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finnan of the .Porte bad not been-receivedl, but that a
soon as it was it should be translated and laid on the
table of the house.

Frederick Francis Wia.ll, Gent., to bu -Ensign, vice King,
appointed to the Kiltirere
2cl Regiment of the Duke of Lancaster's' Own Militia—
Benj-amin James gothern, Gent., to be Ensign; Henry
Nichols, Gent., to be Ensign.Montgomeryshire Yeomanry Cavalry—Wm. ParrY Wil-
liams, Gent., late 17th Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Trevor,
resigned.
[The following appointment is substituted for that which
appeared in the Gazetto of Tuesday the 26,h Feb. lest :]
31 Regiment (Light Infantry) of West York Militia—
Edward Wright M'Creary, Gent., to be Ensign.
[The following appointment is substituted for that which
appeared in the Gazette of Tuesday last
Hertfordshire Militia--Ensign Edward Dorrien New-
bolt•to bu Lieutenant.
2cl Devon Regiment of Militia—Wm. Kennell Coleridge
to be Captain, vice Slacken, resigned; John Thomas Sul-
tan to be Lieutenant, vie;) Coleridge, promoted.
Exeter and South Devon Volunteer Rifle Battalion—
James Thorn George to be Ensign, vice Gifford, resigned ;
Robt. Stewart Dykes to be C tptain, vice Pearson, resigned. -
Commission signed by the Lord-Lieutenant of the County
of Stafford-2d Regiment of Kiug's Own Staffordshire
Archcl. lies to bo Captain, vice Lovett,
appointed to Ist Dragoon Guards

BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE.
Lord PALMERSTON moved that, on and after the
10th of April next, orders of the day should have prece-
dence of notices of inotion.—Agreed to.
SUPPLY.
On the motion far the house going into supply,
Sir D. L. EVANS asked the noble lord (Lord Palmer-
ston) if he had any objection to lay on the table of the
house a copy of the telegraphic despatch that had been
received from 'Major Dowbigging, denying the truth
of his (Sir De Lacy Evans) statement on a former occa-
sion. He was induced to ask the question from a report
being currant that the denial was couched in very am-
biguous language.
Lord PALMERSTON said- he was unable then to
give the hon. and gallant officer an answer from his not
having had notice of the question.
Sir DE LACY EVANS said h• would repeat the
question on Monday.
APPELLATE JURISDICTION OF THE
HOUSE OF LORDS.
Mr. BOWYER moved the following resolution :
" That the present state of the appellate jurisdiction
in the lastfresort id unsatisfactory," and" that a supreme
Court of Appeal ought to be constituted, presided over
by permanent Judges of Appeal."
[LEFT SPEAKING.]

BANKRUPTS.
Thomas Cooper, farmer and brickmaker, Wootton. Isle
of Wight, to surrender, March 18, at one, and April 17, at
twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Johnson, offic al
assignee, Basinghall-street • Sewell, Fox, and Sewell, Old
Broad-street; Foquett and Mew, Newport, Hants.
Buxton Kenrick, shipowner, Frampton, Lincolnshire,
March 18 and April 8, at half-past ten, at Nottingham.
Harris, official assignee, Nottingham; White and Calthrop,
Boston; Mutteram and Knight, Birmingham.
James Barker, builder, Brixton, 1111-rch 17, at two, and
April 16, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Stansfeld,
official assignee; Stroughill, Coleman-street, City.
Newby Atkinson, miller, Louth, Lincolnshire, March
26 and April 2 at twelve, at the Leeds District Court.
CarriJk, official assignee, Hull ; Brown, Lincoln.
George Barker, contractor, Henry-street, Kennington-
lane, Surrey, March 18, at half-past two, and April 15, at
one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Edwards, official assig-
nee, Sambrook-court, Basinghall-street ; Leefe, Bond-
street, Hanover-square.
George Pennell, grocer, Stoke-upon-Trent, March 20,
at half-past ten, and April 11, at eleven, at the Birming-
ham District Court. Bittleston, official assignee, Bir-
mingham ; Flint, Birmingham ; and Mortimer and Knight,
Birmingham.

Despatch from General. Sir W. Codrington

( From the London Gazette of this evening.)
WAR DEPARTMENT, MARCU 5, 1856.
Lord Panmure has "received a despatch, of which the
following is a copy, addressed to his lordship by Gene-
ral Sir William Codrington, K.C.B.
Sebastopol, February 20, 1856.
My Lord—l have to acknowledge the receipt of your
telegraphic message from the Judge-Advocate-General
in England, in reference to the man of this army under
sentence of death for murder.
There are no palliating circumstances to interfere with
the just punishment due to such a crime, committed, on
a helpless wounded man in hospital. Painful though
the duty may be, with a sense of the responsibility at-
taching to human life, but with the conviction that the
decision is just and necessary, I have ordered the execu-
tion of this man on Saturday morning next, the 23d
inst., in eouformity with the sentence of the court.
I have, &c.,
(Signed) W. J. CODRINGTON,
General Commanding.

• SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS.
Robert Cochran, druggist, Murraygate, Dundee, March
17, at the British Hotel, Dundee.
Robert Mitchell, surgeoq, Nether Inver, Aberdeenshire,
March 3, at the Royal Hotel, Aberdeen.

The Lord Panwure, &c.

BANK OF
kit Account pursuant to the Act
the Week ending on Saturda

ENGL AND.
7th and Pith Victoria 32, for
,y the Ist day of 111arCh, 1856.
'ARTMENT.

Februar 23, 1856.
P.S.—This prisoner, Private G. Day, Noy , 3,577, 77th
Regiment, was executed this morning at 7 a.m., on the
Piquet Ith=e Eftll, in the presence of detachments of
1,000 men from each division of the army. His body
was buried on the spot.
(Signed)

ISSUE DEF.
.0
Notes Issued 24,423,230

Government debt.... 11,015,101,
Other securitles...... 3,459,9,0
Gold coin and bullion 9,953,230
Silver bu11i0n........ -

Z 24,428,230

W. J. CODRINGTON,
General Commanding.

• Z94,1/8,230
ii..ILinSHALL, Chief Cashier,

Dated the 6th day of March, IS

BANKING- Dr'

tPA/LTMENT.

X -•
Proprietors' capital .. 14,553,000
Rest ............ .• . 3,779,752
Public deposits (in-
cluding Exchequer,
Commissioners of
National Debt, Sav-
ing's Banks, and
—Dividend Accounts) 4,083,033
Other deposits .• .. 13,912,4;9
even Day and other
Bills . 747,129

Governmentsecnrities

LONDON GAZEITE—ahis Evenin

(incladg•Dead Weight

Annuity) 11,451,906
Other securities...—. 19,450,762
N)tes ............. 5,493,005
Gold and silver coin.. 640,420

V9-11;ITE HAL 1., MARCH 1.
The Queen has been • pleased to appoint James, Earl of
Caithness, to be Lieutenant. and Sheriff Principal of the
Shire of Caithness, in the rooua of Alexander, Earl of
Caithness, deceased. , -
FOREIGN-OFFICE, MARCH 5.
The Queen has been pleased to approve of Mr. Jacob
Willinck, as Con.ul at Liverpool for the Free Ilaus3atic
City of Lubeck.

.£37,031,193 £37,031,193
MAIMMAIL, Chief C4sluer.
Dated the 7th day cf Marek, 1856.

CROWN-OFFICE,. MAncir 5.
MEMBER RETURNED TO SERVE IN TILE .PRESENT
• PARLIAMENT.
Connty'ef Rutland.--e The Hon. Gilbert Henry Heath-
cote, in the room of Sir Gilbert John Ileatheote, Bart.;
who has accepted the office of 'Steward of her Majesty's
Chiltern Hnnireds.
BOARD OF TRADE, WHITEHALL, MARCH 4.
The Right Hon. the Lords of the Committee of Privy
Council fur Trade and Planta:ions have received, through
the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, a copy of a de-
spatch front her Majesty's Consul at Marseilles, reporting
that all vessels arriving at that port from the East, with
fever on board, will be sent to Frioul, where the sick will
be landed ; those in good health, or merely wounded, being
permitted to laud at Marseilles in free pratique. The
vessels will be allowed to enter the port after being duly
purified, according to the sanitary regulations in force.
WAR DEPARTMENT, MARCH 7.
Ist Regiment of Dragoon Guards—Charles Robert Kerr
Hubback, Gent., to be Cornet, without purchase.
241 Dragoons—Capteia Johu Uppleby Grayburn, from
the Royal North, Lincoln Militia, to be Genet, without
purchase, vice Bainbridge, appointed io the 17th Light 1
Dragoons.
• 3d Light Dragoonsßicher:.l4.l3lundell, Gent., to be Cor-
net, by parchase, vice lialL
Royal Artillery—The first Christian name of Captain
Glanville is Franck:, and not Thomas as stated in the
Gazette of the, 29% ultimo • the second Christian name of
Second CaptaLt Wolfe is grayth, and not Smith, as stated
in the Gazcv'ee of the 29th ultimo.
Gren'edier Guards—Ensign and Lieut. Somerset Arthur,
Earl of Carrick, to be Lieutenant and Captiin, by pur-
cheee, vice Mitchell, who retires.
• Ist Foot- - Alfred Bloomfield, Gent., to *be Ensign, by
purchase, vice 0. D. W. Hunter, promoted.
7th Foot--Charles Fernier;, Gent., to be Dispenser of
Medicines.
Bth Foot—James lipalding Mackay, Gent., to be Ensign
by purchase, vice Pl'ere,, promoted.; Lioat. 2Eacas Gor
dun Blair, front the Galloway Militia, to bu Ensign, with
out purchase, vice Mackay, appeiuted to the 4.:d Fuut.
10th Foot —Win.linderby, Gout., to be Ensign, by put-
chase, vice Purvis, promoted.
13th Foot- Lieutenant S. L. D. Willazi to be Captain,
Jby purchuse Lieutenant vice Gosliug, F
who retiree ; Eusigu J. F.
ames to be, be, purchtse, vice Wtll:4u ; Thos.
Yardley, Gent., to be Ensign, by per,
vice James.
17th Foot—Ensign Witham Enderby, from the 10th.
Foot, to he Eusign, without purchase.
Ql9th Foot—Colour-Serjeaut William Rawding to be
uartermaster, vice Palmer, appointed Paymaster.
22d Foot—Lieat. Willi tin Augustus Tyrdell Heiden,
front the Royal South Lincoln Militia, to be Ensign,
without purchase, vice Parr, appointed to the 60th Foot.
24th Foot —Henry Price Holford, Gaat., to be Ensign
by purchase, vice Streattield, pi. meted ; Thomas Hill,
Gent., to be Ensign, without purehese, appointed to the
79 th Foot.
27th Fopt—Frederick Richard Attwood, Gent., to be
Ensign, by purchase, vice Geddes; promoted.
30th Foot—The Christian narnepf Resign Peat is Willis,
and not Williaas, As previously stated.
37th Foot—John Charley, Gent., to.be Ensign, by pur-
chase, vice Barnes, promoted ; Lieutenant Arthur Juhu
Bell, from the 3,1 West York Militiee to be Easigu, with-
out parc'haeu, 'roe Charley; ei:Teeluteet tie the 56th Foot..
4lst Foot —Captuie IttSkt worth: Joith Liddell, from the
81st Foot, to ha Ceptaine viceSheehy, who exchanges.
42,1 Foot—Ensign J. S'..- Mackay, from the Bth Foot, to
be Easign, without purchase.'
4141 Foot—To be Ensigns, by purchase- Hugh Osborne
Bateuttin, Gent., vice Gorton, peoutoted; D'Urban Win.
Ferrer. Elyth, Gent, Vice Crozier, promoted.
"11th Foot—leancelot Kerby Edwards, Gent., to be Ea-
sign, by patellas°, vice Beyly; Promoted. •
55t/4 Foos—Eusign Norman F.: 17niacke to by Lieute-
nant, fry purchase, vice Nunn, who 'retires.
rut; Foot —lieeigu J. R. Kelsal l to be Li.eutenaut, by pte - 1
chase, vice Butler, who retire, ;,Easin John Carley,
f. Gen the 37th FoOt, to be Ensign, witthougt purchase; John
Eiewie Rich, (,lent., to be Eaeiga, by purchase, vice Xel- I
sail. .

AVERAGE PRICE OF SUGAR.
The Average Price of Brown or Muscovado Sugar, com-
puted from the returns made in the week ending March 4,
1856. exclusive of the Duties of Customs paid or payable
thereon, on the importation thereof into Great Britain :
From the British Possessions in America 23s. 11 id.
Muscovado, the produce of the Mauritias 21s. 04d.
Muscovado, the produce of the East Indies
Average of the thi ee foregoing d 14 ions ... 244. 24x.

COURSE OF EXCHANGt.-TillS DAY.
imsteitern•• •• •• .• •••• 12 0% 4ibraltar •• •• •• •• •• •• ••
Ditto, three months .. 12 23 i.egtiorn .............• 25
13,otterdam •• •• •• •• •• •• 12 234 440T1011 •••••• • • 25 923
Antwerp •• •• •• •• •• •• 25 67% ;Clan •• .• •• •• •• •• •• ••
Brussels •• •••••• •• ••• 25 67% Venice•• •• •• •• •• •• ••
Elamburgh •• •• •• •••••13 12 ( Naples •• • •• 4334 Altana „ •... •• •• •• •• •• Palermo •••• •• •••• •• •••132
Paris•• •• ..•••• •• •• 25 47% Messina • ••• 132%
Ditto, three months .. 25 R 7 , Lisbo. ...... .. • • 5314
Marseilles ••• •• •• •• •• 25 90 , Oporto —.• ••
Bourdeaux •• ........ I Rio Janeiro.... •• •...
n
Plankto-on Maine •• .. 12 % Buenos Ayres ••
Berlin .......... • • .... I New York,6o days' sight
Vicuna •• ••••••*a•• •• •• 10 31 Philadelphia ••••• • .• • •
l'rici•te•• ••••••••• •• 10 36 , PRICES OF CULLICN, PER OZ.
Petersburg ............ .364, rForeign Gold in Bars £3 17 9
Madrid ........... .... 49X , Portugal Gold Coin 00 0
Cadiz 50% , Mexican Dollars .... 0 0 0
+Umlaut% I New Dolt-

:cynic

- _ ...... 0 0 0
I Sliver In bars ...... 0 5 OM

CENTRAL CRI,If INA& COURT.— :larch 6.

OLD COURT.

Emily Ryder, 21, a very good-looking and lady-like
young woman, was indicted for the wilful murder of
Frank Withers Ryder.
The prisoner, ;who appeared in deep distress; was
seated during the trial.
Mr. Platt proeecuttel. The prisoner was defended by
gr. Ballantine.
The counsel for the prosecution, in his opening address
to the jury, said that the case they were abeut to in•
quire into was a very differeet one from that which had
just been disposed of. The unfortunate young lady A
the bar was a married woman, in a very respectable
position of life, and her husband was a cons nercial
traveller. The child whose death was the suhject of
nquiry was the first the prisoner bad had, and, although
he was fearful thire could be no doubt that it ha 1 met
its death at her hand, yet he felt compelled to state at
the same time that' the evidence would make it appear
that from illne,ss of a particular nature, and which fre-
treently followed the confinement of women, she was in
such a state of mind 'aft not to be responsible for her
.
acts, and if they should feel the': this was made out,
they would have, the satisfaction of actoittingeher of the
dreadful crime alleged aga;nst her. • .
Miess-Georgiana Armstrong 'wag oil a visit on
the 2J February in Onslew•terrace, Newington, at the
residence of the prisoner and:, her hu:leentl. -Tire .dc-
ceased e .de-
Ceased child was about seven eeks old. I was down-
stairs in the kitchen when my sister called me, and I went
to an upstairs room, where I felted her with the prism
nor. sister, asked whet had become of the child, and in
consequence of What she said I went to the prisoner's
bedroom, but could not .find the child there. I went
back to the room where the prisoner was and said that
I could not God the child, and she then said in a pan in
the bedroom. I went back to the bedroom and found
the child in a pan of water, quite dead. I had observed
that the prisoner was in a ruo,t excited and a,lniost fran-
tic state on this day, and she bad been in that etate al•
most from the time of her delivery. The deceased was
her thee child. • Toe prieoner had made two attempts to
destroy herself. • .
' Mr. W. Wood, a surgeon, said—l have attended upon
the prisoner for several months. She had what medical
men term a fair confinement, and went on very well ter
several days, and I ceased my attendance. On the 2d
of January I was sent for again, and fatted the prisoner
suffering from nervous fever. She got gradually better,
and I again ceased my attendance. was sent for'
shortly after, and found her again suffering from nervous
fever, and her mind rya; evidelitly'afncted, and I di-
rected that she should not he left alone.
By Mr. Ballatitine—l have no deuht she committed
the.act while in a state of delirium and insanity.
Mr. 'Justice Erie here Interposed; and expressed his
opinion that upon this evidence and the other facts of
the-ceeeit was ueneoessary to Proasel further with the
inquiry.
The jury said they were quite satisfied, and returned
a verdict of not guilty, on, the ground-of insanity:
Mr. justice Erle said, that although the verdict must
be entered in this form, according to the statute, yet as
it was evidently a caste vehere'the Insanity teas on'y tem..
porary, and arose IroM bodily ailment, the prisoner
might be restored to her friends, and he should give all
the assistance in his power; by ina,',Oug a representation
in the proper quarter, that this coat* should be adopted.
Mr. Ballantine said he could have shown that the de-
votion of the prisoner to her child and her husband was
something marvellous, and the act she had conernitfed
was merely a melancholy instance of the eff.,cts of dis-
ease. Under these circumstances, the husband -ant
friends of the prisoner were exceedingly anxious that she
should be restored to them.
Mr. Justice Erle said he should have an opportunity
of signing an application to the Secretary of State for
he.r immediate release.
Hannah. Bramwell, 23, was indicted for the wilfu
murder of her female illegitimate child, known by the
name of Hannah.
Mr. W.. Cooper prosecuted.
The prisoner would have been without any legal as-
sistance but for the humane interference of the sheriffs,
and through their instrumentality Mr. Sleigh was re-
tained to defend her.
The cireutnstances 'of . this. case were of a most dis-
tressing nature The prisoner, it, appeared, had
been in respectable service, and was a girl •of good
character, ••when she was: seduced, and the result
was the birth of the infant iti question. The cense-
quence was that she lost her situation, and, her seduCer
having abandoned her, she reduced to a most
pitiable state of distress, and at the time- of the occur-
rence she and the child were literally starving arid
homeless: The child and. its mother -had for a short
time been in St. Luke's workhouse. but the prisoner
took the child away ou the Peltli of -February, and she
was last seen with it on the 14th, about 6 o'clock iri the
evening. On the following tnorpieg Parsoris, one of the
men belonging to the Royal Humane Society, discovered
the dead body of an infant flu4ting in the Serpentine,
and on its being taken out it proved to ba the child of
the prisoner.

Gist Foot —Eiwyn Brenton Attires, Gent:, to be Ea-
'sign, by purchase, Vice Sloman, promoted. •
63.1 Fout—M.jor Charles Edward Fuirtleugh to be
tenant•
t-Calonel, by-purchase, vice Lindesay, who retires ;
vice Pairtljou
Bre veltor . . Carter to be Major, by Purchase,
gh.W F
66th Foot—Jatnes How° Marion, Gent., to be Ensign,
by_purebase, vice Oliver.
1 68th Foot—The second Christian name of Ensign Briggs,
apkoiated on the 25th ultimo, is Pitts. tOth.Foot—Easign a P. Ilultord, from the 24 h Foot,
to be Ensign, without purchase. •
81st Foot—Captain William Sheehy, from the 11st Foot,
to be Captain, vne Liddell, who exchanges.
87th.Foot—Captain Alexander Hugh Cobbe to be Major,
by i)nrebse, vice Robertson, whose. promotion, by pur-
chase, on Nov. 2, 1833, has been cancelled.
88th Foot—The second. Christian name of Buchanan is
Mansergh. • •
Ceylon Rifle RegimentLieut.Walter Henty Long to he
Captain, by introhase, vice Holwortey, promoted in a Depot
Battalions Ensign Charles Harniltod Roddy •to be Lieu-
tettattt, by purchase, vice Long. •
BRIT.OEI ITALIAN LEGION.—Ith Rigiment ijer Crauford, from the- 31 Regiment, to be Lieut.-Colonel.
PROVISIONAL DEPOT BATTALION.—Captain. RI ward J.
Holworthy, from the Ceylou Ride Regiment, to be Major,
by purchase, vice Bierct-Colonel Giles V. Creagh, who
retires.
STAFF.--To have the local rank of Veterinary Surgeons
attached to the Infantry Divtsiona in the Crithea :
John
Cooper, Gent., and E !ward John Brock, Cient.
HOSPITAL STAFF.—To be Assistant-Sargeons.—Assist-
ant-Surgeon Thomas Sheehy, M.D., from the 7th Foot ;
Acting Assistant-Surgeons John Noble Shipton, Charles
Moore Jes4op, and John Harrison Ilobutham. The sur-
name of the Acting AsAistant-Surgeon, appointed Assist-
ant-Surgeon in the Gazetteof the 4th ult., is Morris, and
not Norris, as previously stated.

1 tREvEr.
Captain and Brevet Lieutenaut-Gslonel John Christie,
31 Regiment,Bengal Light Cavalry, to be Aide-de-Camp
tikthe Queen, with the rank of Colcnel in the Army.
Captain Francis Heratio De Vore,..of. the Royal Engi-
noes, to be Major in the Army. ~ . ...
Captain George Folleniu 3, attached to.the British Ger-
man Legion, to have the leo.ll rani of Major while so em-
ployed.
..
, 1 'the undermentioned officers to 'have the local rank in
Turkey while serving with the Turkish Contingent :
I Captain Thomas Garrett., attached to the Osmanli Irregu-
lar Cavalry, to have the local raulcof Major.
Captain Robert St.tott, late 4th Dragoon Guards, and '
Lieutenant Jolla Crynies, late 4C)%1 Foot, to have the local
rank of Captain. . .
The undernientionel Officers and Gentlemen to have
lo.i II rank in Turkey, while employed on the Medical
Staff of the . Osmanli- Irregular Cavalry.—Socond Class
Stuff-S:.:rgeon Dr. lialaz:iy, to have the local rank of Staff
Surgeon of the first Class ; Dr. Victor. Joseph Francois
Niapoleon Loci; Pel;etan, to have thei local rank of Sur-
geon ; .Edward Govett, Gent., and T. B. Blandford, Gent.,
ti3e Hoare, resigned, to have the lozal rank of Assistant-
Surgeons.

The following is substitutcd for the appointment which
appeared in the Gazette of ,28th Dec., 1855-:
john Tremenhero Johnston, Gait., to have the local
rank of Cornet while employed in the Turkish Contingent.
ADMIRALTY, MARCH 5.
Corps of Royal Marines—Second Lieutenant John DAW -
Son Hope to ho First Lieutenant, vice J. R. Brookes, re-
signed hie Co•-allainion.'
I COMMISSIONS SIGNED BY LORD-LIEUTEN ANTS.
Conntv of Worcester—The Hon. Charles Grantham
Scat 1,6-be a-nuty Lieutenant. • • '
Deputyße °o
y atll t Stoi:ufut 1 .11)t Lieutenant.
valltn:ti ..c—Se
es: Richard
Lid:r:iimf4mae:s Gard, Esq., to be
, •
Ist Devon Itestiment of .a.rilitia—David Larry Monarty
to be Ensign ; John roues Bathe (not John Junis Bathe,
as gazetted in Nov. 1 ) . ."
R'neigit.
-
Burke, Gent ,
BoYad 8/16;FeEnsign., .. - rY-,44a,......-___,A,..
ortwtor a or No •
ttlaa n
au •Jitilt• I
41224 ti

Dr. Christian, a medical gr,ntienaan residing► at
Knightsbridge, said he saw the dead body of the child,
and he was of opinion that at sttie time he saw it it had
been dead several hours. It, was a very ill cared. for
and emaciated child, and was also suffering from a disease
of the mesenteric glands. lie made a post mortern exa
urination, but he was unab;e to arrive at roly conclusion
as to the cause of death. There was nothing► in the
stomach but a Oman quantity of gruel in an undigested
state.

44,1

n.nawer to a..q.,uestion put by th74.l!nat twelve learned Judge,
the
that 4istio, 91•11.:"

• -

Dr. Chriatiau

THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, MARCII_7I 1856.

most import Int i:a.;is;.tiona..of death by dr° weing-vrcre
waiting, and he wou:d not at all take upon' himself to
say that 'death in this case was the result, of drowning.
By Mr. Sleigh—From the aopcarance of the child be
should say that it was very likely it had died from disease
and wa,a of care.

Me. Justice Erie said that, after this evidence, it ap•
peared to hini thejury would not think themselves justified
in convicting the prisoner. It appeared, at all events,
quite as likely, that the child's death had arisen from the
want and misery it had gone through as from drowning.
Die jury expressel! themselves of the same opinion,
and at once returned a verdict of not gull y. -
Joseph. Taylor surrendered to take his trial upon a
charge of misdemeanour.
Mr. Ballantine and Mr. Poland were counsel for the
prosecution ; the defence was conducted by Mr. Parry.
Tee charge was preferred under the Merchant Sea-
men's Act, and the offence imputed to the defendant
was that, being employed on board a screw steamer
called the Marley Hill, the property of the General Iron
Screw Collier Genpauy, he had wilfully opened part of
the machinery called the " sea cock," and thereby en-
daugered the safety of the vessel. The case for the pro-
secution was that no person but the defendant could
have interfered with the cock in question, and it was
alleged that he had been heard to make use of some
threats towardi the chief engineer.
Mr. Parry made an able address to the jury on behalf
of the defendant, and contended that the evidence was
far too inconclusive and unsatisfactory to justify them
in finding him guilty of so serious an offence. He
remarked upon the improbability of the defendant leav-
ing all he possessed on board the vessel, if he contem-
plated such an act, and he also urged the probability
that after all the affair was the result of accident.
Mr. Justice Wightman having summed up,
The Jury, after a short deliberation, returned a ver-
dict of not guilty,

NEW COURT.
(Before the Recorder.)
John Jones, 55, seaman, John Williams, 29, labourer,
and Richard Wilson, 29; clerk, were indicted for break.
ing and entering the dwelling-house of John Faulkner,
and stealing therein an iron box, some plate, and other
articles, valued at 201.
Mr. Metcalfe prosecuted ; and Mr. W. J. Payne, Mr.
M'lntire, and Mr. Biugham Daley severally defended
the prisoners.

It appeared that about 11 O'clock last Christmas morn-
ing two of the prisoners Were seen to come out of the
huue of the prosecutor, a gentleman living in Cornwall-
place, Holloway, bring with them a box, which they put
into a dogcart at the door, minded by the third prisoner,
and then drove off: The open way in which the robbery
was committed disarmed the suspicion of several per-
sons who saw the prisoner's go in and c'itne out of the
house, but still the circumstance impressed itself upon
their minds enough to make them take particular notice
of their persons. Upon the return of the pro ecutcr he
found that his house had been entered by means of a
skeleton-key. Nothing was heard of the prisoners until
Wilson .and Jones were taken into custody fit being,
without lawful excuse, in the garden of a house at Ball'-
pond. Upon this they, were detained, and the
police, to whom the, prisoners .Were all known as asso-
ciates, proved that on Christmas morning they saw all
three prisoner's. leave the vicinity of Horsemongfr. lane.
Gaol in a cart, which was brought out of the yard of a
livery stable keeper near there. The cart, and horse by
which it was drawn, exactly answered the descriplion
given of the one the prisoners were seen to leave the
prosecutor's house in.

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The jury found them guilty, and another indictment 100
against Wilson and Williams fora robbery of a similar
character
convicted was tried, and upon which they were again lir!
.

. .
In answer to the Court,
Sergeant Whitcher, the detective officer, stated that
in 1839 Jones, who went by a variety of aliases, was
transports°, for 15 years.• A few years after that he was
tried at Liverpool for returning from n'ansportation,
being found at large in that town. He was then
transported for life. Io 1852 he was apprehended in the
Thackfriars'-road, and tried at this court, when he was
sentenced to six months' imprisonment, and /again to be
transported for life. Again he came to this country,
and was one of the persons charged with the Leigh-
' ton Buzzard robbery. He had escaped from Nor-
folk I-land and Hobart Town. He bad also written a
book upon the horrors of transportation.
Other officers proved that Wilson, when lying under
sentence of six years' penal servitude, pa'sm.l in January;
1854, had broken out of 11oreemonger-lane Gaol. Wil-
liams had undergone two years' imprisonment for break-
ing into a house at Lambeth, when his capture was
effected by Hr'. Flextuore, the well-known pantomimist.
.They were each sentenced to 15 years' transpor-
tation.

(Before the Common-Sergeant.)
John Curran, 46, saddler, a very respectable-looking
man, Rebecca Curran, 41, his wife, who also was of very
respectable appearance, and Daniel Smith, a boy about
11 years of age, were indicted, the boy for obtaining a
quantity of flour and meal by false pretences, and the
other two prisoners with receiving, the same, knowing
that it had been obtained by fraud.
Mr. Ryland prosecuted, and Mr. Ribton defended,

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Tbe case was a somewhat singular one. The male
prisoner Curran has been for many years one of the sad-
tilers at Woolwich Arsenal, and in constant employ-
ment, while his wife kept, a lodging-house in the town.
The laths boy was the child of a neighbour, and had
been in the service'of a Mr. William Cocking, a baker,
in Woolwich, but had quitted his service about four
months ago. Mr. Cocking was in the habit of dealing
with a person named Woolf, a corn chandler, to Artil-.
lery-plaqe, Woolwich. Tbe boy Smith when in Mr. Cock-
ing's service used to be sent to Mr. Woolls for goods
.which were booked to his master's account. After he
had left he continued to go to the shop and get flour
and other things, upon the pretence that they were foll
his master, and they were entered to his account. Up
to the let of February Smith had so obtained flour to
the value of ill. Upon that day be went and asked '
for ss. worth of halfpence for his master fir change. The
prosecutor told him that he had not got any halfpence,
and be said-thatihreepenny and four-penny pieces would 2
do, and obtained 3s. worth, which he said Mr. Cocking t,
would call and pay fir ; but he not doing so, some in-
gniries were macte,•and the fraud wai found out.. From it
what sttbeequently tran'pired it turned, out that the Ii
female prisoner had got hold orthe boy, and urged him IC
to get the friar, which shelad sold to ber neighbours ; , trl
and, upon her touse being searched, about 150Ib. of - i 0(:).
flour and .a quantity of biscuit, meal, and, other, things
7: 50
were found.• The male. prisoner was, it appeared, much
away. from home. no
The boy pleaded "Guilty." . kir
The jury convicted the 'woman, 'and acquitted the
man. .

The C.)mmon-Sergeant ienteneed her to 13 month'',
imprisonment, anti po,tps'n4d judvnent upon the eLild.

POLICE; INTELLIGENCE--March 6.

GUILDHALL.--Henry Lambert, a clerk in the em-
ploy of Mr, Greentield, a Btookjobbfo-, of Throgrnortf.n.
street, was charged with defrauding his master to a large
amount.

Toe prisoner is a young man of about 18 years of age,
awl very dissipated ;appearance, and attenied this court
on Saturday last to prosecute a woman of notorious
character for robbing him of his purse, containing about
41. On that occasion the woman VIM committed for
trial at the Central Criminal Court, and the prisoner,
who then swore his name was Henry Dobsoo was bound
over to prosecute. _

Afters evidence bad been given in support pf the
charge,

Alderman Challis said there appeared to be only two
ca es out of a number of very 'serious frauds, and he
should therefore remand the prisoner for a week, in order
that the ease might be completed for trial, for it was evi-
dent that the prisoner had been carrying on this practice
to a considerable extent.