The Sun.
London, England, 1846-08-08 00:00:00

No. 1.(;,813. LONDON AT UR ADY
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• AUG UST 8) 1846.

ROYAL POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION.
A CHEMICAL LECTURE, by Dr. Ryan, eaily, and on
the Evenings of Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays. Professor
Rachhoffner's LECTURES on NATURAL PHILOSOPHY, with
brilliant experiments, daily. MACINTOSH'S REVOLVING EN-
GINE. COLEMAN'S PATENT LOCOMOTIVE ENGINE for as-
ce,:ding and descending Inclined Planes. FARRELL'S ABC/lI-
MEDIAN RAILWAY. The ATMOSPHERIC RAILWAY, all in
action. HALLEWE'S 4.IIIOSPIIERIC RAILWAY VALVE.
CLARK, M'NEILL, and CO.'S PATENT UNIVERSAL GAS
BURNER. The OPAQUE MICROSCOPE. The OXY-HYDROGEN
MICROSOPE, exhibiting a fine Collection of Living Objects. A
beautiful Picture of the CHAPEL in the CONVENT of St. CA-
THERINE, near Jerusalem, by Mr. Charles Smith, is one of the Se-
ries of DISSOLVING VIEWS.

Admission, la., Schools, Half-price

(VI H. BEARD'S PHOTOGRAPHIC POR-
iv A. TRAIT ESTABLISHMENTS are at 85. King William-
street, City, 34, Parliament-street, Westminster; and at the Royal
Polytechnic Institution, Regent-street.
" A great improvement has been effected ; the method ofcolouring
renders the po, traits agreeable and life-like."—Times.
" We would especially notice the admirable effect of the flesh tints,
which appear embodied in the miniature, and not, as we generally see
them, spread on the surface."—Art Union.

TABLEAUX VIYANS!

GREAT WINDMILL- STREET,
. .

Eight Doors from Coventry-street, Haymarket.
THIS DAY AND DURING TILE WEEK.

Professor Tumour, incited by the great patronage hitherto
bestowed upon his endeavours to win public approbation, respect-
fully announces that he intends producing from his " Repertoire"
several new classical and deeply interesting Groupings ; in which,
while the fair proportions of the models appear in Phidian and
Praxitalean beauty, the effect is heightened by the flesh tint, beau-
teous as if fresh from the pencil of Apelles. To illustrate and ren-
der instructive as well as amusing the various details of the Morning
Performances, he has also, regardless of expense, and at the sugges-
tion of the Nobility and Subscribers, engaged Mr. CHARLES SLO-
MAN, the celebrated and only English Improvisatere, who will
deliver Explanatory Expositions of the various Poses.

To be PEREMPTORILY SOLD, pursuant to an Order of the High
Court of Chancery made in the cause " Plunkett against Lewis,"
with-the approbation of Andrew Henry Lynch, Esq., ene of the
Masters of the said Court, by Mr. THOMAS COOKE, the person
appointed by the said Master to sell the same, at the Royal Oak
Hotel, Leominster, on FRIDAY, the 14th day of August, 1846, at
Three of the clock, in the afternoon in THREE LOTS.
111-IREE valuable FARMS, with substantial and
JL convenient Farmhouses and all necessary Farming Offices
and Buildings, called the Leen Farm, the Strangworth Farm, and the
Yew-tree Farm, at Marston, which, with a valuable flour-mill and
labourers' cottages and plots, comprising about 556 acres, 2 roods,
21 perches of orchard, arable, hop-ground, meadow, and pasture land.
The farms are in the occupation of respectable tenants, at yearly
rents amounting to 9171. 10s. Also 73 acres of Woodland, called
Vallett's Wood, in hand, and late the property of Lyndon Evelyn,
Esq., de-eased, and situate in the parishes of Pembridge, and Lyons
Hall, in the county of Hereford.
Printed particulars and conditions of sale may be had, gratis, in
London, at the sail Master's office, Southampton-buildings, Chan-
cery-lane ; of Mr. William Stephens, solicitor, No. 30, Bedford-row ;
of Mr. Alexander Dobie, solicitor, No. 2, Lancaster-place, Strand ;
and of Messrs. C. and J. Allen, solicitors, Carlisle-street, Soho; and
in the country, of John Nixon, Esq., Priory-street, Cheltenham ; of
Mr. Thomas King Stephens, solicitor, Presteign; of Mr. Robert
Lewis, Presteign; of Mr. Thomas Cooke, auctioneer and estate agent,
Hereford; at the Green Dragon Hotel, Hereford; at the Royal Oak
Hotel, Leominster; at the Oxford Arms Hotel, Kington ; at the
Chandos Arms Hotel, Knighton ; and at the Radnorshire Arms Hotel,
Presteign.

FREEMASONS' AND GENERAL LIFE
ASSURANCE COMPANY, 11, WATERLOO-PLACE,
PALL-MALL, London.
Business transacted in all the Branches and for all objects of Life
Assurance, Endowments, and Annuities, and to secure contingent
Reversions, &c. Information and prospectuses furnished by
JOSEPH BERRIDGE, Secretary.

N ATIONAL LOAN ksUND LIFE ASSUR.
ANCE SOCIETY,
26, CORNHILL LONDON.
Capital £.500,000.
Empowered by Act of Parliament.
This Institution embraces important and substantial advantages
with respect to Life Assurances and Deferred Annuities. The assured
has, on all occasions, the power to borrow, without expense or for-
also the gszolneitritalUteliil,b2nTriße"TiinTgliOro72l.l
in-
terests to meet other conveniences or necessity.
Assurances for terms of years are granted on the lowest possible
rates.

DIVISION OF PROFITS.
The remarkable success and increasing prosperity of the Society
has enabled the Directors, at the last annual investigation, to declare
a fourth bonus, varying from 35 to 85 per cent. on the premiums paid
on each Policy effected on the Profit scale.

The division of profits is annual, and the next will be made in
December of the present year.
F. FERGUSON CAMROUX, Secretary.

GUARDIAN FIRE AND LIFE ASSUR-
ANCE COMPANY.
No. 11, LOMBARD-STREET, at the Entrance of the Old Post
office, London.
DIRECTORS.
JOHN LABOUCHERE, Esq., Chairman.
JOHN DIXON, Esq., Deputy-Chairman.
Henry Hnlse Berens, Esq. George Lyall, Esq., M.P.
Francis Hart Dyke, Esq. Stewart Marjoribanks, Esq., M.P.
Sir Walter It. Farquhar, Bart. John Martin, Esq.. M.P.
Thomson Hankeyoun., Esq. Rowland Mitchell, Esq.
John Harvey, Esq. Robert Mitford, Esq.
ohn Gellibrand Hubbard, Esq. James Morris Esq.
George Johnstone, Esq. Henry R. Reynolds, jun., Esq.
John Loch, Esq. John Thornton, Esq.

. .
Lewis Loyd, km., Esq. I James Tulloch, Esq.
AUDITORS.
A. W. Roberts, Esq Henry Sykes Thornton, Esq.
Samuel Jones Loyd, Esq. I Henry Norman, Esq.
AcTuAny—Griffith Davies, Esq., F.R.S.
In the LIFE DEPARTMENT, a Bonus was declared in June
1829, exceeding one per cent. per annum on the sums Insured, on an
average of the different Ages ; and two subsequent divisions of nearly
equal amounts were made up to Christmas 183.5 and Christmas 1842.
On an average of the three divisions the Reversionary Bonuses added
to the several Policies at the end of every seven years amounted to
about 27 per cent. on the total premiums paid thereon during those
seven years, and the whole amount of Bonuses allotted at the three
Septennial divisions exceeded 530,0001.
Loans granted on Life Policies to the extent of their Values, pro-
vided such Policia sball have been effected a sufficient time to have
attained in each case a value not under 591.
In the FIRE DEPARTMENT, a Return of profit was declared
on the 4th of June, upon the premiums received on all Policies
which had been in force seven years at Christmas 1844, and the same
is now in course of payment daily (Friday and Saturday excepted),
between the hours of ten and three o'clock, at the Head Office ; and
also by the Agents in the Country Districts.
GEORGE KEYS, Seeretary.

GOLDEN F LAX.
Extract from the "Northern Whig," August 4, 1846.
" Society for the Promotion and _ Improvement of the Growth of

Flax in Ireland,

" A member of Committee having stated that some parties In
London had been using fac similies of the medals awAtled by this
Society, as prizes for Linens made from Irish Fax, for the purpose of
vending goods under the denomination of Golden Fax linen,' the
Committee disapproved of this, as these prizes are given solely with
a view of exhibiting the capabilities of Irish Flax for the fabric of
the finest description of linens."

REGISTERED PALETOT of LLAMA
CLOTH, 6 and 7 Victoria, cap. 65.
Patronised by the Prince Consort, Prince George of Cambridge, the
Duke of Wellington, and the following distinguished visitors to this
country :—The Emperor of Russia, the King of Prussia, the King of
Belgium, the King of Saxony, the King of Holland, Prince William
of Prussia, and further honoured by the ntinued patronage of all
who seek an unaffected gentlemanly appearance. The cloth is
made of Llama Wool, a fabric most agreeably soft and elastic to the
touch, and is one-third the weight of ordinary woollen clothes, but it
corresponds in shades of colour. It is very durable, and naturally a
repellent of rain, yet so porous as to admit of a due escape of exces-
sive bodily heat. These advantages, with the very moderate price
charged, renders the Registered Paletot worthy the attention of all.
They can be purchased in London, of the Patentees only, at their
Warerooms, 114, Regent-street, and 22, Cornhill,

MILITARY FLOGGING.
THE COURT JOURNAL, of Tins DAY,
August 8, contains a second article on MILITARY FLOG-
GING, by the same pen as that which produced the first article
in the Journal of July 25 —The EFFECTS of ROYAL PATRON &GE
on TR UDE, &c. &c.

By fo:warding eight penny stamps to any bookseller or newsman,
or to the publisher, W. Thomas, 19, Catherine-street, Strand, the
Journal will be sent to any part of the United, Kingdom Postage
free.

LES ME MOIRES D'UN MEDECIN. BY ALEX. DUMAS.
J j'OBSERVATEUR FRANCAIS,
of TO-DAY, AUGUST 8, contains :—Les Memoires d'un
111edecin, by ALEXANDER DUMAS—Martin L'Enfant Trouv"6, by
EUGENE SUE—La Revue Politlque—Mort de ltaboo Dwarka-
nauth Tagore, et du Comte de St. Len—Joseph Henri, ssn his-
toire—La Polka moyen d'election—Droit Liherte individuelle en
France et en Angleterre—Scientific and Literary Review=, &c. &c.
William Thomas, Publisher, 21, Catherine-street, Strand; sold by
all Booksellers and Newsmen.

MILITARY AND NAVAL FLOGGlNG.—Yesterday after-
noon a large and crowded meeting of the inhabitants of the town of
HounSlow and its vicinity, convened by public notice, was held in
the Lecture-room, at the Nag's Head Inn, in that town, " to adopt
resolutions expressive of its opinion on the subject of military and
naval flogging, and to petition Parliament for the total abolition
thereof." After a lengthened discussion the following form of peti-
tion was agreed ou :—" To the Hon. the Commons of the United
Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland in Parliament assembled,—
The humble petition of the inhabitants of Hounslow and its vicinity,
ht public meeting assembled, humbly showeth, that your petitioners,
being deeply convinced of the great importance to this empire of the
army and navy for its peace, order, and protection, and that what-
ever lowers the self-esteem or alienates the patriotism of the soldier
or sailor tends to weaken our defence and perils our safety, your pe-
titioners are grieved to find that the barbarous practice of flogging is
still maintained as a mode of punishment ; your petitioners, more-
over, being fully assured that a mode of punishment so unmanly,
brutal, and un-Christian, insulting to our common humanity, and so
alien to our religion and our age, does exasperate and degrade, but
never can amend the offenders ; we therefore hunibly beseech your

Hon. House immediately to abolish the degrading and disgusting
practice of flogging in the army and navy."
-:,;SALE OF THE MISSAL OF MARGARET OF ANJOU.—
Yesterday a sale by auction of a collection of curious and rare manu-
scripts and books took place at Messrs. Sotheby's rooms, and among
them was a highly-preserved and beautiffiliy-finislied manuscript on
vellum of the fifteenth century, adorned with fifty-one large and
twenty-four small miniature paintings, said to have been the
prayer-book of Margaret of Anjou, Queen of Henry VI. It iscomposed
of 236 leaves beautifully illuminated. Prefixed to some prayers in
the French language is the portrait of Margaret at her devotions.
The first offer was 301., and it was eventually sold for 1151. In ad-
dition to this, there were some other rare books sold, of which the
following are worthy of notice :—"Flodden Field, hereafter ensue the
treme Encountre or Batayle lately don between England and Scot-
land, in.which Batayle the Scottish Kynge was slayne," a tract of
only four leaves, extremely rare, sold for 131. 10s. Two volumes, the
first of the second edition, and the second volume of the first edition
of " Spenser's Fair's Queene," sold for 51. 17s. 6d. A beautiful
Italian manuscript upon vellum of the works of Petrarch, the first
page of each wurk being delicately painted with borders, sold for 81.;
and a similar manuscript of the works of Boccacio, bearing the name
of the scribe and the date of its execution, 1431, sold for li. 10s. A
small Missal° Romanum, upon vellum, dated 1417, last page orna-
mented with an arabesque border in gold. and coloured, sold for 15/.
RAILWAY ACCIDENT.—An accident, which might have
been attended with the most serious consequences, befel the evening
train on the London and Gloucester Railway on Monday last. A
passenger, in a second-class carriage, on leaving the Swindon station,
tin ught he perceived something wrong in the motion of the car-
riages; but failed in attracting the attention of the conductor to it.
The train had not proceeded far, when, to his infinite dismay, he saw
the floor of the carriage on fire, and the flame bursting up between
his feet. The united cries of the horror-stricken passengers at length
succeeded in stopping the train, when they were rescued from their
perilous situation, and made their escape down a steep embankment. '
On the flame being extinguished the train proceeded at a slow pace
to the next station, where the carriage was detached.
ANOTHER EXPLOSION IN THE ROYAL ARSENAL.—
WOOLWICH, AUGUST 7.--Yesterday morning, at eleven o'clock, a 24-
pounder rocket exploded at the rocket sheds, Royal Arsenal, during
the process of driving in the composition by means of a machine
technically called a monkey. The explosion occurred front the same
mould that the rocket exploded from on the previous day. The re-
port of the explosion caused hued eels of the workmen to hasten to
tte rocket sheds, an alarm having been given that the shed was on
fire, but in the course of a few minutes it was discovered that the
rocket bad done scarcely any damage to the building, and the men
then resumed their work. The man who was employed moulding
the rocket, Jacob Steel, was severely burnt about the head and lace
by the composition. He was ordered home by the surgeon, but it is
expected he will be able to resume his work in the course of a few
days.
Low WATER AT PARlS.—Within the memory of man
the waters of the Seine were never so low as at the present moment.
They are only fifty centimetres higher than they were in 1719, which
is taken as a bast!' for the water-mark at the Pont Royale and the
Pont de la Concorde. The navigation of tire river is completely
stopped for laden vessels. As the navigation of the canals will be
stopped in a few days, if there is not a change in the weather, the
river will, in all probability, be as low as in 1719,

FRIDAY NIGHT'S GAZETTE.
ST. JAMES'S PALACE, AUG. 4, 1846.
The Queen has been pleased to appoint Thomas Lord
Camoys to be one of the Lords in Waiting in Ordinary to her
Majesty, in the room of Henry Richard, Earl of Warwick,
resigned.

The Queen has been pleased to appoint William Earl of
Listowel to be one of the Lords in Waiting in Ordinary to
her Majesty, in the room of John Marquis of Ormonde, re-
signed. _

'The Queen has been pleased to appoint Admiral Sir
Edward Codrington, G.C.B. and G.C.M.G., to be one of the
Grooms in Waiting in Ordinary to her Majesty, in the room
of Admiral Sir Robert Waller Otway, Bart., G.C.8., deceased.
BUCKINGHAM PALACE, AUG. 1.
The Queen was this day pleased to confer the honour of
Knighthood upon John Jervis, Esq., her Majesty's Attorney.
General.

WAR-OFFICE, AUG. 7, 1846.
Royal Regiment of Horse Guards.—Lieutenant H. S
Baillie to'be Captain, by purchase, vice Bastard, who retires;
Cornet. F. W. F. Berkeley, to be Lieutenant, by purchase,
vice Baillie; S. G. L. Fox, Gent., to be Cornet, by purchase,
vice Berkeley, Aug. 7.

7th Dragc;On Guards.—R. J. Lock, RD., to be Assistant-
Surgeon, vice Power, promoted in the 91st Foot, Aug. 7.
2d Dragoons—Lieutenant A. Robertson to be Captain, by
purchase, vice Reid, who retires; Cornet F. D. Hibbert to
be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Robertson; J. A. Freeman,
Gent. to be Cornet, by purchase, vice Hibbert, August 7.
4th Light Dragoons—Brevet Colonel J. Vandeleur, from
46
the 10th Light Dragoons, to be trteliant Colonel, vice
Parlby, who exchanges. August 7.
10th Light Dragoons—Lieutenant-Colonel W. Parlby, from
the 4th Light Dragoons, to be Lieutenant-Colonel, vice Yen-
deleur, who exchanges, Aug. 7.

15th Light Dragoons—Assistant-Surgeon J. P. Moline,
from the 22d Foot, to be Assistant-Surgeon, vice Mockler,
promoted in the 10th, Aug. 7.
16th Light Dragoons—Surgeon R. J. G. Grant, from the
10th Foot, to be Surgeon, vice Burt, deceased, Aug. 7.
Coldstream Regiment of Foot Guards—Lieutenant. Col.
G. M. Stevenson, from half-pay unattached, to be Captain
and Lieutenant-Colonel, vice the Hon. E. B. Wilbraham,
who exchanges ; Lieutenant and Captain J. Forbes to be
Captain and Lieutenant-Colonel, by purchase, vice Steven-
son, who retires ; Ensign and Lieutenant C. L. Cocks to be
Lieutenant and Captain, by purchase, vice Forbes; Ensign
the Hon. P. R. B. Feilding, from the 85th Foot, to be En-
sign and Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Cocks, Aug. 7.
2d Regiment of Foot—Lieut. .F. Studdert, from the 75th
Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice H. Piercy, who exchanges,
August 7.

sth Foot—R. F. Robb, M.D., to be Assistant Surgeon,
vice Mackey, promoted in the 42d Foot, August 7.
6th Foot—Major J. Crofton to be Lieut.-Colonel, without
purchase ; Capt. J. T. Griffiths to be Major, vice Crofton ;
Lieut. E. J. Blanckley to be Captain, vice Griffiths ; Ensign
W. F. G. Servantes, from the 99th Foot, to be Lieutenant,
without purchase, vice Dowker, appointed Adjutant ; Ensign
H. M. Blackburn, from the 99th Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice
Blanckley, Aug. 7; Lieut. C. H. Dowker to be Adjutant
vice Mansergh, promoted; Quartermaster W. Lee to be Ad-
jutant, with the rank of Ensign, July 28.
To be Quartermasters—Sergeant-major J. Croker, vice
Lee ; Quartermaster-Sergeant G. Pollard, July 28.
10th Foot—Assistant-surgeon E. Mockler, from the 15th
Light Dragoons, to be Surgeon, vice Grant, appointed to the
16th Light Dragoons, Aug. 7.
12th Foot—Assistant Staff-surgeon W. Dick, M.D., to be
Surgeon, Aug. 7.
19th Foot—Captain H. Calley to be Major, by purchase,
vice Semple, who retires; Lieut. J. Ker to be Captain, by
purchase, vice Calley; Ensign J. H. Moore to be Lieutenant,
by purchase, vice Ker ; H. W. Palmer, Gent., to he Ensign,
by purchase, vice Moore, August 7.
20th Foot—Assistant Staff Surgeon T. M. Fishbourne,
M.D., to be Surgeon, August 7,
22d Foot—D. P. Barry, Gent., to be Assistant-Surgeon,
vice Moline, appointed to the 15th Light Dragoons, Aug. 7.
23d Foot—Second Class Staff Surgeon R. Smith to be
Surgeon, Aug. 7.
36th Foot—Capt. A. 0. Creighton, from the 3d West India
Regiment, to be Captain, vice Bristow, who exchanges, Aug. 7
39th Foot—Brevet Major M. G. Nixon to be Major, with-
out purchase, vice E. W. Bray, who retires upon full-pay;
Lieut. W. C. Wolfe to be Captain, vice Nixon; Ensign B.
Thornhill to be Lieutenant, vice Wolf, August 7.
42d Foot—Assistant-Surgeon H. Mackey, from the sth
Foot, to be Surgeon, August 7.
45th Foot—Assistant. Surgeon R. T. Scott, from the 76t1i
Foot, to be Surgeon, August 7.
71st Foot—Assistant Staff-Surgeon G. Carr to be Surgeon,
August 7.

75th Foot—Lieutenant H. Piercy, from the 2d Foot, to be
Lieutenant, vice Studdert, who exchanges, August 7.
76th Foot—R. Wallace, Gent., to be Assistant-Surgeon,
vice Scott, promoted in the 45th Foot, August 7.
82d Foot—P. W. Kingsmill, Gent., to be Ensign, without
purchase, vice Fraser, deceased, Aug. 7.
91st Foot—Assistant Surgeon W. J. Power, from the 7th
Dragoon Guards, to be Surgeon, Aug. 7.
93d Foot—A. Smith, Gent., to be Assistant Surgeon, vice
Irwin, promoted in the 97th Foot, Aug. 7.
95th Foot—Lieut. H. Swettenbam, from the Ceylon Regi-
ment, to be Lieutenant, vice Hayes, who exchanges, Aug. 7.
96th Foot—F. O. Allman, Gent., to be Ensign, without
purchase, vice Servantes, promoted in the 6th Foot, Aug. 7.%
97th Foot—Sergeant-Major P. Carrell to be Quartermas-
ter; Assistant-Surgeon J. N. Irwin, from the 93d Foot, to
be Surgeon, .

99th Foot—A. M. Fraser, Gent. to be Ensign, witkat
chase_ vicil,lllq/51,1.,X13- _nrxins nt fn th a nth_ P 4-21:. ue
by purchase, vice Waddington, who retires; Second Lieute-
nant H. D. F. Davie to be First Lieutenant, by purchase,
vice Lord A. a Russell; the Hon. H. Clifford to be Second
Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Davie; Second Class Staff
Surgeon T. Alexander, to be Surgeon, Aug. 7.
3d \V est India Regiment—Capt. H. Bristow, from the 36th
Foot, to be Captain, vice Creighton, who exchanges, Aug. 7.
Ceylon Rifle Regiment—Lieut. H. G. Hayes, from the 95th
Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Swettenham, who exchanges,
Aug. 7.
Hosrintr, STAFF—Assistant Staff Surgeon W. Denny to
be Staff Surgeon of the Second Class, vice Alexander, ap-
pointed to the Rifle Brigade; W. Lapsley, Gent., to be As-
sistant Staff Surgeon, vice Dick, promoted in 12th Foot ; J. J.
Clifford, M. D., to be Assistant Staff Surgeon, vice Fishbourne,
promoted in 20th Foot; Assistant Surgeon J. D. M'Diarmid
to be Staff Surgeon of the Second Class, vice Smith appointed
to 23d Foot; G. R. Woolhouse, Gent., to be Assistant Staff
Surgeon, vice M'Diarmid, promoted; E. W. Young, M.D.,
to be Assistant Staff Surgeon, vice Carr, promoted in the
71st Foot; F. Reynolds, Gent., to be Assistant Staff
Surgeon, vice Denny, promoted, Aug. 7.
IVlEmonANDust.—The Christian name of Captain Farmer,
of the 41st Foot, are Thomas M'Lean, not M'Leod.
The Christian names of Ensign Lees of the 96th Foot, are
William Munnings, not Manning.
WAR-OFFICE, Atm. 7.
Further List of Four Private Soldiers of her Majesty's 62d
Regiment of Foot, who have died of wounds received in
action with the enemy on the Sutlej—William Edge,
Thomas Arcil, Joseph Parfitt, William Smith.

INDIA BOARD, Atm. 5.
The following further List of Non-commissioned Officers.,
Gunners, and Privates of the East India Company's Ser-
vice, killed in the recent actions on the Sutlej, or who have
subsequently died of their wounds, has been received at
the East India House :

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.

NORTHERN ClRCUlT.—Carlisle, Aug. 6.
CROWN COURT.—(Before Mr. Justice WtairrmaN.)
William Thornburn, aged about 30, and apparently a poor
man, was indicted fur bigamy, committed at Gretna, on the
Bth of November, 1845, by marrying Jane Jackson.
Jane Little, the wife of Thomas Little, of Springfield, who
was a blacksmith, and performed the ceremony of marriage,
proved that she keeps a register of the marriages performed,
and on the 6th of February, 1846, William Thornburn and
Ann Sparks came to their house and said they were come to
be married. Her husband asked them if they came of their
own free will. They answered that they did. He then
asked them if no person had a claim upon them, and they
said no one had. He then asked the bridegroom if he was
willing to take that woman for his lawful wife. He said he
was. He asked the bride if she was willing to take that man
for her lawful husband, and she said she would. He bid
them join hands and declare each othor man and wife. They
joined hands and declared themselves man and wife in those
words. She remembered them coming quite well. The
prisoner was the man ; she had no doubt of it.
Cross-examined—Mr. Linton, of Gretna-hall, and Simon
Long, a weaver, also married people. They were sober at
the time. She saw nothing but what was sober and decent.
No doubt there was some fee paid, but she could not re-
member what. That was the way in which the ceremony
was always performed by her husband, according to the law
of Scotland.

Reexamined—She saw the same woman before the ma-
gistrate on this charge being inquired into.
Thomas Little, the man who performed the ceremony, was
called, and corroborated his wife. On being asked to state
what took place, he said, "they had a manner of their own
they worked with." There was not much whisky; there
might be a noggin or a pint. They might have a glass
before the.ceremony. He said he had repeated all that had
passed, and he'd repeated nae main They said they were
quite content and happy to be man and wife. They did not
agree and they parted. He could not keep them together.
He could marry them, but he could nae gar them live to-
gether. He said to them " You are man and wife for ever,
before the witnesses here."

Mary Sparks, the sistermb f Ann, said the prisoner and her
sister left her father's to be married, and returned the day
following, when the prisoner said they were married, and
that they lived together six months as man and wife, and
then left that part. Some time after her sister returned
(having been recently confined) without the prisoner, whom
she saw no more till in custody. He said they had been
married by Little of Gretna.
Jane Jackson, a poor servant girl, twenty-two years of age
of Carden-mill, said she was married to the prisoner at Sark
toll-bar, in Scotland, by John Murray. He asked if they
were two single persons. They each said they were. He
told them to take hold of hands, and they did so. (Nothing
more could be got out of this witness as to the ceremony.)
They had gone from her sister's at Carlisle to get married,
and returned there. They lived together six months as man
and wife. She had nothing but her half-year's wages when
they were married. The prisoner left her at the Whitsun-
tide hiring. He told her he was going to hire. She also
is now hired. He swore on his oath both to her and her
mother that she was married to him—that he never was
married to womankind. She did not wish to punish him,
but just to be clear of him. She was quite willing to part
from him.

John Murray, of Sark toll-bar, said the prisoner and a
woman came to be married on the Bth November, 1845. He
gave his name William Thornburn, and the woman that of
Jane Jackson. His brother and two other men were pre-
sent. They said they wished to get married, and witness
answered they could if all was right. He then entered their
names, &c., in a book, and told them to stand up, and then
asked them if they were single persons. They said they
were. Witness bid them join bands, and he asked the man
"if he took that women to live together for better and for
worse, so long as they were spared, before God and those wit-
nesses." He said he did. Witness then asked the woman
the same, and she answered " Yes." Prisoner then put the
ring on her finger, and witness said, "they had declared them-
selves before God and those witnesses man and wife ;" and
they said " they had." Then they and the witnesses signed
the register-book. Prisoner said he could not write, and he
made his mark.

Cross-examined—Witness is a mason by trade. He per-
forms a great number of marriages. At Whitsuntide (when
this took place) he did not know how many; something less
than half-a-hundred in a day.
Mary Jackson examined—She and her husband, and the
prisoner and Jane, were married at the same time; they went
together for that purpose.
Wm. Carruthers examined—He is a writer in Scotland,
which corresponds to an attorney in England. The ceremony
described by the witnesses, he said, constituted a valid legal
marriage in Scotland.

Cross-exatnined—The parties ought to be in proper posses-
sion of their faculties.

His Lordship summed up, and the jury immediately re-
,urned a verdict of Guilty.
Sentence deferred.

William Webb, aged 46, was indicted for burglary, com-
mitted at Carlisle on the 28th July last, in the house of
Christ. Bulman, the Grey Goat Inn, by breaking a door, he
being then in the house, having been before convicted of
felony.

Bulman, the prosecutor, said the prisoner came to
his house on Saturday, the 25th of July, and asked for ac-
commodation, which was granted. He stayed till Monday
night. On that night he went to bed at ten o'clock, and
witness and his family went to bed at eleven. A little after
two o'clock his wife awoke him. He listened- nod_ Itear(La
went two or three steps down stairs, ana men Jaw a
light in the passage. He had made a creaking noise in
moving, and the light was, put out immediately. Witness
asked who was there, but received no answer. He then

asked his wife for a light and she brought one, and he went
down stairs and saw the prisoner sanding in the passage,
near the bar-door. Witnet,s asked him what he did there?

He said he wanted a convenience. Witness asked him why
he did not answer when be called out? The prisoner an-
swered that he could not. Witness then asked why he put
out the light, but he made no answer. Witness told him

something was not right, and he went down stairs, and
looking where the prisoner bad been standing, he found two
screwdrivers, some skeleton keys, a piece of wax candle,
some lucifer matches, and a bag containing other skeleton
keys. He called in the police, and then searched all over
the house to see if any stranger was about the house, but
they found no one. The bar-door was open. On turning
over a mat there they found more matches, and there were
marks on the money-drawer in the bar, which showed an
attempt had been made to force it open. Before it there
were drops of wax as from a candle, and also outside the
bar-door.

The policeman said he searched the prisoner at the sta-

flow house on the 28th. He laid 1/. 14s. in silver on the
desk, and said he had no more. Witness, however, found
1321. in notes, and seven sovereigns in a purse, between
the skin and his drawers, tied under his knee behind. There
were three 201. and three 101, and the rest smaller notes.

Mr. Justice WIGHTMAN told the jury they must be satis-
fied that the prisoner broke and entered the bar with intent
to take the money from the till before they could find him
guilty. He then went carefully through the evidence, and
the jury retired. In a short time they returned with a ver-
diet of Guilty.—Sentence deferred.

NORTH WALES ClRCUlT.—Chester, Aug. 6.
CROWN COURT.—(Before Baron Rot.Fx.)
Mary Pialett, 27, and Joseph Pim!)lett, 31, were indicted
for the murder of their male child, Richard Pimblett, by
poison, at Runcorn. The former was indicted as the prin-
cipal, and the latter as accessory before the fact.
There was another charge of murder against the prisoners
for destroying a second child, and an indictment against the
female for attempting to poison a third child.
Mr. Trafford and Mr. Townsend appeared for the prose-
cution, and Mr. Temple and Mr. Yardley for the defence.
Witnesses were then called.
Ellen Chamberlain—l live in Runcorn, next door to the
prisoners. They came to live there seven or eight mouths,
ago, and I used to go and visit them occasionally. When they
came to Runcorn they had three children, Richard, Thomas,
and James. On Sunday, the 15th of March, I went into
their house, and saw Richard, a little after eight in the
morning. He was the eldest, and about 4% years old. Did
not see anything particular in his appearance. About five
o'cleck in the afternoon I saw him again. He was then very
poorly, and I advised her to take him to Dr. Pye, the sur-
geon. She said she would do so. She went to Mr. Pye's,
and I saw the child again the same night. He was then very
ill and vomiting. The vomit was very frothy. I saw the
child again on Monday lying on the sofa very ill. He was
a little better on the Tuesday and Wednesday. On the Thurs-
day I saw him again, he was then very ill, and complaining
of thirst, and the mother gave him water or tea to drink.
This was in the morning. About five in the afternoon I went
into the prisoners' house again. The child was then lying on
its mother's knee, and appeared to be dying. I took it on my
knee and held it there the best part of an hour, when it
died. When the child died I• gave the body to Mary
Rowlands to lay it out, and saw it several times before it
was buried. About a month after I went to the coroner's
inquest at Runcorn, when I saw the body of Richard Pim-
blett. About a month before Richard's death, Mrs. Pim-
blett said to me, " If I were you, I'd put my children into a
burial club." I said they would not have my little girl, as
she was a cripple. She said they would, as she was well in
health. She then explained to me the rates of payment in
the club, and that there were halfpenny and penny mem-
bers ; that Richard was a penny member, and the other two
halfpenny members ; that the penny members did not go in
till they were four years of age; and that if Richard died
when he had been in the club a certain time she would have
5/. When this conversation occurred the three children
were all alive. James died on the 6th of March, and Richard
on the 19th. The prisoners kept a cat. I think they had
it directly after I began to go into the house; they must
have had it before Christmas. I have heard Alary Pimblett
complain of mice, but never of rats; that was just before
they got the cat.
John Ward—l am the sexton of Runcorn Church. Re-
member James:Pimblett, a son of the prisoners, being buried
on the 10th of March. The child Richard was buried a few
days after in the same grave. Before I made the grave the
male prisoner came to me and instructed me to take up the
coffin of James, and sink it a foot deeper, so that there might
be more room for the other coffin. James was to be placed
at the top ; but I did not do so. Remember the coffin of
Richard being disinterred. I took it into the hearse-house,
and showed the body to Dr. Pye, by whom and another gen-
tleman an examination was made. The body was kept in
the hearse-house for a day or two, when, by the direction of
the coroner, it was buried again.
Edward Pye I am a surgeon at Runcorn. On
a post mortem examination, I removed portions of the
msophagus and lungs, the heart, and all the viscera, except
the bladder, and also one of the muscles lying against
the spine. I placed them in a new cow's bladder, and took
them home, and on the following morning again examined
them. I began with the stomach, on which there was a
yellowish cloudy deposit in patches, on the inner surface ;
and on the dependent parts of the stomach still larger patches.
There was a whitish powder embedded in the coats of the
stomach, which I could scarcely scrape away, without taking
a portion of the membrane. Before examining the stomach
as I have described, I placed the contents in a glass jar. I
then examined the larger and smaller intestines, where
found the same yellowish deposit in patches as before. These
patches were indicative of the presence of a mineral poison.
George P. Mather—l am collector for the Liverpool Vic-
toria Legal Burial Society. The deceased Richard Pimblet;
was a member of that society. ll e died on the 19th March.
He beeame a full member on the expiration of sixteen weeks,
when in case of death he was entitled to 51. He had been
a member upwards of twenty-three weeks. I received a cer-
tificate of the boy's-death from the female prisoner throgb

my daughter, and paid her 47. 18s. 6d. on the 23d of March.
He had been entered in the club by his mother. On the 9th
of March I had paid her 1/. 4s. for another child.
Cross-examined—If the child in respect of whom the
I?. 4s. was paid bad lived another month, the parents would
have been entitled to 2/. 10s.
Thomas Hornby—l am steward of the Weaverham Sick
Club. The prisoner Joseph was a member. We pay 32. per
quarter; and the parent is entitled to the expenses of the
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Mr. TEMPLE then rose to address the jury for the
pri-
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soners, and, after a powerful opening, proceeded to examine
the evidence that had been detailed. He commenced by
adverting to the respectability of: the prisoners' circum-
stances as furnishing the first reason why they should not
commit such an offence as that; to the fact of arsenic being
purchased, if it were purchased aits all, without the slightest
concealment; to the real name and address of the male pri-
soner being given, and witnesses in each case present; to the
circumstances of the female prisoner having taken the child to
the surgeoa on the first appearance of illness, and having
drawn his attention to those very symptoms which it was
alleged on behalf of the prosecution were indicative of the
administration of poison ; to the testimony that these
symptoms had been increased after the child had taken the
medicine recommended by the surgeon, and which appeared,
in consequence of some peculiarity of constitution, to have
operated the very reverse of that for which it was intended ;
to the fact of their neighbours having been sent for on the
day of the child's death, and only in consequence of their
remonstrances was the male prisoner induced not to send for
the surgeon again immediately before its decease; to the fact
that 51., the sum obtained from the burial society, would be
barely sufficient to cover the expenses of interment, while in-
cidental evidence had been given of the death of another
child, where the sum of 11. ss. was all the money That could
be obtained from the club; to the uncertainty that must al-
ways arise is cases like this, where the case in a great mea-
sure must depend upon the deductions of scientific analysis;
and to the probability (taking all the circumstances o' the
case into account) that the poison, if it really had been
taken, was taken by the child, who was nearly five years of
age, by a mistake of its own. These points the Learned
Counsel illustrated with great force.
Several witnesses were called, who gave the prisoners
good characters for kindness and humanity.
The JUDGE summed up with much ability.
The jury retired for a short time, and on their return found
a verdict of Not Guilty for both prisoners.
The other charge of murder was then abandoned, and the
third charge was proceeded with. It occupied the Court
until ten o'clock in the evening, terminated in a verdict of
Not Guilty, and completed the business of the circuit,