The Sun.
London, England, 1865-03-23 00:00:00

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'VEGETABLE COOKERY, Pastry, Pickling,
atc.

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ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL, Gray's-inn-road,
in the immediate vicinity of the Great Northern Rail-
way Terminus, King's-cross.
Patron—Her Most Gracious Majesty the QUEEN.
Vice-Patron—ll is Royal Highness the Prince of WALES, K.G
President—His Grace the Duke of BUCCLEUCH, K.G.

This Hospital, founded in the year 1828, the first to estab-
lish the princip'e of free admission to the sick poor, without
the delay and difficulty of Governors' orders, is wholly de-
pendent for support on voluntary contributions and legacies.
It affords relief to a large number of in-patients, and, in
addition to this, the average number of attendance of the
.Itstitute sick has for a considerable period averaged between
3,000 and 4,000 weekly.
The Committee earnestly solicit the ASSISTANCE of the
benevolent, as the premises of 'this Hospital are capable of
containing several hundred more beds, had the Committee
the requisite funds to maintain them.
Contributions are received by the Treasurer, Edward Mae-
terman, Esq., Nicholas-lane; also by Messrs. Coutts and Co.;
Drummond and Co. ; Glyn and Co. ; Herries and Co. ; Ransom
and Co. ; Prescott, Grote, and Co.; Smith, Payne, and Co. ;
Barclay, and Co. ; W Mame, Deacon, and Co.; Overend, Gur-
ney, and Co. ; Nisbet and Co. , Berners-street ; I. Darned and
, Liverpool ; and at the Hospital. from 10 till 5.
STANFORD t3MIT.II Secretary.

Duke of Cleveland, by Viscount Sydney.
Col. the Hon. H. Clifford, V.C., on appointment as As-
sistant Quartermaster-General, Horse Guards, by Lieut.-
General Sir Richard Airey, K.C.B.
Lieut. Robert Coates, Royal Engineers, on appointment,
by Col. F. E. Chapman, C.B.
Sub-Lient. Cockburn, 2d Regiment of Life Guards, on
appointment, by Gen. the Marquis of Tweeddale.
Mr. Bryan G. Davies Cooke, High Sheriff of Fintshire,
on his appointment, by Sir George Grey.
Mr i
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Hon.n C
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Edward don, S t
Cardwell.indi ar Magistrate, Victoria, by
the R

Mr. Herbert Collier, by his father, Admiral Henry
Collier.

Ensign Wm. Conolly, on appointment to her Majesty's
85th Regiment, by Lieut.-Gen. Sir Robert J. H. Vivian.

The Rev. Wm. Conway, on appointment to a canonry at
Westminster, by the Dean of Westminster.
Earl of Cork, on appointment as Lord Lieutenant of So-
merset, by Viscount Palmerston.
Lieut. David Cornfoot, Rifle Volunteers, by Lieut.-Col.
Sir John Villiers Shelley, Bart.

Capt. Lynch. Stapleton Cotton, 97th Regiment, by Ma-
jor-Gen. Sir Sydney Cotton.
Col. C. V. Cox, Royal Horse Artillery, by H.R.H. the
Duke of Cambridge.
The Rev. Dr. Currey, by the Archbishop of York.
Lieut.-Gen. Sir Richard Dacres, on promotion and ap-
pointment to brigade of Royal Artillery, by H.R.H. tho
Duke of Cambridge.

Capt. Dalison, Rifle Volunteer; by Viscount Sydney.
Mr. J. C. Daniel, LL.D., by Sir John Heron Maxwell,
Bart.

Lieut.-Gen. Sir }L Ferguson Davie, Bart., M.P., on ap-
pointment to the Colonelcy of the 73d Rogt., by 11.R.H.
tho Duke of Cambridge.

Col. Henry Percival do Bathe, Scots Fusilier Guards, on
promotion, by Gen. Sir Alox. Woodford, G.C.B.
Mr. Thos. de Meschin, LL.D., by Mr, George Alexander
Hamilton. •

Capt. W. de Vitre, Royal Artillery, on return from India
by Col. G. Gambier, C.B.
Mr. Denne, by the Earl of Mount Charles.
Lieut. Francis MG. Denny, Royal Engineers, on ap-
pointment, by Col. F. E. Chapman, C.B.
Capt. Roderick Dew, on return from China, and appoint-
ment as Companion of the Bath, by the Duko of Somerset.
Surgeon Daniel John Doherty, 18th Prince Albert's Light
Infantry, by Camel Lord Mark Kerr, C.B.

Lieut. H. L. Nutt, 103 d Regiment (Royal Bombay Fusi-
liers), on his return from India, by the Adjutant General.
Lieut. P. O'Callaghan, 13th Prince Albert's Light In-
fantry, on promotion by Col. Lord Mark Kerr, C.B.
Rear Admiral, Erasmus Ommanney, on promotion and
return from foreign serTice, by the Duke of Somerset,
K.G.

Cornet Blackett Ord, 13th Hussars, by Lieut. Colonel
Jenyns, C.B.
Capt. Percy Oxenden, Royal East Sent Yeomanry, on
promotion, by the Earl of Mount Charles.
Major Charles Stewart Parker (Oxford University Rifle
Volunteers), private Secretary to the Secretary of State for
the Colonies, by the Secretary of State for the Colonies.
Capt. Penny, Royal Engineers, on return from India, by
the Secretary of State for India.
Major H. L. Pester, her Majesty's 9th Regiment Bengal
Native Infantry, by the Right Hon. Sir Charles Wood,
G.C.B.

Sir Thomas Phillips, on being appointed one of her
Majesty's counsel, by the Lord Chancellor.
Col. Philpotts, Royal Horse Artillery, on promotion and
appointment as Colonel of the Staff by the Duke of Cam-
bridge.

Viscount Polliugton, by the Earl of Mexborough.
Lieut. Arthur R. Puzey, R.E., on appointment, by Col.
F. E. Chapman, C.B.

Capt. F. G. Ravenhill, Royal Horse Artillery, by Col. G.
Gambier, C.B.

Sub-Lieut. Ray, 2d Regiment of Life Guards, on appoint-
ment, by General the Marquis of Tweoddale, K.T., &c.
Major Gen. Raymond, on promotion, by H.R.H. the Duke
of Cambridge.

Lieut. Col. Richards, London Rifle Volunteers, by Col.

11. P. de Bathe. _
Lieut. T. A. Richardson, Royal Artillery, on appoint-
ment, by Col. G. Gambier, C.B.
Lieut. Lord Rosehill, Scots Fusilier Guards, on return
from Canada, and on marriage, by General Sir Alexander
Woodford, G.C.B.
Capt. John Angerstein Rowley, 13th Prince Albert's
Light Infinity, on return from India, by Colonel Lord Mark
Kerr, C.B.
Ensign Charles Drury Rundall, 101st Royal Bengal Fusi-
liers, by the Adjutant General.
Ensign Constantine Ryan, 63d Regiment, by. Sir James
Yorke Scarlett.

Capt. Savory, 78th Highlanders, on promotion, and re-

The prisoner was placed in the dock appropriated to or-
dinary prisoners, and she was seated during the trial.
Mr. Denman, Q.C., in opening the case for the prosecu-
tion, said that although the prisoner at the bar was a very
different person to the ordinary class of prisoners charged
with the offence of arson, he was afraid that the evidence he
should have to lay-before them in support of the present
indictment was of such a cogent character as would require
their most serious consideration. The learned counsel then
proceeded to state that the prisoner was undoubtedly a lady
by birth, and she had been with her husband in India, and
after his death, which took place in that country, she re-
turned to England and took a house belonging to a gentle-
man named Field, in Chesham-road, Brighton, in the be-
ginning of the year 1864. She was to pay a rent of £2B a
year, and the house was taken for a period of two years ;
but it appeared that short 31-7—alCr. Ole -"fifiien-er weind into
possession she was dissatisfied with the house, and made
an arrangement with Mr. Field to give up possession of it,
and she was originally to have left on March 18, but the day
was afterwards altered to the 19th. After this arrangement
had been made, the prisoner took apartments in Broad-
street, Brighton; and it seemed that she had made arrange-
ments with an upholsterer, named Holden, that a portion
of her furniture should be left in his charge. The prisoner
was engaged on the 17th and 18th in her removal, and on
the last-mentioned day these operations were nearly com-
pleted, and the prisoner appeared to have left about seven
o'clock in the evening, in company with her servant, a
young woman named Holmes; her daughter, a young
lady about twenty years of age, who completed the esta-
blishment, having previously gone to the new residence
in Broad-street. At the time the prisoner and Holmes
left the premises they were quite safe, and there was not
the slightest appearance of fire ; and it appeared that
after the prisoner arrived at Broad-street she had her
dinner, and a little before eight o'clock she stated that
she had either left her purse behind her at Chesham-road,
or had lost it, and that she must go back and look for it,
and she requested the servant girl „Holmes to accompany
her. They accordingly left together, and were about to go
to Mr. Holden's to obtain the key of the house, but they‘met
him and he gave the prisoner the key. Shortly after this
the prisoner appeared to have sent Holmes back to the
house in Broad-street, giving her directions to inform her
daughter where she was going ; and it appeared that she
then went to a tradesman named Parsons, and asked him
to give her a piece of candle and a few lucifer matches, and
he did so, and the prisoner then appeared to have proceeded
to the house in Chesham-road. From this time nothing
seems to have been positively known of the prisoner's pro-
ceedings until she returned to her new residence in Broad-
street, except that immediately she came back she is said to
have stated that the house was full of smoke as usual. The
fire appeared to have been discovered about 20 minutes to 9
o'clock on the same evening, and the first person who gave
the alarm was a woman named Rirwen, who, it would seem,
had been in the habit of stopping at the house as she was
passing to hear Miss Grant, prisoner's daughter, who, it
was stated, was an accomplished musician, play upon the
piano. Her attention was attracted by seeing the house
shut up, and while she was looking at it she saw a blaze,
and discovered that the house was on fire. Assistance, of
course, quickly arrived, and the first thing that appeared to
have excited attention was the fact of the house being
completely and securely fastened, and it was necessary to
force open the door before an entrance could be obtained.
Upon the police and others entering the premises they dis-
covered that the gas had been left turned on, and that there
was a crate full of paper in the back parlour, Which had
been partially burned. There also appeared to have been a
fire burning under the stairs, another in a wardrobe and in
a chest of drawers in the prisoner's bed-room: and, accord-
ing to the case for the prosecution, there were six distinct
fires in different parts of the house, but the whole of them
appeared to have gone out, and no material damage was
done to the premises. Very soon after the discovery took
place the prisoner was told what had happened, and she
at first appeared to be very much alarmed, and afterwards
exclaimed, " Oh that horrid house ! it has been a trouble
to me ever since I have had it." The learned counsel for
the prosecution, in the course of his address to the jury,
admitted that he was unable to show any motive for the
commission of such a serious crime by tho prisoner ; and
although it transpired incidentally in the course of the in-
quiry that an insurance had been effected to the extent of
£5OO upon the furniture, it seemed to be admitted that this
was by no means an excessive sum, and that the portion
of furniture that was removed had been openly taken away
by the tradesmen who were employed, and that every one
in the neighbourhood was aware that the prisoner was
about to remove. It also appeared that although the house
was a small house, the prisoner was in possession of a num-
ber of :rare and curious Indian ornaments, which were of
considerable value, in addition to the furniture, and that
the property altogether
A great many witnesses having been
much more. than £5OO.
been examined to prove
the foregoing statement,
was
worworth
Sergeant Ballantine proceeded to address the jury for the
defence. He said that six or seven years ago the lady at
the bar accompanied her" husband during one of the most
momentous struggles that had ever taken place in the his-
tory of this country. Her husband formed a portion of that
noble army by whose gallant conduct the integrity of the
kingdom was maintained, and a mighty country preserved
to the dominion of the British Crown. She had undergone
with her gallant husband all the perils of the memorable
siege of Delhi; and although her husband had succumbed
to the hardships he had undergone, she still remained one
of that noble band of women who, during the terrible
struggle, had exhibited instances of self-denial and
heroism that had given to the women of this country a
name that would never die. If ho could for a moment
suppose it possible that the jury would give an adverse
verdict to the prisoner, he would only observe that it
appeared to him that it would have been well for her if
she had died with her gallant husband, and had.thus,
with her child, a young lady just entering into woman-

Mr. JAMES TAYLOR, the secretary, then read a
report detailing what had been done in furtherance
of the object for which they had assembled. It
stated that the trade generally was 25 per cent.
better than it was in 1860. Wages had been in-
creased ; many masters had abolished night-work,
while not a few closed their shops on Sundays,
which had done away with Sunday bakings. In
regard to the establishment of a home and reading-
room, something had been done in that respect. A
room had been procured at Rolls-buildings, Fetter-
lane, and fitted-up for that purpose, but some £250
was required to place it in proper working order.
They had already a library of 140 volumes, and they
had expended £2l in furniture; but as their funds
were nearly all expended, it was hoped that the
general public as well as the trade would come
forward and aid them.
Lord EBURY then moved a resolution to the effect
that the meeting, after hearing the report, was of
opinion that there was much need of a home or club
and institute for the unemployed and young men in
the baking trade, in order that a better system of
obtaining employment might be established. The
noble lord expressed his satisfaction at the success
which was attending the movement, and trusted that
they would receive such support as would carry it
to a successful issue.
The resolution having been seconded by Mr.
BONTHRON, master baker, was cordially adopted.
Mr. A. H. LAYARD, M.P., next moved that the
meeting was of opinion that the journeymen bakers
were justified in using all moral, legal, and consti-
tutional means to abolish the pernicious system of
night-work and unlimited hours, in order that they
may have a better opportunity for improving their
intellectual capabilities, and to afflittle egmoerdnetnitetra.imalennfosurpa
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com-
mented on the benefits which had resulted from the
act recently passed for the regulation of bakehouses
and the employment of young persons in them. The
only objection to it was that the inspection under it
was not made compulsory, and he had no doubt but
that that defect in the Act might yet be remedied.
The resolution, having been seconded by the Rev.
11. SOLLY, was adopted nem. con.
The meeting then adjourned.

And then he drew a dial from his poke,
And looking on it with lack lustre eye,
Says very wisely, It is ten o'clock :
Thus we may see,' quoth he, ' how the world wags:
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