The Sun.
London, England, 1858-08-07 00:00:00

CHRISTY'S MINSTRELS.

This clever troupe of artistes made their debut to a
Brighton audience, at the Pavilion, on Tuesday evening,
when
narwith a
n,
oleroninroom greeted them. They are nine in
autnber, versatilityg at once rare and pleasing. As
may be supposed, the " bones" of the party, Mr. W. P. Col-
lins, is a funny fellow, and the overture with which the en-
spiced with nigger burlesque
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ulsTi_oar.tbeynei tyßfaobryt dis-
playore
tainment commenced gave hitu a fine o
S. Wambold, was executed
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irresistibly droll, being richly
as was also " Good
-News from Home," by Mr. W. Bruton. " Klss-me
wi.h much feeling and expression ;
Quick and go, ray Honey," by Mr. Collins, developed the
racy humour of the performer, which, to be appreciated
must be seen. A plaintive melody by Mr. Raynor,
" We are coming, sister Mary," founded on a popular
superstition of the negtoes of the South, that death is always
forewarned in a dream song, Wa3 given with much patios.
depth, and flexibility of voice of Mr. T. Christian. The first
A Tyrolean solo which followed, displayed t he great volume,
part concludt d with the "Sleigh Polka," giving a musical
description of a fashionable sleigh ride, with the departure,
race on the road, arrival at the hotel, ba7l, preparing to re-
turn, all abrand, and arrival home at daybreak ; most extra-
ordinary effects being produced.
" We're a Band of Brothers," burlesque on the Htechin-
son family, which commenced part 2, by Messrs. Raynor,
Burton, Meeker, and Christian, was so irresistably demure
a performance that the audience were a perfect illustration
of" laughter holding both his sides." A % iulin solo by Mr.
A Nisb, was much applauded. " Hoop de Deodum Doo,"
by Mr. E. H. Pierce, was an inimitable piece of acting and
e ailed forth rounds of applause. But Joe Brown's "Silver
Belt jig', was the most extraordinary piece of agility we
ever witnessed, and baffles description, being a good ter-
minates worth of the quickest steps the pcdic limbs of any
human creature ever accomplished.

A Burlesque Italian Opera was the third part of the
entertainment, ‘vherein signora Collins' voice—he of the
innes,—displayed vocal powers which might rival little
PiceJlotnini. It was highly rcliihed by the company.
The whole performance was of a first-class character, but
could not be fuly appreciated by the audience at the father
end of the room, as the performing platform was not suffi-
ciently elevated to allow persons at a distance to witness
many of the evolution=.—Brighton Observer.

AroTuEcAams'-HALL•---The followiug are the
names of gentlemen who passed their examination in the
science and practice of medicine, and received certificates
to practise, on Thursday, August 5, 1838 :—William Goodall
Jones, Birmingham; John Easton, Shaftesbury ; Chambre
Robert Corker Vigurs, Crawley, Sussex ; Edward Beverley
Bogg, Louth, Lineauthire; Griffit4 Robert Thomas,
11.192tifi!

THE UNITED SI:ATES.

SOUTH BERWICK, MAINE, JULY 23.

In compliance with an invitation received from
the trustees of the institution widely known as Ber-
wick Academy, I left New York a day or two since
for a brief visit to this charming place, and find
myself at this moment 300 miles from the eddying
turbulence of the metropolis, enjoying the tranquil
seclusion of the loveliest village in all New England.
The peculiar nature of the institution I have been
called upon to visit will render, I imagine, a brief
account of its scope and purport not uninteresting to
your readers.

The systems of public instruction pursued in many
of the different States have been so fully examined
and reported upon by British, French, German, and
Scandinavian writers, that some general idea of the
subject may readily be obtained even by the inhabi-
tants of European countries—although, unfortu-
nately, most of the writers on American education dis-
play far more reliance in themselves and in bare sta-
tistics than patient investigation or critical experience
but of the means of instruction accessible to those
who demand a higher, yet equally inexpensive, grade
of tuition than is afforded in the public schools, very
little, if anything, is known, abroad. To meet the
requirements of this large class there has arisen in the
rural districts of the United States the Academy—
art ‘.atnnttlannt-tatabliAhmenf regnlaily chartered by
the Legislature of the State, but generally endowed
or supported by private individuals, which stibserves

two important ends. In the first place, it prepares
students for the university, training them for from
two to four years ix the studies prescribed by the
collegiate formula; and, in the second place, it
affords to youth, often of both sexes conjointly, a
complete and marvellously cheap education, or an
opportunity to study for as long a period as the
pupil may be able to devote to scholastic pursuits.
The academy, in a word, stands midway between the
public and the private school, and it has become a
regularly recognised element in American education.
As such, and as a very favourable specimen of the
whole, I will devote a few lines to Berwick Academy,
with the design and operation of which I have been
for several years familiar. The institution ranks
third, I believe, in New England—the ancient and
wealthy foundations at Exeter, New Hampshire, and
Andover, Mass., alone taking precedence, and its
fame is widely diffused throughout the Union. It
dates from 1791, when some gentlemen of Maine (at
that time a dependency of Massachusetts) obtained a
Legislative grant enabling them to lay the founda-

tions of an academy, which private enterprise and
munificence have subsequently maintained and fos-
tered. To quote the language of an official docu-
cument before me, its object is to afford a " complete.
education to young ladies ; to prepare, thoroughly,
young men for entering college ; or to fit them
for the duties of active business life." The
comprehensive scope of such an institution
is seen at once in the phraseology of this
statement; and its wide expansion, while thoroughly
characteristic of the nation, is, I cannot but think, a
decided flaw—which it shares, however, with most
of the foundations bearing a similar title. There
may be found at Berwick Academy boys and girls of
twelve and fourteen, with young men and young
women of twenty to twenty-five—and I shall have
more to say of the consequences ensuing upon the
unrestrained intercourse between the sexes. The
scholastic year is divided into four terms of ten
weeks each, and for the regular course of studies, in-
cluding classics, mathematics, the French language,
English branches, and the natural sciences, the fees
are but five dollars per term, or four guineas Per-
Inuuln• .e..nropeau iauguages, music, and drawing,
can be studied at a trifling additional cost.
For this wonderfully moderate sum a youth has the
advantage of excellent teachers, and is permitted to
compete for various prizes annually awarded, among
which are scholarships—endowments which ensure
to the meritorious recipient 100 doll. per annum
during his stay at college. At the conclusion of
each summer term a great examination and exhibi-
tion takes place, to which visitors from different parts
of the Union are summoned, and it was upon this
occasion that my presence was desired by the kindly
and learned principal, Mr. Ichabod Goodwin, A.M.
The attendance at Berwick Academy is exrtemely
varied. It is tolerably equally divided between
males and females, and the average age I should
estimate at 16, but one finds upon the benches repre-
sentatives of every grade of society. The elegant
young lady of " the first families " sits side by side
with some poor girl who works three-quarters of the
year in the neighbouring cotton mills, in order that
the remainder may be devoted to intellectual im•
provemcnt. A young, woman upon whose features
the stiffening shadow of poverty is struggling with the
ardent flush of awakened intelligence, has as neigh-
bour some thoughtless child of twelve; and in the
male department the difference is still more marked.
Although the majority of students are natives
of New England, there are occasionally representa-
tives of other and more distant States, and during

the principalship of the late distinguished and deeply

lamented Dr. Gray (a native of Chelmsford, Essex),
pupils were sent from the furthest South and West.
A portion of the students are always preparing for
college, aid this class forms the elite of the school ;
another division confines their attention to the pric.
tical details of an English education, being intended
for the pursuits of a mercantile career; and a third
department consists of young men in the neighbour-
hood—sons of farmers or tradesmen—who attend the
academy irregularly, and pick up in the intervals
of labour the elements of necessary knowledge.
Some few, who are unable even to afford
the trivial expense of tuition fees, perform
in lieu thereof various useful offices, such as splitting
wood, lighting fires, sweeping the rooms, &c., and the
most determined and progressive scholars are usually
found among these young men. Daniel We bster
obtained in this manner his early education. The
Hon. Eli Thayer, of Massachusetts, is another ex-
ample ; and some of your readers may possibly
recollect the account I gave in your columns some
six months since of that gentleman's struggles, suc-
cess, and energetic plans for the colonisation of
Virginia and other equally uninhabited countries.
For the instruction of all these applicants for know-

lege there is at every academy a principal, a pre-
ceptress, or superintendent of the female department,
and of course a staff of teachers,_varying with the
number of scholars in attendance.
This, then, is the plan of a New England academy,
differing from that of a public school in the fact of
its greater range of studies, its admission of scholars
from any quarter, instead of from a strictly limited
district, its lack of cotupulsion with regard to
the studies to be pursued, and its reception of
male, together with female, pupils. The public
schools outside the large cities being unusually so
deplorably bad, there is no choice for an aspiring
youth but attendance at the academy, or a resort to
some urban school ; and the academy, therefore, is
generally well attended. As I have said, the instruc-
tion is usually of an excellent character, and decid-
edly so at Berwick ; but it must be borne in mind
that it is of a-lower grade than would be looked for
from a similar institution in England : as, according
to the common saying, a graduate of an American is

just sufficiently advanced in -study to matriculate at
an English college : so the academicians of New
England would ,be found, on the average, considera-
bly behind. an equal number of British scholars of the
same age and standing. Their acquirements would,pro7
bably, be found more varied, but far less solid, and they
would 1 behind the J3Nitieh ItioadArd is

I matters f.if discipline ;
etabilinen it
prearCCaililieydniwoorueldprriotfittahbele but the education they have
fimtehebye
hfoataintslpeinnotomat-i
equal time in the public :schools, properly so called,
outside the large cities. The chief defect in the
aezdetny system is, T. am of opinion,the meeting of
the sexes; and I am thoroughly conv;-1.v.;: ;'.it an
amount of immorality, invisible and
the teachers, is the inevitable resal:. I should
therefore, regret the introduction of their system,
. unaltered, into England, as was proposed a year or
two since by a gentleman 'deeply interested in the
cause of popular education, and who opened his views
upon the subject ‘to the late Dr. Gray, lie pro-
posed, at the time, the establishment of a great
academy in the North of England, from which
he hoped to propagate the -;. I have
heard nothing of the consummation of the pro-
ject. As these academies can be supported at an
exceedingly low cost—an endowment of £2,000 or
£3,000, and some 100 scholars annually, would suf-
fice for efficient maintenance—l should judge that
the experiment in Enzland, without the peLnicious
element I have indicated, might prove beneficial to
the cause of education, which is at present so warmly
espoused, and especially by the excellent rirst. Lord
of the Admiralty ; and I trust that the result of my
observations may induce some individual to loek into
the matter. If I rightly understand the cn:ziaintk
at present 7. is allege-et that the .i774ltile
classes arc left IvithoLi, adequate means of instruc-
tion, as their children cannot attend the Government
schools provided for the lower class, and are unable
on account of the expense to enjoy the advantages of
a private establishment. What then more advan-
tageous than a Well-conducted academy of the des-
' cription I have brought forward ?
It is precisely the " middle class school " that is
demanded, and the majority of attendants, even in
New England, are of precisely the rank in society
which finds it so difficult now in Great Britain to
meet with a suitable educational system. Glancing
at the catalogue of Berwick Academy, I notice that,
although there may be one or two individuals of
wealthy parentage in the school, and a minority of
students exceedingly necessitous, the great bulk of
the scholars are children of farmers, tradesmen,:pro-
fessional men, and others who "are unable to com-
mand any great extent of means. The resident of
South Berwick pays but 4 guineas annually, as I
have said, for his tuition, and the students from a
distance pay only from $2 to $3.50 (Bs. to 145.)
weekly for board and lodging in the village. The
experiment might, I think, be tried to advantage in
England.

I cannot close this letter without a few words con-
cerning one whom I have already mentioned—the
late .Joseph Bowers Gray, 11.1.11.C.5. This noble
Englishman, whose name is familiar to very many of
your readers, was for some length of time Principal
of Berwick Academy, which he raised by his won-
-derful genius to a level with the highest institution
of learning in the land. Dr. Gray—a most skilful
surgeon, a profound mathematician, by common con-:'
sent the most thorough and eminent classical scholar
America has ever possessed, an unsurpassed dicipli-
narian, and a writer seldom equalled in elegance as
well as force—had resided for some eight yearn in
the United States at the time of his prematuxe de-
cease. At the age of 37 he. assumed the principal-
ship at South Berwick, where he laboured with more

than characteristic energy during the since of two
years, until at ,length, in October, 1856, he suc-
cumbed to the influence 'of 29 years' unre-
mitting and almost unparalleled labour, and ex-
pired, in the beginning of November, amid
the tears of an entire community. Such was the
lady--a former pupil—insisted on leaving a sick bed
to attend his funeral, and shortly followed him, in
consequence of her exposure, to the grave. I have
just stood beside his final resting-place in the secluded
cemetery which he loved, and his many relatives may
have some satisfaction in knowing that his tomb is
not neglected. One of the works of Dr. Gray, a
critical edition of the " Aias of Sophocles," which is
used as a text-book at llarvaid College,was published
some years ago by Chapman, in London. He was
also the author ef some chemical works, of many
contributions to periodical literature, and exercised
controlling influence during the late Russian war
through his powerful articles in the editorial columns
of a leading Boston journal. He had also nearly
completed at the time of his decease an improved
grammar of the Greek language. The extraordi-
narily retiring nature of his disposition alone pre-
vented his assuming that position in the eye of the
wor1:1 to which his emoluments and his erudition
were a title.

I should despair of conveying to your readers
even so much as an adumbration of the wonderful
beauty of this locality. From my window at Old
Fields, the residence of the Principal, Mr. Goodwin,
a prospect, which cannot be equalled out of the most
lovely parts of Devon or Somersetshire, is obtained,
and every charm thati hill and valley, rock and
foliage, embowered dwellings and sloping meadows
can lend, is here. From the eminence on which the
academy is built, again, the eye can sweep from the
faint and glimmering summit of Mount Washington,
150 miles away on the north-west, to the purple
line of the New Hampshire hills in the
southern distance, and from the silvery Newiche-
wannock river, in the valley of the Salmon
Falls, to the dark and dense pine forests which
extend, unbroken in their gloomy grandeur, almost
to the -err shoreq Atlantic. Mr. Francis B.
Hayes, the president of the Board of Trustees, pos-
sesses the original deed of transfer, executed more
than 150 years ago, by which the large estates in
possession of his family at South Berwick passed
from the hands of the Indian owners of the soil. It
is signed by the totem of the chief—a rude delinea-
tion of a warrior, with arms and limbs spread out.
Quampegan was one of the earliest settlements of
the Puritans in Maine, and the sloping banks of a
lake near "Old Fields" are still known as the
"Vineyard," from the fact of their having been
planted with vines by the settlers, who were de-
ceived by the genial summer into the belief that the
climate of- Southern Europe awaited them in the
valley of the River-Abounding-In-Fish. The snows
of November soon, however, undeceived them ; but
the designation still remains to the scene of their
hopeful attempt.

FEARFUL YACuT ACCIDENT AT CLEVEDON.—
THREE P.ERSONS DROWNED.—A very painful sensation
Las been produced at Clevedon through the occurrence of
an accident to a yacht, by which a gentleman, a coast-
guardsman, and a water man were drowned, sod others had
a narrow escape. It would seem that Mr. Thomas Berry-
man, a young gentleman, whose fatuity resides at Wells,
came down to Clevedou to spend a little time with
Mr. Edward Lavington, wine merchant, who carried
on business in partnership with his brother, at
Clevedon and Bristol. It was proposed that they
should go out for a sail, and a yacht was engaged, which
was manned by a Waterman named Wad.., Alfred Thorne, a
roast guare.sman, and a boatman named Joseph Harvey.
They had got out about a mile into the bay when the order
was given to put the boat upon another tack, and the helm
was shifted with that object. Unfortunately, the cordage
of the yacht being new, it did not work smoothly in the iron
rings, and the principal sail not working, the boat cap-
sized. Two of the men, Thorne end Harvey, sunk
immediately, and were supposed to have got unCer
the boat, as they were not again seen. Mr. Berryman,.Nlr.
Lavington and Wade swam about and caught bold of the
oars, and the boat still keeping afloat contrived to get on to
her, so as to bold on by her bottom. The sea kept
washing over them, and in the course of an hour Mr.
Lavington said to Wade—" I am very cold, and
cannot hold on any longer. It is all over
with me." A wave then came and washed him off; and he
sank, in the presence of his companions, to rise no more.
on after, Mr. Berryman wes washed off; but, making a
desperate tifort, he swain once more to the disabled yacht,
and regained his bold. The two survivors contrived to hold
on, and just as they were becoming too exhausted to hold
out much longer, a schooner descried them, and bore down
and took them off'. Mr. Lavington, who was only 28 years
old, was greatly respected in the town. He has left two
young children and a wife, who is approaching confinement
with her third.

HORRIBLE DEATIL—On Tuesday evening,-a boy,
aged three years, natned Dennis killdat t, son of Sarah Kill-
dart, widow, cf Lord-street, Oldham, was playing with
some other children in Tommy-field, when be accidentally
fell into a lime-pit, in which some lime _was being slaked,
and though he was got out in a very short time, he was so
severely burned that he died immediately after he Wag
lifted Out of tilt boiling lime.

CLEVEDON, FRIDAY MORNING.
Yesterday afternoon the ceroner for the eastern division
of SomeisetslAre commenced an inqttest at the Rockhouse
Tavern on the holies of Elizabeth Townley Williams and
William John Williams, two children aged respectively tbrrc
and a half years and eight months, whose remains had been
found under eircutestarces which leave ito room for doubt-
ing that they were both murdered by their mother Elize-
betli Williams, The herribie affair has created an extra-
ordinary sensation in the little town, which, it being the
height of the watering season, is unusually full of fashion-
able resident., and the inquest room, and t ke approaches to
it, were so densely thronged, that it was with great diffi-
culty those having business could find ingress and egress.
At the commencement of the proceedings the coroner
said he understood that the woman who was sup-
posed to have caused the deaths of the two children
was in the custody of the police. Now, apart from the
question of whether it was better that she should hear the
statements to be made against her, he considered her pre-
sence desirable, in order for the witnesses to set and identify
her, and he must therefore require the superintendent to
send for her. This direction being acted upon the mother
overestwberli3er:_lisitxto the inquest room. She is about twenty-fire
years of age, and appeared in ranch distress
of mind. She kept her face covered with her bands through-
out the portion of the inquiry at which she was present.
The jury having discharged the painful duty of viewing the
bodies of the unhappy children, the following evidence was
was taken :
Mr. Edward Jones, superintendent of the Somersetshire
county constabulary, deposed that he eves stationed at Long
Ashton, a village about 10 miles from Clevedon, and close
to Bristol. On Wednesday, the woman Elizabeth Williams,
who stated herself to be the wife of William Henry Williams,
of Churchill-place, St. George's, Gloucestershire, was
brought to his office by Police-constable Francis, No. 133,
who told him that she wished to make a statement as to a
murder she had committed. He cautiosed her to be careful
what she said, but upon her repeating that she wished to make
her statement he took it down as follows:—" On Monday
morning last my husband was ceol tome in consequence of ray
not having paid some taxes. We had a few words, and I told
him I would leave hiM, and be said I haft better go. I
remained at home with my children that cloy, and my
husband on hiareturn that night appemee7coof, and did not
speak kind as usual. On the following morning I got up and
prepared breakfast for my husband and two children, and we
breakfaved together. He was then kind to me. On leaving the
house to go to work he kissed the two children, and after lee
was eonel dressed both the children and took them out wife,' a
yiew to carry out rnythreat ofleaving him. Iwent to the Braetol
and; Exeter Railway station in Bristol, and took tick 4s for
Clevedon, and left with nay children by the ten minutes to
three train, and arrived at Clevedon about four o'c'eOck that
afternoon. As soon as I got to Clevedon :1 went to
a shep near the railway, and ,bought a tare and some
gingerbread for the children. I then weaked about
Clevedon until eight or nine o'clock, ama then went
into a beer-house rear the Bristol Hote.l, and had a
glass of beer. I then v.alked about the tows',,and round the
beach till about 10 o'clock. I eat on a seat'facing the water,
and my two children went to sleep iu rive arms, I welki'
down the sands. I met the title with my two children in my
arms. I walked some distance into 'the water, and then
threw meeeelf down with the childeev. into the water, and
the children still asleep in my arms.. I then got up, leav-
ing my two children in the water, a'id went and sat on the
beach to see if my children waened aetiore. I waited some time
but never saw them afterwards,/ Before I went. into the
water I put my bonnet aud mantle on the sands at the edge
of the water. I also wrote a letter to my husband, which I
placed on the beach. I then. walked away, and had not
eone far when I saw two hays standing with a light at a
stable door near the spot. 1 heard the boys say, 'That woman
is mad,' but ',did not speak to teem. I walked on the
road to Ashteei." As soon as witness received this state-
ment he reele lo Clevedon arid found that the bodies of the
two eliiici(reu had been washed in by the tide, and had been
found by a man named William Somerton, a tiler and plas-
terer. The bonnet and mantle witness found, as they had
been picked up'on the beach.
By theelury—Wlien the prisoner came to me she was
without bounet or mantle, anal, her clothes were saturated
with mud astd water.
Mr. Sotnerten deposed to having, at about half-past one
o'clock, found the bodies on the beach. They were washed
ashore at a point called "The Little Harp." A man named
James, who was with him, picked up the woman's bonnet
and mantle.
Lyaend Williams, grandfather of the children, deposed to
having on Tuesday met his daughter-in-law with them in
Direple-street, Bristol. She looked sad, and, upon his
asking her where she was going, said she was going for a
`mile. She wished hint goodbye, and went in the direction
of the railway.
Millicent Salmon, the 'herr-house -ken per referred to by
the prisoner, deposed to her and, her two children having
crone to his house on Tuesday evening, and lied a glass of
beer. She gaVe her children sot:ne cakes, and appeared a
fund mother. She left after drinking the beer.
Some other- evidence was called, and Dr. Davies was
examined, and proved that the deaths of the children had
been caused by drowning.
The prisoner declined saving anything excepting that she
had paid the rate for which the man, she said, had put in an
execution.

The coroner having summed up, the jury returned in both
elves a verdict of wilful murder against the mother, Eliza-
beth Williams, and the coroner at once issued Lis warrant
for her committal.

ALLEGED SWINDLING B. 1; ENGLISH

JOCKEYS IS FRANCE.

Three English trainers of racehorses well known on the
424tr1TN,,ARt1rnan..isenior. any/ ,isfentrat. junior. Imvo
Laon, on the aF4el6l AMP:4Q. fl Lotteztiottaj,
mary of the allegations made against them :—Boldrick,
trainer to Mme. Lo ache de Pay, formed the project of
getting into his own hands that lady's mare Valna; and, in
order to obtain her cheaply, he made several jockeys prevent
her from winninx in races, when she might have done. At
Versailles, in July, 1837, iu particular, it was so evident thnt
Valna might have won the elling Stakes if Her jockey,
Abdale, had not prevented her, that there was a general
outcry, and the stewards fined Abdale a large sum, and
ordered that he should not be allowed to ride againfor a
year. About that time it was well known that Valna was for
sale, and M. Reiset, of the Jockey Club, offered 3,000 f. for
her, but the offer was not accep'ed. M. Reiset subsequently
proposed 4,000 f., but Boldrick, with some embarrassment,
said that he had sold the mare that very morning for
4,004/f. ; he, however, would not say to whom. A sum of
4,000 f. was duly paid to Mme. Latache de Fay, and Valna
was removed from her stables.

M. Thieret, a posthorse master of Rheims, possesses a
racing stud at a place called Eppes; and he, on the recom-
mendation of Ashman, junior, who was his trainer, had at
about the time of the Versailles races of last year consented
to purchase Valna for 4,000 f., and bad given Ashman
I,loof. to pay on account, at the same time handing him a
letter by which he authorised the seller to draw on hint
(Tbierot) for the remaining 2,900 f. The mare was given up
to Ashman, jon., and was conveyed by him to Eppes. At
this epoch M. Thierot fell seriously ill, and remained so
till December. The first thing he did on recovering was
to visit his stud, and be was greatly surprised at not
finding Valna iu the stable. To the questions he put,
Ashman gave embarrassed answers, and at last said that
Valna was at his father's, a trainer at Chantilly, and
that M. Thierot was only one-fourth owner of her, the
other three-fourths being held by other parties, in
proof of which he remarked that M. Thierot had only paid
1,0001., the additional 100 f. having been absorbed in expensea,
M. Thierot then applied to the elder Ashman at Chantilly,
and that person declared that he was the sole proprietor of
Value, and that he had not authorised and knew nothing of
any sale of her to M. Tbierot. That gentleman then laid a
complaint to the law authorities of &mils, neer Chantilly,
and from the investigations made by them it appeared that,
after 11.'1 hierot had, as he supposed, purchased her, Valna
had run at Le Bin, Abbeville, Nantes, and Urnon, and had
won 8,500 f., and that not only had no account of her winnings
but
bbeing een given
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M. Thierot then took legal proceedings to obtain posses-
sion of Valna, and the Civil Tribunal of Serilis decided that
he was the legitimate owner of her, and should bane her on
payment of the ‘29001. retnaining due. After this t he youneer
Ashman fled to England, taking with him a young girl of
Eppes, hat she before long returned nod s,tat4d that he was
dying of hunger in London. At this stage of the proceed-
ings the elder Ashman confessed that be was not the pro-
prietor of Valrnteleipe,re(bistreeentdtethalrtiol(illimuuesleeddlrfie•tnkoienir)neecllythhitseesooonziansigeeerre,,Baaonnidd-
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la) aidetkel:i ee
iul'iatoedddid not avant Mine. Latache de Fay or the
Jockey Club to knriw that he had a pecuniary interest
in the animal. Toe elder Ashman added that Boldrick
had complained that though be (Boldrick) and Ashman,
junior, were to share the winnings of Veins, after pay-
ing the expenses of her keep, Ashman, junior, had apppro-
printed nearly the whole of them, and that he (Ashman,
senior) had accordingly accompanied Boldrick to Eppes to
make his son pay, but had •nly got 1,500 f. from him. With
this sum he said Boldrick was not satisfied, and bad accord-
ingly caused Value to be restored to Ckantilly. Boldrick,
on his parr, could not deny that he and Ashman, junior, had
possessed Valna in cannnon ; but lie energetically denied
that when she was the property of Mine. Latache de Fay he
had made her lose at Versailles, or elsewhere.
The tribunal, after hearing all the circumstances, came to
the conclusion that neither Boldrick nor Ashman, senior,
bad been guilty of swindling, and discharged them. As to
Ashman, junior, it condemned him by default to two years'
imp isonment. in the course of the proceedings it was stated
that Baron, the smith of Eppes, bad taken advantage of his
knowledge that something wrong was being done about
Valna to make him, Ashman, junior, marty his sister-in-
law, Sidonie Nottleet. It was also stated that Valna re-
cently was put up to auction, and purchased by Count do
Lagrange for 7,400 f. •

MELANCHOLY AND FATAL ACCIDENT AT BRIGHTON
—A melancholy accident terminating in death, took place on
the race course, on Tuesday evening, the night before the
races. Two young men were out together for a ride on the
Downq, and one them, Mr. James Flochton, stopping at the
Old Ship Hotel while attempting to leap bis horse over
he railings enchsing the course, was thrown cff and
precipitated to the ground, his horse's feet having caught
rite railing. The horse foli open the rider and most seriously
injured him. A fly was-immediately sent for, and he w;As
c.nveyerl, without delay, to the Sussex County Hospital.
Every assistance that medical skill could render was
eali£dorndoetd,relcionNtear,lthdoeuagthhetesuilriitgigeornellt=;.lie night, he
—Brighton
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THE ENGLISH AND IRISH CIIURCII and
UNIVERSITY ASSURANCE SOCIETY.
- - - - .- •

The Extraordinary General Meeting of Shareholders of this
Society, held on the sth of August, IssB, having unanimously con•
firmed the resoluticn of the directors for uniting with thi,
Society the Engineer, Maonic, and Universal Mutual Life Assurance
Society and the Householders and General Life Assur ince Company
respectively, and having also approved and adopted certain recom-
mendations of the Directors for making certain alterations, repeal?,
and new provi-ions and regulations on the Deed of Setttomcat
of the Society for carrying such respective unions into effect, Notice
is hereby given, that a Second Extraordinary General Meeting
of the shareholders of this Society will be held at the Office of the
Society, No. 4, Trafalgar-square, Charing-cross' London, on Thurs-
day, the 19th day of August inst., at Two o'Clock in the afternoon
precisely, to confirm the said alterations, repeals, and new provision,
and regulations; and, if the same are confirmed, then further to
receive the resignations of three of the present Directors of the
Society, and to elect as Directors six of the present Directors of the
Engineers, Masonic, and Universal 3liatual Life Assurance SocieHousety-
,
and the Secretary and two of the present Directors of the
holders and General Life Assurance CompANTHany.
ONY PECK, Secretary.
August 7, 1858.

HER MAJE.STT'S THEATRE.
Tho Last Night.—Reduced Prices.
THIS EVENING (SATURDAY August 7, will be repeated Verdi's
Opera, LA TRAVIATA.
noletta.Madlle.Piccolomini Flora Bervoix, Madame Gramaghl
Alfredo, Signor Giuglini ; Dottore Grenvil, Signor Castelli and
Clermont Giorgio, Signor Aldighieri.
The National Anthem will follow the Opera.
After which, a Scene from Belle's Opera, LA ZlNGARA,,l4l,,Twhhiecnh
signor Giuglioi will sing the celebrated Ballad, "TUm'ami
you'll remember me").
And a Divertissement, in which Madlle, Boachetti will appear.
The Opera commences at 8 o'clock.
Pit stalls, 128.6 d.; boxes : grand tier, £3 35.; one pair,6d.
Tittier, 22 Is.; two pair, 21 51.; three pair, 155.; gallery boxes, Ids;
fd.; pit, as. 6d.; gallery stalls, 3s. 6d.; gallery, 25.; may be had at the
Box-once at the Theatre.

Ie,OYAL ITALIAN OPERA, COVENT-GARDEN.—SEW THEATRE.
The nobility, gentry, subscribers, and the public are respectfully
informed that the season will terminate this day week. There
will be no extra nights.
Last Night of MARTHA.—Last Night but Four.
THIS EVENING (SATURDAY), August 7, will be performed (for
the last time this season), Flotow's Orem,
MARTHA.
Lady Enricbetts, Madame Bosio; Nancy, Madlle. Didide ; Plura-
l:en, Signor Graziani ; Lord Tristano, Signor Tagliatico ; Sceriffo
di Richmond, If. Zetger ; and Lionello, Signor Mario.
Conductor, Mr. Costa.
The Incidental Divertissement will be supported by Madlle. Zina,
Madlle. Deechaux, and M. Desplacei.
The Opera commences at half-past 8.
Pit tickets, 10s. 6d.; amphitheatre stalls, 101. 6d., 75., and is.;
amphitheatre, Zr. 6d. Seemed tier boxes, £2 125. 6d.

ROYAL PRlNCEsn'ti THEATRE.
Under the Management of Mr. Charles Kean.
THI% EVENING will be presented Shakspere's Play of THE
MERCHANT OP VENICE ; Shylock, Mr. C. Kean ; Portia, Mrs. C.
Pan. Preceded by the Farce of DYING FOR LOVE.