The Sun.
London, England, 1865-06-13 00:00:00

The prisoner pleaded guilty to the misdemeanour.

The Recorder, in passing sentence, said the prisoner had
pleaded guilty to a very serious and cowardly offence.
From what the Court had heard, it appeared that the
prosecutor and prisoner had been at one time good friends,
but differences had occurred, and an action had been
brought against the prisoner, which he improperly defended.
It appeared that he had had an interview with Mrs. Chap-
puis without the knowledge of her husband, and from
that he (the prisoner) had attempted to wring from
her money to defend the action to which he was a party
against her own husband. He had further threatened to
publish certain statements imputing infidelity to her, but
he was happy to say nothing to substantiate such a charge
had been offered in court, and it was also gratifying to
know the husband did not believe such a base insinuation.
Mrs. Chappins had no doubt seen the prisoner without her
husband's knowledge, for perhaps the best intention and
purest reason—that of trying to end the legal proceedings
between them, and it was most shameful that advantage of
such an act should be taken for the basest purpose. The
sentence of the Court was that the prisoner be kept in
prison for 18 calendar months with hard labour.
TILE LATE EXTRAORDINARY ROBBERY OF POST-OFFICE

MONEY-ORDER FORMS.
Henry Charles Watson was indicted with stealing, forg-
ing, and uttering a number of Post-office money-orders,
whereby the Post-office authorities had been defrauded to
the extent of nearly £6OO. It will be recollected that a
short time ago a very artful but ingenious fraud was per-
petrated upon a postmaster at Netherstowey, in Somerset-
shire, by a person who represented himself to be an in-
spector of the Post-office. The prisoner succeed in obtain-
ing possession of nearly 400 blank forms, with the letters
of advice, and the money-orders the prisoner had presented
for payment were made out on some of the forms stolen on
that occasion.

The postmaster at Netherstowey was examined at great
length, and repeated the evidence he gave at Bow-street.
The jury found the prisoner guilty, and he was sentenced
to ten years' penal servitude.

Extraordinary Case of Suspended Animation

(Front the Newcastle Chronicle)

A mast remarkable case of suspended animation has
occurred in Newcastle. On Tuesday night, a boy, named
Batey, about 12 years of age, went to bed after partaking
rather heartily of some rhubarb tart. Next morning about
6 o'clock he awoke in great pain, and his father used some
simple remedies to remove the pain, but his efforts were of
no avail, and shortly afterwards the boy apparently died.
Preparations were made for the funeral,and the father went
to the register office to obtain a certificate for the burial,
but this the Registrar refused to give, as no medical man
had seen the lad while he was ill, and there was nothing
to show what had been the cause of death. The father
was recommended to go to the Coroner and see if an in-
quest should be held, and thither he proceeded. Mr. Hoyle,
after hearing the particulars of the death, ordered a post-
mortem examination to be made ; and Mr. W. S. Rayne,
surgeon, was sent for on Thursday morning. Mr. Rayne
was, however, out of town ; and as the case was repre-
sented to be urgent—" the body would not keep this hot
weather"—Mr. Bush (Mr. Rayne's assistant) got Dr. Carr
to undertake the duty of ascertaining the cause of death.
Dr. Carr and Mr. Bush, with theirinaplemonts of dissection,
and accompanied by the father of the" deceased," proceeded
—two days after the lad "died"—to the house of mourn-
ing, where had been left the body of the deceased lad, with
all the symbols of grief around it. But conceive the asto-
nishment of the father when he beheld his son, who had
been dead, as he thought, two days, standing in the door-
way, as if nothing had happened. There was nothing
ghastly about him. He did not look like one who had visited
the other world, nor like ono risen from the dead ; but he
stood with the utmost unconcern, and with every sign of
health and life about him. The astonished parent could
scarcely believe his eyes, and the doctors began to think
that they were hoaxed. The lad, however, told his own tale
He knew nothing about his narrow escape from being
buried alive. All he know was that he had been asleep,
and on awakening, as ho found no ono in tho house—his
father was looking for the doctors, and his mother was out,
probably making the arrangements for the funeral—he got
up, and feeling very hungry, looked about for something
to eat. Finding some eggs, he cooked them, after which
he went out, in happy ignorance of his narrow escape from
the grave and surgeon's knife. Mr. Bush told the lad it
was a good thing that he had " come to life" when he did,
as he might have been killed in the attempt to ascertain
wliv he had ceased to exist.

Liverpool Cotton Market—This Day.

Market rather quiet.
bales.

Sales probably 8,000

THE LORD CHANCELLOR is, we hear, engaged in
drawing up a bill to deal with an offence which has lately
become alarmingly prevalent in the political world. It is
to be entituled, "An Act for the better Prevention of
Erabethelment."—Pall-mall Gazette.

The satisfaction demanded by the Italian Go-
vernment from the Viceroy of Egypt for ill-treat-
ment inflicted on some Italian sailors at Alexandria was
accorded on the 24th ult. Mustapha Bey, sub-Director of
Police, has been dismissed. Several other superior police
agents have also been discharged. The cavasses, or police-
men, who had struck the Italian sailors, are severely
punished, and other offenders are exiled. The Prefect of
Police went to the Italian Consulate to tender an apology,
and a superior Egyptian officer went at the same time on
board the Etna to offer a similar excuse to its commander ;
likewise the Governor of Alexandria, officially informed
the Consulate of the great dissatisfaction felt by the Vice
roy in consequence of the outrage complained of.