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

nice to some of the most important companies SO U 7 rfAMP7 ON BLEC7ION. THE NOMINATION. The nomination of candidates to fill the vacancy occasioned in the representation of Southampton by the death of B. M. Willcox, Esq., took place at the Town Hall yesterday morning, 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 wore 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 Lord Mayor, accompanied by a few of his committee, was the first to arrive, followed shortly afterwards by Captain Mangles and his leading supporters, amid a hearty round of cheering and clapping of hands. Immediately 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 responded to by groaning and hissing. The 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. Tuexi.n, amidst the greatest uproar, seconded the proposition. Mr. LE YEI:I7RE proposed Mr. William Ander son Rose us a fit and proper person to represent the town..lti Parliament. (Groans and cheers.) 'sslr. JOSEPH LOCKE seconded the motion. Mr. SCRASE proposed the Right Hon. W. F. Cowper, the First Commissioner of Works, as a fit and proper person to represent them in Parliament, but there was no seconder. Captain MANGLES, 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 the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor of London a fair and issnpartial 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 end of the election as we were when it began. I hope this will be the case now, and no words shall Cross my lips which can be construed as personally offensive to my opponent. Let me, before I pass to the particular object of the meeting, pay a just tribute to your late excellent and liberal member, Mr. Willcox, who has passed away from us, I am sorry to say, full of years, and yet with a vigour sufficient to justify our hope that he would have served you with the same ability and same howssty of purpose that he had for many years post. 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 etiall be to-morrow, as your repre sentative, it will be my duty and my pleasure to pursue the same course as I did then. I will allow it is sad to think how little has been done in the movement of reform since I then addressed you, electors of Southampton. But be not downhearted, the truth must prosper, and we shall ever honestly carry that, as we have previously carried those just and liberal me,4sures which are for the benefit of the people at large. The Tories are apt to disguise themse'sves in very strange garments, and my hon. cistssment 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 pledged by 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, men 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 he re-established were ; and if I were to , search the country through I know no town which could be adduced as a stronger argument in favour of the abolition of church rates than Southampton. You have had no church rates for many years, and 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, but, 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 £lO ? 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 cause 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 con haled entirely tr, a mat 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 • ment 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 I 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." (Enthusiastic cheering.) The LORD MAYOR then addressed the meeting. T he principal claim which he had for their suffrages _was that he was an independent man ; b ut w hil s t he was anxious to reciprocate to the utmost the kindl y feeling expressed by his honourable oppo nent towards 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 interestsof th e people of Southampton. South ampton possessed advantages second to no port in in the kingdom, but Capt. Mangles had succeeded, in the honest discharge of the trust reposed in him as chairman of the South-Western Railway Com pany, in securing a railway m onopoly against the interests of the electors. He had also told a par liamentary committee that the port was not capable for sa ili ng ships, but only for large passenger steamers, an d had said that Southampton did not mor e trade, did not want more rail ways, did want no t want more eia is and iron ; and if they returned the captain he believed that i h d e n w o o t u t l h d in c k arr t y ha o t u t t h h e i ; prophecy.their interests. The An dover and Redbridg e He, the r wou ld entrust him wteffohre, was a very fair speci men Capt. Mangles wou l d of the kind of interestßailway did not exe rcise in their behalf. but would ask blame them him m his conduct in the matter , rese nt e t o for con tinue to allow Capt. Mangl es to repreent tem South-Western Company, andse had to represent the in parliament, Capt. Mangleh also s heen h t he means of driving away from the port a company which would have yearly expended a large sum. He was an active director, and gave valuable assist- connected with the port, but that a 3 stance 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 orough to return as their representative such am,P . 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 himse'f from the stigma, however fairly and honestly they might have acted. He would illustrate what the ballot had done in France and America. In France through it alone they had lost every right which made a country worth living in. In the United States it had caused an expendi ture of millions, a conscription, suspension of habeas corpus, and martial law. Every species of terror had been the result of their having no prominent public men to come forward and lead the public mind ; and why ? Because they voted hishouestly 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 Rose. Three cheers were given for each candidate be core the meeting separated. 711 E .41ALD0.11 7 CLUB. MALDON, THURSDAY. The third anniversary of the Maldon Liberal In dependent Club was celebrated in the public hall 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 don, Mr. T. Sutton Western, whose near relative 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. Do 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 SITN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, DECEM BER 5, 1861 the slaveowners was accepted by the anti-slavery party, who were at that time omnipotent. He (Mr. Buxton) did not think, then, that he was a traitor to his father's principles in acknowledging that he should look with abhorrence upon a military subjugation of the 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 was gone for ever, and should 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. caused by a cancerous tumour in the stomachs 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 ? sir, none at all. Superintendent Dann—No, DHaanvne—yNou any further evidence o, 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. if there is no more eviTdheenceehsahiermisadniTcl:errgY ell ed w .( ; 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. MURDER A 7 CIIES7ERFIELD. :NARY DEA2Ir OF A LADY EILRAO.RDI An inquiry was held by Mr.ll.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 upon 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 last witness she went out to visit at Bo w, which she evidently did by railway as the half 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 dhe 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 tun deooaMed, 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. On Wednesday an inquest was held at the S Helen's Inn, Chesterfield, on view of the body of G Cooper, who came to his death under the following circumstanceet—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 Ant' 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 stupid, 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 in their personal appearance; but they have not yet been identified by her, as the clothes 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 permitted 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 Flannery. When apprehended and questioned as to where they were on the night of the murder the prisoners gave contradictory accounts. The prisoners 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 dnring the time the prisoners were undergoing examination. THE MURDER OF A POLICEMAN IN SUFFOLK. On -Wednesday, John'Ducker, who was committed list 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 ho 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 sp)t at which the body of the deceased was discovered, ---- ---.......-------------------....--••---_______: ~.--------' ---- o ffice, and the gentlemen who are in attendance assaulted her, from the Dome-office will produce all that there manslaughter, and but still his offend manslaughter •of an aggra were there. Many were not in the office, and lam vated character, for wh;ch he must Pass a sea ) amounted to x not s ure whether this letter was there. tence of penal servitude. (The priso h,•ive mercy. u 7 s ) Mr. Irwin referred to a case in " 7 Dowling" to claimed, "I hope not, my lord, pY very serio , s h o w that a Sec._ of State was bound to pro- Such a punishment was no doubt a . 1 e offices ot duce documents in his possession. ner nere e ,_ one to a man who 1:w saw had filled ti. . a a re _ The Lord Chief Justice —=But the document is churchwarden and overseer, and had oce, I P I - e .. not in his hands. You can call the other gentle- spectable position ; but his duty to the p, bl men, who will produce it if it exists. Sir G. Grey—lndorsements are made upon peti- penal u . e ic t in him no alternative but to order him to be l& p servitude for three ycars. tions of right, or memoranda upon separate pieces This concluded the busine,ss of the assizes. of paper, but these simply contain the substance of the answers to be sent to th ® persons sending them left OXFORD CIItCUIT.—STA FFORD, DEC. 4. (Before Mr. Justice Mellor.) Jesse Watts, W illiam Henshaw, Hannah Sirarasy re and Mary Down in g , found guilty on the p day of the manslaughier of Henry Swinnerton, wete brought up to receive sentence. Watt.% asked if he wished to say au:ything, mett l e a • state; ment which directly negatived cart of the Ovi de/3 ,,, c r0 of the witness Kelsey. Se 15 1 1 Y e "; penal servitude ; Renshaw, 15 months' hard la bah, on being Simms and Downing, 6 years' penal servitude t 5c CUTTING AND WOUND ING. Alfred Curtis, 22, p uddler, was charged with fe' loniously assaulting and wounding Thos. William SI on Nov. 7th, at H anle y , in the parish of Stoke upon-Trent, with intent to murder him. Prisoner, with his wife, had been employed by the prosecutor, who is a wax-figure manufacturer, and also an W hibitor of the same, at Hanley. On the night pre," viously to the commission of the offence prisoner:s w ife had been discharg ed because she had got intos.l; cated, and had quarr elled with her husband °a tb, prosec utor's premises. On the following mornilbor prisoner went into prosecutor's bedroom, carrying large Highland sword in his hand, remarking', " What made you attempt ?" and dealt the prose cn : tor, who is an old man wi th a bald head, a fearful blow on the left temple with the iron hilt th e O ld sword. Blood began to flow profusely, and the 13 ' man ran out of the room, followed by the prisoner' who, shouting he would have his life, and no tinuing to attack him, struck hirat an additiouP blow with tft!3 weapon upon the back of tb,, t3 p head. He also kicked him in the side. 11 T old man, bleeding, and still followed by . the P. sone r, made his way acros s the street in wbi : his house is situated,. and here his assailant VOI" secured by some neighbours. Outside tho room la which the attack was commenced, the pt‘lice-seri; geant found a razor tied firmly down to the handle by a strong piece of cord, and also a large k, 111 0 ,;', wound on the temple, and the P The surgeon deposed to the dangerous state a. '7 4 , was still suffering from the injuries, not haf il ° been able from pain to sleep on the night ended The prisoner, when arrested, said that the razor to kill the dog, if the dog on the pier tat he inten a 7 0 . should come upstairs whilst he wits aitacking di-lea master. The prisoner was undefended, and Pltife, that the prosecutor had attempted to kiss his " t " to He was found guilty of assaulting.with attelnPojg do grievous bodily harm, and the judge, rera sr ., e s that possibly some provocation had been g l. sentenced him to three years penal servitude. in. Mr. Irwin—Did you get a letter on May 21,1862, referring you to a letter of July 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 instance whether I refused to present to the Queen the petition o f ri g ht, This was the first in!ime.tion 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 tender, 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. Ile had informed himself by the best legal opinion at his command as to what advice he should tender to the Queen, and acting upon that I 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 Queen, 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 Lord Chief Justice—And I dare say if you were supreme hn 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 (Befo OF PROBATE OAN DI) ORCE. re Judge rd D inary. BARNARD V. 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 INTELLIGENC.F:. HOME CIRCUIT.—MAIDSTONE, DEC. 4 (Before 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 told 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. In 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 ...i....A. ..-- .....,,,z...1 7 ....at for p—lstz-4-L-in 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 acquitted 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 guilty. He then sentenced Luck and Burgess, who,. he said, appeared to have been the original proprietor_s o d f the expedition, to be imprison ed and kept to hard labour for twelve, and the others for four months each. As the prisoner Luck left the dock he declared with great earnestn ess that he was not the man had been con who shot the decea sed. Wife, was next n ni t o a n n , s i t a h a e g f h a t r e m r e r of whohis Written paper to his lordship w hen he was placed at v b ireol‘thleagdjhootrf uMtph, a nd he handed up a ue the bar. Mr. Justice Byles, addressing the prisoner, said that he had been very properly convicted of the offence of manslaughter, and he had delayed passing sentence lest the indignation that must naturally be created by the circutustances under w hi c h the offence was committed s h ou ld interfere with the proper 1 and he would wou his wife his off ence to o ad iu m fl iuistration of justice. If he had intended let serious mischief upon undoubtedlyld h b aN e - e e n been m fo u r rder ex ecution. He did not believe that he intended to cause serious mischief to his wife when be SUICIDE OF A YOUNG WIFE. Wednesday evening Mr. W. Carter, coroner for East Surreyteld 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 porte'. _ _ _ Mr. Wm. l'ke proved that on Saturday night, about 10 o'cicek, he went upon the bank of the Surrey Canal, near St. George's-bridge, where he found a bonre and a mantle lying on the ground. He procured tte drags, and in about three minutes he brought the body of deceased to the bank. He at once had lerconveyed to that house, where every means were used to restore her, but without effect. Mary Dads, the mother of the deceased, said she last saw he' daughter alive about half-past nine o'clock on Saturday night at her (witness's) house. When she c,me in she appeared to have been crying, and gave w tness her marriage certificate and some duplicates, saying, " Keep these for me, mother, u h n u t s i b l a l nd as ,s ky ist ou er f: them back." She also sa id she had been listening outside Mrs. Halliday' s ( her and heard Halliday say to her (deceased's' husband, " You ought never to be hungry wlile you have got anything at home to bring out 0 sell or pawn." This seemed to prey on deceased's (Bind, and before she left she said "He is trying tc break up our little home, for he bas al reoatdhyors,olldvothrk e carpet and the looking gla ss . Oh, mother, The husband vas a h t a hard ; wor what k, morebot the can ho I d deceased oP'' had some etnpuYntent as an ironer, and shared her earnings With hi m . David 7avis, the father of deceased, stated that ho kept tie husband with him three-quarters of an hour after the deceased left home to prevent any disputes, Had se e n the husband strike h is daugh ter, but lo did not do so on the S aturda y night. The ju47 returned a verdict to th e effect, that the deceased , ormitted suicide while in an nrwound state of wind. TWO MURDERS IN LIVERPOOL. LIVERPOOL, THURSDAY. This morning a shocking murder was perpe trated in this town, the victim being the wife of a 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 a young 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. A 7 TEMP 7 ED WIFE MURDER AT LEEDS. The CHAIRMAN proposed "Prosperity to the Malden 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 Maldon 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 proposed " 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, ip. some parts of Europe, rapid. In Italy it Was remarkable how quickly people had caught the spirit and adapted themselves to the forms of constitution 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 their partisan present could be a hardly understand how shy Englishman could a i either m sof Some tlic p North arson s o r s oe seemed the m ed Southi n to think that the South put itself beyond the pale of s ympathy, whatever endure, on nation.account of its He had been son of his father because the sufferings it might being a slave-owning told that he his father, with all his anti -slavery failed to regard it aswas an unworthy he did not think so ; but the ant - misfortunelavery zeal, never the fault of the slaveownersth atthe rather than that deplorable position. His father al , , 3 ;:y e s re re ill them as having a strong claim to consideratio g n an Et the Quarterly Review itself owned that it was en tirely duo to him that the proposal to compensate 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 ranch that she Iwas driven to the last extremity of destitution and illness, and it was only owing to the kindly 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 ho 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 Mts. 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'.3 excuse would seem to be perfectly natural, for she only refused to oo 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 assizeo. ,al 711 E TVIL7SIIIRE POISONING CASE. HIND ON, WEDNESDAY. This morning Mrs. Trowbridge was placed at the bar, before Messrs. It. Graves (chairman), J. Du Boulay, and C. Jeffries, sitting in Petty Sessions, charged with having wilfully murdered Ann Riddle, 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 Kiddle, died on the 22d October, under circumstances which gave rise, in the mind of her medical attendant, Dr. It. C. Shettle, of Shaftes bury, that she had been poisoned, and upon his in formation a post mortent was held, and portions of the viscera of the deceased woman analysed by Dr. Harley, of University College, London, and by Dr W. Bird Herapath, 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 recoguisances. At the coroner's inquest on the body,held on the 21st 1111%, Dr. W. B. Herapath stated that he detected the pre sence of arsenic in his an alysation. Dr. Harley would not vouch for its presence in that portion of the viscera sent to him. Dr. It. 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 scientific knowledge is highly esteemed in the district, held that death was LAW IN7ELLIGENCE, 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 SENTING 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 tio❑ of right, and for this refusal he claimed dam- ages £lO - 0,000. The defendant pleaded not guilty. The plaintiff appeared in person, and the Atter. 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 Ant. 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 oha rater, and was protracted, in spite of repeated 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, 1361, 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 Homo-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 tiveestionts put uuotu..l. to Noj , liV wean], poLtluvut to the principal point in the cause. He 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 subpana. The Lord Chief Justice—Yes, according to law. lie 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. Irwin—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. Irwin—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 :gate—the letter of the 20th May, 1834, on which Lord Westbury states that the case depend`. vo you produce that document in obedience to your subpoma. Sir G. Grey—A search was directed by me to be made, to ascertain whether all or any. of the dem vaunts ntoutioued iu the subp0;110, were in the Homo- GOUN2.RY X.ARKE.2 MANCHESTER, --DEC. 4 * This morning at our market them: was an fiv f i.,' °l `" tendance, and the business transacted limited, with no improvement in prices. in any artio.- BIRMINGHAM—DET. 4. a 4 u, English wheat was sold at 54s to 60s for white:9 511 350 u t° to 56s per 36 stone for red, Barley, new foal t al „g: to 3. "" 42s per qr • grinding, 26s to 30s Oats, 00, `4"„er(l' per 30 stone; new, 22s to 255. Beans, 41s to 0" Peas, 40s to 48s per 36 stone. PLYMOUTH—DEc. 2. ar White, 56s to 60s • red, 54s to 56s per qr ; DantZN,o o ; to 58s ; American, dls to 55s ; Spanish, —s to -- -45 ;, / s# 1 1 '4 sian, —s to —s. Barley at previous rates-34s to " V qr for malting ; grinding, 27s to 28s ; oats, 23s to 210; beans, —s to —s ; flour, 38s to 41s Od. --- EDINBURGH GRAIN—DEc. S. ti pt A good supply of farmers' whe at to-da y , which br° fully the prices of this day week. Trade still 0 10. tip . Wheat on the top 2s Od up ..... .....average Os i i, i ci doot Barley on the top is 6d down ...... .average Os 1 i. 4-, ow' Oats on the top Os 6d down ......... average Os u id o p. Beans on the top is down.... ..... ..average 70.1 Total Supply and Sales. Wheat 716Ars ........ Sold 4 59 q r° 22 qr ° Barley 249 1 qrs ........ Sold I'2 .. s O a t s B eans Flour sells as follows :—Whites, 4580 d ; extras, superfine, 41s Od ; fine, 39s Od. .apci CORK—DEc. 3. . The following were the quotations this ^'lll' Od 1016' t ° wheat, 14s Od to 25 s Od ; white, 20s Od to 260 -° oa Od to 17s 6d ; oats, 6s Od to 138 3d. ; new beie , oa. DERBY SMITHFIELD—DEc. 2 . od b e ; The show of fat beasts to-day was not large, ells quality in demand. Good sheep scarce, and sold good show of pigs ; but fat calves were scarce. to ip Beet Mutton 6d to 6id Veal ........... to 'lidos, 3d to 4id; 4s OdYv Lamb —d to —d Rough fat, to 6d. calf skins , 5d FOREIGN MAIL PACKET LIST. --- 1 9 ' MAILS DUE. De e ' 1,5 , A.uslralia and Mauritius, via Sou tham p ton.. ' ' • ~Dee' 4 , via Marseilles ..... • ' ' f j)ec . ‘,3, Brazil and Cape Verds, by British packet. ..... '. lan' ...7, Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, and St. Helena* 1 -- "ee , China, Penang, and Singapore, via Southanlptoa:Tlec. ~ via Marseilles ...b o o, , t ,. Falkland Islands Gibraltar, via Southampton India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via Southampton* pec.ll, via Marseilles* • 'Dec. 5 . India (Bombay), via Southampton ....... •• ' .vec. via Marseilles .............. • Lisbon ......................... :pee' y, Malta, Egypt, and Aden, via South am p ton ..... .peo. 10. v i a Marseilles • ...•" pee, Newfoundland Oporto and Vigo ................ De o. U. S. and British N. America , b y Brit. packet.. • by U.S. packet.4•tivec. co, by Canadian Pac * .De e 'lS. W.C. of Africa, Madeira, and Teneriffe ........ . De' O• Bahamas, via New York - ....... .•neo, , ... ...* 13 , Mexico .•• .• 1 All parts of West Indies, including Chili, 1 : •c r14 i Dee' California, and British Columbia. .......... ,' -41 THE BLOCK MANUFACTORY.--The poinvooci; haps, of the greatest attraction, and one which is 0 ,0 never fail to laud with the utmost extra va g ane eh I manufactory, where the blocks, great and 0 111° ! 1 s 4e0 ' o f rigging of the British fleet, are manufac t u red. the (3130, machinery for the purpose was first designed by ea t Brunel, in 1801, it was, doubtles s, a verY 01)01)j vance upon the hard labour of the y ard ; azi d9 l , l) ,,t irj was viewed with astonishment by the sonieW% t 1 t heads of the dockyard auth orities—an astoni4" 11 0 v : a d m i ra tion which seems to have come dohfdeto°-4,4 p res ent time ; but it is no offence to the ," - i s e c t of the great engineer who invented it to say that 1:0e grown very antiquated and altogether behind the L i a o ' f l ; s is not by any means to be compared with many oeel lt sti maining new processes for saving labour to field, of operation either at the small arm factory at 13°°11,:cetleci the great arsenal at Woolwich. I would no 131° ?:,0 0 ,100 sired to have hinted as much to the six-foot ilireeopll'or, acted as cicerone, than I would have giV ell c oter 1) 0) on a point of theology to the Archbishop i _ r iggedtlje 'We are Tula that tho number of blocks 3 full-rigged refeal tid is not less than 1,432; this number, o f c our 6° ' ty i g ate s old three-deckers but as our modern ile a/1 40 bi;ii rigged in a far simpler manner than those ohs fathers, this estimate can no longer be accepted' ; shied perhaps with our new reefing apparatus, and ships, the old-fashioned block will erc long be ueeroee by some invention.—Once a- week. CII LONDON : pript;d atid-711blished by JOI - 1N of No. 112, Strmdt r:rititer, at THE Sus Oflice, Is4() ; 1 of Strand, hi the riicillet of the Savoy, in the Cotto&Y MiLialetwo—iritPh Doculnber 5, 186. BIRTHS. 14 1* Or e ' BULKELEY.—On the 4th inst., at 37, Eaton-ecl d Williams Bulkeley , of a son. .4 10 he ' t' P DYER.—On the 3d just, at Stoke, Devonport, t 5O lieg Frederick Carr Dyer, OKI., Captain ILIVL' s 7 t y of a son. s na re, LUMSDEN.—On the 4th inst., at 20, OnsloW-61 wife of Henry Lumaden , Esq., of a daughter. tf MARRIAGES. Mr. 6trof;Telic'd G no svincolt,---Coorm—On the 4th inst., ilooper, of Ludlow , to Emily, only daughter a Mr' C ooper' of street. ag 4 . the P, .04 Ilnpaort—WAßwicK.—On the 3d inst., _al. kles i dv church of St. Ann, Blackfriars, George Lowil e aryd , of Mr. John Hudson, 23, L d t treet,t' a g I:3roe' v eldest daughter of Mr. R. E. ga '3-5. k . w arwi c ,o f w E.C. DEATHS. eiVeSfbr Arr CARLETON.—On the 2d inst., at the Rectory, wickshire, the Rev. H. C. Carleton, aged piocall HopE.—On the 4th inst., at his residence, f lor i t ingt Henry Thomas Hope, Esq., Castle Blayney, Ireland. h I tt ' of Deep Deas 9 .i. t) A hill fs a-el KITCHING.—On the Ist inst., at Stakdo7 - 9 ,t r, wife of John Kitching , aged 93. E s q' , i I,37lllin' e LEAR,—At Cannes, S.F., John Lear, ()' 0 1 ' , near Arundel, aged 5 7. Edwd • . r. gere MEREDITII.—On the 2d inst. , at Be l ' . rr Esq., M.R.C.S., aged 59. 10 ICilba, e , residence , NEWTON. On the 2d in0,,,t., at Ympriv of COIWOOd ll.Olv ' priory, Moses Newton, -Psq., f ' ere t ' Slaugheun, Sussex , age d 43 Sexoe, are • 1 Froorue SOIVI° Cd, OUSELEY.—On the 1.0 Inst..l ..k y surviving Alexandrine P. Coe;;') . , Ota c io,l, late Right Hon. O ir vor , age ugh4T 01 „r,o' -e~.r_.c - , It