The Sun.
London, England, 1859-12-27 00:00:00

CHRISTMAS FA HUE q.

OUR NEW POLICY IN OUDE.

The Bombay Standard publishes the following
correspondence :
FROM THE SECRETARY TO THE CHIEF COMMISSIONER or
01:DE TO THE SECRETARY TO THE GOVERNMENT OP
INDIA, WITH THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL.
Foreign Department, Lucknow, Oct. 24.
Sir,—l am directed to observe that his Excellency
the Right Hon. the Governor-General will have
learned from a memorandum the chief commissioner
had the honour of submitting for his perusal, that
it has been the chief commissioner's constant endea.-
your, within the compass of his authority, to accom-
modate the forms and procedure of revenue adminis-
tration in force in the North-Western Provinces to
the different system on which the settlement of the
land revenue of Oude is based. The close control
and frequent interference of the revenue authorities
which may be suitable where peasant proprietors
enter into direct engagements with the state are
not so well adapted for Oude, where three-fourths
of the revenue are paid by great landholders of an •
cient lineage. Those restrictions are also new to
the talookdars, who, under the native government,
were vested with absolute power within the limits
of their estates. That :government, which was in-
cessantly engaged in coercing some refractory
talookdar or other, never thought of interfering
between him and those under him.
2. The feature of our administration that is
viewed with most dislike by the talookdars is the
subordination under which it places them to the
tehseeldars, or local revenue officials, not merely
because such subordination lowers their position
and wounds their pride, but also because it tends to
foster a spirit of litigiousness and disrespect in their
tenantry. Loss of power and of the respect of his
inferiors are what a native of rank feels most
acutely. In great measure this result is unavoid-
able • we cannot perpetuate the old state of things,
but ;hough we cannot avert we can soften the blow.
3. It is also a frequent apology for the indolence
and insouciance of the talookdars, and for their habit
of resigning the care of their estate to corrupt agents,
that we, by adjudicating in every difference be-
tween them and their tenantry, take all the busi-
ness of management into our own hands. Though
this plea is not valid to the full extent urged, and
a large sphere of usefulness is still left open to the
talookdars, it must yet in fairness be admitted that
with the loss of power it is but natural they should
lose interest in the management of their estates.
4. Many talcokelars have told the chief commis-
sioner that if they could he put on the same foot-
ins, . as the Rajah of Benares, who, within the limits
of his family domains, enjoys certain revenue juris-
diction, they would have nothing left to desire.
The chief commissioner has never heard that the
condition of the village occupant on the estate of
the Rajah of Benares is inferior to that of the rural
population in the adjacent British districts, nor has
he heard that they have expressed any wish to be
brought under our system.
The chief commissioner would much like to see
this precedent followed in Oude, not of course gene-
rally at first, but experimentally in a few special
instances of talookdars in whose good sense and
moderation reliance can be placed. The chief com-
missioner has lately had the advantage of meeting
the superintendent of the domains of the Rajah. of
Benares, and of learning from him the nature and
extent of the authority entrusted to the Rajah. It
embraces civil jurisdiction, but the chief commis-
sioner does not purpose to go so far, at present, nor
would he concede the authority primarily exercised
by the Rajah, as a collector of revenue, of selling
the rights of the under proprietors for de-
fault. His plan is for the talookdar to
appoint an agent or tehseeldar to a sub-division
of his estate, paying a rental of, say from 30,030 to
40,000 rupees. The tehseeldar would exercise
the ordinary powers of a landlord for the collection
of the rent, and when these fail, must, like any
other landlord, sue for recovery of the arrears. But
his suit will be heard by the talookdar, not by the
district officer, and on his obtaining a decree he
would execute it according to the rules in force.
If the defaulting tenant has proprietary rights, the
I talookdar would in satisfaction of the decree be
I authorised to transfer them for a term not exceed-
ing five years to any other member of the village
community who will pay the balance. If a sale
becomes unavoidable, which is not likely to happen,
the sanction of the deputy commissioner must first
be obtained. The tenants, on the other hand,
would bring their complaints of exaction, ouster,
&c., against the tehseeldar to the talookdar, who
would hold open court, as indeed has been his wont
heretofore. From all orders of the talookdars an
appeal would lie to the deputy commissioners, who
would occupy the same position as the superinten-
dent of the Rajah's domains.
6. The privilege which the chief commissioner
proposes to confer, according to the above sketch
of his plan, would be personal only, never heredi-
tary. It would be hold by the talookdar during
good behaviour, and on the distinct understanding
that it will be withdrawn the moment he appears
unfitted to exercise it. With the right of appeal
to the district officer, the chief commissioner does
not well see how it can be put a stop to before it
can have reached any great length. He thinks,
however, that the privilege will be so highly prized
as to make the possessor careful to do nothing to
fsrfeit it, and he also thinks that the fact of pos-
sessing such authority would incline the talookdar
to use it with moderation, for it is in the
nature of men, particularly of Easterns, to be more
disposed to deal liberally and kindly with those
who are dependent on them than with those who
assert their independence of them.
7. It must also be explained that it is not pro-
s posed to confer this authority on any talookdar
until he has given leases (puttahs) to every tenant
holding directly under him, and until all subordi-
nate rights.have been recorded.
8. The chief commissioner knows there are ob-
jections to putting any class above the law; but the
measures he propoees are practically only a modificae
tion of the fiscal law to suit an altered state of
things. It is, ho admits, a measure of a novel kind
in our revenue system, and in a counter direction to
the course we have been pursuing; but it is not
novel to the country, for it is but a return to the
native system, from which many now think we
have been rather too prone to depart.
9. The Chief Commissioner would also desire to
invest wit magisterial powers the same talookdars
as enjoy exemption from the ordinary course of
fiscal procedure. To confer on them such authority
is consonant with English policy, and will, the
Chief Commissioner thinks, have the effect of mak-
ing them identify themselves with the governing
race and feel themselves part of the govern-
ment of the country. Their powers should at first be
the special ones of an assistant magistrate, to be'ex-
tended to the full powers of a magistrate as they
show fitness to exercise authority. The Chief Com-
missioner would not allow them to issue orders of a
general nature to the police, they should merely
, try the offenders brought before them by the police.
They would also be required to conform to all the
rules of our system of criminal procedure and to
furnish the customary reports and statements.
10. The following are the talookdars whom the
Chief Commissioner desires to recommend ; they
have been chosen as far as possible from different
parts of the province to make the example more
public, and excite a spirit of emulation. They have
not been selected solely for their claims on the con-
sideration of Government ; for, unfortunately, some
of those who have rendered the most signal ser-
vices are wanting in intellectual capacity, and
other qualities besides loyalty are required for the
exercise of this extended authority.
I. Maharajah of Bulrampore. Pays a revenue
of 300,000 rupees ; his estates are situated in the
Baraitch division.

(From Noles and Queries.)
My grandmother has often told me of fairies
dancing upon our green, and that they were very
little creatures, clothed in green; they would do
good to the industrious people, but they pinch the
sluts ; they would steal children, and give one of
their own in the room ; and the moment any one
saw them they were struck blind of one eye. All
this I have heard, and my grandmother, who was
a very tall woman, said she had seen several of
them, which I believed because she said so ; she
said, moreover, that they lived underground, and
that they generally came out of a mole-hill ; they
had fine music always among themselves, and
danced in a moonshiny night around, or in a ring,
as one may see at this day upon every common in
England, where mushrooms grow. But, though
my grandmother told me so, it is not unlawful to
inquire into a secret of this nature, and so I spoke
to several good women about it.
When I asked one whether there were such things
as fairies, " Ay," says she, " I have seen them
many a time ;" another said, " There's no room
to doubt of it, for you may see thousands of their
rings upon our common," &c.
ffound, however, another way to be satisfied of
the matter, and heard the following story of fairies
from a person of reputation :
A gentlewoman and her husband were going into
the country, and thought •it best to retire out of
town four or five miles the night before, to receive
the stage coach, and avoid the ceremony of taking
leave of their friends, who are generally more
troublesome than, welcome on that occasion ; and
being gone to bed in a country town where fairies
walked, about 12 o'clock up comes a little woman,
not much bigger than one's thumb, and immedi-
ately follows a little parson, also a great number of
people, and a midwife, with a child in her arms ;
and I suppose by their power chairs were set for
them ; but it happened they wanted a godmother for
their child, for it was to be christened that night; so
says the good fairy, " Father, the gentlewoman in
the room will do us that favour." "Ay," says the
rest of the company, " it is a good thought ;" and up
brisked the fairy father to the bedside, and called
the lady, who did the office; for which the father
gave her a diamond ring. All this while the lady's
husband was as fast as a church, and knew nothing
of the matter. Bat in the morning, good luck, the
case was altered; he espied the fine ring upon his
wife's finger. "How came you by that, my dear ?"
says he. " Why, my love !" replies she, " the fairies
have been here to-night ;" and told him the story
of the christening. " Zounds," says he, " the
ring is Sir John's ring; I know the stone ; I
have often seen familiarities between you
and him, and now I am convinced of your treachery."
And so I suppose he took his wife for a wanton.
The fairies were very necessary in families, as
much as bread, salt, pepper, or any other such com-
modity, I believe ; because they used to walk in
my father's house, and if I can judge of the matter,
they were brought into all the families by the ser-
vants ; for in old times folks used to go to bed at
nine o'clock, and when the master and mistress
were laid on their pillows, the men and maids, if
they had a game at romps, and blundered up stairs,
or tumbled a chair, the next morning every one
would swear is was the fairies, and that they heard
them stamping up and down the stairs all night,
crying " Waters locked, waters locked," when there
was no water in any pail in the kitchen.
Ss from what I have said, the hobgoblins, the
witches, the conjurors, the ghosts, and the fairies,
are not of ae.y value, nor worth a thought.

ADVICE.—Be and continue poor, young raan,
while others around you grow rich by fraud and dishonesty ;
bear the pain of defeated hopes, while others gain the ac-
complishment of theirs by flattery ; forego the gracious
pressure of the hand, for which others cringe and crawl.
Wrap yourself in your own virtue, and seek a friend and
your daily bread, If you have in such a course grown gill,
with unblemished honour, bless God and die.—Heinzel-
rnenn.

11. The brother of the Rajah of Kuppoorthulla
provided he resides on the rajah's estates in
Baraitch division.
111. Maharajah Maim Singh. Pays a revenue
of 260,000 rupees ; his estates are situated in the
Gonda and Fyzabad districts.
IV. Rana Rughonah Singh. Pays a revenue of
99,000 rupees; his estates lie in the Roy Bareilly
district. A rajpoot of the same family as Benee
Madho and the Rajah of Morarmow.
V. Rajah Aurdeo Buksh. Pays a revenue of
36,516 rupees ; his estates lie in the Hurdeo dis-
trict, opposite Furruckabad,
VI. Rajah Roostum Sahae of Dora. Pays a
revenue of near 60,000 rupees ; his estates lie in the
Fyzabad district.
11. These are all whom the Chief Commissioner
can at this moment recommend with entire confi-
dence. He would like to see the number raised to
12, and if permitted will submit the names of six
more, .hereafter, when in the course of his tour
through the province he shall have become tho-
roughly acquainted with the character and qualifi.
cations cf some in respect of whom he is not quite
so confident. He wishes to take every precaution
to avoid fai!ure even in a single instance.—l
have, &c.

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FROM THE SECRETARY TILE GOVERNMENT OF INDIA,
WITH, TILE GOVERNOR-GENERAL, TO THE CHIEF COM-
MISSIONER OF OUDE.

Camp, Cavimpore, Nov. 2.

e
of Sir,
u—r Isacincretdaitr•ye'cs
tedtoa
letter,
2,396, and in reply to acquaint you that the Go-
vernor-General cordially assents is the two pro-
posals recommended therein, viz., the granting to
certain talookdars limited revenue jurisdiction over
their estates, and the investing them with magis-
terial powers.
2. Both these measures will tend to the object
which, as you are aware, the Governor-General
has in view, of turning to the purposes of good
government the influence which the great land-

THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 27, 1859.

holders and hereditary chiefs of Oude legitimately
possess, instead of seeking to suppress that in-
fluence, and to supplant it by our ruling authority
in our own officers.
3. The Governor-General is satisfied that no
scheme of administration which sets this influence
aside will be acceptable to the people or successful ;
and now that the revi:•al in perpetuity of the ta-
lookdaree system in Oude has been declared it be-
comes more than ever necessary that the authority
of the talookdars should within wholesome bounds
be sustained.

4. The Governor-General approves of the proposal
that revenue authority should not be conferred upon
any talookdar until he has given basis to every
tenant holding directly under him, and until all
subordinate rights have been recovered.
5. His Excellency also agrees in thinking that
for the present it will be well to invest with magis-
terial powers those alone of the talookdars who are
to have exemption from the ordinary course of
revenue procedure.
6. The Governor-General has it much at heart
that the experiment now about to be made in Oudc
to enlist the services of the chiefs in the administra-
tion of the country should not fail, and that not
even any discouragement of it should occur. He
therefore entirely concurs in your opinion that
the talookdars chosen as tho recipients of the new
powers should not be chosen on account alone of
services rendered to the State, but that very great
care should be taken to select those whose intelli-
gence, self•contrel, and considerate treatment of
their dependents, give the best promise of a faithful
discharge of their public trusts.
7. For the same reason the Governor-General
wishes you to guard against a conclusion being
drawn in the minds of these men that, because the
Government is about to recognise in them powers
akin to those which were left in their hands by the
native government, it will look upon the abuse or
lax exercise of those powers with the same indiffe-
rence as was felt by their former rulers.
8. To prevent this the precise scope of their
functions, the mode of exercising them, and
the errors into which they are most likely to
fall, should be carefully pointed out 'to them ; and
as this can never be so effectually done by general
written instructions as by personal intercourse and
friendly admonition, the Governor-General wishes
that during the approaching cold season you should
visit all the talookdars whomyou have proposed as
the first to be selected, each on his estate, and there
personally induct the chief into his new duties.
This will be more likely to impress each with a
sense of the responsibility placed upon him than
any communications through the ordinary channel
of the local officers.

9. The measure is one of which, if it should be
successful, the importance will reach far beyond the
limits of Oude, and the Governor-General places
the introduction of it in your hands with the fullest
confidence.—l have, &c.,

CECIL BEADON.
Secretary to the Government of India, with the
Governor-General.
Camp Cawnpore, Nov. 2, 1859.

A 3LITBMIONLIL ESCAPADE.

(From the North British Daily Mail.)

We have a story to relate, so pregnant, however,
with romance, mingled with credulity and impos-
ture, that our readers will be apt to doubt the facts,
but we regret to say that, to the great mortifica-
tion and grief of a very worthy family, occupying
a humble but respect ►ble position in Greenock,
they are but too true. We give them as follows :
A respectable widow keeps an eating-house in
Shaw-street, near Open-shore, GI eenock. Her
eldest daughter, L—, is a handsome, engaging
young woman, of 21 years of age, and assists her in
her small business. The family reside in premises
immediately over the shop.
About seven o'clock on the night of Sunday the
21st November last, the screw steamer United
Kingdom arrived at the Tail of the Bank from
Quebec and Montreal. Two hours thereafter a
tall, wiry man, of about 40 years of age, with bushy
whiskers, and wearing a rough fatigue-looking
dress, with a cap on his head, was seen wending
his way along the streets near to the harbour. He
was one of the passengers by the United Kingdom,
and had contrived to get ashore by an early boat.
Accuiting a policeman, he inquired where he could
obtain refreshment, and the officer introduced him
to the house of the widow. He said he was the
captain of the United Kingdom, talked largely
about his position and responsibility, asked to be
served with some fowl, and insisted on the officer
and a boatman belonging to the port joining in his
repast, in return for their trouble. The widow had
no fowl, but provided some roast beef, after par-
taking of which the officer and boatman went
away, leaving the soi-disant captain still in the
house. He waxed loquacious, and soon ingratiated
himself into the good graces of the widow, and
paid some attention to L., the daughter. Leaving
shortly afterwards, having paid his small bill, he
said he would return in the morning; and he did
return, had a fire lit in one of the rooms upstairs,
where he wrote a number of letters, and then left
to go to Glasgow, to attend, as he said, to his vessel,
which, in the meantime, had proceeded up the
ricer.

On the evening of the same day he returned to
the widow's, but he was not then made such a wel-
come guest. L.'s brother, a shrewd young trades-
man, two years her junior, had noticed what he
conceived to be an undue attention to L. on the part
of the strange captain. He did not believe half the
stories told by the vaunting skipper, and failed not
to indicate this, which gave the latter mortal of-
fence. Indeed, on one occasion they had come to
fisticuffs. The captain quitted the house for an-
other of the same description, the back door of
which opened into the same staircase. There he
became a welcome guest, as likely to become a good
customer. Into this house he contrived to induce
L. to come and take tea with him, and ultimately
prevailed on her to accompany him to Glasgow on
the following day (Tuesday), L. stipulating that her
younger sister, and a female neighbour who had au
errand there, should accompany thorn.
Tuesday arrived, finding the party prepared to
start by the early forenoon train, but it appeared as
if the captain, who was bustling about between both
houses, wished to get off with L. alone, and leave
the sister and the female neighbour behind. At first
he was likely to be disappointed in his wish, but as
accident would have it, the bonnet of the sister dis-
appeared, and while its owner was engaged looking
for it, the captain and L. contrived to disappear by
the back stair, and wont off to Glasgow by the 12.30
train.

At Glasgow the lovers proceeded to the Crow
hotel, where the captain bustled about among the
waiters with all the air of a man of importance,
ordered a fire in their room, and dinner for two.
Dinner being discussed, he left the house with L.,
promising to return in a short time, which he did
with a cab. Both entered, and drove off with great
rapidity. L.'s statement is that she wondered where
she was going, and that on questioning her com-
panion he replied he did not know, but still he im-
patiently enjoined the driver to go ahead. 'We sus-
pect, however, that L. must have been under some
impression, vague though it may have been, that
she was on the road to a clergyman to get married
to her strange companion of only some few hours'
acquaintance.
After a rapid but short drive, the cab stopped at
a large Louse, which stood back from the line of
street, inside of railings. Here she ventured to ask
the 'coachman who lived hero, and he answered, a
clergyman. She says that, hearing the captain talk
of the chaplain of the steamer, she thought all was
right, and that they were going to visit some of the
captain's friends. They entered the house, and, in
a large apartment, found a tall old reverend gen-
tleman standing at a fire, a young man sitting at a
table, and a servant girl. The old man conversed
with them for a few minutes about the ordinance of
marriage, its relations, obligations, and responsibili-
ties; in the course pf which, she says, the captain
grasped her two hands in his. She adds that no
documents were either asked for or produced ; but
she at length became aware that some ceremonial
was gone through. The ceremony, whatever it was,
only occupied a few minutes, at the expiry of which
the parties returned to the cab and drove back to
their hotel.

After remaining at the hotel for a short time they
walked on foot to the railway station in Bridge-
street, and returned to Greenock by the traiu about
six o'clock. When they entered the mother's house
she demanded some explanation of their sudden dis-
appearance in the morning, but could get none till
the captain retired into the neighbouring house—
his lodgings. L. then told her mother of the day's
adventure. at which the latter was perfectly shocked.
Guided by the:counsel of her elders and some friends,
she enjoined L. at her- peril not to go near the
captain till they had ascertained his true character
(for they now began to suspect him), and the naturo
of the rash and mysterious contract to whichL. had
that day been a party. The captain kept dangling
between the two houses, wondering why his bride's
mother was not prepared to wicome the newly-
wedded pair with a supper party, and began to evince
a gradually deepening impatience at the absence of
his bride. He, too, became suspicious, and na-
rowly watched every movement of L., and would
scarcely permit her to be out of his sight. He grew
violent at what he conceived to be bad treatment,
and L., for the first time, began to discover that he
was a man of vio.ent temperament, and became
afraid of him. At length a ruse had to be adopted
to get away from him ; the mother told him that
L. was wanted to assist in preparing tea for the
wedding party, and be allowed her to leave his side. •

Instigated by her mother and her own fears, L
haqilythrew on some extra clothing, and was des- I

patched. off to the house of a relative in Gonna,
there to await the tide of events.

THE CORONER AND TILE POLICE.

Finding himself deceived, the captain got into a
towering passion, uttering the most violent lan-
guage, and was like to turn both houses upside
down looking for his lost bride. He rushed from-
one apartment to another like a madman, then left
the house, threatening to take legal proceedings to
recover L. It was eventually, however, arranged
that on the following Wednesday morning the cap-
tain, accompanied by legal gentlemen called in by
the mother, and L., accompanied by her mother,
should proceed to Glasgow to have an interview
with the clergyman who was alleged to have mar-
ried the couple. Though the four smisa to Glasgow
by the same train the mother and daughter went
by themselves. It appeared that on their way to
B----terrace' the residence of the clergyman, the
law ageni had occasion to make a business call, and
when L. and her mother arrived at the house, they
found the captain there without the law agent ;
and apparently' some understanding come to between
him and the clergyman as to the proceedings. A
printed document was produced, headed " Marriage
Certificate," and this L. was asked to sign, and
actually did sign, and the captain signed it
" Charles Allan, sea-going bachelor ; " the old rev.
gentleman signed it " J. G., minister of 13---
street Church," and it was signed by " J. A." and
" C. G." (we suppose the whole names) as wit-
nesses ; and the document certified that the parties
had been duly proclaimed according to law, and
were regularly married by the said clergyman of
B--terrace, Glasgow, on the 23d day of
November, 1859 (the day on which the certifi-
cate was granted was the 24th). Strange to say,
this latter ceremony was gone through in presence
of the mother ; but it seemed a mystery to her, and
also to the daughter, if her own statement is to be
believed. Oa leaving the house the captain told
the clergyman that a law-agent would call there
that day, and he (the clergyman) would know how
to act.
The three returned to Greenock, the mother and
daughter apparently in a quandary, but the mother
was resolved that, whatever had transpired in the
shape of a marriage, she would prevent its con-
summation by cohabitation till she learned more of
the bridegroom. Her daughter, beginning to see
the danger of the course she had pursued with an
entire stranger, adopted her mother's views, and
took the earliest opportunity of beating a retreat to
her old quarters at Gourock. When the captain
found she was gone he became fierce as a hungry
tiger bereft of his prey. He hired a cab, and drove
about the town in all directions, seeking for his
wife. He visited one clergyman's house after an-
other, in hope of learning something of her where-
abouts. He employed a law agent, who went to
the mother and remonstrated with her about the

On Saturday, at the Afarylebone Vestry, held in
the Court-house, Marylebone-lane, Mr. Church-
warden Poland in the chair.

Mr. GREENWELL, the vestry-clQrk, brought up a
report of a special committee appointed to consider
the threatened interference with the coroner's ju-
risdiction, as proposed by a recent Royal Commis-
sion, whereby that office would be made entirely
subservient to that police. The report set forth :
" Your committee having taken into their consi-
deration the matters referred to them, have ascer-
tained that tho commissioners appointed by the
coronets on the 11th of May, 1858, recommended
as follows :-Ist. That the Home Secretary be
empowered to lay down regulations for the hold-
ing of inquests, and to require the police to
sign the requisition to the coroner, by which
the proceedings of that officer would be set in
motion. 2d. That in future the coroners be
paid a salary, to be fixed by the justices in
quarter-sessions, subject to the approval of the
Home Secretary. With regard to the first of these
recommendations, your committee cannot concur in
its propriety, having in view that the coroner's
court is one of inquiry, and not necessarily of ac-
cusation ; that it originated from a desire to place
the system of civilised and social existence on a
firm basis, and that its effects have been to render
human life more sacred and secure in this than
perhaps in any other nation in the world. The
proposition to confine the initiatory proceedings of
this important court to one class of her Majesty's
subjects, and that to a body of men partly armed,
seems to your committee to demand the strongest
protest, and they recommend the vestry to take
such measures, either by appeal to the Home Sec-
retary or by communication with the members for
the borough, as they may obviate this change,
which they consider would be fatal to the efficiency
and universality of the institution. Your com-
mittee consider that the second recommendation of
the commissioners, viz., to pay the coroner a fixed
salary, instead of fees as heretofore, deserves favour-
able consideration, inasmuch as it would terminate
the unsatisfactory feeling now existing between
some coroners and the justices, who it appears have
disallowed the fees of the coroners in certain cases.

impropriety of perhaps destroying her daughter's
prospects, as the pretended husband had told him a
fair story of his position and ability to maintain a
wife. He had told him that he was a tradesman,
and had property in America, and was willing to
set up house-keeping in a respectable way ; but the
mother, acting under iestructions, was inexorable.
At length it reached the captain's ears that L. was
in Gourock, and thither he drove in haste. This
was on the evening of Friday, and learning that he
was approaching, she escaped by a back door
through the fields and sought shelter in the house
of a respectable clergyman whom she had known
previously in connection with the revival move-
ment, in which she had talsen a part, and under
whose roof she experienced the utmost kindness
and sympathy. But a visit from the captain to
demand his wife was feared, and, three hours bo-
fore daylight on the following morning, L., wrap-
ping the minister's plaid around her to protect
her from the cold, started on foot to Cloch Ferry,
under convoy of the worthy minister, and was des-
patched across the Firth in an open boat to Dunoon,
intending to seek shelter in the house of a relatlYeat
S—r. The weather became wet and tempestuous;
but the poor young woman, impelled by a fear that
she had unwittingly been led into the oommittal of
some act which had rendered her amenable to the
criminal law, and that she was pursued by criminal
officers, trudged on alone, footsore and weary,
through a barren and inhospitable district, a dis-
tance of 25 miles, and reached her friend's in an
exhausted condition. There, however, she could not
rest, but started again on foot for Lochgoilhead,
where she took the steamer on Monday for Greenoea,
Now comes the sequel of the first act in this re-
markable chapter of errors. It appears that the
captain had been playing some queer pranks else-
where in town about tho same time. He passed
the first night on shore at the Royal Hotel, East-
breast, and on leaving next morning ho paid his
bill, and seemed to have money. He next came
back to the same house, driving in a cab, on
Wednesday night, in a state of excitement, and in
liquor, and the cabman being importunate for his
hire (is.), the captain asked Mr. Walker, the land-
lord, to pay it, till he got change, which he did.
Mr. Walker felt disposed to turn him adrift that
night, in consequence of his offensive behaviour;
but, taking pity on him, he allowed him then to
remain, but turned him out next day, without how-
ever, getting payment of his bill. The captain com-
plained of having lost money, and had not a far-
thing to pay. He had run up a small bill in the
widow's house, and a much larger one in that of her
neighbour, both of which he failed to pay. On
Thursday he drove about in a cab seeking for his
wife, until it was ascertained that he had no money,
and then he was forced out in the street, and a fur
boa which he wore round his neck detained for his
hire. He went to Glasgow, to the Caledonian
Hotel, where he ran up a bill, using the name of
Mr. Walker, of the George, Greenock, to Mr. Mac-
farlane of the Caledonian. And finally, the Ameri-
can captain figured at the Central Police Court at
Glasgow, on Tuesday, the 29th November, exactly a
week after his marriage, as Chas. Brownlow Allan,
alias Duncan Allan, where he was convicted of steal-
ing a number of silk handkerchiefs from a shop in
Trongate, and to be imprisoned fel. 60 days, 30 of
which to be accompanied with hard labour, and he
is now undergoing that sentence in the North Pri-
son of Glasgow.

" Your committee do not consider that the plan
proposed would result in too few inquests being
held, as the coroners would be amenable to the
Court of Queen's Bench on the one hand, and to
public opinion on the other. Your committee are
of opinion, therefore, that it would not be advisable
to alter the present mode of initiating the proceed-
ings of the coroner's court, which is now done by
the representation of two or more residents of the
locality where a sudden or violent death has oc-
curred, subject to the option of the coroner holding
the inquiry.
" Your committee have had, in the course of their
inquiry into the matter, referred to them some col-
lateral considerations brought under their notice,
the result of which they venture to suggest to the
vestry—first, as to the election of coroner. Your
committee, considering the appointment of the pre-
sident and judge of this important court is very
properly vested in the freeholders of the county,
and that no unnecessary delay or expense should
prevent the free choice of a suitable peuson, are of
opinion that the duration, where a poll is demanded,
for 15 days is objectionable, and ought to be assimi-
lated to the practice at Parliamentary elections.
2d. As to the procedure before the court, your com-
mittee consider that in order to put an end to the
unseemly struggles which have frequently occurred
between the coroner and the Government authori-
ties in cases where criminality is involved, the per-
son suspected ought, when in custody of those au-
thorities, to be produceable at the coroner's court,
inasmuch as it may be considered not conducive to
a fair investigation that it, should be conducted in
his absence."

Mr. HODGES, as chairman of the committee,
moved the adoption of the report, which was se-
conded by Mr. B. H. SMART.

Mr. Vwerner, Mr. Nicholay, Mr. Carr, and
others strongly supported it, and it was adopted
nem. con.

The vestry clerk was then directed to forward
copy to the Home Secretary, and the vestry ad-
journed.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE—Dec. 26.

Thus ends in the meantime this strange and
eventful history. It conveys a moral which should
be pondered by the softer sex in every condition in
life, but more especially by those who, like this
young woman, are exposed to the cajolery of every
nameless adventurer who may happen to cross their
path. She seems, innocently enough, to have been
victimised ; but, happily, the wrong she has sus-
tained is not irremediable. Her relatives are not in
a position to defray an expensive process in the su-
perior court in reducing the irregular marriage, but
we understand something will be done to endeavour
to extricate her from the toils into which she has
been inveigled.
As for the party who has been a chief actor in the
affair, and without:whose agency it could never have
taken place, and of whom better things might have
been expected, we leave him to be otherwise dealt
with. The possibility of having the peace of fami-
lies thus furtively compromised by illegal marriages
cannot surely be tolerated at this time of day.
Gretna Green, with all its irregularity, was nothing
to this.

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Experience ha's proved, first, that it effects a considerable
saving in the consumption of provender; secondly, that it
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early development of fat. Mr. Thorley, originating this
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to supersede, to a certain extent, the tedious and expensive
mode then prevailing of fattening stall-fed beasts. In this
he happily succeeded ; and success prompted a very natural
desire to improve upon the invention, so as to make it ap-
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lish farmer was slow to encourage its use, and manifested an
unwillingness to rely upon its efficacy, fancying he possessed
in the produce of his farm, ample materials whereby to feed
and fatten his cattle at a cheaper rate than by the employment
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MARYLEBONE.—WiIIiam Ellons, a private in
the Coldstream Guards, was brought before Mr.
Broughton, charged with the following violent
assaults :

Mary Burns, 60, Ossulston-street, St. Pancras,
deposed that on the previous night she was passing
along the Marylebone-road, when the prisoner,
without saying a word, placed his arm round her
neck ; she called him a blackguard, and desired him
to go about his business, upon which he gave her
two blows on the face, and made off.
William Allen, who was walking a short dis-
tance behind Miss Burns, stated that he was met
by the prisoner, by whom he was struck a severe
blow on the mouth.

Maybank, 270 e, said that when he took the
prisoner into custody Allen was then bleeding ; and
at the station-house prisoner denied the assaults
sworn to. He was the worse for drink.
Mr. Broughton convicted him in two separate
penalties of 40s. ; in default of payment, a month's
imprisonment in each case.
Thomas Cahill, an ex-policeman, was charged
wish assaulting two constables of the D division.
The evidence went to state that on the previous
morning at two o'clock the prisoner was creating
a disturbance in the Harrow-road. He was desired
to go on quietly, but he refused to do so, and vio-
lently attacked Clarke, 160, and Kimber, 65.
The prisoner was fined in the first case 305., or
six weeks, and for the other 20s. ; in default of
payment six weeks in the first case, and in the
other three weeks in the House of Correction.

CLERRENIVELL.—John Griffiths, Frederick
Newland, and Matilda Newland, three persons well
known to the police, were charged before Mr.
Corrie under the following circumstances :
The prisoners were seen by Sergeant Evans, 22
G, an active plain-clothes sergeant, in front of a
house near the City-road, talking together. The
sergeant, in company with Police-constable Short,
77 G, watched them for some time, and saw one of
the prisoners try one of the street-doors, when they
were taken into custody, and at the station some
skeleton keys were found in their possession. The
prisoners gave a false address, but their residence
being found, it was searched, and in it was found a
work-box, a number of writing and other articles,
the proceeds of a burglary which had been com-
mitted, and from which property had been taken of
the value of £3O. The prisoners have before been
in custody for robberies from the person, and have
been long known to the police as desperate thieves.
When they were taken into custody the male pri-
soner, Newland, dropped a key which would open
the door of the house at which the robbery of £3O
had been committed.
Mr. Corrie sent the prisoner to the sessions for
trial. ---
LAMBETH.—Keturch Grobecker, a merchant's
clerk, and a person of respectable appearance, ap-
peared before Mr. Elliott to answer a summons
charging him with deserting his wife and child,
and leaving them chargeable to the ratepayers of
the parish of Camberwell.
Mr. Sedgeley, the relieving officer of the parish
of Camberwell, said the wife and child of the pri-
soner were chargeable to the parish.
Mrs. Grobe'cker, a rather good-looking young
woman, said she had been turned out 4, her house
by her husband, whe told her at the tint! she might
go and get her living in the streets, or in any other
way she thought proper ; and she was ultimately
compelled to apply for relief to Camberwell parish.
In cross-examination by Mr. Charnock, who at-
tended for the defendant, the witness said she left
her husband in 1855, and that he subsequently al-
lowed her ss. a week.
Mr. Elliott—How long is it since he discon-
tinued the allowance of ss. a week ?
Witness—About six months ago.
Mr. Charnock—Had you been delivered of a
child in the month of December, 1857 ?
Witness—Yes, on the 15th December.
Tr Mr. Charnock—Then tell his worship who the
father of that child is.
Witness—Am I bound to do so ?
Mr. Charnock—Of course you are.
Witness—Then I refuse to say who is the father
of that child.
Mr. Charnock—Have you not since then had a
miscarriage in Bethnal-green workholue ?
Mr. Elliott—lt is useless pursuing this case fur-
ther. The wife Las admitted to the guilt of adul-
tery, and after that I cannot think of making an
order on the husband, and
The summons is, therefore, dismissed.

THAMES.—Robert Forrest, a clerk in the em-
ploy of the London Dock Company, was brought
before Mr. Selfe, charged with assaulting Rachael
Moss, a
Jewess, and wife of Mr. Isaac Moss, the
landlord of the Sir Walter Raleigh public-house, in
Whitechapel.
It appeared from the evidence of the complainant,
which was given with great diffidence and modesty,
that on Saturday night she was in Charlotte-street,
Whitechapel, in company with another married
woman, when the prisoner accosted her, stooped
down, and laid hold of the top of her boots, at the
same time making a vulgar noise with his mouth.
She repulsed him, but he repeated the offence, and
alarmed her very much indeed. She pushed him
away, on which he struck her, and ran away. She
followed him to the opposite side of the street, and

seized him by the collar at the door-way of a.
grocer's shop. He struggled hard to get away, and
struck Mrs. Moss several times over the back, neck,
and shoulders. Mrs. Moss held the prisoner for
some time, and " beyond her strength," and her
victorine was torn and lost, and her brooch b;oken.
A policeman came to her assistance, and the prisoner
was given into custody.
Rachael Solomons confirmed the evidence of the
complainant in every particular, and said the pri-
soner's conduct to her friend Mrs. Moss was very
offensive.
Mrs. Saunders, of No. 55, Charlotte-street,
Whitechapel, confirmed the evidence of Mrs.
Moss and Mrs. Solomon, and added that Mrs.
Moss said to defendant, "You vagabond, what do
you mean now ?" and he then put his hand on
her clothes improperly, and struck her several
times.
Mr. Charles Young, solicitor who appeared for
the defendant, cross-examined the witnesses, and
said that Mr. Forrest had been spending the even-
ing with some friends on Saturday, and became
inebriated. The defendant was very sorry for what
he had done, and was willing to make the most
ample apology.
Several witnesses gave the prisoner a
general
good character, extending over a period of maul
years.
Roche, the gaoler of the court, said he had known
the defendant for the last seven years, and he was
the very last man he expected to have acted in the
manner described.

The witnesses [for the prosecution said the pri-
soner was quite sober on the Saturday night.
Mr. Self asked the husband of the prosecutriz if
he wished the case to be sent to the sessions.
Mr. Moss said he wished the magistrate to dig'
pose of the case summarily.
Mr. Selfe condemned the conduct of the defen-
dant at great length, and said he had not the
miserable plea of drunkenness in extenuation of ht.!
conduct. There was no doubt the prisoner had
behaved most improperly and indecently to the
complainant in the first instance, and afterwards
committed a brutal assault upon her. He fined the
prisoner £5 and in default of payment to be Im-
prisoned for two months. The find was instantly
paid.

THE PALACE OF FREDERICKSBOBG•

It has been briefly mentioned by telegraph that the Palace
of Fredericksborg, in Denmark, had been destroyed by firei;
There aro two royal residences inDenmark which bear neatu
the,same name. The one, close to Copenhagen, is Fredericks-
borg, built in the 18th century, by Frederick IVIy. the
Italian style, and afterwards enlarged by Christian V 1., and
from the balcony of which there is a magnficent
the:city the Sound, and coasts of Sweden. The other palac,..e'
that of Fredericksborg, which has been just destroyed, wi'"
the
five miles from Copenhagen, and was the Pan'zheon. of
glories of Denmark. It was divided into three parts, ela:
rated from each other by fortified fosses. The principal ediurt
had four stories, with handsome towers and pinnacles. ,
had vast cellars extending under water,Tor forth© chateau stool
on an island in a lake, but they were built so substantially
that no dampness could penetrate. What more particularly
attracted the attention of strangers visiting this place was
the chapel, situated in the left wing, and embellished with
sculptures, pictures, and the most exquisite carvings
wood. King Christian the Fourth himself turned several of
view over
the arabesques and flowers in ivory found there. The altar
was a masterpiece of workmanship, and had no less thenil
kilogrammes of silver employed en it. Over the gall
stood an escutcheon with the arms of Denmark, surround
by these of the knights still living of the orders of the
Elephant and of Dannebrog. In an adjoining were
the escutcheons of the deceased knights, and among then!
that of Napoleon I. The hall of the knights, "-
of the largest in Europe, being not loss than
150 feet long, was all of marble ; its handsome mantel-
piece had been unfortunately injured by the Swedes durinig
the wars. The ceiling was ornamented with innumeab'e
figures, groups, and symbolical and emblematical repr.es,ll;
tations of all kinds, intermingled with sentences 01,,,'„
Latin, Danish, and Gorman languages. It was a real
truna mundi, and 26 artists were employed on it for ee!'7s
years. The portrait gallery was unique of its kind, and
great value for the history of Denmark. ,Each sovereign }!:::;
hall
a space reserved for him, and round him were grouped
made
members of his family, ministers, and all who bed 111 •
themselves conspicuous under his reign. In the colleen°.
i
wore portraits of the astronomer Tycho Brahe, the poet Tic!.
berg, the historian Suhm, and numerous others. The Po
+midi
traits of Struensee and the unfortunate Queen 314"--wa
wore not suspended in the gallery, but visitors were sho
the words, "O God, keep me innocent !" which the (2 tie;
had cut on one of the windows with a diamond ring.
ricksborg was, as has been above mentioned, situated
middle of a lake, a site expressly chosen by Christian 12,a;
who was an experienced sailor, and one of the most pePw
to
kings ever known in that country. It was his fa des of
place of residence. The courtiers laughed at the idc'.t.
building a palace in such a spot, but the Kinpaide nor
tention to their remarks, and by the aid of English a ci"uc.
tects and workmen, whom he procured for the purpose,
coeded in carrying out all his plans successfully, and co
pleting a magnificent pile of building.