The Sun.
London, England, 1859-09-21 00:00:00

TILE STEAM-SHIP NORTHAM.

The Peninsular abd Oriental Company have re'
ceived intelligence of this vessel's arrival at Ade°,
on the sth inst., all well, and the ship making but,
little water. She was to continue her voyage t°
Bombay the following morning. •
L I.IIW.
FIVE NEW POINTS OF C.RIMINA

(From Dickens's Dickens's All the Year .Round.)
1 There shall be no judge. Strong represel.
tions have been made by highly popular culpri s
that the presence of this obtrusive character is pre-
that
to their bests interests. The court Will p.,
composed of a political gentleman, sitting? n °:
eluded room commanding a view of S. nies,";
park, who has already more to do than any lin° "„
creature can, by any stretch of the human n 111113111".
tion, be supposed capable of doing. .
2. The pry to consist of 5,555 volunteers. .
3. The jury to be strictly prohibited fro
are °
m sega nogt
either the accused or the witnesses. They the
to be sworn. They are on no account to ear o.
evidence. They are to receive it, or such represe
tations of it, as may happen to fall in their WsYai;
and they will constantly write letters about it to
the papers. A
or
4. Supposing the trial to be a trial for rauruer or
poisoning, and supposing the hypothetical case, ~.
the evidence, for the prosecution to charge the aui,
ministration of two poisons, say arsenic and elithe
mony ; and supposing the taint of arsenic in
re.
body to be possible, but not probable, and the 131„to
sence of antimony in the body to be an abscreg
certainty ; it will then become the duty of the
to confine their attention solely to the arsenic,. at.
entirely to dismiss the antimony from their fir
5. The symptoms preceding the death of the ~
offender (or murdered person) being describehaeg
evidence by medical practitioners who saw.t.beta
other medical practitioners who never sa ',OO.
shall be required to state whether they are 04-,,ii
sistent with certain known diseases—but, theY shall
never be asked whether they are not exactly c
sistent with the administration of poison. osed
To illustrate this enactment in the proP to
bill by a case :—A raging mad dog is seening
run into the house where Z lives alone, feellitue
at the mouth. Z and the mad dog r for 00....,
time left together in that house under proved Cire.wl4
stances, irresistibly leading to the conclusion til_7l,
Z has been bitten by the dog. Z is afterigaiTs,
found lying on his bed in a state of hydroPb° the
and with the marks of the dog's teeth. thoseN°l/'
symptoms of that disease being identical with r
of another disease calledtetanus,which might suP:rt
vene on Z's running a rusty nail into a certain Pis %
of his foot, medical practitioners who never sad it
shall bear testimony to that abstract fact, an 1 to
shall then be incumbent on the registrar-ge.0•113 ed
certify that Z died of a rusty nail. It is hoPro..
that these alterations in the present mode of Pole
cedure will not only be quite satisfactory t?.,„ ..s.
accused person (which is the first great consla'to
tion), but will also tend, in a tolerable degreef_ot
the welfare and safety of society. For it isifbe
sought in this moderate and prudent measure i•eti
wholly denied that it is an inconvenience to so°
to be poisoned overmuch.

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FUNERAL OF MR. BRUNEL, C.E.--1( esterall
P
....not
morning the mortal remains of Isambard Kingdom The 'f;ne.
.n
Esq., were interred in Kensal-green Cemetery. iftite
ral procession, which was of a private character, left ii 9
street, Westminster, the late residence of the deceas2.lies,
o'clock. The cortege consisted of four mournini Too
containing the principal relatives of the deceasau tlio,nring
the following gentlemen, distinguished in eng".-- Mr.
science :—Mr. Stephenson, Mr. Field, Mr. Hawksholf!rons
Walker, Mr. Kendall, Mr. Charles Manby, and uttni:tor
others. Twelve carriages belonging to friends of the
ceased followed the procession. The whole of thn "8 in
in the immediate vicinity of the deceased's resider!?
i'l of
Duke-street, closed their shops and windows in tkite„,eo
respect. At the cemetery a large number of gentitto
connected with the Society of Civil Engineers, es' Os
profession generally, assembled andfollowed the prefer;
to the grave. to leilrli
THE LATE MR. BRUNEL.—We are glad riot
that care has been taken to preserve an adequate Inell, al
of this distinguished gentleman, whose premature dent dl
such a time cast so universal a gloom over the pub
of hid
Mr. E. W. Wyon, the sculptor, has, by permission ossowd
family, taken a mask of the features of the deceased' bust
from the artist's well known ability no doubt such ",sit
will be produced as shall faithfully perpetuate tPn,"
of one of the greatest engineers of our time. v:lll,T.'''
THE COLLISION ON THE GREAT WEST-- ,;011
The adjourned inquiry into the late fatal collision 170
took place on the 14th, at the Slough station, hi ;01,
Thomas Treacher, the guard of the goods train, was no,.
cwoarsonreesruporedsyoeusttherdßauyekbse.forAe Mr. G. A. Charsley,sdeP _ere
examined to show whether the :115genatalinlialighytswwitenre"covi:r.t8 7-1704
worked on the morning of the accident, but the e 1114, 0
was of such a contradictory nature that the jury, b 1
long consultation, returned a verdict of " Homiciaa Dia:,
adventure," to which they added the following re pest"
" That, in consequence of the conflicting evidence Dr-
" oth9r
ing the signal lights, we are unable to record any A we
verdict than that of ' Homicide by misadventure; i.?tites
think the guard to blame for starting the train. threenw,, at
before time without the authority of a proper peril"
Reading" The proceedings then terminated. pub-
NEW ZEALAND.---A series of tables has been fijce,
lished by the authorities of the Colonial Secretary'l °oohs
Auckland, New Zealand, giving the principal results tot.
census of that colony taken on the 24th of Decerahef.L, of
These tables, which have been published in anticipann'og.
the annual volume of statistics of New Zealand for 1°8,114
show tat te coleny s rapidly increasin in populatilor
the material elementsi of wealth. The nug mber of tilf, and
peen population in the colony in 1851 was 15,035 msofore
11,672 females, or a total of 26,707. In 1858 theru ,rlO
33,585 males, and 25,669 female, or a total of 59,254%
s'ao
shows a centesimal increase in 7 years of 123.37 wine oe
119.91 females, or 121.86 on the whole pppulation.
11_ in
live stock in the possession of Europeans in the colo Y 9,
1851 was as follows :-2,890 horses, 60 mules aucl_a°Blo
34,787 cattle, 233,043 sheep, 12,121 goats, 16,214 Pia':,iiies
1858 the numbers were as follows :—horses 14,912 i oats,
and asses, 122 • cattle 137 188 • sheep 1;523,316 4 / ill
. 1 1 1 1 7 . ,,..,a 1/4 .
11,767 ; pigs, 40,692. In 1851 the quantity of tan and
acres) in the possession of Europeans and under c..gvi;
fenced was as follows :—Wheat, 5,5141 ; and 1, other
oats, 2,324 ; potatoes 2,2561; sown grass, 15,580 i ; to
crops, 2,1261 ; total' under cultivation, 29,1401,;000
fenced, 30,47..1. In 1858 the total average was as 101,t't000,
—Wheat, 13,6981 ; barley, 3,016 ; oats, 12,4961 ; e 13,1;
potatoes, 558 f ; sown grass, 98,0381 •; other croF.,s, ,481.
total under cultivation, 140,9461; total fenced, 23•9,' ito
THE COST OF THE LATE WAR.—The Atflgelfe" it
Zeitung endeavours to estimate the cost of the late sc'eost
is impossible, says the writer, to estimate the absolute:e
of a war, since its influence on trade and industry', absolute
y
immense, is indefinite. Considering only the sums ac viA,
expended ix supporting the campaign, he says tha
at t Als be.
without reckoning the loan sheraised in England !.°-.":the
ginning of 1859, has expended 200,000,000 gulden ' the
purposes of war. France has applied 500,000,000 f. tt°o the
samee purpose. Piedmont, it is known, had acorsed iier
.1- French military chest ; but, besides this, she incr tp,199
loan by 50,000,000 f., and her debt to the Turin Pytolian
33,000,000 f. The exact sums spent by the other totting
States cannot be ascerta with precision, bt, eS,,OOOf•
the 5,000,000 f. added to the Bolongese loans, 2b!,,tubuictinraent;
c innot be an over estimate. 'With regard now
tral Powers, Russia gives no means of making nobsA artei
estimate, but, considering the additions to her voers•
r•urps, the cost to her must have been 15,000,0001„ our
Finally, the sums raised by the German States for InePtil-ketl
p ,se of putting their forces on a war footing WO ,Ijob, still
together at 90,000,000 gulden, about a third of ‘l4'., nsper
remains
insunpent. These conclusion translateGrfitun'r into
arranges a table as follows. We fray
pounds :
Austria, about ..
France, ditto ..
Piedmont, ditto ..
Other Italian State, ditto
Russia, ditto . •
England, ditto ..
Germany, ditto

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