The Sun.
London, England, 1856-02-04 00:00:00

CRIMINAL COURT.—(This Day.)

OLD COURT.
(Before the Recorder.)
The February sessions of this court commenced this
morning before the Right lion. the Lord Mayor, the
Right lion, the Recorder, Aldermen Sir Robert Carder!'
Carter, and Lawrence, the Sheriffs and Under-Sheriff4.
The first edition of the calendar contains the names °f
87 prisoners, 3 of whom stand charged with murder,
and no fewer than 21 for passing base coin, and tvi°
with having in their possession an engraved
plate for the
printing of notes purporting to be those of the State and
Government of Prussia. The other cases are felonies
and misdemeanours of the ordinary character.
The Recorder, in his charge to the Grand Jury, said
that with the exception of a few serious cases, the cal
dar did not appear to present any serious amount ofi
crime, and the number of prisoners was about the Iv°'
average for the period which had elapsed eine°
the last sittings of the Court. He much regretted to
see that there did not seem to be any dirnin°
tion of charges against persons for nire"::
against the coin, and notwithstanding the firinrlo
with which the law had been administered and t',a
severity of the sentences inflicted in such cases,
number of perseni charged at this session with t 1
offence was very heavy, there being no fewer than '2l'
There were two cases of murder to be brought before
the grand jury. The first that of a young w°13:111
charged with the murder of her illegitimate
The death it appeared arose from a fracture
of the skull ; but, according to the evidence,
might have been the result either of a blow or an Sec.t'
dental fall, and there did not appear, upon the dePtf
tions, any proof that the injury had been caused by
prisoner ; so that, under these circumstances, it yr"'
be for them to say whether the accused ought to be put
upon her trial for wilful murder. They would be 111
liberty, if they ignored the bill for the murder, to retil
one for the concealment of birth. The other °barge °
murder was of quite a different character, it being a horribly
case of assassination, of a most deliberate character
committed in the open day by a young man nelliel
;
Westron. There could be no doubt that the act
committed by the prisoner, and the only question whica
could arise would be the state of the prisoner's oin
when he committed the act. With this they would e°t
have anything to do, and their duty would be to retur`l
a true bill for murder.

The Grand. Jury then retired.
The case of Dr. Vaughan, which has been returned
to this court fur trial, will, it is understood, 001118 °
irst on Friday before the Judges in the Old Court.
Mr. Sergeant Wilkins, Air. Bodkin, and gr. Cifirfr
son will prosecute, and the Attorney-General, 116-1
Ballantino, and Mr. Prideaux for the defence.

DEATH OF FIELD-MARSHAL pRINC.6

PASKEWITCII.

On Saturday we briefly announced the deatli.,ol
Prince Paskowitch, the most distinguished subi:ip
and servant of his Majesty the Emperor of B,"'tbs
A long succession of bulletins had prepared
public for the termination of the old Marshal 6
ness. The following notice of the principal fe31,41/
of his career are taken from a memoir published
the Patric :
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"Prince Ivan Fedorowitoh Paskewitch was
Poltava, of a noble and rich family, on the
May, 1782 ; he consequently died in his 74th Y„'- gr
Having entered the corps of pages when very
and his acquirements as a stuient giving el' oel
quently great promise, he was made a lieuteura
oe the guards reemployed aide-de-camp to the e3Pree
Paul, who often him on important, -e ja
stuns. It was in 1805 that he first saw active servi'erto
the field, having been sent by the Emperor Alexanlthe
the assistance of the Emperor of Austria agtinilsfvcar
French. He had at that time attained the ran.- d
tent. In 1806 he was with the army in Turkey, die
long as the expedition lasted (from 1807 to 1812)
tinguished himself by his military talents. In tbiecf Lis
paign he was wounded, and gained every BOP,' „ pie'
promotion at the cost of his blood. One of I°,ol
graphers, J. Tolstoy, relates that he was sent on l'e'iotel
missions to Constantinople, especially in 1808, at'd
the following event : 1 be
On his last diplomatic journey to that caPl-%pie
leatned that the Turks, who looked upon him A 5 11'
intended to assassinate him. The darger weshoett
!lenient ; he immediately hired a four-oared %if°
stepped into the frail vessel, and compelled the "Jo
mariners who managed it to take hint to Varns.,,i4clg
thus coasted a shore of one hundred leagues in the
Sea, the tempestuous character of which is well 1°13;1,1_1
Several times they were all but but lost during -nei
dreadful passage, but the boat carried Paelewitch eh"-,
his fortunes, and reached Varna in safety. At ~„-110
place be succeeded in persuading the Pacha,y. ;:e
the military governor there, that peace had bee",,; to
eluded, and thus his preserce of mind enabled 11i
escape almost thevitabie death."
I t i°
By the end of the campaign against Turkev-113
to say, in 1812—Paskewitch was a general. France has
decided war against Russia, and the Grand A rrnY'
advancing towards the Russian territory. Being i" eeed e
mend of the 26th division of infantry, which fore'''. 0,
part of the corps under the orders of Prince BAgrstl%
General Paskewitch was present at the battles of P 34.
kofka and Soultenofka, Smolensk, Moskowa, Ase' force
In 1813 he commanded in chief the blockading
thet
of Modlin. When the armistice was concluded be
period, he left Poland and repaired to Bohemia.
-lino
month of September he took part in the battle of , 13,,it
and one month after in that of Dresden, where he
tie
mended the vanguard ; after this he was present the
battle of Leipsic, obtaining there his promotion '"„ill
rank of a lieutenant-general. Employed subee(itie,'"ot
at the blockade of Magdeburg, and again later, at 130
of Hamburg, Paskewitch was appointed, in 1814, t
command of the 21 division of grenadiers, which I'„,-.170
time was in France. At the battle of A:nig-Bur-Au"-
had a horse killed under him.
On his return to Russia, in 1815, he married 0
Gritoyedoff, a lady of noble Tao
rank at Moscow, for
years after the Emperor made choice of him to neiier,
pany the Grand Duke Michael on his tour thronghr, -the
many, Holland, and Italy. Returning in 1820,'
Emperor gave him a division of the Imperial Guar"' -71
created him his aide-de-camp general.
War having broken out between Russia and rere.i:ei
in 1826, the Emperor Nicholas, in compliance with
request of General Yermoloff, who commanded in efl-11
the army of the Caucasus, sent him General Paelcovili
for his second in command. The latter, leaving T! t'a
at the head of a small army, advanced on Elisabetp"'
meet the enemy, whom he utterly routed and soon ng;
polled to evacuate the provinces be had invaded.
Emperor Nicholas on this occasion presented base
a sword, the hilt of which was adorned with diamonut
and on which was the following inscription—"Te
Conqueror of the Persians at Elisabetpol."
In the year following, General Paskewitch
Yermoloff in the chief command. He penetrated into
the Persian territory, took several fortresses, defeated
Prince Abbas hlirza, took possession of Erivan :4111
Tauris, and forced, by his rapid successes, the Shah
Persia to sue for peace, which was signed on the 19th
of February, 1823, As a reward for his service the
Emperor raised him to the rank of a count of the et'
pire, with the surname of Erivan, and gave him 2'
lion of roubles.
To the war against Persia succeeded that ag14,1,11:
Turkey. General Paskewitch, on the news of :j
declaration of hostilities, prepared to act, and advance
on Kars, which was compelled to capitulate after 0
sanguinary assault, He subsequently captured t,
haltzic, the garrison of which made a desperate defence'
Several places in the valley of the Euphrates fell like'
wise into the hands of the Russians. As soon n° tbe
winter season was over General Paskewitch recoar
menced operations, and, after obtaining various Ole;
ceases, entered Erzeroutn ; here be was preparing to
continue his march on Trebizond, when the neW
arrived that peace bad been concluded. The Ernperori
who, in the course of the campaign, bad already bent
him the order of St. Andravr, and made him a prel °,l,
of two guns and a flag, named him field•marshal of
armies.

ROYAL BRITISI BANIC.—The annual general insetivii
of the proprietors of the Royal British Bank was held flt
the Strand branch to-day--Edward Esdaile, Esq., t"
chairman of the board of directors, in the chair-11183
a dividend at the rate of 6 per cent. per annum, free of
income tax, wag declared. The vacancy in the truso"
ship bed been filled by the election of Sir James Maths'
801), M.P.
The Bulletin de Lois publishes an Imperial decree,
promulgating the Convention by which the Ottowrill
Porte and Sardinia have acceded to the Convention of
the 10th May, 1854, relative to the enemy's vessels ear
tured by the naval forces of the two nations.
We are glad to learn that the progress of Lord Adel'
phus Fitzclarence towards recovery is of a nature t°
give satisfaction to his medical attendants. The visits of
inquiry by members of the aristocray during the past
week have been very numerous.
Madame Georg% Sand)s new comedy, "Comma 11
vows (As you Like it), imitated from Shakspeare," is to
be produced at Paris in the course of a few days.
According to official reports lying before me,
writes a St. Petersburg correspondent of the Cologne
Gazette), the army in the Crimea, which Prince
Gortschakeff has just handed over to General
Luders, is composed as follows :—The 4th, sth,
10th, 11th, 16th, and 17th division of infantry
(24,000 men), the 15th reserve division of infantry
(4,000 men), with the appurtenant rifle battalions
of artillery and cavalry, the drushines of the 38th
and 54th (7,000 men) militia of Kaluga, two regi-
ments of the 2d brigade of the 6th division of in"
fantry (2,000 men), a brigade of the 2d dragoon
divisions (two regiments, 1,600 men). In the pc"
sitions of Sarabus and Troch-Ablun, the 21 and 3d
grenadier division (8,000 choice troops) with artil-
lery, the half of the 12th division of infantry
(2,000 men) with artillery, the 39th, 40th, 41st,
and 42d drushines of Kursk (4,000 men). Of ar-
tillery, 280 field-pieces. The corps of observatios
near Kertch, Theodosia, and Eupatoria, are not in'
eluded in this computation.