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A reached ; and we ,
OM state in which party is
cellective forces of Govern]
ti,in are not strong enough
reward, arid to induce men to
ences, that they m ty by their union °Oliva& the greatest
practicable amount of public good. At this nannent,
perhaps, a greater number of the members of both
houses are agreed on the support of the interests repre-
sented by Mr. Disraeli than on any other single
interest; and that gentleman pretty confidently looks
to an early return to office. But jealousy of the parvenu
and the Israelite operates strongly against him. Pak-
ington, Walpole, and the old 'ferries and Wellington
school oF Tories are disgusted with the merely deetrue-
tivee satirical, and censorious attitude he invariably as.
sumac, and except to that slashing style of personality
which forgets the sober business of the house, simply to
abuse and ridicule individuals. Report whispers that
the Earl of Derby is not se well affected towards hint
as formerly, and that Sir E. B. Lytton contests with
him his place. In finance he is not regarded as safe by
capitalists ; but it is quite possible that, were a Tory
Ministry once formed, a Powerful combination might
give it strength. Should it belie its principles and take
to the policy of reform and progress, we do not doubt
its chances of continuance a-e considerable ; but unless
the Lord Stanley element in it gra w stronger and stronger,
it a (raid only endure by sufferance, and would be hurled
from office by Radical measures carried by a combination
of all the elements of the Opposition. The spirit of the
age is so decidedly progressive and reconstructive in its
tendency that no party, sell ttever be its near°, can main-
tain its elf in place without yielding homage to the prevail-
ndeney of pub;io opinion. It is, therefore, only by
Tories ceasing t I be Tories that they can begin to be
permanent'y in office. What Sir R. Peel did for Con-
servatism, Lord J. Russell has effected for Whi-e,gery—
he has effectually ruined it ; we wish we oould say front
similar motives. We see no probability of his being ahl
to gather up and around him the fragments he scattered
so wantonly. His lieutenants] have entered another ser-
vice ; he has destroyed his Dissenter antecedents by his
conduct on the Church•rate question ; many of his tree
ditional supporters have died off or been superseded
at the hustings ; we see no prospect that hems ever lead •
again ; aed without Lord J. Russell there can be ne
Whig party. But a new combination of individuals id
contemplated, which looks with mach confidence to a
lease of power. Messrs. Gladstone, Cardwell, Herbert,
Graham, and other Peelites, have already virtually co-
alesced with the party represented by Messrs. Cobden,
Bright, Gibson, J. B. Smith, and the Manchester school.
Their political spirit has long been nearly identical ;
the details in which they differ become gradually
fewer. They have the favour of Prince Albert, the
ear of the Court, and are fully agreed upon the policy
of peace and retrenchment. In the Legislature they
are entirely isolated ; in the country they are de-
tested and despised. They are, notwithstanding
in our opinion, the ablest men in Parliament ; and, toe
question of foreign politics excepted, they are the most
enlightened, intelligent, and least corrupt politicians
who can at present be combined in the co-operation of
party. They are fully aware of the bad odour in which
they s'and ; but they depend upon the Court to call
them to office, and upon the boldness, thoroughness and
radicalism of their programme, to carry public popula-
rity by storm. It is the hope of Lord John Russell to
come into power upoe a Reform Bill ; but the Peel-
Manchester party trump that card by aiding the Ballot to
their bill of !are, and by improverrenti in the system of
finance, bankine and taxation, they do not doubt they
will secure the support of the commercial classes.
Examining the prospects of faction on the theory of
exhaustion, we come last of all to the collection of indi-
viduals at present drawn together under the leadership
of Lord Palmerston. It is easy to call it a mere tranni-
tion Government ; hut what for the last 12 years has
any other been ? It is easy to allege that it has no de-
t-rmittate policy ; but what was the policy of Derby
The preponderance of principle in the present Ca-
binet is greatly liberal ; it bas been exemplarily
diligent and vigorous in its administration ; it has
proposed good and useful, even bold measures of
practical reform, which have only been too liberal
and radical for the present temper of the Legis-
lature ; and where it has failed, it has not been by
its oppottition to intelligent progress, but by being liberal
beyond its strength. As yet we are not satisfied that
the country could charge the Administration for the
better ; but that Administration must very plainly see,
that against the majorities which so frequently thwart
its measures it cannot hope to make head without a
thorough change in ti.e machinery which determines the
issues of political power. With the rein•reduction of
peace, Lord Palm -rs'on most lint forth his own scheme
0 Pail amentaly Ref nen. The earnest epic t and strot g
convctions of the people must be more iinpre..+ed upon
the huAing,, and better mat bee at the poi'. The mer •
Par itenenttry loungers, pledged ton principles, hav-
ing no convictions, professing only what will get them
r turuei', and only to serve the purpose of returning
them, must be swept away by A fresh organic recur-
struction of the constitution ; and decided opinions and
principles, without :shish party cohesion wid be impos-
sible, must be secured by infusing the earnestness of the
extension of the franchise, and a more direct account-
maesee into the represent:al-J(3 system through a wider
ability of members to their constituents. Unless Lord
Pelmerston is prepared to do this his days of office are
numbered ; should be satisfy the country on this point,
we see no reason to doubt that his tenure of power will
continue on a better title than that of any who at pre.
tont aspire to his position.

LONDON,

TUESDAY EVENING. APRIL 1, 1856.

[PRICE 4D. STAMPED 5D-

THE REVENUE FOR THE YEAR AND QUARTER ENDING MARCH 31, 1856

the prisoner to the last remained dogged and silent, and
refused all explanation upon the subject of his crimes.
As early as six o'clock yesterday morning Mr. Sheriff
Rose, accompanied by his brother and deputy, Mr. J. A.
Rose, was in attendance, and Mr. Sheriff kennedy and
Mr. Under Sheriff Stone shortly afterwards arrived at
the gaol. The Rev. Mr. Davis had been with the
wretched man from an earlier hour, but all his endea-
vours to induce him to receive the consolations of reli-
gion were ineffectual. He appeared, indeed, in an
almost totally prostrate condition, and Mr. Weather.
head, the newly-appointed govel nor of Newgate, directed
that some wine shosid be given to him. When the
authorities, whose painful duty it was to superintend the
execution, were admitted to the room where the wretched
man was confined he was found sitting on a sort of couch
that formed his bed, with his head buried in his breast,
and apparently utterly unconscious of what was passing
around him. Calcraft, the executioner, at once pro-
ceeded to pinion the culprit, and when this had been
completed the prisoner vomited for a considerable time,
and the whole of his physical powers appeared to have
left hitre There can be no doubt, how ever, from wf:at
subsequently occurred, that a good deal of this was as-
sumed, in the hope, possibly, that some of the usual pre-
cautions would be neglected, and that he might thus be
enabled to carry out the plan he bad evidently contem-
plated of creating a scene on the scaffold. Fortunately,
however, notwithstanding the apparently prostrated
condition of the prisoner, he was securely pinioned, and
his subsequent desperate proceedings on the scaffold
only had the effect of i'ioreasing his own sufferings.
When the ceremony of pinioning had been completed,
the prisoner let his head drop on his breast,and he appeared
to have already felt the pang of death. Eight o'clock,
the fatal hour for the execution, having arrived, the
prisoner was raised by four men, and in that manner
etmveyed to the scaffold. As he appeared totally unable
to stand, it was considered the beet course to be adopted
was to place him in a chair under the beam, and he was
sustained in that position by one of the assistants, while
Calcraft fixed the rope in its proper position. The Rev.
Mr. Davis accempaniel the wretched man, but from his
apparent state it seemed useless to perform the usual

No. I.—An Abstract of the Net Produce of the alevenue and other Receipts of the Uni!
the corresponding periods

ted Kingdom, in the undermentioned periods, ended March. 31, 185 G, comprred with
of the preceding year.

- QUARTERS ENDED YEAR QUARTERS ENDED i YEAR ,
r---.---_-. -^-- , ended , --' --, r ended
June 30, ' Sept. 30, Dec. 31, March 31, March 31, . June 30, Sept. 30, j Dec. 31, ' March 31, March 31,
1855 1855 1855 ! 1856 , 1856 1854 1854 I 1854 1855 1855
;. - .
r• - - 5,465,466 5,713,674 5,354,461 5,225,169 21,788,770 ' 5,221,445 5,349,251 ; 5,699,967 4,728,111 20,998,774 I CUSTOMS.
CUSTOMS
EXCISE - 1,ki31;- 00 16,636,670 3,973,299 5,212,782 ; 4,555,529 2,594,518 16,341,128 I EXCISE.
.. . . 1,828,300 1,6.04,1 ;.5 1,695,369 1,766,473 6,804,307 1,773,358 1,707,509 ' 1,822,843 1,822,239 7,132,949 I STA MPS.
•
ST.k MPS •• • 1,316,400 111,374 1,323,114 207,738 2,958,624 1,515,304 133,577 1,287,232 ' 200,030 3,136,143 I TAXES.
TA X E.S.•
PROPERTY TAX • 2,177 889 4,538,646 1,260,942 -6,837.'80 11,814,757 1,578,355 2,545,056 833,892 5,899,334 11,254,637 ; PROPERTY TAX.
POST-OFFICE . 239,267 261,757 293,272 387,399 1,171,695 384,010 343,000 277,234 329,923 1,334,157 POST-OFFICE.
CROWN LANDS
MISCELLANEOUS ..... 325,772 188,557 345,317 298,502 1 158 148 .160,326 154,594 178,177 I 243,361
< < 736,158 MISCELLANEOUS.
-
ORDINARY REVENUE • • • • • • .. .< .. • •.. : ORDINARY REVENUE.
:: ..
, IMPREST AND 0113 ER MONEYS
REPAYMENTS OF ADVANCES
• • • • • • .. .•
- _. • • • I ' • _ ! REPAYMENTS OF ADVANCEB.
TOTALS
1 , , TOTALS.
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1 I .
Quarter ended March 31, 1856. Year ended March 31, 1856. [I.-INCREASE and DECREASE in the Quarter and
and
with
- I NYCe Iti„
Tear
endedF, andli a
r D,Fi„,C3RIEIABSS6E, in, ,s the Quarter
compered
1 the corresponding periods of the preceding year. . the corresponding periods of the preceding year.
Increase. I Decrease. Increase. Decrease.
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CUiTOMS .... . .
37,082 .... 295,542 • • .• EXCISE.
STAMPS .......... ••. ••• • ..-.
7,708 55,766 .... 235,642 STAMF S.
TAXES..•• •• . . 177,517 TAXES.
937,946 3,560,120 PROPERTY TAX.
PROPFR, Y 'J'AY -
POST-OFFICE
1,000 8,94 t I CROWN LANDS.
CROW N LAND; . .... •• • •
55,141 421,690
1 _
MISCELLANEOUS
ORDINARY REV" NUE . • • • .... - • • ORDINARY REVENUE.
IMPREST AND OTHER MONEYS - •••• - - ..•• .... .... .... ..., IMPREST AND OTHEIt MONEYS,
REPAYMENTS OF ADVANCES....... .....
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TOTALS .. . - 1,535,935 58,290 I 5,076,292 ' 578,621 , TOTALS.
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41,477,645
Net Inenease.

Net

Net increase. Net lncreSee.
lII.—Lu Account showing the Net Revenue and other Receipts of the Quarter ended March 31, 1856; the Application of the same, and the Charge of the
Consolidated Fund for the said Quarter, togethor with the Surplus or Deficiency upon such Charge.
Surplus Balance beyond the charge of the Consolidate] Fund, for the Quarter ended +6 Amount applied out of the Net Income for the Quarter ended March 31, 1856, to re. £
Dec. 31, 1556, viz.: demption of Exchequer Bills (Deficiency) for the Quarter • nthd Dec. 31, 1855.. 3,879,750
Exchequer Bills redeemed with Money received under the Act for Funding Exchequer
Great Britain
Ireland
-- 411,781 Net Amount applied oat of the Income to Supply Services, &c , in the Quarter ended
March 31, 1656
Net Income received in the Quarter ended March 31, 1856, as shown in Account L.. 17,361,161
Amount at Exchequer Bills (Supply) and Exchequer Bonds issue.' in the Quarter ended
el aeh 31, 1856, in full of grant of £7 0110.0, 0 .......... ...... • • .................• 3 477,750 Charge of the Consolidated Fund for the Quarter ended March 31, 1856, viz. :
Am, unt received in the Quarter ended Ma=ch 31. 1856, in part of Loan of £5,000,0, 0 .... 3,501,C01 Interest of the Permanent Debt £5,592,594
Money i eceived by sale 01 Exchequer leihs issued t: replace, in part the amount of Supply Terminable Debt
bids paid oft in money out of the Way: end Means of the ye, r 1856-6 ......., ...... 5e0,0^0 Interest of Exchequer Bills (Deficiency)
Money received in lieu of Exchequer Bills, in part of funding of £3 000,000
Amount receivedin the Quarter ended March 31, 1856, in repae went of Advances for I Other Charges on Consolidated Fund .... • • ..........
Public Nor ke, &c. .• • ••• •• •
avind on the charge for Diplomatic Sala! les for the year 1855
26,174,707 Balance of Money received tinder the Act for Funding Exchequer Bills, reserved .• .. •• .. 159,000
Surplus Balance beyond the charge of the Consolidated Fund, for the Quarter ended
Balance, being the deficiency on the Slat March, 1856, upon the charge of the Consoll- . March 31, 1856, viz.:
dated Fund in Great Britain, to meet the Dividends and other Charges payable in , Great Britain .... • ..... • • ............... ......... „ ..., .. _
the Quarter to June 30, 1856, and for which Exchequer Bills (Deficiency) will be Ireland . , .... .„ . ~. .
,
issued in that Quarter
95 744 332 1 23,744,392

of&cis of religion. When the signal was given the &lair
in which the wretched man was still seated, of course
gave way with the drop, and consequently the fsll was
not ne trly so great as it is under ordinary circumstances,
and at this dreadful moment the prisoner attempted to
carry out the desperate struggle for life which he evi
dently contemplated. The sound of the falling drop
had scarcely passed away, when there was a shriek from
the crowd of " He is up again," and, to the horror of
ev, ry one, it was found that the prisoner, by a powerful
muscular effort, had dra vn himself up complete!) to the
level of the drop, and that both his feet were rtsting
upon the edge of it, and ho WM vainly endeavouring to
raise he hands to the rope. One of the officers imme-
diately rushed upon the scaffold and pushed the wretched
man's feet from their hold ; but in an instant, by a vio-
lent effort, he threw himself to the other side, and again
succeeded in getting both his feet on the edge of the
drop. Calcraft, who had left the scaffold, imagining
that all was over, was called back, and he seized hold
of the wretched criminal, and it was with considerable
difficulty that he could force him from the scaffold, and
he was again suspended. The short relief the wretched
man bad obtained from the pressure of the rope by
those desperate proceedings had probably enabled him
to respire ; and, to the astonishment and horror of
the spectators, he a third time succeeded in placing
his feet upon the platform, and again his hands
vainly attempted to reach the fatal rope. CAleraft
and two or three other men then again forced the
wretched man's feet from their hold, and his legs
were held down until the final struggle was over.
Whole this fearful scene was being enacted the bells a
the different neighbouring churches were ringing merrily
upon the ant ouncement of peace, offering a sad contra,t
to the melanch( ly proceedings.
At 9 o'clock the body of the prisoner was cut down
and placed in a shell, and in the evening it was buried
in the gaol, per,uant to the terms of the sentence.
The crowd assembled upon the occasion appeared to
be much smaller Oen u- ual.

23,744,392

.ASS;ZE I!NT.q,LI.IGENCE.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE—March 31.

great tenderness. She was in an exceedingly weak
state. She was not in immediate danger, but from the
injuries she had received she would have been in danger
if she had not been immediately attende I to. She
now progressing towards health. The ribs which hal
been set on the former occasion were not again br)keti.

WESTERN CIRCUIT.-TAUNTON, MARCH 29.

CROWN COURT.
Janus Howell was indicted for the wilful murder of
Eliz o,eth Howell on the 20th of January last, at Bath.
Mr. Lempriere was counsel for the prosecution, and
Mr. Poulden, at the request of the learned judge, de•

MANSION-HOUSE. —ABDUCTION or YOUNG FE-
HALES.—The Lord Mayor received a communication
from Hamburg, relative to the statements which have
recently been published in the English newspapers upon
the subject of the abduction of a girl, named Susannah
Evans, from London, who was detained and sent back
by the authorities at Hamburg, which sta`emeats the
police of that city considered, in some respects, to be
incorrect, and to cast reflections upon them which they

The Lord Mayor baying asked the prisoner what he
had to say in answer to the charge, the latter replied
that he should leave the matter to be dealt with by his
lordship.
The Lord Mayor said the whole case presented far
too serious an aspect to be dealt with summarily, and
he thought the ends of justice could only be attained by
committing the prisoner to the Central Criminal Court
for trial, on the charge of unlaNfully and maliciously in-
flicting upon the prosecutrix grievous bodily harm.
Committed accordingly.

fended the prisoner.
The pri,o: er, a most miserable-looking wretch, lived
with his wife in an attic at No. 14, A von-street, Bath.
On Saturday evening, the 19;11 of January, the prisoner
and his wife were at the Seven Dials public house,

did not deserve :
"Tile police of Hamburg were requested, by a tele-
graphic mesFage from the Superintendent of Police, City
of London, on the 6th March, to arrest one Su-annah
Evans, who was about to arrive in company of a man,
whose description was given, and several other females,
by the steamer Countess of Lonsdale, on the 7th March,
at Hamburg. The necessary measures for the fulfilment
of this request were immed'ately adopted, and the desig-
nated persons were, at their arrival on board the steamer

drinking together. In the course of the evening the
woman said something which displeased the prisoner.
and he gave her a backhanded slap on the mouth, which
made it bleed. She cried very much. After s,me time
they became reconciled, and took some more drink,
until he became quite tipsy, and she was rather drunk.
They remained in the house till locking-up time, and
then they went away together, as the witnesses stated,
quiet and comfortable. They had taken five pints of
fourpenny ale, and were at the puYic-house from 8 till
near!) 12 o'clock. Shortly after their leaving the pub-
lic-house the wife and another woman called at a shop
and purchased some potatoes. She did not then appear
to be tipsy, or as if she had had any beer. She remained
about a quarter of an hour, and as she was leaving asked
for a march, which she took away with her. She was
met in the street by a woman named Harding. She
went to her own passage, and then went up stairs, and
twice called " James." The prisoner had gone home
before her. A man name 3 Brown and ks wife lived in a

130 W-STREET.--THE PARK GUNS —A number of
boys, of ages varying from 12 to 16, were severally
charged with throwing stones at the soldiers engaged in
working the park guns.
It appeared that about one o'clock that afternoon
orders were received to fire the guns in celebration of
the conclusion of the peace. They were accordingly got
ready on the parade, but the erder being countermanded
at the last moment the charges were drawn and the
guns removed. A crowd had assembled, principally of
boys, some of whom commenced pelting the soldiers,
and the police apprehended all whom they caught in the
act of throwing stones.
Penalties were inflicted of from ss. to 10s., or in de-
fault, imprisonment for from 7 to 10 days.
Wm. Randall, age 23, was fined 205., or in default,
se❑tenced to 14 days' imprisonment, for a similar offence.

taken into custody by the police' and brought directly to
the head office of the police. Those persons were the
above-named Susannah Evans, five other English girls,
and one Maria Schein, who accompanied them. These
persons were interrogated by a functionary of the Crimi-
nal Jurisdiction, who is conversant with the English lan-
guage. It became evident, by such inquiry, that Susan-
-I,ah Evans, who said she was 15 years of age, but who

appeared older, has not fully known for what purpose
ehe hal been brought over. The other girls, who had
evidently belonged to the worst class of London prosti-

tute4, had come over with the free resolution to enter
into a house of prostitution, and they declarei that such

room adjoining that occupied by the prisoner and his
wife. The partition was so thin that anything that oc-
curred in one room could be heard in the other. Brown
!Wthe prisoner come up to his room. He said, "I'll
e b--- --." There was not any other person
in the room. He afterwards said, " I'll kill the --
cow ;" and he then eai.l, " I'll do some mischief—l'll go
and drown myself." In about ten minutes or about a
q',leer of an hour after this Brown heard the wife
come up stairs. 134,,re she entered the room she said,
" Are you inside, .ny dear Jem ?" He said, "You
I'll give you something ;" and he then ap-
peared to come out on the landing, and, catching her
as though he were pushing her into the room, Brown
heard two blows given, and a fall ; he heard the wife
then say, " Oh, Jem, you have killed me, and killed my
child ; Jen), look about, and see what you have done."
The prisoner then ran down stairs, and the woman
called out to Mrs. Brown to come to hi- r, and she said to
Mrs. Brown, " Jem has kilhe I me." Upon going into
the prisoner's room Brown found the woman lying
on
the floor, between the bed and the fire-place. Blood
was about her ; she said her husband had killed her.
The prisoner in the meantime weht and fetched a mid-
wife, and begged her to come quickly, or his wife would
die before she arrived. The midwife ac,!ordingly ac-
companied the prisoner to his room, and there she
found the woman lying on the bed in, n.ible. She died
in about five minutes. The prisoner looked at his wife,
and said, "You may take me up, and do what you
like with me." A policeman was sent for, and a
doctor. The woman was in a far advanced stage of
pregnancy, and her lying-in-clothes were in the room.
When the prisoner came to the room door be was very
much distressed. He said he did not think he had done
so much mischief ;he did not mean to do it. He tore
his clothes, and said, " Take me away, hang me up at
once." A policeman came ; he saw the prisoner running
along the street without his hat or coat. The policeman
went to the prisoner's room, and assisted some women
who were there to raise the wife from the floor and put
her on the bed. Blood was running from beneath her
clothes. He then took the prisoner, who was standing
on the landing, to the police-station. He subsequently
saw the prisoner, and charged him with murdering his
wife. Tile prisoner, who was in a state of excitement,
said two or three times, "Is she dead, is she gone 1"
The policeman told him she was dead. Mr. Cox, a sur-
geon at Beth, was sent for, and he went, in company
with Mr. Barrett, a surgeon. They found the women
lying on the bed ; her clothes were saturated with blood.
There was a quantity of blood on the floor of the room.
Upon examination the surgeons found the blood proceeded
from lacerated woun la on the abdomen ; she was then
just at the point of death. She gave a few feeble gasps
and expired. Having satisfied themselves that she was
quite de td, they delivered her of a dead child by the
Caesarean Operation. She was in the last stage of preg
nancy. The child had not been dead long. It the woman
had been delivered before receiving the wounds the child
would have been living ; it was a healthy child. On the
same day they made a postmortem examination of the body
which was in a perfectly healthy state, but quite bloodless,
except the right side of the heart. On examining the
abdomen they discovered lacerated wounds extending
about three inches in length ; these lacerations caused
the death. They appeared to have been done by two
acts ; they could not have been produced by a sharp
instrument. They were done with considerable force ;
a blow from a foot with a boot might have produced
those wounds. If she had falien upon the edge of a
chair which was in the room the wounds might have
been caused, hot then the chair must have been tipped
up. As the blows might have bean given through the
clothes, whatever they were done with would not have
been marked with blood. Mr. Barrett was of opinion
that a violent kick had produced the wounds. A kick
intended for behind might have caused the injury. When
the prisoner was informed of the death of his wife, he
said, "It was a drop of drink. I meant no barn. I
was trying to kick her upstairs." He appeared rather
flushed with drink. He had on old odd boots. He ap-
peared for the moment unconscious when told of the
• death of his wife.
Mr. Ponlden said it was impossible for him to contend
that the result did not proceed from the act of the pri-
soner, and it was impossible that it could result in any
other verdict than that of manslaughter.
The learned Judge said, addressing the jury, that this
was a grave and serious case—a charge that the prisoner
had murdered his wife, and it was necessary that they
should consider that the prisoner had the intention of
killing his Ye ife, or had used a weapon or instrument which
was likely to produce bodily harm or death, and the jury
would then have to consider whether the prisoner had
not been guilty of murder ; but it was clear that they
could not arrive at the conclusion that the prisoner had
deliberately intended to kill his wife. He thought that
they would be of opinion that the prisoner was guilty of
manslaughter.
The jury found the prisoner guilty.
Sentence deferred.

wag still their,intention. It was found necessary to send
three of these girls to the hoepit.!, in consequence of
bodily indisposition. The remaining two, being of full
agp, so that the police had no right to interfere, went to
a brothel kept by a person named Munch, according to
their own wish. .

" Some days later the police officer, whoa) arrival had
been announced by the telegraphic message, presented
himself to the police at Hamburg. Susannah Evans,
who till then had not been kept in a house of detention,
hut who had been given into the charge of a respectable
private woman, was placed at the disposal of the English
police officer, and the proceedings of the police were
commun;cated to him. The interview he desired with
the other girls wee not only conceded, with all possible
facility, but an offer was made to-him to take back with
him all those persons, hut be declined to do so, after
having seen the two prostitutes at the house of Munch,
atid having refused to see the three other girls, who had

been sent to the hospital.
" In this whole case the Hamburg police have acted
with the strongest desire to facilitate the object of the
polite officer, who repeatedly expressed his thanks for
the obliging manner iu which all requests hal been
fulfilled, and who de,,ire,l, on his departure, to be pre-
sent,td to the chief of the police, ar,d repeated to bun
that all his wishes had been attended to, and that his

superiors would be riffling to reciprocate their services.
" It may also be stated that the accusation of theft
azainst Susannah Evans, alluded to in the English
papers, had hardly come under consideration, but, was
immediately overruled on the production of the letter
referred to."

The Lord Mayor said he felt sure that the press would
give the same fair publicity to the communication which
had been made on the part of the police of Hamburg,
as had been given to the rep.)rt of the London officer.
BRUTAL ASSAULT.—John Felix, a powerful fellow,
who said he was a labourer, was charged with commit-
ting a most brutal and ruffianly assault upon a woman
ry whom ho lo,d for some months cohabited, named
Mary Ann Brookes. The prisoner had been remanded
for some days, in order that the prosecutrix, who had
been an inmate of St. Bartholomew's Lio.pital ever since
the time the assault was committed, might personally
attend. The following is the evidence in support of the
charge:—
J. Fisher, city constable, No. 672—About half-past
11 o'clock on the night of the assault, I went to the

third floor of No. 11, Foster-street, where I saw the
prosecutrix lying on her back in the room ; her head
was in a pool of blood, which was running from her
mouth and nose. I then fetched a surgeon, after which
I removed her to St. Bartholomew's Hospital. On my
apprehending tha prisoner he said he had struck her in
the face, but he did not think it was anything serious.
John Al‘Lood—l reside in the same house as the pri-
soner and prosecutrix did. When I went up stairs about
9 o'clock on the night in question, there was a row. I
saw the prisoner give the prosecutris a smack on the
light side of the face. She then ran down stairs,
he pursuing her. She again came up stairs, following
me, when the prisoner took her up in his arms and
threw her down on the floor. She went to the window,
and said to the prisoner, "This is the last time you
shall do this if I get over it." He then went up to her
and knocked her down with his fist, on the fie°, on the
right side, and she appeared senseless. While she was
down he kicked her three times on the back part of the
head, he having his boots on. He then stooped down
and hit her three tines on the right side of the face.
The floor instantly became covered with blood. The
prisoner has been in the frequent habit of beating her.
On one occasion I heard the prisoner threaten her that
if she attempted to send him to prison for ill-treating
her, be would stick the hooks (a large pair of double
hooks used for the purpose of lifting bales of wool) into
her.

Mary Ann Brookes, the prosecutrix, a sickly, ema•
ciated-looking woman, who was carried into court in a
chair, and remained seated during her examination, and
who appeared to be still suffering intense agony from the
injuries she had received, said—l have been cohabiting
with the prisoner about seven months, and have now come
here from St. Bartholomew's Hospital. On Saturday night,
the Bth March, the prisoner came home rather tipsy, and
complained that his supper was not ready. He then
struck me, and knocked me down, and on my telling him
that if he repeated the blow I would put him where he could
not come out, he lifted me up in his arms, and threw me
upon the ground with the left side of my face downwards,
and then struck me several blows on the right side of
my face. He then kicked me on the back of my head •,
he had his shoes on at the time. The blood gushed
from my mouth. I screamed "Murder," upon which
he returned and gave me another kick on my right side.
I was, at the time, an outdoor patient of the London
Hospital, in consequence of the ribs on my right side
being fractured by a blow from six or seven weeks be-
fore.

Mr. J. Allen, house-surgeon at Bartholomew's Hos-
pital, said—The last witness was brought to the hospi-
tal about two o'clock on the morning of the 9th March,
when I examined her, and found her in a very weak
state. She appeared half stnpified. There was coagu-
lated blood upon her face. There were marks of a blow
on the right eye, on the right cheek, and on the right
side of the chin. There was also a swelling on the back
of her head, apparently from a blow or fall. She had a
plaister on her loins, and a bandage round her body,
with "London Hospital" marked upon it, which bad
been placed there for some previous injury. There
was a recent mark on the stomach, as from a kick, and

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The young woman, Marian Daniels, who attempted
to stab Lady Cbantrey at the Pier hotel, Brighton, with
a cheese knife, has been pronounced by one of the parish
surgeons decidedly insane. On Wednesday an order was
made by the borough bench for her removal to Bethnal-
green.
DUBLIN, March 29.—Private Michael Byrne, 69th
Regiment, who was tried by court-martial last mouth
for general insubordination, and flinging his cap in the
face of Major Hickey, commanding the depot of the regi-
, meat in this garrison, has been sentenced to eight years'
peal servitude.

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