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THF, LOSS OF THE. ArA. Mr. Selfe, of the Thames Police Court, and Capt. Walker, the Nautical Assessor at the recent in quiry respecting the loss of the Peninsular and Oriental Navigation Company's steamer Ave, have made the following report to the Board of Trade : " Greenwich Police-court, July 1, 185 8 . . "My Lords, —.lu compliance with your lordships directions, and with the assistance of Capt. W. H. Walker, appointed to act as Nautical Assessor, I have made inquiry respecting the loss of the Pe ninsularand Oriental Navigation Company's steam ship Ava, off the coast of Ceylon, on the evening of the 16th Feb. last, and I tre i nsmit herewith the de positions of the witnesses examined before me. I have also to submit for your lordships' consideration the following summary of the evidence with my opinion thereon. The Ava was au iron screw ;steamer of 933 tons register, barque-rigged, with three masts, and engines of 320 horse power. She was built at Glasgow in 1855. She was in every ' respect duly equipped, properly manned, and sea worthy, and the engines in good order. In this ec ndition she left Calcutta on the 10th of Feb. last o n her homeward voyage to Suez. She carried the g overnment mails. Her passengers and crew con sisted of about 240 souls, and she had specie on board. value 260,0001. She was commanded by Cap tain C. Kirton, aged 30. Capt. Kirton has a mas ter's certificate of competency, and has also passed an exami;tation in steam. He has been 11 years in the emplo vment of the Peninsular and Oriental Navigation Company, during the last year in the capacity of commander, and a part of that time on the Suez line. Captain Kirton has made several voyages in the Indian seas, but this was his first voyage in the Alv• "It is usual for these steamers, during their homeward voyaee, to touch only at Madras and Point de Galle, but the government, under their contract wiih the P ‘ snmsular and Oriental Com pany, possess the ri :e,ht to direct any of their steamers to call at other intermediate ports. Cap tain Kirton accordingly, before leaving Calcutta, had been ordered by his st.'perintendent to land at Trincomalee about 5,0001. government treasure. But for this order and the ,lonsequent deviation from the ordinary route, the course of the Ave would not have lain within 50 o.r 60 miles of Trin comalee, or of the spot where she was subsequently lost. At 4 p.m. on the 15th Feb: to try the Ava lett Madras Roads for Trincomalee. Captain Kirton had applied to the superintendent o! the company at Madras for permission to leave a..t 2 p.m., in order that he might reach Trincomalee before night fall on the 16th. The permission was slot granted, in consequence, as he understood, of an objection by the post-office authorities. "At noon on the 16th February Capt. Kirton, by observation which appears to have berm accu rate, ascertained the Ava to be in lat. 9.54 N., long. 81.10 E. Her course was then shaped for Trincomlee, steering S. 6 degs. E. true course. At 4 p.m. land was sighted about four points on the starboard bow, the distance being estimated by the captain at 12 or 13 miles. Capt. Kirtou bad mot expected to sight laud so soon, and attributing the circumstance, no doubt correctly, to a westerly cur rent which had carried the ship towards the shore, he bad hauled out to S. 10 deg. E. true. At five o'clock, finding the current setting in shore wes terly at nearly two miles an hour, the captain hauled her out to S. 38 E. true. e states that, being according to his calculation at this time 10 miles from land (the chief officer estimates the dis tance at eight miles), he thought this course would take him off Trincomalee clear of all soundings. At sunset, 6 o'clock, the sails were taken down, but the ship continued steaming at full speed upwards of 10 knots an hour. The weather was fine but cloudy, and land perfectly visible. Her course from 5 o'clock was not altered till half--past 7 p.m., when a light bearing S.S. W. was sighted. The captain and his officers supposed this to be Trincomalee Light on Flagstaff Point, and, believing himself to be five miles from land, then haulssd the ship a point in shore, his object being to run down off the port of Trincomalee within signal dista.ace to get a boat off to land the treasure. The ship proceeded at full speed till she was abreast of the light, when the captain ordered her to be hauled off four points, the light then bearing about W. Before she could be hauled off more than two points, a rock was seen a-head, which was re ported as a boat; the captain perceived it to be a rock, and immediately gave orders to put the helm hard a-starboard to stop her, and turn astern full speed. Almost at that moment, 7.55 p.m., she struck on a rock under water, where she remained until she became a total wreck. Every proper exer tion appears to have been made by the captain at and subsequent to the wreck, and his arrangements for the safety of the passengersand crew, and of the recovery of such part of the cargo and specie as was saved, were marked by judgment, skill, and self-possession. It was found at daylight, from the ship's position, that she had struck an a ridge ex tending three-quarters of a mile from shore, off Rocky Point, about a mile and a half to the N.W. of Pigeon Island, and at a spot 11 miles distant N.W. from where the captain expected her to be. He admits that he took no soundings whatever, alleging that he felt certain that he was not within soundings. On being asked to give his own expla nation of the loss of the ship, he assigns the follow ing causes : " 1. That the current in a W. N. W. direction towards the shore, the rate of which, at 5 o'clock, he had estimated at about two miles an hour, was, when the ship struck, running at an increased rate of four miles an hour, and had carried the ship out of her course. 2. That the light seen at 7.30 was seen at the time when, and in the direction iu whi6h, the Trincomalee light on Flagstaff Point should have been seen by him if he bad not begin carried out of his course by the current ; that he therefore mistook it for the light on Flagstaff Point, which he says it strongly resembled. He further asserts that the light on Flagstaff Point was not properly lighted on that night ; that if it had been pro es! ! f heisted at the top of the flag staff, he thinks he must have steu it6.,Cure struck, and that it would have induced him to alter his course accordingly. " With regard to the current, Capt. Kirton was aware, as his evidence shows, that the currents vary more off the coast of Ceylon than in any other place.' Moreover, during the afternoon of the 16th he twice altered the ship's course towards the east, in consequence of the increasing strength of the cur rent—at 4 o'clock, when he was surprised to disco ver the current,' and again at 5 o'clock, when he felt satisfied that it was to the extent of two miles an hour.' The evidence of the chief officer is : The current seemed to me to increase from 4 o'clock as we came to the southward ; it was stronger at 5 o'clock, and still stronger at 6.' Yet Cape. Kirton kept the ship in the same course from 5 till he sighted the false light at half-past seven. With re gard to the light mi s taken by the captain for the Trincomalee Light, the evidence is very contradic tory. It is asserted by one of the witnesses (Capt. Johnson) that the false light seen by Capt. Kirton was a very small feeble light, low on the beach, and that it could not be mistaken for the light or a lighthouse. Capt. Haswell, an officer in her Ma jesty's navy, and who has a knowledge of that coast, also states that the light he saw on the beach after the vessel had struck appeared to be about 15 feet high, not steady, and certainly not such a light as could be mistaken for the Trincomalee Light, on Flagstaff Point, which stands (or should stand) on an elevation of 206 feet. "On the other hand, it appears tolerably certain that the light on Flagstaff Point bas been for some time in a most defective state. I beg to call your lordships' particular attention to the evidence of Capt. Gillson on this point. He states it to be a very troublesome light, the most troublesome that he ever met with anywhere. Though supposed to be 206 feet above the level of the sea, and to show a distance of 12 or 15 miles, I could not see it till I got within six miles of it ; it then went out.' Capt. Haswell states—' The Trincomalee Light is a very indifferent light. When I visited it in Sept. last it was lying on its pedestal ; the whole affair was out of order.' Aud Capt. Kirton states that the week after the wreck he saw the 'anthem (the re flectors of which wete covered with a black smoke) standing in the daytime on a brick pedestal, and that he was informed that tho machinery for raising it on the flag-staff was out of order. He further states that it bad been surveyed and condemed some months before. "On the whole, I doubt whether, so far as the light itself is concerned, Captain Kirton had sufficient means for distin,, , ruishing the false light from the true one: But in truth neither the strong inshore current nor the mistake as to the light, nor both these causes combined, would have occasioned the 1033 of the ship if the ordinary precaution of taking soundings had been adopted by Capt. Ki:- ton. The chief officer states that at fere p. m h e estimated that the ship was eight miles distant from the land. Now if the ship was net more than eight miles from shore at live p.m., she was then within soundings, for a reference to the chart will show soundings at that point extend fully eight miles from shore. She must have continued within soundings from five p.m. till she struck at 7.55, for a distance of about 30 miles. Probably a single cast of the lead at any time during those three hours would have obtained sounding::, and have shoWn to Captain Kirton that he was gradually nearinc , a rocky coast, and would have enabled him to Lipid the danger. " Captain Kirton asserts that in driving a mail steamer ' he would much sooner haul off the land out of soundings than run along the shore close in and lead.' And no doubt he is correct theoreli-. tally in preferring the former course. But when he adds that he thought he was acting on this view, and that he felt sure of his position at being out of soundings that he considered it would have been useless to heave the lead, I must observe that the present case seems to be pre-eminently one which, warned by the variable and increasing current that he might be mistaken in his distance, and having in the darkness no other means of verifying his position,lthere was the greatest reason for adopting the only caution, viz., the use of the lead. He states, My object was to get to Trincomalee as soon as possible. If I had stopped to take sound ings, I should have lost 24 hours at Galle.' It ap pears to me that to have taken soundings would not have delayed him in the rnn to Trincomalee more than a single hour ; but I need hardly ob serve that 24 hours' delay is nothing as compared to the risk to lives and property which would have been avoided by the use of the lead. " Under these circumstances I am bound to re port to your lordships my opinion that Captain Kirkton omitted to take proper precautions—that instead of continuing the ship's course at full speed for two hours after dark, he ought to have slackened speed, to have stopped the ship, and hove the lead—that had he adopted these proper and prudent measure the calamity which followed would have been averted. For these reasons lam of opinion that the loss of the Ava was caused by the default of Capt. Kirton, the master. " I feel that I ought not to close this report with out calling your lordships' attention to the fact that in addition to the evidence of the imperfect and faulty condition of the light at Flagstaff Point, which is stated to have been a source of continued complaint from every ship that came into the place,' I have found it impossible to ascertain the limits within which, when properly lighted and hoisted, the light is visible. It may be worth while to consider whether this should not be more clearly stated in the books and charts published for the guidance of mariners. " I beg to transmit herewith Capt. Kirton's cer tificate, also several testimonials in his favour. To that, from many of the passengers by the Ava, after the wreck, I beg to call your lordships' particular attention, as well as to the evidence of Captain J. S. Field, to the very high character and great re putation for skill and ability hitherto borne by Capt. Kirton.—l have the honour to bo, my lords, your lordships' obedient servant, 6 4 HENRY SELFE SELFE. " To the Lords Commissioners of the Privy Council fcr Trade. " I concur in this report. " W. H. WALKER." Iu consequence of the default attributed to Cap tain Kirton in the above report, the Board of Trade have suspended his certificate for six months. LAW INTELLIGENCE.-July 7. COURT OF EXCHEQUER. (Sittings at Nisi Prius at Guildhall.—Before Mr. Baron Bramwell and a Special Jury.) HAGGER V. BI7SII. -BREACH OF PROMISE OF TU E sl3-N; MARRIAGE. This was an action of breach of promise of mar riage. The defendant pleaded that he did not pro mise, that he was ready and willing to perform the plDmise, but a reasonable time bad not elapsed, and that when he made the promise he was insane. Mr. Edwin James and Mr. Mcrgan Lloyd were counsel for the plaintiff ; Mr. Slade and Mr. H. Bullar reuresented the defendant. ------- Mr. James, in opening the cas', said that the plaintiff was A young girl, 24 years of age, of at tractive personal appearance, and of humble paren tage, her father, who had been in the army, en joying a small pension, and carrying on a public house at Thorley in Essex. The defendant was a young gentleman, the son of a medical man at Frunze. Both his parents were dead, and the de fendant himself was destined for the medical profes- Sion. With the view of completing his studies the defendant had been placed with a Dr. Dobson, at Harlow in Essex, in whose establishment plaintiff was in the humble capacity of a domestic servant. While there the defendant became violently attached to her. He paid her every attention, and ultimately, by the consent of his aunt, from whom he had some expectations, he caused her to be placed in the how e of a clergyman named Oxlade, with the view of be fitting her for the station in life which she would Nave to occupy as the defendant's wife. Accordingly from the 9th of August, 1856, to August, 1857, the plaintiff remained. at Mr. Oxlade's, where she con due Sea herself with remarkable decorum and pro priet v. The mouth of August, in 1857, was fixed for the marriage ; and this young girl made the ne cessary preparations, on the solemn professions of this mats that he would make her his wife ; but he went into Somerset, and then suddenly, and with out the slightest reason or pretence for the change, he wrote to her abandoning her, and despite her most earnest and touching appeals imploring him to grant her ael interview, refused ever to see leer again. She was quite at a loss to know under what pretence he had cast her off after having taken her out of her sphere in life, which, if humble, was at least a happy and respectable one. The only thing they knew was that the defendant had placed on the record this most extraordinary plea, that he was mad when he made the promise, and had con tinued mad throughout the whole engagement. It was true that he was addicted to drinking, and that the plaintiff had earnestly implored him to give up the habit. There was not a shadow of foun dation for the assertion that he was of unsound mind, and his letters, all of which should be pro duced, disproved it. The learned counsel then read the letters written by the defendant, breaking off the match, in which he stated that it would be better for both of them that they should be sepa rated, and that his fortune was not sufficient for their maintenance, together with the replies of the plaintiff, which were moral, creditably written, and in which she implored him to see her, if only for ones Tl? , learned counsel proceeded to say that after these letters from fire defoudaei the girl had been sent home from the clergyman's where she had been placed, and from that moment to this the defendant had refused either apology or repa ration for his most heartless conduct, for which the jury were now called upon to give ample damages. Mrs. Anne nagger examined—l am the mother of the plaintiff, who is 24 years of age. My hus band was in the 58th. He left it 16 years ago, and has a pension of ls. a clay. He maintained himself by honest industry. He now keeps a public-house. We have nine children. My daughter went to ser vice at Mrs. Dobson's at Harlow, in Essex, five years ago. My daughter brought me a note. I used afterwards to meet her on • Sundays to talk to her and prevent her associating with Mr. Bush. On a Sunday evening I went for my daughter to Mrs. Dobson's. I came with her to my son's house, near Hoxton. The defendant came to the house, and I was introduced to him. The defendant seemed very sociable with me, but of course, when lovers meet, they have a ll th e conversation to themselves. (Laughter.) I saw the defendant a month afterwards at my son's. He dined and had tea there. They were out in the backyard walking, and I asked him what his intentions were. He said his intentions were right enough, and that he dearly loved her. On another day he was with us at my son's house. In the evening he went to his loclg,ings, saying his aunt was to be there. He came back, and brought my daughter to his aunt. He afterwards came for me, and I went to his aunt. The aunt said to me she was delighted with her ap pearance, and that Frank (the defendant) seemed very fond of her. I said I had nothing to give my daughter but my blessing, and that I would give graciously. The defendant said he did not care, he had property of his own. His aunt said her property would go to the defendant and Miss Bush, and that his marriage would make no difference in her intentions. Be kissed my daughter on her leaving, and told her she must give Mrs. Dobson notice that she would leave in a fortnight. I took my daughter back to Mrs. Deb • son's, and gave her notice. On one occasion the defendant took a ring out of his desk and put it on my daughter's finger, saying, " This was my mo filet's ring—you are to wear it till we are married, for you are mine for ever." T'ue defendant fixed the time for them to be married. I do not know w h e n. It was the year she left Mrs. Dobson's. The defendant was not mad. He was as right and better than I was. My daughter went to Mrs. Bush's for a mouth, andthen to Mrs. Oxlade. She stayed there until this happened. She has been very unhappy ever since, and will be to the day of her death. Cross-examined—l do not know if my daughter ever had a lover before—young people don't toll their mothers everything. When I say she never had a lover, I meal a sincere lover. Mr. Slade—Well, had she an insincere lover Witness—Never but oue—tSe villain that has brought her into this place. Mr. Dobson was a medical man. There was a Mr. Mahe w with Mr Dobson—au old gentleman—a madman. Mr. Slade—Come, now, did not Mr. Dobson keep a private madhouse, and was not Mr. Bush there under the same circumstances as Mr. Mahew ? Witness --N o . I know that Mr. Bush is as right in his head as I am. Mr. Slade —Do you not know that he is at this moment in a madhouse ? Witness—l do not. Air. Slade here further pressed the witness, when she said she could not tell the learned counsel any more than she had, and walked out of the witness box, She was told to go back, and then burst out .:_LONDON, -THURSDAY EVENING, crying, and said, " I cannot bear it any longer, sir." Mr. Slade did '• not ask her any further ques tions. Mrs. Oxlade, wife of the Rev. R. Oxlacle, at Kensington, deposed that the plaintiff had been placed at her house by Miss Bush, for the purpose of educating her. Wi to (less did not know of any of the circumstances, or 1 that Miss Hagger had been a servant. The plain tiff showed a remarkable pro priety of demeanour, but there were certain inac curacies of speech v, Thich required correction, and she was very anxious to improve. The defendant visited the plaintiff an d appeared much attached to her. The plaintiff p aid occasional visits to Miss Bush. Wm. Hagger, the pl siintiff's brother, an artificial flower maker, deposed that the defendant had al ways acted as a sane pe non. He had told witness that his income was 30C if. per annum, and that he was studying for the me,lical profession. In July, 1857, he took his sister ,away from Mrs, Oxlade's. She was almost deranged, Cross-examined—ln M't sy, 1856, the defendant came to Hoxton from Hari ow, and took lodgings. The will of the defendant's father, a surgeon, of Frome, was then put in. The personal property was sworn under 3,0001., which was divided be tween his children, the defendant and his sister. The letters written by tl ie defendant were then put in ; they were very sens ibly written, and prin cipally referred to the arraangementa entered into by his aunt and himself, with the view of educating the plaintiff for a higher sphere in life. In one letter he stated he was living as ecoiomically as possible, with the view of saving money ; and in another, that "he now confined himself to two pints of bitter ale a day." This closed the plaintiff's case. Mr. Slade addressed the jury for the defence. Ho said that it was not his intention to deny the promise or the breach, but he would show them that the plaintiff had a most fortunate escape from an ill-assorted union, for the defendant was at this moment, by the visitation of God, confined in a madhouse. The letters which bad been relied on showed that they were written by a man in his sane moments, but under the circumstances in which he was placed the fulfilment of the defendant's promise would have entailed the greatest misery on her, and she might thank Providence that she had escaped from what she doubtless considered a most advan tageous match. The defendant had been at one time so outrageously insane that he had been placed under the charge of Dr. Forbes Winslow, and sub sequently under the care of Dr. Dobson, ostensibly for the purpose of completing his studies, but virtually that a watchful eye should be kept over him as one who was next door to insane. This young woman was perfectly aware of the circum stances under which he had been placed there, and it would be for the jury to say whether she had not taken advantage of his weak intellect. They next found; him leaving Dr. Dobson's without notice, and taking up his residence at Hoxton, near the brother of his inamorata, the housemaid to whom he was so violently attached. There he was under the watchful eye of the old lady, the mother, who took good care to ask what his intentions were. It was a month before Mrs. Bush found out where her nephew was, and then she found him in lodgings at Hoxton, entangled in an engagement with a housemaid at a madhouse. Under these circumstances Mrs. Bush gave a reluctant consent to the match, and assisted in placing the plaintiff at Mrs. Oxlade's, in the hope that under Provi dence the marriage, if it should take place, would become more happy when the young woman had become better fitted for the better station in which she would have entered as her nephew's wife. He thought that regard being had to all the circum stances the most moderate compensation would meet the justice of the case. • Mr. Win. A. Guy, physician of King's College Hospital, deposed that in 1841 the defendant was a student at King's College Hospital. He was at that time constantly drinking and smoking. Witness, from what he heard at his lodgings and from himself had no doubt of the unsound state of his mind. He believed himself to have had an interview with the devil in the street. He gave two distinct accounts of what had occurred with a cabman. In one account he said the man had driven him 14 miles, and that he had jumped out of the cab window. In the other account he said he had a very pleasant drive. Another delusion was, that he was employed by the police to follow up swindlers. Witness and his colleague. Dr. Johnson, had signed a certificate, and the defendant was placed under the charge of Dr. Forbes Winslow. Owes-examined—The defendant resumed his studies in October, 1856. A person suffering from delirium tremens, brought on by drinking, might think he had an interview with the devil. I did not treat the case as one of delirium tremens. He had been drinking constantly and excessively. Re-examined—ln my judgment this was not a case of delirium tremens. It was a state of unsound mind, one of the features of which was that be drank excessively, and could not keep himself from drinking. By the Judge—The letters which had been re ceived were quite compatible with greac weakness of mind. Mrs. Lucretia Bush examined—l am the de fendant's aunt. I have known the defendant from the day he was born. He was very peculiar from the time of his birth. He required constant watching and care. I was not aware that he was iu a lunatic asylum in 1854 until he was there. He was there nine months, and was then, by the earnest request of his sister, placed with a Mr. Spicer, a gentleman near Bishop Stortford, who kindly invited him to stay there with his sister. He was there a year, and then went to Dr. Dob son's, at Harlow. After he left Dr. Dobson's I was unable to learn where he was. He was very ex cited. He said he would tell me if I would assist him. I did promise. He said he was engaged to a g;rl at Harlow. After he had been at Hoxton nearly a mouth I went to his lodgings there. I there saw Susan Hagger and her mother. I told her mother that in a moral point of Vie w she should be taken care of. Seeing she was so terribly deficient and that she could never fill- with credit the position she was aspiring to, I voluntJ..i.cd to 'cud my nephew money to place her in a clergyman's family. My nephew nas not passed his examination. Afterwards they were perpetually quarrelling. I have heard her say . 5U times she would never marry him, and if she did she never would live with him. I heard her say she had got his letters and did not care for him. That was on the 17th July, 1857. On that day my . nephew went to Wiltshire. He was suffering in bodily health. He intended to remain there but a few days, but he stayed longer. The engagement was then broken off. He has been at Dr. Winslow's since March last. Cross-examined—When I saw Mrs. Hagger she told me herdaughter was a servant at Dr. Dobson's. I will not swear that she said she did not wish her daughter to be taken out of that position in life. I was endeavouring to educate her to be my nephew's wife. I noticed her because I could not help myself. I took her to Hastings—so I did my servants. She dined with me every clay there. I took my nephew for a change. I took her to take care of him. (Laughter.) She stayed with ins Kenaington. I did not introduce her to my uncle Elijah. I said she was Susan Hagger, and that my nephew was attached to her. He said it was a very foolish thing. She dined with him as one of my party, I suppose. I wrote to the girl to tell her it was impossible my nephew could marry her then, as he was in such a state. Mr. James—Did you never see a medical student in love before '? (Laughter.) Are they not always excited ? Examination continued—They went out riding together at Hastings. His sister went with him. I looked upon her as a servant, because she was not a lady, and never could be. Nothing but my nephew's position would have induced me to tolerate her. Dr. Buchanan said that the defendant had been placed under his moral control, and on all matters connected with drinking he considered the defend ant was unsound in mind. (Laughter.) Mr. Justice Bramwell—This is a new Mania. Mr. James—A sort of Bibo-mania. (Laughter.) Witness—Tipsoraania Mr. James—That is, when he saw a bottle of gin lie wont mad. (Laughter.) He had taken to drinking ? Witness—l do not know what that is. Mr. James—lt is a very common expression. You know the old song— " He took to drinking ratafia, And thought upon Miss Bailey. (Laughter.) Witness—He left my house suddenly, and was found by his aunt in the Haymarket. Mr. James—ls there anything so unusual in a medic ).1 student being found in the Haymarket, though not often by his aunt. (Groat laughter.) In fact, he 11::(1 delirium tremens? Witness—lle had. Re-examined—He stated that he saw spectres round his bed. _ Mr. Jame—lnspectors? (Laughter.) Witness—No, spectres. He had a curious fancy aLout gratings in the street. He took them for money-boxes. (Laughter.) Dr. Bartlett, the manager of Dr. Forbes Wins low's establishment at Hammersmith, proved that the defendant was there in 1855, buffering under delusions that he had interviews with the devil, arid was persecuted by his family, but he was aware it was right that be should be there. He was also under the delusion that he was constantly haunted by a blue pig which was under his bed. Mr. James—Not the Blue Boar in the Hay market. (Laughter.) Cross-examined—l think if he were kept from drink his mind would regain a healthy tone, He has a monomania for drink. This closed the defendant's case. The learned counsel on both sides having ad dressed the jury, Mr. Baron Bramwell summed up. The jury returned a verdict fur the plaintiff, damages 4001. POLICE INTELLIGENCE.-July 7. MANSION-HOUSE.—Two gentlemen waited upon the Lord Mayor to request his aid and advice on behalf of a poor woman. She lived, they said, at 4, Portland-street, Soho, and her name was Sarah Hanmer. She was suffering from consump tion, and was an out-patient of the Consumptive Hospital, Brompton. On the 20th of May she went to the hospital, leaving her little boy, four years old, in care of a neighbour ; but when she returned home he was nowhere to be found ; and, despite every exertion made for his recovery, had never been seen or heard of since. The Lord Mayor regretted that he could himself do nothing in aid of the recovery of the child, but expressed his opinion that the press would give publicity to the application, which might perhaps have a good effect. The child, when lost, was dressed in a drab stuff frock, holland pinafore, and Scotch cap. He has a scar on the left side of his chin, and answers to the name of "Johnny." A reward of 201. will be paid on his return to his mother, at 4, Portland street, Soho. BOW-STREET.—Robert 'Johnson was charged with stealing a portmanteau, containing wearing appard, ti7e., the property of Mr. J. T. Norris, M.P. for Abingdon. It appeared that the pros ecu t or , on l eav i ng th e house of a friend in Devonshire-place, at about half-past eleven o'clock on Monday evening, en gaged a cab and proceeded towards Lincoln's-inn fields, having seen his portmanteau duly placed on the outside of the vehicle. On reaching Long-acre it was discovered that the trunk had disappeared, and the cabman being unable to account for it, Mr. Norris desired him to drive to the Bow-street police station to give information of the circumstance, and a description of the lost property. "On reaching the station," said Mr. Norris, in his evidence, " we found the portmanteau already in the charge of the inspector, and a man in custody on sugpicion of stealing it." Michael Bowen, an errand-boy, living at No. 5, Brownlow-street, Long-acre, deposed that he was near his own home when he saw five or six men hurrying along with a portmanteau, and heard one of them exclaim, " Oh --, here's a-- lot of us." The circumstance excited his suspicion, and he followed them. Observing him, probably, the man who had the trunk handed it over to the prisoner, who partedfrom his companions and went towards Orange-court. Witness, still following him, exclaimed, " Where are you going to with that trunk ?" The prisoner replied that he had picked it up, and that he was going to take it to the police station. Witness reminded him that he was going in an opposite direction, and, secing a policeman, called his r attention to the prisoner, who was then taken into custody. The prisoner said he pleaded guilty to having earriel it for one of the other men. He was not the man who took it. Mr. Jardine said it would be desirable to ascer tain if the prisoner was known. He must be com mitted for trial. The vigilance of the boy Bowen was very commendable. Three. showily-dressed women of the town, named Anne James, Elizabeth Williams, and Jane Wil liams, were brought before Mr. Jardine, on a charge of fighting, in Catherine-street, opposite Jessop's wine-rooms. Policeman FBB said that at about half-past 4 o'clock that mornin g , he found t he th ree pr i soners fighting together in Catherine-str ee t, having, as he heard, just come out of Jessop's wine rooms. They were rolling over one another, scratching and tear , ing one another like wild beasts, and screaming fearfully, while a number of "gentlemen," who formed a ring round them, were encouraging them by their acclamations. He took them all three into custody. They were all women of the town, and nightly frequenters of Jessop's. Inspector Mackenzie observed that this place was really a very great nuisance. . Mr. Jardine—lf this was a house with an ordi nary license you could put it down directly, I sup pose. It has a Free Vintner's license, I believe. Inspector Mackenzie—Precisely so. Mr. Jardine observed that the police hcd, how ever, the same power of entering the house as if it was an ordinary public-house. Inspector Mackenzie—But we can't bring them before the licensing magistrates. Mr. Jardine—One would hardly suppose it pos sible that in these days a number of men, whom the constable calls gentlemen, should be standing by to see women tear each otherlike wild beasts. I should have much snore satisfaction in punishing them for such brutality than in sending these poor women to gaol. One can't help pitying them. They are tempted into those abominable places, which are kept open all night to encourage idle persons to get drunk, and then they are set on to fight by these brutal men. They are liable to be sent to gaol, but I shall not punish them. They may go. CLERTCENWELL.—John Lovetrues, aged. ,18, of no home, a labourer, and John Smith, aced 24, a hawker, who refused his address, both well-known thieves, were placed at the bar before Mr. Corrie, charged with barglariously breaking and entering the dwelling house of Mr. Jones, a gold and silver refiner, 16, Wilderne , s-row, and stealing some arti cles of wearing apparel belonging to Francislf udson. It appeared from the evidence of several wit nesses, who resided in the house, that at about 4 o'clock in the morning they were disturbed by hearing a loud crash. No notice was at first taken of the matter, but the noise being repeated a few seconds afterwards, the parties in the house armed themselves, and upon proceeding downstairs found the doors and windows of the first floor open. On eao.:l . lElg d.c back rorm m uc h snrprised to find some of the flooring pulled up and a very iargt, hole made in the ceiling big enough to admit two persons into the shop. It would seem that the thieves gained admittance tothe house by the back window, and then proceeding downstairs, tried to break open the ehop-door ; but having cut through both panels, and then finding the iron plates, went upstairs, and got into the shop by breaking through the ceiling. Police-constables Greathurst, 209 G, and Spniiu, 61 G, were then sent for, and upon en tering the shop found, under one of the benches in the back, the prisoner Smith, and in one of the upper rooms the other prisoner, with a coat and silk handkerchief in his possession belonging to one of the prosecutor's shopmen. If the thieves had when they had, there can be would have got off with a groat valuable tilye property which was in littlen o t buti f s disturbed very thatrl y ) e d the shop. The prisoners, when asked if they had anything. to say in answer to the charge, replied in the nega tive. Mr. Corrie remanded the prisoners for a week for the completion of the case. WORSHIP-STREET.—Francis Smith, 38, a powerful man, was charged with assaulting Ellen Perry on the 29th ult. On the day in question complainant, in a feeble state, attended to give evidence, and exhibited an extensive wound on the forehead, both eyes blackened, and several other injuries of a mani festly violent character. She deposed that at four o'clock th►t.morniug the defendant, with whom she had cohabited for a period of five years, went home intoxicated, struck her on the head with a shovel, several times tried to gouge her eyes out, and otherwise ill-treated her until she was rescued from his violence by the police. The woman added that Le had frequently maltreated her during her inter course for the last few years, but the whole of the testimony was given with strong reluctance. Inspector Webster, N division, deposed that at the time in question he heard dreadful screams in a woman's voice, and then the words, " Oh, Frank, let me die fairly !" This was followed by threat s in a man's voice, and the sound of blows often re peated. Witness knocked violently at the door of the house, No. 11, Great Cambridge-street, and it was opened by the complainant, in such a state as to excite apprehensions for her life. To use the in spector's words, she appeared as " dipped in a pool of blood," which was fast flowing from a wound in her forehead. Her clothes were half torn from her, and she was in suit a state of exhaustion that she fell into his arms. She wr s taken t the hospital in a cab, whi'e the defendant was apprehended up stairs in a perfectly nude condition, and his flesh besmeared with blood ; patches of gore were seen on many parts of the floor, and evidently there had been a fearful struggle. The house was full of the most notorious characters. Mary Palmer, the landlady, was called for the defence, and swore there had been provocation, and the complainant, apparently terrified thereon, said she, threw a basin at the defendant. The ease was remanded, but the injured woman did not now ap pear, and in her absence the magistrate said he would fine the offender M., or three months' im prisonment. MARLBORO U G H-STRE ET. Mr. Anthony Patrick Mahon, of 65, Manchester-street, Man chestcr•square, appeared before Mr. Beadon, upon A fiuuunvns which charged him with unlawfully as. 3ULY 8, 1858. saulting Mr. George Horatio Brand, of 50, Upper Charlotte-street, Fitzroy -square. Mr. Lewis, jun., of Ely-place, conducted the case for the complainant, and Mr. Clarkappeared on the part of the defendant. Mr. Brand said he was in Kensington Gardens on the 29th ult., between five and six in the even ing, walking arm in arm with a friend, when he observed the defendant approaching him. He had a friend with him likewise, to whom he said, in allusion to the complainant, "This is the person who has introduced himself as a member of the Dacre family. He is a low, blackguard fellow." At the same time pushing against him, he called a thief, and said his father was a tradesman, and that his mother was a lodging-house keeper. He then asked him (complainant) if he could not resent that? and added, he would kick him across the park. Complainant, in his evidence, said he would not suffer himself to be provoked by the language used towards him. He had only seen the defendant once before, and that was at a pic-nic party, on which occasion defendant committed a breach of the peace and was bound over by the magistrate at the Mary lebone Police-court to keep the peace, where com plainant was a witness against him. Cross examined—Complainant said his mother keeps a house in Berners-street, and his father is a retired tradesman. Was introduced to the defen dant in Cumberland-street on the day of the pic nic. Had never represented himself as a member of the Dacre family, nor passed himself off to any young ladies as such. Had never said the defendant was unfit for his company because f the position he (complainant) held. Had let go his friend's arm the second time defendant pushed against him. He pushed him several times. - Mr. A. Pearson, of Westbourne-terrace, said he was in company with Mr. Brand on the evening adverted to, and heard the defendant call him a blackguard, and say he was the son of a tradesman. Re knew nothing more of what took place, as he then left. Henry Matthew, Hyde-park constable No. 20, said, while'outside the gardens, the defendant fol lowed the complainant. Heard the defendant call him a low, dirty blackguard, a scoundrel, and a dirty rogue. A considerable number of persons collected. He (witness) remonstrated with the de fendant, who said, " It was my intention to give l•im a good sound thrashing." The complainant did not press the charge against him. He said he wished to have nothing whatever to say to him. He would seek redress by other means. Mr. Beadon said the defendant must enter into bail, himself in 5001., and two in 2501. each, to keep the peace, towards the complainant for 12 months. The required bail having been entered into the parties left the court with their respective friends, who, during the-hearing of the case, had crowded the court and manifested a great deal of interest. HAMMERSMITH. —Joseph Harford, alicensed cab-driver, badge No. 8,818, was summoned at the instance of Mr. Septimus Goldsmith, a gentleman residing at Campden-hill, Kensington, for unlaw fully refusing to drive two persons. The complaindnt stated that about 6 o'clock on the evening of the 28th ult. he came out of Camp den-house, where there had been a concert, accom panied by two ladies and a gentleman. He hailed the defendant, who drove up with his cab, and even turned the horse and vehicle round before the door was opened. The two ladies got into the cab and sat down, but witness and his friend wore not going with theni. He (witness) then told defendant where to drive, upon which he immediately refused to ac cept the fare, and insisted upon the ladies alighting. Mr. Dayman asked if it was a short distance the cabman had to take the ladies ? The complainant said it was to Mecklenburg square, a distance of four miles. The defendant questioned the gentleman as to whether he did not tell him his horse was tired, and the complainant positively denied that any thing was said about the horse. The answer to the summons was that the horse had been out twelve hours, and it was past the time for changing. He had put down his last fare at East Acton, and he came through Campden-hill on his way home to Westminster to ease the horse. He was hailed by three persons, and he chose the one to the Haymarket as it was his road home. Mr. Dayman said the defendant had committed an offence under the act, for which he was liable to a penalty of 40s. He was sorry to say that it was a common practice amongst cabmen to choose their fares, and that could not be allowed. He fined the defendant 10s. and costs. The money was subsequently paid. IRONMASTERS' QUARTERLY MEETING. .WOLVERHAMPTON, Wednesday Evening.—The quarterly meetings of the ironmasters of Stafford shire and Shropshire commenced in this town to day. The attendance was tolerably numerous, but the business transacted was extremely limited ; in fact, more langour and indisposition on the part of consumers to enter into engagements has seldom been witnessed. The lengthened term over which the existing quietude has prevailed was the subject of general remark today, this having been deci dedly the flattest meeting that has taken place since the collapse which occurred last autumn ; neither is thefe anything to warrant the assumption that any improvement is at hand. At the present time there are no groat works in course of construction re quiring large quantities of finished iron ; expecta tions of orders from the East ludies have been doomed to disappointment ; the orders from Ame rica are trifling, and the home trade continues.so dull that it is not surprising consumers should ab stain from buying beyond what they require for immediate use. Several exporting houses of Lon don and Liverpool were represented at the market to-day, but they were lookers-on only, and so far as could be ascertained it is many yeart since an ironmasters' meeting at Wolverhampton when so few transactions took place. With reference to the American trade, it is feared there will be no revival in it at present, and until a movement takes place in that direction there is not much chance of the iron trade of South Staffordshire re-assuming a healthy state. mnjority of the mills and forges are not in operation more thau taulL L,ulc , and L ;os.l de .1 of underselling is going on, the mischief in this direc tion being increased by the number of firms carry ing on for the purpose of liquidating instalments upon compositions entered into last winter, these arrangements being made in the anticipation that the trade would ere this have recovered its activity. The parties in this strait are forced to sell at the best price they can obtain for their commodity, to the"serious injury of the more respectable members of the trade, who are thus thrown into competition with men who have been relieved of obligations to the extent of 10s. or 12s. in the pound. It was mentioned to-day that the little demand that exists formanufaCtured iron is exclusively for best brands ; and the last 12 months has afforded abundant evidence that the production of an infe rior make of iron in South Staffordshire, which was commenced some years ago, was a move in the wrong direction; it has damaged the reputation of the district in' that respect, and the result will most likely be that the make of that description of iron will before long be 'pretty much confined to the northern part of the county and to Wales. The tone of the assembly to-day was more cheer ful than might have been expected, looking at the small amount of business done, and at the circum stance that the prospects of the Birmingham meet ing are not more encouraging. The price of pig iron is the turn lower ; and under some circumstances must be made at a loss, where sales are pressed in the present state of the market. Stocks are rather accumulating, but it was mentioned to-day that it is in contemplation to blow in one or two additional furnaces. The coal trade is dull in consequence of the limited consumption at the mills and forges ; for house coal there is a more active demand. POOR-RATES AND PAIIPERISL—In the last week of May last there were 855,531 paupers relieved in and nut of doors in England anclAWales, against 842,441 in 1857, thus exhibiting an increase of 13,090. There was a de crease of 4.38 per cent, of pauperism in the metropolis, and a very large increase in!the North-western and York districts. The increase extends to every week in the month. lADVERTISEMENT.] A few more of the extraordinary cures without Medicine of Indigestion (Dyspepsia), Flatulency, Constipation, Nervous, Bilious, and Liver complaints, Cough, Asthma, Consumption, and Debility effected by Du Barry's delicious health-restoring Revalenta Arabica le«1, are here given : Cure 52,422. 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The British Cabinet has informed. this Government that it does not object to an elec tric cable being laid down between Ragusa and Corfu and Corfu and Zante, at the risk and ex pense of Austria. It is also winkg to join Austria in guaranteeing 6 percent. to any company which will undertake to carry the telegraph from Corfu to Candia and Alexandria, but it requires that the sums paid for its despatches to and from Alexan dria shall be considered part of its guarantee. This last condition is declared to be unacceptable, and this Government will doubtless decline to construct the telegraph on such terms. The Austrians are now less eager to establish a telegraphic communi cation between Ragusa and Alexandria than they were a few months since, and the chances are that they will not make any preparations for laying down the cables to Corfu and Zante until a com pany has' been formed for continuing the electric chain from Corfu to Candia and Alexandria. A person who cannot but be well acquainted with the feeling of this Government on the subject in ques tion yesterday expressed himself to the following effect :—" Austria is tired of higgling and haggling about the matter, and will be well pleased if the British Government will itself undertake to con struct the telegraph, or persuade an English com pany to do so. If the thing is but done, it is perfectly indifferent to her who does it." It is generally believed here that a submarine telegraph from Ragusa to Alexandria would pay full 6 per cent., but I have my doubts on the subject. However, as England must have two means of communication with India, it is not clear to me why she does not either close with Austria at once, or take the matter entirely into her own hands. It has been discussed to continue the telegraph from Malta to Alexandria, but there are three weighty objections to the prc ject. The first is, that the Mediterran ean i s muc h deeper bet Ween lalta and Alexandria than it is between Corfu and Candia and Candia and Alex andria; the second, that the lonian Islands would not be brought into telegraphic communication with Greece, European Turkey, and Austria ; and the third, that the only way of sending despatches to and from England would be through France. As things now stand is it not desirable that the British Government and public should have the option of sending their despatches through Sar dinia and France, or. through Austria and Holland or Belgium ? The 6 per cent. guarantee for the telegraph from Corfu to Alexandria is estimated at 30,0001., one-half of which England is e x p ec t e d t o take on her own shoulders. It may be observed that this Government has already concluded a treaty with Greece for opening a telegraphic corn munnication between Zante and some part of the Morea. THE HUDSON'S BAY TERRITORY. It has already been announced that a deputation of the Manchester Chamber of Commerce, Liver pool Financial Association, and Aborigines Protec tion Society, together with M r . A. K. Isbister, representing the Red River colony, waited upon Lord Derby, on Tuesday, to present a memorial on the question of the Hudson's Bay territory. Mr. Christy, M.P., Mr. Wyld, M.P., and Mr. Roebuck, M.P., explained the subject to his lord ship, referring especially to the vast territory of Rupert's Land, and the charter under which it was held. Mr. ROEBUCK urged that the company's license expired in May next, and between this and then it war imperatively necessary that the question of the legality of the charter should be ascertained. Out of it sprung the important question of the compen sation which was to be paid to the company for the surrender of any portion of the territory. Lord DERBY acknowledged the desirability of testing the validity of the charter, and of the ex tent of the power which it purported' to convey, but stated that there appeared to him to be some difficulty as to the mode in which the question could be raised in this country. Mr. WYLD drew attention to the address to the crown from. the House of Commons, on the sth July, 1849, praying for such an inquiry, and stated that in the correspondence before Parliament in connexion with that address the course which had been suggested by Sir John Jervis and Sir John Romilly, on the question being referred to them by the then colonial secretary, Lord Grey, was that the question should be raised before the Judicial Committee of Privy Council by petition, embody ing the objections usually held to exist against the charter, upon which a direct issue could then be taken, the petitioner appearing as appellant and the company appearing as respondents in the case. Lord Grey had called upon Mr. Isbister to present such a petition, and the company had agreed to appear as the respondents ; but that further action was prevented by Lord Grey declin ing to defray the expenses of such an investigation. The difficulty might be overcome by Government consenting to pay the expenses of both parties to the suit, as the inquiry was of a national character, and must sooner or later be brought to such a decision. After a few remarks from Lord BURY and other members of the deputation, Lord DERBY said that the subject was one of the very greatest importance, and that at this moment it was occupying the best attention of the Govern ment. Without pledging himself to the a d o pti on of any specific measures he might yet say that he was disposed to concur generally with the views of ,the deputation. It would be sufficient for him to refer to the bill introduced by Sir E. B. Lytton, for the erection of Now Caledonia into a colony, as indicating what would be the future policy of the Government in dealing with the much larger ques tion which the deputation had brought before him. Thedeputationhaving,thanked hislordship, with drew. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. NEWMARKET JULY MEETING. WEDNESDAY. .7 ., ;7 - Inl:ei of 10 goys ,nch, for 2-vr•olds ; colts, B.t 71b; tallies, Bet Co. Tun Lo 11,1 i Lc 40 goys, if demanded, Sce. Last half-mile of the New T.Y.C. Five subs. Mr. Chambers's Hassock, 83t 41b .........(E Sharps) 1 Mr. Eyton's Snapdragon, 83t 71b (Rayner) 2 Mr. E. Hall's Laragh, 8;t 41b (A. Day) 3 Lady Lotty filly and Catalpa filly also ran. Betting-5 to 2 eget the Catalpa filly, 7to 2 agst Has sock, Won by a length ; a neck between the second and third ; same distance between the third and fourth, the Catalpa filly being last, a length and a half behind the Lady Lotty filly. The winner was claimed. The Summer Handicap, a Sweepstakes of 15 soya each, 5 ft. if declared, Bte., with 200 added, The second to receive 30 save oat of the stakes. Summer Course. (The last two miles of R.C.) 14 subs., 6 of whom • pay 5 soya eacih. Colonel Tevis's Yorkshire Grey, 6 yrs, Est 41b (Fordbani) 1 Lord Clifden's Haymaker. 3 yrs, sst 51b (including 51b extra), carried sst 10lb (Bray) 2 Mr. Saxon's Princess Royal, 3 yrs, 6st 131 b (Rayner) 3 The following also ran :—Georgie, Somerset, Harry Stanley, and Schiedam. Betting-7 to 2 agst Yorkshire Grey, sto 1 each agst Haymaker, Somerset, and Schiedam, 8 to 1 agst Harry Stanley. , Yorkshira Grey made all the running, and won by two lengths, three quart , .tra of a length between the se cond and third, wide intervals between each of the others. Handicap Plate of 50 save. Chesterfield Stakes Course. (3 furlongs 212 yards.) Mr. Ford's Ophelia, 3 yre, sst 10,b (Daley) 1 Lord W. Powlett's Delusion, 4 yrs, Bst...(E. Sharpe) 2 Mr. Payne's Fashion, 5 yrs, ..(Flatinau) 3 The following also ran : —lnder, Gooseberry Tart, and Schoolfellow. Betting-3 to 1 agst Fashion, 7to 2 (at fire sto 2) agst Ophelia, and 4 to 1 aist Inder. Yon by two lengths a length and a half between the second and third, bad fourth. Gooseberry Tart, who was led to the post, got badly off, owing to the man's not "looting her head." The' Town Plate, of 50 sove, for 3-yr-olds; colts, Bit 71b; fillies, Bet 3tb 8.11. Baron Rothschild's_ Scribbler, Bat 71b., walked over, and received half the " plate." Match, 100, b. ft. New T.Y.C. (5 furlongs 136 yards ) Cunt Battbyany's Olympus, 5 yrs, SA 101b...(Wells) 1 Duke of Bedford's Leontes, 3 yrs, 7st 121 b (E. Sharpe) 2 Betting-5 to 2on Leontes. Won by fur lengths. Match, 200, h. ft. New T.Y.C. Duke of B.?au"ort.'s Gin, Bst 101 b (A. Day) 1 Duke of Bedford'i Pavilion, Bst 31 1 ) (Wells) 2 Betting-6 to son Pavilion. Won by three quarters of a, length. LATEST BETTING. GOODWOOD STAKES. 6to 1 abet Lifeboat (taken and oat red). 25 to 1 agst Pensioner. ST. LEO RR. sto 1 agst T. xophilite (taken to money). 6to 1 agst Governess (aken to 2501) 40 to 1 agst The Alderman. DERBY. 40 to 1 agmt Marionette (tnkel)). 10,000 to 50 agst Green Jacket (taken). Ttie early part of the morning was delivhtfully fine, but ust before the pro cee di ngs on the Heath were brought to a close a heavy storm broke, and the rain fell if torrents NEW MATCH FOR THIS DAY. m r . Joseph Dawaoh'd Badsworth, 4 yra, agat Mr. R. Ten Irock's Mimosa, 3 yra ; weights for age. 200; 50 ft: Last mile of Cambridgeshire Course. The raeas commence this day at half-past 12 o'clock. STATUE OP NAPOLEON I. AT MILAN. The • statue of Napoleon stands where Canova placed it at Milan fifty years ago. Various vicis situdes of fortune have swept over Italy since then. Long, dark, and weary nights of oppression, broken by brief and stormy gleams of hope and liberty, have come and gone, and now the spirit of that mourning land seems to dwell in a twilight of dis content, distrust, and doubt. But the master piece of the eminent sculptor remains where it was, primus inter pares among the modern monuments of Lombardy, recalling to the memory of old men the day when the great Italian soldier placed the Iron Crown upon his plebeian brow. The House of Hapsburg has indeed regained that rugged dia dem, and, with the exception of a brief interval, has succeeded in retaining it within its grasp. But the image of Napoleon has never ceased to be un welcome to its waking sight, and the echo of his name still troubles its dull dreams. Could the mute lips of the marble effigy speak, they would speak in the Italian tongue ; that was the dialect in which the great usurper thought ; that was the language of his conquering youth and meditative age. His rack and power and European fame was that of France ; but the genius of the man was that. of Italy • as Emperor of the West, E uro p e f eare d and hated him ; but it was as an Italian king of Italy who bad driven her German gaolers out, and shut her mountain gates upon them, that Austria hated him whilst living, and trembled at the recol lection of what he had been, after he was consigned to his distant grave. And Austria trembles still at the mention of his name ; and is disturbed at each successive step which his recent successor seems to take in resuscitating the memories of that upstart dynasty, which she had hoped was over trown for ever. In vain she has tried diligently to look at first indifferent, and then pleased, at the restoration of Bonapartism in France. In vain she has made haste with expressions of royal recog nition, and the interchange of the insignia of knightlyhonours. Invain she has affected diplomatic confidence, and entered into treaties and conven- I tions for the maintenance of that. European status quo, on which her existence as a first-rate power necessarily bangs. Never for an hour since the coup d'etat of the 2d of December, has Austria felt thoroughly at ease. Whenever since that memo rable day the recollection of what Napoleon I. was in Italy has crossed her mind, the unpopular sceptre of the Veneto-Lombard kingdom has trembled in her hand. Perhaps she never felt so free from apprehension and misgiving as during the campaign in the Crimea, when the flower of the French army was engaged in murderously pro tracted conflict with the best of her Northern rival's troops, far from the shores of the unreconciled and irreconcilable Italy. But since the Peace of Paris sentiments of alienation seem to have daily gained greater and, greater strength. Tee French Minister has been withdrawn from Naples ' • and French infl uence at t h e C ourt o f Turin has notoriously been gaining ground. A thousand circumstances, in themselves trivial, have contributed to widen the breach between the two Governments ; and the press of Vienna and Paris have for months been occupied iu mutual revilings.. Considering how completely the journals of both capitals are under the avowed surveillance of the police, it is impossible to interpret their acrimony otherwise than as the overflowing of Imperial antipathies. Men's eyes are turned instinctively to the old field of French and Austrian encounter. Time and time-serving diplomacy, change and changing policy, have altered nothing there. Italy, the great weakness of Austria in the first Napoleon's time, is still the great opportunity for France in the days of his nephew and successor. All the lying of legitimacy and all the peaceful professions of the Imperial parvenu cannot make it more or less dangerous and tempting than it was, and is, and is certain to continue to be. And there, in the over-garrisoned capital of the disaffected realm the statue of Napoleon stands, breathing, even as . he did in life,, scorn of the stranger and haughty - detestation of the oppressor's race. There is something ineffably naïve, and yet some thing ineffably pitiful, in the offer made to the French Government by the EnaperorFrancis Joseph of the minatory statue of Napoleon. ".Have it if you will and welcome; take it away--pay regal or divine honours to it if 'you will at Paris ; let it be worshipped anywhere audibly and openly—only not here ; rid us of its presence ; it is a daily re proach, an hourly humiliation, au intolerable me mento of the past, and menace for the future ; do us the honour to accept so invaluable a gift." It would perchance be deemed by the diplomatic world discourteous if Napoleon 111. declined the favour ; and with political badinage refused to de prive his Imperial brother of an object sacred not only as a national work of art, but as an historic monument in the eyes of his Austrian Majesty's Italian subjects. He might add, in mauvaise plaisanterie, that in France the work of Canova's chisel was not needed to keep alive the glorious recollections of Lodi and Mareugo ; and that as the illustrious artist had been originally commissioned to make an image of Napoleon for the metropolis of Northern Italy, where it had in fact been placed on its completion by his command, it would ill be come his peaceful descendant to deprive that noble city of its noblest statue. What reply may actu ally be given to the singular offer we know not ; • but be it' what it may, the offer and the answer will excite many a deep emotion, where it would probably have been better for Austria's sake that moody stillness had been left to reign. —Daily Kews. Country. Markets, EDINBURGH HAY AND STRAW MARKET JULY 6. Supplies of all kinds these last six days small. Oat straw, from 7s 63 to 114 6d par kample of 16 steno; troll ; wheat do., 6s Oct to 103 Cd ; barley do., 8s 04 to 9s Od. Hay from 10d to 13d. EDINBURGH MEAL—Jura . 6. There were in tho market today 12 sacks oatmeal, each weighing 2801 b imperial, which sold at 39s Od and 40s. DALKEITEI MEAL MARKET—JULY 6. There were in the market to-day 7 bags of oatmeal, oof barleymeal, and 0 pot barley. Sales ready. Oatmeal, per sack of 2801bm First. - Seeond. I Third. imperial Barleymeal, per ditto -s Od --s Od -s (, d Peasemeal, per ditto Flour, new, per ditt o .... —s Od —s Od —3 01 Pot-barley, new, per ditto --a Od -- s Od -g Od DUBLIN-JULY 7. White wheat, 2G3 6:1 to 28s 6d ; red ditto, 24s Od to 2CII 6d; ditto new, 2 3 s 6 1 ; barley, malting, 13s to 17 a Od ; gr i n d- Od to 16 3 6 d; b ere , new , — a to a Od;. rapose,d, —s Od to —s Od per b rl ; bakers! flour, 14s Oil to 18s Gd per cwt; India n corn , 34 3 01 to 353 6d per to 163 65 6 8 1 - 7 oatmeal, 14s -- ___Ø ; oaks, old, 15s to 16 s Od ; di tto, new, —s 490 lbs. LOCAL SHARE MARKET& LIVERPOOL-JULY 7. STOCK EMU/ion—The market has been heavy to-lay, and on sales to realise prices have declined 4 per cent. Subjoined are the closing prices :—Dovers, 22 1.16 3-16 —London and North-Western, 894 I—Sheffield, 364 Chester and Holyhead, 17 i—Eastern Counties, 12 a — Midland, 914—North British, 111 12a—Birkenheads, 68 —Great Western, 49 501—Lancashire and Yorkshire, 901 —Great Western of Canada, 174 Blackburns, 11a 4 Berwicks, 22a s—East Lancashire, 90 4 I—Caledonians, 301 i—Leeds Northern, 23 3 Dutch Rhenish, 5 die.— York and North Midland, 35i if —Grand Trunk of Ca nada, 10 3. MAICCHESTER, JULY 7. STOOK EXCHANGE.—The market opened rather firmer, and but few s;iles have been effected. Blackburns, 111— Dovers, 20 3.l6—Leeds, 90?--Midlands, :11..-.—Trunks, 10i-- Shefficlds, 37—Eastern Counties, 12h—Union Bank, a . pm.—Bank of Manchester, 3-16 pm. BIRTHS. GOULBURY—On the Gth inst., at GI, Upper Seymour street, the wife of Colonel Goulburn, of Betchworth House, Surrey, of a son. HUNIER —On the 6th inst., at Mortimer-hill, near Read ing, Barks, the wife of Sir Paul Hunter, Bsrt., of a son. PELLY—On the 7th lust., the wife of Justinian Pally, Esq., of a daughter. MAII,RIAGES. Madras A rm y. SKTPWITH—BOYD —On the 6th inst., at St. George's, Han over-square, M a j or G eorge Skipwith, Depot Batt a li on , David Boyd, Esurg Jersey, to Margaret Jornima, only daughter of the lute Esq., S SYMONDB—WELLS —On the 6 th inst. , at St. Pancras Church, Mr. James Lamber t Symonds, of Blenheim. terrace, St. John's - wouri , to Ch arlotte Elizabeth, eldest eon -General, daughter of Henry T. Wells, Esq., of Stanhupo-terrace, Regent's-park. DEATHS. ,AiteziEn—On the sth inst., at Ilford, Essex, Mr. John Archer, formerly of Old-street, and late of Hoxton square, Londou, aged 84. - BusuNELL— On the 11 inst., at Biarritz, Bayonne, W. A. Bushnell, Esq., aged 36. COOKE —On the Gth inst., at Brockton Court, Shropshire, Martha Ann, wif e o f William H. Cooke, Esq., of the Middle Temple, and Wimpole-street, London. EDWARDS—Oa the 4th inst., at Cloudesley-square, Isling ton, Thomas Edwards, aged 78. SPURRELL —On the 7th inst., at 5, Durham-place, Chel sea, John H. Spurrell, Esq., late of the Admiralty. WIGHTwicK—On the 4th inst., Stubbs Wightwick, Esq., of 13Ioxwich, Staffordshire, and late of Cheltenham, Magistrate and Dop.-Lient., aged 64. LONDON : Printed and Published by MURDO YOUNG, f of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at The Su , ' Office, No 112. Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in the county of Middleen, Thursday, July S. 1858. Tl6l and from great GI and part! and 4 C have now Fare, ) Petit Vare; able Cher rare , one three from and 1 on 4 to re ; raised Tenet torte. Pla UPele ............ Ai place, oanl NJ Assur being Anr Inents Ev ( witho Th E Navi n; Cou p the Tr ave Name List dents, with the CL Itshed has be policle eurrin tht; de •t gra, Th May, Poll tak, out 185 nati o Tµ fIP Its to on of thi OlBp i Ihdt i vc SI Pt II Si A,