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jury for no reasonable purpose. You are bound to
acquit the prisoner.
The jury then immediately returned a verdict of
not guilty.
Hisjordship granted an immediate diicharge.

WESTERN CIRCUIT. —WINCHESTER, Dec. 10,
• (Before Mr. Justice

Fanny Harris was indicted for the wilful murder
of her female child at Alverstoke, on July 17.
Mr. Pou!den and Mr..Beetham were counsel for
the prosecution, and Mr. Hooper, .at the request
of the Court, defended the prisoner.
' The facts as proved on the part of the prosecution
were these :—The prisoner was a fine young wo-
man, about 27 years of age. In 1855 she was in the
service of Col. Evans, who resided at Forton Bar-
racks. In May last she went to Portsea, being then
in the family way; she stated she was the wife of a
Mr. Smith, who wasthenatAldershet. She became
a
cquainted with a Mi. Sheppard. They took lodg-
ingstogether at aMrs. Carpenter's, where they re:
mained a few days, and then removed to the house
of a Mrs. Snooks. On June 22 the prisoner was con-
fined of a female child. Up to that time she re-
ceived remittances of money, and appeared to have
sufficient for her wants, and she had provided two
suits of baby clothes. After her confinement she be-
haved kindly towards her infarit, and treated it with
affection ; but her means became less, and she was
obliged to pledge some of its clothes. On Thurs-
day, July 16, the child being then three weeks and
three days old, the prisoner told Mrs. Snooks she
should go to Poitsea to see her cous:n, who would
perhaps give the child some clothes, and herselfbalf
a movereid.n. Between 3 and 4 o'clock that after-
noon she borrowed two shawls of Mrs. Sheppard,
and then left the house, taking her child with
her. Between 4 and 5 o'clock that afternoon she
called at Mrs. Carpenter's, where she had for-
merly lodged. She had not then any child with her.
She asked Mrs. Carpenter to write to Smith, :her
husband, and beg him to send her some money; as
she was in great distress, and Mrs. Carpenter wrote
the letter for her. Mrs. Carpenter then asked her
how she had got over her confinement, and if the
child was living. The prisoner said it was not,. for
it was stillborn ; she then asked Mrs. Carpenter if
she could again let her have her lodgings, and upon
her replying in the affirmative she said she would
come the next morning ; she then left. At 8 o'clock
the next morning the prisoner came to Mre. Oar-
-neuter's. She appeared much confused and disor-
dered, her clothes were saturated with water, and
she said she had come across the water. She took
breakfast, and then went to bed, where she remained
till between 3 and 4 o'clock in the afternom. She
then got up, and was silent and thoughtful. She
said she was very nervo:-.s and did not like to be
left alone. She said she should go and see her
mother, who lived in the neighbourhood of Win-
chester, and she left Mrs. Carpenter's. The prisoner
had left Mrs. Snooks, with her baby, on Thursday,
the 16th July. On Friday, the 17th July, a little
girl named Fanny Stephens was walking by; the
ti to of the moat outside the town. of Portsmouth,
when she saw something in the water. She gave an
alarm, and it was found that what she had Aeen
was the dead body of a child dressed. An inqUest
was held, but there was no evidence offered except
the mere finding of the child, an open verdh t Was
returned, and the child was buried. The police then
commenced making inquiries, and they (Jawed
handbills to be printed giving a description of , the
clothes which had been found upon t` e child. On •
of these bills attracted the attentiOu ofMts. Snooks,
who, with Mrs Sheppard, went and saw the clothes,
and they swore that those were the clothes which
were on the prisoner's child at the time the left
Mrs. Snooks's house on the 15th July. The body
was exhumed, but the face was so much decom-
posed that the features could *not be recognised.' An
officer went in search of the prisoner' and.found!hcr
at. her mother's. She had never told her mothati sh,

The Spitfire, 5, paddlewheel steamvessel, Lieut.-
Commander Campbell, having had her defects re-
paired, returned to Spitbead yesterday, to re-ship
her ammunition, kc., after which she will'proceed
to the Coast of Africa station.
The steam-transport Gibraltlr, Captain hall,
arrived at Wo lwich Arsenal yesterday from Lon-
don, laden with a general cargo of stores for Gib-
raltar and Cadiz. She embarked a number of pas-
sengers at Woolwich, among whom were Mr.
Campbell and family, British Vice-Consul at Cadiz,
and Mr. Read, engine-..r, in charge of the complete
machin: ry f)r working a steam mil! ablot to be
erecied at Moguer, near Seville. The Gibraltar
soiled for her destination from Woolwich yesterday
at4p.m.

Die Cuckeo steamer, 3, at Chatham, is to be paid
off, and as soon as she has been docked for the pur-
pose of having the injuries caused by the late acci-
dent repaired she will be at'ached to the steam
reserve at Chatham.
The following officers have taken up tLeir .com-
missions and appointments to the new screw steam-
ship Renown, 91 guns, Captain Arthur Forbes. at
Sheerness, viz. :—Mr. V. G. Roberts, master ; Dr.
James Carmichael, surgeon ; the Rev. Henry
Aloxan&r, B. A., chaplain ; Cantain T. P. Carey,
R.M. ; First Lieutenant F. Ley, R.M. ; First
Lieutenant Graham Hewett, R M. ; Mr, James
Darling, mate ; Mr. R. Nico', chief engineer ; Mr.
James Baptist, and J. W. Hampshire, asiistant-
engineers. The Renown n ordered to be com-
pleted on the 31st of January next.
The Admiralty have ordered the officers at Sheer-
ness-yard to make an immediate return of the con-
dition and requirements of various *ships and ves-
sels now in the steam reserve at t tat port, and to
give information of the time it would require to
get them ready for immediate service.
Thee() are now in Sheerne=s harbour 23 screw
ships, with 823 guns, and of 7,280 horse-power ;
paddlewheel steam vessels, six in number, with 51
gun's and of 2,380 horse-power ; 29 gunboats,: with
58 guns and of 1,660 horse :power, making a tot-4
of 58 steam vessels, with 932 guns and of 11,320
hore-power.
The following letter, dated. Singapore, Oct. 19,
gives a very satisfactory account of the voyage of
1-le steam troop-ship Imperador, Commander J. B.
Atkins. The writer says :
" She left Plymouth with 500 Royal Marine', a
portion of the second battalion for service in China,
under command of Lieut.-Col. Rocker, on the 10th
of Aug., and arrived at Singapore on the 16th of
Oct., making by many days tbequickest passage on
record, being under sail - and kleana, exclusive of
stoppages in Madeira and Ascension, only 69 days
and 20hours. This magnificent ship was built by
Mr. J. Laird, of Birkenhead, for Vie South Ame-
rican and General Stelm Navigation Company.
She burdens 1,700 tons, and has engines of 200
horse-power; her consumption of coal was 24 tons
per day. Wi'h steam alone she made 9i knots per
hour, and under steam and canvas 14 knots ; on
one occasion, with screw dieconnected, she mad 13
knots. The screw makes 42 revolutions per minute.
She can condense 800_ aillons of water daily. South
of the Cape sl,lerticirrenced a severe gale, . with
heavy squalls df rain and snow. The Provisions are
excellent, andq hOtroops are in good health. 'Capt.
Atkins and his officers have been most attentive
throughout the voyage."
The conduct of the marines is described as exemplary
—they were on the point of starting for Hong Kong.
The brig Persian, 12, from Sheerness, arrived at
Plymouth yesterday (Thursday) morning.

had been confined. The oihccr said to tho prisoner,
" I want to see you about a child. You have been
lodging at Portsmouth with'a person named Shep-
pard. When you left her on Thursday you had your
child with you. Can I see ?" She said, '' No ; yin
cannot." The officer then said, " A child answering
the description of yours was found drowned in the
moat at Gosport last Friday, and I shill take,you
into custody on suspicion of being the person who
placed it there ; you must go with me to Gosport."
She said, "I never put it there; you will find it all
right when you got to Gosport. I left the child with
a poison who, I iwpe, will take care of it." The pri-
soner did not appear at the time to be frightened.
Mr. Hooper, in addressing the jury, urged tli-ct
the only facts against the prisoner wore that she
ha i had a child, and that a child having on the
clothes which had been those of the prisoner's:was
found in the water, but upon such-facts alone they
could not come to a just and satisfactory conclusion
that the prisoner had put the child there. There Were
three pints which ought to be proved—first, that
the child was that of the prisoner ; secondly, that

t was drowned ; and, thirdly, that_Prisoner- was the

person who bad drownei it. He submitted that
there was no evidence to prove that the ptisoner
was the person who had drowned the child, and he
pressed upon them that the prisoner might be tell-
ing the truth when she stated that she had placed
the child with a person at Gosport, and that her
seducer might have disposed of the child.
Mr. Justice Willes then summed up.
The jury retired fir sometime, and on their return
gave a verdict of Guilty, five of them recommentling
her to mercy.

The Judge then passed upon the prisoner the
awful sentercs of death. At the conclusion of the

sentence st,e put out her hand as if to support her-
self by the rail of the dock. She was then led away.
Frederick Deane, who was yesterday convicted
of the man,-laughter of Mrs. George, a patient of
his by neglecting her in her confinement, was now
put to the tar for sentence.
Mr. Justice Wines then addressed him. He had
been convicted of the manslaughter of Mrs.
George, a woman he was attending as a patient.
He appeared to have been
,a man in an h onour-

able Profession—a profession no man was more
disposed to hold in honour than himself, but by the
verdict of the jury he had been convicted of gross
neglect in the management of the case of that un-

happy woman, by which she bad come to a most

painful death. He should make no observations at
all t 3 aggravate the feelings of a man who, after so
many years' practice as he appeared to have had,

holdiii respect by hii neighbours was brought by
his act into a position so auserstble as that in which

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he now stood. He must also remark that punish-
ment was inflicted by law, not so much for causing
pain to the individual as to offer a warning to otherl,
lest they should fall into an offence of the like des-

tription, and it was a truism to say that the pro-
fession to which he belonged scarcely required, as
it appeared by his unhappy case, such a lesson as
his punishment must read. He did not, therefore,
think it necessary to pass a sentence which should

rank among the higher grades of punishment in-
flicts) I upon persons who took away the lives of
others—that of penal servitude; but he must pass
a sentence of long imprisonment, otherwise he
should not mark the sense he entertained of the
awful responsibility which a man incurred by his
culpable neglect of a person in her most critical
moment, who had confided her case to his skill and
his care. The sentence of the Court was that he
should be imprisoned in the common gaol for 18
months.

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By her Majesty's Royal Letters Patent for valuable and ex-
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Telescopes, Camp, Race-course, Opera, and Perspective
Glasses, to know the distances. These Telescopes possess
such extraordinary power that some, three and a-half inches,
with an extra eye-piece will show distinctly Jupiter's moons,
Saturn's riug, and tho double stars; with the same telescope
can be seen a person's countenance three-and-a-half miles
distant and an object from 16 to 21l miles. For the waist-
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Glass, the size of a walnut, by which a person can be seen awl
known one and a-half mile distant. They answer every pur-
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Camp, Perspective, and Race-0 ,urse Glasses, with wonderful
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His Royal Hi,
by Capt.. Mt Ph
Osborne, on box
Mr. Alfred Bw
and•
proceeded to Gosport, where his Royal _igllne.es
had notified his intention of making a thorough
inspection of the new. and extensive line of defences.
The Prince landed under considerable
by the aid of a 50-round ladder and a navvy's ram
truck, at Port Elson, where Col. FOrster, Aide-de-
Camp to the Queen, commanding Royal Engineers
in the south-west district, was in waiting to receive
and conduct him. over the works, the objeCts and
details of which, respectively, he explained by pans
and personal descriptions. From Fort Elson the
Prince and party were conveyed in carriages to the
other forts, down to the last at Browndown, after
which the Princo proceeded to the Royal Clarence-
yarclto meet her Majesty, who had arrived there in
the meantime in the Fairy, Capt. the Hon. 3PfePh
Denman. Her Majesty having landed at the.Plat-
ence-yard she, with the Prince Consort and Prince
Alfred, with their respective personal attendants,
entered the carriages provided, and were driven to
Alver Bank (the establishinent of Prince Alfred)to
luncheon, and thence to Alverqoke-beach tb re-
embark in the Fairy about 3 o'clock for Osborne.
The Argo, one; of the fine fleet of the General
Screw Steam Shipping Company, is expected at
Portsmouth this day or to-morrow to prepare for
embarking the head-quarters of the 68th Light In-
fantry for India. The remainder Of the regiment,
with.draughts from others, will be embarked at
Port-mouth on be and the steamship Australasian
about the 14th inst.
The 4th battalion of the Rifle Brigade, at Win-
chester, is under orders to vacate those quarters and
proceed to Chichester on the 15th inst.
The 33d and 89th depot., the former from Can-
terbury. and the 1 v;;ter from Sborncliffe, arrived in
Portsmouth garrison yesterday afternoon, and will
embark this morning on botad the steam=ship
Plussischer Adler for Cork.
11,-r Majesty's steam troop-ship Vulcan, 6, Com-
mander John Seccombe, is under orders to embark
the Limerick Militia, and convey them to Ports-
mouth for Aldershot, and to return with the-Lei- f"4-e
tester Militia to Cork. She then embarks the Ist
Surrey Militia for Waterford.
The Victor-Emmanuel, now screw 91-gun ship,
will be removed from the steam basin at Portsmouth
to-morrow, fit ed for the steam fleet in-reserve, and
will be taken out for a trial of her steaming powers
as soon as fitted with a screw upon the principle of
Mr. Lynn, of the steam department in Portsmouth
dockyard; this consists, we believe, of 4 iron. blades,
2 of which are moveable.