The Express. — London, England, 1853-03-28 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENING MARCH 28, 1863. [ prelates death, Perriciard had remarked that it was tear, aad that he had helped to convey him to the hmidtal. Several other wit n e sses proved that they had heard the rumours spread about the amused; but the only testimony of any interest was that of a woman named itiniard, which was to the effect that, just after the archbishop Wai she bad seen Perriehard in a state of great agitation with his hair in disorder, and that he said, "1 have just caught the archbishop in my arms, end he is dead ! It served him right! What right had he to meddle in our affairs?" A greet number of witnesses were called for the defence. They gave the accused a good character, and some of them stated that they did nut believe he had left his louse on the day of the murder of the archbishop. The insurgents, they said, had endeavoured to fusee him to go with them, but he had refused. One witness, a female, declared that the woman Chenneviir e s was animated with feelings of toe greatest h 'sulky against the accused, and her statement respecting his having shut the archbishop was therefore to be received with great mistrutt. 'ld. Nogent St. Laurens addressed the court for Perri chard, and when he had concluded a most able and bril liant defence, the president asked Perrichard if he had any thing to add. The groaner said, " No; 1 maintain all that I have said: that is to say, that all the evidence Jig tins: me is falselniad end calumny, and that the persons who have gives it deserve to be punished as perjurers." The court then retired to deliberate. After being absent three quarters of an hour the members returned, and the president read the ju lginent. It declared Pi rrichard to have been guilty of attempting to excite civil war by .in ducing citiaens to arm against each other, of having fur. nished arms and munitions of war, nod of having borne arms in the insurrection. The court acquitted him unanimously of the charge of murder, but sentenced him fur the other utt:nce to trauspoitatim for life. SCOTLAND. RAILWAY TRIALS,CONVIOTIONS FOR NEGLECT OF DUTY. The High Court of Justiciary met at Edinburgh on Thursday last fpr the trial of the officials of the Nom, Elitists Railway, implicated in the collision that took place at Portobello, on the Bth of October last. The panels were five in number, of whom tam were triad on Thurs day. John IPDonald, engine-driver, Thomas Wilson, station master, Portobello, and Joha Howarth, porter, Portobello, were placed at the bar, charged with culpable homicide, as also culpable neglect of duty ; in so far as on the Bth Octe t). r last, a goods.train, consisting of eighteen trucks or wegitens, drawn by a louromotive-engine, in chug* of Ni.Doetahl, having arrived at Portobello from Edinburgh station at or about fifty-five minutes past five o'clock, or at all events within fifteen militates of the ex pected ;arrival of the 5.36 mail train from Edin burgh, Ilogar.h, in violation of his duty, neglected to present the fixed station signal at the west of the station to warn the mail train that the station was not clear, cud Wilson neglected to see that the said signal was duly pre sented, and continued to be presented, while Wilson also neglected to take proper measures, and to issue the neces sal y orders for the clearing of the line for the passage of the mad-train ; and M'Donsld, aware of the starting of the said train, neglected his duty to proceed with his own train to Inc first offset or siding, at the station, which would hold it clear of the main 'line ; in consequence of all which, or part thereof, the mail train cams into violent e,llisioa with the goods train, the porter of the goods train, named Stewart Ogilvie, was killed • and several of the passenger of the mail train were bruised and injured. ' At the close of the evidence for the prosecution, the ebergc against liugerth was withdrawn, and the evidence on the subject of tne signal, being contradictory, the court directed the jury only to consider the other point. Tile jury found Wilson guilty of culpable neglect of duty la not clearing the station, and 3.l•Donald also guilty, in nut removiug his engine and train from the line, with this ex lineation, that he was u n d er th e impr ess i on that he should attend to the orders of the guard. • Sentence was delayed till next day. On Friday William Lyall, superintendent of the goods departmeet, Edinburgh. and Alex. Ramsay, foreman ppur tc and acting as clay pilot-guard, a ere charged with culpa ble homicide, or culpable neglect of duty, in so far as, ou the Bth of Oettib?_,T they ordered or permitted the irregul ar train to leave tho Edinburgh station at about 5.45 p.m., or, a least, within 15 minutes of the time advertised for the start ing of the mait'trein, with the object of depositing 191210 of the trucks at the Portobello station, and some at Leith junction; in consequence of which, the mail train having started from Edinburgh at or about its usual time, the COW IN/II occurred as above stated. The charge againsti;;EWas withdrawn, and he was ac cordingly acquitted. The jury found the case against Ramsay not proven. Wilson and dl•Donald were then placed at the bar for sentence, and were awarded —Wilson eighteen months, and M'Douald four mouths' imprisonment. Thrtr.ighout the triais the counsel on both sides, and es pecially the court, aniniadver ed strongly at the laxity on the part of the servants of the company that Was counte nanced by their superior officers, and which led to such danger to the public. The Lord Justice Clerk remarked that the disclosures that bad been made, male it pretty evi dent that on a similar case occurring it would be the manager or the directors, and not the inferior is of the company, that would be held responsible, should this laxity be allowed to continue. SHREWSBURY AND BIRMLNOIIAM RAILWAY. The half-yearly meeting of the shareholders in this company was held at the Sava Ho el, at Wolverhsinp ton, on Saturday afternoon, the Hue. H. H. CLIVE, M.P., in the chair. There was a very large attendance of the Tin report, in reference to the capital account said : " The payments during the past half-year amount to 13,6901. Ile. Sd., making a total expenditure of 1,194,1491. 17e. Ild., exclusive of the sum contributed to the Stour Valley, which is now represented by the London and North Western Guaranteed Stock. The further expenditure during the present half-sear will be chiefly for the land and works on the Sladeley /Stanch, the contract for which has been let. The total receipts for the half-year are at the rate of only 261. Bs. per mile per week, and show very forcibly the active eompetit.on on the part of the London , and North Western Company, with which you have to coo tend: although it continues to be carried ou at a very great sacrifice to the income of that company. Your direet,rs regret that as adverse decision of the Muter of the nulls enables the London and North Western Company to can tinue the cotnpetition for your local traffic, contrary to the terms of the agreement of October, 1847. They are advised that this decision will probably be reversed upon appeal In the meantime, your director+ entertain • very confident expectation of arrangements being made fur charging those higher fares sad rat, a, i which the traffic and commercial prosperity of the district fully justify. The net receipts fur 1842, including those from the Stour Valley, show a dividend of Bs. per share, or o per cent. oa the preference shares. The sum of 41. 64. per share has been paid on account, and dividend war rants are being made out for the balance of 34.6 d. per share. There are now three rears' dividend owing to the holder+ of London and North Western Guaranteed Stock in respect of the receipts from the BtuurValley Company. Your Direc tors recommend that a dividend of 21 per cent., free from income tax (which has been paid by the Stew Valley Com pany), be now paid upon this stock, and that the same rate of dividend be paid next half year." The statement of account under the head of " capital" showed that the gross expenditure up to the 3lst of De cember has been 1,385,2471.75. Ild., and the receipts on all the shares, loans, premiums, rents, and transfer fees, 1,394,0161. 95.4 d. ; leaving a balance on the debtor ride, "carried to the ralonee-sheet " (says the report) amounting to 9,2681. le. Sd. The half-year's revenue account shows that the gruss receipts have been 20.3141. Os. 6d., and the expenditure under the usual heads 18,6931. Its. Ild., leav ing a balance carried to dividend account amounting to 1,6201. le. 6d. The two remaining heeds in the statement under the heads " dividend account" and "general state ment of balances" are pretty much explained in the re port, at least so far as regards the general result. In the " general expenditure," Sine. Jane 30, last year, there is an item for "law Otages, parliamentary expenses, en gineering, and surveying, 1851.62," amounting to 4021. 16s. 7d., which is added to capital account, in addi tion to alum of 1,7591. 2s. 6d. for "extraordinary expenses arising out of the . proceedings of the committee of in quiry," &a., Mo. After • a discussion of a somewhat angry and personal nature, the report was adopted, as was also one de claring a dividend of two-sad-a-half per cent. on Stour Valley stock ; Mr. Collis protesting, on the ground that the preference shareholders had a prior claim for the lull amount of their interest over the Stour Valley stock. Mr. ROBINSON next moved, " That it is indispensable to the well-being of this company that the secretary shall henceforth be an independent office, receiving a known salary, sad accountable for the fill and complete discharge of his duties." Mr. KNOX, amidst =With laughter, seacitided this motion, which was of warn direct:4 against himself ; and it was carried. A large number of shares were declared forfeited ; and then a vote of thanks was paned to the eheirman, the meeting not terminating natil after six o'clock in the •reming. SOUIH-EASTERN RAILWAY. It appears that Mr. Alderman Salmons, late chair man of list) Reading, Guildford, and Reigate Railway Com pany, has addreatied a letter to tho propr ie tors of this com pany with a view to show that the proposal for leasing the Reading, Guildford, and Reigate Railway Company, at a rent equivalent to 5i per cent. on 800,000!., did not originate with him—that he was no party to it, and had no connexion with it until it was arrange.!. He states that although the South-Eastern proprietors are liable te the Reading, Guild ford, and Reigate proprietors fur a capital of 800,0001., this sum had not been spent on the line at the time it was trans ferred to the South-Eutern Company. The day the line was transferred, a draught, amounting to 118,8681., was paid over wltl. it, and also property belonging to the com pany was surrendered, including • quantity of most value• ble land, of which 30 acres adjoin the town of Reigate, and about 5 acres are between the station of the Reading and Reigate and the Great Western station at Reading. Ile con tends that interest on at least 50,0001. of the money handed over by the Reading and Reigate Company to the South- Eastern Company should be chargeable on the capital account of the latter company, which, at 4 per cent., would amount to 2,0001. a year. lie complains of the fares charged on the Reading and Reigate line, ' and says however unpopular that line may now he with the South Eastern proprietors, he feels confident that it will prove both remunerative and advantageous to that company. With regard to his con nexion with the East Kent &iilway, he states that, in Join ing the gentlemen of his county in the East Kent scheme, he was only endeavouring to complete a line of railway to which the South Eastern Company had been long and solemnly pledged. He considers the comp'etion of the line by a friendly company to be indispensable, not only to the prosperity of the South Eastern Company, but to the pro tection of their present property. He concludes by stating that he feels assured that the permanent interests of the South Eastern Company are tar more bound up in the con tinuation of the North Kent line into East Kent, by Strood to Canterbury, than in undertaking at the present moment the construction, with South Eastern capital, of the branch line from Strood to Maidstone. THE REPRESENTATION OP HUDDERSFIELD.—Mr. Winans has not yet issued his address; we believe his delay urines from an honourable desire to obtain perfect satisfac tion as to the propriety et' offering himself, after the circum stances which he explained at the meeting of Wednesday evening. In the meantime Joseph Starkey, Esq., the ex tensive manufacturer of Huddersfield, and chairman of Mr. Stanfield's election committee, has been called on by the friends • all whom lie then acted to become a candidate ; and be has complied with the call, and issued an address, avowing very liberal political principles. We have heard that if Mr. Willans should ultimately determine to with draw, it is not unlikely that a noble lord connected with Yorkshire, and of decidedly liberal views, may be put be fore the electors for their acceptance.— Leeds Mercury. WESTERN RAILWAY OF FRANCE. Traffic fur week ending March 20, 18-33, 3,5641. ; corresponding week, 18.52, 3,161[. ; 90 miles open. lucresse Cf traffic, 1953 over 1832, to present time, 5,0411. IRELAND. DIMON, FILIDAT ETINUte. This day has been observed with much more strictness as a holiday than I recAleet any Good Friday to have been in Dublin for a number of years. It is not what is termed a holiday of obligation in the Roman catholic church, but all parties, protestants and Roman catholic*, seem to join on the present oc casion in observing it as such, at least so fur as the closing of shops, and refraining to a great extent trom manual labour, would indicate. The various places of worship were crowdt d during the moroing, and numbers of people fill the streets this afternoon quietly enjoying the rest. The sun has shone bril liantly all day ; but the harshness of the wind too plainly shows that we are not done with the wintery weather. This morning the ground was covered more thickly with snow than at any time for the last , two or three days. The following on the subject of the Irish Tenant Compensation Bills appears in the Northern Whit,: A highly valued correspondent, whose position enables him to have a correct knowledge of the mutter on which ' tie writes, and whose disposition, we know, inclines him to take the deepest interest in the equitable adjustment of the present existing relations between landlord and tenant in Ireland, sends us a copy of the propositions agreed to by the Select Committee on Tenants' Compensation, &e. (Ireland) Bills. The following is the communication of our correspondent :—The following propositions were agreed to by the committee, with a view to indicate the principle on which amended clauses of the bill should bra prepared fur future consideration : —Leasing Powers (Ireland) Bill.— That the improvements Mr which compen•ation should be provided by mean* of agreements should be divided into :no classes; first, those which are removable and separable from the soil; secondly, those which are not removable or separable from the soil. That improvements made by the tenant in the first class shall be compensated fur by making those improvements the properly of the tenant; that im provements in the second class shall be compensated fur by compensating periods of years. Several persons have been convicted at the Cork Assizts of riots during the last election, and in a few cases the juries were unable to agree to a verdict. None of the cases presented any features more re markable than those of an ordinary !jot. _ SATURDAY. Mr. Lucas, MY., devotes an article of four, columns in length in the Tablet of this week, to the subject of " Independence and Opposition," for the purpose of enlightening his readers on the policy and conduct of himself and his Irish colleagues in the House of Commons. Ile professes still to adhere to the old impracticable doctrine of "Opposition ;" rejects the principle of "Independence" as an ambi guous and deceptive one, and as incompatible with co-operation; and labours to undermine the confi dence in the present government which, in spite of Mr. Lucas and of those who entertain the same views with him, is rapidly gaining ground in the minds of the people of this country. " I hear it whispered about," says Mr. Lucas, " that the government after all is not such a bad government ; that it is favour able to us as catholies ; and that on the Land Commit tee it is doing, and it will do, us a very fair measure of justice. I entreat my readers, in what. ever part of Ireland, not to believe a single word of all this miserable trash." He proceeds to tell his readers that on religious questions the principles which he heard from Lord Palmerston and Lord John Russell, not two months ago, in the House of Com mons, were " of the worst and blackest description ;" while upon the land question he asserts that "any man who pretends that anything has passed in the land committee which gives the ministers the smallest title to our support, which pledges the ministers in any way to give us the substance of Sharman Craw ford's bill, or an equivalent for that substance, or which gives us a reason to believe that the present ministry will set at rest or provide a remedy for this mighty and fundamental grievance, pretends that which has no foundation in fact." Mr. Lucas was strongly suspected of coquetting with the Derby party, but to-day ho fairly throws them overboard: Never Nona (be says) can Lord Derby's party comet to power to play the mad pranks of last year, to issue pro clamations against harmless religious ceremonies, to create sacrilegious outrage at Stockport, and to organize social strife and bitter animo:ity throughout every parish and county of Ireland. Never again, if an honest Irish party holds well together, shall we see a repetition of these delirious follies, even from Orange politicians. Last year it was everywhere believed, in spite of the talk to the contrary, that the Irish party would make an offensive and defensive alliance with the liberals, and would ez• hibit nothing but a factious opposition to their opponents, The result was that the tones encountered us as enemies, from whom they had nothing to hope, with unm iti ga t e d rancour, and poured out upon all the vials of their wrath. Now they know that we do not make these irreversible alliances ; that we stand aloof ; that we watch our maraet from day to day ; that we count every bargain that we make ; and that we are resolved so to act that both sides must reckon with us. The council of the Tenant League have called a meeting of their friends to be held in Dublin on Wednesday next " to hear a statement from the par liamentary representatives as to the workings of the select committee on the Land Bah, and to take counsel together for the further advancement of the cause generally." The following are some of the ac counts received this day of effects of the weather upon agricultural prospects : The Northern Whig says: Our accounts from the country this morning are tolerably , satisfactory ; for, although they report that (or the week the ' weather was such that no sowing could be done, still In plotighing much progress was made in many districts, and under very favourable circumstances. The seed time must be now unprecedentedly late ; but that the ground has been fertilised and improved by the late snows and frosts every farmer knows; se that if the seed were but sown, and with favourable weather afterwards, the harvest might still be rich and ample ; but the utmost energy and exertion will be required to effect a sowing within a reasonable time, and of the requisite extent ; and an outlay unknown during ordi nary years will also be required ; for all this let the farmer be fully prepared. The Limerick Reporter says :—" Though the sea son ha. been very severe and unpropitious, we are happy to learn by our accounts from Thurles, Nenagh, and other parts of Tipperary, that considerable pro grew; bas been made to spring work." A fine steamer, called the Sylph, was launched from the yard of Mews. Rome and Murphy, at Waterford, the day before yesterday. She sailed to Glasgow to got her engines. The following particulars of the Great Ezhibitiou are from the Freeman : The chief event of yesterday was the raising of one of the half-ribs of the domed roof of the great nave, near the Dublin Society House. It is intended to place at this (the western) end of the hall the magnificent organ manufac tured by Mr. Telford, of Stephen's-green, for the College of St. Peter, Hadley, Oxford; and a great matter of in terest with all parties concerned in the construction of the building was to have this part of it finished at an early period, so as to admit of the erection of the organ with the !east possible delay. With this view the raising of the ribs has been commenced at the western end of the building, and the first of the half-ribs having been ' raised yesterday without difficulty, the probability is that the remaining three will be fixed permanently in their places by Monday next. The organ, which the au thorities of St. Peter's College at Oxford have kindly per witted to be exhibited here, is one of the finest and most perfect toned instruments in England, and will doubtless form a very prominent feature of attraction. The organ is enclosed in a splendid oak case, with tin pipes, and contains three complete manuals, from CC to 0 in alt, the pedal organ, trom CCC to o—two-aotta-half octaves, six compo sition pedals, five copulas, fifty stoic The total number of pipes is 2,833—viz., the great organ, containing 1,146 pipes; the swell organ, 947 ; the choir organ, 366; and the pedal organ, 384. This splendid instrument coat upwards of 2,0004., a sum which is a very inadequate representation of its real value. The organ was taken down in December, and is at present in Dublin, and ready for immediate erec tion. We understand that Mr. Telford has in preparation • smaller organ, in the Gothic stye, intended for the me dieval court, which the younger Pugin and other eminent architects intend to fit up in the Dublin Exhibition, in imi tation of that which excited such interest and admiration at the Crystal Palace. The splendid stained glass window, mane for the beautiful Catholic church in Dundalk, will be exhibited in the medieval court, and will greatly enhance the. attractions of this department, which we have no hesitation in predicting will be one of the gems of the Exhibition. GOLD IN MAYO.—The fact of the existence of gold in the soil of Mayo was perfectly established here last week in the yard of Mr. Brennan, where his workmen were sink ing a hole for the erection of his gasometer. The ore found has been tested by br. Atkinson, who pronounced it to be pure gold.—Castlebar Telegraph. bALMON FISHERY.—A reaction has set in in the salmon fis►ery of the Suir, Nore, and Barrow. The fish are large and in the finest possible condition, and have not for a great number of years been co abundant at such an early period of the season. The take in the upper portions of our tideway,' and the fresh waters has teen particularly good. We have heard of a reverend gentleman having killed with rod and line 21 salmon on the Suir, above Clunntel, tan the Ist instant, and 14 on the 2iid. Other anglers have been very suceec,4l, and all are highly de lighted at the iinpro%. merit which has been effected in the 'almon fisheries of our rivers by the protection afforded the breeding fish during the past two or three winters.—lVater ford Mail. I: MIDDLE COLLIERY EXPLOSION ! TRIAL OF IL PERRICHARD FOR MAAS- Tu. • NEAR WIGAN. BINATING THE ARCHBISHOP OF PARIS. We regret to say that the account of the dreadful Napof life at the lace Nall Colliery, near Wigan, by an • implame of casharetted hydrngen gas on Wednesday last, • dm ,,bo the ell of Thai sday, was by no minus sss,raerabd. Up to Saturday morning more than 4u dead amine had been brought nut of the mine, and 10 or Li more, Is was feared, We., yet to be recovered, making the total k m winds di) and 60 killed. The tander•grotin•l work . i gs a re so 'Attests , e in this mine, and the repairs necessary tu dons and .toppings, en ventilation enough could be owe d w suppat tile in the searchers for the dead, are es ma r, that the loss of much time before the recovery at the belie. sons unavoidable. The depth of the pa shafts IA great, being 414 yards from the surface; and then the extent of the uaderground workings and • p. i. :rating I,loa yards to the north and nearly as A u to the south, with extensive sections east and wait, mem , au immense field for ezploretion, in which it is r say t , cenerive that many difficulties would present them- i aims after an occurrence like this. Mr. Darlington, the istel:ieent sal eneraetic tenoning portner of the firm, Olt ea. immediately alter the accident , descending the • to vitii a large body of colliers, and working with them, ladoatietab.y, night and day, is the arduous untlntakiag; but aft. r the removal of between twenty and thirty dead I bodies. and of some few living miners, found near the bottom ut the shafts, not leas than eighteen hours had to he spent in unremitting labour at the air peasiges, in re- huddled stone walls (the material of a large portion of which had to hi braylit from the surface above), and re- pi ,;" a,,,,re which had been destroyed by the end°. n en, bil••re the search could be carried further. And w hen tha was done, it sufficed only for an ex swam,* of the east, west, south, and a portion of the n irth Fictions of the levels. The larger potion et the north section of the workings, would require as amount o f labour and care before they could be pene trated, 11. soy to occupy some days. This portion of the mine is the c ost dangerous and difficult to work. The roofs of tlis workings, after the coal hail been removed, consistel of loose strata, and was full of fluke and s' trouble.," to use the expensive phrases familiar among colliers fir such things. Faulty roofs of this kind, gene. ratty hashiur • good deal of the light, carburetted hydro gen go on latal to colliers,and the explosion on this occasion b a ying towed .ut the horizontal timben supporting these theta the loose strata has fallen in, so chokiug up the parsers, and interrupting the currents of air, as to furnish a great deal of heavy labour, be fore the exploration can be completed. The att. fel catastrophe has naturally created a large amount of ezeitentent in the neighbourhood ; and the pit brews, the banks of the canal, ar.d the other approaches to the wor k s ( th in Wigan, are crowded daily from morning till might with thousands of people, of both sties and all ages. The bodies of the unfortunate sufferers, as recovered, are generally raetil to the surface in a basket, two at a time, w r apped in black cloths, so as to conceal the mutilated fee tares of the corpses from ebservation. Mist of them appear to have died from burns and suffocation, but many also bear the marks of great violence. The bodies of several of the learren were blown into fragments. The work of identi fying the h I has gone on rather slowly, for many of the unfortunate men were strangers, recently from Wales, and the perms.. with whom they had resided here, in lodgings, imperfectly sequsinted with them, have had a dill culty in recoteising their disfigured sepses. The fuzee of the explosion carried a quantity of materials upwards the whole altitude of the shaft., 414 yard., and hurled than into the ale, some being men to tall in the racial, which rues at a short distance from the mouths of the two shafts. The explosion was PO violent as to be heard ea the surface at a cessidenble distance ; and the coneus- Pee of the air even shook the furniture in two inns at the Caaal-badge, the Britannia and the Navigation Inn, at , lOW MO yards from the mouth of the await shaft. As a eingstar contrast to the force manifested on the surface of the earth, we may mention that the explosion sod cosme tics were so little beard or felt within the mine, beyond the 111101444110 district where they occurred, that some of the coders, subsequently rescued alive, state that although the) heard a noise, it was not louder than the slamming to of a door, and they actually condoned at work ter a short time after the explosion, without hiving the slightest suspicion of the real natant of the catastrophe. These facts show that the explosion was very local; and it is probable that had the men, instead of being many of them collected at the spot when it marred, been scattered about the several workings in this wry extensive pit (the length of which below extends to nearly a mile from the pits mouth), in all proabability the calumny would have been very much lees extensive in its fatality. We learned from Serjeant France, of the count) constabulary force, that when he arrived at the pit, MVO after two o'clock on Wednesday afternocn, he found there a large crowd of persons, most of whom had come to lacer- Ilia the fate of friends mad relations. Many of them watt women, who were ansiens as to the fate of husbands, hea then, or fathers, whom they knew to be in the pit, and their lamentations are described as having been most heart nnding. Of coarse, among a large number of persons No situated, it was very difficult to preserve order, and to pre- Mt their interference with the exertions of those who were sped is the recowny of the living and the dead from the pit. There were, however, in attendance eight men of the county constabulary, and three of the Wigan boriregb police force, and by their assistants a tolerable cleansed seder was preserved. The hairiest was opened en Friday Ammon, at the Na vigation las, before Mr. C. Dridistd, coroner for the West Derby Hundred of the county of Leneestar. Mr. Dickin son, government inspector of the mines in the district, was pressat ; and Mr. Superintendent Fowler, of the musty esastalmiary. Jones, the undertooker of the colliery, on whom some blame is supposed to mat for his conduct in allowieg the flee in the furnace at the bottom of the mine W e low, and lessen the ventilation, before the explosion, was en custody. The inquiry was adjourned to eleven o'clock in the fore noon of Thursday nest. Axons Is FitANVE.—The town of Angers, the aapital of the ancient province of Anjou, says Mr. Pieties, hes been a place of great importance, and is 'tin a flourish bag ity. Its appearance and style of architecture die; r much from thee* we have bees examining. This arises priasipally from the nature ante building materials. The rieheoloared white stone of the centre and north is not met with hare. The buildings of ancient date ere built with a dark-coloured slaty done, which gives them a very sombre cast. The old dwellings are principally timber framed. The upset of assay of the streets strongly resembles Chester, but the enrichments of the barge boards and window framing are on the whole richer and more elaborate, and the buildings of ' earlier data and purer style. One house at the corner of en opus square scar the ostbedral is especially worthy of ' mods& It is la the usual style of wood framing ; but at the rejecting eerier is an eagle turret, s u pport ed on a corbel, lades mike is earned a trim with _ sp s foliage, which handy shaded the figures of Ada& and in. The twiateJ Plums which form the &slags of the assist timbers are Bernd with agents in high relief, cortmare L men in armour, limes playing musical imetenmeats, ha. The cathedral of lk. Maurice is similar is elm/aster internally to that of !Mien, and about the name data—theashldle or latter part *ldle twelfth century. In this style, which is very peculiar, side aloha seam sot to lave bum mash affected, the object apparently having hems to cover as wide a space am pos sible A. a slash spa. The Cathedral of Augers omelets of mee t choir, and transepts without aisles. At the time of my visit It was snde ag aurora repair and restoration. Tse Msio, a heath, fs the latest pointed style, was ale eader repair. It has a carless cloister sad wicding shimass. Ti. oast* a massive strisetam of early date, with Os seven towers sad sartala walls, ea an isolated sock,resseables mach the Edwardian stades in Wales mgeoelly Conway. It appears to have been less interferes; with than most of the b reach " chafe ism forts," in any moa at madoiatios.-7ha Builder. A inn SP tat PUTIWIIBI.—The Courrier du Per-droasea earn—O da Nemsel. whet of thh de- Iselessat, Yakut head a d s watbsatia weepy la parchment of a shathe Ise. , amosadagham Chadds Bdsserd, the Pretender, art seieg its Ma La of Nkomo. Ind, esta la Anal a samasiga Omaha sad iniMmpolitell sesieracisa kerstasseas. The mast has prassated the meat to Ss the archives dais daparimaat It &dares that ' Edward, ILlarpreenadar PM.% endsadoisd helmet' widths( M teetify i t i lt binds ta the Artesian mamas of Arras far the aumeroas aids endgames whisk they. la majorette@ with the Moss whim gouda= Of Anse. bad shown him daring a valises, arms maths whisk is nada in that town, bee thfil lit to create the said Maga, d Oreemasons, under malfiooliee title of Is be governed by to dela laws, and Walccapkwa, _advocates ; Huard INA amosowo, ; Lawl. lgiettmer, and Caller, essomuher, glviag them arstbadly art only to make kolifilme s hist even to create a darter la whatever towns they nay think It. The dlialalmall Is dined • Clout's Item Stewart,' sad amatimalpsul Lord Deberkley, Nenfur.' The lieholglieehe montismed in the charter vat greadfather of the lafhens.s member of the Committee of Public Safety denim the Bata _elf Terror ." _ . FIRE AT A Cnutat.-13a Ulna F r i morning, shoot ten o'clock, when a great award of persona filled :he Aurelia St. Gervais, and jest se the card wee carrying ,Il l * Had in prom Won t the &own the aisle, the hangings caught an, m w the case tat church of the Invalid's at the faxes! of /Ireshal Setastiani. In • moment everything was la ceafosion, and a terrible panic seising on the persons !twist, each endeavoeirei to rash out without any regard to the mischief which might arise hem such violence. For tmtaly. scarcely any one visa hart, a few slight bruises anti the exteat of the Warns received by the Persons Ppm. A °teenager having been sent to toe fire-brigade of tie Hotel de Ville which was close by, aid arrived almost hsediately, and ins few minutes the Are was extinguished. Oae Chapel at the side was entirely destroyed, and the wood Si the grand entrance was slightly inj and. The organ, winch at one nrintent append enveloped in smoke, escaped tempte r d, so that th e w h o l e exten t o f t h e d amage d on e is "pea, PRIVATE O.iLLECIIONS FROM ABEtOAD.—The Lords of the Treasury baviog received an applierti so from • foreign gentleman requesting the delivery of his hbtary dam) free, and also some stitched hooks of engraving', in cluded in his collection, and intended for his private pro 1tY4012.1 use in this country, their lordship have been Pleated to copider that as they were stated to actually form I Ptrt of his library, arida° have been used for a length of tine, and tens intruded entirely for private use, and not for the purpose of sale in this country, they should have the Privilege of exemption from duty, and directions have been t II"10 by their lord s hip to the proper authorities to that din It has already been stated (in the letter of our oor respoedeat) that, in consequence of the denuncintion of a female on her deathbed, a publici-honse keeper, named Pcrrichard, of the Faubourg St. Antoine, was amsted some time ago on suspicion of having maaesinated the Archbishop of Paris,at • barricade in that Faubourg, in the insurrection of June, 1848. On Wedneelay,this person was brought to trial before a court-martial. Tie court was crowded with penoes of distinction, and the trial exed'ed extraordi nary interest. A @brine containing some of the vertebrm of the archbishop, together with the ball extracted from them, was placed on a table. The ball appears to have been east in a common sewing thimble, as it is of that shape and is rough. This proves that the archbishop could not, as was at first thought not unlikely, have been killed by a 'petit ball from the troops. The accused is 38 Tears Giese ; he . wears a long beard, and was dressed In black. The President of the court commenced the proceedings by informing him that he was accused of having assassi nated Mgr. Afire, Archbishop of Paris, and of having taken wt in the insurrection of *ruse. He then asked him if he were not &reeved in June, and if so fur what cause ? " I never knew why I was arrested," said the man ; but after sixty-nine days' confinement, I was set at liberty by a judgment of the military commission." The public pro secutor stated that it was not in virtue of a judgment that he was released, but in consequence of some respecmble penis= having interfered on his behalf. " You distributed arms to the insurgents," add the president; " here is a musket which you give to a rain named Courtier. Where did you get it from ?" " When I was a national guard, I bought it after the revolution of February from a man who was about to leave ft- Africa. I gave 10fr. for it." The president remarked that from marks on it, it ap peared to have belonged to the 14th regiment, which was in the insurrection in tho Faubourg St. Antoine; but the man persisted in saying that he b.d purchased it afte: February. " reline rumour," continued the presi dent, "accused you of having participated in the &sassing lion of Archbishop Afire. The movement the, occasioned was so great that there was one day a sort of inteute before your house. What have you to say to these rumours, and especially to the accusation brought against you by the woman thennevieres ?" " The rumours referred to," the accused answered, " were spread by my enemies. The woman Chenneviires lodged in my house ; she did not pay her rent, nor her husband either, and they twin went away unknown to me. The woman was certainly ill ; she was very violent, and almost mad. I did not know what had become of them, but their dog was accustomed to come to my house because he always fuund food, and ore day I full"wed him to their residence. I . demanded what was due to me. No sooner bad I spoken than Chinne viires tried, What aro you doing here, scoundrel ?' and seising a stool he attempted to strike me with it. I defended myself as well as 1 could, and then resolved to go away. Ac I was leaving the woman made an indecent gesture, and used an imitating expression. This exasperated me greatly. I seised both of tnem and threw them down. I then went away, and the woman cried after me. ' Scoundrel wretch ! It was you who killed the Archbishop ! You shall remember it !' It was atter this that the rumour be came spread amongst the women of my neighbourhood, and my enemies took it up to injure me. A worn :n named Levi, who was in my debt fur rent, and with whom I had had a dispute, was very active in spreading the report. Another woman, named Vidal, with whom I had also had dispute.,_ went to the woman ebenneviires , and m o de her repeat her accusation. At length I resolved to invoke the authority of the commis-ary of police to put an end to this defamation." "Were you not," asked the president, " with the insurgents when Mgr. Afire the Archbishop presented himself at the barricades of the Faubourg St. Antoine with words of peace ?" " I was In the neighbourhood ; I resided there . " —" Yon were one of those who assiste d in mixing the Archbishop when he fell mortally wounded ?" "No sir—l was not present at that scene." " You con formed that yen were to Senn, persons, and even to a ma. " This is the way things occurred. I had an assistant who was taken by the insurgents. I 'remained in my house. Three hours after, the tether of my assistant came, and asked for his son ; and not finding him, he be came so violent that he demanded arms to march against those who had earned him off. I told him to remain quiet, and that 1 would go and seek him myself, as I knew the men who had taken him. I went from barricade to band cads in the Faubourg, but did not find him. At last I arrived at the great barricade. I was about to return home, when at !Ivo or six steps behind me, I heard a cry, and at the same time • discharge of muskets. I turned round, and perceived the Archbishop, who had fallen to the ground at about the second or third house at the entrance to the Faubourg on the right. Several persons hastened to assist the Archbishop, but I hastened home as quickly as possible." "It results from the investigation made, that you told several persons that you not only aided in raising the Archbishop, but in conveying him to the Hospital of the Guinea Vingta ?" " I deny that, as I have always de nied it. I belong to an honest family. I was brought up with good principles, and I never bore arms against the Mops. It was by chance alone that I was on the spot on which the Archbishop was killed. It is my , enemies who accused me of having committed the crime. ' " Did you not, after the crime, so'deit an asylum from the woman Chennevieres and her husband, saying before them that you had just killed the Archbishop, that if they refused to receive you, you would bide yourself beneath eine of the arches of the bridge of Berry, and that if you were sought after there you would drown yourself?" " Tim:declarations made by that woman end her, husband are entirely false, fur after having visited all the barricades I re turned to my house, where I slept, and I did not leave it on the fo llowing dive." • According to the woman Chenneeiires, you said, in the residence of a married ample named Bailloit ' It was through • hole in • house near the barricade that we fired on the Archbishop,' sad that when you saw the prelate fall you quickly descended is older to join the persons who removed him from the barri cade." " I never went to Ballot's residence." " Your assertion is contradicted by the documents collected in the examination. You said, We were eighteen insurgents in • chamber on the third story of a house which is at the corner of the Rue de Charenton and the Faubourg St. An toine, looking on the Place do la Bastille, and we fired through little, holes in the wall. After making • discharge we went on to the place to ascertain the result.'" All that is as false as the rest. I never entered any house, and never made use. of such language." " Those revelations were made by the woman Chennevieres on her death-bed to an honourable priest." "That woman was my enemy, and what she said was an set of vengeance." " It is not pos sible that a person about to appear Wore God, and in full possession of her reason, could make such a declaration with the sole object of injuring you!" "Oh, sir, she was quite capable of doing that! She was very violent and very mischievous. One day, when 1 went to her to de mand payment of my rent, she and her husband wanted to assessinate me with a hatchet." " Several witnesses state that when you reed in the newspaper that the Archbishop, after being wounded, had said, A good shepherd should give his life for his sheep' you remarked that these were the words he bad attend as you wet e coamyiag him to the Magpies des Outline Yingts ?" " I dewy that. The state ment has been made by • man sassed Collin, who is my enemy." "It is sertain that you took Regan the insur rection alum, 1848. You were concerned in the pillage of the barracks of the Rue de Acidly." "During the M umma= I went with my concierge and my little boy as far as the &us de Mantreuil to leave the fatter with my pueots. la Wanting I called on one of my friends named Lisbon, who, lives opposite the barracks, and after having remained some time I returned horn*. On my way I picked up a cartridge box and belt nom the barracks." "You were seen by several wit name casting balls in a thimble in your shop. You were told that those balls would be mortal, because they were not smooth ? " " A great number of insurgents entered my house with baskets containing lead. They tamed me to give them saucepans and fire to melt it. It was thus that I was forced to take part in making the balls—lust as seve ral ether persons were oempelled by the lam:pats to make gunpowder." Witnesses were then called who were present whoa the Archbishop was killed ; but they merely gave details which am familiar to all. One of them, M. Albert, who went be fore the Archbishop carrying a bough of a tree, to imlican his peaceable MISIIIOO, said that he remembered the features of nearly all the persons who gathered round the prelate when he fell, and that he did not think the accused was one of them. M. Dermal, chaplain at the hospital of La Salpetrierg, stated that the woman Chennevie-es had sent for hid, and had told him that she hail a great weight on her am science. Ile asked her what it was; and she answered: " I know the assassin of the Archbishop of Paris ; he is a man, named Perrichard, and he boasted of the act before me." Bhe added that other persons knew the nine thiag, but that they bad come to an understanding with Perri chard not to reveal it. The woman was in full possession of her reason, and perfectly calm. Although she expressly au thorised him to make what use he pleased of her confession, he did nut denounce the man to justice ; it being his duty, as a priest, not to demand severity on an offender, but to grant pardon. The accused repeated that the woman's statement was false, and that she bad made it from vengeance. IL. Duasard, Commissary of Police, said that Perriehard, in the month of December last, complained to him of the reports that were spread of his being the assassin of the Archbishop, and he recommended him, if his conscience was clear, to disregard them. Some days after two women, named Leve and Truchy, and • man named Collet, went to him, and stated that what was said about Perrichard was true. Ile then sent for Pertichard, and he ob served that, in presence of these persons, be did not drily the accusation so energetically as might have been imputed He made an investigation, and having leaned from the Abbe Durand, the preceding witness, that the woman Ch law had accused Perrichard on her death bed, he arrested him. Witness knew the man was of a violent character, hut, though he was arrested in June, be knew nothing calculated to incriminate his conduct in the insurrection. A woman named Leve deposed that the woman Chenne viires had told her that Perrichard had confeued to her that it was he who had killed tie archbishop, that he had demanded protection from her, and had stated that if she refused it he would hide himself under • bridge, and if sought after, throw himself into the water. Tho woman had also told her that Perrichard had statid that he had killed the archbishop by firing at him through a bole in the wall of • house. The witness added that the prisoner brought gunpowder and other things from the sack of the bane. ks of the Rue de Reedy, and had cast balls fur the insurgents in his kitchen. A woman named Truchy, and another named Vidal, gave similar evidence. A man named Collet deposed that on one occasion when some one was reading in the newspaper the account of the SHOCKING MURDER ON BOARD SUM LIVERPOOL, SATURDAY. Intelligence has just reached this port of a murder committed on board an outward hound vessel a few hours after her smiling from this port. On Tuesday morning the brig, Wm. Thrift, of North Shields, L. Buchanan master, left the Mersey boon I to Ales nutria, and proceeled with:a favourable wind down channel. Nowlin! occurred worthy of notice until about tour o'clock on Wednesday morning, when the captain was reused from Lis berth by the mate, who, in a state of great horror, informed him that a murder had been committed on board. Captain Buchanan imme dia gave orders that the murd e r er s h ou ld b e se i ze d an d iron; but on the mate returning on d ec k i t was f oun d that after the culprit had completed his crime by split ting the skull of auother of the crew with an axe belonging to the cook, he had cut adrift a small boat which was stowed bottom up in the long boat, and attempted to roll it over the side, with a view no doubt to escape by it in the darkness. In this he failed, owing to the boat being jammed against some spars; and seising a scudding sail Wow he jumped overboard with it and was eerie no more. The crew of the William Thrift was shipped from the Sailors' Home, and were remarked to Ire perfectly sober and efli. Meat when the vessel left the port. it is believed that the murderer and his victim had come frum the same boarding huuse in Liverpool, but the circumstances which led to the crime will probably never be revealed. No quarrelling be tween them was observed by the mate, who was the only person on deck at the time. The spectacle presented on the captain hurrying up from his cebiu is described as very horrible, the head of the murdered man being completely smashed by the blows he lied received. Thu bar, with the corpse on bused, has put into Waterford, where it will remain until an inquest is held. HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. On Friday a paragraph appeared in the Times, to the effect that Mr. Om the director of the Corent-garden Opera, had bee • a me the lessee of her Majesty's Theatre, and that the affair as regarded that property was finished. In the same journal appeared, yesterday morning, the following correction:—_ to lirsi hlaanarv's T . —The parseveph in our paper of yesterday relating to her Majesty's Theatre is, we are informed, incorrect. It is true that Mr. Oyo has been in negotiation with certain parties, but it would seem that notiee was given to him that they hail not the power to grant a lease, and that any such arrangement would be nugatory." The whole facts of this case, as regards Mr. Ove and her Majesty's Theatre, are of a very singular nature ; but time is not npe at this moment to communicate them to the pub lic. It is • point of practice which will still bear a great deal of arguing, whether an der:: creditor has the power of possession without process of law, and whether he cas exercise the rights of ownership, without due notice, simply and solely on his own behoof and for his own benefit. At all events, one fact is quite clear: supposing this power to exist, and supposing, at the same time, that the amount of the pre-emption debt on which he claims it is comparatively small, there is nothing to prevent his fellow-sufferers, or any one else, from paying him out as regards that debt in the same way as the judgment debt on the furniture, pro perties, &e , of this theatre has already been settled, or is in the course of being settled, and so reducing him for the remainder to the rank of a common creditor. In the meansthile, it is again repeated that there is • prospect of her Majesty's Theatre being opened this season with a perfectly efficient company, and that this splendid property will have a chance of escaping that ruin which the public believed was so imminent. —Observer. GARDENING OPERATIONS FOR THE ENSUING WEEK. (Pros the Gordenere Chronicle.) To the list of scarlet geraniums named last week, add Harkaway, a geed variety for a dwarf bed. In the nest section of pelargoniums fur bedding purposes, Crim son Unique, Moore's Victory, Quercitolium euperbum, Lady Mary Fos, and Diadematum erubeseerui, are well-de served favourites. In the fancy class, Jehu Superb, Queen Superb, Empress, Anais, and Beauty of Winchester, we find more suitable, but they require drier summers than we generally get, to see them in perfection. Virginium, when it becomes more plentiful, will prove valuable in this class, as affording a nearly pure whit.. Taking verbenas, we in tend naming only a few selfs adapted for growing in messes, and leaving the party-coloured flowers an open question. Among the scarlet varieties we use only Houle de feu, Bril liant, and Brain, planting Defiance where large masses and higher plants than the above are wanted. Lassie Naprilson and Mirabeau are more crimson than scarlet, but equally and showy. As white verbenas, Mont Blanc, Bottle de Dieige, and Celine Millet we consider the best, planting Me. lindree alba for very dwarf bed., or edging. Andrew, M. Paquin, Mrs. Mills, and Steplenette, are the best among the blue and violet class. We must not, however, forget the old V. venoaa, which in large muses, or for mixing, is still .awful flower for a purple bed. Pot off seedling an nuals intended for beds, tie. Maurandyu, Lophorper mums, Lomas, Troprolums, and Cohan seandene, should be got on to be well hardened off before planting time. While fr ost continues protect frames, die., well by sight, but allow air each day. Potting carnations and piootets must be proceeded with the first favourable opportunity. Awrieelas and polyan thus' will now require more water, and strict attention as to air, cleanliness, dtoa Dahlias—cuttings which are rooted must be potted off, kept claw till established, and thee hardened. OTOIVIUSM peaches, sectarian, sad apricots are securely protected from frost, by some material or other; in same respects, the present severe weather may do good, by pre nesting the blooming period. Not only the above, UM the better kinds of plums, pears, and cherries should have pro. Onion, should unfavourable weather occur when they are in bloom. We do not, however, advise their briar covered till that time arrives, but the covering material may be got in readiness, should it be wanted. The return of wiatarly weather will prevent the getting in of the spring crops for a time. Wait till the weather changes before putting out cauliflowers, lettuce, &c., win tered under glass; but, in the mean time, harden them well, by giving them all the air possible, without damaging them by direct exposure to frost. When the weather per mits, sow Snow's early broccoli for autumn use, and the Enfield market and old sugar-loaf cabbage for summer supply, on a warm border. The early six week turnip, let tuces, radishes, and similar vegetables in season but a short time, should be sown fortnightly on light sods. AN EMIGRANT SHIP ON THE GOODWIN SANDS —On Saturday intelligences was received at Lloyds, that, at 10 o'nleek Sat morning, a large Dutch yes-el, called the Fere, bed gone stem on to the Goodwin Sands. Imme diately ea dm vessel striking, signal guns were fired, and it being aileeetained that she had 300 emigrants nu board, the Deal Waimea cad others put off in their luggers to render amilibms and um the passengers. Oa nearing the vessel it was haul that the sea was making a clear breath over her; sad, a line being get out, the women and children were dragged es board the lugger', and subsequently the men Some of the latter, however, in their eagerneas to escape, fe/Loverboard, and were carried away by the sea, six un fortunately perishing. The remainder, however, were safely landed at Deal, where they received the meet hos pitable attention. Fortunately the weather moderated, and remitted the Deal boatmen to lighten the vessel by cast ing a considerable portion of her cargo overboard, and thus preventing her sinking into the sands; and it is hoped she will get off with the flood. Unfortunately, how ever, in order to save the ship, the private effects of the poor emigrants have been nearlr all sacrificed. DEPARTURE Or THE UNITED STATES AND CANA DIAN MAIL. —On Saturday forenoon the British and North American Royal Mail Steamship Europa, Captain Shannon, sailed from the Money for New York, with the usual mails, 60 passengers, and a large general cargo of merchandise on freight. Her mails were brought out in charge of Lieut. Oaks, R.N., Admiralty Agent. REDUCTION OF POSTAGE ON LETTERS TO BRAZIL. —The following notice has been issued by the General Peet Office. March, 1853.—A postal agreement having been concluded pith the govevninent of Brazil, on and from the Ist of April nest, the British rate of postage upon let ters conveyed by packet to or from &mid will be reduced to—la. fur a letter not exceeding yoz. in weight; 2s. for a liter exceeding los. and not exceeding los. ; 4s. for a let ter exceeding los. end not exceeding 2oz. ; and so on, ac cording to the scale in opera'ion for charging inland letters. Upon letters sent to Brazil, these rates of postage must be taken in advance. Newspapers may be forwarded to Brasil, by packet, free of postage, under the usual regula tions. SAW intelligence. SOUTHWARK COUNTY COURT.—SATURDAY. CONTI/ O. RANDOLPIII.—A %VIOLIN° Poirrostun. This was enaction brought by the plaintiff, a verk in the docks, to recover the sum of 51. Ns., the value of • wed ding rine and a pair of hracelets, unlawfully detained by the defendant, a dressmaker residing at Bermondsey. Plaintiff said he was introduced to the y ung lady on the other side at • Christmas ball, given hy • friend of his at New Cron. He there danced with her, and at the end of the evening's entertainment he accompanied her home. He afterwards met her, and they made medal vows to enter into the married state, and Valentine'. ll.iy was appointed to make him the happiest of men. He accordingly purchased • wedding-ring, and sent it to her to anertain whether it would suit, and he afterwards purchased a pair of gold bracelets adorned with serpent., which he sent to her to adorn her person on their wedding day. But on the day appointed for the nuptials the defendant went off to Brighton, and married a cab proprietor. As soon as she returned to Bermondsey he demanded the wedding-ring and the bracelets, when she sent him an answer, refusing to deliver up any thing, contending that thy were given to her. Such not being the case, he brought the preseut action. The defendant, a sprightly-looking piing woman, said it was hot likely she was going to throw herself away on a starchy-looking fellow, who could hardly turn his head round. Ile certainly did show her a little attention, and presented her with the ring and bracelets, but she never liked bins, and preferring the cab proprietor, she married him. She refused to give the things up, because they were given to her. His honour said he must give judgment for the plain tiff, as far es the wedding-ring was cc ncerned, but the bracelets were a gift, which she had a right to retain. Judgment accordingly. ASSIZE INTBLLIGENCB. CIRCUIT.-KINGSTON, MARCH 26. 1317011 Ma. 13410,1 ALISMISMS A , O A 1 4 r1cueL JEST. J•eazzr O. TOLLMIACIIS This action was brought to recover et sum of money alleged to have been expended in necessaries for a person named Elizabeth Acfurd, who was represented to be the wile of the defendant. Mr. Bramwell, Q.C., and Mr. Boyd! were counsel for the plaintiff; Mr. Serjerint Shec and Mr. M. Chambers, Q C., appeared fur the defendant ; Mr. Willem was also engaged in watching the case, as it was understood, on behalf of Lady Dyairt, the mother of the defendant. Mr. Bramwell, in opening the case, said that the plain tiff, Arthur Jarre't, was a person in a humble condition of life, being the relieving officer to one portion of Lambeth parish ; and the defendant was the Hon. William Felix Lionel Tollemache, commonly called Lord Huntingtower, the son of the Earl of Dysart, a nobleman of very ancient family and of large possessions. The action was brought to recover compente•tion for the support of a lady and three children. That the children were really the children of the defendant he believed there was not the slightest doubt, and he believed that the only question in the cause would be, whether their mother was the wife of the defend ant ; and he believed he should lay evidence before them which would leave no reasonable doubt of that fact. The circumstances under which the claim arose were of rather. peculiar character. It spin-and, that about the middle of the year 1849 the plaintiff, in his capacity of relieving officer, was called upon to visit a ease of a lady and three children who were living in the parish, and whom he found in a state of utter destitution. By the direction of the board of guardiaus be gave them relief, and continued to do so fur a period of nine months ; and it appeared that then the case of the lady having been investigated, some persons interposed in her behalf, and a lodging of some kind was provided for her and her children. Soon afterwards, however, she again became reduced to distress, and a second time applied to the plaintiff, who was so impressed, from the information he had obtained, with the hardship of her case, and struck by the misery and destitution in which she was left by the defendant, that to avoid the ne cessity of sending her to the union workhouse, which was the only alternative, he resolved to take the lady and her children into his own house, and provide them theta with such necessaries as they required, in the hope that the de fendant, who he had no reason to doubt was the husband of the lady, would one day do her justice, and at all events repay him the amount he had expended for the support of his wife and children. As he had before said, there was no doubt whatever that the children were the children of Lord Ilunlingtower, and lie would now state the circumstances under which he said the parties became connected, and the evidence by which he should endeavour to establish the fact of a contract of marriage having been made between them according to the forms of the Scotch law. The name of the lady was Elisabeth Acfurd, and she was the daughter of a respectable geatleman in Devonshire, and it appeared that the defendant upon seeing her expressed a violent pas sion for her. He asked the consent of his mother, the Coun tess of Dysart, to their union, and upon her refusal to grant it, his case on the part of the plaintiff would be, that the defendant took the lady to Scotland and there married her. The jury were perhaps aware that by the law of that country a marriage was • much more simple proceeding than it was in this country, and indeed almost any ceremony would amount there to what is termed a contract of marriage, which was perfectly binding upon both parties, and it was a very strange thing that these cautious neighbours were satisfied with much less so lemnity in a proceeding of this important character, than was required in the disposal of any goods or chattels of the most trifling amount. lie should be able to show them, therefore, that some sort of ceremony was performed, and he was also in a condition to prove that the defendant him self had stated that what took place in Scotland was the more binding because he was the sou of a Scotch peer. This marriage occurred in 1844, and it appeared that the parties lived together as man and wife until 1818, and during that period three children, all girls, were born. During all this time they lived together as man and wife, and passed by the same name, but at the period he had mentioned, whether the defendant's passion hail cooled, or that the lady had become older, or front some other cause, of which he was ignorant, the defendant abruptly broke off the canner inn, and le ft his wife an d c hild ren to be reduced to a state of utter destitution, and ever since, with one ex ception, which was almost too paltry to be mentioned, he bad never afforded them the slightest assistance. The plaintiff, under these circumstances, was compelled to bring the present action, and he said that when the jury had heard the evidence he should lay before them, he believed they would entertain no doubt that the lady in question was really the wife of the defendant, and that he was liable to the plaintiff for the expense be had in curred in supporting her and her children. The following witnesses were then examined : Mr. A. Jarratt deposed that he was the relieving pffioer for one of the districts of Lambeth parish, and the plain tiff in the present action, In July, 1849, his attention was called to the case of a lad, who was called Mrs. Tellersache, and her three chil dren. He found them oc cupyt'ng a room in a house in Prince's-square, and in very great end destitution. Witness relieved them. In September, 1860, he was again called upon to see the same lady and her children, and found them in the same state. Upon this occasion, upon information he had re ceived, he was induced Weak, the lady and her children into his own house, where they remained from the 19th of September, 1860 to the Ist et April, 1862, and during that period be expended altogether for their support tits sum of 1984. Se •By rjeant Shee—l hail no communication with Lord Huntingtower'e solicitor before I took the lady into my house. The parish solicitors, I believe, did apply to him, and I Inerd that an answer was received to the effect, that the woman wee not the wife of Lord Huntiagtower. Emma Alfyatt deposed that she went into the service of the defendant and the lady in question, in 1845 At that time they lived in the Wandsworth-rand. They • were called Mr. and Mrs. Tollemsehe, and it was always under stood that thee were man and wife. Witness remained with Mrs. Tollemache until 1849, when she left her service; she was unable to pay her her wages any longer. In Feb ruary, 1848, the defendant sent her and her mistress into Mon mouthshire, to a place called Blue Brown House, and the defendant used to come there to visit the lady, and when he was absent they continually corresponded together. In September, 1848, witness and her mistress returned to Lon don, and went to ledge at a Miss Pottle's, in Kennington lane, and in October of that year a quarrel took place be tween the defendant and her mistress, and they never lived together afterwards. The defendant, during the time she lived with him, frequently chsaged his name, but her mis tress always went by the same name that he did, and they always lived together as man and wife. The first child was born in September, 1845, the second in November, 1846, and the third in January, 1848. The defendant al ways appeared to be very kind to the children, and the oldest used to call him papa. When they lived in Ken nington-lane the defendant and his lady passed as Mr. and Mrs. Langford. They travelled about to a great many dif ferent places, Ind assumed many different names. The defendant was frequently very short of cash, and at one place a distress was put in and they were turned out of doors. Upon one occasion, when they were living at Beaky, something was said by the landlady, which came to the knowledge of the de fendant, and he spoke to her upon the subject ; and, upon her saying that it had been stated that he was going to se parate from her mistress, he told her to make henelf con tented, for that her mistress was his wife, and if he mar ried another woman she could convict him for bigamy. This was in 1846. The defendant at the same time said to her that he had asked his mother's consent to marry, but e Sc ea ritl g r o d . , and, ohti his fath e r i a w n t a h e Scotchr efore p h ee e r, tookit m h a d e r e t t h o ment more binding. Upon another occasion she went hate her mistress's room, and found her crying, and the defen dant said to her "Here is your mistress blubbering be cause I have burned some letters." There were some frag ments of burnt letters in the grate at the time. In October, 1848, when they were living in Kennington-lane, the de fendant came to the house one Sunday, and there was a 'violent struggle between him and her mistress because he wanted, as she understood, to go into a room to get some letters and destroy them. lie did not succeed in getting into the room, and after the scuffle was over they went down stain, and the defen dant said, in the pr. Bence of the landlady, that her mistress was not his wife. The landlady asked him if she wit' not his wife, why he had brought her into her house. 11er mistress said that she was his wife, upon which the de fendant said, " It you had a thousand pounds you might gain your rights, but where is it to come from ? MT mother will spend a fortune or thousands against it." 'lbis took place on a Sunday, and the defendant created 10 much 'R