The Express. — London, England, 1850-04-03 00:00:00

iarb,.„ lithe rebellion none made maw Ihlt • toreadors that their iababitant.. fiherolie nth + "r„ - " De d,gree, form a test of the feelings do t s e: this section ; but p , Amps ym. be r "‘ " Orr d with the annexationist doctrines • k • • 0. e Ido not thic it is a test of the feelings of a t oll -et • t ars of the province. cr.S. , "' • t he municipal elestioos of Ude atty. % f it me • ,„ al coo:Laced in two or three wards, ad Iter „ t o penly, but utdceeteed es the Met se Teats bccaose the perties wisely speed a r '? " a Village oat of our civic coned. In one waist " 0 ; $ Toy close contest between B. Hollow' tl I'.l'. (sane xationist), and Cul. Ougy, /CPA • me tomer was successful. h owe • eta wards the annexationist' obeitinall nitre. The votes were openly give/ es 35.1 " :;..fea of annexation and coniat xion, and • the wa i l ed. It mast be loitered ' that the o' h ;,Ziots ere in the majority in this city hat I „ guis e tree—and I speak from an pries—that there is a shoos kesicat them, which it is quite likely vaqf A vocets • majoiity at the ate. elestima. r e 01.. r most respectable former suppoettinkage k s and there If little doubt that the ms• -portable men among them yet will a to an txtremity against England. •oei e.. al of excitement was stirred up by dim .n.l a comber of gentlemen of high stand ,; .antocly and cruelly beaten with axe +.• ne Ist orbanees, however, were not serious, nuol to say, for the credit of our miseh "": !y. that the., were, as former disturbances wo:le of a handful of blackguards frost the o, it is a common remark, are never , , ~. ..; on such occasion". r.x . comes an el, ction in Upper Canada, for • Hatton. At this the =nista tint candl e., • • . : %Veteran (a member of the ministry, the c ...amiss : once of l'obiic Works), was de !he result of election is important, and • orobeble that it will upset the ministry , ..., , ven admitted by some of its own organs • , .lection took place. Mr. Wetenall was ..c appoi•tid to the ministry, in the place Cameron, who resigned with so ..rev a abort time ago, declaring that he , • •liimefully mated. The election wee ;agree o: the random of the seat, octy by the new appobitmeot. It is ewes- I le. em constituency, and the ministry has . a blow from the hands of former friends. ...al candidate, Mr. Ilopkire, is tot a tory, to a party called the "clear grits." This party is composed of ultra re'orn em, • ..cteed from the present ministerial Forty, , very bitterly availing. Its complaint mi.istry is, that it has forfeited all its tt lea,: those respecting retrenchment, on • .k cdiec; and tLat, instead of retrench -, ocly isertased our already too onerous • e. I=l Inclined to think, from various that this "clear grit "party has some *,:h ice atnex doe's% It has not de ....r favour; but it, organs have, irstead of • rrongly, tried i: very gingerly. It is : ate, that the tones juiaed with the "clear . ::.is occasion for the overthrow of Mr. fat coitest was close, and the majority I :nay add, that at other important item of f the "clear grits" is, that they ate in • .r.dtieg the Legislative Council elective, as . • orioo of the members of the League. . iikalt cur legislature will meet before LAMBDA. NOVA SCOTIA. •tiea of cotEitutional reform has engrossed z: I - a of the attention of it. legislature. dings • .ea it is the tory party that seeks to inne r". ..... to liberal tin cffic..) that resists innovation. r~ `. ~~~~ R! ... ' btt: ~.~ . • MINCE EDWAItDI3 ISLAND. . L :.,:stare met oa the 6tls instant. The rt., .- the usual stamp. Mr. Rae has been voting for and 6 against him. .meut in answer to the governor's speech, • _ a waLt of confidence in the existing govern debased and carried, 17 to 3. In the Le r,.. C.ustil an amendment, not so strongly . 'guilty significant, has been introduced. • Ars ury determined to Late responsible go • The Esaniiner says: " We will now , ejec•nre as to the course his Excellency • .:e in reference to this matter. Certain it is no • . •.: wee ever placed in a more unhappy posi .• . i4llu Campb..ll's is at this moment We L. ,, • rer.on to suspect. that, with the majority t: Ar•tmbly, nothing short of an ample concei t.. • ::.-ir pruiciples will induce thorn to bring the ro tut the tension to a claw. VENEZUELA. L• •rs from Porto Cabello, dated Feb. 26, state • - r.dmiral oa the s'aaoa has threatened to t. tout. He had transmitted to the 1.: . en government a list of demands through ! • • •h cAargi d'affaires, Mr. B. H. Wilson, and 4 within which compliance wan required sere on the let of March. He is said to ••cd that by that time the government of .hall have Wiled the claims made for the nv.ent of Mr. George Ward and other British :ve residing in Venezuela, and for other ac's committed by this government, and -• t law of "opera,' or stop law, shall be re rE.tc. Lr d declared null and void, as to British sub- 1k also rt quires the dividends due to English : or the VenesueLim debt, which have been s t by the !donnas administration. It is a ••_a..o. ;hat these dvmsnds have been mixed up une-":e.! questions of boundaries between %t!(:-..tlii aid British Guiana. NICARAGUA. T: , f)llowing remarks on the negotiations between ttt :•Icrtment of the North American Union and B ain, on Central American affairs, hate ap keu •n the New York Weekly Herald .• - den will lad in another Piet of this day's paper, • leyetrtaat sorrespondeacs from Cenral America, :.7 the Empire City, which will be read with great • ' •y the puhlie generally. It appears that rumours " • .••culatl..a la Nicaragua, to the effect that Mr. Law ' • 'h. Minister is Llodon, and L,rd Palmer -1.1. agreed upon a pan a settling the Niearagea ' ••• by the surrender, on the part of the former, of all r Litips.l points in the dispute, and the virtual reap/al ' • •.‘ th. ecvereiguty of the Mosquito Kind over a portiva • ' NAll:1116&11 territory, as well as of the riAts which • • .• L•rt•.ain has claimed is that quarter. These ►umours, , -•• have caused a great deal of diptiet and diseatis and it iv awned that if they should prove true, the • ttri.ent of Nicaragua will revoke the charter to the estneea company, giving them the right to construct a tit+. to connict the Athletic and the Pacific comas. • Or MANSLAUGHTLII AGAINST AN ATTOIII• • —Yesterday a long investigation took plus before •he • rpeei borough coroner into the cirmunstancee maw eted • :he death of an old lady, named Elisabeth Simpson, • death resulted from injuries sustained by berg run '•"f ••y Mr. C. Probation's carriage. The inquest was fixed Lt e, Jay Jut and adjourned, 1.- order to afford time for hr P.aberion to produce evidence with the view of show co !set le was fres from blame in the matter. On Sunday ` 4 ••• lit one o'elork, the donated we. eroeeing Lon& st the end of Seymour-street, when Mr. Pemberton's i.• • s 1.6 ith he himself out driving at the time, cams in ••• with her. She wu ksocksd down, and two of the •' • • cent over her body. She wu token to the Infirmary, • J survived until Tnureday Lat, the immediate cause ‘' It being a fracture of the bass of the skull, the result '•! , •''rral violates. Evidence in support of the charge • • s A,es taken, the coronae went over the facts of the •" ••••'.:nr the attimlon of the jury to the various p. late sti-oted Mr. Pemberton, and the state of the law as ;I ,Le mime ol manslaughter. If tne jury were of V.-411 .Lat hewn driving at a furious rate, reckless of ems minte• s, they mug BM him guiltrof that offence, but, a LG., Mr verdict would be one of awidental death.- I L' after I deliberation, in court, of twit an R enable to agree, retired to the private room. I • h• talme of an hour they returned, 'lrian a. 'heir th .t tn« timmeed's death wee caused by Mr. P.m -•.• • • .t.,gest and furious driving. The Coroner . ..lOW* a verdict involved a charge of man. r Jpaa hearing ilia the juy entered into a etea , ► the does of - which thy Intimated to the cr.urt • • ; etre not agreed. They then retired a second time, n' , riled in about an hour, bringing in • verdict of +•4ler against Mr. Pemberton. Mr. ittkicson c9;oter to allow limo for Mr. Perob..rtos :•' r'o aie;alis 7 , ia Wrt boil, without the necensity of up to Lon ,: 1 ' ehrintr having rmeivid a hew )dr. r a • t his edits% would surrender, said he would •iarant until a w 'tunable time had been allowed ' tee. at with the judges. 1-t I Vt PUU:eLui troy Alt OLD COAT . — Among Z`tif 7 er'' , •id hat wick at the Linoee'whosee, Leadhiast, r• . • ' ravel wa i t worn b y t h e late, Duke 0/ Yoh at the t Boverelnee to England, said to have ta4t leeeentod by hit royal h . phsees to the late Thomas """0 wee Weight in at Join• Gt. THE AGRICULTURAL DISTRICTS. TO Tin 'DMZ OF Tan DAILY Innis. KnaTFolin, SARelit 30. Bli,—ln compliance with year expressed wish, I send you a few motes of my observations in several agricultural districts, into wt.'s& las led putly eattl b bagasse and in part by the desiradge for myeall how harmers sad hems are by the present state of prices. There are Si- casettes in which there are greater diversities of fanning than that from which I now write, varying from very good to very bad husbandry; but, with the exception of a narrow strip on the Middlesex side of Hertfordshire, where there is some permanent pasture land, nearly all the farmers of this county have placed too great reliance on the price of corn, ecammqmatly complaints at premat are loud and generaL complaint, how ever, is not always to be takes as a true index of the actual state of the affairs of my farming brethren. Of this I heard yesterday a curious illustration. The belt of gems l an d w hi ch lies on the southern aide of the county is chiefly devoted to growing hay for th e L on d on mar k et, and as shay-farm is usually undertaken by Sin poessmed of very little capital, and in favourable seasons is managed at small expense, the proportion of theArces produce paid for rent is invariably large. When, therefore, a bad meson centre, when grass is deficient from too dry a spring, or hay is spoiled from • wet summer, the hay-farmer is commonly in a state of distress, and looks to Lis landlord for an abatement of rent. But though the majority of hay-farmers are poor, that is not universally the ease ; and especially there are men amongst them, who having risen from the condition of hay -carters by frugal rocketry, con tinue as farmers the same course of thrift and parsi mony, and make money. One of these was tenant to a large proprietor of hay-farms in this district, where, about three years ago, the hay crop, from long drought in the spring. was nearly a total failure. As usual these tenants required some abatement of rent, and acme of them was louder in demanding relief than Mr. —, who occupied several hundred acres of grass land. Abate ments were road, to all the tenants, including Mr. —, bat I heard from one of his neighbours that this proved to be one of the moat profitable years Mr. had experiecc:d since be had been a farmer. The bay crops of the previous two years bad been abundant, and, consequently, the price of bay in the London markets very low, and Mr. -- not being pushed for money, had sold little or none of his two years' crops. When,.therefore, the year of deficiency came, and with it came a great advance in the price of hay, Mr.-- cleared a good profit, from he ability to wart for a favourable market. But then Le claimed and received an abatement on his rent as a distressed hay farmer. No dcubt like his neighbours he bad that year a short crop ; and it will, perhaps, be said that his prudence ought not to be the means of placing him in a worse condition than his less provEent and careful neighbours, and I mention the ease simply to show that, though doubtless there is much agricultural distress, all the voices that swell the chorus must not be taken to express the actual state of the farmerr. I entered Hertfordshire through that rude and cold district known as the " Chase, and rode through' ' Northaw wood., Little Berkbampstead, and y fordbury, to Hertford ; and though the whole of that district is not celebrated for the enterprise of its occupiere, and is unquestionably difficult and expen sive land to cultivate, I could not help remarking that there are evidences of improvement and exertion greater than I had ever before sten in that quarter. Amongst these may be mentioned the very general redaction of the hedgerows, aid the improvement 1 and reparrion of the farm buildings. From the fineness of the season, the work onthe laud is in a very forward state, but I should like to have seen a few more sheep folds and more green crops. I am told, however, that the farmers are becoming convinced that in order to sne ered they mast rely more upon stock and less upon corn-growing. In Hertford market this morning I heard - an opulent farmer complaining vehemently of the low price cf corn, when on its being suggested that he roust have cleared some money by her stock during the past year, he said, Well, sheep have not done amiss; if it bad not beeo for the sheep I should ban) been entirely ruined." Every one who heard I this knew it to be a ridiculous exaggeration ; but it illustrates at once the compensating effect of stock fanning for low prices of grain, and the random way in which farmers are apt to t a lk when priors are low. The price of wheat in Hertford to-day was some what better, by about Is. 6d. the quarter on an aver age, nis well as I could learn. I heard of one parcel of wheat having been sold at 325. th e Hertfordehire load of five bushels, or nearly 6s. sd. per bushel. Another fact which I learned in this place satisfied me that the farmers of the district, whatever they may say, are not abandoning themselves to despair; one of the principal agents for the sale of artificial manures informed me that he bee this year sold a larger quantity rf such fertilizers than he has ever before sold in one season. This looks like a determination to grow turnips. I was offered beans weighing nearly 70Ibr..per bushel at 245. per quarter, and peas, rye, and grooliag barley, at proportionately low pricer. Surely farmers who are within the reach of the London markets will not neglect to avail them selves of the safe operation of feeding sheep on a large scale, and the extent t o which the Hertfordshire far mers are buying artificial manures proves that they are awake on this subject. I have heard a gcod many remarks and some difference of opinion, on the subject of • movement recently made by some of the farmers art inding this market—to effect a re duction in the charges of their tradesmen. Why any thing like an association should be necessary to effect that object does not appear very obvious; and the fact that a protectionist land agent appears to have been one of the chief instigators, if not the origi nator of the movement, together w.th the protectionist twang of the resolutions passed at a close meeting, gives colour to the opinion I heard expressed, that it was intended as a diversion in favour of the landlords; with the view that reductions in farming bills might render redactions of rent less urgently demanded, limn many of the farmers of this country are in a frame of mind to " savage " somebody, is certain, and land lords are rather nervous about having farms thrown upon their hands just now; for though there is still an active demand for farms, new tenants will not now take them at present rente, or indeed at all, without additional accommodation in the way of buildings, and so forth, and exemption from some of the territorial burdens formerly submitted to as mat ters of coarse. _ The resolutions I allude to are as follow: As the value of agneulttwal produce is greatly lessened the free imp-mutton of foreign corn, it is the opinion of this meeting that farmers in general must adopt a system of wise and vigilant economy, wending to every branch of expendi ture unavoidably incurred. Aid, INS those employed in trade are reaping oonsiderable advantage frcm the cheapness of food, it is thought that the tradesman should now be ebbs, without injury to himself, to make a considerable reduction in his charges. This meatier is also of °pintos that the tradesman, artisan, and labourer dependent Oa agriculture should b. made sensible that free trade is a labour question, and that they are affected by it, on acoonnt of the serious difficolty and distrers of their employers, arising from fursign can pstiUom. Resolved—That the tradesmen in this neighbourhood be requested to ret:uce their charges in the following ratio: Blaasmith, to Ditto Ditto AU ordinary work l5 per sent. Collar-maker, reduced by l5 per eat. Wheels right Carpenter, reduced to Bricklayer Ditt s Maurer Hurdle maker Thatcher 9.1. per Ran kot. I ought not to close this communication without re ference to one of the agriculturists regularly attend iog this marker, and who has attained more than a local reputation, both as a farmer and a politician, I mean Mr. Camles Lattimore. I believe it is no dis paragement to the many good farmers of Hertford shire to say that Mr. Lattimore is the highest farmer in the county, and probably there ar few agricultu rists in the kingdom who employ so large an amount of capital per acre is the ordinary operation, of farm ing. Mr. Lattimore was some years ago turned out of a farm of between three and four hundred acres in consequence of the part he took in aid of the League agitation fur free trade, and be now holds only one farm of 2sO of light land at Wbsatharapstsed, near St. Albans. This farm belongs to Lord Melbourne, aad Mr. Lattimore has a twenty-one years' lease granted by the late vieoount. The great feature of his system is feeding off large numbers of ewes and lambs. His plan is to purchase the horned Danger Somerset ewes at Guildford fair in May, and these bring kept well, and pat partly to large whitetsoed, and partly to South Down rams, produce lambs before or about Christmas, and by Easter there is always on Mr. Lattimore's farm • splendid show of tat lambs. The Good Friday's market at Smithfield is that at which be first begins to sell, and in the early put of that week his farm is quite a show placer so Zloty persona goiag to inspect leis Soaks. Ausaigat his vl ttoru of this year were Mr. Cobden, M.P., and Mr. Bright, M.P., wham reception, by the agricul tural labourers of that district, was, I understand, most enthasiastic. Mr. Lattimore's salesmen's sweats, for lambs sold oa the 29th instant, were handed to him whist I was with him, and the prices he received tell the quality of the deck sold. There were 33 lambs sold, at 'prim varying from 335. to 375. 81. each, the average being about 355. Bd. He has 434 lambs this year, and abut 400 ewes, all of which will be fatted off and sold within three months from this time. In addition he feeds many beast., calves, and pigs ; during the past year be had 1,038 bead of stook of all aorta on hie farm, of which no less than seven hundred were fat tened and sold. The grass y e errl value of the stock *old from this well man aged farm of 280 acres has for some years pad exce eded 51. per acre. 0f worse the produce of coin is very great. The four wares rotation is that adopted by Mr. Lattimore. Now, this is no amateur farming, for Mr. Latti more is strictly a farmer, and a close ca l cu l a t or , an d never undertakes an operation without a pretty clear expectation of a profitable result. I was pleased to hear that in Hertfordshire, a country much infested with game, a great majority of the landowners are giving up game-preserving. The Marquis of Salisbury, at Hatfield, and Sir Henry Menu, (one of the county members) at Theobald's park, are now the chi e f o ff inders in this respect. The decline of game preserving in Hertfordshire is said to date from a public dinner given a few years ago, by the farmers of the county to Mr. Horncastle, I a tenant of Lord Essex's, who was most unhandsomely turned out of hie farm through a dispute with his landlord about game. The farmers combined to sub scribe for a handsome testimonial to Mr. Hornell. le, and though the anti-Corn-law contest was then raging, Mr. Bright was itrited to the presentation dinner at St. Alban's, where protectionist u well as free-trade farmers were delighted with his straightforward and earnest advocacy of the rights and interests of rural iudastry. To that meeting, many farmers with whom I conversed to-day, attributed the very general dimi nution of game preserving which has taken place in this county. A MIDLAND COUNTIES FARMER. THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, APRIL 3, 1850. the alterations proposed by the Chancellor, are next to impossible to be effected, sad would be Malt in there ars ethers which are fair sad praetor ; end, wha'ever coarse may be takes, the resoluboas wood to by the Roue of Comatose will remain a convincing proof to every intelligent person of the neoemity which exists for a revision of &stamp laws. April 2,1860. Ism, &0., A SOLICITOR. PROPOSED CHANGE IN THE STAMP LAWS. SALES. Ate., OF SHIPS. TO TEN IDITOC OP 711 IIPIIIBII. Sta,—ln my former communications I add-used myself to the more popular and obvious additions which the resolutions agreed to by the House of Commons made to the property now liable to taxa tion, and I purposely avuided those points which might be called professional or technical, and which might be open to discu , sion, as arising from the in consistency of the proposed new law with other por tions of the stamp code, or from the effect to be given to certain expressions. The able manner in which you, alone of all your contemporaries, hove elaborated the subject, cannot fail to awaken the public to a real sense of the benefit awaiting them, and I now again offer to intrude upon your space in reference to the effect which the pro paged alteration of the stamp laws will have on sales and mortgages of shies. The question may be shortly stated. It will be admitted that under the words contained in the actor 55 Gee. lIL (known as the Stamp Act), sales or mortgages of ships or vessels were subjected to the payment of an ad valorem duty, and their exemption from duty depends upon an act passed in the 6 Oeo. IV. (23 years since), by which all stamp duties then payabla upon any " deed or instrumect whatever for the sale, trausfer, or other disposition, either absolutely or by way of mortgage or other wise, of any ship or vessel, or any part interest or property in any ship or vessel" were repealed. Now it must be also aimit'ed that the words " lands, tenements, rents, annuities, or other pro perty,"need in the present Stamp Act under the title of conveyance to describe the property, upon the sale of which an n,l ralorena duty will attach, do not in clude every kind of property which may be the sub ject of bomi file sale. On the ground that the sub rot matter must be such as is commonly dealt with in the way of buying and selling, and that the words " other property" are restricted in their operation by the antecedent words, it hu been judicially decided that certain properties are not within the provision' of the act, and that upon their sale an ad valorem duty will not attach. It follows, therefore (confining myself to conveyances especially for the sake of clearness), that at the pre sent moment, by the act of 55 Geo. 111. an ad valorem duty is imposed upon the sale of the property therein described—that ships originally included within such description have been since exempted from duty—and that it has been judicially decided that the words of the act are not sufficiently ample to include certain kinds of property, which have, consequently, re mained exempt. What, then, is the effect of the bill introduced by the Chancellor of the Exchequer upon this state of things? By the Ist section it is proposed to be enacted that from the sth July next ail stamp duties then payable under the title of conveyance in the act of 33 Geo. HI. shall close and determine, and the act so far is to be repealed. By that enactment, therefore, all the property now remaininF liable to duty is placed within the same exemption as ships now are; and though the intention may be that such exemption should be momentary, the effect is the some; and the point is of great importance when considering the next clause. For by the 2nd section, it is proposed to be enacted that after the 6th of July next, there shall be levied in respect of the instruments, matters, and things de- 1 1 scribed in Schedule B, the several duties specified and set forth in such schedule ; and when reference is made to such schedule, the duty is not there imposed, as it now is, upon the conveyance &c. of " lands or other property . , real or personal, heritable or move able "—that is, in England upon real or per sonal; in Sc otland,: upon heritable or move able—property, with such re... Weed limit to the meaning of the word property, as the courts of law have defined,—but, it is to be henceforward imposed upon the conveyance, &c. "of any property real, heritable, personal, or moveable, or of any other matter or thing whatever, and of whatever nature." Now, sir, at the moment when there are no duties whatever existing upon the transfer of property— when some kinds el property have never been subjected to an ad valorem stamp, and such stamps have been repealed as to every other kind of property, the words above quoted are proposed u the substitute for the wards by which the repealed duties were imposed, and if it be considered that they are equal in extent to the language of the 65, Geo. 111., they must then include as much, and if they be intentionally more extensive they must be admitted to have a wider range than was incident to the language of the last named act. If, there fore, the transfers of ships were liable to an ad valorem duty (es wan undoubtedly the care) under the stamp act of 1815 it seems to me to be clear that that lia bility is re -imposed by the bill under consideration. The sot relieving the ship owner conta'ns no special protection; it simply repeals certain stamp duties almost in identically the same words as the first section of the pending bill repeals the remaining stamp duties on transfers. The owner of an estate could raise as good an argument against the new duties applying to him, as the ship-owner could use' to prevent their operation to hi. case.' And if, as the fact is, the language of the proposed bill be adequate to draw within its range property hitherto entirely exempt, how impossible it will be to contend that such lan guage does net include property which was actually reached by the more confined definition contained in the present law.' My object in this and my previous communications has been to show the important alterations which the Chancellor of the Exchequer proposes to make in the test of the stamp laws : and I am very glad that such a meeting as is advertised for the consideration of the law affecting the mercantile marine is about to take place, as this matter cannot fail to be discussed there, and the mind of the public has been so well prepared by you that the whole subject will be immediately taken up. In conclusion of these remarks I may perhaps be permitted to express my opinion that, whik some of the Court. WINDSOR, AP= The Queen and P r i nce Alb er t walked this mS.en las In the groan Is round the Castle. There is no addition to the reyal dinner party this evening. The Duchess of Cambridge visited the Duchess of Otenoseter on Monday. The Duke of Cambridge Matted the Royal Durham yeeterday, at °teamster Rowe. Lord Jan Russell left his residence, Pembroke- Lodge, Richmesd Park, yesterday morning, for the Roston square terminus of the London and North Western Railway, and took his departure by the ten o'clock train, for the seat of Bir 134,1qm:its Heywood, Claremont, near Manchester. Despatches from tho governor. of the North Ame rican Provisoes were remind yesterday at the Colonial-elm Tax Dm OF UAMBRIDOZ, AB WARDS!! OF THE Ns., Fowls; has appointed Major Stephens, equerry for many years to the royal dike, steward of that royaldemente, ♦nd the major will shortly take pooroodoo Cl the Queen's house at Lyadhunt. Mora hut debt's wtte.] BOARD OP GEEBN CLOTS, O ST. JAMIE'S PALACE, MARCR 22.—n0 Queen has bII•11 pleased to appoint this Most Honourable the Marquis of Warminster Lord Steward of her Majesty's Household, vice the Bight Honourable Earl Foresaw, resigned. • WHITEHALL, Aran. 2.—The Queen has been pleased to present the Rev. William Stephen Thomson, M.A. to the rectory of Fobbing, In the "minty ot Rum and diocese of Rochester, void by the death of the Rev. H. Thompson. COMMISSION SIGNED BY THE LORD LIEUTENANT OF TAY COUNTY Or DURNAII.--The Ron. Prided* GlA tam Hamilton ROSNIII, to be deputy lieutenant. COMMISSIONS SIGNED BY THE LORD LIEUTENANT OF TUN COUNTY or CA . Georg* Welkin Rise, Esq., to be major; First Lieut. Rice Pries Erman, to be esptain • First Lieut. Morgan Pryor Lloyd, to be captan ; Second Lieut. Frederick Roes Cowell, to be Bret lieutenant; Second Lieut. James Lewis Thomas, to be first lieutenant ; William George, Gent., to be second Usatanant; Freak Alexander Staekpoole, Gent., to be second lieutenant, in the Royal Cannartheashirs Fusilier.. COMMISSION SIGNED BY THE LORD LIEUTENANT OF THZ COUNTY or NORIPOLI —Henry Drummond Wolff, Omit ,to be lieutenant. vies Bean, deceased, fa the Ist or Western Regiment of Norfolk Militia. COMMISSION !HONED NT THE LORD LIEUTENANT OF THZ COVUTT or SOFTOLZ.—Nathaniel Clarke Barna dietoo, , to be eantaii, vim Thome Halifax, jun., Esq., deceased, la the Suffolk Yeomanry Cavalry, Melford troop. COMMISSION SIGNED BY TUE LORD LIEUTENANT OP TM' COUNTY OP OIPOP.D.—Lieut. NAM Thomas Harbert Wyk,ham, to be captain, via Viscount Parker, re afraid, in the Queen's Oen argiment of O x f or d s hi re Teo. marry Cavalry. MUSIC. HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. The joint appearance of an English prima donna and an English prime tenors on our Italian stage is without a parallel, we believe, except in the single in stance of Billington and Braham some half a century ago. Last night " Lucia di Lammermnor" was produced, with ?dies Catherine Hayes in the cha racter of Lurk and Mr. Sins Reeves in that of Ed. garde ; and both performers achieved a triumph of the most brilliant description. Both of them had previously performed those characters se parately, but never before with such strik ing effect ; and, in regard to Miss Hayes, we can now understand how it was that her Lucia excited such enthusiasm at the Scala and others of the principal theatres in Italy. She is certainly the sweetest, the most graceful, arid the most interesting represontative of th' character we bare seen. In the most impassioned scenes she did not reach the tragic power of Jenny Lind, particularly in the scene of , Loris madness and death, which that great actress rendered terrible as well as pathetic. Mr. Reeves's performance of Edyardo could not I have been surpassed by any tenor on the stage. We never heard him in fuller possession of his magnificent voice, which seemed equally capable of expressing every variety of passion, from inching tenderness to the extremity of fury. In the scene of the medic lion its sounds were as terrific as they were sweet and mournful in his deeply affecting death-song. Both the principal characters of this opera have rarely (if ever) been so effectively performed as on this occasion ; and the crowded audience exprtseed their admiration by enthusiastic applause, and re peated calls for the performers during the opera as well as at its conclusion. IRELAND. DeBLIN, TVZSDAT MORNING. According to previous arrangement the question of ministers' money was discussed yesterday at almost all the Easter vestry meetings held in Dublin, and in every case either a resolution was passed for the abo lition of tne impost, or arrangements were made for I holding special meetings to discuss the subject. At several of the vestries the motion was evaded on the ground that, not being a specific object of the meit tog, it would be informal to introduce it into their proceedings. "In almost every instance," observes the Flyemun, "the protestant minister of the pariah prolessed his readiness to co-operate in any effort that would be made at a meeting called for the special purpose of abolishing this tax upon reli gions liberty." And in no ease was any attempt made to defend the tax, which all appear to agree in cmsidering as doomed to abolition. It is but just to the citizens of Cork to observe that the present agita tion against ministers' money originates with them, ar dis urged on by their suggestions. It is hoped that this time it will be successful, and that the go- yernment witl be sufficiently armed with the force of popular opinion to enable them to remove the griev ance in the present session. A great outcry was raised in almost all the Irish journals against Sir John Hominy's new bill for the amendment of the Encumbered Etates Act as soon as it made its appearance. It would now seem, how ever, that a great deal of that opposition, if not the whole of it, arose from the misapprehension of the otjects of the measure, and that the eiolicitor-General's speech in introducing it was entirely misunderstood. The London correspondent of the Freeman's Journal has succeeded in clearing away the mi.t by fureish ing a succinct summary of the bill beforeit other wise could have reached this country. At the last meeting of the practical instructors' committee of the Royal Agricultural Improvement Society of Ireland, Mr. Hutton communicated, on behalf of Mr. Latouche and other members of the Central General Relief Committee, that they were now in a position to place a considerable sum of money at the disposal of the society, in aid of the fund originated by the secretary's visit to London, and headed by her Majesty and Prince Albert's sub scription, for providing a supply of green crop seeds of the best quality to be distributed below cost price, through the agency of the practical instructors, in the different districts where they were located, in the south and west of Ireland. The Theatre Royal wee opened Let night after the holidays, with Miss Helen Faucit in the character of Juliet, the Romeo being a Mr. Conway, the son of the late tragedian of that name. After Miss Faucit's en gagement we are to have a visit from the French company at St. James's Theatre. The Evening Mail, which is never loath to throw out en unkind word about the board of works, whe ther right or wrong is another question, has the fol lowing paragraph this evening: We have been informed, as we believe upon excellent authority, that the inspectors appointed by the board to espermuud end *ht.& the outlay of monies advanced fur the purpose of agrieultural insprov. meet, are permitted to be at this same time, contractors for the works, and to be employed and paid by the receivers of the public loans. TRINITY COLLEGE, DUBLlN.—'fhe Primate has lately endowed a chum of Ecclesiastical Ulster, in Trinity College, Dublin. The Provost and Senior Fellows having expressed to his race their desire that he should himself nominate the first professor, he accordingly named the Rev. Samuel Butcher, D.D., F.T.C.D. The sppointmeat is for flee Isms. FIRZ NEAR Tlig CATHOLIC CATHZDRAL.—Lnit I night about nine o'clock, a very shinning Ere broke out in the drawing room of the premiste belonging to Mr. Jones, bat tenanted by a lady named Murray, 17, Laurie- tames, near the Catholic Cathedral, St. George 'e-road, Southwark. After considerable trouble it was eitlnguished, Ind not before' serious damage was done, end 601. in bank note. oonsumcd. Unfortunately the numbers of the notes were Rot known, csainsialli thy will pars a Mal lass. ISCUTLAND. RUMOUR= RISIONATION Or LORD MRDWYN.— It is awn* rurnearad, that this leaned lord bee seat ht reelgasties the Mlejesty's gevermest of the office he bolds se effie ef judges et the Henn o f Berko. His assennt of modems and peetrestel Inifspesition, Ms ea SW bash sines the Obefeemas reseal c sad =rhe WS eindietably resevered, he has not found abbi sasnsts co a tlielel thoetloas. It may be temileetell that, sleet alehe ego, be resigned his seat la the Hisb Omit of J , and wee sneered/al by Jeri Ivory. Lord Illedwyn stands dln the order of seniority .mess the judges of the tomer sent, hating been raked to the boa k 1011.—Ca4,dostiest W..wwy. UNIVIIIRTY TISTL—Tho town council of Caper here resolved to petition both Houses of Parliament for the ramorai of tests in the Sottish Univereitiee. MILITARY. Movaxzwre or Taoore.—la addition to the hitceotattea gives on Meaday as respects movements, the followtog take place this week: Prom To Liverpool, Srd, 4th, and 14h 7th Dreams Guards Brightos... I instant, for antarkatioe lee Dublin 7th Dragoons Newbridge Cork, 2od instant 21st root nth Foot Ned Yost WOOLWICH, APRIL 2.—lt will be remembered that, on the ntisement of Sir John Webb, Director of the Ordains* Medical Department, it was stated confidently that the vacancy would not be filled up, but the department would in future be managed by • deputy. Such was probably the intention of the government; but the Board of Ordnance, who will never—so long as the House of Commons allow them—cease to exercise their patronage by filling up the most useless situations, have resolved ow maintaining the extravegiust medical staff belonging to this department. Mr. James Stewart, senior-surgeon, has been appointed inspeetoxgeneral. He arrived from Halifax, Nova Scotia, a few days sines, and entered upon the duties of his (dice yesterday. Sensor-Surgeon James Veiling, M.D., has also been appointed deputy inspector-general, vies Morgan Thomas, resigned. By a recent order from the Board of Ordnance, dated 30th March, the establishment will in future consist of one inspector-geniral, one deputy inspector metal, six senioraurgeoss, thirteen surgeons, and twenty six aristant-surgeons. This is the present staff, but it includes three assistant-surgeons, who were taken on for a temporary purpose only, and who are now permanently attacked to the staff. Instead, therefore, of a reduction, the expense of this establishment, in these days of economy, will be increased. ROYAL AnnuanY.—The new clothing issued to this corps will be taken into use on the 7th Inst. Major Mee and Captain Crofton's companies of !royal Artillery commenced a coons of repository instructions yesterday, in the room of Major Askwith's and Captain Cockburn's companies, whick hays completed their instruction. (Prom last night's Casette.) WAR-OFFICE, Mogen 29. 14th Rcpt. LL Drape—Cor. M. C. Morro (ridingmaster) to be lieut., b 7 pur., vice Nettlestilp, who nets. 13th Lt. Drupe—Lieut. CL J. Ileeroao, from the 62nd F., to be lieut., vice Hutton, who ceche. 16th U. Drapa.—Cor. D. BonaAv to be heat., by par., vice L Scott, who fete ,• Car. Y. B. U. Creator, from the loth Lt. Deer., to be cm., vice Bartley; Serj.-Majur J. Dre..et to be cm, without par. (ridinanater), Kabce, dee. 12th It M. of Post.—Mafor J. M. Poutervoi to be lient..eol., by pm., vice 13c11, who refs. ; Capt. T. 13100111 S to be mei w, by pus., vice Perceval ; Lies& 11. SIORAYI to be apt., by par., vice Brooke; Elm H. Boma Übe heat, by par., vies Sacrum. 26th P.—Aeliap Asaat...Sarp. J. Coarse M.D., to be arsist-surg. 38th P.—LiehL J. Karam's. has been allowed to retire from the servile by the sale of his eannalselee. 43rd P.—MaJar-Gen. J. linomeoe all., from the 62nd F., to be 004 vice Lieut.. Gen. the Ilea. Sir H. IL Pakeehem, K.C.B, dee. 33rd Lieut. G. N. FIXDALL, tit= the 80th F., to be heat., vice J. Morpbett, Cashiered by the sentence of a general court martial. 62nd I.—Malor-Gcn. W. he 1.11., to be col., vice blajor-Oen. J. Fergana; C. 8., app. to the 12r4 F. 80th P.—LicuL C. 11. T. B. Di Remotes, from the 6th F., to be heat, ace Pendell, app. to the 33rd P. 82nd F.—Lient J. H. trAac-r Hr-rrov, from the 15th Lieht Drags., lobe lieut., vice Harked, who exchanges. 96th F.—Ens. W. A. Kara, from the 39th F., to be ens., vice Tem platten, decease& Royal Canxii,n Rifle 'Velment—Ens. K. M. Merrier, to be lieut., by par., vice Pete, who refs. • Ens. W. M. TATLE; from Ist West India Kelm, to be ens., vice Mott Enorreentn.—Lieut. 0. Carer, from the 3rd ljgbt Drags, to be capt., by purchase. ._ _ Ilmieeirriniu.—Brev.-Mal. B. Fox has been allowed to retire from the service by the sale of bls oosinniadon ss a capt. on h.-p. of the Glengarry Fendbles, he being about to become a settler In Canada EX %ATM in the Gnn.lfr of the fled March, 1850, 6th Mom, for Lieut. U. L. Barton, from 10th F., to oe !but., by pur., vice bir W. C. Morehead, read Lkut. H. L. Barton, from let F., to be heat, by purchase, Be. OFFICE OF ORDNANCE., Aran 1. Ordnance Medical Department.—Dcputy Inelactor.Gen. M. Tomas to be inepectoe-gen. of Ordnance hapitobe ; hen( , r Sure. J. Srawaar to be -gen. of th e Ordnance Medical Department; Senior Burg. J. 'cameo, M.D.. to be deputy inspector.gen., vice Thomas, who rets.; Amid. ..Surd. J. MARIN resit, M.D., to be surg. ; Amiet. burg. O. T. Femme to be mug. ; Temporary Mils... Burg. A. Rt Doc to be sestit,eorg.; Temporary mist. surf. T. Pear to be mist.- eurg. SPORTING. NORTHAMPTON AND PYTCHLEY HUNT RACES. Nottruamrrox, TUESDAY. - The following are the arrivals up to 7 o'clock : Alms*. Mr. Maumee:l, Harrintt, Dover, Bastinado, Iron Rail, Give and Take, Watchdog, Collingwood, Recluse, Impression, Hind of the Forest, Grief, Leap-year, Le Besu, Retail, blehrets, The Monk, Cosraehis, Clelia, Diligence, Equiria, f by Nutwith out of Agnes, Pins IX , Osterley, Prestige, Regis, Tophsna, Wanots, Wallflower, Giselle, Rodney, Sister to Officious, Olivia, Bishop of Runford's Cob, Chantrey, Sponge, Van Diemen, b c by Lanercost out of Concertina, Humphrey, Ferule, Moamar, The Iron Crown, Telegraph, Salute, Knight of Gwynne, Jest, Brother to Dr.kelow, eh (by Slane out of Receipt, Mark Tapl ey , Gladiole, iVansdyke, The Be. Hower, Halo, Borneo, allinafad, Westow, Belus, Velox. Pei. stem, Reversion, The Last Forester, Maria Day, Little Houghton, Tamworth filly, Forest Lod. Cagle, Crucible, Hamm Sarum, Fernand', Pantaloon filly, Buckhound, Combat*, Achyrenthis, Nutbrown, and Forlorn Hope. Gild brake down this morning. Them is every probability of a large field and a very full misting. The races ccmmccce tomorrow at 1 o'clock. DERBY STEEPLE CHASE AND HURDLE RAC/W.—TUESDAY. [By Electric Telegraph.] TEI Iluaota HAstuicar of 5 sots. emit, mud 30 added. About 1 j mile, (8 sate.) Mr. Adry's Pdtsehietmater, 5 yro,lost 61b Mr. Hargreaves nd Chintz Print, aged, 94 10Ib Ti,ll STNIPLE CEDE HANDICAP of 15 SOTS. SASS, 10 ft, and 5 only it declared, with 75 son a dd e d . 4 miles. (12 sobs., 6 of .Dom declared.) Mr. J. Coot's Verne, 9st 1 Mr. Blames British Yeomen, llst 10111 2 Four others raw CATTERICK-BRIDQE RACES -MONDAY. Bllol.'oll STAINS, of 10 /OM each, 5 ft, with 20 added ; for 33 r olds, 6st 101 b; four, Bst 31b ; five, Bat 91b ; six and aged, 9st ; mares, dtc., allowed 31bs. One mile and a quarter. (6 subs.) Mr. Meillam's Roby, 4 yrs ;Templeman) 1 Mr. l'edley's Foreclosure, 6 yr• (Bamby) 2 Mr. Wralber's Maid of Itssm, 3yn (G. Abdale) 3 The following also started, but were not placed : —Mr. Wilkin's Len, 4 yn (Cartwright); Lord Z ' W an d' s Cu tanette, 4 yn (J. gio Id enion); and Mr. B. Green's Seignior of Rolderntss, 3 yrs (Babas). Ryan on Rsby. Won cleverly by a lecgth ; Foreclosure getting second place by half a neck. THE " SHORTS " SWEEPSTAKES, of 10 sow. each, for 2-yr olds; colts, Bet 71b; and fillies, 8.1 41b. Straight run in. (8 subs.) Mr. Palmer'. nglead's Glory Lord &Sand ed 71e Leading Ankle (J. Masson) 2 Mr. Green's Gutudeman (Fenn) S Zhatellowlntalso ran :—Mr. Jaques's Heirloom (Prince); Mr. Median's - 1y e ky Trueboy out of Perisina (Templeman) ; and Mr. Hermltins's Unity (Loogstaff ). Betting: 2to 1 apt England's Girry , and 3to 1 eget Unity. Won by a length ; the second beating the thirdby a head. FiLLT STAKES, of 15 SOTO. each. 10 ft, for 3 7T olde, 8.,t 31b each. One mile end a half. (5 subs.) Mr. Osborne's bf by AuckLiad out of Atalsnat 10. Ablate) I Lord Zetland ad Gardenia J. Marion) 2 Mr. Mediae:ll's French Susy • (7 emplemen) 3 Mr. %%Mason's The Squire's Daughter (Holmes) 4 Bettie g : 6 to 4 agst French Buy, and 2 to 1 apt Auckland filly. Won by a length and a half, Gardenia beating French Busy by a arid. Hama r. STAXRB (Handicap) of 20 son. cab, 10 ft, and 6 only if declared, with 30 added; for 4 yr-olds and upwards. The second to says his stake. Two miles. (25 subs., 18 of whom declared.) Lord Eglinton's Glen Saddel, 3 yrs, 7 s t 101 b (Cartwrightl 1 Mr. Bereeford nd Fleur de Seine, 3 pe, Got Slb (Charlton 2 /dr. Boynton nd Abbot of Meaux, 4 y rs , 7 s t Sib .. . lassham 3 Inc following also ran tot were not placed .—Mr. ook son ad Ural, 4 yrs, Set 71b (O. Simpson) ; Mr. Shepherd od Alp, 4 yn, 7st 4th (T. Lye) ; and Mr. Renard ad Billy Brown, 4 yn, Est 91b (Arnold.) Betting :-2 to 1 agst Olen Saddel. Won by a length, Abbot of Meaux losing second place bye neck. FIRST YEAR OF TER SECOND BABBT TRIENNIAL PRO DOOR STAKES Of 10 DOTI. each, h ft; tot 2-yr old colts, tiat 71b ; and bllirs, Set 31b ; the second saves hi. stake. Straight run in. (24 subs.) Mr. W. Allen's ?leash= (Holmes) 1 Mr. J. Scott's Presto (Waimea) 2 Mr. Daw,on's lie e by Trueboy out of Lady Paramount terot aright) 3 .—___. Jaquca's lletrtooo (Pitiaej 2to 1 'gat Neashatn. Won by a neck. Senora) YIAE or THE FIRST NAellY TRIINNILL PLIO DUCA STAKES of 10 son. rash, 6 ft; fur 3.yr-old colts, 71b, and fillies, tot 31b ; the second to save his stake. To start at the end of the straight ran in, and go once round and in. (27 sobs 1 Mr. Meftlara's The Italian (Temp:man) Walked over. TUZIIDAT. Te!!graph.) TALLT.HO HANDICAP of lU PVC eace. Gentlemen riders. Twins round and a di.. (I subs.) "li;:b.Tid;o7.ll;t7rd; 8;400, lin; ii.T:ii. Mr. Mason nd Lid, I.am-off, 5 yrs, Ilst 71b Duke of Leeched Magnet, aged, let ilb 3 II CMIPAONM 8 t 20 suss. each, It ft, for 2yr olds. About 6 furlongs. (6 subs.) Capt. Harcourt's Brother to kalerdala, let 61b. %Had over. Tux GOLD Cur : Preach Kw, Maid of Team Valley Langton ShiN ioi STALIN of 10 son. each for 3 yr oleo. le (6 subs.) Itolloa Wird owl ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE. HOME CIRCUIT.—YINospoN, APRIL 2. clown ftea.—goons Ma. looms Keene. Moans& Morton Denny, 32, was indicted for the wilful murder of a certain unbsptieed male child, by stabbing it in the throat ac wi miriiilm AU :s l 7 l :n a i ir c icoti us ean s t i fe E tedE lis w it euteu T . at T re h nwas originally' Included in the charge, but the grand jury ignored the bill prisonerprosecution enwa beh alfwa s ef e defended d o f e d the by au.Bw. T, slibl.leearsofonnedothwe cointug:thsevolidifeorAnceugthweumprt font,ose add c u u ci tio d n : having opened the Anne Danford stated that she w as a w id ow, an d res i ded at consequence of some oonansunkation that w as made le n e ea her, she went, accom panied by Sarah Trigg and another person, to a loft over a yard belonging to • person named Mo re, at Ewell. She there saw a woman, named Eliza Thereat, lying apparently In a helpless state, with a new-born babe by her side. She observed that the child bled from the nose and mouth, and none of the usual precautions in such cases had been taken with respect to it. The prisoner wee also in the loft, but at witness's suggestion he went away. She remained in attendance upon Eliza Tarrent about an hour, end witness's daughter then took the child to her house. The child was carried down the ladder leading frem the loft by one of the women, and not by the prisoner. Witness shortly afterwards washed the baby, and then ob served a wound on the neck, and she also saw that it was bruised upon the body. After she had done what she consi dered necessary to the child she took it back to its mother, and it died about an hour afterwards. The prisoner then went away and made a coffin, and he said it must be bu r i e d. Witness told him it would b e necessary to have the death registered, and he made some answer which she did not hear. Mr. Lane, the surgeon, afterwards came to the loft, when she showed him the holy et the longue. Cross-examined— The prisoner fetched her to go and see Eliza Tarrent. She was lying upon straw in the loft, and the chik's thrtat appeared to have been seratchen by the litter that was lying about. She stated this at the elms. The prisoner went with her to a gentleman's house in the neighbourhood to get some linen ter Eliza Tarrent. She remembered saying to the prisoner that she did not think the poor thing would live, and he replied, " It will be • happy thing, for it can never go better than now, with no sins to answer for." James Denny, a son of the prisoner, was then placed in the witness box to be examined. He stated that he was eight years old. Mr. Justice Mauls put some questions to him with a view to ascertain whether he could properly be examined upon oath. He stated that he could say his AB C, but he did not go to school. lie appeared to be an intelligent child for his years, end the learned judge eventually decided that the oath should be administered to him, and that his evidence should be taken. He was acoordingly examined. He said—The prisoner hi my father. Eliza Tarrent used to live with my father. We all lived together in the hay loft at Ewell. I recollect Elea Tarrent having a baby ; I went to my father when it hap pened, and told him to come home directly, as mother wee very ill, and he del so. When we got back I saw Eliza Tarrent bieg in the loft, and a baby by her. My father took up the baby in his arms; he then took up an awl— (here the pe:r child became much affected, and cried bit terly, and it was some time before he could proceed with his testimony ; at length he went on)—my father took up the awl, and killed the baby with it ; he struck the awl into its throat. The baby cried when he struck it with the awl. My father then to.k the child to Eliza Tartest, and caked her if he should make a coffin fey it. Before he said this Le inked her If she would help to kill it, and gave her the awl. She did try to kill it also. My father peva her the child and the awl, and she did the same that he had done. I was very much frightened at what I saw, and ran away, and when I came beck I found Eliza Tarrent in bed. Croesvxamined—wha. my father has been in custody I have been in the union workhouse. I could not say my alphabet when I was first taken to the workhouse. I can say the Lord's Prayer. (He did so at the re quest of Mr. Clerk.) My motittr taught me the Lard's Prayer. My father made the coffin the day after he kited the baby. I did not tell this store until after I had been in the work house. lam sure Eliza Tarrent did something with the awl to the baby's threat. Eliza Tarrent, the woman referred to, was then cal'ed as a witness. She appeared to be very weak and ill, and it was found necessary to allow her to be seated while she was giving her testimony. She deposed as follows: I am a single woman, but for tea last two years I have :men living with the prisoner as his wi'e. I.le was in the ser vice of Mr. Moore, who is a farmer, in Augu,t last, and we occupied ore of his lofts. I was delivered of a child in that month. Before I was delivered I bought a pito./ of cotton print to make clothes for the baby, and the prisoner tore it, and threatened me, and made use of very bad lan guage, and said that I should not have ti.e s' WI to make up for the baby. This was about a month before :he child woe born. I had bought the print with money of my own which I had saved. The child was born on the 6th of August. On the morning of that day I had taken the prisoner his breakfast, and whet, I returned I became very ill, and soon afterwards I was dt;i,Ert.d. No one was pees nt at the time, but the prig:leer's son, end I sent him to fetch his father, and they both returned tocrethtr. When the prisoner came into the loft I was .ying upon some hay with the child, and he came and took ue the chill and carried it to the other end of the I dr, and I saw him hurt it. There were several awls in the loft, and the prisoner took up tnt, and stuck it into the child's throat. I woe lying down at the time. I Paw the awl again the same Jay. Very soon after this, Mrs. Tregg and Mn. Dual .rd come into the loft, and the child was taken away. The prisoner's son was then re-carved, and in answer to further questions that were put to him, be said that when his father struck the child a ith the awl, he was standing close by the window, and so was his father ; acd he said that both his lather and Elie s Tarrent knew that he was in the loft. He was not hid in any way, and tht yr must have both e :en him. Ha did not say anythcog when he saw his father stick the baby with the awl. Sash Trigg deposed that the was a widow, and resided at Ewell Oa the 16th August she met the prisoeer near to Mr. Moore's premises, about four o'clock in !he afternoon, and he asked me to go with him to the loft, and she did so. She there saw Eliza Tarrent lying upon lone bay, with a chill on her lap, and she observed • small quantity of blood upon its nose end lip, and it erred very hoarsely, as though it bad a tad cell. She had never Lord a child cry in the same manner before. It made a sort of pe caller noise in its throat. The next morning, when she again went to the loft, she found the child was dead. Circsa examined—Witness had sail to Mrs. Tunford that Abe did not observe any mark on Oa throat, end if there bad been_cne she must have seen it. . . Nary Butikisr.d, the deught.ref On witness Datif.rd, deposed to having tak , n the baby to her house, wrappud in a shawl. She sew blood tliwing from its nose and mouth, end noticed that it made a viry curiaus cols/ in its throat. She also said that she observed a mark on the neck of the child, which at the time she thought was a scratch from the hey or straw in which it had b-en !Tice. She likewise stated, that when the prisor er was told to go to the clerk to see about burying the child, be replied, " It will be about • shilling. I can make the coffin myself." Crose-examined.--Very little blood appeared to have flowed from the wound on the neck of the child. Serpent Kennedy, of the B division of police, said that ho was present at the inquest upon the body of the chit 1, owl he belied the prisoner make a statement to the coroner's jury. He said that he went to the loit where he had been living with Elite Tarrant, on the 16th August, when ho wt.s sent for, and he was in the act of putting on his jultit when a quantity of powder tell from the pocket, end in replacing it be pricked his finger with an awl which was in the packet. He said that after this had happened Eliza Tarrant told him to bring a shawl to wrap the child in, and he did so, and placed the child by the side of its mother en the hay, and then went out to the neighbours to get assistance. In answer toe question put by Mr. Clerk, this witness said that the loft was 24 or 25 feet long. Williams, another police-constable, deposed that the pri soner told h im that he had Levar been in the loft but on the day before his wife's confinement. A statement made by the prisoner when under 'nomina tion before the magistrates was then put in ; it was to the acme effect as that made by him before the carom r. Mr. Charles Lane deposed that be wassurgeon to the Ewell district of the Epsom Union, and he was called upon to ex amine the decet.sed child on the pith August. It was a wry line male child, and the body appeared to be in a healthy condition. Oa the front of the nee khe observed a email scratch near the lower part of the right aide, and there was also a small dark line on the back of the neck, and like wise • slight bruise and aiscolouration. Upon raising the akin of the neck, he found that there was • wound under nests corresponding with the external mask. This wound had penetrated into the subetance of the neck, and had passed upwards into the lame Tenth', and it was about an inch and • half in depth. In wits:tapes opinion the wound must have been made with a curved shape instrument. (Some awls found in the loft were here produced, and &hewn to the witness.) He had no doubt that an awl of the description just shown to him would have made the wound he had described. One of the awls appeared to have blood upon it, and another appeared to hive a stain of rust. He was deceleilly of opinion that either of these awls could have produced the wound, and in the absence of all other perceivable cause he could only attribute the death of the child to that wound. There were no other appearances upon the body the child to account for its death. Mr. Clark then addressed the jury for the prisoner. The principal points he relied upon were tk tt the ease rested en tirely upon the saddens* of the woman Tarrant and the pri soner's son, and he contend, d that under the chreumataticee in which they were placed the jury ought not to gip: effect to such testimony. With regard to th, woman, be said, she had herself been chug. d with being concerned In the mur der, and it was not until after the grand jury had Ignored the bill against her that eh° was thought or as • wham, and with respect to the boy, he submitted that his evilest,* was of • most improbable character, and he asked the jury to bear in mind that the woman Tarrant had declared that he was not in the room at the time the occurrence was sepresented to have taken place. One witness waa called on behalf of the prisoner, who gave him • very good character. Mr. Justice Maule then summed up the case to the jury, who retired, and after being in aleale'.ih,ration about half an hour, they returned into eaurt, and gave a Tenth% of Gulley. , Gulley. His lordship, having put on the black cap, mint* . . i of dulls upon the prisoner in the usual f 'i 1 mit, time informing trim tha• be could not hold 9a , I. s ho of any commutation of the sentence. c .. < -- , • 1 1 DI trial accapird Wilily Olt Ulan. d o .../ V . -. 4 . . . ...4‘.' r ...... I , c .o '' ...: ....- . ~ I