The Sun. — London, England, 1860-07-02 00:00:00

7'1.111 NAVY. •- On Sn; turday the Channel fleet arrived in Yar mouth I toads. The squadron, wnich has been en gaged •i .n target practice in the North Sea duiing the pw it week, consists of the Royal Albert, 120 ; Congo eror, 101 ; Donegal, 101 ; Algiers, 91 ; td gar,. '9l ; Aboukir, 91 ; Trafalgar, 91 ; Centurion, 80 ; .Mars, 80 ; Mersey, 40 ; Diadem, 32 ; Ariadne, 26; and Flying Fish, 6. The fleet is not expected _ to rel nal n in Yarmouth Roads more than three or four days, as it is to take part in a naval review before the 'departure of his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales for Canada. The Royal Oak, 91, line-of-battle screw steamer ; has been laid down at No. 7 slip at Chatham dock- yard, and the screw frigate Belvedere, of 51 guns, on No. 4 slip, and both vessels are to be proceeded with in their construction without any delay. The preparations for the launch of the line-of-battle steamer Atlas, 91, which is ordered to take place on the 21st inst., have been commenced, and a number of shipwrights are employed in preparing the launching ways and other preliminaries for that event. The Bulwark, 91, and the Undaunted, 51, im proved screw frigate, building at Chatham, are in a very advanced state, and a large number of ship wrights are employed on them in pushing them forward in order that they may be completed as early as possible. The Rattlesnake, 20, and the Reindeer, 17, the latter just commenced, are both being proceeded with. The paddlewheel steam sloop Geyser, 6, Com mander Jackson, was towed on Saturday from the coal ship in Hamoaze to the Devonport dockyard, to be rigged and fitted for sea service. The screw steamship Orion, 91, Capt. Fr ere, was hauled on Saturday from under the sheers in Key ham steamyard to the south jetty, and lashed there for a trial of her machinery to-morrow (Tuesday). The folloWing line-of-battle and other screw steamers are now building at Chatham Dockyard and in various stages of progress, viz. :—The Atlas, 91, completed; the Bulwark, 91, more than half completed; the Royal Oak, 91, just commenced ; the Undaunted, 51, about half finished ; the Belvedere, 51, recently commenced ; the Rattlesnake, 20, in a very forward state ; and the Reindeer, 17, com menced last week. In addition to the above, the Bombay, 84, and the Arethusa, 51, are in dock un dergoing the process of conversion from sailing vessels to screw steamers. The Mullett, screw despatch vessel, built for the Government at Blackwell, is ordered to be com pleted for service at this yard. The screw steamship St. George, 91, Capt. the Hon. J. Egerton, will be out of the hands of the dockyard artisans at Plymouth on the 4th inst. She received a draught of thirty-five men from the flagship Impregnable on Saturday. Col. Haddon, R.E., has been directed to inspect a site for an additional fort or battery proposed to be erected for the defence of the harbltr of Great Yarmouth. The War Department screw steamer Lord Pan mure got up steam at the Royal William victual ling-yard, Plymouth, on Saturday, and proceeded to the gun-wharf to complete loading for Woolwich. The paddlewheel steam tender Lucifer, 3, from Portsmouth, arrived at Plymouth on Saturday, with 150 supernumeraries, including 50 boys for the training ship Implacable, and the same day took on board supernumerary seamen and marines, and sailed yesterday morning for Portsmouth. Eight hired sawyers were discharged from the Devonport dockyard on Saturday. The Victualling-yard steamer Thais is under re pair alongside Keyham steam-yard, Plymouth. The paddlewheel steam frigate Terrible, 21, Capt. Glasse, has received supernumerary stokers from the steam guardship in ordinary Wellington, for a passage to the Mediterranean. The Terrible will get up steam to-day (Monday) to prove her boilers, and if found perfect she will proceed for her desti nation. The defects of the steam gunboat Violet, Lieut. Eugene C. Batty, at Devonport, will be completed about the Bth July. His Brazilian Majesty's steam corvette Donna Isabel left Plymouth Sound yesterday morning for the westward. It is stated that she is gone to Canada. The screw steam troopship Himalaya, Capt. John Seccombe, was cast off from the hulk Endymion, in Hamoaze, on Saturday morning, and she proceeded out of Plymouth Sound in charge of Commander Paul, of the Devonport dockyard, to try her engines and new propeller; at 6 p.m. she returned and anchored in the Sound. The crew of the guard-ship of ordinary Royal Adelaide, 101, at Plymouth, will be paid off about the 20th July. Capt. Charles Wise was on Saturday appointed Captain Superintendent of Sheerness dockyard, vice Capt. 8.. B. Watson, C.B. Capt. Luard is appointed to the Formidable, to be commissioned as flag ship to Vice-Admiral John stone, at Sheerness. The following appointments were made on Satur day at the Admiralty :—Edward J. Maitland, mas ter, to the Adventure ; J. Young, third-class assist ant-engineer, to the Asia, as supernumerary, for hospital treatment ; John Adams, third-class acting assistant-engineer to the DiaZem ; Robt. Anderson (h) and Joseph V. B. Thompson, acting third-class assistant-engineers, to the Himalaya; John Symons, acting third-class assistant-engineer, to the Wel lington, as supernumerary ; George A. Moses, acting third-class assistant,-engineer, to the Geyser, as snpernumcrary; and John G. Card, clerk, to the Pembroke. I'll I.; AR3t Y. - o ------ The following officers and. troops belonging to the East India depots at Chatham garrison are under orders to embark at Gravesend for Ctlento, to join the head-quarters of their respective regi ments serving in Bengal, as soon as the required amount of tonnage has been taken up for them by the Hon. Council for India,—viz. Lieutenant C. J. Backas, Ensign C. C. B. Tribe, Ensign H. Stokes, and ,60 men of the Ist battalion 19th Regiment ; Lieut. C. H. Webster, Lieut. C. Enys, Ensign T. A. Davies, Ensign 'l'. Macaulay, and 70 men of the Ist tratta4on -20th R-giment; Ensign A. H. Put chinson, Ensign W. 11. Adams, and 70 men of the Ist battalion 23d Royal Welsh Fusiliers; Ensign W. Poste,- Ensign W. Tolson, and 98 non commis sioned officers and men of the 35th (Royal Sussex) Regiment ; Lieut. 11. P. Dawson, Ensign A. F. Leatham, and 96 men of all ranks of the 75th Re• giment ; Captain W. J. Careen, Lieut. A. T. Butts, Ensign 0. H..Blount, Ensign E. N. Mosley, En sign W. S. Henderson, and 115 non-commissioned officersand'privates of the 77th Regiment, giving a total of 18 officers and 509 non-commissioned of ficers and men. The following troops will embark for Madras on Friday, at Gravesend :—Lieut. H. Gorton, Ensign E. Villiers, Ensign R. M. Tod, and 186 men of ali ranks of the 431 Light Infantry; Ensign R. B. Wesley and 272 non-commis sioned officers and privates of the 91st Regi ment. The undermentioned officers and men will embark at Gravesend for Kurrachee, but the date has not b een announce d— v i z ., Li eu t. E. P a k en h am, F Ensign V. E. Knox, Ensign E. S. Ker, Ensign H. Barker, Ensign F. E. Bowler, and. 50 men of the 52d Light. Infantry • Capt. S: J. Lower Ensign H. Maturin, P.ntign Il J. MacDonneli, and 35 men of the 81st Regiment; and 60 men of the. 94th Regiment. The total number of officers and troops at present under orders to proceed from Chatham garrison to India i s 32 ofns' and 917 non-com missionetl officers and privates,r but the troops he garrison is now so strong that a t l east 1,0 oo ' could be def•patched from i t to Indi a sho u ld th e i r services be required. His Royal Highness the General Commanding in-Chief has countermanded th e order fo barkation for India of the draught s of thertishset these regiments sth Fusiliers aua 3 7th Regiment, a regiments will pr ob a bl y return home before tlle n ext cold season. Th e draught of the 4 4th, und er orders for China, and consisting of 2 officers, 1 ser geant, and 90 rank and file, will embark on hoard the White Star, at Tilbury, on the sth inst., and the other drtengbts from the camp at C T oleliester, fic4roci Viobt, will 4 1 0 1,4" ~~.~ r ~ 4fi f f shortly, the officers on leave of absence having re joinesl their respective depots. The following is a complete list of the officers of the 12th (Prince of Wales's) Royal La cers, who arrived at Gravesend from Madras in the Trafalgar, with the head-quarters of that regim nt. In the announcement of the arrival of the 12th Lancers which appeared in The , c un on Satt rday a few of the officers' names were unavoidably omitted Capt. G. Horne, Capt. H. E. Reader, Capt. C. J. W. Allen, Lieut. and Adjt. E. Brown, Lieut. E. Gower (acting paymaster), Cornet A. J. S. C. Chi chester, Cornet H. J. B. Cruise, Cornet J. D. Jack son, and Quartermaster M. Blake. Col. E. Pole, in command of the 12th Lancers, arrived previously by the Overland route, and joined the regi ment immediately on its arrival at Gravesend. The head-quarters consist of the A, C, F, and H troops, the whole numbering 300 non-com missioned officers and men. The left wing of the regiment was left behind at Bengal, but is shortly expected to arrive at Gravesend. The Admiralty yacht Vivid having been fitted at Woolwich with Mr. J. Lee Stevens's patent re gulating air doors, for the prevention of smoke, under a special order from the Board of Admiralty, will steam down the river on Wednesday, in order to test the aivantages of the invention. The trial will be superintended by the Commodore Superin tendent of the dockyard, the Hon. J. R. Drum mond, C.B , aide-de-camp to the Queen, accom panied by Mr. D. Patridge, inspector of steam machinery afloat. The two 24-pounder garrison guns granted by the War Department for the use of the Plumstead Vo lunteer Artillery have been placed in position at the battery erected by the corps under the supervision ofthe Engineer Department on Plumstead-common. The battery has been named Fort Frederick, in 'honour of Mr. Frederick Patterson, who gave the site for its erection. THE MILITLI. The following minute has been forwarded to us for publication : " 'War-office, June 14. " Sir,—l have had under my consideration the conditions on which men belonging to the disem bodied militia have hitherto been permitted to trans fer their services to her Majesty's regular forces. It is most important to the effi3iency of the militia, as a reserve force upon which dependence can be placed in case of national danger, that it should be raised from among men of settled habits and fixed residence within the county to which.the regiment belongs. " A. militia regiment, however short of its quota, which can annually muster as effectives for training the men who have been enrolled, is far more efficient, and contributes more to the security of the State than one which having a large force upon paper can neither produce nor account for them subse quently; militia officers, therefore, should not seek to attract temporarily to their ranks men who would otherwise enlist into her Majesty's regular forces, of whose services the army is thus deprived, and who, by leaving the militia for the line after receiv ing the militia bounty, disorganise the militia, while they enter the army at an increased and unneces sary expense to the public. The regulations at present in force for carrying on volunteering from the militia to the line will therefore be modified in the following manner : " Stringent orders have been issued prohibiting any line or other recruiting parties, from attempt ing in future in any way to induce militiamen to leave their respective regiments, in order to enlist in her Majesty's regular forces or marines; militiamen having no more right to do so than men of one line regiment have to enlist in another without the consent of their commanding officer. Such a pro ceeding on their 'part amounts to desertion and will expose them to the penalties attached to that offence —a liability which every opportunity should be taken to make known. Volunteers, therefore, who may be anxious to enlist in the regular army should apply for permission to their commanding officers, who will exercise their discretion as to granting their request, bearing in mind the policy of grant ing conditional releases to men who are bent on en listing, and over whose movements, except during the one month's training, they have little or no practical control. In such cases I shall be prepared, on your recommendation, to give you a covering authority for the release of any such men to whom you think it right to grant the indulgence. But it is to be clearly understood that in all such cases the men will be required to refund 18s. 6d. to cover the bounty and other expenses incurred on their enrol ment ; also any balance of bounty they may have received in advance on account of their first en gagement, if re-attested for a second. The act under which the temporary embodiment of the militia has been sanctioned will expire en the 25th of March next, and the entire force will then revert to its normal and constitutional estate, as a reserve force to be annually trained, but not to be embodied ex cept in time of national danger; but there is every reason to hope that by a careful observance on the part of the Government of the principles on which the militia force is founded, the disorganisation of the regiments of which it is composed will be pre vented, and commanding officers will be enabled to repeat the fruits of their unremitting exertions to maintain the efficiency of their corps.—l have the honour to be, Sir, your obedient servant, " SIDNEY HERBERT, "The Officer Commanding Regiment of Militia." IRELAND. DUBLIN, JUNE 3a TIIE POPE'S IRISH RECRUITS. A letter from the King's County, published in Saunders's Newsletter of this day, states that the cautionary notice of the Government has been com pletely set at defiance in that quarter, and that the Papal emissaries are still actively engaged in pick ing up recruits for the Pope's service. The writer adds : " The agricultural classes are holding aloof from the movement, but every possible influence, lay and clerical, is used to induce the members of ' I . 'he Young Men' s C a th o li c A ssoc i a ti ons ,' which d u , mg the last few years have considerably increased throughout the kingdom, to enroll themselves as soldiers for the Pope. It was at first supposed that, these societies were only to comprise the mercantile ' and Rieehanieal classes ; but since Garibaldi's expe dition the humblest end poorest members of the I community are soeght after and enrolled, and the death of each member, no matter how humble the indivirluil may be, is duly recorded in complimen tary terms in the minute-book of the society to which he belonged, and the expenses of ' a fine wake and a good funeral' are defrayed out of the hinds, and the body is conveyed by the members, who march in military order to the graveyard. It is now understood and a well established fact, that each of these associatims has to contribute, accord ing to its numbers, a cGrtain contingent to the Pope's army. It is stated that Banagher, in this county, is to send forward 20 recruits ; and that, at an early hour on Monday morning next, about 17 will start and proceed to Ballinasloe, where they will catch a train. These recruits are all principally members of th e Y oung M en ' s C athol i c Association in that town. It is also stated that Parsonstown is to send at least 30 recruits to the Papal army; but, up . to the present, th e m ili tary ardour of ' the man milliners,' ' grocers' boys,' &c., seems not to be in the ascendant, alth oug h ' the spiritual director's' best exertions arc zealously employed to arouse their energies fur martial ‘ glory. Th e c l ass of men who are resigning from the police force throtilt out the country, forthe purpose o fj o i n i ng the Papal brigade, and whose retirement is so much lamented, should be immediately accepted, as it is the opinion of all well disposed persons they are only' leaving the country for their country's good,' before the opportunity, should it ever arise, of doing much mischief." Meanwhile, as the position of the Papacy is becom ing more and more critical, another hurricane of pastorals is being blown by the Romish hierarchy, the first gust proceeding from the see of Kildare and Leighlin. The faithful who pay spiritual obedience to the Right Rev. Bishop Walsh, are in formed that, " In common with all Europe and the world, we arc the debtors of the Popes for the vast services rendered by them to learning, to civilisation, to liberty, and to religion." Then follows the cheering assurance, with regard to•the spiritual authority of the Pope, that , " The gates of Hell will never prevail against the Church of God, of which the Pope is the visible head and chief pastor upon earth. T a lie wickedness of man or Satan cannot prescribe against the pro 111.1S'eS of God. Bet though the spiritual power of the' Pope cannot be weakened by the assaults; Of the Devil or his agents, the exercise of that power, in the•pr eseut condition of the world and.highly arti fbi depriving stat e o f society, could be very much obstructed y him of the temporal possessions which he bad s o for donee not °lily facilitates uy, considerably over a thou aLiu, Years, p.r-sessed. His., temporal indepen— e exercise of his ~s'bie LONDON MONDAY EVENINU, JULY 2, 1860. THE SUN, spiritual power for the greater advantage of the Church, but protects him from even the imputation of want of freedom or impartiality to which he might be occasionally exposed were he the subject of another Sovereign or a dependent on his bounty." Bishop Walsh emphatically denies that the Pope's own happy subjects have had any hand in the rebellion against their Sovereign. Indeed, the chief fomentors of the strife are to be found among the advisers of the Queen of England : " It is said that the persons who have organised rebellion against the Pope are his own Catholic people. The falsehood of this statement has been repeatedly shown ; but it is idle to attempt to put to shame or silence the wickedness of perverse men. A small number of irreligious and flagitious persons, aided by the countenance and money of strangers and of persons of great influence, could easily awe into silence the peaceable and well-disposed people, who constitute nearly the whole population. The Italians who oppose the Pope may call themselves Catholic, but ' all are not Israelites that are of Is rael.' fhey conspire against the Vicar of Christ much in the same spirit as the scribes and Phari sees—who, no doubt, reputed themselves a portion of the people of God—conspired against our Divine Master. It is peculiarly painful to us to reflect that the persecution of the Pope seems to have re ceived considerable encouragement from some of our statesmen. Such conduct appears clearly to indicate a hatred of Catholicity. The allegation that these men arc actuated by a zeal for the free dom and the benefit of the Italians will not, upon reflection, be fo'ind to be sustained. If they were moved by a spirit of philanthropy, they could find ample room for its exercise in our own country, which certainly has—upon their attention and duty —claims much higher than any foreign land. When the men—who boast their zeal for the liberty and happiness of the Italians—neglect to aid in providing in their own country for the social free dom and happiness which are so much wanted, one cannot but doubt the sincerity of their professions. If they be solicitous for the happiness of men, let them begin at home." THE LATE RIBAND ARRESTS. It is reported that the Attorney and Solicitor- General and Mr. Serjeant Lawson will conduct the prosecution of the eleven Ribandmen lately arrested ii the town of Dundalk. The assizes for the county of Louth commence on Wednesday next. JAPAY AND CHINA. The following i 3 an extract of a letter from a British naval office' : " We left Port Royal on April 21, sailed down to Aspinwall, the nem American name for Colon, in the Isthmus of Panama; we arrived there on the 25th, and found the American frigate Roanoke lj ing there. We found that we had arrived at a very opportune time, for the Japanese Ambassadors had just arrived by train from Panama, and had embarked on board the Roanoke, and were going to start that evening for New York. So we were the first Britishers to welcome this peculiar, but clever, race of Celestials to the ocean of the wes tern hemisphere. We went on board the Roanoke, and were received with great attention by the American officer , and were introduced to their Japanese eminences. They are a very diminutive nice, of the true Mongolian cast, but their eyes beam with intelligence; they all carry a Japanese and English vocabulary, and are continually refer ring to it; and their guardian (a Captain Taylor, of the United States Marines) informed us that they are very quick in picking up the language. Their dress is somewhat similar to that of the Chinese, but their trousers more resemble ' knickerbockers' —they carry two long knives in their belts, and a dagger concealed in their bosom. These knives answer two purposes, they are either used in the defence of their country, or for the purpose of killing themselves if they be come disgraced, which is effected by the unfor tunate individual ripping himself open ; should he fail in doing this his whole family are supposed to attempt the same—the order given by the Em peror is expressed in the single word vanish.' The American officers on board the Powhattan man-of-war, on the Pacific side of the water, had great difficulty in preventing the Ambassadors cutting some of their servants' heads off on their passage across for having disobeyed some trivial orders. The Ambassadors and suite numbered 70 in all, and brought with them 82 tons of luggage, including battle-axes, and beautifully enamelled shields and staffs, with clubs headti, which they call standards.' They all carry small fans, and look more like women '—l mean the Mongolian female —than men. The interpreter, who spoke broken English, said, 'By and bye we go to England, must go first back to Nangasaki.' Capt. Taylor, and several other officers who came across with them, formed part of the American embassy to Pekin. It is commonly reported that they were transported through the country in boxes; but Capt. Taylor informed me that these are the chariots of the country, and they could see per fectly well the country through which they were borne. The latter part of the journey was made in row junks.' Capt. Taylor describes the country as low and fiat, and devoid of interest, with a few mounds here and there ; but he could not say whether they were fortified or not. He saw some stake forts on the banks of the river, but did not see any guns. Pekin very much resembles Canton, but is much larger, and is said to contain 3,000,000 in habitants ; the streets being very narrow and dirty, and the odour of them far from being pleasant. They were not allowed, on their arrival at Pekin, to converse or communicate in any way with the Russian embassy. Capt. Taylor's opinion was, that if we did have war we should have harder fighting than Chinese warfare hitherto had been, but that it was very probable that if we began boldly that the Chinese would throw the whole river open, pay down, and say Come up.' A mandarin asked him if he thought the English would make them pay for the gunboats lost at the Peiho, and how much, and if tkey would want them to raise the sunken gunboats. This will be about the first genuine account you will have of the Japanese embassy. They go to New York to see the President, and after they have had their fling will return to Japan: The next day the admiral and his staff, 10 of us in all, started off by rail for Panama. Having crossed the Isthmus of Suez, it was a double source of cu riosity and interest to me in crossing this one by rail. We all know what hardships they under went in making the Suez railway, from the total absence of water, and sand-storms continually de stroying their work. On this, however but a few yards from the sea, m a n f oun d b e f ore him a dense jungle of thick underwood and lofty trees, and deep boggy swamps. Nothing daunted he began, and though the lives lost are reckoned as one man to every sleeper, yet in the space of three years a line was made and the forest cut through for a distance of 52 miles; thus opening a communication with the other portions of the globe, and saving a pas sage of 14,000 miles. The line rises till within a few miles of Panama, the summit of the ascent being 240 feet above the level of the sea. For 10 ran nlnttg bauha yr U e tairt s ..a river, a sluggish stream at this season, but in the rainy season it is a rushing torrent. In fact this river is the great drawback to the formation of a canal across the Isthmus, as the rains are so heavy that the banks would be continually washed away at intervals of six miles along the line. The enter prising Yankees, Dutchmen, and Britishers have made clearances, and built very nice houses for the inspectors of the road. The forests are filled with tropical flowers and flowering trees. Of Panama I have little to say. Large hotels are being built, but the drawback is the want of a harbour. Ves sels are obliged to lie three or four miles off the town. The towers of the churches are covered with the pearl oyster shells in lieu of tiles, and pre sent a very curious appearance. We procured some Mexican horses, and rode over the extensive savannahs. The grassy plains would make many of our English gentry's parks look small, not only from their extent but the richness of verdure. Here and there are topes covered with the wild banana and other fruit trees. The whole country makes one feel the beauty and force of the lines— ' These are Thy glorious works, parent of good, Almighty !"rhe age of these trees is of course unapproachable. Man can do nothing but admire and be lost in conjecture. We returned the next day to Aspinwall. Our bill at Panama was truly o Californian." but a dreamer's wildest dream. Now it is a pro spect that can only be marred by foreign meddling. —Economist. LORD W . 31. GODOLPIIIN OSBORNE. In the Cambridge Insolvent Court on Thursday, before Mr. John Collyer, judge, Lord William Godolphin Osborne, described as a son of the Duke of Leeds, and of several addresses in England and Belgium, but last of Whittlesford, Cambridgeshire, of no profession or business, came up for his first examination. The insolvent's schedule extended between December, 1852, and May, 1860. His total debts now amount to £1,056 68:11d., of which he asserted he had received no consideration for £352 2s. The sum of £4l was twice, entered. The debts for which consideration was admitted were £673 4s. 11d. He had received £473 in gifts from his father, and £539 3s. 10d. in legacies, making the amount to be accounted for £1,685 ss. 9d. The expenditure included such items as interest on loans and discount, £BO ; dogs and keep, £5O ; Lambert, on account of loans, £6O ; hotel, travel ling, and personal expenses, £450 ; ditto, of self and wife, £lOO ; but with all there was a defi ciency of £538 18s. The list of creditors included tailors, to the amount of £320 13s. 9d. ; tobacco nists, £6O; Cohen (money lent and interest), £248 lls. 6d. ; Lambert, livery stable keeper, £l3l 14s. 7111., being £79 10s. 10d. for money borro wed, and the balanee for horsehire and refreshments ; college tutor, £79 10s., &c. The insolvency was attributed to insolvent's not being allowed by his father such an income as he had been led to anticipate, and to his being sued by his Cambridge creditors. Dr. Leapingwell supported the insolvent ; Mr. Naylor opposed for Cohen; and Mr. Basham, jun., 1 clothier, of Cambridge, in person. Owing to insol . rent's notoriety in Cambridge the court was densely L crowded. Mr. Naylor said he opposed under the section of the Act of Parliament which gave his Honour the power to punish any insolvent who had been guilty of fraud or obtaining goods or money under false pretences. He should show that the insolvent had so obtained advances of Cohen, that he had ex pended the deficiency of £5OO and odd at places not mentioned in the schedule, that he had bought three diamond rings, and not stated where or how he had disposed of them ; that he had driven certain persons (who, however, might be respectable) about Newmarket-heath with four horses ; that he had done all this when he well knew he was insolvent, and having at that time an allowance of £l2 a-year only from his father. Knowing all this the insolvent had contracted tailors' bills alone at the rate of £lOO a-year, and altogether had proceeded in the most reckless and extravagant manner. The insolvent, being examined, said, in answer to Mr. Naylor,—l am now 25. I had an allowance of £l2 a year from my father till I came of age; since then I have had £lOO a year from the Duke. The principal debts contracted with Cohen and other parties who have sued me were contracted in 1855 and 1856. At that time I was living at Gogma gog, near Cambridge, the Duke's residence. I put my hand to a note of hand given to one Bays, an attorney. I believe in 1856. Mr. Headly, my present brother-in-law, joined me. The note was for £2O, but I only received £2 10s., and Mr. Headly £2 10s. Next heard of the note as in the hands of Cohen. That was the first time I had the pleasure of being introduced to him. (Laughter.) The note was first produced for pay ment through Laxton. [lt should here be stated that both Cohen and Laxton have been discom muned by the University for similar dealings with undergraduates. Cohen is professedly a dealer in second-hand clothes, and Laxton a dog-fancier.] Did not pay the money; I hadn't it. I gave a bill to put off the payment of the other ; the second bill was for £25 ; gave that to Laxton or Cohen ; the old bill was returned to me. The next I heard of the second bill was when it was due three months after. A similar transaction took place again. Cannot say what amount the bill was fdr that time. Cannot say how many bills there were between the first given to Bays and the last given to Cohen, but once there were two in one day—one for £lOO, and one for £3O. That was owing to something about the stamp. The bills finally given to Cohen amounted in all to £l9O. I cannot guess how much money I received in all, but very little. On my oath it was not £lOO. Laxton was generally present when I drew those bills ; Cohen was once or twice. Always looked upon Laxton as the go-between between Cohen and myself. Lax ton is, I think, a dog-fancier. Some of these tran sactions took place in 1858 and some in 1859. Wolf and Dolan (creditors for £270 125.) are tailors, in Conduit-street, London. I became acquainted with them soon after I made Laxton's acquaintance, through their Cambridge agent, a man named Ful ler, who was introduced to me by Laxton. I or dered, perhaps, five or six suits of them during the first three months, and perhaps five or six the next three. Those clothes were supplied to Laxton. gave the order to Fuller that they should be. I never saw them. I sometimes received a sovereign from Laxton for an order for a suit, and sometimes hal:'-a-sovereign. I had two or three suits of Wolf and Dolan for my own use, The orders I under stood to be in favour o f C o h en , an d th at h e would receive the cloth es . I gave a. bill to Martin, a Cambridge tailor, for clothes ; that was not for orders given to other persons. Owe Richard C a ll a by no thi ng [C a ll a b y claimed £4 Os. 6d. for dogs' keep]. Gave him a dog in payment for the keep of another, Have paid Cohen nothing back since I returned from abroad. I used to pay him sometimes £lO, and sometimes £l5 out of the quarterage I received from the Duke. I should think I paid him as much as £BO. All the money I had for the whole of my expenses was £l9O a-year. By Mr. Naylor—Asked the Duke for a further allowance on my marriage, and he refused. The Duke once said that he expected increased means, and that he would increase my allowance in the same proportion as my brothers'. Asked my father to help me through my difficulties, and he said he " could not at present." I expected something ef my father; every son in my position does. My only prospect of paying was that every son of a Duke has. Never told any one I should have £l,OOO •n my marriage. Never had a hamper of plate, but there was some talk of it. I don't believe I ever told Cohen I had it. Think it was to Lax ton that plate was mentioned. Don't know that Cohen made three journeys in a gig to Gogmagog to take away a hamper of plate. Never told Cohen not to let the butler know any transaction be tween him and me about the plate. Am not aware I ever wrote it. Recollect my brother-in law Headly getting into trouble and raising money on his watch. Am not aware that Cohen paid money to get him out of his difficulty at my sug gestion. Had £Bo's worth of cigars and tobacco in three years of Messrs. Bacon. Incurred a debt of £l3O in three years with Lambert, for horse-hire. I never told Peters, the jeweller, that I had an allowance of £3OO a year from my father, or Peters, the tailor, that I had £2OO a year. Lazarus Cohen, a Jew, one of the opposing cre ditors, said, in answer to Mr. Naylor, I will swear that insolvent has had more than £2OO of me at various times in sterling money. illiam, alias " Woolly" Laxton, on entering the box, said a great many people had been talking harm about him, but he world make them all think different before he had done. He then pro ceeded in a species of semi-narrative :—The first time I knew Lord William he and Henry Headley came on horseback and called me up in the night. I raised money for him after that. I know his handwriting. [A number of letters from the insolvent to the witness were here put in and read. They were all urgent requests to raise small sums for him, such as £2 or £2 10s. immediately. To " get the money of Cohen," to " settle with Multon," hairdresser, &c. - ] All the money I gave Lord William I got of Cohen. I have seen Lord William and Headly and two girls altogether in Norfolk-street. They were all drunk together. Once when there Lord William asked me if I would buy two suits of clothes and a top coat. I asked how much for ; he said, £5 ; and I bought them. He once gave me a suit of clothes ; he ordered them of Wolf and Dolan as for his keeper. I got them at the lodge at Gogmagog. It was on that occasion he said he had a hamper of silver, and that he had asked his father to advance money on it. I went and asked the butler whether he had any silver or no, and the butler said," I'll give yo u my wor d he ' s got no more silver than you have ;" " and" (continued the wit ness) " I had not above sixpence in that 'ere metal." (Laughter.) Dare say I get £3OO or £4OO of Cohen for him at different times. J;le would sometimes pay Cohen back £25 a quarter by his father's check. H e use d to give me that to take up a bill of Cohen, but it was paid by Cohen to a gen_ tleman now in court, who had the bills. I was pressing Lord William to come . to some settlement with Cohen, and he said. " I've some silver I'll let lsirn have." I've been in Norfolk-street hundreds of times; hospitality was carried on well there. There were men and women there. The breakfasts were sumptuous ones. Beefsteaks—l call that sumptuous. The insolvent, in answer to his Honour, said he was educated a t M ar lb oroug h S c h oo l , which he left in 1851. Since then, up to his marriage, he had re sided with his father, doing nothing. Ti 111855 he had received only a nominal allowance, and had been treated as a mere schoolboy. Dr. Leapingwell, in a long and energetic address, said every allowance must be made for a young man in the insolvent's position, who had fallen into the hands of harpies and sharks. The Judge said the insolvent, knowing be had THE REVENUE. Those prudent politicians who doubted the wis dom of taking off a productive tax just at this mo ment have reason to be satisfied with their fore sight. The abstract of the:revenue for the year and quarter is before us, and fully justifies the opposi tion which the schemes of Mr. Gladstone and Mr. Gibson met with. No one, indeed,. can say that the country is otherwise than prosperous and the revenue flourishing, but it is plain that, as long as increased expenditure goes hand in hand with the abolition of duties, and wars with barbarians abroad are contemporaneous with philanthropic finance at home, there is great chance of the nation meeting with the fate of the most extravagant of its children, and finding itself for a time insolvent. If a country where almost every trade is flourish ing, where agriculture is highly remunerative, and the great manfacturers can hardly complete the orders they receive, finds its expenses verge so closely on its receipts, what must be expected if a short cotton crop in America, a bad harvest at home, or continental disquiet, throws the community into disorder, and causes millions to reduce their con sumption, and consequently the amount of the taxes paid by them ? Chancellors of the Exchequer have rather overridden the theory of elasticity. Accord ing to them, when indirect taxation is diminished the consumption of the country increases in a ratio so much larger as to more than fill the gap that has been made. But, as in the physical world there is a limit to the elasticity of bodies, so in finance there must be a point which the consuming power of the country will not pass. Undoubtedly, when a thing much desired has been dear and suddenly becomes cheap, there will be a large increase in the consumption ; but when it has reached a price which practically puts it into the hands of the people a further diminution of price is not attended with a corresponding in crease of consumption. This is fairly shown in our later revenue tables. The people have been for the most part well to do, and have had their fill of the great articles of consumption. It has been found that, having had enough before, they do not care to have more than they want because it is a little cheaper. Their surplus funds they will either lay by or spend on amusement, or instruction, or something which does not increase the Customs and Excise. The product of the Customs ibr the quarter end ing June 30, 1860, was £5,732,777, being a decrease from the same quarter of last year of £375,641. This is said to be attributable to the diminished receipts for wine, spirits, sugar, and other articles. The effect of this diminution has chiefly shown itself in the last quarter, for the decrease on the year is only £262,061, the amount for 1852 being £24,347,322, that for 1860 £24,085,261. The amount derived from the Excise during the last quarter was £5,114,000, to £4,945,000 in the cor responding quarter last year. This increase of £169,000 is said to be owing to the reduced term of credit on malt, the plentiful crop of hops, and the postponed payments in the corresponding period last year. As might be expected, the confusion into which the Budget threw the paper trade has diminished the receipts from this branch of manu facture. Naturally as little paper as possible was produced while there was a change in prospect which would considerably lower the price ; only just enough for the necessary concerns of the country has paid duty ; we may consequently reckon on a decided increase during the next quarter. Large quantities of spirits were taken in bond in the corresponding quarter of last year, and thus there is a decrease on this head on the quarter which has just come to an end. Oa the year, how ever, the return is very different. There is an increase under every head, the whole amounting t no less than 2,309,000. The qu tntity of malt made was the largest ever know, and the increase of duty under this head amounts to £1,600,000. The whole produce of the Excise for the last year i5£20,530,000, agaicst £18,221,000 last year. There is no better test of the prosperity of the country than the Customs and the Excise, and it is certainly wonder ful that, after all the reductions which have been made in the various imposts since the accession of Sir R. Peel to the Premiership, the country was able to raise last year, by this kind of indirect taxa tion, no less a smn than £44,615,261. The immense business which has been done during the last year, and the general occupation of the people, have been the cause of this prosperity of the revenue. On Stamps there is an increase on the quarter of X 107,660, on the year of £269,277, arising from in.. creased receipts on the old duties and from the new ones imposed on delivery orders and dock warrants. The increase on the Property-tax for the year was £3,636,710. We need not say how this increase has arisen. When a tax like this mounts in a single year from £6,266,106 to £9,902,816 therc'is little to be done but to condole with the country in having to submit to so frightful an augmentation ofits burdens. The rate for the present year is still higher, and, whatever may happen to other heads - of the revenue, the Property-tax will continue to furnish its millioni of extorted iold. The worst of it is that even with this enormous revenue, amount. ing in 1860 to no less a sum than £71,-116,587, we are still unable to keep pace with our expenditure. What will happen should a hard ensue and check consumption it is not difficult to divine. At any rate, it is clear that the country wants every penny it can get. In spite of the doubling of the Income tax, we shall want not only all the Paper duty, but either a loan or additional taxation to meet the cost of the Chinese war. This strange con test has hitherto loomed indistinctly in the distance and men have been hardly able to realise its reality. But it is now coming closely upon us, and seems likely to be a long mind expensive affair. The tea trade may be 'olcreased, and the cotton trade may be increased, and merchants at either end of the world may make fortunes; but the worst of it is that this " extended commerce" is paid for by the non - traders —the people with fixed incomes, the "professionals," the maiden aunts, the GoTernment clerks of the country, All these commercial wars and commercial treaties, the cost of which is to be paid by direct taxation, may in the end benefit the country, but for the present they put wealth in the hands ()fa few acute and enterprising capitalists at the expense of that great mass which has only ave rage talents and narrow means.— 7 intes. • THE SUICIDE TN HYDE -PARK AND MURDER IN OXPORD-STREET.—On Saturday evening Mr. Bedford, the coroner for Westminster, and a jury of inhabitants of St. James's, assembled in the board-room of St. James's Workhouse, Poland. street, for the purpose of investigating the death of Caroline Dhereng, aged 86 years, the wife of John Dhereng. After a long examination, precisely similar to that which took place on Friday last, the jury returned a verdict of " Wilful Murder against Antoine John Dhereng." [ADVERTISEMENT.I Holloway's Pink and Ointment.— Wet Weather.—The present spring and summer have been almost unexampled for the fell of rain which has caused the 'rate of mortality:to be unusuallyhigh, and is now unfor tunately renderPd higher by the dearness of provisions. From such depressing influences diseases' must arise, but fortunately for the humbler classes Professor Holloway has discovered the means of averting or curing most, disorders, especially such as occur from poor or depraved blood. By Holloway's remedies that fluid is perfectly purified from all contaminations caused by irregular living, unwholesome diet, foul air, or insalubrious vapours. The ointment rubbed l o v v h e i r l the e th ep pillsit of revivify stomach regulates v l e ery solid and the digestivecorporeal org ans, generally ~.y1.{ r~ "4" , ~9 DLINGER MENACING ITALI. The intellirrence which reached us y es t er d ay of the violence offered to Baron Brenier, the French Ambassador at Naples, by the Neapolitan mob, is a matter of very grave concern to the friends of Italy. There can .be no doubt as to the true origin and intention of that assault. It is the act of laz zaroni, hired by the Sanfedist party in Naples, for the express purpose of bringing about French inter vention in the affairs of Naples. That Louis Napo leon is anxious for a respectable excuse to interfere we have but too good reason to know. French statesmen have for some time been inclined to think that the power of the Neapolitan mob is too danger ous to the party of order in Italy to render it safe to abandon the Neapolitan Government to its fate. Hitherto this predisposition for intervention on the part of France has been kept in check by the atti tude of England and other causes. Will it be kept in check any longer now? By the machinations of the despotic party the life of a French Ambassador has been endangered, and the excuse so given for interference for which the Emperor has been on the watch. Other influences, we fear, will co-operate. We say it with deep regret, but we have good rea son to think that the telegram which attributed to the Prince Regent of Prussia a very anti liberal speech respecting the present state of Italy repre cents correctly the general attitude of the Prussian Government on that question. The influence exerted by the Baden Conference over the affairs of Italy will be anything but favourable. France will, we fear, have learnt from it that no sympathy is felt by the Executive power in Prussia for Italian unity and independence, and will have been encouraged thereby to assume once more the guidance of Italian affairs with a view to French interests. That that Conference is likely to check rather than stimulate for the present any meddling with the German fron tier seems now genes ally admitted ; and if, there fore, the great Napoleonic policy of extending French influence in Europe is to be pursued with success, it must be pursued on the Italian side. We have often pointed out the motives which will sway France in .this direction. It is clear that a united and powerful Italian kingdom on her southern frontier, allied by constitutional sym pathies with the united and powerful British kingdom on her north-west frontier, would tend to diminish her present exceptional influence in Europe. Besides, a powerful Italian king dom could not but divide with France the command o! the Mediterranean, which could never then be come a French lake. In short, if the Napoleonic foreign policy for France is still the main idea in the Emperor's mind, a united Italy will present formidable obstacles to its realisation. And a united Italy is now 110 dream ; it is, if not prevented by foreign intervention, all but a political certainty. The highest authorities in Naples inform us that after the first engagement in Calabria Garibaldi would have a triumphant march to Naples, that the Go vernment is already crumbling away, and that no power remains to offer the show of effective resist ance.. And the army of Lamoriciere would not , if we may tr us t a ll we hear, long survive the army of Naples. The spirit of the Roman people is roused almost as effectuelly as the spirit of the Neapolitan people, and w h en once G ar ib a ldi reaches Naples it will not be long before Rome is added to the area of the reclaimed kingdom. Excepting Venetia, Italy and Sicily may soon be free and combined under oue crown. The enthusiasm for annexation , .to Piedmont is, we believe, as deep and universal in Naples as it is in Sicily. A year ago no one would.have thought of Italian unity as anything • 41..A1k4 RNA but £lOO a year should have devoted himself to some honourable occupation, and lived within hi , means—a course of conduct not derogatory even to the son of a Duke, but, instead of that, they found him indulging in luxuries, and, he was afraid, vices and transactions that would not bear the light of day. The discretionary clause gave the power of im prisonment for six months, but calendar months were not specified, and it was a rule of law that where that was the cue lunar months should be taken to be meant. He should proceed under the penal clause, but no further than to alter the six lunar months in the discretionary clause into calendar months. The insolvent would have to be imprisoned for six calendar months from the date of his vest ing order. Messrs. Basham, jun., and Wilson were appointed assignees. ME PROPOSED T MA.RICET AT SMITHFIE'LD. On Saturday last, at noon, a special meeting of the Markets Improvement Committee, summoned by direction of Mr. H. L. Taylor, the chairman, was held in No. 1 committee-room, Guildhall, to con sider what steps should be taken by the Corpora tion in relation to the bill before Parliament for the erection of a meat and poultry market on the site of Smithfield, and also to consider the altera tions made by the Committee of the House of Cora -1 mons in reference to that measure. Mr. IL L. Taylor presided, and a large number 1 of the members of the committee were present. A long discussion took place, in the course of which several members objected to the alterations made by the Parliamentary Committee, and contended that unless the amount of rent, namely,lo. per square foot per week was allowed, as recommended and agreed to by the Corporation, the Court of Com mon Council should not be recommended further to prosecute the bill. It was agreed that it was an im portant matter that the Parliamentary Committee had conceded the.principle of levying a toll on the goods brought into the market for reimbursing the Corporation for their outlay, but it was objected that the amount should have been altered to a farthing upon 201bs. instead of 141bs. ; and for this reason also it was thought that the bill should not be proceeded with. Dr. Ross and other members urged that it was the duty of the Corporation, seeing the necessity which existed at the present time for the erection of a central market for the sale of provisions in the City of London, to continue the bill if they could not get the amount of rent and toll as originally proposed, that they should accept the alterations as made by the committee of the House of Com mons. This argument, however, met with strong opposition, and it was agreed by a majority that unless Government could be induced to insert a clause fixing the toll at the original sum of one farthing for 141b5., and the rent at three halfpence per square foot, instead of a farthing for 201b5., and one penny per foot, as agreed to by the Parliamen tary Committee, the Corporation should be recom mended not to proceed with the measure. The importance of the question was agreed to on all sides, and ultimately it was arranged that several members of the committee should wait upon the Home Secretary to learn the opinion of the Government in reference to the subject. As soon as the conference has been held we understand that the Lord Mayor will be requested to call a special court of Common Council, when the report of the Markets Improvement Committee will be brought up and considered by the members of the Corporation. POLAND. The following is the speech delivered by Prince Witold Czartoryski at the annual meeting of the Literary Association of the Friends of Poland, on the 26th ult. : My Lords and Gentlemen,—My father desired me to attend your meeting, in order to express to you, in the name of our countrymen, in the name of the whole of Poland, the sense of admiration with which we are penetrated for your generous persevering labours. When I had last the happiness of attending your annual meeting, it was pre sided over by Lord Dudley Stuart. I can assure you he is constantly present to our memory, and nothing occurs of importance in the world, but we are heard to exclaim, " Oh that Lord Dudley Stuart was there." However, though he be lost to us, the spirit that animated him is not lost. The task of which he became the expression, has been nobly, and in a truly edifying manner, carried on by your selves. Poland knows your names, and repeats them with blessings. She knows that you are her stedfast friends, and defenders of her cause, alas I A cause of justice, and therefore to your honour be it said a cause of sacrifice and devotion. The late war in Italy, and the share taken by France in her liberation has greatly cheered our hopes. We trust our turn also will come - and we firmly believe that when that desired moment shall 'Ave arrived, the aid of Engs land like wise will not be found wanting. On the contrary, we are persuaded that we shall be supported by the forces of France and England united together. And when was that moment more propitious than nowt When the three powers (our enemies) that you would not form erly remonstrate with, because they were strong, are now weak, and one may say thoroughly disorganised ; for surely the diminition of their forces has not in your eyes diminished their guilt, and when Poland certainly shows that her friends in the West will find her ready to face her enemies. Poland has given - up wasting her energiesgies on dark trammels and unprofit able conspiracies. She is bent now wholly on the bring ing forth her latent internal forces. She is multiplying her commercial enterprises, agricultural associations, banking establishments, in a word, giving herself up entirely to internal activity, peaceably and openly, under the very eyes of her present rulers. But whilst she is doing that, our enemies, and above all Russia, have not relented from their murderous, exterminating policy. With Russia the system is what it was—protection of law, none ; personal security, none ; religious freedom, none ; schools, none ; but police agents innumerable, and venal functionaries as numerous as they are immoral, be yond cure. But mark this, gentlemen, this enemy of ours is not only an enemy of Poland; Russia is above all, more than is believed in this oountry, the enemy of Eng land, the very foe of civilisation, being herself the seat and focus of barbarism. If Russia, on the one hand, seeks to destroy everything that is Polish, or that tends to the civilisation and progress of Europe, i she ad vances, on the other hand, with g i gan ti c s t r id es n Asia, armed with the powerful weapons of European know ledge, and assimilates to herself the barbarous nations she brings into subjection. This ceaseless labour has already lasted for six centuries. It began when the Russian empire was founded by Prince George Dolgorulsi, the first con queror of the countries which constitute Central Russia. The Ouralian and Semitic races which he found there spoke various languages, and professed the Pagan, the Mahome tan, or the Jewi s h f a ith. Th e R uss i an Czars imposed upon these inferior races an official Russian language and, religion, the spiritual head of the latter residin g at Moscow under their absolute supervision. These races resisted with vigour the rule thus attempted to be forced upon them until the 16th century, when at length all were converted to the language and religion of their masters, as the Indians were in Spanish America. Their customs, their character, and their local institutions remained, and are still in their normal Asiatic condition. But since the 16th century all these races have been assimilated. Upwards of 40 millions of men, speaking the same language, professing the same faith, clad in the same costume, constitute the huge nucleus of an incessant spirit of conquest. Russia has of late suc ceeded in overcoming the long protracted resistance of the Circassians. Promises, Russian decorations, and money are the arms which have been most effectual in securing this object. This people, which has for half a century arrested Russia in her progress of encroachment, is . now conquered, dispirited, and deserted by Turkey and the 'Western Powers, forced to march against its natural friends under Russia's banner. A project, originating from St. Petersburg, for uniting all these races into an army of Sepoys of unlimited number, is already in execution. The Russian army of the Caucasus, which is the flower of all the troops in that Empire, will be employed elsewhere. The majority of the races in habiting the Caucasian provinces have already contributed, and are contributing, their contingents to this projected force. If England permits Russia to execute this new plan of military organisation in the Caucasus, an indigenous Russian army will, in a few years, suffice to conquer the whole of Asia Minor, and to march to the gates of Con stantinople. Further eastward Russia has conquered and organised the hordes of Baskirs, Kirgises, Kalmucks, and Turcomans. She has the Caspian and the Sea of Aral; her steam flotillas have taken possession of the rivers of Sirdaria and Dhihoun. The Khanats of Khocan, Khiva, and Bokhara yet enjoy an illusory independence. The fort of Perowski on the Sirdaria, 500 miles east of the Sea of Aral, commands the district of Khocan, whose inhabitants have, after several fruitless attacks, despaired of retaking it. On the day when a railway will connect the Caspian with the Sea of Aral, embracing a distance of hardly 100 miles, all this portion of Central Asia will virtually belong to Russia ; for she will then be able to send her troops as far as Cachemir and into the midst of the land of the Sikhs. At this instant, however, Russia is weak and disorganised. She waits with anxiety for a great change, which may increase her strength ten fold. Whether this change will be produced quietly, or by means of a terrible revolution, it is impossible to foresee. Whatever happens, there is no reason to hope that any greater security against Russian aggression will accrue to Eur. pe ; for, in order that this might be, it would be ne cessary that this revolution shouldintroduce into the minds of the Russians the civilizing ideas of the West, and that, so to say, the whole of the Russian nation should pass over to the side of the Weitern Powers. It is very doubtful whether they either could or would do this. A new p a .. a rt y, is now spri ng i ng i n t o ex i s t ence i n R uss i a , consisting of the intellige n t an d generous m i n d s i n the empire, calledof " Young Russia." Thi s p ar ty i s ca lled upon, by the force circumsta nces , t o t a k e th e p l ace o f the old imposed nburea th u e u cracy, and the stran ge orga nisation it has pon Holstein Herzen, s c a e hh t ai i en o f n of d; in Russians—Peter the Great and the dynasty of . . 1. Gottorp. But those supposed chiefs of all progress their sin Russia curse and detest the Western nations. In all writings they accuse Western society n rottenness and corruption. M. er t 0 z e tnah, dithem el their t v h an address to the Poles, holds out totrue • 6 unite themselves with old Russia, and . realise liberty brotherhood, exhorts them to . become true democrats-, t on earth, the eradication of all religion, communism, See. for action has arr i ved. Such are the sentiments of men wh om a revolution w ou ld render all-powerful. The moment If, now that there is yet time, Europe will not make an effort in the cause of justice, the moment will soon come when she will have to use extreme measures not to perish herself. Poland is always at her post, ready to do her On the duty. She waits. Tho Prince then presented the noble chai rman with the ma p of anc ient Poland, and published b oun d , executed, by the Poles in Paris, und er the patrol:l'as% . and "To the Most cover was su perintendence of Prince Czartcryski, Ge nerr. Count z am oyski, and General Chrsanowski. the following inscription in gold lett ers Noble the Marquis Townshend, President of the Literary 4n As a so m ciat ti io tu n cie of is th Q e ffe F r ri ed en ia ds th of e PAl t a wi nd ier thsi p oken o f respect j~~~~ '`t~_ LIBELLING A DENTIST: On Saturday last M. Fresco, a surgeon dentist, earring on business in George:-street, Hanover square, brought an action in the Court of Common Pleas against Mr. Bowen May, an attorney ! for libel. It was to recover damages for the following' alleged libel which had been written by the defen dant, and published in the Medical Circular on the 16th March, 1859—" Quack dentists—On Monday, Mr. Bowen May, as solicitor to the London Medi- cal Registration Association, applied for and ob tained a summons from the magistrate, at Bow street, against Andre Fresco, of 9, George-street, • Hanover-square, and 513, New Oxford-street, call ing himself a surgeon dentist, for obtaining money under false pretences from a Mrs. Jones, the pre tence being that he was recognised by diploma of Dr. Edward Cock, principal surgeon of Guy's Hos pital, as set forth in his advertisement, whereas Mr. Bowen May produced a letter from Dr. Cock, stat ing that he knew nothing of the man except his impudent and false statement in the advertisement, and which his solicitor had endeavoured to put a stop to. Mrs. Jones also stated that the defen-daut had endeavoured to obtain a further sum by violent conduct in coming to her house and using' strong language. The summons is returnable on. Monday, the 20th instant. We are glad to see that the society is still following up the quacks." In answer to the action, the defendant pleaded not guilty, that the plaintiff wa s no t a surgeon d en ti s t, and a justification. The case lasted the whole day, but the following is a summary of the principal facts :—ln the spring' of 1859 Mrs. Jones applied to the defendant in re ference to a transaction she had had with the plain tiff about some teeth, and the defendant seeing that the plaintiff in his advertisement said,. Andr& Fresco is duly recognised (by diploma) by Dr. Ed ward Cock, the present principal surgeon of Guy's Hospital, and by many other eminent medical men," applied to Mr. Cock, who wrote as follows : " I have no knowledge whatever of Mr. Fresco ex cept from his advertisement, and the use which he makes of my name is an impudent falsehood. I have in vain attempted to put a stop to the imposi tion, and Mr. Taylor, the late solicitor to Gafa Hospital, at my request, wrote him repeated - letters on the subject, to which no answer was returned. I was advised that legal proceedings would be pro bably fruitless, and certainly expensive, and SO the matter dropped." The defendant thereupon ob tained the summons at Bow-street, but on the hew.- ing of the summons it appeared that in 1849, Mr; Cock had given the following certificate :—" I have examined the diploma which A. Fresco received from the Medical Commission at Dort, and find it to be to the best of my knowledge, correct and au thentic in every particular. It declares that he has passed a satisfactory examination before a legally authorised board, and that he has been found in every way skilled to practise as a surgeon dentist." Mr. Cock had entirely forgotten the circumstance until the paper was shown to him. The magistrate dismissed the summons, but no report of this termi nation of the application was published in the Medi cal Circular, though the proprietors of the paper did a week or two afterwards offer to insert the fact. Previous to the application to the magistrate the plaintiff had t a k en s t eps t o b r i ng M rs . J ones 's case before the Bloomsbury County Court, and a. long report of the trial appeared in the Medical' Circular, in which there was also a short comment upon it. The present plaintiff sued Mr. Yearsley, one of the proprietors of that paper, for libel in consequence of the publication of the report and the comment, when the jury awarded the plaintiff 40s. in respect of the comment, but held that the report was privileged. In the course of the evidence on Saturday it was said that the defendant had volunteered to write the statement now in question, whilst on the other hand it was said that he had only written it at the request of Mr. Yearsley, and had furnished it to that gentleman in strict confidence. The plaintiff said that he had before the libel earned about £l,OOO a year gross, and that his business had been ruined in consequence of the libel. He however admitted that before the libel he was frequently summoned for small amounts in the county court; and he had raised money by getting bills discounted. He stated also that before the libel he had no money, but he denied that he was insolvent. The Lord Chief Justice said in his opinion the article in question was a libel, and therefore the point for consideration was what should be the amount of damages. According to tho'case of Lewis v. Levy, the publication of preliminary pro ceedings at police courts might or might not.be privileged, but the publication of the preliminary proceedings which inculpated the party, and the omission to publish the subsequent : proceedings which exculpated him, never could be justified. If the object of Mr. May and the association with which he was connected was to prevent unqualified persons from obtaining the money and ruining the health of their patients they deserved credit for their motives • but if they infringed the rights of any person they must do so at their,own risk. The jury found for the plaintiff, damages £450. The defendant's counsel applied for a stay of execution, upon the ground that the article in ques tion was privileged, and that the damages were ex cessive. His lordship refused the application. tOUNTRY MARKETS. STAMFORD—JUNE 30. We had a middling supply of wheat at yesterday's corn market, but last week's full rates were maintained. Wheat 54s to 59s Oats.. 27s to 31s I White do 56 s t o 62s Beans 46s to 481 Barley ..... ..32s to 35s I Ditto, old 46s to 48s LEICESTER-JUNE 30. There was a moderate supply of wheat to-day, but in fair condition, and trade steady. White wheat, 57s to 629 —red, 56s to 60s per 36 stone; a very heavy inquiry for barley, grinding , 31s to 36s ; malting, 40s to 46s p er qr . ; oats, 28s to 36s per 24 stone. Beans—old, 51s to new 42s to 46s per 38 stone. Fine flour, 42s I Seconds, 38s J Thirds, 29s per 20 stone. At this corn-market isTTH wheat was NORTHAMPTON—JUNE o O supply, with a rather heavy trade, at about the rates of this day se'nnight, ranging from 56s to 59s for white, and 52s to 56s for red. There was a fair business passing in barley, malting Ms to 445, grinding 35s to 37 s per qr. O ats in fair sale, the turn in seller's favour, quoted at 32s to 35s per 24 stone. B eans , o ld , 48s tosos ; peas, 40s to 465. Rye, 36s to 40s; malt, 68s to 728 ; flour, 33s to 37a per sack. NORWICH —JUNE 30. The supply of wheat was again moderate to .day, and the farmers not being disposed to submit to lower terms, com paratively little business was done. There was little pass ing in barley, oats, beans, or peas. White wheat 60s be 65s Red wheat 56s to 60s Malting barley....42s to 46s Chevalier barley 34s to 40s Distilling do.. ....25s to 27s Oats.. 24s to 288 Flour, 36s to 40s Od per sack from the miller. CAMBRIDGE—JUNE 30. There was a moderate supply of wheat, and, with en inactive demand in the trade, white moved off at 56s to 588, red, 52s to 56s per 36 stone. There was a small show of barley to-day; malting, 34s to 40s; grinding, 30s to 34s per 30 stone. Oats at 25s to 29s for new; old oats, 28s to 295. Beans in limited supply, and a steady sale—nqw, 40e to 444; old, 42s to 44s per 38 stone ; peas, 40s to —s per 36 stone. White cloverseed, 86s to 89s ; red, 46s to 508 per quarter. . , DUBLIN-JUNE 29. A moderate show to-day, and the trade ruled extremely dull again, at unaltered quotations for all articles. s. d. s. d. s. d. g . d . Wheatred , w 31 0t033 0 Berehite 33 oto 3 0 Do., " 13 0 to w ***** 0 to 14 0 0 Do., new Do., — lB 0 ° to 24 0 to —°Rapeseed .... 20 0 t o 23 0 Barley Oats 16 0 to 1 7 6 I Bakers' flou r .. 1 7 0 to 22 0 Do black l5 oto 15 6 Indian corn .. 37 0t039 6 BIRTHS. Bovi+L.—on the 27th ult., at W arp l e the wife of William B ov i ll, Esq., M.P., of a .u. 4 on Guildford, son. G. A. Fuller, E sq., of a son. • Lodge, near L fe zn oi —On the 29th ult., at The Rookery, Dorking, the Fu iv i i powELL.—On the 29th ult., at the Rectory, Sutton veney, wilts, the wife of the Rev. George F. S. Powell, of a son. BRIDGE - -GORDON. M — ARRIAGES. Church On the 28th u lt., a t S a i n t C o l um b us , Nairn., N.B , Major Lionel Bridge, H.M.'s Madras Hors e Artilleiy, to Kath ar i ne Grant, daughter of Captain James Gordon, of Ivy Bank, Nairn. WYNNE—Bo OTH.—On the 26th ult., at St. Paul's, Knights bri i dge, l Charles B W ynne, Captain 90th Light Infantry, to Emy Prances Graham, eldest daught er o f Si r R o b t. Eaton-pl ace Gore Booth, Bart M.P. of Lissadel, Sligo, and 44, Belgrave-square. DEATHS. ADDISON.—On the 29th ult., at Brighton, Thos. Addison, M.D., of 51, Berkeley-square. CALEY.—On the 28th ult., at Hampton, Middlesex, Henry Caley, Esq. DENNIS.—On the 22d inst., at Clifton, Derbyshire, Miss Elizabeth Dennis, at an advanced age. S OMEILVILLE.—On the 25th ult., at Florence, William Somerville, M.D., aged 92. WELLS.—On the 28th ult., Dudley Wells, Esq., of 1, Al. dermanbury. WEST.—On the 29th ult., at Cedar House, Cobham, Mrs. Elizabeth West, relict of John West, Esq., solicitor aged 92. LONDON : Printed and Published by MURDO YOUNG of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at The Sun Office, No. 112, Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in , the county of Middlesex, Monday, In 1160, „~,,_ ,mot-.