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Yawn Tecate', Brougham, k , Marian and Jordan; Weer Terry, LiCeaUe, , awl Ms. Low EZ/TANITIA. Tun Enna°, THE CHUM. —Mr. J. Taylor and Mine. ?tem.—After which Torn King. the Champion of Entiand. with his second, Boa Tyler. will appear on the stage —THE GREAT GHOST SEETCL—Concludlng with THE HOLIES ILION VAX AT LONDON MUDD'. MA DAT Words& 66 as Aftanesa. 7h. 7a. Toao6loll Mamba, 7h. Ma— Afteraoeu. bh. 7a. LONDON, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 17. THE picture of " lame-footed Justice " pur suing, and at length overtaking her victim, is older than HORACE, though no writer, perhaps, ever expressed the idea with more graphic power. There is no .sentiment more common among mankind than that the criminal cannot escape the penalty of his guilt, however long it may be delayed. But unfortunately Justice is too often so tardy in . _. her movements that before she comes up indigna tion at the crime is transformed into pity for the criminal. The mass of mankind have so little imagination, awl are so entirely abeorbed in the thing; before their eyes, that forgetting the atrocities which roused their horror only a few weeks before, they can see nothing but the brutal ruffian who perpetrated them trembling at the dock and cowering for mercy before tbeJudge. It is of some consequence to discourage this per- nicious sentimentality. Nor are there any means more effectual than to shorten as much as possible the intervhl between the act of crime and the punishment of the crimival. Such promptitude has a further advantage—it tends directly to discourage crime. If it were proved by experience, not only that every crime was certain to be de tected, but that detection and punishment must follow within a day or two, the dream of Utopia would be realised, for crime would become impossible. Without the chance of escape no one would be a criminal, and obviously the more cer tain and prompt is the action of the law the leas opportunity will there be for criminals reaping the benefits of their audacity. Of late years it must be admitted that the acienoe of detection has considerably advanced, and punishment follows with laudable speed upon Abe offence, But it may be doubted Whvilog Justice ever displayed more promptitude in pursuit than she displayed in the case of the bricklayer, SAMUEL WRIGHT, who was tried yesterday before Mr. Justice Bucxnuax, and sentenced to death. On Sunday morning last, about half-past 4, Mrs. IRELAND, who slept on the first floor in No. 11, Waterloo-road, was awoke by • thumping noise overhead, and screaming. She was aware that a man named WRIGHT and a woman named MARIAGRERN occupied the room above, where they seemed to be living as man and wife. But they always appeared to be on good terms, sod, indeed, the very night before she had seen them together, as she described, " very happy and comfortable." But, roused by the noise, Mrs. IRELAND got up, struck a light, opened the door, and going up. stairs met WRIGHT "coming down in his shirt " sleeves, which were tucked up, and one of his " arms covered with blood." " Whatever is the " matter, Mr. WRIGHT ?" she said ; to which he answered, "Go and see." She went, and there in the man's room she found his wife on her hands and knees with • fearful gash across her throat, and blood streaming from it. "What lathe matter, " MM. WRIGHT f " Mrs. IRELAND exclaimed ; to which the poor creature, in a very feeble voice, answered, "He has cut my throat." Forthwith the constable was sent for, and when he arrived the doctor was called. But by this time the poor woman was dead. Even without any further details it is difficult to conceive the most ingenious advocate, or even the most infatuated specialist in lunacy, suggesting a doubt of the man's guilt. But if any such doubts could exist they would be dissipated by the conduct of the man at the time, and by the relations existing between himself and his victim. The bloody razor was actually found with which he inflicted the fatal wound. Indeed the man himself picked it up, saying, " I did it with that." Nor were those sudden pangs of fear and remorse which sometimes afflict the murderer wanting. Mscsera, after assassinating " the gracious " Dcircaw," exclaimed— I am afraid to thiok what I have doze, Look on% again—l dare act. So this bricklayer, as he stood by his " blood- 1 " boltered " wife, said, " Take me away as " aeon as possible, I cannot bear to be here any " longer." According to the statement of Mrs. lime" she took them for man and wife because "they lived so comfortably." But, unless we are misinformed, this was not so. Though born in a respectable rank of life and married to one Claw, the poor woman had fallen into misfortune. Her husband had de serted her, leaving her with two children. For a time she bore up, and managed to support herself and her family by dressmaking. At length she cast herself upon the streets. Meeting with Wm= she agreed to live with him and to share with him the wages of her shame. It is said they drank and quarrelled over the division of her gains. It may well, therefore, be, that in an angry discussion she threatened violence, or announced her resolution to leave him. WRIGHT certainly declared that she had taken up a large knife which lay on the table and menaced him. At all events, it is most cer tain that this man, being in his sober senses, cut this Unmet of his mistress last Sunday morning. But on Monday he was before the magistrate, and within two days—that is, yesterday morning —he was sentenced to death. _ There are few cases in which this result could be reached. Most certainly, if any reasonable doubt could have been entertained, it would have been the duty, as it is the practice, of the Judge to postpone the trial, and to assign counsel to the prisoner. But in the present case this was im possible. Not only was the murder committed within hearing and almost within sight of one of the inmates of WRIGHT'S house, but the dying woman bore witness against the man, and he himself persisted in confessing his guilt. The Judge had no course but one open, and it was the course which he followed. THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, DECEMBER l7, 1863. bt Court. WINDSOR CASTLE, D. 16. The Queen drove in the grounds this morning. ♦ Cabinet Council was held yesterday at the official residence of the First Lord of the Treasury, in Downing-street. The ministers present were Viscount Palmerston, the Lord Chancellor, Earl Granville, Earl Russell, the Duke of Newcastle, Earl de Grey, Sir Charles Wood, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Duke of Somerset, the Right Hon. T. Milner Gibson, the Right Hon. Edward Cardwell, Lord Stanley of Alderley, and the Right Hon. C. P. Villiers. The Chas:elks of the Exchequer arrived in town yester day morning from Hawuden Castle, Chester. A meeting of the Finance Committee of the Royal Com mission for the Exhibition of 1851, was held yesterday at the Privy Council-office. Them were present—Earl Glan ville (chairman), Sir Alexander Spearman, Bert., Sir S. Morton Pete, But, WP., Sir C. W. Dilke, Bart., Mr. T. F. Gibers:, Mr. Thring, and Mr. Edgar Bowriog, C.B. (se cretary). Despatches ware received yesterday at the Colonial-office from the Governors of the West India Islands. Despatches were sent to the Governors of British Columbia and Bermuda. The Prince of Wales honoured Mr. Foley. Mr. Noble, sod Mr. Theed, on Tuesday, with visits at their studios. DEPARTURE OF THE COURT FOR OSBORNE.— , (Tme DAY.)—Her Majesty left Windsor Castle this morning for Osborne at a quarter feet eleven o'clock, by I the narrow gauge on the Great Western line of railway, in the South Eastern carriages, by the usual route to Gosport, thus avoiding the inconvenience of &Pugin carriages. Yesterday afternoon her Majesty attended Divine service in the Chapel Royal of St. George Her Majesty, who was in deep mourning, occupied the royal closet by the altar. The Princeeeee Helena and Louisa were also present, and sat is the stills of the Sovereign Knights of the Garter. The service was intoned by the Rev. J. Gore, minor canon, the iffsgai.icat and Nuec Dimitti* was Kelway in A, and the anthem, "Come unto me," Elvey, sung by Mr. Whiffle. The first lesson was rad by the Hon. and Rev. C. L. Courtney, and the se cood by the Hon. and Very Rev. the Dean of Windsor. The Queen came to the chapel and retired privately through the deanery. The Prince and Princess of Wales will leave Froginore House on Monday or Tuesday next, OD • Vila to the Queen at Osborne, where they will spend the Christmas and remain about ten days. On leaving Osborne their royal highnesses will return to Frogmcee House. His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales honoured Mr. Foley, Mr. Noble, sad Mr. Thud ou Tuesday with vial's at their studios. The christening of the infant daughter of General Charles and Countess Aldenbnrg Bentiock took place yes terday (Wednesday) at their home in Grcevenor-strest. Their Royal Higlinemai the Duchies of Cambridge and Princess Mary arrived at one o'clock, the Primes* being olio of the godmothers. The Promise Ambassador and the Countess Bernstoeff represented the Crown Prises and Crown Princess of Prussia as apogean. At two o'clock a breakfast was given. The other gnash' were the members of the family and she Rev. Charles Cavendish &intim*, who performed the ceremony. The Duke of Devonshire, accompanied by Lady Louisa Cavendish and Lords Edward and Frederick Caren dish, are about to leave Chatsworth for Holkar Hall. Lan cashire, when a party will shortly smoothie for the holidays. The aarcophagns of the late King of Denmark bears a silver plate, containing the following WaffiiltiOn Fredetkk the &Teeth, bore Gth October, 1808, ascended AMR el the 20th of January, 1848. Married, first on the 119 November, OA 12 rfieMet Wilhelroine Marie of Denmark ; wood on the 10th June, 1841, to Primer Caroline of Mecklenburg-Strolits ; married by the left hand on the 7th August, 1850, to Lady Christina Louisa Countess of Danner. He restored the popular liberties of Denmark, and boldly defended the independence of the realm. He was the last male of the line of King Frederick 111., aid, with the approbation of his people, elco'sd as his encesmor the husband of his father's sister's &lighter, the eon of hie grandfather's meter's daughter. He died on the 15th November, 1863, when the Primo elect wended the throne as Christian the Ninth. His motto was, ' The love of the people is the strength of my MUSK'. NATIONAL CHORAL SOCIETY, EXETER-HALL. Last evening this society gave for the first time this swop a performance of the Meuiak, under the direc tion of its enterprising founder, Mr. W. G. Martin. With the approach of Christmas the numerous performances of this, the grandest of all oratorios, arsine to attract large audiences, and Exeter-bell was on this °make crowded to the doors. We have already celled attention to the rapid progress the society has made of late, and to the increasing proficiency of the choir. The choruses in the Messiah were leg night given with • steadiness and precision per. featly surprising, the short existence of the society being taken into consideration. The most sublime of all inspira tions, "For unto us • child is born"—in the reading of which, by the way, Mr. Martin entirely differs from Mr. Costa, abstaining from the pianissimo 00111111M01). meet—the members of the choir produced a perfectly elec trical effect on the audience, whose clamorous and enthu siastic encore admitted of no denial. The magnificent Hal lelujah chorus excited equal enthusing', and the perform ance generally was such as to place the moiety in a still higher position amoogst choral anociatione than that it has hitherto held. Mr. Sims Reeves, who is "specially retained' for all Mr. Martin's perfermat cm, bee quite lout all traces of his late illness, and was in magnificent voice. We need scarcely add that under them fa 'curable circumstances his randerieg of the music allotted to him was as near perfection as anything can be. He was mop°, ted by Miu Spiller, Miss Palmer, and Mr. Lewis Thomas, all of whom acquitted themselves to the eatire satisfaction of the vast audience. The band, com. prising as it did most of the leading instrumentalists of the day. was of course unexceptionable. Previous to the oratorio, they played the " Dead March in Saul," in honour of the second sanivenary of the death of the lonseated Prince Cowart. REPRESENTATION OP DEVONPORT.—We us in farmed that the 000stentive party ia Devooport and FAA Stonehenge are prepared with • second candidate to Goa tee the borough, in connexion with Mr. rented, at the next (denim The gentlemse selected will shortly be announced, and address the =enervative electors. Mean time we learn that In is • wealthy City merchant end shipowner, and coanrcted with the county of Devoe as a Ladd proprietor.— Western Morning News. Laintstut. MIMING AT NORWICH.—A meeting of the " adminoid " liberals of Norwich wee held on Tuesday mo i st , "to consider the _present uratidastory Mate of parliamentary affairs." Mr. J. H. TIMMS presided, sad ad drained the meeting at some length, as did al= several other gentlemen. The following resolutions were =opted sawn manly :—"L That the apparent indifference of the present 'disc s u s m so to the great questions in -blob the feel lateneted bee operated most Minimally on the lib ral Eassil, and that unless 111413511/61 be taken to restore eoaL &meg, the discouragement which prevails Is likely to tell seriously against the petty now in newer in the event of a I general election. 2. That this meeting would spolially ea i I siirstion to the conduct of the government oft the =porn= questiocie of parliamentary reform, =arab rates, sad the Irish church, and also to the pretest enormous expeaditan which involves war toization in a tires of peace. 3. That the marchers for the city, in whom this meeting desires to ex peer is confidence, be Tenanted to make it helms in the proper quarter that dissatisfaction prevail. moat • large note= of the liberal party, and reepsctfully to warn our leaden is parliament of the inevitable consequences of • policy latterly irrecoocilable with liberal principles sad pro fessions." The proeeedisga closed with • vote of thanks to the shairansi. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. VENICE. MANIFESTO OF THE VENETIAN COM- MITTEE. The following is the text of the manifesto of the Venetian Committee mentioned by the Aiblair,w of Milan : Fellow Citisena—Evente so long looked for appear to be approachieg. The question is no longer to excite en thusiasm by vain promisee, and your committee no longer does so. We have, tip to the present time, told you that we must wait with coestaney and patience ; that the mute language of our magical. was a solemn protest against Austrian domination—an eloquent declaration of our faith in the King, in the parliament, and in the destinies of Italy, and a continual affirmation of our right, and of our firm determination to unite ourselves to the great Italian country. Now we tell you that the time of bard trials is about to cease, and that the hour for action draws near. Let us be united and await the sigifal. SPAIN. The Contemporaneo of Madrid having published a letter from Santo Domingo, which insinuates that Spain would act wisely in evacuating the island, with the exception of the Bay of Samana, the Epooa declares that so unpatriotic a measure would dis honour the Spanish government in the eyes of the nation and before foreign countries. (lIIIITZS'S TELEGRAN&) REPORTED RAISING OF THE STATE OF SIEGE IN POLAND. HAMBURG, Dec. 17. It is believed that the state of siege in Poland will be shortly abolished. EXPULSION OF LANDED PROPRIETORS AND FARMERS FROM WARSAW. WARSAW, Dec. 17. An order of the government has been published to-day, ordering all the landed proprietors, farmers, and stewards of estates to leave Warsaw within seven days, under a fine of 25 roubles for every day they may delay their departure. It is also decreed that no persons are allowed to leave their usual resi dences without permission of the military com mander. Loyal subjects only are allowed to travel. SWEDEN AND DENMARK. STOCKHOLM, DEc. 17. The semi-official journals state tbat Sweden can not, sod will not, abandon Denmark while in danger. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (max coos owm PARIS, KrinnaLy Ryazan. M. de Is Gueronniere's speech in the Senate yesterday is the best he has ever made. It reads , better than his articles, being free from the ding dong antithetical periods which make them weari some. The report in the Moniteur is worth perus ing at length, as being a well considered exposition of the present views of the party of the "consti tutional empire"—of those whose devotion to the dynasty is beyond suspicion, but who think that it is now strong enough to grant liberty, and not strong enough to go on long without it. This senator, who approves of the coup d'itat—who thinks the restrictions of the constitution of 1852 were necessary at the time—wbo is acquainted, as intimately as any man living, with the workings of imperial institutions from having held confiden tial office under the government for ten years to gether, this Viscount de la Gueronnibre, who has written pamphlets under the Emperor's personal dictation, and has been the censor of the press and the distributor of warnings and communiquis,thinks that the time has now come for " crowning the edifice" with liberty. In terse and clear language he pleaded for administrative decentralisation, fair play at elections, protection of the Emperor's person by larger misisterial reepensibility, and liberty of the press. The latter point he especially insisted upon, arguing very pertinently that the logical consequence of the decree of November, giving increased powers to the Senate and the Corps Legislatif, was that there should be greater liberty of the press. He demonstrated the absurdity of the recent stringent measures of the ' administration against comments upon the debates under the pretext that such comments are " reports," and complained that the government had acted against the clearly-expressed opinion of the Senate on the occasion of a petition which be sup- 30.11 40 3 !WM Ce. 0003 $2 3 um 45 1 4 1173, 11 30.23 41 1 3037 43 1 30.37 44 11 10.36 411 1 30.10 441 10.0111, 4 10.0017 3 11144' 3 311310' _ N. a se' 30.1110 30.1015 30.01 45 1194 45 WM 43 19.35 45 VAG 42 80.36 42 POLAND. General Bosak has scut to the National Govern ment the following report of his successful engage ment at (Memoir on the 28th ult. ; On the 26th, as I was meted with my cavalry at Ociesenk, I was informed that the Russians, consisting of 600 infantry en d 20 Coracks, with two guns, were marching along the high mid front Cisow. I immediately ordered the chief of my staff, Chinialineki, to assemble two companies of infan try sod fifty dregooos, and post them, under Major Brizoiaa, in the way of the enemy. My cavalry, except fifty wham I left as an escort, I seat to Itombow. Our attack on the Remises was • most saccesaful one. Captain Tylman's riflemen, after a rapid and effective fire, charged with the bayonet, and took 21 rifles from the enemy. After an hour's fighting, in which the Russians had great losses, I was informed by my pickets that 600 more Russians were analog up, sod accordingly ordered my men to join the cavalry at Rainbow. As we marched off, the 3rd company of Major IL'e de tachment attacked the Russians in the rear, after which the latter hastily dispersed. It appears from reliable testimony that the loss of the Russians in killed and wounded was ea. On our side 20 were killed and 17 wounded.—Dec.l, 1863. A letter from the palatinate of Augustow, which, as is known, has been separated from the kingdom of Poland and placed under the rule of Mouravieff, thus describes the proceedings of the new governor, Ganecki, who has been sent by Mouravieff to the palatinate. On the first day of his arrival Ganecki severely blamed the military authorities for their excessive lenity, and told them they ought to have hung at least two hundred Poles. He then ordered all the townsmen to come before him, and he began his address by saying, "You are all rebels, and know you deserve to be hanged." Then, turning to M. Charles Witte, the rector of the High School, he abused him in the coarsest language, because he wore a beard and hie pupils did not dress in the Russian uniform. He then ordered 150 persons to be ar rested, among whom were Mrs. Isabella Trzeszcz kowska, a widow, aged 65 ; M. Lutoslawski i a landowner ; M. Troczewski, a magistrate ; M. Pemba, a high official ; Messrs. Andruszkiewicz and Talarowski, priesta ; and M. Ostrowski, a professor in the High School. M. Witte, the rector of the High School, and a priest named Haberkarl, were banished shortly after. Many of those arrested were frightfully beaten in theirprison, and one of them*, M. Troczewski, became so ill in consequence that he was sent to the hospital. The priestTalarowski received 150 lashes, and when he thanked God that he could suffer for his country, was struck in the face by an officer. The priest Andruszkiewicz was so ill treated that his life is despaired of. The Jews Tykociner and Zowinski were also beaten. The truth of the above facts may be relied upon. The prisons in all the towns of the palatinate are full ; that of Lem= alone contains 300 prisoners. The Cracow police has complained to the Roman catholic consistory, that many persons adorn with Powers and flags the tombs of those who have perished in the insurrection, declaring that this is a profanation. The consistory sent the complaint to the municipal council, which answered that the regulations regarding the cemetery are strictly complied with, and that no profanation had taken place, the acts mentioned by the police not consti tuting a profanation. WEATHER REPORT.-(THIS DAY.) THUZ4DAT, DICZYUI 17, 8 A.X. B. B.; D. Nabs .. LOU% fildOcts arhoroeFb.: Vskntia ~:::: i Dred VOtient ..... ---- Plymouth ..... Werroouth Porismotth London Dover ?ROSARY FLOAT. 011 TIM lATTRIAT. N.W, to N.E. and back, NORTf.S/R Northerly, varying, strong, some fall. Conan. strong. unsettled. W. to N. and back, WNW Cunard. N.W. to N.E. and E, stung, rain In strong, some fall. MR. STANSFELD, M.P., AT HALIFAX. Laid night the inhabitants of Halifax gave com plimentary diaper, in the new Tows Hail, to lfr. Joba Crossley, the ax-mayor of the borough. About 200 Leads men eat dare to dinner. Laistenant.Colonel AKIROTO pre sided, and situ the usual loyal touts the Chairman pro. proposed "T'be Army. the Navy. and the Volunteers." Sergeant-Major Cam, of the 2nd West York Yeomanry, responded on behalf of the army. Mr. STANSIELD, M.P., said the toast to which, IS far ea the navy was conoerned, it was now his duty to reply, was one which was always proposed and received with so thuaissat in every meeting of Englishmen. (Hear, hear.) It was • toast to the honour of men who risked their lives, and sometimes lost them, is the service of their country. He felt that it was a tout—being one, as be might say, of the personnel of the navy—to which it would be more fitting that one of the professional member* of that board to which he had the honour to belong should be present to reply. He did not know in what sense he might be considered entitled to reply to the toast, unless it was that he occupied a kind of intermediate posi tion. He might be said to be, is some seam, a connecting link between the navel and the civil elements of the state, in the adminisladion of a great department which absorbed perhaps more than any other the interest, and which attracted also, and rightly so (he would never for one moment object to it), the criticism of the public. He felt it to be a privilege—civilian as he was—to have to t anon that occasion for that noble profeesion—for a N Akers and men who were a profession, but who ranked themselves above all, as in common with at English mee. citizens of one country, though devoted to =ovule& service is the State. It had sometimes been thought, and he had sometimes been inclined to think, that what bad bees wandered as the poetry of the sea had fled , or was fast departing—departing - with the whits sails which used to stud the VAS—with the wings which had bees clipped to make way for those great and noble mechanical power with which in these parts of the country we were so cos. versant ; and it might sometimes be thought, with the mere personal courage and daring so fascinating as it was to men which appeared to be able to achieve any. thing sod everything in the days of Nelson and Dun doriald. (Applause.) But personal daring bad now to take counsel of science, and to invoke the aid of mighty instruments of offence and of defence which were never dreamt of in bygone days. But he believed that the day would never come when that kind of courage which be came and which proved the man would be below its price ; and he believed, moreover, that we bad no cause to regret the pregame of mechanical invention as applied to the nave, for it rendered more and more necessary, and it tended more and more to produce, an elevation of the general character, intelligence, and education of the men who composed the crews. (Loud applause.) He appealed to all those who might have bad the op portunity, in the course of the past summer, of coming in contact with the men who composed the crews of the Channel squadron, whether be woe not right in what he said—whether in point of orderly conduct, whether in respect of a firm and yet, as compared with former times, a gentle discipline, and whether in respect of general intel ligence, sobriety, and elevation of character, the navy did net stand higher now than in any days which had gone be fore. (Applause.) He was proud, in the name of the officers and of the men of that navy—unworthy though he might be—be was proud upon that occasion to express, in their name, their hearty thanks for the honour which bad, with such cordiality, been conferred upon them.—(Cheers.) After the toast of the evening had been proposed and re. speeded to, Dr. PIGGOT proposed "The Health of the West Riding Members." Sir FIUNCTS Csossurr, Bart. M.P., replied. Referring to the policy of non-intervention punned by this country in foreign affairs, he said he believed it was one which met with the approval of the country at lug& We had gone through a long experience before adopting this policy, and that experience had bees dearly bought. It was no small honour to England that she should be appealed to by all ea tans in time of war and distress, and we were at all times anxious to give advice in favour of libertyand opposed to op prooion and tyranny ; but when we were asked to supply force, it became England first to consider her duty to her large population and her extensive colonies before interfering elsewhere. Alluding to the struggle in America, the hon. baronet said that whether the Union were preserved or not, he well sure that what would he best for the majority of the people of America, would be best also for the majority of the people of this country. With raiment to continental affili p ie i rroved of the letter of Earl Russell in reply to the that England should join a worms. (Cheers.) Mr. Wit. MORRIS next proposed "The health of the Borough Members." Mr. STANSPTLD, M.P., responded. He bad, he said. spared no labour and so patience in the investigation which he had made into the affairs of that department over which he had beep placed. His aim had been not to make out a case for this side or the other, but to get at the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. He would sot disclose secrets which belonged to the next statement of the Secretary of the Admiralty, but again say that his object had been to discharge the duties devolving upon him in a worthy manner. Referring to the absence of Sir Charles Wood, who had been summoned to town on Ingest businees, be said he would read a letter which Sir C. Wood had received from General Knol!ys. It was as follows : " Marlborough House, Pall-mall. Dee. 3,188.3. " My dear air Charles,—The Prince of Wales has heard that the inhabitants of Halifax are about to place, by subscription, the portrait of their late Mayor, Mr. Crosslay, in the Town-hall. It would be a source of great gratifica tion to his royal highness, in remembrance of all the bowl tidily he received at Mr. Crowiley's house, and of all the pleasure which his visit to Halifax afforded him, to contri bute his quota in common with the citizens of Halifax towards such a testimonial to Mr. Creesley's valuable ser vices as mayor.—Belleve me, my dear Sir Charles, very sincerely yours, " H. KNOLLTS." SHOCKING DEATH PION NEGLECT OP THE POLICE-SPECIAL VERDICT. An inquiry wan held by Mr. H. Raffles Walthew, d e p u ty-coroner, at the Spread Eagle Tavern , Homertoo; : last night, respecting the death of James Hollo mar, aged I 4$ years, alleged to have loot his life through the inhumanity of the police. Joeepb Symmere, a little boy 13 yearn of age, said that last Sunday afternoon be saw the deceased hiding behind I a stack of timber on the banks of the Regent's Canal, near P a rk-place, Haggerston. The instant he saw that be was ' perceived, he jumped into the canal. When in the water, he screamed out three timed', " Help, help." A gentleman who was passing stopped and tried to get him out with hie walking-stick, but could not. A young man ran out of a house close by and jumped is, and in two minute& got de ceased out alive. Witness was certain that deceased jumped into the canal. Henry Richardson, 12, Park-plane,raid that he was a compositor. lie rescued the deceased, and took bins to the Sisters Tavern, in the roweall-road. A doctor was sent for, and deceased recovered perfectly. He appeared to have been drinking. He did not die from the immersion but from ill-treatment subsequently received. Witness reeds inquiries, and found that deceased was a Sunday school teacher, and a religious and gentlemanly man. He was employed at a warehouse in Wood-street, Chespaide. He was to have been married at Christmas. and when the A lady ard what had happened she feinted. A person in court 'Rid he believed that decearad fell into the water accidentally, as he was blind of one eye. Dr. Barlow said that he was called to the deceased at the Sisters Tavern. Deceased recovered from the effects of the immersiol. He said that be supposed he had slipped into the canal. Witness ordered the police to take him to his own home. which was lees than a mile distant. He told them to clothe the deceased properly before they moved him. Witness afterwards heard that the police took him, almost naked, in a cab to Hackney Union, which was two miles off. If they thought a workhouse was the proper place for him the Sboreditch workhouse was within half a mile, and the occurrence took piece within that parish. Deceased was thoroughly recovered when given into the care of the police. The canoe of his death (in sixty-five minutes after be was admitted into the workhouse) was shock to the nervous system, from expo sure to the cold in the almost naked state after being in a warm mom. Louisa Hephone, nurse at the Hackney Union, raid that the deceased was brought by the police in a cab to the work house. He was shivering, and was perfectly naked, with the exception of a small piece of carpet and a blanket, which barely covered him. He was carefully attended to, , but died in an hour. Mr. G. Miller, surgeon to the nnion•house, said that ; deceased was black and blue with cold. It was highly improper to have removed the deceased in a naked and upright position such a distance. It would have been much better to have removed him to the Slioreditch Workhouse. Folios-constable Kelly, 142 N, said that the reason the deceased was removed to the Hackney and sot to the Shore ditch Workhouse was that he and his brother constable were on the Hackney beat. But wheedle did not know that the other constable who was outside on the box was going to Hackney. It was intended to prosecute deceased I th e next day for attempted suicide. They could not get many clothes for the deceased, for the people at the public house grumbled at having been asked to do so mush. The Jury returned the following special verdict—" Death from shook to the system, caused by his removal from a certain warm room, where he was after immersion in the Repnt's Canal, to the Hackney Union. is an almost naked state ; and the jury say that the conduct of the police in No re moving him was highly censurable... COLONEL WAlloll.—Colonel Waugh is still con fined is the infirmity of Whitecroa•etreet prison, in which prison he has been detailed since Mardi. when &nasty' on • rapiaa. The deoisioa of the Lord Chancellor oa the appeal from the Court of Bankruptcy his settled the gun nel, as to the release, and the bankrupt, who has sumo. dared to the benkruptcy, most now prepare his somunts and proceed to pass Ms lad examinstion. As • reason for his release it was urged that i► would •take him three months to file the amounts, and it will now be sate whether that time will be nacesszkry. The only other course open to the bankrupt is to obtain two sureties ia 2,0001. each, and self In 40001., to procure his release, or remain in custody until the completim of the case under the beukruptcy. Wuolcott, the look-out man on board the Lad y of the Lake steamer, when she me down ► &lawman s boat in Southampton water, was captured e• Monday. Be will be tried for mandaaghter at March neat. LAW INTELLIGENCE (THIS DAY.) COURT OF PROBATE AND DIVORCE. (Before the Judge Ordinary.) IiTZGIRALD V. rrizommi.D.—britClaL This come was resumed this morning, Mr. IL Chambers, Q.C., and Dr. Wsmbey, appearing for Mra. Fitsgerald, the petitioner ; the Queens Advocate. Mr. Hodillseion, Q.C., and Dr. Spinks, fur the respondent. Mr. William Henry H Bettisworth—l am the father of the petitioner. 1 was present at her marrhge. I visited Major Fitzgerald and the petitioner at Braden in 186 L She was then in a very good state of health. She left Braden with me in August. I had a movenetion with Major, Fitzgerald on the bomb at Dover. I referred to an unfortunate difference there was with his wife respecting Mrs. Mallet, and I asked him if he had had connexion with her subsequent to his marriage. His reply was, "I won't tell a lie—l have." I asked him how, when he objected to a mouth or two's difference in his wife's age, he could associate with a woman 1 , 110 was eleven years older than himself ? He mid she was not more than sevenlyears older. I replied that she wee, for I knew the &Murata well. He told me that he bad lived apart from his wife for four months, because he was afraid that if an explanation took place when the was pregnant, it might be fatal to her. I have seen the letter produced. I first saw it is Dr. Pettigrew 's bands, and it was given over by Dr. Pettigrew to my daughter in my presence. I don't know the head s/Min. Dr. Pettigrew took the letter from another letter in my wane. t By . Haddleston—l lived at Brighton about six years ego. I went from Brighton to Malvern and to Dover. It was at Malure I first met Major Fitz gerald. 1 am not ,were that my daughter had a difficult temper to deal with ; but I suppler) she bad, like other women. (Laughter.) I cannot say whether she win or was not wayward and likely to take offence. She pro bible was irritable. but I cannot say more so than other people. She occasionally took offence even from rne. This letter is in my handwriting. I have said that she was dim cult to please—that I almost despaired of doing so, and I dreaded to open my lips to her, but that was only a " (aeon de parlor." I did dread to open my lira to her with respect to pecuniary affair,. She tuideretood pecuoiary matters as all sharp, clever people do. (Laughter.) She was clever and attentive to =ell items in pecuniary matters. The letter which has been shown zee was written in 1861, when she and her husband were living at Braden. When they were living in Chester-street and I in Poutotreet I bad not sold out any part of the trust funds. That oc curred subsequently. My daughter found fault once about that. She might have used strong language to me— might have followed me into the passage, and sluthen her hand at me. If she did, she did not do it io an offeumve manse, at me, and it marls no impression on me. Conscien tionsly speaking, I cannot my that she has ever shaken her fist at nie effusively. She may have moved her bands up and down in this way. [This app eared to be an oratorical rather ea than a threatening gesture. I cannot recollect speaking of women "unfeeling bi tches of lodgers" in my daugh ter's presence. [A letter was shown to the witness.) If have not spokep it I have certainly written it is a confidential letter to my daughter. I cannot say that I may not have used it on other occasions—nobody can say what w Ids slip from their lips. I have written, "The Major is a capital norm —quite a Florence Nightie. pie in trousers." (Laughter.) I wrote that from report. I also wrote that I was going to send him the Sal urdao Retina, for, I added, "I am sere the Major wants amuse ment; now yea are there he won't want excitement." I re ferred merely to the common occurrences of life. I cannot say, from my own knowledge, that the Major was kied and atten tive. I understand from my wife that my daughter attributed her miscarr iage to Dr. Peen 's treatment of her. have written, 'To my dying day, I shall regret Lady Ann Slier son's fatal recommendation of Dr. Perry ;" bat I wrote it nader a misconception. I believe that the part of a letter put to me is in nay daughter's handwriting. [This was a portion of an anonymous letter which Mrs. Fitzgerald denied yesterdsy she had written.] Blse had a groom called Alexander, and there is a memorandum in the letter respeetrog him. I could not swear to this part of • letter an I could to the other. if it was given to me as in her handwriting I should disclaim it. I have not the slightest idea in whose hand it is. On the other side there is a letter from a person named Bishop, at Cirencester, soliciting Mrs. Fitzgerald's customs. I know uothiug of him. Cirencester is about 91 miles from Braden. 1 settled 10,0001. on nay wife, and Major Fitzgerald 8,0001., to which be would be entitled from his father Lord William. He told me that be owed 1,5001. to his army 'gent, of which be stipulated for the performance. I did not perform that premier. When he had the conversation with nie on the baud at Dover, he wee not particularly excited, beyond the common feelings of a man at the situation he was in. I should say, I have not dated that he was half-mad. I won't say that my question was cot in this form, " Were you not on terms of intimacy with this person, after your marriage!" I was not myself in the least excited. I was as deaf then as I am now, but I hear in the open air. I certainly referred to sexual connexion. At parting he took my hand. I said " Well, I hope to see you together again." In the hurry of - the moment I did not shake off his band. I did not say, " I hope you will be as happy as ever again." Ido not talk nonsense. (A laugh. Proceedings were not taken till thirteen months utter this. Re-examined—lt was after I had eau Dr. Pettigrew. I have not the slightest idea how Major Fitzgerald got hold of my letters ; but it must have been surreptitiously. The matter on which I dreaded to open my lips was respecting as advance of 1,100/. which I had made to her husband is addition to • gift of 5001. She objected to that advance The letter io which I called the major a Florence Nightie , galereferred to her first confinement. The agreement was that I should pay 5001. within six months, and 1,0001. at the end of a year. I let him have the 500/. at once ; and when the other money was due, I wrote to him that u it was intended for the mutual benefit of himself and wife, it should pass through the lawyers. The answer I received to that was the bond torn up. I said hewn half mad when the police were called in at Dover say it with relucteoce, but he was kneeling on the goer, grovelling, and proyiog for forgiveness. At the interview on the beach at Dover I had met him by accident. I cannot positively say which spoke first, but we both broke into the liaitver at once. I put the queation whether he had had in tercourse with Mrs. Mallet subsequent to his marriage. His reply—" I won't tell she ; I have "—is surely sufficient to indicate the kind°, intimacy I intended. The bit nf a letter which I identified is evidently • letter to Major Fitzgerold. Mr. Chambers—Sornetbing has been said about selling out some of the trust fuods—there was nothing irregular in that? The J edge Ordinary—Oh, dear, no. Nothing of the kind is imputed. Mr. If tirldketoe —Certairily not. In answer to the judge, the witness said that Major Fitzgerald was kneeling in the &oleo- room before the police were sent for. Considered his conduct violent because be would not leave the house. Mrs. 13ettisworth —I did not see my daughter much after her marriage. Major Fitzgerald never spoke to roe about her first confinement. I was down at Brides for a fortnight before she came up to town with me. Major Fitzgerald. was not there. I thought her unwell, and advised her to go to Dr. Pettigrew. I know Major Fitzgerald's handwriting. I received the following letter from hum. It was addreneed to me at Dover, in July, 1861 :—"Ily dear Mrs. Bettisworth.—l am lorry to hear but a so-so report of you. I write this line to put you on your guard. Should you or Mr. Bettisworth get a letter shout l ae —l won't go into details, but merely don't answer it ; put It into the fire. The person threatens my father, and he is prepared. I have consulted Pettigrew, who has alvised to follow this course. G. is in great force, thank God making hay, but very anxious about ; but I hope this will find you really oa the mend. If you want to write to in., direct to Army and Navy Club, Pall-mall. London. I will thee get it here without exciting G. So sorry to bother you.—Yours very sincerely. "W. FITZGERALD." I did not did receive leastinthe a le understandwhatboutmo. ntzi thenotealld l ed I never a. ' This was before I went to Braden. In August, 1861, I received a letter entreating me to see him ; bat on the 10th of October be some down to Dover, and forced him self into our house. He threw himself upon his knees, and said gto me, " Oh, do forgive me ! do forgive me!" I replied, " Ask your God to forgive you. not me," and I desired him to leave the home. He said " Let me stay five minutes and I'll go away quietly." I asked him, "How came you to introduce my daughter to that woman'.'' He replied, " Because I was afraid of • breeze with her." I said, "1 her, you sacrificed Jour wife to your mistress!" He raid, " Well. it was rather green of me." He also said, "I always bated that woman. No Billingsgate prostitute could have sent me worse letters than she did. He " them threw up his arms Rod said, "Gad forgive ms. I am guilty, and w i lle no one to advise me." I mud. " Voce own friends be your best olvaers—your five minutes have expired, and you must gm." I the. nag the bell, and be went away. Ou the 17th he rushed into the house an my daughter and I got in the house. He a pis Hung himself on his knees, and raid again, " Oh, do forgive Then he rushed into the ng ! violence, 1 celled in Superiates dent Con n . te- I never hart words with the übroomle.to.a.myftraoignbgteperr.. .1:1,1, him following her rouod the By the Queen's Advom respondent but come, when he shook his list in my foe because I remonstrated with him for running up sod down stairs whistling and singing after my daughter had been confined three are. I was oat on friendly terms with him been active iu getting up evidence. She went over to but ti a v m e n firms ot t re h him. tb.t she e h have my servant Swan, but I did cot know that it was Eliza Beaufr:oe. I never made any complaint *loot Lord Parisa ser vant lsi do attend A t m e y e . d a l ST er n os ; mistress. I saw some one with liam Fitzgerald's conduct in reference to hie settlement ou my daughter. I have never sworn that my daughter sod her husband should never come together again. (The case was proceeding when our report left.] COURT OF BANKRUPTCY. (More Mr. Commis.intler Fans.) IN RE MYATT. The haokropt. • beer retailer, of htuu-street, riosbury. applied for him order. Mr. Sargood opposed for Mr. rudder, the ool) creditor, place V. N.W. to N.E. sod BoirniCossrs. W.N.W. to N.N.E., or back, strong to fmh, squally. fresh. As next above. gIooTE.KARL NW. to N. E. and back, fresh, unsettled. Drum to north.eaat, Cone elsewhere Wednesday. liorth-goat=Calthneee to Wacola. Weet=Donegal to Corn. wall. eouth=Engnah Channel and SWAT Dar Cone& South - Fast... Strait of Dover to Unoolnehlre and liellgolmut. A RETURNED SOLDIRR'S LETTER TO HIS NURSE. —"Dear Mies T—: I set down to tell you that I've arose hum, an ebb I was sum what else. In got 3 bully boys au they are belpin me about getting the garden sus into the grotto but they haint got no mother an Iye got a house and a kow and I thort youd be kinder handy to take care of um if !mid stoop so much. lye thort of you ever sense I coin from the hospittle and how kinder jimmy you used to walk up and down them wards. You had the best gate I ever see an my Ist wife stepped off jeer , so an ihe paid her way I tell ye% I like to work and the boys likes to work an I Mao you do an so Ida like to jine if youv no objections an now Ire made so bold to rite sich but I was kinder pushed on by my feeling an so I hope youl excuse it an rite soon. !sheet be mad if you say no but its no harm to ask as as lea I cant help ritin an the boys names an Zeberlon iffiadrac an peter they want to see you as doe your respeafu I friend which oes his present health to you. Joann( C—. —American paper. RELIGION A BAD THING TOR SLAVE:I—The Richmond Whig remarks upon the pernicious influence which religions instruction has upon the slaves in Virginia, and, by way of example, relates that—" Upon the last sp. penance of the Yankees at Fredericksburg the only Degrees who went off with them when they retired were those who belonged to, or were frequenters of, the African church there. The negro Holland, noticed else. where as under arrest for writing passes for slaves to es cape to the Yankees, was a ' pillar' in an African church in this city, and a leader in the choir. At his room was found a music tuning fork, and a variety of music and prayer. books. " This is bad for the variety religion. These negroes don't seem to understand Paul and Onesimus an the Rev. Dr. Palmer does. They ought to establish a Bible Revision Society in Richmond, to eliminate from the S a-intern the anti-slavery element, which, no doubt, per. verted the minds and hearts of these bondsmen. —Chicago Trih , ute. WILD BOAR HUNT AT Dirrer.. —The inhabitants of Dieppe were astonished a few days since to see a very large wild boar, followed by a pack of hounds, arrive on the left bank of the Seine mid dash into the water, ex pecting to reach the opposite bank and take refuge in the forest of Romans. The loud barking of the dogs adulated the attention of the people in the oeighbourhood, and a large crowd 'mumbled to watch the hunt. The animal, hotly pursued by the doge, landed on an island in the river, which be crossed at full speed, and Wan took the water in the right arm of the Seise. Two boats well manned were despatched to intercept his passage. The wild hoar, being driven from the right bank, took the middle of the river, again crossed the Island, and appeared to be determined to attack the 'penmen. Another boat's crew joined in the pursuit, and a fowling piece loaded with small shot was discharged at him. The river was dyed with his blood, but the animal continued to swim, until, becoming fatigued, a rope was skilfully thrown round Ida body and he was drawn ashore. The wild boar had been started two hours previously in the neighbourhood of Conroone, and was the sloth of his species killed within the last six week' by the same pack of hounds. THE KIDNAPPING or SOUTH SEA ISLANDERS. Oar readers will remember that the Peruvian government, after the kidnapping of natives from the KAIDSOOII Islands bad led to troubles with the French, intended to send back those of the unfortunate creatures that had survived the change of climate and other hardships. Two vessels were chartered to convey beck the rest, about 500. One of these vessels (Spanish) bad warmly embarked harsher% when the small-pox broke out turf ally on board, and after many had died, the remainder were disembarked again sad put on board the other vessel, the bark Adelaide, Captain Greases, in addition to the 250 that were in her already. Captain Grum% accompanied by a Peruvian officer, put to ssa with 429 men, with the inteetioa to carry his load of miserable human beings back to their native islands. But on the A number of English gentlemen living in Paris third day out, the small-pox made its appearance. and caused such a sad havoc, that the captain, fearing that have loW organised a football slab, to which is to be all would have died before he should be able to reach his added athletic indoor exercises of a gymnastic character• destination, made first for the Galapagos Islands, and The football contests take place in the Bois de Boolosee, seeing there was sot fresh water nor victuals smash went by permission of the authorities, and surprise the Preach to the Cocos islands, where he landed these fla t sur antasiagly. vived—about 230—0 n an uninhabited island with plenty of water, fruits and wild hogs. That there was sufficient of One evening, soon after 8 o'clock, a boat contain- those things which make life tangent, is sheens by the fact lag twelve Ines from one of the Russian war vessels I. the that the steward and one of the ninon ran away in order harbour was rats down by tee ferry-bat Jersey City. of to share with the Ransoms the ir fruits, bo g s and wives. the Cortleadtetreet line, while she wwasnnesting she slip Captain Crasserthence sailed for Pootarenas, where his All the sailors were thrown into the water, and seven of vessel is lying sow, whilst he is going back to Peru to re. them are believed to have been drowned. The other five • oeive orders from the Peruvian government as kith@ Kau. won rescued by the Grew of the ferryboat.- -hen York sous left behind.—Pgaggra Star. Nov. 24. Pawn i The Mayor of Southampton has recommended According to the last advice@ small-pox was the closing of all shops on Saturday, the day after Christmas , reel" on the Wilms of Panama. day. ported last session. He spoke strongly in favour of peace, concluding with a quotation from the dying speech of Napoleon 1., to the effect that glory alone could make France submit to arbitrary government, and that the only choice lay between the empire without peace and the empire with liberty. M. Ronher, the minister of state, replied to M. de la Gueronnihre in a very poor and embarrassed speech, from which nothiug else is to be gathered than that he has no instructions to promise any amelioration of the stains pee. While the minister was delivering conservative platitudes, Marshal Magnan, one of the men of December, who has the beat reason for knowing how power was then acquired, and who thinks it should be kept by the like means, exclaimed that the concessions of November already granted were " premature." The only satisfactory part of M. Rouher's speech was a strong denial that there are any men about the Emperor who think of going back. This declaration is the more important because yesterday's number of the Revue amtemporaine hints very ominously that if the liberals are too noisy it may be found that the Constitution is "perfectible," not, as they assume, exclusively in the sense of progress, but also in the sense of additional restrictions, if experience should show the Emperor that liberty has gone too far. One passage in M. Rouher's speech will probably he long remembered against him. He said, as an argument against liberty, that parties, so far from being dead, were like white ants, who sibmtly destroyed the timbers of the soundest edifice, until one day, when least expected, it came toppling down. This is a moat unfortunate argument for a government whose boast is that it rage upon universal suffrage. According to this the electors of Paris and of the Cote d'Or are all white ants. Even the government Petrie rejects the metaphor, saying that the timbers of the impe rial mansion should be so coated with the confi dence of the people as to be impervious to the inroads of these destructive insects. I.N.W. N.V. N.W. N.L N.N.L N. N. N.W. N.W. N.W. N.N.W. W.N.W. N.W. N.W. N.W. N.N.W. N.W. N.N.W. N.N.W. aw. 1. 1 .11.. o i O.l c .0.17 o ; o 0.151 o 0.29 0. c o 0.07 : & CI o o 0.15 - b 0.06 e 6.12 b e 0.07 c I —.o e 0 — .07' 2 I asp ♦k t 111 you his