The Sun. — London, England, 1862-03-29 00:00:00

_REACTIONARY RIOTS IN NAPLES. -+- In the Nazione of Florence we find the following detailed account of the serious reactionary riots of which Naples was the scene on the 15th instant. These riots appear to have begun at the instigation of the priests, and have led to a sharp collision between the lower classes of the Neapolitans and the students of the university. They are• thus described : Very serious events disturbed the city of Naples on the day of Saturday, the 15th March, on which day it appearA the Reactionaries intended, by a pre meditated conspiracy, to renew scenes of a painful nature and of wicked memory. Fortunately, thanks to the energy of the National Guards, of the autho rities, and of the deserving portions of the citizens, everything has ended with little damage; and in other cities of the provinces, such as Salerno, Mad daloni, Cannosa, and in several others, where like the clerical party had been actively engaged in attempting to create disorders, it would appear that the firm and decisive attitude of the National Guards and of the Liberal party had terrified the conspira tors, and prevented every species of outbreak. In Naples itself, early in the morning of that day, there were circulated, in the quarters of the Ques tura, of the law courts, and in others, placards, in which it was chiefly said that France had now openly avowed her intention of protecting the Pope king, and the church, and that the Bourbons would speedily be restored. Foreign newspapers were circulated, containing correspondence from Naples, in which an early day was fixed for great events. The day thus fixed was the 15th, as results from the facts. As San Severino, a church close to the university, the great blow was planned which should lead to a riot. The notorious Monsignore Musto, who is there preaching the Lent sermons, would seem to have avoided any great responsibility because he pretended to be unwell, and appointed as his substitute a fiery priest known by the desig nation of Nepote della Atammana Nephew of the Midwife, his real name being Cocozza. There was a regular congregation, consisting of several hun dreds of bigoted old women, of a few priests headed by the curate of the parish, of some of the common people, and of not a few Cammoriste, sold to the reaction, because these creatures sell themselves to whoever will buy them, and serve all parties. Cocozza chose for the subject of his sermon heresy. It would be a long story to repeat all ' the violent words which he uttered, and which may easily be imagined, His chief conclusion was, of course, in behalf of the temporal power of the Pope. He taxed with atheism the professors and students of the university, alleging that they wished to intro duce Protestantism to the boys' school; he therefore urged on all faithful Catholics the duty of not send ing their sons to the public schools. He finished his diatribe with virulent abuse of the Liberals.• By chance, there were in the church several students, who, on hearing this furious priest, were moved, partly by anger, partly by contempt, and gave ut• terance to words of indignation. This was precisely the moment looked for ; these young men were pointed out as the enemies of religion, and at once surrounded. They endeavoured to get away,having discovered the ambush, and being few and disarmed. On leaving the church they took to their heels, and sought shelter in the university. Hither they were pursued by the armed Cammoriste, hounded on and directed by some priests, so that one of the students, thus overtaken, was _wounded by the blow of a stiletto. " Then followed a time of extreme confusion. Many of the lecture-rooms were full of students, then attending the lectures in the different stories of the vast building of the university. The alarm was given, and, at first, no one knew what the matter really was. The greater number believed that there was a fight amongst the students them selves ; some thought that a college mutiny had broken out; in short, the wildest ideas were cur rent. But, when the students who were in the lecture-rooms on the ground-floor found themselves thus suddenly attacked by the mob, they at once armed themselves, for want of better weapons, with broken chairs, with bricks torn up from the floor, and with workmen's tools. Thus a fight began. Luckily there arrived a picket of seven National Guards, who fired in the air, and stopped the advance of the common people and of the low women who were invading the university. Next there arrived the carabineers and the patrols of the eighth and ninth battalions of the National Guard. Thus several of the Cammoriste were ar rested, others were kept in check by being shut up in the alleys, and at the same time the students were reduced to calmness ; for by this time, find ing what was the cause of the contest, and seeing that several young students were wounded, they had become excited, and wished to attack themob. The National Guards remained firm at their post, and prevented a greater outbreak. Then there arrived the guards of public safety, and Paneraji, with a company of the 3d battalion of the National Guards, and thanks to the opportune counsels given, and to other arrests of the worst Cammoriste and the most fanatical amongst the mob, as well as to the hindering of the students to go out alone, or a few at a time, the fight was ended. By this time it was about four p.m. At that hour several of the students went to the Pelegriai Hospital to visit one of four amongst their comrades more seriously wounded than the others. On their return, and as they were passing by the Pigna Secea-square, close to the hospital, a certain Garofano, a shoemaker, and a notorious Cammorista, ventured to deride them, to insult them, and to threaten them, even with firearms. The students attacked his shop, and a fight took place between them and the workmen of Garofano, who took up their master's defence. The fight ended by four other students being wounded, one with a shot from a revolver in the arm, another by a sabre cut on the hand, and two by blows on the head. Garofano himself was wounded, and several of his workmen. The people, the National Guards, and the carabineers ran to the spot. The wounded students were carried to the Pellegrini, the workmen to the San Francesco Hospital ; none of the wounds, however, are serious. " Whilst this disturbance was spreading alarm in the Toledo, another hubbub occurred in the distant quarter of the market. It was caused by a sudden explosion of gunpowder, though no one can tell precisely how. The National Guards of that quar ter, by their energetic conduct, • appeased every thing, and prevented the designs of the evil-dis posed. Contemporaneously, at Foria, tumultuous scenes took place, and the usual scampering in all directions. And it was curious to see the old women clustering in groups, crying out against the ‘sciam • merie,' or gentlefolks,' accusing them of seeking to destroy religion, and recounting the facts which bad occurred in the morning in the most exagge rated way, going so far as to pretend that the stu dents had fired upon the priest who was preaching Ge'd's holy word, an d h a d kill e d hi m ! A n d t h ey sent ' holy other cries against the Government, as they vei., taught by the priests. Later, towards evening, at as a hop at the Pouts di T app i a, near t h e Toledo, a musket shot was fired, and another bomb came to cro wn the exploded abo-ntwork of this day. Thi s b om b eight o'clock on th e Pi azze d e l Cas tello, near to the i el de Malta, and did no further harm than to knocki_ vet. the box of the porter of the hotel. But im mediat e ?5- on the explosion cer tain ill -looking vagabond s with bankers to make a demon‘e their appearance stro.tien • 1 , 114 or cir—p had been given, and these fellows at once arres:cd by the National G oard3 en duty. "T he chronicle of the 15(11 is (liereZ,Y. one, and the only Rolation } con• t tat e a gloeray it has shown the excellent bearing o f the Nati onal Gu ards and of the Liberals, and measured the stre ngth of the Reactionaries. At the same time, a certain de s naturally arisen because th ese gree of discontent he . events had not been foreseen and prevented,though certain hints of their probabl e occurren ce had been given. The students, too, are enraged, because the, prefect, IA Marmora, d id not wish to receive a deputation of the young men w ho wished to narrate the facts and to ask for justice, and who sent to say by an aid-de-camp that he di d not re ceive sludenti. At the extraordinary meeting of the University Association as hich was held, and which de r i v •ed its importance from the events which had Occurred, Atrong words were used, by no means likely to calm, down the passions of enthusiastic youths. Nicotara, who appeared at the meeting, and who was received with applause, and voted unanimously into the chair, proposed, in order to prevent a repetition of such scenes, that they should demand satisfaction from the Ministry at Turin, and, meanwhile he exhorted these 3 oung men to form themselves as soon as possible into legions, and to combine the University Association with that of United Italy. Mazzini opposed this fusion. It is easy to guess what would arise from such fraterni sation. Other speakers spoke afterwards, and com miseration was excited for the wounded. If the Government does not look into the matter, there will be further troubles. At present the priest Co cozza, and several of his accomplices, taken in the act, have been arrested. Do you know what will happen to them ? They will remain a couple of months in prison, but when brought before the criminal court, our judges, who frankly declare that they are not yet certain whether the Bourbons may not return, will acquit them, because these judges do not wish to commit themselves, and seek to pre serve the favour of the ex-Royal family, and thus these vpgabonds will again present themselves to their party as if wearing the martyr's crown, em boldened to commit new outrages. Never were conspiracies carried on so openly, before the very eyes of the agents of Government, and still remain unpunished. It is now generally known that a few days ago the police permitted to be sent off a num ber of cases containing the Peter's pence, namely, silver forks and spoons, necklaeco, earrings, and other articles, extorted by the priests from poor bigoted women ; that the reactionary correspon dence with Civita Vecchia is at its height; that the steamers of the Messagories are openly employed for this cause, and to convince one self of this, one only requires to pretend being a Bourbonite to go on board the vessel to speak on the subject, and there to receive information and encouragement. To go on in this way is impos sible. Her© legality is mistaken for weakness. Unless the Government puts forth more energy one cannot tell how it may end, There will be no posi tive calamity, because the relative strength of par ties is now known, and the great majority of the people are all for Italy. But it is impossible to continue in this state of perpetual agitation, and of scandalous impunity enjoyed by the priests and by evil-disposed persons, who keep preaching that the Liberals are Atheists and Protestants, who insult them, who hound on against them the most disgust ing mob in the whole world, who openly conspire, and who send and receive letters and money to carry on their wicked ends. Nor can there be long continued the strange spectacle of judges who are unwilling to punish men guilty of every species of crime, whether this unwillingness springs from fear or from whatever other cause." THE NAVY. The iron screw frigate Resistance, 18, at Chat ham, has shipped her iron lowermasts, and is lashed alongside the floating shears, where she is to com plete fitting for the steam reserve. In order to prevent her grounding at th© very low tides, the bed of the river where she lies has been deepened by the steam-dredgi ng mac hi ne . Th e who l e o f t h e smiths, platers, and other mechanics employed on the iron part of the steamer, will complete their labours on board to-day, and those not discharged will be turned over to the Achilles, 60, building at Chatham. The screw steam frigate Diadem, 32, Capt. Scott, which left Bermuda March 11, arriN ed at Plymouth Sound on Friday morning. On the 12th of March, in lat. 32 2 N., long. 61 51 VT., she took on board the crew of the American brig C. W. Connor„Capt. Joseph Urann, which was bound with a cargo of sundries from Boston for St. Jago. The brig was dismasted on the 6th of March, and the crew for the previous five days had been living on biscuit only. Moderate weather was experienced during all the passage, excepting on the 21st, when, in lat. 42 45 N., long. 32 29 W., they had a gale from the westward. The Diadem brings home 250 officers and men, the remaining portion of the crew of the Conqueror, lost on Rum Bay Island, in the West Indies, and about 130 invalids, supernumeraries, and passengers, including Lieut. Taylor, 39th Re giment, and Mr. Tucker, late Colonial Aide-de- Camp to the Governor of Bermuda, who is the bearer of the contributions from the Island to the Great 1 Exhibition. Mr. Vivian, carpenter of the Terror, died on the 23d, and Peter Kenney, private of Royal Marines, a lunatic, jumped overboard on the 21st during the gale, and was drowned. The Dia dem left at Bermuda the screw steamship Nile, 90, Capt. E. K. Barnard, flag of Rear-Admiral Sir A. Milne, K.C.B. ; the screw steamships Aboukir, 86, Capt. C. F. Shadwell, C. 8.; Hero, 89, Capt. A. P. Ryder; and Agamemnon, 89; the screw steam frigates Immortalite, 51, Orlando, 50, and Liffey, 51; the screw steam sloop Greyhound, 71; paddle wheel steam sloops Spiteful, 6, and Medea, 6;. the screw steam sloop Racer, 11; the screw steam gun vessels Nimble, 5, and Landrail, 5 ; and the floating battery Terror, 16. The screw steamship Adelaide, with troops; arrived at Bermuda March 10. Her fuel was nearly expended. The following appointments were made yesterday at the Admiralty :—Henry John Wickham and Henry Keppel have been nominated to naval cadet ships ; Edward C. T. Youel, master, to the Asia, for the Frederick William ; R. Winter, supernumerary in the Asia, is promoted to first-class assist-engi neer ; and Robert H. Hansell, assist.-paymaster, to the Victory, as supernumerary. THE A _lt MY. ... . Major- Gen. S. R. Wesley, late Deputy-Adjutant- General of the Royal Marines Light Infantry, having, by an o r d er i n C ounc i l, been removed from the fixed to the retired list of general officers of the corps, the following promotions and appointments consequent thereon have been made, and were pro tnulgated at head-quarters, Chatham, yesterday : Col. A, Anderson, Commandant of the Portsmouth Division, to be Major-Gen. on the active list of general officers; Col. T. C. C. Moore, Second Com mandant of the Chatham Division, to be Col.-Com mandant, and appointed to the Portsmouth Divi sion ; Lieut.-Col. and Brevet-Col. G. C, Langley, Dep.-Adjt.-Gen to be Col. Second Commandant; Lieut.-Col. S. Fraser, of the Portsmouth Division, to be Col. Second Commandant at Chatham ; Capt. R. K. Clavell, Instructor of Gunnery, at the Wool wich Division, to be Lieut. Col., and appointed to the Portsmouth Division ; First Lieut. H. E. W. Lane. of the Woolwich Division, fo be Capt., and appointed to the same division; Second Lieut. G. J. Airey, of the Chatham Division, to be First Lieul., and appointed to the Woolwich Division. The following promotions and appointments have taken place in the Royal Marines" to complete the separate establishment of the Royal Marine Artil- 1 lery, as directed by order in Council of the 21st inst. :—Col. and Second Commandant G. C. Lang ley, Dep.-Adjt.-Gen., to be supernumerary Second Commandant of the Artillery Division ; Capt. and Brevet-Lieut.-Col. J. M. Menzies, Acting Lieut.- Col. of the Artillery Division , to be Lieut.-C01..; Capt. and Brevet Lient,-Col. G. G. Alexander, Acting. Lient.-Col. of the Artillery Division, to be Lient.- Col.; Capt. and Brevet-Lient.-Col. G. A. Schomberg, Acting Lieut.-Col. of the Artillery Division, to be Lieut.-Col. ; Capt. and Brevet-Major G. L. Bar nard, Acting Lieut.-Col. of the Artillery Division, to be Lieut.-Col. ; Capt. and Brevet-Major C. Jolliffe, of the Portsmouth Division, to be reappointed to the Artillery Division ; Capt. H. L. Searle, of the Plymouth Division, to :,)e appointed to the Artillery Division ; Capt. G. Brydges, of the Plymouth Division, to be appointed to the Artillery Division ; Capt. F. A. Foster, of the Portsmouth Division, to be appointed to the Artillery Di v i s i on ; C ap t a i n F. W. F cs tin g , o f the p rtsmouth Division, to be appointed to the Artil leryat the sa me Di v i sion . . • First Lieut. and Adjt. E. C. L. Dlinft " , of ;h e Artillery Division , to be Captain the Artiller y division i),. ; First Lieut. F. Gladstone, of ; ii.,,tlivi.sion, to be Captain at the same division Division, to be (i lea:. W. Pitman, of the Artillery of the division The undermentaiLaeilla at the same division. op.eers have been taken on the strength at. Nleershott:—Aeting DePuty-Assist. Cominissary_6 o n. ' G. F. Anderson; Acting Deputy -Assist. Commissary -Gen, G. E. P. Madden, 61st Regiment ; ,and Acting Deputy- Assist. Commissary-General J. F. Allen A detachment of the Ist battalion, 3d Buffs, will arrive at Aldershott from London this day for rifle practice, and will be temporarily quartered in the West Block Infantry Barracks, and attached to the 2d Brigade. The 10th company' of Royal Engineers arrived in camp from Portsmouth on the 26th instant, en route from China, and are quartered in "I" lines, South Camp. The 64th Regiment (2d Staffordshire) will leave Dover fir Aldershott on the 15 th of April, and will be quartered in the South Camp. ASSIZE INTEL LIGEN CE. HOME CIRCUIT.—LEWES, March 28. CROWN COURT. E u X C T I R e A ar O y R , D 2 I O N , A R Y .good-lookingC fiR o o F MURDER. young (Before Lord Chief Justice Erle.) Johman, a private in the 59th Regiment, was charged upon an indictment, and also upon the coroner's inquisition, with the wilful murder of James Ouden. Mr. Roupell and Mr. A. L. Smith conducted the prosecution. Mr. Barrow defended the prisoner. The case, from th e extraor di nary circumstances connected with the commission of the alleged of fence, created a great deal of interest. The learned counsel for the prosecution, in his Opening to the jury of the facts upon which he re lied to support the prosecution, said the charge against the prisoner had created so much sensation in the county that it was impossible but they must have heard or read a great many circumstances con nected with the alleged crime; but he entreated them to dismiss all they had so heard or read from their minds, and be guided to a decision solely by the sworn testimony that would be laid before them. He then proceeded to give a narrative of the facts of the case. It appeared that the prisoner, as above stated, was a private soldier in the 59th Foot, which at the time of the occurrence was stationed in the barracks of Chichester, and occupied one of the huts or rooms in the barracks with 10 or 11 other men. The deceased was a young man, a pupil at Bishop Otter's College, at Chichester, which is dedicated to the purpose of training schoolmasters, and he and the prisoner, it appeared, were entire strangers to each other. No motive could be assigned for the commission of such. an act by the prisoner, so far as the unfortunate deceased was concerned ; but the suggestion on the part of the prosecution ap peared to be that the prisoner entertained a deadly feeling of revenge towards one of the officers of his regiment, who had ordered him to be put upon extra drill, and that this was the person whom he intended to destroy, and that he had killed the deceased by mistake. The only question in the case therefore was whether the prisoner's was the hand by whom the deceased met his death, and the evidence to support this suggestion was entirely circumstantial. The occurrence took place on the night of the 16th October, about 12 o'clock ; and it appeared that on the previous evening, the 15th, the prisoner was seen to be cleaning his rifle, which was numbered 383, and he then placed it in the rack over his bed, in the hut which he and his comrades occupied. He then went out into the town of Chi chester, and returned to barracks about 9 o'clock, and was then informed that he was ordered forextra inspection drill on the following morning. He ap peared very angry at this, and said he would not do it, or, if he did, he would drill them, or some angry expression to that effect, and he also said that he should complain to the commanding officer. The prisoner then complained of being bad in his inside, and went to lie down on the bed with his clothes on. The lights in the room were put out at a quarter to 10 o'clock, and in a few minutes after this the pri soner said he wished to retire for a natural purpose and left the room, and it appeared that he made his escape from the barracks. He was missed shortly afterwards, and upon his bed and rifle rack being examined, it was discovered that his rifle was gone, and that ten rounds of ball cartridges and several percussion caps were missing, and it also appeared that when the prisoner left the barracks he had on his regimental greatcoat and an ordinary civilian's cap. About two hours after the prisoner had left the barracks, under the circumstances above nar rated, the report of a rifle was heard in the neigh bourhood. The prisoner remained absent from his duty, and no information was obtained as to what had become of him. On the following night, the 16th October, two constables, belonging to the Chi chester police, were on duty at a place called Love lane, which is near the college, when they heard the report of a rifle, which was followed by a shriek. They proceeded to the spot, and there they found deceased lying on the ground near a stile. He had evidently been shot while on his way to the col lege, and the wound was stated by Dr. Drake, a surgeon practising at Chichester, to be such an one as would be caused by a conical rifle bullet, which had passed completely through the body of the unfortunate young man, entering a little below the breast bone, and passing out on the right-hand side of the spine. When the constables came up to him the deceased complained that he felt es if he was dying of cold, and he was carried to the college, where he died about two hours afterwards, but before he died he made a statement, which, however, by the rules of evidence was excluded from the consideration of the jury, to the effect that he had been shot by a soldier. It would seem that imme diately after the occurrence the prisoner was sus pected to be the author of the crime, and a guard of soldiers and other persons scoured the country in search of him. No trace of him could, however, be discovered at this time, but in a water meadow not very far from Chichester a rifle was found by Mr. Everett, the superintendent of police at Chichester, concealed under some bushes, and this rifle turned out to be the one that belonged to the prisoner, and when it was examined it was discovered that the weapon had been recently discharged, and that it .had been reloaded with the same description of ammunition and bullet which had been supplied to the prisoner for the performance of his regimental duty. The evidence then went to show that on the evening of the 16th, and at different periods on the following days, a man wearing a cap and a soldier's greatcoat, and having with him a rifle, and in fact answering in every particular the appearance of the prisoner, though none of the witnesses would under take to speak positively to him, was seen at diffe rent places in the neighbourhood of Chichester, and one of the witnesses also proved that on the night of Oct. 15, as he was returning to that city at 12 o'clock at night, he saw the same man discharge the rifle, but he Ras unable to say what object he aimed at. Nothing was heard of the prisoner until the 18th of October, when a constable named Par nell, who was on his way to Petworth in a cart in search of him, accompanied by another officer, met him on the high road leading to that place. The officer stopped his cart, and the moment he did so the prisoner jumped over the hedge, but the offi cers pursued him, and found him concealed under a hedge, and took him into custody. They asked him his name, and he stated truly that it was John Cleary, and that he belonged to the 59th Regiment, .and he was then informed that he had been appre hended on a charge of wilful murder of a young gentleman, a student at Bishop Otter's College. Upon bearing this the prisoner said, " You have taken the wrong man. I left Chichester two days ago, and I am liable to be treated as a deserter. How could I murder anyone when I had nothing to do it with ?" The officers replied, " With that rifle you took out of barracks with you." , The prisoner then said, " I took no rifle," and he inquired how they knew that a rifle had been taken out of the barracks, and the officer told him that one had been found hidden in a ditch. The prisoner, in answer to this, said, " Well, it is not mine." The prisoner was then conveyed to Chichester, and while he was in the charge of a constable named Clarke, he en tered into conversation with this person, and said that he left the barracks at Chichester about 10 o'clock on Tuesday night, and that he had walked about the fields on the following day picking black berries, and that at night he got some hay and lay down in a wood. He then talked about the officers of his regiment, and said that Major Bush, who was one of them, was a very good,officer, and he supposed he was the person who sent him a reli gious book that had been supplied to him. It also appeared that when the prisoner was about to be removed to Petworth gaol, after he had been com itted for trial upon the charge of murder, he said to sane of the persons about him, " Good-bye, I shall neveer see you any morn. I know what they will do with me, I expect they will hang me." These were the pdrscipal points teat were relied upon to sup port the charge against the prisoner, and they were proved by a great many witnesses. The learned counsel for the prisoner put several questions to these witnesses in the form of cross-examination, but did not elicit anything that tended to affect the character of the evidence they had given in their examination in chief. It was elicited in the course of the case that the prisoner was an Irishman, and that he came from the neighbourhood of Nenagh, and that he had stated that one of his relations was murdered near the town of Nenagh some time before, Ho also, it appeared, said that he applied to Major Bush for a pass to enable him to go and see his brother, and that he refused, and that Major Bush would hang him if ho could, and he hoped that when he went back he would have him drummed out of the regiment. The prisoner, it appeared, also inquired whether the man was dead, and when he was told that he was, he asked who he was, and when he was informed that he was one of the students at the college at Chichester, he said he did not know any of the students, and that the deceased was a stranger to him, One of the wit nesses, it also appeared, made an Observation to the prisoner, to the effect that the charge that was made against him was a very awful one, and he re plied that h was, but added, "If there's a God in Heaven, and the witnesses do not speak falsely, I can clear myself from it." In the course of the case for the prosecution, Mr. Roupell proposed, as above stated, to put in evi dence the statement made by the deceased just before his death. Chief Justice Erie said that he should only be justified in receiving this statement upon evidence being laid before him that at the time it was made the party making it was under the apprehension of immediate death. Mr. Roupell said he was unable to prove more than that the deceased requested to be taken home at once, or he believed he should die of cold. Chief Justice Erle said this was not sufficient, and he should not be justified in admitting the statement upon such a state of facts; and this evi dence was therefore reject e d, Mr. Barrow, at the close of the case for the pro secution, made an earnest appeal to the jury on behalf of the prisoner, and he contended, in the first instance, that there was no positive evi dence to show that a murder had been committed. He said it was clear that the unfortunate deceased young gentleman was an utter stranger to the pri soner, and ha therefore could not have had any motive for destroying his life, and that supposing even that the jury should be of opinion that the prisoner was the man who had caused his death, there was nothing to show that the gun did not go off accidentally. He then observed upon the want of proof of the prisoner having his rifle with him when he left the barracks on the night of the 15th of October, and the weakness of the evidence as to his being the man who was seen in the neighbour hood of Chichester and the other places on the night when the offence was alleged to have been committed, and he concluded by observing that on such a charge as this, when the consequences of a conviction were of so fearful a character, the jury would not be justified in returning a verdict of guilty, unless on evidence of the most conclusive de scription, and such as could leave no possible doubt of the guilt of the person accused. Chief Justice Erie, in summing up, said he thought that upon the evidence before the court there could be no reasonable doubt that a murder had been committed, and the only question for the jury to consider was whether they were satisfied that the prisoner was the person who committed the crime. He then said that it appeared to him that the police of Chichester had been very diligent in bringing forward all the witnesses whose evi dence could throw any light upon the subject, but they had to decide whether their testimony esta blished conclusively the guilt of the prisoner, and if any doubt existed upon that point, he was en titled to the benefit of that doubt, and they ought to acquit him. The jury, after deliberating about a quarter of an hour in the box, returned a verdict of not guilty. THE ATTEMPTED MURDER AT BRIGHTON. John Edward Belsey, a young man, was charged with feloniously shooting at ?ram's Marie d'Al guin, with intent to murder him. In other counts the prisoner was charged with feloniously shooting at Louisa King, with the like intent. Mr. Hurst prosecuted; the prisoner was defended by Mr. Roupell. The facts of this case have appeared within the last two or three days, and it will therefore not be necessary to repeat them. It will be remembered that the prisoner had proposed marriage to a young woman named Lucy Walder, who was in the service of the prosecutor, who is a professor of music at Brighton, and last Saturday was appointed for the marriage. As they were going to the church, how ever, the prisoner represented that he had for go tt en his gloves, and left the wedding party, who, after waiting for nearly an hour, returned home. In an hour or two afterwards the prisoner went to the house of the prosecutor and endeavoured to force his way in, and when the prosecutor tried to pre vent him, he discharged one of the chambers of a six-barrelled revolver into the passage where he and the young woman Louisa King were standing, and the ball grazed against the wall, but fortun ately without doing any mischief to either of them. It was proved that the prisoner had uttered threats, and that he had deliberately prepared the pistol, and there was no doubt that he intended to do some serious mischief. _ _ --------____. The only defence set up for the prisoner was, that he must have been out of his senses, and did not know what he was about at the time. The jury returned a verdict of Guilty, and the prisoner was sented to ten years' penal servitude. CIVIL SIDE. (Before Mr. Justice Wightman and Special Juries.) CHARLWOOD (ADMINISTRATRIX) V. THE LONDON AND BRIGHTON RAILWAY. This cras the last of the cases arising out of the fatal accident in the Clayton tunnel. The defendants had paid £4OO into court, and when one or two witnesses had been examined, they made an offer of an additional sum of £5O, which was accepted, and the case was consequently settled. MIDLAND CIRCUIT.—IVAiti,vicK, MARCH 28. CIVIL SIDE. (Before the Lord Chief Justice Cockburn.) THE SWINFEN CASE. This case was resumed to-day, Mr. Kennedy con ducting his own case; Mr. Macaulay (with whom was Mr. Field) appearing for the defendant. Mr. Macaulay cross-examined Mr. Kennedy at great length. He said he was not a member of the Midland circuit. His first acquaintance with Mrs. Brown was at Swinfen, in 1851. His daughter had been there before. An invitation to go to Swinfen was received by him from the defendant herself. He believed h© went to Swinfen in March of 1856. The invitation was to lunch. In continuation he said—l understood I went for the purpose of dis cussing the trial. Mrs. Swinfen was in a state of great excitement. I said I would move in the mat ter, perhaps. We had a great deal of talk. It was said there would be a great difficulty in getting a motion for a new trial. There was a little conver sation of a conspiracy case. She said intimidation had been used, and she thought proceedings should be taken. That was in April. I gave my opinion on this subject to Mr. Simpson. I never had any thing to do with Mr. Simpson aslto compromising the action for the Swinfen Estate. I sent my opinion to Mr. Simpson at length—an elaborate opinion. I did not do that professionally, but as a friend to Mr. Simpson. I said if there was a difficulty about getting counsel to act, I would move for a new trial. I received from. her a copy of a newspaper containing a report of the trial • and she also sent a letter stating that the rule had been discharged. I invited her to see me at Broseley, near Birmingham. She declined the invitation. There was no friend ship between us at that time. The steps I took in the matter were not entirely through the interest I felt in the matter ; that is to say, I did not volun teer any assistance myself. It is very likely I had conveyed to her my opinion of the illegality of what Ihad been done, and the manner in which she had been treated. She said she had been illtreated. After we became friends, a report was published containing some poetry. Mr. Macaulay—Was not the censure of the judges conveyed to you ? Mr. Kennedy—lt was. The censure of the judges was conveyed ill the following terms by Mr. Justice Cresswell :—" As the validity or invalidity of that agreement may be discussed before another tribunal, we are anxious the question should be prejudiced as little as pos sible by anything transpiring here. It was also said by one of the judges that the language used by one of the counsel (Mr. Kennedy) was very unwarrant able and as against Sir Frederick Thesiger directly charging him with the most dishonourable conduct, and it is hardly necessary to say such an attack cannot have any other effect than injuring Sir Fre derick Thesiger's reputation before the Court." Mr, Macaulay —Did you not charge Sir Frederick Thesiger with corrupt conduct and perjury ? Mr. Kennedy—l said that if what my client said was true ; he had acted very wrongly. I would not say that before any learned judge. The Judge —It is not likely that a judge would interpose ? I cannot understand how you should take the course you have with your client. I only wish you could see the conduct of Mr. Justice Cresswell in a different light. I believe you are labouring under a wrong impression. Mr. Kennedy_l have expressed regret at what I did in this matter. I think that was after my client's marriage, The three counsel behaved very dishonourably in the matter. A certain secret had been maliciously disclosed. I was so far engaged with Mrs. Swinfen in September that I undorstood I should be her counsel. From the 20th of June to that time, with the exception of about five weeks, she was at my house at Leamington. Our commu nication was by letter. Ido not accept the phrase that I volunteered to act. However, I was engaged as counsel. I may say my advice was given as a friend and as an acquaintance. Mr. Macaulay --Had you not tendered your ser vices to this lady without fee? Mr. Kennedy..-_-I do not remember that I did. Mr. Macaulay referred Mr. Kennedy to a letter of Mrs. Swinfen's written in September. Mr. Kennedy --I believed I said I should have no objection to act as her counsel. Mr. Macaulay —Did you not tender your ser vices ? Mr. Kennedy —I do not remember that I did. Mr. Macaulay —Did you not give your servic es to Mrs. Svfinfen on the understanding that you should receive no fees from her except those which were exacted from the opposite side ? Mr. Kethiedy—Most decidedly not. Mr. Kennedy was further ero,p.,-exurnined on thi6 point, and at length said that he wrote to Mr. Simp son on the Bth of February a letter in which ha-said he would return any fees he did not deserve in the action of " Swinfen v. Swinfen." Mr. Kennedy—l do not remember telling Mr. Cole I was acting without fees. Told him I was acting as Mrs. SWillfeli'd friend and protector, and I dare say I. gave them an understanding that they were not to " mark" fees—in fact, that they were not responsible for them. Ido not remember say ing that I took up the case out of friendship. I might have done so: [A letter of Mr. Kennedy's was here put in. Mr. Kennedy in that letter said he was acting out of friendship. He also said if he received any fees from Mr. Cole he would hand them over to Mrs. Swinfen.] The first mention of remuneration was at my chambers. She broached the subject, or I should not. It was understood I was to manage everything. I was occupying a very peculiar position. Mr. Macaulay wished to know whether Mr. Kennedy meant to say ho had undertaken to manage Mrs. Swinfen's affairs on the bare possibility of her upsetting the compromise,and her recovering £2OO a year. Mr. Kennedy returned an evasive answer to this question. After some further questions, Mr. Macaulay said —Have you not threatened to publish to the world statements of an adulterous intercourse between yourself and Mrs. Swinfen for five years ? Mr. Kennedy—l have not said so. Mr. Macaulay—Have you not used words to that effect ? 'Mr. Kennedy—Oh, the letter. You produce the letter. Mr. Macaulay—Did you not write to Mrs. Reeve to the effect that you had had an adulterous inter course with Mrs. Swinfen for five years P Mr. Kennedy—" Not adulterous." I wrote to Mr. Charmer to that effect. Mr. Macaulay then referred to two letters which Mr. Kennedy had burnt, and it appeared that these letters contained allusions to money matters. Mr. Kennedy said he had, in a letter written about that time, asked Mrs. Swinfen for security for the sum she had promised him,viz., the £20,000. This request was made by him in the Zoological Gardens, London, and at other places. She said she had put in a will. He suggested that she should give him a mortgage. She said she would devise to him the estate, and give him a will. She said she did not like mortgages, but she would execute a deed of gift. A deed was executed. He said he had no intention of the " will" being auxi liary to the " deed." She said she had intended to give him the plate. The deed was his sug gestion, he said, and the will hers. He did not give her any memoranda on the subject. She wrote it down as he sat with her. His father had, been a college friend of Mr. Collis, and he (plain tiff) had occupied contiguous chambers to Mr. Collis, in Birmingham for many years. Retelling to the expression in Mrs. Swinfen's letter, " I would die to s a ve you," Mr. Macaulay asked Mr. Kennedy if this expression was not in allusion to his having asked to be saved. Mr. Kennedy—Decidedly not. In answer to another question Mr. Kennedy said the word " faith," in another of Mrs. Swinfen's let ters, did not refer to her having faith in him with respect to the deed ; that is to say that he would not use it for a particular purpose. Mr. Macaulay called Mr. Kennedy's attention to a letter dated the 29th of October, 1857, in which Mrs. Swinfen, in accordance with his request, ad dressed him as "Dear Charles," saying, "I comply with your request, though I am not quite sure I am right in doing so; but as a sister is allowed to ad dress her brother es such I think I can do so with out impropriety." Mr. Macaulay produced what purported to be a copy of a letter ; in which Mrs. Swinfen said, "You cannot tell how lonely my life is. I wish a pro. teeter. Before you write, consider my position." Mr. Kennedy said he received a notification of Mrs. Swinfen's marriage, and then wrote to her re proachfully. In answer to that she wrote a letter accusing him with reference to the deed, the will, &c. She called him in that letter a wretch unfit to live,' concluding the letter with the remark, "I re turn you the ring." Mr. Kennedy here submitted that it would be better for both parties if he was not pressed on these points, and begged Mr. Macaulay to spare him. Mr. Ma caulay read a handbill which contained the following announcement, issued in Staffordshire by Mr. Kennedy : " Shortly:will be published, the Serpent of S win fen, showing the foul fraud and robbery perpetrated upon Mr. Kennedy by the woman who possesses the estate; showing also the nature of his connexion with her, and how she acquired the estate, and how the Serpent has stung her benefactor. [Mr. Ken nedy—So she has.] The publication is rendered more necessary by the criminal charges against Mr. Kennedy. It shall have the fullest investigation, in order that it may be seen who deserves to be prosecuted." Mr. Kennedy said he knew the above statement was wrong, and that ho was liable to be indicted for perjury. Mr. Macaulay read a copy of a letter written by Mr. Kennedy to Mr. Reeve, in which he said, " Until I knew this woman I was perfectly happy and innocent, and since then I have given myself to folly and madness." Mr. Kennedy—You have opened a case of feel ing that must now go on. Mr. Macaulay said ho had opened a case of in dictable libel. Mr. Kennedy--Yes; and such an action as de fendant's husband does not care to go on with. Every man to his taste. She sent a pressing invi tation to him in June, which he accepted, and stayed five weeks. During that time she exerted every possible influence over his affections. She com plained, however, that he flirted with other women and talked about getting married again. The Judge wanted to know what state of mind Mr. Kennedy was in when he heard of Mrs. S win fen's second marriage. Did ho think she would marry again ? Mr. Kennedy said he would rather not go into the question, but ho put in affidavits. Mr. Macaulay then addressed the jury at great length, saying that Mr. Kennedy's conduct had been rendered still worse by the attempts he had made to gloss over his conduct, as he had done in court that day. _ _ _ Mrs. Swinfen was sworn. She said—l saw Mr. Kennedy first two months after the first trial in the cause of " Swinfen v. Swinfen." I received a note prior to his coming from a lady, who said ho took great interest in the trial, and in consequence of her letter I had an interview with the plaintiff. I had a second interview with him. In that inter view he talked about the compromise. He said he thought it could be set aside, although there were great difficulties in the . way of doing it. A further interview took place on this subject. I invited his daughter to a fete at Swinfen. He invited me to Leamington, and I went there. He then looked over the papers, and gave an opinion on the sub ject. I invited him to Swinfen. He came over to S ivinfen. He then for the first time mentioned the subject of taking up my case for me. He proposed to take it up as my friend. No terms were men tioned. I was invited to go to a concert with his daughter in September last. He said, when I saw him •there, that the compromise ibf the case of " Swinfen v. Swinfen" was a case which had inte rested him for a long time. He said he was very bitter on the subject, and was very anxious to take up my case. He said there were many difficulties in the way of settling the case. I did not say one word to him about remuneration in October, 1856. I did not say in a letter, "I cannot remunerate you now ; I will amply remunerate you hereafter ; you know my position." I spoke on the subject to Mr. Collis. I accompanied Mr. Kennedy and his daughter to London in October, 1856. I stayed six weeks. I lodged near Mr. Lander's, in Eastbourne-terrace, himself and daughter being my guests. Mr. Ken nedy did not say he had offers of business in Bir mingham, which he would be obliged to give up if he undertook my case. About this time his father di e d. We had frequent further discussions about the trial, and I said, "We will stand or fall together." I don't remember saying I would remunerate him. I don't remember saying if he came to London I would make over everything to him. I don't re member him saying he should share my fortune to the utmost. I recollect presenting him with some rings. I asked him to wear these rings, saying, I am quite sure you will be successful if you wear these." 1 don't remember oaying they were pledges of future remuneration. Mr. Kennedy led Mr. Edwin James to Fuppose I should not be averse to a compromise. Ile said, " I have lured Mr. Edwin James down to Stafford because I wished him to fight the cause." never said I should be able to make him a rich man, and I never said, " It will be £20,000 in your pocket.' I remember Mr. Ken nedY saying something about standing for a seat in Parliament. The court was then o.3journed. A G IGAN TIC EEL.—On Wednesday morning, Mr. Currier, on opening his cel-traps at the sluices on the river Wey, between Shalford and St. Catherine's Hill, found one of them to contain an cel of most unusual dimensions, quite throwing into the shade anything of the same descrip tion ever previously captured in these waters. The eel, which was remarkably vivacious, cn being sent to scale, was found to weigh s?lb, and to be 3ft. Gin. in length, and Sliz. in cirolunference.—We4 POLICE 13778 L LIGEN CR—March 28. MANSION-HOUSE.—Two miserably clad, ruffian iy-looking fellows, who gate tl=2ir JIL - in,:.s as Richard Simpson aud William Smith, were brought up on a charge of breaking a square of plats glass, value £B, in the shop front of Mr. Birch, 173, renchuroh-street, watchmaker and jeweller, and stealing from the window a gold watch, value £3O, and a gold Albert chain, value £B. John Fowles, shopwan to Mr. Birch, staled that he was at work in the shop, yesterday morning, at about half-past 11, when he heard a violent blow at the window. On going to see what it was, he saw the prisoner, Simpson, step back, and then strike the window two or three times and break it. A quantity of goods that were in the window fell on the pavement. Mr. Gabriel, a watchmaker in the employ of Mr. Birch, said he Flaw the prisoner Simpson strike the window with his fist, and then step back and strike it again, which smashed it. (A piece of glass was produced, and it was more than a quarter ofan inch in thickness.) The prisoners were taken into the shop, and he took from Smith a gold chain worth £B. Police-constable Stock, 589, said he took the pri soners into custody at Mr. Birch's shop, and on searching Simpson at the station he found a gold hunting watch in his possession. Smith stated that he had come from Essex, and Simpson said he came from Manchester. The watch was identified by Mr. Gabriel as Mr. Birch's property, and he stated that the value of it was £3O. The prisoners, who said they were hard up, and had nothing to eat, were committed for trial. BOW-STREET.—John Cooke, a letter carrier and sorter, employed in the East Central District, was charged with stealing a money letter. On Monday, the 12th March, the prisoner was seen by the officer Smee to separate a letter from a parcel of four or five which he held in his hand, crumple it up, and put it in 'his pocket. He was taken to the controller's room, and Mr. Delany, in spector of letter carriers, taxed him with the ab straction of the letter, which he denied. He was searched, and the letter was found on him. It con tained a half-sovereign and nine penny postage stamps. It was addressed to Messrs. Carver and Co., of Skinner-street, and had come into his hands for sorting in the usual course of his duties. The pri soner said, " I know nothing about it, some one must have put it there ; it is a piece of villany of some body ; I swear I never saw the letter." Smee said, " It is no use denying it, Cooke ; it is not the first you have put in your pocket to my knowledge." He replied, " You are mistaken, Sir." Subsequently the officer searched the prisoner's house at Hoxton, and found in his cash box £236 in gold, £75 in notes, and several promissory notes for money which he had lent to various persons. The prisoner said it was all his own hard earnings which he had made at the gold diggings in Australia, and the reason he had it in the house was that he was getting all his money in to buy a house at Paddington. He was committed for trial. MARYLEBONE.—A very respectably dressed young man named Edward James Nicholson, de scribed as an engineer, was placed at the bar charged as under wi h defrauding the London and North Western Railway. _ _ _ Richard Banks, station master at Newton-bridge, Lancashire, deposed that yesterday afternoon, as was usual, he was making up the cash accounts, and missed a return ticket from Newton-bridge to London, valued at <E2 12s. 6d. Suspicion fell upon the prisoner, who had only just been in and left a rug and taken a ticket to Liverpool. Witness went to Liverpool, and as the night train was about to start to London, he (prisoner) entered a first class carriage, and he (Banks) entered another, and came on to London by the train. On arriving at the ticket platform witness got out of the carriage, and saw the prisoner deliver up the missing ticket, upon which he handed him over to the police. The ticket was stamped, and marked PSI arch 27. He said at first that he got it stamped at Liverpool, and a clerk of the railway told him it was quite correct. In reply to a question from his worship, witness said the fare from Newton-bridge to London and back by return ticket was £2 12s. 6d. The fare by single ticket from Liverpool to London was £1 15s. Mr. Mansfield said he considered that prisoner had defrauded the company of 355. His Worship looked at the bye-laws of the com pany produced by Mr, Beresford, the superintendent of the company's police, when, after perusal, he fined the prisoner in the penalty of 405., and 255. costs, to be paid to the stationmaster for his loss of time. Prisoner said he could get the money. Mr. Mansfield said that from the prompt and energetic manner in which the station-master bad acted in order to effect the capture of the offender, ho was entitled to much praise. LAMBETH.—Mr. Perrin, a silversmith and jeweller, in High-street, Newington, attended before the Hon. G. C. Norton to answer the complaint of Wm. Thomas, a pensioner, and formerly belonging to the 9th Light Infantry. Thomas said that some months ago he had been robbed of his Crimean medal, and on passing the shop of Mr. Perrin a day or two ago he saw it hanging in the window and exhibited for sale. He applied for it, and stated that it had been stolen from his breast; but Mr. Perrin refused to deliver it up to him. Mr. Perrin, in reply, said that the medal had been purchased by his shopman from a man who had represented it belonged to his brother, recently dead, and from the description given of the man he (Mr. Perrin) had very little doubt indeed the com plainant was the person. Thomas, finding his character thus assailed, handed to the magistrate two certificates of good conduct, the one purporting to be written and signed by Richard Wright, Bailiff of Dulwich College, and the other Richard White, sergeant in the City Police, and Mr. Noiton, on looking over them, found that they were not only in the same handwriting, but both on the same sheet of paper, or rather on two half-sheets, which origi nally formed one whole. This, however, Thomas stoutly denied, upon which Mr. Norton directed that the documents be impounded, and Sergeant White and Mr. Wright written to before next Wednesday, to which day he postponed the inquiry. FROAI THE GAZETTE OF LAST NIGHT. TIIE PASSPORT SYSTEM SUSPENDED. FOREIGN-OFFICE, MARCH 27. Extract of a despatch from Lord Lyons, her Majesty's Minister at Washington, dated March 10, 1862. (Received March 25.) "By a circular note, of which I do myself the honour to enclose a copy, Mr. Seward has announced to me, in com mon with the other foreign Ministers here, that the regu lation, some time since established by the State Department under the direction of the President, requiring all persons departing from or arriving in the United States to provide themselves with passports, has been rescinded," EXTRACT, CIRCULAR. " I have the honour to inform y ou that the regulation all under the d some c t t i i o m n o o since e established , r b e y qu t r ti i s n g d r p t e r r n s e i lt s from or arriving in the United States to provide themselves with passports has been rescinded." The following order from the State Department, ad dressed to the Superintendent of Police in the city of New York, abolishes for the present the Passport system, which it was deemed necessary to adopt several months ago : Department of State, Washington, February 17, 1862. John A. Kennedy, Superintendent of Police, New York. Sir,—l have to inforu you that it has been deemed expe dient to rescind the order issued in consequence of the state of affairs in this country, making it necessary for all persons leaving the United States to provide themselves with pass ports, and you will, therefore, be pleased to consider that arrangement as being terminated. It will, thereloro, be left eptional with persons to provide themselves with pass ports or not, as they may deem necessary for their protec tion and security abroad. Foreign passports will no longer require to be countersigned,—l am, &c., F. W. SEWARD, Assistant Secretary of State. LORD CHAMBERLAIN'S OFFICE, Amu 27. In the notice of the appointment of the Rev. William Drake, in the Gazette of Tuesday last, as Honorary Chap. lain in Ordinary to her Majesty, that gontleman should have been described as late Examiner in Hebrew in the Unicersity of London, not as late Professor of Hebrew in University College, London. ST. JAMES'S PALACE, MAncn. 28. The Queen has been pleased to appoint the following Honorary Chaplains in Ordinary to her Majesty : The Rev. Lord Wriothesley Russell, M.A., Canon of Windsor, Rector of Chums, Bucks, and Deputy Clerk of the Closet to the Queen. The Very Rev. Henry George Liddell, D.D., Dean o f Christchurch, Oxford. The Rev. Arthur Penrhyn Stanley, D.D., Regius Pro fessor of Ecclesiastical History, and Canon of Christchurch Oxford, Examining Chaplain to the Bishop of London, The Rev. Joseph B. Lightfoot, M.A., Hulsean Prof Fvinity, and Fellow and Tutor of Trinity Cot es of D iC ( C ( or b me i d r l g y e Chaplains to his Royal High ness the Prince Consort.) ADMIRALTY, MARCH 26. Corps of Royal Marines —Colonel and Second Comman dant Thomas Charles Cotton Mere to be Colonel -Comman dant, vice Anderson, promoted to Major-General o n th e ld Establishment en of d General, Officers of th e C orps ; Colon e l Georga Colt y, Deputy_Adjutant-General, t o b e Colonel and Lan Ae Lexuetenanoi isahnuei Second Commandant; Lieut enant -Colonel Simon Fraser to be Colonel and Second Commandant, vice Moore; Cap tain Richard King Clavell to be Lieutenant-Colonel, vice Fraser; First Lieutenant }Teary Eyre Wyatt Lano to be Fist in; Second Lieutenant George John Aire tsi ).;c Lieutena, vic L e L ane. MAlclr 27. Corps of Royal Marines—The undermentioned promo tions have .aken Place in the Royal Marine Artillery, to complete the separate establishment of that branch of the Corps :—Captain Li and Brevet Lieutenant-C o l one l J o h n Maurice Weinyss to be Lieutenant-Colo ne l ; C apta i n an d Brevet eut.-Colonel George Gardiner Ale xan d er t o b e Lieuteaqt.c o i 9zwi . i Captain Dad ;34'070 ;..iouteziant-Coba nel George Augustus Schomberg to be Lieutenant-Colonel; Captain and Brevet-Major Charles Loudon Barnard to be Lieutenant-Colonel; First Lieutenant and Adjutant Ed ward Congreve Langley T)ilnurcw,l to be Captain; First Lieutenant Edward GladgtGne to be captain; Firt Lieu -tenant Wititain Pitman to be Captain. AVERAGE PRICE OF. SUGAR. The a7erage price of Brown or Muscovado Sugar, computed from the return s mode in the week ending Mar. 25, 186, cxclu3i ve of the duties of Customs paid or payable thereon on the import a ti on th ereo f i n t o G reat Britain Per. cwt. From the British possessions in America 24s. 10d. BANKRUPTS. Joseph Coleman, baker, Gray's-inn-road Charles France, whitesmith, Holborn William Abbott, Bromley-street, Stepney Nancy Wernham, baker, Chelsea George Hayward, locksmith, Hoxton Edward Roberts, butcher, Limehouso William Jones Ross, clerk, Woolwich Thomas Cox, baker, Wandsworth Robert Slade and James Slade, merchants, Poole Ed ward Lawrence, shoemaker, Kentish-town Thomas Phillips, master mariner, Sunderland James Antingham, builder, Peterborough John Bolton, farmer, Nuneaton Frederick Crawley, printer, Luton Edward Hudson, grocer, arrow-on-Humber Joseph Witherspoon, hosier's assistant, Cheltenham Edward Hobbs Smith, Swansea William Spawton, innkeeper's assistant, Northampton George Welsh, grocer, Bishopwearmouth John Morton, chemist, Durham James Howe, builder, Cowpen. Village, Northumberland Edwin Griffiths, tinner, Birmingham Wm. Dowell, hackney carriage driver, Birmingham George Braide, gardener, Huddersfield Robert Parry, grocer, Dysert Laycock Pollard and John Feather ; cotton manufacturers, Accrington Richard Bentley, tailor, Chorley Samuel Birch, cotton spinner, Stockport Thomas Sanders, carter, Chester ,Daniel Williams, grocer, Nantyglo, Monmouthshire Charles Crump, coal dealer, Powick, Worcestershire John Routledgo, miner, Heydonbridge, Northumberland George Rogers, grocer, Oxford David Baldwin, joiner, Halifax Thomas Lloyd, publican, Upton-upon-Severn Mary Doy, greengrocer, Goole John Mosley, photographer, Wakefield John Reeves, coal merchant, Bloxwich, Staffordshiro Abraham Wivell, artist, Birmingham James Hodge, commercial traveller, Moseley 11, m. Jones, printer, Birmingham James Jones, licensed victualler, near Oldbury Fredk. J. Stones, schoolmaster, Lutterworth George Davis, farmer, Newthorpe, Notts Charles Price, jun., innkeeper, Brecon Walter J. P. Wade, military tutor, Sidmouth John Lobb, farmer, Trenay, Cornwall Thomas Ellis, wheelwright, Nottingham James Thompson, iron merchant, Stafford Thomas B. Hopes, painter, Leeds Marmont and Co.. spinners, Leeds James Mayo, innkeeper, Lydbrook Nicholas Reaney, tailor, Wolverhampton Thomas Furman, ribbon weaver, Chilvers Coton, War. wickahiro James Cooper, plumber, Tamworth John Hinchsleft, mariner, Thorne, Yorkshire Joseph Spicer, timekeeper, Low Harrogate, Yorkshire Joseph Cole, butty miner, Sedgley, Staffordshire Nicholas Rogers, bone crusher, Exeter Thomas George Bell, Lynton, Devonshire Isaac Hookey, blacksmith, Newchurch, Isle of Wight John Bull, innkeeper, Newchurch, Itlo of Wight Charles Gerrard, shopman, Warrington llenry Shapcott, smith, Torquay John Willey, grocer, Sheffield John Hague, typefounder, Sheffield Robert Watson, of Abbey, Cumberland Jesse Rigby, silk manufacturer, Leek Walter Osborne, greengrocer, Leek George Barnett. plumber, Oakham, Rutlandshir o John Miles, tailor, Leytonstone, Essex William Prowse, builder, Kensington William Young, assistant engineer, Harwich Samuel Hallen, engineer, Oxford -street John Wright, builder, Lambeth Thomas Cable, contracting carman, Plaistow, Essex Henry Morris, shirt manufacturer, Old Kent-road Howard D, Irving, clerk, Greenwich John Beckett, relieving officer, West Smithfield Samuel Fisher, cab proprietor, Davies-street, Middlesex Robert Sutton, surgeon, John-street, Islington George Edward Noone, Queen's-road, Chelsea Henry Joseph Harrow, mason, Hatton .yard, Holborn William Henry Rutty, glove importer, Cheapside,',City George Fossey, lath render, Stratford, Essex Ambrose Maude Hurst, commission-agent, Dalston 111 illiam Swatman, writer, Gray's-inn-road, Middlesex John Winterson, glazier, Kennington Joseph Musselwhite, carman, Mason-street, Lambeth John Pughe, stationer, Liverpoolg William Rimmer, grocer, Liverpool Samel Brabin, butcher, Liverpool Thomas George ds P FR e e a on a r b s e o er n yt hs , o g tu r i o gi n c hb e r e , sr k L d i e v ad e l ye r , p er r, 0 ., 0 mm l a o n s e to h n es N te e r wton.holo, near Monchester Joseph Barlow, dyer, Salford Thomas Barton Andrew, commission agent, Hulme Richard Pollard Crowther, cattle-dealer, Hulme Joseph Lowe, pork butcher, Uxbridge, Middlesex Frederick B. Hollinshead, late of Gillhead, Windermer°, Samuel E. Holmes, c l er k, Al p h a - cottages, Old Kent-roa d Thomas Barnes, china merchant, Tooley-st., Borough Rudolf Steinberg and Fred. Alex. Aberson, commission merchants ,Mark-lane Charles Rose, St. John-street, Clerkenwell Wm. N. Waugh, corn merchant, Egham, Surrey James Rogers, baker, Farnham, Surrey Benj. W. Coster, cigar manufacturer, Smithfield-bars James Smith, shoemaker, Rotherhithe Frank Rennison, dealer in silk, &c., Kingsland-road SCOTCH BANKRUPTS. James Scott, flesher, Glasgow Wm. Arklay, wood merchant, Dundee Lockhart Dow, baker, Gilmerton James Macnair, builder, St. Catherine's, Argyleshiro Charles H. Morine, professor of music, Inverness John Wood, wright, Glasgow COUNTRY MA BILEI S. _ LIVERPOOL --MARCH 28. We had a small attendance of dealers to-day, and bow wheat and flour met a very d u ll demand, at a reduction 0 2d per 1001 b and Gd per s ac k an d barrel on Friday's r ates' Oats and oatmeal were difficult to move and the turn lower' The same may be said of barley and peas, but beans we re Gd dearer. Indian corn at about former rates. WAKEFIELD--MA Ren 28. The arrivals of wheat this week are short. Business re' mains very dull, and sales can only be made at is per (It lower in price than last Friday. Barley in moderate de:, mand at late rates. In b eans, oa t s, and shelling a yea slow trade, and prices were in favour of the buyer. EXETER —MAncu. 28. Wheat, white 7s 6d tol7s Gd Barley. .. 3 s 9d to 40 4d I Ditto new .00 Od to Os Gd Oats 2s 9d to 3s Od Flour, fine, 43s to 46s ; seconds, 41s to —s per sack. CATTLE. The market to -day was well supplied with stock. Fat beef,p score,9s6d to 10s6d Ewes, per lb .... Gid to 7d . Perk carcases, Os 6d t o lO s Gd W ethers, d 0...... 7d to 70 Lambs, per lb —d to —d. Fat calves, do.. .5d to 6 d. Rough fat, 31(31 per lb. 1 BRISTOL SUGAR—M.A.BoI 23. There have been some rather large arrivals of Ilavan nah during the week, but the brokers' offices are completely bare of West India. Business transactions in raw sugars have, therefore, been inactive. Refined goods in moderate sale, at about late values. Rum unaltered. - - - - FOREIGN MALL PACKET Lin MAILS DUE. Aus'aalia and Mauritius, via Southampton. April IS. via Marseilles April 12. lirazil and Cape Verds, by British packet. April 6. Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, and St. Helen a April 4. China, Penang, and Singapore, via Southampton April 4. Falkland Isl an d s via Marseill es ...Mar. 28' ....... Gibraltar, via Southampton .. Mar. 28. India (Calcutta),April and Ceylon, via Southampton April 4. via Marseilles Mar. 29. India (Bombay), via S ou th ampton Mar. .I',°' via Marseilles April 3* Lisbon April 1 ' Malta, Egypt, and Aden, via Southampton Mar. 28. via Marseilles Mar. 29. Newfoundland .. April 2. Oporto and Vigo .. ... . • April 1 . U. S. and British N. A mer i ca , by Brit. packet.... April 2. by U.S. packet.... by Canadian packet. April 2. W.C. of Africa, Madeira, and Teneriffe April 1 0 ' Bahamas, via New York April 10. Mexico. • • .. Mar. 31 . All parts of West Indies, including Chili, Peru, 1 . 31. California, and British Columbia.. .......... J '''' ) 11 IN for: INTe, Li 1N d o a te ree 'l bottl e eheroil br On Gleeti Irrq !cc> ~t n ~, V R. I A 1 1 "rtti r t kee' -.041 BIRTHS. CHAMBERS.—On the 27th inst., at Vanda House, Lewis' Ke RE h oE a sN m s . E : — a o r n O k n t t h h t e h e e 26th inst.,;at Dover, the wife of Captai ll 2 w 7 i t f h e o i f li N s ir t. E. Chambers, of a daughter. Keen, Cros o, 59th Regt., of a daughter. Esaqt., 2 0 7 f , a l d ra a r u e g w h o te o r d : square, the wife of Grinham PowEl÷.—On the 28th inst., at Lansdowne-circus, South' Kensington, the wife of J. T. Powell, Esq., of a &ugl' ter. MARRIAGES. FRASER—WEI3STER.—On the 27th inst, a t St . rani% , York -place, Edinburgh, John Fraser, isq , Manager o' s the Life Association of Scotl an d, t o Susan' Foulis, th e ,. Youngest d aug h ter of the late Major-General Thorofi Webster. Ro wnEN—PAGE.—On the 27th inst., at Trinity Churc Paddington, the Rev. F. M. Rowden, rector of Stanton, Wilts, to dory Albinia, eldest daughter of Robert Par' Esq., of Lansdown-crescent, Bath. DEATHS. DEAmisir.—On the 26th inst., at Scarborough, James C' Beamish, Esq., aged 58, BUCK..—On the 27th inst., at Kennington, Thomas Burk , M.D., aged 47. BLAYNRY.—On the 19th inst., at Brighton, T. H. BlayneY , Esq., late of Barnes, Hells, aged 72. BRASTED.—On the 24th inst., very suddenly, Mr. Howl Brasted, of Upper Marylebone-street. ROBINSOW.—On the 25th inst , very s uddenly, Charles r• Robinson, E sq ., of Effingham ' , Surrey, late Master of the Crown Office, Queen's Bench, STorliEß.—On the 21st inst., at Kennington, W. Stopper , Es q., Esq., a 36, Coleman-street, city, solicitor, aged 47. WARD.—On the 23d inst., James Ward, barrister-at-IW+ and youngest son of the late Rev. Dr. Ward, Coltishall Hall, Norfolk, aged 56. of WELBv.—On the 22d inst., at Spondon, Derbyshire, Alioe Bart.El iza , b e o t f h p N e V n e t l e b n y second,uou se, Lincolnshire,daughter S a i g r e W. 8 . 2 E . , Welby't LONDON : Printed and Published by JOHN CHAPLIN, of No. 112, Stran d, Printer, at THE SUN Office, No.ll2in the Precinct of the Savoy, the CountY : Strand, in zurcl 4 1802, Tra WI: for 10tH ,N( 4, 4 Ai at th Duel 13et jlll 4i 4th ‘ D tthe , c) t t" tesej t °. ; e of 1, 1 '001; 1 - i y dfki Pe tge ' t eat abi Pegik )1?‘,2171k• s c i . )1 1. 1 , c, 3 ' e l .;_ i c t '. . •Vil . „...,ef ei 14 frn 17,1 xl - , 4 ' . () ti e ; tbp - , -1 1 ii 4l4 iti - , :„ ' -4 • - -1 t A. ',„-...).p Ad (1( in „i a , usl ~,, I ce. 1 zr4,4,‘f s d 8 tqvof It e 1„. ti:irfsect ,'4entllic , 1 855.' ~ 'Col ‘ .1 0 thi . k - - L Wni i t . tlßty ` '41 . 1,,,i, 1. . ira alid 1 ! i tie 3 Zuni " 1 v ..lTit ji ll a ve r i '', tcit 'l ' l eas : I s t v , -1 ‘ : '11(1-4 tnti 11l Ed mi talc], • i t l4r g \1 t 401 ,er ve , C, 'l3ers of ' ' 1'01(18 ) z4i THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, MARCH 29, 1862.