The Sun. — London, England, 1859-10-25 00:00:00

AFFAIRS OF lUbCAN. A letter, dated Florence, Oct. 19, says : The lows-expected answer of the French Emperor to the deputations of the . States of Central Italy Teached Florence in the night between Monday and Tuesday, but was not published yesterday, owing to a certain straeenderness which makes the Tuscan Government hugg the news they receiv.e, be it good, bad, or indifferent —as if it were precious essence, likely to lose its virtue b y evaporation. e s t u .r s t an ce of the Paris telegram, published at las this day's Monitore, was, however, known tonall _. men last evening. The answer of :Napoleon. . I is precisely what all sensible men expected ; e i e t e ls e a s mere repetition of the thousand ar i d . one ed sp h.ms n elf of which the great Monarch has cleaver on the same subject since the fatal peace-day of se lf lafranca. The Emperor professes, of course, the . greatest love for Italy, and zeal for the cause of its independence. He has, however, his duties and ob ligations arising out of the terms of the Villafranca treaty. In the meantime he will undertake to screen the Central Italians from all foreign interference, and even from Neapolitan aggression ! If anything could make a lover of the Italian cause despair of the country, it is the breathless state of anxiety and trepidation with which these unmeaning responses of the Imperial oracle are looked forward to for weeks and months before they come, and minutely construed, sifted, and win nowed, commented upon and strained in all possible manner to build up a transient edifice of hope upon their slender and slippery basis. The Italians, one would say, have faith in all the world save only in themselves. They fear everybody except them selves ; yet they alone are masters of their own des tinies—they alone can make or mar their country. I am sorry and ashamed to have to record that not a few of my friends here pointed to some of the words of the French despatch with a sort of abject exultation :—" Central Italy is safe even from Nea politan attack ?" Why, no man in his senses ever dreamt that the King of Naples would be so mad as to tread on the toes and corns of the French troops of Gen. Goyon, or send his fleet across the lines of the French cruisers crowding the Adriatic, to bring the Pope help, of which the King stands in the greatest need for himself. No man ever doubted that, if the Neapolitans ever crossed the Tronto, or landed at Pesaro or Ancona, they would either join the patriot forces at Rimini or would be scared and scattered by the mere talisman of Garibaldi's s name. Save them from the King of Naples ! Why, the Italians might well go down on their knees before King Bomba's son and heir ; they might well beg, and coax, and bribe him to assail them by all means, and might decree a medal, worth £lO,OOO, to the first Royal maccaroni eater who would be so kind as to venture across the frontier; for, assuredly, au encounter with an enemy of that nature would bring the remedy to all the internal and external evils of Central Italy, and lead us to the only possible solution of the general national question. What kills the Italians, both those of Piedmont and Lombardy, and those of ? the Duchies and the Legations, especially the volunteers enlisted in the national army, is in action. Peaceful. organisation seems to be an achievement beyond the faculties of those fidgetty mercurial Italians. Under the pressure of the Lom bard war Garibaldi was able to improvise a band of heroes in his huntsmen of the Alps, and Mezzacapo gathered together a regular div ision, which gave proofs of discipline no less than of valour. Peace is now rapidly undoing the work of war. Not only are the armaments of Northern and Central Italy not progressing, but the symptoms of serious dis orders are everywhere apparent. I know that every syllable I have just uttered is flatly contradicted by nearly the whole of the Italian press. and nothing is more distressing or alarming than the utter disre gard of truth by which the newsmongers here seem bent upon deceiving themselves no less than the world. It is enough to make a man rub his eyes, and stare about him, and wonder whether he is awake or dreaming, to notice the contradiction between the statements of all, even official newspapers, and the facts that fall under one's immediate observation, and the news that circulates through the medium of private conversation. It is not true that Central Italy has at this pre sent moment more than 45,000 or 50,000 men under arms. It is not quite a week ago since General Mezzacapo assured me the Central Italian forces only amounted to 25,000 men. It is not true that the Modena, Reggio, Parma, Rec., brigades are com plete, nr near completion. The Brigata Parma numbers, 112,00 men ; the one of Reggio hardly exists, except on paper; the Hussars of Piacenza have hardly 50 poor horses as yet. We have only embryos, not only of the Central Italian, but even of the new Sardinian or Lombard forces, with the exception of the Modena Brigade (old Cacciatori della Magra) of the Mezzacapo Division—the Tuscan and other troops, which, under the same or different names, either existed before the war, or were drawn up on the spur of the moment. Since Villafranca Italy has talked an immense deal, and spent even more, about her armament, but has done uext to nothing and, what is worse, is now suffer ing what has Nen previously done to go, to a great extent, to rack and ruin. The causes of this deplorable break-down are to be sought less in the incapacity of the Italians for self-organisation, than in the state of harassing un certainty in which they allow themselves to be kept by the crooked policy of that very French Emperor to whom they obstinately look up for their safety. Their destinies are in their own hands, if they only dare to do what everybody suggests in a whisper. Look upon the annexation as a fait accompli. Let Piedmont govern Central Italy. Let the Romagnese troops march away from Peomagna., the Modena hr . gade from Modena, every Italian s ddier as far away as possible from home. Removed into Piedmont, surrounded by the Savoy or Cuneo bri gades, incorporated in the Queen or Savona regi ments, Mezzacapo's fine looking soldiers would be far from the temptations to mutiny, away from all opportunity for desertion. Garrisoned by Piedmon tese soldiers, watched over by Sardinian gendarmes, such towns as Parma would not be for hours the prey of a murderous mob. The Italians must be go verned that they may he armed; they must be armed that they may be free. No man, who was not a madman, could fancy that a peoiele just issued from the hands of Antonelli's priests, or the Duke of Modena's sbirri, men till lately subjected to An viti's bastinado, should all at once and for ever ex hibit all the virtues of free men, The Italians have done much, too much, to win the respect and sym pathy of the world ; more cannot be fairly expected of them ; more can certainly not be obtained. Were the present provisional state of the country to last through the winter the work of disorganisa tion would be beyond the palliation of the most im pudently lying newspdpers. It is necessary that there should be a King over Italy—the King of her own choosing. Better for Italy to perish in her at tempt to assert her right against not only the King of Naples and Austria, but even against France, if need be, than to allow her pure and sacred cause to be sullied by riots and tumults, to be in the end the prey not only of France and Austria, but even of the King of Naples, the banished Dukes, and the priests. If there is one Italian in all Italy who has full faith in the possibility not only of preserving order, belt also of arming and organising the country, sup posing the present state of perplexity is to con tinue throughout the winter, let him say so; but if there is, and there can by no possibility be one har bouring such a conviction, then let there be no re liance on false representations, which would lead us to a treacherous security. No country was ever saved by a lie. Such being, as 1 believe, the pre: sent condition of Italy, what does the French Em peror say ? ," lle does not consider himself as suffi ciently free from the obligations of Villafranca to advise aught else than a restoration, with large securities of independence and freedom. He will allow no intervention, not even a Neapolitan one. His engagements have no other limits than those of possibility. lle recommends order as the main substantial thing." Now, what is the real mind of the Emperor ? what arc his promises and engagements ? He will allow no intervention—that is to say, he will go to war with Aust r i a if she- either attacks ' Central Italy or renews her hostility lity o b ag e ainst Piedmont; t but Austria is almost sure driven al to some such measure by despai r ; an d if Napoleon friend to Italy, ought he not to wish a e b on ove is al a l things that this country should b e put i n a position to fight its own battles, that e every Italian should be to-day a soldier that he may be to-mor row a f ree citizen?" A n d, if suc h b e his wish, ought he not to desire that Piedmont should, at least pro visionally, govern Italy, seeing that only in Pied mont are m en a b le to, understand what belongs to military organisation, auisatio n . Ile recommends order as the main object, but can he earnestly reckon upon the indefinite preservation of order, if every town is to be perfectly in its own power, as Parma was on the sth of October? Suly he must see that "if has done wonders, it i s un f a i r to ex pect miracle sof her." The immediate annexation of these pro 7inees to Piedmont, or at least their administratim: by Sardinian civil and military ° fa. for this country, the eery, is the oi tiy hope of safety only hope for the preservation of European peace. Are we told fiat such a measure would lead to a fresh outbreak of hostilities with Austria ? But surely Austria trlll either obtain what site was pro mised at Villai.ranca or run the chances of a new struggle; and..if a new appeal is to be made to arms can Italy be e: spec ted to be more ready for the field at the end of ',,he winter, after order has been put to the test of a variety of growing disorders ; after Mezzacapo's division has been halved by desertion, and the new brigades have behaved like the Brigata Parma, several of whose volunteers lent a hand to the murder of Anviti, and all of whom had to be hastily removed from the town ere measures could be taken for the restoration of the empire of the law ? Once more, let it be repeated, the condition of Italy is painfully, supremely critical. The Emperor Napoleon, if he could be taken at his own word, would -L seem to insult the Italians in their misery. But all the past teaches us to interpret every word uttered by the Emperor with a grain of salt, espe cially when by long preparation and deliberation he gives his speech all the solemn obscurity of a response of the Pythoness. What is the.mean ing, for instance, of "his eng agements having hi no o ther limits than those of possibility ? " Which engagements ? Those he has with Austria ? or those which bind him to the Pope ? or the hopes he created and fostered by his prom ises among the Italians ? Supposing him perfectly disinterested,bothforwhat con cerns him, Ins cousin , a nd France. is he willing to go once more to war to screen the Central Ita lians from foreign intervention ? Is he ready to fecomrnence, under less favourable auspices, that work which he left unachieved, the world has not yet discovered for what earthly reason ? Is he in clined to alidw the cause of Italian nationality to be a gain debated, nlv7 that the Papacy has become in volved in it—now that the Romagnese revolutio . n, so long warded of, broken forth ?Is he dis posed to undo his own wo; against the whole of his Fri k of 1849, and wage war priesthood whose suffrage he bow e a by abject sub . - priestho?d, that serviency to their worldly interest? His he be fair and sincere, is difficult beyond all , human position, if comprehension, and, great genius as he is to be, he cannot have the power to see his N - 7 (I Y J . iought clearly out of it. But, if he be something dif ferent—if, as the man who obtained the Crown of France by questionable m eans, his only aim is to extend the power of his e m p ire over the Italian peninsula by means equally questionable—how easy are all the apparent mysteries, shifts, and con tradictions of his conduct at once explained ? He had a footing in Rome ; h e now wishes, like Charle magne, to have the Pope and the Popedom under his entire and exclusive protectorate. He has driven Austria from Tuscany, the Duchies, and the Lega tions ; it must go hard if he does not put himself in her place. He recommends order to the Italians as the unum necessariwn. That was his watchword to them from the beginning. He put them to an ordeal from which their best friends could hardly hope to bring them out unhurt. Order has been maintained for above four months, in the most pro digious manner. There is now anew cry for' order," to last for five or six months more. But if the Ita lians could maintain order, if they could arm and govern themselves, what need would they have of his.help, or what fear of. either Austria. or France herself? Twelve millions of men, properly guided, are, in a good cause, and in self-defence, a match against all possible odds. The danger of the Ita lians is in their previous anarchy and denioralisa tion, in their long engendered unfitness for self government. When the Emperor so eagerly recom mends " order," he resembles that doctor who advised calmness to a feverish patient ; and, after all, what if the Italians were to find the further maintenance of order an impossibility ? Would Napoleon suffer them once more to fall under the sway of Austria ? Would he allow all the work of Magenta and Solferino to go for nothing ? Would he stand by and see the Duchies and the Legations again ruled over by crowned Austrian lieutenants, • and exposed to constant Austrian occupation ? Or would he, the French Emperor, take upon himself the task of the restoration of order ; would he him self accomplish in Italy the mission hitherto dis charged by Austria, step into Austria's old shoes , and bring back into Tuscany, Parma, Modena, and Bologna that admirable order which he re-esta bliahed at Rome in 1849 ? P.S. As if to confirm the most melancholy fore bodings to which I have given utterance in the above, I see now a private letterfrom Rimini, dated the 17th, in which it is said that the Mezzacapo division has been on the point of disbanding en masse, and unanimously refused the new enlistment which was proposed to the soldiers for 18 months. The motives of their discontent is the unsatisfactory state of their dress, unfit as they think for a whiter campaign ; the harshness of some of their officers —especially the Piedmontese ; and the habitual silence and austerity of their General. There was also a complaint that Major Pinelli, the War Mi nister, out of jealousy and ill-will against the . brothersMezzacapo, ill-treated this division, show ' ing partiality to the troops under Rosselli and those organised under his immediate inspection. The orders for the release of those who refused any longer to serve had been drawn up, but not deli vered, when happily the arriy.al of Garibaldi to some extent pacified the malcontents. By his rough but manly eloquence Garibaldi prevailed upon most of the soldiers to abide under their stand ards. Nearly the whole division have consented to enterinto the new engagement for 18 months. The troops at Cattolica have been under arms for the last three days and nights, awaiting a combined attack of the Papal troops and of the Neapolitans, who, to the number of 20,000, were reported to have either crossed the frontier by land or to have landed at Ancona. Very active measures are taken . to guard against a sudden attack. Garibaldi evidently succeeded in conjuring up the storm for the present ; but those Romagnese troops will cer tainly do no good unless they are removed from their country, and kept under very strict discipline. WAKEFIELD ELECTION COMMISSION. WAKEFIELD, OCT. 24. At the sitting of the Commission this morning, Reuben Leighton, who was examined on Friday, and who then swore that he had received nothing for voting for Charlesworth, made his appearance in the -witness-box in order to correct his former evidence. lle said—l was bribed to vote for Charles worth by Mr. John Jubb with £2O in money and the cancelling of an old promissory note of £25. The reason why I did not tell the truth the other day was because Mr. Jabb told me that if I said no thing about the matter here the Commissioners could make nothing of it. It is of my own free will that I have come here to-day. My conscience pricked me for lying, and I have never been happy since. Mrs. Leighton made a similar statement. Mr. Tubb had persuaded them the other day to tell a false story, and had beau to them that morning to try and induce them to stick to it. They had to live in the same village with Mr. Jubb, and were afraid of him. _ _ Mr. Sergeant Pigott—Speak the truth and shame the devil, always, my good woman, without mind ing what people say to you. I am glad you have both repented before it is too late, for the Commis sioners had already come to the conclusion that the story you told the other day was a false one. The cross swearing in this case occupied a consi derable time on Friday, and Mr. J. Jubb, who is a town councillor and a poor-law guardian, swore stoutly that ho had never bribed nor offered a bribe to Leighton, and that the debt of £25 the cancel ling of which was now shown to be part of the bribe, was still valid. Mr. T. Alder said, he canvassed for Mr. Charles worth at the last election but took no part in the bribery. Was told by Mr. Goldthorpe that Michael Cox had taken £25 to vote for Charlesworth, and was asked to take care of him lest he should be car ried off by the other side. Had also heard that two men named Halliday had received £240 between them to vote for Lcatham. Took some share in the management of the "Troughs". Somewhere about 600 were engaged, 300 by night and 300 by day, to watch the electors and prevent them being carried off by the other side. Mr. Leatham's party had many more "roughs" engaged—three to one, perhaps—and it was necessary to protect the Con servative voters, from their insults and violence. The house of every Conservative voter in the town was marked with a cross in chalk, and men set t• watch, who went in and out. The watchers cost between £9OO and £l,OOO, which he got from Mr. Jose Fernandez. Had no idea who the " strangers" were, and except the man to whom he had pointed out Brear's house, had never seen any in the town during the election as far as he was aware. Mr. Fernandez had complained to him of the large ex pense cf the non-electors, but had never said any thing to him about the other expenses. Did not be lieve that £1,700 represented all the money spent in bribery on Mr. Charlesworth's side, and thought it very probable that the election cost him more than £4,000. should think the hotel bills would be more than £l,OOO. It must have cost Mr. Leatham much more—twice as much—for he was an unpopular candidate with the electors, and would have to buy his way among them more freely. The expenses of the non-electors on the other side must have been enormous, as there were large bands of them patrollin ,, the town before the election. On the nomination day all the mill hands were set at liberty to attend at the hustings and hold up their hands for Mr. Leatham. There were between 400 and 500 mill girls at the hustings, and most proba bly the whole of them got their day's wages for it. Had heard since the election that Mr. G. W. Harri son had offered a sweep named Goldthorpe—in mis take for Joshua Dawson, another sweep-1;20 to vote for Leatham. Colonel Cobbe, the chief constable of the West Riding, said that by the request of the magistrates he took charge of the town on the nomination and polling days. There was a general impression that there would be a row, so that on the first day he brought in 80, and on the second . day 180 men. The town was full ofjoughspat t r h ol e h eni ng p t i l o w ym st e r n ee t t o s t. , but instead of keeping the peace Mir!: "SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, OCTOBEIi, 25; 1859,, these men was much r tore likely to provoke a breach of it. John Backhouse fsr aid, he was canvassed by Mr. i Sanderson and Mr. ;Serie for Charlesworth. No money was offered hi , al, but Mr. Sanderson said if he voted for Charles worth he would make a " first class tradesman" of 1 iim. Had been told by Edwin Foster that he had n .ot £4O from T. Kemp Sander son for voting for C aarlesworth. Edwin Foster was called, and swore positively that no such convemation had ever taken place. The only person who had ever offered him money was Backhouse himself, who had promised him £l5 if he would stay away from the town on the polling day. Mrs. Gill said that Mrs. Atack, landlady of the Mitre Inn, had offered to give her £2O if she would persuade her husband to go away without voting. Mrs. Atack was called, and acknowledged having made the offer. Gill was always grumbling that his vote was not as good as other people's, since nobody offered him money for it, so she thought she would try and get him some. She spoke to Joe Brear on the subject, and Joe said she might try to get Gill to go away, but he expected it would be of no use. Mrs. Giil said she had no chance of persuading her husband, for he had determined to Tote for Leatham. John Halliday said he voted for Leatham. The day before the election one of the strangers called at his shop and offered to give him £l6O if he and his son would vote for Charlesworth. Both refused the offer. Daniel Turner was bribed by a stranger to vote for Charlesworth with £3O. It was given to his wife after the polling-day in a paper parcel. John Dawson, publican, voted for Leatham for £3O, which was given to him by Shaw the pawn broler• Was offered £4O by Huscroft to vote for Charles7orth, but he refused it. Joseph limnycliffe, a labourer, in the employ of 11Ir. G. W. Harrison, said he had offered a voter £4O to vote for Latham, but the other side bought him for £6O. Bribed another voter with £2O, and got the money from Gilbert at Wainwright's office. Was entirely a volunteer. The witness was under examination when our parcel was despatched. It is understood that at the close of to-day's sitting . the Commissioners will ad journ for some weeks, in order to give time for the production of the missing witnesses. . GLOCESTER ELECTION COMMISSION. TWENTIETH DAY. SHIREHALL, GLOCESTER, OCT. 24. On the Commissioners—Messrs. Vaughan, Fitz gerald, and Welford—resuming the inquiry this morning, Mr. J. Lovegrove, Sir R. Carden's agent, was questioned with reference to what had taken place between him and Mr. Bernard, who was examined on Saturday. He stated that previous to receiving the telegram per Mr. Bernard before the last elec tion he had had no communication with him. He had seen Mr. Bernard in London last Friday, and sputeco hi m Mr. o g o h t e hweietkh spoken respect o t f o t b h y e m ß e e n r tn Bernard t o h n e Saturday. Mr. Lovegrove also wished to expla in to the Commissioners that he had gone to London for the purpose of seeing Sir R. Carden, with the view of going through the election accounts with him; that Sir Robert went through the accounts and ex pressed himself satisfied -with the distribution of every shilling of the money charged. Mr. Love grove complained that covert attacks had been made against him in respect of his account with Sir R. Carden, and he wished it to be known that not a sixpence had gone into his own pocket beyond the ordinary fees. Mr. Commissioner Vaughan said Mr. Lovegrove was quite right in making the explanation. The examination of voters who had been bribed at the last two elections was then proceeded with. H. Woodyatt was next called, but denied he had received anythin g for his vote, or that he had told any person that he had received £5. He had promised to do hie best for Sir B. Carden, but his employer, Mrs. Wetherell, wished him to vote fog, Price and Monk, and he accordingly did so. Henry French, ostler, received £4 at the last election for voting for Carden, and £2 in 1857 when he voted for Berkeley and Carden. He had never voted for Price. [ln the printed poll-book he was entered as voting in 1857 for Price and Berkeley.] Henry Castle was paid £lO at the last election for voting for Garden, and nothing for voting for him in 1857. Knew nothing about other persons being bribed, and had no recollection of telling Mr. Wilton that he could give evidence in that respect. William Coopey received £7 from Ward for vot ing for Sir R. Carden at the last election, and £5 for persuadinr , the others to poll the same way and a sovereign afterwards for drink. Did not poll for the dead man. Had a good deal of trouble in persuading the others to vote for Carden, " 'coz they'd been offered eight a piece on the other side, and I had to stand a good drop o' drink." There were about eight or nine of them—two brothers and three or fonr cousins, and William Rowles. Had not taken up his freedom in 1857. Mr. Brdwn (Conservative agent) paid for taking up his freedom. Joseph Coopey, one of the " persuaded," received L 7 to vote for Carden, and also stated that Brown paid for taking up his freedom. He denied having polled for the dead Coopey, who was his father. Several other witnesses were examined who ad mitted that they had been bribed. Mr. IV. 11. Cooke, barrister, Oxford Circuit, de posed that in 1856 Mr. Lovegrove asked him whe ther he knew any commercial man who would coz test Glocester en Conservative principles. lie thought of Sir It. Carden, and mentioned it to Mr. Bernard as his friend. Mr. Bsrnard afterwards told him he had seen Sir Robert, who said he could not give an answer until he had seen some parties from Glocester. Subsequently a day was appointed for receiving a deputation from Glo cester, and he accompanied them, and left Sir Robert with the deputation to settle their own affairs. Went with the deputation to Exchange buildings for the purpose of introducing them to Mr. Bernard, and he was with the deputation when they met Sir Robert Carden. His impression of the result was that Sir Robert reserved any decision for a time. No statement was made to Sir Robert Carden by witness as to the cost of an election. Sir Robert appe ired in a hurry, and it seemed that this was the first time the matter had been mentioned to him. Witness purposely avoided mixing himself up with local elections, being a barrister practising be fore the House of Commons. Mr. Bernard's evidence quite astonished him as he read it in the papers of that morning, but he was so sleepy in such matters that he was not surprised at it. Passed through Gloucester on the day of poll at the election of 1857, and saw Mr. Lovegrove, and understood from him that certain persons were to be put forward at the last moment to vote for Price and Carden to put Ad miral Berkel9rout, and he expressed a hope that he (Mr. Lovegrove) would not countenance it. In April, 1857, Mr. Whithorn called on him in London, and asked him to lend him £lOO ; that he had made large payments, and was a good deal out of pocket. He asked witness to lend him the money until Mr. Lovegrove got it from Sir R. Carden. He did not say that it was for illegal payments. There was no occasion to do that if it were so. He gave witness to understand that he should be repaid when the election accounts were settled. The im pression on witness's mind was that as a petition was pending it was not thought desirable to ask Sir Robert to pay more - money - than was necessary. Saw Sir R. Carden after the petition was decided, and at Mr. Lovegrove's suggestion told him that the Glocester agents would - be glad to have some money, and Sir Robert gave him £l,OOO. No doubt, when he paid that over to Mr. Lovegrove he deducted from it the £lOO whichhe had advanced to Mr. Whit horn. Sir Robert expressed his surprise at the large amount required, but witness did not think he expressed any opinion that it must have been expended in bribery. If Sir Robert had said he did so, no doubt he did, but witness did not recollect it. Certainly no check ever passed through his hands to Mr. Bernard, and witness had no knowledge himself of any bribery at the election. Was coun sel on the petition of 1857. Had nothing whatever todo with the election of 1859, except the pleasure of receiving some fees on the petition. By Mr. Welford—l consider the Corrupt Prac tices Act at present a delusion and a snare if it was intended to prevent bribery and treating. The election auditor, to be an efficient person, should be either a member of the bar or a person w ho could not afford to be a partisan, and he considered he should be competent and have the power to pay the bills which were laid before him. Cannot imagine any person going as a sttanger to contest a borough without £3,000 or £5,000 in his pocket. Know Gloucester men were famous fellows—" Blues and Yellows"—and must have their beer, A Gloucester election is a sort of saturnalia, and has been so ever since Queen Anne. Mr. Vaughan—Then, corrupt practices hare not a very strong opponent in you? Witness—Oh,of course,l do not 2.p -rove of them —but it is idle to shut your eyes to the fact that such things exist. I don't patronise them, but if you were to have a commission in every borough, and if the people were equally honest, you would have similar revelations. Further evidence of corruption in 1857 was then taken. Several witnesses having been examined, the Commissioners adjourned for the day. It is under stood that they will conclude their labours on Wed nesday. CRIMINAL COURT, Oct. 24. OLD COURT. Lawrence Duckworth Barlow, a respeetable looking. man, was found guilty of unlawfully wounding Hannah Edwards with intent to do her grievous bodily harm, and sentenced to 12 months' hard labour. Alfred Cooper surrendered to take his trial upon three indictments, for embezzling moneys, the pro perty of the parish of St. Giles, Camberwell. The prisoner, it will be recollected, was tried and acquitted at the September sessions upon two other indictments of a similar character, and the present charges were postponed to this sessions. Mr. Robinson, who appeared for the prosecution, stated that the parish authorities having consulted upon the matter, and feeling that the whole of the facts had been brought before the jury on the former trials, had come to the conclusion that it was not necessary to proceed with the other indict ments, and he should therefore, with the permission of the Court, withdraw from the prosecution. Mr. Metcalfe, who was instructed for the defence, said he wished it to be understood that what had been done was a spontaneous act on the part of the parish. A verdict of not guilty was then recorded upon each indictment, and the defendant was discharged from custody. Thomas Robinson, 2C, was indicted for burglary. Mr. M'Donnell conducted the prosecution. The prisoner pleaded guilty, and was sentenced to twelve months' hard labour. Charles Talbot, 31, and James Alexander Noble, 27, were charged, the former with stealing, and the latter with receiving a large quantity of account books and other property, belonging to Mr. Henry Rock and others. _ _ . There was a second indictment of the same kind against the prisoner Talbot, to -Which he pleaded guilty. Mr. Giffard and Mr. E. Bosley prosecuted; Mr. Itibton defended Talbot ; and Mr. Sleigh and Mr. Doyle appeared for the other prisoner. - The prosecutors in this case carryon an exten sive business as wholesale stationers in Walbrook, and the prisoner Talbot had been in their service as porter for twenty years, and it appeared that in consequence of some discoveries that were made with regard to the stock a suspicion was entertained that they were being plundered to a large extent. Two of the City detectives, named Knight and Lake, were employed to make inquiries, and they went to the shop of the prisoner Noble, who sells secsnd-hand books, and they there found a large quantity of property belonging to the pro secutors, and the prisoner, upon being questioned as to how he became possessed of this property, said he had purchased it of a woman, who told him that she lived at North Woolwich, and he gave no fur ther information upon the subject. Upon the lodging of the prisoner Talbot bein6 searched seve ral articles were found which were identified by the prosecutor, and which he admitted he had taken from his mast't•'r's warehouse. In the course of the cross-examination of the prosecutor, he stated he was unable to say positively when any of the pro perty found at the shop of the prisoner Noble was stolen from his premises, or that it might not have been sold to some of his customers, although he did not believe it possible that this could have been the case. The Recorder upon this evidence expressed his , opinion that the jury would hardly be justified in convicting either of the prisoners. A verdict of not guilty was consequently returned, and Noble was ordered to be at once discharged. The other prisoner, upon the indictment to which he had pleaded guilty, was sentenced to six months' imprisonment and hard labour. NEW COURT. (Before the Common-Sergeant.) Thomas Harding Cooper surrendered to take his trial upon an indictment for bigamy. Mr. Gent prosecuted, and Mr. Orridge defended. The prisoner has for some time lived in West morclan d• road , Walworth-road, and carried on busi nss as a plumber. In November, 1852, prisoner, being then a widower, was again married, but shortly afterwards separated from his wife; but she, it appeared, still continued to live in the same neighbourhood. Last year a widow named Moore came to lodge with the prisoner, and he, after a brief courtship, married her, she, at the time, not being aware that he was a married man. The jury found the prisoner guilty. The constable . who took the prisoner in custody said that from inquiries which he had made he be lieved that Mrs. Moore knew at the time she mar ried the prisoner that he had a wife alive. The prisoner said that after marrying the prose cutrix he put her children to school, but he not, being able to continue to keep a good home, she had prosecuted him. The Court sentenced him to two months' im prisonment. Philip Trin cnam,l4, pleaded guilty to forging and uttering an order for the sum of £B5 with intent. The prisoner had been an errand boy to Mr. Figge, &f Gutter-lane, and, having forged the order got a lad about his own age to present it for pay ment. _ _ The Court sentenced him to three months' im prisonment, and then to be confined for three years in areformatory. POLICE INTELLIGENCE, Oct. 24. BOW-STREET: — Henry Rone and Thomas Rone, journeyman shoemakers, were charged with a ruffianly assault on Sergeant Felton and another constable of the F division. vv The sergeant had interfered to quell a disturb ance in Clare-market on Saturday night. His re monstrances were unavailing, and in proceeding to take one of the brothers into custody, he was knocked down and ill-treated by both of them, dragged through a house into a back yard, and the hair torn by handfuls from his head, until his bro ther officer, Pigott, succeeded in getting into the house to his rescue. Pigott was also assaulted by one of the defendants, and the other was heard to ask his wife to give him the knife out of his pocket, although this was explained by the assertion that he only wanted her to cut his neckerchief to pre vent the officers from strangling him. The top of the sergeant's head was literally bald from the savage treatment he had experienced, and which, he said, so confused him that he could not discriminate the One assailant from the other. The prisoners were assisted by others present in the house, but they desisted when they say him (Felton) so completely at their mercy, Mr. Jardine said the case was too serious to be disposed of by him. He was epared to inflict the full penalty, but that would be a wholly inadequate punishment for an outrage of this kind. The case must be reported to the Commissioners of Police, and he should remand the prisoners for a week to enable that course to be taken, with a view to a prosecution at the sessions. James Gates, a dray man, in the service of Messrs. Combe and Delafield, was fined £5 for assaulting George Dunman, a toll-collector at Waterloo bridge. and for attempting to evade the toll. Mr. Powell, the solicitor to the Bridge Company, stated that the draymen of Messrs. Combo and Co. had given the officers a great deal of trouble by their attempts to defraud the company—sometimes by representing their barrels to be empty when all but the top ones were full, by referring to their foreman "behind" for payment, &c., and by being drunk and causing obstructions at the gate. The defendant was committed for a month in de fault. M MILD OROUGII-STRE ET.—CURIOUS CASE OF ALLEGED PERJURY AND FRAUD.—Mr. Beadon was occupied a considerable time investigating a charge of fraud preferred against Benjamin Crow ther, a young man of gentlemanly appearance, in which was involved another charge of perjury, on the ground that the fraud was chiefly effected upon a certain false declaration made by the accused in this court on the 15th Sept , 1858. Mr. Cooper, solicitor, defended the prisoner. Mrs. Ellen Talaurnay deposed as follows—l am a widow, and reside at No. 19, Albion-street, Hyde park. Near the end of June I was residing else where, and on the look out for a house, and raw in the window of the premises I now occupy, a bill of the house to let. Thinking it might suit me I went in and saw a female, and in consequence of what she told me, called again that same day, upon which occasion I met with the prisoner, and asked if he could, and were inclined to sell the lease of the' house. 114 said " Yes." I left, and called again in a few days according to promise, and the conver sation was renewed. Besides the lease and good will, the furniture the house contained was to be disposed of, and he asked me £2OO far it. After looking over it I aFreetl to give £175, which he ul timately consented ' to take. On Saturday, the 2d July, I gave him, therefore, £9O in part payment of the total, £173, and took possession of the furni ture in my own right. I should mention that he particularly said, on me paying the money, " ts not hega ut T e l i l ns e ,c n eo t i n e o l t l fb i e t ra T u C eos a N( p v. o t \ Na v y n o i n r o t gt h h, not name this to my neighbours, and especially do scqu n and cn i t o, l s e S 1 5 1 s b u t spicio caused. the Registrar's-office in the Temple to be searched, and from what I learnt I gave a further ' sum of £62 t o M r. Johnson to ß enable him to dis charge a bill of sa l e t o a li r. tion produced, dated September , aYne. The declara tion to me by M r . Johnson. , 1 5 he , 1858, was prisoner had bill from the first assu re d me th ere was no of sale. Mr. Frederick Johnson, of Eastbourne-terrace, Padding;on, gentleman, examined, said—l was present on the 2d of July last, when the purchase referred to was made between the parties. I was there on the part of Mrs. Taburnay, and said to her in the room, in prisoner's presence, " I think you would be wrong and foolish to pay any portion of this money before you have searched the Registrar's office to see if there is any bill of sale or judgment existing affecting this property," and I advised that such course should first be taken. The prisoner in reply said, " There is really no necessity for doing so, for I declare to you, as a gentleman, that nothing of the kind exists." I contended that in such a transaction as they were negotiating a mere state ment of denial on his part would not be sufficiently satisfactory, but while we were arguing on the point a van laden with furniture belonging to Mrs. Taburnay arrived at the door, and as it must have been taken back again if the sale they were upon had not been there and then completed, that lady elected to complete and accept his word that all was right. I put the question pointedly to the prisoner, "Is there, or-is there not, a bill of sale, judgment, or document that can in any manner affect the goods now to be sold here P" These were my words, and he distinctly answered, "No, there is not." I next called for receipts of rent and taxei, in order to be assured by written proofs that every outgoing had been settled up and paid. The prisoner, it then appeared, could produce no receipts whatever, but pressing for the money, I was induced, upon his re peated asseveration that all was correct, to advise Mrs. Tab urnay to let him have £9O of the money, retaining for a time the difference to meet any pos sible claims which might come in in the way of rent and taxes. On the following Monday the prisoner called on me, and was most anxious to obtain the remaining portion of the amount, and then his very great anxiety, so soon after the first money was paid, led me to suspect him in this affair, and on the next day, I, in consequence, proceeded t o th e Queen's Bench-office in the Temple, where all bills of sale as I knew are registered, and found that a bill of sale had been effected on the property in favour of a Mr. Bayne, bearing date the 15th Sept., 1858. Directly I had ascertained this fact, I went to, and consulted with Mrs. Taburnay, and next proceeded to the station, and made the police acquainted - with the circumstances. Subsequently the prisoner worked upon me, after he had seen MI.. Bayne, and on the strength of a declaration made in this court, which 1 received frna him, I advanced £62, re ceived from Mrs. Taburnay, to him, on the bill of sale on the furniture and effects alluded to, to pay off Mr. Bayne, who he said would not allow any rebate of interest—the declaration, which is false, and the bill, bear the same date. The prisoner here said he did not think he was making a false declaration. Mr. Cooper, for the prisoner, said he was able to show that if there was any fraud, it originated with Mr. Bayne, and had been compounded by Mrs. Taburnay, and he would submit that there the per jury ended. • Mr. Beadon—That cannot be, and that perjury has been committed is as clear a; the sun at noon day. So far as the case has gone, it is also plain that a most abominable swindle has been effected. At this stage of the case, Mr. Lewis, of Ely place, came in, and took up the case for the prose cation. Mr. William Bayne, 29, Brook-street, bill dis counter, called—l have seen prisoner about twice ; last time in September, 1858. I made an advance of £lOO to him on a bill of sail on the furniture in question, in Albion-street. I required a declaration to be made afterwards. I had asked him if there was any lien on it, and he said £75 only, due to a loan society on money borrowed. The declaration was made at this court. I paid the money on the execution of the bill of sale. Mr. Lewis applied for a remand till Wednesday, as it was impossible for him to do justice in the case under less time. Mr. Cooper, for the defence, opposed this. Mr. Beadon said it was clear a further hearing must take place. Mr. Cooper said he was prepared to prove that .11Irs. Taburnay was aware of the bill of sale having taken place before the money was paid by her to the defendant. Mr. Beadon remarked on the fact that Mr. John son had advanced £5O to pay off the bill of sale. Mr. Lewis said he hid no objection to good bail being taken. A gentleman, who said his name was Samuel Denton, 15, Gray's Inn-square, hoped his evidence would be taken at once—l produce a bill of sale, dated 2d February, 1857, on the furniture in ques tion. It was registered on the sth February. It is for £75, of which £36 now remains due. Cross-examined—We have an assignment of the house in question besides, from Mr. Crowther, the prisoner. There is another also security with hhn. Mr. Johnson remarked that the prisoner, when asked about the lease, stated that it was either burnt or had been mislaid. Remanded till Monday next; two bail in £6O each, and his own security being taken for his re appearance, of which the usual notice. was to be given for inquiry. WORSHIP-STREET.—ANOTHER BRUTAL MOTTlER.—Susannah Brooks, dirty and dissolute in appearance, was charged before Mr. D'Eyncourt with cruelly assaulting Thomas Brooks, her own child, seven years of age. This case was prosecuted by Mr. Messer, relieving officer of the parish of St. Luke's, from instructions by the board of guardians. On Monday last several respectable inhabitants, principally females, made a complaint at St. Luke's Workhouse that a family of children, living at 12, Lizard-street, were suffering from hunger and gene ral neglect, in consequence of which Gurling, the beadle, accompanied by Mr. Bletchly, surgeon, of the City-road, repaired to the house, in one apart ment of which they found three boys, aged respec tively fourteen, seven, and five years, and a girl, two years old, in an almost nude state. They were conveyed to the workhouse, and shortly afterwards the prisoner, their mother, returned home drunk, when she was taken into custody, and from what had been ascertained in the interi m charged as above before Mr. D'Eyncourt, wh o di rec t e d a remand. The children now presented a very altered ap pearance. They were warmly clad, and the boy, now most particularly the subject of inquiry, looked even plump, but a scar on one of his cheeks testified to some previously severe sore. Mr. Edmund Bietchly said he examined the child Thomas on the day when first 'received into the house. There were 12 bruises about the head and body, two of which, on the hip and right side, were very severe. There was also one, apparently the effects of a kick, at the bottom of the abdomen, and this still remained. The little fellow was then in a very weak state from want of food, and lite rally covered with vermin. The other children also were in a generally bad condition. Gurling, the beadle, mentioned that the prisoner had formerly been well to do, her husband, who died about six years since, having kept a beer-shop in Britannia-street, City-road. After his demise she sold some household property left by him to her, and had since then squandered the proceeds. She was an habitual and confirmed drunkard, now co habiting with an old man as bad as herself. He did not believe she had been sober for two years. There was a good bed in the room occupied by her, but the accommodation for the four children in one corner of the apartment was disgusting. The evidence of the eldest boy, Jordan Brooks, was to the effect of his having seen his mother, on the Bth inst., force the child Thomas under the grate while there was a fire in it. She also kicked that child in the back at the same time ; and to get out of her way, she being drunk, the victim of her bru tality crept under the bedstead. The occasion of her doing all this was, that the child had taken some money out of her pocket. It was further sworn that prisoner was in the constant habit of ill-using them all when she was iu liquor. . _ Mrs. Sarah Kelly, residing opposite the prisoner, said that on Sunday week last she saw the two boys, aged seven and five years, on the stairs of her house; they were crying, and complained that their mother would not let them in-doors. Witness sent her daughter with them to the prisoner, but she was in bed with some man, and the appeal on behalf of the children was ineffective. Witness sheltered them the whole of that night, cleansed and fed them. They were were in a most pitiable condition ; one of them had not any shirt on—their hunger was ex cessiVe. The prisoner had formerly lodged with her, and was always a drunken, dirty woman. All the children at that time frequently asked her for broken victuals. They were miserable and dirty, the youngest particularly so. Mrs. Mary Hampton, landlady of the house where prisoner lodged, spoke to having heard repeated acts of apparent violence committed by the pri soner on the children, and to having seen them pick up refuse in the streets and ev t it. They always appeared dirty and starving. Mr. Messer observed that there was further evi• donee of a similar character, but Mr. D'Eyncourt said that he purposed dealing with the prisoner, not for the alleged general ill usage to all the children, but for' the assault upon the boy Thomas', as an aggravated case. What had she to say respecting it ? The prisoner, trembling from head to foot, and sobbing, replied—l recollect that I had been to get some things to stew for a meal, and on returning met the two females, who treated me to a drop of gin, it overcame me, and on reaching home I laid" down ; when I awoke I found that the boy had taken some money from my pocket, and also eaten a carrot, and I recollect that in my passion I pushed him down by the fender; that is all. Mr. D'Eyncourt—Why, you aro now almost in a state of delirium tremens. To get drink you have nearly starved your children, and when, while under the pangs of hunger, they steal from you, you ill treat them. Drink has with you destroyed the natural feelings of a mother for her offspring. You have neglected them in every way. Prisoner (ssbbing)—l will never set my foot within the door of a public-house again. Mr. D'Eyneourt--For the next six months as suredly you will not, for I shall send you to the House of Correction with hard labour for this assault upon the little boy. Probably you may not live to come out of prison ; should it be otherwise, I trust you may be in some measure a better woman. Prisoner—Oh, do not ; pray do not send me to prison. In this state she was removed to the cells. CLERKENWELL. THE STRIKE. - William Perham, one of the delegates of the Masons' Com mittee, appeared before Mr. Corrie in answer to a summons which charged him " that he did on the Ist day of October, in the parish of Clerwenwell, unlawfully by threats and intimidation, and by mo lesting and obstructing William Jocelyn and others, then being workmen hired and employed in their trade and business by Messrs. Piper and Son, en deavour to force the said William Jocelyn and others to depart-, from their hiring and employment, contrary to the statute," &c. Mr. Mullins appeared for the prosecution, and Mr. Roberts for the defcnca. The court was crowded by workmen and others interested in the question of the strike, and when the ease was called on, Mr. Roberts said he had to make an application for the postponement of the summons. lie had be fore been engaged for the working classes hr ques tions of this sort, and he had been telegraphed for to attend this case, and did not arrive in town until Saturday night at ten, when he saw the parties at his hotel. From what he was then informed it ap peared that 20 men arrived from Plymouth on the Ist of O' sober, and on the night of that day these men tame in contact with the defendant, and were spoken to. The question would be whether that was a molestation or an obstruction. Some of these men remained in London, but the larger portion went back to Plymouth by the persuasion of the persons whom they met, and those that remained were persuaded by the employers. Those men that remained in London he had no hope would speak the truth, and therefore it was necessary that the men who had gone back should be brought up as witnesses. Refound that no train wentthrough to Plymouth on a Sunday, but the men were sent for, and would arrive in town to-morrow morning. It was under these circumstances that he had to ask for the case to be adjourned until to _morrow (this day.) _ _ _ Mr. Muffins said that the Strike Committee has sent pickets down to Plymouth to pick up evidence, but they did not know who these witnesses would be. He could not attend tomorrow, or any day this week, as on two of the days he Ld similar cases to attend to. He had no objection to the case being adjourned until Monday next. Mr. Corrie, in adjourning the case until that day, said it was better that it should be so, so that not a shadow of suspicion could be raised. LAMBETH.—THE STONE-THROWING NUN ANCE.—AIfred Sands, aged 16, was charged before Mr. Yardley with throwing stones in James-street, Peckham, in the company of other boys, and with seriously injuring Wm. Langford, another boy, who is in St. Thomas's Hospital, where he is stated to be in considerable danger. 1-41 t appeared from the evidence that on the pre vious evening some words took place between the prisoner and the boy Langford, when the former flung a large flint stone at him which knocked him down. Mr. Yardley—Where is the boy ? Police-constable Turner, 35 P, who had charge of the prisoner, said he was in St. Thomas's Hospital, and was so seriously injured that he was not able to attend. He produced a certificate from the house surgeon of the hospital, which stated that the boy was in considerable danger. A boy, named Nottage (whose head had a bandage round it), stated that he was also struck on the head by a flint stone, and was stunned by it. Turner, the constable, produced three flint stones, each of which weighed about half- a•pound. Harriet Nottago, Manor-grove, Camberwell, said that she was at tea, and went into James-street for her son. When she got there she saw several boys flinging stones. One struck the forehead of her son, who was rendered senseless, and who fell back in her arms. She took him 'in doors in an insensible ?tat e. Mr. Yardley—Did you see the boy Langford struck P Witness—Yes, sir. The prisoner flung a stone at him, which struck him on his head. He fell, and got up, but again fell. He was quite insensible when removed to the hospital. Mr. Yardley said that he should remaand the prisoner for a week. _ _ The prisoner wai held to bail in one surety of £5O to appear again that day week. THE DOUBLE MURDER AND SUICIDE AT WORCESTER. The inquest on the body of the unfortunate woman, Mrs. Emily Harris, who destroyed herself and her two children, at Worcester, by drowning in the River Severn, under very painful circum stances, was concluded before Mi. P. Hughes, deputy coroner, at the Anchor In,n, on Friday, when the jury returned the following verdict : " That the deceased came to her death by drowning herself in the River Severn, being at the time in a state of temporary insanity caused by the brutal treatment of her husband and his sister; and the jury severely censure the mother-in-law of the de ceased for her conduct towards her, and express their dissatisfation at not having medical testimony to guide them." This concluded the inquest, and on the mother-in-law leaving the house she was followed by a crowd of persons, who again gave vent to their indignation by hissing and fleeting at her until she took shelter in the cottage of a friend in the Bath-road. The remains of Mrs. Harris were interred in the New Cemetery on Sunday afternoon, the mournful ceremony being witnessed by large numbers of persons. As an expression of sympathy and mark of respect to the bereaved parents, the corpse was followed to the grave by about eighty of the operatives at Messrs. Kerr and Co.'s manufactory, who subscribed liberally towards the expenses, as well as provided funds for the payment of the men who searched for the body. Harris was brought before the bench on Friday to answer the charge of assaulting his de ceased wife, which had been brought against him. Mr. Clutterbuck, who appeared for the friends of the deceased (Mrs. Harris), stated that her friends wished to vindicate her character from the aspersions which had been thrown upon it. The whole of the evidence, he said, went to show that the deceased was an affectionate wife and mother, and of a for giving temper. That the evidence proved, and the friends wished it to go forth to the public. Mr. Hopkinson, father of the deceased Mrs. Harris, was then called, and said he had not seen his daughter for three weeks before the unfortunate affair. He had kept away from the house on account of the mother and sister of Harris, and the language that was used there being of such a dreadful kind. He then alluded to the circumstances of the money Harr;s was getting per week, notwithstanding which he pawned the things out of the house. He had pawned four dresses, his wife's ring, and other things belonging to her, leaving her with only the things she stood up in. Other evidence was given, and the chairman, after an impressive address to Harris, 0— prisoner, in which he alluded to the way in which h 3 had brought himself into nis present position, and the lamentable effect of his conduct, which had deprived him of an affectionate wife and two children, sen tenced him to three months' imprisonment for the assault on the wife. 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Du Barry and Co., 77, Regent-street, London' Fortnum, Mason, and Co., 182, Piccadilly; Abbis, GO Gracechurch-street ; 4, Cheapside ; 63, and 150, Oxford' street; 330 and 451, Strand ; 49 and GO Bishop g te° street ; 85, Tottenham -court-road. Also 8a o at Dub Be wley and Draper ; at Edinburet, Raimes andCo.n., at Liverpool, Nixon and Thew; at Maaehester, Sharp and Scott; at York, Raimes, Blanchard, and Co.; at South ampton, Randall and Son, CHARGE OF MANSLAUGHTER. At the Salford Town I l iall, on Friday, Win. Carr was charged with the manuslaughter of John Melia. Edward Pickering, fishmonger, of Salford, stated. that at 11 o'clock on Sunday night, the 2d instant, he and the deceased, and a man named Arden, were in Greengate, on their way towards Victoria bridge. When they got to the drinking fountain there, the deceased stopped to drink, and witness and Arden walked on. After proceeding abOut 20 yards, they met the prisoner and four other young men who passed them. On turning round to look for Melia, Pickering saw the prisoner either push or strike him, and the deceased fell to the ground, and while he was down the prisoner kicked him. Witness ran back, and said to the prisoner, "Don't kill the man, for he is half dead already, he is very asthmatical." The prisoner made no reply, but im mediately struck him (Pickering) on his face, knocked him down, kicked him on the shoulder, and then walked away. Pickering followed him for n. few yards, when ho t urne d roun d an d said, "If thee don't go away, I'll give thee as much again." — John Arden, overlooker of doublers, living in Salford, said that he attempted to lift the deceased up after the prisoner had left him, but could not do so. Witness asked him to stand, but receiving no reply he went for assistance. When he returned five minutes afterwards he found the deceased oil his feet, and two men with him. The deceased said he did not feel much hurt, but shaken and stunned. Witness went with him as far as Victoria-bridge, when the deceased said he thought he was then able to go home. Mr. Frederick Ilderton, surgeon, 28, St. John street, Manchester, stated, that by order of the Coroner for the city of Manchester, on Wednesday, the sth inst., he made a careful post mortem exami nation of the body of John Melia, 12, Spinning field, Manchester. lie found that death had taken place from long standing disease and rupture of vomicre in the right lung, causing death by suffoca tion. The rupture might have been caused by a blow or fall, or any violent shock to the system. Police-constable Sugden said that when he ap prehended prisoner, told and him the charge against him, he said, " I have been very uneasy in my mind ever since. I have frequently looked to see if any thing was said about it in the papers. If I had seen anything I should have given myself up ; but as I didn't, I thought there would be nothing more said about it." The prisoner added, that the de ceased used very abusive language, and he gave hint a push. Ile denied having kicked him. The prisoner was remanded. On applying to be admitted to bail, Mr. Trafford said that he should consider further the effect of the surgeon's evidence, but very probably the pri soner would be discharged. CO UNTRI MARKB7B. COLCHESTER—Oar. 22. . y:::;e A fair supply of wheat to-day at the corn-exchange , and the trade was slow, at barely late rates. Fine malting barley in good demand, and rather dearer. Beans scarce, at full prices, and peas rather cheaper. Wheat, white 42s to 50s I Beans, Mazagan..32B to 30 red 32s to 42s Middle & small 36s to 42 3 Barley 36s to 46s White peas 4og to 4 20 I Oats 2os to 28s Grey.. 35s to 386 CIIELM SF A fair supply of wheat and ness transacted. Best qualiti ported, and inferior sorts wen very (lull. Wheat, white, 42s to 53s red 40s to 46s Barley 32s to 40s Chevalier 34s to 44s 111,D—Our. 21. barley, and an inactive bug" [es of wheat were barely aur ls - sheaper. Spring corn was Grinding 22s to 28s Malt 60s to 66s Chevalier 63s to 68s Oats 24s to 33s Peas, Partridge —38 s 400 White 386 to 40 3 Boiling Ms to 42s Dun 33s to 36 9 Beans, Tick 403 to 423 Harrow Ticks 41s to 44 9 : - .l.Mazagan 36s to 38° OXFORD—OCT. 22. A liberal quantity of grain of all kinds on offer to-daYO rates—viz., for white, 46s to 525, red 41s to 47s per qr . Barley, 28s to 46s ' • oats, 20s to 30s ' • beans, - 38s to 50 s ; hog peas, 39s to 42$ ; boilers, 42s to 50s per qr, FloUt 32s per sack. Hay, from £3 10s to £4 Os per ton. DERBY—OCT. 22. A fair show of wheat at market yesterday! Trade agail l , was inactive, at no advance upon the currencies of l ast week. Barley in moderate demand, and as dear. OW in rather heavy demand, at about late rates. Beans We re in slow demand, and quotations maintained. White wheat, new, 44s to 52s Barley, grinding.. 2Sg to 0 4 Red do. 4os to 44s I Oats, old, .. 22s to 2 8 # Old white 44s to 52s New do —s to - - a ! Red do.. 40s to 44s Beaus. 40s to 4 °' I Barley, malting.— .38s to 42s Beans, new —s to ---S YORK—Oc'r. 22. A good show of wheat, with a fair sale at the currencie s of last market day. Malting barley in good demand, at high rates • grinding qualities the turn easier. Bel scarce, at late prices. Very little business was transacted in oats. Wheat . 403 to 44s Oats. d 225 to 2 48 White do ..44s to 50s Beans Barley . 30s to 40s Ditto, old ........44s to 4 0 I COAL MAR] (Prices of Coal per Ton at a. d. Lambert's West Hart- KET—Our. 24. the close of the market.) Walla Mutt. ley 14 3 Tanfield Moor Butes 13 0 Eden Main .17 6 Ward's - West Hartley ..14 0 Walker Primrose 12 9 Burnhope 13 0 Wylam 16 0 West Wylam l3 9 Bower' West Hartley 15 9 Bell's Primrose l3 0 Nixon's Duffryn 22 6 s. d n . Ramon. 16 ,u Montague 16 " 0 Riddell 17 n Gosforth 17 " South Kelloe lB 1 Trimdon Hartlepool lB ~; Thornley 1 7 v South Durha m .... l7 4 6 ., Lambton. l6 v Haswell . l9 3 Hough Hall 17 1 Hetton Lyons Main l6 `; South Hartlepool. lB " K e ll oe l6 6 ;,107—Sold, 52. Walls End. Acorn Close 17 9 Stewart's l9 0 Ships at market, FOREIGN MAIL PACKET LEST. In the following table E signifies that letters are despatel l by erening mails from London, and M by morning mail& ......, N DESTINATION s. Despatch P or t of - -a rall of Mails. Despatch. due. Australia and Mauritius, via Southampton N0v.12, M So u th am p. Nov la4 Ditto, via Marseilles Bahamas and Havana via New / York Oct 2 28, E Liverpool.. Oet• ~6 Canada, &c. (by Canadn. pckt.) Oct. 25, E Liverpool.. Oct- * Cape of Good Hope, Ascen sion, and St. Helena Nov 5, E Devonport -. 0 • 1 China, Penang and Singa pore, via Southampton Nov. 4, Id Southamp. over at e Ditto, via Marseilles Gibraltar, via Southa m pt on.. Oct. 27, M Southamp. ov erdr: Honduras and Blewfleld s .... N0v.17, 31 Southamp. Nov India (Calcutta) and Ceylon, via Southampton Ditto, via Marseilles India (Bombay), via South ampton Nov. Ditts, via Marseilles Lisbon, Brazils,Buenos Ayres, Oct. 27, 31 Southamp. Oct 21 Nov s and F. Islands 3 , E 1 Southamp. overd,utl Lisbon, Vigo, and Oporto Oct. 27, Al Southamp. Ac"• Main, Egypt, and Adeu, via Southampton Ditto, via Marseilles Mexico and Havana ........ Nov. 2, M Southamp. Noy.. Newfoundland .............. Nov. 4, E Galway .- - • United States and British N. America B ritish Ditto , 2 6 7 , , 3 E I Southamp. overde (by cl3.ys.packepoac.k.c.t.) Oct. Oct. 21, 26, EE Southamp Oct. 21 West Coast of Africa, Ma deira, and Ten er iff e , ... 1 Oct. 24, E Liverpool.. NOV. 9 West India, Calif orn i a, Vene zuela, Chili, P eru, Grey town, New G rana d a , & c. [ADVERTISEMENT.] Hol: Heal.all.—As winter approad and is far more liable to be at in the late autumn should to medicine, than which none s Pith. Now too, especially, wil: some influence over all classe be trifling now, but being n materially changed for the way's Ointment for all exter facial, deep, simple, or comp] by cleansing and stimulating, action over every internal orgE Ointment and Pills, the body, gains tone and vigour. - - lloway's Ointment and PUY' :hes the system becomes feeble, ttacked by disease. Everybo cl ! tke some cooling and purifyini, stands superior to HollowaY 'fi Il his Ointment exert its whole' es of skin diseases, which 1 1133 r ieglected, will ere spring ha Vw„ worse. Nothing equals Ifollo• rnd ailments, whether super. Heated. These purifying 1111 ' 4 : exercise the most beneficial an. From the combined uso o f r, howsoever afflicted, soon rz- BIRTHS. ANTRODUS.—On the 22d inst., at 11, Grosvenor-cresceat Mrs. Antrobus, of a son. BAKEIL—On the 24th inst., at the Cedars, Battersea, Mr ° ' W. G. Baker, of twins. BEACII.—On the 21st inst., at Tapely-park, North DeO li d the wife of W. W. Beach, Esq., 151. P., of a son all heir. FRANKLIN.—On the 23d i ns t., at Woolwich, the wife of Major C. T. F ran kli n, C. 8., RA., of a son. MAB,RIAGES. A NDERSON—MACKINNON.—On the 22d inst., at trui ° ,, il Chapel, Islington, llQnry C. Anderson, of Albion-gr v Earnsbury, t o Eli za b e th A nne, e ld est daughter of , ." Douglas Mackinnon, of Canoubury-square. NEwunuity—GAmßLE. —On the 20th inst. at Trini t y Church, Cloudesley- s q uare , Islington, William K. NOI berry, E-q., of Ho L it on , D evon , t o G race, on l y c hild 0 the late Joseph P. Gamble, Esq. DEATH S. BRUIN.—On the 21st inst., at the residence of his son, e ilt. Uxbridge, George Bruin, Esq., late of Reading, and for' merly of Pentonville, aged 69. DEALTRY.—On the 21st inst., at Lowestoft, the Rev. Ge ° ' N. Dealtry, rector of Outw6ll, Norfolk, aged 73. DICRINSON.—On the 21th inst., at Teignmouth, 11113j 01 ' . General Thomas Dickinson. EDAtuNnsoN.—O n the 221 inst., W. J. Edmundson, 10 ' Sols-row, Hampstead-road, aged 40. Fisn.—On the 22d inst., at Stafford House, John Fis h ' Esq., 73, Gloucester-street, Warwick-squ aae , aged 67. R OBERTS.—On the 21st inst., at Brighton, Thos. Robert s . , Esq., f or near l y 5 0 years of the Bank of England, age 82. HO WLAND.—On the 2Cth inst., at Clifton, Danl. R0w1 .8114 Esq., of 23, Grosvenor-place, aged 82. WYLD.—On the 22d inst., Mr. Benjamin Wyld, of 40, Curzon-street, Mayfair, aged 53. LONDON : Printed and Published by MURDO YOUN G :: of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at The 52M Office, No. 114 i Strand, in the Precinct o f th e Savoy, in the count)" ° tilitldlesex, Tuesday, October 25, 1859. It s, I , c 1 1 I I I