The Sun.
London, England, 1861-05-17 00:00:00

THE WATERWITCH AFFAI 'AT NEWMARKET,

It may be remembered that we appended to our report of
the Newmarket First Spring Meeting a notice issued by the
Stewards of the Jockey Club, prohibiting any person from
speaking to the jockeys after they were mounted and at the
post. That notice was occasioned by some very " irreguLar "
proceedings, which were taken into consideration by the
Jockey Club at a recent special meeting, attended by
Admiral Rouse, Lord Portsmouth (stewards), Mr. Alex-
ander, Lord Annesley, Duke of Beaufort, Lord Clifden,
Lord de Manley, Lord Derby, Mr. Greville, Sir Joseph
Hawley, Mr. Lowther, General Peel, Lord W. Poulett,
Lord Stradbroke, and Lord Wilton. The official Racing
Calendar contains the following announcement in reference
to the matter :

" The meeting was called by the stewards to take into
consideration the running of Mr. Bryan's Waterwitch at
Newmarket, on Wednesday, in the First Spring Meeting.
After the senior steward had stated the circumstances, a
letter from Mr. Bryan was read, and evidence was taken
from a gentleman who attended on his behalf. Mr, Bryan
having admitted that he gave orders to his jockey to lose
the race, it was resolved—
" That Mr. Bryan be warned off the course at New-
market and other places where the Jockey Club have juris-
diction for the year 1861, and that he be informed that if
the club had not reason to believe that the offence was com-
mitted under the influence of tenver, and not with an
object of pecuniary gain, they would have felt it their duty
to inflict a much severer penalty.'
"W. Long-, the boy wno rode Nrriterwitcla, heing young
and inexperienced, has been severely reprimanded by the
stewards, and told, that if he should repeat the offence, he
will never be allowed to ride afterwards."

HORSES STRUCK OUT OF THEIR ENGAGE-

MENTS.

May 7, at 5 45 p.m., Oxford out of all handicaps for
which the weights have appeared to date; at 10 15 p.m.,
Pancake, out of the Chester Cup.

May 11, at:9 a.m., Predictor, out of the Wiltshire Stakes ;
at 4 p.m., Cape Flyaway, out of the Wiltshire Stakes at
Salisbury and the Great Northern Handicap at York.
May 13, at 9 a.m., Zodiac, out of all handicaps for which
the weights have appeared; 9 a.m., Nutbush, out of her
York engagements; at 9 a:m., Cheesecake, out of Man-
chester handicaps ; at 130 p.m., Ramses, out of Manches-
ter engagements; at 1 30 p.m., Multeer, out of Manchester
engagements, 1861, and Two-year-old Stakes at Harpen-
den; at 3 15 p.m., Predictor, out of the Craven Plate at
Salisbury; at 4 30 p.m., Master Bagot out all engage-
ments.

May 14, at 9 a.m., Bourgeois, out of Salisbury engage-
ments; at 9 a.ru., Waterford, out of the Union Cup at
Manchester ; at 9 a.m., Invader, out of Trial States at
York Spring; at 9 a.m., Sparrow Hawk, out of the Union
Cup and Trafford Handicap at Manchester; at 9 a.m.,
Whitewell out of the Union Cup, the Trafford, and tho City
Handicaps at Manchester; at 9 a.m., Yorkminster, out of
the City Handicap at Manchester, at 9 a.m., Dover, out of
all his Manchester engagements ; at 9 a.m., Black Diamond,
out of all races for which he is handicapped to date; at 3
25 p.m., Ariadne, out of her Salisbury engagements; at 4

15 p.m., Little Drummer, out of the Somersetshire Stakes
and, the Derby; at 4 15 p.m., Jessie Brown, out the Oaks.
May 15, at 9 a.m., Ripon, out of the Union Cup at Man-
chester; at 4 p.m., Edmund Kean, out of all engagements.

NEW RACE von NEWMARKET.—A new race, appro-
priately named the Derby Trial Stakes, is announced for the
Craven Meeting, 1862. It has already eighteen subscribers.
It will close on the Tuesday in the Epsom week, and the
sealed nominations are not to be opened until the last day of
Doncister Races. This event will be a vast improvement
upon the old Rowley Mile Plate, which was wont to be run
in the Second Spring Meeting.
Ersom SUMMER MEETING.—One hundred and twenty
horses have been handicapped for the Rouse Stakes, Amster-
dam and Cantine heading the list at 9st 41b each, 12 being
placed at the lowest weight, Bst 71b. For the Brighton
Stakes there are 43 subs. Twenty-four entries have been
made for the Heathcote Plate ; 29 for the Epsom Town
Plate ; 46 for the Bentinck Plate ; and for the Grand Stand
Stakes there are 28 subscribers.

ASCOT-HEATH RACES.—The Royal Hunt Cup has closed
with 91 subscribers.

THE ISTHMUS OF SuEz.—A travellor who is now
visiting the works of the Isthmus of Suez sends the Siecle
the following details, dated El Guizer, 3d inst. :—" The cen-
tral service of the supplies and the administration for all
the points of the isthmus is organised at Damietta. From
6,000 to 7,000 Arabs are now employel. There are upwards
of 2,000 at Timsale, where the works are carried on with an
intelligent activity which must secure sure results. I was
surprised to see those masses of native workmen using with
the greatest facility all the French tools and improved ma-
chinery. Courageous and persevering efforts were necessary
to organise all these works, which are carried on with the
greatest order and precision. The company advances towards

its object, and it will attain it. The materiel employed is
immense. The wheelbarrows alone are more than 14,000
in number; there are steam saw mills, machinery for cut-
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PARIS, MAY 15, 7 A.m..—The debate on the fishery
i
question was resumed u the Senate on Monday,
and lasted till half-past six o'clock in the afternoon.
Admiral Romain Desfosses supported strenuously
and at much length the petition from the Channel
ports against the supplementary convention of Nov,
16th between England and France, reducing the
import duty on English fish to 12f. instead of 48f.
As I mentioned the other day, the Admiral opposed
the reduction, on the ground of the serious injury
which, they alleged, would thereby accrue to the
classes engaged in these fisheries, and which would
seriously affect the maritime inscription, and, as a
necessary consequence, the naval power of France.
In reply to the allegation that the parties interested
had accepted the convention, and now only demanded
the abolition of the vexatious regulations imposed on
the exercise of their cafling,Admiral Desfosses read a
letter,which he had just received from Boulogne-sur-
Mer, stating that the petitioners had opposed the
convention, but that when the decree of the 30th of
November was issued they regarded it as an act of
sovereign power, against which all further protest
was unavailing, and that it was then, and only then,
they demanded, by way of compensation, certain
advantage which would alone extenuate the fatal
consequence of the importation of the produce of
English fisheries.
Admiral Desfosses concluded his long speech
with the following words :—" I could say much
more, gentlemen, about this class of men, so disin-
terested, so courageous, and so devoted, who im-
plore you to extend a protecting hand over them.
But your convictions are formed, and I should only
tira out the patience which you have accorded to
me. I here bring to a close my observations. I
could tell you of the protest against the arguments
of the supporters of the convention ; but I only
ask you to allow me to repeat, in conclusion, that
you have now to decide on a question of the
highest national interest. Your committee thinks
that the negotiators of the convention of the 16th
of November have acted under the influence of the

very natural anxieties raised by the difficult com-
mercial mission intrusted to them, and that they
have seen in the enormous reduction of the pro.
tecting duties in favour of our rational fisheries
merely a question of political economy and of
secondary interest. That error your committee
was imperatively bound to point out to you •Nk hile
it was still time, and to prevent the consequences
of it. We believe the error may be i epaired, for
the simple reason that it is a question of justice,
and that we have a right to expect from the great
nation with which we have made a pact an
honesty and a good-will equal to those of which
the august head of this empire has given so many
striking proofs. But, if as the Minister-President
of the Council of State (who is again deceived on
this point) has intimated, this fatal transaction
(the reduction of the duty) is to be considered as a
fact, the Hon. Mr. Cobden—the lucky agent of a
policy the utility of which no one will thence-
forth dispute—will have earned his claim to repose
some day in Westminster Abbey, or in St. Paul's
Cathedral, side by side with Nelson, the daring
vanquisher of a navy the select crews of which the
revolutionary tempest has swept away. For my
own part, gentlemen, as the insufficient defender,
but one thoroughly impressed by a great and just
cause, it only remains to utter my complaints to God
that I have lived long enough to see the navy of
France, to which I have devoted with enthusiasm
more than 50 years of my life, struck at its very
heart." (Great emotion, and prolonged applause.)
M. Dupin cried out " Accept our thanks,
Admiral." (Bravo, bravo.)
M. Rouher refuted at much length the argu-
ments of Admiral Desfosses. He showed that it
was the vexatious regulations, entering into every
detail of their equipments, for carrying on their
trade, fixing the hour of their departure from port,
the number of nets they were to use, and the num-
ber of men they were to employ, which really in-
jured the trade. With respect to the evil prognos-
tications so generally expressed as to the fatal con-
sequences to native industry of the abolition of pro-
hibitory duties, and the reduction of high protective
ones, he said, in conclusion—" On the subject of
the removal of Customs prohibitions one of our
honourable colleagues, inspired by true patriotism,
said to me, ' You make me lose 100,000 f. of income
by your Commercial Treaty, for my sale of timber
will produce me 100,000 f. less.' _ Now I believe

that, -on the contrary, ho has this year gained
150,000 f. Such is the result. I well remember
that before the war in Italy people were under the
influence of deep emotion, and petitions were
crowding in upon us. One of our honourable col-
leagues, who was the reporter on that occasion,
was much engaged with this question; he was
terrified at it ; he studied it with great interest, and
sought information from the President of the
National Committee. It was loudly proclaimed that
if prohibition were abolished the manufacture of
implements would disappear; that industry would
be annihilated; that materials would not he re-
newed ; and, it was added, that, owing to the per-
nicious doctrines of free trade, ruin would be accu-
mulated on ruin. Well, then, the Commercial
Treaty has been signed, and is about to be carried
into execution, and what has become of these
sinister predictions ? I have here a letter
from the North of France, the centre of agita-
tions and of the petition movement. What
does it tell me ? Why, that for twenty years past
there has been no such renewal of materials as that
which the Commercial Treaty has given rise to for
the last six months. We had been told that the
spinners would find no more work, and that the
weavers would renounce their trade. But we worked
80,000,000 kilogrammes of cotton last year, and
125,000,000 this year; and this, not merely pass-
ing, as was said in another place, from the entrepot
to the general depot, but entering into the general
consumption. I believe, gentlemen, that the appre-
hension felt by Admiral Romain Desfosses is as
unfounded as that which was then experienced in
the case of the timber interests. Transmit, then, if
you wish it, the report to the proper Ministers;
this sort of matters must always be the order of the
day. I offer no opposition to your transmitting the
report. I even ask of you to do so, for I also desire
to make one day an inventory of all these terrors.
Yes, I desire that in two or three years hence the
Admiral, for whom I profess the sincerest friend-
ship—l desire, I say, that we meet in this Chamber,
and that we shall together draw up the list of these
fears, when public opinion shall have been com-
pletely enlightened on the point."
Cardinal Mathieu also spoke at some length on
the same subject, recommending the utmost caution
in making changes, and also that the plans for
maintaining and encouraging national fisheries
which were practised in England should be exa-
mined in France, with a view to borrowing from
them.

Admiral Rigault de Genouilly spoke in support
of the petitioners and of the report of his brother
Admiral, Domain Desfosses. After alluding to the
advanced state of the English marine establishment,
he said in conclusion,—" Is it astonishing, gentle-
men, I ask you, that in presence of these new con-
ditions imposed on the relative force of France
and England as a maritime Power—is it astonish-
ing that we should energetically reject any
sacrifice of the maritime conscription, as compro-
mising, as the hon. Admirals, our colleagues, have
told you, for the honour of our flag es for
the security of the territory of the empire ? Where
is the exaggeration ? for we have been charged with
exaggeration ; and if that exaggeration, which I
deny, did exist, would it not be very pardonable in
general officers, who, after all, come here to defend
their companions in arms, the founders of their
military fortune ? (Warm applause.) These dig-
nities, ranks and crosses, which have devolved on
us—the envied honour, gentlemen Senators, which
has been conferred on us to sit among you—how,
after all, have they been acquired ? They have
been acquired by mingling our blood and our. suc-
cess. with the blood and the success of the maritime
conscripts. (Fresh applause.) Though in the
been
com-
mon work we have been the head, they
the intelligent, devoted arms, ever
devoted
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death. (Very well; very well.). And menaces
that, in the presence of the.
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who in the Senate does not wish that ? What ! It
would be at a moment when the sagacious foresight
of the Emperor has organised a reserve for the land
army that we should diminish and discourage the
reserve of the navy, so valuable for the future, and
of which the put, I loudly proclaim in this i

ice-admiral.de Genouilly—l maintain my
opinion; Rouher. I say that your argiPleat)
however:brilliant it :may be, has not eonvinced me,
nor reassured me as to• the fate of the men com-
posing the maritime conscription. You c.ill re-
collect, gentlemen Senators, that in fart the
formation of tho maritime inscription responds to
the glorious annals of Duquesne, ToUrville, Jean-
Bart, and_ Dtiguay-Trouin. These are 'some of the
great seamen, for I do not name them all, who
treinousorAdmirals,t he
value
lu pey crowded round its cradle, At a later period you
find the maritime conscript under the flag of
D'Estaing and cf the Bailli de Suffrcn. They were
modest artisans of fishery and commerce, and, on
the day they were required, artisans of victory who
fell round the immortal Ducouedic, on the ensan-
guinea. decks of La Surveillante. The fisherman of
the previous day became the hero of the morrow.
(` Very well very well r) lr the voice of the Dins-
heard in this assembly it would tell you, gentlemen
sat
of
ferrthee
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would speak to you with that authority attached
to the recollection of our brilliant successes in the
Indian Seas. The maritime
inscription approaches
you, gentlemen Senators, under the xgis of the
glorious past. It is in the name of the past—it is
in the name of the future, that it claims your ele-
vated solicitude. Guardian of the laws which
secure the defence of the Imperial territory, the
Senate, we trust, will show itself favourable to this
great institution, and will adopt the conclusions of
the committee. We ask of you at the same time,
gentlemen Senators, that the petition of the fisher-
men of the northern ports and of the Channel be
all three referred to the Ministers of Foreign
Affairs, of Marine, and of Commerce." (Marked
approbation.)
M. Baroche, President of the Council of State,
supported the supplementary convention on the
same grounds as his colleague. the Minister of Com-
merce and Public .:Works. He was-replied to by
Admiral Romain nesfosses, against the convention.
The Admiral happening to observe that he believed.
the English were in general better men of business
than the French, M. Dupin was kind' enough to
interrupt him, and cried, " They are more cunning."
On the division there appeared a large majority
for sending up the report to the Minister of Com-
merce, Marine and Foreign Affairs—a proposition
which the Government had at first resisted, but
subsequently accepted.

THE DOUBLE MURDER AND SUICIDE
NEAR NEWCASTLE.

The coroner's inquest on this painful affair has
been held at Eighton Banks. The evidence adduced
did little more than confirm the account already
given of the murder and suicide.
Thomas Stoker, the husband of the murderess,
said he was a pitman, and the two murdered
children, his daughters, were aged respectively
three years and six months. He went to Newcastle
on Saturday afternoon, leaving his wife and four
children at home. On his return home he found
that two of them, Ann and Jane, were locked out
of the house by her mother, who had locked herself
in with the two children, Mary and Margaret, al-
luded to above. He obtained an entrance to the
house, and, he continued, "I saw all three lying
alongside each other in bed with their throats cut.
I did not stay, but immediately asked the neigh-
bours to go in, but they were afraid to do so, as I
said they were all dead. I then went back and
took a calmer view, and then went for the doctor.
When I went in a second time one of the neigh-
bours came in. Mr Davis's assistant (Mr. Turbock)
came back with me when I went for the doctor, and
Mr. Davis came soon afterwards. They sewed my
wife's throat up, and I saw a little motion in the
fingers of the right hand. After a time she reco-
vered sufficiently to be able to speak. I asked her
what she had done such an act as this for ? She
said it was done and could not be undone; I must
make the best of it. There were neighbours in the
house, and she could then speak distinctly. This
was after the doctor left. At first when I spoke to
her, I said, " Mary," and she looked me in the face
and then raised her left hand over her head, and on
putting my hand down in the direction she pointed,
I found the razor. It was on the pillow, but under
the sheet: It was all bloody. (Produced). I asked
her towards morning what she did it for, and she
said she was out of her head. She spoke quite sen-
sibly_ We did not wish to torture her; but on
questioning her further, she said she did not wish
to leave her children behind her. She also said the
children did not make any work. She asked me
where I had the elder children. She had always
behaved remarkably well to her children, and never
did anything to cause me to suspect that she would
do this.

-Mr:-Robert Davis, the surgeon who wrs vaned
in, said, Mary Stoker, the mother, was lying in the
same bed along with the dead children, with her
throat cut. She was sensible, and only remarked
that it was a bad job. I examined the wounds of
the children. Mary had a deep cut across the front
of the throat, about three inches in length, and ex-
tending through the windpipe. There have been
two cuts upon the neck to complete the incision.
The wound is jagged, and there is a mark of a pre-
vious cut upon the windpipe. The first attempt
had not been successful. She had died from loss of
blood in consequence of those cuts. She had a slight
cut by the side of the nail of the fore finger on the
left hand. There are no other marks upon it. The
little one, Margaret, had two separate wounds upon
the throat—one about an inch in length, and super-
ficial, which had not done any great damage, having
merely cut through the skin on the lower part of
the neck ; the other was higher up, and was much
deeper, and extended through the windpipe. Loss
of blond in consequence of the two wounds was the
cause of her death.

Thomas Stoker, the husband, was recalled, and
said that since his wife had her last child she had
been depressed in spirits, and this depression had
increased during the time that he had been out of
work. She had never been in a low way before
the last baby was born. For the last six or eight
weeks she imagined that she had no milk, but the
child still sucked the breast. She had never
threatened the children, but at low times she had
sometimes said she did not care if she was dead.

The jury returned a verdict of wilful murder
against Mary Stokes, and that she " died from the
effects of a cut on the throat by her own hand when
in a state of melancholia." ,