The Sun.
London, England, 1857-03-18 00:00:00

SPAIN.

The Madrid journals of the 13th contain an ac-
count of the trial df General Prim by court-
martial. The General, it seems, refused to ap-
pear before the court, because he thought he had
been treated with indignity in being brought up
in custody from Toledo. General Reina, who
acted as prosecutor, in " a speech to the court,
represented that it was absolutely necessary that
officers of the highest grades should set the example
of submission and respect to the military laws and
regulations; and he contended that General Prim,
by the letter he had addressed to the newspapers
reflecting on the government, bad violated those
laws and regulations. He therefore demanded that
his name should be struck out of the army list,
And that he should be sentenced to a year's im-
prisonment. General Zavala, defender of Gene-
ral Prim, contended that the latter bad not vio-
lated the regulations, and that he ought to be ac-
quitted. The court, after deliberation, decided
that the general should remain under arrest for six
months, but not be deprived of his grade or honours.
A noted Car]ist chief, named Noy de las Barre-
quetas, who had been under surveillance at Madrid,
had clandestinely quitted the capital, and this gave
rise to the belief that the Carlists were projecting
a rising for the spring. The funeral of Quintona,
the poet, had taken place, and had been attended.
by General San Miguel and other political notabi-
lities. The Progressists of Salamanca had resolved
on bringing forward H.R.H. Don Henry as can-
didate for one of the districts of the province of
that name. The prince has been for .some time
residing in that city by order of the Government.

CAPE OF GOOD HOPE.
Tho Royal Mail steamship England, Capt. Dun-
das, arrived at Dartmouth yesterday, the 17th
inst., from India, via the Cape of Good Hope.
Her dates are Calcutta, Dec. 15 ; Madras, Dec.
22 ; Point de Chile, Dec. 27 ; the Mauritius, Jau.
12 ; Cape of Good Hope, Jan. 31; St. Helena,
Feb. 10 ; Ascension, Feb. 15.
The England brings a large mail from the Mauri-
tius and the Cape, and about 30 passengers, chiefly
from India. Hei cargo consists of about 150 tons
of indigo and 700 tons of other Calcutta produce,
besides 110 tons landed at Cape Town. She had
very heavy weather after leaving the Mauritius,
and strong westerly gale=, all the way from the
Western Islands. The Royal Mail steamship Ire-
land arrived at the Cape on the 29th of Jan. The
England was detained two days on that account.
Her Majesty's steam transport Vulcan, drrived
on the 28th of January, in 72 days from Ports-
mouth, with Baron Stutterheim and part of the
German Legion on board ; the Abyssinian hired
transport had also arrived with German troops.
The England spoke the following vessels during
her voyage :—January 19, in lat. 30.30 S., long.
38 E., the Dutch bark Henriette, 48 . days from
Java, bound for Amsterdam ; Jan. 25, off the Cape,
her Majesty's ship Raleigh, from Simon's Bay,
bound for Singapore ; Feb. 5, in lat. 23.30 S., long.
3.30 E , the American ship Martha, Feb. 8, in lat.
17.30 S., long. 3.15 W., the English bark Geelong ;
February 10, in lat. 15.50 • S)long. 6 W., the,
Dutch schooner Mary Goddard, 50 days from
Batavia, bound for Schiedam ; same day, the Eng-
lish barque Fingal, 34 days from the Mauritius,
bound for London ; Feb. 13, in lat. 9.40 S., long.
12 W., the English barque Anna. Maly, 15 days
from Table Bay, bound for London ; Feb. 16 in
lat. 6.50 S., long. 16 W., the French barque Elise, I
41 days from Bourbon, ound for Bordeaux; Feb.
20, in lat. 2 N., long. 20.30 W., the English bark
Crimea ; Feb. 20, in 1at..2. 30N. , long. 20.43 the Eng-
lish ship John Spencer, 76days from Calcutta, bound
for Trieste; March 3, in lat. 27.15 N., long. 40 W., the
American ship Sml. Watts, 75 days from the Chinchas
Islands, bound for Havre de Grace ; March 5, in
lat. 32 40 N., long. 43 W., the Dutch ship Cor.
nelis Houtman, 90 days from Batavia, bound for
Amsterdam ; March 6, in lat. 33 45 N., long. 41
15 W., the Bremen bark Constitucion, 45 daysfrona
Rio de Janeiro, bound for Bremen ; the same day,
the English ship City of Calcutta, from Cal-
cutta, bound for London ; March 10, off the Island
of Cotvo, the American ship Screamer, 16 days
from Havre de Grace, bound for New Orleans ;
March 16, off the Lizard, the English barque Pa-
trician, 40 days from Jamaica, bound for London.
The Roman Emperor, from Calcutta, and the Alma,
from Adelaide, had Passed St. Helena on the sth
and 7th of February.

MURDER OF Two CHILDREN BY THEIR MOTHER,
AND SUICIDE OF THE MURDERESS.—A murder and sui-
cide have this week taken place at the village of Sunny-
brow, near Bishop Auckland, Durham. The murderess
is a woman named Jane Parkinson, the wife of a pit-
man working at Bowden Close Colliery, and the two
victims are her children, the eldest a boy aged two years
and nine months, and the youngest an infant aged about
nine months. The mother was in her 28th year, had
only been married about 18 months, and resided with
her husband at Sunnybrow. On Tuesday morning the
husband left home at 8 o'clock, and proceeded to his
work at the pit, and about 10 the deceased woman dressed
herself, and stated to the neighbours that she was going
to Willington to fetch home her husband's shoes, which
had been sent to be repaired. She also dressed both
the children, and said as they had not much fresh air
lately she would take them with her. At this time
nothing remarkable was observed in her demeanour ex-
cept an unusanl degree of gaiety. She proceeded along
a ,footpath through Sunnybrow•wood towards Wit-
liegton, and nothing more was seen of her until noon.
Shortly after twelve, Peter Naylor, a stonemason, was
going towards Willington to his dinner, when he saw a
woman extended at full length in a small stream of
water which takes its course throuu,h the wood above
mentioned, and passes under the Bishop Auckland Rail-
way. She lay with her face in the water, and by her
side was a little boy, whose head was also immersed, and
the woman's arm was passed over him, and seemed to
hold him down. Naylor ga"e an alarm, but before
assistance arrived be raised up the body of the woman
and then discovered an infant lying beneath her. All
three were quite dead. Scores of people soon flocked to
the spot, and the bodies were quickly identified as those
of Jane Parkinson and her two children. On opening
the woman's dress, he found in her bosom a small
tobacco box, containing the money she had taken with
her to pay for the shoes. The stream at the place
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position and appearance of the bodies would lead to the
conjecture that the woman bad first immersed and
drowned the eldest child, and had then thrown herself
into the water upon the infant. 6