The Sun.
London, England, 1860-08-07 00:00:00

VICTORIA DOCK REGATTA.

This regatta, among watermen of the Victoria Dock for
a purse of sovereigns, came off yesterday. The heats were
won as follows :
D. Hughes (Red) 0, J.
0. Won by three lengths.
First Heat—W. Knox (Pink) 1, D
Jeffreyes (Green)
Second Heat—C. Campbell (White) 1, N. Rolls (Yel-
low) 0, W, Arnold (Blue) 0. Won easily,
Third. Heat—Green 1, Pink 2, Blue 0. Wen by several
lengths.
Fourth Heat—Red 1, Pink 2, White 0, Green 0. Won
by 12 lengths.
Grand Heat—Red 1, Pink 2. A hard race, ultimately
won by 10 lengths.

8, Henrietta-street, Covent-garden, July 13, 1860.
My dearest Mary,—This comes with my kindest love to
yoou trusting you are well and happy myself I am pretty well
in health now come to London my dear girl on Monday week
the 23d and stay till Mrs Walker leaves her situation then
go back home again and come up again on Friday morn-
ing the 10th of August, and I CP leave on the 10th of
August to meet you I. sha)l stay at the ledgings I shall
take for you and myself I shall of our Marriage
last Wednesday and it will be asked in Church on Sunday
next and Sunday 29 for the 3 time I gave warning to leave
on Wednesday last th 11th can leave on the 10th of next
month Laving a few days wages less now you will have quite
money enough my dear till after we are marticd when it
shall have plenty bat engage a furnish lodging for a week
only when I shall be able to settle all tb;ngs and go down
to your Father and stap with you a day or two you can
Lodge some where on the Friday you came up and I at your
lodgings so be ready for Saturday morning when we will
be married at St. Martins Charing Cross on Saturday
Augt 11th next I have published the Banns not till then
but you need only wear your Black Clothes my dear girl
at our Wedding and shall only wear black things and shall
have no white gloves at all dearest our Coachman will stand
has father for you and I shall not require a Bridesmaid
unless you like if so our housemaid will come up if she can
and we will go after we are married to Kew Gardens or
somewhere by ourselves after we have had some wine
cake (and breakfast before we are married by ourselves
I think) I want to INSURE Assuus your life when you
come up on Monday week will be settled in the time your
here two or three days bring all your things when you
come on the lOth of August say to your mother your
going to stay with my friends a fortnight and then look for
a Situation in the time after we are married you can have
all you wish for so you will have enough money for the pre-
sent time Has you do not want to buy anything all the
clothes you have will do for the present till we are married
and on the Wednesday after we are man and wife I shall take
mooney enough to supply all your wants and wishes so rest
happy till then my dearest girl 1 will expect to see you then
in London on Monday week to assure your life and buy
you the wedding ring to give you to keep till the day I
put it on you finger the 11th of August must be the
day I cannot wait another day longer than that my dearest
girl buy nothing expect you want it very much indeed has
I will buy you al want the Wednesday after we are married
for a certainty but at the same time remember all I am
told you I am now awaiting to hear from again say you
will do Has I say write by roturn of Post I 'am dearest
Mary you ever Effectionate lover, W. G. YOU.NGMAN.
Kind respects to all friends remember do not forget what
I have said be careful and keep all my letters looked up so
your Mother and no oie can see them and bring them when
you come here.

London, July 19.
My most beloved Mary,—l received your most kind
and welcome letter this morning, about 11 o'clock. I was
expecting to get it by 8 o'clock, but you put Borough in the
address, so it was sent to the Borough first, which caused
it to be late. Put the address only has above. Dearest
girl, I have filled up the paper now, & took it to the Life
Assurance office, & they will write to Mrs. James Bone to-
day to get answer on Saturday. So you can go with me to
the office before 2 o'clock on Monday when you come up
you will arrive in London about past nine o'clock on Mon-
day morning; that was the time I arrived last Monday
week. Do not, my dearest girl, say anything to your
mother about what you are going to do ; only say you are
coming to see me and stay with me and my friends till you
get a situation here in London, and I think you had better
not bring all your things, only the most particular ones—
the best, has you will not want many things till we are
married, has you will have some made or bought for you
by me before we are married ; but bring a few of your best
things only, and above all bring all your letters and papers,
and leave nothing of importance behind, has all things
you have I want to see, and I shall, of course, go to
Brighton for a time after we are married, if not before ;
but I shall see you on Monday morning. You must bring
the certificate of your birth with you, has it must be taken
to the office on Monday next, before the quarter's pre-
mium is paid, and I wish it to be done next Monday morn-
ing. I will take lodgings for you and me, and when you
came up on Monday you need not go to Mrs. Walker's at
all, Keep with me and I will manage it all comfortlble
enough for you. Don't bring all your things, you under-
stand, only the best bring with you, and you can borrow a
little money of your father. Do for a few days, when I can
give it to you to send him back. Yeu understand has
money his short with me till about this day week
Thursday, but I want to sea you & I must & get your life
assured & get many things settled before then, & we will
both go down & see your father & mother and Friends &
surprise them in about a week or 8 days after we are mar-
ried, but I am even now has much has husband to you dear
Girl—do has I tell you &I am with love ever & ever to you
do not forget to bring your birth certificate, has you cannot
assure your life without it. I hope you will let me have an-
swer by return of post, my most beloved girl, and one on
Monday bas well, to meet you at the station London-
bridge on Monday,
I am, your dear and most affectionate,

W. G. YOIINGMAN.
The Coroner having at considerable length pointed out
the particular features of the case,
The Jury retired, and after an absence of a few minutes
returned a verdict of " Wilful murder against William
Godfrey Youngman," in each case.

The Coroner then issued the usual warrant for the pri-
soner's detention.

Shortly after ten o'clock a well-dressed and good-
looking young woman presented herself at the police-
station, adjoining the Lambeth police court, and ad-
dressing police-constable Tanner, 80 L, inquired if she
could be admitted into the court, to hear the further
hearing of William Godfrey (as she called him), who was
in custody for the Walworth murder, and who, she
understood, was to be further examined on that day. The
constable told her that that was not the day to which the
accused was remanded, upon which she expressed some dis-
appointment, and said she had come all the way from Staf-
fordshire (as the officer understood her) to see him. She
then asked Tanner if he had seen William Godfrey, and he
replied that, though not engaged in the case, he had been
present on Tuesday last, and had seen that person in the
court, as well as in the cell. The young woman here drew
from her bosom a handsomely framed photograph portrait,
and asked the officer if it bore any likeness to the prisoner
in custody, and Tanner, after a moment's examination, re-
plied that there could not be the slightest doubt about it,
for a more striking likeness of William Godfrey Young-
man he had never seen. The applicant, on the announce-
ment, became deadly pale, and appeared to be much over-
come, and taking back the portrait with a trembling hand
she put it in her pocket and not her bosom, from which she
had taken it. She again expressed a wish to be present at
the examination of the accused, and was told by Tanner
that if she called again on the day to which Youngman was
remanded he should use his efforts to get her into court.
She then left, but it appeared that before leaving flee neigh-
bourhood she had communicated to other persons that she
was engaged in marriage to William Godfrey Youngman,
and that seeing the reports in the newspapers about the
murders in Manor-place, and the name of William Godfrey
Youngman given as the saspected murderer, it struck her
that he was no other than her intended husbaad, and she
had come from Staffordshire to satisfy herself of the fact.

EXTRAORDINARY SUICIDE BY A

CORONER.

An inquest was held yesterday at the Ship Inn,
Redcliff-hill, Bristol, before Mr. J. B. Grindon, city
coroner, on the body of Mr. George Hayes Hinch-
cliffe, one of the coroners for the county of Stafford.
The circumstances attending the case ware of a
melancholy and almost romantic character. The
deceased gentleman was married only as lately as
Wednesday last at West Bromwich to a lady of equal
position in society, to whom he had been for some
time previously engaged, and in the course of that
day the newly-wedded pair arrived at the Queen's
Hotel, Clifton, on their trip for the honeymoon. No-
thing strange was observed in the manner of the
bridegroom until he went to his wife's chamber some
time after she had retired for the night, and shortly
afterwards reappeared and requested to be provided
with another bedroom. The house being full, Mr.
Hinchcliffe was told that he could not be accom-
modated, and he then left the Queen's and pro-
ceeded to the Sedan-chair Tavern, on the Broad-quay,
where he slept for the night. His wife, alarmed at
his strange behaviour, telegraphed for her brother,
Mr. Fereday, in West Bromwich, who arrived in
the course of the following day, and Mr.Hinchcliffe
was sought out and prevailed on to return to his
wife. He dined with her and her brother the same
evening, but again left the Queen's, and there is
reason to believe that he wandered about all night.
On Saturday he took lodgings for the night at the
house of Mr. Price, grocer, of Thomas-street, and
there committed suicide under the strange circum-
stances disclosed in the subjoined evidence :
Police-sergeant Foot—About 20 minutes to two
on Sunday morning I saw a man at the top of Kr.
Price's house, who said he had been robbed, and on
my ringing the bell he told me it was all right, as
he had found what he had lost. Another officer
came up, and we asked him (deceased) his name
and residence, but he refused to give them, and said
he did not believe we were policemen at all. Se-
veral persons gathered round, and I said I would
call up Mr. Price and see who his lodger was. We
had had information of a man having escaped from
Dr. Fox's Asylum. I went away and returned in
a few minutes, when I saw the man holding on by
the window-sash. I cautioned him of his danger,
and in a minute or so his hold gave way, and he
fell into the street. I immediately picked him up,
and found him apparently dead. In two or three
minutes after rousing Mr. Price, and getting a
shutter to put the body on, we took deceased to the
General Hospital.
Police-constable 185 confirmed the evidence of
the last witness.

The Rev. George Frederick Wade, incumbent of
Eastoft,Yorkehire, brother-in-law of the deceased—

I never knew deceased anything but perfectly sane.
I married him a few days ago at West Bromwich.
He left for Clifton. lam certain he is the person
now lying dead at the General Hospital. I have
known the deceased for nearly 20 years. He was
considered by all who knew him as the ideal of all
that was honourable, truthful, and gentlemanlike.
He succeeded his father as one of the coroners for
Staffordshire, having been elected by an over-
whelming majority. He was exceedingly nervous.
I have known him faint at matters which another
man would only laugh at. I saw his brother-in•
law, Mr. Fereday, on Saturday, who told rue of all
the strange things that had happened up to that
time. I was astonished, as when I saw him and his
wife leave I thought what a happy couple they
were. Deceased was very excitable, particularly
sensitive of anythirg like blame. The rupture
which has been spoken of took place while he was
hunting. There was nothing to have prevented
him and his wife from living happily together. His
wife was an exceedingly nervous lady, and no doubt
that has made matters worse. Ido not believe the
deceased would have destroyed himself had he been
in possession of his faculties. He was quite alive
to the sin of self-destruction. I respected him as I
respect few persons in this world, and loved him
dearly. He was 33 years of age.
The Coronor having summed up, the jury with-
out hesitation found that the deceased destroyed
himself while labouring under temporary insanity.

ALLEGED MANSLAUGHTER BY
KEEPERS AT COLNEY HATCH.

A powerful-looking man, named William Slater,
lately employed as attendant at the Lunatic Asylum,
Colney Hatch, was brought up at the Bow-street
Police-court, yesterday, on a warrant issued at the
instance of the Lunacy Commissioners, charging
him, in conjunction with another keeper not in cus-
tody, with the manslaughter of an inmate named
William Swift.
Mr. Sleigh, the barrister, appeared for the prose-
cution ; and Mr. Lewis, of Ely-place, for the
defence.

Mr. Sleigh, in opening the case, observed, that if
the evidence which he should have to lay before
the magistrate bore out the facts as they had been
stated to him, it would appear that the unfortunate
deceased had died from injuries received in the
asylum under circumstances of peculiar aggravation
and brutality. The prisoner was one of three
keepers in Ward No. 11, where the deceased was
confined. On the 12th Wm. Swift was alive, and
physically quite well. Between 7 and 8 the sur-
geon, Mr. Tyerman, was sent for, and found him
dead. On Monday, 14th May, there was a post-
mortem examination, when it was found that the
man's breast bone and eleven ribs were broken, and
he had sustained other injuries. Samuel Clark, one
of the inmates, would describe, the treatment
which the deceased had received at the hands
of the prisoner and another keeper, and if his
statement were true there could be no doubt that
they had killed the man then and there.
Mr. Daniel Fletcher Tyerman, a member of the
Royal College of Surgeons, and attached as medical
officer to the asylum at Colney Hatch, was examined
at great length, his evidence tending to show that
the injuries deceased had received had been pro-
duced by ♦iolence. Witness then said—There is
an inmate of the asylum, named Samuel Clark, who
is in attendance to-day to be examined as a witness.
He is an inmate, of course, as a lunatic.

After a long discussion Mr. Henry said the man
might be sworn.
Clark was then sworn. He deposed—Swift was
a patient in No. 11 ward. I was in that ward my-
self. On the 12th of May I saw Swift brought in
from the airing court. He was taken in by Mr.
Slater and Mr. Vivian. They took hold of him by
the arms. Vivian had hold of his collar. He said,
" Don't take hold of me, I will go any where with
you." Vivian then let go of his collar, and took his
arm. They took him into the ward and tripped
him up. They threw him on the floor and ill-used
him. Vivian kicked him, and Slater punched him.
They then got him up, and took him to the door of
the padded room, where they undressed him, and
pushed him in. He fell on the floor, and Liey
kicked him and punched him as before. He was
calling out so that they must have heard him all
over the airing court. He said, " Kill me at once,
don't kick me like that." Slater had been out with
some of the patients, and when he came in Vivian
said to him, " I have been waiting for you, I can-
not keep Swift out of the ward." Slater said,
" Take him in at snce ;" and they took him in
there and then. I have said before that the
affair lasted twenty minutes, but I now remem-
ber it was ten minutes to six when Slater came out
of the padded room, so it must have been near an
hour. Slater got us to bed earlier than usual that
night, so that I had no time to get a pipe after I had
dome my work as usual.

In cross-examination he stated that he heard of

the coroner's inquest, but did not know when it took
place. Did not mention the matter till he was in-
terrogated. Did not see the commissioners till
about a week ago.
Mr. Henry observed that the witness had not
volunteered his evidence. The inquiry had been
instituted in consequence of a letter received by
the commissioners. (The letter was handed to Mr.
Lewis.)
The witness, in further cross-examination, men-

tioned several other inmates who were present at
the occurrence, and also stated that Swift had been
similarly ill-treated on the Friday.
It was intimated that the other inmates would
be called, and that evidence would be given of the
occurrence on Friday.
The prisoner was then remanded.

RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE.

LONDON AND SOUTH-WESTERN.

The report of the directors of this company
states that the balance available for dividend, includ-
ing £3,838, balance from the preceding half-year,
amounted to £156,062. Out of this the directors
recommended that a dividend be declared at the
rate of 41 per cent. per annum, payable on the
25th of August, amounting, on £7,198,356 of paid
up capital, to £152,965, leaving £3,097 for the next
half-year. The increase in the gross revenue for
the half-year, as compared with the corresponding
cperiod of 1859, amounted to £38,885, the total re-
eipts having been £476,081 against £437,196.
The increase in the working expenses amounted to
£17,744, the total expenses having been £215,322,
against £197,578. The taxation amounted to
£25,329, against £24,036 ; and the net revenue to
£235,430, against £215,582 for the same half of
1859, showing an increase of £19,848. The gross
traffic had been earned over the same number of
miles of railway as were open during the last two
months of the corresponding period of 1859 at an
increased expense of £17,744, which had been
caused by the greater number of miles (69,012)run
by the trains during the half-year, an increased ex-
pense in the staff of the traffic department, and re-
pairs and outlay on the lines and stations. The
directors had commenced the further renewal of
the permanent way, also putting an additional
number of sleepers in the road, and fish jointing the
rails. £26,671 had been already expended for this
object, the work was still in progress, and of that
sum £lO,OOO had been charged against the re-
venue of the past half-year. The Salisbury and
Yeovil line was opened throughout to Yeovil on
the Ist of June last. The extension line from Yeo-
vil to Exeter was opened throughout for traffic on
the 19th of July. The line and works had been
most substantially constructed throughout, and re-
flected great credit on the engineer of the line
and the contractor. The directors anticipated a
large increase of traffic to the old main lines of the
company from the rich and populous district through
which the extension line passes, and the local traffic
would be considerable. he directors had agreed
to work the Dorset Central Railway, the first por-
tion of which from Wimborne to Blandford was
expected to be opened for traffic during the autumn.
The capital account showed that £10,874,557 had
been received to the 30th of June, £10,871,430 ex-
pended, including £237,554 during the past half-
year, leaving a balance of £3,127.

TILE TWO QUEENS OF NAPLES.—It is not gene-
rally known that the immediate cause of the departure of
the ox-Queen from Naples proceeds from nothing less
than a violent dispute and personal altercation with the
reigning Queen. The latter is very sensitive and very
frank ; the former is very proud and very Jesuitical.
One day, after the family council had received unpleasant
accounts of the state of affairs, the young Queen could not
restrain her feelings, but proceeded to the apartment of
the Queen Dowager,. and, after making her acquainted
with the bad news just received, she told her that the
throne of Naples was lest for over, and that she, the ex-
Queen, might consider herself the cause of the ruin of the
family, owing to the bad advice and example which she
had always offered to the late King, upon which the ex-
Queen, without uttering a single word, rose up from her
chair, and, report says, they came to blows. At all events,
the rupture is so decided that reconciliation is declared to
be impossible.

When the Government required volunteers for
China the 11th Regiment was the first to come for-
ward. Although a young corpi, it had already
given proof of steadiness and attachment to its
colours, particularly at Mooltan, when the 62d and
69th Native regiments mutinied. For his behaviour
on this occasion a havildar got the order of merit.
No sooner was it known that the regiment was
proceeding on active service than a host of officers
volunteered from the regular army and from the
Indian army. Fourteen were selected from the
applicants, who had passed in the native language,
and some 700 strong, the 11th Sikhs, marched
down from Lahore to Kurrachee, whence they em-
barked for China.
After a tedious voyage they arrived at Singa-
pore about the middle of May, and were in-
formed by the Brigadier commanding at the station
that the regiment was to disembark and proceed no
further. Such were the orders received from Cal-
cutta, and no explanations were given. Singapore
is a penal settlement for convicts from India, and
the Sikhs showed a very natural antipathy to be
transported wholesale. They had been embodied
for service in India alone, had then volunteered for
China, and embarked for the liat of war ; their
services had been first sought, and then accepted by
the Government, which now, for some unknown
motive, deliberately broke faith with them. The
commandant, Captain Stafford, addressed his men,
and took the responsibility of informing them that
should they not proceed to China they would return
home, and he at once wrote to the Commander-in-
Chief in India for instructions. The men have be-
haved admirably. Though extremely dissatisfied
with their treatment they are obedient and tract-
able. Some spell seems to hang over the Indian
Government. After a mutiny which swept off the
native army in Bengal, it disgusts and disbands its
European soldiers, and now sows the seeds of dis-
affection and mutiny among the only native troops
on whom reliance can be placed. If a regiment
which has committed no offence be treated in so
offensive a fashion, what hope can there be of ob-
taining further volunteers when, as there is every
reason to fear, they may be suddenly required ?
The mail which takes this letter to England will
carry a fortnight's later news from China. Accord-
ing to our last advices there seems little doubt that
the war is assuming larger proportions, and that the
Emperor is preparing for a desperate resistance.
The proposals of the Allies have been rejected
with scorn, the French receiving the large dose of
Imperial contumely. All the troops have left for
the north. The British Commissariat alone has en-
gaged some 80,000 or 90,000 tons of shipping, and
so great are its demands for money that exchange
has risen considerably in consequence of the large
amount of hills drawn upon England. Mr. Glad-
stone must look to it, for the £850,000 voted for the
war will be expended before a blow be struck. I
had an interview yesterday with Mr. Whampoa, a
well-known Chinese merchant. He speaks English
fluently, educates his son at Edinburgh, and seems
to have emancipated himself from the trammels and.
prejudices in which every Chinaman is bound. He
says that the Chinese population of Singapore take,
no interest whatever in the war. For his own part,
without discussing the question of right or wrong,
he holds that in the interests of China it is most
desirable that a decisive blow be struck before
Pekin. The Emperor is in the hands of the war
party, inflated beyond measure by their success last
year at the Taku forts. A disastrous defeat would.
bring them to reason and lay the basis of a solid
peace. The story goes that the Emperor objects
" to the very bad habit you English have got.
When you go to war you always want money. You
ask me to pay for the gunboats you lost. Who is
to pay me for my forts which you destroyed at Can-
ton and elsewhere ?"
Mr. Whampoa's property on the hill has been
bought by Government. It is now being cleared,
and barracks will at once be for an European_
regiment, to be stationed at Singapore. A few
years ago but a fishing village Singapore now boasts
of a large and increasing trade. Its population is
thriving and numbers some 80,000 souls, of whom
50,000 are Chinamen and 30,000 Europeans. It has
never been garrisoned by Queen's troops, but is
evidently the place where a reserve should be sta-
tioned. In six days a regiment could be forwarded_
to Hong Kong, in 12 to Calcutta, and in three weeks
to Australia or New Zealand. It is by no means un-
healthy, the temperature ranging from 80 deg. to
90 deg., while the Penang Hills, within two days'
voyage, afford the climate of England and an ex-
cellent sanitarium.
The Pekin sails at 2 o'clock for Hong Kong. Yon
must not be surprised if the next mail from China
be delayed, as I am informed that there is no Penin-
sular and Oriental steamer available to take the
place
England.laceoftheMalabar, and carry the mail of the 21st
to
P.S. I am happy to say that Lord Elgin has
availed himself of his powers as Ambassador Extra-
ordinary, and has requested the Governor to for-
ward the Sikh Regiment to China by the first op-
portunity. On this order the Governor will act.
Lord Elgin has thus done the State good service.
He has remedied an unquestionable grievance, re-
stored the good faith of the Government, and
checked a spirit of discontent which might have
produced most lamentable results.

COUIVIRY MARKETS.

COLCHESTER,--Ara. 4.

There was a rather fair supply of wheat, and business
was not brisk, at barely late rates. In Spring corn little
doing worthy of notice.

Wheat, white 6os to 654 Beams, Mazagan..37s to 40s
red 54s to 58s I Middle & small 405 to 445
Barley 2Bs to 32s I White peas 385 to 4es
Oats 26s to 28s Grey........... 40s to 42s