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THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, PE BRUARY 8, 1860,

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year in which it was cast), has been affixed, and is
of excellent tone. The large Russian bell taken
from Sebastopol is now in ttse at Sir William Arm-
strong's rifle ordnance department.
The braneh railway connecting the Royal Arsenal
with the North Kent Railway, near the Plnmstead
station, has been completed, and will be of the ut-
most advantage for the conveyance of heavy goods
and munitions of war direct to various military
home stations.

DII HOWITT'S NEW WORK.
Just ready, in 3 ♦ols.,
THE MAN OF THE PEOPLE.
By WILLIAM lIOWITT.
Hurst and Blackett, Publishers, successors to Henry Col-
burn, 13, Great K ariborough-street.

The Collingwood, 80, sailing ship of the line,
which has been sent from Portsmouth to Chatham
to be cut down and converted into a screw steamer,
is ordered to be removed from Chatham to Sheer-
ness for that purpose.
The screw corvette Charybdis, 21, 400-horse
power, proceeded from Folly-point, Chatham, to
Sheerness, yesterday morning, to be attached to
the first division of the steam reserve in ordinary
at that port.
The screw steamer Rodney, 91, will, according
to present arrangements, be taken into dock at
Chatham to-day, to be completed for the first
division of the steam reserve.
The Ariadne, 26, screw, Captain E. W. Vansit-
tart, got under weigh yesterday morning from
Spithead, and after making two runs to east-
ward of the Warner, proceeded to the measured
mile in Stoke's Bay to test her altered screw.
Four runs were made with very good results, but
during the last two runs the wind had veered from
W.N.W. to W., and freshened considerably, and
the trial was in consequence again deferred. Even
under these unfavourable circumstances the mean
of the four ruas gave the ship a slight increase of
speed over that of the last trial, and also a great
decrease in the vibration. As the trial is intended
to test the comparative merits of the Ariadne's
screw with its leading corners on and off, it is ne-
cessary that both trials should take place under as
similar circumstances of wind and weather as pos-
sible. Should the force of the wind have decreased
from yesterday, it is intended to resume the trial
agaiu this morning.
The. Queen, 86, screw, Captain C. F. Hillyar, was
officially inspected yesterday at Spithead by Rear-
Admiral the Hon. George Grey, who proceeded to
Spithead on board her Majesty's paddle steamer
Fire:Queen. The Queen then steamed to Portland.
The Pigmy, paddle steamer, Master Commander
Johnstone, arrived at Portsmouth yesterday from
the westward.
The Princess Royal, 91, screw, was placed yes-
terday in N. 2 dock at Portsmouth, to complete
repairs.
The Bulldog, 6, paddle, was yesterday removed
from the old ship basin at Portsmouth to the steam
basin, and berthed alongside the south quay, to
prepare for service.
The Flying Fish, 6, screw, Commander C. W.
Hope, is expected to pay her crew at Portsmouth
to-clay and grant them leave ashore.
The screw steamship Arrogant, 47, Commodore
William Edmonstone, left at Ascension, December
27, by the Vesuvius, captured on the Line an
empty brigantine, which was sent to Sierra Leone,
in charge of Lieut. Allen C Adams.
The Severn, 51, screw-frigate, which has been
some time in Chatham dock converting from a sail-
ing-ship to a screw-frigate, was undocked yester-
day, and will be taken to Sheerness to be fitted
with her engines and machinery.
The screw steam sloop Greyhound, 17, Comman-
der Sullivan, having embarked supernumeraries,
left Plymouth Sound on Monday, under canvas,
for Portland.
The officers and crew of the Fisgard flag-ship,
Commodore-Superintendent the Hon. J. R. Drum-
mond, were paid down at Woolwich yesterday.
The screw steam schooner Ranger, hunched at
Deptford, and fitted by Messrs. Rennie and Co.
with a couple of 80-horsepower engines (nominal),
yesterday proceeded down the measured mile from
'Woolwich, the engines working smoothly without
any vibration at 90 revolutions per minute, working
up to nearly 400 indicated horse-power. The speed
was not taken in consequence of her not being
coppered and the launching elects not being re-
moved.
The launching-ways for the Barossa screw-fri-
gate are now being laid down at Woolwich, and in
accordance with the Admiralty instructions the
vessel will be launched on the 10th March.
PEMBROKE DOCKYARD.—The construction of
another gun-vessel is to be immediately proceeded
with at Pembroke ; she is to be called the Nimble,
and is to be built in the same shed and from the
same lines as the Espoir, recently launched from
No. 6 slip. The Nimble will be the third of these
fast despatch vessels built at Pembroke, and the
following will be her chief dimensions :
Ft.
Length between perpendiculars l4 In.
5 0
Ditto of keel for tonnage 127 10
Breadth, extreme
Ditto for tonnage
Ditto moulded ..
Depth of hold .................. 13 0
She will be fitted with engines of . . 80-horse power.
One of the lanterns composin ; Mr. H. Ward's
apparatus for marine signals, called the " ocean
marine telegraph," was again tested at Woolwich
on Monday evening, in the presence of Commodore-
Superintendent the Hon. James R. Drummond,
C. 8., Aide-de-Camp to the Queen, Commander
Edward Hawker, and other officials, by desire of
the Lords of the Admiralty, preparatory to its being
appropriated for the service of her Majesty's ships
of war. The lantern, fitted with the improved
lever system of working the signals from the deck
of a ship, is of quadrilateral shape, exhibiting an
equal light to the four points of the horizon. This was
hoisted at the masthead of her Majesty's ship Fisgard.
The steam tug Bustler, having Mr. Thomas,Mr.Hall,
and other naval officers on board, got under weigh
and proceeded down the river to carry out observa-
tions and report on the effect. The lights were
pronounced to be exceedingly good, and were easily
distinguished from the ordinary signal lamps at
present in use, among which the lantern was placed.
A stiff breeze was blowing at the time, but the wind
did not interfere with the thorough working of the
apparatus, which was perceptible on board the
Bustler until the bend of the river obstructed the
sight. A further trial will be made in a few days
with the complete set of three lanterns. The Com-
modore expressed himself extremely gratified with
the invention.

•
immediate despatch of an European regiment,
should it be in your Excellency's power to spare
one for this service. Its arrival will have the best
effect, whatever decision her Majesty's Government
may ultimately adopt.
I do not know whether Admiral Hope will be able
to despatch one of the troop-ships now in China, to
which the general alludes. The other is at present
used as the hospital for the wounded, and certainly
could not be made available for some time. I will
communicate with him immediately ; but if your
Excellency has at your disposal the means of afford-
ing assistance, I think it would be advisable not to
delay it.—l have, &e.,
(Signed) FREDERICK W. A. BRUCE.

Ordeta received at all the Libraries.

Plllustra A ted.
ready.

No. 2.
LORD J. RUSSELL TO MR. BRUCE.
(Extract.)
Foreign-office, October 29, 1859.
From the terms of your despatch of the 10th
August,* I infer that, at the time when you wrote
it, you thought it net improbable that the Chinese
Government might shortly address to you some
communication with the view of inviting you to
proceed to Pekin for the exchange of the ratifica-
tions of the treaty of Tien-tsin.
If any such proposal has been made to you, and
if it be still unanswered when y6u receive this de-
spatch, you will state, in reply, that you are not
authorised to entertain it until the Chinese Go-
vernment shall have made a formal apology for the
act of the troops who fired on her Britannic Ma-
jesty's ships of war from the Takoo forts in June
last.

You will add that her Majesty's Government re-
quire that, when you go to Pekin for the exchange
of the ratifications of the treaty, you shall proceed
up the Peiho river to Tien-tsin in a British vessel,
and that provision be made by the Chinese autho-
rities for the conveyance of yourself and your suite
with due honour from Tien-tsin to Pekin.
Should the assurance given to you by the Chinese
Government on these heads be satisfactory, you
will make arrangements for proceeding to Pekin at
the earliest period at which it may be safe and con-
venient for you to undertake the voyage. It will
be proper that a naval force should accompany you
to the mouth of the Peiho, and directions to this
effect will be forwarded to Admiral Hope,
Should you experience any unbecoming treat-
ment, either at Pekin or on your journey to or from
the capital, you will return to the gulf and place
the matter in the hands of the naval Commander- I
in- Chief.
You fill take an early opportunity of apprising.
the Ministers of the Emperor of China that, in con-
sequence of the attempt made to obstruct your pas•
sage to Pekin in June last, when you were proceed-
ing thither to exchange the ratifications of the
treaty of Tien-tsin, her Majesty's Government con-
sider that the understanding entered into between
the Earl of Elgin and the Imperial Commissioners
Kweiliang and Hwashana, with respect to the resi-
dence of the British Minister in China, is at an end,
and that it rests henceforward exclusively with her
Majesty, by the terms of Article 11. of the treaty of
Tien-tsin, to decide whether or not she shall in-
struct her Minister to take up his a')ode perma-
nently at Pekin.
If, however, no pacific overtures shall have been
addressed to you by the Chinese Government before
1 the time when this despatch reaches you, you will,
immediately on its receipt, communicate to the
Prime Mini: ter of the Emperor the demands of her
Majesty's Government, as stated above, and inform
him that, unless, within a period of 30 days from
the date of your communication, you receive from
him a reply conveying to you the Emperor's un-
qualified assent to these demands, the British naval
and military authorities will proceed to adopt such
measures as they may deem advisable for the pur-
pose of compelling the Emperor of China to observe
the engagements contracted for him by his Pleni-
potentiaries at Tien-tsin, and approied by his Im-
perial edict of July, 1858.
On grounds of humanity her Majesty's Govern-
ment would be desirous, if possible, to avoid the
necessity of having to undertake military operations
on a great scale against the capital of the Chinese
empire. They will learn, therefore, with satisfac-
tion that the measures which I have indicated have
had the desired effect, and induced the Chinese
Emperor to accede to the moderate terms which by
this despatch you are instructed to offer for his ac-
ceptance.

It is necessary, however, to be prepared for a
different result, and it is the intention of her Ma-
jesty's Government to make such arrangements as
will enable a considerable military force to be de-
spatched from the south with the change of the
monsoon, if it should be then requisite to undertake
operations on land.

Capt. Moorsom died on Saturday last at his
brother's house at Brighton. Capt. Moorsom has
been in a very weak state of health for some time,
and resigned the command of the Diadem about four
months ago, so that this event was not altogether
unexpected, though very sudden, arising from the
rupture of one of the vessels of the heart. Capt.
Moorsem was within a few days of 44 years of age.
He entered the navy at 14. Although he obtained
the " gold medal" of his year at the Naval College,
he was not made lieutenant till seven years after he
had served his full time as mate, and then his hope
of further promotion appeared so small that he was
frequently on the point of quitting the service. The
invention of his "shell," however, brought him into
notice. He served in the first Chinese war, and soon
after the breaking out of that with Russia, being
then a post captain, he was appointed to the Fire-
brand, whose commander had been killed at the
mouth of the Danube. He never joined that ship,
but was employed on shore with Capts. Lushington,
Keppel, Peel, and Hay, in the Naval Brigade.
He had a large share in the organisation of that
force, and was the only officer, we believe, with one
exception, who served with it through all the bom-
bardments until it was broken up at the fall of
Sebastopol. Capt. Moorsom was a C. 8., a Chevalier
of the Legion of Honour, and had the Order of the
Medjidie, together with, of course, the Chinese,
Crimean, and Turkish medals. He gave his inven-
tion of the "shell," or, more properly, "percussion
fuze," to the Government, and it has been for some
years adopted in the service. He wrote a treatise
ou the Manoeuvring of Steam Fleets.
The following appointments were made yesterday
at the Admiralty :—Commander IL M. Elliot to be
Inspecting Commander of the Coastguard, vice
Commander Luckraft, appointed to the Hastings,
for service in the Royal Naval Reserve ; T. E.
Miller, ravel cadet, to the Emerald ; R. P. W.
Powney, midshipman, to the Mersey; Benjamin
Greetham, chief engineer, to the Castor, additional,
for service in the Naval Reserve ; Thomas Scott (c),
third-class assistant-engineer, to the Alecto; James
M'Arthur, acting third-class assistant-engineer, to
the Nile ; and Joseph Russell, acting third-class
assistant-engineer, to the Fisgard, as supernumerary.

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EWS PAP E R

COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH-.
(Sittings at Nisi Prius, before the Lord Chief Justice
Cockburn and a Special Jury.)
WELZENSTEIN AND WIFE T. STOHWASSER-EXTRA.
ORDINART CASE.

•
This extraordinary case, in which the plaintiff
claimed damages for an assault committed by the
defendant, by kissing the plaintiff's wife, and also
made a demand for money for goods delivered to
the defendant, was resumed this morning.
The following evidence was adduced •
Joseph Stohwasser, the defendant, said—l have
carried on business as a master tailor in London fOr
26 years. I am governor of several charities in
London. I received a letter from the Austrian
Embassy, telling me to go to 5, Charlotte-street, and
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sawd‘l, Madame Welzenstein.
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great
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who it belonged to, and she said, " It
is mine." • 1
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was Borfeld's. She said her husband
had gone to
in America in May, and she had pawned everything
without food for several days. I gave her crown, which was all I had in my pocket. I called,
I believe, the next day, and gave herhalf-a-sovereign.
I was surprised to see her in such comfort at the
lodgings, and she said the apartments belonged to a
friend of her husband's, a Mr. Steinfeld, whose wife
was too delicate to live there. I did not see Steinfeld
until October. Madame Welzenstein celled upon
me, and asked me to recommend her to the German
Society of Benevolence, of which I am chairman.
The society gave her a pound. She called in a few
days, and asked for relief as the sovereign had been
chiefly paid in rent, and she had nothing to live
upon. I then gave her half-a-crown. I told her
she must not call upon me so often for relief. She
said she could work and wash, and had orders for
work from several ladies, and only wanted money to
enable her to execute them. She said she had AOlllll
articles pledged, and had spent a few shillings from
time to time as interest, in order not to lose them.
I said she should sell the things. She said she could
not find a buyer, and she ultimately brought the
tickets to me. I gave money to my foreman to re-
deem them, and he did so. The goods were brought
to my shop in Conduit-street. It cost me bstweee.
£2l and £22 to redeem the things. I put aside the
articles which were no use to me, and she took
them away. She wanted me to buy the articles
left for ,E 5. I said I thought they were worth
more, and if sold would produce more. I think the
shawl valued by the plaintiff at £2O was pledged
with some other articles for 325. I bought a new
one since for £3. I believe it is better than the
plaintiff's. I believe it is the same character of
shawl. [The embroidered shirts described as being
worth £2 each, and several other articles, were
he e produced.] I let her have, beyond the £2l
paid to the pawnbroker, about £l3 for these
things. It was more than they were
worth. She had it from time to time. She ex-
pressed herself grateful to me, She tried to kiss
my hand every time she "e'aine ; and when she
could not catch my hand, she would catch my
knees—(laughter)—or anything else—the tail of
my coat. (Laughter.) She offered my foreman a
piece of :silk for 10s. 6d., which was worth more,
for his trouble. He refused it, of course. When
she was ill she asked me not to let her go to the
hospital, and I sent my own doctor to attend her.
He is Dr. Live. He made no charge to me for at-
tending her. I did not like her to be coming to me
so ones, il:Id I asked her to send her friend to me.
Steinfeld then called on me in October. I had no
idea then she was Weizenstein. He said she was
the wife of a brother officer who was looking up his
uncle in America. (Laughter.) He said he was a
man living on his own means.
A history' of the plaintiff's life, furnished by bins
to the defendant at his r:quest, was here put in. It
stated that the plaintiff attributed his leaving
Venice to his clandestine marriage and political
meetings.
Examination continued—l never suggested to
the plaintiff's wife; in his absence, that she should
enter the service of a widower.
I swear I did not write either of the letters to
Madame Welzenstein.
Mr. Kenealy then replied on the whole case.
The Lord Chief Justice, in summing up, said this
was a most remarkable and singular case. The de-
fendant swore positively these letters were not
written by him. If this was a conspiracy and
fraud, for the purpose of extorting money, one
would not be surprised if forgery was resorted
to for the purpose of carrying it out ; but, fortu-
nately, they could compare the alleged forgeries
with the writing which was admittedly the de-
fendant's.

The jury looked at the documents, and without a
moment's further deliberation, returned a verdict
for the defendant.
The Foreman—The jury desire me to express
their opinion that the defendant leaves the court
without the slightest imputation on his character.
Mr. Prentice, on behalf of the defendant, re-
quested his lordship to direct that the letters,
alleged to be written by the defendant to the plain•
tiff's wife, should be impounded as forgeries.
The learned judge directed that all the docu-
ments should be impounded, and certified for a spe-
cial jury.

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MURDER AND SUICIDE AT COVENTRY.

Not two months have elapsed since the extreme
penalty of the law was executed at Warwick on the
wretched man' John Kington, who, it will be re-
membered, was sentenced to death at the last assizes
for the brutal murder of his wife. Another crime
has been committed within the precincts of the same
city, of a nature, if possible, even more revolting
than the preceding one. The crime is that of wife
murder. The murderer, who also put an end to his
own existence in a most determined and fearful
manner, was a butcher named Henry Fawson.
Some 14 or 15 years ago he married the woman
whom he has now in so horrible a way deprived of
life. Shortly after their marriage, it appears, they
separated, certain circumstances having come to the
husband's knowledge which caused him to suspect
his wife's chastity previous to their union. The
husband went to America ; the wife, we believe,
remained at home. Certainly she did not accom-
pany him. Thirteen years, or about that period,
elapsed, and the husband returned to his native
country—not a wealthy man, for on his return he
seems to have set up a small butcher's shop in a
district of the city inhabited principally by the
working classes, called Hillfields,in the vicinity of
which is the scene of the recent murder by Kington.
About five months ago his wife came to live with
him again,:and since then and up to the time of her
death she has been.sheltered under his roof. Faw-
son is said to have possessed a very violent and hasty
temper, and it is believed by the neighbours that
ever since their reunion they have not lived on the
best terms. On Monday, from circumstances which
came under the cognisance of the neighbours, it was
known that he was not so good-tempered even as
usual towards his wife, though he did not alarm
the neighbours by any violent outburst of passion.
The unfortunate couple appear to have retired to
bed about their usual hour on Monday night.
Nothing more was heard of them till betweed 2 and
3 o'clock this morning, when the people in the
adjoining house heard some slight groans pro-
ceed from Fawson's dwelling, and a noise such as
wnogulddobwenp. rodsuocoend byat
after
someheavyyester
dsubstance
morning falla-
igrocer named Wakeman, also a next-door neigh-
bourder" proceed from the house
to Fawson, heard groans aonfdtchreieslaottfer". Munro-
e namedeN
the S n
violenta pe , f
theinformedmae t
ashopkeeper
eo,
pwolst t
character of Fawson, advised Wakeman to take no
steps in the matter, but to wait and see whet
further transpired. Nine o clock passed, and Wake-
man expressed his firm conviction that Fawson and
his wife were murdered. His suspicions were con-
firmed by the fact that neither of them had made
their appearance, and the shutters of the shop were
not removed according to custom at such an- hour.
Ten o'clock passed, and, the house still remaining
closed, it was resolved to force an entrance. This
was effected by means of a back window, Snape
and a policeman being the first to enter the house.
The bedroom
prescuteda terrible spectacle. The
b
bedstead and beddino.
The wretched man I` the cieling and the floor,
a
were all besmeared ; d
b
a \NI.
son
lay e s tt
e red
"doubled
with
übpLooadt.
the foot of the bed, his throat cut, stabbed in his
breast, and his brains scattered about him. It is
evident that in the heat of his passion he cut and
stabbed himself in ineffectual efforts to destroy
life, and then, being unable to despatch himself so
quickly as lie wished with a knife, he went dosVn
stairs and procured a gun, with which he retu'rned
and shot himself through the head. Both weapons
lay near at hand. On the bed lay the unfortunate
woman, his wife, weltering in her blood. Her
throat had been cut in a most determined and
effectual manner. Both were quite dead and cold.

THE DEBT or INDIA.—The total amount of the
stocks, loans, debts, &c., chargeable on the East Indian
revenues in India in April, 1858, was £72,426,828, of which
X 60,600,513 bore interest, and .£ 11,826,315 did not. In Ent.
lanes at the end of last year the amount was £30,587,831,
including £4,979,517 of Inclia Bonds, £14,956,000 of India
Dehentures, £4,999,000 of Five per Cent. Stock, and
£4,087,080 capital of India railways remaining in the home
Treasury. The registered debt of India (in India) is
£50.799,601 bearing interest, and £66,511 not bearing in.
terest.