Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1875-01-16 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

THE REVENIIE.—The Board of Trade returns for December, which were ii.•sued on Thursday, show the total declared value of the exports fcr the month to have been if 17,830,148, which is a decrease of £1,317,358 compared with December, 1873, and of £2,686,103 compared with December, 1872. The value of the exports for tho year ended December 31st were £239,436,207, which is a decrease of £15,728,396 compared with 1873, and of £16,821,140 compared with 1872. The total value of the imports for December were £28,683,185. a hih was a decrease of £4,454,707 compared with December, 1873, and a decrease of £654,817 compared with December, 1872. The value and the imports for the year was £368,435,434, which was a decrease of £1,955,008 compared with 1873, but an increase of £14,367,369 over 1872.  SALE/TAR UNISHMENT FOB A BlitrlAL WIFE ABBAtILT.-At the Sheffield Christmas Quarter Sessions, John O'Donnell (55), shoemaker, was indicted for unlawfully and maliciously wounding his wife, Ellen O'Donnell. The evidence showed that on Saturday, November 28th, the prosecutrix accidentally upset and broke an earthenware teapot. The prisoner was sitting in the hoe, and without a word he took up one of the piLces uf broken pot and threw it at his wife. The missile struck Mr on the forehead, and caused a wound which kept her in one of the institutions for a fortnight. The prisoner contended that the affair was an accident, and fiat he was only throwing a piece of the pot out of the way. He had been previously convicted of similar offeno•Ar, and he was now sentenced to twelve months' imprisonment with hard labour.  MR BEECHER AND Ma TM/IN.—The Daily News' New York correspondent, writing on the 28th ult., says Tilton startles the city this morning by the publication of a new address to the people, in which he announces that if he is forced to give the full bill of partiottlars which Mr Beecher's counsel demands, he will drop his suit. 'So far as the civil case is concerned," he says, " fwhich is the only one eontrolled by me), I shall go into court on the first day when I am permitted to carry all my evidence with me, but never whilst I must leave nine-tenths of this evidence outside the door. In other words, to try Mr Beecher for adultery, with the adultery carefully forbidden to be proved, is a farce at which lam not harlequin enough to gay in these sad days." There were two provocations to the publication of this " cord." One was au order from the City Court of Brooklyn, requiring Tilton to show cause "why he should not be precluded from giving. env evidence as to any ads of criminal intercourse , between the defendant and the wife of the plaintiff on any other day: or at any other places than those which are specially named in the complaint." The other was the publication of an article by Ur Beecher in the Christian Union, denyieg the rumours of an I attempt to compromise thecasO, and declaring that, so far as he was concerned, it should be pursued to the end. Mr Tieon's reasons for dropping the suit are not clear. He professes to be able to prove the commission of adultery on two specified days. The ord,r of the court allows him to introduce evilence bearing upon the commission of the offence on "or about" those days. Yet he declines to go into court unless he is allowed to prove that the offence vita mvinv times repeated between 1868 and 1870. It would seem that if he can establish two instances his suit is gained, and the world will take his word for the rest. Why sloes he refuse to do it ? Now he challenges Mr Beecher to come on and press the indictment for slander, hoping, I suppose, for greater latitude. It rests with Mr Beecher to do this, or let the whole matter drop ; and most people believe that the matter will be dropped accordingly.  1 THZ BABY Fsawmo Cesn.—At Newton Abbot on Saturday, Betsy Benmore was committed for trial for the wilful murder of a child entrusted to her to nurse.