The Sun.
London, England, 1850-10-28 00:00:00

FRIDAY.

Fifty Sovs.; three yrs old 71C6ib, four Bst 51b, five and
upwards Bst 101 b; the winner to be sold for 100,8011.
entrance 3 soya. A.F.
The Alto:11u End Stakes of 30 sovs. each, for all ages
(two yrs old excepted). A.E.C.
A Sweepstakes of 10 soya. each, for two years old;
colts Bst 71b, and fillies Bst 51b; the winner to be sold
for 50 sovs.; first half of Ab. M.
A Handicap Sweepstakes of 20 sovs. each, and only 5
ft if declared by 10 o'clock the evening before running,
to go to the second, for three years old and upwards;

T.Y.C.
A Sweepstakes of 10 SOTS. each; three years old, 7st
91b, four Bst 31b, five and upwards, Bst Sib; the winner
to be sold for 400 sous.; first half of Ab. M.
A Sweepstakes of 10 goys. each, fir two years old ist
71b, and throe 9st 41b; the winner to be sold for 200
Boys.; if entered to be sold for 150 sovs. allowed 51b,
for 100 101 b, and for 50 151 b; T.Y.C.
The Nursery Stakes of 25 soya. each, for two yrs old;
each sub. at the time of naming to pay 1 soy.; D.M.
A Sweepstakes of 10 goys. each, for three yrs old; colts
Bst 71b, and fillies Bit 41b; the winner to be sold for
60 sovs.; T.Y.C.
A Sweepstakes of 10 sovs. each, for two yrs old 7st, and
three Bat 1116; the winner to be sold for 300 sovs.;
first half of Ab. M.
A Handicap Sweepstakes of 15 sovs. each, 10 ft, for two
years old and upwards; D.I. _

Match, 105 h it ; Hervey's Strong-
bow, Bst 71b. agst 'Mr. Henry's Knight of the Garter,
sst 91b. Off by consent.
Match, Ilst 91b each ; owners up ; last half mile of

Ab.M.—Lord Strathmore s Epirus gelding, 6 yrs, agst
Mr. Batson's King of Cymry, 3 yrs.

SATURDAY.

The Houghton Handiclp of 15 sovs. each, and only .5
ft it declar,d by 10 o'clock the evening before run-
dine., to go the second, for three yrs old and up-
wards ; T.Y.C.

A Sweepstakes of 10 SOTi. each; two yrs old, 6st 71b;
three, 88t 71b; four, 98t; five and upwards, 9st 41b;
the winner to be sold for 200 sovs.; T.Y.C.
A Sweepstakes of 5 sovs. each; two yrs old, 6st 71b;
three, Bst 51b; four, Bst 10lb; five and upwards, Bst
121 b; the winner to he sold for 25 soya.; first half of
Ab. M.
A Sw epstakes of 10 soya. each; three yrs old, 7st 91b;
four, Bst 71b; five, Bst 121 b; six and aged, 9,t; the
winner to be sold for 120 sovs.; Ab. M.
The Selling handicap Sweepstakes of 15 sovs. each, 5
ft if declared by ten o'clock the evening before run-
ning; the winner to be sold for 120 sovs. A.E.C.
(No day mentioned.)—Match, 100, 25 ft; Bst 71b each;
T.Y.C.— °Mr. Wauchope's br f Castellan, by Lanercost,
out of Constance, agst Mr. C. J. Renton's br c Francis
the First, by Ben-y-ghlo, out of Martyr's dam, both
2 yra.

THE ARMY AND NAVY.
7 (From the United Service Gazette)
BOMBAY CONMAND.—We understand that Major
General Sir John Grey will shortly embark and assume
the command of the Bombay army.
GOVERNOR OF ST. HELENA.—Lieutenant-Colonel
Robert Clarke, Royal Artillery, has assumed the ad•
ministration of Government, in consequence of the la-
mented death of the late Governor, Major-Ciekivral
Sir Patrick Rose. Lieutenant-Colonel Clarke has ap-
pointed Captain Ross, 85th Regiment (son of the de-
ceased), his Aide-de-Camp and Military Secretary, and
Captain T. B. Knipe, East India Company's Service,
to be his Colonial Aide-de-Camp
LONG SERVICE.—The ten oldest officers in the service
en full pay, still holding the rank of field officers, are—
Colonel Sir James Dennis, K.C.8., 3d Buffs, 1796 ;
Colonel Despard, 99th Regiment, 1799; Colonel Camp-
bell, ICU., 95th Regiment, 1803 ; Lieutenant-Colonel
Jackson, 99th Regiment, 1803 ; Lieutenant-Colonel
Hollis, 25th Regiment, 1803; Lieutenant• Colonel Deane,
K.H., Ist Royal Regiment, 1804 ; Lieutenant-Colonel
Trydell, 83d Regiment, 1804; Lieutenant. Colonel Sim-
moods, Ceylon Rifle Regiment, 1805 ; Lieutenant-
Colonel Derinzy, K.H., 86th Regiment, 1806; Lieute-
nant-Colonel Water, 95th Regiment, 1806.
THE LATE SIR EPIIRAIM S. STANNUs.—We regret to
see announced the death of Major-General Sir Ephraim
Stannus, the Governor of the East India Company's
Military College, Addiscombe. Sir Ephraim was a
very superior officer, and a most amiable man. He
served in the Bombay Army, and distirigni•hed him•
aelf in the field and in the Staff. The Hon. Mosnt-
stuart Elphinstone, one of the most sagacious states-
men of modern times, selected him as his Military
Secretary during the time that he held the Govern-
ment of Bombay, soon after the conquest of the Deccan.
It needed superior talents to satisfy the requirements of
Mr. Elphinstone, and General Stannus possessed them.
Sir Ephraim served in the Persian Gulf, in one of the
expeditions in 1820-21, and was of great utility to the
General Officer in command. As he was beloved in life,
so is he mourned by all who knew him. We have not
heard his successor named, nor are there many Gene-
ral Officers in the Company's service capable of ade-
quately supplying his place.

. . . . -
THE MEDICAL STAFF.—In last week's number we
noticed the retirement of Sir James MacGregor, and

further stated that rumours were so various as to who
was to be his successor, that we refrained from
mentioning any of them. We now find that no de-
finite arrangements will be hastily made; in all pro-
bability none till after the return of the Com-
mander-in-Chief and the Secretary-at-War to town.
Proposals we are aware were submitted, and have been
considered for some time past, for consolidating the
Army and Ordnance Medical Departments; and it has
all along been understood that, as soon as ever a vacancy
occurred in the appointment 01 Director-General of Hos-
pitals, the whole of the medical departments of the army
would undergo revision.
GRENADIER GUARDS.—It is rumoured that silk sashes
are about to be supplied to the sergeants of the Greta-
die: Guards instead of those made of worsted, which
are at present worn by those non-commissioned officers.
We hope soon to congratulate the men of this regiment
on the comfort they will derive when the order is issued
to discontinue pipe-clay to the white trowsers, and to
substitute wholesome washing. The latter process will
be the means of contributing considerably to the health
of the soldier.

GAS LIGHTS FOR BARRACKS.—The Hiberian Gas
Company at Dublin have sent in tenders to the Board of
O. dnance to light the barracks at Dublin, Limerick, and
Cork with gas. This roust be a great boon io the soldier,
in exchange for the heretofore wretched dips provided by
the Ordnance Buard,who, by-the• by, afford more light to
one of their fat porters in their hall at Pall-mall than they
do to a company of men. Who does not recollect the puny
twinkle at the Knightsbridge Barracks (only lately dis-
continued)? The poorest cabin in the neighbourhood
was better supplied. Can it be wondered at that soldiers
will patronise the well-lit gin palaces, when so little at-
tention is used to keep them in barracks.
ORDNANCE DEPARTMENT.—Captain Townsend, bar-
rack-master at Liverpool, has been appointed barrack-
master at Londonderry, Lifford, Omagh, &c., in succes-
sion to Lieutenant Sir 11. Oakes, Bart., deceased.
MEDICAL STAFF.—Assistant Surgeon W. S. Saun-
ders, M.D., has been appoined to do duty at the Military
Prison, Fort Clarenc-, Chatham, vice Dr. Cleland, pro-
mo'ed to the 69th Regiment.
MILITARY EDUCATIoN.—The officers and non-corn•
missioned officers of the 28!,h, 50th, and 82d Regiments
will shortly be assembled t ,gether, for the purpose of
b9ing catechised and questioned on drill and details of
the service, in the presence of Maj.,r-Ger oral Lord
Frederick Fitz Clarence, G.C.8., commanding the dis-
trict.

PROMOTION FROM THE RANKS.—We observe, with
much satisflo,ion, that S,Tgeunt Major W. Dowler, of the
61,4 Regiment, has been promoted to an Ensigncy in the
regiment. This is the fifth instance of a similar promotion
in that distinguished corps during the past nine sears ;
Lieuts. A. Grant, David Reid, and Stephen M`Douough,
and Quartermaster Wall, of the 61st regiment, haeing all
served in the ranks. This says much, not only for the
excellent government to which the regiment has been
subject, but for the system of promotion from the ranks
The corps, well officered as it now is, has fat en con-
spicuous for its good service throughout the late cam-
paigns in the Punjaub, and none of the gallant
brotherhood appear to have rendered themselves
more remarkable for their soldier-like merit than
the sergeant-major whose promotion we record. The late
lieutenant-colonels M‘Leod and Burnside seem to
have had a very high opinion of Mr. Dowler, and Lieu-
tenant Colonel Jones, in recommending him for a com-
mission, speaks of him as a man of irreproachable
character, and a meritorious non-commissioned officer.
It may not be uninteresting to add, that when the 61st
Regiment were on the marcb, some few miles from
Lord Gough's camp, after the Punjaub campaign, his
Lordship rode out a distance of six or seven miles to say
"Good-bye" to the corps, and to express to the men
and officers the very high estimation in which he held
them.

GREAT Less OF LIFE ON BOARD HER MAJESTi'S
SHIP MEANDER.—We rvgret CO state that the
Alvend,r, 44, Captain the Honourable H. Keppel
(arrived at Valparaiso troth Sydney), has lost in
the last twelve months her surgeon, Dr. Clarke, and
upwards of sixty of her crew. It will be recollected
that this ship wa, ordered 1,e4 year from Singapore to
Sydney, and thence to Port Essington, to break up the
Adnairaity establishment there, and to withdraw the de-
tachment of Marines. She proceeded thither and exe-
cuted her orders, and, having shipped the Marines on
board the Itattlesnalte, for England, sailed for Valpa-
raiso, arriving there on the 23,1 of August, visiting en
route Now Zealand, the Friendly and the Society Islands.
lir. Clarke died at Port Essington, and Mr. Crawford,
who was in charge of the lUariue Detachment there, was
appointed to the vacancy.

Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester re.
turned by the North-Western Railway on Saturday
morning from Woburn.

Lord John Rus,,ell and the Marquis of Clanricarde
arrived by the spcial train which conveyed His Royal
Highness Prince Albert from York to London.

REDUCTION or DOCK DUES AT HULL.—The fol-
lowing resolutions were carried unanimously aL a meeting of
the Hull Chamber of Commerce, held on Thursday :—" That
the port charges at this port have for a long time been very
heavy and much complained of, and have been the cause of
a large amount of business being diverted from this port.
That the system of railways in this kingdom having given
great facilities to other ports on the east coast, and many of
those ports undergoing considerable improvements for the
purpose of increasing their commerce, it is highly desirable
that the port charges in Hull should be considerably modi-
fied. That the town dues and Trinity dues are charges un-
known in some ports which offer great competition to the
trade of this town. That the dock dues here are higher than
in any port on the east coast. That it be recommended to
the corporation of the town, the corporation of the Trinity
House, and the corporation of the Dock Company, to take
into consideration their respective charges on trade and ship-
ping, with a view of meeting the energetic competition of
other ports, and placing this port on an equality at least with
those places which are making such strenuous exertions to
divert trade from the port of Kingston-upon-Hull.

MORE PERVERSIONS.—The following members of
the two Universities of Oxford and Cambridge are announced
as having joined the Romish Communi,n —Rev. F. W.
T r,emn
mo wo ,n
eßr of Tr
. A., St John's
College,hn'sColle Oxfordge,ox ; T. plrig
Oxford; r.JA J. ailglaertdt:
C,
Commoner of St. John's College, Cambridge; and Mr. J.
Harper, M.A., Pembroke College, Oxford. We are also as-
sured, on good authority, that proselytism to Tractarian
principles is still making way among the younger members
of the Universities at a rapid rate; and no wonder, when
Dr. Mill at Cambridge, and Archdeacon Wilberforce at Ox-
ford, are permitted with impunity to retain their officers of
Professors and Select Preachers in the face of their public
abjuration of the thirty-sixth canon of our Church. What
are the authorities about?—Church and State Gazette.
USEFUL HINTS.—Carry a cheap umbrella; you
will discover why when you lore it, which you, of course
will do in about six weeki.—Always get hold of your night-
cap before you blow the candle out.—Before you get mea-
sured for new boots put on three pal' s of thick stockings.—
Always tell the truth, you will find it easier than lying.—
Don't be afraid to give tavern waiters anything.—Have the
courage to prefer ease to elegance, to get out of bed when
you ought to do, to acknowledge your altered opinions upon
conviction, and to confess your fear of God.
BIRKENHEAD, LANCASHIRE, AND CHESHIRE JUNC-
TION.—The portion of this line from Chester to Warrington,
which will complete the extension between the former town
and Manchester, is fixed to be opened on the 31st of the
present month. Manchester will then be much more
easily approached than at present from Wales.—North Wales
Chronicle.

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.

OLD COURT.

TRIAL cr. NATHANIEL BUSHELL, FOR MANSLAUGHTER.
(Continued from our Afternoon Edition of Saturday.)
William Hamming, a labourer, who remembered the
Sunday morning when the deceased was taken into cus-
tody, gave similar evidence.
Ann Russ, the wife of a baker, residing in Marylebone-
court, knew the deceased, and saw him in the custody of
the police on the occasion in question. Saw the prisoner
have hold of the deceased by the neckerchief, and striking
him with his stetf. The prisoner knocked the deceased
down before his sister and wife came ur.
William Russ, the husband of the preceding witness,
corroborated her testimony.
Maurice Geary, the brother of the deccated, gave a
similar version of the transaction. Witness seeing the
prisoner ill treating and striking his brother with his
truncheon, said that if he did not desist he would report
him on Monlay. The prisoner thereupon shouted to
one of the police •c eusrablee to "take that b— into
custody," meaning witness. Witness was then taken
into custody and dragged to the station by the necker-
chief. Witness was taken before the magistrates on the
Monday and fined 10e. for exciting the mob to rescue.
Cross-examined—Witness and deceased were together
at the Coach and Horses public house for about an hour
after leaving the police-court.
Mr. Thomas Austin O'Flaharty was next called aid
examined by Mr. PARRY—I reside in Baker-street,
Portman-square, and am a surgeon and doctor of rnedi•
tine. I remember James Geary coming to me with hi.
wife about eleven o'clock in the forenoon of Sunday after
this occurrence. When he came to me he had his right
arm in a sling. I then examined him and found his
right arm bruised from the wrist to the shoulder. He
was also bruised on the right side of the neck, from the
tip of the shoulder to the jaw. He was also bruised on the
right side of the face, and had a black eye ; and there
was a quantity of coagulated blood in the hollow of his
right ear. The ear was not particularly bruised. The
bruises I saw on the lower jaw and shoulder might pro-
duce such a flaw of blood as I saw from the ear. He
complained of having been beaten in other parts of his
body, but from the general questions I put to him I
did not think it necessary to examine those parts. The
bruises were of a nature rather severe. The blows on
the side of the neck did not appear to me
so numerous as those on his arm. I gave a certificate to
the magistrates in this case, at the request of his wife.
There was a blow under the right ear. It was danger
ous in this respect, in that it was in a dangerous locality,
not perhaps on account of the force of the blow.
The injuries I saw on him were such as to inca-
pacitate him from following his work for some days.
I gave him an opium lotion, and told him to go
home and keep Quiet, and to send me word
if he got no better. I have heard the evidence
given here to-day. I did not see him again until the
20th September. No other parts of his body were
bruised on the first interview. I went to him on the 20th
September, at his own house, and found him lying in
bed. He complained of a severe pain on the bladebane
of the left shoulder-blade, and that that pain was in-
creased by breathing. Ho was feverish, complained of
violent headache, and of the general symptoms of fever.
He complained of pain on coughing. I attended him
from that time until his death. I examined his chest,
and found by that examination some inflammation of the
pleura, the membrane in which the lungs are contained.
I ordered remedies then. There was a spitting of blood
on the 21st. I examined his chest by means of my ear
andlthe stethescope. On the following day he complained
of pain on the right side. On that day I bled him.
Having relievedthesympt ims of the left side by bleeding,
I bled him on the right side, which partially re-
lieved him there. I continued to see him from day
to day. I bled him on both occasions with the lancet,
and also applied some leeches to his right side. He died
on the morning of the 2ith of September. Forty hours
after his death I made a post mortem examination of his
body in the presence of my uncle, who is an apothecary,
and another person, not a medical man. They attended
merely as spectators. I found the body exces-
sively decomposed, so much so as to prevent
me observing any external bruises. I directed my
examination, according to the nature of the injuries. I
opened the cheat, and found symptoms of inflammation
of the pleura ; the cavity of the chest was filled with
water (a symptom of inflammation), and there were
bands of white on the lungs, also the symptoms of inflam-
mation. The right lu'rig was also inflamed in the
pleura, but not to the same extent. I have been pre-
viously speaking of the left lung. That examination
satisfied me as to the cause of death. I exerained the ribs,
but none were broken. The immediate cause of death was
pleurisy in connexion with the lungs. I also observed
the state of his body from the 18th of August, an
he was complaining of pain until the 20th September.
Supposing hit* to have received the violence spoken to
this day, I do not think it would have directly produced
the inflammation. It might have been the indirect
cause, that is by the deceased lying in bed,
and then leaving his warm bed to go to his
work, and his consequent exposure to the cold air.
If he had never gone out at all from the 18th of August
until the 26th, I think he might have survived the in-
juries he bad received. I do not think the injuries
themselves would have caused death directly, if he had
not caught cold. I cannot say his merely breathing the
common atmosphere in that state would have a ten-
dency to give him cold. Not such violence as I saw
symptoms of could have produced the inflammation which
was the cause f death; but there ie a degree of violence
which might have caused death. I know what a police-
man's truncheon is, it is a very heavy instrument. I
observed the blows must have been repeated; I wean, by
repeated, blow of er blow, on the same spot. Sup-
posing a person to have received rep93,ed and violent
glows on his right side with a polieeinan'e truncheon,
that would not have cause 1 infl anrnation of the
pleura, unless tl:e blow had broken some of the
ribs and they had penetrated the pleura. Supposing
a person thrown violently to the ground on his face, and
a person of the size of the prisoner had knelt upon his
chest, I don't think that would have produced such in-
flammation as I saw, unless some of the ribs had been
broken. I believe the infl imma'ion in the pleura which
I saw to have been the result of cold. I believe the in-
juries which the deceased received had nothing to do
directly with his death. They might have made him
more susceptible of cold. The tendency of such injuries
would be of a depressing character.
This witness was not cross-examined.

This was the case for the prosecution.
Mr. BALLANTINE then addressed the jury for the de-
fence. He contended that the nature of the surgeon's
evidence was such that the case for the prosecution had
entirely failed, and that the prisoner had not acted with
the slightest impropriety from the beginning to the end
of this transaction. If a man like the deceased chose to
oppose himself to the public safety and the public peace
the police wore called upon to repress such disturbances,
and such a man must abide the consequences.
The Learned Counsel then reviewed the evidence fur
the prosecution at great length, and concluded an elo-
quent address by calling on the jury to restore the pri-
soner to that positionfora time dt prived.

James M‘dreve, a sergeant in the same division as the
prisoner, and who upon the night in question is as the
acting inspector, was then examined; and it appeared
from his evidence that while going his rounds on the
night in question he heard an alarm by the prisoner,
and upon going to the plaee called Grotto-passage, some
distance from High-street, he found Bushell lying upon
the ground and the deceased Ras on the top of him, and
they were strtezgling together. He pulled the deceased
off Bushell, and :he latter said, "See bow the fellow has
been serving me," at the same time pointing to his coat,
which was torn quite away from the collar. They then
laid hold of the prisoner, and were about to t ke him to
the station- house; but when ho had gone a short dis-
tance he became very violent, and struggled and kicked,
and tripped them both up at least a dozen times. They
succeeded in getting him as far as High. street, and up to
this time no violence whatever had been used to him.
In that street, however, a crowd of the prisoner's coun-
trymen had collected, and they were hooting and yell-
ing, and the deceased again struggled desperately to get
dly exclaimed "that no
two to the station." He
awaytpolicemenh€,npturom
th is thh h
hand
nms,
d intooauin rol
witness'staker cpa e
himtstock, and nearly choked
him, and not having a staff of his own, he called out for
one, and another constable who had come up gave him a
staff, and he struck the deceased on the arm with it to
make him loose his hold. The deceased then caught
hold of Bushell in the same manner, and he struck him
again on the arm to make him leave ,o. During this
time Bushell and himself wore struck several blows, and
the deceased's brother was exciting the mob to attack
them and release the deceastd; and, upon his saying to
the prisoner, "Bushell, you shall hear of this another
day," and at the same moment, laying hold of him, he
ordered him into custody. He denied most positively
that the prisoner struck the deceased.
In answer to a question put by Mr. PARRY,
This witness said that he was before the coroner in
rather an awkward position, inasmuch as he was sent
there with Bushell in order that the witnesses might see
it they could identify him as one of the men who had
assaulted the deceased. lle said that he did not give
his evidence upon that occasion, but he was ready to do
so if he had been required, and he explained that a
solicitor was in attendance on behalf of the prisoner to
conduct the case. _ _

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Some other constables were next examined, and from
their evidence it appeared that when the deceased and
his brother were brought to the station-house they were
very violent, and the prisoner and M'Craw seemed dis-
tressed and exhausted. They were both visited several
times during the night, and they made no complaint of
any violence. It was also proved that atter the occur-
rence the deceased was seen drunk and quarrelling
outside a public-house in the neighbourhood, and
that upon another occasion he fought with a man
who threw him down violently and fell upon
him; and one of the witnesses proved that on the same
day the deceased was discharged by the magistrate he
took his arm out of a sling and said " That was the arm
that should kill six policemen yet," and at a later period
of the day he was seen drunk and bleeding in the face.
Mr. Jackson, the inspector who took the charge, de-
posed that when the prisoner and M'Craw came in they
were both apparently nearly exhausted, and the hands
of the prisoner were so cramped that he could not sign
the charge sheet till the next morning. The inspector
also said that the prisoner had been four years in his
oivision, and bore a very good character. While the
charge was being taken the deceased was very violent,
and made use of bed lane Loge and threats towards the
prisoner. The deceased was about five f: et seven inches
high, and was a raw-boned, strong young man.
Mr. PARRY replied at some length upon the evidence
that had been adduced on IN halt of the prisoner.
The Learned JUDGE then summed up the whole
case very carefully, and the jury returned a verdict of
Not Guilty.
The trial occupied nearly 11 hours.

EXTRAORDINARY CASE OF CRIM. CON.

Mr. Henry Philip Wood, a highly respectable
person, residing in .13,Atnan't?-row, Mile-end, appeared
before Mr. Elliott, at the Lambeth-street Police-court,
to answer to a charge of assaulting Margaret
beth, his wife.

Mr. Turner, the solicitor of Mount-place, White-
chapel-roid, appeared on the part of the defendant.
Mrs. Wood, a showily-dressed and rather good-.
looking woman, deposed that some time ago her hus-
band turned her out of doors, and on the day named
in the summons he not only assaulted her, but
threatened to take away her life. On her cross-
examination by Mr. Turner, Mrs. Wood admitted
that she had called at her husband's house, in com-
pany with a Mrs. Barker and her brother, and had
carried away the portrait of her daughter and other
property. The witness was pressed fur some time to
account for the portrait, and she at length said she
had given it to her brother, who had sold it for her
for 103.

Mr. Turner—Pray, Mrs. Wood, do you know a
person named Robert Staple:" ? Mrs. Wood (After
some. hesitation)—Yes, I do.

Mr. Turner—He was a traveller to your husband,
I believe ? Mrs. Wood—Yes, he was.
Mr. Turner—Pray have you been in the habit of
writing to this Ribert Stanley—this paramour of
yours ? Mrs. Wood (indignantly)—l don't under-
stand you, sir.
➢lr. James—l again ask the question, malam,
Were you in the habit of writing to Stanley ? Mrs,
Wood—l don't recollect that I have been.

Mr. Turner—Were you at Brighton in 1849 ?
Mrs. Wood—Yes : I was there in the latter part of
last year.

Mr. Turner—Now, madam, I wish to ask you
whether these three letters, or either of them, have
been written by you, and addressed to Stanley ? Mrs.
Wood (with considerable hesitation)—The signature
and writing are very like mine, but they were not
sent by me to my husband.
Mr. Turner—l did not say your husband, I said
Stanley, your paramour ? Mrs. Wood—Well, I don't
think they are written by me. Indeed, I'll say they
were not.

Mr. Turner—l shall read them to you, and then
perhaps you will be better able to say whether they
are not i❑ your handwriting. The Learned Gentle-
man here read the following morceaux, addressed to
Mr. Robert Stanley:—

•" Brighton, Oct. 8, 1849.
"My dearly beloved little Husband,—l received your
most welcome letter to-day whilst at dinner, which I
could nut at first relish, through my uneasiness in not
having received one this morning from you. I was be-
ginning to conjecture all manner of things that might
have happened to you; however, my fears were soon
overcome when I beheld your dear letter, with two
kisses on the outside. The contents also were most
pleasing to me, particularly that part which informs me
of your having slept in the same bed which I did. I
only wish, my adored one, that you wore going to sleep
in it to-night; I might then have my Saturday night's
most blissful happy dream realised, without having these
vexatious disappointed feelings after awaking. Never,
love, do I remember having so much wished for your. to
me, most pleasing company, as I have since I have been
down here. I know it is caused, dear, through your dis-
appointing me with your company. Now, let me entreat
of you, my beloved, never again to promise me any-
thing, or hold out any hopes of any kind, unless you in
reality mean to perform; for when you propose anything
of your own accord it gives me such great pleasure,
although I do not let you see it, yet I think of it the
more, and build upon it so much, that in the end I find
I am doomed, as usual, to disappointment. But this
time I felt my disappointment very keenly, and have felt
ready to give up all I possessed if only to be with you for
one short hour. How sincerely, love, do 1 long for your
return once more. Only let me entreat of you, my dearest
—my most adorable one—above all things to come home

pure and untainted to me. Ohl could I but make sure
you would do so I would feel content; but I fear sadly
►.hat horrid, detestable Wildman's house. Something
seems to tell me the foreboding that you will there be
led into temptation. I shall be very thankful
when you ere away from there. Do not, dear, for my
cake, go astray, but leave there as soon as prat►ic4ble.
It you were my wedded husband, never coulu I give my
consent to your visiting any of that detestable lot, fur
since our last conversation about them their very name
has become hateful to me. But, for a more interesting
subject, I must tell you dear, that Brighton is agreeing
wonderfully with us both. We are looking as healthy
and as young as cherubs—of course I am a little cherub
to you—ain't I, ducky?—if I ain't, you is. "We bathe in
the sea, too. It is not too cold. There are still a very
great number of bathers, and we enjoy it beautifully. It
gives us such wonderful appetites, too. I could half
devour you, too, my love—my pretty chicken—if you
were here now. Oh, darling, why have you not the
wings of love, to be able to fly to your most loving
Lizzy? My pen cannot write to you my good wishes, so
I must leave you try guess them, though I hope the
guessing will not be the cause of leading you astray.
But do pray, my love, for my sake—your own Lizzy's
sake—conquer your passions as I am cacligel to do. I
keep trying to write in another strain, but find I cannot
tonight, so bad better leave off writing altogether, and
conclude with telling you how very much pleased I was
with the laughing account of your diary. Write again,
love, by return, it' possible, so that I may know where to
send another letter—only that it may not be that horrid
Newcastle, and remain, my dear darling dobbsev, your
most affectionate and devoted illie wifey, "
P.S. I wish we may both dream pleasantly of each
other to-night. I am extremely sorry, my love, that
you have had such miserable weather. It has lately
been very fine here. Good night, my love."

• Brighton' Oct. 12, 1819.
" My most affectionately-beloved Husband,—Your
loved note sent la,t night I duly received just as I was
going to bed, I then took that instead of the dear writer

to bed with me, and slept with it under my pillow—the
came pillow, perhaps, that your darling head has re-
clined on. Think nor, my dearest, that I meant to chide
you in my last for not coming down, for it was the last
of my thoughts to cause you, my loved one, uneasiness.
Only rayimind would wander to you so, in spite of myself,
and I thought continually how delightful it would be to
both of us if we were but together now, for here am I
placed—forced, I may say, to talk to other gentlemen,
whilst my loved one might have been here in the stead,
particularly as you first promised to do se. The thought
of that love caused me to write as I did, though not, I
assure you again, with the thought of its giving you un-
easiness, though think not, darling, that any one could,
or should, win me from you, for their attention I have
always disdain'ttly scorned. I must now tell you, love,
that I am going to return to dreary—dreary without you,
love—home tomorrow evening, by the six o'clock train.
Muff (husband) is going to meet me at the London station.
I suppose he told you why he could not come down to
fetch us. I expect to find him precious cross thraugh
our Brighten expenses, for he is druid, by his letters,
to send us down sixpence more than I may actually want.
His letters mike me so cross about money, that I cannot
help answering him pretty sharply. It vexes me so to
think of me leaving London with scarce a penny to help
myself with; for here am J, Mrs. Wood, and her daugh-
ter, down at Brighton, not a pennyworth of victuals
paid, and only tenpence halfpenny in their pockets. I
have sixpence halfpenny, and Liddy has fourpence.
Tell me, would any one beside yourself believe ? I only
wish I had anywhere to run to, I would leave him
this instant; therefore, deary, I suppose I shall have to
filch my next sweet letter from you from Mrs. and
I must say, before I conclude, that I am very glad it is
not coming from that odious Wildman's—for I knew
before I opened yours last night that you made that
wicked place your hems. But, dearest, don't take this,
as well as anything. else, for chiding; for you know, love,
I don't wish to hurt your feelings, for all I say to you is
my love that prompts me. Hoping you will look at it in
that light,
" I remain, my dear, fond, and affectionate husband,
" Your most loving and obedient wife,
" Dias."

The third letter, which was dated Jan. 3, 1850,
and which with two others was found at the lodgings
of Stanley, was written in a similarly loving and
warm strain, and at the conclusion of its reading,
Mrs. Wood, who stood in the witness-box during the
reading of the letter, and who at the recital of many
passages in her amatory epistles repeatedly smiled,
while her husband on the other hand seemed to
writhe in agony, called her brother as a witness, and
his evidence was a perfect contradiction to hers, par-
ticularly as regarded the sale of the portrait of the
complainant's daughter.
Mr. Turner, in observing on the complaint made
against his respectable client, remarked that Mrs.
Wood had not only dishonoured and disgraced her
husband, but had added to that dishonour and disgrace
the most barefaced perjury. Mr. Wood, on discover-
ing ample proofs.of his wife's infidelity, turned her
out of doors and finding that in his absence she had
come to his house and carried off, amongst other
things, that which he prized far beyond its value—the
portrait of his daughter, though his wife had thought
so little about it as to dispose of it for lOs , felt hurt,
and naturally incensed, and if, instead of a slight
and trifling assault, he had resorted to the utmost vio-
lence, it could not be much wondered at. The com-
plainant did not venture to say that she was at all
hurt or injured, and he (Mr. Turner) hoped his wor-
ship would dismiss the charge.
Mr. Elliott merely ordered the defendant to enter
into his own recognisances to keep the peace towards
his wife, and it was said that an action for crim. con.
would be immediately proceeded with against Mr
Stmiley.

ST. JAMES'S-PAR .—The works in this park are
progressing. The iron railing at the west end of what is
known as the enclosure has been put back in a line parallel
with the front of the palace. The iron railing of part of the
Green-park, opposite Stafford house, has also been altered, so
as to be a continuation of that line, and make the ground
opposite to the palace into a regular form, opening into the
Mall, the centre avenue of which will be exactly opposite to
the centre of the palace. The ground enclosed opposite
Stafford-house will be planted to corresponffiwith that on the
opposite side. The marble arch has been taken down to the
ground • every block has been numbered, and a drawing
made of each course, with corresponding numbers on the
blocks, so that they may be exactly replaced hereafter.
Should it be ultimately determined to re-erect the arch in
the Mall near Stafford-house, where, with a garden on either
side of it, it would seem to form the commencement of the
palace ground, it will be a matter for regret that it was not
moved to that position bodily, as might have been done
without muchdifaculty, —.Builder.

PRICES OF SHARES

IN BANKS, ASSURANCE, AND OTHER COM-

PA NIES' 6TOCK.
From the Official List.
PUBLISHED EVERY TUESDAY AND FRIDAY EVENING.
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 25.

LONDON

zot&

T-srocz. ii.ANXS.

Name of Company..

Dividend
per

Arnount
of
,;hare.

Aiinum.

Australasia • ........
Britqh.North American
Ceylon • ••..••• • • • • .
Commercial of London
Colonial . • • • • •
Gloucestershire ......
lonian • . • • •.........
f.on,ln and Westminstr

245.
51. per cent.
71. per cent.
61. per cent.
51. pur cent.
151 per cent.
61. per cent.
61. per cant.

Ditto ..............
London Joint-Stock ...
Provincial of Ireland ..

61. per cent.
81. per cent.

Ditto, New.• • .•
National of Ireland ~
vat. Procucial of Enc,,.
Ditt., New. • • • • • • •
South Australia • • • • ••
Pinion 01 Australia • • • •

81. per cent.
51. per cent.
61. per cent.
51. per cent.
61, per cent.
61. per cent.

Ditto .............. 61. per cent,
iJnion of London... • • 6/. par cent.
Union of Madrid ... • • I

XICSMECLIZECE C

Name df Company.

Dividend
per

Annum.

8. d.
40 0 0
50 0 0
25 0 0
100 0 0
100 0 0

25 0 0
100 0 0

50 o o
100 0 0
10 0 0
SO 0 0
100 0 0
20 0 0
25 0 0
20 0 0

ho 0 0
40 0 0

ZtIPANXES,

Amount
of
Share.

Paid.

4 a. d. , £ a. 1.
Albion .. --.••• • • .• 31. 105 500 00i50 0 0 82
Alliance ilrit. and For. 7114 s 6d& bs 100 0 0 11 0 0 21 U
Ditto Marine.- .• •• 6/. per cent. 100 001 5 0 0 6%
Aria, ..
Argus Life •••• • • • • 4/. per cent. 5 0 0 1 0 0 -
;inns, Commercial • 7s. 61. 50 0 0 50 0 7%
Clericl,Med.&Gen•Life spr ct.& bs. 100 0 0 10 0 0 20
County •.•.•••• • • • • • • 3/. 100 0 0 10 0 0 82
14s. 50 0 0 5 0 0 14%
Eagle • ..
European Life ••• • • • 10s. 20 0 0 All paid. 10%
General. •••••• • • .• • • - 5 0 .5%
01,1,e - 133
Guardian •••••• • • •• • • 51. 100 0036 10 55%
Imperial Fire •••• • • • • 121. per cent. 500 0 0 50 0 230
Imperial Life •••• • • •• 12s. 100 0 0 10 0 16%
Indemnity Marine •• • • 11. sh. 8; bs. 100 0 0 20 0 41
Law Fire .. •• .• .• -••- 100 0 0 210 2%
LA, I If, ........ •. .. 11. 163. 100 0 0 10 0 43%
Legal and General Life - 50 0 0 2 0 4%
Licensed Victuallers • • - 5 0 0 1 0 -
Loralcu Fire -•••• • • 10s. 25 0 0 12 10 17%
London Ship ........ 103. 25 0 0 12 10 17%
Marine • • ..... ••• • .. 15s.per share 100 0 0 15 0 -
Sled. Invlid& Gen. Life 4%1. per ct. 50 0 0 2 0 2
National Lean Fund • . 51. per cent. 20 0 0 210 2%
National Life ••.•• • . • • 8/. per cent. 100 0 0 5 0 -
Palladium Life 5l. per cent. 50 0 0 2 0 2%
Pricenlx - - 145
Professional Life •• 51. per cent. 65 0 010 125.6 d
Provident Life •• ... •• • I/. ss. & bs. 100 0 0 10 0 26
Rock Life............ ss. 4 0 0 010 614
Royal Exchange 6/. per cent. Stock. - 210
Sun Fire. • - - 209
DIM Lite .. 11. 6s. - - 48
United Kingdom • .... 41. per cent. 20 0 0 40 0 3%
Cviversal Life........ 10% pr cnt. 100 0 0 i 10 0 0 -
Victoria Life .... - 412 6 4%
IVELTEN.-1211011,3E5.
1 - Dividend Amount
Name of Company. per of Paid. Price.
Annum. Share.
-
4 s. d. 4 s. d.
East London.. ••••• •• 81. per cent. 100 0 0 - 160
Grand Junction ••.• • • 4/. per cnt. 50 0 0 - 72%
Kent.... •• -••••• • •• 31. 10s. 100 0 0 - 78
Lambeth ••-..• • • • • • 5/. per cnt. 100 0 0 - 97
New Rivr Lndu rrdge 21. 10s. - - 57%
Vauxhall .... -••• • • • 41. per ent. 100 0 0 - 98
,
West Middlesex . . • 61.05. pr cnt. - - 111
DOCILE%
Dividend Amount
Name of Company. per of Paid. Price.
Annum. Share.
----- -
X a. d. £ 8. d.
East and West Ini.a... 61. pr cent. Stock. - -
East Countr - -
London• - 121%
Ditto Bonds •••• • • • • 4/. per cent. - - -
2t.Katharine .. •• •• • • 4 per cent. Stock. - 80
Ditto, Scrip.. - - 85 0 0 --
Ditto Bonds- - - 4%1. pr cent. - - -
Southampton .• -
BRIDGES
Dividend Amount
Name of Company. per of Paid. Price
Annum. Share.
-- -
X. a. d. X. a. d.
Charing-cross • • • • .. •• - - - 15
Southwrk .......... - 100 0 0 - -
Ditto Nw of 7% p.c. 353. per cent. 50 0 0 - 16 1
Waterloo ............ - 100 0 0 - 3
Dittl Old Ann. of 81, 11. 4s. Od. - 60 0 0
Ditto Nw ditto of 71. 11. Is. Od. - 40 0 0 21 i
Vauxhall .... •• • Av. 11. 70 10 3 - 18
CILM.A.X.III.
w ,Dividend, gi Dividend
Names of ~. Names of s, .
Companies. A 1 per j Price' Companies. 11 Amipeurit,. Price.
v., Annum.l ,n
---
.£ .4
Ashtnfc Oldh 97 71. 113 Macclesfield • 100: 21. 10s. 50
Barnsley.. • • 160, 121. 180 Neath •• •• • • 100 I 161. 340
Rrknk&Abrg 150. 5/. 85 Oxford.. •• • • 100 ! 201. 185
Birmingham 40: 41. 126 Peak Forest. 78 31. 18s. 70
Coventry.... 100' 25/. 260 Regent's .... 33 ! 1/. Os. 18%
Derby ••• •• 100 61. 63 Rochdale.... 85 41. 42
Ellsmre&Chs 133 355. 267iSomrset Coal 150171.105. -
GrandJunetn 100 4/. 67%2 Do.Lk Id St 12 ; 61. p. c. -
Do., 6 pr. Ct. 7% - 84 Stfrrd&Wore 140, 281. 405
Grand Surrey 100 21. Os. 33 Shrewshury.. 1251 15?. -
Grand Union lOO 11. 10s. 24 Stourbrldge.. 145 20/. 290
Kennt & Avu 139 7s. 61. - Severn andl
26 21. Os. 24
Lancaster .1100 4/. 32% Wye Rail. 4
Leolii& Livrp I 100 241. 325 Warwic.k& 1
Leicester.... 100 51. 66 Uirming. j 100 41. 643(3
Leicstr &Nth 183 4/. 48% Warwick&
Louzhborogh 142 701. 510 Napton..} 100 31. 42
monmouttish 100 81. - Worcstr &3
Mntgminrysh' 100 - - Birming. 78 31. 40
MeltnAl wbry. 100 - - Wilts & lirks - I Is. 7%

GAS-LIGHT AND CORE coraparnEms.
Dividend Amount
Name of Company. per of Paid. Price.
Annum. Share.
- -
X. s. d. Z. a. d.
British ••••••- • • •• • .. 11. 40 0 0 18 0 0 13
Ditto Provincial - - 11. Bs, 20 0 0 20 0 0 18%
Brighton ...... •• •• .. 51. 20 0 0 - -
City of London .. -•. 61. 100 0 0 150 0 0 -
Continental Consolldat. 925. 75 0 0 31 5 0 -
Equitable- •••••.. • • • • 501. 50 0 0 50 0 0 -
Imperial .• .... ••• • • • 31. 50 0 0 50 0 0 70
Independent ....... • • 61. 40 0 0 40 0 0 48
L0nd0n.............. - 50 0 0 50 0 0 -
- 50 0 0 50 0 0 -
Do., Parl. Preference 61. 25 0 0 210 0 -
Phcenix . ............ 4341. 50 0 0 49 0 0 28
Ratcliff .... . ........ 5/. 100 0 0 90 0 0 -
United General ...... 11. 50 0 0 50 0 0 1538
Westminster Chartered 3/. 50 0 0 - 48%
Ditto, New ........ 12s. 50 0 0 10 0 0 914
LI Si' OP SCOTTISE COMPANIES' PRICES
Dividend Amount
Name of Company, per of I Paid. Price.
Annum. Share.
-- - -- -
£ s. d. 1 £ s.
Bank of Scotland
British Linen Company 8/. per cent. 100 0 0 1100 0 199
Caledonian Bank
City of Glasgow Bank . 61. per cent. 10 0 0 I 10 0 11%
Clydesdale Bank -... •• 634 per cent. 20 0 0 10 0 13%
Commercial Bank •• •• 71. per cent. 510 0 0 1100 0 17434
Eastern Bank •••••• • • 6/. per cent. 25 o 0 10 0 9%
Erlinb.k Glasgow Bank Cl. per cent. 5 0 0 5 0 4%
E•rshanrfeßnit of Scot 4l. per cent. 100 0 0 50 0 12%
Ede of Man. Company 71. per cent. 10 0 0 7 0 -
National Bank 6% per cent. 50 0 0 10 f 153
Yorth of Scotlandßank 47. percent. 20 0 0 5 0 2%
North British Bank •. - - -•-
Royal Bank of Scotland 5/. per cent. 100 0 0 100 3 132%
Union Bank of Scotland 8L per cent. 100 0 0 50 0 90%
Western Bank - ... •• • 71. per cont. 50 0 0 50 0 73
Alliance Fire and Life 8)41.pr cent. 10 0 0 10 1 203 a
B. Accord. Life and Fire - 20 0 0 10 -
British Guarantee Ins. 47. per tent. 10 0 0 1 0 14i 9d
Caledonian Fire Insur. 101. per cent. 100 0 0 10 0 23
Colonial Life ... - 50 0 0 1 0 11. 3s,
City of Glasgow Life 6l. per cent. 25 0 0 2 0 21. 17s
Edinburgh Life Insur. 61. per cent. 100 0 0 15 0 20
East of Scotland Life - 10 0 0 0 15 -
Eng. & Scot, Law Life 51. per cent. 50 0 0 217 234
Hercules Insurance Cs. 71. per cent. 100 0 0 10 0 I -
Incur. Co. of Scetlnd• • Ll. per cent. 100 0 0 10 0 , -
Life Assoc. of Scotland 61. per cent. 10 0 0 1 0 111. 18s
Mercantile Life .. • •
National Fire and Life Si. per cent. 10 0 0 1 0 1225. Cd
North British Insur. - 6pr cent. 200 0 0 20 0 25%
North & West of Scot. 61. per cent. 10 0 0 1 0 -
Scottish Life and Guar. - 20 0 0 011 -
Scot.M as. and Gen.Llfs - 0 0 015 -
Scottish Union Insrnce. 6141. pr cent. 20 0 0 1 0 243 Od
Standard Life •••• - • • 51. per cent. 50 0 0 4 5 9%
United Dep. Assurance 51. per cent. 10 0 0 1 0 15s 9d
rdxscmx.Larneous.
Dividend Amount
Name of Company. per of Paid. Price.
Annum. Share.
----
X. s. d. £. 3. d.
Ituetion Mart •••• • • • • 2/. ss. 50 0 0 - 28
Australian Agriculturl IL 100 0 0 30 0 0 1534
knglo-Mexican Mint.. 11. 10s. 10 0 0 10 0 0 20
Ditto, Half Shares.. - - 210 0 5
Canada ... • • .... •• .. Gl. per cent. 100 0 0 32 10 0 40
Uppr Canada Bonds 51. per.cent. - - 94
rtty Navigation .... - _ 96
_
Gen. Revers. & Invest. sp. c.& bs, 2/ 100 0 0 100 0 0 90
Equitable Reversienry 57. pr cent. 100 0 0 100 0 0 106
Gen.SteamNavigation 11.8 s. 15 0 0 14 0 0 27%
London Institution ... _ - 78 15 0 -
Russell Institution.... - - ,26 5 0 -
Peninslr & Orient.Stm. 81. per cent. 50 0 0! 50 0 0 793(
Reversionary Int. Soc. 4%1. pr cent. 100 0 0 I 100 0 0 9i
Royal Mall Steam•• •• 61 18. 4. p. c, 100 0 01 60 0 0 68
South Australian..... i f
•••Per slutre. 25 0 0I 25 0 0 2031
Van Diemen's Land.. - 100 0 0, 29 0 0 34

SHIP NEWS.
LIVERPOOL, OCT. 26.--Arrived, the Patriotess from
Arica; Susan, from Patras; Giselle, frcm Nantes; Ca-
milla steamer, from Havre; Siddons, from New York;
Blarney steamer, from Rotterdam; William Piele, from
Buenos Ayres. Sailed, the Africa steamer, for New York ;
Success, for Shanghae; Frau Sophie, for Rostock; Laco-
nic, for New York; Brandywine, for New Orleans; Green-
ock, for Mobile; Mary Wilson, for Curecort; Elizabeth, for
Alexandria (E.); Amity. for Seville; Diadem, for San
Francisco; Bonita, for Pernambuco; Dibdin, f.,r New
Orleans; Nymph, for Azores. Off port, the Jamaica,
Charles Souchay. The William Piele, from Buenos
Ayres, at this port, sailed on 19th of August. The
Caesarea, from London to Buenos Ayres, ran on the
English Bank on 6th of August, and became a total
wreck; crew saved. The Agent, from Cardiff to the
Pacific, was totally wrecked on Bth of August, not far
from the Caesarea; crew and part of materials saved.
The Sappho, from Liverpool, at River I'late; John Ro-
binson, from ditto, at ditto; Amazon, from ditto, at
Buenos Ayres.
ANTWERP, OCT. 24,—The Jeuno Mathilde, from
Blyth, for Havre, which put into Dunkirk on the 15th of
October, after having been nearly wrecked; must dis-
charge her cargo to be repaired.
The Chateaubriand, from Newcastle for Oran, put into
St. Malo on the 16th of October, leaky.
The Deux Sceurs, from Newcastle for Camatan, was
totally lost off Yarmouth in the night of the 7th of Oct.,
after bring in contact.

Tho Jeiine Josephine, from Nantes to bunkirk, was
etrandQd at the entrance to the latter port, but got off
and into port, where she sank.
GIBRALTAR, OCT. 16.—The Dane], from Trieste, for