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to her about the cheese. That showed the delusions
under which the prosecutor himself was labouring before
he went to the prisoner, and that he had induced the
prisoner to believe what he himself represented to him.
When the prisoner came to the house he advised the
prosecutor to get rid of an incompetent dairymaid, and
be cured the calves. Another dairymaid was engaged,
and at length she was got rid of; and after that there
was no complaint made of the cheese, and the reason
was that a competent servant was employed. The pro'-
secutor's child died of convulsions—an ordinary disease,
but the doctor who attended the chill was not called.
The reason probably was that he would have been able
to prove that the prosecutor and his wife were suffering
from delirium tremens, brought on by drinking habits.
The scene in the bedroom was merely the effect of an
hysterical fit and the spasms, which always came on when
the brandy was wanted. Did the jury believe a word
spoken by the girl Ann Richardson about the " fiery
dog l" The only question was whether it was true that
when the prisoner left and went through the account
with the prosecutor he had worked out all the money he
had received from the prosecutor. The prisoner cool I
not be called to give his version of the case, so that it
rested entirely on the evidence of the prosecutor. He
would therefore call Mr. Cope to show the state in
which the prosecutors were on the night when they went
to his house, and he would call upon them to say that no
credit was to be given to their statements.
Samuel Cope, examined by Mr. Davis, said—l am a
farmer, living within a few yards of the prosecutor's
house. I was called to his house between S and 9 o'clock
on the 11th February. The prosecutor and his wife were
there and Miss Richardson. The prosecutor had the
brandy bottle in one hand and the glass in the other.
He asked me if I would have some brandy. He was
drunk. I said I would not have any, and he drank it
himself. He asked me if I had any brandy, and I said I
bad not. He said there was like 20 carriages coming in
the yard. He then said he was so bewitched that he
thought the house would have fallen on them. Mrs.
Charlesworth said it would have fallen down if they had
not said the Lord's Prayer. I saw nothing the matter.
I saw the dug fed with rabbits' entrails. The dog was
afterwards in a bad state. The prosecutor and his wife
came to my house. They said they durst not stop.
She wanted to send for a lawyer to make his will.
She said their mother had done it all. She said their
mother's family were all given to witchcraft, and
were all bad ones. She showed me how her lips
were parched. I said she had better give them a little
gin and water. She took a glass of gin neat. The pro-
secutor came home shouting at all hours of the night.
He had been drinking all that week.
Cross-examined by Mr. Scotlsnd—l have been on
good terms with the prosecutor. He has bad words with
me. Mrs. Charlesworth was drunk when she came. She
poured some gin down her husband's throat. ,
Thomas Brown, another farmer, said that in May last
he was requested by his mother to talk with the prose-
cutor. He did so, and told him i: was nothing but de-
lirium tremens, brought on by drink, and he would die.
He told me positively that he had paid the prisoner no
money except for wages.
Cross-examined—I have known the prisoner for forty
years as an hone t man. It was a month or two be-
fore Christmas I spoke to the prosecutor. I saw him i❑
bed with ebiverings. It was like delirium tremens,
which I have seen.

Taomas Pott, another farmer, said the prosecutor had
told him he and his wife and his cattle were all be-
witched. He was drunk at the time. He said a wan-
derer bad undone his garters.
James Wariog, a manservant, lodging at the Royal
Oak, proved that on the 11th of February last he saw
the prisoner go to bed at 8 o'clock, and that he left him
in bed at 5 o'clock the next morning.
Edwin Bannister, a saddler, proved that the prose-
cutor was often drunk, and that on one occasion he said
he would sell his wife for 6J. (Laughter.) He had seen
the prisoner working on the farm.
This was the case for the defence.
Mr. Scotland having replied,
Mr. Justice Wiles very carefully summed up the evi-
dence, and finally left it to the jury to say whether the
defendant had made the false representations charged in
the indictment, and whether he had thereby obtained
any money from the prosecutor. There could be no
doubt the prosecutor was a very weak and foolish, and
perhaps draoken person, but he was still protected by
the law. The main question was, whether the jury could
believe the evidence given by the prosecutor and his
wife. If they did, they must find the prisoner guilty ;
if not, they must acquit him.
The jury found the prisoner Guilty.
Mr. Justice Willes, after conferring with Mr. Justice
Crowder, said that learned Judge entirely concurred
with him in opinion that the pri over had been properly
convicted. He had practised on the folly and weakness
of the prosecutor and his wife, and thereby obtained
front them as much as 221.

His Lordship then sentenced the prisoner to twelve
months' imprisonment with hard labour.

SUBMARINE TELEG.RAPBS.

An interesting paper on submarine telegraphs., by
Mr. Brett, was read before the Royal Institution on
Friday evening—the Duke of Northumberland in
the chair.
The author commenced by stating that he should
confine himself to a narrative of the part he had
taken in the promotion of submarine to!egraphs,
and of the difficulties he had had to encounter in
submerging them, particularly in the Mediterra-
nean. A mighty progress in science had led to the
application of the power of electricity to telegraphic
purposes, and the wide ocean had been spanned by
this bond of intercourse. He disclaimed the merit of
being the first to invent the submarine telegraph, but
the idea occurred to him in 1845, when lie and his
brother registered a plan for uniting America with
eoarngdedi,n the same year male a proposition
to the Government to unite our colonies with the
mother country ; but their offer not being accepted,
they turned their attention to the continent, and
received such encouragement from Louis Napoleon
that in 1850 an experimental telegraphic wire was
submerged between England and France. The
*tither described the operation of laying it, and
the excitement which attended the first op,ning of
instantaneous communication between those coun-
tries. The.day after the line was laid it snapped
asunder, but the possibility of communicating by a
submarine
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permanent
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cable
in length about 70 miles. The depths
eviwnEnoaalirtilolsuaoupninebdtgme;dred up to this time had been, comparatively
speaking, trifling, the deepest part of the British
Channelnot exceeding 50 fathoms. The next trial wos
in the unknown depths of the Mediterranean. Comte;
sions were granted to the author in 1854 by the
French and Sardinian Governments to unite those
countries with Africa, and the same year cables
were successfully laid down between Piedmont and
the island of Corsica, and between Corsica and Sar-
dinia—not, however, without many mishaps. He
detailed some of them. The cable lay in the hold
of a large steamer, and before paying out was passed
several times round two large iron drums, to che.lk
its progress when necessary. For a tome all went
on welt, when suddenly the cable commenced run-
ning out with the utmost impetuosity, carrying
everything before it, and causing the greatest alarm
for the safety of the men in the hold, about 20 in
number, engaged in hauling it out. About a couple
of miles had run out before its fight could be
arrested. When at length brought up by a
sudden stop, it was found that the insulation of
the line had been impaired, cinsequently the
injured portion had to be recovered from the sea,
and cut out, a difficult and laborious operation.
The cause of the accident was the great weight
of the length of cable in suspension when passing
over a deep hole in the bottom of the sea. The
submarine cable for connecting Sardinia with Africa
in length 150 miles, and weighing 1,200 tons, was
manufactured the same year, but the author found
it impossible to obtain, either in this country or iu
France, a steamer of s ufficiont size to lay it, all being
engaged in consequence of the war. A large sailing
vessel, towed by steamers, was employed, wIA ch
becoming unmanageable, lost her course, and there
was not sufficient cable to reach I<and. Under these
circumstances it was determined to sever it, when

about 26 miles had been paid out, and sive the re-
mainder for another attempt, which was made
shortly afterwards from a steamer, and with a
longer cable. Every precaution was taken on this
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that
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occasion; nevertheless, when about 60 miles had
been submerged, another of those sudden and alarm-
ing runs of the cable oceu'red, curing, as before,
the utmost anxiety for the, safety not only of the
theca butvblelolent action the
the insulation of the cable was impaired by the ac-
cident, and that the injured portion could not be
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recovered from the sea at this end, to be cut out
at before, it was decided to sever the cable, and re-
turn to Sardinia to recover it from the other end,
which done the vessel steamed along under the ca-
ble until it reached the injured part, when a fresh
join was made. This operation was successfully
carried out, and considerable progress made, when
the vessel was driven out of is course by currents,
and again there was not enough cable to reach land.
Under these circumstances it was determined to
buoy the end of the cable and telegraph to Eng-
-1 aid for more ; but while waiting the return of a
steamer from Algiers, sent to procure A barge or
lighter whereon to secure the cable, rough weather
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on, and a violent plunge of the vessel severed
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proved by the fact' that depths of nearly two mil, s
laying the cable b3tween England and America.

It is intended to attach the depots of the 28d Welsh
Fusiliers, 821 Regiment, , 90th Light Infantry, and 93d
Highlanders—the head-quarters of which are under
orders to embark for China—;,o the Provisional Bat -
talon, Chatham, as soon as room can he provided fn
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them at that garrison.