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THE MURDER IN THE OLD KENT-ROAD. At the Central Criminal Court, on Friday, be- fore Mr Justice Montague Smith, Louis Bordier, a Frenchman, aged 32, described as a currier, was indicted for the wilful murder of Mary Anne Snow, by cutting her throat. From the evidence of Mrs Caroline Snow, a widow, and the aunt of the de- ceased, it appeared that the prisoner and deceased occupied rooms in her (witness's) house, passing as man and wife. Deceased was 32 years of age. and bad lived thirteen years with the prisoner, and they had three children, one thirteen years, another eight, and a third nineteen months old. I:> I- t They frequently quarrelled, sometimes about a man named Woon. Deceased had given witness notice to leave, which notice expired on the day of the murder, but she had not said that she was going to live with this Wood. At six o'clock on the morning of the 3rd of September witness was awakened by deceased rushing into the room with her throat cut, and cryiug, Look what Bordier has done.' She died not long after. The pri- soner never attempted to deny his guilt, but said he bad done the deed. He had been for a consi- derable time in an hospital for a very serious disease of the bowels, and he was away for about six weeks, and he had been home about three months at the time this occurrence took place. He suffered very dreadfully from the disease re- ferred to. The prisoner underwent an operation for fistula, and was an out-patient of the hospital afterwards. The prisoner confessed the murder to the police-constable, and ou hearing that the deceased was dead asked to be allowed to kiss her before being taken prisoner. After he had kissed her he coolly took out his pipe, filled it, and began to smoke. The prisoner had written to his brother confessing the murder, and denying that he was insane. The surgeon (Mr G. Simpson) who attended deceased in her last moments, and bad also examined the prisoner, gave it as his opinion that he was insane. The disease under which the prisoner was suffering was of a very depressing character, and tended very much to effect the mental energies, and notwithstanding the letters, he had formed the opinion that the prisoner was insane at the time he committed the act. The surgeons of Newgate and Horsemonger- lane, however, were of a different opinion, be- lieving that the prisoner was sane. The counsel for the prosecution (Mr Poland) and for the de- fence (Mr Sleigh) having addressed the jury, his lordship summed up, and after an absence of three-quarters of an hour the jury returned into court with a verdict of guilty. Mr Justice Smith then passed sentence of death in the usual form. THE ARREST OF GARIBALDI. SERIOUS RIOTS AT FLORENCE.. We are enabled to give some additional particulars of the arrest of Garibaldi. It appears that the • Italian Minister in Paris telegraphed to Signor Rat- tazzi that the French Government had determined to despatch 15,000 troops from Toulon should Garibaldi cross the Papal frontier, and subsequently to the receipt of this message, probably in consequence of it, Rattazzi sent, on the night of the 22nd, an order for the arrest of the General. It was addressed in duplicate to the authorities at Arezzo and those at Perusat A captain of the gendarmarie and an in- spector of the police executed the warrant. They arrested the General at Sinalunga, the first station on the line between Arezza and Sienna. He offered no resistance. Major Basto and Colonel Aachi, who were with him, were also arrested. During the journey the railway was kept by the military, the telegraph offices were shut up, and even the employes were removed. When the news reached Florence on Monday evening, it was not at first believed. But when there was no longer room for doubt, the people began to collect together and to utter angry cries. Affairs now looked very serious. About seven o'clock large crowds of people paraded the streets, shouting 'long live Garibaldi I Death to Rattazzi!' Stones began to fly, and the windows of the houses were smashed. An attempt was made to carry the chief post of the National Guard, but this was un- successful the guard repulsed the attack and pre- served their arms. The attack on two smaller barracks was successful, the guard offering no resist- ance. The crowd, now more excited than ever, marched towards the Palazzo Guadagni, Rattazzi's residence. The shouts redoubled, stones flew in showers, and the windows were smashed wholesale. Some of the police guards who interposed and en- deavoured to arrest the more prominent rioters were 'Very roughly handled-five were wounded and one was killed. Some one then cried out that Rattazzi was not in the house, and that he was in the Minis- try of the Interior. The crowd then set out for that office, which was on the other side of the Arno. On their way they attacked a French gunsmith's shop, and carried away the whole of his weapons. They endeavoured also to storm the police-office and I the telegraph office, but were repulsed, with the loss of some prisoners. Several shots were fired, but no life was lost. The aspect of the city was now very gloomy. All the shops and cafes had been hastily closed, and the ordinary street passengers had fled from the streets. Arrived at the Ministry of the Interior amid shouts of Death to Rattazzi!' and 'Courage Italians the mob found that the troops had got there before them. The soldiers now charged with the bayonet, and a general sauve qui peut fol- lowed. Soon afterwards a tremendous thunderstorm took place, and helped still further to disperse the crowd. Cavalry patrolled the streets till midnight, by which time order was restored. The next morn- mg the weather was diabolical' and there was no renewal of the disturbance. There is reason to believe that the riots which have taken place in other towns especially MIlan have been more serious than reported by telegraph. The Government have taken possession of the telegraph offices and have forbidden private messages to be despatched. — The Weekly Register prophesies that unless a stop is put to Murphy's lectures there will be bad doings in the I Black Country.' The character of these meetings may be imagined from the remarks made by the chairman at one; of them, a Primitive Methodist preacher, who said that Methodism was trying to be like the Church of England, the Church of England was attempting to copy the Church of Rome, and the Church of Rome was trying to be like the devil.' EXPORTATION OF CATTLE FROM ITALY.—Italy continues to supply large quantities of cattle to France. Letters from Dijon state that herds of 100, 150, and even 200 oxen are continually passing through that town from Lombardy, on their way to Paris. These animals cross Mont Cenis on foot as far as Saint Michael, where they are placed in cattle trucks on the railway. On arriving at the Dijon station, their condition requires that they should remain for from twelve to twenty-four hours for repose; after which they are sent on by rail, and when they reach the capital are sold and slaughtered. THE FENIAN RESCUE. MANCHESTER, Monday. The 23 prisoners charged with the murder of P. S. Brett, were orought from goal to the police-court this morning, under military escort. Mr Robinson Fowlev presided on the bench. Mr Roberts again applied to have the prisoners handcuffs removed, but Mr Fowler refused. After a number of witnesses had been examined. the charge against Patrick Kelly was withdrawn, and he was discharged. Another scene ensued, respectinetbe handcuff- ing of the prisoners Allen and Gould, who proteste ■ that they were not defended, and had not cross- examined any of the witnesses. Mr Fowler inti. mated that they were represented by Mr Roberts but Mr Roberts appeared to repudiate the respon sibility. Eventually the magistrate repeated that that he could not alter his decision respecting the handcuffs and shortly afterwards the court ad journed to Tuesday. ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATION. Earlv on Saturday morning a man was shot in the open street, near Bloomsbnry-square, and he now lies in so critical a condition that his deposi- tion has been taken by M r Flowers, the magistrate of Bow-street police court. The attempted assass- ination has something mysterious about it that has yet to be unravelled. The circumstances antece- dent to the attack, and which apparently led up to it are not yet fully explained, and are represented differently. The leading facts so far as at present known, are.best narrated in the depositon made by the wounded man: 'My name is Edwin M'Donald, and I am a musician in the band of the 2nd Life Guards. I live at 12, William-street, Regent's Park. I entered a public house in Southampton- row about one o'clock this morning, and asked for something to drink. It was refused to be served. I then left and saw some persons having words out- side. My friends and I walked up Southampton- row to Verncn-place, and passed two men, who were outside the public house at the time of the noise. Whilst passing them they made a noise at me and my friend, and they crossed the road to the right. They came back again, and one of them knocked off the hat of a man named Furbes, and and then fired at me. Furbes was with me. I am quite sure I saw the two men outside the public house.' The patient also gave a description of his two assailants. M'Donald was employed as a musician at Wes- ton's Music Hall, and had been performing there on Friday night. He is 23 years of age. He left the music hall when it closed, and with two com- panions went to the Turk's Head public house, in that part of Southampton-row formerlycalled King- street, not far from Holborn. It is said that they had some drink there, and while taking it entered into an altercation with two men in front of the bar concerning the recent attack on a police van at Manchester; that M'Donald and his companions spoke in strong terms against that occurrence; and the two men in question as vehemently defended the action that had been taken by the attacking party that the man who is now wounded and the two who were with him having quitted the public house returned to it again, and asked for some more beer just as the time was up for closing-one o'clock a.m.-and was refused; and that the two men with whom they had previously disputed were they who followed them from among the crowd outside when they finally left the Turk's Head. M'Donald was shot in the right breast, and the bullet passed quite through his body, injuring the lungs, and coming out at his back. He fell to the ground, whereupon the two men ran away in dif- ferent directions, and for some time escaped. The bullet, a conical one, probably fired from a revol- ver, has been found by the police, and may possi- bly prove useful as a means of indentificatron. During the course of Suuday the police, acting in all probability on the imformation given them by M'Donald, succeeded in apprehending a man on suspicion. The prisoner was directly taken to the University College Hospital where M'Donald lies, and was confronted with the wounded man, who is reported to have indentified him as his assi- lant who fired the shot. In the course of Sunday the police succeeded in arresting a man supposed to have been the perpetrator of the murderous attack upon Mac Donald. A man suspected to be the murderer has been apprehended. Some time after the crime was committed a parcel was picked up in the road near Vernon-place, containing a quantity of bul- lets and cartridges for Tranter^ medium-sized revolvers. Several cabmen anl other persous affirm that they saw two men, whom they can identify, near Mrs Byrne's public-house, the Turk's Head. Between one and two o'clock in the morning, after the attack on M'Donald, a man named Buzzer, who was driving a cart in Broad- street, Saint Giles's, was stopped by a number of young men, respectably dressed, and assaulted ¡ without any reason being assigned, aud they are supposed to be part of those who were at Bvrne's and of whom the two who stopped M'Donald V Subs?q»ently. from information which the police received, they arrested a youn°- man named John Groves, a sergeant in the Lon° don Irish Volunteers. Mr Thomson, of Scotland- yard detective force, ordered him to be searched Z, Z5. when a large dagger was found upon him, on the blade of which were marked the words, « A sure friend.' Groves was charged with having been concerned in the attack on Buzzer. He asked to be admitted to bail, and gave the names of two persons notorious as having taken part in the Fenian movement. Bail was refused. Shortly after another Irishman was arrested, having in his possession a loaded Tranter revolver, which he says he found in Broad-street, Bloomsbury. From investigations following upon the aaprehension of SSn-i-" aPPears that he is well-known as S, ir(,n8?me Past been m«xed up with C „ fenians. At the time when WaS Uving in uRupert" son at thi T J „ROVES WAS With another per- iZwn ™ ?"vili0» two well- anneal was *key followed till an molestation. After° the* aP°Hc £ t0 be freed from Kelly it appears that ft ST," °f C°,0nel Fenians that one of the infm ? among the to should be shot, and that ah?™ referred be paid to the Fenian who shot'K^Yt Wh^r appeared that Groves and another ™ further together at the Turk's Heal o,? S,HL°» i„g, and left Aortiy before the tempted Furber very closely resembles the in- former above referred to, and there is little doubt he was taken for that person, and his two friend probably for detective officers. After the three young men left the Turk's Head they were fol- lowed by two men, who passed them in South* ampton-row. On getting to the corner of Vernon Place the men who had passed them suddenly confronted them, knocked off Furber's bat, with a view, undoubtedly, to obtain a good sight of his face, but as Furber was picking up his hat the shot meant for him struck his companion. The man who fired the shot was, it is believed, wearing false hair. Groves was seen by the two informers already referred to and the police-ser- geant to whom the application was made on the night they were at the,London Pavilion, and those persons have identified him. One of the in- formers also identifies Groves as the man who threatened to shoot him some time ago, and also is being an active Fenian agent in Dublin in 1865. After being duly cautioned by Inspector Thomson, the prisoner admitted he was near Vernon-place at one o'clock on Saturday morning, and that he bad been at the Turk's Head. His lodgings were subsequently searched, and there was found a number of papers relating to Fenianism, a form of the Fenian oath in the pri- soner's handwriting, a large quantity of bullets and cartridges fitting Tranter's middle-sized re- volvers, and also a patent revolver loaded and capped, and in the bore of which the bullet that was shot through M'Donald exactly fitted. The pistol that was picked up by the. Irishman pre viously referred to also carried the bullets found in Groves's lodgings. The prisoner was taken to the University Hospital to the bedside of the in- jured man, and M'Donald, after carefully scrutinis- ing him, said his features were exactly like those of the man who shot him, but that he hardly seemed so tall. The prisoner, at the time he was taken into custody, wore a Fenian hat. His eyes are of a light colour; he has fair hair, cut close, and a fair moustache, but no beard or whiskers. — —♦ VOLUNTEERS AND RIOTS. The circular appended has been issued from the War Office to replace the memorandum published on June the 13th last, defining the position of the volunteer forces in the event of riot. It will bear the same date as the cancelled order. 1. Questions having arisen as to the power of the civil authority to call upon the volunteer force ) to act in aid of the civil power in suppression of I riot or public commotion, and as to the duty of the members of the volunteer force if so called upon, the following circular is issued for the general information of the force, in accordance with the opinion of the law officers of the Crown. 4 2. Her Majesty's subjects are bound, in case of the existence of riots, to use all reasonable endea- vours, according to the necessity of the occasion, to suppress and quell such riots and members of the volunteer force are not exempted from this obligation, and they may, in common with all other of Her Majesty's subjects, be required by the civil authority to act as special constables for such pur- poses, but they must not when so acting appear in their military dress. 3. The civil authority is not in any case en- titled to call upon or order volunteers to act as a military body in the preservation of the peace. '4. In case of riots and disturbances not amount- ing to insurrection, and not having for their object the commission of felonious acts or the subversion of the civil government, special constables, whe- ther members of the volunteer force or others should be armed with the ordinary constable's staff. J- 5. In cases of serious and dangerous riots and disturbances, the civil authority may require Her Majesty's subjects generally, including members of the volunteer force, to arm themselves with and use other weapons suitable to the occasion, and such other weapons may be used accordingly by members of the volunteer force, according to the necessity of the occasion. el 6. In the event of an attack upon their store- houses or armouries, members of the volunteer force may combine and avail themselves of their organisation to repel such attack, and to defend such storehouses and armouries, and for such pur- poses may, if the necessity of the occasion require it, use arms. « LONGFORD.' FLOGGING AT NEWGATE.—On Friday, in presence of the sheriffs and undersheriffs, the prison officials, James M'Donald, the garotter, was flogged with the cat-o'-nine-tails, in accordance with his sentence and was then relegated to his penal servitude. Cal- craft was the operator, and twenty lashes was the infliction. Upon the same occasion two boys, named severally Richard Guntriss and Charles Mitchling, who had been convicted of throwing stones and mud at a train passing on the Great Western Railway, were punished by twelve strokes each with a birch rod. This was the first time such a mode of correc- tion, considered sufficient for the offence, has been tried. The Army and Navy Gazette congratulates Mr Reed on his foresight with regard to the principles of construction lately adopted in building vessels. The Chief Constructor has always strongly objected to the combination of the old form of bow with a great weight of armour plate at the extremities of the ship, and has advocated the form adopted in the new transports—the Euphrates and the Serapis Curiously enough, we get simultaneously confir- mation of the soundness of both of Mr Reed's assertions. We have news of the extraordinary success of the two transports at the very moment when we are startled by the tidings of the Minotaur making so terrible a plunge in the Channel as to cause a rumour that she was foundering to run through the squadron, and this at a time that she bad the Commander-in-Chief and the First Lord of the Admiralty on board. After comparing at great length the construction of the two classes of ships the Army and Navy Gazette congratulates the Indian Government on the acquisition of a fleet of such fine boats as are her new transports. POPULAR SUPERSTITTON.-In Meyross, a little place in the western part of Cork, a singular case of popular superstition has occurred, which at OBe time seemed likely to be attended with serious consequences The body of an American captain, whose vessel had been wrecked on the coast was recently washed ashore and buried in the Meyross churchyard. His friends, however desired to re- move the remains to the United States, and pro- ceeded to disinter them for that purpose. The peasantry have a traditional belief that the removal of a body which fkad been for some time buried causes extraordinary mortality in the locality for the next twelve months, and they therefore regard such a proceeding with horror, When the party came to exhume the remains, they found an unex- pected opposition, which every effort failed to over- come. The people, filled with excitement, rushed L graveyard, armed with every weapon upon which they could lay hands, and drove the strangers forcibly away. The parish priest interfered and attempted to persuade them that their alarm was groundless, but they would not listen to him, and t h persisted in refusing to let the grave be dis- turbed. So bent are they upon preventing it that .ave sentinels watching day and night lest the object should be effected by surprise. On the e^ the friends of the deceased have not lal°ne^he,r.,1.Dtention' but beaten to call in J the aid of the military to enforce their right. A LARGE FAMILY.—A German newspaper says:- 'Two years ago, Mr Christian Segemayer became father of his fifty-eighth child. His first wife gave birth to twenty-three, of whom six were twins, and eleven single born children his second wife to nine- teen and the third and yet living wife is mother to sixteen children. Of these fifty-eight children twenty-eight are living, all being daughters and the man has never been sick, and enjoys good health, as do his children. HEAVY STORM IN THE NORTH SEA.-On Thurs- day the steamer Cossack, Captain Martin, arrived at Hull from St. Petersburg, having encountered very heavy weather on her passage across the North Sea. 1 he Cossack presented a very shattered ap" pearance, a portion of her port bulwarks having been washed away, and the aperture thus caused was filled up with deal battens. In addition to this damage, the forward bridge and a small deck-house on the starboard bow was washed away, and ? house amidships was so much battered that it bad been deemed necessary to patch it up with piece* of deal plank. The deck cargo bad also been en*- tirely washed overboard, or thrown away for the safety of the vessel. All this damage was occa- sioned on Monday and Tuesbay last, while the Cossack was crossing the North Sea. The wind blew a perfect hurricane from the south-west, rais- ing a very heavy sea, and the Cossack's decks were swept by a mountain wave which broke over her. The escape of her crew from personal injury is al- most marvellous. The Queen of Scotland, another Hull steamer, had been compelled to put back to Cuxhaven, owing to the violence of the stoma. C, Loss OP LIFE ON THE EASTERN heavy gale from the north-east which burst over the eastern coast on Tuesday caused great damage to the shipping and the large fishing fleet at pre- sent in pursuit of herrings. Two men were washed from the smack New Reliance, of Great Yarmouth, and drowned; and the smack Secret also lost » man. A tremendous sea boarded the lugger Glance, sweeping her decks and rendering her almost a complete wreck, washing away her boat and knock- ing a boy into the hold and breaking his leg. The injury done to the rest of the fleet was very great, and much of the gear was lost. Intelligence ar- rived at Great Yarmouth on Thursday of a very sad disaster. While riding out the storm, about thirty miles off land, signals of distress were ob- served by two smacks—the Rosa and Fearnought, both of Yarmouth-Hying from a brig. ThesmackS at once bore down, and the master of the brig stated that his vessel was sinking and that his boats were stove in. Notwithstanding a tremendous cross the smacks launched their boats to the rescue the brig. They succeeded in boarding the brig, the Rosa's boat taking four of the distressed crew and the Fearnought's three. On returning the Rose's boat capsized, all the men being thrown into the raging sea. One of the unfortunate fishermen, William Boulter, was dead when hauled on board and another, William Westgate, quite exhausted. The Fearnought succeeded in saving three of the 11 15 crew of the brig, but in what manner is not known, as the smack had not arrived at Yarmouth. THE EVE OF TnAFAMAR.—Ne!son, embowered down at eve-pleasant Merton, making hay, sheep, catching trout in the winding Wandle, idol' ising Lady Hamilton, that beautiful but wanto" woman, forgot ambition, and grew more intent 011 nck-awnings than French canvas. One day Captai° Blackwood brought word that the French h*6' fitted at Vigo and got into Cadiz. Nelson paced the I quarter-deck walk in his garden restlessly. pretended to be indifferent, and quoted a proverb, Let the man trudge it, who's lost hi* budget.' He was happy and his health was bettcf* I He wouldn't give sixpence to call the King hIS uncle.' Lady Hamilton knew the heart of the man she loved, and pressed him to go. The French fleet was his property it was the reward of his years' watching. He would be miserable if else had it. Nelson, offer your services.' tears came into his eyes at her heroism. At half PaS ten that night he started in a post-chaise for London His diary for that day lays bare his heart before OS. | Friday night (Sept. 13), at half-past ten,' ha I drove from dear, dear Merton, where I left a» which I hold dear in this world, to go and serve King and country.' The embarkation of Nelson a Portsmouth was a scene worthy of Grecian history' Although he tried to steal secretly to his ship, collected, eager to see the face of the hero tbef venerated. Many of the rugged sailors were in tears > old men of-war's men knelt down and prayed to bless him as he passed to the boat.-All the yeor Round. MEDIcrNE.-There is no tale of daring and covery more remarkable than the narrative of tbo' hours which Professor Simpson and his friends I;J Edinburgh spent in testing various narcotic agencies,, until they became first exhilerated and then sible while testing chloroform, and awoke to conviction that they had now become with the most powerful anaesthetics, from the dar ^un3P^rey Davey, and rather from Cavendj8 and Priestley, form one of the most chapters in the history of human progress. i possible, according to Dr Anstey's Stimulants,' that the wonderful properties of Peruvian coco may be made extensively this country. The discovery of cod liver oil has a boon of the most inestimable kind. Dr Willislo" states that in a certain time he prescribed it to thousand cases, and in ninety-five per cent beneficial results. It is now known that coaso^L tion is curable in its earlier stages. It is stated the recent Hunter trial, in the Court of Q°e0gg, Bench, that the average length of consumptive ell 516 which used to be two years, is now prolonged to g years. Even where medicine cannot heal it obt*!et, one of its greatest triumphs in palliating a t There never was a time in the history ofme^'go when its soothing and alleviating side waS assidiously and successfully cultivated as at sent time. Then the knowledge of the human daily grows more extensive and exact. e, Laennec's wonderful discovery of the steth°sC%e It is now known that of the three organs which the tripod of life—brain, lungs, and heart—fa^* ing to Bicbat s theory, now generally received, always issues from one of these three avenues,/ j, eases of the heart, which were once thought jy!/ ceedingly rare, are the most common, and pr^. the least hurtful. It is half the battle with d'^ to know accurately what is really the matter bt the patient. There appears to be no reason to re gfr that the average length of human life is tnore's ig tended than it used to be, and some share i° to be set down to medicine, especially in its and prophylactic side. The progress of know is soa the scientific insight into disease, form the bas, ,j0ji< pledge of subsequent prevention, cure, or alleV! The Romance of Medicine,' in London — Printed and Published, on behalf of the Pr0 i" by JOSEPH POTTER, at the Office in Higb-str of tU* the Parish of Saint Mary, in the County ol Town of Haverfordwest. Wednesday, October 2, t861;