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Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. Vining. TslTs EVENING, at 7, TWICE KILLED. At 8, AFTER DARK: Mr Walter Lacy, Mr. D. Leeson, Miss Rose Leclercq, &c. And THE SECRET. snpplies the ago a coroner's inquest took place at St. Pancras, as soon as pub which partook in s ome respects of the tragic nature of the suicide and the distressing characteristics of death from starvation. M. ISIDORE MAGNES, a French artist, residing in Charlotte-street, Fitzroy square, was found dead in his bed, and the result of the medical investigation showed that heart and brain were physically degenerated, and " gone" from the fatal effects of overwork and anx iety, together with insufficient nourishment, quite in adequate to supply the wants of nature. AL Isrnonn MAGNES had for some time supported life, such as it was, on a scanty supply of potatoes and bread, and a little milk, and yet he taight, had he so wished it, have easily earned a comfortable competence. Like many another ambitious dreamer, however, ISIDORE MAGNES preferred the hope of future fame to the certainty of present existence. He had conceived the idea of a great picture t) be called " L'entente Cor diale," representing an incident in the Crimean war, in which Englishmen and Frenchmen were equally conspicuous. To this picture the artist devoted his life. Other occupations, which procured him a certain livelihoad, were given up, and for the last five years the Great Picture occupied all his time and thoughts. During the last two years he appears to have suffered under continual privations. Sympathising friends occasionally lent him trifling assistance, and offers of remunerative emphiyment were again and again proposed. The help he thank fully accepted, but all suggestions of any kind that might interfere with his beloved la bours were steadily refused. - The great pic ture which was to celebrate the alliance of France and England, and ennoble the name of ISIDORE MAGNES, was (so dreamed the ambitious artist) to appear in the Exhibition of the Royal Academy of London, and then to take its place in the galleries of Versailles, where the brush of HonacE VERNET has already depicted, in radiant colours, the historical glories of Imperial France. What the destination of the picture may be time will show. The artist will not wit ness the triumph of which he dreamed. lie is dead, but the Picture is finished. It is at least a melancholy satisfaction to know that before the brush dropped from the nerveless grasp of the en thusiast his eyes had beheld the accomplishment of Better than Famo is still the wish for fame" has been said by one well qualified to express such an opinion. We must lament the untimely death of the poor French artist who devoted his life to an ob ject quite inadequate for the sacrifice Of a human existence ; and yet we may perhaps be justified in saying of him, in the words of the Poet just quoted, that the object of ISIDORE MAGNES' ambition was not altogether an unworthy one— No! for whoever with an earnest soul Strives for some end from this low world afar, Still upward travels, though he miss the goal, And strays—but towards a stir. "ANGER is a brief madness ;" fear is a madness often very long. SHEWAItD, the Norwich murderer, stabbed his wife in a sudden fit of passion. Probably he did not mean to kill her; but she died instantly, and instantly began his horrible fear and remorse, which for nearly twenty years have been pursuing him, leaving him no peace, and at length com pelling him to impart the fearful secret so that he might relieve his tortured conscience, even at the expense of life. Terrible was the first flash of conviction "I am a murderer." He fled from the house where his slain wife lay, for he could not bear the sight of the staring, lustreless eyes, the stiffened limbs, and that ghastly wound whence life had ebbed in a minute. But flight could not undo the deed, could not make the dead live again, could not remove the traces of his deed. Rather flight would only direct suspicion to him. So- he returned to the loathed place ; silence brooded over it, but the silence shouted forth with voices louder than thunder that he was a murderer. He had tried to fancy that the past few hours were only a terrible dream, but there lay the rigid body to convince him that all was only too horribly true. That mute witness must be got rid of. In the frenzy of passion he had inflicted the one wound ; with cool delibera tion he must inflict a hundred others. He must hew limb from limb, hack the flesh into countless frag ments, grind into powde r th.3_hones. cif k fla w -.00 e Lis flesh. Ile dispersed the fragments about the upper rooms of the house, and then went down stairs to sleep. In his second confession he says even that he did sleep. He waited some two or three days ; for what ? He himself did not know. But soon there came other evidence of his crime. He had shut it out from his sight, but the sickly smell of death began to pervade the house.. The poor relics of dishonoured mor tality would accuse him through one sense if they could not through another. His home was filled with the savour of the charnel-house. He could not endure it. He must get rid of this witness against him—this witness that, though hewed into shapeless pieces, still kept crying against him. Ile stole out of his home at night, bearing the smaller fragments with him, and strewing them about the fields. The wide earth might conceal what the one house could not. But he could not thus deal with the larger portions of the corpse. He tried to boil them away, and was " disappointed to find that they would not readily drop to pieces." By this time conscience had become seared, the heart had become hardened. He seems almost - to have taken a sort of interest in his work, to have felt the invigo rating effect which difficulty always produces on a strong will. He ground the skull to powder; he strewed other portions about the churchyards, and even the streets. At last these horrible waifs and strays found in so many places began to attract attention. Norwich began to ask what they were. Inquiry and scientific examination shewed that these were the remains of a human being —of a woman. They were supposed to be those of an elderly woman, for the " parboiling " to which the bones had been exposed misled the surgeons. Snr,wann's wife was young, and no one, therefore, connected him or her with the murder. Rather he was commiserated, because, as he gave out, she had deserted him for another man. For nearly twenty years he kept his secret—call them not twenty years of life ; rather they were twenty years of living death, of perpetual remorse and agony, that at last became intolerable. The yearning for confession that comes over a criminal not wholly bad became so strong that he gave himself up to justice, and is now lying under sentence of death. It is said that he cannot live many months, even should the hang man spare him; that he will lose his reason even should he be allowed to live out the miserable remnant of his days. Let us not harden our hearts against this man. Let us remember that the crime was unpremeditated; that all the after atrocities were the result of the fear and the horror wherewith his crime had filled him ; that these nearly twenty years of remorse have been a far more terrrible punish ment than the gallows ; and that confession does at least she , ,v a desire on the part of the criminal to set himself right with his fellow men—to tell them that he is not the blameless man they thought him, but a murderer. There has been in our time no tale more horrible than this of the Norwich murder; but there have been murderers far worse than SHE WARD. The following officers embarked yesterday at Portsmouth on board her Maj.?sty's screw troopship Crocodile, Capt. G. W. Watson, for conveyance to Halifax and Quebec :—Capt. S. C. Glyn, Ist Bat talion Rifle Brigade, and Mrs. Glyn ; Captain Graham, 78th Infantry; Lieut.-Paterson, Ist Bat talion 16th ; Surg. 111‘.Master, 79th ; Staff Surg. Johnson, and one sergeant, 78th ; one Widow with seven children. LATEST INTELL EGENCE (UTER'S TELEGRAMS.) I BELGIUM. BRUSSELS, April 20. The Etoile be of this morning publishes a despatch from . ameries, in the Borinage district, dated yesterda.!evening, announcing that tranquil lity had been rtored there, and that the men on strike are read to resume work provided a slight increase of was is granted them. BAVARIA. MUNICH, April 20. . _ In yesterdai sitting of the Upper House the debate on the ;hool Edu ca ti on Bill was cont i nued. Prince H o b e r jhe energetically protested against party feeling Shin the domain of the Church, so prevalent in ddern tunes. He did not hesitate to stigmatize stir principles as were put forward in the Syllabus,ae Encyclia, and other publications, as contrary tthe spirit of the age, and a cause why Church nd State were unable to go hand in hand. the like. CORRESPONDENCE FROM PARIS. . (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) PARIS, MONDAY, April 19. It is noteworthy that in the debate on commercial matters the members of the Left figured largely as Pro tectionists. M. Thiers was especially the champion of French industry, urging that the distress in the textile manufactures wag not owing to the commercial crisis, but to free trade. English manufacturers, he said, find ing the American market closed to them, inundated France with their goods. The production of yarn was now limited to the coarser kinds, owing to the finer sorts being so extensively imported from England. M. Gressier here got up and demolished M. Thiers. The statement respecting yarn was incorrect. The commoner kinds were imported from England more largely than the fine yarns. Instead of the advantages of the treaty being on the side of England, France had gained sixteen millions sterling by it. France yearly sent cotton goods to the value of £160,000 to England, and received only 272,000 worth in return. And why? Because a duty of 15 per cent. was laid on English goods in France, whilst French goods were admitted untaxed into England. The manufacturers of Manchester had found that they could not compete on those terms, and were now endea vouring to obtain a reduction of the French duties. M. Rouher has undertaken the task of getting through the law to authorise the pensions to the old soldiers of the Republic and the Empire. He has had a long interview with the Emperor respecting this ungrateful task. No body, of course, knows what the two magnates had to say to each other ; but it may be taken for granted that the ingratitude of a much benefitted people, and the bad ness of the political times, was the leading topic of discus. sion between them. The pension to the old soldiers meets with general opposition. Everybody agrees with the abstract justice of rewarding the old braves who so nobly combatted for the honour of France, but people are equally unanimous that the proposal is decidedly inop portune. The Finance Minister has lately been making the most striking shew of economy. Everything—except. ing those two trifles, the army and the navy—is to be cut down. A proposal to increase the salary of the communal schoolmasters, who have to exist on a salarysomething like that of a Wiltshire bind, has been rejected with contempt. The schoolmasters can starve, have starved, and a little more starvation can, therefore, do them no harm, And now at the extreme end of the session, and in the midst of this economical display of fireworks, comes this proposition respecting military pensions. The Emperor's will must prevail, and the Corps Legislatif, moreover, is ready to pass anything just now; but the act is arbitrary, and the time is not propitious for arbitrary deeds. It is believed that the law abolishing workmen's tivrets, or character-books, will be postponed. Opposition has been met with in a very unexpected quarter—from the works - .4a themselves. A good many artisans of St. Quentin and other places have petitioned against the law. They like their livrets, because, with their aid, every workshop is open to them. The limes are a testimonial of character, which never fails. Every employer writes down the particulars of a man's service in his lirret when his term of employment is finished. The workmen ask where they are to find another system of industrial pass. ports which will serve them so well. But, unfortunately, the particulars recorded in the livrets are not always correct. Sometimes they are the reverse of correct. It is possible for an employer to do a man an ill turn by giving an unfavourable tone to his remarks in the lirret, and it is still more easy for him to save trouble by giving a servan a character which is better than his due. A French " Higgs" case has just been disclosed here. M. Taillefer, who has been cashier to the Union Insurance Office in Paris for the last thirty-five years, has been arrested on a charge of embezzling £60,000. Here, again, this great fraud was not noticed by any of the managers. The affair promises some serious disclosures, for M. Pic, the editor of the Etendard, and member of the General Council of L'Arfte, has also been arrested. It is said that half the whole sum of money has been applied to the support of the Etendard, which, being a semi-official paper, is of course a bad commercial speculation. An offer has, I believe, been made to recompense the Insurance Company in great part, if not to the full extent, on condition that it abandon pro ceedings. This offer has been rejected. The company is bound to go on with the prosecution as a public duty. M. Godard, the aeronaut, met with an odd accident near Florence the other day. An ascent was made, and the voyagers all arrived again safely on terra firma. A large number of peasants thronged round the voyagers, and, in spite of the advice of M. Godard, who had opened the valves to let the gas escape, persisted in smoking. All at once the inflammable vapour ignited, when the balloon burst with a tremendous report, and its network was completely destroyed, a vast . sheet of flame, resembling a meteor, ascending in the air. No body was hurt, but the country people were clamorous in their demands for compensation for injury to the land and THE Jr-4R IN NEW ZEALAND. The defeat of To Koti at Ngatipa, and his subsequent death, have terminated hostilities on the East Coast, and the late successes cf the colonial troops upon the West Coast bid fair to bring the war to a speedy and satis factory conclusion. The pah at Nukumaru was it taken by . the forces un d er Colonel Whitmore on the 2d. the enemy making but M i ir : , ,i, and s s o re ; ..uaLilig CV e..... j - 1, - .11, 0 1.1, - , . L ' a . the side of the Maori d oes no t seerriv.... Aotar . [Java been very con siderable, as no bodies were found. Only one of Colonel Whitmore's men was wounded. The pal], which is said to bo exceedingly strong, and furnished with most com plete defence, was shelled en the day previous to its evacuation. The enemy, despite thoirpossession of plen tiful supplies, and extensive preparations for defence, aban doned the pa shortly after daylight, and were hotly pursued by the cavalry and the friendly natives. In his despatch to the colonial Government, Colonel Whitmore says :—" The pa is a formidable place, and I am satisfied that with 1 _ . so much at stake '1 should not have been justified in at tempting to take it in any other way than that which I fol lowed. No troops in the world could have hewn their way through the, double row of strong palisades, backed by rifla pits, and flanked by a two-storeyed erection, such as that constructed in this fortification, and defended by excellent shots and desperate men. Though as yet no bodies have been found, I have been shown the traces of blood in seve ral spots in and around the work. My own loss, owing to the cover of the trenches, and in spite of the well-directed fire of the enemy, only amounts to ono man wounded. The enemy is in full retreat, followed by the cavalry and the•friendly natives, and as soon as possible the whole force will cross the Waitotara on his trail. *The men are in excellent spirits, and evidently delighted with their success ; while I am assured that Tito Kowaru will lose both in pregigo and in followers by his failuie to carry out his boastful promise, as there has boon no real or serious fighting." This success is very encouraging, and is likely to bring the Maories to recognise the expediency of submission. '1 hey have been defeated on both sides of the island, and the Waitotara block has been regained by the colonial troops. Tho scene of the war has, therefore, been n move d much further from the settled districts.— Melbourne Argus. It is more than probable that the Queen will re visit Germany this summer, but nothing definite in regard to this has as yet been fixed. A cotton mill was burned down on Sunday morn ing at Oldham belonging to Messrs. Bramah. The mill was almost entirely destroyed in a few t hours, the loss being variously estimated at from £lO,OOO to £15,000. On Saturday morning a meeting of Liberals was held at Leamington for the purpose of reconsidering the petition presented against the return of Mr. John Hardy, one of the Conservative members for South Warwickshire. After a long discussion, it was decided to withdraw the petition. Mr. Wells, M.P., captain of the English eight in the contest for the Elcho Challenge Shield, at Wimbledon, has announced that the preliminary competitions for the honour of being selected to represent England in the above match will be held on the Altcar rifle range during the last week in June. The Pall Mall Gazette, referring to the release of Sir C. Eardley, throws ccnsidcrable doubt on the declara tion that the baronet was ill. Our contemporary would like to have the medical certificate produced. Sir Culling Eard ley figured at a ball three days after his liberation. Readers who could "put this and that together" would have no difficulty in connecting two stories which have just been made public. The resignation of a well known stipendiary magistrate was recently announced. The learnt 1 gentleman Fad run away with the wife of merchant and justice of no peace living in the same town, a lady who is said to be possessed of XlOO,OOO in her own right. The stipendiary magistrate is married and has children. The lady has returned to her husband. Sifron Church was crowded on Sunday morning, many persons having been attracted thither by expectation of a repetition of the lamentable scenes witnessed in the sacred edifice on the previous Sabbath. But the presence of a strong body of tho county constabulary prevented all unseemly interruptions, if we except the fact that when the curate repeated the innovation of reading prayers after the sermon the great bulk of the con gregation rose from their seats and quitted the church. On returning to the rectory, the curate was hissed and hooted at by the mob. Th 9 afternoon servico.passed off quito • - , THEATRE-ROYAL, ADELPHI. Txrs EvExtrm, at 7, DID YOU EVER SEND YOUR WIFE TO CAMBERWELL: Mr. G. Belmore, Mrs. L. Murray At 15 to 8, BLA( K A N , D WRITE: Messrs. Fechter, A. Stirling, R. Phillips. Stuart: Cazlotts. Leclercq, Miss Lennox Grey, &C. And WHITEBAIT AT GRIt NWICH : Mr Atkins. ROYAL STRAND THEATRE. Sole Lessee and Manageress, Mrs. Swanborough. Lim EVENING, at 7.30, THE WIDOW HUNT. Messrs. Bel ford, Clarke ; Miss Bufton. JOAN OF ARC: Messrs. Thorne, James, Fenton; esdames Goodall, Lydia Maitland, Bufton. To conclude with HUE AND DYE GLOBE THEATRE-ROYAL. Tins EVENINO, at 7, MIN lE, or, Leonard's Love. At 9, A BREACH OF PROMISE. After which, BROWN AND THE BRAIIMLNS. Messrs. Marshall, David Fisher, Andrews, Hurl stone, 3. Clarke; Mesdames Lydia Foote, Brennen, Berend, Hughes, Fountain, and Stephens. ROYALTY TIIEATRE. Under the Management of Miss M Oliver. Tuts EVENING, t a 7.30 IN FOR A HOLIDAY. Followed by CLAUDE DTJVAr.: Mr.' Dewar, Mr. D anvers , Mi ss NI. Ol i ver. te. To conclude with THE BOARDING SCHOOL. PRINCE OF WALES'S ROYAL THEATRE. Under the Management of Miss Marie Wilton TUTS EVENING, SCHOOL: Messrs. Hare, H. J. Montagne, Addison, Glover. and Bancroft; Mrs. l3ttekingham White, Miss C. Addison, and Miss Nlarie 'Wilton. After which, A. WINNING HAZARD. And A LAME EXCUSE ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE AND CIRCUS, ROLBORN. Tim EVENTNG;the Great Carre Troupe and magnificent Stud of 50 Horses; also Alfred Bradbury, 0. and A. Carre, &c. CHRISTY MINSTRELS, St. James's Hall, Every Night, at 8 Wednesdays and Saturdays, at 3 and 8 all the year round. ST. GEORGE'S THEATRE, REGENT STREET. THIS EVENING, at 8, THE ROYAL ORIGINAL CHRISTY'S MINSTRELS' Ethiopian Entertainment : and the Burlesque Extravaganza, THE VERY GRAND DUTCH—S ROYAL ALHAMBRA PALACE. THREE BALLETS Promenade Concert. Band of 60. Begin at 8. ls. Box-oftlct open from 11 to 4. ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS, Regent's-pack, OPEN daily (ex cept Sundays). Admission, le.; on Mendays, 6d. Children under twelve, 6d. 1 7 .g . it S ~„.. ili:- . 4,• 4 _7 44 ' . 7 . - s f: , e. ;-- A. LONDON, 7 UESDA F, APRIL 20, 1869, I Perhaps the most melancholy columns of a news ' paper arc those which, from time to time, record the proceedings at a Coroner's inquest. In a collected. form these reports would far surpass the most sensa tional chapters of the most extravagant romance, and might afford another illustration of the every day adage that Truth is stranger than Fiction. One day we read the terrible revelation of some death from starvation in the very midst of the riches and luxuries of the metropolis, and on another occasion we shudder over the details of the suicide of some poor wretch eager to escape from his miseries—" any where, anywhere,. out of the world !" A fe w days AMERICA. NEW YORK, April 19. The Timm: Royal Mail Steamer City of Antwerp arrived here o• day. All well. RUAL nALIAN OPERA. Yesterday ras an " extra" night at the Royal Italian Opera,and the public had the opportunity of hearing Moan's "It Flauto - Alnico." Without comparing it D " Don Giovanni," that opera has long been poplar. Last night there was a very strong caste. iarastro was taken by Signor Foli, Astrifiarnmant+by Mdlle. Ilma di Murska, Tamino by Signor Bulerini, Paminia by Mdlle. 'Wens, Papageno by Mr. Santley, and Papagena by Mdlle. Sinico. The famous duet known to non opera goers, as "The manly hearts " was sung by Titiens and Santley, and drew down a storm of ap plause, which vas answered by a second and even better rendering of the dr. Not less enthusiastic was the recepti)n given to Ilma di Murska's " Gli angui d'inferne," in which the charming cantatrice displayed all the range and flexibility of her won derful voice. The comical duet between Santley and Sinico way also encored. The chorus of priests deserved and all but obtained a same distinction. Of the mis en scene we may that it was in every way admirable, the moonlight waterfall scene was par ticularly good. POLICE IiVTELLIGENCE.-7his Day. 3 EARLBOROUGH-S TREET. ROBBING AN ARTlST.—Benjamin Higgins, a labourer, of N 0.24, Stephen street, Tottenham-court-road, was charged before Mr. Tyr;vhitt with stealing eleven oil paintings and about 500 plates, the property of Mr. Alfred Gann, artist, No. 24, Stephen-street. The prosecutor said that on Thursday last he was going along Crown-street, Soho, and saw in the window of a shop an oil sketch he had painted, and in answer to ques tions he put to the keeper of the shop he said he should know the man he bought it of again, and that it was the only one he had purchased. On returning home and going to a cellar where he kept such things—the cellar adjoining a room occupied by tho prisoner•-he missed several oil sketches and a large quantity of prints from boxes, the prints being of the value of £l5, but none of which. had ho traced. Subsequently he saw some more of the oil sketches at the same shop, and asked the prisoner to go with him to carry home a piece of oil cloth, and took him to the shop where he had seen the oil sketches, and the keeper of the shop at once recognised him as the person he bought the sketches of, but the pri soner denied that he was the man. Francis Beelestene, 80 E, said that when the prisoner was given into his custody for stealing the oil sketches and paintings he said to the shopkeeer "Don't say any thing about the pictures." At first ho said he knew no thing about the things, but afterwards said that he sold the sketches and got 30s. for them, and that he sold about 21bs. weight of paper. Remanded. THE PULL PENALTY INFLICTED FOR CRUELTY TO A HORSE. —Mr. Fred. Wm. Serif, a baker, and also an occa sional builder, at Parson's-green, appeared before Mr. Tyrwhitt, to answer the complaint of the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelry to Animals, for causing a horse to be worked in an unfit state. The chief otßeer of the Royal Society for the Preven- tion of Cruelty to Animals, a few days ago saw a horse attache ] to a cart laden with bricks lying down in Oran bourne-street, and on the saddle being removed it was found to be sat urated with discharge from a large wound on the horses back, and the horse was quite unfit for work. It remained 1. 1 ing in the street for some hours, and was then slaught red. to Toestloalrlgi n iretio giireMast, trio admitted" that he had :been obliged to have the horse killed on the spot where it fell. The wound on the horses back was an old one, and the defendant admitted that it had bien there during the whole of the time be had it, Ei c weeks. The defendant said that ho sent the horse every day for a load of bricks, and that on the day in question it fell and ricked its back. Mr. Tyrwhitt said it was one of those gross cases where a man bought an old worn out horse and worked it till the last. He would like to know what the defendant would have thought if any one had treated him like he had treated this horse. Ho considered such conduct cowardly and cruel, and should fine the Prisoner £5, or two months imprisonment in default. The defendant was about to make some comments on the magistrate's decision, but desisted on b e i ng t o ld b y Mr. Tyrwhitt that he had bad a great mind to send him to prison without any fine at all. WESTMINSTER. CHARGE OF ATTEMPTED MURDER.—John Hurley, who was stated to bo a convicted thief, was placed at the bar charged as follows: Joseph Faker, clothier, 6 , York-street, Westminster, wearing a surgical bandage on his head, said —At half-past nine last night this man came into my shop aiid said, " I want that money you owe me." I told him I owed him none. He immediately said, "I mean scattering your brains about your shop." He then pulled out a life-pre server and struck me about the head; he struck me twice on the temple, and with another blow cut through my hat, and might have killed me if I had not had my hat on. I cried for assistance. Some people reached me with a po liceman, and he was taken into custody. The life-pri.server, ona of the most fon:tillable descrip tion, was produced. _ Mr. Arnold—Do you know the prisoner. Prosecutor—l know him from a baby. Mr. Arnold—You are remanded, prisoner, till Thursday. Prisoner—Will you take bail ? Mr. Arnold —No. T HAM ES. PADDY AND THE FLANK Os' BEEF.—Michael Sullivan, an Irish coalwhipper, aged 24 years, of No. 4, Elliott's-court, Old Gravel-lane, St. George-in -the-East, was brought be fore Mr. Benson charged with stealing 24ilbs. of beef, the property of Mr. George Wood, a shipping and general butcher, near New Crane, Wapping. On Saturday night last, between the hours of 11 and 12 o'clock, the prisoner was standing by a post near Wood's house, and at that time thero was a large piece of prime beef, the thick flank hanging to a hook in front of the shop, Soon afterwards the prisoner walked past the shop very fast, and, as he did so, and without stopping, he removed the beef, and ran away with it up Wapping • High-street. Mr. Wood started in pursuit, and soon overtook him. The prisoner relieved himself of his burthen by flinging the beef at the owner, and run away again. Mr. Wood again pursued him, and the prisoner slipped down three times and rolled along the ground whenever Mr. Wood caught him. All this time there was a shop full of meat and a till full of money without any one in charge, and Mr. Wood took possession of his beef and allowed the prisoner to escape. Information was given to the police, and last night Inspector Gerin of the Thames Police, found the prisoner betweon the sheets on his own bed and snoring vigorously. The officer disturbed the slumber of tho prisoner and toak him into custody. Please yer honner's worship, said the prisoner in defence, I admired the same piece of beef. Mr. Benson—Yes, an d you carriod your admiration of it so far as to steal it. Tho prisoner —Stale it, did yer honner say; sure 1 took it to admire the fine grain of the mate. I had the dhrop :,:Len, yer worship, and that did all the mischief. The prisoner's wife said—Yes, 3er worship, Miko bad .he drop taken. Mr. &Dion would not allow drunkenness to be pleaded as an excuse for crime, and should dispose of this case summarily if the prisoner had not been convicted before, but if the prisoner was an old offender he should commit him for trial. He remanded him until Tuesday next. AIARKE7 S-2111S DAY. LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET. April 2 0.—Sales prob Ably 6,000 balm The !market quiet, and drooping. THE RECENT REPRIEVE,; - 211 E CO.INDITION OF THE NAILEI The startling facts recently made public respecting the condition of the nailers--on e of the oldest industrial tribes of the Black Country--hav e excited a good deal of atten tion. There appears to be no doubt that the nail-making trade is now in a most melancholy condition, the labourers being miserably paid, and their homes and families squalid and comfortless. The women and girls also work at the universal calling, so that they have neither time nor inclination for household work. Those who are familiar with the nailers and their habits describe the people as devoid of education, of social comfort, and of religious feeling. As might be expected from their ignorance and degradation they make the worst of their position, drinking and idling at the beginning of the week, and after Wednesday working day and night. The truck system with all its attendant evils is in full force in most of the nailmaking districts of the Midlands. It has been proposed that a system of Government surveillance should be adopted, and that the women and girls should no longer be employed. The trade seems to be rapidly decaying, and it is to be hoped that further inquiries may throw some light on the best means of improving the position of the nailers. CALLING SPIRITS FROM THE DEEP. -410 , -The committee appointed by the Dialectical Society to investigate spiritual manifestations have held another meeting. The inquiry promises to increase our informa tion, if not of the spirit world, at least of the extent of human incredulity. Mr. Jenchen, barrister, read a paper on the different classes of spiritual phenomena. He said that he could himself testify to the lifting of heavy bodies. I have seen the semi-grand at my house raised horizontally eighteen inches off the ground, and kept suspended in space two or three minutes. I have also witnessed a square table lifted one foot off the ground, no one touching it, or being near it ; a friend present seated on the carpet, and watching the phenomena all the l• time. I have seen a table lifted clear over head six feet off the ground ; but, what is more remarkable, I have seen an accordion suspended in space for ten or twenty minutes, and played by an invisable agency. A lady gave her experiences as follows :---"The most remarkable manifesta tions I have seen were those of last Sunday evening at my house. We were seated in a room which would have been dark but for the moonlight, re first heard raps, and then we saw a figure at the windcw. It entered, and then figures came trooping in by dozens. One waved its hands and passed through us ; the atmosphere became fearfully cold. A figure—that of a relative—came behind my chair, leaned over, and brushed my hair lightly with its hand. It was eight feet high, and, approaching Mr. Lindsay, passed through him. Mr. Lindsay sobbed hysterically from the intense cold." Mr. Blanchard gave the committee some particulars of his experiences. Some years ago be came in contact with the Marshal's, who were in the habit of raising ghosts, and he witnessed some strange occurrences. He had given up spiritualism for the last few years, be cause he found it very inconvenient whent the printer was waiting for copy to be interrupt(' by spirits who wanted him as a medium. Mr. Blanchard subsequently related that the spirits of Alexander the Great and Joan of Arc wrote their names. Joan of Arc was asked if there was any other name by which she was known, and she wrote "La Pucelle." He was convinced that the Mar shalls did not know so much French. Mr. Spear, a professional medium, said that he did not at one time believe in spiritualism, but he found his hand moved, and it wrote, "We wish you to go to Abingdon to see David Binning." lie went there, and found an invalid of that name, whom he cured at the dictation of the spirits. He afterwards visited New Yoi k to lecture on geology, of which science he knew nothing. His success was so great that the professors said,'" He takes up geology where the books leave off." 'The com mittee are preparing a report on Spiritualism. •. There are now no less than fifteen Peeresses in their own right—the Duchess of Inverness, the Countesses of Newburgh, Rothes, and Cromartie ; Vicountess Beaconsfield; and the Baronesses Le Despenc er , D e Clacr -a. zoucue, IN ono, w maser, Lucas, 6empill, Gray, Wenman. and Buckhurst. THE BISHOP OP CORK'S WlT.—There is a story just now " going the rounds" about the Bishop of Cork. The appointment of this eloquent prelate is said to have been rather a surprise. When it was doubtful, a witty friend said to the Bishop, over a dinner-table, " Well, Mr. Gregg, if you are Cork, don't stop the bottle." " Ah, I see you 're minded to draw me out," replied the expectant prelate. A WELSH JURY AGAIN.—At the Glamorgan shire Quarter Sessions, held last week, the jury, in return ing their verdict in a charge of robbery, said, "We have had some difficulty in the matter. We tried all we could to discharge him, but under the circumstances we cannot release him." The prisoner was sentenced to twelve months' imprisonment, with hard labour. Mr. Robert K. the has consented to act as arbitra tor in the dispute between the employers and the employed of the Manchester building trade. lle will arrive in Man chester on the 4th of May for that purpose, and in the mean while, at his request, all agitation will cease on either side. The strike of weavers at Preston continues without any ap parent change. Official returns published on Monday inform us that during last year 24,928,155 gallons of spirits were dis tilled in the United Kingdom. Nearly half this quantity was produced in Scotland alone, and the remaining produc tion was tolerably equally divided b e t ween E ngland and Ireland. The Lumber of gallons of proof British spirits consumed in the United Kingdom was 21,008,634, on which the net amount of duty was £10,504,317. The consumption in 11,827,223 gallons, in Scotland 4,907,701 gallons, and in Ireland 4,773,710 gallons. Notwithstanding Mr. Gladstone's recent statement in the Rouse of Commons Lyon the subject, it is, according to the Western Daily Press, the intention of the Duke of Somerset, in the Rouse of Lards; to interrogate the Govern.. ment as to whether or not arrangements lave been mad; or aro in contemplation, for replacing three prelates in the south-western counties who are incapacitated by illness and infirmity from the performance of the duties of their office'. Cardinal - Callen closes a letter to the clergy of his diocese, complainineof alleged proselytism at a Protestant deaf and dumb institution n ar Dublin, with the exhorts-- Von, " Let us, reverend brethren, redouble our exertions, until there than not be throughout the length and breadth of Ireland a single deaf mute for whom we shall not have procured the blessing of a Catholic education • so that the saving influence of the Carbolic faith may sanctify, and the tenderness of Catholic charity may assuage, the sorrows and sufferings of the poorest among an afflicted class of our brethren." THE ST. ALBAN'S CASE. —The bill of costs in the case " Martin v. Mackonochie " having been carried in for taxation, an offer was made by Messrs. Brooks and Co., the proctors to Mr. Mackonochie, to pay, without the expense of taxation, £1,500, which, under the advice of the proctor and solicitor of the association, the council decided to accept, and their supporters in the country will be glad to hear thatfthe sum of £1,500 has been paid.— Church Association Monthly Intelligcncer. It is riot generally known that the eldest son of every baronet is jure sanguinis a knight, and that he is privileged to demand and to receive the honour of knight hood at the hands of the sovereign at the age of 21. But the right is seldom, if ever, put in force ; and during tl e last thirty-five years only two instances have °emir, d where the claim was made ; but in both cases the claim was allowed. They were Sir J. K. James in 1854, and Sir William O'Malley in 1835. Both these gentlemen have since succeeded to the father's baronetcies. A SUTHERLANDSIIIRE NUGGET.—We haVO been favoured with a photograph of the largest gold nugget that has yet been found in Sutherlandshire, the weight being 2oz. l9gr. It was purchased by Dr. Rutherford, Belmsdale, and is now being exhibited by Messrs. Fes , guson Brothers, goldsmiths to his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, Inverness, who have also brought out and registered several new designs in Sutherland gold jewellery. The nugget is about the 57z3 of an ordinary walnut, and is nearly oval in shape."—. iinburgh Daily ; _ Minh Those who think it desirable that the lair of the rand should be strictly carried out by the Ministers en trusted with its execution will bo curious to know the offi cial explanation of the reprieves which have just been granted by the Home Secretary to a brace of murderers. In regard to James Macdonald, who was convicted at Chester of the murder of another labourer, named Holley, it may be argued that the crime was rather in the nature of manslaughter, but if either the judge or jury blundered on that point it is neces sary that it should be authoritatively stated. As to the other case —that of Charles Wiltshire at Gloucester—it is difficult to conceive a more brutal and atrocious mur der than that of which he was convicted. Ac cording to the evidence ho found a poor woman in a drunken state, ravished, beat, and stripped her of clothing. As if this were not enough, ho has since commended him self to the cl••mency cf , the Crown by trying to murder ono of the warders of the prison where he was confined. Capital pnnishment may or may net be a good Gino.; but the House of Com mons has very recently, and by an overwhelming nn.jority, declined to sanction its abolition. The coostion is whether an important law should be privately abrogated.—pall Mall Gazelle. SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOu."'N The Times discus ses th e d e b a t e i n th e TIPP° lie All' the Coronation Oath, and thinks Lord Bedel t to gether mistaken in his interpretation of it. i Queen should no t b e capa bl e of act i ng i n co ncert e lo sou Parliament ought never, as it seems to net r t , 00 itself to an y one w h o cons i ders the terms el the V What she has to maintain is simply that which i.',. i s iri established and which e x i s t s "b y l aw ," The Ow 0 0 posed on the sove re i gn b y h er su bj ec t s , a nd theTlift Parliament is th e successor o f t h e P ar li ame nt or U:4, Lion of 1689, which framed it. It must be in the l ; 0 of those who i m p ose d th e O at h to rem i t it. It e , ° t i ' be in the mi n d o f th e s t atesmen of the Be r t i -,; a l' curtail the power of Parliament itself by I nel- dol Oath of the Ki ng an i rremova b le b arr i e r t° ti of every kind. This would, indeed, 311 1 -i; to increase the royal power, and to give tbe -,iatic on his own judgment, the power of But Lord Redesdale exposes the trifling chare cter pi jil own criticisms by a suggestion which is obvi °us i g t)' better than ridiculous. He asks the Governmentsf prohibiting leg ! of it is their intention to bring in a bill to p r opose 3e abet tion in the Coronation Oath. As if the Que en, if bound to God to maintain the Irish Church, cotnulfic; herself of this obligation by a bill absolving he rs ,,, e o o the Oath sh e had t a k en ; an d as if she lo w " t! . moral right to give h er assen t t o suc h a bill aoY II/c c e o F: to the Irish Church Bill itself ! Such are the le it , tencies of a man who endeavours to furbish up l i e f oaths—these rusty weapons of the past—for theictit of using them in present warfare. Either Que ell ei has no r i g ht t o assen t to any c h ange in the status o f i Church, and consequen tl y we are as a na tion f o l r ls deprived of th e p ower o f settl i ng our own e eelt i affairs—a supposition so m ons t rous as t o b e self-re'', or she is under no obligation at all to resist then :l lpp agreed to by P ar li amen t, an d needs not t h e oPeil any preliminary Act. The Standa r d says th a t M r. C h arley, seconded 140) ov Vance, raised the w h o l e ques ti on o f di sen dn le moving the rej ec ti on o f th e thirteenth ela°6 was perfectly o p en t o hi m t o d o this. 1111 d reading of th e bill cou ld not b e said to cover hew 0 absolutely distinct p r i nc ipl es ; an d , as M r . Cban ef re , it is beyond d ou bt th at very many Liberals have ego themselves in f avour o f di sesta b lishment with°utf dowment. B e f ore th e e l ect i ons many believed that,,' a compromise w as p oss ibl e ; an d , whether d es i r able Vi e : we believe that it would be popular. There 1 0 /4 fore, no exc use f or th e i mpat i ence manifeste d bY,A tioa of the Liberals ; nor did Mr. Vance's denuut i disendowment as robbery, which, after all, ° i t'd into plain wo r d s th e d oc t r i ne asserted b y such 9. as Lord Cairns, Sir R. Palmer, and D r. i merit the outcries of contempt and ridicaletd which it was rec e i ve d. Of course, all Prot oo D"' this kind are useles s . A s th e di v i s i on li st s h ewe d, tP!', servatives hardly thi n k it wor th w hil e to en f o rce ° so ' their votes, a n d th e Lib era l s are content t o In e o r e : conscientious scruples and i n di v id ua l pr i nc iples Il i to paramount duty of implicit and absolute obedien ce o fi authority of Mr. Gl a d s t one . B u t even majorities c 4 and 107 d o no t ren d er d i scussion entirely value4o, absolve th e O ppos i t i on from the duty of asserting,':gfer ciples and ent er i ng it s protest against what it he'o be an act of l eg i s l a ti ve p l un d er, and we are not sorry a formal division should have been takenupon the sey • question of confiscati on . W e only regret that the o/ was not more fully d e b a t e d and the division In° re l a'i attended. Sur e ly more t h an 103 Conserva tivee j have thought it worth their while to record theird'oo tion that, wh a t ever may b e the wisdom or univie:foit disestablishment, as a ma tt er o f pol i cy, the n 0 Church prop er ty f or S tate purposes is not a du es pct expediency but of morality, and is not the less an robbery that it is also an act of sacrilege. Mr. Disra e li' s amen d ment (says the Post) flw,-,, 7,,cli' nised the i ncongru i ty of the disestablished Choremil ing for its hierarchy that place in the Legislatu re t ice it heretofor e en j oye d ; but simply affirmed the l ° Ji3e P continuing to the p resent members of the Episc°l7 '', the titles and precedence which they now posse"',P Charley's proposition went, however, to the roo t die clause ; for by moving the omission of the vfort i se titling the Irish bi s h ops to their seats in the 9-) Lords, he wou ld have continued to the blaste ll /0P disestablished and disendowed Church the same leg i A - e f functions it now enj o y s . I t h as b een urged that loge cannot be deprived of his peerage by 101 AO known to the Constitution, and it w as urr, Parliament could not, consequently, deprive the r e itc race of Irish bi s h o p s o f t h e i r senatorial dignity. °I„O` is that Parliament and the sovereign, representing ; i do the supreme power in the State, can do anYt ili ; ) ) ol numerous Acts of Attaind er i n ear l y ti mes pr ove, Legislature cou ld cu t off a peer's head, and do e ' / 7 , heir incapable of succeeding to his title or estates' 0 Y appanage of rank without real power, and, A V si'l' ; after the destruction of the very foundation ° ,..; 1 ' such rank originally rested, could not, as Mr. O u ' il f 0 cy i Fortescue well observed, be desired by the Irish b ili- 0 1 00 1 The Daily News remarks that the vexed questioa b site of the new law courts is to be immediately Sti to the House of Commons. Mr. Gregory asks the .0' to express an opinion against the erection of the bili pe on the site which has been cleared for them on °e n v, side of th e St ran d, an d i n favour of their erect ion ',„ Thames Embankment. Sir Roundell Palmer e e il House simply t o rea ffi rm t h e d ec i sions of previoa°,o,li ments, and let the cour t s b e b u il t on the site WbiActi men prep are d f or them under the authority of 0 i' Parliament. I n t h e di scussion which is thus oPeijoes' burden of proof lies, of course, upon the ad li)c he ci change. The Carey-street site was fixed on it lies in the centre of the legal quarters of LouwillV it saves the time of lawyers and; the pockets of who employ them to have the courts near to the',,,, 0' Nor could the courts themselves he so convenien't, on the Embankment site. They would have the 111- 0 0; in their front, the Strand behind them, the TereP i , e , if, east, and Somerset House on the west, and would v- f ic , pable of any expansion. The front of the b u ilding li ? stand thirty-th ree f eet lower than the back, I V must be a tunnel un d er i t, along which the tide must roll. In f ron t o f i t would be the railwayB'o: and all along the front would be the railway itee lf ' t, F , Mr. Lnyard has a l rea d y sa id makes him fearfln", 3 ° V 4 safety of Somerset House. We cannot but he liel t te when all these and other considerations con e , i itiL review, the Hous e o f C ommons will agree with tli'lo7 petitioners, " that as the funds have been and ° i supplied by the su it ors, i t would be most 1113, 1 l 00i' able that the site should now be changed, in o Pr t el to their interests and wishes, as expressed by thei r sentatives." i; i , o li , The Herald la men t s over the difficulty of ew li e, employment whi c h i s now felt by all classes. :. mouths and s can t occupat i on are evils by no mea ns ;) fined just at p resent to dockyard labourers and 1 ,31/ %1 1 ,' artisans. The upper and iniddle classes are shari e rY, those who compose t h e lower social strata of t,ilei munity the hard s hip s an d perplexities which sPrl;a or ti ' the exist ence o f numerous competitors, and few l'° I/ munerative occupations t o b e di v id e d among the/ 0 ' 1,0 4C; this one samp l e o f news from across the water. On Pe; first day a ft er M r. Moses Grinnell entered upon wi,11,7 duties as coll ec t or at New York, he received 71-.sfit°: tions for the post of private secretary, and 13,19' that) subordinat e o ffi ces i n his gift. We are told further vast crowd surrounded the New York Custom 14°I • iset e; that he had actually to call in the aid of the police ° e tect him against the physical importunities of 1113 scif ij A L tutors. A n yb o d y, h owever, who is even super flee acquainted with our own condition will need o° , 0 , drawn f rom f ore i gn sources to enlighten him o'lo,, subject. All th e gates are thronged with suitorPovo' bar is crowded ; the medical profession is over et fi c i and there are far more lawyers than there is litige' v f prospect of it. Architects jostle one another on the 'f f e , j ,°' meats for which they would fain design handsorne i it tages ; and builders are rapidly learning to disPer S n e o t r i their services ; just as railway contractors endea% e li , do without those of engineers. The Church bow f ,tef l ' fewer and fewer inducements both to those who are rl3 .o l o; ally and those who ar e sp i r i tually minded. Eve?, has a tendency to w ax d earer and dearer, whilst e'" ~ have no natural disposition to rise in amount. , i tt 1 ,.1 The Star thinks that for the present there is " ti tl e 1 1 ' slightest reason to apprehend either that Livinge ° , l - biP A ' failed, or that any other ill-fortune has attend e " l ,oC • The time that has elapsed is short enough for such vii jA e atol as he has doubtless been engaged in since he coil the exploration of the network of fresh-water lake ° ter i ire j are believed to lie to the south of the Albert alio,' „ 2 . 1 O A Nyanza, and which geographers agree in regarcb°' t* part of the great Nile system. That LivingstoaefroOl succeed in clearing away the last vestiges of ( I°ll ,, b i t li f)f that still o b scure and once inscrutable problem' - :c3 t ` , : ages baffled th e b o ld est enterprise of travellers, e -, l i d" most far-reaching sagacity of men of science, le i' vel f : in which w e may fairly indul ge , b ecause t h us far 11() e tha t has been in hi s case good news, and in fact a Plejf; Ole , he has been a bl e t o pursue his adventurous J" licit'n' towards the point which would unite his discover/0 *hose of the most successful of his predecessors. _.4 ' Pe r ov FALL OE AN AVALANCHE . —TwELVE KILLED.—A m e l anc h c l y acc i dent has taken Pli leej v 0 1 ' 7 road over the Simplon. Thirty workmen from 1 1 . d'Ossola were crossing the Simplon. The road o ,ld very bad st a t e , a h eavy f a ll of snow having oce urreu order to c ross th e gorge of Eaux-Froides they Prlotera two road-make rs as gu id es. T hey took b u t a fe" Alf°' when an avalanche fell, and buried the whole thirtilfeif Twenty of the workmen managed to extricate the l loco but the rem a i n i ng t en an d t h e two roAdina k ers Were' away gild pgriabecl. Pr0.P......,. S UI 3 P ti • For s ome t Metropolit an su ppression c fe cted thei r Palm er and to Deptford . Were the m Farrah, of th by sir Thos morning they their names a Alexander s p e c , " 10, Fll Florence -coat Place, Deptfo, Stephen Mort Mr. Poland prosecute, an claws. 111 r: Poland cution was in. and the char; carrying on a ber of books'a they are sold. ticket in each amount of Eut take one as a for which co ,( Sir T. 'deur Ur. Poland. £ 3 OO k divided amo. non-starters, of £1 eac The draw takl 'light from tw tames are dra nesslike mannl te nded, w ere I ries in the m 'lights were p labouring clasE possible that I result-sheets I sold at his she' vision that 10' Penses, no per means tell the the allotment c number of tick at the Bedford. ban at the Ulric no w grown to a sirable that son very objectiona thought be full 3 call for the c Central Crimim fiicMont for whicl t he When the prise tFlor exigences 12f C c o ea3 t t a fi : found, and also ITevvnaarket Hai to £3,000, it -a had been sol deducted for Deptford, a gr the spec were to It was thought Mous proportion ceedings should The following Inspector Clar Politan police, at I went on Satin road, llornsey. Sergeat bar, where we fo a book of tickets Grand National, think about a do at one shilling 56,840. Palmer ticket I purchase at is each, with "A. L." was on Were purchased I first floor. Iwi there. The foul Clayton, Walter were there. Ani him personally, Purchased one of Grand National. Who was behind said, "4,200 tick( and then gave t hour to read the to be conducting of small parcel do so until they 1 could see there tickets were then of fortune with sticking together. had got a sportim duced one hints( gentleman read c tional ?" This NT for each horse e Walter Daniels a prizes, which we should say in quarter the qua tickets were t fortune, and then their jackets off, r Wheels were tur: drew a ticket, wh tween the two. l the prize twice. the tickets were Clayton assisted prizes. They too the tickets were d past ten. .1 left a the bar and saw night. I then lef , Prizes were dist 23d of March 1 private house, bu and Walker then said " have you E Clayton said " " Will you have t " From different 1 books he took fro bers of each were 1 paid Is. each ft form I received U subs., is. each. £2OO. Starters, £ 2 each ; 400 Were hundreds of on the same day place, Deptford. same race, these Were here also a the 3d of April I Suunaway. I f 72,374, was a x 1 10, Plorence-cottc and Walker at t 1 office and present of the prize, I sat the ticket, which back. Morris 100 this, that's all rib plain, and that it was. They refus office. Mr. Sergeant E pate other charge; Witness contin armed with warn Florence Cottage( Walker, Clayton, be engaged couuti on the counter. . so I sent for him told them I was a prehension of all out hesitation, au custody. I produ take possession lottery, and do so. conducted this a fora penny. He \vas the original Lis clothes to het, of all thing s 1 fo result sheets, (te., I also took char and I believ e th There was to hay Randicap that Sorry he was then sent to Claj Strand It is a a for M r . Farrah, an; I was an °facer, r ead the document not received notict Would of cours e La rant, which I at 0 1210 all tickets ece., all. I have not 11 tickets relating to shares in the." Lu( bought at his shop 13 reply to Mr.