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a person named Delves, at Brighton, to whom she paid
2s. 6d. per week for taking care of it. A day or two be-
fore the 6th of March the prisoner called upon Mrs.
Delves, and stated that she should want the child got
ready on that day, as she was going to take it to Shore-
ham, and Mrs. Delves accordingly dressed the child early
in the day, in order that it might ready to go out. The
prisoner did not come for the child until the evening,
and as it was very wet and foggy, Mrs. Delves observed
that it was not a proper night to have the child out ;
but the prisoner persisted in doing so, and said that if
she left the child at Shoreham, as she expected, she
should not call upon her when she came back, and in
that case she directed her to give a bedstead, which she
had provided for the use of the child, to her bro-
ther, who she said would call for it. Mrs. Delves then
gave the child some bull's eyes and some nuts, and the
prisoner went away with it, and they were both seen
shortly afterwards going in the direction of Hove. About
eight o'clock the same night the prisoner arrived at her
master's, and at this time nothing was seen of her child,
but on the following day the dead body was found at a
place called Hove Drove, between the railway terminus
and the sea. A portion of its clothes had been removed,
and, upon an examination of the body, it became mani-
fest that death was the result of suffocation, occasioned by
a ligature which was found tied tightly round the
throat. It appeared that the child was very speedily
recognised as that of the prisoner, and the officers
of Brighton at once proceeded to the house of her
master, and took her into custody ; and upon her
being told that she was charged with the murder
of her child she became dreadfully agitated, and ex-
claimed, " Oh, what shall I do Oh, dear, how
could Idoit ? Do tell me what to do ! Oh, save me !
Let me go !" Her boxes were then searched, when the
child's frock, very wet and muddy, and in the pocket of
which were the bull's eyes and nuts given to her by Mrs.
Delves, was found, and upon further examination the
boots of the prisoner, and also some of her own clothes,
all of which were very wet and muddy, were discovered.
Mr. Creasy, on behalf of the prisoner, made a forcible
appeal to the feelings of the jury on account of her youth
and her unfortunate position, and he urged them to re-
turn a verdict that would have the effect of saving the
life of his wretched client.

The Lord Chief Baron having summed up, the jury,
after being a short time in deliberation, returned a ver-
dict of guilty.

The unhappy woman was immediately called up for
judgment, and the Lord Chief Baron, in a most impres-
sive manner, passed upon her the awful sentence of
death.

When the learned judge concluded his address, the
prisoner fainted, and was carried from the dock in a state
of insensibility.

FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE of YESTERDAY.

DOWNING-STREET, JULY 16.

The Queen has been pleased to appoint Augustus Grif-
fiths, Esq., to be Assistant-Colonial Surveyor for the co-
lony of Sierra Leone.
FOREIGN-OFFICE, JULY 18.

The Queen has been pleased to approve of Don Giovanni
Mann. as Consul in the Island of New Providence for the
Duke of Parma.

The Queen has also been pleased to approve of Mr.
George Moss as Vice-Consul at St. Helena for the Free
Hanseatic city of Lubeck.
OFFICE OF ORDNANCE, JULY 18.

Royal Regiment of Artillery—Colonel Peter Margetson
Wallace to be Colonel Commandant, vice Major-General
Armstrong, deceased ; Lieutenant-Colonel George Brodie
Fraser to be Colonel, vice Wallace; Brevet-Major John
Hill to be Lieutenant-Colonel, vice Fraser ' • Second Cap-
tain Charles Wright Younghusband to be Captain, vice
Hill ; First Lieutenant Henry Lambert Fulke Greville to
be Second Captain, vice Younghusband, June 21 ; Second
Lieutenant George Joseph Smart to be First Lieutenant,
vice Greville, July 12.
MEMORANDUM.—The dates of the promotion of the un-
dermentioned officers have been altered as follows ; viz. :
First-Lieutenant J. T. B. Browne, to June 21; First-
Lieutenant C. J. Tyler, to Juno 28.

COMMISSIONS SIGNED BY THE LORD-LIEUTENANTS.
East Kent Regiment of Militia—Lieutenant Richard
Daniel Pennefather. to be Captain, vice Montresor, ap-
pointed to the West Kent Regiment, July 10 ; Lieutenant
Henry Braidley, to be Captain, July 11; Ensign Charles
Castle, to be Lieutenant, vice Pennefather, promoted,
July 9.

Regiment of Royal London Militia—Lieutenant John
Harrison Allan, to be Captain, vice James Best, resigned,
July 12 ; Lieutenant H. J. Hyde, to be Captain, vice
L. M. Prior, resigned, July 13 ; Ensign H. M. Kennard,
to bo Lieutenant, vice John W. Barton, resigned, July 12 ;
Assistant-Surgeon Henry James to be Lieutenant, vice
James Quallette, retired, July 13 ; Ensign John Britten
to be Lieutenant, vice John Harrison Allan, promoted,
July 18 ; Ensign Wm. Mince Greenfield to be Lieutenant,
vice Henry John Hyde, promoted, July 19.
2d or Edmonton Royal Rifle Regiment of Middlesex
Militia—Samuel Smith Millar, Gent., to be Assistant-
Surgeon. _

rOyal Monmouth Militia—Major John Francis Vaughan
to be Lieutenant-Colonel, July 16.
Yorkshire Hussar Regiment of West Riding Yeomanry
Cavalry—Lieutenant William Sawrey Morritt to be Cap-
tain, vice Viscount Goderich, resigned ; Cornet the Hon.
Alfred Joseph Stourton to be Lieutenant, vice Morritt,
promoted, May 27 ; the Hon. Robert Neville Lawley to
be Lieutenant, vice Lawley, resigned, July 5.
3d Regiment of West York Militia—Lieutenant George
Chivers Bower to be Captain, May 24.
North Devon Regiment of Mounted Rifles—Sir Arthur
Chichester, Bart., to be Major, June 23 ; Thomas Met vy
Bourchier Marshall n.
to be Cornet; Samuel Buckland,
Clerk, to be Chaplain, June 28.
Devon Militia Artillery—William Borlase Stevens to
be First Lieutenant, June 21.
_ _

Ist Devon Regiment of Militia—Philip Heatly Douglas
to be Ensign, June 21; Captain David Rattary, late of the
13th Regiment of Foot, to be Captain, June 25.
2d Devon Regiment of Militia—John Walrond Vire.frond,
Jeffrey John Edwards, Sidney Strode, and Massy Lopes—
to be Captains ; Logan Downes, Robert Shedden Sulyarde
Cary, John Camden Goodridge, and John Machen—to be
Lieutenants ; Charles Hayne, Charles Augustus Coles, and
Robert Trood—to be Ensigns, June 25.