The Sun.
London, England, 1860-07-25 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JULY 25, 1860.

THE LIVERPOOL and LONDON FIRE and
LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY.
Offices—No. 1, Dale-street, Liverpool ; 20 and 21, Poultry,
London ; Sheffield, Manchester, Glasgow ; Sydney, Mel-
bourne, and New York.
This Company, by its numerous Boards and Agencies
throughout Europe, Asia, Australasia, South Africa, and
America, affords peculiar advantages to persons effecting Fire
and Life Insurances.
SWINTON BOULT, Secretary, Liverpool.
JOHN ATKINS, Resident Secretary.

No TILE OF DIVIDEND. -BANK OF
DEPOSIT (Established A.D., 1814), No. 3, Pall-mall
East, London, S.W.—The WARRANTS for the HALF-
YEARLY INTEREST, at the rate of 5 per cent. per annum,
on Deposit Accounts, to the 30th June, arc ready for delivery,
and payable daily between the hours of 10 and 4.
PETER MORRISON, Managing Director.

July 10, 180.
Prospectuses and forms sent free on application.

DAY'S PATENT ECLIPSE PORTMANTEAU
—The most extraordinary invented ! Ladies' Dress
Trunks, Rare, Knapsacks, Dressing Cases, and every known
variety of Travelling Requisites, at Manufacturers' Prices.
Illustrated and Descriptive Catalogue for one stamp. W.
DAY and SON, Portmanteau Manufacturers and Military
Outfitters, 353 and 378, Strand, London, W.C.—Estab. 1812.

'KEATING'S COD LIVER OlL.—The Pale
Newfoundland, pure and tasteless, the Light Brown,
cheaper and of good quality. The demand for these oils,
most highly recommended for their medicinal properties, has
bo greatly increased that Mr. Heating„ being anxious to bring
t lem within the reach of all classes now imports, direct, the
Pale, from Newfoundland, and the Brown from the Norwe-
gian Islands.—The Pale may be had in half-pints, is 6d;
pints, 2s 6d ; quarts, 4s 6d. The Light Brown, in pints,
Is 8d ; quarts, 3s. No higher price need be paid. At 79, St.
Paul's-churchyard.

CONTRACTS FOR TEA, SPLIT PEAS, OATS, SOAP,

TOBACCO, AND VINEGAR,

Department of the Comptroller for Victualling
and Transport Services,
Somerset-house, 21st July, 1860.
trHE COMMISSIONERS for EXECUTING the
OFFICE of LORD HIGH ADMIRAL of the UNITED
KINGDOM of GREAT BRITAIN and IRELAND, DO,
HEREBY GIVE NOTICE, That on THURSDAY, the 2d
August next, at half-past One o'Clock, they will be ready to
treat with such Persons as may be willing to Contract for
supplying and delivering into her Majesty" Victualling
Stores at DEPTFORD, the undermentioned Articles, viz. :
TEA 100,000 lbs.
SPLIT PEAS 800 quarters.
OATS 3OO ,
SOAP 2OO tons.
TO BAC CO. 50 „

When to be delivered.—Ralf of each in Three Weeks, and
the remainder in Three Weeks afterwards, or earlier if pre-
ferred by the party tendering.
VINEGAR

20,000 gallons.

Half in One Month, and the remainder in One Month
afterwards, or earlier if preferred by the party tenderint,r.
Tenders may be made for the whole or any portion of the
articles.

Their Lordships reserve to themselves the power, when the
Tenders are opened, of contracting either for the whole odor
such part thereof only as they may deem lit, or for a greater
quantity, or of not contracting for any, and also an unlimited
power of selection. _ .

- The Tea and Tobacco to be exempted from the Customs
Duties, and parties tendering are to state where they are re-
spectively

-Satnplt;'s of the Split Peas and Oats (not less than two
quarts of each), of the Tea (not less than two pounds from the
bonded warehouse), and of the Soap (not less than a bar),
must be produced by the parties tendering
Each Tender for fobacco must specify the several trade
marks and numbers, and the countries or places of its growth
or produce, and a fresh drawn dock sample of each cask or
package must be produced by the parties tendering, and any
cask or package that is found not to be of the same mark,
number, or quality as the sample tendered and accepted, will
be rejected by the officers.
Saniples of the Vinegar (not less than a quart) which the
parties tendering msy purpose to supply must accompany
their Tenders, as the delivery will required to be made in ac-
cordance with the' samples which may be accepted, and the
Vinegar tendered to be No. 20, trade denomination.
The Vinegar to be delivered in good, sound, strong, and
substantial casks, which are to be retained as long as required
by the said Commissioners or their officers without payment
thereof, buf are to be taken back from the said Victualling
stores (when emptied), by and at the expense of the con-
tractor.
The samples produced by persons whose tenders are not
accepted, are requested to be taken away by them immedi-
ately after the contracts have been decided.
NoTender will be received unless made on the Printed Form
provided for the purpose ; and which may be obtained on ap-
plication at the said Office, or to the officer conducting the
Packet' service at Liverpool, or the collector of Customs at
Bristol. _

Particular attention is called to the recent modifications of
the Conditions of the Contract, which may be seen at the
said Office, and at Liverpool and Bristol.
No Tender will be received after half-past One o'clock on
the day of treaty ; and it will not be required that the party
tendering, or an agent on his behalf, should attend at the
Office on the day of Contract, as the result of the offer re-
ceived from each person will be communicated to him and his
proposed sureties in writing.
Every Tender must be addressed to the Secretary of the
Admiralty, and bear in the left-hand corner the words "Ten-
der for ," and must also be delivered at Somerset-
house.

COUNTRY MARKETS.

LIVERPOOL-JULY 21

We had a good attendance of the town and country trade
this morning, and a considerable business was done in both
wheat and flour, at a slight advance on the full rates of the
week. Oats and oatmeal if anything the turn dearer. Yeas
the same as this day se'nnight. Beans and barley main-
tain fully previous quotations. Indian corn is offered very
sparingly, but in fair retail demand.

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.

HOME CIRCUIT:—LnwEs, JULY 24.
(Beforo Lord Chief Justice Cockburn.)

George Ball, a young man of gentlemanly appearance,
surrendered to take his trial for the manslaughter of Sarah
Anne Ball. _

Mr. Barrow conducted the prosecution. The prisoner
was defended by Mr. Serjeant Ballantine and Mr. Marshall
Griffith.

The learned counsel for the prosecution, in his opening
to the jury, said that, althoughthis case was not one of the
aggravated character that had already formed the subject
of inquiry at these assizes, none that he had ever heard of
was more painful and melancholy in its details. The per-
son who had lost her life residedin her lifetime in Lewes,
and was the mother of the prisoner—a mother to whom he
was bound to state there was no doubt the'prisoner was
warmly attached; and towards whom it was not for a moment
supposed, or suggested, that he would show any conduct
inconsistent with that feeling. The charge against him,
however, was that in the eye of the law he had been guilty
of such negligence and carelessness as rendered him amen-
able to the charge that was now preferred against him, and
if the evidence should establish the fact that ho had really
exhibited carelessness or negligence, and that the death
of the deceased resulted from it, it would be their pain-
ful duty to find him guilty upon the present indictment,
notwithstanding that they should at the same time
be of opinion that he never entertained the slightest inten-
tion to cause the fatal catastrophe The deceased lady at
the time of her death was 66 years of age, and she was very
ailing and was subject to violent fits of sickness, and the pri-
soner, who had been brought up to the medical profession,
and who was possessed of eon siderable skill in that profession,
although he was not in regular practice, attended upon his
mother for those ailments, and it appeared that he was in the
habit of prescribing to her small doses of prussic acid, of
Scheele's strength, which was the kind generally used, and
this treattnent-appeared to hevb affordejltre-deWsect &fifer=
derable relief. On "Wednesday, the 11th of July, the de-
ceased complained of being poorly, and the prisoner procured
a grain or 60 minims of prussic acid, from Mr. Roswell, a
dentist in this town, and he administered to the deceased in
the early part of the day a dose of four minims of the acid,
and it seemed to do her good, as she stated she felt better,
and in evening went out for a walk. Upon her return she
complained again of being unwell, and the prisoner admi-
nistered to her another dose of prussic acid, and he was
afraid that upon this occasion he administered a deadly
quantity, for the deceased had hardly time to go up to her
bedroom when she became insensible, and died almost im-
mediately afterwards. The learned counsel then explained
to the jury that three minims was the ordinary dose of prussic
acid that was adininistered by medical men,and that 10 would
certainly causedeath, and he said that upon the bottle that
had contained the prussic acid which the prisoner obtained
from Mr.Roswellon the morning the deceased died being exa-
mined, it was found to contain only 25 minims, thus leaving
31 minims altogether-unaccounted ; and he was afraid
the jury would not be able to come to any other conclusion
than that the prisoner had rashly administered this deadly
quantity to the deceased. The learned counsel then called
the attention of the jury to the law upon the subject, and
said that if the evidence should make out the facts as he
had stated them, the prisoner, in the eye of the law, would
have been guilty of the offence of manslaughter • and how-
ever painful it might be to their feelings, it would be their
duty to say so by their verdict.
Witnesses having been called in support of the learned
counsel's statement, Sergeant Ballantine, in an able speech,
addressed the jury for the prisoner. He said it was of course
idle to suppose in ordinary parlance that the prisoner had
committed a crime. He was a good and affectionate son ;

he watched over his mother with the most tender care and
assiduity ; and all that could be said against him was that
by an unfortunate and xielancholy accident he had assisted
in causing her death. To say that he was guilty of an offence
like manslaughter under such circumstances must be repug-
nant to the feelings of every one, and he felt assured that
when they considred the facts of the case, they would not
do such violence to their feelings, and at the same time
brand the unhappy gentleman at the bar as a felon for the
reinainthr of his life by finding him guilty of such an offence.
He then proceeded to contend that in the first place it was
not at all clear that this unhappy lady had died from
an excessive dose of prussic acid. The medical evidence
was very vague upon that subject, and the chemist who
had sold the article could not give them any information
as to its strength. The learned serjeant concluded his ad •
dress by expressing a confident opinion that the jury would
come to the conclusion that the prisoner had already suf-
fered quite misery enough for his share in this unhappy
transaction, a,.€l that they would not add to it by branding
him with a disgrace which must be indelible.
The Lord Chief Justice havirg summed up, the jury
&tiniest immediately returned a verdict of not guilty.

FROM TBE GAZETTE OF LAST EVENING.

WAR-OFFICE, JULY 21.

1 he Queen has been graciously pleased to give orders for
the appointment of Colonel Anthony Coningam Sterling,
C. 8., some time Military Secretary to the Commander-in-
Chief in the East Indies, to be an Ordinary Member of the
Military Division of the Second Class, or Knights Com-
manders of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath.

FOREIGN-OFFICE TUNE 20.
The Queen has been graciously pleased to appoint
Charles Duncan Cameron, Esq., now British Vice-Consul
at Poti, to be her Majesty's Consul in Abyssinia.

FOREIGN-OFFICE, JULY 24.
The Queen has been pleased to approve of Don Narcigo
Perez-Petinto as Vice-Consul at Accra for her Majesty the
Queen of Spain.

DOWNING-STREET, JULY 23.
The Queen has been pleased to appoint Thomas William
Clinton Murdoch and Stephen Walcott, Esqs., to be her
Majesty's Colonial Land and Emigration Commissioners.
Her Majesty has also been pleased to appoint Robert
Boyd Tytler, Esq., to be a Member of the Legislative
Council of the Island of Ceylon ; and Frederick Duncombe,
Esq., to be a Member of the Executive Council of the Ba-
hama Islands.

dlianteigdhtotletyheß2ulrnsteN, 2odvßemenbgearl, NlBast7iv.e Infantry, has Leen ante-

BANKRUPTS.

John Green, commission agent, Philpot-lane, City, to
surrender July 30, at one, and Sept. 4, at twelve, at the
Court of Bankruptcy.
David Hunter, merchant, Cornhill, Aug. 3, at eleven,
and Sept. 11, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy.
John Hughes, wire drawer, Birmingham, Aug, 4 and
Sept. 1, at eleven, at the Birmingham District Court.
Jesse Attwood, licensed victualler, Newington, Sitting-
bourne, Kent, Aug. 6, at eleven, and Sept. 11, at two, at
the Court of Bankruptcy.
John Frederic Eyles, printer, Brighton, Aug. 7, at
eleven, and Sept. 4, at half-past two, at the Court of Bank-
ruptcy.
John Martin, clothier, Nottingham, August 9 and 30, at
half-past eleven, at the Shirehall, Nottingham.
Palin and John Craven Palin, maltsters, Ches-
ter, Aug. 3 and 20, at eleven, at the Liverpool District
Court. _ _

William Nathariel Evans and Robert Buncombe Evans,
tanners, Colyton, Devonshire, August 8, and September 18,
at eleven, at the Exeter District Court. _
Thomas Laurence and William Mortimore, leather fac-
tors, St. Mary-Axe, Aug 4 and Sept 18, at eleven, at the
Court of Bankruptcy.
William Jones, tailor, Aldershot, Aug. 7, at half-past
eleven, and Sept. 11, at pne, at the Court of Bankruptoy.
Anthony Cumming, the younger, merchant, Liverpool,
Aug. 3 and 29, at eleven, at the Liverpool District Court.
Michael 11. Robinson, tailor, Wolverhampton, Aug. 3
and 24, at eleven, at the Birmingham District Court.
Ann Amelia Leevers, hosier, Liverpool, Aug. 6 and 30,
at eleven, at the Liverpoel District Court.
Arthur Jackson and Richard Michell Eastman, brokers,
Liverpool, Aug. 6 and 30, at eleven, at the Liverpool Dis-
trict Court.

Frederick Thomas Goodall, money scrivener, Munches-
ter, Aug. 7 and 28, at twelve, at the Manchester District
Court.