The Sun.
London, England, 1854-03-17 00:00:00

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.

OXFORD CIRCUIT—STAFFORD, MARGIT 15.
Ellen Davis, a young married woman, was indicted for
the wilful murder of her child, Isaiah Davis, at Wolver-
hampton, on the 17th December last.
The husband of the prisoner left her to go to work on
the above day, at six o'clock. There were three chil-
dren in the house then, one a baby a month old.
On his return at twelve o'clock, he asked where
was the baby, and she said, sullenly, it was in the
well. The husband at once got a neighbour to go and
search the well with him, which was in the cellar of
the house, and they pulled up the child with a pike.
On being spoken to as to how it got into the well, she
said it fell in, and she did not know why. She did not
make an alarm. She looked a sullen stupid woman,
and a doctor who attended her in her first confinement,
said she then suffered from puerperal mania to such an
extent that he recommended her to be sent to a lunatic
asylum, where she was confined for several months ; and
he believed her to be on the above day in the same state
as when he ordered her to the asylum.
Acquitted on the ground of insanity.

THE MONSTER SCREW AND PADDLE STEAMER FOR
THE EASTERN NAVIGATION COMPANY.—Active prepa-
rations are now in the course of progress at the yard of
Messrs. Scott Russell, at Millwall, for laying down the
immense iron steam-ship for the Eastern Navigation
Company, the peculiar construction of which is exciting
vast interest among shipbuilders. In consequence of
there not being sufficient length in the yard for her
ways, it became necessary to add the adjoining yard of
Messrs. Napier to Messrs. Scott Russell's works, and
many hundred piles have been driven in preparatory to
laying down the keel, which is to take place in the
course of the present month. The dimensions will be
nearly as follows :—Tonnage, 10,000 tons, or builders'
measurement, 22,000 tons ; extreme length, 700 feet ;
extreme breadth, 83 feet ; depth of hold, 58 feet ; with
screw and paddle engines of the aggregate nominal
horse-power, 2,800-horses; stowage for coals, 10,000
tons ; for cargo, 5,000 tons ; 500 first class cabins, with
ample space for troops and lower class passengers.
Her entire construction will be similar to the tube of
the Britannia-bridge, a kind of double ship, with a
space of 2 feet 8 inches between, of a cellular formation.
She is to have 14 water-tight compartments, most of
them 40 feet apart. With these,
it is said, she will
carry out sufficient fuel for a voyage to Calcutta or
Australia and back to England, and avoid the delay of
lengthened stoppages and coaling which other steam-
ships are subject to. The ship is designed by Mr.
Brunel, the Great Western Railway Company's engi-
neer, and who, it will be remembered, designed the
Great Britain. It is expected by that gentleman that
she will accomplish the voyage between England and
India, by the Cape, in 30 or 33 days' less time than the
distance is at present done by sea-going steamers. She
is to be completed in 18 months.—Shipping Gazette.
[A D VERTISEMENT. I—A LIEUTENANT OF DRAGOONS
CURED OF RHEUMATISM BY HOLLOWAY'S OINTMENT
AND PILLS.—This officer, who is in the Dutch army,
states that Holloway's Pills and Ointment have cured
him of rheumatism, which appeared to be incurable, as
neither sea-bathing, vapour-baths, nor preparations vaunted
as sure remedies, did him any good, and the treat-qr-it of
the doctor, after several months' trial, was withc ,:uc-
Coss. At this juncture he commenced taking thews Pills.
and rubbing the Ointment into the complaining parts
twice a day, which effectually cured him in the course of
six weeks. The truth of this statement can be vouched for
by Mr. J. B. Stratman, of Bois-le-Duc.—Sold by all drug-
gists ; and at Professor Holloway's establishment, 244,
atrand, Loudon.