was rationally drunk, if you
could call it so. I should not say that he was positively
drunk, but he was the worse for liquor. His wife did not
complain before me of his making a noise. Mr. Lynch
asked me to go out with' him to the tavern at the corner,
and whilst there the prisoner came in. A quarrel took
place between Mr. Lynch and the prisoner about the pri-
soner wanting to drink out of Mr. Lynch's pot. He was
drunk; and leaning over her bed, and I took him away.
Mrs. Elizabeth Isabella Turner said—l am the wife of
the last witness. I was in the habit'of going to the house
of the prisoner to visit his wife. I was there on the 15th
of August previous to her death. She said she should like
a little brandy, and it was given to her. Whilst I was there
I saw the nurse sent for port wine, which Mrs. Charles
Turner paid for. The wine was not given to her. I never
saw any ill-treatment of the prisoner to his wife. Ho was
given to drinkt but he always did what his wife wanted.
The prisoner was at home on that occasion, but the wife
did not say sho wanted food.
Cross-examined by Mr. Chipperfield—l was there on the
15th of August, and had previously seen her at the end of
May.
Mr. Lewis said that was his case.

Mr. Barker said he had heard nothing to induce him to
alter his intention of sending the case for trial. He then
fully committed the prisoner to the Central Criminal Court
for trial on the charge of manslaughter.
Mr. Lewis—Will you take bail ?

Mr. Barker peremptorily refused to admit the prisoner to
bail.
The prisoner, who seemed rather chapfallen at the deci-
sion, was then removed.

RAILWAY PROGRESS IN INDIA.—A marvellous
illustration of the progress now taking place in India is
supplied by the railway statistics. The annual official
holiday, known as the Doorga Pooja, begins on the 25th
of September, and lasts about a fortnight. On the 15th of
August tho great Jumna-bridge, near Allahabad, was
opened to the through traffic, reducing the delay between
Calcutta and Delhi by two hours. The East India Rail-
way Company offered holidaymakers return tickets avail-
able for three weeks between the two capitals—English
and Mussulman—for £7 second, and £l2 first-class, and
each may take two servants at £2 2s. a head, besides lug-
gage. The distance both ways is 2,040 miles 1 More-
over, the superstitious Hindoo is tempted to visit his holy
kasi, Benares, by the offer of a third-class ticket for £1 45.,
a distance both ways of 1,081 miles.
EASTBOURNE FAIR.—At the sitting of the bench
to-day, the magistrates, on tho application of the chief
stockowners, made an order for the suspension of East-
bourne fair on the 11th inst.

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LONDON GAZETrE—Last Eveuing.

WAR-OFFICE, Oc.r. 9.
The Queen has been graciously pleased to give orders
for the appointment of Lieutenant-General Sir John Gas-
pard Le Marchant, G.C.M.G., late Governor and Com-
mander-in-Chief in and over the Island of Malta and its
dependencies, to be an Ordinary Member of the Civil Di-
vision of the Second Class, or Knights Commanders of the
Most Honourable Orderof the Bath and of Brevet-Colonel
Harry St. George Ord, of the Royal Engineers, Governor
and Commander-in-Chief in and over the Bermudas or
Somers' Islands, in America, to be an Ordinary Member
of the Civil Division of the Third Class, or Companions of
the said Most Honourable Order.
DOWNING-STREET, OCT. 9.
The Queen has been pleased to appoint Bernard Gus-
tavus Norton, Esq., to be Puisne Judge, and Wm. Frederick
Haynes Smith, Esq., to be Solicitor-General, for the colony
of British Guiana.

Her Majesty has also been pleased to appoint Alfred
John Buncombe, Esq., to be Assistant Justice of the Gene-
ral Court of the Bahama Islands.

" Her Majesty has further been pleased to appoint Henry
Wakeford, Esq., to be Auditor for the Island of Van-
couver.

WHITEHALL, OCT. 10.
The Queen has been pleased to appoint Archibald
Davidson, Esq., advocate, to be Sheriff of the Shire or
Sheriffdom of Edinburgh, in the room e John Thomson
Gordon, Esq., deceased.
WAR-OFFICE, PALL MALL, OCT. 10.
Royal Regiment of Artillery—Major-General Thomas Gor-
don Higgins to be Colonel-Commandant, vice Lieute-
nant-General Henry William Gordon, deceased.
11th Regiment of Hussars—Cornet Algernon Edward
Sheppard Preston to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice
Somerset Saunderson, who retires ; Ensign John Donald
Hamill Stewart, from the 12th Foot, to be Cornet, vico
Preston.
Ro-

Jyal Artillery—Lieutenant-Colonel and Brevet-Colonel
Edward Price, C. 8., to be Colonel, vice Robert Fitz-
Gerald Crawford, removed as a General Officer; Lieu-
tenant-Colonel and Brevet-Colonel James William Dom-
vine to be Colonel, vice John St. George, C. 8., removed
as a General Officer • Captain and Brevet-Major Henry
Augustus Smyth to be Lieutenant-Colonel, vice Price ,
Captain Herbert Bruce Sandford to be Lieutenant-.
Colonel, vice Thomas Biggs, retired upon full-pay ;
Captain and Brevet Major Paul Winslow° Phillips to
be Lieut-Colonel, vice Doraville •, Second Captain and
Adjutant Edwin Markham, to be Captain, vice Smyth ;
Second Captain William de Vitre to be Captain, vice
Sandford; Second Captain Henry Richard Porter to be
Captain, vice Phillipps ; Lieutenant Louis Charles
Augustus Adrian de Cetto to be Second Captain, vice
Markham; Lieutenant Thomas Carr Fletcher to be Se-
cond Captain, vice de Vitre ; Lieutenant Henry Ander-
son to be Second Captain, vice Porter; Lieutenant
Francis Brinkley, from the Seconded List, to be Lieu-
tenant, vice Charles Hart Pickering, promoted ; Second
Captain Frederick George Ravanhill to be Adjutant,
vice Markham.
Military Train—Gentleman Cadet Frederick Luttman-
Johnson, from the Royal Military College, to be Ensign,
without purchase, vice Kennett, transferred to the 4th
Dragoon Guards.
Coldstream Guards.—Ensign and Lieutenant Sir Edward
Archibald Hamilton, Bart., to be Lieutenant and Cap-
tain, by purchase, vice Henry Robert Brand, who re-
tires ; the Hon. Lewis Payn Dawnay to be Ensign and
Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Sir E. A. Hamilton, Bart.
lst Regiment of Foot.—Paymaster, with the honorary rank
of Captain, Grahame Craig, from half-pay, late of the
Military Train, to be Paymaster, vice James Deacon,
placed upon half-pay.
11th Foot.—Lieutenant Percival Walsh Jordan to be Cap-
tain, by purchase, vice Thomas Lindsay Stach, who re-
tires ; Ensign George Vincent Meredith to be Lieutenant,
by purchase, vice Jordan; George Nunn Thomas, Gent.,
to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Meredith.
12th Foot—Charles James Elphinstone Rhenins, Gent., to
be Ensign, by purchase, vice J. D. H. Stewart, trans-
ferred to the 11th Hussars.

16th Foot—Ensign John Rae Reid to be Lieutenant, with-
out purchase, vice Arthur Ewen Stabb, deceased ; Gen-
tleman Cadet Alexander Martin Paterson, from the
Royal Military College, to be Ensign, without purchase,
vice Reid.
25th Foot--Ensign J. G. Curtis Hayward tobe Lieutenant,
by purchase, vice William Henry Hale, who retires;
Gentleman Cadet Edward Law Durand, from the Royal
Military College, to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Hay-
ward.
33d Foot—Staff-Surgeon James Sinclair, M.D., to be Sur-
geon, vice William Hanbury, appointed to the Staff.
39th Foot—Lieutenant Augustus Frederic Raper to be
Captain, without purchase, vice Edward John Stokes,
deceased ; Ensign Cowper Rochfort to be Lieutenant,
without purchase, vice Raper • Gentleman Cadet Mau-
rice Baptist Luby, from the Royal Military College, to
be Ensign, without purchase, vice Rochfort ; Henry
Alfred Austen, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice
Wilson, transferred to the 49th Foot ; Lieutenant Cop-
ner Oldfield to be Adjutant, vice Lieutenant Raper, pro-
moted.

49th Foot—Lieut. William John Gillespie to be Captain,
by purchase, vice John Hopkins, who retires; Ensign,
George Charles Cockburn to be Lieutenant, by purchase,
vice Gillespie; Ensign Edward Hales Wilson, from the
30th Foot, to be Ensign, vice Cockburn.
iii2er
53d Foot—Lieut. Haney Douglas Rooke Instructor of
Musketry, vice Lieut. H. J. Beckwi , promoted.
56th Foot—Captain John William uskisson, from half-
pay, late 56th Foot, to be Captain, vice William Watkin
Bassett, who retires upon temporary half-pay.
59th Foot—Lieut. Richard Dane to be Instructor of Mus-
ketry, vice Lieut. W. J. Frampton, promoted.
66th Foot—Lieut. Neil Dogherty, from half-pay, late
Turkish Contingent, to be Lieutenant, vice Moodie,
promoted to a Half-pay Company, without purchase;
Ensign Charles Mosley Turner to be Lieutenant, by pur-
chase, vice Neil Dogherty, who retires ; James N agent
Blackwood Price, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice
Turner.

61st Foot.—Ensign Charles Wyndham Murray to be Lieu-
tenant, by purchase, vice Herbert Lee Hall, who retires
Thomas Francis O'Grady, Gent., to'be Ensign, by pur-
chase, vice Murray; Staff Assistant-Surgeon Samuel
Wesley Handy to be Assistant-Surgeon, vice Alfred
Huta, placed upon half-pay.
66th Foot—Captain Charles Perrin to be Major, by pur-
chase, vice Charles William Aylmer, who retires ;
Lieutenant Harry A. F. Merewether to be Captain, by
purchase, vice Perrin ; Ensign Edward John Johnston.
to bo Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Merewether; Dud-
ley Davison Batty, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase,
vice Johnston.
68thFoot—Staff Assistant-Surgeon Oliver Codrington to
be Assistant-Surgeon, vice A. 0. Applin, who ex-
changes.
85th Foot—Major and Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel William
Williamson to be Lieutenant-Colonel, without purchase,
vice Brevet-Colonel John William Grey, who retires
upon full pay ; Captain and Brevet-Major George
Thompson to be Major, without purchase, vice Brevet
Lieutenant-Colonel Williamson ; Lieutenant Finch
White to be Captain, without purchase, vice Brevet-
Major Thompson; Ensign Gilbert Joshua Spencer
Smith to be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice White ;
Gentleman Cadet Francis Wingfield Robinson, from the
Royal Military College, to be Ensign, without purchase,
vice Smith.
Rifle Brigade—Paymaster, with the honorary rank of
Major, Thomas Hanson Ratcliff, from half-pay, late of
the Military Train, to be Paymaster, vice Thos. Gough,
deceased.
Royal Canadian Rifle Regiment—The second Christian
name of Quartermaster Cook is Bell.
HALF-PAY.—Lieut. 'John William Huskison, from the 56th
Foot, to be Captain, without purchase.
MEDICAL DEPARTMENT.—Surgeon Wm. Hanbury, from the
33d Foot, to be Staff-Surgeon, vice Jas. Sinclair, M.D.,
appointed to 33d Foot; Assist.-Surgeon A. 0. Applin,
from 68th Foot, to he Staff Assistant-Surgeon,
vice 0. Codrington, who exchanges; Assistant-Surgeons
Clement Williams, from the 68th Foot, to be
Staff
the 83d Foot.
siqtant-Surgeon, vice Arthur Sanderson, appointed to