The Sun.
London, England, 1860-04-14 00:00:00

the mantelpiece, besmeared with blood. There was
only blood enough on the floor to cover a shilling.
The medical men not having finished their post-
mortem examination, the coroner adjourned the
inquest to Tuesday next, at one o'oclock.

EXAMINATION AND CONFESSION OF THE
DAUGHTER.
Yesterday morning Sarah Eliza Scholes was
brought before the New Bailey magistrates,
charged with having murdered her father and
brother. The prisoner is nearly 30 years of age,
and is a remarkably fine-looking woman.
The surgeons, who made a post-mortem exami-
nation of the bodies, stated that the father had been
strangled, and that the son had been killed by a
wound in the eye, inflicted with' a sharp instru-
ment that had peiletrated to the brain.
Police•sergeant Lee said that on Thursday morn-
ing he went to the house of the deceased, and he
there found the prisoner an a bed, greatly excited,
and being held down by three men. He found the
room in the state above described. He found a
walking-stick under the pillow of the bed, and one
pocket-knife on the mantelpiece, and another in the
hand of the father.
Police•sergeant Dixon deposed that on Thursday
morning, about nine o'clock, he took the prisoner to
the Salford Union Workhouse, and remained there
with her till ten o'clock that night. About three
o'clock in the afternoon, while he was sitting with
the prisoner, a minister came into the room in
which they were. The prisoner had, heretofore,
been rather boisterous, but she now became more
calm and collected. In about an hour from this
time she began to say that on the previous night
her brother William came home and began to make
a kind of disturbance, whereupon she went up
stairs into her own room, and her father and bro-
ther followed her, and got upon her bed to beat
her. She, however, got up, and stood in her own
defence, took a stick and struck her brother with it
and then she throttled him. After having done
that she throttled her father, who fell upon her
brother.
The prisoner was then remanded till Wednesday
next.

The unfortunate woman during the examination
seemed to take some interest in the proceedings and
to know well what was being done, as it was ob-
served that she frequently nodded assent to the evi-
dence of the police-officers. On being asked by the
magistrates, however, as to whether she had any
questions to put to the witnesses, she invariably
answered, "No; T don't remember anything about
it."

FROM THE GAZETTE OF LAST NIGHT

FOREIGN-OFFICE, APRIL 11.

The Queen has been pleased to approve of Mr. Richard
S. Newbold as Consul at Trinidad, for the United States
of America.

WHITEHALL, APRIL 11.
The Queen has been pleased to present the Rev. Duncan
Stewart to the Charge and Of of Third Minister of the
United Parish of Inverness and Bona, in the Presbytery
and County. of Inverness, vacant by the death of the Rev.
Hugh Mackenzie.

BOARD OF 'TRADE, WHITEHALL, APRIL 13.
The Right Hon. the Lords of the Committee of Privy
Council for Trade and Plantations have received, from the
Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, a copy of a despatch
from her Majesty's Minister to the Argentine Confedera-
tion, inclosing translation of a Decree of the President of
that Confederation abrogating the laws of the 19th July,
1856, and the 29th July, 1358, respectively, imposing diffe-
rential duties upon merchandise brought into any of the
provinces of the Argentine Confederation, from within the
Capes, at the mouth of the River Plate.

COMMISSIONS SIGNED BY LORDS LIEUTENANT.

County of Ayr—Graham Somervell, Esq., to be Deputy.
Lieutenant.

City of Edinburgh--The Lord Cowan, the Hon. Bou-
verie Francis Primrose, Sir John M'lsTeill, G.C.8., Sir W.
Johnston, Sir John Melville, Professor James Miller,
Robert Chambers, Esq., David Mure, Esq., Archibald T.
Boyle, Esq., David Anderson, Esq., William J. Duncan,
Esq., George Young, Esq., George Eliza Russell, Esq.,
Alex. Hill, Esq., and Thomas Ranken, Esq., to be Deputy
Lieutenants.

Cheshire.-22d Company of Cheshire Rifle Volunteers—
Thomas Horatio Marshall, Esq., to be Captain ; Wm. S.
Bradburne, Gent., to be Lieutenant. 23d Company—John
Bolton Littledale, Esq., to be Captain. 24th Company—C.
H. Hitchen, Esq. to be Captain; F. W. Jackson, Gent.,
to be Lieutenant; T. F. Linnell; Gent., to be Ensign. 25th
Company—A. Lyon, Esq., to be Captain; A. M. Gardiner,
Gent., to be Lieutenant;; R. K. Gardiner, Gent., to be
Ensign. 26th Company—T. W. Tatton, Esq., to be Cap-
tain ; G. Peel, Gent., to be Lieutenant ; F. Ham son,
Gent., to be Ensign. 27th Company—E. H. Greg, Eeq.,
to be Captain ; J. Railton, Gent., to be Lieutenant ; E. C.

Hopps, Gent., to be Ensign.
Wordestershire.-13th Company of Worcestershire Rifle
Corps—Harry M‘Leod, Esq., Lieutenant in her Majesty's
army, to be Captain ' • J. A. Macnaught, Gent., to be Lieu-
tenant; T. L. Smith, Gent., to be Ensign. 14th Company
—John Parker, Esq., to be Captain. 15th Company—R.
Bourne, Esq., late Captain in her Majesty's army, to be
Lieulenant ; C. Gardiner, Gent., to be Ensign. IGth Com-
pany—P. W. Bennitt, Esq., to be Captain.
Lanark.:-Ist Lanarkshire Rifle Volunteers (Glasgow)—

William Coulborn, Gent., to be Supernumeiary Limite-
nant. 52d Lanarkshire Rifle Volunteers (Hamilton)—
The Rev. Thomas Struthers to be Honorary Chaplain ;
Walter Walker Lennox, Esq., to be Honorary Assistant-
Surgeon. 80th Lanarkshire Rifle Volunteers (Glasgow)—
Robert M'Gavin, jun., Esq., to be Captain ; John Adam
Skelly M'Gavin, Gent., to be Lieutenant; George Quigley,
Gent., to be Ensign.
County of Nottingham.—Southern Regiment of Not-
tinghamshire Yeomanry Cavalry—Cornet John Wright to
Lieutenant, vice Lowe, resigned ; John Chaworth Mus-
ters, Esq., to be Cornet, vice Francis Bradshaw the
younger, promoted ; Thomas Bromley, Esq., to be Cornet,
vine Wright, promoted. Sherwood Rangers Yeomanry
Cavalry—Cornet William Knight Hamilton Ramsay
White to bo Lieutenant, vice Baring, resigned ; Alfred
Brodhuritt, Gent., to be Cornet, vice White, promoted.
Toi'er Hamlets.—Tower Hamlets Rifle Volunteers (No.
2.)—James-Scott Walker, Esq., to be Lieutenant-Colonel.
To be Captains—Joseph D'Aguilar Samuda, Esq., Clif-
ford Wigram, Esq., John Holt, Esq., Edward Hegely
Byas, Esq., William Waring Gwillim, Esq. To be Lieu-
tenants—Charles Hampden Wigram,
Gent., Ashley Will-
mott Barrett, Gent., Joseph Lloyd, jun., Gent., Russell
Gole, Gent., Charles William Laws, Gent. To be Ensigns
—Thomas Burt, Gent., George Pecke Meeson, Gent.,
Hugh Moody Robertson, Gent.; Alfred Thomas Pitchford,
Gent., William Charles Secretan, Edward Stillard. To be
Surgeon—Thomas Gray, M.D. To be Assistant-Surgeon
—William Thomas Garrett Woodforde, M.D.
Lancashire.-15th Lancashire Artillery Volunteers—
Philip Frederic Tinne, Esq., to be Captain Commandant;
Richard Watt, Esq., to be Captain; Robert M'Connell,
Gent., to be First Lieutenant ; John Mewburn, Gent., to
be First Lieutenant; John Park Robinson, ent., to be
Second Lieutenant. 56th Lancashire Rifle Volunteers—
Richard Husband, Esq., to be Captain; Joseph Beckton,
Gent., to be Lieutenant; Charles Mercier, Gent., to be En-
sign. 61st Lancashire Rifle Volunteers—Ensign Robert
Hyde Barton, to be Lieutenant ; Clarence Brazil, Gent., to
be 'Ensign ; Richard Carver Coupe, Gent., to be Ensign.
Sussex.-7th Sussex Rifle Volunteers—Lieutenant
Manaton Pipon, to be Captain; Ensign Sir John Henry
Pelly, Bart., to be Lieutenant.
Berwick-upon-Tweed.-Ist Corps Berwick-upon-Tweed
Artillery Volunteers—Alexander Kirkwood, M.D., to be
Assistant-Surgeon. let Corps Berwick-upon-Tweed Rifle
Volunteers—Robert Ramsay, jun., Esq., to be Captain;
Henry Lindsay Christison, Gent., to be Lieutenant ; Robert
Thompson, Gent., to be Ensign.
Northumberland.—let Corps Northumberland Rifle
Volunteers—Captain Edward Potter, to bo Major.