The Sun. — London, England, 1859-06-21 00:00:00

TEE BATTLE OF MALEGNANO. Yesterday's Moniteur contains the following official report of the battle of Malegnano, addressed by Marshal Baraguay d'Hilliers to the Emperor : Malegnano, June 10, 1859. Sire,—Your Majesty gave me the order yesterday to proceed with the Ist corps along the Lodi road, to drive the enemy out of San Juliano and Maleg nano, informing me that for this operation I should be joined by the second corps, commanded by Mar shal MacMahon. I immediately went to San Donato to arrange with the Marshal, and we agreed that he should attack San Juliano with his Ist division ; that after expell ling the enemy he would make for Carpaniello in order to cross the Lombro, the approaches ts which are very difficult, and that thence from there he would proceed to Mediglia. The second division was to take at San Martino the road which would conduct through Trivulzo and Casanova to Bettola, and then it was to aid vance to the left of Mediglia, in such a manner as to turn the position of Malegnano. It was agreed that the Ist corps should advance in full strength along the Malegnano high road, and, at the spot marked " Betolma" on the map, should detach to the right the Ist divi sion, which, passing through Civesio and Vibol done, should go on to Mezzano, establish at this spot a battery of 12 guns, to play first of all against Pe driano and afterwards against the cemetery of Malegnano, where the enemy had entrenched him self and established strong batteries. That the 2d division of the first corps, having left San Juliano, should go to San Breta, and esta blish there alSo a battery of 12 guns, to play against the cemetery and enfilade the road from Malegnano to Lodi. Lastly, that the 3d division of the same corps should advance direct on Malegnano and carry the town concurrently with the Ist and 2d divisions, as soon as the fire of our artillery should have produced disorder there. The Ist division, leaving Malegnano on its left, had orders to bear on Cerra; the 2d and 3d on Sordio, where they were to expect the 2d corps also proceeding thither through Dresano and Casal maj occo. For these dispositions to have entire success, time would be requisite for their completion, and in commanding me to operate on the same day that I left San Pietro l'Olmo, your Majesty rendered my task more difficult, for the head of the 3d division of the Ist corps could not enter into line before half past three o'clock, so greatly was the road obstructed by the convoys of the 2d and fourth corps. How ever, at half-past 2 o'clock I ordered Marshal Mac Mahon to march on San Juliano. Not finding the enemy there he forded the Lombro although a bridge was marked on the map at Carpianello, and . con tinued his movement on Mediglia. At half-past five, the 3d division of the Ist corps arrived to within some 1,200 metres from Malegnano, occu pied by the enemy, who had thrown up a barri cade about 500 metres in front across the road, established batteries at the very entrance of the town, behind a cutting as high as the first houses. I ordered General Bazaine to draw up his division for the attack ; a battalion of Zouaves was thrown forward and on the flanks, as sharpshooters. The enemy received us with a cannonade that might have become dangerous, as the balls raked the road we had to take in column. Our artillery replied successfully to that of the Austrians, and General For geot, with two batteries and the sharpshooters of the Ist division at Mezzano, supported on our right the attack we were about to commence. I ordered the knapsacks to be thrown down, and the 2d bat talion of Zouaves, followed by the whole of the Ist brigade, to charge at double quick pace. The Aus trians had lined with a cloud of sharpshooters the first houses of the town, the cutting of the road and the churchyard, and yet they could not resist our onslaught, beat a retreat right and left, made a vigorous resistance in the streets, at the castle, be hind the hedges and the walls of the gardens, and were completely driven out of the town by nine at night. The 2d division, on its arrival near Malegnano, bore to the left of the 3d, following the river side, and took or killed the enemies whom we had al ready driven from the upper town and thorough fares. Marshal MacMahon was able even to send after the Austrians some balls and bullets on the Lodi road, for at the noise of our musketry he had advanced on Colognio. The enemy's resistance has been vigorous. The bayonet was used several times ; in one of the of fensive returns of the Austrians, the eagle of the 33d, for a moment in danger, was bravely defended. The losses of the enemy are considerable ; the streets and places near the town were strewed with their dead ; 1,200 wounded Austrians have been brought to our ambulances ; we have made between 800 and 900 prisoners, and taken one gun. Our loss amounts to 943 men killed or wounded, but, as in all the previous engagements, the officers have been struck in a large proportion. General Bazaine and General Goze have received contu sions ; the colonel of the Ist Regiment of Zouaves was killed; the colonel and lieutenant-colonel of the 33d were wounded ; in all 13 officers have been slain and 56 officers wounded. I ha'•e the honour of sending to the Emperor, with the account of these losses, the propositions made by the generals of divisions and approved by me. I beg him to attend to it, and to treat the Ist eerps with his usual benevolence. I shall specially recommend to him Col. Alselme, my chief of the staff, proposed to be a general of brigade ; Commander Foy, whose horse was - wounded, and who is proposed to be a lieutenant colonel; Commander Melin, proposed to be an officer of the Legion of Honour ; Capt. Rambaud, for whose promotion I have already asked ; and M. Franchetti, a non-commissioned officer in the Ist African Chas seurs, my porte-guidon, who was wounded at my side.—l am respectfully your Majesty's most humble and faithful subject, The Marshal BARAGL'AY D'HILLIERS. THE WAR IX ITALY. Our City Correspondent enumerates among the causes of the depression prevailing in the Money Market the critical state of the relations between Germany and France, and also " positive state ments that the Emperor of the French has taken M. Kossuth under hii wing with the express object of revolutionising Hungary." With reference to the first of these topics we may direct attention to the statement telegraphed from Paris, that Count Pourtales, a Prussian diplomatist of great ability, is expected soon to arrive in that capital, as implying that the Prussian Government has not taken up a position which disqualifies it for the work of mediation. As to the second, we are able to speak with more certainty. We re peat the statement we made on Saturday. M. Kos suth has not gone to Italy to carry out any pre conceived plan, nor has the Emperor of the French taken him under his wing. If M. Kossuth has gone to meet Napoleon 111., we may be sure that it is in the cause of Hungary. He will repeat the eloquent arguments and impassioned appeals to which the English public is well accustomed. H e will urge the necessity of the independence of Hun gary to that of Italy, and point out how much it is in the pow& of his countryman, ripe for insurrec tion, to aid in the work which France is doing on the Po. He will hear, on the other hand, of the Emperor's desire to confine the war to Italy, and to conclude it as - soon as the liberation of that country is achieved. These opposite opinions and inclina tions have been exchanged between the two men before to-day ; and whether they are to balance one another depends upon a third party. The Emperor of the French has many reasons for not allying himself with the cause of the Hungarian revolution. Himself a crowned Tribune, he is sufficiently an object of jealousy to princes reigning by anti popular titles without accumulating hatred on him self. Although Hungary is not one of the Federal possessions of Austria., he could not render its people much service without violatinc , the Federal terri tory ; and he does not wish to have Germany for an enemy. It is, however, in the power of Germany, that is to say, of Prussia, which can control the Confederates, if its rulers please, to destroy the reasons which at present induce him to respect the wishes, and even to connive at the partiality, of Germany. Should Germany resolutely oppose the enfranchisement of Italy, to which all the power of Prance is committed, the Emperor may feel at liberty to accept the alliance of every brave man who has a quarrel with Austria, and thus the visit of M. Kossuth may have great and lasting conse quences. But we believe we are justified in stating that M. Kossuth left England uncertoin as to the probability of obtaining for his country any assistance from France. Unhappily, whether Hun gary shall rise in insurrection or not, does not de pend on Louis Napoleon, a nor yet on Prussia ; for that event, should it take IA ce the misgovernment o f Austria, which nc, race in Europe has escaped, is responsible.—Daily News. 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Continental Governments are looking with anxiety and impatience for signs of English influ ence and policy with regard to the war in Italy as applied by the Palmerston Cabinet at Berlin and the Courts of Germany. It is felt here of the highest importance that the new British Cabinet should lose no time in distinctly statinc , what Eng land's neutrality really means. In order to under stand this anxiety it must be remembered that at Vienna and at most of the German Courts an im pression prevails—indeed I may say that a strong conviction exists—that England will eventually come forward and form an alliance with Germany to oppose France, Italy, and Russia, even to at tempting to restore at least a portion of Lombardy to Austria. It may be asked on what grounds can Austria and Germany expect aid from England when the late Government and the people of Great Britain so loudly proclaimed for neutrality? As far as I can understand the question, Austrian statesmen have always thought circumstances would eventually drag England, Prussia, and the German Confederation into the war, although against their will. Austria reckoned on a chapter of accidents. Her agents at London, Berlin, and the German Courts, have been moving heaven and earth to persuade neutral States to arm, because they know nations are more likely to fight when they have arms in their hands than when simply unarmed spectators of a quarrel. Austria says to herself—" Tt is always something gained to have put the armies of Europe on a war footing." Her policy has not failed. The invasion panic took in England ; the Rhine alarm lighted up Germany, until Prussia was obliged to inflict a war footing decree on her own people. England has given the example of " an armed neutrality," and it is the be lief of most foreign statesmen that if Lord Derby had remained in power that armed neutrality would have ended in a European war. It is therefore hoped the Palmerston Cabinet will distinctly let it be known that if the French, Italians, and Austrians will fight out their quarrel on Italian ground, and not offend surrounding States, then England will maintain a strict neutrality, and be quite satisfied to see the Austrians driven out of Italy, and Italy become independent. Such a declaration, it is felt, would do much to bring the war to a close. Ger many will not dare to move without England, so that in point of fact it depends upon England whether the war be confined to Italy or whether it become European. England might even have pre vented the war had the Government only used past experience of Austrian trickery as a guide for the present. Whilst Count Buol was assuring Lord Cowley, Lord A. Loftus, and therefore the Derby Cabinet, that Austria would never assume the aggressive and invade Piedmont, the Emperor and his advisers were actually making preparations to march on Turin. Whilst these negotiations were going on—whilst, in fact, Lord Cowley was at Vienna, I told your readers that Austria was only with her old game of deception. She in tended to invade Piedmont, and wanted to get England on her side. She found the Government and the agents of our Government sympathising with her, and the ready dupes of her cunning. Austria was encouraged, therefore, to believe she would divide the armies of Europe into two great camps. It must be known also that Austria had designs beyond Turin. The Emperor Francis Joseph and the Church Papal party all over Europe reckoned on being able to put down the Napoleon dynasty in France. They think to this day any reverses of the French army would create discon tent in France, and perhaps end eventually in a change of Sovereign and Government. It was argued at Vienna—" England would be pleased to see such a change, and no doubt assist us." The Holy Alliance ideas haunted, and still haunt, the statesmen of Austria and Germany, and that is another reason why the English Government should let it be known that the people of England wish to see Italy Italian, and that the French alliance is the basis of our foreign relations.—Correspondent Morning Post. PRUSSIAN NEUTRALITY. should have fallen, to arrest the allied advance on Padua and Venice ; or even, thirdly, to entice the allied army into Tyrol, in order to bring the Con federation into the field. We have little fear that the astute commanders of the allied army would suffer a surprise ; but some such development of Austrian tactics is evidently not improbable. It is one eccentric result of this struggle to tighten the gripe of German despotism in proportion as it relaxes foreign domination in Italy. German Go vernments thus seem to get the consolation of secu rity at home, which they have very little deserved, in order to countervail what they lose abroad. War with France is ostensibly popular in Germany,just because the mass of the Germans, or the more noisy, who illusively represent the mass, cannot distinguish between the aims of the first and of the second French Empire. The Germans are apparently for getting the hatred they still legitimately owe to their own sovereigns, to revive the hatred they once owed to a former generation of Frenchmen. Tbis effect, however, is obviously a temporary one. It will soon be perceived by the German people that their Governments are simply abusing their credulity, in palming off an alleged hostility of France towards Germany in order to turn away their sympathies from the French liberation of Italy. But there are two conflicting perils in the prolongation of the war to which no journalist can close his eyes. If there is one movement inciting Germany against France, there is assuredly another inciting Hungary against Austria, and Russia against Germany. In a word, there is an ascer tained and incontestable preponderance of European power, prepared and resolved to effectuate the inde pendence of Italy. Against that preponderance it is vain for Austrians or Germans to contend. If Ger man Governments are only politic—be they as tyrannous as they may—they will not commit themselves to a course which will serve incalculably • to widen the social calamities of war—to render fiercer, longer, and more desperate the struggle which is now maintained, without the possibility of I precluding the eventual triumph of Italian na tionality and Italian freedom. (From the Daily News.) The intelligence which we receive from Germany discloses three pi esumptive violations of German neutrality, and two distant breaches of the funda mental laws of the Confederation. It was lately announced on reliable authority that special Com missioners of the Prussian Government had con cluded at Dresden a treaty of military transport with the Court of Saxony, and that they had pro ceeded to Munich to effect the same arrangement with Bavaria. We now learn that what the Prus sians are reported to have done by treaty the Aus trian army of Bohemia, to the number of 70,000 or 80,000 men (which had been placed as a cover ing force for the north of the empire against the contingent hostility of Prussia, before the policy of that State, disclosed in its Circular of last April, had undergone a ehange) has already been trans ported by the railways of Saxony and Bavaria into the Western Tyrol. The circuitousness of this route is counterbalanced by the continuous line of railway it affords from Prague to Inspruck, which lies within 150 miles of the Lake of Garda. Thirdly, as we yesterday announced, Austrian troops are alleged to have been relieved by Prussians from those Federal fortresses which the former, by the stipulation of the Diet, are bound to garrison. Of these three facts, it is obvious that the two former at any rate would violate the obligations com monly imposed upon neutral Powers by in ternational law. But a question may be raised by official defenders of the Austrian Go vernment whether. such arrangements are not permissible to the Germanic States inter se, under the terms of the Federal Act, which, having been confirmed by the General Congress Treaty of Vienna, becomes part of the public law of Europe. It happeus, however, that these proceed ings are as distinct violations of the Federal Act as of the ordinary obligations of neutrals. Now, the war at this moment existing is, qzcoad the Ger manic Confederation, simply a war between France and Sardinia on the one side, and the King of Lom bardy and Venice on the other; both because the Federal Act expressly disintegrates the extra- German territories of German Sovereigns from the Confederation, and because the progress of t i tle war has as clearly discriminated between the two classes of Austrian territory. " Les Membres de la Con federation," runs the 11th article of this Act, " en se reservant le droit de former des alliances, s'obli gent cependant a ne contracter aucun engagement qui serait dirige contre la slirete de la Confedera tion." It may be lawful, for instance, to Bavaria to conclude a commercial treaty within or without the limits of the Confederacy ; such a treaty could not affect the safety or liability of the Germanic body. But here we have, in the one case, two neutral States transporting the armies of one bellige rent with the direct object of attacking the armies of the other belligerent ; and in the other case, a great neutral Power negotiating with other neutral Powers of the Confederation for the right of carry ing its troops to the verge of the theatre of war. As there is nothing to bind France to a recogni tion of the right of Saxony and Bavaria to transport the troops of its enemy while the Confederation is at peace, so these minor States, by violating their own neutrality, compromise the Confederation, which is bound to maintain the in• tegrity of their dominions—those dominions being exclusively. German. So much for the instance of Austria. In regard to that of Prussia, the Federal Act expressly reserves to the Diet the exclusive G ri e g r h m t a o n f le y; g a i n s d l a t t h i o e n r e f f o o r r e , tl e i: e I T i t f e t rl i t e a internal iorganisationmilitary ( transport betwe en neutral German States were acknowledged icdgewhere, a s i n thi s case, t h e hostilemo tobvious), it could only arise under ail enact ment e Diet. That th e Di et has enacted nothing o clear from th e spec i al negotiation of sort f thent oth is the Prussian Commissioners. Here, therefore of the ter ms , we have at once a breach o f the Confede racycause the Diet ha s • inter se, be given no sanction to arrangements thus tending to hostiliti es an d a e c, violation of the neutrality , of German otates towards France and Sardinia in the aiding and abetting the King of Lombardy and Venice. It may be assumed that, while the object of Aus tria in this measure is military', object the of Prussia is chiefly, or at any rate in the first instance, di p i o _ matic. Prussia has just taken three concurrent steps, irrespectively of her arrangements at Dres den and ' Munich. She has mobilised some 300,000 000000 troops ; she has contracted a loan of 30 , , thalers ; and her Ambassador to Vienna is now pro bably at the Austrian headquarters. Though in trigue is rifo enough at Berlin to render Prussian policy wayward, and the Regent hardly master of his own actions, it is certainly to be contemplated that Prussia may develop, dragged on by the minor States and the cabals of her own Court, the position of an armed mediator. That such a result would be an unqualified disaster to European countries still at peace we need hardly observe. Austria, on the other hand, by throwing her Bohemian army into Tyrol, has probably been guided by two distinct manoeuvres She has thus either been able to strengthen the garrisons of the quadrangle with the least delay, for she has reserved to herself the alternative of debouching from the Tyrolese mountains upon the left flank of the Allies while perhaps engaged in the siege of Verona, with the bold design ofcompromis ing their communications with the Ticino, which is now their natural base. These fastnesses lie within fifty miles of Verona and Peschiera ; and there is no doubt that an Austrian army in Tyrol, if led by an able general, might descend on either side of the Lake of Garda, and fall vertically on the allied flank. It may thus be the design of Austria either to relieve the quadrangle, if besieged; or if it THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY. EVEIS ING, JUNE 21, 1859 . MIDDLESEX SESSIONS.—June 20. The June adjourned Sessions commen , ced. this morning, at the Guildhall, Westminster, be fore Mr. Bodkin, Assistant-Judge, Mr. Creasy, a' rid. Mr. Payne, deputies, and the following bench c magis trates :—Mr. Pownall (chairman), Mr. N. Gould, Mr. H. H. Harwood, Mr. T. Cotterell, Mr. Wool sey, Col. Wood, Baron de Bliss, Sir James Tyler, Mr. H. White, Mr. Bashford, Mr. Hogarth, Mr. Arthur Ballantine, and Mr. Lewis. The calendar contains the names of 70 p risoners for trial. The Assistant-Judge delivered a short ch; arge to the grand jury. William Stewers, 22, was indicted for stealing a gold watch and other articles, value £lOO, the pro perty of Frances Susannah Parks, widow, his mis• tress, in her dwelling-house. He pleaded guilty. Mr. T. Bell appeared for the prosecution.. The Assistant-Judge, having read the dej )ositions said it was a very bad case, one which, for the sake of example, could not be lightly passed ow T. The prisoner, it appeared, had been about 12 in onths in the employment of a widow lady as a coact man, at good wages ; and one day, having driven I his mis tress to a party, he cunningly disarmed the watch fulness of a fellow-servant, and plunde red the house of this large amount of valuable property and absconded. The prosecutrix stated. that the prisoner entered her service as a single man, and got married clandestinely a short to ne before he robbed the house. The watch was pay ned in Dub lin, and the pawnbroker, who had act ed very well in the matter, would be reimbursed by her volun tarily for the amount he had advanced, upon it. The Assistant-Judge sentenced the prisoner to three years' penal servitude. Charles Brown, 22, was convicted of _feloniously breaking and entering the dwelling-hous e of David Brackenridge, and stealing therein a waistcoat, his property. The prisoner was , a well-known offe:nder, and was sentenced to three years' Renal serviti ide. James White, 22, was convicted of stew ling, with violence, a watch, value £3, from the person of George Nathaniel Shaylor. Sentenced to four years penal servituae. Charles Jackson, 21, was indicted lor having stolen half a hundred weight of rags, the property of Joseph Gashion, rag merchant, of Brick•lane, St. Luke's. _ _ The jury found him guilty. The Assistant-Judge deferred the sentence. Mr. F. H. Lewis was for the prosecution, Mr. Ribton for the prisoner. George Read and John Smith, two athletic young fellows, belonging to the 2d battalion of Grenadier Guards, were indicted for assaulting several police. constables in the execution of their duty. No counsel was instructed in the case, but the Assistant-Judge said it was one which ought to be prosecuted by the Crown, and directed that it should be conducted by Mr. Lawrence. It appeared that on the 15th inst. the prisoners were, with two comrades, at the Laurel Tree Public-house, in Bayham-street, Camden Town, when in consequence of being refused a further supply of drink, as they were then the worse for what they had had, Smith deliberately smashed a square of glass, for which he was given in charge. As he was being taken to the station the other pri soner ran up and attempted a rescue, and a series of assaults of a brutal—almost murderous descrip tion—were committed by them upon the constable who had Smith in custody, and upon others who went to his assistance. They took off their belts, of which they no doubt would have made fearful use, had not one of the constables fortunately got hold of them and held them until sufficient aid came to wrest them from the prisoners' possession. The prisoners then fought like madmen, struck out right and left at all that came near; and they boasted, that as they could only have 14 days for it, they would have it out.. When at the station Read struck the acting-sergeant a blow which nearly broke his jaw, and the police stated that the prisoners were the most desperate peace-breakers they had ever had to deal with. The sergeant of the battalion they belonged to said they had been in the regiment about five years, and they bore very good characters. The prisoners, in their defence, merely said they were not guilty of the extreme violence imputed to them. The jury found them guilty, and The Assistant-Judge, after remarking upon such disgraceful conduct, particularly by men wearing the Queen's uniform, sentenced Read to six and Smith to nine months' hard labour. Charles Cole, 28, was convicted of having stolen' a scarf, the property of Henry Sampson. The officer proved a list of eight convictions against the pri soner. He had been transported for seven years, and had served several long terms of imprisonment. The Assistant-Judge sentenced him to four years' penal servitude. . (Before Mr. Payne.) Henry Baldwin, 31, a plumber, employed at the County Lunatic Asylum, Colney-hatch, was indicted for having stolen 181bs. of lead, the property of his employers, the committee of visitors of that institu tion. He was found Guilty, and sentenced to three months' hard labour. Mr. Way was for the prosecution ; Mr. J. P. Doyle defended the prisoner. to me, called at my office and said he came from the Royal Agricultural Society, who were going to pre sent Mr. Alderman Mechi with a testimonial in the shape of a piece of plate, and he asked me for my subscription. Believing his representation, I di rected my clerk to pay the prisoner one guinea. He had a parchment with him containing many hundred names, but Ido not remember any of them. I was in a great hurry, and did not notice the names. He asked me to sign the parchment, and I did so, and he said it would be in print in a few days. I have never seen it in print. He had a cab at the door, and I supposed he was going elsewhere to get some one else's guinea. I never saw my subscription ad vertised in the newspapers. Cross-examined by the priscner, who interrogated the witnesses with great adroitness—You did not ask me if I was a member of the Royal Agricul tural Society. lam not a member of that society, nor any other, I believe, although I do subscribe to others. You did not ask me if I had received any communication or circular respecting the presentation of a complimentary portrait to Mr. Alderman Mechi. You did not tell me there had been a testimonial to Mr. Alderman Mechi. I did not read the heading of the subscription list, as I had not time, but I caught sight of the word " Testimonial," and ;the name of Mr. Alderman Alechi. I never heard the word " portrait" used throughout the interview. You said that the names would be in print, but you did not say that I should have a print in a few days. John Higgate, clerk to Mr. Thorley, said the prisoner called on the 3d of January last, between 10 and 11 o'clock in the morning. He asked for Mr. Thorley, and I said he had not then arrived, and told him to call in the afternoon. I inquired of him t<< nature of his business. and he said he came from the Agricultural Society, who were about to present Mr. Alderman Mechi with a testimonial for his very valuable services to the agricultural community at large. I informed Mr. Thorley of the object of the prisoner's visit, and when he came again in the afternoon I gave him a guinea, and Mr. Thorley signed the sub scription list. Cross-examined by the prisoner —I do net recol lect your asking if Mr. Thorley was a member of the Royal or any other agricultural society. Ido not remember your saying there had been a piece of plate prepared or presented to Mr. Alderman Mechi. Not ono word was said about a portrait, directly or indirectly. John Mark Bull, a very intelligent officer attached to the City detective force, said—l apprehended the prisoner on Saturday last, upon a warrant signed by Sir J. Musgrove on the 4th February of the present year. I met the prisoner with his son in St. James's-square, having previously seen him come out of one of the houses in the square, and I accosted him, saying, " Good morning, Mr. Marks, sen." He replied, " How do you know that lam Mr. Marks, sen. ?" Upon which I told him I held a warrant for his apprehension, for obtaining money of Mr. Thorley, of Newgate-street, on the 3d Jan. last, representing that he came from the Royal Agricultural Society of England to, collect sub• scriptions for the purpose of presenting Mr. Alder man Mechi with a testimonial consisting of a ser vice of plate for the services rendered to that society. The prisoner said, " They have made a grand mis take. I made use of no false pretence." I then took him to Mr. Alderman Mechi's premises, in Regent-street, where Mr. Bazin, the alderman's partner, identified the prisoner as the same person named in the warrant. I took him, to Moor-lane station and searched him, and took from him a roll of paper, which he wished to hand to his son, con taining the names of many noblemen. (This document was handed in, and proved to be a subscription list for presenting a testimonial to Lord Berners, the president of tie Royal Agricultural Society of England, and in the list of donors the names of the following distinguished personages appeared :—The Duke of Marlborough, Marquis of Bath, Earl of Roden, Lord Suffield, Earl of Shrewsbury and Talbot, Earl of Sefton, Duke of Manchester, Lord Combermere, Duke of Cleveland, Lord Delamere, Bishop of Ripon, Earl of Warwick, Marquis of Lothian, Earl of Coventry, Earl Spencer, Earl Cowper, Lord Southampton, Earl of Stamford and Warrington, Lord Bolton, Duke of Rutland, Lord J. Manners, Earl Craven, Lord Feversham, Earl Carnarvon, Lord Worsley, Earl of Devon, Lord Sondes, Lord Bagot, Earl of Euston, Viscount Curzon, Earl of Wilton, Lord Tredegar, Sir S. M. Peto, Sir G. Palmer, Sir A. Hasebrigg, Sir H. Hal ford, Sir H. Stracey, Sir W. Watkins Wynn, Sir Brook Bridges, Sir E. Antrobus, Sir W. Farquhar, besides many members of Parliament.) Prisoner—l have no objection to you looking at that paper, sir, but it is totally irrelevant to this charge. Bull—He gave his address, 33, Sussex-gardens, Brighton, and I told him I knew he had not been there for many months, although his wife and family lived there. I asked him if he had any ob jection to tell me where he slept last, and he said he should not answer that question. He said if he had knoi - n there had been a warrant out against him he should have gone to Mr. Bazin, and ex plained the matter and set it all right. I have been to the office of the Royal Agricultural Society, and from information I received there, I believe the pri soner had no authority from the society to collect subscriptions for them. Inspector Foulger—There is a gentleman pre sent, of the name of Cort, who wishes to speak to you, sir, in reference to this case, respecting nume rous frauds eommitted under similar circumstances, upon numerous ironmasters in London, and in all parts of the kingdom. Mr. Richard Cort, of Barnsbury' . Park; Islington, the son of Henry Cort, the great inventor of pud dling and rolling of bar iron, was then sworn and examined. He said—l am not in any business now. I know the prisoner. I employed him to collect subscriptions to a testimonial fund which was being raised in acknowledgiAelat of the services of my father to the British naoon.** That was in August, 1856, and I agreed to give him 50 per cent. on all he collected, and that was to cover all the expenses, and to repay him for devoting the whole of his time to the object ; but, within a few weeks after, I had some suspicion of him and discharged him. The discharge was in writing and I sent it through the post. I he received it. During the time he was collecting under my authority I only received two subscriptions from him, and to my knowledge he has collected hun dreds of pounds which I have not received. I dis charged him on the 22d of October, 1856. Mr. John Boyne, a merchant, of .2, East India 2hambers, Leadenhall-street, said—ln December, 1856, I wrote a letter to the prisoner, asking to whom I should pay a sum of £3O 45., which I had received on behalf of the " Cort Testimonial Fund," in consequence of which he called on me on the 15th of December, 1856, and I handed him a cheque for £3O 45., which has since been paid at the bank. I may hero state, conversationally, that Mr. Richard Cort is the son of the man who first introduced the principle of rolling bar iron in this country, and these subscriptions were being collected for the family, who were almost in a state of actual starva tion. I took no receipt, because his appearance was so highlyrespectable that it quite deceived me, and it is not customary to ask for a receipt for cha ritable contributions. _ _ _ Mr. Richard Cort recalled—l have not received one farthing of this sum of £3O 45., or any other sum since the prisoner's dismissal. Prisoner—This is merely a question of account between Mr. Cort and me, and I shall be ab'• to show that it is a clear case of disputed account. At this stage of the inquiry the prisoner was re manded till Friday next, when it is expected that very important disclosures will be mado with regard to the system pursued by the prisoner as a promoter of testimonial presentations. MARLBOROUGH-STREET.—CHARGE OF A MOTHER ATTEMPTING TO STAB HER SON.—Alber tina Ballinger, was charged with attempting to stab her son, Thomas Ballinger, a boy about 10 years of age. The son stated that his father came home while his mother was cooking the supper on Saturday, at 10 o'clock, upon which she threw the fryingpan at his head, and then, seizing a knife, said, " If you don't go I'll knife you." His little brother managed to get out, his father telling him to do so. He tried to get out, and as he did so his mother attempted to stab him with a knife, and cut the loops of his tunic. (Witness here imitated the menacing atti tude of his mother in the act.) She had been drink ing, and had often struck and beaten his father. By Mr. Leadley—Could not sav who spoke first on his father coming in. Mr. Beadon—The fearful effects of drink ! The - husband said they lived in Griffin-court, Margaret-street, Cavendish-square. His wife went out charing, and was continually in liquor, especi ally after coming from the cleaning of the Curzon street School-rooms. Her threats were dreadful, and she had said she would murder him and the chil dren. lie had allowed her to beat and break the plates and dishes on his head. He was frequently in the greatest fear in his bed from her violence. She frequently threatened that if he laid a finger on her himself she would get him three months. The Son—She frequently beats my father, Sir. (The boy burst into tears.) Mr. Bea,don—Has she beaton you ? The Son—She knocks my head against the wall. Mr. Beadon—Her violence must be stopped. She must find two sureties to be of good behaviour and keep the peace for six months. She was locked up in default. DESPERATE ATTEMPT AT MURDER.—Charles Peter Duval, aged 17, residing at 8, Carnaby-street, Golden-square, and employed at 8, Henrietta-street, in the saddlery trade, was charged before Mr. Beadon with discharging a loaded pistol at Mrs. Susannah Hinton, coffee carrier to workmen of No. ' 26A, Bury-street, St. James's, while passing along Jermyn-street, at one p.m. that day, with intent to kill and murder her, and whereby she was wounded. The prosecutrix,a woman of about 40 years of age, and who appeared in a very weak state, was accommodated with a seat while giving her evi dence. She deposed as follows :—I carry out coffee to the tailor's men. I know prisoner and his family. I lodged in the same house between two and three years ago. His father is dead. On Saturday he came and asked if I knew where Mr. Gibbons lived, an old man who also lived in the house formerly. I told him "No," and he went away quietly. I never had any misunderstanding with him, and I do not know where the family live. I was in Jermyn-street about one o'clock to day, near Mr. M'Millan's, and heard the report of what appeared to be a pistol, which stunned me, and I turned round and saw the prisoner throw a pistol in the road. I staggered. He said some words which I understood to be he meant to do it, but I am not positive. I was going towards Wind mill-street. A gentleman caught me, and I was carried to the station, where I was attended by a surgeon. I think I heard him say to the policeman he meant to kill me, and I do not entertain a doubt but he did. Prisoner declined to put any question to the pro seeu trix. Mr. John Arnold, 13, Great Union-street, New ington-causeway, waiter—l was in Jermyn-street about half-past one (the time alluded to), and heard the report of a pistol. Turning round I saw the prisoner throw the pistol in the road. He was on the opposite side of the way. I picked it up and found it warm, as though recently fired. Smoke was coming from it. He said, " I did it, and will give myself up." By Mr. Leadley, chief clerk—He was two or three yards from the prosecutrix. An officer came up, and I gave him in charge. Henry Hornblow, 82 C—l received the prisoner into my custody on this charge. On the way to the station he said, " I am sorry I did not kill the woman quite," and then, afterwards pulling out the two sharp-pointed instruments produced, he said, " I mean to do it, and I have made these to do the deed with, and stab her." At the station, on search ing him, I found one bullet-shot, box of powder, and percussion caps ; also the sharp-pointed instru ments produced. (These appear to be triangular sided files, smoothed and sharpened recently to a very sharp point.) He said she had been endea vouring to injure his mother, or parents, and he was determined she should do no more, as he meant to have her life. I saw the prosecutrix bleeding from the back of her neck. _ Cross-examined by prisoner—You did say you meant do it. (At this moment the witness was seized with a fit and fainted, and was obliged to be conveyed from the box. This was evidently from the heat of the weather, increased by the crowded state of the court.) The wound on prosecutrix's neck, which ap peared to be about one-third of an inch in diameter, showed at least considerable abrasion of the skin, and was much blackened, perhaps from the powder. After her evidence had been taken she was con veyed to the hospital by order of the Court, and at the finish of the case, the prisoner, who maintained the utmost indifference throughout, to all appear ance, was remanded for a week to procure the evi dence of Mr. Tottill, the police surgeon, who had been immediately called to attend the prosecutrix. Shortly after his removal from the bar, a respect able-looking woman, in " widow's weeds," pre sented herself before Mr. Beadon, and said the pri soner was her son. She had missed him from seven o'clock in the morning, and had been to the station• houses to inquire for him, thinking some accident had happened, as he was rather " flighty in mind." Being informed of the charge and the remand, she left. THAMES.--ALLEGED IMPORTATION OF FOREIGN LUNATICS.—A woman, who gave the name of Ann Killar, aged 22, whose features were partially con cealed by a black fall, and who spoke every word of the English language she uttered with a strong French accent, was brought before Mr. Yardley charged with attempting to commit suicide at sea, off the Brill, on the coast of Holland. It appeared, from the evidence of Captain John Ryan, the master of the General Steam Navigation Company's ship Cologne, from Rotterdam, that the prisoner was sent on board his vessel early on Saturday morning last, by the police of that town, and he was directed to look after her. A police constable of Rotterdam accompanied her in the vessel as far as the Brill, where she made two at tempts to commit suicide. In answer to questions by Mr. Yardley, Capt. Ryan said the prisoner was a passenger on board his vessel from London to Rotterdam a week ago, and she was then accompanied by a French man, who he believed paid her fare. He was cau tioned by the police as to the state of her mind at Rotterdam.' _ _ _ Mr. Rivas Everett, a passenger by the Cologne, said he watched the prisoner off Brill Town. She rushed upon the platform aft, where the steersman steers the ship, put one foot on the bulwark, and was about to jump into the sea, when he pulled her back. She attempted this a second time, and he remonstrated with her and sent her below, and she was carefully watched the remainder of the voyage. She said she did not attempt to drown herself, but only to stand on the bulwarks of the ship and have a good look out. Mr. Yardley was of opinion the authorities at Rotterdam had sent her on board the Cologne in a most irregular manner, and that the captain ought not to have received her under the circum stances. England was not to be a place of refuge for all foreign lunatics. Capt. Ryan said the passage money was paid at the office of the General Steam Navigation Com pany in Rotterdam, and a pass-ticket was produced. He called the magistrate's attention to a piece of paper with some poetry written upon it, and which contained besides two sovereigns. Mr. Yardley asked the prisoner if the poetry was in her handwriting, and she replied in the affirma tive, on which the magistrate said it was an at tempt at poetry, but intimating an intention to commit suicide. He then questioned the prisoner, who evaded some of his questions, answered others in a very artful manner, and occasionally contra dicted herself. She said she was a native of Aus tria, but had no right. in the country of Austria. She went to Rotterdam a fortnight ago. She did nothing there. She had no time to do anything. She was in many places in Rotterdam. She did not go to Rotterdam with any particular object. She had received a good education. Mr. Yardley—YOU have been speaking with a strong French accent, and are a native of Belgium or France. You are not an Austrian. I suspect you were never in Austria at all. The Prisoner—l do not know, Sare, what I am. Mr. Yardley—You went to Rotterdam a fortnight ago ? The Prisoner—No, Sare ; six or seven days ago. Mr. Yardley—How long had you been in this country before you went to Rotterdam ? The Prisoner—About one month. Mr. Yardley—How did you pass your time, and in what part of England were you ? The prisoner said she was travelling the whole of the time. She went to Scotland, and from there to Havre, and was sent back in the same ship. She was not very long in Havre. She went from Havre to Brest, Brest to Ramsgate, and Ramsgate to London. Mr. Yardley asked the prisoner if she followed any business or profession, and what caused her to travel from place to place. Her answers were given with an air of great simplicity, evidently intended to deceive, and amounted to nothing. Mr. Yardley—l cannot make head or tail of this woman. Captain Ryan said it was very much against his will the woman was brought to the police-court, but he was advited by the police of the H division to attend, and it was thought best to receive the di rections of the magistrate on the subject. The passage -money was paid in the office at Rotterdam, and the police there demanded him to receive her and take her to London. He did it much against his will. The Prisoner—lt is against my will lam sent to London again. Mr. Yardley said the prisoner had been sent to this country in a very singular manner, and if foreigners in an unsound state of mind were to be sent to Lon don in this manner, in British ships, without re monstrance, he did not see why we should not have lunatics from every country in Europe. The captain of the Cologne had a little trouble with the woman, and then brought her to that court to throw the difficulty upon him. It was a most improper proceeding. Captain Ryan here offered some explanation in a low tone. Mr. Yardley--I have nothing to do with that. She had no business to be received on board a Bri tish ship in that way ; and from what I know of the respectable company, your employers, they will not tolerate such conduct. Your agent at Rotterdam does not appear altogether free from blame. Captain Ryan understood the woman was sent back to England by the Dutch authorities because she had no passports when she landed there. . that attempt Yardley—All I have to sa y is, that f that attempt to commit suicide was made a t all, wav made in Holland, where I have nojsurissdihcetiisonn.ot a lt was certainly made in Dut ch waters. British subject, and I am averse to discharging her, unless there are soma pencils to take care o her. I see no reason why a Dutch lunatic should not be supported by the Dutch authorities, and not sent to this country. The difficulty is what to do with. her. My plain duty is to di: icharge her. Capt. Ryan suggested tha t the woman's trunks should be searched, and tha t would throw some light on her history and pur suits. He had taken every possible care of her on Vie voyage. Mr. Yardley—l daresay you have ; but you ought not to have received her at all. As to opening her trunks, I have no power to order an examination of them. You have involved yot trself and you have involved me in a great difficulty -. You receive her and then throw all the trouble u pon me. The prisoner here said—l did 1 tot mean to drown myself. It was only to frightens the Dutch police that I made the pretence. I was not going to throw myself off the ship into the water, sere. It was just to frighten them. Mr. Yardley—There is no offence proved against her, and she is discharged. Capt. Ryan has involved himself in a difficulty about this woman in receiving her in such an irregular manner, and he must get out of it in the best way he possibly e an. The prisoner expressed a wish to see the Dutch Consul to complain of the treatmei it she met with at Rotterdam, and Inspector Durdy, of the H division, promised to accompany her to the .consul's office. COUNTRY MAR..ECETS. CAMBRIDGE-Jumg 18. There was a small supply of wheat to-day, and a slow business at the annexed prices :—Wh ite wheat, from 61• Od to 53s Od per qr ; red, 47s Od to 49s Od ; beans, 44s Od to 46s Od per 38 st. ; barley, 30s to 32s C►d per qr. ; oats, 30. per 24 stone. THE NEW MINISTRY. (From the Morning Post.) Although we believe that during the compara tively short interval which is likely to elapse be tween the present time and the prorogation of Parliament, her Majesty's Ministers will have little or no opportunity of introducing many of those measures of domestic reform which they hold to be necessary for the public benefit, still we think the public will be perfectly justified in expecting from their hands some performance of the promises which the events of the last sixteen months neces sarily left them no chance of fulfilling. Whether or not Parliament is to be prorogued in August—a matter which will no doubt mainly depend upon voting the supplies—the new Government must be assumed to take office subject to all its former lia bilities and obligations. It is said that the internal legislation of the country cannot satisfactorily pro gress during . a time of Luropean war. We trust that her Majesty's Ministers will have the courage and the public spirit to give an emphatic and prac tical denial to this assertion. We will, in the first place, deal with measures which are at the present moment before Parliament. No one disputes the urgent necessity of some measure on the subject of bankruptcy reform. The measure of Lord John Russell of last session has not been reintroduced, but the rival bill of Lord Chelmsford has passed the third reading in the House of Lords ; and materials undoubtedly exist for safe and satisfactory legisla tion on the subject. Will her Majesty's Ministers ignore the matter altogether, or will they bring forward the bill the general outlines and provisions of which had been prepared at the time when Sir Richard Bethell left office in February, 1858 ? Next, there are the consolidation measures relating to various portions of the commercial law which Lord Cranworth, Sir Fitzroy Kelly, and Mr. White side have severally introduced. One of these mea sures, in fact, comprises the very change respecting the offence of conspiracy for murder which led to the downfall of the Palmerston Administration. We may add the bill carefully drawn by Mr. H. Thring on the subject of joint-stock companies, which has passed the second reading in the Lords. Her Ma jesty's Ministers, we say, would be guilty of a gross neglect of duty if they did not proceed with this mass of useful and practical legislation during the present session. But if we judge the new Government by its former liabilities and obligations we find that they are pledged to constitute a separate and inde pendent Ministry of Justice—the sine qua non of all law reform—to convert the Inns of Court into a great legal university, and to supply the many deficiencies ' which the working of the Divorce Act during the past year has made disgracefully apparent. They have further to reduce to something like order and simplicity the confusion worse confounded of our statute and judge-made law. Measures on all these subjects may be introduced, if not passed, during the present session. An admirable plan for the con stitution of a Ministry of Justice was submitted to the Cabinet by Sir R. Bethell early in 1857—a plan the outlines of which the late Lord Chancellor of Ireland explained at the last meeting of the Social Congress at Birmingham without acknowledgment to its learned and accomplished author. The con stitution of the Inns of Court as a great legal uni versity is a questionwhich has beenfullyconsidered by a Royal Commission. The Universities of Oxford and Cambridge, by precisely the same means, have been subjected to the hand of temperate and mode rate reform, and materials exist for the improve ment of the Inns of Court which the new Adminis tration can easily manipulate. The inconveniences, not to say the scandals, which the law of divorce has produced are fully appreciated by Lord Camp bell, who, with the self-reliance of a great judge, has practically overruled the decisions of his brethren on the bench, and sought to defeat fraud and collu sion by compelling the petitioner to give evidence for the public. But the full Court of Divorce, over whelmed from its establishment by a most formida- - ble and constantly increasing arrear, does not pos sess a sufficient number of judges. The remedy is obvious, and has also the merit of being inexpensive. Parliament has only to imitate the precedent set by the act establishing the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, and to give an additional £l,OOO a year to two ex-judges already possessing pensions, to confer ample judicial strength and ability upon the full Court. We do not say that any Govern ment, in two or three months, could hope to carry all these measures to a successful issue. The coun try expects something in the way of domestic legis lation to be done, and we are persuaded that the Government cannot make a better beginning than by dealing with matters of law reform, in which every member of the community has or may have a direct and common interest. But if the cause of law reform is to progress, the public will naturally make some inquiry as to the competency of the agents who are to be entrusted with the task, one which happily soars far above the atmosphere of party politics. The new Lord Chancellor, during a long and distinguished career, has on many occa sions proved his efficiency as a law reformer. He was one of the original Real Property Commis sioners—he was a Criminal Law Commissioner—he carried the act abolishing deodends, and the act for the repression of obscene publications he cordially supported the measure which destroyed the expensive but cumbrous machinery of special pleading—we mean, of course, the Common Law Procedure Act ;—and he has ever been the consis tent and enlightened advocate of a general system of registration of title. We confidently believe that his great experience and vast abilities will be devoted with greater energy and effect than ever, to the improvement of that law which, both as an author and as a judge, he has with equal success illustrated and administered. Sir Richard Bethell, the admitted head of the English bar, has given too many proofs not only of his capacity but of his zeal as a law reformer to require commendation at our hands. We can only express our hope that matters of the kind which we have mentioned will engage the early attention of her Majesty's Mini sters, and that the legal authorities of the country will act together, whether the session be short or long, in introducing those domestic reforms which the exigencies of the country require. We may add, that the arrangements consequent upon the promotion of Lord Campbell to the wool sack have wull sack have b een com pleted; that Sir Alexander Cockb urn b ecomes L or d Chi e f J us tice of England, Per; invaluable Thelearnin g in and,.. Sir W. Erie succee d s him in the Court of and eloquence ioseof of Lords,the the House and the great atta in ments • of the latter will show how importamay be d e t made ntly promotion from the puisne bench o subserve the best interests of the public and of the suitors. c p a u p k tu e rin !APTURE OF EAGLEfS.—Last week Mr. D. Rose, , ek su ee e p e? e e r d t e o d th in e Portland on his estate at Lang onel, of which-was got witho g u t t wo file• young golden eagles, lively. A considerable number r y injury, and is alive and gamekeeper have been seen among the rocks e the same description keeper is making efforts . at biereas n is season, and the game tiv es.—Northern Enszgn. i g the number of his cap- A supplement to the Progresso Ega di • pub lished on the 10th inst. at Alexandria, tto, no tific ttion reg arding the Suez Canal. gives es an important consists of acir cular addressed by Scheriff Pasha, th e E for Foreign Affair s, to all the Consuls-General, Minister e t ra recapitu lating that it was expressly stipulated b y the gyptian Government that the cutting of the canal should not be commenced without the authorisation of the rt Porte, and announcing that although the Viceroy haslnanifested interest in the enterprise, he has resolved not to tolerate readt progress under any pretext until that authorisation shall have been obtained. The works actually going forward are considered to be in violation of that understanding, an d the foreign consuls aro therefore requested respectively to warn such of their countrymen as may be engaged u p on them to desist forthwith, and not to force the lig,ypti a „ Government to resort to direct measures of interference. SURREY SESS/ONS.=Ane 20. The June adjourned Sessions for th e c ounty of Surrey commenced this morning, at the Sessions House, Newington-causeway, before J. E. Johnson, Esq., chairman, T. Tilson, Esq:, deputy-chairman, and a bench of magistrates. The calendar contained the names of 47 prisoners-38 for felony and 9 for misdemeanor. The grand jury having been sworn, the Chairman addressed them as to the nature of their duties, and observed that there were two cases in the ca lendar that required a few remarks from him. The first was No. 13, Jane Bailey, a young woman 19 years of age, who is charged with attempting to kill and murder herself at Esher. It was a very serious offence, and a high misdemeanor, therefore they had better find the bill, and thereby send the case into this court for thorough investigation. The next case he wished to allude to was No. 33 on the Harriet t o ß e u s a r n s e a l J l , l . y a c k h n i l o d w u n h d e e r r . 10 N y o e w a r s f o f n a n g y e t , h w i i n t g h calendar, John Dixon, 50, for unlawfully assaulting intent should come before them to show that she was a consenting party it could not be taken in the pri soner's favour, as the law very properly enacts that any child under 10 years of age cannot be taken as a consenting party in such an offence. It is a mis demeanor, and if they considered that a prima facie case was made out they must find a bill and send that case also into court for investigation by the petty jury. He perceived by the calendar that there were no less than five cases of housebreaking and attempts, which he was sorry to say had in creased lately in the metropolitan districts. The bills would be presented to them in due course, and he should advise them before they ignored any to send into court for the original depositions taken before the magistrate. He then dismissed them to their room. Robert Taylor, 40, a very respectable-looking man, described in the calendar as a farm-bailiff, surrendered and pleaded guilty to embezzling various sums of money, amounting to upwards of £lOO, the property of his employer, Mr. Edmund Cowell Malkeon, an extensive farmer, of Godstone. Mr. Robinson, who was retained for the prosecu tion, said he was instructed to recommend the pri soner to mercy on several grounds—his previous good character, and the belief that the prisoner could not withstand the temptation, he being an illiterate man. The prosecutor believed that pri soner was first led into the commission of the crime by the loose manner in which he kept his accounts. Mr. Lilley, who appeared for the prisoner, thanked the prosecutor for his kindness, and urged a lenient sentence, inasmuch as he had borne a good chaiac ter heretofore. He had been 13 years bailiff to a late rev, gentleman in Suffolk, at whose decease he was thrown out of employment for a long time. He at last got into the serviee of the prosecutor, who left the sole management of the farm and stock in his charge, and being unfortunately rather illite rate, he trusted to his wife to keep the accounts. Unfortunately he was led into error, and was now heartily sorry for it. The Chairman told the prisoner that had it not been for the recommendation of the prosecutor, the punishment must have been very severe ; but, as his character had been previously without blemish, the Court thought that they might exercise a little leniency towards him. He must be sentenced to four months' hard labour. POLICE INTELLIGENCE—Jun• 20. GUILDHALL—ALLEGED FRAUDS UPON THE CORI FAMILY.—Robert Marks, a shrew, intelligent middle-aged man of gentlemanly exterior, de scribed on the police-sheet as a publisher, residing at Brighton, was brought up on a warrant charging him with obtaining large sums of money by means of false pretences. Mr. Alderman Salomons presided, Mr. Alderman Mechi was also present, but as his name had been made use of by the prisoner, the worthy alderman abstained from taking any part, magisterially, in the proceedings. Mr. Joseph Thorley, the proprietor and patentee of " Thorley's Food for Cattle," said—l carry on business at 70, Newgate-street. On the 3d of January last the prisoner, Who was a perfect stranger DERBY-JUNE 18. At yesterday's market there was a moderate supply of wheat, but the trade ruled very dull ? at 3s to 4. per qr. cheaper. Spring corn scarce, and at a decline on the rates realised last week. In beans the trade ruled firm at rather more money. White wheat, new, 508 to 528 Barley, grinding.. 28. to 308 Red do. 4BB to 508 I Oats, old, 2Bs to 34s Old white 5OB to 52. New do as to 34e Red do. 488 to 50. I Beans 608 to Os Barley, malting.... 388 to 41. I Beane, new 468 to 62. CHELMSFO. ,D—Julai 17. Wheat in our market was at least is to 2s per r. cheaper than last week, and oven at this reduction but little busi ness was done. Spring corn very dull, and the turn lower. Wheat, white 43s to 55s Peas, Partridge ..44,4 to 46e red 42s to 50e White to 456 , Barley 32s to 40s Boiling ...... 44s to 46s Chevalier 34s to 41s Dun ..414 to 43s Grinding 26s to 34s Beans, Tick ....40s to 424 Malt 60 s t o 66s Harrow Ticks 414 to 45s Chevalier 63s to 693 Itazagan 400 to 40 Oats 25s to 34s COLCHESTER—Juxn 13. A poor supply of wheat, which met a dull sale at 2s to 3s per qr. under last week's currency. In spring corn very little passing, but prices were the turn in favour of the buyer. Wheat, white 4Bs to 62s Beans, Mazagan..4os to 42s red 44s to 48, Middle & small 42a to 461 Barley 2B.s to 36s White•peas .. 42s to 44. Oats 24s to 32■ Grey.. 42■ to 460 STAMFORD-JuNz 18. Yesterday the attendance was tolerable, and the farmers brought forward limited supplies of wheat, for which there was a slow demand, at an advance of is to 2s on last week. Beans scarce, and high prices asked. Oats unchanged. Wheat ....47s to 49s 0at5...... 261 to 32s White do .50s to 54s Beans s2s to 54s Barley .30s to 32s Ditto, old ........—s to •—• HIRICALDY—Just 18. • - We had very small supplies to-day of all kinds of grain. Sales slow. Oats and barley much about the prices of last week ; wheat 6d to la per qr. lower. Wheat (N). Barley (N). Oats (N). First.... 42s Od 31s 6d 23e Od Second.. 48s Od 33s Od 27a Od Third .: 60s Od I 348 Od I 28s Od Wheat (0). Barley (0). Oats (0) t First.... —8 Od —8 Od Od Second.. —s Od —s Od —a Od Third .. —s Od —s Od —a dO COAL MARK (Prices of Coal per Ton at s. d. .ET—JUNE 20. the One of the market) Walls End. Lambert's West Hart- ley l5 3 Tanfield Moor 13 9 Ward's West Hartley l4 6 Howard's West Hart- I. d. Kello, l7 0 Eden Main 16 0 Gosforth 15 6 Haswell lB 6 Hetton.... Hetton Lyons Main 15 6 Braddyll's Hetton 16 6 Lambton. lB 0 Trimdon Hartlo 001 17 0 South Hartlepool l6 6 Powell's Duffryn Steam 21 0 Pump Quart Stone 21 0 t, 52—Sold, 43. ley 15 9 Holywell 16 0 Hastings Hartley l5 3 Earsden Hartley 14 6 Iffy lain l7 0 Walla End. Keiper Grange........ 16 9 t . Ships at marke LOCAL SHARE JIARKETS. y ~ < <, LIVERPOOL—JUNE 20. The market to-day declined fully per tent. soon after the opening, and closed flat nearly at the lowest rates. Birkenheads, 68 69I—Leeds Northern, 44 s—Blackburn', 111 I—North British, 53} 4f —Great Western of Canada, 141 i—Grand Trunk of Canada, 84 I—GreatWestern, 55 —Sheffields 351—Caledonians, 79—Lancashire and York shire, 89 IL-London and North-Westerns, 891 }—Dutch Rhenish, 61 1 dis.—East Lancashire 87 88--Berwicks, 87 B—Midlands, 981 8/ —Chester and Lancashire, 48 49 7 . Eastern Counties, 111—Dovers, 19 5-16 20. , 14,1e./L-4;a: BIRMINGHAM—JUNE 20. Thero was a very inactive business done in this market to-day. south Staffordshire, 101 11—Great Western, Bir mingham Guaranteed, 72I—London and North-Wes terns, 90 90}—Ditto, Eighths dig. —Wercester and Birmingham Canals, 14 16—Birmingham Banking Co., 26i 27f. MANCTIZSTER—JUNB 20. There was a limited business 'doing, and the prices were lower. London and North Westerns, 89J- Dover., 204 1-16--Midlands, 98I—North British, 541—ds, 891. SUICIDE ON HAMPSTEAD HEATH.—Robert Barry, the man who cut his throat on the morning of the 17th inst., near the Bull and Bush Tavern, Hampstead-heath, lingered until midnight of the 18th, when he expired at the Hampstead-workhouse, to which he had been taken. He was employed on the Camden-town Railway as an assistant engineer, and resided at 12, Dunford-terrace, Kentish-town. The cause of the foolish act of self-destruction is said to be a family quarrel. THE CIVIL SERVICE.—The Vice-Consulship at Mytelene, Turkey, has become vacant by the promotion of Mr. Newton ; salary £2OO. The post of Secretary of Lega tion at Rio de Janeiro has become vacant by the promotion of the Hon. W. Stuart. War-office.—There are from seven to ten vacancies for junior clerks in the War-office, for which a competitive examination is on the point of taking place; commencing salary £l OO per annum. _ following promotions have been officially notified : m Mr le U. Borrow; section C r af ; e r i f r r . . o m w fi . r it s t . u class, yh a m s e,cdoint ditto s ; e o n n 3 , .toAfirstclass, first cond class to first class, second section ditto ; Mr. W. Lyon, ditto •, Dir. Af. Gir T d h le e stone, ditto •. Mr. A. Austin, ditto ; Mr. C. Creed, ditto. become-T o ffice Dockyards. S e u d r e g a e t o h n ()off Pporr.tsAmleoxu.ths.D4ouckeynerdThwaos temporary clerks are to be forthwith appointed to the Ac vacanof Sbytairth countant's-effice Devonport Dockyard, to meet the p ressure Cue toms.—Mr. E. Bull has been appointed a landingwaiter at of business • and one writer is also to be appointed. Newhaven.. Mr. Alfred J. Tyte, First Class Clerk, has bees promoted to be Principal Clerk in the office of the Controller of the Accounts, London Docks. Ceylon.—Mr. G. G. Frazer has been appointed Acting-Assistant at Yorngalle to the Goverment Agent for the North-Western Province ; also a Justice of the Peace for that Province. Mr. R. W. T. Morris has been appointed Acting District Judge, Act ing Commissioner of the Court of Requests, and Acting Police Magistrate of Badulla. Mr W. H. Wodehouse hes been appointed a Writer on the Civil Establishment of the colony. Mr. H. B. Knowlys has been appointed a Writer on the Civil Establishment of the colony. Mr. C. P. G. De Vos has been appointed Acting Deputy Postmaster- General. Victoria.—Mr. Arthur Nicholas Wrixon has been appointed Judge of County Court at Melbourne, vice Mr. It. W. Polliman, promoted. Mr: John George erbee has been appointed Judge of County Courts at Alberton, Belfast, Colnac, Geelong, Porland, Sale, and Warnambool, vice Wrixon, transferred. Mr. Samuel Bindon has been appointed Judge of County Courts at Castlemaine, Help. burn, Kyneton, and Maldon, vice Forbes, transferred. Mr. Samuel Bindon has been appointed Judge of Court of Minos for the mining district of Castlemaine, vice Forbes, trans ferred.—Civil Service Gazette. BIRTHS. BEvAx.—On the 19th inst., at Hay, the wife of the Rev, W. L. Bevan, of a son. BLEwITT.—On the 20th inst., at Pinner, Mrs. Blewitt, of a daughter. BRUCE.—On the 17th inst. , at Surbiton-hill, th e wife of Mr. Geo. C. Bruce, of a daughter. STORY the 19th inst., at 14, ,stillborn.the Hon. Mrs. T. K. Story, prematurely, of a so MARRIAGES. CIIREET—HETGATE.—On the 16th inst., at St. W esterbon ourg'sf Church, Derby, B. Scott C urre y , Esq., young s t o late Benjamin Currey, Esq. of Eltham-park, Kent, to Helen, youngest daughter of Dr. Heygate, Esq., o f Derby. SADINE—GOODES.—On the ISth inst., at Myddleton Cha pel, Ebenezer, son of Wm. Sabine, Esq., Dalston-riso, to Emily Sarah, eldest daughter of Samuel Geodes, Esq., Acton-place, Kingsland-road, and 51, Newgate-street, city. DEATHS. BLATHWAIT.—On the 16th inst., at Ilfracombe, William Blathwayt, Ensign 83d Regt., youngest son of Colonel Blathwayt, of Dyrham-park, Gloucestershire, aged 20. EDWARDF.S.—On the 15th inst., at Shrewsbury, Lady Ed wardes, widow of tho Rev. Sir John C. Edwardes, Bart., aged 96. EDWARDS.—On the 18th inst., at Clare House, Hamp stead, Mary, wife of Capt. Edwards, of the Royal Hompi- tel, Chelsen. ELMORE.—On the 17th inst., at Uxendon Farm, near Har row, Middlesex, Mr. John Elmore, aged 66. HOGREN.—On the 19th inst., at Shaeklewell, Mr. Henry Hogben, cashier Bank of England, aged 68. LEDGER.—On the 18th inst., Mr. H enr y Ledger, at 2, Sun street, Bishopsgate, late of Beaumont -square, Mde-ond road, aged 76. ----- LONDON : Printed and Published by MURDO YOUNG, of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at The Sun Office, No. 112, Stand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, is the county et Middlesex, Tuesday, June 21, 1869. ~., ~~ Yal flut be ( Art no/ ....... gun of Oar co n 1, 1.11 or b any. b Ui age 1, al aTi d 1 RV Tel AN, klent Th the°l Th h 'hei 4 , er n Lion Offer 11. 1 , 1 a nd Iprit Th al i.ire \ _, ~ 1 4 i 4a . i. 4 t: 0 01;11