The Sun.
London, England, 1859-11-01 00:00:00

7'llE ARMY:

Intelligence was yesterday received at the head-
quarters of the Royal Engineer establishment,
Chatham, that the Simoom, the ship chartered by
the Government to convey the detachments of Royal
Engineers to China, would be ready to embark her
troops on Wednesday morning. The Royal Engi-
neers selected for service in China have all been in-
spected, and everything is in readiness for their de-
parture. They are expected to leave head-quarters
this day.
The officers and men of the Royal Engineer Train,
together with the horses, waggo.is, and other ma-
terial belonging to that corps, vacated the camp at
Aldershot yesterday, where they have been quar-
tered during the summer, and proceeded on their
march to join the head-quarters of the Royal Engi-
neers at Chatham, whine they will occupy the win-
ter quarters prepared for them. The troop will
proceed by easy marches, and will not reach Chat-
ham until Friday next.
The Himalaya, Commander J. Seccombe, coaled
at Spithead yesterday, and was appointed to leave
that anchorage for Kingstown this morning, where
she will land the 26th (Cameronians) Regiment.
The military convicts were landed from her yester-
day. In addition to the troops enumerated in Ihe
Sun of yesterday, the following arrived in the
Himalaya from the West Indies—viz., 3 private
soldiers and 1 woman of the 17th Regiment ; 1 pri-
vate of the 37th ; 8 privates, 4 women, and 10 chil-
dren of the 39th ; 3 privates of the 63d ; 1 private of
the 7Gth, and 1 man of the Newfoundland Corps.
The next examination of candidates for direct
commissions before the Council of Military Educa-
tion, composed of the following members—Major-
Gen. Cameron, C. 8., Vice-President, Major-Gen.
Portleek, Lieut.-Col. Addison, and Col. Elwyn, will
take place one the 21st inst., and five succeeding
days, at the Royal Hospital, Chelsea.

ALLEGED CASE OF PROCURING
A B 01Z710N. -

A protracted ixquiry Was brought to a conclusion
late on Friday night at the Canning's Head Tavern,
Sidney-stroet, Mile-end Old-town, before Mr. Huta-

khreys, the coroner for East Middlesex, involving
he serious charge of procuring abortion against

two persons.
It appeared from'the evidence that Ann Smith,
a single woman, who had been servant at a public-
house at Shadwell, was delivered at her lodgings,

on Sunday last, of a female child, the dead bodyof
which was found in the chamber utensil by the
neighbours whom she called to her assistance, and
one of whom she requested to bury it in the gar-
den, which she refused to do, but gave notice to the
police that Smith had told her that instruments
had been used to procure abortion.
Mr. Horton, the divisional police surgeon, de-
posed to having examined the body of the child,
upon which he found no external marks of violence.
The lungs were collapsed and would not float, but
from having been born under the circumstances
detailed in the evidence the child might have been
then suffocated. The child was a seven or eight
months' child, and there was no apparent reason
why it should not have been born alive. It was
quite possible that abortion could have been pro-
cured without the child being marked by the in-
stru-nent employed.
Ann Smith, the mother of the deceased, stated
that on the previous Saturday (the day before her
delivery) she called upon a Mrs. Gibbon, who keeps
a chemist's shop in the Back-road, Shadwell, and
told her that she felt pains in the loins, but Mrs.
Gibbon said she did not think she was near her
confinement. Had called previously on Mrs. Gib-
bon, who gave her a powder. Did not believe the
child was born alive, and admitted that she in-
truded, if possible, to procure abortion, but did not
go to Mrs. Gibbon in reference to that matter.
James Chislett, a labourer, deposed to having
accompanied Smith to Mrs. Gibbon's shop about
three weeks since, and waited outside for about
an hour and a half. Upon their return Smith
said that Mrs. Gibbon had not given her any
medicine, but had used an instrument to her. Wit-
ness had been living with Smith for three weeks,
and knew she was in the familyway by another
person.
Mrs. Gibbon was called, and after being duly
cautioned by the Coroner said, she was a widow,
and continued the chemist's business which her late
husband had carried on at Back-road, Shadwell.
Ann Smith had been in the habit of coming to her
shop occasionally for small articles. Smith had
recently told her she was in the familyway, and
asked her to attend in her confinement ; but she
did not go on Sunday when sent for, as she did not
consider herself engaged. Sent a person on Sun-
day to see how Smith was, and also sent a mixtuis,.
of laudanum and powdered nitre to be taken if she
had been confixed.
Ann Smith, upon being recalled and closely
pressed, said she went with Chislett to Mrs. Gib-
bon's to meet a young man named Wells, the father
of her child, who had previously had some conver-
sation with Mrs. Gibbon about her terms, which
were £lO, for which she required a written under-
taking. Wells refused to give the undertaking,
but was to find the money. He did not come to
Mrs. Gibbon's on the night that Chislett accom-
panied her there. After being cautioned by the
Coroner the witness said Mrs. Gibbon had used an
instrument upon her three times, and had also given
her two powders which were to assist in procuring
abortion. She declined to say -whether she first
proposed to Mrs. Gibbon to procure abortion. She
had not paid Mrs. Gibbon any money, nor did she
know that Wells had.
Mrs. Gibbon, upon being recalled, denied having
teceived any money from any one on account of
Smith.
The Coroner, in summing up to the jury, remarked
upon the lamentable frequency of the crime of in-
fanticide within his district, which in fact was so
common that it appeared to be no longer regarded
as a crime by some classes in that portion of the
metropolis with which he was officially acquainted.
At the same time he cautioned the juq not to be led
away by the general outcry that was -now justly
raised against the crime of infanticide, but
the
to to de-
cide upon the present case strictlyaccording
evidence that had been adduced before thon..
The jury, after a patient and laborious investiga-
tion
verdfrict ol
p.m.(utlirtiladpjaosutrinledat snitigtiinag),
et
hravuiilingedlas"oin
a
wilful murder against Ann Smith and Martha
Gibbon.
The Coroner then issued warrants for the tom-
imminitteadl
ioaftetiyhecotWnvoe;v,eodmteonocrwgtiaitael., and they were

•I:,N GLISII OPERA,
COY F NT-GNIIDI:`T.
Under the mAna,ement of 31153 L. l'yneand 3,1 r. W. Harrison
THIS RVESISCI, D ItiORN If. Mess 7F,. H
Cord, St. Alb:dt, and W. Harrison. lltilsses
wail, and His.; Fioilisa ryne.
• CGnductor, Alfred Mellon.
DfITERTEiSEIIMNT. 3/dlles. Lclulno, 114.:(1:1:-.1e, Pier-
ron, and 410n.5. Vandri3.
Commence it S o'clock.

Dt 0 1Y A L

TLIB A T t -IWYAL, HAY MAItKET.
Les*ce, Mr. J. B. Bu&stone.
TTIT4ThiIVENINfI the performances will commence with
THE ROAD 'lO RUIN. Mr. C. Matlicw-.;.
And PRY. 21r. and Ms. C. 'Mathews.
Corrnense at 7.
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ROtAL PRINCESS'S
Lessee, air. A. Harris.
TIII,III:VENUSG, th periormancoi will commence with
LOV S TELEGItAr IT.
After which, PUSS ; or,Meterripyb,
And LOVE AND VOItTUN
To csnclutle with THE TWO POT.TS

TIIEA'

riis L. Keeley.

NEW THEATRE - ROYAL, AIiELPHI.
Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. Benj. Webster.
EVENING, to commence with GOOD FOR
NoTtirNo.- Messrs. .T. L. Toole, Billington, Eburne, More-
land, Pdwell, and Miss Woolgar.
After.which --(by &sire), ONE TOUCIT OF NATURE.
Messrs. -B: IWebster, Bil ington, Moreland, Miss IL Simms.
Folitiirod by LOVE AND ITUNGEIt. Mr. David Fisher,
Mr. raid Bedford, C. Selby, C. J. Smith, Miss K. Kelly, Miss
Laidlaw.. •
Doors open at h Ilf-past sir—Commence st sever. Box-
() nce own irom 10 to F. No charge for securing Seats,
nor for,billa of performance. All fees to servants of this
establishincht are strictly prohibited.
Acting Manarrer—M'r. Wm. Smith.

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TT) QYAL ST. JAMES'S THEATRE,
.Npig-strect, St. James's. Lessee. Mr. T. R. Chatter-
ton. The nearest Theltre to Chelsea, Pimlico, and West-
minster, the Park being open to carriages and foot passen-
gers ail hours of the night.
THIS.EVENING, Poole's comedy, THEY'RE ROTH TO
BLAME. Messrs. Leigh Murray, Barrett, Walter Carle ;
Mesdames Frank Matthews, Murray, Catharine llickson.
After which, the new Comedietta, entiad CUPID'S
LAIPER. -Reuben, Miss Lydia Thompson.
Followed by .MA.GIC TOtS, support .d by Miss Lydia
Thompson, Miss Clara St, Casse, and a numerous Corps de
,
To thiclude with the New and Ori,!in.a.l Burlesque, by L.
BucklughAin, Esq., of VIROINILIS ; or the Trials of a Fond
Papfl.,
Reduced Prices—Gallery, lid ; Pit. Is. The Box-Office open
from 44 to 5 daily. Doors open at half-past six; perform-
ance commences at 7.

ROYAL -STRAND THEATRE.
Lessee and Directress, Miss Swanhorcuzh
THIS EVENLNG, THE GOOSE WITH THE GOLDEN
EGOS. •
Alter Which THE GIIEAT RUSSIAN BEAR,; or, An-
other. Retwat from Moscow.
Follnktc by TUE VEILY LATEST EDITION OF THE
LADY OF LYONS. _ _ _

And CAUGHT BY THE EAr.s.
Comractule at 7 o'clock.

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A STLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE
Westminster-road.

Sole Lessee lir. William Cooke.

Most legitimate and perfect snccesg of the New Historicll
Dr irna, by Torn Taylor, Esq., entitled GAR I BALDI, anti
illustrating the principal (vents in the life of that celebrated
General,ltalian supported by R. Phillips, Bclmore,
Ennis, Raymond, Mica Kate Carson, alilel by a powerful Dra-
maticUompany, fatal stud of beautiful trained horses, appro-
priato and pictim sque scr.ery, with great hippodramatic
eirTts. Futlitultstic reception of tiw renowned Delavanti
Fautily—Gymnasts.par excellence--Aith Little Menotti, the
most wonderful Javonile Eqaestrian ever known, who are re-
ceived each -night with deafening plaudits—John Henry
Cagle. the unrivalled Parisian Magnet —Artistes of astound-
ing-ability front the Continental Cirques Mis 3 Emily, the
most elegant. rider of the day—Full troupe of Gymnastic Pro-
fesgtirs, facetious Clowns, and rierrots—Magniticent Menae
llorsea and clever Dwarf Ponies -Concluding each night with
Tug-MAN WITH TILE - CARPET BA(
Stage Manager, Mr. R. PhillijA

CANTEBUR . HALL CONCERTS.—.—
R EVERY EVENING.—The Music of Verdi's Opera ;;)
SIACBET II (now first made public in England at these Con.
certs).
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And a Grand Se'ection from Mcyerbeer's new opera of

Comic Vocalists -3feAsrs. acor-e Tro Non (the Irish Come
than and 3limiz), IV. I'. Critchileld, and E. W. Mackncy. "

Several Interesting. Pictures-arc acl,lecl to the Fine Arts
Celery. -The suite of Mills have ben re-decorated and
bewailled, and couBt it nte one of the most unique and brilliant
SightB of the metropolis.

WEATTIETI.—SuN OFFICE, NOVEMBER 1.
TIIERMOMMTER, IN THE SIIADE.
55—highest since noon yesterday.
51—lowcst this morning and during the night.
53.—this day at noon.
14uomETEn-2S 82—A fall of_half an inch since yesterday.
Wistn, South-Westerly ; fresh and fine
-Two O'CLOCK.—We have had sonic showers since noon,
and the wind has greatly increased—into a strong gale.
In the Parks it has been blowing a hurricane, and three
trees have been blown down in Kensington-gardens this

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Tfl E SUN.

TuEs:).ly, NOVEMBER 1, 13(9

p.

The seizure of SinJaan- is an inFraetion of in-
terpational law. It is, beyond this, a violation of
the rules of honour. It is a fligrant act of robbery
and violence—an act justifiable upon no plea whatso-
ever. E :en the more ratiJnal among the Americans
.. themselves are beginning to recognise themonstrous
injustice and insolence of the whole proceeding.
General H.III.74.TEY'S own officers are among the
number of those who reprehend the outrage, upon
the perpetration of which he adventured (appa-
rently without instructions or authorisation of any
kind from Washington) in the name and on behalf
- of the United States' Government.
- Yet San Juan is still held forcibly in possession
of the American soldiers, to the number of seven
hundred. The island, which is admirably situated
about mid-channel between Vancouver and the
mainland of the North American continent, is won-
fully well adapted for the purposes of a permanent
"and powerful cluster of fortifications. It is not
only admirably situated, but it is lofty, and
in many r.?spects clpable of being transformed
into the, Gibraltar of the Pa&fic. Let us but yield
quietly possession of San Juan to the Americans,
And allow them to fortify it scientific:illy, and we

• may
,just as well, with a good grace, make the
.
United States forthwith a pre.qnt of our grand new
uolony of British Columbia. It :,imply absurd
to dream for an instant of any British Minis-
:try tolerating the perpetration, with im-
punity, of outrages so monstrous in themselves,
•
.and so directly calculated to lower the prestige
Of Fn gland, and to degrade her in the estima-

ton of the wGrld. Our s,nbmission to the seizure of
a little'island like that of San Juan, t.n island in
regard to which we have all along -made direct
• • *Claims of sovereignty, welild b^ wirs2 in on 3 re-

speet even than the loss of a pitched battle. A diA-

comfiture upon the bittle-field might simply be the
. lawsuit of bad generalship. Tic craven toleration of
a buccaneering crime like the scizare of San Juan,
would, on the contrary, however, imply before the

•vhole world an abasement of the national character.
' It Would he as pernicious, almost we had said as fatal,
to our influence among the pow?rs of the earth, as
• .
in Mr.l3ultailfs estimation when the Royal Guard's
unresenting view of the insults offered to the

fair Queen MARIE ANTOINETTE implicd the ex-
. tinetion among theca of the loftier impuhies

, , been heretofore
of chivalry. Time has farbe.'..
as History can penetrate into the past deeds of this
great Anglo-Saxon race, vhcn the
e sword of the
nation would leap from its scabb " “tcL •nvanably at
the first loot of
ou,ragnairccting the honour of
the Crown: lut it "
is impossible to suppose, seri-
ou.sly, for as inF-tant, tha
t the seizure of —an „uan
eau. be. a‘cept,ld as
aui cccot;:pli even by Lord
PALM ER S TON'S Govern' - inent. It is true that
the fonner CaL:net, Presided ever by the
Noble exan t, allowed I%
• fa:e. two poor
zAt eninecrs to languish fir months in the
Engli
Neapolitan (111-Ig-cc-Ts, to Izlngu.,3l-1 there no loug
that madness and an attempt at suicide (happily
not success'itnl) were among the consequences. But
we recoil from accepting that lamentable incident
so far as a -rvecedent, that we should be disposed to
regard in any way as a probability the submission
of Lord P ILMERSTON'S GOVernment to the
insolent seizure of San Juan by the American
sohlier . fir prestige has been too painfully
a
eprociateii already elsewhere to admit of- our

tolerating the calm accomplishment of this flagrant
robbery by the United. States troops—no matter
whether those troops acted with or without the
authorisation of the Government at Washington.
We have already to carry retribution to the
Chinese fur their criminal and dastardly re-
pulse of our gunboats under the fortifications
of Taku. A deplorable reminder of which, as yet
uneNpiated act of treachery, has but this day come
to us in the long catalogue of our gallant tars
wounded upon the shallow cmrent or the mud-
banks of the Peiho by that infamous ambuscade.
And now it remains to us to look well to it—
that the bloodless, but criminal and insulting
outrage, perpetrated by the troops of General
HARNEY shall be obliterated from remembrance by

the only course of proceeding that can possibly
obliterate it—namely, by our insisting, as a sine
qua non, that—first of all the island of San Juan
shall be evacuated by the 700 American soldiers
now illegally there; secondly, that the squatter
population shall be utterly di,spersed ; thirdly,
that the fortifications run up there since the
recent date of the robbery shall be razed to the
ground: and then, finally, when all this has been
accomplished, that the rival claims to sovereignty
of this long-disputed island, or rather group of
islands, shall be settled quietly by arbitration be-
tween a new set of Commissioner:.

Every one appears to be more or less alive to the
portents—evidencing in a hundred different direc-
tions the imminence of some great emergency.
Who has not called of late upon the patriotism of
England to Beware ? The signal has been sounded
north, south, east, and west, thrmighout the length
and breadth of these populous and thriving islands.
The tocsin of preparation has been rung hither and
thither in the columns of the Press, and within the
walls of Parliament. The most venerable, the most
wise, the most eloquent and the most prudent of
our statesmen have appealed in impassioned accents
and with irresistible logic to the civism and loyalty
of the population. The aged ex-Chancellor
LYNDUUEST has again and again in-
sisted upon the necessity of our taking
warlike precautions as a rational race of freemen
who have sacred rights as well as incalculable
wealth to preserve. His learned and illustrious
compeer, like himself more than an octagenarian,
has pointed the same moral and adorned the same
tale by his moving and powerful apologue of the
Tempter with the Laurel, and the Apple of Discord
preparing to foment a deadly strife between France
and England. This morning.another veteran man
of genius has urged upon the nation the imperative
need of preparing for the worst possibility. Sir W.
NiiPTER has written pertinently upon the subject of
our rifle volunteers, and upon the more than
advisability of their being drilled in the defence
of houses, canals, and bridges, in the event of their
haying ultimately to encounter as sharpshooters
the forces of some vast invading army. Mean-
while, thanks to the "doing," instead of merely
" talking," of the DERBY Administration—thanks
to the clear common sense and resolute determina-
tion of Lord DERBY'S First Lord of the Admiralty
—we have now what we should certainly not have
had but for that, a Channel fleet and an adequate
fleet in the Mediterranean. So much for the steps
already taken- towards the comprehensive recon-
struction of our old' immemorial " wooden
walls " walls for the most part nowa-
days not wooden, being chiefly composed
of iron, impelled by steam instead of sails,
a...lting principally through the screw propeller
instead of the old fashioned paddlewheel. And
while we have thus had our external defences
already seriously cared fir, we have not been
inactive in regard to the reorganisation of our
militia corps, cur yeomanry cavalry, our land

batteries, and our multiplying and still multiplying

bodies of skilled and drilled riflemen. There has been
a, great deal of talk no doubt about our defensive
armaments and the reason for them. But besides
the mere talk and writing, there has been a good
deal of well-directed action likewise. -Of this the
records cf the Board of Admiralty afford a striking
illustration, together with those also of the Horse
Guards and of the Ordnance Department. Certainly,
if Forewarned, as the proverb says, is Forearmed—
England is by this time armed to the teeth, armed
cap--pie, sword on thigh, gun cocked, bayonet
bristling. For during now considerably more than
a year and a day we have heard little else than the
ring of the note of preparation. And bearing in
mind what it is we have to dcf ncl, there can be
assuredly but small marvel at this—particularly
when the warlike strength and efficiency of our
nearest neighbour is borne in recollection. A couple
of hours' steaming has permanently bridged over
the narrow span of the -waters of the Channel.
Vessels of war, thanks to the steam engine and the
screw propeller, are altogether independent of wind
and tide. France never hadsuch a naval armament
as that which now lies ready for action in her sea-
ports and dockyards. This already formidable
maritime force she is still increasing and increasing
for no vis'ble purpose whatever unless it be
for the subjugation, if possible, at any
rate, the attempted subjugation, of some other great
naval power. Together with which threaten-
ing reserve force, has she not an army second to
none in the whole world--an army, moreover, just
now covered thick with freshly-culled laurels.
and flushed with a series of recent victories ?
Supreme at the head of that vast and heroic army,
with all his marshals around him, ready for any ex-
ploit he may deem advisable, the most inscru-
table and daring intellect of our age, a man who
has for twelve years past shown his astuteness
and capacity as a ruler of thirty-six millions, a man
who has more recently and within the briefcompass
of one rapid and masterly campaign attested his
genius as a military Commander-in-Chief !
With all these warning words and deeds glaring
upon our recognition wherever we look, we cannot
surely—surely we cannot here in England sink
back again very easily into our old apathy or
indifference ? Heaven defend us from doing so!
GOD defend us from a relapse so suicidal and dis-
astrous ! Saying which from our hearts's core,
are we not heartened to new efforts by the
thought that GOD helps those who help them-

beivcs !

The Prince Nicolas and the Princess Eugenie cf
Lenchtonlierg, accompanied Ly the Countess Tolstoy and
Colonel ltelfoinder, have arrived at Claridge's,llut,2l.
The Duke of Newcastle left town on Saturday
cycling for his seat, Cluml er Park, Notts.

The Chancellor of the Exchequer left town yes-
terday for Cambri4:e.
'l'l,c Right Ihin. 'l'. 'Milner Gibson has left town
fur 1:i Irtiuse,

lion. AV. E. Dunemat)c, 111. P., and Mr,.
Dulicov,„be have I,:ft Farrance's Hotel, 13:13ravla, fur
LeaseA, Ledale, Yta-1:,11iro.

The 1):n of Woreer4tcr nod Mrs. Pcel have
❑rived- at. rarrar.e:id llutQl, frcna A7aresley
11,,itse; naar Stourpurt..

Mr. Henry B. B tring, M.P., and Mrs. Baring
have raurnett to Fai-iaace's Hotel, Belgravia, yisiting
in the north. . -

Mons. do Sabouroff, Attacl:6 to the Russian
Legation, has arrived at Wallace's Hotel.
DRINKING FOUNTAIN IN CIIHAPSIDE.—On Satur-
day morning a pnblie drinking fountain was unveiled in
I-Sew-churchyard, Cheapside. The fountain, which is ele-
gant and elaborate, and of solid granite, is the gift of
Messrs. Moore, Greucock, and Co., the eminent lace mer-
chants of the City. Iu addition to the fountain dog-
troughs are provided.