The Sun. — London, England, 1862-12-05 00:00:00

5011711.4MP7 ON ELECTION. THE NOMINATION. The nomination of candidates to fill the Vacancy occasioned in the representation of Southampton by the death of B. M. Willcox, TEsq., took place at the Town Hall yesterday :corning, at 10 o'clock, pre vious to which the members of the two council were invited to assemble at the Audit House. The win dows of the - hall were strongly barricaded. Shortly after nine o'clock a crowd assembled outside the doors anxious to gain admission, but a limited num ber of the friends of each, candidate, together with the corporation, were first admitted by a private entrance. The Lora Mayor, accompanied by a few of his committee, was the first to arrive, followed shortly afterwards by Captain Mangles and his leading "Apporters, amid a hearty round of cheering and clapping of hands. I mmediately upon the door at the main entrance being opened, the building speedily became filled with an immense crowd, and as the partisans of each candidate called for cheers for them it was heartily respor,ded to by groaning and hissing. rne Under Sheriff (Mr. W. Hickman) read the writ, and the usual formalities were gone through. Colonel TRYON proposed Captain Mangles. (Loud cheers and groans.) Mr. J. T. TUCKER, amidst the greatest uproar, seconded the proposition. "Mr. LE FEUVRE Proposed Mr. William Ander son Rose as a fit and proper person to represent the town in Parliament. (Groans and cheers.) Mr. JOSF.PIi LOCKE seconded the motion. Mr. Sc.:RASE proposed the Right Hon. W. F. CowprJr, the First Commissioner of Works, as a fit anti proper person to represent them in Parliament, but there was no seconder. Captain Al4kN GL.fig, who was received with cheers by his friends and groans from his opponents, said implore my friends, of whom I am happy to see a great many present, not only to listen to me, but to give th.e Eight Hon. the Lord Mayor of London a fair i:oad impartial hearing. We are, or ought to be, :searching after truth. Having fought and con quered my hon. opponent at Newport, we still pre served our tempers, and were as good friends at the cnd of the election we were when it began. I hope this will be the ease now, and no words shall cross my lips whcb can be construed as personally offensive to m - 4 . opponent. Let me, before I pass to the part,' caller object of the meeting, pay a just tribute 4,t, your late excellent and liberal member, Mr- illcox, who has passed away from us, lam a cn i ly to say, full of years, and yet with a vigour s•afacient to justify our hope that he would have served you with the same ability and same honesty of purpose that he had for many years past. If I were for the first time addressing you it would be necessary for me to enter more fully than I propose to do into my political opinions ; but 21 years ago I stood before the con stituency of Southampton, and then, as now, I was an advocate of the ballot, extension of suffrage, and abolition of church rates, and when I am returned, as I am sure I shall be to-morrow, as your repre se-ntative, it will be my duty and my pleasure to pursue the same Curse as I did then. I will allow it is sad to th;,,nk how little has been done in the movement of reform since I then addressed you, electors rjf Southampton. But be not downhearted, the truth must prosper, and we shall ever honestly carry that, as we have previously carried those just aid liberal measures which are for the benefit of the people at large. The Tories are apt to disguise themselves in very strange garments, and my hon. opponent calls himself a Liberal-Conservative. He is brought forward by a party whose object it is to try and turn out your respected and esteemed neigh bour, Lord Palmerston. He asks you to return him pled.ed t.y a party not to intrude on institu tions; he sticks to the old fashioned tyranny of the party he seeks to represent. He drops altogether the question of an extension of the franchise, and instead of the abolition, of church rates, proposes a compromise ; but, Mien of Southampton, you will not be such fools as that. Having got rid of church rates yourselves, you are not going, I hope, to allow them to f:e re-established here ; and if I were to search She country through I know no town which cotil.a be adduced as a stronger argument in favour of the abolition of church rates than Southampton. - yet the Established Churches in this town are in beautiful order, and there is no fear of the fabric falling to decay. You and I who are Churchmen, or attend the Established Church, or are members of it, will not allow such a thing, hut, at the same time, we do not wish the conscien tious Dissenter to put his hand in his pocket for our church as well as for his own. He tells us, look to America, look to France, to see the working of the ballot. Does he mean to say they are parallel cases ? Does he mean to compare England with America, moved and swayed about by every element of discord ? Does he mean to compare America to our blessed constitution, with Queen, Lords, and Commons ? Does he mean to compare France with happy England ? Either he has been deficient in his history, or I am afraid he was at tempting to impose on your credulity. He now shirks the question of the extension of the fran chise. At present you have only one man in six who has a right to vote, Let me ask you, would it be dangerous to make it one in three ? Would it be dangerous to extend the franchise to the £6 householder, and not confine it, as it is at this moment, to £10? In many boroughs, and it is so in this, a £lO man gets so large a house that he lets out a part of it, whilst a £6 householder has not room to do it, and, therefore, the £6 house holder really pays more rent than the £lO man, be rouse the £lO man gets a great deal of it back again in the shape of lodgers, I have mixed a great deal during my canvass with non-electors, and found them fully as intelligent, and as fully deserving the franchise as the £lO man ; and where can we draw the line, and say the right of representation is to be confined entirely to a man who happens to hold a £lO house ? It is unnecessary for me to enter into my political opinions ; they are of 21 years' stand ing in this town, and whilst I feel a pride in having shown that I have been both in and out of Parlia • meat consistent in my political opinions, I think it must also be an assurance and a comfort to you that you will return, as you undoubtedly will tomor row, a man who has acted for the last quarter of a century as consistently and as honestly as I have done. I feel unwilling to trespass upon you longer, and T will, therefore, sit down with a few words of consolation to my friend, for I will quote, if he will allow me, a few lines of poetry : " Full many a gem of purest ray serene The dark unfathomable caves of ocean bear, Full many a rose is born to blush unseen, And waste its sweetness in the desert air." (En thusiastic cheering.) The LORD MAYOR then addressed the meeting. The Principal claim which he had for their suffrages hwaes that h e was an independent man ; but whilst y w as anxio us to reciprocate to the utmost the to neat w feel i n g expressed by his honourable oppo "' him, yet he felt that he was bound to express to the electors that between Capt. Mangles and himself there could be no comparison in regard to the interests of t he possebisea a P d enPle of Southampton. South ampton in the kingdom, but Cvaapnttag: i s second to no port in in the honest discharge or the Tangles had succeeded, reposed in him as chairman of the South-larehtr:st pang, in securing a railway Railwayino,i4ota. Com t the interests of the electors. He had als Y o a t g old a liamentary committee that the port was not capable passeng er b for sailing ships, but only f or large steamers, and had said that Southampton did not trade, did not want more railw a ys, did no t want more c mils and iron ; and f they returned the captain he believed that he would c arry out his Prophecy. therf fore, did not think that they would entrust him w ith their interests. The An doverwas a Railway very fair speci men Capt • M angles would and Redbri d g e of the kind of interest e xercise in their behalf. He did wouldrot blame him for themto his conduct in the matte r, but en t them continuo to allow Capt. Mangles to represent the South-Western Company, and Mangles had be to r a e l p s in parliament. Capt, a co mpany ape been the means of driving away from the po rt sum. He which would have yearly expended a 1... r,., was an active director, and gave valuable assist- .~-s Mice to zi nt e of the most important companies czameeted with the port, but that a3 , istance was confined to the various interests of those respective companies, and, therefore, it would be the most suicidal thing in the world for the t °rough to return as their representative such a m to. He (the Lord Mayor) was free from all these objections; he was not a director of a company whose interests were antagonistic to Southampton, and he was pre pared, if they elected him, to serve them honestly and faithfully, for this course would be the only one he had of maintaining their confidence. As to his political creed Captain Mangles had said that he (the Lord Mayor) was opposed to an extension of the franchise, but he would tell them what the cap tain did when there was an opportunity of extend ing the franchise to intelligence, talents, and integ rity, by allowing lodgers, and persons possessing personal property in railway shares, or savings bank deposits, to vote—he voted against the bill. They intended, they said, to bring in another bill, but they never did, and he believed never intended to do so. With regard to the ballot, it was quite a mis take to say that he had ever even dreamt of being a supporter of it. Persons having a stake in the country did not want to sneak behind a ballot box in order to give their votes, and if it were in force the men at this election would be handed over to the friends of the sheriff, as returning officer, neither he nor the mayor, nor any other public officer, being able to protect himself from the stigma, however fairly and honestly they might have acted. He would illustrate what the ballot had done in France and America. I n F rance t h rough i t alone they had lost . every ri g ht w hi c h ma d e a country wort h li v i ng iI i n. In the United States it had caused an expendi tare of millions, a conscription, suspension of habeas corpus, and martial law. Every species of terror had been the result of their haring no prominent public men to come forward and lead the public mind ; and why ? Because they voted hishonestly and in secret, and the result had been that eminent public men had eschewed politics, and left the country to itself, and anarchy and con fusion had been the result of democratic institutions which had adopted the ballot box. With regard to church rates, he said some years ago, and he re peated it now—if church rates were to be abolished there must be an equivalent. If they were prepared to abolish our noble constitution, sever Church and State, and let in confusion, if they were prepared to work demolition and spoliation, and to hand over the Church, as they did in an earlier age, to the nobles, let them allow his opponent to have his way, and abolish church rates throughout the coun try. Mr. Lobb had referred to their armorial bearings ; but if they returned Capt. Mangles he was afraid they would lose one of their supporters, and that the lion on one side would tumble into the sea. He had only to repeat that he believed his hon. opponent to be a most conscientious man, who had well discharged his duties as chairman of the South Western ; but who was not fit and proper to be entrusted to represent their interests in the Com- mons House of Parliament. (Loud cheers.) The SHERIFF then announced that Mr. Scrase had withdrawn his candidate—(laughter)---and he called for a show of hands, which he declared in favour of Alderman Rom. Three cheers were given for each candidate be. :ore the meeting separated. 711 E .41ALDON CLUB. MALD ON, THURSDAY, The third anniversary of the Maldon Liberal In dependent Club was celebrated in the public hal in this town this evening, and was attended by up wards of 100 gentlemen. The hall was hung with the customary banners and devices, and it was a sig nificant sign of the times that one of them expressed the belief that " economy and retrenchment" would be the " best means of reducing the public burdens," a fact which " nobody can deny." The gather ing possessed some special local importance, as a strong effort is about to be made to secure the re turn of a second Conservative member for the borough of Maldon in the person of Mr. H. J. Sel win, so as to make up the " Conservative ten," which is one of the cherished traditions of Essex Conservatism. The Liberal electors consequently rallied round the present Liberal member for Mal -- _ Mr. T. B. Western, occupied the chair. Among the gentlemen at the principal table were—Sir T. F. Buxton, Mr. E. Buxton, M.P. for Maidstone; Mr. J. Hardcastle, M.P. for Bury St. Edmunds; Colonel Western, Major Russell, the Rev. Sir J. P. Wood, the Rev. B. G. Luard, Mr. R. J. Bagshaw, late M.P. for Harwich ; M. G. Courtauld, Mr. G. De Horne Vaizey, Mr. R. Honeywood, &c. The usual loyal and patriotic toasts having been disposed of, The Rev. Sir J. P. Wood, replying for the clergy, Colonel Western for the army, and Major Rus sell for the volunteers, The CHAIRMAN proposed "Prosperity to the Mahlon Liberal Club," observing that the real ob ject of a Conservative gathering, heldsome months ago in the town, was to introduce a candidate to contest the borough on Conservative principles, in the person of Mr. H. J. Selwin. Mr. Selwin was a gentleman whom he had long known, and whom he highly esteemed ; but he trusted that the electors of Maidon would tell him when the proper time arrived that,however much they might respect him personally, they strongly objected to place him in the House of Commons, to the exclusion of their present Liberal representative. The Conservative party were aiming at securing the entire Parliamentary representation of Essex; but in this they would find themselves mistaken,for there were symptoms abroad that Maldon would not in future have the honour of alone returning a Liberal member among all the Essex constituencies. Essex, rising from her pre sent political depression, would, he believed, return her fair share of Liberal members to the House of Commons. (Cheers.) The Rev. Sir J. P. WOOD pre posed " The Liberal Members of the House of Commons." Mr. C. BUXTON, M.P., whose name was associated with the toast, replied, and said the last time he had the pleasure of speaking in that hall he gave a brief sketch of the progress which constitutional liberty had made throughout Europe in recent years, In the year which had since intervened, that progress, although chequered, had been steady, and, in some parts of Europe, rapid. In Italy it was remarkable how quickly people had caught the spirit and adapted themselves to the forms of constitutional government. In Austria, lately so despotic, the go vernment had actually reduced the army in accord ance with the decision of the Diet. In Prussia, al though for the moment despotism appeared to be triumphant, the magnificent stand made by the na tion against the King—a stand so temperate, so thoughtful, and so wisely managed—yet indicated the ultimate victory of freedom. In Greece, above all, which had so often been pointed at as an exam ple of the absurdity of giving a constitution to a people before they were ripe for it, a revolution had taken place which showed in a most striking man ner not only the determination of the people to govern themselves, and not to allow their liberties to be trampled on, but also their fitness to manage their own affairs. It was painful to turn from these cheering signs of the future in Europe to the awful struggle which was taking place in North America; but he thought the time had come when all ought to be making up their minds as to what we ought to wish for with regard to that great struggle. We heard people saying they were on the side of the Northerners or on the side of the South; but he did not think we ought to be content with a vague par tisanship like that. In fact, for his own part, he could hardly understand how ahy Englishman could be a p ar ti san e ith er o f t h e N or th o r of the South si outh in their p resent a i ms. S ome persons seemed to think palet sm that the S out h put i tse lf b eyon d the 3', whatever the su ff er ings it might endure, on ''th account of its brim , r' a slave-owning; nation. R e had been told that ho was an unworthy s on of his father because he did not think so ; but his fath er, with all his anti-slavery zeal, never failed to r egard it as the misfortu ne rat h er than wiin7 father always regard e d sthat they w e r e i n t h at deplorable positio n . them as having a k t rong clai mto w oc d on t s h i a d t er . a t tion, and the Quarterly Review itself one tirely duo to him that the propos a l to clorawpaesnseante. THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 5, 18621. m t n h i a p t ot he t en. was H a e the slaveowners was accepted b y the anti-sla very party,t or . B who nxt o n )w dider e not a t that think, ini then, eno, traitor to his father's pr inci p les in ackn owledging that he should look wit h abhorrenc e upon a military subjugation of the South Southerners, and he could not wish well to the North in its attempt to subjugate the South by force of arms. Weighing all the con tending considerations of the case, it seemed to him that we ought to wish that the North should own herself that the Union w as gone f or ever , an d s hould offer independence to all that portion of the South lying between the Mississippi and the Poto mac. Could that be attained Texas and all the vast territory lying beyond the Mississippi would before long be freed from the curse of slavery. Slavery would be hemmed in between borders which on the northern side would every day be narrowing, while at the same time the world would be saved the pre sent heartrending spectacle of civil war. (Hear.) The proceedings throughout were distinguished by much spirit. TWO .IIUIZDE.RS IN LIVERPOOL. LIVERPOOL, THURSDAY. This morning a shocking murder was perpe trated in this town, the victim being the wife of a I tinker, named Read, residing at No. 7, Lower Myrtle-street, off St. Anne-street. From the facts which are at present known it appears that Read, his wife, and a son, about 11 years of age, resided in the cellar of the house in Myrtle-street, and that this morning a police officer was accosted by ayoung woman, who informed him that a woman had been stabbed in No. 7, Lower Myrtle-street. The con stable at once went to the house, where he found the deceased, Ann Read, lying on the floor bleeding from a wound under the left arm. He immediately went to the St. Anne-street dispensary and procured the assistance of Drs. Nieven and Jones, who accompanied him to the residence of the deceased. Every effort was made to revive the poor woman and stop the bleeding, but without avail, and she died immediately after the arrival of the doctors. People in the immediate neighbourhood state that they heard a cry of " murder" early in the morning, and that they believe it must have come from the house occupied by the deceased. Read and his son have absconded, and not withstanding the vigilance of the police had not, up to the time of the departure of our parcel, been ap prehended. The victim of the second murder is also a woman. Her name was Isabella Tongue, and she cohabited with a man named Thomas Edwards, a butcher who, however, instead of making a living by fol lowing his trade, supported himself on the earnings of his paramour. Last Sunday morning, about four o'clock, while Edwards, the deceased, Jane Wilson, and a man named Thomas Sullivan, a ticket-of-leave man, were sitting round the fire in a house in Nor bury-street, Edwards seized a butcher's knife, and rushed at Tongue, whom he stabbed in 19 places. He also stabbed Wilson and Sullivan, but not seri ously. The unfortunate woman Tongue never rallied but died this morning. An inquest was held to-day by the coroner, when a verdict of wilful murder was returned against Edwards, who, instead of appear ing affected with his position, said he was very glad that he had " done for her," that he had made his peace with God, and did not care whether he was hanged or not. He intended to kill her, and was glad that she was dead. caused by a cancerous tumour in the stomach, and Mr. Sheppard, a surgeon at Hindon, coincided with him in that opinion. Atter a great deal of evidence, the Coroner's Jury returned an open verdict—That the deceased died by poison, but by whom admini stered there was no evidence to show," and Mrs. Trowbridge, who had been remanded by the bench of magistrates on the 19th in order that the con tents of certain bottles found in her house might be analysed, was this morning again in attendance in discharge of her personal bail. She seemed consi derably better than on her last appearance, and was accompanied by several personal friends of respec tability. The Chairman, addressing Mr. ,Dann, the supe rintendent of police at Hindon, said—This woman was remanded by us, Mr. Dann, on the last occa sion, in order that the contents of some bottles which had been found in her house by the police might be analysed. Has any application been made to you by any one in relation to the matter ? Superintendent Dann—No, sir, none at all. The Chairman—Have you any further evidence to lay before us ? Superintendent Dann—No, sir, nothing further. I may say, that the coroner's jury has returned a verdict entirely exonerating her from all blame. The Chairman —Very well; if there is no more evidence she is discharged. (To. Mrs. Trowbridge) You are discharged, madam. Mr. Chitty having applied for and obtained leave to procure a copy of the warrant of commitment and of the depositions, the unfortunate lady left the court with her friends. EXTRAORDINARY DEATH OF A LADY An inquiry was held by Mr. H. Raffles Walthew, the deputy coroner, on Wednesday night, at Poplar, respecting the death of Mrs. Ann Benson, aged 59, who lost her life under the following singular cir- cumstances : John Webber, a bargeman, said that on Monday, as he was navigating his barge near the Five Mills, Bow, on the River Lea, his attention was attracted by the loud barking of dogs, and a moaning sound. He saw something floating under the surface, and upun getting near, he found it to be a lady full dressed. She was still alive, and he got her on shore. He saw two rough-looking men standing near, and he called to them to go for the police and a doctor. They ran off, however, and no one came until he shouted out for help. Ultimately she was removed in a cab. She could not have got into the river, where he found her. by walking in, as there was an Iron railing around. Wr. C. F. Wilson said that deceased was his sis ter-in-•law, and was possessed of property. She had lost a sum of money in the Deposit Bank, and being apprehensive that under the winding-up of that concern she would have to pay for the deficien cies of others, her mind more or less gave way, and she became subject to delusions, and thought she was doomed to poverty. That fear was, how ever, quite without foundation. On the day men tioned by the lust witness she went out to visit at Bow, which she evidently did by railway as the hall of a return ticket was found on her. She had not been robbed, as a guinea was found in her purse. He did not know how she got into the water. Dr. Carnell said that he was called to the de ceased, who was in a state of collapse. She became sensible, but did not say how the affair occurred, merely stating " that it was too dreadful to talk about." She died from the immersion. He had recently been called in to the deceased, and found her prostrate from poison—laudanum. When with difficulty he recovered her, she said she took poison only as a medicine. She was subject to delusions. He discovered a quantity of laudanum in a bottle." The jury returned a verdict—" That deceased died from immersion in the River Lea, but how she came into the river there was no evidence to show. LAW INTELLIGENCE, Dec. 4. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS. - - - Sittings at Nisi Prins in Middlesex.—(Before Lord Chief Justice Erie and a Specal Jury.) IRWIN V. SIR GEORGE GREY.-ACTION FOR NOT PRE.. SENTINO A PETITION OF RIGHT. The plaintiff in this case, George O'Malley Irwin, by his declaration, complained that the Home Sec retary had refused to lay before the Queen a peti tion of right, and for this refusal he claimed dam ages £lOO,OOO. The defendant pleaded not guilty. The plaintiff appeared in person, and the Attor ney-General and Mr. T. Jones represented the de fendant. The plaintiff addressed the jury, informing them that the action was brought under the Common Law Procedure Act, 1854, and the Petitions of Rights Act of 1860, commonly known as Mr. Bovill's Act, and the petition of right in question prayed for a jury for the purpose of enforcing an award made by the present Lord Westbury some four years ago. He also detailed the history of his affairs for many years past, and the state of the law previous and subsequent to Mr. Bovill's Act. In the course of the address Lord Palmerston and the Lord Chancellor took their seats upon the bench. Sir G. C. Lewis, Mr_ Walpole, Mr. Wad dington, and other official gentlemen, were also in court. As far as could be gathered it seemed that the plaintiff's claim arose out of these circumstances. In 1832 he was an assistant barrister in Ireland, but was convicted of a misdemeanour for deceiving the Government by sending in the resignation of an other official without authority. The representa tives of the Government failed to produce on the trial, and also on another trial for perjury arising out of it, certain letters, and the plaintiff contended that in consequence of this non-production he had to submit to a sentence of nine months' imprison men and a fine of £5O. The damage that he sus tained was that his father diverted away from him the descent of an estate worth £40,000, and this amount he asked by his petition of right to be al lowed to claim from the crown, together with £30,000 for loss of enjoyment of the property, and £30,000 for injury to his professional prospects, &c. The plaintiff's speech was of a very diffused cha rat(l.. and Vujip in Te suite of rmated exhibitions of impatience on the part of the jury and of remonstrances by his lordship, until three hours had been consumed in its delivery, and even at the expiration of this time it was finishea some ' what abruptly. Mr. Johnston, a clerk at the Home. office, was called to speak in reference to some documents, but it appeared that he had not got them and knew very little about them. Lord Westbury was next examined as a witness, and said—My letter of the 11th March, 1858 (a do cument spoken of as an award) I have no doubt was sent to Mr. Walpole. There was no official decision at all upon your case. The only document I recol lect is a note to Mr. Walpole. The Attorney-General, in consequence of a ques tion by the plaintiff, objected that he could not give evidence in reference to matters that took place previous to the 24th April, 1861, the date of the petition of right. Mr. Irwin contended that such evidence was ne cessary, in order to show the damage which he had sustained. The Lord Chief Justice thought the truth or false hood of the allegations in the petition of right was not now in issue ; and after some discussion he added that the great question was whether there had been any breach of duty on the part of Sir G. Grey, and the circumstances to show this were that the petition was left at the Home-office whilst Sir G. C. Lewis was Home Secretary, that subsequently Sir George Grey was appointed, and there were repeated appli cations to him upon the matter without any satis factory result. Upon this point two letters by Mr. Irwin were put in evidence to show that he had made applica tion to the Home-office, but he refused, though re peatedly appealed to by his lordship and the At torney-General, to put in evidence the answer received to one of these applications, saying that he had no notice to produce it, and he was not to be dictated to as to how he should frame his case. The Lord Chief Justice, after a good deal more discussion, expressed his opinion that the only da mages which Sir G. Grey could be held responsible for were those arising from the delay in presenting the petition, and not for the £lOO,OOO which was claimed from the Crown in the petition of right. After more time spent in discussion it was ar ranged that the defendant should give evidence upon the question whether Sir G. Grey had or not refused to present the petition. Sir George Grey, however, was called by plaintiff and examined at length, but the greater part of the questions put seemed to be by no means pertinent to the principal point in the cause. lie said, amongst other things, I received a subpoena duces tecum, but I have not any of the documents mentioned in it with me. Many of them are not in the office, and others are of a confidential nature. I believe Mr. - Waddington and Mr. Fitzgerald have searched for them, and they will be better able to speak about them. I have not got your petition of right of 1844 which Sir W. Follett as attorney-general sub mitted to the crown ; but I do not know whether Mr. Waddington or Mr. Fitzgerald has it. Mr. Irwin—Then, Mr. Waddington, or Mr. Fitz gerald, hand it to me. (A laugh.) I submit that the Secretary of State is bound, like everybody else, to obey a subpcena. The Lord Chief Justice--Yes, according to law. He says he has not the document in question. Sir George Grey—All the documents that were in the office are in the possession of Mr. Waddington and Mr. Fitzgerald. Mr. Irwin—l say it is the duty of the head of the office to produce the documents. The Lord Chief Justice—lf he does wrong in this matter he is answerable, and you can, if you think fit, proceed against him hereafter. Mr. Ir win—l am open and fair ; and where there is so much shuffling about a document, I am the more anxious to see it. Mr. Fitz ; erald—l could not find the petition, though I have made strict search. Sir G. Grey (to his lordship)—l have not seen the document, and I do not know whether it exists or not. Mr. Trwin—l contend that that is not a sufficient answer. The Lord Chief Justice—lt will answer for to day, and if Sir G. Grey has done wrong you have your remedy. Mr. Irwin—There is an original letter which Earl Russell has sworn in his affidavit that he had in his possession on the 10th June, 1839, as Secretary of State —the letter of the 20th May, 1834, on which Lord Westbury states that the case depends- 1 -" . you Prol uee t h at d ocutneu t i n o b e di enc e to your subpmna. Sir G. Grey—A search was directed by me to be m/de, to ascertain whether all or tin 9 of the ,Torne. docu ments mentioned in the subpeena we re in the ' A7TEMP7 ED WIFE MURDER AT LEEDS, On Wednesday, at the Leeds Town Hall, a young fellow named Edward J. Wilde, a paper-stainer, residing in St. Mary s-lane, was charged with at tempting to murder his wife, Anne Wilde, by shooting her with a pistol. The prosecutrix, an interesting girl of nineteen, and the daughter of a joiner, living near the Marsh-lane station, appeared to be seriously indisposed, and was accommodated with a seat while giving her evidence. She stated she was married on April 6 to the prisoner, with out the knowledge or consent of her parents. After the marriage she took lodgings in Strode-street, and there the prisoner used occasionally to visit her. However, he neglected her so much that she was driven to the last extremity of destitution fin.l Inness, and It .• 0 Inter ference of a neighbour that her parents learnt of her miserable condition, and went and took her away home. She was then in health, in a situa tion in Boar-lane, Leeds, and the prisoner used to meet her at night after her day's work was over, and see her home. On Tuesday night week prose cutrix left her work in company with a Mrs. M'Bryan, and when they arrived near the railway bridge, in Marsh-lane, they heard a noise of some body running behind them, and on looking round they saw the prisoner. Wilde, addressing the pro secutrix, said, " I want to speak to you ;" upon which Mrs. M'Bryan bade them good night, and left them. Prisoner then told his wife that he was going to Liverpool, and that he had come to bid her good bye. Prosecutrix said she wished him well, and then added that, as the hour was late, she must at once proceed home. Prisoner begged to accompany her, but she declined on the ground that she was afraid of provoking a quarrel between him and her father. Prisoner then said, " I swore on the day of our marriage, that no other man should have you," and he immediately drew a pistol and presented it at her head. With great presence of mind, she covered her face with her shawl, and bowed down her head, and it was lucky she did so, for Wilde at once discharged the pistol, and the shot not only blew the crown of her bonnet into atoms, but partially entered the scalp, and inflicted a superficial wound. Prosecutrix fell to the ground, and when she was picked up by a passer-by, named Eliza Morley, she was found to be bleeding from the wound inflicted. She was taken to the house of Mr. James Ellison, of No. 3, Wesley-place, and the wound was washed; and shortly after she was re moved to her father's house, where she has since been attended by Mr. Cottam, surgeon. It appears that Mis. Wilde has - frequently been threatened by her husband, and that he must have entertained a very strong feeling of jealousy towards her; at the same time the girl's excuse would seem to be perfectly natural, for she only refused to co habit with the prisoner because he neither could nor attempted to provide a home for her. The prisoner was committed for trial at the en suing York assizes. 7IIE IVIL7SHIRE POISONING CASE. HIND ON, WEDNESDAY. This morning Mrs. Trowbridge was placed at the bar, before Messrs. 11. Graves (chairman), J. Du Ronlay, and C. Jeffries, sitting in Petty Sessions, charged with having wilfully murdered Ann Kiddle, by the administration of poison. Mr. George Chitty, solicitor, of Shaftesbury,again attended on behalf of the prisoner. It will probably be recollected that a woman, named Ann Kiddie, died on the 22d October, under circumstances which gave rise, in the mind of her medical attendant, Dr. R. C. Shettle, of Shaftes bury, that she had been poisoned, and upon his in formation a post mortem was held, and portions of the viscera of the deceased woman analysed by Dr. Harley, of University College, London, and by Dr W. Bird HE rapath, an analytical chemist at Bristol, hut not, we believe, the eminent toxicologist of that name. Mrs. Trowbridge had been visiting at the house of the deceased in Ludwell, on the borders of Wilts, for some short time, and various reasons in connection with a pudding given to Mrs. Kiddie, made by Mrs. Trowbridge, led to her being taken into custody, and she was brought before the magi strates and remanded, being, however,liberated after the second hearing on her own recognisances. At the coroner's inquest on the body,held on the 21st ult., Dr. W. B. Herapath stated that he detected the pre sence of arsenic in his analysation. Dr. Harleywould not vouch for its presence in that portion of the viscera sent to him. Dr. R. C. She ttle, upon whose affidavit the warrant was granted by Mr. Graves, gave his opinion that the deceased woman died from an irritant poison, and in this he was confirmed by Mr. Cardell, an eminent, though young practi tioner at Salisbury. On the other hand, Dr, Roberts. whose skill and sci , ;ntific knowledge is L highly esteemed in the district, held that death was MURDER A 7 CIIES7E.RFIELD. On Wednesday an inquest wag held at the S neien•s luu, cuesternela, on view of the body of G Cooper, who came to his death under the following circumstances :—lt appeared from the evidence given at the inquest that deceased left his home, in Stone gravel, about 10 o'clock on Monday night, to accom pany Mary Ann Holt, his sweetheart, to her resi dence in Spa-lane. They had proceeded about half a mile, and were turning into Station-road, which is close to the parish church, when they were met by two Irishmen. The tallest pushed rudely against the young woman, and deceased very naturally in quired what he meant by pushing against her in that manner. Without saying a word the Irishman raised a life-preserver, or some instrument of that description, and struck him a fearful blow on the right temple. Poor Cooper was knocked down and partly stunned by the force of the blow, and the villains at once decamped, and turning round a corner, were lost sight of. The un fortunate man was raised by the young woman, and he accompanied her home (a distance of about 200 yards), but never spoke a word, and appeared like a person walking in a dream. He left her at her door and went home, but must have taken about double the time to return that was consumed in going. He reached home a little before 12, and complained that his head was very bad. In a short time he became stapid, and made no reply to ques tions addressed to him. During that night and on the following day he remained in a state of insen sibility, his general condition indicating an effusion of blood on the brain. About 11 o'clock on Tuesday night he expired. The inquest was adjourned to Friday for a post-mortem examination. This is the result of a long series of breaches of the peace by the Irish, which commenced with some riots that took place on the occasion of anti-popery lectures by the Baron de Camin. It will be remembered that a serious riot took place on that occasion, and since then there has been a deal of ill-feeling be tween the lower class of Irish snd Protestants. On Sunday last a serious affray took place in one of the principal streets, and two policemen were seriously wounded by the Irish, who used pokers, loaded shillelaghs, and other formidable weapons. Late on Wednesday night the police, under Mr. Superintendent Radford, succeeded in apprehend ing two Irishmen of notorious character, who were concerned in the attack on the police on Sunday night, and were heavily fined by the magistrates on Monday last. The two men, who are named re- spectively Thomas Flannery and John Ball, answer the description given by the young woman, Mary Ann Holt, in their personal appearance; but they .. —.re not yet b e . Identified by hat. as th. which they are known to have worn on Monday have been concealed. It is the intention of the police to secure them if possible, and cause the prisoners to be dressed in them befere the young woman is pet witted to recognise them. In per sonal appearance the taller of the two, Flannery, very closely answers the description given by Holt, one point mentioned being that he had a short beard and no whiskers, which is the case with When apprehended a n d qu esti one d as t o were on the ni g ht o f th e mur d er t h e e. g y ave contradictory accoun t s . Th e pr i soners Flannery, ee they were brought up before W. Drabble,Esq., ex-mayor, yesterday morning, and remanded until 12 o'clock this day, in order to hear the result of the adjourned inquest. A dense crowd of Irish (who number be tween 2,000 and 3,000 in the town) surrounded the municipal hall during the time the prisoners were undergoing examination. THE MUieDER OF A POLICEMAN IN SUFFOLK. On Wednesday, John,Ducker, who was committed last week on the local coroner's warrant, charged with the murder of Tye, the policeman, at Hales worth, Suffolk, was brought before the magistrates on the same charge, together with a chimney-sweep named Stephen Warne, and his wife, who were charged as accessories after the fact. The statement made by the prisoner, in which he sought to inculpate another person, was not at all supported, and he was fully committed for trial on the capital charge. The other prisoners were discharged, and ad mitted as witnesses against Ducker. They stated that they heard him on the night of the Sunday preceding the murder make use of threats against the police. An important piece of evidence was supplied on Monday, Sergeant Taylor of the East Suffolk con stabulary, having on that day found a cap, proved to have been worn by the prisoner, within two yards of the spot at which the body of the deceased was discovered. SUICIDE OF A YOUNG WIFE. On Wednesday evening Mr. W. Carter, coroner fur East Surrey, held an inquest at the King's Arms Tavern, St. George's-bridge, Albany-road, Camber well, on the body of Elizabeth Jeffery, aged 18, the wife of a porter. Mr. Wm. Pike proved that on Saturday night, about 10 o'clock, he went upon the bank of the Surrey Canal, near St. George's-bridge, where he found a bonnet and a mantle lying on the ground. He procured the drags, and in about three minutes he brought the body of deceased to the bank. He at once had her conveyed to that house, where every means were used to restore her, but without effect. Mary Davis, the mother of the deceased, said she last saw her daughter alive about half-past nine o'clock on Saturday night at her (witness's) house. When she came in she appeared to have been crying, and gave witness her marriage certificate and some duplicates, saying, "K eep th ese f or me , mother, until I ask you f or t h em back. " She a l so sa id s h e had been listening outside Mrs. Halliday's (her husband's sister), and heard Hall i day say t o h er (deceased's) husb and, ' You ought never t o b e hungry while you have got anything at home to bring out to sell or pa wn ." This seemed to prey on deceased's mind, and before she left she said "He is trying to break up our little home, for he has al ready sold the carpet and the looking glass. Oh, mother, I work hard ; what more can Ido ?" The husband was out, of work, but the deceased had some employment as an ironer, and shared her earnings with him. David Davis, the father of deceased, stated that . he kept the husband with him three-quarters of an hour after the deceased left home to prevent any disputes. tied seen the husband strike his daugh ter, but he did not do so on the Saturday night. The jury returned a verdict to the effect, that the deceased committed, suicide while in an unsound state of mind, -----....- office, and the gentlemen who are in attendance from the Home-office will produce all that there were there. Many were not in the office, and lam not s ure whether this letter was there. Mr. Irwin referred to a case in "7 Dowling" to show that a Secretary of State was bound to pro duce documents in his possession. The Lord Chief Justice—But the document is not in his hands. You can call the other gentle men, who will produce it if it exists. Sir G. Grey—lndorsements are made upon peti tions of right, or memoranda upon separate pieces of paper, but these simply contain the substance of the answers to be sent to the persons sending them in. Mr. Irwin—Did you get a letter on May 21, 1862, referring you to a letter of Suly 15, which states that the Lord Chancellor had refused his fiat ? Sir G. Grey—l got an answer from Mr. Pullen, your solicitor, informing me of your intention to apply for a mandamus, and asking me in the first instatiee whether I refused to present to the Queen the petition of right. This was the first intimation I had received as to the petition of right, except a letter addressed to ME) on the 7th September, re questing that the petition might be returned. Mr. Irwin—Did you or not present that petition to her Majesty, and if you presented it was it with the advice not to grant it ? Sir U. Grey—l submitted it to her Majesty with that advice, which I thought it my duty as Secre tary of State to tend er, her Majesty acting always on the advice of her responsible ministers. I found, after receiving Mr. Pullen's letter, that my prede cessor in office had treated the petition in the usual way. He bad informed himself by the best legal opinion at his command as to what advice he should tender to the Queen, and acting upon that 1 advised her Majesty that the petition should not be en dorsed with the fiat " Let right be done." This was the advice, not of Lord Westbury when Lord Chan cellor, but when he was Attorney-General. The Lord Chief Justice—lf the jury believe the evidence of Sir G. Grey, I shall inform them that the verdict ought to be for the defendant. He says that he presented the petition to the Queeu, and that he accompanied it with such advice as he, being a responsible adviser of the crown, felt it his duty to offer. If that is so, he has not been guilty of that breach of duty which is referred to upon this record. Sir G. Grey—l am told that Mr. Pullen was in formed of the circumstances of the petition being presented to the Queen by letter. The Attorney-General—That was the letter which the plaintiff refused to have read. The Lord Chief Justice (to Mr. Irwin) —And which if you had had any regard for your fellow creatures would have been read five hours ago. Do you think that you have gained anything by inflict ing this burden upon the suitors and the gentlemen who have been detained in attendance ? Mr. Irwin contended that Sir G. Grey had not acted in accordance with the Petitions of Right Act. The Lor(1 Chief Justice—And I dare say if you were supreme he would be made to suffer, but he is not at your mercy. Mr. Irwin submitted that Sir G. Grey had not acted in accordance with the statute in advising the crown to refuse the petition of right. The Lord Chief Justice—lt is my duty to decide what is the law, and I am of a contrary opinion. Mr. Irwin—And I bow to that opinion—(great laughter)—but I have the best professional advice that Sir G. Grey has acted contrary to the statute. The Lord Chief Justice—l have spent the greater part of my life listening to words, and I am perfectly sure that no words of yours will alter my decision. (To the jury)—The question for you, gentlemen, is, whether you believe Sir G. Grey. The jury at once said that they did, and a verdict was entered for the defendant. Subsequently the plaintiff applied for leave to tender a bill of exceptions, but the application was not granted, and he was told that he could move for misdirection. COURT OF PROBATE AND DIVORCE. (Before the Judge Ordinary.) BARNARD T. BURROUGHS-PART-HEARD. This morning the trial was resumed and addi tional evidence was given on behalf of the plaintiff, who contested the will of Miss Jemima Bradley. The deceased was an aged person who had formerly lived as servant in a gentleman's family, and had amassed a fortune of about £7OO. She died in January, 1861, at the house of the defendant, with whom she was lodging, and to whom she left the bulk of her property. The plaintiff was a niece of the testatrix. The jury, without troubling the judge to sum up, found for the will; and The Court condemned the plaintiff in the costs. ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE. HOME CIRCUIT.—MA-IDSTONE, DEC. 4. cnerore Mr. Justice Byles.) John Armstrong, 44, was indicted for bigamy. Mr. Barrow prosecuted. The prisoner was de fended by Mr. Addison. It appeared that the prisoner had been in the army, and served in the Crimea, and was discharged with a pension. He married his first wife in July, 1857, at Ballysax, in the county of Kildare, and he married the second wife at Chatham on the 10th of August in the present year. Hannah Howe, the second wife, a comely-looking little woman, deposed that she kept a lodging house at Chatham, and that the prisoner was in troduced to her at the commencement of the pre sent year, and soon afterwards he paid his ad dresses to her. He represented that he was a widower, and said that his wife had died at Wolverhampton, and that upon her death-bed she exacted from him a promise that he would not marry again until six months had expired. (A laugh.) She inquired of him when that time would arrive, and he told her on the 10th of August, and on that day they were married. (A laugh.) A very short time after the marriage she saw a letter that was written by the first wife, and she asked the prisoner whether it was true that he had a wife living, and he said it was not, and she then tcld him that she would not live with him any more until the matter was cleared up. The prisoner upon this packed up his things and left the house, and shortly afterwards she ascertained that he had a wife living at Wolverhampton, and the prisoner was taken into custody. It transpired in the course of the case that the witness had been in the receipt of a pension on account of her husband having been killed in the Indian mutiny, but the pension had been withdrawn by the Government in accordance with the usual custom upon her marriage. The Jury returned a verdict of guilty. Mr. Addison urged upon the Court the previous good character of the prisoner in mitigation of punishment. Mr. Justice Byles said the case was undoubtedly not accompanied by any of those circumstances of aggravation that were sometimes proved, but still the second wife had undoubtedly been damaged to a considerable extent. Ia consequence of the mar riage she had also lost the pension to which she was entitled, but he hoped, as it was a void marriage, that this would be restored to her ; and, under all the circumstances, he should sentence the prisoner to four months' hard labour. The greater portion of the remainder of the day was occupied in disposing of cases, the details of which were entirely unfit for publication. Alfred Burr Luck, Thomas Stevens, Geo.Allchin, Joseph Obey, Stephen Burgess, John Catt, and Joseph Clapson, the seven men who were tried on Wednesday for the manslaughter of the gamekeeper and acquitted, and who afterwards pleaded guilty to the charge of night poaching, arising out of the same transaction, were then placed at the bar to receive judgment. The learned Judge, addressing them, said that they had pleaded guilty to the offence of being out at night armed with guns in pursuit of game, and that the statute which made this an offence was a most salutary one the circumstances of the pre sent case proved most clearly. One man had lost his life, and another had stood in the position of being liable to have his life also taken; and this was the result of the offence to which they had pleaded guilty. The jury had asquitted them upon the charge of manslaughter, and he should not per mit that charge to have any effect upon his mind ; but in the sentence he was about to pronounce he should endeavour to deal with them according to the share that each of them appeared to have taken in the transaction to which they had pleaded guitt.yd: He then sentenced Luck and Burgess, who,. appeared to have been the original prop hard labour expedition, to be imprisoned and kept to four months labour for twelve, and the othe rs for of appeared each. As the prisoner Luck left not the man the dock he declared with great earnestness t hat he was who shot the deceased. the farmer i who had been con victedter of ins wife, manslaughter was next Alaj Major At the n na t o a n n , brought up, prisoner, said that and he hand ed u p a w r itten paper to hislordship When addressingwas placed the at the ri bar. iu r , nohadthadtel must ayed he had been very properly convicted o f th e Justice w o ff e nce of manslaughter, and ind he indignati on p a ssing sentence lest the ig naturally be created by the circumstances under w hich the offence was committed should interfere with the proper administration of justice. If he had intended to i n fli ct his wife his offence wouldserious mischief upon have been murder, and he would undoubtedly been left for ex ecution. He did not believe that he intended to cause serious mischief to his wife when ho assattltfd her, but still his offence amounted to manslaughter, and man slau g hter of an aggra vated character, for which he must pass a seu tepee of penal servitude. (The prisoner mere ex;- claimed, "I hope not, my lord, pray have mercy.', Such a punishment was no doubt a very one to a man who he saw had , filled the offices of churchwarden and overseer, acci had occupied a re spectable position ; but his duty to the public left him no alternative but to order h:ta to he kept in penal servitude for three years. This concluded the business of the as,!sizes. OXFORD CIRCUIT.--STAFFORD, DEC. (Before Mr. Justice Mellor.) Jesse Watts, William Henshaw, Hannah Sit. lols ' and Mary Downing, found guilty on the p r eviOu s day of the manslaugh ter of Henry S winnerton, we, brought up to receive sentence. Watts, on being asked if he wished to say anything, made a state ment which directly negatived part of the e vidence of the witness Kelsey. S entences—Watts, 9 years penal servitude ; Henshaw, 15 months' hard labour' Simms and Downing, 6 years' penal servitude each. CUTTING AND WOUNDING. Alfred Curtis, 22 , puddle r, was charged w ith Co' loniously assaulting and wounding Thos. on Nov. 7th, at Hanley, in the parish of Si9U- e " upon-Trent, with intent to murder him. Prisoner, with his wife, had been employed by the prosecutor,' who is a wax-figure manuf acturer, and also an ex-. hibitor of the same, at Hanley. On the night pre viously to the commission of the offence prisoner's wife had been discharged because she had got intoxl cated, and had qilarrel led with her husband on the prosecutor's premises. O n the followiisg mo rnin prisoner went into prosecut or's bedroom, carryil3.g large Highland sword in his hand, remarking' , " What made you attempt ?" and dealt the p roseeit, tor, who is an old man with a bald head , a fearflP blow on the left temple with the iron hi lt of tiled sword. Blood began to flow profusely, and the 0 man ran out of the room, fol lowed b y the prisonerf who, shouting he would have his life, and C 01 1; tinning to attack him , str uck him an Additional blow with the weapon upon the back of The the bead. He also kicked him in the side. old man, bleeding, and still followed by the saner,. made his way across the street in Wh ic i; his house is situated, and here his assailant "„- secured by some neighbours. Outside the room 1 " which the attack was commenced, the police- 8 C" geant found a razor tied firmly down to the handle' by a strong piece of cord, and also a large knife' The surgeon deposed to the dangerous state o f the wound on the temple, and the prosecutor said?' was still suffering from the injuries, not having been able from pain to sleep on the night before; The prisoner, when arrested, said that he inten. e`` the razor to kill the dog, if the dog on the prereise; should come upstairs whilst he was ea attacking ,114 master. The prisoner was un defended, and plle that the prosecutor had attempted to kiss his t ; He was found guilty of assaulting w ith atteniP'.vs do grievous bodily harm , and the j u d g e, retner ) %, that possibly some provocation been go sentenced him to three years' penal servitude. COUNTRY MARRLY S. MANCHESTER—DEc. 4. s t• This morning at our market there was an aveil l g tendance, and the business transacted in any article limited, with no improvement in prices. BIRMINGHAM —Dm 4. A 4 00 English wheat was sold at 54s to 69s for white, an, - g to to 56s per 36 stone for red. Barley, new malting, f 3 3.1,0 42s per qr • grinding, 26s to 308 Oats, old, 28 0 ' 4) , gro per 30 stone; new, 22s to 255. Beano, 41s to 44$ P e ' Peas, 40s to 48s per 36 stone. . PLYMO UTH—DEc. 2. • 57 6 White, 56s to 60s ; red, 54s to 56s per qr; DantOcitus• to 58s ; American, Ms to 55s ; S p anish, to 8 i, s , pe, 0 sian, —s to —s. Barley at p revious rates-34s to °. 0 , qr for malting ; grind in g , 27s to 28s ; oats, 23s t 0270 beans, —s to —8; flour, 38s to 41s Od. EDINBURGH GRAIN—DEC. 3 l# 0 1) A good supply of farmers' wheat to - day , which bro fully the prices of this day week. Trade still slow. • Wheat on the top 2s Od up ..... average 1341 l a l ' lP sv o ' Barley on the top is 6d down Oats on the top Os 6d down average Os 5d 6 , u Beans on the top is down... average 7e.. 11(1 14 ' Total Supply and Sales. Wheat ... 716.qrs ........ Sold 422 qrs 8ar1ey........2491 qrs .....••' Sold 1259 qrs average Oats Beans 36 qrs ........ •••••'S old 4 qrs 0 ; 43 8 Flour sells as follows :—Whites, 45s Od ; extras/ superfine, 41s Od ; fine, 39s Od. A OS Ild d 9.40, CORK—DEC. 3. The following were the quotations this morninZ;./ey, 9 wheat, 14s Od to 25 s Od ; wh ite, 20s Od to 26s Od;.. o Od t 9 Od to 17s 6d ; oats, 6s Od to 138 3d. ; new beret —s Od. DERBY SMITHFIELD—DEC. 2. n beb C The show of fat beasts to-day was not large, a- d > quality in demand. Good sheep scarce, an d sold well. good show of pigs; but fat calves were scarce. to 1 0 Beef Mutton .... 7d to 8d Pork ......... . od per 1 301),'. Lamb ca lf skins, ad o 6 d. Hides, — 3d d to to 4i -- d; d Rough fat, 4st FOREIGN MAIL PACKET LIST. MAILS DUE. Dee' 1 19. Auraslia and Mauritius, via Southampton..... ' ' D e c. ; 3 ' via Marseilles ....... ' pee. 5 ' Brazil and Cape Verds, by British packet. ....... ~,„,,, 2. Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, and St. Helena•• 0 ,7 3 , 2; China, Penang, and Singapore, via Southampton-tie 10' —... D e Falkland Islands Gibraltar, via Southampton .... ................' 0 . % 3 q via ......... Marseilles ... • . ' , P i e e ce e . : fi . India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via Southampton• ..D ee , J" . via Marseilles... „,,,, 11. India (Bombay), via Southampton ............. r ice , _ via Marseilles ............... '" Lisbon De' 10ee. '%' Malta, Egypt, and Aden, via Southampto n ...... oo' D' via Marseilles ....... pee, Newfoundland • Si Oporto and Vigo ............. Do , U. S. and British N. America, by Brit. packet. • • • by U.S. packet.•••pee, i, by Canadian Pac ket 'Deo• I s W.C. of Africa, Madeira, and Teneriffe ......... p e t. 1 0 . , Bahamas, via New York ...................... pee, Mexico ~. 16 , All parts of West Indies, including Chili, Peru/ J:0 0 ' California, and British Columbia.. .......... t et: THE BLOCK MANUFACTORY. — Th e pOirl : 00 0 17 haps, of the greatest attraction, and one which th°,oooeo never fail to laud with the utmost extra va g ance, i 5 li' i° r hie manufactory, where the blocks, great and eleol,, l ' tio ll t tl c rigging of the British fleet, are manufactured. r ho 01 3 ; machinery for the p ur p o se was first designed by i' t IP ° Brunel, in 1801, it was, doubtless, a very ge° 3 oba tlr t vance upon the hard labo ur of the y ard ; and. P r , foO P , was viewed with astonishme nt by the somewhe" OlO heads of the dockyard authorities—an astoniali va l i o ti' r3 a dmiration which seems to have come downworl i: p res ent time ; but it is no offence to the Ilillol/A of the great engineer who invented it to say that it ggatty g rown very antiquated and altogether behind the titj34l° fe is not by any means to be compared with m an Y °f wgeell maining new processes for saving labour to I ° l s or ` I operation either at the small arm factory at 8 13° ,,:ce h ate d the groat arsenal at Woolwich. I would no meet Pm", sired to have hinted as much to the six-foot police°oloe acted as my cicerone, than I would have given 6 fre tar be l ; on a point of theology to the Archbishop of C id : ‘ ,. - e d 0 113 1 ; We are told that the number of blocks in a ful l- 1; t° t .O is not less than 1,432; this number, of co uroo, r'`,otes e ra old three-deckers ; but as our modern heavy bl ° rigged in a far simpler manner than those is . u . " A wi, fathers, this estimate can no longer be accePtl' 07 1 6/35 5 perhaps with our new reefing aPPa r3tus ' an o° l ships, the old-fashioned block will ere long be suP by some invention.—Onco a- Week. -------- _________----- BIRTHS. Iti ttl ' Bufe Nv Lu il E li L am EY s t the 111 ' 44 DOn the 3d inst., at Stoke, pevohpor , . v ,e, Frederick Carr Dyer, Esq., Captain H.M.'s 750 3 •- . - 13u O lk n e t le h y e , al e 0 4 f th a inst.,sn at 37, Eaton-squaret f of a son. LvmsDEN.—on th e 4th inst., at 20, Onalow-e(lllsre' wife of Henry Lumsden, Esq., of a daughter. MARRIAGES. porr Go o!, 01 GRosiTENon—CoorEß,—On the 4th inst. Mr. -„ooyery of Ludlo w . to E m il y , only daughter of Mn , 1 4 1 & Je kyllle. street. t ho p 6 l O lIUDsoN—WARWICK.—On the 3d inst., at cieo 0 1 - , c hurch of St. Ann, Bl ac kf r i ars, George Lewis , ~a " fi rY 4- .ol`r of Mr. John Hud son , 23 , L u d gate-s t ree t, to 1 20 0' eldest daughter of M r . it . E . W arw i c k, of 6 , - I. '" E.C. ... Th w p ickshije .-- , the Rev. H D . C E . A C T a H rle S t . on, • Ca the 2d inst„ at the Rectory, :::,; CARLETON ArrA aged 78. , n—On the 4th inst. at his residence, in ri',,. 0 Henryll Thomas Hope, o f p D ea n Doricl"' Castle Blayney, Iread.sq" Deep ' KITCH ' n IN G.—,,n LT Aint . 0. —0 fAjtoch anninie t i st h e, e hsi l .n s F t g: iT a s jg t eo ., dh a n, t 3L S . e t Stamford -hill, fo ll r s d q .. h . , i o l l f , i i- v a ), 4 : j e l : t ill . : near Arundel, aged 57. ~, f aid" Crc MED,EDITPL—On the 2d inst , at Bath, Edwd. T. ra' Esq., M.R.C.S., aged 59.. . lb ti ,e, NEWTON.—On the 2d inst•, at his residence, 1 ,,, d 11 01 1" priory, Moses Newton, Esq., formerly of Colwee 40 0 ft Slaughtun, Sussex, aed 3. aw,. ti e Alexandrine the Ist i g nst 4 , at Froonte SelvNe,at r Ol Alexandrine P. Ouseley,.only, survivingdauglirs. late Right Hon. Sir Gore Ouseley, 13art., age d -- --- -- --- --- :,01 4 , LONDON: Printed an d Published by JOHN CII.A; . 11 of No. 112, Strand , Printer, at THE SUN Otlie,e, 00 :ty e Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in tha C Aliddleam—Friday, December 5, 1861,