The Sun.
London, England, 1867-10-30 00:00:00

LIER 31,1JESTY.

BALMORAL, Oct. 28
The Q►2een drove out with Princess Beatrice,
attended by Lady Ely and Miss Phipps.

The Earl of Gla3gow has loft the Clarendon
hotel fur Scotland.

The Hon. Peter Campbell Scarlett has left the
South Kensington Hotel, Queen's-gate terrace, for Paris.
Prince Louis de Hoban has left the Clarendon
Hotel for the Continent.

The Earl and Countess of Verulam and family
loft Paris on Friday for Cannes, where the noble earl and
family propose to pass the approaching winter.
Rear-Admiral Sir George N. Broke-Middleton,
Bart., C. 8., and Lady Middleton have arrived at the
Alexandra Hotel, Hyde-park-corner.

Law Intelligence—Ths Day.

COURT OF BANKRUPTCY.
IN RE G. A. SALA.

This bankrupt, the well-known author and news-
paper correspondent, came up to-day to pass his last
examination and for the order of dispharge. The
bankrupt has filed a preliminary statement, but no
regular accounts. The Daily 7 elegraph figures as
a creditor for £5OO. In the absence of accounts
the case was adjourned.

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT•

THIS DAY.

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OLD COURT.
(Before Mr. Justice Byles.)
CASE OF WILFUL MURDER.

Rose Mathews, 21, unmarried, was charged, on
the Coroner's inquisition, with the wilful murder
of her illegitimate child.
The prisoner was a domestic servant in the em-
ploy of a lady named Schofield, and for some time
previous to the 14th of August a suspicion was
entertained that she was pregnant, but this the
prisoner denied. About half-past eleven on the
night of the 14th of August she was heard to leave
her bedroom and go down stairs. Her mistress was
induced to follow her, and she met her coming up
stairs with her hands and dress covered with blood,
and in consequence of what prisoner said Mrs.
Schofield sent for a surgeon and a police-constable.
The medical gentleman having ascertained the state
of the case directed her to be placed in bed, and
on being asked where she had put the child she
said in the cellar, and on searching the place it was
found covered with coal ashes, with a deep wound
at the back of the neck, the head being, in fact,
nearly severed from the body. The prisoner ad-
mitted that she had inflicted the injury with one of the
small dinner-knives. The prisoner on the occasion
seemed to have acted in a very rational manner when
she was questioned upon the matter, but during the
trial it was elicited from some of the witnesses that
she was a person of very weak intellect. The
learned judge, in summing up the case, said the
question for the jury to decide in the first instance
was the state of mind of the prisoner at the time
the act was committed, and if they arrived at the
conclusion that she was of weak intellect they
would then have to consider the evidence which had
been adduced to prove the charge of wilful
murder that had been preferred against her. The
medical man stated that the child could have
breathed but once, also
.that there was a bruise on
the head, and from the evidence given by other
witnesses, there were circumstances which made it

incumbent on the jury to satisfy themselves that
the child had ever had a separate existence., and
also whether the blood found on the clothes of the
prisoner was in fact that of the child. Mr. Gibson,
the surgeon of Newgate, and Mr. Jones, the ordi-
nary, had both stated that the intellect of the pri-
soner was very weak, and under such circumstances
they would have to say whether the prisoner was
guilty or not.

After a few minutes' deliberation, the jury re-
turned a verdict of not guilty of wilful murder, but
guilty of concealment of birth.

The learned Judge said he would consider the
case thoroughly beforo he passed sentence on the
prisoner.

CHARGE OF ATTEMPTED MURDER.

Sarah Raven was indicted for feloniously attempt-
ing to kill and murder her infant child by throwing
it into quicklime.
The evidence was of a very inconclusive nature,
and the jury returned a verdict of not guilty, as
they were not satisfied that the fall into the limo
was not caused by a slip or a stumble occasioned
by the loose stones near where the lime was situate.

NEW COURT.
(Before Mr. Justice Keating.)
FORGERY.

William Roper, 18, and William Rowley, were
indicted for feloniously forging and uttering an
order for the payment of £3 153.

From the evidence it appeared that the prisoners
had been in the habit of obtaining goods from
tradesmen by means of forged cheques upon the
London and County Bank.
The jury found both prisoners guilty. A former
conviction of penal servitude was proved against the
older prisoner, who was the father of the younger
one.

On being asked why sentence should not ba
passed,
The elder prisoner said he was driven to do what
he had done by starvation. His previous conviction
had ruined his character, and that no one would
employ him. Under the present state of the poor
laws he could not obtain relief without that he and
the whole of his family went into the workhouse,
which would be in fact imprisonment for life. He
had gone on and struggled hard, but everything
failed with him, and desperation drove him to com-
mit the crime be had been convicted of.

The Learned Judge said it was one of the penal.
ties of crime that where a conviction was obtained
lossof character would to a great extent follow, but
that did not extinguish all hope of obtaining em-
ployment. The aggravating cause in the present
case was that the father had actually trained up his
child to crime. Ile therefore sentenced Rowley to
12 years' penal servitude, and Roper to 18 months,
imprisonment.

THIRD COURT.
(Before the Common Sergeant.)
Mary Housewood was found guilty of feloniously
forging and uttering a request for the delivery of
goods with intent to defraud, and also with stealing
12 sheets, the property of her master, Alexander
Stewart.

The Court sentenced her to five year& penal
servitude.

THE NEW DEAN OP EXETER.—WC are informed
that Canon Boyd, who ha. 3 just boon appointed to the
p oanory of Exeter, graduated at Trinity College, public,
in the year 1825.
WINTER CRICKET.—Tho cricketing world wilt
learn with pleasure that a means has been provide('
by which they will be enabled to enjoy their favottrit`)
sport "all tho year round," and shorn of but little of i 0
(rifi•esco attraction. In-door cricket has been commeac"j
in the largest of the swimming bath~ of the Lambeth
Baths, in the Westuainster-road, under the auspices of 311.'
G. Budd, the well-known bat manufacturer of Lawbetb,
and bids fair to succeed with the lovers of the game 5113
with the public generally. " The Surrey and CantorburY
()ticketing Saloon" occupies a space of 139 feet in le"gtit
by 50 feet in width, so that ample room is afield`'"
for batting and bowling practice. The founcla"
tiou of the huge bath is of Portland comeut
and, when covered with a very line sawdust, yields
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an excellent bowling surface, which, being free fro
any irregularities of the turf, never causes the ball until
to rise or jerk. At night the saloon is brilliantly light°
with gas. To guard against the possibility of acciden,i
stout netting, made in Newcastle ou the pattern of
tale
trawling nets, completely encloses the players frorn .4
audience. Professional bowlers are engaged; bats, ball,:
pads, and gloves are provided ; and those who practided se
press themselves altogether satisfied. It is inten vta...
cintinue practice till March, whoa the building will be
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pared for bathing purposes. Tho temporary couve',!...llo
of this gigantic bath for the purpose of the "national 6i1,1_
of cricket" causes no interruption to the ordinary autu
and winter bathing; and batters and bowlers C 31.1
bath after their exercise.