SYDNEY TELEGRAMS.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume II, Issue 140, 18 June 1867, Page 2

SYDNEY TELEGRAMS.

May 27. The trial of the Clarkes is proceeding, aad is likely to finish, to-night. The Sydney shareholders of the Queensiund Steam Navigation Company have decided to purchase the assets, and reorganise the company with a capital of £60,000. May 28. In the trial of the Clarkes Mr. Dalley's defence was eloquent ; Mr. Isaac's speech for the prosecution was wordy and pointless. The judge commenced a lucid address about half-past 9 o'clock last night. The jury, after an absence of an hour, returned with a verdict of " Guilty." The prisoners were sentenced to death. They said nothing. .■ The trial of the Jinden murder case commences to-morrow. The installation of Mr. Holroyd as Provincial Master of the Masons will be a grand affair. The markets are very quiet. May 29. The Executive have decided to hang Conners and Peters, sentenced to death at Bathurst. Week's sentence has been commuted to twenty years' imprisonment, with hard labor. The trial of the Jindin murders case was commenced to-day.---7.30 p.m. The Jindin murders case is still unfinished. The principal evidence is that of Smith, the manager of Jindin. Station, to whom Griffin detailed the circumstances which have already been pnblished, Tommy Clarke shot three of the four detectives and Scott shot one. The wool sales were dull. Prices are weaker. Only a email quantity was catalogued. May 30. • Griffin's trial terminated about two o'clock this morning, iv a verdict of acquittal. He is to be tried on Monday for Kenuagh's murder. Conuell will be charged with aiding the outlaw Clarke. Johnny Clarke is likely to be reprieved. Another large crushing from the Emu Creek Reefs has averaged three ounces and a half per ton. Thunderbolt robbed the Northern Mail y ester dny. The Magenta has arrived, and exchanged salutes. . '' Judge Purefoy is dead. Yesterday was the anniversary of the King of Italy's accession to the throne. The war vessels in port fired a royal salute.. Gunner Critchley, of the Royal Artillery, had his arras hlowu off whilst : loading a gun.

The Melbourne Argus of the 27th ult., in its summary of news for Europe, gives the following particulars in reference to the atrocious murder of Mr. Burke, agent of the Australasian Bank, Smythesdale, who was found dead in his buggy, shot through the head, on the 11th ult. The unfortunate gentleman was returning with a heavy purchase of gold from Break-o'-Day Gully. The Argus says : — The whole of Bokewood ?nd Smythesdale district was in a state of great excitement during the. ensuing week. Detectives were sent up from Ballarat, and inquiries prosecuted in every direction. Suspicion seemed chiefly directed to three men, who were seen the day of the murder driving in a light cart towards Springdallah. On the 15th, however, George Searle, the landlord of the Cosmopolitan Hotel, and Joseph Ballan, a man residing with him, were arrested, the police having ascertained that they were out on horseback the whole of Friday night, and had traced them to withiu two miles of the spot where the murder was committed. On the 18th two black (aboriginal) trackers, who were employed by the police to examine the scene and environs of the murder, discovered a plaid-shawl (identified as the property of a woman in the service of Searle) buried in the paddock adjoiniug the Cosmopolitan Hotel. This shawl contained two revolvers, of five chambers each ; one was fully loaded and capped, but one chamber of the other had been recently discharged ; with the revolvers were found a powder-flask, bullet-mould, and caps. On the 19th a little boy found a chamois-leather bag, containing eleven £l notes, hidden in a stump distant about 150 yards from Searle' s house. The notes, however, canuot be identified as having been in the possession of the deceased, nor the revolvers as the property of either of the prisoners. The presumptive evidence, however, is very strong. Mr. Comyns, who was formerly agent for the bank at Happy Valley, states that when returning from the Break-o'-Day, on a like errand to that of Mr. Burke, he was met by two men, one of whom he recognised as Searle, whom he had just left at the Cosmopolitan Hotel, but who, when he saw that Mr. Comyns was not alone, rode off into the bush. This atrocious murder and robbery has excited much consternation. Mounted-troopers have lately accompanied the bank clerks travelling with gold in the Ballarat district. The Government offers £100 for the conviction of each person implicated ia the murder ; and the bank has increased their reward to £300 for the convi-.tion of the murderer, and £100 for each accomplice. Mr. Burke was 45 years oi age, of a Gal way family, but was born in Normandy. - He was a justice of peace, and universally respected in the district. He leaves a widow and two children. The prisoners are in custody, and have been remanded for the production of further evidence. By the latest accounts from Smythesdale we learn that the clothes supposed to have been worn by the prisoners on the day of the murder have been forwarded to the Government analytical chemist, Melbourne, for examination. Every fresh discovery in connexion with this affair tends to strengthen public conviction that they have the right persons. In its report of a visit paid by the Governor of Victoria to the Victorian Ice Company's Works, during which the entire process of ice-making was explained to the distinguished visitor, the Melbourne Argus says: — " The process of ice-making from first to last takes twelve hours, and the company is able to produce three tons of ice a day, a quantity which is eagerly consumed in the summer months. As an example of the difficulties with which the company has to contend, owing to the rapid changes of climate in this country, we may mention that we were shown a telegram (of old date) from a Sandhurst firm desiring them to stop the supplies of ice u'utU further orders, as the thermometer had fallen from 115. deg to 64 deg. iv 12 hours. It. was once, according to Mr. William "Wordsworth, the privilege of Venice to "hold the gorgeus East in fee;" and Amsterdam, which has been called a vulgar Venice, seems, to have inherited a portion of that privilege. The Dutch contrive, by means not always very creditable, to make East Indian possessions pay. During, the- last twentyrfive years they have reduced their' National Debt by 3,000,000,000 of florins, out 1 of the profits arising from their administration of Java; an official proposal: is now issued for lalway "extension" in that fertile island.

La Patrie relates the following startling incident :— M. Sam relates that he was standing at a ball 'given at the Tuileries, talking to the great chemist Dr. Lisfrauc, when he perceived him suddenly become pale and move from his position, M. Sara, fancying that his friend had been taken ill, followed him out to the Salle des Marechaux. There, having recovered his equanimity, he said, "I have just seen a beautiful young bride waltzing with her second husband. Now, I am perfectly convinced she murdered her first husband. Ifc had been a love match ; but the young man discovered that he had made a fatal mistake, and his health visibly declined. One morning he was found dead in his bedroom, which his wife had filled with flowers, especially with hyacinths. Their poisonous emanations had evidently killed him. On being summoned to examine into the cause of his death, I perfectly remembered having related in his wife's hearirg, a case of poisoning produced by those very flowers 5 and ou learning that a scandalous intrigue on her part had been the cause of his misery, I have not the slightest doubt that the wretched woman took this mode of regaining her liberty." This tragic anecdote recalls me to another,which one of the first physicians in Paris related a few days ago, as having occurred to him during the course of his practice. He had been for some time in attendance on a wealthy merchant, whose illness, though painful, was not dangerous. Much to Dr. N.s surprise, the symptoms became complicated, and M. K. got worse. Dr. N. asked to see the mixture his patient had been taking during the night, and remarked to the servant that the glass from which he had apparently drunk was not clean. "No one touches it but madame," replied the servant. Pouring a little water into it, Dr. N. put it to his lips. He then asked to see Madame K. alone.- She was young and lovely- "Is my husband worse?" she inquired, with apparent anxiety. "Yes, madame; but he must improve rapidly. Do you hear, madame ? — in a week he must be cured." The lady's fair cheek grew pale. " But, doctor ." " You have understood me, madame ; good morning." The patient recovered within the given time, and M. and Madame K. gave a ball last week, and looked as jolly a couple as you would wish to see. — Paris correspondent of the Star. A horrible suicide is reported from Lerida, in Spain. A few days ago a man was brought into the hospital of that place in a dreadful state of mutilation. It appeared that he bad locked himself up in his room, ripped himself open with a knife, and tore out his intestines, cutting them in fragments, and throwing them about the room. He then opened the door, and called his wife, whose horror may be easily conceived. At the hospital, being asked his motive for the act, he said he was driven to it by violent paius in his stomach. He lived until the following day. The death of the wealthy Earl of Brownlow, at the age of only four-and-twenty years, seems a sudden call from the apparent enjoy mept of all wordly advantages, but has been .in reality a relief from an existence trying indeed to the most exemplary Christian. Born to high rank and unbounded wealth, his life was one long struggle against the sufferings of an enfeebled constitution inherited with his birth. He never, we believe, knew a day's health ; and what volumes does that hot speak ! But his own affliction only seemed to inspire him with the desire to confer acts of kindness and charity upon others. By the extensive circle of his family connections he was regarded with well-merited affection. To his numerous tenants and dependants he was the justest and most generous of landlords and masters, and to the outer world his charity was unbounded. One instance of the latter is so striking and so illustrative that we cannot refrain from mentioning it. So delicate was he that the winters of this climate would have been at once fatal to him, and for many years he passed them at Madeira. On these occasions, he used to discover individuals afflicted ■ with the same delicacy of constitution as himself, but who were totally unable to afford the solace which

wealth procured for him. These, sometimes to the number of thirty or forty, he prevailed upon to accept his " invitation npon a voyage in search of health," as he delicately termed his nohle act of thoughtful kindness. From England to Madeira during the winter, and thence hack to England, he took upon himself every possible charge of these poor people, including not only every enjoyment of which they were capable, but also the advantage of the firstrate medical skill which was necessary for his own case. Every packet brought every luxury possible of transportation from his numerous estates, and all was as freely at the disposal of his proteges as his own. He had no greater gratification than to perceive that he had been the happy means of procuring for others that glow of health which, alas, was destined never to be seen on his own cheeks. He was once described by one who knew him most intimately as "the most amiable mortal breathing." He is succeeded in his title and estates — the latter estimated at £130,000 a-year — by his only brother, the Hon. Adalbert Oust, a captain in the Grenadier Guards, and M.P. for North Shropshire. — Qourt Journal. The efforts of the Liverpool Juvenile Association have been attended witn results which the committee consider fairly satisfactory. During three years 276 juveniles have been discharged from the various institutions connected with the Association, and of these 163 are doing well. In 62 cases no information could be obtained, and in 15 instances only had a relapse into criminality taken place, though in thirty others the returns were bad and doubtful. These figures are supplemented by the statement of the Rev. T. Carter (chaplain of the borough jail), that since the establishment of reformatories the recommitments of juvenile offenders have diminished from 58 to 14 per cent. In an occasional note, the Pall Mall Gazette says: — Philological students have discovered that the slang sense in which the word jolly is used by fast { young ladies and their " men " is not slang. They point out that in a serious theological work published two centuries back — "John Trap's Commentary on the Old and New Testament London, 1656-7" — is to be read," All was jolly quiet at Ephesus before St Paul came hither." "A century earlier" says Mr. J. B. Shaw, in Notes and Queries, "North, ra his translation of Plutarch's Lives, uses the word thus — 'It(the wind which some call eaciae) bloweth a jolly cool wind.' In the following, from South — 'He catches at an .apple of Sodom, which, though it may entertain his eye with a florid, jolly white and red, yet,' &c, the term is used adjectively (vide Johnson) In the 'Taming of the Shrew' (Act iii, sc 2), Katherine says to Petruchio — "Tis like you'll prove a jolly surly groom." A dinner was given near Paris lately,?of which the principal dishes were shark, horse, dog, and rat,