The Sun.
London, England, 1859-12-12 00:00:00

MINERAL R.

AUSTRALIA

(F,on the South, Australian AdrePtim%)
".The whole province teems with mineral wealth,
and', although from lack of coal we are unable at
present to turn to advantage our rich iron ores, the
loss is abundantly compensated in the marvellous
(Effusion and extraordinary richness of cur copper."
The Burra Burra Company have declared two divi-
dends, each amounting to 100 per cent. on the
tal stock of the company, payable the :3d of Dccem:
ber and the 3d of March next respectively. Burra
Burra shares had advanced from £l4O to £156.

Copper is firm at £lO2 per ton; wool (light) at
10d. per lb. Draughts on London at 60 days'
sight, 11, per cent premium.
The following are from Australian mining com-
panies :
"Btiltß.l. BURRA.—Messrs. James Morrison and
Co., agents of the Burra Burra Company, state
that the half-yearly report for the meeting in Ade•
laide, on the 19th October, shows 6,591 tons of ore

to have been produced during the last six months.
Pure copper contained estimated to be from 22 to
23 per cent. _ The linancial statements show a

realised profit for the half year of £29,826, and
after having paid the dividend on the 3d September
there remained an available balance on the profit
and loss account of £57,436, to which would be
added, on realisation of copper and ore on hand,
£23,531 ; making together a gross profit of
D 0,967.
" PORT PHILLIP AND COLONIAL.—The directors
have received advices dated the 14th of October.

The quantity of quartz crushed daring September
was 1,882 tons, yielding 1,309 A oz. of gold; the
amount received on Clones account was, for four
weeks, £2,904 ; expenditure for the same period,
£1,636, leaving a profit of £1,268.
" ENGLISH AND AUSTRALIAN COPPER.—A re-
mittance of £1,500 has been received, which, toge-
ther with £3,500 in hand, completes the sum re-
quired for the third dividend.
" NORTH RIIINE.—The advices from the local
committee of this company are dated Adelaide,
Oct. 17. They state that there are 153 bags of ore
now at the port for shipment by the Cleopatra.
" KAPUNDA.—The directors have advices to the
17th of October. All the operations at the mines
and smelting works were progressing satisfactorily.
The new working in the 50-fathom level, reported
in the last advices to have been commenced, were

fully realising expectations. 30 tons of oro had
already been raised, and the quality was so supe-
rior that the manager states that the men engaged
(four in number), who had taken the pitch at the

low rate of ls. Bd. in the pound, would make fair
wages. The site of the railway terminus at Ka-
punda had been fixed immediately adjoining the
mine, and the line was expected to be open for

traffic before the next season-, so that the difficulty
of carriage to the port would no longer exist.
" DUN MOUNTAIN.—Report from the Manager,
Dun Mountain Mines, Nelson, Sept. 20, 1859: '
The deep adit level for chrome is still being driven
in soft serpentine schist, at £5 per fathom. Its
length 62 fathoms, consequently past the shaft; but
as the strata in the shaft, as also the copper vein
therein discovered, dip north-west, the level must
be continued several fathoms to eat either the cop-
per vein or the chrome lode. Some water is com-
ing from the end of the level. This level is 25
fathoms lower than the top of the shaft and 24
fathoms below the upper chrome level. In the north
shaft, on the copper lode, a large quantity of
mundic (iron pyrites) was found, which being
analysed contained copper in considerable per-
centage, and during the examination just made by
Dr. Hochstetter he expressed his opinion that we
should eventually find something well worth our
attention. We therefore continue exploring this
point, and the ground is becoming highly interest-
ing. We are preparing the road for shipment of the
chrome ore as directed.'
"SCOTTISH AUSTRALIAN.—The directors have re,'
ceived a communication, dated Sydney, Oct. 13, with
the milling foreman's report of operations at the
Cape of Good Hope Mine up to Oct. 7. The mining
operations have progressed stesdily. Six shafts
have been opened. M.Callum's shaft was down 39ft.
9in. Morehead's shaft was down 16ft. 10in., the
lode was 26ft. wide, and the foot wall at that width
had not yet been discovered. From this shaft there
has been raised about 10 or 12 tons of ore, worth
from £3O to £4O per ton. Young's shaft, Perry's
shaft, north and south shafts were sunk to depths
varying from 4to 13ft., and all looking well. There
were 10 men and boys at work, and the total amount
of ore raised from all the shafts was about 18 tons, of
an estimated average value of £35 per ton.
" WORTIIING.—The Worthing Mining Company
received despatches dated Oct. 15. Captain Remfrey
reports:—' The lode in the shaft has considerably
increased in yield and value for copper. Sampled
and weighed, from 9ft: 6in. sinking, 11 tons 8 cwt.
of ore-141 per cent. of produce, exclusive of dredge
work set apart for crushing.' I fully expect, from tha
present prospects of the lode, to return next month 18
tolls of ore, say from two fathoms' sinking, or from
9 to 10 tolls p9r fathom of superior value. We have
also raised during this month 8 tons 10 cwt. of car-
, bonate from Winnin's pitch, produce 81 ; and we
are raising good ore from Tomkin's W inze. I hope
to have 20 tons of regains before stopping the fur-
, n ace.'
" BON ACCORD.—The directors have received
. their usual monthly communication, dated Adelaide,
Oct. 13, with full particulars of the work done and
progressing in erecting the engine-house and the
various other buildings. The chairman of the com-
mittee writes The buildings on the mine are
' proceeding satisfactorily. My reports are now
' necessarily confined to this subject; and we cannot
expect to be in a position for recommencing actual
mining operations before the new year. When the
' big engine gets to work we shall be able to sink
and drive at a lower level, without the probability
' of being again overpowered by water before cutting
ore.' "

HORRIBLE B ARBARITY IN FRANCE.

The great topic of conversation in Paris is a trial
which has just taken place at Rheims, which illus._
trates in the most painful manner the condition. of
the French peasantry in the western provinces.
The prisoners, a father and mother, named Defert,
were indicted on a charge of brutally ill-using their
daughter, a girl of 17 • they were described as
"proprietaires," and relatively well oft. The acte
d'accusation describes their fortune as relatively
large, living in a house of their own, and farming
their own ground. They have five children, the
eldest, Mary Adelina, being about 17. It was a
well-known fact that both man and wife treated
their children with frightful severity ; they had
been seen beating them mercilessly in the fields,
and to punish one of his sons, a lad of 13, the father
once threw him into the canal, and pulling him out
after a time, beat him with a stick until animation
was restored. In the month of July last, however,
the eldest daughter, Adelina, whose appearance of
ill-health was ascribed to the systematic cruelty
practised upon her, suddenly disappeared. A report
immediately sprang up in the village that she had
been murdered. This report cam© to the ears of
the authorities, an investigation took place, and here
is what it led to :—When the authorities pene-
trated into the house they found the girl Ade-
lina lying on a couch, in a state of such debility
and emaciation that a physician was immediately
ordered to see what was the matter with her. What
he discovered let the acte d'accusation describc. :
" The physician had discovered that Adelina was
in a state of emaciation which denoted long and
cruel sufferings. On the left side of the neck, on
the hands, on the right elbow, on the thighs; were
the marks of recent wounds, inflicted both by blunt
and sharp instruments, by the reiterated contact
with the flesh of some substance in a state of
combustion. On the left cheek a strip of the
skin had been torn off, about seven centimetres
long by one broad. This, it was subsequently
ascertained, was the result of a cut from a heavy
carter's whip, inflicted by her mother. But
worse than all, the loins, the subvenal por-
tion of the back, the thighs, down to the very
knees, were one mass of purulent matter. On other
parts of the body, and among others on the subab-
dominal organ, no less than 18 scars of wounds were
counted. The physician was puzzled to account for
the peculiar appearance of these wounds and festers,
which could only be explained by the constantly re-
peated combustion of the flesh. He subjected Ade-
lina to a treatment based upon that hypothesis, and
found it answer,. and, by dint of cross-questioning,
she revealed the atrocious treatment she had been
subjected to. I may add that her revelations were
subsequently confirmed by the admissions of the
prisoners. From the statements of Adelina it ap-
peared that she had been brought up in her grand-
father's house until she was eight years old, and
from that the brutality she underwent commenced.
She was employed in driving a plough, and flogged
with a cart-horse whip when her strength gave
way, There is evidence of this, as also of her father
having beaten her with a pitchfork. At the com-
mcneement of the present year, however, the cruelty
of her parents assumed a regular and systematic
character, denoting premeditation. Every day—
morning, noon, and night—her father tied her up
in a dark room used for breadmaking and there
red to flog her on her thighs and the lower part of
her person with a martinet (cat-o'-nine-tails). There
is evidence of her father having on one occasion tied
her up by the wrists, so that her feet were fairly off
the ground, and having previously lifted up her
clothes, beat her with the martinet on all parts of
her person. There is evidence, moreover, that in
the month of March last, bath her father and
mother dragged hez into a low, vaulted room behind
the kitch9a ; she was then stripped naked and
seeurelyla.shed, face aownwaras; to a carpentering

table ; red-hot coals were then taken from the fire
and placed inside her thighs, close to the skin. The
mothe for this torture was to extoit her a
confeion of her having yielded up her virtue to
one of her father's workmen. The pain caused by
the burns extorted a confession from her, but as
soon as the was set free, she recalled her admis-
sion, and protested her innocence. On the follow-
ing day these tortures were repeated, and then her
mother, with a piece of linen steeped in nitric acid,
washed the wounds caused by the lash and the hot
coals. .A week later the same thing again took
place, the unnatural mother using aquafortis in lieu
of nitric acid. On another occasion she was again
tied down on the table, and the mother seared the
inside of her thighs and the lower part of her back
with a red hot shovel—a glass of nitric acid was
then slowly poured upon the wounds. But there is
worse to come. For a long time Adelina, had been
made to sleep, or rather to use as a bed a deal box,
provided with a lid, about a yard and a half long
and half a yard (70 centimetres) broad. A thin lit-
ter of straw was the only substitute for a mattress,
and with the straw hack been mixed thistles and
nettles freshly gathered. On this she was forced to

lie down, with her whole body in a fester from
wounds. The lid was fastened down upon her
leaving a narrow aperture for the air, and she was
kept there for days together."

The ace cracc. usatio' n describes another assault
committed by these unnatural parents on their
daughter, and the medical evidence proved it. It
is utterly indescribable in English. The evidence
fully corroborated the statements of the ode (1 accu-
sation, with the exception, however, of that of Ade-
lina herself, who, doubtless under the influence of
terror at the sight of her father and mother, alleged
that her previous depositions were untrue. The
mother, who was examined, admitted that " she
had only thrown a glassful of vitriol over her
thighs." Both husband and wife were sentenced
to hard labour for life.

THE CORK COUNCILMAN AND TILE

SILVER CRADLE.

The Cork papers report a speech delivered in the
Council Chamber of that city in a style remarkable
for originality.
Upon the minutes of proceedings of last meeting
being read,
Mr. SHEEHAN started up and said—Mr. Mayor,
my notice of motion ought to be the first on the
list, sir, for I spoke about it long and merry ago.
(Laughter.)
MAYOR—But it is not the first.

Mr. SIIEEIIAN—WeII, then, I'll bring it forward
first, sir, because 'tis the first thing we ought to do.
Mr. OTLYN—'Tie not the first.
Mr. SIIEETIAN—'Tis immaterial where 'tis, sir, so
now Mr. O'Flyn, don't you be interrupting with
yer d—d nonsense, Dinny—(laughter)—l don't
want to flatter the Mayor at all, but four weeks be-
fore any one o'ye spoke of it, I spoke about the
Silver Cradle. A long time before I knew the
Mayor, and before he was in the council at all, I
found charitable movements in him for many years.
I hadn't the honour o' knowing him till I met
him at the gas mectin' first, an' was intro-
duced to him by Mr. M'Ostrich at the
gas, which he joined, and which we saved
30 per cent. for the people. Now he joins
everything that's a locomotive of his principles.
(Shouts of laughter.) Ho do, indeed; and only for
our lookin' for our locomotive principles, what 'ud
become ov us ? (Laughter.) FI hope the Harbour
Board won't be thanked for not to look to our
harbour, sir, an' ntindin' our locomotive principles
and our intherests in the harbour. (Much laughter.)
I spoke out my mind about thim before, an' in
doin' so I proposed, about two or three weeks ago,
that we get up a silver cradle for Lady Arnott—
(hear, and laughter)—and the raisin I lone so,
because she was the wife of a respectable an'
charitable man, who was giving, before ever he was
in the council at all, charity every Christmas—
(hear, hear)—long before I ever seen him. (Loud
laughter.) Gentlemen, I had a great friendship for
his kindness to the poor of every class and every
; and,besides that, sir, here's the gentleman
that gave Mrs.—Mrs.—Mrs. Ryan, in Limerick—
she got a large one there. (Laughter.) I suppose, as
much in one half-year as ho gives, Mrs. Arnott gave
thirty times more—(hear, and laughter) —and if ho
was not in the council at all,l think we really ought
to pay him a compliment. (Hear, hear.) Now, here's
£2,500 d;stributed to the poor and all kinds of
religions by his means. Under these cirumstances,
I do him the honour of proposing that we give a
silver cradle to Lady Arnott, for she's a kind, hum-
ble-hearted being. (Laughter.) She is, and she
has none of those pretended aristocratic airs about
her that some of our daughters have sometimes.
(Loud laughter, and cries of " Have they ?") They
have, I assurre you ; and sometimes they don't
know themselves or anybody else. (Renewed
laughter.) Sho has no unfriendly feeling to
her husband. (Shouts of laughter.) What the
d—l are ye laughing at ? Sure ye know very
• well—we that's married men know very -well
that our wives often differ with ua. (La.ugh-
ter) Of course ye know well they do—in
religion, sir, an' charity. But she is alvvays, I'm
tould, supporting him in the principles of a kind-
hearted lady. (Laughter.) I hope we'll give her
a decent one, and one that will be the proper size,
an` not one o' thim little things that I heard it was
to be.

The proposition was agreed to by acclamation.
MAYou—Gentlemen, I am afraid you have reck-
oned without your host, for really this stranger that
is come to Monkstowu is said to be a thumper.
(Laughter.)
Mr. SHEEHAN—He's a son, too. I forgot to min
tion that. (Much laughter, and cries of, "Is he,
indeed ?") It ought to be a large one, that he could
grow in, mind yo j.
MAYon—My wife says it would take more silver
to cover him than would break the corporation. If
you pre';,ose it according to Mr. Sheehan's dimen-
sionP,, I am afraid you will find yourselves in a ter-
9fole state.

Mr. SIIEEHAN--Not at all. I propose that it be
done in slap-up style. (Laughter.)

VACANCIES, APPOINTMENTS, AND
PROMOTIONS' IN TILE CIVIL 'SERVICE.

War-office—Mr. E. G. P. Mayers has been ap-
pointed a temporary clerk, and passed his exami-
nation ; Mr. C. B. Griffeth has been appointed a
temporary clerk, and passed his examination. The
Admiralty—Mr. P; B. Smith has been appointed a
temporary clerk, and passed his examination, Law
Department—A puisne judgeship in the Court of
Common Pleas has become vacant by the death of
Mr. Justice Crowder. Charity Commission—Mr
Lancelot Shadw ell has been appointed a third-
class clerk in London, and passed his examination.
General Post-office—Mr. Richard Corser Owen has
been 'appointed clerk at Chester, and passed his
examination. Customs—Mr. E. A. West has been
promoted from fourth to third-class clerk in the
London Docks ; Mr. George Marshall has been
promoted from fifth to fourth-class clerk in ditto ;
Mr. It. F. Lalcon has been promoted from sixth
to fifth-class clerk in ditto ; Mr. John Kilbride
has been promoted from third to second-class
tideevaiter in London. Inland Revenue De-
partment—Mr. Edward Allan Robertson has been
appointed a clerk in the Comptroller-General's-
office, Edinburgh, and passed his examination.
Stamps and,Taxes Branch—Mr. W. H. Balderstone
has been appointed a supernumerary surveyor of
taxes in Scotland, and passed his examination ; Mr.
T. Moore, assistant-surveyor of taxes for St. George's
Hanover-square, London, has been promoted to be
surveyor of taxes at Retford, Nottinghamshire. Ex-
cise Branch—Messrs. Rainsford, Davis, and Birtch-
nell, examiners, have been selected to officiate tem-
porarily in the Inland Revenue Laboratory, Somer-
set-house ; Mr. J. Vine, second clerk in Salop col-
lection, has been appointed officer of Salop third
division, at his own request. Ireland—The follow-
ing gentlemen have been appointed clerks in the
Registry of Deeds Office, Dublin, and successfully
passed their examinations :—Mr. James Magee,
Mr. Daniel O'Connell Ray, Mr. Joseph Ramsay,
Mr. Daniel O'Connell, Mr. James Francis Swaine,
Mr. John Rollin Wilby, Mr. Bernar Connor, Mr.
Benjamin Downing, Mr. Sampson Courtenay
Al‘Watters, Mr. Thomas George Marsh, Mr. John
Joseph Costello, Mr. Francis Alex. Fanning, Mr.
Albert Nicholson, Mr. Samuel Tram, M'Carthy,
Mr. William Nicholas, Mr. David Rogers, Mr.
Edward Walsh, Mr. William Ward, Mr. Daniel
Kirk. Ceylon—The Chief Justiceship of Ceylon
has become vacant by the death of Sir Win. Car-
penter Rowe.—civil Service Gazette.

Is CONSUMPTION INCURABLE P—lnvalids labouring
under Consumptive Maladies, and families who have
suffered frau the ravages of Consumptioe (and what
family in the empire is there who has not to deplore a
loss caused by this scourge of the human race ?) will find
a satisfactory answer to the question, " Is Consumption In-
curable," in an original -article by Dr. DENrs CRONIN,
M.D., 35, Bruton-street, Berkeley-square, W. Published in
the "household Physician," in numbers, one penny each
by G. Berger, 19, nolywell-street, Strand. From Ito 9 now
ready.
[ADVERTISEMENT.]—Holloway's Pills and Ointment.—
Consequences of Neglect.—ln our variable climate the
larger proportion of diseases to which mankind is liable
depends on the neglect or ineficient treatment of coughs,
colds, influenza, and rheumatism. Tho prudent will pay
attention to the first symptoms, which are removed at once
by the use of Holloway's Pills and Ointment. In chest
complaints, while inking his Pills, their effect is quickened,
and increased by briskly rubbing his Ointment'on the back
and breast twice a day for five minutes, or longer if conve-
nient. This friction causes the 011itraont to -penetrate the
skin, whence it passes to the lungs, and purities the whole
mass of blood, as it flows through those organs iu its cir-
culation.

SCIEN.

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IRGS.

- -
The tile: le Medicaie rqr)rts a case of croup iat,l
cured in one of the suburban communes of ruri; by
Dr. Amussat, from which it appears :-1. 1 bat
tracheotorny, performed before the stage of as-
phyxia has begun, presents a much greater chance.
of success than when effected at a later period; 2.
That, therapeutic agents, tonics, and eoPeolallY
extract of bark and neutral perchloride of iron, pro'
duco an excellent effect in arresting the msladY
after the operation. In a case of a child three y.ears
old. 25 drops of the solution of perchloride of iron
in a tumbler of water may be administered in dose I
of a tea-spoonful at a time every tea minutes.
Ihe above solution may also be mixed with equal
parts of the syrup of perchloride containing. two
parts of the latter for every 100 parts of simple
syrup.—M. Dumas, a few days ago, produced be-
fore the. Academy of Sciences a helmet rnado,_ef
aluminium for the King of Denmark. The worli-
mansh.ip, by MM. Delachaussee and Mourey, Was
beautiful ; but it was more remarkable in
tific.point of view, from the fact that the metal litt.a
received a polish equal to that of silver ; that it
had been successfully gilt by the galvanic process!
and that the operation of soldering had succeet,l.edo
beyond expectation. The helmet weighs 40 e
grammes ; it would weigh 1,700 if it were e',
braes; its resistance is inferior to that of steel
Irin-
plate, but superior to that of brass.—M. A.
cent, of Brest, has addressed a paper to the Ma
40'
demy of Sciences, in which he treats ofcoast
fences, arguing that however numerous d well
served batteries erected on shore may be, they can':
not prevent either a landing or a bombardment bust
steam. fleet ; and that the only effectual defence in
consist of floating steam batteries, protected
.oi
plates of soft iron, and armed with breech- loading_
in present. use only fire one.
guns, capable of firing 5 or 6 shots in the time thee!
Clunate pure et appliquce announces that M. Dave° _
photo
employs citric acid with great success in
develop°
graphy instead of acetic accid in order to
the image obtained by Taupenot's process (dry 11:0
luminated.. collodion). The compound he nee!" n
following; gallic acid, 30 grammes; pyrogalli.c ale;
10 grammes ; citric (instead of acetic) acid,
keep in
grammes ; rub in a porcelain mortar and
dry bottle. It is especially useful on
The Repertoire eiee
a joUrn.t
liquid preserves its limpidity a long
owing.. to the small space it occupies ; the reanell.ll6_
While, umbera
above doze is sufficient to develope a large nto,.
of images. M. Draper recommends the Pr",..ic
chloride of palladium for bringing out phoogl.7 a
images. with great force. After
on
s,ete-
solucion of this substance be poured on thol:"'n. Iv
of conce. Or
graph, and, according to the degree
tion of the solution, the shades will acquire
LIo I
degree of intensity desired.
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