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London, England, 1848-01-31 00:00:00

TUE IVO'NI LONDON, _ IVIONTD.A.Y EVENING. JANUAItY uts 1640,

murder. He was not, however, In possession of the
facts, but it would seem from the calendar that a
woman was chargt-d with the murder of two children.
It would be for them to decide whether the unfortu-
nate criminal, in committing this dreadful crime was
actuated by malicious motives, and had previously to
its committal premeditatill and deliberated upon the
crime. The Learned Gentleman then proceeded to
comment on some of the other cases in the calendar,
and at the conclusion of his address, the grand jury
retired to their room.

MARLBRO'-STREET—(THIS DAY)
Ann Cooke, a middle-aged woman, with a remark-
able sinister expression of countenance, was placed
before Mr. Bingham, charged with being found in
the house of Messrs. Payne and Sons, 328, Regent-
street, under the following circumstances:—
Mr. PAYNE stated that on Saturday evening he
heard a violent altercation between his cook and
some other woman in the hall. He listened, and from
what he heard, he felt convinced that the person who
was speaking to his cook had come to the house on
purpose to seduce his nursemaid from her place by
pretending to reveal such things as would place her
(the muse) in affluence and splendour. Having the
welfare of his servants at heart, he went into the hall,
where he saw the prisoner, and as she could not give
a satisfactory account of herself, he gave her in charge.
His cook and nursemaid were present and would
explain the matter further.

Catherine Kestell, a young woman of very prepo-
sessing appearance, nurse in the service of Mr. Payne,
said the prisoner came to her a few nights ago and
said she came from Fanny Bright. Witness said she
did not know such a person as Fanny Bright, and
was quite surprised at the prisoner's impudence in
coming to her. The prisoner replied that Fanny
Bright had got a connexion among young females to
whom she told fortunes, and that she (prisoner) was
employed to extend that connexion, and wished wit-
ness to allow her to tell hers. Witness refused, and
desired her to leave the house. The prisoner said
she would not leave, and wanted witness to let her
come up stairs to tell her fortune, and said if her
(witness) mistress came into the room she could say
that she (prisoner) was her mother or her aunt. She
refused to listen to the prisoner, who then left the
house. Witness subsequently informed her mistress
of what had occurred.

Eliza James, cook,'in the service of Mr. Payne,
said the prisoner came to her master's house on Satur-
day night, and inquired for her, saying that she came
from Fanny Bright ; not knowing such a person, she
went to the hall and saw the prisoner, who wished
to let her see the nurse as she had something
of importance to communicate. Having heard of the
prisoner's previous calling, witness spoke out so loud
as to bring her master into the hall, who gave the
prisoner into custody.
In answer to the charge, the prisoner said she was
sent to Mr. Payne's by a woman named Fanny
Bright, who came from Ludlow, and who wished her
to call at Mr. Payne's to see her sister. She denied
ever offering to tell fortunes.
Mr. BINGHAM said, supposing the prisoner went to
the prosecutor's house for the purpose of getting six-
pence for telling fortunes, it was a very wicked and
fraudulent practice, for she knew very well that she
had no more power to tell fortunes than he had. In
looking at the appearance of :the nurse, he believed
her (prisoner's) object to be widely different to that
she went for, and as she had broken the law in pro-
posing to tell fortunes, he should commit her to the
House of Correction for one month.

WORSHIP-STREET.—(THIS DAY.)
David Phillips was charged with attempting to
pick the pockets of persons at the door of the Wes-
leyan chapel, City-road.
James Collins, a member of the Wesleyan body,
said—Last evening, as the congregation was leaving
the chapel, he observed the prisoner, who was assisted
by another lad, about his own age, popping in and
out at the doors and sounding the pockets of persons.

No property was found upon him on his being
searched at the station-house. He had given a wrong
address.

Mr. HAMMILL ordered the prisoner to be locked
up until inquii ies should be made respecting him.

THE LATE KING OF DENMARK.
The late King Christian of Denmark was born on
September 18, 1786, and consequently had entered
on his 62d year. He ascended the throne Dec. 3
1839, succeeding his cousin Frederick VI. He had
first married the Princess Charlotte Fredrica of
Mecklenberg Schwerin, and afterwards the Princess
Caroline Amelia, daughter of the Duke of Schles
wick Holstein. By his first marriage only he had
one son, Prince Frederick Charles Christian, born
Oct. 6, 1808, and who now succeeds him by the title
of Frederick VII. Two hours before his death,
which took place on the night of the 20th, and not
on the 19th as first stated, King Christian was in full
enjoyment of his faculties ; he had had during the
day two conversations Kith his son, and has left him,
in his own handwriting, instructions full of
wisdom: Prince Frederick proceeded at seven in
the evening to his chateau of Christianburg, the eti-
quette not permitting the successor to the throne to
pass through the city before his being proclaimed.
At midnight, the new King signed, in the Council of
Ministers, the proclamation destined to announce his
accession to the throne. In it, he declared that he
would continue the work of his father, and that he
would inaugurate his reign by giving to the country
new institutions which had been for a year before
prepared by the solicitude of the late King. On the
21st, at nine in the morning, the doors of
the grand balcony of the palace of Christianburg
were thrown open, and immediately the Princes
of the Royal Family, the Ministers of State,
and the high dignitaries of the kingdom appeared on
the balcony. The Minister of Justice, M. de Ste-
mann, then approached the balustrade, and cried out
with a loud voice, "King Christian VIII. is dead—
Long live King Frederick VII!" This cry was re-
peated each time by the heralds, and on each occasion
the band of the body-guard replied by a flourish.
From nine o'clock till twelve all the gates of Copen-
hagen, according to ancient usage, were closed. The
keys of the city, and also those of the citadel,
were carried to the palace. The troops of
the garrison and the national guard assem-
bled at one o'clock at their various places of
meeting, and took the oaths of fidelity to the new
King before Prince Ferdinand, General-in-Chief of
the army, and of Prince "William, Governor-General
of Copenhagen. The students were anxious to make
a demonstration before the arrival of the new King.
Several of them sang the national air of Norway,
and, after the oaths were taken, cries were heard
of " The Constitution for ever I" " Long live
Frederick VII. !" After the departure of the King,
some individuals sang the first couplet of the
" Marseillaise." A rumour was in circulation that
an effort was to be made on the evening of the 21st
to obtain a representative regime. There was some
talk of a deputation, composed of the deputies of Co-
penhagen at the States, of members of the burgess
class, and of students, which was to present itself
to the King, and express a wish in favour of a
constitution. The intervention of the police suc-
ceeded in dissipating the crowd, and public tranquil-
lity was not a moment troubled. All the Ministers
have been confirmed in their places. Only Count
de Molthe, of the family of the Minister of Den-
mark at Paris, was named member of the Council of
State, and was present on the 21st at the first coun-
cil held by the King. The King sent one of his
chamberlains to announce to the sister of the late
King, the Landgrave of Hesse, who is returning to
Italy with her daughter, the Princess Augusta, the
sad news of the death of her august brother. Another
officer of the Court caned a similar message to the
Dukes d'Augustemburg, brothers of the Queen. Her
Majesty, whose affliction is profound, and who is the
object of universal sympathy, left Copenhagen on the
21st, and retired to Fortghenferee, a royal residence
three leagues from the capital. Prince Ferdinand,
brother to the late King, is fifty-eight years of age;
he is married to the eldest daughter of King
Frederick VI., and has no children ; he will be
the presumptive heir to the throne. After him,
should the present King not marry again, or have no
children, the Crown would pass to Prince Frederick,
eldest son of the Landgrave of Hesse, eldest sister to
the late King. It is this Prince who married the
Grand Duchess, daughter of the Emperor Nicholas,
who died three years back. His accession will lead
to a forced solution of the question of the separation
of Holstein from the Crown of Denmark, a question
raised at the end of 1846 by p rescript of King
Christian VIII., and which has so much agitated
men's minds in the Duchies and in Germany. The
following is the letter-patent announcing the acces-
sion of Frederick VII. to the throne :

" We, Frederick VII., by the grace of God, &c.,
greeting :—Since the Almighty has thought fit to call
King, to himself the so dear to the country, our
beloved father, Christian VIII., we have ascended
the throne of our forefathers. Profoundly touched
and afflicted by the heavy blow which has fallen on
us as a son, we share with our faithful people in
the grief inspired by the great loss which our dear
country has experienced, and we seek for strength
in the firm confidence which we feel in the
succour of the Divine goodness, and in the conscious-
ness of our sincere and serious determination to as-
sure the prosperity of our dear people. Our first and
most important object shall be to follow the example
of our beloved father, to unite, like him, clemency to
justice in our government, to encircle the inhabitants
of all parts of the country with the same paternal
affection, and not only to continue the amelio-
rations commenced by him in the administration,
but also to terminate the arrangement intended
by him for the different relations of the state,
the completion of which has been deferred only
by the illness and decease of our beloved father,
4111 d Winch tends to guarantee tho reciprocal

rights of the citizens, to ensure concord in our dear
country, and to strengthen the force and glory of the
state. In addition, it is our will that ali public affairs
shall follow their course uninterruptedly, in confor-
mity with prescribed rules ; and that all the officers,
named or confirmed in their situatiotyi by the de-
ceased King, shil continue to fulfil their functions
until further orders, under the oath of fidelity previ-
ously sworn by them.
" Given at our Palace of Christiauburg, this 21st
day of January, 1848.
" FREDERICK, the King."

AMERICA.

LIVERPOOL, SATURDAY MORNING.

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advises have been received from Halifax to the
18th, Boston to the 15th, and New York to the [4th
instant, by the Canard's steam-ship Caledonia,
Captain Lott, which was telegraphed off Holyhead
this morning, as mentioned in our,City article. The
Caledonia has brought 32,0001. in specie. The
American steam-ship Washington, had been com-
pelled to put into Halifax, in consequence of some
defect in her machinery. The Cambria arrived at
Boston before the Caledonia left.

The Cabinet at Washington ha 3 determined that
General Scott should be recalled. The command of
the army would devolve on Major-Cieneral Butler,
as second in rank to General Scott. The other officers
involved in the dissensions in the camp would, as a
matter of course, return home.
The latest American news will be found in the
following extract from the Boston Advertiser of the
15th, the New York mail not having arrived in I3os-
ton at the time of the departure of the steamer.
NEW YORK, JAN, 14.—The steamer Rhode Island
was run into this afternoon, by a Brooklyn ferry-
boat while passing up the East River, on her way to
Stonington. The water- wheel of the Rhode Island
was carried away, and other damage done. Another
boat was sent on with the passengers and mail ; the
latter included that for the English steamer•
CONGRESS, FRIDAY.—The Senate was not in session
to-day, having adjourned over until Monday. The
House of Representatives was engaged chiefly upon
private Bills of little importance, and resolutions re-
ported by Committees, which were read twice and re-
ferred to the Committee of the Whole.

The Bill providing for pensions for widows of
revolutionary soldiers married after the war, reported
from the Committee on Private Land Claims, and one
for the relief of the step-mother of Major Brown,
who was killed opposite to Matamoras, was discussed
for several hours. Many members opposed the latter,
because they thought that no preference should be
given to the families of officers over those of privates.
If the Bill embraced all similar cases, they would be
willing to support it. Without taking the question,
the Committee rose, and the House, without; doing
any further business, adjourned over till Monday.
BY " PONT EXPRESS" AT NEW YORK.—PETERS•
BURGII, JAN. 13, 1848.—Your Pony Express this
morning brought New Orleans papers of the 7th.
The schooner Eleanor arrived on the 6th, bringing
papers from Vera Cruz to the 29th, four days later.
General Scott had issued orders announcing that the
United States army is about to spread over and occupy
the whole republic of Mexico, of which it will hold
possession until Mexico sues for peace upon accept-
able terms to the United States. Numerous orders
are published relating to taxes. All fines heretofore
payable to the Mexican Government are demanded
now to support the army. He enumerates various
articles for taxation. Lotteries are prohibited.
Colonel Mills was about to leave Vera Cruz. We
learn that his regiment was entertained at Vera Cruz
by a splendid supper.
A letter in the Monitor, dated at Queretaro, states
that the present Congress would not come together
again, several deputies having left. It adds that the
new deputies and Senators would soon be in the city.
The Mexican Government is silently taking mea-
sures for suppressing the intrigues of foreign
monarchies.

In consequence of the State Governments not ful-
filling their promises to aid the general Government
with such resources as they could command, the latter
was much cramped for means.
Lieut. APDonnelly of the third artillery, and two
other officers, with a small party, left Puebla for
Jalapa. on the 15th, having charge of considerable
money. They were attacked in the night by four-
teen robbers, and although only three of our country-
men had arms, they defeated the ladrones, and arrived
safe at their destination.

NonroLx, JAN. 13.—The U. S. brig Porpoise,
Lieut. Gordon, at Norfolk, is under sailing orders for
Africa and the Mediterranean.

The .New York Herald states that Mr. Clay will
decline a nomination as candiliate for the Presidency
on his arrival at Washington. It also says that there
has been a minor defalcation at the Treasury de-
partment of about 25,000 dollars, and also one in a
post-office, somewhere at the north, of 50,000 dollars.

The latest accounts from New Orleans were to the
2d inst., and Vera Cruz to the 24th. There were
rumours that General Scott had decided to send a
column of the army to Queretaro. There was no
confirmation of the news that Mr. Trist had agreed
with the Mexican Commissioners upon terms of
peace.
A tremendous explosion occurred on board the
steam-boat Sea uiird, from New Orleans, bound to
St. Louis, and loaded with 100 kegs of gunpowder
She took fire near Cape Geraideau, and blew up with
a tremendous explosion, which was heard at a dis-
tance of 40 miles around the scene of disaster. The
boat was, of course, blown to atoms ; but, happily,
the passengers had all narrowly escaped before the
explosion took place.

Another steam-boat accident also occurred on the
Ohio. Oat of 70 persons between 20 and 30 perished.
In Canada the elections were proceeding quietly.
Forty-one Members had been elected, including M.
Papineau. There were still about forty elections to
come off, a majority of which the reformers expect to
result in their favour.

operate very sparingly. The sales were unusually
active. The Indus and Madrid save arrived.

Paredes was lying ill at Talancigo, and Santa Anna
in retirement at Tehuacan. The Mexican army was
nearly extinguished. Negotiations with Trist nearly
been renewed, with prospects of peace.

IRISH SPECIAL COMMISSION.

CLONMEL, JAN. 27.

The Lord Chief Justice took his seat on the bench
this morning at ten o'clock, and was joined by the
Chief Baron shortly after, who, we are happy to say,
is much better. His Lordship was suffering from
the prevailing epidemic.
MURDER.--TWO CAPITAL CONVICTIONS.—PhiIip
Cody and Henry Cody, brothers, and both young
men, were indicted for having, upon the 96h of July
last, at Killarney, in this county, wilfully and
feloniously fired a loaded gun at one Edward Madden,
and inflicted upon his person a mortal wound, of
which he died in two days. The elder brother,
Henry, was charged with firing the fatal shot, and
Philip with having been present aiding and abetting.
The ATTORNEY GENERAL stated the facts of the
case.

John Kelly, examined by the SOLICITOR-GENERAL
--I live at Ballyknockin, and am a steward in the
employment of the Marquis of Ormond at the wood
of Killarney. The deceased Edward Madden was
employed there as an assistant steward over the
women engaged in barking the timber. I know the
prisoners. On the 9th of July 1 left my own place
to go to the wood. As I was passing thruugh
it I heard a shot, and heard Madden bawl. I knew
his voice. I looked after I heard the shot, and saw
the smoke, and observed a man, and then another,
who bounced out close to where the first man was,
and fired a second shot. I afterwards heard a third
shot, and saw the man who fired it. I heard Madden
bawl immediately after the first shot, and before the
second. After the first shot was fired he began to
move away, and then the two others were fired after
him. The three shots were fired at him before he
reached the gap. The persons who were present did
not pursue the murderers. I did not attempt to
follow them myself, for they were out of sight in a
minute. I turned back from the place and set the
people to work. The .list of workmen was called
over, but they did not all answer. There were 160
men altogether. Henry Cody did not attend that
day at all, but Phil. Cody came at one o'clock and
made a half-day. They were both at work on the
following day. They worked there all that day, but
never after. Harry Cody lived at Ballyknockin, and
the other prisoner at Bohermore.
Mr. M. Ryan, R.M., examined by the ATTORNEY-
GENERAL—I went to see Madden, after he was shot,
on the same day, and found him lying in an out-
house; the first word he said was, " Ah, Sir, they have
done my job at last." He also said tliat he did not
expect to recover, that he was almost off. He was
perfectly in his senses at the time. He told me the
priest had been with him. I reduced to writing the
statement he then made.

Sir Charlea O'Donnell deposed that he was in
command of the troops in the district, and that he
heard the declaration read to the deceased by Mr.
Ryan. The deceased assented to the statement as it
was read.
The Clerk of the Crown then read the "dying
declaration" of the deceased. After stating that he
had settled his affairs, and received the rites of his
church, to prepare him for appearing before his God,
where he soon expected to be, the document set forth
that Henry Cody was the person who fired the shot
that wounded him, and that two other shots were
fired at him, by Philip Cody, of Bohermore, and a
strange man whom he took to be Ned Kelly, of Kil-
cash.

Mr. Ryan was then cross-examined by Mr. ROL-
LESTON—IIe said, I took down in the declaration
everything the deceased said. The deceased was
with me frequently on magisterial business during
the two years I knew him, and gave me most impor-
tant private information. I only knew him to be
accused of one crime, robbery of a gun.
Sub-constable Flannagan deposed that he arrested
the prisoner, Henry Cody, on the 11th of September.
Witness saw him running from the wood with a gun
in his hand, and when witness came up near him he
snapped a gun at him (witness), and was raising the
cock again when witness knocked him down. They
both fell together, and Cody got up and ran off again.
The case for the prosecution closed here, and Mr.
ROLLESTON addressed the jury for the defence.
The Solicitor-General having replied the Chief
Baron charged the jury, who retired, and in about
twenty minutes found the prisoners Guilty—Henry
Cody of the murder, and Philip Cody of having aided
and assisted in it. Sentence was deferred.

CHARGE OF ROBBEP.Y.—Timothy Hogan, Michael
Whelan, and Pat. Coonan, all young men, were found
guilty of having entered the house of William
Hackett, at Derrinvollen, on the 26th of November,
and robbed it of several articles of wearing apparel.
During the examination of the witnesses a sub-
constable, named Sullivan, produced three loaded
pistols which he had taken from the prisoners.
In reply to the Court, the witness said that the
arms were loaded when he got them, and that people
said the gun was taken from Mr. Little on the night
he was shot.
Mr. Scorr—Are the arms loaded now ? Witness
—They are, Sir.
Mr. SCOTT—WeII, take care, Sir. You ought not
to be throwing them about in that way.—(Laughter.)

Mr. ROLLESTON—Take care, yott -might shoot the
law officers.—(Laughter.)
CHIEF JUSTICE—It is very improper to bring the
arms loaded into Court.
ADJOURNMENT OF THE COMMISSION.—Their Lord-
ships will, if possible, rise to• morrow evening, so as to
proceed to Dublin on Saturday.

FRIDAY, JAN. 28.

The Judges sat to-day at ten o'clock, at which
hour the court was crowded to excess, in consequence
of its being very generally known that three of the
men charged with the attempt upon Mr. Baillie's
life would be put on their trial, and that it would
be the last important case heard during the com-
mission.

ATTACKING A DWELLING-HOUSE ARMED.--In the
case of the Queen v. Hogan, Coonan, and Whelan, for
attacking the dwelling-house of William Haskett,
armed, and stealing a quantity of wearing apparel, in
which there was a verdict of conviction, as we mentioned
yesterday.
Mr. ROLLESTON moved in arrest of judgment,
contending that under the statute which gave the
court power to try prisoners for both ridings of the
county of Tipperary in either Nenagh or Clonmel,
they had no jurisdiction, unless where a special order
was made for the removal of prisoners, and there was
no such order made in the case of the men who had
just been tried. _

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The ATTORNEY. GENERAL, on behalf of the Crown,
stated that upon a former occasion the point was
raised, when one of their Lordships (the Chief Jus-
tice) filled the position he than occupied, and was
overruled.

The COURT at once confirmed the decision, and
sentenced the prisoners to be each transported for
seven years.
The CMIEF JUSTICE, in pronouncing judgment,
observed that the punishment would have been much
more severe, but that it did not appear any violence
was committed. He also called attention to the fact
that the prisoners were in their present position
owing to the breach of confidence of one of their own
guilty companions, and advised all those persons who
were mixed up in crime, and were as yet at large, to
give up all connexion with men who would, the mo-
ment their own liberty was at stake, betray them into
the hands of justice.
The prisoner Hogan, who has been convicted in
this case, is a notorious character, and believed to be
implicated in several of the most barbarous murders
that have taken place in the county Tipperary for the
last two or three years, and amongst others, in the
assassination of Mr. Waller; the evideuce against
him, however, although strong, was not such as to
warrant the Crown in putting him on his trial in
any single instance. In Mr. Waller's case the de-
ceased mentioned his name as one of the murderers
before his death, but as there was no dying declara-
tion taken the statement could not be made use of;
and the prisoner, after keeping out of the way for
nearly twelve months, at last gave himself up, when
he found that the evidence was insufficient, and that
two of his companions were discharged. He was also
discharged in a short time after his arrest.
ATTEMPT TO MURDER MR. BAILLIE.--Edirard
Rowan and John Daly, the former a young man about
25, and the latter about 40 years of age, were placed
at the bar and indicted for having attempted the life
of Mr. Richard Uniacke Baillie, upon the 13th of
November, 1847, at Lisnaturney, in this county, by
discharging a loaded blunderbuss at him, and inflict-
ing a certain injury upon him by which his life was
endangered. The prisoner Rowan was arraigned as
the party who actually fired the -shot, and Daly with
being present aiding and abetting. There are three
other men implicated in this crime, but only two
given in charge to the jury, as their legal advisers
refused to allow them to join in their challenges.
Of the three, one has become an approver, as will
appear in the evidence, and another is in prison ill
of fever.
A most respectable jury having been empannelled,
The ATTORNET.GENERAL shortly stated the case
for the prosecution. He said, that like many other
cases tried during the commission, it arose out of the
position which Mr. Baillie held, as agent to a gen-
tleman named Rowley, and which brought him into
contact with some of the prisoners, who entered into
a conspiracy to take his life. It would appear that
the prisoner Daly was arrested for a sum of 701., at
the suit of Mr. Rowley, and that he and the other
man on trial, together with several others, knowing
it WAS Mr• iSaillie'S usual habit to go home to his

residence, about three miles and a-half from Nenagh,
every Saturday night late, met him on the night in
question, and fired at him a blunderbths, the contents
of which entered his head, and very nearly deprived
him of life.

Evidence in proof of the above statement was then
called.

The case for the prosecution had not closed at post
hour.

COMMITTAL OF A WIFE AND
MAN SERVANT FOR WILFUL MURDER.

ABERGAVENNY, SATURDAY, 3 A.ll,l.—illgt;;test
excitement has prevailed in this district for some time
past in reference to the death of Mr. William Howells,
a farmer, in the parish of Llanwellen. lie died on
the 10th of last November, Subsequently to his
burial his wife and man-servant conducted themselves
in a manner which excited suspicion, and various
persons living in the locality, knowing that the de-
ceased died without being attended by any medical
man, were not slow in charging the wife and her
male servant with having murdered the deceased.
These charges came at length to the knowledge of
Mr. Coroner Hughes, and assumed such a shape that
that gentleman considered it necessary to hold an
inquest. Accordingly the deceased's grave was re-
opened for the purpose of making a poet mortem
examination of the remains, and on Friday, the 7th
of the present month, a respectable jury met the
Coroner at the Ilanbury Arms, Llanwellen. The
only proceeding which then took place consisted in
the jury viewing the body- and giving the contents of
the stomach into the charge of Mr. Steele, a surgeon,
for analysation, and the inquiry was adjourned. The
Court was re-opened on the 14th, when the following
evidence was adduced :

Jane Morgan, a servant to deceased, said that her
master enjoyed good health up to the 9th of Novem-
ber last. He had some apple dumplings for supper
that night, and shortly afterwards went to bed. The
last dumpling he ate his wife helped him to, which
she split up the middle, and put what she thought
were sugar and milk upon it. The deceased, about
ten o'clock, was seized with vomiting and purging,
with excruciating pain, and he continued in that state
till twelve o'clock the following night, when he died.
After her master's death her mistress slept in the
same room with the man servant, James Price.
Shortly before deceased died her mistress said it was
no odds if she gave him a fatal dose. Witness told
her she would not, as she had another world to think
of. After the body was exhumed she said, "It will
be better for me to stand my ground, and then I shall
not be suspected so much." She also said to witness,
" If anything is found in his stomach you Al in be
hung because you made the dumplings."
Richard Steele, surgeon, who made a post mortem
examination of the body, proved that deceased had
died from the effects of white arsenic. He found as
much as 6fr ounces of that poison in a very limited
portion of the stomach.

Edward Evans, n druggist, identified the wife as
having purchased a shillingsworth of arsenic at his
shop about the time deceased expired.
Thomas Davis, a labourer, said he had been in the
service of Mary Howells about seven weeks. On
Tuesday last he went up stairs to change his trousers.
Price accompanied him to the room, when he
told witness to shake the gown of the first wit-
ness. He did so, but nothing fell out. Price then
told him to put his hand in the sleeve, which he did,
and found a brown paper parcel. He declined to open
it, because he thought it looked very suspicious that
Price should tell him to shake the gown. and not do it
himself. He called his mistress up, and she exclaimed,
"Here is the poison—that girl has done it."
John Royston, a constable, proved having appre-
hended Mary Howell the preceding day. The latter
told him that she had seen the servant girl give the
deceased the poison in a cup, after he had eaten the
dumpling.
The jury, after consulting, returned a verdict of
"Wilful murder against Mary Howells, the widow
of the deceased, and James Price, her servant ;" upon
which they were both committed by the Coroner to
take their trials at the next assizes.

DEPREDATIONS OF THB WOLVES IN FRANCE.---A
letter from Baumes-les-Dames, on the Doubs, states that
the country round that place is infested with wolves.
A few days ago, as two children, one ten years of age
and the other eight, were on their way home from a
farm-house, they met a wolf, and on their attempt to
fly the younger child fell, and was immediately carried
off by the wolf into a neighbouring forest. A diligent
search was made, but no trace of the child could be
found.—Galignani's Messenger.
Loss OF THE AVENGER.—A letter from the British
Consul at Palermo announces that a portion of the wreck
of the Avenger has been washed on shore at the west
coast of Sicily. Amongst other matters there have been
found the body of an officer in uniform lashed to a spar,
a boat, and a carronade gun, marked Avenger, 181 b.
Some surprise is felt, not only at the distance from the
wreck where those portions have turned up, but also at
the state of the currents, which would make the place
appear a most unlikely one whence to expect any tidings
or anything to elucidate the melancholy catastrophe.—
Observer.

DESTRUCTIVE FIRE IN HIGH HOLRORN.—Yester-
day morning, shortly after one o'clock, a fire, attended
with a considerable destruction of property, broke out
upon the premises belonging to Mr. James Vaile, auc-
tioneer, situate at 288, High Holborn. The discovery
was made by some of the neighbours in the opposite
houses, who saw smoke issuing from the upper windows.
An immediate alarm was given, and the residents were
made sensible of the danger to which they were exposed.
The whole of the parties, with the exception of a child
in bed, as!eep, were able to get out without much diffi-
culty; but upon their again attempting to ascend the
stairs, to rescue the child, they found the place so full
of fire that they were unable to enter. One of the fire-
men, of the name of Stagg, upon learning that a child
was in the premises, succeeded, at no little personal
risk, in forcing his way through the smoke and heat,
and he happily succeeded in bringing the child out in
safely.
PENINSULAR MAILS.—The Peninsular and Orien-
tal Steam Navigation Company's ship Madrid, Captain
Weeks, arrived at Southampton on Saturday at noon,
with the usual Spanish and Portuguese mails, in charge
of Lieutenant Newenham, R.N. Her dates are, Gib-
raltar, Jan. 15 ; Cadiz, 16 ; Lisboa, 19 ; and Vigo, 22.
The Madrid dd not call at Oporto in consequence of
the boisterous state of the weather, and during the
passage across the bay she has experienced a succession
of N.E. gales with heavy sea. The steamer Jupiter was
spoken in Vigo-bay, proceeding southward, on the 21st,
at 6 o'clock P.M. The Madrid has 27 passengers, and
the following freight:-124 half-chests of oranges, G
boxes of tangarmes, 21 boxes of lemons, 76 bags of
chestnuts, 25 bags of gum, 38 barrels of dates, 104
cases of Spanish eggs, 12 packages of specie (value
11,0001.), and 40 packages of sundries. At Gibraltar
—the steamer Polyphemus and the troop-ship Belle-
isle, bound to the West Indies with the 54th Regiment.
At Lisbon—Her Majesty's ships Howe, St. Vincent,
Queen, and Canopus ; steam-frigates Scourge, Dragon,
and Terrible, from Portsmouth, with artillerymen, &c.
The Isabella Spanish frigate was to sail from Cadiz on
the 16th for Havannah, with the new Governor-Ge-
neral Roncali. The commercial advises are not of
importance.
SOUTHAMPTON, SATURDAT...—The Peninsular and
Oriental Steam Navigation Company's iron ship Indus,
Captain Soy, arrived to-day, bringing the heavy portion
of the East Indian and China mails, a small cargo of
silks, gum, and Egyptian produce, and about fifty pas-
sengers, among whom are eleven Turkish youths, sent
by the Egyptian Government to England for education.
The Indus sailed from Malta on the 13th, but meeting
with some damage from the boisterous state of the
weather, was compelled to put back to Malta, from
which port she again sailed on the morning of the 16th.
The Royal Mail Steam Company's ship Teviot, having
been ashore a few hours on the Spit, arrived at three
o'clock P.M., and the Madrid arrived from Lisbon, &c.,
at noon.
Guar's-INN.—Notice has been given in the several
Halls of the Inns of Court, that there will be a voluntary
examination for honours in the English laws of real
property, in Gray's Inn-hall, on Wednesday, the 7th of
June next, and that all students for the bar will be qua-
lified to stand on the occasion who shall have attended
and joined in the ordinary lecture, examinations, moot-
ings, and other exercises which take place in Gray's Inn-
hall between the present month and June. The position
of the candidates will depend upon the results of the
examination in connexion with those of the ordinary
exercises beforementioned. The names of the successful
candidates alone will appear in the class list, so that
those who do not think proper to go in for honours, or
who do not succeed, will not be prejudiced.
DESPERATE ATTEMPT AT SUICIDE.—On Saturday
afternoon, between the hours of three and four o'clock, a
young man, named Charles Bertie, made a most
desperate attempt to destroy his life by leaping from the
centre of Blackfriars bridge into the River Thames.
Several persons noticed him suddenly mounting the
bridge. They at once suspected what were his inten-
t tions, but before they had time to get up to him he
plunged head fotonest into the water. A steamer pass-
ing at the moment nearly went over him. Mr. R. Ware,
the pier-master, sent off a boat, and the man was res-
cued apparently lifeless. He was immediately taken to
the Glaziers' Arms, Water-lane,
,where he was placed
in a warm bath, and the usual remedies having been
resorted to he recovered sufficiently to state that he
had a wife and two children, and that they resided in
the Muscovy-road, Bayswater. He also stated that
he was exceedingly sorry in having attempted to
destroy his life, and why he should have done so he
could not tell.
Livastroor. BANKING COMPANT.—The deputation
appointed by the meeting of the depositors on Wednes-
day, waited upon the directors of the bank yesterday,
and after a long conference, during which the propriety
of a further call being made on the shareholders, to
enable the bank to meet its engagements, was earnestly
urged by one of the deputation, the interview terminated
in the following offer being made by the directors,
namely, "To pay 6s. Bd. in cash on or before the 10th of
February next, Cs. Sd. on the let of August, and the
further sum of Cs. Sd. on the Ist of December. The
two latter payments to be made by bills, to be drawn by
the depositors on the Liverpool Banking Company,
payable at Messrs. Curries and Co., London. The bank
to allow five per cent. interest on their respective ba.-
lances.—Liverpool Mercury.
The Musical World states that Mr. Macready has
Accepted au engagement in the United States.

COURT CMCVLArt.
WINDSOR, SUNDAY. - Yesterday the Duke of
Norfolk, Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston, and
Sir Robert and Lady Grrdiner took their departure
from the Castle.
Prince Albert enjoyed the sport of shooting
yesterday morning. His Royal Highness was
accompanied by Viscount Palmerston, and was
attended by Lord Byron, Mr. G. E. Anson, and
Colonel Bouverie.
Her Majesty and Prince Albert took an airing
yesterday afternoon, in a pony phaeton, the Prince
driving, attended by the Equerries in waiting,
Major-General Wemyss and Colonel Bouveilie,
oa
horseback.
Their Majesties the King and Queen of the
Belgians visited her Royal Highness the Duchess of
Kent yesterday afternoon, at her residence, Frogrnore
House.
The royal dinner party at the Castle yesterday
evening ineludod their Majesties the King aod Queen
of the Belgians, .user Royal Highness the Duelers of
Kent, their Excellencies Mons. and Madame Van
de Ireyer, La Marquise' de Truzeynies, Lady Fanny
Howard, Baroness de Seib, and Major de Moer-
kerke.
The Queen's private band .attended on Friday
evening i❑ the CaAle, and; perOrned the following

pieces :
Overture, " Sirene"
Selection, " Postilion" Adam.
March, " Zauherflote ". . • , Mozart.
Selection, "La Fille du Regiment"... izetti.
Finale, Sinfonia ...
Carsbade Walter .... . Labitz.l(Y.
This morning the Queen and Prince Albert tt.lok
their accustomed early walk.
Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales,
Prince Alfred, the Princess Royal, and the Princess
Alice, took walking and pony exercise this forenoon
in the grounds around the Castle.
Her Royal Highness the Princeso Helena was
taken an airing.
The Queen and Prince Albert, the Ring of the
Belgians, the Ladies and Gentlemen or 'the Court,
and the domestic household, attended Divine service
this morning in the private chapel of the Castle. The
Hon. and Rev. C. L. Courtenay officiated.
Her Majesty the Queen of the Belgians attended
Divine service at the Roman Catholic Chapel, spital.

Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of
Cambridge, accompanied by his Serene Highness
Prince Frederick of Hesse, and attended by Lady
Augusta Cadogan and Baron Knesebeck, arrived at'
their residence at Kew, on Saturday, from honouring
the Duke of Rutland with a visit at Belvoir Castle.

Viscount Palmerston arrived in town on Saturday
afternoon from Windsor Castle.

BONNIE SWEET ROBIN" IS " NAE DEAD

AND GANE."

(Written for the Anniversary of the Birthday of Robert
Burns, at Sheffield, -January 25, 1848.)
Oh! say not in sadness the Bard has departed,
While Memory thus is enshrining his name;
For the perfume his chaplet of bay leaves imparted,
Lives fragrantly yet iu the breathing of Fume. _
While we think of him over the t 0 crimson tipp'd flower,'
While we chaunt furth his soul in the " Bannockburn"
strain,
While we bend to his harp as we do at this hour,
Oh! " Bonnie sweet Rubin" is " nae dead and gane."
His love plaints in exquisite tenderness breaking,
Still tall on our ear as the dew on the earth;
His song of proud honesty still is awaking
Man's sense of the greatness that springeth from
Worth.
While rare " Tam O'Shanter" calls smiles to our faces,
While " Mary in Heaven" brines something of pain;
While " Puir Maillie" is mouru'd, and " Twa Dogs"
keep their places,
Oh! " Bonne sweet Robin" is " nae dead and gane."
It is bitter to know we must tell a dark story,
Of Poverty thrusting him on to his grave;
That he struggled with Sorrow while working for Glory,
A toiler—a victim—but never a slave.
Yet his spirit now seemeth to hover beside us,
The sepulchre-stone was laid o'er him in vain,
He is here as God's teacher to prompt and to guide us,
And " Bonnie sweet Robin" is "nae dead and gene."
He lighted the beacon that burneth for ever,
He opened the well-spring that cannot dry up;
lie poureth Truth in the chalice he left us, and never
Shall noble Humanity turn from the cup.
While We've hearts in our boson's that know how to
cherish
The hands that unfasten the world's heavy chain—
Till the Good and the Beautiful utterly perish,
Oh! " Bonnie sweet Robin" is " nae dead and gam"
—Dispatch. ELIZA. COOK.

CHLOROFORM.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
SlR,—The public are now fully aware of the ex-
traordinary and merciful effects of chloroform, which
makes patients thoroughly insensible to pain while
undergoing the most torturing operations. Thou-
sands have already experienced its benign influence,
and amongst others the venerable Berzelius himself,
to whom it was the means of bringing relief under
the most agonizing suffering.
Chloroform not only makes patients insensible to
pain, but is, besides, a valuable remedy in some of
the most formidable diseases. Beyond a doubt it has
in more than one instance cured tetanus, cholera,
delirium tremens, and many others. Look also to its
blessed effects in midwifery. How many mothers,
with their offspring, have been saved, and how many
have to be saved by it.
When ether was introduced, the bad effects which
were mixed with the good were proving fatal to its
general aduption. The idea of alleviating pain, how-
ever, had by this time caught hold of the profession,
both here and on the Continent, and every one was
eager to distance his fellow in the discovery of some
other substance, but the problem could only be solved
by the powerful mind of a Simpson, who thus con-
ferred a boon on the hutnan race.

When we look buck on Dr. Simpson's improve-
ments in the obstetric art, and his contributions to
medicine generally, crowned by the greatest disco-
very of this or any other age, we see that his life has
been one career of usefulness, of deep scientific re-
search, and, we are happy to add, of triumph. The
misty clouds of petty jealousy have been dispersed
by the resplendant rays of the sun of truth. He may
be said to be to medicine what Newton was to phi-
losophy, and, to adopt the language of the poet,

" When all was dark as night,
God said, Let Simpson be, and all was light."

The ladies of Britain, not to be outdone by their
continental neighbours, will surely come forward
with some appropriate testimonial to one who, with-
out fee or reward, has done so much for them ; and
surely Lord John Russell will feel proud in proposing
a grant, to which Parliament will be equally proud
to accede, rejoicing in the opportunity of marking a
nation's sense of gratitude to the benefactor of man-
kind, and the honour to his country.
Yours, &c.,
JUSTITIA.
January 29, 1848.

COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH
THE QUEEN V. THE ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY'.
DECISION BY ANTICIPATION.
_ Feb. 1, 1848.

Lord DENMAN—The question before us is one
merely of practice. As this Court never interferes with
the rules and regulations laid down by inferior Courts
as to how the form and manner of proceedings before
them shall be conducted, we declare
The rule discharged.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
BETTING AT MANCHESTER. - FRIDAY.

CHESTER CUP.-25 to 1 agst Blaze, 30 to 1 apt
Keleshe (taken), 30 to 1 agst Cracow (taken), 30 to 1
agst Jonathan Wild (taken), 40 to 1 agst Clumsy (taken),
40 to 1 agst Swallow, 40 to 1 agst Swiss Boy (taken),
40 to 1 agst Lady Hylda, 1,000 to 20-1,000 to 13 agst
Sally Maggs (taken), 1,000 to lb agst Glen Saddel
(taken).
DEnsv.-900 to 100 agst Surplice, 13 to 1 agst Glen-
dower, 20 to 1 agst Springy Jack (offers to take), 20
to 1 agst. Assault, 33 to 1 agst Cervus ((taken), 40 to 1
agit Keraun (taken freely), 1,000 even Springy Jack
agst Assault (offered).
NEWMARKRT IIAxDICIP.-10 to 1 aget Millwood
(taken and afterwards offered).

THE EARL or DUNDONALD.—We understand that
Vice-Admiral the Earl of Dundonald, G.C.8., the
newly-appointed Commander-in-Chief to the West
India station, has applied to the Lords of the Treasury
for his arrears of half-pay, which were impounded
during the period his Lordship's name was not on the
Navy List. The Noble and Gallant Earl having been
restored to the same rank and position in the navy to
which he would povedrogr, essive/y have attained had hie
name not been removed, appears to have a strong prima
facie ground of appeal to the Government,—United Ser-
vice Gazette.
Captain Sir Baldwin Wake Walker, K.C.8., to
whom is offered the appointment of Surveyor of the
Navy, is expected in England from the Pacific, rid Pa-
nama, by the next West India mail steam-packet. Mr.
Edye, the Deputy-Surveyor, has been granted the salary
of Surveyor—namely, at the rate of 1,0001. per annum,
since the retirement of Sir William Symonds.—United
Service Gazette.

The Governor of Labuan, Mr. Brooke, had an in-
terview with Lord Palmerston on Saturday afternoon, at
the Foreign-office. His Excellency will take his depar-
ture early next week for the seat of his government in
the Meander frigate, commanded by his friend, the Hon.
Henry Keppel, accompanied by his suite and by the
several officers appointed to constitute the new settle•
ment of Great Britain in the Indian Archipelago. The
Meander made one of the quickest passages on record in
the early part of the week from Sheerness to Portsmouth,
where her Gallant Captain has been exercising', his crew
of picked men. So popular is this enterprising com-
mander in the navy, that several petty oftieet .8 volun-
teered to enter as able-bodied seamen, and moi than
the full complement were soon found to uccompal
on bis distant sad enterprisipg voyago,—Observer.