The Express. — London, England, 1851-03-14 00:00:00

adiridoal of their own sable hue, they an not quite so black as thej are painted ; and that, had they any means ahalogoos to our press of telling the world how it is they pa to be in the hostile position they are in, we would, r yh a ps. find out that the Kaffir. wen not altogether gu ilty, and that the colonists were a good way from being a ltogether innocent. N e vis ha. just come in from Kaffraria of the defeat of the Kaffir. in an attack on Alice and Fort hate. The aim e d , was in great form, and their object appeared to h e to seise the cattle that were in our charge that belonged to the Fiascoes and our people. The Flagon belonging to the location near Mr. Valilerstood's house (the tumniis loner) brims, d very well, charging the Kaffir repeatedly, and with great valour. 1 have just seen a letter from an of in Fort Mare, who says that they played their 24-lh. gun. tin-I slid great esetution, which will account for the great lens among the Kaffir., who left above l(lt/ dead. There were only six Fingoes killed, so we may fairly prv , uine that the artillery did the must of th, work. f Kaffir. succeeded in taking 200 head of eutVe, whit is is rather a whom. los.. The C. M. Ritht Lard slid their basing done so will tend to dissipate the idea of their bring disaffected. The Hennes starts tor Buffalo Mouth this evening, 30th January, with 4ilo kvie• awl about 131/ tons of military Mores. ARRIVAL OF THE BRAZILIAN MAIL (Bp Erehis Teßinge.) (runt uta owx cuaiuraronmetrd SO('THAMPTON, 'MOAT Moaxixo. The Royal Mail steamer Teviot, Captain Rived, with the Brazilian moils, has just arrived. Her dates arc: Ileum" Ayres, 1 uth January; Monte Video, 22tul: Rio Janeiro, 11th Febru ;Ley ; Bahia, 15th : raumbueo, 17th ; St. Vincent, 28th; :01i Mardi; Madeira, 7th; Lisbon, 10th. Her cargo cansists of 32 bales of cochineal, from Teneritfe; 9 leaks of ipectimaina, 23,7021. m gold. 6,7311. worth or diamonds, from Rio Janeiro. Prtirarations fur war arc still being made ut Rio. The squadron was fitting out for the blockade of the River Plate, should war be declared by Rosa)... Ad miral Greaten had hoisted his flag on board the frigate Constitutism. 'lns?' were being marched to the frontier, where there is a force of 12,000 men. The day before the Teviot sailed, a steamer had ar rived at Itio from Rio Grande. bringing news that a treaty of animas. offensive and &bemire had been entered into between the Minister of Brazil and the Republic of Paraguay, which will virtually strengthen the Brazilians. The Brazilians continued to suppress the slave trade, and are making a number of captures. The mines in the interior are said to be mote productive than Hier have been fur mane years past. A terri ble necklet, had °mired in (tin harbour just betbre the Teviot sailed. A French barque, mmed the Eliza, bound for California. with 211) passengers on boned, was blown up by gunpowder. Fortunately, the has of life was eomparatively small. Ten individuals are missing and twenty or thirty more injured. The poor pumengeni are in a state of utter des titution. Teviors news caused a decline in cotton and sugar ut Peniambueo. Money was scarce. Exchange on London, 301 to 301. At Bahia exchange was firmer ; freights were buoyant, and tonnage scared. Crop likely to lie a little under the average. Sugar in demand, and priers in favour of the buyer. Little doing in cotton. At Rio, exchange was rather flat, sad negotiated at 29 1 , to :SN. The exchange ut Buenos Ayres had varied from TM. to 775. There was a slight improvement in the general tone of prospects in the money market. There was a considerable demand for articles suited to the interior. A tsnasioierable amount of export business had Men done. The weather was favourable. From Lisbon we learn that the Queen had re covered from leer late illness. TROOPS FOR THE. CAPE. The most net ive exertions are being made to get ready lie tt itt solar and Orris ntal l'ompany's ateanwr Singapore, at Southampbm, to lease on Saturday, with troops for the Cape. It is intended at present that the Singapore shall touch at Gibraltar and sierra Leona to cool. will hr sirtnalinl by the government, and stores art espeetill from Clarenee-yanl for that purpose. :1 purser of the any %ill be appointed to the Singapore. Ns nouns will la. allosed to aisninpany the troops. The Singapore, ills rap tied, will take about 30 days to math the Capt. ELECTRIC TELEGILtPUS IN BELGIUM. A royal decree has been published fixing provi sionally the rate of charges for the traosonissiou of cone =rev by the eh trio telegraph on the WWII of railway hoot Belgium. The following shows thu basis of the tariff of charge,: Q.ea♦4a:lnm+. n ;WI an easeedia: ruenlioit M words. IYa wads 1 i ime ant 1 esessamil , a void % 10 CO I 13 00 15 00 22 30 Ile I ond .ol esmrding IS i „ For 7., :old 134 cascoliag 370 I 3 , IUI4IIIIIII ... Above L3l.lliffe ....... . 30 Le. I. e. Sao 7 SO Tb. in.iiinitint of any one 100 word., t soriot the telegraph be quite died, in whirl' c.e.e them is no limit i 4 limitrd to Cuniinunic.ition. by night ore to be charged double. Ar tangcnicnt, for the tr.insmisgion of rormspondenee by electric trlescruph in connexion with the Belgian lines hate been numb , with Austria, Bavaria, i 411,1 Saxony. in ell 1,11.1,4 pr r ilLylUt Ili is required. The utticers of the tclegr.sphie arc bound to seem by oath. SC-Pirff.l) 3iCIRDER DP A WIFE in' HER Hl'S nts —Gtaireesenu, Tuned)Ae.—A man named Daniel Shindy has been brought to the Gloucester County Gaol, under the warrant of W. J. Ellis, Esq., coroner for the county, on • charge of the wilfal murder of his wife. The deceased and the pioneer lived at Wotton-under-Edge, in this comity . mid the fanner had &reeline time past been in • deli. ate state of health. Her husband had been in the habit ern. Ily beating and kicking her and keeping her on a miserably short allowance of food, and while he him-elf tired well, bread and water was the poor woman's principal diet. The deceased died on the 2101 of February last rather suddenl, and an inquest was held on the body, as a matter of form, on the 28th, when no suspicion nt foul conduct being entertained, a ver dict of " Died. from natural causes" was returned. The prisoner refused to bury her, and that circumstance, toge ther with the rumours which now begun to spread through the ni ighbourhood respecting his cruel conduct towards her during her lifetime, led to further inquiries which resulted in th e re-oinniue of the inquest. At the last inquiry several of the neighbours were examined. Some depend that the prisoner beat his wife "in common with other h umlaut& ;" but the niece of the deceased proved that Mrs. Mundy had complained to her of her husband's cruelti, and had shone her her arms and legs which were black and Woe with bruises. She also told her that she was nearly starved, having nothing to eat but course brown bread, without anything with it. Daniel Workman, another of Mundy's neighbours, spoke to the fact of the prisonsr hating beaten his wife with • stick. On the day of her decease this witness saw Mrs. Mundy SOU her own house, in a stoo pi ng position, with her hands ea her bowels, and on asking her what was the matter, she said it nos where be kicked her—meaning her husband. Jane Deer. who laid out the body. found bruises on the seek said bowel*. Mr. Adams, surgeon, also deposed that he found an injury of the neck. attended with congestion of the 'frith of very recent iLite. Also an extensive iury of the abdomen, as if tram a blow or kick, either o f which was stlitieient to cause death. The jury, after a short deli beration, returned a verdict of " Wilful Murder" against Daniel Mundy, the hushan.l. Test: FR.‘MPTON CoTIERELL POISONING C.ter..— At the Gloutesterhire summer manes last August a woman nand Hannah Curtis was found guilty of the murder of her former husband, Thomas llama, at Frampton Cot- Well, by admini.tering arsenic to him. After the sentence Si death was passeil, it will he remembered, the prisoner was n.spited, and sulnequently the sentence was commuted to transportation for life. The prisoner has only recently been fe1110T.,41 ; and our correspondent, writing from the neighbourhood of Frampton yesterday. states that • resolute attempt is now being made by the parties who were chiefly instrumental in ob taining the respite, to procure an unconditional par den for the amused. For that purpose a memorial has boon drawn up and signed by a number of householders and other.: of the neighbourhood, setting the facts of the fase before her Majesty, and pointing out the weak points in the . videnee. It is suggested that although the prisoner lire Harris's name she was never actually married to him, and. dot...fore, that he could hare been no obstacle to her neirriage with Curtis, and it particularly points out the fact of the purchase of the pniaun by the prisoner after the de es as el been taken ill. The memorial also urges that 1 the prisoner and the di (cased were living upon good terms with each other, and suggests that the poison might have been given in mistake—either by the prisoner or the de et-cod's friends—for magnesia, which he was in the habit of taking occasionally. In conclusion, the memonialista pray her Nlojesty to take a merciful view of the east, and grant the accusal as unconditional pardon. A hug lilt u kt OUT IN NORWICH on Sunday eccnin c at the printingeoillee of tbreNeesereA Memory. For tunat..y the steam-engine and macildiers Irerv:bat little in tired, but a ermildenifiTe deatrua The proprietors weirtlitufed: supposed daunago is about 2,IA11!. —II 4 11h 1:..e 1 . ens. Vtie Court. OSBORNE, figraaotv, MARCH 13. The Queen and Prince Albert unlktti curly this morning in Oshorne-park and grounds. The Primo of Wok", thu Princess Royal, and younger members of the royal funi:y took their accustomed walk,. and ri.les. The ,lluebein of Kent, Ilttzndect by Lady Fanny 'lnward, lady in Wallog, morel frona Gosiswt to the Fairy yacht, Curran radar yt-tertlay afternoon, and reached Oa borne a little ►ei,re four o'clock. Colonel Bouverie, Ktits,:rry in W.iting, went to Gosport to &tuna her Royal lintlmoo from thence to Osborne. The chairman antl deputy-chairman of the I:aat India Company had mu int. rview with Lord John ItuNcell day et his 01E6.01 rtsitiotee in Iknrning-street. lac night lionouraine 'Lucy tioulburn had an inter view with Fir tic , n-ge v, at the Home yesterday. Tie: I' rl of I"..re:sice had au interview with the right hon. hams..:. F.d;i of liegAburough had an intervivw with Lord Johli I:114,11 vt-deettuy. Del:tateheiAet re nacited veteran] at the Colonial Office from the Ciow -tior ot the Ca}.• of Gotta llope. Dtepateln, were ant rive Wed from tl a tioternor of St.. Ilelecia. At a meeting of the senate of the University of In al ..0 MuLtlgy la , t, the dcgree of LL.B., was Omer td on Mr. Jahn A. Itu , sell, l'rufeaur of English Lew, Cainruity Cull , Landon. RELIGIOUS HOUSES. The act on t11:,4 140)i-et, entitled, "A Bill to prevent the forcible Ileti ution of Etta:ales in lieligious flousta " af:i r st •lint. in the preamble limit it is expedient to nuke paUSI.I“..I W. I.lVVVlltillg Cue forcible detention of females in wheriin per.uos hound by religious or mona..tie yews r.• r..airleut or w.ueiatcd, cancts in its sixth and ten Smio, u. j elaioa-s: _ Itke ju.tu,s kir every county in which any religions ha US. lull Iw ni;iat eat antler this act shall at the M icliael tri-vter ti.:ssiods of the p:iire in every year appoint sir or juatices of the pt are to act as visitors of each house red oink: tiii, act, situate within such county, rod rut .a ' , dors to sireionted slow be and are hereby autlioriaed 1111. L eatisovered, not beitig leas than three in number, toge tiler to ‘i it es ivy MIC.I house in IllalllSAT directed by this act ; sod ..e:•h justit,s slaall at their nest ronetient take the Whowitag ath : 1, do swear, that I will discreetly, impartially, awl fai:o:uliy execute all to trusts committed unto me by virtu, is: MI of jaaliarucat made and }Kissed in the four- Leath Lill fill, nth years vi the reign of her Majesty Queeu Victoria, intilaad ' An Art to prevent the forcible Detention or Fllll.llt iu and that 1 will keep s-...crat all such matters as shall come to my kuowledge iu the . eoanGwr of my ottiee ea visitor,except when required to thin Win, the saws by li gal authority, or to far OS 1 shall Icd aiy,:f called upon to do to for the better execution 01 the chili imposed en are by the said tizt.—Se help me God." Whieii oath Oral be administer. d by at justice of the peace, Watt uae of curia tisioirs; and it shall and say be lawful for tux Justices an...added at any general quart. r se.ioll, of tb • ;wan: to uppoiut visitors to awl iu the execution of this net, if it shall Mimesis that nu chinas were appointed at the preerilia4 general quarter "anions, by reins of tlo r wit kelvin; he,. any such registered house in the cowity at the time, au 1 that some house has been subse quonitiy registteed ; and it shall and may he lawful fur the Justices in like IllantOr and ut like or "itch times to appoint vi ;toes to supply tu.• piac,s of those who clod! die or refuse or i.T4111'.! 11111ilvtO to act a. aforesaid. V.tt: every registered religious house shall be visited and inspeevil by the visitors appointed fur that purpose under tins act at the hest Ittire in every year, on such days and at such hours act the day, between the hours of eight in (b.! MOTlling cusp Pil iu the evening from the twenty first o: September to the twenty-first of March, and he twola the hours of six in the morning and eight in the evenirm from the twenty-first of March to the twenty tint 01 September each year, and without notice, and Per such leugili of time, se they shall think fit, and they are h , reby empowered to see all and every the inmates therein, eitin r separately or collectively, as they shall ace tit, and ter that purpose Isere 41:11a be kept at every such house tor the nse of the road visitors a book containing n list fully entered up of ail the p•rrms residing therein, setting forth toe um, ehri-tian and surname, the Ugl., the last plow.. of abosie, the 11:111.M'$ awl resideuces of the parents, guar di44ll., Of nest of kin, as the case may be, of every such perK k a, together nit:, the law of her entry into the haul,•, the style or tilde by which she is called or known therein, the ...tic:, if any, held by her, and in ease any inch person shall die, or kose the sari house, or be removed therefrom, an o airy shall be made in the list in the said book of such death, it.-parture, or mmoval, as the raw may be, opposite to to 11.14111. illolll,NCtipik/11 Of such person, together with the date thereof. Teat if it shall appear to the said visitors, upon the IleC3- .ion of any such visitation as aforesaid, that any trmale is tleyinius of teasing the religious I se in which she shall for the time tieing be resident, then and in every such case it sip ill h • lawful for such visitors if they shall think lit, to 'mew inquiry in relatOsi thereto of such person or persons, including the suprri.w, if any, of such house, as they may deem M giving information on the subject, and also wi:h or without such inquire to remove such female :rota the house in which oh: shall be so resident. That if it shall ha determined by the said visitors to re move, under the provisions of this act, any female from the religions house in which she shall fur the time being be resident, then and in every such CAW it shall he lawful fur the said visitors to phis: such female, if she shall so request, under the care of the matron of the workhouse of the union or parish within which such house shall be situate, and such matron shall he and is herby required to take charge of every female who shall be SO plucill under her cure, as an Mutate of her own family and not u► a pauper, (or the space of one month : provided always, that nothing in this act contained shall he construed or taken to make it compul sory on any such female to remain ai such inmate fur any longer pe•raal than she shall think tit. 'l hat in every case In which any such female shall have been placed under the cue• of the matron of the workhouse of any union or pariah, the guardians of the poor of such union or parish shall grant and pay to such matron out of the common fuuil of such unjust or parish a reasonable allowance (or the care, maintenance, and clothing of such femal:• for the time, not exceeding wee nwnt/t, during which such females shall have been under her care. That it at any time alter the lZith day of September next ensuing the passing of this art any religious order, com munity, or establishment eonsiting of females bound by religious or monastic vows shall reside ur associate in any house in England or Wales, and such house shall nut lIILVC been previously registered pursuant to the provisions of this act, num, and in every such CAW, the superior of such house shall he deemed guilty of a misdemeanor. That if any per-on shall apply to the clerk of the peace of any county to register any religious house under the pro visious this act, and shall wilfully and with an int.ntiou to deceive, make any false statement or representation in respect of such hint*, then, and in every such ease, such person shall be deemed guilty of a misdoneauour. That if any person shall wilfully obstruct or impede any of the visitors in their way to, at, or in, or returning from any such religious house, such person shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanour, and if any person shall assault any vi-itor in any such house or the cartilage thereof, he shall be deemed guilty of a felony, and being emit icted thereof shall be liable to be transported as such fur ten years, or to be imprisoned, either with or without hard labour, and fur any time the court may direct, nut exceed int=t any person shall fraudulently conceal or attempt to conceal any part of any religious house, or the premises belonging or appertaining thereto, or any person residing therein, from any such visitors as aforesaid, every person so offending shall be d....mied guilty of a misdemeanour. That if at any time the list of the inmates in any such religious house shall not he immediately produced to the visitors, on demand, and if there shall be auy wilfully false entry therein, or any fraudulent omission therefrom, the superior of such house shall be deemed guilty of a misde meanour, and the visitors arc hereby authorised and ens , powered to take away such book containing such list, and to produce the same as by way of evidence of such wilfully false entry or fraudulent omission. That in citing this act in other acts of parliament, or in any legal instrument or proceedings, it shall be sufficient to use the expression Religious Houses Act, 1861. - Now—Too WOWS prising is dories are pr awed to be Insetted to lowattWo. ELEtTIONEERING IIIOVEMENTS IN CARDITF.--Con siderable excitement has been exhibited in this town during the past week, ht consequenee of a requisition having been set on foot, calling upon the electors to support Walter Collin, Esq., u.se a candidate to reprent the above borough ia parli.uuent, should the present member (Dr. Nieholl) re sign, or in the even of a di.solution of parliament taking place. the friends of the lion. Capt. Stuart are also on the alert, and purpose bringing that gentleman tornard at She proper time. Capt. Stuart is non of Lord James Stuart. —Slea IWO herald. COMPLAINT OP TIIE SEAMEN.—SHIELDS, MARCH meeting of the seamen (apparently from 200 to 300 men), was held this afternoon on the Low Light Sand, in consequence of several of the men refusing to sign articles at the shipping-uthee. The deputy shipping-master having, during the lute agitation—to facilitate the trade and the exit of the vesaels--attended on board :hip to wither the agree- punts and signatures, the men insisted on this being eon tinned. The shippiug-master, however, deems it more proper to have the articles signed in the premises provided for that purpose. The meeting this afternoon was energe tically addressed by two seamen, who recommended the men to adhere to their determination nut to alga articles in the shipping.ottiee. Ultimately a resolution was passed un animously, to the effect, that the men were willing to sign articles on board their respective vessels, or at their 1 ! own committee-room, hut not at the shipping-tare. Some vessels have been detained since Monday in consequence of the &qite es to the place where articles have to be signed. Cool freights to London are now down to as. Old. and de. Gel. per ton.—Sdippiag Ga.ulte. SINGUL.tR ACCIDENT.—Last evening a cabman nom. d Masters had driven to the stand near the borders of the Channel, with the view of getting a fare from the pas senger. by the Ilarwich steamer. After the vcs.a haul ar rived. suet whilst she was blowing off her steam, the horse•, a blind one. bk - CaDle frightened, and as the driver was in the act of opening the door in order to put two passengers in side the cab, it suddenly started olf, stumbled down the &chi its., and, regaining its feet, hurried into the channel. Fordniesmont the horse kept its head above the water, hut tht, weight of. ate cab soon sunk it, and in a minute the .sc...ping tide tarri,l boll horse and vehicle down the river far beyond the reach of help.—liase kit Eriness. THE EXPRESS, FRIDAY EVENING, MARCH 14, 1851. ANNIVERSARY OF THE GERMAN LAW INTELLIGENCE. REVOLUTION. THIS DAY. Last night the Germans resident in London met at the Freemasons' Tavern, to celebrate be a banquet the an niversary ot their country's revolution. 'f he large hall was inconveniently crowded, the company being well sprinkled with French - and English visitors. An utter absence of deenratina was obeervable in the room, the only distinctive mark of the occasion being a black elnth hung on the wall behind the chair, from which stood out in sanguinary eha racten the mune of Robert Blum, the reemberof the Frank furt parliament, shut under the walls of Vienna, in October 1818, by sentence of an Austrian court-martial. The dinner, thouggmaneseeptionable, engrossed a far smaller share of the evening than is usual at English ban quets, and when in the middle of the first course the spirit stirring strains of the "Marseillaise - rat front the oreht 'ars, the viands were forgotten, and the whole asseinble joined in the chorus. The meeting was presided over by beneral EQUITY COURTS. Doom Lass Citurverts, Tens-Citialmuoit. METAIRIE v. WISEMAN AND OTHERS, 1.7p0n the rare being called on, Mr. James said he ap peared on behalf of the Attorney-General, who was not named as a party to the present suit, but was 12 cessurily a party to the information which had been namtion,d. With regard to the present suit, the Attorney-General's duty app need to be of a twofold and incongruont. character. He was hound, virtute °Rica, to protect the fun I. if pro perly given to the charity, while it was equally :,ie &cry to see that the charity was not enriched by the sat. ans had been suzgcsted on tile plaintiff's bill. The proper cunr,, , for the Attorney-General, under the circumstances, wm, he conceived, to occupy a neutral position, and to take no share in the discussion. Mr. Stuart said he conhl not understand the ,ground taken by the Attorney-General. It apiwartil to be his Flak duty to defend the charity. Mr. Ikthell, who was almost inaudible from hoots requested that the motion might stand over t'r a few days, till he should be better able to make himself heard in reply, The court and the counsel for the defmulauts at once acquicee.•d in the proposal ARNOLD RLGE said, if the German revolution of 1348 had failed it was because the people had too little experience, and hod been too much disposed to confide in their princes. In the spring of that year it wns in their power to crush every Gcratau throne. Every sine was then weak and tot tering. but the German nation was generous ;it attri buted the former faults of its rulers to secondary causes, and nut to radical Tiers. It again trustml the monarchs, and German princes ratified with their royal sanction every popular law and liberal principle enacted during the resulutionar7 period by the liberal chandlers of Germany. rises° the treacherous princes now tram pled under foot. The German nation sees this ; and only infatuated ministers can believe that the people nr, deceived by their present policy. It only bides its time, because of the well-understood aversion to frequent vio lent change. Germany will again conquer those principles and popular laws which arc the genuine issue of the Ger man mind—that mind which effected the gnat revolution l in religion which had eversince stirred the mind of Europe. The names of Goethe, Schiller, Fichte, and Hegel are guarantees of Germany's independence. The nation will call before the tribunal of public justice those traitors, whether crowned or nut, who have r0bb...1 the people of their birthright. M. Reale. is neat addressed the meeting, and was suc ceeded by M. MAZZINI. The appearance of the triumvir was the signal for a long-sustained demonstration of ap plause. When it had subsides!, M. Nl:tuts' delivered a short address on the present condition of the people of the principal European states. Mr. Lewis euthequently addressed the meeting, urging that it was the intent and the duty of England to promote the freedom of Germany. Mr. Stuart then suggested that the fund in dispute should, with the consent of the trustees, be paid into court in both suits, to abide the derision at the hearing. this means the neemity fur any further discussion of the mutter might be obviated. Mr. James suggested that the better course would be to pay the funds into court in the information aloac. Why should the fund be exposed to the risk of cost" in both proceeding' ? Although it was improbabt: that the trustees would take upon themselves to app:y the mernini; April dividend pending the litigation, it would be to well to bring that dividend into court at the same time with the capital. The following order was ultimately made by consent of all parties. 11w trustees consenting, transfer tho trust tun 1 into court on or before the dith of April neat, and I.^t t::. A dril dividend be also paid into court ; suet transfer and pay meat to be made in the suit 4. Metairie r. Wf , ..nrin and others," and in the information "The Attorney-tient:nal r. Cooke." THE PAPAL AGGRESSION. MEETINO OF THE LONDON CLERGY. Yesterday morning, a meeting of the incumbents of the living. in and uround the m.tropolis was held in the great hall of Shot College, for the purpose of taking into (Nutria, r..tiun the modification of the EccleekisCeal Titles Bill, nTently proposed by Lord John Itussell, and deciding upon the propriety of petitioning parliament to amend and strengthen that enactment. The Ifer. Mr. Itoxiiv, incumbent of St. Olave's, Jewry, and president of Siun College, took the chair. Amongst the gentlemen present were: the Reeds. Mr. Murray, St. Dunstun's in the East ; Dr. M'Caul, St. Magnus, London Bridge; Dr. ltutuell, St. Botolph's,Bishopfrgate ; Mr. Hull, St. Beret's, l'aul's Wharf; Mr. Abbis, St. Bartholomew the Gnat; Mr. Gibbs, Christchurch, Newgate-street; Dr. Vivian, St. l'eter-le-l'our ; and Mr. E. l'isey, St. l'eter, Saffron-hill. THE CONDEMNED CHIMINALS-C'ONFES tHON OF MALY. The liveliest interest continues to prevail re specting the two crimittals now under sentence of death, and for whose execution on Tueeilay, the 2::th lust ant, warrante have been receivesl; and as to the guilt of one of them, Thomas I)rury, we (Cheiroulford Chroxi4c) are in a condition to remove any slimlow of doubt that m'glit 'Jaye lingered in the public mind, by the statement that he has made a frill and thorough adiniesiun of Iris guilt. At tl:c , close of the trial, and as soon as ho had been seat:aeel and removed from the bar, the firmness he bad showu through out, now th it the hope which seems to have buoyed him up was gone, forsook him, and his long pent-up feelings found vent in !care. On reaching the gaol, his etrengtli was so prostrated that he was obliged to be led by two of the officers to the cell, on reaching which (as already stated) he flung himself upon his hammock, where he lay robbing and indulging iu a paroxysm of grief fur nea,ly an hour. Ile woo eubstsjuently visited by the chaplain and tire governor, and to them he made a virtual adiniseien of his guilt. Ilecoming won after rather more calm, la• r‘ipte.ted that his hammock might be exchaugrd for at iron bed stead—a wish which was at once complied with, but he continued restless, and slept little thniughout the night. lie has sine: %Rennie calm, listlei to tin, chaplain, and joins in hi. devotion.. apparently with liceumine f elinf, and a proper senor of the dreadful position in which his frightful crime has placed hint. •to the chaplain and the magisterial visitors of the gu .1, he has made, as we have stated, a complete and thorough admission of his guilt, and that his alone was the band that c.namitted the :nuttier; adding that he believed tliruughout that because the deed was shrouds in darkness, and it, perketration resealed front every human eye, it would he impessibte fur Justice to reach him. This is the substance of his full mission, but he has, we believe, mukluk formalanidetailed confession, though it is understood he has at times emptied statements tu riding to blacken the character of his victim, as to her proposing to him the cmurniseion of other erimes—un assert to which not much credit is attached--and to the effect that he had meditated the crime, and hail carried the rope about with him for the purpose sums• time before its commission that he accomplished the murder by stepping behind her us they were walking, and slipping the rope over her neck; adding, ales,, that the mark on her hand was not produced by his teeth but by Iris finger nails. In the early part of the week it emans he had an intention of writing down his et:stemma of the matter, but this idea it is believed he has abandoned; and the magistratee, considering that this unqualified ad mission Ls amply sufficient to satisfy justice and the public, trial that his fresh recital of the circumstances of the crime could answer no moral or useful pur pose, thought it right that he should nut he pees:eel for the mutate details. On Wednesday, his father visited hint in his cell, and it is needless to say that the meeting and the parting were of the most painful nature, and ealeu hated to call forth the deepest commiseration for the afflicted parent, to whom the prisoner unreservedly admitted his guilt. Since he has been in prison, the culprit seems to have exhibited none of those traits of character that might Lave been looked for in a criminal of his east. lle is de scribed in the gaol records as being able to read and write well; and it appears he went to school for four years at Drentwocel, but his ucquirements in those brunches are only tolerable, and Iris education dues not extend beyond theta. It is a singular fact, as showing the interest attached to all connected with the matter, that at the close of Drory's trial on Saturday night, some person in court stole and carried oil the rope with which the murder was committed, and also the plan of the spot where the tragedy took place. Mrs. Cheslkain, the other culprit, contiuues to assert her innocence, rind to reiterate the statements and the n..erimi nations she made at the trial. She asserts it was the doctor poisoned her husband, and distinctly admits that she has taken off several persons by :ars•mr, but declares she is not guilty of the murder of her husband. There is little difference in her manner from what it was before trial. The Rev. Dr. M'CAVL said four months had elapsed since they had last assembled in that ball for the purpose of considering the subject before theta, but few, if any of them, could say that they saw any reason for not again urging upon the legislature the necessity of checking the aggression of the vourt of Rome. Since the last meeting that aggression had by no means been checked, on the con ! Wary, it appeared to have extended, anal to be still extend ! ing itself, and the persons who were originally implicated in it were now putting forth the power with u bich they had been entrusted by a foreign potentate. It was obvious, therefore, the - if the sentiments which had imbued their minds four mouths since still retained their power, that tho y had yet again to do their best to urge on the government the necessity of speedy and efficient legislation on the subject. The act of the Pope was uu aggression nootwithstandiug all that had been amid to the contrary by the advocate, of the l'opc. There could be no doubt that fact had been affirmed by the English people from one end of the land to the other. The English people were celebrated for common sense, anal every rank of them--men of every denomination and variety of opinion— had decided that the Pope had sem lo itted an aggression—a direct invasion upon the rights of the crown and the liberties of the subject. (Hear, hear.) That the art was a deliberate one was evident, and to show this he need only state that the person chosen to curry out this act was Cardinal Wiseman, who, in one of his writings, stated that lie considered St. Thomasl Beckett as his father anal model—a prelate who haul always opposed his sovereign in this country. Nothing had been done to cheek this insult to their beloved sovereigu—(hear)—the Queen of the greatest nation upon the earth—and yet this illustrious lady had Mond no gentleman of sufficiently chivalrous spirit amongst the numerous ranks of her peers anal senators to stand up and tight her battles against this net of a foreign potentate. On the occasion of their last assembling a letter recently published was read—that letter from Lord J. Rus sell was groadis et rerbusa; but very little had come of it. The Prime Minister made a speech quite equal to his letter, but be hail brought in a bill which, as Mr. J. O'Connell justly said, wan a mouse born of A mountain—it was a mea sure which he, as a Roinan catholic, thought quite un worthy of opposition. That measure was now about to he curtailed of its chief provisions, leaving no thing but the penalty for the assumption of a title which need not Imo essumeal, as it would be given. In that art the religious independence of the country was passed user in silence, and all mention of the Pope was avoided. It appeared, in fart, that for sonic reason or another there was a deference and a reverence on the part of our statesmen for the Pope which he confessed he was quite at a loss to understand. (Hear, hear.) The Pope had invaded the rights of the Queen, and yet not a word had been said of him. The rev. speaker proposed a resolution, declaring the altered bill altogether below the expressed wishes of the nation, and insufficient for the object con templated. The Rev. Mr. RL'DDOCK supported the resolution, but feared the government were too far pledged to the altera tions to recede. It was nevertheless well to express the opinion of their body. Ile fur one was of opinion that the spirit which had been recently exhibited by the country was by no means destroyed or in the least degree enfeebled. lie believed that it was a slumbering volcano, which it would not be very difficult to awaken again. He helloed also that it would be very unadvisabla that the country should be in a state of constant agitation from one cud to the other, however important might be the cause. Because he thought that this would be a strong exprensiou of their opinion to the legislature, and because he trusted that it would at least prove that they were active to main tain their religious privileges from being infringed upon by a minority, hu cordially supported the resolution. (Cheers.) The ltev. C. MURRAY said it would be a great mistake to suppose that the country had said its last word on this question. It had been silent—candidly trusting the word of those who had made promises. The Rcv. D. WORTHINGTON, Mr. COT, and Mr. MAC KRNLIE, subsequently spoke in support of the resolution, which was earned unanimously. A committee waS then appointed to draw up a peti tion, after which the meeting thanked the chairman and separated. THE MANUFACTURING . DISTRICTS. MANCHESTER, MAlult 13. _ ........_ Our new college—founded by the lute Mr. Owens, who bequeathed the munificent sum of a hundred thousand pounds fur the purpose—is at length fairly in operation. fhe principal and professors have been engaged, the house which half-a-dozen years ago was the residence of Mr. Cobden, near to St. John's Church, has been adapted u much as possible to the requirements of such an institution, and this morning two of the professors delivered introduc tory lectures to a course of study in classical literature and mathematics. Severe indisposition prevented Professor Scott, the principal of the college, from attending, and from delivering an inaugural address, which it is now understood will be postponed at least for several weeks, if not till the opening of the first regular 'lton, commencing next autumn. The present is under stoosl to be only an introductory session, and will terminate is July. The examination of students for admission com menced yesterday, and will not close till Saturday. About eighteen young gentlemen presented themselves yesterday fur elimination, and it is expected there will be souse other candidates ter admission before the close of the week. The public were admitted to the introductory lectures this morning, and the company comprised, in addition to a great number of ladies, some of our leading public men. the Miyor of Manchester was present, and the Very Ile,. Dr. Dowers, Dean of Manchester, Alderman Watkins, Mr. Samuel Fletcher, Mr. Alexander Kaye (the three last named being trustees under the will of Mr. Owens), Mr. Alderman Shuttleworth, and Dr. Hodgson, principal of the Chorlton High School. The following is a copy of the petition agreed to at Sion College : "TO TII6 LION., &C., 11.1 E OF CONIION4. " The humble petition of the l'resident and Fellows of Sion College. showeth, " That your petitioners are sincere friends to full liberty of conscience, but determined enemies to that papal arrogance which claim. , supremacy over sovereigns and statm, and sets the law of nations at defiance. . . . "That your petitioners sec with indignation that the papal aggression made six months ago on the imperial rights of the Queen, the religion, and the laws of this great nation, still remains unrepelled. " Your petitioners, therefor.•, humbly pray that your honourable house will speedily adopt means effectually to resist papal usurpation: "1. fly declaring that the recent attempt of the Bishop ut Rome to create in this kingdom an hierarchy, with territorial titles, is a violation of the law of na tions, an attack upon the independence of the British church, an infringement of the ancient rights of the crown, and an insult to this protestant nation ; that such pretended creation of archiepiscopal and episcopal Sees is, therefore, null and void. Mr. ALEXANDER KAYE said, in the absence of Mr. John Frederick Foster (chairman of quarter sessions), who had generally presided at the meetings of the committee, he had been requested to int ro d uce t o th em th e var i ous profes sors of the Owens College. lie was sorry to say that Mr. Scott, their respected principal, would not be present on this occasion. A severe attack of indisposition, which came upon hint so suddenly, as to prevent hun attending that assem bly, was the reason why it had not fallen to him (Mr. Kaye) to introduce Mr. Scott in the first instance. lie had, there fore, simply to introduce, first, Mr. Sandcman, professor of mathematics, who would deliver his opening lecture on that subject after Professor Greenwood had finished his lecture. (Applause.) lie would neat introduce Mr. W. C. Williamson, professor of natural history, and Dr. Fraukland, professor of chemistry. (Applause.) lie could only say that the very high character which these gentlemen had received from every quarter and the very agreeable mode in which all their commu nications with the trustees had been conducted, led him to imagine that they would have introduced to the town of Manchester a number of gentlemen whose attainments were of the very highest character, and whose conduct was likely to contribute very highly to sustain and support that tone of society we must wish to see perpetuated. (Ap plause.) With these observations, he begged leave to in troduce Professor Greenwood. _ _ _ " 2. By prohibiting the assuming, giving, or receiving, In writing or in print, of any titles conferred by the Bishop of Rome, and declaring that all wills, acts, deeds, or instruments, in which such titles occur are null and void; and by compelling all who shall in England assume or re tain such ecclesiastical titles to leave the country. "3. By prohibiting those political agents of the Court of Rome, commonly called cardinal., from residing in any part of her Majt,ty's dominions, as being unnecessary to the exercise of any of the rites of the Homan catholic religion, and dangerous to the peace and liberties of the country. .• 4. By expelling from all parts of her Majesty's do minions that order, commonly called Jesuits, which by its difrolution by one Pope, and its former banishment from all Roman catholic countries, has been proved to he incom patible with the well-being of society, and the safety of sovereigns. "And your petitioners, as in duty bound, will ever pray..' The Bishop of London is, as a matter of course, to pre sent the petition to the House of Lords. Mr. Masterman will be requested to present it to the Commons, and a copy hos been sent to Sir R. 11. Inglis, with a request that he will support its prayer. J. G. Guennwoou, Esq., B.A. (Professor of the Lan guages and Literature of Greece and Rome), then came forward and delivered en able and interesung address, which was frequently Interrupted by expressions of appro bation; and concluded in a few remark", more particularly addressed to the students of the institution. Professor Sandeman then delivered a lecture, intro ductory to a course of study in mathematics, and this concluded the proceedings. The visitors were invited to walk through the building, and a great number waited to avail themselves of the privilege. Proftssor Williamson delivers his lecture, introductory to a course of study on natural history, anatomy, and physiology, to-morrow morn ing. -A subscription has been commenced, with a view to raising 10,000/., as the means of providing a more suitable building for the college. THE REPREsENTATION OF SOMERSET.—The Hon. W. Portman, eldest son of Lord Portman, is confidently spoken of on the liberal interest, and from the high and influential p.ition of his family, especially in this neigh bourhood, lie would probably be successful in case he comes forward The turies are rather undecided, but Capt. Hood, son of the derea,all baronet, has been named. No one has been positively tiled on yet as the person most eligible to blithe vacant scat, and the likelihood of a general election renders it probable that there will be no tonttst.—Nlacr borne Journal, IRELAND. DUBLIN, MANCE 13. ! At a meeting of the grand jury of 'Galway, held 'on Tuesday, sonic communications front America re lathe to the packet station question were produced, which would lead to the conclusion that an American experiment, of which Galway would reap advantaw, is really about to be made. The writer of a letter, read by Mr. J. F. Blake, stated, on the authority of a pt neon just returned from Washington to New York, that leading statesmen there were even speak ing of giving the same encouragement to a line of steamships running to Galway that had hitherto been given to Collins's line ; and that, provided the and Dieslin Railway be completed in time, n motion to that effect will be made in Congress next Ikvember. There is probably sonic exaggeration about this statement, and another letter, written by Mr. Poor, of the New Brunswick government, and describing the rapid progress making in the extensioa of the railway to the east in that pro- vince, with a view to making it the terminus of the steamship rood between America and Europe, holds I out much MUM encouraging prospects for Galway. The writer of this letter stirs:—" It is no exte 7 . 11 ra , e • tioll to stay that no enterprise ever put firth on this side of the Atlantic has made so much progress since its inception as the one in which we are mutually engaged; fur I regard the project of making Galway the Eusoperui trans-Atlantic packet station, in which you arc engaged, and that of the European and' North American Railway, in which we arc embarked, as ruts of oar great national enterprise." Ronun catholic meetings are still held in various parts of the country. At the amnia assizes two men, named John Dillon and James Danaluy, comfortable-looking farmers, were indicted for a highway robbery on Mr. Thomas Baker, a poor-rate collector. The pro secutor in his examination said: In February last I held the office of poor-rate collector for the Tipperary union, and on the lith I left Tipperary about thr.s. o'clock. I was on horseback, and was proceed ing to the glen of Ahcrlow, when at the foot of a hill I dis mounted and g4VC my hurse a drink. I had the bridle in my band, and had gone a yard or so from the well, when from the Cognition on the left over me I heard a oilier call out "stand and deliver." I looked in the direction of the not, and new a man armed with a gun, double barrelled, and with his face blackened ; another man then appeared armed with a blunderbuss and his face was partially disguised. I moved to the other vide of the mid, and trying to get my pistol from my coat pocket when the man with the gun stood on the ditch and tired at me; the rem of the bridle, which was then on my inn, was struck by thy discharge. This person then jumped down un the road, and I took very deliberate aim at hint. Ile was then four yards and a half from me. Ihtth barrels of my pistol missed lire. The cat, only exploded. Ile th.m tired at me again but missed. My horse broke away utter the that disehar4.. The man who discharged the glut then rushed on no., mid the second person then came on the road from the plantation. The first man seised the pistol and wrenehed it from my hand. The other swore he would blow out my brains if I stirred. They both demanded my money, and I gave them my purse, rout:doing 31., and about IGs. in silt sr. They then broke the Chitin of my watch, and took away my gold watch, an ivory tablet, tobacco pouch, and some keys. A part of the gold chain remained, which the second man took. They also examined some poor law papers, and a warrant, which I told them was a public document. They said they should see, and having inspected it, handed it over to me. They titen desired me to go on about my business, and not to look hark. They followed toe a few yards. I had seen both of the men before. Danaher was the mum who tired at me, and Dillon was the other who had the blunderbuss. Bernal witnesses Laving been examined to corroborate thi4 atateutent, the prima n were tlinvieted. At the are te....irea, 1)r. John O'Flynn was nut% ieted for an aoqiult on a bother phy.ieian, Dr. Francis Durgem , , and a. , nteueed to a mitigated penalty of 101. QcEENsTows.—The bay of this delialttful water iag-plsec stJll rontinue• tilled with fortign corn res.els. On Satunlay over two hundred of them were to be seen. EltnatartoN.—On Saturday, no fewer than 600 emigrants bit thin port, per the Cork Steam and City of Dublin reads, for Liverpool, intending to emigrate for the Cnitcd Stubs.. They were all comfortable in appearance, youug and healthy, mot apparently tit for any deveript . of labour. In the course of the day one of the river steameN ennvled to the Marion, at Passage, about 200 emigrants, which veawl is to leave for New York. These emigrants, like the former, were comfortably clad, and appeared in high spirits at leaving the country. Yesterday the St. Lawrenc.: dropped down the South Channel with her full complement of emigrants fur St. Johu's.—Cork Coneitution. Myamin.—Niatthew Dwyer, a respectable farmer, from Monahill, near Ula Ilille, tvturning home from Tip perary raroa, was met at the railway bridge, near the Lime rick junction, by four men, one of whom strue: him au the head with a stone, fracturing his Own; he lingered in agony, bpeeehless, till yesterday morning, when death put au end to him sufferings. UNIVERSITY AND CLERICAL. Oxrunp, AlARcit 13.--In a congregation holden this montiug the following degrees were conferred, viz., Master of Arta: Rev. Robert Haines, John George M C• lead, Exeter College; Rev. Henry Edward Fowler Garn aey, dcmy of Magdalen Collate; Bev. John Evan Davies, Jcsua College • lice. William 11. Davies, New Inn Ilall.— Bachelor of Arts : Arthur Locker, I'mnbruke College. In the same congregation the proposed alteration in Stat. 'fit VI., sec. 1, imr. 5, Was promulgated. New Puocrous.—The Rev. James Gram Brine, M.A., Fellow of St. John's College, and the Rev. John Hun gerford Pollen, M.A., Fellow Bursar and Dean of Merton College, were yesterday elected by their ropective societies proctors fur the ensuing year, the former senior proctor and the latter junior proctor. Rev. C. A. Stevens, to the curacy of Oakham, diocese of Peterborough. SPORTING. TArrF:RSALL'S—Tn URSDA Y. Tempted by cheap trains, a strong list, and fine weather, the majority of the " working " members of the room started yesterday fur Doncaster, causing the muster here to be so small, as to put regular business out of the question. The only blows struck were 1,000 to 40 apt Marlborough Buck, 900 to 100 art Rhesus, 2,000 to 100 apt Montague, 500 to 25 agat Wallflower, and 625 to 25 apt Lady Evelyn. DONCASTER SPRING MEETING.—THUIISDAY. A Faze 114814104 e HURDLE STALES of S sous., with 30 added, the second to save his stake ; a winner once after the weights are published to carry 41b; twits: or more, 71b extra. Two miles, over five flights of hurdles. (9 subs.) Mr. Hutton' , ed the, 4 yr., 9.t 410 (Fowler) I Mr. Philipp'. Tally-lio (11 I ) , aged Wet Ab (11. Malley; 2 Betting : 7to 4 apt Psyche, and 2 to 1 apt 'rally-ho. Tally-ho mule nearly the whole of the running, but was caught by I'aycho half way up the distance, and beaten by a neck, Wharldide Maid a bail third. Run in 4 min, 15 see. lIIITTINO ROOl4 Svsami of .5 SOYA. each with 50 added; for 2.yr-olds, 7st; three, 9st ; fillies and geldings allowed 31b ; winners extra ; the second to save his stake, and the winner to pay 5 sore. to the fund. Red House in. (9 subs.) Mr. Lister's Sarey, 3 yr., Sat 2lb (Manua) I Mr. H. St. bbing's Kapok Knoll, 3 yrs, Sat 91b ;Dumb y) 2 Mr. Walkor". Merlin, 2 yr., 6.4 I Ilb 3 Betting : 7to 4 each. apt Nancy and Knook Knoll and 6to 1 apt King of Troy. Knook Knoll jumped off with the lead, Nancy, Mona's Pride, Barbata, and Merlin well up ' • at the distance Nancy took the lead, had it all to her self, and won easily by two lengths, the same between Knook Knoll and Merlin ; Barbata a bad fourth. Run in 1 min. 17 ace. Guano NATIONAL STEEPLECHASE HANDICAP of 15 soya. each, 10 ft, and only 5 if declared, &e., with 100 added ; a winner of 100 soya. clear after the weights arc published once 71b, twice 12Ib extra ; the second to save his stake, and the winner to pay 20 soya. towards expenses. About three miles and • half. (38 subs., 15 of whom de clared.) lard Alrlle an ehleftala (h-b), S yrs, gat alb (Harrison) 1 kko-rv's Mulligan, aired, Sat 131 b (Archer) Betting : 5 to 4 apt Mulligan, 4 to 1 apt Quadruped, 7 to 1 apt Ilope, Bto 1 agst Chief tain, and 10 to 1 apt any other. Won by nearly • distance, the too placed only having posed the winning-post. Run in 8 min. 5.5 sec. MUNICIPAL STALES of 5 soya. each, with 30 added • for 3-yr olds, lot 7lb ; four, gat slb ; five, lOst ; six and aged, 10st slb ; half-bred horses allowed 71b, mares and neldings 31b, and maiden horses slb ; the winner to be sold for 1.50 soya., and allowances if to he sold for less ; the second to save his make, and the winner to pay 5 sass. towards ex penacs. St. Leger Course. (7 subs.) Mr. Dawson'. true Blue, 3 yro, Sot Mb (.01.) .. ... LAlderoft) I Mr. Baldock's b c by tied Deer out M Miter .. 3 yr., 'et (404.1 (Well.) 2 Mr. 11. &ebbing'. Loiarthroan, 3 yr., Mt 1,21 b (5 I.) (W. Barker) 3 Betting : sto 2 apt Keleshea, sto 2 art Red Deer colt, I 3to 1 art Louisa, and 4to 1 apt True Blue. Won by a head ; three lengths between second and third. Run in 3 min. 27 sec. SHEFFIELD AND ROTHERHAM STARES (handicap), of 6 sow , . each, h ft, with 40 added, for horses that before the entry never won at any one time 1001. clear. The winner to pay 5 sous towards expenses. One mile. (17 subs.) Mr. Merlyn's 61 e by einem Camera out of Slim lute Hew. mt., 3 yrs, Get talb Merman) I Mr. linferels The Umlaut (late Mr. Merryman), e me, 7-t Ilb W. ~ .1z trpe) 2 Sir. O. 1 , 01.011'11 The Lit le Yawn, 3 pi, iNkt ....... ilayh 30 3 Betting: 2 to 1 agst Deceitful, 4 t o 1 at Guldfinder, 5 to 1 art Madame Wharton, and 6 to 1 each ag,t Miss Fly away and o , baldwick.—Osbaldsick, with Deceitful, Gold finder, and Miss Flyaway well up, cut out the work till within the distance, where he was passed by Prince Caradoc colt, who went in an easy winner by a length, Little Fawn a bad third. nun in 1 min. 48 Kt. STRENGTH OF TILE DRAFTS FOll. TUE CAPE.—The drafts about to cm'mrk e Southaffipton for the Cape are as follow : Gth Foot, 2 officers, 50 men ; 73rd Foot, 3 officers, GO men ; Ist battalion 91st Foot, 2 officer 4, 100 men ; 45th Foot, 1 officer, 00 men. Total, 8 odious, 270 men. THIEVES AND THIEF-TAKERS. (Prom the Dees Nrprs ) The; county police of the present day appears to be about as efficient as the London pollee in the days of JONATHAN WILD. And there is moreover a striking similarity between the extent and organisa tion of a dishonest portion of the tranesnum class in the great city in the time of that worthy, and of tho counties in ours. Students of the Newtrate Calendar aid the State Trials cannot fail to have been struck with the apparent number of individuals, ostensibly engaged in an honest trade, who were m o r e or less mixed upwith plunder ing. fraternities in London about the beginning of lust century. It was out of this state of society that a class of amateur thief-takers grew up. In a trial of some rascals who had instigated several foolish fellows to engage in a robbery, and then, for the reward, informed against and had them arrested, one of the witnesses, when asked what his business wad, coolly replied. " I am a shoemaker, and sometimes catch a thief." The thief-catch ing was an agreeable variation of his ordinary pursuits--like fishing or fowling it whined an f4treeable excitement with the obtaining of an extra dainty dish for his table. JONATHAN WILD and his colleagues began in this way, but having an eye to business they ended by becoming professional thief catchers—from being occasional sportsmen they be came gamekeepers. The trial at Lewes for a burglary committed at Uekfield, on the morning of New Year's Day, which was reported in yesterday's paper. curries us back to the days of JONATHAN WILD. The perpetrators of the offence were shoemakers, 'casket -makers, labourers. in the eye of the public they hod all fixed dwellings and ostensible callings; Gut they were members of is contedenicy of robbers whose operations extended over the throe counties of Kent, Surrey, and Sussex. They had their regular agents for receiving and disposing of their plunder. They assembled when the fiery cross was sent round among them. And they appear to have had the pre caution to select for the scenes of their predatory operations localities remote from their plates of abode. In the great towns which have a tolerably organ ised police a pretty effective separation hiss been made between the crime class and the industrial classes. Once a thief, a man must then be a thief out and out. He can (except in rare and exmptional cases) no more he a professtoted thief and a trades man and artisan at the sante time, than he can be at once a barrister and a surgeon. The division of labour has been introduced even here, and a man must stick to his trade. For individual criminals this result of a well-organised police has the dis advantage of rendering their almndonment of their nefarious pursuits more difficult. Thu 1 police know every mender of rasculdom by head mark, and policemen are no believers in the information of thieves. But the public are gain ers. The army of dishonesty is numbered and cata logued. They are compelled to herd together ; their power for evil is ascertained; they are watched and thwarted. So long as the goats are not in this man ner set apart from the sheep, it 114 not easy to foresee Irene what quarter attacks are to be made upon lieu ple'sjairses and pantries; and us there is no discredit attached to personal intercourse with men who con ceal their predatory characters under the disguise of being honest tradesmen, the industrial classes are more liable to form acquaintance with those who may seduce thent front the paths of integrity. Our police organisation and penal laws are still lamentably defective every where. But the separa tion of the professional crime class Irian the indus trial classes, the necessary result of an adequate organised body of police, is an important step towards their perfection. The honest portion of society is thereby liberated to a great extent from the conta gious companionship of crime; and by ascertaining the number and abilities of the dishonest it is 101- tiered more easy to devise means of dealing with them. In respect of civilisation the counties, as is clearly shown by the trial of the licktield burglars, are a century and more behind the towns. To enable them to make up their lee-way a county police is in dispensable. And the establishment of a county pollee must he the work of the enmities themselves. They have been pretty well frightened of late—they have had ample motives afforded them to set about supplying the deficiency. The central government cannot do this for them; it wants the local know lege mid leisure to superintend and control. And the old organisation of justices and con stables has proved inadequate: the organised plun derers of Woking have grown up under the noses of justice and constables, and attained to a skill in combination that enabled them to levy contribu tions on the country for twenty or thirty miles round. Stipendiary magistrates, with an efficient police force, paid by county rates, imposed, levied, and expended under the control of elective county boards, can alone ensure to the counties the compum tive security front criminals enjoyed by the large towns. The men who committed the Uckfield burglary came from Woking and its neighbourhood. The smile of the Frimley murder is in their district. The fact is, that part of the country abounds with a very equivocal class of characters. On NVoking Common, and on other of the numerous com mons still to be met with in Surrey, there are whole colonies of squatters. Aud on the borders of these commons are numerous small proprietors, whose tenements, whether legalised by preseription or inclosure bills, were originally cribs from the com mons. 'lbis cluss form an intermediate link between the tramps and the poorer settled residents of the villages. They are many of them industriously and honestly disposed, but they are destitute of educa tion ; they are eminently accessible to the corrupting influence of the dishonest with whom they may be brought into contact, and having apparently the means of an honest livelihood, they are not obnoxious to suspicion. Recent events have ow-skewd atten tion to the fearful amount of depravity that has been diffused among them by " evi commu nications,"amd the respectable inhabitants of the district feel themselves in a precarious situation, surrounded by a crime class the numbers and organisation of which defy detection. We speak of this district, because the trials at Lewes and elsewhere have thrown light upon its social condition that is yet wanting for other parts of England, but it is not an excep tional case. A police system for counties as closely analogous to that which has been established in towns as cir- cumstancts admit of, is clearly the first thing wanted. Scarcely less urgent is the general esta blishment of efficient schools. The teaching of the clergy is comparatively inoperative in the rural dis tricts, because the intellects of the population have not been sufficiently cultivated to receive the good seed. Besides, intellectual culture brings prudential considerations, and a sense of self-respect into play to co-operate with and strengthen the higher notions of morality and religion. For the civilisation of our rural districts it is necessary that the policeman and the schoolmaster should be set to work, not indeed in concert, but at the same time. LORD CAMPBELL'S BILL ON CRIMINAL JESTICIL— Lord Campbell's hill to improve the administration of criminal justice, now in the Rome of Lords, has been printed. It contains 31 clauses. The object of this bill, as expressed in the preamble, is to prevent offenders escaping conviction by technical strictness in the proceedings. A criminal court may amend any variance not material to the merits of a case. In indictments fur murder and men slaughter, the manner and means in and b which the crime was committed n ee d no t b e specified. In trials for felony, if the offence be not completed, the parties may he found guilty of an attempt to commit the same, and in that ease arc to be liable to the same consequences as if they had been indicted and convicted of the attempt to commit the felony only. Among various alterations contemplated, is one of anovel character on the arraignment of a defendant either for felony or misdemeanour. lie is not to be called upon to plead " guilty " or " not guilty," but shall bo asked " whether he wishes to plead guilty, or any other plea, or to be tried ?" If he shall say he wishes to he tried, then the officer shall enter a plea of " not guilty," and guilty lead o regulate w 6o hni l n ofaE. refusal r is tit be E eitr r eco r de d fl'ep ars e nicrd A R provides app a re n t, BEN I I e a; been r d o printed.then araeverylCarlisle's o p l declares l that to b. t o h f e th u e nres ia tr le ic is ted habl. sal llibe e o c f n a u ts td is h ie bty fa th eil e ita mm tes e t ra b l e in co a nt eb ! k before the delivery of the arsenic, and every such entry is to be signed by the person selling the same. Any person selling arsenic save as authorised by this bill, and every person giving false information in order to obtain arsenic, to be summarily convicted before magistrates, and liable to a penalty not exceeding 20!. The act is not t o p resen t t h e sale of arsenic in medicine under a medical prescription. A recent case caused the introduction of this bill. I 1 1 !