The Sun. — London, England, 1858-06-21 00:00:00

Vlbition SUN OFFICE, Seven o'Clock. TA'rrERSALLS'—(This Evening.)] many of the members having left for Newcastle, the Boom-was not very numerowily attended. 4to 1 was o ff e red on the field for the Northumberland Plate ; half a point more was taken about Underhand, whilst 6 to 1 was offered " bar one." Harry Bluff maintained his pn. Dition as first favourite for the Goodwood Sakes at 13 to 1, and 1,000 to 60 was laid twice against Windward. The St. Leger and Derby " doings" require no especial comment. CLOSING PRICES. CHBLMSPORD HANDICAP.. 6to 2 offered on the field NORTHUMBERLAND PLATE. 9to 2 agst Underhand (taken) 100 to 15 agst Pensioner (taken) 7to 1 aget Satinstone (taken) 7to 1 agst Gunboat (taken and offered) Bto 1 agst Herne (taken) Bto 1 agst Minnie (taken) 12 to 1 agst Sally (taken) 100 to 8 agst Honeytree (taken) 100 to 4 aget Meta GOODWOOD STAKES. 13 to 1 agst Harry Duff (taken) 100 to 6 eget Windward (taken) 20 to 1 agst Lifeboat (taken) BT. LEGER. 6to 1 aget Fitzroland (taken and offered) 40 to 1 agat Blanche of Middlebie (taken) 2 to 1 eget Toxopholite and Governess coupl e d (taken) DERBY. 17 to 1 ags t M k jid ( taken) 25 to 1 Viking () 25 to 1 a gat Mutineer (taken) 30 to 1 aget Ticket of Leave (taken) 40 to 1 aget Cavendish taken) 40 to 1 aget Serenader (taken) 50 to 1 apt St. Clarence (taken) ARRIVALS AT NEWCASTLE. Gunboat, Underhand, Breeze, Ducrow, Meta, Peto, Pensioner, Medallion, Night Ranger, Pelisoier, Julia, Ifartlett, Lady Alice, Pontifical, Deer, Challenger, Abbess, Gaatoatcher, Vivace, Marseiilaise, Caliph, Atch-Duchess, Willie Wright, and some Platers. ARRIVALS AT CHELMSFORD. Fisherman, Bannockburn, Übique, Triton, Lady Well, Conceit, Naughty Boy, Fly-by-Day, Brother to Far thingale, Scourge, Picco, Useless, Ortz, Curiou9, Frac- Cone, Barbarity, Badswortb, Renown, Glimpse, Vulcan, Courier, Schoolfellow, Hassock, Maths, Shirah, Ear. drop, Theory, Artist, and c out of Maid. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF LORDS.—(This Evening.) The LORD CIIANCELLOR took his seat on the woolsack at five o'clock. CARLISLE AND LANGEWLM RAILWAY. Lord PORTMAN presented the report of the com mittee on the Carlisle and Langbolm Railway Bill. The committee were of opinion that, in consequence of the facts developed in the agreement of the contractors, they ought not to be countenanced by Parliament, and that the bill ought not to be allowed to proceed. The committee thought it their duty also to express their opinion, that all agreements with contractors ought to be bona fide. VICTORIA STATION AND PIMLICO RAILWAY BILL. On the motion that this bill be read a second time, The Earl of CARNARVON said as this bill was of a very important nature, he begged t move that it he re ferred to a select committee, and that the First Commis sioner of Public Works ha►e leave to appear by counsel against the same. After short diEcussion, in wbich Lori Stanley of Alderley, Lord Redesdale, and the Earl of Powis took part, - The Earl of MALMESBURY said as there ap peered to be a great diirrsity of opinion with respect to this bill be thought the di,•cussion bad better be poet• poned until his noble friend (Earl of Derby) was present The subj.ct then dropped. THE GOVERNMENT OF BILL. The Earl of MALMESBURY said with respect to the question put to him on Friday night by the noble marquis (Lansdowne), touching the new Government of India, that, at the time, in consequence of the absence of the Earl of Derby, he was unable to answer the question. He had since communicated with his noble friend, and he begged to state that it was not the intention of the Government to lay the resolutions upon the table. They were not resolutions that proceeded from the Go vernment alone, but resolutions which bad been framed in two or three quarters. if they had been laid upon the table at the same time that they were produced in the other house there might not have been any objecion to proceed with them, pan passu, in both honies, but the circumrances were different, as they had only been agreed to by the other house as a preliminary step to the franairg of a bill, He was not aware that there was any precedent for the pro duction of the resolutions came to in the Commons under such circumstances, but he was of opinion that it would be very inconvenient to lay them upon the table if that act was simply to afford their lordships an opportunity of discussing the question. He entertained the strongest hopes that the bill would be in their lordship,' houss during the second week in July, and he thought it would be for the interest of India that no preliminary discussion should take place. (Hear.) The Marquis of LANSDOWNE said be had offered the finggestion . meray for the purpose of most effectually and most speedily chscassing the question. The Earl of GRANVILLE -aid the Government bad 710 doubt taken the course they thought best, but be thought the house had been placed in a false position. Earl GREY said, if the bill did not come up at the time stated, he trusted that the standing order of their lordships, with respect to the second readings of bills sent trout the House of Commons, would not be suspended, in order to proceed with the bill. At the end of July a number of their lordship would not be in attendance, and to proceed with the bill under such circumstances would be to deprive this house, in a great measure, from expressing its opinion on so important a measure. I The Marquis cf CLAN RICA.RDE hoped that nothing would induce their lordships to separate before they had come to some final cjnclusion on this important bill. The subject then, dropped. [LEFT SITTING ] HOUSE OF COMMONS—(This Evening.) The S2.EAKER took the chair at four o'clock. PRIVATE BILLS. The following private bills were further considered and ordered to be read a third time :—Athenry and Team Railway ; Eirkenhead Improvement Commis 'loners (Gas and Water) ' • Dublin and Meath Railway ; North Y or k s hi re and Cleveland Railway ; ReddiTcli Stockton ; Midclesbrougb, and Yarm Water, and the Stockton and Darlington Railway (North Biding Linea). The lends' ameadmelti to the following, bills were considered and agreed to :—Exeter and Exmouth Rail way; London, Britabton' aodS.•Coas.,RAilway (C a pi ta l, age.) ; Stains% wokingbam and Wilin g R a il wa y, and the Chiswick I mpr ovement. The following bills were read a third time • Chester and Holyhead Rail way ; . • eveland , ilway (changed from Durham and Cleveland Union Railway) ; Hove Improvement ; and St. Leonard, Shoreditcb, Parirsh. EDUCATION IN IRELAND. Colonel FREESTUN presented a petition from Oemington, county of Dorset, praying that the use of the Bible in schools in Ireland may not debar them from a share of the national grant fur education. MAURITIUS. Mr. LINDSAY moved aa address for returns of the revenue and expenditure cf the Government of the Man riticis during the year 1857 ; of the balance,. and invest meats in this country of the said Government during the same year; aril, of any copies or extract a of correspondence relating to an additional grant of 5,0001. per annum by the Government of Mauritius towards Imperial military expenditure.—Agreed to. THE CANDACE, AFRICAN STEAMER. Mr. CLIVE asked whether it was the intention of the Board of Trade to institute any inquiry as to the cause of the loss of th e C an d ace , Af r i can s t ea mer. Mr. HENLEY said it was true this unfortunate vessel was run down by a Dutch vessel bound for Ba tavia, and several lives were lost. The Board of Trade, under the circumstances, had not thought it necessary to institute legal proceedings, as it was the intention of the survivors to do so, and that be had no doubt would I be of a very searching description. BELFAST. Mr. MACARTNEY asked the Chief Secretary for Ireland whether the attention of her Majesty's Govern m_ent had been ca ll e d t o th e state o f the municipal affairs : li the bo roug h o f B elfast ; and if it was intended to take y steps in relation thereto ? Lord NAAS said the attention of her Majesty's Go lrerninsot bad b een ca ll e d to this i mportant question, aud they p„ posed, as soon as possible, to issue a corn 'Motion to i . 1 n o ._ quir a e into the administration of the borough muni;;;Lybothadaeregarded the money borrowed by the illto the present State of by them, and also generally Antaafyaxation in the borough THE General WYNDEthaIWa ARRANT, 1856. fey War, when the report s a l ; ed the Secr e t ar y o f St a t e Royal Corornis+ion she Warrant of Oct. 1856, might be exp ecte d to be laid .6, eon the table; and, in the vent of there bein g an y y, w hether he would consider the preprie'yofsusp-endde: lag the operation of that Warrant until the report viav made lagE ARMY WARRANT, 1851. Col. NORTH asked the Secretary of State for War whether, in compliance with the intimations made by him to the house on the 18th March la-t, it was the in tention of the Royal Commission appointed to consider the warrant of October, 1854, relative to promotions in the army, to afford an opportunity to every class of offi cers who thought themselves aggrieved of being fulls beard before it • General _EEL said it was his wish tisei Vika tinagelVowaisisiok:was i - , - eued, that ovary 4.5 s THE SUN, lAYND ON, MONDAY EVENING, JUNE 21, 1858. of officer who considered himself agrieved should be heard, and his case considered by the Royal Commis sioners. The commissioners had had a large mass' of information laid before them from every class of officers, andl they thought it unnecessary to take further evidence. With reference to the first question the Royal Commission were desirous of making an early re port, and he did not think it necessary to suspend that eport. COMMISSIONERS FOR EXHIBITION OF 1851 BILL. On the min for going into commission on this bill, Mr. SLANEY hoped that under the bill provision would be made for retaining an open space in front of Kensington Museum. Tne house then went into committee. On clause 1, Sir H. WILLOUGHBY complained that no time was fixed by the final clause for the repayment of the money by the commissioners into the exchequer. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said it was impossible to specify the exact time when the money to be advanced should be repaid, as the arrangement for raising the money depended on the passing of the bill. It was to the interest of the commissioners that the bill should be passed as soon as possible. Mr. ALCOCK. adverted to the different manner in which this scheme was dealt with to that of the scheme for Batter ea-park and Chelsea new bridge. In one case the capital only was to be returned, whilst in the other the capital and 70,000/. interest were to be returned. Under these circumstances, he thought her Majesty's Government were bound to throw Chel ea New Bridge open to the public. Sir H. WILLOUGBY moved an amendment to the clause that the money should be repaid within one year or sooner, After some remarks from Mr. WILSON, Mr. GLADSTONE said it might be inconvenient to let this arrangement stand over. He concurred with the limits proposed. After some remarks from the Chancellor of the Ex chequer, Mr. Spooner, M. Coningham, and Mr. Black burn, The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said the commissioners were ready to pay the money within any reasonable time. _ _ _ vlr. BLACKBURN submitted that a period should be fixed for i=s repayment. Let the committee fix it at five years. That would be a reasonable time. The amendment was then agreed to. Mr. ALCOCK moved, as an amendment, in clause 1, line 2, after '' 1851," leave out to " two pence," in line 4, and insert "all sums of money which have been paid by the Treasury on account of the Kensington Gore Estate, or any disbursement therewith, together with a moiety of the net rents received by the commissioners." The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER opposed the amendment. If carried, it would destroy the ar rangement proposed. The amendment was negatived without a division. Mr. BLACKBURN then moved, as an amendment, that the commissioners should pay 5 per cent, interest on the purchase money from the pa , ,sing of the act. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER objected to the amendment as unfair towards the commissioners. Mr. WILSON suggested that it would be better to make the commissioners continue to pay up half the rents of the property, which was annually increasing in value. The house then divided— For the amendment 99 Against it Majority —lO9 The amendment was lost. Mr. S. HERBERT suggested that a portion of the land in question might be advantageously taken by her Majesty's Government in lieu of money for barrack accommodation. The longer they delayed purchasing a site for barrack accommodation the more they would have to pay for it, from the daily in creasing value of land. The CHANCELLOR cf the EXCHEQUER said the suggestion was worthy of consideration, but that was n , )t the question for the. consideration of the committee. The commissioners were prepared to carry out the plan of 1852, and asked the Government to do so, or enable them to do Fo untrammelled by her Majesty's Govern ment, and the latter thought it desirable to withdraw on having the public money repaid. Mr. KINNAIRD paid the Royal Commissilners could not repay the 180,000/. without they sold a por tion of the land, and he saw no reason wby her Majesty's Governmett might not take a portion of the land in part payment. The CHANCELLOR el the EXCHEQUER Paid the Royal Commissioners did not intend to sell any portion of the land, but some of it would be let on lease for building, aq originally contemplated in the scheme of 1552. It was intended to erect a great artistic and in dustrial college at South Kensington for the education of the people. Mr. B. HOPE reported there were to be schools of art, and that the second should be at Brompton, where the people would not go to be educated. Alter some further discussion, Mr. AYRTON said that it was unfair for the Royal Commissioners to have all the advantages of this scheme. He understood that the land, which ryas purchased at 3,0001. per acre, was now worth 5,0001. per acre, and a rental of 6001. per acre. If they were to let 15 acres on builchng leases, there would be sufficient rent to pay the interest cf recovery. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said the original scheme prevented it. The otject of the scheme was to disburse the money for the purpose of science and art, and _it was being carried out. The clause accordingly was then agreed to. Oa clause 2, Mr. ALCOCK moved the otnision of tie clause. [LEFT SPEAKING.] LAW INTELLIGENCE.—June 19. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS. 'Sittings at Nisi Prius in Middlesex—Before Lord Chief Justice Cockburn and a special jury.) RICE V. GRAHAM.-EXTRAORDINARY CHARGE OF ASSAULT AGAINST A COLONEL. The plaintiff in this case was a lodging-house keeper, and some time ago he let apartments in the house, 3, Park-stre e t, G rosvenor - square , t o the defendant, Lieutenant-Colonel Graham. The action was to recover damages for an assault, and for injury done to some furniture in the apart ments. Mr. O'Malley, Q. C. and Mr. Russell, appeared for the plaintiff ; and NI r. Sergeant Ballantine and Mr. Quoin for the defendant. Mr. Richard Rice said—l am the plaintiff, and I get my living by going out waiting and by keeping a lodging-house. In the latter part of last year Colonel Graham had my principal apartments, at 4/ 15s a week, including attendance. On ew Year's Day last I put a dish of apples on the table —the apples belonging to Colonel Graham— and I pointed out that one was rotten. The colonel said, "Take it away, " and I did so. He said rather angrily, " Why do you put rotten apples on the table l" and asked me where I kept them, and I said, "In the sideboard." He said, " Why do you keep them where they will rot ?" I said, in a proper tone and manner, that they would probably rot the same anywhere else. He said, " What I" and I repeated the words. He then got up, came to me, and said, "Go out of the room, you scoundrel." I said, "I will, sir, as soon as I have got my things." He instantly caught hold of me to put me out of the room. I said, " I don't go out like this." Colonel Graham has lost part of his right arm, but has on the end of the artificial arm an iron stump. He struck me twice in the face. The lamp was upset and put out, and we got on the floor. I let him get up, and he struck me once while lying on his back, and again when lie got up. We still scuffed. He took hold of my right hand and put it in his mouth, and held it there for more than a minute. I thought he would bite my finger off. Whilst my hand was in his mouth he struck at me, and bit the door, on which there are seven distinct marks made by the iron stump. The butler's tray was upset, and knives were lying about the floor. I thought that a man who would biie might do worse, and I called for the police. Two policeman came. I then had hold of the colonel, who was lying on his face on the floor. I after wards went into the room again, in consequence of the oil having been upset, and the things lying about. He came at me in a menacing way, and said, "Get out of the room, you scoundrel," and I went. I had two black eyes for more than a month, and had a bruise on my forehead. The damage to the furniture was 3/. 17s. 6d., and oil was also upset on the carpet, and glass broken. Compensation was applied for next day, and pro ceedings threatened, and the answer was a letter from the colonel's attorneys, saying they would appear to process. The witness was cross-examined, but his fir:A statement was not materially alter ed. Mrs. Emma Rice—l am the plaintiff's wife. I was at home when the affair occurred. I got home at half-past five. My husband was sand ing at the door. His face was much bruisei, and there was blood over his face, shirt, and trousers. Colonel Graham was gone out. He cline home at about half--part nine. He was very quiet when I went into the room There were no marks of violence on him. The next morning the colonel said he would leave, and I said be must give a week's notice. He said he had done it, and wou]d go to-morrow. I asked for compensation for the broken furniture, and he said he would not pay a farthing. HenryElliker—l am an upholsterer. "I went to the plaintiff's house on New Year's Day, at a quar ter to eight. Mr. Rice was at the door with the policeman. There was much blood on him. One of his eyes was much swollen. I saw the colonel next day; there were no marks on him. The damage to the furniture was 3/. 17s. ficl. There were seven marks on the door of the colonel's room made by some blunt instrument, a quarter of an inch deep. Gecrge Thorpe, a police constable, said—When I went into the room the colonel was on the floor, and the plaintiff was holding him, apparently to prevent his striking him. They then got up. The plaintiff had bruises on the face, and his finger was bitten arid the flesh torn. There was a good deal of blood. The plaintiff was so exhausted tint he could not speak for some time. There were no marks of violence on the colonel. Mr. Sergeaut B addressed the jury for the detendaut, and then produced the following evidence. Col. Graham said—l am a major in her Majesty's 19th Font, and a breve c lune!. I lost my right arm in the Crimea, where I was aide-de-camp to General Eyre. I took the apartments of the plain tiff in November last. On the evening of the Ist of January I was dining by myself, and after dinner tuned to the fire to read, when Rice put the apples on the table, and said some or one was rotten, and I said. "7 ake them away." I asked, " Where do you keep them ?" and when he told me said, "Why the deuce do you keep them there; it is too hot." He said in an insolent tone, " I do not make the apples bad." I said, "Leave the room ; you are insolent." I told him to leave more than onoe. He said, "I will not leave ; it is my room." I sail Le was an impertinent scoundrel. I putmy hand on his shoulder to remove him. He seized me round the throat with great forcie with one h tnd, at the same time catching me round the body with his other arm, pinning my arms down. We then struggled some little time, and in the struggle the tablecloth was pulled off, causing the lamp and other things to be thrown down. It ended in my being thrown down. I was undermost He had his hand on my throat, and held so tightly that I thought I should be en tirely throttled. I tried to get my left hand loose. succeeded,l and struck at his face as he was 13.3ud ing over me. This made him draw back a little, and I succeeded in getting on my legs. He regained hold of my throat, and forced me into a corner. He had hold of my throat with his tight hand, and kept his other arm round my waist, pinning my arms to my side. Being nearly throttled, the only way I could make him leave hold was by biting his finger, which I did severely. This made him loose his hold, and I got my left arm and the stump of the right arm free. I contrived to get him by the back of the head, and it was then I struck him with the stump. I confess at this time I tried to do him all the harm I could. The stump is a leather stump, and there is a socket into which a hook may be fitted. The secket did the harm. (It was a socket projecting some distance from the stump.) Th 3 struggle continued f r some short time, he cailing out all the time "police." It ended by his throw ing me down again, and grasping my throat, nearly throttling me. It is not true that I put his finger into my month and bit if. I got hold of it with my mouth whilst he bad hold of my throat. The Lord Chief Justice—l do not know how you could kite the hand without carrying it to your mouth. Witness—lt is difficult to explain, but I should not bite any man unless obliged. did not carry the hand to my mouth. I bit him to make him re lease my throat. I got several bruises on my head, hu,t I bathed the place to prevent there being any mark. The chief injury was on my throat from being nearly throttled. Cross-examined—l was very much excited, but lean say I did not put his fing , r into my mouth. 1 hit him to make him release my throat. I was excited when I called him " an impertinent scoun drel," but I only put my hand on him in a very qu;et way. I bad told him once or twice b - fore to leave the ro,-.m. I had got his head "in Chancel y " when I pummelled him with the stump. Re-examined--I cannot tell exaedy how I got his finger in my mouth. I had before felt a throt tling serration. To the jury—When I called him "an impel ti nent scoundrel.'' I told him to leave the room, and put my hand on his shoulder. He then seized me by the throat, and thou I struck him. The man had twice before refused in the most insole:it man ner to leave the room before I put my hand on his shoulder. The Lc•rd Chief Ju , tice directed the Pity that it was admitted that the defendant had committed the first assault by putting his hand on the plaintiff's shoulder, but the important question was whether ti►e defendant wag justified in what he had done. If the defendant had ordered the p'aiutiff to qut the room and he hid positively refused to do so, he became a trespasser, and the defendant was en titled to use necessary violence to remove him. The plaintiff, however, on the record, said that even admitting this to be true, the defendant had used unnecessary violence. The jury foutd a verdict for the plaintiff— damages, 251. [ADVERTISEIIENT.]-11ollovvay'a Pilip.—Thera is no hazard in saying that the popularity of Professor Hollis way's remedies in this c mntry is without a parallel. The in:tanCEB in whith Lick persons pr, fessionally condemned to death have recovered under the operation of these miracle• working pillß, are so nunierons and so well autenticated, that the most stubborn incredulity is sileuc d. Hots of sufferers from indigestion, liter cow plaints, ncrvons debility, disorders of the bowe's, epi ulenPatpicprfiotasehaan medicine is wea3elT have been cured by thi s when every other mean s h a d unapproachable other failed. The press teems with the testimonials cf the parties, and while we wonder wo are cirnpelled . to be !Jove. —Sol t l by al! iredlcine vori[l:;rs thioughcist the World, and at Professor eita l Asiauiut, 241 ; Strand, London. POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—June 18. MANSION-HOUSE.---john Francis Grossmith, licensed• victualler, the Three Tuns, Jewry-street, Aldgate, appearel in discharge of his recognisances, for further examination on a charge of having vio lently assaulted the Rev. E. J. May, head master of the Brewers' Company's School, Trinity-square, Tower-hill. Mr. T. Atkinson appeared for the prosecution, and Mr. Sleigh for the defendant. On the previous occasion Mr. May was too ill to attend, owing to the injuries he had received, and the evidence taken was confined to medical testi money regarding the nature and extent of those in juries. Mr. Atkinson, in opening the case, now said that the form into which the charge would ultimately solve itself might be either that of a felony, or a misdemeanour under Lord Campbell's act accord ing to the character of the evidence which he should bring forward ; but the assault of which the Rev. Mr. May complained was one of the most savage attacks it was possible for the malice of man to conceive or for his revenge to execute. The learned gentleman then stated the character of the assault, and called The Rev. E. J. May, who said, I am head mas ter of the Brewer's School, Trinity-square, and live there. I remember Monday, the 7th of Jane. About twenty minutes to twelve at night some one knocked at my door. lam a bachelor, and have a housekeeper in my house ; that is all. At the time of the knocking at the door she was in bed, the house being all locked up and the key taken up stairs, and I was on my way to bed when I heard the knocking. I called out " Who is there 1" and a voice said, " I want to see the Rev. Mr. May immediately." I went to the door, and wiliout opening it answered, " You cannot see the Rev. Mr. May now. He is going to bed, and you must come in the daytime." The voice again replied, "I want to see the Rev. Mr. May very particu larly." After some little further parleying I fetched the key and opened the door, which appeared to be pu•hed from the outside, as it flew open suddenly. The defendant -immediately rushed past me, and went into :a room at the end of a passage. I did not say anything to him as he passed me, but fol lowed to see what he wanted. When I entered the room he got between me and the door, and said to me, " You caned my boy some months ago. He is ill now, but I am a man as well as you are; and so saying he showed me in a rather signihcant manner a stick in his hand. The stick now pro duced is the stick, which he left behind hitn. (The stick referred to was a knotty walking-stick, rather heavy, and about an inch in diameter at the butt-end, and tapering to half that thickness at the bott ma. I wished to get rid of Mr. Grossinitb, and replied to him, "It is too late to enter..into such particulars to-night, If you wish to say anything about it come in the day-time, an d I s h all b e happy to h ear w h at you have to s a y. I t i s past 12 o ' c l oc k , an d I was actu ally going bp to bed." Mr. Grossmith replied, raising his stick to his shoulder in a threatening manner, "D— you ; suppose I take it out of you." I believe I said, but I am not sure, "I would ad vise you not." I made to go to the street door, with the intention of getting a policeman's aid, say ing, as I passed him, "Mr. Grossantb, I must re quest you to l eave my house." As soon as I said that Mr. Gtossmith" exclaimed, "D— you, you brute, I'll murder you," at the same time sti ik ing me ou the head wi h the stick. The first blow knocked the candlestick out of my hand and extin guished the light, and he repeated the blow several times on my head with the stick, exclaiming, " I'd murder you—l'll do for you." I Mt teat my saftest plan was to keep within range of his stick, and I hit at his face tight and lefr, as well as I could in the dark, and at last wrenched the stick out of his hand. I heard some water run down the wAI from the flower-pots which had been upset, and thought it was blood running from my head, which was bleeding very much. I believed that I was dying, and with all the strength I could muster I struck a downright blow at him with the stick, and Le went down on the ground. He immediately caught hold of my feet and jerked them forward, throwing me on my back on the staircase. He then sprang upon me, kneeling on my chess, and with his left hand seized my throat, continuing to bit me with his right hand. I called for help as loud as I could, crying, " Mason, Mason, Police, Police" (Mason being my housekeeper). When I raised the cry for the police defendant ex claimed, " you, I'll stop your cries. I'll mutt• der you before any help can come to you. I came on purpose to murder you, and I'll do it." We con tinued to struggle together, I with my left hand endeavouring to wrest his hand from my throat, and. in the struggle we got near the street door, the struggle having con inued at least ten minutes before we did so. I immediately made a plunge forward at the lock, knowing exactly where to find it, and opened the door. He, at the same moment, relaxed his hold on my throat, and struck me a blow on the chest with his right hand, which sent me reeling the whole length of the passage. He then ran off saying, "You d— rascal, I'll murder you yet." He left his hat and stick behind him. I went immediately to the station-house in Seeth ing-lane, and from thence with some officers to Mr. Grossmit.li's house, but we did not see him there. I then went back to the station-house, and from thence to Mr. Moore's, the surgeon, to have my wounds dressed. Cross-ex: wined by Mr. Sleigh—l have been head master of the school about six years. I was sum moned to this court upon a charge of assaulting Mr. Grossmith's little boy, and upon that cliarg3 the Lord Mayor held me td bail to take my trial, but tl'le bill was ignored by the grand jury. I have also, and since that time, been summoned on another occasion on a charge of excessively belting the son of the Rev. Mr. R,berts, who was a pupil in the school, and who has since been removed from the school. That summons was withdrawn; and the charge, therefore ' was not publicly inve s tigated. On the night when Mr. Grosmith came to me he did not tell we his name bcfcre I opened the door. If he had, I should not have opened the door. When I opened the door, I do not recollect his saying, "My poor child i s d y i ng, " b u t on l y t h a t his child was 111. I did not hear him say, "I have been forc.:d to carry him ups'airs to bed to night, as he is too ill to walk." When he got in he did not endeavour to talk about the state of his By Mr. Atkinson ----The son of the Rev. Mr. Roberts has been dismissed from my school for bad behaviour arid fur crueLy to the other boys. By Mr. Sleigh—The boy Roberts was dismissed after the summons was taken out, but he had been sent home once before, when he was brought back by his mo:her. Mr. F. G. Moore, surgeon, deposed that ou the night of the assault he found some wounds on the heal of Mr. May, 0110 of which divided the scalp, but without injuring the bone, and also some wounds on the arms. The wounds were not of a dangerous character ; but they rencllred Mr. May unfit to att.ind his duty, as it was necessary for him to have perfect quiet. Witnei,s had been attending Mr. May up to the present time. After some corroborative evidence as to ths state of Mr. May after the assault, Mr. Atkinson vid his case was concluded.. Mr. May was then recalled at the desire of Mr. Sleigh, and in reply to questions put by the learned gentlemtn trough the Lord M tyor said —I cannot tell whether Mr. Grossmith, when he left my house, was bleeding likewise. Oa the oc casion wh.m'l was summoned here for assaulting his son, Mr. Grossutith offered to fo ,. ego all pro ceedings against ma' if I would pay a sum of money to tt,e poor-box, but I declined to do so. Mr. Sleigh said he only wished that Mr. May had acted in the same spirit now that had animated the defendant on that occasion, and ho hoped that he (Mr. Sleigh) should not now appeal to his Christian feeling in vain. It would have been better, under all the circumstances, if the case had not teen brought to that court at all ; but being there, Le hoped it would be disposed of in a sum mary manner. He bad been compelled to ask Mr. May about Oe matter which give rise to this un fortunate case, as it was in consequence of the weak and suffering state of his p oor chill, a deli ode boy, who had be en . getting gradually worse since that time, and whose days perhaps were numbered, that Mr. Grossmith sought Mr. May for explanation. He did not meant ) say that the child's coneition had been produced entirely by the violence of Mr. May, but he would say that the defendant was honestly under the impression and belief that his child's days had been shortened by the severity of the punishment that had been inflict- d upon him ; and, knowing this fact, it was with the greatest surprise that he had beard his learned friend (Mr. Atkinson) characterise the assault as one of the most malicious and unpro voked a'tacks that the mind of man could con ceive. That there had been assault in point of law ho could not deny, but:it was plain the defen dant acted from the impulse of an injured man, to whom explanation had been refused, after his ten derest feelings had been outraged. Ile asked the Lord Mayor to deal with the mater summarily, and though he did not ask the rev. prosecutor, in the language of that gospel whore doctrines he preached, to offer one &leek when the other bad been smitten, or because his brother had offended against him seven times, to forgive him seventy times seven—he did appeal to him to show that he was ikChristian minister, not only in profession but also in practice and in . spirD, by, not throwitto - r4, obstacle in the way of r: Azaanaary ..;et4lenierif or matter by 4 - pec , liiiin'y 4ne. 4tkinaiS; in reply, said it was a very painful • duty which he had to perform, for he felt as much as Mr. Sleigh for the position in which the defendant had placed himself, but it must Lot go forth into the world that a man might at midnight go to a house armed with such a stick as that which had been produced, to demand explanations, and com mit a most murderous assault, if, at that unreason able hour, explanations were refused. As to the evidence, it was of the most damnatory character, and it was idle to talk of offering an apology after such an assault. Taking all the circumstances into account, it was for the Lord Mayor to decide whe ther the case did not come .under the law which made an assault a felony. It was perfectly clear that the defendant went forthe purpose of commit ting an assault, and not for explanation, and in his (Mr. Atkinson's) opinion, the case came within Peel's Ac', as it was called, so as to leave the Court no choice in the matter, but to commit the defen dant for trial for felony. The Lord Mayor—The evidence having been gone into, the case is quite out of the hands of Mr. May, and to my mind the evidence is quite conclu sive as to the nature of the assault, so that I can only commit the defendant to take his trial for felony. Defendant, who left himself in the hands of his legal adviser, was committed accordingly, but was admitted to bail, himself in 2001. and two sureties in 1001. each. THE TRIALS OF SIR H. MEUX AND LJDY DINORBEN. (From, the Times.) If a great scandal would burst and die we might pass to windward and go on our way in silence. But it is not the custom of such things to come stillborn. They walk the town, they offend our deceit instincts, they give occasion to the populace to say to one another, " See that mean dirty thing. It has escaped from a great house. All great houses have familiars such as this, but they are kept close at home." Nothing can be more natural, but no thing can be more unjust. When the private life of some rich or noble house is revealed it is because some unusual circumstance has disturbed its ordi nary tenor. The curtain always rises, not upon a calm domestic scene, where every member of the family is most unostentatiously employed in the duties, the pleasures, and the affections of home ; but there are 12. sworn jurors of puzzled aspect, a judge much lamenting that he is obliged to play the part of moderator in the great strife of conflict ing scandals, witnesses who have ransacked their memories to prodtEle every little dark-coloured fact, and a long array of lawyers, applying Vie micro scope of their venal rhetoric to every small word or act, or scrap of writing. With these helps a small matter may be worked up into a large scandal. Moreover, the public does not always trouble itself to distinguish between the fringes and skirtings and the solid broadcloth. There are men and women who figure in " high life" for the first and last time in the report of a divorce case. It is not more just to estimate the morals of our higher classes by the proceedings in the House of Lords or the Court of Chancery than it.would be to judge of our middle classes by the reports of the Bankruptcy Courts, or of ~ u r lower classes by the revelations of the police offices. The past week saw the termination of two of these uncomfortable cases which unfortunately do not expend all their discredit upon those immediately concerned in them. No one, we presume, would care to become the historian of the house of Meux, and it is fortunately unnecessary to go further back in point of date than the year 1841, when the pre sent Sir Henry Meux, having passed through Eton and Christchurch, and being strong in body, if not in mind, succeeded to the Hertfordshire estate and to the enormous profits of the brewery. How he spent this income it is useless now to inquire. He has three sisters, Lady Malden, Mrs. Arabin, and Lady Smijth. Lady Malden previous to her marriage had kept his house for him, and to her he had obli gations which he seems to have most generously dis. charged. In 1855 this rich and prosperous man married a daughter of Lord Ernest Bruce, and a son was born to him. He was therefore at what men call the height of his prosperity, when the shadow of a terrible doom stole over him. Before his son was born he made a will, leaving his real property to any eldest son, and 20,0001. each to any. other children he might have. His wife took a life interest in the remainder, but his sisters were not mentioned. The law, however, would remedy this omission in case the infant son of Sir Henry should die. Sir Henry's sisters would then take as coheiresses on the termination of Lady Meux's life interest. In July, 1857, Sir Henry made a codicil to this will, and thereby left his property to his children, but, if there should be no children, then to his wife absolu'ely. B.3twe2n the will and codicil, therefore, there is no practical difference if the infant, Henry Bruce Meux, should grow up to manhood. But there is a chance that this child may die, and if that should happen the property would, under the terms of the will, go to the sisters after the . death of Lady Meux, and would go to the widow absolutely under the terms of the codicil. Sir Henry Meux has hecome an idiot. About that there is no question. No one is interested in ques tioning it. The whole inquiry is a tight over the anticipated or imagined grave of the infant b ay. Tt.e object of the sisters is to prove that their bro ther was mad on the 31 of 3 uly, 1337 ; if it can be established that he was sane up to the 41t of July it is sufficient to answer the purposes of the wife. It is an edifying contest, and the proceedings pre serve a consistent relation to their object. It was proved that before the close of 1856 Sir Henry shot badly, and in some Cambridgeshire cover-shooting shot General Hall in the leg. Lord Charles Ctinton remarked that -it Henry had au impediment in his speech, but was not drunk. The Hun. Charles Butler found a difficulty in understanding what he said. Sir Henry told a Mr. Blagg that certain voters would vote for him whohe (sir. Blagg) knew would not do so. Mr. Marjoribanks remarked that he walked badly. Lord Ranelagh recom mended him to give up Hertfordshire and stand for Middlesex, for the :ame reason, it is to be sup posed, as that given for Hamlet's being sent to England. Moreover, when he canvassed he left to his professional agents the work of persuasion, and limited his own form of salutation to " Will you vote for me ? I am the senior member." The sisters three, moreover, in their anxi e ty f or t rut h , or in industrious prosecution of their case, ranged the menia's of the household in their ranks. Sir Henry had intimated a belief that his butler was a liar, and had serutiuisel the weekly bills of his French cook. The doctors, as usual, differed—' hey differed in contraries and in contradieto - ries, they differed ceteg rical!y and hypetheticilly, they dif fered subjectively and otijce.ively, they differed in diagnosis and in treatment. Weighing their evi dence in a pair of scales, the overweight seems to be the opinion of Sir Benjamin Brodie —namely, that ho did not think Sir Henry's judgment upon the qualification of an attorney worth much. We could bnd 50 attorneys to say as much for Sir Benjamin Brodie. Far be it from us to say that Sir Henry was not quite mid when he shot badly, and walked badly, and talked badly, and canvassed badly, and doubted the veracity of his butler and profanely questioned the accounts of his French cook. There certainly were some other facts which would carry the case rather further. But, if we must admit that each of the imputed acts of commission and omis sion is au important item in an indictment against a man's sanity, we must also tremble to think of the mental cindition of 'natty people we have been associating with for years. After a nine days' wrangle, at a cat of some 6001. or 7001. a day, over the broken intellect of this poor lunatic, the jury came to the very sensible verdict that they could not tell when his insanity assumed an aspect which rendered him incapable of testamentary disposition. They were right. As we approach and pass the sol stice we can can detect a change of temperature ; but who can tell by his own mere organs of sense at what moment he is passing the line ? The jury seem to have felt that the inquiry, so far as it was a contest, was unnecessary. Their de cision as t ) the validity of this codicil would have been binding on no one. It was only an un seemly scramble for a better place in a future fight —a fight only to com© off in case of the untimely death of the baby. Throughout this melancholy exhibition the palm of unhlushing coolness must be awarded to Mr. Montagu Chambers. During a contest wherein every champion bore as his motto " Auri sacra fames," this philsophical and ethical ornament of the Bar and •the Legislature read a serious lecture to Lady Meux upon the evils of too great riches, the disadvantages of wealth, to a widow sou g ht in marri age b y an ardent lover, and the danger of exciting the loquacity of an evil- Ppeak'ng world which might accrue from the fact of a mother having a pecuniary interest in the death of her offspring. The delicacy and good taste of this appeal, under the peculiar circumstances of the case, cannot be too highly extolled. What shall we say of the other cause ceebre of the week ? The plot is so quaint that it remits us to the French memoirs of the time of the Regency, or to the earlier historiettes of the Court of good King Charles 11. It may be stated in very few words. A dowager lady of rank occupies her leisure in writing scandalous anonymous letters of, to, and about her nephew, and when ho expostulates sends her brother, a fighting Colonel, who has already "had the misfortune" to kill his man, to demand satisfaction ; which we must suppose means to shoot the nephew through the body, or at least to break an Arm or leg. This new phase of nepotism ;Ha sttlimitt:d to the double lights of the police court and the Court of Queen's Bench. The un happy eoplacw, to avoid fighting the brother of big 11,110.0's wife, wag Gavelled to ono into court and tell his sad tale of persecution. He had lived for six ' years under a perpetual shower of filth. Wherever he turned the postman met him with a letter, and this letter always contained precisely thebmost dis agreeable thing that could be suggested to him at that particular moment. There is a French farce wherein the heroine is persecuted nearly to death for repeating a little scandal. Having inadvertently said that a gentleman's wife bad been unfaithful to him, the husband makes her responsible for the name of his rival. By every post, in every society, wherever she may be, she receives a letter with the unvarying inquiry, "Madame, s'il vous plait—son nom." She found the persecution insufferable. So Mr. Hughes, when he was about to be married, found himself assailed by imputations that he was insolvent, illegitimate, eaten up with the king's evil, and subject to hereditary madness. When he does get married he cannot receive his mother into his own house but the postman arrives at his mother in-law's door with a protest. Even his housekeeper is not allowed to pursue her course in peace, and the butler is shot through the character by an epis tolary revolver. Now, a man may know himself to be very solvent and very healthy, and may find the society of his mother a solace, and may know his servants to be honest, but still get impatient of a pertinacious correspondence such as this. He may be innocent of band boxes, and of those who carry them, and yet not like to be called " Bat dbox Hughes." But if the offence had terminated here we need not have had a public esclandre. A private exposure would have been sufficient; society would have punished this Candia, who draws her poisons from the inkpot. An old woman's spite and malig nity are not thought worthy of much notice, unless. they could succeed in effecting mischief; and in this case there was no special damage, as the lawyers call it. Bat when these letters are followed up by the visit of a fighting colonel and by public denial upon oath of the authorship of the letters, we seem to see a shameful act deepening in colour to a crime. We are startled to find a woman of rank coming into a ccurt of justice, and solemnly, in the face of the world, committing what the jury found to be perjury; but we have no right to be surprised that a woman who could write the letters produced upon this trial should try to shield herself from the dis grace of detection even by such awful means. The jury have declared that the scandalous anonymous letters which so persecuted poor Mr. Hughes were written by Lady Dinorben, and this after she bad appeared in the witness-box and had on her oath repudiated them. The Judge's summing up and the evidence in the case seem fully to bear out the verdict. By a retributive piece of poetical justice, the wickedest and most unwomanly words which the letters contained wore written in the natural handwriting of the writer. We began by deprecating that habit of unjust generalisation which imputes to a whole class the irregularities of a few unworthy members, but we have no mercy for persons in the enj Iment of dis tinctive titles and a certain social rank who commit offences against good taste and proper delicacy of feeling, still less when they commit crimes. Their temptations are less and their edocat'on is better, and their example is more pern thus, than when the offenders are from the common ranks. They are also more amenable to the voice of society than to the whip of the law, and they must submit to point a moral though they do not adorn a tale. SEDUCTION OF ENGLISH GIRLS IN PARIS. A case of a very painful nature, but of consider able interest, was yesterday submitted to the Tri buual of Correctional Police. A woman named Mesmeurice, 48 years of age, and who stated that she lived on her property, was tried on the ch urge of what the French law calls " outraging morality, and exciting girls under age to debauchery." A police-officer said that in the morning of the 11th of May last, as he was on duty in the Rue de la Pornpe, at Pas y, he heard cries of " Help," "Murder," in a house, and on entering he found in a splendidly furnished apartment on the ground floor a young Englishwoman, remarkably hand some, who complained that the mistress of the place bad been beating her. He took both the women before the commissary of police, and that functionary, after hearing what they had to say, had the elder taken into custody. Tee President, addressing the prisoner, said, "You are accused of exciting to debauchery ?" "It is not true, sir." " Listen to me—you are accu ei of having frequently received young girls from England, of letting furnished apartments to them, and of giving them up to men." "My ad vocate will explain, sir—l am so troubled." An swer my question. You occupied larger apart ments than your fortune or style of living justified —you let part of them to young girls, who --." "No, sir, Ido not let lodgings." "You did, and I can tell you the names of some of your lodgers— Cearlotte, Fernanda, Melly, and Sarah. Amongst the girls was one of 16 or 17 years of age, Char lotte Balthazar by name, who will be called as a witness, and this girl you introduced to a very wealthy man, a Russian prince, it is said—be pay ing you liberally ?" "It is true that a Russian prince sometimes came to the house, butit was not I who made him known to Charlotte—they knew each other before." " You are accused of having brought this girl from England t. speculate on her beatuy." " I did not go there to seek her—she came to me." "Did you not go frequently to England?" " I did, but it was en business.' " What' business ?" "To seek money due tome." " Due by whom !" " Sir, it was an old friend who made me an allowance." " It is easy enough to get over money from England, and you need not go there to seek it." "1 lia,ve:nothing to do, and I like travelling. , ) And you knew how to make your travelling profitable. We are told that Char lotte Balthazar received large sums from the Rus sian prince —on one occasion as much as 4,0001." That is true, sir ; the foreigner gave a good deal of money to Mddle. Ch ar l o t te, b ut I had nothing to do with their conventions. When she came to me she said she was an Irishwoman who had come from England, and that she was in distress.' " the girl," said the President ; " she shall tell her own story." The girl then s'epped forward. She is remarkably handsome, with a brilliant com plexion and black hair, tall and graceful. " Whet is your name ?" asked the President. " Maria Theresa Balthazar," said the girl. " Your name is not Charlotte 1' "No, sir, that is a name which Madme. Mesmeurice gave me." " What is your age ?" " Seventeen." " What is your occupation?" " I have none." " Tell us what you have to say, but take care to state nothing but the truth." "I was in England, where I lived with a cabinet maker." " You had then no parents ?" " I had left them. In England a girl can quit her parents at 14 years of age." " She does wrong to do so, especitt'ly when she does it for the purpose of tak ing to evil courses—but continue." " I knew at London a dressmaker, who often asked me why I did not go to Paris, where I should be very happy. 1 always answered, No, no, 1 will remain in Eng land.' One day, however, she introduced me to Mme. Mesmeurice, who had gone to London to seek for., girls ; end Mine. Memeurice said that if I would ace ampany her to Paris, she would, as I was so beautiful find ma a prince who would throw him self at my feet, that she would make me marry a prince." (The girl spoke Fri nth with great facility, and with only a slight English accent.) And you de termined on corning to Paris ?" ' Yes, sir, I came with her. But I soon repented of having done so. She had promised me fine dresses, fetes, pleasures, but was unable to ke-p her promise. At first, I hail not enough to eat. She was in such distress that one evening, not being able to give me any dinner, she took me to Muserd's concert, and there introduced me to a negro, frightfully ugly, who gave me 20f. Afterwards, however, I had a prince." Tee President said, "You have acted very ill, and you "ilet return to your parents." " Yes, sir." " Before knowing the Russian prince, did the accused introduce you to other men ?" "Yes, sir ; during a fortnight a good many came." "Did she give you the money which she received from those men ?" "No, sir ; I never had a sou, even to buy a cake ; she kept all." "She lodged, boarded, and clothsd you ?' "Yes, sir." "Now as to the Russian ; he gave a good deal of money ?" " Yes, sir ; 4,000 f. a month, without counting present." "DA the accused g i ve anyt hi ng to you ?" Nothing whatever." "Did you see any other English girls at the prisoner's house ?" "Only one, Nelly Bell ; but she had the luck to find a protector, and went away." "You appear intelli gent, and yet you call that luck ! How old was that Nelly ?" "Eighteen." "You saw no others in her house ?" "No ; but the conc i erge t o ld me that she was accustomed to take French girls to England, and to bring back English girls—that that was her calling." "You affirm that all you have said is true. It is true also that she beat you 1" "Yes, sir. The Russian prince had to go on a journey, but before setting out he sent us his secretary with 4,000 f. The secretary gave 2,000 f. to Mme. Mesmeurice, and 2,000 f. to me. When he left, Mine. Mesmeurice made irie drink a good deal, and .1 became intoxicated. On that day, therefore, I could not occupy myself about my money, but slept all day long. The next day, whi c h was a Sund a y, + I missed my 2,000 f., and asked for it ; she got into a passion, abused me, and gave me a blow on the mouth, which made it bleed. Th , :: next the - dispute recommenced, and she gave me a kick, which hurt me a good deal;! As I do not know the law of Penis, I cried for help, and a policeman came, and delivered use." " All that this girl says" cried the prisoner, "i s a ti ssue c f f a l se h oe d e " Three wit nesses were then examined • they deposed the wouala Dituzeurice was iu the habit of keepiog ,‘ girls in her house ; that Mlle. Charlotte was th favourite of the Russian prince, and used to drive out every day in a dashing equipage, and that after the donation of 4,000 f. by the prince the tiro women quarrelled and fought. It appeared from what one of the witno2ses, a journeyman printer, said, that the woman before going to Passy had lived in the Rue Pigalle, in the same house that he did, and thit there she had with her "ladies who had plenty of lovers." " Were these females Eng lish or French 1" asked the President. "English, and all of them were young and pretty," was the: answer. " Don't listen to this man,'' cried the. woman, "he is a liar." [The Public Prosecutor: afterwards pleaded in support of the prosecution,. and M. Lachaud, advocate, defended the prisoner.) The tribunal condemned the woman.to a year's im prisonment, 100 f. fine, and five years' interdiction of civil rights. IRELAND. DUBLIN, SATURDAY MORNING. GALWAY AND AMERICA. The people of Galway have had to endure an - • other disappointment—only, however, a temporary one. On a close examination of the Indian Empire it was ascertained that some trifling repairs were required, which, owing to the slowness of the work men, would, it was feared, necessitate the postpone ment of her sailing till this evening. The mail sent, by this conveyance was very small—not 1,000 let ters, the average number being from 12,000 to 15,000. The somewhat sinister accident which be-. fell the steamship on her first entrance into Gal way Bay has created quite a sensation here, and' the result of the trial of the two pilots is looked for with no ordinary anxiety. The following narrative , of the transaction is condensed from the Evening Mail:— " She was boarded at Blackhead by two men red presenting themselves as regular pilots, who under took to guide her safely to her moorings. ft was night, but calm and cloudless ' and in the twilight of a summer's sky landmarks and objects at sea familiar to the experienced mariner's eye were die.: tinctly visible. Tee vessel was taken in by those' men, whose bearing, however, was so little .zatis-' factory or assuring to the captain that (contraty,-it is said, to their advice) he slackened her speed to one third of the rate at which he had been steaming. It, was well that he did so, for in less than half an hoar they took the helm she struck upon a rock, and thert remained for two hours before she could be relieved. Had, she been going with all her steam up at the m oment of . the collision there can be little doubt that she would, at' least, have received irreparable injury. Happily no ma terial damage was sustained, and she has this day de parted notwithstanding the omen, melioribus fates. The , rock of St. Margaret, which was near being so disastrous to the enterprise, is so far out of the usual course by which ships approach or leave the port of Galway that more than half a century has passed since any vessel was known to have come in contact with it. Its place ie well known on the charts. It is, moreover, marked by • large buoy, so conspiouous that Capt. Courtney descried it at a distance of a mile, and called the attention to it of one of the self-styled pilots. But that trusty guardian assured him it was only a small boat ; and then there was scarcely time to order the engineers to back the ship when she came bump upon the rock. Other indi cations of wilful blindness have been mentioned, but we content ourselves f , r the present with those which have been proved in a public court. They present a case full of suspicion. A numerous bench of magistrates, coo' prising men of all the varieties of our social and . politie.all state, have committed the two pilots for trial at the ap proaching assizes. There was no difference of opinion on that subject. Whether it was through criminal neglects or ignorance equally criminal, or from a still more nefa rious motive than either, that so untoward an event ce' eured, we leave to the investigations of jup tie° toascer• tai;. We hope that a strict and searching inquiry will be made, aed teat neither pains nor expense will be spared to trace it to the source." Another Dublin journal (the Express) deals more mysteriously with the conduct of the pilot/1" • " It remains for a jury to decide whether they were . guilty or not of the crime of intending 'to destroy the steamer. It seems to be the general opinion in Galwal that the facts cannot be accounted for except on the Pre: sumption of their guilt. This, however, should be le ft to the decision of a jury of their countrymen. If the,' should be found guilty the crime is one of the foulest OS record. But if they are guilty others are guilty too. ' If they did run the steamer on the rock intentionallfr they were the agents of a diabolical conspiracy, whlob should be traced out ; and, If the chief criminals can be detected, no puni hment would be too severe for thews. Suspicion points to Liverpool as the seat of this colt' spiracy. The motives assigned are commercial jealous,. and the self-interest of parties engaged in the Liverpool shipping trade. Should this prove to be the case---• which we trust it may not, for the credit of our civilisa tion and the honour of humanity—it would furnish the strongest possible argument in favour of the enterprise of Mr. Lever. If those who are most capable of plat ing did not apprehend that it would be completely sue cessful—that it would at least attract all the Irish traffic' ' and especially all the Irish emigrants, and so interfere materially with their own interests—they would_ not / adopt such atrocious means to defeat the projeCt. Bo* hcrrible, and execrable as the attempt was —assuming that it was made—it furnishes a mostsatisfactory auger/ of success, especially as it was so providentially and sc . mercifully frustrated." GALWAY, SATURDAY- The Indian Empire sailed for Ame.ica at :12.1 p.m. to-day. - • fAeveRTISEMENTI —lt would be to some extent a neglrc t of the duty which we owe to our readers, if we failed to a llude , to the unprecedented mass of evidence that has 'reached ass in proof of the remedial efficacy of Du Barry's Revalegte Arabica Food, iu many disorders which, whilst most paialw and distressing in their symptoms, have, at the same tia7!s • through their obstinacy and continuity, been inaccessible , medical skill. We have looked over some of the lists 0' heartfelt testimony to the beneficial effects of this Food, is various and complicated stages of disorder, includirg pepsia (indigestion), constipation, functional irregularo' obstructions, acidity, cramps, spasms, fits, heartballh diarrhoea, nervousness, affections of the liver and kidney:ll:- flatulency, distention, palpitation of the heart, nervous het, ache, deafness, noises in the head and ears, giddiness, Pal" between the shoulders and in almost every part of the bn‘lo chronic inflammation and ulceration of the stomach, eruP; tions on the skin, scurvy, fever, scrofula, impurities, Wet of blood, consumption (if not beyond human aid) dropay rheumatism,. gout, influenza, grippe, nausea and v omit during p:egnancy, after eating, or at sea, low spirits, epleeiuo general debility, paralysis, cough,l asthma, tightness across tb chest, phlegm, inquietude, sleeplessness, involuntary Wilt ing, tremors, dislike to society, unfitness for study, delusieo" • loss of memory, vertigo, blood to the head, eihanstion, moll; 1 choly, groundless fear, indecision, wretchedness, thought' of self-destruction, dm. One or two examples, from the ru2,, THOUSANlSTestimoniais received by Messrs. Du Barry, be interesting and useful. The Yen, Alex. Stuart, Ar° - deacon of Ross, informs us that he has been relieved ' excessive nervousness, pains in the neck and left arm, gene'L, weakness of constitution, and other a lments, rendering ; life very miserable." • Mr. Hunt, barrister-at-law (a gentle-. man 85 years old) certifies that he has been radically claw °, paralysis of 60 years' standing, as well as of other afilictioee and after a long life of comparative misery, he gratefully 1 0 :„. tests that he is now " a s ranger to all complaints, excep t hearty old age." Major Edie states that, after " halr be suffered fearfully for two years from an enlargement of A liver, and an inveterate diarrhoea, which had totally deft e r most eminent medical aid, and had brought him to t°, brink of the grave, being unable to lift h's arms from per exhaustion," ho had recourse to the Food, and be Will g 4 ,1 3, ou to say :—" The result of eating this delicious Food is perfect restoration of my health within a month, and I take peculiar pleasure in recommending all sufferers to follow , example." But to pursue those testimonials would be an en less task. Upon 50,000 authenticated certificates, we h a ; the " great" and auspicious fact that, for the first time im,: t „ l , history of pathology, an agent has been discovered completely effects all that had hitho. to been fruitle s s attempted by all the nauseous preparations of the labort!"_ tory. Not merely in its remedial, but in its preserl tive capacity, as a protector, as well as a restorer of health, its efficiency is attested by the grateful evidence Ao „ those who have had experience in propria persona.—The ' ss • cumstances brought to light in connection with its us e o f • food for infants, show that whilst it prolongs the lives • thousands of adults, it is calculated to cause many to rot c A , maturity who would otherwise perish in early childbu7, 0 , Altogether, we confess to the pleasing conviction that I s , extended use, amongst all classes, of Du Ba rr y' s Food, O n g , produce a marked change for the better in the 51 :.1 rage value of life, and in the sanitary statistics of ourf,!; - , Supported by testimonials from the following c elebrated ri. fessors of Chemistry: Dr. A. tire; Dr. Shorland; Dr. aol lf „, ° ': Dr. Campbell ; Dr. Gattiker ; D r . ' W urzer ; D r . IngrA — Lord Stuart de Decks; the Dowager Countess of Castlest' Major Gen, Thomas King, and many other respectable P i r pf sons, whose health has been restored by it, after all nt..„';.. means of cure had failed. Suitably packed with full ; tions, In canisters, 11b. 2s, 9d.; 21b. 4e. 6d.; 51b. 11 121 b. 225. The 121 b canisters are sent carriage free on ceipt of Post-office order. Barry Du Barry, and C0.9,.L. Regent-street, London. Important Caution against the "'Si f r fal dangers of spurious imitations.----The Vice-Chancellor Pbc William Page Wood granted au Injunction ou the 1 0 th 3 1 ,11 ) a 1854, against Alfred Hooper Nevin for imitating Barry's Re valenta Arabica Foed." —.400 BIRTHS. ~,11- ELLWOOD—On the 16th inst., at 2, GothicTillas , l l °, ll ri, park, the wife of Mr. Edward Ellwood, of a datigu N or . PEARSE -On the 14th inst., at Gaywood Rectory, ll. folk, the wife of the Rev. Robert W. Pearse, 0' diughter. PEDLEY—On the 16th inst., Stubbing Court , Chesterfield, the wife of T. 11. Podley, Esq., of . MARRIAGES. ,ebt CAY—RANYING--On the 17th inst., at Christ C h ar • Ramsgate, Lieut. Robert Barclay ay, R.N., son B. Cay, Esq., solicitor, Vale, Ramsgate, to Augase Del'Hoate Ranking, daughter of Robert R an king, °' Val-, Ramsgate, late of Hastings. DEATHS. .01 Coos--Oa the 18th inst., ut 22, Budge-row, 31r. h' e Cook, aged 60. ". s,toDt FO LARD -On the 17th inst. , at North-street, 15riS D. M. Folkard, Esq., aged 66. 3, MONTEFIORE—On the 17th itiat. t at his residenv-,1 - -re, P`i.' Awpton-plac?, Gray's-inu-road, Moses Montefiore, - agod 73. SCOTT-On the 16th inst., at 2, Warwick-villas, aa d road, Kensington, W ., suddenly, Robert Scott, x' s ' - late Madras Medical Service, aged 70. _ a LONDON: Printed and Published by MITRDO Y° ll llo a No. 112, Strand, Printer, at Tle Sun OBicesty U 2, Strand, in the Preoinct of Lila Savoy, in, of Ifithiloses, duo' 1604 SHOCKING MURDER. An inquiry of a very painful and distre7sing cha racter took place before Mr. T. Swor ler, the coroner for Hertfordshire, at Cheshunt, on Friday, into the circumstances under which a highly respectable your; lady, 25 years of ago, named Sarah Jane Butler, met her death. The jury having performed the painful duly of viewing the body, which pre sented a dreadful appearance, the head being frightfully contused, and the skull ftaeture,l in several planes, a number of witnesses were exa mined, and the following facts were disclosed. It appeared that the deceased young lady had gone to visit a married sister, Mrs. Braye, the wife of a chemist at Cheshunt, and on Tuesday afrernoon the two ladies went out for a walk, and paid a visit to a friend named Prior, who lives near the Brox bourne railway station. Tney set out on their return home about half-past eight o'clock in the evening, and had gone about a mile when the tragical occurrence took place. On their way from - Broxburne to Cheshunt the ladies had to go for some distance by the side of the river, and thsy then passed several cottages, and a short distance from thin spot there is the high road. When they had passed a few yards from the last of there cot tage, which is occupied by a person named Carter, the ladies saw a man approaching, and it would seem that his appearance excited some alarm, for Mts. Brays proposed to her sister to turn back, but tLe young lady replied that it was daylight and there was no necessity for being alarmed, and they proceeded on their way. The moment they came close to the man, it appeared that without saying a word he attacked Miss Butler with a bludgeon, struck her first a tremendous blow on the side of the face, and then beat her upon the head until she fell senseless, and he then walked away. It ar peared that he man did not attempt to offer any violence to Mrs. Braye, and that lady was at first so dreadfully terrified that she was unable to scream or to give any alarm. Carter, the occupier of the cottage, however, happened to come the moment the assault was tieing committed, and procared the assistance of a police constable, and went in pursuit of the man as ho was walking en the high road, and he was secured without offering any resistance. The poor young lady was taken up in an insensible state, and covered with blood, and as soon as a car riage could be procured she was conveyed to her sister's residence, and Mr. Dixon, a surgeon, resid ing at Cheshunt, and some other profes s i ona l gen tlemen, promptly attended upon her, but it was evident, fr om t h e fearful character of the injuries she had received, that the case was hopeless, and she remained in estate of insensibility until about 11 o'clock at night, when she expired. The man who had c omm i tt e d the outrage w police s t at i on at Hoddee den,he a taken appeareds t t o the o b e and quite calm and collected. He was asked if he knew what he had been doing, and ho replied, " Yes I have been hitting a woman on the head, b it I hope , I have not hurt her." Ile wa s afterwards asked t how he would like to be served i n the same manner and he Lingual and said, " Not a t a ll . " H , a fterwards told that the y oung lady hoe Ilittase struck was dead, and he made no reply. On the following day one of the attendants be longing to the Hoxton Lunatic Asylum arrived at Hoddesden, stating that he was in search of a pa tient, named Henry Arnold, who had made his escrpe from that establishment a few days before, and upon his going to the lock-up he at once iden tified the man who had committed the outrage as that person. He at, the same time expressed his sur prise that he should have been guilty of such enact of violence, a s during the time he was in the asylum he was looked upon as perfectly harmless, and had been allowed to do some work about the building, which gave him au opportunity of making his escape, and it is suppceed that he was on his way to hs native village, a place called Newton, in Cam bridgeshire, at rho tittle he committed the dreadful deed. Tbe jury after flooring all the evidence, said there was no doubt that the prisoner was insane at the time he assaul'ed the young lady; but the Coroner explained to them that they had no power by law to enter into tt:e cilF•ston of the state of mind of the patty by whom the death had been occasioned, which could alone be disposed of before another tribunal, and that upon the facts before them the only couraeth ey cou l d take was to return a verdict of " Wilful Murder." The jury acc , rdingly returned a verdict to that Effect, and the coroner at onto *lamed hia warrant-for the committal of th© prisoner rnoll, to tile his trial - at the - ensuina 5U1:11* G+ex azauea for the county of Wife. ONT M PRIT, and M O . Iliß. at ENI Bons by Isrr every evening Admission Is., at the Royal Cramer, Reale, MR. a: AFT E 'RAU, at 3 c I.IIII IRSDAY I CAROL. Stang (numl4c trnreeerved Rea Rall's Publlshe ST. Jfi NIGHTS UTINY. Da the continued ti..OE on Elk Purpose. Ada Sr. JAN ONLY.— 1 : 8 11 1 make their clue 29, at e' air. Charles Ha and ss. ; and a 4 nd Co., 201, Ri CHRIST TIIRE T AINMENT.— E . ° treas.—Many patission owin trndneed an e gumerous pate totnEnenelag at itaCk, 111. THE R' will OP THE R( SAM CI THE RC ARRAN lent and Friend] T" R CREM.OI Sax Ho] Ilet—Marion( the Crystal PL FETE and BA] 40 Yal Marioneti I) R. / 3, TICHE LECTURES dai quarter past 0 Open fn DR• zianrs / MAA ALHAM WALLE' W. F. 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