The Express. — London, England, 1857-05-14 00:00:00

THE DAILY NEWS : LONDON a MORNING cow, 8 0. malumpal IL, Now id. /6 LAaang 10$ Jayeabl. In bloyaly .1 Cm seumen• sr/ of layme Ur ide yama a bad wise at lb osinl aio•—la Ike *Awry at lb. WA marl& awl Is*. valid mummills bed anbasysisl lydaymbike embialowl laths yIW. What. ead moon aid.-4116. PP. r. l . gar Molllloll INNIS II Ili t l s la AND numaytAL. Ab minyhely *ND Argi el la On tabs rem ly nopelliol Se ll by "INUMTBIti Q /QOM "h IT AMU ALL ONNINIIITI ADTBITINLIIINTIL It Is Aridly Wing .........:Zbusre lbw day INS V QlTrinNes. sableed TNNTs imam col pular obi lahalbr nyt•Ak d .161 ye Dumas Is Qs blayar ;es m —II Lies. ft O&M= Do paw by westby ill yds% AUL . k ....... bi. firis Oxprelso. TO CORRESPONDENTS. shwas/Nu wares kg “Ilw lizonoo . looks Zomba pow, WWI to W Po Moo MN IowwWwWPW, p Two WWII as Po Op od pientloa. 8 AAAAAA Wt. mBr ime run da rlillfOur u p w orm mortA 4 COP. Mr. B.& Mr•~ NM Mr. M T. Tim amiss. ENOLISMIANS lOUS' IS HIS OA/MIL •—.W . RIIIO O IIIIOIIAIit 1130011 D. Yr. solAls. O. Ism Plllllllf. Ton a m mo. MATHILDL Nossro Mode sod Ilbspliso —Ao4l— fts /Om ooeon of Pokia la ads tamable Kafortshossol 111; of no Toms sod Ids PrsoM. Widdlsomb;Yb Jar olooo—tea woo at O. MOH WATTLE. AT LONDON BMWS. Taw it.?-11kralm lift Te•esonow—Morstei. lb. 4 AMNION N. Is LONDON, THURSDAY, HAY 14. TO OUR circumstance that on the other tide of the Channel the breed of HODSOIGI and WADDINGTON!) and Gowns has not yet reached the perfec tion which it has attained in our own fa- 1 youred country. The memorialists, moreover, submit that the estimates for the construction of railways have nearly in all cases been greatly exceeded, and the ealealations of profit have rarely been realised. The petitioners might have left out the qualifiestiee ; setintatee have been always ex ceeded; profits have never realised the anticipations of the shareholders. We have a high respect for the combined talents of the Board of Trade, of course, and for those of Mr. Lows in particular ; but we doubt much whether they will be able to devise any bill which shall remedy those two grievances Nor do we quite see the bearing of the truism, that " past legislation has ceased mach capital to be sunk , in extensions which are enremanerative," inasmuch as it is to big geemmel thei Ads st Parlimment were obtained he Ike enranstims et Acts samssions. The natural Ts* le eat pave d tits mismedmi in— What in the agam elbows did penes =to Parlia ment for, nod aghliage Irmahlg your hundreds It 40111111 ads, and ell to obtain per to weir those Harm the oast of which your manta mailersdkiatna. and the profits of which Goy overadsseal. The Railway interest, as it is called, has always been adequately represented, to say the lout, in Parliensent ; at present the railway members in the two Baas number 120, irrespective of those indirectly =aerated with railway affairs. Lots events bamothrown every ugly light on the gaystedes of raffles, management ; bat we do not remorse that the digesters wir wrote M.P. after their user wars porlisaierly swim in supporting As adios Insollso gamma tar checking the saws to vildit vs Tart en es contrary, popular opinion tends mar to sesame them of being the Aid inciters to Asir arras. But every one of ems legislators lad • air band in the msnufac ' tans at the anrenamesathe breaches and extensions, under which the Railway interest now suffers, and in the dispensing of the millions expended on Acts of Parliament. A DOUBLE NUMBER of the EXPRESS will be peltliehed u eeual ON SATURDAYS. WE right of petition is one of those privileges to which Englishmen, with considerable reason, attach great value, and which, be it said, they occasionally assert in rather an undignified fashion. The use is apt to degenerate into abuse, as the odd memorials which figure in the list pablialied at the end of every /Mite of Parliament abendsatly prove. Never thelem, we would rather see petitions verging strongly on the ludicrous appearing in that list, than any curtailment of a right which affix* at times the only mode of effectually bringing a crying grievance before the great council of the nation. A curiosity of this class has come under oar notice, which is to be _ _ — _ _ Fronded to the PRENDI247 of the iosian of TIULIDE, by the proprietors of shares in the Railways of the United Kingdom, praying for a relines of certain grievances under which they laboar.Whothe ingenious eon :ones of this document any be we cannot say ; but he deserve* well of a partievaar clamed his coun trymen, =luckily a tolerably large one--natoely, those wbo in popular parlance have " Nene to grief ' and who do not No their way oat of the serape. . . . Upon the principles laid down in this petition, the shareholders in Mr. Baortat.'s " Great Eastern" may take heart of grace, and ask Parliament to prohibit any other steamers from plying to India and Australia on ate ground that they have spent an saormoes rain in a magnidoent experiment, and ought to have a remunerating profit secured. And Messrs. 81110 DDT and Towszn, the pest shawl and outfitting MD, having knocked a whole street into one house, sad their espital into that limbo known ea the rassidleof next Wiwi, may with great propriety ap peal to Parliament to prohibit the establishment of any rival shop within the same parish. This is in reality the git of the Railway shareholders' memo rial. The prayer of the petition is : That year moserioliebt isepsoddly mile* thee s Nobel esermatusg to spwerie elase4bir4 el the Nether' Debt, m isses* radareed by privies ledivibris fa ealoyeleee Ber dries to the method pa y, r eatithd to mere otiose sad levesoble oesidosties ben the loglitste them it . . We are heartily glad to see that the "memorialists recognise fully the necessity of enforcing the most stringent regulations for ensuring the safety of tra vellers," but they strongly object to being called upon, under Lord CAMPH6LL'a Act, to pay damages for accidents arising from their neglect or that of their servants. Doubtless all shopkeepers are fully alive to tie propriety of being compelled to keep their elks Imps in a safe condition, and we think this a floe emertunsty for them to remonstrate =Sr kaiaks of being ordered to compensate dm my oak has their neglect in leaving Mr apse sod segewled. It is a hard Cale, doubt- Ism, that BUS SUM'S dog cannot be allowed to select at his hinge re fleshiest part of the leg of • railway direetor, o Noy idler gentleman, without the said Buz. beteg smoothie for having a dan gle's, heart at large—bat such is the law. For oar On pats, belonging to that small section of un seamed& imitsidaaLi who have straw objections to Wog weedisi ay to railway carriefee. and rolled dews we think that we see omitted to welt sews to sewyeendon if the amp does as mien ken the megleet of railway Aside We quite sympathies with the unfortunate ehmeholders who have to listen to the tale of how thole everted dividend is swallowed up by essyweethos to acci dents ; but we beg, with great Moms to the see moralise!, to submit that it is, to ep do bad, excessively unpleasant fore man who bee Shea a return ticket for Eastbourne to discover, ibmt too late, that his ticket is for that "bowie whose so traveller returns," and all became Ilha ogles b aid, or the pointsman overworked, et the telegraph sat of order. That the Railway Mod has its we are by so mesas aped to dray, L in trint es are plenty effampsmalaet s gibrestes Is the Bowe of Camara ad II meth es omelet driel to tot thew leellt bet dm desammet b wee& peeerring tor dm Nile Ili es remarkable seders orldt which it ache Poliment to prevent soy ses beet sorbs the OW% emi embarking at the awe Ilse Is pollift umidelibso home the podiums boo bee dlly so* to threw away ail= k wake we Imo dally bens god the lawyers sad the mimes. has MANI. rerird; rod dry warlddar as fiver - . Imam, eztokee, et empodei Noss should le ewer nod b parllearal, eaappi k ems at pereakeest pule ' asemity, mill die Weft( empase ilea le at Lei la Vb. *el of &Almelo exerelei le dr hit Amami et (Ake eserewelei vadmiffiklege. The upshot of all whisk is, that since peasengera ptyalin, let as my, trews Loudon to Dover are taken away law oat of their way for no reason that can possibly be imagined by those anharesd in the nye tog allaying down railway lines, no dunes is to be Wired demonising carried by a more direct road anal the &oath Eastern shareholders are in receipt at that very indefinite rate of dividend indicated by " the !sir standard of other commercial undertakings." Asa: Mr. Brtl. an . . 4 "" hiPolero of his entendre family who are bent upon rusticating in the village* in the neighbourhood of Dover, are to pay so mach per mile on an unneceseary number of miles, and ere to be bumped on the particularly hard timber doing duty as cushion, in the second elese South Eastern carriages, because that pear . . . . THE brief discussion which took place yesterday is the HMSO of Commons en Lord ROBERT 011011TINOlell motion for leave to bring in a Bill to render travelling repeals of voters illegal, and to relieve candidates from hating, expense, and other charges to which they are now liable, indicate, bat i n p,r l tvete the real dispositions of honouree mem bers on the questions involved. The large majority in favour of the first reading of the Bill we take to signify little more than this, that but a compara tively few amongst those who were present on the °cession felt disposed to begin their legislative career by giving what might tarn out to be an un popular vote. But, in point of fact, we doubt ex ceedingly whether the subject has ever been suffi ciently debated hitherto to render the vote of the minority one of any great peril. Many Conserva tives voted yesterday for the Bill, and several Liberals against it. It is very much to be regretted that upon such a quer Lion no member of the Government took any part, nor any leading member of the Opposition. The new House was ►eft to drift rudderless before the wind ; and the wind being light it glided lazily into the most open creek at hand. Bat in truth the topics raised by the noble mem ber for Middlesex deserve more attention than they have yet received from the thinking public, and more earnest treatment than they have met with hereto- fore from the representatives of the people. They are indeed but fragments of the more general question, How shall each constituency be secured the freest and fullest range of choice? and, how can we most effectually get rid of the notorious abuses whereby the selection of candidates of many of our largest prow undertaking has perhaps diminished its divi dends in perpetuity by thrusting out branches through district' whore passengers are almost u rue as winter swallows. Having carefully perused the memorial, we think it right to enter our protest mainst the thing should it prove to be, after all, a ISM Can it be imagined that any body of En% pepietors of a property the value, or rather the east (fa , there is a little difference), of vide is taws one-third of the national debt, an seriously pet ward as a plea for protection that their prepafpb nnremunerative, when they state in the asseniipme graph that 160 Railway Companies Wes arid b Acts of Parliament 12,648,715 L, or 76,4291. sea, Much of this sum represents squabbles with disk neighbours and battles It tho pmenmion of blow mediate lines, worthissooneeptsaummetilomeng their rivals. Now, if we tabs pr fait standard" they hint at, eh mei !epsomite es income of 732,922 i. per annuls, a very lap paths of which might unquestionably have been Mei be the shareholders had they exercised a little genlimsa and judgment, and restrained their divisions gm plunging them into unnecessary litigation, NA equally unnecessary new projects. In France, Germany, Amerioa,snd other canntaim6 any the memorialists, railway heetelmeile par lb= 6 to 20 per cent.; but the onnedellnladonelboirre that those results are attranillin Isegm, usperior management, but to the immangin polsolho and privileges accorded to than b,tV ingandee go vernment& Now Marna glum vs beg In mind the memorialists than amens &ma privilsom b Sat of carrying a mails ininninehilitary mattrial Per a little more to make p otelb. and the sails on an equally rOmmesthe stale. And soft the reasonable protections in France, wham railway poperty is bighly ramsesthe, the Oerssmmt . in Me dodos sostawt s di fiehmehd *pd. mob del a toludt, mow mud d pound I niimmt, and tabs vpailultibbodiedik smipments it m4tliimmmmagtbdmpoesm. th a o f totem ang, without uthoiss Im do mots tit was et the pails d rs lid Ida di Ab e tis indite imam „ „ w e tion Os ad git "Mt b ondi *her then in baba. OM tills lower data lift with an, a that di* my be perhaps Wasted to the eounties and boroughs is determined by what may be called nem of metal, It has long enough been scandalously obvious to all who having political eyes choose to see, and to all who having political ears choose to hear, that no man has any business to stand far a large and contested constitu ency unless he is prepared to place at the disposal of his committee a sum varying from one to five thou s's& pounds. That pre-eminent piece of Legislative [ Iwo" the Corrupt Practices Act, was designed, 'swine told, to put au end to these exactions t but •s lib et expenses pissed by the various auditors ander the Act have sufficiently exposed its utter nullity for the purpose of keeping down expenditure, and shown up the utter hypocrisy of the pretences bly tibia► it was carried. The present state of the hies annsta, la abort, to this, that the greatest pa- Ala mid. align impediments are thrown in the way at soy tad risk or reckless men obtaining seats in Parliament. We arc not now speaking of the power which money gives to its pontoons, by means of direct and open corruption—we are speaking only with reference to what are technically known alder the same of " legal expenses." Coin cident* of opinices, length of public service, posses sion of walks ability—not any of these, nor all of than pet together, con solve the question when a THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY LiII;ENING, MAY 14,et contest is to be apprehended and the candidate is to be chosen. Bow are the legal expenses to be de ' frayed P Who is to paj for the hustings and the booths? Who is to pay the fees exacted by the subordinates of the returning officer? Who is to pay the printer's bill? And finally, who will undertake to carry the voters to the poll ? Quiet, independent, self-engrossed electors, who walk up to the poll at whatever hour suits them best, or ride with a neighbour to the market town on the morn ing of election, know very little about the matter. The thoughtless and stupid cant in such men's months too frequently is that if gentlemen choose to go into Parliament they ought to be left to pay for it, and as fee electors, that no man is fit to vote who swot find time and money to go to the poll wheneur awl wherever he may happen to be en the otealies. would be all very well if the Hume of Carona bad only the power to impose Wm IS dilb My-going and well-to-do portion of the pegmlnifew. But as that assembly professes to represent the Wire com munity, and as it makes free with the bsed-earned monies of poor and industrious men, as wall as with three of the rich, the snug, and the indolent, it is nothing but sheer impudence of established class usurpation to affect indifference on the polite to which we have referred. Reform Bills which propose to enfranchise im?ortant sections of the laborious community, but which make no provision for enabling the humble man to vote w :thin a reesonable distance from his dwelling without being carried to the hustings at the personal ex pense of the candidate, are no Reform Bills it all. The same may be said of measures which pruc:ically place a mere test of expenditure in the way $f can didates, and proclaim without disguise that Parlia mentary candidature is a legalised form of lottery in which nobody can buy a ticket, generall! speak ing, under two or three thousand pounds. Now what is the proper remedy for then abuses? To render travelling expenses illegal, and a compel the borough or bailiwick to pay the necessary charges of holding every election, are good steps u far as they go; and we trust that Lord B. Gaon- TtNoit's Bill may be persevered with. Bst let no one suppose for a moment that the matter can net there. To speak plainly, these provision when carried will, if unaccompanied by other :henget, render our electoral condition notoely more intolerable than ever, but they will render its continuance abso lutely impossible. The overgrown constituencies must be broken up. They are u completely become a monopoly in the hands of a few as the nomination boroughs. No moderate squire now dares to look a large county in the face; and even "My lord" or Sir John " admits that he cannot curtest it without the risk of dipping his estate. The same is true et our large cities and metropolitan boughs. We need not cite examples; the facts are disgustingly notorious. There most be an end of all this. A maximum of territory and population, as well as a minimum, must find a place in the coming Reform Bill ; and there must likewise be found menus far enabling the working man to vote without losing half his day, and without being compelled to tell his (employer or his landlord beforehand in support of which side he is going to the poll. be Court. OSBORNE, MAY 13. Her Majesty's dinner party yesterday included the Dachas of Kent, the Prisms Royal, Lady Augoats Bruin, Sir George Cooper, and the Udine and Gentlemen in Waiting. Lieatemant-Gmeral Bozos de Brandi., of the Hanovarian 'orrice, on • =imam to linglend bora the Sing of Hanover, hod en audience of her MOJOS I I on his return home. A Cabinet Council was held yesterday, at the official residence of the First Lord if the Treasury, in Downing-street. The Ministers present were : Viscount Palmenton, the Lord Chancellor, Earl Granville, the Marquis of Lansdowne, the Earl of Harrowby, Sir Osorge Grey, the Earl of Cla rendon, Mr. Secretary Labouchere, Lord Penman, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir Charles Wood, the Right Hon. R. Vernon Smith, Lord Stanley of Alderley, the Duke of Argyll, and the Right Hon. M. T. Raines. The Mt meeting of the Judges appointed to ocasider the Deans for the Public Mom, now exhibiting in West minster Hell, wee held yesterday. There were pressat : The Duke of Ittmeleuch, Berl Maa. Viscount Evereley, Mr. Sterling, M.P., Kr. David Bobarte, Mr. Burn, and Kr. Brunel. Mr. Terse Folks°, President of the London Cemniittes of Deputies of the British Jews, accompanied by MOM% Henry Harris, Samuel Moses, and B. PliVips, and by _Mr. Sampson Samuel, solicitor end secretary of Um board, hid sn interview with Viscount Pslaimeton, on the subject of the removal of the Jewish disabilities. WINDSOR, Wamnwnst. The state apartments of Windsor Castle, which were elord reeme at the death at law Royal awe the RIO Deane el Mesewew, are apia era to the paldio ow the mad dye, via, Monday, Two*, itanday, sad Tilley. The Coast wth Mew r inter Ow& ea eir alai the ea *Mae, to meth has three yeas. Mr =3; 1 1 . 2 therm bw beeellellth te a wesereal drab at gvada who lOU lathed le the Death the wee with. Th. C at= as hie Royal lthithathPeima Meth Awl wrath of thejuihrminiwas aft royal I•o7,acempethel b their royal awl Melba abhors, will hewer the worm with theb lewere 1111 Tarnish the 11th (the out, dal her Itheity will alit the meth, lama the royal WWI lath pained treat the deft to the royal Wand ia the wad state. The Ankles Chathwithe. Wb exoecled, ell he la dad la the *de of Mildews and di lied poets =b imam Ammar b =pod is mks in the come at a few daye et Othemth ea a eilt le ler ( M ., The *hie el the elliffl Ith Its IL 's Chapel for the hired el the MIMEO= el , will Le re amed la es them d the wee, awl Madre melee will be petheated hoe ea hanky and. The shathathe tithe boat primer will rte place is Bt. Georgie Merl. Her Majesty will not leave Osborne until the 4th of June. It le rumoured that a squadron will be eneembkd at Spitheed to aline the Grand Dub Constantine of Kuria, whose own squadron of several mil Is also everted at Spit- hood from thu liodkorromm. The Duchess of Montrose has jutted cards for soiree, doused*, on Moodaty, the 18th lostont, and on Monday, the 26th Instant. The Ducker of Inverness will leave town in a few days, for Erlghke. The Earl and Countess of Hardwiekc entertained at dinner, bet euming, at the fenny mansion in Portman equate, the Duke of Buckingham, the Eel of Malenesbery, the Earl of Loneelale, Lord and Imdy Colchester, Lord Pedesdate, Right Hon. Spencer Walpole and Hrs. Walpole, Sir Frederick and Lady 'Meager, Sir Edward Lytton, and General Hall. Ahoy dinner her ladyship moelred • select dads of Meade. We have authority to state that it is her Msjesty's intention to hold Drawing-rooms at Si James's Palace on Saturday, the 6th of June, and on Tues day, the 23rd of June; and a Levee on Thursday, the 18th of June. The Countess of Listowel will come to town in a fsw days, tram Ireland, for the season. Visosunt and Viscountess Villiers have arrived in town for the swoon. His lordship has taken a house in Eaton-place South. Viscount and - and Ferrard have anivad in Norp-sizest, Hanover-num, tram Inr land, for the seems. - Lord and Lady Harry Vane entertained at dinner, teat evening, at their residence in Grosvenor-place, the Ducker Dowager of Cleve/and, lady Ann Tufnell, Lady Harriet Dunlop and Mir Dradop, 81r Harry Vane, Sir Beery Rlll. l / 2 101111, the Hight lion. Edward Ellice, Mr. and Kra. Edward PJlice, Sir Augustus Webster, Mr. and Mrs Danoombe Shane, Mr. Hedworth Larnbton, and Mr. Henry MiIMAM. Lady Molesworth entertained at dinner, last eyeing, the Marquis of Lansdowne, the Wan Moser of Londonderry, the Duke of Nero:male, the Marquis of Clan ricarde, the Hon. Mrs. Amon, the Earl and Counter. of Clerendon, the Sardinian Minister, Viscount sail Vim...tem Palmate*, the Dowager Countess of Morley, the Chan cellor of the Exchequer end Lady Theresa Lewis, the Biehop of Oxford, Viscount Torrington, and Lord John Hay, M.P. Her ladyship had en saissibly in the evening, which war very fashionably diended. Lady Augusta Gordon Hallybarton will leave town shortly for Paris. Lady Marian Alford is expected in town in a few days from the Continent. The Ladies Charteria have arrived at Claridge's Hetet from Brampton Perk, Huntingdonshire. Lord and Lady Naas have arrived in town from Palmerston Hones, Ireland, for the reason. Lord and Lady Cloobrock have arrived in town from Ireland, far the rayon. His lordship has taken a house in Charles-street, lierkelerequue. We (Post) are enabled to annonnbe that a Inatrl , modal ellience is about to take plies between the Earl of Stredbroke sad the widow of the late Colonel Bonner, of the 10th Hamm ... -- - The vacant seat in the East India Direction will, we (Hasid) believe, be filled by Mr. Thomas, of the Unfree Cavil Stevie*, whose intimate acquainting' with revenue goer dons will to a valuable solgteace to big collegeruse. Ma. W. H. RV.OEt.L ox Tux Clumit.—The se road pun of lb. Russell's narrative will be delivered this evening at Willis's Rooms, at half-past eight o'clock. The subjects will backs& lettermen and Belekleva. On the 23rd of lost month the death took place at Bernd, Syria, of haps Chsmand, Reg., MO British Vice-Consul et Tyre, United States Consal-Genwel for Syria and Palestine, Consul to H. M. of ?mak MIL of Russia 11.11. of Sweden and Norway, H.R. of Negroa lb remain. were socompsaled to the prelealast poolly all the foreign consuls, merchants, MAN% omplogds, by a body of fifty soldiers, and Go patio }Asa al he native inhabitants of the town. The .e was stiggsresi by the Consuls-General of Ragland, Trso, Austris, sod Sar dinia. Mrs. Crookohank, who was severely wounded in the late wan& mi Borneo, is second daughter of Whit more Loam*. 11M., of Fownhope, and was married to Hr. Croebalsk toorstory to Be dames Brooke, only twelve months Bp. The /1140111111 M itto boa announced of Messrs. Bebe amide. hie sod Mos osollants, of Southwark. The lidalks are ongpsad to raw between 60,00 W. and 100,0001., and it is lband the liquidation will be rather un favourable. ficAzaosovoz•=rms APPROACHING BRABON.— WAR to did das greparstios is already la 11da Ifss itelr end =li a llot le ty r lor - Millifietossmor boesoolo sfraDICF mmisloosomfamdsemodlol lits Spa Sa bots bl ei rrito WWI MINIM as ea pm Mos carsista koleadtp SAM Ned es so WO mixfolts Io Me oxlig etas scribedo no Ix So WO et sefamMbi ate* Its ISi n dibaleddles ing=ir ant mg amok to Mom is ago glo Perri s oiloolsl MeV b wpm that OMNI piths at hoegils mime Al be carried out deft, flo Jonat mom hays Moo Semi mw Au. and attar maismoMr troika Mddioll rood awned oat by Os amilsoo during the 'kw mar e dmotto" to musts as NAM sad Est of ht sesofbare. What eMt Ms "eft of di %Maim at Membintor A Iwo so hs Iloottoroogla arms Isaiah to say. bat It to far to mosois dot thoo =l"Maisleamlopts Ika alli Viir set tatessee mi sr= isadass sad el their ..mWriq Is ths north slig a im op lAN Os Wooly or to we rs ot English wooommilasos."—Bareera Clowatioo Tam - Cam Or MILITARY 81111ORRY AT EDlN atiaott.—We understand that the chair d military k the E al Zdlaber4Fseant by Go daith au 2g Gimp st bon inolli s a i r e = Iff . d rd a prim a. Dr. Motfhow oirrott la So Clgra fisirla do pslodsa to be in si rdimilop laths If ibs chalegM= THE WESTERN BANK OF LONDON AND ITS PROMOTERS. TO TIM INTO. OP TNT =TIM /. Bra,—My attention has been called to one of the leading articles in your piper of Saturday last, wherein you date I have received 1,1001. as my Aare of the promotion money for getting up the Western Bank of London. Now, sir ' as I am in the habit of speaking plainly, as well es Mr. Roebuck, I beg to my thin Is not true. What I did re ceive was 1401. in comb, end a bill of atthenge at twelve moat& date, drama by the solicitor of the bank on, and eccopted by, me of the Board, which bill the governor end court of dirocten wen Wad enough to disecaut fee me, after the rata of 7 per amt. I ow, therefore, only modernity mid for my amble, accord's', to your own shoving, se I was twelve menthe (not sin) employed in soliciting gentlemen to join the dirertion. Whet booms of the balance the solicitor of the beak alone ma tall. I than take en opportu nity of miring the mantles et the ant meeting on the 30th of Jon at I Bak the skoarshokhre ere entitled to know who hen really received the 6,0001. paid into the hands of the soli/Act by the directors. There is one little item the governor omitted to mention at the emoting—thee ia, the somber of shims elated to the directors and promoters, which cams oat et • premium. I hod 20 allotted to me, upon which I paid the demeit and Biped the deed; sad I believe I ant meet be stating I was the only am of the premoters who had that oourage, the Bability of which I have TS ,to Wm. Vo4wOmessimaxa misioNO think you mast admit I do not eons lode the demoreinstim of a "doles let meets" Promoter. Apologising lor tilting op so much of roar valuable apes, I on, Ix., I. R. WIRCKWORTR 2, Albion-street, Hyds-park, May 11. This afternoon a deputation consisting; of Mr. Paget, M.P., Mr. Pritchard, X.P., Mr. Whatek7, Q.C., Mr. C. E. Linda, Mr. bencem, end other gentlemen, were to wait by epoolatteent upon the Chancellor of the Exchequer, is Doweinaretreetonthe 'abject of the Government Sevin. Beek MIL --- Poor' Rum , (lammen). This morning wu published a return of the espesdlture os the Mid of the poor is seek mina of In sad for the year laded 29th Sept. 1956, and of the total weber relieved during the same period. The stun impeded I. 676,6961.9 e. 11Id., and the number mimed 217,116. PARLIAMENTA6T Bete.—M appears, from a re turn issued this raeraing, that the sum total paid to drafts men by the several public departments during the year 1856, for settling the drafts of parliamentary bills, amounts to 6,3341. 7s. 2d. MERCANTILE MARINE FUND.—A return issued this morning of the Mercantile Marble Fund, under the Act 17 and 18 Viet., a 104, shows the balance of cash up to the 31st Decembr, 1856, to be 287,8691. se. 10d., the mess of income over working espeadinue for the your then soda being 165,1371. 16s. 11d. . _ . MALT.—This morning foss hoed a return of the total number of quittera of melt rads In the United King dom in the years =ding respectively the lit October, 1855, and the let October, 1866, together with the quantity need by browses, victuallms, and retell brewats. It appears that for the first-mentional period the quantity made was 4,613,718 quarters, sad the quantity timed 3,843,931. In the lost-mintionsd period the quantity made was 4,761,220 quarters, sad the quantity need 4,243,201. RalLwaoo.—By a return named this morning it moms that the duty paid by railway corpriss be Engird sad Boot end on pr Rosner Manic &deg tie my mewl 31it Decerbor, ISA amounted to SANK lla 10d.; and for the year snd.d Kat December, 111/4 M 1/1171411. 19 . 0 a SUSPENDED C&NONSIES.—By & !t6lllll from thu Socheimitioal Comminiemare of England, Wm* tide morn ing, it ewers that a um total of 12,7341. Ku 14. hail been ellowed by them since the let of January, 1840, to the several chapters of England and Wake, to pay substitutes for performing additional duties coat apes Mom by the ma penaion of moonrise. Eurcrtotr PnTrioNs.—Thiomorsing was printed the petition of Yr. Dm: !against the woes of Kr. Cakraft. The grounds alleged are 7r Dg. due DIEWOOS, sad the torpoproandorice dam milol Immo. Czairmess Biamora.—leita OrOwther, Prq, We of Wodarbory, sad reorily druard, two MB und Or reeloty al dr lit low*" free oft= duty width an to the Greg Hordal, r , aairs, •to Na Quote IloogZ si ßitristra, ths ' MOOR ; r the Omni Islrmary , Mr- ; Qa9rwtlr Lksdry. I SAW FRANCE. PARIS, WIDNIBADAT EVENINO. The following are the amended provisions of the bill for imposing a duty on transferable securities, as given in the budget for 18.58 : Independently of the duties established by the law of 6th June, 1860, every minder of shares, promisee of shares, or bonds, in my company or undertaking wham:sever, will De subjected from the Ist July nest to a transfer duty of twenty centime per 100 bona of the value negotisted. Shares to bearer, and those the transfer of which an be 'Sena with out any entry being made in the books of the °overlay, ere to be Sable to en annual and obligatory duty of twelve cen times per 100 hum of the capital of the end sectultier, eskolsted an the smear rice during the preceding year. The duty en nominative securities which cennot be nego tiated withoet an awry in the bomb of the company will be Fatale at the nomad of treemilr. All sectutnee liable to the email day ere to pay the imolai quartaiy, end at the end of a& grazier the cam:sake are bound to give an mama of the said reordpta. In companies which silt the °encash& of es mitts to bearer into nominative alse, &a and, the transfer duty is to be paid on the sell am mica, bat that act may be effected without charge for the space of three months from the date of the present kw. Neap maritime are subject to the same day sa French. Any contravention el the law will be liable te a line of from 1006. to 6,0006. NUR°. Rosa Bonheur was present at a cattle show lately held at Evreux, and took several sketches of the finest animals collected there. The public gardens of Paris new present a most charming appearance, the trees being covered with brilliant verdure, anti the orange trees being brought out and placed in their usual positions. The chest nut-trees of the Tuileries and the lilacs are in full dower, and vegetation is advancing with extraor dinary rapidity. The weather has become warm and seasonable. Decrees in the Mositeur nominate six knights in the Legion of Honour among old soldiers, for dis- titfed services. pring fair of Leipsio is now over, and has est been is good as had been anticipated. The quantity of cloth taken to the fair was about 200,000 pieces of all qualities, and about 160,000 of them were sold. Cotton and demi-woollen fabrics, which in previous fairs were in demand for the American colonies and for Moldavia and Wallachia, were ne glected; fabrics of Thibet and merino wool were in demand, and rose 30c. to 60c. the ell. Printed cali coes declined largely, as did also fabrics of goats' hair and bareges ; printed woollens, on the con trary, rose from 10 to 16 per cent., and were, never theless, almost all bought op for Runge and Poland. l Silks were neglected, partly on account of their dearness, and partly on account of the dawns st American, Russian, and Wallachian punki& Of raw wool, about 400,0001b5. were offered. b not a fourth of that quantity wad sold, owing to holders having refused to consent to a reduction sir price. The Three per Cents, closed to-day at 69fr. 55c. for the end of the month, and the Pour-and-a-Half per Cents. at 92fr. Orleans Rail way shares, 1,477 fr. 50c. ; Great Northern, 970 fr. ; Strasburg, 760 fr.; ditto New Shares, 742 fr. 60c. Paris and Lyons, 1,482 fr. 60c.; Lyons to the Me diterranean, 2,010 fr.; Western of France, 791 fr. 23c. ; Bordeaux and Cette, 816 fr. ; ditto New Shares, 820 fr.; Great Central of France, 612 fr. 60e.; Lyons and Geneva, 770 fr. ; Bank of Credit Mobilier, 1,302 fr. 60c.; Austrian Railways, 717 fr. 60e. Coon" Avrazisintni.-Pann, N =Casli Pilaf& - Four-sad-a- HAI par Cads. Not kr 10 yews), 914.00 c., 92tr. ; Your par Cents., 806.506.;Three 69fr. Mc. 60c. 45c. 40c.16c.; Bank of France, 4,40013..4376 4 . 4.390 fr. 4,400 fr.; Crfdit Fonder, 500 4 .; ditto Obligations of 600 k , Four per Cents., 436 ; ditto, Three per Cents., 396 k. ; ditto Tenths. Three per Cents. 82fr. 50c.; Credit Mobilier, 1,3006...Z1,29M. 60c. 1,302 fr., 60e.; Discount Dank, 7006. ; Pisdistoateas Five per Ceuta , 904. 60c., 26c., 10c.; ditto, Three per DWI., Mfr. 60c., 26c, Mfr.; Austrian Five pre Cada, ; Bastes de 11=1tothschild's), 113 k. 2k.; Bosoms, 90tr. ; Converted Debt., 25, 2431 ; ditto Three per = l :2laterior Debt, 411; ElCiaing• on Loud." at sight, paper, Mb. 30e.; money, 26fe. 21 ; three months, ppm, 246. 90c.; money, 24fr. 86c. PRUSSIA. CLOSE OF THE CHAMBERS. The Session of the Prussian Chambers wu closed on the 12th inst. by a royal message read by M. de MantenffeL _ . The Message enumerates the various measure. I adopted during the Session; it mentions likevrise the measures which have not passed ; it alludes to the bill relative to the prohibition of payments in foreign notes, and expresses the hope that a general understanding on that measure will be come to with other States. The Marge expresses satisfaction at the conclusion of the negotiations for the settlement of the Sound flues. . ---- --- The Royal message does not make any allusion to foreign politim. We learn by telegraph that the festivities at Berlin in honour of Prince Napoleon were con tinued. The King and Queen honoured with their presence the ball given in the Prince's honour by Baron de Moustier, the French ambassador. A grand military review was held on the 12th. The Prince of Prussia gave a grand gala banquet to the French Prince on the 13th. Prince Napoleon was to leave on Thursday, the 14th, for Dresden. Her Majesty the Queen of Prussia left Berlin on the 13th for the Castle of Pillnits, near Dresden. NAPLES. NAPLES, MAT 7. My latest report of the state of Mr. Blandford's health, the gentleman who was assaulted in the Riviera di Culaja, is that he is dying. The com missary of police, who is charged with the investi gation of the case, reports that 40 persons have been arrested in several quarters. It will be almost impos sible, however, to obtain any result, as Mr. Blandford has been from the first too ill to make any deposition. Mr. Barber, our consul gamut, has demanded of the prefect of police that a reward be offered publicly for the apprehension of the guilty parties, and a free pardon to any one compromised who will denounce the person who gave the blow. The authorities are doing all they can, I believe, under the circum stances to discover the guilty parties. The Centaur has left Naples on another cruise. P.B. Mr. Blandford has just died. PENINSULAR MAIL• SOUTHAMPTON, THURSDAY. The Tagus has arrived with the Peninsular mail. She left Gibraltar May 6, and Lisbon the 9th. She has brought nearly 100 parengers. Amongst her carp is gold coin, value 9371., and seven packets of specie, value 2,7031. At Gibraltar were her Ma sty's steamer Curlew, and gun-vessel Smoke ; the laltter was bound for England. The Alhambra, which left with the Peninsular mail on the 7th, arrived at Vigo on the 10th instant. News reached Gibraltar on the 28th ult. that mar tial law was proclaimed at Malaga, in Spain, on the 26th. RUSSIAN EMBASSY TO CHINA.—A frigate and a corvette are fitting oat at Croustadt for the China Sou. It is repotted that a Rimiest Envoy Extraordinary is to take Larrrin the frigate, charged with a special mission to the ign of the Celestial Empire. In the last news given by the Northern Bea from Siberia it is mentioned that two American consuls had just arrived at Irkutsk, by proceeding op the Amcor. The complaints were very great there that all gold and silver coin had 'milled from Siberia ; of the silver it was known that Chins was the quarter to which it had departed, in payment for tea, the Chinese now taking • less quantity than formerly of Russian manufactures. From Mischta on the frontier it was stated that, while very scull quantities of goods were being received, huge quantities of silver were arriving there by every conveyance. LONDON OENSSAL OMNIBUS COMPANT.—TraBe wady& far the wash wading May 9, 11,6764 Us. dd. 4 STAG HUNT AT FONTAINIBLNAU. The following is from the corres po ndent of 0,51414•14 e • Newer+ at Ftatalnehleau, dated La evening ''The grand stag-hunt whichinaugurated the residence of the court at this imperial palace, was of a moat interesting description. The weather was delightful, and the appe, anos of the forest most picturesque, with Relight green mew ing just assuming the strength and beauty of summer foliage, The sun wee not too bright, and a gentle brace tanned ti ta sir; in fact a more propitious day could not be wished foe The place of rendeavous was the Carrefour do la Croix de St. Harem, situated en the rood from Fontainebleau to Nemours. At eleven o'clock a number of carriages of a kinds arrived from every quarter, and took up their station at each aide of the road near the carrefour. Admirabiy mounted horsemen came in every instant, apparently the cavaliers of the fashionably-dreseed ladies in the camas& This constant series of snivels constituted a nine of th e greatest a nimetion, widths eacitamemt was increaecd what at a little after twelve were men advancing a number of haute conducted in leash by three of the imperial grooms en feet, accompanied by two mounted huntsmen. Them maa inn all tinned in the Empwm's b liv ia r i = 4 coats trimmed with diver nee, isp and bed hat. The karma br malt bk Was sammakti from the eberilm, mid der kdaddif 4oo ••• ONIPNIded on the left lids. At a ger• tar pm cme„ the imperial party made their &ppm,. g m the pane, which they left by the Cons de Cheval Blanc, The wings wee composed of several abets-a-bane and ate centsge. In the first char-a-bum,were the Emertor es Empress ot.m. fag the front lest with the Grand Duke C ao saatine end the Pelee of Nesse behind, their Majesties oat the Prince being in the court hating-costume, cadge( al a green cost with gold lace, the waistcoat red, the lowa part of the drew being white, will high hunting-bars, The hat Louis EV, a hanger, al • whip arel complies the meanie. As soon as theft Itts" vid the Candour de St. Iferen, wore imatellem paty get on hennaed', PIXONS kr* bear te as spot • few minims beam. A author d Sas saute knowed the SIIMIEIB of their MOS* borer Wm provided Ike all; ad se ire Magee= thought at to the does aa benstack, ad wars ft wee the Arks fir the ladles to follow the ssample, sad seeesdiagin_a number of this sagreed al horseback sad aft In rata The ladid emanate wa ils madly of the sear err* sa that ci ihe emwasa, Use habit ter( v as with abeam Indere* hi sad Paths% ad lace. The Ear ede hems was • rad hmalki remarkable tor spirit, bat bar numn bia Sadaa 6 proved herself • met the guests had got ea allud tmory Yaw areas prescribed by edpar• the wee la wasefAser rah. ; en d the sapebeybc el ths hawk the= of the bone, tin emimellenel the rd a longback se won la *melba worth coming trip to s ra ee. But so per tire was altarded for abaft the scene, as the Emperor at oar pave the agnai, and the char commemostl. • • At lei the trials hunt became more or leas &parsed, but as the animal had returned to its start ing-place, the greater number of the riders by degree inlaid at the Carrefour St. Harem, and at about four o'clock, the Emperor and hie party ode their • in the distance. Presently they drew nearer, an P Met ee the Empress, the Grand Duke, and and the Prince of NUM continued the chew in the direct ion ' of the Croix du Grad Maitre, his Majesty cane and gave an account to the pa wns seembled of what had taken place. The m, it seemed, had bean a apleadid one, and the stag wee then to all ap fresher and stronger than at starling, and no F ore sc ad my when the animal would be forced: or the phreae Is, or If that most deniable event would take plea at eli. But to the heated crowd of Whim:tables around, the stag was not at that moment of so much importance al drink of wine and water. The dap had become exceedingly warm, and the exertion any potable refreshment most &arable. Fortunately a fourgon wee near, and in a moment every one was attacking . the ocatenta of • harope filled with wine and another oonep ed beer. Again sad again they drank, and to their lips the glue of weak wine end water seemed nectar. At last the party tensed their horses' heads towards the palace, shill ' the Emperor, accompanied by Marshal Magean, rattled of towards the Gorge inn LoupeAthe hoped Wing in web the chase. The stag and doge had, however, long dashed be yond that and it was useless to think of going turtle on mere cha spot, nce. So the Empires returned to the pila where the Reopens and her party bad already arrivid, at about five o'clock. At the moment that I write no one ma ry that the stag has not been forced, but if ao, the curia, or =-up of the animal, will take place to-night in the the palace .d.ZARH LAST NIGHT AT TSB PLUMS'S THBATIZ An accident occurred at this theatre lost night which, if it had not been promptly met and fully provided against, might have been serious. It will be ranemered that the " set drop," as it is tech. pickily called, is at this theatre a curtain of crimson velvet divided in the centre ; when this is down it is the custom to let fall the " drop" behind it, so as to deaden the wand from the stage to the front. mat before the curtain is raised the " drop" is pulled up. The set of doing this causes a draft towards the front, which is usually shows by the bellying out of the curtain, like n sail suddenly catching the wind. The fifth act of Rithard the Second was about to commence, and the drop had been elevated prepr story to drawing aside the curtain, when it was discovered that the current of air suddenly let in had impelled the sides of the curtain against the " floats," or rows of gas light. id the sides, and that it had can& Sr.. The alarm was in. etantaneoua both before and behind the curtain, but NM Charles Kean herself stepped forward in front of the burn. tug curtain, and having assured the audience, by her yarn her earnest gesture, and by her example, that there weir no danger; that there was no more "are ^ than what they my, and that they would speedlyie that "fire" extinguished succeeded in allaying the tumult and terror in the front of th e house. Many the audience then resumed their seats ; and to tear maunder the curtain quickly, to a away the burning fragments, to cut the ropes that it, and to let It fell in one blazing heap upon the stage, was the work of a few minutes. The supply of water was excellent, and in a very few mr manta the fire wee completely extinguished, the only damage done being to the dream* of some of the performers. which were spoiled by the water used to put out the dames. Order being fora moment restored, Mr. Charles Kean cams forward to the front of the footlights, holding Mn. Kean by the hand. A few words, exhausted so ho was from excite ment and the labour of the occasion, enticed to reasons the audience, who greeted them both with nine cheers, giro " with a will." The performance. were necessarily suspended, but will be resumed as usual this evening. Nothing °mild have been more effective than the mean by which the fire was so promptly suppressed. THE JERCBal.rd COPM-fleets.—This old-osta. blished City rep:et for merchants and others semodated wl the India and Ala trade has just undergone a thenne• renovation and dalsrpsont, which will greatly tend to per mote the comfort and couvakince of the numerous The subectiption room bring _on the ground door, and situated for light and venSw, its nivantsges, accompte nied by the present improvements, see likely to be math more extensively recognised. The active management owe finites to be confided to Mr. A. Miller and Mr. Paddle, whole lengthened experience in the service of Mews. Harper ad Co., the proprietors, enabled them to perform their duties ht a most satislactory manner. MR. HARDY's BEER BILL.—An influential meet. lag was held yesterday afternoon in the Manchester Tow• hall, to consider the provision. of Mr. °Who= Hardy's bill for the regulation of beer-bones and other places of public entertainment. The bill wee the result of a consider. able movement in the West Riding. The Rev. Dr. the Dean of Manchester, prodded, and there were Sir J. Potter, M.P., Mr. T. P. Bunting, Mr. S. F l a Mr. It. Gardner, Mr. W. R. Wood, Mr. J. Heron, Mr. D. Maude, Mr. Alderman Neild, Mr. C. H. Rickards, the Rev. Canon Richman, the Rev. W. H. M'Grath, and the Rev. Mr. Birch. Mr. W. E. Foster attended se a deputation from the West Riding Assoeiatico, and explained the provisions of the measure, by which it was contemplated that all new beer-houses should be licensed by the magistrates, like theme of the licensed victuallers. The feeling of the meeting appeszei to be that some new step was imperative for checking the rapidly augmenting number of beer-houses in proportion to ths g =tion, and a petition inviting the attention of the u to the subject was unanimously adopted. • was oleo appointed to see Lord Palmerston, slang I2 l tre m deputation ham the West Riding. AN ILLEGITIMATE SON SOLING TO SUPPORT RIP which was an action brought in &Wand at the instance ii mother against her illegitimate son, who, she alleged, 101 been brought up and maintained by her during hie youth, ce partially m, concluding that he should be ed to ell• inept her, she being unable, through ill health, leered% and age to secure • maintenance to herself, the def pleading that as he was illegitimate he was not liable for the aliment, Sheriff Henderson pronounced an interlocutor toad effect that an illegitimate son was bound in law to sappy, his indigent mother. Thin judgment was appealed agalas but the Sheriff (Logan), in an interlocutor, dated 6th Io adheres to it, dismissing the appeal. In a aoiMe which accompanies the interlocutor, Sheriff remarks that it is "an undoubted role of i V that both the parents of an illegitimate child all bound to support such child." . . " This obligatlen has its source in a rule of the law of nature, ranction sal enforced by the laws of society, that those who have tan instrumental in bringing into the world a human being sae bound to do what they can to preserve him in existence. The obligation, which In effect is an obligation for maintenance, ix reciprocal, and Is binding on children in regard to their parents equally as on patents in regard to their child'''. This duty, as regards c hil dren, reds, no doubt, on a •,••• what different foundation from that on which it rests in WI of parents; nevertheless, ft is 'based on another rale of the law of nature equally authoritative with the other, ;/ii . that a child, owing his exixtence, as be deem to his is bound to provide for them when no longer able to prow for themselves." We are pleased to state that Bishop Tilomfield hail entirely recovered from the indisposition mentioned list seats and his lordship now lies in the same state that he wl• • graving to the attack. LAW INTELLIGENCE T - SE WALWORTH MURDERS. CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.-THIS DAY. The trial of the prisoners Thomas Adler Baton end Martha Bacon, for the murder of their children, was re sumed this morning. The jury were eecorted from the London Coffee-hrome, where they bad been during the night, by the officers of the court shortly before ten o'clock. The learned judge, took their seats on the beech at ten o'clock, end the prisoners were then again placed at the bit. The woman exhibited the same indifference in her de meanour that had characterised her during the preceding day; but the male prisoner appeared, if possible, more ex cited than during the previous day'. proceedings. After the names of the jurors had been called over, the Irma counsel for the prieonere proceeded to open the cam ler the defence. ak. Singh first addremod the jury on behalf of the amigo primmer ; and he said ho felt that it wee only necessary ao maw their attention for a very few minute', as he was mentei that, upon the facts before them, they could only OWN in one conclusion, which was that, supposing she had memmilled the act imputed to her, she was not in such e "bee et mind as to be responsible for her acts. He naked Sim to look to the conduct of the we...-- The eerier I matter. which 1:;.o doM that he Thee verdict Mr. I The the tlr araner in which she behaved after the dread fel bed had bean committed, going coolly out of the hewn with her reed-book and a half-sovereben to pay her rent, awl not betraying the lesetemotion ; and he asked whe ther Sem fade were not coneashe of her insanity P It was ga .diary fact that when persons were Mowing Sider hemmity, their daisies genera ll y led them to =aim mkt violeksiewintthosewho were nearest and in M. end the we base out by the highest medi amkaetWalbeaddaue amid beno doubt that the un fits siamemtel felinity destroyed her children, aware what oho wee doing at the lime, and on that ought to be eimaitted. The learned counsel then =refeirM to the evileace of the medical gentlemen, end their opinion that at the taw they saw the prisoner she wan undoubtedly in • state of trinity ; and he concluded by =- pruning his oonvktion rat the kw, could, under the dr cumstances, come to no slier smadedua than that she really was insane when the M 1/11111 wimmeitted, and that they would acquit her on thitoseml. Mr. Metcalfe next alleerelrajay ea What a hie client, the male prisoner, and be sae al a very Idely. He mid he felt the responsibility that was cast urn bass, rid the fearful issue that was involved in the ingaby; bob he said, he entertained very little doubt that whoa the 'ay looked at all the facts of the era they weeldfeta di sully in coming to the conclusion that Sum was me lbeagates Ike the charge against the primmer, sad bit be cult is be acqnitted It was admitted by his learned friend that the female prisoner bad committed the act of destroafta g children, and there appeared to be every reason for that she was in a state of insanity at the time; but the theory on the part of the prosecution was that the man might have bempresent, and th at he was in some way concerned in the act. He said he should contend with the greeted ma damce that then was not a tittle of evidence to show that he was in the house or near it at the time the act was committed, said that all the evidence in the cue showed that the un mipterwcosan destroyed the children after her husband had , and that, while labouring under a delusi of in- natty, She committed the act, and that the male on primmer was totally innocent of any participation In it. If, se had been suggested, the deed was the result of a Om that had been concocted between the two prisoners, he asked them whether it was not abetted Wennou that the dead child would have been placed in his chair with his toys before him, and whether this was not mom like the set of • maniac than of a cane person. He said he thought the pri soner had great cause to complain of the observations that had been made respecting him by the press, in which ha had been held as • murderer of the worst description, and that • Brest =stint of prejudice had been meat unfairly created against him by those observations, and he believed that but for this prejudice the present charge would never have been preferred. Hs contended that there was no evidence to prove that the male prisoner bad anything te do with the murder; and said, that although be had undoubtedly told a good many lies, it wee dear that his only object was to relieve hie wife from the trouble she had got into, and that he biped to have it believed that the mur der had been committed by some stranger with the object of plunder and that MU would have the effect of getting his wife mitered to him. The learned counsel then called the attention of the jury to the facts of the case, and he said it appeared to him that evetycircamstance that had been deposed to tended to show that it wee the hand of the woman alone that destroyed the lives of the children. At chalet hoportanoshadbeenattachedtothestatamentmade Walk eon, that it wan her hubandwho committed the m butit Mrto him that this circumstance was really worth vary ortsidendion, as It was evident that the unfortunate woman only made this statement after she had been con versing with the women who were about her, and that her object was to get herself out of trouble, and the jury would also remember that it was a statement made by • woman who was admitted to be buena. Be said it appeared to him that the fact of the prisoner having gone with his wife on the day before the murders were committed to a relation with a view to procure Me,. Munro to stay with his wife during his absence was conclu sive of his innocence, for if he had contemplated the com mission of murder how could he have taken such a step? The learned counsel than concluded by expressing a confident option that no jury of Englishmen would convict • man of a crime that must inevitably consign him to the scaffold, unites upon clear and conclusive evidence, of which there was an entire absence in the present case. The Lord Chief Justice in summing up expressed his opinion that it had been clearly made out that the female prisoner bad committed the act of murder upon her children, and that she was insane at the time, and ought to be ac qtdtted co that ground. He then referred to the case of the other prisoner, and told the jury that it appeared to him there was an utter absence of anything like direct evidence, and that upon the facts of this inquiry it appeared to be ext remely improbable that the husband was concerned in the murders. Mr. the do' The the The , version This the caused part of to .... _ genarol The jury retired et twenty minute' after one o'clock to eqnsider their verdict. They returned into oourt in about ten minutes and gave • verdict of NOT GUILTY u regarded Thomu Fuller Bacon, and acquitted Martha Bacon on the ground of Insanity. The Lord Chief Justice said he entirely concurred in the verdict, and he at the same time thought it right to say that mince the female prisoner had been in Newgate, she had eon head that ohs alone committed the murders. loam to The male prisoner was removed, and the female wee toderod to be detained during her Majesty's plasma. THIS DAY. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS. (Sittings at Fief Prins, in London.—Before Cbied hullos Cockburn and a Common Jury.) TRACET V. PORDNAN.--SLANDEN. AND PALOS The plaintiff in this case is caallier in the office of the Royal Naval and Military Life Assurance Company, end the defendant was formerly the landlord of a public-house at Creyford, in Kent, called the Duke of Wellington. The action was brought to recover damages for slander and false imprisonment, and the only plea was not guilty. Mr. Hawkins and Mr. Prentice appeared for the plaintiff; and the defendant appeared in person. The plaintiff • MO was that on the 28th December last he, with a fellow-clerk, went on a walking excursion to Croydon, and about six o'clock on the evening of that day they went into the defendant's hones and had some brandy and water, and water put into a flask, and also had some best. They paid for these articles with a new shilling and a lifirstipence, and left to go to the railway station. On the limy they found that they were pursued by the defendant, and Mar person who represented hiumelf, but who was not in ilia, a constable. The defendant accused them of baying peed bad . They at first laughed at the accusation, OM slinpanis ed cards, and said they were gentlemen, and Mewl& apeman& bed money. The defendant, how pm, enegellea Mem to go back to his bowie, and there gave Alm Mb*, eaMody of a policemen, who took them to Bel =.. My Ise& aatiet-house. The superintendent there sent the WM, which had been passed, and also some other money Wilde the plaintiff and too friends had with them to a gen eses= who lived in the neighbourhood, and who was one of ' Me indlies at the Bank of England. He pronounced all sway le be geed, end therefore the plaintiff and hie Mob were told that they would not be detained any ICand they went about their business. defendant's ease was that hie wife took the money, sad after the plaintiff went away two people refusedtoaM iiia money from her, and it having been shown to many in the house they all pronounced it bad. The t was advised to go after the plaintiff and Mend, and make them change the money, he went with that objoct. lie overtook them, asked them to go into • public-boom doer by and cheap the meaty, but they refused to do so and said they would go back. They did go back, not upon corupuleioo but volun tarily, and when they got to the Duke of Wellington they wished somebody to be sent for to prove the money, and • )1 men named Pearson was fetched. He said the money s bad, and asked them how much more of that ' of mosey they had about them, which caused them to lope their money, and he said some of that 1 also bad. Pearson subsequently took the ties to the station-house, but this was solely his own act, ' defendant not having given them into custody. Mr. rdham and a man who was present were called to prove ne facts. The last of these witnesses was asked in ma -examination what he was, end he said that he w a cripple. (A laugh.) He could not do regular work, it he got his living by doing a little piece of shoe-mending blab ha had picked out of his own head. (Laughter.) He mostinme got jobs from the Duke of Wellington. The*, found a verdict for the plaintiff as to the Wes im- public The/ to the thie • ibuily 1 vithir'd vieth the let mull lily the 4. mis r• behalf soon the ceive , Sir The :natter instead poor Olt Some, it, it wail consent Hu alder Um. to Injured it been wol it wee r fault on t of this ca called. At the got sot with. from t. jurymen of the !In!", brought The oo to the which the co' box, for now hie lend I to tho after the had be, court! of the. Gomel. would glancing at joint r the body Lie formance Cabe woe paid the t. raise the lova, and clause, w original know to avail vomit They w, backing, dicted duals visa WheN , whether same as Da! stolen Court Ho* rHE WALWORTH MURDERS. . --..--- Mr. P WITHAL CRIMINAL CO CRT.—THIS DAY. COMM The tO C The trial of the prisoners Thomas Arlo. Baron and calico l Merida Amon, for the murder of their children, was re- whi mat terch , tuned this morning. no don The jury were escorted born the London Coffee-house, that he here they bad been during the night, by the Maws of the The f, met shortly before ten o'clock. verdict The learned fudges took their seats on the bench at ten . Mn' Mr. 'clock, end the prisoners were then again placed at the ter. The C • The woman exhibited the same Indifference in her de- matter m mum' that had characterised her during the preceding ineteed Ay; but the male prisoner appeared, if possible, more ex- I 'T e l tted than during the previous day's proceedings. it, it wa• After the names of the jurors had been called over, the consent earned counsel for the prisoners proceeded to open the cam His • or the defence. ricks the Mr. Mei& first addremod the jury on behalf of the mule primmer ; and he said he felt that it war only necessary , e ,,,,,_ e asap, their attention for • very few minutest, as he was v" www / .1 Omani that, upon the facta before them, they could only since 0, MIS to one conclusion, which was that, supposing she had sulditted the act imputed to her, she was not in such a The d Wad mind as to be responsible for her acts. He malted the nee. Wm to look to the conduct of the woman—to two he meaner in which she behaved after the dread- Mr Jare . it. Id deed had been committed, going coolly out of the Q,,,tiff , MN with her rent-book and a hallmovereben to pay her the woe la, nod not betraying tha lenetermition ; end he asked whe- h . fen we rim fade were not cadanahe of her insanity P It was t h e de r e •rikaarldarrf fact that Awn persons were labouring ~,,0 , „,,„d odes Inudty, their deludes generally led them to the dm* nos act at videueephotthose who were nearest and the Meet is Bank add Mt was lose out by the highest medi- „ oe toc e . el aledesdkp, dribs soldfilne meld beno doubt that the un- dd. i d mi 2V:has essaasitedieunity destroyed her children .i es to re what du was doing et the time, and on that w or o- i t puma ought to be eimptitted. The learned counsel that he. soot elegy refined to the evldemce of the medical gentleman and h sou ▪ opinion that at the Yes they saw the prisoner she ma omni b us, undoubtedly in • state atinunity ; and he concluded by ex- fault on reesing his conviction ea the Jeri could, woke the dr- of t hy =stances, come to no ellsendiries than that she really o a k& ma insane when the at ins ndonitted, and that they A t t h e rould salute her on the peed, The j Mr. Metcalfe next alheesel Yes__ a WNW of his nand ,. 0 tient, the male prisoner, mil be aim me et wry delay. He no ./ , aid he felt the romonsitdity that was cast urn Hoc, ad N om i he fearful issue that was involved in the intpdot kit s he aid, he entertained very little doubt that whoa the )my robed at all the fact. of the ere, they weaddhel as dllitinity (Bitting' O coming to the conclusion that lien erns he lbemadies Ike he charge against the primmer, and Bra her ought Is be cqnitted It was admitted by his learned Mond that Thie m he female prisoner bad committed the act of destroying the the • hildren, and there appeared to be every mown for betlsving go t t 110 ell hat she was in a state of hmanity at the time; but the h. hoary on the pert of the prosecution woe that the man ht from th eve bun_present, and that he was in some way om,m•ned in jurymen he act. He said he should contend with the greatest cone- of the lance that there was not a tittle of evidence to show that he eleven o was in the home or mar it at the time the act was committed, he she and that all the evidence In the eau showed that the un- were • 2tiisrcesan destroyed the children after herhuatand had brought her, and that, while labouring under a delude@ din- The lenity, she committed the act, and that the male prisoner to toe ma t otally innocent of any participation In It. IL am which had been suggested, the deed was the mutt of a plan the cone that had been concocted between the two prisoners, he box, for eked them whether it was not abetted to sunou that the l oad to Wee. thild would have been placed in his chair with his toys the .1 beton him, and whether this was not more like the act of • could no naniac than of a sane person. He said he thought the pet. dent n toner had great cause to complain of the observations that Subsorm tad been made respecting him by the press, in which ha bad lowieloP teen held as • murdered the worst description, and that • to - ce" put =dint of prejudice had been meat unfairly created wee to igamst him by those observations, and he believed Premed hat but for this prejudice the patient charge would Joel lever have been preferred. He contended that there ••,_ ,holft seas no evidence to prove that the male prisoner had eneePo inything is do with the murder; and said, that although a had undoubtedly told a good many lies, it ma clear that his only object was to relieve hia wife from the trouble she had got into, and bat he hoped to have it believed that the mar- ls had been committed by some stranger with the COMM object of plunder and that thin would have the effect of lib II getting his wife restored to him. The learned counsel then now hi s ailed the attention of the jury to the fecta of the cane, and he 7 sod aid it appeared to him that evetychasmatance thathed been deposed to tended to show that it war the hand of the woman t° the done that destroyed the lives of the children. As:dealef after the mport•noeharibeenattachodtothestatementmade /drape- bad • on, th at it wan her busbandwhocornmittedthem butit nth , Msaftto him that this circumstance war really worth vary of the d condderation, ea it wee evident that the unfortunate woman only made this statement after she had been con- Gomel. ✓asing with the women who were about her, sad that her object was to get herself out of trouble, end the jury would the dao remember that it was • statement made wou ld m • woman who was admitted to be limns. _,___;__ Ile said it appeared to him that the fact of the prisoner s " . "‘"‘"l' taring gone with his wife on the day before the murders of joint were committed to a relation with a view to procure Mrs. the Munro to stay with his wife during his absence was condo- n o thi ng dm of his innocence, for if he had contemplated the nom- ,„„,., • • mission of murder how could he have taken such a slept • -- The learned counsel than concluded by expressing • body l ie onfident opinion that no jury of Englishmen would convict Comm:ice 1 man of a crime that mud inevitably consign him to the fold . ; ,caffold, whim upon deer and concludve evidence, of which per t o f hers was an entire deuce in the present case. The Lord Chief Justice in summing up expressed his dill minion that it had been dearly made out that the female to Weigle primmer had committed the act of murder upon her children, general tad that she was insane at the time, and ought to be ac- common pitted on that ground. He then referred to the cue of wee paid Re other prisoner, and told the jury that it appeared to d • him there was an utter absence of anything like direct • evidence, and that upon the facts of this inquiry it appeared the coo to be ex tremely improbable that the husband was concerned raise the in the murders. • aim The jury retired at twenty minute' after one o'clock to public) ionsider their verdict. a Cp 1 ,.,, They returned into court in about ten minutes and gave p or t, and a verdict of NOT OIJILTY as regarded Thomu Fuller to co m e Bacon, and acquitted Martha Bacon on the ground of lam. t o insanity. exPeo • The Lord Chief Justice said he entirely concurred in the b an ki ng verdict, and he at the same time thought it right to say that lose, end dace the female prisoner bad been in Newgate, she had con- donee, fused that she alone committed the murders. origins' The male prisoner was removed, ...1 the female wee lemon. ordered to be detained during her Mejesty's pleasure. know to avail on • LAW INTELLIGENCE . Th spo ey w THIS DAY. banking, manage . --,,-- Ottll. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS. directors (Sittings at Nisi Prim, In London.—Before Chief Justice dieted Cockburn and a Common Jury.) duals TRACET O. PORDRAIL--11LANDEIL AND PALOS who. T IMPRIIIeNMENT. Where The plaintiff in this case is caallier in the office of the whether Royal Naval and Military Life Assurance Company, and the same as defendant was formerly the landlord of a_iiblic-house at ineorpo Croford, in Kent, called the Duke of Wellington. The eheee , action was brought to recover damages for slander and fold public imprisonment, and the only plea was not guilty. Mr. Hawkins and Mr. Prentice appeared for the plaintiff; The di and the defendant appeared in person. The plaintiff •mu was that on the 28th December lad t o the he, with a fellow-clerk, went on • walking excursion to ~,. w Croydon, and about six o'clock on the evening of that day '''''"' they went into the defendant's home and had some brandy stmt and water, and water put into a flask, and ale had some stock beer. They paid for these articles with • new shilling and a be Ms mew sixpence, and left to go to the railway dation. On the victim way they found that they were pursued by the defendant, and the 1, another person who represented himself, but who wee not in must . fact, • constable. The defendant dewed them of baring lily . • paced bad money. They at first laughed at the accusation, nece and aftawatda gilded cards, and mid they were gentlemen, the oft and incapable of panting bed money. The defendant, how- might • ever compelled them to go back to his house, and there gave Mr. than; into the custody of a policeman, who took them to Bel- Hono ley Heath station-hover. 'The superintendent there tent the Mr. money which had been passed, and also some other money behalf which the plaintiff and his friends had with them to a gen- some • *lemma who lived in the neighbourhood, and who wee one of r ; the cashiers at the Bank of England. Ho pronounced all Mr. the money to be good, and therefore the plaintiff and his e friends were told that they would not be detained any loner, and they went about their business. 1 Ihe defendant's case was that his wife took the and after the plaintiff went away two people refuoedro m de the money from her, and it hating been shown to many ipeople in the house they all pronounced it bad. The defendant was advised to go after the plaintiff and - hia Mend, and make them change the money, land he went with that object. Ile overtook them, Dar Land asked them to go into •public-house C. 10•0 by and change stolen oche roomy, but they refuar dtodo so and said they would go Jo back. They did go back, not upon compulsiou, but volun- gentle itsrily, and when they got to the Duke of Wellington they chief. •wished somebody to be sent for to prove the money, and • the m, yetoliceman named Pearson was fetched. He said the money oeiv tas bed, and asked them how much more of that Sir of money they had about them, which caused them to atten , me their money, and he said some of that Court deo bad. Pearson eubsequently took the Hou to the station-house, but this was solely Ws own act, r a defendant not having given them into curtody. Mr. for . ordham and a man who was present were called to prove mast facts. The last of these witnesses was asked in El nomination what he was, and Ise said that he to pa a cripple, (A laugh.) He could not do regular work, scam. rat he got his living by doing a little piece of shoe-mending low bleb he had picked out of his own head. (Laughter.) He reed got jobs from the Duke of Wellington. S' The jury found a verdict for the plaintiff as to the false im- be .