Monmouthshire Merlin

MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. It is stated that Lord Canning has bequeathed the Whole of his fortune amounting to £ 200,000, to the second son of the Marquis of Clanricarde. DESPATCH OF AMERICAN MAILS.—The Cunard steamer Scotia left the Mersey, on Saturday, with the United States and North American mails and a large number of Dasseoo-ers. COST OF AUSTRALIAN VOLUNTEER FORCES.—On Mon- day, a return was presented to Parliament, at the in- stance of Lord Elcho, showing the amount and nature of the assistance given from the public funds to the Volun- teer Forces in the several Australian Colonies. In New South Wales the Volunteer vote was £ 10,000 in Vic- toria, £ 23,408 53. in Tasmania, £ 3,088 I9s. lOd. in South Australia, £ 9,642 13s. in Queensland, £ 800. In Western Australia the arms and accoutrements are sup- plied to Volunteers, but remain under the control of Government. SERIOUS BRIDGE ACCIDENT AT PATELET BRIDGE.—On Saturday afternoon last, at four p.m., a serious accident Occurred at P.itelev Bridge. A new wrought-iron bridge tossing the River Nidd, upon the estate of Messrs. Met- I)alfe, intended for the convenience of the newly-erected residence of G. Metcalfe, jun., Esq., at Castle Stead,was In course of erection. The bridge was reconstructed uPon the lattice principle, 100 feet span, with 10 feet carriage way, and was designed by Robt. Hodgson, ^s1-> Newcastle. The contractors are Messrs. J. and G. Joycey, of Newcastle. Each girder weighs about 12 tons. About a month had been occupied since the arrival of the material in riveting the sides to their proper length, and launching them across the river. The girder to the side was on Friday placed in position. The other girder, lying parallel with it, remained straight at the time of the mis- fortune, and was all but ready for lowering the ends on to the stone beds prepared for their reception, when the breaking of a chain in the middle caused the girder to swerve, and, falling on its side, it was precipitated into the water, lying in confusion amongst the scaffolding. Had it fallen in the opposite direction, the destruction of the girder then in position would also have been certain, and many lives would have been placed in Immment I danger. Singular to relate, adestructiveaccidenthappened) to the same girder when first dispatched from Newcastle. i The coupling chains of the trucks upon which it wa« placed breaking, they became disengaged, and the whole ^ere impelled over a bridge into a roadway at Gateshead "0 feet deep. The cast-iron was broken into fragments, and the wrought-iron twisted into every conceivable Shape, but happily no lives were sacrificed. The first loss would, we understand, fall upon the North-Eastern Railway Company, the present may entail serious loss Upon the contractors, besides many weeks of delay in the completion of the undertaking. The erection has been under the careful superintendence of Mr. Hutchinson, foreman of the contractors, who bad been unremitting in watching every detail of the work, and was purposing leaving Pateley-bridge by the 5.15 train to New- castle, with the good news that all was right, and in position. I ALLEGED POISONING OF A LADY.—The inquest on the body of Mrs. Frances Phillips, aged 27, the wife of a Wealthy horse dealer, of Knightsbridge, whose death it was alleged was caused through the administration oi poison, was resumed on Monday. Mrs. Little, of York, the mother of the deceased, deposed that, early in the present year, soon after the confinement of her daughter, she found her crying, and she said that Mr. Phillips said she would die. On the 12th of February Mr. Phillips told witness that she must not go into her daughter'! bedroom. but that she might remain in the house. She afterwards followed him to the bedroom door, and beard her daughter a-iy, "Where's mother?" Mr. Phillips remarked that the doctors said no one was to be in the room. At five o'clock witness sent deceased some tea and toast. About six o'clock wit- less was in the kitchen, with Eliza Green and several others, when they heard a loud scream, and a cry for a V^ht. Witness and the others ran to the room and found •"Ir. Phillips there. Deceased said that Mr. Phillips had Poisoned her. Witness asked how he had done it, and she replied, He leaned over me twice, and forced the Medicine down my throat. It was so strong that it tool breath away." She then turned to Mr. Phillips and Said. You wilful murderer, you have Palmered me.' The deceased's face was very black, and she begged her to go for a doctor, and a magistrate.—Miss Anne Phillips, sister of the deceased, corroborated part ot the evidence of the previous witness, and after some similar evidence, Mr. Sergeant Ballantine said that WIIR the case for the friends of the deceased.—Mr. Phillips, the husband of deceased, was then called. He laid: When 1 sent for Dr. Oldham, Mrs. Little would not let him see deceased. She said that Dr. Brown, her doctor, should be sent for, and I sent for him. He entered the room. and said that he never saw such a Case in his life. He offered to take me in his carriage to the police magistrate for advice. Mrs. Ijittle came Up stairs with a table knife, flourishing it about in her hand. Dr. Brown did not come again. Dr. Martin was then called in. I did not hear anything about jealousy with regard to Mrs. Thomas Phillips until the J?8'1 fortnight. (The witness was here affected to tears.) Dr. Martin told me that he had attended the Littles, and iinderstood all about them. On Wednesday 1 administered to deceased an effervescing draught. She was wandering a little. She did not call out then, but when I gave her a seoond draught some time afterwards, she spat it out. I left tho room, and presently the cook came running to me and said, Oh, come up stairs, sir, there's a scene above." I went up and witnessed such a scene as I never saw before in my life. Mrs. Little and her daughter were calling out to my wife, You're poisoned; you've been Palmered; there's the blood coming from your nose and they were all in a state of extreme excitement. I gave orders sub- sequently not to allow any one of them to enter the room, £ ut I let Mrs. Little pass the night in the house.—Mr. Kyle, surgeon, deposed to Mr. Phillips's anxiety for the safety of his wife, who laboured under great excitement, and had suffered very severely from natural causes. He found Mrs. Little "interfere a good deal." In his opinion deceased died of fright, shock, and excitement, opera- ting on her system." After some further evidence, the Jury returned a verdict of Died from natural causes." The verdict was received with applause. MURDER BY A GIPSY NEAR PORTSMOUTH.—One of the mostbarbarous murders on record was perpetrated on Sa- turday morning, half a mile from the usually quiet village of Waterloo which is situated seven miles to the north of Portsmouth, and is a rural retreat, chiefly consisting of villa residences. The murder was committed at a place called Billet s Stables, about half a mile on the Horndean- road. The murderer is a young gipsy, named Lee, aged twenty-six years, well-built, and by no means repulsive- looking. The victim is his wife, Eliza Colt Lee, a tall, handsome young gipsy-woman, aged twenty-four. The murderer travelled from town to town in a living van, commonly used by gipsies. This vehicle and dwelling had been stopping in the yard adjoining the Wellington Tavern, kept by Mr. Silvester, of Waterloo and on Friday night the prisoner asked Mrs. Silvester to take his wife some wine and water, remarking that she would take nothing from him, and they appeared to be on un- friendly terms, as Lee imputed to his wife improper con- duct with another man, while at Ascot races, where they bad kept an entertainment similar to that known Rs Aunt Sally." The wife denied the imputation, and repeatedly told Mrs. Silvester that he had no grounds for his suspicions. The unfortunate victim was in an Advanced state of pregnancy. On Saturday morning, about nine o'clock, Lee and his wife left the Waterloo Inn, where they had remained a short time, being tn route to Odiham, accompanied by a little boy named Wyatt, their nephew. In about half an hour after their departure news reached the village that Lee had barbarously murdered his wife on the road. Police-con- table Rody Deegan, of the Hants constabulary, imme- diately went after the van, and discovered that the re- port was true, for lying on the grass about four hundred yards from the van, was Leo, who, on seeing the police- Dineer exclaimed, I'm glad you have come, for I have cut my wife's throat." He also said, She slept with another man, I am sure, the first night at Ascot." Deegan went towards the van, and perceived a track of blood for about fifteen yards along the road. On Coming up to the vehicle, he perceived the deceased lying under the horse's heels. One hoof was on her long, dishevelled, and jet black hair, while the other rested upon her arm. Her throat presented a horrible spectacle, being cut from ear to ear, and she »PPeared to be quite dead, Prisoner said, Have you conaf vhe razor I did it with ?" to which question the fromth rePlied, "Yes; I found it four or five yards It to die°»Ta% on road." Prisoner then said, '«I did Mr. Silv"est«;he body was placed in a cart belonging to Waterloo reR>oved to a shed at the rear of the An eye-witnesa'descrn!0*1 place theVan i° -oner was driving thB ? tho murder as follc!w8 *}" his nephew, the boy £ .long the Horodean-road, board. Lee suddenly ^ot^V sitting on the foot- verted to the Ascot ai;Stoalla Passion having re- lnto T "iT't ■tniggle ensued, e got hls wife's head over the hairdoor, or^ch^of theVan and having previously procured a razor h instan* in a most fearful manner, causing aim h heath. He threw her over the half-match una i 8 heels. During the murder the horse stood wot and the bov was ap- parently unmindful of what was gomg on. Lee never attempted to escape, but after the murder he took the boy to a house and gave him in charge of a woman, to whom also he gave either two or three sovereigns, with the request that she should not let him see his aunt. Be then went out and sat down by the roadside, in *hich position he was found by the police constable. The prisorer belongs to a tribe of gipsies who encamp Dear Portsmouth, and who attend fairs held within a «*>nsiden(ble circuit aroutid: The front part of the van Presented a ghastly appearance, being smoared witn Wood, and the little boy Wvatt was seen in the most Indifferent manner daubing the van over with his aunt s blood. The prisoner waj brought before ft ipkgistlfett THE UOURT.—His Koyal Highness the Prince of Wale' crossed over from Osborne on Monday morning, in th< Royal yacht Fairy, Captain G. H. Seymour, C.B., t, meet her Royal Highness the Princess Hohenlohe, who with her suite, arrived by special train from Dover an' embarked from the dockyard on board the Fairy, pro ce-, 1 tn ,f TT„. r DEATH OF LIEUTENANT-COLONEL H. W. WYNN.—A; vacancy in the representation of Montgomeryshire has, occurred by the death of Lieutenant-Colonel Herbert! Watkin Williams Wynn, which took place on the 22nd inst., at Cefyn, St. Asaph. The deceased was the second son of the late Sir Watkin Williams Wynn, by Lady Henrietta Antonia, the eldest daughter of the first Earl Powis, and was born in St. James's-square, in 1822. He entered the army as Ensign in 1839, became Lieutenant-; Colonel of the 2nd West India Regiment in 1854, and Major of the 1st Flintshire Rifle Volunteers in August, 1860. In October, 1850, he was first returned for Mont- gomeryshire without opposition, being elected on the death of his uncle, the Right Hon. Charles W. Williams Wynn. who represented the county from 1797 till 1850. In politics the deceased was a Conservative. We believe that, after the marriage of the Princess Alice with Prince Louis of Hesse, the Royal bride and bridegroom will retire to St. Clare, the charming resi- dence of Colonel and Lady Catherine Vernon Harcourt, at Spring Vale, but that their stay there will be limited to a few days. Spring Vale is some three miles from Ryde, and St. Clare was one of those places looked over by the Queen and Prince Consort when they were in search of a residence in the Isle of Wight, and before they finally decided upon selecting Osborne. Lady: Catherine Vernon Harcourt is a daughter of the late; Earl of Liverpool—a nobleman who in his lifetime was most especially honoured by tho Queen's regard and friendship. When Sir Robert Peel was forming his Administration, the only stipulation made by the Queen on the construction of the Government was that the Earl of Liverpool should hold a high office in her household. It is, perhaps, quite as much from these old feelings of friendship for the family as on account of the beautiful situation of St. Clare itself, that it has been selected by the Queen for the honeymoon of the Prince and Princess. -Court Journal. PROPOSED FORT AT PLYMOUTH.—The Royal Com mis-I sion on the National Defences having been requested toj reconsider, in conjunction with other officers, the subjecti of the construction of a forti behind Plymouth Break- water, a supplemental report has been presented, stating, in the first place, that a fort on or near the Breakwater is required for the more complete command and protec-I tion of the Sound. It would also be in the best position for supporting floating defences, and for affording pro- i tection to any portion of our sea-going fleet seeking refuge under its guns. The next question was, on what spot such a work should be placed. Its erection on the breakwater itself is pronounced objectionable; indeed, the foundation could not be depended upon for a super- structure of such weight. The site recommended is the Shovel Rock, inside and near the certre of the break- water, and as close to its inner slope as practicable. The rock is in every respect suitable for the foundation, and a fort in that position will not interfere with the anchor- a fort in that position will not interfere with the anchor- age of a single ship. Being protected from the wash of the sea, the lower tier of guns may be placed as low as the top of the breakwater will allow and communica- tion with the fort will be practicable in all weathers. EXTRAORDINARY CONSPIRACY TO DEFRAUD THE GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY. -At the Wolverhampton Police Court, on Tuesday, Mary Rogers, Thomas Rogers, Wil- liam Rogers, and John Pickin, were charged with at- tempting to defraud, and with conspiring to defraud, the Great Western Railway. On the 17th of May last a man named Jnrvis, a bricklayer, while coming by the midnight train to Wolverhampton, fell out of the compartment of the third class carriage in which he was riding, and was killed. The company afterwards agreed to give the female prisoner, who represented herself to be Jarvis's wife, X22 for herself and child, upon her producing her marriage certificate. She brought what purported to be the' certificate of the marriage of herself to deceased, at the1 Collegiate Church in the town, in 1857; but as it was, dirty and mutilated, it was suggested that a fresh copy I should be obtained from the clerk at the church. On Tuesday morning the prisoners went to the clerk for j that purpose, and on referring to the date in the regis- ter, he could find no entry of the marriage of "Mary I Rogers" to Robert Jarvis," and, suspecting something wrong, he went to the Rectory. There the Rector exa- mined the certificate brought by the prisoners with a microscope, and found that the words Robert Jarvis" bad been written over the partially obliterated words John Wicksted," and Rogers" over the word Rey-1 nolds while the cipher had been turned into the fisnire 7, thus making the original date of the certificate 1850 into 1857. The Rector sent for a constable, and gave the prisoners into custody. SHOOTING A MAN AT SADDLEWORTH. — On Monday, Joseph Robinson, dyer, Spring Meadow, near Uppermill, Saddleworth, was charged at Uppermill with shooting at John Winterbottom with intent to kill him. John Win- terbottom, carter to Mr. W. K. Schofield, Heathfield, stated that on Saturday morning he was in the stable- yard, when lie heard the report of a gun and felt himself struck in the right shoulder. He turned round and saw the prisoner, with a gun in his hand, standing a short distance from him under a tree in the adjoining field. He asked him what be had done that for, and, in reply, the prisoner said that he intended to shoot him, and if the gun had not hung fire he would have been a dead man. He added that he had missed him now, but would have another shot at him in the morning. — Robert Towler Preston, police-officer, Uppermill, said that the prisoner, when apprehended, admitted that he had shot at Winterbottom, and added that he should have shot him dead if the gun had not hung fire. He seemed as if he was suffering from delirium tremens. After some further evidence, the Bench committed the prisoner for trial at the assizes.—Mr. Meiler applied for bail, which was opposed by Mr. Grisdale on the ground that the prisoner was an unsafe person to be at large. Some time since he had shot at another person in the neighbourhood in a similar way, and the brother of the prisoner had been warned by him (Mr. Grisdale) that he ought to be kept in safety. That was on Thursday morning, two days before the circumstances had taken place into which the Bench had been inquiring.—The magistrates refused to accept bail. FEARFUL RIOT AT HONLEY, NEAR HUDDERSFIELD.- A riot of a very serious character occurred in the neighbourhood of Huddersfield on Monday night last, af a village named Honley, the rioters driving the police completely out of the field, and remaining triumphant in the district for several hours. It originated in pure hatred of the police, and commenced with a most unpro. voked attack on Police constable Edward Antrobus, whose offence is his faithful and impartial attention to the duties of his office. He was patrolling the village on duty at a quarter past seven, when a number of persons gathered on the footway before him. He requested them to go away, and thoy did so but immedately after a man named Moss, residing in the immediate vicinity commenced a studied insult upon the officer. He had a horse and cart with him, containing coals, and shoutinc Antrobus s name in a contemptuous way, ho said he would call his horse "Antrobus." Ho then addressed the animal under that cognomen, shouting Come up, Antro- bus; roll up, Antrobus." This, it has been ascertained, was part of a pre concerted signal to gather the rowdy populace. Moss then went into his house, and instantly re-appeared with a stool and a bell. He set the stool in the middle of the street, and standing upon it, he began ringing the bell. This he continued for some time, till a number of people had assembled around him. He then stepped down from the stool, and led the crowd along the street, shouting the words which ho had addressed to his horse. He also supplied some ten or a dozen boys wiih tin whistles and a drum. Having in this way collected some 200 people, he led them to the officer as he paraded on duty. The crowd commenced to push him about in a violent manner, he trying to avoid them. They then threw stones atiIim, and the officer, seeing the crowd were fully bent on mischief, ran down the fields, intending to make his way to the house of the police-sergeant of the district for assistance but the whole crowd gave chase, and pelted the officer with stones as fast as they could procure the missiles. The officer kept ahead of them for some time, but as he was turning out of the fields on the highway at Stepp's Mill, a stone caught him on the side of the head, completely opening his ear, and causing him to fall senseless to the ground. Three young men who happened to be passing tried to restrain the violence of the crowd, saying they had better give it up, for they had killed the officer. They then came to a halt, and lifted the officer from the ground and placed him in his insensible position on a fence wall. Here the crowd danced about and enjoyed their triumph. In a few minutes the officer rallied and returned to consciousness. He then endeavoured to re- sume his way to the sergeant's house. The ringleaders of the rioters, however, shouted, "Give him some more Kill the The crowd then again stoned the officer, but at last be escaped from them with his wounds, and reached the sergeant's house in safety. At ten o'clock he returned to Honley, along with the police sergeant and another officer, and found a crowd of 400 persons gathered round his house, and burn- ing his effigy and that of his wife. As soon as the crowd saw the police, they again attacked them with such fury that the officers had to escape to a neighbouring public-house for safety. Thither they were followed by the lawless rabble, who gathered a heap of straw, be- smeared with tar, round the house, And shouted on all aides, Burn it down burn it down Fortunately, however, they were restrained from their purpose. They then returned to Antrobus's house, and attacked it. They broke the windows with stones, and abused his wife in a shameful manner, pulling her violently about, and throwing burning straw upon her, in consequence 01 which she sustained injuries of both burns and bruises. ? niob continued in full swing till midnipht, the officer! being unable to venture from their retreat. At that time the crowd began to disperse, and shortly quiet was restored. The authorities in Huddersfield were then 4««Iton^t'ed With' &Pd steP8 tak<m to bring the oif«}. A Parliamentary return ivea the sums paid to minis- ters, or by or to the several funds for the benefit of vidows of ministers, from the Parliamentary or Govern nent grant of 1860, and of the expenses of distributing :he amounts. The amount paid to ministers or their •epresentativs was -037,985 to the widows' fund, £885; o agents, jE550 and to clerks of synod, £ 152. CAPTURE OF ANOTHER ENGLISH STEAMER IN AT- TEMPTING TO RUN THE BLOCKADE AT CHARLESTON.—Ad- vices were received at Lloyd's on Friday, announcing the capture of another English steamer, while attempting to tin the blockade at Charleston. She was the Elizabeth, crew steamer, laden with a general cargo and 3,000 En- ield rifles and was last from Nassau. It appears she was naking for the port on the 29th of May when she was alien in with by one of the cruisers, aud captured and ent on to New York. Her cargo is reported to be in- ured at Lloyd's, ENORMOUS SHIPMENTS OF GRAIN FROM THE UNITED >TATKS TO ENGLAND.—The advices per the royal mail 'teamship Europa, arrived in the Mersey, report the shipments of grain to this country on a more extensive icale than has been known in the United States for several years past, amply showing that the crop last year n the States has been a very large one. During the veek ending the 10th of June there were exported from New York the enormous amount of 1,413,484 bushels )f grain, chiefly wheat, and 35,432 barrels of flour were shipped from New York to Europe, the greater propor- tion of which was for Great Britain. These shipments ire quite independent of those from the ports of Phila- lelphia, Baltimore, Boston, and Portland, which are in :orresponding proportion. The shipments of grain from Canada, both by sailing vessels and the mail steamers, to this country have also been on a more extensive scale than for some years past. "ENAMELLING" LADIES.-London has been amused by another enamelling" case, Mrs. Leverson, com- monly called Madame Rachel, having sued the Hon. Mrs. Carnegie for £938. She had, she stated, enamelled the lady's face, neck, and bosom four times, and trusting evidently to the fear of publicity, deemed this monstrous charge fair remuneration. She had, however, overshot her mark, and the jury found for the defendant. Mrs. Leverson stated, in evidence, that she did not paint she onlyemploved a liquid which made the skin transparent, ,\nd rendered her patient "beautiful for ever." She forgot to mention the price the beautified one mus £ pay, viz., premature old age and liability to all manner of skin disease. The practice is common all over the East, ind in Syria, as Miss Rogers says, brides enamel' themselves all over. The liquid used destroys the mil- lions of little hairs growing in the pores of the skin, leaving it brightly transparent and glossy, but with a !iability to shrivel into thousands of little wrinkles. Oriental wise women affirm that pure oil applied for weeks will produce the same effect, without the same con- sequences, a fact we record for the benefit of all who dread both fading and Madame Rachel.—Spectator. THE QUEEN'S PROCTOR V. WILLIAMS.—THE STEPNET MURDER.—This case was concluded on Saturday. The question at issue was whether the defendant was the law- ful nephew of one of the next of kin of Mrs. Emsley, whc was murdered in her house, at Stepney, in August, 1860, or whether the deceased was illegitimate, and the Crown was entitled to administer to her est ite. The only ob- iect of the intervention of the Crown in cases of this kind (it was stated) was to take care that no person obtained possession of an intestate property who had no legal right to it, and if it turned out that the intestate was illegitimate, to divide the property among those who were equitably entitled to it. The case of the Crown was-first, that the deceased and Samuel Williams. the defendant's father, were the children of Samuel Williams the elder, not by his wife. but by a Mrs. Williams, with whom he cohabited and, secondly, that even if the defendant's father was legitimate, the defendant himself was illegitimate, inasmuch as his fathel had cohabited first with a woman named Graham, and afterwards with one Polly Armstrong, and that his chil- dren wera not born in wedlock. Mrs. Spencer bad left a familv bv her husband, and they regarded themselves as entitled to a share of Mrs. Emsley's property. On the Learned Judge taking his seat on Saturday, Mr. Macaulay, Q.C., the leader on the part of the Crown, had a conversation with Mr. O'Malley, Q.C., who represented the defendant. The result was the Learned Judge in- vited the counsel into his private room, and on their return it was announced that the Crown withdrew its claim, and consented to administration being granted to Williams, on the condition and undertaking that the other claimants, the half-sisters and their descendants, should be admitted as next of kin, and entitled to their respective shares of personalty under the Act of Distri- bution. The total value of the property is £ 40,000. LOVE AND ATTEMPTED SUICIDE AT OLDHAM.-On Saturday morning, Eliza Ann Wild, a young woman who has been living at Mr. Daniel Halkyard's, Bell-st., Oldham, for a few weeks past, in the capacity of domes- tic servant, was brought before the Oldham borough bench of magistrates, on a charge of attempting to com- mit self-murder. It appears that a farm servant living at the same house with her has been paying his addresses to the erirl, and had promised her marnage. In the early part of the week he is stated to have made her believe that ne had procured the marriage licence, but in a day or two afterwards he destroyed her hopes by telling her he would not be married toher. She therefore determined to destroy herself, and for that purpose she, on Thursday night, walked into Mr. Jones's lodge of water, after leaving her auron upon the bank. Joseph Needham was going homo by way of Spencer-street, between tan and eleven, when he heard a cry as of some one in distress, and he found that it came from the lodge. He then made an alarm that some one was drowning, and went over the wall to the side of the lodge, when he saw a young woman in the water up to the breast. He called for a rope, and it was thrown to her. She caught it and was drasrgod to land, after which she very heroically said that she did not want to be rescued. While in the water she held fa«t to the rope, but at the same time kept exclaiming, Don't s,we me."—Maurice Philips was next called to give evidence. He stated that as he was going up Bell-street, on Thursday night, about eleven o'clock, he heard a kind of murmuring noise, which at first he took to be made by some men fighting somewhere in the neigh- bourhood, but when he got further up the street he found that it came from the direction of the lodge, and he pre- pared to plunge as he found there was a woman drown- ing. When he was about to jump in he saw the gleam ol a lantern, and went up to the person who held it and de- manded it. He found that it was actually her sweetheart, coolly watching her movements in the water, and very considerately holding her the light so that she might see how to drown herself, it may be presumed, in the most comfortable way. She was then rescued by means of a rope. In answer to the inquiries of the Bench, it was stated that the faithless swain was not in court, and that the girl's father, who is a shoemaker, lived at Lower Moor. The Bench attempted to show the prisoner that she had been guilty of a very serious offence, and asked herwhat explanation she had to offer respecting her conduct. She attempted to answer, but fainted away in the arms of the policeman who stood beside her in the dock. She was, therefore, taken below, and after means had been used for her recovery, she was again brought up. She was discharged on promising to go to her father's house, and not repeat her foolish and criminal attempt. TREHEARN V. MARKS.—BREACH OF PROMISE OF MAR- RIAGE. -This was an action for a breach of promise 01 marriage, and there was an allegation that the defendant had married another. The defendant pleaded that h< was wholly and absolutely absolved from the promise by the plaintiff, to which the plaintiff, by replication, alleged that it was obtained by fraud and collusion. The plaintiff also pleaded a subsequent promise. Mr. Ribton and Mr. Beasley were counsel for the plaintiff; the de- fendant appeared in person. The plaintiff is a Protes- tant. and the defendant is a member of the Jewish per- suasion, and both were in humble circumstances. They became acquainted with each other in 1854, when they were both young, the plaintiff being now about twenty- five years of age. She was in service at Finsbury, next door to the defendant's place of business as a partner or assistant to his brother, a fringe and tassel manu- facturer, when they first became acquainted. The inti- macy continued till 1856, when he left for Australia on speculation, in the hope of improving his condition, having first assured her that the separation and the dis- tance would make no difference in his feelings, and that as they were both young the delay would not be preju- dicial to them. He wrote to her from the Startled Fawn before she left Gravesend, and corresponded with hot during his stay in Australia, under cover to the plain. tiff's sister, Mrs. Donald, the wife of a compositor and printer, residing in Bermondsey. He represented in hii letters that he was doing very well, and that on hit return he would be able to maintain her comfortably and respectably. He returned in July, 1859, and called or the plaintiff's mother and sister, and informed them that he was unchanged in hie feelings towards her upon which they gave him her address, she being in service at that time at Mrs. M'Nabb's, Camberwell New-road. He called upon her there, and at his request, and under the promise 01 marriage, she returned to her mother's house. He con- tinued his visits up to the 21st June, 1860. He walked out with her that night as usual, but he never repeated his visits, or assigned any reason for his deserting her. On the 5th of September following he married another person. It was alleged that the defendant was now in good circumstances, and was carrying on business in Holywell-row nnd in Clifton-street, Finsbury. The usual presents, such as photographic likenesses, &c., and a voluminous correspondence, had passed between them. The learned counsel read extracts from the letters. There was the usual amount of original poetry—(laugh- ter)- and he had addressed her from" Dear Sarah" to "My beloved sister," and as he warmed up, to his "deal and beloved Sarah." (Laughter.) Some of the letters were couched in curious terms with reference to her be. coming the mother of his children and in one of them, speaking of his prospects, he said, a person like Nahaam can beat any one in business." (Laughter.) From Ballarat he wrote of his return "to Old England to the arms of my dear Sarah, who I know will stretch them out to re- oeive me." (Laughter.) The jury returned a verdict for piMatiC, with igloo damages, '< IMPORTS OF WHEAT, &C.—A parliamentary return re-" cently issued states that between the 1st September last and the 1st of the present month 4.919,344 quarters of wheat, 4,236,456 cwts. of wheat flour, and 2,281,743 j quarters of maize, were imported into the United King dom. The United States alone supplied 1,731,626 qrs. of wheat, 3,135,686 cwts. of wheat flour, and 1,362,256 qrs. of maize. We have heard it stated, on good authority, that it is probable that the Robin Hood Rifles will receive a sum mons from the Duke of Newcastle, as Lord-Lieutenant ol the county, to repair to Clumber-park in the autumn, where they will be met by all the corps of Nottingham- shire, and many of the adjoiningcounties, and be reviewed by his Grace. It is probable that the Prince of Wales will be present on the occasion.—Court Journal. THE GREAT EASTERN.—The customs officers at this port have, whilst making their usual examination on board the Great Eastern, discovered a large quantity of contraband tobacco. It was concealed amongst the machinery. The ownership of the tobacco not having been traced, the usual course adopted in such cases has, we understand, been pursued, that of placing the vessel for the present under detention by the custom authorities.—Liverpool Mercury. It is understood that the Prince of Wales has been invited to receive the honorary degree of D.C.L. at the ensuing commemoration at Oxford University, but has declined, owing to the strict privacy which the Court will observe through the year. Lord Palmerston has been offered the same honour, and has accepted it. Sir James Ontram and Professor Wheatstone are also spoken of as likely to have degrees conferred on them upon the occasion. THE COLONIAL EPISCOPACY.-The Right Rev. Dr. Claughton, the newly appointed Bishop of Colombo, will leave England for his diocese in about a month. Several other Colonial Bishops, now in England, are expected to leave about the same time. It is believed that there were never so many Colonial Bishops in London as there are present. Among them are the Bishops of Sydney, Tas- mania, Fredericton, Nova Scotia, St. Helena, Colombo, Ontario, Sierra Leone, and Jerusalem. FATAL FIGHT AT BIBKENHKAD.—A man was killed in a fight on Sunday night, at Birkenhead. A stone sawyer named Caine was drinking with others on that night at the public house of a Mrs. Jones, Bridge-street, Blrken- head. A dispute arose between him and another man, who was a stranger to the parties present, and they both went out for the purpose of fighting. The stranger was observed shortly afterwards knocking Caine down. and before assistance could be rendered Caine was so severely injured, particularly about the head, that he died almost immediately, and the murderer escaped. A dock labourer has been apprehended on suspicion. The sudden change in the intentions of the Viceroy of Egypt as to the duration of his visit to this country, has led, as might be expected, to considerable speculation in the diplomatic world, and among the upper ten thousand; but, according to the best received accounts, his High- ness took umbrage that one of Her Majesty's carriages was not sent to meet him at the railway and convey him to his residence at Wimbledon, and also that at the ban- quet given to him at Apsley House, on Saturday last, precedence was accorded to M. Musurus, as the accre- dited Ambassador of the Sultan, to whom, of course, the Viceroy is only the vassal. Rumour also assigns that his absence from Ascot, which it was only natural he should like to witness, originated from the fact of no stand being placed at his disposal.—Court Journal. The three oratorio performances, lately given by Mr. and Madame Goldschmidt, after deducting the expenses (in each case amounting to about £500) produced the following results:- H Messiah," May 14, £ 900 128.; "The Creation," May 28, X899 14s. 7d. "Elijah," June 4, X883 16s. 2d.: total, £2,684 2s. 9d. The net proceeds of the "Creation" have been paid to the Hos- pital for Consumption at Brompton of the Elijah," divided equally between the Royal Society of Musicians of Great Britain and the Royal Society of Female Musi- The profits arising from the performance of the Messiah" were distributed in the following manner ".— To the Rector of Lambeth Society for the Employment of Needlewomen, £ 150 to Miss Stanley's establishment, York-street, Westminster, £ 150 and £ 600 12s. to the Institution for Needlewomen, Hinde-street, Manchester- square. THE LADY GODIVA PROCESSION AT COVENTRY.—On Monday the Lady Godiva pageant was revived at Coventry with great magnificence. Its last representa- tion was in 1854, and a local committee determined upon reproducing it this year, in the hope that it would benefit the old city, which has long been suffering from the badness of trade. If the advantages gained bv the citizens will be proportionate to the number of visitors, then they will be great indeed, for it was computed that upwards of fifty thousand people had arrived by train on Monday, at Coventry. There were excursion trains from Nottingham, Leicester, Leamington, Warwick, Bir- mingham, Wolverhampton, Walsall, and other places, Rnd as the weather was beautifully fine every train was filled. Those who were to take part in the procession assembled at noon in the churchyards of St. Michael's and Trinity, which occupy, as nearly as can be ascer tained, the site of the monastery where Leofric and Godiva lived. Thence the procession started at half-past twelve o'clock. The narrow streets were crowded with a dense mass of human beings. The fine chime of St. Michael's splendid steeple rangout a joyous peal as the procession started. The following was its order, with some particulars of the characters represented :-The band of the 1st Royal Dragoons, now in Coventry barracks. Two mounted heralds, richly ap- parelled in tabards embroidered with the English arms and quarterings. The city arms—an elephant and castle, lent by ^rs- Wombwell. Mrs. Wombwell's band, in a carriage drawn by two camels and two horses. Twelve City Guards, on foot, carrying spears and battle axes, their breasts and heads cased in ancient iron armour be- longing to the Corporation. St. George, armed eap-a-pie in steel, with an attendant in the costume of the Tem- plars—a red cross^knight. The Drapers, Cappers, and Worsted Veavers' Companies were represented by one or two gentlemen each, and each company by two chil- dren on horseback. Each trade guild also sent its streamer elaborately painted with its arms and insignia. The band of the Warwickshire Yeomanry. The Coventry Volun- teer Fire Brigade, with their engine and followers. The Lady Godiva Court of the Order of Foresters, including a brass band, Robin Hood and Maid Marian, Will Scar- let and Little John, Friar Tuck, a boy with a fawn, boys with hounds, the chief ranger, and 150 members. Edward the Black Prince, armed from head to foot after the fa- shion of his time. He bore a battle axe, and his saddle and housings were of black velvet, trimmed with scarlet and gold. A juvenile band, belonging to a charity school, founded by a lady a century and a half ago. The chair- men and children-followers of four lodges of the London Order of Oddfellows. The old Watchmakers' Association, and the provident society of the same trade the Philan- thropic. the United Patriots' and the Operative Carpen- ters' Societies, represented in the same way as the trades already mentioned. The Coventry Rifle Volunteer Band. The city banner, lent by the Mayor (Thomas Soden, Esq.) The city beadle and crier (personated by boys), one carry- ing a staff and the other a bell, and dressed in silk coats, half red, half green—a former emblem of the bishopric of Lichfield and Coventry. The Lady Godiva, preceded by a white si.k banner inscribed, To the pure all things are pure, and escorted by dragoons. The character of the heroine was represented by a married lady from London. She was dressed in a tight-fitting flesh-coloured silk bodice, and—as a compromise with those who have aforetime charged the pageant with indelicacy- a long white satin skirt. On her head was a rayed coronet of thin iron or steel, from which a lace veil hung about her. Her hair was loose and flowing but not so long as the veritable Godiva s must have been. Her palfrey was of spotless white, and its trappings of Coventry blue, adorned with gold a.nd scarlet. The lady was cheered as she rode along. Leofric, Earl of Mercia, Godiva's husband. Richard II. who, on Gosiord Green, about a mile from the centre of the city, banished Henry Bolingbroke, and the Duke of Norfolk, and commenced the quarrel between the Yorkists and Lancastrians. Henry Bolingbroke, as the fourth kmg Henry, who held a parliament at Coventry. The 2nd VVarwickshire Militia band. King Henry VI. -who conferred many favours on Coventry, and fre- quently visited the city-with his Queen Margaret. Henry V111. who came to Coventry to see the pageants. Queen Elizabeth, another royal visitor to the city, who carried away more than she took there, in true monarchical fashion of the olden time—namely a purse containing XIOO which the citizens gave her. Sir John Falstaff, who refused to march his regiment through Coventry, because, said he "There's but a shirt and a half in all my company, and the half shirt i. two napkins tacked together, and thrown over the shoulders, like a herald's coat without sleeves." Falstaff s "faithful page." The Birmingham rifle drum and fife band. Four children, appropriately dressed to represent the Seasons, in a car decorated with flowers and evergreens a large revolving globe in the centre of the car. A horse and jockey, to remind the applauding crowd that the owner and trainer of the winner of the last Derby were Coventry men. Local notables William and Adam Botener. mayors of Coventry, who spent jgICO a year for 22 years, in the erection of the finest of the three spires, that of St. Michael a church Sir Thomas White, a merchant in the sixteenth century, whose bequests to the city are now worth upwards of £ 20,000; John Hales, Esq., the foundei of the Free Grammar School; and Sir William Dugdale, the historian. The 10th Leicestershire Rifle Corps Band. And lastly a boy and girl representing a shepherd and shepherdess, with a lamb and sheepdog at their feet, in a sylvan bower, upon an ornamented oar. All the individuals named were dressed inappropriate costumes, rich in their variety of colours, and glittering with mimic gems. these historical habits had been obtained from the lessee of Covent Garden Theatre. Each king and noble was duly attended and there were banners and streamers m the procession more than one could count. Altogether the procession included about 300 men, 70 children, and 160 horses. The length of the route was a little ov#r five milM. and the show eoeuoied about Ay. ¡ bouoi