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NORTHERN blaCOlT.—Liverpool, Dec. 14.
The following eases were taken to-day, after our
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(Before Mr. Justice TALTOURD.)
In the case of Richard Cheetham, the jury, after
being some hours in deliberation, returned into court
with a verdict Of Manslaughter, and strongly recom-
mended the prisoner to mercy.
Mary Ann Page, aged 27, was charged with the
wilful murder of an illegitimate male child, at Man-
chester.
Mr. Sowler and Mr. Milne prosecuted ; the prisoner
was defended by Mr. Pollock.
The jury found the prisoner Guilty of the minor
charge, acquitting herof the graver charge of murder.
His LORDSHIP sentencel her to imprisonment,
with hard labour, for two months.

(Befop, Mr.Justi:e WictrrmAtc.)
Francis Harrison, aged 25, and Joseph Harrison'
aged 18 (brothers), were indicted for having killed
and slain Michael Shorrock, at Over Darwen, on
the 12th of November last.
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Mr. Spinks appeared for the prosecution, and Mr.
Blair for the prisoner.
Verdict— Guilty ; but the jury recommended the
prisoners to mercy.
Sentence—Six months' imprisonm. nt each t 3 hard
labour.

It being now clear that Mr. Justice Tallow('
could finish the remaining cases in the course of Sa-
turday, without further assistance, Mr. Justice
Wightman will not sit to-morrow.
December 15.
(Before Mr. Justice TALFOURD.
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ship proceeded to pass sentence on Richard Cheetham
who was last night convicted of manslaughter, with
a strong recommendation to mercy.
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pass a comparatively light sentence on the prisoner,
by the recommendation with which the jury had ac-
companied their verdict,and the peculiar circumstances
by which the case had been accompanied. To be
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months.

James Lloyd, John Taylor, Wm. Roscoe, James
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Thomas Seddon, were indicted for night poaching at
Altcar, on the estates of the Earl of Sefton.

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necessary to constitute the offence alleged, and the
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YORK. Dec. 14.
(Before Mr. Justice CRESSWELL )
CHARGE OF MURDER.

Benjamin Ileald, 24, was charged with the wilful
murder of William Heald and Elizabeth Heald at
Knottingley, on the 13th of July last.
Mr. 131anshard and Mr. Boothby were counsel for
the prosecution ; Mr. Overend defended the prisoner.
The grand jury ignored the bill against the prisoner,
who was now placed upon his trial on the coroner's
inquisition.
It appeared that the prisoner and his father, mother,
and brother, and the two deceased, who were the
children of the prisoner's brother, resided together at
Knottingley, near Pontefract. Two or three months
previous to the commission of the offence the prisoner
met with an accident to his spine whilst he was at
work, and the consequence was that he was prevented
from following his daily occupation for several weeks.
One of the results of the injury was that the pri-
soner's mind became much depressed; but he so far
recovered as to be able to resume his work, and he
got engaged upon a line of railway. At this employ-
ment he remained for some time, but the work being
too hard for him the injury he had previously received
to his spine was much increased, and he was again
compelled to desist from work. His mind was more
impaired than before ; he gave utterance to expres-
sions of fear of being thrown upon the parish,
and evidently showed signs of insanity. On the
13th of July, whilst the father of the two deceased
was absent the prisoner went with the children into
a garden, situated at a short distance from the
house. In a little time he returned to his mother,whom
he had left in the house, and said that the children
still remained in the garden. His mother said that
he should have brought them into the house, and his
reply was, " I have killed them both, as I thought it
better to do so than let them pine to death." His
mother was much agitated at what she heard, and
exclaimed, " Oh ! Benjamin, you surely haven't," and
the prisoner's answer was, " Yes, I have ; we are
going to be sold up to-morrow, and that was the
reason I killed them." There was an entire absence
of motive for the act, as the prisoner had always
shown the moat extreme kindness and affection for the
two children. Mr. Wightman, the surgeon, who at-
tended the prisoner when he was confined owing to
his spine being injured, gave instructions to the family
to keep their eyes upon him, as he was not fit to be
trusted, his mind being affected, and he might do
himself an injury. The little boy and girl were found
dead in the garden, their heads dreadfully beaten,
death having been effected with a thick piece of wood.
The prisoner's brother and mother spoke to his
affection for the children previous to the injury he
received, and deposed that he was apprehensive of
coming to want, and was afraid of robbers entering
the house by night.
Mr. W. Anderson, surgeon to York Castle, was
called, and deposed that he visited the prisoner about
an hour after he entered the prison. He was then
quite insane, and had been so ever since. At times
he was most violent in his demeanour, requiring two
or three persons to restrain him. In his opinion the
mental affliction under which the prisoner was suff.r-
ing might have arisen from the injury to the spine
producing inflammation of the brain.

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Mr. Justice CRESSWELL summed up, observing that
after the evidence of Mr. Anderson and the other tes-
timony in the case, there could be no doubt of the
insanity of the prisoner, and that he was not therefore
accountable for the act he had committed. It would,
therefore, be the duty of the jury to return a verdict
of not guilty on the ground of insanity, and the Court
would order the prisoner to be detained in safe custody
during her Majesty's pleasure.
The jury returned a verdict of Not Guilty on the
ground of insanity ; and the prisoner was then re-
moved.

During the trial he occasionally wept, and at other
times he evinced an air of indifference, and stared va-
cantly around him. It appeared that previous to this
malady the prisoner was a teacher in the Sabbath
school, and bore an excellent character.
John Cryer was indicted for having, at Gargrave,
on the 19th of October last, feloniously cut and
wounded yilliam 13eccroft, with intent to murder
him.

Mr. Otter conducted the prosecution ; Mr. Digby
Seymour defended the prisoner.
It appesred that the prosecutor, who is only 16
years of age, resides with his two sisters and two
brothers at Gargrave, the prisoner living next door.
about seven o'clock on the 19th of October, as the
prosecutor and his sister were returning from
work at the mill where they were employed,
the prosecutor observed that his shoe was
untied, and as he was stooping down to
tie it, the prisoner, having an axe in his hand, rushed
out of the house in a great fury and struck the prose-
cutor a violent blow on the side of the head with the
edge of the axe. This rendered him insensible; and,
on being sent home, a surgeon was sent for, who
dressed the wound, which was of a serious and dan-
gerous character, having made a fissure in the skull.
It wes endeavoured to be shown that constant quarrels
had taken place between the two families.
Mr. Digby Seymour addressed the jury for the
defendant.

Verdict—Guilty.
Sentence of death recorded.
(Before Mr. Justice WirztAmt; )
William Mellor, John Farrar, Walter Whiteley,
Joseph Wood the elder, Joseph Wood the younger,
and James Bailey, were indicted—the three first with
having, on the 9th of January, at Huddersfield, stolen
a truss, containing five pieces of woollen cloth, the
property of the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway
Campany. The two Woods and Bailey were
charged with inciting the three first•named to commit
the felony.

Mr. Hale, Mr. Overend, and Mr. Pickering cm-
ducted the prosecution ; Mr. Hardy defended Joseph
Wood the younger, Bailey, and Farrar; Mr. D. arsley
defended Mellor and Whiteley; Joseph Wood the
elder was undefended.

It appeared that, on the 911 of January last, the
firm of Longhead and Liddell sent a parcel to the
Huddersfield station for Messrs. Anderaon and
Thorburn, of Manchester, but that place it never
reached. When the parcel arrived at the Huddersfield
station Whiteley weighed it, and Mellor called it off to
a clerk in the office. Mellor called it off by the right
direction, but then thrust it aside, changed the di-
rection, and then called it over again to the direction
of "James Bailey, llallifax ; to he left till called for."
A man of the name of Yates, in the employ of the
company, who came before the jury in the
character of an accomplice, proved that after the
truss Was called ever it was placed by Farrar on ti.e

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Halifax truck; that Wood, junior, came up, and
Mellor mentioned to him that he had sent the truss to
James Bailey:; that afterwards word was sent to
senior Wood to go and get the parcel, instead of James
Bailey; that subsequently junior Wood gave him
(Yates) 1/. for his share ; and that Farrar had told him
that he also got 11. for his share. The truss did go to
Halifax, and was there delivered to Wood senior, who
represented his name to be Bailey, and that the truss
had been sent to him by Mr. Hanson, of Huddersfield,
upholsterer, the fact being that that gentleman had
sent no parcel at all. The day on which senior Wood
got the truss was the 11 th of January; and on the
12th the real James Bailey called at the Halifax
station, and claimed the truss, saying it had come
from Golcar, by Walker's cart, which was also untrue. I
The case for the prosecution having been closed,
His LORDSHIP intimated that he was of opinion
there was no case against Whiteley, Wood, jun., Bailey,
and Farrar ; there was not sufficient evidence corro-
boratory of the accomplice as against them.
The Jury found Mellor and Wood, sen., Guilty,
but recommended Mellor to mercy on account of his
previous good character, and the belief that the accom-
plice had suggested to him the robbery.
There were altogether eight or nine cases against
' the prisoners, all of the same character as the pre-
ceding, which ended in the conviction of William
Mellor, Walter Whiteley, Joseph Wood, sen., and
Joseph 'Wood, jun., who were severally sentenced to
seven years' transportation, and James Bailey, who
was sentenced to be imprisoned for 18 months. In
sentencing them his Lordship remarked that when so
large a part of the public were interested in railway
companies, who had to trust so much to confidential
servants, it was necessary, when frauds such as these
were practised, that they should be severely dealt
with.

Dec. 15.
(Before Mr. Justice Wir.r.raats.)
Richard Cluderay was indicted for having, at
Leedi, on the 15th September last, administered to
Ruth Horafield, a child of the age of 10 months, two
cocculus indicus berries, with intent to kill and mur-
der her.
Mr. Hall and Mr. Hardy conducted the prosecu-
tion; Mr. Overend defended the prisoner.
This indictment was framed under the 7th William
IV., cap. 85, sec. 2, which enacts, that whosoever
shall administer to or cause to be taken by any
person any poison or other destructive thing, with
intent to commit murder, shall be guilty of felony,
and being convicted thereof shall suffer death.
It appeared from the evidence of a young woman
named Mary Horsfield, that she resided with her
father, who was a printer at Holbeck, near Leeds.
The prisoner had courted her for some time, and the
result of an illicit intercourse bad been the child to
whom the prisoner was accused of administering
poison. The child was ten months old in September
last, and had been unwell from cholera in August.
On the Bth of the following month of September, the
prisoner came to the house of Mary Horsfield's father,
where she resided with the child. The mother left
the house for the purpose of going a few doors off after
a bonnet, leaving the prisoner alone with the chili.
When she returned, in about ten minutes, she found
it unwell from vomiting, which, upon takiag it up,
fell upon her dress, the baby's frock, and likewise
upon a cloth with which she wiped its mouth.
The next day the child had recovered ; but
a few days afterwards (the 15th of September) the
prisoner was again at the house, and the mother
having occasion to go to her aunt's, a few doors off,
left the prisoner alone with the infant again. When
she returned, in about ten minutes, she found the in-
fant sick, and its mouth bloody, and takiag it up in
her arms she slid. " Oh, my bairn," and then the
nothing prisoner
tosaid,it." And
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The
child then vomited, and what appeared to be a pill fell
from its mouth, which afterwards turnedlout to be a
cocculus indicus berry. She picked it up, when the
prisoner tried to take it out of her hand, but she pre
vented him, and said she would show it to Dr. Sco

The prisoner left the house, and the next 'morning it
was discovered that the child had evacuated another
cocculus indicus berry.
On cross-examination the witness stated that the
prisoner had been kind and affectionate to the child.
For the prosecution it was alleged that no one but
the prisoner could have administered the berries; and
for that purpose,
Dr. Scott, a surgeon at Leeds, was called, who said
that he bad attended the child, that he hail been
shown the berries, which were a narcotic irritant
poison, and that force must have been applied to make
it swallow it.

On cross-examination be stated that cocculus berries
could be bought at any chemist's ; and that forcing
the berry down would cause the sickness which the
child had suffered.

Mr. Price, surgeon, at Leeds, was then called, and
said that he had been shown the berry which came
from the child's mouth, and likewise the one which
had been evacuated, and had found that they were
cocculus indicus berries, which are an irritant poison.
He was of opinion that any quantity might be swal•
lowed whole, as they would pass through without
dissolving. It was a destructive thing for a child to
take.

Mr. OVEREND addressed the jury for the prisoner,
and contended that upon the evidence of the mother
of the child the prisoner had behaved kindly and
affectionately towards it. He could not deny that
the berries had been given to the child, but only for
the purpose of playing with.
His LORDSHIP commenced his summing up to the
jury.

OVEREND here suggested to his Lordship that
the poison being so wrapped up or surrounded by a
pod that it could not, according to the evidence of
Mr. Price, the surgeon, be injurious, and not being
injurious in its very condition, it could not be inju-
rious to the body of the child, such an administering
would not satisfy the statute.
Mr. HARDY said that it was a noxious thing which
was administered, and that if it was so wrapped up
that it would not be injurious, yet its being a noxious
thing, if it were administered with intent to kill,
was sufficient.

ills LOlta3lllP regretted that the point of law had
not been argued, as it was one for grave considera-
tion. By its not having been alluded to during the
trial he had considered that the prisoner's counsel had
not deemed it necessary to raise it. He would, how-
ever, take the opinion of the jury whether the sub-
stance was administered by the prisoner with intent
to kill the child:; and if they should be of opinion that
the prisoner did so, then he should direct them to re-
turn a verdict of guilty, and reserve the point for the
consideration of the judges.
The jury retired fur about twenty minutes, and re-
turned, bringing in a verdict of Guilty.
Sentence deferred.

ALDERMIEN AND COMMON COUNCILMBN.—In the
new Act of Parliament for the government of the city
of London, which will be enforced cn Friday next in
the election of common councilmen, there is a provision
in reference to the disqualification of aldermen and
common councilmen. According to the 9th section of
the Act (I(th and 13th Victoria, chap. 94 local) if any
person holding the office of alderman or common coun-
cilman for the city of London shall declare himself, or
shall he declared, bankrupt or insolvent, or shall apply
to take the benefit of any Act for the relief of insolvent
debtors, or shall make any composition with his creditors,
or shall altogether absent himself from his duty for more
than six calendar months consecutively, unless prevent( d
by illness or other reasonable cause, or shall be convicted
of fraud or of any crime, then, and in every such case,
such person shall thereupon immediately become disqua-
lified, and shall cease to hold the office of alderman or
common councilman, as the case may be; and the Court
of Mayor and Aldermen of the city of London shall
thereupon forthwith adjudge the said office to be vacant;
hut any person becoming disqualified and ceasing to bold
such office by reason of having made any composition
with his creditors shall, on payment of his debts in full,
be capable (if otherwise qualified) of being re-elected
to such office. All acts done before an alderman or
common councilman shall be disqualified shall be as
valid as if the party had not been di:AU:dined.
SERIOUS CHARGE AGAINST AN OFFICER OF MA-
RINES.—On Thursday last, Charles Pyne, Second-Lieu-
tenant of the Royal Marines, stationed at Stonehouse,
was brought before the magistrates at Storehouse, and
committed for trial at the next assiz for the county of
Devon, under the following circumstances. About two
months since a child of fourteen years of age, named
Ellen Barrett, the daughter of a poor woman residing
in Devonport, was inviterl by a woman to come to the
Marine Barracks On the following morning. The child
follo.ved her directions, and, on arriving at the bar-
racks, she was met by the female, who Lock her to the
room of the prisoner. Here the three had breakfast
together ; and immediately afterwards prisoner locked
the door, and criminally assaulted the girl. On the
application of Mr. J. E. Elworthy, the solicitor f,r the
prisoner, the magistrates agreed to accept bail for the
appearance of the prisoner, himself in 200/., and two
sureties in 100/.

A DOG'S OBSEQUIES.—The YorkBhireman says—
"lt has come to our knowledge that nearly 50/. have
been (xi:ended by a gentleman, formerly a Member of
Parliament, in the funeral obsequies of his dog Pincher,
which had been long ailing. The veterinary surgeon
made a post-mortem examination; the nnderttiter made,
not an elm coffin covered with ordinary black cloth, but
with real velve, silver headed rails and handles, and a
solid silver plate, on which was angraved, " Pincher, for
nine )ears tho attached and faithful dog of W. G., Esq.,
obiit 10th of Ocfoher, 1849!"

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'TIE LATE GENERAL COURTS-
MARTIAL.
NOTTINGHAM, SUNDAY.—Yesterday the sentences
upon privates Ball, Butterworth, and Knox, tried in
this town by general courts-martial on the 6th, 7th,
and Bth of November last, were commanicated from
Sheffield to Nottingham, having been officially
announced to the prisoners in the former town on
the previous day. The unsentenced prisoners were
removed to Sheffield at the time the troops exchanged
quarters, a few days ago. As is usual in such cases,
the official minutes of each trial were read in the
presence of the assembled troops ; and the judgments
of the courts, affirmed by the Commander-in-Chief
And approved by the Queen, were made known to all.
Each court consisted of Colonel C. G. J. Arbuth-
not, Commander of the North Midland District (pre-
sident); Lieutenant- Colonel the Hon. J. Yorke
Scarlett, sth Dragoon Guards; Major Henry Renny,
81st Foot; Captain George Lloyd Robson, sth
Dragoon Guards; Captain James Cunningham, 4th
Dragoon Guards ; Captain Sir George Curzon
Bisshop, 12th Foot; Captain F. L. Dashwood, 16th
Lancers; Captain William de Cardonnell Elmshaw,
Ist Royal Dragoons ; Lieutenant George Campbell,
Ist Royal Dragoons; Lieutenant-Colonel John Pat-
ten, 12th Foot; Captain Francis R. Forster, 4th
Dragoon Guards ; Captain T. Peale, 16th Lancers ;
Captain J. Arthur Gildea, 81st Foot; Capt. Thomas
D. Perry, 81st Foot; Captain Herbert Morgan, Ist
Royal Dragoon Guards ; Lieut. Michael M'Creagh,
4th Dragoon Guards; and Captain J. Francis Kempt,
12th Foot, Acting Deputy Judge-Advocate.
The following is a brief summary of each case :
No. 787, private Robert Knox, charged with having
on the 14th of October lost, left the Nottingham bar-
racks, when confined thereto, and not returning until
the 15th ; also as a second offence, with raising his
hand, in which was a large stone, against Sergeant-
Major Davis, and uttering in a menaeing manner,
" Do, you b--," or words to that effect.
The first charge was admitted. To prove the se-
cond, Sergeant-Major Davis depo:ed—l was sent in
charge of a picket in search of men, of whom the
prisoner was one. I went to the Gate public-house
in Brewhouse-yard, and was endeavouring to secure
two of the absentees, when the prisoner and another
ran away. My party gave chase. On going
close to them, private Knox turned round. He raised
his hand, in which, to the best of my belief was a
large stone, and exclaimed, "Do, you b--, or
words to that effect, as if is defiance of my securing
him. I knocked him down with my sword and broke
it. I cut him across the head. The civilians after-
wards rescued the prisoner.
Sergeant-Major Davis's evidence, in the first place,
was objected to, because he had been disbelieved on
his oath by a court-martial at Glasgow ; but this
being overruled, witnesses were called, who swore
that the sergeant- major's sword was broken during
a row that previously occurred in the Gate public-
house, and that when he struck Knox it was with a
short piece of the broken sword, the prisoner having
his back towards the sergeant-major at the time, and
not making use of any menace or expression of
defiance whatever.
The prisoner's age wes said to be 26 years, his
service two years, and his character very good.
Guilty of the first charge; Not Guilty of the
second. To be imprisoned and kept to hard labour
for three calendar months.
No. 607, private William Butterworth, for breaking
out of barracks at Nottingham, when confined thereto,
on the 14th of October, and not returning until
brought back by a picket on the 15th ; and, secondly,
for insubordination in seizing and detaining Troop
Sergeant-Major Davis in the Gate public-house whilst
two prisoners escaped, saying meanwhile—" I will not
hurt you, Sergeant-Major, but I will hold you," or
words to that effect.
The evidence for the prosecution and in favour of
the prisoner was very lengthy.
The prisoner's age was described as twenty-eight
years; his length of service eight years, and his cha-
racter
indifferent.
Guilty of the first charge, and partially, guilty of
the second. To be imprisoned and kept to hard la-
bour for twelve calendar months.
No. ti.l9, private Edward Ball, charged, first, with
breaking out of the barracks when confined thereto,
at Nottingham, on the 14th of October; secondly,
with escaping from a party by whom he had been
captured the same night, and not returning until the
16th of the same month; thirdly, with using insub-
ordinate language to Sergeant-Major Davis, on the
14th, and saying, " You are no man, Sergeant-
Major," or ‘4 ords to that effect.
From the evidence it seemed that the prisoner was
one of those who escaped from the Gate public-house
at the time Sergeant-Major Davis was endeavouring
to capture some of the absentees, on the evening they
left the barracks. On leaving the public-house he
went a circuit round Lenton, and was at Radford, in
the vicinity of the barracks, when a second picket
observed him and gave chase. He ran down Derby-
road, and entered Nottingham market-place, when
Sergeant-Major Davis and his party met him. Both
pickets pursued the prisoner up Park-street, when he
took refuge in Mr. Shuttleworth's passage, which was
very dark at the time. He was observed to enter by
two policemen, who gave information to the pursuing
pickets, the commanders of which ordered the police-
men to follow with their lights turned on. They
then entered themselves, followed by their men,
when the prisoner was observed lying on the ground
at the top of the passage. Lieutenant Whitby
ordered his party to handcuff him ; when the prisoner
said, "I will go peaceably, but will die rather than
be handcuffed. Sergeant-Major Davis cried to his
party, " If he sties, cut him down 1" and suiting the
action to the word, he cut the prisoner across the
head with his word, and Corporal Sturgess at the
same moment thrust the point of his sword into the
prisoner's
mouth. " Then it was," said the prisoner
in his defence, " that I made use of some remark to
the effect that they were not using me as a fellow-
soldier, or as a man." He was, however, secured,
and given in charge to a small party, whose vigilance
he eluded at the Park-corner, a dark place, and a
second time escaped, not returning to barracks until
two days afterwards.
The prisoner's age is 27 years, length of service
three years, character indifferent.
Guilty of all the charges. To be imprisoned and
kept to hard labour for 12 calendar months.
During the late unhappy troubles, a great propor-
tion of the men composing two troops of the 3d
Dragoon Guards have been punished for insubordi-
nation and misconduct in one way or another; three
have been tried by general courts-martial, thirteen
by district courts, about thirty were disposed of sums.
marily, being ordered various periods of heavy kit
drill, &c., two were fined by the Nottingham magis-
trates, and one escaped.
Lieutenant-Colonel Arthur, to whose illegal order
for confinement of the troops to barracks the Duke of
IVellington has attributed the wide spread spirit of
insubordination which followed, is under peremptory
orders, it is stated in the regiment, to dispose of Lis
commission by the 10th of March next.

All the offenders sentenced to imprisonment have
been removed to the milicary gaol at Weedon.

COMMISSION OF LUNACY.

On Saturday a Commission of Lunacy was
opened at the Green Man Tavern, BEthnal•green,
before Mr. Winslow and a jury, to inquire into
the state of mind of Miss Mary Anne Smith, at
present an inmate of Mr. Warburton's establishment,
" White house," Bethnal-green. Miss Smith, who
is 71 years of age, and of lady-like appearance, was
present at her own request throughout the inquiry,
and conducted herself with great propriety, though
she at times smiled ironically when her more peculiar
delusions were referred to. She is sister to the late
Robert Smith, the Whitesmith, of Great St. Andrew's •
street, Seven Dials, who was said, at his death, to
have been worth 400,0001. It appeared, from the
evidence, that Miss Smith was entitled to property
worth 11,000/., and since 1841 she exhibited increas-
ing symptoms of insanity. She was in the habit of
bringing home old bones and grass to strew over her
rooms, fancying that she could thus convert them
into meadows. Sometimes she imagined that she
was a queen, and demanded carriages and atten-
dants befitting royalty. She was fond of masque-
rading, sometimes in tawdry tinsel, and sometimes
in the austere robes of a nun. She had
no idea of the value of money, and squandered all
she •mlil obtain in drink, toys, and often re-
mained sleeping in low places. She wished at one
time to marry Prince Albert, and at another the
Lord Chancellor, and frequently expressed a wish to
give Lord Brougham a " basting." Ou hearing of
the death of the Queen Dowager, she said she could
have prolonged the royal lady's life to 100 years by
virtue of spells; and she boasted that she was able to
raise the dead. Another of her delusions was that
she had been engaged as pieinire danseuse at the
Opera.

Dr. Southey deposed ti.at she was incapable of
managing her affairs.

Miss Smith was examined by th? Commis,ioner,
and exhibited great shrewdness in h-1. tnswels She
generally denied that she was subject to the delusior s
e.ated by the witnesses.

The COMMISSIONER asked her if s'.:e h, d ihe lower
of raising. spirits, and she excited a laugh by reply-
ing—" No ; but I feel the necessity of haring the
spirits sometimes 'lased."

-7-The jury retired to consult, and finally returned a
WTl'', let, " That Miss Mary Ann Smith is now of
sound mind, and has been so since the 29th of
May, -11454'

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.
I The Right Hon. Sir F. Baring, Bart., the First
I Lord of the Admiralty, and the First Secretary, Mr.
Parker, M.P., left town on Friday for Stratton park,
where Rear Admiral Dundas, C. 8., M.P., joined his
colleagues on Saturday. They are understood to
return to the Admiralty to day.
SEARCH roc PRANZLIN.—We believe that it is
now decided by the Government that the two Arctic
ships Enterprise and Investigator shall forthwith
enter a crew, and proceed at once to Behting's
Straits, to make further search for Sir John Franklin
and his missing expedition. Captain Collirson, as we
intimated a fortnight since, has commissioned the
Enterprise, and the command of the Investigator, it is
said, has been offered to Captain M`MurtLeh. Both
ships will commence to enter their respective comple-
ments this week.—llerald.
The Termagant, steam•frigate, was brought into
the basin at Portsmouth, on Saturday, and will be
taken into dock when the Fire Queen comes out.
The Daring, 12 guns, was put out of dock at
Chatham on Friday, after having received a repair,
and the Childers and IVen lerer, 15 guns each, were
taken into dock the same tide for repair.
The Rochester, naval lighter, arrived on Friday at
Chatham, from Devonport.
The Duck, naval lighter, left Chatham on Friday
for Portsmouth.
PORTSMOTJTII, SUNDAY.—The Argus steam sloop,
built by Mr. Fincharn, master shipwright of this
dockyard, was launched yesterday from under the
new slip, No. 4. Her dimensions are as follow :
Feet. Inches.
... 190 2i
158 2f
... 33 5i
... 33 li
••• 32 5{
... 20 11
Burden in tons ... Tons.
... ..• . 981 27-94
Ditto by the new admeasurenaent . .... 1,028
Deduct for engine-room ... ... 453

Length between perpendiculars
Length of keel for tonnage ...
Breadth to outside of wale ...
Breath for tonnage ...
Breadth rnoulled
Depth of hold

Actual tonnage... ... ••• ... 575
The Hon. Lady Capel, wife of Admiral the lion.
Sir Bladen Capel, K.C.8., Commander-in-Chief,
performed the principal part in the ceremony of
launching by drinking " Success to the Argus, arid
may she add another laurel to the British navy," in
the usual manner, in the presence of a select assem-
blage of spectators, the state of the weather preventing
the collection of a large party. Rear-Admiral
Prescott was too much indisposed to attend, but, yea
are happy to add, is progressing favourably towards
convalescence. The vessel glided off the stocks very
gracefully, and took to her future element with great
éclat. She is to be fitted with engines of 300-horse
power (paddle), by Messrs. Penn and Son, of
Greenwich.
The Fairy royal yacht, Captain Lord Adolphus
Fitzclarence, G.C.H., embarked her Royal highness
the Duchess of Kent at the Clarence yard yesterday
afternoon, at half-past two o'clock, and conveyed her
to Osborne, on a visit to her Majesty and Prince
Albert. The Commander in-Chief received the
illustrious Duchess, and the Victory fired the usual
salute. All other ceremonies were dispensed with by
her Royal Highness.
Mr. H. Cradcck is appointed extra assistant mas-
ter shipwright in this dockyard, until a vacancy
may occur, that officer having been informed by the
Tonnage Committee that his services are no longer
required.
We are informed it is proposed to lengthen the
after body of the Edinburgh, 72, at this port, similar
to La Hogue, for a st,am guard ship. This " little
job" will cost about 15,000/.

IN PORT AND FITTING.

In Harbour—Tbe Victory and Illustrious, flag-
ships; the Excellent, gunnery ship; the Blenheim,
steam guard ship; the Contest, 12, fitting far sea ;
the Rolla apprentices' brig lying up for the winter ;
the Fairy, Elfin, and Portsmouth yachts, the Flamer
packet, and the Echo tug.
In Dock—The Britannia 120, the Dauntless 24,
the Fantorne 12, Lily 12, the Fox 42, the Devasta-
tion and Penelope steam-vessels—all refitting.
In the Basin--The Princess Charlotte 104, tl.a
Actaeon 26, and the Sprightly and Bee steam-vessels.
In the Steam Basin—The Ajax 60, the Birken-
head troop steamer, the Sidon 20, the Victoria and
Albert, the Urgent, the Pike, Asp, and Blazer.
Building—The Royal Frederick, 120, Prince of
Wales, 120, Princess Royal, 92; the Argus and
Furious steam sloops.
PLYMOUTH, DEC. 14.—Her Mejesty's steam fri-
gate Stromboli, Commander Lord A. W. Beauclerk,
went into Barnpool yesterday, to refit. She is to have
a new sat of forerigging.
The Archer steam-vessel, on arrival from Woolwich,
is to be commissioned.
The Glentanner emigrant.ship, belonging to
Messrs. Hyde, Hodge, and Co., which came in here
on the 10th inst. at six P.M., was towed into dock on
the 11tb, at nine A.M., when all the emigrants were
disembarked and conveyed in a steamer to the depot.
The ship's repairs were executed during the night of
the 11th, and at three A.M. on the morning of the 12th
she was und( eked. By noon the emigrants were
re-embarked, and at three r.iu. on the same day,
through the active agency of Messrs. Lusconibe,
Driscoll, and Co., she was outside the breakwater,
proceeding to her destination. The reason for such
extraordinary dispatch is that she conveys very im-
portant advices to the Cape of Good Hope.
The barque I icha .d Thornton, Captain Thomas
Maxwell, arrived here yesterday ; left Batavia August
1, and St. Helena October 1. No men-of war at St.
Helena, but in passing Ascension, on the 6th, ob-
served at anchor there a double banked frigate, ap..
parently an 80. gun ship. The Richard Thornton has
a full cargo of sugars and spices, two cassowaries in
good condition for the Zoological .gardens, and several
choice fruit-trees from Java, some nutmeg-trees, and
a ramoutan.

WOOLWICH, DEC. 15.—Captain Richard Collin-
son, C.B. (1842), to command the Enterprise, fitting
at Woolwich, to proceed to the Sandwich Islands
round Cape Horn, and ultimately to Behring's Straiti,
if requisite, in search of Captain Sir John Franklin
and the officers and crews of the Erebus and Terror
discovery ships.
Lieutenants—George A. Phayre (1843) and John
J. Barnard (1847) to the Enterprise.
Surgeon—Robert Anderson (1846) to the Enter-
pr:se.

Assistant Surgeons—W. T. Wilson (1846) to tie
Contest, at Portsmouth, and Edward Adams (1847)
to the Enterprise.
Clerk in Charge—Edward Whitehead (1846) to
the Enterprise.
Second Master—Francis Skead (1846), to the En.
terprise.

Captain CoHinson, C. 8., who hoisted his rendant
on the Enterprise at Woolwich to-day, was Lieutenant
of the Wellesley, in the operations against Canton,
and attached to the surve.) ing department at the cap-
ture cf that city in 1841. The gallant officer com-
manded the Bentinck at the taking of Amoy and
Chinghae in the same year, and the Plover at the
capture of the Woosung and Shanghae, and in the
operations in the Yang-tae-Kiang in 1842.
Lieutenant John J. Barnard, Su 'geon Robert An-
derson, and Assistant Surgeon Edward Adams served
in the Investigator, commanded by Captain B rd, in
the recent expedition in search of Captain Sir Jehn
Franklin's party. Clerk-in-charge Edward White-
head served in the Enterprise, under Captain Sir
James Clarke Ross, in the same searchir g expedition
16.—The Agamemnon, 80-gun frigate, (r-
-dered to be built at this dockyard, to be fitted with
a screw-propeller, is to hare her frame put up by
contract, and the sum of 2,0001. is agreed on for the
frame-work, which is to be finished by the 31st of
March next. The repairs required for the bottom of
the slip are nearly completed.
The Desperate steam-sloop is to be taken to the
East India Dock to morrow to have her engines put
in by Maudslay, Son, and Field.
The Advice steam-vessel brought up fifty non-
commissioned officers and privates of the pensioners'
corps from Tilbury Fort, and they embarked at the
Royal Arsenal on board the Eliza hired convict ship,
to serve as a convict guard, and they will ultimately
become settlers in Australia. Sixteen convicts were
taken from the warrior convict ship on Thursday
morning, when they came up to go on shore to work,
and immediately went on board the Eliza. The
vessel dropped down to Gravesend the same evening,
and remains there until she is better ventilated than
at present. Six shipwrights have been at work all
day to day (Sunday) in Woolwich Dockyard, and
will proceed on board the Eliza to-morrow at
Gravesend, to have her finished and ready to sail on
Tuesday.

SMUGGLING.—Tier Majesty's revenue cutter Vigi-
lant, Captain Richard Gowlland, captured, on Friday
night last, in Sea Reach in the Thames, a spritsail barge,
about sixty tons burden, having on board a crew of five
persor.r, and a contraband cargo, consisting of 2SO hales
of tot acco, about 501 b. each, concealed under straw
stacked on her deck. The barge was proceeding up tl
river in the usual manner as a coaster with straw for
the London market; and had the smugglers bee-. Env-
ce3stul in escaping the protective force, between six an i
seven tons of tobacco would have been run, 61 t e
Exchequer thereby lost the amount of duty. We el ye
this to be the largest seizure of tobacco that has bean
made in the Thames for the past thirty years.
THE RECENT LOTS OF THE SOUTH SHIELDS
LIFEBOAT.--The sufferers by this lamentable affair have
left seventeen wives, and among them forty-six children.
It was the first accident that ever occurre i at that Fort
by any of the life boats since they were first invented hi
1791. The one that met with the accident bed been
toted Nr Dix yQuo,..Sundoicini Huai,

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