The Sun.
London, England, 1856-08-20 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVEN-INCE AUGUST 20, 1856;

play the capabilities of the celebrated 13-inch mortars,
which could not be fired in harbour without the risk of
shattering every pane of glass in the town. The Vice-
regal visit, therefore, confined itself to a mere round of
inspection, with a short sail as far as the Mugglins, the
probable bject of which was to look after the missing
vessels. His Excellency was accompanied by Lady
Dover, Sir Charles Wood, Lady Mary Wood, and Miss
Wood, Lord Cowper and the Hon. Mr. Cowper, Mr. F.
Howard, Hon. Colonel Ponsonby, Captain Everard,
Captain Willis, Captain Williams, and Captain Butler,
aide-de-camp, and the Viceregal party were conveyed on
board the yacht in two barges manned by portions of the
crew of the Osborne, that in which his Excellency was
conveyed being steered by Captain Bowes, Lieutenant-
Commander, R.N. As his Excellency mounted the side
of the Osborne a salute of 21 guns was fired from some 1
of the smaller guns of the attendant vessel with magni- I
ficentlffect, and, having spent a considerable time in
examining the internal arrangements of the noble yacht,
his Excellency was then put on board the Forth, mortar-
frigate, Lord John Hay commander, where he was re-
ceived with all formalities, the yards manned, &c. The
Forth was an old 44-gun frigate cut down and fitted up
as a mortar-vessel with a very heavy armament, com-
prising, in addition to 10 or 12 ordinary guns, two 68-
pounders and two 13-inch mortars. Having been con-
ducted over her decks, his Excellency next went on
board the beautiful yacht, but a few hours arrived, the
property of Sir Alex. Bannerman, on quitting which his
Excellency then returned to the Osborne, which imme-
diately slipped her anchor and stood out to sea, where
she underwent rather a severe tossing. The trip lasted
about an hour and 10 minutes, and on the return of the
vessel his Excellency and suite entered the special train,
which was in waiting at the terminus, and were conveyed
to town in the marvellously short period of 7i minutes.
His Excellency was attended by Mr. Waller, one of the
directors, and Mr. Muggeridge, the secretary of the com-
pany, and was received upon the jetty by Lieutenant
Hutchinson, R.N., harbour-master."

DOVE AND THE " WIZARD."

The following letter appears in the Leeds Mercury :
" TO TEE EDITOR o➢' THE LEEDS MERCURY.
" Gentlemen,—l take it for granted that you are suf-
ficiently honourable to allow me a little space in your in-
fluential journal to set myself right with the public on the
subject of the day, relative to the late William Dove.
" Had you, gentlemen, been in full possession of one-
half the facts of the case, you would not have written
such severe strictures against my character and profes-
sion as you have done. I know you better ; but I
blame you for being too hasty in the matter.
"A more scandalous, unsatisfactory, and impudent
statement never appeared in prin than that which came
out'in your Tuesday's impression. It appears to me,
and to hundreds more in this town, that Dove's villan- ,
ous habit of lying followed hiss even to his prison, and to
the scaffold t I tell you, gentlemen, and can give you 0
ample proof of the truth of my assertion, that not one-
tenth part of Dove's statement in his prison is true. I
have uniformly wished him to behave well to his wife,
and to go home and use kind conciliating language to
her, and 'she would then meet him with a smile. And
he admits that.
" The statement made by Dove in June should have
been in the hearing of Hardcastle, who declares that all
he (Dove) says is a tissue of lies that can be very soon
refuted.
" Gentlemen, if the conductors of the press kne v half
as much about me as they should do in a case of this
nature, they would forbear to treat me in the manner
they are doing.
" I have been the means of lifting up out of a sick bed
numbers who are living in and about Leeds, and who
would be glad to meet any of my traducers in court to
prove that I have cured men of the dropsy and other
complaints which the faculty, numbers of them, had
abandoned as incurable ; and as you, gentlemen, for my
credit, and equally honourable to yourselves as public
instructors, declare that I, Henry Harrison, would have
been horrifisid' at the very thought of Dove resorting
to poison to get rid of his wife—a most amiable and
lovely woman, too good for such a wretch as him, who
has, I am sure, died with a lie in his mouth, and lived
in the midst of sinful dissipation and folly.
"I always told Dove that he never would be happy
with his wife until she should bring him some children,
and that it would be much better that he should sepa-
rate from her if he could not live agreeable with her ;
that it was no credit to him to be continually torment-
ing a woman who could not yield him those blessings
which nature forbad her to give, viz., a half-dozen chil-
dren, which he, Dove, pretended to long for.
"Gentlemen, it will be of no use me attempting to
deny any one particular statement made by that profli-
gate and unfeeling criminal, as I declare to you, upon
my honour, that there is scarcely a sentence of it true ;
and whatis true is told in such a raving, incoherent man-
ner, that the public—aye, the public—have seen the
folly of publishing it, and that same discerning public
declare 'that the document ought not to have been put
into print.'
" Gentlemen, I know that you have been imposed
upon by the made-up tales' for Dove's defence ; your
better nature has given way to the bland remarks of the
' Mad Doctors' who have been charmed,' and bound
with a spell' of some colour and shape best known to
themselves ; but all were not agreed.
"No, gentlemen, neither are all the people of Leeds
agreed about your leader of Tuesday last, and think it
very hard upon one whom you yourselves declare that
I should have been horrified with the idea of Dove poi-
soning his wife.'
"Gentlemen, the conductors of the press are not all
England, and the people nowadays are too shrewd to be
led away by such foolish and wicked statements as those
made in York Castle to Mr. Barret. .
" The judge who tried the case told Sir G. Grey 'that
Dove was legally guilty, and morally responsible' for
the crime of murdering his poor innocent wife.
" If I bad no better patients and friends than Wm.
Dove to requite rue for my advice I should have been
a poor man myself.
" Gentlemen, both I and Hardcastle declare, upon our
honour, that that tale about the five coppers' being
thrown about the barn to put 'spell' upon King, and
thereby cause him to re-let the farm to Dove, was a pure
burlesque upon the simpleton,. made out by some wag
in the neighbourhood, who found Dove but too credu
lous to believe anything or anybody who could play
upon his foolish imagination arid 'selfish propensities.'
" God help any man who may have dealings' with
such an 'evil one' as the late profligate Win. Dove. I
lost pounds Ly him in time and money, and he would
never own that he was under any obligations for advice,
either from me or any one else. I trust that no such men
as Dove will ever enter my door again to ask me for
either advice or assistance under any such domestic
troubles as brought Dove to the gallows. The more I
am known the less influence will the press have in try-
ing to put me down. It may have a contrary effect.
What I have done professionally cannot be depreciated
by the gentlemen of the press, because the recipients of
relief administered by my skill will never cease to ea-
press their gratitude for what I have done for them
while they live. Only last night, and on Saturday night,
the subject was canvassed over in my favour by scores
of gentlemen in different parts of Leeds, and sent to me
for my satisfaction and comfort.
" Gentlemen,—l am preparing for the press a some•
thing which will alter your opinion, and the opinions of
those of the London press as well, I hope, and some-
, thing which will prove to my countrymen that Henry
Harrison is and will continue to be, not an impost ir,
but a real benefactor of his species.
" Gentlemen, I commit this letter to your care, and
hope to see it in the columns of the Leeds zWercuey of
to-morrow's impression; and am, geLtleman, yours grate-
fully for the notice you have taken of me—•it will do me
good.
" HEN. HARRISON.

" Leeds, August 18, 1856.
" Postscript—Dove declares that he had not seen
me from January to the 6th March ;' then he says that
he met me in my warehouse opposite nay house, and that
was in February,' and there 1 promised to make him
some belladonna.' How any reliance can be placed upon
such statements is to me, and to hundreds in Loads, a
complete mystery.'
" Gentlemen, I solemnly declare that I never saw
Dove from the first week in January to the 6th March,
as be says, so that you see Dove convicts himself ! Ana
surely, gentlemen, after such statements, and many
others of the same kind, you, on calm reflection, will see
that I am an injured man until they are refuted, and
your well-known impartiality will do that in a case of
this nature.
I was bred and born in Boar•lane, and was never
two miles out of Leeds to live in my life as a resident.
I never had any occasion to advertise, as the cures I
make recommend themselves.

" Dove declares that he never give his wife the
etrychnia for the purpose of taking away her life ! He
said he was ' muddled' in his brain before giving her
that deadly poison !"

an assault by the said Thomas Askren, who had broken
a heavy stick over the shoulders of a debtor for hav-
ing, as he (Askren) supposed, pointed him out as the
hangman. When one of the officers (who, it is said,
procured Askren's services) stated to Mr. Noble that
we (the debtors) were sho sing whom we supposed to be
the hangman, Mr. Noble replied, "Not the supposed,
but the hangman ;' and the officer replied Yes !' Mr,
Pears, the schoolmaster, also denies having written the
letter (or given any authority or sanction to use his sig-
nature) which appeared in the Manchester Examiner and
Times of Thursday last. The writer of both letterd is
well known here. Had the debtor's name been men
tioned in the journals, no one here would have found
fault ; and it is not from any animosity to the man that
I trouble you with this letter, but from a sense of duty
I owe to myself and brother debtors.—l am, gentlemen,
respectfully, " JAMES FINLINSON.
• " P.S.—I may add that from half-past ten to a quar-
ter-past twelve, on the 9th instant, Askren was nowhere
to be found ; we suspected him, and one of our number
saw him draw the bolt. "J. F."

ANOTHER CAPITAL CONVICTION.

DISTRESSING SCENE IN A COURT OF
JUSTICE.

LrvErtrou, Tuesday.—At the South Lancashire As-
sizes, holding at Liverpool, before Mr. Justice Willis,
yesterday,
James Bracken (24), labourer, and Andrew Bracken
(21), labourer—two brothers—were indicted for having,
at Manchester, on the 28th June, 1856, wilfully killed
and murdered William Bates. They bad also been
committed on the ccroner's inquisition for the murder
of Bates. The prosecution was conducted by Mr. Hig-
gins, and the defence by Mr. Tindal Atkinson and Mr.
M'Donnell.

It appeared from the statement of the learned counsel
for the prosecution, and from the evidence for the pro-
secution, that on the night of the 28th of June a person
named Taylor and the deceased were coming down
George-street, Mime, about nine o'clock in the even-
ing, and, having spent the day together in public-houses,
they were not quite sober. In George-street is a beer-
house called the Brown Cow, and when they got to that
place they saw the two prisoners fighting a man, whom
they chased into a beer-house. Immediately Taylor
and Bates got near to where the fight had taken place
one of the prisoners made a blow at Taylor, who went
away for a policeman, leaving the deceased there, and
when he came back Bates had bees removed. Both
the prisoners struck the deceased, who was knocked
down more than once, and while down the prisoner
Andrew came up and kicked him on the head several
times. He was found in the street in an insensible state
and taken to the infirmary, where he was attended by a
surgeon, who found him bruised in several places ; there
was a very extensive fracture of the skull, and the cause of
Bates's death was an effusion of blood on the brain.
Having had his wounds dressed he was removed to the
police-station next door, but he died during the course of
that evening, and was insensible from the time of his re-
ceiving the kicks on the head until the time of his death.
Both the prisoners, it appeared had been drinking from
noon till 9 o'clock at night. As the deceased and Taylor
approached the beer-house, where the prisoners were
fighting with a man, one of the prisoners was heard to cry
out—" Here are two brothers, who will face us men
After the deceased ha I been struck and knocked down,
the prisoner, Andrew Bracken, knocked him down again
on the flags, and kicked him on his head more than once.
A witness, named Mrs. Ann Smith, who was passing
down the street, raised the deceased up, but he was
knocked down again and kicked in the middle of his back
and on the top of his head. Mrs. Smith shouted
" Murder !" and told the prisoner, Andrew Bracken,
that he would kill the man. Andrew replied, " We'll
kill the —!" and again kicked him. The affray lasted
about a quarter of an hour, and there had been a ring
formed, in which the parties were fighting. James
Bracken was seen -to strike the deceased a heavy blow
on the bridge of the nose, which knocked him down, and
Andrew then said he would break his head and let his
brains out, after saying which he ran up to Bates, who
was lying on the flags, and kicked him several times on
the head. The people round about called out " Murder,
murder ! The man is killed, the man is killed !" The
deceased was then taken insensible to the police-station,
where he died. About two hours afterwards Mr. Foster,
house-surgeon to the Salford Dispensary, made a post
mortem examination of the deceased, and found the skull
fractured and a considerable effusion of blood on the
brain, which had caused death.
For the defence of the prisoners their respective coun-
sel contended that the row was a drunken brawl and a
fight, in the course of which the deceased had received
the injuriee, and that at most the killing of the deceased
was not murder but manslaughter.
Hie Lordship then proceeded to sum up, observing that
drunkenness was no excuse or palliation for crime. That
which was done by a drunken man was as much murder
as that act could be by a sober man. If anybody inten-
tionally did an act which he meant to cause death, and
it did cause death, that was murder. Further, the law
applicable to this case was, that it anybody did inten-
tionally that, the probable and natural result of which
was to cause death, ho was guilty of murder. If a man
were to call on the prisoner to prove the intention which
existed in his mind, the answer would be that the Wet he
had done, being one naturally tending to death, involved
intention, and was murder. But the law, making al-
lowances for the infirmities to which human nature was
subjected, provided for them by making a distinction,
constituting one degree of crime murder, and another,
with extenuating circumstances, manslaughter. Thus, if
two men fought, while quarrelling, and one of them
killed the other, it would be manslaughter ; but if they
fought with deadly weapons, it would be murder. There
was, according to the evidence, a great difference be-
tween the cases of the two prisoners, and probably the
jury might think that while James was guilty of man-
slaughter, Andrew was guilty of the murder, if he knew
when he was striking the man that the injuries he was in-
flicting wore likely to cause death. Hislordship then pro-
ceeded to read over and comment-upoa the evidence.
The jury retired to considertheir verdict at 25 minutes
to 7, and at 25 minutes to S they returned into court,
when a d,ath-like stillness prevailed.
. .

The Clerk of the Crown then asked the foreman if the
jury had agreed upon their verdict I

.
The Foreman—We have. We find James Bracken
guilty of manslaughter, and Andrew Bracken we find
guilty of wilful murder, but with a strong recommenda-
tion to mercy.

The scene that now ensued can scarcely be described.
A kind of groan, as it were of pity, was raised in the
densely crowded court, while three women in the gal-
lery, at the back of the court, shrieked in a dreadful
Imanner, and one of them was seized with a fainting fit.
They were all taken outside the court, and it was stated
that they were the aged mother of the prisoners and their
two sisters. The prisouerJarnes fell back into the dock
and fainted, but in two minutes again revived, when kneel-
ing at the bar, he raised his hands to heaven, and with a
look at the judge, cried, " my Lord, have mercy
on my brother." The prisoner Andrew literally tore
his hair, and, first kneeling and then standing, piteously
cried, " Oh, my Lord, I beg mercy." His Lordship
sobbed audibly, and appeared to be quite overpowered
by the scene. Having put on the black cap,
His Lordship then proceeded to pass sentence on the
prisoner He said—Andrew Bracken, prisoner at the
bar, you have been convicted of the crime of wilful mur-
der, and you, James Bracken, of the crime of manslaugh-
ter. A peaceable subject of her Majesty, passing along
the streets of the city of Manchester, is brutally attacked
by you both. You wore, no doubt, engaged in a com-
mon design of attacking any person who came along that
way, and of beating him in a cruel and violent manner.
You, James Bracken, have been convicted of man-
slaughter, and you, ten, were engaged in the unlawful
design which I have described, but you were no party
to the last violent and cruel attack by which that un-
happy man was soot to an untimely grave. You, An-
drew Bracken, were guilty of tha; ; you attacked him
with your feet, armed, no doubt, with clogs; you kicked
him about the head ; you fractured his skull, and you
sent him to a premature grave. You did an act, the
natural and ordinary consequences of which must have
been to kill the man. It was a cruel and a brutal act,
and you did it wholly reckless of the consequences which
it might produce. You have, therefore, been very pro-
perly convicted of the wilful murder of that man. The
jury, however, have accompanied their verdict by a re-
commendation to mercy ; I presume that was on account
of the drunken state in which you were. That, in point
•f law, is no palliation of your crime. I have it not in
my power, Andrew Bracken, to attend to that recom-
mendation. The prerogative of mercy rests with her
Majesty alone, and I cannot encourage you in any hope
whatever that that recommendation will be acted upon.
I shall, however, forward it to the Secretary of State,
to be laid before her Majesty, that you may be placed
at her mercy. Again I say, that I cannot hold out to you
any hope that that recommendation will be concurred
in ; but I now most earnestly recommend you, with
the assistance of your clergyman, to seek that mercy
from the Almighty which you had not for William
Bates. With regard to you, James Bracken, you were
guilty of manslaughter of the most aggravated charac-
ter, and for that offence the sentence of the Court is
that you be transported for life. Upon you, Andrew
Bracken, the sentence of the Court is, that you be re-
moved hence to the place from whence you came, and
thence to a place of public execution, and that there
you be hanged by the neck until your body be dead,
and that it be then buried within the precincts of the
gaol in which you shall have been last confined ; and
may God, in the plenitude of His goodness, have mercy
upon your soul.
The prisoner Andrew fell down again in the dock and
begged for mercy ; but being raised by the turnkey, was
escorted from the dock, ejaculating, with fearful in-
tensity of earnestness, " Oh, mother, mother, that I
should be hung." For a few minutes the court seemed
paralysed by the shocking scene which it had witness-
ed ; and his Lordship having raised his held from his
hands, slowly rose and left the court amid solemn
silence.

Several women were carried out faintn,g, and it was
rumoured about that the prisoner James. Bracken, if
acquitted, was engaged to be married next morniug.
The Court adjourned at 8 o'clock.

DEATH OF A CENTE27ARIAN.—Ye3terday afternoon
information w 3,3 received at the police stations contain-
ing the description of an aged female who was taken sud-
denly ill in Black man-street, Borough. The poor crea-
ture was taken to St. George's Workhouse. She had
sufficient strength left to say that her name was Mar-
garet Crawley, and that she was upwards of 104 years
of age. Her consciousness then left her, and she almost
immediately expired.

Her Majesty's ship Malacca lost nearly all her crew
at Port Royal, in Jamaica, from yellow fever. It was
necessary to press blacks to work her to Bermuda. The
crews of the Hermes and Termagant, in the "West Indies,
have suffered severely from fever.

ROYAL VICTORIA YACHT OWE
REGATTA.

RYDE, TUESDAY EVENING,

The sudden termination of the race yesterday for the
Club Prize of 501., occasioned by the carrying away the
Arrow's mainmast, has been a source of great regret, for
there was every probability that the prize would have
fallen to the Arrow, although the Mosquito was well
sailed on this occasion. The whole subject will be re-
ferred to the sailing committee.

The day was beautifully fine, the wind just sufficient
to make a sailing match interesting, and the sea pre-
sented that quiescent appearance which almost invari-
ably follows a stiff gale. The pier was crowned with
elegantly dressed ladies. The first race was for the Com-
modore and Vice-Commodore's Cup, open to all cutters
belonging to the Royal Victoria Yacht Club. A time
race, the time to be calculated by length on the water
line, 4 feet to allow 45 seconds. The following were
the entries :

Yachts. Tons. Owners. Flags.
Shadow
Thought
Extravaganza 48 Sir P. Shelley ... Blue bargee, four white

diamonds.
Hesperus 34 N.Montefiore,Esq Blue, white star.
Haidee 3B R. W.Wheeler, Esq White, red Maltese
cross.
Surprise
The course the same as yesterday—viz., from abreast
Ryde Pier to the Brambles Buoy, at the entrance to
Southampton Water ; from thence to the Nab Light, at
the east end of the island, and back to Ryde. Twice
round the course.

The Surprise and the Shadow did not appear at the
starting post at the specified time for starting.
At 10.30 precisely the starting-gun was fired, the
signal having been previously made for the yachts to
proceed to the eastward, towards the Nab Light, with a
nice breeze blowing from the northward, and it was sur-
prising to see the speed with which the Thought was got
under weigh ; in an instant she showed her bowsprit
ahead, up went the mainsail, and after that her topsail,
and about two minutes after starting she had shot con-
siderably ahead of all her rivals. The Extravaganza
was well np to her work, but although a vessel of very
superior tonnage she was by no means so quick in her
movements as her leading competitor. Between these
two yachts the trial of their respective qualities was
most interesting. In the run down and back the Extra-
vaganza succeeded in slightly overhauling the Thought,
but never to disturb the position she had at first assumed.
After leafing Ryde the Hesperus and the Haidee bad a
nice p'ay between themselves for the third place, and the
Hesperus succeeded in obtaining it. On the return to
Ryde they passed the starting vessel as under, having
just completed one round of the course :

M. M. S.
Thought
Extravaganza 2 2 30
Hesperus . .
Haidee 2 18 30
The next race on the card was for a Club Prize, value
601., open to all schooners belonging to the Royal Vic -
toria Yacht Club. The Victoria Course (same as in the
above race), The following were the entries :
Yachts. Tons. Owners. Flags.
Georgiana... ..109 Capt. Thellusson Blue, yellow, red
horizontal.
Maraquita ...100 T. B. Carew, Esq. Red, gold Min
centre.
Beatric3 2OB J. E. W. Rolls, Esq. Red, white, blue,
vertical.
Zouave 64 R. Arabin, Esq. White, black crest
in centre.
Brilliant 202 G. Ackers, Esq. Commodore's
broad pendant.
The whole of the vessels appeared at the starting post,
which for the occasion was the Coquette yacht, and at
11 o'clock precisely the starting-gun was fired, the ves-
sels as before proceeding to the eastward. The lead was
taken by the Georgiana, but it was but temporarily,
for she was soon compelled to give place to the Mara-
quite, the Zouave being third, and the other two a good
distance astern. Before, however, rounding the Nab
L►ght the Beatrice had taken the third place, but in other
respects the positions were unchanged.
Considerabie disappointment was experienced at the
performances of the Zouave, for she had hitherto proved
herself a very superior yacht in going to windward, and
although to-day she bad a very good opportunity in com-
ing up from the Brambles of showing what she could do,
from the subjoined statement it will be seen there was
upwards of 20 minutes between her and the leading ves-
sel. On coming up they were timed off the Ryde Pier
as under :

H. IL 8.
Maraquita
Beatrice
Georgiana
Zouave
Brilliant

At this period of the race the brilliant struck her flag
and hove-to, but the other yachts proceeded for the re-
mainder of the course. There wag, however, but slight
douht that the Thought would be the winner of the prize.
Intelligence has just been received that the Thought
is the winner of the prize for cutters, beating the Eztra•
vaganza, which won Prince Albert's Cup at Cowes last
week, by 10 minutes, but the details must, in conse-
quence of the departure of the boat for Portsmouth, be
deferred until ta-morrow.

This evening's performances at the theatre were under
the patronage of the commodore, vice•commodore, and
members of the Royal -Victoria Yacht Club.
Amongst the most recent arrivals at this place is
Mdlle. Piccolomini and the opera company of London,
who intend giving a series of concerts at the Town•hall
during the ensuing week.

ROYAL THAMES .NATIONAL REGATTA.

FIRST DAY.

The above regatta commenced yesterday, under un•
favourable circumstances. A very heavy and dull morn-
ing was succeeded by thick rain, and it need hardly be
said that the assemblage was considerably less than might
have been calculated upon with the advantages of fine
weather. A steamboat was moored off the Messrs. Searle's
for the accommodation of visitors and subscribers, and
there were a great many upon the water in small boats.
As to the day's sport there were no less than sixteen
races on the card, and amongst them many which created
considerable inter et. The course for *mailers and pair
oars races was from Putney to Hammersmith, and for
the fours tram Putney to Chiswick Eyat.
The committee assembled on board their barge off
Searle's, and, assisted by Mr. Tedbury, the hon. secre-
tary to whom too much praise cannot be given fur his
untiring exertions. The umpires' boats were manned,
and the sport commenced at two o'clock precisely, and
was continued till nearly dark.
GENTLEMEN BOULLERS' (JUNIOR) RACE.
First Heat.
Mr. F. Rutley
Mr. H. Dobree
Mr. D. Barrett
Mr. T. Ireland
Mr. A. Thorne
Mr. W. Debon
Mr. A. Thorne
Mr. T. Rutley
TEN WATERMEN'S APPRENTICES,
For coat, badge, and freedom, occasioned much spi-
rited and praiseworthy rowing.

Second Heat.

Final Heat.

From the London Gazette of Last Night.

FOREIGN OFFICE, AUG. 19.

The Queen has been pleased to approve of Mr. Gregory
O'Neill, as Consul at Cork, for the Oriental Republic of
the Uruguay.
BOARD OF TRADE, WHITEHALL, AUG. 16.

The Right Honourable the Lords of the Committee of
Privy Council for Trade and Plantations have received,
through the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, a copy
of a Note from the Russian Minister at this Court, stating
that since the evacuation of the Crimea by the Allies,
quarantine has been re-established on the coasts of the
Black Sea and Sea of Azof.