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London, England, 1859-12-31 00:00:00

DECEMBER 31,

1859

examination, on a charge of committing a mur-
derous assault on the person of Mr. Wm. Knight,
his landlord.

Mr. Knight, who had been brought from the
Westminster Hospital, and whose head was bound
up, said—The prisoner had lodged in his house for
about four yearz, and though his manners were
very eccentric, and his fancies very extraordinary,
yet he had not to the present time exhibited the
slightest disposition to violence. About three
o'clock, on the evening of the 15th inst., he (wit-
ness) was sitting at his kitchen fire with his child
on his knee, when the prisoner entered the kitchen,
and without utterinc, a word, struck him a blow on
the left temple with the heavy steel now produced.
Witness instantly put his hand to his forehead,
when his finger fell into a deep wound, from which
blood was flowing freely. The prisoner after strik-
ing the blow drew back a few paces, and pointing
his finger of him said, " These theatricals
have induced you to have a design against me."
Mrs. Knight at this time entered the kitchen, when
the prisoner holding up the same weapon, said "He
had a mind., unless ske stepped on one side, to serve
her the same way." Witness then rushed into the
street, and to the Masons' Arms public-house, and
begged of some people there, for God's sake, to go
to his house and prevent his wife and children from
being murdered, and went himself to the Westmin-
ster Hospital to get his wounds dressed.
Mr. Norton—The prisoner did not attempt to
strike you a second time ?

Witness--No, sir, and it was very lucky he did
not.

Mr. Norton—What was this about the theatricals
annoying the prisoner ?
Witness—l know not, sir. It was a mere delu-
sion. The witness further stated that an allow-
ance for the prisoner's maintenance was paid by a
professional gentleman then present, and he was
besides allowed 6d. a-day to spend, but this sum
he saved up to purchase what he called implements
of war. He fancied himself Oliver Cromwell, and
used to say that all he wanted was horse and ✓saddle
and bridle to invade England. The prisoner was
fond of visiting theatres and concerts at oie time,
but latterly did not go so often, and kept away
from them. Though a person of eccentric manners,
and evidently labouring under strange delusions, the
prisoner had an excellent memory, and knew Eng-
lish history so well that he could at once answer
any question put to him respecting history. He also
spoke French and Spanish well, and was always on
such friendly terms with him, and professed so
much friendship for him, that he thought he was
the last person prisoner would attack or harm.
Mrs. Ellen Knight corroborated a portion of the
testimony of her husband, and said that on her re-
turn from leaving her husband at the hospital she
found the prisoner seated in the kitchen. She said
he had murdered her husband, and if he did not go
away the police would be there to take him into
custody. The prisoner told her to mop up the blood
from the floor and hearthstone before the police
came, and when they came to tell them he did it by
authority. He then walked out of the house, tak-
ing the weapon with him. The prisoner, though
eccentric in his manner, was at the same time gentle
and quiet, and had never before the evening in ques-
tion evinced the slightest disposition to violence,
nor had herself or her husband the slightest fear of
him.

Mr. Norton—l am really astonished you did not
take alarm at these deadly and formidable weapons
in the possession of such a person.
Mrs. Knight—The instruments seemed to be his
holiday or playthings, and we therefore had no
particular fear of them.
Mr. Clarke, house surgeon at the Westminster
Hospital, described the wound inflicted by the pri-
soner on the prosecutor, which was an inch and a
half in length, and divided the temporal artery.
For some time the injury was of a dangerous cha-
racter, but now the prosecutor was going on in a
fair way. The wound was such a •ne as might have
been inflicted by an instrument such as that pro-
duced.

John Spinks, 56 L, one of the summoning officers
of the court, said he took the prisoner into custody
on the 6th, at the house of his sister near Fitzroy-
square, and on telling him the nature of the charge
he said he did it, and was very sorry. He found the
instrument with which the assault had been com-
mitted in the prisoner's parlour, and the other seven
weapons he found at his late lodgings. The instru-
ments, which were placed on the solicitors' table,
were of the most curious, as well as the most for-
midable kind that could be well conceived, and all
manufactured of the best steel, with a great portion
of them highly plated after the prisoner's design.
This having terminated,
Mr. Norton remarked that he had received a letter
from some relation of the prisoner, requesting that
he would dispose of the case summarily; but the
charge was of much too serious a character to be
dealt with summarily; besides, it would be mueL
better for the prisoner that the case should go hams
a jury, as in that case he would be taken taro Pf
for the future.
The prisoner was then committed to take his dial
at the Old Bailey.

RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE.

TRAFFIC RETURNS FOR THE WEER,

Miles

Ipene d.

1859.

FROM THE GAZETTE OF LAST NIGHT

FOREIGN-OFFICE, DEC. 29.
filo Queen has been graciously pleased to appoint Evan
Montagu Baillie, Esq., now First Paid Attache to her
Majesty's Embassy at Paris, to be Secretary to her Ma-
jesty's Legation at Rio de Janeiro.
BOARD OF TRADE, WHITEHALL, DEC. 30.
The Right Hon. tho Lords of the Committee of Privy
Council for Trade and Plantations have received, through
the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, a copy of a De-
spatch from her Majesty's Consul at Lisbon, stating that,
from and after the Ist of December, the ports of Spain, in
the Mediterranean, are considered to be clean.
The Right Hon. the Lords of the Committee of Privy
Council for Trade and Plantations have received, through
the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, a copy of a De-
spatch from her Majesty's Consul at Lisbon, stating that
Oran is considered to be infected with Cholera Morbus, and
all the other ports of Algiers suspected of infection.
The Right Honourable the Lords of the Committee of
Privy Council for Trade and Plantations have received,
through the Secretary of State f.r Foreign Affairs, a copy
of a despatch from her Majesty's Consul-General at Venice,
stating that the following ports are to be considered as in-
fected with yellow fever :-1. Western Africa—The ports
of Gambia, and all ports between Senegal and Sierra Leone.
2. North America—New Orleans, and all other ports in
Louisiana. 3. Central America—Tampico, and all other
ports in Mexico. 4. South America—All the ports of
Brazil.
The night Honourable the Lords of the Committee of
Privy Council for Trade and Plantations have received,
through the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, a copy
of a despatch from her Majesty's Consul-General at Venice,
stating that the Quarantine regulations to which, accord-
ing to the circulars of Nov. 5, 1858, and Oct. 7, 1869,
vessels arriving from Syria, Egypt, the Regency of Tunis,
Algeria, and Morocco were liable, are withdrawn, but—
That vessels arriving from the Regency of Tripoli which,
by the above-mentioned circular of November 5, 1858, were
subject to quarantine of foul bill of health for plague, shall
henceforth, if furnished with clean bills of health, be liable
to quarantine in the following manner :—Vessels, persons,
and cargo, where the bill of health be given or confirmed
by the Consulate of any European Power, to six days.
Should the said confirmation be wanting, to seven days.
Merchandise extremely suspected (rags and wearing ap-
parel), after being opened in the lazaretto, to ten days.
WAR-OFFICE, PALL-MALL, DEc. 30.
82d Regiment of Foot—Major-General the Hon. Thomas
Ashburrtham, C. 8., to be Colonel, vice Lieutenant-
General Nicholas Hamilton, deceased.
WAR-OFFICE, PALL-MALL, DEC. 30.
7th Regiment of Dragoon Guards—Assistant-Surgeon
John Noble Shipton, from the 23d Foot, to be Assistant
Surgeon, vice Smith, appointed to the Staff,
Bth Light Dragoons—Quartermaster-Sergeant Michael
Carey to be Quartermaster, vice Lane, deceased.
10th Light Dragoons—Gentleman Cadet Thomas Astell
St. Quintin, from the Royal Militai y College, to be
Cornet, without purchase, vice Houstoun, superseded,
being absent without learn; Veterinary-Surgeon Wil-
liam Thacker, from the 15th Light Dragoons, to be Ve-
terinary-Surgeon, vice Phillips, promoted.
15th Light Dragoons—Acting-Veterinary-Surgeon Mar-
tin Mence to be Veterinary-Surgeon, vice Thacker, ap-
pointed to the 10th Light Dragoons.
17th Light Dragoons—Lieutenant James Duncan to be
Captain, without Pirchase, vice Seymour, deceased ;
Lieutenant the Hon. William Henry Curzon to be Cap-
tain, by purchase, !ice Sir George H. Leith, Bart., who
retires ; Riding Mister George Pumfrett to be Cornet,
without purchance, and Adjutant, in succession to Lieu-
tenant Duncan, promoted ; Sergeant-Major Thomas
Martin, from tle Cavalry Depot, Maidstone, to be
Riding Master, vice Pumfrett, appointed Cornet and
Adjutant.
18th Light Dragons—The second Christian name of Cor-
net Malet is Esdaile, and not Esdale, as stated in the
" Gazette" ofthe 18th October.

Royal Artillery-.Acting Veterinary Surgeon Henry Hus-
sey to be Vetrinary Surgeon.
Military Trail—Benjamin Simner, Gent., to be Ensign,
without purchase, vice Taylor, promoted. The promo-
tion of hvsign Alexander M'Donald to a Lieutenancy,
without lOrchase, on the 29th November, 1859, to be an-
ti) the 4th of that month.
Regiment of Foot—Gentleman Cadet, Henry Augustin
2dt edated
Robinson, from the Royal Military College, to be Ensign
without Plrchase, vice Pollard, appointed to the 67th
Foot.
3d Foot—Gentleman Cadet Archibald William Peyton,
from the Royal Military College, to be Ensign, without
purchase, vice Graves, promoted; John Francis Whit-
worth, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Theophi-
lus Jones, promoted.
sth Foot--Francis Goldie Taubman, Gent., to be Ensign,
by Purchase, vice Shoolbred, promoted.
6th Feet—Lieutenant Richard Shiel to be Captain, with-
out Purchase, vice Jones, deceased ; Ensign William
Smith to be Lieutenant, withour purchase, vice Shiel ;
Gentleman Cadet Henry Adolphus Hebeler, from the
Rola]. Military College, to be Ensign, without purchase,
vice Wilson, promoted ' • Gentleumn Cadet Sydney George
Granville, from the Royal, Military College, to be En-
siln, without purchase, vice Smith.
7th Foot—Gentleman Cadet 'William Wheaton Chard, front
t)le Royal Military Collage, to be Ensign, without pur-
chase, vice Frampton, promoted; the Honourable
Wyndham Percy "ivloreton to be Ensign, by purchase,
Hee Rice, who retires.
Bth Foot—Captain Frederick William John Dugmore, from
the 3d Wet India Regiment, to be Captain, vice Metge,
who (melanges ; Gentleman Cadet Thomas Oliver Win-
gate, from the Royal Military College, to be Ensign,
without purchase, vice De Robsek, appointed to the 60th
Foot.
10th Foot—Christopher Campbell Oldtleld, Gent., to be
Ensign, by purchase, vice Borger, promoted.
11th Foot—Gentleman Cadet John Gordon Deedes, from
the Royal Military College, to be Ensign, without par.
chase, vice F. D. Walker, superseded, for being absent
without leave.
13th Foot—Ensign William Nunnington, from the 58th
Foot, to bo Ensign, vice Hall, who exchanges.
15th Foot—Charles Keir Farquharson, Gent., to be En-
sign, by purchase, vice Hawks, promoted.
19th root—Lieutenant Charles Hereford to be Captain, by

purchase, vice Stuart, who retires; Ensign William Ben-
net to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Hereford.
20th Foot—Henry Lawrence, Gent., to be Ensign, by pur-
chase, vice Fraser, promoted.
21st Feet—Edward George Lingard, Gent., to be Ensign,
by purchase, vice Bussell, promoted ; Henry Feilden,
Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Hayes, promoted ;
Thomas William Parke Airey, Gent., to be Ensign, by
purchase, -vice Browne, promoted.
23d Foot Gentleman Cadet Anthony Prichard Hutchin-
son, from the Royal Military College, to be Ensign, with-
out purchase, vice Dowler, appointed to the 52d Foot ;
William Henry Benyon, Gent., to be Ensign, by pur-
chase, vice Tulloch, promoted ; St. Aubyn Henry Player,
Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Sadler, promoted ;
Assist.-Surgeon Charles Farran Squire, from the Staff,
to be Assist.-Surgeon, vice Shipton, appointed to the 7th
Dragoon Guards.
24th Foot—Harry Rich Farquhar, Gent., to be Ensign, by
purchase, vice Goodrich, who retires.
25th Foot—Sergeant-Major Henry Wilkinson, from the
32d Foot, to be Ensign, without purchase ; Sergeant-
Major John Charles Thompson to be Ensign, without
purchase, and Adjutant.
36th Foot—Gentleman Cadet Thomas Earaght Percy Tyr-
whitt, from the Royal. Military College, to be Ensign,
without purchase, vice Taylor, promoted.
38th Foot—The commission of Lieutenant Philip H. Eyre,
as Adjutant, to be antedated to the 20th September, 1858.
42d Foot--Henry Jennings Brandy, Gent., to be Ensign,
without purchase, vice Coleridge, promoted in the 25th
Foot.
53d Foot—Ensign William Lowry Auchinleck to be Lieu-
tenant, by purchase, vice Byrne, who retires.
54th Foot—Gentleman Cadet Michael O'Brien' from the
Royal Military College, to be Ensign, without purchase,
vice Sir C. W. Burdett, Bart, promoted.
56th Foot—Gentleman Cadet William Barnett, front the
Royal Military College, A* be Ensign, without purchase,
vice Swinhoe, promoted.
58th Foot—Ensign William James Hall, from the 13th
Foot, to be Ensign, vice Nunnington, who exchanges;
Frank Cunliffe, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice T.
E. Jones, promoted.
61st Foot—The Hon. Edward John Chetwynd, to be En-
sign, by purchase, vice Pane, promoted.
64th Foot—John Symeon Walker, Gent., to be Ensign, by
purchase, vice Daniel, promoted.
68th Foot-2--William Henry France Palmer, Gent., to be
Ensign, by purchase, vice Cathcart, promoted in the
Coldstream Guards.
70th Foot—Gentleman Cadet Henry Frederiek Greatwood,
from the Royal Military College, to be Ensign, without
purchase, vice Garsia, promoted.
73d Foot—Charles Wm. Henry Richardson, Gent., to be
Ensign, by purchase, vice Fraser, promoted.
76th Foot—George Alexander, Gent., to bo Ensign, by
purchase, vice Butler, promoted.
77th Foot—George Cook, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchass,
vice Kirk, promoted ; Assistant-Surgeon George Forbes
Adams, from the Staff, to bo Assistant-Surgeon, vice
Hyde, appointed to the Staff.
81st Foot—Gentleman Cadet Wm. Mitchell Inns, from
the Royal Military College, to be Ensign, without pur-
chase, vice Curry, appointed Adjutant ; William Harle,
Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Warren, pro-
moted.
86th Foot—Gentleman. Cadet Edward James Harris, from

the Royal Military College to be Ensign, without
ppur-
chase, vice the lion. T. J. Wynn, appointed to the Rule
Brigade.
89th Foot—Gentleman Cadet Thomas Parnell Green, from
the Royal Military College, to bo Ensign, without pur-
chase, vice Dickson, deceased.
98th Foot—Gentleman. Cadet Arthur Brett Onslow, from
the Royal Military College, to bo Ensign, without pur-
chase, in succession to Lieutenant Woodward, deceased.
Ist West India Regiment—Lieutenant Charles Chevalier,
from half-pay late Land Transport Corps, to be Lieute-
nant, vice Goodman, appointed adjutant of a Recruiting
District.
3d West India Regiment—Captain William Frederick
Metge, from the Bth Foot, to bo Captain, vice Dugmore,
who exchanges.
UNITTA ED.—Brev et Lieutenant-Colonel Frederick
Geddes Bull, Captain on half-pay 60th Foot (Staff Officer
of Pensioners), to be Major without purchase.

HOSPITAL STAPP.

Assistant-Surgeon Opie Smith, from the 7th Dragoon
Guards, to be Assistant-Surgeon, vice Squire, appointed to
the 33d Foot.
Assistant-Surgeon George Clarence Hyde, from the 77th
Foot, to be Assistant-Surgeon, vice Adams, appointed to
the 77th Foot.

BREVET.
Brevet-Colonel John Forbes, Captain on half-pay Un-
attached (Staff Officer of Pensioners), having retired on
full-pay, to be Major-General in the Army, the rank being
honorary only.
Second Captain Gerald Graham, of the Royal Engineers,
to be Major in the Army.
The undermentioned Gentlemen Cadets of her Majesty's
Indian Forces, at present doing duty at the Royal Engineer
Establishment, at Chatham, with the rank of Ensign, to
have the local and temporary rank of Lieutenant while em-
ployed at that establishment viz. Shepperd,
Robert I'rocter Tic.kell, Bruce 'Onham Seton, Edward Gil-
bert Clayton, Edward D'Oyloy Twemlow, Sydenhain Cub-
bor, Clarke, John Donaldson Cruickshank, and Cortland
Alexander (Inger Skinner.
M 0 NDU m.—Deputy Assistant-Commisary- General
Robert Conan, upon half-pay, has been permitted to retire
from the service, he having received a commutation in lieu
of his half-pay.

COMMISSIONS BY LORDS-LIEUTENANT.
" 9th Aberdeenshire Rifle Volunteers—Sir William Forbes,
Bart., to be Captain ; William Adamson, Esq., to be Lieu-
tenant; Alexander Pirie Hogarth, Esq., to be .linsign.
Lanarkshire Rifle Volunteers-24th Company—Robert
Gilkison, jun., Esq., to be Captain; Robert Heddle Wishart,
Gent., to be Lieutenant ; James Robertson, Gent., to be
Ensign. 25th Company—John Napier, Esq., to be Cap-
tain; John Ritchie Miller, Vent., to be Lieutenant ;

Donald Anderson, Gent., to be Ensign. 26th Company
John David Napier, Esq., to be Captain ; James Wlntre,
Gent., to be Lieutenant ; John Dowall, Gent., to be Ensign.

BANKRUPTS.
William Levett, patent wadding manufacturer, Union'
street, Borough, to surrender, Jan. 13, at two, and Feb. 10,
at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy.
Thomas Aston, engineer, Willenhall, Staffordshire, Jan•
11th and 30th, at eleven, at the Birmingham District
Court.
George Ellis, baker, Sheffield, Jan. 14 and Feb. 11, at
twelve, at the Leeds District Court.
Christopher Price, butcher, Wolverhampton, Jan. 11
and 30, at eleven, at the Birmingham District Court.
Thomas Bigglestone, grocer, Hereford, Jan. 12, and Feb.
9, at eleven, at the Birmingham District Court.

BANK OF ENGLAND.
An Account, pursuant to the Act 7th and Bth Victoria,
cap. 32, for the week ending on Wednesday, the 28th day
of December, 1859:—
ISSUE DEPARTMENT.
Notes issued £.30609 4551 Government Debt £11,015,1C0
Other Securities .. 3,459,900
G old Coin & Bullion 16,131,455
Silver Bullion ....

X 30,609,455!

BANKING D
Proprietors' Capi-
tal X 14,553,000
Rest
Public Deposits (in-
cluding Exche-
quer, Savings'
Banks, Commis-
isiissioners of Na-
tional Debt, and
Dividend Ac-

counts) 9,801,730
Other Deposits 13,071,410
Seven Day and
other Bills 703,603

--- -_--
x 303609,435

,EPAIITMENT.
Government Secu-
rities (includinv,
DeadWeightAn-
. XlO,O
nuity) .........25,157
Other Securities .. 19,907,580
Notes ............ 9,780,980
Gold and Silver
C0in............ 675,599

£41,289,314
M.

£41,289,316
aARsuALL, Chief Cashier.

Dated Dec. 29, 1859.

AVERAGE PRICE OF SUGAR.
The Average Price of Brown or Muscovado Sugar, com-
puted from Returns made in the week ending the 27th day
of Dec., 1859, exclusive of the duties of Customs paid or
payable thereon, on the importation thereof into Great
Britain
Per cwt.
From the British possessions in America .. '275 Old