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right hon. gentleman (Mr. Baines), withdrew his motion
against the second reading of the bill, but gave notice of
tile amendment for altering the date in committee.
The bi!l IVai the❑ read a third time, and ordered to be
committed to-morrow.

TUE. RAVIIV AT ALDERSHOT

HOSPITALS (DUBLIN) BILL.
the motion fur the house going into committee on

this bill,
Mr. COWAN moved its commitment that day three
months. Me disputed the wisdom and propriety
of the measure, and accused the present and the former
Government of want of honesty in dealing with the sub-
ject. He saw no reason why Dublin should receive a
share of public assistance by grants from Parliament
and Edinburgh be deprived of it. Attempts, he be-
lieved, were made some time since to put an end to these
grants in a few years, but in consequence of the interfer-
ence of the hon. and learned member for Dublin, these at-
tempts were frustrated. The scope and tendency of the
Dill, it not its intention, was to place these hospitals per-
manently on the annual grants of Parliament or on the
consolidated fund. He objected to the principle of par-
(iality here attempted, and claimed on principle the same
prtvilege for all the hospitals in the United Kingdom.
He moved the commitment of the bill this day three
months.
Mr. HORSMAN said that the house was not called
on to decide whether grants should be given to the hos-
pitals of Dublin or whether the grants were proper or
not. Both had been decided by a committee, and the
house was called on to carry out the recommendations of
I a commission issued last year for the better government of
these hospitals. The grants were not permanent, but
only for se long as parliament chose to continue them.
It was competent for any hon. gentleman to move, next
session, the withdrawal of these grants.
Mr. WILLIAMS opposed the bill.
Col. FRENCH supported the house going into com-
mittee on the bill.
After some further discussion, in which Mr. Mitchell,
Mr. Hadfield, Mr. Napier, Mr. Craufurd, Mr. Vance,
Mr. A. Ha;tie, and Mr. Wilson took part,
The house divided, when the numbers were,
For going into committee
Against it 22
Majority —3l
The house then cent into committee on the bill.
Clauses 1 to 8, after some amendments, were agreed

to.
Oa clause 9, which provides for the superannuation of
the medical officers, a long discussion ensued. The clause
was objected to on three grounds. First, that there was
no period of service named before superannuation should
he granted ; secondly, that two-thirds of the salary was
too much, and thirdly, that granting superannuations to
medical officers would impoverish the funds of the hos-
pitals and would impair their usefulness.
Mr. HORSMAN supported the principle of super-
annuation, and to prevent a division suggested the addi-
tion of a proviso to the clause to the effect that the
amount of superannuation should be in accordance with
the prov'.sions of the Superannuation Act.
The committee however divided. The numbers wen—
For the clause
Against it 29
Majority for the clause —l4
The clause was then agreed to.
In reply to a question from Sir H. WILLOUGHBY,
Mr. HORSMAN said he would introduce the proviso
he had suggested on bringing up the report.
Clauses 10 to 13 were agreed to, after some amend-
ments.
On clause 14, authorising the appointment of a secre-
tary to the board of superintendence,
Mr. HORSMAN moved the salary should be 3001.
per annum.
Some discussion took place, Mr. Grogan, Mr. Vance,
Mr. A. Pellatt, and Mr. S. Fitzgerald protesting against
so large a sum being taken from the funds of the Hospi-
tal for the payment of an officer having nominal duties
to perform.
After some further discussion, in the course of which
Mr. Hildyard, Mr. W. Williams, the Attorney-General
for Ireland, and Mr. Barrow took part,
Mr. S. FITZGERALD moved that the salary should
be 1501. per annum.
The committee divided when the numbers were
For the original motion
Against it 5l
Majority
Mr. S. FITZGERALD then moved that the salary
should he 1501.
Mr. HORSMAN hoped the hon. and learned mem-
.ber would not press his motion. It would be impossible
to get a qualified medical man for that sum.
Mr. S. FITZGERALD said it was not necessary the
secretary should be a medical man.
After a short discussion, the insertion of the words
" one hundred and fifty" were agreed to without a

they were not; our legislators escapta. pi ~ _
Lerd Palmerston the grave suspicion which must have
attached to his motives bad he invited any members to
assist at an aquatic spectacle similar to that of last Tues-
day week. Nevertheless the sandy, windy weather was
a subject of annoyance to all, and of misgivings to many
whose faith in the infallibility of the Royal barometer
has latterly been much shaken.
Soon after one, visitors, tired of gazing upon black
huts and dreary wastes, had their attention arrested by
the unusual sght of a guard.of honour of the 7th flue-
ears escorting a train of "busses" to the camp. These
unpretending vehicles, however, contained no less a
freight than the members of our legislative assemblies,
or at least those who thought the spectacle would repay
the risk of again accepting a Government invitation. At
the head of the slow-moving cavalcade rode Lord Pal-
merston. At a faster speed came General Williams,
whose horsemanship, however, did not. seem much un-
proved since Monday last, when he so nearly capsized
the Duke of Cambridge at Woolwich. All the members
alighted in the south camp, near the handsome Army
Club House, and the first inquiry of most was when was
the luncheon to be, for a -wholesome dread of the army
commissariat seemed general. But the name of Staples
dissipated all fears, even though relating to food in a
camp. Satisfied on this important point the members
dispersed in what might be called skirmishing order to
view the camp and all the remarkably ugly objects about
it, such as head-quarters, the church, &c., which might
be worth a visit. Of all the members of both houses only
140 accepted the invitation. Among them we noticed
the Duke of Leeds, the Duke of Newcastle, the Duke of
Buccleuch, Lord Pam:nitre, Sir G. Grey, Lord Ravens-
worth, Lord Campbell, the Earl of Dalkeith, the Earl of
Pomfret, Viscount Ranelagh, S r W. Fraser, Sir Joseph
Paxton, Lord Duncan, Mr. Sergeant Manning, Mr. Ser-
geant Shee, Viscount Sidney, Mr. G. Vernon, Hen. W.
Cowper, Mr. F. Peel, Sir D. Norreys, Mr. Baldock, Mr.
Bass, Lorl Dynevor, the Earl of Powis, Lord Dungat-
van, Lord Overstone, the Earl of Longford, &c.
Shortly after the arrival of the members her Majesty,
accompanied by the Prince and Princess of Prussia, and
his Royal Highness Prince Albert, arrived at camp, and
were received with a Royal salute. In the carriage fol..
lowine her Majesty's were the Prince of Wales., Priuce
Alfred, the Princess Royal, and the Princess Alice. Tee
' Royal suite consisted of the-Countess of Desert, Baron
d'Alvensleben, Major-Gen. the Hon. C. Grey, Lord A.
Paget, Col. F. H. Seymour, Lieut.-Col. de Boyen, &c.
The whole cortege immediately proceeded to the Pavi-
lion, escorted by a party of the 15th Hussars.
While the troops were getting under areas the mem-
bers returned to their lunch. Instead of, as all bad an-
ticipated, the splendid room of the Club-house being de-
voted to this purpose, the lunch was laid in the hospital
tent of the Scots Greys, hastily and rudely thrown over
a framework of timber, after the shape of a tent d'abri.
Tnan this arrangement nothing c arid have been worse
contrived. The canvas was so badly joined that it kept
out but little of the line sand driven against it, and none
of the wind, which blew with sufficient strength to
threaten to send the whole structure across the lunch.
Tue lunch was, however,, on a most liberal scale, and
must, we presume, have compensated for Vie annoyance
inseparable from all kinds of rural feasts in this country,
from a pit-nit to a day at camp. Before it was over all
the troops defiled in sections of four, and went by va
rious routes from their cantonments to the " Long Val-
ley," nearly two miles from the camp. Their appearance
wending across the moor we have no doubt was
picturesque, but the never to be sufficiently anathe-
matised sand did not permit it to be seen with com-
fort or even safety to the eyes. Long before the regiments
had reached the rendezvous their features were almost
concealed by a strata of such flying particles,
so that each man seemed as if he had been quartered in
a chimney, and in fact as Sheridan once said, " their
oldest creditors would not have known them."
All the troops who had been addressed by her Majesty
on the last occasion, with those who had not served in
the East, formed on a gentle hill to the west of the val-
ley. Here therefore were the German Jagers, two regi-
- mente of German Cavalry, the men of the Foreign Legion,
the 3 battalions of Guards (who have replaced the Cri
mean Guards), a battalion of the Rifle Brigade, some
troops of the .15th Hussars, the let Royals, 7th and 19th
1
Regiments, and two batteries of field artillery, all drawn
up in contiguous columns, so that ilaese masses com-
pletely c rvered the summit of the acclivity.
The Crimea!' troops drew up in 3 d ruble lines across
the valley, facing to the south. The first line was cavalry
just returned, at7d the majority of whom, therefore, were
eismounted, as no chargers were brought from the East.
There was a troop of the 11th Hussars, two troops of the
Scots Greys, the sth Dragoon Guards, 6th Inniskillings,
awl some of the let Royals.
The second line was composed of a strong detachment
of Sappers and Miners (the engineers of the siege works),
the 34th 41st, and 49th Regiments. The third line was
the 24 'Battalion of the Retie Brigade, and the 931
Highlanders.
The most jealoue care was eeercised by the military
authorities lest any of the many ladies and gentlemen
who had acme from London should approach within
nearly a mile of where the troops were formed. This
mcst unusual rule was carried into effect with a rigour
and harshness to which English gentlemen and ladies
have long been strangers, and which, as a matter of
course, led to loud complaints and unavailing protests.
Even the Home Secretary, under conduct of a Crimean
officer, was hindered passing by the sentries for a Consi-
derable time. The troops remained dra .0 up for about
half an hour, during which interval the Germans con
trived to distinguish themselves by a clamour like a par-
cel of rooks, and in giving their never-ending orders and
counter-orders made more noise than the whole British
service put together.
Her Majesty came upon the ground at 20 minutes past
four, arid was received with a r )i al salute and the usual
lannoure by the troops on the hill.
The ladies of the royal party rode in two open pony
carriages. Prince Albert, the Prince of Prussia, and the
Duke of Cambridge, in uniform, rode near her Majesty,
A brilliant staff followed, among whom were Lord Hoke-
by, Major-Geo. Rose, Sir R. Airey, Gen. Grey, Col.
the Hon. J. Macdonald, C.d. the Hon. Hood, Col.
Douglas, Col. Wetherall, &'.
The whole party rode slowly along the length of the
three lines, inspecting eacb closely. The carriages then
took up their position beneath the hill, while the Cri-
mea! troops, forming in columns of companies and tak-
ing ground to the left, marched past her Majesty. First
came the Cavalry, and then the S -ppers and other regi-
ments, in the crier in which they had stood in line. The
93d Highlanders seem to have fallen off much in march-
ing discipline. Their order in passing the Queen yester-
day was certainly not better than any regiment on the
ground, and was inferior to both the Rifles and the 49th.
As the troops passed they wheeled to the left, and mak-
ing a considerati'm detour drew up in double lines at
right angles with their fCirmer position and fazing to the
west.
A slight pause then took place, during which her Ma-
jesty sent for General Rose, who acted during the late
war as her commissioner with the French army, and
honoured him with a long and apparently most cordial
eenversation. Prince Albert also conversed with the
gallant general for some time. General Knollys, who
is very short-sighted, here caused some amusement by
riding up, hat in hand, attended by his orderlies, to the
Royal carriage containing the members of the suite, in•
stead of that in which her Majesty was seated. When
be had rectified his mistake, at which her Majesty could
not suppress a smile, the whole double line of troops,
with a front of more than half a mile, advanced close to
the Royal carriage. T. Queen and the Court then left
their horses and carriages and walked along the front of
the troops. Her Majesty leaned on the arm of Prince
After, and said some kind word to eac of the officers and
many of the men she passed. The members of the two
houses followed her Majesty at a slight distance. While
this went forward the German regiments again signalised
themselves by unusual cries, so much so that General
Knollys was obliged to send positive orders that they
must make less noise.
Her Majesty's inspection occupied a considerable time,
for with her usual graceful condescension she had a kind
word, a bow, or smile to give most of the men oh the
ground. The interest of the scene was, however, con-
sid,,ra,Ay dim'nished by the interposition of some zealous
camp official, who surrounded the immediate members

o player.
Lords, Commons, and -Queen were alike taken care of ;
nor were the general public—after all, the moat impor-
tant patrons and constant customers of the railway—in
any way inconvenienced.

MONMIEVT IN 1101VOUR OF THE
EMPEROR .NAPOLEON

The following are the terms of the proposition
presented to the Senate by Baron C. Dupin and
fifteen other members of th© body for the erection
of a monument in honour of the Emperor Napoleon

111. and the army :
" There are certain grand circumstances in which the
national feeling bursts forth, and when it becomes ne-
cessary to give a constitutional expression to it. To the
Senate belongs the right of bringing forward proposi-
tions on matters of great public interest. If in the eyes
of France, now more chivalrous and generous than
ever, there is a public interest of the first order, it is that
of her glory ; is is the expression of national gratitude
for the victories which raise her so high among nations,
and honour her among the human race. It has ap-
peared to us desirable that, in the form of the pro-
positions authorised by the Constitution, the wish of the
Senate should be expressed for the erection of a national
monument to be ratified by a law. Tais monument
would at the same time express the admiration and the
gratitude of the Senate and of the country for the glo-
rious events which have just been terminated by a peace
not less immortal than the victories of which it is the
closing triumph. France had pledged her.,elf on her
sword not to melee any conquest for herself ; all she
undertook was for the freedom of the seas and t .) extend
the rights of humanity. After the campaign of Auster-
litz, which was also followed by a peace which raised
to the highest point the grandeur of the Empire, it was
resolved to erect a column in imitation of those which in
the Eternal City immortalised the remembrance of the
victorious and pacificating Antonines ; it is this monu-
ment which stands in the Place Vendome. between the Rue
de Rivoli and the Rue de la Paix. Ought not a monu•
ment of the same kind to be now erected, in the name
of France, in memory of the victories of the new grand
army and of the genius of the new Napoleon.? Such
would he our second Trajan's Column. For this monu-
ment of, at the same time triumph and pacification, an
admirable sight would do honour to the wish of the
Senate and to the gallant deeds of our army. By one
of those wonderful creations which give to Paris
regularity, grandeur, and light where previously
everything was obscure and unhealthy. the Boulevard
de Sebastopol from the Strasburg Railway t ti e
Barriere d'Enter—that monumental road reaches its
culminating point between the church of Sainte
Genevieve and the palace of the Senate. At that
spot it crosses the new Via Sacra, which leads from
the temple of the laws to the temple of Ged—to Ste
Genevieve, which for Paris signifies the northern con-
querors retreating eastwards. At the point where the
two monumental roads of war and of peace meet might
be raised with perfect propriety the triumphal column,
the erection of which it is our wish to realise. It would
command the left bank of the Seine as the. Arc de Tri-
omphe de l'Etoile commands the left bank. The tre
yeller arriving would, from a distance, perceive at the
same time the two monuments which would call to mind
the grandeur and the glory of two generations and of
two empires. On the pedestal of the most modern
should we not see with pleasure figure on the north
side, which looks towards the right bank of the Seine,
the advanced guard of the army of the East, on its
return from Sebastopol, filing off on that bank be-
fore the E nperor eanirlst the acclamations of a whole
people ? Oa the side which looks towards Sainte
Genevieve and Italy would it not be pleasing to see
figure the French army at the foot of the Capitol, doing
honour to its standards by saluting his Holiness Pius
IX., replaced in the chair of St. Peter by the victory of
France ? On the south it would be wished to see repre-
sented the glorious contingent of the Army f Africa—
of that army departing for the East, where four of its
generals went to achieve by twenty months of combats
and four great victories a right to the baton of marshal
obtained by Crrid4 and Turenne in the 17th century,
and by "deseena, and Sault in the 19th. On the side
towards the Senate a very simple inscription, which
is be-t suited t r grand things, might only contain the:se
wards :—A. Napel6en 111 , ft la nouvelle grande armer,
vmu du Senat et de la France, Mai, 1856.' Lastly, on
the bpiral coating which would cover the column, sculp-
ture, with its bassi relievi, would reproduce the nu-
rnerens and varied exploits of the French in the Ea-t,
the North, and the South—in Asia, in Europe, and in
Africa. Three seas triumphantly occupied, landings
effected, wonderful for their order and grandeur; as-
saults of a:my against array ; the French Eagles plant-
ed on the walls of Sebastopol, Bomarsund, Kertch,
arid Kinbcurn ; guns from our vessels landed, and served
by our sailors ; other guns on board demeliehine
the granite fortresses from the seas of Finland and
of Bothnia to the mouths of -B nlsthenee ; as a
prelude to these great feats, the Sahara c.m-
quered in the depth of its desert', and the two Kahylias
opened to civilisation by victory—those are subject-,
worthy of inspiring the genius of our most illustrious
artists. The statue of the Emperor would naturally
have its place on the top of the column."
This proposition being referred to a committee of
the Senate was most favourably received, an:l after
full deliberation the Senate decided to send in the
following report to the Emperor on the subject :
" Sire,—An admirable series of campaigns and of
military triumphs has been completed by the vic-
tory of treaties so disinterested on your pet, so
favourable to the balance of power of nations, to
the security and to the freedom of the sea', and to the
interests of the human race. The glorious and revered
position which France has thus acquired under the
steel ises and by the Government of your Majesty-inspires
the Senate, as it. does all good citizens, with the desire
of preserving the remembrance of it by a monumental
column. The promoters of the project have described
in the text of their proposition the triumphal column
which they wish to have erected, and also its site at
the summit of the row], also triumph thehich is being
opened by your orders to gorify feats of SA•
bastopol. The report of the committee charged to
examine this proposition has shown, by the glorious
souvenirs of the first Empire, the powerful influence
of a monument of this kind on the country and on the
army. In calling to mind these preparatory labeure as
documents which may be usefully consulted, the Senate
has confined itself to expressing its wish in the most ge-
neral terms, thus leaving the mode and idea of exece•
tion to the exalted intelligence which transforms Paris
with magin rapidity by works in which beauty and uti-
lity dispute Vie palm and grandeur. In order to express
the universal gratitude of France, and to perpetuate the
remembrance of the victories of the army and that of the
peace achieved under the auspices and the tutelary genius
of his Majesty Napoleon 111., the Senate expresses a
wish that the erection of a monumental column shall be
ratified by a law."

division.
The clause as amended was then agreed to.
The remaining clauses of the bill were then agreed to,
and the house resumed.
BANKRUPTCY AND INSOLVENCY (IRELAND)
BILL.

The order for the house going into commtitee on this
bill was read and discharged.
The following bills were advanced a stage :—lncome
and Land Tax, Stamp Duties, Race-horse Duty, Alder
shot Camp, Drainage (Ireland), Grand Juries (Ireland),
and Sleeping Statutes.
The other orders on the paper having, been,disposed
of, the house suspended its sittings at 4 o clock.

The house resumed at 6 o'clock, and was
[LEFT SITTING .I

THE NEW coIIAIANDER-IN-CHIEF.

GENERAL ORDER.
HORSE GUARDS, July IG,

In obedience to the gracious order of her Majesty,
General his Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge aw•
sumes the command of the Army which loks been con•
fided to him by her Majesty's favour, on the resignation
of Field-Marshal Viscount Harlinge.

His Royal highness feels it noea.sy task to undertake
the responsibilities of so honorable and arduous a post,
as the successor of that distinguished General who has
found himself compelled to retire from it by the
state of his health, and who again was preceded by
that illustrious chief whose name will ever
continue to be the glory of the British
Army and the British Nation ; but he has the
strongest reliance on the support of the general officers
with whom he will be associated, and on the army at
large ; and in this relidacs he enters confidently on the
noble trust which now devolves upon him.

His Royal Highness has had the advantage, as a
general officer in command of a division, und;r
the orders of his lamented and gallant friend
the late Field-Marshal Lord Raglan, of becoming to
some extent personally acquainted with the heroic
deeds of the army in the recent arduous contest,
now so fortunately brought to a successful end. He
knows of what excrllent materials the troops are com-
posed, both as to officers and men. It will be
his anxious endeavour to maintain the army in the high
state of efficiency in which it has been left to him by his
distinguished predecessor, and be doubts not that the
army itself will be mainly instrumental is enabling him
to carry out this most anxious wish of his heart.
By Order of his Royal Highness, the General Gim-
manding-in-Chief.
G. A. WETHERALL, Adjutant-General.

ROYAL MEDICAL BENEVOLENT COLLEGE.—The muni-
ficent sum of' 100/. has just been forwarded to the trea-
surer by Otto Goldschmidt, Esq., at the same time ex-
pressing deep regret that Madame Otto Goldschmidt
(Jenny Lind) had not been able to sing for the benefit
of this noble institution.
LOYAL UNITED FRIENDS.--Oa Monday last the 34th
anniversary of this important social and provident body
was celebrated at the Highoury Barn Tavern, Islington,
when a considerable portion of the members dined in the
great hall. Mr. W. Benson presided as chairman, and
Mr. D. Watling acted as deputy, and were supported
by several leading men of the order. The cloth beimg
withdrawn, the usual loyal Vaasts were given and
the national anthem sung. " Prosperity to the Order"
was puposed from the chnir, and was received amid
much cheering, as was also "Success to the Gift Funds."
Other appropriate toasts we're subsequently given and
responded to with suitable mmarka. A bait terminated
the day's amusements. The 'stewards, under the skilful
management of Mr. William Shiers, paid every atten-
tion to the comfort of the .company assembled on the

occasion.
AWFUL CASE OF POISONING AT souTa SHIELDS.—
One of those unhappy occurrences which of late have
been of such frequent recurrence took place on Tuesday
morning at South Shields. It seems that a female, name i
Vann, bad gone to a glass house where she had been
in the habit of working, and under the pretence of
destroying some vermin, she had asked for and obtained
a little arsenic, a mineral which is freely used in thema-
nufacture of glass. She took the poison to her
house, and there mixing it with some food ' the
administered a portion of it to her two chi!,
dren, and afterwards took Ile remainder herself. The
children became sick shortly after the poison
was received by them, and to this circumstance their,
safety is probably to be ascribed. They are now reco-
vering, but the unhappy mother died yesterday morn-
ing (Wednesday) in the workhouse, whither she had
been conveyed by order of the police. A quarrel with her
husband is said to have been the origin of the rash at.
—Northern Daily Express, Neweastle.

BISHOPRIC OP GLOCFSTER AND BRISTOL.—A meeting
of the Dean and Chapter of Bristol Cathedral has been
convened for Friday next, for the purpose of proceeding
to the election of a Bishop of the See of Glocester and
Bristol. Of course the recommendation of her Majesty
will be adopted, and the Rev. Charles Baring will be
elected.

PATRIOTIC FUND.—Yesterday Mr. C. Kemp, one of
the secretaries of the Patriotic Fond of New South
Wales, had an interview with the executive committee
of the Patriotic Commission, for purpose of handing in a
draught for 25,0001., making, with previolis remittances,
a total contribution from the colony of New South Wales
of 65,000/.
BOMBAY, BARODA, AND CENTRAL INDIA. RAILWAY
COMPANY.—Au adjourned general m eating of the share-
holders in this company was to have held at the offices
of the company, Liverpool-street ; b at as the number
required by the deed of settlement we re. not present, the
meeting was dissolved without any bu sums being done.
Until now no one has taken as Ivansage, of the
amnesty granted by the Emperor S.lexander to his
Polish subjects.

THE SUN LONDON. TICURSDAY EVE 1. JULY 17, 1851.
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more their its general appearance. As at the latter place of the Court with a strong detachment of Hussars that
ingeniouele contrived to exclude many of the' prir---------cipitl
members.; of the houses present. -As by this aduairahie '
be obtained through irregular vistas of horses' legs, it THE LEEDS POISONENG CAS E.
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Alilershot partakes of the peculiarities of the desertin
arrangement glimpses of what was going on could only
one is perpetually tormented with the appearance of seamed to appear tedious to mane. The members talked The trial of William Dove, of Leeds, charged with the
water yet never comes to a well, so at the former one is of hurrying back, and looked as though they would have murder of his wife, was proceeded with this morning in
always in sight of an army yet never witnesses a review, said with Shakespere, "'Tie a fine piece of business ; the Crown Court at York Castle, before Mr. Baron
"It is enough to spoil the trade," as one fly-driver pa- would it were over." Many left the ground before tbe Bramwell.
thetically remarked to us yesterday, "if the public can't day's proceedings reereactually closed with a grand Royal The trial excited a great deal of interest, and before
see nothing when the House of Commons and all them salute by all the Crimean troops on the ground. The 8 o'clock the passages to the court were thronged with
swells is down there, how can the camp expect to draw Royal party returned to the Pavilion, and all the viei- persons anxious to obtain aluission. The galleries ap-
when the House of Commons nint there at all ?" To tors hurried off to the railway station, as soon as they 1 propriated to the grand jury and the acting justices were
reasons so general and conclusive we could offer no reply, ' could persuade fly-drivers to take them at rather more I filled with ladies and gentlemen, and the other portions
especially after our own experience of what was not to exorbitant charges than, even if weighed by the ounce, of the court were crowded to excess.
be seen at Aldershot. From these observations it may each individual might have gone by post. Mr. Baron Bramwell entered the court at 9 o'clock,
easily be premised that the show at camp yesterday was Thus the proceedings of the day terminated. We when a number of prisoners, convicted of burglary, horse
far below what every one anticipated. As much was should be wanting in our duty to the public if we failed stealing, forgery, poaching, and other offences, were
expected in the way of military eisplay, and very little to notice the many complaints which we heard from all sentenced to various terms of imprisonment.
done, the affair might almost be termed a failure ; espe quarters as to the distance at which the ladies and gen- The prisoner William Dove was then placed in the dock.
cially when we consider that it was a spectacle thought tlemen who had come from London, and some from parts He was described in the indictment as thirtyight years
worthy the notice of the Legislature, and to enable whom of the country still further from Aldershot, were corn- of age, and " well educated.' 'He pleaded not guilty in
to attend the business of a great nation was suspended, pelled to remain, during the whole time of the inspec- a firm voice, and declined to exercise his right of chats
However, we suppose the disappointment was only ful- tion. The line beyond which spectators, except a fa- 'engine the jury. He is rather slightly built, very sun-
filling the melancholy destiny of the Lords and Com- voured few, was at some parts of the ground more than
lbiidesr,ntw, and himpart
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hsipseaspnapoedaircanteweitachsiinngisotefr tahnedeeyne:
mons, who seem fated, when they attend in their official half a mile from where the nearest troops stood, so that
capacity, never to see anything worthy of their attend- without good glasses nothing whatever could be seen, favourable expression.
ante in any capacity at all. But we must own that we This exclusion excited a good deal of murmuring, espe- The counsel fa. the prosecution were Mr. Overend,
pity the Lords and Commons less now that the custom of cially as it was enforced with a harshness which mire re- Q.C., Mr- Hardy, and Mr. Bayley ; the prisoner was de-
airing their faculties at the expense of the public has sembled a system of petty annoyance than the execution fended by Mr. Bliss Q.C., Mr. Sergeant Wilkins, Mr.
come up, and that we may shortly expect to see them, of a general order. It was unfair to the general public, R. Hall, Recorder of Doncaster, and Mr. Middleton.
at least once a-week, en route to Hampton Court in open and of course was still more so to all tee representatives Mr. Overend, Q.C. in opening She case for the prose-
vans. It is the public with whom we must condole, the of the London press, in whose favour no exception was cution, observed that a more solemn, responsible, or lin-
public who go down to Aldershot at trouble and expense, made. . portant duty could not possibly devolve upon any jury
and who find no lunch or anything to put between their It should always be recollected that upon these occa- than that which they were now called on to perform. They
teeth but the showers of driving sand ; and who, in the along the rep -rrters are present to discharge what may Ise were asked to inquire whether there was any truth in the
midst of the inhospitable miseries of the camp, have no
truly called a public duty, and that those who witness a accusation preferred by the Crown against tire prisoner—
" civil contingencies" out of which to replace their die- spectacle are a mere unit when compared with the nuns- namely, that he had committed the crime of wilful mur-
bursements. There was a large muster of such deluded bers who entirely rely upon the daily journals to furnish der, and that the person aileged to have been murdered
spectators yesterday, who came down by all the early them with an account. It is therefore too bad when, in was his own wife. In a case of this description the jury
trains. Of course their desagremens commenced with the addition to their own professional difficulties, are super- would have to consider a variety of small details, all
efforts to get to camp. Frye were numerous enough, but added other annoyances of the most embarrassing kind. bearing upon each other, and all pointing to what was
all held out for high prices, and we know none who got We trust that on the next occasion a Royal review takes believed to be the cause of the death of the deceased.
across from Farnborough for less than 15e., and many place at Aldershet General Knollys will kindly permit The case had occupied a great deal of public attention,
much more. the authorised representatives of the London papers to and there were many rumours with respect to the evi
There was nothing doing at the camp during the early obtain more than a distant bird's-eye view of what is dente which it was intended to call fret e prosecution
part of the day except speculating upon the probable time passing. and that which the prisoner might possibly rely upon for
that would elapse before the rain came down. A keen The South-Western Railway Company being left to his defence •; but he implored the jury to dismiss all such
north-west wind blew across the black-looking heath; themselves on this occasion, without Government inter- consideratione from their minds, and to view the cese
clouds of sand met the visitor's eye in all directions, and ference, did their business like men of business. They solely through the lights of the evidence which would be
the miseries of a simoom were realised on a small but carried the troops and stores throughout the night, and laid before them. The offence with which the prisoner
painfully accurate scale, in every hollow to which one fled they safely conveyed the royal family in the day, as well was charged was one of the most cold-blooded mutters
for shelter. The sky was lowering and heavy—pluvial as the tNo Houses of Parliament, without let or bind- which it was possible to imagine ;but acconline to the
in appearance and in fact. The monotony of every hour ra,nce, or the slightest' pretext for complaint or grumb- enormity of the offence the jury were bound to be satis-
till past one in the day was varied by a drenching shower, flag. The admirable arrangements of this company—the fled with the evidence before they convicted the prisoner.
bringing vividly to mind the horrors of the last review. great care and judicious though unpretending supervi- The charge against the prisoner was that he had mur
Had they been repeated yesterday something little short sion of its officers, especially the secretary, Mr. Crombie, dared his wife by administering to her, on five or six
of a general election must have resulted. Fortunately and the manager, Mr. Scott, were never more admirably occasions, deadly doses of a vegetable poison called
Id this e3ril, and displayed Everything went steadily and smoothly. I strychnia. The natureof that poison wag, unhappily, well
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prescribed some sedatives for Mrs. Dave, and about four as 1 tit:Pieta he was only j eking. I hal known the pr;-
e'cl •ck Mr. 111orle, Lim-elf called, peel found her much ..soaer before. I resieiniier hie ctliino tutto my wife o
teeter, antieuhir s na-ie ,if the innom ar to 1, coings centi• play the *,1,i8 s:10 ;1;51 pkyeti (4,0, i sy as
titled. The presence of strychnine was saes ested to that bashed- I SAN- reliiarli":l6ll) kindness from the prisoner
gentleman, but, considering the respectability of the pri- to his wile,
soner's family, he banished the idea from his mind. Oa To Mr. serend—The pris finer black-leaded the stove
the evening of that day the prisoner went to his wite's because the servant had left. He also prepared Mrs.
mother, t-lling her that her daughter was seized with a D ore's meats, and brought them up stairs hitusel.
violent attack of illness, and that she had better come Ann Fisher examined—My ,laughter Elizabeth lived
and see her at once. 'Airs. Dove was again attacked with I as servant with the prisoner and his wife. She came home
the same symptoms (pains in the legs, tightness of the ill on the 19th of Feb. la-t. and on the Saturday following
jaws, and twitching of the feet and hands), and Mr. Mor- I went to the prisoner's to take her place. I arrived there
ley was again sent for The pris iner appeared mush about two o'clock. Mrs. Dove appeared pretty well, and
concerned, and expressed his conviction that his wife seemed in good spirits. She went to church on the follow-
would die. Mr. Morley reasoned with him, and toll him ing day, and on her retie n she dined with her husband.
there was no danger, but that if he feared she would die he She appeared to be quite well then. On the following
had better have additional advice, suggesting that Dr. morning she was bet-veen eight and nine o'clock. I
Hodson should be sent for. The prisoner said he was satin- prepared breakfast—c iffee, Oast, and bacon—and took it
fled with Dr. Morley, and ma le him write to that effect into the parlour. I re:noved the breakfast things in due
is the course of the following day. On the following time, and Mrs. Dove said she would help nee to make
day Mrs. Dove was again seized withthesame symptoms the beds. When we went up stairs she said she bad a
and the prisoner wrote to her mother, asking her to come curious feeling about her legs. We first made the bed in
up, as, if his wife died, her friends might say he had not which I slept, and we then went into her room, and
apprised them of her illness. On finding that the de- when we had taken the bedclothes off she appeared to be
ceased was again attacked, the prisoner went to a cler- much worse. I caught ker in my arms and laid her out
gyman and brought him to see her, alleging that she on the bed, and ran and called Mr. Dove, who fetched
might die suddenly in one of the spasms, and that ha Mr. Witham We undressed her, and then shebegan to
was desirous that she should have some spiritual assist- jump, to twitch, and to stirt. Mr. Dove went for Mr.
ance. Two ladies, friends of the deceased, carne to sea Scarfe, Mr. Morley's assistant, and be came and orderert
her the same day, and the prisoner repeated t-) them his her some medicine. Toe spasms continued about two
conviction that his wife would die, but added that be hours, or two aiid a half. She was lying on her right
would not have her body opened, as he had promised her side, and her breathing was rather thick. She was better
that it should not be done. He accompanied the ladies in the afternoon, and next morning was pretty well. On
to the railway station, when they begged him to return, the Wednesday she had another attack, and complained
as" Mrs. Dove might have another attack in his absence." of pains in her leg arid back. Her limbs were stiff
The prisoner replied, " Oh, there is no fear of that ; she and paralysed. I did net notice her hands and feet.
will not have another attack until half-past 10 o'clock Her breathing was rather better than when she was
at night." At 10 o'clock that night she took his medi- attacked before. She asked ins to give her the medi-
cine, and at half-past 10 she was seiz -d with the tine, which I did, and she appeared better. I cannot
same symptoms. Mrs. Witham, her neighbour, remember in what state she was on Thursday, but on the
cane in and remained with her, and the prisoner Friday night she had an attack, and I went up to het
talked to her aboutgraveyards, asking whether they still room, and found her in bed, with her body very much
buried a certain cemetery he mentioned. On the morn- arched.' She said, " Oh, dear me, I thought it was all
ing of March let the deceased appeared to be much bet- over with me." I said I thought so too. She was in
ter. Mr. Morley called in the course of the day, and great pain. The attack lasted two or three hours. In
said she might get up, and cat a mutton chop. See did the morning. she Was better. On the Saturday she bad
so, and Mrs. Witham came in and took tea with her, another attack ; her body was arched, her feet stood up.
leaving about 8 o'clock. Shortly afterwards the prisoner and she complained of great agony. Tnis was about 10
called at Mrs. Witharn'e, and asked her to come and sit o'clock at night. The er oiner was out then, but when
his wife, as he was going to Leeds. The prisoner he came horn. he wen- frfl t r the doctor.
was then rather worse for liquor, and appeared much Jane Whitham, Sarah Naylor, and Margaret Young
excited. Before he left the house Mrs. Dive asked him pr -veil the admiiiistrasien et medicine by Dove to his
to give her her medicine, and then he left the room, and wife, the superveriti .n spasm therenpon, "and the
returned with a glass containing something, which she death of Mrs. Dov . They ae) deposed to suspicions
drank off. The prisoner then washed out the glass, and stecements made by 13 eve. l'he court then adjourned,
observed, "I always wash out the glass—physic is such the jury being provided with accommodation at the
nasty stuff." He then left the house in a state of ex- Castle.
citement, and did not return for some time. Shortly
after he left Mrs. Dove was again taken ill. The symp-
toms were more- aggravated than usual. Dr. Morlsy
and Dr. Hodson were sent for by Mrs. Witham, but
at 11 o'clock she died in great agony, calling upon
the
persens round her to turn her or move her in the bed.
After she was dead the prisoner kissed the body, and
appeared overcome with grief and despair. He told Dr.
Hodson, who was present, that he would not snow the
body to be opened, as his wife had the greatest horror
of dissection. Half an hour after the death of the pri-
soner's wife he went to a pub ic-house, and told the pus-
ple that his wife was dead, and that the doctors had told
him she could not live. He afterwards called at the house
of a friend, who accompanied him home, and prevailed
upon him to go to bed. He was then very drunk. As soon
as Mr. Scarfe heard of the death of Mrs. Dove, he for the
first time mentioned to Mr. Morley the sale of strychnine,
and that gentleman calling to mind the symptoms which
the patient' ad exhibited, and which he had been unable
to account for before, at once suspected the administra-
tion of poison On the Sunday morning Dr. ftlorley
received a note from the prisoner stating that "it would
be very harrowing to his feelings that one he loved
should be cut open," but later in the day the same
gentleman received another letter, signed by the
prisoner and his mother jointly, consenting to a post
mortem examination of the body being made. A post
mortern examination was made, and an inquest ulti-
mately held. The contents of the stomach were sub-
mitted to a most careful analysis, and strychnine was
found in large quantities. Animals were poisoned with
the strychnine thus abstracted, and it would be proved
that a little dog which had licked up some of the blood
on the floor of the room where the Noss mortem exami-
nation bad been held, was shortly afterwards seized with
spasms and died. The body of the animal was opened,
and strychnine was found in the stomach. The learned
gentleman having detailed the conduct of the accused
during the inquest, concluded by calling upon the jury
by the oath they had taken to do justice between the
prisoner and the country.
Elizabeth Fisher was the first witness examined— I
went into the service ut Mr. D 'Ye in the June of last
year, when they lived at Normanton, arid I removed with
them to Leeds. They were very unhappy. Mrs. Dove's
health was very delicate when they removed to Lesds.
Tney continued to live very unhappily together. I re-
member one night at Normanton when the prisoner was
very violent, and broke the pianoforte. I said I would
ca'l assistance, and he said he would kill me if I did.
The prisoner took a knife arid sharpened it on a stone,
and said he would kill his wife, and Mrs. Dove ran away
and hid under the bed. We went to Leeds shortly be-
fore Christmas, and one day the bell was rung, and Mrs.
Dove said to me, " Look, he is drunk," and Mr. Dove
said, " Mind your own business, or I will do your job
for you." I was called into the sitting-room one Satur-
day soon after, and I found Mrs. Dove on the floor. and
the prisoner with a knife in his hand threatening to kill
her. On the same night he came down te the kitchen
and struck Mrs. Dove. She ran up to the garret and
fainted. Mr. Dove then got some brandy and tried to
bring her round. After this she asked him for some
money, and he said he would cot give her any, as
he would rather give it to any one than to her.
She asked him not to go out, and he told her to let
him alone, or he would " give her a pill which would
do for her." Mrs. Dove has told me several times in the
presence of the prisener that if she died I was to tell her
friends to have her body examined. The prisoner made
no remark. I first saw poison in the house on the let of
Febsuary. The prisoner brought a small parcel in his
hands with the word " poison" written upon it. He asked
me for a piece of meat, as he wanted to poison it, arid
cave it for the cats. He afterwards put some Of the poi-
son on a piece of cheese, and told me to put it on the
floor, which I did, and next morning found a dead mouse
in the room. I threw the mouse in the ash pit, and the
cheese and the sweepings of the room into the fire. A.
day or two afterwards a dead cat was found in the yard.
The prisoner said he kept the poison in his razor-case in
Mrs. Dove's bedroom. When I left the service of Mrs.
Dove she was ill in bed. I never heard the prisoner al-
lude to his wife's illness while we lived at Leeds.
Cross-examined by Mr. Bliss, Q.C.—Fr :in what you
saw of your master during the period between Juno and
February do you think he was always sane ?
Mr. Overend objected to the witness answering a
question as to the sanity or insanity of the prisoner.
Mr. Baron Bramwell said his opinion was decidedly
against the question being put ; but if the learned coun-
sel thought it was important (and as it was the first ques-
tion in cross-examinations he presumed it was), he would
go into the next court and consult his brother Willes.
Mr. Bliss said it was most important to his client that
the witness should answer the question.
Mr. Baron Bramwell then left the court to consult
Mr. Justice Willes, and, on his return, observed that his
learned brother agreed in thinking that the question was
inadmissible. The learned counsel might, however, put
this question, " Di i you notice anything in his conduct
to form an opinion of his state of mind ; and, if so, what
was it you noticed l"
The cross-examination of the witness was then pro-
ceeded with—l never thought anything about the pri-
soner's conduct. I might have said that when he woe
drunk he was not altogether as sane as when sober,
but I never meant to say that thought he was insane.
I meant he went on more when he was drunk. I always
obeyed the orders of Mr. and Mrs. Dave, except on one
occasion, when I refused to obey Mr. Dove. I never
reused Mr. Dove the key of the beer-tap. The prisoner
never daraed stockings or backed the stoves while I
lived with him. I have seen him do a little knitting,
which-he said he did to wile away the time while he
was sitting with Mrs. Dove. Mrs. Dove locked hint
out one night,
in and prisoner made a row. I assisted
in keeping him out, but Mrs. Weed, who was staying
in the house, interfered, and opened the door. I did
not hear the prisdber say he could not bear it, and would
sell up everything, and go away. I got notice to quit
the prisoner's service from an attorney, but Mrs. D ye
insisted on my remaining. Tire prisoner told me previ-
ously to the 10th of Feb. that he was going to get some
poison for the cats. He was then ab rut to go • o Mr.
Morley's surgery for Mts. Dove's medicine. When 14
came back be asks-d. me to get him a plate, and asked
for a piece et meat. Lib told me he ead got poison
enough to kill six people, and that he had put it in his
razor-case. Some fish bad been stolen cut of the pantry
by a cat. I had only seen two cats about the house—a
gray and white one and a yellow one. I have never
known my master to be " particularly kind" to my mis-
tress. I never saw them playing together like children.
I have seen bim take her up in his arms when she fainted.
I never PAW Mr. and Mrs. Dove caressing each other ;
but I once saw bim wheeling her in a wheelbarrow. I
know a man named Harrison, who is called " the
Wizard." I remember the prisoner once wrote a letter
to the Wizard, and on one occasion after he (master)
came frern Leeds, he said mistress was to end her days
in February. Dove said in his letter that Mrs Dove
was not a right woman, and that he (the Wizard) was
to torment her. When the prisoner was vexed and
had been abusing me and Mrs. Dove, he used to mut-
ter to himself. I never saw him cry, but I have seen
him on three or four occasions pretend to cry. Mrs.
Dove never told me that Mr. Dove was " very kind"
to her when be was sober. She has said, " Mr. Dove is
sometimes kind when he is sober." I never heard the
prisoner tell his wife that the poison in the razor case
was for the cats. Mrs. Doves medicine was kept on the
washing stand, on the mantel shelf, and on the table by
her bedside. I cannot say that Mrs. Dive saw the poison
which the grisoner put into the razor case.
Re-examined by Mr. Overend—The cheese on which
the prisoner put the poison was a piece which Mrs. Dove
had had. The mouse was found dead next morning.
When prisoner muttered to hine=elf it was grumbling.
Mrs. Thornhill examined—l am a charwoman, and
went to Mr. Dove's house to work the week before Mrs
Dove died. The prisoner told me that he had been to a
wise man, who had told him that his wee had not long
to live, and that as soon as she died he would make an
effer to the lady next door. He added, she had not many
days to live, and that the lady next door was a nice lady,
with only one child, but that he was not going to marry
her for what she had got, as he had a good home of his
own. I did not take ue ail food to Mrs. Dove. The
prisoner said he alive} s waited upon her linaself.
Cross-examined by Mr. Bliss—When the prisoner told
me he intended to marry the lady next door I laughed,

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art
to inform the jury that from a quarter to three-fourths
of a grain was enough to destroy human life, and that a
grain and a half was what was called " a full dose."
The peculiar operation of the poison was that it became
absorbed in the system, passed into the bicsed, circulated
in the brain, and especially affected the spinal ss ird and
marrow. The poison particularly affected the nerves of
sensation, but the organs of the brain remained healthy
as long as life lasted ; and it was a peculiarity of the
drug that it did not destroy consciousness. He would
prove that in the case of Mrs. Dove strychnine was un-
doubtedly found in the body, and that her death was ac-
companied by all ,the tetanic symptoms known to exist
in cases of death by this peculiar poison. The contents
of the stomach were submitted to five different tests, and
a large quantity of the poison was found in it. This poi-
son was afterwards introduced into the bodies of mice,
guinea-pies, and rabbits, which died with all the symp-
toms of tetanic death. Having thus referred to the
nature of the charge against the prisoner, he would
proceed to give an outline of the history of the
circumstances preceding the death of Mrs. Dove.
The prisoner was the son of a most respectable gentle-
man, named Christopher Dove, who had been a currier
carrying on business at Leeds, where he amassed a hand-
some independence. He died at Christmas, 1854, and
left the prisoner a legacy of 901. a-year. He was brought
up as a farmer, but at the period of his wife's death he
had no emplo'yreent, having been an unsuccessful candi-
date for the office of pay clerk to the board of guardians
at Leeds. Mrs. Dove, who was about his own age, was
the daughter of a Mr. Jenkins, a most respectable person,
who carried on the business of a leather merchant at
Leeds. Mrs. Dove's brother married the prisoner's sis-
ter, and thus the two families bectme doubly connected.
The prisoner first became acquainted with his wife in
the year 1851, at the house of a friend residing at Ap-
perby-bridge. He continued his addresses until they
were married in the following year. He then took
his wife to a small farm at Bramham, where they
remained until the beginning of 1855, when they
removed to Woodhouse-grove, near Nortnanton.
They after wards removed to Cardigan-place, a
mile and a half from the centre of the town
of Leeds. The prisoner, it would be shown, was of dis-
sipated habits, and his wife endeavoured to repress them.
This led to' much domestic unhappiness ; the prisoner
'having been often abusive, Brutal, arid violent to his
wife, whi et on other occadons, it was due to him to
-state, he treated her with great affection. It would be
shown by the evidence of Elizabeth Fisher, the servant
who lived with the family, that the prisoner was often
drunk—two or three times a week ; that he flung chairs
at the head of his wife, who on more than one occasion
was obliged to fly from the house to seek the protection
of a neighbour. These repeated quarrels at length in-
duced the mother of Mrs. Dove to interfere, and it was
agreed that they should separaoe, the prisoner allowing
his wife a stipend of 201. a year out of his income. Tnis
arrangement was net, however, carried into effect, and
unfortunately for Mrs. D we some friends induced her to
sitter her intention of leaving her husband on his solemnly
promising not to relapse into habits of intoxication. It
seemed, however, that this resolution was never realised,
for the prisoner shortly afterwards broke out into
his former habits, and on being remonstrated with by
his wife, he said to her, "Never you mind ; I will do
your lob one of these days." On another occasion he
threw her down, and brandished a carving knife over
her, using the expression, " You are a and
you were so before I married you ;" a slanderous accu-
sation, f"r which there was no possible ground. It
would also be prayed in evidence that in January in
the present year, when the prisoner obtained some
money from his father's executors, he got drunk, and
on his wife upbraiding him he was heard to say, " I
will give you a pill one day, that will settle you."
That Mrs, Dove apprehended foul treatment at the
hands of her husband was to be gathered from an
expression which she used to her servant to this effect,
" Elizabeth if I should die at any time you are near
me, it is my wish that you should tell my friends to
have my body examined." It was believed that the
chief motive which induced the prisoner to. undertake
the murder of his wife was his desire to marry a
very respectable lady named Witham, who lived next
door to him, and to whom he said on the night of the
day on which the inquest was held on his wife, " When
all this is settled, I hope you will allow me to come and
see you, in consequence of your kindness to Harriet."
tlrs. Witham would prove that thi ; observation was said
in a manner which led her to no other conclueion but
that the prisoner contempbated marriage with her at ne
distant period. Oa the 4th January he sent for a per-
eon named Harrison to a public-house, and read to him
an account in a newspaper of the coroner's inquest on
Cook, murdered by Wm. Palmer, at Rugeley, to the
effect that Dr. Taylor had not been'able to find strychnia
in the bads of Cook. The prisoner then said to Harrison,
" Can you make me or get me any strychnia ?" Harri-
son replied that he could not, and then the prisoner said,
" Never mind, I can get it elsewhere." Later in the
same month he went to the surgery of Mr. Morley, of
Leeds, and entered into conversation with the assistant,
referred to ntrychnia., and said that it was the only
poison which centd not be traced. He also said,
pointing to a bottle of strychnine, " That is the
stuff that Palmer killed Cock with." The assistant
told him that Mr. Morley hail traced strychnine in the
body of a woman, but the prisoner said he did not b 3.
liege it. In about five weeks afterwar Is he again called
at Mr. Morley's sorcery, and saw another assistant,
named Elletson. They had a conversation about Pal-
mer's; case, and the former then said that his house was
infested with rats, and that he wiahe I some poison to kill
them. Mr. Elletson then gave him ten grains of strych
nine, having previoesly wietten the word "Poison" oil
the paper in which it was enclosed. The prisoner took
the poison, and the servant saw him put something on
a piece of meat and expose it on a dog kennel in the
yard. He mentioned the fact of his having the poison
(enough, he said, for six people) to his servant and
to Mrs. Witham, the lady who lived next door. The
poison was perchaaed on the 10th of February, and in
a day or two afterwards he gave Elizabeth Fisher, the
servant, a piece of poisoned cheese, which she placed
nailer Mrs. Dove's bed.. On the following day a mouse
was found dead in the room, and then the servant
swept up the remains of the cheese and threw it and
the sweepings of the room into the fire and burned them.
A. dead cat was also found in the yard, and the priso-
ner accurately described the manner in which the cat had
died, saying, "It seizes them in the back and they die."
Some few days afterwards he again (far the third time)
went to the surgery of Mr. Morley, saying that he had
killed one cat—that the rain had washed the rest of the
poison away, and that he wanted sonic more. Mr. Ellet•
son gave him on that occasion four or five grains more,
and that quantity had not been accounted for except by
the supposition that it was given to the prisoner's wife.
The prisoner stated that he kopt the poison in his razor-
case, and that he had cautioned Mrs. Dove and the ser-
vant not to meddle with it. Ou the Wednesday before
Mrs. Dove'sdeath, which occurred on Saturday, i he groom
of Mr. Morley detected the prisoner in the surgery of that
gentleman alone, and apparently much confused at being
found there. He said he had come to light his pipe,
and then went away, but the groom would state that he
had been 20 minutes alone in the room—that the gas
was lighted to the full—so that he could have helped
himself to any of the contents of the bottles. It ehr ulii
be stated that Ars. Dove was an ailing woman, and that
the prisoner had often complained of the great expanse
to which she had put him fir doctors, but her ailments
were not of a dangerous character, and the symptoms
which would be described as preceding her deat'e were
admitted by medical witnesses to he ineensistent with
any knees n disease. On 25th July last Mrs. Dove was
first seizert with illness immediately after taking break
fast, which consisted of bread and butter, fried bacon,
and tea. The prisoner went for Mr, Morley, and told
his assistant that his wife had been ill all night, and that
he must come to see her at once. He at the same time
asked him whether if she died there would be a coro-
ner's inquest, and whether Mr. Morley would make e
post mortein examination. Mr. Scarfe, the assistant,
said that coroner's inquests were only held in case el
sudden death, or death by poison. Toe prisoner then
said that he would not allow his wife's body to he opened,
and that her friends would never allow it. Mr. Searle

EDINBURGH MEAL MARKET—JULY 15.
There were in the market to-day 16 sacks' oatmeal, each
weighing 280 lbs imperial, w ich sold at 50s. Od.

EDINBURGH HAY AND STRAW hIARKET-

JULY 15.
Supplies of all kinds these last six days largo.
Oat straw, from lls 01 to 12s Od per kemple of 16 stones
tron; wheat do., 10s Od to lls Od ; barley do.. 9s Od• to
Od. Hay from is to 15d.

DA.LKEITII ME,'LL NIARICET—JULY 11.
There were in the market to-day 26 bags of oatmeal and
2 bags barleymeal. Soles ready.
Oatmeal, per sack of 2801bs \ 'irst. Second. I Third.
imperial
Barleymeal, per ditto -s 6d —s Od .......4 04
Peasemeal, per ditto
Flour, per ditto l4oa—s a
00d ---8 s 00(k11 --
-1
od
Pot-barley, per ditto -15 Od s Od --s Od

DUBLIN, JULY 16.
We had a quiet market to-day, business being entirelf
confined to the wants of the momeet. No alteration ia
the currencies of Friday, except for Indian corn, whits
was lid to lower.
White wheat, 41s Od to 46s Od ' • red ditto, Ms to 445-6 d
barley, —s Od to —s Od ; oats, 14s 6d to 16s 6,1 • rapesee
—s Od to —s 0,1 per brl ; oatmeal, 16. s Od to:l7s 01; baker
flour, 23s Od to 26s Od per cwt ; Indian corn, 293 01 to 31-, 6
per 480 lbt.,

BRISTOL SUGAR—JuLY 16.
There has not been any large quantity of sugar offering
this week ; in British plantation the sales are only about
750 hhds., at is to is 6d per cwt. advance on last week'o
prices. Rums more inquired for, and all offering ha"
been taken by the trade at about former rates.

COAL MARKE
Prices of Coal per ton at
8. d.I

.T.—JULY 16.
the cites° of the market.
Wallaend,

Brown's Moor High 1 I. fl'•
Main . 16 0 . Wharncliffe ............ .
.. 1 7 6
Byass's West Hartley .. 17 6 Eden Niain
............... 18 0
I:lasting's Hartley l7 6 Belmont .................... 3.8
Holywell l7 0 Brad 411 ................... 8 6
Stanley Main l6 6, Lam'bton .....................6
Ta,itiet,i Moor Butes 14 3 Pent ;her . .
.
Victoria Hartley l6 3 south Hettou .............. 19 ~"
Grey's West Hartley
Wylam —l6 9 liartlepool ............... 19 u
17 0 ',built, Hall .....•18
Wallsend, Ike. South' Hart1ep001,....... 8 0
6
Hilda 17 0 Lees
11
Peareth (unsereened) _l5 6'
Ships at market...

I Sold

RAILWAY TRAFFIC RET URNS.

LONDON AND SOUTH-B M4TERt/ RAILWAY.—Trafile re:
turn for the week ending .I my 12, 1856 £4,903 11 7
Corresponding week last y ear
_----...1.'•
Increase in 1856
LONDON, BRIGHTON, iiND SOUTH COAST RAILWAY''
Traffic return for the wet ;lc ending July 12,
£l6, .l, ~ 2 4
1856 514
Corresponding week last y ear 15,342 19 l';,
Total of the half-year to tins date, 1856 33,612 1
Total of the half-year to this date,lßss
GREAT NORTHERN RAlLWAY.—Traffie return for th!
week eliding July 6, 185 3 £20,295 16 19
Corresponding week last, year J9,491 19 0
LANCASHIRE AND YORKSHIRE RAILWAY. —Traffic ree.
turn for the week ending July 13,1856 E 25,124 13 g
Corresponding week last year 22,317 19
CHESTER AND HOLYHUAD RAJLWAY.—Traffic return for
the week ending July 13, 1856 £6 773 16
Corresponding week last year
..--------
Increase in 1856
GLASGOW AND SOUTH-WESTERN RAlLWAY.—Traffic rei
turn for the week ending July 12,1856 £6,754 16 it
Corresponding week last year 6,928 15 ,
__.....------"
Decrease in 1R56
LONDON GENERAL OMNIBUS COMPANY.--VTMEC Ili
turns for the week ending July 12, 1856 £10,6..t8 17

TICE MURDER OF MRS. KELLY.—Mr. Gee. Stveventi
has been admitted to bail—hirneelf in 2,0001., ano tw°,,
securities in 1.0001., each, for his appearance at the .12";
a aizss. Jas. Bannon, al.:0 charaed with being concern"'
in t le murder of Mrs. Kelly, wa. admitted to bail--hio.‘
self in 401., and two sureties in 201. each.
OxF .RD, July 16 —.lO a Convocation to be holdall
at 10 o'clock on Saturday, the 19th instant, it will be
proposed to confer the degree of Doctor in DivinitYr
diploma. on the Rev. Charles Bating, M.A., of Chris
Church, Bishop designate of Gloucester and Bristol.
EXTRAORDINARY LEAP —A young man, a travel
by the 7.15 p m. train to Plymouth, committed a verf
foolish and dangerous act on Tuesday. It appears tbet
he was looking out of the carriage window when the
train was in motion, near Dawlish sta.tion, and his hati
blew off. 11e immediately opened the door and juroPtl
out after the hat, and was precipitated over a viaduct le
feet high. Fortunately, however,. he was not much in'
ured.
The specie by the Atlantic from 7NeilYork yesterdoi
to
is 183,0001., and the Asia on Monday mast, is likely
bring a large additional sum. 'The payment of the
Texan indemnity, of which about; 300,0001. bas' to be
remitted to Europe, together with the half-yearly divi•
dends due on American securities held on this side, tend
to make the current remittances u nusually heavy.
THE POTATO DISEASE. —The (77teltenham, Chronicle
states that there are untnistakeab le signs of: the reeF"
pearance of the potato disease in that neighbouThood.
1n some of the market-gardeners' grounds it has sr
cleared in a very viru'ent, form.
The Parma Gazette, of the 10th inst., announce°
the departure for Ahano of the Marquis of Nor-
manby, English Minister at the Court of Partna•