The Sun. — London, England, 1858-03-24 00:00:00

TATR E RO YAL, HAYMARKET. Lessee —Mr. J. B. Buckstone. ' THIS EVENING, to commence at Seven o'clock, with Sheridan Knowles' comedy of THE LOVE CHASE. Con wn, mi ss A. Sedgwick. ; Widow Green, Mrs. Wilkins. ata Mter which, JACK'S RETURN FROM CANTON. Followed by PRESENTED AT COURT. Misses Swan borough, Fitzwilliam, and Mr. Buckstone. To conclude with THE GALICIAN FETE. Orchestra Stalls (which may be retained the whole of the overdue. 6s. each. (No charge for booking.) First Price. s. d. Second price. s. d "Vries Boxes 5 0 Dress Boxes 3 0 'Upper Boxes . 3 0 Upper Boxes 2 0 Pit 2 0 Pit 1 0 Gallery R OY A.L PRINCESS'S THEATRE Proprietor, Mr. Charles Kean. THIS EVENING, will be presented the historical play of LOUIS XI. Louis, Kiag of France, Mr. Charles Kean. After which, the new grand comic Christmas Pantomime, entitled IiARLEQUIN WHITE CAT ; or, The Princess lilitache Flower and her Fairy Godmothers. The MrPrincCor ess 'Manche (White Cat), Miss K ate Terr y ; Harlequin, . 'black ; Clown, Mr. Huline ; Pantaloon, Mr. Paulo ; and Columbine, Miss C. Adams. TIIHEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI. Lessee—Mr. Ben. Webster. THI4 EVENING, will be performed RORY O'MORE Mr. Barney Williams. After which, AN HOUR IN SEVILLE. To conclude with THE IRISH TUTOR. Commence at Seven. CANTERBURY HALL, Westminster -road. — OPEN EVERY EVENING. —The follow lug company of Vocalists are engaged for the performance of S3lections from all the popular OPERAS, MADRIGALS, CHORUSES, GLEES, DUETS, dm, viz.:—Miss Russell, Mrs. Badzey, Madlle. Marietta, Miss Brunell, Miss Ray, Madame Bartoletti, Miss Montague, and Madame Marietta ; /I err F. Jonghmans, Mr. kieashaw, S. Jones, J. Barker, W. Melling, Senor Antonio, E. L. Hime, Mr. Badgey, Mr. Edwards, Mr. Bell. and Mr. Bernard ; Messrs. T. Maclagan, W. T. Critchfield, G. Forde, and E. Mackney. Piano-forte, Mr. Cecil Hicks; harmonium, Master Williams ; Director, Herr F. Jonghma.ns. Commence at Seven o'clock precisely. Sappers, &0., until twelve o'clock. Mr. AUGUSTUS BRAHAM will appear every Evening. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. MIS DAY—Morn., 53 min. aft. B—Even., 46 min. aft. 9 To-Mosaow —Morn. 36 min. aft. 10 —Even. 23 min. aft. 11 THE WEATHER—SUN OFFICE, MARCH 24. 1131111110 METER, IN THE SHADE. 61—highest since noon yesterday. 47—lowest this morning and during the night, 63—this day at noon. BAROMETER, 30.23. WIND, Westerly ; moderate, with very fine weather. ?...4 , 0p , .. ,•3:-.-4,,,. : 1 ... 2- , , C I t ~-....„;r' - '''. , , ,$),111T, e ,Q..x- LONDON, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 24, 1858. Mr. MONCKTON MTLNES last night clearly and ably exposed the thorough absurdity of the pass port system, and he was well supported. The unanimous opinion of the House of Commons was clearly displayed in favour of the sound views formerly entertained by LOINS NAPOLEON before he became gmperor, or even President of France. Several cases were cited to show the annoyances sustained by even wealthy travellers. Sir HAMILTON SEYMOUR was conveyed to a Belgian Prison when going to visit the Sovereign on his express invitation ; and even Lord PALMERSTON was himself a victim. It is not, however, diplo matists or Members of Parliament, or any of the select "upper crust" that are the sufferers. To them the expense is a mere bagatelle, and, to use a " Hibernicism," having nothing to do, they "can do it" just as well in England as in France. It is the men of business, whose interests may be seriously ccmpromised by the delay of asingle hour, or those who may be deprived of the opportunity of receiving the last wishes of a dying friend or relative, that are most to be pitied. A family may be reduced to penury—a father may be pre wile of her nusolfria—or a - siscer t urfeW - Lithi l dri—R during the fleeting hours that precede— " The first dark day of nothingness ; The last of danger and distress." May be prevented from attending the loved one to the tomb, or once more beholding the well known features previously to their consignment to the last resting-place. These are the cases that merit sympathy, and which should' ensure redress ! Many will remember the profound sensation occasioned by the fact of a lady holding the highest rank in the peerage having been pre vented from seeing her father in consequence of the stringent regulations of a puritanical board of directors against Sunday travelling. Similar cases have occurred since the now passport regulations. Not, indeed, with reference to persona of exalted rank, but to those who perhaps felt as deeply, and whose afflictions were enhanced by the vexa tious impediment to their progress. Ministers are prepared to do all in their power to effect a salutary modification in these rules, and, we trust, eventually the abolition of the entire system. Officials are to be stationed at different ports, with authority to grant the requi site documents ; and from what fell from the Chancellor of the Exchequer, we may assume that the paltry tax on intending travellers will be repealed. They will do everything to meet the wishes of the community, not only by more effi cient regulations for the obtaining of passports, but also by such temperate and reasonable argu ments as may produce a change in France. The most efficient remonstrances will, however, be offered by French hotel and shop keepers, who, even within the brief period that has elapsed since the introduction of th e new code, have suffered severely in pocket. Mr. MIL.NtEs pointed out that on the single line be tween Dover and Calais there were no fewer than 1,16/ less passengers within the last six weeks than during the corresponding period of last year. What, then, will be the saving of English money and consequent loss to French hotels ? That is a question that may enlighten the authorities, and induce them to regard the subject in a very diffe rent point of view. The annoyance to English travellers may be, and is, a matter of profound indi fference to those who profess themselves our very affectionate friends and allies ; but when their own pockets are touched, then, indeed, c'est "In autre these, and it will be thought that the police perquisites and power of tormenting innocent travellers are purchased at too high a price. Magistrates and bankers are already tormented enough on the subject, and they may incur serious responsibility. It would be well if they unanimously repudiated the enormous addition to their gratuitous labours. An unanimous resolu tion i to refuse certificates as recommendati ons , panieci n ca ses au ofe e q ual le utmost emergency, accom rkra part of inur e Br d a et t e o rna sp i e n n a d tio th n ei o r ti h( t )li he x\-.lleure sec days at home, ~v • 4. speedily remedies.produce ad equate If any proof was wantin g ,f the total ineffi cient of the quasi p rotectioa, it cieney in the fact that ORSINI, when departing w.i , ort heavy pirttoo of the China of death, went under cover of an olti That very d ocume nt The Colomtio, W, ji tide blindness' ...f. OB expe...e to given to a British. seudbtjhecete.xtraordinary might have occasion end at the week. She 1:::e at Southampton about .overeign, IrotinnOlg6t:rc): elver natree of the police ; but for it, more stringent precau - and 6,n0 About 27,000/. in Australia n and other , A to the Bank yesterday. 11.•-• was t .ktu tions would have been taken, and the homicides i The advices from New York ye sterday describe in the Rue Lepelletier might h ave d an imation in the stock market, under theB been averted. fiance of an I ncreasing abundance of money and f ' The recent regulations, useless as the y are, can rained ree dom only be regarded as a mode of annoying the f r om any un certainties in foreign politics such as at people of England, and putting on the screw Yu present in Europe excite Cautign' An unfortunate girl, EMMA GROOM, is now languishing under sentence of death at Bury St. Edmunds. She had, in an evil hour, yielded to some scoundrel, and the result was a child, " fatherless "is the eye of the law. The poor mother, however, appeared devotedly attached to her boy, and applied a large portion—two shil lingi per week—of her scanty earnings to his support. It was described as a remarkably fine child, that " attracted love on all sides ;" was petted by EALLA. GROOM'S mistress, who sent a bowl of milk daily from her farm for his use ; while Mrs. LAY, who had care of him, conceived so warm an affection for her nurseling, that she was induced to continue the arrangement to her own loss and inconvenience rather than part with ''`There was no concealment of the circumstances. The error of the unhappy young woman was notorious : she had been betrayed, and was enduring the penalty. She had even stipulated on entering service, that she should be allowed to visit it every Sunday, and had regularly devoted all her leisure hours to it, manifesting the utmost fondness and maternal love for the baby boy. There was, therefore, no urgent motive for its destruction. Her character did not depend on its removal, nor was it for a moment alleged that she was " keeping company" with or courting any person who might be deterred by the respon sibility. Under such circumstances, every pre sumption was in favour of the prisoner, and th© in culpatory evidence should have been of the clearest and most convincing character to warrant a con viction. But what were the facts 7 She took the child from its nurse avowedly with the intention of visiting her family, who were well aware of its existence, and declaring that she would bring it back on the following Monday. It was therefore manifest that she would have to render a strin gent account to the nurse, who was so much attached to it, as well as to her mistress and many others, of the cause of its disappearance. At eight o'clock in the evening she left the station, taking the child with her, without the slightest attempt at concealment. When she arrived at her mother's house at ten o'clock the child was gone, and she appeared "faint and sadly." She said nothing about him, but he was found in a pond which his mother must have passed on her way from the railway station. These were suspicious circumstances, and fully warranted her apprehension, and, if the child had been drowned, her conviction. But the very first link in the chain of evidence was defective. Two medical gentlemen had exa mined the body, but one alone was produced on the trial—a matter that should have causel serious doubts in the mind of the jury, for it isthe bounden duty of the prosecution not to spare any expense in producing every witness that could throw any light on the subject, and the absence of such a person leads to the reasonable presump tion that his presence would not seriously affect the prisoner, even if it were not favourable. The other medical witness admitted that, although he adhered to the opinion that death was caused by immersion in the water, "it was diffi cult to speak positively, and it might be that the child having been accidentally su jocated or smothered had afterwards been thrown into the water." This was the defence set up--and by no means an im probable one ; but yet the jury convicted, and the judge sentenced the wretched girl, who heard the fearful sentence pronounced with heart-rending cries and sobs. We cannot believe that the learned and humane Chief Justice will per mit that sentence to be carried into execution, when the very first requisite was wanting, and it was not established, that the unfortunate child wbaiti:ewrhaduom„he murdered, or that its still more unfortunate many hcriminal fondly intention cherished against up t o the te very ia u t 11,,,„ of lna existence. TV I E : :.:jj:,,, LONDON, WEDNESDAY. EVEN I NG, ' I INIARCII-7.: 24, 1858 order to induce them to refuse the right o! llC tuary to political refug ees —a favour of 'Pr) itch the French EMPEROR s hared largely himself it the EAST INDIA HOUSE. MEETING THIS DAY. The quarterly general court of proprietors of East India Stock was held this day at the India House, Leadenhall , street. R. D. Mangles, Egg., occupied the chair. THANKS TO SIB J. MELVILL. Mr. HELPS, in a highly eulogistic speech, moved a vote cf thanks to the late Secretary cf the Company, Sir J. Melvin, who had occupied that situation with honour for upwards of half a century. Mr. LEWIN had very great pleasure in seconding the motion. The vote was agreed to unanimously. THE EAST INDIA. COMPANY BILL. Captain SHEA asked the Chairman whether he could give the proprietors any information relative to the bill about to be brought into Parliament for placing India ly under the government of the Crowe ? The CHAIRMAN replied in the negative. THE ALLEGED MUTILATIONS. An Hon. PROPRIETOR drew the attention of the divectors to the report which had appeared in the public pa pera with respect to several cases of mutilation having taken place in India, and asked the directors whether they had received any information on the stibji •. ? The CHAIRMAN said the subject had not escaped attent ion, but, on the contrary, a very searching in quiry had been instituted, the result of which was that in all the instances, with one exception, nothing of the sort had, it was believed, taken place. With respect to the exceptional case, a most rigid investigation would be instituted. (Hear, hear.) &TEST NEWS. INDIA. The following telegram was received at the India House this morning, a 6 one o'clock. It will be observed that it is dated at Calcutta prior to the last received from Bombay. The intelligence is not, therefore, fresh, but it contains a few parti culars which have not hitherto been published. It was probably sent from Calcutta by the wrecked steamer Ava (BY SUBMARINE AND BRITISH TELEGRAPH.) From H. Beadon, Esq., Secretary to the Govern ment of India, to the Hon. the Secret Committee. CALCUTTA, FEB. 22. The Governor-General assumed the government of the North-Western Provinces on the 9th inst., and Mr. Grant has returned to the Presidency and resumed his seat in Council. The Commander-in-Chief is still at Cawnpore with his force, consisting of 15 regiments European Infantry, three regiments Native Infantry, three regiments European Cavalry, three regiments and detachments of two other regiments of Native Cavalry, with 80 heavy guns and mortars, and 63 field-pieces, has crossed the river, and is in pro gress to Lucknow. It is expected that the attack will commonce about the 27th inst., when Maharajah Jung Baha door's and General Franks' forces, consisting of 12,000 men, will also have arrived. General Franks expected to attack the rebels at Chantlo., on +ha 9(11-h, and .frt ha Ah. Snito.npnro ( , 11 the 22d. The Maharajah was to cross the Gogra at Phool pore on the 18th. The greatest cordiality exists between Jung Ba hadoor and the officer with his camp. The road from Mirzapore to Bombay, by Job bulpore and Saghore, and the road from Agra to Bombay, via Indore, are opened. Brigadier Walpole commands a force for the de fence of the Doab from Futtyghur downwards. The rebels are strong and active on the Oude side pore. of the Ganges from o pp os it e Vuttyghur to Cawn- A regular chain o f commun i ca ti on i s kept up be tween The Bareilly and Lucknow. rebels the Etawah district have been de feated by police and zemindaree levies with the t h loss of 125 men and all their guns. On the 10th instant, Colonel 111‘Ca.usland, com manding the Ghoorkas Regiment at Nynee-Tall, defeated the rebels, about 4,000 strong, at Buheree, in the Bareilly district, with a loss of 250 men and four guns. Lieutenant Osborne has taken the forts of Run warsa and Tyer ag oogurh, capturing 1 7 guns. The forts have been di smant l e d . All well in the Punjaiab, Saugor, Hyderabad, and Southern India. The fort of Rotas has been occupied by Colonel On Cammor (?) the mutinous companies of the 34th Native Infantry have been almost entirely annihilated. Some progress has been made in suppressing the insurrection in J umbulpore. Her Majesty's 6th Regiment has arrived from the Cape, and will garrison Fort William. Her Majesty's 64th Regiment marches to Benares. Commodore Watson, with the Chesapeake, is still at Calcutta. Tho Pylades is also here, and the Shannon and the Pearl, whose „ 14 .7 • Bri vuue and ac ,, ,,.1,- nnrA he Pelorus and the gunboats of the squadron are at Rangoon. Captain Seymour, with a party of 300 seamen and marines, have gone up the Irrawaddy to the Meaday frontier. V. MONTANARO. Malta, March 23. The following telegram, from Acting-Consul- General Green to the Earl of Malmesbury, was received at the Foreign-office on the 23d of March, at 10.30 p.m. ALEXANDRIA, MARCH, 19, 1858. The steamer Nubia arrived at Suez, from Cal cutta, on the 17th instant at 10.30 p.m. She brings no intelligence from India more recent than received. from _Bombay by last mail. Her Alljesty'sships Shannon, Chesapeake, Pearl, and Pylades, at Calcutta. Yeh, a prisoner on board the Inflexible, was at Hong Kong on the 15th February, on his way to Calcutta. The blockade of Canton was rased on the 10th. The Russians and Americans have joined the Eng lish and French in their demand on the Chinese government. The letters of the four Plenipoten tiaries have gone up to Shanghai, and by the middle of March it will be known what line China takes. This telegram arrived at Malta from Alexandria by the contract steam packet Euxine, at 7.35 p.m. on the 23d March. LYONS, Admiral MALTA, MARCH 23, HALF -PAST 8, NIGHT. The Euxiee arrived an hour ago from Alexan dria, bringing the Calcutta and China mails, and leaves to-night for Marseilles, whence the Vectis arrived with the outward mails on the night of the 21st, and left for Alexandria early next morning. The Malabar arrived from Southampton and left for Alexandria on the,2lst. The Australian mails, per Wye, arrived on the 20th from Marseilles, and on the 21st, per Tamar, from Southampton, which carried same on to Alex andria on the same morning. The Caradoc, with the Siamese Ambassadors, left for Alexandria on the 20th. It is reported that the squadron under Lord Lyons will leave for a cruise on the 10th of April. The Euxine h as b rought the following, wL i c h ought to have r eac h ed via Corfu th i s morn i ng, t h e Au-trian steamer having arrived there at midnight yesterday : " ALEXANDRIA, MARCH 19. "Calcutta and China wails leave to-day with intelligence from Calcutta, February 23 ; Madras, Fvbruary 28 ; Ceylon, March ; Hong Kong, February 15 ; C anton, February 15. " Canton w as quiet. "America and Russia bad joined the alliance, and a course of common action has been agreed upon. " Tito four representatives were about to pro ceed to a rendezvous at Shanghai. " Trade had reopened at Canton, and the site of the new factories had been marked out. " The Chinese authorities receive the duties. " The 70th Sepoy Regiment had arrived, and was quartered within the walls of Canton. " No other reinforcements had arrived. " The army had crossed the Ganges at Cawnpore to besiege Lucknow on the 11th. " GAnnonade expected to open on the 22d of February. " Sir Colin Campbell had 160 first-class guns. " col, M`Cau•land, with 1,000 men, defeated Rohilcund mutineers, 4,000 strong, near Morada bad, on the 10th of February. The enemy fled across the river. Ten Europeans were killed. " General Inglis defeated the Gwalior muti neers near Calpee on the 4th of February. " Jung Bahacloor, waiting for boats, had not crossed the Gogra on the 19th of February. " Hope Grant's column in Oude had cleared the left bank of the Ganges and destroyed the strong hold of the enemy, who fled northward. " The Agra convoy of women ate close to our camp—all well. " Fresh attack on the Alumbagh on the 21st, supported by Outram." The Paris Correspondent of the Morning Post (second edition) says:— 15th. " A report was circulated to-day in Paris, and particularly at the Bourse. that the French navy was showing an amount of activity which created some anxiety. I believe there is no reason for alarm. It certainly is true that, an additional sum of money having been voted for turning more sailing vessels into screw steamers, one or two of the ports are looking animated. It is the season too when relief squadrons are preparing to put to sea, and when under any circumstances ships are manned. In conjunction with this report a telegraphic despatch (says the Presse) has been transmitted to the maritime ar rondissements and sub-arrondissements, ordering a levy of men from 20 to 40 years of age, who have not served four years. But there is nothing extraordinary, I learn, in these orders, and cer tainly nothing that can be construed into " war like preparations." THE WRECK OF THE AVA. (BY ONE OF THE PASSENGERS.) The steamer Ava left Calcutta for Suez on the morning of the 10th of February. On board of her were Lady Inglis, the wife of the General late commanding at Lucknow, and her three children ; General Michell, bound for Bombay ; Colonel Greathed, the hero of the Delhi flying column ; Captain James, the saviour of the Lucknow gar rison ; and many other ladies and gentlemen lately besieged there ; altogether the passengers num bered upwards of 60. After the Ava left Calcutta it transpired that she was engaged on the part of Government to take up treasure at Madras and convey it to Trincomalee, thus making a deviation from her course. She arrived at Madras at 4 p.m. of the 14th January, took in some more pas,en gers—chiefly ladies and children—and the treasure, and left for Trincomalee at the same hour on the At 10 a.m. on the 16th the ship was running about 11 knots and a half in the hour, and the captain calculated that he was about 79 miles from his destination. At about 4 p.m. the rocky coast of Ceylon was discerned ou the starboard bow. Without changing her course the vessel gradually approached nearer, as the coast bulged out consi derably at this point. A little after 5 o'clock the captain imagined he must be nearing the port, and ' accordingly altered the course a point towards the shore. A light was there visit e', and it appeared as if there were a settlement of some kind on the coast. Half an hour had not elapsed after this had been done before a large rock was visible, immediately in the course of the ship. The ladies at this time were sitting on deck, perfectly unconscious of dan ger ; the gentlemen walking up and down, or smoking on the forecastle. They were suddenly roused from their occupations by cries, immediately following one another, of " Hard starboard," " Stop her." The words were scarcely out of the Captain's mouth before the ship struck hard and fast on a rock. The passengers were all aware that something serious had happened—they did not know what ; they, however, acted, for the most part, in the most exemplary manner under the c.rcumstances—ethey remained perfectly quiet. One or two gentlemen, who happened to be forward at the time, noticed the water rushing in furiously in that part of the vessel, and at the same time the crew were observed quietly lowering the boats. All this was ominous enough, and it was, almost at the same time, rendered more so by the Captain quietly passing an order for all the ladies to con gregate on the deck. These arrangements were completed without the slightest disorder or confu sion, and the six boats belonging to the steamer were lowered without a single accident. Into these, the ladies first, the gentlemen afterwards, many of them scarcely conscious of their danger, were hurried, and in fifteen minutes from the time the ship struck, all the passengers had been safely placed in the boats. The orders issued to the several boats' commanders were to keep near the ship all night. Fortunately, the night was not dark, the breeze was moderate, and there was no sea on. Between the ship which they had just left and the shore was, about a mile of water, studded with breakers, and it was absolutely ne cessary to obey the captain's orders most strictly, and to keep near the ship. Our situation can be imagined. Upwards of 70 passengers (some having been taken in at Madras), besides stewards, ship's officers, Chinamen, and children, were crowded into six boats at 7 o'clock in the evening to cruise in a space about one hundred yards square for nearly 11 hours ; to be careful to approach neither too near to the ship on one side, nor to the breakers on the other. The sea was sufficiently rough to cause the most uup!easant sensations amongst many the passengers, and sea-sickness raged in all its horrors. All this time signals were being made from the ship ; guns were fired, rockets discharged, and blue-lights burned, all without the slightest effect ; for, although a light was visible ou the nearest coast, it proceeded only from fishermen, and these made not the slightest effort to come to our assistance. The Captain (Kirton), assisted by some of his officers and the Lascars, remained on board ; their presence there was attested about 11. p.m. by the fall with a tre mendous crash, of the fore and main masts with out, however, injuring any one. All this time the fore part of the vessel appeared sinking, whilst the stern was high above the water. This was visible to the passengers from the boats, as they sat waiting for the dawn which was to disclose to them more fully their own position. At last the day broke, and the wind gradually increasing made the waves rise higher. The prospect was by no means cheering. Between the boats and the coast were breakers in abundance— many visible, others just showing their heads above the horizon. Trincomalee el f was about twelve wain. esuive,o, Lnau tale boats with ladies in them should make for Trinco malee, making a large offileg to avoid the rocks, whilst the others should attempt the coast. This course was adopted ; three boats with ladies and their husbands put out to sea. One of these, the cutter, arrived at Trincomalee about noon, and gave the first intelligence of the disaster; the other two, being slower sailers, heavy boats, and with a tired crew, were picked up by a native cutter bound for Trincomalee, where they arrived about 3 p.m. The other boats managed, after one or two at tempts, to reach the land. The residents sent on conueyances to meet them on the first intimation of the disaster, and all arrived safely before the evening. It would be impossible to convey an adequate sense of the kindness and hospitality of the resi dents of Trincomalee, and of the measures taken by them to make the disaster light to the sufferers. It is a little place with from 20 to 30 European residents. On these were suddenly thrown the task of entertaining some 70 unfortunates, possessing only the clothes on their backs. And yet they did it —in such a manner, too, as to impart a reai pleasure to those who availed themselves of a hospitality evidently so genuine. Mr. Monis, the Government Agent, Col. Weir and the officers of the 50th, and Mr. Cooper, took the lead in this, as well as in those other measures necessary for affording shelter to the officers compelled to remain near the ship, and protection t• the baggage which might be washed on shore. Everything that could be thought of was done, and in the welcome which they received the passengers forgot alike their misfor tunes and their losses. These losses were of no ordinary nature. Many of the passengers belonged to the Luckuow garri son. They had arrived in Calcutta unpossessed of anything in the world. They had been fitted out by the Relief Fund in Calcutta, and the resource thus obtained was gone. But there was perhaps even a greater loss. Many of them have kept journals of the siege : most of these bad gone the way of the rest of the baggage ; only one, so far as I have heard, was discovered. A few boxes were subsequently washed on shore, but their contents were entirely spoiled by the salt water, and for the week that the passengers remained at Trincomalee they were dependent for a change of linen entirely on their kind hosts. The account of the accident was despatchel with tLe utmost promptitude by the Government Agent, Mr. Morris, to Galle. It fortunately happened that the Granada had arrived at that port two days pre viously, en route for the Lie of France. The nee s reached her at 5 p.m. on the evening of the 19th. She was then partially laden „with coffee. How ever, at 7 p.m. her cargo was unladen, and she was steaming for Trincomalee. She arrived there on the morning of the 21st; left the same evening, and then started on her return to Galle. Gallo was reached on the morning of the 23d. The shipwrecked passengers were there able to procure clothes of some sort, and the ladies again expe rienced the kindness which seems to have taken root and to be indigenous in the island, having shown itself not only at Trincomalee and Galle, but at Colombo also, by the despatch thence of necessaries for ladies' use. These acts can never be forgotten by Uwe on whose behalf, strangers as they were, they were perpetrated. The Ava we visited on the 21st ; she was then just below water her back had broken on the evening of the 1 7th, and since then she had gradu ally sunk down. Whatever might have been the conduct of the Captain in running the ship on the rocks, it must be admitted that subsequently to the accident no man could have exerted himself with greater energy or daring. The Captain and the Admiralty Agent remained on board to the very last moment ; the latter in the hope, perhaps, of aviug his mails, but they were submerged almost immediately after the first strike. Conspicucus also was the conduct of leut. James, of Lucks ow renown, who was ( n board when the vessel need° her firs tremendous crack in the centre ; and for a' minute or two he was actually alone on board—the others having pushed off without him. By Capt. Haswell, R.N., and by the various officers in charge of the boats, the greatest coolness and self-po-ses skill were shown. It is to the display of these qualities, indeed, that it was owing that not a single life was lost, although nearly half the passen gers consisted of woven and children. It is unfortunately necessary to add one testi mony of au opposite nature. The vessel had no sooner struck than the Lascars and others of the native crew rushed down to the cabins and com menced rifling them. On the following morning, when some gentlemen returned to the ship, they found the boxes iu the still-accessible cabins broken open and their contents scat'ered. Every valuable had been abstracted. These had been necessarily left on board, the boats having been sufficiently olden time. .-,_-_- Measures, not men—is no longer the cr yof a minority ;it is now-a-days the actuating senti ment of a very considerable majority both . 1‘ ithin and without the walls of Parliament. Nc► a quo sed quomodo. We have come all of us to re ,coonise at last the reasonableness of the old i mpat tial principle. It is no longer a matter of corm i deration to us who gives it, but what it is we get—how much of reform, how large a 1 modicum of amelioration, how considerable a share of improvement. There is obvi ously no dereliction of duty whatever in this subordination of men to measures. It is only the more rational development of the old obsolete party spirit. Tories herded after Mr. PITT — Whigs herded after Mr. Fox—because of the views with which each was identified, because of the particular notions he advocated, because of the peculiar policy of which he was the representa tive. It is the same in a wider sense with the millions of the present generation. The only dif ference being that the lines of demarcation be tween party and party have long since been broken down—Whigs turning into Libe rals, Tories merging into Conservatives, Conservatives into Conservative•Libecals, Libe rals into Liberal-Conservatives. So that at length in the general confusion of parties we are really and truly, everyone of us—and this not secretly, but avowedly—advocates of rational and progressive reforms of every description, and in every department. It is idle to talk any longer of retrogrades—retrogression being, happily, by this time, simply impossible. The advance move ment has received such a momentum of late years, that it can no longer be repelled, or even for any length of time retarded. We are all speeding onwards together with a force that, humanly speaking, is irresistible. Our political chiefs know this, they feel this, and they one and all of them act accordingly. Here is the hope of the community. The leaders of Party (such as it is now-a-days) are perfectly well aware that it is idle to dream of impeding the course of modern civilisation. Where, we should like to know, either in Lords or Commons, is there anywhere an avowed anti- Reformer ? We might as well go in search of a dodo or an unicorn. The race is simply undis coverable. It is as absolutely extinct as that of the pterodactyl, or as that of the megatherium. The sole diversity left among the politicians of to-day, is as to the amount of proposed. reforms, as to the extent of the required changes, as to the scope of the projected improvements. The abstract necessity is of itself universally admitted. There fore it is that almost every one has long since come to look not to men but to measures. THE RESTITUTION OF OUDE. Mr. JONES then rose to move the resolution of which he had given notice, viz.:—"That it is our duty to r estore the kingdom of Oude to the King, or some re presentative of his family." The hon. proprietor was proceeding with his speech, when Major G. LEWIS moved that the court be counted. The CHAIRMAN then directed all proprietors holding less than 1,0001. stock to withdraw. The members present were then counted, and there being only 16—not a sufficient number to legally con stitute a court—the proceedings were brought to a con clusion. COURT CIRCULAR. Her Majesty the Queen went yesterday to the Camp at Aldershot. Her Majesty and his Royal Highness the Prince Consort left Buckingham Palace at 10 minutes past 10 o'clock, attended by Lady Churchill, the Hon. Beatrice Byng, Lord Colville, Captain the Hon. D. de Ros, and the Master of the Household. A detachment of the 11th Hussars formed the escort to the private station of the South-Western Railway at Vauxhall, where a special train was in readiness for the conveyance of Her Majesty. The Queen and Prince went over the new barracks, and subsequently her Majesty reviewed the division at Aldershot, under the command of Lieutenant-General K.nollys. The Queen and Prince returned to Buckingham Palace at 20 minutes before 6 o'clock. . Her Majesty, accompanied by the Princess Alice, honoured the performance at the Haymarket Theatre with her presence in the evening. The Queen was at tended by the Countess of Caledon, the Hon. Beatrice Byng. Lord Raglan, and Lord Colville. The Prince Consort, attended by Lord Bagot, Colonel Francis Seymour, C. 8., and Captain the Hon. D. de Roe, honoured with his presence the performance of Bach's music at St. Martin's-hall. It is positively stated in Parrs that M. Alexandre Dumas, jun., is about to marry a Russian princess. BAPTIIIA OF THE EARL OF WlLTSHlRE.—Yesterday afternoon the baptism of the Earl of Wilt-hire, son of the Marquis and Marchioness of Winchester, was per formed at Sc. James's Church, Piccadilly, by the Very Rev. the Dean of Windsor, in the presence of a most brilliant circle of the nobility. At the conclusion of the ceremony a grand d4jeuner was given by his lordship to a distinguished circle. Nnws of the arrival of the Australian mail steamer at Suez is expected to reach London at the end of the month. The dates by this vessel will probably extend to the 11th Feb. from Sydney, and to the 13th Elm, from Melbourne. She is expected to bring a large amount of gold, and news of considerable shipments by sailing vessels. _ _ . MANCHESTER TRADE REPORT.—Manchester, March 23.—There were iadications of an improvement in this market in the earlier part of the day, but the telegraphic report from Liverpool, of " a quieter market again," had a depressing influence, and destroyed the confidence of buyers. Little business has been done to-day. Spinners and manufacturers generally maintain their quotations of last week. MADAME TUSSAUD'S EXHIBITION. —Great preparations are in progress here f ,r the approaching Easter holidays. Among the figures likely to prove interesting we un derstand are those of Orsini and Pierri. The musical department will also undergo considerable improvement and addition to exaba”e the general effect, anci_twnder Mn. ALLSOP TSB stated that Mr. Allsop has for several days been concealed in this city, somewhere in Anthony-street. Both English and French detectives are now in pursuit of him, and it is not at all improbable that he may be arrested within a day or two. Though the contemplated assassination, of which he is alleged to be one of the conspirator-, was not successful, he will be returnable under the extradition treaty, if in dicted for the murder of the innocent persons who were killed by the explosions in the Rue Lepelletier.—New York Herald, March 8. THE WESTvEND OF LONDON RAILWAY.—This railway is now complete, and was yesterday examined by the Government inspector. It is hoped that it may be open for public traffic on Monday next. The inhabitants of Belgravia, Westminster, Kensington, and the adjacent localities will thereby be enabled, from the " Riverside Terminus," at the foot of Chelsea new Suspension bridge, to reach Brighton in one hour and a quarter, and Dover and Portsmouth in two hours and a half. The railway was laid out by Messrs. Bidder and Fulton, the engineers, in 1853, and the works have been carried out under their direction by Messrs. Peto, Brassey, and Betts. The line will also give increased facility of access to the Crystal Palace, and the localities of Balham • hill, Streatham, Norwood, and Sydenham, through which it passes. DEATH FROM A BLOW ON THE KNEE.—The following case was reported to the Liverpool Borough Coroner yesterday (Tuesday) :—On Saturday week James Buero wee, a boy 16 years of age, the son of a professor of music at Liverpool, while staying at a farmhouse et Ford was engaged in sharpening a scythe, when the hone he was using slipped and struck him on the knee cap. The knee immediately began to swell, and the pain became so intense that the boy was taken home to Liverpool. He was attended by several doctors con nected with the Rose-hill Dispensary, but, in spite of their efforts, he died yesterday morning. FIRE AND Loss OF LIFE AT CAMDEN -TOWN.—A little after two o'clock yesterday afternoon a fire broke out at the house of Mr. Bedford, 37, Broadway-terrac e' Camden-town. in The fire was fi r st o b serve d i n one o f t h e npper rooms, whiph a child was sleeping, and on the servant and some neighbours going up, the flames hal become so powerful that they were unable to rescue the child. It was more than half an hour before the St. Pancras engine arrived, and it was of very little service when it did come. On the arrival of more pice.verful engines the fire was quickly subdaed, but it had by this time completely gutted the house. The origin o f t h e fire is not known. No fire had been lighted for some days in the room in which it appeared to commence. BURGLARY AND ATTEMPTED MURDER AT APOTHE CARIES'-HALL. —Yesterday morning the watchman at Apothecaries'-hall, named Edwin Thrift, aged 29 years, was robbed and nearly murdered while on duty. The unfortunate sufferer, Edwin Thrift, was ou duty at Apothecaries'-hall, when some burglars broke in, and be endeavoured to raise an alarm, but they knocked him down, and swore they would murder him. He still, however, struggled with his assailante, when they put their has de on his mouth and beat him till he was nearly dead. They then robbed him of his silver watch and chain and what money he had in his possession, and 1-ft him for dead, when they fancied they heard footsters and hastily retreated. He was taken to St. Bartho'o mew's Hospital, where every assistance was rendered to the unfortunate sufferer. The burglars in the course of a short time will be in the hands of justice. THE LATE MURDER AT PORTSMOUTH —The inquest on the late Mr. Halle, otherwise Howard, whose assassi nation we have before reported, was resumed, after a week's interval, by the borough cononer on Monday evening at the Dolphin Inn, whence it was adjourned to the Sessions-house owing to the great influx of lis tenere. The only witness examined was the landlady of the house where the deceased lived, Mrs Vicks, whose testimony occupied upwards of three hours. IsTething, however, appeared in it to fix the crime upon any known person, and yesterday her son . was submitted to a simi lar examinaticn. He was g ivin g his testimony when this report left. The inquiry seems likely to be a pro tracted one. THE ISLINGTON TRAGEDY. —LATEST PARTICULARS. Contrary to general expectation at a late hour last even ing Mrs. Osborne still lived, bu', to use the language of Dr. Richardson, her life "hung upon a thread." D. Richardson throughout the whole of yesterday was cor.- eta-10y in attendance, and did all that his great skill c'A.ll.l suggest to alleviate the suff , rings of the unfortunate woman. Her coniition yesterday was much the same that of the previous day. She was occasionary sensible, but only for a very short period, almost immediately relapsing into her unconscious state. About two o'clock in the afternoon the lodger, said to he her paramour, went into the room, and, approaching the bedside, asked her if she knew him. She replied— " Yes, it's Fred." lie then said —" Do you love me I" She answered, "Yes, I do." The policeman in charge remonstrated with him upon putting such ques tions to a woman in such a precarious state, and ordered him out of the room, as he bad no business there. He s t h o o lm t . tl . y ..:: a tl f ar ie : r ltß i ihe a u.h r t . a is r%dt w islol ithdrew, and the woman almost im mediately afterwards again lost her consciousness. The . wounds on the head have received the greatest attention e the uaugerou.. Those on t n t h' h e ey h a asanroedfsi in are in r irl e n o w se condition patlay has been expressed frightfulthey for . r who, Croons t iitlatt-)tel:laeb4:o,.u4lrcittlever have committed the rash act, he conduct of his wife, FRANCE. TUESDAY. Marshal Pelissier, Duke of Malakoff, is appointed Ambassador to London, in the place of Count Per signy, whose resignation is accepted. The Moniteur publishes an Imperial decree re organising the Council of Admiralty. The official journal reports that his Imperial Highness Prince Jerome Napoleon is now con- valescent. A telegraphic despatch has bean sent to the maritime arrondissements and sub-arrondissements ordering all sailors from twenty to forty years of age, who have not completed their four years of service to join their ships immediately. The opening of the section of the Paris and Lyons railway destined to connect Seyssel with Geneva, is detailed at great length by the Paris papers. The principal speakers were General Dufour, for France, and M. J. Fazy and M. Bartholoney, for Switzerland. The transportation of "suspects" and " expect ants," arrested under the powers of the Public Safety Bill, is beginning. Two transport vessels left Marseilles for Africa last week—one with 39, and the other 14 proscribed individuals on board. In the first batch was a professor named Goude neche, for whom George Sand and the Emperor's old nurse solicited pardon in vain. The following telegraphic despatches have been received here : " HAMBURG, March 22.—Baron Manderstrom, ex-minister of Sweden at the court of France, has teen nominated Minister of Foreign Affairs at Stockholm. Until he arrives, M. Gyldenstolpe, Minister of War, will act ad interim for the baron." " BERNE, March 23.—1 t is announced that in the last audience accorded by the Emperor of the French to M. Kern, his Majesty seemed disposed to examine anew the question relative to passports. The Government has made an objection to the establishment of the new consulates, but has not yet adopted a definitive resolution respecting them." BOURSE, March 23.—The following were the closing quotations : per Cents 9l —, Do. end month 3 per Cent. ..... 69 15 Da. end month 69 80 Bank Shares Credit Mobilier 800 Do. Account 797 50 RAW Orleans Northern New Ditto 795 Lyon and Mediteran S3S Now Ditto 795 Geneva 667'_ Credit Foncier Belgian 4 ...... Piedmontese (5) Roman B9 Austrian Spanish Threes Rome Debt 37 WAYS. Midi \Western 60 2. Strasburg Grand Central k \Sardinian Austrian ITRIA. AUS' A letter from Vienna o. Gazette says : " Two days back, Sir Hamilton Seymour de vered to Count de Bur)l a note from the English Cabinet, in which Lord Malmesbury officially notified to the Austrian Minister of Foreign Affairs its entrance into office, and requested in the mcst cordial manner for himself and his colleagues the continuation of the same fi iendly relations between Austia and England as had existed under the pre vious administration. It is said that this note also states that under existing circumstances a complete accord between England, Austria, and Pru-sia on all questions would be most desirable, and that the new Cabinet was desirous of establishing such an agreement. This news caused great satisfaction to Count de Buol, who on the following day commu nicated the note to the Emperor, who also received it with £reat pleasure." Another letter from Vienna, in the Zeit of Berlin, says :—" The Emperor bas addressed an autographic letter to the Minister of Finance, in which he requests a report to be immediately pre senttd of the new sources of taxation which may exist ; he, at the same time, desires that no fresh taxes may ba levied of a nature to irritate the people, and that the amount on each taxpayer may not be increased in any sensible degree." the 19th in the Cologne OPENING OF ST. JAMES'S BALL. The noble Music-hall which is to be opened to morrow evening for the first time, is to be inaugu rated with a concert in aid of the funds of the Middlesex Hospital. Probably few persons are aware of the necessity which has urged the com mittee of that important charity to resort to this exceptional mode of recruiting their pecuniary resources. The Middlesex Hospital was instituted in 1745, and enlarged in 1848, to meet the pressing wants of the sick poor. Situated in one of the poorest districts, of the metropolis, those who seek relief are the most deserving objects of charity, and their number is constantly increasing. The annual expenditure exceeds 11,0001., whilst the income is now under 7,0001. In consequence of the gradual migration of the richer inhabitants of the neigh bourhood to new parts of the town, the number of annual subscribers has lamentably diminished of late years. To meet this serious deficiency the governors, within the last three years, have sold out large portions of the capital stock, and no longer ago than the 28th of May of last year, they were obliged to effect the sale of a further sum of 4,8061. The hospital contains 310 beds for in-patients; bur, unless the funds can be permanently increased, a third part of this old institution must be shut up. The cancer wards, one of the distinguishing features of the hospital, and containing 33 beds, are always full. It is hoped that the concert of to morrow will not only bring an immediate and temporary acces sion to the funds of the hospital, but that the attention of the kind-hearted, once drawn to the claims of this ancient and beneficent institution, the number of its permanent subscribers may be considerably increased. THII ATLANTIC! CABLE. PLYMOUTH, TUESDAY. The Niagara, steam-frigate (14 days from New .York), an ived here this morning. Her machinery is slighted damaged, having encountered a succes sion of toutherly gales. This vessel is to take part in the laying down of the Atlantic telegraphic cable ; an event which is expected to take place as early in June as the necessary preparations will admit of. Her Majesty's ship Agamemnon is alread3 in her position in the Keyham steam-basin at Devoupoit ; and the coiling of 50 miles of the cable on her upper deck has thus f,r been accom plished. The Niagara will be laid in dock nearly alongside of the abandoned powder magazine at g K r e a y n h t e a d m t , t t h h e e t A t s t e i a o ri f e t h i e , e l n e i g a r g a a p z h i n e having been o y ever s nce last August, when the accident to the cable occurred. The new is, ue of capital a uthorised at the meeting of shareholders on the 18th ult., has been taken up to a considerable extent by theex fisutnindgs h h r. a d v d e e ibse;e been i p id ro A \ v , e ide t d m t d o e understand ri f cl or that the sufficient additional length of 300 miles of cable whic h the directors in their report considered it desirable to take to sea this year. This additional 300 miles will make the total length to be taken out fur this year's opera tions 2,805 miles. It is hoped, however, that if the weather be favourable, a large proportion of the provision fur "slack" will be saved. loaded as it wag, and in the absence of the passen gers the devastation had been committed by the native servants of the Peninsular and Oriental Company. PROSECUTION FOR A LIBEL ON THE EMPEROR OF THE FRENCH. Yesterday afternoon a Polish refugee, named Stanislas Tchorzewski, keeping a bookseller's shop at 39, Rupert-street, Haymarket, was brought be fore Mr. Jardine at the Bow-street Police-court, upon a warrant executed by Inspector Whither, of the detective force, charging him with having, on the Ist of March inst., unlawfully printed andpub lished a certain false, scandalous, malicious, sedi tious, and defamatory libel, concerning his Ma jesty the Emperor of the French, with intent to incite divers persons to assassinate his said Ma- jesty. Mr. Bodkin conducted the prosecution on the part of the Crown, and Mr. Leverson, an attorney, aqended for the defendant. The alleged libel is a small pamphlet in French, bearing the signatures of " Le Comite de la Com mune Revolutionnaire, Felix Pyat, Beason, and A. Tallandier," and to which the attention of the Home Secretary was called in the ,Sun of the Ist inst. Mr. Bodkin said—These proceedings are taken by the direction of her Majesty's Attorney-General against the prisoner at the bar, who has been ap prehended on the charge of publishing and selling the pamphlet which I hold in my hand. It is written in the French language, and like another which has been also the subject of a late prosecu ton, it teaches, enforces, and justifies the crime of assassination. The prisoner, although a foreigner, resides in England, and enjoys the protection of our English laws ; and it is not to be tolerated that a person in such a situation should break and defy those laws with impunity. I shall prove that the publication in question was purchased at the prisoner's house, with five or six other copies, the same having been advertised as on sale at his place of business. I.shall have several passages of the book translated, and when your worship has seen what the character of the publication really is, I doubt not you will feel it your duty to hold the prisoner to bail on the present charge. JonathanWhicher deposed thathe was an inspector of the Loudon detective police. On the Ist of the present month he went to a small book-shop in Rupert-street, called the " Librairie Polonaise." There was a boy there, and the prisoner came in afterwards. Witness asked prisoner if he was the proprietor of the shop, and he replied " Yes." Saw several copies of the work now produced lying about on the counter, and askcd the price of them. The prisoner said the large ones were 3d., and the others 2d. each. Witness then purchased three of each size, and paid him is. 3d. for them. He re quested a memorandum, as they were not for him self, upon which prisoner wrote as follows on a strip of papers—" 39, Rupert-street. Lettre au Parlement et it la Theme ; six copies." The memorandum and pamphlet were both pro duced, and Sergeant Rogers, an officer of the C division of police, translated the passages upon which the prosecution was founded. They were to the following effect : " Has Bonaparte attempted at the Court, as at the Assembly, as at the law, as at the people I forced every resistance andevery right, assassinated citizens and representatives, arrested, exiled, trans. ported, executed the defenders of the Constitution, and compelled the remainder to vote with the bayonet at their ribs ? Is all this a fable, a story, or a dream ? Have we dreamt it, invented it, ima gined it for the requirements of our opinions, or of our passions, as mentioned in the Walewaki note ? Is it a real, recent, patent, public, historical; and judicial fact ?—undeniable by the author himself, who boasts of it—crying aloud and bleeding in the memory of all, demanding vengeance from God and man, deserving chastisement from below as from above—from everybody and every arm, unpunished because triumphant . . . At the ordinary assizes the garter would rise to his neck (serve to hang him). This Emperor is an assassin. Then the question is, if an assassin, who is also an Em peror, may be killed ? A great question we know, ever ridiculous, pregnant with yes' and no' ac cording to place and time, an old question, having all its beard and teeth (arrived at maturity) like the Supreme being—an especially idle question, which arose with the first tyrant, and can only be solved with the last. Constitutional kings are reported inviolable, they having responsible ministers : yet they sometimes pay with their persons ; but are tyrants also inviolable ? There are some of the worst species in the oldest and most odious accep tation of the word—such an one, for example, who would have fallen under the guillotine had he not by the forge of murder risen above it—had he been less criminal, less assassin. Let us suppose that a _Ling of Enbi—a—thi. bus been seen —weary of his council, of his Parliament, of Eis press—of all the rights acquired without contest in our time—took' it into his head on a fine December night also to make a coup d'etat, to outrage all public liberties, to stifle them all in the blood of the people, to be what is c tiled a perfect Emperor. What would the English people do if they could? What they have already done. We will no longer discuss the right of regicide. In the country of Charles I. it is superfluous. . . . . Are not ten thousand muskets and a hundred cannons worth four bombs They are of the same value with him. It is he, always be, who presides at the executions from which Rome never ceases to bleed. It is he, and he alone, the chief and author of i nvas i on and occupa tion, of civil and religious despotism ; the enemy, we say, the confirmed enemy, forewarned by his own act—the pi incipal and mortal enemy—the enemy armed and encamped in the bosom of the country. Has not every citizen the right and the duty to serve his country—to strike the enemy wherever he may be—say ? And yet the Italian patriots did not attack him in London, where he anie as if to insult by his presence all the pro scribed. They respected the neutral and free coun try. They would not stain the hospitable soil with such blood. They made the attempt on Bonaparte in his own country, on his own ground, in his camp, amongst and in spite of his soldiers and his police, as if better to prove to him this mathema tical truth, this word of Gospel spoke by the very Lamb of resignation, ' Who lives by the swordshall perish by the sword.' The Italians, then, are not assassins, they are combatants. They have rendered, tooth for tooth, grenade for grenade. They are pri soners whose throats the savages are to cut. They ate vanquished—they will not be punished. The enemy may kill but cannot judge them. All the poison of Cheix d'Est Ange can never tat nigh them. They may die, but cannot be disgraced. Punish ment for them, disgrace for others. They die for their country. As for us, unfortunately, we have no pretension to the merit of their work. We have not the honour to participate in their enterprise. But the cock would crow thrice if a French voice did not salute them before the judgment-seat. Friends, unknown, but not misunderstood, we salute you ! You shall be avenged. If our means differ, our cause is the same." Mr. Bodkin, observing that the passages just quoted sufficed for the present, now asked that the prisoner might be committed for trial. A full tran slation of the pamphlet would be produced at the trial. Mr. Leverson applied for a remand to Saturday, to enable him to prepare his client's defence. Re should oppose the committal on legal grounds, apart from which he regarded the proceeding as an atrocious encroachment upon the liberty of the press. And why was his client arrested on a warrant ? He suspected and dreaded the facility with which warrants were now granted in these cases, - while every obstacle was raised when they were sought to bring ordinary criminals to justice. Mr. Bodkin—The warrant is . a mere form. It remained in the officer's hands until the prisoner was wanted here, and then he was sent for. Mr. Jardine—Besides, it is notorious that in half the assault cases heard in every police-court in London the defendants are brought up by war rants. It is the common practice. If the client's attorney tells me he is not ready with his defence, that is ground for a remand, and his application shall be granted. It is a case in which I can take Mr. Leverson said he had one of the bail present. A singular looking individual, with long hair over his shoulders, and braided coat (evidently a foreigner), then stepped into the witness-box. Mr. Bodkin—Ai e you the printer of the pamph let which forms the subject of this prosecution ? Witness—Yes I am. Mr. Bodkin—Then I object to this person's bail. Mr. Leverson—Then you will drive me to send for the greatest philosopher of the age, John Stuart Mill. He will be bail, and I will send to the India House for him. His na me will live when Derby's and Palmerston's are forgotten. philosopher of the age ? Mr. Bodkin—Will you oblige me with the pri vate address of the greatest Mr. Leversou did not know it, but he would undertake to fetch Mr. Mill within 24 hours. He (Mr. Levers* looked upon these proceedings with awe—with dread for the liberty of the subject, and Mr. Bodkin w as unable tc understand why men guilty the purity of even jlf: of printin g, publishing, and promulgating doctrines whic h every right-minded Christian must loathe and detest, should be treated in the tender drawing-room style suggested by the prisoner's He did not oppose the remand, altho u g h object of it was apparent enough. theat t r r h n e ey prisoner was then committed in default of bail, and left in the prison van. tl 1 5 Iv( C m 4 of ba ye sir go ev all