The Sun.
London, England, 1861-09-06 00:00:00

7HE 111U1?DER IN TrE,sTIIII.NSTER.

THE VERDICT (THIS DAY).
This morning, Mr. Langham, the deputy-coroner for
Westminster, resumed the inquiry into the cause of the
death of Mary Maloney, alleged to have been stabbed in the
neck with a clasp knife, by her husband, William Maloney,
at their residence, No. 2, Leg-court, Peter-street, West-
minster.

At the conclusion of the evidence, which is little more
than has already appeared in the police reports,
The Jury returned a verdict of wilful murder against
William Maloney.

Partridge shooting commenced on Monday last,
the Ist of September falling this year on a Sm.day. From
the accounts which reach us the birds are plentiful and
strong in the wing, and the result is good sport and in most
cases a full game bag.
THE BIRKENHEAD DOCKS.—At the weekly meet-
ing of the Mersey Docks and Harbour Board yesterday, it
was resolved to adapt the entrances to the Morpeth Dock
at Birkenhead to the purposes of graving docks ; but the
proposal of Mr. Bold and Mr. J. Laird to enlarge the en-
trance to the great float to 400 or 600 feet, and to make it
available as a graving dock, was rejected by 16 to 3.
DEATH OF ANOTHER ALPINE TOURIST.—The
Swiss papers record another accident to Alpine tourists.
The victim on this occasion is Mdme. Fanny Gamier,
Paris, who was travelling with her husband in the Bernes,
Oberland, and fell into a torrent called the Lutschine, a
Gundewalde, where she was drowned, in spite of all efforts
to save her.

The Russian journals announce that a remark-
able geological phenomenon has just occurred in the
Caspian Sea, an island having risen from the waters near
Baku, on the western coast. The captain of the schooner
Turkmen, who first discovered it, states that, except the
upper crust,:the soil of this new island was quite moist and
very warm, which shows that it was of very recent forma-
tion. It is 18 feet above the level of the water, and 12
miles from the island of Swinoj.
THE YELVERTON MARRIAGE CASE.--A Commis-
sion has been opened in Dublin from the Court of Session
by the commissioner, Mr. Crichton, of the Scotch bar, to
take proof in the action of declarator of marriage in the
teh bar, YelvertonanagainstMr.d
solici-
tor, Edinburgh, appeared for Mrs. Yelverton, and Mr. Mil-
ler, of the Scotch bar, and Mr. P. Adam, solicitor, Edin-
burgh, appeared for Major Yelverton. Proof was adduced
by Major Yelverton to establish that he had been a Protes-
tant, or had professed to be a Protestant, 12 months before
the marriage ceremony by Father Mooney at Rostrevor,
which, if proved, would render the Irish marriage null.
Four witnesses were examined—viz., Archdeacon Knox, of
Lorrha ; the Hon. Letitia Yelverton, sister of the major ;
Mrs. Colonel Lloyd, and Mr. Dyer, residing at Ballyquirk
Castle, who gave evidence that the major, when residing
with his family at Belle Isle, sometimes went with them to
the parish church. The commission will next be proceeded
with at Newry and at Rostrevor. It was objected (on be-
half of Mrs. Yelverton) in the course of the proof taken on
Tuesday, that the question "whether the mojor was a Pro-
testant," could not and ought not to be put to the witnesses
without first defining what a " Protestant" is, and a defini-
tion of the word " Protestant" was given by Archdeacon
Knox to the effect that it meant every person who protested
against Popery. The evidence in this ease is all takendfroowl:
in writing, because there is an appeal upon the facts
the Court of Session to the House of Lords, where the case
may ultimately terminate. The proceeding of the com-

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SINKING OF A LUG•BOAT oFF BLAcKFRIARs,
About 1 o'clock yesterday
containing coals, and bearing a man and a boy, was
sees
passed The
up the r;
river
shippod water. The boy Was
from Blackfriars-bridge thre:ntrimngitto sink.
ofiellceadsiotnoaithiye water's edge,
employed at the
while the man was engaged
pump,
course. It had not proceeded far through the directing
the people, seeing their peril, shouted bridge when
boat fortunately neared some mooredto the men as the
man had just time to seine the side up coal-barges. The
went the lug-boat, bearing • of a barge, when down
diately put out, and with it the boy. Boats imme•
fortunately
The man also, who was el' succeeded in rescuing him.
momen-
tarily expected to relax his
to the barge, and
that the boat contained is hold, was saved. It was stated
tons
140141_ at least 25 tons of coals) wkicriai 18
d have baaia the quantity.