The Enigmatic Rake (Mills & Boon M&B) (The Faringdon Scandals, Book 3)

Refresh and try again. Open Preview See a Problem? Thanks for telling us about the problem. Return to Book Page. A spy for the British Government, Lord Joshua Sherboune Faringdon must foster his notoriety as a rake as a front for his secret activities. Until an undercover exercise almost costs him his life Passion! Miss Sarah Russell, newly appointed housekeeper, knows only of her lord's rakish reputation. She's unprepared for his surprise proposal of marriage- and the way her b Secrets!

She's unprepared for his surprise proposal of marriage- and the way her body responds to him! Burning desire turns to passion for Joshua and Sarah, until rumours and whisperings rear their ugly heads. Who is the shadow following Sarah's every move? Did Joshua really murder his late wife? The Faringdon Scandals A lavish tale of love, sex and slander! Paperback , pages. Published February 28th by Harlequin Historical first published December 1st The Faringdon Scandals 3. London, England , United Kingdom. To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up.

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The two men in the drift, before the occurrence was scarcely known, gave the usual signal for being drawn up, which the engineman immediately responded to, and drew up the rope, but, to his great surprise, he found that neither the men nor the cove were attached thereto. Almost immediately after an ex- plosion took place, which caused considerable alarm, blowing out the windows of tha engine houses, as well as the air boxes, rendering it both difficult and dangerous to descend.

Still the men set to work with the greatest eagerness and with almost superhuman exertions, but with all their efforts nearly five hours elapsed before they reached the drift where the men had been working, and where they found both quite dead, Mr Smith, the managing partner, was early on the spot, and, by his judicious and well- iimed instructions, rendered efficient aid in getting to the drift and reaching the bodies. Their names are, Turner and Chappell, the for- mer leaving a widow and eight children, and the latter a widow and three children.

It was proved, upon what he must say was evidence of the clearest character, that he had grossly insulted a married woman of respectability while he was performing the duty of a police- constable, and when he found that the husband of the fe- male he had so insulted had taken his number for the purpose of reporting him to the police authorities for his misconduct, he attacked him with his truncheon, and committed the brutal and cowardly assault of which he had been convicted. Not only did he do tb'at, but he took his victim into custody on a charge of his having assaulted him with a poker— a charge which he supported by perjurv before the magistrate, and also at this court, when lie was disbelieved by the jury, who acquitted Mr Bathgeu.

For- tunately for the ends of justice, the prisoner had been convicted, and from inquiry which had been made as to his antecedents, it appeared that ho was not entitled to the good character he had received with respect to his conduct while iu the Crimea, in the Land Transport Service, for he had been reduced for csmmitting a serious assault. Looking at all the circumstances, especially to the fact that at the time the prisoner was a police constable, whose duty was to protect the public, he felt it to be his duty to pass upon him the full sentence the law allowed, and regretted he could not give even more.

The de- ceased had been charged with having attempted to rob Mr Stevens, stockbroker, of several hundred pounds, but the Lord Mayor, after hearing the case, told him that he left the court without the slightest taint upon his character. The deceased, however, who resided with his brother in Thornton- street, Horseljdown, was very much depressed on his return home, and on Sunday morning was found in bed with his throat cut. The jury returned a verdict " That the deceased destroyed himself while in a fit of temporary insanity brought on by the transac- tion with the broker.

Matthews— There are two, York and London. Anceps— We do not know of such a work. Lockerbie— Apply to the captain of a ship bound for the Cape. M H— We find that we were in error with respect to H. Duke of Wellington; she was built at Pembroke, and originally called the Windsor Castle. M B— Explain yourself. Butter— A game certificate cannot be transferred. Rupert— You have no claim. F L— We do not answer legal ques- tions. Mumbles— A legal question. Burrows Lodge— He cannot claim the bet. Blink Bonny— A county. S B— He can please himself.

J W B— You must consult " Black- stone's Commentaries," we have not space to give all the qualifica- tions ; we may state, however, that property alone will not con- stitute an esquire by right. The ladies who rode were Lady Godiva and Madame Warton. Why Not— 5ft 9Sin. Leamington— miles from Lon- don Bridge Station. They cannot be taken, at the latest, after five o'clock on Friday afternoon, and must be pre- paid. There are three topics of immediate interest to England in the President's Message; one is that of the currency, ano- ther that of our differences with the United States on the subject of the Bulwer- CIayton treaty and Central America, and the third is slavery.

As to the first, we have the distinct declaration of the President that the recent money crisis, which, as he says' has occurred notwithstanding the blessing of a most abundant harvest, is entirely owing to that desperate habit of gambling overtrading occasioned by an unrestricted paper currency. His proofs of the correctness of this statement are strong, and they are likewise startling.

What reasonable man could suppose that, in a matter which directly affects all the United States, and their general commerce with the whole world, each individual state possessed the uncontrolled power of creating the most extensive disturbance. Yet so it is. There are, as a consequence, 1, banks, which are described as possessing the right to issue notes, and to do so without being called on to have a proportionate reserve of metallic currency to meet those notes.

In fact, the " blessings of paper money" exists to the greatest extent in the United States, and they have this year been amply sufficient to neutralise the blessings of God— for the abun- dant harvest and the good health of the people, both of which the President acknowledges with humble thanksgiving, have, he says, been unable to save the United States from a fearful extent of misery.

That misery is the result of unlimited paper credit, and before its baleful in- fluence even the blessings of HeaveH lose the power which ought to belong to them, and the happiness which eught to be their result. We, too, have felt the consequences of this sad state of things; and of the monetary evils which now afflict the commercial world of England and Europe, the credit of the United States is the first, the most direct, and the greatest cause. We have large matter for reflection in dealing with our own Bank Charter Act.

The second topic touched on by the President, which is interesting to us, is that of the relations between the two countries. The Bulwer Clayton treaty is differently inter- preted on the two different sides of the Atlantic. The United States say that it meant we were to give up what we already possessed. The words would not mean that in an ordinary agreement between man and man, and, seeing that there was no reference to the ter- ritories then in our possession, nor any stipulation as to the time at which, or as to the persons or Governments to whom we were to give them up, the United States construction does seem at best a little fanciful.

But Mr Buchanan who, however, abstains from quoting the words of the treaty is very positive about it. Still that is no reason why there should be the least ill- will between the two nations, the more especially as Mr Buchanan himself admits that we are actuated by the fairest spirit. He is positive as he says for " a principle," which is that the United States will not allow European states to hold territories in Central America.

Without saying whether this " principle" is wise or practicable, there can be no doubt that in this instance it is sought to be injuriously applied. However, let Mr Buchanan accept the offer which our Government has more than once made— let the question of the construction of the treaty be made matter of reference. His predecessor suggested that he could not trust crowned heads as the referees. Then let a select body of the ablest judges of one nation or more be requested to accept the reference.

England would honourably perform their award.

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As to the third question we regret to see that the bias of Mr Buchanan's mind is in favour of slavery. The existence of slavery is practically, indeed, as a con- iemporary says, " a question of economy and profit;" but its practical tearing ought to be subordinated to principle. That, however, is not, and perhaps will not be, the case till some new events shall arise to confound the calculations of those who would reduce everything to a ques- tion of pounds, shillings, and pence, and maintain a system which is at once a disgrace and a curse to humanity, that they may enjoy the advantage of having a money profit larger than another and a better system would afford them.

With the United States favouring slavery and the French Government suffering itself to be betrayed into renewing the slave trade, the efforts of England will go tor very little. Unless the French Government retraces its steps and cor- rects its error, putting an end to the premium which it has offered for the renewal of the slave trade, the world will again witness, spite of the honest and Christian efforts of England, the complete revival of that horrible traffic. It is a matter of the deepest pain to see the United States bent on assisting in this godless scheme; and it is no consolation to know that the evil will ultimately be visited on themselves.

The Malta papers bring us tha following tale of horror: On the day above- men- tioned he received orders to arrest the reigning Prince of the 8mall principality of Souanete, on the border of the State Of Prince Dadiau, and to send him at ones to St Petersburg. This prince was at Koutais. He was sent to the Governor, who made known to him the despatch which he had received, anil enjoined him to depart without loss of time. The Prince ot Souanete refused to obey.

An altercation ensued betweenhim and Prince Gagarine, who ordered his people to disarm him. The Georgian Princes generally carry poinards and pistols in their belts. On hearing the order, the Prince of Souanete threw himself on the Governor, and ripped him open with his poniard. The prince died in a few minutes. It is asserted that two aides- de- camp of the prince were fatally wounded in attempting to assist him, and that several domestics wore likewise wounded.

After this murderous scene the Georgian Prince fled, and took refuge in a house, which was soon surrounded by Cossacks, and, after desperate fighticg, he was taken prisoner. But what is the- feeling that all ought to have for the Russian Government r The Prince Souanete is one of thosa nobles of the Caucasus who are styled " Independent Princes,! J but who have submitted to a nominal sovereignty in the Czar.

They are, however, in respect of any lawfully established right, much less his subjects than the chiefs of Moldavia. Wallachia, or even Servia itself, are the subjects of the Porte. The Court of St Petersburg, however, acknowledges no legal limits to its tyranny. It violates treaties, as it did with regard to the boundary line at the mouths of the Danube, and as it is doing now with regard to the navigation of the Black Sea, as long as possible, and if the great powers of Europe will submit to be cheated and abused by the Czar, it may well be supposed that his delerence for the rights of a Caucasian prince will be very small.

This sudden summons to St Petersburg every one knew to be a summons to surrender to imprisonment for life perhaps a summons to death. The Princess Dadian, in like manner summoned to St Petersburg, has vanished from life very mysteriously within a recent period, and the Prince Souanete probably expected to incur the same fate. He refused, and rightly refused, to obey the order which the Crar had no right to issue. But disobedience to the Czar's orders, however illegal and wrongful they are, is attended with the greatest danger. After the true Russian fashion, perhaps be- cause delay in executing the orders would have been deemed as great a crime in Prince Gagarine, as disobedience to them would be in Prince Souanete, the former threatened to arrest the latter, and the latter finding that his liberty and life were aimed at, turned in the fury of his despair upon the first of the pack of slaves by whom his destruction was threatened.

Prince Gagarine is to be pitied for being in such a position; but Prince Sonanate is not to be condemned as a murderer. Resistance to authority earried into effect by violent means, is absolute guilfe where that authority proceeds according to law, and is re- strained withiu the limits of law. Where justice is assured to all, submission to authority is absolutely a duty. But where neither law nor justice exists, where the rule of a government is of the hyaena kind, the excuse of self- preservation assumes the character of a justification, the sufferers on both sides become objects of compassion; but the government which tyrannises ever one, and makes the other the unsparing instrument of its tyranny, is justly chargeable with the guilt of both, and is utterly hateful.

The Prince Souanete has since been tried by a court martial thouhg he was not a Russian soldier , and shot. A French paper, in seeking ground for censure against tha English Press and the English Government for having exposed the true nature of the attempt recently made in France to renew the Slave Trade, has furnished ample proof of the truth of the charge.

A Mr Saint Amant has written a long letter, published in the Courrier clu Havre, for the purpose of showing that the French Government was not betrayed by the French speculators, and that the free and voluntary immigration of negroes was all that was intended, and all that would be attempted. His letter contradicts his purpose, and not only disproves his case, but proves the very opposite to it.

That such would be its result might well have been anticipated from its opening. French writers are very fond of " laying down the principle" on which their compositions are to be framed, and M Saint Amant, fol- lowing the ordinary custom, thus announces the principles on which his writings are framed. He says, " Because an infamous traffic had once existed on the African coasts, was it to give for ever to the negro an exemption from the interference and re- quirements of Europeans? That was the slave trade. M Saint Amant says that the French system is one of free immigration only.

Let us take his own statement of fact in answer to his own expression of opinion: Self- interest always prevails in the dealings of an African, and the King of Dahomey, who is the least dishonourable of them all, could not prevent his subjects from profiting by such gains. Let M Saint Amant's statement of the French contract answer these aues- tions.

Ei Re- purchase"— then they must have been sold. If this is not the slave trade from beginning to end, no one can say what it is. The French are only higgling for a cheaper market than the Yankees will allow; but the object of both is the same- trafficking in slaves. France has revived the slave trade, and of course Brazil, Cuba, and the Southern United States will take advantage of it.

What it was 50 years ago it will speedily become, and Africa, which was beginning to enjoy peace, and to enter into agricultural and mercantile industry, will be thrown back into piratical barbarism. This trial has had a result not unexpected, but very regret- table. Macdonald, of the same place, who, after having inflicted serious injuries upon him and her servants, flung herself out of the second floor window.

Elizabeth Anson, servant to the deceased, said, during the last three nights prior to Saturday morning she had slept on the sofa in the front room on the second floor, on account of the restless conduct of her mistress, who said she could not sleep, as her mother was dying. Mrs Macdonald's mother died on Thursday night, and she was acquainted with it ou Friday morn- ing. About half- past seven o'clock on Saturday morning she was awoke by the cries of her master, who cried out, " My God!

Deceased was partly out on the window- sill, and she exclaimed, " If you come near me, I will kill you, I have this razor. Mr Macdonald was still holding her while she had only one foot on the inside of the window- sill, and all the rest of her body out, when, there being no sash- line, the window fell down upon his back. He called to her to lift it up while he pulled her mistress in. For a minute or so she was unable to move the sash, and her master cried out, " Police," and witness ran to the baby, who was screaming.

She saw her master's hand streaming with blood, and afterwards saw the deceased lying in the front area on her back. Witness had been but three weeks in the deceased's service, and saw nothing strange in her conduct. Dr Frazer and Mr Collins were called in, but the deceased died in about half an hour. Mr Julius Collins, surgeon, of Mornington- place, said he had attended Mrs Macdonald and her family for four or five years past up to about six weeks back, when, under his ad- vice, she was removed to a private lunatic asylum, at Bow. He certified for her to go there.

The jury immediately returned a verdict " That the deceased committed the shocking act which led to her death whilst in a state of insanity. The man was a Belgian and the woman Dutoh, The man told him so. They had plenty of money when they were with him, and he was surprised to see by the paper that they had none.

He entertained the belief that the captain of the boat Topaz could give the names. He was then written to, and in reply stated the deceased persons gave the name of Claesson, and both passed for Dutch people. Another letter was received by the Dutch consul in London, who had forwarded a translation to Sir Richard Mayne, from the firm of Rosseu and Co, Rotterdam 5 it stated that, seeing in the newspapers an account of the murder in Drummond- street, it struck them that the man was a clerk in their firm, who had run away.

He was about forty years of age, and the woman thirty. They thought he hsd an old passport, in which the name J. Ockler occurs, and as his linen was marked " J. It was not impossible that, in the first instance, the woman, seeing the game was up, might have destroyed herself, and then that the man followed. It was quite certain that a bloody instrument had been wiped on the towel. If the jury thought any advan- tage would result from a further adjournment, he the coroner would have no objection.

If they believed the man murdered the woman, and then himself, in a sane state of mind, then their verdict would be one which would deny his body the rites of Christian burial; but for his own part he thought the safer course would be to return a verdict that the parties died from loss of blood from the wounds in their tflroats, but how they were inflicted there was no evidence to show.

While any slight freedom in expression of opinion by a non- Government; journal is visited by suspension, a foul libel in a Government journal upon an Opposition candidate is followed by indemnity, even though the law itself should, by a judicial punishment, have decreed a punishment. The Memorial de Zitte, a Bonapartistjournal, which was lately suppressed in the ordinary course of Imperial law on a second conviction in a court of justice , for a libel upon M Brame, the successful Op- position candidate for Lille, has been relieved from its sentence Ly a special exercise of the Emperor's prerogative.

As a com- panion picture we have the following: The letter gave a most touching description of the state of these unfortunate persons, in whose favour the Empress was asked to intercede. If that intercession was ventured, it does not appear to have as yet succeeded. The offence of the Presse was most heinous; it presumed to talk about freedom of speech, liberty, and such other old world fancies, and will very likely be compelled to pay the penalty to the utmost, SPAIN. The report that Marshal O'Donneil was likely to take the command of the halberdiers at the palace is stated to be un- founded; but it is alleged that he and his friends, though main- taining a certain degree of independence, intend to support the Government,, The Espana denounces with some rahensence the supposed project of the United States against Cuba, and accuses President Buchanan of personally encouraging them.

With regard to the proposition for purchasing the island, which it says the new Minister of the United States, who is about to arrive in Madrid, is expected to make, the Espana declares that Spain cannot entertain it without dishonour. That the United States will seize the firsi dpportunity, either by " piratical expeditions, or exciting insurrections, or any other mode whatever," of pos- sessing themselves of the island, the Espana does not doubt, and it complains that under such circumstances the Govern- ment displays a " great want of caution and an inexplicable security.

The Univers states that new efforts are being made to induce the Cabinet of Naples to enter on the path of complete subordi- nation to the Pontifical authority in ecclesiastical matters. Cardinal Riario Sforza, Archbishop of Naples, has been sum- moned to Rome by the Pope to delibrate on the matter, and it is added that the question of several internal reforms in the King- dom of the two Sicilies connected with the Church is also to be discussed during the cardinal's visit to Rome, There has been a terrible earthquake in a portion of the King- dom of Naples.

Property to an immense amount, and lives to the number of thousands, are said to have been destroyed. The earthquake occurred on Thursday night, the 17th, and it devas- tated the districts of Salerno, Potenza, Nola, and other places. In the city of Naples there were several violent shocks, and the whole population was en- camped outside the city during the whole day, but no fatal acci dent occurred in the city. A letter in the Nord, dated Dec 15, says: These restrictions are displeasing to the Prince of Prussia. At a moment when grave questions await a solution the independent action of the supreme power is a necessity.

It is thought certain that the King will not resume power at the expiration of the time for which the direction of affairs has been confided to his brother, on the 23d of January. There remains no other means of assuring the service of the State but by a regency or co- regency. A letter from Dusseldorf, of the 16th, says: The King of Prussia,' as head of the house of Hohenzollern, having given his consent to the marriage, the young Princess, with the authority of her parents, declared that she accepted the King, Don Pedro, for her husband. A circular note has been issued by the Porte, in which the Porte states that up to the present time the Divans ad hoc have only occupied themselves with political matters, and not at all with the administrative affairs of the Principalities, thereby manifesting their desire that the conferences of Paris shall first decide on the question of the union, in order that they, the Divans, shall only afterwards have to express themselves on ad- ministrative reforms based on the new rigime.

In a postscript the Porte adds as follows: The only thing we desire is that they shall not remain sitting when the Con- ference shall be assembled to decide on the wishes expressed; that is to say, that the alternative cannot be allowed them of existing until the points relative to the political organisation shall have been settled by the conference, and afterwards going on with the completion of their work. To sum up, we mean to say that with the delivery of a final report of the European com- mission the assemblies wilrcease, whether they shall have accom plished the task imposed on them, or whether they shall have per sisted in their demand to wait for the solution of the first part of their labours, in order to afterwards undertake the doing of the second part.

The affair about the Russian ports in the Black Sea, which was on the point of being settled, is somewhat complicated by the fact of the Russian Government having re- established military servitude on the coast of the Crimea, rased the town of Kamiesch, and forbidden the entrance of that port to merchant ships, as before the war. The President sent in his Message on tha 8th. It is a very lengthy document, and was generally very favourably received. The financial crisis is the opening and principal topic of the Message, which it charges exclusively to the existing extravagant and vicious system of paper currency and bank credits, owing to there being 1, State Banks not subjected to the control of the United States ; all the mischief has been done by the enormous issue of paper money without any specie basis, and thus stimu- lating stock gambling, heavy importations, and miscellaneous speculation.

He states that although Government can do nothing to prevent the recurrence of similar disasters, it ought to do something to alleviate the sufferings inflicted by the crisis which has already occurred. The President has directed a suspension of all public works not already commenced, but trusts that the Government will have no difficulty in making small loans, which its necessi- ties may require.

Foreign relations are said to be, on the whole, in a satisfactory condition, the negotiations with England on Central American affairs proceeding in a friendly spirit, but with less rapidity than could be wished. Regret is expressed that so much time is wasted in misunderstannings upon the Clayton- Bulwer treaty. With Russia and Prance relations are altogether amicable, but exception is taken to the extremely oppressive nature of restric- tions which are still imposed upon commerce with Prance.

The Kansas question is discussed at length, and the legality of the proceedings of the recent Constitutional Convention at Lecompton is recognised. The President argues that while his instructions to Governor Walker coveted the submission of the constitution to the people, the Lecompton programme will still answer the purpose, as it does refer to the people the only really important party issue— the slavery question. A decisive course of action against the Mormons is recom- mended, and to that end the President asks for the formation of four new regiments.

The President recommends the formation of a territorial fovernment for Arizona, the district recently purchased from lexica, and pleads the duty and full power of Congress to con- struct a military railroad through the federal territory to the Pacific. The revenue of the year was 68,, dollars, and the expen- diture 70,, dollars, including nearly 6,, dollars for redemption of national debt, which is now only little over 25,, dollars. The estimated receipts'for the ensuing year are a little over, and the estimated expenditure a little under, 75,, dollars. The President refers to voluminous statis- tical reports from the various deportments which accompany his Message, and concludes by declaring his purpose to be very eco- nomical in the administration of government, and by requesting Congress at the close of the session to give him two days at least for the examination of bills sent for his approval.

The currency question was int roduced in the house by a notice of a bill for the suppression of bank- notes as currency, and of bank- notes of less denomination than dollars, and a circula- ting medium in the district of Columbia. In the Senate debate began upon the Kansas question by Mr. Douglas giving his concurence to all the President said, except his approval of the Kansas Constitutional Convention, which he took exception to. Other democrats sided with Mr Douglas, so that the administration party is evidently divided.

The object of Sir W. Gore Ouseley's mission had been formally communicated to General Cass. Ir is said that Ouseley would remain in Washington until further advices in regard to Walker's movements and the disposition of the recently nego- ciated treaty between the United States and Nicaragua. The Mormons were giving more trouble to the Utah military expedition. During a skirmish with troops some Mormons were taken prisoners.

The fugitive slave case at Indianopolis had been decided by the judge sending the slave back to his master. This caused very great excitement, but there was no attempt at rescue. The long- pending slave case between the states of New York and Virginia has been decided by the supreme court of the ' orkier state declaring the slaves in question entitled to their freedom.

Relations with Spain are not very harmonious, no progress having been made towards a settlement of any of the numerous claims of citizens against Spain, nor redress or acknowledgment for sundry insults to America. A new Minister is shortly going to Madrid with special instructions to seek a speedy and ami- cable adjustment. The President says the general tone and temper of the Spanish Government towards the United States is much to be regretted.

Iu reference to the Isthmus of Panama, an act of Congress is asked, authorising, in case of necessity, the employment of naval and military forces to carry into effect the guarantee of neutrality and protection. The President is earnestly opposed to filibustering, and calls for measures to suppress such outrages. He substantially charges the late escape of Walker on the judicial authorities of New Orleans and insufficiency of bail. Allusion is made to some treuble with Paraguay, and autho- rity is asked to bring about an adjustment.

The new Minister to China has been instructed to avoid all occasions of unnecessary Collision, but to co- operate with England and France iu se- curing those " just concessions which the nations of the world have a right to expect, aud which China cannot long be per- mitted to withhold. It is stated that the President has peremptorily dismissed Robert J.

Walker and Frederick P. Stanton from the Governor- ship and Secretaryship of Kansas. The cause of the dismissal of Mr Stanton was the fact of his having issued a proclamation calling a special session of the Lecompton Legislature to meet on the 7th inst. The Secretary for the Treasury has proposed to supply an issue of treasury notes not to exceed 20,, dollars. He also pro- poses the passage of a compulsory Bankrupt Act, by which insolvent banks and railway companies may be wound up, whether they like it or not.

The amount in the Treasury is 6,, dollars. The receipts for the week, ending the 7th inst, were about half a million of dollars. A number of bank officers at New York had met, and resolved to resume specie payments in full OH all their liabilities. There has been a skirmish between Colonel Alexander a force and the Mormons. A large force is sent against the latter, and a protracted war is considered inevitable. The Government had received accounts of the capture or a slaver by one of her Majesty's ships; out of slaves were drowned.

Lambert, left Brompton Barracks, Chatham, before daylight on Saturday morning week for South- ampton, to embark for China. A large quantity of Sappers and Miners' tools, for siege operations in China, have been ior warded from head quarters, Chatham, with portable India- rubber boats, photographic apparatus, and every requisite used by the corps of Royal Engineers in mining operations. Mitchell, to the Blenheim; H. F, Nicholson and G. Price to the Excellent: Porter, to the Vesuvius, for disposal; J. Stewart, to the Ganges, for disposal. Roberts, to the Illustrious; and John J.

Brown, to the Renown; B. Hooper, to the Corn- wallis; J. Croke, mate, to the Lyra; H. Carre, mate, to the Sharpshooter; Richard J. Saunders, master in command, to the Buffalo; C. Ryall, second master, to the Sharpshooter; Henry Lamton, acting second master, to the Curapoa; and Vernon Jones, master's assistant, to the Rhadamanthus. Dobbin acting , J. M'Farlane acting , E. Napier acting , R. The following as- sistant- pay masters were on Saturday promoted to paymasters: Shepherd, J, Burke, W.

Each vessel is to be fitted as a screw steamer. The Mersey and Charybdis will be launched in March next. They are fitted with two screw propellers, having one under each quarter, each engine being distinct and capable of being worked alone, which will enable the vessel to turn and slew round speedily in a very narrow compass. One boiler works the pair of engines.

They were last week despatched on a trial trip down the river, having an engineer officer from Woolwich Dockyard to verify the proceedings. Their rate of speed amounted to 9 knots per hoar, and draught of water only 24 inches. For the purpose of transporting these vessels to their destination they are prepared so as to disconnect the entire hull, and enable their being stowed in a ship's hold. One pounder gun is mounted amidships. The total length from stem to stern is about 75 feet, and width 12 feet. The third performance of the " Adelphi" having taken place on Monday night, we are now at liberty to publish the prologue and epilogue, which are as follows: Sed justa tandem perfidis venit hostibus Viudicta; fusi, moenibus exuti suis Quoties Britanni norunt Martis fulmina!

Nos quoque seorsum proprius tangit dolor 1 Ducemque morbo Delhiana ad mcenia, 2 Juvenemque raptum flemus, hisce ex aedibus Emissum prima nuper ad stipendia; 3 Binosque, quorum sanguine heu nefas! Sed heec quidem hactenus; ne vos expectatio Detineat aequo longius quid hsec tegant Aulsea: Ars longa, vita brevis est: Idem si vobis arbifcris videbitur, 8 Palmam qui meruit artifex noster ferat; Hie acfse quondam qui memor puertiae, Accepta reddit sic libeus beneficia; Cui— non pro fecto pro meritis illas suis,— Grates nos quantum possumus rependimus!

Enter CEsohinus, in costume of the " Pre- Raphaelite" period; he carries in his hand the " Seven Lamps of Architecture," and is busied in examining the new scenes critically. Esc— Hsec platea, audivi, est renovata—[ after a pause, and [ shrugs of dissatisfaction. The following telegram was received by the India Board at a late hour on Friday morning: The fighting commenced on the 13th. Two guns were captured from the enemy, and the fort of Jellabad destroyed. Camp- bell succeeded in occupying Delkhosah and Martiniere.

The enemy attempted to recover their position a few hours sub- sequently, but were repulsed with heavy loss. The heavy artillery then opened on the Samuch for three hours, and the position was carried at dusk, after a despe- rate fight. Outram and Sir H. Havelock then met Sir Colin Campbell. General Windham is stated to have marched to attack them.

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The force met the enemy on the 25th of November near Kurnaul, and defeated them with great slaughter, and the loss of all their guns. Our loss was 15 killed and 45 wounded, but Colonel Gerard wa8 among the killed. The Gogaria rising has been entirely put down. Neemuch has been besieged by the Mundisore insurgents for nearly a fortnight.

On the 21st of November an attempt was made to take the fort by escalade, but the enemy were repulsed with great loss, and the siege was raised on the 22d. The insurgents were repulsed. On the 23d the column advanced to the north of Mundisore, on the Neemuch road, and found the rebels in a strong position, with five guns. The position was immediately attacked, and the rebels de- feated with the loss of all their guns. While this battle was in progress the Mundisore garrison came out and attacked our rear, but they got well beaten also.

The rebels in the fights of the 21st and 23d lost 1, men, while our loss was inconsiderable. Lieutenant Gedmayne, of her Majesty's 24th Dragoons? The column afterwards took Mundisore on the 25th, the rebels having evacuated it on the night of the 24th. A part of the Madras column defeated a body of the insurgents near Sconce, on the Jubbulpore road, on the 10th of November, and took two guns. The Bheel disturbances in Khandeish continue, but the Bheels are con fined to the hills, and will be attacked in their strongholds when the jungle is cleared.

The Minister of the Kolapore State was stabbed in his office on the 23d of November by an Arab soldier. The wounds are slight, and the Arab was actuated by private motives only. A force was advanced from Belgaum to restore order. The state of things in that part of the country is not satisfactory. The breaking up of the sea of ice, the aurora borealis, and other striking and beautiful panoramic scenery are exciting in the highest degree.

It is replete with other startling effects, with mutinies, miraculous escapes, awful deaths, touch- ing passages, inhuman plots, imposing tableaux, stirring denoue- ments; but above all, more delightful than all the pictorial, mechanical, and musical display; art can devise, the enchanting impersonation of Ogarita, the Wild Plower of Mexico, in all the loveliness and abandon of innocence, and the beauty of paradi- saical nature— such a form as our novelists and poets rave about, but never portrayed half so well as dees Laura Keene— this is the most attractive feature of the performance, superior as it is in other respects, and werth more to see than we care to men- tion in these hard and rebellious times.

Thesiger, Mr Edwin James, Q. The defendant was indicted for wilful and corrupt perjury, assigned upon a deposition made by him in the Arches' Court of Canterbury. It appeared that a Mr Omwell Lloyd Ewans had instituted a suit in that court against his wife, Maria Sophia Evans, for a divorce a mensa ct thoro, upon the ground of adultery committed with the defendant; and that the depo- sition on which the perjury was now assigned was made by the defendant in opposition to that suit.

Mrs Evans, who was previously a Miss Carrington, was the dauzhter of a gentleman, who lived in Lansdowne4errace, Cheltenham. The defendant also was a gentleman in a respectable position, who resided in Cheltenham, and wai a magistrate of that borough. The defendant had been living for many years separate from his wife, in consequence of incompatibility of temper. While residing at Cheltenham he had become extremely intimate with the family of Mr and Mrs Carrington, aud with the lady who afterwards became the wife of the prosecutor.

It would be shown that, though he was many years older than the lady, he used to put his arms round her and kiss her. The first allegation on which the perjury was as- signed was his denial of what took place when it was alleged he had taken Miss Carrington in a fly out for a drive. He had ordered a man to drive out towards Charlton Park, a rural and sequestered drive, and to take up a lady on the road, That lady was Miss Carrisgton, who was about 23 or 24 years or age. The man took up Miss Carrington and the defendant, and on his way back to Cheltenham the man looked into the fly, and there saw the defendant and Miss Carriugton in such a position as could leave no doubt of his guilt.

The evidence of the driver would be corroborated by two other witnesses, who had taade memoranda of what had occurred; so that this part of the case would be proved by three witnesses. Mr Evans in the year made proposals of marriage, and was accepted. Mr Evans was a gentleman of grsat fortune. He had been educated at Eton and Oxford. The marriage took place in the month of Novem ber, , but it was not a happy one; and in the month of March, , a separation took place. Mr Evans had behaved liberally to his wife on her marriage; asd on their separation he had placed her in a position to be independent of her family.

It would appear that after the separation the intimacy with the defendant was resumed. In the year Mrs Evans came to London, and the defendant took lodgings for her in the vicinity of Great Cumberland- street, where defendant's mother resided. The defendant, who was a handsome man, there visited Mrs Evans.

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This was at No. Mr Phillips was a tailor of respectability, who let lodgings. The lodgings were taken by the defendant for a fortnight, and he there visited her as often as two or three times a day. No ladies visited Mrs Evans while she was there, but the defendant's visits were constant. Indeed, the defendant himself, in his deposition, admitted that he visited her there twice a day.

It would be shown tha; he was in the habit of taking her out, and that in two or three days a latch- key was furnished to him, which he used continually for a fortnight at all times of the day. It would not be proved that he was ever in the bedroom; but it would be shown that he was constantly alone with Mrs Evans in the drawing- room, and that on one occasion he went up and knocked at her bedroom door. It would also be proved that in the month of August, 1S53, a man named Munn, who was a gardener, saw the defendant with Mrs Evans walking from the town of Cheltenham in the evening; that he followed them, andactually saw the act of adul- tery committed under the wall of a garden.

It would bo shown that in the month of June, , the defendant took lodgings for Mrs Evans at No. Mrs Evans had been there a fortnight, when the application was made to the landlady, Mrs King, by Field, a detective officer. The servant's name was Grocott, and she was the cook. The drawing- room occupied by Mrs Evans was separated from the adjoining room by folding aoors, against which a chest of drawers was placed, so that the doors could not be opened, but a hole was bored through the panel so as to afford a view of a portion of the drawing- room.

Soon after Mrs King, the landlady, Mrs Price, and Mrs Grocott, looking through the hole, saw the act of adultery committed. Mr Evans instituted proceedings in the Ecclesiastical Court to obtain a diverse a mensa et thoro, with a view ultimately to ob- taining a divorce a vinculo matrimonii. In those proceedings the defendant was a competent witness, he not being a party, and he had sworn the deposition on which perjury was nsw assigned.

In that deposition the defendant had denied all the material allegations made against him; but when he came to the main fact he used these peculiar words of denial, to which the learned sergeant said he wished to call the attention of the jury. The words were these: He said they were first taken into a little dark room, where they made a state- ment, and thence they were removed into another room, where they were sworn; but they were not subjected to any public ordeal of cross examination before the tribunal which was to say whether they were to be believed. It was apprehended also that the decision of Sir John Dodsoa would be found a difficult estoppel in the new court which was about to be established, and therefore it could not be denied that Mr Evans had a very great interest in the result of this case.

As to the early intimacy of the defendant with Mrs Evans, there would be no difficulty, for that would be proved by the defendant's own statement. As to the affair in the fly there would be three witnesses. With respect to the adultery at No. The defendant swore that he had sio latch- key, but that would be proved by Mr and Mrs Phillips and by the servant; so that, if it was not true, all three witnesses would be guilty of perjury. As to the transactions at No 2, Bryanston- street, all three witnesses would be guilty of perjury and conspiracy if what they stated was not true.

So that if the charge against the defendant was not true, as many as nine persons in all would be guilty of perjury. With respect to those witnesses no imputation could be cast upon any one of them, except a Mrs King, who kept the house No 2, Bryanston- street. She would admit that her early conduct was not dis- tinguished by the rules of chastity, and that she had lived under the protection of a gentleman named Walsh; but whatever might have been her conduct in that particular, it was not cre- dible that she could be sunk in such a depth of wickedness as to conspire to injure a woman for no motive whatever.

It would be said, perhaps, that by a comparison of minutes, aud fractions of time, such as quarters of an hour, it was impossible the defendant could have been there at the time. The jury, however, would care- fully examine into these points, and in giving their verdict would decide according to the character of the witnesses.

Thesiger then rose to address the jury for the defendant. The learned counsel contended that, considering the nature of the evidence and the character of the witnesses, the jury could not, with any degree of justice, find the defendant guilty. He intimated that it was his intention to call evidence, and that Mrs Evans, whose character and position in society were at stake in this trial, had volunteered to come forward to deny in the most distinct and positive manner that any indecent liberties had taken place between her and Mr Eobinson, or that she had committecf adultery with him.

Mrs Evans would there- fore be put in the box and subjected, no doubt, to the rigid examination of his learned friend who conducted the prosecution. In the course of his remarks the learned counsel referred to one of the agencies by which a certain part of the evidence on the other side had been procured. That system was likely to prove most mischievous. If these persons confined themselves to following and apprehending fugitive felons, perhaps good more than harm would result from these proceedings; but if they were to be employed as spies to watch individuals from month to month, and, as in this case, from year to year, for the purposa of discovering something, it was important their em- ployers should know such a practice might lead to very con- siderable danger in all the walks of life.

Those persons could Hot work without instruments, and they must necessarily engage as their instruments the basest and most worthless of society. The character of a spy was so odious, so contrary to the na- tural and national feeling of Englishmen, that people rejected with scorn the very notion of being employed in such a capacity, and he hoped the odium which attached to it would always be felt in this country. Persons of that depraved class were re- warded for their services, aud probably according to their suc- cess ; and when they failed to discover might be disposed to fabricate.

And when once they received the reward of their iniquity, they would not scruple to go forward in the same course, and support publicly and in a court of justice the pre- tended discoveries which they had made, Having severely ani- madverted on the character of the witnesses employed by H. Field, the detective, and shown how little reliance could be placed on their testimony, Sir Frederick warned the jury of the dangerous consequences to society of giving encouragement to that system of espionage by the verdict they pronounced.

It was only by being assured of success that these parties ventured upon so dangerous a scheme. He earnestly implored them to guard not only the interests of the defendant, but of society, in this matter. They were not called upon to pronounce an opi- nion on the guilt of parties who had been called as witnesses for the prosecution.

It was the defendant alone that was inte- rested in the result of the inquiry. He was deprived of his best witnesses by an act of Providence, and was encompassed with other difficulties in eliciting the truth. He stood before them iu this terrible ordeal, but yet he was prepared to go through the fiery trial with only such evidence as God had left him, and the circumstances of the case permitted him to adduce.

Mr Robinson had no hand in her engagement to marry Mr Evans. Her father died on the W th of this present month, and her mother on the same day. Her father gave evidence in the Arches' Court, and was to have appeared on this trial. Mrs Evans was examined, and cross- examined at great length, and with reference to a large number of minute circumstances of time and place. She steadfastly denied that there had been at any time improper relations between herself and the defendant, and gave a positive contradiction to many of the allegations of the witnesses on the other side, which were relied on as presumptive proof of the defendant's criminality.

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The defendant was indicted for that he committed wilful and corrupt perjury when ex- amined as a witness in the Ecclesiastical Court in a divorce suit brought by Mr Evans against his wife. There were various assignments of perjury, separate and independent, which would require their special attention, and he would ask their opinion severally on the main questions on which their verdict would ultimately depend. Those ques- tions, which he had reduced to writing, were these: Lastly, did the defendant attempt to tamper with Mrs King, as a witness, in August, , before the first trial, as stated by her?

It would be for the jury to answer these questions of fact. The jury re- tired, aad after many hours' consideration, carae into court and said: My Lord, we cannot agree in the affirmative on any one of the six questions submitted to us. On the general question, whether the verdict shall be for the Crown or the de- fendant, we are about equally divided, and there is little or no probability of our agreeing. Under these circumstances I, ef my own authority discharge the jury. Waszkowski, who represented himself to be a Polish prince, but who is stated by Captsin Szuloweski, of the Polish Association, not to be a Pole at all.

In the same house there resided the Count de Waszkowski, who gave himself out as the son of Prince Wittgenstein. He was 28 years old. This Polish nobleman calls himself a professor of science and languages, but in reality he lives by " taking on with ladies according to his own admission. When he has done with one lady he takes on with another.

Ha was engaged to be married to the plaintiff in " Swynfen v Swynfen ;"— that was broken off. Then he proposed for Miss Romsey, then for her sister, and it would appear for many ladies besides. In fact, the count got his living by this sort of thiiig. The manner in which he iopened the trenches upon Miss Jones was as follows: Miss Jones resolved, if possible, to put an end to the annoyance by seeing the de- fendant, and remonstrating with him upoii his conduct.

The result of the interview was, that the lady, who had sought the interview to ohide, remained to console the defendant, and, after a time, they were engaged. As soon as the engagement was entered into, or shortly after — it was very strange— the Count's remittances ceased to arrive with their fore- accustomed regularity. In return for this he gave her his note of hand; but, ignorant as he was of eur laws and customs, he drew it upon a penny stamp.

When the ques- tion of settlements came to he discussed, the lady insisted that all her money should be settled upon herself, to wilich the de- fendant objected, and so the marriage was broken off. When the rupture was final and complete the lady wished that the sum of money which she had lent to the plaintiff should be returned to her ; but this he was unable or unwilling to do, and so the action arose. The defendant pleaded a set- off, the particulars of which ineluded some curious items. In the first place, we find that the Count de Waszkowski was not attired in such a manner as gave satisfaction to the lady.

Above all things, on that day which was to be the happiest of their lives, she wished him to look well. Again, and before the transaction connected with the wedding suit, the Count had— equally at the plaintiff's request— provided himself with clothes from Messrs. This guitar, as he him- self stated, he had bought in Clerkenwell.

I refuse to say what I have done with it, and I don't moan to tell. A little lower down in the particulars of set- off there is a charge which is somewhat remarkable. When he was put into the witness- box and examined, it appeared by his own confession that he made a trade of thi3 kind of pursuit. Will people ever take warning by exposures of this description?

Is it possible that ladies of a certain position in the world, and who may therefore be supposed to have seen something of its ways, should suffer themselves to become the laughing- stocks and dupes of men who were probably cooks or couriers— if anything so honest— in their own countries? It might have been hoped that the increasing habit of foreign travel would have done something in amendment of this form of folly. A very short run upon the Continent, or a mere smatter- ing sort of acquaintance with Continental life, might teach our English ladies that foreign titles— even when genuine— are a very insufficient proof of respectability.

The best advice we can give our fair countrywomen for the future, when they come across one of these interesting refugees, is to keep him at arm's length until they have ascertained from one of his own country- men of acknowledged respectability the history of their new friend and his character. Mr Edwin James and Mr J. Russell were counsel for the plaintiff; Mr Huddleston and Mr Watkin Williams appeared for the defendant.

This was an siction to recover the price of a horse. The plaintiff, Mr T. Richmond, is a gentleman of fortune, residing at Guilsborough Hall, Northamptonshire, and is also agent to Lord Stamford and Warrington.