The Sun.
London, England, 1856-03-18 00:00:00

TO BE CORNETS.

John Bayly, Esq., the younger (late Captain in the 3d
Regiment of the Duke of Lancaster's Own Militia), to be
Captain, vice Atkinson, resigned ; Henry Bradley, Gent.,
to be Ensign.
Ist or Royal East Middlesex Regiment of Militia—En-
sign John Irby Iles to be Lieutenant, vice Miller, ap-
pointed to the 82d Regiment ; Sussex Newton, Gent., to
be Ensign, vice Iles, promoted.
Tho Royal Ayrshire Rifles—Capt. Murray Fraser Furers,
Captain half-pay, Royal Artillery, to be Captain, vice
Fyfe, appointed to a Commission in the 28th Regiment ;
Ensign Blair Fullarton to be Lieutenant, vice Chavalier,
appointed. to a Commission in the 65th Regiment ; Ar-
thur Prinsep, Gent., to be Ensign.

BANKRUPTCY ANNULLED.
George Brown and William Rushy, stone merchants,
Bankside.

OXFORD CIRCUIT.
STAFFORD, March 15.
CIVIL SID .—(Before Mr. Juatica Cre3swell and a
Special Jury.)
SVIINFEM V. SWINFEN.

BANKRUPTS.
Ann Sophia Poile, pawnbroker, Great Suffolk-street,
Southwark, to surrender, April 1, at halfirast eleven, and
April 29, at half-past twelve, at the Court of Rankru.ptcy.
Stansfeld, official assignee; Laurance, Plews, and Boyer,
Old Jewry-chambers.
Charles Ford, tailor, late of 5, Great Marlborough-street,
March 29 and May 7, at eleven, at the Court, of Bankruptcy.
Pennell, official assignee, Guildhall-chambers ; Marshall,
Sion College-gardens, London-wall.
John Allin Jones, tailor and draper, Birmingham,
March 29 and April 17, at eleven, at the Birmingham
District Court. Bittleston, official assignee, Birmingham ;
Webb, Birmingham.
Frederick Cook, machine maker, Oldham, April 1 and
22, at twelve, at the Manchester District Court. Fraser,
official assignee, Manchester; Brooks and Marshall, Ash-
ton-under-Lyne.
Morton Muir and John Whitcomb, carpet manufac-
turers, Kidderminster, March 29 and April 17, at eleven,
at the Birmingham District Court. Whitmore, official
assignee, Birmingham ; Boycot, Kidderminster ; Mot-
teram and Knight, Birmingham.
Charles Bowen, tailor, Cullum-street, City, March 27,
at twelve, and April 24, at one, at the Court of Bank-
ruptcy. Bell, official assignee, Coleman-street, buildings;
Hick, Old Jewry-chambers.
Peter Jackson, druggist, Deanegate, Manchester, Api it
3 and 24, at twelve, at the Manchester District Court.
Hernaman, official assignee, Manchester; Heath, Man-
chester.
Livian Benson Poarse, lime and cement merchant, York-
road, King's-cross, Middlesex, March 27, and April 27, at
twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Cannan, official
assignee, Aldermanbury ; Keighly, Basinghall-street.
SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS.
Angus Sutherland, farmer, Dunbrae, Latheron, Caith-
ness-shire.
George Macfarlane, jun., commission agent, Glasgow.
Hugh Divine and Co., potters, Glasgow.
Dugald M'Phail and Co., cotton spinners, Glasgow.
John Watson, bntcher, Edinburgh.
Maeintyro 'and Mackay, wholesale stationers, Glasgow.

Sad Sant George -Flail, from Royal Artillery.
Serjeaut James Pettigrew, from Royal Artillery.
Troop &rjeant-ILajor
Corps.
Colonr-Sorjeant J. Faulkner, from Royal Sappers and
Minors.

Serjoant John Landry, from Royal Sappers and Miners.;
Sorjeant 11. Macleod, from Royal Artillery.
Serjoant W. M'lntozli, from Royal Artillery.
Colour-Serjeant James Spry, from Royal Sappers and
M:nors.

Colour-Serjeant John Sweeney, from Royal Artillery.
Serjoant John Wilson, Royal Artillery.
Serjeaut Henry Adams, from Royal Artillery.
Serjeaut George Alexander, from Royal Artillery.
Troop Serjeant-Major William Henry Waters, Land
Transport Corps.
Regimental Serjeant-Major William Matthews, from Ist
Dragoons.
Serjeaut George Raramy, from Royal Artillery.
Sorjeaut Thomas ititchio, from Royal Artillery.
Serjeant George. Tasker, from Royal Artillery.
Serjeaut Shackelton, from Royal Artillery.
Colour-Serjeant Win. Armstrong, from 49th Foot.
Colour-Sorjeant Richard Collins. from 56th Foot.
Regimental Serjeant-Major William Thompson, Land
Transport Corps.
Serjeant Charles Sutton, from 31st Foot.
Colour-Serjeant Joseph Clarke, from 33d Foot.
Colour-Serjeant Michel Stapleton, from 4th Foot.
Quartermaster-Serjeant Robert Davies, from 82d Foot.
Quartermaster-Serjeant John Packwood, from Cold-
stream Guards.
Quartermaster-Serjeant Michael M`Cain, from 49th Foot.
Serjeant Wm. Jefferies Pogers, from 68th Foot.
Colour-Serjeant Thomas Smith, from Ist Foot.
Serjeant John Baird, from 41st Foot.
Serjeant Robert Stewart, from Ist Foot.
Serjoant Joseph Palmer, late 76th Foot.
Serjeant-Major John Briggs, from 9th Foot.
Regimental Serjeant-Major William Ross, from Ist
Dragoon Guards.
Serjeant-Major Isaac Cummin, from 9)th Foot.
Quartermaster-Serjeaut Andrew Munro, Land Transport
Corps. _ _

Regimental Serjeaut-Major Malachi Powell, Land
Transport Corps.
erjeaut William Lowe Shawe, from 28th Foot.
Paymaster-Serjeant Alex. M`Donahl, from 79th Foot.
Colour-Serjeant Mowbray Skeates, from Rifle Brigade.
Donat M`Ma,hon, Gent.
Colour-Serjeant George Wohlmann, from Royal Sappers
and Miners.
Colour-Sorjeant Cornelius Godfrey, from R-Tal Sappers
and Miners.

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.

Staff Serjeant-Major Alexander Baird, Laud Transport
Corps.
Peter Burrowes, Gent.
Ernest Lewis, Gent.
TO BE REGIMENTAL QUARTERMASTERS.
Quartermaster-Serjeant William Todd, Land Transport
Corps.
Quartermaster-Serjeant George Blake, Land Transport
Corps.
Paymaster-Serjeant Abraham Anderson, Land Transport
Corps. _

This was an issue by direction of the Master of the
Rolls to try the validity of the will of Samuel Swinfen,
Esq., of Swinfen Hall, in the county of Stafford. The
writ. stated that Samuel Swinfen was at the time of his
death. seised in fee of a certain estate at Swinfen ; that
he died on the 26th of July, 1854, leaving John Swinfen,
his brother, and heir-at-law, who afterwards died in
April, 1855, whereupon Frederick Hay Swinfen, the
eldest son of Francis Swinfen, who was the eldest
brother of the half-blood of Samuel Swinfen, became
and was the heir-at-law of Samuel and John Swinfen
respectively, and Patience Swinfen affirms, and Frederick
Hay Swinfen denies, that the said Samuel Swinfen did,
by a certain writing, bearing date the 7th of July, 1854,
purporting to be his last will, devise the said estate, and
that the Master of the Rolls was desirous of ascertain-
ing the truth by the verdict of a jury.
Sir F. Thesiger (specially retained), Mr. Alexander,
Q.C., Whitmore, Q.C., and Mr. Gray, for the
plaintiff; the Attorney-General, Mr. Whateley, Q.C.,
Mr. Keating, Q.C., and Mr. V. Richards for the de-
endant.
The witnesses on both sides were ordered out of court.
Sir F. Thesiger proceeded to state the case for the
plaintiff. He said it was an issue directed by the
Master of the Rolls for the purpose of ascertaining
whether an instrument executed by Mr. Samuel Swin-
feu, on the 7th of July, 1854, was a valid will. The
plaintiff was the widow of the only son of the testator.
The defendant was his heir-at-law, being his nephew by
half blood. Under the will the bulk of his property was
left to the plaintiff, and the defendant disputes the will,
on the ground that the testator was no of sound or dis-
posing mind. Swinfen Hall, the property in dispute, is
about two miles from Lichfield, and came to the testa-
tor's: father under a marriage settlement. The mother of
the testator died young ; his father married again, and had
a large family by his second wife. They almost entirely
engrossed his father's affections, and the teststur na-
turally entertained no very affectionate feeling towards
his relatives of the half-blood. He married a daughter
of Thomas Durant, wad the only offspring of that
marriage were Henry Swinfen, husband of the plaintiff,
and a daughter who died in infancy. The testator be-
came embarrassed in his circumstances, and received no
assistance from his family, and on the peace in 1815, he
went abroad with his wife and child. He returned in
1823 on his father's death, when he became owner of
S widen Hall, but it was stripped of its furniture, which,
with everything moveable, had been left to the members
of the second family. He and his wife determined on
• Jiving a life of rigid economy, the wife, the daughter of
a baronet, managing the household affairs, and they
lieest in two rooms in the mansion, shutting up the rest
of it. In 1330 the son, the plaintiff's husband, joined
his father in cutting off the entail of the estate, and the
ultimate rep aincier was limited to the father. A rent-
charge was gi;Cnted to the son, who married in 1831.
The plaintiff was ju a humbler condition of life than her
husband's family, ares it was said they were dissatisfied.
But the testator certa;.'"4 became reconciled to this
match. Henry Swinfen ,eft with his wife to Italy
for some years, and when they returned they bad no
settled residence. The testator and his wife living as
efore until the year 1848, when the Latter was taken
dangerously ill, and before the son and his wife could
arrive she was dead. They were kindly received by
the testator ; he was anxious the plaintiff should have
mourning at his expense. He presented her with his
miniature and a diamond ring. There being no accom-
modation at the hall, they lived at first at the George, at
Lichfield, but the testator had a room fitted up for them,
and be increased the son's allowance. For nine months
they resided at the hall. The testator was now 74 years
of age, in perfect health, except a severe ebronia rheu-
matism in his limbs ; but a few years before his death he
was attacked with a painful disease—hydrocele. His
bodily infirmities were great, but his faculties were only
subject to the decay incidental to advancing years. A
person named Elizabeth Martin was employed to attend
upon him. At the end of nine months the plaintiff and
her husband thought he was so well they might leave
him and they went into Wales. While they were away
important letters were written by the testator to his
solicitor in London. In consequence of his inability to
superintend what was pine' on, a system of waste en-
sued at the hall, and Dr, Rowley, an old friend of the
testator, thought it his duty to write to the son to come
to the hall, and accordingly, in 1851, he and his wife
came there, and there they continued until the death of
the son, and then the son's widow resided there until
the testator's death in July, 1854. The testator told his
son to look after his affairs, and the sea did so, from
time to time consulting his father. He felt it his duty
to dismiss the Martins and one or two other persons.
There were two tenants, Stanley and Gibson, who had
notice to quit given at the suggestion of the son. In
'larch, 1852, the testator was desirous of making his
will in his son's faiour. Mr. Simpson, solicitor, town
clerk of Lichfield, had been employed 'ay the testator
before, and he was requested to attend at the hall, and
went on the 26th of March. He saw the present plain-
tiff and the testator ; the latter said he wanted to find
some title-deeds and an old will, which he wished to
destroy. The son produced a will, giving the whole of
the property to hiin. This will was discussed, adopted
avid signed by the testator, and also by the attesting
witnesses. After this a low pony phaeton was got f
ho testator, who had become very infirm in body.
About six month before his death he fell down stairs,
which considerably alarmed him, and Irons that time he
confined himself to Lis bed-room. Atter the discharge of
the Martins a Mrs. Taylor was employed to attend on
him. His bodily infirmities rendered it necessary to feed
him, but his memory as to the past remained clear. On
the 15th of June, 1854, however, his only son died sud-
denly. It was a great shock to the father, and for
several days he was overwhelmed ; he, cleaving more
to his eon's widow, said he would take care of her.
On the 20th of June, Mr. Charles Swinfen and his
wife and daughter came, at the request of the plaintiff,
to attend the funeral, and remained at the ball for
month. They expressed their conviction of the testator's
soundness of mind. He repeatedly said to Mrs. Charles
Swinfen and others that he intended t ) leave Swinfen
Hall to the plaintiff, his son's widow. She sent to Mr.
Simpson to inquire as to her position since her husband's
(feat!), and he, under a mistaken belief that it was neces-
sary, recommended, together with Mr. C. Swinfen, that
an application should he made to the Lord Chancellor,
in lunacy, to appoint a person to take care of the estate.
It was necessary to have a medical certificate, and on
the 2d of July, 1854, Dr. Rowley and Dr. Evans went
there. They saw him, but only for a short time. Pr.
Evans was abrupt, and did not altogether please Mr.
Swinfen, and lie, it is believed, is of opinion that the
testator was of unsound mind, but Dr. Rowley, wko knew
him much better, was of a contrary opinion. On the 4th
of July the testator was desirous of making a will in the
plaintiff's favour, and on that day the two doctors again
saw him. Mr. Simpson was ready to go to him, nod
Dr. Evans said he thought the instructions for making a
will ought to be postponed, and therenpon Mr. Simp-
son abstained from seeing him on that day. At the
testator's) request he went to him on the fith of July.
Dr. Rovsley was then present. On the 6th he went
over again, and took with him the will of 1852, in favour
of the testator's son. The testator real it, and then
said, "He wished Mrs. Swinfen to stand in his son's
place, and to have Swinfen as her property." On the
711 i the will in question was executed, and attested by
Mr. Simpson, Dr. Rowley, and Mr. C. Swinfen, all of
whom would be called, and show that the testator was
in a fit state to execute it. His death did not occur
meutil the 26th of that month.
Ssveral witnesses having been examined the Court
W as adjourned until Monday.
This case came to a sudden termination this morning.
At the sitting of the court, while the special jurymen
were being called over, the coundl on both sides were
seen engaged in conversation, and after the lapse of
nearly an hour, occupied in negetiatio4as, the Attorney-
General announced that an arrangement bad been ef-
fected, which would save his lordship and the jury any
further trouble, and lie trusted that as the cause was
settled, so also would be any differences among the
family.
Sir. Frederick Thesiger said all he would say was that
the cause had been settled.
It is understood that the terms of settlement are
these :—The will to stand, but the plaintiff to assign the
estate of Swinfen Hall to the heir-at-law, he paying her
out of the rents such a sum by way of annuity as will,
with her present jointure of 3001. a year, make up a clear
income of 1,0001. a year. The plaintiff to have mesne
profits (i.e., the rents since the testator's death) down to
the last half-year, and the defendant to pay the costs as
between attorney and client, not to exceed, however,
1,2501.

COURSE OF EXCHANGE.-THIS DAY.
4m5terdam............ 12 0% Gibra1tar..............—
Ditto,•• three months .. 12 2% Leghorn ....... 3; 15
Rotterdam ............ 12 2% Genoa .......... '46 95
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Brussels 25 70 Venice • •
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Marseillos 25 85 I Oporto

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TIE VOLTAIC BATTERY, AND

BLASTING.

A letter in a contemporary, signed "Galvanism,"
says :
You will have observed the statements of Sir De
L. Evans on the Government foresight and arrange-
ments as to telegraphic communications with the Cri-
mea ; as also, more recently, as a sort of corollary, the
remarks of the Commander-in-Chief, Gen. Codringten,
in one of his late despatches, ou the subject of blow-
ing up the docks at Sebastopol—" The voltaic battery,
he says, we must confess, did not aways succeed ; it
seems to require great nicety in preparation ; but in
those cases in which f saw it succeed the effect was
perfect !" The enclosure from Lieut.-Col. Loyd, com-
manding Royal Engineers, is still more evident, like most
else in the Crimea, that the right man is not always in the
right place. After recording his indebtedness to sundry
lookers-on, he states thet"f was extremely anxious that
the facilities afforded by her Majesty's Government for the
employment of voltaic batteries on a large scale, as sent
out by the Admiralty under Mr. Deane, should be fairly
tested under the most favourable circumstances . . .
and this gentleman had every assistance in skilled labour
afforded him from the Royal Sappers and Miners. Many
failures having taken place in firing the charges of elec-
tricity, owing to different causes, I am inclined to doubt
its advantages as applicable generally to military pur-
poses !!" Poor man, how easily he seems to have been
imposed upon ; but no wonder, it being pretty evident
from his own showing that he himself knew little about
the matter. Those versant with the subject inay well blush
for their country's credit on reading the above. It only
shows, although John Bull patiently and perseveringly
pays his taxes, what sapid progress our Royal Engineers
have made in voltaic blasting, since the encampment of
Chobbam ; when, as you may remember, to show what
could be dose by electricity, and to astonish the natives,
a fort was to have been blown up—nay, further, her Ma-
jesty was to connect the wires; when, le! after the breath-
less expectation of the troops and bystanders, kept at a re-
spectful distance to be out ofdanger, there was no result, and
her Majesty thus made to look ridiculous bythe excessively
well-arranged theatrical entertainment of the War Depart-
ment; at the same time showing the Czar, and all else
whom it might concern, how little they had to fear from
such ignorance and bungling; and yet it is not to be
wondered at when we see the dicta of the powers that
be, as to men Lein' required to know, by intuition, as
it were, the whole subject and practice of electro-
dynamics.
Voltaic blasting, besides 'being certain in its effect,
has many other great advantages ; as 10, 20, or 30
mines can be fired instantaneously, with the same cer-
tainty as one ; arid with but common place astuteness
in the practice of such electrical operations.—See the
late accounts of the blasting and its effects at Holyhead,
as also the report, some years ago, to the Woods and
Forests on the. Wasting operations in the formation of the
Queen's Drive around Arthur's Seat, near Edinburgh.

Sporting Intelligence.

TA.TTE RS AL VS-YESTERDAY.

The settlement of the accounts connected with the
recent events at W.trwick and Salisbury occupied most
of the afternoon. Very little time was given to betting.
For some fa.inutes business was tolerably brisk on
Earl Spencer's Plate, Flacrow at 10 to 1 holding the
position of first favourite. At the commencement 500
to 25 was betted against Berezina, but at the close only
100 to 7 was laid. Posthorse was repeatedly backed at
100 to 6, acd is likely to advance a stage or two in
favour. The same was taken about King of Trumps.
In betting on this race it was expressly stipulated that
the transactions should be considered I'.P., and booked
accordingly—a stipulation rendered necessary by the
P.P. boundary line recently marked out by the respec-
tive committees of Tattersall's and the Subscription-
roone at Newmarket.
The bets on the City and Suburban ware merely to
small sums.
For the Two Thousand Yellow Jack slightly improved ;
100 to 40 was taken three or four times ; 300 to 100
was, however, also laid ; 7 to 4 offered against Fly-by-
Night (2 to 1 taken) ; 1400 to 200 taken about him for
the Derby—odds wt.ich were, nevertheless, currently
offered against him at the close. Wentworth was evi-
dently under suspicion.

CLOSING PRICES.

NORTHAMPTONSHIRE STAKES.
Bto 1 agst Winkfield
10 to 1 agst Paletot (12 to 1 taken)
14 to 1 agst Besika (taken)
15 to 1 apt Little DAvie (taken)
EARL SPENCER'S PLATE.
10 to 1 agst Flacrow (taken)
100 to 7 agst Berezina (taken)
100 to 6 agst Postborse (taken)
100 to 6 agst King of Trumps (tak en)

CITY AND SUBURBAN lIANDICAP.
6to 1 agst Fisherman
9to 1 agst Boer (taken)
100 to 7 agst St. Hubert (taken)
100 to 6 agst Ellermire (taken)
20 to 1 agst Posthorse (taken)

TWO THOUSAND GUINEAS STAKES.
7 to 4 agst Fly-by-Night (2 to 1 taken)
sto 2 agst Yellow Jack (taken) (3 to 1 also
laid)
CHESTER CUP.
12 to 1 agst Yellow Jack (taken to 501.)

quartermaster-Serjeant Theophiltts Greenway, from 21st
Foot.

DERBY.
7 to 1 agst Fly-by-Night (taken and offered)
8 to 1 agst Wentworth (taken and off.)
100 to 6 agst Coroner (taken)
1000 to 35 agst Bird in Hand (taken)
1000 to 20 agst Enchanter (taken)
1000 to 15 agst Barbarina Colt (taken)
1000 to 15 agst Bonnie Scotland (taken)
1000 to 10 agst Moo:dropper (taken)
100 even between Fly-by-Night and Ellington (t)

Tloop Sorjeant-Major James Winter, Land Transport
Corp.
_

Calonr-Serjeant William Lambert, from Royal Sappers
and Miners.
Paymaster-Sorjeant Alfred Allen, Land Transport Corps.
Serjeant Thomas Barstow, from 33d Foot.
Paymaster-Serjeant J. Garnon, from 39th Foot.
Paymaster-Serjeant Patrick Francis Foley, from 31st
Foot.
Daniel Deacon, Gent.
Thomas Huddlestone, Gent.
Company-Serjeant J. Stratford, from Royal Artillery.
Company-Serjeant J. Copeland, from Royal Artillery.

THE LONDON; 't UESDA Y EVE NI trt MARCH 18, 1856.
- ) •

in the register of tie parish of Churchwatoo, on the :.id
of Noveni her, 1855.
Mr. Sot)tland appeared for the prosecution ; and Mr.
Kettle def ended the prisoner.

This ind ictrnent was framed on the 201.11 section of the
11th Geo, IV. and let Will. IV., c. 4:36, and charged
that the prisoner feloniously caused a false entry to be
made in the register of baptisms of the parish of Church-
eaton, the said entry being false in that the prisoner was
therein described to be the wife of one William Ballas,
she not being his wife,
The chief witness for the prosecution was the Rev. R.
R. Duke, the curate of Churcheaton, who stated that on
the 28th of October last he called upon the prisoner, and
told her that he understood she wanted her infant to be
baptised and herself to be churched on the following day.
He said that if it washer wish it should be done, and that,

as it would be necessary for him to make an entry in the
registrar, he would take down the particulars at the time.
He asked what was to be the name of the child, and on
being informed that that was not yet settled, he said it
would be sufficient•if he were told that at the time of the
baptism. He then asked the prisoner what her name
was, and she said " Mary Ann 11,:llas." She also sail,
in answer to questions, that her husband's name was
" William Beltas," and that he was a farmer and cattle-
dealer, of Horton, in Shropshire. The next day the pri-
soner and other persons attended at church, and the
child was baptised with the name of Elizabeth. Before
making any entry in the register the curate ascertained
from the Clergy List that there,wa,s no parish of " Hor-
ton" in Shropshire, and he also heard that the prisoner
was net married, but was a single woman. He in con-
sequence called upon the prisoner on the following
Thursday, the let of November, and told her that there
was some error, and he asked her whether she was sure
Horton was a parish. She then said it was a farm or
hamlet in Welliegton. The curate told her he must put
down the exact truth, and he then wrote down on a slip
of paper the particulars which she gave him in answer
to his questions—viz., that her name was Mary Ann
Bella; and that she was the wife of Win. Bella., a
farmer and cattle-dealer, of Wellington, Salop. In a
,day or two afterwards the curate made the entry is
the register. The witness, in cross-examination, stated
that, though he suspected that the prisoner was not
married, he gave her no caution.
William Bellas was thee called, and proved that

the prisoner had once lived as servant in his house,
but he was not married to her, and she had never passed
as his wife.

When the case had been opened,
Mr. Kettle, on behalf of the prisoner, objected that
the fact', if proved, would not support the charge.
Mr. Baron Bramwell sail he would not stop the case;
but when it was concluded his lordship said he should
hold, upon the authority of some cases which had been
decided, that the offence of causing, a false entry te be made
had been committed, if the prisoner made the false state-
ment with a view to get the false entry made. But it
seemed to him (Mr. Baron Bramwell) that the object of
the prisoner was to get her baby baptised and herself
churched, and that she probably cared very little whe-
ther the baptism was registered or not. Thera could

be no doubt on the evidence of the curate that she had,

made the false statement ; but if the jury thought her
object was not to cause a false entry to be made in the
register, but to procure the offices of religion for herself
aoot child, his (Mr. Baron Bramwell's) epision was that
the offence charged in the indictment, of causing the
entry to be made, was not proved.
The jury expressed their opinion that the prisoner had

made the false statement, but not with the view of get-
ting a false entry made in the register, and accordingly
found her not guilty.

POISONING BY STRYCJINIA AT LEEDS.

VERDICT OF WILFUL MURDER.

LEPtps, Monday.—The adjourned inquest on the body
of Mrs. Dove was held this morning at 10 o'clock, when
the court was again most inconveniently crowded i❑
every part. Se intense was the excitement caused by
the case that as early as 8 o'clock the various approaches
to the court were besieged by a multitu-le of persons de
sirous of gaining admission ; and on the doors being
opened the rush was tremendous, and the court became
almost instantly crowded in every part. The audience
eousisted of a great number of ladies, who were content
to stand in the dock and any other part of the court.
The bench was also fully occupied with the magistrates.
Mr. Morley and Mr. Nunneley, the surgeons, were also
again present. The prisoner was brought icto court in
he custody of the superintendent of police, and took his
seat under the bench close to Mr. Barrett, his attorney,
with whom he was in frequent conversation daring the
progress of the case.
It will be seen from the coroner's summing up, which
was exceedingly lengthy, and of which an outline is sub.
joined, that that functionary made a rather pointed allu-
sion to the difference in opinion amongst medical men as
to the discovery of strychnia after death. It will be at
once perceived that the comparison he made as to the
analysis of Mr. Morley and Mr. Nunneley bad reference
to the analysis by Dr. Taylor and Dr. lleem, in connec•
tion with the charge against William Palmer for the mur-
der of Mr. Cook, which is now exciting such intense in-
terest throughout the country.
The proceedings this morming commenced by Mr. Nun-
neley beginning to read a very lengthy report of some
further experiments which had bsen made by himself and
Mr. Morley ; but after some conversation with the coro-
ue,t it was agreed that they should draw up a condensed
report in order to save time.
Mr. Nunneley remarked that the longerdocumont was
necessary, iu order to a full explanation of tkeir experi-
ments ; tat eventually the following report was sub-
mitted :

"ADDITIONAL REPORT ON THE ANALYSIS OF TUE STOIIACFL

" As a further test of the presence of poison in the sto-
mach, and one which, as nearly as possible, would amount
to demonstration, we determined to try whether the spi-
rituous extract obtained from the contents of the stomach.
already shown by chemical tests to contain strychnia, pee-
ses-ei really the poisonous properties of that substance.
" We selected for experiment two rabbits, two mice, and
one guinea pig, and as the most exact method of acting
upon such animals with small quantities of poison, we ap-
plied it by inoculation through small openings either into
the cellular tissue between the skin, or into one of the se-
rous cavities of the body. Also in one of the mica giving
a portion by the mouth.
" In each of these five animals thus submitted to experi-
ment the characteristic effects of poisoning by strychnia
were produced. In three of them (the two mice and a
vigorous rabbit) death ensued respectively in 2 minutes,
12 minutes, and 50 minutes from the first introduction
of the poison. The symptoms preceding death were dis-
turbed respiration, general distress, convulsive twitehings,
outstretching of the legs, and general rigidity of the body
—symptoms which are exactly those commonly produced
by strychnia. In the fourth animal, the rabbit, the symp-
toms were equally well marked and decisive ; but although
the animal Jay for a time nearly dead it afterwards re-
vived, and evouteatly recovered. In the guinea pig the ef-
fects at first were much more slight. The spasms were not
so strong as to-throw it down, er entirely disable it ; but
on the following day it also was found dead, with the
muscles rigid and the hind legs extended, as if from the
effects of the poison.
"For the purpose of comparison we conducted at the
same time a parallel series of experiments on other animals
with ordinary strychnia. In these animals the symptoms
were exactly similar to those produced in the five acted on
by the poison extracted from the body of Mrs. Dove. They
were, as a series, not more severe, and met wore rapidly
fatal.

carefully secured by Mr. Dove. I think you will be of
opinion that the pollen could nut have been administered
ee taken by accident ee mistake. Then conies the third
propoattioti I have submitted to you—Was the poison
administered designedly or by some other person ; and if
to, by wham ? It the evidence irresistibly and conclu-
eively points out the person, it will be your duty to find
against that person a verdict of wilful murder. [Tile
coroner then at great length went through 'the whole of
the evidence which had been adduced, commenting upon
it as ho went on.] Having gone through it, he said—As
I oleeerved to you at the commencement of my remarks,
it is upon the evidence adduced before you that you are
to form your opinion as to the cause and manner of
death. You are not to supply the want of evidence by
any hypothesis of your own, and you are not to set up
the 'pinions of other men of science against the positive
evi, fence of Mr. Morley and Mr. Nunneley. For the
pn :poems of this inquiry you are bound to receive and ac
of em their testimony. It may be that other men of science
entertain different opinions. It may be that in other
cares where strychnia hat been taken no trace of it could
hie found after death. In this case the medical men have
1' can more fortunate, and they tell us that the tests they
•have applied satisfy them beyond any reasonable doubt
of the presence of strychnia. But if anything was
wanting to confirm opinions carefully, deliberately,
and impartially formed by men of competent skill
and who have had previous experience in such cases, it
is the further evidence they have given this morning.
[The coroner here read over the further analysis as
given above ] This evidence (he said) is most valuable,
as determining the presence of strychnia in the body of
the deceased after death. From the symptoms, then,
before death—the appearances on the examination of
the body after death, and the analysis and its results
—you will, I think, be constrained ,to say that the
cause of death was strychnia. I have alluded to the
possibi'ity of men of science differing upon the results
of analyses ; and where they do so, having had equal
of p ,rtunities of forming a correct judgment, serious
difficulties will be created. It is, however, very satis-
factory to find that as regards poisoning by strychnia
there are some unimeta.keable arid dietinguishieg fea-
tures upon which all men of science are agreed, and
these are the symptoms during life. It may be difficult
to say bow little strychnia will cause death, what pro-
portion will cause a defined amount of spasmodic action,
how soon after taking it the spasmodic action will come
on, and now long it will continue ; but its effects dur-
ing life are well marked and settled. After reading
further extracts from the evidence, the coroner reite-
rated his impression that he thought the jury mild
have no (1(144 that the death of the deceased was
caused by strychnia, not taken accidently, but by do-
sige ; and should they comae to that conclusion, they
would then have to determine whether the evidence
made out satisfactorily to their minds the party
who administered it. It could not be suggested
that any of the witnesses who had been celled, and
who had waited upon the deceased during her illness
either as neighbours or attendants, had any band
in her death, and he hoped he was not pressing too hard
upon the prisoner, Mr. Dove, when he said that suspi-
cion rested upon him, but suspicion was not guilt. The
coroner here pointed out the various suspicious circum-
stances against the prisoner as disclosed by the evidence,
remarking that the jury would remember that the pri-
s mer declined to accede to Mr. Motley's wish for a con-
sultation with some other medical man, and they would
also bear in mind his great objection to a post-inortem
examination. On March 5, the 'Wednesday after his
wife's death, a further conversation took place between
him arid Mr. Morley, and looking at that conversation,
and putting the most charitable construction upon the
a 3ts and language of the prisoner, it seemed to be im-
possible to reconcile them, and particularly his anxiety
about knowing the result of the analysis, with entire in-
nocence on his part. On Thursday, March 6, the day after
this ieterview with Mr. Morley, the prisoner again met
Harrison at the New-cross, and on that occasion he ap-
peared very anxious to know if strychnia could be dis-
covered after death, saying to Harrison, "Can they dis-
cover a erain and a half or a grain ?" upon which Harrison
said, "Have you given your wife any ?" when the prisoner
replied, "No ; but I got some from Mr. Morley's man
to poison the cat with, and some might have been spilt,
and she (meaning his wife) may have got some." This
is substantially confirmed by the evidence of the witneos
Story. Part of what he said to Harrison was no doubt
true about poisoning the cats ; but, considering that the
prisoner had strychnia in his poisession—that he knew
its effects both on man and the lower animals—that lie
knew it was deadly poison, he, of all others, should
have known beyond a doubt, having the custody of it,
whether any portion of it could by possibility have been
spilt, and spilt in such a way as to be accidentally
mixed up with his wife's food or medicine. The suggestion
of such a thing by the prisoner, under the circumstances
of this case, raises the strong presumption of his guilt,
but is by.no means conclusive evidence of it. I have
now, gentlemen, very imperfectly, perhaps, gone through
all the material evidence brought before us. If you
are satisfied that strychnia was the cause of death, it
will bo year duty to say that it was designedly
administered to,her by some one ; and considering the
fact of the prisoner being in possession of poison, and the
further fact that he must have been present when the
poison was given, you will have to determine whether,
under all the circumstances of the case, you can have
any reasonable doubt that he administered it to his wife
on the night of her death. If he did not administer it,
can any other person be suggested ? If not, if all the
world be excluded except the prisoner, you must find a
verdict of wilful murder against him. If, after the fullest
deliberation you see reason to doubt, then yoa must
give the prisoner the benefit of that doubt, and find a
verdict of wilful murder against seine person unknown.
(The time occupied in the delivery of the charge was
upwards of three hour.)
The jury then retired to consider their verdict, and
was absent nearly an hour.
On their return into Court,
The Coroner said—Gentlemen, have you agreed upon
the verdiet ?
The Foreman. —We have.
The Coroner.—What is your verdict !
.....

The Foreman—We find that :flarriet Dove has died
from the effects of strychnia, wilfully administered by
her husband, William Dove.
The Coroner—That is a verdict of wilful murder
against William Dove.
The Foreman—Yes, that is our intention.
The delivery of the verdict caused a great sensation in
court.

The Coroner at once signed the warrant for the pri
Boner's committal to York Castle on the charge, and the
witnesses were all bound over to give evidencs at the
next assizes.

The prisoner received the announccnnent of the verdict
without manifesting the slightest emotion.
It is understood that the prisoner will not be brought
before the magistrates, but will remain committed on tno
coroner's warrant.

" These animal experiments, which add the effect of
physiole,gical effect to that of the chemical re-agent, de-
cidedly confirm our analysis ; and, takinz them in connec-
tion with the analysis, with the symptoms observed during
life, - and with the appearance noted in the body after
death, they afford, in our opinion, the most complete proof
that the death of Mrs. Dove was from the poisonous effects
•f the strychnis, and from so other cause.

"GEORGE MORLEY.

ANOTHER BURGLARY TN YORKSHIRE. --On Saturday
morning a burela:y of a most desperate character was
perpetrated at the house of Mr. Frederick Birtles, atone
merchant, Hands werth Quarries, near Sheffield. Mr.
Birtles occupies a lonely house near his quarries, and
about half-past 1 o'clocl on Saturday morning his wife
was awoke by a noise of persons boring at the cellar
kitchen deer. She informed her husband, wile sleeps in
the room over tke cellar kitchen, and he instantly jumped
out of bed. The robbers heard the noise and at once
took to their heels. Mr. Rates slipped on his trousers
and ian after them, leaving the dour unfastened. He
caught one of them in a field at a elicit distance, and the
men immediately called out for assistance. A second man
ran up, and the two threw Mr. Birtles down. One of them,
who was aimed with a life preserver (a pliable stick, with
a large lump of lead at the end), placed his foot upon
Mr. Birtles throat, and said to the other, " We have
the fast now, you go and ran-ack the house." The
second man left for the purpose, and Mr. Birtles made
an attempt to get upon his feet, upon which the man
who was keeping guard over kiln struck him a violent
blo et ©n the leg, and another on the side, with the life-
preserver. In the meaetime six men entered the bed-
room where Mrs. Birtles and the youngest child were
in bed, all wearing crape over their faces, and two of
them formidably armed, one with a sledge-hammer and
the other with a spade. The two men who were armed
stood over Mrs. Dirties and demanded the keys. She
persisting in saying that she had not got them, one of
the men was cent i• Mr. Birtles to demand them. He
said he had not got them, telling the man to search him.
The man did so, taking out of his pockets a purse con-
taining some silver, but not finding the keys. 9n this
man's return to the house the robbers threatened Mrs.
Dirties' life if she did not find the keys, and she was so
terrified that she got out of bed and fetched them from her
dress pocket. The men-then proceeded to ransack the
house, and found in the drawer of a box 201. in notes, 9/.
in gold, and a life policy for 2001., of ail of which they at
once possessed themselves. While these proceedings
were g, ing on Mrs. Birtles anxiously inquired whether
they had murdered her husband, and one of the villains
replied,—" No, we'll bring bias back, and he shall
breakfast with us off some of this ham," pointing to
some hams suspended from the top -of the room. The
search was a prolonged one, and the man keeping guard
over Mr. Birtles began to shiver with cold, and inquired
whether his prisoner would lie still if he tied his hands
fast ? Mr. Dirties' answer was, "Yes, I think you've
given me enough to make me do that." The man a:
once proceeded to tie Mr. B.rties' hands together iu
front of him with a piece of strong cord, and, having
done so, left him lying on the ground, Before the men
had got many yards away, Mr. Dirties had bit the
string in two, jumped upon his feet, and ran towards,
the nearest hou,es, which were at the distance At' 300
yards, and are occupied by his workmen, crying
" Murder" as be ran. The man ran after him for 100
yards. but finding Mr. Birtles too fleet of foot, gave up
the chase. Mr. Birtles' cries were heard by the bur-
glare in the hopse, one of whom called out, "Off, lads !"
to the men in the house, and to a seventh nian who had
been keeping watch at the door, and, in the words of
Mr. Birtles, "Off they went like a shot." Mr. Birtles
found the house deserted by the thieves on ieurning
with some of his mon. At a later period, two of the
51. notes were found in a hedge bottom, about 50 yards
from the house. All the robbers—eight in number—
had their. faces covered with crape.

" THOMAS NUNNELEY, F.R.C.S.E."
The Coroner—That is your joint opinion, gentlemen,
is it I

Mr. Nuxne!ey—lt ix our joint opinion.

The Coroner (to the jury)—Gentiernen, do you wish to
ask the medical gentlemen any questions on this further
evidence?

The jury replied in the negative.
The Coroner—Mr. Barrett, do you wish to ask them
any questions . .

1.6. Barrett—No; I have so questions to put to them.
It was here intimated that there was no further evi-
dence to be offered, on which

The Coroner, addressing the accused, said—William
Dove, do you wish to say anything to the jury in reply
to the charge ?
The Accused—Nothing at all.
The Coroner then commenced his charge to the jury
amidst the most profound silence in all parts of the court.
lie said— Gentlemen, in bringing you to a calm, dispas-
sionate, and impartial consideration of this important and
painful case, you must altogether disregard the various
observations and suggestions which have appeared in the
public prints respecting it, however true, or plausible, or
disinterested they may be; and yon must confine your at-
tention to the evidence adduced before you, and upon that
only you must determine your verdict. I fear a very erro-
neous impression prevails relative to the nature of an in-
quiry like this; aed modern practice having sanctioned the
appearance of advocates, the impression has thereby gained
ground. It 'teems to be thought that this is a court where
an accused person is on his trial ; that a charge is made ;
and that there must of necessity be a defence. Now,
nothing is more incorrect or further from the real nature
of a coroner's inquest. Our principal duty is to inquire
into and ascertain the cause of death ; and if in the pro-
gress of the investigation it shall appear that it has arisen
from violence offered by another, then the law says you
shall find such a verdict as will send the party causing
death before another tribunal to answer the charge to be
made against him. Your duty, therefore, in this case is
to determine the cause of the death of Mrs. Dove. If
the circumstances attending her death, and the results
of the examination of her body after death, satisfy you that
she died from poison, it will be for you to say, upon the
evidence before you, whether she took it herself to de-
stroy life, or whether it was taken by accident or mis-
take, or whether it was administered to her designedly
by some other person. Now, so far as the evidence
goes, there seems to be nothing from which you can for
a single moment believe that Mrs. Dove destroyed her-
self. It has, however, been suggested by the evidence
that it might have been the result of accident ; that
some of the poison which was known to have been in
the house might have been spilled or got amongst the
food taken by the deceased. The suggestion was made
by Mr. Morley, as an inducement to the prisoner and
his mother to consent to an examination of the borly,
and we may fairly infer that Mr. Moiley's suspicions
were aroused soon after the death, but that being unwill-
ing, and properly so, to believe there had been any foul
play, he venturad upon this suggestion in order to arrive
at a solution of the difficulty which presented itself to his
mind—viz , the cause of death. Besides, it appears the
poison was kept in the prisoner's razor-case, and that
upon Mrs. Whitham expressing her alarm lest her little
dog should get to it, the deceased assured her that there
wits no cause for alarm—meaning, no doubt, that it wars

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THE MEDICAL BILL, 1856.

The following objections to Mr. Ileadlam's bill are
being circulated by the master and wardens of the So-
ciety of Apothecaries :

"-The Society of Apothecaries have had under their
consideration the provisions of this bill.
" If the simple aim of this bill had been to secure to
every well-educated medical man the right of practising
in every part of the three kingdoms, making due provi-
sion for ensuring, as far as possible, an uniform standard
of education and examination in each, the Society of
Apothecaries would have no objection to urge against
it. The society have again and again advocated the ex-
pediency of such a change in the law.
" That a bill having these objects should provide for
the establishment of a controlling body, such as the
" Medical Council," to regulate the machinery by
which the several examining bodies are to be kept in
harmonious and vigorous action, seems to the society
essential.

" That it is desirable that the public, and the profes-
sion itself, should be informed as to who are, and who
are not, qualified practitioners, by a plan of registration
simple in itself and unembarrassing to the members -of
the profession, no one can doubt.

" To encourage and protect, in the, practice of their
profession, those who have given assurance of their com-
petency, by a well regulated course of study, followed
by a searching examination, and to exclude from practice
those who can offer no evidence of their competency,
ought, as the society conceive, to be the object of future,
as it has been the object of all past, medical legislation.
"The present bill proposes to attain these objects, but
if it should unfortunately become law, it will be foned
not only to fail in securing them, but to inflict, under
colour of amending the law, great injary upon a large
class of the medical profession.
"In England for the last forty years, the medical at-
tendants of the middle and lower ranks ofeociety (nu-
merically, therefore, the great majority of medical men)
have been educated and examined under the control of
two bodies—namely, the Royal College of Surgeons and
the Society of Apstbecaries, the former body devoting
itself to the surgical, and the latter to the medical, quali-
fication of their candidates.

" This division of the medical and surgical examina-
tion of the future medical man is preserved by the present
bill. The College of Surgeons, as before, is to examine
in ■urgety ; but the duty of examining the general prac-
titioner in medicine is to be transferred from the Society
of Apothecaries to the College of Physicians.
" Against the impolicy and injustice of this arrange-
ment the Society of Apothecaries most strongly protest.
It is, in their opinion, unjust as regards the future gene-
ral practitioner, unjust as regards the Society of Apo-
thecaries, and impolitic as regards the medical profession
and the public at large.
"It is unjust to the future general practitioner—
First, because experience has shown that the standard of
qualification of that class of practitioners has been
greatly raised by a court of examiners composed of
members of their own branch of the profession. Secondly,
b. cause there is no sufficient guarantee that the transfer
of the duty of examination to members of another branch
of Cie profession, who have certainly not an eqsal inte-
rest in improving the qualification and raising the social
and professional status of the general practitioner, will
not be attended with opposite results. Thirdly, because a
feeling► undoubtedly existed within a very short period
among members of the class to whom the examination
is to be transferred, unfavourable to an improved stan-
dard of general and professional education in the case of
t'-)e general practitioners ; and fourthly, because there is
reason to apprehend that the feeling in question is nut
extin .

"It is unjust to the Society of Apothecaries, because
it has been repeatedly proved in evidence before com-
mittees of the House of Commons, and has, indeed, been
admitted on all hands, that the Court of Examiners of
that society have discharged their dut►es ably, zealously,
and successfully. No want of capacity, of energy, or of
a desire to raise the, qualifications of their candidates has
been proved or even suggested against them. With what
justics, then, is it sought to supersele them in the exer-
cise of functions which they have not only proved them-
selves willing and able to discharge, but which it is con-
ceded they have, in fact, discharged with advantage to
the profession and the public.

"One of the objections which has bean occasionally
urged to the existing state of the law, is the number of
bodies having power to examine and qualify for the prac-
tice of medicine in the United Kingdom. It is not the
principle of this bill to diminish that number. With one
exception, all the existing institutions are to continue
in the exercise of their present functions, although se►e-
ral of them (ia Scotland for instance) exercise functions
precisely sitnilar in reference to the same class of practi-
tioners.

"The Society of Apothecaries are the only body in
this country exercising the particular functions with
which they have been entrusted, and yet, by a singular
inconsistency, they are to form the only exception to the
principle which preserves tke existing examining bodies ;
and the indignity to which this bill would subject the So-
ciety of Apothecaries is the more marked, inasmuch as
their functions are not to be abolished, but their per-
formance is simply to be transferred to other hands.
"The society have other grave objections to the bill.
" Apart from the inequitable distribution of the mem-
bers of the Medical Council between the three kingdoms,
England and Wale!, with their 18 or 20 millions of po-
pulation, sending 9 members to the council, and Scot-
land, with her 3 or 4 million., sending an equal number
(Ireland, with her 7 or 8 millions, sending 6), there is no
provision for securing any real ♦oice or influence in the
council to the class of general practitioners, who form
so large a proportion of the profession at large.
"Ti. proposal to tax the existing members of the
profession for the privilege of registering their qualifica-
tions for practice appears to the society very reckless,
when it is remembered that the qualified practitioner
gains absolutely nothing by the bill, which first takes
away all his existing privileges, by repealing the laws
by which they are gamed to him, and only partially re-
stores them on his submitting to a taxed registration.
" The proposal to permit any one to engage in the
practice of medicine who is willing to forego the privi-
lege of assuming a medical title, is in the opinion of the
society fraught with present danger to the public, and
with injury to the medical practitioner, because it would
inevitably result in the increase of ignorant pretenders
to medical skill, and in the discouragement and conse-
quent decrease of educated practitioners.
" For nearly half a century the law has required the
surgeon-apothecary (the modern general practitioner) to
give evidence of his competency in each branch of his
profession—in medicine as welt as surgery—in surgery
as well as medicine. Although the present bill proposes
to continue that requirement for the future, yet by a
species of legal fiction it assumes all existing sur-
geons to be competent to practise medicine, and
all existing apothecaries to be competent to practise
surgery ; and, acting on that fiction, it concedes to the
existing surgeon a legal recognition as an apothecary,
and to the existing apothecary a legal recognition as a
surgeon.

a'lt might, perhaps, be thought desirable, in the case
of a well considered measure, which gave reasonable pro-
mise of settling the long agitated question of medical re
form, to make some sacrifices, at starting, for the sake ( f
uniformity, but a retrograde step in educattoual leg'sla•
tion is surely to be avoided if possible ; and the practi-
tioner who bas proved his competency in both branches
of his profession will feel that an injustice is done to him,
if those who have proved their competency only in one
should be admitted to the same privileges and to the
same legal recognition as himself.
" In the opinion of the Society of Apothecaries this
bill offers no countervailing advantages to the mischief
it would effect. It would weaken existing securities for
the attainment of a sound medical education by
the majority of those who enter the profession ;
it would break down existing barriers against the prac-
tice of medicine by ignorant pretenders ; and it would
lower, at no distant period, the status, social and pro-
fessional, of the numerous and important class of
medical men to whom, in any change of the law, the
great bulk of the population mast look for medical aid.
•" Apothecaries'-Call, March 11, 1856."

CAPE-COAST CASTLE-GRAS E OF L. E. L.

( From the Inverness Courier.)

The following is an extract from a private letter writ-
ten from Cape Coast Castle, the capital of the British
possessions on the Gold Coast. The melancholy story
of " L. E. L.," the English poetess, seems to invest
this African fort with interest ; and her husband, Mr.
Maclean, was from the neighbouring county of Elgin:—
"We have crossed the frontier of a new year. It
is difficult to believe in the almanac in this region,
where there is so little to mark the course of the seasons
whatever there may be to mark the course of time ; and
while those in your latitude are shivering and shaking
with cold, we are under a burning sun, every day
hotter by two to four degrees than the same period of
last year. The thermometer in my room is generally
from 86 deg. to ES deg, at the highest temperatnie of
the day. This settlement has been quiet for some
time past—that is, since the threatened attack of the
Ashantees end the mutinous outbreak among our troops
je November. Both storm-clouds have providentially
blown over without bursting, otherwise the consequences
would hive been bad. There is a perfect lull in our po•
litical state. About five months since S. M., with his
wife nod three children, came out here. He was a
fire, powerful, str,ng elan, and she an active, spirited
young. ..primp. The other week she was seized with
fever mettle Friday, died on the Seturday evening, and
was buried next morning. He died that cams night, and
within 22 hours was laid beside his wife in the grave.
Their youngest child died just before them, and now
the two surviving orphans are cast upon the world.
Poor children ; they ere this ;moment playing under my
window, quite insensible of their loss. The day after their
father's burial, his goods arid.ohattels were sold by auc-
tion on the Battery, and those-poor little creatures were
going in and out amongst the crowd as if it were some-
thing got up for amusement. Afterwards they came and
told me they were to dasice With the soldiers on Christ-
mas night, aiel so they did. The men had a feast in
the court, and by moonlight the drum and mu-ic be-
gan to play. The whole troop were jum; ing about,
and where, think you, but over the graves of poor
'L. E. L.' and her husband ! Twelve red square red
tiles cover the one, and some yellowish London bricks
the other ; and the tramp of the sentry is heard over
them day aed night. I have deeply regretted that such
should have been their ill-chosen resting-place, so out of
chartscti r with all associations and sympathies connected
with that highly•gifted lady and her talented husband,
President Maclean. But their (kettle occurred before
there was a cemetery at Ca.pe•Coast."

THE SUICIDE IN ST. PAUL'S CATIIEDEAL.-0.1 Satur-
day an inquest was held before Mr. Payne, the City
coroner, but no new facts were established, and the jury
returned a verdict of temporary insanity.