The Express. — London, England, 1852-09-27 00:00:00

si g o nly kr and definite, bet toe a speedy and now g rehessise enPlonsont of the whole elasetion. Cholera a still reported from Ciueinatti sad Roches ; in the latter city II deaths took place on the tub and 11th inst. The returns from tat towns in the state of Ver. 1140 show the elections of whig state °dicers, hat by majorities smaller than those of last year. The Ruston Courier, Mr. Webstet's confidential org an, says : We tee it stated in various quarters that Mr. Webster t h e m se it espuhlishiog as address to his fries& advising them seta the course whirl they ought to , sa d 111,41112 them to refrain from using his nuns fa with thi es. +Weser. These statements are pat Meth by zioa a tm ' of Soot popers— gentlemen who opposed Mr. Webs gees iotere•ts at Baltimore on grounds of private matins, sal eft, roads exalted in the result of the doings of the eenventin. Mr. Webster has written no letter ;epos tee .o. l et of the presidential ale: son, nor will he do so in • • fnesds have not solicited his advice ee to how they should vote is November nest, and, as they Lire sot. be will hardly v.:twee'. it. All speculation sad thnsts on the part of Mr. Webster's enemies am useless ; they r ionot br. ,k his silence. Th. eoroner jury which sat to investigate the cause- „ i the .. spleoon of the Reindeer steamer, has acquitted the captain of criminal recklessness. The number of deaths caused by the explosion is 32. On the el iy before the packet sailed. the Reindeer took Err at the Bristol landing, and burned to the water's No lives were lost. 'Re fire is supposed to LIU origin..ted (ruin SUUW bedding, that had been 'Maraud with oil, producing spontaneous com bustion. Judge Harris lens decided the Rensselaer rent case sgairst the ge Deters fatuity. The paper title of Van Lens-e Lier to the manor of Renseekerwyck is held to be i:legal mad void: as to lands which have been occupied for forty years under title from Van Itemise her, possession is a bat against the claim of the state, but in respect to unoccupied lands of the manor, Van Rensselaer has no title. Tue whoopee Bonita from Vera Cruz brings papers to the 21st. two days later. A specie train, eon 'kink.: of ten waggons, arrived at Vera Cruz from the city of Mexico on the 14th ult. This was the conduct.t which had been detained at Puebla for a week on ace oust of th.: revolutionary movements in that nest of the counter. Fiery thing was quiet at Vera Coma when the ltonita sailed and busintis was quite dull J of the 21st says that Gen. Echngavay had left Jaina at the head of three forces to attack g c b o d e d,,, in Naolinco, but nothing had been heard i cf the result of the expedition. Gen. Crap had wrivevl at hull:eat the head of a thousand men and sight pie visor artillery. and it was rumoured that he was about to march . on Orizaba. The position of this ,dyer is looked upon as very suspicions, and his intentions arc unknown. Goiernment forces have left San Miguel, Jaloa, Teystitlan. and other localities, to join Governor Pertillo at Lscos. The official organ in the city of Mexico, the Cuts , ,ft &chum that the rumour is totally false that the auvernment has opened negotiations with the Amman minister, the object of which was to reimre the United States, on pnvment of 0,000,000 d"ls, from the ob!igations entailed ou them brai;,th: *.m (eth:a - tide of the treaty of Gaud*lupe Hic to protect the Mexican frontier* from Indian 'a rmee. Tht United States mail schooner Lucas arrived at a-v14.14in on the tfth, with llavana dates to the 2nd iat. 1t :low fever and cholera continued to rage sits g:w• violence both on ship board and in Ile tins. Arrests w►re still being made of parties sup red t. Se connected with the revolutionary journal. T., I t/., and the captain of the Lucas sat th red 20 doubloons to bring off a suspected in d.t alual, but he declined. IRL9 I"7r T that the re;r d:49 g:cs to t 1101 T 114. tat j tanl so. d.lti Ti trs Ire Ft. 1 dv the 1 Ltd ion ea tl the 931111 bed* DC 141 Nod turf vi• 1LAB! atu lte dYY 1001 fie tot I St 11 art heal Let 'tau I? GW los.) hog t,a la a aca I , ll' ead, (the rthi a h Iva 4 91 II tuft Bari lki tai ise le el the Let Ile Atle t l4(1 tro, ow. Lt tut Mr. aZd ; 1 1; u. Ta N. eul C. ea, I .4 ta.l dJ ti it 9 Nr I .1 tLi itt a, Ita 141 611 eu 94: 111 CANADA. QUEBEC, Sere. 11. 'ilia day the governor-general and utile, several nreabet. st the Canadian cabinet, and b th houses of par humat, lett this city to be ire vcat at the opening of the Ft. Lawrence and Atlantic Railroad to Sherbrooke, which if dadaist. I believe, about one hundred miles from Identical, the Laotian terneinin of the road. 1 sodomised it as in hided to have the raid completed to the frontier of Maioe lanai the seat year, and that the Americans will meet us ea tttir Ode of the frontier at the same time, so that we as early pimp et of direct communication by rail with the Ai.satk at l'ot• land. lbe wet.: of course is of groat impaneling to this pr..vince. NJ important pie kat epistle= at puma interest have tam be the whining timing tin past week ; but I believe the Clain Smarm pasolea ugh awe seat week. LAcoVNTER WITH NATIVES IN TUB CO.VGO 1111*ER. ST. HILLEYIA, AVG. 14.—0 n the 19th of June, elide her idegrsty's brigantine Polphia wee lying is ulna aims Comm en American brig, the Mary Ade the pawage up Oa river, but ea Zffgo lle ='s Point (a podded of pest limier, sa int M lie Mee. mutate rumples mad it), she um sreamdosad M • few serrates the amain and serf ireakediel bar hat ashen. The demos of the brig am fact tatty eheened by the Delobim add et ewe m ade It tee beg aseletilleel bat mil& lialL e ar: i the La ter of the vend la distress soft Ore ihr se soi my acre reestmed) that adat enea sldtad *AU be des 14 :et the vend sled , dads the by beide. the Americas revened. Wider dri hoar ef the rater the br ts'a boats, with easimm !*maim, te., rite alongside the *treaded brig; bat the Me /Mos at be time. ruined merely preparatory meramm aseasery be headna off the following day. To the surpdes et ell, ea the following morning the river wee retried with arm from 10 to 40 natives in sari, all eremd, eed et Mat too thirds with muskets. Theis mermara IA as Uult a to thew predatory aid blab blialiks• • lo 4 1 .• pun with unaraition wee ear ea bend, sad brut to the brig. The Dolphin, r ems ea rerun wares could admit. teak up • position within gm reap, 4.r Err protection. The satins viol deter preisestßeaj. mar net to lode their , and poured a et nuabstry Wu the stranded vessel, their mils Mims is had, mienuy detendesil de • Maier three @h eadstand. the Delphi' wool a Ass diet and &di. awl la a Mlle 'Mao cleared the Mesh of the smellests. wheel mason must have reemled 3,0011. This asie V i dz it e, the net object was to get the brig dr, am every Weaver war made to de eo. Oa the emit, day the:loth) H.Y. Firefly (s) allied, sad sett her beds to imiat. Dazing the night the natives, who bed eT hued to the b Ash, again returned to tbe beach saillZ a fur muMete on the brig, but wither Nary, Oa the auraiag 44 the 21st a movement es the peel rithe antlers gnu toele place; they appa ared te Sleleallftlie MEd reditete a ewer boarding attack • but • girt here the Dolphin forteasitely aguiu divined 'run. TM serf Mrd r heavily dreg the day, increasing considerably the illileslties and dawns( the nice/wary operations; so mesh lIM that the lmplals's tatter and Cfr.f were espied by tbaledlere. and Ise as miondy traced. Finding it neceesary ea the 22nd le completely lighten the brig, the cargo was transferred to the Dolphin, and by great industry and ,:cation, the brigan twe succeeded in hcaviag the Misty Adeiinc off at 6.30 p.a. Leery credit is due to Mr. Oikimith, muter of the Mary Adeline, for hie constant exertions, correct judgment, and t.il den mint el conduct, under these trying and dangerous e.rcemstanoes.—.St. 1111Ptirt Chroaide. FATAL QIIACIERT.—On Saturday an inquest was k.:d at the King's Head, Middlera-street, Seaman:awn, ea Inderick Stubbing, seed two years. Anne Stubbing, Ow anther, said that two months back deceased es as seised with si.rgitg aid vomiting, when she took hint to the 'loyal kite Hospital, where he was medically treated. As he did tot news., ander that treatmeot, she brought him to a Mr. Hardtop, whom si.e imagined to be a medical man, and who lived near St. l'anerr Church. He gave deceased !ptwder, and a potion obtained from herbs. Last Sunday Har , :,oge said deceased was dangerously ill, but be tier selsised whir., to take deceased to a medical man. Toe foi , wing morning deceased expired after a severe at- Mei of diarrheas. Wainer paid twopence for the medicine had of Mr. Hardier. Mr. Davis, the summoning %Leer, said that this wr the second case of the kind which /It Ilindinge had been mixed up in. He was not a mit era, although he displayed a large brass plate, with hoar°, Harding . ' on it. He was an herbalist sad a s'steseruh Mr. Harding, goadbesed to him (Mr. Davis) t.. 4 be attended pate its, and that when he apprehended d-sa. rLe called in a medical man, who was a (grids and vied nrify the death. Dr. Wilaoa performed the Josh ••,?,., se...ideation. The body was emaciated. Tbsre %bpi:err' the thigh, and the legs were dropsical. 0r:..4, of the budy, with the exception of the kidneys toil IsLu:der, were healthy. Deceased died from exhaus t4,ll e n eel: of dirrhea. If a medical man bad beet Lisedia ate would have bees saved. The herbalist wee 4 .vdt to blare fur not calling is • medical wan, instead ad Lowing it to 'ink am, 'Witness could not say whether its herbalist's ptions hastened death. Mr. Davits— I Yasiiime as one the notorious Dr. Coffin's disciples, * 11 •Te• Coronet—lf the press do not expose the system "Pestle will not he convinced of their fully. It is the Merle of fanaticism. The jury having dissowessd s .'^'Wa avid all Ranks as pests to society, returned the verdict, w;tli the subjoined addendum:a.... De t!asid dud rein diiirrliai s and the want of proper al anal endue (the jurors) ex; tin our disapprabit i on of the Oof Mr. Illard.ige, who presumed to practice ma. L'adyntorib e renirlies without having a n y legal midi .,:3441,4, Ilion; and his not having called in a medial ohs du red wee dangerously ill was an act dram& 1 .3 Wr LdLird assure.' Or Court. BALMORAL, Sire. 24. Her Majesty drove yestcrdey in the open ear rig*, amorapitaied by the Mamma Bekaa. Priam Albert went out deer-stalking. TM Right Hue. Sir John l'Altinaton arrived at Balmoral peeterday, and will remain in attendant* upon her Me. 14•17. Prince Hermann of Ilohenlohe arrived at Clarence House, St. James's, at an early hour on Saturday morning front Ostend. His Same Highness left town at ten o'clock for Abergeleie, on a visit to the Duchess of Kent. A deputation, consisting of Dr. Dourley and Mr. Moira Maclean, had as interview with Mr. Emeretary Walpole oa Saturday, at the Home-office. His Kseellency the Americus Minister and Mrs. Abbott Lawrence, and Colonel and Miss Lawrence, have left Castle Howard for Arundel, on a visit ts the Duke and Duchess of Norfolk. Despatches were sent from the Colonid.ofice on Satiar day evening for tato Governor of thbroltaf. A WOMAN BIIOT BY TIER SUITOR. A crime was perpetrated on Friday evening at Newport, which, it is (eared, will terminate in the death of the unfortunate victim—a middle-aged woman, named Etheridge, who was shot at by her suitor, named Samuel Greening, formerly the guard of a coach, sad latterly the assistant of Min Etheridge's blind father, who keeps a public house and large market garden, a short distance hum the town of Newport. Weenie:r had long paid his addresses to ll's, Etheridge, who is his cousin, sod, being a rendent iu the same house, frequently gave her occasion to remonstrate with him on his dinipauit habit., he being • member of a baud, from whose performanees he frequently came home drunk. She refused, it is stated, to be married to him on the ground of these habits. These would appear to have caused a lit of jealousy, under the effects of which he again resorted to drink. For two or three days last week he is stated to hare been intoxicated. A continuous quarrel between himself and Mine E.heridge was the result. Or, the day previously to the shucking occurrence, be was observed examining a pistol, which Miss Etheridge kept by her, in consequence of the garden being w.uni times visited by plunderers, whom she (being a daring woman) would have shot at,had any come within reacts ads, house. Greening was seen trying a eap on the pistol, and pretending to tire up the chimney. The pistol was afterwards found to be miming from the place where it was usually kept. On the evening in question Greening, still under the effects of intuit:alien and jealousy, was again quarrelling with his sweetheart, and for a moment or two was missed from the room where bliss Etheridge and ma ' assistant gardener were seated at a table. On Greening 's return he walked up and down the room again, still bicker ing with his cousin ; when suddenly he rushed up to where she was sitting, presented a pistol at her. and fired. The unfortunate woman's shrieks, as she fell down, awoke her father, who had retired to rest; and when assistance was procured, she was taken up insensible, bleeding profusely from the mouth, ear, sad cheek, on the left aide of the face, the contents of the pistol, which were supposed to be shots or hard wadding, having entered just below the left ear, fractured the left jaw, and smashed soma of the teeth, pawing afterwards through the mouth. She was at once conveyed to bed, and Mr. Woollett, surgeon, one of the borough magistrates, was called from Newport. Greening still remained about the house, in a half-drunken, sullen humour, till he was apprehended by the borough police, and lodged in the station.bouso cell. lhe prisoner has since stated that he was not aware the pistol was loaded, though this does not agree with the fact of his snapping sud trying it in the chimney on the previous day. He ia also stated to have told his victim that if she did not have him, but married soother, it should be no good to her—he would prevent her happiness. Tho wounded woman, when consciousness was in some measure restored, in the coarse of the night frequently en pressed a desire to see Greening, and appeared to feel deeply from the consideration that he would have to suffer in prison for what he had done. Both her father and her. self, it was thought, were more desirous that Greening should not be taken into custody than otherwise ; and it was not imputed that either the father or the assistant gardener, the latter being en eye-witness of the whole trans. action, would further the ends of justice, if they could avoid it, by giving evideaste against the prisoner. On Saturday the prier was brought to the bar at the police-office, before the Rev. T. Pope sad Mr. Morgan, M.P., county magistrates. Evidence was taken to esta blish the charge of wilfully shooting ; hat the case was ad jammed is order to obtain the evidence of the wounded ROOM. DEATH OF A CHILD IRON ALLEGED STARVATION. —Os Friday. Mr. G. S. Drat bold an inquest at the Fox and Frew& date. Cierkrowell-rmees, ma Mirka Hubbard, aged Hose mentba, an ill, gitinials shill. Wessell to have bass Gana is death ; the body was • bog et been. Cha har *sae* issened's grandmother, said that deceased did loot Tundsy, is kis mother's arms, at erlesees's reed amen Ilbswart's-plas.. He bad a eeegb, sad was fret ful sad posy hem the birth. The msther esilthel bin five wale, roan she task • sitwatlus, wed ine Ideate be nursed by a wens named ISylvalew, uudcat fthodwirU. Last July bsatsr hit the del will wimus, twin that she Haaptsa4seek, sod WOK ipa her n•turn, sill Bet witless, Ind set ses• her data. Whets shebseeshe bark t h e child be was vary M. awl Thee witness tads be. es Mr. Gill. }orb elm add that ha nand bed. est medicine. She him as sew sod anew soft The bran was also twice tried with brie. bat ke ref used ft, mei ernes* phi* away. Sarah Hubbard, the aunt, and arra H inether,gave areilarierimeay declaring that &mesa led Mew neglested lewd stssesd. 11r.13d1, cur sors, yen the skid being brieitt le prensunerd him esinsted sad sari* and resennendsd alma a wet-auras should be psi. 'flee nether mid be weld sot take the boss* Sr opus ftis grebe melba memo to give him the bees* be waked medley. lb made spat ssertna mini m** The body tram enesisiled, and the sac mesh wholly anipey. The sugar irretelb ea re bantrigh, bet the body was warty bloodier. Deolieenulted to.. wont et food, whisk in his °parr kr bail net met some tins prier to death. Iffit. Money, the anssarmiag War, in PM did all in his =te AM get Sylvester, whose real arm was Betsy An- Her ballad, who gave her a badinage, said that eM iihneend and an* end deceased. Te jury expressed their bean se etenemest of diumend. sad bagged an ad s etas isapeet. so il that an opportunity might be le make the really guty parties amenable to j notice. The warmar fully concurred in the soggestioe, and accord is* sapwood the lenseet. FIFTEEN ilmais Mn.D IN • TillOttedND Hoe na.—Janre Jena, the yeses Ye whie under took te wham this teat at the ftipowileee, Mao shores, emAileted his teak on Saturday essesini, at ten Vika. The firewspepere bed stated that the hark would net be eingisled till 11 Ails*, and the public did not \ seta Is Such fats the pans mesh sued that hour &p -het Jesse wee so he* and vigorous that he walked the extra hour, and sided a mile ands half to the 1,510 which he had undertake,. His pulsation was declared by his se , at the close, to be about 90, and he was full of ' spirits. This six weeks' feat has been managed with comparative semi and at • far less expendi hee of physical streagth the& 'Jones himself calculated upon when he entered epos the task. His feet wore at the outset very tender, and this threatened at sae time to cause his abandonment of the task. list an interval of several dap of do weather, combined with skilful toratineet, restored his feet to a state of proper toughness for their work; and, except on very wet ays, be kr sines felt little or no Im:coverless' in this respect. He has continued to eahibit the same drowsiness between midnight and early morning, and throughout this has been the meet difficult period of the day with his watcher is rousing him. The six weeks have been to him alternate periods of walking or sleeping, without laterals sloe as he has never stood still except when in the act of droving or undressing, on ac. cunt of the strong propensity I to sleep when the body spa at all quiescent. A large con- courts of per has thronged the gardens daring the last (alright, and as the task has been approaching a termini- ties, the interest is his success lea increased. On its suc cessful termination, he receives 1001., the stake bargained for by die pedestrian. After three several sleeps, of an hour sad a half, two hours, and three hoses, Jones was to commence at Oa in the evening of Salads,, to walk 100 quarter miles in 100 successive quarter haos i eliell(boald he accomplish), he would bring to a somMuidim at eerie o'clock on Sunday evening! He will by this father offirt the buddy exhaustion under whisk he must be proms for 25 hours—his +whole reward he whisk would be the proceeds of the admission to the "mks hese the commencement to the termination of this messed pedestrian journey. THE CASE OF THE SIsTERSSHARFLEV.-00 Satur day a petty sr anion was holden at the board room of Mary lebone workhouse, before Mr. Tropp, county magistrate, to wreath the state of mind of the Misses Julia and Harriett Sharyley, the unfortunate ladies who attempted to starve themselves to death consequent on their being reduced to the most abject want. The ladies hail been sambaed pro fessiossally by Mr. Obri, of Liason- grove , surgeon, but who expressed a strong cunvietton that, although upon some points they were extremely obstinate in opinion and strong minded women, they were not insane; and he, therefore, could not certify. Mr. Squirt% the chief summit of the o.firriviry, held quite a different opinioe.—The hisses Sharpie y were brought before the magistrate, and, on being interrogated, stated in the meet reasonable manner that they reneged public charity because there was a proper channel from which they were entitled to relief as • right. They both declared that, when they were reduced to their very last resource. they, themselves, asked Mrs. Turner, their landlady, to apply to the workhouse for relief.—The magistrate p'ain's', refused to sign the usual form for their removal to • lunatic asylum, awl they will now re main in Marylcbone workhouse, and be pared to their own par.sh, Winder, in due course. THE ANNEAL WORCF.FIER Hog HlNNett.—This pleasant rs'unam of the plan:ero and merchants of the Wor cester district was held on Saturday last, at the Hop market Hotel . Dori ,g the evening the easterner, practice of "setting the duty" was made by eighteen of those pre sent, when it appeared, by the secretary's list, that there were-2 for 13,000 to 13,500; 0 far 13,500 to 14,000; 3 for 11,000 to 14,500; 6 for 14,500 to 15,0 , 0; 4 fur 15,000 to to 14,500; 3 fur 15,5 ( 10 to 18,0.10. The forgoing gives an average of about 11,7691. as the duty for the Worcester dis trict for 1162. This part of the busier' being performed, the eumpany sou ai parated, after baring spent a very so ciable and agreeable evening.— Worcestsr J 01,7141. THE EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENING, LORD J. RUSSELL AND LORD PANMURE AT PERTH. At Perth, an Friday, a public dinner was given to Lord Penman, at which Lord John ltuasell was • guest. The Lord Provost occupied the chair. The health of Lord Panniers having been given, Lord PANKVII,S, in returning thanks, took a review of his career mile. Fox ht 'Ille—• simple member of parlia ment out of odlee—from his first step to be Under Secretary of State, to his last step as cabinet minister; and took the opportunity of saying publicly, that, under te favour of his Sovereign, he owed these honoen to the electors of Perth, and to his noble friend Lord John Russell. Ile then seas Rimed—lt is not ha me to advert to tha circumstantial which have led to a change of government. All I OM •If is, that we resigned the Mikes which we held with es jot social pain. because we found we could not retain ISM with personal honour. Our successors followed Mi LtalS oilier, ant we looked, the country looked, and the Homo • 0101131.1R1 looked, for some declaration of policy an the part of the leader of thi new governinent, or of him wise represents it in the Rouse of Commons. But, hitherto, gentlemen, we have looked in vain. No taunts have been powerful 'cough to extricate, no yuestii cis have bees skilfully enough devised to inform in as to the policy es which the new government is to be conducted. Judge them from the put, they are of one colour; judge them from the peewit, lu! they change; judge them for the future, lu. they are blank. (Laughter.) It is impoedble for any one, at this moment, to advise us on what pine ' pies Lori Derby's government means to act upon after they stand before the country, ant therefore it is impossible that the liberal party or any other party, can devise Roy system either of attac k or defence, seeing they cannot by say IMMO attain a knowledge of the enemy's position. But, them in that state in which, as a public 111411, 1 shoal be sorry to And mysi If, I may say, as an individsal, that then is one system of tactics wlikti the liberal party will, I trust, pursue, and that is, vino* amongst them selvm—(cheers)—for on this we may all rely, that if say government i, to exist which is inimical to the liberties of the people, and the progress of that policy which the people have hitherto countenanced, it CMS only exist in tho dismission of its opponents; and let me tell you, that that is one of the surest cards which a government will very often find it convenient to play. (Ilear, hear.) I have alluded now to the g I polity on which I have hitherto been engaged, Intl cannot pass over or omit some things which the country are sometimes opt to forget, In judging of the public men of the day. It is its. possible, in this free country, to expect that any man, who he be a minister of the crown or a pubic man in any ether position, will always command the popular opinion of the day; but, in jugging of public men, I would say that particular instances are not to be too harshly judged of as specimen, of the whole. It is hut fair to look back ea the general tenor of the man's public life; and so, with regard to parties; and I am sure that, if the career of that party of which my noble friend is the great leader be looked into from first to last, for years past Is, fore he or any of us were born, we shall find that the great liberties of this country were due to that party which he now leads ; and that they were contended for in tho wont of times, when even the people themselves, for whose liberties they struggled, were cold or indifferent, or were taught to run them down. (Cheers.) With the Reform BiU many Reformers arose, and under it many will still rise to the administration of public affairs—the more the better ; but still, it Is hardly I 'think fair that the great perform ances of the old should be passed over and forgotten ; and I hope the public gratitude will give to those who so na turally merit it the full meed to which they are entitled. The Lord Provost his alluded to the benefits conferred on the country alter the passing of the Reform Bill. lie alluded to-day, in the council, to municipal reform, and to what abuses were swept away when that measure was prosecuted in this country. He did not allude to the variety of taxes which were repealed front 1830 to 1111. Ho did not allude to the burdens on the people which have been alleviated in the criminal law of this country, risking its code less sanguinary, and its enactment loss none. Ile slid not allude to the ame lioration which had taken place in the civil law, bringing it, as the common phrase is, to the poor man's door, sim plifying its form and cheapening its price. He d id not allude to the tun oppressive on the people which been been repealed. I may refer to one of them the repeal 111 which, scarcely twos years past, we owe to my noble Ideal. I mean the iniquitous window tax. (Cheers.) These an bowfin which are not to be lightly forgotten. And you may rely on this, that, let the liberal party seek where they phin• for leaders, there are no soldiers to take the field as line that have been accustomed to lead forward armies to They know the tactics to be guided by and the to stand upon ; their houour is unimpeached, their sisisiency is unquestioned, and they deserve the cooifi dem of the country rather than those who ma present thesselires so younger and mere raw recruits. There an, oentlemen, yet 'luny retinae to be achieved. The Referee Bill was but the stone set in motion ; it never can stand still. There may be seasons of progress ; that progress may sometimes be faster, and sometimes it may be slower; but progresa this country must end will ; and, as people become more intelligent and capable of governing thenutves, the fmachhe must be extended and privileges must be held out to them which theu do not at present enjoy. I hope I shall live to see the day when we shell have • far larger retinue: Woo of the franchise than at present. I hope to live to see the day when • bound religions and secular education shall spread far and wide amongst the people ; and I hope to see the day when this country will take as high standing fur the enjoyment of its liberty, and for the intelligence of its people, as any country can do on the face of the earth. In the enjoyment of liberty at present, I be lieve, she stands first ; let her also aim to stand as the best educated and most enlightened people of the world. To achieve these objects, gentlemen, shall be my utmost en deavour , and In w bataoever sphere or station I am placed my whole energies shall always be devoted to the benefit of the country at large, and in my own locality, as • landlord. to see to the comforts and attend to the interests, both ea. and and secular, of those who live around me. (Olden) Lord Penman concluded by proposing the health et the Lord Provost and magistrates. (Loud applause.) Th. LAID PIoTOIT returned thanks. The LORDPROVOST neat proposed " the health of Lard John Russell, and esteem to the cause of civil and religious liberty all over the world." Lord JOHN RUSSELL, who, on risiug to acknowledge the compliment. was received with the most enthusiastic applause, said—My Lord Provost and Gentlemen—l feel that, strictly speaking, I could only appear here as a sup porter of my noble friend, Lord Panmure, to whom you have so justly given this testimony of your approbation; but having been admitted to-day a burgess of the city of Perth, and having the freedom given me in a boa of oak, composed of part of the dwelling of the Fair Maid of this city—(laughter)—l feel that; perhaps!, I may have a farther claim to intrude on you than I should otherwise have possessed. (Cheers and laughter.) Let sne, in the first place, before I speak to that noble cause with which you have done me the honour to connect my name, say a few words on the subject of my noble friend whom I came here to-day to join you in humerus'. (Hear, hear.) He has recounted to you most truly that on the formation of Lord Melbourne', Administration, when I held the Home-office, Lord Mel bourne having desired me to name a person whom I should wish to assist me as under secretary, I named my noble friend. I did to at that time, not having much personal acquaintance with hies, but being struck with the remark • able abhity of the speeches he had made in the country. I mast say that my discernment in that respect was not at fault, because during the whole time that I was at the Home-office, and since, when I had to conduct in a higher station the affairs of this country, I have derived the greatest advantage from the judgment, the intelligence, the prudence, and the ability of my noble friend. (Cheers.) Gentlemen, I could not have been contented with t h ese qualities had I not been also satisfied from what intimate knowledge that I had had of him, that be is impressed with the maxim of that great man to whom he has referred, and from whom he has derived hie name—" that that which is morally wrong never can be politically right." (Cheers.) While, therefore, we were pursuing the same end by' the same means, we were both of us convinced that while that end should be for the public benefit, the means should be always honest and honourable. (Cheers.) Having said this much with respect to my political connexion with and my friendship for my noble friend, I will venture to address some remarks to you with respect to that cause of civil and religious liberty all over the world which you have this day done me the honour to connect with my name . But on spea king upon this subject, lam sorry that on the continent of Lurope, whether we look to France, to Ger many, or to Italy, we have little cause to congratulate our selves upon the progress of civil and religious liberty. We shall find that the attempt which was made in 1148 to introduce wild license in p'acc of sober liberty, ha, tended, lanced of fixing, or extending freedom, to confirm the claims of authority, and to make men rush with wil lingness, nay, with enthusiasm and vehemence, into the arms of despotism. (" Hear," and cheers.) We think, how ever, we have some swum to congratulate ourselves that in the pursuit of civil and religious liberty we have pursued a more usher course, because, while if any one will enume rate the advantage. which bare been gained to that great cause in this country during the last twenty or thirty years, he will find them immense in numbers and precious in value—(cheers)—and I fur one cannot my that at soy one moment authority bar been really endangered or the i constitution rashly overturned. (Cheers.) Gentlemen, in ' I connection with this subject I must mention, however, en alarm which has lately—l was going to say excited, but it isnot an alarm which has really been excited, bat en alarm which has been attempted to be excited—with respect to the advances of democracy. It seem, to me that those who are at present having the conduct of public affairs, being somewhat embarrassed as Mamie measures which my noble friend sale truly RTC kept in profound secrecy, have rather endeavoured to divert public, attention from what may be their shortcoming, or dubieties en these subjects, by en deavouring to create a panic that wo are at present sub jeet to a fearful approach of a wild unbridled democracy. (Laughter and cheer.) I hold, myself, that that alarm is totally groundlto a (liter, hear.) Perhaps, how ever, my authority a ill not b e cons id ere d grea t on that subject, because part of the alarm was that I had abandoned my opinions that I had adopted some other opinions. No one said exac'ly what they were, but they were supposed to be very alarm ing and highly deusocratieal—(laughter)—that I was shout to introduce measures which should have the effect at some future time of shaking the stability of that constitution which I venerate as much as any man in this United King dom. (Cheers.) Well, I need not asp on that subject that this rumour was totally unfounded-01C it hail no circum stance on which it rested—that no opiutin of mine that I had given in public made me subject to that insinuation. Whether this was a charge or whether it was an obser vation—(laughter)—that made mo subject at all to the SEPTEMBER 27, 1852. statemert that I bad changed to these opinions, and was about to &dream in this dangerous sad dentleratical dime- Lion, I will not say. A right hon. friend of mine, ftir Geoep (hey, told me that be, la his canvass, found some who attached some credence to this matter. I Pe a r aTel him what explanatles he gave. He said his explane. Lion was very simple and very direct; it was by using a monosyllable I will not now repeat to you. (Laughter.) Bat, gentlemen, let as look to what is this alarm which is attempted to be created at the present time. Does it mean that the people of this couutry—who art, in other words, the democracy of this country — t h at they are seeking to add Sis their own power at the expense of the crown or of the House of Lords? Dom any one mean to say, really and solemnly, that the people of this country are endeavouring to diminish any of the prerogatives of the crown ? 1 really believe that nobody could stand up and say that that was really Ms opinion, because the notorious fact is that at no time in the history of this country have its people been more attached to the monarchy, or more loyal and affec tionate to their sovereign. (Loud cheers.) Well, then, does it mean that they are attempting to take away the lawful privileges wbiah the House of Lords holds, and to deprive it of its part in the constitution of this country ? Now, I think I may appeal to my noble friend, who l a t e ly ente r ed the House of Lords, whether he has ever heard of such an attempt, where it Las been made, and what impediment there has been to the lawful exercise of any power or any privilege which by the constitution of this country the House of Lords potatoes. Well, then, if that has been so, that at least is not the charge that is muds. It dose not mean that the democracy of this country—crud, be it ob served, democracy has as fair a right to the enjoyment of its rights as monarchy or nubility—it does not mean that the democracy of this country is in a state of discontent and disaffection, and is endeavouring to push down this consti tution, and to deprive the other branches of that constitu tion of any powers which lawfully belong to them. That cannot be—that I think we must immediately say cannot for a moment be maintained. But it may mean some thing else—it may mean something elm which it be hoves us all to wish—that the democracy of this country— meaning by that term the people of this country—by in• crease of power—by increase of intelligence—by Increase of wealth—has iecremed in that weight which they must have not only in this country, but in each of the countries of the world ; has gained an increase in that weight which is duo to a people highly industrious, and earning a compe tence by their labour, physical and intellectual—cmploy ins their minds in the acquirement of knowledge and in the forming and fostering of that public opinion which is so much the guide and goverment of this country. But, gentlemen, if these attempts to which I have lately alluded are attempted, which, though they have existed, ought to be discouraged end misted—this fair growth of the honour of &mar:ley—this growth of intelligence—this growth of wealth—this forming of opinions more enlightened and more calculated to carry on, in an englightened manner, the government of the world—this is an increased power which ought not to be crushed, but ought to be encouraged and maintained. (Enthusiastic cheering.) But I will say more—l will say this, that the manner of dcaliug with that increase of the position of democracy could not bo according to the old story of restraint with which 1 was but too familiar during the first few years after I entered parliament in 1817 end in 1819, which, beside, all the faults of an irritation promoting that discontent which it was intended to check, proved utterly powerless, and had much the same elect as if persons were to attempt to dam up your magnificent river with the view of preventing an inundation —or, to use a simile which applies perhaps more properly to the present time, as if persons were to lock up all the gates of the rabroad, with the hope that the express train would be stopped in its course. (Laughter and cheers.) Well, then, that is not the mods in which this increase of the power of democracy ought to be dealt with; but the way in which the power of democracy ought to be dealt with is, by listening to every complaint, by ami dcring every grievance, and by giving a legitimate and legal organ to that power and influence which otherwise may be mischievous, irregular, and injurious. (Loud cheering.) That is any way of dealing with this which is complained of—this increase of democratic power in this country. Let me ask you, suppose at the time of the re volution in France in 1818, which broke out to the as tonishment of all men—suppose we had found ourselves, having followed the blind counsels of those who are our opponents in parliament —suppose we had found ourselves with all the nomination burghs in full force—with Bir mingham, Leeds, Manchester, Sheffield, without repre sentatives—in short, with all the abuses of the old sys tem—suppose we had found a corn-law which tended to make the food of the people dear and scarce—(hear, hear)— I suppose we bad found the people of Ireland discontented and disaffected, in consequence of the denial to them of all civil rights on account of their religious beliefs—suppose we had found all these things to be the MO in February 1848— I ask bow should we have met that revolution which was attempted to be made by some turbulent persons in the spring of that year with the confidence and support of the whole people, as we bed the glory to do? (Loud chem.) I most beg your pardon, gentlemen, for having trespassed thus far with respect to pubic events and this subject of democracy. (Loud cries of " Go on.") But I do, think it is of the utmost importance—and I em glad to say that I have an any task in this respect—l do third' it of the rat non importance that the people of this country, and, above all, persons of property,should not be affected by this vela and groundless paste—and that they should go on, as my noble friend says, with progress—that they should go on with improvement, and trust to the confidence which they show—to the wisdom which they exhibit, for those bulwarks against democracy which your violent measures never will produce. It was justly said as a proverb of old —o Be gives everything who denies what is just." That has never been our polirf. (Cheers.) We have been always for 'granting what was just, in order, that we might be strong in refusing what was unrighteous. (Cheers.) And now, gentlemen, let me say that I believe all this attempt to make an alarm—this attempt to point me out among others as one who was endeavouring to rake dangerous change, in our constitution, is, in fact, merely an attempt to make a diversion on the part of those who teel that they have a very difficalt task to perform. (Loud cheep and laughter.) We know that parliament is to he summoned very early In the course of November. We know that the prime minister has pledged himself that the commercial policy of this country shall then be settled. For my part, I shall be quite willing to wait and anxious to hear what that plan of commercial policy will be. I will net be di verted by the fee of this panic, and forced from looking that question in the face. (Cheers.) My ptomains is, that during the last ten years we have been in the right course—(loud cheers)—end knowing I am co the right road, the device of any gentleman who tells me to bear back, or to bear to the right or to the left, will have very little in fluence with me, because I am persuaded the road we are travelling, which has already produced so many material benefits, end which has, and is producing, so much moral and political content, is a road from which we ought not to stray, but ought rather steadily to pursue. (Loud cheers.) And, at the same time, we are bound in justice, as well as I think directed by policy, to wait until these mea sures are produced which are to give to the agricultural interest, to the colonial interest, and to the shipping in terest, all that compensation of which they have hitherto been unjustly deprived—(laughter)—and which are at the same time to confer benefits to every class in the commit uity—(laughter and ebeere)—these admirable men area, which are to put an end to a long contest—which are to satisfy people who are at the present moment in the greatest state of satisfaction—which are to content people who have never been discontented (laughter) and which, at the same time are to reconcile along with them other classes who are di scontented and dissatisfied. Now, no man can deny that there has been a great belief that suck measures are to be produced—nobody will persuade me that, although great abases have prevailed in many of the late elections, of a kind and degree to which I wiU not refer—nobody will persuade me that men so eminent as Sir George Grey and Mr. Lewis would have been set aside for persons so insignificant that nobody would ever expect anything of any value to cousesfrom them as members of parliament I cannot persuade myself 'that such men would have been set aside for those who have been chosen as their successors, were there not a great belief on the part of the agricultural interest that they have been unfairly treated—that what is their due has been taken from them, and that their friends now in power are able to gire them relief Well, then, if such be the CM, let us know what the relief is. Let us be put in possession of this great Keret. (Cheers and laughter.) It will not do for them to be putting it off. I think the farmers themselves would then say—" Who an hold a fire in his hands by thinking of the frosty Caucasus ?"—and tt Who can cloy the edge of appetite by bare imagination of a feast ?" fur the time will come when people will ask ,for protection— for this great benefit which is to restore them to the prosperity from which Sir Robert Peel, in the first place, and the whig administration in the second, have cruelly and unjustly plunged them. I know it appears to me —I may he quite wrong in this name; but I Know it appears to me somewhat like the ease found in no his tories] work, and of which there is no precedent amongst statesmen, but of which there are precedents to be found in the pretties of daily life—l mean of the patient who seeks for a regular physician, and who says to him—" I feel very much depressed—l have not been well for some time—l want to be cured." The physician says to hint— " I see what it is ; Fain sorry to observe that, for a long course of years, your regimen has been very unhealthy, and that you have lived on artificial stimulants—(laughter) —1 advise you to return to wholesome food and exercise, and to trust to nature fur your recovery." (A laugh.) Well, I have very often heard that that patient has been much dissatisfied with this advice, and that he has said— . This is a trumpery fellow of a physician, who tells me nothing but to had a wholesome life ; it is not worth lis tening to his advice ; I will turn him off and send for some one else." lie has only to take up a newspaper, and he will find the announcements of persons who say that, without any contiuement, without any inconvenience, by merely taking a few pills—(laughter)—the patient shall be restored entirely to health, and shall never have any reason to complain afterwards, but, on the contrary, shall be strong and rigorous for the next twenty years of his life. (Laugh ter) I cannot help thinking that the present ease is likely in the end to turn out something like this. (Cheers.) But mind, my surpic.ons may be unjust. 1 may have the envy of the discarded physician—(a laugh)—l may be the pawn who gave that unpasatable advice—l may—to end the me terhor—think that the happiness, welfare, and prosperity of the agricultural classes is to be sought fir in the general welfare and prosperity of the country—(loud cheers)—and in the use of those wholesome energies which the people of this country possess. That was my advice, and it has turned out, I believe, an advice upon which, if the patient had con tinued to act, ho would have found himself restored to health without any of these nostrums. But by all means lotus know what thie nostrum is—let us know what the medicine is which is to produce each wonderful effects, and to result In reek universal satisfaction. If soch medicine is procured and produces those effecti, I must own I was utterly wrong, and admit that the contrivances and medieiners, and doctor ing of this kind, are really what was most useful for the body politic, But, gentlemen, as all this into be told tie in November, all I can say is, that I think and I trait, when we meet in November, we shall confine ourselves, in the first Matinee, to asking what the course is that is to be proposed; and when we have beard what that course is, we chill then consi4er what ought to be our course with respect to it. (Hear, hear.) In the meantime, it Is a satisfaction to all those who belonged to the late govern ment, and my noble friend among others—it is • satisfaction to them that we did not leave this country depressed and ruined, but that, on the eon teary, during the time in which we keld office, it made progress in prosperity, and that many of those prescriptions and monopolies which then still remained have been struck off by our exertions. (Cheers.) I have had the satisfac tion of assisting in the destruction of several of these mono polies • and I would appeal to a protectionist member lately elected in a northern English county, who proclaimed aloud the state of prosperity and the state of activity which prevailed both in the shipping and agricultural interest. Ile certainly came to curse us, but he has blessed us altogether. (Chun.) Let rue add on this occasion, as my name has been connected with the tout of civil and religious liberty, that there was one blot on the civilisation of the world—the accursed African slave trade--which we have been active, and, I trust, suc cessful, in abating. (Cheers.) I thank you fur listening to the sentiments I have expressed to you to-day. It is a great honour to me that having been many years in parlia ment I should n.ctive this teauniony of your approbation. I trust I shall continue to act in a ' , mailer spirit, and that you will give me your confidence; and alth o ugh y ou ma y think that my judgment may be mistaken in many points that may come before us for consideration, you will at least give me credit for being actuated by an honest desire to do nay duty. (The noble lord resumed his seat amidst loud and riderated spplause.) REPRESENTATION OF PETERBOROUGH. On Friday evening, a public meeting of the ' electors was held at the Town-hall, to enable Mr. George Hammond Whalley, the candidate in opposition to Mr. 1 Cornewall Lewis, to givoa further detail of his political opinions. The hall was crowded to suffocation. The chair was taken by Mr. JOHN WHITWELL, who expressed his gratification at observing the great interest their proceed ings appeared to create. For some time part certain parties bad treated as • joke the declaration of the radicals, that they intended to bring forward a candidate. Dr. Waiker , and hir.hlai shall had taken upon thems e l ves t o b r i ng f orwar d I Mr. Lewis without towelling the electors; but that gentle man did not suit them fur their representative, and they had passed an opinion to tbat effect at &public meeting. Mr. Whal ley, on the contrary, bad received their approbation ; and he was gratified in having to state that their small party occupied such a position as would justify Mr. Whalley In going to the poll. He then introduced Mr. G. 11. WHALLEY, who acid—l am not yet committed as a candidate for Poterboroogh, and without believing my position better than it is, if I appeared as sanguine of success as Mr. Lewis seems to be, I should have issued a placard to say that my return was certain. I think it due to the city to be careful before committing myself ; but I must say that I think • contested election is certain, if my canvass continues to be so successful as it has hitherto been. I will again trouble you with what seems the relative claims that Mr. Lewis and myself have upon you for this election. Mr. Lewis, as a tried parliamentary man, has a claim before me, and being so, I am surprised he should not have had more syrnpothy with you than to continue in the field after the verdict of the public meeting had been pronounced against him. Mr. Lewis too, is far more a stranger to thi s district than I am; for I have been placed io a position in the public service of great responsibility, and if I had not discharged its duties correctly th a t would before this have been brought forward against me. Mr. Lewis, again, has not confidence in his principles or himself, or in the parlia ment to which he might be called, for carrying out those principles. In the great question of cheap bread there is this eifference between us—l will avail myself still further of the principles of Sir Robert Peel to extend to all other articles the same freedom of taxation as to bread. There is nothing that affects all classes so much, nothing so impor tant or so much desired as • re-adjustment of taxation. Bread is reduced one fourth in price, while the value of tea, sugar, soap, and other such articles consists actually of one fourth and one-half duty. These must also be reduced, and a fair and judicious re-adjustment of taxation becomes the necessery supplement of the mea sures of free trade. By these taxes on necessaries, the cost of living in England is double that of any other country, and they are caused by the taxes laid upoa us during the late war. Mr. Lewis and I both agree upon their injurious tendency ; but while be suggests no remedy, I am for taking the duty off those articles, and placing it upon fixed pro perty. Such is the feeling now throughout the country against having the necessaries of existence taxed, that if the plan I name is not adopted and carried out in peace, it will be carried out in defiance of the rulers, and by so out rage of the constitutional laws of the country. lam an egriculturist myself, and it is a sense of duty that causes me to stand before you, the electors of Peterborough. Se veral electors excuse themselves from giving me a decided answer, because they cannot go so far as I do in respect to the bal lot; and others, as having promised to give a vote t4Mr. Lewis, which they regret. Upon this point both of us assert that the present system is a positive cover for all sorts of intimidation and corruption, and Mr. Lewis admits that the present plan of open voting must be corrected, but he does not say how. I never heard of any other way than the ballot, and, for the sake of genial and political morality, I trust that it will be adopted. (Hear, hear.) I bad always thought that the patriotism of Englishmen wool I be sufficient to prevent all hesitation between duty and personal iiiterest, but the experience of the last four months has shown me that it cannon be so, fir such choice of duty before interest has resulted in my own country in the expatriation of several of the best and most sterling men I ever knew of. Mr. Lewis and myself agree ing in liberal opinions, I can only account for Ns wavering and quavering, and for his avoiding a full and complete explanation on political subjects, to his looking for ward to an influence not derived from the people but against them. Mr. Lewis evidently calculated too much upoa other people's influence in Peterborough, and made a mistake in submitting himself to a public meeting, where he was tossed about upon the waves of adverse opinions, end thrown upon the shore a complete wreck. He had not met them with that candour which was demanded of every one appearing before the people, but he had relied upon the weight of a single party, who could not, because he was not allowed by law to interfere to such matters. No man, I am sure, is there to be found who will regret such imentations more than the noble earl who is alluded to, and Ido not for one moment credit the assertions made, that he will force Mr. Lewis upon the electors of this city, whether palatable to them or not. That respected nobleman may be compared to one of those grand forest trees, Round which there will be found weeds, creepers, and parasitical plants, and these pre tending to be a part of the trunk, take upon themselves to Inertias an iullisence to which they hays no right. I would say to then persons, men who live as tenants under the home of Milton, don't be misled by hangers on and diners on. (Cheers.) Think more of your duty than of those unworthy suggestions and those false representations, made by such creepers in his name. (Hear, hear.) By some the name of ultra-radical has been given to me, but none of those who bandy about such an imputation appear in the field against me. I have said nothing to give currency to suck reports; I have not even touched upon the black book of pensions, or gone through the political fraud and perversions of the money which has keen dragged out of the people's pockets, and voted by • House of Commons who have not the paying of it. Such subjects I have not dilated upon, nor have I adverted to the systematic corruption which has led to the adoption of the present sys•em of electoral franchise. The ballot, in my opinion, is far more deal ruble than an extension of the suffrage. An extension without the ballot would only bestow cursesinstead of benefits by demoralising still greater num bers than are corrupted by the present system. Ido say, therefore, if anything is worth your support, first and fore most, it is the ballot. But the great point upon which I solicit your confidence and support is the liberation of Peterborough from a domination and noraineeism which are as injurious to the city as they are unpalatable to the noble person whose name is used u a cover for that nomi neeism. It is, I am:certain, false that this influence is in tended to be 'imbed in this election ; and it is the first time in the history of elections that I have heard of • can didate rejected like Mr. Lewis by • public meeting being kept before a constituency in the absence of all explanation either by himself or by his friends here. As I have before said, I shall not dislodge Mr. Le aria upon say light grounds, but, if the success which has hitherto attended my canvass should continue, I shall feel it my bounden duty to become • candidate for the representation of your city. It is no small sacrifice on my part for the first time to op pixie the whip, with whom I have so constantly and uni formly acted. To those 60 or 60 persons who hesitate to pledge themselves I would say that my sacrifice is far greater than any they can make on this occasion, and therefore let them pause in their sense of public duty no longer, but support me in the sacrifices I am prepared to make In their service. (Applause.) Mr. W. THROETTE moved the following resolution:— " That this meeting approves the sentiments and conduct of Mr. Whalley, and considers him fully entitled to • continuance of the support of the constituency of Peter bosough. Mr. ALDOATI ascended the resolution. Mr. SHELTON prop osed a vote of thanks to the chairman, and the meeting bro ke up. --- FRENCII °TETER FIRTIERIRS.—The Journal de Marrouws states that in consequence of the late low tides the oyster fishery, which is at this part of the season car ried on by hand, hu been very productive. From 2,000 to 3,000 persons may be seen busily employed in tearing o ff the oysters from the beds, and loading earls with them. Several families are said to have last week gained as much as 300 francs in ono day by their work. On the lit October this mode of taking oysters is brought to an end. They are th , n dredged for in boats, from 300 to 400 of which may be aeon at work at one time. AN N DtLAT.—A gentleman of a neigh bouring county, who engaged a passage in the Pens to Aus•ralia, and had all his baggage on board, in the mean time gut an order on the bank at Cork, and on returning to Queenstown had the misfortune to see the revel steering out of the harbour, and a long distance from him. He took a six-oared boat, but was unable to catch her as there walla good breeze blowing. We arc aware the above gentlemen had his intended on board, and was to have married her on his anted out.—Linserielc Chronicle. IRELAND. Dunne, SEPT 26. THE MURDER OF THE SOLDIER OF THE Mar REGIMENT. The following particulars of this atrocious and brutal affair are given by the Cork Examiner. Franfor, THIALSIDAY Nth tur.—The place where the foul deed was perpetrated is Templenoe, midway between ler men and Ballyhooly ; and its deep seclusion, it being situ ated at the toot of two hills, and thickly shaded with trees, would, et the first thought, lead one to suppose that it was selected by the murderer as a tit place fur the commission of the crime. Such, too, was the impression which at first prevailed, and which was almost heightened into conviction by the circumstances attendant on the deed : but upon in quiry it appeared that the guilt of the murderers, how ever great, was not, at all ennui, aggravated by premedi tation, and that the scene of thi it crime was determined by chance and not selection. This is the only mitigating circumstance in the murder, for otherwise the deed was a must foul one, and the teenier of pain and horror which its commission has excited in the minds of the inhabitants of this town—both rich and pour—leas riot even yet sub sided. In every quarter the murderers are denounced, and the must active, and at present apparently successful, effurts are being made for their discovery and apprehension. The facts of the cue, so far as they have transpired, are these: it appears that on the night of Tuesday, the 21st, two privates of the :flu Itegen. et, James Degas, the de ceased, end John Thompson, merit from Femur to Belly booty, to sisit a policeman of the name of Rice, who is stationed there, and with when they were acquainted. They left Ballyhooly about six o'clock, and reached the Widow allarath's house, at Templenese, about seven. They turned tutu the house to get Wally tobacco and a pipe, and as the deceased woe in the act of receiving his change from the widow, sonic five or seven men also walked in, apparently for the some purpose. On entering the shop one of them trod on the loot of 'Thompson or Degas, who thereupon ad. reseed some words, must probably merry one., to the offending new comer. Thu the other resented, and ad dressed his competition in Irish; lout Thompein, not being acquainted with the language, cannot state what the nature or mewing of the cipresnun was. Some altercation and heeetling then took place, used after some difficulty the widow induced the new comers to leave the how. She then barred the door, and urged the deceased ere! his com rade to remain fur the night ; but this they ',hoed to do, saying that they should reach their barracks that night, and alter come time left the house. 'They were nut long gone when she heard a rush of men towards her house, and then a knocking at the door for admission ; but she, tearing that it was the countrymen who were returning, refused to aduiit the applicants. She then beard the noise i f stones vio leetly thrown, and on its ceasing she went out and found the deceased lying under a hedge, a yard or so from her door. lie was then quite dead, though the body w. s warm. On Wednesday Constable J. Cuainore arrested, upon private information, a former of the name of Patrick Ilynu, in York street, Cork. His face is much cut, which he saes, we have been informed, was done by a soldier , and he is from the neighbourhood of Templenoe, where he holds 96 acres of laud. Up to the present, however, he hes borne a moat unexceptionable character. Another man—one of the par ties we are Manned to the murder—is also in custody, and he has given, we are also hammed, inch information to the authorities es cannot fail in leading to the apprehension of the other parties implicated in the crime. The magistrates of the district have also ceded a meeting of the inhabitants of Fermoy for Saturday, at one o'clock, to give them an opportunity to denounce in the most emphatic manner the perpetrators of the slender, and to originate a sub.cription for their detection. It may lie proper hero to stele that Bartlemy Fair—the focus for all rutlienism in the count of every class and description—took place on Monday, and th it the Fernley fair was held on Tuesday ; soil it is, there fore, inferred by some people that the murderers ore most probably souse of those who were present at thew fairs. FEILMUY. FUIDAT was held this day by Mr. Barry, the coroner, to the Court Iloure. The first witness was private John Thompson, the comrade of the unfortunate deceased. lie deposed as : ' Private John 'Thompson sworn—l recollect Tuesday the 21st inst. Left my barrack at a quarter put two o'clock that day in company with deceased, my commie. We got liberty from our officer to go, and we both went to Belly booty, after leaving the town of icrmoy. We reached Ballyhooly between 3 and 4 o'clock the sumo (ley. I dare say we were about three hours in Ballyhooly. It was about 7 o'clock when we left. We dined with the sergeant of police at liallyhooly. Tbo sergeant of police was with deceased. Ileud deceased say that the con stable and himself were both from Kilkenny. Hed seine porter after dinner. I drank one glass of spirits before dinner and one or two glasses of porterafter. I touk the glues of whiskey on arrival at Bellytiooly. The demised also drank one glue of whiakey. I was perfectly Belau when I loft the Police Barrack. I think the deceased was also per fectly sober. The day was rather declining when we left Ballyhooly. Deceased got a sword cane at the Police Bar rack, but 1 cannot tell who gave it to him. Before we left Ballyhooly we went into a public-house, and 1 drank three or four glasses of porter. I can't tell who paid fur it. De ceased drank some of the porter, bit I cannot tell how much. We then left, and the met house we went into was aboat halfway between Ballyhooly acid Fermny. Deceased went in to light a pipe, and he asked me to re:company IteAfter we went in some men followed us into the . Had no quarrel with any person can the road after we left Ballyhooly, until we cause to this house (Mrs. WOrsitt's). About a minute after we went in I saw the men that followed us. There were between 8 and 11 men, as far as I could judge. When we west in I saw an old man sitting by the fire, and a middle aged woman. The men must have come in atter as. The men that came in began pulling ns, and one of them made a box at me. There was nothing offensive mid by us to warrant these men to begin pulling us. The men were speaking NOM tient; amongst themselves which I did not understand, but I don't think it was English they spoke. 1 don't think I saw any of these men until I saw theta in the house we were in. We drank nothing in the house. When these men began to push deceased, I think that deceased went to push them. I can't say whether deceased said they (the men) had trod on his fuot. The woman of the house prevaeed on the men to leave the house. I saw none of these men in the house whea we were coming out. I don't know what the woman said to the men to get them* to leave. I did not understand what the woman said. Besides the middle , aged woman I have described as being in the house, I think there was a girl there also. When the man left the house, the I woman closed the door and stood at it. She wanted us to remain in tho house, and not go out; she kept us in against our inclinations for a few minutes; to the beat of my opinion ' that woman did not want us to remain fur the night. We told the woman that we should be home before half-past sons o'clock. I don't recollect what reply she made to I that. We went out, and between a minute or a half a minute some stones were thrown at us. We acre then 6or 7 yards from the house. Saw a ',citron on the road when we left the house. I did not see the persons who were throwing the stones first. I think it was some of those Sor 11 men I saw after on the road. Th it might be about a minute after the stone throwing. It was dark when the stones were thrown. I cannot say positively that some of the eight or eleven men that were in the house were thou I afterwards saw on the road. I was hit on the shoulder with a atone, and I think deceased was struck. The men came forward to us on the road, and one spoke to deceased, bat I do not know what he mid. I think it was that no person eliould strike de ceased. The deceased charged thew men with bring the party who had thown the stone at us. I heard deceased way to the man who had spoken to him—" Stand back—for yen are as bad as any of the rest." Deceased was knocked down by the first volley of stones thrown at us. It was after that that I saw deceased speakiag with the man oa the road. I said to deceased that I thought the man to whom deceased was speaking was not one of those who had beaten him in the house. But two or three other men WNW at the time standing on the road near to deceased. One of the three or four men on the toad struck at deceased then. I cannot tell where the man went who was speaking to deceased. I don't think that deceased snick at the man who had been speaking to him when be had been struck by the mail on the road. I had hold of deceased I.y the arm, and I wanted to get him away as well as I could. I don't know whether deceaaod had anything in his hand at the time. Ile might. I did not see a 'wind cane in his hand when coming out of the house. He bad it in the house. He was straightening it in the house. That was after the men had left the house. I think it was bent by striking it agamst a table ; if not that way I know of no other. It was then drawn. I can't say why it was drawn. We changed our belts in the house. Deceased gave me his belt. After the man had left the house, I teak otf my side belt to bend the breast-plate. The clasp amp breast-plate broke, and deceased then gave me his belt. I got the belt fur the purpose of defending myself if I was attacked outside the house. 1 think deceaseu bad the sword.cane drawn be fore he gave me hie bolt. We thought the men would be outside the house and we should be attacked after what had passed iu the house. When deceased was knocked down I took hint up and returned for the purpose of getting into the house at the mu. Deceased was a little I before me. The stones were caning from the trout et the house so that we thought the men were about it. We tried to get in at the heck of the house. Deceased called to me, hermit cried out that he was down. 1 asked him if any perseu was with him. lie said there was. I replied that was going to him as fast as I could. I went to him, and found him its a hole on the side of the road. I ' helped hint out of it, and as I was doing so 1 heard the sound of persons going away from the place where I deceased lay. The persons went away in the direct nun of Dallyhooly. I got him out of the hole, and we went towards the woman 'e house. It was after that we met and spoke to the men on the road, as 1 have already detailed. Deceased, utter we gut him out of the hole, said, as I think, " that saint people were un the op of him beating him whilst he was down." We then went to the house to try and got in. The dour was shut. We were at the front door. I rapped and kicked at the door, and called to the woman to let us in. I heard no person speaking inside; but a sound of persons walking (witness here ex plained that the conversanue which had taken place be tween deceased and the man on the road occurred not after the first fall, but on the second fall, whin deceased was taken out of the hole on the road side) ; the door not being opened, we tri e d to g.. 1 up un th e roa d again, when we saw a number of men on the road before us. They,. ~ ',7 1- 77" were throwing stones at us. The men on the road were.. / 4 • higher than we, and the stones were thrown et us. ws: t • • , 1 then went to the b an k its front of the house. I can't s-L • . ••• whether deceased, as soon as he tante to the bank, wog knocked down, or had 'aid down und, r it. Ile, Lowers 1 , • • 1111 was down. I lay down myself, but deceased was ne the steps of the yard than I was. ;The _people were Duo s i!"" me hog stones on us oil the road, and I beard them "murder themes they're down." Thu stones were 1. 41 A— 1 DI I