The Express. — London, England, 1853-03-18 00:00:00

I eke court room at Eons., had held him up to gonrJ 14 " 1 ` mw, mud made hi afraid to stir w armed to the te m eth. (Hear, hear.) dr, m uged the conduct of the executive in this matter as • Cr.. tte..n•i• eut (Cheers.) If this gentleman was -- n . ,,,„,p e eest. VIII was he showed to remain one hour oc s, strata ?—why was he permitted to re s ie a psi,stsOn in which he could again lead her luau . t o tnalis into positions of uontivasary danger? ( it e ar' ) The hon. and learned gentleman then re hrrvd t h, u t e tnetion of the tool. against Mr. Gow and the other alleg , d rioter' from the grand jury room, sad kur if that was to be underatocel as one of the features of rtmientra Doi of th e criminal law in Ireland under the g vern ment ? The right hon. baronet (Sir J. Young) r a ce t ,,!. the house • - lecture on political ethics, anal had toll them that no man had a right to contest a r sett' or • I, rough unless he had beforehand with him ;A c t was called the popular feeling. (" No, no," fro m ow j Nell, then, the unpopular feeling, that was, tint to p a rson might contest a county or borough in the ro ,„ Cul. %%unhinge that was able to poll within two e of his sueenof opponenr, anal that to no so was to rrsrut a ease of rebellion and tyranny. ( (t ear, hear ) It b e t been asked why bad the attempt been made to .i.,p the proceeding* on the inquisition ? That c had been taken un the authority of Lord Hale, who d a l Lad it down that when the verdict was adverse ti the evidence, the inquisition might be stayed on ariplmstion to the Court of Queen's Bench. Ts, right boa baronet hail said that the priests were not u or.::y guile), and that had they been so they would have to n ers ll...toted. But he appr, hooded the question of guilt Of InSPLenCT was tar • court nut of m rats but of law to dt,gri., and th e right lion. hamlet could not know whether ,j. re was m ral guilt or not. After shortly alluding to • of the topics iu the speech of the hon. member for ken ,s, the hos. and learned gentleman concluded by de claring that this q uevion was subsintesl to the house as an at Jodie, and in no partisan spirit, but it had been hcce . o ,i s e rvant because the necessity of the case required it, and in ant r that the majesty of the law might be vindi (Che, r. ) The ArTOILNEY-GENERAL said that the hon. and learned genii. man had called on him to express his opinion a lais question, and he would do so as well as he could is the sleet time that was left him. He would not enter into ary discussion of the law, as laid down by Mr. Justice Palm. That house was rest the place for sitting on appeals on the chutes or judges. All they had to deal with was, the aptitie charges which had been pro (erred against the Atton 'glittered for het ind. 'l'hose charges were limited to two, namely, that he had put the law in motion against the wide rs cone. rned in the affair at stannic-bridge, and that he bad not put it in motion against the pr.ests, who were • • • ailed in the riot there. Ile had time kit hint to do use., just.ce to the cause of • gentleman, who wes not present co j e j, c d hiniseif; and he would say that the hon. and w e ed gentleman who had just addressed the house in so impesioned a manner, anti in one of the bitterest speeches ke (the Attorne)•(ieneral) ever heard, in which he sought to blacker and crash • professional brother—(" hear, hear." sad cheen)—ought to have remembered that that gentleman was not pro...cot, and have left enough of time to have enabled the person who was to follow him to meet the sharers he had brought forward in so embittered and envenomed a tone. (Loud cheers.) As to the first charge, it should he remembered what was the position of the Attorney-General for Ireland on his accession to office. Ater the affray at %snide-Midge, inquisitions had been found by two coroners' juries, one tor murder and the other for manslaughter against the soldiers. That waa no trifling matter. Blood had been shed, and it was not competent to the thou( law °their of the crown in Ireland, where he was in fact the public prosecutor, to withdraw from the course of law those againsawhorn those inquisitions had been bored, and that is • case where seven live* had been lost. The potties of the Attornej-General was rendered more difficult hr the cours , which had been taken by his prede cessor. That right hon. gentleman, the Late Attorney-Ge arral, Ceding that so long as the inquisitious were in ozoteace he could not stop the Course of justice, went to the Court of Queen's Bench to got those inquisi teas quashed. As Ion! as they were in force, he dared not Mee on himself the responsibility of stopping the course of the law. (Hear, hear.) The present Attorney-General sl:..wed the law to take its course ; but in order to avoid the chance of the soldiers becoming victims to the popular feeling which ciliated against them, instead of putting them as their trial before • petty jury on the coronet** inquisi. tors. which in the then state of public feeling would hays beta most perilous to their safety, he interposed • grand pity which, consisting of gentlemen of character and inlet h.t.nce, would be must hkely to deal with the reel merits of the ease. The result was that the balls of indignant* were ignored. It was said that the Attorney-Helloed eight to boos pat on the hacks of the bills the derase Of the eaters whose evidence would have 1111111111111141 to the accused; but it was no part of his duty se Ileiteir say magistrate to bind over the whimsies which aptillgsm mightws.htabring forward. It was well knows diet au wane Wien by grand juries wee only to see that apringsfkihe Illielelineet to put a prisoner on his trial ws esMwla NMI whoa that wee made out to their satisfeeded. belles LT=that they did set azansias all the ultiddase es of a bell. It was charged egaisat the AtheNety illereal that he did set wears to this accused the tsewtae of enhaellnig Ode debase. Now, the troth was that hie delition. kind the flocretary at War had given direetiess eitilhe IMOD of defending themselves should be afforded ens. sad they of their own motion selected as their cons ul the his. sad Warted gentlemen who had just sat down. almeriag.) /IL 31APIXII-1 arm heard of it before. The ATIOVAIRY•GENLItAL continued—That only sbowed that to. us attack is professional brethren a little condoler ongbt t. be emesionl. (Cheers.) The object of the Attorsorthrusrse 'tad Men to do an act of justice to the soldiers; after UM beealsed bees thrown out be conse quently stated to the allePlnolled j his belief that there wee no sass easiest duo solditr. t may the most per. mem iwNwwitf owl" heA ottribotoi is, each m o ti ve . as that esolless appals Mil votary' to. With raped to do .is ionosolloo of Us. Burro, be thought the Algagmereeneral foe belong bail acted sot only with disseotio• bet that no other own was paellas to his. He swiped is the seatimoot. SIM • man ought not to tempos prosecution because bo moil priest ; but the qum boa it desirabl• to tinfoil the feeling on this sitter by • prosecution ? (Hear. bear.) Seeing the vehe ment passion imported into such questions by hon. and bunted gentlemen themselves, it would be • subject of deep regret to renew the fury which had prevailed. (Cheers) accused bon. sae learned gentlemen opposite of cruelty, li.inhnees, sad injustice in their attack on an absent men; and he repudiated, with the iodignation which was deigned, the attempt they had made to vilify a gentleman who was an onsament to his profession, and against whom sot a tittle of rational accusation could be brought. (Cheers.) , Lord A. N ANS gave notice that, on a future occasion, he oval broil forward sone resolutions on this subject, and he ties hoped there would be • noire favourable oppor tunity than the late hour (hulf-past ow) now permitted, of going farther into this subject. nu notion (fur papers) was thou agreed to. The bun then, at 2 o'clock, adjourned. OPPOSITION TO THE GREAT LONDON Di CA tii al BILL. A vestry meeting of the pariah of St. James,West "taster, see held yesterday to take into consideration the Great Undoes Drainage Bali—Mr. Ono. Guthm, church warden, is the chair. Mr T. M. Mouths introduced the subject to the notice of the vestry. The bill had been read a second tints in the Home of Commons, and, though called a private bill, it rive power to tax the metropolis to the amount of 33,0001. arm. The preamble or the bill stated its object to be to provide more eff,etually for draining the metropolis, Maumee the City of London, and intercepting and collect ing Uie sewage water, to with& no elemeiaa meld be made. It proposed to establish •joiat meek wespasy,, with a eapi ail of a million; and after the 111116111011 have been audited, it from iasproper management ee any other cause it is loud that the amulet ot dividend is not 3 per cent., it is I to limeade up to that amount by the Commissioners of Nun. This he considered as the most serious objection tome bill. It proposed to exempt the property of the corn- May from payment of poor rates and other taxes—a pri vilege which no other private company ever asked for. There was to be no supervision of the works while t‘. 4 7 wen in progrem, and it was an anomaly that 'due the main object wu stated to be to preserve the Thames front the impurities which flow into it no means willtrommil for enforcing this object, while they were to 1 0 Dud for fouling other streams. The metropolitan drain s(' district comprised an area of 63 equate miles on the north, sad of TO on the south, of the Thames, but one-hell Maus urea wee to be excluded from the influence of the trespsoy's works. The districts drained by the King's Scholars Pond Sewer, the Ranelagh, and the Counters Cwoki was secluded, and also a largo dirrict on the south aide of the Thames. The outlet on the tooth aide was so seer to the metropolis that the sewage would be driven back. lie proposed the adoption of a petition to parliament entedying the objections to the MU. Mr PRATT seconded the motion. kr Gusto gild it would be useless to present a petition tales they wet, prepared to oppose the bill before the com wattle to whom it was referred. The bill started a private Noisier fora private speculation, for which the public were :be sailed upon to pay. The company had, in fact, stolen s warth upon th” Inhabitants of the metropolis. It had been ilktdated that the sewage of the metropolis was wotth 590,0001. a yam and a company having got hold of this meted the p . üblic to pay them (or taking it away, ` t om isi Nemo' the public should be paia for it. If a ,41wesentative body had the management of the sewers, 'ay would be mid for it instead of the public being fleeced, Nu Present, or whet was most valuable, and getting no- Mit brit. and desultoy iision then took place as to the I Welt advisable course r of proceeding to be adcpte and it amt length agreed that their two representatives should rwloested to firm', the guarante e classes on the bill nor hroaeht up for the third reading! .24 liming terminated with a v ote of thanks to th e suenum. TOE WAR wirn Am (Ear 'Nines.) — A dam -I.6*.bas Just been waled, p by order of the House of Lords. Xtk. toe of tbe th Ara ; end in a return it is lkat no account of the @amuse already incurred with tet been received. In the B e ngal reg u l a r estimate _'"^n, the War ( hart•es on account of the expedition i" -"nag are aesumed t o amount t h at year to 10,00,0 0 0 : 1 ;1 , 7• sad in the Bengtl sketch estimate for next year, the amount antuned is 60,00,000 rupees. glte erorelifi. TO CORRESPONDRNTS. mooed Edith. et ne Express; examining tee sem eyealees °mew; is pubiLlied every Teemley awl Malay eight, to tine ler poet. tenuonteste Wended lor " The lizprow," Lem los Moslem, riper, awn be et the (Ake. er, boovezirstreet, hf Two o'oinek on the tel of psblieettes. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. bus Da?—Morning, 71i. 414 • Aftersoes. Ti. Ws. ea. ia. .:::1. LONDON, FRIDAY, MARCH 18. THE CuANCZLLOR of the EXCHEQUER is a scholar, and is interested, without doubt, in the past history, as well as in the present practice, of his office. He has, in all probability, many a curious talc to tell of the primitive bungling which c h arac t er i se d t h e keeping of the national aces•unts in the olden time. He can amuse his hearers with pleasant anecdotes of the days when tallies were kept instead of books, and when the bold Barons of the Exchequer sat at chequered tables ruefully en gaged in the arduous task of adding and subtracting by means of counters. Mr. GLADSTONE bee Wary reason to congratulate modern tax-payers fkat we manage these things differently now, and that although his books may not satisfy the standard by which Mr. Male would judge them, they show that in this matter of account keeping we are im measurably above our ancestors. But while taking smith for so much that has been done by his prede cessors, why will not 51r. GLADSTONE open his official eyes to the fact that he has before him one of the finest opportunities ever offered to a Chancellor of ' the Exchequer for easily winning reputa tion for himself? By a stroke or two of the pen, and a few mellifluous sentences in the House of Commons, he may achieve a Ministerial immortality. Let him reform our coinage by the introduction of a decimal system, and if he goes out of office the next day we will warrant him a harvest of tame which shall be the envy of a mob of ex-Chaneellors, who merely stumbled into an unpleasant notoriety by bungling over a bad Budget. Our system of coinage is simply a disgrace to the nation. Its absurdities are not to be equalled in any civilised country under the sun. Ask the lowest poiaaarde in the Marche des Innocens in Paris " how many francs are there in 1,525 centimes?" and she will answer without a thought 15 francs 23 centimes, or 15 francs and a quarter. The number itself gives her the answer. Ask the most scientific Chancellor of the Exchequer that ever constructed a Budget " how many shillings are there in 1,325 farthings," and he will, unless originally a " calculating boy," be obliged to call in aid pencil and paper, and go through a couple of divisions before he could tell you that the amount was 31 shillings and nine pence farthing. In the same manner a Yankee boy of 10 years of age would tell you in an instant that 1,525 cents. are 13 dollars 23 cents., while an accomplished arithmetician in England would occupy a couple of lines of calculation in discovering how many pounds there were in 1,525 pence. We do not press this reform upon the Govern ment, however, merely as being requisite to relieve us from a national disgrace. The French, i' s true, have been in the possession of a perfect decimal sys tem of coinage, weights, and measures, for half a century ; and the United States are not behind our European rivals, but "let bygones be bygones." We are a slow people, and can walk longer in a tight shoe than more lively nations, who have more delicate susceptibilities on the subject of pinching. All that wo care about now is, that as we have found out the evil we should have the cure applied as soon as possible. The great argument in favour of a speedy reform is the nee with which it could be effected. There are a multitude of plans for the alteration of the coinage, and all of them are good, all are easy. The Council of the Chamber of Commerce of Liverpool would call in our present copper coin and replace it with a new coinage. The coin of the lowest value they would call a cent., and 1,000 of these would go to the pound. The new penny would contain five of these cents. It will be observed that our present three-penny and four-penny pieces., which the Council do not wish to disturb, would represent values of 12; and 161 cents. The Council, however, do not consider this as presenting any serious obstacle to the retention in circulation of the coins in question, as no practical difficulty has been found in the United States by having in circulation 61 and 121 cent pieces. We can hardly think that the difficulty with =to the three-penny and four-penny pieces be got over so easily, although we should be well Motent to see the experiment OWL We do not, however, consider the =seiner so much in the way as th e am OMs. The plan which wo have recom meadadlisfere la these columns is to recognise the division at the sovereign into 1,000 parts, called cents. Beane. is mind that ultimately the copper coinage should called in, we might let the farthing for the time represent a cent., the difference between the valise of the two being only 1-1200th part of a shil ling. The only new silver coin we should require would be one of the vales of one-tenth of a florin, or two-pence mid two-fifths. The coins that would then enter into our system of book-keeping would be four—sovereigns, fi or M s , " tenths , and sent*. The other coins would be used only in exchange. The Liverpool Council recom mend three only—sovereigns, florins, and cents. The objection to this is, that you sacrifice one of the great objects you wish to ob tain, namely a uniform system of multipliers or divisors, ten being that used between sovereigns and florins, and one hundred between florins and cents. In the Liverpool system, while you could in no case have more than one figure to represent florins, you might have two to represent cents. In our system you can only have one figure in each of the denominations below sovereigns. In the former case you leave an opening for a bungling accountant to make a mistake. In the latter a mistake is almost impossible. For ex ample : suppose a dull boy were told to write down ono sovereign, one florin, and one cent. in the system which admits of three coins only. He would probably write 111 instead of 1101. In the system of four coins, he would know that the number of sovereigns must precede three figures, and ho would naturally be led to put a cypher in the place where the " tenths "—of which there are none in the present instance—ought to come. It is not our business, however, to recommend a specific plan. All that we wish to see is an intention on the part of the CHANCELLOR to adopt some sys tem of decimal coinage or other. The commerce of England is on the point of indefinite extension. Her coins are now current over a greater surface of the world than those of any other nation. They are used as instruments of exchange to • far larger ex tent than those of any other country. Let not each coin that passes through the hands of a foreigner bring to his mind the feet that, in this one subject of currency, we are behind the rest of the world. I Let Mr. GIADSTONE take the matter boldly in hand —let the Liverpool Chamber of Commerce, and all other Chambers of Commerce, assist him in the task of decimal coinage, and he and they will earn golden opinions from all classes of men. IMPERIAL TArre.—A Frankfort journal states that it is able to communicate the interesting fact that General O'Donnell has received from the Archduchess Sophia, in memorial of the service he rendered the Emperor on the 18th ult., a gold ring with • large turquoise. Under the stone are severs] hairs of the Emperor, clotted with the im perial blood GAROTTING IN GLAM.:I/W.—As a gentleman was returning home; on Friday evening, about ten o'clock, and had crossed the ferry at Clyde-street, he was accosted by three men dressed as sailors, who appeared tipsy and anxious to fasten • qearrel upon him. Wishing to avoid them, he turned up Washington-street and walked quietly away, but had not proceeded tar when he felt himself wised by the neck from behind, and dragged into a close, where he was knocked down, robbed of his watch, hand kerchief, sod other contents of his pockets, and brutally kicked in the face till he fainted. On recovering he found himself lying in a pool of blood, with one of his hands in jured ea it trodden on, his nose laid open, and his face much bruised ; sad it was with much difficulty be was enabled to reach his home in Hope-street, where he had immediately to he put to bed, and still lies seriously ill from the injuries inflieted.—North British Daily Mail. THE EXPRESS, FRIDAY EVENING MARCH 18, 185 S. MR. SERJEANT ADAMS AND MARY HILL (Fres the Daily Nom ) Lord PALMERSTON last night in the House of Commons condescended to adopt a tone very like that of a buffoon —seemingly for thesakeofdivertingatten tion from the gra* ity of certain allegations against the way in which justice is at times administered on the bench of Middlesex. Is reply to the question of the gallant member for Westminster about the • case of MARY HILL, Lord PALMERSTON said: I beg to my that the caws to wbish M hu referred is, in some respects , such as he has described it, but net in all itecir entwinement. It is quite true thata woman was convicted of • robbery, committed under circumstances which, lam told, , are not now unfrequent. It appears that a system is now practised by which " ladies" of engaging • induce gentlemen who walk the street. at undue hours— (laughter)—to accompany them to lonely situation., and while engaged, so my hon. and gallant friend hes said, in " amversation"—(great laughter)—contrive to extract valuable property from their pockets. Thereupon there issue upon him some male confederates, one of whom claims the lady as his wife, and reproaches the gentleman with in terfering with his connubial rights—(roan of laughter)— and while the discussion is going on, the lady" escapes with the booty, and the gentled:alibis only too happy Wreaks his escape without any material personal injury. (" Hear hear," and laughter.) This "lady" was engaged in carry iug on a transaction of this kind, was arrested by the police, rescued by her male confederates, but again arrested sad brought to trial. Sir DE LACY EVANS, in asking the question of which he had given notice, had prefaced it by a description of the circumstances out of which the charge of felony arose. We see how ingeniously the SECRETARY of STATE thought proper to parody the story. On the felony itself there could be little difference of opinion. Both prosecutor and prisoner were persons of loose habits, and the woman being found guilty of robbing her temporary paramour, it became, of course, the duty of Mr. Serjeant ADAMS to pronounce sentence upon her. This sentence, as all newspaper readers now know, was seven years' transportation for the felony. Afterwards came the point on which Mr. Serjeant ADAMS was the person to be condemned. rho woman was indignant, and called a policeman a pig, in presence of the even-tempered Judge —and for thus using a loose tongue, that occupant of the judicial bench sentenced her to thre years' additional transportation. It was this extra punishment to which we drew attention, and to this also was it that Sir DE LACY EVANS had the manliness and good feeling twice to draw the notice of the House of Commons. Either Mr. Serjeant ADAMS was right in his sentence on the woman MARY HILL of three years in the hulks for calling a policeman a pig, or he was wrong. If he was right, the sentence should have been persisted in, and Lord PALMERSTON'S tone might have been dignified and calm—if he was wrong, was it the business of the SECREIARY of STATE for the HOME DEPARTMENT—a minister having charge of the admiuistration of justice in this country— when asked in his place in the House of Commons a question about the conduct of a Judge in the admi nistration of the law, so to frame his speech in reply as to excite "laughter, " "load laughter," " mars of laughter?" Does LA.— PALMERSTON think the mode of administering justice in England a matter of joke—ur does be desire to briug it into derision ? His mode of treating the subject now under inquiry leaves this in oinething . very like doubt. Instead of expressing candidly his view of the point at issue, and stating the whole truth,— that Mr. Serjeant ADAMS had been obliged to read his illegal sentence, and that the woman would only suffer the punishment due under the verdict, and not be compelled to endure the extra three years for an exhibition of ill temper, Lord PALMERSTON chose to use all those peculiar Parliamentary arts which he can so skilfully practise to divert the attention of he Chamber he was addressing from the real point at issue. He evidently thought the case a sub ject for humorous display rather than serious con sideration. He spoke of a miserable oonvicted street-1 walker as " • lady," and having set up this poor' , joke, spoke to it, and secured the laughter of the House. Under the roar of this the explanation was trippingly given that " Mr. Serjeant ADAMS had informed him (Lord PALMER , wroN) that he (Mr. Serjeant ADAMS) had acted in , that manner for the purpose of deterring other per sons from any violent conduct in the court, but that it was his intention in the exercise of a power granted to him by net of parliament to altwr lbw see . tenee during the continuance of the session, and the sentence of seven years' transportation would be carried out on the lady, as was originally intended." , The " roars of laughter" which greeted Lord PAL , misits•roN's speech in this case,—however agreeably • they may have run in hisears last night,—will neither deceive the common sense nor satisfy the moral feeling of the public at large. Away from the Assembly where the explanation was afforded people will only trouble themselves to recognise the salient points of this case. These are clear enough. A Judge pronounces a sentence unrecognised by the law —this irregularity excites the challenge of the Press —a Member of the House of Commons, in his place in Parliament, does his public duty by asking the Government of the day tor an explana tion—the propriety of the challenge and of the question are both tacitly admitted by the withdrawal of the sentence and the putting forward of a melancholy excuse from the Jude. The seriousness and soundness of the allegation against the administration of justice in the metropo firms county of Middlesex being thus virtually unde niable, the Roma SECRETARY thinks a tone of an tique jocularity the one in which he should deal with the subject. Oa the points • thus stated the public verdict may lie easily divinedi—and with the public we are now quite content to leave itj—merely adding that for ourselves the result is what we strove for. We felt that injustice had been done—that sn illegal sen tence had been pronounced. We denounced the Judge who had overstepped the line of his duty, and the SECRETARY of STATE now says that sentence has been withdrawn. Once more the Press has been able with success to insist upon justice being done, and it now only remains to be seen how much longer the authorities will run the risk of needing such " ex planations" as that of last night. irDe Court. Her Majesty had a dinner party last evening, at Buckingham Pilaw. The company included the Duchess ' of Kent, the Princess Adelaide of llohenlohe, the Duke of Norfolk, the Chevalier and Madame Busman, the Berl and Countess of Derby, the Earl and Countess of Shaftesbury, the BAH and Countess of Rosebery. Bui Delawarr, Lady Fanny Howard, and Lord lenses Murray. The Duchess of Kota visited the Duchess of Gloucester yesterday, at her residence, Gloucester-house, Piccadilly. A deputation on the subject of the leases to occupiers of crown lands in the colony of Victoria, had an in t ' with the Duke of Newcastle yesterday, at the Colonial office. The deputation consiste d of Messrs. Henry Moon, Cecil Birch, Arthur Birch, Niel Black, A. F. Motlisar, A.l). Lang, S. P, Winter, J. Stanley Carr, and John Hobert Murphy (of Victoria), and Colonel Ferrar Hamil ton, Mt. T. Stewart Gladstone, Mr. Joseph Morrison, and Mr. John Connell. . . . Mr. Maaterman, M.P., and Mr. Gregsoe, M.P., had an in terview with the Chancefloret the Ezehequer yesterday, at his official residence in Downing-street, to present a memo rial for the reduction of the tea duties. A depntatioa from Healey and Skelton had an interview yesterday with the General Board of Health, at their °facts, Whitehall. The deputation consisted of Messrs. Robert Brown, Thomas Simpson, Thomas Gilman, Thomas Pidduck, and Thomu Griffin. They were accompanied and introduced by Mr. Ayshford Wise, M.P. Sir Charles sod Lady Mary Wood had a dinner party on Wednesday, at their residence in Chesham•place. The company were the Eirl and Coulitess of Cluendon, Earl Granville, the Lord• Advocate, the Marquis of Lansdowne, the Count, Countess, and Miss de Flahault, Lord and Lady Bessborough, Mr. Charteris, the Right Hon. Sidney Her bert, Mr. llardinge, and Mrs. H. Herbert. The Marquis of Winchester had an interview with Vis count Palmerston on Wednesday, at the Home-office. Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial-office from the Governor of the Falkland Islands. Sir J. Belly John Laird, Mr. Thompson, and Mr. End field had an interview with Sir J. Graham at the Admi ralty yesterday. DELAY OF THE NORTH MAILS.—The early morn ing mail from London, leaving Euatun-square by 8 o'clock, and due in Manchester at 12.30, did nut arrive In Man chester with the morning papa I's and letters until about 3 p.m. It was reported that the train had gone off the rails between London and Rugby. THE ACuTR.tLIAN MAIL brought by the Sydney arrived at Plymouth on Wednesday evening, about an boar after the departure of the London mail, end, conse quently, it did not reach London before last evening. THE UNITED STATES MAIL STEAMER FRANKLIN left Cowes for New York on Weilwiday night with French and English mails for America. She had 700 tons of cargo on board from ncre, the largest cargo ever taken out by any of the American packets. FRANCE. PARIS, THVIUDLT Evasixo. Lord Stratford de Radcliffe had an audience of the Emperor, to take leave previous to his departure for Constantinople. A convention between France and Wurtemberg for the extradition of fugitives from justice is pub lished in to-day's Mon liflir. The Three per Cents. marked a rise at the termi nation: of business to-day of 25c. for cull, and 10e. for the account, being last called 80f. 95c. for the former, and 80f. 85e. for the latter. The Four-and a-Half per Cents. fell 15c., closing at 103 f. 95c. for the account, and Bank Stock at 2,740 f. Railway shares were actively dealt in, and prices had an advancing tendency. The follow ing are the latest prices of other conti nental bourses, receivedby telegraph to-day :—Vienna Metallique Five per Cent., 94 ; Emp., 1851, 107/ ; Lombardo Venetian, 100!; Bank, 1,422. Berlin : Emp. Four-and-a-Half per Cent., 103;; ditto, Three and-a•Half, 931 ; Banque, 1091. Frankfort : Me tallique Five per Cents., 861 ; ditto, Series A, 861 ; ditto, Four-and-a-Half, 77 15-16 ; Lombardy Five per Cents., 92 ; Spanish Three per Cents., 441 ; Bel gium Two-and a-Half per Cents., 574 ; ditto, Four and-a-Half per Cents., 991. Antwerp: Emp. Four and-a-Half per Cents., 994 ; ditto, Four-and-a-Half, con. 1852, 99 ; ditto, Three per Cents., 1838, 741 ; Antwerp Metallique Five per Cents., 851. PARIS, WZDWIJIDAY EVENING. The mansion in the Place Vendome lately occu pied by the general commanding the let military division, and which under Louis Philippe belonged to the inf endance generale of the civil list, is now being sumptuously tarnished for Marshal Magnan. He w;11 inhabit it, however, not as Commander-in- Chief of the army of Paris, but as Grand Vencur, the which feudal designation has just been placed on a tablet of black marble over the entrance door. In the last sitting of the Corps Legislatif, the transatlantic packet question was incidentally al luded to. In the course of the short debate which took place on the Colonial Postage Bill, M. Le Conte, the reporter, in observing upon the im portance of dispatch in the delivery of commercial letters, stated that colonial correspondence sent by English packets was frequently delivered in England 48 hoar, before letters brought by the same mails arrived in France. He suggested that government would do well to send a steamer to bring the French correspondence the instant it arrived in the Eng lish ports. He also urged the necessity of hastening the solution of the transatlantic packet question. M. Vintry, councillor of state, the government commis sary, said that the question was now under examina tion, a special committee under the superintendence of the Minister of Finance, having been occupied with it for several months past. The suggestion that a steamer should be sent to England tor French colonial mails would be considered; but should the transatlantic packet service be speedily established, the necessity for any such measure would be super. sided. ITALY. Considerable excitement prevailed at Turin on the 12th. That morning a convict had been formally executed by hanging, and when the body had re mained on the gallows the usual time it was taken down for burial. While the officers were removing it, a cough was heard from the coffin. When this was opened, it was sykent from many signs that the wretched man had not entirely lost his life. He was taken to the residence of the chaplets), and means were adopted to restore him, but he died in a few hours. It appeared that strangulation not having I destroyed the intravertical nervous centre, the sus pension of respiration had not produced the usual mortal effect. In the Chamber of Deputies, on the same day, a discussion took place, and the following resolution was passed: "The Chamber, inviting the ministry to present a law correcting the present pre scriptions of the penal code relative to capital punishments, passes to the order of the day." The following names are included in the list of Lombard noble', upon whose estates the Emptror of Austria has laid his spoliating hand: Count Oabrio Cwti, Count Francois Anse, Count Henri Martini, Count Vitaliano Borromeo, Couut Gilbert Bor man*, Duke Antoine Litta Aram, Count Jules Litta Arese, Monsignor Francois gimonssm, Marquis Jules Fersoghi, Count Vitaliano Crivelli, Monsignor Elie Poli, Cum.% Marc Oreppi, Marquis Hoaaleid'Ord6no, Prince,. Christine Bar biano di Belgiojoso, nee Trivultio, Monsignor Henri Car nnschi, Marquis George Phii•ViCirli Trivoisi, Count Her cule Oldoiesdi Tadiui, Baron Vincent Coati, Monsignor Gabriel Canioni, Monsignor Batiste Camoszi, Count ()crave Tose*, Count Abbondio Barbiano di Belgiojoso, Monsignor Francois Columbani, Monsignor Paul Carcano, General Joseph Jnempetti, Monsignor Charles Litta, Monsignor Louis Litta Biumi Major Fontana, Colonel Ja c q ues - Chevalier Soma, Ma rquis George Asinsondi. . _ Count Gyulai has relieved the Milanese of the obligation to light up their houses every night; but in case of any disturbance of the public peace, every window on the first story of the street where it occurs must be illuminated during the night under the severest responsibility of the landlords. In case the report of cannon be heard from the castle, all the streets of the city must be illuminated in the same manner. Whenever there is a disturbance of public tranquillity, every landlord must immediately have his door shut. No one is to remain in the streets. From 7 in the evening to 7 in the morning; no one, whether on foot, on horseback, or in a carriage, is to remain on the bastion surrounding the city. GERMANY. AUSTRIA. Yesterday evening the Emperor appeared at the " Burg" Theatre, which presented a scene that those who witnessed it will not soon forget. The married ladies in full dress—the court mourning was laid aside for the occasion—were literally covered with =stoma. The spinsters in general wore pink with natural flowers in hair and dress. The desire to be present was so great that those ladies who bad not their boxes (the boxes can only be taken See alternate days in the Court theatres) appeared be the first, and probably the last, time in their lives, in the pit-stalls. His Majesty, who was received in a way which beggars all description, after re peatedly rising and bowing to the audience, retired to the back of the box and led forward his parents. The Archduke and Archduchess were almost.' vehemently cheered as the Emperor himself had been. After the second act, the monarch, who still appears weak, retired. It is stated that persons who have to trans act business with his Majesty are perfectly satisfied that his intellect is in no way affected. Dr. See burger, the physician, has received the Order of St. Leopold, and it is rumoured that the surgeon, M. de Wattmann, is to be raised to the rank of a b aron. General Haynau's death was quite unexpected. After his Italian journey he appeared in excellent health, and was somewhat less eccentric than before his departure. On Saturday he joined the other general officers at the Bellaria, and attracted the particular notice of his Majesty, who addressed him on passing with "My salutation, General " (Griiss vie, Herr General). Yesterday he was at the Mer cantile Union as usual. At midnight he re turned to Munsch's Hotel, where he was lodging, and soon retired to rest. At half-past 1 ho summoned his valet, and directed him to fetch him a glass of water, as he felt unwell. When the man returned he found his master gasping for breath ; in short, in the agonies of death. Medical assistance was imme diately called in, and an attempt to take blood Irom the General's arm was made, but in vain. Gen eral Haynan had ceased to be. TURKEY. Telegraphic messages, received by way of Vienna, announce the arrival of the Czar's envoy, Admiral Prince Menaikoff, at Constantinople on the 28th ult., with a numerous suite. It was rumoured in the Turkish capital, that Fuad Effendi, Minister of Foreign Affairs, was about to resign his poet. A contemporary publishes telegraphic despatches on this subject, dated Constantinople, March 6, in which it is lurther said, that on the 2d of March the Muscovite proceeded direct to the Sultan, and ab stained from paying the Minister of Foreign Affairs the customary• visit. On the next day Fuad Effendi placed his resignation in the hands of the Sultan, who accepted it, atter a delay of three dap, and appointed Itifaat Pasha his successor. On the demand of the Grand Visier, the Charge d'Affaires of England had sent despatches to Achui rat Dundee, commanding the fleet in the Mediter ranean, at present at Multa, begging him to come, with all convenient speed, and to anchor in the Archipelago. The last accounts from Moldavia state that the reigning Prince had left Jassy, and that a Govern ment Council had been formed there. THE CAPE OF GOOD HOPE AND AUSTRALIA. We add the following to our abstract of news re ceived by the Sydney in our paper of yesterday : CAPE OF GOOD HOPE. The latest date from the frontier is Feb. 1. The Governor was at King William's Town, actively en gaged, it was reported, in considering the terms of peace which should be required of the Kaffirs. The war was thought to be at an cud, but the country was very unsettled, and the sullen submission of the natives augurs but ill for a prospect of permanent tranquillity. It will be long probably before any of the troops can be withd rawn f rom t h e colony with safety—if, indeed, the time should ever arrive. We take the following particulars from the SutithAfrican C:mittiercial Advertiser of F e b. 5 The Sydney takes intelligence from the Cape only ten days later than the Indiana. In the interval small parties of marauders have shown themselves on the borders and within some of the frontier districts, who have been ac tively pursued by the burghers and mounted police, and generally with success. Some ten or twelve rebel Rotten tons had surrendered at or near Whittlesea, but nothing certain is known of the Hottentot leader, Brander, or of the Ksflir chiefs, Sandilli , aud Macomo. There was a re port that some arrangement was in prestress with these Gaika chiefs, on the condition of their retiring beyond the Kei, a considerable number of their people having been permitted to mingle with the friendly tribes in lower Kaf &laud. and hit Excellency's expression in a general order of the 26th of January, that " this arduous contest (is) now happily broug h t to an sod," gives some colour to it. THE PENINSULAR MAILS. The Oriental Company's steam packet, Iberia, Captain J. Bowen, arrived at Southampton yesterday morn ing, and larnled her mails under the charge of Lieutenant John Brown, 11.. N., Admiralty 'gent. Her dates are Gibraltar, Bth. Match; Cadre, ; Lisbon, 11th ; Vigo, 13th. She had no communication with Oporto. The Minister of Finance, K. Fontes, had laid before the deputies a bill to authorise the government to pu: down the monopoly of tobacco mad soap, and to allow thu growth of tobacco at Madeira e.nd other Portuguese islands; the measure to be carried by agreement with the present contractors, and without any indemnification. The an swer of the House of Deputies to the Q11121:1101% Speech had been carried almost unanimously, and in conse quence of its being ascertained that many Peers had re solved upon opposition to the approval of the dictatorial laws, a hatch of 20 new members had been creatcd, many of whom had taken their seats. The upper house was still engaged in the debate upon the reply to the throne. The special committee of deputies had reported in favour of the approval of all the dictatorial decrees since the Said. ache insurrection of Ilia. Her Majesty's steamer Inflexible was at anchor in the Tagus. Her Majesty's steam frigate Furious, and steam vessel Antelope, were at Gibraltar on the Bth inst. MASSACRE IN THE BERENICE AND BURNING OF THE VESSRL. A most tragical event has unhappily befallen the master, his lady, and officers of the English ship Berenice, in the Straits of Gaspar, while on a voyage to Sydney, who were horribly murdered on board, and their ship afterwards destroyed by tire. A previous mail lied given rite to some fears of • vessel having been burnt in the Straits, and an impression was sntertaiaed that the di lated ship was the Berenice, which was missing ; and from the fact of some of the fragments of the wreck having been picked up bearing die Berenice'. initials, little doubt was felt in the matter. Much anxiety then 'arose as to the fate of those on board, who comprised Captain Candy, his wife, first and second mates, a Frenchman (a passenger for Austra lia) two servants of Mrs. Candy, and about 35 hands. With the exception of the officers, there were but few Europeans among the crew, whn, for the most part, were Java and Manillamen. The ship sailed on the 6th o: Jane from Singapore for Shanghae, and then from that port to Sydney on the 4th of November, with the intention of calling at Java. Several of the crew evinces! a strong desire to leave the vessel on her reaching that island, hut the captain holding out an increase of wages and additional rations to take the ship on to Sydney, they ware induced to remain, and the vessel proceeded. Nothing was heard of her until about the 10th of December, when a report reached Marabaya, the residence of Togel, of the remains of a burned wreck having been discovered in the Straits. A day or two previously, a boat containing 15 persons ar rived at Mamba's, who, on landing, dispersed themselses inland before the authorities had time to institute in quiries about them; and on the day following another boat came in with a similar number, and same character of men, a mixture of Java and bliusillamen. When inter rogated, they stated that they were the crew of a pral.o belonging to Rhio, laden with gambrie, which they repre sented lied capsized, and that a boy had been drowned. The whole of them adhering to that one statement, they were released, their story at the time being believed to be true. The police, however, had their suspicion meowed by the con duct of some of the men, as they displayed much anxiety to part from each other's company and to leave the place, and it was not until they had been subjected to a most searching inquiry that the truth was revealed. Some of them at length confessed to having belonged to the Berenice, and to the horrible fate which the captain and his officers met with. According to their representations, it seems that, on the 2nd of December, a mutiny broke out amongst several of the Manillamen, on account, as alleged, of the muter not having allowed them the additional rations which he had previously promised. About midnight, they got Mr. Candy on the quarter-der k, where they horribly murdered him. His wile, hearing his cries, rushed on deck with two of the officers, when they also immediately fell a sacrifice. The third mate and the French passenger,'who witnessed the tragedy, leaped overboard to wimps the vengeance of the wretches, and perished. Mrs. Candy's servants shared • similar fate' as their unhappy mistress. Tne whole of the bodies, with weights attached so them, were burled into the sea. The ringleaders then took to plunder the ship of everything that was portable, and, after some two or three days' riotous living on board, they commenced destroying her. Having lowered the boats they kindled a fire in several parts of her, said when she had got completely alight they abandoned her. By the last accounts the authorities were aging *very effort to bring the principal actors in the bar barous acts of murder and piracy to justice, and u many as nine had been lodged in the gaol of Togel. The Berenice was freighted with a valuable cargo of tea, and her loss is, therefore, considerable. MURDER OF TWO CHILDREN AND SUICIDE OF THE MURDERER. lIRIBI OL, THURSDAY, MARCH 17. The faahionablo locality of Clifton has just been thrown into a state of the utmost excitement and alum, in consequence of the discovery of a most appalling tragedy, which has been perpetrated by a respectable muter shoe maker named Isaac Tucker, who after having murdered his two children, aged respectively five and three years, by cut hug their throats with a shoemaker's knife, put a period to his own existence in the same way. It would seem from what particulars have as yet transpired, that the deceased , had recently taken a house upon Princes-place, near the Royal York-crescent, Clifton, in which for many years Mr. Kempster, shoemaker to the Queen, carried on business, and into the possession of which Tucker entered, with his family, only a few days since. To-day, at between tweve and me o'clock, his wife had occasion to come into Bristol on some business, and he was left at home in the Muse with his children and a female servant. Soon after his wife left he was observed to come down stairs, go to the street door, look up and down the thoroughfare, and then go to a looking glass and survey putting out his tongue and working it about in a somewhat strange manner. He then went up stairs, and soon afterwards his eldest littie girl went up also. Nothing subsequently was heard of any of them, hut soon after, upon a person going up stain, the doer was discovered to be locked, and upon its being afterwards broken open, all three of them were discovered quite dead, their clothes I saturated with blood, and their throats out in &shocking manner, the head of the youngest being all but completely severed from the body. The instrument with which the fatal deeds had been accomplished w a s a sh oe - ma k er ' s knife I having a remarkably keen edge, which was found in the room. The fatal occurrence has created quite a sensation iu the neighbourhood, and the house, since the letelisoi were discovered, has been surrounded by crowds of persons. In formation has been sent to the coroner, and the inquest will be held tomorrow. THE EXPLOSION ATLONGSIGHT. THE VERDICT. The inquest on the tour men killed by the explo sion of a locomotive engine boiler at Longsiiiht, belonging to the London and North Western Railway Lompany, Wel% brought to a conclusion on Wednesday evening after our . report was despatched. Mr. Cooper, out-door ►uperinten dent of the company, and the leading servants of the com pany were present. The jury found that the deceased were killed by the ex plosion of the boiler of the No. 1 locomotive of the Loudon and North Western Company, and "from the evidcnce we are of opinion that the boiler was in a defective condition, and unsafe to be worked." MESSIEURS JEVANJEE I'ESTONJEE AND Rl:sit/1%1- Jan VICCMII wish it to be stated that ao memorial of theirs has been returned to them by the Board of Control " because it vas in print." The r. *lion of any document for such a reason has nut occurred M their cam, whatever may have been done in °thin. ELECTION EXPOSUIIES. NORWICH. The committee appointed to inquire into the with drawal of the petition against the last election for Norwich, which had adjourned from Tuesday last (as reported in the Daily News), met again yesterday morning, to resume the inquiry (Mr. Buncombe, chairman). The public interest in the question seemed by no means abated, as the room was thronged throughout the day, and a large number et hon. members were present. Lord Ranelagh was examined, at the request of, and by Mr. Brown, the p irliamentary agent. Mr. Brown—Have you read the evidence, Lord Ranelagh, given before this committee on the previous days? Lord Ranelagh-1 hare—more especially that portion of it which relates to myself. Mr. Brown—ls it not your lordship's wish to make your own statement ? a Lord Ranclagh—l should prefer doing so. His lordship went on to say—l wish to explain two or three conversa tions I had with Colonel Dickson. Colonel Dickson and myself have been on very triendly terms for some years. After his return frout:Nerwich, he told me he had every reason to believe that he had a very good case of bribery, corruption, and intimidation, whist the sit ting member,. Before the meeting of parliament, Col. Dickson called uaon me and asked me to he one of his recognisance': he informed me it would he better to have two, and he mentioned the name of Captain Hines as the other. 1 advised him to go down to Norwich, which ha consented to do after his recognisances had been accepted, and that I would meet him there. My reason wan, that I might put myself in communication with two or three leading members of tint conservative party in Norwich, to acertam if the petition would hold good. It was-mgr: ed sea should meet at Norwich the following day. I proceeded there, and I made inquiries if it was a good ease. 'the reply was, undoubtedly. I teen asked, now that Lord Douro was Duke of Wellington, were they prepared to fight for Colonel Dickson stoat ? 'I tie answer w.s that Colonel Dickson had made himself very popular and very much liked, and they were quite disposed to aid in this petition by money or otherwise. There the conversation ended. Colonel Dick son arrived the next churning. 1 repeated this cons ersa tion to him, and told him I was glad he had such a good chance of success. I asked him who his parliamentary agent was, and he said Mr. Brown. I said, lum sorry for that. I wish you had taken a more independent agent. Colonel Dickson replied, " Oh, Brown's a capital fellow; he was recommended to me by Colonel Forester, and he'll do well." I said "You'll find Brown, who is a conserva tive agent, will have fid or GO petitions to lank otter, and, I besides, when he has a week raititiou like your., it is most 1 likely to be thrown over." I rid out oven by that anything personal to Mr. Brown, as I had no previous knowledge of him : but what I meant was that, even if Col. Dickson succeeded-in unseating the sitting members, he could not seat himself On the day I heard the p.dition Iwas withdrawn 1 west into the Conservative Land Society, and Colonel Dickein was there, and said, "My lord, you were quite right ; 1 have been thrown over." 1 said l was not surprised. I think I had no further conversation with Colonel Dickson till last Tuesday week, when he asked ma what reason I had to suppose that Brown would throw him over. I recapitulated my conversation with him at Nor -1 with. I said i knew nothing of Brown personeliy, and therefore I bad no reason to suppose he would act dis -1 honestly, but that I thought, front the number of petitions he had to conduct, when it came to the last moment his (Colonel Dickson':) petition would be thrown over. I begged Colonel Dickson not to mention my mune, as I did I not wished to be mixed up in the matter. Colonel Dicksuu—l believe, Lord Rantlegh, you con sider me an active member of the Censers attve Laud So ciety ? Lord Ranelagh—i always considered you an honest, straightforward conservative. Colonel Dickson—Did you ever hear me try to run down the Derby administration ? Lord Itanelagh—Never. Colonel Dickson—Did you not often hear me gay I would. subscribe moat handsomely to this petition ? Lord Ranelagh—l did, and that the conservatives of Nor wich were prepared to back you in it. The Chairman—ls there much disappointment felt in Nor wich at the withdrawing of this petition ? Lord Itanelagh—Very great disappointment. The Chairman—lt has been stated here that if the peti tion bad gone on you would have subscribed to it? Loud Itanelagh—l would. I have no doubt, from what I heard, the expenses of the pentium—from lOW. to 1,5001. —would have been subscribed. The Chairman—That would not came oat of Colonel Dickson's pocket ? Lord Ranelagh—No. I don't see why it should. I think Colonel Dickson would put down from 3001. to 5001. towards it, judging from a conversation I had with him a week ago. I should say 1,0004 would be forthcoming. 'the Chairman—What reason had you to suppose it was a good cue ? Lord Ranelagh—l believed it from what I heard from three or tour gentlemen who felt an interest in it, and went Into the cases of bribery, corruption, and intimidetic n, and who said they had every reason to believe it was a good case. The Chairman—Who laid this case before these gen tlemen ? Lord Ranelagh—l don't know. I should say nut Mr. Brown, but the local agents. Colonel Dickson said he should ;Ike now to cross-examine Mr. Brown. The Chairman intimated that the committee could not go into any fresh matter. Colonel Dickson then banded to the chairman a written list of questions which he wished to put to Mr. Brown, and 1 which be said were mo s t importa n t. Mr. Kitten was then agile mollified as to his share in the withdrawal of the petition, and he stated that lie hail never I instructed Mr. Brown to withdraw tne petition. Mr. Brown acknowledged receiving • letter from him on the eubjeet, but did not say it was an extraordinary letter. Mr. Brown was next called, and moss-examined by CoL Dickson. Ile stated that at the meeting at his office on the Mb November, he found, by referring ro his book, Colonel Forester, Colonel Dickson, and Mr. Kitten were present ; but, as be had stated before, Colonel Forester had no com manication with him as to this petition. His belief was, that Colonel Forester came in, as he was in the habit of doing, accidentally, but he was not there when he (Brown) wrote the lever to Kitton. The reason why he wrote to Kitten to obtain subscriptions at Narvrio.h for the petition was, because Kitten had asked him to dose, so a letter from him (Brown) would have more weight. In reply to the Chairman, Mr. Brown said he had always a favourable opinion of the care. In reply to further questions by Colonel Dickson, the witness said it was true that Captain Ives had one of the best houses in Norwich, end that Lord Itanelaelt had a large estate within three miles of Norwich, and consequently his recognisances were local men. In answer to the committee, the witness said lie himself sever had been surety fur say election petit ion, but he knew that Mr. Coppock had. Colonel Dickson—What consideratioa did you receive from Mr Coppock for withdrawing this petition Mr. Brown—Consideration! what do you mean ? Colonel Dickson—Look in the dictionary, and you will find the meaning of the word consideration—you knew what I mean. Mr. Brown—My answer i , --None. Colonel Dickson—Then you chucked it into Mr. Cop pock's lap by way of a lark. (Laughter.) Mr. Brown—l ask the committee if it was not a slander which Co!. Dickson stated Lord Ranclash had said of me. You (Col. Dickson) are the lint man I ever knew who dis trusted me. Mr. Kitton was again called in, and, in reply tl the chairmat, stated he saw Col. Forester once at the Carlton, early in September, and again on the fish November. He read a letter which he received (tom Colonel Forester, is which the colonel said that there as timed to be some misun derstanding as to the withdrawal of the petition, and that any application to the house would do infinite mischief to the party, and that he (Mr. liitt:l9 must runeaaber he had informed hint (Colonel Forester) there were sufficient ground., to unseat the sitting members. Colonel Forester objected to that letter being received in evidence as it was a pri►ate letter. Mr. Brown also objected to it. The Chairman said that letter was perfectly consistent with the evidence Colonel Forester had already given. In reply to the committee, the witness said if Mr. Brows had told ham there was no cue to support the petition, he should have taken no farther steps—he should have lett it entirely to Colonel Forester and Mr. Brown to do u they thought fit forth* interest of the party. The Chairman—Yon think it would be for the interest of the party to pair off a bad petition against a good one ? Mr. Kitten—l hue nut the slightest objection to that. The Chairmen—Colonel Forester has said iu his evidence that all parties make the best bargain they can. Do you do the same ? Mr. Kitton—l would leave it ail to Colonel Forests,. (Laughter.) The Chairman—Did any of the ptitiontrs give you in structions about this petition beton you came to Mr. Brown ? - Mr. Kitten—Yet. ; Mr. Phillips gave me instructions to prepare the petition &lore I went to Mr. Brown. Mr. Kittmi-1 our siite incspal•le of writing any letter for the purpose of rais.nir money. By Colonel Diekson—Did not Brown say to you and Col lins, after the petition kind been withdrawn, that he had in structions to get rid of Dickson ; that Dickson was rather a troublesome fellow, and that he added, " I am very muck behind the scenes ? bted ly Brown did say so, and I was sorry t.) hear him make use of such a disparaging remark about Colonel Dickson. Bmwn—l solemnly find sineerJy declare it is an untruth. The room was then cleared, and the committee remained in delibereCon until four o'clock. Upwards of 100 persons quitted the committee corridor, in expectation that the com mittee would give their dec..ion, but on its transpiring that they would proceed at once to rep,rt at to the house, a dia per/ion soon took place. MALDON. Yesterday, on the rs-a.uembling of the committee, Mr. Du Cane, one of the sittinx members, was exa mined. He deposed that he stood jointly with Miller 102 the representation of Maldi n, and th it it was one of their earliest mutual ilvterrn nations to disenuntenanee any thing bribery or tread' g. Wi{IICSS at one period, when Hr. l),ck same forwart, wi,led to oi•hclroot, but the e,m seryativa party would rot 1.113 w it. lie neither ordered no. et Aliments, nor paid Gtr any during the eli etion y arrar,,, authorised Parker to dr. so. Cross.examinect—Parker cativaiell with rfoils,,frityti. sod introduced him to voters. Witness pa' fityl4,aeskiiii . Gt ~~ ~~" r