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iv regions whence savag*--"clans and roving barbarians
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on." The royal fleet anchored last night in the
picturesque harbour of Tobermory, and came up
arly this day to Fortwilliam, whence her Majesty
r ds to Ardverikie, her residence on the. banks of
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Since its arrival in Loch Crenan the royal squasdron
has been piloted through the difficult navigation of
the Western Islands by Captain M'Killop, of tits
Dolphin steamer, his intimate knowledge of the costs`
qualifying him most amply for the discharge of that
responsible duty.— Times.

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Palcß SD.

CASE OF ABDUCTION AT MALTA.

The " gentlemen of the longrobe" at Malta have
been busily engaged in a case which, from its novelty
and the distress which it is likely to occasion to the
already injured father of the young lady,
has
sd
etrheeatszeaci
rious worldly prejudice to this latter,
very considerable sensation. The case was tried in
the Civil Court, before Judge Grunge, on the 11 th
of August. Dr. Adrian() Dingle, advocates with Mr.
William John Stevens, solicitor, appearing for the
plaintiffs, Misses Sophia and Sarah Anna CiaoTloll,
keeping a school at Valetta, and the Advocate Dr.i
Augostino Spiteri, and Mr. William Stevens, soil-
citor, for the defendant, Mrs. Emma, the divorcee;
wife of George Savage Curtis, Esq., of Teignmouth,
Devon, the lather and mother respectively of the
young lady abducted, Miss Ellen Curtis. Both
plaintiffs and defendant appeared in Court. the former
having a host of friends, among yawn were observed
Captains Rich and WilMot, R.N., the Rev. Sir Cecil
Bishop, the Rev. Mr. Hare (chaplain to the forces),
Commander Mends, R.N., the Rev. John Cleußh
(chaplain to Government), and Dr. F. F. Sankey, K.N.,
From the opening addreas of the counsel gx the plitiae-
till's, it appeared that Mr. Curtis, a gentleman of for•
tune, and having live dmghters, had at the close of last,
year been constrained to seek, . and actually obtained,
a legislative Act for the revocation and annulustinst
of his marriage with Emina, the daughter of Sir

William Curtis, Bart. ; that soon after he deemed it
advisable to remove his three youngest daughters to.
Malta, and before leaving for Lisbon, placed them its
the highly-respectable scholastic establishment of the
Misses Cannon. That the Misses Cannon had ree
ceived strict injunctions from the father to allow of
no intercourse, even by letter,- between the young
ladies and their mother, or any others, though
whom it was supposed she might seek to correspond
with them; in reference to which injunction the
father had addressed a letter to his children from the
Tagus, calling upon-thou' to give a written promise
that they -would strictly and inviolably obey the
same, which, he pointed out to them as affecting their
future welfare and happiness beyond what they could
imagine, which promise was signed by the three
sisters, and dilly forwarded to the father. Matters,
remained in this state until the evening of Frids7;,
the 6th of August, when one of the plaintiffs, iii
crossing with the three Misses Curtis, and three other
young ladies, their pupils, from Valetta to Sliema,
in a terry boat, manned by two men, to take their
accustomed daily exercise, were about mid-channel
passed by a man-of-war's gig, pulled by several
hands, steered by a naval officer (whom they subse-
quently ascertained to be Lieutenant Baker, come
mending her Majesty's steam-packet Ardent), and
having in the stern-sheets two females in mourn-
ing, which, shooting a-head, landed the parties
a few minutes before Miss Cannon and her pupils.
That on coming up to them Miss Charlotte Curtis
recognised her mother and maid, as the two females
who had landed with Lieutenant Baker, whereupon
Miss Cannon, until then unaware of the fact of Mrs.
Curtis being in Malta, hurriedly retraced her steps
with her pupils, and embarking in the same ferry boat
from which they had just previously landed, desired
the waterman to pull quickly to Valetta. Lieutenant
Baker, with Mrs. Curtis and her maid, followed their
motions, and the gig pulled hard in pursuit, over-
taking them about mid-channel, when Lieutenant
Baker hailed—" Miss Cannon! I have in my boat
the mother of the Misses Curtis," and one of the
gig's crew putting out a boat-hook, forcibly detained
the ferry boat, when Lieutenant Baker demanded, itx
the name of Mrs. Curtis, the-delivery up of the three
Misses Curtii, with which demand Miss Cannon
refused to comply, protesting that they had been
confided to her charge and protection by Mr. Curtis,
whose authority alone, and no other, could she
acknowledge. Lieutenant Baker offered to assume
all the responsibility, and, aided by the maid servant,
strongly urged Miss Ellen Curtis to pass over into the
gig, whereupon Miss Cannon again protested against
such a step, reminding the young lady of her recent
written promise to her father, which she was in duty
bound to maintain. Lieut. Baker and the maid, on the
other hand, sought to impress upon the young lady
that her duty was to obey her mother's wishes ; and
on Miss Cannon's remonstrating, Lieutenant Biker
made many rude remarks, in disearagement of Misa
Cannon's authority, and finally pros-e 'ed, with the
ssist.lnce of the maid, to raise Miss Ellen Curtis

from her seat, when she appealed to Miss Cannon in
great grief, as to what course she should pursue, who
pointed out to her that her duty required her to re-
main where her father had thought proper to place
her. Eventually, however, Mi,s Ellen Curtis stepped
over into the gig, notwithstanding the remonstrances
of Miss Cannon, Lieutenant Baker asserting that he
had in his pocket documents to justify the course he
wie, pursuing. An attempt was then made to induce
Miss Charlotte Curtis to follow her sister's example,
hut she held out ; and on Miss Cannon asking the
young lady to declare whether she was to understand
that she (Miss Eden Curtis) was a willing and con-
senting party to what was going on, she gave for
answer that she wished merely to see her mother,
and not to go away.with her; on hearinz which, after
looking at her watch, Mrs. Curtis and Lieutenant
Baker promised that Miss Eden should be returned
to the Misses Cannon in the course of three hours
time. Miss Cannon threatened to report the matter
to the officer administering the government, a threat
which was met by Lieutenant Baker with an order
to the crew to pull for Vi.letta Harbour. Application
was immediately made. to the police, the acting in-
spector of which repaired to the hotel at which Mrs.
Curtis was discovered to be staying, and where she
had been only a few days, having landed from the
Ripon, from 'Southampton, on the 31st of July, on
board of which vessel her passage was taken under
the assumed name of Mrs. Charles, and under which
name she was reported to the marine police on land-
ing. Bat the endeavours of the Misses Cannon to
regain their charge proved fruitless ; and after offi-
cially reporting to the Rear-Admiral commanding the
conduct of Lieut. Baker, there was no other alterna-
tive than to institute a civil suit for the deliveringh up
of the young lady,
first, that the * On the
of the defendant exceptions weretahoe
she being a minkoro
consulted,: must
young lady, whose wishes. should
that she was
be a party to the suit; secondly,deter-
mined to remain with her mother ; thirdly, that she
vas not a minor ; and, fourthly, that though an
agreement had been entered into, owing chiefly to
irregularities in the conduct of Mr. Curtis, for him
and Mrs. Curtis to live apart, still this was no
no divorce; and that this latter lost not in conse-
quence the right or control over her children. In
support of the case, two of the pupils, who were in
the boat, as well as the two watermen, were called by
the plaintiffs, and they deposed to the main facts of
the case. The strong injunction of the father that
the daughters should not correspond with their
mother, and the fact of the written promise Intmade the
out by a letter from the father to histedawurgrktrs.
proof of the divorce existed in a "to the plaintiff,
Curtis had thought proper to addresstted. The age of the
in which note it. was fully admihy
her sister, Amelia
young lady was proved on oathn
next birthday, and the
Curtis, to be seventeen years nett
te the civil law appli-
countel for the plaintiffs quand
showing that the will
cable to the point at issue,
d
of Miss Ellen Curtis could not for a moment be en-
tertained.
The only witness examined for the defendant was
the servant „mad, the drift, of whose evidence was to
establish that the yonng lady had left the boat spon-
taneowly and of her own free will, without perms.
sion or force being used, and that whilst Lieutenant
Baker took no active part in the matter she (the
witness) had only held out a helping hand to assist
Miss Ellen in stepping from one boat into the other.
The Court gave judgment is favour of the plain-
tiffs, condemning Mrs. Curtis to deliver up to them
the young lady, to be by them re-conducted to their
dwelling, there to remain under their charge until
such time as Mr. Curtis, the father, might think
proper to give other directions, or make other provi-
sion in the matter. From this decision an appeal
was immediately lodged by the defendant, who also
entered an action to suspend the execution of the sen-
tence pending the appeal ; but on the part of till'
plaintiffs, every possible judicial measure has. belln
resorted to to impede the carrying off fromtlifisland
of the abducted party ; to strengthen which
tnpedi.
meat, the military, naval, and executive authorities,
have lent every possible a wasnd seed a
ssior hearing on the:
The case in the appeal fi f
16th of August.

DARING ROBBERY.—A market-gardener, named
Amos, living at Grave end. was last we,ak robbed of
and, on the
between 401. and 50/. under the following eircumst„,„
—For a few days previous two well dressed men had
rubbery, they
dthereyvaloriookuesd pinreitnenzss,
absence, and
cd,sal)l.eodfatt
begged to be allowed to write a letter. Mrs. Amos
hheisros
showed them into a parlour adjoining the sitting-room,
where they stayed a short time. Just as they were
mistress leaving the servant told hertne.
bedroom
was
open.
Mrs.
Amos,
the drawer in the
mos, knowing that to be the.
depository of the cash, ran to the room and found a
13unch of skeleton keys,
locked the drawer, and
cf with which her visitors had un-
course the cash had vanished.
The thieves, who are o
supposed to be the same parties
who stole a large
Lobster, a sum of money from the Ship and
,A,E, iii_ public-house
,_ in the neighbourhood, got Oleit
",Migp. the police were instantly on the spot.

TIM WEATHER.—Sri OmcE, Ana. 24.
Turnatoßurma, Lowest, 47; Highest, 59 Noon, 60.
BAnouTzß, 30.18.—Wrzin N.N.E.; fine.

WATER AT LONDON-BRIDGE TELIS DAY.
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