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Mum DON.' sad th e Ladka of the turps tie it WIER =IIVIMMS,vri JOURNAL—TIM UZI OW NT. lissin-A- sad insM; looldesiom who.. ZIFIMINCI. mmim C. Yams mil Salmon ; Mow St Ommlailma. amlimem.—Cammume M rr.pr T. MITAIBRA. ICATIIIJOIN of. tw Wald of Mauler. M. =.—ITZ. 40 le am tor. Mr. Moo , Nur Sam Jacobi. sad WM A. —AM MI coxsaurr UOTBLEIL AWL Claim lb% I. midi NNW WATS& AT LONDON =IDOL TM DAT .-Maruisg, th. La..- Aftwiroo. lA. 47m. Irwang.....mosimg, ILL 11ft.... Maras" 106 Um. LONDON TUESDAY, MARCH 6. Tue instincts of the crowd are often sounder than the sentiments of select society, in cases where the true point of honour, not the counter feit, is in question, and where the chivalry of honest natures is free to use • logic of Ma own. The uproarious sympathy which hails the dramatic female in distress is an example of this constantly healthy and generous impulse of humanity, taken in the mass ; and the applause which is sure to follow any noble speech or worthy action is a sign of the same spontaneous discernment. A well acted betrayer of innocence or oppressor of the weak has a bad time of it before the vulgarest audience. The popular conscience seldom delivers a wrong verdict, and if Judge LYNCH commits an occasional blunder, usurps too many functions, and is inconveniently rapid in carrying out his men knees, at any rate his nose, for a scoundrel or a sneak, is rarely at fault. Society, on the other hand, has a world of mental reservations and con ventional hypocrisies which are the law of its life, and make up its code of customary dissimulation. Besides, society abhors good impulses ; and its moral calendar leaves a wide margin for easy vices made venial by occasion." In the YrLvraTuN marriage case, which has occupied the Court of Common Pleas in Dublin for some ten days, and furnished a rich feast of daily scandal at a singularly dull season, society can hardly think otherwise of the parties than the mob who pursued the ono with hooting. and hisses, and escorted the other to her hotel with clamorous emotion. It is not only a generous but a just intuition which refuses to accept any justi fication or excuse for the selfiah conquest of a woman's affections and the cruel betrayal of a woman's trust. In spite of all the efforts of the " strong-minded " school, it is still an article of manly faith that the woman is the weaker vessel, exposed by the fragility which is half the beauty of her physical and moral framework to shocks and accidents which the coarser clay of the sons of ADAM suffers without a flaw or a stain. It was Eva, no doubt, that first took of the fruit of the tree of knowledge, and did eat and gave to her husband ; and some daughters of Eve may, per haps, be found to follow the example of that fatal curiosity. A woman who forgets herself for a moment may do a more grievous social wrong than fifty reckless and unprincipled men. No sophistry of passion can disguise the immense difference between the social consequences of a man's trangressions and • woman's. But how im measurably greater is the penalty which the woman pays for a crime which a man commits with comparative impunity ! It is, therefore, a sound natural instinct which in nine cases out of ten regards the woman as the victim without weighing too nicely the relations of the tempter to the tempted. Nevertheless the conductors of public opinion would ill discharge their office if they were content to echo the generous clamour of the unreasoning crowd. This Y/LLVIIIMON awe is suggestive of warnings to men, women, and families, which—after we have indulged the sense of righteous indignation against • human animal who glories in his own dishonour and daunts his shameless lust before the public gaze—we ought not to leave unrecorded. We are not going to recapitulate in this place the cir cumstances alleged on this painful trial in proof or disproof of a double marriage. Many of our con temporaries have nut waited for the verdict of the jury to pass sentence in good round terms on the character and conduct of the officer and gentleman, whose theories of gentle blood in relation to the " laudability " of seduction were so strikingly illustrated in practice. ►ll this is commonplace enough, and wants no artificial setting to show its foulness to advantage. But it may be worth while, without fatiguing our readers with a summary of evidence with which they must be already too familiar, to examine how in our exceedingly moral and virtuous society a scandal so complicated and so audacious as this begins and grows. How far can we ctnsider the agents in the scandal ex ceptional characters, and the circumstances in which they became involved exceptional also t The first meeting of Jlajorlretvairrux with Mims Tams Li iNowoarit, on board the Boulogne steam boat in the summer of 1852, supplies • key to all that follows. The gentleman and the lady then met for the first time. He puts her shawl over her shoulders, covers her knees and his own with his plaid, talks with her all the summer night, calls a cab for her at London-bridge, drives with her to her house and anuses there. There was no harm, perhaps no indiscretion, in these delicate civilities. ." Where virtue is, these are more virtuous." There was a long interval between the first and the second meeting. Years passed before this sudden intimacy was revived, and then it was by a strange freak of fortune that a letter from the lady came into the hands of the gentleman through a third indifferent person, and • correspondence, founded, v-u suppose, on the recollections of the summer-night chat on the deck of the Boulogne steamboat, was set up. If our readers have perused attentively the startling prose in which the lady indulged, they will have noted how soon it WIA.4 pitched in the highest key. The lady's letters are in the most approved style of the fashionable love-novel ; tinged with a rapturous dissembling fondue's, an involuntary abandonment and yet a profound and permeating consciousness of sex. Every sentence is a sandwich of chopped French and hysterical English. High compliments were paid by counsel to the intellect displayed in THE EXPRESS, TUESDAY EVENING, MARCH 6, 1861. these compositions. It is no doubt our want of taste that we fail to detect in them anything more striking than the usual incoherence of an emancipated, and highly sensational young lady's pen. There is a mixture of piety and passion, a twang of the French realistic novel and the lighter devotional literature of the convent, of ardent and intense feeling, and a vague yearning for "the "unforeseen," which betokens • life of storm and change. Of course the lady insisted on giving • retroactive effect to her new passion. It was to date from the night on board the Boulogne steamer. The time between was • blank ; though it appears that at the time when these letters were composed the writer was dallying at Naples with what she would probably have de scribed in French as " tempests of the " heart ;" flirting with yachtsmen, driving Nea politan noblemen to duels and desperation, and scaring a cardinal. The young lady was working out in the true French fashion, though in a French language of her own, her "destiny." Major l'a&vaaroe's letters wore flighty, caressing, cynical, and indifferent ; the letters of a man flattered, but disposed to fight shy of so eloquent an adorer. In 1855, Miss Teases LONOWOSTII, inspired by the prevailing rage for service in the hospitals, found her way to Constantinople ; and at Galata, in the romantic and captivating dress of a Postulant in the House of the L•zarist Sisters, she was visited by her long-lost corre spondent, who was doing duty in the Crimea. The dress of the Postulant appears to have affected the imagination of the " gallant" officer. The dramatic allusion of piety and passion is always effective. He owns that he " made some " love" to the Postulant on that occasion," though " not in words." Subsequently Miss Loxuwoaru was on a visit to the hut of General and Lady Smut:Timm in the Crimea. Captain Ystsawrow's hut was not far off; and they met repeatedly, and exchanged vows. On the departure of Miss Lonoworre for Constantinople again Cap din whether or not an accepted lover it is hard to tell, accompanied her almost by stealth on the steamer ; as the lady remarked, it was curious that their destiny should have so much to do with steamboats. Again they chatter beneath the moonlight on the silent poop ; but were interrupted by one of the middle watch. In a letter written only a week after, Miss Lona worm alluded pointedly to this episode, which, by the bye, Captain Yecvssrox described in the Court of Common Pleas in terms which compelled the Judge to request the ladies to absent them selves. A charming French novelist, who was on the staff in the Crimes, discovered the materials of romance in the presence of adventurous English ladies at the seat of war, and made • touching, and positively not a sinful, story out of the attach ment of the wife of an imaginary British general for an imaginary officer of Spahis. An English novelist closed a very warm story with the death bed of the hero, • gallant ravager of the peace of families, in Scutari hospital, soothed in his last moments by the presence of a most loving nurse. But the story which came out last week in court at Dublin fairly eclipses all the dreams of French or English fiction. The scene in the Lazarist con vent at Galata, the episodes at the General's hut in the Crimea, and on the boat from Balaclava, leave nothing to be desired in the ro mance of war. The next meeting of the lovers was at Leith, in 1857 ; then at Edinburgh, where the alleged reading of the marriage service took place in lodgings. The denouement could not be delayed much longer. Miss Losowosra went to Wales, and while there she was persuaded to meet her accepted lover in Ireland, where the " conscience-saving " extracts of the Roman Catholic marriage service were read by the Rev. Mr. MOONEY with closed doors. The priest did not mean it as a marriage, yet he sent a copy of the marriage certificate to the lady. The cere mony in that chapel was a strange piece of co vasty with Heaven, the lover, and the world. The lover would no doubt have swallowed any formulas at the moment, and the lady was content to cheat her own conscience into believing that the husband was all at once a Catholic; while the priest proclaimed that he only gave the consent of the Catholic Church to the previous Scotch "ceremony" at the lodg ings in Edinburgh. Who was the deceiver and who the deceived of all these witnesses 1 Pro- bably none were deceived, though all were parties to a common cheat. Passion was the lover's plea ; the priest's was the church. From that mo ment, however, the drama hurried, as all such dramas do, to its appointed end. There was the fever of possession, the sickness of satiety, weari nem, neglect, selfish treachery, hopeless desertion. The life of the twice married lovers at Hull, at Dunkirk, at Bordeaux, may be conceived ; the heartsickness, the loneliness, the despair. At length, after • long separation, they met once more at Leith in June, 1858; and there this gallant officer and gentleman reproached the woman he had doubly betrayed " with coming " back to him." Before the end of that month he was married to a lady with a fortune. It was the want of • fortune that had made him desire to conceal the double " marriage " in Scotland and Ireland. Why could not the mock-wife captivate some one else, or go to New Zealand I Now, we ask our readers who have watched the evidence in this case in detail, to bestow all their horror and indignation on the gallant gentleman who still holds &commission in her MAJESTY'S Army, and all their sympathy and pity on the wayward and weak and wilful victim of his treachery and lust. This is right and natural. Major YeLvearow was, on his own showing, a lawless and ruthless social pirate. Pirates still flourish in the midst of our highly organized society, and flourish on its facile vices and its feeble virtues. The weak, the giddy, the defenceless, are their natural prey. Given, a girl of generous feelings, of an ardent and yearning nature, of great passions, undisci plined heart and brain, strong will, desultory and aimless education ; let her be an orphan, home , less, wandering, unsettled, saddened, a little embittered by the early experience of the hollowness of life ; let her fall into the hands of • man of gallant bearing and winning manners ; a man too with • front of beam, • heart "of " hammered steel," and the morals of a monkey, and we forbear, for pity's sake, to prophesy ,1 her fate. The Church Rate Abolition Rill stands on the order-book for going into committee to-morrow, and as the only two bills before it are not likely to occupy much time, it is likely to come on. In these circumstances the supporters of the bill will see the necessity of guarding against any accident which would deprive them of the advantage gained last week. Notices of several amendments have been given, the miasmas of any of which would prove fatal to the bill. Mr. Newdegate proposes an addition to the county rate, in lieu of church rates, while Mr. A. Steuart proposes that the house should consider " in what mode relief may be given to those who object to pay church rates, keeping in view the neoesaity of the maintenance of the churches in rural districts" This last proposal is fraught with danger, inasmuch as it might be sup ported by all who are in favour of a compromise, however much they might differ a-4 to the particular compromise to be proposed, and only prolong the present state of suspense, by preparing new illu sions. THE HOUSE OP LORDS.-THE TURNBULL CASE. --•- DIVISION. Moved,—That a selectnom TiatleW be appointed to inquire into the circumstances that attended the apppointment and resignation of Mr. Turnbull in the Record-Office— (the Marquis of Normanby) : objected to. On question: contents, 26 ; non -contents, 41. , cositym. MARVIMS EARL. LORDS LoRDI Norm:lllaq Luaus Clifton Penshurst Salisbury Fowls Colchester Petro IViuchester. Selkirk Wyllie of Cu]- Rollo KW/Iti Stanhope. ram Soasexhill Derby VIsCoIIIIT Denman Wynford. illenborough Dungannon. Feversham TELLERt. Grey LORD bloateagle of Bath, Marquis of llardwaleko Chelmsford Brandon Itaveusworth,L NOLOONTENTS. LORD EMUS LORDS tonne Campbell. Nommen %rimy Poneonby Du RIM Spencer. D• Maoley Ronde Newcastlu V iscourrg De Tabiey Stanley of Al. Somerset. Evendey derley Simel° Sydney = Stratheden Allesbury. Torrington. Herbert Taunton EA DLS BISIWPS Iluntleon Truro Sidle Carlisle Kesae Wodelsonee. Usenperdown London. Lamont De Gni Lou' Llenover Tritiall. Granville Boyle Methuen Cansoys. Lord Wet Germane Bootlick Monies& Foley, Lord. Illietkabory Lelthorpe it, the circumstances of the subsequentt marrisge cannot in the slightest degree detract from the validity of the second profession of it. Well, gentlemen, th►t being the inquiry you have to sake, it is at once apparent that in considering the question of each marriage separately, you are to consider two things. First, was there a marriage in fact in Scotland; nextoras that muriage valid,according to theism of Scotland. In the same way you will have to ascertain whether there was or was not a valid marriage in Ireland. Aa to there being• miniage in fact in Ireland, there is no dispute, because all the evidence, both for the plaintiff and the defendant, proves that • ceremony was gone through in the temple of the living God, iu which ceremony that Almighty Being was called on to witness the proceedings that took place. There is no doubt that in the temple of the living God, before His altar, in the presence of an ordained minister of that God, this map took this woman. in words at least, for his lawful wedded wife ; and that alone, without one particle more, makes them man and wife, provided only that there was no impediment, or no circumstances extraneous or connected with the parties, that would render them incapable of being married in • Roman catholic church by a Roman catholic priest. I have told you that you are trying whether any legal binding marriage took place, and that, I rather think, is the only question in the case ; for, with respect to the demand for 2:191. I believe that it is not disputed that Mr. Thelmal maintained her to that amount, and that if she is the defendant's wife he is bound to maintain her. If you find she is his wife according to the law of Scotland, you may or may not go further. Having commented upon the letters which were addressed by Mn. Yelverton to the defendant at different intervals, his lordship next referred to their meetings at Galata, when Mrs. Yelverton was engaged in the hospital there in the capacity of sister of charity ; and said—Now, gentlemen, we come more nearly tett.* parts upon which there is a great divergence in their evidence. Both agree that Major Yelverton called upon this lady at the convent. Major Yelverton says that he talked to her for an hour or two, and that she was dressed in the habit of the order, and wasnot in the convent but in the hospital. It was superintended by a number of French sisters of charity, and who wore a peculiar habit or robe. Ha nye he spoke of love, bat not of marriage ; that he took off her bonnet and embraced her. He says he talked of love and affection ; and that then, for the first time, he formed the idea in his own mind to dishonour her and make her his rods tress. I am not surprised, much as I deprecate exhibitions of feeling in a court of justice, at the expression of indignation the avowal of this man must have excited in the breast of any man with • particle of honour or virtue in his compo sition. This girl, who underwent one of the most searching orces•examinations I ever witnessed, and in whose conduct up to this moment there does not appear to have been any thing that would be discreditable or improper in any woro,m, excited the admiration, love, and affection of this man, as he tells us ; but, my God, should not the garb in which she appeared, and the work of charity in which she was engaged, have had some influence on this man, and driven from his mind the idea which he says he entertained at that time ? My God, gentlemen ! all of us see in this city numbers of young and beautiful women who are engaged in this holy work of charity, and though mon may entertain different opinions as to the prudence and propriety of a conventual life, there is not a man among you who would be capable of offering an insult to those young and devoted women, as they go to and fm in their mission of charity, visiting the haunts of suffering and misery. That, gentlemen, is the account this man gives of himself and the idea he entertained at that time. He says he loved and admired her, but that she was not of gentle blood, and that therefore he formed the idea or desire of obtaining possession of her person, not in an honourable manner, but by dishonouring her. That is his declaration. However, gentlemen, whatever may be the feelings of indignation which such • declaration naturally excites in the mind, we must endeavour to get rid of them here, and consider the case, not as a matter of feeling, but as one on which we haves duty to discharge. According to the principles of law and justice we must, as far as we can, endeavour to ascertain what was really the nature of this interview at Galata. You will imagine whether his declarations and conduct towards her then were such as to lead her to believe that his intentions were honourable. This lady was not of • noble family, it is true, nor in the same position as Major Yelver ton ; but still she was of a respectable family, and known to and associating with respectable people. Whatever else she was, there can be no doubt that she was in every respect as attractive a girl as ever fell to the lot of any man ; and no one can doubt, that if she continued to be what she then was, virtuous and honourable, she was one wbo, in manner, demeanour, appearance, intelligence, and talents, would do honour to any station to which any man, however high or well his position, could raise her. (Ap plause.) The learned Judge concluded an able and lucid charge, which occupied seven and a halt hours in delivery, et 5.30 p.m., when the jury retired. THE VERDICT. The jury having returned into court at twenty minutes past G p.m., in answer to the Chief Justice stated—first, they bad found the Scotch marriage a valid 000 ; and secondly, that there was a good Irish marriage. The Chief Justice asked them if they found that defendant was a Roman catholic, to which they replied that they had. On the announcement of the verdict, the excite. meet of the audience burst into applause, which was continued for a short time, and which was taken up by the immense crowds outside the courts and along the quay. On the verdict being made known to the thousands of people who were congregated on Inns Quay, and who lined the sides of the river for a considerable distance, they took up the cheers of those within the Four Courts, and the , enthusiasm was most vehement. The scene in court was beyond all description. Mrs. Yelverton was in one of the chambers of the court. The horses of tho carriage waiting for her were taken from it by the crowd, in order that they might draw her to the hotel where she is staying. The case is the great topic of discussion throughout the city. One of the moat remarkable effects of the Yel verton marriage case has been the extraordinary demand for newspapers at Dublin. It wan quite impossible to supply this demand. The printing machines were kept at work almost incessantly, and yet the papers were sold ►t a premium. The newsvendors had a regular harvest, penny papers being sold by them seedily for sixpence, and in some instances they got a shil ling • copy. The Daily Exprem, the only daily with • double sheet, was specially in demand. This journal de votes twenty-five columns to a report of S►turday's pro ceeding; which consisted only of the two speeches on evi dence by Serjeant Armstrong and Yr. Whiteside. To the speech of the latter gentleman the Distils R.rpress devotes seventeen columns. The Freeman gives him eleven columns, publishing • supplement for the purpose. Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Cam bridge awl the Priocess Mary immured the performances at the St. James's Theatre with their presence last evening. The house was crowded, and Mr. Alfred Wizen awl Mira Herbert received their customary ovation at the close of the drama of The Isle of SI. Trap= The ex-Queen Marie Amelie is surrounded by a family circle at the Royal Victoria Hotel at St. Leopards -00-8118. His Royal Highness the Duke de Nemours, with the Count de Paris and the Duke de Chartres, have already arrived at St. Leonards. Their Royal Highnesses the Prince de Joinville and the Duko tntumale, and his Royal High- DM the Duke of Wurtemburg, will join their illustrious relatives today. His Excellency the Belgian Minister and Kline. Van do Weyer entertained at dinner Lot evening, at their !evidence in Portland-place, Lord and lady Stanley of Al. derley, Lord and LadyWonsleydale, Lord Mho, Mr. W.W. Beaumont, Y.P., and Lady Margaret Battunout, Sir David Dundee, Air Henry Cotterell, Mr. Thomas Baring, Mr. Ruthven, &e. The Countess Stanhope has issued cants for an assembly on Friday next, at Ler residence in Grosvenor place. The mortal remains of the late Countess of Roden were removal from Cavendish-square yesterday for interment in the family vault at Tullamore Park, on. Down. Visoount and Viscountess; Stratford do Radcliff° entertained a select circle at dinner laat evening at their resider's* in Ortevenorepuire. Sir John and Lady Walsh arrived at the Pavilion Hotel, Folkestone, on Friday last, and left yesterday for the Coutioent. Int court. OSBORNE, Yawn 4. The Queen, Prince Consort, and royal family, walked in the grounds this morning. A deputation, on the subject of the Parochial Armament Bill, had an interview with the Right Hon. Sir G. C. Lewis yesterday, at the Home-officc. fro=eb were received y esterday at the Colonial-office, e Governors of the North American Provinces, the Cape of Good Hope, St. Helena, and Natal, and the Lord High Commissioner of the lonian Islands. Despatches were sent yesterday to the Governor of Malta. THE YELVERTON MARRIAGE CASE. In our yesterday's impression we brought the pro ceedings in this extraordinary and protracted case down to the commencement of Mr. Whiteside's reply, on Saturday afternoon, on behalf of the plaintiff. The Dublin papers publish this speech in edam to the length of some twelve or thirteen columns, and as the pressure upon our space will not permit of anything like a fair summary of it, we merely give the concluding portion. Having reviewed all the facts of the ease, the learned gentleman said : How stands the question now that the whole of this great trial is before you—now that you have all these facts—and I can not dwell at this hour minutely upon each particular dr mundane. as I might have done if I had gained you at an earlier hour of the day, in endeavouring to reason it step by step. I ask you to judge of that woman as she has ap peared before you; and then say do you believe her? Tram her life up from the first hear that she stood within the walla of the convent until the day she sat in that box to tell the story of her multitudinous sorrows. Ask yourselves what fact has been proved against her with any living man save this defendant? Her crime is, she loved him too dearly and too well. Hail ahe pommeled millions she would have flung them at hie feet Had she a throne to bestow, she would hays placed him on that throne. She gave him the kingdom of her heart, and made him sovereign of her affections. There he reigned with un disputed sway. Great the gift ! Our affections were by an Almighty hand planted us the human heart. They have survived the fall, and repaired the ravages of sin and death. They dignify, exalt, and inspire our existence here below, which, without them, were cold, monotonous, and dull. They unite heart to heart by adamantine links. Nor are their uses limited to this life. We may well believe that when the mysterious union between soul and body is dissolved, the high affections of our nature, purified, spiritualised, immortalised, may add to the felicity unspoilt aide reserved for the spirits of the just made perfect, through the ,connthiss ages of eternity. (Loud applause.) She gave him her affections—abe gave him her love—a wornan's love! Who can fathom it. depths! Who can measure its intensity? Who ran describe its devotion? She told you herself what that love was when she wrote to him, "If you were to be executed as a convict I would stand beneath the gallows." If he had taken that woman for his wife, misery would bans endeared him to her, poverty she would have shared, from sickness and misfortune she would never have Bed ; she would have been his conetaat companion, his guide, his friend—his polluted m istress never. Therefore I now call on you to do justice to that injured woman. You cannot restore her to the husband she adored or to the happiness she enjoyed. You cannot give colour to that faded cheek, or lustre to that eye that has been dimmed by many a tear. You cannot relieve the sorrows of her bursting heart, but you may restore her to her place in society. You may, by your verdict, enable her to say—" Rash I have been, indiscreet I may have been through excess of my affection for you, but guilty never!" You may replace her in the rank which she would never disgraos—you may re store her to that society in which she humidified to shine, and has ever adorned. To you I commit this great muse. lam not able longer to address you. Would to Ood I had talents or physical energy to exert either or both longer on the part et this injured, insulted woman. She finds an advocate in you—she Sods it in the respected judge on the bench —she finds it in every heart that beats within this court and in every honest man throughout the country. (Mr. Whiteside resumed his seat amidst loud demonstrations of applause, which were continued unchecked for several minutes. Cheers were also given for Mrs. Yelverton.) The court then adjourned to Monday. The hall was densely crowded, and when Mr. Whiteside made his ap pearance he was greeted with enthusiastic cheers. THE SUMMING UP. DUBLIK, MONDAT. _ - - - Chief Justice Monahan having taken his Neat on the bench at ten o'clock this morning, proceeded to charge the jury. His lordship said be was rejoiced that this protracted eau was at length drawing to a close, and thanked the jury for their attention and patient investigation of • ease in volving questions of such vast importance to the parties concerned. After impressing upon the jury the necessity ei divesting their naintla of every feeling calculated to influence their calm and dispassionate considera tion of the case before them, his lordship stated that the action they bad to try was very simple in its form. The allegation was that Mr. Thelwall supplied funds to a certain amount to a lady who, as he alleges, is the wife of the defendant. He does not say that at the time thou were supplied to this lady be was not aware her hus band, Major Yelvertoo, had married another woman, and therefore be rests his ease on this :—" You, Major Weer ton, were previously the !metal wedded husband of Maria Yelverton ; being her lawful wedded hushusl, you bad no right, authority, or power to cut her from you, an outcast upon the world. You having not that power, I, ieffisenced by feelings of humanity, took upon myself the responsibility of supplying to that woman the care and protection which in my conscience I believe was due from you. I incur the risk in • court of justice of exposing myself and my property to the heavy expenses to which I will be liable should I fail in this action. But still, on strong is the opinion that I entertain of the truth and justice of the case of this unfortunate woman, that I am prepared to incur that risk ID order that justice maybe done to her through me." Whilst the case for the defen dant ie :—" Great as my delinquencies have been, dis hessosuably as I have acted ; though I have acted the part that any man with a particle of feeling should blush to have exhibited in a public court of justice, yet that woman mu not my wife; she was my mistress—she served my purpose ; and I am justified, if not in the eyes of the Almighty God, in the eyes of the law, in casting her upon the world, and therefore lam not responsible for the debts that this gentleman chose, with a full knowledge of the circumstances, to have allowed her to incur." That is the question which the plaintiff has undertaken, and which he is hound to prove, to the satisfaction of the jury. Alluding to the marriages alleged to have taken place in Scotland and Ireland, his lordship said :—Your inquiry, gentlemen, will be, is either of these marriages sufficient? For nothing is hotter established or mons consistent with common sense, than that if one marriage be good the feet of afterwards celebrating another will not void one previously celebrated. On the other hand, if a void and improper marriage has been celebrated, and that doubt arises about LATEST INTELLIGENCE. POLAND. THE TROUBLES AT WARSAW. The following notice was issued by Prince Gortchakoff, at Warsaw, on the 28th ult. : The summons which the authorities addressed to the ga therings in the streets to disperse were not regarded, and in the course of yesterday a company of infantry, who were assailed with stones on the faubourg of Cra cow, fired at the crowd. I have ordered a strict inquiry to be made, in order to discover the authors of this deplorable conflict. I will tolerate no act of vio- lence, let it come from what side it may. In general, peaceable citizens ought to avoid large sairemLlages, as favouring the instigations of dangerous men, and ought to disperse on the first invitation of the executive authorities, in order that unhappy events may be prevented. Inhabitants of the city of Warsaw ! Do not be misled by the perfidious arts of the enemies of order, who conspire to disturb the public tranquillity. Listen to the voice of the one whose loyalty you have been able to appreciate during the thirty years he has spent in your midst. The Governor of the Kingdom ; Aide-de-Camp General Prince Goirrcunnorr. I Warsaw, Feb. 28, 1861. The following is the invitation to the funerals issued on the 28th ult., by a commission composed of delegates from the bourgeoisie : " On Saturday, at 10 o'clock, the interment will take place of the victims who fell in the course of yesterday. In the name of the love of country, in the name of the most sacred duties, the dearest to each of us, we invite the inhabitants of the city so to act that the honours paid to the mortal re mains of those victims shall be distinguished by the most dignified attitude, the completed order. " Inhabitants of Warsaw, listen to the voice of your brothers." [Here follow the signatures of the most influential inhabitants.] The following is the petition to the Emperor of Russia from hie Polish subjects : /lira—The lamentable event; which have just occurred at Warsaw, the exasperation which preceded them, and the deep feeling of sedates which has penetrated every mind, have induced us to place at the feet of your Majesty the present petition, in the name of (the whole country, hoping that your noble heart, Sire,will not remain deaf to the voice of an unhappy people. These events, the heartrending details of which we ab stain from describing, were by no means called forth by the subversive passions of any particular class of the population; on the contrary, they are the unanimous and eloquent mani festation of sentiments discarded and of wants ignored. More than half a century of suffering imposed upon the whole nation, upon • nation which for cen turies was governed by liberal institutions ; this na tion, deprived even of a legal voice to bring before the throne of the sovereign the complaints and exerted= of the general wants ; all this state of things has forcibly reduced this people only to make its voice heard by the cry of its victims, and thus it never ceases to offer up • holo caust. Every inhabitant of this unfortunate country entertains in his heart a deep-rooted sentiment of nationality quite dis tinct from that of the other peoples of Europe. This senti ment resists the effects of time and of events ; misfortune, instead of weakening it, has strengthened it. Mutterer wounds it at insults it upsets the public mind. Thus, that fatal influence has undermined all confidence between the governors and the governed. Confidence cannot be restored. Violent and repressive measures will be resorted to without effect. This country, formerly on the level of civilisation of other European states, cannot re ceive any moral or material development as long as its church, its legislature, its public instruction, sad its whole social organisation are deprived of the stamp of its national genius and historical traditions. The aspirations of the nation are the more fervent as, in the great European family, it finds itself almost alone de prived of those absolute conditions of existence without which no society could achieve that development intended for it by Providence. In placing ►t the foot of the throne the expression of our sorrow and of onr fervent desires, confident in the sentiments of high equity and of justice of your Majesty, we have, Sire, .to appeal to your magnanimity. We are the faithful subjects of your Imperial Royal Majesty. (azuraa's BERLIN, TUESDAY. Several letters received here from Warsaw agree in stating that the Russian General Zabalkof, who gave the order to fire upon the people, had been brought before a court-martial. The Minister of Police, M. von Trepow, had been dismissed. Governor Gortschakoff had received orders from St. Petersburg to institute a searching investigation into the conduct of the military during the recent disturbances. RUSSIA. THE EMANCIPATION OF THE SERFS. The Nord of to-day says : " Our correspondent at St. Petersburg sends us to-day ag account of the closing sitting of the Council dl the Empire, held on the 25th ult., upon the question of the serfs. It was decided that the latter should receive their personal liberty, and that all the relations between them and their proprietors should cease at one stroke ; that the peasants on each property shall receive the enclosure, that is, the house they inhabit and the kitchen garden attached to it ; that there shall be allotted them at a price fixed by the government the fourth of the quantity of ground which was fixed iu the plan elaborated by the commissions, that is, from one to two hectares according to the provinces. This allocation is obligatory, the other territorial arrangements are optional. The imperial manifesto which will pub lish these decisions is already printed at St. Petersburg ; but it will not appear in the present week, which is that of the Russian carnival. The publication will take place in Lent, in about fifteen days perhaps, at a time of meditation and sobriety for the Russian people, tho opportuneness of which for the proclamation of emancipation there is no need to point out." PARIS. MONDAY EVIEMCO. The Patrie and the Pays say the Czar will elabo rate a project of constitution for Russia as soon as the question of the emancipation of the serfs shall be resolved. FRANCE. THE MIRE'S SCANDAL. (REUTER'S TELEG RAM. PARIS, TVZSDAY. The Moniteur contains a report addressed by the Minister of Justice to the Emperor on the subject of the affair of M. Mires. The minister mentions the reports which have been prevalent, and according to which M. Mires had known how to create for himself, by a suspicious generosity, protectors sufficiently powerful to shield him from the chastisement of jus tice. The reports also asserted that the evil was so general and so great that the govern ment, at the risk of saving the guilty parties, had resolved upon allowing the affair to drop, in order to avoid scandals whose results would be incalcu lable, rather than to lay bare the moral ulcers caused by corruption. "These assertions." continues the minister, "involve honour and justice in such • mariner that I believe it necessary to point them out to your Majesty. Everybody in France acknowledges integrity, honour, and justice." K Delangle adds :--" It cannot be tolerated that the design should be attributed to government o casting a veil over acts which are amenable to tho penal law." The minister recalls the words of the Emperor, who at the outset of this affair ordered that justice should go to the bottom of the matter resolutely, and without attention to any personal consideration. " Justice will be pursued with a care and patience which will not be baffled by any obqa.cles. Nothing will escape the investigation of justice, and if, contrary to my expectations, the accusations which party spirit has raised, and which are propa. gated by malignity and want of reflection, do not fall before the examination which has been com. 'Deuced, justice shall not fail in its mission." PARIS, MONDAY EVENING. In to-day's sitting of the Senate Senator Bonny expressed his regret that in the draft address no mention was made of the navy, which would render such great service in a war with England, which he desired. This remark was received with expres sions of dissatisfaction. Senator Boissy maintained that the benefits of the English alliance bad been exaggerated, and declared that a great majority of the country were of his opinion. M. Bonny further attacked England on the subject of the arrangements respecting passports. M. Billanit blamed the desire for war with England, as the alliance of that countrywith France would for a long time remain the best combination in favour of liberty and the interest of peace. M. Du in directed attention to the recent finan cial scandals. Count Simeon endeavoured to justify his partici pation in the affairs referred to. M. Billault said the government shared the sentiments of morality expressed by M. Dupin, and bad instituted a strict investigation. Government desired that the guilty parties, if there were any, should be discovered and punished. The President said that public morality imposed upon the senators the duty of guarding against be. coming engaged in such affairs. Prince Napoleon—Not only the senators, but also the high functionaries of tho government. The first four paragraphs of the address were then agreed to. ROME. ILtcn 3. Popular political manifestationsßOMA ar con u e tinually Wring place. Twenty students have been expelled from the University. Francis IL has dismissed hix suite, composed of 100 persons, and also Prince Bicsignano, his grand chamberlain. Cardinal Antonucci is on the point of death. TURIN, NoirDAY. It is said that Count Cavour has in a diplomatic way brought under notice the necessity of settling the Roman question. DENMARK. BERLIN, TOLVDAY. . - . England, France, and Russia have also de manded that Denmark should lay before the Estates of Holstein the draft of the budget for 186 L THE SYRIAN QUESTION. VIENNA, MONDAY. The A ustrien Gazette says :—" Prince Metter nich, the Austrian ambassador at Paris, has received instrrctions to regard, in the conference on the affairs of Syria, the territorial rights of the Porte as the principal point of Austrian policy in referenoe to that question ; but at the same time to leave it entirely to the Western Powers to come to an understanding on the question of the pro- longation of the occupation of Syria." AUSTRIA. AORAM, NAiten 4. An imperial autograph letter, addressed to the Ban of Croatia, sanctions the re-establishment of the electoral law of 1848 in that province, except ing, however, the military frontier. The Diet will decide on the question of the annexation of Dal matia to Croatia. CALCUTTA AND CHINA MAILS. The following telegram has been received at Renter's office from the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company, March 4 : " SAN ROQUE, Masco & " The Indus (bringing the heavy portion of the Calcutta and China mails) arrived at Gibraltar with starboard paddle shaft broken, and proceeds to Southampton this evening withone paddle worked by two engines." ROME. The Motiwiento says that the Papal government thinks that it bas destroyed the National Committee by its recent expulsions, forgetting that the whole community is a great committee incessantly working for:its independence and union with the rest of Italy. The Movimento also publishes the following new proclamation, which has been posted up on the walls of Rome : Roman,—Public indignation exeLed by the last acts of injustice and annoyance perpetrated by the government corn. pals the National Roman Committee to urge you afresh to respect for order and moderation, and not to let yourselves' he carried away by indignation, which, however just it may be, may be unncasouable. The proceedings of the Papal government are in no wise new ; the basis of them always was injustice and violence. But except in so far ss they indict damage on good and' honourable 'citizen', these proceedings contribute to the success of our holy cause ; nay, we might not have reached the point at, which, thank God, we have arrived, without the stupid folly of the Papal government, which, in its intoxication and blindness, has taken cam to raise up against itself/ the public opinion of all Europe and the conscience of all good men. Let the people of Rome remain calm and cootident. Italy is con stituted a nation, and the nation has fixed the destiny of Rome, in summoning her to occupy the post which her glories and long history wide to her. Neither the subtlety of guilty intrigues nor the violence of mad persecutions will prevent this. Like the foolish person that commits suicide through fear of approaching death, the Papal government hastening its end by its own folly. Yon, Romans, have BO& ciently shown your courage : the annoyances of the police and Papal troops, the bloody orders recently given by lle Merode, the measures adopted for severity towards the people in case of any meeting whatever, would avail nothing if it were required of you to sacrifice your liven. But Maly does not demand that of you ; on the contrary, she de. mends of you calmuess and patient°. Calmness and pa tience for a little while longer. If those who call themselves catholics are not ashamed to continue in their injustice, and without doing any good to themselves to injure their fellow-creatures, it is for us, children of liberty sod the gospel, to show the world that we are truly worthy of dee liverance from the slavery that we have loug endured with civil courage truly heroic. Mr. Baines's bill to extend the borough franchise from a 101. to a 61. occupancy is to he read a second time on Wednesday, the 10th of Aria Though the cause of so distant a day being fixed was that it was impossible for Mr. Baines to ensure precedency on any earlier day, the delay is attended with an important advantage, inasmuch as it allows time for the holding of public meetings and the preparation of petitions in support of the measure. _ The remains of Captain Boyd, tho lamented coin• minder of the Aj.ix, were consigned to their rating placo in St. Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin, on Sunday, amid ex traordinary demonstrations of reaped from the people of all classes. Among the pa/mongers who left Southampton in the Indian packet Ceylon was Sir Leopold M'Clintock. THE IMPRISONED ENGI.DtH GARIBALDI/Mk—Mr. H. G. Hill, of Bristol, one of the volunteers in Garlbaldi's corps, has received the following letter from Sir James Hudson, the British Ambassador, at Turin, in reply In a letter and a petition emit aline time ago to the British embassy in relation to the five English Garibaldious who are now imprisoned at Naples :—" British Legation, Turin, Feb. 24, 18ti1. Sir,—ln reply to your letter of the 214 instant, I beg to state that, on hearing last January of the incarceration of the fin Englishmen to whom 7 00 allude, I instructed our agent at Nal*s to interest himself in their behalf, and that gentleman subsequent) y informed me that the case of the p e rs o n a in q u es ti on had been re' commended to the proper authority, and that they would soon be liberated.-1 am, &c., J . .tnen HUDSON. H. G. Hill, Eq." 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