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IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF LORDS—(YESTERDAY). The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the woolsack at five o'clock. PRIVATE BUSINESS. On the motion of Lord REDESDALE the following bills were read a second time:—Blackburn and Preston Road and Bridge ; Bradford, Wakefield, and Leeds Railway ; Metro politan Railway Deviations ; Swanage Tramway and Pier ; Nuneaton and Hinckley Railway. THIRD READINGS. The following bills were read a third time and passed : • Lands Improvement Company Amendment, and Scottish Central Railway. EDUCATION. Lord BROUGHAM presented a petition on the subject of education, and took occasion to correct same mistakes that had occurred in the course of his speech last night. The noble and learned lord proceeded in complimentary terms to comment on the conduct of the Emperor of Russia in the endeavours he was making to emancipate and educate the serfs in his empire. The Bishop of OXFORD presented a petition praying the house not to sanction the bill for the abolition of church rates. SALE OF GAS BILL. Lord REDESDALE moved the third reading of this bill, the objects of witch had been fatly explained. The noble lord said he had made certain amendments hi the bill —one was an extension of the time within which inspectors were to be appointed. The bill originally enacted that the inspectors should be appointed within three months after the passing of the act, but he had thought it expedient to alter the time to nine months. Another alte ration was that it was originally intended to have all meters stamped within a year after the bill became law, but he now thought it would be better to extend the time to 10 years, after which it would become compulsory for all meters to bear the stamp. Of course if parties were satisfied with the performance of the meters there would be no compul sion to send them to be marked as correct. He also pro posed that as Liverpool was very well governed under a local act to exempt it to a certain extent from the provisions of the bill. Lord KINNAI RD thought there was great necessity for some improvement with respect to the regulation of gas meters. He could not agree in the propriety of Paying the inspectors created under the act from the local rates. He hoped that, as the bill would be very strenuously opposed in the other house, he would not insist on pressing the third reading this session ; if he did so, he should feel it his d ut y to mov e as an amendment that it be read a third time this day three months. After a short discussion, in which Lord Dononghmore, the Lord Chancellor, and Lord Stanley of Alderley took Part/ Lord REDESDALE defended the bill, and thought the wisest course to pursue was to read the bill a third time in order that it might go down to the Commons, where it would receive full investigation. Lord EBURY trusted his noble friend would not press his amendment. Lord KINNAIRD said, as it appeared to be the wish of the house that the bill should pass, in order that it might go down to the other house, he would withdraw his amend ment. The bill was then read a third time and passed. SPIRITUAL DESTITUTION. The Bishop of LONDON called attention to a petition from the London Diocesan Church Building Society, com plaining of the spiritual destitution existing in the manu facturing towns of the kingdom, and more particularly in the metropolis, and expressing alarm lest the report of a select committee appointed by their lordships should be fol lowed by no result. After some observations from the Earl of CHICHESTER and Lord EBURY, the petition was laid on the table. Some bills on the table were forwarded a stage, and their lordships adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS-4YEsTERDAy.) The SPEAKER, took the chair shortly after twelve o'clock PRIVATE BUSINESS, On the motion for the consideration of the Lords' amend ments to the Llangollen Railway Bill, Mr. WHALLEY said that he had introduced bills into Parliament with reference to this railway in order to pro tect his interest, the undertaking proposing to traverse a portion of his park. However, he deferred with submis sion to the wishes of the house, but as an important altera tion had been introduced in the Lords, by which powers were given to the company to make a deviation which was not necessary for the purposes of the railway, he con cluded by moving an addition to the clause to which he alluded, which was to the effect that the company should not be empowered to take more land than was originally agreed to except by the consent of the Board of Trade. After some discussion the house divided. For the addition to the clause 69 Against Majority —79 The Lords' amendments were then considered and agreed to, and the bill was read a third time. The following bills were read a third time and passed : Eastbourne Water; Midland Great Western Railway of Ireland (Sligo Extension); and Tottenham and Edmonton Gas. LONDON (CITY) GAS BILL. On the motion for the 'consideration of this bill, Colonel FRENCH moved that the London (City) . Gas Bill be re-committed to another committee, to be appointed by the Committee of Selection, and that the committee have leave to sit and proceed on Friday. He took objec tion to this bill because the company had contravened the Act of Parliament of 1847, by which gas companies were restricted to a dividend of 10 per cent., and any surplus pro fit was to be applied to the reduction of the price of gas to consumers. The company had also, in violation of the act of Parliament, raised their capital from £200,000 to £300,000, and taken additional land. Mr. BARROW said he was chairman of the committee before whom this bill was investi g ated, and he defended their conduct. It was considered by the members that some irrelevant matter was brought forward with reference to the financial part of the subject when they were hearing evidence in regard to the sanitary point involved. They decided that they would not then deal with the former part of the question, as there were numerous witnesses waiting to be examined relative to the latter, and counsel then de cided on withdrawing the petition. In adopting that course, he thought they acted wisely, for there was an over whelming mass of evidence adduced to show that, in a sanitary point of view, there were no objections to the works of the 'company being carried on without alteration of their site. That evidence was composed of persons best qualified to give correct information, mainly medical officers resident, the police and the Poor Law Board. From their united testimony it appeared that the means adopted by the company purified the refuse that accumu lated from the manufacture of gas. He believed if they rejected the bill they would be doing an injury, not only to the company, but to the public. Mr. MASSEY was strongly opposed to the motion for recommitting the bill. Some further discussion ensued, in which Mr. Roebuck, Colonel North, Mr. Williams, and other hon. members took part. Sir G. C. LEWIS considered that unless some extra ordinary grounds were shown they ought not to accede to a motion like the present, and he did not think any such grounds existed with regard to the committee before whom this bill was tried. At the same time, he had considerable doubt whether the committee had arrived at a correct con clusion. After a few words from Mr. E. JAMES in support of the committee, The amendment was negatived without a division. The bill was then considered, and ordered for third reading. PNEUMATIC DESPATCH BILL Mr. C. FORSTER moved that Standing Order 203 be suspended in the case of the Pneumatic Delpatch Company Bill, and that the bill be read a second ti a to-morrow.— Agreed to. TACITMSIIIN EMBANKMENT BILL. On the motion of Mr. WHALLEY the following was agreed to :—That Standing Order 201 be suspended in the ease of the Tacumshin Embankment Bill, and that it be an instruction to the committee of selection to appoint the committee on the bill to sit and proceed on Friday. CHURCH RATES ABOLITION BILL. On the motion for going into committee on this bill, Sir J. TRELAWNY said he hoped the hon. member (Mr. Newdegate) would not move his amendment which was on the paper until after the house went into committee, as it would be adopting an unfair course with reference to he bill. Mr. NEWDEGATE said that he could not accede to the wishes of the hon. baronet, as he would not be able to move his amendment in committee. He would, however, vary the terms of his motion, as it could not, from the hour of the day, be fully discussed. The hon. member then moved the following amendment :—" That this house will to-morrow resolve itself into a committee, to consider the propriety of establishing in lieu of church-rates, thence forth to be abolished, a charge on all hereditaments, in respect of the occupancy of which church-rates have been paid within the last seven years ; such charge to be levied with the county rate at a uniform rate of poundage, the occupier being in all cases entitled to deduct from his rent the amount of the charge levied on his occupation, which shall be paid to the Governors of Queen Anne's Bounty, who shall be empowered to receive and administer the same for the purposes of church-ratas ; and further, to consider the propriety of constituting the incumbent and church wardens of every parish or district a corporation, having a right to claim from the Governors of Queen Anne's Bounty in each year a sum equal to one year's charge on such parish or district, which they shall be empowered to re ceive and to administer, with the concurrence of the vestry, and under due supervision, as well as to any receive and administer any monies subscribed, or church-rates, given, for th e purposes of -r . ates, or in commutation of such charge." He considered that in a number of cases the voluntary pri ciple entirely failed, and they should not impose an addi tional burden on it ty withdrawing an ancient and neces sary impost. lie predicted that l• f the present bill were passed additional encroahments would be made on the insti tutions of the country and great constitutional alterations effected. Mr. DODSON hoped that the house would not accede to the motion of the hon. member who hadjust addressed the house. If they wanted to sys tem for the preservation of the fabric an organised rc of the church they should leave it to the parishioners themselves whether they would or would not pay the rate. Lord HENLEY said the propo sa l m objectionable than permanent Charge by the hon. member for North Warwickshire of charge on the occupier was more might, re the present system. He believed, from the state ofup even feeling and the votes of the house, that the , ference to this measure, exclaim with the reformers of 1832 - " the bill, the whole bill, and nothing but the (Cheers.) Sir 3. TRELAWNY replied. He repeated th e s t a t e _ milt he frequently ma de, that his object in bringin g for ward the bill was to p ut an end to the agitation that pre vailed in regard to church-rates, a result which all Ahat admit would be most desirable. He thought that any per.. son acquainted with human nature must feel satisfied that if the church possessed the affections of the people it le would not suffer from the operation of the voluntary princip. Sir M. FARQUHAR would not support any measure for the abolition of church-rates which d id not provide substitute. As there was a committee of the other house at present engaged in investigating this subject, he thought it would be better to postpone the further consideration of the question until they were in possession of the evidence which had been taken before that committee. He sug gested therefore that the hon. baronet should postpone his bill till next session. (Cries of Oh, oh.) The house then divided, and the numbers were— For the moti')n for going into committee 191 Against 99 Majority The house then went into committee. Lord J. MANNERS appealed to the hon. baronet (Sir J. Trelawny) not to p further with his bill. There were seven members of the Government engaged in the inquiry before the House of Lords, and he thought it would not be acting with courtesy towards the Government if they pressed forward the measure before the conclusion of the labours of the committee. It was impossible to pass it during the short remaining term of the session, as the number of amendments was too great to afford them a rea sonable expectation of doing so, and therefore it was only a waste of time to prolong discussion like the present, which would lead to no practical result for the present. After a few words from Mr. VANSITTART, Sir J. TRELA.WNY said he was determined to pro ceed with the bill, and not discontinue his exertions until he accomplished his object. In clause 1, Mr. CROSS moved the following : —After " levied," leave out "in any parish is England or Wales," and insert "re spectively in the following cases in any parish in England or Wales. Ist. No church-rate shall be made or levied in any parish in which no church-rate has been made or levied during the seven years next previous to thepa.ssing of this act. 2d. No c hurch rate shall be levied upon any person who shall deliver to the churchwardens, within one week after the rate shall have been demanded of such person, a decla ration under his hand that he bona fide objects upon con scientious grounds to the payment of church rates : Pro vided always that no person so exempted from the payment of any church rate shall be entitled to vote or act in vestry in the parish in reference to the making, levying, or application of any church rate, or the application of any money applicable to the like purposes, unless after signing such declaration he shall have paid a church rate subsequently made in such parish. 3d. No church-rate shall be made for other than the fol lowing purposes, that is to say-1. Repairing and main taining the fabric of the parish church ; 2. Repairing, fenc ing, and maintaining the churchyard or burial ground of the parish church; 3. Providing what is necessary fir the decent celebration of Divine service and the offices of the parish church." At ten minutes to four o'clock the discussion was inter rupted, and the house resumed. UNIVERSITIES (SCOTLAND) BILL. This bill was read a third time, and passed. The house then adjourned at four till six o'clock. At a quarter past six, there not being 40 members pre sent, the house adjourned until to-morrow. PARLIAMENTARY DIVISION. HOUSE OF COMMONS.—JuLY 26. CHURCH RATES ABOLITION BILL. Order for committee read; motion made, and question pro posed, " That Mr. Speaker do now leave the chair." Amendment proposed, to leave out from the word "That" to the end of the question, in order to add the words " this house will to-morrow resolve itself into a com mittee, to consider the propriety of establishing in lieu of Church-rates, thenceforth to be abolished, a charge on all hereditaments, in respect of the occupancy of which Church-rates have been paid within the last seven years ; such charge to be levied with the county rate at an uniform rate of poundage, the occupier being in all cases entitled to deduct from his rent the amount of the charge levied on his occupation." Instead thereof : question put, " That the words proposed to be left out stand part of the question." The house divided—Ayes, 191; Noes, 99. AYES-191. Adam, W. P. Fitzroy. Rt. Hon H. Ogilvy, Sir J. Alcock, T. Fitzwilliam, C. W. Onslow, Guildford Angerstein, W. Foley, J. H. Packe, C. W. Antrobus, E. Forster, Charles Paget, C. Arnott, J. Fortescue, Hon. D. Paxton, Sir J. Ashley, Lord Fox, W. J. .--_-- Pechell, Sir G. Ayrton, A. S. Freeland, le - W - 7 Perry, Sir Thos. E. Bag - well, J. Garnett, W. J. Peto, Sir M. Bailey, C. Gilpin, C. Pigott, Francis Ball, E. Glyn, G. C. Pilkington, James Baring, H. B. Gower, F. L. Pollard UrquhartW Baring, Thos. Geo. Graham, Sir J. R.G. Ponsonby, A. Baxter, W. E. Greene, Capt. J. Pryse, Capt. E. L. Bazley, Thomas Gregson, S. Pugh, D. (Carmar.) Beach, W. W. B. Gurdon, B. Ramsden, Sir J. W, Berkeley, H. Hadfield, Geo. Ricardo, 0. Biggs, John Hanbury, R., jun. Ridley, G. Black, Adam Handley, John Robertson, D. Bonham-Carter, J. Hankey, Thomson Roebuck, J. A. Brady, John Hardcastle, Jos. A. Rothschild,Baron L. Brand, H. B. Hartopp, E. B. Russell, A. J. E. Bright, J. Heneage , G. St. Aub y n, J. Briscoe, J. I. Hennessy, J. P. Salt, Titus Brocklehurst, John Heygate, Sir F. Schenley, B Brown, James Hoare, Joseph Scholefield, W. Browne, Lord:J. T. Hodgkinson, G. Scott, Sir W. Bruce, H. A. Horaman, E. Scrope, G. P. Buckley, Maj.-Gen. Howard, Hon. C. Shelley, Sir J. V. Buller, J. W. i Humberstone, P. S. Smith, J. B. Butler, C. S. Hutt, W. Smith, A. Byng, Hon. G. H. C. Ingham, R. Somerville, Sir W. Calthorpe, F. H. Jackson, W. Staniland, M. Cavendish, Hon. W. James, Edwin Stansfeld. J. Clifford, C. C. Jervoise, Sir J. Stuart, Lord P. J. 1 Clifford, H. M. Johnstone, Sir J. Stuart, Major Cobbett, J. M. Keating, Sir H. Sullitan, M. Cobden R. Kershaw, J. Sykes, Col. W. H. Coke, W. C. King, Hon. L. Talbot, C. R. M. Colebrooke, Sir T.E. Kinglake, A. W. Taylor, Hugh Coningham, Win. Kingscote, Lt.-Col. Tite, Wm. Cowper, W. F. Knatehbull-Ragess Tollemache, Hon.F. Craufurd, E. H. J Labouchere, H. Tomline, G. Crook, Joseph Langston, J. H. Traill, G. Dalglish, Robert Langton, H. G.I Turner, J. A. Davie, Sir H. R. F. Lawson, W. Vandeleur, Col. Davie, Col. F. Lee, W. Vivian, H. H. Deasy, Richard Lewis, Sir G.C., Bt. Walter, John Dillwyn, Lewis L. Locke, J. Walters, R. Dodson, John G. Lyons, Dr. Watkins, J. L. V. Douglas, Sir C. M'Cann, J. Wemys3, J. Duke, Sir James Mackie, J. Western, T. S. Dunbar, Sir Wm. Maguire, J. F. Westhead, B. Duncan, Viscount Marsh, M. H. Whalley, G. H. Dundas, Frederick Marshall, W. Whitbread, S. Dunlop, A. M. Martin, J. Wickham, H. W. Egerton, A. F. Massey, W. N. Williams, W. Egerton, E. C. Mitchell, T. A. Wilson, J. Ellice, E., jun. Mildmay, H. Wise, J. A. Ennis, John Evans, T. W. Ewart, William Mills, T. ' Ewing, H. E. C. 'Napier, Sir C. Farquhar, Sir M. Norris, J. T. Woods, Henry 11 , 3 o . n rri so s n , , D W W. J. Wrightson, W. B. North, F. Wynne, C. G. TEL - VERS. Fermoy, Lord Trelawny, Sir J. S, Finlay, A. S. O' Donoghue, D. Henley, Lord NOES-n. Adderley, C. B. Haliburton, Justice Papillon, P. 0. 1 Arbuthnott, Gen.H. Hamilton, Lord C. Parker, Major W. Baillie, H. J. Henley, J. Pennant, Col. Barrow, W. H. Henniker, Lord Philips, J. H. Bathurst, A. A. Herbert, Col. P. E. Potts, George Beresford, W. Hood, Sir A. Puller, C. W. Blackburn, P. Hope, G. W. Quinn, Peter Bridges, Sir 8., Bt. Hopwood, J. T. Richardson, J. Brooks, R. Hotham, Gen. Lord Ridley, Sir M. W. Cartwright, Col. H. Howes, Edward Rogers, John J. Cave S. Hume, W. Salt, Thomas Cecil, Lord R. Ingestre, Viscount Sclater-Booth, G. Close, M. C. Jervis, Captain Selwyn, C. J. Cobbold, John C. Jolliffe, Sir W. Seymer, H. K. Cole, Hon. H. A. Jones, D. Smollett, A. , Conolly, Thomas Kekewich, S. Spooner, R. Corry, H. T. Kendall, N. Stanhope, J. B. Cross, R. A. Kennard, C. Stewart, Sir M. R. Curzon, Viscount Knight, F. , Talbot, Hon. W. C. Dickson, Col, Knox, Lt.-C01.8.W. Taylor, Colonel Disraeli. Benjamin Legh, W. Tollemache, J. H. East, Sir J. B. Lindsay, Colonel Torrens, R. Elmley, Viscount Lockhart, A. E. Upton, Genial Farrer, James Longfield, Robert Valetort, Lord Fellowes, Edward Lyall, G. Vance, John Galway, Viscount Lygon, Hon. F. Verner, Sir Wm. Gallwey, Sir W. P. Manners, Ld J. J.R. Walcott, Adm. J. E. Gard, R. S. Montagu, Lord R. Watlington, J. W. George, John Moody, C. A. Whiteside, Rt Hn J. Gladstone, Capt. Morgan, Major Wyndham, Sir H. Goddard, A. L. Mundy, William. Wynn, Lt-Col HW. Gore, J. R. 0. Murray, William TELLERS. Gray, William Newark, Lord Newdegate, C. N. Grogan, Sir Edward Pakenham, Col. Stracey, Sir H. THE TREATY OF VILLAFRANC.A. (From the Times.) In another column the reader will find the tex of the treaty signed at Villafranca. It is given with a certain degree of authority, and has been adopted by the Paris papers ; so we will accept it as genuine. It is only important as confirming what some per sons still desired to doubt, as to the retention by Austria of the great fortresses. and as containing no stipulation which can bind Austria in her future dealings with Italy. Everything else had been known with certainty within a few hours of the signing of the document. The abandonment of -Ve netia, the reimposition of the Austrian satraps upon. Tuscany and Modena, and the installation of Aus tria as a member of the Italian Confederation were all well-established facts. But there were some who clung with a faithful tenacity to their idea of " Napoleon 111., the Liberator of Italy," and who could not be convinced that their confidence had been misplaced. They have believed even up to this time that there must be " something behind." They found hope in the " honorary presidency of the Holy Father," and they saw in this condition that the Pope was to be relieved of all his temporal autho rity, and remitted to his ecclesiastical title para mount. They had faith also in some stipulations as to the neutrality of the great fortresses. They would not receive any evidence as sufficient to prove that Austria would again be allowed to interfere in Italy. They were confident that in the conditions of the peace which we had yet heard we had seen only the moderation of the Emperor of the French, but in the details which were yet to come we should see his wisdom. The great outline showed only how much he had left to Aus tria ; the filling up would show what safeguards he had provided, and how he had sacrificed the mere outward and imposing form of great success to a more humble and less obtrusive reality. Many honest and enthusiastic men were startled and drew back, but others, who could not afford to allow that they had been deceived, went on hoping. Lord John Russell took, as is his wont, a still more decided course, and at once claimed a partnership in the glory of these Imperial negotiations by adopting the conditions, and pronouncing them "just." However, such as t his Treat y is, it is now in all probability before us. There is nothing to vary the first appreciation of those who never trusted, or to give fruition to the hopes of those who hoped against hope, or to diminish the appro bation of those who, like Lord John Russell, saw in the terms already known the perfection of all that could be desired—for what Englishman would ask or wish for more than what is just ? We have the law. Now for the administration of this law. Who is to be process-server ? The two Eagles have ceased to fight, and have agreed how the prey is to be divided. Who is to make the division? It is not enough to publish an edict ; some one must enforce obedience to it. It isn c o e t enough even to bo possessed of irresistible for ; it will be ne ce ssary to put that force in action, Opposition may be hopeless, to resist may be only to be crushed ; but obstinate men who have espous e d to lose their Power desperate causes are sometimes found Th of calculating chances or of counting e a nai d ne of Napoleon 111. has been at once a shield has hitherto cheered lithealstp r ear to Italy ; but it e a ra l a n n s s on o l u y t t o o f gr l a ta te ly fu 2 l , tasks. " Chase me these G S weep' away these Austrians from the Alps to the Adriatic." These were c now it is to be, the Pope." commands which met with ready obedience. But Italians. obey with reverence the commands of your Holy Father and Sovereign " Holy Father, reform your Government and cease THE SUN,- LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JULY 27, 1859. to make pillage of your people." " Tuscans, take back your Archduke and serve him loyally." "Ye Modenese, kneel before the Sovereign you expel led." There is not one of these commands which does not jar upon the feelings of those to whom it is addressed. There is not one which does not create first surprise, and then violent indignation. The insurgent subjects of the Pope are enraged at such a command from the Liberator of Italy ; the Pope " has his heart filled with bitterness" at such blasphemous conduct in a once dutiful son of the Church. The Tuscans and Modenese feel as a man would feel who, advancing to shake hands with a friend, found his right hand clinched and a sudden blow dealt him by his treacherous friend's left fist. Italy is at this moment stupefied by the buffet given her. That she will submit quietly is scarcely to be expected. The people of Tuscany and Parma and Modena and the Legations are arming and organising; Garibaldi and his irregular allies have 40,000 men under arms, and this is but a snowball, which a little rolling would magnify to an ava lanche. The Tuscan division, 10,000 strong, has gone back to defend the revolution which sent it forth. The Legations are using those muskets and cannon of which the Pope makes such complaint, and will soon have a force under arms which may set at defiance the 3:000 Papal troops. All this is not much—not much against those two mighty hosts which fought at Solferino—not much against Austria and France united. But is this to be so ? Are the Austrian and French armies to fight here ' after side by side against Garibaldi and the Tus cans ? Is the world to be afforded the spectacle of the French Zouaves exhibiting the audacity we have been taught to admire against the Italian patriots whom they came to liberate, or is France, who called forth these revolutions, to stand by and let the Austrians do the butchery ? The latter is quite impossible. The Emperor Napa leon's personal honour would not permit it. The former would be a strange spectacle, and a profitable lesson to all who hope for liberty by the aid of foreign swords. Yet without Austrian or French bayonets we cannot see how the Archdukes are to go back, and without a certainty of these bayonets being always at hand it seems impossible that they should remain in their Duchies. In all this settlement of Italy we are happily mere speculative lookers-on. Our sympathies are doubtless engaged, but our interests are not in volved. We should scarcely ha.v) thought it ne cessary to recapitulate the topics which these con ditions suggest, if the English Minister for Fo reign Affairs had not told us from his place in Par liament that he thought them " If his words fairly represented his convictions, there would appear to be danger that this country may be drawn into a recognition of the terms that are now made public, or that it may even be made in some way a party to their ratification. Against anything of this kind, against any interference act, or counsel, or protest, or exhortation, we ener getically protest ; and we believe the country at large and the House of Commons in great majority would also protest. It is yet upon the cards that Italy may resist, and successfully resist, for it is yet possible that the Emperor of the French may recoil from the odious task of punishing with his own sword the insurrection which he excited. If this should happen contrary, we admit, to appa rent chances, we might then come into the settle ment with some dignity and some authority. At present we have no locus *ndi, and cannot pos sibly do any good, while by any interference now we might shut ourselves out from doing good here after. If England should be dragged into this business, it will only be from the incapacity which little men sometimes show to abstain from inter meddling with great events. (From the Daily News•) Long life and rude health are by no means inse parable companions. Perhaps it will be found as often as not that they don't get on together com fortably. The cases are exceptional in which the rude health has been kept in subjection, and the life has been hard as well as long. Run your eye over the circle of your own acquaintance ; consult the eminent practitioner who has felt the family pulse for forty years ; and the result of your in vestigations will convince you that the secret of a long life is to be " never well." Your vigorous young friend, whose colour is so fresh, and whose skin is so sleek—who looks as if he could fell or eat an ox—whose appetite is prodigious, digestion undaunted, sleep sure and stertorous, who never knew a headache or was conscious of nerves, and whose general aspect is "as hard as nails"—he will live to a hundred, you suppose ? No ; he will commit no excesses worth praying for ; he will be ' a man of exemplary life, of temperate habits ; he will flourish to forty-five or fifty, perhaps, without turning a hair, and then some fine afternoon go down like a hammer on his own dining-room carpet, and a post mortem will reveal a little superfluous fatty deposit here and there, with internal mischief enough to kill a regiment. But your poor, pallid, sickly patient, who looks as if he had been born sea-sick and had never got his stomach put to rights, whose existence is an alternation of sick-head aches and sleepless nights, and whose diet ranges from dinner pills to cod liver oil—he will go on withering like an annuitant, and die only for want of breath. Now, has it ever occurred to any of our readers to wonder at the vitality of the vene rable Institution enthroned at the Vatican ? We speak of course of things temporal, for into spiri tual politics it is not our province to enter. The longevity is at once explained by analogy. The Papacy is not merely a succession of old men, but of maimed, halt, and blind old men. Always ailing and sometimes sick unto death, it never dies be cause it is never in good health. No doubt this extraordinary tenacity of life may be satisfactorily explained on supernatural principles ; but, as here tics, we are excluded from any but the basest secu lar point of view, and when we regard his holiness as a worldly Sovereign we are constrained to re mark, that were not his system traditionally in a precarious state of health, his convalescence would be far less likely than it appears to be now. One often sees the absolute tyranny of weakness in a household where a peevish old gentleman in an easy chair is discounting the beneficence of his will by worrying his legatees to death, or where " baby," with the nurse for a Prime Minister, exercises an uncontrolled and undisputed sway. But the finest example of this Imst pitiless sort of despotism is the Papacy. Despised even more than detested by its own immediate dependants, suffered and scorned by its protectorate, tolerated and con temned by the intellect, the science, and the indus try of an age of movement and invention, this venerable and supernatural Phenomenon does nevertheless hold the destinies of Europe in its hands, snatch victory from Imperial armies, and bid the nineteenth century sun stand still. The difficulty of difficulties, even in a provisional set tlement of Italy is, after all, the Roman question. The question of federation might be easily solved by declaring it to be impossible so long as Austria retains Venice, and the question of the Duchies by the simple and natural plan of allowing them to fix iheir own fate ; but when we come to the Romagna, containing the most intelligent, ener getic, and self-reliant populations in the peninsula, we are indignantly warned off by the feeble voice of a cruel, false, and querulous old man, who in sists that, as the Vicar of Christ and the represen tative of St. Peter, he is bound to take care that no interruption in the fulfilment of prophecy, as in terpreted by the Cardinal Antonelli for the time being, be permitted, and that the rock on which the Church is fixed be not split in half by the sepa ration of the Adriatic provinces from the dominions of Pius IX. Dogmatic theology, we know, teaches the doctrine of development, and the latest develop ment of the Papacy is a Circular of the Pontifical Government to its representatives at Foreign Courts, complaining of the conduct of the Sardinian Government in protecting the citizens of Ferrara from the tender mercies of the Holy Father and his chosen disciples, General Kalbermatten and Col. Schmidt. It has filled the soul of the Holy Father with bitterness—that innocent blood should have been shed at Perugia in his name ? Not at all ; but that Piedmontese engineers were sent to Ferrara to destroy the fortress, and muskets, and cannon supplied to the inhabitants. The fortress of Ferrara is, it seems, an esssential part of the rock of Peter, and muskets and cannon are instru ments of grace which the Holy Father can not permit unsanetified soldiers to dispense. But the loss of a fortress is not the gravest calamity which the Holy Father deplores. To the appalling language of that violent anarchist, Massimo D'Aze glio, we must ascribe his bitterest anguish. " God has made man free in his opinions, political and religious." These awful words were actually writ ten, printed, and placarded on the walls of Bologna. Well may the Holy Father write to Cardinal Bishop of Albano—"to continue our prayers is a necessity." For if this sacrilegious language of Massimo D'Azeglio should prevail in Italy, the fate of that Peninsula may be the fate of England—poor, be nighted, heretical England. To hold that God made man free in his opimons is, according to the Holy Father, to forget the immortality of the soul, and the Sardinian Commissioner, who counsels modera tion to the patriots of Bologna, is a rank materialist. Some weeks ago we were assured by a correspon dent of the Univers that the Prince of Wales had placed the whole British fleet at the disposal of 'the Holy Father. We confess the compliment ap peared to us at the time somewhat excessive ; and we have good reason to congratulate the Admiral of our Mediterranean squadron and his gallant officers and crews on their escape from a " particu lar service" which must infallibly have been at tended with unusual danger. Nothing but the pre sence of the Holy Father, and a miraculous inter- position in his favour, could have saved the fleet' from destruction. For, in the words of Pius him self, " whoever quitteth the ark of unity shall be submerged in the deluge of eternal punishment." Perhaps a dispensation might be granted to a Bri tish fleet at the disposal of the Pope, but England would still be abandoned to the doom which she has waited for so patiently and so long. sary. Mr. Hyde looked up to my car, and very solemnly said, This is an exciting time, Professor. What shall we do ?" Trust to Providence and our energies,' said I. We were fast running on to Lake Ontario; and oh! how terribly it was foaming, moan ing, and howling. I said, La Mountain, I have 150 pounds of ballast in my car yet, and a heavy valise, an express bag (sent to the United States' Express Company's-office in Broadway, New York), and a lot of provisions." Well, if that won't do, I will cut up the boat for ballast, and we can keep above water until we reach the opposite shore, which was near a hundred miles off in the direction we were then going. Here I handed my ballast down to La Mountain, as we were rapidly mount ing above the terrific gale, believing thit by that course we should at least get out of its main track. Everything now indicated that we should perish in the water or on the land, and our only salvation was to keep afloat until we got out of the gale, if we could. I said, ' You must all get into the basket, if you want to be saved, should we ever reach the land. And I truly tell you that the perils of the land are even more terrible than those of the water, with our machines ; and it would be easier to meet death by drowning than to have our bodies mangled by dashing against rocks and trees.' By this time Mr. Gager and Mr. Hyde had clambered into the basket with me. Mr. Hyde said, very coolly, I am prepared to die, but I would rather die on the land than in the water.' I said, ' What do. you say, Mr. Gager ?' He replied, ' I would rather meet it on land ; but do as you think best.' Mr. La Mountain was busily engaged in collecting what he could for ballast. Everything was now valuable to us that had weight. Our carpet bags, our instruments, the express bag, our provi sions were all ready to go, and go they did, on a after another, until we were reduced to the express bag ; that went overboard last. We now descried the shore, some 40 miles ahead, peering between a sombre bank of clouds and the water horizon, but we were swooping at a fearful rate upon the turbu lent water, and in another moment crash went the boat upon the water sidewise, staving in two of the planks, and giving our whole craft two fear ful jerks by two succeeding waves. La Mountain stuck to the boat like a hero, but lost his hat and got a dash of the waves, but soon recovered, and threw over the express bag and the last remaining ballast, and cried out, 'Be easy, gentlemen, I'll have her afloat once more.' In another moment we were up a few hundred feet again, and the steamer propeller Young America was tacking across our track. I now proposed to swamp the boat and balloon in the lake, and trust to being picked up by the Young America, but the desire was that we should make the shore and try the land, and as we crossed the bow of the steamer they gave us a hearty hurrah. La Mountain had now cut out of the boat all he could, and we were within 15 miles of the shore, the gale still raging below. La Moun tain might have remained in the boat below, and jumped out at the first touching the earth, and I saw no impropriety in that, as then we might have had another hour or two to wait the lulling of the gale ; but he said he would share our fate, and he also clambered into the basket just as we were reaching the land. I saw by the swaying to and fro of the lofty trees into which we must inevitably dash that our worst perils were at hand, but I still had a blind hope that we should be saved. I ordered two men upon the valve rope, and we struck within 100 yards of the water, among some scat tered trees, our hook, which was of inch and quar ter iron, breaking like a pipestem at the first catch of it in a tree, and we hurling through the tree tops at a fearful rate: After dashing along in this way for nearly a mile, crashing and breaking down trees, we were dashed most fearfully into the boughs of a tall elm, so that the basket swung un der and up through the cotch of the limb, while the boat had caught in some of the other branches, and this brought us to a little ; but in another moment the Atlantic puffed up her huge proportions, and at one swoop away went the limb, basket, and boat into the air 100 feet, and I was afraid some of the crew were impaled upon the scrags. This limb, about eight inches thick at the butt, and full of branches, not weighing less than 6001 b. or 8001 b., proved too much for the Atlantic, and it brought her suddenly down upon the top of a very tall tree and collapsed her. It was a fearful plunge, but it left us dangling between heaven and earth in the most sorrowful-looking plight of machinery that can be imagined. None of us were seriously injured, the many cords, the strong hoop made of wood and iron, and the close wickerwork basket saving us from harm, as long as the machinery hung together, and that could not have lasted two minutes longer. We came to the land, or rather tree, of Mr. T. o.Whitney, town of Henderson, Jefferson county, New York. We will soon have the Atlantic re built, for what I hope may prove a more success ful demonstration of what we proposed to do on this interesting occasion. " Stanwix Hall, Albany, New York, July 3." The Albany Argus says,—" The entire distance travelled was 1,150 miles in 19 hours and 50 mi nutes. The greatest altitude attained was two miles. Mr. Wise has entire confidence in the success of the undertaking, and expresses a determination to make another experimental voyage as soon as the balloon can be repaired.. He has no doubt but that a voy age can be made by her to Europe in one-fourth the time that it is now made by the steamers." The St. Louis _Republican says, of the starting— " A peep into the boat or car revealed a strange medley. The most noticeable was an express bag, labelled as follows :—' T. B. Marsh, agent United States Express Company, No. 82, Broadway, New York. This bag is sent from St. Louis, by the aerial ship Atlantic, July 1. Please forward to destina tion from landing of balloon by express, as above directed.—C. W. Ford, Agent, St. Louis.' Besides this business-like package, there were 30 dols. worth of provisions furnished by Guenaudon, sundry bot tles—suppossd to contain champagne and other refreshing beverages—blankets, overcoats, gloves, anchors, flags, and cards of mercantile houses and candidates for office at the coming election. There were also packages, letters, and newspapers, a tele scope, thermometer, barometer, and all the neces sary scientific paraphernalia of ballooning." ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE. HOME CIRCUIT.—MAIDSTONE, July 26. CROWN COURT. (Before Mr. Justice Blackburn.) Emily Milner, a good-looking young woman, with a baby in her arms, surrendered to take her trial upon a charge of wilful and corrupt perjury. Mr. Ribton and Mr. Francis conducted the prc secution ; Mr. Russell defended. This charge arose out of a case that was tried be fore Mr. Baron Bramwell at the summer assizes last year, when a small farmer, named Stephen Butcher, was tried for a felonious assault upon the present defendant, and, being convicted, he was sentenced by the learned judge to be kept in penal servitude for 10 years. According to the evidence adduced upon that occasion, the prosecutrix was a married woman, and she had been to Maidstone market on the day the occurrence took place, and, at the request of the prisoner, she rode home in his van, and when they arrived near a place called Deptling, about four miles from Maidstone, where prosecutrix and her husband resided, the prisoner induced the prosecutrix to get out of the vehicle, and he then committed the offence imputed to him, in spite of her screams and resistance. The defen dant, after giving her evidence in chief, was severely cross-examined by Mr. Ribton, the counsel for the prisoner, and among other questions that were put to her with a view to shake her credit, she was asked whether improper intimacy had not taken place between her and a man named Payne at a publichouse in Maidstone on a former occasion, and she positively swore that nothing of the sort occur red. This man Payne was called as a witness for the prisoner, and he swore to the fact above alluded to, but the jury, notwithstanding his evidence, found the prisoner guilty, and he was sentenced to 10 years' ,:penal servitude. The prosecutrix was now charged with perjury, the allegation on the part of the prosecution being that she had sworn falsely when she stated that no improper intimacy ever took place between her and Payne. This person was the principal witness for the prosecution, and he swore as positively as he did on the former occasion to the fact having occurred, but on cross-examination he contradicted himself, and did not appear to give his evidence in a very straightforward manner. Mr. Russell made an able speech to the jury on behalf of the defendant, and the learned judge hav ing summed up, the jury, after a short deliberation, returned a verdict of Not Guilty. WESTERN CIRCUIT.—DORCHESTER, July 26. CROWN COURT. (Before Mr. Baron Bramwell.) George Trowbridge was indicted for shooting at Edward Matthews, with intent to murder him, on the 15th February. Mr. Saunders conducted the prosecution, and Mr. Stock defended the prisoner. According to the evidence of the prosecutor, he and a man named Maidman were returning home about 4 o'clock in the afternoon, when they heard a rabbit cry in a wood. They jumped through a gap in the hedge, and saw a stoat had a rabbit. They drove the stoat away, and Matthews put his hand in a rabbit hole and drew out four little suck ing rabbits. They heard some one coming, and they jumped back into the road, and the prisoner then came up and called upon them to stop, adding that if they did not he would be d---d if he would not shoot them. Matthews .saw him raising the gun to his shoulder. He moved a step or two and was then knocked down, as the charge of a gun had entered his back. He became insensible, and A BALLOON VOYAGE. Mr. John Wise, aeronaut, gives the following account of a balloon trip from St. Louis to Hender son, Jefferson County, New York : " Although it was intended to have started on this voyage on the 23d of June, we were delayed in our preparations until the Ist of July. By 6 o'clock p.m. the air ship Atlantic was duly inflated, and while we were putting her in trim with ballast and provisions, Mr. Brooks, lessee of the St. Louis Museum, who had kindly volunteered to escort us over the Mississippi in his balloon Comet, got ready for the occasion, and upon a signal agreed ascended from the ground. At 7.20 p.m. the Atlantic was ready to sail. Messrs. La Mountain and Gager, thinking some difficulty might arise at the start if they should attach the fan-wheels to the shafts and wheel-gearing, determined to omit that until we should be fairly under way next morning. Having had much experience in hard winds, and the perils of landing aballoon under them, we had constructed at St. Louis a good wicker-work car (which, with a good and strong concentric hoop, is a life-preserver in these perils), which was suspended between the boat and balloon, and about eight feet above the former and within six feet of the hoop, so that the neck of the balloon hung in the basket car when ever the balloon was fully distended. The boat contained 600 pounds of ballast, one bucket of water, one bucket of lemonade, with an abundance of bread and wine, poultry and Sandwiches, besides delicacies too numerous to enumerate furnished by kind friends, Mr. La Mountain took command o the boat and ballast, and took his place on one end Mr. Gager took the other end, and took charge of the charts and compass; Mr. Hyde, local editor of the St. Louis Republican, took his seat in the middle, with note-book and pencil, as historian. Although Mr. Hyde was not in the original programme, we unanimously agreed to let him accompany us, provided it would not interfere with our ultimate design ; and it was arranged that, under any circumstances, when the balloon should fall, the boat with its occupants should be disposed of, and myself or Mr. La Moun tain should proceed with the voyage alone. The basket contained 3501 b. of ballast, a barometer, wet and dry bulb thermometer, besides a quantity of wines and provisions ; and I took my place in the basket and charge of the valve rope, and as director of the general plan of the voyage, by the unani mous consent of the party engaged in this long de vised enterprise. I must say here that Mr. La Mountain took in charge a part of the programme that none but a cool head and a most accomplished aeronaut could be trusted with, and especially the night sailing. At 7.20 p.m. we set sail from the Washington-square of St. Louis, with 75,000 feet of gas, and our course at starting was north of east. When we got up, and over the Mississippi, and well under way, we saw Mr. Brooks land in a clear place about sunset. At 8.30 p.m. the shades of the evening shut from our yiew the noble city of St. Louis and the father of Tvaters, though it continued light until after 9. Mr. La Mountain having suf fered from sickness on Thursday, and being too un well to work hard under a burning sun at the infla tion, left much hard labour for me at that work. I submitted the whole thing to his charge for the night, with the understanding to have me waked whenever he wanted the valve worked, and he took it with alacrity. Before I went to bleep we had mounted to a height at which the balloon had be. come completely distended, and where we found the current due east. Here it became chilly, and Mr La Mountain, as well as all of us, suffered from the change of air, and with all the clothing we could put on us it was still uncomfortable, though the thermometer stood at 42 and the barometer at 23, and this was the lowest of both the instruments during the whole voyage, except the crossing of • Lake Ontario. Mr. La Mountain proposed to take the lower current as long as it would take us but a few points north of east, and I told him to do as he deemed best, and report his reckoning in the morning. After bidding the party in the boat a good night and God speed, I coiled myself up in blankets and lay down as best I could, and in a few moments was sound asleep and knew nothing but repose until 11 30 p.m. At this time Mr. La Mountain again mounted for the upper current ; being desirious of making a little more easting, he hailed me to open the valve, as the balloon had become tense and the gas was rushing from the neck with a noise, but finding no answer from me, he suspected I was being smothered in the gas, and he admonished Mr. Gager to mount to my car by a rope provided for that purpose, and Mr. Gager found me breathing spasmodically ; but a good shaking and the removal of the neck of the balloon from my face, with plenty of pure cold air around me, soon brought me back to a knowledge of what was going on, and I resolved to sleep no more during the ?light. At midnight I felt quite well, with an invigorated spirit of observation and interest in our experiment. The whole dome of heaven was lit up with a mellow phosphorescent light, the stars shone with a crystalline brilliancy, and the milky way looked like an illuminated stratum of cumulus clouds. Whenever we crossed water the heaven-lit dome was as visible below, by reflection as above. So remarkable was this phos phorescent light of the atmosphere that the balloon looked translucent, and looked like light shining through oiled paper. We could also tell prairie from forest, and by keeping the eye for a moment downward we could see the roads, fences, fields, and even houses quite distinctly at any elevation not over a mile, and even at the greatest elevation we could discern prairie from woodland and from water. Whenever we halloed it was followed by a distinct echo, even this served as a differential index to height. We always found a response in numerous bow-wow-wows, and these, too, were always indi cative of the fulness and sparseness of the habita tions below, as we could hear them for many miles around us. Mr. La Mountain remarked that no body lived in that country but dogs , or else the people barked like dogs, he having got a little out of humour because nobody would tell him in what State we were sailing, and he gave up the inquiry, with the remark that it must be over some other oun try than America, as we had been moving along at a rapid pace. At three a.m., Saturday, we came to a general conclusion that we were somewhere over the State of Indiana or Ohio. At four a.m. we passed a city, but could not make it out, but at five a.m. we discovered Lake Eric ahead of us, and then concluded that the city we left a:little south of our track must have been Fort Wayne. At six a.m. we passed Toledo, and about an hour afterwards we lowered on the margin of the lake a little north of Sandusky. After a few moments' consultation and a review of our ballast, we determined to risk the length of Lake Erie, and to test the notion that balloons cannot be kept up long over water, because of some peculiar affinity of the two—a notion that never had any belief with me. Just as we merged upon the lake, a little steam screw that was propelling up a river or bay headed for our track, and some one aboard of her very quaintly ci ied aloud to us, ' That is the lake ahead of you.' Mr. La Mountain cried back, Is it Lake Erie ?' and the answer was' Yes, it is, and you had better look out.' Our good friend, the propeller, finding that we disregarded his kindness, rounded off again, sounded us a good-bye with his steam whistl, and went his way up the river. Here we mounted up until the balloon got full, and the barometer fell to 23, in order to make along near the southern shore of the lake, but at Mr. La Mountain's suggestion that we could make the city of Buffalo by sailing but a few hundred feet above the surface of the water, I opened the valve until we gradually sank to within 500 feet of the water. Here we found a gentle gale of about a speed of a mile per minute, and we resolved to float on it until we should heave in sight of Buffalo, and then rise and sail over it. This was a most interesting part of our voyage. We overtook Seven steamboats, passed mutual salu tations, and would soon leave them flitting on the horizon in our rear. One of these lonely travellers remarked as we passed him, ' You are going it lik' thunder.' At 10.20 a.m. we were skirting along the Canada shore, and passed near the mouth of the Welland Canal, and soon began to mount for our most easterly current, so as to take Buffalo /11 our track, but we circled up into it between Buffalo and. Niagara Falls, crossing Grand Island, leaving Buf falo to the right, and Lockport to the left ;of us in our onward course. Finding ourselves in the State of New York, but too far north to make the city of New York, it was agreed that we should make a landing near Rochester, detach the boat, leave out Mr. Gager and Mr. Hyde, and Mr. La Mountain and myself pursue the voyage to a point at Boston or Portland. Accordingly we descended gradually, but before we got within a thousand feet of the earth we found a most terrific gale sweeping along below. The woods roared like a host of Niagaras, the surface of the earth was filled with clouds of dust, and I told my friends certain destruction awaited us if we should touch the earth in that tor nado. The huge Atlantic was making a terrific sweep earthward ; already were we near the topstof the trees of a tall forest, and I cried out somewhat excitedly For God's sake heave overboard any thing you can lay your hands on, La Mountain,' and in another moment he responded All right,' standing on the side of the boat with a shaft and wheels, intended for the working of the fan wheels, and ready to heave it over, should it become neces- was then taken home in a cart. He had only been able to work during the last three weeks. There were 280 shots taken out of his back. He had not a gun, or a stick, or a ferret with him. In his cross-examination the prosecutor admitted that he had been in prison for catching rabbits, and for receiving some money. Maidman, who was with Matthews at the time, corroborated his testimony. The prisoner said it was an accident, and he would not have had it happen for £5. In his cross-examination Maidman said that since this transaction he had been fined £l4s. for fishing at a place where others fished. No one had been summoned for fishing at that spot, and there was no board put up to warn people. Lord Portman's gamekeeper had summoned him. Mr. Baron Bramwell said he thought Lord Port man ought to be informed of this—taking two weeks' wages from this man. It was very discredit able. It was stated that rabbit holes had been fresh dug. The defence was that it was an accident ; that the prisoner, in getting over the gap, fell down, and the gun went off by accident, and a witness was called who swore that he saw the prisoner fall over the gap, and the gun go off. He did not go to render assistance, because he thought the men had been ferretting. Several witnesses gave prisoner a good character. The learned Judge having summed up with great . care, ' The jury found the prisoner guilty with intent to ; do grievous bodily harm.—Sentence deferred. MIDLAND' CIRCUIT.--LINCOLN, July 26. Ann Whatmough pleaded not guilty to a charge of murder of her male infant, at Covenham St. Mary, on the 28th of June, 1858. Connected with this case was another indictment against Elisha Kirk and Lucy Kirk, who were charged with aiding and abetting in endeavouring to conceal the birth of the same. Mr. Roberts conducted both prosecutions. The prisoners had no counsel. In his opening address the learned counsel cau tioned the jury against receiving as certainly true all the statements it would be proved the prisoner Whatmough had made, some of them having been uttered under deep depression of mind. He then stated the evidence in support of the case which he afterwards adduced, which was in substance as follows :—The prisonerWhatmough, on being taken into custody, speaking, as she afterwards said, of a man named Plumtree, said, " An old rascal, he has ruined me and my family ; he is as bad as I am, he told me to do it. He gave me the money to get the stuff with. I bought it myself. I made the instrument myself and used it myself. He told me if I did not he should be exposed. Let it cost what it would he would pay." On being asked whom she meant, she said Plumtree. She afterwards said, " I cannot say anything—l will not say anything—against Tom." The wife of Walters, a labourer, gave evidence of statements made by the prisoner Whatmough, who sent for her and said, " I have had a child, and Kirk buried it," and afterwards, when in the in firmary at Louth, and thinking, as she said, that she should die, the witness told her that she must prepare to meet her God. She answered, " I have my child to meet at the bar of God. You don't know what I have on my mind." Witness answered, " You have not to meet it—it was still born ; the child that is stillborn has no soul." She answered, "It was not," and added, "It made a skimmering sort of noise. I murdered it" She then proceeded to say that she had taken stuff at 1 . Plumtree's instigation, but that she had nobody but herself to blame. Another witness, Sabina Smith, also deposed that five months before the 13th of April last, What mough had been at her shop in great distress, and being questioned as to the cause, said, " I have had a child and committed murder, and I cannot rest without naming it to some one." She then made a more detailed statement, mentioning that Mrs. Kirk had sewed the body in a rag previously to its being buried. The jury acquitted the prisoner Whatmough of murder, and returned a verdict of guilty of con cealment of the birth. The evidence against the two Kirks consisted of statements made by themselves, whence it appeared that immediately after the death of the child both had known the condition of Whatmough, and in consideration of a pawn ticket, which enabled them to obtain a small table, Lucy Kirk and Elisha assisted in burying it in a pit in a field, where the decomposed body of a child, wrapped in a cloth, was discovered. According to the opinion of a medical witness, it was a seven months child. The two Kirks were found guilty. Ann Whatmough was sentenced to one year's and the two Kirks to six months' imprisonment. The remainder of this day the Court was occu pied in trying the class of cases which appeared to form a large proportion of the crimes of this county. In the most revolting of these the grand jury have, however, ignored the bill, charging the full offence. - Firth was charged with rape, committed on Amy Jane Ranyard. Mr. O'Brien was counsel for the prosecution ; Mr. Flowers for the defence. Amy Jane Bayard, aged 17, was said to be im becile, and consent on her part was alleged. She was not called. Mr. Justice Williams, after 'consulting with Chief-Justice Erle, held that the proper course was to have her examined as to her mental capacity by three medical men. Upon their reporting that she was of capacity to consent, the prisoner was acquitted. OXFORD CIRCUIT, STAFFORD, July 26. CRIMINAL COURT. (Before Mr. Justice Byles.) Thomas Watkins, 21, puddler, Edward Acton, 20, puddler, Edward Fereday, 1 9 , forgeman, and Joseph Allen, 21, collier, were charged with the wilful murder of a woman, whose game was al leged to be unknown, on the 29th of May, 1859, at Tipton. Mr. M'Mahon and Mr. Corbett appeared fox the prosecution: Mr Kenealy defended the prisoners. Mr. M'Mahon, in opening the case to the jury, stated the facts at some length. From his state ment it appeared that on Thursday, the 2d of June last the body of a woman was found in a disused basin of the Birmingham Canal, called the No. 19 wharf, at Summerhill, in the parish of Tipton. There was a bruise on the top of her head and one on her left eye, ,but the body was so much decomposed that the nature of the supposed injuries on other parts of the body could not be ascertained. The opinion of the sur geon was that the deceased had died of drowning, but the learned counsel admitted that there was no evidence to show that she had been put into the water by the prisoners, or either of them. Mr. Justice Byles said he had carefully read the depositions, and he was of opinion that there was no evidence to sustain the charge of murder. A verdict of acquittal was then taken. The prisoners and two other men were then put on their trial for a rape committed on the deceased. It appeared that this was one of the most shock ing and disgusting outrages which had ever been committed, even in this county, notorious for crimes of a savage and loathsome character. It is impos sible to detail minutely the facts of the case as they were proved in evidence, but it will be sufficient to state that the deceased, who was about 25 years of age, was first seen on Sunday, the 29th of May, by a man named Walker, who spent several hours in her company, and treated her - to drink. There could be no doubt that she was a woman of loose character, and Walker had connexion with her in the fields. A man named Jones afterwards joined their company, and, after drinking at several pub lichouses, the two men went out and were fotLowed by the deceased, and all three went together to a place near the Shrubbery Tavern, where, in pre sence of Walker, Jones had connexion with her. All the prisoners except Fereday were in the Shrubbery Tavern, and they followed to the place where the deceased and the two men Walker and Jones were. The prisoners began to pull the woman about, and Walker and Jones went away for a watchman, and when Walker came back they were all gone. At that time the woman was intoxicated; and some time after, at half-past 11, the prisoners Watkins and Allen were seen taking her along.. Hurst-lane, saying that she lived near th ere and they were going to take her home. The party was followed along the road by three men, Priest, Par ton, and Bate, who stated that at about 12 o'ciOck they heard a cry of murder, and going to the spot, they saw the woman lying on the ground in a field near the canal basin, and the four prisoners by her side on - the ground. According to their evidence, Watkins and Allen had connexion with the woman in their presence, the woman resisting and crying out; and as often as she cried out, Watkins or Allen struck her on the face. The witnesses did not at all interfere with the proceedings of the prisoners, but if they were to be believed there could be no doubt of the guilt of the four prisoners. In addition to their testimony, there was evidence of statements made by Fereday and Acton, before the body was discovered, which left no doubt that they took part in the outrage ; one of the prisoners having stated that he was present and held the woman while 16 men had connexion with her. Mr. Kenealy ad dressed t he j ur y for the pri - • sowers, and contended that it was impossible to con vict the prisoners on the evidence of such witnes ses, who, according to their own account, used no effort to put a stop to the outrage, and described what they had seen and heard in such a ma nner as to show that they had no spark of decency or virtue. Mr. Justice Byles having summed up the evi dence, the jury found Watkins, Acton, Fereday, and Allen guilty, and acquitted the two other pri soners. They added that they took a more favour able view of Acton's case. His lordship, in passing sentence, said the pri soners had been convicted, on invincible evidence, of one of the most brutal and barbarous outrages of which he had ever heard. God only knew whether the prisoners had anything to do with the drowning of the deceased. The sentence upon Watkins, Allen, and Fereday was that they be kept in penal servi tude for the term of their natural lives ; and upon Acton, of whose case his lordship said he also took a more favourable view, the sentence was that he be kept in penal servitude for five years. CIVIL LIST PENSIONS. The following is a list of all pensions granted between the 20th day of June, 1858, and the 20th day of June, 1859, and charged upon the Civil List (pursuant to Act 1 Act., c. 2): — Mrs. Harriet Lucas Willoughby, in consideration of the gallant conduct of her son, the late Lieut. Willoughby, in blowing up the magazine at Delhi (in trust to Mr. Thomas Willoughby and Mr. Henry Willoughby), £l5O. Mrs. Ann Skinner, in consideration of her hav ing lost three sons in the service of their country (in trust to Sir John D. Harding and Allen Mac lean Skinner, Esq.), £5O. Edwin Atherstane, in consideration of his literary merits, £75. Mrs. Susanna Bartlett, in consideration of the literary merits of her husband, the late Wm. Henry Bartlett (in trust to tho Rev. Henry Stebbing,D.D., and Wm. Beattie, Esq., M.D.), £75. James Bowman Lindsay, in consideration of his scientific attainments, £lOO. Mrs. Amelia Gresley Ball, in consideration of the services of her husband, the late Dr. Ball, the naturalist (in trust to Thomas Hutton, Esq., and Dr. Aguilla Smith), £lOO. Mrs. Cornelia Hogan, in consideration of the merits of her late husband, Mr. John Hogan, as a sculptor (in trust to Robert Wilde, Esq., and Robt. Lyons, Esq.), £lOO. Alice, Constance, and Janet Archer, in considera tion of the valuable contributions of their late father to the science of photography (in trust to Nathaniel Machin, Esq., and Roger Fenton, Esq.), £5O. Charles Duke Yonge, in consideration of his literary merits, £75. W. Desborough Cooley, in consideration of his literary services and discoveries in Central Africa, £lOO. Johu Bolton Rogerson, in consideration of his literary merits and destitute condition, £5O. Ann Maria and Catherine Coppard, in considera tion of the services rendered to nautical science by their grandfather, Mr. T. Robertson (in trust to the Rev. Sammel Smith and W. Bean, Esq.), £75. The Rev. John Hind, in consideration of his lite rary services, £lOO. • Mary Stephens, Lauretta, Rachel, Sarah, and Amy Tucker, daughters of the late Joseph Tucker, many years Surveyor to the Navy (in trust to Charles John Bloxam, Esq., and Jervis Tucker, Esq.), £25 additional. Mrs. Frances Martha Agnes Simmons, in con sideration of the military and literary services of her husband, the late Captain Simmons, and also of the eminent military services of ,her sons, two of whom lost their lives in action, and two of whom died from illness contracted in the execution of their duties (in trust to Thomas Frederick Simmons, clerk, and Henry Parsey, Esq.), £75. The total amount being £l2OO. COUNTRY MA_RKBT,S. BRISTOL-JULY 26. In the sales of wheat at to-day's market a slight advance was obtained on late rates. Trade was rather brisk in other grain, and prices unaltered. SHEFFIELD—JULY 26. e. At this day's market there was a fair supply of w heat, and holders commenced by requiring an advance of 6d to is per load of three bushels on previous currencies. Other kinds of grain held firmly at last week's prices. Red wheat, per load of 3 imperial bushels 16s 6d to 178 6a White 55 22 lBs 6d to 208 Od Beans 22 22 lBBod to 21s Od Peas, per qr 48s Od to 54s Od Grindinc , barley, per qr 33 s Od to 35 s Od Malting ditto, „ 33s Od to 35s Od Oats 72 24s Od to 32s Od Millers' prices for flour—ls 6d, is Bd, and is 10d per 141 b. Hay, 80s to 85s; wheat straw, 28s to 365; oat straw, 2 85 to 36s ; turnips, 14sto 16s per ton. NEWCASTLE-UNDER-LYNE—JULY 25. At this corn-market wheat was in small supply, and prices ranged from 44s to 48s per 36 stone. There was not much passing in spring corn, oats being quoted at 28a to 32s per 24 stone ; beans, 46s to 52s per qr.; barley, —s to —s per qr. RICHMOND-JULY 23. We had a fair supply of all descriptions of grain to-daY, and a fair demand. Wheat ruled from 6s Od to 7s Od per bushel; barley, 3s 6d to 4s Od ; beans, 6s to 6s 6d ; oats, 3s Oct to 3s 6d. LIVERPOOL—JULY 26. The arrivals from Ireland and coastwise during last wee k have been limited. From foreign ports we have received, 3,623 qrs of nheat, 5,828 qrs of Indian corn, and 580 WO of flour. The exports in the same time comprise 561 qrs of wheat, 487 qrs of oats, 2,252 qrs of Indian corn, 1,363 sack s and 107 barrels of flour. There has been considerable ness in the trade since this day week, owing to the prospec t° of the harvest not appearing so good as they were. Oar market this morning had more than the usual attendanc e t of the trade, with a good consumptive demand for when at an advance of about ld per cental on Friday's rates. Flour met more inquiry, at about 6d per sack higher. OW and oatmeal were in moderate request, at late rates. same may be said of barley, beans, and peas. Inth corn met with a retail demand, at late rates. LEEDS—JULY 26. Wheat is is per qr dearer than last Tuesday, and th.o wea ther being fine, causes the trade to rule dull. There 0 no alteration in other articles. Averages for the week : Wheat 1,643 qrs., at 42s 91d 8ar1ey......... 15 ~ 3ls Oct Peas Beans Oats 250 ~ 27s 9d live -- if Arrivals this week : Wheat 1,783 qrs. Barley Oats Rapeseed Beans Peas Linseed NORWICH CATTLE—JULY 23. A very small show of store beasts to ••day,.comprising Sc ot t shorthorns, and Irish. Sales were rest r icted, and we 119"" a poor attendance. Scots, 4s to 4s 6d ; shorthorns, 3s 6d , c", 4s 6d ; Irish, 3s to 3s 6d. Fat beasts, 7s 6d to 8s OdPs' stone. Sheep—The pens were well filled. —Fat sheep, 8s Od to 8s 6d per stone, and all sold. 6sPtoig O s s - 6d A p g e o r od sto su n p e p . supply Store pigs 23s to 28s •; fat pork' THE NEW CANADIAN TARIFF.—Mr. Galt's tare 0 is bearing with d readful severit y on our trade. The irapo4 at Toronto for the first six months of 1859 were 1,93 9 ,, dols., while these of the corresponding period last ' , lsl. we re 1,534,131 dols., showing an increase of only 27 P; cent. The duties collected in the same period in 1858 w e ,,, 168,161 dols., and in 1859, 286,100 dols„ which shows l y augmentation on 'the burdens of the people of very ue459 70 per cent. The exports during the six mont h s of A B5B , were only 147,444 dols. ; 37,069 dols. less than i-n• and 138,656 dols. less than we paid in duties alone. „ajd decreased means of payment wehave imported more a1n,;,',0- more to the Government than last year. How can a c_eilt try prosper under such burdens as the present Governor have imposed ?—Toronto (W. C.) G10be0fJu_1272............... BIRTHS. -ci d' CARTWRIGHT.--On the 24th inst.,.at Albion-street , park, the wife of James Cartwright , Esq., of Suj . "' Bank, of a son. , th° HE! 431-ATE.—On the 26th inst., at 52, Chester. squa— . ..„; of wife of Sir Frederick William Heygate, Bart., " a son. n o, MARSHALI4.—On the 25th inst., at 5, Belvedereit‘ of Upper Norwood, the wife of James Marshall, 3 1 - 1 " a son. MARRIAGES. T „,v,eot H U MPHREYS.---C OTMAN.—On the 26th inst at St. ' r l 3O, .9 . f.l Piccadilly, Thomas Humphreys, Esq., of Lincoln ',. t 1 barrister-at-law, to Jeannette Napoli, only child ()'' late John Cotman, Esq., of Riverhead, Kent. 10itr LEE—RusaToN.—On the 26th inst., at St. Mary's 00 0 chapel, Thomas Lee, Esq., only son of the late'Th° oe Lee, Esq., of the Elms, Hackney, to Elizabeth gsritot. eldest daughter of George Rushton, Esq., of street. DEATHS. f 0t tin CRos—On the 21st inst., Robert Crosby , Esq.! Mark's. crescent, Regent's-park. pot . FIELD.—On i;:p 15th inst., at Lansdowne-crescent, .a s co sington-park, 1V.i:3 1 77 widow of the late John Field, - 1 -' of H.M.'s Mint, aged 78. 13' 'W I ' FORCE.—On the 25th inst., at Water-lane, liriit° Force, Esq., aged 79. ne rl,P MEYNELL.—On the 21st inst., at t he Friar -gate, "" Mary Moynell, aged 77. Hell' Stafford , NEVILLE.—On the 21st inst., at Raselour Ha.. 7 ' shir, Mr. Neville, aged 83. SP ll' SPRY. e On the 14th inst., at Truro, Edwar d Jolla Esq., M.R.C.S., &c., aged 59. ...; W ES T.—On the 24th inst., at 3, Lewes-crescent, Pri° Thomas West, Esq., aged 84. l c 11 59 '' ' WRIGHT.—On the 23d inst., at Western Ilouse , " --e green, Alex. Wright, Esq., M.I.C.E. ....--%,, .....„..... -- -----7------ --- - 10v t LONDON : Printed and Published by MURDO i r . ( s ) ,, 1 111 of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at T he Sun Offic e, : n od 0 Strand, in the Precinct of t he Savo y , In the c" Middlesex, Wednesday, July 27, 1869. V