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London, England, 1859-12-03 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGEN CE—Dec. 2.

WESTMINSTER.—THE EXTRAORDINARY CASE
OF ADULTERY AND ALLEGED ROBBERY.—The ex-
traordinary case of Pithers v. Ponti—the previous
particulars of which have been fully detailed—was
yesterday resumed before Mr. Arnold, with along
cross-examination of Mrs. Pithers, alias Mrs.
Hill, by Mr. Smyth for the prosecution, in the
course of which she said—

. I first became acquainted with Ponti at a ball at
-Brighton, where I met him. I was in service
there. I met him two or three times afterwards,
in the course of which the improper intimacy com-
menced. I was not a virtuous woman when I first
knew him. I next saw Ponti a few months after
I was married, and he went home with me.
My husband was in service some months after
I married him, during which time I saw gentlemen.
I believe my husband had some money in the Read-
ing bank. I never had any of it. lie never gave
Me any money, but he took the money of me which
I received from gentlemen. I remember-going with
my husband and buying a gold chain for £5. I
don't know that my husband paid for it, but if he
did it was with my money. A gentleman had given
me Ponti did not pay money for his apart-
ments in York-place, but he gave me some towards
paying the rent, and purchased and paid for things
in the house. I did not tell Ponti that I was mar-
ried till he had been lodging in the house two or
three months. I did not tell him because I was
ashamed, and my husband desired me not to do so.
My husband used to go about the house without
his shoes, so that Ponti should not know he was
there. I gave'Ponti part of £32 I had saved, but
it was to buy things for me that I wanted. I kept
the remainder ,out of sight, so that my husband
should not see it. I often called on Mr. and Mrs.
Cheeseman while I lived in York-place. I may
have told them I kept Ponti on my prostitution.
I do not think I did, but I used to say all sorts of
things when T was out of temper that were not
true. I did not say that I would never stick to any
one man. Ido not know that I told the Cheese-
mans my husband had offered to take me home if Iy
would leave off' the life I was leading. Many times
Ponti has wanted to go away and leave me, but I
would not let him. I did not want to leave Ponti
in York-place, and go home to my husband from
him.

The following letters were here handed to the
witness by Mr. Smyth ; she admitted that she had
written them while living in. York-place :
"My dearest Husband,—l have not been able to
come to see or to write to you. lam tired of living
like this. I could feel so happy at home. The woman
here says the only way for me to get away is to
go when he is out of the way ; he will not leave
the house for a moment. I am quite longing to
come home and be comfortable and happy again.
It is better to be dead than live this life any longer ;
I must steal away. I am a most unfortunate
woman. I curse the hour I ever saw the villain ;
he has been my ruin ;he has deceived me. I wish
I had been persuaded by you, this would never have
happened. 1 wish I was away. I cannot believe
it possible that I have passed the week without
seeing you. lam driven to distraction—l am mad.
I must get away from this villian, you must help
me away. God bless us both, and make us happy
again. I can do well if lam with you. We must
both strive and pray God to bless us and prosper
us. You are in my thoughts morning and night.
Meet me at Mrs. Chemman's. Write, dear, and
tell me you are my friend. God bless you now and
ever. Pray for me. We shall be happy yet.
" From your ever affectionate wife."
The second was as follows :

" I have tried all I can tO get home. I quite
long to come home ; I know it is nice and comfort-
ble. Do, dear, believe me, I am most anxious to
come home ; have made up my mind to come and
live with you. lam nearly out of my mind, yet
lam frightened to not coming home. Believe me,
my dear husband, lam most anxious for you. If
I do not come home to-morrow, meet me at five
o'clock in-the Arcade. God bless you.
" From your ever affectionate,
" MARY."

The prisoner (Ponti) and Mrs. Pithers were much
disconcerted at the production of these letters,
which created considerable sensation amongst the
auditory.
Mr. Smyth continued his cross-examination,
showing that Ponti was the person alluded to in
the letters; and Mrs. Pithers (ILI not know what
she had meant by writing such letteis and using
such terms, as she could have left the house if she
had wished. She never told Mr. and Mrs. Cheese-
man that Ponti knocked her about because she did
not get money enough from gentlemen. Did not
remember Ponti knocking' her about. Had called
the landlady and servant up at her lodgings in
Macclesfield-street when Ponti was there, not that
he was ill-using her, but did it to vex him. Had
sometimes run down to the landlady when
they were having
words. Did not remember
screaming " Murder" on those' occasions. Hid her-
'self in the cupboard at Cheesernan's, not to escape
Ponti, but to put him out of the way
member showing bruises on her shoulders Did not re-
member and arms
to Cheeseman, and saying Ponti had caused them.
Ponti had wanted, again and again, to leave her,
and had done so, but she always went after him,
and used to beg of him to forgive her. She Went
after him to his lodgings the night she !tut left
home. Ponti slept with her on Thurs
last; it was widt her wish;. she not going t
be left alone in her now miserable wablaes day night
state. Pontio
would not allow her to be a prostitute any lenger.
She had been a virtuous Woman for the last fort-
night.
In re-examination by Mr. Davis for the prisoner,
Mrs. Pithers admitted that her husband when he
first knew of her infamous course of life wished
her to itintrition it, but after that he told her to get
all the money in that way she could. He used to
go into other parts of the house when gentlemen
came to-see her, and when they were gone she used
tq givo4irn theinoney. Gentlemen made her pro-
w* Of drosses and bonnets, and her husband used

to look at the things quite delighted. Never gave
Ponti any money but to expend for her own use.
By Mr. Arnold—Her age would be 29 in January;
had been married four years.
The case was then further adjourned, prisoner's
recognisances being extended as before.
Mr. Smyth said he had received a letter from a
very respectable firm at 11, Belgrave-street, South,
stating that Mrs. Pithers had never lodged there.
Such was the fact, her address being " 13." He
had no doubt publicity would be given to this, as
the firm alluded to were much annoyed.
Mr. Arnold observed that Mrs. Pithers had said
" 11," Belgrave-street, South.

FROM THE GAZETTE OF LAST NIGHT

FOREIGN-OFFICE, Nov. 21.
The Queen has been pleased to approve of Mr. Daniel It.
B. Upton as Consul at Bathurst, West Coast of Africa, for
the United States of America.

Nov. 29.
The Queen has been pleased to approve of Mr. C. H. G.
Cramer as Consul at Singapore for his Royal Highness the
Grand Duke of Mecklenburgh Schwerin.
The Queen has also been pleased to approve of Don
Francisco do Uneilla as Vice-Consul at Liverpool for her
Majesty the Queen of Spain.
DOWNING-STREET, DEC. 1.
:The Queen has been pleased to appoint Sir William
Snagg, Knt., and Ed ward Bowman Dyett, Esq., to be
Members of the Council of the Colony of Montserrat.

WHITEHALL, DEC. 2.
Tho Queen has been pleastd to nominate, present, and
appoint James David Forbes, D.C.L., to be Principal of the
United College of Saint Salvator and Saint Leonard, in the
University of Saint. Andrews, in the room of Sir David
Brewster, resigned.
BOARD OF TRADE, WHITEHALL, DEC. 2.
The Right Hon. the' Lords of tho Committee of Privy
Council for Trade and Plantations have received, from the
Secretary of State fer Foreign Affairs, a copy of a despatch
from her Majesty's Consul at Rhodes, reporting that all
arrivals at that island from ports of Syria will be admitted
to free pratique.

The Right Hon. the Lords of the Committee of Privy
Council for Trade and Plantations have received, from the
Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, a copy of a despatch
from her Majesty's Oonsul at Christiania, enclosing a trans-
lation of a notice issued by the Marine Department of that
Capital, declaring all places to be considered free from in-
fection with the Oriental plague.
The Right Hon. the Lords of the Committee of Privy
Council for Trade and Plantations have received, from the
Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, a copy of a despatch
from her Majesty's Consul at Naples, enclosing a transla-
tion of an order of the Neapolitan Board of Health, subject-
ing vessels, arriving with healthy passage, from the ports
bf Dantzig and Antwerp, to a rigorous quarantine for cho-
lera, of ten days, with purification of cargoes in a lazaret of
the first class. The same order subjects vessels arriving
from those places and having had sickness on board, to a
refusal of pratique, end requires vessels coming from other
'ports of Belgium and Prussia to perform a quarantine of
ten days, with the airing of wearing apparel on board the
vessel.

The Right Hon. the Lords of the Committee of Privy
Council for Trade and Plantations have received, from the
Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, a copy of a despatch
from her Majesty's Charge d'Affairs at Lima, enclosing a
translation of a decree of the President of the Republic of
Peru, suspending the blockade of the ports of Equator.
-The Right Hon. the fords of the Committee of Privy
Council for Trade and Plantations have received, from the
Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, a copy of a despatch
from her Majesty's Charge d'Affaires in Chili, enclosing a
translation of a decree of the Chili= Minister of Finance
permitting the introduction of arms and warlike stores,
with the exception of mining gunpowder, into the port of
Valparaiso alone, and by special license only. The same
decree prohibits all vessels, having such articles on board,
not intended for their own use, from remaining in any port
of the Republic, and notifies that the rebonding of any such
stores already in the bonded warehouses will not be per-
mitted.
WAR-OFFICE, PALL-MALL, DEC 2.

, -
sth Regiment of Dragoon Guards—Major the Hon. Somer-
set John Gough Calthorpe, from half-pay Unattached,
to be Major, paying the difference between cavalry and
infantry, vice Thompson, who exchanges, receiving the
same.
2d Dragoons—Assistant-Surgeon Thomas Rudd, M.D.,
from the Bth Light Dragoons, to be Assistant-Surgeon,
vice Rutherford, promoted on the Staff.
Bth Light Dragoons—Lachlan Foster Jamieson, Gent., to
be Cornet, without purchase; Assistant-Surgeon Ralph
Robert Scott. from the Staff, to be Assistant-Surgeon,
vice Rudd, appointed to the 2d Dragoons.
12th Light Dragoons—Veterinary Surgeon Charles Steel,
from the Royal Artillery, to be Veterinary Surgeon, vice
Hurford, promoted.
17th Light Dragoons—Acting Veterinary Surgeon John
Ferris to be Veterinary Surgeon, vice Partridge, ap-
pointed to the Royal Artillery.
Royal Artillery—Veterinary Surgeon Wm. Partridge,
from the 17th Light Dragoons, to be Veterinary Surgeon.
Military Train—Deputy-Assistant-Commissary Malcolm
Keir. from half-pay Field Train Royal Artillery, to be
Quartermaster; Staff Surgeon Daniel P. Barry to be
Surgeon.
2d Regiment of Foot—Lieutenant Gilbert Alfred Nicho-
letts, from the 68th Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Evans,
who exchanges.
Bth Foot—Captain John M'Queen from half-pay Unat-
tached, to be Captain, vice Brevet-Lieutenant-Colonel
Robert Stuart Baynes, promoted, without purchase, to
an Unattached Majority.
16th Foot—Major Algernon Robert Garrett, from the 46th
Foot, to be Major, vice Platt, who exchanges.
17th Foot—The Christian names of Lieutenant and Adju-
tant Ross are" Alexander Aitken," and not " Alexander"
only, as hitherto stated.
19th Foot—Elision Horace Arthur Wells to be Lieute-
nant, by purchase vice Martin, promoted; Ensign
Philip Downes Williams to be Lieutenant, by purchase,
vice Foster, promoted.
23d Foot--Major Thomas Richard Plumbe Tempest, from
half-pay Unattached, to be Major, repaying the diffe-
rence, vice Brevet-Lieutenant-Colonel) Bruce, who ex-
changes; Brevet-Major Jervoise Clarke Jervoise to be
Major, by purchase, vice Tempest, who retires; Lieute-
nant Philip Henry Knight to be Captain, by purchase,
vice Jervoise.
43d Foot—Ensign Charles Salmon, from the 53d Foot, to
bo Ensign, vice Osborne, who exchanges.
46th Foot—Major Charles Rowley Platt, from the 16th
Foot, to be Major, vice Garrett, who exchanges.
53d Foot—Ensign Herbert Boyles Osborne, from the 43d
Foot, to be Ensign, vice Salmon, who exchanges.
68th Foot—Lieutenant George Edward Perryn, from, the
90th Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Outram, who exchanges.
68th Foot—Lieutenant Henry John Evans, from the 2d
Foot; to be Lieutenant, vice Nicheletts, who exchanges.
190th Foot—Lieutenant Joseph Outram, from the 58th Foot,
to be Lieutenant, vice Perryn, who exchanges.
let West India Regiment—Surgeon James Davys, from
the Staff, to bo Surgeon, vice Hendley, appointed to the
Staff.

DEPOT DATTA.LlON.—Quartermaster Edward Coghlan,
from the 76th Foot, to be Quartermaster, ♦ice John Reming-
ton Breading, who retires upon half. pay.
UNATTACHED.—Lieutenant and Adjutant Patriek Cahill,
from the 49th Foot, to be Captain, without purchase.

HOSPITAL STAFF.
Surgeon Sohn Hendley, from the Ist West India Regi-
ment, to be Surgeon, vice Surgeon-Major Blakeney, placed
upon half-pay.
Assistant-Surgeon Francis Bowen, M.D., with the local
rank of Surgeon at the Royal Hibernian School, Dublin, to
be Staff-Assistant. Surgeon and placed upon half-pay.
Assistant•Surgoon. Cornelius Clarke Rutherford, from 2d
Dragoons, to be Staff-Surgeon, vice Barry, appointed to the
Military Train.

Assistant-Surgeon Arthur Salter, Supernumerary in the
61st Foot, to be Assistant• Surgeon, vice Soott, appointed
to the Bth Light Dragoons.

BREVET

.
Brevet-Colonel John Hamilton Stewart, Retired fall-pay
29th Foot, to be Major-General, tho rank being honorary

The undermentioned Officers, retired upon full-pay Royal
Marines, to have the honorary rand of Major-General, under
her Majesty's Order in Council of Nov. 13, 1858 :—Colonel
Thomas Hurdle, C.B. ; Colonel Thomas Peard Dwyer.
Major Thomas Richard Plumbe Tempest, 23d Foot, to
be be Lieutenant-Colonel in the Army.
Quartermaster John Remington Breading, retired on
half-pay of a Depot Battalion, to have the honorary rank
of Captain, under the Royal Warrant of Dec. 17, 1855.

COMMISSIONS BY LORDS-LIEUTENANT.
Oxfordshire Volunteer Rifle Corps—Charles Musgrave
Harvey, Esquire, of Christchurch, to be Ensign of the First
Company.
First Sussex Rifle Volunteer Corps—Lieut.-Colonel R.
Moorson to be Captain.
Royal Westmoreland Light Infantry Militia—John Mil-
ner, Gent., to be Lieutenant.
Roxburghshire Volunteer Rifle, No. 1 Company—Wm.
Scott, Esq., younger, of Ancrum, to be Captain; Hon.
:Hallyburton Campbell to be Lieutenant.
Regiment of Royal London Militia—William Thomas
Lewis to be Assist.-Surgeon, vice James Wood Poland,
resigned.

ANK OF ENGLAN.
An Account, pursuant D
to the Act 7th and Bth Victoria,
cap. 32, for the week ending on Wednesday, the 30th day
of November, 1859
ISSUE DEPARTMENT.
Notes issued £30,824,755 Government Debt £11,015,160
Other Securities .. 3,450,900
Gold Coin & Bullion 16,349,755
Silver Bullion .... -

£30,a1,755)
BANKING DEPARTMENT.
Proprietors' Capi- Government Secu-
Rest
tal ............. g. £14,553,000 rities (including. Dead "ii, eightAn-
Public Deposits (in- nutty) £10,925,157
eluding. Exche- Other Securities 19,376,43g
quer, Savings' Notes
Banks, Commis- Gold and Silver
missioners of Na- Coin 668,737
tional Debt, and.
Dividend Ac-
counts) 8,679,315
Other Deposits 13,361,382
Seven Day and
other Bills : 822,011

£30,824,755

£40,550,478
.RSIIALL, Chief Cashier.

Dated Dec. 1, 1859.