The Express. — London, England, 1865-05-05 00:00:00

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Ir will be remembered that en the 7th of March last a Select Committee of Peers was appointed to inquire into the circumstances connected with the resignation by Mr. EDMUNDS of the office of Clerk of the Patents, and with his resignation of the office of Reading Clerk in the House of Lords, and also into all circumstances connected with the grant of a retiring pension to him by the Rouse of Lords. The Committee have now published their report, . . and it must be confessed - that it is impossible to read its contents without a sense of humiliation. That Mr. EDMUNDS has been guilty of defalca tions in his accounts, and of misappropriating ......._ , public money to his own private use, is esta blished not only by the investigations of Mears. Gana- WOOD and HINDIILICH, but by the verdict of the Committee which has just concluded its labours. The question which now absorbs public attention is the manner in which this public defaulter has been dealt with by those whose duty it was to con trol him. Last June, whilst Mesas. GRISNWOOD and HINDYLILCH were still pursuing their inquiries into the Patent-office, Mr. EDMUNDS proposed to resign his appointment upon receiving a pension. At this time it must have been clear to Mr. EDMUNDS ._. . . that very serious charges would probably be made against him by the gentlemen who had been ap pointed to examine into his accounts, and he no doubt hoped to escape with • comfortable provi sion out of the pecuniary difficulties in which he had become involved. Mr. GREENWOOD, however, frustrated his design by explaining to the Casts- CELLOS the real state of the cue, and Mr. ED MUNDS, instead of retiring with a pension, was summoned befoie Lord Wrartivay and two of the vice-Cnancrawas to show cause why he should not be removed from his office of Clerk of Patents. It might seem that now at least the charges against Mr. EDMUNDS would be publicly discussed, and publicly established or publicly refuted. Nothing of the sort. Mr. EDMUNDS was permitted to resign his office, and was them allowed " to with draw himself from the impending judicial in " quiry." And this permission was granted by the Loan CHANCELLOR himself, with the concur rence of the Maw=s of the Rou.s and the ATIOR REY-GENERAL. It is difficult, indeed, to under stand the grounds upon which such a step could have been taken, but it is impossible not to con cur in the opinion expressed by the Committee, that the inquiry into the grave charges against Mr. EDMUNDS ought to have proceeded, and that if the charges were proved, as it appears they must have been, "he should at once have been die " missed ; leaving it open to future coital " deration whether ulterior proceedings ought " not to have been taken against him." Is it not the duty of the Lout) Csittcmxon to bring • public defaulter such as Mr. EDMUNDS to justice, instead of lending his countenance to the criminal by screening him from its consequences t But at the moment of his resignation of the Clerkship of Patents Mr. EDMUNDS was Reading Clerk in the House of Lords. The CHANCELLOR, therefore, determined to take the opinion of Lords CRANWORTH and KINGSDOWN whether it was con sistent with his duty to the House of Lords to allow Mr. EDMUNDS to remain an officer of that House. Both these noblemen declared that if the charges brought against Mr. EDMUNDS by Messrs. Gazes- WOOD and lIINDMARCH were correct be ought to lose his place. At this time the CHLlscuLoa supposed that the power of dismissal was with himself, but upon finding that it was with the House of Lords he told Lords CILANWORTH and KneasDowN that he should relieve them from the painful duty he had asked them to undertake. The proper course for the Loan Citascamma is obvious. He ought to have laid the whole case before the House of Lords, so that it might have been investigated before a select committee. And, indeed, this was the very course which the CHANCELLOR was desired to pursue by the Cabinet. Upon being consulted they declared that the cue ought to be brought before the House. And accordingly the CHANCELLOR informed Mr. ED. ILUNDS that he should move for • select commit tee to take the subject into consideration. This was on the 21st of December, 1864, and between that and the 4th of February nothing further took place. On the latter day, however, Mr. LEMAN, the adviser of Mr. EDMUNDS, called upon the Csawczuse, and, accord ing to Mr. Lemsx, the Citetwortmon dis tinctly said, "If the resignation takes place "between this and Friday, 1 will throw no oh " steel° in the way of the pension." As in the case of the Clerkship of Patents, so in the case of the Clerkship in the House of Lords. Mr. ED MUNDS was naturally most anxious about securing a pension. He had failed in the one case, and it IT . ~» was, of reuse, doubly impeitalbaritc as. not fail in the other. On the one hand, ft was of vital importance to Mr. Romunne that he should have the Csarcremos pledged to support his demand for a pension ; on the other band, it would be fatal to the reputation of the CHANCEL LOR if it were proved that he had made any promies to a public defaulter that if he resigned he would do his best to secure him his pen sion. Itl is unfortunate that in a matter so vital to the character of the Catarcatika the evi dence should be so conflicting. As we have said, Mr. Letwe distinctly states that the LORD CHAN. CILLOR told him that if Mr. Enguitns resigned he would throw no obstacle in the way the of his obCHANCELLOR tain ing a pension. On the other hand , says that he stated most distinctly to Mr. Leman, that he thought resignation the best course Mr. EDMUNDS could take ; that it would relieve him (the Csarceamos) from the duty imposed upon Mtn of being Mr. EDMUNDS' accuser, and that he would Woo no obstacle in the way of his hoeing a pen sion. The Committee consider that theteis a mate rial difference between these two statements, but certainly it is of a somewhat shadowy character. Be this as it may, Mr. EDMUNDS did resign his office in the House of Lords, and then the LORD Cnincsmon seems to have followed precisely the same course which be followed in the case of the clerkship of patents. The Report says, "The " Loan CHANCHLLOR has stated to the Committee " that otter the tender of Mr. EDMUNDS ' resigns.- " Jim], it was no longer his intention to lay the " papers on the table, and that they would not " have been laid before the H 014.0 if public atten " lion had not been drawn to the subject out of " doors." Be it observed, Lords ewe/roam and KINOSDOWN had advised that the conduct of Mr. EDMUNDS should be laid before the House of Lords ; the Cabinet bad concurred in their opinion ; the LORD CHANCELLOR himself had agreed ; but, adds the CHANCILLOR, " That was only in order that the House of Lords " might no longer have that officer; and when that " officer retired I determined for myself, rightly " or wrongly, that I would not interfere actively " to prevent his having a pension." The CHANCRLLOR thinks that it was no part of his public duty to bring the public conduct of Mr. EDMUNDS, of which he bad official notice, before the House of Lords. It is impossible to concur in this opinion, and the Committee have not hesi tated distinctly to say so. The grant of Mr. EDMUNDS ' pension depended on his public conduct ; that public conduct had been soandalous and fraudulent in the opinion of the Cliatcsuoa, and that opinion ought to have been communicated to the Peers. And what has been the result f By the silence of the Citstrostaka • public defaulter has obtained • pension of some 8001. a year. But unhappily the scandal does not end here. The pension was granted upon the recommendation of a committee. The members of that committee were certainly aware of some of the circumstances connected with Mr. EDMUNDS ' resignation of this Patent-office appointment. No single question was put upon the subject. The pension was granted without investigation. And in this re spect the conduct of those who sanctioned the grant of • pension to Mr. EDMUNDS without in vestigation has been visited with the censure of the Select Committee in their report. Thus it seems that from the beginning to the end every effort was made to screen Mr. EDMUNDS from public justice ; and, unhappily, those who played the moat prominent part in affording this public defaulter protection are in theory the guardians of public morality, and one of them is the highest judge in the realm. The ADJOURNID DeBATe ON MI. Balers's Brt.x..—lt will be seen from our Parliamentary Report that ministers have given a government night for the adjourned debate on Mr. Baines'a bill, and that Monday next has been appointed for that purpose. Tea Tea DIITITS.—Mr. Gladstone has given way to the arguments addressed to him by the tea dealers, and the reduction of duty is to take effect from the lst of June next. Ut Court. —e--- OSBORNE, Her 4. Her Majesty, accompanied by Prince Alfred and Priories Helens, drove in the grounds yesterday morning. Prince Alfred, attended by Major Cowell, left Osborne for Marlborough-house in the afternoon. His Royal Klei ne= returns to Boon this week to resume his studies at the university there. The Dean of Windsor arrived yesterday evening. The Priam of Wales. accompanied by Prince Alfred, visited the Dachas of Cambeidp at Kew yesterday after noon. The Princess of Wales took a carriage drive, attended by the Hon. Mn. B. Coke. Despatches were seat yesterday from the Colonial-office to the GOYIM:FOSS of Canada and British Hoodons. THE Parses OF WALES'S VUSIT TO IitZLAND. His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, attended by his suite, it is understood, will leave Marlborough House at an early hour on Monday morning, for Ireland, in order to be present at the opening of the Dublin International Exhi bition on Tuesday next. His royal highness will proceed from the Enstosoquar• terminus of the London and North Western Railway, and travel by way of Rugby. Stafford, and Chester to Holyhead, which it is expected will be reached during the early part of the afternoon. At Holy head bin royal highness will embark on board the royal steam-yacht, the Vietorla and Albert, Commander his Serene Highness Prince Waleson (which has been placed at the diaconal of the Prince of Wales by her Majesty for the trip across the Irish flea), and sail for Dublin, at which city hie royal highness will arrive at about 6 o'clock co Monday evening. The prince after assisting at the copse. leg ceremony of the exhibition, will probably return to London towards the dose of next week. Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales and Prince Alfred, Major Teesdale, Dr. Bernard, and suite. honoured the performances at the Adelphi Theatre with their presence last evening. It has been resolved to build a new wing to St. Mary's Hospital, Paddington. At a meeting held yes terday, over which Lord Llanover presided, it was resolved to invite the Prince of Wales to lay the foun dation stone of the new wing on the 23rd instant. Lady Molesworth entertained at dinner last evening the Duke of Rutland, the Earl of Wicklow, Lord and Lady Otho Fitagerald. Viscount and Viscountess Torrington, Viscount and Viesouetses Wades, flit Edward and Corollas Retrace, Lord and Lady Colville, Lord and Lady Abercsomby, Loed and Lady Raglan, Lard and Lady Egerton of Tattoo, Mr. Harcourt Verson and Hon. Mrs. Harcourt Versos. Last night Lady Augusta litzclarence gave a splendid ball at her residence at Hyde-park-gate, Kinder ton. A large alms was prepared for the reception of OM. pany, and an adjacent room was supplied with the choicest refreehriceets. We have authority to announce that the mar. I martial themselves. As an earnest of what he was Asp of Mr. Richard Harte,of Combs House, mar Boehm sad the Hoe. vicuri. Alexsodrioa Higley, eldest daughter prePared to do this officer arrested five journalists, of Lord sad Lady Higley, will fake pl a c e the b si i i e dg d u M. Vile, as one of the proprietors of the Ordiestre, Taos. I and M. Franco, editor of the Ombra. It is difficult The Duke of Somerset held a levee at the Admi- for these gentlemen, now under lock and key, to rally irstarfisl diuloce• Tti'm were Preelst—Brehr- reconcile their arrest with Maximilian's proclama- Admiral OTelleghas, Ciptaias H. H. G. Lambert, Thomas tion issued shortly after his accession, that the Ha"' B. P. KlaWw. A. a Steeds, William /Ms ; °ma ' nress mg' Lt freely discuss the acts of his govern =oder' Hear, L. Holder, B. J. IfordeceN, W. a He Th om , ur r i g h s . o wage N o * R. summon. ment, provided they did not do so with violence, Joh. Sas ßaatmw :dert, John Law; Lleotosaaes W. J. B. c ar d , nor attack the throne or the fundamental institu- B. Hepburn Swinton ; sad Sargon J. JUSiriamy, tious of the empire, unless, indeed, we are to A. BEI LiTIMIT nrrzrzicaggilz. SIB 0. TILEVELYAN'S BUDGET. Calcutta letters and papers of the 4th of April give full details as to the budget brought forward by Sir C. Trevelyan on the let of April. The main features—namely, the removal of the income tax and the imposition of certain export duties—have already bosom known through the Indo-Europesa telegraph, and it now appears that the rumours as to a new loan are correct, the government of India having addressed the Secretary of State, and advised the raising of a loan in England of 1,200,0001., a large part of which would be applied to military and irrigation work*. The new export duties on jute, wool, tea, coffee, hides, sugar, and silk met with considerable opposition in the council, and the Lieutenant-Governor of Bengal (Mr. Bandon) felt it right to propose an amendment to the effect that such duties were not necessary. He was supported by Mr. Bullen, the President of the Bengal Cham ber of Commerce ; but the proposition of Sir C. Trevelyan was carried by • majority of about two• thirds. (11It11111111 111.2011•1111.) HEALTH OF THE KING OF THE BELGIANS. BEEREFJA Mai 5. The King has passed a bad night, and the state of Ma Majesty's health is a little less favour able to-day. ITALY. IMPORTANT CIRCULAR OF THE MINISTER OF THE INTERIOR. TURIN, MAT 5. The Minister of the Interior has addressed a cir cular to the prefects explaining the motives which induced the government to withdraw the Religious Corporations Bill. The minister says, "The op position on the part of the Chamber and other difficulties which presented themselves led the ministry to believe that the bill would not be passed. Nevertheless the government has decided upon bringing it forward again in the next session." Referring to the mission of Signor Vegezzi the circular states that it is not the intention of the government to abandon the fundamental political principles of the kingdom. The government could not decline the invitation of the Pope, but on the other hand it could not forget its duty to protect the rights of the people, the laws of the State, and the prerogatives of the crown, and has therefore refrained from mixing up political with Luestions. ma qi ROME. ROME. Mar 4. Signor Vegeszi has left for Turin. It is &matte that he will return here within a fortnight. SPAIN. MADRID, MAT 5. A royal decree has been issued nominating Senor Gonzales Bravo Minister of State during the illness of Senor Benavides. EXPRESS FROM PARIS• FRENCH RULE IN MEXICO. (nox wax ow cositsmamr.) _ PARIS, THITIMAY EnIRMO. When a few weeks since Marshal Forey, in his maiden speech in the Senate, said that if Marshal Bazaine had (as was then supposed) shot the Mexi can general Porforio Diaz, he highly approved of the act, • ay of indignation against the bloody doctrine was raised by the Paris press with the exception of the official prints. The latter at first attempted to make out that Porforio Diaz was a " brigand," and the evidence they brought for ward of this fact was that his brother(!) bad been accused of certain atrocities a long time ago. But when it turned out that Marshal Bazaine had not shot his prisoner, but on the contrary, treated him with the honours of war, they left off maintaining the doctrine that all Mexicans taken in arms against invaders were to be exterminated in cold blood. It now seems, however, that Marshal Foray bad the right diapason of the latest orders. I have before me the textual report of the proceedings of • French court-martial held in the city of Mexico on the 13th, 14th, 16th, 16th, and 17th March, for the trial of Romero and fifty-five others ; and I find in the report of the judge-advocate, Captain N. Fontaine, of the 3rd Zonaves, upon which the court acted, the following astounding passage : We have interrogated Romero, the chief of the band. He and his fellow primates all admit that they were taken with arms in their hands, but they say it was for the de fence of their country. After this categorical confession do we need further proof I The court might dispense with any, bemuse this fact alone constitutes an set of rebellion, phase the prisoners out of the pale of the law, and ren ders them fit subjects for the penalty of death, according to the imperial circular el Nov. 3, 1864. Here we have, without qualification, the doc trine laid down that all the officers end soldiers of the native government which an Austrian arch duke was sent out by the French Emperor to displace are to be executed as felons for the mere fact of resisting the in vaders of their country. The captain re porter goes on, however, but protesting that it is a work of supererogation, to impute to Romero cer tain acts of brigandage, the first and principal of which was the robbery of two horses from a pre fect in 1859, six years ago ! Of the 56 prisoners, 25 were acquitted, 90 sentenced to transportation, and 11 condemned to death. Maximilian, whose prerogative of mercy seems to extend to the sen tences of French courts-martial, was pleased to commute the punishment of seven out of the eleven to transportation, but Romero and three others were shot in the city of Mexico eight hours after the court separated. This event produced a great sensation io the capital of Maximilian's empire. A letter in the Temps says that Maximilian was inclined to pardon all the prisoners, but was dissuaded from doing so by a "high personage," who, it is insinuated, was the French commandant. Several Mexican journals presumed to question the jurisdiction of a French court-martial in the capital of an empire which now pretends to be regularly established and strong in the affections of its subjects ; but these audacious writers were summoned to appear before Marshal Bazaine's principal staff officer, who told them for their information that Mexico was still under martial law, and that any newspaper editors who might speak in • hostile tone of military judges would be brought to a court- IAT EVENDWG, MAT 5, s' . , . '•* 1865. conclude that permanent oourtemartial are among the institutions deemed essential in that part of the Queen Christina is now In Paris, and was present at the last representation of the Atrioairse. An expectation is entertained that Queen Isabella will be bare within a fortnight. This rumour is con nected with one which I alluded to some time ago, and which I find gains ground, that a revolution in Spain is imminent. The Bourse was a little firmer ; but, with the exception of a rise of 7fr. 50c. in Mobilier, there is hardly any change in quot►tions. The old Mexican Loan is now below 50. The Daily News is seised. OUR OONTSMPORARI&6• The TiMel observes that the constitution of the oolamittee In the Edmunds' cue, containing so many mem. ben of the government, makes its assures fall with =nab hag weight upon the Lord Chaneellar. He is tiled by • jury of his own friends, and convicted on two minute. "We, like they, abstain from soy speculation as to his motives ; but when we are dealing with a person of the greatest ability and the most extended experience, we ere net bound to seek for motives, because we may feel sure that such a person must have perfectly well knows what was the course he ought to rime. A man of much lees experience and istelligeme than Lied Westbury wool have felt that It is highly improper for • person sensed by the report of two Queen's counsel of the commission of several felonies to be permitted to stifle in quiry by nolguing and promising to pay beck whatever public mousy be had stolen; and It is even massless thetthis compounding a felony could not justify anyone, much lam the highest judge in the land, in withholding from the (cm mitts* circumstances which diitiaotly proved that to grant M. Edmunds a pension would be a fraud upon the public- The eat was cu'pable in Doe!! ; it was committed by a per son in whom snob culpability is least of all 'mumble, and we may reasonably rest contented with these hots without prying Into motive* to which we have no sufficiset due. Where so act is indifferent it is from the motive alone that we an determine its criminality ; where it is culpable in itself all inquiry into motives is IFOIDEADOWN" The Morning Herold says the mutty will persist in ask ing whether it is decent or in **evidence with the dignity of an English parliament that the House of Peers should be presided over by a Lord Chancellor who " his just avoided expulsion hom honour and office by • majority, thrice re. peaked, of • single vote. and that the vote of a oollesgoo, himself implicated, on the ground of corrupt preference and patronage, directly defiant of, and degrading to, the public law. The elements of the majority, in the Lords' commit tee, were composed of four ministers, themselves impugned, who were sitting in judgment upon their own actions, with two sworn followers to abide by whatever they might pro- pose ; and we therefore protest rltogether against their ver dict. It is • cruelty to Mr. Edmunds that be should be thus condemned whin Lord Westbmy, who made a profit for his family out of Mr. Edmunds's errors, is allowed—with shame we my it—to misrepresent the dignity of the heredi tary house from the woolsack." "If • Lord Chancellor," says the Ativertiser, " will shield a criminal, and allow him, with a full knowledge of his offenora, to be pensioned, when • word from him would have prevented the Home of Lords from granting him a motion, we can only say that he is no longer fit for his post. He Is the wrong man in a plus which above all things demands • man upon whose discretion and honour there rest no taint. The committee have in very mild language declared that be has sated indiscreetly. We may be permitted, in the interests of public morality, to speak in plain language and say that he hes forfeited public con fidence by the course he has pummel." The Times hes • purge in one of Its leaden in which it says : "We enfidently assert that no poli tical section, and we firmly believe that no organ of English sentiment, bin ever advocated • hostile bearing towards the Federal government." But in the Herald we read even now, that the President of the United States " thirsta for the blood of the Confederate leaders with all the passion of • revolutionist and ell the bitterness of a rempde ;" and that, "should he succeed, and the South lie prostrate at his feet, we may expect • series of murders as atrocious se that of President Lincoln, and more infamous by reason of that pretence of judicial sanction by which their atrocity will be veiled. But es yet the Southern leaders are beyond the reach of the American Robespierre ; and the inauguration of his reign of terror must be deferred tin it appear whether the South is willing to submit without another appeal to the chances of battle." The Morning Poet urges with regard to the Read murder case, that even if Comte/me Kent be of unused mind now, yet her statement may in its main biota be tins. And although this might not be sufficient to justify her conviction, it would go far to fix the culpability on the right person, and by consequence to vindicate all who, though more or less suspected, were really innovenL "It is perfectly possible that Mies Kent may have been imam ' irresistible maniacal inflames when she committed the mur der, and under no such influence now when she confesses it. Or she may have been perfectly mistress of her own actions then, and under unsound influence now. In either CVO the evidence of insanity most be strictly scrutinised, espe cially that which is brought forward to discredit the con fession. We ought to be told in detail the history of Constance Kent for the last four years and a half; and instances of conduct indicating unsoundness of mind ought to be produced. It will not do to jump to the conclusion that she is insane bemuse she bas made this confession, nor to conclude on mend priori grounds that she has been brought to a morbid state of mind by the life of religious restraint which she has reoeatly led. If no proofs of recent inanity are forthcoming, the evidenos produced by the police, since it confirms the confession, must pro facto be taken as true. An inquiry may then properly sum as to her state of mind when the deed was committed ; sod it is on this inquiry, and not on that of her present state of mind, that her conviction or acquittal on the pound of in sanity must ult"nately turn." THE ROYAL OBSERVATORY AND THE PRO POSED RAILWAY THROUGH GREENWICH PARK. _.-.-- This morning was issued a copy of the minutes of the proceedings of the Board of Visitors of the Royal Observatory on the 24th ult., when they met to consider the proposed when' of the South Eastern and London, Chatham, and Dover Railways of • railway tunnel under Greenwich Park. The visitor, were General Sabine, Pre sident of the Royal Society, chairman ; Professors J. C. Adams, Challis, and Stokes, Mr. W. Dame, P.R.A.S., Colonel Sir Geo. Everest, Captain G. N. Richards, R.N., Dr. Robinson, Sir James South, and Dr. 'Whewell. The Astronomer Royal was also present, by the request of the Board. After • careful consideration of the documeat., ho., the visitors see no ground far changing in soy way, exoept, perhaps, in making it stronger," the report which they made twoyearsago. Theyagreeentirly with thaAstronomerßoyal in thinking that a removal of the Royal Observatory to any other site would, by interreptieg the eoutinnity of the ob servations, deprive it of its acknowledged pre-eminence over all other utronomical observatories. Additional evi• dens, which has been obtained slue the former report, has confirmed their °puristic& of the inadmissibility of such projects as those which have been submitted by the railway companies, onsistently with the maintenanos of the National Observatory at Greenwich, as well as bloomed the hopes which the Astronomer Royal may have been will ing to entertain at an earlier period, that he might find it possible to devise means of obviatiag. in part at last, some of the apprehended iNOISINIGieIIeiI in raped to the instrnmente which ware then in nee. To these there has slice been added the Great Equa torial, is regard to which the visitors fully concur In the Astrosomer Royal's opinion, that the evil would be each se to be altogether irremediable. The oonvlosion to which the board has arrived, and which they desire to urge most strongly on their lordships' attention, doss not net on con jecture or on a few trials made on as insafiloieet meals. Os various grounds, which they give in their report, the board of visitors feel warranted in entreatieg their lordships to maintain absolutely their former decision, and strictly to exclude all railways from the perk. In this the board are confident that they will be supported by the approval of the whole scientific world. Lamarrn Etrcnott.—A meeting of the electors has base announced foe thia evening, at eight o'clock. at th• feces Tavern. Bennington, for the purpose of meeting Mr. Aldarmut Lynam --. FAIONTPUZ BMWS OP A YOUNG WOMAN. LAW INTMLIGENCE. INQUEST.—(THIII DAY.) (THIS DAT.) At noon to-day Yr. Jahn Rampbsaya, 3addlimaz .--•-- oorossr,hild in WIWI)" at the Glob* Teveer, 431"66 Aar(- COURT 07 PROBATE AND DIVORCIL street, Hostas, respalling the 'Wide of Emma Burrell. (Bohm the Judge Odium.) aged 20 years. COUST C. 00 0 IS. Bas}anala Hardwick «id that drama& Vt.& ia his boom. She woo a funiage shop 0 , Kr. A. S. 1101 for thzrtioasr, Pilo Court 4 .• . geMia wso maa's isrvant. Be the raspoudist is last p odgy evening she came in, asylak_thst she lin ; and is um „km„ I. wen aim, with his "ksmmi roaster (114 v at erZ e ino ta l a t ot t it bolst rep to reztr=il.:, bin edock Whitson, 11.1 1 .), she committed Multsry wigs a "oldie? 1111 WHIM= (oared her lying on the Is the bare alaileberrj jibe was garden with her Mad samlied TY wiadow Dome ow. EMU O. mat MID IZMIR. of bar room jut above wee open. _sarr i. t was Mast that she bad fang herself out and killed bona Thin was so Xg. Blick tar the 11•4friia"r• distress to occasion her to commit midi* sad she we' net Tb• r: l6- 144 . 7 114" 1miTki . I° 1851 TIM kept i pores „ ts Derbyshire, add they lime to. keeping company with anyone , bat her mother had ban far about t va man. The romeadoat, Ys Me. Mks Orwell , a friend oe dens d . said that the liable of a ut pubikan, b ad contresloll Wampum mai, during the last six weeks, alto to Oahe that site wee smod widle as ea a susroa rd eomwoll io • mEllirie with bY_ Rasm, ll thed. a ihs ran tiso ws, is a distroomd state of Wad for she meld poi do as mil sa the other shop girls, and could sot don es well ea Am Isa l lst sumbor r tu t redb m = de s t • I :.. a arril! se .:::,.. ..n.. . earobi_ did. Elbe said that if she maid kill besesittemrfsekino e s: Ism for ea not to be laughed st, she would do se "items.. tried to " chaff " her oat of the sotto % add thellelli th iA she , " I " leassertiali Dimm illawlie := llB.B. l„,,, ligt r°ll;dit° ties detention °f WI would sot do each • thing. Whams did net words at the poor girl's going mad, for she bed cassaba endure frees her BUM e. ELITISM. father and mother to drive sayone sub kr adod ga ttat De. ai" ks . for the 1 41 iti"m's tbe Wife a 3 " 1 " 136 1 , 61 • ostanotmaker, who sought • divorce es $ 4 she was 15 ea rs y old. Her mother died in Casey Kr. JardWe proved that &smelt! wm laid by the fear- of bipmy. Be had married Joao llialsop g tot injuries so her head mossiossd by the fall. Witimrch in Ink sod lived with her till 1816, when to The jury rstnnied • verdict " that cloomood oommitied dtt 6 •4 111,.•"- be wr dt•r" l4 ._ aid married. 4 hate I enbilde by throwtsg herself oat of • snood floor whitlow wit h Elisabe th 'jag. wain no ' I while of unsound misd. Deems aid with costs. MOMS V. 1110171=, MT; AID MIII•lt. Mr. Rankly, Q. 0., sad Dr. figoks for tho_petitiose L The politicos' wee the son of the Rev. WM. Preeto. bieumbent of Doskibgtoe Northumberland. Is hi% 1863. he hot Jest somisded lit coma at Oambridgeo tine satin mtishatiots of his Meads He had pissed a mbeho ship sad as oxhibitim, sad his mama st tali Wow* bed been examdligly moderate—aot moseding igg. o yaw. He lad, however, °Detracted an sequin 's ; with • vrocom at the sown amid dormaah Sikh & sad bolero galag home be took hor le Lmsli, hid amnia her at fit. Pancras shosh. Be Mil latesdad for holy ordain, and had b 0 am d his ova, ke hie wife with smse asoall ream a c he could p os h out of his pocket mo, tlo themerin October his father became s, o d in aad armed to allow the reemehat • • walk provided that she would madam for a time sport from her linabuid, sad Ear her Maas for her mow position by laid* a rimoddia Ida Elbe app al to thisarrsngement, sad • deed men. muted embodnag these stipulation'. like did not, boy. mar, bog faiti them, sad information was obtained • which to found the presses snit. [The am was not oesslntlad when we west to pa) COURT OF BANKRUPTCY. 1 (Belem Mr. Commissioner BeWO.) IS SZ LOUIS OTTO StISTZ•IXTS. The bankrupt wee a merchant in Great Bt. Helm's, lag she a member of the Arm of Itunteasis and Co. cl mitts. This was the sitting for dasolnaMon sad dishes% The wenn* prepared by Mr. Bened, show an liability of 87,0001.. upon which there would appe:fre, faideasy, dso Ism then 84,0001. The we now ern ea har headed before . r Holroyd del anniqemeall owingdr t he ease mimiene ef J. E. F. 14111 (meatioeed immediately below), being deo added ler We day, sad Use two bankrupts having had lams him. sided together. The largest item ca the debtor die el Ale bankrupt's account, 68,8941., messiah liabaltin els jest to deductions In respect of Mattes shipments to emit& Mr. Bargee!, for the griper (who were the swish both eased, staled that Mr. Registrar Window bed gime his sanction to the we of Bees being heard befam Helroyd. The liabilities were exceedingly large, 87,0d1. in one SlSlP 6 a p a t i for far th er 82,0001. in the other. The born had been well but the assignees wished aocennts, sad de for o an opportunity to make Monde r to the probable sante of the Cabinda house, which ins aim winding spin the lasolvent Court. An ample adjournedt would therefore be seceepary. Hie Hawser digested that the adjournment should ad he loaner than two months in the Ant tedium. An adjournment was ordered accordingly. It se oleo directed that 'Rapp for examination and for ordo of X e . charge should bodies's muddy. IS Is J. Z. P. YAM This bankrupt we. ads deseribed as a mashant d Great Bt. Helen's, In fact, the parties had occupied the ism (Moss. The Habilitate in this case are stated at 32,9001., with • deficiency of 22,0001. Bergeod• behalf of the amigos's, made the isme =dim is this case, and the same adjournmed our No one appeared for either of the Wakes* Mr. James Cooper accountant, has been appointed an. sager under each s':etate. The adjournment in each ow Vol made to the 26th of May. II U JAMS DAVIS The bankrupt ouraarsooll4lootlo, 01 Old Wadi& street ; liabilities, about 7201. Mr. Sargood opposed. The bankrupt had had an actin =plait him by Mr. Jackson, on the reeved al tlyrepresenting the value of his badness in whisk Mr. Jackie' berme a partner. The adieu wee hid sad a verdiet for 2701. given on the 23rd Febnazy last; on the 3rd of the following month the bask . rapt presented his own petition. evidently for the sake of &death% Mr. Jacksoe's jadgmsat. Now it appeared that Mr. Jackson's judgment had not him dried till the 14th of March ; his debt bad communedf been improperly admitted, and must be expunged ; bat ea the bankrupt would be lett exposed to the judgment per. bane the hideous(' would be to have the petition dismied. Mr. Becky, on behalf of the bankrupt, contended del the error was not his, and that he ought not to infer. His BOSOur thought that the best course would be to annul the petition, and let the bankrupt present another. He should adjourn the ease else die, leaving the tanknot to take such steps as be might be adrieed. Mr. Bayley asked for a month's protection, which our given. II ILI MDBIIetT. The bankrupt, a stationer, of Basking-chnrehyard, plied for his order of discharge. Mr. Goa libi supported. The banknot wrs Mond ca the ground that two days before his failure he received 794 and bad not satisfactorily accouuted far its dismal HOW*. were 1,2801.: no meets. Honour did sot think that the cam was within the act, though the chirp would bare bees 111= is one under the former net. Order granted accordingly. II Is LOAD MN= ooIIDON. The bankrupt was described as a tobacco aid colonial broker mid merctunit, trading in panne& ship with George Newton, at 9, Grameardt eke* nailer the firm of Newton, Gordon. id Co., and residing at the Palace, Hampton Court. nit was the sitting for examination and dieoltarge. The Wk. rapt owes 6271. to numerated creditors, and 8201. te three holding security. The meets are staled at 8901. in property, and 7501. property taid as security. The property comprises ea WM of 3001., the value of an annuity of 504. Magi under the will of the late Dowager Duchess of ilsminas oleo a bond of the General Provident Insurance Company, raised at 4504, Ism a claim thereon. [The case had sot bora called on when oar report left] TB FOLIOS COURTS. (THIS DAY.) NANSION-HOUSE. VIZ ALLZOLD INAIID6 ON WINJIIANCZ OFFICE& W. Barry Brothers, sad their three emplaffife Sedgeweek, Arnett, and Thorne, surrendered this morn* a mower to Wiz reeersimmass, in order that the dope& Um tikes against them on the charge of defrauding siva inestrenee cases of large sums of money might be car plated. The Num leaned enamel were present that appeared ofi the previa. caesaions. No fresh evidesos was adduced, it being understood on QS bet mession that the case for the prosecutiou am Wetted. After mate foamed matinee had been emispleted. YM whole of the defendants were committed for trial, the mut bail being taken ea as the previous ommioss. 11. r. Kest—She ism amasses& He le hi "Theiteelek Oast—l Anse amiesdast bad I oir y i p liar via oes d emparitasak im ia mehe ewe soft to t ik a elediar qtr. We. Seeleam—l ems & Waeterem I nay thou mime sends the daime a obeli may slat *ma Smith wee dr W without came. erreerrea vas owe Aso Jo*" • ' 1 • 61 wile* *Ore m' to b peeejLa Bear-yard. .ioluk William %Its Routh boz w o aloe Mode alwl7 tkf• lowted to tba ho ado. dos Wm. I ' g ede, sad •lei the des WOO OM MA pubs a Woe Meads mom c bar ter the purpose sad towed bee ia the defies lame weal Elsa Ice a dram let* s few veristl seeway, bat attain fr• eesehred 4 1 41 - Believlag bee to be beir p teext2i . aweebed tied. was brawl the raseistri •0 &WI 4 9 " I with these= , Two year one oil& is her ei it sot be nearly t =l , 701 t not b i g uita is ler a frora vi t Kr. Taylor, the c alwelk adageletratlo oseerved owe fewpwsliag Wee s a ri II was sobelese beg Woe with , ee sortable gla orA WA Mai that the aided that the eld with tie primer -be Wined *we e DaY•w• lagred tlee mew ee the warble Tb. ibDd wltleb NEW a very OW II the searlable's tow able to dead, MITROPO The usual OM baud was palms ; Mr. J.' The cash state' oa April 29, ISCL0111:11 The following Committee :—" wuLhom owned It would he :elation to t Mom in end now, in parsoano hey w zg o ve u n a the y and the babying rem the ePPrc"" highly dedesb sod sa n d sale ties and sale nnemehmed ; and of the meson they my he del tuan to be Men sell mirk pm edam pewees: Mr. Comm whisk atter sot MADJ The annual at 1 o'clock, et it tbe The report tea& The Giamatti log amotared able, both e• tioa thing the tnfile oa the Ile this wren the severelteill added that the sad tworth-wea sow spend an ant month to It no that Morale west Low IMO 380,0001. to be then would ai recpiireseeste < Led beer tie &bah:diking, r ra tiro report. After moms preesediDP to - • WORSHIP-STREET. ILLILMIA CASE. Mrs. &wok Sou* the wife of • trackma r ot k was elmrpd at the rowboat) of Kr. Saperia Yost, et the Gloat Restore Railway, with unlawfully • second elam rarrieg• on that Use while the kale ma William Usy. • porter at the litile-ead statism, stated—. Oa Saturday, the Sth alt., while the 7.15 train frees Wesh wish was rousing taut the station. I soaked the de ltaadmii at the window of a 'woad-class carriage. Naafi .ard s t2her Mks* the door shut. She made so reply, bat isetugly stepped oil M the platform, wee knocked down by Steam ef the carriage she had left, fell with her knd towards Leedom, sad, had I sot caught hold of sad palled hat sway, would meet probably the mist testae' have talks between the rails sad platform. She wee appease* burn I seated is tildes her late the Aloe of the statioa.martwi when she was Weeded to, sad seat home is • cab. By the asegistaste—l don't know who opseed the doer tke amiss' Ole sot the practios of porters to opts Win seal the Lima ham quite stopped. Mr. Yest—The company have no desire to Win 101 ateruthea a somisal penalty, sad that merely as a tastiest toes . Kra. Smith -- 1 deny that any person °Paned 11111 doer ham beside the earrtege. I tltiok that go eerier (bet wirers) did so se be vaned wit "Xlis.ead"; beside. the train had stepped. whop Isereatyent. as I econsideved safely, bat UN caresses jolted iw I was doing so, rod 1 fa. sot I believe ea platform bat between it sad the 01411 try a d erwietbing was eat talents by I as greatly Injured ea eve of say Ado, 116147 reeeverinir, feel maddest I shall safer for yews if I live so keg. I did not hear the porter sty anythiat aboat the I deer. Bimini I appears fro that *a ml last year smoi Mum aad 1 hag as the ds3 asissimed ott from Wallahs without la ud pave, sad to ululate 1 odium sad 1 liaaation of piste date* t boa ern, ilibuteauts July, 1960; bag SUOMI Sir Thou bar, abd the Caftwou is Notwithataa water ea the A meetu over by lb. the Natkaa pressatlas t et I,OOOL, swarstary of remora at valaatazita Is prawatia 'Mbar@ Ws Atha Nan plan of pla the pane Lady Maas Ramollo Ur Wally Stain, me ball rotor marked au ltaaolka the most a United Ste the Steak ] laP," he • ma• ; mad hairte of " Psalm The Das @Wan e " Thus t , 'Mien of of Wad al sok me NM sees Mae Odd, so ammo Wm idtm-1 and mem faithful I MEDICAL RELIEF OF THE SICK POOL BPBCIACYBRDICIT. An inquiry was concluded by Mr. Humphreys, Middlesex corower, lest main, at the Lamb Menu, Will mottstrest, liethaal-gresa, relative to the death of Richard F. aged 80 yeses. said Aan rne, 21, LaneVrprdems. Beilesol-noin that deceased was • dealer in tools. They bad lived is the same house far twentyears, and they bed two yang children. Oa Wedy, the 154 h of March, be wee takes ill. Be went to his work, but had to return. On the following Monday as order ems got far the parish doctor, Mr. Vedder, end that gentle man cams. Demised Mid him that medicine would do him so good and asked to net nouriehmeut. Mr. Deltic: asked imakally what Mod of nourishment—run gin, or brandy' Doomed replied that he was not • drinker, and that he wanted only nourishment for his illnam. Mr. Dairies said that that was the relieving officer's duty. lie ordered medicine, and witness went to the for it is as hour's time. Mn. Deifies gave su i r t. ger rt wee sot made np ; bet Mrs. DeMes mid that she knew what to give. When the doctor Galled • nand time en the Beaman damned told him that it was so an his calling if thin was mo souriehent, and he called no more. They had sold all the fann m ere, ha, for fen. All during the winter they had been in I greet distress. Witness went on the following Taseday before the board of guardians. who gave IM. la mosey end 9d. worth of bread, tea, In The relieving dhow advised the family to go into the bones, bat demised thought be should get better sod be able to go to work, sad bethink's refearL The ant week the boar i d a si an addition l firl. woeth of Wags. Afterwsrds the offien Mr.Wakelleg. wan the distress of the one (the f y bad *sly what they 'Mimeo the board of goardiaas to Bee epee) gave additional bread, kw, ow his own responsibility. Hs also said that the doctor could have orclend any nourishment be liked. Oa deed upon April witness came home sad found donned dead upon the floor. Other evidence proved the great distress of the family, the children's bed having been sold for toot. James Mr. Rolfe, grebes semen. said that deceased died from &seen of the lungs of old stsadiag. A seas is each • ante would require soirriduneet, and the want of proper sad sufficient nourishment would most decidedly accelerate deeth. Km J. G. Darks said that be was use of the distelei surgeon of the parish of Bennalanreen. When wining first went is to the deceased, the latter said, " I don't west you, bat nouriduseat." Wifnsmmid,"lsmsat the officer. You mast apply to him." Wines eatirely the remark about OS or brandy ; it was set 11style. He sever sand patients w tlin required, he ordered what he sew they naiad. The Wowiag Sate day deceased dismissed him from his attendance as ha would sot give nourishmeat. Witness again relayed him to the relieving officer. The Coroner said that in the present cam the man wee suffering from &same of the lasp sad was in • state of starvation. Whams said that be sever wen into the eireaminaires of the paints, he was set relMring officer. Oorosor—Bat was sot meet meeremry ? Witness—Very posdbly it might have bees seesosary. But it did not seems ease in which I ought to exorcise my A lacer —When do you exercise your privilege ? Witness—When I see • plaint prostrate and likely to die I order seeriehmeet. Ooroner—Did you ever know your ceder refund by tlee wide ? Winless—ln times pee by I have—hat not meetly. The winos said that be rand sot tell whether he wee at home at the time the medicine was given by his wife to the wife of demand. Mr. Wakeling said that extra nourishment, each as wise, could only be gives op a doctor's order or " recommenda tion." The jury returned • verdict that demand died from disease of the lungs from natural causes, bat that his death was amelerand by primness and want of soarishment, and the jury considered that the medical man ought to have ordered sourishment when asked. THE COLDSTREAM MURDER. At the Jedburgh Circuit Court on Wednesda before Lord Ardmillaa said Load Jerriswoode. Al Thomson, lately residing is Churelokine„ Coldstream. was placed at the bar charged with the murder of his wife in his own house on the 4th or bth ai December lest. The prisoner had gives himeell into custody on the morning at the sth of December, to the sheriff-offioar of Coldstream, who, on repairing to the house, found the doomed Me Dickies or Thomson barbarously murdered, eleven of her ribs being fractured and her body showing many fhtfal in juries. TN, panel plesdoi not guilty, and a spacial defame wee put in to the eldest that be was insane at the time the act wee committed. The medical witomes celled for Umbilical were allowed to It in court to hear the evidence. It was proved that the primmest was usually a person of vary quiet and inoffensive temper, sod that he sod his wife usually lived happily together, bat that be took to Feet fits of drinking, which pro rise to sets of violeoos bordering ow if not producing inanity. Sometime he had been chained to the bed to prevent him getting out of the house to satisfy his craving for drink, and altogether he ap peared to have beet • pitiable victim of that propen sity. On the night in question there had evidently lmes jai great 000fiict, and the woman, who wra spoken of as a very quiet person, would appear to have need either poker or tooge in her defame. She bad, however, been overpowered by her husband's fury, and the meOieal vitamin who ex amined the body expressed their opinion that several of the wounds separately were sufficient to canoe death. The evidence of the murder was quite conclusive, and the con test of 'widows related rasher to the question of the • responsibility as • saw pima for the sot. C " lci r eal medical witoesses deposed that several theme be had suffered from delirium tremens, sod en cm ober don, at least, had showed symptoms of mate mania. Oa the sight before the murder Dr.' Turnbull had ad vised restraint, on account of old symptoms reappearing. but lira. Thomson expressed her coo fi deoce in being able to manage him. The doctor, not quite satisfied, d applied . for the use of leviroos, but the constable declined to lend them. The professional witnesses examined for the defence thought the prisoner's violence was attributable to an at tack of acute mania, followed by a gradual return in the morning to 000scionaneee. After hearing counsel and the judge's charge, the jury re turned the following verdict :—" Not guilty, in respect that at the time at his committing the act he was temporarily insane." The special committee appointed for the purpose of investigating the merits of Captain Ooles's system of shipbuilding west down to Woolwich yesterday, and im speeded her Majesty's iron-cased cupola ship Prime Alba* 2.592 tons, in warm of completion on that system. The committee consisted of the Earl of Lauderdale, QS., Ras- Admiral Haatinp H. Telerate., 0.8., Capt. Kimesedy, Capt, Caldwell, C. 8., mid Sir John Phillimore. °whale Coles was prerenwid from being present by severe 111d111- posltioe. The steam-packet communication between Poole and Cherbourg cominimsed this week. The emoninaleatim will be effected twice weekly. A quantity of dairy redoes has been already landed at Poole from Cherbourg. The steamer which effects the easuanskution is fitted ep to earry 300 hied el cads. Disease has been very prevalent in Frome, in Somenetasize, owing to detective draiaage. The Wiltshire papers state that crime is de creasing very residua* is that sonsty. FALL or • MILL AND Loin OF LIFE AT Nan enneruit.—hluicausrus. TETEISOAT NI/MT.—By the gel of a great pan di Guth= 11111, mm eW uneessuded building eight dories high, this weak* four Wig. layers sad labours who were employed snide It were boded as they wars taidag Omit tea ea the int hoer. Two others wove& jest em the wall was falling. After several hours' emeavaties tire of the dead bodies were get out, cad a third was wee found ave. Dot greatly Won& At asideight the •81•41 in continuing. This exident, ia one of the most crowded puts el Yeacbmter, has emseed soh onnitereation. Two little girls sod am Want who were pun ; lag had a escrow escape. Ow, of the bricks fell into the I perambulator beside the baby.