The Sun.
London, England, 1866-08-03 00:00:00

LATEST INTELLIGENCE. I The Double Murder in Somers Town.
(REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.)

THE WAR IN GERMANY.
STUTTGARD Aug 2.
An armistice has been concluded between %Vur-
temburg and Prussia.
_ _

MENTZ, Aug. 2.

An armistice has not yet been concluded between
this fortress and Prussia, and the navigation of the
Rhine is again interruted.

BERLIN, Aug. 3.
M. Benedetti and Count Barral, the French and
Italian Ambassadors, have returned to this city
from the Prussian head-quarters.
The Bank of Prussia has reduced its rate of dis-
count from 6 to 5 per cent.

BOMBAY & MAURITIUS MAILS,

MALTA, August 2.

The Ceylon left at midnight yesterday, and the
Pera leaves at 10 p.m. to-day. The former may
be expected at Marseilles on the 4th, and the latter
at Southampton on the 11th inst.

ADJOURNED INQUEST-THIS DAY.

This morning, Dr. Lankester, the coroner for Central
Middlesex, resumed the inquiry into the cause of the deaths
of Emma and Agnes Butcher, the children of Mary But-
cher, by whom they waro supposed to be murdered by
drowning them in a tub, on the 21st ult.
Inspector Fraser produced a certificate from Mr. Edward
Mahoney, the assistant resident surgeon, that Mary Butcher
was in an unfit state to attend. Mr. Fraser said that the
doctor and nurse both said she was in a very doubtful
state, one day better, and another day worse.
One of the jury said he had seen her, and she seemed
what he would call melancholy mad.
James Butcher, the husband of the accused woman, said
that he had seen his wife three times a day since last Fri-
day. She wanted to know why she was at that place, and
could not go home. Ho told her ho was out of work, and
she said she supposed they were all starving, that the
children were dead, and that he would die.

THE CALCUTTA AND CHINA MAIL 9.
SOUTHAMPTON, Aug. 3.

The Peninsula and Oriental Company's steamer
Massilia, with the above mails, has arrived here,
with 157 passengers, 29 boxes of specie value
£lOO,OOO, 443 bales of silk value £44,300, 240
packages rhubarb, and 200 packages of sundries.
The Massilia experienced fine weather throughout
her passage. She was in quarantine at Gibraltar.
The Egyptian fleet and French man-of-war
Andromaque were at Alexandria. The Prince
Consort, Hydia, and Assurance were at Malta.
GIBRALTAR, July 29.

Some of the jury intimated that they thought they had
better come to a conclusion, and
The learned Coroner, in summing up, pointed out that
whatever the state of the woman's mind at the time of
the commission of the murder, asked if the jury were o
opinion that she had committed it.
A juror wished to know whether the woman was
dressed at the time she was found in the water butt.
The witness Brown replied in the affirmative.

After some discussion, somo of the jury expressed an
opinion that they should wish to say something as to her
state of mind.

The coroner said there could be no objection, but it
really had nothing to do with their finding. Her state of
mind would have to be considered at her trial.

The following British ships have arrived here from
England :—Steamers —Robin Hood, Egyptian,
Tiber, Macedon, Tanjore, and schooner Midge.
The Gibraltar Chronicle says :—" It appears that
Algeciras, following the example of Cadiz, imposes
a quarantine of three days on arrivals from Gibral-
tar by sea. We have not heard whether Spain ex-
tends the quarantine on Barbary to her own for-
tresses in North Africa. The garrison of Ceuta
receives its provisions from the adjoining Moorish
territory, just as we receive ours from Tangiers.
To act consistently, Spain should put Ceuta
and her other settlements on the African coast
in quarantine. We rather hope, however, that
the needless inconvenience to which so many
Spanish subjects would be exposed will lead to a
reconsideration of the grounds on which the quar-
antine has been imposed on Morocco, and that when
it is found, as we are sure it will be, that the quar-
antine cannot be justified by sanitary reasons, it
will be removed. We learn from the Spanish jour-
nals that the quarantine on Valencia, imposed in
consequence of the appearance of a single case of
cholera, was removed by the Central Direction of
Health at Madrid upon the complaint of the Gover-
nor of Valencia of the injury done to that city by
the closing of other ports against its trade. The
quarantine restrictions to which the vessels of nearly
every country are now subject in Spanish ports,
whilst profitable to a certain class of public func-
tionaries, are said to be telling seriously on the
foreign trade and customs revenue of Spain.
A private letter of the 17th July, from Algiers,
gives a deplorable account of the destruction caused
in that province by the locusts. Their invasion
had lasted two months ; they had nearly eaten up
the crops, and in many places stripped every green
leaf from the trees. In some places the devastating
insects lie on the ground a foot deep. The local
authorities at one time gave sf. a quintal for the
collection and destruction of the locusts, but had
reduced the reward to two francs. Some of the
cultivators had abandoned their farms, shut up their
houses, and removed into Algiers in consequence of
the loss of their crops. To prevent a repetition of
the plague by the " langostines," or young of the
locusts, just come out of the egg and covering the
earth in all directions, the troops are distributed in
parties over the fields to assist the cultivators in
destroying the pest. Subscriptions, says the
writer of this letter, have been opened in France
and Algiers, to relieve the sufferings of the numbers
who have been ruined by this terrible visitation.
Her Majesty's steam troopship Urgent, which
arrived a few days ago from the west coast of
Africa with the 3d West India Regiment for Bar-
badoes, and has been kept in strict quarantine,
yesterday transferred the regiment to her Majesty's
troopship Simoom, which placed herself in quaran-
tine to receive them, and left this port for Barba-
does at sunset. The Urgent this morning received
on board, under the usual quarantine precautions,
the time-expired men and invalids of the different
regiments serving on this station, and departs for
Portsmouth this evening. The 2d, 4th, and sth
batteries of artillery, under orders for Bermuda,
will not leave at present, their departure having
been countermanded. Colonel Maude, C. 8., V.C.,
having completed his five years of service on the
staff, proceeds with his family to England. Col.
Mande's successor, as assistant adjutant-general, is
Colonel Robert Lockhart Ross, late of the 93d
Highlanders.
London, 90 days' date, 501 s ; Paris, 8 days'
sight, sf. 13c.; Marseilles, do., sf. 13c. 14c.; Genoa
and Brussels, do. do.; Madrid, do., 21 dis. ; Cadiz,
do. (pay in gold), par ; Seville, do., 11 dis. ; Ma-
laga, do., 11 dis.; Barcelona, do., 1 dis. to par;
Almeria, Valencia, and Alicante, do. do. Premium
on sf. pieces, :1 to 1 per cent.

Ultimately the jury, by a majority, returned the follow-
ing verdict :—" That the two children, Emma Butcher and
Agnes Butcher, were found dead in bed on Saturday, the
21st of July, having died from the mortal effects of drown-
ing, and that the said children were wilfully murdered by
their mother, Mary Butcher, she being at the time in an
unsound state of mind."
The warrant of committal was then made out and
handed to Mr. Murray, the coroner's officer, to put in force
as soon as the woman is fit to be removed.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—This Day.

MANSION-HOUSE.

ROBBERY BY A CLERK.—Robt. Rubinson, 17, was charged
before Alderman Carter with having stolen 35 £5 Bank of
England notes, and £lO in silver and postage stamps,
amounting in all to about £5O, the property of his em-
ployer, Mr. Follett, shipbroker, 49, King William-street
City.
The prosecutor said that on Monday the 16th ult. he left
town, and was absent until the following Friday. He
placed the money in question in a box in a eafe in the
office, and on bis return ho found that it had been ab-
stracted, the safe having been broken open. The prisoner
had been in his employment about 10 days, She left the
office the day after he (the prosecutor) was called out of
town. He gave immediate information to the police, but
he saw nothing of the prisoner until this morning. The
prisoner admitted to him that he had takenthe money, and
said he did so because he was starving. He (the prisoner)
was paid at the rate of £3O a year, and had received money
before prosecutor left town. The prisoner described the
way in which he broke open the safe, which he did by
means of a chisel, but he refused to give the prosecutor
any information as to what he had done with the money.
Charles Pembleton, a lock-up boy in the office of the
prosecutor, said that the night before the robbery he left,
the prisoner in the office. He came the next morning, and
witness saw that he had a new suit of clothes, a new hat
and a pair of boots. He gave witness 3d., and he left the
office, and ho saw nothing further of himuutil this morning.
George Lake, one of the City detectives, said that he
was in company with another officer in Adelaide-street,
Strand, yesterday afternoon, and he was induced to notice
the prisoner from some peculiarity in his manner, and he
accosted him, saying that he had a warrant for his arrest on
a charge of robbing his employer. He did not deny the
charge, and he took him to the station. On searching him he
found Id. and two keys, which the prosecutor identified as
his property, and the prisoner told him that he had spent
the money, but said nothing further. He discovered, how-
ever, that the prisoner had been rather extravagant in his
mode of living since the commission of the robbery, and
he spent the money on women at the West End, for some
of whom he purchased expensive clothes.

The prosecutor, in reply to the worthy alderman, said
that he had no means of identifying the property further
than that he had received the bank notes from, as wo un-
derstood, the Prussian Consul.
The prisoner was remanded.