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LAW INTELLIGENE, Dec. 5. VICE-CHANCELLOR'S COURT. (Before Sir W. P. Wood.) DRAKE V. SYMES. This case came on upon exceptions to answer. The bill was filed by certain shareholders' in the International Life Assurance Society against the directors, and one of the securities on which the moneys of the society had been invested. Interro gatories had been filed, containing inquiries of a searching.nature as to the business of the society, and requiring the defendants to set forth a list of the policies granted and their particulars, and also the way in which the funds of the society had.been invested, what loans had been granted, and to whom, &c. The defendants in their answer umhad referred to the books o f the society (38 in nber and scheduled), as containing full and correct in formation as to the policies now in existence, and as to the particulars of the securities upon which the moneys of the society had been invested. The plaintiffs had applied for an inspection of the books, anti it was decided in chambers that they were -en titled to an unlimited inspection, the defendants having proposed to seal up certain portions. Not withstanding this decision the plaintiffs had on the sam e day excepted to the answer as insufficient in these particulars. Mr. Rolt and Mr. W. H. C)le, in support of the exceptions, contended that the plaintiffs were en titled to have the information sought for presented to them in a tangible shape, without being put to the trouble of sifting the 38 huge volumes which had been scheduled, for the purpose of collecting the necessary data for making their calculations and submitting them to an actuary. Mr. VT. M. James and Mr. Cotton, for the de fendants', contended that the books contained full particulars as to everything inquired for by the plaintiffs. The books were open for the inspection of the plaintiffs, and the directors had no further information to give beyond. what was contained therein. . Mr. lolt replied on the question of costs. The Vice-Chancellor, after observing that it was desirable that great care should be taken in framing interrogatories - so that they should not be oppressive, said that the information which was contained in the books ought to be pointed.out in some easy and accessible form. With, respect to the inquiry as to loans, &c., the Court *mild not require the names of the debtors to be set out. So in a litigation between the members of a banking firm, the partners would not be bound to set out the balances of all their customers. His Honour, after adverting to the circumstance that the exceptions had been taken after the order for inspection had been made, said that when a defen dant was asked to set out lists of thiS ° oppressive character, he was justified in saying that all the accounts, &c., were contained in certain books, which books were true, provided that he referred to the books sufficiently to make them part of the answer. At the same time, in referring to books in this way, the defendant was bound to make the examination of those books as convenient as possi 'ble, by in some degree at least specifying and nar rowing the sources of information through which .the plaintiff had to seek. It was not enough, therefore, when the inquiries were specific, to give a simple reference to these enormous books. It was surely for the benefit of all parties that the infor mation should be given in the cheapest and most accessible form. The exceptions must, therefore, in strictness, be allowed, but he should reserve the costs until flu ther order. DIVORCE COURT. BEV. V. BELL AND TIIE MARQUIS OF ANGLESEY. 4 IVrr.. M. Chambers, Q.C., Dr. Deane, Q.C., Mr Cleasby, and Mr. G. .H. COoper Appeared for the petitioner • Mr. Sergeant Pigott and Mr. Dixon for the respondent, and Mr. Edwin James, Q.C, with Mr. Gordon Allan, for the co-respondent. This was a petition by James Morton Bell pray ing for a dissolution of • his marriage withi Ellen Jane Bell,•on the ground of her adultery with the Marquis of Anglesey, and also asking for damages from the co-respondent. The damages were laid at £lO,OOO. The respondent and the co-respondent pleaded a denial of the adultery.. Mr. M. Chambers, in opening the - case, said that the only object of petitioner in asking for da s-mages was to place himself in the same position as ibefbre his marriage with regard to the money se t , cured by him to Mrs. Bell by the settlements exe cuted at the time of the marriage.. By the Gist sec , tion of the act of last session the Court had power to deal with marriage settlements in certain cases, but it was doubtful whether it was authorised by - that section to interfere with the settlements where, t.. as in this case, there had been no children of the s 'marriage. Mr. Bell had, therefore, been advised to insert iu the petition a claim for damages. 'lt appeared that the marriage took place at Pad . di o ngton, on the 10th of July, 1851 ; Mr. Bell being a merchant, the son of another merchant of consi derable wealth, and the respondent being one' of the daughters of Mr. Bernan, a wealthy stock '. broker. Mr. Ball was 25, and Mrs. Bell, 21 years of age, and she was described as a-lady of remark able beauty. They had a house in Gloucester-ter :. race e llycle-park, and as Mr. Bernan resided close to them in - _•,rasseassquare, there was a great deal of intercourse between the two families. Mr. Ber nan also had a house at Worthing, where Mr. and Mrs. Bell were accustomed to spend a few weeks every autumn . . No evidence was given as as,to the time and circumstances of the Marquis ; - :of Anglesey's introduction to the family, but it appeared that he used to visit the Bernans at Worthing with his children, Lord • Berkeley and Lady Florence Paget, - and that the. Bernans and the Bells had visited him at Beaude p• sert. In Oct., 1858, Mrs. Bell was at Worthing, and on the 23d of that month, during Mr. Bell's ab ' ' 'Hence, she left her father's house and went to Lil • lyman's Hotel in Lower Brook-street, where she was ined by her - waiting-maid, Sarah Denseley. The Marquis of Anglesey visited ,her there every day.. After remaining for a fortnight she and her maiftand the Marquis went together to the Calver f ley Hotel at TonbralgeS-wells. Airs. Bell passed by _ the name of Mrs. Burton, and they occupied one sitting-room and two bedrooms near each other, and 4. - -teok all their meals together. About a fortnight - afterwards they removed to lodgings in Halfmoon street, Piccadilly, where the Marquis and Mrs. Bell lived as man and wife, Mrs. Bell then taking 74 the name of Lady Anglesey. They remained.there until. March, when. Mrs. Bell went to the Castle Hotel, Richmond. A butler named Wicks, who had been'in Mr. and Mrs, Bella's service, said, in his • erosseexamination, that they had slight differences `tit times, but never any serious quarrel, and that r Mr. Bell used to complain of her seeing too much company. The attorney of Mr. Bernan, Mr. SesVell, also said that it turned outto be an ill-assorted mar riage, • 'The Marquis of Anglesey was stated to be - a widower. 67 Mr. Sewell also explained the provisions of the settlements executed at the marriage, as to which " it is only necessary to • state that Mr. Bernan s• Ratted certain sums to his' daughter, and that Mr. s 4„ Bell . Settled upon his wife the interest of £5,000' to her separate use for her life. is* t Mr. E. James, in addressing the jury in mitiga tion of damages, fully acquitted Mr. Bell of any in tentienalek" put money.in his own pocket; and said that he was quite justified in wishing to relieve him • Self from the liability for the payment. of the inte rest of £5,000 to his wife during the remainder of her life. Hewas not instructed to make the slighest . imputation upon the conduct of Mr. Bell, but the marriage was not a happy one, and there was no evidence that the Marquis had been guilty of any thing like deliberate seduction, so that it would be ,sufficient to award damages which would place Mr, - 1 Bell in the same position with regard to the settle inent,as before the marriage. The Judge-Ordinary, in summing up, said the only question for the jury was the amount of damages, and in considering that question, they .were directed by the statute to be guided by the same riles as were formerly applicable to actions against adulterers for trim. con. He never remem bered to have heard it suggested. that in actions of that kind the jury could legitimately take into con eideration the provisions of the marriage settle ments. Mr. M. Chambers reminded his lordship that -in the case of D r . L ar d ner th e se ttl emen t s were g i ven $ ,4 7 4 . in evidence, and £B,OOO damages awarded in conse- T , sequence of their provisions. The Judge-Ordinary said he did not remember V : the case, He c ou ld understand that the nature of the settlements might b e a t op i c f or an address to a jury, but he could n o t see on w h at pr i n Ci p l e t h e settlements could be given in evidence in an action against the adulterer. The wife might gamble, 'or , make clucks and drakes of the money -settled to, her separate use, and the husband had no control over her, whether he lived with her or apart from her. :;" However, after the precedent which the learned [ counsel had cited, he would not withdraw the settle a. merits from the consideration of the jury. In es sessinse damages the usual course was to take into Consideration- tho position- in life of the parties, the terms on which they had lived together, the .cir cumstances' under' 'which the adulterer was intro dueed to the husband's family, and, the means he had of paying damages, asd to make the damages, as nearly as they could, a cornpensation—although , it was a miserable thing to talk of money in such a matter at all—for the loss the husband had ,sus tained. If they thought the Marquis had taken advantage of the prestige attaching. to hiS title and to his large possessions to induce a handsome' wo man, perhaps fond of admiration, to give up her honour to him, and had thus robbed Mr. Bell of "THE SUN, LONDON; TUESDAY EVENING; DE - CEMBER 0, 1859. plaintiff. Mr. Sergeant O'Hagan, Q.C., stated. the plaintiff's case. He said that it now became his duty to state the grounds on which the plaintiff claimed da mages, and large and ample damages, at the hands of the jury. The plaintiff, Miss Julia Trowsdale, was the daughter of an English gentleman, resi dent in Belfast, where he held the responsible posi tion of an officer of Customs for a great number of years. Between the families of the plaintiff and the defendant, or at least between certain members of them, great intimacy had existed for navy years. OldiMr. Stewart, of Holywood, was acquainted with Mr. Trowsdale, the Customs officer in Belfast ; and the daughters of Mr. Trowsdalo and the grand.- daughters of Mr. Stewart, the sisters of the defen dant, were sent by their respective parents to .a place of education well known, in the county of Antrim, Grace Hill, a highly respectable and ex cellent school, kept by the Moravian community. The young ladies of the two families formed an in timacy which continued until the death of one of the sisters. Whether previous to the autumn of 1856 there had been any acquaintance between the plaintiff and the defendant (lid not appear ; but about that time he met Miss Trowsdale at Sunny side, the residence of a lady named Mrs. Rounds, and on one occasion he accompanied her to her home, at a place called Ballyhackamore, between Holywood and Belfast. From that period very close and intimate relations were established be tween the defendant and this young lady. He became a constant visitor at the house of her pa rents, and they having made inquiries as to his character and conduct, he did not appear to them to be an ineligible person to be a suitor to their daughter. His visits to the house continued from the autumn of 1856 down to the time almost at which he broke his contract. During the period a correspondence of a very voluminous nature was maintained between these young people, with the full knowledge and approbation of the families on both sides; and towards the end of 1856 a positive agreement to marry was entered into between them. The correspondence proceeded throughout the year 1857, and until the death of old Mr. Stewart, in November. 1858 ; the defendant's visits to Mr. Trowsdale's were of weekly and almost daily oc currence, and (what might be expected between affianced persons) little love gifts, lockets, and "en gaged rings," as they were called, passed between them. Up to the period of his grandfather's death, the defendant was not possessed of much property himself. He possessed something less than £1,000; but he kept a yacht, and enjoyed himself as became a gentleman of fortune. The defendant, however, did not desire to enter into the marriage state until he became perfectly independent in the world. But it sometimes happened that love cooled, and that what a man intended to do when he was in poor circumstances, he shrank from doing when his cir cumstances improved. It would appear from the correspondence that Mr. Stewart, the grandfather of the defendant, died, leaving the latter property said to be worth £6OO per year, and that in a very short time afterwards the defendant began to cool in his attention to the plaintiff. Still the corres pondence went on. In March, 1859, the plaintiff discovered the change that had come over her affi anced husband, having written repeatedly to him without receiving any answer. Then, for the first I time, the defendant began to make an excuse for the purpose of avoiding the completion of his solemn contract. He stated as his reason for not having cor ,responded before, that he had heard from somebody of the plaintiff having exhibited his letters to other people-. That was in March, 1859. The plaintiff answered that the charge was falsethat she had never done anything so uumaidenly and unbecoming, • and desired to know the name of the slanderer. The . defendant's first answea was that the communica tion was confidential; next, that it was made to him by a person who had gone to America, and that until he hoard from him he could not state the name; then, that this nameless person was travelling abroad in America, and he could not tell exactly when a reply could be got. It would be found that, before ;a reply could have come, he had married another woman, and the jury would therefore come to the conclusion that the charge advanced against the plaintiff was merely a false and base pretence of the defendant to justify the breach of his contract made 18 months before. The learned counsel then read the following amongst other letters : " Holywood, Midnight of Saturday. " My dearest Jnlia,—l am sure you can but little imagine the pleasure I now experience in writing to you, although so immeasurably. less than that of seeing , and holding converse with, you. Imagine, then, if the pleasure in writing to you be so great, what must it be that I shall experience at receiving a letter from you, dearest Julia. What a magic there is in that little word, Julia , and t o what a source of hope and joy does the very mention of it give birth ! For strange, fond moods the spirit Bath That never trod life's common path. And is this feeling, this emotion. love ? Yes, love for you, dear Julia, pure and fervent; for is not that feeling love, that fills the soul to the complete annihilation of every other thought and feeling, thus enabling us, as it were, to lift the veil of the invisible world ? Oh, yes, love must be holy. Are there not moments to all of us, when clearer thoughts and more elevated feelings than are often wont to visit us take possession of our minds ? .When, thinking on some - beloved object, our thoughts are enabled to rise from the study and contemplation of the creature to the more fervent worship and adoration of the Creator. • Do we not feel all t his to be the case when --. But excuse me, I feel that I am wearying you, and allowing my pen to wander from its original subject; but I know, dearest Julia, that you will excuse me, as the very fact of my writing to you is surely sufficient to ac count for my wandering. It has been wisely ordained by an all-wise Providence that we can in the ideal thus converse with those we love and honour ; for remember, that although absent from you in per son, I am present in spirit ; for I never open a book, or look upon anything in the face of nature around me, in which I do not see, in plain and legible characters, your face and features there depicted before me ; although were I to speak the truth, that face is never, even for a moment, absent from my mind : for surely it is this, that heart needeth heart. In my dreamings of thee, Still I fear to depart ; In my dreamings of then, . In that doorway I stand, . Meet thy welcome so bland, And I still press thy hand In my dreamings of thee.. I hope. you felt no ill effects from your dancing last night. May every happiness be thine, is, believe the fervent wish of your very devotedly attached and affectionate, " HUGH STEWART, Jun." In another letter, dated HolywOod, Tuesday even ing, he said,— " There are moments when the heart glows with unutterable emotion---when. the electric spark of love thrills our whole being With a-joy too great for utterance. - Would that at such moments, dearest Julia, language were given to express even a tittle of that love with which you are wOrshipped.• There are some whose natures are cold and passionless— whose hearts can.never thrill with love's emotion — in whose bo ;onis no generous sympathy with spon taneous energy ever breaks forth—who, wrapt up in their own cold, selfish interests, alike insensible to every holy and kindly feeling, walk this earth as in a living tomb. So in love' there are those who, when they love, love with their . whole mind, their Whole being--10 - whom no possible sacri fice at the shrine of- love would offer an impedi ment to their devotion ; and, again, on the other • hand, there are those who Would degrade that holy and blessed emotion, which is so cramped and deformed - in their own bosoms as to be scarcely recognisable. But enough of this. I must • crave your pardon for being so wrapt up in the clues tion of love that I almost forgot I was writing to you. Forget you, did I say i Oh, no. I look upon D.aaloemtrhiovisnisgs,a. either t any t hing which her froml as s oci ati on( h o antot t o me see m eiyu or orbe imagination,. beautiful i r a ul f r I o might m h you that Thatwhich makesGaTstitu o a g wri ttenryir b l w e baaoyupupt would, approaching o u . g, perhaps, e n ' h i t i l n e ma g t n i e a s t the ripe age of a ay go th o e f re wo w n rsna 115000dr. good deal of nonsense of expression in that, but they would say also what was the effect likely to be pro duced on the mind and feeling s and imagination of a young girl by writing of that description. An other letter, dated Jan. 13, 1857, is addressed to Miss De Winton, one of the Christian names of Miss Trowsdale. In this he (Sergeant O'Hagan) said he (the defendant) once more lifted his pen to convey, as some poet had said, "The throb of passion through a drop of ink." (Laughter.) " And oh ! my dearest Julia, though I feel our hearts beat in unison, and though not a single pulse of my bosom that does not throb for you, nor one thought of innermost feeling which in my devotion I would conceal from you—l love you more that aught else on earth, and would willingly make any sacrifice for you consistently with honour. I love and honour you with a devotion nearly akin to that which is due to celestial objects; yet, my own best beloved Julia, pardon me if, in the ecstasy of the moment, in the delirium of love—(laughter)—l should have become so far wrapped up in the pre sent, insensible alike to past and future, so far for getful of myself, as to offend you. Believe me dearest Julia, I would not willingly for wor lds offend you, or in any way hurt your feelings. Though I have my own errors and imperfections, yet no one could ever impute to me a mean or dis honourable action ; yet, dearest Julia, your happi ness and aught else in my hands are dearer to me than life itself. And now, my ever dear Julia, write me a long, long letter, and pray tell me that you pardon me for my thoughtlessness, for oh ! Julia, I now love you the more for your pure and confiding love and artless innocence. . . And now, dear, dear Julia, good bye for the present, hoping to hear from you,soon, and in the meantime believe me your most sincerely attached and loving "HUGH." It appeared by one of the letters that he made her a pfesent of a locket . . She in return gave him a ring, and he, on the 30th of April, 1857, wrote: — "Many, many thanks, dearest Julia, for the ring of your hair you gave me. I shall ever prize it as a sacred g ift ; and when I look upon it it can not fail to drive from my mind any selfish or un charitable feeling that might otherwise lurk there. Oh! how would it be possible, at the same time, to think of you, my own gentle, loving Julia, and cherish an impure feeling ?" At one period the plaintiff's family had got into some difficulties. The father of Miss Trowsdale had become security for the debt of another, and it resulted in the issuing of an execution and a sale. The family had transferred themselves from Bally hackamore House to Seville Lodge, and then the sale took place, and they had to submit to annoy ance and embarrassment. It was to that . the de fendant referred, and for that he expressed his deep regret. The substance and effect of her letter was stating that there had been embarrassment and annoyance in connexion with her family, and if on that account he thought proper to do so, she was willing to allow him to withdraw himself from his engagement. That was true or, was false, and if at the end of the case. it was proved true, the jury would say what effect it would have on their ver dict. It was written about the Ist or 2d of October, in reply to the sympathising letter of the defendant ; and he replied to that letter in a letter dated the 4th of October, to which he (counsel) would direct their attention in contrast with the final letter, in which he' justified his abominable and flagitious wrong. That gentle innocent, confiding girl—the words were not his (Sergeant O'Hagan's), but Mr. Stewart's—offercd him a release from his engage ment, if he had the heart, if hewas base enough to take it. The letter was as follows : "My very very dear Julia—l yesterday morn ing received your very long looked for letter, and now, love, with much pleasure sit down to answer it. I must say, dearest Julia, that you very much misjudge me when you infer that my love for you would wane on account of your misfortune. No, dearest Julia, that is far, far from the case. I did not love you for any supposed or imaginary wealth you might possess. In other words, I did not woo- your money, but yourself. lam sorry, love, that you could ever have imputed to mo such sordid motives. I thought you knew me better, and would have considered my character superior to such meanness. That, dearest Julia, I have not seen you often of late is not my fault, but my misfortune. Yes, dearest Julia, I am sure that even you yourself will acknowledge that were I master of my own movements I would be oftener found by your side.. With regard to the insinuations you have made about my forsalcinz you for another—oh, Could that ever be possible, dearest Julia, to forget you, my own beloved ? Surely not. That is entirely false, nor do I know how that report could at all have arisen—as I believe myself innocent of having ever given cause for such a report." The post-mark of that letter was the 4th October ; it was in answer to the letter of the day before. The girl said to him she was ready to sacrifice her self, her hopes, and her happiness, if he chose to take his freedom. His answer was : "No;' I am too good, too noble-hearted, too chivalrous a man, to do any such thing. I wooed yourself, and not your fortune. I loved yourself, and not your wealth." On the 20th January, 1858, he wrote another letter : " Holywood, Tuesday Night. "MyOW n dearest Julia,--I received your letter this morning, and now, near midnight , sit d own to reply to it. Indeed, my love-, you very much mis judge me when you thus accuse me of indifference and carelessneSs to you ; but aS you well know, unfortunately I am constrained from acting as my feelings would dictate. I am sure, love, you will not judge me too harshly, knowing, from what you have seen of me, that you alone possess my heart, to the exclusion of aught die on earth. I am, I am, sure, Julia, you must allow, most painfully situated. I am, as it were, between two fires ; and even then, Julia, Worst of all, you accuse me of insincerity and fickleness. Believe me when I assure you that I never yet expressed a senti ment to you that I did not feel—of course, making allowance for any poetical expressions—and yet even you, Julia, turn round and accuse me ! As I before said, had I my wish this moment, it were to he by your side, to .clasp you in my arms, and press upon your cheek the pure kiss of confiding love. But stern Fate says otherwise, and a cruel destiny for the while imposes an insurmountable barrier to Inv fond desire. In this situation lam more to pitied than you." What did the man mean who wrote that letter— the man who said that the thought of her banished from his mind every thought of impurity ? If he were not speaking to her as her affianced husband, would he have . dared to use the words contained in that letter ? • Let the jury ask themselves, when his accomplished friend came to ask them on their oaths to say that there was no contract of marriage in that case—let them ask themselves what was the meaning of that letter. That was in January. After that he (Sergeant O'Hagan) understood that Miss Trowsdale went to London. It was desired by her family that her education should be finished, and she resided there with members of her own family. She received there a letter from the defendant on the 28th June,lBsB. That letter was in these terms: " My very dearest Julia S—l this morning received your kind and affectionate letter. I was,very glad, indeed, love, to find that you are in good health and enjoying yourself as you formerly used. You have also had your own share of annoyance and vexa tion ; but, as I have always said, these cannot last for ever. Is there not " a silver lining to every cloud 9" It seems a long time since I last saw or heard of you, and when I think of the many happy hours we have spent together, and our pleasant walks, it makes me sad to think of those happy times and contrastthem'.vith the miserable present. Oh ! Julia, I am sometimes almost inclined to de -spond, and believe is such a thing as fate. But no, it cannot be possible. Brighter, at least as happy, days are in store for us ; for though at times the Almighty 'does often see tit to visit us on earth with trials and diffiCulties, yet out of these the pure and trusting heart will rise the purer and stronger be cause of its trials, for even is it not a true saying, though common, that pleasure is allied to pain 9" That was the last letter which lie (counsel) had, until a short and pert letter, announcing the death of the defendant's grandfather, of whom he was the heir, and from whom he was to receive an ample fortune. In that letter he wrote-- "Of course you heard of the death of my poor grandfather. He had certainly been ill for a con siderable time, hut, withal, it wus a greet shock to us all. Poor old man ! he was very patient and resigned, very different, indeed, to what we could have expected." He concluded by saying— ' " You will please excuse, dearest Julia, this me lancholy letter, bnt I cannot help it, and with kind remembrance to you all, believe me, my dearest Julia, ever your fond and attached " HuGH." It would seem that, whether from Mr. Stewart's becoming a more eligible part/ in con9evence-of the death of his grandfather, or from whatever other cause, rumour stated the the did not iutend.to marry MissTrowsdale, but some person else—per haps a wealthier person. With reference to these rumours he wrote thus on the ith of February, 1869: . "My very dearest have but just re ceived your very kind and affectionate letter, and at once respond to it. I ani very sorry, love, that you should feel dissatisfied with me, but I have been so peculiarly placed for some time past that I hardly know how to act, and then you accuse me of beipg on the eve of marriage with some young lady or another. Than this "accusation nothing could be more false. No thought of the. kind could ever cross my mind. Indeed, I was so much put about by the death of my grandfather and the illness of my sister, that I scarcely knew what to do ; so that, if I was neglectful to you it was not that my heart was pre-occupied with thoughts of another. No. I hope when we meet—which I hope will be soon —that I will be able to express myself more clearly: I met Miss Hope one day towards the latter end of the summer. Do you ever see her now Do you remember how sick you and she were when going to Carrick 9" The letter concluded with—" Believe me, your fondly attached Hugh." When the poor girl wtote to him complaining of his apparent neglect, eren after he had protested . his continued affection for her, he wrote to her ' thus:— " I have to complain of you. I have not, it is true, been as attentive to you as I should have de sired, because I heard that you showed my letters to other gentlemen." She applied to her parent for advice and protection in her sorrow. When she received that shocking letter she gave it to her mother, who replied to it stating that it was false. She referred expressly, and in terms, to the engagement of that man with her daughter, and declared that there was no pre tence in justice, in morals, or in conscience, for say ing that that solemn contract should be broken by the defendant. Mrs. Trowsdale's letter was written about the 2d or 3d of April, 1859, and he replied on the 4th. He ought to have written to the mother, as she wrote to him, but wrote instead to Miss Julia Trowsdale herself : "I this morning received a latter from your mother in reference to my letter to you. lam sorry I cannot at present take the liberty to give you the name of my informant. What he told me he told in confidence—that he saw the letters, not through you, but through another. I intend, how ever, as soon as possible, to get his address and write to him for liberty to use his name ; of course I could not do more. I am, indeed, sorry that any thing of the sort should have occurred, and hope that it will still be satisfactorily explained. Your explaining this to your mother will suffice for my writing to her, and when I get an answer I will at once apprize you of it. Hoping to see you soon, and that all will still be settled, I am, my dear Julia, your own loving " HUGH" ,He (Serjeant O'Hagan) denied that there was any such person as was referred to by the defendant. He did not believe that there was the shadow of a shade of truth in that allegation with reference to those letters, and if there was, that was not the way in which the letter of the mother should have been.answered. The poor girl wrote again to him, repeating her solemn denial, and on the 20th of May, 1859, she received his s4th letter " MY VERY DEAR JULIA,—By yesterday's morn ing's post I received your, I must still say, fond letter. I assure you that this state of suspense is as painful, if not more painful, to me than it is to you. You think you are the only sufferer. How much are you mistaken ! Think you it is nothing for me to have my dearest and fondest hopes blighted--to be wakened from a dream of happi ness to —. But excuse me. Time must, and will, and that shortly, reveal all things. Then you will see which is most to blame." Then he told her that, on receipt of her last, he wrote to the person of whom he spoke, but that his letter had to go to . the Western States of America —(laughter)—and he promised when he got a reply to tell her of it. He added— " I fondly trust it will be one that will bring love and happiness to each of us. I could not tell you what was told to me in confidence. I must still subscribe myself your still loving and attached "HUGH." On the 16th of July he wrote, addressing thus: —" My dear Julia." It hd beer., "My own Julia," or " My dearest Julia," or, " My very dear Julia," and once, :" My very, very dear Julia," — (Laughter.) Now it fell to "My dear Julia," and soon it tumbled to "Dear Julia," and that before he got the reply from the friend in the Far - West. In the letter of the 16th July he told her he had got no answer yet from America ; that his friend was in business, and had lately moved from the place where he had located—(laughter)—on a kind of business tour ; he did not know his address, but when a reply was received it would be commu nicated. She wrote again to him, requesting that he would come and hear from her own lips the re lutation of the calumnies of which he spoke, and he replied on the 19th of July, saying, " It would be very unsatisfactory for me to have an interview y9u on a sul?iectson which I am not yet at liberty to speak.' Well, the thionymousialanderer never appeared ; no letter appeared • no letter came from America ; the travelling trader never was discovered. Miss Trowsdale pressed still ; a matter not to be wondered at when her position—publicly known as it was that she had pledged her troth to Mr. Hugh Stewart—was con sidered. She was to have been his wife. The time had arrived when his fortune enabled him to marry, and she was forced to appear before her family and the public in the equivocal position of a woman who, having been promised marriage, had been thrust aside as if she had done some act dis honourable to her as a woman—doubly dishonour able to her as a Woman who had been bound by this solemn contract. She implored of hiin to give her the name of her traducer and to allow her an op portunity of setting all things right. On the 14th of September he wrote the following letter, which concluded the correspondence on his part. He be gins, " Dear Julia." 'What a tumble from "My own ever dearest Julia !" and its fond variations:— " You again ask the cause of my silence. As before told you, it was because I did not at all relish the idea of having my letters to you exhibited. As you know, I wrote, but have not yet received authority to disclose the informant, &c., to whom I refer. 1 have also had great reason to complain of frequent statements made by you relative to your family affairs and expectations, which I afterwards discovered to be quite erroneous, and, I believe, made by you without any misapprehension of the fact. As I before told you, I will, on receipt of an answer, make it known to you. Till then, • believe me, ever sincerely yours, " UGH." The learned sergeant concluded with an eloquent appeal to the jury on behalf of his client. ' Several witnesses were examined for the plain tiff, after which the proceedings were adjourned•to - the following day (Saturday). be I geon at Aldershott, as she was walking home, saw a man in the uniform of a soldier strike a match and set tire to the rick in question. She saw another soldier with a woman standing near the rick. in a short time after this the prisoners, who belonged to the 60th Rifles, were taken into custody for being absent without leave. They at once said, " You did not see us do it," and they afterwards said they had done it to get "lagged." The property de. stroyed amounted in value to £97. The learned Judge, in summing up, said it was not necessary that a man should with his own hand set the rick on fire. It was sufficient if they were all acting with one common purpose. The jury found the prisoners guilty, and they were sentenced to be kept in penal servitude for seven years. Samuel Betts and Edwin Jackson were indicted for a burglary at the house of Henry Allen, at Al dershot, and stealing bottles of drugs, on the 15th of September. In his defence one of the prisoners said he went to visit Mr. Allen's wife, and had been let into the house. The jury found both the prisoners guilty. The learned Judge said the defence was most im• pudent. The sentence was three years' penal ser. vitae. Edmund Wardropor, a most respectable-looking man, and a solicitor, was indicted for forging a promissory note for the payment of £350, with in tent to defraud, at Petersfield. The prisoner was also indicted for forging a pro missory note for the payment of £275. Mr. H. T. Cole and Mr. Russell appeared for the prosecution. The prisoner pleaded guilty, and was removed. John Parker was indicted for forging a post-office order. Mr. Poulden and Mr. H. T. Cole appeared for the prosecution. The prisoner pleaded guilty, and was removed. Elizabeth Adlam was indicted for the wilful murder of her child. The grand jury threw out the bill. The prisoner was arraigned upon the coroner's inquisition. Mr. Cole said that as the grand jury had not thought the evidence sufficient to put the prisoner on her trial upon the indictment, he should not offer any evidence upon the coroner's inquisition. The jury would, therefore, acquit the prisoner. Mo. Poulden appeared for the prisoner. The prisoner was then acquitted. The learned Judge said the grand jury had re quested a bill to be sent up for concealment ; but, as the child was alive when it was found, that could not be done. TFIE °LOD - OEB2'BR ELECI7OIV: The Commissioners met yesbrday at S, Fludyer street, Westminster, to exa - . - nile; a few more Nvit 7108SeS._ The first witness callel was Mr. Rose, of the firm of Baiter, Rose, and Co,, Parliamentary agents, who sttted that he acted professionally for the Conservative party at the last general election. On the Sth ofApril last a person called at his office and sent up a card bearing the name of Richard Thompson. Winess requested that the man should be admitted, mad on his entering asked him whether he was .11.1% Thompson. The man replied that the card sent up was his, but that his name was not Thompson, and he went on to say, " I come to you. fru). Mr. Crutwell, of From°. I am told that there am anticipations of a great deal of illegal practices on the part of the Li berals, andl . ,,am asked for a considerable staff to weich the different publiehouses ; buttl;equires authority and means, and I am come to ask you whether you will supply me with either the one or the other." Witness answered, "You have evi dently quite mistaken my vocation. I never inter fere at elections, and can have nothing to say to you. Nor can I understand your coming to me in this way." The man said, " May I call again ?" and witness replied, "Of course, you can call again, but I think I shall have no other answer to give you at any time." Next day a similar card was sent up to him, and witness said he should decline seeing Thompson under any circumstances, and that there was no use in his waiting. The man said he hoped he should get his expenses, and witness replied that he must go to the person who had employed him for them. Memoranda of both these conversations were made at the time by Mr. Spofforth, a gentle man in witness's office. (The memoranda, which were here read, corroborated the witness's state ment.) Never saw Thompson before, and had never seen him since, except once while crossing Parlia ment-street. He was a man with a very red pimpled face. The Chairman—Are we to understand, Mr. Rose, that Thompson never went to Frome on any com mission from you ? Witness—He certainly never did. I must tell you frankly that I looked. upon Me calling on me as a " trap." The Chairman—Had Thompson the opportunity, while at your office, of seeing any paper containing a list of places to which it was proposed to send money for the elections on behalf of the Censerva tive party Witness--,lnasmuch as there never was anything in the nature of such a list there, it is quite impos sible that he could have seen it. The Chairman—We have had it in evidence that Thompson said he had seen a list of places among which stood Glocester with the sum of £2,000 ap pended to it. Witness—As no such list existed it is utterly im possible that he or anybody else can have seen it: The Chairman—We have put the question to you, Mr. Rose, in consequence of the statement which has been made to us. - Witness—There is not one scintilla of truth in it. In reply to further questions, Mr. Rose added that he had taken no part in the Glocester election, and had no knowledge of any money having been sent to Glocester. He had been applied to in April last respecting the trustworthiness of Mr. • Wood, of Sandwich, who had written a letter stating that Mr. Monk had on a former occasion been ready to stand for Sandwich on Conservative principles. Witness had directed a telegram to be forwarded to Glocester in answer to that application, and its purport was that Mr. Wood was a gentleman whose statements might be relied upon. Thomas Evans deposed that at the 1857 election, for Glocester he received £ll or £l2 from Brevrwer Monk for the purposes of bribery, and that he ibed John:Hemmington, stonemason, and John Thaddick, householder, to vote for Price and Berkeley, George Allen - received from £8 to £lO from Brewer Monk in 1857 to pay , his ol:vn travelling expenses and those of five or six tither voters who worked for him at Henley-on-fhame F . None of that money went for bribery, transaction as a losing on e , and he regarded the Mr. Wilton, surger, n , of Glocester, put in a corrected statement of the rentals of between 260 and 270 voters 3 r:no had accepted bribes. Of the total nute, , Der '123 were freemen whose rentals were mostly very low in amount, rang ing from L 3 10s. per annum to £8 or £O. In one or two 'bases, however, the rentals of the bribed were as h;:gh as £4O. Mr. Wilton gave evidence as to o %e data on which his calculations were based, and his figures were confirmed by Mr. Ward, who had had local experience in such valuations. The name of Mr. Julian Bernard was called in court several times, but no one appeared to answer the summons of the Commissioners on his behalf. It will be recollected that at the last public sitting of the Commission Mr. Bernard was prevented from attending by indisposition. Mr. Coleridge, tho secretary to the Commission ers, now stated, in answer to questions from the Chairman, that he had addressed a summons to Mr. Bernard, at his chambers in the Albany, and that its receipt had been acknowledged by Mr. Mouut, Mr. Bernard's solicitor. A declaration, stating that Mr. Bernard was too ill to attend, and signed on the 30th ult. in the presence of a police magistrate, had also been furnished to the Commission. He had subsequently seen Mr. Mount, who had told him that any notice addressed to himself would be taken as served on Mr. Bernard, and had undertaken that that gentleman should tender himself for re-exami nation as soon as he recovered. On his suggestion that he should write to Mr. Bernard himself at the Albany, Mr. Mount replied that Mr. Bernard was in town, but not at the Albany, and that though he was still unwell he hoped he might soon be able to be present. After that interview with Mr. Mount, he wrote on - Wednesday last to that gentleman, in timating that the Commissioners had fixed the sth December as their next sitting for the examination of witnesses, and requiring Mr. Bernard's attend ance on that day. He had also sent a subsequent letter to Mr. Mount by the Commissioners' instruc tions, requesting Mr. Bernard to produce his cash and pass books. To these letters he had received no answer. The CHAIRMAN said that Mr. Bernard not having thought proper to appear before them, they must conclude that he did not intend to come there to be examined again. The inquiry would be adjourned till Friday next, in order to give Mr. Bernard an opportunity of attending there if he wished to avoid the consequences to which he had exposed himself. MR. RAREY AT LIVERPOOL. (From the _Liverpool Mail.) Mr. Rarey has again gratified the lovers and ad mirers of that noble animal, the horse, by giving in Liverpool two more public expositions of his unique and unrivalled method of dealing with "horse na ture." We give a summary of his experiments in another column ; and we can state, from personal observation, that those experiments were witnessed, with intense interest and delight, by large and in telligent audiences•, including, we rejoiced to see, not a few ladies. At each of the lectures, that re markable .curiosity, the horse Cruiser, was intro duced; and untamed and 'untameable as he is ad mitted to have been before Mr. Rarey mastered him—he followed that gentleman round the ring with all the docility and attachment of a domestic pet. Some little time ago, we chanced to see the Marquis of Westminster's celebrated horse Touch stone, who won the Derby, " the blue ribbon of the turf," nearly 30 years ago, and who is now enjoy ing a " green old age" ii a paddock near Eaton-hall. When we saw him he was as quiet as a lap dog, and, in our judgment, " Cruiser" is now equally quiet to those who know how to handle him, as Mr.ltarey evi dently does. He is, in fact, the crowning triumph of that system of which the " law of kindness" is t i he foundation and the guiding principle, and which in Mr. Rarey's hands we venture to predict will never be found to fail. His success with the other animals which were submitted to his treatment was scarcely less marvellous. Wild, vicious, and apparently in tractable as they were upon their first appearance, they were brought in an incredibly short time un der the most perfect and complete control ; and the universal testimony of the spectators was that tho triumphs of the operator were not only unsur passed, but unsurpassable. The case of the chestnut stallion operated on on Thursday was perhaps the most extraordinary of all. Hitherto one man only has been able to approach him, and that man after Mr. Rarey had done with him proposed to muzzle him again before leading him home. Upon an in timation from Mr. Rarey, however, that this was wholly unnecessary, he very properly desisted, and the animal was led away by an ordinary bridle, without any difficulty whatever, and without mak ing the slightest demonstration either of ill-temper or of vice. Mr. Rarey, besides having a pecuniary interest in the development of his system, is actuated, we be lieve, by a sincere desire to improve the treatment of the horse—an animal in which he evidently takes the deepest interest, and which is too often as ill-used as it is useful. He gave a practical proof of this desire, on Thursday, by reducing his scale of charges to half their previous amount, in order that the great omnibus proprietors, and coach and ear proprietors, might have an opportunity of send ing their horse-keepers and drivers, to see with their own eyes the wonders and the advantages of his admirable mode of treatment, and to learn from actual observation the lessons of tact, of kindness, and of discretion which the actual display of these wonders and advantages cannot fail to teach. One gentleman, Mr. Busby, we are glad to see, availed himself of this opportunity, and sent in 50 of his servants, and we hope that at the next and closing MIDDLESEX SESSIONS.—Dec. 5. Robert Davis, 54, clerk, was indicted for em bezzling the sums et XII Os. 7d., £l2 Os. 71d., and £l2 10s. received by him on account of Messrs. Lindsell, Fletcher, and White, and others, his masters. Mr. Giffard appeared for the prosecution. The prisoner had been for about 10 years in the service of the prosecutors, a highly-respectable firm in Bed ford-row, and the total amount he had embezzled as ascertained up to the present time was about £190; his salary was £llss. per week, and the only rea son that could be suggested for his having robbed his employers of money received by him on their account was that he had got married to a woman given to extravagance far beyond what his means would justify, to meet which he had used this money. The Assistant-Judge said this was one of that class of cases which must ever be regarded as very serious, a robbery by a confidential clerk. He sen tenced the prisoner to be kept to hard labour for 18 calendar months. The prisoner's wife subsequently applied for an order to see him, and she said he had been concerned in betting and other irregular practices, to which his present situation was to be attributed. A prisoner named George Smith was brought up for judgment. He was convicted at the last ses sions of a felony, and, as he asserted he could pro duce witnesses to speak to his former good charac ter, the learned judge deferred the sentence to afford him the opportunity of bringing them forward. None were in attendance, but since the last session ho had been recognised in the Houso of Correction, and the officers now proved a former conviction and a sentence of four years' penal servitude against him, which he had undergone. The Assistant-Judge said this was a gross at tempt to deceive the Court, but the prisoner had, by endeavouring to play this trick, brought upor..,, himself consequences which must result to a perzson convicted of a felony after the severe warring of four years' penal servitude, a sentence parsed upon him, as it now appeared, on n o l ess thP . ; ll s i x indict ments. The, Court had no alternatve and the sen tence was now four years Penal. servitude. Robert Barrington, 27, wa s indicted for unlaw fully and maliciously assaulting John Begot and inflicting upon him F,'," , :ievous bodily harm. The prosecutol. and the prisoner were glass blowers, and worked at the same establishment. There had been some angry words between them, and the prosecutor, having been directed to give some instructions to the prisoner from his employer with reference to some glass chimneys he was mak ing, the prisoner seized a red hot iron from a fur nace, and knocked the prosecutor about with it, in flicting such injury upon him that he was a patient at an hospital three weeks, but had now quite re covered. He said ho did not believe that the pri soner had really any ill feeling at heart against him. The jury found the p r i soner gu ilt y of a common assault. The Assistant-Judge said he must act upon the finding of the jury, but had the prisoner been con victed on the first count of the indictment he should have sentenced him to a long term of hard labour, for it was a base, cowardly, and cruel attack upon an unarmed man with a red hot bar of iron. The jury had found him guilty of a common assault, and for that he should sentence him to four months' imprisonment, during which he might reflect upon the atrocity of his conduct.,, Felix Newman, 25, described as a vocalist; was indicted for stealing a cashbox, in which was the sum of £232 in notes and gold, the property and money of Thornton Moore, in his dwellinghouse. Ho pleaded guilty The prosecutor was a stationer in Lisson-grove North, and on Saturday the 29th of October a cash box containing £232 was stolen from under a chair behind the counter. The prisoner was detected in the act of carrying it off by the prosecutor's wife, who tried to stop him,, but so' violent were his efforts to get away that he broke one of hor ribs. e From the evidence in the depositions there was no doubt the prisoner acted in complicity with another man and two women, who went into the shop on pretence of making a small purchase. While Mrs.. Moore's eye was turned away for a moment the prisoner slipped round the corner and took the box, which he had seen on Mrs. Moore taking it up to give change for a sovereign. There was a second charge against the prisoner of having stolen a diamond earring value £BO. from the shop of Mr. Frederick Hancock, 39, Bruton-street, and of an assault upon Mrs. Moore to resist his apprehension. He denied both these charges, but Mr. Hancock's assistant was sure he was the person who took the earring. The police having intimated that a good deal could be ascertained of the prisoner's character if time were allowed, The COurt deferred sentence until next session. The cashbox and the contents were recovered. 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Wildorvank, Holland, 20th Sept. 1853.—Dear Sir,—Our baby, which Heaven presented us with,ten months back, was attacked, when four weeks old, with. a disease of the stomach and glands, by which our seven previous infants had all been carried off, and this last child seemed destined to follow its sisters and brothers before many days, for our doctor, a very able practitioner, had, during three weeks exhausted a ll hi , skill, and wa s a t a l oss what to prescribe ' next, when he advised Du Barry's Revalenta Arabica, which, I am happy to say, worked a great change for the better in a few day. 4; and in six weeks' time the child was perfectly well, and is now a cheerful blooming boy-:-.:1 source of the greatest happiness to us 11. Vaahnan." In tins, at Is. 6d. ; Ilb., 3s. ; 21b., ss. 9d. ; 51b., 125.; 121 b., 265. The 101 b. and. 121 b. tins carriage free, on receipt of post office order. Du Barry and Co., 77, Regent-street, London' Fortnum, Mason, and Co., 182, Piccadilly; Abbis, 60, Gracechurch-street ; 4, Cheapside ; 63, and 150, Oxford street; 330 and 4.51, Strand - 49 and 60, Bishopagate street ;. 85, Tottenham-court-road. Also at D u bli n , Bewley and Draper ; at Edinburgh, Itaimes and Co. ; at Liverpool, Nixon and Thaw; at Mamhester, Sharp and Scott; at York, Raiuies, Blanchard,'. and:Co. ; at §nuth arapton, Randall and Sod his wife, they would probably look upon it as a case for a serious amount of damages. The jury, after a short consultation, found a ver dict for the petitioner, and assessed the damages at £lO,OOO. Their Lordships pronounce a decree of d lution, and condemned the co-respondent in Costs. BREACB OF PROMISE EXTRAOR DINARY. JULIA SARAH DE WINTON TROWSDALE HUGH STEWART. This was an action for breach of promise, tried at the Court of Queen's Bench, Dublin, on Friday, before the Lord Chief Justice and a special jury. The court• was densely crowded during the day. One of the side galleries was occupied by ladies. • Mr. Sergeant O'Hagan, Q.C., Mr. Armstrong, Q.C., and Mr. Crawford appeared for the plaintiff. Mr. Whiteside, Q.C., Mr. Macdonogh, Q.C., Mr. Joy, Q.C., Mr. Sullivan, Q.C., and Mr. Falkiner appeared for the defendant. Mr. Crawford opened the pleadings. The sum mons and plaint contained three counts, alleging that, in consideration of defendant being . then ,unmarried, he promised to marry plaintiff, nad alleging as a breach of the contract I that he married a certain other person named Lizzie Hope. One of the counts alleged that the promise was to marry the plaintiff in a reasonable time after the death of defendant's grandfather, and stated that his grandfather was dead, and the defendant married to Lizzie Hope. The defendant pleaded that he did not promise to marry the plaintiff as alleged. The issue for the jury was, whether the defendant did promise and undertake to marry the ASSIZE INTELLIGENJE. WESTERN CIRCUIT.—WINCIIESTER, DEC. 5. Michael Gittings and Thomas Hinds, two recruits, were indicted for burglary in the house of Thomas Budden, at Aldershott, on the 7th of October. Mr.W.M.Cooke was counsel for the prosecution. It appeared that a person who slept in theaanteen heard a dog bark at 2 in the morning, and upon betting up he found a window broken. Thamoney which had .been taken the day before had been counted and packed up in paper at night, and con sisted of £2 15s. in copper. There was some parti cular writing upon the paper in which the money was packed. The packet was placed on a shelf under the counter in the canteen. There was also some silver money, which was put in a desk in the parlour of the canteen. All was safe when the people went to bed at half-past 11 o'clock. On going into the bar at 7 the next morning it was discovered that a silver watch and the greater part of.the copper money were missing. The window had been broken sufficiently to admit a person's hard to open the window, and then a person could get in at the open window. The two prisoners had been in the habit of coming to the canteen for goods. In the course of that day Hinds asked a man to give him some silver for copper money Gittings came in at the time, and he counted out 'some copper. While they were counting out the money the man sent to the canteen to give informa tion, and they were kept until the landlord of the can teen arrived, and the prisoners were then giVen into eu,tody. Upon being searched, the papers in which the money had been packed at the canteen were found in their pockets. On the road to the police station Gittings told Hinds not to split about the watch, as he would get over that and as much mOre The learned Judge having summed up, During the time the jury were deliberating, ono of the jurors said he was deaf, and had not heard the - evidence or the summing up. The learned Judge said it was much to. be re gretted that the juror had not said he was deaf be fore he was sworn. •w •1 ••• The juror said he had hoped he could have heard, but he stood up and did his best, yet he only heard a small portion. The learned Judge then,directed the juror to come in front, and had all the witnesses again called, when he read over to them the evidence they had given, and asked the juror if he hml heard him read the evidence, and he said he had. His lordship then again.. summed up the case. The jury found the. prisoners Guilty, and they were sentenced to be imprisoned for 12 months, with hard labour. . • The deaf juror was then discharged from further attendance. John Manley, John Gould, and Charles Green wood were indicted for setting fire to a rick at Aldershott. Greenwood pleaded Guilty. Mr. H. J. Colo prosecuted. It appeared that on the evening of the 10th Aug. last Miss Wilton, who was the daoghtcr of a sur. lecture, on Monday, many other extensive owners of horses will follow so good an example. For °' ll.- selves, we are still prepared to maintain —in com mon with our old friend and neighbour—Captain Mervyn Richardson, late of the 4th Light Dragoons, with whom we have amain recently compared notes, and whose admirable treatise on Horsemanship is a standard authority upon the subject, being at the thoroughly practical and t h oroug hly scientific —hat Mr. Rarey is the foremost man in the world, both in the science and in the art of training and manag ing horses. TILE BRITISH . DISPUTE TVITII .PARAGU.AIr. It is understood that dospatches will be forwarneu by the mail of the 9th from Lord S. Russell to Senor Valdez, President Lopez's Minister for Foreign Affairs, relative to the recent misunder: standing between the authorities at Asuncion eq. Mr. Henderson, our consul until lately in that capi tal, respecting the imprisonment of a Mo nte Videan . citizen claiming to be a British subject, and ireP ll- cated, with several Paraguayans, in a c onspiracy having for its object the assassination of t he Frew dent and the overthrow of the Government. From the fact of Lord S. Russell communicating with the Paraguayan executive, instead of through Mr derson, who has withdrawn to Buenos Ayres' may be assumed that his lordship re cognises t ' he justice of Senor Valdez's representations as to reasonableness of the Paraguayan dealing t hose offenders against their laws in the manlier '7 l to laws enjoin ; and that his lordship is prePare,„o reserve all demonstrations of ferce, if such a l e d become unhappily necessary, until he is sa.% o f that there has been a design to act in s hostility to British interests and honour. .I`-',tned tention of the sort has been emphatically dis c ' in writing by Senor Valdez, on the part Fr of dent Lopez. Every proof of the truthfill of or s d to such disclaimer has been offered to be furnisue.ries his lordship, should he cause the requisite inn d o to be instituted on the spot. No doubt he w l . 00 so ; for there are assuredly sufficient conafiliesti in the Platine States already, without furtherfeirco broilments through the pressure ' of a Brit ish &I re in the remoter waters of those regions, unless wit& should be the most unmistakeable justifiestioTon. necessity for such manifestation.—LieerP 9i A COUNTRY NABIBISS.. OXFORD—DEC. 3. 0 41 P ' The trade was good for fine samples ci t o An average quantity of grain of all kinds on. Offer as dear. White ruled at 45s to 525, red 40s to 4 65 rod parley, 28s to 36s ; oats, 19s to 28s ; beans, 399 TIOUrf Zcsg peas, 39s to 425.; boilers, 43s to 46s per clr' per sack. Hay, from £3 5s to £4 Os per ton. other sreqr7 CHELMSFORD—DEc. 2. thei r larget The quantity of wheat shown to-day was a d the log with a very flat business. Holders were firm, . 01 Spy week's advance declined is for the best qualities. corn unaltered. Az .3 9 ° t°4°1 Wheat. white 43s to 53s Peas, Partr i- - e ' . 39s to 4 g red 41s to 468 White ....... 39 5 to Barley 32s to 40s Boiling ... '.. 3 4 s to 32 4.:' Chevalier .348 to 458 Dun ........ .36i to + 0 Grinding 23s to 298 Beans, Ti e !: V 42s '''' 4 40 9# Malt 60s to 668 H arr ow ILe 3 7 8 to . Chevalier 638 to 68s Mazagal l ..... Oats 23s to 33s COLCHESTER—D tc. 3 . l e s O ° A moderate supply of wheat ; the best MP * Dia bP.rleys keep up in price, and winding last week's rates ; inferior parcels rather lowen„ o,olples la Pi ( qr. dearer. Beans and peas a - s before. 36s w", - 3 2i to Wheat, white 44s to 52s Beans, gazagni age 0 4 2 , red t4 38s to 4Cs Middle it ow''' . 4OO ay Barley 36s to 50s White peas ...... 3 5 0 to Oats .. 18s to 23s Grey.• ....... DERBY , —DEC. 3 . At market yesterday wheat was a moderate re s week. Oats a slow sale. n Y Berlesmall shoW. toS 4l° scanty supply, but firm in price. Ri n g .2„ , 16 , D .),S 0 White wheat, new, 453 to 52s Barley, grin — -. . *let. Red do. Barley, ... to ,f° 40g to 47s Oats, old, .. .. 26§ tAd Old white 4ss to 52s New,do ......... ,„ to ! Po' Red do. malting 4 3 0 6 5 s t o 4 44 7: I BBeeananss,..n..ew.. ......... .... „1 1; 0 4i th NORTHAMPTON- - D ge • 3. At this corn-market wheat was in. tolerable 01fry114/0 40: 0 ° a fair trade, at a slight decline—prices ranging 46s for old ; new, 38s to 455. There was a ber th a passing in barley-28s to 41s per qr. sale, quoted at 23s to 34s pe r 24 stone. 13 :1 60 to 50s ; now, 34s to 40s. Rye, —45; 665. Oats, I'mi, old Aro Bpd GLOUCESTER—DE c. do e*, a At our market there was rather a poor attentbe 440 dull business was done. Prices were ab° l 4,,,iitho 9t tgar 1 4 1 - e n y sh is e in ots l , e 2 BB os re t q o u 2 e 7 s s t ; des of this day se'nnight—viz , English whi'—itiso to • 46e ; red, 41s to 43s per qr.. Foreign 011 1 W ." a I t r s i i h s to23!sadfotronjors'od. COAL• MARI (Prices of Coal per Ton at 'ET—DEc. 5. too t he • the close of foor alle End. 11. . 2° Haswell • • ••• ...... . ,11 Gibson • _• ........ • .18 4! eugh ........ • . i s Eden .......... • • 16 u d Hunwick ...... • • • • • ':l9 C105e.... 6 Acorn ........ 10 South Iletton . . ..... • :16 Whitworth ......... • South Durbara ..... • • 1 5 Riddell ............ Hilda • • ... ... • . 16 A West Stanley. • • •••' **JO ; Koiper Grango••gi:;;o Powell' s DuffrY s Dtg" 7--' 0 Garway and ...... .. . 4• .4 71--Sold, 26. a. d. Bell's Primrose l3 6 Burnhope 13 6 Byass's Bebsido West Hartley ...14 6 Davison's West Hart- _ ley Lambert's West Hart- ' ' West Hartley 14 6 Holywell 15 0 Tanfield Moor 14 9 Tanfield Moor Butes-14 9 Wylam West Wylam 14 0 Walker Primrose 13 6 Ward's West Hartley .13 6 Bates';West Hartley. _l3 6 Hastings Hartley 14 a BoweesWestllartley 14 6 Ships at marl j lBl' FOREIGN MAIL PACK- to o are d e° ? s il* tters by owl" 1 In the followintsble E signifies that lel by evening mails from London, and Dif Degna teh of 'ihilB* I Dec• 12, 31 D e c„ 19, I) eD ee c: 21 4 ' l4l'l' I Dec. 5, El Dec E Dec, 1 0 . Ikt Dec. B . it * Dec. 17, ... ec. __ , 31 1 Dec.l 10, X Dec. 12, t Dec. Dee. 9, 31 ,, f Dec. 7t Dec.—'t Dec. Dec. Dee. Dec• --~ ~ Dec. 7'l !Dec- 2313 rort of so uthaloP". 0 cole• r 000 1 •* LiVe" LiYerP ° De forlO rt Sout h P. 1... • • ,„,tr. IL' o uthio — , goUthSIIIP Isout".:P.: soutba °l : ...... .••• s o uths°_,„; Souttum- s o utb* °P. .... .............. sou. , .• GA ILiverP °°l.. sout bsoP limerP°l'. /03.17, 311S0uthantp. Deb 0 0 : 130, DESTINATIONS. Australia and Mauritius, via Southampton Ditto, via Marseilles Bahamas and Havana via New York Canada, &c. (by Canadn. p4t.) Cape of Good Hope, Ascen sion, and St. Helena China, Penang, and Singa pore, via Southampton • • Ditto, via Marseilles Gibraltar, via Southampton Honduras and Blewfields India (Calcutta) and Ceylon, via Southanipton Ditto, ♦ia Marseilles India (Bombay), via South ampton Ditto, via Marseilles Lisbon, Brazils,Buenos Ayres, and F. Islands Lisbon, Vigo, and Oporto.. • • Malta, Egypt, and Aden, via Southampton Ditto, via Marseilles Mexico and Havana Newfoundland United States and British N America (by British packet) Ditto (by U. S. packet) .• • • West Coast of Africa, Ma deira, and Tenerife West India, California, Vene zuela, Chili, Poru, Grey town, New Granada, &e. . • 10' 1 0 --- bit niatkatolll9# COMMUTATION OF PIINISIDIS --• u„. F 7 I O OI P co llected that at the last sess ion of the Cedelipanos A cb gg Court we reported the trial of a man d ea th urn . a f ifkj who was found guilty and sentenced , lead to his of of administering a quantity of sugar 0 , 1 her . AsiS ee , 015 Lambeth, with intent to kill and murae r i f o raeoe w oa seP' since been received at Newgato from the too 9 tba muting that sentence, and he is orderedeu 13111 a; removed servitude tofoi‘,ritiliiiebasnprio,risofont,en years. preparatory to nildergw term of his sentence. e fe w o i f fe j o . f l t ir h . e 3: l 3 3, a e z ir a . AwsoN.—On the 3d inst. at all STudliburyS. Rectory, n. 134erb1.-.ll ' thO lf" Awi th 7 d a so-surrey, _ g F et re to ci , e Es ek g "Ans°lll B .ALcriirrit.—On the 3d inst at Afordee, ./ u.' y I - , llsTiion.N.--On the 2d inst., at Boulogne-sur ~ L wife of Rear-Admiral llathorn, of a daughte.r. huge LEE.—On the sth inst., at 12, N,ppel.strt. square, the ' wife of Lazarus Lee, Esq., of 3 s 12.A.RRIAGES. , ' 0 04: CLAM E—WnrouT.—On the 26th ult, at 5t.1,1104,4 0..4 of Fulfordt i h L e s° R N e Chelsea, W. Leigh Clare lateqo Vest r33_ /Wrig° late T. - - Louisa, only daughter of , the General Geo. isic is Royal Engineers. th 001 eired PRESTON — W -‘ a daughter. -e_. tbe to DorothY, Hall, Westmoreland,;7 ,ov, tshteeplshteinnssotu, artreAlloo,ooftorle :Ito trie°ll,,Aru lrork. W. Wilson, Esq., of Fulfor ,11 DUATIIS. lif t ' 14 ADAMS.—On the 3d inst., at the Close, Salisbull'lfor Andrew, dirle.w7Falis.,so.:7.: s_O,Ci.kley.V:illas, AdelsicWl.°Au' 0 stead. lO C ANDREW.—On the let inst at Edinburglit /:11% Colon el Val( Pl°. 131t.117.—0n the 3d inst., at Brighton, ers Bray, late 39th Regt., aged 70. street, IrlivlV C.lmpnr,LL.—On he 3d inst., at 51, Terrill' , /Ist ° Denuistoun Campbell C.B Lieut.-Colonel . 06/ hinders, aged 43. ' ~ khatill Sql CASH.—On the 6th inst. at the Retreat, Pe 0 Cash, Esq., aged 70. ' • rOC 1. c di CROOKS.—On the 29th ult., at Brighton, Alliajocal fourth son of the Hon. James Crooks, of 00 0 West, Canada West, aged. 36. bill liF .NNAWAY.—On the 29th ult., Gerard itetillid' of Sir John Kennaway, Bart., as 1 5 . ..-- if 1.400 --- ---- -ft-1T Ilif LoNpox : Printed and Published by Id'''. poi 0 00 1 100 of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at Thi mon Strand, in the Pr e c inct of the Sava' ill th e , . Middlesex, Tuesday, December 6, 1869., • bpi, ' 141 • Of aj At • lij( ' • ll b e ou ( hi! Le] . , li • 11 — a v ble ( C t 1: T , G L T of W. ; . teat " — t' 111. 4 Ito, tar,' ',ollt • vet, tol 14, N ' • t k , Of • ni,