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THE Session of 1864 has proved quite as cri tical for the Government and the country as was expected when the Houses met on the 4th of February. Ths expectation was universal that the Session, and possibly the Qemiti's Speech, would decide the question of peace or war about Den mark, and that a few weeks would settle whether we were to have • change of ministry and a general election, or to be spared the occurrence of such disabling accidents during this anxious and important year. The Royal Speech showed clearly that there would be no war, if it could be avoided by the existing Government ; and wher, l in answer to complaints of the reticent and re pressive character of the speech, Ministers im parted as the latest news that Austria and Prussia were resolved to maintain the treaty of 1852, there seemed to be ground for hope teat war would, after all, notbe necessary for the rescue of Denmark. It was understood, however, that whether that particular difficulty was escaped or not, the Conservative party was determined to ob tain possession of the Government before the re cess. This impression was sure to make the Session an interesting one, whatever might be the merits' or the shortcomings of men or parties : and a very interesting one it has been. It has made clear the present policy of England in her foreign relations, and enabled the country to understand the posi tion, and thereby to decide what it ought to do, under the expectation of the vital struggles and tremendous changes which are impending through out the Continent. The almost entire cessation o: efforts in Parliament to induce • departure from neutrality in the American cue, and to obtain • recognition of the Confederate Government, has shown the benefit of even such imperfect and par tial discussion of the subject as took place last year, and it was rants the hope that, in the same way, the good effects of the debates on the Danish case may appear next session in a clear and stable public opinion about the course which England should pursue in case of the breaking out of a great war of opinion in Europe. The chief value of the Session has been, no doubt, the clear and strong expressions of opinion on the transactions now in progress on the Conti nent, and also on the general interests of liberty at home. Mr. GLaDSTONE'S declaration in favour of the extension of the suffrage is worth more to the country than a good deal of legislation for profit or convenience ; and it more than compensates for the failure of the Reform and Ballot motions of several veteran reformers. But there have also been some really good measures p:ased, among which Mr. Giansrowes Goveromeut An nuities Act is the chief. A further loan to the mr,- nufacturing districts for public works ; the exten sion of the protection of the Factory Acts to other classes of young workers ; the provision for the casual poor in London next winter; the restraint upon the profligacy in the streets by the Public House Closing Act, and upon the nuisance of street music by its appropriate bill, are benefits of con siderable importance. The conditions of penal servitude are improved, and we may hope to see the good effects on our convict system. More doubtful is the tendency of an extension of the punishment of flogging in gaol. Besides the complete achievements of the Ses sion, we are in possession of some valuable pro mises and pledges. We are to have an effective inquiry into the operation of Capital Punishment, which may be trusted to remedy before long the grave evils of uncertainty of punishment, and insincerity of sentence which prevail at present. We are promised a Commission of Inquiry into Middle Class Education generally, and our grammar and other schools of that class in particular. It seenis impossible that the Courts of Law BiU should slip through our fingers again. The LORD CHANCILLOR is pledged to re-produce his County Courts Bill amended. Greenwich Hospital is to be reformed. Such are some of the good things prospect The evils intercepted or sentenced by the dis cussions of the Session are of far greater impor tance. Expositions have been made of our relations with China and Japan, and with Ashantee and other African States, which must be a wholesome restraint on any Ministry. So, also, with our Colonial wars, from the grave realities of New Zealand to the lightest rumours of Kaffir troubles at the Cape. It is possible that an essential im provement in our Colonial policy and management may date from the recent discussions on the New Zealand war. The condemnation of the assump tions of Convocation in the Lords may be • check on very serious future aggressions on religious liberty. We have escaped some liabilities from the fashionable new tendency to meddle with one another 's faith and morals ; and we have failed to THE EXPRESS, SATURDAY EVENRIO, JULY 30, 1864. ORIGINAL GOLD CHAIN MANUFACTORY, JA BENALETTA-STILIMT, COVINT4ARDIN. JOHN BROOD= of 16, HziganirrA-ersarr, COTCROLIUMEN. CeOldLalth, tinning more d Us customers hays been led to think the Business was meowed, respectfully Informs them TEAT T. ISNOT TIM CMAL be harbuL22l, CHASM) the GOODWILL, the whole of the valuable issixiC, and that all the Workman remain at the Old Premises Be takes this opportunity of retuning his warmed thinks and acknowledgments toe the kind patronage and support bestowed SO the late tam r, 00VICITAIA2DEN. pin some fair liberties that we had holed for. The ecclesiastical encroachment dispired in tie form of a Bill of mere convenience--for the perform- ance of Divine Service in Collegiate soltseb--bur been sucoessfully resisted ; and ac has Mr. Bomas'a Sunday Bill, and Mr. Lawsores Perzaimeve Bill. But, on the other hand, the Test Abolition Bill of Mr. DODSON was lost; and nothing has been done towards relieving conscience in the matter LATEST INTELLIGENCE. (isonz's 774811111AKI.) THE PEACE NEGOTIATION& VIEN3fA, JULY 213. It is considtsed probable that the armistice will be prolonged for a short period. No understanding relative to the basis of peaoe has yet been arrived at. It is said that Herr von Bismark having been summoned by the King has left for Gsatein. • ANKRICA. (savrar's Tirsolux.) (Per Me Ads. vie Orookhaves.) NSW YORK, JULY 19, EvEars. Secretary Feassoden has declined the terms offered by the banks for the loan of 50,000,000 dolls. The Atlanta journals consider Atlanta in immi nent danger. Confederate despatches from Charlestown assert that the Confederates have driven the Federals from John and James's Island to Morris Island. The Confederate batteries have driven the Federal gunboats in the Stone river out of range. One monitor has been seriously damaged. 114TELLIGENCE. xaw YORK. JULY 19, Emma. Money tight Gold, 262. Exchange on London, 290. Stocks steady. New York Centrals, 133. Illinois, 1251. Erie, 1132. United States 5-20 Bonds, 104. Cotton : Middling upland, 160 c. to 163 c. Petroleum, crude, 65c. ; refined, 88c. (By Telegraph lo Halifax.) NEW YORK, JULY 21, Evonta. The situation at Petersburg is unchanged. Sher. man's cavalry is operating to cut the railway com munication between Atlanta and Augusta. Several encounters have taken place between Hunter's forces and the Confederates retreating from Maryland. The Federal* captured four guns and a large amount of stores. The New York Times and Herald publish despatches asserting that Mr. Horace Greeley and President Lincoln's Secretary, Mr. Hay, as repre sentatives of the President, have had several inter views with Southern politicians at the Niagara Falls in Canada relative to peace negotiations. It is reported that Mr. Stanton will shortly resign. Mr. Fessenden will offer a popular loan for seven three-tenths non-legal tender Treasury notes at par, the interest to be payable in currency and the notes to be convertible at maturity in three years into bonds bearing six per cent. interest, pay able in gold. President Lincoln bee called for 500,000 volun teers ; if they are not obtained before September a draft for the deficiency will be made for one year's service. General Sherman is south of Chattohoochee, within ten miles of Atlanta. Yesterday the Confede rates made three attacks upon his lines, but were repulsed each time. Rumours of peace negotiations are current. The Damascus, America, Edinburgh, and Europa have arrived out.. NEW YORK, JOLT 2L Money tight. Gold 258. Exchange on London, 281. Stocks tending downwards. New York Centrals, 132 ; Illinois, 123 ; Erie, 1081 ; United States 5.20 Bonds, 104. Cotton quiet ; middling Upland, 160 to 162. Flour, wheat, corn, and provisions declining. Coffee steady ; sugar dull ; molasses quiet. Petroleum, crude, 54 to 55 ; refined, 83c. to 85c. THE YELVERTON JUDGMENT. The following letior from the respondent ap pears is She Time of Ilde await : . . . - " tesagalskag with pailtode the vary able and jig statement of my an in year article of the morning, will you allow me a alert spas to correct an error, which mod Englishmen, together with yoarself, would naturally fall into—namely, that the decision of the three Isar Lords is final ? Such is mat, however, the case. A Scotch de. carats( of manage is proved by ' writ or oath,' and the one may follow upon the other. The next legal step, there fore, to be taken in Sootlaod is a reference to oath of parties, until which gnome shall have teen goes through the opinion' of their lordships in this country will not be rati fied. In other words, the High Court of Session in Scot land will not extract judgmeut.' "Had the Haase of Lords, at the request of my asuneal, the Lord Advocate, granted the judicial exantimatioe, then the judgment, ea you truly state, would have been final, bemuse both method' of proving marriage would have been exhaustr d. As it is, the reference to oath is eonspateot. " Perfectly agreeing with you that it can be no aatisfac-, Hon to be the wife of - Major Yelverton, yet the nature of the action brought against a sod the defame est up in I answer to mine are such as to dam's , e me of honour and fair fame, unless I wowed in establishing my wifehood. The very petition of the action is such as to indelibly brand any women aplast whom it should be ganted. Against such a sentence I have struggled for six years, l aud probably may for six more, if life by litigation is not stunted. You will also allow me to remind you and the public that the verdict of • jury confirmed by four judges is still unmanned in Inland, and that by the laws of my church I ant Major Yelverton's wife, and during his life as never be mother'• Such, I beg to submit, ia my actual position, and to do what is right and beet in it is my sole and earnest prayer.—l Tema, sir mtly_ lIILTERTON. "29, Cambridge-terra*, July 29." In • letter addressed to another contemporary, after inti mating her intention with regard to examimatioa on oath, the respondent says :—" I believe its the fleet principle of English justice, on which we pride ourselves over all other mattoma, that • man should not la condemned unheard, and that he should be allowed to question face to face his ac cusers. Yet this is erectly whet I have been deprived of, bet which, at this rage of the ease, I can and do demand. The reason why the Scotch smut did not have recourse to the examination of potties was simply that the Scotch lords, being so much more familiar with their own law than Englishmen can be supposed to be, were at no loss to discern • marriage on the written evidence before them ; and the Scotch horror of perjury ever induces them to defer to the last extremity the examination of the parties themselves. The practical result of this reference to oaths would be, that should one party prove sufficient to establish • marriage—or the other fail to show that none bad taken place—the Court of Session would refuse to endorse the opinion given in the House of Lords, and the whole ma might be again brought before them. Hence, I appeal to the public through your medium to suspend their judgment until this last ordeal shall have been tried, and that the more especially as the Irish verdict of a jury ad four judges, declaring me the wife of Major Yelverton, still stands unanotalled. Had the action raised against me bees one of nullity, or an action to prove that the mar riages, Scotch or Irish, were neither of them legal, I should not assuredly have wasted six years of my life, my health, sod fortune in the contention to be the wife • man who refused to recognise me in that capacity. But the form of action raked up from obscure barbarian, and held forth as • means of escape to an unfortunate and desperate man, is such u to load me with infamy, and drag me down to the depths whence there is no degrada tion deeper for • woman. A hundred years ago there was such an action in England, called jactitation, resorted to by men to rid themselves of the claims of those they had dim honoured. No woman with a soul above a slave's would submit in silence to nob contumely. By this action they have left me but the alternative which the noble Wallace gave to his men—' To do, or die.' I hold my honour as a precious gem, which it is my duty to defend with my life, and by every power i t strength of mind that Cod bas given me : and as lam an honest woman in the sight of Heaven, I will so defend it till the last pulsation of the heart, and never desist until I have cat the foul slander from my hitherto untarnished fame." (From the Saturday Review.) In taking leave of this remarkable cove, it will be quite enough to recall the significant fact of the gradual change in public opinion which has taken pleas Uwe March, 1861. The more the cue has been sifted, the more its merits have become known. For Major Yelverton but little can be said. He was subjected, on the Irish trial, to a grossly unfair crow examination. In the coarse of the bullying, or, as in Ire land they cell it, the ballyragging, which be met with in the witness-box, he delivered himself of some very mane, unfeeling, nod indecent theories on the non. marital intercourse of the sexes. He also seems, in one of his letters, to have hinted at something ' very like abortion • an d all that is connected with his wartime with Mn Forbes shows a cold, unfeeling, worldly, heart. But in his previous intercourse with Miss Long. worth it seems to us that be was much more the pursued than the pursuer. At any rats, be gave the lady fair wan clog. He pointed out that her "ruin" could be the only result of a renewal of their acquaintance, and he gave her the choice of receiving it or not. That renewal was her act, not his. Of course, a man of the highest prin ciples would Dever' place this perilous alternative before a susceptible. passionate woman. Bat Major Velverton did not pretend to be this. He described himself all along, sod truly enough , as cold, selfish, secanal, self.iodulgeot, and wider of anybody's interests when brought into col. Haim with his own pleasure. He was certainly not quite the hoy.victim which at one time his nowise, foiled it convenient to represent him. He was a man of the world. The tempta tion was rather a bore than otherwise ; bat as he could not get rid of the temptation without taking sours trouble ' be let the tempter have her own way, perfectly resolved that the temptatioo, however it might end, should not get him into more serious trouble than must unavoidably come of say liaison. He felt it to be of no use straggling against the strong will of Theresa Loogworth ; but he all sloeg made up his mind that, as he was to be the lady's victim, it should he en his own terms, not hen No doubt this is a very low standard of morality ; bat it is, we fear, not an uncommon one ; and it certainly is that upon which, and upon which aloes, the case as • whole can be cousistently interpreted. As to Miss Longworth, we would now say AS little 111 we can. When all the world was on her side—when she was the triam haat object of what are called Irish ovations, when all made her virtues as much an article of faith as Queen Mary's inooceoes and when nearly the whole of England echoed their ealutatiosse—we expressed ourselves intelligibly on this lady's life and character. The highest English tribunal his now fully accepted that view which four years ago was both uncommon and unpopular. It wine un- generous to prom heavily on anyone' who is doers ; doubly engeserous is the case of • W01:11102 of very remarkable powers, great intellectual aorecoplishmente, and now labour rug noder the heavy burthen of failure and humiliation. To say that, is our judgment, she fully deserves her fate, may sound harsh ; but to say much less were to com promise the interests of truth and morality. She has thorny bed to lie on, but she has made it for herself Aod if we express ourselves strongly, it is chiefly because the Lord High Chancellor of England has thought proper. in his judicial capacity, not only to pronounce a high eulogiurn on the intellectual capeeity displayed in Miss Lour worth's letters, but to declare that their tone is coexistent with " hosourable courtship." The interests of morality would, we think, be seriously compromised were this judgaseat to rest on any higher grounds than Lord Westbury's opinion of what may be the proper style of correspoodeime between numarried—ar, far the matter of that, between married—persona. To right-thisking persons, than is much is these terrible letters which ts simply loathsome. We have no notion of making a heroine of such a person as Miss Longworth. (From the Spertator.) It would seem that the reasoning of the majority of the judges was souod, and that Miss Longwortb com pletely failed in establishing her case. We rejoice at this conclusion, first for the sake of the children, who at least are free from blame. and secondly for the sake of the public. The extraordinary laxity of the Scotch law renders it of the gravest importance that the facts from which con mot may be inferred should be proved beyond the shadow of doubt. If questionable evidence, if a mere balance of probabilities., is to establish those facts, Scotland will be one large • trap in which unweary strangers will be caught without eves a chance of escape. The forms of marriage to which we have had to refer are by no means the only irregular modes in which the rela tion may be crested, and as the Irish Chief Justice wittily romerked, the only wonder is that there is a human beieg in Scotland still unmarried. Bat whatever may be our judgment as to the truth of Miss Loogwarth's rase, there is very much to be said is palliation of her conduct. We do not are to characterise the allegation of Major Yel tartan that she was scheming to become his mistress. Did it need, forsooth, any scheming to effect that? Does be wish us to take him for a Joseph ? The most the letters prove is a somewhat indelicate attempt to allure or excite him into marriage, and she may at least plead in her excuse as ardent and unselfish love. When she failed to warm the heart of en avowed mosey-hunter, she It least stipulated for • valid by the rules of the catholic hierarchy, and such as always been held to have redeemed the fame of Mrs. Fitzherbert. We ass far from ussitoics to compare the two women, but the errors of Miss Lowman!' are at least attributable to her unbounded trust In Major Yelverton. Re certainly promised to take no other wife, even if he denied her the legal status which alone could justify her conduct in the eyes of the world. When after a few short months the most sacred obligations we wo coldly broken through, when she found herself dishonoured. deserted. sod betrayed, what wonder is ft if in her despair she tried to convert moral claims into legal rights. and what man among us will have the courage or Q. heart to insist as the unscrupulousness of one who had certaisly bean taught no better lesson by men? (From the London Review.) The cam kas now been so many years is litigatice, that we should thisk it mast be • relief even to Mrs. Yelverton to have it neatly disposed of. Whether the was married legally or not, we presume there as. be no doubt that she thought she was ; and it is at all events • viadicatiou of her character that in the oaly trial is which her as.. was investigated by the sole satis factory test—the collocation of doeomeet•ry and oral avi deice —she MOO oat deer from the stain which Major Yokota' would have And upon kit utter ibe most searching cross•examination, while the petits:lan certainly presented himself in a most pitiable upect. It is also a emulation to hear that two Scotch judges, with the Lord Chancellor of England and Lord Brougham, hold that she was ',ally married. That she acted Prudently or boom. tatty is more than we can say ; that she loses a bad bargain in losiog the major we think everyone but the major him. self will be dispceed to admit. WEATHER REPORT.-(THIS DAY.) SATURDAY, JULY 30, 8 AAA Nam.. ..... semi aterdess ... 211.671 b. T., •••• I 111 ,y Lab samis i Ardrissaa 19.W.a0, so:w oil Galway ..... 30.02 Valenti& .... 80.07 Cape Clear.. KW 61. Qessestowa. 29.904 0 Liverpool .. 30.04 87 Sebtead ... 30.01 61 Pembroke... 30.18 81 Pearmace .. 30.19 • end ao.is oil 1 L'Oriset 10.24 ell Rochefort ... 110.273 Re! Plymouth ... /0.19 65. Weymouth.. ,10.20 Portemoutb..lo eel Ideodou 30.19 63 Tv= _l. w. w.aw. I , i I*. B. w. w. &W. 8. &&W. aw. _ _ &W. &L • D. 1. 1. s. • W. cub 0.23 1 W.&W. rb 0.24 3 S.W. b 4 B.W. ro 0.16 2 B.W. ro 0.10 2 S&L e 2 &&W. ro 0.07 3 &W. c 0.11 3 &W. oe W. co B.&W. 0 0.19 2 I A.B.W. 1. 3 W.B.W. et 3 B. W. ' 4 Z.N.W. SAW. B.W. B.W. ; N.W. cb 2 8.8. W. bra 0.58 1 &W. bo • 2 &&W. Ico 2 &W. b 2 N.W. 2 WN.W. be 3 W.N.W. oL 2 N.W. b.— 2 Taman* .. 30.1 E 64, & 33arboreesk. 30.00 84, W.B.W. E4f.Wa ..... ' 3D.98 83, W.N.W. 30.70 69 W. rFOILABLE. SUNDAE. OM NOCIlltiN IOThAY. W. to N. and back, Masts. W.S.W. to N.N,w., fresh to strong. fresh to moderate, showers on west some rain westward. coast As above. WESTERN. As neat above. W. N.W. to N.N.K., SOUTHERN. N. N. W to EN. E, fresh to moderate, moderate, fine. generally floe. N. W. to N.E, mode- EAsitan. W. to N. and E., motle• rate to fresh, fine. rate, toe. Ncethern=Scotland. Wartersmlreland, Wales, and ad !smooths. Soatbent=Enallsla Chum& and Bit of Biscay. healers saltastward inglsnd and North Sea. DISTRIBUTION OF PRIZES AT SOUTH KV:SING TON.—The distribution of prizes to the students of the schools of art at South Kessington took place yesterday. Owing to the unavoidable absence of Earl Granville the prizes were distributed by Mr. Burchett, the head-muter, who, previous to heading the prizes to the successful students, expressed the great pleasure he felt in having so many recipients of prises before him, knowing, as he did, the efforts made by the students in both schools. sn-i the high honours obtimied. The past year bad been the most successful of any since the opening of the dames. The following is a list of male students who have passed their examination and received books and local medals:— M. Butterfield, W. Carter, J. L. Chapman, R. Dyer, R. W. Gaudy, W. W. Morrison. J. R. Ni cholson, R. P. Notley, J. cliff, F. A. Slooombe, G. Robson, J. Appleton, T. Bodle, A. Calmest, H. H. Canty, C. Useropioa, C. P. Clarke, C. V. Hunter, G. W. Joy, H. R. Payee, C. G. Piednue, W. Smith, and L. Thom's'. The female stades% who have passed the seine stags were :—A. M .Abbott, A. J. Challice, M. It. David, F. E Hall, S. Hull, C. Hull, J. K. Humphreys, I. Laing, M. Mama. A. L Poring. L. Hodges, W. A. Walker, F. Westbrook, E. A. Schutze , E. Arm. strong, M. Backbones, A. Bradley, M. A. Gantry, C. 8. Goldsmith, K. Green, C. Halliwell, E. M. Jackson, F. A. . Pollee E. L. Renton, M. Snell, and M. T. Villiers. CARS OF HYDROPHOBIA IN STOCKPORT.—A ca,e of hydrophobia was sent to the union workhouse on Wed. nearly night. It was that of a youth, named Job Wol. stencroft, aged 16, sow of Mr. Wolstesicroft, keeper of the Heaton Chapel tollbar, Heaton Norris. It appears that on the 4th of June a strange dog ran into the house, biting not only the lad slightly on the thumb, but also his father and his younger brother, aged 14 (deaf and dumb), in flicting wounds of a more serious character. The wouads were cauterised and attended to regularly by a surgeon, but the bite on Job's thumb caused no apprehen- Millis on account of its superficiality, and there being no mtpicion about the dog's madness. During the week, how. ever, the father became alarmed at the symptoms of his nom Job s sad by the advice of a surroo be seat for a cab to take the boy to the infirmary. This was a work of some difficulty, ae he became excited on the appearance of strangers, and manifested the greatest repugnance to quit ting his bed, He bit one or two of the assistants in a very savage manner. By 8 o'clock in the evening of Wednesday, 48 hours from the first symptoms of the attack, he was raving mad. Efforts were made at the infirmary to mill. gate his sufferings by draughts, but he refused everything, and at midnight it became oeceseary to remove him to the paUed room at the Union Workhouse. Here he was with difficulty put under restraint, but hie agonies increased, and he died at 7 o'clock is the more* DROWN= WHILIE BATIIINO.--0a Wednesday morning the Rev. William Arnot Stirling, minister of Cludreen's Free Territorial Church, Dundee, was drowned while bathing at Broughty Ferry. Mr. Stirling had been living along with his family at the Ferry Meson's weeks past for the ma bathing, and on Wednesday rooming went down to the water about 8 o'clock, as usual. He went is at the back of the Castle, when the water soon becomes very deep and whores strong tide runs. After swimming about for a short time he was heard to utters cry, and seen to throw up his arms, and almost immediately sank. Mr. Hynd, greater, wbo was walking on th e beach at the time, heard the cry, and ran towards the rock, casting off his clothes as be went. He sprang into the water and swam towards Mr. Stirling, who was sinking for the third time. As Mr. lined neared him, however, the unfortunate gentleman moved his arms faintly, and sank in deep water. A salmon noble coming up at this moment, Hr. Byad got into it and dived for the body, but the current carried him away from it. The fishermen then got out their boat-hooks, and after some trouble succeeded in raising the body into the boat, which they rowed rapidly to the shore. The body was immediately taken to the baths, and medical assistance promptly obtained, but all efforts to restore animation proved unavailing. Mr. Stir ling was ordained in 1854. He leaves • widow and three young children to lament his untimely end.—Scoternan. REEDER IN STAFFORD:OHRE. —On Thursday evening the dead body of an eged man, named George Walker, formerly a fanner, WAS found lying at the door of his hut at Audley, Staffordshire, by a labouring man, named John Noreop, a friend who bed been in the habit of visiting him, and had spent the previous evening them. The poor man's skull was completely beaten in, his nose broken, and other injuries had bees inflicted--apparently by some blunt instrument. Norcop had left him in his usual good health on the previous night. Walker was some 20 years ago the occupier of the Bignell-hill Tavern, in the parish of Audley. Since that time he has followed no regular °emptier', but has lived a somewhat solitary life, and wu eccentric in his habits. Three years since he built himself a rude but of rough stones on a piece of waste land—a sort of drumble covered with briars—contiguous to the farm he once occupied, and bad lived there ever since,: r uttl a small piece of ground by which the hut was s Part of the wall of this hut, near the door, has been palled down, so that the door might be opened end an antrum gained ; and the dammed appears to have been struck as he lay on hie bed, which consists of a beech and as oil bag, os which blood was found, sod afterwards dragged to the door of the hut, where the body was found. Tne object seems to have been plunder, the old man being knowa to have had money own, if not lately, and a tiller watch and half-a-crown he had being misaiag. Inquiries are still being pursued. THE DERRYVRAOH MURDER IN TRILLAND.ThO ry have been discharged • second time in the trial of Francis Bradley, for what is called the Darragh murder. Adam Crimson, the steward to • gentleman mused Adair, living at Denymegh, was mortally wounded in April, 1863. Before his death be identified Bra dley as his murderer, but the evidence otherwise against him was slight, if not coo tradictory. Two juries, at successive amines, have, how ever, been unable to agree in a verdict, still the judge de dim the " responsibility" of admitting the prisoner to bail. He leaves him to make an application to the Court of queen's Bench. ANOTHER GAROTTER TO BE ]?LOGGED.—Edward Birch, 17, was tried on Thursday, at the MancliesterAmizes, before Mr. Baron Pigott, for having at Manchester on the 6th of April, together with three other peewee. assaulted Samuel Antonia, and with violence robbed him of a pair of spectacles. Mr. Jordan prosecuted. The prosecutor is • warehouseman hying in Hodge-lane, Bel ford. At midnight on the Bth of April. he was going up Liverpool-road, when • man jumped on his back, put his arms round his neck and threw him into the gutter. The principal winless sgainst the penalise was a police officer named John Taylor, who, on the night in ques- Roo, was in Liverpool-road in plain clothes. He saw the prosecutor walking down the street, and also sew four young men following him. The young men were talking together Man undertone. This excited his suspicion, and he followed on the opposite side of the road. He saw one of the men jump on the prosecutor's back. The prosecutor fell, and then all the rest fell upon him. The prisoner had his knee on the prosecutor's chest, and his hand to hie throat. Wit- WINS seized the prisoner, sad the other three can away. The prosecutor, not knowing the witness was • policoolffeer, ran away crying out " Murder " and " Police." The pram-Moe missed his spectacles duriug the struggle. When in cus tody, the prisoner said if witness would go back to the spot they would dad the spectacles. The 'pentacles were not found. The prisoner, in his defence, said the prosecutor was in com pany with two females, and was aas•ultd by four other men with whom he bad no coonexion whatever. The prosecutor, at the polioeoffice, mid he did not know who threw him down, and he was only persuaded to come against him by the police. The prisoner was found guilty. His lordship, is sentencing the primmer said his cam was one of those which were rather upon the increase, and which it was highly desirable, if possible, to prevent by punishment, if it could not be done by any other means. He had no doubt that the prisoner was in the act of strangling the proseentor, in order to make him incapable of resistance; and although he bad only Pest begun to carry out his is tsatbs he was prevented, the ioteatios was equally wicked es if he had completed the set The MIS wee aet one to apply a modem act of parliament, and be should asetemes the primmer to be imprisoned for 12 mouths, and within a week to be whipped with an hestrumeet called " the eat," or perhaps a birch-rod would be better, sad to rimare 26 hobos. of the Burial as the Bench of Bishops is pledged to conaidir of, and advise a remedy. The constituencies will not, at such a time, be insensible to the claims of religious liberty, for clergy and laity, for Church and Dissent alike. The subjects of tests in the Universities, and of Church Rata troubling the parishes, ought to be in full view in the selection of candidates for the next Parliament ; and some of the discussions of this Session must have made them more pro. aliment than before. On the whole we find ourselves at the end of the Session in no exhilaration of spirit, and rather thankful that things are no worse than pleased at their aspect and promise. We are all conscious of a certain doubleness or inconsistency in our conduct towards Denmark, whether from dis crepancies of will and purpose in high places, or from other causes. We have incurred the morti fication of losing, in Mr. STANBFELD, a faultless and inestimable public servant, for no good reason whatever. These vexations are less than the ad mission of the Opposition to the Foreign-office would have been ; but they are not unfelt. The recess should be employed by the constituencies in providing for a better representation in coming years. We must have less vacillation, and for that end, no mystery in our Foreign-office trans actions ; and, at home, we must take care that instead of ten good measures being lost each ses sion for one that is gained, the proportion shall be, as nearly as possible, the other way. THY QUIZN'S VISIT TO THE ROYAL SOITHHILION. —Captain Coles' plan was first taken up and pressed upon the notice of the government by the late Prince Consort. His royal highness at once saw the advantages of the principleadvocated by Captain Coles ; and that the country is at last in possesaion of a ship armed on this principle is mainly due to his royal highness's early efforts in its support. The knowledge of this fact gave a melancholy interest to the Queen's visit yesterday to this noble ship, and her Majesty repeatedly expressed to Captain Coles, who was on board by her special desire, the deep interest she had taken in his success, and her gratification to find it admitted on all sides to have been most complete. !Mt Court. OSBORN E, JULY 29. Yesterday afternoon her Majesty went on board the roa•clad cupola drip Royal Sovereign. lying MI Or borne, accompanied by Phnom' Louise, and Prince Louis of Here. The Queen embarked in the royal yacht Fairy, at Osborne Pier, at six o'clock, and the yacht having bees laid alongside the Royal Sovereign, her Majesty and the royal party stepped on board, and ware received by Captain Sherard Osborn and the officers of the ship, and Captain C. Coles, who explained to her limiest, the construction and arrangement of the cupola, and of the various parte of the ship, of which her Majesty expressed great admiration. The Queen remained on board for some time, and then returning to the Fairy, cruised towards Hyde before return ing to Osborne. Princess Louis of Hems endued with her Majesty. The suite in attendance ceasisted of the Dowager Countess of Mount-Edgeumbe, the Hon. Mrs. BM.. Baroness de Grapey, Captain Von Westerweller, Major- Gummi Seymour, and Colonel Sir T. M. Biddulph. The ministers who attended the Queen's Council at Osborne on Thursday last made the sea mange between Gosport and Osborne on board her Msjesty's ship Bre Queen, Staff Commander Paul. Viscount Palmerston, Sir George Grey, and the Right Hoa. W. Ewart Gladstone, after attending the Queen's Council at Osborne, on Thursday last, visited her Majesty's ship Royal Sovereign, Captain Simard Osborn. A deputation from the Buieptoke Canal Company bad au interview with Earl de Grey at the Wer-offios yesterday. The deputation was iotrodoped by Mr. Sclater-Booth, ALP., and consisted of Mr. Peter Davey (chairman), Mr. Scott Mr. White, Mr. lamb, Mr. Heedeach (chief clerk), ani Mr. Hall (managing forereen). The Right Hoe. William Hutt, M.P., and Mrs. Hutt, left town yesterday for Gibaide. Despatches were received yesterday at the Coloeial-offiee from the Governors of Canada and the West India Islam"... His Excellency the Prince de la Toar d'Aurergne leaves the French Embassy to-day for Pans. His excelleuey will be absent about two mouths. Dunes the Amoco of hie excelleoey the Marquis de Ceder° will sot ea eharg4 d'affaires. The Duke and Duchess of Buccleach and Lady Victor &or arrived at their house in Be'grave-gore yesterday from 'kiting the Wks and Duchene of Richmond at Goodwood Park daring the visit of their Royal High tower the Pnnce rid Parries of Wales. The Duke of Leinster is shortly expected to arrive in town from visiting Lord end L-1y Otho Fitzgerald at the Ids of Wight. The Duchess (Emily) of Beaufort has returned to tows from visiting Lord aad Lady Loarkaboroagh at Grimstoo Park, Yorkshire. The Marquis of Aberoora left town yesterday for Beandeoert, Strffordsh“.3. The atarebiooess, with the Earl and Countess of If ount-Edgewnbe, has gone to Tunbridge Walla. The Earl of Lonsdale will leave toga on Monday nest for Lowther Castle, Weetworelasal. The Earl and Countess of Dalkeith strived in town yeatorday, from •iaitiog the Countess Cowper at Wren Park, Beds The Earl and Countess of Derby have left town for Knowsley-park, oar Liverpool, for the MOM Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston had a din ner party last evening at Cambridge•bouae, to meet Dr. Livingstone. Sir Roderick Murchison, the Hon. Arthur Kinnaird, and a select party were invited to meet the dia. tarnished traveller. Vibcountess Jocelyn and Hon. Misses Jocelyn returned to Viscount aad Visaaaatass Palmerstoa's tows residence yesterday from viaitiug tbe Co:maims Cowper, at Wrest Park, Bads. Lady Foley has issued cards for an evening party this evening at her residence in Grosvenor-square. Mr. and Lady Georgians Balfour and Misses Balfour have left tows for their seat in Fifeshire. Lord Stanley, M.P., who returned to - t7Ollll yes terday from ileitis' the Earl sod Countess Stanhope, left last night foe Knowsley-park, Leneashire. The Right Hon. T. H. S. Sotheron Eatcourt haa muck improved in health during the Let few deye, and will no doubt be obis in the coarse of the essaing week to leave town for his reentry test Captain John Christie is about to be married to Miss Ellen Falooser, only daughter of Mr. Christie Faleower. It is said that the gallant captain bates& to abandon the turf on his marriage. The lady to whom Captain Christie is about to be allied is his first casaba The marriage will take place early is September. - • REPRESENTATION OP EAST Noarom—The Roo. H. Walpole, brother of the Hon. F. Walpole. at present • candidate for Lynn, ham at his into:Aloe to contest the eastern dirimios of Norfolk at the seat election I. the ectieervative interest, in othjenction with Mr. E. Howes. The representation is at present shared Newest, Mr. Howes (oosservativel and the Hoe. Colonel Coke (liberal). We read in the Temps that the Princeu of Peoria, daughter of Quer" Victoria l has painted four pictures in oil, representing the prisons] episodes of the taking of Duppel by the Premise troops. The German Gazette of the North stair that therms paintings will shortly he exhibited in the rooms of the permanent exhibition of Mesas. Sichs• sad Co., of Berlin.'—nig Ardor. FRANCK. PAWS, JULY 30. The Constitution net of to-day publishes an article, signed by M. Limayrac, sanding to the change of opinion which has taken place in Germany towards Prussia and Austria, because those powers have altered their policy. The writer then continues : "Austria and Prussia at first acted in the name of the Confederation ; now the Diet is not even represented in the conference at Vienna. The com petence of the Diet to settle the succession ques tion is misunderstood. The hesitation of Prussia and Austria with regard to the succession question has given rise to certain rumours of arrangements which would satisfy territorial ambition, without taking into consideration the wishes of the popula tion. Germany is above all astonished that the wise and equitable principle of regulating the question only with the assistance of the parties interested is not respected." The writer next calls to m;nd that France bad demanded that the German Diet should be represented at the London Conference, and pro ceeds :—" This was perfectly just and good political foresight, bat it appears not to be regarded in that light at Vienna and Berlin. It is on that ground that Germany sees with displeasure, and not with out uneasiness, the two cabinets depart from the conditions which at the present time can alone bring about serious solutions and produce desira ble results." THE CAPE OF GOOD HOPE. FALMOUTH, JULY 30. The Diamond line steamer Eastern Province, from the Cape of Good Hope on the 23rd of June, arrived here this morning, with passengers, mails, and a general cargo. She brings three days' later news than the Saxon, the last mail steamer that arrived, but does not report anything further of material importance. IMPRESS FROM PARIS. (rzox ova owe conzarourcr.) PARIS. FRIDAY EVECNO. The Gironde of Bordeaux, which, under the direction of K Lavertujon—who was within an ace of being elected a deputy for that city last year—is constantly getting into trouble with the authorities, has now, after two warnings, been sus pended for two months. The decree of suspen sion, signed by K Boudet, the Minister of the Interior, sets forth the gravamen of the offence charged with greater precision than such docu ments are wont to do, and enables the public to form a judgment upon the merits of the penalty. It states that the Gironde of July 26, in an article signed A. Lavertujon, "by accusing th e project of a congress as being nothing less than a programme of a general war artfully disguised in the utopia of universal peso° ; and in adding that these disguises deceive no one, and that it would be better frankly to tell the truth and hoist the real flag, misrepresents and insults the policy of the Emperor." In countries where warnings and suspensions are things unknown to the press, it would not at all surprise me to find some people agreeing with the Gironde of Bordeaux as to the bearing of the famous congress scheme. But in France it is something next to high treason, for the congress continues to be spoken of as an infallible nostrum, the be all and end all of the Emperor's policy, the sufficient expiation for all apparent short comings, and the bright promise of an infallible future. The Pays of this very evening is instructed to defend the French government against the charge of inaction and indifference in the following fine phrase :—" France has thrown out to the world an idea which will make its way ; that of a congress. The seed of peace, liberty, progress, and civilisation is in the furrow ; it is only neces sary to wait for harvest time." France is, indeed, the country of ideas. For a long while it was a standing boast that the empire made war for an " idea," and now an " idea," though it has not fructified, is made to stand for a policy of peace. The following notice appears in the Pays : The Opinion Nationale is; put together oat of a pre tended journey of Mr. Slidell to Vichy the moat fantastic of romances. The fact is that Mr. Slidell has been all the while in Pula. and lass no thoughts of leaving it. The council of the Order of Advocates has resolved to attend in a body in full °odium at the trial of MM.Carnot, Gander Pegtie, Dreo, Floquet, A°. , which begins on Friday next. The reason for this step is that the council considers the dignity of the ' bar affected by the domiciliary visits made at the houses of several barristers accused of attending illegal electoral meetings. No explanation has yet been offered of the very great arithmetical difficulty which prima facie awaits the prosecution—i. e., how to make out that thirteen people can be guilty of forming a society of more than twenty. The news given by the Moniteur du Soir, that the Mexican General Dublado has adhered to the intervention, comes now for the seventeenth time. Prince Couza is said to have postponed his jour ney to France in consequence of an illness. The Bourse is without any important change. One large purchase induoed some firmness at the close, but the market has very little buoyancy. " It is reported as certain," says the inde,peot dams, "that the Moniteur of the 15th August will announce the creation of titles of nobility decided on by the Emperor in favour of his moet devoted and most eminent servants. These decrees will only regularise the use of the titles which are borne by some of the personages honoured by his Majesty." I believe this news to be true. Several titles have lately been created " under the rose." "The evacuation of Mexico by the French troops," says a Toulon letter, "is not only decided on in principle but will commence almost immediately. The large steam-transport Jura will leave Toulon on the sth of August, taking on board sufficient fuel to be able to pro ceed to Vera Cruz with as few delays as possible. She will bring home 1,100 men and an enormous quantity of war material ; and as eight or ten vessels will be employed on the same errand, it is thought that the whole will be terminated by the end of the year." M. and Mine: Ratazzi are M present at Dieppe for sea bathing. A Hoax..—An Ostend letter, in the Prkurseur of Antwerp, sere :—" There is no truth in the statement made of the arrival at Ostend of two Confederate weasels named the Butterfly and Paul Jones. The whole affair is simply a hoes." ITALY. The stay of King Victor Emmanuel at Milan was bat short, as he arrived there at eleven in the fore noon of Saturday, and took his departure at nine the next evening. His Majesty went at once to the camp of Sommer, and put the troops, 17,000 in number, through a variety of evolutions. He ex pressed the utmost satisfaction at all he saw, and accorded from his privy purse If. to each private, and If. 50c, to each non-commissioned officer. The next day the King passed the national guard of Milan in review, and at seven in the evening pro ceeded to the amphitheatre of the arena to witness a nautical fete at which 30,000 persona were present. It was alter its termination that he left for Turin. The reception given to the royal party is described as most enthusiastic. SPAIN. The Correspwidencia says :—" The King of Spain will leave Madrid on the 14th of August, and pass the night at Vittoria. On the 15th, one of the Mu most popular in Spain, his Majesty will be present at the opening of the railway from Oloza goitia to Beasain, and will reach Bordeaux the same evening. On the 16th he is to arrive at St. Cloud. His Majesty will remain five days at Paris, during which period there will be grand tau there, at St. Cloud, and at Versailles, and also an ex cursion to Fontainebleau. The King is to be accompanied by his military household and two Grandees of Spain, the Duke of Medina Coal and the Marquis of Santa Cruz, whose names are among the most illustrious in the annals of the Spanish nobility." (FROM LABT 'IOWA GAZYM). WHITEHALL JULE 27.—The Qneen has been pleased to direct letters petset to to passed wider the great seal appointiog the Rev. William Camay, Y.A. to the plansand dignity of a moon of the collegiate church of St. Peter, Westminster, with the rectory of the parish church of St. Margaret's, Westminster, thereinto annexed and waited, void by the death of Dr. Wm. Carsten. WHITEHALL, Jinx 27.—The Queen has been pleased to present the Rev. James Stewart to the church and parish of Peterhead, is the presbytery of Deer and county of Aberdeen, vacant by the transportation of the Rev. James Mitchell to the church and parish of South Leath. The Queeo bas also been pleased to present the Rev. Ewen Campbell to the church and parish of Knock, in the presbytery and island of Lewis, vacant by the resigna tion of the Rev. James McDonald. DowlmircArnErr, JULY 28.—The Queen hu been pleased to appoint Hoary Show, Fog., to be tramper for the Island of St. Vincent. DOWNING,TREET, JULY 29.—The Queen hen been pleased to appoint Anthooy Musgrave, Esq. (cow lieute nant-governor of the Island of St. Viscont), to be governor and commander-in-chief in and over the island of Neorfoaed land and its dependencies. Her Mafeety has also bees pleased to appoint George Berkeley, Esq. (sow Coloeiel Se cretary for the colony of British Honduras), to be limits neat-governor of the Wand of St. Vincent. BOARD OP TRADE. WHITEHALL, JI-Ll/ 28.—The Right Honourable the Lords of the Committee of Privy Carlini! for Trade have received, from the Secretary of State , or Foreign Affairs, • oopy of • despatch from her Majesty's mogul at Portland, reporting that yellow fever has broken out at Portsmouth, New Hampshire. ELECTION PROAPECTS POE THE CITY OP LONDON. —We (.Iforaing Herold) are glad so be able to date on the best authority that four gentlemen of high commercial Mardi's are prepar-d to content the City of Loudon on conservative principles at the coming general election. THE Dung or Nswessrm—A fortnight ago we announced that his Grace the Duke of Newr-stle was sup posed to be fist approaching convalescence, and such ap peared to I . r the cage ; in fact, preparations were making at Clamber for his retort. expected to be about the 10th of August. We regret to state, however, that during the afternoon of Monday last his grace lied another somewhat severs attack of his old complaint, which has render, 1 his removal front London at present impossible. We, however, hope for the beet—Doncesfer Chronicle. Balton Bzuerr.—An amusing mistake on the part of an illustrated paper in Paris is recorded. A photo graph of Baton Beast, the representative of Germany at the congress vas to appear, and a sketch of his life was wanted to accompany it. In a Gallery of Contemporaries, the name of Beast was discovered, and the life tranderred to the paper, without the editor observing that, insteed of the Maumee and minister, he war describing a miasma*. gist and surveyor of mines. So far from clearing up the mistake, this difference of occupation boded only to magnify it ; for on coming to a work which referred purely to mines, the French journalist exclaimed with astonish ment, "Quel bonnie net esly a great statesman, but squally great eves in this department! "—Afterlives'. FIRE AT ELIOHBITET.—Last night, about half pest 10 o'clock, a Sr. hfOkO Out I. two large unanieheal houses, situated oa Mr. Ryder's estate, Hight:miry New-park. The windows had not been put in, bat the overtures were boarded up. The flames caught the boards end rapidly spread. Two engines were early In atteadares, but the fire was rot extinguished until the doom and roof had falls. is. Great fears ware entertained that the damns would *stood to the adjoining homes, which were inhabited, and stood to the windward of the Sus, hat fortasately this denier was averted. The origin of the Grohs =knows. 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