The Sun.
London, England, 1866-08-15 00:00:00

TILE sun, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, AUGUST 15, 186

Central Criminal Court—This Day.

OLD COURT.
(Before Mr. Justice Keating.)
CHARGE OF CHILD-MURDER.

Margaret Baker, 25, unmarried, was indicted for the
wilful murder of her female child.

Mr. Lewis appeared for the prosecution, and Mr. Ribton
defended the prisoner.
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It appeared that the prisoner was cook in a gentleman's
family at Upper Tooting, and that on the 15th of Tune she
got up two or three times during the night and dressed
herself, saying to a fellow-servant who slept in the same
room with her that she was ill, and she continued to be so
during the following day (Sunday). She continued ill
all Sunday and Monday, and on Tuesday certain indica-
tions in the bed-room proved that she had given birth to a
child.

Mr. Ribton made a very forcible appeal on behalf of the

prisoner. •
Mr. Justice Keating having summed up the evidence,
The jury returned a verdict of concealment of birth, and
The learned Judge sentenced her two years' imprison-
ment with hard labour.

NEW COURT.
(Before the Recorder.)
Plato Sexton and Raymond Ayres were indicted for un-
lawfully assaulting and robbing Francis Allen.
The jury returned a verdict of Not Guilty.
Frank Allen, a seaman, was indicted for inflicting grievous
bodily harm on the person of George Witters.
The prisoner was a seaman, and while at sea and en-
gaged on duty he wilfully left the wheel of the ship,
whereby she was driven out of her course ; and when the
mate remonstrated with him he struck him, and eventually
he seized the prosecutor, and, with a knife in his hand,
threatened to murder him. He was secured and sent home
for trial.

The jury found him guilty, and
The Recorder sentenced him to 12 months' imprisonment
with hard labour.

THIRD COURT.
(Before the Common Sergeant.)

George Morris Mitchell, 38, agent, was indictefd for
stealing five pieces of paper, the property of the Incorpo-
rated Law Society of the United Kingdom.
The prisoner, it was alleged, procured a number of books
from the society to make extracts, and while the books
were in his possession he removed certain pages from the
books, which were afterwards found at his lodgings.
The Jury returned a verdict of " Not guilty."

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—This Day.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

AN UNHAPPY PAHL—William Peck, a groom, living in
North Bruton-mews, was brought before Mr. Tyrwhitt,
on a warrant, charged with assaulting his wife, Marie
Peck.

The complainant, a respectable-looking female, said—
I have been married eight years to -the prisoner, and have
throe children. On Monday my husband accused me of
being intoxicated, and he then struck me and threatened
to do for me.

Mr. Tyrwhitt —Worn you intoxicated ?
Complainant—l should be ashamed to be guilty of such
a thing.

Mr. Tyrwhitt—Has he ill-treated you before ? •
Complainant—Yes, constantly, for the last two years
Prisoner—Did you not go out and stop till three in the
morning ?

COmplainant—Yes, at a friend's house, but that was to
escape your ill-usage.

Mr. Tyrwhitt—A man who beats his wife can always
invent something against her. The prisoner will have to
find two sureties in £2O each to keep the peace for three
months.

The United States, Chili, and Peru.

The Minister of Peru does himself the honour of
transmitting to the editor of The Sun translation
from the Spanish of two official documents pub-
lished on the 16th of June last in Santiago de
Chile by the Government of. Chili.

Peruvian Legation, 14, King-street,
St. James's, August 11.

(Translation.)

Legation of the United States, Santiago de Chile,
June 14, 1866.

To his Excellency Alvaro Cobarrubias,—Sir,—Pornell-
founded reasons I have hitherto not deemed it convenient
to answer or coutrad;.et the numerous assertions which,
from time to time, have appeared iu the newspapers of this
city, prejudicial to the reput lic that I have the honour to
represent, and extremely injurious to the friendship Which
has for so long a time existed between Chili and the United
States; now, however, I feel convinced that to remain
&lent any longer would be to do my cJuntry and myself
great injustice. I cannot permit the population of Chili
to think that my Government should have sent to a sister
Republic an agent that would perform a single act against
her well-being or her honour, and much less to display
such paltry duplicity as the false report of Mendez Nunez
would induce them to infer.

Your Excellency knows better than the rest of the in-
habitants the true motives that stimulated me to mediate
for peace, and that although my action was not official, yet
that it was open and honourable in every respect. From
the official report of the Spanish admiral it might be in-
ferred that I acted solely in the interest of Spain ; that I
considered highly just and fair the unreasonable terms
proposed for peace ; that I openly offered my congratula-
tion to him and gave my approbation to his determination
to destroy Valparaiso, and indeed that I in all respects ap-
proved of his conduct. To say that all this is not true—
that it is not true not only in its wording but also in
its meaning, is the object of the present communica-
tion. The first proposal submitted to your Excellency's
consideration by Commodore Rodgers and by myself was
the absolute cessation of hostilities, and a mutual salute,
do-that war shOuld terminate by peaceful negotiation., I
thought it consistent with my duty to recommend this pro-
pokal, and only this, and it was refused by the Spanish
admiral, as he himself declares in his official report.
Per from recommending to the Government of Chili, or
of supporting Admiral liendez's ultimatum, which com-
prised in its terms the restitution of the ship Covadonga,
with her flag and armament, in exchange for merchant
vessels, Spanish prizes, I told him distinctly that Chili
neither could nor would accept it, that there was an im-
merse difference between a ship-of-war taken in a fair
engagement and helpless merchant vessels captured by a
powerful squadron, which latter could derive very little
honour from their capture, and your Excellency will doubt-
less recollect that when I presented to you these condi-
tions of the Spanish admiral, then not considered under
the appearance of an ultimatum, I took particular care to
explain that I merely proposed them to your Excellency
as coming from him, for what they were worth, and that
they were by no means recommended by me.
The admiral says further "that Commodore Rodgers
approved of his resolution to bombard Valparaiso," and
that I repeated the same words. This is also contrary to
the truth. Not only did I not approve of so unjust an act,
but I advised him to delay the execution of his sanguinary
orders, and, until he should have received new instructions
from his Government, not to carry into effect an act that
would dishonour Spain for ever. I told him when I retired
that we had met and should separate on f-iendly terms;
that in the fulfilment of our respective duties, each ought
to be the judge of his own acts; and that if I should find
it necessary to enter into a conflict with him, I hoped that
this would not alter the respect which one soldier should
have towards another. By my protest against the bom-
bardment of Valparaiso, of which I herewith enclose a
copy, your Excellency will perceive that I did not approve
by a single word the conduct adopted by Spain, and that
her agent in his official report has represented in a manner
entirely false my person and my sentiments towards the
Government and the people amongst whom 1 have been
sent to reside.

Isaw Admiral Nunez, not in an official character, but as
a private indiv:dual, who anxiously desired peace between
two nations, to which war could not produce any good,
but would, on the contrary, inflict much evil, not only on
them, but to commerce and civilisation. I had no dispute
with him, and if because I communicated with him frankly
and openly, and because I did not treat him nor leave
him coldly, he believes that I sympathised with Spain, the
is under a very great mistake.

I avail myself o: this opportunity to offer to your Excel-
lency the assurance of my distinguished consideration.
(Signed) J. KILPATRICK.
(Translation.)

Legation of the United States in Chili, Valparaiso,
March 28, 1866.

The undersigned, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister
Plenipotentiary of the United States, has the honour to
acknowledge receipt of the note directed to him by his
Excellency the. Commander-in-Chief of her Catholic Ma-
jesty's cquadron in the Pacific, her Catholic Majesty's
Plenipotentiary, under date of the 27th inst., accompanied
by a manifesto addressed by his Excellency to the repre-
sentatives resident in Chili of foreign nations. In this
document his Excellency is pleased to assign the reasons
which in his op'nion justify the employment by the forces
under his command of hostilities of extreme rigour against
the port of Valparaiso and others on the coast of Chili, a
period of four days being granted for the removal to a
place cf safety of the old, the children, and the infirm.
The undersigned has transmitted copies of the said mani-
festo to his colleagues of the diplomatic body. On his
part he doeir not consider himself called upon to analyse
the causes of the present war, or the fruitlessness of the
exertions which have been made until now to put an end
to it, by conciliatory means or by the force of arms ; but
he considers himself called upon to make urgent represen-
tatiors, and to protest solemnly against the destruction of
a port purely commercial, and almost the exclusive pro-
perty of inoffensive neutrals. His Excellency affirms that
the establishment of the blockade on the coasts of Chili was
conducted with lenity, and that neutrals have been cour-
teously treated; but after finding these means inefficient
to obtain the desired reparation on the part of
Chili, the forces under his command made two distinct
attempts to obtain by hostile attack the satisfaction re-
quired by Spain ; and finally, that not having been able to
succeed on account of insurmountable natural obstacles, it
becomes his duty to subject Chili to the rigours of war,
and in consequence that ho will open fire with the guns of
his squadron upon Valparaiso and any other port that he
may decal expedient, as a terrible act of hostility legitima-
tised for the reasons before stated, and which will throw
the responsibility cf all the evils that may result exclu-
sively on the Government of Chili.
These reasons fail to satisfy the undersigned, as they
will also fail to satisfy civilised nations of his Excellency
the Spanish admiral being justified in having recourse to a
class of hostilities characterised by his Excellency himself
with great reason as terrible to chastise an enemy, whom,
by such a mode of proceeding, he would be far from chas-
tising by legitimate means of war. Although the right of
belligerents permits recourse to such extreme measures
with a view to carrying out military operations properly
so called, it does not include the necessary destruction of
private property when no result advantageous to the legi-
timate ends of the war can thereby be attained. Interna-
tional law expressly exempts from destruction purely com-
mercial towns such as Valparaiso, and the undersigned
would request his excellency to very seriously consider the
immense loss that the neutral residents are likely to under-
go, considering the impossibility they find themselves in
of removing, within the short term granted them, their
household fUrniture, their effects, and their merchandise.
Should his. Excellency, notwithstanding, persevere in his
intention of bombarding the port of Valparaiso in spite of
the grave representations which I have made above, it
only remains for the undersigned to reiterate in" the most
decided manner, in the name of his Government, his most
solemn protest against the said act as unusual, unneces-
sary, and repugnant to the laws and customs of civilised
nations ; reserving to his Government the right of pursu-
ing the course which it may deem proper, in view of these
premices.
The undersigned has the honour to renew to his Excel-
lency the Commander-in-chief of the naval forces of her
Catholic Majesty in the Pacific, and her Plenipotentiary,
the assurance of his distinguished consideration.
(Signed) J. KILPATRICK.
To his Excellency the Commander-in-Chief of
H.C.M.'s Naval Forces ill the Pacific, &c.

By direction of the Lords of the Admiralty, Mr.
E. W. Brown, conneetei with the civil service, at-
tended at Chatham dockyard yesterday for the pur-
pose of submitting to the officials of that establish-
ment a newly invented binnacle lamp about to be
fitted on board the Reindeer, now preparing for sea
at Chatham. The experiments previously carried out
by Mr. Brown with the invention at the joiners'
shop of the dockyard, in the presence of the leading
officials, fully bore out the merits claimed for the in-
vention over all other binnacle lamps, not the least
of which are a considerable gain to the light by the
plan on which the reflectors are constructed, the
perfect and entire illumination of the reflector card
from the absence of a downward shadow, and the
great facility with which the bearings of any object
can be taken at night. A further improvement has
also been effected in the invention at the suggestion
of Admiral Ryder, in the adoption of a transparent
index, notifying the course to be steered, thceopnossiultitoedn
of the. index being so placed that it can be
with reference to the compass card. Tho invention
has been adopted on board the Great Eastern.
The course of exchange at New York on London for billB at
60 days' sight is 1081 to 109 per cent. At these rates there
is a small profit on the importation of goia from the
United Mate.