Monmouthshire Merlin

MERTHYR. AN IRISH Row.- VERDICT OF MANSLAUGHTER.—On Sunday night one of those disgraceful scenes—an Irish row-took place in Quarry-row, in which a young man, named Cornelius Donaghue, aged 22, was killed. A large number of the Irish living in that locality were present, throwing stones and joining in the quarrel, and four of the principal parties in causing tho death of Donaghue were apprehended by the police. Their names were John Burke, his sister Ellen Burke, Timothy M'Cuddy, and Johanna Brien. On Monday morning an inquest was held before George Overton, Esq., at the New Inn, to inquire into the circumstances connected with the death of the deceased, when the accused parties were also pre- sent. After evidence had been taken, the prisoners made the following statements:—John Burke said that he did not strike the deceased till the deceased struck him twice the reason why he spoke to him at all was because the deceased had been insulting his sister. Ellen Burke stated that deceased had frequently come to her fatkei's house and annoyed her, and last night he came and used the most insulting language, and said he had made her a prostitute; this he spoke in the open street, and she told him he was a scamp and a blackguard for saying so, and told him to go away; he offered to fight the beat man in the family, and commenced the quarrel with her brother. Johanna Brien denied that she struck the deceased she Said that she was standing alone in the street, when de- ceased came running along, and that he tripped her up and she fell. Timothy M'Cuddy denied that he kicked the deceased. The Coroner summed up, and the room was cleared for a few minutes for the consultation of the jury, who returned a verdict of Manslaughter" against John Burke, and acquitted the other prisoners. The Coroner, in disuharging those whom the ju.y had acquitted, told M'Cuddy that he had been guilty of a most base, he might say a diabolical, act in kiekins the man as he lay on the ground however, as death had no doubt taken place before he did the deed, the law, so far as this court was concerned, did not reach him. John Burke was then committed for trial at the next assizes at Swansea. Previolis to the inquest being held, on Mondiy, the several witnesses who gave evidence before the coroner, also gave similar evidence before the magistrates, and on Wednesday last, John Burke, Timothy Mark alias McCuddy, Ellen Burke, and Joanna O'Brien, were brought before J. C. Fowler and D. Evans, Esqrs., charged with the murder of deceased. Evidence having been taken, the prisoners were remanded till Monday next. POLICE COURT.—WEDNESDAY. [Before J. C. Fowler, Esq., and D. Evans, Esq.] ROBBING A BOATMAN.—David Evans, a labourer, was charged with stealing a monkey jacket, the property of John Evans, a boatman.—Committed for six weeks' hard labour. STEALING ApPLES —A collier, namei David Davies, was charged with stealing seven apples from the basket of an apple-girl, naynedliuth. Elias. He was dis- charged.—He was then charged with committing damage in the station-house, to the amount of Is. 4d.—Ordered to pay the amount, and 7s. costs. ASSAULTING THE POLICE.-Thomas Way was charged with assaulting P.C. Phillips.—The defendant was in High-street on Saturday, between seven and eight o'clock, creating a disturbance, and gathering a mob round him. He told him to go home, and as he would not, took him into custody. On their way to the station house, defendant struck him two blows.-Fined 5s. and costs. ANOTHER ASSAULT.—Henry McDonner, a tinker, was charged with assaulting P.C. John Loynes.—Fined 10s. and costs. A VAMPIRE.—Harriet Harding, of Gomorrah, charged a near neighbour, named Betsy Whinstone, with threatening to suck her blood, and then eat her up. Fearing that she would actually put her threat into exe- cution, she prayed the defendant might be bound over in sureties of the peace.—Defendant was bound over in one surety of £5, for three months. FELONY.—Ann Evans and Gwc-nllian Thomas were charged with stealing a pair of American overshoes, the property of Mr. Francis Argust, boot and shoe maker, Market-square.—The shoes were hanging up at the door on Thursday, and were afterwards found pawned at the shop of Mr. Edward Scidle.-The girl Evans had been twice convicted under the Juvenile Offenders Act.- They acknowledged to having committed the offence, and were committed, for trial. THE MEMBER FOR MEBTHYR. On Monday evening II. A. Bruce, Esq., M.P., met his constituents at the Temperance-h^ll, f'jr the purpose of explaining hfs conduct during the past sessions of Patlia- ment, and of stating his views with regard to the present position of afftirs, especially in regard to India. The chair was taken by Mr. Smyth, the High Consta- ble who briefly introduced Mr. Bruce to the meeting. The hon. Member addressed the audience in a speech of nearly three hours' duration, and admirably succeeded in lceepin^ up the interest of the meeting. He com- menced by expressing his r-gret that a large number of the members of the former parliament-men who were an honour to the legislature-had been rejected by the electors, and that, oa the other hand, a very large num- ber of men who v/ere deficient in knowledge, capacity, and indeed of requisite quality to fit them for the posi- tion, had been returned. He then alluded to some of the principal measures which had been passed during the last session, three of the most important of which were the divorce law, the testamentary jurisdiction act, and the act tor amending the law affecting fraudulent debtors, .from the last two named measures he did expert good result?, and although the former did not go so far as could be desired, yet he hailed it as a stepping-stone for enabuDg the poor man to obtain relief as well as the rich. He was not present when the vote by ballot question was brought before the house, but was at Cardiff trying pri- soners and although he did not anticipate such results ) from the ballot as many did, yet, from the speeches at the last election, and knowing it was a popular measure, although he did not expect the bill would have been carried, he did expect that it would have met with greater support. The government had performed all its pro- mises, and had even done more than it proposed at the • -14. Opening of the session. A bill had been introduced by one of the members of the government for the greater security of depositors in savings banks, which, although s' 0 fraught with some difficulties, he could but wish h^d passed. On one unfortunate instance only had the Lords and Commons been opposed to each other—and here they were at a dead lock; he alluded to the Jewish oaths bill. He confessed he did not see his way clear with regard to either Lord J. Russell's or Mr. DIM wyn's propositions, and hoped the time was not far distant when the principle of civil and religious liberty would be fully recognised by legislative enactment. Having addressed the audience on topics at home, he now proceeded to offer some lengthened remarks on India, its present revolt, its inha- bitants, laws, religion, government, resources, and expen- diture. He quoted largely from the work of Sir Charles Napier, as showing that be had long since predicted this outbreak, and that from the very causes which had occa- sioned it—not from greased cartridges and religion, for these were not the causes of the outbreak, but only the circumstances of bringing it about at this juncture. The causes of the present outbreak were numerous-bad go- vcrnment-oppression-tho wretched discipline of the army-the liberty of the press-the paying of deference to caste-and various other things. He feared that the cruelties that must attend the taking of Delhi would be but a recapitulation of the horrors that had already har- rowed up our feelings; and although he would by no means say that it would be wise or prudent to give up India, yet he would say, as soon as this outbreak is sup- pressed, take care that you govern wisely and benevo- lently, without oppression and cruelty. The Hall was crowded, and Mr. Bruce was listened to with great attention throughout. SOUTH WALES INSTITUTE OF MINING AND MECHANICAL ENGINEERING. An important meeting of Engineers and Mineral Pro- prietors interested in the Railways and Works of South Wales, was held at Merthyr on the 30th of September. The object of the meeting was to consider the desira- bility of forming an Institute at which the discoveries and improvements made in the mining and manufactures of this district from time to time may be reported upon and discussed. All the principal ironworks of South Wales were represented at this meeting the principal engineers of the district were present, or sent letters in favour of the proposed Institute. After a very interest- ing discussion, the following resolution was unanimously adopted by the meeting:—" That this meeting is of opi- nion that the time is come when it is expedient to form an association of the mining and mechanical engi- neers of South Wales to promote the branches of science they practice; and that this meeting hereby constitutes itself such an associition, to be called the South Wales Institute of Mechanical and Mining Engineers." Further resolutions were then 0 passed, appointing a committee to draw up a code of laws for the government of the Institute, in aming local committees, &c. The meeting was then adjourned to the 29th inst.—Mining Journal.

I The correspondence published in this column must not be always considered necessarily in conformity with the prin- ciples or opinions of the journal.] NEWSPAPER CIRCULATION. [TO THE EDITOR OF THE MERLIN AND SILURIAN.] SIR,-I regretted much to find the subject of the relative circulation of the Merlin and the Star atiain brought under public notice—because, as admitted by yourself, the question palls upon the attention, and enough has been written to prove that your Contempo- rary has stuck and would stick at nothing to puff his wares, and make the worse appear the better reason. In justice to you, sir, I must, however, admit that you had no alternative but to give the stinging notice you did in your last publication-for in the very previous number of the Star the oft-repeated, oft-refuted falsehood, that its circulation exceeded that of your journal and the Beacon combined, was once more dished up, with the usual rhetorical garnishments of your contemporary. I thought, from the answer given to this monstrous fib when it first appeared, that shame would have restrained the pen of the Editor of the Star, and that he would no more be found puffing in the style of a Warren, and lying in the vein of a Pinto." But no— De3troy the web of sophistry in vain- The creature's at his dirty work again." Has he had reference to your books-or has he dogged the steps of your news-carriers ? The former, I pre- sume, is impossible the latter beneath his chivalrous sense of honour. Whence, then, did he get bis infor- mation ? From his own profound mine of thought, and regions of conjecture and you may indeed allow him to revel there to his own and his readers' great amusement. Your description of what a machine printing book" actually is, and the kind of evidence, or rather n) evi- dence, it furnishes of the circulation of a newspaper, laid bare the" Dodge" sought to be perpetrated upon the public while your just repudiation of submitting your books to an accountant's inspection, at his bidding, was an evidence of proper self-respect. When the request was made, it was well known that it would not be conceded. As well might any little tea seller have placarded the walls of our town, declaring that he sold more of the Chinese plant than an esteemed alderman who deals largely in the commodity ani if the gentle- man in question had condescended to notice the Dodge," what would have been easier than for the small dealer in Bohea to have challenged" the great vendor to open his books and compare them with those of the chief of the Lilliputian canisters But do these inspections of books always declare the true state of affairs ? Do they tell how the circulation of two journals really stands ? In a large city not a thonsand miles from Newport, a fierce war raged a few years ago between two journals. A parley was called, and it was resolved to call in two accountants, and submit all to their arbitrement. They met, examined the books, and could not agree. One party (the defeated) accused the other of cooking the accouuts-the accountants disagreed -there was near being another edition of the "Battle of the Books." They departed i-e iiifecit, and the two foolish newspaper proprietors had to pay the accountants between them, One Hundred Pounds-which Benjamin Franklin would have called paying rather too dear for their whistle." Yours, &c., Newport, October 12, 1857. SCRUTATOR.

THE CHOLERA. F [TO THE EDITOR OF THE MERLIN AND SILURIAN.] SIR,In one of the London papers of Saturday last, I observe it is said—" The General Board of Health is putting out a warning that the cholera may be ap- proaching us. The epidemic is in several ports of the Baltic,^ and at Hamburgh, and on three occasions on which it has visited us its presence has been first found there." If such be the case, I think, Sir, it is full time for our own Local Board of Health to look after the condition of a great part of our town, which appears almost entirely neglected. I need not mention any other parts than the Canal-parade, Dolphin-street, Bolt-street, Broad-street, Portland-street, King's-parade, Hi >h- street, Castle-street, and other districts of this town,°in which, should that dreadful pestilence again visit us it may be naturally expected (if the present condition of those localities continue), it will be found to do its j deadly work. I am, Sir, your obedient servant, A FATHER OF A FAMILY. October 12th, 1S57.

INDECENT EXHIBITIONS. [TO THE EDITOR OF THE MERLIN AND SILURIAN.] SIR,- In these days the public health is deemed, and properly so, a matter of great importance. Inspectors of nuisance and officers of health are charged yith the duty of reporting to the proper authorities portions of our town where accumulations of offensive matter emit noxious effluvia, in order that appropriate remedies may be applied. This is as it should be but surelv it is equally important that attention should be given to things that are morally pestilential. Is it possible that, in these days of refinement, individuals may, with im- punity, make a public display of life-size paintings of "unclothed humanity" sections (internal and external), of the human frame ? I almost blush, sir, to propose the inquiry; but many of your readers know it is not an unnecessary one. I will not dwell upon the corrupting character of such exhibitions—or upon the extent to which they must shock everything like chaste and delicate feeling. I will only say they ought not to be tolerated. Yours, &c., OBSERVER.

CAERLEON TURNPIKE TRUST. [TO THE EDITOR OF THE MERLIN AND SILURIAN.] SIR, I wish to call your attention to what I consider is a very serious neglect of duty on the part of the Caerleon Turnpike Roads Commissioners, which simply is, that they do not provide any sufficient light through- out the night at either of the Caerleon gates. ° The present system I believe is, that up to the time the gate-keeper retires to rest, a single candle is placed in the window of his house but that after that time, there is total darkness. I need not say how very greatly imperilled the safety of her Majesty's lieges must be by such mistaken economy on the part of those in authority, and I feel convinced that, upon being appealed to, the commis- sioners will take immediate steps to provide the necessary light. Through the want of it two accidents have already happened at one of the gates, in the course of a few years. In one of which a dogcart was violently upset in collision with the gate; and in the other, the aged tollkeeper had several teeth knocked, outand it is easy to predict that accidents of even a worse nature than these may occur during the long nights of the coming winter, unless such a light as the Turnpike Trust laiv requires, is forthwith, made use of). at both of the Caerleon gate. YiATOR.

FRANCE. A trial of some interest has commence I before the Tribunal of Correctional Police at Colmar, (Upper Rhine). Count Migeon, who was a member of the Legislative Assembly of ISiO, and who was elected Deputy to the Legislative Budy in 1852, again pre- sented himself to the electors this year, and was re- turned by 17,000 voices, against 10,000 obtained by the Government candidate. He is now indicted for fraudulent practices at the elections. The charges against him are stated under nine different heads, in- cluding the rather strange accusation against a man of his respectability and position, of having worn the riband of the Legion of Honour and some foreign decorations without being entitled to them. A M. Louis Himbert, superintendent of military edifices, is accused with him. The celebrated Republican ad- vocate, Jules Favre, defends M. Migeon. The trial1 is likely to last a week. M. Migeon and his friends are confident that the charges brought against him will not only be triumphantly refuted, but that illegal manoeuvres on the part of the Government candidate will be proved. According to the present French Constitution, the Corps Legislatif must meet within six months of a dissolution. It is therefore expected that that Assembly will shortly be convoked, since the six months expire on the 29th of November. PRUSSIA. ALARMING ILLNESS OF TIIE KING OF PRUSSIA. The King of Prussia has been seized with a sudden and alarming illness, the Times correspondent says the King showed symptoms of indisposition when travel- ling 1"> in company of the Emperor and Empress of Russia, from Potsdam hither, with the intention of prosecuting their common course together through Silesia; and, at the suggestion and representation of one of his adjutants, he consented to give up his visit to the Dulce of Augustenburg, to whose grand- child be was about to stand godfather, and taking leave of his Russian nephew and niece, he returned to Potsdam. Here it was found necessary that he should at once take to his bed, great depression, accompanied by vomiting, having eusued; but no further symp- toms of an aggravated nature showed themselves, as far as I have °heard, during the next 24 hours, and the impression seems to have been that His Majesty would get over this attack, as he had recovered from that at Pillnitz in the course of last July, by resorting simply to rest and quiet. Though the Prince of Prussia had thought it right to stay with his brother rather than go to the christening at Primkenau, so little apprehension was felt as regards the King's state that most of the Royal Princes came into Berlin that evening, and went to the theatre. Prince, Frederick William, set off after the theatre for Prim- kenau, and his father, the Prince of Prussia, decided the next day also to leave Potsdam on the following morning for Muskau. ° On the evening of Thursday, the King's state be- came unexpectedly worse, and the pressure of blood on the brain became so oppressive that the physicians had recourse to blood-letting twice during the night, a treatment to which, with the King's peculiar state of body, they would only resort in great exterrtitv. The bulletin that was published ou the following* morning, was as follows :— Yesterday evening violent congestion in the region of the brain supervened, which, however, soaiewhat abated iu the course of the mght unci towards morning. « I o "ScHONLEIN. Sans Souci, Oct. J. «« WEISS. It was now considered necessary to summon such members of the R^yal Fa nily as were still absent. Prince Frederick William returned immediately from Primkenau at half-past five o'clock in the morning; Prince Albrecht, from Dresden and Prince and Prin- cess Fried rich of the Netherlands, the Minister President, and the Minister of Commerce all hastened back to Berlin and Potsdam by special trains, on the various railways that centre in this town. The im- provement produced by the bleeding lasted during the greater past of the day, and Ilis Majesty slept for several hours, so that iu the afternoon he was able to recognize the Queen, and to address her in a few affectionate words. Previous to this the King had been at times insensible, at times asleep for if very lengthened period I The present attack under which the King is labour- ing, is in so far a repetition of the attack lis had at Pillnitz last July, as that it proceeds from, over-exer- tion, over-anxiety, and a neglect of the requirements of his feeole body, while his over active mind w.is being too severely taxed. The symptoms of the former attack resembles those of a mild form of paralysis or apoplexy, consisting of total prostration of strength, suspension of the bodily and mental faculties, with occasional wandering ill the speech when. the organs were so far at liberty as to articu- late. Ihese symptoms have shown themselves again on^tlie present occasion, but with more frequent repe- tition and increased intensity, so that the belief seems to gain ground among the medical men that His Majesty has burst a small bloodvessel in the brain, and that it is the extravasated blood which is now producing this paralyzing pressure on that organ. FRIDAY EVENING. The health of the King of Prussia has been rapidly getting worse, and great fears are entertained for his life. All the members of the Royal fatnilv are assembled at Potsdam.

INDIA. R „ ADDITIONAL DETAILS. lliefoilow!^ telegram was received at the East India House, on Fuesday, the 13tu day of October:— CALCUTTA, SEPT. 9, 1857. "GENERAL HAVELOCK'S COLUMN AND LUCKXOW. Geneial Havelock was still at Cawnpore, waiting on*" nnfi °r?e!)?eilts, and Lucknow si ill unrelieved. ihe90ti e3iment, about half the Fusileers, aud a 9-pounder battery, in all 1,270- men, were at Allahabad on the 3d pr 4t.i. §lx hundred infantry and the bat- tery weie immediately pushed towards Cawnpore, and Geueial Uu iam was to lollo v with the remainder of the infantry on the night of the 5th inst. He expects to join Havelock on the 11th or 12th, and has directed the lattei to have everything ready for crossing the river on his amval. Meanwhile, we have intelligence from Lucknow up to the 2d inst., when the garrison were in good spirits, and sufficientl icfed with food. They had recently repulsed a determined as- the assailants °nly belonging to the assailants. The garrison have been told to hold out to ex- tremity, and we are now confident that they will be relieved about the midddle of this month. "BENGAL AND BEHAR. "The Re wall troops detached, as reported in the last message, to ntcrccpt the Diuapore mutineers were not in time to arrest, their progress the latter crossed the i onse river about the 26th ult., after some detention by high floods, and their march has been marked by plunder. They gave out that they were going to Delhi The rebel Kooer Singh fled from Rohtas aoout the 27th or 28th ultimof and sought refuge in the Rewah territory. The llnjah warned him off, whereupon most of his Senoy adherents de- serted him. A column consisting of a wing of the d Queens, 2/th Madras Native Infantry, and some guns, lett Raneegunge on the 27th ultimo, and will ^rt^ T™nk ftoad. The Nepaul Durbar has given 1,000 Ghoorkas to aid in the occupation of Chum- pann and the districts on the left bank of the Ganges which are endangered by the abandonment of Goruck- pore by the civil ofheers. It is thought that the force stated, which left Katmandoo on the 13th and 14th ult., will suffice to restore order in those districts. DELHI. i Ct Our latest accounts from Delhi extend to the 2Gth uit. The Punjaub reinforcements mentioned in last message reached camp on the 1ft-h ult., and more re- cently an auxiliary force of about 2,000 men from Cashmere have marched to join the force. It is ex- pected to do good service. "A new siege train from Eerozepore is expected by the end of August, aud the Chief Commissioner of the Punjab calculates by the middle of this mnntl, the Punjab calculates by the middle of this month the force before Delhi will be little short o»' 1=5 000 men. Tins estimate may be somewhat too hi-k There has been the usual skinm-hinf with tho On the 12th ult., a battery whichVt was taken, aud on the 25th Brigadier Nicho'l' tacked the insurgents, who « w at" hrvW 4-^ • Wore trying in a large them' and f nl- 'eai) entlr.cly defeated and routed • 8uns, with all the ammunition, equipage, and baggage of the enemy. w ihe troops are in good health and spirits. Wounded doing well. Supplies abundant. It is I said that some overtures have been made by, or on behalf of, the King. They will not be entertained. The garrison have been levying contributions in the neighbourhood of Agra and the North Western Provinces. "AGRA. In 511Q,teli1^euce from Agra to the 25 th August. All still m the fort, aud general health good. Nothing particular had occurred, except an expedition to Fut- teypore Sikn, and another to Hatterass, which latter defeated the insurgents, but was not strong enough toreoccupy AUyghur. The Furruckabad Newabis said to be on the road between that place and Cawn- pore with three regiments of mutinous infantry and one of cavalry. He will be dealt with by General Havelock's column, after the relief of Lucknow. On the deserting of Goruckpore by the civil officers a Chockedar from Oude took possesion. Anarchy and confusion in the district, and Champarun consequently in some danger, as mentioned elsewhere. Azial-hur and Jaunpore have been occupied by the Ghoorkas who marched from Goruckpore with the civil officers."

DOUBLE MURDER AND ATTEMPTED SUICIDE. A man and his a'ife were murdered and an attempt at suicide was made by the murderer on Saturday night, about three and a-balf mil. s from Bath. The scene of the murders is a picturesque spot, situate in the parish of Bathford, upon an estate iuhahued by Mr. H. D. Skrine, and known by the name of Warleigh-house. The vic- tims are a man and wife, named Andrew and Sarah Border, of the respective ages of 25 and 29. The hus- band was in the service of Mr. Skrine as groom, and resided with his wife in a cottage adjacent. The mur- derer, whose name is Thomas Miller, and ag >d 23, also worked as labourer upon the farm, and lived in one of a block of cottages situated about 400 yards from the residence of his victims. Tole following is a summary of the particulars connected with this horrible tragedy. It was stated by several persons in the neighbourhood that since the committal of the late murder at Leigh-woods, several conversations had taken place between the mur- derer and his victims in reference to that tragedy, and the former had been taunted by the two latter with bein» like the unfortunate woman's murderer. This, it is said° preyed couch upon his mind, producing a state of insanity which at times rendered him almost dangerous. On the day previous to which the deed was committed Miller had beeu suffering from ill-health, and was visited on Saturday evening by Border and his wife, for the purpose of inquiring whether or not he had recovered. As soon as they arrived at the house they opened the door, and found Miller sitting in the kitchen, and directly inside the door. After asking him ho vv he was Miller jumped up and rushed towards the door, and with a knife fatally stabbed his two visitors. The mother of the assassin, hearing some one at the door, came from downstairs and was partially all eye-witness of the horrible scene. The murdered man ran into the lane adjoining and the woman staggered a short distance into the garden, when she fell backwards. Intelligence was immediately conveyed to the hous: of Mr. Skrine, and the butler s. nt at once for medical assistance. As soon as possible Mr. C. Edwards surgeon of Batheaston, was in attendance. He found the tnurdered^man at the cottage dangerously wounded, but in a sensible state. Upon examination the surgeon found that Border had received a serere gash in his abdomen, which had penetrated through the trousers, permitting a large p irtion of the bowels to protrude. The woman was discovered a few yards from the door, lying upon her back, with her head against a border stone. She was quite dead. She had received a stab in the left breast, and the back of her skull was fractured. Every atten- tion was then paid by Mr. Edwards to the murdered man, but he died in about two hours afterwards. Search was in the meantime made for Miller, and after some trouble he was discovered lying against the wall at the end of the garden with his throat cut, and a quantity of blood over his person and upon the ground. There was little blood in the locality in which the woman was found, which might be partially accounted for by the inclemency of the weather, the rain having fallen for some considerable time. Search was then made, and a long clasp knife was found under a chair in the room with a quantity of blood upon the blade, and with which there is little doubt the murders were committed. After taking Miller into custody he was removed to his house, and upon further examination it was found that he had received a stab in the abdomen. Both wounds were at once sown up by Mr. Edwards. A small penknife was after vards found in the garden, with which it is supposed the murderer attempted suicide. Information was then conveyed to Mr. Bruges Fry, coroner, who held an inquest upon the bodies at a room adjoining the house in which deceased lived. Tiie coroner having directed the jury to the importance of the case they were to abjudicate upon proceeded to view the bodies which were lying side by side upon the kitchen floor of their own residence. The following evidence was the most important adduced Superinterdent Thomas Morgan, said that on arriving Hour's house he found the bodies of Border and his wife layiug on the floor quite dead. Witness noticed a stao in the ablomen of Andrew Border and a quantity of blood upon his stomach. The trousers had been removed in front. A'so noticjd that the woman had been stabbed just above the left breast. Tinre was a small quantity of blood round the wound. Witness then went to the residence of Thomas Miller, the supposed murderer, and proceeded upstairs. Saw him ia bed with a wound in his throat. He w is in the custody of Police-constable Stockton. The prisoner was unable to speak and unfit to be removed. Witness went into the garden and found, or was present when Daniel Hancock found, a linen bonnet. It had a cut on the left side, and was slightly stained with blood. Also found the knife produced in the prisoner s room. It was partly opened and stained with blood. [The knife is a large single-bladed clasp one, about 5 inches in length in the blade.] Police-con~able Waters deposed to receiving informa- tion from Robert Baylis, the butler, and proceeding to the scene of the murder. When he entt,red the deceased's room the surgeon was th^re. Deceased said, Oh, Mr Ed wards, what do you think of it ?" Mr. Elwards i-e plied, My dear man, may the Lord have mercy on your soul B ttder did not speak afterwards, and died in about five m'nutes. Thomas Bittenbiry, parish constable of Bathford, said Tile prisoner said that he cut Mr. and Mrs. Border witu the large knife and himself with the small one. i risnner was sensible. I Jiave known him for five years, and I believe him to be of sound mind. Have never known him confined in a lunatic asylum. He has been a quiet man, and as parish constable I never have had reason to complain of him. I took him into custody and charged him with the murder of Border and his wife. After the prisoner was in bed he said to me that Ilr. Border had come to him with his (prisoner's) large case knife and threatened to rip him up, and he did cut him in the belly and he (prisoner) cut him. I asked him if h'} knew be tvasdead, mining Border, and prisoner replied," No, he is not deal." I then said, Why did you strike bis wife ?" lie replied, I struck her with my arm like that (moving his hand at the same time towards his hed), but I did not kill her, and I do not believe she is dead." I told him she was dead, and he made no reply. Iti the Course of the night he said he had not injured either of them. lie did not appear to be the worse for liquor. During the night the prisoner was delirious, and charged me once with cutting his Le ly. Daniel Hancocs, labourer, in he employ of Mr. Skrine, deposed.—On baturday evening at 5 o'clock I came home with the prisoner from the farmyard where we had been I at work. Helmed very dejected, and I asked him what was the cause. He replied, They are all against me, and want to poison me." I asked him who they were, and for what cause they wanted to do so, and saij, Is it me r lie replied it was some of them down there, but he didn't know who. I said to him, "You do Seem to mi ranged/ and I shall go and tell your mother." We then separated. I went into my house he went into his. I then went to t'i3 farm and told his motfiershe had better come down and take care of him. I was seated by my own fire between 8 and 9 o'clock, had my boo's off, and was going to bed, when I heard a scream. My wife, who was outside, said, Daniel, come out." I put my boots on, and went out and saw Sarah Border lying down upon the ground. There were my wife, Jane Hancock, and Eiiza and Elizabeth Bradfiefd standing by her. Some one said, Tom Miller had done it." I ran after Tom Miller and halloaed out I'om Tom, Tom." I then heard Border say, Daniel Dan'V do come and help me Tom Miller has been and «t*SKli me." I went and found Border in «h l doubled up. I then put my hands round hi, mt„ 36 keep him from falling, and took him u rojddte to Mr. Hunt the by ■ is the property of Thomas Mi!! kmfe Produced reside a7 Bath«™ ton sur5eon» deposed.—I by Mr TWi;1 AV v,'as sent for on Saturday last lei»b 1 r, Skrine's butler, to attend in War- tt, "V a man who haa heen stabbed, and was told tuat the man who murdered him was supposed to be a the lane I u-as ordered to go to the second lodge in the lane, and I did so. I got there about a quarter past 9 o'clock-, and saw a man lying on the door of the house whom I ascertained to be Border, the groom at Mr. Skrine's. There appeared to be on his abdomen a mass of blood and intestines. The upper p srt of his trousers was saturated with blood, as also were his shirt and flannel waistcoat. On examining the mass of what I supposed to be the intestines, and finding that it was so, I cut down his trousers so as to be enabled to slip them off, without much difficulty. I then searched for the wound through which the intestines had protruded aud found an incised wound. Tnere was not much bleeding at that time. I examined the intestines, and found it was a large mass of the small intestines which protruded. 'J¡;" OR Iu about 10 minutes I succeeded in returning the int™ tines. Deceased was alive at that time. I unitn/l incision by sewing. Mr. Edwards then deposed to the treatment adopted by him fur the preservation of Border's life, and fiadinS that he was fast sinking, witness said Who on earth has done this ?" and he replied, Totn": lie (fitness) had no doubt that the knife produced would have inflicted the wound in deceased's abdomen, and he death10 Itat*oa *a saying that such wound produced The adjourned inquest was resumed on Tuesday morning. Mr. Edwards, surgeon, deposed to having made a post mortem examination of the body of Andrew Border, as- sisted by Mr. Edwin Skeate, surgeon, of Bath, and had discovered, on laying open the abdomen of the deceased. that, beyond a doubt, the wound inflicted was the cause of death. This being tbe whole of the evidence as touching death of Andrew Border, the jury were res-worn to con- sider the cause of the death of his wife. The Coroner having informed the jury that the same evidence, with the addition of the medical testimony- respecting the post mortem examination of the woman, W°M fear.Gqua11? on this case- o ™-«r' a that on opening the chest there wa3 tho k")i ln f aorta an inch in length and an inch from 1&■ ™ SSST"fron fractured. The Coroner then directed the jury to consider their The Coroner then directed the jury to consider thoir from'C h1,MpreSSl^ UP°n them the uece«ity of excluding their consiueratwn the state of mind the prisons? was in at the tfme ho committed the aet. "oner .t »hwj\Vryi' tf16',8 ?,h°rt COnsu,'tall:)n' "turned a verdict of Wilful Murder against Thomas Miller. The prisoner still lies in a very weak state at his mother's residence at Warlegh, but there is some proba- bility of his recovery. The mother of the prisoner was not examined in consequence of her depressed spirits whfch had produced ill-health. The medi.cal certificate given to Superintendent Gould, will prevent the unfortu- nate man Miller from being removed for the present.

THE LATE MR. JERROLD AND HIS SON. The discussion on the disagreeable subject of the late Donpl is Jerrold s affairs has again been re-opened, and f\iDl^ens writes a letter contradicting the assertions ot Mr. Blanchard Jerrold which we recently published The hra writes on the subject :— Had Mr. B. Jerrold's statement of his father's affairs been stnctiy correct, and his refutation based on a granite integrity, he could not have adopted a more self-sufficient style of composition but, wanting those elements of strength, his article was both ill-timed, ungracious, and insincere—iH.timsd, in not protesting earlier, and waiting till all the work was done, to find fault with the manner of doing it ungracious, in casting a disbelief on the exertions of those gentleman who had so devotedly embraced the cause, and laboured so effectually to benefit his family and insincere, as far as Mr. Jerrold only glanced at the truth, allowing his facts to be surmised, and, by an obliquity of mental rectitude, transposing events in a manner that might be gratifying to his self- esteem, but certainly the antithesis of what may be denominated strictly veracious. I o the assertion that Mrs. Jerrold had a sufficient income for comfortable maintenance of £ 2-50 a year, and thar, in a pecuniary sense, the addition raised by the fund was unnecessary, we have Mr. Dickens's positive assurance to the contrary, a knowledge gnined from a quarier beyond the reach of doubt, and which we have incontestable evidence before us to corroborate. Let the reader judge from the following statement how inflated and hollow was this boasted competence ot £2,)0. The schedule stands thus — A Policy on the life of the Lite Douglas J erroIJ£lOO:) 0 0 The nominal value of a manuscript play that cannot be disposed of 0 0 0 Acopyrightin nothing -># 0 0 0 Probable receipts on the performance of pieces from managers who don't pay and cannot pay for playing them 000 and we have the ent're assets of the estate, from which it will be seen that there is but one valid item in the list -the insurance; of the others, they may be classed as bad and doubtful. Against this supposititious estate, there are debts that almost equal the capital; uid if pressed, as Mr. B. Jerrold's jubilant statement of abundance nny make very prohable, must leave this boasted es- tate insolvent. But the most complete answer to this assertion of sufficiency is to be found in the thankful and grateful acceptance of the annuity raised by the fund by Mrs. Jerrold herself. As respects the allegation that—had Mrs. Jerrold's circumstances been otherwise—the family and relatives of Douglas Jerrold would have prevented the necessity for any appeal on her behalf, we would ask Mr. Jerrold how long those relatives have been in a position to do so ? as it has been for years notorious that, with one exception, these relations lookad to Douglas Jerrold as their head and protector; and that his involvements were consequent on that propinquity of exchequer. The extreme bad taste that bas chnacterised Mr. B. Jerrold's interference is only equalled by the dis- courtesy of his tone, and the ungracious repudiation of the exertions of those whom, by every obligation of feeling and dictate of honour, he was bound to respect and esteem. If the k-irin done was merely one of eti- quette, a dereliction only of social courtesy to the gen- tlemen whose feeling in the cause, and labour to make their endeavours effectual, deserve the warmest praise, it might be pitied and forgiven. But it is to be feared his inconsiderate article, by giving a false colour to the real circumstances, nny materially injure that interest in whose behalf all the exertions have been made, and which the ordinary rules of prudence should have taught Mr. B. Jerrold most vigilantly to guard, and not, by an ebullition of feeling, jeopardize and betray. The following is the letter above referred to SIR, -You will be so kind as to give publicity to a letter we adlress-d to you on the termination of our libours "In remembrance of the late Mr. Jerrold* making known their result. Mr. Jerrold's eldest son thereupon gave to a letter of his own what publicity be could obtain for it, making his own representations of his late father's affairs. We knew our forbearing and delicate reference to them (forced upon u9 by exaggerations with which we had been repea'edly met, and which the son had uever contradicted) to be perfectly accurate, and we knew his account of them to be highly incorrect. We are ex- tremely sorry to be obliged to produce the proof of this but it is necessary to the clearance of our own good faith, and that of the gentlemen associated with us. We have before us, under date of the 2nd of this pre- sent month, a letter from the solicitor to the late Mr. Jerrold s estate (a gentleman well known in his profession, Mr. Ashu:st of the Old Jewry), in which, afier men- tioning that the: e is a life assurance of JE1000, which is Mrs. Jerrold's absolutely, and which the estate cannot claim, he informs the correspondent to whom his commu- tation is addressed that he cannot understand Mr. Blanchard Jerrold's reason for writing this unfortunate letter that he thinks he and his family ought to be set right on the matter and that, if a certain "claim be urged of which he has received the particulars, the facts and figures show that the estate will be ubsolately insolvent." We quote this letter with its writer's permission, and we have now done with this subject forever. Your faithij1 servants, CHARLES DICKENS. October 6,1857 "ARTHUR SMITH."

THE PRESS AND THE POST IN INDIA. A writer in the Morning Star, who is well informed on the affairs of India, gives the following account of the dealing with the press in that part of the empire The first recorded instance of interference with the libertv of pre,s »•„» the wnminj giv«> to the Vrimi of India rtassej, might be celebrated in Bengal bv a respected government and a Christian population the af;rded m cJe of the 'l>^a an ortip'l -° 1!ca ^as been threatened for writing pr'V,S,e of Scotchmen. The Madras Athm- 1*ifornied that a. certain tone of writing would insure its suppression; and the Examiner, a paper oelongmg to the same presidency, was warned for having copied a paragraph from the Calcutta Hurkaru. The Rangoon Chronicle has received what its conductor calls wi interim license to print, but only with the condition annexed that every line inserted on the subject of the mutinies should be previously submitted to the acting magistrate, a lieutenant of artillery lhe Jlkyab Com- mercial Advertiser, a quarto journal, consisting of a single page printed on one side only, has been sup- pressed, it being thought that government muht be brought into contempt by the printing of shipping lists and reports on the rice market. For equally good reasons the merchants at that thriving part have been forbidden to lithograph their trade circulars a vigilant major who represents the governor-general' in Amccan having a wel founded uread of « sermons on stones." And meanwhile news and opinions are circulated, and find their way to men's ears to such, an extent as almost to rebuke Lord Canning and his advisers. The King of a pays thirty pounds a month for having the intelli- gence of the fortnight translated for him. The mer- chants of Akyab have their circulars struck off in Cal- cutta. The editors of the Indian papers send their thoughts to press in England, and the man of business, wno would always be glad to obtain his political opinions ready made, sits down and works out for himself the problem of how long a government can last which gives men no opportunity to praise, and only studies how to kindle the expressions of censure. The apathy of the home public with regard to the suppression of the right of free utterance in India will cause bitter disappoint- ment ia that country.