The Sun.
London, England, 1845-05-26 00:00:00

THE GAME-LAWS.

On Thursday last, an old man named James 13ean, between 60
and 70 years of age, a shoemaker, of East Hampstead, was
charged before Mr. P. H. Crutchley and Captain Bulkeley
(county magistr.ates for Berks), on the information of George
White, one of Prince Albert's gamekeepers for the Swinley district,
with having unlawfully offered for sale four pheasants and six
pheasants' eggs, on the 13th instant. The examination took place
at the private office of Mr. Seeker, the town-clerk of Windsor,
and clerk to the county magistrates.

Mr. C. S. Voules, solicitor, appeared for the Crown, and Mr. J.
J. Williams, barrister.at.law, for the defendant.
The case excited considerable interest, in consequence of the
method which had been adopted to entrap the defendant.
Charles Milley, gamekeeper to Sir John Walsh, of Warfield,
examined by Mr. Voules—On the night of Monday, the
12th instant, defendant came to my house at Winkfield, in
consequence of a letter I had written to him that morning.
I let a person named John Shakespere privately in at the back
door to hear what was said between me and Dean. Dean told me
he had only half a dozen pheasants' eggs by him just then. Dean
als,) said he had three hens and a cock pheasant by him at
home. The deal between me and the defendant was then
conclude°. He brought to me the next morning, about
five o'clock, three hens and one cock pheasant alive, and
six pheasants' eggs, saying they had all been caught in wires since
the previous Tuesday. When I asked him if he was authorised to
sell game, he said" No, but there will be no harm between you and
me." When he said he had no license to sell game, I told him I
could not buy of him. He then said he would take them back
again. I a eplied, " You cannot do that, for I must take them be-
fore a magistrate." Shakespere, who had been secreted, then appeared.
Cross-examined by Mr. Williams—l am gamekeeper to Sir
John Walsh ; but I have no deputation nor any license to deal in
game, nor any license to kill game. I look after Sir John's game.
I decline to say if I ever killed any game. I have had possession of
the birds and eggs ever since they were brought to me by Dean.
John Shakespere corroborated the testimony of the last witness.
Cross.examined by Mr. Williams—Pray, in whose employ are
you ? Who is your master ?

Upon the witness hesitating to give an answer, Captain
Bulkeley said, " Oh, the Woods and Forests pay him, or else the
Crown."

Mr. Williams—l had much rather have an answer from the
witness, Captain Bulkeley, unless you yourself choose to be sworn.
Witness, after being again pressed by Mr. Williams for an
answer, at length replied, lam game-keeper to Prince Albert. I
know a person named George White, who laid this information.
He is now in the room, in green and gold. He is one of the head
game-keepers to his Royal Highness.

The case having been closed on the part of the Crown,
Mr. Williams took several technical objections to the summonses,
which were overruled. He then addressed the Bench on the part of
the defendant, who, he said, need not have appeared that day at
all, as the summonses were both decidedly bad. He however had
consented to appear, in order to save further trouble and loss of
time to the Bench.
Captain BuLitELEv—He was already here when the case was
opened, and if he had attempted to
,pave gone away I would car.
tainly have given him into custody.

Mr. Williams—lle was here as a spectator, and was not bound
to plead. He could have walked out of the room, without appear.
ing to the summons, most certainly, if he had so pleased.
Captain BULKELEY—I should not have parted with him. I
should certainly have ordered him into custody if he had attempted
that.

Mr. Williams said he would remind the Learned Captain that
it was rather a dangerous thing to take people into custody without
a warrant, or without reasonable suspicion of felony. For aught
that had been proved, or that the Bench knew, those very eggs
might have been received by the defendant from some licensed
dealer in game.

The COURT having held that the information was sufficiently
proved,
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Mr. Williams then addressed the Bench in mitigation, and ex_
presses his surprise at seeing Prince Albert's green and gold game..
keepers mixing themselves
up with a prosecution, apparently
originating from Sir John Walsh. If the letter had not been
written by Milley to entrap him, he would not have been placed in
his present unfortunate dilemma. He would denounce the whole
as a conspiracy, for the sake of putting one.half of the penalty
into Mr. White's pocket, who was in the room, and whom they
dared not call as a witness for the Crown. He would then read
the letter which had been sent to the defendant to entrap him, as
he intended to keep nothing in the back ground. It was written by
the witness Milley, who signed himself as "gamekeeper." The
letter was as follows:

" Mr. Dean,—l Bleave you sent to me last week about some
pheasants eggs, And I did not know Wether they was good or not,
And so I did not give the man any particular answer about them ;
hut if you are got some to part with, and they are good, I will try
and deal with you on reasonable terms. And please to send word
back by the boy when you will bring them if you are got any to
part with now; the man was saying you had got two pheasants to
part with As well As eggs, And if they are likely birds for laying,
I should have know objection to try and make a deal with you for
them, but send me word when you will come, so that I can be in
the way, for you might come 50 times And not find me At home.
I am Liveing in A New house just above the Royal Forester.
(Signed) "DARES MILLEY, Gamekeeper."
The game.laws were already sufficiently severe in their operation,
but if gamekeepers, however illustrious their employers might be,
were to make a trade in informations for the sake of half the
penalties, the ignorant and needy would be constantly led into
temptation, and the wrongs of the poor unendurable.
The magistrates retired for nearly half an hour. On their
return—

Mr. CRUTCHLEY addressed the defendant, and said, he considered
the offence with which he was charged a very bad one; and that
the letter which had been written to him was an aggravation of
that offence. The Bench had, therefore, determined to inflict the
full penalty the law allowed, which was that he be fined 21. for
each of the pheasants, and ss. for each of the eggs found in his
possession, and ordered him to pay 11. Is. costs, making together
101. Ils., and, in default, that he be committed to the county gaol
for four months, with hard labour, viz., three months in the case
of the birds, and one month for the eggs being found in his
session. 5108.

Mr. Williams having applied to the bench to giy•
fe
a fortnight's time to raise the amount of the
the de
fines and the ndant
costs,
astoswenhtiecdh, Mr. Voules, on the part of ':ae prosecution, cheerfully

Capt. BULKELEY said no tip-
0. 32, sections whatever
and"2es.
must pay the money
The defendant v•
. as then taken away in custody.
Jnce, or go to gaol.
The should be given—the man
_edings were taken under the Ist and 2d of William
IV. cr-

The Duke and Duchess of Leeds have arrived at the Clarendon
Hotel from Hornby Castle, Yorkshire.
The Lord Chamberlain, Earl Delawarr, has issued cards for his
usual grand official banquet, in honour of her Majesty's birthday,
on Tuesday, to the Lords, Equerries, and Grooms in Waiting on
the Queen. Covers will be laid for twenty-four.
Lord and Lady George Seymour arrived on Friday at Mivart's
Hotel, from Brighton, where the Noble Lord and:Lady have been
residing same months.

The newly.appointed Bishop of Ely, Dr. Turton, has removed
from his residence, which his Lordship occupied as Dean of West-
minster, to the spacious mansion of his predecessor in Dover-street.
DEATH Or W. J. HUGGINS, ESQ., THE MARINE
ARTIST.—On Monday last, at his residence, No. 105, Leadenhall.
street, after only two days' illness, William James Huggins, Esq.,
aged Silty.four, and marine artist to his late Majesty William IV.
so accurately; for no
The early years of Mr. Huggins were. passed upon the ocean,
having made several voyages to China, in the service of the East
India Company; and this enabled him, who. had keenly endured the
a gale of wind with all
ahrotrirsotrhsasofevthere
esxtcoermlied, tohimpaiinnt
its concomitant terrors. The three large pictures of the battle of
principally confined, were ex-
Trafalgar (now at Hampton CPt°ouhrrettraPsyula.bnliageccet), which Mr. Huggins
painted for the late King, evince a thorough knowledge of nau-
tical affairs, especially the tempest sitter the engagement. These
were originally designed for the collection at Greenwich Hospital,
and it was a source of grief to the worthy artist that, through
some cause or other, they never reached. their destination. His
many a sunn-
y spot of beautifill
cpeolrlternati
,t s
and
chips,th e
sceneryto which
di .
phlea y
ewasd
colouring, particularly in his delineations. of Chinese landscapes.
In private life, as well as in his professional capacity, he enjoyed
the esteem of many of the most talented men of the day.—Pictorial

interfered languidly for a church.
and in the matter.
Times.
CHURCH INNOVATIONS.— ST. GEORGE IN THE
rate,Ea s -The
wenton eornev
Some personal friends of the rector, who has driven the great bulk
of the parishioners from their parish church by his Puseyite prac-
a—ndveeryfew polling
of on
theF rld
parishioners
went
prac-
tices, recorded their vote in favour of the rate, and to coun-
teract this, the church party (for it is a fact that the opposition
to the rate emanated from churchmen) who are disgusted with
the innovations introduced by the Rev, wr.
—r. King, voted against
the rate, and could have brought up hundreds had it been neces.
sary. At the close of the first day's poll, Mr. Liquorish, the senior
churchwarden, stated the numbers to be, for the rate, 14 ; against
the rate, 36; majority, 22.
SOUTHAMPTON, FRIDAY EVENING.—The Royal
Mail Company's steamship Avon arrived here this evening with
the West India Mail. She brings mails of the following dates :
—From San Juan Nicaragua, up to March 30; Chagres, April 3;
Carthagena, April 8 ; Santa Martha, April 9 ; San lago de Cuba,
April 18; Jamaica, April 23; Demarara, April 20 ;
Trinidad,
April 21 ; Barbadoes, April 24; Grenada, April 25; Antigua,
April 27 , St. Thomas, April 30 ; and Fayal, May 16 ; on freight
300,000 dollars on merchants' account; and 69 passengers. She
brings no news of importance either from 51eicco or the West
Indies.
LINCOLN'S INN-FIELDS.—The new gate and road
from Lincoln's Inn-fields into the is n, were thrown open on Friday
for foot and carriage passengers. The gate affords a very interest
ing view, particularly from the fcrmer. Great progress has been
made in the formation of the new plantations, most of the shrubs
having been planted, the turf laid down, and the gravel walks
laid out.

LITERATURE.
THE CONQUEST OF SINDE,
General IV. F. P. Napier.
[SECOND NOTICE.]
After the battle of Meanee, Sir Charles Napier
took possession of Hyderabad. The treasure in that
place was said to be enormous. Sir Alexander Burnes
had reckoned it at twenty millions sterling:;
and Bernier, the French physician, magnified it still
more, but said it was difficult to discover, as the
Ameers had secret vaults both there and at Omer-
cote, in which they contrived to hide their treasures
in times of disaster. Gold, silver, and jewels, how-
ever, when every search was made, did not ex-
ceed in value 400,000/. Sir Charles Napier
and his little army were supposed to have
gained immense fortunes by the victory, but un-
fortunately for them they have not yet received
any portion of the booty, nor even a promise of any.
In fact, all they got was hard fighting, plenty of
glory, but still more abuse from the Indian and Eng-
lish press. and little thanks from the Directors at
the India House. The little gallant army, notwith-
standing the disappointnsent, were not disheartened,
and prepared manfully to meet another army still
more formidable than that which they had defeated,
and Lord Ellenborough nobly supported them in the
struggle. On hearing, by report, of the victory at
Meeanee, he dispatched several regiments with bat-
teries and field trains, which raised the army under
Napier -to nearly .5,000 men, and enabled him to
conquer Sinde, and put an end to the war.
Shere Mohamed, or the Lion, as he was
called, had collected an army with the hopes
of avenging his cousins the Ameers, and recover-
ing Hydrrabad. With a formidable Lo ly of
troops exceeding 25,000 men, he advanced within
ten miles of that town, and openly boasted that he
would " Cabul the British." He had a different man,
however, than Elphinstone to deal with. Napier was
not slack to meet his challenge. He secured the
Ameers, still plotting against him, even in captivity,
by placing them aboard the steamers, though not, as
had been reported, in irons, and prepared for the
contest. It is needless to describe the battle. The
British were completely victorious, and all the move-
ments, with one exception, were successful, though
there was scarcely a man on the staff above twenty-
three years of age. The Lion, however, escaped, but
his troops were dispersed, and the entire country was
subdued. General Wm. Napier thus describes the
results :

By Major.

" This memorable battle, fought thirty-five days after
Afeeanee, and within a few miles of that field, bears
three names, Dubba, Naraja, and Hyderabad. The first
from the village, the second from the plain, the third
from the city near which it was fought. The last is the
one by which it must be known, being that which is in-
scribed on the colours and medals of the gallant soldiers
by whom it was won.

-"Prompt as the English General bad been to fight
this action, after receiving his reinforcements, he was
now still more prompt to render it a decisive one. His
first care was to gather the wounded men, and make
arrangements for transporting them to Hyderabad ; this
and the re-organization of his army for forced movements
in advance, together with the writing of his dispatches,
took about eight hours. Then, having ascertained that the
retreat of the Belooch army was principally towards
Meerpoor, he put his troops in march again, resolute to
win all that fortune would offer to his energy and
bravery.
"The dreadful heat was augmenting each day • the
desert was before him ; the Indus was on the rise behind
him ; the Lion had still a force of nearly four to one, if
he could collect his dispersed troops ; and he had two
fortified towns, Meerpoor and Omercote, to receive and
cover his beaten army, and enable him to prolong the
campaign. The mercury stood at 110 degrees on the
day of the battle; the troops had marched twelve miles to
find the enemy ; they had fought for three or four hours
afterwards ; they had only rested eight hours, 3f
that could be called rest, when they had to cook, and
gather their wounded, and receive fresh ammunition in
the time. But all these things were disregarded by the
General, when he saw the enthusiasm of his officers and
soldiers, who met him with cheers wherever he moved.
They were disregarded also because he well knew the
importance of the occasion, and called to mind Csar's
golden rule of war, That nothing is done while any-
thing remains to be done.' Nor was his confidence in
his men betrayed by weakness of body or mind ; not-
withstanding their previous fatigues and the withering
heat, they made more than twenty miles in advance
before they halted. During this march they passed
through two strongly entrenched positions which the
Lion had prepared to fall back upon ; but he could not
gather men enough in time to occupy them. This was
the first reward of the British energy the next day the
Poonah horse were at the gates of Meerpoor, forty miles
from the field of battle.

" Thus pressed, the Lion abandoned his capital, and
carrying with him his treasure and his family, fled
through the desert to Omercote. The gates of Meer-
poor were immediately opened by the people who being
all liindoos and Scindians, welcomed the vanquishers of
the Beloochees as deliverers. It was strongly fortified
and full of stores."

Thus ended the reign of the Ameers, whose fate
has excited no little sympathy, real or pretended ;
but no wicked rulers ever so well merited condign
punishment, as the following facts will prove :
" The Ameers governed by the sword and by no other
law. The Beloochees were their troops ; the Scindians
and Hindoos their subjects, their victims ; up to the
battle of Meeanee, any Belooch might kill a
Scindian or Hindoo with impunity, for pleasure or profit;
this licence was widely exercised, especially where
women were concerned.

" The Ameers dealed largely in the slave-trado, and
so did all their feudal chiefs, both as importers and ex-
porters.

" They had, to form shikargahs, or hunting :founds,
laid waste, in less than sixty years, more Than a fourth
of the most fertile land of Scinde, a country nearly five
hundred miles in length, and from one to three hundred
miles in breadth. And to form one of these hunting
wildernesses for a child of eight years old, they would
depopulate whole villages with less hesitation and
feeling, than an English farmer smokes a hive of bees.
They extracted money from Hindoo and other mer-
chants by torture and mutilations. They forced labour-
ing men and mechanics to work for them by the same
means, at about two pence daily wages, when their ser-
vices were worth ten times as much, and more often
than not they cheated them even of that pittance ; this
oppression they carried to such an extent, that when
Sir Charles Napier took possession of Scinde, scarcely
could a mason or carpenter or other handicraft man be
found—all had fled with their skill to distant countries.
The Ameers also restricted commerce, and oppressed
merchants and traders, because they disliked the pre-
sence of strangers, who might draw comparisons be-
tween their rule and that of other princes. They
dreaded lest their subjects should be told the. inflic-
tions they endured were unknown save in a
cinde, the
most fertile and the most miserable colinsTey of all Asia.
Finally, they stopped one of the great water-courses
derived from the Indus, purpose';),_ to destroy the fertility
of the neighbouring kingdTin of Cutch, which had been
irrigated from it..
" The °mos.:
ive nature of their government_iy,
sibly uneg pos-
red ia the world,' said Sir UPtr p
y ot-
finger

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It is an iron despotism," wrot% Sir Alexander
Burnes.
" They have all the vices of barbarians without their
redeeming virtues,' was the observation of Mount
Stuart Eiphinstone, whose dictum carries with it the
authority of great sagacity, combined with extensive and
accurate knowledge.
" Major Outram called it a Patriarchal Govern-
ment.'

" But God did not form the teeming land of Scinde
with all the germs of fecundity, nor spread the waters
of the Indus to bring them forth with plenteousness,
merely to support the brutal Ameers in luxury: they
thought so, but his arresting and avenging hand was
laid upon them at Meeanee.
" Their actions as men were even more hideously
wicked than their actions as sovereigns.
" They filled their Zenanas with young girls torn
from their relations, who were never allowed to see them
more ; and they permitted all their Sirdars and other
chiefs to do the same. How were those girls treated ?
It would suffice as an answer, to say, that when the
Ameers fell, not one woman, old or young, mother, wife,
or concubine, would follow them to Bombay, so much
were they detested. And reason good there was for that
hatred. They and all their Sirdars and followers, alike,
perpetrated such horrid iniquities that the women would
have been demons had they not shrunk from the con-
tamination of the Ameers' company.
"If a suspicion of infidelity crossed the mind of a Be-
looch, he sought for no proof, but made the father or
mother hold the daughter by the hair while he cut her
throat, or hacked her to pieces with a swerd. The
slightest quarrel, or disobedience, or reluctance shown,
was enongh provocation for cutting off the miserable
girl's nose or ears with a knife.

" The Ameers and Sirdars killed all their illegitimate
children; that was the rule ; and not unfrequently
they extended this rule to the female legitimate children.
" And how did these monsters destroy their own off-
spring ? First they gave potions called odalisques,'
to procure abortion ; if those failed, they sometimes
chopped the children to pieces with their own hands im-
mediately after birth ; but more frequently placed them
under cushions and sat down, smoking and drinking and
jesting with each other about their hellish work, while
the children were being suffocated beneath them ! Nor
was this even the limit of their abominations. With in-
human cruelty they chastised what they deemed the
poor women's offences, such, perhaps, as weeping over
their slaughtered children. Nusseer Khan of Hyderabad,
reputed the most noble and generous minded of the
Ameers, the most humane of the pernicious brood, had
in his Zenana a whip expressly to correct the women ;
the lash is composed of two lengths of twisted brass
wires It is no fable ! The usage is certain ; the

......... .
whip itself is in the General's possession, and not the
least prized of his trophies ; it tells him how excellent a
deed it was to put his foot upon the ruffian's bended

neck."

SCENES AND ADVEATORES IN SPAIN
fiom 1835 to 1840. By Poco Mas. 2 Vols.
The writer of this work describes many of the
singular events which took place during the civil
war carried on by the Carlists, and though facts of
importance are not exhibited always with the striking
effect that might be expected from an eye-witness,
they bear the stamp of truth. The author performed
a part in the dismal tragedy which so long afflicted
Spain; he was acquainted with the leading men of
the Constitutional party, but he neither overrates

their deeds nor fails to do justice, when merited, to the
chiefs of the other side. We only regret that the
descriptions of the stirring scenes which occurred
are so few, and that he should have filled up so much
of the book with minute details of adventures at
inns, conversations with the worthy hosts or their
daughters, and descriptions of yentas, and cathedrals,
and convents, which are already so well known to
the reading public. The account of the downfal of
the Liberal Ministry at Barcelona, the deceitful con-
duct of Queen Christina, and the plots of the new
race of Absolutists which now govern Spain, is so
well written, and contains so many interesting facts,
that we only regret the writer did not devote more of
his work to similar features in the brief history
which he relates. The following conclusion of the
Barcelona affair will show what confidence could be
placed on the honour of Queen Christina. After
having formed an absolute cabinet, after being com-
pelled by the public voice to break it up, she at last
appealed to Espartero, and he obeyed, though un-
willingly, her commands. We give the result :
" lie speedily formed a ministry at Madrid composed
of men well-known for their attachment both to the
Sovereign and the Constitution; hastened, in their com-
pany, to Valencia, presented his colleagues to the
Queen-Regent, who expressed her approbation of his
choice, and acceded to their programme—which was the
same as that originally proposed by the Duke to her
Majesty at Barcelona—signed the decrees, appointing
them her Ministers, received their oaths in due form,
and when his colleagues had retired, her Majesty an-
nounced to the Duke de la Victoria her intention to
embark immediately for France!
" The Duke's astonishment at this startling declara-
tion may be easily imagined. He implored her Majesty,
in energetic but respectful language, to change her re-
solution. and it is even said that, on his knees, the tears
flowing from his eyes, this faithful veteran besought her
Majesty not to abandon her adopted country, her infant
daughters, her faithful subjects ; and pointed out the
evils and the perils which must arise from adopting so
fatal a course.

" All was in vain. Queen Cristina embarked, shortly
afterwards, in a steam-vessel fur Port Vendres, in
France, leaving her two royal daughters under the
charge of the Duke de la Victoria, notwithstanding his
earnest and dutiful entreaties that she would remain, and
not deprive them of her maternal care at their tender
age.

-"
When Queen Cristina and her agents arrived in
France, they lost not a moment in denouncing the Duke
de la Victoria, in whom her Majesty had, but a few
hours previously, declared that she placed such implicit
confidence as to leave her infant children in his charge
—as a traitor, and an unpolished military adventurer!"
The subjoined description of a military execution
will be read with melancholy interest :
" The place appointed for the execution is called the
Campo del Sepulcro, an ample space at a short distance
outside the city. The battalion to which the deserter
had belonged, and some cavalry, infantry, and artillery
of the National Guard, were drawn up in the Campo, at
one angle of which there is a tiled shed, its blank wall
facing the troops. At a short distance in advance of
this wall was a wooden post, from which at about a foot
and a half from the ground a narrow seat jutted; three
musket-balls which had evidently traversed the body of
some unfortunate malefactor were imbedded in the post.
" The concourse of persons was not very great ; a
considerable portion consisted of women and boys. The
Campo del Sepulcro is paved all over, and is used as a
threshing-floor for the corn gathered from the neigh.
bouring fields. There were several heaps of bean-straw
ready placed for being trodden out; some of them were
close to the spot where the man was to be shot, and
great numbers of boys were amusing themselves by, at
one moment, examining the fatal seat, and the next,
tumbling over head and heels on the bean-straw, cover-
ing each other with it, and laughing and leaping with -a.s
much buoyancy of spirit and action as though the-, were
beguiling the time until the arrival of Punc . 10, or
any other puppet dressed out for their die:ersien.
" Soon the sound of the funeral dram was heard, and
the melancholy procession ar-oroached. It passed
behind the ranks of the tre,op; drawn up, and entered
the Campo del Sepulcro at an open space between the
cavalry and infantry.
" Immediately 'afterwards came an eeclesiastic carry-
ing a large cnicifix; the wounds and flagellated back of
the Savie,ur were prominently marked. Close to the
bearer of the Cross was the prisoner, attended on each
side of him by a military chaplain bareheaded. The
prisoner, a man of about thirty, wore a green military
jacket, coarse white linen trousers, and alpargatas, or
sandals ; on his head was a foraging cap. His hands
were tied before him, and fixed between them was a
small crucifix ; the procession was closed by a few
soldiers. The countenance of the culprit was forbidding:
the colour of his face was a dark yellow ; he was
perfectly collected, and kept pace with the beating of
the funeral drum. The chaplains were constantly ad-
dressing to him short sentences in under tones, and, ap-
parently by the movements of his lips, he was making
responses. Ever and anon the large crucifix which was
carried in front of him was lowered by the ecclesiastic
who bore it, so that the penitent might kiss the hands,
side, and feet, which he did with apparent reverence.
When the procession arrived in front of the regiment to
which he had belonged, he was instructed to kneel down
whilst the Town-Major of Zaragoza read the sentence
in a loud voice.

" A new white cotton handkerchief, doubled trian-
gularly, was now tied over his eyes and face, and the
chaplain who had retired about two yards pronounced
the creed in short sentences, which were firmly repeated
by the penitent sinner, now on the brink of eternity.
The effect was most solemn, singular, and affecting; the
voice of the robust young man who was so soon to be a
corpse, coming from under the white handkerchief ; the
black brethren with their lighted tapers standing to the
right and left; the chaplains performing their last duties;
the solemn silence which reigned around ; and, just as
the cried was being finished, the quiet approach of eight
soldiers belonging to the culprit's own regiment under
the command of an officer; all this, I say, was imposing
and affecting. The soldiers were drawri up in two ranks
—four in each. The credo being finished, and every
one having retired from the soldier's side--his breast
having been previously bared—the chaplain, who stood
by the officer, absolved the prisoner in a clear and
elevated voice. Whilst this short ceremony was being
performed, the four soldiers in the front rank were
ordered by the officer to 'make ready and present.' As
the chaplain uttered the last word, the officer said 'fire!'
and in a second the soldier's breast was pierced with
four musket balls. He fell dead without a groan."

POLICE INTELLIGENCE..
(SATURDAY.)