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imi■IIMM—II— GLAMORGANSHIRE.
im ■ II MM—II — GLAMORGANSHIRE. SUMMER AS SIZES. Mr. Baron Channel arrived at Cardiff, from Carmar- ni by the mid-day up-lrain on Saturday, f°r purpose of opening the Summer Assizes for this comitj. ?e *as met at the station by the High Sheriff, Mr. £ the Under-Sheriff, Mr. B. W. Ma^r of Cardiff, Mr. Thos. Evans, a!1(* Of tho 'Corporation.. S KoS « 'ftoMon opened the commission at the Town Hall. Caraiff, iIr. Geo. T. i E. W. David, Mr. G IS' lllT; CPW David, Mr. W. Alexander, Bev. PSF'S S'BTV.W. David, Rev. Walter Evans, L\ Mr. G. C. Williams Mr. T. Waring! Mr' r" H Williams, Mr. Edward David, Dr. Paine, &e. TIHT'OH SHERIFF, at the conclusion of the dinner— which was most excellently served-gave the Queen," the''Prince and Princess of Wales and rest of Royel Family," and afterwards the Army, Navy, Militia, and Volunteers," with which he coupled the name of Lieut Colonel Clark. Colonel CLARK in responding thought it was rather hard to call upon him to respond for all four services. The army, which should have been represented amongst them, bad always done its duty and kept up its reputa- tion, and it would be difficult for a "sham soldier to return thanks for it. As to the navy, that was rather a sore subject to mention in Cardiff. They had one great sailor, Admiral Button, but the way he had been treated did not make it advisable to allude to that sub- ject. If however a statue were erected on the pier-head it would make amends, and reflect credit upon the alderman who would get it carried out. (Laughter.) In regard to the militia Sir E iward Campbell had said at the last inspection that thev did their duty and were at least as good as any other 'militia, and that was saying a good deal. As to the Volunteers, they had fallen off somewhat in their drill, and that was owing to the offi- cers not doing their duty. The duties of the officers were not very simple. It was exceedingly difficult, he thought, for an officer to do his duty unless he had had some service with the regular army. He was strongly of opinion that what the Volunteers most wanted was to be called up for a fortnight's or month's drill. He had fully made up his mind to have a field day for the Volunteers of this part of the county, and after one or two postponements had definitely fixed upon a day, which afterwards turned out to be devoted to a Conser- vative demonstration, so of course that would not do, and now he was afraid they would not meet till the county meeting at Hirwain. The Inspector, he was glad to learn, intended to make the most of the day at Hirwain. He had told him that he intended to com- mence drill as soon as the corps came on to the field, and that although the movements would be simple, they would be such as to send the Volunteers back with the impression that they had done a day's work, and- that was an impression which they had never expe- rienced at any previous field day. (Cheers.) The HIGH SHERIFF gave the "Bishop and Clergy of the Diocese, and the Ministers of all denominations." He had lately attended a great meeting at Llandaff, and though he was by no means sure that the State should not have predominance over the clergy, yet he naver saw so striking an instance of the power of the voluntary system as in the restoration of the cathedral. The Rev. E. E. ALLEN, in returning thanks, referred to the reciprocal feelings of regard which were spreading amongst the clergy of the church and the ministers of other denominations, which, as time went on. would draw all christians more closely together. The HIGU SHERIFF having proposed the health of the Lord-Lieutenant, Mr. G. T. CLARK gave the toast of the evening-the health of the High Sheriff. He remarked that they had had some experience of Sheriffs' ordinaries, and he thought he had known as many sheriffs as most people. Some he thought had been remembered better than they ought to be; but on this occasion they had a sheriff who was not by any means as well known as he deserved to be. They all knew how well he had done his duty as a country gentleman and as a land- lord but it was not so well known how he had dis- charged his more important duties to his Queen and country, and how much be was respected by a large circle of friends in London. The speaker then pro- ceeded to refer to the important services which Sir Samuel Romilly-the high sheriff's father--had ren- dered in connection with the abolition of the punish- IDellt of death for trivial offences. The HIGH SHERIFF, in responding, said he felt deeply flattered by the way in which they had received the toast of his health, and to Col. Clark for the way in which he had proposed it. When he was young, he thought his career in li'fe would be that of an orator. They°would find out how greatly he had failed in that line. He was elected to Parliament, and he thought he might be successful in politics. But "man pro- poses and God disposes and instead of being an ora- tor he turned out to be an auditor, and his whole life had been spent within the four walls of Somerset Rouse. His was a most unthankful office, but he hopeu jKivortlxcless that lie had done some good. He remembered Sidney Smith once asking him how he was getting on in the Audit Office, and whether he was popular there. He told him no, but believed they were hated, and that it was the most unpopular office that existed. Sidney Smith said he was glad to hear it, and he thought he must be doing his duty (laugh- ter). He thought this one of the highest compliments he ever received? He had been seldom able to present himself in this county, and he owed some apology to his brother magistrates for the slight assistance he had afforded them. He had been thirty years in the Audit Office, and was over 60 years of age when he gave it IIp. Perhaps it would have been better, considering all things, if he had not exerted himself in the way he had, but had come to this county and performed his other duties—he would at least have done them con- scientiously. He could not but express to Col. Clark his thanks for the kind way in which he had alluded to his father. He thought that what he said—he could not disguise it—was perfectly true. He believed that it was mainly owing to his exertions that the punish- ment of death was abolished in so many cases, and that one of the most disgraceful blots in their legal system was removed. There were many cases to be tried at that county assize, and in some eight or ten the cri- minals would in all probability have been hung under the old system, and it was no uncommon thing then for a dozen criminals to be hung at one time. He believed that crime had decreased rather than increased by the abolition of extreme punishment. The HIGH SHERIFF proposed the healths of the members of the county, and afterwards the health of the member for the borough. In reference to Colonel Stuart, he was sure that whatever might be their poli- tics every one present would be thankful that he was recovering from his serious illness. He did not wish to speak of a gentleman for whom he had the highest feelings of respect, but he was sure that the amiable and honourable character of Colonel Stuart was such as to make him respected and beloved by all who knew him. (Cheers.) The HIGH SHEHIFF gave the toast of the Mayor and --Caaigrajiojj of Cardiff, which was responded to by the Mayor. The Town and Trade of Cardiff" was responded to by Alaerman Alexander. The ladies," proposed by Mr. G. C. W liuams, was responded to by Mr. C. W. David, who gave the health of Colonel Clark, and the 1116 te",h •'tie On Sunday Baron Channel attended morning service at St. John's Church, and was escorted from his lodg- ing by the Corporation and a retinue of policemen. The sermon was preached by the Rev. E. E. Allen" vicar of Porthkerry, the Sheriff's chaplain. There was a large congregation present. MONDAY. The Court opened at eleven o'clock on Monday morn- when the following gentlemen were sworn on RA^' THE GRAND JURY. Mr. G. T. Clark, foreman. ,T„ Tn1in Ilomfray Mr. C. H. Williams TU T?N«4>uid Fothergill Colonel Bennett Mr ? RHomfray Mr G. C. Williams t £ £ w u Williams Mr. H. Jones Erans Sl:7's Oibtim Mr. W. W. Biissett M». xi TrrnMims Mr. W. David Mr'. TC. Evans (Mayor) J}r. J ^Corbett W. Q. Thomas }}r. £ T. W. Booker Mr' Gnfflth PhllllPs ^•J-w.N.Carne xue proclamation against vice anu ™uuiy navmg been read, D His LORDSHip sa.d Geutlemen of the grand jury of the county of Glamo _It ia a great satisfaction to me, after an absence of two years, to have the oppor- tunity of againimeetin„ the ±.and uiry of the body of this county. I am la| c? rat lIate the county on the numerousofC°geSlemen to serve on the grand jur>, and ot magistrates willin" to take their calendai Z1'1 with in nurnbers is rather less than eome of tbiw haA to deal with, and 1 IS USUAL.1,1 ""J C0Ulip • but although twYeiy Se £ °US painful char^ei > observe- be so> the cases that call for any from mc are not numerous, general1 mg,.the cases are those of highw'av robbery, assauai D p isons after robberv bos keen committed, and of whi«h al"« cases which I am n-™ i f°r "tle,men °f the grand jury are but too cognizant. At one time I observed when 1 had the pleasure of addiessmg gentlemen placed m your situation, that the bad cases—the extremely bad cases of stabbing and woundmg-were perpotr:tv»d by foreign sailors belonging to foreign ports, who come here upon business and who imported into the county .the habits which unfortunately they had acquired in their own country. Such ig tllg case in son* of the in- stances you will have to consider; but now I find that in the great number of cases of stabbing and wounding, that several have been committed by persons and sailors of our own country, who have not the excuse—if it can be called an excuse—which foreigners have, to hastily adopt the habit- anu practice of using, without sufficient justification, ft knife or stiletto. These cases will re- quire careful consideration, but they don't call for any Xfcioark or tiny iuetruc-tiOii from me. There is one cas:?, however, in which the prisoners were apprehended last Friday night in this very town, which calls for a few observations from me and they shall be very few, be- cause, though I have had the opportunity of reading the depositions, yet as those depositions were required by the officers of the court to prepare the necessary indict- ments, I have not been able to read them with that minuteness which so important a case demands, or to give them that full consideration that I should have liked. The deceased who was murdered was Thomas Williams, and, as I have told you, he was murdered on the 16th of this month. It would appear from the evidence of the surgeon—and this may be a little im- portant, looking at the contrarieties in the evidence that the deceased died from hemorrhage caused by a wound in the bowels. He said, apparently believing that these were his last moments, he hoped soon to be in heaven. Some verv anxious cases have arisen upon the point of the declaration of a person made not in the presence of the party charged, although clearly made in extremis, when the solemnity of an oath might be dis- pensed with, and the question has arisen whether such a declaration might not be taken with safety, as it was made on the expectation that the person making it would shortly appear in the presence of his Maker. The question is whether such a declaration ought to be received, although no oath was administer, and the party accused was not pre- sent. This is one of those cases; and looking at the contra- riety in the evidence, you will see it could not be other- wise than right to listen- to what he was saying. You will recollect that this declaration was made by the de- ceased under circumstances which seemed to carry the impression, if not the conviction, that he was dying. If you find that he did die shortly after, you will be able to give such a fact what weight it is worth, for he said he could not identify the person who had stabbed him. The deceased was going along Bute-street, and as he was mov- ing onward three foreigners came up and made an assault upon him without any provocation. Two of these men are in custody, and it is against two of them that a bill had been preferred, and with which you will have to deal. As regards the third, who is not here, his name is not known. Some part of the evidence would possibly point to the fact that the absentee was a little taller than the two who were apprehended on this charge, or that he was the person who gave the fatal wound by means of a knife or stiletto. One of the witnesses who will be called before you, supposing his evidence tallies with that, will tell you that he saw one of the prisoners (Gastro) strike the deceased with his fist. It doesn't appear clearly upon the depositions—rather the other way—that the deceased retaliated and struck the man who struck him. The taller man ran away and then it appears, accord- ing to the evidence of one of the witnesses, that one of the prisoners hit the deceased at the same time that one of the witnesses said he drew his knife and stabbed Williams in the bowels. He saw the knife, and that he took it from behind. He also said the other foreigner walked away before the blow was given. A witness named Penrose said he saw one of the prisoners strike the deceased, and he believes it was Gastro—the other one speaking more distinctly of Cerollo. Kate Williams says she saw a foreigner take something from behind him and strike the deceased in the bowels. A man out- side the Rothsay Castle said he saw the prisoner shove against the deceased, and one of the foreigners hit the deceased under the ear. If the third prisoner did any- thing, was ho the man who struck the deceased under the ear? But that could not have been the cause of death, for it was clear that the wound in the bowels was caused by some sharp instrument. Then he goes on to say, Gastro struck the deceased, and if he stabbed him he staggered and fell, and Cerollo knocked him down. He says a man struck him under the ear, and nothing else. Ann Edwards says she saw Gastro strike the de- ceased, and she says she is sure it was Gastro. That was after the other man had run away. Now, we come to the witness who throws more doubt upon the subject —Sarah Ann Watts. She says she saw the deceased in the middle of the road, and the three foreigners were there, one of whom was taller than the other two. The taller man struck the deceased with a knife and ran away. There was no knife in Gastro's hand. The two ran away ten minutes after the other. According to her account, it was the tall man who struck the decased with a knife, and there was no knife in Gastro's hand. The police-ofScer apprehended the prisoners, and both said they had no knife but he picked up a knife, and I understand it was close by the spot where the deceased was stabbed. A witness, named Macpherson, saw a dagger fall from the hand of one of the prisoners, and he picked it up. If the blow in the bowels led to the death of the deceased, there would be no case of a satisfactory nature, except as against the two prisoners, for it is said the absent man did not interfere at all, or, if he did, he interfered at first. As far as I can dissect the evidence, the result comes to this—that Sarah Ann Watts speaks to there being three foreigners there. She positively speaks to that. If you are satisfied as to her accuracy-I don't say as to her truthfulness, but her accuracy—then you may believe there were three foreigners there. There does not appear to be any motive for revenge, or that she would wilfully deceive you. She does speak of a taller man who used the knife and, taking the other evidence of Sully and Pearce, who speak of Gastro, there is the great diffi- culty in the case in saying which of the two prisoners struck or stabbed the deceased, and used the knife or stiletto for that purpose. If two persons are acting in concert for a common purpose, then both are guilty in the eye of the law, though one only does the act. I have endeavoured to illustrate that view in various ways. Two or three persons are walking together and come into contact with a fourth person, and something like sharp words follow; then if any party attack the other party that may be taken as a common concert to commit an assault. If the two parties come together, the one to protect the ether, so far they would have a common object in view; but if one party, unexpectedly and unknown to the other, stabbed the other, and stabbed the party attacked, there would be no common concert. Therefore you would do well in dealing with this case to inquire whether the absent man was the person who might have committed the offence, suppos- ing your minds are clear that the prisoners did not commit the offence. But there is only this one witness who fixes the offence upon the absent foreigner; and then the evidence leaves you in doubt whether Cerollo or Gastro inflicted the wound and used the knife. If you can resolve that doubt then you may say which; but if your minds are led to a common intent and com- mon purpose, then, according to the view you take upon these points, you will find a true bill or ignore the bill. I am very conscious that the analysis I have given you is not so complete as if I had had the depositions a longer time before me. Still, the remarks I have made will give you some assistance. There is the case of Mary Jones, charged with the murder of her infant child. There is no doubt she was delivered of a child, and there is no doubt this child was her child, and that it was found wrapped up in a sack. I should advise you to treat that as an attempt to conceal the birth by disposing of the dead body. It was placed' under a sack, and stones were placed upon it. To find a true bill for murder, it is necessary that you should be satisfied it had a separate and independent existence, it is not enough that the child breathed while attached to the mother. Where there is no complete, separate, and independant existence on the part of the child from its mother there cannot be an offence of child murder. Whether the law is in a satisfactory state or not, it is not for me to give an opinion upon. The circumstances tend to show that the child died from suffocation and the medi- cal witnesses will give you their reasons for believing so. It may be that before the child had a separate and independent existence its death ensued or suffocation might ensue partly from neglect in the act of birth, or by an act of the prisoner. I advise you to direct atten- tion to the question whether the child died from suffo- cation, which might have ensued during the act of birth, and before it acquired a separate and independent existence. There is the case of Thomas Williams, for manslaughter. He was driving a cart along the high- way. He was not driving at a reckless pace, as far as I can judge. The child whose death is inquired into was standing m the road and the cart went over it I don't understand that the child was crossing from one side of the road to the other, but standing in the road If you see that negligence on the part of the driver occasioned the death of the child, it will be your duty to find a true bill against him. Look at all the circum- stances of the case—the child in the middle of the road the prisoner driving, but not at a furious rate—and say whether he is guilty of negligence in not keeping a good look out, and whether the death of the child having been occasioned by culpable negligence on the part of the prisoner, he would be liable to be found guilty of manslaughter. As to the other cases I need not attempt to offer any observations. I will only do what I have done in the other counties of this circuit; and I may say I have not done so from a conviction of any negli- gence on the part of the magistrates or gentry. The topic is one which oftentimes, I think, may fairly find a place in the charge of a judge; and in that spirit, and in no other spirit, do I venture to offer the admoni- tion which I gave the other counties. And that is, that you give not merely a pecuniary, but as far as possible, f;C1Ca1ainld individual attention to all the institu- 1 ve f°r their object habits of industry and onr nrtifn w-m01rthe lower orders, and embrace every inotrnptinn^ ° T en^inating the blessings of religious that thM-P ivn meution this not from the supposition -i any sP&ciaI circumstances calling for this ? £ tJZZnelT\hnKleat my sile»cc on such a sub- l t-p rWolviu" nf8 ru int° a neglect of the important CU 'lrc bi thnt^RnrrW1 mej Gentlemen, I make these re- mar '• and 1 have no doubt you will re- ceive them i e am spirit. I shall, be glad now, gentlemen il you will retire to your room) antl seiad as thecals of ibe ptismerT' ™ Proceed witb CIVIL CAUSES. In accordance With applications made by the reactive counsel, Ins -lordship consented not ,_o hear the civil cas.in re- ference to the aliened Jewish abduction before Monday next nor Lord Joey's ™se before Tuesday next.
TRIALS OF PRISONERS.
TRIALS OF PRISONERS. THE SWANSKA P Kit JURY CASE. Daniel Reynon (28), >i"ker, .h>sfpii Williams (WI). mgir.e- driver, and John Jones (39). who had fceen remanded on b iil from the last Spring ussizes at Swansea, for committing Perjury in the Penllergare poaching Cd-e, did not. surrender to their bail Mr. Bowen. the cnun^' l ("1' the prosecution stated that he believed the delendrmts had Wt the country. he Court estreated thp recognizances of the respective bails. ,;8ter in the f'ay Mr. Michael appli.-d tM Mr. Mav-d Evans, ''n'' °f'he bails, might be relieved from'.he punaby. He iv»< a Strang,.). ,0 primer., lutt,bad ".(Treed to hrcome lui] "iiugh living next donrto one of e prisoner's fwllt r. Mr. .iris earnt Ihp prisoner i«-as if -:<•!>- to atv? he applied [0 the police to assist inm in .i I'-siin^ t e man, but while being referred from one Superintendent to another he escaped. Histordshipsaidthatashehadatready estreated the recognizances he had no power in the matter, and the ap. plication would have to be made to the Treasury—when they probably would communicate with him. JENKINS V. DAVIES AND OTHERS. This was acivil case, and by agreement between the re- <prc>ive counsel, Mr. Hughes and Mr. Coleridpe, a formal verdict was taken for the plaintiff for the full amount claimed, subject to the decision of a referee. STEALING FROM A CAPTAIN AT NEATH. Eliza Williams, alias Eliza Hughes (38), widow, was in- dicted for having stolen It purse containing £ 11 lis. 6d.. from the person of John WiHiams, at Neath, on the lith of July. The prosecutor stated that he was drinking at a public- house at Neath, when hefellinwitha woman. He refused to pay for some beer for her, and he then found her feeling his pockets. He soon after caught hold of her hand, and found she had taken his purse and money from his waistcoat pocket. He let the woman go, and found his money all right.—A hairdresser, living near the publk-house, proved that the prisoner was the woman who was with the prosecu- tor.—The prisoner, on being charged, said she did not see why she should not have her share, as the prosecutor had been very free with his money amongst some girls in the house.—The jury found the prisoner Not guilty. STEALING EkASS BEARINGS AT NEATH. John Bolton (28), potter, was indicted for having stolen two brass.bearings, of the value of 18s., the property of Geo. Henriett and Co., at Neath, on the 21st March. Mr. Bowen prosecuied. The prosecutors were the Bridgwater Iron Company, and were wagon builders at Neath, where they had workshops for the purpose of repairing trucks on the Great Western Railway. In one of the workshops were ót number of brass bearings, on the 20th of March, which were stolen during the night. The prisoner was seen near the premises early the following morning, with his arm through one ot the windows. Subsequently he soid some brass bearings, which had heen hroken up, to a marine store dealer, and [hey were identified as part of the stolen property. The prisoner de- camped, but was apprehended at Weston-super-Mare. The jury found the prisona Guilty, and he was sentenced to four months' imprisonment. ALLEGED STEALING AT CARDIFF. Mary Gallivan, On bail, was indicted for having stolen an earring and other articles of jewellery, the property of Ca- therine Sposito, at Cardiff, on the 3rd July- Mr. H. Alien prosecuted, and Mr. Bowen defended. T' e prosecutrix is a widow, living in a public-house in Mary Ann-street. She met the prisoner at the Market on the Saturday in question, and as she was furrnerly acqllaioted with her, she invited her home. Previous to going to market, she had seen her jewel- leiy in a drawer in her bedroom. After she returned, she showed the prisoner into another bedroom, and allowed her to remain there some time. In the course of the afternoon the prisoner pulled some things out of her pocket, and prose- cutrix notictd a guld cross of hers amongs1 them. She soon aftEr went to her drawer, where she found that the whole of Ilt,r jewellery had been taken away. She accused he pri- soner of taking the articles, but on searching her pocket she couid not find the cross nor any of tl1e oti;er missing things. The prisoner was allowed to leave the house, hut was subse- quently taken into custody the same night, when one of the missiug earrings was found in her possession. The same night tfie w-ifctt and chain were found on n shdf in the kir- cher, of prosecutrix's house. Mr. Bowen addressed the jury in {defence, and urged that there was no evidence to show that the prisoner to#k the tilings. The prisoner was t .e worse for drink on the afternoon In question, and he argued that all the circumstances attending the disposal of the stolen property showed thilt they could not have been the wotk of the prisoner, but that some person had taken ad- vantage of her condition to r-ut the earring in her pocket to divert suspicion. Thejurv found the prisoner Not Gpilty. STEALING A WATCH AT CARDIFF. Edward St. Clair (25), sailor, was indicted for having stolen a silver watch and gold locket, the property of John White, at Cardiff, on the 3rd July. Mr. W, W. Williams prosecuted. The prosecutor kept a boarding-house in Nelson- si reet. On the day in question he gave the watch to his child to take care of. At supper time thejsame night he asked for it back again, when it was found to have heen taken away. On the 12th July the prisoner was taken into custody by P.C. Telfoid, who found the missing watch in the prisoner's trowser pocket. The prisoner's defence was that his hrother lodged in the prosecutor's house. His brother had given him the watch to take care ot for him, and he did so, without ha"ingany idea that it was stolen. He made!.lO concealment of tile watch being in his possession. The jury fnund the prisoner guilty of receiving the watch, well knowing it 10 have been stolen. Sentenced f6 three months' imprisonment. HIGHWAY ROBBERY AT LLANDAFF. William Mendeidew (22), collier, was indicted for having feloniously assaulted John Tout, and stolm from him certain monies at Liar daff, on the 24th April. Mr. nry Allen prosecuted. The prosecutor called in at a public-house at Canton, and while having some drink he fell in with the pri. soner, who was in militia clothes. He apeed to billet the prisoner at his house, anei proceeded to go home to Grange- town by way of the railroad. Snon afler they passed the Great Western railway, and while on the common, the prisoner and two other men knocked him down and rifled his pocket-taking a purse and six shillings. Ser- geant King apprehended the prisoner 011 the (ollvwing morn- ing, and in reply to the charge, said he knew nothing abaut it, as he left the prosecutor immediately afrer coming out of the public-house. The Jury found the prisoner guilty, and he was sentenced to twelve months' imprisonment. lULLS IGNORED. Mary Evans and Catherine Morgan, on bail, for burglar- ously entering the dwelling of Patrick Hurley, and stealing a set of window blinds and other articles, the property of the said Patrick Hurley, at Neath, on the 28th April. Thomas Williams, on bail, for feloniously killing and slaying a eh,ild named Mary Ann Beer, at Britonferry, on the flth July. John Taylor for stealing from the person of Isaac Jones. THE GRAXD JURY concluded their business in the course of the afternoon, and were thanked by the Judge for the promptitude with which they had returned the bills to the Court. Mr. Clark, the foreman, previously called the attention of the court to the absence of several material witnesses in different cases. In the case of John Taylor for stealing from the person of Isaac J ones they had been compelled to return a "no true bill" owing to the absence of a witness. In the case of Cunning- ham and "William and John Davies for burglary, Mary Ann Harrington, a very important witness was absent, but they had, nevertheless, been enabled (Û return a true bill. In the case of Eli Price for assaulting and robbing Tbos. Williams the prosecutor had not appeared. In all these cases they had good reason to believe that the persons haa been in- fluenced by bribery, and they therefore thought it desirable to call his lordship's attention to the subject. The Judge was understood to say that a similar communi- cation had been made to him by the Clerk ol Arraigns, and that he had ordered the costs of the parties to be disallowed. The rest of his lordship's remarks were totally inaudible to the reporters. The Court adjourned at six o'clock. TUESDAY. The Court opened at nine o'clock. BURGLARY AT CARPIFF. Peter Cunningham (23), seaman, William Davies (21), finer: and John Davies (2:3), labourer, were indicted for burglariously entering the dwelling-house of Charles I'ruett, of Charlotte-street, Cardiff, and stealing 11 loaves of bread, 25 bloaters, and other property.— Mr. Michael prosecuted Mr. Bowen defended William Davies.—About, h.ilf-past one o'clock on Tuesday morning, the 11th May, Police-constnble James Murley was passing through Charlotte-street, when he found the door of the prosecutor's shop thrown wide open. He examined the door, which bore distinct marks of having been violently forced. Proceeding- along- the street he saw the prisoners- Cunningham and William Davies, and stopped them. In the possession of the former he found a piece of bread and a bloater, and on the latter a piece of bread only. In answer to his questions, they replied that the bread and fish had Leen given to them by a militiaman whom thev did not know. During the whole of-that night Charlotte-street was frequented with militiamen, and several witnesses spoke to seeing the prisoners amongst them. The prisoner, Wm. Davies, who is a militiaman, wa3 in uniform at the time. It was stated that the only witness (a womlln named l'larring. ton) who could speak positively to having seen the prisoners break into the prosecutor's house had absconded since the preliminary examination before the magistrates.— Witnesses as to character were called on behatfofthe prisoner William Davies —The jury found the prisoners Not guiltv." STABBING AT NEATH. Alfred Thomas (21), boiler maker, and Isaac Thomas (21), blacksmith, were charged with stabbing Evan Williams, at Neath, on the 9ih of April. Mr. Michael prosecuted, and Mr. Coleridge and Mr. Bowen defended. A third man, named William Davies, was implicated in the case, but he was not in custody. Evan Williams, the prosecutor, deposed that, he was a coal shipper in the employ of the Neath Abbry Coal Company. About one o'clock on Friday morniug he was going through Neath on his way home. In passing by the entrance to the dark arch he observed that there were three persons standing underneath. The men said something to him, and the", one of them struck him down by 1\ blow with the fist in the stomach. While he was on the ground the thtee men fell upon him, Two of them held him down while the third cut him reurid tbe ear. He screllmed out for assistance, and two men named William Morgan and Wm. Williams canie up.. A constable also came up ahout the same time. The prisoner, Isaac Thomas, was ono of the tlnee men who attacked him. He (prosecutor) had been drinking that night, but was not drunk. When I got up after receiving the first blow, I was struck a second time, and the three men then set upon me and forced me down. George Riley, surgeon, said the prosecutor was brought to his house. He was in a state of collapse, and in great dan- ger. He had lost an immense quantity of blood, and his clothes were completely saturated. He found on the right cheek an incised wound about inches long The wound was very dèep, had gone completely to the bone, and much force must have been used. There was a second wound on the left cheek, just at the angle of the jaw, extending right across the face. The wounds must have bepCI done with some sharp instrument. William Williams, a grocer's as- sistant, corroborated the statement of the prosecutor. He did not know either of the men.—George Ntsh, landlord of the Victoria Hotel and Commercial Boarding house, spoke to finding two blunt instruments, like the handle of a riding whip, in the yard attached to the Commercial Boarding- house, which extended tome distauce under f1lc arch, These instruments were produced, and it was alleged that they formed part of a life preservpr which had been broken. Emma Davies, the daughter of a shoe-maker, said that in the evening of Friday the 9th (he prisoner, Alfred Thomas, came to her fat hel "s house and asked for Isaac Thomas. While they were altogether witness inquired What was that row you were in?" Alfred Thomas said," Who told you ?" Witness replied that she knew all about it, and he then made answer. Your brother ar.d me and Isaac Thomas were all in a row." Witness asked him Who did it?" and he rewlied, I did it." David Jenkiri Jones, clerk at the Neath telegraph station, deposed that Alfred Thomas had possession of a life-preserver some six months ago similar to the pieces produced. This closed the case for the prose- cution. Counsel having addressed the jury on behalf of the defence, several witnesses to character were called. His Lordship then summed up, and the jury, aftpr a sholt Ileli. beration. brought in a verdict of guilty against each pri- soner. Sentence was deferred. WOUNDING AT SWANSEA. John Smith, 27, a seaman, was indicted for maliciously wounding John Griffith. Mr. Michael prosecuted, arid Mr. Bowen defended. The proseautor was the mate of a ship tvirg at Swansea, and the prisoner had been a seaman on board the vessel. 0n the night 0f the 26;h May. about a quarter to twelve o'clock, the two men met at theMontague Inn, High-street, Swansea. After a few angry words hud been interchanged, the prosecutor left the house. A short time afterwards thev met again, and they agreed to go down to the rope-walk to fight. When they got there the p.osecu- tor put, himsolfinio position to fight, and theprisoner rushed upon him and stabbed him in the shoulder. The prosecutor told him that he was a coward for using the knife, when the prisoner rushed lIf.Jnn him 11 second time and inflicted two other wound', one in the head and another in the hand. A police constable came up at the time, and the prisoner was giving into custody. TI'e prisnner was fOllnrl Guilty of un. lawfully wounding, and was sentenced to six months' impri- sonment. FALSE REGISTRATION OF A BIRTH AT SWANSEA. William Jones was indicted for causing to be inserted in the rrgi-ter bosk of births for the district of Llansamlet, in the Neath Union, a f-dse entry relating to the birth of a cer- tain child, then lately born, at Llansamlet, on the 17th of April last. There was also a charge against Ann Jones of making a false entry relating to the burial of a certain child, in the register book of deaths for the same district. On being arraigned, the prisoners pleaded Guilty. Mr. Michael said that he appeared for the prisoners, and acting under his advice they had pleaded guilty. In addressing his lordship in mitigation of punishment, he submitted that the crime was committed in complete ignorance of the law. Looking at ail the circumstances of the case, he felt bound to urge that the male prisoner had made the false entry with no bad intention, Wut as a simple act of kindness to the old midwife, who had been in the habit of attending on his wife in her confinement. Mr. Gtffard, Q..C., who was instructed on be- half of the Treasury, could not undertake to say that the man had a definite object in view in what he had done, and the purpose of those who had instructed hirr. (Mr. Giffard) was to endeavour to find out what was the real motive that. did actuate him. The female prisoner appeared to have been the contriver of the fraud, and the impression formed of her conduct was that she was the instrument of some other per- sons who were kept in the background. The male prisoner was induced by the old woman to make the false entry, but under what circumstances it was impossible to say. He was instructed to join in any recommendation of mercy, so far as the "ale prisonerjwas concerned but in regard to the female prisoner her case was quite different. Sentence deferred. WOUNDING SHIP'S OFFICERS AT CARDIFF. Edward Brown Watts, master mariner, and Charles Friend, seaman, were arraigned on the charged of unlawfully assaulting and wounding Frederick William Schuliz, at Cardiff, on the 8th inst. There was no evidence offered on behalf of the prosecution, and the prisoners were therefore discharged ROBBERY AT SWANSEA. Patrick Cullen, a labourer, was indicted for stealing a pair of trousers, the property of William Quick, clothes dealer, Swansea, or. the 17th inst. Mr. B. Williams prosecuted. The trousers were stolen from a stall in the Swansea market- house, and were found in the possession of the prisoner. A previous conviction of felony was proved against the prisoner. He was found guilty on the present charge, and sentenced to eighteen months' hard labour. STEALING AT CARDIFF. Margaret M'Gruh, a young woman, was indicted for steal- ing a cloak, the property of John Elliott, landlord of the Bird-in-Hund public-house, Bute-street. Mr. De Rutzen prosecuted. The cloak was stolen by the prisoner on the 23rd of June last, and the same evening she pawned it at the shop of Mr. Harris, Bute-terrace, in the name of Margaret Murray. A previous conviction of felony A-as proved against the prisoner. Slie was sentenced to eighteen months' hard labour. The Court adjourned at five o'clock. WEDNESDAY. His Lordship took his seat at half-past nine o'clock.
THE CARDIFF MURDER.
THE CARDIFF MURDER. This case was fixed for trial this morning, when Mr. Giffard and Mr. Coleridge appeared for the prosecution, and Mr. Bowen for tlie defence. Mr. Bowen said he had given the case most anxious consideration, and also communicated with the Italian Consul and the gentleman ( Mr. Stephens) by whom he was instructed. From the information he had received, he did not believe that justice could he done the prisoners if they were tried at that assizes, and that it was most desirable that further time should be allowed for in. quiring into the case. He therefore applied that trial might be postponed. His Lordship said the murder only occurred on the 16th. He had read the depositions very carefully, and found that there was a third man concerned in the matter, whom one of the witnesses stated was the man who gave the fata! blow. It was most desirable that some communication should be had from that man. There was also another point, as to whether the prisoners acted in concert, which required fur- ther evidence. Mr. Giffard, Q.C., said in a case of murder, the prosecu- lion could not oppose the application. His Lordship accordingly remitted the case to the next assises. BIGAMY AT MERTIIYR. ( 'J;>hn Quirk, 28, shoemaker, was indicted for having felo- niously married Elizabeth Nicholls, his former wife being then alive, on the 18th November. Mr. B. T. Williams prosecuted. The prisoner was married at Haverfordwest, in February, 18G3, to a woman named Ann Williams, who was alive when the prisoner married a second woman on the 18th November..1868, at Merthyr. The woman Nicholls—a short woman, who looked more than 41 years—stated that her husband was killed by the first explosion at Ferndale, after which she was receiving a weekly allowance of a?, from ■lie relief fund., She had only known the prisoner four or five weeks before the marriage. On her marriage she became entitled to a bonus of £20 from the fund. They went to re- ceive the first instalment of £13 8s. 8kd. on the day of the marriage. The prisoner took the money, and treated a number of other widows at the White Hart Ion, Abtrdare. He became drunk and ill-treated her, and left her two days after the marriage. The Rev. Mr. Jenkins proved the second marriage. He was the secretary to the Ferndale Relief Fund, and it was at their instance that the present prosecu- tion was instituted.—The prisoner's defence was that he had consented to the publishing of the banns after he had been made drunk at the woman's house — Thejury found the pri- soner guilty. His Lordship said it was about as heartless a case as he had come across, and sentenced him to twelve months' imprisonment. WOUNDING AT SWANSEA. — O'ven Gallagher (07), ragman, was charged with having maliciously wounded Dennis Kiley, at Swansea,'on the [jth June. Mr. Bowen prosecuted. The prosecutor and prisoner were both Irishmen, and live in Tonti1e.street. The prisoner was making a noise in front of ptosecutor's house, when the latter ordered him away. They had sOllle words, and the prisoner flourished a knife. Prosecutor ran into his kitchen and took up a stoal, which he threw at the prisoner, and struck him in the breast. He afterwards went into the street and picked up the stool, when rhe prisoner run at him and stabbed him in tile right eye, The medical evidence showed that the stab had caused the sight of the right eye to be irretrievably lost. He alsa examined the prisoner, and found a recent fracture of the arm-one of the small bones of the left forearm being broken. Such a fractllre might have been inflicted by a blow from a stool. The jury found the pri- soner guilty of unlawfully wounding, and he was sentenced to four monthe' imprisonment in consideration of the provo- cation he had recei ved. FORGING COLLIERS PAYTICKETS AT ABERDARR. Morris Evans (25), furnaceman, was indicted for having forged a payticket with intent to defraud at Aberdare, on tbe 30th April. Mr. Francis Williams prosecuted. James James, blast furnace manager at the Gadlys works, said the prisoner was working in the Works. When men wish to leave their work 1key received a payticket from him, which they took to the office and had cashed. On the 29th April the prisoner applied ta him for a pay ticket, and lIe gave him two tickets, one was for 21 days at 2s. 5d. and the ather for lv!| days at 2s. till. On the next day the prisoner presented the tickets to Mr. Robert Jenkins, the pay clerk, and they had then been altered to 12t and 22f days-thus making a difference of £:2 8s. lod. in tile amount to be paid him. The clerk, from the appearance of the tickets, was induced to go and look at the counterfoils of the tickets, when be found that they had been altered. The prisoner had left the office when he returned, hut was snOSEquentiy taken inta custody. The jury found the prisoner Guilty of uttering the documents knowing them to have been forged, but they acquitted him of committing the forgery. Sentenced to six months' im- prisonment. VIOLENT ASSAULT AND ROBBERY AT LLANDAFF. Eli Price (23), labourer, was indicted for having violently assaulted and robbed Thomas Williams, at Llandaff, on the 4th July. Mr. H. Allen prosecuted, and stated that the pro- secutor had disappeared, but he believed that there would be sufficient evidence to convict the prisoner. John Leslie said he was in North Morgan-stieet, Canton, between eisht and nine o'clock on the Sunday morning in question, when he saw the prisoner knock down the prosecutor and illuse him very much by kicking and striking him. The prosecutor was very drunk. Sergeant King, as he was driving along the road, saw the parties struggling together, and heard Williams ask for his money back again. Prisoner replied by giving him a blow, which knocked him d. wn, and while on the ground, he kicked prosecutor several time-: in the side. Witness took both men into custody, when Williams imme- diately accused the prisoner of stealing his purse and 16s. Prisoner immediately took something out of his waistcoat pocket, and threw it on the ground. The article proved to he the prosecutor's purse, and there were a florin and six- pence in it. At the same moment prisoner put something into his mouth. The jury found the prisoner not guilty. His Lordship, in discharging him, said he had had a narrow escape, and he would require to be careful in governing his temper as he was known to the police. THE YSTRADYFODWG CHILD MURDER. Mary Jones (34), domestic servant, was indicted, under a corwner's warrant, for having murdered her female child, at Ystradyfodwg. Mr. Francis-Williams prosecuted, and Mr. De Rutzen de- fended. Mr. Francis-Williams having opened the case with a speech detailing the paints of the evidence, called Margaret Morgan, the-wife of a labourer, living at Ponty- gwaith, who said the prisoner was formerly a domestic ser- vant with her. On the 2-lth of May witnessed noticed a gieat difference in the appearance of the prisoner. She got up early that morning—about six o'clock—and went out of the house, returning about nine o'clock. Witness asked her where she had been, and the reply made was that she had been up in the wood sleeping. Witness asked her if she had been confined, and she replied that she had not. She identified the sack produced as her property. Cross-ex- amined The prisoner had been with her since February. She was aware she was enciente, although the prisoner had m ver told h»r so. George Hoskins, labourer, Pontygwaith, said on Monday, the 24th May, he found the body ot an infant child in the Ci edllechiHi wood. It was wrapped in an old sack along, side a larg-e stone. Rhoda Skein, a married woman, stated that she saw the prisoner in the Coedllechau wood on the morning of the 24th of May. -jr. P.C. Tamplin said he was stationer) at rrrndale. He went into the Coedllechau wood oil the 24th May, in company with Hoskins. He saw the body of a child there wrapped up in the sack produced. The spot, was about 100 or 120 yards from the house in which the prisoner lived. The sack was nearly covered with stones. He afterwards, on the same day, told the prisoner that he had found a child's body in the wood. Thomas Morgan, the prisoner's master, proved that he had a conversation, on the 25th of May, with the prisoner, in which she admitted that she had eiven birth to a child, but denied that she had used any violence to it. Mr. Roberts, surgeon, late of Ferndale, said on the even- ing of the 24th May he went to the Coedllechau wood, and was shown the body of a child. The body was that of a female child-full-grown and healthy, and newly.born. There were nn marks ot injury ahout. It. The lung* were extended, showing that the child had breathed, but it was possible that the child had breathed Ilffore it had an inde- pendent existence. He found an extravasation of blood in the scalp. Mr. De Rutzen, in addressing the jury for the defence, said it was essential to sustain an indictment for child murder that it should be proved that the child had a separate and in- dependent The prisoner was found guilty on the minor charge of con. ccalment of hi* th. In passing sentence, his lordship look into account the fact that the prisoner had already been illl- prisOtled for ore month, and ordered her a fmther term of imprisonment f r three months with hard labour. THE STABBING OF AN AMERICAN SEAMAN. John King, 31, Thomas Clark, 89, James Connor, 21, and John Caine, were indicted with feloniously stabbing and- wounding John Osborne, with intent to do him grevious bodily harm. Mr. Bowen prosecuted. The prisoners, and a man Osborne, belonged to the crew of the American ship Leusothes. On Friday, the 8th inst., she was lying iri Penarth Roads, ready to be towed out to sea; and in the evening, while the men were in the forecastle getting supper, a r9W took place amongst them. The prosecutor was struck a severe blow in the mouth by Clark, while at the same time King also dealt him a blow which knocked hIm down. While he was down, Clark drove a knife into his back, and King cut him across the throat. He was taken to the hospital ship, and there attended by Dr. Dixon. For some time the prosecutor was in great danger, and it was only on Tuesday evening that he was pronounced out of danger. He was not, however, sufficiently convalescent to appear in court and give evidence, but his deposition, which had been taken down in the presence of the learned stipendituy magistrate, was put in. According to the medical evidence the wounds were uf a very severe character. The wound on the throat was about two inches long and half an inch deep, and the wound in the back an inch ùeep. He was a'so wounJed on the finger. His right cheek and upper lip were split open, and his right eye was entirely closed. There were traces about his body oOr his having bOeen kicked very severely. Two oÎ the wit- nesses who saw the attack 011 the prosecutor, testified only to King, Clark, and Caine being concerned in it. The only reference to any active share taken by Connor was contained in the statement made by Osborne, who alleged that he was simek in the stomach by him. Thejury returned a verdIct of Guilty against King, Clark, and Caine, who were each sentenced to five years' penal servitude. Connor was Ac- quitted. ( ontinued in 8th page).
THE GIL EAT MOLTDAUNT CASE.
THE GIL EAT MOLTDAUNT CASE. In the Divorce Court onWednesday(before Lord Penzance) Mr. Serjeant Ballantine applied that certain matters in relation to this case should be heard before his lordship in Chamber, his reason for making the application being that no misapprehension should exist in the mind of the public that Sir Charles Mordauntwas not anxious to prosecute the case.—His lordship said matters had been before the Chambers on several occasions, but had been post- poned in order that the necessary affidavits might be pro- duced. He thought the best arrangement that could now be made would be that he should take it <tt ten o'clock en ToMday morning.
—1—'. THE BISHOP OF CAPETOWN…
—1— THE BISHOP OF CAPETOWN AND BISHOP COLENSO. ° Judgment was on Tuesday given by Lord Justice Giffard in the appeal of the Bishop of Capetown against a judgment of the Supreme Court of the Colony, which decided that Bishop Colenso was the rightful possessor of the cathedral of Pieter Maritz- burg-. The cathedral had been originally vested (in 1850) in Dr. Gray, as Bishop of Capetown; but when in lSo-3 the old diocese of Capetown was split up into parts. the cathedral went with the Bishopric of NataL Lord Justice Giffard, in delivering judgment, said the appellant (the Bishop of Capetown) had submitted that the judgment and decree of the Supreme Court were erroneous on three grounds. 1. Because the respondent was not the successor of the appellant in the see of Cape- town under the grant of the 29th of March, 1350.. and was not entitled to have the property vested in him as Bishop of Natal. 2. That the appellant, as trustee in the grant, had not divested himself from such office. 3. Because the appellant, as successor of Kobert Lord Bishop of Capetown, was trustee of the land and buildings, and the same were vested in him. The Lord Justice having examined the letters patent, said the Bishop of Cape- town's second patent clearly involved a new corporation, and therefore it was competent to the Crown to make the Church of Pieter Maritzburg the Cathedral of Dr. Colenso, Bishop of Natal. Their lordships, therefore, declared that the Bishop of Capetown .had no right to interfere, and that the Bishop of Natal had the full rights which he claimed. The Bishop of Capetown murt cease from interfering except so far as his privileges were secured under the first patent. The Bishop of Capetown had no jurisdiction, coercive or concensual, over the Bishop of Natal, all power having ceased with the revocation of the first patent. Their lordships recommended the substitution of trie first order of the Supreme Court for the second, and as the plaintiff claimed more than he was entitled to, his costa ought not to have been allowed in the suit. Their lord- tthipH, therefore, would recommend a modification of the orctcr to that extent.
-- ----COMPULSORY VACCINATION,
COMPULSORY VACCINATION, The subject of vaccination was raised in two metropoli- tan courts on Monday. At the Thames Police-court a woman was summoned for refusing to 1]ave her chilÚ vaccinated. The child was young and healthy. The mother, who lived in the hn118e of a quack, and seems to have been educated by him to do as she had done, said that no consideration on earth would induce her to consent to the vaccination. She believed it was of no use whatever, and had destroyed more children than it had saved. Her child was in good health, and she wished it to continue so. The magistrate might, if he pleased, make the order, but she would not obey it. She had lived in a house in which there were ten children attacked with the smallpox. Nine recovered, and among them one who had nut been Y:1ccmated. One of those vaccinated died, and the state in which it was after vaccination was most frightful. Mr. Benson said that medical and scientific authorities in all countries approved of vaccination, and its use had saved millions of lives. The most enlightened Govern- ments had made the obligation of vaccinating children compulsory. What the defendant had said about ten children being attacked in one house with smallpox proved the necessity of resorting to vaccination as an antidote against the disease. He must make an order for the child to he vaccinated within fourteen days, and if his order was not carried out, there would be a penalty inflicted, and another order would be made. The defendant said she Would never allow her child to be vaccinated. Dr. Lankester, the Middlesex coroner, had also avacema- tion case btfore him on the same day. A child who had been vaccinated died from erysipelas produced by impure vaccine having been introduced into its arm. The jury returned a verdict in accordance with the medical evidence. In the course of the inquiry several doctors Enid that they had never met with a. fatal case before. It was also stated of 1,000 patients admitted into the Small- pox Hospital, 1,300 had been previously vaccinated; but those who had been vaccinated received the disease (which only came once in a lifetime) in a very mild form —it was modified, "nd less severe in those successfully vaccinated 30 out of every 100 were susceptible and liable to smallpox if exposed to it, but it would non- fatal.
.A MURDER AT ALDERSHOT.
A MURDER AT ALDERSHOT. On Tuesday afternoon a shocking murderwas commiw. &t the South Camp. Corporal James Brett, of the 2nd Battalion 7th Royal Fusiliers, which are quartered in the front lines of the South Camp, was shot dead by a private soldier of the regiment, named William Dixon. The deceased and the murderer lived in the same hut, No. 1, A Lines, South Camp. It appears that the company to which both belong was engaged during the afternoon in emptying and refilling their beds at the bar- rack stores, near the lines. It is stated that Corporal Brett, who was in charge of the men in the room, ordered Private Dixon to fill some extra beds, or spare ones, to which Dixon objected, stating that he had done more than his share of the work. Corporal Brett on this left the room, with the supposed intention of reporting Dixon's con'iuct to a superior non-commissioned officer. During his absence Dixon was seen to have laid hold of a breech- loader, and to be meddling with the breech (evidently loading it), when a man in the room remarked to Dixon, What are you about to which Dixon replied, Mind your own business, or you will get it." Immediately after Corporal Brett was seen entering the hut, and was told by one of the men to go back. However, he appears not to have heard the ma.n, or else not to have heeded what was said to him, for he ft once came into the room, and on his doing so Dixon raised his rifle, which he had loaded with bail cartridge, and shot Brett dead. The bullet entered the right side of the head, near the temple, and passed out at the opposite side, shattering the poor man's head in a most frightful manner. Death was instantaneous. Tbe bullet, after going throagh Brett's head, passed out of the window c1üse to wme married wo"-en living in the next hut, who narrowly escaped h"1g shot. The only cause that can at present be r««ignrd for the terrible deed was the trifling dispute about the bed-filling. Dixon was at once made prisoner, arid walked to the guard- room in the coolest manner. Corporal Brett. was highly respected in the regiment, and Dixon, on the contrary,is* man of bad character, and fcasbeen several times tried bya eourt-martial. On leaving the hut in which he had com- mitted the murder, Dixon fs reported to have said, when he found that Corporal Brett was dead, that "he was quite, satisfied now he did not care." Late in the even- ing Dixon was handed over to the civil authorities.
AN EXTRAORDINARY TRIAL FUn…
AN EXTRAORDINARY TRIAL FUn MURDER. At the Worcester Assizes, on Tuesday, before Mr. Baron Pigott, a woman named Fanny 1 ranees Maud Oliver was convicted of the wilful murder of her husband, Joseph Oliver, at Dudley. The prisoner is a milliner, and in the course of her business cleaned bonnets, for which purpose she used poisonous drugs. The death of the husband was attributed to arsenical poisoning, and the motives by which it was presumed the prisoner was actuated were, that she had contracted an improper inti- macy with a man named Brice and that her husband had money in a building fund, and that she. without his knowledge had been drawing it ont, and had exhausted the fund. The purchase of arsenic by the prisoner in April last was proved, and also that at tho, time she gave a false nalne and address. Dr. Bin. who made a post-mortem examination of the body, (,. covered arsenic in a small quantity, and came to the inclusion that the deceased had died from arsellical poi. ning. Aftsr the jury had returned their verdict the prisoner made a most agonising" speech. "I am not guilty (she exclaimed) by my great God If I speak an untruth. Oh. God !— there the prisoner clapped her hands solemnh" afld cast her eyes, upwards)—take my breath from me, and 11"t me die before my enemies. (Great sensation in courts As for administering poison to my husband (here she raised her voice and again clasped her hands' great God answer for me Thou knowest that I am innocent, Heavenly Father, uf the charge they have brought against me. And why dost Thou h-ave me in this terrible hour of need? My Goo, I have trusted in Thee. I have been wild and wicked, I know but, Heavenly lather, gi ve nJC strength. I never possessed such strength as I hnve 'possessed since I have heen cast into pri?Ol1. I never knew the power of my Saviour until then and. although death is to be passed upon an innocent woman, Lord, receive my spirit and although I am found guilty by an earthly judge and jury—(here she rai e.l her voice defiantly)—mv Great Judge ar.d Jury who are in Heav-n they will receive me to their home. (Sensation). I am innocent in the sight of my God, anrll fear not what man can do unto me. What even though you should put me to death to-morrows I would receive it cheerfully, my God, as it has come from Thee for now I am left alone my home is gone my friends are far I have but one, and that is He (point- ing upwards). Lord, do not ieave me in this terrible hour. Lord. prepare me to meet this trial. Thou knowest I am innocent. 1fl1:,]cr! I loved my husband. God, thou knowest I lovd him. Yes, and he loved me. Call his iriends call t[tr,e who were with him when he died. Vv hat. is the reason this has been brought against me, 0 God?" The prisoner here mode a rambling statement Abort*, her husband s mother having accused her of poison* Jig her husband because she could not get some money that belonged to h;m.
GENERAL NEWS.
GENERAL NEWS. The Prussian army is to have a new creech- loader. An improved needle-gun. -<- At the Manchester police-conrt, on Monday, the stipendiary magistrate fined a man £ 75, or injdefault two months' imprisonment, for keeping a betting-office. Several New York churches have their contribu- tion boxes passed round by handsome young ladies, and it pays immensely. The Right Hon. Hugh Childers, First Lord. of the Admiralty, will, it is understood, succeed Lord Taun- ton as one of the brethren of Trinity House. THE MASTERSHIP OF THE TEMPLE.—The appoint- ment of Dr. Vaughan to the Mastership of the Temple is gazetted. » A statue to Mr. Peabody has been erected by his metropolitan friends, near the Royal Exchange. It is to be publicly, unveiled in a few days. The Prince of Wales is likely to assist at the ceremony. FIRE FROM THE SUIT'S HEAT.—Investigations into the cause of 8. recent fire near Bradford disclosed the fact that it had been caused by the ignition, under the sun's rays, of a couple of sparrow's nests, which were jus4 beneath the Welsh slates. Sir Walter Scott was in one of his walks lean- ing on the arm of his faithful attendant, Tom Purdie. Tom said, Them are fine novels of yours, Sir Walter they are just invaluable to me." "I am glad to hear it, Tom." Yes, sir; for when I have been out all day hard at work, and come home very tired, aBid take up one of your novels, I am asleep directly." DEPENDENCE UPON CIRCUMSTANCES. The preacher at the Chapel Royal, Savoy, recently alluded to the dissensions of the present day, and told a story on the authority of John Henry Newman. A naval chaplain, he said, who had long been out of the reach of English theological discussion, was eagerly asked on his return home by a partisan whether his floating chapel was High Church or Low Church. "That," said the chaplain, entirely depends on the tide." A PAINTER'S PUNCTCJATION-.—At the door of a certain hat store in New York hangs the sign" We block your hat, while you wait for 50 cents." Therein entered a countryman, the other day, and answered affir- matively to the question of hat-blocking. The work was performed, and he was asked if he would have anything v]se in the hat line. He replied in the negative, but con- tinued to "hang al-out," as though tomethingwas unsaid. At last the clerk asked what he was waiting for. "Waiting for that 5'J cents." said he. He didn't get it. The painter had misplaced the comma. THE FASTEST PASSAGE EVER KNOWN.—The fastest passage ever made across the Atlantic was accom. plished last week, by the Cunard mail steamer Russia, fhe Russia left IsTsw Vork on the afternoon of the 7tli instant, and arrived at Liverpool on the afternoon of the 16th-the mean time occupied by the voyage being eight days, seventeen hours, and fifty-five minutes. The shortest passage ever made before between the two ports was by the Scotia, which arrived at Liverpool from New York after a run of nine days and thirty-five minutes. THE INTERNATIONAL ROWING MATCH.—It has been arranged that thie interesting match shall be rowed over the well-known Oxford and Cambridge course on Saturday, the 31st inst. After a week's preliminary trials, five Oxonians and a coxswain from whom the competitors IIgainst the Americans will be finally chosen have got into regular training. The gentlemen in training are the following:—Mr. F. Willan, 1; Mr. A. C. Yarborough, S Mr. J. C. Tinnd (President of the Oxford University Boat Club),'3; Mr. S. D. Darbishire, 4; Mr. W. S. Woodhouse, 5 Mr. J. H. Hall, eoxswain. THE COMPETITIVE SYSTEM.—While a good many people are grumbling at the extent to which the competi- tive principle is applied in determining the qualifications of candidates for State employment, Sir John Lubbock is agitating for the extension of the system to the banker's and the merchant's counting-house. He proposes the formation of an examining board for clerks, wboso3 Juty it would be to ascertain the character, abilities, and "required limits of age of persons presenting themselves as candidates for commercial appointments. FACES MEN LOVE.—What face is that which appeals to the sense of beauty of the majority of men? Not the plump inanity of the coloured lithograph. Not the buxom country lass, of which poets sing, but whom poets do not marry. Not the pinky doll of the book of fashions. Men love long eyelashes, because they seem to hide a secret. Men love those eyes which are transparent -and yet deep, because there lies in them something of the unknown and the discoverable; and so men love faces that tell stories, and are coy, confiding, tantalising, with vague and grand emotional possibilities hidden somewhere. THE V IS tT OF A LANDLORD TO HIS IRISH TATES.—The Wexford correspondent of Savndcrs's JVeics furnishes us with details of all extraordinary scene which occurred a few days ago at Fethard, on the ooca- iion of the Marquis and Marchioness of Ely visiting their estates there. It is stated that after a distribution of prizes, won at some races got up for the occasion, the people, at the instigation of a Roman Catholic priest, groaned the agent of the estate; and that, subsequently, an artilleryman, who was mistaken for a soldier who had spoken offensively to one of the clergymen, was be&ten so that he died. ELEPHANT AND CROCODILE.—A curious circum- stance occurred very lately at Cuttack. An elephant belonging to one of the Rajahs went into a tank to drink, and in doing so put his foot either on, or close to. a crocodile, which at once bit it very severely; this so enraged the elephant, that he trod about until he crot his adversary firmly beneath his feet in the mud, when he trampled his life out. Still, however, his rage was unap- peased he refused to 1eaye his post, and it was forty-eight tours before he could be enticed out of the tank, wiieutlu dead body of the crocodile floated to the surface. A VERY GREAT COUNTRY.—At the American celebration of Independence Day at Vienna, this year, a speaker, growing eloquent on the future of the liepubiic, repeated a description of Ïts bOlmdaries given by 1\.11 enthusiastic Yankee, who said, "It was houmlecl OJ1 tJw east by the Atlantic, on the north by the Aurora Borealis, on the west by tbe Settiug Sun, and 011 tbe south by the Day of Judgment." lifr. Carlyle ¡¡:\oid n,Mid- years ago that every day was in truth a judgment day. and this is not the first time that the American day of judgment has been declared to lie towards the south. NEVER DID RuN SMOOTH.—There ha.s been iome amusement and excitement, in Liverpoo]#tfiis week, caused by the delayed marriage of a gentleman whom the papers call the Gymnastarch. He was to have b?en mar- ried to the daughter of a merchant of the town but the merchant did not want his daughter to marry beneath her, and, notwithstanding tlmt she was over age, locked her in her room on the day when the marriage was to havi taken place. The Unitarian chapel wns crowded on the day fixed, but no bride appeared. The ceremony was therefore postponed. Since then, however, a gentle pressure has been brought to bear upon the father, and on Friday the couple were married. THE NEW AERIAL SHIP.—A despatch, dated San Francisco, .Jul}' 6, published in the New York papers, says:—" The trial of the model of the air-ship Avitor is pronounced a success by the 7imeg. while the Artrf, says the performance was something like a failure. The wind blew so hard that it was impossible to make the experi- ment in open air, so the trial was made under cover the ship rose in the air, and was propelled backward and for- ward and guided in any desired direction by the steering apparatus. It is claimed that the present Avitor is not a criterion of success the principle has been developed. The scale of its machinery is so trifling—the engines and boiler weighing less than a hundred pounds—that its failure or success "oule! he a matter of no SAVING SEED OF DWARF AND RUNNER BR A VS. —It is a common practice for amateur growers to save their own seed of these vegetables, and the general way of doing this is to leave a few pods along the bottom of the haulm for that purpose. This is one of the worst plans that could be adopted, because when several pods are left to ripen, the strength of the plant is absorbed by them, and the growth is consequently checked. Without ft free growth it is impossible to have beans; therefore, one of the rows, or a portion, of one, if it is a long one, ought to be set apart for seed-bearing, and the other for supplying the kitchen. This is the only satisfactory way of securing a regular and continuous supply of these useful Vegetables. — Gardeners Magazine. A CURIOUS COMPARISON.—Some curious com- parisons have been instituted respecting the relative strength of men and insects. A man of 30, weighing 1301b., can drag, according to Pegnier, only 1201b., so that the proportion of the weight drawn to the weight of his body is no more than as 12 to 13. A draught horse can only for a few instants draw about two-thirds of its own weight. But the smallest insect drags without diiJi. culty far more than its own weight. The cock- chafer draws 14 times its weight, and other insects as much as 40 times. If a horn had the same relative strength, it would be able to draw eome60,000 pounds. M. Plateau, who has made some curious investigations in this matter, informs us that the smaller and lighter an insect the greater strength it wiil manifest, though during flight it cannot carry so great a weight as when creeping. It therefore appears from the example of the horse, the dog, and the insect, that the muscular force of living creatures is in inverse proportion to their mass. CANOPIED STATUE OF THE QrE N FOR EOMBAY. —The Builder's engraving this week represents a monu- ment which has been executed in this country, and is about to be sent out to India. It is a present from the King of Baroda to the Victoria Gardens, Bombay, where it will be set up, and is the design of Mr. Noble, of Bruton-street. The figure was executed by him, and the architectural part by Mr. Earp, of the Eeimington.roaà. The figure of the Queen is of colossal proportions, being more than 8ft. in height, seated. Her Majesty is in her full robes of State, with the sceptre and orb—emblems of her dignity—and is seated on her throne. The figure has a very dignified appearance. The material of which it is made is white marble. The canopv. which is 42;t. high to the top of the filial, is of white Sicilian marble. It is of Gothic type, and well executed. The background of the interior is slightly relieved with a pale Sienna- tinted marble, enriched with a diaper incised, and an inscribed garter. The pillars on each side of the front are also of pale feienna marble, rich!}' chiselled. The base is composed of steps, the lowrst of which is ISft. wide, and 22ft. deep from front to back. PRINCE ARTHUR AT THE OPENING OF THE SAILORS' ORPHAN HOME.—Royalty has been doing much lately in the way of patronising charitable institutions. On Friday Prince Arthur connected the Royal Family with another institution. His Royal Highness, on behalf of her Majesty, opened a new home and school for the orphan girls of sailors. His Royal Highness arrived at a few minutes past three, in one of her Majesty's carriages, with footmen and outriders in scarlet liveries, and was received in the first place by the inhabi- tants of Hampstead, in crowds assembled, and in the second by the committee of management of the institution. When his Royal Highness had been con- ducted to a platform in a marquee set. up for the occasion, an address was read setting forth the objects of the institu- tion, find the reasons for the construction of the new bnild. ing. When Prince Arthur had made a brief reply, sundry prayers were said by the Bishop of London. A large number of ladies, all youthful, some mere thildren. and all dressed in blue and white, now presented mrses to his Royal Highness. The First Lord of the Admiralty delivered a short speech in eulogy of the charity. When the National Anthem had been sting, tht Prince laid a memorial (-tone in the. central i.al; of the building, and planted a tree in the garden. His Bovr.i Highness took the chair d. the diieC^cr. The Wegleyan conference is just now meeting at [lull. The Grand Duke of Baden is seriously ill. This sovereign is the nephew of the King of Prussia, and is 4c3 years old. Mr. Bolckow, M.P.writes that he has received no it t:mation that the honour of knighthood is about to be con- ferred on him. A German astronomer has written a pamphlet to prove we are soon to have a second moon, and that it will be nearer the earth than our present Luna. The Chester Chronicle' says there is residing at Ridley a person named Elizabeth Howell, who has this month entered on the one hundredth year of her age. Said one gentleman of .honour to another, "If you don't accept my challenge, I shall post you in the papers." "Go ahead," said the other, "I had rather fill a dozen papers than one coffin." A returned Australian found the baby he left. at home a miss of fire Bummers. One day he offended^her, and she fretfully exclaimed, I wish you had never mar- ried into the family." Messrs. Bahr; Behrend, and Co., were fined £10 Ilnd costs by the Liverpool magistrates on Tuesday for having neglected to mark on the outside of a case of col- lodion oil, sent to the docks for shipment, the dangerous character of the contents. A murder, supposed to have been committed4 by poachers, is reported from Cockermouth. The victim is a man named Starkie, a river watcher in the employ, of the lessee of Lord Lonsdale's fishery on the Derwent. The evi- dence shows that the body, after a fatal How on the head, was thrown into the rirer. The Marquis of Hertford is in a very critical state of health. He is at his seat, Bagatelle, near Paris, surrounded only by those who have long formed his very intimate circle. The Emperor sends to ask after his health daily. Bagatelle will become the property of the Prince Imperial. Tho Marquis is in his 70th year. Two hulls of wrecked ships have been lately Been floating, bottom upwards, in the Atlantic, and it has been supposed that one of them may have been the United King- dom. It seems, however, that the bottom of the missint- Anchor line steamer was painted red, and was not coppered —a description to which"neither of the hulls will answer. A despatch from Isew York announces the last ef Colonel Ryan's famous expedition for the relief of the Cuban insurgents. The remnant of his filibustering regiment hrs been captured near Hoboken, in New Jersey: Lut Rysn. himself escaped. This is supposed to be the end of nilib ut- tering operations at New York. The Bishop of Lichfield, who has cut 60 many Gordian knots by the eolvitur ambulando process, has given over DerbY3hire to the care of Bishop Hobhouse, late ot K (.JEOn, tbe Guardian believes, making that prelate virtU/Üly "Bishop of Derbyshire," and thus solving to a great extent the increase of the Episcopate difficulty. An American paper says :—"In our communi- cation from Boston about the Peace Jubilee, published in yesterday's edition, the following words should have occurred: 'Mozart's Twelfth Mass.' One of our com- positors, evidently not a musical man, set it up in this way: 'Mozart's Twelfth Massachusetts,' and it so ap- peared in the paper." JfoRwicH ELECTION PETITION.—The petitioner's bill of costs in connection with the Norwich election peti- tion amounted to £3,166. From this sum £2,492 was struck off by the taxing master, leaving £674 for the respondent (Sir H. J. Stracey) to pay. The latter has, however, a contra account against the petitioner. The petitioner (Mr. Tillett) has appealed against the decision of the taxing master. THE FENIAN PRISONERS. —The Frcenw:. Js Journal publishes the following paragraphA wid< spread report prevailed in Dublin City that O'Ponovan (Rossa), the Fenian convict, had succumbed to the hard- ships to which he was subjected in his English prison, and died. The report wants confirmation, and we sincere.y hope that years of life and liberty are yet in store for this enthusiastic, though mistaken, Irish nationalist." A scheme is on foot for erecting a Bishopue for Bunnali, extending on the north to Urp^r Assam and the Kagos Territory, on the east 10 the Chinese Province of Yunnan and the Laos country, on the west to Munipoor and Aracrrn, and on the south to the Gulf of Mart&ban and the Bay of bengal. The length of the proposed diocese would be nearly a thousand miles, with an average breadth of 220, and an urea of 250,000 square miles. The subject- will bo brought, before the Society for the Propagation of the Go- pel fit its next meeting. THE PROPOSED DEPUTATION TO MR. GIII; STOKE.—The deputation which it was announced would wait upon the Prime Minister to present the mass of reso- lutions passed all over the country condemnatory of the Lords' amendments has been postponed. The following extract from a circular-issued by the Birmingham Liberal Association explains the reason :—" In consequence of the prompt and decisive action in the House of Commons, we have decided not to hold the intended conference, but to wait the course of events." Ax ACCIDENT TO ROYALTY.—On Friday after- noon tLe Prince and th*» Princess of Wales paid a visit to the Queen, at Windsor Castle. On their return to town bv the Great Western Itaiiwav the Princess was leaving t„e Queen's private waiting-room at the Windsor terminus, and was in the act of crossing the carpeted platform to the saloon carriage, when a humbly-dressed woman, who was running to catch the train, came into collision with her Royal Highness, and nearly threw her down. The Princess, recovering herself, smiled, and passed to the car- riage. INSPECTOR TANNER.—After 20 years' service in tlieDetective Department of Scotland-yard., Inspector Tan- ner has retired from the police force on a pension of £:100 a year. In the course ot bis connection with the police Mr. Tanner has been vtory Euccessful in tracing and arresting celebrated criminals. Among those whom he apprehended were Mullins. who murdered Mrs. Einsley; Forward, the murderer of three children in a coffee-house at Hol'oorn Hunt, who committed murder in a cab and Muller. who killed Mr. Briggs on the Isorth London Po :i1 hnvinfr arrested him in Xew York. A telegram from Leeds states that there is a most determined feeling smnnp tho 1.5!mis :n that town to 00- Btnd tli« wbol.» i-iih •' sfn'id b-
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