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THE NEWS BUDGET. m Termination of the Lock.out.-The look-out in South Staffordshire is now at an end. At a meeting of the metropolitan trade delegates held on Wednesday evening, Mr. Potter, who was in the chair, announced that the masters in South Staffordshire had put an end to the lock-out—their works were to be re-opened, and the men were to resume work at the lowered rate of wages at which they left off, but without signing any document to the masters. The Coldstream Gua.Tds.-We lately announced, says the Army and Navy Gazette, that a court of in- quiry, under-the presidency of Sir Alexander Woodford, had been appointed to investigate certain matters principally relating to the efficiency of Lieutenant- Colonel Dawkins, of the Coldstream Guards. The report of the court was made last week, and we believe its effect is unfavourable to Colonel Daw- kins, and that in consequence that officer will either retire or be placed upon half-pay, a lieutenant-colonel being brought in from half-pay to serve in his place. Terrible Explosion of a Locomotive.—The boiler of a locomotive engine recently exploded with- in a hundred yards of Chester station. The engine was waiting to be coupled to the 9 p.m. goods train to Hereford. Portions of the engine-plate were hurled great distances, and the shock of the concussion was felt at the houses and buildings within a circuit of a mile and a half from the station. Four persons were more or less injured, one so seriously wounded that his life is despaired of. The cause of the explosion can- not be accurately staged at present. Robbery by a 'Manufacturer.—At the recent Leeds Assizes, John Haigh, a cloth manufacturer, and Saville Haigh, were indicted for stealing cloth from the Huddersfield Cloth-hall during the months of December and January last. John Haigh pleaded guilty* and took all the blame on himself, exonerating the other prisoner from any share in the robbery. Saville Haigh was accordingly acquitted, and John sentenced to eighteen months' hard labour, the judge commenting with severity on the fact that from his position in* life he was under no strong or pressing temptation to do as he had done from want. An Imperial Loan Society.-The annual sit- ting of the Society of the Prince Imperial for Granting Loans to Working Men was held last week, at the Tuileries, in the Salle des Marechaux, the Empress presiding, and the young Prince by her side. The Archbishop of Paris and several other distinguished personages were present. M. Flémy, Vice-President of the Superior Council, read the report of the year's proceedings, after which her Majesty spoke a few kind words in reply. During the three years that the society has been in existence it has advanced in Paris and the departments nearly five thousand loans, amounting to a total of 1,300,000£. Improvements at Calais.—A Calais letter men- tions that the works in that port are being pushed forward with great activity. Tho entrance to the dock is being deepened, in order to admit vessels of a larger tonnage; this improvement will be probably terminated by the time when the timber ships arrive from the north. A project for the enlargement of the dock has also been approved of by the Minister of Public Works, and the town of Calais has been authorised to raise a loan of 1 500,000f, to execute the work within three years. Surveys are also being made for a railway from the present terminus to the quay, the construction of which wiil accelerate the commuai- cations between France and England. A Boy Barrister.—A singular instance of mental precocity has just been given at Mentpollior. M. Emmanuel de Ricard, only sixteen years of age, has been-admitted a member of the bar of- that town. The first president of the Court, in administering the oath, introduced the young barrister to his future confreres by a flattering address, in which he referred to the brilliant studies that M. de Ricard had gone through. At twelve he had, by a dispensation of age, been received bachelor of letters, and a few months later had obtained the same degree in science. He was then, after a most severe examination, received 1 into the Naval School of Brest; but, in place of 1 entering the navy, he accomplished his law studies at ] the Eeole de Droit of Toulouse with great eclat, and ] had now been duly received as avocat. 1 A Remedy for Diphtb.eria.Dr. R. H. Allnatt ■ says ¡-It cannot be too generally known that the i progress of diphtheria may often be at once arrested by thejchlorate of potassa. A saturated solution should be kept in every family medioine chest in the kingdom J -especially in those districts where the medical man is not easily accessible—ready to be administered in ( every suspicious case of sere throat. The solution is ] made by dissolving a quarter of an ounce (or four I drachms) of the chlorate in a pint of boiling water, j It should be preserved in a bottle closely corked, and j when used the bottle should be shaken with sufficient violence to diffuse the crystalline sediment through the ( .t.A". The dose is a tablespoonful thrice daily." r A Sinking Town.-The commune of Buonanotte in the Upper Abruzzi, is hourly menaced with utter destruction. Five manufactories have already been overthrowni and sixty-four more are threatened with imminent ruin. The inhabitants have fled in the greatest consternation to the neighbouring villages. The cause of this disaster is a sudden and violent de- pression of the soil, which is for the present accounted for by one of two reasons, either the fall of an immense mass of earth in the west of the district, or the yield- ing of the roof of an extensive subterranean cavern. But in reality nothing certain is yet known as to the causes of the deplorable event. Meanwhile, a number of civil engineers have hastened to the spot, and prompt measures: are in course of adoption to prevent still greater disasters. Another Bank Failure.—The sensation created by the failure of the Birmingham old bank of Spooner, Attwood, and Co. had no sooner been abated by the Joint Stock Banking Company taking to the business and paying the creditors 11s. 3d. in the pound, than another bank—the Portsmouth, Portsea, Gosport, and South Hants Banking Company-is reported to have stopped payment. The cause of this catastrophe is said to be a large debt owing to the firm by one gentle- man. The liabilities are estimated at £170,000, and the deficiency will be considerable, but the share- holders will be able to pay the creditors in full. On them, however, the calamity will press heavily; they are only sixty in number, and, of course, as they are not under the Limited Liability Act, they are liable to every farthing deficient. The End of a Drunken Woman.—An inquest was recently held at the Running Deer, Mason-street, Lambeth, by Mr. Carter, coroner for East Surrey, on the body of Sophia Smith, aged 53. The husband of the deceased, Edward Smit'h, 27, Streathfield-street, had been a working-engineer, but being now paralysed, was superannuated and allowed a pension. On Mon- day night his wife had been drinking a quantity of rum, which had rendered her insensible. She was in the habit of drinking, and pawned everything she could get hold of. Mr. Dodd, surgeon, was sent for, and emetics were given to the deceased but she con- tinued quite unconscious, and died at half-past nine o'clock on Tuesday morning. George Hall, who resided in the house with the deceased and her husband and son gave confirmatory evidence, stating that thu deceased drank about a quartern of rum a-day. It appeared that the son also was drunk on the Monday night when the deceased was taken ill from drirking. The jury expressed themselves satisfied with the evi- dence, and retarned a verdict af "Death from excessive drinking of ardent spirits." Suicide on Clapham.common.-On Thursday -morning, Mr. W. J. Payne, theooroner for the Duchy of Lancaster, held an inquiry respecting the supposed suioideol William Colston, aged sixty-seven years. The deceased was a master bell-hanger, living in North-street, Clapham. Latterly he became very desponding on account of not being able to attend to business so well as formerly. On a previous night he went into the parlour of the Beehive Tavern, and poked all the fire out of the grate. He then said that he did not want to bother any person, and he walked out in the direction of the Windmill-pond, on Clapham- common. Next morning a little boy named Henry Cross, while fishing, discovered his body in the water. The coroner said that there could be little moral doubt that the deceased had committed suicide. The jury returned a verdict," That the deceased was found dead in the water, but there was no legal evidence to prove how he came therein." A Bigamy Case in Ireland.—A serious case of bigamy was tried last week at the Cork Assizes, be- fore Serjeant Armstrong. The prisoner, William O'Dwyer, a man of gentlemanly condition, was charged with having, on the 5th of July. 1863, intermarried with a young lady named Minnie Noble, hi3 wife, Frances M. C. Taylor, being then alive. He married Miss Taylor at Leeds in 1851, but the lady left him soon, and tht! prisoner alleged that he did not see her I afterwards until she appeared to prosecute him. He met Miss Noble in 1861, and married her under the J impression, as he alleged, that his former marriage was null, as he had pot seen his first wife for twelve years. He also alleged that Miss Minnie Noble was acquainted with all the particulars of his history. The facts of the two marriages were clearly proved, and his lordship sentenced the prisoner to five years' ■ penal servitude. More Strikes.-The operative joiners of Halifax and the operative massns of Barnsley have "struck" work. The former claim a reduction of the weekly hours of labour from 57t to 52t. The Barnsley masons demand not only shorter hours but an advance of wages. There is no change of importance in connec- tion with the Staffordshire iron trade look-out. Though there are indications of an anxiety on the part of the South Staffordshire masters if possible to resume work, the disposition of the men (says a local contemporary) does not afford any increased hope that they will be more accommodating in their arrangements this week than last. The Sheffield employers are following the example of those of the North, and are re-opening their works. The N ewGovernor of the Bank of England. -The election of a governor of the Bank of England, in the room of Mr. Kirkman D. Hodgson, M.P., whose term of office has expired, has just taken place in the Bank-parlour, Threadneedle-street. Very few proprietors were present, and the ballot, by which such elections are conducted, was a very formal pro- ceeding. For the post of governor few votes were recorded on behalf of Mr. Henry Lancelot Holland, who has been for many years a director, and as there was no opposition to him the voting virtually stopped, although, as a matter of form, it is kept open until four o'clock, p.m. In like manner there was an elec- tion of a deputy governor, the choice of the proprie- tors falling on Mr. Thomas Newman Hunt. Fatal Collision.—A fatal collision occurred off the Tyne on Wednesday night. About twelve o'clock a laden brig, the Hedley Vicars, of Shoreham, and bound to that place, was proceeding on her voyage, when she was met upon the bar by the Berwick screw steamer, which was coming in from sea. The screw, unfortunately, came into collision with the brig, and, being under full steam, struck her a tremendous blow in the port bow, cutting the vessel down to the water's edge. The damage done by the blow was so extensive that the brig immediately began to sink, and she went down in a very few minutes after the collision. The crew, with the exception of a lad, who was in the cabin, escaped. The boy was taken down in the vessel and drowned. Shocking Cruelty to an Infant.-At the Wool- wich Police-court, Henry Robinson, of 25, Fort-place, Sandy-hill, was placed at the bar, before Mr. Maude, charged with violently assaulting his infant child, Alice Maude Robinson, by setting her on a fire. The following certificate was handed to the magistrate from Mr. Stuart, the divisional police surgeon: "I certify that Alice Maude Robinson, a child said to be 13 months of age, was brought to me early on the morn- ing of the 8th April. The child is severely burnt—viz., two burns on the right leg, one on the left leg, and one on each buttock." From the evidence it appeared rthat, &bout, .midnight on Friday, the prisoner returned home in a state of intoxication, and, ta.Tdns- up the infant, placed it deliberately over the fire. The cries of the infant attracted the attention of Mrs. Ann- Macintosh, a woman residing in the same house, through whose in; formation the prisoner was apprehended by police- constable Drury, 200 R. The prisoner's wife, who gave her evidence with much reluctance, corroborated the facts stated, and the prisoner was remanded. The Death of a Pauper in St. Giles's.—The inquiry relative to the death of Richard Gibson, in the workhouse of St. Giles, wa3 again introduced last week by Mr. FarRall at the Board-room of the vestry. The examination of Felix M'Gee, a pauper inmate, was continued. He stated that the nurses occasionally got tipsy, but he had never complained of it to the governor, on account of the great power possessed by the head nurse. Mrs. Elsom, paid nurse of the in- firmaries, was called, and said that, after the nurses went out, they would get tipsy, and when she found them so she reported them, and they were placed in the refractory ward. Patients in the infirmary, she said, had an unlimited amount of nourishment. Mr. W. Bennett, surgeon to the workhouse for the last twenty-two years, said he attended the deceased, and examined him from time to time, and never received from him any complaint of ill-treatment. He suffered from.a dry, scaly disease, which discoloured his skin and made it look dirty. Thore was no difficulty in getting clean shirts and body-linen. The inspector, Mr. Farnall, adjourned the inquiry sine die for the attend- ance of Dr. Craig, who had suffered from typhus fever, and was now recruiting his health by change of Eel Fishing.-The bed of Southampton Water consists of mud in which a vast number of eels barrow. These have been caught by the native fishermen from time immemorial by spearing, and with line and hook baited with a long serrated worm found in the mud. Some time since a strange fisherman came and plied his calling in Southampton Water. He confined him- self to eel fishing, and met with extraordinary success. Day after day he caught upwards of a hundred-weight of fish with a line and hook, while a native fisherman at the same time could not catch one-tenth of the quantity. Upwards of two years elapsed before the secret of the success of the strange fisherman was dis- covered, and which proved to be using for bait the minute crabs which abound in the mud when they have shed their shells. Their only covering is then a tough skin. On catting open eels there is invariably found inside them the remains of crabs. The native fishermen now use crabs for bait, and eels are caught in Southampton Water in far greater abundance than formerly. Committal of a Gang of Thieves.—John Smith, John Handley, and Joseph Davis were charged at the Clerkenwell Police-court with stealing a coat, the property of Mr. North,,from 47, Penton-street, Clerken- well, of the value of 30s.—From the evidence of police- constables Newbold, 151 N, and Dudley, 488 N, it appeared that on Friday they saw the prisoners, who are well-known thieves, loitering about, and suspecting them, watched them for more than two hours. At about nine o'clock they saw the prisoner Handley go into the prosecutor's shop, take down a coat, and then run off. The police followed, but lost sight of the prisoners, and meeting them a few minutes afterwards took them into custody. In the meantime the prisoners had got rid of the coat.- The prisoners denied the charge, and said they were innocent.—Mr. D'Eyncourt committed the prisoners to the Middlesex Sessions for trial. Worried by Dogs.—A few mornings since a shocking affair, which terminated almost fatally, occurred to a man named Efferington, who keeps the post-office at St. Catherine's, a village situated a short distance from Guildford. It appears that shortly after seven o'clock in the morning in question, Efferington started to deliver letters at the -various houses in the village, and on entering a yard adjoining the residence of Mrs. Pope he was attacked by a large mastiff, aided by a retriever, which knocked him down and lacerated his hands, arms, and other portions of his body in a frightful manner. In addition to other injuries the poor fellow received a compound fracture of the right leg, which was attended with very serious symptoms. Several of the female servants went to the assistance of the unfortunate postman, and with great difficulty succeeded in beating the dogs off but had they been left to themselves a few moments longer, the animals would most certainly have killed their victim. The services of Messrs. Butler and Schollick, surgeons, were obtained, but in spite of every attention the poor fellow is not yet out of danger. The explanation given is that it was usual to allow these large dogs to wander about the premises during the night, and that the boy, whose duty it was to fasten them up, had not arrived when the postman called. The dogs were notorious in the neighbourhood, and were never allowed out of the grounds without a keeper. Our Veterans.—Sir John Guise, whose death took place at the commencement of this month, says the Army and Navy Gazette, was the senior general of the army, and that position is now occupied by General Richard Pigot, Colonel of the 4th Dragoon Guards, who, though a year longer in the service than Sir John Guise, stood next below him in the list. Sir John entered the army in November, 1794, and General Pigot in September, 1793. But the officer with the longest period of service is General Cosmo Gordon, who became a soldier so far back as December, 1792, and has been therefore more than seventy-two years connected with the profession. The deaths of General Helier Touzel and Sir John Guise reduce the number of officers whose first commissions date in the last century to exactly a score. As we make out, they stand as follows,faccord- ing to the year of their joining the army :—Generals Cosmo Gordon, 1792; R. Pigot and Sir John Fitzgerald, 1793; Field-Marshals Sir Edward Blakeney and Lord Gough, and Generals Sir William Gomm, Sir A. Clifton, and Sir Alexander Woodford, 1794; Generals Sir Hew Ross, T. J. Forbes, and Sir George Whetherall, in 1795; Sir H. Arbuthnot, in 1796; Generals F. Campbell, Sir W. Wood, H. Shadforth, and Sir S. Auchmuty, in 1797; Generals Sir John Burgoyne and Sir J. Michell, Royal Artillery, in 1798; and Sir Thomas Kenah and Sir A. Dalrymple, in 1799. The Indian Budget.—Sir Charles Trevelyan ha,s just made his financial statement. The deficit this year amounts to £ 144,000. The estimates for the year ending April, 1866, show a surplus of = £ 500,000. The income tax is to cease. An export duty of three per cent. is to be levied on jute, wool, tea, and coffee, and 2 per cent. on hides, sugar, and silk. The import duty on hops is reduced to one per cent. The finan- cial condition of the country is declared to be pros- perous. Attempt to Run a Train off the Line.—A few evenings ago a very diabolical act was attempted on the line of the North British Railway at Grant's- house, and which, but for the fortunate discovery of it in time, would have been successful. A little past ten o'clock at night, while the guard of the pilot engine which runs between Dunbar and Grant's- house was engaged shunting a truck near the station, he discovered that some person had opened the points leading from one of the main lines to a siding, and had, to keep them open, inserted between them a large piece of a broken metal chair and a piece of wood. That had been done after eight o'clock, as they were then all right. A pretty large stone had also been placed, on the top of one of the rails. There is no doubt of the object of the perpetrators of tkis very base act. No trace has yet been got of the offenders. Freedom of Opinion in Rome.-The corres- pondent of the Daily News says :-A Mr. Davis has just been sent out of Rome in a very summary manner for some offence of which, it is to be presumed, the police know more than the general public, before whose eyes he has merely appeared in the character of a lecturer upon Shakespeare. He was to have recited Julius Csesar" on the best adapted stage forthat classic drama, the Capitoline Hill itself, and had obtained the permission of the Senator of Rome, subject to the placet of the police, which was of course never granted. He subsequently lectured in the large room of the Hotel de Russie, whether with or without authorisation I do not know, but the police authorities took offence at his lecture, and ordered him out of Rome in twenty- four hours, a period extended at the Consul's request to six days. Fatal Accident.-On Thursday morning a shock- ing accident occurred at the new building now in course of construction in Hart-street, Covent Garden, on the west side of the Royal Italian-Opera House, for dressing rooms to the theatre. It seems that a number of men were engaged on the building, two of them, named Thomas Sullivan and Patrick Corney, labourers, being at work on a scaffold forty feet from the ground, when the planks on which they were standing gave way, and they were precipitated to the basement. Sullivan in his descent fell head first on to some flag stones, which fractured his skull. They were both taken to Charing-cross Hospital, and attended by Dr. Tracers, the resident surgeon. Sullivan expired soon after his admission, and Corney is so dreadfully in. jured that his recovery is hopeless. Illness of Dr. Lushingtoh. — The learned judge had appointed to sit and hear motions in the Admiralty Court this Session, but on the opening of the court it was announced to the bar that his lordship was unable, through indisposition, ,to take his seat. It appears that his lordship has been suffering for some time, and that a few days since he had a fall, added to which a troublesome cough has confined him to his room. On the present occasion, Mr. Rothery, the registrar, at the request of' the learned judge, took the motions in chambers, and the cases appointed were adjourned. It is -antici- pated that his lordship, who is in his 84tb. year, and who for more than fifty years has only been absent from his public duties for a few days on account of ill- ness, will be enabled to preside on Tuesday next, to which day the court was formally adjourned. A Fatal Affray.—Mr. Thomas Acomb, recently a farmer at Poppleton, a neighbouring village to Oworfcon, but who has lately roaidocl with. Kin father- in-law (Mr. George Wood, farmer), at the latter place, quarrelled with a farm servant of .orl George Weighill. Weighill was in liquor one evening, but does not appear to have been very quarrelsome, and went home. There he fell asleep over the fireside, and he remained so for some time, when a man came into the house to him, and arousing him up took him out to fight Acomb. The two men had several rounds, in which Weighill appeared to get the worst of it. He also expressed a wish to relinquish the contest, but one of the bystanders calling him a coward, he recommenced the struggle, and he and Acomb had two more meetings. In the last round they both fell, and Acomb could not rise. He, how- ever, was assisted up and seated on the bank-side, but he appeared to be quite insensible, and never spoke afterwards. He was conveyed on a shutter to his father-in-law's house, where it was found that he was quite dead. Weighill has been apprehended, and is now in custodv. Frightful Murders.—Two negroes went to the residence of a Mr. Garrity, superintendent of a plan- bation, hear Yicksburg, fired upon him and knocked him down; while he lay, as they supposed, dead, they murdered Mrs. Garrity and two children, and shot another little girl through the shoulder; she feigned death, and the negroes plundered the house and then set fire to it. The little girl dragged herself to her father, who was near the door, and assisted him to an outhouse. She then went back to the house, and was severely burnt in an attempt to rescue her mother's body from the flames. Returning to her father, she made a little fire, and sat watching by his side. He conversed with her until daylight, when, to use her own pitiful expression, he stopped talking: he was lead. When daylight came, the poor child, wounded iLS she was by the assassins' bullet and by the flames, made her way to the house of a neighbour, some two miles distant, and related the horrible story, Mrs. Garrity's body was not entirely consumed, and was taken from the ruins and buried with that of her husband. The bodies of the children had been entirely consumed. An Artful Cadger.—Elizabeth Bliss, a married woman, was brought before the magistrate at Westmin- ster, charged with begging in Eaton-place.-Curious 272 B, stated that on the previous evening he was in Eaton-place, in plain clothes, when he saw the prisoner go into some areas and ring the bells. She then went bo No. 20, where she rang the bell. The butler came to her and told her that she had a shilling a short time ago, and was directed not to call again.—Mr. Selfe You heard the conversation?—Constable; Yes, sir; I then book her into custody. After she was locked up I went bo her lodgings, and found that she rented two houses.— Mr. Selfe What is her husband ?-Constable: He earns about 20s. a week, and he has two sons who earn, one 7s. and the other 5s. a week. I saw the landlady, and I told her that the prisoner was in custody, on which she observed, "What! for begging?" He then replied that she was.—Mr. Selfe (to the prisoner): What have you to say to the charge?—The prisoner said that she did not beg. She went to the house to borrow some money, when the butler gave her a shilling. She was then in great distress, having broken her ribs. Mr. Selfe: Who lives at 18, Eaton-place ? Is it not the residence of Dr. Lushington ?—The inspector said that it was.- The constable said that the prisoner was not known to him.—Mr. Selfe said that he was afraid she was in the habit of going about begging, but as she was not known he would discharge her. Circuit Court at Dundee.-In accordance with an Act passed last session, a Circuit Court of the Scottish Justiciary has just been opened for the first time at Dundee by the Lord Justice Clerk and Lord Cowan. The Judges were received on their arrival by the provost, magistrates, and sheriff; the bells were rung and flags were displayed from the steeples and houses. The Court was opened by public procession and with great formality.' The Lord Justice Clerk delivered a short address, in the course of which, after remarking that the establishment of Dundee as one of the towns of the Northern Circuit was due to the constantly advancing importance of the district, he said that part of our judicial system which requires the Supreme Criminal Court to travel into the pro- vinces and to try and punish criminals in the locali- ties where their crimes have been committed had the sanction of high antiquity, and was recommended by cogent reasons of social expediency. The same policy which lies at the bottom of this constitutional rule requiring justice to be administered openly, and all courts to be accessible to the public, prescribed also bhat the valuable lessons to be learnt by the masses < r of the people, seeing with their own eyes and hearing with their own ears how justice was administered, should not be confined to the inhabitants of the metropolis, but that the instructing spectacle should be, brought before the people in every great centre of population. Trial of Poachers.—At the recent Liverpool Assizes, five men, named James Hill, Thomas Roberts, John Makin, Thomas Wilding, and William Swift, were charged withia felonious assault at Rainford, on the 4th of last September, on one of Lord Derby's gamekeepers, named Edward Briddle, with intent to maim him. On the night in question, Briddle and an assistant, named Tinsley, found the prisoners on some valuable game preserves, between Rainford and St. Helen's. They had a lurcher dog with them, which Roberts turned into a field, where it started a hare. Briddle seized Roberts, and handed him over to Tinsley; he himself seized the dog. On this, Roberts cried out, Come on, lads! on which the other pri- soners fell upon Briddle, and struck him over the head with some pieces of slag," inflicting injuries by wffich Briddle was for some time placed in great danger. It was also the opinion of the surgeon who dressed his wounds that Briddie had been struck with a knife. The prisoners were found guilty of unlawfully wound- ing, and sentenced to twelve months' imprisonment, with hard labour. Trial for Shooting a Man.-At the Monmouth Assizes on Friday, before Mr. Justice Keating, a farm labourer, named John Ball, was indicted for shooting at his fellow-servant, William Mouiton, in October last, at Llanguttock, with intent to murder him. The occurrence has already been before the public, bUjt it may be briefly stated that the prisoner enter- tained ill-feelings towards Mouiton, and, in order to gratify them, shot him from behind a hedge early one morning. Ball was in a dangerous state for some time, but ultimately got better. The prisoner was, by a variety of circumstances, discovered to be the person who made the attempt on Ball's life. On the part of the defence it was urged that he was notoriously a man of weak intellect, and should not be held re- sponsible, He was found guilty with intent to do grievous bodily harm, and sentenced to ten years penal servitude. Marriage in High Life.-The marriage of Sir I John Gage Saunders Sebright, Bart., and Miss Olivia Amy Douglas Fitz Patrick, youngest daughter of the Right Hon. J. W. Fitz Patrick, of Upper Ossory, was solemnised a few days ago at St. George's, Hanover- square. The ceremony was performed by the Right Rev. the Bishop of Oxford, assisted by the Hon. and Rev. Courtenay Vernon. The bride was attended to the altar by twelve bridesmaids, namely—Miss Fitz Patrick, Miss Augusta Hervey, Hon. Barbara Yelver- ton, Miss Constance Blount, Hon. Florence Henley, Miss Murray, Miss Olivia Goodlake, Miss Florence Vale, Miss Eleanor Vernon, Miss Evelyn Vernon, Miss Violet Cast, and Miss Letitia Currie. Mr. Henry Wellesley officiated as best man on the occasion. The company assembled at St. George's, and afterwards adjourned to the residence of the Right Hon. J. W. Fitz 'Patrick, in Portman-square, after which the newly-married pair left town for Ranston, Dorset- shire, the ueat of Sir Edward Baker, Bart., for the honeymoon. Suspicious Death.—A mysterious affair is now engrossing the attention of the population of Antwerp. On the 16th ult., a man of middle age, named Rish Allah Bey, colonel,in the Turkish army, accompanied by a young man about twenty, whose name was Readly, said to be his nephew, alighted at an hotel in that city. Riah paid all the hotel expenses, and was frequently accompanied in his walks by the young man. On Thursday morning the latter was found dead in his bed, with two holes behind the ears made by small shot. A gun was on the floor in front of the bed, and on the table was a note to the following effectI have killed myself voluntarily." The young man lay in bed covered over with the clothes as though asleep. After the bed had been photographed the body was removed to the hospital, for a post- mortem examination. Meanwhile Rish Allah Bey has been arrested. An Opinion on the Civil Service.—In one of a series of reports just issued on the organisation of the War.-office is the following passage, signed Hartington, Douglas Galton, G. Arbuthnot, and W. Anderson" It is with regret that we feel bound to call the attention of the Secretary of state to the testimony borne by these gentlemen-all men of expe- nence In tue Trai*umw—WJ tuo ixiwueuiiuai uabmo vI: past # attempts to improve the condition of the Civil Service. It was hoped that by excluding dunces and insuring a sufficient but very moderate test of educa- tion the efficiency of the public departments would be improved; but it would seem that, so far from this end having been attained, the character of the War- office is such that if the clerks did their work with diligence, 10 per cent. of their number might be re- duced. We trust that the members of this committee will lend their aid tons in accomplishing such a re- form as will remove the evil of which they are wit- nesses, and obtain for the Government the measure of service which is rendered in private establishments in return for adequate pay." Compensation for the Death of a Husband. —A case-H Smith, Administratrix, v. the Manchester,, Sheffield, and Lincoln Railway Company "—has been tried at the Leeds Assizes. The action was brought under Lord Campbell's Act by the plaintiff to recover compensation for the death of her husband from in- juries received on board the steamer Liverpool, be- longing to the defendants. The deceased, an inn- keeper at Hull, was in the habit of undertaking to provide refreshments on such occasions as regattas, and he had contracted to provide tables and chairs in connection with a regatta at Grimsby on the 12th September. He returned at night to Hull in the Liverpool, which had been given up to the regatta committee for the occasion. While he and a friend were on deck smoking, one of the men employed in the vessel took off the lid of one of the bunkers which contain coal, and having got what he wanted he then, according to a witness, threw the lid on again without trying whether it was safe. Deceased and his friend took little notice of the matter, and walked to another part of the deck. In returning to the place they had left, deceased suddenly fell into the coal hole with one leg, the other being stretched on the deck. The in- juries he sustained were of so severe a nature that he died shortly afterwards. Compensation was sought for his mother, widow, daughter, and grand-children. —Damages, £ 30& for the widow, .£150 for the daughter, X50 for the mother, and X25 each for the two grandchildren. Child Murder by Drowning.—Mr. W. Carter, coroner for East Surrey, held an inquiry on Thursday, at the William the Fourth Tavern, Dorset-street, Lambeth, upon the body of a fine full-grown female child, the offspring of Frances Fanny Clarke, a servant in the employment of Mr. Little, who resides with his family in Acre-lane, Brixton. Mary Anne Smith said that she was in the service; of Mr. Little, as nurse- maid. On Sunday forenoon she had occasion to go from the nursery, when she found her fellow-servant in the kitchen. She appeared at the time very un- well, and witness asked her what was the matter, and offered to fetch a doctor. She said she did not require one. Mr. and Mrs. Little were from home at the time. Soon after this she saw Clarke, who continued to be ill. Witness again offered to send for medical assist- ance, but she said she would be better soon. Police- constable Shuter proved finding in a copper a pail, about three parts filled with water, and in it the body of a child, with its head downwards. Life was quite ex tinct. Mr. Catmore, M.R.C.S., said that he was called to the heuse, when he saw the girl Clarke, and upon examining her found that she had been recently de- livered of a child, and he treated her medically. He had since made a post-mortem examination of the body. He discovered no external marks of violence. Upon examining the lungs he found that they crepi- tated and filled the cavity of the chest. There was however, dark fluid blood in both ventricles of the heart. From the examination he had made he had no doubt, in fact he was certain, that the child was born alive, and was alive when it was put into the water. The cause of death was asphyxia, consequent upon drowning. The learned coroner summed up the evi- dence, and the jury found a verdict of Wilful Murder against Frances Fanny Clarke. Death of the Archdeacon of Exeter.—The late Ven. John Moore Stevens, Archdeacon of Exeter, whose death is now announced, was born in 1784, and was the son of Mr. Stevens, of Culver-house, Devon- shire, though his family had been settled at Torring- ton more than 200 years. He was educated at Exeter ] College, Oxford (B.A. 1806, M.A. 1809), and was fellow ] and tutor of his college. Subsequently he was private I tutor to the present Earl Howe. In 1820 he was ap- I j Archdeacon of Exeter, and prebendary of the i cathedral; in 1822 vicar of Otterton, near Sid mouth i (value .£300, population 1,140), by Lord Rolle; in 1842 canon of Exeter. He was not distinguished for theological attainments, and he does not appear to have published any of his charges. By his wife, Anne Eleanor, daughter of the Rev. William Roberts, vice-provost of Eton, sister of the Dowager Countess of Egmont, he leaves with other issue an eldest son, John Curzon Moore Stevens, of Winscofct, Torrington, who was born in 1818, was educated at Winchester and Christ Church, Oxford, who is a barrister and a captain in the Royal Devon Mounted Rifles, and who married in 1850 a daughter of the Rev. Peter Johnson, prebendary of Exeter. Doncaster April Fair.—This annual fair, con- sidered to be the largest held in Doncaster, was held on Wednesday, when there was a large attendance of dealers from London and many of the provincial towns. The horse fair was extensive, but consisted chiefly of second-class animals, many first-class horses having been brought up the preceding day. Horses especially suited for park purposes were exceedingly scarce, and prices accordingly ruled high. For horses for dray, carting, and farming purposes trade was slow throughout the day, and many were left over un- sold. Good carriage horses sold freely at high rates. In the beast fair the supply was large, but many re- mained on hand at the conclusion of business, 'the great scarcity of keep influencing the trade. Fresh drapes were the only beasts in demand. There was a larger show of fat stock than usual, the inquiry for which was somewhat limited, and holders could only effect sales by accepting a reduction upon the rates that were paid in the district a week or two ago. The Earl of Cardigan's Rabbits.-In the Lon- don Sheriff's Court, before Mr. Commissioner Kerr, an action was brought to recover £ 3 5s. 4d., damages for j selling to plaintiff certain rabbits unfit for food, [ plaintiff being a dealer of 9, Brook's-market, Holborn, and defendant a salesman of Leadenhall-market. The plaintiff stated that on the 3rd of last March he bought the rabbits at the defendant's shop in the market, the top ones in each hamper being good but the rest quite rotten. The inspector seized them in Leather-lane and carried them off. Defendant said he had received the rabbits on the 2nd of March from the Earl of Cardigan's estate, and had a letter from the keeper stating that they were shot on the 27th and 28th of February. Mr. Brown, one of the sanitary inspectors for the district, deposed to the abominable state of the rabbits seized by him at the plaintiff's place in Leather-lane. His Honour (addressing defendant).—You can get this money back from the Earl of Cardigan's gamekeeper. I must find for the plainiiff, with costs. A Fastidious Murderer.-D.. L. Bivins, who, it will be remembered, some time ago murdered his father, mother, and wife at Woodstock, Michigan, takes exception to the sale of photographs of himself by a business man at Hudson, because, as he alleges, they were taken over a year ago, with his uniform on, and do not resemble him now. He publishes a card, as follows :—"Adrian, Michigan, Feb. 28,1865. -Editor Cleveland Plaindealer,—-Please announce in your paper that the photographs taken and being sold by D. H. Spencer, Hudson, Mich., are not genuine ones, as they were taken with my uniform on, and do not resemble me now; but there will be some imme- diately before the public that are genuine ones, and taken with my clothes on at the time the deed was done, and such as wish to purchase will do well to wait and obtain the genuine.-D. L. BIVINS." The Detroit Tribune .says he is in the habit of circulating among the crowds who visit his cell cards containing the name, as follows:—" D. L. BIVINS, the Murderer." Alarming Accident to Lady Blantyre.-An alarming accident happened to Lady Blantyre. on Tuesday near Stafford. Her ladyship, who is on a visit to the Earl of Shrewsbury and Talbot, at In- gestre, drove out on the day named in the direction of Milford, accompanied by Lady Victoria and the Hon. Gerald Talbot. In the course of their drive the ford at Wolsley-bridge had to be crossed, and the ceaoh- man, taking his horses too near the bridge, precipi- tated his charge into the depths of the stream. The result of this mistake was a narrow escape of the whole party from drowning, Lady Blantyre being miraculously preserved by the courageous conduct of two rustics, who plunged gallantly into the water, and, knowing the river," assisted her ladyship to a part of the water where it was fordable, the remainder of the party escaping with a' mere drenching. The two men whose services were so opportune, and whose names are James Winslo wand Thomas Mather,- were bfUa/Jswiirud-irj-Awardfld f<vr, THEIR MIIOTI: „ The value of a J&'orennger.—The action of "Brindle v. Pepper," tried at Liverpool the other day before Mr. Justice Mellor and a common jury, was brought by an old woman, sixty-five years of age, whose case was that while passing along Great Haward-street, in Liverpool, she stopped opposite a photographer's window, and while there was suddenly pushed against the wall by a horse and the shaft of a float. The shaft came with great violence against her hand, and the breast and collar of the horse were upon her. She was a good deal hurt, and unless she has her forefinger amputated she will entirely lose the use of her hand. According to the plaintiff's account, the accident occurred through the negligent driving of the man in charge of the float, who stopped suddenly at that part of the street without giving any notice, so that another carter, in charge of a lorry immediately behind, was unable to prevent his lorry from coming into collision with the tail end of the float, which forced the shaft-horse and fore part of the float on to the parapet, and caused the injury complained of. The defendant's account was that this particular place was the ordinary place for carts stopping, being at the brow of a hill, and that the defendant's carter in this instance was obliged to stop to breathe his horse and adjust his load and if the driver of the lorry behind had been attending to his horses, the accident would not have happened. The jury foun d a verdict for the plaintiff for = £ 150. Fatal Steam Engine Accident.—Mr. Payne has just held an inquest on the premises of Messrs. Clarihew and Lascellee, in Bunhill-row, upon John Sutton, aged 23 years, and Albert Elijah Chappell, aged 24 years. The two deceased men were fancy box makers, and oa Wednesday afternoon were in the engine room of the premises of Messrs. Clarihew and Lascelles.—Mr. Charles Robert Humphreys said: I am an engineer, and was en- gaged to fix two engines, of 25-horse power each, at Messrs. Clarihew's workshops. The engines were second-hand, and were about ten years old, and were purchased at Stockton, near Rugby, three months ago. We put up one engine completely and the other par- tially, and as we wanted to go to work at once with the first engine, a plug of wood was inserted in the branch pipe to cut off the connection between the two engines, or rather the wedge was inserted to stop up the end of the pipe which would have connected the two engines had they both been fixed. The pipe was three feet long and four inches in diameter, and was made of cast iron. I tried the engine last Saturday, and everything appeared then to be safe. It was not put in motion again until Wednesday, when the explosion took place. The plug was made of pine wood, and the pressure on it must have been equal to 600 pounds. The deceased men were found upon the floor, shockingly mutilated; Sutton lived only three hours and Chappell five hours.—Ver- dict-" That the deceased were killed accidently, and the jury are unanimously of opinion that if proper pre- cautions had been adopted, the accident by which the deceased lost their lives would never have occurred, and the jury wish to direct the attention of those who have the management and control of steam engines to the danger of stopping pipes by the mere insertion of plugs not secured by bolts, plates, or caps." Suicide of a Prisoner in Newgate.—An inquest was recently held at Newgate on Samson Perry, aged 25 years, who committed suicide while under remand in the above prison.—Mr. E James Jonas, Governor of Newgate, said that the deceased was brought into the prison on Thursday last. He had been re- manded by the City magistrates on the charge of having stolen divers silk shawls, the property of Mr. Charles Kennedy, his employer. He was put in the usual cell for remanded prisoners. He was to have been brought up for further examination next Thursday.-ThomaS Finn, principal warder at Newgate, said that' he was called to the deceased's cell on Friday morning He was undressed, and his hands were tied behind with a garter. He must have first tied his hands in front of him, and then passed his tied hands over his head. On i ?or the cell underneath the gas-pipe he had placed a blanket, and on that he placed a stool. He had then taken a piece of the web strapping, and having fastened it to his scarf, tied it round his neck, and then He had fastened it to the gas-pipe. Witness could not explain how he had then fastened his hands behind him. The reason of his putting the blanket on the floor wag to prevent the noise of the falling of the stool when he ticked it from under him being heard. He had arranged ul in the dark. The prisoner seemed to be in a low des- ponding state when brought into the prison, and his nind was much affected by his position. Verdict— Suicide while of unsound mind.