care of a Prussian firm, who convey it through Russia
and Prussia to Memel, where it is publicly shipped to
England. Not only tallow comes into the market
largely from Russia, but hemp, flax, and dyewoods. We
are constantly receiving those sort of goods: but tallow
is declining, so much so that the prices are much higher,
having risen to 73s. the hundredweight." The thief
was sentenced to two months' imprisonment.

The Rev. Dr. John Vaughan, incumbent of St.
Matthew's Church, Brixton, appeared by counsel at the
Lambeth Police-office, on the 12th and 16th inst., to
answer a summons at the instance of the churchwardens,
who alleged that he had been in the habit of Falsifying
the Registers for his own Personal Benefit. From the
statement which had been made on applying for the
summons, it appeared that the rev. doctor had been in
the habit of keeping the registers of burials that
occurred in the district of which he is the incumbent,
and that it was his practice to bury persons who had
resided out of the district in the burial-ground of the
church, charging double fees for them, whereas for the
parishoners who died only single fees were charged.
These double lees had been taken in many cases, and
the registers had been falsified for the purpose of
enabling the incumbent to place the difference in his own
pocket, instead of accounting for it, as he ought to have
done, to the churchwardens. It was further stated
that in the cases charged against him the rev. gentleman
had stated that the person on whose account he
had received double fees had resided within the district,
knowing it to bf false, and upon that pretence had only
accounted for single fees. The first case related to the
interment of a person named Raven, the registry of
whose death was proved by Mr. Booth, the registrar.
Mr. F. Haydon said he was an undertaker at Stockwell.
He conducted the funeral of W. Raven, who resided in
Stockwell-grove, in the district of Kennington, not in
that of St. Matthew's, Brixton. In order to the interment
of Raven, he applied to Malby, the sexton, on the
evening previous to the funeral. Malby refused to take
the interment, unless witness saw Dr. Vaughan, as the
deceased lived out of the district. On the following
morning witness saw Dr. Vaughan, who at once refused
to take it. Witness represented that Raven's friends
were very anxious that he should be buried there, as a
child of his had been buried there a few weeks previous.
Dr. Vaughan then consented, and witness paid him
double fees at the doctor's request, the amount being
£1 15s. He gave two sovereigns to Dr. Vaughan, who
gave him a receipt and five shillings. When Dr.
Vaughan handed him the receipt he said that if any
person asked him where the funeral came from he was
to tell a lie, and say Robert-street (in St. Matthew's
district). Cross-examined: He did not consider it to
be his duty to remonstrate with Dr. Vaughan. The
rev. gentleman said "Tell a lie," and did not at all
conceal his object. He had destroyed the doctor's
receipt, it being his custom to burn such documents as
soon as his customers settled his bills. George Malby,
the sexton of the district church of St. Matthew, Brixton,
confirmed this statement; in cross-examination he said
that Dr. Vaughan had never directed him to tell a lie
about matters of business. The rev. gentleman had
kindly given him £12 to pay a distress out of his house.
Witness subsequently brought an action against him for
£2 10s., when Dr. Vaughan pressed him for the £12,
brought an action against him for the amount, and
recovered it in the County Court. Witness had never
been accused by Dr. Vaughan of stealing the burial
fees. In the case of a person named Harrison, he
received permission from Dr. Vaughan to keep back 6s.,
in order to return it to the relatives of the deceased. It
was the custom of the doctor in cases of poverty to return
the fees, and this was one of those cases. A son and two
daughters of the accused were then examined, and
strenuously denied that the directions to Haydon to tell
a lie about the place fiom whence the funeral came had
been uttered, they being present at the interview. The
next case was that of a person named Begby. It was
stated that Begby died in Guy's Hospital, in the parish
of St. Olave's, Southwark, and a certificate of his death
was obtained preparatory to his burial. His burial was
at the district church of St. Matthew's Brixton, and the
certificate of such burial stated a different place to that
at which he died. Double fees were paid for the funeral.
In a third case, that of Ann Webb, the details were
similar to the others. The magistrate committed Dr.
Vaughan for trial, taking bail for his appearance; two
sureties in £500 each, and the doctor himself in £1000,
in each case.

On the 19th, George Malby, the sexton of St.
Matthews, appeared to answer a summons by the Rev. Dr.
Vaughan, charging him with Perjury. The charge
arose out of Malby's evidence in the preceding case.
On the application of Malby's counsel, the hearing of
this case was postponed.

A melancholy Suicide has been committed by Mr.
C. Moseley, a middle-aged man, who had been many
years a clerk in the bank of Messrs. Prescott and Co.
He had dreamed that officers were in pursuit of him for
forgeries upon the bank, and, although he
subsequently attended to his usual business in that
establishment, his dream (for which it may be stated, there is no
suspicion whatever of any foundation in fact) had a
most distressing effect upon his mind, and he frequently
conversed about it. His wife endeavoured to reason
with him cheerfully in order to banish the impression,
but his rest was again disturbed by a similar dream,
and about four o'clock in the morning he left his bed
and hurried down stairs. Mrs. Moseley, followed hiin
as soon as she missed him from the room, but he had
already entered the kitchen, and with a carving-knife,
ripped open his abdomen, and actually cut off a portion
of the bowel which protruded through the wound, and
in his frenzy, would have inflicted a still further
mutilation, had he not been prevented by a policeman, who
was called in. He was attended as soon as possible by
medical men, and although suffering terribly, retained
a perfect consciousness, and spoke rationally, till nearly
the last moment of his existence. He lived about three
hours after having committed the act.

On the 21st instant an inquest was held at Bethlehem
Hospital, on the body of William Campion, a criminal
lunatic, who had committed Suicide. He was tried at
York in July 1854, for stabbing, and acquitted on the
ground of insanity. He was a sailor, and a native of
Whitby, in Yorkshire. He was admitted into the above
hospital on the 23rd of November, 1854, was of a
dissatisfied and sometimes very violent disposition, and had
been treated as an invalid ever since his admission into
the institution. On the 19th, in the evening, he was
seen by one of the attendents standing near a stove with
four or five other lunatics. There was then nothing
peculiar in his manner. Ten minutes afterwards he
was found hanging by his neck in the water-closet, he
having suspended himself by means of his neckerchief
and braces. The jury returned a verdict of insanity.

The Dublin Court of Queen's Bench has given a
judgment deciding that a Clergyman of the Established
Church can validly perform the Marriage Ceremony
for himself. The case came before the court on a
special verdict, finding that the plaintiff, Albert S.
Beamish, brought an ejectment on the title against the
defendant, his uncle, to recover an extensive property
in the County of Cork, the defendant denying the plaintiff's
legitimacy, and claiming, therefore, to be the heir-
at-law. The facts (admitted on both sides) were these;
The late Dr. John Swayne Beamish was in his lifetime
possessed of considerable estates, and died in 1852. He
had several sons, and the eldest was the Rev. Samuel
Swayne Beamish, .the defendant being the next brother
of the latter. The Rev. S. S. Beamish was duly
ordained a clergyman of the united churches of England
and Ireland, and it appeared that on the 27th of
November 1831, being then in holy orders, he went to the
house of Anne Lyons, in the city of Cork, and there
performed a ceremony of marriage between himself
and Isabella Frazer. The form of solemnisation was
that set out in the Book of Common Prayer, Mr.
Beamish then declaring that he took the said Isabella
Frazer to be his wedded wife, she taking him to be her
wedded husband. The wedding ring was then placed
upon her finger and the blessing pronounced. After
the ceremony, it was stated that the marriage was
consummated between the parties. No clergyman was
present at the performance of the ceremony except the