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IRELAND DUBLIN, SATURDAY. A Carlow paper publishes a translation of the Holy Father's reply to the address of the "Roman Catholic Bishop of Kildare," accompanying the Papal tribute collected from the faithful of that diocese. The document is as follows :-- "TO OUR VENERABLE BROTHER JAMES, BISHOP OP KILDARE AND LEIGHLIN, IN IRELAND. " PIUS, P.P., IX. " Venerable Brother,—Health and Apostolic Benediction.—From your most dutiful and affec tionate letter lately received by us, we perceive that the clergy and people of Kildare and Leighlin— who are so firmly bound to us and to the chair of Peter, by their great faith, their piety, and their obedience—have, encouraged by your pastoral let ters, contributed with great promptness and love the sum of £5,525 sterli ng , t o re li eve th e presen t necessities of the Holy See. " Therefore, Venerable Brother, while we express to you the sense of our deep gratitude, we request that you convey to the clergy and people of Kil dare and Leighlin the assurance of our just and sincere thanks. " We feel convinced that you and your clergy and people are filled with indignation, and oppressed with grief and affliction at the impious and sacri legious attempts by which wicked men, insensible to every feeling of justice and virtue, wage a most fierce war agaiast usthe rights of the Holy See and the Catholic Church ; and, :regardless of all human and divine law, endeavour to usurp our civil power, invade the patrimony of St. Peter, and vio lently seize upon the temporal kingdom of the Holy See. We hope, Venerable Brother, that you and all your clergy and people will not cease to offer your most fervent prayers to the God of mer cies, that He may remove so great a calamity, humble all the enemies of the Church, deign to lead them back to the way of justice and truth, and assist and console us in all our tribulation. In times of so much excitement, of so much wickedness, and such hostility to our holy religion, we feel assured, Venerable Brother, from your piety and episcopal zeal, that you will strenuously defend the cause of our holy faith—vigilantly watch over the safety of your faithful people, refute the many and perm dons errors of wicked men, detect their snares, and defeat their impious attempts. " In fine, as a pledge of all heavenly gifts, and especially as a pledge of our great benevolence towards you, receive the benediction which we most affectionately impart to you and to all your faithful clergy and people. " Given at Rome, at St. Peter's, 15th day of November, 1860.-15th year of our Pontificate. " PIUS, P.P., IX." THE IRISH BRIGADE. Under this heading the Nation publishes what it terms a " highly important letter" from Major Myles O'Reilly, having reference to " the present position and the future prospects of the Irish Bat talion." I make the subjoined extracts from the communication indicated : " On arriving at Leghorn with the men I had accompanied from Spoleto, I was there detained a few days by the illness of my wife, who had accom panied me, and compelled to proceed directly to Marseilles instead of continuing my route to Genoa. From Marseilles I at once proceeded to Rome to report myself and my soldiers to the Minister of the Holy Father, and await his orders for their dis posal. The officers were with few exceptions, bound by parole not to serve against the Piedmontese for terms varying according to the capitulation. The men were free to join the ranks at once ; at the same time there was grave reason to apprehend that under the existing circumstances the Pontifical Government—its finances exhausted on the one hand, and its authority, on the other, exercised over a very small territory, where foreign interven tion at once crippled its action and rendered mili tary defence useless, a large force might be rather a burden than an advantage to the Holy Father. I therefore laid the matter before the Cardinal Secre tary of State, Cardinal Antonelli, and the Pro- Minister of Arms, Monsignor De Merode, assuring them, on the part of the Irish troops that while they did not wish to draw pay a day longer than they could be of service to the Holy Father, they were ready freely to imperil their lives, when needful, for the cause they deemed it an honour to serve ; and that should the Holy Father in future time need defenders, they and I would be ready and eager to serve under his standard. " From the Cardinal Secretary of State, who laidthe matter before His Holiness, and the Minis ter of Arms, I received the answer, That under existing circumstances the Government of His Holiness considered it undesirable to retain a large body of forces, and that, therefore, the men of the Battalion of St. Patrick would be released from their engagement, and sent home at the ex pence of the Pontifical Government, the officers to retain their honorary rank. Finally, I was honoured with an audience of the Holy Father, who re peated the same instructions, desired me to convey to the officers and men his Apostolic benediction, his thanks for their services, and expressed a wish that as soon as the restoration of the possessions of the Church should make it incumbent on him to provide for their defence, he might have a body of chosen Irishmen in his service. I assured him that there would be no difficulty at any time in having a select body of such men. To the Minister of Arms, when his Excellency spoke to me on the subject, I repeated the same assurance, mentioning at the same time, that in consequence of the ill advised attempts which had bepn made to dena tionalise the Battalion of St. Patrick by the intru sion of foreign officers, and especially of Swiss sergeantsof indifferent character, and which I had successfully ,resisted, I felt it my duty to tell his Excellency that any attempt to obtain Irish sol diers without a distinct and formal understanding on this head could end only in failure. He assured me he would correspond with me on the subject when the occasion would arise. " The Battalion of St. Patrick is, therefore, for the present ' disembodied'—a sufficient number of officers remaining to constitute a numerous staff whenever it may again be called into activity. "As to its re-embodiment, the time and circum stances, as appears from what has been stated, depend on those representing the Government of the Holy See. Meanwhile, as a nucleus for future re-organisation, a depot exists in Rome, where 30 men and non-commissioned officers have been allowed to return, and with the view of being in creased to a company, should the Pontifical Govern ment desire it. " Thus, through the knowledge these men will have acquired of the Italian language, and the in ternal economy of the service, will be obviated in advance every pretext for the introduction of foreigners to the future Battalion of St. Patrick. The following are the official documents indicated in the foregoing 66 6 MEMORANDUM. " ' Rome Oct. 6, 1860. " ' Under existing circumstances, which render it undesirable for the Pontifical Government to retain the number of troops hitherto employed, the Go vernment of his Holiness thanks the officers and men of the battalion of St. Patrick for their past services, and releases them from their engagement, with the following conditions : _" 4 l . The officers who hold definitive cdinmissions ths'; In their honorary ran k, an d s h a ll b e reca ll e d t o , erv . Th e y „hwil3 when the battalion is reconstituted. and be r a el receive pay for the month of October, are freed f i4bursed the losses of war. The soldiers home at 4 ,_lx i their engagements, and shall be sent a ,Z i e t ,yense of the Pontifical Government.' 44 OF THE MINISTER OF ARMS. ( i I A t the niorient . 'lB6O. which, in consequence of the present Sad state ll oT , affairs, the brave soldiers of the Battalion of St, r o atrick, who had hastened hither for the defence f States of the Holy Church, are about to leave thee Pontifical army, the undersigned Minister of A r g ame ex t periences the live liest satisfaction in bein , aoneaxpress to those soldiers his entire satisfaction conduct.lstowing on expected from them the highest praise for their " 'Nothing more could be them. show erugia, The Battalion of St. Patrick, at Spolet o , :3 1 at Castelfidardo, and in Ancona, ha s in which honour, the power of faith united to the seatiment o r in the treacherous and unequal contest, small number of brave soldiers resisted to the last a an entire army of sacrilegious invaders. " ' May this recollection never parish from their hearts. God, who defends his Church, will defend what they have done. 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Lord J. Manners, M.P. ' presided, supported by Lord Berners, Viscount Curzon, M.P., Mr. Packe, M.P., General Sir Archdale Wilson (of Delhi), the Hon. Colonel Cholmondeley, the Mayor of Leices ter, &c. The noble chairman gave the usual loyal toasts, together with " The Army and Navy," and " The Volunteers." Sir ARCHDALE WILSON, who was-received with immense applause, returned thanks for the latter toast. As an old soldier, he considered the Winn teer movement the most glorious movement that ever occurred in this country. (Cheers.) The First Napoleon called us a nation of shopkeepers, but if he could now rise from the dead and see 150,000 or 200,000 of the youth and manhood of England coming forward voluntarily to enrol themselves for the defence of their hearths and homes, he would not now cast that reflection in our teeth. (Cheers.) It always gratified a soldier when his countrymen acknowledged his services, and on behalf of the army and navy he begged to return his hearty thanks. (Cheers.) The CHAIRMAN, in proposing the toast of the evening, " Success to the _Leicestershire Agricultural Society," referred at some length to local topics connected with agriculture and the exhibitions of the day ; and, having observed that the present had been a season of great anxiety to the farmer, proceeded to remark that he saw r o prospect of anything being done in his favour in the way of legislation in the next session of Parliament. The past session had been chiefly characterised by out of the financial legislation ug in 1853; that was to say, almost t in h a ec u a r r a r t y e i d n g every innocent Custom-house duty, against which nobody on earth protested, and the evil influence of which no human being ever felt—except, perhaps, fine ladies who were tempted to smuggle beauti ful silk dresses in coming over from Paris—had , been swept away, although a considerable portion of our annual revenue had been derived from them. In order to supply the void thus created in the Exchequer, duties on stamps had been raised to the highest possible pitch, and he did not believe there was a piece of paper now in circulation in the country which could possibly be made to bear a stamp that was not stamped at the present moment. At the same time, the duties on spirits had been raised so high that it was impossible to look for an additional sixpence from them; while in Ireland the greatest doubts were entertained whether smuggling and illicit distillation would not be the result. Such being the case, then, the common sense of mankind showed that, unless we could very greatly reduce our expenditure, there was nothing looming before us in the future but recourse to that cruel, and in many instances iniquitous form of taxation—the income-tax. (Cheers.) He would venture to warn them, then, against any hope of reduced taxation, which he believed was a pure chimera from beginning to end, and if any person dreamt of such a thing he was merely casting dust in the eyes of the people. This was a growing country. Everything connected with it was grow ing, consequently expenditure must be growing ; and, if expenditure were growing, it needed no prophet to teach us that taxation must grow like wise. There was no reason to hope for any reduc tion in the cost of our army and navy. Notwith standing all that had been done to bring the latter to its present state of efficiency and strength, great doubts were now entertained as to whether it would not have to be constructed afresh, and whether we might net have to follow the leading of our admi rable ally the Emperor of the French, and clothe the wooden walls of England with that steel plated garment which was said to be so efficacious in resistance to the cannon-balls of an enemy. Under these circumstances, even if the prospect of foreign affairs were peaceful, he could not believe we should witness any reduction of expenditure, and he greatly feared the income-tax would be found to be the only mode of replenishing the exhausted—the unwarrant ably exhausted—resources of the Exchequer. But if we glanced abroad what was it that met our view? The blaze of bayonets and gleaming of swords. He could see nothing abroad that spoke of peace ; he saw everything that spoke of war—war in the most frightful, most awful, most gigantic form; and if he looked at the conduct of foreign affairs at home he could see nothing to diminish the apprehensions that must be felt by those who looked with atten tion at the position of the great military Powers of the continent. After the Emperor of the French had by a process which he would not describe annexed the dominions of Savoy and Nice to the Empire of France, the Foreign Secretary of England rose in his place in Parliament and said, amid the cheers of the House of Commons, that it was now necessary for England to revert to her ancient alli ances. It was quite understood that the object for which we were to revert to our ancient alliances was to prevent further annexations to France by the machinery of universal suffrage, vote by ballot, and affinity of language. But what had been the more recent course of the same statesman ? Lord I. Rus sell had recently published to the world a document which, unless it were repudiated, must be supposed to speak the sentiments of the Government, and which, stripped of its verbiage about William 111. and Vattel, meant that any portion of any people had a right to rise against its sovereign, to invoke the aid of a foreign sovereign, and that the foreign sovereign so invoked had a perfect right, without declaring war, to deprive a friendly sovereign of his crown and place it upon his own head. Ho could hardly wonder that, after the publication of a despatch containing such a doctrine as this and directed to such an end as this, the representatives of the Powers of Europe should abstain from meeting the writer of it at the civic banquet in the Guildhall. It was no wonder of course that there was an exception in the case of the representatives of the two Powers who had the most to hope for from the application of that doctrine so ingeni ously invented for them by the Foreign Minister of Great Britain, But if this doctrine of revolu tionary annexation were to be admitted—he put it to them as men of common sense and men of business—what was likely to be the condition of Europe during the ens u i ng ye ar ? Co u ld they not picture to themselves great potentates who would find little difficulty in applying the doctrine of this celebrated State paper to the gradual increase of their dominions by the absortion of smaller and feebler territories which might lie, as our Irish j friends would say, " mi g ht y convan i ent ?" (Laugh- j ter.) Ho did not know whether he might not even proceed further, and ask what would have been the fortunes of our own country during the last quarter of a century if this doctrine had been acted upon by other countries as well as by England. Should we now have counted among the dominions of England India, the lonian Islands, and even, in the years 1843 and 1844, the flourishing kingdom of Ireland ? On the whole, therefore, whether he looked abroad or at home, he could see no reason to hope that expenditure would be diminished, or that taxation would not take the obnoxious form of a great war income tax in time of peace. The noble lord, after a few further observations, concluded by giving the toast he had risen to propose, and which was drunk with three times three. Mr. PACKE and Lord CURZON severally responded to " The Members for the County," and, after nume rous local toasts had been given, the proceedings terminated. 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NORTHEItN CIRCUIT.—DURHAM, Dec. 8. (Before Mr. Justice Keating.) Milner Lockey was indicted for the wilful murder of Thos. Harrison, on the 29th of September last. Mr. Blackwell and Mr. Shield prosecuted ; Mr. Davison defended the prisoner. Mr. Blackwell, in stating the case, said, about nine miles from Durham, and a mile from the New castle and Durham road, is a mill called Urpeth Mill, attached to which is a small cottage. This one above the other. as a sleeping room. A c T o h t e t a u g p e pceorn one t sof was t occupied rooms, person named Bell lived at the mill, and in the cottage, Mrs. Lockey, the prisoner's wife, and three children by a former husband. The prisoner and his wife had been married about a year, but some 14 weeks before the ,29th of Sept., quarrels having taken place, the prisoner left her. About this time Bell became bankrupt, and Harrison, the deceased, who had been a police ()leer, but had been obliged to retire in consequence of having lost an eye, was put in possession as a bailiff, and he went to reside at Mrs. Lockey's cottage. Harrison had a bed in the lower room; Mrs. Harrison and her children slept in the upper room. The prisoner, after leav ing his wife, went to work at Leazingthorne Col liery. He there worked with a man named Coul son, and from his first going to the colliery the prisoner's conversation was on the subject of jealousy, first of the miller and then of the deceased. On the 29th of September the prisoner was in Dur ham about 11 a.m., when he went to a shop kept by a Mr. Foster, from whom he bought a large spring clasp knife. Durham is on the road from Leazingthorne to Urpeth. Shortly after 11 a man who had known the prisoner met him on the road from Durham to Urpeth, and in the course of conversation the prisoner said that a man named Harrison was staying with his wife, and if that old one-eyed was there when he got there he would put an end to them both, and would not be hanged for it, as he would put an end to his own life. The prisoner was not seen again till seven o'clock at night, when the eldest of Mrs. Lockey's children, who had been put to bed, heard some high words in the lower room, in which Harrison had previously gone to bed, not being well. The boy got up and went downstairs, where he saw the prisoner sitting near the window. His mother was near the fire, and the prisoner vas abusing her. The prisoner then took a large knife 3nd opened it, and proceeded towards his wife. The boy called out, " Oh, don't kill my mother!" The mothor imme diately pulled up her clothes and showed a vound on her thigh bleeding profusely. The deceased til‘en rose up and said, "Don't kill your mistress," on which the prisoner turned round and gave Harrison a stab in the breast, from which the blood immedi ately gushed out, and from this wound the deceased died. The mother then closed with the prisoner, and after a violent struggle succeeded in getting the knife from him. The little boy ran out, and got a person named Hart to return with him to the cot tage. On arriving there he saw Mrs. Lockey stand ing outside, and the prisoner standing at the door. The wife told Hart what had been done, on which the prisoner said, "Nonsense; she is out of her mind." Hart then went into the house, where he saw Harrison lying' dead. In consequence of Mrs. Lockey having gone up the lane Hart followed after her, and when he returned the prisoner could not be found, and was not seen again till the next morning, when he was found in an outhouse near the mill. He was charged with the murder, but said nothing. Afterwards when taken away he said, " This would never have happened if she had not behaved as she did." On him was found a small pocket knife. The police afterwards got a large clasp knife from Mrs. Lockey, which was spoken to as being exactly like the one the prisoner had purchased in Durham. The prisoner, when before the magistrate, made a statement to the effect that he found Mrs. Lockey in bed with Harrison, and that it made him so jealous he was mad. Robert Coulson said the prisoner came to work about nine weeks before the 29th of September. He was always talking about his wife, and appeared very jealous of her. He said he was going home, and if his wife would not live with him, she should live with no one else. He said if he caught the old bailiff he would coup his heels up. In cross-examination by Mr. Davison, the wit ness stated that the prisoner told him he married his wife seven weeks after her first husband's death. He had been to see his wife about a fortnight before the 29th. The shortest way from Leazingthorne to Urpeth was not through Durham. Geo. Foster—l am an ironmonger in Durham, and on the 29th Sept. last, about 11 o'clock, I sold a large clasp knife to a man very like the prisoner, bat I cannot swear to him. The knife now produced is exactly like the one I sold that morning. Cross-examined—l sold the knife before 12 and after 10 o'clock. Francis Oughton—l keep a publichouse at Pityme, which is on the Newcastle road. I know the prisoner. I saw himjon the 29th Sept. I had come from Ferry hill by the train, and I overtook him on the road going from Durham. He told me his old master had given him work at home again. He said there was a man named Harrison staying with his wife, and if that old one-eyed was there when he got there he would put an end to them both. He also said he would not be hanged for it, as he would put an end to his own life. Cross-examined—l left Ferryhill at 10 minutes to 9. The train goes to Durham about half-past. Thomas Charlton—l am brother-in-law of the deceased. I saw a dead body at Urpeth Mill. It was the body of Thomas Harrison. He had been put into possession under Bell's bankruptcy. Samuel Wilson, a little boy of about 11—I live at Urpeth Mill with my mother. I recollect Harrison coming to my mother's. He slept downstairs. I slept upstairs with my mother and brother. I re collect the day Harrison was killed ; I had gone to bed before 7. Harrison was lying in bed when I went. I soon afterwards heard Lockey swearing. My mother was dressed when I went upstairs. I came downstairs. Harrison was in bed ; my mother was against the fire; Lockey was sitting between two tables near the window. I put my things on; I saw Lockey get up, he had a knife in his hand ; it was open. He went towards my mother and catched her in' the thigh. I said " Don't stick my mother and I'll call you father." My mother lifted up her clothes to let me see her thigh. I saw blood running from her thigh. I heard Harrison say, , " Oh, Lockey, dinna gan and kill your mistress." I heard Lockey say, " Aye, your , and I'll kill ye too." Lackey then went to Harrison and stuck him there (pointing to his breast). I saw blood come from Harrison. Harrison had one leg out of bed when he stink him. My mother gave me a sign and I went out and went to Hart's, Before this I heard my mother say,' " You have killed Mr Harrison," and Lockey said, " Let the -- gan." After Lockey stuck Harrison my mother got the knife and put it down her dress. Cross-examined—My mother married Lockey soon after my father's death. I always called him " Lockey"—never " father." When I said I would call him "father" I meant to please him. I remem ber his being home two nights after he went to Leazingthorne. This was before Harrison came. I remember his coming home one night after Harri son came; that night he slept upstairs on the floor. Before Harrison came we all slept in the room downstairs. The downstairs room has a passage ; any one coming in at the front door can see the bed downstairs. My mother has talked to me about this case. She has not told me what to say. I used to say it to myself. The witness was asked to tell his story, and repeated his depositions like a child saying a lesson. Edward Hart—l live about half a mile from Urpeth Mill. The boy came to my house on the 20th. In consequence of what he said I went to the mill. I saw Lockey and his wife. She said he had murdered the man. Lockey said his wife was talking nonsense ; that she was not right in her mind. Mrs. Lockey was making away from the cottage up the hill, so I called her back. She said it was true, and went away. I saw her no more that night. Lockey went after her, and I went into the house and found Harrison dead. A police officer proved finding the prisoner the next day in an outhouse. Mr. Henderson, surgeon, who was called in to see the body, proved that a wound he saw on the breast was the cause of death, and the knife pro duced was a likely instrument to produce such a wound. 'The prisoner's statement already referred to, in which he said he found the deceased and his wife on the bed together, was put in, and closed the case for the prosecution. • Mr. Davison then addressed the jury for the pri soner, and contended that if, when he arrived at home, there was an improper intimacy going on between his wife and the deceased, or if he saw anything which would reasonably lead him to be lieve that there was, and he at tha moment killed the man, it would be clearly manslaughter, and not murder, and he asked the jury to take the prisoner's statement as the true version of the story, which would support this view ; that the evidence of the boy supported it, and the subsequent conduct of the prisoner himself. The learned Judge summed up. He said—The question for you is not so much whether deceased died by the violence of the prisoner, for of that un happily there is no doubt, but did he meet with his death under such circumstances as, after a full and fair cons id erat i on, w ill re d uce i t to mans l aug h ter ? The la w on t h e su bj ect i s very clear, an d a d m i ts o f no doubt. Th ere are circumstances of provocat i on which will realm a CAN of homicide from murder THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVfiNING, DECUMBER 10, MO. to manslaughter, and among these circumstances it has been laid down that if a man find his wife in adultery, or have such reasonable cause as to lead him to believe she is guilty of adultery, and imme diately kill the paramour, it is manslaughter. This being the law it is for you to say if the circum stances justify you in fluffing the prisoner guilty of manslaughter. His lordship then read over the evi dence. The jury found the prisoner guilty. Mr. Justice Keating passed sentence of death in the usual form. MIDLAND CIRCUIT.—LINCOLN, DEC. 8. (Before Mr. Baron Bramwell.) Thomas Richardson, labourer, charged with the wilful murder of Alexander M'Brian, by shooting at him on the 20th clay of October, at Wyberton, and also charged with the same offence upon the coro ner's inquisition, pleaded not guilty. Mr. Stephen and Mr. Huish conducted the case for the prosecution; Mr. O'Brien that of the defence. The deceased, a policeman, was on duty on the night of the 24th October, and the course of his beat, lay through Wyberton churchyard. It appeared from a deposition made by him before the magis trates, and in presence of the prisoner, some four days afterwards, that about 1 a.m. on the 25th, while going along a pathway by the churchyard, he saw a man who was a stranger to him, and who upon his approach pulled a billycock hat, which he wore, over his face, and shied off. Noticing that there was something bulky in the pocket of the man's jacket M'Brian called to him, " Hilloa ! what are you off with there ?" The man upon this turned round, and as M'Brian said, " shot slap into me." The charge of the gun lodged in the part of the arm between the elbow and the shoulder, entering it in a mass, and inflicting a large wound, into which a button, torn by the force of the discharge from M'Brian's coat, and also a portion of the lining of the sleeve, were driven. Notwithstanding the severity of ! the injury, M'Brian managed to reach the house of the Rev. Mr. Moore, which was near the spot, and knocked at the door. Mr. Moore, on being roused, looked at a clock at the foot of his bed and noticed•the time, which was 6 minutes past 1. He let the wounded man in, gave him a little brandy, bound up his wound as well as he could, and sent him in a cart, under the care of the groom, to the lock-up, where M'Brian lived. M'Brian gave a description of the man who had wounded him, and and on the following morning about 8, Superinten dent Manton and another police-constable went to the house of the prisoner, which was about 450 yards distant from the spot where the shot had been fired, and there found a double-barrelled gun, the left barrel of which was still leaded, while , the right barrel had all the appearance of Laving been discharged within 24 hours. A billy coas hat was also found in a back kitchen of the house. ,An endeavour was made to draw out the charge from the left barrel of the gun, but this failing it was discharged into the ground, and the paper which haA been used as wadding was picked up, and on being examined appeared to be portions of a newspaper. The prisoner was asked by Super intendent Manton what he had used as wadding for his gun, and replied "A sort of brown paper." " How, then," said Manton, " does it happen to be loaded with printed paper ?" The prisoner made no reply. Some pieces of printed paper, chared at the edges and having the smell of gunpowder or sulphur were found by Superintendent Manton on the spot where M'Brian had been wounded, and the collation of these with those discharged from the left barrel of Richardson's gun formed the damning evidence in the case. Mr. Thomas Cope, the publisher of the limes, who was also its pub lisher in 1854, proved that the pieces of paper found in the churchyard and those also that had come from the left barrel of the gun had formed part of the Times newspaper on the 27th of March of that year. This he knew, not only by the cha racter of the type, which is used in no other news paper, save that of the Evening Mail, which is printed at the same office, but also because in cer tain letters there were particular defects which were apparent also in a perfect copy of the Times of the same day, produced in court, and of which 50,000 copies had been sold, all of which would be fac similes of each other. The first and second columns contained information respecting officers engaged in the Crimean campaign, and a statement as to a brigade, in which the following names appeared : —" Capt. Neville, Scots Fusilier Guards; Lieut. J. England, 55th Foot; Major-General his Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, K.G." Upon a fragment of paper found in the churchyard ap peared this part of the passage—s' Royal Highness the Duke of Cam"—while the remaining part— " bridge, K.G."—was contained in a piece from the left-hand barrel. So too a piece picked up on the spot contained portions of the names of " Major Lord Burghersh, unattached, Lieutenant- Col. Somerset, Coldstream Guards, Capt. Kings cote, Scots Fusilier Guards, Lieut. the Hon. J. S. Calthorpe," whose names appeared at length in the first column of the perfect copy of the Times. The examination upon this part of the case was very minute, and resulted in a very confident opinion on the part of Mr. Cope that all the pieces produced had formed part of a copy of the Times of the 27th of March, 1854. Capt.Bicknell, the chief constable, further proved that, upon collating two pieces found on the spot with one from the left barrel, they made up names corresponding with those that appeared in the first column of the Times of March the 27th, 1854. A bag of shot of num bers 3,4, and 6 was found in the prisoner's house, and the shot lodged in the arm of M'Brian was found to be nmixture of those numbers and in the same proportion. The gun, shot, and cap were left in the house of the prisoner until the next day, when he was arrested ; lie had made no attempt to escape, but had gone as usual to his work. He was asked where he had been the night before, and the account which he gave of himself up to half-past 12 or 20 minutes to 1 was that which was also given by his brother-in-law, King, a man named Burrell, and others who were called on the part of the prosecution. He had passed the latter part of the day in company with them and a farmer named Oldham, drinking at the Crown and Anchor publichouse, about a mile and a half from Skirbeck, and left it, together with King and Burrell, about 12 p.m,, with whom, all being more or less drunk, he walked towards Wyberton until they reached a point where the road to King's house diverged from the path of the other two, who occupied adjoining houses under the same roof. The prisoner was at that time carrying some pigs' food, had no gun, and wore no billycock. Burrell saw him enter his house and afterwards heard footsteps up the stairs, as though going to the bedrooms. He himself then went to bed, and did not hear any one leave the prisoner's house afterwards. From the point where King left the prisoner to King's own house the dis tance was 312 yards, and to the prisoner's it was 307. King had been in his house, which was about 10 yards from the churchyard, only two or three minutes, by his account, when he heard the discharge of a gun ; but the time was more accurately noticed by a neighbour, Mrs. Alliss, whom the report disturbed, and who, looking at her watch, which was a minute or two in advance of others, observed that the time was three minutes past one. Two minutes after the shot was fired some one came to King's door and wanted him to open it, which he did not until some time afterwards, and then, looking out, he saw no one. Richardson, who worked for him, came as usual to work the next morning. Four days after M'Brian was wounded the prisoner was brought before him and recognised as the man who had discharged the gun. M'Brian had been hope ful of recovery, but, growing worse and his case hopeless, he was told by his medical attendant that his chances of recovery were very poor. Ho replied that it was " a very bad case ; a bad job." He was asked if he had made his peace with God, and said ho hoped he had. After much argument as to the admissibility of what he subsequently said, it was admitted, and amounted to an affirma tion of his former deposition, concluding, " If I am a dying man the prisoner is the man who shot me." He died from the effect of his wound shortly after wards, and an inquest was held on Nov. 21. In cross-examination it was elicited that the spot where the deceased was shot was between a garden wall 10 ft. high, and a moat, beyond both of which were high elm trees ; but it also appeared that the night was light, the moon vertical, and nearly full. It was elicited that Burrell had been taken on the charge of !murder, and that a man named Allen, who lodged with the prisoner, was in the habit of using the gun ; but it also appeared that Allen was not there on the 24th of October. Mr. O'Brien, in addressing the jury for the pri soner, remarked upon the absence of any assignable motive for murdering the deceased, who was a stranger to the prisoner, reviewed the course of the prisoner homewards on the night of the 24th,which scarcely admitted of the supposition that he could within the space of 20 minutes have got the gun, changed his hat, and gone to the spot where M‘Brian was wounded. He was never heard by Burrell to leave the house. King and he had equal distances to go from the point where they parted, yet King had only loosed his shoes when he heard the shot. The pocket of the man whom M'Brian saw stuck out, but it was inconceivable that the prisoner could within that time have possessed himself of any booty, the guarding of which might supply a motive for firing the gun. Without ques tionins, M'Brian's truthfulness, his accuracy might be doubted considering how sombre and dark the place would be rendered by the tall trees on both sides, and that the man who was seen was a stranger, and wore a slouched billycock cap. The possession of so common a cap could not weigh against the prisoner. M'Brian, when he saw him four days after the event, was weak from loose -,~~ of blood, and probably influenced in his belief by what he had been told by others. No doubt the gun found in the prisoner's house was that which inflicted the wound ; but by whose hands, was the question. The man Allen had been in the habit of using it . ; might it not have been he. No Times was found in Richardson's house ; his reply about the wadding referred simply to his general habit, not to the loading at that time. The correspond ence of the shot, such as it was, was immaterial, The conduct of the prisoner was strongly indicative of innocence. He allowed the things left house to remain as they ys7cre. went. 'L,o work as usual himself, and in his account- P!, the manner in whichite passed the previous bight he had not exagemted the time, but told tle exact truth. It was impossible for the jury in form a judgment as to the real facts of the transaction ; but if the jury believed the prisoner's hand used the gun it was possible it might have been pointed in bravado, carelessly, and gone off without design. The ab sence of assignable motivegave this supposition pro bability, and the jury were not driven to the con , elusion of murder in a case so sorrounded by doubt. The learned judge said that it was certainly open to the jury to find a verdict of murder, of man slaughter, or of acquittal. That an offence of some sort had been committed was clear, unless the wound by which M'Brian died was, in their opi nion, a mere accident ; but the statement of the de ceased and.the character of the wound did not admit of that supposition, but rather showed that the gun when discharged was placed with the butt against the shoulder; if not an accident, or the wound was caused by gross negligence only,. it would indeed be manslaughter, but of this no evi dence appeared; but if the death resulted from the wilful use of a deadly weapon it was murder. After observing that the speech of the learned counsel for the prisoner was as able, as sensible, and as becoming an address as he had ever heard, his Lordship commented upon the evidence. At .the conclusion of the summing up the jury retired, but for a short time only, and returning into court delivered a verdict of guilty of wilful murder. His Lordship having assumed the black cap, silence was proclaimed._ His Lordship, in addressing the prisoner, re frained from adding to his distress by dwelling on considerations which it formed no part of his duty to urge. Tho prisoner would be attended by those who would impress them upon him with more effect than any formal address of his could have ; but he should be lacking in human charity if he did not warn the prisoner against indulging any hope that the judgment he was about to pronounce would not be carried into effect. The learned judge then, with an emotion which manifested itself in spite of his endeavours to subdue it, formally pro nounced sentence of death ; and the prisoner, pale and staggering, was removed from the dock. The following sentences were then passed upon those convicted of the night poaching at Nocton : —On George Gilbert of 18 months, on John Graham of one year's imprisonment, and on Aizy Smith of four years' penal servitude. OXFORD CIRCUIT.—GLOUCESTER, Dec. 7. CRIMINAL COURT. (Before Mr. Baron Wilde.) Thomas Veale was charged with highway rob bery with violence, and stealing the sum of 16s. from the person of John Jame, at Gloucester, on the Bth of October, 1860. Mr. Cook Evans appeared for the prosecution ; Mr. It. Sawyer defended the prisoner. This was a case of garotte robbery, committed in the outskirts of the city, on Monday, the 18th of October last. It appeared that, on the day in question, the prosecutor, who is a labouring man, living at Alveston, near Lydney, came to this city " to mop," i.e., to visit his friends. In the afternoon of that day he went into a publichouse called The Merry Fellow, in Barton-street, and was there invited by the prisoner to play at skittles. He accordingly joined in the game, and played with the prisoner as his partner till about 6 o'clock,when he said he must leave, as he wanted to return home by the 630 train. The prisoner said he would go along with him and shew him the way ; but, in stead of leading him by the most direct road, he took him round by the outskirts of the city, and there seized him by the throat with such violence that the prosecutor was unable to resist or cry out. At this moment another man came up and rifled his pocket, and took out 165., at the same time calling out, "Its all right." Upon this prisoner threw the prosecutor down upon his back, and both men ran away. The prosecutor gave immediate information to the police and the prisoner was taken into custody the next day, but his companion had not been found. The prosecutor was taken to the stationhouse, and saw the prisoner in the yard through a window, and at first expressed some doubt as to his identity, but as soon as he saw him face to face he said he was posi tive that was the man who throttled him. Another witness was examined, who had seen the parties playing at skittles together, and he stated that he saw the prisoner and two or three more men leave the skittle-ground along with the prosecutor. Mr. Sawyer, for the prisoner, contended that the identity was not established, but the jury found the prisoner guilty. It was then proved that is August, 1856, the prisoner had been convicted in this court of high way robbery, after a previous conviction, and sen tenced to four years' penal servitude. Mr. Baron Wilde, in passing sentence, said, it appeared the prisoner was a confirmed criminal, for, if he had not been liberated before his time, his previous sentence had scarcely expired before he committed this fresh crime. His lordship then sentenced the prisoner to six years' penal servitude. John Thomas Jolliffe, 17, letter carrier, pleaded guilty to a charge of stealing a post letter, contain ing money, &c., the property of the Postmaster- General, on Sept. 8, 1860. Mr. Baron Wilde, after some remarks on the enormity of the offence, sentenced the prisoner to three years' penal servitude. THE SEA-SICK IRONSIDES. (Rom the Examiner.) After all it appears that La Gloire is the summer blanket of the auctioneer. She is not a sea-going ship. She must have smooth water and a short run. She cannot go alone. She requires a nurse to take care of her. There is a party here who have espoused the cause of this vessel, and who resent any question of her qualities as if she were the most cherished child of England, and very indignant they will be at our representation of her incapacities, but they are completely borne out by the admission in the semi-official journal the Montteur de la Flotte. Our neighbours are not addicted to what is vulgarly but aptly called " crying stinking fish." They do not proclaim miscarriages from the house tops. It has been ruled absolute that La Gloire is a success, but facts are admitted which reduce the success to very small bounds. And a success she is if she is considered as a block ship, or to serve as a floating battery in sheltered waters ; a failure if she is to be tried by her capabilities for cruising. The Momteur de la Flotte reports the last trial of La Gloire as highly satisfactory, adding, however, that the only defect is that she cuts the waves with too great speed, the water entering by the port holes forward. In other words, she wants liveli ness, and buries herself forward. With the load of iron laid upon her wood, poor thing, this is not her fault, but her misfortune, her constitutional infirmity. The writer in the Flotte proceeds to say that the inconvenience of taking in water at the fare portholes is to be avoided in the frigates to be built next year, the guns of which are to be more out of water. Here the truth escapes that the guns of La Gloire are a fleur d'eau, and that she cannot open her ports in a seaway ruffled by a moderate breeze. The writer in the Flette con tinues :—" A new system of iron floating batteries is being examined. They are to be much smaller than those used in the Crimean war. They are not intended for going to sea, but solely for the protec tion of the entrance into ports and rivers. It is chiefly for this service that steel-plated frigates are constructed, as it is not considered safe to seed them to sea alone. The general system of the de fence of the coasts is to be completed by cutting down the old sailing ships and plating them. The construction of ships of great speed has naturally directed the attention of the Government to the necessity of adopting greater precaution for the de fence of the coasts of Brittany and Normandy. These coasts are now much exposed to the danger of a coup de main, which, though not probable, is at least possible. The coast of the Mediterranean appears to be better defended by nature, but we shall shortly have at our gates on that side a mari time Power which may become troublesome. We are at present on the best terms with Italy, but that may not always be the case." So here it is confessed by semi-official authority that steel-plated frigates are constructed for the protection of ports and rivers, as "it is not considered safe to send them to sea alone ! " And the conclusion is a wise one as regards vessels built of wood and cased with iron, but it re mains to he seen whether a b e tt er cons truction 0f iron only will not combine the defences against shot and shell with spe e d an d seaworthy qualities. From the first we hazarded th e o pinion that woo d . . y and iron would never work together, espec i a ll y with the screw propeller. The two materials damage and tear each other to pieces. La Gloire carries no sail. wh y ? Becausean dcann sh o s t has enough to do to carry her topsides , carry them forward out of the sea, but buriesher portholes in the water. This tethers her, as it were, within very narrow limits. She has a Chinese foot, and cannot stray far from home. It is the fashion to talk of stewur its - having superseded sail. This is a 1; rtat mistake as re gards vessels of war . of coal is so limited.. e rapacity for thestowage, Lat the main dependence must be on the s - w - At the end of eight, nine, or at the utmostea '- Uas, the vessel the motive power of which i •Leam only lies a helpless log on the wate r'' .But much might be done within that time 'lle narrows of the Channel. True, but it must be by vessels which can open their ports in a breeze, and face the chances of weather where it is perhaps more uncertain than in any other part of the world. It seems all but certain that the problem of iron cased ships proposed by France will not he solved by France. If iron, and iron only, be the material to work it out, ours should be the land for the success. The retirement of Sir Baldwin Walker from the Surveyor-ship of the Navy offers an opportunity for a great improvement in the organization of the Admiralty. A successor equal to Sir Baldwin Walker himself can hardly be found, but was Sir Baldwin Walker himself, with all his ucdoubted merits, equal to the duties of his office, or could the combination of experience and knowledge now requisite for the business be found in any one, or in any three men ? The qualifications - which sufficed for the Surveyor even 20 years ago have been ren dered obsolete by the progress of steam and iron architecture. The iron must enter the soul of the Admiralty, and how is it to be introduced ? Few indeed are the naval officers who have any know ledge of shipbuilding ; but is there one who is skilled in iron ? The question of iron-cased ships must have made felt what is wanted in the Survey orship of the Navy, and cannot be supplied by any one head, such as heads now in the service, belong ing to the age of wood. Excellent officers abound, but without the iron specialty. GARIBALDI ON IRELAND AND THE LATE IRISH BRIGADE. The following letter has been received from Gen. Garibaldi, by an Irish gentleman, who wrote to explain that it was Popery, and not Ireland, which sent a band of misguided youths from these shores to uphold slavery in Italy. The following is the translation : " Caprera, Nov. 12, 1860. "Much esteemed Sir,—Who could ever think that your fellow-countrymen were not deceived, when they served the cause of the Pope under Lamorieiere ? Every one in Italy knows the heavy burden of oppression under which your country as well as ours is still groaning. The offspring of ignorance and imposition—Papacy—dwells unfor tunately in the powerful with hypocrisy, and in the poor with the concomitant evils—prostitution, degradation, and misery. Albion became great and prosperous when she courageously cut off that cancer. Rome ! she ceased to be great, she con tinued to be prostrate, and still lies in that filthy sink, because the Almighty was pleased to visit the queen of the world with that scourge. We pity the deceived ones of Ireland, as well as those of Italy and other countries ; but we know indeed that the hearts of the millions in your noble country, as well as all over the globe, beat for the liberty of nations. We know but too well that, if 400 deceived youths were compelled to take service under the most despicable Government, it was not with the consent of the brave and generous Irish nation, with whom we are united in bonds of brotherhood by a community of misfortune, and by the same foe still frowning on us. "The time is not far distant when this people will inflict the last blow to its sacrificers and tyrants. In that solemn combat we shall decide, not only on our.national existence, but the founda tion will be laid for the rising of kindred nations ; then the Italians, together with Hungarians, Eng lish, and other brothers, will joyfully and gratefully see the sons of Ireland whom you shall lead to the holy banquet. " Affectionately and gratefully yours, " G. GARIBALDI." HORRIBLE MASSACRE OF A CREW OF d SOUTH SEA WHALER. A fearful outrage has occurred in the port of Buckatoo, at the island of Isabella, in the Southern Pacific, by the horrible massacre of most of the crew belonging to the whaling ship Henrietta, Captain Brown, whose log-book furnishes the following details :—" 7th of June last, vessel at anchor off Buckatoo. At daylight pumped ship, washed the decks, and sent the small boat away for two casks of fresh water. At eight a.m. the boat returned. During the morning and forenoon several canoes came up and pulled round the ship, for what object the master at first could not define, In the forenoon the carpenter and five of the crew left the ship in a small boat to cut firewood, and also two spars, one for the maintopmast, and the other for a spare main gaff; with the exception of one man, he never saw them afterwards. Tho man, who swam to the ship from the shore, informed him (the master) that they had been attacked and murdered by the natives of the island. Shortly afterwards the ship was suddenly boarded by a number of natives, who attempted to take forcible possession of her. The number of hands on board besides him was five—the cook and four seamen. He had his wife and two chil dren on board. The natives first endeavoured to secure him and throw him overboard, but he managed to break away from them, and rushed to his cabin for firearms. They next attacked the wife, who also succeeded in escaping their ven geance, and sought refuge with her husband in the cabin, where they kept up a constant firing on the natives, who, failing in their object of capturing the ship, jumped into their canoes and made off, carrying with them one of the children, a fine little boy, about five years old. He (the master), with the surviving portion of the crew, afterwards pursued some of the canoes, in the hopes of recovering his child, but failed to do so. Next morning got under weigh and proceeded to Russell's Island, where the chief of the natives, on hearing of the occurrence, offered to intercede, and, if possible, obtain posses sion' of the child, but with no better result." TILE BRONZE COINAGE. The Mechanics' Magazine points out several advantages in the new money. The first in order of these advantages is assuredly the dimin ished size of the bronze pieces as compared with the copper money soon to become extinct. Every person must, at some time or other, have expe rienced the inconvenience of having a " pocket full of coppers." Somehow it is impossible to avoid occasionally getting an accumulation of these specimens of former Mintages, and then a natural anxiety arises to get rid of them. Heavy, unwhole some, and unsavoury as the old copper coins were, they were, after all, but tokens of value, and there was no compensating good therefore for the nui sance of carrying them about one. The new bronze coinage constitutes an extension of the token sys tem ; and, whereas the old coins were intrinsically of only half their nominal value, their bronze suc cessors are intrinsically worth but one-fourth their nominal and negotiable value. In two directions the public thus benefit by the reform. The cost of manufacture will be lessened, and the Mint will require a smaller annual sum at the hands of her Majesty's Faithful Commons for carrying on the coinage than has heretofore been asked for and obtained. In short, the remodelling of the copper coinage will pay for itself, and leave a handsome margin of profit to be handed over to the public account. The copper coins at present in circulation,. equal in weight, in round numbers, 6,000 tons, and in number 500,000,000. An equal weight of bronze metal will, by the present division of the 11b.-weight into 48, 80, and 160 pence, half-pence, and farthings respectively, yield something approaching 1,000,000,000 pieces of money, or double the num ber of pieces, of double the negotiable value, from same weight of metal as was used for the copper coinage. The economy of the new arrangement is therefore as apparent as its c onvenience, and it will be matter for gratulation when it is fully accom plished. Another improvement visible in the b ronze to coinage is comprised in its having the current va l ue of each individual coin imprinted o n th e reverse side. We have long advocated this plan in r e f erence to the whole British coinage,and person Nve especially have to for in. any The coin it se lf s h ou ld suggested it in the formation of the new money. It inquiresh ou l d notthe be we rn ecessary e give testimony thereto, and in this particular in stance we are glad to find that the Government has adopted the suggestion bronze no one who has witnessed the processes of converting it into coin at her Majesty's Mint can have the smallest doubt. Although, as our readers well know, the mixture • 0f95 consists copper, four parts of tin, and one part of zinc, yet it is of so obstinate a h c aracter as frequently to split into fragments in' the of course rolling, and to require frequent and long annealings before it will receive perfect impressions from the dies. The compression between these latter in the act of strik ing hardens the discs ofmetal . make them,such a way as t o in comparison with pure copper money, everlasting, They may, indeed, be termed un wearable coins , It is . • will ratherrole • s. t certain that their appearance improve than deteriorate by age, and very soon oxydation will affect those parts of their surfaces which do not come into rubbing contact with table andcounter in such a way as to form an agreeable contrast to those parts which exposed are to abrasion, and thus give the coins the appearance of antigun bronze castings. . F y.' WILLS AND BEQUESTS. The will of the Right Hon. Charles Herbert Pierrepont, Earl Manvers, Viscount Newark, and Baron. Pierrepont, of Holme Pierrepont, and of Thoresby Park, both in the county of Nottingham , and of 16, Portman-square, London, was proved in the principal registry on the 3d of December, by the Right Hon. Sydney William Herbert Pierre pont, Earl Manvers (heretofore Viscount Newark), the son of the late Earl, and by the two sons-in-law , Edward Christopher Egerton, Esq., M.P. for Mac clesfield, of Mountfield Court, Surrey, and Charles Watkins Williams Wynn, Esq., of Llanged Denbighshire. The personalty was sworn under £BO,OOO. The will is very short, being comprised in two folios. It bears date the 24th of October last, only three days previous to his Lordship's decease, which occurred on the 27th of October, at his seat, Thoresby Park, in his eighty-third years his Countess having predeceased his Lordship but a few weeks—namely, on the 7th of the preced ing month of September, her Ladyship having reached her seventy-fifth year. His LordshiP is succeeded in his title and estates by la° only surviving son, Sydney, Viscount Newark, nosy third Earl Manvers, and to whom the testator has left the residue of his personalty, after bequeathing all his money equally amongst his son, the present Earl, and his (the testator's) two daughters, the Hon. Mary Frances and the Hon. Ann ora Charlotte; and has left an annuity chargeable upon the Thoresby estate of 100 guineas to Louis Christie. The attesting witnesses are George Dennis, grown, of chambers to the Earl, and W. S. Ward, of Wellow, Notts. _ The will of Major-General Sir Henry Gee Roberts, K.C.8., of her Majesty's Bombay Anal , and Colonel of the 21st Native Infantry, was proved in London by his relict, Lady Roberts, the sole executrix. The General has bequeathed to hie widow the whole of his real estate, as well as the personal, the latter estimated at £3,000, for her own absolute use and disposal. The will bears date the 7th of May, 1855, and is very short; the attesting witnesses are Charles Roberts and Joll James Bond, both of the Public Record Office , Carlton-ride. Sir Henry died at his residence: Hazlcdine House, Redmarley, near Ledbury, Wor-, cestershire, at the age of sixty. He was the grand' son of Mr. W. Roberts, President of Magdalee• College, Cambridge, whose wife's maiden name was Gee. The testator entered very early in life the military profession, and acquired both rank and honours more rapidly than generally falls to the let of officers employed in the military or naval service. The will of Colonel George Anthony Legh-Keck; Esq., of Staughton Grange, near Leicester, :and of Bank Hall, near Lancaster, has been proved in London by the executors, Geoffrey Palmer, of Carl ton Park, Northampton, and Edward Bourchier Hartopp, Esq., M.P., of Little Dalby Hall, Leices tershire. The personalty was sworn under £70,000. The will bears date the 30th of September, 1859• The testator had married in 1802, but his wife died in 1837, and has left no issue. The Colonel has bequeathed his estates, both real and personal, to the Hon. Major Powys, formerly of the 60th Royal Rifles, and to his issue. The testator and the Major were both officers of local corps, the deceased being Lieutenant-Colonel Commandant of Prince Albert's Own Leicestershire Yeomanry Cavalry, and the Hon. H. Littleton Powys Major of the Leicester Militia. The will directs that several sums are to be paid in the way of legacies and annuities, and tokens of remembrances are to be given to friends he has most generously considered his servants. The Colonel's maternal father was Peter Legh, Esq., and the deceased succeeded to the family estates on the death of his brother, Peers Anthony Keck, Esq., in 1797, and thus were united the natal of Legh-Keck. The Colonel was M.P. for Leices• tershire from 1797 to 1832, and attained the age of 86,—illustrated London News. COUNTRY MARKETS. NORWICH-DR°. 8. To-day there was a fair trade in wheat for all dry quel l ' ties, at is to 2s over former rates, and inferior met a better sale at the above rates. The supply was limited. There was a less supply of barley, and prices were much the saroe for all descriptions. A few samples of oats were shown , with a fair trade. Flour in favour of the seller. White wheat 62s to 63s I Red wheat 528 to 5 81 Malting barley....4ls to 44s I Chevalier barley 38s to 400 Distilling d0......30s to 32s I Oats.. 26s to 30e LFlour, 40s to 41s Od per sack from the miller. CAMBRIDGE—DEc. 8. There was a middling supply of wheat at market, and! with an improved trade, white moved off at 52s to 560 , red, 38s to 50s per 36 stone. There was a good sure of barley ; malting, 38s to 44s ; grinding, 30s to 3 619 per 30 stone. Oats at 22s to 28s for new ; old oats, 21s to 28s. Beans in scarce supply, and unchanged—new, 3 2111 to 36s ; old, 51s to 54s per 38 stone ; peas, 48s to 50s per 36 stone. White cloverseed, 86s to 89s; red, 46s to 50s pet qr. ; tares, 14a to 15s per bushel. YORK—DEc. 8. The supply of wheat was less to-day, with a fair attend' ance of factors and farmers. The trade was firm, and the currencies were at is to 2s advance on previous rates fo r wheat. Barley was quiet, and barely supported late rates. Oats were a fair show, and at less money. Beans scarce , and a slow sale. Wheat, red 50s to 45s I Oats.... 24s to 3 29 White do .58s to 64s 1 Beans 52s to 68 ; Barley .32s to 44s 1 Peas ~..--a to --*: Malt, 70s to 72s per qr. ; rye, 42s per qr. ; flour, 44 1 w 49s per sack. LEICESTER---DEc. 8. The supply of wheat to-day was an average one, with fair attendance ; prices is to 2s up. White wheat, 56s to 7 1 ° —red, 46s to 69s per 36 stone; a very moderate sale far barley, grinding, 35s to 37s ; malting, 40s to 42s per qr . „, oats, 24s to 40s per 24 stone. Beans—old, 56s to bDrf new 48s to 52s per 38 stone. Fine flour, 48s I Seconds, 46s I Thirds, 44s per 20 stone. STAMFORD—DEc. 8. A good supply of wheat at market yesterday, for which the farmers asked 2s over former prices for the best soul' pies of both old and new. The demand was mo6rate fat barley, and last week's prices were exceeded is to 2s e t qr. Wheat 54s to 62s Oats.. 24s to 3 26 White do 58s to 68s I Beans 4Bs to oq• Barley 36s to 44s I Ditto, old ... ..... 52s to 0/ THE MAILS. MAILS DUE. Australia, Ceylon, and Mauritius (via South ampton) .. .. .. . • • • • • Dec ' 19. Do. (via Marseilles) Dec. 13. Bahamas saAs and Havana IN a l v o a n n t a e ( V vi i rt de isi o, e :9. Brazil and Cape Verds .. .. ~ .. Jan. 5. 'York) ... •.. coppreeerd•%::: Cape of Good Hope, &c. .. .'. Canada, &c. (via Galway) .. .. • • .. .. Jan. 1. China, Penang, and Singapore (via "S'ainpton) Dec. 19. Do (via • Marseilles) Dec. 13. Gibraltar (via Southampton) .. • • .. Dec. 10. India (Calcutta), Ceylon, &c. (via Southampton) Dec. 19. 1)o. :(via Marseilles) Dec. 13. India (Bombay), (via Southampton) .. .. Dec. 10. Do. (via Marseilles) .. .. Dec. 5. Lisbon .. .. • • • • • • .. Dec. 11 Cuba and Mexico .. • ' • • • • .. Dec. 2 9 ' Malta, Eg,ypt,. a nd Aden (via.. Southampton) .. Dec. 10. D o (via Marseille s ) .. Dec. 10. Vigo, and Oporto .. • . • . .. .. D ec . 11. United States, California, &c. . , .. .. D ec . 12. Western Coast of Atrca, Madeira, Teneriffe .. Dec. 10. West Indies and Pacific, Carthagena, Cuba, &c. Dec. 14. THE BUYER'S DESIDERATUM.—" The buyer's desidgra t ; tum is to find an establishment where will be presented him ample choice of artistic designs, without having force' upon his attention a host of mere ingenious ones, and dee: the means of the economic or those to whom price a no °„' titute of any other me r it, to joct. Such an establishment is that of Mr. J. W. Bene °- ' with a tariff of prices adapted situate at 33 and 34, Ludgate-hill, whose recent enlarge ment of his premises has made his show-rooms more cot: spicuous than any other in the neighbourhood of St. Paul ,lo llis four 'windows contain such a variety of gold and ,r watches as t o leave nothing to be desired but the moneY to buy them w i t h . The high standin of Mr. Benson s e f public London manufacturer must secure him a large amoun t ° patrons g e."—Standard.—Ben s on ' s Illustrated l'e phlet, po s t free for two stamps, is descriptive of every con' r struction of watch now m a d e . W a t c h es sa f e by post to ''" parts of the globe. BIRTHS. EGLINTON.—On the 7th inst., at Edinburgh, the Counto o of Eglinton, of a daughter. HAMILTON.—On filo 26th ult., at Upper Mount, Shanklin g ; Isle of Wight, th e w if e o f C ap t a i n H am il ton , R.N., c"' daughter, WALPOLE.—On the 7th inst., at Hanslope-park, Buck* Mrs. Reginald Walpole, of a daughter. MARRIAGES. BRADEURY.—AGNEW.—On the 6th inst., at the pari s h, church, Eccles, William H ar d w i c k Bradbury, s econd 1 3 9 . "' n of Willia m B ra db ur y, E sq., Whi te f r i ars, London, ;;;;Laura, the second daughter of Thomas Agnew, E S q'' ° Fairhope, Eccles. HARWOOD—PELLEREAIL—At St. George's, Bloornsburli Emily, second d aug ht er o f t h e l ate J o h n Harwood, MI of Fenchurch- s t ree t , L on d on, to E t i enne P e ll er sau, Mauritius, barrister-at-law. DEATHS. Bolen.—On the 4th inst., at Cranes, Ormakirk, Lano r shire, Rob er t B owyer, E sq., age d 7 1. BOYS. —On the 7th inst., at Brighton, Harriott, wife of Jacob Boys, Esq. GOODMAN.—On the 6th inst ,at the Crown Inn, Dulwich) Mr. Thomas G oo d man , age d 62. MIDDLETON.—On the 7th inst., at Glasgow, W. Middletoop Esq., aged 85. PINNEY.—On the 6th inst., at Notting-hill, Mrs. Pinael' aged 72. Toatumsow.—On the 6th inst., at Dublin, Melia, eldest daughter of the late Vice-Admiral Tomlinson. TAYLOR..—On, the sth inst., at Oak House, Richmon d, Surrey, Miss Sophia Taylor, aged 73 1 -- ------ of LONDON : Printed and Published by MURDO YOUNG , d, No. 112, Strand, Printer, at THE SUN Office, No. 112, Strap in the Precinct of the Savoy, La the County of Aficlateo"" 6 ALQ11447. AMON: 10, mop, Spa tho E wits spir of tl Pro tion IttMt -Andr