The Sun.
London, England, 1859-10-28 00:00:00

THE StiN, lAONDON FRIDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 28, 1859.

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THIRD EDITION.

SUN OFFICE, Seven o' Clock.

NEWMARKET RACES-(THIS DAY.)

➢Y ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.]
HANDICAP SWEEPSTAKES 15 SOVS.

Ellen
Van

Six ran.'
HANDICAP SWEEPSTAKES OF 20 SOUS.
Amsterdam
Lady Alico

Ten rau.
SWEEPSTAKES.

Odd Fellow 1
hop Merchant

Tyre is very little impurity in the common soda used for
washing purposes.

Mr. Sleigh—Taken in large quantities, it would act in-
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iuriously ?

Witness—yes; passing down the throat it would be
accompanied by a burning sensation. Soda will not
dissolve in alcohol or ether, so it could not affect what I
found in my analysis.

The Solicitor-General—What do you call a large quan-
tity ?
Witness—l think oz. in solution a large quantity.
The Solicitor-General—What is your opinion with re-
spect to the quantity used by the deceased ?
Witness—l don't think the quantity usually put into a
teapot could produce any very bad effect.
Lord Chief Baron—Would it have interfered with your
tests ?
Witness—No.

The other medical gentlemen examined were this morning
recalled by the Lord Chief Baron; and in answer to ques-
tions gave a similar opinion

Mr. Sleigh then rose to address the jury for the prisoner,
and said he was fully sensible of the forbearing and con-
ciliating manner in which the learned gentlemen who
appeared on the part of the Crown had conducted the pro-
secution. The learned Solictor-Gsneral had under-
taken to prove that the death of the deceased was
cuused by poison, and that administered by the prisoner.
The jury would have to say whether—each separately and
that the whole collectively—they wore so certain that the
prisoner at the bar was guilty of the crime attributed to
him as to entertain no just or reasonable doubt. He felt
confidently that the medical evidence which had been ad-
duced had been of the most meagre and unsatisfactory na-
ture imaginable; and he felt, moreover, that there was not
a tittle of evidence with regard to the moral circumstances
of the case which implicated the prisoner participating in
any manner in the death of the unfortunate woman. It
was beyond all doubt she was a person of very careless
habits—that she went out in all kinds' of weather very
shortly after her confmemen ; and it was proved in evi-
dence by Mrs. Allan that shortly before she was taken ill
she had to caution the deceased against putting on wet
stockings. Then, again, the circumstances of the prisoner
and the deceased were of the most straightened doscrip-

lion, and they all knew upon what sort of food such
people had to exist—he could hardly say live—upon.
The beer that such persons could afford to purchase was
generally of the most wretched description, and that
which, it was in evidence, had been obtained, he
doubted not, was such that either of the gentlemen
upon the jury would forbid any of their relatives, espe-
cially females, partaking. How different would have
been the case of the prisoner had he been in the pos-
session of pecuniary means to procure the attendance
of living testimony to refute the theories that had been
advanced by the medical evidence, who had disputed
many of the authorities he had advanced. For the
prisoner, it was unfortunate, because ho felt certain that
had he been in moro affluent circumstances, numbers of
scientific witnessess might have been obtained to contradict
that which had been stated in terms which were remarkable
for their similarity. He could not contradict it by books as
the law prevented him from using them. The learner gen-
tleman then proceeded to dwell with much force upon the
uncertainties of pathological appearances, and also
upon the idosyncracies of the human system, pointing
out that that which was wholesome food to one person might
prove virulent poison to another. All these things had up to
the present moment remained a mystery, and it would be
highly dangerous under such circumstances to arrive at a
settled conclusion upon a certain point upon which the
greatest doubts existed. Then, again, what value could be
placed upon the evidence of some of the medical men who
had spoken of the post-mortem appearances, when they ad-
mitted that they had never before attended an examination
of a body where death had been occasioned by croton oil or
cantharides ? Therefore, their opinions ought to be re-
ceived with the utmost caution. Great allowance must be
made fur the conduct of the prisoner when accused of poi-
soning the unfortunate woman. All her relatives were
embittered against him ; and he did not think there was
an innocent person in court who, if suddenly accused of the
heinous crime of murder, would not be quite unnerved. He
felt certain they would give every fact their most serious
consideration, and would conclude his remarks by implor-
ing the Almighty to lead them to a right conclusion.
The learned gentleman's address to the jury occupied
two hours and three quarters in its delivery.
At five minutes to four the Lord Chief Baron commenced
to sum up the evidence to the jury, remarking at the com-
mencement that it was a case surrounded by great doubt
and mystery. The duty of the jury would be to review the
whole of the evidence adduced against the prisoner, and to
pronounce a true verdict, totally disregarding the effects
that would follow. The learned judge then gave an out-
line of the case, and proceeded to read his notes, comment-
kg upon them as he went on.
The learned judge was still summing up whcn we went
to press.

NEW C 0 VRT
(Before Baron Bramwell.)
INTENT TO MURDER.
James Turner and Edmund Keefe were indicted for
feloniously and unlawfully administering to Honora Turner
a large quantity of poison, called sugar of lead, with intent
to murder her.
The jury found Turner guilty and acquitted Keefe.
Sentence of death was recorded against Turner.
STABBING A POLICEMAN.

John Sylvester was found guilty on an indictment
charging him with feloniously wounding, with intent to
murder, Walter Soley, a constable in the R division of
police.
The learned judge sentenced him to 10 years penal
servitude.

LONDON GAZETTE-(TIIIS EVENING.)

FOREIGN-OFFICE, OCT. 28.
The Queen has been pleased to approve of Don Carlos
Carvalho as Consul-General at Sierra Leone, and Don
Manuel de 'Lea Bermudez as Vice-Consul at Sierra Leone,
for her Majesty the Queen of Spain.
BOARD OF TRADE, WHITEHALL, OCT. 24.
The Right Honourable the Lords of the Committee of
Privy Council for Trade and Plantations have received,
through the Secretary of State for War, a copy uf a de-
spatch from the Governor of Gibraltar, reporting that in
consequence of the existence of cholera at Algesiras, ves-
sels arriving at Gibraltar, from that port, would be sub-
jected to quarantine.

WAR-OFFICE, PALL-MALL, OCT. 28.
56th Regiment of Foot—Lieutenant-General John
:ome Home to be Colonel, vice General the Earl of West-

moreland, G.C.8., deceased.
2d Regiment of Life Guards—Lieutenant Henry John
Lloyd Wynne to be Captain, by purchase, vice Lumley,
who retires ; Cornet and Sub-Lieutenant Hamilton
Sandford Pakenham to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice
Wynne.
6th Dragoon Guards—Cornet William Gair to be Lieute-
nant, by purchase, vice Grainger, who retires.
4th Light Dragoons—Ensign Nassau Clark, from the 89th
Foot, to be Cornet, paying the difference, vice England,
promoted.
7th Light Dragoons—Lieutenant Richard Newsham Ped-
der to be Captain, by purchase, vice Brisco, who retires
Cornet Arthur Hamilton Scrope to be Lieutenant, by
pUrchase, vice Pedder.
9th Light Dragoons—Cornet John Russell has been per-
mitted to resign his commission.
16th Light Dragoons—Benjamin Winthrop, Gent, to be
Cornet, by purchase vice Agg, promoted.
Grenadier Guards—Lieutenant and Captain John Julius
Johnstone to be instructor of musketry, vice Earle, ap-
pointed to the Staff.
Ist Regiment of Foot—Captain Adolphus Halket Ver-
sturme, from the 17th Foot, to be Captain, vice Henry
H. Smart, who exchanges ; Lieutenant Arthur Trefusis
Jones, from the 24th Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Plasket,
who exchanges.
3d Foot—Ensign Shapland Graves to be Lieutenant, with-
out purchase, vice Wright, deceased.
Bth Foot—Lieutenant-Colonel and Brevet-Colonel Frede-
rick Paul Haines, from half-pay unattached, to be Lieu-
tenant-Colonel, vice Brevet-Colonel Grcathed, C. 8., who
exchanges.
12th Foot—Ensign William Stephen Henry Dunlevie to
be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Page, who retires.
16th Foot—Richard Wood Robinson, Gent., to be Ensign,
by purchase, vice Godwin, promoted.
17th Foot—Captain Henry Hawley Smart, from the Ist
Foot, to be Captain, vice Versturme, who exchanges;
Ensign Alexander M'Neil Caird to be Lieutenant, by
purchase, vice Torre, who retires ; Ensign Henry Charles
Deane to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Houghton,
who retires ; John Gaythorne Wood, Gent., to bo En-
sign, by purchase, vice Caitd ; Henry Francis Dent,
Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Bros, promoted.
20th Foot—Major George Bennett to be Lieutenant-
Colonel, by purchase, vice Brevet-Colonel Eve-
legh, C. 8., who retires; Brevet - 11Iajor Wil-
liam Drummond Serase Dickins to be Major,
by purchase vice Bennett; Lieutenant George Blair
Dian to be, Captain, by purchase, vice Dickins ; En-
sign Charles Enys to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice
Dubin.
22d Foot—Anastasius Eugene Tollemache, Gent., to be
Ensign, by purchase, vice Denny, promoted.
23d Foot—Lieutenant John Lawrence to be Captain, by
purchase, vice Radcliff; who retires; Lieutenant George
Packe to be instructor of Musketry, vice Lieutenant
Hutton, who has resigned that appointment.
24th Foot—Lieutenant William Alexander Henry Plasket,
from the Ist Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Jones, who ex-
changes.
25th Foot—Lieutenant John O'Hea to be Adjutant, vice
Sheppard, promoted.
41st Foot—John Wright Westby, Gent., to bo Ensign, by
purchase, vino Caulfield, promoted.
47th Foot—Ensign Jerome Richard Murphy, from the 86th
Foot, to be Ensign, vice Sperrin, who exchanges.
54th Foct—William Edmund Wilkinson, Gent., to bo En-
sign, by purchase, vice Chute, promoted.
55th Foot—Quartermaster Samuel Millward, from half-pay
2d Light Infantry British Swiss Legion, to be Quarter-
master, vice Green, who exchanges.
Gist Poot—George Ernest Phillipps Madden, Gent., to be
Ensign, by purchase. vice Rumsey, promoted.
67th Foot—Lieutenant Malachy Nugent to be Captain,
without purchase, vice Arnold, deceased ; Ensign Charles
Henry Blachley Turner to be Lieutenant, without pur-
chase, vice Nugent ; Ensign Henry William Pollard,
from the 2d Foot, to be Ensign, vice Turner.
70th Foot—Captain Robert Eckford, from the 3d West
India Regiment, to be Captain, vice Brevet-Major
Saunders, who exchanges'
76th Foot John Talbot, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase,
vice llardino., promoted.
79th ;Foot—Ensign Garden Duff to be Lieutenant, by
purchase, vice Smith, who retires.
80th Foot—Paul Swinburne, Gent., to be Ensign, by pur-
chase, vice 'Toward promoted ; Alfred Richard Bayly
Dowling, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase vice O'Connor,
promoted.
86th Foot—Ensign John Edmund Monro Sperrin, from the
47th Foot, to be Ensign, vice Murphy, who exchanges;
the Hon. Thomas John Wynn to be Ensign, by purchase,
vice Wells, promoted.
88th Foot—Henry Griffith Bowen, Gent., to be Ensign, by
purchase, vice de Blaquiere, who retiree.
89th Foot—Charles Vernon Hassan, Gent., to be Ensign,
by purchase, vice Nassau Clark, appointed to the 4th
Light Dragoons.
92d Foot—Maurice Thomas Carmichael, Gent., to be En-
sign, by purchase, vice Campbell, promoted.
96th Foot—James Moubray; Gent., to be Ensign, by pur-
chase, vice Hogg, promoted.

98th Foot—Edward Haughton, Gent., to be Ensign, by
purchase, vice Simpson, promoted.
Ist West India Regiment—Ensign Augustus Temple to be
Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Gilborne, deceased ;
James Sealy, Gent., to be Ensign, without purchase, vice
Temple; Quartermaster William Thomson, to be Pay-
master, vice Stokely, deceased.
2d West India Regiment—Lieutenant Thomas Macmillan
Fog.) to be Adjutant, vice 0' Shaughnessy, promoted.
3d West India Regiment—Brevet-Major Henry Frederick
Saunders,from the 70th Foot, to be Captain, vice Eckford,
who exchanges.
STAFF.—Major Robert Carey, from the 40th Foot, to be
Deputy Adjutant-General to the troops serving in Australia,
with the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel in the Army, vice
Brevet-Colonel Niell, deceased.
CommissAntAT DEPARTMENT. The first Christian
name of Assistant-Commissary-General Gantlet is Joseph,
and not James, as stated in the "Gazette" of July 29, 1359.
HOSPITAL STAFF.—The commission of Assistant-Sur-
geon William Broughton Davies, M.D., to bear date sth
September, 1859, instead of 30th September, 1859, as pre-
viously stated.
PuRVEYOR'S DEPARTMENT. —Purveyor's Clerk, First
Class, John Bush to be Purveyor to the Forces, vice Simp-
son, deceased.

BREVET.
The under-mentioned promotions to take place conse-
quent upon the decease of General John, Earl of Westmor-
land, G.C.8., Colonel of the 56th Foot, on the 16th Oct.,
1859 :

Lieut.-General Sir William Francis Patrick Napier,
Colonel of the 22d Foot, to be General.
Major-General John Fraser, Colonel of the 37th Foot,
be Lieut.-General.

Brevet-Colonel William George Gold, half-pay Unat-
tached, to be Major-General.
Brevet-Lieut.-Colonel William Macpherson, Captain
half-pay Unattached, Staff Officer of Pensioners, to be
Colonel.

Major Henry Grierson, 15th Foot, to be Lieut.-Colonel.
Captain Thomas Dudley Fosbroke, Royal Marines, to be
Major.
Brevet-Major George Black, late of the 75th Foot, to lie
Lieut.-Colonel in the Army.
The Brevet Rank of Brevet•Alajor T. B. Spurgin, Ist
Madras Fusiliers, has been antedated to 19th Jan., 1858.
Brevet-Major T. B. Spurgin, Ist Madras Fusiliers, to be
Lieut.-Colonel in the Army.

TO 13E MAJORS IN THE ARMY.

. _
Capt. Jas. Brooke Young Matheson, 62d Regiment Ben-
gal Native Infantry.
Capt. Thomas Trenchard Haggard, Bombay Artillery.
Capt. William Mainwaring Sloane Bolton, 2d Bombay
Native Infantry.
Captain William Murray, 4th Madras Native Infantry.
Capt. Percival Ashley Brown, Ist Madras European
Fusiliers.

MEmoßANnum.—Lieut. Valentine S. Griffith, having
obtained a First Class Certificate at the School of Musketry
at Hythe, has been appointed by his Royal Highness the
General Commanding in Chief, with the concurrence of the
Secretary of State for War, to act as Instructor of Musketry
to the Donegal Regiment of Militia, vice Capt. Elliot, re-
signed.
COMMISSIONS BY LORD-LIEUTENANTS.

Brecknock Volunteer Rifles—John Mauqd, Esq., to be
Lieutenant of the Ist Company ; Robt. Raikes, Esq., to be
Ensign of the Ist Company.
Bath, or Ist Somerset Volunteer Rifle Corps—John
Randle Ford, Esq., to be Captain ; Thos. Frederick Inman,
Gent., to be Lieutenant; Thomas Wm. Parke Airey, Gent.,
to bo Ensign.
Bathwick, or 2d Somerset Volunteer Rifle Corps—Ed-
mund Francis Anstey, Esq., to be Captain; Henry Hol-
land Burne, Gent., to be Lieutenant ; William Attfield,
Gent., to be Ensign.
Taunton, or 3d Somerset Volunteer Rifle Corps—William
Ayshford Sanford, Esq.' to be Captain ; Arthur Allen,
Gent., to be Lieutenant ; Richard Easton, Gent.) to be En-
sign.

West Kent Regiment-of-Yeomanry Cavalry—Cornet
William Smith Nicholson to be Lieutenant, vice Hayward,
resigned.
3d Company of Cornwall Rifle Volunteers—George Reid,
Esq., late Captain 2d Dragoons, to be Captain ; Marshall
Valentine Bull, Esq., late Lieutenant 10th Foot, to be
Lieutenant; Henry Sterman, Esq., late Lieutenant, 16th
Lancers, to be Ensign.
2d Company of Cornwall Artillery Volunteers—William
Foulkes Essell, Esq., to be Captain.
1112th Middlesex Rifle Volunteers—Wilbraham Taylor,
Esq., to be Captain.
The Victoria Rifles—First Lieutenant Barclay Greenhil
to be Caain, vice Cook, resigned ; Second Lieutenant
William Dickinson to be First Lieutenant, vice Greexhill,
promoted; Second Lieutenant William Louis Collins to be
First Lieutenant, vice Trew, promoted ; Lord John Hay.
Captain, R.N., to be Second Lieutenant, vice Dickinson,
promoted ; William Bonsor, Gent., to be Second Lieute-
nant, vice Collins, promoted; James King Haworth, Gent.,
to be Second Lieutenant. _ _

The following Appointment is substituted for that which
appeared in the Gazette of Oct. 18th" inst. :-
4th or Duke of Lancaster's Own (Light Infantry) Regi-
ment of Royal Lancashire Militia—Ensiom Charles Gore
Ring to be Lieutenant, vice Henry Vowel?, resigned.