The Sun. — London, England, 1860-07-17 00:00:00

THEATRE -ROYAL, HAYMATINET Lessee, Mr. J. B. Buckstone. THIS EVENING the performances will commence with THE OVERLAND ROUTE. Messrs. C. Mathews, Buck stone, Compton, Chippendale, Rogers, Mrs. C. Mathews, Miss Weekes, and Mrs. Wilkins. After which, the new comedietta, HIS EXCELLENCY, in which Mr. and Mrs. C. Mathews will appear. , And THE BOARDING SCHOOL. Commence at 7. ------- ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.-- Lessee, Mr. A. Harris. TO-NIGHT, THE FOOL'S REVENGE. Bertuccio, a Jester, Mr. Phelps. To sonclude with BOWLED OUT. Commence at 7. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.- Mr. A. UARRIS begs to announce that he has entered into an arrangement with the Company of ZOUAVES, origi nal founders of the Theatre at Inkerman, durinc,r the Crimean War, where, under the enepy's fire, they gained such renown, and have sinee Brusse l s, the principal theatres of France, Vienna, Madrid, , Constantinople, Milan, Turin, Benin, Stockholm, Gibraltar, and Lisbon. The ZOIJAVES will make their first appearance in En& land on Monday, July 23, in a novel and varied entertainment. The battles in which these Artists were engaged are Alma, Balaclava, Inkerman, Malakoff, and Sebastopol. ADELPHI, NEW THEATRE - ROYA L. Sole rroprietor and Manager, Mr. Ben). Webster. Last 3 Nights of the popular Adelphi drama, "The Flowers of the Forest." 12th week of the favourite American Actress, Miss Julia Daly. THIS r:VENING, THE FLOWERS OF THE FOREST. Messrs. J. L. Toole, P. Bedford, Billington, Stuart, Eburne, C. J. Smith, Powell, Romer ; Miss Woolgar, K. Kelly, Mrs. Billington, Miss Laidlaw. After which, THE FOOL OF THE FAMILY. Mr. Paul Bedford and Miss Julia Daly. To conclude with OUR GAL. Miss Julia Daly, Messrs. Eburne, Ward, and Romer. Commence at 7. Box-office open from 10 till 5. Private boxes, £2 2s. ; Family Boxes, £l. Orchestra Stalls, ss. ; Balcony, 4s. ; Front Circle Stalls, Es. ; Pit Stalls, 25.; Pit, ls. 6d. ; Amphitheat Smi th. ; Gallery, 6d. Acting Manager—Mr. Wm. FRENCH PLAY S —ST . 7 AMES'S THEATRE, Directeur, M. Tatexy.—Lessee, Mr. F. B. Chatterton. EVERY EVENING. Positively the last Week but Two. TO-NIGHT, LE 3IOULIN DE BLESINET. Madlle. Marie Basta. And CIIEZ UNE PETITE DAME. Orchestra Stalls, 7s. 6d. ; Balcony Stalls, ss. ; Pit, 2s; Gallery, Is. Private Boxes, from Two Guineas. Commence at 8. Box-office open daily from 11 till 5. A STLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.- Proprietor and Manager, Mr. Wm. BATTY. In consequence of the continued success another MID-DAY PERFORMANCE will take place on Saturday next, July 21, 1860.—Commence at 2 o'clock. Every evening the entertainments commencing with the Spectacle of FAIR ROSAMOND, or the AMAZON CRUSADE ha RS, w ith incomparable Scenes in t he Cir q ue, and a laughable Farce. On MONDAY next, July 23, the popular Spectacle of MAZEPPA 'Will be produced. Doors open at halt-past 6, performance commence at 7. Box-office open daily from 11 till 4. Stage Alanager—Mr. W. WEST. Director of the Arena--M. Felix Revolti. CANTERBURY SALT. THIS EVENING. C. H. GOUNOD UST 'S OPERA. FA. CONGERTS.- THE WEATHER. —Sus OFFICE, JULY 17, 1560. THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE. 63—highest since noon yesterday. 59—lowest this morning and during the night. 71—this day at noon. BAROMETER -29 . 96 . WIND—South -Westerly ; light, with sultry weather, 1.- - ..„ i. :,•;- 1 by rr-22, IT ~,~.~,~. ,ter • ,i ~~, ;)-i F; THE SUN. LONDON, TUESDAY, JULY 17, 1860. - _ First Time in this Country. Faust Mr. Henry He r b ert Mephistopheles •Mr. C. Bernard. Siobel Mrs. Anderson. Marguerite ..... Miss Russell. Conductor Mr. Jonghmans. And selections from Dinorah, Trovatore, Macbeth, and numerous other Entertainments. Balcony, 15............•Ha11, 6d. Comic Vocalists —Messrs. George Hodson (the Irish Come dian and Mimic), and C. Marshall. The ETHIOPIANS, consisting of 17 performers (organised expressly for this Establishment). for the performance of Vocal and Instrumental Music, Comic and Sentimental, with Negro delineations, anecdotes, &c., in addition to the usual entertainments. The gallery is open from 5 till 11 on Sunday Evening. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. This DAY. —Morning, 12h. 27m.—Afternoon., 12h. 54m. To-moßs.ow.-Morning, Ih. 21m.—Afternoon, lh. 46m, Mr. GLADSTONE made the best of a bad business last night. Including nearly half a million due to the Indian Exchequer on account of the last war with China, nearly six millions has to be provided for to square our accounts with JOHN CHINAMAN. It seems hardly credible, but such is the fact, on the authority of Mr. GLADSTONE himself, that our proceedings since the affair of the Taku forts at the mouth of the Peiho, have cost us up to the pre sent time just £5,400,000 ; to this has to be added £450,000, the debt to India just adverted to. We are slightly comforted by the information that not quite all this large sum has now to be raised. £850,000 of it were charged upon the - , income of 1859-G0; and it is gratifying to know that so buoyant was the revenue of that year that it weathered the charge, floated over it indeed with a surplus. It was entirely met by the produce of taxes, and not out of temporary resources. The taking up of malt credits gave almost a million earlier than usual to the Exchequer ; but, without that aid, the actual revenue was sufficient to pay the China demand for that year. Indeed on the 31st of March the actual surplus of income over expenditure was £1,587,000. We come then to the present year 1860-61. The amount now to be raised is £3,800,000. To meet this Mr. GLADSTONE says, first, there is the £500,000 of taxation provided for in February ; next, £700,000, the proceeds of the Lords' aggression on the paper duties ; next, £1,000,000, which he proposes to raise by increasing the spirit duties to 10s. for home-made spirits, and 103. 2d. for foreign spirits respectively ; to which must be added the small surplus left after all mistakes are rectified — amounting to £264,000. Adding these sums together, a deficiency remains of £1,336,000, which amount he proposes to take out of the Exchequer balances, these being, he tells us, in astate in which they are well able to bear it. We have thus briefly sketched the leading par ticulars of the Chancellor of the Exchequer's pro posals. The country will probably think he could not have done better, while it will be gratified to be -reminded of the elasticity of its ordinary sources of revenue. To have got over the frightful esti mate of nearly six millions, as the cost to us of Chincse treachery and bad faith, with only the in fliction of ls. 11d. additional duty on the spirit drinkers of the country, is certainly matter of con gratulation. To be sure we have the mortification, with Mr. GLADSTONE, of having to pocket the Lit of the unrepealed paper duties to achieve this ; but for them we should hardly have des red our way without another penny of in- come tax. A. id this certainly reminis us of the assur- 1 acee of Mr. GLADSTONE in proposing that extra P en n 7, when he now shews that he can look 1 confidently for an equivalent amount of revenue 1 from ispirit duties. We entirely acquit him of any design to jeopardise the repeal of the paper duties. lie, doubtless, selected income tax as the compLoasation, b ecause he wished to put the screw on our military and naval expenditure. But had he placed in competition the paper duties, and an additi in to the spirit duties, it seems almost cer tain 1: e would have attained his object. Hardly any old or ru stic lord could have b een found, who would have ventured to spare the spirit drinkers, and to retain a "tax ;on knowledge;" and, as the event proves, Mr. GLADSTONE might even ha te made his peace lessons still more imp res _ sive. Had he now to say, " You have chosen war with China, I must have at least one "—Man penny in the pond more to pay for it cheater would have said to the country—" We told you how it would be ;" and the war would have probably have become much more unpopular than Manchester and Mr. GLADSTONE. All are agreed on one point, that whatever a Minister can extract from the frequenters of the gin-palace he is heartily welcome to. If he could raise the required amount of revenue by an excise duty which should close the doors of half of them, all would be but too thankful. Of course the smuggler stands in his way, and in reference to he small advance he has made, Mr. GLADSTONE was very properly at pains to ascertain that illicit distillation would not at the same time rob the revenue of its duty, and demoralise as much as the public sale of gin and whisky at a lower price. His reasons appear satisfactory, and will, we hope, prove to be erect; there seems indeed no reason to doubt it. Anyhow, one breathes more freely, when the result, at present, of the China war is that gin drinkers must drink less or pay more, and that the most unequal and therefore unjust of taxes is not to be augmented to a shilling in the pound. One lesson we shall certainly learn—that this time we really must make a lasting settlement with China. It will not do to allow it to become like an ever-recurring Kaffir war. We are determined to trade with the people of China, who, on their part, are quite ready to trade with us. The Mandarins do not like it ; if they could, they and the Government would shut us out alto gether. We, however, are resolved not to be shut out ; let us then, as we have made up our minds to have the trade open, do the thing effectually. We do not believe there is need for much expenditure of life, though obviously we must spend some money. Chinamen, very wisely, do not think it prudent to stand in the way of cannon-balls ; they hold it no disgrace to shirk facing a shower of grape, or to place themselves in the way of bomb-shells. We agree with those who think that a march on Pekin will now be our cheapest, as it will be our only effectual policy ; and, having achieved this, we had better assuredly confine our diplomatists to the sea coast. Visits to Pekin should be held out only in terrorem to keep a people of matchless cunning to the letter and spirit of their treaties. Anything that yields the faintest promise of Irowing new light upon the exact windings of the Nice and Savoy boundary line is peculiarly welcome in anticipation of the approaching Paris Conference. It is a sense of satisfaction to us, there fore, that the House of Lords agreed yesterday to the Marquis of CLANRICARDE'S motion for certain additional papers connected with the treaty of 1815 —papers having particular reference to that im portant line of demarcation. The noble lord's sug gestion, at the time of his bringing on this motion, according to promise, last evening, his intercallary proposal to her MAJESTY'S Ministers, that upon the occasion of the forthcoming Conference, they should seek some assurance from Prance that this prin- ciple (?) of annexation should not be persisted in along her other (let us suppose, for example, her more northern) frontiers, we regard as— quite another thing. It certainly does appear to us that the Under Secretary for Foreign Affairs, in reply ing to this ingenious proposition, exercised very wise discretion when he pronounced himself as of opinion that it would be " inexpedient" to seek any assurance upon this subject from the and Nice—at the very time that the annexation o French Government. The Marquis of CLANRICARDE must be a very sanguine and a very credulous man, indeed, if he attaches any, even the very smallest, value whatever to assurances upon the subject of annexation coming to us from the French Govern- ment. Had we not the most solemn assurance from that Government that nothing at all of this kind was even in contemplation in regard to Savoy Savoy and Nice to the French Empire was being secretly and deliberately accomplished ? Who would attach any importance or value of the most infinitesimal kind to any future answer that might be extorted from, or volunteered by, the French Government in the matter of annexation ? No one, we suppose—saving and excepting, perhaps, (and of this we cannot but remain doubtful—in spite of the noble lord's suggestion of last evening) —the Marquis of CLANRICARDE. The general feeling, we believe, is one of pro found suspicion in regard to the proposed Confe rence at Paris a Conference designed to reconcile the ninety- second article of the Treaty of Vienna with that Treaty of Turin which, hardly less than the Treaty of Zurich, may be said to have grown out of the armistice of Villa franca. The mere proposal to reconcile or harmo nize that 92d article of the Treaty of Vienna with the whole of the gist or gravamen of the Treaty of Turin is so directly reminiscent of the monstrous duplicity with which Savoy and Nice were absorbed within the elastic boundary line of France after that ostentatious avowal by the EMPEROR of the disinterestedness with which, like a great Political QUIXOTE, he under took to liberate the Italian Peninsula! The Con, ference, in fact (upon that subject), is a remi that (upon that subject) we were deceived. Wha enhanced—if anything were required to enhance it —the baseness and turpitude of the whole of this nefarious proceeding, on the part of the French Government, was the fact that, simultaneously with the reiteration of the most solemn assurances that no such acts of annexation were ever medi dated, the Government of NAPOLEON 111. were ela borating a commercial treaty of the most specious kind with the Government of her Britannic MA JESTY. So that at the very time the French Govern ment were slyly, and secretly, and most dishonestly arranging the actual accomplishment of these acts of annexation, it was doing all it possibly could to entrap the English Government in the meshes of a newly-woven network of Reciprocity ! Can any one in his senses believe, for an instant, that it was by a mere coincidence that the fact of the transfer of Savoy and Nice from Sardinia to France was made public immediately after the great Financial Statement, in which our Chancellor of the Exche quer revealed the complexities of the Com mercial Treaty, to which England had then for mally pledged herself to the French Government ? An unscrupulous and astute ruler like the reigning Emperor of the French does not trust events of such magnitude, we may rest perfectly well assured, to anything like mere accidental coincidences Publicity was therefor©, we may also rest assured, reserved designedly to the annexation of Savoy until the morrow of Mr. GLADSTONE'S announcement of the French Commercial Treaty in the House of Commons. England only learnt that Savoy was annexed to France—(in contradiction of all promises to the effect that France would absorb nothing in return for the liberation of Lombardy)— England, we say, only learnt that when she had already learnt that she herself was entangled in the mazes of the reciprocal commercial Treaty negotiated with the annexing Government ! The whole complicated and duplex problem a s to the extent, on the one hand, of the criminality of the Savoy annexation, and, upon the other hand, as to the advisability or inadvisability of the pro• posed Paris Conference, will be found discussed in another column in a truly philosophic spirit, through a very able article, a considerable portion of which nde: THE SUN, LONDON', TUESDAY EVEXING, JULY 17, 1860. has been excerpted by us from Dr. CHARLES ' MACKAY'S new weekly organ, The London Review, a publication already assuming a distinguished position amongst the most important of our con- temporaries. At the very outset of his argument the political reviewer shows clearly enough how in the fewest words a wholesale truth may at once be arrived at. It is when he remarks as bluntly as accurately that " the most scandalous instance of a political swindle which has recently come before the notice of the public, took place three months ago in Savoy and Nice." In proof of the literal accuracy of which assertion it is at once added by the writer who is thus absolutely writing by the book—(the blue-book) :—" The blue-books teem with protesta- tions upon the part both of the French and Sar dinian Governments : first, that the transfer of these provinces was never contemplated ; secondly, that it should only take place ;with the consent of the Great Powers ; and, thirdly, that the population in terested should be consulted, and an oppor tunity allowed them for the " free expression of their opinion upon a subject of such deep importance." Yet, as the London Review goes on to assert, " Six months before the first of these assarances was given, the Treaty of Plombiers, by which the transfer of the two provinces was negotiated, had been. signed !" For the rest , we refer our readers to as much of this very vigorous and impressive argument as we have been able to find room for in our impression of this evening. It is an argument which — as may be recognised even from these fragmentary portions of it—does full justice alike to the despic able duplicity of the French Government, and to the heroic attitude assumed in opposition to its lawless proceedings by the Federal Government of Switzerland. THE WEATHER AND THE CROPS. CHESHIRE.—The Chester Chronicle, of Saturday, reports as follows :—" The general impression is that the hay crops, though fair in quantity, are not quite an average. Being late, of course the pros pects for the after-grass will not be so good. The fine genial weather of the last few days has very materially improved the prospects for the corn and potatoes, and in most districts the yield will pro bably approach an average. The turnip plants, generally, look healthy ; and beans are most promis- mg." NORTH LANCASHIRE.—The Preston Guardian, of Saturday, says :—" A week of fine warm weather has enabled farmers, by energy and perseverance, to house a large portion of the hay harvest in excel lent condition. Though rather thin in some places, it has turned out to be a heavier crop than was at first expected. The recent heat has also had a most beneficial effect upon growing cereals and other crops; but on some lands they were so far injured that no length of fair weather could compensate the injury done by the long and severe winter."—The Lancaster Guardian also reports that wheat is look ing much better under the influence of the hot weather ; but adds that the crop will be thin. YORKSHIRE.—The Doncaster Gazette, of Friday, says :—" Much corn is not yet in ear, but the earlier crops have had a most favourable time for flowering. On thin soils and cold undrained land the wheat is far from good, but in others the yield will be an average one—far better than was ex pected. While, therefore, the general return may be equal to last year, which proved worse than ap pearances then warranted—it must still be set under an average. Barley, on the other hand, looks much more promising, and there is every reason to hope that it will prove a full crop. Beans are better than for many years past. Mangolds, where they have been unaffected by the wire-worm, never had a more healthy appearance, and the early sown turnips are equally so. On the higher soils haymaking is allbut completed. The swathes have been heavy, and with a continuance of fine weather another week would see most of the grass and clover in this district satisfactorily secured Potatoes, so far, look well, and should they escape the disease must give an abundant crop. SOMERSETSHIRE.—The Western Press of Satur day reports that the high temperature is rapidly ripening the cereal and other crops. Harvest pro spects are daily improving, and the hay crop has been secured to a large extent in excellent condition. WALES.—A correspondent, writing to the Worth TT ales Chronicle, from Towyn, says :—" Hay making has commenced in good earnest ; the crops are exceedingly heavy. The wheat and other grains are very luxuriant, and an abundant harvest is anticipated."—The Cardiff limes reports that the hay harvest is going on, and in some instances good crops are being won. PERTHSHIRE.--The Perthshire Courier, of Thursday, says that every species of crop is thriv ing well, and there is every hope that the harvest may not be so late as was at one time anticipated. AYRSHIRE.—In the Ayr Advertiser, of Thurs day, we read :—" The sunny weather is making an improvement in the appearance of the crops. The most of the winter sown, and part of the spring wheat are in blossom. When the ear has emerged from the shot-blade the erop looks thinner than was anticipated ; but the favourable blossoming season must conduce to a good deal of grain. Early oats are shooting out, and the later sowings coming rapidly forward. With oats as with wheat • it is now obvious that the farmer's hopes of a good return must be connected with a productive rather than a bulky crop." NORTH or SCOTLAND.—The _lnverness Courier, of Thursday, has the following:—" The advent of bright sunshine, just when it was particularly wanted, at the flowering of the cereals, has been most fortunate, and altogether our prospects here appear to be better than those of the farmers in • England and the South of Scotland. We have had L no heavy rains, and, though the weather has been _ cloudy, vegetation has advanced rapidly and satis factorily. Hay reaping is general about Inverness, and the crop is excellent." Her Majesty and the Duchess of Kent honoured the Prince and Princess of Leiningen with a visit at their residence, No. 1, Parade, West Cowes, yesterday. After remaining about half an hour they returned by the steam floating bridge to East Cowes. The Marquis Conyngham is said to be in treaty for the purchase of the celebrated schooner yacht America, now in Cowes harbour. -- The Prince and Princess Hohenlohe Schilling furst have arrived at Long's Hotel from Paris. The Prince Wittginstein has arrived at Long's Hotel. The Thellusson property at Barmby Dun, con sistinc, of upwards of 900 acres, has , we understand, been purchased by Mr. John Newsome, of Barmby. It is stated that the cost is near upon £50,000. It is not im probable that other parts of the Thellusson property may shortly change ola ners. We (North British Mail) understand that Sir James Brooke, Rajah of Sarawak, has purchased a screw steamer in Port Glasgow, with the intention of fitting her with two swivel guns fore and aft, besides side guns. She is meant to act against the piratical prahus on the coast of Borneo. The Great Eastern, having been cleaned and re novated, was opened for public exhibition on the 3d July, and was visited by 1,500 persons, the price of admission being one dollar. THE EXTRAORDINARY POISONING CASE.— LIVERPOOL, Monday.—The man Thomas Winslow, who is charged with the murder of four persons by administering poison (antimony) to them, was again brought before Mr. Itailes, the stipendiary magistrate, at the police-court to day. Mr. Aspinall, barrister, who appeared for the prose cution, requested that a further remand of the prisoner should take place, as it had been found necessary to perform a large number of analyses, and as the results of these iin vestigations—which were being conducted by Dr. Taylor and other eminent scientific gentlemen, local and me tropolitan—hadhad been un n d impossible yet pos s been ble t o completelyperfeetthdeetearnmialnyesdea, in time for the present adjournment, and, as it was desirable to have them completed before the inquiry took place, he applied for a further remand of a week, more par ticularly as the delay did not affect the prisoner's liberty, he being at present incarcerated under the warrant of the borough coroner. Winslow was then remanded for seven days, Mr. Cobb, who appeared for the prisoner, consenting to the postponement. Mr. Aspinall observed that he would not guarantee that they would be ready to proceed with the case even at that period. The Tottlonnais publishes an itinerary of the Emperor Napoleon's Fojected tour in the month of August. His Majesty, it states, will leave Paris on the 16th or 17th of that month, and proceed direct to acey, thence success i v ely to Annecy, Toulon, Nice, Ajo, Algiers, Marseilles, and thence either to Paris or Biarritz. The whole journey will occupy about twenty days. TRANSMISSION OF PARCELS BETWEEN ENGLAND AND FRANCE.—We are informed that Dr. W. 11. Brown (formerly one of the lecturers at the Panopticon and Poly technic) has devised a metho d of transmitting parcels under water across the Channel with great celerity ; so deliveries of goods and letters can be effected on both sides several times iu the twenty-four hours. The details of the scheme are not before us, so that we cannot offe r an y o p inion 83 to its feasibility ; but the advantages which would attend its realisation are obvious, and we are, therefore, glad to learn that a company is being formed to carry it into effect. —Dover Chronicle. POLICE INTELLIGENCE-( THIS DAL) MARLBOROUGH-STREET, Mr. Tyrwhitt, lately magistrate at the Clerkeuwell Police-court, took his seat to-day in this court, in the place of Mr. Peregrine Bingham, resigned, after upwards of 20 years' service as a metropolitan magistrate. MAKING AWAY WITH ARMY CLOTHING BY A WORK WOMAN.—BAD CASE.—Ann Walker, a tailoress, was charged with converting to her own use the materials for ten militia capes, of the value of £5, entrusted to her to make up by Mr. John Raper, tailor of 14, Castle-street Leicester -square. The prosecutor said he was employed in making army and police clothing, and on Thursday last he gave the pri soner the materials for ten militia capes to make up. She should have brought them back on the following Saturday night, but failed in doing so, and he could not find what she had done with them. He found her in St. James's Workhouse, where she told him that she had brought him back six, but had lost four ; but she had never been near him since he gave her the materials. In answer to Mr. Tyrwhitt, the prosecutor said she was to receive 6d. each for the capes, and could make eight in a day. Mr. Stephen Ranby, tailor, Little Newport-street, here stated that he had also entrusted the prisoner with the materials for some blouses of the value of £3, and she had never brought them back, and would give no information about them. Mr. Tyrwhitt said he should remand her that inquiries might be made. ThAMES. EMBEZZLEMENT liv A TRAVELLER COMPLICATED AcCOUNTS.—George Frederick Aldridge, aged 26, of 29, Queen-street, Stepney, commercial traveller, was brought before Mr. Yardley, charged with feloniously embezzling various sums of money he had received for and on account of Mrs. Charlotte Armstrong, china, glass, and earthenware dealer, of 8, Cock-hill, RateliZ. It appeared from the evidence of Mrs. Armstrong, a most respectable woman, who is a widow, and has been estab lished in business in Ratcliff nearly half a century, that the prisoner had been in her service as traveller up to the 13th of January, when he left her, having previously re ceived a month's notice. His salary was per week with breakfast, supper, and lodging, and she always paid his out-door expenses when he came home sober. Since the pri soner had quitted the service of the prosecutrix, she had demanded payments of outstanding bills for goods delivered to several customers, and ascertained that the prisoner had already been paid. Mrs. Armstrong produced receipts to the amount of £9 signed by the prisoner, and said he had not accounted for the same. That was only a small por tion of the prisoner's defalcations. A witness whom she had sued for the recovery of money which the prisoner led her to believe had not been paid would not attend to give evidence. Mr. Yardley—Then he must be made to attend. Stimpson, a police sergeant, No. 21 K, said that a cus tomer, named Lucas, of the Old Kent -road, who had paid the prisoner money, which he had not accounted for to his mistress, said the receipts given by the prisoner were in the hands of his lawyer. Mr. Yardley—They must be brought here, and, if neces sary, a summons must issue for the attendance of Lucas. Mr. W. Kemp produced receipts for money paid to the prisoner on behalf of Mrs. Armstrong, and which had not been paid over to her. Mr. Yardley said the receipts were not dated, which was rather a loose mode of doing business. Mrs. Armstrong—That was the prisoner's fault. Mr. Yardley looked over Mrs. Armstrong's trade books, and in answer to his questions she said the prisoner kept the ledger while he was in her service, and her daughter kept the other books. The prisoner, in defence, said that Mrs. Armstrong knew he had taken money and appropriated it to his own use while in her service, and had overlooked it. Mrs. Armstrong denied this. On one occasion 20s. was not accounted for, and the prisoner said it was a mistake, and she allowed it to be paid by instalments. Mr. Yardley said the accounts were so complicated that he had not time to disentangle them, and he thought an attorney ought to be retained in this case. He remanded the prisoner until Friday, and expected the case to be put before him in a proper shape. SUMMER ASSIZES. WESTERN CIRCUIT.—WINCHESTER, July 16 (Before Mr. Justice Keating.) Michael Hynes was indicted for the wilful mur der of Ann Skein, at Gosport, on the 9th of March last. Mr. Poulden and Mr. Beetham were counsel for the prosecution ; and Mr. W. M. Cooke defended the prisoner. It appeared that the prisoner was a sergeant in the 16th Foot stationed at Aldershott, but in March he was on furlough at Gosport, at the house of his father-in la*, named Clarke, who lived next door to the deceased. On Friday, March 9, he had been out drinking ; he returned about 7 o'clock, and was then the worse for liquor. Mrs. Clarke endeavoured to induce the prisoner to remain in the house, but he insisted upon going out again, and Clarke accompa nied him. They met a person named Brown, who in vited them to have some of the " best" in Gosport, and they all three went to the Rummer public house. Brown ordered some beer, which they drank. Brown went away, and after he was gone Clarke and the prisoner had four glasses of gin, and then the prisoner had one glass of whisky, and he then became thoroughly intoxicated. Clarke and the prisoner then returned to Clarke's house. The prisoner was then in a state of great excitement. Mrs. Clarke endeavoured to keep him quiet, and sent her husband out of doors, as they had been struggling together. The prisoner then took down his sword, which was hanging up in the room. Mrs. Clarke called for assistance, and Mrs. Skein came in and tried to prevail upon the prisoner to sit down and be still, but he pushed Mrs. Clarke out of doors, and locked the door, Mrs. Skein and the prisoner still being in the house. Mr. Clarke's daughter, who was upstairs, came down, and saw the prisoner standing near the deceased with his sword sheathed. She ran upstairs, called out loudly, and then jumped out of the window. Some persons came and looked into the room where the prisoner and the deceased were, and they saw the prisoner " hacking" with his sw )rd at something on the floor. They then preceded to break open the door, and the prisoner rushed out with his sword reeking with blood. Upon their going into the room they found the deceased lying on the floor with her head most dreadfully cut. She, however, lingered for two months, and then died from the wounds she had received. These facts having been proved, Mr. Cooke addressed the jury for the prisoner, contending that there was no malice in the mind of the prisoner towards the deceased, but that he was in that state of mad excitement that the offense amounted only to manslaughter, and not to murder. The intention of the party must be judged of by his state of mind at the time. The position of the prisoner—having rims from the rank of a private soldier to that of a sergeant in her Majesty's ser vice—was evidence of his good character, and men did not at one moment jump to the commission of the most serious offence. The prisoner had a good character given him by the officers of his regiment. The learned Judge having summed up the evi dence, The jury returned a verdict of guilty, but most strongly recommended the prisoner to mercy. The learned Judge, having put on the black cap, addressed the prisoner—Michael Hynes, you have been convicted of the crime of murder, and it was impossible that the jury, upon reflection, could find any other verdict upon the evidence laid before them. Your case is, indeed, a sad one. You might have been fitted for better things, but unfortu nately, by giving way to intemperance upon this occasion, y o u were incited to the commission of a crime which forfeits your life. The liquor that you took appears to have reduced you to the state of a frantic being, and the sword which was intrusted to you to use against the enemies of your country you employed in depriving an aged, a helpless, an unprotected woman of the few re maining years of her life. The jury have accom panied their verdict by a strong recommendation to mercy. I have no discretion to give any effect to such a recommendation, and let me entreat you not to be sanguine that even that recommendation ad dressed to the Throne will, when the circumstances are known, as they must be, have the effect of saving your life. As it is, I have no discretion but to pro nounce upon you the sentence which the law awards to such a crime. It is not my sentence, but -the sen tence of that law. The learned judge then passed upon the prisoner the awful sentence of death. The prisoner, who is a remarkably fine man, and who had stood up firmly during the trial, now seemed completely prostrated, and would have fallen if not supported by the officers of the prison. REVIEW BY THE QUEEN AT EDINBURGII.—We have authority to state that her Majesty has been pleased to intimate her intention to hold a review of volunteer corps at Edinburgh on the 6th August. The commanding officers of corps desiring to atte nd must intimate their wish to the Secretary of State for War, through the lords-lieutenant of their respective counties, before the Ist August, and they will then be admitted, as far as space and numbers will per mit. Immed iatel y after receiving this application each corps will be informed whether it will be possible to accept the offer. DIAMO NDS IN AUSTRALIA.—An interesting dis covery, namely, the existence of native diamonds, has been made. The stone was discovered in the black sand of the Ovens district by an Irish miner, named O'Neill. Rubies an d other gems of very small size had previously been found in the same deposit,— Austra li an and New Zealand Gazette. LATEST NEWk-3. The following telegrams have been received at Mr. Reuter's office : VIENNA, MONDAY. Government is said to have received the follow- ing intelligence : A fearful massacre has taken place at Damascus. Five hundred Christians have been murdered, amongst whom is the Dutch Consul. The American Consul is wounded. Details are wanting. PARIS, JULY 17. The Moniteur contains the following despatch from the French naval commander in the Levant : " BEYROUT, JULY 11. " The attack of the Druses on the Christians commenced on the evening of the 9th, when seve ral men were killed and many women carried off for the harems. "It is said that the Consulates were burned down, with the exception of the English Consulate. The French, Russian, and Greek consuls took re fuge in the house of Abdel Kader. " The attitude of the Turkish authorities was indecisive, and rather injurious than useful to the Christians. ___ " 3,000 Turkish soldiers arrived to-day. The fears of the Christians are redoubled, and the Com missioners Vely and Namick are expected with impatience." The Moniteur annouices that the project of law for the purchase of the canals has been adopted. ROME, JULY 14 The Pope in a Consistory held to-day pronounced an allocution energetically protesting against the Piedmontese Government, on account of the arrest and condemnation of the Bishops of Pisa, Imole, Faenza, and Piacenza, approving the conduct of these bishops, and designating the annexation of the Duchies and the Legations to Piedmont as an usurpation. Yesterday the French Ambassador had a long audience of his Holiness. The two Neapolitan Ministers charged with the special mission to Turin will also proceed to Paris and London. The Patrie of Monday contains the following " According to the latest news from Beyrout the state of things in Syria continues to be of the gravest character. " A French vessel had been sent to Latakia and was obliged to take position within firing distance of the town in order to restrain the fanatical portion of the inhabitants. _ _ " It was asserted that information had been re ceived of atrocious plots having been formed against the lives of the Christians in many parts of Syria. " The naval authorities were taking measures in order to be in readiness to meet the difficulties of the situation." TURIN, JULY 16, The Neapolitan plenipotentiaries, Signori Manna and Winspeare, arrived here to-day. BEYROUT. A letter from Beyrout of the 12th ult., in the Presse, says :—" Tyre was very near being the theatre of excesses similar to tho3e which have taken place elsewhere, but the energetic conduct of an Englishman saved the town and the population. A band of Druses and Mutualis were marching on the place to the great terror of the people, when a small light vessel was seen to enter the port. The Go ♦ernor of the town, the English consular agent, and the chief of the Christian communities, imagined that the vessel was one of war, and they prayed the commander to take measures for saving the town, but she turned out to be only a pleasure yacht, the Claymore, having on board her owner, a wealthy Englishman, Mr. Harvey. That gentle man, however, without hesitation promised his co-operation ; and immediately placed his yacht in such a position as to enable her four small pieces of cannon to bear on the streets, and he armed his crew with muskets, swords, and pistols. He after wards landed, examined the town in order to see the points by which the Druses could enter; he then caused the women, children, and the more valuable portion of the property to be placed in safety ; and had certain points occupied by his men, taking other measures of defence. All this gave confidence to the peaceable part of the population, and over awed that which was suspected of connivance with the Druses. The latter were told by their spies that an English vessel of war was in the port, that English troops had been landed; and they, in con sequence, abandoned their projected attack on the town, and went away." FRANCE. PARIS, JULY 16. BOURSE, July 16.—There has been but little business doing, but the market, though quiet, has been firm. Threes, for the Account, have remained through the morning at 69f 10c. Little doing in Railways—Orleans quoted at 1,377 f, and Lyons at 897 f 50c. The following are the last quotations :- 41 per per Cents 97 60 Credit Foncier BBO Do end month.... , Belgian 41 — 3 per Cents Do. evciwmonth 69 15 Roman Bank Shares :.. 2830 I Austrian .. BO Credit Mobilier 715 —' Spanish Threes.... 48 Do. Account 716 25 Home Debt IiAILWAYS. Cash. Account. Orleans 1377 50 .. 1380 N or th ern New ditto BBO .. 882 50 Lyons and Mediterranean 9 00 .. 900 Geneva 3 77 50 .. 377 50 Southern 5OB 75 .. 511 25 W es t ern Eastern Sardinian — .. 405 • Austrian Lombard THIS DAY'S MARKETS. HAY MARKETS. SMITHPIELD..—niadOW hay, £3 Os to £5 5s Od ; eloyar, £4 15s to £6 Os Od ; and straw, £1 15s to £2 23 per load, Trade dull. Supply of old rather limited, of new some what on the increase. CUMBERLAND.—Meadow hay, £3 Os to £5 ss; clover, £5 Os to £6 Os Od ; and straw, £1 163 to £2 4s per load. A slow demand. Prices of hay drooping. WHITECHAPEL.—Meadow hay, £3 Os to £5 5s Od; clove' £5 Os to £6 68 Odand straw, £1 13s to S 2 Os per load. Supply of new ha y y much larger. Trade du ll, at our quo tations. New meadow hay sold at f rom £3 to £4 4s ; and now clover at £3 15s to £4 18s per load. COLONIAL. TEX.—The market continues very inactive, the ad vices by the Overland Mail having effected no alteration in prices. SUGAR.—There has been a steady enquiry for the better qualities, and quotations are well maintained. In the re fined market full prices are current for dried goods. COFFEE.—OnIy a limited amount of business has been transacted in the private market, as rather large quantities are announced for public sale luring the week. RicE.—The dealings have been moderate, and the few parcels that have changed hands have been at former prices. SALTPETRE.—There has been a moder ate enquiry f o r the finer qualities at previous quotations, but other descriptions are neglected. TALLOW.—A very limited amount of business has been done for present delivery, and prices have undergone 9d no material alteration. P.Y.O on the spot is quoted b2s. ~ and last 3 months delivery 525. 6d. per cwt. COAL MARI (rem of Coal per Ton cv ET—JULY IG. the close of t he market.) Walls Find. . _ a. d. Tanfield Moor 13 0 Tanfield Moor Butes l3 0 Howard's West Hart ley 15 6 Lambert's West Hart ley l5 6 1 Davison's West Hart- ' ley l5 6 Byass' A Beleside West Hartley . .. 15 6 Burnhope.... l3 6 Walker Primrose ..... 13 0 Holywell ............ 15 6 Wylam ..........15 6 s. d 3 south Hartlepool 17 0 Acorn Close 16 9 Helton... Kelloe l7 9 Stewart's lB 6 Trimdon Thomley 15 6 Russell's Hatton 17 6 Brsddyll's Hetton 17 6 Cassop South Durham 16 0 Thornley 15 6 Byron l6 6 Whamcliffe l6 9 Framwellgate l6 6 Edon Main l6 6 Carway and. Duffryn Malting . 22 6 t, 24—Sold, 22, Walls End. Eden Keiper Orange ** ** ... ..... .. . .... 6 i i Ships at marker LAW INTE TIIIS DAY.) ROLLS COURT. (Before the Master of the Rolls, Sir J. florally.) JUDGMENT.--POOLE V. LEASE..-LEASK V. POOLE. The contention in this case was whether the plaintiff (colonial broker, City) was bound by the acts of a person of the name of Anderson, who acted as his agent in the purchase and sale of currants. The plaintiff alleged that Anderson's agency was limited to currants only, and as to other purchases and sales of goods he acted as their clerk or messenger, and plaintiff, was not liable for his acting in any other way. The defendant contended that Anderson acted generally as the plaintiff's agent in the purchase and sale of goods and settlement of accounts—that his transactions wore known and not objected to by the plaintiff, but acquiesced in by him, and therefore the business transactions entered into by Anderson were binding on the plaintiff. His Honour, after carefully considering the voluminous evidence produced, which was very conflicting, and refer ring to the business transactions between the parties, came to the conclusion that Anderson was the authorised agent of the plaintiff in +he purchase and sale of goods in general, and that he had authority to receive and settle accounts, and that he had authority to receive the balance of accounts paid by the defendant to him. NOTTINGHAM RACES.—(This Day.) [BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.] NOTTINGHAM HANDICAP.—BumbIe Bee scratched. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. TATTERSALL'S—(YssramiIy.) NOTTINGHAM HANDICAP. 2to 1 agst Syringe (taken) 4to 1 agst Wallace (taken) 6to 1 agst Nosegay (taken) 000DWOOD STARES. 6to 1 agst Gridiron (offered) Bto 1 agst Tocher (taken) Bto 1 agst Satellite (taken) 10 to 1 agst Avalanche (taken) 20 to 1 agst Feodorowna (taken) 30 to 1 agst Bumble Bee (taken) GOODWOOD CUP. 4to 1 agst Butterfly (offered) ST. LEGER. 3to 1 agst The Wizard (taken) 7to 2 agst Thormanby (taken and offered) CITY BETTING—(YzsTERDIT). The Racing Times says : The attendance of those gentlemen interested in the " national pastime" was most numerous and respectable at both the City clubs and the West-end rendezvous. The bookmakers did not seem, however, overmuch pleased at the result of the gathering at Aintree, but this arose more from the pe cuniary state of the finish than the character, either of the sport or the attendance, which were as good as could be expected, bar the principal backers of horses. The Nottingham Handicap engrossed some considerable 1 attention, and the business transacted showed a vast amount of animation, and, in fact, no less than four ani mals were backed for some money—Syringe, Wallace, Eskdale, and Nosegay ; the former would have been backed for a large amount at anything over 2to :1. About Wal lace, 5 to 1 was taken to a good stake of money, and taken freely. Eskdale and Nosegy were each supported with spirit at 8 to 1. The Goodwood Stakes was productive of some animated speculation, the backers being numerous and anxious to get on their respective fancies at their own stipulated prices. Gridiron still was at the top of the poll, and as little as 5 to 1 would have been taken to money, but only 4t to 1 being offered, the business transactions were few. At the commencement so many inquiries were made after Satellite that 7 to 1 was the highest offer, until a certain gentleman made his appearance, when, after laying 800 to 100, thereby setting an example, lots of other were too anxious to follow suit, but it was too late, and conse quently the backers fought shy. Tocher was in increased favour ; 9 to 1 was the highest obtainable price, 10 to 1 would, however, have been taken NOTTINGHAM HANDICAP. 2to 1 agst Syringe (taken and offered) sto 1 agst Wallace (taken freely) Bto 1 agst Eskdale (taken) Bto 1 agst Nosegay (taken) 100 to 8 agst Any other (offered) GOODWOOD STAKES. 9to 2 agst Gridiron (take sto 1) Bto 1 agst Satellite (taken and offered) 9to 1 agst Tocher (take 10 to 1) 10 to 1 agst Avalanche 100 to 8 agst Rattlebone 25 to 1 agst Danae (taken freely) 33 to 1 agst Lovett (offered) 40 to 1 agst Comforter (taken) 50 to 1 agst Stapleton (offered) GOODWOOD CUP. 4to 1 agst Butterfly (offered) sto 1 agst Starke (offered) DONCASTER ST. LEGER. 3to 1 agst the Wizard 7to 2 agst Thormanby (take 4to 1) 9to 1 agst Umpire 100 to 7 agst any other NOTTINGHAM HANDICAP. 2to 1 agst Syringe (offered) 6to 1 agst Eskdale (taken) 7to 1 agst Nosegay (taken) GOODWOOD STAKES. Bto 1 agst Tocher (off. 9to 1 taken) 9to 1 agst Gridiron (offered) 10 to 1 agst Satellite (taken) 100 to 7 agst Rattlebone (wanted) 100 to 7 agst Avalanche (offered) 20 to 1 agst Flitch (off. take 25 to 1) 30 to 1 agst Optimist (taken) 40 to 1 agst Lovett (offered) 40 to 1 agst Comforter (offered) 50 to 1 agst Gladiolus (taken) 100 to 1 agst Stapleton (offered) GOODWOOD CUP. 9 to 2 agst Butterfly (taken) ST. LEGER. 100 to 30 on the field (offered) RACING FIXTI: Ju 'MRS FOR 1860. SLY. Stamford Marlborough 2O Brighton Brighton Club 3 Wolverhampton Reading 8 Radcliffe l3 Egham 14 Warwick Doncaster 11 Chesterfield l7 Leisester l9 Bedford 3 Newmarket S 0 NovE: :11113ER. 1 Shrewsbury Autumn. Hereford LiTerpool Autumn .. 7 IRELAND. to some amount. 100 to 8 was once taken about Rattlebone, but plenty of layers could have been found at the above quotation. 10 to 1 was the most that could be obtained about Ava lanche, and Stapleton was knocked slick out, 50 to 1 being laid and afterwards offered. Danae was brought into pro minent notice, and after 33 to 1 and 25 to 1 being taken to money, he came to 20 to 1, being the longest price eventu ally obtainable. For the Goodwood Cup Butterfly and Starke were the only two about whom inquiries were made, 4 to 1 being the offer about Butterfly, and 5 to 1 about Starke ; but in both instances a point more was asked for, and would (if it could) have been taken. _ _ _ The St. Leger was entirely confined to the two favourites; Wizard decidedly being in the greatest force, anything over 3 to 1 would have been snapped up, but there was no such chance. 7to 2 was offered against Thormanby, and at 4 to 1 business would have been done to a large amount. The following quotations will suffice to show the present state of the market : BETTING AT MANCHESTER.—MONDAY. There were a few books opened on the Nottingham Han dicap, for which Syringe was installed favourite, 2 to 1 being the highest offer against him ; 6 to 1 was taken about Eskdale, and 7to 1 against Nosegay. For the Goodwood Stakes, Gridiron was first backed at 9 to 2 ; but as many of the bookmakers were anxious to lay against him, towards the close 9to 1 was freely offered. During the same time Tocher was steadily supported at 9 to 1 ; and 10 to 1 was taken against Satellite. There were offers to take 100 to 7 about Rattlebone, and one gentleman coming to the rescue of Stapleton was accommodated with 200 to 7, and then was quietly asked if he would have 500 to 5 more. Closing prices : Goodwood 24 rUST. Oxford Plymouth 21 York 22 1 Lichfield' 27 Stockton 2B Derby • 29 ;AMER. Monmouth ............ 20 Manchester A u t u mn.. ..21 Newmarket F.O. ........ , BER. Newmarket 1 .......... 22 Worcester Autu.mu .•••••30 JULY. Bollewstown ..11 1 Down Royal Cup ......24 A U GUST. Heath of Maryboro' . • • • 1 7 1 . I Roscommon G3.hvay ....... SEPTEMBER. Curragh ............... .. 4 I Jenkinstown P ar k . Tramore ............. 11 Cashel ... " ........ OCTOBER. 2 Ro yal Down Corporation.. 24 Strabane ...... .. 1 Wa i ler ....... . 3O GLORIOUS GOODWOOD.-Y O UATy WM. G RAY ' S a d v ise for the Goodwo od Meeting will be issued to-morrow. He advised Starke for the Goodwood Stakes, and Promised Land for the Cup last year. From th e resu l t o f severa l trials just to hand he is again equally confident of success. Remember his late victories with. Moorcock for the Liver pool Cup, and First Lord for the Northumberland Plate. Terms—the full week at Goodwood, ss. ; the Cup . and Stakes, 2s. 6d., and per centag e . Address 15, Charing cross, London, Commissions executed and payment guaranteed, AUG: . SEPTE' OCT , IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT HOUSE OF COMMONS.—(Tffis I)AY.) The SPEAKER took the chair shortly after 12 o'clock. PRIVATE BUSINESS. The Lords' amendments to the liayling Railway Bill were considered And agreed to. EPSOM AND LEATIIERHEAD RAILWAY. On the motion for the consideration of the Lords' amend ments to this bill, Sir W. GALL - WAY objected to those amendments on three grounds. In the first place they would create a new description of preference shares, they would offer temp tations to directors to abuse their powers, and they would afford facilities in dealing with preferential stock that would be injurious to the interests of shareholders. For instance, directors might expend money on other purposes than paying their debenture debt or their preference share holders. Mr. MASSEY considered that if this question was dis cussed at all, it should be in a full house. The amendment was negatived, and the amendments were considered and agreed to. EDUCATION BILL On the motion for the second readihg of this bill, Mr. PEASE moved that the bill be read a second time let day three months. He said the chief clause of this bill was the first, and it enacted that children under twelve years of age should not be employed without having a cer tificate that they had received a certain amount of scholastic tuition, or that a guarantee was given that they should be placed at school for twenty hours in the month. He considered it would be unjust to deprive children under 12 years of age of the benefit of employment, because they had not obtained a certain amount of education. H 3 objected also to the bill that it had not machinery to carry out its provisions. Sir G. LEWIS said that this bill was connected in principle with the Mines Bill, which had recently been before the house. Exceptional legislation in refer ence to persons employed first took place in re spect to those engaged in factories, by which children. under a certain age were not allowed to be employed without having obtained a certificate from a school master of having attended a certain time at school. Some years afterwards there was a bill introduced for the regu lation of mines, and the employment of women was pro hibited as well as children under a certain age. It was thought desirable to go further, and accordingly this session the bill was brought forward requiring a certificate of the attendance of children under 12 years of age at schools prior to their obtaining employment in mines. He agreed to the abstract principle of the extension of a similar regulation in regard to children generally, but it was not the practice in this country, to proceed upon. • theory, but to select some extreme cases and then legislate experimentally. Under the circumstances he felt bound to support the amendment. Sir S. ESTCOURT considered that the house slit:mid affirm the principle and discuss the details in committee or postpone it till next session. He considered the present system of education was deficient, and that it required amendment , . The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said that this question was one of as great difficulty as even a Par liamentary Reform Bill, and they were called on to discuss its principle in a thinly attended house. Had the question been taken up by Government the house would have been crowded, and it could not be expected that it would have passed without several nights' discussion. The present debate was, in fact, a mere exercitation, in which hon. members might make abstract speeches, but which at this period of the session would lead to no practical result. With regard to dealing with children in masses, it was a totally different matter from the present proposition, which pro posed to institute an inquiry into every private family in the kingdom, and impose penal consequences for neglect of the education of children. And this proposition was made without there being any machinery provided for its being carried out, and it would be necessary to introduce such machinery in the bill at the late period of the session in order to render it effective. Having ad verted to the great increase in the public expenditure, which if it proceeded at the geometrical rates of late years, would present a most threatening aspect, the right hon. gentleman contended that any addtional expenditure must be considered with the greatest care. Again this was the state of public busines s. Last night an appeal had been made to Government not to proceed with any bills this session which they were sure they would not be able to carry, and they had endeavoured to proceed on that prin ciple. He thought that a similar appeal should be made to private members, and he called on the house to reject the present measure, on the ground that it could not properly be discussed. Mr. HENLEY and Mr. BUXTON strongly opposed the bill. Mr. ADDERLEY said that there was no objection to the principle of his bill, and contended that the right hon .gentleman (Sir G. Lewis) was most incomistent in MS opposition to the bill, when he had supported the measure with reference to IT Ines, which had been so fully discussed during the present session. The principle of the bill had been frequently affirmed by legislation for the last twenty years, and it was nothing more than that children under a certain age should not be employed all their time without obtaining even the rudiments of education. He denied that in the State undertaking to see that a certain amount of education was provided for the poor there was anything compulsory, or at variance with the functions of Govern ment. With regard to its alleged vexatious interference with employers, the bill merely proposed that employers should net take children into their service, under a certain age, who were totally uneducated, without making pro vision for their receiving instruction for at leest five hours a-week. [LEFT SITTING.] TEE CHILD IiIU_RD.RR AT .ROAD. Sir G. C. Lewis, Home Secretary, has de.. spatched Inspector Whicher, of the metropolitan detective police, to Road, for the p urpose o f en deavouring to dissipate the mystery which still hangs over the murder of the child of Mr. Kent. The inspector reached Trowbridge from London on Sunday evening, and proceeded yesterday morn ing to Road, - where he had an interview with the magistrates by whom the inquiry has been conducted. In the course of the conference Elizabeth Gough, the nurse maid, was brought before the Bench and was libe rated. After sitting for about two hours with closed doors, the representatives.of the press were admit ted. The Rev. R. Crawley said the magistrates had little to communicate beyond the fact that Inspector Whicher had been sent down from London, and , that the investigation had been placed in his hands A reward would be immediately offered, £lOO 11 the Government and £lOO on the part of Mr. Kents to any person giving such information as should lead to the conviction of the perpetrator of the crime, together with a free pardon to any acconi plice not being the actual murderer. The nurse,' maid had been discharged, and had been informen, that she was at liberty to go where she liked, and she had stated her intention of returning to the die' charge of her duties at Mr. Kent's house. It wag then announced that the inquiry would be adjourned till Friday next, and in reply to an inquiry whether the proceedings on that day would be public it wag stated that in the event of any evidence being then taken on oath the public and reporters would be admitted, but that at present the magistrates were unable to say what course would be pursued. Mr. Lopez, magistrate, wished it to be kn own th a t the house had been re-examined and re -searched in every possible way ; and that every inmate, except the in fant, had been called on to state what they knew in reference to the matter. The best superintendente of the force had been engaged in the insvestigatioef and it was only an act of justice to the police and to the magistrates to state that they had used ther utmost exertions in endeavouring to trace on the guilty party. The two servants mentioned by Mr. Kent as having formerly lived in his env ploy, and as being parties likely to have had an ill-will against him, had both been found o ut by the police, and it was proved that they were maul miles distant from the scene of the murder on th e night of its occurrence. He (Mr. Lopez) was only sorry that the magistrates had no more informaticon to communicate to the press in reference to 01 0 extraordinary case. At the conclusion of the sit ting Inspector Whicher, accompanied by Superi n ' tendents Foley, Woolfe, and others of the county' constabulary, proceeded to Mr. Kent's residence , and made a further inspection and search of the. premises. The practicability of removing a child about the age of the deceased from its bed withoio waking it, or disturbing the persons sleeping in tll 9 same and adjoining rooms, has been tested by the police, andbas been accomplished in three instances. TBIS DAY'S SHIPPING. and sultry 16.—Wind S .W.—Arrived—Goleond s, WesterlyLONDON, ;17. —Wind this day weather. from Cuba. e a a y the a r t . noon.—Sout iv July 16.—" Wind S.W.—ArriVed—PriV PLYMOUTH, . MUMBLES, July cess Royal and Gibsy, from Quebec. Sailed—Connecticu tt for Woosung. li j gh il l y br l e 7 eZT , BRISTOL, July 16.--Wind W.—Arrived—Woodstoc k+ from Calla o ; Home, from Q ue b ec. S a il e d — E ra, f or De naerara. CLYDE, July 14.—Wi n d S.W.—Arrived—Demer ara' from Trinidad; her Majesty's ship Goliath; John GI f ro m Trinidad. Sail e d—J ames S tewart, f or Newfoust land. el QUEENSTOWN, July 16.—Wind S.—Sailed—AlPi ll for Calcutta. FALMOUTH. July :G.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Dia l36 ! from Havanah; Feronia and Montezima, from Quebe c ' Endeavour, from Taganrog. (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) SOUTHAMPTON, Tuesday Morning' Wind S.S.E. Arrived, July 17—Saionia, steamer, from Hamblin ; Alliance, steamer, from Havre. Sailed, July 16—Bien, for Elsinore ; Dispatch. steal° for Jersey (BY SUBMARINE AND BRITISH TELEGRAPH.) GRAVESEND, Tuesday Mornia . i 8 Wind variable ; tide, three hours' flood ; weather 25 Arrived, July 17—Saxonia, from Hamburg; P e steamer, from Boulogne. DEAL, Tuesday Morning' Wind 5.5.., moderate lot Passed—He W r Majesty's . ship Dee, from the y es Woolwich. He Parred in tow—Borodina, from Quebec for London. The marriage of Miss Bulled, n i ec e to 0 6 1 ';, Grey, with Mr. Bingham Mildmay, cousin to Sir 1 5 . John Mildmay, Bart., will take place next week. The Prince Consort honoured the perfornial3cre: at the Royal Italian Opera, 'C ov ent-garden, with Ili° P a o. sence last evening. Lord Wate r p a rk and Lientol Colonel Ponsonby were in attendance.