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Major-General Thompson has issued a brief and pithy address to the ejectors of Hull, dated August 7. He will only come forward as the opponent of any nominee of the unseated Members, and of the bribery in-

Smith said—" Your Prussians fought well with us in the battle of Water- " Tuesday, March 12, 1854. affectionate, sincere, 100, and I have no doubt they will do so again if circumstances should "I cannot safely write with anything but pencil."

' were a tissue of o position to the authority of the commanding-officer, and beyond her control. At e present moment she was suffering from disease Pews other than those of Lieutenant Perry ; " whose acts," he added, was suffering from a temporary insanity—a homicidal and suicidal imp could not be allowed to pass." Perry wrote to Shervinton, calling upon him to slate his belief as to the intention with which the gesture was performed. She • vfle was willuag to accept the apology. Campbell 48 an illustration of Lieutenant Perry 's impertinent familiarity, Captain 'sang:hell said he had called him "Colin," his Christian name ; and he did not wish to be called so by Perry. But it was shown that this only occurred Once. The Court stands adjourned until Monday.

that her own age was thirty, and that she was married before she was seven-

terest in general; but if he do come forward, he will be at no expense of teen. Her husband had been greatly affected by this affair, and had left his any kind, and there must be some demonstration of the probability of home. [Counsel intimated that Mr.Ward's mind had been disordered.j success. 1 Some of the correspondence was put in and read, and it showed sufficiently A public meeting of Hull electors was held on Tuesday ; Mr. Jalland in that Miss Annie was a precocious young woman rather than a girl of tender the chair ; and two Liberals, Mr. Digby Seymour, a London merchant, years. In the first, she tells her "dear John" that she had "received his and Mr.*. H. Watson, Queen's counsel, were introduced to them. They lines" and fully understood what they meant ; and that it was " a great both described themselves as thorough Liberals, supporters of free trade, comfort to her to think that at last she had got his heart a little her way." extension of the suffrage, vote by ballot, and an enlarged scheme of edu- The next letter is very characteristic. " Ivy House. cation. The electors passed a resolution pledging themselves to further ye"uMayetteritteset John—You have no geteakofitheetir with which I received your letter. the election of the candidates. It was stated by the chairman that Gene- the day and way oefsaeyeeeonpee.woIrd I

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rot Thompson would not come forward. morning and be dressed about seven o'clock; then Bella will leave the front door off the catch. I am to leave it open to set our tyrant off her guard, and then to slip The Prussian General Prince Radzivil was present on Tuesday at a down the street; but I shall leave you to fix the place we will meet: but at all review of the South Devon and First Somerset Regiments of Militia, now evoeart,eLit must before be retired. .You need not have had any misgiveintgs in laying open in garrison at Plymouth ; Sir Barry Smith commanding. After the doling so. I shreourg.havoeuemngsetlr‘L another seutereetIps should l&oe nelyneb you sent,ehztpy but tyour manoeuvres of the regiments in brigade on the Hoo, Sir Harry Smith in- Crossy takes care to keep them herself, and if I ask her for one she will know who troduced the officers to Prince Itadzivil; who expressed himself well it is for. And now, John, when you write to Bella, send something for me, and say pleased with their performances. Addressing the Prince, Sir Harry if you .E.ic accord eteo me eaerrera your eumr aere.ettAennEctltenow t h and true, s te and truest love,ANNIE.

render it necessary." To which the Prince replied—" Let us keep alive In the third letter she gives a businesslike description of her intentions. those reminiscences which began in the Seven-Years War, which have She would " call at his house, only she is not sure which it is, and might make a mistake, and that would not be pleasant." "I have a white dress,"

been continued since, and which I hope will not end today." she naively adds, " but it might arouse suspicion; so I shall just keep on my The Windsor Court-martial terminated on Wednesday, so far as the pro- everyday one. I shall set my watch with the real time the night before. secution was concerned, after sitting eleven days. This week twelve officers So I think we shall manage it nicely." have been examined : they were Lieutenant W. T. Waldey, Lieutenant Mr. Overend submitted, that Miss Ward had run away from school of her Buncombe, Lieutenant Dallas, Lieutenant Curtis, Lieutenant Llewellyn, own accord, not at the prisoner's solicitation, and therefore he had not lieutenant Alfred Waldey, Lieutenant Pane Lieutenant Fords, Lieutenant "men her away." Mr. Justice Crowder said that was quite immaterial Greer, Adjutant lifSAlister, Lieutenant Hesheth, and Captain Colin Camp_ Mr. Overend attempted no defence as to the facts, but tried to soften down bell. With respect tothe conduct of Captain Nicholas there was an unanimity the prisoner's misbehaviour. He called two witnesses to character. who of evidence that he did not aid and abet others in annoying snung officers, said they knew nothing against the accused, but had " heard " that he was but that he was, on the contrary, most kind and obliging. -The witnesses lately "a little wild." The verdict was " Guilty." The Judge, after coin- could not remember anything, when specifically put, that criminated Cap- menting on the necessity for repressing such offences as these, for the lain Nicholas. One officer, Lieutenant W. T. Waldey, however, carried this committal of which teachers had peculiar opportunities, sentenced Mr. At- too far. He denied ever having heard Captain Nicholas use opprobrious kinson to nine months' imprisonment.

language—such as calling one young officer " a bloody son of a bitch of an It is said that Miss Ward, or " Mrs. Atkinson," is entitled to 10,0001. in ensign," or ever having stated, in writing, that Nicholas used those words. her own right ; and it is believed the marriage is a valid one.

Upon which Perry handed up a letter written by Waldey, in which such a The Esher murder ease was tried at Guildford on Wednesday. Mary Anne statement was made. With respect to the opinion of Lieutenant Perry's cha- Brough was charged with murdering her six children. She pleaded "Not meter entertained by his brother officers, nearly all of them described him as guilty," in a firm tone ; and she appeared quite unconcerned throughout the a man of "disagreeable and forward mannere.' One of the witnesses, Cap- proceedings. The greater part of the evidence for the prosecution was twin Campbell, who had not been much on any special military duty with identical with what was given at the Coroner's inquest. There was no Perry, said—" My own reasons for shunning him are as follows : his Inver- doubt that the mother killed her children, and then cut her own throat ; tinent familiarity., his general depraved habits, a disgusting gesture he made and she herself clearly told the whole story to the police. The question for use of towards a.friend of mine, and the general difficulty I had, during the the Jury to decide was her moral responsibility at the time of the murders. short time he was under my command, in keeping him within the bounds of The witnesses deposed that she had been an affectionate mother. On the discipline. That is all." Pressed to describe the " disgusting gesture," he other hand, some evidence was adduced showing that she had deeply said, that Acting Adjutant Shervinton came one day to his room in a state of resented her husband's desertion of her after he discovered her improper greatexcitement, saying that he had never been so insulted in his life. " I conduct with another man. Three days after the slaughter, according to asked him what was the matter. He said he had occasion to hand an official Policeman Collett, " the prisoner said she wished her daughter Mary had memorandum to Lieutenant, then Ensign Perry ; who made a gesture of come ; and she told me to take a box from under the bed ; and I did so, and Wiping his posteriora with it, and then handed it back to him." found it contained plate and jewellery. On the top of the box there was a Upon this charge being made, Lieutenant Perry called for the production piece of paper, and when I took this up the prisoner said, 'I thought not of of certain letters ; and after some cross-questioning, in order to make the doing it until Friday night.'" The paper was as follows—" MI for my production of the letters formally correct, it was agreed that the letters daughter Mary. Her father is only seeking to get money from them as should be produced. This was done on Wednesday. The letters consist of never injured him, or done him any harm; so help me God. Mary Anne a correspondence between Major Fyffe Colonel Garrett, Lieutenant Sher- Brough." To Sarah Waller the accused said that her husband had left her Linton, sad Lieutenant Perry. Major 'Fyffe, in May, reported Perry under without money ; and he was going to take the children from her, and she arrest for the disgusting gesture above alluded to, as well as sulkiness at meant he should not do so. A year and a half ago, she had an epileptic fit' drill, and absence from parades. Colonel Garrett, " judging Lieutenant Perry she lost the use of one side, and could not speak distinctly ; she complained by his antecedents," writes that he was " not surprised " at what had oe- of her head ; she had been seen to laugh in a silly manner. stirred ; and instantly ordered a court-martial on Perry.. To this Perry re- Mr. James, for the defence, urged that the unhappy mother had killed her Plied by referring the gesture to a " high flow of spirits" arising from ex- children and attempted to kill herself while in a state of frenzy. Mr. Izod, citement ; and being on intimate terms with Lieutenant Shervinton, Perry a surgeon who attended Mrs. Brough, was called to prove the alteration in !sys that what he did was "merely meant as a joke," "an unthinking boy- her mind after the fit : he had observed symptoms of a disordered brain ; he tall trick," for which he had apologized to Lieutenant Shervinton and Major had counselled her to avoid excitement ; three days before the murders he Fyffe. Colonel Garrett was not satisfied with this—believing the contempt had so cautioned her. Dr. Forbes Winslow, Dr. Daniel, and Dr. Engledue, to have been " designed, wilful, and premeditated ". and called for state- all expressed a belief that the murders had been committed while the prise= reporting replied= I have to acquaint you, that the opinion I gave, when "uncontrollable impulse " in bar of conviction was a dangerous one, and !Port...um the circumstance, remains unaltered, namely, that you acted in a required to be well weighed, for every crime was committed under some im- !Foouwehtless and inconsiderate manner, without the most distant intention of pulse. If the Jury should be of opinion that, owing to the unfortunate „Bu ing contempt for authority or committing a breach of discipline?' Al- relation in which she stood with her husband at the time, the prisoner was ugh unconvinced, Colonel Garrett did not press the court-martial, as Ma- induced to meditate the commission of some act of violence either towards or It is understood that, practically, Lieutenant Perry has been acquitted of the charge brought against him on the first court-martial. It appears that formally he was found guilty of the charge, and sentenced to be dis- missed from the service, but unanimously recommended to lenient considera- tion on account of the great provocation he had received. However, the Judge Advocate-General, on perusing the evidence, found list osrtain questions had been put which ought to have been rejected, and amiain evi- dence refused which ought to have been taken : he therefore recommended the Queen not to confirm the sentence.

Both Greer and Perry are now at large on parole.

John Atkinson, the Appleby organist who fled with a school-girl to Scot- land and married her, has been tried at Appleby Assizes. The offence was " unlawfully taking a girl under the age of sixteen out of the custody of Jane Bishop, who had the lawful care and charge of her." Miss Bishop keeps a boarding-school for young ladies; Ann Jane Ward, a girl little more than twelve years old, was one of the pupils ; Atkinson was employed to teach her music. The girl became very fond of him, and he of her ; and Miss Bishop discovering this dismissed him. As he continued a correspond- ence with Miss Ward, Miss Bishop notified to him the tender age of the young lady—from her appearance she might have been taken for eighteen rather than twelve. Nevertheless, the lovers, assisted by a servant, continued to exchange letters, and between them an elopement was planned. One night Mies Ward escaped from her " tyrant," accompanied by Atkinson; they got to Sark Toll-bar, the first house iu Scotland over the Border ; and there the tollkeeper, Murray., married them, in the Scottish fashion ; the event being recorded in his thick register-book,—a tome which, it seems, is very rapidly filled with similar records. On their return by rail to Carlisle, the "happy couple" were arrested and separated, and the bridegroom sent to gaol. At the trial, Mrs. Ward deposed to the age of her daughter; adding

of the brain. In summin up Mr. Justice Erie cautioned the Jury, that the plea of herself or others, and that this created an excited condition, which, operating upon her brain in its diseased condition, drove her to a state of temp insanity, during which she committed the act with which she was eh he was bound to tell them that this would not excuse her from the conse- quences, and it would be their duty to find her guilty of the crime of wilful murder. The Jury consulted for two hours, and then returned a verdict of "Not guilty," on the ground of insanity.

The Reverend E. R. Cowie has died at Iver, in Bucks, under very lament- able circumstances. A warrant for his arrest had been issued for a debt of 60/. ; a lawyer's clerk served the warrant. Mr. Cowie left him on a pre- tence, and managed to leave the house, though he had promised not to do so. The clerk chased him across the fields, and followed him into a gentleman's house ; there he upbraided him for breaking his word, and while the two were talking Mr. Cowie fell down—he had ruptured a large blood-vessel near the heart, and he died in a few minutes.

Dr. Grahamsley, Superintendent of the Worcester City and County Lunatic Asylum, has committed suicide, by prussic acid. No motive is as yet as- signed for the act. Dr. Grahamsley appeared in his usual health a short time before he killed himself.