country. a which England was occasionally seized were humiliating to the under the latter 168 (or 527 per cent.) passed into the first class, and and domestic enemies, whose real objects are not freedom and social 142 (or 44 per cent.) into the second class, leaving 11 (or 33 per amelioration, but either their own selfish interests, political aggranAn influential meeting of the inhabitants of Mansfield and the cent.) in the third class. In the foregoing calculations the cavalry disement, or the subversion of the Catholic Church in the expected neighbourhood was held at the Town Hall on Wednesday, to raise and artillery are not included, the men of these branches of the downfall of the Father of the Faithful. In a speech of considerable rifle corps for that district. Among the company present was the service being armed, the former with breech-loading, and the length he maintained the advantage of government by priests, and Speaker of the House of Commons, who moved the following resolu- latter with rifled carbines. The results of the performances of concluded thus: Contrast Leo X, Paul IV and V, Pius IV and V, tion: "That this meeting desires the maintenance of peace, and dis- the officers, non-commissioned officers, and privates in judging dis- Gregory XVI, with the monarchs of England-the Henrys, the claims all spirit of aggression towards foreign Powers, and believes tances, are most satisfactory. Of the 195 officers, 131 (or 67 per Charleses, the Georges-monsters of bigotry, lust, and imbecility, that the maintenance of peace may be promoted, and the dignity of cent.) passed into the first class; and of the 771 sergeants and rank until the list was closed by her present gracious Majesty (groans), the country consulted by an improved and systematic plan of national and file, 529 (or 684 per cent.) passed into the first class, leaving of who has commenced a new dynasty and has given an example of defence." He said it was necessary for the good of the whole world thata officers only two, and of non-commissioned officers and privates only virtue. [Here the loud cries of No, no!' and other expressions of good understanding should exist between England and France, and seven in the third class. The falling off in the per centage of first disapproval, rendered the reverend speaker inaudible except to those he hoped that would not be imperilled by defending England. This class in judging distance of the last two parties is not to be attributed in his vicinity.] A Voice. She starved 2,000,000 of Irish. (Hear, movement had not been got up in a hurry, but after calm reflection. to any increased difficulty in passing from one class to another, but hear,' and groans.) The speaker concluded by hoping that God would It had gone on for nearly a year. The nation had agreed that the to the fact that an instrument has been used to determine the correct give her Majesty grace to direct her councils and see justice done to country was in a very defenceless state, and that the defences should distance, instead of the chain formerly in use for this purpose, which all, and especially to the Holy Pope, the Father of the Church. Mr J. be improved in a systematic manner. The institutions of the country circumstance prevented the possibility of any collusion on the part P. Hennessy, M.P., who was received with tremendous cheering, then were against us having a standing army of 400,000 or 500,000 men. of the men by which their judgment could be assisted in arriving at addressed the meeting at great length, defending himself from some The people of England had come to this resolution-that the country the correct distance, thus the results in this exercise are rendered attack made upon him, and concluded thus: Who has been the cause wanted defending, and they would defend it themselves. more truthful and the men more efficient." General Hay here sup- of the difficulty and distress with which the Pope is at present surIn and about London the movement is briskly sustained. The plies a table showing the performance of the pupils in those practices rounded? I will tell you in one word-England. (Loud and pro"London Irish" held a numerous meeting on Saturday, at the which are taken to establish the figure of merit. From this it ap-longed groans.) A Voice.-Carlisle and his party. (Groans.) Another Freemasons' Tavern, at which a general committee was formed, and pears that there is a slight improvement in favour of the practice on Voice. The English Whigs. (Deep groans.) Mr Hennessy referred a large subscription collected.The Working Men's College, in the old system in 1858-9; but, comparing the performances on the to an English authority, the Quarterly Review,' which stated that Great Ormond street, have formed themselves into a corps, and fresh new system with those on the old, the former are superior in the file the cause of all the present disasters might be traced to Lord Palmeraccessions are made to the number daily. Mr T. Hughes, the author and skirmishing practices, though otherwise slightly inferior, oc- ston and his satellites. (Hear, hear, and groans.) A Voice.-For of Tom Brown's Schooldays,' has been chiefly instrumental in or- casioned, no doubt, by the practices to 300 yards, inclusive, having many years he is at it. Mr Hennessy.-The English Government ganizing this force, which will probably become the nucleus of a been performed standing instead of kneeling, after 200 yards. Shoot- has not acted in the spirit of truth and justice. Hear, hear,' and large body enrolled from the same class of the population.The St ing standing, however, to at least 300 yards is. Gen. Hay says, groans.) Now, fellow-citizens of Cork-fellow Catholics, we are here George's Volunteer Rifle Corps has now nearly completed two com- essential to efficiency, and will improve as the soldier becomes more to express our sympathy; but, if necessary, there is something more panies, and embraces the names of a great number of noblemen and perfect in the first practice of the present "position drill." Of the than sympathy to be shown. (Tremendous cheering.) A Voice.gentlemen as honorary members, who have subscribed sums varying 195 officers who underwent the course of training to qualify for the We'll fight for him. (Cheers.) Another Voice.-We'll give our bone in amount from five to fifteen guineas.-A Whitehall company of position of instructor of musketry during the year, 163 obtained and sinew. (Renewed cheers.) After several other speeches the the Civil Service is about to be formed, under the sanction of the certificates and 28 obtained second-class certificates; four failed, and thanks of the meeting were accorded to the Bishop, and the assembly Government, to be composed of volunteers from the various public consequently received no certificate. dispersed. batteries at present under a course of training with the Armstrong offices in the vicinity of Whitehall.The St Martin-in-the-Fields' | THE ARTILLERY FOR CHINA.-The first battery of Armstrong MURDER IN WICKLOW.-The papers contain accounts of a frightcorps has assembled this week in Westminster Hall, for the purpose guns, six 12-pound breech-loading rifles, was proved on Thursday ful outrage perpetrated at Mucklow, in the county of Wicklow. The of drill and parade. The whole of the volunteers composing the at the Royal Arsenal butt, Woolwich, in preparation for transit to evidence taken at an inquest held on the body of the victim, an old above corps, 130 men, have been raised within the last fortnight. China by the overland route. The proof charges employed on the man named Michael Boland, a farmer under Lord Fitzwilliam, The Queen's Volunteers and London Scottish Corps have also been occasion, as ordered by the War Department, consisted of the largest brought out the following story: It appears that Lord Fitzwilliam's drilled in Westminster Hall, and have made rapid progress. -The amount of powder with which it was possible to cram the chambers agent wished to "square" the two adjoining farms, held respectively various companies of the South Middlesex Volunteers have engaged of each gun, and a couple, or double shot. Col. Tulloh, Mr Ander- by deceased and the accused, a man named Richard Behan, also rooms for drill in different parts of London, in addition to their large son, and Capt. Gordon, who were the authorities present, thoroughly residing at Mucklow, who holds two farms under Lord Fitzwilliam, ground at Beaufort House, Walham Green. A meeting was tested and searched each gun immediately after the discharge, to one of which adjoins that of deceased. The agent wished to held on Monday night at the Literary Institution, Borough road, ascertain the effect. The guns were mounted for the occasion, and "square" the two farms, as I have said, so as to make them look Southwark, for the purpose of promoting the interests of the South- fired on temporary carriages, in order to avoid the risk of chipping better and tidier. Behan objected to the arrangement; in consewark and Lambeth, or 7th Surrey Rifles. All the preliminary ar- or other injury to which they are subject under the ordinary method quence of which he was served with ejectment notices for both rangements in connection with this body are now completed. A of firing on the ground. The terrible shock which the excessive farms, and decrees were obtained at the quarter sessions at Tinahely. resolution to the effect that the inhabitants of Southwark and the charges produced brought the guns off their position with a perfect On Monday last Mr Lawrenson, the receiver to the estate, sent the neighbourhood ought to support the corps was carried unanimously. leap, and gave a recoil of about twenty-five feet; nevertheless, the surveyor and bailiff, with other assistants, to take possession of both -The Sydenham corps, which now numbers 60 effective and 27 thorough temper of the materials and the remarkable character of the farms. They went to Behan's house and demanded possession, prohonorary members, was officially inspected on Saturday by Colonel guns nobly resisted the shock. They were accordingly pronounced ducing the decrees. Behan was at home at the time, but did not apLong, of Bromley Hill, a deputy-lieutenant of the county, previous impossible to burst under fair usage, and were immediately packed in pear at first. His wife, however, presented herself, and spoke to the to submitting to the Lord-Lieutenant of Kent their offer of service. cases for transport. Brevet Lieut.-Col. Barry's and Capt. Millward's bailiff, abusing him, and saying, "Although you have men at the -The artizans employed at the Royal Carriage Department at Bawn' gap, I was never afraid of a man yet." The bailiff replied Woolwich having expressed their anxiety to commence the formation that he had a duty to perform, and that he should do it. Behan then of a rifle corps, to be composed exclusively of Government workmen, appeared, and said to the bailiff that he might take possession, as he about 250 men have given in their names and paid a deposit for the would not offer any resistance. The bailiff then sent his men to necessary expenses, and a requisition has been forwarded to the drive the stock off the farm. Mrs Behan then came out with War Department to sanction the formation of the corps.At a pitchfork in her hand, and asked the bailiff "did he think that would meeting of the Windsor corps, held at the Town Hall on Monday, it do?" After these words the surveyor and bailiff went to take poswas announced that the Prince Consort had presented to the comMISCELLANEOUS NEWS.-The Admiralty will shortly issue a cir- session of some cottiers' premises, and on their return towards pany the sum of 50%; it was also stated at the meeting that, cular to the Navy, adapting the late regulations of the Horse Behan's house they found Mrs Behan in the act of sharpening the although the subscriptions at present do not exceed 3007., several Guards respecting flogging in the army to the naval service. prongs of the fork on a "bank." The husband was in view, and he large donations were shortly expected from many influential persons The military authorities of Woolwich have been occupied for some asked the bailiff to feel the "prongs" (by way of threat), which he of Windsor, Eton, and the neighbourhood. days in arranging a classification of the troops according to the new did as he was passing. She then said that he might be the first In the provinces we can do little more than mention the names of regulations issued by the Commander-in-Chief for the Army. A himself to "get it." The bailiff passed on and took possession of the the most important places: In the City of Worcester a subscription similiar code has been issued throughout the Royal Marines by order dwelling house and holding, and put a man in the house to keep posof 8007. has been obtained, and a corps of 300 volunteers. The of the Admiralty.Col. Tulloh, Superintendent of the Royal Car-session. After they had got possession of all the tenements Boland engineers of the Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton Railway riage Department of Woolwich Arsenal, has accepted the provisional (deceased) was sent for to get possession of Behan's land, which it are at present organizing a staff of commissioned and non-commis- appointment of Inspector of Artillery, for the purpose of proving and was intended at first to add to his farm. At this time there was a sioned officers, in connection with the movement now going on examining the Armstrong and other guns intended for distribution for crowd of twenty or thirty collected in the field, all on Behan's side. As among all railway engineers, to form a scientific contingent of the the two services.- -A part of the 108 mensentenced to three months' soon as Boland entered the field, Behan and his wife, with several others great national volunteer army.- At Bewdley 5007, has been sub- imprisonment for participating in the late disturbance on board the of the crowd (Mrs Behan holding the fork in her hand), rushed down scribed, at Droitwich 2001., and at Stourport 60%, within the last Princess Royal were discharged on Wednesday from her Majesty's upon the old man, and forced him violently over the "fence" on to few days. The movement proceeds in Essex with unabated spirit. ship Victory, in Portsmouth harbour, and forwarded by train to the the road. Behan also shook him violently on the road. During The Ilford company numbers 67 effectives. At Romford the for- Gaol at Winchester to undergo their sentence.The launch of the these proceedings the surveyor, bailiff, and an assistant endeavoured mation of a company is progressing favourably. At Colchester be- Duncan, 101, screw two-decked ship, is to take place on Tuesday the to keep peace and protect the old man, who came at his own request tween 80 and 90 volunteers have now been enrolled. TheVictoria Dock 13th inst., at 11 a.m.- -A part of the 68th Regiment has arrived at "by himself." When Boland was rescued from the hold of Behan companies are between 300 and 400 strong, and drill meetings are to Hong Kong from Calcutta, and by a telegram from Calcutta of Nov. the bailiff strove to get him up the fence again to take the possession. be held four times a week. At Harwich, where the formation of an 14 we learn that the 3rd Buffs were to leave for China on the follow- Mrs Behan met him on the top of the fence with the fork in her artillery company has been resolved on, between 30 and 40 volunteers ing day.The 45 discharged Europeans who volunteered for China hand, and kept "thrusting" it at him, but did not actually strike him have come forward.-Earl Fortescue, the Lord-Lieutenant of De- have been sent back as incurably bad characters. with it. The bailiff helped him up the ditch, and the assistant vonshire, has written to Mr T. D. Acland, expressing general appro(Gilbert), who stood on the top of the ditch or fence, took hold of bation of his plan for the formation of a yeomanry rifle corps, and him by the hand to "haul" him up. While these exertions were his belief that it will form a valuable adjunct to the various measures making on the poor old man's behalf two young women (on Behan's now happily in operation throughout the kingdom for the consoliside) were not idle, for one of them exerted her strength in pulling dation of our voluntary national defence.In Herefordshire the SYMPATHY WITH THE POPE.-A monster meeting was held in the him down by the skirt of the coat, while the other pushed him back, movement has at length been taken up with spirit, and strenuous Court-house, Cork, on Monday, for the purpose of enabling the Ro- and jostling Gilbert took the stick (a small walking stick) out of efforts to establish such corps are being made in several towns. A man Catholics of Cork to give expression to their feelings on the the deceased's hand. At this time the deceased was noticed by the corps is in process of formation at Ross, and the Odd Fellows of present situation of the Roman Pontiff. The place was crammed to surveyor to be in a fainting state and to have completely lost the use Hereford have formed themselves into a corps. A large meeting was suffocation. In the body of the court were some of the more respect of his limbs. On examination he was found to be in a dying state, held at Ledbury on Tuesday, over which Earl Somers presided. Most able Roman Catholics; but it was remarked that some of the most and he expired shortly after. When it was found he was dying of the gentlemen resident in the neighbourhood were present, and up- influential parties of that religion were absent. The chair was taken Behan danced on the road and clapped his hands with joy, thanking wards of 320%. were subscribed. Earl Somers expressed his willing- by the Roman Catholic Bishop, Dr Delany, who opened the proceed- God that he had "struck him dead" before "he got possession;" and ness to take the proffered command of the corps, and to go to the ings by explaining the object of the meeting, to express the feelings while being carried to his house five or six of the women were seen School of Musketry at Hythe to obtain the necessary instruction, he of the Roman Catholics of Ireland on the present circumstances of kneeling on the road praying that he might never recover, and that never having been connected with military affairs-The Lord- the Pope. Mr J. N. Murphy proposed the first resolution, which he might never be forgiven "in this world or the next-the priestLieutenant of Northumberland (Earl Grey) has intimated to the stated that the Supreme Pontiff, the successor of St Peter, being selling dog!" It should be mentioned that the deceased had sawyers promoters of the volunteer artillery corps forming in Berwick, that divinely appointed for the spiritual government of the Catholic cutting timber for the purpose of roofing an outhouse, and one of as soon as it is in a sufficient state of forwardness he will recommend Church throughout the world, requires for the full and free discharge the women said on coming up the road that the sawyers were Government to accept the services of the corps.- In the following of its exalted duties complete personal and political independence. "cutting the old dog's coffin." This was said before the row complaces corps are now in the course of formation: Ashburton, Bakewell, Mr F. Lyons seconded the resolution. Mr J. F. Maguire proposed menced. Before possession was demanded Behan got 151. from the Bath, Beverley, Brighton, Bristol, Bridgenorth, Bedford, Bradford, the next resolution that the independence of the Pope was best agent, as he (Behan) said that he had paid some arrears that were Blackburn, Chatham, Cargleton, Cardiff, Cuckfield, Durham, Droit- preserved by the Supreme Pontiff exercising sovereign power as a due on the farm. The inquest commenced yesterday morning wich, Dronfield, Denbigh, Dartford, Falmouth, Glastonbury, temporal prince, and that such sovereignty, devoted as it had been to (Wednesday), and the above is an epitome of the evidence given up Gloucester, Grimsby, Halifax, Henley, Helston, Kenilworth, Liver the noblest purposes of religion and humanity for more than 1,000 to last night. It is still proceeding. It is supposed that the deceased pool, Leith, Lyme Regis, Leiston, Leighton Buzzard, Monmouth, years, should be held sacred in the estimation of every Catholic got serious kicks, which must have caused his death, but no more Mottram, Newark, Norwich, Nottingham, Newcastle-on-Tyne, people, and preserved inviolate from all aggression. At the close of than the foregoing has as yet been given in evidence. There are six Southampton, Shrewsbury, Tunbridge Wells, Yarmouth, York, a speech of considerable length, he said,Who would deny that the persons in custody-viz., Kichard Behan, son, and wife, and three Jersey, and all over the south of Scotland. temporal sovereignty of the Pope was for the advantage of religion, other women. morality, arts, and civilization ? Rome had been the cradle of the MURDER IN WESTMEATH.-A most barbarous and atrocious murTHE HYTHE SCHOOL OF MUSKETRY.-Major-General Hay, Inspec- arts. Were they to allow the temporal power of the Pope to be der was committed on Sunday, in broad daylight, on an old and tor General of Musketry, and head of the establishment at Hythe, has stripped from him? Mr B. Sheehan.-We will fight for him. (Loud inoffensive farmer, named Kelly, residing near Drumraney, seven addressed his usual annual report to his Royal Highness the Duke of cheers.) A Voice in the Gallery. And we'll tell Palmerston so. miles from Athlone. Kelly had taken five acres of land which Cambridge. "The number," he says, " of officers trained during the (Renewed cheering.) Mr Maguire. Is there any reason why that adjoined his farm, and from which the late tenant had been ejected. year is 195 (which number includes 3 cavalry, 7 artillery, and 17 temporal power, which has conferred such inestimable blessings on On Sunday he returned from prayers at his parish chapel, and had officers of her Majesty's Indian forces), being an increase of 48 over mankind, should cease? (No, no, never.") Who are its aggressors? just sat down to his dinner when his servant, from an adjoining the previous year; of these 195 officers, who were exercised in every Mr Sheehan.-Lord John Russell. (Deep groans and hisses.) A Voice. apartment, was startled at hearing the report of a gun; on entering respect as the non-commissioned officers and privates, 98 practised-Palmerston and his hell crew. (Yelling.) Mr Maguire.-Protes- the room she found him lying dead upon the floor, and his brains under the old system, and 97 (including the cavalry and artillery) tants (deep groans)-Protestants think the Papacy ought to be upset, scattered over the food he had been eating. The assassin must have Of the former 75 (or 773 per cent.) became first- because if it was upset Protestantism would be universal throughout been close to his victim, as the hair and skull were burned by their class shots, and 21 (or 21 per cent.) second-class shots, leaving only the earth. (Loud shouts of 'No, no!") The Catholic princes of the close proximity to the muzzle of the gun. 1 in the third class. Under the latter 52 (or 59 per cent.) became world will stand by Pius IX.; the sympathies of the world will sur- MURDER IN TYRONE.-A dreadful affair occurred on Monday in first-class shots, and 33 (or 38 per cent.) second-class shots, leaving round Pius IX.; its voice through the two continents will waft the town of Dungannon. A constable, named Holden, who had for only two in the third-class. From the return, in which the perform approval to the Pope who resists an encroachment upon the power 15 years maintained an exemplary character in the police, had, conances of the non-commissioned officers and privates under the old and which every Roman Catholic in the world holds to be sacred. Rev. trary to the rules of the service, privately married. He was on the new system are detailed, it will be observed that under the former 230 Canon Falvy seconded the resolution. Rev. Dean Murphy proposed point, however, of obtaining the permission when inquiries were set (or 60 per cent.) passed into the first class, and 148 (or 392 per cent.) the third resolution, which stated that the storms which now assail on foot, and the fact transpired that he had been already married. For into the second class, leaving only 2 in the third class; and that the temporal authority of the Holy See have been roused by foreign, this offence Holden was reduced to the rank and pay of a sub under the new. IRELAND. constable for six months. This information was conveyed to him by a brother constable, Sergt. McLelland, who was suspected by Holden of being instrumental in discovering the secret marriage. Acting upon this suspicion Holden fell upon McLelland and shot him dead. The assassin then started off, and subsequently attacked his subinspector, whom he sent for, while coming out of a house where he had been dining, when Holden rushed upon him and inflicted upon his head several fearful wounds with some dagger-like instrument with which he was armed. The inspector, Mr Matthews, is reported to be in an extremely precarious state. The murderer then mounted his victim's horse and rode off at a furious speed, and was not heard of till next morning, when he was arrested in the town of Dundalk, where it was supposed he was about to embark on board one of the steamers bound for Liverpool. she was a "6 THE CATTLE SHOW. TO CORRESPONDENTS. Latest Intelligence. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 10. The following telegrams have been received : of Zurich. CONSTANTINOPLE, Dec. 3. The envoy of Prince Daniel, of Montenegro, has been assassinated. The news of the Sultan's refusal to accept Fuad Pacha's resignation is confirmed. MADRID, Dec. 8. indignation at the presumption of the "four," and the opinions ex- EXORBITANT RAILWAY CHARGES.-If our conceit when we make Saturday Evening. From all parts of the kingdom the multifarious varieties of horned cattle, pigs, and sheep, which are annually collected by the Smithfield Club, were again brought together this week in the Baker street Bazaar. The show was a remarkably fine one. All the short-horns were ranged in a row down the left side of the great centre avenue, and the Herefords in competitive array on the right. Against the wall to the extreme right were grouped the symmetrical little Devons, and opposite them were the Scotch, Welsh, Sussex, and miscellaneous, which in the, catalogue did not obtain regular classification. At the upper end were the pigs and sheep. The galleries were devoted to machinery and mangel-wurzel. The short-horns were all of superb quality, but the pearl of them was Colonel Townley's milk-white heifer, "Beauteous Butterfly," which came to town with her Birmingham gold medal round her neck, and which obtained a similar decoration from the Smithfield Club. This unique animal is pronounced to be the finest specimen of the breed to which she belongs that was ever exhibited at the annual show. The judges and visitors were never tired at the private view of feeling and pinching her fat sides, and walking round her in wondering admiration. So flat in the back, so silky in the hide, so symmetrical in the form, so high bred in the head, so complete in all the "points" of gentle heiferhood, one enthusiast pronounced her to be perfect, all but a The Madrid journals of the 4th mention reports being current that pound of beefsteaks, which it seems should have filled up a little dysentery and even cholera had broken out amongst the Spanish troops chasm situated just over the tail, and which cruelly cuts the line of in Morocco; but the Espana expresses a hope that the rumours are beauty. Her delicate waist measures just nine feet one inch in cir- greatly exaggerated; it, however, admits that the fatigues which the cumference, and her expansive fore-quarter would require the out- army has already undergone must have occasioned sickness. The stretched arms of a man to span it from end to end. One man said same journal states that the Spanish generals will probably not aspicter;" another, that she was a model; while a third, sume the offensive against the Moors until all their forces shall be still more enthusiastic, embodied his praise in the expressive remark concentrated. The Gazette publishes a detailed account of the losses not yet ceased in Constantinople, to judge from the following that she was "All Beef." Near her was a sister, a more matronly sustained by the first corps in the combats of the 19th, 20th, 22nd, anecdote:-On his return from Salonica (a voyage of circumnaviga Butterfly, who, having had a calf, belongs to a different class, but 24th, and 25th ult. It shows that 9 officers were killed (one a major- tion for a Sultan), his Imperial Majesty took the fever, and his chief the family resemblance was complete, and both ranked as the leading general) and 45 wounded (one of them General Echague), and that doctor, a Frenchman. ordered him to be bled; another of his lions of the show. The Herefords were naturally larger and coarser 79 soldiers were killed and 717 wounded. The loss of the Moors physicians, a Greek (Dr Caratheadoris by name), however, gave him than the short-horns, but they seemed to take their fatting much in cannot be ascertained, as they carry off as many of their wounded quinine, and cured him at once. The Sultan paid the ten pills of the same order, that is to say, in table land in the back, and an even 500 killed and 1,500 wounded. The Moors in the neighbourhood of round sum of 500,000 piastres, and increasing his salary 5,000 and dead as they can; but it is supposed that they must have had quinine two millions! presenting the Greek doctor with the good swell down the sides and quarters. The standard of the judges was Ceuta are represented to be well armed and well supplied with stores. piastres the month. Besides which, all the favourite Sultanas, all an even cylindrical obesity, and any deviation from regularity in the distribution of the fat condemned the unhappy candidate to second and their commander is said to be a celebrated Marabout, of great in- the Sultan's brothers-in-law, his sisters, and sons-in-law considered or third place, or even the cold faint praise of highly commended," telligence and energy. A telegraphic despatch from the Spanish themselves in duty bound to overwhelm the fortunate saviour of their according to the number and extent of cavities in the general circum- camp at Otero, on the 3rd, says that General Zabala, at the head of Sovereign's life with valuable presents, and on the Sultan hearing of ference. The Devon breed was not very well represented this year. and that the Moors who were occupying the heights which the Span- donors increased their number and richness, literally filling the four battalions, had made a movement towards the camp of Tetuan, this, and expressing the wish to view these magnificent offerings, the Last year they were the pets of the Bazaar; this year nobody stopped iards call Sierra Ballones, had detached a force of 3,000 men to hang fortunate doctor's house with the most costly gems and valuables. to admire them. Even the Prince Consort, who used to get gold medals in this class as a matter of course, was this year" no where," on the right flank of the Spaniards; this force, however, on account POISONING NO CRIME.-A curious blot in the criminal law, to and was obliged to throw himself entirely on his pigs for a share in of the nature of the ground, had not attacked the Spanish troops. The which we pointed attention some months since, has again been hit by the distinctions of the club. In the miscellaneous department were Correspondancia confirms the fact that the Moors, even when resist-a country coachman. This man, Thomas Spowage, has, for some some magnificent specimens of the Scotch polled breed. Mr ance is absolutely hopeless, refuse to yield themselves prisoners. reason not explained, indulged in the amiable eccentricity of wilfully M'Combie had his usual success in this class, his magnificent black administering large and injurious doses of cantharides, a vegetable steer completely passing all competitors. But the most attractive irritant poison, to a number of the inmates of Staffynwood Hall, near animal in this department was a gigantic animal, tawny in colour, Chesterfield. Symptoms of irritant poisoning followed: vomiting, tremendous in limb, and with a head which would make the fortune inconveniences, not to say injuries. The legislative body may have gastrodynia, dysentery, and so forth. Surely these are palpable of one of Rosa Bonheur's pictures. But he had too many points or angularities in his circumference, and so the judges passed him by THE NEW JUDGE. The vacant seat on the bench, in the room of their own notions on the subject, but most persons would as lieve be with contempt, uniformity and amount of beef being the only stand- the late Mr Justice Crowder, has been filled by the appointment of struck or cut, as beguiled into taking poison, although its effects ards by which they guide their decisions. The Southdowns were the Solicitor-General, Sir Henry Keating. No decision has, we should stop short of death. In the case of Heppenstall, on which the aristocracy of mutton and wool, and Mr Rigden was this year believe, been at present arrived at as to the successor of the Solicitor- we lately commented, a large dose of croton oil was administered, the great aristocrat of Southdowns. So even is the strife between General, but the names of Mr Edwin James, Mr Wilde, and Mr inflicting permanent injury. Nevertheless, the law provided no from motives of revenge, and a long and severe illness resulted, the Duke of Richmond and himself that they take the gold medal Roundell Palmer are mentioned as likely to be appointed.-Times. year about, and this year it was Mr Rigden's turn to obtain the penalty in either case. If a man be tapped on the shoulder, he has much-coveted decoration. His pen was in fact perfection, and none his remedy by action for assault; if he be stabbed, by trial for cutting but a judge could see in what the Duke's was anything less. In and wounding, with or without deadly intent; but his stomach may pigs, the Prince Consort carried everything before him, his pen of be ruined for ever, he may be consigned to the perpetual pains of Yorkshire hogs being everything that could be wished in preparatory dyspepsia or gastrodynia, his mucous membrane may be flayed, and bacon. There was also in this department a stupendous Berkshire BRITISH CLAIMS ON SPAIN.-The Nord of Brussels publishes what all his internal organs chemically and physiologically outraged, and hog, so fat that he must have a pen entirely to himself, but he was it calls a serious announcement on the subject of our relations with the law will not step in to avenge or to relieve his wrongs. In the unhappily like a pig where he ought to be like a barrel, and conse- Spain. England, that ancient troubler of the nations, inwardly present state of criminal justice, the most cruel and subtle injuries quently he obtained not the slightest notice from the judges. mortified at seeing the Spanish Government persist in its expedition may be inflicted with impunity. The cowardly ruffian who throws against the Moors, has sought and found a pretext for annoying the vitriol into the face of his enemy is justly open to severe punishment; Cabinet at Madrid. "With a bitterness unworthy of a great nation, but the very same substance may be administered internally, and HEALTH OF LONDON.-The total number of deaths registered in she now claims from Spain payment for the warlike stores furnished inflict horribly scathing torture, but, so that it does not kill, the London in the week that ended last Saturday was 1,304, being nearly at the period of the civil war in the Peninsula. The Spanish crime is not one of which the judges can take cognisance. It is an the same as that returned for the preceding week. The deaths from Government is inclined to yield, in order to take from England all inconceivable and dangerous anomaly; no time should be lost in pulmonary diseases, exclusive of phthisis, declined last week from pretence for acts of violence; yet, as bad reasons have never been introducing an act to remedy this defect in the criminal law.—The 314 to 284. Of these figures the chief constituent is bronchitis, wanting to England for getting up a quarrel, there is reason to Lancet. which declined from 198 to 167. The mortality from small-pox fear serious complications, notwithstanding the desire of Spain to PRISON DISCIPLINE IN NEWGATE.-The Rev. J. Davis, Ordinary slightly increases, for the deaths from this disease in the last three yield." There is not a word of truth in this elaborate statement. The of her Majesty's Jail of Newgate, has just presented his annual weeks were successively 29, 30, and 39. Scarlatina was fatal in 87 claims of England upon the Spanish Government, far from being an report to the Lord Mayor and Aldermen as the visiting justices. On cases; diphtheria in 13. Ten children died from suffocation in bed afterthought suggested by the war with the Moors, were urged a the last occasion he remarked on the great improvements that had apparently by accident, four were murdered, 16 died from having year ago, while Lord Malmesbury was at the Foreign office. Since been effected on the male side of this establishment, but the increased been born prematurely. Six nonagenarians appear in the returns; that time the two Governments have been in communication upon experience which an entire year gives of the genuine effects of the oldest died at the age of ninety-seven years. Last week the them, and Spain has admitted a liability of half a million sterling, separation in criminals of various grades has vastly added to the births of 915 boys and 912 girls, in all 1,827 children, were registered only some minor sums remaining to be settled. There is thus some convictions he then expressed. Old convicts and all habitual thieves, in London. In the ten corresponding weeks of the years 1849-58 the prospect that a debt long due is at last about to be paid; but the war as a body, dislike separate confinement more than any other kind of average number was 1,609. The thermometer in the shade fell from with Morocco has certainly had no connection whatever with the imprisonment whatever. "About three hours in a dark cell will settlement. 48 deg. on Sunday to 29 deg. on Saturday, which were the highest tame almost any one of them, and the horror, not only of silence and and lowest respectively. The entire range in the week was thereROYAL GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY.-The following papers will be separation, but of total darkness, seems quite punishment enough for fore 19 deg. read at the evening meeting on Monday next, the 12th inst.:-1. On anything we have yet had to deal with." Out of all committed to VACCINATION. A supplement to Tuesday's London Gazette conthe Physical Configuration of the Valley of Kashmir. By W. H. Newgate, about one-eighth, as nearly as can be ascertained, are retains an order of the Privy Council embodying a series of regulations Purdon, Esq., Executive Engineer, Punjaub. Communicated by Sir commitments. About another eighth have been in other prisons. for securing the due qualification of persons to be hereafter contracted C. Wood, India Office. 2. British Columbia: Journeys in the Making, then, a large allowance for those who escape detection of with by the guardians and overseers of unions and parishes in Eng-districts bordering on the Thompson, Frazer, and Harrison rivers. having been in prison before, more than one half at the least never land for the vaccination of persons resident in such unions and By Lieutenants Mayne, R.N., and Palmer, R.E.; and Chief Justice return to any prison. The female side of Newgate is the only prison parishes, and for securing the efficient performance of vaccination by M. Begbie. Communicated by the Duke of Newcastle, Colonial office. in London for the confinement of prisoners committed for trial that is such persons. THE FOUR LIVERPOOL MERCHANTS.-The Liverpool correspondent not on the separate system. The magistrates of Middlesex have years THE FREE HOSPITALS.-Metropolitan Free Hospital, Devonshire of the Manchester Guardian writes: "Nothing definite transpired ago so provided for theirs in the House of Detention; Horsemonger square, City: The aggregate number of patients relieved during the on Saturday relating to the correspondence between four gentlemen lane prison has been entirely remodelled by the Surrey justices, week ending December 3 was-medical, 625; surgical, 341; total, in Liverpool and the Emperor of the French. It is stated, however, while the female side of Newgate remains unaltered, unimproved, 966, of which 293 were new cases.-Royal Free Hospital, Gray's- that the letter in question was written by the four gentlemen while and, as the light of other days, solitary and dim." Mr Davis notices inn road: The number of cases relieved at this hospital during the enjoying the pleasures of a 'full board' one evening, about a fort- as a singular fact that among the many committed to Newgate in the week ending December 3, is 2,464, of which 583 were new cases. night since. Nothing serious was dreamt of-the letter was posted, course of years, by far the most saucy and impudent, and disposed to but a reply was never anticipated. So little was the affair thought insubordination, are those who have formerly been inmates of workof that a copy of the letter to the Emperor was not even kept, and houses. SPECIAL JURIES." An unfortunate special juror" writes to the the whole matter was looked upon as a good joke. Judge of the NEWSPAPERS FOR THE COLONIES OR CHINA. The public are Times as follows: "Nine times this year I have been summoned consternation of these four gentlemen when, on Friday, they received reminded that notice was given in March last that in order to pay the as a special juror, yet it is pretended the election is by ballot. If so, a letter in reply to theirs, written by an official personage, but which cost of transit through Egypt (a cost which has been largely increased, it must be unfairly taken, for, to my knowledge, most of my not one of the four could read, as it was written in the French owing, in part, to an important improvement in the service) newsneighbours, equally liable, escape altogether. On one patent case I language. The conduct of the writers of the letter to the Emperor papers sent via Southampton and Suez addressed to the East Indies, sat for six long days; on another three; yet the judge had not the was met with a hearty denunciation by nearly all the local papers." Ceylon, Mauritius, Hongkong, China, Australia, or any other country power or the inclination to release me on this ground from further The names of the four "Liverpool merchants" who wrote to the or place eastward of Suez, will, on the 1st of January next and attendance. We are told that he cannot interfere, it is the right of French Emperor are Mr Godfrey B. Shaw, cotton broker; Mr Henry thenceforward, be subject to an additional charge of 1d., making the the public to have a special jury; it may be so, but that right is not Gaskell, of the firm of Sleigh, Gaskell, and Co., Mr Frederick Irving, rates as follows:-Upon a newspaper addressed to the East Indies-secured by the manifest injustice of summoning the same persons of the same firm, produce brokers; Mr Samuel Mellor, of the firm 2d. when not exceeding four ounces in weight, 3d. when above four over and over again." of Mellor and Southall. The general feeling in the locality is that of ounces and not exceeding eight ounces in weight, 1d. being added for MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. Overy additional four ounces or fraction of four ounces. Upon news- | General Thompson, M.P., Mr G. Thompson, Mr Whitehurst, Mr It was a matter in which he considered the greatest amount of mercy Papers addressed to any of the other countries or places referred to Sydenham, Mr Nodes, Colonel T. Wilson, Mr Elt, &c. An address might be extended, for already the prisoner had been severely 2d. for each newspaper, of whatever weight. No alteration will be put forth by the society stated that there are in the present House of punished for what she had done, judging from what had been said of made in the postage of book-packets sent by this route, as they Commons more members pledged to vote for the ballot than in any her, and of the peculiar circumstances in which she had been placed. already pay a transit rate; nor will any change be made in the former Parliament. The address went on to state that" If the Should what he had stated find its way into publicity, those who had postage of newspapers sent via Marseilles, the present charge on metropolitan constituencies do not need the ballot so much as others, so cruelly used this poor creature, by depriving her for so long of the such newspapers being sufficient to cover the cost of transit through yet they are not strangers to the evils against which we seek the pro- reward of her labour, would understand what must be thought of Egypt. No alteration, moreover, will be made in the postage of any tection of the ballot; and they are equally interested in procuring their conduct. He should pass no sentence at all, but order her to be newspapers which may be directed to go "by private ship." The the benefits we expect from Parliaments which shall be the free and discharged at once. The prisoner went down on her knees and charge on these newspapers will remain as at present, 1d. each.-genuine choice of the people. The ballot, we are convinced, lies at thanked his lordship. Mr Sleigh said he would take steps to bring General Post-office, Dec. 1. the root of the political, financial, and administrative reforms sought the case under the notice of the Royal Benevolent Society, with which ROYAL INSTITUTION OF GREAT BRITAIN.-The following arrange-by all classes of reformers; and we now appeal to the enlightened he was connected, and had no doubt something would be done for the ments have been made for the various lectures before Easter, 1860:- understandings of the inhabitants of the metropolis, and to the power woman. The gentlemen of the bar and several jurors made up a sum Six lectures on the "Various Forces of Matter" (adapted to a juvenile they always exercise over public opinion, to aid us in our exertions to of over 27. for the prisoner, and she was set at liberty. auditory), by Professor Faraday, to be delivered in the Christmas secure for every elector the same power of voting freely and indifvacation, 1859-60. Twelve lectures on " Fossil Birds and Reptiles," ferently as is possessed by our fellow-countrymen in the Australian CRYSTAL PALACE.-ADMISSIONS DURING THE WEEK.-Saturday, by Professor Owen. Twelve lectures on "Light, including its colonies." Several speeches were delivered in support of the objects Dec. 3. On payment, 221; by season tickets, 811: total, 1,032. higher Phenomena," by Professor Tyndall. Ten lectures on the of the society, and the proceedings terminated with a vote of thanks Monday, Dec. 5. On payment, 400; by season tickets, 179: "Relations of the Animal Kingdom to the Industry of Man," by Dr to the chairman. On payment, 656; by season Lankester. MOUNTSTUART ELPHINSTONE.-His life was spent, for the most total, 576.- Tuesday, Dec. 6. On payment, OPENING OF THE VICTORIA TUBULAR BRIDGE.-All Canada was part, in his retreat on the Surrey Hills; and there death found him tickets, 412; total, 1,068.-Wednesday, Dec. 9. rejoicing on Thursday, the 24th Nov. last, as the great Victoria this November. He had been well content to fade out of the memory on payment, 1,374; by season tickets, 465: total, 1,839.-Friday, 1,267; by season tickets, 556: total, 1,823.-Thursday, Dec. 8. tubular bridge, the most stupendous work of the kind in the world, of the busy world. He told Metcalfe, many years ago, that if, on Dec. 9. On payment, 1,079; by season tickets, 398: total' and the connecting link between two important sections of the leaving India, he did not wish to be wholly forgotten, he must go 1,477. Grand Trunk Railway, was being opened on that day. The first train into Parliament. This Elphinstone could not persuade himself to do, consisted of an engine and single car, containing about fifty persons. and he had accordingly been forgotten. But there were a few who The time occupied in passing was about twelve and a half minutes. still sought him out, and who visited the recluse among his books, Among the gentlemen in the car were the Hon. Mr Cartier, Premier; and spent hours of deepest interest in converse with him, not wholly A. M. Ross, chief-engineer of the bridge; Mr Blackwell, managing on affairs of State. His love of literature was undiminished to the director, and several directors of the Grand Trunk Road. Two of last; and a day's talk with Elphinstone, at Hookwood, would embrace the tubes are not quite finished, but the bridge is espected to be fully every conceivable subject from Veds Shastres to the last new poem: completed and thrown open to traffic about the 15th inst. This will His memory was fresh, and his enthusiasm undiminished to the last; be exceedingly opportune for the trade of Canada, which is expected and if you did not leave his presence wiser for what, had fallen from to derive a renewed impulse, as the water navigation has ceased. him, it was the fault of your own stolidity. His place in history will The traffic over the line is steadily increasing; the receipts for the be with Malcolm, Munro, and Metcalfe; whether above or below week preceding the opening to Detroit, which took place on the 21st them it matters not to inquire. And, indeed, he differed from them ult., amounted to 60,560 dollars, being 10,000 dollars above the all so essentially in many respects, that it would be difficult to assign receipts of the corresponding period of last year. The prospects of him his exact position. But it may fitly be recorded as a memorial The Town Council of Norwich have decided upon stopping the through western freight are very good. of honour upon the tomb of the East India Company, that it had four inquiry, which has created so much excitement there, by twenty-eight such servants as these, and was not ungrateful to them. Once a votes to nineteen. The Liberals will take further proceedings. Week.' The Bishop of London will not hold his weekly levee at London house on the Tuesdays in Ember and Christmas weeks-viz., the 13th and 27th inst. It is his intention to hold a special confirmation at the parish church, Fulham, on Christmas day, at three p.m., for the benefit of young persons proceeding abroad and those who cannot conveniently present themselves at the usual confirmations in the spring. ASTELL Y. FRENCH.-We have received a letter from Mr A. SOUTH KENSINGTON MUSEUM.-During the week ending Dec. 3, 1859, the visitors have been as follow:-On Monday, Tuesday, and Saturday (free days), 2,756 on Monday and Tuesday (free evenings), 3,168; on the three students' days (admission to the public 6d.) 601; one students' evening (Wednesday), 203. Total, 6,728. SOUTH KENSINGTON.-Number of visitors for the week ending Dec. MUSEUM OF PATENTS, From the opening of the Museum, 1,149,910.3. Mornings, 584; evenings, 851; total, 1,435; since the opening of the Museum free daily (May 12, 1858), 164,280. TOWN AND COUNTRY TALK. Works are in progress in Chichester Cathedral by which the building will be thrown open from end to end, and the space which hitherto was available only for about 250 will be increased so as to accommodate 700 or 800. At the last session of the Central Criminal Court a man named Turner was found guilty, and sentenced to death, upon a charge of administering a quantity of sugar of lead to his wife, with intent to murder her. An order has since been received at Newgate from the Home office commuting that sentence, and he is ordered to undergo penal servitude for the space of ten years. The county magistrates have notified their intention of proceeding to an election for the chaplaincy of the House of Correction, at Wandsworth, in the room of the Rev. H. J. Hatch. It is worth 2507., with a residence. Testimonials are to be sent in before the 15th inst. The Marine Department of the Board of Trade have awarded Joseph Rodgers, the Maltese seaman, who swam from the Royal Charter with a rope to the shore, the sum of 10%. and a silver medal, LADIES, PAY YOUR DEBTS!-At the Middlesex Sessions, on Tues- for his gallantry in saving life before the ship broke up. day, Sarah Dyer, aged forty, was indicted for stealing fifteen yards of In the Court of Common Pleas, on Monday, an action for breach of ribbon, value 7s. 6d., six yards of ribbon, value 3s. 9d., and twenty-promise of marriage was tried, the plaintiff and defendant bearing four yards of silk braid, value 8s., and a reel, the property of Messrs the appropriate names of Crisp and Smoothy. Miss Crisp obtained Shoolbred and Co., of Tottenham-court road. She pleaded guilty, 507. damages for the injury sustained by Mr Smoothy's deceitful and seemed overwhelmed with grief. Mr Sleigh said the prisoner promises. 1 BRAVO, IPSWICH!It gave Mr Punch a fresh relish for his rasher, to read at breakfast-time the following, in the Times of Friday last: -"Volunteer Corps.-Ipswich.-The Members of this Club have THE TREES IN HYDE PARK.-A correspondent, who signs himself agreed to receive volunteers unable to pay for their own outfit, on "An Old Resident of Connaught Place," writes to us as follows: their being nominated by gentlemen who have already contributed to "Sir,-As you kindly inserted a paragraph respecting the flower beds the funds of the corps." The good sense and the common sense of in Hyde Park, will you indulge one of your weekly readers by inthis speaks for itself, and needs not many words from Mr Punch to quiring why the fine trees in front of this terrace, Edgware road, speak for it. To make our Rifle Clubs effective, we of course must are banked up to be destroyed? For such is the case. Two having make them national, and to do this we must throw them open been cut down last year, and many more may be seen ready for the to the nation. There must be no exclusiveness or snobbism axe."-In reference to this subject, a letter signed "X" appeared in about them. A Rifleman, when serving, is nothing but a Rifleman, yesterday's Times, containing the following statement: "Among the Be he gentleman or gent he sinks it in the Volunteer, and his social noble elms which form the great central avenue, running from east to rank in no way raises or degrades him. So if our poorer neighbours west towards the Guardhouse barracks, in the centre of the Park, I wish to join a corps, there should be neither bar of money nor of discovered yesterday about eight or nine excavations left where modesty to hinder them. Those of us who cannot serve should pay these, the largest and oldest of the Park trees, had been. A few for those who can. Their contributions then may be considered trunks of these giants are still there, and in these the wood is firm in pretty equal, and neither of them will need to feel indebted to the grain without a vestige of decay. But, even if the whole of this other.-Punch. most picturesque and important group of towering, wide-spreading THE VALUE OF A SEAT IN PARLIAMENT.-A high idea of the trees had exhibited signs of age and mortality, were they not in their House of Commons is likely to be diffused by the following adver-decrepitude of deeper interest and of more suggestive form than the tisement, which lately appeared in the Daily Telegraph: To saplings which are now there to replace them ?" Members of Parliament and Parliamentary Agents.-Wanted, one or two M.P.'s as Directors to an important Public Company, limited. Qualification small, no risk incurred, and a handsome consideration will be offered.-Address, in confidence, with real name, to N. T., Esq., News rooms, 76 Strand, W.C.-What are Members of Parlia ment a-piece? appears now to have become the question in market overt. The above advertisement is so far satisfactory, that it tends to explain the seemingly unaccountable fact that Honourable Gentlemen will spend five thousand pounds to obtain the privilege of working for their country night and day, by assiduous attendance on dry debates, and self-devotion to unremunerated service on Committees.-Punch. had been guilty of the offence of shoplifting at Messrs Shoolbred's Lord Palmerston and the Earl of Elgin have accepted invitations DISCIPLINE OF THE CHINESE ARMY.-The following extracts from there could be no doubt, but she had acted under pressure of a most to a grand banquet about to be given by the Southampton Chamber Captain Dabry's new work on the Organisation Militaire de la Chine painful state of things. The case was a true illustration of the 'Song of Commerce, to celebrate the selection of the port of Southampton give some curious details concerning the Chinese army: "The of the Shirt,' and the prisoner had for years been at the "Stitch, stitch, for the Great Eastern steamship. Chinese adopt as a principle that the soldier in time of peace must stitch," morning, noon, and night, and on again into the next day, to be occupied, and accordingly he marries, and is allowed a piece of support herself and her son, whom she had apprenticed to a tailor. She land which he is obliged to cultivate; he sometimes even engages in was a widow, and had borne a good character all her life for honesty, trade. The necessities of domestic and civil life quickly stifle in his industry, and perseverance. Through distress she had done this, and mind all military spirit. The French troops consequently will not Messrs Shoolbred had only done their duty in prosecuting, but they have to meet in China soldiers resembling Europeans, but men were desirous of strongly recommending her to the most merciful animated by a different spirit, and having a different organisation. consideration of the Court. The prisoner was in a most deplorable By casting a glance at the forty-one articles which compose the state of health, and as she had already been in prison three weeks, it Chinese military code, we shall see that the Government itself under- was hoped that the Court might deem it a case in which the most stands the imperfection of that organisation. For the sentiment of lenient course might be adopted. Mr Orridge said he appeared for honour, duty, and love of country which guide the European flags, the prosecution, instructed through the Association for the Prosecution it has substituted fear. The penalty of death is written everywhere of Shoplifters, and on behalf of Messrs Shoolbred he had only to say in the code of armies, for the smallest as well as the gravest offence. that they had not the least desire to press for punishment against the The private business in Parliament for the ensuing session is an The punishment of blows, and of having arrows thrust through the prisoner, who had been a customer of theirs for some years, and was increase over last year. 320 notices for private bills, consisting of nose and ears, comes afterwards. Here are two of the articles of the no doubt really a hard-working woman, and had struggled hard for railway and canal and miscellaneous bills, have been deposited, and sanguinary regulations which the Celestial Empire has adopted for living. An assistant of Messrs Shoolbred's was called into the box, 232 plans lodged, being an increase of thirty over the last session of its battalions: Art. 1. Every soldier who, in action, shall not and he stated that the prisoner had been a customer for a long period, Parliament. advance when the drum or the gong is beaten shall be decapitated. and on the occasion of her committing this offence she was being The announcement of a writ having been issued for summoning Art. 2. Any soldier who in a movement in advance shall lag in the watched in consequence of something which had occurred previously. Viscount Ebrington to the House of Peers, by the style and title of rear or murmur in the ranks shall be condemned to death.' This She was so well known there that they were utterly astonished at Baron Fortescue, of Castle Hill, appeared in Tuesday's Gazette. extreme rigour is applied not only to the cowardice of the soldier, her being detected at such a thing, and they did not wish to press the E. S. Denby, Esq., Rouge Dragon Pursuivant of Arms, has been but to his moral faults. Thus, Art. 7 declares that any soldier charge. Mr Knight, of No. 1 Pindar place, Gray's-inn road, said he appointed to the office of Chester Herald, vacant by the promotion of who shall appropriate to himself the merit of another, who shall had lived there thirty-three years, and the prisoner had lodged with W. A. Blount, Esq., to the office of Norroy King of Arms. invent stories about his exploits, or who shall exaggerate the services him about eleven years. She was a widow, hard-working, and well- The Venerable C. J. Hoare, M.A., Archdeacon of Surrey, has which he may have rendered in a campaign, shall be decapitated.' conducted, and had a son whom she had put to a business, and worked resigned the appointment, and the Bishop of Winchester has conArts. 9 and 21 of this Code of Terror, destined to prevent fear, are until two, three, and four of a morning at dressmaking, to earn her ferred it upon the Rev. J. S. Utterton, vicar of Farnham. not less curious. Art. 9. Every soldier who shall terrify his comrades living and support her son. He could say that she was driven to do An accident occurred to Captain Tryon, of Fern house, Clifton by false stories of spirits and demons shall be decapitated. The this, in consequence of ladies for whom she worked not paying her for down, while out shooting in Northamptonshire last week. By some same punishment is inflicted for the revelation of secrets of war, for the work she did for them; they had her labour, and poor as she was, mischance one of the barrels of his gun went off, so severely wounding excesses committed on the native or foreign population, and even for they would not pay except upon long credit, which she could not his thumb that the upper joint had to be amputated. In other disorderly conduct of the slightest kind. Art. 21. Any soldier who, afford to give, but money she could not get, and not having the means respects Captain Tryon had a most providential escape, the charge on hearing a comrade talk in his sleep, shall reply to him, and so to purchase materials to finish work she had in hand, she had unfor- passing close to his head. a Signor Momolo Mortara, whose child was surreptitiously baptised by a servant maid, and abducted from its parents on this frivolous pretence, is now in London, having come over in the hope of inducing the British Government to bring his case before the forthcoming Congress on Italian affairs. Preparations are in progress by the Roman Catholic Aid Associations for an aggregate meeting in London of the Roman Catholics of Great Britain to adopt an address to the Pope. The meeting is expected to take place in January, and all the Roman Catholic peers are expected to be present, as well as a large number of the professional and mercantile classes, together with several delegates from the provincial Roman Catholic meetings. cause disorder in the camp, shall receive from sixty to eighty-four tunately resorted to stealing them. There were several ladies who A soirée for political purposes is to be held in Birmingham early in blows; and non-commissioned officers shall have the ear pierced by owed her money, 107, 117, or 127., but she could not get a penny January. Mr Bright and Mr Scholefield have promised their attendan arrow, and shall be so paraded through the camp. If the offence from them; one in particular, in Montague place, Russell square, ance, and the committee of management hope to be successful in be committed in the presence of the enemy the punishment shall be owed her about that sum for her work; and although the prisoner obtaining the presence of other "political celebrities." decapitation. The Chinese soldier is, moreover, not even allowed the had lain ill for five weeks at one time, and sent to the lady time after Mr Shields, who has been for twenty years the chief usher of privilege of grumbling. Art. 16. Any soldier who shall murmur in time, and day after day, she could get nothing, and her urgent ap- Lambeth Court, has resigned his situation, and is succeeded by Mr the execution of his duty in the camp shall receive from sixty to plications were unheeded. Another lady, living in Highbury terrace, Andrews. seventy blows; the same fault in action, or repeated in camp, shall Islington, had owed her a similar sum since last December, and The Duke d'Aumale bas purchased the whole of the magnificent be punished by death. Such victims of passive obedience cannot be though she had begged and prayed for some part payment, the lady library of the late M. Cigongne, amounting in number to 4,000 very dangerous. The number of defenders of the Celestial Empire had not paid her anything; and if she resorted to compulsory steps volumes, and abounding in bibliographical treasures. The sum given is, however, imposing; it is not less than 900,000, without counting her connection would be destroyed. It was entirely through being for it is 15,000%. the troops of the two Mongolias and Thibet." A Durham journal announces that the bishop of the diocese is IRISH FOX-HUNTERS AND FRENCH DRAGOONS.-A "Meath brow, and her work by night and day, that she had been driven, as engaged in organising a public meeting to establish a society for the Fox-hunter," writing to the Dublin Evening Mail, recommending a he believed, to do that which had placed her in her present position, employment of additional curates among that portion of the local corps of Fox-hunting Volunteers, observes that "the fox-hunter rides for a more honest, striving woman he had never known. Had it not population which cannot be fully reached by the existing parochial where no French dragoon dare or could follow him"-a decided ad- been for him he believed she would have starved, and she was in machinery. The meeting is to be held in Newcastle early next year vantage certainly in riding away from a French dragoon. arrear of rent at the time, which very much preyed upon her mind, James Whitaker, of Oldham, was on Sunday shooting birds in a field THE BALLOT-On Wednesday a public meeting of the members and she wanted to finish the work she had in hand to pay it, as these at Chadderton, near Manchester, when the stock of his gun broke, and friends of the Society for Promoting the Adoption of Vote by ladies would not pay her. The Assistant-Judge said he could not but and part of it, with the end of the barrel, entered his breast, killing Ballot was held at the Whittington Club, Arundel street, Strand. admit that the case had affected him considerably, and he could see it him on the spot. The Hon. F. H. F. Berkeley, M.P., was to have presided, but was had met with the sympathy of every one present. The course he prevented doing so by indisposition. In his absence the chair was was about to adopt he had no doubt would meet with the ready con- Tobermory case, is likely to be carried by appeal to the House of It is stated that the Scotch sequestration question, known as the occupied by Mr J. F. Bontems. Among those on the platform were currence of the eminent firm who were the prosecutors in this case. Lords. In this instance a London barrister had obtained sequestra thus kept out of money which was due to her for the sweat of her tion, and consequent release from his creditors, under designation as "of Tobermory, in the Isle of Mull," on forty days' residence in that unfrequented place. The Northern Reform Union has issued writs against six of the leading supporters of Mr Marjoribanks, at the late election at Berwick, for the recovery of penalties for bribing at that election. The inhabitants of Banbury have testified their loyalty by the erection of a cross, to perpetuate the memory of the marriage of the Princess Royal of England with Prince Frederick William of Prussia. The Times says: "We are requested to state that the nose of M, Espinosa, the clever dancer of the Pas de Dervish, is not manufactured. A boon of nature has been mistaken for a work of art." A testimonial has been presented to Mr Cox, late M.P. for Finsbury, consisting of a silver epergne, with an appropriate inscription on the base. Dr Vaughan's head-mastership of Harrow School being about to draw to a close, his pupils invited him to a publie dinner at the Freemasons' Tavern on Monday. Upwards of 200 gentlemen joined in this token of respect to one whose school administration has been marked with such conspicuous success. It was announced that a donation of 1,000%. had been made by an old Harrovian, to establish a memorial of Dr Vaughan's mastership, in the shape of a library for the use of the upper hundred boys of the school. Other contributions, amounting to 1,000. more, have been promised, and it is proposed to raise 4,000l. in all. At the Worship-street police court, on Tuesday, J. Moore was committed for trial for the wilful murder of his wife, by decapitation, under the circumstances already reported. Hassan Ali Khan, the Persian Ambassador, and his suite, left London on Tuesday, for Brussels. No fewer than twelve physicians are candidates for the vacancy amongst the assistant-physicians at the Hospital for Consumption and Diseases of the Chest, Brompton. The election will take place on the 15th. There are no emoluments attached to the office. The "Westminster Bell" case, in which Mr Mears was plaintiff, and Mr Denison defendant, was entered for trial for the sittings after Michaelmas Term in London, and would have been tried by Lord Chief Justice Cockburn and a special jury. Mr Denison had pleaded a justification to the libel with which he was charged. The cause was on Wednesday withdrawn, Mr Denison having abandoned his defence. The plaintiff will therefore take a judgment by default. The only matter remaining to be determined is the amount of damages, which, in the usual course, will have to be assessed in the Sheriff's Court. The new Britannia Theatre, at Hoxton, a capacious building, capable of seating upwards of 4,000 people, has been engaged by the nonconformists for a series of special services for the working classes, to be commenced on the evening of Sunday the 18th inst. The first service will be conducted by the Rev. W. Brock. On Tuesday week a gentleman of Canterbury, returning from Ashford market, on his arrival at Chilham, drew an article from his pocket, and whilst doing so dropped a 51. Bank of England note. However, as it was very dark, he gave it up as lost. The next morning, on driving over to Chilham, he found the identical note partly buried in mud. During the night numerous vehicles and cattle passed over it. In the Court of Divorce, on Wednesday, in the case of Yelverton v. Yelverton, the petition of Mrs Yelverton for the restitution of conjugal rights was dismissed on the ground of want of jurisdiction. The case of Snow v. Ramsden and others, in which the plaintiff brought an action against the Patagonian Missionary Society, for wrongfully dismissing him from the post of captain of the ship Allen Gardiner, before his period of three years' service had expired, was tried in the Court of Exchequer, on Wednesday, and given in favour of the defendants. The City article of the Daily News of Thursday says: "The directors of the Great Ship Company, finding themselves unable to make their statement to the shareholders on the 15th inst., have determined to postpone the meeting for a month. Meanwhile, the proprietors will be somewhat startled to learn that, with a view to provide means for meeting the company's pressing liabilities, the board have arranged to raise money upon the security of the vessel in other words, to mortgage her." The election of a secretary to the Royal Agricultural Society, in the room of the late Mr Hudson, took place on Wednesday. The number of candidates for this office was very large, but when the council met there were only ten names before them. The gentleman appointed to fill the office was Mr Hall Dare, who was elected by a majority of one over the next competitor, the votes being 23 and 22 respectively. to 5,5007. The award is nearly 2,000% less than the sum demanded came and said that he was a personal friend of theirs, and that they LAW. COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH. It was Our space last week admitted only of a general mention of the exceeded 40%. Louis Braham, examined: I am the defendant, and singular case which was tried yesterday week in the Court of Common live at 22 Douro cottages, St John's wood, and am a general commis Pleas, when an omnibus conductor, named Balls, sued a Mr Archer sion agent and collector. I have no other means of livelihood. In for value of a diamond ring, alleged to have been lent (not given for 1857 Mrs Archer introduced me to the plaintiff as a commission certain considerations) to the defendant's wife. We now give a brief agent. He asked me to come to Kildare terrace, and told me that he description of its leading features, in consequence of the subjoined had come into some thousands, and wanted me to invest part of it for trial in the Court of Queen's Bench on Tuesday, wherein reference him on mortgage. The first business I did for him was in November, was made to the first case, without a knowledge of which the second 1857. I went into the city for him, and introduced him to Sims, would be scarcely intelligible. Hill, and Davis, stockbrokers, of Capel court, who sold out some BALLS V. ARCHER AND WIFE.-It appeared that Mrs Archer was stock for him. I afterwards introduced him to the London and married in June, 1857, to Mr Archer, the defendant, who was a young Westminster Bank at Temple bar, where he lodged 600%. Next, in gentleman now about 22 years of age, having come into a fortune of December, 1858, when Mrs Archer's sister was charged with stealing 12,000l. or 15,000., who resided, and furnished a house in the most a shawl, I took a cab and went to discover the sister's whereabouts. expensive manner, at Kildare terrace. In the month of July, 1858, I went with them to the police-station and then to the Paddington Mr Archer was at Ramsgate, and during that time Mrs Archer was police-station. I advised them not to prosecute the sister, which they in the habit of visiting a sister, a Mrs Richards, in the Commercial acceded to. They then asked me to go to Maldon, near Kingston, road, by the omnibus of which the plaintiff was the conductor, and he to search for a house for them. I went there on two occasions for endeavoured to force his attentions upon her, although she told him that purpose. I was afterwards engaged to find a pony carriage for she was a married woman. He so far succeeded, however, that she them; then a pair of ponies. I then went to Kingsbury to see Grove allowed him to visit her at her house, when on one occasion he knelt house for them. I attended to the packing and removing of their at her feet, vowed his love for her, placed the ring on her finger, and furniture from Kildare terrace, and was employed to find an agent for begged her to keep it for his sake. He slept with Mrs Archer, accord- letting that house, which I did. I was employed to find a favourite ing to her own evidence, three nights in her husband's house, and dog of Mrs Archer, which was lost, and for which a reward of 107. twice in a house in Oxenden street. She had shown her husband the was offered. I got bills printed and posted, and I exerted myself and ring, which she stated had been presented to her, and her husband found the dog, and the 107. was saved. I was engaged at the Edgeware insisted she should give it back. She offered it to the plaintiff, who County Court for the plaintiff, and 47. 18. were allowed by the Court refused to take it, and she afterwards pawned it with Mr Wood, as my expenses, but the plaintiff took the execution out himself. I Hereford place, Commercial road, several times, the sums being in- claim 467. 18s. in my set-off, and I gave the plaintiff credit for 17., creased to 657., and who now holds it for 697. The plaintiff having which leaves a balance of 457. 18s. About the second week in May received the ticket, the 697. was paid into Court, and the jury re- I delivered to the plaintiff personally a copy of my set-off. It is not turned a verdict for the defendant. Such is the outline of this case. true that I said that I would pay back the first check in a month, We now give the other. or that I received it in Nicholas lane. I received it at Dr Spratt's, in ARCHER V. BRAHAM.-This was an action for the recovery of 407. Margaret street. He brought me the check and said, "I know you money lent to the defendant, who pleaded never indebted and a set- are a needy man, and, as I am going to take a house in the country, off. The plaintiff was the defendant in the previous case. take this and work it out, and I will pay you your commission as stated by his counsel, Mr Edwin James. that the defendant, Mr Louis you go on." It was not a loan. Cross-examined: Before 1851 I was Braham (alias Abraham) had known Mrs Archer before her marriage a watch and chronometer maker in Hill street, Brompton. Before with the plaintiff, and had been introduced to him by her; that the that I lived in York street, Baker street. I collect rents for my defendant dined at the plaintiff's house, and slept there very fre- mother and for others generally. I shall not give you the names of quently, drove out with him in his carriage, and during the time any others. I am generally a commission agent. I buy furniture at borrowed two sums of 207. each in the months of January and sales for any one who likes to employ me. I don't feel inclined to February, 1859. Mr Braham attended the plaintiff almost every- bring other persons' names into this ease, and I won't say for whom. where, and on one occasion, having bought a carriage for him and I have procured 3,000%. or 4,000l. on mortgage on commission, but I received from the coachmaker a douceur for the coachman, he failed won't say for whom, as I don't like to bring other persons' names up. to hand it over, and on being questioned by Mrs Archer he dis- This book, in which the items are entered, is not my mother's houseappeared, and had not been to the plaintiff's since. On the action keeping-book. The entries are in pencil. There are a few written being brought the defendant delivered a set-off-"about the most entries, but not relating to this case. I sometimes go to the city in impudent thing," said Mr James, "even for Mr Louis Braham to cabs. The witness produced a book similar to a broker's inventory attempt." In March last the defendant wrote to the plaintiff a long book, with pencil items of this transaction, which, he said, was the letter, in which he said he felt for the plaintiff as a younger brother, only book he had relating to it. By Mr Laxton: As there is no and should feel very sorry to be separated from him, and added, "In entry of your having taken a cab, or of your own expenses, in the words of the poet, God bless you both." Thomas Archer ex- November, 1857, when you say you made the entry, what enables amined: I am the plaintiff. I came into some property in 1857. In you to say that you had a cab, for which you make a charge in your 1858 I went out of town, leaving my wife at home. On my return set-off, and what enables you to say how many hours you were I found the defendant, Mr Louis Braham, who was introduced to me employed? Witness: I know I took a cab, and I know about the by my wife at a friend's house opposite the defendant's. He said time I must have been engaged. By the Judge: In the copy of your that he had been on the Corn Exchange, and acted on commission. set-off, which you say you delivered to the plaintiff in May, how We became friendly, and he sometimes took his meals, dined, and comes it that, although you gave him credit for 17. paid, you did not slept at my house. On January 6, 1859, I met the defendant by also give him credit for the 40%., if, as you say, you got it as a appointment at Regent circus; he stated he wanted 207. On a sub- prepayment and to be worked out by you? Witness: That was sequent day I took a check with me to Nicholas lane, in the city, between ourselves. By the Judge: Why did you not make an entry and gave it to him in a tavern, not liking to hand it to him in the of it in your book? The witness was asked to find out a particular street. He thanked me, and said he would pay it in about a month. item of set-off in his book, but neither he nor his attorney could find After this he was off and on at my house; he slept and took his meals it, although they searched for it. By the Judge: I suppose the jury there. In 1859 I was living at Kingsbury. One evening we went no more believe this witness than I do. Mr Laxton then put another to the Marylebone Theatre, and after we came out we went to the question to the witness. Witness: If I am not to be believed, why White Lion, in the Edgeware road. He said he was in want of am I to be asked any more questions? The Judge: If you cannot money, and had a case in the Divorce Court coming on, and wanted account for omitting to enter such important items, I think your case 107. to pay a refresher, and he asked me for a loan of 201. He wrote is hopeless. Witness: It was an oversight of mine. The Judge (to out a check, and I signed it and let him have it. He said he had the the jury): Gentlemen, if you believe the plaintiff's account to be security of two houses at Poplar to give me for it. I saw the houses, true, and that the defendant did this work because, like a led captain, but of course they were mortgaged. Once, when we were con- he was getting his benefit in the house and not upon commission, it versing together, he said his debts were about 407., and that was the is useless to go on further. The jury: That is our opinion. The sum he owed me. He used frequently to drive out with me. jury then returned a verdict for the plaintiff for 407., and the judge I never instructed him to do anything for me on commission. granted speedy execution. always treated him as a visitor. I sued a person in the Edgeware County Court. The defendant was a witness. He said he could not COURT OF DIVORCE AND MATRIMONIAL CAUSES. think of taking witness money, he being my visitor. I borrowed 31. Allen v. Allen AND D'ARCY.-After occupying the Court for of him at that time and have paid it back. In March, 1859, I was several days this trial was brought to a close on Monday. In conseabout purchasing a pair of horses (cobs). The defendant took me to quence of the voluminous details of evidence we present the case in a Anderson's, and I gave 951. for a pair. I afterwards bought a carriage narrative form. Mr Allen, the plaintiff, was a trunk-maker and outof Mr Craker. The defendant went with me and my wife to buy it. fitter, in the Strand, and married the respondent in 1852. The parties Mrs Archer had all the say. She taxed the defendant with having cohabited until the September of 1858, and Mrs Allen gave birth to taken 31. of Mr Craker to hand to the coachman, and with not having children, the youngest of whom was born about five or six months done so. The defendant said, "How could you think of suggesting after their separation. Mr Allen had a villa at Brompton, but his such a thing?" This was at bed-time. The next morning when we business prospering he changed his residence to Brighton. While came down the defendant had left our house, and we never saw him there, Mr Allen formed an adulterous connexion with a Mrs Cleverton, again. The defendant never gave me any bill or set-off against me. and was at one time on the point of eloping with her for America. Cross-examined: About three years ago last September I came into Cohabitation was, however, resumed at the earnest request of the wife, from 12,000l. to 15,000. About 7,000l. or 8,000l. was invested in but from that moment the husband made up his mind to get rid of the funds, and in June last the residue had become very short. I her. The first expedient which suggested itself was a lunatic asylum. was then short of cash. I married two years ago last June. I Dr Tuke was called in and consulted as to the eligibility of Mrs Allen thought at the time I married her that my wife was a widow. Did as a candidate for such an institution. In consequence of his opinion you not swear she was a spinster? There was a party from whom I the scheme proved impracticable, and was ultimately abandoned, or was waiting to learn whether she was a spinster or no. I found my rather exchanged for one yet more base and shameless. Mr Allen wife at the Blue Posts, in the Haymarket. We went to the Café de had determined to get rid of his wife. Misconduct on his own part la Régence. My groom was in the box with us at the theatre, and I proved ineffectual, and was condoned. It remained to reduce her to gave him some champagne. My tailor was in the habit of visiting the same level as himself. A plan was devised which was stigmaIt is stated that the Rev. Hugh Allen, the afternoon leeturer at St at my house. The defendant said that he had been on the Corn tised by the verdict of the jury as "a most base conspiracy," but George's-in-the-East, has been presented by the Lord Chancellor to the Exchange, and that he was doing nothing at that time. The which unfortunately proved too successful. A Mr Gilman, who went rectory of St George's, Southwark, rendered vacant by the preferment defendant may have been with me a great deal, but it was at his by other names however, was selected as the first agent in the plot. of the Rev. William Cadman to the rectory of Trinity district, St own option. [The witness then admitted that the defendant went His part of the transaction was completed when he had introduced to Marylebone. It appears to be doubtful at present whether Mr Allen about with him and for him, and advised him in the selection of a the lady a confederate, in the shape of a Captain D'Arcy. D'Arcy will be able to hold his lectureship, which is unendowed and depen- house to live in, and the purchase of horses and carriages, and himself was as little anxious as Gilman to be known by one name dent upon voluntary subscriptions, with his Southwark rectory. in the finding of a dog that had been lost, and other matters alone, and passed as often as not by that of Milburn, which indeed Mr G. M. Chasseaud, the author of The Druses of the Lebanon,' of a similar kind.] I understand that my attorney is now appears to have been the one which rightly belonged to him. It was is now delivering most successfully at Edinburgh the first of a series claiming the diamond ring on my account. I did not know how not denied that Gilman had been an intimate friend of the husband, of lectures on the present state of Palestine and the Lebanon, in often Balls visited my wife. She would not go with me to Ramsgate. or that the latter was perfectly cognisant of the true antecedents of Queen Street Hall. He gives a graphic description of his rambles I did not like to go alone to the houses in the Haymarket. I liked the soi-disant captain. Such was the society into which a wife who, in Lebanon, the characteristics of its people, and its past history; my wife to be with me. C. Bull I entered the plaintiff's service in as such, had not a stain upon her virtue, was voluntarily introduced and in the next series he intends to treat on the sea-coast cities of August, 1858, as groom and coachman. I saw the defendant very by her natural protector. From this point her downward progress Syria and Palestine. often at the plaintiff's; he dined and slept there. They drove out was rapid enough to satisfy even her husband's eagerness. We hear together, and the plaintiff always paid for the refreshments they had. of perpetual squabbles between the two; of aots of provocation upon The defendant denied that he had received any money from Mr her part, followed by violence and cruelty upon his. Forbearance Craker for me. Craker: The defendant came once only to me, and would seem to have reached its limit, and the injured wife played but then with Mr and Mrs Archer, who bought a carriage. He afterwards! too surely into the hands of those who were leagued together for her A further considerable quantity of gold has been saved from the wreck of the Royal Charter. The sum recovered on Monday and Tuesday is stated as follows: Twenty boxes of gold, seventy-five bars nine bags of gold dust, and three bags of sovereigns, representing in all about 150,000. The aggregate saved up to the present time is about 165,000. The gold shipped by the Royal Charter was valued at 322,440., inclusive of 48,840 sovereigns. The proceedings in the Church of St George's-in-the-East were less disturbative on Sunday last than for many weeks previous, but in the afternoon Litany service was interrupted throughout, and it is more than probable that the disturbances may continue now that Mr Selfe has decided that the prayers may be "said or sung," at the will of the congregation. Some sang, others said the responses, and the result was of course a most indecent exhibition. The Rev. C. F. Lowder, who preached in the evening, was greeted with hisses, coughing, and other noises, but on the whole the services were far more orderly and decent than the church has lately witnessed. Mr Rutherford Alcock, Consul-General in Japan, has been appointed Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary as well. On Monday, Mr Donald Nicoll, the late representative of the Borough of Frome, was entertained at a public dinner given by the constituency; and, at the same time, a valuable service of plate, with an address couched in the highest terms of eulogium, was presented to the ex-M.P., by the working men of Frome, their shillings and pence having provided the necessary funds. The case of Penhallow v. the Mersey Harbour and Dock Company, which has been before the Court of Exchequer for some days, has terminated. The jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff, with 40,0007. damages, the amount claimed by the plaintiff, for the injury sustained by his vessel. We understand that the directors of the London, Chatham, and Dover Railway Company, at their board meeting yesterday, accepted the principle of a lease of the undertaking to the South Eastern; but the important question of terms has yet to be arranged. The medical practitioners announce, that a rather strongly developed small pox is raging epidemically at Paris. It does not attack children alone, but older people, who have too long omitted to have themselves re-vaccinated. The Countess B., who bears an historical name, has just been attacked with this disease. Baron Channell, the arbitrator in the case of "Potter v. Liverpool Corporation," has awarded for the St George's Hall Brass Gates 1,9331.5s. 10d. more than the amount paid into court by the corporation. The gates, it appears, were to have cost 1,500%; but they came POLICE. wish to find us it will be at, I remain, your disobedient son, ruin. On one occasion Mr Allen "knocked his wife down three do him some grievous bodily harm. Malone, an old man, with his times and locked her up in a room." On another they fought in the head bandaged, deposed that on the day in question the prisoner, who garden, much to the detriment of the garments of both. One witness was his brother-in-law, both of them having married sisters, came saw him "strike Mrs Allen, and knock her down, and kneel on her into his house, struck him on the head, and tried to put him on the chest until blood came out of her mouth." During the whole time fire. Prosecutor resisted, and Hill got him down with his head Mr Boxell, an ex-waiter of the Crystal Saloon, Mr Gilman, with his beneath the fire-grate and his neck across the fender. Hill then took innumerable aliases, and the ultimate co-respondent, D'Arcy, were a kettle of boiling water from the fire, and after pouring some into constant visitors at the house. At last came the climax. Mrs Allen his right ear, poured the remainder over his head, face, neck, and was persuaded to leave her husband's roof, and was found in company shoulders. This he did after searching for the poker to rake out the with D'Arcy at an hotel in London under circumstances which could burning coals upon his head. Having poured the boiling water over leave no reasonable doubt as to the relations which existed between him, prisoner then held his head upon the fire. The jury returned a them. The end was obtained, and this model spouse was now, as he verdict of Guilty. The judge said that the prisoner was sentenced thought, in a position which would enable him to sue for a divorce. to fifteen years' transportation for rape in 1848, and he was now Unhappily for him, he had been oblivious of the difficulties which upon ticket of leave. For this offence he must be sentenced to ten attended the concealment of his own infamous share in the history of years' penal servitude. his wife's dishonour. Upon cross-examination all came out. Mrs At Stafford, on Wednesday, B. Owen, a gasfitter, was tried for the Allen's former life, her irreproachable conduct after marriage, the murder of his wife. The prisoner was the keeper of the Cottage character of those by whom she had been surrounded, were one by one Spring beerhouse, at Wednesbury; and his wife having become adextracted from the witnesses. Mr Montagu Chambers succeeded in lay- dicted to intemperate habits, had occasioned a very ill feeling against ing bare all the ramifications of one of the most impudent among the her by her husband. In addition, she had some relatives whose commany barefaced attempts which have been made to turn a court of pany he had prohibited her to keep. Returning home, on the 18th of justice into the instrument of villany and fraud. From first to last October last, he found her intoxicated, and learnt that the prohibited the whole transaction bore the stamp of gross connivance, and the jury, relatives had been at his house. He then commenced an attack in finding that the charge of adultery against Mrs Allen had been upon her. He drove her to take refuge in a neighbour's house, proved, said they found that Mr Allen had connived at the adultery, whither he followed her, and either by a blow or a kick inflicted and they were clearly of opinion that the adultery was brought about injuries of which she died. A long array of witnesses were called by a base conspiracy against Mrs Allen. The Judge Ordinary said for the defence, the testimony being that the prisoner was a steady that as no member of the Court entertained a doubt as to the pro- man and a kind husband; two written documents, one signed by 400, priety of the verdict which the jury had pronounced, they would at and the other by thirty persons, who similarly testified; but the once, in conformity with that verdict, dismiss the petition, with costs. judge would not allow the documents to be put in. The jury found BELL V. BELL AND THE MARQUIS OF ANGLESEY.-DAMAGES, the prisoner guilty of manslaughter, and he was sentenced to be kept 10,000%-This was a petition, filed by Mr J. M. Bell, for a dissolution in penal servitude for six years. of his marriage on the ground of his wife's adultery with the Mar- NORFOLK CIRCUIT.-At Norwich, on Tuesday, Samuel Dickerson, quis of Anglesey. Mr M. Chambers, in opening the case, said that charged with feloniously shooting at J. Buckle, gamekeeper on Lord the only object of the petitioner in asking for damages was to place Walsingham's estate at Merton, was found Guilty, and sentenced to himself in the same position as before his marriage with regard to eight years' penal servitude. the money secured by him to Mrs Bell by the settlements executed at NORTHERN CIRCUIT.-At Newcastle, on Wednesday, J. W. Moody, the time of the marriage. By the 61st section of the Act of last belonging to Portland, United States, mate of the Mary, of Bath, session the Court had power to deal with marriage settlements in United States, was found guilty of the murder of D. Witham, an certain cases, but it was doubtful whether it was authorized by that American sailor, in the Northumberland Docks, on the Tyne, on the section to interfere with the settlements where, as in this case, there 16th of August last. It was a case of great barbarity, but owing to had been no children of the marriage. It appeared that the marriage conflicting evidence, the jury returned a verdict of manslaughter took place at Paddington, on the 10th of July, 1851; Mr Bell being only, and the prisoner was sentenced to penal servitude for life. a merchant, the son of another merchant of considerable wealth, and the respondent being one of the daughters of Mr Burnand, a wealthy stockbroker. Mr Bell was 25, and Mrs Bell 21 years of age, and she was described as a lady of remarkable beauty. They had a THE CHARGE OF PERJURY AGAINST MRS ROWLEY.-Mr Sleigh and house in Gloucester terrace, Hyde park, and as Mr Burnand resided Mr Orridge, barristers, accompanied by Mr Towne, solicitor to the close to them, in Sussex square, there was a great deal of intercourse Hon. Hugh Rowley, attended on Tuesday, at the Westminster between the two families. Mr Burnand also had a house at Worthing, police court to solicit an adjournment for ten days of the hearing of where Mr and Mrs Bell were accustomed to spend a few weeks the charge of alleged perjury against Mr Rowley's late wife in a suit every autumn. No evidence was given as to the time and circum- for divorce recently tried in the Court of Probate at Westminster. stances of the Marquis of Anglesey's introduction to the family, but Mr Metcalfe, barrister, who was retained for the lady, appeared on it appeared that he used to visit the Burnands at Worthing with his the other side to beg that the summons might be heard on the day children, Lord Berkeley and Lady Florence Paget, and that the Bur-originally fixed. After statements pro and con had been made, Mr nands and the Bells had visited him at Beaudesert. In October, Paynter said he was of opinion the public must think, upon reading 1858, Mrs Bell was at Worthing, and on the 23rd of that month, the account of the trial in the Divorce Court, that the lady had been during Mr Bell's absence, she left her father's house and went to shamefully ill-used by her husband. She, through her advocate, Lillyman's Hotel in Lower Brook street, where she was joined by pledged her oath to the truth of everything the lady had said in that her waiting-maid, Sarah Densley. The Marquis of Anglesey visited court, and the Hon. Mr Rowley had sworn that what she had said her there every day. After remaining for a fortnight she and her was untrue. The lady and gentleman were therefore on equal terms, maid and the Marquis went together to the Calverley Hotel, at Tun- and neither could suffer by the delay. The required adjournment bridge Wells. Mrs Bell passed by the name of Mrs Burton, and they was then granted. occupied one sitting room and two bed rooms near each other, and THE BRAWLING AT ST GEORGE'S-IN-THE-EAST.-On Thursday took all their meals together. About a fortnight afterwards they re- morning the Rev. C. F. Lowder, minister of the Mission Chapel, moved to lodgings in Half-moon street, Piccadilly, where the Marquis Wellclose square, who has been officiating for the Rev. Bryan King and Mrs Bell lived as man and wife, Mrs Bell then taking the name at the parish church during his illness, attended before Mr Yardley of Lady Anglesey. They remained there until March, when Mrs on a summons charging him with assaulting a parishioner named Bell went to the Castle Hotel, Richmond. A butler, named Wicks, Soames. It appeared that on the morning of Sunday last there was who had been in Mr and Mrs Bell's service, said, in his cross- a wedding at St George's Church, the persons interested in which examination, that they had slight differences at times, but never were admitted into the church at a quarter-past ten o'clock by a side any serious quarrel, and that Mr Bell used to complain of her seeing door. Mr Soames knowing that the choristers and others had gone too much company. The attorney of Mr Burnand, Mr Sewell, also in determined upon following them, when Mr Lowder, who had possaid that it turned out to be an ill-assorted marriage. The Marquis session of the door, refused his admission, raised his arm and struck of Anglesey was said to be a widower. Mr Sewell also explained him on the shoulder, and then banging the door made Mr Soames the provisions of the settlements executed at the marriage, as. to a prisoner by the skirt of his coat, which was caught by the door. which it is only necessary to state that Mr Burnand secured certain Mr Soames, according to his statement at the police-court, was obliged sums to his daughter, and that Mr Bell settled upon his wife the to hammer away until he could obtain his release. Four parishioners interest of 5,000l. to her separate uge for her life. Mr E. James, in were called in support of the charge; and Mr Digby Seymour, M.P., addressing the jury in mitigation of damages, fully acquitted Mr who attended for Mr Lowder, argued in defence that the door was Bell of any intention to put money in his own pocket, and said that the private entrance of the rector, and that Mr Soames had no he was quite justified in wishing to relieve himself from the liability business there. Mr Churchwarden Thompson was also called, and for the payment of the interest of 5,000l. to his wife during the re- proved that this was not a door for the rector, but for the public; mainder of her life. He was not instructed to make the slightest upon which the magistrate decided that the assault had been fully imputation upon the conduct of Mr Bell, but the marriage was not a proved, and expressed his opinion that Mr Lowder had acted very happy one, and there was no evidence that the Marquis had been injudiciously, as a minister of peace, in acting as a policeman or guilty of anything like deliberate seduction, so that it would be suf- door-keeper. He added, that he did not believe the religious princificient to award damages which would place Mr Bell in the same ple actuated any of the parties. As the complainant had paid 23. position with regard to the settlement as before the marriage. The for the summons, he should fine Mr Lowder 2s. for the assault, so Judge Ordinary, in summing up, said the only question for the jury that one party might not exult over the other. was the amount of damages, and in considering that question they were directed by the statute to be guided by the same rules as were formerly applicable to actions against adulterers for crim. con. He ACCIDENTS AND OCCURRENCES. There was a good demand experienced for veal and pork, at previous rates. never remembered to have heard it suggested that in actions of that DOUBLE SUICIDE.-On Monday an inquest was held in the City THURSDAY.-There was quite an holiday market to-day, in consequence of the kind the jury could legitimately take into consideration the pro- road to inquire into the circumstances connected with the death of preparations for the grand day on Monday next, on which occasion the prize visions of the marriage settlements. Mr M. Chambers reminded his Edmund Shirley, a photographist, aged twenty-four, and Rosetta cattle exhibited at the Christmas Show will be offered for sale, and most descripLordship that, in the case of Heaviside v. Lardner, Mrs Heaviside Greenwood, aged eighteen. Ellen Mills deposed: I assist Mrtions of which are reported to be very superior this year. There was about an had a settlement of 8,000%. on her, and that settlement was put in Simmons in his business at the Railway Coffee house, City road. On average supply of all kinds of meat, and notwithstanding the attendance of buyers was limited, a good demand was experienced for first-rate quality, at and received as evidence, and the jury returned a verdict for 8,0007. Wednesday night the two deceased came to my master's house and fully last Monday's rates, but trade was slow for inferior descriptions. on the ground that it would be hard upon the petitioner to lose that engaged a bed. They had nothing to eat or drink. They had Sir C. Cresswell said that after such a precedent he would not engaged a bed on two other occasions, and retired as soon as they withdraw the settlement in the present instance from their consider- came. They brought nothing with them. They gave no instructions ation. The jury found that adultery had been committed between as to when they required to be called on the following morning. I Mrs Bell and the Marquis of Anglesey, and awarded 10,000%. showed them upstairs to the room in which their bodies now lie. I went up to their room about a quarter to twelve on Thursday damages. The Court pronounced for the divorce, with costs. morning and knocked at the door, but obtained no answer, and I then tried the door and found it was locked on the inside. A policeman was then sent for. Mr Simmons corroborated this evidence, and added, on the arrival of a policeman the door was forced open by Sergeant Harvey. We entered, and found the girl lying on her back with her arms over the bedclothes, with a white pockethandkerchief in her right hand, as though she was asleep. The man was HOME CIRCUIT.-At Maidstone, on Wednesday, two private sol- on his right side, with his right arm round the woman's waist. diers, named Willis and Howells, garrisoned at Chatham, were found There was a white foam on his lips. The clothes were slightly disguilty of setting fire to some wheatstacks near that town. They turbed, drawn to the right side. On the man's side of the bed was a both stated that their motive was the hope that they should thereby tumbler and a bottle labelled “poison." The stopper was not in the escape from any further military service. They were sentenced to bottle, it was on the dressing-table, with two letters. The bottle was penal servitude for six years. Three other soldiers, named Townsend, nearly empty, and the tumbler quite so. They were then left until Crawley, and Smith, were convicted of felonious assaults upon women, the doctor came. Both were lying apparently asleep in their night Barley. English and sentenced to penal servitude for twenty years. clothes. Police-sergeant Harvey produced the letters, which were WESTERN CIRCUIT.-At Winchester, on Tuesday, Edward Ward-read by the coroner. The first, addressed to the deceased man's roper, late solicitor, of Petersfield, pleaded guilty to the charge of father, was as follows: "Dear Father, I must now say farewell to forging two promissory notes, and was sentenced to penal servitude this world. Your dutiful wife has driven me mad, and as to live and for ten years. On Thursday two soldiers, named Sullivan and Higgs, be so unhappy I cannot. If I had not made up my mind to destroy and a woman named Smith, were convicted of an assault and high myself I should have shot Sarah out of revenge for my sister's death, way robbery. The soldiers were sentenced to penal servitude for which she was the cause of. I know she has been the cause of three years, and the woman to twelve months' imprisonment, with another deed too frightful to mention. You may think I have lost all my senses, but I can tell you that I am as sensible as you are at OXFORD CIRCUIT.-At Stafford, on Tuesday, J. Hill, an axletree the present moment. I do not die alone, but the one I love dies maker, was tried for feloniously wounding J. Malone with intent to with me. My last wish is that we may be buried together. If you sum. ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE. The winter assize has commenced, and the cases are, as usual, very numerous. They do not, however, as far as they have yet gone, present any features of remarkable importance, and may therefore be briefly reported in the following summary: hard labour. SINGULAR ACCIDENT.-On Saturday afternoon, a young man named Brown, a labourer, residing at Davidson's Mains, was returning home from Edinburgh, and, when near Blackhall, he met two young women with whom he was acquainted. Brown, who was a little the worse of drink, caught hold of one of the young women, and attempted to kiss her, but, in the struggle which ensued, he lost his footing, and came to the ground with such force that he broke his right leg. He was brought into the Royal Infirmary.. Trade and Commerce. Metropolitan Cattle Market,_MONDAY.-The arrival of cattle and sheep into the port of London from the Continent during the past week has been small. The Custom-house return gives an entry of 400 oxen, 165 calves, 128 pigs, 2, 228 sheep, and 22 horses; making a total of 2,943 head against 5,580 at the corresponding period of last year, and 3,709 head in 1857. The supply of beasts and sheep was short at this market to-day. Of calves there was about an average number on offer, but of pigs rather shorter than usual, consisting of 390 head. supply was short, but the state of the weather being unfavourable caused the The beef trade was not quite so good as on Monday last, notwithstanding the butchers to purchase rather sparingly, and 58. 2d. per stone was the top price made for the finest description of meat. There was but little alteration in the mutton trade from last week, the demand being tolerably brisk, and a ready clearance was effected at the advance made ou Monday last of 2d. per stone; South Downs making 5s. 4d., and other kinds from 4s. 4d. Beef Prices per Stone. Mutton 3s 8d to 58 2d Beasts Calves Veal Pork At Market. Mon. Thrs. Corn Market. MONDAY.-The weather yesterday and to-day has been wet and gloomy. The Foreign supplies to this market since last Monday have been very large of Barley and Oats, but small of Wheat, and at to-day's ma WheatThe English supply was principally from Essex, and the bulk was cleared off at was a good show of English Barley, but moderate of other articles. Wheatfully last Monday's prices-for Foreign the demand was limited to a few necessitous buyers at about late quotations. Barley-All kinds of Malting were slow of sale at 1s, to 2s decline; heavy Grinding was 1s, and common sorts 6d., lower than on this day week. Oats-New must be written 6d. to Is. and old 6d. cheaper than this day week. Flour-found little attention at 31s. to 31s. 6d. for Norfolk, while fine American is held far beyond the buyer's ideas, say to 29s. 196 lbs. Per qr. Wheat, English Foreign Foreign Oats, English 388 52s Beans, English 258 42s -8-5 Foreign Tares Scotch per sack 31s 43s Irish per sack 23s 378 Foreign FRIDAY.-The weather is mild for the season, and contrary winds keep out farther arrivals, the supplies since Monday being very moderate Oats, but to-day we had indications of improvement in the values of Wheat and our market was very slow for both these articles, without advance in prices. Barley was difficult to place, most buyers being unable to work, and Danish, Holstein and Baltic, must be written 1s. per qr. cheaper than on Monday, where vessels had to be cleared-secondary Scotch was also 1s. lower. Flour remained remaik upon. unaltered in value, with few takers. In floating cargoes there is nothing fresh to |