The Sun.
London, England, 1840-07-20 00:00:00

DEPARTURES.

The Hon. J. C. Dundas, M.P., for Asko Hall, Rich-
mond ; Mr. and Lady Jane Peel, for Kemp-town; the
Bishop of Cork ; Lady Elizabeth Fielding; Admiral and
Mrs. Edgell ; Sir Geo. Adams ; Lady Hale ; Colonel
M'Adam, for Bath; the Rev Lord John Thynne, for
Wells, Somerset; Sir G. H. Smyth, Bart., M.P., for
Essex; Sir John and Lady Chetewode, for Bucks; R.
Bethel', Esq., M.P.' for Yorkshire; Lord and Lady
Louisa Laseelles, ;or Goldsborough Hall ; Sir Thomas
and Lady Montresor, for the Continent; Mr. and Mrs.
Fitzstephen French, for Frekch Park, Rwcommon ; the
Right Hon. Stephen and Mrs. Lushingtoo, from the Carl-
ton Hotel, for Norton Court ; H. Broadley, M. P.,
for Yorkshire; Lord Monson, for Paris; Sir Thomas
Fremantle, Bart., for Bucks; Mr. Bailey, M.P., for
Brecon.

His Royal Highness Prince Albert has lately
received a present of a very singular and beautiful description.
It consists of a small glass-beehive, filled with delicately white
comb,, so curiously wrought, and stored so fully with the purest
crystal honey, as to excite admiration and astonishment. It is
a natural curiosity in its kind, perhaps never before met with.
The combs, which are of a very unusual thickness, being
worked so curiously together, in some parts circular, others
perpendicular, and in other parts even in an horizontal direc-
tion; that whilst occupying all the available -pace within the
glass-shade, with here and there a waxen pillar pruriently
thrown out to support the weight of the sweet trea,ure
contained, it still preserves and presents a uniform and very
elegant appearance. This singular glass of honey was worked
in the apiary of Mr. I. Batham, a gentleman residing near Kid-
derminster, by whom it was presented to his Royal Highness.
The illustrious prince was much pleased with this specimen of
insect ingenuity.

The Queen has appointed Charles Locock, Esq.,
M.D. , to be first Physician Accoucheur to her
Majesty
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Robert Ferguson, Esq., M. D., to be Secondcco uc Physician;heu-r.
Richard Blagden, Esq., to be Surgeon
JULY 17.—.
ROME CIRCUIT, HERTFORD,aia Brice, a fresh-
MYSTERIOUS CASE OF Poiso
c herte d
coloured good-looking young woman,lo
for having knowingly administeredt.oagneedßi2citrdwaßsriicned.i
deadly .- of
tobe a poison,
husband, a large quantity of a a certain.t deadly poison, called
white arsenic, she well knowing 1. .
which he became mortally - sick and distempered, and died, and
that she did thereby murder him. This case, which stood
over from the Spring Assizes, has excited a great deal of in.
tersst in the country, from the mysterious and extraordinary
circumstances connected with it. The deceased man was
only twenty-two years old, and at the time he met his
melancholy death he had only been married to the
prisoner ten months, and at the period the alleged
act of poisoning took place she was far advanced
in a state of pregnancy. Mr. Dowling defended the pri-
soner. John Carter deposed that he was a plumber and
glazier and resided at Hitchin. He knew the deceased, Ri-
chard Brice and the prisoner, who was his widow, On Tues-
day, the 10th of September, he was at work with the de-
The Farnham Rectory Bill, which Was so warmly
ceased at the house of a gentleman named Keane, about
half-past two o'clock in the afternooto,
hisand at this . time he
debated on Friday night, is the newest and not the least -In
1 ..
appeared quite well and continued a, work, but in a short
he wa taken very ill. He ' hove very much, and
pudent example of Church robbery. The
object of the Bib'
time
was thus explained by 11 It
I.r. -.time :—" It would have the'
was dreadfully sick, and brought a quantity of green stuff and ,
effect of giving 00/. additional income to the present incum-
blood off his stomach. He continued in the same state until
be
beyond the 500/. that he now received, - instead of the
half-past four o'clor..k in the afternoon, when he left the pre-
' Up to this time the deceased had been in perfect health.
900/. lacing distributed among the poor clergy, who were re-
ceiving inadeqtrate remuneration for their labours." The
mThiseesd.deceased at this time was twenty-two year, months
means by which this worthy object is
he had been married to the prisoner about ten
to be accomplished are,
Several witnesses were then examined to prove that up to the Numbers sentenced to transpor.
as Sir Charles Grey showed, the spoliation of the present
tation for life 125 373 lessees, who have expended money on improvements -in the
period of the deceased s dinner-hour, on the day in question, he
f health. After a long examination of
~ 14 years l4O 619 confidence of remaining undistui bed in the enjoyment of their.
Mr. Baron Gurney addressed the Jury and
was in a good state o
other witnesses,
„ ail periods
said that in so dreadful and
.mysterious a case, he had felt it
This sudden increase was m .ititained iii the succeeding whether the lessees of Church property not having, as he believed,
' his duty to examine every witness whose evidence might by any
years, and gradually progressed with the general Licrcase it was universally acknowledged that they had not, any right,
' possibility throw some light upon the occurrence. The case
which they could support in a Court of Law, to compel the
of commitments. so that the average of the last six years
was certainly one of suspicion, but he was bound to
amounts to 3,746. The A -.cis of the Ist Victori have, renewal of their leases, still, when a measure came before the
express his opinion that the evidence fell very short of what
Legislature by which they would have their property taken from
would be necessary to convict the prisoner of a crime for however, tended to reduce the frequer.cy and the sewrity qlem,
which her life would inevitably be forfeited. He, therefore, of this sentence. The numbers sentenced to transporta- fain, in
whether they should or should not have any compenia-
ion, in respect of the usage which had prevailed, and upon a '
directed the Jury to acquit her. The Jury accordingly re- urs, or whose sentences were commuted to that punish- faith in the continuance of which the had acted in expending
turned a verdict of not guilty. The business of the Assize.s rnent, which, on the four years preceding those Acts, their money." 'The Church party, headed by honest eir Ro-
concluded at Hertford, on Friday evening, and on Sa'urday averaged 4,154 annually, were in the last year, 3 699 only, bert Inglis, propose to strike out the clause in the Bill which
morning Lord Abinger proceeded to Chelmsford, where he and the severity of the periods of transportation were at
opened the Commission for the county of Essex, and the bush_ and
grant compensation. When the Ministerial plan for the
ness will be proceeded with at nine o'clock on Monday morning, the same time reduced in a much greater degree. abolition of Church rates was under consideration, the Church
INTERESTING TO LADIES.—The preservation The numbers acquitted were, on trial, 4,609 ;no bilis t party were full of concern for the interests of lessees. We now
found, 1,663 ; not prosecuted, 316 ; making a total of see how ready these gentlemen are to prey epon the very in.tieie-.
the complexion from the burning pernicious influence of the
6,588 or. 37'1 per cent. In thirteen English counties rests for which; they so hypocritically affected an anxiety. •I
solar beam, was for ages a desideratum in science. Half a cen-
the acquittals have been much below this proportion. progress of th.s Farnham Rectory job has been stayed till 31ory.
fury back ladies suffered most severely from the effects pro_ the
when every good Reformer should be at his post to defrat
duced by excessive heat. The rapid progress of science has They are.---
it.— Examiner. .
happily brought to light a discovery of the hiehest importance Bedford .............. 21.3 Chester 3l .4
USE OF OPIATES.-- There is not anather
to the female fashieneble world. We allude to Howland's W4rw,ek• ............ 24 5 Kent 33.7 county where narcotics are so much used as in that of I incoln•
celebrated Kalydor, the auxiliary friend, guardian, and pro. Nettingham ...... ... 25 6 York..
tel of female beauty. In promenading and aquatic rt:ii ties, Lancaster ............ 28.5 Surrey 36'6 the magnitude of this growing evil, for many rears, that in the
37'0 south of Lincolnshire (i. c. in the fenny
our lovely countrywomen are shielded by Rowlatel's Kaleder Leiceeter ........... .29 6 N,rfolk
from injury ; and their complexions remain as seductively Middlesex.. 30 5 L:ncoln 37 1 customer who enters the shop of the drugeist is 4-- '' f
.e, - a pun, ta,t. •
charming and blooming as the most florid eriter could por D . ........
- er by . ............... 30 6 opium, laudanum, Gotirrey's mixture, or etherevery
tray, and for which they are renowned through the world. Of the counties .
this whelk. the procedure shows the greatest third customer who enters that of the grocer fetches away tc-
THE OPERA.-- • Mjesty honoured proportionate number of acquittals, the following stand the bacco. The use of opium and laudanum is much on the in-
Parts) every second
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dr. 7.. i.n. e.n.t. . ...—... 67 0 lk s
crease, but not, as stated it •he newsparer press, in proportion
theatre on Saturday night with her presence, to witness the
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performance of Donizetti's very pleasing opera huffs, L'Ellsir d'Amore, with which she was apparently very much gratified.
Hertford
Between the acts, Center and Guerra figured in a very pretty B ' • ............ 57'9
I•tinence Societies to alwaiii front every intoxicating agert•
Bucks ................ 57.7 Northumb. rlehd 46 3
danee, which was given, as it was understuo I, by the express
It
will be toutid, too, that there is a greater eertsuinntron n f green
..
et,mmand of the Qneen, alio I lid not stay for the ballet. The Hereford. ............ 57 3 Oxfi-» d
South W .lea .... 38 5 tea iii Lnc ,Insliire,
Royal perty comp.ised the Duchess of Kent. and the Duke Morenou.h. ....... ;',6 0
than in any cti,•er, part. The practice
46 8 opiu.n taking is out confined te tiie old and 'nth in.—Linen/
and Duchess de Nemours. Her Majesty the Queen Dowager Cumberial ci ......... 53 7 North \Val s
way in her own box. The Duke of Cambridgo did not arrive A eisnitar ea!„letioe of thee i.e. Fs. tins, of .equ,tt.is in Ga,ette.
~ vol',
until lste.
th dirTerent , ,-c was Mid ii. 111, retries fin the year • ERRATUNI 11U, ~,, -
T I Url ii &c., bar been tee---"--' • then •, add . - • *--- ' - 1111l1e!. of mi., F, act!' '... I, ,
Madame Grisi, Sionor am 1 i , e.
....., ; and
or
nine counties poi Lut as these in ~e,„„, us! ,
.
engaged for two grand concerts at the Leamieg:e„, music liji, •
VS hzell the number of acquittals bore the smallest propor- ; peared in our pao., - er i
3 prio" '.
T""- " nan adeer isement, alt ie° „s• 1.
. on Friday, on the suldeci of au calk
.4,,a ti, 1,
on the 21st and 22d of August.—Leamincon chrvnicle. Ulm to the convictions, seven of the same connties occw i far gent. -
... . • * le. "A..* .va ~ 4 a 7-41"1"'

Though there 118.3 been for many years a great progres-
sive increase in the number of commitments and eon,;ic-
tions, the increase in the numbers sentenced to transporta-
tion has been beyond all proportion to the general increase.
This great increase in the number of transports imme-
diately followed the Act of the 7 and 8 Geo. IV., c. 28,
and arose out of an enactment in that Statute, au.:ment-
ing the punishment to which prisoners were liable, on the
proof of a previous conviction for felony. The greater
severity in the punishments which was consequent upon
this enactment is at once obvious, on a r:•ference to the
numbers sentenced. The Act was passed in 1827; the
average numbers sentenced to transportation, in the three
preceding and the three following yeen.s, were as folliiws:
Average Average
of 1824-5.6. 1828-9-30