The Express. — London, England, 1866-03-02 00:00:00

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The document in question pro fessed to be only a copy or duplicate of the original will, which could not be disco vered. But the copy was, if genuine, equally effectual, for it bore the signature of the testatrix, and of attesting witnesses. In an exceedingly long preamble the motives for its execution were set forth. These were declared to be that a prior will had, during the Countess's illness, been abstracted by her sister and a German maid in the sister's service ; and the further reason or expla- 1 nation was added, that this sister had persisted in retaining in her service her German attendant, who was suspected by the Countess of having been guilty of theft of money from her, and for whom at all events she entertained an invincible dislike. The preamble then went on to say that as the result of no will being discovered would be to disappoint the testatrix's brother of his just expeo tations, she bad determined to obviate such a consequence by executing a new will, which she should confide to an aged friend on whom she could rely to hold it safely till her death, and after that to hand it to the person beneficially en titled under it. After this exordium, the will proceeded to give the testatrix's whole property to her brother, with the exception of some small legacies, a gift of 5001. to her sister, and another gift of 500/. to a Mrs. CASSE, to whom it also stated a post-obit bond for the like amount had also been given ; and the whole copy was in Mrs. Cesee's handwriting, with the exception of the signatures. Mrs. CASSE was herself one of the witnesses, but another had attested by a mark, and a third had signed. Moreover, Mrs. Cases was herself the aged friend to whose charge the document was entrusted. Oa the Countess's death a search was made by the brother, but no will was found. Mrs. Caeca was applied to, but she only declared that she knew there was a will, which would be forthcoming at the proper time. A citation from the Probate Court then issued against her, in obedience to which she deposited the document which had been confided to her charge. The brother, in whose favour it was conceived, sought to establish its validity—the sister sought to set it aside as a forgery. The case made in support of the document was undoubtedly very strong. The witness who had signed with a mark was called, and positively identified his mark. The other witness bes;des Mrs. CAME, a woman of the name of SIMMONS; was dead, but the authenticity of her signature was sworn to by a fellow-servant. Sir FITZROY KELLY, and many other persons who had been intimately acquainted with the deceased lady, de posed to their belief of the genuineness of her signature. Her medical attendants deposed that in her last moments she had given them to un derstand that her worldly affairs were settled, and that her brother was the relative whose interests were nearest her heart. But the thief witness was Mrs. Caws herself. This lady, now eighty years of age, had of course to undergo a severe cross-examination, in which the history of her whole life was inquired into. It appeared that the chief point to her discredit was that in 1826 she bad been married, as she said, to the late Lord SALTOUN under the name of Colonel CARTER ; that she had afterwards discovered he was already married, but that she continued to live with him, always, as she said, considering herself his wife. After his death, in 1853, she produced three bonds, bearing to be executed by him in her favour, for a sum in all of 5,0001., with an annuity of 7001. a year. But these were disputedjon the allegation of being forgeries, and after litigation had commenced Mrs. Ca= withdrew them. Her reason for this was, as she meld, that she had no money to continue the litigation ; but she was in the enjoyment of 4001. a year under Lord Sas,- TOUR'S will, as to which there was no dispute. And she had produced the bonds after his death from a sealed packet, given her, she said, by his lordship in consideration of her surrendering her certificate of marriage. As to the post obit bond said to have been given her by Countess Bausw, it was not produced at all. Mrs. Cesss'e evidence, if it was to be believed, was conclusive in favour of the will, for she corroborated every particular mentioned in the preamble, and swore positively to the execution of the document by her late friend. Against this evidence was set that of an eqnal number of the Countess's friends, who all declared 'heir belief that her alleged signature was a for gery. Testimony as decided was given by various experts in handwriting, who had compared the signature with other signatures of admitted genuine character. Inspector TANNER proved that he had been called in to trace the money alleged to have been stolen by the sister's German servant, but that be had irsoed most of the notes back to Countess Maxim's own band, a fact which cer tainly exonerated the alleged thief, but seemed rather to confirm than to disprove the probability that the reiterated accusations in the will were the real production of an eccentric brain. But the chief witness on this side was also an old lady, the sister herself, Miss FRANCES Betray. She quite confirmed the fact that there I~ THE EXPRESS, FRIDAY NVENING, MARCH 2, DM. had been serious quarrels between herself and the deceased. SIN edirftted Cid rte occasion of some of them Ind been her own Will `once in gambling at Homburg, where rte had once won 7001., which she said she gave to the poor. Also she admitted having written some violent letters to her friends, warning them against Mrs. Cuss as "the horror of London." At the same time she acknowledged having written a letter to the " horror," calling her " Dear friend." But, then, as she remarked, "if you come to strict " language, I doubt whether there is such a thing "as a friend in the world"—a conclusion which we do not doubt she based upon a very accurate review of her experience in life. It seemed to be admitted by Miss Bau.sw also that she had received frequent advances of money from her sister, though she strongly insisted that a large number of I 0 U's in her handwriting were no proof that she had actually got the money. But beyond the foot of strenuously denying the genuineness of the Countess's signature, the evidence of this sister bad not much bearing on the facts of the case. On the whole, we are disposed to think the evidence very evenly balanced. It was a question for the jury whether the friends who thought the signature genuine, or the friends who thought it forged, were most likely to be right, for their evi dence was at least above suspicion of insincerity. The opinion of experts in such cues does not go for much, since experience shows that agitation or accident may sometimes materially modify a usual signature. The circumstances narrated in the commencement of the will were all proved to be consistent with the feelings and fancies of the testatrix. It cannot, however, be said that the document came from custody above suspicion. This was the weak point of the case, though it, too, was somewhat balanced by the fact that Mrs. Cum took but alight benefit by the document, sod was proved to be rather on bad than on good terms with the brother who took the chief benefit. The whole case was thus eminently a matter of opinion, on which it was to be expected that minds of different characters would form different conclu sions, and that of the jury was adverse to the genuineness of the will. OUR CONTEMPORARIES. (THLS DAY.) party Impulses sal from why palate of view. Be long ss the ballot is obstinately rejlipted, bribery sad hilimidatton are poet If the elseiersl poliey of the oonntry, nod gook. mismadah we* extreme mess of a pneral and chronic •11.• • - • LATEST INTELLIGINCFa JAMAICA. MEETINGS OF THE ROYAL COMMUNION. persons who spoke at a public meeting held in Kingston is May last, to consider the condition of the labouring classes. The charge against them is sedition sad conspiracy. Mr. Levien, of St. James, the editor of the County Union, and Dr. Bruce, of Vere, are also indicted—the former for libel of the government and the judges, and the latter for sedition. The Morning Journal further adds : The letter of Paul Bogle ham sot been forthooming ; but the public is &axiom to know ite purport. There is • general implosion that it apprieed the (manor of the diseatisfaetiou prevailing among the people, and prayed his exoellency to come down to St. Thoreas-in-the-Earl, and personally settle the disputes between them and the magis trates, If this prove correct, then one is forced to the oon otrudoe, that • little timely judicious action might have obviated the late deplorable occurrences at Monet Bay. Representations have been made to his Excellency Sir Henry Storks, from various quarters, that another out break is to be feared, sad his excellency has, very pro perly, notified that were any such oecurreaoe to take place, he has it in his power to put it down, and that he will do so with vigour. The suspicions of prevailing dis affection are utterly groundless, but there are • great many who would be glad of another outbreak and who have been endea►ouring to drive the people to commit acts of lawlessness, in order that the assertion might be made good that " the reentry has been slumbering on the brink of a volcano," Had the unfortunate gentleman whose weakness has been so long played upon by designing men been at the bead of affairs, there can be no doubt he would have been ,gain induced to plunge the country into all the horrors of the days of terror. The commission did not sit on the Bth ult. in order to enable all concerned in its labours to pre pare their letters for the mail, which left early the next morning, but on the 9th the inquiry was to be resumed. TIM NAST lenitnim. The Pose taws it to be generally ecairoded that re tneehment in our nary estimates is at present .impossible. but that equal unanimity does not exist as to the mode in which the money should be expended. If oar first experi- meats have been inoomplete, it must be remembered that we can at no time do more than use such knowledge and fads uwe are in possession of. Had we poetponed the building of our new navy until now, we should doubtless have avoided many of the errors which we committed, but meanwhile the country would have been left defenoeless. No one oan say with conidenee that our boasted irooolads may not, tea years hence, be as useless as the fleets which, as many years ago, we sent to the Black Sea under Lyons, and to the Baltic under Napier, are now. But the pout bility of such a contiogency should not prevent us making provision for the present. The rekgraph is of opinion that the individual ships of England, as regards invulnerability and weight of guns, contrast favourably with the individual ships of Pniries. Had we only Pilules and the nations of Europe wherewith to compare ourselves, we should be able to make • good exhibition of strength, but on the other side of the Atlantic gigantic strides are being made in this respect, and it would have been encouraging if Lord 0. Paget had given any evidence of hie cognisance of the fact that there is such a country in °Airtime as America. The TeiecropA then quotes Sir I IL Pete's remarks, a lecture by Captain Horton, sad the statements of Mr. Donald Itglay to shoe that the pro , oeedinp of the American government with respect to their navy are well calculated to wound our vanity and to rouse I • l our vigilance. M. Thies emphotically disolahns English preferences and English associatioas, and the TiVICS is ready to acknowledge that we do not give ourselves the least credit for the noble inheritance of ooratitutionalism which in the abstract he so much admires. We have it from an unknown antiquity, and if we can sVI call it ours, it is because we never did try the grand experiments the French have does, and attempt to revolutionise the world as well as ourselves, and not only govern ourselves, but make ourselves over 'gale. The Tana describes the policy of President Johnson, hitherto somewhat indefinite, as rapidly beoomiog more de. aided and more conservative. He has declared that negro suffrage would be ruinous to social order and to the destiny of the negro moo itself, and he has emphatically denied that the abolition of slavery was the object of the war. The advanced Republicans have already come to an open breach with him, and the President is carrying on the great work of restoration in the face of a determined and unacrupulous opposition. The result is the gradual development of • new " administration party," pledged to stead by the mo derate policy of Mr. Johnson—a policy which, carried out with great moral courage and honesty of purpose, has won for him the respect and sympathy of this country. The Daily News draws attention to the steady annul i•oresse of private bills introduced into parliament, and to the heavy duties with which the chairman of committees is charged. It °outmode that justice to the suitors and to • most hardly praised officser claim that the Commons should at least consider the appointment of a paid vice-chairman, who can answer for him in the house, sit for him on com mittees, and act as chairman of the board of referee, on private bill, The Post hopes that Sir Frederick Bruce has not troubled Mr. Seward with any remonstrances on the subject of Mr. Bancroft's remarkable oration, President Jolliness and Mr. Seward cannot nerd to be informed of the impropriety of the proceeding ; they must regret it as we do. The ugly feature In the incident is that the address was printed before it was delivered, and might therefore have been tionaidered by those who took part in the ceremony. THE REFORM BILL. It will be seen by our parliamentary report that the ministerial Reform Bill will be introduced into the House of Commons on Monday week, the 12th of March. the Court. WINDSOR OkSTLR. Kam L The Queen, accompanied by Princes Louise and Prince= Beatrice, went out driving yesterday afternoon, and walked in the grounds this morning with Princess Louise. The Earl of Clarendon arrive the Castle, sod had an audience of the Queen. General de Mosquera, Minister from the United States of Columbia, Baron de Penedo, Minister from the Emperor of Beta, and Colonel J. M. Duran, Minister from the Em peror of Mezioo, were presented to her Majesty at audiences by the Earl of Clarendon. Visoount Torrington and the Hon. Mortimer Saukville West were the Lord and Groom in Waiting. Major• General F. H. Seymour end Colonel H. Poasonby have suanieded Lieutenant• General the Eno. C. Grey end Colonel the Hon. D. de Roe u Equerries in Waiting to her M o°4Y' The Prince of Wales went to the Homo d Lords yester day afternoon. The Prince and Princess of Wales end Prince Alfred dined with the Duchess of Inverness at Kensington Palace. Lieutsoant-Colonel Koppel has succeeded Major Teesdale as Equerry io Waiting to the Priooe of Wales. The judicial committee of the Privy Coma sat yesterday. Present—the Lords Justices Knight Braes end Turner, Sir E. V. Williams, Sir J. Colvile, sod Sir Lawrence PeeL Deapatehes Were sent yesterday from the Colonial-office to the Governors of the West India Island; British Co lumbia, Vancouver's Wand, sad Crusade. The Prince and Princess of Wales and rrinoe Alfred honoured the Decline of luvernees by their pre sence at dinner yesterday evening at Kensington Palace. Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Cambridge and Princess Maly, and his Royal Highness the Duke of Cam bridge, joined the party. The guests invited included the Earl of Derby, Vitooliet and Viscountess Royston, sad Lord sad Lady Cecilia Bingham. The Duchess of Inverness had a select and early party after dinner to meet she royal visitors. The Prince of Wales has sent a contribution of twisty guineas to the Licensed Victuallers' School, in ad- dition to the sum of 3501., a moiety of the fine paid on the enfranchisement of the school estate in 1857, which oc curred during his royal highnees's miserity, and which was then received as a donation on his Isibrll. The Countess Cowper received the Marquis and Idarohioneu of Salisbury and a select party at dinner last imaiog at her mansion io St. Jamea's-square._ The Countess of Desert and the Countess of Viennese left town on Wednesday for Paris, on their we, to Canoes, where they intend to sojourn a few weeks. The Countess de Grey will have an amenably to morrow evade( at her residence in Carlton-gardens. Frances Countess Waldegrave and the Right Hon. Chichester Fortmene, M.P. (Chief Secretary for Ire lead), arrived at their mildew.. is Cariton-gardens yester day from Ireland, ha►ing paid a visit to Lord and Lady Clermont, at Serape:tale Park, after leaving Dublin. Madame Muslims, the mother of the Ottoman Ambassador in London, died on Feb. 14 at an advanced age. Her funeral took place the next day at Constantinople with considerable pomp, the procession being headed by the ex-Patrisrch of Constantinople. The present Patriarch was prevented from attending, but most of the other eccle siastical chiefs of the Greek community at Constantinople paid the last tribute of respect to the deceased. The Princess de Ld,n, whose death has been announced, was 42 year of ego, the only daughter of the Marquis de Balmy. The prises, her husband, is a son of the bake de Roden, peer of France, who :valved In 1830. The Princess de Limn leaves several children, the eldest of whom, dlaba de Bohan, bean the title of Count de Porr boot. Patti has signed her engagement of three months with the St. Petersburg Opera. She is to hare 4001. per sight—that is 10,0004 for her three months' stay is that eapitaL At West Lulworth, in Dorsetabire, a partridge's nest was found lasi wash with six eggs is it ; and at Ramsey, in Hampshire, a thrush's nest was found a few days ago, with four eggs in it. Italtpenny readings have been established at Asdaver. le Hampshire. DOCKYARD VOYMUS AND THI MORN BILL. The Times observes that there was never a time when stash questions as those which are involved in the matter of the Devonport election petition could be more alvantagemudy raised than now. As to the particular eir cunastanoes, the Tines sees nothing reprehensible in the permission accorded by the Admiralty to serve the Speaker's warrants oa the workmen on the dockyards,, but that such advantage was undoubtedly taken of the order as gives reason for inquiry if not for censure. The superintendent, if the accounts of his conduct be correct, mistook or neglected the teuour of his instructions. In permitting a large number of men to be kept from their work, and examined singly and at length about matters with which the government has no right to interfere, he has given countenauce t, the charge that the inflames of the Admiralty has been used for the advantage of the petitioners. Though the case looks suspicious, the Times is inclined to believe that there was no such interference, and that the error was that of the Devooport authorities alone. But, as Kr. Gladstone confessed, the act " savours somewhat of influence," and is to be regretted. With regard to the general question whether it is expedient that those dockyard workmen should retain the franchise, the resents which brought the committee appointed to con sider the raalpra3tices committed when the late Duke of Northumberland was First Lord of the Admiralty to recommend the disfranchisement of the dockyard officials and workpeople, still bays their force, and it is to be trusted that the subject will receive consideration in any general measure of electoral reform. Various returns obtained in 1864 by Mr. White, and curtain 'Wirth* furnished by the Registrar-General, are referred to by the Tides with the view of showing that the figure@ at tbat date were not on the whole favourable to the prevalent impression that the suffrage is sow practically more restricted than it was 30 yeses ago. In the large boroughs the spontaneous development of the constituendes has in molt eases signally outstripped that of the population. If it were not for such exceptions es the city of Landon, Westminster, Liverpool, and Preston, the general rate of increase In the borough constituencies would be startling. Nor is it true, unless we exclude Middlesex from the cal culation, that the north of England, in proportion to its population and property, is much lees fully represented than the south. It would not be possible to adjust with sernpalous nicety the geographical basis of oar repre sentative system except by wild schemes which do but divert the public mind from the correction of the anomalies cull bited in the returns before us. While such places as Hopi ton, Tomes, and Ripon are returning two members apiece, the West Riding of Yorkshire, with its 40,000 eleesors, re- turns but four, and South Lancashire and Manchester, each with more than 20,000 electors, return bet two apiece. These are defects in our representative machinery which all can understand, and which practically affect the oonapcsi- Eon of the House of Gammons. To lower the franchise without redressing these would be the very rednetio ad absurdum of bit-by-bit The Daily New speaks of the opposition as has:ng been in high spirits last night t,rough their discovery of a piece of genuine political scandal. Mr. Gladstone distinctly de. dined to defend the proceedings, while he showed that the Admiralty bad never intended to author:se them, the Duke of Somerset's meanie being designed to give just what it expressed—leave to enter the yard and serve the Speaker's earrant—no more. But Mr. Disraeli only marred the effect of Sir John Pakington's fairness and models. tion when he went laboriously over the whole case in the spirit of a nisi prim lawyer. As he him elf was constrained to admit, the error of the Admiralty was not a great error. The mistakes committed were made by local and subor dinate authorities, and the censure pronounced by Mr. Gladstone applies so everything with which the opposition could fairly find tarot. The Herald infers from the blunders of the government in the Cattle Plague Bill, from their repentance in Captain Coles's MKS and their treatment et the Davenport elration matter that ministers will he unable to cape much longer with the vacillation, contradiction, and dissensions which exist in their midst. The articles in the Times, the Herald says, bare an importance which the immediate organs of Lord Russell seek In vain to deny. The Timer has always had an instinct which tells it when the ship is sinking, and it. articles do not express the mere judgment of its eon doctors. The connexion of the Timer with several mem bers of the administration is a guarantee that it has ex pressed opinions in which several .f Lord Russell's col leagues share, and although it misled the public in an nouncing Lord Russell's resigestiou, it tells plainly enough , that the cabinet is thoroughly divided, and that we are upon the eve of another ministerial oriels. Alluding to Mr. Gladstooe's announcement last night that the reform bill will be introduced on the 12th inst.. the Telegraph says the inquiry into the facts and figures connected with the working of the existing electoral forms , has been employed to obtain correct sad authentic data for the construction of a practical measure. The preliminary I discussions out of doors have not had the effect of daunting the leaders of the liberal party, but have confirmed their intention to proceed forthwith. The cabinet bas not found it impossible to agree upon the nature or dAails of the measure, bet will ley it before parliament with all the force of uoion. The Star assumes that the box, volume of statistics which the government is prepariog for our iostruotion will net be published before the end of next week, and perhaps may not be in the hands of members until the day following that on which the Chanoellor of the Exchequer is to make his statement in moving for leave to bring in the bill. Bat the Star ridicules the idea that the government has hid to wait for the returns of all the rating distriets of the country before feelmg quite sure whether they ought to lower the present franchise or not. Of last night's debate the Star remarks that such personsl soma are too suggestive of undsrlyieg political immorality to be enjoyed for the mere fon or excitetneat eoeneeted with them, and it is painful that a number of English gentlemen, stumbled in parliameat, should dimes mocha subject simply under EXAMINATION OF MR. EYRE. REVELATIONS IN THE EVIDENCE. By the West India Mail, which arrived at Southampton this morning, we have received letters and papers from Kingston to Feb. 8. The Royal Commissioners, who commenced their sittings on the 25th January, bad been sitting from day to day. The Kingston Morning Journal of Feb. 8 says : They (the commission) have examined • great many witnesses, among them his Excellency E. J. Eyre, to whom and to whams testimony the whole country had been looking forward with the greatest possible anxiety. All who desired, either from personal interest or for political ends to make good the assertion that the late outbreak was part of "a widespread conspiracy" relied in the peatestoonfulenoe upon his excellency for the proofs ; whilst those who maintained, from conviction, that the outbreak was purely a local one and excited by local 0111/11114 were lead to fear, from the loud expressions of expected triumph uttered by the late governor's partisans, that his excellency had evidence in his possession that would far ever settle all doubt respecting the extent and danger of the alleged conspiracy. Both parties have been disap pointed—that is, the hopes of the one h►ve been defeated, while the fears of the other have not been realised. His excellency, is so far as the oral and documentary evidence he gave before the oommission is concerned, has not ad vanced his position a step beyond that in which his de spatches to the Secretary of State showed him to have stood. Looking into the report of the evidence of Mr. Eyre, as given in the journals, we find him stating that the agitation in the country was to • very great extent caused by Dr. Underhill's letter ; and he believed disturbances would have broken out before the time they did, had it not been for steps which had been taken under his direction by the local authorities. Describing the scenes at Morant Bay, he said that one account as to the treatment of dead bodies which he had forwarded to her Majesty's government turned out afterwards to be unfounded. He continued martial law in force after the amnesty was declared because there were a number of rebel prisoners to be dealt with. He had also received communications from every part of the island as to expected further risings, but he could not at that moment recollect from whence those communications bad been received. His opinion of Mr. Gordon's guilt was founded on the general belief of it, on his intimate connexion with the chief rebels, and upon the fact of his having issued • seditious placard some time previously. " The very fact," said Mr. Eyre, "of tis holding up the custos and Mr. Herschel to the odium of the public in that placard, and their being murdered after proved that he was the prime mover of the insurrection." The following incidents took place in the coarse of Mr. Eyre's examination : Mr. Gorrie dedred to ask Mr. Eyre a Dumber of questions regarding Mr. Gordon. Mr. Gurney—lf you will forward your questions to us we will see if they eau be put. Mr. Gorrie—Many questions might arise out of his answers. Am I to understand that the royal commissioners will not allow me to put any questions to Mr. Eyre relating to Mr. Gordon at prmeat? Mr. Gurney—Ws are not trying the guilt of any person. Let us see your questions, and we will know what line of action to take regarding them. Mr. Payne would like to know whether himself and his learned friend had or had not the liberty to cross question his late exoelleocy Mr. Eyre. They both represented numerous persons now deceased, whom characters had been impugned. The eourt consulted fora few moments. Mr. Cierney—Do yon appear as representative of any persona that have been executed Mr. Payne—Yee, and for some who h►ve not been. Mr. Gurney—Who an they ? Mr. GorrieLSeveral persons who were arrested where no martial law had been prochimed, one of whom is Dr. Bruce, on whose behalf I wish to ask Mr. Eyre a few questions. Mr. Gurney—You may rugged questions regarding his statement about Dr. Bruce. Question by the court at the request of Mr. Gorrie—Wu the latter which you referred to the only information ow which Dr. Bruce was arrested ? His Raselleney—Yea. Mr. Gorrie—Which was only found liter Dr. Bruce was arrested. Question by the court at request of Mr. Gorrie-Btate on what grounds Dr. Bruce wee at rested. His Excellency—l directed his apprehension ; I was in duced to do so from information I received, also from letters found among Gordon's papers. I also received information from the etudes of the parish that he was likely to ornate disturbances. I merely mention his name incidentally. Question—What disturbance do you refer to? His Excellency—The Underhill martinp amoogst others. IRis Excellency the President—The object for which the questions are put an quite evident. Mr. Payne did not quite understand from the commis 'loners, whether his learned friend and himulf were pre cluded from oroesexamining site/saes. Mr. Gurney—You were told distinctly before that you would sot be allowed to eras-examioe witneeses ; but we also expressed oar desire to have any question which would test the evideooe or throw light upon the occurrences handed to us, and we would put them to the ',finesse.. Mr. Gorrie--As our questions depend upon the answer. we receive, we will not ask any questions at all. Mr. Payne would ask Mr. Eyre whether the wools " have seen the prooeedliop of the ooart-martial (relative to Gordon's trial), and concur with the eentesce," which appear in a postoript of a despatch to Mr. Cardwell, were wateo, by him? Hie Earmillesey—l did see the proceedings of the court, and I fully adhere to the expressions is that posteaript. Question at the request of Mr. Gorrie—Whether the Baron Ketelhodt's letter was the first be bad received of the disturbances? His Excellency—Yes. Question—Did you not receive a letter from Bogle His Excellency—l received a letter signed by Paul Bogle and others late in the day, and the bearer who brought it would not wait for an answer. The msjor;ty of those persons who signed that letter were engaged in the rebellion and were executed. I cannot exactly re member their names. Many other witnesses besides the governor have been examined. The occurrences of the first three days, that is the outrages committed by the negroes, have been fully established, with the exception that many of the stories about the mutilation of the bodies of the murdered gentlemen have not been sup ported—such, for instance, as the Baron Kettelhodt's brains having been scooped out, mixed with rum, and drunk by some of the rebels, the ripping up of the bowels of Mr. Price, and the cutting out of the tongue of the Rev. Mr. HerschelL The witnesses appearing before the commission at the time the mail left were those for the most part who testify to the measures of reprisal adopted by the government. They have brought to light some rather startling facts, among others that the whips used for flogging rebels were made partly of piano wire, that with these instruments of torture women were flogged, that in some places people were hanged and shot without any form of trial whatever, sad that the provost-marshal and others were apparently guilty of acts of wanton cruelty. The special commission of oyer and terminer appointed by the late governor to try certain offences committed during martial law had been sitting for the previous fortnight. Eighty-five prisoners had been brought down from the lately disturbed district for trial; bp.t the time of the court had been occupied with the trial of several SPAIN. The Connell of War have pronounced sentence on the authors and accomplices of the mili tary rebellion in Spain. General Prim, Bri gadier Milano del Bosch, all the superior officers and sub-officers are condemned to be shot. Several senators and a good number of generals at present in active service have been condemned to the same penalty more than once, and yet they seem very well and happy. Otzum's THE WEST INDIA AND PACIFIC MAHAL SOUTHAMPTON, Maws 2. The Royal Mail Steam Packet Company's ship La Plata, from the West Indies, has arrived with 53 adult passengers, 1,125,000 dola. and 2,400 packages of cargo. The Canadian commissioners were well received at Demerara. At a meeting of the Court of Policy the members expressed themselves in favour of trade with Canada, and suggested that a line of steamers be subsidised partly by the West India colonies, and partly by the Canadian government. Excessive rains at Demerara had impeded sugar making. Business was quiet. At Grenada the weather was favourable to planters. The arrival and distribution of coolies had given an impetus to agricultural operations. The health of the island was good. Cholera still prevailed at Guadaloupe, but was slowly decreasing. A considerable quantity of rain had fallen at Trinidad, rendering the shipment of sugar difficult in the cane localities. The weather generally was not unfavourable. The commissioners from British North America arrived in her Majesty's ship Buzzard on the 3rd ult. It is anticipated that a large trade will be opened np between Canada and the West India islands generally. The news from Ecuador is unimportant. The reports from the Barbsooes Mines are favourable, and five men are said to be taking out 601bs. of gold weekly. The President of the Cauca had issued a decree granting a full amnesty to the revolutionists condemned by court-martial last November. Five new gold mines had been discovered in the State of Cauca. At Aantioquis things were quiet and mining prin cipally absorbed public attention. The tobacco crop was excellent and everything in the state be tokened progress. INDIA. (By direct Ore:l►nd Telegraph.) SURRENDER OF THE GUNS BY BHOOTAN. ASSASSINATION OF THE SULTAN OF MUSCAT. BOMBAY, FED. 27. The surrender of the two Armstrong guns taken at Dewangiri is confirmed. The troops were returning from Bhootan. The Sultan of Muscat has been murdered. The tribes of the coast are in revolt. The Nord says that Messrs. E. de Girardio, Cle ment Devernois, end Ver.nerel, bar* jo:ned the journal Liberte, of which M. Ch. Muller is the chief editor. Mgr. de Parisi", Bishop of Arne, was seized on Wednesday morning with at attack of paralysis just is Ea was getting ready to preside o►er s discussion meeting. His condition creates great alarm. It appears from a return of the salaries and allowances of the Loris of the Admiralty, of the two &tan talise of the Admiralty, and of the chief and other clerks, issued this day, on the motion of Mr. Ferrand, that the lords of the admiralty receive 12,3311. 55., distributed as follows. The Duke of Somerset, 4,5004 salary, and an allowance of 1661. in lien of oil, making a total of 4,6661. ; Admiral Sir F. W. Grey, 1,0001. salary, 1101. in lien of oil, and 7661. 10a. half-pay—total, 1,8764 101. ; R•ar. Admiral Charles Elea, total, 1,5661. 55.; Bear- Admiral Fanshawe, total, 1,6661. bs. ; Rear-Admiral Drummond, 1,566/. Ss. ; Mr. Fenwick, 1,0001. ; the Secre taries of the Admiralty receive 4,0191. 10s., of which Lord C. Paget has 2,0001. salary, 1101. in lien of oil and 3721. 10a. half-pay, making a total of 2,4821. 10s. ; and Romaine, 1,5001. salary and 371. is lieu of oil, making 1,5371. The clerks received 21,3021., of which Mr. Briggs, the chief clerk, receives 1,0031. The toted =want is 37,6321. 15a. A new and powerful steam fire-engine, built by Mears. Merryweather and Sous, London, added to the fire blip& of Portsmouth Dockyard, underwent its official trial yesterday in th.t dockyard in tt e presence of Bear- Admiral Soperisteodent G. 0. Wellesley, Mr. A. Murray, chief of the engineering department of the yard, Mr. Oradea, master shipwright, and other officials. The =- gine is of the same dimeotions as the engine, by the acme makers, which gained the first prise at the Crystal Palace competition in 1863, sad which now forms part of the lire bripcle apparatus of her Majesty's dockyard at Devonport. Having sueceerfally passed its trial yesterday, it will now be handed over to Mr. Superintendent Grey, as part of the establishment of the dockyard Itstropolissa Police File Brigade. At Trowbridge, in Wiltshire, a disease hu broken out soup% the fowls They us affected with spasms, a yellowish moon, num from their beaks, sad their combs tura black. A ritualistic clergyman in Exeter has asserted from the pulpit that the rinderpest was seat to remind us of fasting I. Lest, sad that imolai' be oompoSed from !amiss to fast is Lent, 1867. Tait MAZZIAGII Law Cosnannois.—The commis staler* met at 32, AbiagdanatzeM. Present—Right. 800. the Lord Chahnsford, Right Hon. the Lord Ness. Eight Hon. the Lord Lvvedes, the Bight Hoe. Spermar Hoestio Walpole, Q. 0.. M.P., the Attornsitieerral. Mr. Travers Q.C., D.C.L., Mr. Alexander Murray Dunlop. ILE, and Mr. John Fraser Masque's. Q.O. The Lord Advocate of Swami sad Mr. Andreas, Q. 0., gar* ovidosime. LAW INTIELLy ek (THIS DAY.) COURT OF PROBATE AND DI (Moro the Judge Onitne rf ) curtitateu e. CAVENDISH MID ooanoy—onkmft. lin mis lai ao Fran. R. Henry Coarewildi aka from hia wif e , L a d y Elinor Sophi a D ims oom Fitzgibbon,s daughter of the Paul 0 0614 he h a , with Lord Cecil James Gordon, b oa I h iratt 240004 as damages. 1 , 1V0R 4 "Q.mcc.nr:e.anaofdodimpeeppr.:epristnar. pearairsodciftoryf.otrbThetiheessmattpettheetet. Yr. Hodson briefly opened the case, which related together ; but they w e ak " tenon till 1861, when the • " Frame, in consequence of a severe received. He then found Lord Coen 'm oo* , the suburbs of Perin, aged a ekes f up between the two families. Lord Gnith very small and his family:246v, e . a bad many opportunities o f 1 lika Kai Th e 00-respondent being twice the memos. the smallest anspisku of impropriety e el February, 1865, when Lord Cecil aqui 1 617 , sad ill was suggerted that cue ream foe thh N e i his part might have been the fact that os Elinor's parents she had come into giou ne h a , Pert , . The following evidenoe was then galled: The Earl of 010.806-1 am a broth la w tinier. I was at the wedding, which huh , 24th of AprilL 1856. The petitioner er 11th: visited me at my coentryMonas, thenalur% sod also at no. hou s e dined at their house in Hydem to live very happily together, seemed to be very kind. I have 10 lainor's age may be. Lieut.-General Crawford—l ua alas i the petitioner. He has more thee sees boon% and in 1862 and 1863 I was Bring sue country, ea that I saw them onosteatly, be living together on perfectly goc Mr. Frederick John Howard—l n gem half-brother to the petitioner, neentary to Lord Carlisle. In 1867 I at Mount Shannon, and there I saw that Elinor. In 1861 the petitioner mat with a and went abroad, and in the thruyeanfe wife often visited me in London. The $ll%, to his wife was kind and indalgeat; and I ley perfectly good terms. Is Febeuary, G an go to Mr. Oarendik's house at llikethe i k St. Leonard's. I found that his wile leg him. He was in great grief at what isel % N Z' I know Lord Cecil Gordon. He is a nue bur' •• "'""' years of age. He is brother-inky to Lady married her half icier. Lord Clare died la Ji and Lady Clare three or four month. ago, th ej , great invalid. Sarah Harris—l was housemaid to the Sllverlande, in UAL I aaw Lord CsmgNand% June he came with his daughter. Bs eon auk and was takes IIL The petitioner's mid was very kind. In Anna Lord Osell nee WI N G re y' s Ledo, whisk was close by my sum le Revs he had nine children. The fulls visited each other. I remember lady lie away on the 2nd of February, 1866. lid her sea y where she mu going. Mr. Oamelli her to the stance. M mew She L EMs expected on the next day. Tie stenic sent for her at the station, and the dieter v for her. On the day following (Seaday) dish. He appeared to be in great OA dual is in his handwriting. (It WWI adlt vee r , end was returned through the pendia petitioner bad three children, the yams w old. I should say that Lady Flinn is theist. Thomas Anderson—l am in the pr When Lady pimr was away I was t she wee going to her mothers. I mete the boxes. It was 31, Bryeastasequie Lord Cecil dined at my master's Oa the lie elopement. I went to Nice about a falai and I made inquiries about Lord Cecil and found that they bad be m living J0'401181.46, the. staying le private lodgings 27, Fronesedei saw them walking together. I retuned is reported what I had seen. In !larch I &pia wink and saw them in the Rue de Frame mak oh bask entrance of the house in whisk they tour leg I served them with the eitatioe, and Len Old sila "Fm sorry you've toned detective." The kart is in Lord Cecil's handwriting. It was dna k Lord Cecil thanked the petitioner Is. rueueieg lid out of a person's hands. Susan Piokley—l was nurse la lady Dun Ith and in February I went to Ni.. to her. I widen own accord. I saw Lord Cecil. Hs was Hog kill , apartment as Lady Elinor-27, Premed, and they were called Mr. and Kra Chubut I. them from Saturday till the Nadu sande& T w i a a r yo s ware w m e indoo n sti t ü bac uel k ingto an i l diet l y iv b t Eliss id ear tk i eh: rety. sad for fear io evldeocia, bat it was refused. The Judge Ordinary, in summing whatever light the cue was viewed he met with a won% ifir Th eatthroi e treuane j .pe n am ry ti , oo.tias af oe ter t,Tr.t a hant s eha n dgromst o t rt aasemedth a e onsa ywase l a t ti:e akou igu staresd arimehiorai‘ under their notice. Decree nisi with costs. COURT OF BANICRUPTCT. (Before Mr. Commissioner Saudi Is BI BOHM HATCH A.TD HART an lam The bankrupts, brother and sister, were benne+ slationent, of Eltspleburst, Kent. Dan, 12111; shoot 1704 The Gone)lidded Amason sed Lulu Company are creditors for 3111. Hr. Bagley, for the assignees. stated the Its has wen estitled to certain property sada Ink infra and asked for particulars of the same. Caarten, on behalf of the bankrupt; hal particulars hai already been Welshed His Honour concurred, and said that the honinill substantially complied with what bad ban Moo • them at the last sitting. Af tor • short exantiostion of one of in lesetztfti Huss granted the orders. 111 HI CUBIT. —CABS 07 BLOOM The bankrupt, John Clark, wee a petite 11 = 6 the Great Northern Potato Market, sad of times lckteweross. He sow applied fcc &WON debts of EMI of which 1781. ro unded Se dues costa, aid in terest to as action for saner. build go the Wilmot by • tun aimed taste lister and whom he had charged with r Mr. Bagley stated that the wages ewe . with the bankrupt's answers to their regents 171, September last the bankrupt lad been is paned" si ose Taylor. No diseolutios of th at parteenjohlr guested ; and the bankrupt had gives as nut of the pastnerabip assets. The bankrupt, in examination, alibi tli did not issue circulars annotating as tam. of the partnership ; and the beaus MIN to be carried on in the same firso. " O. teddset at Orowle, in Lincol ns bire, seed sated his business a Louder. Had sot said Sloth. Itti sem tat the demagog which the pleatig is as asseselt against hen. Since the dissointia dolw airship ate Taylor bankrupt bad only hit s11• 1 / 11 • week. He now owed Taylor about 2001. Bs " third time he had petitioned the wort. Mr. B. faddish' opposed the applicationfor a eb. meat. The baokrupt had been brought hare ie el an action for eludes. base decided ga in his to" had bees opposed at every stage. Hie Honour said it was very desir a ble to h4vs tts "" sant of Taylor to the partnieldt • I so. hail beam as bled on the very dr ent &past the baokrapt, and the conclusioa that the obis judgpsient. The statement sate the salaried servant of Taylor, altbenb "Clash and 0o." wee very sospicins. Adjourned for a month. Is. no MICHILI 01 The bankrupt was sle cribod as ea of Much-pie" Piccadilly. our property held as Hooray. 3801. The bankrupt stated that he at ans. and had lost it all. Order greeted. (Before Mr. 011111Mi•Ii 000 f DIM T. BUHCBILL BOOTH, A The bankrupt was described as a Boots, also a coppersmith is the employ North Wester. Bsi:way Company sees beisg cenduetcd by his wife) tsalisg asainnt. Mr. Phelps ooposed ; Kr. O. B. It ortosonoo that the Warn et hod w party, worth 2301. shortly before ranting reptresostod the proceeds at oily la s ordered for further accounts. (Before Mr. Commisaioner IS to 08/1011D.—JUDGYINT. The bsekrupt, a licessed victualler, eireet, Olateowell, was opposed, /a discharge, co the round that he bad whole at he property. Aft interest is • bona Galled the . him • Manes of 521., the bankrupt for Athe 01011111,s he alleged, ous he had feted as manager of Ms. • week. The house was • blame of 1141., which the 'magnate th. bankrupt In support of this it mon +bin the Imehropt rewired the Bad Lies, had formed part of I the other boon. His Miaow/ was of seinen that fully sessanted, sod adjourned the 01 lien he be gam 'iamb soda to the C• aloes fe w m l*** • i dem Lord OW, so w r very Isrps, load% hic. nee the reepe....% impropriety lee Cecil eloped Mream toe th sir * ic •Is that oe the glom. me late polonaise d then sand: m a brothar4.l 6w ins. vitt* teak pier etitioner and* Ilkhc.; hour., Goldemic. % house in tows. 'do-park-ft*. 15.. bm r, and th e I hare ao idtad —I MI also a on than sees *lid it 3I was lide g m or li e m Ulf , oily good tem" arid— I raids al petitioner, wad ho s In 1867 I Alibi Iml re I saw the pstithama . Ger met with a soul ' • threepears faro* mcion. The pslithow, DaPeclitgeousenaryl44;saLUlWlt that his ids grief at ohm haill Wic He k is a ma Mole% • sr-ha lay to Lady a wl ord Clare died la hem ar monthe eg o , %QI N usemaid to tae piN cb Lard daughter. Be Noe att% e pditionsr's h ost Lord Osdi MI Will close bp my nada I h Iran. The balk dna .Cter LbNisei it. uary, 1866. lai nt 'CliDc. Yr. °mid sot 'tattoo. Kat We Wilt alt day. Tie sod the diner IS paw wing (Sadly) I me &f t .; la great grid. Tbo bgtia lug. (It wu aka.' I Ureathrough ths intik , the prim ccci ly Plums is abed 10 pre m in the pstillesee ay I was gird telninrills %hoer. I wrote de dint kYoadmorlis• Ntf* h 0.4 eater's oe the Iy d os about a feral& dumk t Lord Geed and Lady*. riag teptherstae 111.4. , 27, homemade I r. I retuned is II In lista I &pia vat hh4 de Fraud emirs edlh is whisk its/ is Ii alio', and Lord %do detective." The War Keg. It wu add ills titioner lot more* Id nurse In Lady Mime's b e Nit to biz I wed vas We/lets 1.-27, Preened* es MI. and Kra Clubs= I lipid I the losday mom* Ii iced rid them for tee ueY tber Kr. sad Ifni Gabs y Elko% wow, yr teid used. tag ma a doillitild v i m .; lee in. hal addellsit‘ come mimed a ei t imed the demWt et 114 hey was smaimeadysisr men bad set &able to ateem- is rcehiv iffsifs• y day that Let s i v e7 wad it was ti ; ,w ee t wea to rl he bawheePt baegh the I " le' tow luny). on hotel 0na . ..,11W0 1 .0 Debt IP' , )1. u•br ooted 30iik , er owthosii4 , ALIAS BMW! • Olilit•St, d trdl dePtel 611.11 0 way OH fanimil o of !o) dein) jertia saeVeltit ha sed off .4 owing to tht ifitic 591., do eineu ldlw as Widow.) a", of Upple.rj " hi e l e : o 4 l. 7o . hid Wk. _,___ 1 0/617 had es behalf el tge r ef the beirl"; i ii Dlt4l xses t l I it IrliS e h t td din the oil the Peg" . . ' it the honklitr i • moo die 1