The Sun. — London, England, 1859-02-09 00:00:00

ELECTION INTELLIGENCE. GREENWICH. Last evening a numerously-attended meeting of electors was held at the Queen's Arms Tavern, Douglas-street, Deptford, to take into consideration the announcement of General Codrington of his in tended resignation of his seat as a member for the borough of Greenwich. The chair was occupied by Mr. T. SOLE, who ex plained the objects of the meeting, and expressed an opinion that no time should be lost in securing a candidate of advanced Liberal opinions. He then alluded to the past services of Mr. M. Chambers, and warmly advocated the propriety of requesting that gentleman to enter the field as a candidate. Mr. WEEKS proposed a resolution approving of the former services of Mr. Chambers as a member for the borough. Mr. O'DWYER, in seconding, alluded to the fact, that although Mr. Chambers had been rejected at the last election, he had not lost sigfit of the local interests of the borough, as a proof of which he was one of the first pro moters of the contemplated new docks at East Greenwich, which, if carried out, would vastly add to the trading prosperity of the district. After various addresses, on the motion of Mr. COOPER, seconded by Mr. WILSON, a committee was appointed to prepare a requisition to Mr. Chambers, and the meeting was adjourned until Friday evening next. MEETING OF THE SUPPORTERS OF MR. ALDER• MAN SALOMONS. Last evening a densely-crowded pablic meeting of electors was held at the Lecture-hall, Royal-hill, Grtenwich, to hear an address from Mr. Alderman Salomons, explanatory of his political views as a candidate for the representation of the borough. The chair was occupied by Dr. PRIOR PURVIS, who briefly alluded to the objects of the meeting, and strongly urged upon the electors the "witty and justice of returning Alderman Salomons, now that - he was enabled to occupy a seat in the House of Commons by the abolition of Jewish dis abil i t i es. Alderman SALOMONS was received with repeated applause. He observed that he had at once . to communicate to the meeting that the time for im mediate action had arrived. Notwithstanding various legal opinions that the Chiltern Hundreds would not be granted to Mr. Townsend, and that an election could not conseque ntl y take p lace until April next, it was a fact that Mr : Townsend had accepted the stewardship of the Chiltern Hundreds, and a new writ for Greenwich had been issued on that afternoon. and was now in the hands of the returning o ffi cer. (This announcement evidently , surprised the meeting, and was received with re peated cheers.) Alderman Salomons then proce e d e d to recapitulate his political principles as an advo cate of a large extension of the suffrage, the vote by ballot, a more equal apportionment of members to electors, and other measures of reform. He could appeal with the utmost confidence to his antecedents —as a magistrate of the county . of Kent for twenty-two years— an d t o hi s connection with the- Corporation of London since 1835. He had received the thanks of a large body of the merchants and other citizens for his conduct during the period that he occupied the civic chair, and as he was largely interested in :trade and commerce he felt a laudable wish to enter the House of Commons as the representative of the borough .of Greenwich, situated as it was on the banks of the Thames, and populated with those whose in terests were bound up with commercial and trading prosperity. - Whilst upon this subject he would refer to a question which had been put to him re specting the coal-tax. This was a tax upon trade, and he was prepared to support its diminution, as he considered that the city of London ought not to levy a heavy tax upon all coals within 20 miles of the metropolis. Another important local question was the conservancy of the river Thames. He be lieved that during the present session of Parlia ment a bill would be introduced to amend the existing law on this subject, and they might rely on him, as their representative, to see that in any such amendment the interests of the inhabitants of Greenwich was not lost sight of. (Cheers.) After referring to the justice of rating 'the Government establishments in the borough, Alderman Salomons advocated the policy of keeping up a large and efficient navy—which was a power of which Eng land had ever been justly proud. He would not iaterfere without urgent cause with the affairs of other nations, but would have this country at all times prepared for any emergency. In conclusion, he would only appeal to his friends to commence work in earnest. Words would not do—committees would not alone do. There must be heart-work ; they must feel the importance of the contest ; and as only a brief period of five days would intervene before the election, ho entreated them to work like Trojans, and the victory would be gained. (Loud cries of "We will," and "All right, Alderman.") He could tell them that he was as plucky as ever, and fully prepared for the combat. (Cheers.) He should now be happy to reply to any questions that might be put to him. FYFE—How long has Alderman Salomons been an advocate of the ballot ? Alderman SALOMONS—Ever since I was a candi date on this occasion. I do not see why a man can not change a former opinion, and I shall be found a warm supporter of the ballot. (Loud cheers.) Mr. FYFE—I will ask Alderman Salomons if he did not promise, when formerly elected, that he would resign his seat if he could not retain it ? Alderman SALOMONS—I did, an d I kept the pro mise. I convened meetings at Greenwich, Woolwich and Deptford, and put th e ques ti o n whether I should resign my seat, and the answer was unani mously no. (Cheers.) In reply to other quesions, Alderman SALOMONS stated that he highly ap proved, as a whole, of Mr. Bright's Reform Bill, and considered that the rating qualification for the franchise was a reasonable one. He would not vote for the Maine Liquor Law. On the motion of Mr. Bass, seconded by Mr. IV. Jones, the following resolution was unanimously adopted :—" That the declaration of his political opinions by Mr. Alderman Salomons, viewed in conjunction with his experience in commerce and public business, and his estimable public and pri vate character, entitles him to the support of the electors of Greenwich." _ A resolution pledging the meeting to vote for Alderman Salomons was then adopted, and the meeting separated. BANBURY. BANBURY, Tuesday.—The nomination of candi dates for th e representation of the borough of Ban bury, in the room of NI-. Tancred, who has re signed, took place this da y. Contrary to general expectation, last night Mr. Sergeant Pigott issued a placard announcing hs intention to retire from the contest, which red uc e d the number of candidates to three, viz., M r. Samuelson, the well-known agricultural implement maker ; Mr. E. Miall, and Mr. J. Hardy. Last evening a meeting of Mr. Miall's supporters took place in the Town Hall, which was densely. fi lled, but th e proceedings we r e e uprori ous character, Mr. Miall being f the most unable to obtai n a hearing. The other candidates also hel d meetings which were num erous l y attended. At nine o'clock this morning the respective candidates, accompani e d by their leading supporters, wen t in procession to the hustings, in front of which about 2,000 people were collected. The mayor (Mr. IL Edmunds, jun.) presided. The usual preliminaries having been gone through, Mr. CUBITT (plush manufacturer) nominated an d Mr. H. AUSTIN (g rocer ) se conded Mr. Edward Miall. Mr. A. BRYDEN, Esq., (solicitor), proposed and. Mr. R. KIRBY (grocer) seconded Mr. John Hardy, of Dunstall Hall, Burton-upon-Trent. Mr. H. STONE (bookseller) proposed and Mr. E. WALL (ropemaker) seconded Mr. Bernhard Samuel son. No other candidate being proposed, • Mr. MIALL came forward to address the assembly, and was received with mingled cheers and groans, the latter predominating. He proceeded to re mark, amid the greatest confusion and uproar, that there were a great many things connected with a nomination day which were altogether unreal in their character. The several candidates had been listening to a great deal of praise from their pro to_se:fi and seconders, to much of which they could hardly give their assent. The electors then as sembledholdup thei rere called upon by the constitution to dates;hands in favour of particular candi bet w h atever hav might be their decision that day would totally differenet to be decided on the morrow by a joice if thoseHe should earnestly re in some respects were done away with. ano n, rrheEie t and confusion which had prevailed at the cotommaluiezement of Mr. Miall's ad dress increased and co ncluded it obliged to desist, that he was it was not their intention to liste n stating that, as to hi m , h e wou ld take his leave of them unt i l to p rrollw Would show when he doubted not that the res u lt of the l e who was regarded as the most o ° p candidate for Banbury. Per and efficient Mr. JOHN HARDY was warmly received, and met with a patient hearing. He said h e came fo ward at the request of some influential gentlemen and in the absenc e of some one professing the ear„; Principles, more immediately connected with the town and neighbourhood. He came forward on the most independent principles, and he could truly gay that he had not put his principles in pawn nor pledged his conscience. (Cheers.) If he went to Parliament, he would go as a free man to represent free men, and he would give his best consideration and support to all good measures. He hoped the electors of Banbury would follow the (.Sample set them by the House of Commons, where the lovers of order and safe government were content to sink their differences and give their support to a Minis try from which they were likely to get good mea sures. He professed to be a Conservative, but his Conservatism was leavened by a Liberalism which made it wholesome and useful. It was the salt which prevented corruption. (Cheers.) It would be madness to say that he was not in favour of pro gress and reform. He was for that gradual and peaceful reform which had brought this country to its present pitch of greatness. When he looked at the attempts which had been made to alter the constitutions of other countries, he rejoiced at the blessings which Englishmen enjoyed. They ought not to look at its blots and forget all its blessings. (Cheers.) He did not i wish to be sent to Parlia ment to represent one interest, but the interest of all. He did not wish to see one class of the com munity predominate over any other, whether it was aristocracy or democracy. He was connected both with the landed and the commercial interest, and wished to see them go hand-in-hand, for they were the wedded interests of England, and one could not flourish without the other, for they were bound up one with the other. (Cheers.) Mr. SAMUELSON, who was received with a volley of groans and hisses, mingled with cheers, then at tempted to address the meeting, but so great was the confusion that very little was heard, except by those on the hustings. He said he was aware that he was opposed by two gentlemen, one of whom was an eminent public writer, and the other a gen tleman possessing large property and means—a gentleman in every sense of the word, and a neigh bour ; but, notwithstanding these recommendations, he (Mr. Samuelson) believed he had claims superior to both. He presented himself before them as a townsman, a s one who symp a thi se d w ith th e feel ings and objects of the working classes, and who was determined to do all i n hi s power t o secure f or them that just share of political power to which they were fully entitled, but of which they had been unjustly deprived. (Cheers and groans.) He came before them as an independent man, like Mr. Hardy, and if they returned him to Parliament they would find him so. He hoped, too, that in electing him as their representative, it would have the effect of contributing to the re-union of the liberal party, which, by the intrusion of Mr. Miall and his friends, had been so unwarrantably broken into ; and Mr. Miall would have done well if he had followed the example of Mr. Sergeant Pigott, and withdrawn from the contest. If they did him the honour of electing him as their re presentative, he would do his best to obtain justice for the working men on all occasions, and should consider himself not the representative of the Liberals or the Tories, but of the entire constituency of Banbury. The disorder and confusion which prevailed, and the disinclination to hear him, induced Mr. Samuelson to bring his speech to an abrupt conclusion. The MAYOR then took a show of hands, which he pronounced to be in favour of Mr. Samuelson, an announcement which was received with much cheering. A poll was then demanded on the part of Mr. Hardy and Mr. Miall, which is fixed to take place tomorrow (this day). A vote of thanks was passed to the Mayor, and the meeting dispersed. Great excitement prevails in the town, and a close contest is expected. EAST WORCESTERSHIRE, DUDLEY, Tuesday.—The Hon. Mr. Calthorpe, the Liberal candidate, has at last made a more specific declaration of his political principles than he has hitherto afforded the constituency. He attended a public meeting held here last night, the mayor in the chair, at which Mr. Foster, M.P., and Mr. H. W. Foley, M.P., were present. Mr. CALTHORPE referred first to the question of the ballot. He said he would not pledge himself to vote for it, not because he did not believe there was a necessity for it, but because he did not think it would answer in practice the end desired. In theory he was favourable to the ballot, but he had seen it in practice in America and in France, and had heard those who had been to Australia declare that in attaining secrecy it utterly failed. Believ ing that to be true, he declined to pledge himself to vote for it ; if it did not answer the end contem plated, it would only lead to deceit, hypocrisy, and distrust. He next alluded to the subject of reform, and said he would vote for a county £lO franchise, but with regard to boroughs, an experienced Par liamentary man could not say - what course he would adopt until he had seen the measures to be brought forward ; and it would be presumption in a young man like him to do so. But a reform bill, in addition to the extension of the franchise, should contain many other things, and he would support that which most accorded with the general intelli gence of the country, and with a full and fair re presentation. He would vote for the entire aboli tion of church rates, for two reasons; Ist, because he thought the Established Church quite rich enough, and sufficiently beloved by her members to support herself ; and 2d, because their entire abo lition would do away with the heartburnings and hostility to the Church which they now produced. As to the income tax, he would not vote for its entire abolition, but would vote for a greater tax being placed on landed or funded property. He was for the repeal of the paper duty, and advocated the continuance of Government grants for educational purposes. He would not support any great reduc tion in the armaments of the country. At Oldbury, also, Mr. Pakington was announced to address a public meeting, but at the appointed time the Hon. F. Lygon appeared in his behalf, and explained that he continued to) ill to attend a public meeting, and that he intended to reserve his strength for the day of nomination. Mr. Lygon advocated the cause of Mr. Pakinlton as an independent man, who came forward to vindicate the independence of the county against the claims of a total stranger. Other speakers followed. RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE. LONDON AND BLACKWALL. The directors of this company have decided upon recommending the shareholders to declare a divi dend for the half•year ending 31st of December last of 3s. 6d. each on the old shares, and 3s. 2d. each on the new shares of the company. LANCASHIRE AND YORKSHIRE. The balance of net revenue applicable to the pay ment of dividends on the ordinary stock of the company amounts to £195,935, and out of this the directors, in their report, recommend a dividend for the half-year at the rate of 4 per cent. per annum, less income tax. THE SU - N, LONDON, WEDNESDAY I EVENING, FEBRUARY 9, 1859. under arms ? Why did he not seize, manacle, and imprison the doting or delirious Dandalo, and all that appertained unto him ? Why did he not dis solve the disaffected Assembly, issue a proclama tion suspending liberty of the press, and place the wrongheaded but helpless infants under martial law ? That this would have been the course adopted in former times by a Tory statesman, act ing on behalf of a Tory Goverment at home, admits not of question; but there are signs in this, as in other instances, that Tory politicians have learned and unlearned much; and that they have done so, and are seeking at length to adapt themselves to the humane and enlightened spirit of the time, is the real head and front of their offending.— Daily News. POLICE INTELLIGENCE, Feb. 8. LA TV' INTELLIGENCE. Feb. 8. COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH. (Sittings at Nisi Prius, at Westminster, before Lord Campbell and a Common Jury.) COLLINS V. THOMAS.-ASSAULT AND FALSE IMPRISONMENT. This was an action brought by the plaintiff, Miss Collins, to recover damages for an assault and false imprisonment, alleged to have been'inflicted upon her by the defendant. The defendant pleaded not guilty. Mr. Sergeant Ballantine appeared for the plain tiff; Mr. Ribton conducted the case for the de fendant. _ It appeared from the evidence that the. plaintiff occupied a house, No. 109, Cornwall-road, Lambeth, which she considered she was entitled to the lawful possession of ; and that the defendant, who was a warehouseman, in Cheapside, bought the house at a sale by auction, and, considering himself the lawful owner of it, demanded posssession of it, which the plaintiff refused to give him up. Unable to obtain possession, he employed a man named M'Grath, a bricklayer's labourer, and two other men, to turn the plaintiff out of the house, and for two days she was barricaded, a close prisoner, in her room by them, and kept, according to her evi dence, without food. On the 4th of November the men employed .to obtain possession. forced their way into her room, threw her on the floor, and, seizing her by the shoulders and feet, carried her into the street, and laid her on the pavement. In ejecting her in this manner plaintiff deposed that they used great violence, exposed her by pulling up her clothes, and inflicted several severe bruises on her person. Indignant at such a proceeding, and smarting under the injuries, she started to her feet, and thinking she had been illegally ejected, rushed to the front window, broke a pane with her open hand, and thrusting her head through the aperture to force her way into the premises, cut her head and face in the attempt. She was then given into custody of a policeman who was present, by the desire of defendant, and was taken to the station-house. This constituted the false impri sonment : liberated by the magistrate, and acting under the advice 3f her attorney, she went the next morning, the sth of November, to the house, and armed with a hammer and chisel, elevated himself on a chair, and removing shutters and iron bars, then broke a pane of glass, through which she tried to force her person. Unable to effect an entry through so small an aperture, she was aided by a sympathising woman, who applying her hands and strength, forced her into the room. Finding her self once more in possession, the plaintiff bade defi ance to the defendant, and exclaimed—" It is an excellent lark—l'll lose the last drop of my blood on the floor, and die by M'Grath, before I sur render." She was ultimately dispossessed. Mr. Thomas, the defendant, examined, deposed that no more force than was necessary to remove the plaintiff from the premises had been used by M'Urath and the other men employed by him to get the plaintiff out, and obtain possession of the house for him. He positively denied that violence had been used on the occasion in ejecting her, and that everything should be done as mildly and legally as possible, he called a policeman, who was present at, and witnessed the whole proceeding. It was elicited from the man M'Grath that he was in possession of part of the house at the time, under an agreement between him and the defend ant ; that he received a pound a week for his ser vices, and altogether between two and three pounds for the job of ejecting the plaintiff. It was also elicited, in cross-examination, that he had allowed the plaintiff to come in and take possession of the house, under the inducement held out to him by her that she would give him £5O for the permis sion—and all this while he was under the terms of a written agreement to the defendant to live as tenant and keep the'house for him. It was also elicited that 111‘Grath, while he was in occupation, did not pay rent either to the late landlord, Mr. Ansell, or to the defendant. Mr. Sergeant Ballantine and Mr. Ribton having addressed the jury in favour of their respective clients, Lord Campbell summed up, and said—The first question for the jury was, whether the plaintiff had or had not obtained possession of the premises by fraudulent means, in her negotiations with the man M‘Grath; and in the second pla ce th e y wou ld say whether, in their opinion, mare force was used in ejecting her from the premises than was really necessary to remove her. If they were of opinion that violence was used in removing her, and that injuries were inflicted upon her person, they would find a verdict in her favour, with such reasonable and moderate damages as, in their opinion, would be sufficient to meet the case ; but if they thought she obtained possession of the premises fraudeutly, and that violence in removing her from them had not been used, they would find their verdict for the defendant. The jury, without a moment's hesitation, de• livered a verdict for the defendant. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS. (Sittings at Nisi Prins, in Middlesex, before Lord Chief Justice Cockburn and a Special Jury.) TURNBULL AND ANOTHER V, TALLIS-ALLEGED NUISANCE. The defendant in this case was Mr. Tanis, the well-known printer, and damages were claimed from him upon the ground of an alleged nuisance caused by the working of a steam-engine and seve ral printing machines belonging to him. The de• fendant pleaded not guilty, and that the alleged nuisance arose necessarily and unavoidably from the reasonable use and exercise, in a convenient and proper place, of a lawful, useful, and necessary trade and art, and that he made no more noise in the working of the steam-engine and presses than he lawfully might. Mr. Knowles, Q.C., and Mr. Macnamara ap peared for the plaintiffs; and Mr. Wilde, Q.C., and Mr. Rew, for the defendant. The plaintiffs kept a lodging-house, No. 31, , which they h e ld on lease from 1852, at £63 a y e ar. The defendant's premises were i n W a te r - s t ree t. Th e forAr Arundel-street, thirty-oneel-str eet y , e S ar tr s and defendant printed the Daily Telegraph, the Illus trated News of the World, and other publications, and the noise complained of arose, it was said, prin cipally from the working of one of Hoe's American machines. The noise was described iy . one of the plaintiffs as " a rumbling, shaking, flapping noise," and by the other like the noise from " travellingin a railway carriage through a tunnel all night." It was said to be so serious that it prevented people from sleeping at night, and seriously damaged the plaintiffs in the way of their business. It was also said that the shaking wou ld i n t i me i n j ure the sta bility of the plaintiffs' house. It was suggested that the inconvenience might be prevented by the ma chines being placed in the basement, by the win dows being lessened and kept shut, by the employ ment of substances to deaden sound, and by other means. On the other hand it was said that the defendant's machines and premises were constructed and fitted in a proper manner, and that the noise arising from the machines was not such as could create any an noyance. The case was partly heard yesterday, and last night three of the jury went to inspect the machine when at work, and went also to the plaintiffs' house to see whether there was or not any serious annoy ance. They, however, did not agree in their opinion, for two of them stated this morning that they ex perienced nothing unpleasant, whilst the other one thought there was sufficient to prevent anybody en joying sleep. After a great deal of evidence had been laid before the jury it was agreed that a verdict should be en tered for the plaintiffs for 405., and that it should be referred to some practical man to say what steps should be taken to get rid of any annoyance that there might be from the working of the machines. PIPER V. BURI3IDGE-STREET ACCIDENT. This was an action to recover damages for in juries sustained by the plaintiff through the negli gence of the defendant's servant. Mr. Sergeant Thomas and Mr. Griffiths appeared for the plaintiff defendant. , and Mr. Sergeant Parry for the The plaintiff, an old man, is a cab-driver, and the defendant 18 a hat manufacturer, in Southwark. The accident happened on the evening of the 23d of April last. The plaintiff was standing beside his cab on the stand, in Bridge-street, Blackfriars, tying a handkerchief round his head, and was using the window in one of the doors as a looking-glass. Th e d e f en d an t' s car t w as coming along at a moderate pace, when it unfortunately struck him, knock e d hi m d own , an d b ro k e his thigh. The plaintiff was in the hospital for two months, and even down to th e presen t ti me he was obliged to use crutches. He had lived on charity ever since the accident. He had not been able to do any work since, and he expressed his belief that he would never be able to work any more. It was said that the cart ought to have been nearer to the near kerb. For the defendant it was submitted that this was no negligence, and that the road being clear the driver had a right to go along any part of it. The accident, it was said, had happened in consequence of the plaintiff having stepped back four or fivefeet at the moment the cart was passing, and so came in contact with the wheel ; and that, under these cir cumstances, it was impossible for the driver to avoid the accident. The jury found a verdict for the plaintiff. Damages, £2O. order signed " John Campbell," but as the name was spelt wrongly, I asked him if his name was John Campbell. He replied in the negative, and said his name was M'Donald. I have seen him at the Post-office on many occasions. Mr. George Westbury said—l am in the employ of Mr. Toleman, paper-stainer, of 170, Goswell road. In the month of June or lly last my master had a house to let at No. 2, Weymouth-terrace, of which he is the landlord. About that time the female prisoner called on my master in company with a man whom she called her husband, and who gave the name of Munday. Mr. Toleman was not at home, and they both called again next day, when they saw my master in my presence, gave refer ences, and took the house; and during the conver sation she called the man her husband. About ten days after Michaelmas I called at 2, Weymouth terrace, and there saw the female prisoner. I asked her for the rent. She said she had only got £3, and that her husband would call and pay it the next day. I then put a broker in, and the money was paid the same day. Henry Hudson said—l am a letter-carrier, and deliver at Weymouth-terrace, New North-road, and used to deliver before Christmas a great many letters at No. 2. A few days before the occupants left, the female prisoner told me they were going away, and requested me to forward all letters com ing to No. 2 directed to John Campbell, to No. 22, Tavistock-place, and I told her she must write to the district post•office. Mr. Tarrant said he was inspector at the district post-office, and proved that a letter was received at the district post-office, Islington, requesting that all letters coming there directed to John Campbell, No. 2, Weymouth-terrace, were to be re-directed and sent to No. 22, Tavistock-place, Tavistock square. . _ BOW-STREET.—William Whitehead Chandler, a well-dressed man of about 30 years of age, was charged with uttering two forged cheques, £440 and £250 respectively, and one forged Bank of England note for £lO. Mr. Mullins prosecuted on behalf of the Commit tee of Bankers ; and Mr. Humphreys, jun., appeared for the defendant. It appeared that on the 12th of November, a cheque for £44owas presented at Drummond's bank, Charing-cross. It was drawn upon them and signed " Geo. W. Chambers." Mr. George Wilton Chambers, of Rotherham, had an account there, and as the signature appeared to be his, the money was paid in four £lOO notes and four £lO notes. On the same day one of the £lOO notes was changed at Mr. Shouts', jeweller and money changer, at Knightsbridge, for £3O worth of Irish and Scotch notes, and £7O in English notes and money. The assistant at Mr. Shouts' identified the prisoner as the person who changed the £lOO note. On the same day another £lOO note was changed at Messrs. Bult and Co.'s bullion-dealers, Lombard street, by a person (not identified), who took £93 in French money, and the rest in English. Mr. Chambers deposed that the signature, though somewhat resembling his writing, was a forgery. Mr. Mullins applied for a remand on this charge as further evidence would be produced. The wit nesses who had been examined might, however, be at once bound over to appear at the trial, unless Mr. Humphreys thought he should want them in the meanwhile. Inspector Whither said that was the case for the present, and asked for a remand. There were several persons in the country, who would come forward if their expenses were guaranteed. The case from Leeds was a very clear one, but he could not guarantee the expenses. Mr. Corrie remanded the prisoners for a week, and said that the case from Leeds had better be brought forward. He should refuse bail. The prisoners were then removed. Mr. Humphreys—No, I don't want them at all. (A laugh.) They were accordingly bound over. In the second case it was proved that the £250 cheque in question, which purported to be drawn by Dr. William Jones, of Albany-street, on the West-end branch of the Union Bank of London, Argyle-place, Regent-street, was presented at that bank on the 22d Jan., and was presented in four £5O notes and ten £5 notes. On the same day the prisoner purchased £l5O worth of French Napoleons at Mr. Massey's, money-changer, Lendenhall-street, and paid for it with three of the £5O notes. The fourth was passed on the same day to Mr. Smart, a bullion dealer, in Princes-street, Leicester-square. The prisoner was committed on this case also, and the charge relating to the £lO note was next taken. The note was produced by Mr. George Brown, landlord of the Shades Tavern, Charing-cross. In the summer of 1857 the prisoner stayed at his house on three several occasions, for a few days at a time. On the third occasion he went away without pay ing his bill. About six months afterwards he called again and paid it with the £lO note in question. He got the change, - went away, and witness never saw him again till he was in custody. The note passed through Drummond's bank without detec tion. Mr. Mullins said there were seven other charges against him of passing forged notes. Mr. Humphreys—He tells me he has an answer to every charge. He was remanded. CLERKENWELL.—CAUTION TO THE COMMER CIAL WORLD. John Morris Reid, alias John Camp bell, Samuel Thompson, Ann Thompson, and Thos. Smith, who have for some time been carrying on business as the Mercantile Loan Fund Association Office, 2, Weymouth-terrace, New North-road, Lon don, N., were placed at the bar on remand, before Mr. Corrie, charged with havin g unlawfully amongst themselves mad with divers other persons conspired, combined, confederated, and agreed by certain un lawful devices, feloniously and fraudulently to cheat and defraud certain persons of their moneys, and with having in pursuance of and according to the said conspiracy and agreement amongst them selves obtained by such devices of and from divers of her Majesty's subjects their moneys, against the peace, &c. The particulars of the former examination have already appeared in this journal. The court was crowded to excess. Although Mr. Corrie, on the last occasion, expressed a wish that some one should attend to prosecute on behalf of the police, no one was present to do so, and Inspector Whicher, of the detective force, who had charge of the case, had to call the witnesses himself. The first witness called was Mr. James Hunt Otway, who said—l reside at Lower Stonnall, Staffordshire, and am an agent. I first saw the advertisement of the Mercantile Loan Society, 2, Weymouth-terrace, New North-road, London, published in the Birmingham Journal. The advertisement was similar to the one I now produce, which I cut out of one of the same journals. I wrote a letter about the 13th December to a John Campbell, 2, Weymouth-terrace, New North-road, and about the 16th of the same month I received the following letter : " London, 2, Weymouth-terrace, New North-road, Dec. 16, 1858. " Sir,—ln reply to your favour of the 13th, I beg to hand the enclosed form. You require an advance of £lOO, repay able in five years, quarterly ; our interest charges in the form are calculated for one year only ; the interest lst year, £5 ; 2d, £4 ; 3d, £3 ; 4th, £2 ; sth, £1; repayable with principal. Respecting agency, I beg to inform you that we have two classes of agents, viz., in every principal t own private inquiry agents, and also travelling agents, through whom we transact all our business, and who receive in s tructions to visit personally when considered necessary.— I am, dear Sir, faithfully yours, " Jxo. CAMPBELL, Resident Manager." I filled up the form, wrote a letter, and placed them in an envelope, and gave it to a friend, named Pearson, with £1 ls., to obtain a Post-office order for that amount at Walsall, in favour of John Campbell. On the 22d December I received a letter, of which the following is a copy : " 2, Weymouth-terrace, New North-road, London, N., Dec. 21, 1858. "Dear Sir,—l am:instructed to acknowledge the receipt of your proposal for a loan of £lOO, and to inform you the negotiation shall have the best attention of the company.— I am, dear sir, faithfully yours, "Mr. J. H. Otway. " JNO. CAMPBELL." I also. received, on the 28th, the annexed letter : •• - "2, Weymouth-terrace, New-North-road, N., London, Dec. 27 i 1858. "Dear have the pleasure toinform you that at the meeting of the board this day it was resolved to grant you the advance of £lOO for five years, but it will be neces sary (before handing you the draft for the amount) for one of our gentlemen to wait upon you and take your signature to the bond. For this purpose, you are required to remit a sufficient sum to cover his travelling expenses, &e., say £2 10s., which it is necessary should be complied with by re turn of post to enable us to carry out our arrangements for the week ; therefore, on receipt of your reply with remit tance, instructions will be given the gentleman to wait upon you without delay.--rI am, dear sir, faithfully yours, "Pro. IN°. CAMPBELL, "R. MANN. "Mr. J. II: Otway, Lower Stonnall, near Walsall." The same day I obtained a Post-office order at Lich field for £2 10s., in favour of John Campbell, which I placed in a letter and posted myself at Lichfield, from which time I have heard no more from the association. Mr. Edward Spencer said—l am a clerk in the Money-order office, St. Martin's-le-Grand. I know the female prisoner, and the prisoner Reed, by their coming very frequently to the office to get orders cashed in'the name of "John Campbell." On Mon day, Jan. 31, I received eight half-crowns from In spector Whicher, and about half-past three the same afternoon the female prisoner came to the office and presented two money-orders, one for £1 Cs. 3d. from Leeds, and the other from Sligo for £1 10s. I paid her £2 16s. 3d., amongst which was the money I had received from Inspector Whicher. I asked her if she could write her name, and she said " No." She said her name was Ann Thompson, and that she re. sided at 2, Weymouth-terrace, New North-road. I believe the letters produced were written by the prisoner Reed, who signed his name John Camp bell. I produce an order drawn at Walsall, on the 18th December, 1858, in favour of John Campbell, and which was paid by me to one of the prisoners on the 21st of December last. Mr. Johi W. Margells said—l am a clerk in the Money-order Office, St. Martin's-le-Grand. I pro duce an order drawn at Lichfield, on the 21st Dec., 1858. in favour of John Campbell. I cashed it on the 22th December, and handed one of the prisoners the money. Mr. Alfred Eustace said—l am a clerk in the Money-order Office. I know the female prisoner. She has frequently been at the office lately, and I cashed money-orders from different parts of the , country made payable to "John Campbell." I paid her £1 too much in December last, on an order she then produced, signed " John Campbell." A day or 1 two afterwards the prisoner Reed, whom I knew previously by his cashing orders in the name of "John Campbell," came to the office, and I told him that the female prisoner had received £1 too much. The next day he came and brought me a sovereign. He said the female prisoner was his housekeeper, and had been in his family for the last 15 years, He also distinctly told me that his name was “John Campbell," and that the post-office orders were for him. I also know the prisoner Thompson. He came one day to the Post-office and produced 411 LAMBETH.—POT-STEALING.—William Harris and Richard Payne, two urchins, the former 12 and the latter 10 years of age, were placed in the felons' dock on a charge of stealing a pint pot, the pro perty of Mr. Robert Bamfield Williams, proprietor of the Bull's Head Tavern, Broad-street, Lambeth. Mr. Williams deposed that on the preceding even ing, between the hours of six and seven o'clock, the prisoner Richard Payne was brought to his house by a police constable, with a broken up pint pot in his possession, and on exam i n i ng the injured measure, he discovered it, both by the name and address, to be his. Mr. Norton—Do you know anything about the prisoners, Mr. Williams ? Mr. Williams—Yes ; I know Payne's fathei:ancl mother as hard-working people in my neighbour hood, and the friends of the other lad, I under stand, also live in the neighbourhood. George Goddard, 41 L, deposed that while on duty in the Lambeth-walk on the evening before, he saw the prisoners together, and, in crossing the street, one of them dropped the pint pot, smashed up as it was, but picked it up immediately. He, in consequence, followed them, and saw them go into the shop of a marine-store dealer, where they offered it in sale for 41d. The shopkeeper, however, re fused to purchase it, and was about detaining the prisoners, when lao (witness) entered the shop and took them into custody. The prisoners at once told him they were equally guilty. Payne said he took the pint pot out of the dust-yard, and that Harris smashed it up against the wall. The prisoners admitted that this was all true, and said it was their first offence. Mr. Norton observed he did not wish to send boys of their age to associate with practised thieves. Mr. Williams said that, for his part, it was by no means his wish that the lads should be sent to prison. The offence of pot stealing was one by which the licensed victuallers suffered severely, and in the hope that the punishment of being confined all night would have the effect of preventing a repetition of their crime, he should now leave the matter in his worship's hands. Mr. Norton inquired if the parents of the lads were present, and being answered in the affirma tive, he asked if they had any objection to their boys being whipped. In both cases the parents said they should prefer administering the infliction themselves ; and having promised to give them a sound flogging, the boys, with a proper caution for their future conduct, were given up to their parents. GRAND TRUNK OF CANADA. The London directors of this company, on pro posing an increase of £1,111,500 in the capital of the company by the issue of preferential bonds, state that during the last year considerable progress had been made in the works required to give an unin terrupted intercourse by the Grand Trunk system, from Quebec and Portland., and through the whole of Canada, to the Western States of America. The branch between St. Mary's and London, Canada West, a distance of 22 miles, was opened for traffic in September last, and the receipts already obtained upon it gave promise that from and after the coming Spring it would show results as satis factory as the other portions of the railway west of Toronto. The extension to Sarnia, and the line at the opposite side of the lake from Port Huron to Detroit, it was believed would be ready for traffic in September next. There would then only remain the Victoria-bridge to complete the Grand Trunk system. Mr. A. M. Ross, in his report dated the 6th of December last, sets forth the extraordinary energy splayed by Messrs. Peto, Brassey, and Betts • In expediting the work, and to which the directors have that report, the same to add that, since the date of t vigour is continued in the erection u e bes, and such other portions of of the ing reason, as stbateNro:eeded with in winter, g i t the works as can t , provided no unforeseel. Mr. Ross, to hope that, ae o cr t u r a a lt n y s mofaymuhceheffcoecntseed quence arise, the p —say, on the Bth or 9th of No: t enaber next." The 0 structure to the Ist expenditure certified on this p mastottr a i l e been made () River de Re te e ir A d at I inst. had been £1,115,693. in the works- between St. Thomas Loup, so as to enable this section Notwithstanding might (espe the time required under the company's of 1856 and 1857. the l cts continued `crisis in Canada and those States inontt; West from which the Grand Trunk cially when the Victoria -bridge is completed) rea sonably look for a large portion of its traffic, th e receipts of the railway had only during 1858 exhibited a reduction of 6.10 per cent. as com_ pared with those of the year 1857, while other railways on the American continent, and espe cially those which might be more or less compared to the Grand Trunk, had shown de pressions of from 25 to 50 per cent.. The mer chandise conveyed during the past year amounted to 490,427 tons, being in excess of the goods carried in 1857 43,896 tons. The passenger traffic, on the other hand, exhibited a diminution equal to 20 per cent. on the number of passengers and 141 per cent. on the receipts, a re su lt which was due to the stagnation subsequent to the crisis and the com ploactealdtr i a_d e was a . com parative a b sence of em i grants. The traffic during 1858, arising as it had done, almost entirely from fully equal to the proportion antici pated the original estimate as likely to accrue from that source. The late general manager of the company, Mr. Shanley, had stated that the Grand Trunk Railway had now passed its worst days, and that improvement in receipts might henceforward be counted upon with certainty. The return of receipts and expenditure on revenue account for October, 1858, being the last return received in London, exhibited for the month a net revenue of £14,968. This return showed that the reduction of working expenses promised in the report of Mr. Blackwell was in course of realisation. Mr. Black well, in the report referred to, showed that to complete the works in progress of construction it would be necessary to obtain additional capital to the extent of about a million sterling. The amount of capital proposed to be created at the special meeting in Canada was £1,111,500. This, with the two millions of preference capital created in 1856, was equal to the amount of the deben tures issued to the company by the Province of Canada, or £3,111,500. This amount originally formed the first charge on the undertaking, but the Government and Legislature of Canada had sanc tioned the postponement of the payment by the company of any interest upon the £3,111,500 until a dividend at the rate of 6 per cent. per annum be paid upon all the consolidated stock of the com pany. By the creation, therefore, and issue of additional preferential capital to the extent of £1,111,500, which it was supposed should rank next in priority after the two millions above re ferred to, the position of the ordinary debentures of the company would not be in any respect affected or altered from that which those securities occupied at the time of their original issue, when the interest on the provincial debentures formed the first charge on the revenues of the company. It was intended that those debentures should be second perfere nee debentures bearing interest at the rate of 6 per cent. per annum. GLOCESTER AND DEAN FOREST. The half-yearly meeting of this company was held at Glocester on Saturday—Mr. S. Baker in the chair. From the report it appeared that the income of the company for the half-year ending December 31, 1858, had been augmented by the receipt of £lB7 from the Hereford, Ross, and Glocester Rail way Company, which enabled the directors to recommend a small increase in the rate of dividend as compared with the previous half-year. After payment of the current expenses an available amount remained of £6,447, which admitted of a dividend of 12s. 6d. per share, leaving a balance of £97 for the next half-year. A resolution declaring a dividend at that rate was agreed to, and the meeting separated. GREAT SOUTHERN OF INDIA. It appears that the estimated cost of the first section of the railway from Negapatam to Trichi nopoly being now fixed, with the sanction of the Secretary of State for India in Council, at £500,000, that amount only will be called up. Any scrip certificates remaining unregistered on the 26th inst. are to be cancelled, and the money paid thereon forfeited to the company. MR. GLADSTONE. An attempt is made, for reasons which are not f a o p r p h a r i s e n e t, on t c o i o s e r y a n d e o m u e t c a ry against no lvsince a G s l a b d. e s e t n o ne in the lonian Islands. He has neither courted the praises of the people in his capacity of Commissioner of Inquiry, nor threatened to flog their leaders for talking ethnological platitudes or rhetorical non sense. So far he has departed from the ways of the rulers that have gone before him, who made the islanders to sin ' • and therein lies the gravam en o f th e charge against him, that he has neither played the doctrinaire nor the drum-major. That the lonians are discontented, and have long been so, everybody knows. That past administrations have failed to win their confidence, or appease their vague desire of something which they do not now possess, is plain. That neither the system of satrapy as practised under Sir Thomas Maitland, nor that of unbalanced democracy devised by Lord Grey, nor that of sus pension by the hangman's cord, under Sir Henry Ward, were fitted to establish permanent peace, loyalty, and order in the Adriatic Islands, is no longer matter of dispute. That which is now dis puted is the right of the present Government to try and find out what, if anything, would set things right: and their determination, manifested in the conduct of their distinguished delegate, Mr. Glad stone, not to be warped or blinded by the foolish effervescence of a handful of garrulous, petulant, and half-educated people. Not only is such deter mination wise and just, but the contrary would be censurable in the highest degree. Here is a cluster of small and remote dependencies whose condition is confessedly one eminently dis reputable to the character of our Imperial rule. After forty years of undisputed suzerainty, under the muzzle of our ships' guns, and in the face of a garrison too strong to be resisted for a moment, the population una voce declare their anxiety to be annexed to another State, and, through the lips of their representatives, and by every other method, beg to be rid of our protection. All this may be very reprehensible, impracticable, and wrong ; but as everybody knows that it can come to nothing, so long as we choose to smile at it disdainfully, or threaten to crush it under our heel, no one in this country troubles his head about it, for its own sake. It is because it is supposed to furnish the raw material of a party grievance that the matter is put into the political mill, there to be picked, carded, dyed with a suitable tinge, and spun of a suitable size, in the hope that in due time it may be woven into a suitable fabric for factious use. All the errors and blunders of past Governments are forgotten. All the neglects, broken promises, tantalisations, and inconsisten cies of experimentalising and capricious Secre taries of State are kept out of sight. One point, and one only, is steadily kept in view, namely, how to depreciate and disparage the emi nent statesman who in mid winter consented to undertake the thankless task of making a visit of personal inquiry to these extra-parochial scraps of her Majesty's domain, and who being on the spot has been induced for a few days to hold ad interim the reins of executive authority, between the de parture of Sir John Young and the arrival of Sir Henry Storks. His acceptance of this obviously provisional trust has been tortured into an act of perfidy to his outgoing friend, and.felo de se of his own political character, how •or why we are not told, and cannot for the life of us comprehend. It may be, indeed, against all precedent and tradition that a politician, who has filled high office in the State, and who may aspire to a similar position again, should ever act disinterestedly or without the leave and co-operation of some great faction or cabal. But the public at large will be slow to con demn the motives of any man on this ground; and as for his acts done in the performance of an ardu ous and unambitious duty, it will be time enough to enter into judgment on them when their gifted author has been heard in defence. Meanwhile the writ has been moved for the University of Oxford ; and a few days will show whether the accomplished and enlightened consti tuency that have so often testified their admiration and respect for Mr. Gladstone are prepared, in his absence on a generous and gratuitous mission, to discard him as a silly sentimentalist, a fanatical fool, or a betrayer of the honour of the empire. By all means let these questions be put nakedly to the learned and intelligent electors of Oxford; and if they ask for proofs of their member's intellectual aberration or moral obliquity, let them be told that his name has figured in a seditious transparency during a night of illuminations in the town of Corfu ; and that, in his anxiety to disarm the ill temper and suspicion of a superstitious people, he is said to have saluted in the manner of the country an aged bishop of their church. If these tremen dous facts are not deemed conclusive, let the histo rians, jurisconsults, and divines of Oxford be told how Mr. Gladstone supplanted his friend Sir John Young, though he does not and never was suspected of intending to take his place; but let them not ask how, then, he can be a supplanter, for that is a question to which nobody can give a reply. Let them be further reminded how, in his addresses on public occasions since he has been in these Islands, he has failed to repudiate the imputation of sym pathy for the land that looked to him with hope, and failed to repel the ascription to him of desire for the elevation of the Greek race ; but let them not ask how this makes out a case of personal inca pacity on his part, because that nobody can tell. And, finally, let it be urged on their consideration that when the legal Vestry, or Assembly, or what ever else it is called, had the folly the other day to vote a declaration in favour of annexation to Greece, and to talk of appointing a committee to consider the subject further, Mr. Gladstone, in- stead of getting into an undignified passion, and threatening Signors Dandalo, Lombardo, and their associates with the fangs and claws of the British lion, promptly but calmly told them they were illegally, lielngvafhlualty;raaennd desired them, if they had any petition t ul i ta n iw g ou. to address to the Queen, to be more a o ca c f in keeping w y f i o t r hiiit thrown away. Not word bullying, in the old orthodox lighted matches at the touch holes, or tying up delinquents to the halberts. Think of a contuma cious dependency, nearly as pabout u t style, fi xe d hie b wasay hectoringo n h andeet confiness. e; opulous as the parish of Lambeth, daring to pull the British Empire by one of the tips of its wide-flowing beard, and no a dministrative roar of indignation heard thereat, nor anything more than the resentful rap on the knuckles of the magisterial wand. Why did not Mr. Gladstone order the garrison to be forthwith ST. PANCRAS WORKHOUSE. INCARCERATION OF AN ALLEGED INSANE PAUPER. Yesterday, at the weekly meeting of the directors of the poor of St. Pancras, held at the Vestry-hall, Camden -town, Mr. Churchwarden Attenborough in the chair, Mr. STOCKTON said he wished to call the atten tion of the board to a subject which he felt, when they heard it, the board would consider it a duty they owed to themselves, as well as to the ratepayers and the poor, at once to investigate. From informa tion derived from Mr. Ross, Mr. Furniss and him self had on the previous day come to the workhouse for the purpose of investigating the case of a man named Stack, an inmate of the workhouse. As he (Mr. Stockton) intended to ask for a committee, he would not go in to details, but would simply state that this poor man having two children at Forest gate Schools, one of whom was very ill, if not dying, had asked to go out to see it. Having been refused, he got over the wall, and on his return, in conse quence of his alleged excitement, he had been sub jected to great coercion. This he thought justified him in moving for a committee of investigation. Mr. WYATT said the board could not consent to a committee without knowing the allegations. Mr. FURNTSS, who had been sworn in as a newly elected diPector that day, said he should second Mr. Stockton's motion. The fact was, that this poor fellow, because he got excited about not being per mitted to go end see his child, had been, by order of some of the authorities, locked up as a lunatic for nearly a week. When, however, Mr. Stockton, Mr. Ross, and himself went there on the previous day, the keeper of the lunatic ward said he had no business to be sent there, and when they sent for the doctor, he ordered him out. For their own credit's sake, he trusted the board would investigate the matter. If they did not, they might depend upon it the vestry would. A lengthened conversation took place, but ulti. mately the committee was appointed. UNFORTUNATE EMIGRANTS.—On the 6th of No vember a number of Irish emigrants sailed from this port in the James Foster, and after being at sea for 49 days, they were landed at Queenstown and sent back here. They were next put on board the Isaac Wright, which caught fire on the very night she ought to have sailed. They were again placed on board the Isaac Webb, which has also re turned to port again, after being 24 days at sea.—Liverpool Albion. [ADVERTISEMENT.]—.The Recent Changes of Tempera ture.—lt is very important that such changes as have recently taken place in the temperature of the atmosphere should not be treated with indifference. The public should be watchful of the effects which these changes frequently have on the body. The skin and nervous system suffer severely, erysipelas, blotches, boils, rheumatism, sore throats, and many other complaints of this nature, fre quently arise from this cause. Wh en symptoms of these diseases show themselves they should be promptly attended to. Holloway's Pills and Ointment are wonderful remedies and eradicate the above diseases immediately they present themselves. The Ointment should be rubbed into the parts affected, and the Pills taken ac cor di ng t o t h e printed di rections. [ADVERTISEMENT.] SIGHT AND HEARING...—. SPEC. TACLES.—POWERFUL TELESCOPES,--OPERA, RACE, AND PERSPECTIVE GLASSES. Messrs. S. and B. Solomons, opticians, 39, Albermarle-Street, Piccadilly. Observe-- opposite the York Hotel, W. —Opera, Race-course, Field, and general Out-door Day and Night Perspective Glasses, very small, for the wai s t coa t pocket, each containing 12 and 18 lenses, constructed of German glass. Will show dis tinctly a person to know them at two -and-a-half and three miles, and an object from eight to ten miles distant. Her Majesty's Coast Guards are making use of them as day and night glasses in preference to all others ; they are also pre ferred for deer-stalking by Sportsmen, gentlemen, and gamekeepers. Teles co p es 3f inches long, by which a rper son may be clearly seen and known at 3f miles' and an object at 12 to 14 miles' distance; and with an extra astro nomical eye-piece, Jupiter's moons, Saturn's rings, and the double stars are distinctly seen. All the above can be had of larger and all sizes, with increasing powers, and are secured by her Majesty's Royal Letters Patent. The Royal Exhibition, 1851. A valuable, newly invented, very small, powerful Waistcoat-pocket Glass, the size of a walnut, by which a person can be seen and known one and a half mile distant. They answer every purpose on the Race-course and at the Opera houses. Country scenery and ships are clearly seen at four to sixl miles. They are invaluable for shooting, deer -stalking, yachting, to sportsmen, gentlemen, game keepers, and tourists. Price 30s.—Spectacle Lenses of the greatest transparent power. The great advantage derived from this invention is, that vision becoming impaired is preserved and strengthened, and very aged persons are - enabled to employ their sight at the most minute occupation --can see with those lenses of a much less magnifyi ng power, and they do not require the frequent changes to the dangerous effects of further powerful assistance. Persons can be suited at the most remote part of the World by send ing ane o f the glasses out of their spectacles in a letter, and stating the distancd from the eyes they can read small print with it, and those who have not made use of spectacles by gtheirage. Deafness.—NewDiscovery.—The Org statin Vibrator, an extraordinarily powerful small newly-invented instrument for Deafness, entirely different from all others, in e g na 4 ble t s he de s a a f me e co o l n our s as the surpasses anything of the kind that has been, or probably skis, clans not b e,produced perceptible. Being distinctly at church and at ,public assembles; the unplea sant sensation of singing noises in the ears is entirely - re moved, itnd it affords all the assistance that possibly could be 0.41'0.-39, klhemarle-street ,Pi cca dilly. Observe-- oniesitQ Ow Tort Acta, W. A SCOTCH PLEA FOR SCOTCH NATIONALITY. (From the Dispatch.) The Times has done that which Burke thought impossible; he has raised a bill of indictment against a whole nation, and pr o b a bl y procure d " the ver dict of a most impartial jury" in favour of a con viction. In short, he has impannelled England to try Scotland for the crime of patriotism, which it euphuises into that of " provincialism." A whole column of its report on the Burns Centenary was taken up with the subject, and two elaborate leaders followed. The occasion was remarkably ill-chosen, because we could really find nothing provincial in the movement—no self-glorification-- no egotism under the cloak of love of country. Burns was, indeed, extolled ; but not " Scotland or the Scotch." Was not the diatribe of the Times itself a proof that it did not believe in its own charge ? Would it really have offended a whole kingdom of its readers had it believed them to be touchy and liable to take offence ? Was there not a secret conviction that, after all, the Scotch would have a good-natured laugh over it—while John Bull would inwardly chuckle at seeing Sawney shown up ? We think we know both pretty thoroughly, and it may be profitable to both to know themselves and each other a little better. It is perfectly true that Scotchman are intensely na tional. They have a pride of country which they cannot conceal. There is an unconscious patriotic egotism about them which is very offensive to strangers, just as any other ego ti sm is. Th ey oug ht to see and to know perfectly well that, however proud they may be of their own land, the theme cannot be the least agreeable to the natives of other lands ; that good breeding is good sense, and that they should not be so thin-skinned, and, at the same time, so vain of their nation. They don't hear Englishmen and Irishmen continually thinking aloud that their country can whip creation—that it is curious every great man is somehow or other English or Hibernian ; they " let their works praise them." Our contemporary was only too happy in his ridicule of the jealousy of the Scotch about their coat-of-arms, about the Scottish lion, and about England being used to express the United Kingdom. The Scotch don't mean to be so " stupid before company"—they are not aware of their weakness when they indulge in it—they don't know, when they are extolling Caledonia with such unction, that their auditors are secretly listening with con tempt or disgust at a fellow bragging so about himself, because he is really not boasting of himself, but of that which he regards as a most disinterested idolatry of what he looks upon as far above . him self. But after all is no t hi s " prov i nc i a l ism " natural ? It is quite certain that Scotland contri butes of great men, of men of eminence in ever line, man for ma n a l mos t as many as E ng l an d with. six times her population and many times her ad vantages. It is very remarkable, also, to see so poor a country bear up so manfully in productive ness, in commerce, in taxation, especially—that her property and income-tax, her customs and excise, are rateably quite as much as those of England-- that in all subscriptions, philanthropic and public objects, her liberality is so large and so sterling. But the real cause of her "provincialism," as it is called, is that her whole c h arac t er i s intensely dis tinctive and national, and that of England is not. Walk into your kitchen ; can your servants tell you anything about Milton, aye, or even of Cromwell or Hampden ? It is very doubtful if they know their very names. Go to Egham, ask the hedger, or the ploughman, to point out Runnymede, and to tell you about it, he will stare, scratch his head, and cry " anan !" He does not know what you mean. But no Scotch kitchen can be found where Burns is not sung and recited—no Scotch ploughman who cannot tell you all about Wallace and Bruce. We have walked behind Scotch peasants at the plough who would talk for a whole day about " Sir Watty," as they call Scott. Do any English authors com mand such a national tribute ? What is the reason ? To some extent, perhaps, inferior edu cation ; but chiefly because there is nothing distinctively national about their writings— nothing sufficiently characteristic and individual about the thought and features to enable one to say that can be met nowhere else. Whatever, indeed, is national, is in individual bearing suppressed. Au Englishman scorns to brag of his country, although in his secret heart he looks down upon everybody that is not an Englishman, although for the world he would not say so. He is too civilised an animal for that. In fact, our ideal of him is that he is emphatically a man rather than an Englishman ; a Hampden or a Falkland in his type—a simple citizen. The nationalism of the Scotchman is very disagreeable ; but has it not its uses ? Has he not kept his own laws, religion, customs, indepen dence ? Has it not given him what the Times calls his " indomitable pluck ?" Does it not inspire his emulation and animate his ambition—fire him to great deeds " for the honour o' auld Scotland ?" Does it not combine society and heal its distractions whenever the common interest is assailed ? Selfish it too often is. Honest John Bull, God bless him! has no jealousies. He puts the best man, the most serviceable instrument in the right place, and thus exalts the Scotch without en v y or grudge—content ing himself with his joke that Sawney never finds the way North again. He is welcome to his jest. "Let them laugh that win." COUNTRY MARKBTS. LEEDS—FEB. 8. With only small arrivals from the coast, the wheat show is but moderate ; the trade, however, rules slow, and the business done is at Friday's rates; to get on freely in sales rather lower rates would have to be taken. Barley very firm at late prices. Beans and oats fully as dear. Other articles unaltered. Averages for the week : Wheat 3,556 qrs., at 42s lfd Barley ..... ~ . . 2,357 ~ 345 ltd Oats Rye 37 ,) 26s fitd 12 Beans 15 „ 42s 4d Peas Arrivals this week : Wheat 1,333 qrs. Oath2o Barley Beans ,, 108 Rapeseed Linseed 5 NORWICH CATTLE—FEB. 5. There was a largo show of store cattle to-day, consisting of Scots, shorthorns, Irish, and Devons. Sales were very fair, but at the close of tho market one-fourth remained un sold, The selling price for Scots was 4s to 4s 6d ; short horns, 3s 6d to 4s 6d ; Iri s h, 3 s 6d t o 4 s per s t one of 141bs. estimated weight when fat. Fat beasts firm at 7s 6d. to Ss —very prime, 8s 6d per stone. Sheep —Fat sheep, 8s Od to Bs6d, prime lots 9s per stone. A good show, and sales firm. Pigs—Good store pigs, 15s to 20s per head. Fat pork, 5s 6d to 6s, prime 6s 6d per stone. LOCAL SHARE MARKETS. LIVERPO oD—FEn. 8. The market was quiet and steady all day. London and North Westerns and Dovers rather in demand at the close. Eastern Counties, 12a 12f —Midland 101 a Chester and Holyheads, 47 I—Caledonians, 85k sa-Lancashire — and Yorkshire 95 1—London and North-Westerns, 951 4 ---4 East Lancashire, 951 6—Dutch Rhenish, 5a I dis.--• Grand Tr un k of Canada, 8 5-16--Great Western, 55g-- Great Western of Canada, 16k 161—Dovers, 22 1-16 —North British, 621—York and North Midland, 784 79 - "' Berwicks, 934 931—Leeds Northern, 48 481. LEEDS—FEB. 8. Midlands 1 01t—Great Westerns, 551—Leeds, Brad ford, and Halifax,f 2 pin—York, 78I—North British, 62. MANCHESTER—FEE. 8. There was an active business doing, but prices rather lower. Leeds, 95 1—Dovers, 22 3-16—Eastern. Counties, In — Lancashire and Yorkshire, 94—Grand Trunk Div. Debs., 9s 3 d—Electric Telegraph, 1 06 I—Midlands, 1011-4 Sheffields, 3 7I—Londons, 951—North British, 621—Cale donians, 85 I—Sheffields, Pref., 123—Berwicks, 93 Illinois Central 35 d • ASTLEY.—On the 6th inst., BIRTHS.'at Rome the wife of Colonel Astley, of the Scots Fusilier Guards, of a son. BALGUY.—On the 7th inst., at 95, Ebury-street, the wife of John Balguy, Esq., of Duffield, Derbyshire. CORY.—On the 4th inst. at 13, Clarendon-road, Kensing ton, the wife of Alex. T. Cory, Esq., of a daughter. WALDRON.—On the 7th inst., at Cardiff, the wife of Clement Waldron, Esq., of a daughter. _ _ MARRIAGES. ELLIS—STAPLES.—On the Othinst., at St. Pancras Church/ John Whittaker, son o f the late Joseph Ellis, Esq., of Richmond, to Mary Anne, youngest daughter of John Staples, Esq., of Belmont, near Salisbury. ODDIE—BOULTOII.—On the Bth inst., at St. Mary's/ Bryanston-square, Edward, fourth son of the /ate Henry Hoyle Oddie, Esq., of Colney House, Herts, to Marianne Louisa Eleonora, youngest daughter of the late Charles Boulton and tho Hon. Mrs. Boulton, of 47, Montagu square. DEATHS. BRIDGES. —On the 6th inst., atßeddington House, Surrey, Frances, wife of Sir Henry Bridges. CLEMENT.—On the 6th inst., at Roskerville, near Graves end, William Clement, Esq., of 170, Strand, aged 51. DixoN.—On the 4th inst., Mr. John Dixon, of the Star and Garter, King-street, Westminster. MITCIIELL.—On the Bth inst., Mr. Charles Mitchell, of West Brompton, and Red Lion-court, Fleet-street, aged 52. PALMER.—On the 6th inst., at the Rectory, Sullington, the Rev. George Palmer, rector of Sullington and Pathan', Sussex, aged 77. PROCTOR.—On the 6th inst., Anne, the wife of Admiral Sir William Beauchamp Proctor, Bart., of Langfry-park, Norfolk. PIKE.—On the 6th inst., at Bath, John Pike, Esq., aged 80. LONDON : Printed and Published by MURDO YOUNG? of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at The Sun Officc,, No. 1121 Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in tha cou,ntY Of Middlesex, Wedne3day, February 9, 1859,