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CITY of LONDON HOSPITAL for DISEASES
of tht CHEST, Victoria Park.
Special APPEAL for the NEW WING
Amount still required, £4,000.
Number of beds now occupied, 120.
N.-umber of beds available with proposed addition, 164.
"he Hospital is entirely dependent on voluntary support.
Bankers, Messrs. Barclay, Bevan, and Co., 54, Lombard-street
HENRY SEWELL, Hon. Sec
Offices, 24, Finsbury-circus. RICHARD P. SLATER, Sec.

The extraordinary trial of "Poynter v. Porter," in
reference to the Fermanagh scandal, was proceeded with
in Dublin on' Wednesday. Public feeling was strongly
enlisted in the case, and the issue was awaited with
anxious expectation. The character of the letters which
were produced in evidence checked the current of popular
sympathy, which before ran uninterruptedly in favour of
the plaintiff. It - was indiscreet conduct, to say the
least, to preserve these epistles. The plaintiff, it was
sworn, was a young man about 25 years of age, the
lady 23 or 24, and the defendant about 50. To the
disparity of years between the defendant and
his wife, and to difference of habits, most of the un-
happiness of which she complained was attributed. The
defendant was examined on Wednesday, and deposed
that he was married in 1863, and travelled with his
wife until 1865, when they came to reside at Belleisle.
Up to this unfortunate affair his married life had
been perfectly happy. He and his wife never
had any quarrel. He first made the acquaintance of
Captain Poynter at a ball given in Enniskillen on
the 18th of August. He and his wife were invited to a
second ball in September, but did not ee). His wife had
made a bet of £5 that Captain Poynter would not give
a second dance, and she lost it. He told her to pay
the bet, but reproved her for having made it. He felt
indebted to the officers of the 16th Regiment for giving
their quay at Enniskillen for the use of his steamers, and,
calling at the barracks, he invited the plaintiff and Mr.
Whitlock to have a day's shooting at Belleisle on the Ist
of October. They came, and dined with him. He was
absent from home from the following Thursday until
Saturday. He had intended to go on Tuesday instead of
Thursday, and on the evening of that day Captain Poynter
came in his drag and remained for three or four hours.
During the afternoon he searched for the plaintiff and Mrs.
Porter everywhere, but could not find them. They had
gone out for a walk, and after some time he observed
them approaching from one of the avenues. He returned
home on Sunday, the 9th, and did not go away again
until the 24th, when he went to Belfast, and came back
next evening. He saw his wife for a moment in her bed-
room after his arrival, but did not remain with her that
night, nor breakfast with her in the morning. He left
home that morning, and stopped away until seven
or eight o'clock that evening, and she then re-
mained with him until November 22, except when
paying occasional visits to his father and to her
own parents—Mr. and Mrs. Hall, at Innismore. She
went there to keep her sister company 'while her
parents were away, and she had never since slept at
Belleisle. He received communications from her after
that, one on the 26th of November, and one on the Ist of
December. During her absence at Innismore he sent her
clothes there. He found something in her jewel case,
and he made inquiries of the servants with reference to
Captain Poynter's visits. He told Captain Poynter, when
he was first carried into the boat, " I am not going to take
your life, but lam going to take you to the scene of your
villainy to flog you." The plaintiff protested innocence
and called God to witness. The defendant said, " Don't
call ou God, for you don't believe in Him." Captain
Poynter asked him why he had not written to him, as he
would have cleared himself completely. The
defendant told him that the word of a man who had com-
mitted such villainy as he had done was of uo value, and
therefore he had not been written to. He said that the
unfortunate woman had confessed. Captain Poynter
complained in the boat that he was being suffocated, and
he immediately opened his collar and sprinkled him with
water. When starting, the plaintiff made a great noise,
and he struck him slightly in the face, and told him if he
did not keep quiet he would hit him harder. He sub-
sequently threw water on him, and threatened to
deluge him if he did not remain quiet. He
was so moderate in his conduct that one of the men
said, " Let me come there, and I'll keep the scoundrel
quiet ; you are too quiet ! I'll not be so easy with him."
When he got to Belleisle he made a little speech to the
following effect :—" Men and women, I have brought here
the blackguard or scoundrel"—he could not tell which
word he used—" who has broken my life, who is adi
grace to the army, and I am going to flog him. I hope
none of you will suffer the pain that I suffer." He then
thanked them, and begged to thank all his neighbours for
the sympathy and uniform kindness they had shewn him
in his great misfortune. The defendant seemed affected
at this stage of the examination. In cross-examination
by the Solicitor-General he admitted that he never made
inquiry of Captain Poynter whether he was !guilty
or not before treating him in the way de-
scribed. He said he never had any doubt
of his guilt. He had whisky in the boat for the refresh-
ment of the men, but took none of it himself. Robert
Kerr, a servant, proved having driven Mrs. Porter into
Enniskillen, where she saw Captain Poynter, and also to
having delivered notes from her to the plaintiff. John
Oldcraft, another witness, proved that Captain Poynter
visited Mrs. Porter while her husband was in Dublin,
and stayed two hours and a half with her alone in the
library. He tried to get into the room, but found
the door bolted from the inside. He afterwards saw
Captain Poynter and Mrs. Porter come out of the
room. He went in there and found the blinds down.
They had previously been up. The furniture was topsy-
turvy and all at one side of the room, a chair was on the
ground, the table cover off, the sun blind down, and the
curtains drawn, so that the place was quite dark. On the
26th of November, when Mr. Porter had gone to Belfast,
he waited on Mrs. Porter and Captain Poynter at dinner.
She told him after he had laid the dinner that he need
not come back, and when he was bringing up a lamp
she told him not to bring it yet, and he left them
without any light except that of the fire. Mary Wil-
son, a schoolmistress, swore that she went one day to
Bellcisle, where she used to practise on the harmo-
nium in the library, and that she turned the handle
of the door and found it was fastened. She knew that
Captain Poynter was there that evening. Anne Irvine,
Mrs. Porter's maid, swore that she went out with her
mistress one Sunday last winter, and that outside the
gate they met Captain Poynter riding. He dismounted,
and she told the witness to return, and they went
off to walk together. She did not return to
Belleisle that night. Mr. Gorges, a gentleman
residing at Lisbellaw, deposed that he dined at
Innismore on the 24th of November, when Miss
Hall only was at home. He met unexpectedly her sister,
Mrs. Porter, there, and in the evening Captain Poynter
and a brother officer came in. He was surprised and
wanted to take his wife away, but she became agitated,
and to avoid a scene he returned to his seat. Charles
Mills, a teacher of music, deposed that while he and Mrs.
Porter were playing a Captain Poynter came in,
and the lady having d, he produced a letter,
and said there was a word he could not
understand, and they talked together in a low
tone. She said twice that he might leave the room, but
he did not go. William Oldcraft, a messenger, swore
that on the 24th of October he was standing outside a
window looking at the Northern Lights, and observed the
plaintiff and sirs. Porter sitting on the sofa. He saw
him roll her on the sofa, and they had great laughing and
talking. This evidence closed the case for the defendant.
Mr. Faulkner, Q.C., addressed the jury on his behalf,
and Serjeant Armstrong replied for the plaintiff.
The jury disagreed, andlcould not come to a verdict in
this case.

Ni. Roy, the well-known French gentleman rider,
who was reported to have been killed in the recent en-
gagements, is alive and perfectly well, although, having
enlisted as a private in the dragoons, he is, with his regi-
ment, at present a prisoner of war in Paris.
THE OXFORD AND CAMBRIDGE CRICKET MATCH.
—The cricket match at Lord's Ground has been fixed for
June 26, but no day has yet been settled for the boat-
race.

THE ROUTE TP AND FROM PARIS.---The Rev.
Mr. Forbes arrived in London on Wednesday with dis-
patches from Mr. WTashburne, the United States Minister.
He left Paris at five o'clock on Tuesday morning. The
road by way of Dieppe appears now to be quite open.
Last week travellers experienced some hardship and con-
siderable delay in their efforts to get into Paris. Mr.
Auberon Herbert has gone into Paris to see his brother,
who is in medical practice in that city, and who has re-
mained there during the whole of the siege. He took with
him a quantity of provisions.

A STORY OF PRESIDENT LINCOLN'S.—The Galaxy
for February contains political reminiscences, by Thur-
low Weed, of President Lincoln. The following is men-
tioned as a story of his, told in the course of a discussion
about the formation of a Cabinet, when Maryland men
were mentioned. He said there was a witness in a neigh-
bouring county who on being asked his age, replied, " 60."
Being satisfied that he was much older, the judge re-
peated the question, and on receiving the same answer
admonished the witness, saying that the court knew him
to be much older than 60. "Oh,"said the witness, " you're
thinking about that 15 years that I lived down on the
eastern shore of Maryland ; that was so much lost time,
and don't count."

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