The Sun. — London, England, 1858-09-06 00:00:00

THE ATLANTIC TELEGRAPH. THE WILL OF HER ROYAL HIGIIIVESS TEE DUCHESS OF ORLEANS A letter from New York, dated Aug. 24, says (From the Liverpool Albion.) the Atlantic telegraph still towers above all other This remarkable and hitherto unpublished docu subjects in public interest, as much as it surpasses inept having had to be proved in Doctors' Commons, all other interests of the present day in importance. we are enabled h to lay it before our readers : To us upon this side of the Atlantic , the da y that " This is my will. In the name of the Father, saw the cable stretched from shore to shore, so as and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. In dying to put us in immediate communication with the Icommend in i soul to God, and e inmerc the ne of Jesus Christ mplore His infinity, p a ra m ying Old World, is second in import ance only to that Him to receive me in the eternal abode, there to re when the new shores first broke to Columbus's view • unite me to those for whom I have mourned upon Forgetting that the Old World does not look upon this earth. I leave my maternal blessing to my be the enterprise with the same eyes, we wonder that loved sons, and pray the Lord to guide them thro u g h the wild enthusiasm withwhich success was greeted this life, to give them prosperous days, and to grant hero has not been responded to in London. When them eternal felicity when they shall have nobly I last wrote we had just finished the first demon- fulfilled their destinies here below. I bid them here stration by burning down a part of the City- a last adieu, whilst thanking the m for the ha pp iness hall—an outburst which the Ma y or facetiously they. have contributed to my existence. I entreat suggested should be followed by the: destruction th e Q uee n to accept the last expression of my re of the Mansion-ho - use in London. On the follow- spectful gratitude. I bid farewell to my mother, to ing day . the Niagara. arrived. It was about five whom I owe so much ; to my brothers and sisters, o'clock in the afternoon. As she sailed up the for whom I have ever felt sincere affection ;to my beautiful bay it was alive with steamers carrying mother's family, whose tender hospitality has light persons from their business to their summer ened the bitterness of exile of my sons and myself; homes. The sun was shining brightly, the air was to my friends and servants, whose fidelity in the rausparently clear, and the heavens were of the midst of misfortune has inspired me with grateful deepest blue. Boat after boat, passing under her attachment ; and, finally, I bid farewell to France, stern or across her bows, greeted her with enthu- which I have loved so much, andwhere the happiest siastic cheers, and several, turning in her wake, years of my life have glided away. I recommend kept her company up the bay. The cannon of the my sons never to forget that the fear of God is the quarantine forts and of the foreign men-of-war in beginning of all wisdom, that it is•agltide and bea the harbour greeted her with salutes, and at the con m prosperity, and a stay amidst misfortune ; to battery she was welcomed by the huzzas of several remain ever faithful to the precepts of their childhood , thousands. She was at once taken rou nd to the and continue steadfast likewise in their political Navy-yard at Brooklyn. Her procession up the faith. May they observe it both by their constancy East River, through the shipping of New York, in adversity and exile and by their firmness and escorted by steamers and ferryboats, every craft devoted patriotism when the course of events shall dressed and crowded, was triumphant beyond ex- restore them to their liberty. May France, restored pectation—l had almost said beyond imagination. to her dignity and liberty, may constitutional The next day the Herald published its corre- France reckon upon them to defend her honour, her spondent's account of the voyage of the Niagara. grandeur, and her interests, and may she find once When this letter reaches you it will probably be more in them the wisdom of their grandfather and too late for many extracts from this journal. You the chivalrous qualities of their father. They should may perhaps have room for at least the account of ever bear in mind the political principles which the landing of the cable at Trinity Bay : have made the glory of their house, which their " About 20 minutes after we started from the grandfather faithfully observed upon the throne, beach we reached the station of the Atlantic tele- and which his father, as his will and testament graph on this side of the ocean, where we found bears witness, ardently adopted. His last directions some half-dozen of the inmates awaiting our arrival. have been the guiding rule of their education. In The station is a large frame building, two stories quitting this world I recommend my children to high, and eight windows wide. On the first _floor the Queen. My beloved son, the Count de Paris, is a kitchen, an office, and a sitting apartment, will obtain his majority the moment my will shall dignified with the title of parlour. The door opens take effect ; yet, notwithstanding this, I count on the side of the house, and there is no means -of upon the moral influence of the Queen and on her exit from the front, for the simple reason that the respected authority to replace me in his counsels ; first story is eight or ten feet from the ground. I likewise reckon upon her maternal solicitude in This singular arrangement is explained by the fact entreating her to accept the guardianship •of my that the building is situate on the east side of a hill, beloved son, the Duke de Chartres. Such duty will and that there is a considerable difference between not, I trust, appear to her too onerous, for I beg my the height of the front and back walls. The second brothers to assist the Queen in the administration story is divided into sleeping apartments separated of the fortune of their nephews. I know full well by a single corridor, and the whole establishment th e f ee lings which animate them for the children will lodge about a dozen persons. A beginning has of their deplored brother, and lam sure that they been made in the clearing away of the forest in the will at all times testify towards them a sincere af immediate vicinity of the house, and in the course fection. I charge my sons to remain ever closely of a year they will have as pleasant and as corn- united; the indissoluble union of the two brothers Portable a dwelling, perhaps, as any in Newfound- forming the condition of their strength and mutual land, if it should not have all the luxuries of civi- happiness. I desire that my eldest son shall, from lised life. Of the details of domestic life at the the day that his legal majority permits him, take telegraph station more will be said hereafter. part in the family council appointed to match over Meantime we must continue the particulars of our the interests of his younger brother. It is also my narrative. desire that those tried and faithful friends who "On the arrival of the procession the cable is have surrounded my sons, and who, after having brought up to the house and the end placed in con- been the devoted adherents of their father, have nection with the instrument. The deflection of the never ceased to give us proofs of attachment in ad needle on the galvanometer gives incontrovertible versity, will still continue to remain about them. evidence that the electrical condition of the cable is Having acknowledged that the property and secu satisfactory. The question now is how shall we rities comprised in the deed known in English as properly celebrate the consummation of that great the indenture or deed of trusteeship, dated the 28th event ? How, but by an acknowledgment to that o f July, 1849, are my personal property, save the Providence without whose favour the enterprise giving an indemnity to my children for the sums in must have ended in disaster and def eat. Ever y one which I might be indebted to them as guardian feels that this is all that is neces sar y to make the in the exercise of the right which I reserved to celebration complete, and to ma ke the undertakin g myself by the said deed, and by an additional one as the work of two great Christian nations. 'When, in continuation thereof, dated in the year 1853 therefore, they all gathered together before the (both deposited with Mr. Coutts, of London), I telegraph station they understood the purpose for declare hereby to revoke, abrogate, and annul, in which they were assembled. Captain Hudson took the most complete and absolute manner, all and lap his position on a pile of boards,,the officers and every the clauses, conditions, and stipulations of men standing round amid shavings, stumps of trees, the said deed, wishing and intending that such pieces of broken furniture, sheets of copper, tele- deed be considered as null and of no effect, and as graph batteries, little mounds of lime and mortar, though it never had existed, it being my wish and "}branches of trees, huge boulders, and a long cata- intention that the said property and securities ilogue of other things equally incongruous. shall revert freely, and without any burthen of " 'We have,' said the captain, ' just accomplished transfer, substitution, or other charge, to my per a work which has attracted the attention and en- social fortune, so that I may do with and dispose of listed the interest of the whole world.' That the same as I may think fitting,. I make this pro work,' he continued, ' has been performed, not by vision in case the aforesaid deed and its continua •ourselves ; there has been an Almighty hand over tion should not have been revoked and annulled -.us and aiding us, and without the Divine assistance before my death, it being my express will that my -thus extended us, success was impossible. With . property, the securities of which it is composed, this conviction firmly impressed upon our minds, it everything which might and should legally becomes our duty to acknowledge our indebtedness I ' revert to me, and indeed all that I am to that overruling Providence who holds the sea in a t liberty to dispose of, shall be equally the hollow of his hand: ' Not unto us, Oh Lord, I divided between my two children. With mot unto us, but to Thy name, be all the glory.' this intention I likewise divide between I hope the day will never come when, in all our I them, as equitably as possible, the following articles -works, we shall refuse to acknowledge the over- in my possession, leaving, to wit, to the Count de I ruling hand of a Divine and Almighty Power. It Paris, my pearl necklace in four rows, which he is He who can rebuke the winds and calm the seas. will, I trust, one day give to the Countess de Paris; He works in a mysterious way for his people. His the six diamond pendants with chain ; the red path is on the mighty waters. We have seen His album, containing the fine collection of water power in the tempest, and when we have called colours by French ertists, which belonged to the - upon Him in the time of trouble He has heard our Duke d'Orleans ; all my furs, and Seheffer's picture - voice. And yet how ungrateful we are for all of ' The Holy Women' (les Saintes Fen2mes). To His favours, and how soon we forget Him when the Duke de Chartres, my set of pearls, composed of the trouble passes away, like the sum mer cloud brooches , pins, eardrops, bracelets, and a diadem. or the morning dew. On a solemn occasion This set came to me from his godmother, my aunt like the present We should feel more par- Adelaide. My ruby bracelet, bequeathed by the ticulatly our indebtedness to Him, and it is Queen of the Belgians ; two ruby buttons ; the With a feeling of heartfelt gratitude we should sapphire ring and the ruby ring ; my fine cup in acknowledge the many favours which He has be- lapis ; the Prayer-book wiiich was made by his stowed upon 'us. There are none here, I am sure , father's order ; the n ecessaire d'armes, and m y -whose hear are riot overflowing with feelings of lace. I hope that these jewels and lace may be the liveliest gratitude to Him, in 'view of the great worn by a Duchess de Chatres. Besides the work which has been accomplisheel. through His foregoing articles, I bequeath, as souvenirs to permission, and who are not willing to join in a the Count de Paris, the large portrait of his - prayer or thanksgiving for its successful termina- father, by Ingres ; the marble bust of his tion. I will therefore ask you to join me in the father, by , Tallet ; the large picture of ' The _following prayer, which is the same , with a few I r o n Gates,' by Dauzats ; the small picture of the necessary alterations, that was offered for the lay- ' Col de Teniah,' by Philippoteaux ; all his father's ing of the cable : manuscripts, papers, letters, small notebooks, as "' 0, eternal Lord God, who alone spreadest out well as his father's letters addressed to myself. I the heavens and rulest the raging of the sea, who know that he will always look upon these papers as East compassed the waters with bounds till dayi a precious treasure, and. I believe that he will one and night come to an end, and whom the winds day be enabled to use them with discrimination, so and the sea obey—look down in mercy, we beseech as to make known the character of him whom Thee, upon us Thy servants, who now approach France has mourned without even being aware of the throne of grace, and let our prayer ascend all his merit. I leave him the portraits of my two before Thee with acceptance. Thou hast coin- mothers ; the water-colour, by Winterhalter, re manded and encouraged us in all our ways to presenting the Queen with the children of the acknowledge Thee, and to com mit our works to Duke de Nemours ; the oil portrait of the Duke de Thee ; and Thou hast graciously promised to direct Chartres, by Winterhalter ; the fine poniard ordered our paths and to prosper our,hancliwork. We by my sister - inslaw, the Duchess of Wurtemberg, desire no w to thank Thee, believing that without for the Duke d'Orleans ; two of the albums, con- Thy h e lp an d blessing nothing can prosper or taming his father's drawings ; the Psyche, which succeed, and we desire humbly to commit all who I -svas presented to me by the city of Paris on Lave been en g a g ed in this undertaking to Thy_ care, , - 0 i , Tn im - otection, and guidance. It has please d ee to Svette, in bronze, of his father upon a pedestal - enabl e us to com pl e t e what we have been led by of black marble ; the large pendule of Breguet, Thy providence to undertake, that being begun Which struck the hour of his birth, as well as and carried on in the spirit of prayer and in depe.'i- the chimney ornaments belonging to it ; the ena deuce upon Thee, it may tend to Thy glory, and welled box containing his father's watch and 'to the good of all nations, by promoting the in- several other souvenirs ; the ease containing the crease of unity, peace, and concord. May Thy - seal and silver-gilt knives, which I always use; hand of power and mercy be so acknowledged by one-half the fine engravings of his father's portrait, all that the language of every heart may be, " Not 'by' Ingres ; the small water-colour of the Duke d' canto us, 0 Lord ; not unto us, but unto Thy name Orleans on horseback, copied from H. Vernet ; one give glory ;" that so Thy name may be hallowed, of my four beautiful fans ; my marriage fan, in and ma gn ifi e d i n us and by us. Thou hest con- ..clagree, which has been used also by the Queen; trolled the winds and the sea by Thy almighty : [ si. s coral, which all the Quee n ' s children have like power, and gr an t e d us suc h favourable weather wine used •my bracelet, containing .. a portrait of that we were enabled to lay the cable safel and a Effectually. Finallyhis father, intended for his wife ; my carved pray s twe beseech Thee to implant i d sl - containing his father's mask ;my papers, us a spirit of humility and childlike depen- lig- e l'' small nooks of souvenirs, which I have left y 1 etters Bence upon Thee ; and to teach us to feel, as well i nEn 'and • his father's sword, which he wore on as to say, "If the Lord will, we shall do this or the day of his death, . . . g - ' and the palm which was pre that." Hear us, 0 Lord, and hear us in these our s ented to him by his Division on his return from petitions according to Thy previous Jesus Christ's sake.' promise, for taa e Iron Gates. I bequeath as souvenirs to the " The 'Amen' which followed the conclusion of Ti ake de Chartres the equestrian portrait of the 1 an 's'.e d'Orleans by De Dreun ; t he small p ortrait of it re this prayer showed what a sincere response - - -1. ' ' b•• t i ' ither by Ingres • the large picture of the " Col ecived f rom th e h ear ts of all present, and th e depth - - da s T e , liah," 'by H. . Vernet ; the head, in marble, of of feeling it excited." The same even g most of the prominent persons j h is fatbasr, copied from the Mausoleum of Triquetty ; In town, se water-colour of the Queen by Winterhalter ; my On Lord NaNapier, called upon Mr. Yield. fo t llowil evening Mr. Field issued p( natait, by Henriquel Dupont ; the furniture of oixds fora rece m y desk (inkstand, penholder, and blotting-book and his brother's hoc is own house (a large one) o l i i i c:eise adjoininr" it were thrown in silver-gilt) ; the miniature of his godmother; my si call watch ; the " carnet," in tortoise shell and open. Both were filled with an enthusiastic coin- g‘ )Id, adorned with family portraits ; one of my pang. In dwelling on these little details I fear f c tn. beautiful painted fans ; the bracelet, adorned that I cannot make it felt in London this expedition has excited thanth o e whole heart f o , e the Duchess de Chartres Of this large town. More; the water-colour of one-half of our El wane Lamy, representing the Review of the t h ie n a se. Chas population are of European origin, native element there are few or none amo O n f g irs d.'Orleans at the Tuileries, 1840 ; the large leading business . men that have not crossed the N° strait of the Count de Paris when an infant, by who have not friends on the other V interhalter , • two or the albums, containing draw- Atlantic—fewin sof the Duke d'Orleans ; the other half of the side, none who are not observant of European mi t . 'ravings of the portrait of his father, by Ingres ; news and European politics. To all, London, the , . ! trimly) ia arch ji 1 ID'' ' milall, by Dauzats ; my Alex- Paris, Berlin, and Vienna are now brought an , ire * • tWe • and m- e ues organ , my marriage COP el . , 3 . q into instant communication. Yo . say that they t - feel this, that they are excited by' ,i m statuette t, is to feebly rt. ,in bronze, of his father , with the taw 3 bronze vase -1 ' h sIN Ile accompany it. I have set represent the great enthusiasm which Per- do', viiupon a sp ec i a l list the souvenirs which I beg meates the whole mass, and ro uses ' it to such my family and friends to accept as a last token of demonstrations of interest., This it was which afn motion, and I d es i re my , . sons to dint bo thered together in Auaust so large a ce•unlintula- tsv( :en themselves th e remain d er o f the artieleg aa tory meeting at Mr. Field's house, and which co!- I may leave, such as albums, bronzes, lected the thousands of uninvited guests about Int: boo ks, furniture, and sundry trifles. I desire my door ; which brought there a band to serenade ;on: ;to fulfil, as far as may lie in their power, the hi • les fall I shall hereafter in t and called out the hearty huzzas in response wis,express and such as I to h is speech su b s equently express in from the balcony, to which the good- may - codicile. I entreat natured crowd. summoned him about midnight. •to them t . - • c Os s tinue to Monsieur de Boismilon, the f their father, of themselves, an d faith; ili 1 friend- ° ell as to ur Monsie Asselin e, who for so me, a 9 i w many re ors , nos shown us such dee p attachment, : a of 4,00 0 f, each ; to Madame de the ann It 11 sum s governess, the annual sum of my former Bontems, ' Kennecke; my , tutor, the aiss 4,000 f. ; t s Monsieur NlTlaine Gassier, the annual of 1,600 f; to ~ & • nual s j APOTHECARIEs' HALL.—Names of gentlemen who psk4ed their examination in the science and practice of medi cine, and received certificates to practise, on Thursday, Sept. 2,1858 :—Georges Sellwyn Morris, Guisborough, Yorkshire; Mackenzie ; Edwin Wilkes, Salisbury, Wilts ; John Dearden, Accrington. In addition, one gentleman passed his first exaplinai THE SITN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 6, 1858. sum of 1,500 f. ; to Mademoiselle Tuccrow, my for mer femme de chambre, the annual sum of I,ooof. ; and to Holdet and Escoyer, the two_ valets de chambre of the Duke d'Orleans, the annual sums of 1,500 f. to the former, and I,ooof. to the latter. Having at heart the prosperity . of our house,. it is my will that, in case, through improbable but pos sible misfortunes, namely, that my two sons should, by dying before me, without leaving direct heirs, render me the proprietress of a portion of their pro perty, the estate which I may leave shall be divided amon,,,c , the princes of the House of Orleans, and in their default among the princes their sons. In such event the wishes I have above imparted to my sons would, as regards their relations, become obligatory charges, together with the desires I may subse quently express in codicils. I beg Mr. Fremyn, senior, my attorney, to accept the duty which I confide to him in the appointment of my executor, and I hope he will recognise ifr-this a proof of my gratitude for his enlightened counsel. I desire my sons to present to Mr. Fremyn, senior, from me, a diamond ring of the value of 3,000 f. Whatever the place of exile where my days may close, and what ever the tomb I may happen to find, I request my sons, and, in their default, my heirs to have my remains conveyed to France whenever our family may return to it, there to deposit them in the mor tuary chapel of Dreux, beside the tomb of my hus band. I here close my last will with an assurance of pardon to all such as may have offended or afflicted me, and with an entreaty to all those I may in my turn have offended or pained, not to retain the memory thereof. My last words are for my beloved sons—a prayer and a blessing. " HELENE, DUCHESSE D'ORLEANS. " Eisenach, Jan. 1, 1855." FRANCE AND THE UNITED KINGDOM. (From the Belfast Mercantile Journal.) It must be very gratifying not only to the in habitants of the British Islands, but also to the greater portion of the better classes in Erance, to know that our Queen has again met the Emperor of the French in friendly intercourse, even, al though it hasbeen at one of the strongest and most formidable fortresses in his kingdom. It is truly delightful to find two great nations, that used to consider themselves as natural enemies to each other, thus linked together as brethren, but we must nevertheless confess that there is something about this vast warlike construction at Cherbourg that weakens our faith, and raises doubts in our minds as to the durability of the union between the two greatest powers of Western Europe. That Great Britain and France ought to main tain the most amicable relations, is a truth based not only on the general desirability of peace, but also on the specific capabilities and requirements of the two countries. The course of policy pur sued by both, however, has been eminently un favourable to the intercommunity of the two peoples. War generated taxes, and taxes generated custom house tariffs, which, in their turn, surrounded each country with a hostile barrier, calculated to dimi nishto the lowest amount that profitable intercourse which would have woven a threefold cord. of amity not to be severed but on the most serious occasion. A Custom-house is a commercial fortress con structed for hostile purposes ; and a Custom-house officer is a commercial soldier, whose employment is to make war on the trade o inations—to prevent or limit their commercial interchange, and thereby to diminish as much as possible the reasons founded on material interest, which would induce nations to cultivate peace. So long, then, as France and Britain do not engage in a commercial interchange, far more extensive than that which exists at present, there is no real or solid bondof union between them. A politicalbond can never be the substitute for a com mercial bond. The moment the occasion passes which leads to a mere alliance of arms, the poli tical bond may be snapped, because it contains nothing more solid than the opinions or tempers wh o whose statesmen. Opinions may change , and tempers may become irritated ; new parties may arise, policy is of a different character; or misunder stamlings may occur between individuals, which may lead to misunderstandings between govern ments ; the bond of amity may thus be severed, because, in fact, there is no real interest between them. It is quite otherwise with the commercial bond. The commercial bond is not a mere alliance —it is a complete net-work of positive and pecuniary interest, and its severance wherever it has been allowed to exist, would carry with it such a ramifi cation of loss and detriment, that every effort is made to avoid the danger, and almost every claim complied with, rather than break off the profitable interests of reciprocal trade. We see this in the United. States, where the slavery and anti-slavery parties aro morally as hostile to each other as if they were at war. The north would willingly deliver itself from all connection with slavery. It abhors slavery, and, above all, the fugitive slave law, which brings the abomination into its own territory. But it dare not sever its connection with the south, except as the very last resource, when union would be no longer possible. It is bound by the mighty tie of a free commercial intercourse. The south supplies it with its cotton and. its pro duce ; and, in return, it finds in the south a market for its own manufactures, its calicoes, hardware, plantation goods, machinery and other articles. It has a free trade with the south, and this free trade is almost the only bond that keeps the States together in a condition of internal peace. Let a range of custom-houses be established along the line that separates the free States from the slave States—let the two parties mutually tax each other's goods, and let there be as little commercial interchange as there is between France and Britain—and a disruption would inevitably take place. War would probably ensue, and. the two countries would set up separate governments 'of their own. The same principle applies, though to a modified. extent, to the relations between Britain and the United States. The planters are far from being friendly to Britain ; and were it not for their commercial interests, they might rashly seize some pretext for strife. But they are bound to Manchester, to Birmingham, Sheffield, Liverpool, Glasgow, and Belfast, by the golden bands of trade. They would willingly—to use their own expression—" thrash the Britishers ;" but the Britishers are the only people who can buy their cotton crop, which would rot on their hands were the traile to be interrupted by war. They would be ruined, in the first place, with considerable chance of being beaten afterwards ; and few men are willing to engage in an enterprise which promises them certain ruin and. only proble matic glory. Our present alliance with. France, then, we regard as by no means secured until we open up a trade that would make the interests of the two people identical. Trade has this advantage, that it brings profit to both parties. It differs from gambling, where the sum. gained by one party is lost by another. Trade, on the contrary, is a real and genuine profit to both. If we buy cotton from America, it is because the cotton is more valuable to us than the articles given in exchange ; and. if the Americans sell their cotton, it is because the articles received in exchange are more valuable to them than the cotton. Owing to the stupidly restrictive system still dominant in France, our trade with her is miserably small compared to what it could and would be under a wiser and. more liberal policy. British manufactures are sought after with great avidity in that country, but, owing to the restric tive tariff imposed, they are comparatively so dear that they can only be used by- the rich. The province of Ulster, with which we are more immediately concerned, suffers seriously, owing to the high duties imposed upon her limns and linen yarns. The recent exhibition in Paris must have clearly revealed to any observant Frenchman the great loss sustained annually by his nation in consequence of this prohibitory policy. For the article .of linen alone, the French nation pays at least one-fifth more than it would do under a mo derate system of duties ; the loss amounting an nually to at least 21- millions sterling, or 62 mil lions of francs. The French Government loses a handsome revenue, formerly derived from this source, while the aggregate capital employed in the flax spinning trade in France is not greater than the annual loss sustained by that nation in k eep i ng up these prohibitory duties. The consumption of linen in France is very great. Linen napkins, as well as table-cloths, are used at table by all classes. Linen is generally used f or under-clothing, and the line n blouse, either dyed or undyed, is the universal outer garment. In con sequence of this 'general use, the linen manufacture of France is of great magnitude, being reckoned at 7 yards for each person, or about 250,000,000 of yards per annum. Estimating the value at 1-1- franc or Is. English per yard, the annual value must be about 312,500,000 f. or £12,500,000 sterling. Messrs. Herdman, Grimshaw, and Patterson, in their valuable report on the Paris Exhibition, pre sented to the Chamber of Commerce, in 1855, from which we take the above figures, are of opinion that the same fabrics could be produced in Ireland. and Scotland at 20 per cent. less, on account of the lower price of our linen yarns, which are n ow ex cluded from France by these prohibitory duties. During the year previous to this prohibitory system being adopted by Louis Philippe (1841), the export of linen yarn from Great Britain and Ireland to France was ten millions of killogrammes, or ten thousand tons, value 41 millions of francs, and a duty was paid to the French Government of six millions of francs. At that tlmo an agitation was commenced by the French flax spinners to exclude British linens cmd linen yarns by/ prohibitory duties, and the 00Yerninellt of Louis Philippe acceded to their urgent solicitude, and in 1841 passed the required prohibition. This was nominally a duty of 20 per cent., but in consequence, of being levied by weight on a wrong basis of value, it was at that time 33 per cent., and in a few months was more than 50 per cent., the duty remaining the same, while yarns had fallen in price. Although British and Irish linens and linen yarns were thus ex cluded from France, the linens and linen yarns of Belgium were admitted at half the duties, and, strange to say, this privilege is still continued. In order to exhibit the exact difference, we now append the following tables of the duties charged on unbleached yarns and brown linens imported into France from the United Kingdom and from Belgium. They have been carefully made up, and give examples of the different classes ; that of the yarns being suited for the English and Irish, as well as for the Scotch mode of making up. It can be no matter of surprise that our exportation has fallen off, and a mere glance at these will be suffi cient to show the good grounds our spinners and manufacturers have to complain of the partiality shown to Belgium : DUTIES ON UNBLEACHED LINEN YARNS IMPORTED INTO FRANCE. From Belgium. 61bs. or No. 8, 31bs. or No. 16, 21bs. or No. 24, llb. or No. 48, flb. or No. 96. p.s.p.bd. p.s.p.bd. p.s.p.bd. p.s.p.bd. p.s.p.bd. d. d. d. d. d. d. d. d. d. d. 4/ 19 5. 131 ,4 3 - 141 3+ 13,1 2 8+ From the United Kin g d om . 11 46 64 28k 7k 311 51 241 31 151 DUTIES ON BROWN LINENS IMPORTED INTO FRANCE. Duty 01 . 221b5. English. •12 *l6 20 above *2O s. d. s. From Belgium „ U n it e d Kingdom 64 2 115 5 214 0 274 2 374 4 * The number of threads of warp in 1-sth of an inch. NOTE.—In order not to complicate the tables, the duties on bleached linens and yarns are not given ; but the differ ence is in a like proportion. Belgium has for a long period supplied France with linens and yarns, but with a much smaller quantity of the latter. Previous to 1843—the year immediately following the imposition of the differential duties—there had not been exported to France much above 900,000 kilogrammes of yarn in any one year. To prove most conclusively how this country, under moderate duties, was able to supply France cheaper—competing successfully with Belgium—and how the people were quite prepared to become manufacturers themselves on getting a lower priced article, it is only necessary to give the importations of yarns into France at two different periods—the first under the existence of high, and the other under moderate duties : FROM BELGIUM. FROM U. KINGDOM. Kilo. Kilo. In 1830, In 1839; 6,167;090 If, then, a freer trade between Britain and France is desirable —and a trade can never properly , be called free until it i s u n restricted—the present time is perhaps the most favourable that has occurred in our own day for pressing the subject on the atten tion of Government. British statesmen have been gradually brought to perceive that Free Trade has proved a blessing to the country. The tide has turned, and every year we may expect to see more efforts made to overthrow the barriers which sepa rate us from other countries. Nor is it otherwise with France—Louis Napoleon has already shown himself willing to modify the hostile duties of France; and, if met by a cordial reciprocity on the part. of Britain, he might be induced to revise his tariff, and to admit our goods and manufactures , tat such rates as could not fail to create an extensive trade. When the town of Dundee, on an occasion not very remote, preSented a congratulatory address to the Emperor, hinting at the same time that a free trade ought to be established between the two countries, the memorial was received in a friendly and liberal spirit. In fact, of all the rulers that France has had since the days of the great Em peror, Louis Napoleon is the most likely to break up the restrictive and prohibitory system which keeps. France in a state of commercial isolation. He has the power, and we have much reason to in fer that, if urged by Britain, he would also have the will. The course, then, for our merchants end manufacturers appears clear. Louis Napoleon is not inaccessible to memorials and deputations. Let our merchants, manufacturers, and trading towns memorialise both our own Government and the French Emperor, setting forth the great ad vantages that would arise from cementing our friendship still firmer by the bond of commerce. For our agricultural implement makers and textile manufacturers, France would open up a vast field of doubly profitable adventure—profitable to the in dividual trader, and profitable to the nation, by re moving us farther and farther from the possibility , of war. France and Britain freely trading to gether would eventually carry in their train the rest of Europe. Belgium and. Holland. would fol low first, and then the Rhine would be opened to our enterprise. That noble river—the finest and most available on the west side of the Continent of Europe—has hardly more traffic than Glasgow would put on a moderately-sized ditch. A stray steamer and a few clumsy corn boats are all that can be seen on a river which might rival any river in the British Islands, and that has on its banks cities, towns, and villages, and an industrial popu lation capable of consuming an enormous amount of British goods, and of furnishing to us timber, wine, fruit, cattle, flax, an immense variety of fancy ar ticles. Offenbach wares, and many other things which we should take either for consumption or ex. portation. Germany, however, will not move until France and Britain have shown them the example, and therefore we should begin with France. Nor arc our capitalists and merchants less interested in this question than our manfacturers. If the Continent were open to a free trade, we should supply it with almost the whole of the colonial pro duce it requires, because, by our capital, ships, and steamers, we could do so cheaper than any other cp u in t r y. British capital would command both trades—both export and import—at least until the Continent has learned to develop its own resources. The present time, therefore, we regard as the period when an unusual effort ought to be made to abolish the restrictive system established by the wrong headed politicians of the past. Trade is the true Peace Society—tending, on the one hand, to reduce despotism into constitutional rule, and, on the other hand, to secure order as the necessary condition of its own existence. And not the least considera tion is, that a free trade invading the Continent would carry in its train the elements of a free thought. ACCIDENT. A most,fearful accident occurred on the Blyth and Tyne Railway at Flatworth, about two miles and a half from Shi e ld s , shortly afte 1.2 o'clock on in con s equence of the wet morning the Saturday.- farmers m the neighb our h oo d h a d knocked off the reapers at noon, and a p ar ty o f wo men who had been so employed were returnin down the side of the Blyth and named Frances T ha lY l l iso el Railwayhad h to their i r grandson,e sat . homes Percy Main. Among them was an old woman Matthew Hails, a little paralysed boy 7 years of age, with her. As they were coming down an in cline towards Flatworth, and when near to the Dun Cow publichouse, the little boy suddenly ran on to the line between the rails, and the poor old grandmotherimmediately, observing the train from Blyth and the pit districts of Hartley, with miners and their wives proceeding to Newcastle market, approaching, rushed to his rescue. She could not lay hold of him in time, but she jumped before the engine and pushed him from between the rails. She sacrificed her own life in doing so. She was immediately knocked down, and, the wheels of the engine and carriage passing over her abdomen, she was literally severed in two, the lower part of her body being carried about 20 yards from where the other was left. The train was speedily stopped, and two medical men being in it they immediately got out and assisted. The remains of the old woman were gathered together, and inquiry was made for the child, when it was found that she had sacrificed her life in vain. The poor boy had been struck on the head by the engine and was lying unconscious. He was immediately removed to the Dun Cow and attended to by Mr. Davidson and Mr. Wheldon, surgeons, but those gentleme n entertain no hopes of his recovery as he is suffering from a severe con cussion of the brain. The body of the old woman has been taken to Percy Main to await a coroner's inquest, but it cannot be alleged that the engine driver or the guard of the train were to blame, as the occurrence was momentary, and they had no time to stop the engine besides, the train was running down an incline at the time. Considering the immense coal traffic on the Blyth and Tyne line, it is but poorly pro tected from trespass, and at the present time the company is liable to penalties of £lO a day for neg lecting' to make bridges at the Percy Main and Prospect -hill crossings within the proper time , which the corporation of Tynemouth, as the Gene ral Board of Health have given notice they will enforce. [A.DVERTISEMENT.I—HoIIoway's Ointment and Pills.— I, William Cole, of 12, IVood-street, Cheapside, hereby de clare that I have used Holloway's Ointment and Pills for about a month for most violent pains in the chest and sto mach. These pains were supposed by the medical men of Liverpool to indicate consumption. I was told that nothing could be done for me, and that my case was hopeless. At last I was obliged to quit the police force at Liverpool, and come to London. I was admitted into St. Bartholomew's Hospital. Even there I obtained no relief whatever, and was ultimately persuaded by a friend to try Holloway's me dicines. These effected a perfect cure in four weeks.—Lon don, 31st July, _lB5B, Such testimony as this needs no comment, IRELAND, On Wednesday a special meeting of the General Assembly was held in Belfast, to take into conside ration the refusal of General Peel to appoint the two ministers nominated by the Assembly in Derry to the post of chaplains to the army. The pro ceedings, which commenced at an early hour, did not close until one o'clock a.m., and were then ad journed to the following morning. The delibera tions of the reverend body were not conducted with the strictest decorum, and occasionally the flights of language reminded one of the scenes enacted in Conciliation-hall, when that memorable arena was about to close its doors for ever. At the evening sederunt of the Assembly, and when the speakers might be fairly supposed to have been worn out by the length of the sitting—. " Dr. Cooke thought they should adjourn. He could sit as late, and rise as early, as the whole of the assembly put together—(laughter)--but he thought they should look after their bodily and mental health. He therefore moved the adjourn ment. " Dr. Goudy said that this was virtually an attempt to crush the question. He regretted that there was occasion for his occupying the invidious position which he was com pelled to stand in on this subject. He felt it to be his duty to stand up for the honour, the indepen dence, and the liberty of the Church. (Applause.) " Dr. Cooke said he would not allow Dr. Goudy to stand up and say that he was the only person prepared to assert the independence of the Church. " Dr. Goudy—l stated that I would stand up for the independence of the Church. Dr. Cooke has already spoken a dozen times on this subject, and' I'll not permit him to misrepresent me. (Confu sion.) " Dr. Cooke—l'll not allow Dr. Goudy to Goudy me here till morning. (Renewed confusion.) "Dr. Goudy—l'll not allow Dr. Cooke to Cooke me here day after day. (Laughter.) I stated that I will stand up for theindependence and dignity of the Church, but I did not say I stood up alone. I am glad to hear, however, that Dr. Cooke is pre pared to stand up for the rights of the Presby terian Church. (Confusion.) " Mr. Rogers insisted that the question should be put to the vote, and that the roll should be called. " The roll was then called, when there appeared —79 for going on with the business, and 69 for adjournment. " The Assembly then proceeded with the business. " Dr. Cooke thought they should have a time fixed for adjournment. " Mr. Dill considered that Dr. Cooke should not waste the time of the Assembly by this trifling. " Dr. Wilson proposed that the Secretary-at-War should have a copy of all the resolutions passed by the Assembly on this question, for he believed the private statements which the Secretary-at-War had received led to the misrepresentations which had taken place. The other resolution which he would move was that the Government be informed that the Derry resolution, appointing Dr. Goudy and Mr. Rogers, was unanimously passed by the As sembly, " Dr. Cooke—l say it was not passedunanimously. " Dr. Wilson—l say, yes. (Confusion.) " Dr. Cooke—l sat, no. " Dr. Wilson—l say there was no member who made any objection to that resolution. (" Hear, hear." and cries of " No, no.") ",Dr. Cooke—l did. " • Dr. Wilson—l say no member attempted to negative that resolUtion. "Dr. Cooke—l did. " Dr. Wilson—l deny it. (Renewed confusion.) " Dr. Cooke---I assert it in your face that I did, and I can prove it. " Dr. Wilson—l appeal to the Assembly as evi dence that you did not. " Dr. Cooke—l can produce living men to prove in any court of law that I did. " Dr. Wilson—Let the clerk produce the record, and let us see if you did. " The Clerk —1 am prepared to state, before this house and before the world, that the resolution at Derry was passed without the slightest opposition —(applause)---and I was never before cognizant of there being any opposition to it. (Applause.) " Dr. Cooke—l can prove by ten living witnesses that I objected to it. (Uproar.) I will not be put down by . this. I would not depend upon my own recollection ; but I can prove by ten living wit nesses that I most decidedly objected to the resolu tion, for upon no consideration could I ever approve of it." Dr. Wilson's resolution having been seconded, another tempestuous discussion followed, e.g. : " Mr. Richard Dill next addressed the assembly, and mentioned that Dr. Cooke. had consented to allow Mr. Rogers' name to be put on the list of candidates at Derry. " Dr. Cooke—l consented to no such thing. " Several Members—You did. " Dr. Cooke—l never did. " Mr. Rogers—lt is very unpleasant for me to interfere here ; but Dr. Cooke stated in the school room at Derry that he would permit my name to be put at the top or bottom of the list, by way of ornamentation ; and the assertion which he has now made is worthy of the man who does not know the difference betweenV memory and imagination. (Applause.) " Dr. Cooke—l am above the insult as I am above the man who uttered it—(applause)—but if I am to stand here to receive these insults I will remain no longer a member of this meeting. (Hear, hear.) " Mr. Rogers—l will never retract the truth. I am prepared to stand over it. (Confusion.) Finally, the motion of Dr. Wilson, informing Gen. Peel that the nomination of Dr. Goudy and Mr. Rogers was the unanimous nomination of the Assembly, was then put to the vote. The motion of Dr. Wilson was carried by a majority of 74 against 16. Dr. Cooke gave notice of protest for himself and for all who would join him. THE CARDINAL IN IRELAND. Cardinal Wiseman continues to monopolise Irish attention, and, according to the Freeman's Journal, he has succeeded in one particular to the position of the late Daniel O'Connell. "He is," says the organ, " that unenviable individual on whom the largest amount of vituperation is heaped, without provoking in his acts the penalties with which he is visited." His Eminence left Dublin yesterday for Dun dalk, his movements being closely watched all along by vigilant reporters, who duly chronicle everything that occurs in his progress. The article in the Times in reference to the omission of the Queen's name at the Ballinasloe Clerical Reunion has elicited the following apolo getic remarks by way of explanation, from the Freeman's Journal of this morning : " It was a meeting of ecclesiastics to honour a distinguished member of their church. A few lay men were present, but that trifling ingredient did not alter the nature of the meeting, or invest it with a public character. At private meetings it is not usual to propose the Queen's health, nor is such a mark of respect ever expected. Nothing was done to exalt any personage or potentate above the Queen or the Government of England. But if the hosts of the Cardinal at Ballinasloe erred, much more did the Cardinal himself ! He spoke, it seems, of the Catholics of England and Ireland as subjects of the same Sovereign, but still more closely allied' as members of the same church. Why, what is there objectionable in such a statement ? Which is the closer bond of union, the temporal or the spiritual ? The world knows there are such bonds, and, if they once clashed in Ireland, the time of conflict has long passed into the twi light of tradition." THE DUBLIN POLICE FORCE. - - Saunders' of this day says :—" A paragraph having appeared in this paper, which has been copied into others, that Colonel Browne, Commis sioner of the Metropolitan Police, had resigned, without any explanation, we are authorised to state that Colonel Browne applied to Government to recommend him to the Treasury to be allowed to retire upon his full salary, on the grounds of length of service, and his having arrived at the age of 68 years. The Treasury having acceded to this, Colonel Browne will retire as soon as the necessary forms are gone through, and will be succeeded by Colonel Lake, C. 8., aide-de-camp to the Queen, an officer of great experience, and highly distinguished at the defence of Kars against the Russians, and on other occasions. Colonel Attwell Lake, C. 8., aide de-camp to the Queen, who has been appointed to succeed Colonel Browne as Commissioner of the Dublin Metropolitan Police, is associated with one of the most heroic and gallant events of the late war—the defence of Kars. Colonel Lake's appoint ment is deservedly popular, and is as creditable to the Government as it is likely to prove satisfactory to the public ; he brings with him the reputation of being a high-minded and courteous gentleman as well as a tried and skilful soldier, and is reported to be in every way qualified for the important office which, in just appreciation of past services, has been worthily conferred on him." To. COR3IACKS. The just strictures of nearly the whole of the London press upon the recent disgraceful exhibi tion at Nenagh have found an echo in a respectable Roman Catholic journal. Honestly ashamed of the whole proceedings ' tHe Cork Reporter writes : " A meeting has been held at Nenagh, for which we are ashamed. The sentiments enunciated were violent, extreme, and unwarranted to the extent of being actionable. We do not at all mean to enter into a discussiini *of the trial, which was managed in the usual fashion. There was, as usual, a pre liminary investigation before magistratds. A grand jury found the bills. A Crown prosecutor, without any earthly object, performed the case. A jury of 12 men found that the facts were proved. A judge, who had nothing to say to the finding of the facts, directed the law. A conviction being announced, he sentenced the prisoners, who had seven weeks to refer to the Court of Criminal Appeal if they had any cause of complaint. The mode of pressing their claims upon the reprieving preroga tive of the Crown was open to them. Probably the ablest advocate of the bar in such cases, Mr. Rollestone, was retained, and pleaded for them. Now, a public meeting of some 10,000 of Tipperary men has been held to express sentiments of the rankest dissent from this result of an open trial. We regret to say that in that county where, even by the evidence adduced upon the trial, it was apparent that the murder-of landlords was reduced to a faultless idiosyncrasy in popular belief, many priests sanctioned the assemblage, not alone with their presence, but with their spoken assent. Un doubtedly, paid assassins can be procured there to work the will of any person murderously inclined. A long series of outrages can attest it, and one of the Crown witnesses avowed it. In the face of such incontestible truths we refrain from publish ing what some of the speakers were not ashamed to advocate—the moral rectitude of taking the law into their own murderous hands. It is with deep regret that we advert to such a matter even inci dentally, but it is impossible to pass that which has been so carefully emblazoned. We coincide with the expression of the Dublin Evening Mail, with which we seldom agree, that the Government r should not pass over this case, but visit it with punishment both exemplary and decisive, both, in the case of the speakers and the chairman, who, holding an official position, still warranted with his presence the rabid abuse which was heaped upon the administration of criminal law in this country without a shadow of reason. The notion of placing blame at the door of the judge who tried the case .when, if any objection could be raised, it could only be attributable to the learned counsel who was retained for the defence, is quite absurd. If Mr Justice Keogh were faulty in his rendering of the law the Court of Appeal was open, and he left abundant time that such correction might be availed of. If the jury were so depraved as to murder two men by a perjured verdict, yet the right of applying to the Lord-Lieutenant re mained. It seems to us most unjust, unconscien tious, and cruel that such an occasion should be used to satisfy party feeling against a judge em ployed in a case where life or death was in the issue. As we have said, we turned to this subject with much and serious dislike, and we now leave it with a hope that such a lunatic exhibition of popular rancour will never again appear in Ire land." DEATH FROM CHLOROFORM An inquest was held at the Red Lion, Heathen cote, near Towcester, by Mr. A. Weston, deputy coroner, on Saturday, the 28th ult., on the body of Wm. Rush, aged 11 years. It appeared from the evidence of the boy's mother, and of Mr. E. F. Watkins, surgeon, that the deceased had received an injury of the foot some weeks previously, which had resulted in a considerable shortening of the great toe and enlargement of the corresponding metatarso-phalangial joint. No surgical aid was called in until a few days before his death. Mr. Watkins was then requested to examine the foot, but, in consequence of the boy's screams and resist ance, and the acute pain caused by the slightest manipulation, the examination was not satisfac tory. As it was absolutely necessary to decide whether the case was one of dislocation or diseased joint,' Mr. Watkins proposed another examination under the influence of chloroform, to which no ob jection was offered, the mother being made to understand that the boy " would be put into a sound sleep, during which the examination might be ac complished without causing any pain. Accord ingly, on Friday, the 27th, Mr. Watkins was called, and having placed the boy on a bed, proceeded to administer the cholroform by inhalation. As the ob ject was merely to secure insensibility to pain during the very short period required for the examination of the foot, it was . intended to in duce the very slightest state of anesthesia com patible with the attainment of that object. The handkerchief upon which the choloform was applied was a stout cotton one furnished by the mother, and two of the corners folded over the part which was moisted with chloroform were interposed be ' tween the latter and the lips and nostrils of the patient. Though the boy seemed somewhat afraid of inspiring the vapour freely, it caused neither cough, sneezing, nor any sign of irritation of the air passages. Mr. Watkins had himself taken a full inspiration from the handkerchief before apply inc, it to the patient. After an interval of from 30 to 40 seconds the desired effect being apparently v-produeed, Mr. W. took hold of the foot, but had no sooner done so than the boy sprang up and screamed lustily, declaring' that he would not submit to the examination, and placing his other foot across the affected one, succeeded in preventing it ; thus prov ing that the apparent effect of the chloroform was not real. An interval of two minutes or more was spent in pacifying and reassuring him, and the handkerchief was again moistened and placed lightly over the lower part of the face ; he evaded the inhalation of the chloroform for some 20 or 30 seconds by first holding his breath and then suddenly turning his head. aside and taking a full inspiration quite clear of the handkerchief, but, on being encouraged, he steadily inspired the vapour. After some six or eight inspirations the desired condition appeared to be produced ; the pulse had not indicated the slightest disturbance of the circulation, the countenance was perfectly composed and natural in colour as well as in expression, and the breathing was soft and uni form as in natural sleep. Mr. Watkins, having given the handerchief into the mother's hand, was again taking the foot when the patient made two short stertorious inspirations. The chloroform was at once discontinued; but the change from a slight to an extreme condition of anesthesia became rapidly apparent, the pulse fell at once, and after a very few hurried and feeble beats, ceasedto be perceptible at the wrist, the lips assumed. a livid hue, which almost instantaneously spread it self upwards and downwards over the whole surface, and a small quantity of frothy mucus ran from the mouth. Cold effusion was instantly applied, and the patient was turned over, care being taken to keep his mouth from the pillow—twice or thrice a suc cession of short, laboured inspirations induced the hope that the heart was resuming its functions.. Hot water was on the spot, and flannels taken from it were immediately applied to the epigastrium, but all in vain, for the patient ceased to breathe in in about ten minutes. As a last resource, artificial respiration in the direct manner was commenced land carried on vigorously for several minutes, but without any sign of the re-establishment of the heart's action. In reply to a question from the coroner, Mr. Watkins emphatically stated that he was not using the chloroform experimentally, for that his experi ence during the late war had made him so familiar with its effects and the mode of its employment as to render experiment superfluous, and he had since been in the habit of using it very frequently, and with the greatest advantage, in private practice, both in midwifery and surgical cases. In reply to another question, he stated that the habitual presence of two medical men during the employment of chloroform would be suite imprac ticable in country districts, more especially in mid wifery oases ; but at the same time he wished it to be clearly understood that he should never think of attempting, under the use of chloroform, any ope ration embracing the section or ligature of blood vessels, or in any way attended with danger of hemorrhage, except with the assistance of another surgeon, whose special business it would be to re gulate the anesthetic condition of the patient. Mr. Farmer, surgeon, of Silverstone, was sum moned. by . the coroner and examined, in order to assist the jury in arriving at a correct opinion with regard to the care employed in administering th e chloroform, the fact of M r. Watkins being justified in using it in this case, and the coreectness of the means employed in the endeavours to restore the patient. The evidence of Mr. Farmer on these points was such as to exonerate Mr. Watkins from any impu tation of unsidlfulness or of want of due precaution, and to justify the use of the chloroform in such a case. The jury, after a short consultation, found" That the deceased came by his death, from the effects of chloroform, administered by E. F. Watkins for the pu m rp r o . se .w o a f t p k r iu od s insensibilityuscaiindghella , 'under ,the impression that the use of a cotton handkerchief of a much stouter texture than the silk, cambric, or lawn handkerchiefs, which he had most frequently used, might possibly have prevented the due admixture of atmospheric air with the vapour, and thus the chloroform might have entered the air passages in a more oncentrated form than that which was con sidered perfectly safe—viz. ' 5 per cent.—and this opinion d er i ves some weight from the report of the fatal case at Epsom, on the same day, in which the chloroform is said to have been placed on a " nap kin."—Northanzpton Herald. THE CHARTER HOUSE.—The subscription for a monument and a scholarship at the Charter House, in honour of General Havelock, and of the other old Carthusians who fell in the Crimea and India,. has nearly reached the sum of ZOO. Among the subscribers are Lord Panmure, the Bishop of St. David's Sir Proby T. Cautley, Sir Henry Storks, Mr. Justice Cresswell, the Lord Justice Turner, Sir F. Currie, Bart.; Sir E. H..'Leckmore, Bart., Sir Charles Trevelyan, Sir Charles Eastlake, • the • Queen's Advocate, Sir J. D. Harding, the Dean of 'Durham, T. Collins, Esq., M.P., 'Charles Du Calle, Esq., M.P., and several other gentlemen of distinction.—Court Circular. SERIOUS CHARGE AGAINST A COL- LECTOR OF TAXES. At the meeting of the Richmond bench of magis. trates on Saturday the court was occupied for 3 considerable time in the investigation of several charges preferred by the Commissioners of Inland Revenue against Mr. Henry Burbridge, their lat e surveyor and collector of income and assessed taxes for the town of Richmond, of having embezzled the public money to a very considerable amount, and also with hawing illegally received taxes from seve; ral of the inhabitants after he had ce ased 0 hold the office of collector. There was a full attendance of magistrates. Sir T. H. Reeve presided, and there were also present Capt. Price, Capt. Penhryn, and Messrs. Cohen , Lambert, and Lacy. The prisoner was brought 11 P by habeas from the Queen's prison, where he has been confined under the warrant of the commis sioners as a defaulter. Mr. Hurrell, instructed 13 9, Mr. Jacob, conducted the prosecution on b e half 01 the Commissioners of Inland Revenue, and an attor ney named Hall appeared on behalf of the prisoner. Mr. Hall, at the commencement of the proceed ings, applied to the bench to allow the case to dat a over for a week. It was a very serious charge, he said, against a person who had heretofore filled a respectable position in society, and for which, if convicted, he would be liable to transportation, or a long period of penal servitude. He was, therefore , very anxious that he should have the assistance of counsel, and he at the same time said he had hoped that with reference to the deficiency in the pri soner's accounts, a proceeding would have been taken that would have obviated the necessity of any prosecution. The bench said that ample time had already been, afforded the prisoner to prepare hi s d e f e nce ; with regard to the suggestion of a compromise, the case was now in the hands of the magi s trates, and all they had to do was to ascertain whether the evidence established any criminal offence against a party accused, and they were not aware that the Crown possessed any more power to compromise a charge of felony than any private individual had. Th evidence in support of the charges against Mr. Burbridge was then gone into. It a pp e ared that he had carried on the business of a timber merchant at Richmond, and was appointed income and assessed tax collector for that district in the year 1854. He continued to hold the office virtually down to the month of Dec., 1857, but it appe 9 that it is the custom for the commissioners to re" appoint the collectors every year, and the appoint ments are made at the close of each financial rat' on the sth of April. It appeared that Mr. - 1511 r; bridge was not re-appointed on the sth April, 1 85 " but he continued his duties in order to close the out standing accounts for the year 1856, and remained in the position of collector until the 12th of D .. ef* , 1857, when his accounts were investigated by Mr. Sells, the surveyor of taxes for the district, and it was ascertained that the prisoner's accounts wer e i deficient to the amount of £713, and he admitted that he had embezzled and misappropriated the, public money to that extent. In con s equence 01 - this discovery the commissioners exercisedthe pow er vested in them by the statute in such cases, andtil e prisoner was committed under their warrant to Horsemonger-lane Gaol until he should pay th e money. It subsequently transpired that the prisoner, after he had ceased to be collector, had received ti considerable portion of the taxes that were due fo r the year 1857, and the consequence was that thoso inhabitants who had paid him were compelled to pay the amount a second time, and under these ell . " cumstances the prisoner was charged with having obtained the sums in question by false pretences. Mr. Hall, the prisoner's attorney, cross-examine d Mr. Sells at very considerable length, a pparently with the object of showing that the co mmi ssioner s had treoted the deficiency in the first instan ce merely as a debt, and that they had received a por tion of the amount by the seizure and sale of th e prisoner's property. Mr. Hurrell said he was unwilling to throw alic difficulties in the way of any one in the position th e t Mr. Burbridge, but it really appeared to him at the cross-examination was quite irrelevant, and th at the only question before the Court was whether, money had been obtained by false represent:l6 oo or not? The Chairman said that he Was of the sail opinion. The matters referred t o m i g ht b e ver y go° 4 topics to urge before a jury ; but the magistrate had no power to try the case, and therefore they were now quite irrevelant. lls In answer to a question by the B enc h, Mr. se r stated that the prisoner had no authority _whatev v , to collect taxes for the year 1857. He added th i ' he appeared to have received some of the money before the books for that year were even made out, and he had altered the dat e o f th e rooe iptm for 1806 to 1857. Mr. Harrell then stated that there were a grea t number of cases in which the prisoner appeared t ° have received money from different inhabitants; but he considered it would only be necessary to pro ceed upon four of them, in which the prisoner peared to have received the sums of £l5 4s. 3 4'' £7 12s. 13d., £2 19s. 100., and 16s. 4d. The Rev. Mr. Hillier, a Wesleyan minister, Nv: i .h e e had paid the first mentioned sum in respect of 'Lt. Wesleyan Institution Captain Wood, and t,7, other inhabitants who had paid the remaini e ,f, sums, were then examined, and' they proved t.l' t payment to the prisoner, and that he gave a reeK o , ~ea and Mr. Sells deposed that the p r i soner had authority to receive those sums , a n d th a t he ' 1- never accounted for them on behalf of the publie. a i The prisoner, upon being asked in the use form whether h e had anything to say in answer to the charge, replied he had nothing to say at. sent, and he was then fully committed to take trial upon the whole of the charges. COUNTRY MARKETS. ROCHESTER—SEPT. 4. At this market there was a fair show of wheat to ° -al`l . Little or nothing doing in b ar l e y ; gr i n di ng qua litiesfl ts o' and in some instances 6d advance was obtained. uaiagt dull sale, and 601 lower. Beans and peas the same 0 . 9 week. NEWCASTLE—SEPT. 4. e of At this morning's market there w as a l arge s upply wheat, but the trade closed dull, at rather ove r the cut cies of this day se'nnight, but we make no a lt era tion iik Te i quotations. Barley held firmly for pr ev i ous ra tes. ' oats is per qr. lower. Beans and peas unaltered. RK—SEPT. 4. an 4 At the market to-d YO ay an average supply of both olk ti - s i - new wheat ; purchases were made at th e o pening of upe ness at last week's rates, but towards the close a de c 46,4+ took place. Old white sold at 46s to 475, red 44s to v s. new wheat 46s to 48s per qr. Oats is 3d to is 4d per s' ° O . Other sorts of grain remained stationary,tbeans 48s to 51s. • LEICESTER—Ana. 30. Our corn exchange to-day was again well attended/ a which met a fll lll e g t o a o t d l s a t t i e pp r l r y ic o e f s. all kinds of grain, DUBLIN —SETT. 3.a q to 34 White wheat, new, 50s to Us Barley, grinaing• • 3 As 3 0 Red do. 56s to 48s Oats, old, 12st.. •• 3 - to 3 1 Old white 44s to 46s New elg 30s Aso Red do.. 40 8 t o 42 s B eans. . 50s to go Barley, malting. — 38s to 40s Mal+ 68s t° ' y' BRBRITISHCOLLIIII3IA.- , --The La Plata, le wiu cil Ei o South=Pton. on Thursday 'with the West India mai/ o f detained off Osborne for trio hours, waiting the 0 be result, Cabinet Council held there, deciding on instructions I„ fi r• given to a detachment of Royal Engineers under the c" tis li mand of Captain Parson's, who were going out to 132 4 1', r e. Columbia to prepare for the formation of a c o l on y tP' O O, On the breaking up of the Council Sir Edward B. 14..n1i0 the Colonial Secretary, with his s uit e , wen t on boarcL„pi La Plata, and delivered to Capt. Parsons his instruCi' He also shortly addressed the detachment. BIRTHS. A slr Commt.—On he 2d inst., at Home Chase, neares' bUrton, Devonshire the idow of Major Cocker, ter House, Oxfordshire, of a daughter. FULLER.—On the 3d inst., at Kenley, near Croyd.col, rey, Mrs.rancis of a son. MAXWELL.— Francis Fuller, of a son. MAXWELI,.__On the2d Fuller, inst., at Scarthingwell any Hon. Mrs. Henry Constable Maxwell, of a son. Of PRENDERGAST.—On the 11th July, at Calcutta, til e of Lieut.-Col. W. Prendergast, of a daughter. MARRIAGES. g gi STANHAM—HENntitSON.—On the 2d inst., in at Sr- t oot ° li Abbott's, erisingtOn, the Rev. Lewis StanhaN ° „„f of St: Mary; Islington,to Anna, second daughtor Henderson, Esq., Of 'Kensington. 13 01 WInCLINioicHMASVI , i:--On the 31st ult., at the c Tr --W ilre iPrl the Holy Trinity, Newington, Surrey, Mr. J. R• 001 ingfori, of the Old Kent-road to Sarah Arnold' , " _ ro e daughter of Mr. William Mason, of Great Bova SeuthWarli. DEATHS. 1 4 1 DASHWOOD.—On the 4th inst., at 9, Seamore-plac e l a to fair, Lady Isabel Anne Dashwood, wid o w of the I , Dashwood, Esq., of Hall-place, Bexley, Kent. wit' FOSTER.—In Bundelcund, of sunstroke while servi r „, c l c, the Central India Field Force, Captain J. C. Fo POMEROY.—On the- 2d inst., at Sussex-place, 1 1 65 park, Mrs. Pomeroy, aged 92. j l,"J e ' NATT.—On the 29th ult., at 44, Cambridge-terrace' park, Thomas Natt, Esq., aged 78. s ol)P S.A.XBY.—On the Ist inst., at Greenwich, Robert ,„ Esq., formerly of the Royal Marines, aged 68. ~,0 0, Dety, SEAFORTH.—On the Ist inst., at Edinburgh, " o f Charlotte, daughter of the late Francis, Ear' forth. via' WHITE.—On the 2d inst. at 5, Northampton - p ar " pond, Mr. F. White,. of Lloyd's, aged 37. •••••••••••\ )11 14 LONDON : Printed a n d P u bli s h e d by MURDO ; 11; 4 , of No. 112, Strand, P r i n t er , at The Sun Office, Strand, in-the-Precinct of. the Savoy, -in the co Pi" Niddlcsex, Monday, September G, 1858. 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