The Sun.
London, England, 1860-03-16 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, IVIARCH 16, 1860.

OPAL FREE HOSPITAL, Gray's-inn-road.
1-1, Ills Grace the Duke of WELLINGTON, R.G., has
kindly consented to PRESIDE at the THIRTY-SECOND
ANNIVERSARY FESTIVAL in AID of the FUNDS of
this HOVITAL, to be held at the Freemason's Tavern, on
WEDNESDAY, the 30th May.

F LORAL HALL, COVENT-GARDEN.
bi consequence of the immense number of applications
**view the New Floral Hale, as fitted for the Royal Volun-
teer Ball, arrangements have been made to open the Hall for
Exhibition TO-MORROW, SATURDAY, March 17.
On this occasion the whole of the fittings, decorations,
and illuminations of the Royal Volunteer Ball will be exhi-
bited.
The full band of the Coldstream Guards, by the kind per.-
mission of Colonel Lord Frederick Paulet, C. 8., will attend
during the evening.
Admission, 2s. 6d.
The doors will be thrown open at 8, and close 'at 11. The
entrance will be in Bow-street.

CHRISTY'S MINSTRELS, Polygraphic Hall,
King William-street, Strand.—Farewell Season in Lon-
don.—Every Evening at 8, and every Saturday Morning at
3 o'clock. Tickets and places may be secured at the Hall
from 11 till 4, and at Mr. Austin's West-end Box-oftle,e, St.
James's Hall, Piccadilly.—Sole Proprietor and Manager,
Mr. J. W. RAYNOR.

DR. KAHN will continue to deliver his popular
Lectures on the " Philosophy of Marriage," daily at 3
and 5, at his Museum, top of the Haymarket. Admission,
One Shilling-.
Dr. Kahn's treatise on the above subject, sent post-free for
twelve stamps, direct from the author, 17, Harley-street,
Cavendish-square.

ARGYLL ROOMS, Windmill-street, Grand
CASINO, open every Evening, with the oelebrated
Band. Established 10 years. Conducted by Mons. Lamotte ;
principal cornet-a-piston, M. Boulcourt. Doors open at half-
past 8, commence at 9. Close a few minutes before 12. Ad-
mission, ls.

THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY ROOMS,
'TIM.' HOLBORN.
This Establishment, pre-eminently distinguished for the
elegance and matchless beauty of its decorations, 'combined
with the perfection of its management is OPEN EVERY
EVENING. The celebrated band, under the direction of Mr.
W. 31. Packer, plays a nightly-varied koleotion of the mitt
approved classical and modern music. Doors open at half-
past 8. Overture at 9. Closing at 12. Admission, One

rTWO HUNDRED POUNDS REWARD.-
-/- LOST, on Friday, the 9th of March instant. in Oxford-
street, near to the London and Westminster Bank, Stratford-
place, the following BANK of ENGLAND NOTES, via.:—
£2OO
100
100
39,`,5894 24th September, 1859.
0
50
50
20
20
20
20
20
10
10
10
10
10

5
5

23d July, 1859.

22d December, 1859.

23d January, IE6O.

27th January, 1860.

„ .
Payment has been stopped at the Bank of England. Who-
ever may have found the said Notes, and will return the same,
or whoever will give such information as shall lead to the
recovery of the same within three months from this date shall
receive the above Reward, or a proportionate part thereof,
according to the amount recovered. Information to be given
to Messrs. R. and S. Mullins, Solicitors, 7, Poultry, London,
E.C.
13th Marc,i 1860.

HE PURE FLUID MAGNESIA of Sir
T
JAMES MURRAY, M.D., re-carbonated, sparkling,
and permamently saturated, is prepared by his last patented
processes (1859), which render it perfectly effective for pre-
venting or removing acidities, gout, gravel, and indigestion,
thus supplanting debilitating alkalies.
London, 143, New Bond-street, February 2r,d, 13(10.
The Sample of hia new sparkling FLUID MAGNESIA,
which Sir J ames Murray wished examined, yielded 121 Grains
of Carbonate of Magnesia, which gives about 19 Grains of
Bi-carbonate of Magnesia for each fluid ounce of Solution.
T. SCHWEITZER,
Analytical Chemist.
This patented antacid is perfected in Dublin, and at Mr.
Linder's, 104, Strand, London, to whom orders may be ad-
dressed ; who also supply William Bailey, of Wolverhamp-
ton, wholesale and shipping agent; Savory, Squire, and
Wilcox, chemists, London, and all respectable vendors of
medicine. In bottles, at is., 2s. 6cl. and 3s. 6d. each. Acidulated
Syrup is. and 2s. each.

TEA: STRACHAN and CO.'s Strong rough
_ "Domestic" Black at 3c 2d. par lb.-26, Cornhill, Lon-

don. E.C.

TEA. STRACHAN and CO.'s Fine
I"lnter-
mediate" Black at 3s. Bd. per lb.-26, Cornhill, Lou-

don. E.C.

TEA. STRACHAN and Co.'s Matchless
" Drawing Room" Black at 4m. 2d. per lb.-26, Corn-
hill, London. E.C.

THE NAVY.

The Duke of Somerset, as First Lord of the
Admiralty, held a levee yesterday at the Admi-
ralty, when the following officers waited upon
him :—Vice-Admiral Collier, Rear-Admiral Austin,
Capt. J. B. Marsh, Capt. Robert Jenkins, Capt. J.
Rawstone, Capt. W. Morris, Capt. F. Patten, Capt.
S. G. Cresswell, Capt. G. Hinckley, Capt. C. 0.
Hayes, Captain John H. Hayes, Capt. F. A. B.
Craufurd, Commander E. W. Law, Commander W.
H. Hood, Commander H. H. Beamish, Commander
V. 0. Inglefield, Commander H. Nelson, Comman-
der C. S. Forbes, Commander G. Blane, Comman-
der E. Hore, Commander W. Armytage, Comman-
der J. S. Ellman, Commander E. A. Glynn, Com-
mander J. S. Ross, and Commander G. H. Gardner.
A court-martial was held in Wednesday on
board the Impregnable, at Plymouth, for the trial
of First-Lieutenant John Richard Mascall, Royal
Marines, upon a charge of drunkenness. The
court consisted of Rear-Admiral Sir T. S. Pasley,
and Captains R. S. Robinson, W. J. Williams, H.
J. Cockburn, W. H. Ste wart, and William East-
lake, Judge-Advocate. Captain E. G. Fanshawe,
of her Majesty's ship Trafalgar, prosecuted. The
charge was " that the said First-Lieutenant John
Richard Mascall, of tie Royal Marines, being
in active service, and full pay in her Majesty's
fleet, and serving on board her Majesty's ship
Trafalgar, was, on or about the Bth day of March,
1860, drunk on board the said ship." The prisoner
pleaded guilty. The court sentenced him to be re-
primanded, to lose two years' service in the Royal
Marines, and to be dismissed from her Majesty's
ship Trafalgar.
The naval transport Rochester and the transport
Falmouth have commenced shipping stores at
Chatham.

The Prussian frigate Thetis, Captain Jackmann,
accompanied by the schooner Frauenlob, sailed from
Spithead early yesterday morning for China. ihe
Elbe transport still remains at Spithead, and is not
expected to leave prior to the arrival of the Arcona
screw frigate from Southampton.
The Canaan hired transport, Capt. Wilson, sailed
from
Spithead yesterday morning for Deptford to
land Government stores.
The Firebrand, 6, paddle, Commander James M.
3harbour
e yesterday
e.
s
truce, steamed out of
head, where she will take in to
beforeSpit-
head,
proceeding on further
rvieher powder and shell
The Victoria and Albert, Royal paddle yacht, re-
ceived her superheating steam apparatus, under the
sheers in the steam basin at Portsmouth yesterday.
The Bulldog, 6,
padtodlae,bweratsh ye
from the steam basin
wall, and the Fire Queen, padadlelnt
wastender,the
taken into the steam basin
to complete repairs, &c.
The Rinaldo, 17, screw,
which has been built in
No. 7 dock at Portsmouth, has a number of hands
,engaged upon her to complete her coppering
and other necessary works, in di rea ness for her
undocking about the 22d instant. The Sutlej,
51, screw, which has been lengthened and converted
from a sailing to a screw frigate in No. 9 dock, has
also a large number of hands employed in caulking
s
and finishing the requisite portions of work for her
undocking about the same date. The Frederick
William, 86, screw, on No. 2 slip, has her figure-
head (a bust figure of Prince Frederick
William of
Prussia) in position. Her anchor has been brought
down and placed under her bows in readiness for
hoisting to her port cathead, prior to her launch on
the 24th inst.
Vice-Admiral If. W. Bruce, naval commander-in-
chief at Portsmouth, was entertained at dinner on
Wednesday. evening by the officers of the Ports-
mouthl division of Royal. Marine Light Infantry in
their mess-room, at the Forton barracks. Covers
were laid for 67.
A strong gale from the north-west prevailed at
Plymouth on Wednesday. During a sudden gust
1 the screw steamship Trafalgar, 90, Capt. E. G.
Fanshawe, broke adrift from her moorings in
' Hamoaze. Her anchor was let go immediately,
and she was brought up without damage.
The paddlewheel steam troopship Dee, Master
Commander T. C. Bullen, from Woolwich, with
machinery, arrived at Plymouth on Wednesday
evening.
The gunboat Plover, built to replace the vessel
of that name recently lost, has commenced receiving
her engioes, of 60 horse-power, from Messrs. Napier,
of Glasgow.
Mr. Wm. M. Harvey, 2d class assist.-engineer,
was yesterday appointed to the Nile ; and. Mr. L.
Brewer, acting 3d clew assist.-engineer to the Nile,
as supernumerary for clifTosal.

Although the Commodore Perry, just arrived
from Melbourne, was 118 days at sea, the cabin passengers
have signed an address, stating their entire satisfaction
with the sailing and conduct of the ship, and attributing
tthe protracted passage to calms and contrary winds.

N-E TY aRhAR,NIN ciIANGERy

The following new General Orders and Rules of
the High Court of Chancery, dated the Gth day of
March, 1860, have been issued by the Lord Chan-
cellor :

" The Right Hon. John Lord Campbell, Lord
High Chancellor of Great Britain, by and with the
advice and assistance of the Right Hon. Sir John
Romilly, Master of the Rolls, the Right Hon. the
Lord Justice Sir James Lewis Knight Bruce, the
Right Hon. the Lord Justice Sir George James
Turner, the Hon. the Vice-Chancellor Sir Richard
Torin Kindersley, the Hon. the Vice-Chancellor
Sir John Stuart, and the Hon. the Vice-Chancellor
Sir William Page Wood, doth hereby, in pursuance
and execution of all powers and authorities enabling
him in that behalf, order and direct in manner
following :

"I. F-rom and after the 15th day of April, 1860,
the practice of engrossing answers on parchment
shall be discontinued, and a defendant (except as
otherwise provided for by order No. 5) is to file his
answer, written bookwise, upon paper of the same
size and description as that on which bills are
printed.
"11. At the time when a defendant files his
answer he is to leave with the Clerks of Records
and Writs a fair copy thereof (without the sche-
dules, if any, of accounts or documents), and the
Clerks of Records and Writs are to examine and
correct such copy, with the answer filed, and re-
turn it so examined, with a certificate thereon, that
it is correct and proper to be printed.
" 111. A defendant is then to cause his answer to
be printed from such certified copy on paper of the
same size and description, and in the same type,
style, and manner on and in which bills are re-
quired to be printed, and before the expiration of
four days from the filing of his answer is to leave a
printed copy thereof with the Clerks of Records
and Writs, with a written certificate thereon by the
defendant's solicitor, or by the defendant if defend-
ing in person, that such print is a true copy of the
copy of the answer so certified; and if such printed
copy shall not be so left the defendant shall be
subject to the same liabilities as if no answer had
been filed.

" IV. At any time after the expiration of such
four days the defendant, within forty-eight hours
after the same shall have been demanded in writ-
ing, is to have ready for delivery to the plaintiff an
official and certified printed copy of the answer.
" V. Notwithstanding the preceding orders a
defendant is to be at librty to swear to and file a
printed answer.
" VI. On receiving from the plaintiff a demand
for an official and certified printed copy of the an-
swer, the defendant is to ;het a printed copy thereof
examined by the Clerks of Records and Writs, with
the answer as filed, and to stamp such copy with a
Chancery stamp for ss. ; and the Clerks of Records
and Writs, on finding that such eopy is duly stamped
and correct, are to certify thereon that the same is
a correct copy, and to mark the same as an office
copy.
" VII. Such copy is, on demand, to be delivered
to the plaintiff, who, on receipt thereof, is to pay to
the defendant the amount of the stamp thereon,
and at the rate of 4d. per folio for the same.
" VIII. The plaintiff is also to be entitled to de-
mand and receive from the defendant any addi-
tional number of printed copies of his answer, not
exceeding ten, on payment for the same at the rate
of one halfpenny per folio.
" IX. After all the defendants who are required
to answer shall have filed their answers, a co-de-
fendant is to be entitled to demand and receive from
any other defendant any number of printed copies
of his answer, not exceeding six, on payment for
the same at the rate of one halfpenny per folio.
" X. Office copies of schedules to answers of ac-
counts or documents are to be obtained according
to the practice now existing for obtaining office ,
copies of answers.

XI Where a plaintiff is required to answer in-
terrogatories he is to file his answer thereto, and to
get such answer 'printed, and to furnish printed
copies thereof iu the same manner as a defendant is
by these orders required to do with respect to his
answer.

" XII. The Clerks of Records and Writs are not
to certify or mark any printed copy of an answer
which has any alteration or interlineation in writing.
" XIII. No costs are to be allowed either as be-
tween party and party, or as between solicitor and
client, for any written brief of an answer unless the
Court shall direct the allowance thereof.

XIV. Solicitors are to be entitled to charge the
fees mentioned in the schedule hereto.

" XV. These orders are not to apply to answers
filed by defendants or by plaintiffs defending or
suing in forma pauperis, except oilier I.
" XVI. Written bills, pleas, demurrers, special
cases, duplicates of summonses originating proceed-
ings in Chambers, records for trial, interrogatories,
examinations, traversing notes, replications, supple-
mental statements, exceptions, and certificates to
be filed in the office of the Clerks of Records and
Writs, are to be written on paper of the same de-
scription and size as that on which bills are printed.
" Affidavits to be filed in the office of the Clerks
of Records and Writs are to be written on foolscap
paper bookwise. Depositions of witnesses are to be
written on foolscap paper bookwise or briefwise, as
the examiner may think fit. Provided, nevertheless,
that the Clerks of Records and Writs may receive
and file affidavits and depositions written otherwise
than as here directed, if, in their opinion, the cir-
cumstances of the case render such reception and
filing desirable or necessary.
" XVI. In these orders the following words have
the several meanings hereby assigned to them over
and above their several meanings, unless there be
something in the subject or context repugnant to
such construction (that is tc say), words importing
the singular number include the plural number, and
words importing the plural number include the
singular number, and words importing the mascu-
line gender include females.
[Here follow the schedule of fees in the foregoing
orders referred to.]

"CAMPBELL, C.
" JOHN ROMILLY, M. R.
" J. L. KNIGHT BRUCE, L.J.
" G. J. TURNER, L.J.
" RICTID. T. KINDERSLET, V.-C.
" JOHN STUART, V.-C.
" W. P. WOOD, V.-C."

PBOIIIOTIONS IN TILE

The working officers of the Army look with no
favour on Mr. S. Herbert's proposal to select the
Lieutenant-Colonels of Regiments from among the
Majors. They know too well the theory and prac-
tice of the Horse Guards in the distribution of
patronage. Unhappily, their fears are by no
means groundless. Only a few days ago Gene-
ral Ashburnham obtained a regiment, though he
had returned from the East in disobedience of
orders. And even now it is said that Lord
George Paget is about to replace General Law-
renson at Aldershott, though his lordship's ex-
ploits as commander of "Paget's Irregular Horse "
are not yet forgotten. This is only one of
many instances of the pertinacity with which the
Horse Guards stick to a Job. Only two years ago
an attempt was made to create the new office of In-
spector-General of-Cavalry in India for the benefit
of this nobleman, but it was frustrated by public
remonstrance. It was not quite tolerable that a
young nobleman, who had converted a first-rate
cavalry regiment into " Irregular Horse," and had,
after coming home from the Crimea during the cam-
paign, expressed a sensible reluctance to return to
his duties, should be sent to India to inspect the
troops of such men as Jacob and Sir Hope Grant.
His advancement was stopped for the time ; now
after two years he appears again upon the scene.
His lordship is to undertake the lucrative and not
unpleasant duty of commanding a brigade at Alder-
shott. His command will last five years ; and
during that period the model camp will be used for
the purpose, not of educating young officers who
are devoted to their profession, but of supplying a
yearly income to a gallant cavalier whose favoured
name is more than a substitute for zeal and in-
telligence. No doubt Cavalry officers are pre-
pared with sufficient coolness to assert that the
public know nothing of the matter, and that they
i
have no right to ntErfere with her Majesty's prero-
gative. Nor should we be surprised to find many
of them, like Lord Lucan, vindicating the excel-
lencies of the Cavalry officers against their own
written despatches, and some old veterans backing
them up. But the public have seen too much of
late years to put much faith in military opinions.
They have only to look at " Hart's Army List" to
satisfy themselves that soldiers both older and
better than Lord G. Paget are still unemployed.
In short, the • appointment of this new Brigadier
is only too consistent with the fact that Sir R.
Airey, K.C.8., and the Hon, Colonel Gordon re-
main at the Horse Guards,. at the very moment
when other staff officers are changed. Surely
if any real intention exists to remedy the system
which advanced these officers, neither Sir
Richard Airey, nor Colonel Gordon should have
been allowed to retain their present office a me-
meat longer than the two years.—Daily News.

THE WEST INDIA PACIFR; MAILS.

SOUTHAMPTON, FRIDAY.
The Royal Mail Company's steamer Shannon,
Capt. Abbott, with the above mails, has arrived,
bringing dates from Honduras to the 17th Feb.;
Grey Town, 15th ; Colon, 23d ; Demerara, 25th;
.... . _ _

Trinidad, 2ith ; Barbadoes, 27th; Grenada, 26th;
St. Vincent, 26th; Antigua, 29th; Jacmel, 28th;
Tobago, 24th ; St. Kitts, 29th ; and St. Thomas,
March Ist.

The Shannon brings 73 passengers, including R.
Seymour, Esq., Superintendent of British Honduras,
from Belise. Her specie consists of gold bullion
72,454 doL, silver bullion 233,910 dole., British coin
4,700 dols., pearls 6,060 dols., foreign gold coin
20,487 dols., foreign silver coin 113,718 dole., and
copper coin 370 dols.—total value 451,699 dole. Her
cargo comprises 55 serons cochineal, 77 sorons in-
digo, 467 bags cocoa, 148 seron bark, 3 bales to-
bacco, 13 tierces and 20 brls. coffee, and 125 pack-
ages of sundries.

The steamer with the outward mails of the 17th
ult. had not arrived out when the Shannon sailed.
At Jamaica her Majesty's ships Imam, Gladia-
tor, and Racer—the latter ship had lately arrived
from Havannah ; at Antigua the Atalanta; at
Grey Town the Gorgon ; at Carthagena the Cos-
sack.

On the 22d ult. the new British ship Peerless, on
her first voyage from Quebec to Liverpool, with tim-
ber, put into St. Thomas water-logged. She was to
discharge cargo for repairs.
Captain Lionel Lambert, of her Majesty's steamer
Vixen, was barbarously murdered on the 9th of
February at Lima. The unfortunate gentleman left
his hotel, at 3 o'clock in the afternoon, to take a
bath ; his friends were waiting for him to dine, but
he never returned. His body was afterwards found,
and a despatch addressed to Capt. Miller was still
on his person, but his ring and watch were stolen.
The back of his head was fractured, and his fore-
head fearfully cut. His wrists bore signs of a fear-
ful struggle with his murderers. 'The murder of
foreigners has become so frequent at Lima that the
Peruvian Government is certainly called upon for
its immediate suppression.
In Honduras great excitement prevailed at
Ruatan, in consequence of the signing of a treaty
for the unconditional surrender of the Bay Islands
to the Republic of Honduras ; an outbreak was ex-
pd.
bile:heirsiulegaArfecxroicpasnin Ctrooorpossahl
apdrotmi
taken
nd tosa benta
Cruz, the stronghold of the revolutionary Indians
in Yucatan, who had since mustered in Bacalar.
News of an attack was daily expected, and appre-
hensions were entertained of the Indians crossing
the British frontier at Corosal.

The West India islands generally are complain-
ing for want of labour, and anxious for the impor-
tation of immigrants, which would be doubtless of
essential service to the West Indian colonies. A
good crop is expected at St. Kitts, and the yield of
the canes on many estates is better than has been
for many years.
A large and valuable portion of the city of Bar-
badoes has been laid in ruins. A destructive fire
passed over it on the morning of the 14th, sweeping
away the principal business establishments, and in
many instances entire districts. The cathedral was
much injured from the explosions around. The fire
was said to be the act of an incendiary. The loss of
property is estimated at upwards of half a million
sterling, and only £30,000 is said to be insured. In
the market breadstuffs, provisions, &c., with some
few exceptions, were ample for wants, notwith.
standing the losses by fire, and arrivals gained no
advance on previous rates. Exchange on London
—Bank bills at 30 days, 490 dols.; 60 days, 4871
dols.; 90 days, 485 dols. ; private bills at 90 days,
480; bank bills on New York, 10 days, 1 per cent.
pm. ; 30 days, at par. Four per cent. discount for
private bills at 60 days' sight.
At Jamaica the past fortnight may be noted for
large and heavy sales of flour, meat, fish, &c.
Exchange on London.—Colonial Bank, 90 days,
1 per cent. pm. ; 60 days, 11 per cent. pm ; 30 days,
2 per cent. pm. Jamaica Bank, 90 days, 1 per cent.
pm. ; 60 days, 11 per cent. pm. ; 30 days, 2 per
(gent. pm. Merchants' bills, 90 days, par : Com-
sariat bills, 1 per cent. 30 days.

DREADFUL MURDER AT EIIREN-

.71REI2ST'E'IN.

The small town of Ehrenbreitstein, which lies at
the foot of the gigantic fortress of that name, has
been just frightened out of its propriety by the com-
mission of a dreadful murder within its quiet pre-
cincts. At the Coblenz Carnival on Shrove Tuesday
no character was more conspicuous than Herr
Meder, a well-to-do proprietor of a tavern adjoining
the post-office in Ehrenbreitstein. Disguised as a
buxom matron, :supposed to be celebrating her
silber-lsockzeit, or 28th anniversary of her wedding
day, he sat in a huge van drawn by eight horses.
Seated by the side of his consort, he dispensed nods
and smiles to the admiring crowd. A band of musi-
cians, in grotesque dresses, occupied the front of
the vehicle, while a humpbacked cook, in appro-
priate attire, waited on the wedding feast, and re-
plenished the spacious bowl of Rhine wine, from
which both bride and bridegroom indulged in fre-
quent potations. In the evening, at the bal masque
at the theatre, he was again the observed of all ob-
servers, his jovial countenance darkened by no
shadow of the fate impending over him. On the
Thursday night following he was brutally murdered
while asleep is his bed, with his wife and child,
the occupants of another bed in the same apartment.
His head was literally smashed to pieces with the
repeated blows of an axe found lying at the foot of
the bed. About 3 o'clock, some hours after the
commission of the deed, a servant, who slept in a
room above, was attracted by the cries of his
mistress, who was found tied hand and foot be-
hind the door of the room. She declared that
about 11 o'clock two men suddenly entered the
apartment, and at once proceeded to their bloody
business, one striking her sleeping husband a suc-
cession of blows, the first of which must have
been instantly fatal, his companion at the same
time threatening her with a similar fate if she made
the slightest noise or resistance. She was then
gagged and bound. The men then proceeded to
rob a secretaire in the adjoining apartment of
nearly 200 thalers, and then decamped. It is im-
possible to describe the sensation occasioned by this
shocking tragedy in Coblenz and Ehrenbreitstein.
The funeral of the murdered man, who was highly
esteemed, was attended by an immense multitude,
and gossip was rife as to who had perpetrated the
deed. At length, after the country had been unsuc-
cessfully scoured for many miles, suspicion fell upan
those nearer home. At a respectable school in
Coblenz was a teacher named Keller, a well-edu-
cated man, of prepossessing manners and person,
but of loose morals. It was whispered he carried
on a licentious intercourse with the wife of Meder,
a young and attractive woman. On the. day pre-
ceding the murder, but after the termination of the
Carnival he hired a beard and a blouse. The former
he returned on the following day, but the blouse
has not been forthcoming, and the account he gives
of it is highly unsatisfactory; but suspicion is not
confined to him. His paramour, the wife of the
murdered man, is deeply implicated. By entries in
Keller's memorandum-book it appears he has lately
received considerable sums of money from the
woman ; but the darkest discovery is that of a
bloody footmark near the secretaire containing the
money of the unfortunate man, in the room adjoin-
ing to that in which ho slept, and which exactly
corresponds with the foot of the woman ; but, as
she was discovered bound hand and foot and inca-
pable of moving, it is presumed she herself assisted
to rifle the secretaire, and then submitted to be
bound. in order to give an appearance of her being
rather a victim than an accomplice. Keller is in
prison and the woman under strict surveillance. At
the July assizes at Neuwied, where the trial will take
place, the facts, such as have been collected, will
be fully disclosed, and the guilt or innocence of the
suspected persons pronounced. In the meantime
the occurrence excites the greatest interest in the
neighbourhood,

REFRESHMENT HOUSES AND WINE LICENSES
BILL.—The bill brought into the House of Commons by
the Chancellor of the Exchequer to regulate the licensing
of refreshment houses and the granting of wine licences was
issued yesterday with the Parliamentary papers. The bill
contains 36 clauses. The following is a summary of the
most important :—After the passing of the bill licenses will
be granted at the following rates and duties :—For every
licence to keep a refreshment-house—if the house and pre-
mises in respect of which such licence shall be granted shall
be under the rent and value of £2O a-year, 10s. 6d. ; and if
the same shall be of the rent or value of £2O a-year or up-
wards, £1 Is. And for every licence to be granted as here-
inafter mentioned to any licensed keeper of a refreshment-
house to sell therein by retail foreign wine to be consumed
in such house, or on the premises belonging thereto—if
such house and premises shall be under the rent and value
of £5O a-year, £3 35.; and if the same shall be of the rent
or value of £5O a-year or upwards, £5 ss. ; and for every
licence to be taken out by any person for the selling by re-
tail in any shop of foreign wine not to be consumed in the
house or shop or on the premises where sold, £3 32.