The Sun.
London, England, 1859-02-19 00:00:00

SYKES V. SYKES.

Dr. Phillimore, Q.C., and Mr. Bevan conducted
he petitioner's case; Mr. Macquecn appeared for
he respondent.

The -petitioner, Mrs. Hannah Sykes, prayed for a
judicial separation from her husband, William
Sykes, on the ground of cruelty. At the time of
their marriage, in
_June, 1857, the petitioner was
the widow of a Mr. Perrin, by whom she had three
children, and was carrying on a good business as a
cabinetmaker and broxer in Manchester. It ap-
peared from her evidence that within a month of
the marriage the respondent commenced a course
of brutal ill treatment, and continued it during the
remainder of their cohabitation. He used the most
foal and violent language, threatened "to be her
end," beat her with his fists, dragged her from her
bed by her hair, and kicked her when she was in a
state of pregnancy. She was more than once
obliged to take refuge with her neighbours, and at
last, in a few months, left his house, but was forced
by him to return. He repeated the acts of violence
of which he had before been guilty, and was further
guilty of cruelty to her children by her first hus-
band. On the 17th of July she finally left him.
The respondent pleaded a denial of the cruelty
and condonation. In support of the latter plea he
stated that a few days after the final separation,
and before the presentation of the petition, his
wife came to his house and allowed him to have
conjugal intercourse with her. He also mentioned
subsequent occasions on which they had met, and
again had intercourse.
Mrs. Sykes was recalled in reply, and denied
that she ever had intercourse 'with her husband
after her separation except on one occasion, when
she called upon him to talk about a pecuniary ar-
rangement, and stated that then it was without her
consent and against her wish.
The jury found that William Sykes had been
guilty of cruelty, and that Mrs. Sykes had not
condoned it.

His lordship decreed a judicial separation.
EVANS V. EVANS.

Mr. Huddleston, Q.C., and Mr. Field appeared
for the petitioner.
Mrs. Lydia Evans, the petitioner, prayed for a
dissolution of marriage. She was married to the
respondent in 1835, at Worcester, where she carried
on business as a dressmaker, and he was employed
as a plasterer. They afterwards cohabited at Bir-
mingham. He was in the habit of treating her
with great cruelty, and frequently sold off all the
furniture she had purchased with her earnings. In
1850 he was bound over to keep the peace towards
her for twelve months. At the expiration of that
period he applied for admission to her house and
threatened to kill her. She refused to admit him
and he went away, and he never afterwards re-
turned or contributed to her support. He has
since been living at Hackney with another woman,
The respondent, in his answer, denied his wife's
allegations, and made various charges against her,
but did not appear to support them.
The jury found that the respondent had been
guilty of adultery and of cruelty, but not of deser-
tion.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—Feb. 18.

'7l .1=.73.-.o;,es .. , •,.:
Emma Richards in the coth ygltatikt- at
,s-al-
k
worth, and I watched them titNibeyricaoid the
Dover-road. The man carried a bundle under his
arm. They took a cab and rode to Finsbury-square,
where they got out, and they then walked in the
direction of Hoxton. Emma Richards took the
bundle,_and Knight, the detective officer, and I
continued to follow them until they reached Beau-
mont's house, No. 109, Bridport.place, New
North-road. Beaumont keeps a kind of leaving
shop, with parcels on the shelf with tickets
on them, like a pawnbroker's shop. Goods
consisting of dresses, &c., are exposed in the
window-- for sale. Upon arriving there, the
man whom I had previously seen with Emma
Richards left her outside while he went in. The
private door was then opened from the inside, and
Emma Richards entered with the bundle. Knight
and I followed her, and I found Beaumont behind
the door. When I reached the parlour door, which
is close to the stairs, I saw Knight with Emma
richards and the man. I looked for the bundle
and found it on the kitchen stairs, wrapped in the
shawl I produce. I left this in charge of a cabman
who was waiting for me. Emma Richards then
wanted some water, and the man went down stairs
to fetch it. I followed him into the kitchen and
spoke to him. I then went up stairs to look for
him, and found that he had escaped over the back
wall, as I suppose.
By the Lord Mayor—Emma Richards was taken
to the station-house by Knight, on whose return
we searched Beaumont's house. The bundle I
allude to contained 181 silk handkerchiefs.
Mr. Lewis (for the prisoner Beaumont)—Did
Beaumont tell you that the man had called to see a
lodger of his named Mack ?
Witness—Yes; but he first of all said that this
man had been in the house an hour. Theman was
sitting by the side of the fireplace in the parlour,
there being present at the time Emma Richards,
Beaumont and his wife, and Knight the officer.
That was after Emma Richards had been taken
into custody. Beaumont was asked who the man
was. He replied " Oh, he has been here this hour;
he is waiting for one Of my lodgers named Mack."
After the man had made his escape Beaumont said
that he knew nothing at- all about the man, but
that Mack lodged there, and that be expected him
there by 11 o'clock. We waited Sill between 12
and 1 o'clock last night, but no Mr. Mack came. I
went there again this morning between 11) and
11 o'clock, and I ascertained that he had not been
there. The witness then produced, at Mr. Lewis's
request, one of Mack's cards, bearing Beaumont's
address. Beaumont was taken into custody by
Knight.
Knight (the detective officer) was next ex-
amined for the prosecution. He said,—l accom-
panied Legg yesterday, and watched the prisoner,
Emma Richards, and saw her carry into the
private entrance of Beaumont's house the bundle
of silk handkerchiefs produced. After she had been
admitted I pushed the door with all my force, and
it was either closed, or somebody was holding it
very hard. I forced it open and found Emma
Richards, there being somebody behind the door,
but who I do not know. I overtook Emma Richards
just as she got inside the parlour door, and she im-
mediately called out as loud as she could, " We are
all lagged. Oh ! dear !" and dropped on the floor.
Just as I got in the door I saw something which I
believe to be the bundle thrown down tilt; kitchen
stairs. My impression is, that it was not thrown
down by Emma Richards, but by the person in the
passage. I told Legg to go down after the bundle.
A man was sitting in an easy chair in the parlour,
but whether that was the same man that we had
seen in the house with Emma Richards or not I
cannot:tell. I said to Beaumont, who at that moment
came into the parlour, "Is that the man who had
just come in with this woman ?" He replied, " Oh,
dear no, he has been here a long time, from half an
hour to an hour, waiting for our lodger." I asked
him where the men was who came in with her ?
He replied that he did not know ; that he did not
see any man come in along with her. Emma
Richards then complained of being faint and asked
for some water. The man said he would fetch a
drop of water, and Legg followed him down. The
man, however, did not return. I left Legg in charge
of Beaumont's house, and took Emma Richards to
Bow-lane station, where she was charged with hav-
ing received the property produced, knowing that
it had been stolen from the premises of the prose-
cutor. When the charge was entered the inspector
on duty asked her if she wished to give any expla-
nation with respect to the property; she then
turned to me and said, " I can't say any more
than what you know about it. You know where
I fetched it from, and who gave it to me." I
said, " I most certainly did not, and that had I
observed any one bring it to her I should have
taken him into custody." She said, "I think
you saw the person give it to me." I repeated to
her that I did not, and that the first I saw of her
with the man and the parcel was at the time she
was erossini, the New Kent-road. She told me
that she did not know the name of the man who
had given her the parcel. I then asked her
whether she would give the name of the person to
whose house she was going to take it, and she said
that she did not know the name, but was to take it
to a draper's shop at Horton. I then returned,
and saw Beaumont and his wife, and told them that
Emma Richards had stated to me that she was to
bring the goods to their place. Beaumont said he
had never seen either the man or woman in his life
till that day. , I said " Don't you know that man
at all who was here when we came ?" Mrs. Beau-
mont replied, " We know nothing about him, sir.
He had not actually sat down when you got into
the house." I said, " Mr. Beaumont, you told me
that that man had been in the house more than half
an hour or an hour." He replied, " No, he had
only just come in and sat down when you got in."
I then searched his place, and found some new
tablecovers, and a good deal of other property,
some of which I brought away, although none of it
relates to this charge. I then took him into custody
on the charge of receiving 40 pieces of silk hand-
kerchiefs, and told him that in all probability there
would be other charges against him.
Mr. Lewis said, he was in possession of the re-
ceipts relating to the other property to which
Knight had referred.
Legg,
manthe
behadofficer, wsaeesntliinenßreeacnamlleeldit,,sanpdals.laeind
that .
was the man he had previously seen in the cab with
Emma Richards.
Knight, cross-examined b l
Mr. Lewis, said,—As
soon as I entered the house Legg ran to
the
kitchen
stairs and brought the parcel back ; not much con-
fusion or noise prevailed, .for Beaumont,
ii 1 ,
and the man stood still, while Lc an ques-
tioned them. Beaumont and his wife offered us
arch
every facility to se, the house.
Emma Richards—Did I not tell_you that I was
to take the parcel to the first linendrapees shop on
the right?
Knight—You did not. You said you were to
take it to a linendraper's shop in Hoxton, the name .
of which you did not know.
Mr. J. Vavasseur identified the 40 pieces of silk
as part of the property which had been stolen from
his premises on the night of the burglary.
Mr. Wontner said this was the whole of the evi-
dence he intended to offer on the present occasion.
The Lord Mayor—The prisoners will be re-
manded for a week.
Mr. Lewis said his client had been taken into
custody under the misapprehension that he was the
person who ,had been dealing with the property.
The man who had called at Beaumont's house with
Emma Richards went there for the purpose of
seeing a lodger named Mack.
The Lord Mayor remanded the prisoners for a
week, refusing the application of Mr. Lewis to
accept bail for Beaumont's appearance.

GUILDHALL.—Henry Cass, a young man of
highly respectable connexions, was charged with
obtaining goods by means of forged orders.
Four charges were proceeded with against the
prisoner, in two of which it appeared he had ob-
tained goods of Messrs. Cook, Sons, and Co., of St.
Paul's-churchyard, to the amounts of £2 16s. 3d.
and £3 10s. 11d., and in the other two cases the
goods were obtained of Messrs. Caldecott and Co.,
of Cheapside, to the amounts of £3 10s. 11d. and
17s. 2d. The prisoner pleaded guilty to the
first two charges, not guilty to the third, and said
he should reserve his defence to the fourth.
The prisoner was committed for trial on the four
charges.

BOW-STREET.—Two men, named Rigby and
Wilson, the former of whom described himself as a
painter, and the latter as a. printer, were charged
fwroitmh attempting steal steal
sae7ula9n3t, pru
ityof gas-fittings
r
y-lane' and
also with committing a burglary at the White
Hart
public-house, 191, Drury-lane.
The prisoners said they were employed to take
down and remove the gas-fittingsy a man who
e b
said he had taken the shop. He told them not to
remov six o'clock, when theye the things before
were to take them to the
corner of New Oxford-
street, where he would meet them.
The lessee of the pre •
salesman in Leade n hmises, Mr. Gauntlet, a meat
branches, which h all-market, identified the
done would am e valued At £B, thoughthe damage
amount to much more.
The, prisoners were committed for trial.

LAMBETH.—Robert Newman, a pipemaker,
who has been in custody since the end of July last,
on a charge of committing a murderous assault on
his wife, by striking her on the head with a small
hatchet or chopper, was re-examined, and com-
mitted for trial on the charge of assault with intent
to Murder.

The discrepancies observable between the Parlia-
mentary papers relating to Indian finance, and the
statement submitted the other evening to the
consideration of the House of Commons by
Lord STANLEY, illustrate in a suiliciently
striking manner the necessity long felt for
one uniform system of currency. These dis-
crepancies the noble lord readily explained
yesterday on moving that the House do resolve
itself into a Committee upon the projected loan.
A glance at the contrasting figures, indeed, will
serve to demonstrate clearly enough the cause of
the apparent error of calculation. It will then be
manifest that much of this was attributable to the
different rates at which the rupee is convertible
into sterling money of our own coinage. The
rupee quoted in the Parliamentary accounts at
ls. 101 d. reduced the :total of the ;gross
income of India in 1856-57 to X 29,702,000. While
the rupee taken by Lord STANLEY in his own
account at 2s. raised the amount of the same
year's income. to £33,303,000. The Secre-
tary of State maintaining that his estimate with
regard to the price of bullion was much the more
accurate of the two, acknowle3ged that this source
of discrepancy did not exceed a total of £2,081,000
—adding, however, that there was another cause
of discrepancy discernible ,in an omission in his
own account of which he was unaware at the period
of his statement. The Parliamentary accounts, in
fact, included items, Lord STANLEY observed yes-
terday, to the amount of £1,519,000—items which
the Secretary
of State himself had not considered
as constitutin a part of the public revenue. These
g
items, [for complete exactitude, we presume,
should have been given at £1,520,000, in-
stead of £1,519,000, the former total added to
the £2,081,000 resulting from the discrepancy in
regard to the estimated i value of the rupee,
making the exact difference of £3,601,000 apparent
between the total on the Parliamentary paper of
£29,702,000 and the total of £33,303,000
stated by Lord STANLEY to have. been the actual
amount of the gross revenue of India in 1856-57.

After these very lucid and readily comprehen
sible explanations last night by the Secre-
tary of State, the noble lord concluded this his
second luminous address to the House of Commons
upon Indian Finance, by maintaining the perfect
accuracy of the account already given by him of
the amount of the Debt of India—its sum
total—including the home debt as well as
that raised in India--being in point of fact, pre-
cisely £74,543,000. Sir CILRLES WooD, on the
other hand, , maintained that the liabilities of Hin-
dostan ought more correctly to be stated at
£90,000,000. An insufficient gloom, however, was
cast upon this vital theme to satisfy the morbid
anticipations of . Sir ERSKINE PERRY, who in.
sisted that the Indian debt absolutely amounts
at the most moderate estimate at no

less formidable a total than £110,676,955.
Now we cannot conceive for one moment the pos-
sible advantage to be derived from an ex-
aggeration of our Indian calamities. Calamities
they have been—let us make the best of them.
The Secretary of State, after scrutinizing the
accounts of the vast empire or province (whichever
it may be that we ought to call it), esti-
mates the total of the Indian debt at some-
thing under £75,000,000. Suppose it to
be, for the sake of argument, what
Sir CHARLES WOOD maintains it to be, £90,000,000,
or even what Sir ERSKINE PERRY insists upon as
the more accurate statement, viz , some-
thing over £llo,ooo,ooo—with the ample re-
sources of the peninsula, even in their present com-
paratively undeveloped state, there is surely no
serious cause whatever for anything like solicitude.
The net annual income is even at this moment upon
an average not far short of £25,000,000—even
now, when we are no more than just beginning to
think of cultivating cotton in India, when we are
only just at the outset in Hindostan of
a grand scheme of railway organization. Sir
ERSKINE PERRY insists upon our so ordering
things that Government should be compelled to
balance the Indian revenue and the Indian ex-
penditure. Under the happy auspices of the new
epoch now inaugurated for our Asiatic possesions,
we do confidently anticipate for Hindostan not
simply the " balance" apparently almost despaired
of by Sir E. PERRY, but, eventually, and we believe
at a period not so very remote from the present—an
excess of Indian revenue over and above the Indian
expenditure.

The' newly-created colony ofOritish Columbia.
continues to give promise of very satisfactory, and
rapid development. According to the last accounts
received from Vancouver, " the productiveness of-
the mines is now quite settled in the affirmative."
Considerable quantities of gold dust were continu-
ally arriving in Victoria, though the precise amount
could not be accurately ascertained. Colonists
were still flocking in increasing numbers to those
freshly opened fields of adventure. The executive
and administrative machinery clf the new Govern-
ment was being fitted together, and otherwise put
into working order. The solitary provisional
Governor was beginning to find himself surrounded
by other and subordinate officials, despatched to
his aid from the old mother country, to take their
due share with him in the regular distribution of
responsibilities. His Excellency, it is satisfactory
to know, at last, is no longer, as an official personage,
altogether insulated. He has now the assistance of
properly qualified coadjutors.
Conspicuous among the items of intelligence
brought to this country from British Columbia,
among our last communications from Victoria in
Vancouver, are those contributed in the shape of
an elaborate report from the Diggings to the local
Gazette, by the pen of an authorised correspondent.
This correspondent of the Victoria Gazette appears
to have made a personal examination of the Gold.
Fields, not at one or two isolated points, but con-
tinuously and searchingly throughout a length of
200 miles of the auriferous territory. The gold
fields on Fraser River, indeed, are of enormous
magnitude, as that jonrney of 200 miles sufficimtly-
intimates. But the entire length of the gold

country in that part of the world actually is double
that distance—the " paying diggings" already
found extending uninterruptedly over 400 miles,
from Fort Hope (a name of appropriate signifi-
cance) to Fort Alexander.
This travelled correspondent of the Gazette,
moreover, has made his journey right through the
very heart of the broad sweep of the gold fields.
Adventurers he found there scattered all along the
line of his progress, busy with"their rockers—,

rocking their new-born fortunes tenderly, hope-

fully, anxiously, in their cradles of gold. In
some directions the yield amounted to five'dollars
a-day upon the average. Here—it was as high as
fifty dollars to the hand for many days in suc-
cession. Here again it dwindled down to three
dollars. Occasionally—to nothing at all. It was
like passing through a gambling•house in the thick
of the " play"—the crash of the rockers instead of
the clatter of the dice box! Many were dejected—
many elated. Some despaired—others were enrap-
tured. Fortune was pouring her treasures fast

into the lap of many. Hope, even hope, was dying
fast out of the hearts of the least successful. It
was Vanity Fair in the Wilderness. Writes the
correspondent, " Of course I found parties making
more than any sum I have named, and others less
than the lowest mentioned. In fact, I consider
these diggings extremely variable and uncertain.
I have seen one man making large wages in his
claim, while another but a few yards distant could
make nothing. And it frequently happens that a
party, by striking a lode or pocket, will take out
several ounces in a day, and not make half an ounce

for a week after. This feature of the diggings,
while it tends to stimulate the more hopeful and
sanguine, is equally calculated to dishearten those
of an opposite temperament, and hence the con-
flicting opinions entertained as to the character of
these mines even by those who have worked in
them, and the difficulty of arriving at a fair average
of wages. Ido not desire to become the ardent
advocate of these mines, or to encourage any one
to come to them"—particularly, he adds, "at this
late season." The caution as to the perils likely
to be encountered in the approaching winter was
more than justified, it appears, not long afterwards
—by the destruction by frost-bite of several un-
happy wanderers. These are the casualties almost
inevitably to be encountered, however, at the out-
set in these strange regions and epochs of specula-
tion. They are the faculce and the macula upon
the sun of prosperity shining over the Goldfields
alike of British Columbia, of Australia, of Califor-
nia. We must there take wealth as it comes to us,
in the rough, and make the best of it. The foot-
. .
steps of the first adventurers along the banks of
Fraser River will wear the paths smooth at last
for the future colonists of British Columbia.

The Countess Apponyi has issued cards for an
Emily Duch
assembly at Chandos House on Monday evening.
in
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tshoefreßsiedea'nuefeo Beaufort
the
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Htaokn nmiassmeanus
ts.i on
Arlington-street.
evening,
of n-
of Salisbury has an assembly
this
heveec
for Ireland.
The Dowager Lady s
Desart will shortly leave town
Suffield has left Claridge's
'n.)resr. Grosvenor-street.
aHnoatel from Bealuepre Hall, Glouces-
tershire.Hotel for her residence in tipper
Townley have
arrlvhede ecvia.ridMger:s
Lord Advocate had an interview yesterday
ew with
l
with the Earl of Derby.
Mr. Stuart Wortley had also an interview
his lordship.
Despatches from the Lord High Commissioner
of
the lonian Islands were received yesterday at the Colonial-
office. Despatches were sent. to the Governors of Australia,
Hong Kong, Ceylon, Mauritius,, Labuan, Malta, Canada,
and the Bahamas.
DEATH OF LADY.DELAMERE.—We are sorry to
announce the demise of Lady Delamere. Her ladyship died
on Thursday morning at the family mansion in Portman_
square, after a slight indisposition, extending over a few
weeks, which excited no alarm to the-relatives of her lady-
ship. The deceased lady was second daughter of the Earl
and Countess of Kinnoul, and was born December 4, 1828.
The lamented lady was married in 1848 to Lord Delamere,
then the Hon. Hugh Cholmondeley.
DEATH OF THE HON. WA. MAULE.—We have to
record the death of the Hon. Wm. Malik, youngest son of
the late Lord Panmure by his first marriage with Miss
Gordon, daughter of Mr. Gilbert Gordon, and brother and
heir presumptive to the present peer. The hon. gentleman
was born 29th M'arch, 1809, and married in 1844 Miss
Biny, daughter of Igr. Thomas Binuy. -

NAVY VOLUNTEERS.--A return, obtained by Mr.
Crawford, M.P., shows that in 1156 (the last year of a long
series), there were fresh entries of first-class volunteers,
naval cadets, and midshipmen into the Royal Navy amount.
ing to 116 ; 13 were discharged for misconduct, 18 volun-
tarily, 70 passed for lieutenants, and 7 died. The number
of naval instructors afloat was 71. The number of mates
that passed for lieutenants in the year was 70, -while 8 were
sent away for misconduct, 6 retired, 80 were promoted, and
4 died. Eighty lieutenants were made in the year, and 87
commanders.
MlNES.—During the week the Mining Share
Market has been active, and well supported, and a great
demand for several mines, such as East Russell, East
Basset, Rosewarne, Grambler and St. Aubyn, Hingston
Down Consols, Pendeen Consols, Ludcott, Wheal Wrey,
North Roskear, and a few others. Some of the- divi-
dend mines are lower in price, but chiefly owing to the
greater amount of attention paid to progressive mines.
Hingston Down Consols have been largely dealt in, and the
price leaves off at 3i to 4i; the mine has greatly im-
proved, and from private sources we hear that the
lode in the 110 fin. level is considerably better than stated
in the official reports, and the ground, which was for-
merly so hard, and at £3O per fin., has now changed for
the better, and set at only £lB per fin. ; the 100 fm.
level, which is considerably ahead of the 100, is yielding
4 te. 5 tons per fm. ; and as, moreover, there have been
large buyers of shares, we may fairly presume that the im-
provements are considered as of some importance by parties
in the district; but great complaints are made by the Lon-
don shareholders at the meagreness of the official reports
sent to the office.—Mining Journal of this day.
SHERIFFS' COURT, Feb. 17.—PROCLAMATIONS OF
OUTLAWRY.—At the sitting of the Court, Mr. Hemp, the
officer, made proclamations of outlawry in the following
cases. There is some expectation that such things will be
abolished ; but it will require an Act of Parliament to dis-
pense with such an ancient custom, which is truly, as
lawyers say, "from time immemorial :"—John Holmes, at
the suit of George Nathan ' • John Scott, at the suit of
Thomas Walker; Augustus Cookesley, at the suit of
Francis Truefitt ; Edward Heat S. Butler, at the suit of
Poulden and others; John Augustus Fano, at the suit of
Joseph Ancona; James Vardy, at the suit of Joseph Bell;
James E. Graham, at the suit of Edward James ; Sir F.
W. Pottinger, Bart., at the suit of Edward Green; Wil-
liam Hill Tucker, at the suit of Elizabeth Tucker; John
Augustus Fane, at the suit of John Joel ; James Pitt, at
the suit of Joseph Joel. The "calling of names" is gene
through on five occasions at monthly meetings, before pro-
ceeding to outlawry can be completed. The law might be
altered by exhibiting the names in some office instead of
performing the ceremony before the learned Under Sheriff.
On the other hand• it is• said the publicity has done much
good in'auchAnatters, and creditors have been paid in
consequence. .1 1
,
MARRIAGE WITH A DECEASED WIFE'S SISTER.
—The bill "to legalise, marriage with a deceased wife's
sister" appeared in print yesterday. ' It has already been
read a second time in the House of Commons by a majority
of 135 to 77 votes, and went through committee on Thurs-
day evening. The bill is a brief one. The preamble boldly
,asserts the expediency of amending the law as to marriage
with the sister of a wife deceased, and the first clause at
once summarily legalises all such marriages, whether
solemnised prier or subsequent to the passing of the present
measure of relief. It would appear, however, that while
past marriages may have been celebrated at any time or
place whatever, future marriages of this kind may. only be
celebrated "in the office of any registrar ;" at least so we
read the clause. There is a provision for saving the rights
of property, and it is expressly enacted that the bill shall
in no wise invalidate, alter, or affect any " canon or consti-
tution ecclesiastical" of the United Church of England and
Ireland now in force. For some reason, hitherto unex-
plained, the benefit of the act is not to extend to Scotland
or Ireland. The bill is endorsed with the names of Vis-
count Bury, Mr. R. Monckton Milnes, and Mr. Schneider.
VACANCIES, APPOINTMENTS, AND PROMOTIONS
IN THE CIVIL SERVICE.—War-office—Mr. Assistant Com-

missary-General Addington Bayley and Mr Assistant-
Commissary-General W. Stevens have retired from the
service on retiring allowances of 15s. per diem. General
Post-office—There are several vacancies for junior clerks in
_ _

the General Post-office, St. Martin's-le-Grand commencing
salary, £BO per annum. Foreign Department—The con-
sulship at Cairo has become vacant by the promotion of
Mr. Walne ; salary £4OO. Customs—Mr. D. B. Preston,
comptroller at Southampton, has been promoted to be col-
lector at Aberdeen; vice.Mr, Mackenzie, retired on super-
annuation. The comptrollership of Southampton is to be
abolished. Mr. James Flint has been promoted from second
to first-class clerk in St. Katharine's Docks, London.
Inland Revenue Department—There is a vacancy in the
Legacy and Succession Duty Office, Somerset House, for a
junior clerk ; commencing salary £9O per annum. Excise
Branch—Mr. Henry Lutwyche, supervisor of Walsall dis-
trict, Lichfield collection, has been appointed supervisor of
Ottery district, Exeter collection. Mr. Charles P. Hen-
wood, supervisor of Ottery district, Exeter collection, has
been appointed supervisor of Wellington district, in the
same collection, vice Mr. Thomas Arthur, who retires on
superannuation.—Civil Service Gazette.
THE ROBBERIES FROM THE LONDON AND NORTH-
WESTERN RAILWAY.—On Thursday forenoon Thomas
Broadly, Ely Allan, and William Fisher, were again
brought before the Huddersfield magistrates on further
charges of stealing quantities of cloth of various descrip-
tions from luggage trains on the London and North-
Western Railway, between Huddersfield and Stockport.
Cases were proved in which goods were sent by Messrs.
Woodhead and Baker, of Huddersfield, to Messrs. Cousins,
of Exeter ; by Messrs. Butterworth and Sons, of Hudders-
field, to Mr. Samuel Yoxall, of Birmingham; by Mr. Joseph
Fox, of Huddersfield, to Mr. James Barnard, of Notting-
ham ; and by Messrs. Hodges, Wodhead, and Co., Hud-
dersfield, to lklr.*John Ball, of Birmingham. In each case
the goods had not been received ; but the stolen goods now
produced were identified. After some consultation, the
magistrates unanimously committed the prisoners to take
their trial on the charges alleged ; and added that " they
considered the man Wilton to be no better than they; and,
moreover, eonsidered that the standing of highly respect-
able houses would not be lowered if thfy avo..d future
such men as he, and such transactions as were now brought
forward." Application for bail was refused.—Manchester
Guardian.

SINGULAR ROBBERY BY RATS.--Exactly a month
ago a leather purse, containing 13 sovereigns, a £5 note,
and some silver, was discovered to have been stolen from a
place in which it had been put for safety in the shop of the
Misses Rippon, 17, Pilgrim-street. The circumstances
connected with the robbery and detection of the thieves are
somewhat amusing, and the relation of them may operate
as a caution to those who are in the habit of secreting
money to be careful as to the spots where they deposit their
property. The Misses Rippon reside at the Windmill-hills,
Gateshead, and, before leaving the shop at night, they had
placed the purse containing, the money in a box underneath
one of the counters, no doubt imagining that it would there
elude the search of all depredators, should any in their noc-
turnal rambles visit the premises. The key of the shop is in-
trusted to a servant girl who opens it in the morning. She
on the following day attended to her work as usual, but
saw no signs of a burglary having been committed. When
the Misses Rippon arrived, however, to their astonishment
the purse was gone, and for some time its disappearance
was involved in mystery. At length it was suggested that
probably the rats might have removed it. A search was
made, and although the boards of the floor were taken up,
as also those of the adjoining shop, belonging to Mr. Pigg,
tailor, no clue was found to the missing property until yes-
terday, when it was discovered safely lodged underneath
the passage of Miss Jeffrey, which lies between the two
shops. With the exception of a little having been nibbled
off one corner of the purse, the owners received back the
full amount they had so curiously lost.—Newcastlc Daily
Express.

METROPOLITAN BOARD OF WORKS.—Yesterday,
at the usual weekly meeting of the board, John Thwaites,
Esq., in the chair, a memorial was presented by a deputa-
tion from St. Martin's-in-the-Fieids, on the subject of the
level of new streets, and from the vestry of Camberwell, on
the subject of the main drainage precept, Mr. Bodkin being
heard as counsel in support; and which latter, after com-
plaining of the inequality of taxation that existed at the
present moment, requested that the board would not subject
any portion of the property in the parish to a rate of more
than 3d. in the pound. The only other point of any public
interest was a report from the main drainage committee,
stating that the engineer of the London, Tilbury, and
Southend Railway Company is prepared to recommend
that company to agree to tho proposition of this board to
carry the main drainage works across the Barking branch
of the railway, on condition that the levels of the soffits of
the construction be respectively 18 ft. and 18.5 above the
datum of the section, and that the works over the railways
be carried over in such manner as may be approved by him,
and upon this board paying to the company the sum of
£5,000 as compensation for all loss and inconvenience, and
for executing the necessary alterations of the railway, it
being understood that the openings over the railway be in
each case not less than 25 feet span on the square ; and re-
commending that the board do agree to those terms, and
that the engineer and the solicitors be placed in communi •
cation with the company, with a view to the necessary
steps for carrying out the arrangement.

WRECK OF A DUTCH VESSEL.—Capt. Hakker and
the crew of the Dutch barque Lector et Emergo arrived at
Portsmouth yesterday, to which place they had been for-
warded by Mr. T. Iremonger, agent to the Shipwrecked
Mariners' Society at Little Hampton. Capt. Hakker states
that on the 16th inst., at 5 p.m., the weather being thick at
the time, with a strong breeze from S.W., his vessel struck
heavily on what afterwards proved to be the Owers, off
Selsea Bill, and about a mile inside the light ship, and that
immediately after striking she lost her rudder, and began
to fill so rapidly that himself and crew had barely time to
save themselves in the beat before she filled and settled
down on tho rocks ; they then tried to reach the light-ship,
but found they could not, although within a short distar so,
it blowing a strong breeze from the S.W., and a deal of sea
on. At 4 a.m. the next morning they were picked up by
the schooner-Hannibal, of Littlehampton, and landed at that
port, whence they were forwarded to the care of Mr. L. A.
Van den Bergh, the Dutch consul at Portsmouth. Tho
captain and crew have lost the whole of their effects. Capt.
Hakker, with his consul, yesterday, left Portsmouth for
Selsea, for the purpose of taking measures for securing any
portion of the wreck or cargo that may wash ashore, but,
from the distance of the vessel from the coast (about seven
miles), very little hopes are entertained of recovering any-
thing of value. Mr. Atkinson, a London pilot, landed from
the ship American Eagle, from London for New York,
reports that when he passed the wreck yesterday morning,
her main and wizen masts were both gone, and the ship
was apparently breaking up. The Lector et Emergo was
about three years old, 600 tons, fore and main lower masts
Of iron, laden with sugar and coffee from Batavia, bound
for Amsterdam.

FRIGHTFUL DEATH AT A DISTILLERY.—Yester-
day evening a long inquiry took place at St. George's
Workhouse, Mount-street, Grosvenor-square, before Mr.
Bedford,. coroner for Westminster, touching the death of
Wm. Venor, aged 37, an engineer, employed at Smith's dis-
tillery, Thames Bank, who was killed upon the premises on
Tuesday morning last, under circumstances of a most appal-
ling and lamentable nature. It appeared from the evidence
given by a number of witnesses that the deceased was an
engine driver. On the day in question, about 5 a.m., the
bell was rung by Lawford, the foreman, to stop the engine.
No answer was given, and the ring of the bell was repeated,
but without any reply. Suspicion was then raised that
something was wrong, and on entering the engine-room, a
sight of the most horrible description presented itself. The
mutilated remains of the unfortunate deceased were dis-
covered under the fly-wheel of the engine—the head was
quite severed, the brains and pieces of the skull lying about.
No direct cause for the calamity could be assigned, as none
of the engine work had given way or been disorganised.
The deceased was seen about ten minutes before the fright-
ful occurrence, when he was quite sober. He had full con-
trol over the engine-room. Arr. Smith, the proprietor of
the distillery, in answer to questions from the coroner and
jury, said that every precaution was used to prevent acci-
dents. The present was the first that had occurred in the
establishment. A verdict of " Accidental death" was re-
turned, The deceased leas left a widow and family.

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SATURDAY. FEBRUARY 19, 1859.