The Sun. — London, England, 1858-03-08 00:00:00

TEtt SUN, LONDON lawyer—" For God's sake, don't introduce any new I legislative enactments in this respect until you have I most carefully convinced yourselves that the law is already insufficient for that purpose." No law which increased penal servitude from two to 14 years would affect the purposes of such men as those who had lately attempted the Emperor's life, who would stand fulminating the gunpowder that might blow them to atoms in order to accomplish their purpose. It would be absurd to suppose that it would deter such a man as Orsini from carrying out his design. (Hear.) Lord Cowley came to the rescue of the Minister, but it was too late. His lordship said that if the object was to soothe, it was important to let time exert its usual influence Therefore we were not to deny that England was the workshop of assassination. Now, with regard to the vote he had given on that occasion, he be lieved he had acted in accordance with the opinion of the constituency of Chichester and in accordance with the majority of the people of England. (Cheers.) He believed there was but one cry— ' " Down with the Conspiracy Bill." His lordship next proceeded to express his opinions in favour of Church and State, and so long as the Church and State were united he thought the fabric of the Church ought to be supported by the State. He believed the ballot to be a bag of moonshine, and un-English. He thought the bill lately passed for preventing bribery and corruption at elections might be amended. The next question he must touch upon was reform, but his friends must remember that if the reform they had was not good it was no fault of the members now in office ; it was the fault of the Liberals. Sir Jas. Graham inscribed on his banner peace, economy, and retrenchment, but his peace was war with Russia and China, his economy a vast increase of the national debt, and his reform was laid on the table one day and taken away the next. His lordship proceeded to say lie did not think it reasonable to expect Lord Derby's Ministry to bring forward a reform bill this session. It was no act of their own that they had been called toge ther. That the Times was the great Leviathan of the press for intelligence and ability in every respect no one would deny, and he should be sorry to say one word to impugn the great and ample services rendered to the country by that paler. But the Times in November last stated that a Reform Bill in 1858 was not possible, "simply for this reason (quoting the Times) that no person in the House except the very few with whom such reform happens to be a crotchet or a personal affair will be Mile to attend five consecutive minutei to the subject." On November 18, in criticising the Roebuck Reform Manifesto, the Times observed " that such a con fluence of considerations suggests the postponement of Parliamentary reform, that the difficulty lies not in stating them, but in stating all of them, in doing justice to their number and force, in not omitting some while we mention others." The Times (con tinued his lordship) then proceeded to point out the folly of postponing Indian legislation in prefer ence to Parliamentary reform, and concluded with a passionate appeal to reformers that parliamentary reform had better wait even for the sake of parlia mentary reform itself, so as to enable us to secure an effectual settlement instead of a corrupt bargain. Now he (Lord Lennox) adopted those conclusions. When Lord Derby left office in 1835, what did Mr. Richard Cobden say ? Ho said this : , " I think that the Conservative Government would give them :: better chance of reconstructing an honest party both in this house and in the country. I look back with regret on the ♦ote which I gave on the motion which changed Lord Derby's Government. I regret the result of that motion, for it has cost the country 100,000,000 of treasure, and between 20,000 and 30,000 good lives." (Cheers.) Let them not, then, be frightened at the threat of a change of Ministry. The Government organs abused the Conservatives for adopting the measures of the late Government—not measure, but subjects. India would be treated in a very different way, and they would upheld our national honour iu respect to our countrymen in the dungeons of Naples. (Cheers.) In that amusing imaginary list of Derby horses taken from Pitltch and inserted in the daily papers he should have got the "Man at the Corner" to add to that Sporting Intelligence—Strong list of new favorites in consequence of Lord Palmerston's British Lion having on his trial on the 19th broke down, and been out of training. (Laughter.) He hoped they would all consider and believe that Lord Derby the other day had no other course open to him but to attempt to form a Government and stand by the Queen on the present crisis. Lord Granville had twitted Lord Derby with attempting to form a Government when he could not do so in 1855, but he (Lord Lennox) could tell Lord Granville that the people in 1855 believed the national honour was safe in the hands of Lord Palmerston, but they did not believe so now. He only asked them not to be led away by prejudice. The government certainly was not composed of the great Whig families, but auoh names as Disraeli, Henley, and Pakington were associated with it, and, although they might not be nobly connected, their names were honour ably known. (Cheers.) They ought to give Lord Derby's Government a fair and impartial trial. Fair play was the right of every Englishman, rich or poor. His lordship having thanked the electors for the honour conferred upon him sat clown amid much cheer'. The assemblage then separated. ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE. HOME CIRCUIT.—HRRTFORD, MARCH 6. CROWN COURT. (Before Mr. Justice Williams.) THE STEVENAGE MURDER. J ,h C, openly or otherwise. The thin statement made he might say could be considered to implicate the The trial of the prisoner ~ ererniae Jarpenter, for was that the English Legislature contributed to Government with which he had the honour of being the murder of John Starkins, the policeman, was forward the designs of the assassins. The House connected. He might begin by observing that he resumed this morning at nine o'clock, and the court of Commons cons id er ed th a t these charges had the warmest respect for the French nation, was filled the moment the doors were opened. should have been answered by our Govern - and be believed this country were of the same way Mr. Hawkins and Mr. C. Pollock appeared on ment, and accordingly Lord Palmerston was of thinking. (Applause.) And he could not help the part of the prosecution ; and Sergeant Parry, asked if any reply had been sent to the French saying that to that remarkable man, the Emperor specially retained with Mr. Watkins Williams, for Government i • and the Prime Minister of Eug - of the French, this country was greatly indebted. the prisoner. land replied t o the question put to him that no reply When they remembered his co - operation with us The evidence add uced on behalf of the prosecu ✓ bad been sent to the French Government, and both in the Crimea, and the great struggle before Sebas- tion established nearly the whole of the material • Lord Palmerston and Lord Clarendon said it topol, and the enormous host of men he brought facts detailed in the opening speech of the learned could not be answered. That was considered a side by side with Englishmen to fight for liberty, counsel for the prosecution, but the counsel for the a , strange statement coming from a man who was he was entitled to our great consideration, and prisoner, by an adroit cross-examination, succeeded always believed to hold it to be his first duty to there appeared no other than an absolute necessity in establishing an apparent discrepancy as to the maintain the honour of England unsullied. A to vote for the alliance between France and Eng- time when the prisoner and the unfortunate man resolution was then moved in the House of Com- land. It should be our utmost study to keep on were last seen on the night of the murder. moms, and carried by a majority of 19 , but he be - good terms with France, and all the time England also elicited the fact that the prisoner's nose vas H in e bayed there were not 50 members in the House and France remained faithful to each other there the habit of bleeding, and that shortly before the that night who did not consider the resolution a fair was no danger to the liberty of Europe. (Applause.) murder he had been assisting to ring some pigs, and one that ought to have been passed, and would It was melancholy to think of the fearful crime that they bled a good deal during the operation. In ;, have voted for it but for influence brought to bear that bad been committed against the life of the answer to questio ns th a t were put at the arte suggestion l upon them. The result of the passing of that r eso • Em p eror of the French, the elect of millions, the of the jury, it also appeared that no special instruc lution was that Lord Palmerston retired from, and chosen of France ; but it was a source of console- tions had been given to the deceased to look after & Lord Derby accepted, office. (Applause.) It was tion to find that Providence had watched over him the prisoner particularly on the night of the inur *:: true Lord Derby's government was a Conservative and his young wife, although the misery that at- der, but his directions were to look about the fields • government. (Great applause.) And what was a tempt had created in other respects was more in the u nti i neighbourhoodnine o'clock, ,e l o o f ek, a Nortonnd then gree t n o F r a e r p m o r o t n h t i h m a t_ Conserv a ti ve policy ? Some newspapers cried it up dreadful. We could not avoid lamenting that evening i o e f c e the e evidence n er 0 a ll b e i:la tr r a' as somethi ng opposed to improvement, and said it liberty should have recourse to such dark deeds self at the police-station. The case for the ' prose tscoonf s a l 0 was rather for retrograding ; but it did not mean and taint her name with such acts. It was cution was closed by o a ne p 0 that. (near.) We were progressing in arts, in very natural that an outcry should take place, ord w in i a ll iiy am chad u ac in te t r ; i manufactures, in science S.t . c., and he held that Go- but to the idea which sprang up that the plot was vernments had a right also to progress and go on hatched in England he could give a flat and un- , deposed that on Wednesday evening, at the breaking g improving. The Government had a right to keep qualified denial • and some of the miserable con - lu p of the Court, he was ordered to atten d the pri c: pace with the times, and t o b r i ng i n measures which apirators and a ' ssessists had actually resided in sou-van to the gaol, and he was placed inside. There might be required and found necessary. He would France many days before the diabolical attempt were sep arate com p artments for the p riso ners. Car ask them to look at the names of tho se i n th e now was made on - the Emperor's life, and not only penter was one wh o was p laced in the van, and a government in the House of Commons. There was resided there, but actually had the temerity to ex- man who had been convicted of receiving stolen Lord Stanley, Sir John Pakington, lir. Walpole, pose the very infernal machines that were to be used property and sentenced to ten months' imprison- Mr. Henley, Sir F. Thesiger, now Lord Chelms- for the purpose. Wh ere , th en , h e wou ld as k, was in - en - t was in another. He was in a position where ford, and he would ask, were not these the very the activity of their vaunted police? The late de- the prisoners could not see him, and, just before men who were the supporters and originators of mand of the French Government was an attempt t o the van started, he heard the prisoner say to the . every scheme for improvement in the House of add an English trophy to these won from Belgium, other man—" What have you got ?" and he re e Commons 1 (Applause.) He then noticed the share Switzerland, and Piedmont. Nor could we blame plied—" Ten months." The prisoner then said Belfast had in the new appointments ; the Lord the Emperor Napoleon for that. His was a despotic —" I have not had my trial ;" and the other , 0 Chancellor for Ireland, as Mr. Clarke had government, and, deeming it most conducive to the man asked him what he was in for, and he said in `.. r. said, was Joseph Napier, a Belfast man (applause) ; welfare of the people, was he to blame for trying to reply—" For the murder of Starkins." Nothing c_s and then, if it could not be said that the achieve triumphs in its name ? Were we to wonder more passed until the van arrived at the r Attorney-General, Mr. Whiteside, was entirely if he, who obtained his present eminence and his prison gates ; and when it stopped the P vi t./ a Belfast man, it could at least be said that his throne from the name of his uncle, should gladly saner again addressed the other man and bette r half was— (loud laughter)—and then he had obtain by thepen c onc ess i o ns w hi c h th e Firetconeui said—" D o y o u know whether Shepherd (one of !. r lialself the h onour o f b e i ng th e S o li c itor-General and Emperor never could wring with all his armed witnesses for the prosecution) has said anything ?" ~ for E ng l and. (Cheers.) Mr. Cairns then proceeded legions? No. LouisNapoleonwas not iutrustedwith The man replied " No , " and the prisoner then said 1 ( ' to n otice what might be the measures w hi c h the the maintenance of our honour—he was not the Mi- —" If he has he will do me. the van was then new Gover nmentlegislation The late for India would require their attention. that England had no Minister, for Palmerston was the man said to the prisoner—" Do they know who with the East Ministry ln, had brought in a bill to do away the willing Minister of France. He would now refer done it ?" and the prisoner replied. "1 done it, but tars of State, with ia Compan y , an d a ppoi nt a Secrc- to the vote which had displaced the late Ministry. n obod y knows it." a a n t c o ou ch n o c o il se of eight, which the The Opposition did not, as was well known, oppose The witness, upon being cross-examined by Ser secretary himself w (Laughter.) H e the introduction of that bill. They allowed it to be geant Parry, said that this was the only time he objected to such a measure a ' s this for it would introduced, but it was a remarkable fact that the had ridden in the van, and it was quite accidentally place too much patronage in the hands of one m which no Minister should be allowed,man, very day that bill was introduced CountWalewski's that he had done so on this occasion. He did not He considered it would be well to take (Hear, bear.) d e spat c h was also laid on the table ; and it was the know the name . of the man who had the conversa , . time a n d l earn eery f ac t of Government treating that despatch so tion with the prisoner. the cause of the mutiny and then 7 b r ie to about the matter. He next referred to the b n m an a k b ru il p l t r y lightly that the Opposition thought it was high Sergeant Parry was to proceed with the time that Government could no longer be trusted cross-examination of the witness, when ho fell down law and the banking system as requiring legislation, with the honour of England. (Loud cheers.) The in a fit, and it was found necessary to remove him atntiaokth,en, they y referred to a Reform Bill. He did not Earl of Clarendon declared that Count %Valewski's from the Court. often t,a n. _ should have Parliamentary reform too statement regarding the legislation of En intimation was va o , o 'Lle o - t vrould be in favour of it when the ad- gland was After waiting for some time, an attended upon the wit required it tile country , et in education and wealth any man who understood French, or, having read nets, that he was not likely to be in a condition for government pursued t ceeded to noti ( e .k e P tl l l ',; nae * ) Mr. Cairns then o the translation, represented the despatch as other- some time to undergo futher examination and the latterly in Ireland, : Y4keta i b ot faction had all favou Y 4 l l -e- "' ne wise, was guilty of gross and wilful misrepresenta- Court was adjourned. would oppose any p ar t y lYial ' a Political th Pat , ia votaT o e ;s a t n h d a yor lion of its meaning. Now he (Lord Lennox) At the commencement of the proceedings this gettin g all era• He professed to know " somethine of the French lan- morning the cross-examination of the witness Quint were hateful patronage and support, and would not r. ' ' course had under a Government which would give IN' lct °llly ' he would be b-ilcl to say this, that was proceeded with, but he persisted in declaring to any one party ; but thet Cott been port to of the charges in that despatch that he heard the conversation referred to between of them conid o b us as Englishmen, and not one the prisoner and the other man, but he could give sued in Ireland lately. It was a great mistake substantiated by facts. (Loud no further information respecting that person than any government to think of ruling Ireland after r cheers.) Then ea c.7ceinl publications, there was alwas that o h n e tl w ts a ' s im a public pYroae"cuTPtr e 7 that certai n di„ with regard to the such publications be backstairsinfluen ce a T suppression of f a shion. There should no vg to p p r r i i s s o o l n lm er e w nt h . o had been sentenced to He then referred to the late Lord at the Castle. there weaca: there' Was • by Mr. Straight, the deputy clerk of assize, observed Chancellor's letter to Lord Londonderry, and desig- su cient to brin g Ml' ' evidence that the only prisoner senterced to that punish- If a person was not p ro t g e '":":" to the but if mated it as an insult to the ni .n ag y ist b r e a e c n y goifveenveroyf suffer, be unlit evidenc e ~,i r Y . let lim a not publ!.shers. went was a man named Henry Ringshell for re shade of politics. (A cry hay' . crime home to him he would . 1),,, icient to grin ceivi g n e s tolen propert. de- ished. He "Grouls for Brady" was heartily responded to.) Mr. 1 Lime was for the right of asylum{"re t° l'e g The jury said they pun- tido he e e h e aci xam m i e n e e iv d e . considered it of very great Cairns then declared his policy to be a strong to meditate for one ought . moment onh arid . „ tea- .important© to know whether this man would con u air thestatement - law if it i nfrin g ed that holy and saecre passingx of thon ~_ , termination to maintain the Protestantism of the ' ft ight ed that the law wars rii Sr ea. s '' he ought country, which gave liberty to EnglatitndEsaurcohpeas; any _ row LiA Parr • received no information y said he ought to be ca.led by the was not possessed in any other country on- and he would echo the words of a groat A,..4:: • The great law lords were sates al e . wki • and after thanking the electors for the honour c sufficient, ferred upon him he resumed his seat, loudly applauded. A vote of thanks was then passed to the Aclayor, I and the proceedings terminated. - _ TSB AB-ELECTIONS. BELFAST. TH.E SOLICITO R-GENERAL, BELFAST, Feinar. According to previous notification the election of a representative in Parliament for the borough of Belfast, consequent upon the acceptance of office by Mr. Cairs, her Majesty's Solicitor-General for Eng land, took place to-day in the Court-house, How ard-street, at 10 o'clock. A little before that hour the court was crowded with the most respectable electors of the town, and on the hustings were a large number of the gentlemen of Belfast. Shortly after the opening of the court Mr. Hugh M'Cal mont Cairns, Solicitor-General for England, ac companied by several of his friends, entered the court, and proceeded to the hustings amid the applause of all present. At 10 o'clock Mr. Samuel Gibson Getty, Mayor of Belfast, and returning officer for the borough, opened the proceedings by reading her Majesty's writ, after which he called upon any elector present who had a gentleman to propose to come forward and do so. Mr. J. CLARICE, justice of the peace, then came forward and was received with loud applause. He felt great pleasure iu proposing Mr. Hugh M'Cal mont Cairns, as a fit and proper person to represent . the borough of Belfast in the British Parliament. (Applause.) Mr. J. RUDMAN begged to second the nomina tiot: of Mr. Cairns, and had great pleasure in doing so. The Mayon then asked if any other elector had a candidate to propose, and was answered by loud cries of " No, no l" whereupon ho declared Hugh M'Calmont Cairne duly elected to represent the borough ef Belfast in Parliament, which declaration was received with repeated cheers. Mr. CAIRNS, Solicitor-Genera,l, then came for e ward, and was received with loud applause. He .arose to address them on that occasion under cir • cumstances somewhat novel to him—novel because of the reason which made the proceeding necessary, and novel because of the absence of that opposition which he had formerly experienced. The scene on the present occasion was less exciting than at pre vious elections, but it was much more agreeable. i (Laughter.) His mind travelled back for a period ef six years, when he had the honour of being first returned for Belfast, and six years was no small slice out of the life of a public man. During that time ho might have taken views on many questions quite different from those of many of his constituents, yet he never heard an unkind word from one of them, or an unkind ex pression from a political opponent. (Hear, heata) He had, on the contrary, experienced kindness from them even beyond what that service deserved. He -then passed on to notice the circumstances which had brought about that election, the particulars of which, 1,0 doubt, they were all aware of through the public journals. They were aware generally of the circumstances which led to a change of Ministry; but he would briefly refer to them. (Hear, hear.) There was nothing more to be desired than that friendly relations should exist between England and France. When they considered the close proximity of the two countries to each other, they would see the importance of their being on friendly terms witn each other. (Hear.) An attack was recently made on the life of the Emperor of the French, and of course the French people felt indignant at it. It was found that the assassins had lived some time in England, and:they were ready to condemn England for giving an asylum to such men, although no thing was known in this country of their intentions. - He did not attach much weight to some expressions which emanated from French colonels ; and, indeed, these kingdoms should be the last to object to this, • for we claimed liberty of speech and liberty of the e press for ourselves. (Hear, hear.) But a demand was made on the part of the French Government that the law of this country with regard to refugees should be changed, and it was impossible to mistake what the French Government wanted— they required a limit to be put to the security of refugees in these kingdoms ; but if there was one thing anEnglishman held more firmly than another ,:it was our right to give security to political re fugees. But the law relating to conspiracy to murder required a change to be made in it, and the House of Commons, by a large majority, voted for the bringing in of a bill on the question. But if the matter had rested there, there would have a.. been no change of Government, he believed ; but it did not. A letter from the French Government - was laid on the table of the House of Commons. e- When he called it a letter they should remember that a letter from one government to another was a document which should be carefully examined, and replied to if necessary ; and it should be seen that it contained nothing offensive. Well, no doubt they had all seen the letter to which he alluded, as it was published in the newspapers ; therefore, he was not going to go over it all ; but he would point out three statements made in it. The first thing alleged was that the Government of England harboured assassins. Now, it was well known that no country hated assassination more than this (applause); and if assassins resided here it was without the knowledge of the Government. An other statement made was that in England assas sination was preached openly. That was also in correct. (Hear, hear.) England abhorred assas sination, and did not preach it—(applause)—either .d. CHICHESTER. A LORD OF THE TREASURY. Lord Henry Gordon Lennox having accepted the appointment of one of the Lords of the Treasury under the Administration of Lord Derby, his re election for the borough of Chichester took place on Saturday without opposition. His lordship arrived at the county-hall at 12 o'clock, accom panied by his proposer and 'seconder, Dr. Wear rogher and Mr. William Gruggen, both of whom had served the office of mayor of the borough. The Mayor, Mr. G. Henty, as the returning officer, presided, and as there was not the semblance of an opposition the attendance of voters was limited, and the proceedings would have possessed very little interest but for a very lengthened speech of a Mr. Pank, a voter of the borough, an advocate of manhood suffrage, paid members of Parliament, the ballot, separation of Church and State, and all those questions which are diametrically opposed to Con servative principles, to which his lordship adheres. The usual preliminaries having been disposed of, the Mayor addressed the limited assemblage in the usual manner, requesting a fair hearing for each 1 speaker. Dr. M'CARROGHER then nominated in a few brief remarks Lord Henry Gordon Lennox as a fit and proper person to fill up the vacancy occasioned by the change of Government, and the nomination having been seconded by Mr. Gruggen, The MAYoR inquired if any one had any other candidate to propose ; but there was no response to his inquiry. Mr. PINK then made a long speech, congratu lating the constituency of Chichester on the liberal tone of his lordship's address, and expressing a hope that he would act up to the liberal principles which he had propounded in that address, at the same time having his misgivings that he would act up to his professions; and, in order to test his lordship's sincerity, he put a number of questions to him rela tive to his views on the popular topics advocated by ultra-Reformers, at the same time expressing his belief that he should have candid answers. Lord HENRY LENNOX commenced his speech by expressing his regret that he had been unable, through indisposition, to pay his respects in person to his constituents. It was only in the month of March last that he had sought at their hands the honour of being again returned as their representa ive in Parliament, having been sent like naughty boys to their constituents by the late Prime Minis ter, who had placed his reliance on five Protestant bishops in our land and the notorious Yeh, and upon them he threw himself forsupport inappealing again to the nation. With the aid of these evangelical di vines and the Chinese Yeh he obtained such a ma jority that there was no measure he might not have carried and no good he might not have effected if he had steered a proper course. So blind was their confidence in that Government that Mr. Vernon Smith had repeated the assertion that the fright ful rebellion in India was only a partial outbreak of a military mutiny ; but the Opposition knew well, and told them that it was no partial mutiny but a fearful rebellion. (Hear, hear.) Just before Parliament met certain appointments were made and certain distributions of Crown patronage were conferred which did not meet with public favour. They were asked to wait the issue of events and they would find the honour of England safe, and they did wait in order that the noble individual at the he ad of affairs might have an opportunity of clearing himself of the charges that were brought against him. Daring the recess it was said that the peace of England was safe, but certain circum stances gave rise to great doubt. In the month of August, or thereabouts, two British subjects were taken from a vessel on the open seas, and permitted to linger in the prison of Naples. This was what they might call upholding British honour ; but with a large majority at the back of Government all was silent. There were no applauding cheers to greet the Minister, but an ominous silence reigned around. He (Lord Lennox) had opposed that Minister's policy of the war with China as errone ous ; but at the same time, while he attacked the policy of the Minister of the day with regard to that war, he must, in justice to the noble lord, give him the full benefit of the capture of the valian Yeh. (Laughter.) To accomplish that purpose our harbours were denuded of our ships and our ships and our shores of our troops ; and really he had seen such a laughable account of the capture of this veritable Yeh that he could not resist the temp tation of reading it to them. It was this : " At last the guides called a halt at the door of a third rate yamun which appeared closed and deserted. The doors were forced open, and the bluejackets were all over the place in a moment' It was evident that they were now on \the right scent. The place was full of hastily-packed bag gage. Mandarins were running, about, and at last one came forward and delivered himself up as Yeh. But he was not fat enough, Parkes pushed him aside, andharrying on they at last spied a very fat man coetemplating the achievement of getting over the wall at the ex treme rear of the yamun. Captain Key and Commodore Elliott's coxswain rushed forward. Key took the fat gentleman round the wa'st, and the coxswain twisted the august tail of the Imperial Commissioner round his fist. (Laughter.) There was no mistake now—this was the veritable Yeh. Instinctively the blue jackets felt it must be Yeh, and they tossed up their hats and gave three rattling cheers." (Laughter and applause.) For the full amount of glory of that capture he gave the noble lord ample credit. (Laughter.) Ho would now pass on to the subject of France, which was now uppermost in the minds of the people, and he should approach that subject with great care, although nothing that MOIqID what he was likely to say, but it appeared to bim that as the counsel for tho Crown, ho ought not to call a convicted felon, as he considered his evidence would be of very little value as corroborative testi mony, either one way or the other. Mr. Justice Williams said he should take upon himself to examine the witness, and Ringshell was accordingly sent for to the gaol, and he arrived in a short time and was sworn and examined. The learned judge having cautioned him as to the importance of his speaking the truth in so solemn an inquiry, proceeded to put some questions to him, in answer to which he stated that, on W o ednes a d o a l, so y evening, when' he wa s i n th e van go i ng t the gaol, e asked him what he had got, and he replied ten months' imprisonment ; but he else passed between conversation of any kind them, swore positivelyand that no that otherat nothing took place in the van as it was going from the court to the gacl, or when it entered the gaol yard. The jury wished to know whether there was any one else in the van who could give any further informagovernor tion the uponthesnbject ? The gaol (Mr. Hatehard) said that a young woman, the daught er o f one o f th e turnkeys, was riding in front of the van, and there was a turnkey, who was her father, behind the vehicle. The jury said they should like these persons to be examined. . _ _ Th© learned judge said by all means this should be done. _ of Elizabeth Duncombe, she then being under the age of 16. There was also a count for a❑ indecent assault. Mr. Henry Mills appeared for the prosecution ; the prisoners were defended by Mr. Power and Mr. Tozer. Mary Duncombe, examined by Mr. Mille—l am the mother of Elizabeth Duncombe. She was 15 years old last Christmas-day. She lived at home with me. On the 7th of August last she left home between 8 and 9 •'clock in the evening. She was going to her brother's to sleep. She did not return. I found her at home again the third day after this. I was constantly looking for her. She went away against my will. Cross-examined by Mr. Power—My daughter cornea home between 10 and 11 o'clock at night, and sometimes goes to dances and fairs alone. A girl named Gurney often takes her out. Elizabeth Dancombe (an extremely good-looking girl, but is appearance consil rably above the age of 15), examined by Mr. Mills—l left home on the 7th August. I went with Anne Gurney to the Axe and Cotnpaesss. We saw the defendants outside. We spoke to them. We then went with them to the Bell, at Eddlesborough. We had some gin. The defendants paid for it. We stopped till between 11 and 12 o'clock. There were three other girls there ; they left about 11 o'clock, and we and the men remained for half-an-hour. We then wont to Mr. Primett's premises. He is a married man and has two children. Simmons is a widower, and has four children. We ;topped till between 3 and 4 o'clock, and then went away into the road. The men came with a gig which holds two. I sat on Primett's knee, and Anne Gurney sat on Simmons'; knee. We drove to Tring. We went by train to London at . a quarter to 8 o'clock. I believe Primett took my ticket. After breakfast we went by water to Gravesend and returned the same day to town. We went to the theatre ; we then went to lodgings. I slept with Mr. Primett, and Anne Gurney with Sim mons. We returned to Tring on Sunday, and then parted company, and I went home. I paid no expenses. Cross-examined by Mr. Po wer—l went straight home. I have known Primett some months. I have danced with him. lam a good dancer. When I came home at night I always found the door unbelted and mother in bed. Anne Gurney is older than I am. We sent in to the Axe and Compasses to inquire whether the defendants were there. They came out to us. Mrs. Brinklow came in. The other three girls ran into the yard because she is a friend of theirs. We did not run away when she Came. Mary Anne Dunning, the young woman referred to, was then examined. She stated that she was riding outside the van on Wedn e sd a y even i ng , an d heard some conversation going on i ns id e; b u t cou ld not hear what was said. There were two or three voices. The talking began soon after the van started, and continued till it stopped at the prison, and when it had entered the gates it commenced again, but her father, who was riding behind the van, then interfered, and put a stop to it, as it was against the prison regulations for the prisoners to talk to each other. Stephen Dunning, the father, was also examined, and he slid that he heard talking in the van when it was at the gaol gate, but only t wo or th ree wor d s, and that ho immediately put a stop to it, and threatened to report all the prisoners for breaking the gaol rules. Mr. Justice Williams put soma questions to the witness, in answer to which he said that the com partments in the van were all separated entirely from each and they were ventilated by grat ingsvan. He said th a t it was p oss ibl e the prisoners might communicate with each other as the van was going along, if they s p o k e v e ry loud. outside The jury eventually expresse d a d es i re t o exa - mine the van, and they went out, accompanied by a bailiff, for that purpose. It turned out that, in addition to the gratings for ventilation at the side, that there were others at the top of each compart ment, which afforded a ready means to the pri soners for communicating with each other. This closed the case fur the prosecution. Mr. Sergeant Parry then proceeded to address the jury for the prisoner, and, although he appeared to be labouring under indisposition, and asked for the indulgence of the jury on that ground, he made a most eloquent and telling speeu h on behalf of his client. Ho said h e s h ou ld not for a moment at tempt to deny that a most foul and cruel murder had been committed ; but the proposition, and the only one he should endeavour to make out to the satisfaction of the jury on behalf of the wretched man at the bar—wretched, if he were innocent, and doubly wretched if guilty—would bo that the evidence against him was not of that direct and conclusive character as called upon them, in the performance of the solemn duty in which they were engage], to return a verdict the effect of which must inevitably be to consien a living, breathing human being now standing before them in the full vigour of manhood to a felon's death on the scaffold. That it was a case of suspicion against the prisoner—of strong suspicion, if they pleased, he could not deny; but no man's life, he said, ought to be taken upon suspicion only ; and even if they should be of opi nion that there was moral doubt of his guilt, still if the evidence did not establish it in a . clear and con clusive mann er , it was t h e d u ty of a jury, and they were only acting in strict conformity with the law,and performing the obligations of the solemn oath they had taken, to say that he was not guilty of the crime alleged against him. The theory of the prosecution if he could be permitted to apply such a term to an inquiry of this solemn character, appeared to be that the unfortunate deceased had received special instructions on the day of the murder to watch the prisoner, upon the supposition that he had com mitted some offence, and that this had led to the fatal encounter between them, but he said that the evidence failed, as it appeared to him, altogether, to make out that fact, and all that was proved ap peared to be that the deceased had received instruc tions to be about the neighbDurhood of Norton Green Farm, and to report himself at nine o'clock ; and he urged that although they might have their suspicions upon the subject, their was no direct testimony toshow that the prisoner and the deceased ever came in contact with each other on this fetal night. He therefore contended that the case for the prosecution failed at the very onset, and that all the other circumstances that were relied upon might be explained in a manner consistent with the innocence of the prisoner. The learned sergeant then proceeded to observe upon the fact of the blood-stains being found upon the clothes of the prisoner, and he said that nothing was more likely than that such marks should be discovered w h o , it was proved that his nose was in the habit of bleeding, and that only a sh or t ti me b e f ore h e had been engagedin performing an operation upon some pigs, which caused them t o bl ee d a great deal. With regard to the evidence given by the policeman Quint, be called upon them to dismiss it altogether from their consideration, as un wor th yo f b e li e f . R e said he was contradicted in several material parti culars by the other persons in the van, and he urged upon the jury the extreme improbability that the prisoner should have made such a statement to a man of whom he knew nothin g . He then re ferred to the other facts in the case, and concluded a most able speech by calling upon the jury to say by their verdict that the charge was not proved, and therefore that tiesy acquitted the prisoner. The learned Judge then summed up the whole case with great care and minuteness, and the jury retired to consider their verdict. They returned into court in about half an hour, when they stated that they found the prisoner not guilty, but at the same time said that thy thought it was a case of ;Treat suspicion against him, but that there was not sufficient dire c t ev id ence to justify them in finding him guilty of the crime with which he was charged. There was an attempt at applause when the ver dict was delivered, which turned out to p rocee d f ro m some relatives of the prisoner who were in the gal lery of the court, and ityeas speedily suppressed. The prisoner was then ordered to be discharged, I and this concluded the business of the assizes. By the Lord Chief• Justice—l knew what a man was before I saw Primett. This being the ease for the prosecution, the Lord Chief-Justice ruled that there was no case against Simmons. Mr. Power then addres ed the jury for Primett. The Lord Chief-Justice summed up, and told the jury that if they thought the girl bad been allowed by her mother to run loose, although the mother said it was against her will that her daughter was taken away, yet it was for the jury to say whether she had any will in the matter ; and, however immoral the conduct of the defendant might be, unless they believed that he took her out of the possession and against the will of her mother, ho W 3.3 not guilty of an offence against the etatuts. OXFORD CIRCUIT. -- WORCESTER, MA.Rcu G. (Before Mr. Baron Watson.) THE KIDDERMINSTER ELECTION RIOTERS.—William Pitt, butcher ; Benjamin Wellings, weaver ; Robert w es t woo d, publican ; Henry Westwood, publican ; Geo. Barker, weaver ; William Wood, wea ver ; S amue l Payne, John Cook, Elizabeth Bentley, J o h n D rur y, mason ; John Beehell, IYIKAOO ; George P ar k er ; J . Smain, weaver ; John Stevens, umbrella maker ; and Charles Partridge, weaver —were indicted for riotously assembliug at .Kiddermiuster on th e 4 t h d ay of Apr il , the pull day for Kiddercuinster, at the l as t geosra l elec y, Q riot, and attacking s evera l persons . A n .o., and Mr. Kettle were counse l f or the pros p e ro r‘e s -Va, c thi a 't3 t tg l e o la t e a ; and Me-. Huddleston, Q.C., and Mr. Byrne for the accused, the parties had been at large on bail. On the understood parties being thatthey did so call e d up on, they theypleaded b would it being discharged on their own reoognisances. The prisoners were then bound over on their own recognisances in 100/, each to appear when called upon. BURGLARY 'WITH VIOLENCE.—SENTENCE OF DEATH. —Benj ,, mm Gordon and Charles Pearson were indicted for breaking into the dwelling-house of,Thos. Cartwright, at Hagley, on the 26th December, and stealing money and with crue ll y b ea ti ng a nd ill-tr e ating the prosecutor and hi s w i fe. and Thegouds, prosecutor is an aged labourer, and lived with his wife, also in ye ars, at Broadmareb, Hagley. On the night of the 26th of December his house was b ro k en into by three men, and the old people were savagely treated. The prisoners were two of the men, the third being Thoo. P ar " A "e, who was now admitted Queen's evidence. He detailed the particulars of the plot, its plan and execution ; proved the murderous violence used towards the old couple, and the subsequent distribution of the spoil amongst them. The prosecutor was still in a very weak state from the treatment he had received, and his head was bandaged. lie had been cut in seve ral places with a billhook. Gordon attacked the old woman, Pearson ransacked the boxes in the room, and the third kept watch. She gave Pearson her purse, containing 1/ ,to save her life. The police, on arriving at the cototge, found a pool of blood which had flawed from the old man's head. B)th were found guilty. His lordship commented on the enormity of tho crime, and on the necessity of protecting person and property from lawless violence. Gordon had used the billhook, and it w a s no want of will of his that the wounds he had i t fli tte d on t h e o ld man had not been fatal. He, ther e f ore , sen te nce d him to death in the usual form, without any hope of mercy. Sentence of death was also recorded against Pearson, but without an intimation that Lis life would be spared. The jury without any hesitation acquitted the defendant. BALL OF LORD CLARBNDON. (Froid the Daily News.) If the fall of Lord Clarendon and his Ministerial abettors be considered only in the light of an exemplary punishment inflicted by the representatives of the nation on a man who had betrayed the most peculiar trust, and on those who were guilty of passive complicity therein, it must be felt to be a❑ incident worthy not only of pro found attention while still recent, but of a conspicuous place in our constitutional history. Parliamentary cen sure, by way of deliberate and unrecinded resolution, is the modern form of criminal proceeding for political offences, which has gradually come to supersede the cum brous and clumsy method of impeachment; and it cannot be denied that in most respects, and in the great majority of instances, it combine, all the advantages of celerity, certainty, and justice, which law reformers look for in their amendments of other branches cf our Jurisprudence. The public mind is longer divided by pity for the offender and desire to see the offence adequately punihed. Personal danger or pecuniary penalty no longer plead in deprecation of our just resentment. There is nothinee really left in question but political reputation, and the power of doing mischief in future ; the infinite flexibility of the ♦ocabulary of condemnation insures an adaptation of the censure to the sin ; and once the sen tence is pronounced and the delinquent excluded from further opportunities of mischief, the public resentment is appeased without any fear of the public conscience being subsequently troubled by remorseful qualms. In the present case there is an universal feeling of satisfac tion that we have at length got rid of a bad Foreign Minister ; and there is hardly an audible muttering of regret in any quarter that Lord Clarendou'e administra tive career is closed, But a far more important question remains. Is it only the man we have got rid of, or the system of which he was at once the master and the slave —the instrument and the impersonation? Political systems, whether departmental or dynastic, when their appointed hour is come, commonly break dosn through the personal weakness or personal blun dering of him who for the time is supposed to embody their highest pretensions. Royal statecraft was believed to have reached the acme of perfection under Louis Philippe. Among the monarchic maeoouvrere of Europe he was looked up to as a model and example ; and by every member of the covenanted service of diplomacy ( lie was hero-worshipped as the modern Ulysses. Yet it was erophatica'ly by ths' faint-heartedness and folly of Louis Plidippo himself that Louis Philippe-ism was levelled to the ground. In our own country we have witeeesed a hardly lees striking instance. Peelisin was confessedly the invention of him whose name it bore— a subtle, specious, cunning, and candid contrivance for making Toryism look like Liberalism, and for substituting expediency for truth and right. The late Sir Robert Peel was regarded by his followers as the nearest known ap preach to political omniscience and infallibility. He might not always be popular, but, according to them, in his calculations he never could be wrong ; ho might not always go as fast as his adversaries desired, but his party had the comfort of knowing that they might safely go to /sleep so long as his constant and circumspect hand was at the helm. Yet Peerism was undermined and laid in ruins by the very hand that had piled it together ; and the catastrophe was effected not by any momentary act of rashness or passion, but by the very quintessence of furtive wisdom and smuggler-like caution of which its indefatigable author was so proud. Yesterday has sup• plied uswith an equally clear and palpable specimen of the same sort of thing. Secret diplomacy with all its subter fuges and shallows, its public sayings and private un-say lugs, its infinite tissue of un-reality, make-believe, evasion, has broken down suddenly and shamefully in the hands of the man who, above all others, was supposed to have raised it to its highest perfection. Had some novice in the art been thrust into Downing-street, or some favou rite of the popular will aceustemed to feel manfully and speak eloquently been entrusted with the seals of the Foreign-office, the catastrophe might have been as com plete ; but the lesson taught would have been far less instructive. We should then have been told that the danger had arisen from permitting inexpert hands to meddle with great affairs; and every apologist of the corrupt system would have been rea•ty to promise confi dently all manner of good from its resuscitation and con• tinuance. But the specific value of what we have recently witnessed consists in this, that the system has broken down of itself, and in consequence of its own inherent rottenness. It was a system of secrecy, and secrecy has been its ruin. It was a system of double dealing, and its ambidexterity has lost it the game. It was a system that sought to baffle parliamentary control, and by parliamentary censure it has been del berately con demned. It was a system that strove to set up oligar chic opinion against the national will, and it hat been abandoned by the oligarchy in its hour of need to the execrations of the people. One honest, straightforward, courageous utterance of the feelings and sentiments of the country, would have renewed Lord Clarendon's lease of office, and reprieved, perhaps, for a season the wretched system of which he was the appropriate Minister. But no such expression, ne conception of its policy or value, ever occurred to him. M. Walowski's des' arch was not answered when it ought to have been, because unfortunately it has not been the custom for Parliament to supervise the conduct of our foreign affairs, or to insist upon knowing what is doing, or being left undone, until all inquiry is useless. Lord Clarendo❑ relied upon his irresponsibility for impunity. It never entered his head that ho should be called to account within a month for any act he might commit or leave unperformed. Had L rd Palmerston been at the Foreign-office when the insolent missive was received, it is not impossible that he might have penned on the instant (though he would hardly have ventured without consultation to transmit) a suitable reply. The ex-Pre mier has great fault., but they have often been redeemed be his instinctise sense of what is right ; and a life spent in the House of Commons has naturally kept alive in Lim some degree of sympathy with the fear less and outspoken spirit of the nation. Unluckily for Lord Clarendon,he was not bred in that best scoool I of English statesmanship. He was reared in office, and he has never been accustomed to any more open atmosphere of discussion than that of the salon, the Cabinet, and the House of Lords. It is not unworthy of remark that throughout the whole of his five years' I tenure of the Foreign-office, he has uniformly been I treated with consideration and compliment in the Upper House, and that not a single member of that assembly appears to have uttered one syllable of remonstrauce or protect against the doctrines set forth by him in his recent defence of his conduct. Teo truth is, he was, and they felt him to be, the Foreign Minister of Oligarchy in secret league with Ab,oiutism, and they desired to let him fall as softly as might be. Can any might-hearted man entertain a doubt, after what has ' happened, that in future the Foreign Minister of Eng land ought to be a member of the Hou;e of Commons ? 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Ith.per cent. 100 0 0 10 0 0 251 Os City of Glasgow Lite.. 61. per cent. 25 0 0 2 0 0 3/ 10s Colonial Life ......... 5/. pox cent. 50 0 0 3 0 0 71 lOs Edinburgh Life Insur. 6/. Der cent. 100 0 0 15 0 0 26115 s Eng. & Scot, Law Life 51.0er cent. 50 0 0 3 5 0 4/ Os Life Assoc. of 3cotland 61. per cent. 40 0 0 3 0 061 15s Nations., Fire and Life 61. per cent. 10 0 0 1 4 0 11 19 s North British Incur... 71. per cent. 200 0 0 20 0 0 37/10s Northern Assurance Co. 20 0 0 1 0 0 1 / 15s Scottish Provincial .... - 50 0 0 2 0 0 2/ 15s Scottish Union Insrnc. 7541. pr cent. 20 0 0 1 0 0 II 14s Standard Life •• .... •• 1 51. per cent. 50 0 0 7 0 0 27/10s GAS-LIGHT AND CORE COMPANIES. Dividend Amount Name of Company. per of Paid. Price. Annul 1. Share. - £ a. d. £ s. d. British Provincial .• .. 71. per cent. 20 0 0 all 23 Brighton ........ •• .. 5/. per cent. 20 0 0 - - City of London .. .. •• 2/. per cent. 150 0 0 160 0 0 100 Equitable ..• •• ...... 2/. 50 0 0 all - Europea 6/. per cent. 20 0 0 - - n .... .• • • • • • Great. Central .• •• •• . 8/. per cent. 10 0 0 - 10% Imperial .. •• .• ....... lO/. per cent. 50 0 0 - 78 Ditto New - 50 0 0 12 10 6 26% Ditto Debentures - Stock 100 0 0 - Do. Continental IstCap. 31. se. i5O 0 0 42 15 0 50 Do. Do. 2d Cap. 41. 15s. i 5O 0 0 41 0 0 - Do. D 10. 3d Cap. 41. 10a. 50 0 0 43 10 0 - Do. Do. 4th Cap. 31. 50 0 0 41 0 0 - Independent . . .. - Londov Parl. Preferen. 61. per cent. 23 0 0 - - Phcenix , 53,E per cnt. 60 0 0 52 0 0 50 itateliff..... .., - Surrey Consumers United General - 20 Westminster Chartered 7 per cent. 50 0 0 - Ditto, New .... - - - 50 0 0 10 0 0 - Western A . - 10 0 0 4 0 0 Ditto B MISCELLANEOUS. _ Dividend Amount per of I Paid. Price. Name of Company. Annum. Share. -------- £ a. d. £ a. d. Acadian Charcoal Iron .. 10 0 0 20 0 - 20 0010 0 0 African Steam Ship • . li. per cent. 50 0 0 20 0 0 - Assam tea • • ---•• • 2141 per cent. 50 0 0 - - A uc ti o n Mart•• ••• • •• - 25 0 0 19 0 0 27' Austral i an Agriculturl - A us t ra lian Trust • • S i. . 10 0 0 all . 8 1. pr cent. 1 00 0 0 25 0 0 Austradtan Royal M ail - Anglo-Alexican Mint.. , 11. 108. 10 0 0 all 1 1 f British American Land 7/. per cent 56 0 0 40 0 0 1 130 Canada • • • •. • • _•••• „ 61. percent. 100 0 0 32 10 0 - Do. 5 per cent Bonds 5/, pet cent Stock 100 0 0 - Ditto, 5 per cent bds .st.per cent. Stock 100 0 0 - Ditto. 6 per cent. .. 6/. per cent. Stock 100 0 0 - Ditto, 6p c. bds 1874 Si. per cent. Stock 100 0 0 - Ditto, 0p c. bds 1876 6/. per cent. Stock 100 0 0 - C r ystal Palace • 2/. per cent. 5 0 0 all - Ditto Preference 7l pr. cent, 50 0 50 0 4 1 ,i Crys. Palace of France - 4 0 0 all - City Navigation Bonds 3%1. per cent - - - Electric Telegraph . • Cl. per cent. Stock. ;00 0 0 105 Eng.&Aus. Cop. Smelt. - 50 0 all lli Eng.&lris. Slag. T. Co. - 50 0 0 all - Equitable Reversionry 5/per cent. 100 0 0 150 0 0 - Ditto New - 50 0 0 22 10 0 - Gen. Revers. & Invest 5l. p c and 1/. 'OO 0 0 00 0 0 - 1 Gen. I. Sc. Col. (Li m. ) - 25 0 0 all - 1 Gen.SteamNavigation 10/. per ct. & 15 0 0 14 0 0 - London Gen. Omnibus 12/. per cent 40 0 all 37 Hudson's 8ay....., - Hungerford ...••• •• • 21. ss. 1 00 0 0 all - Loa. Ne &Na. Mauso. - 10 0 0 all - London R o versionary 5/, per cent. 10 0 e all - Mex. & S. American 10 0 0 all - - Nat. Discount Comp - 25 0 0 50 0 4 N.S.W. Gov.sp.c. Deb 5/. per cent. - 100 0 0 Nor. Bri. Australasian 6d. 1 0 0 all 71 North of Europe, Stun. Si. per cent. 20 0 0 17 10 0 Prlce'sPatentCand. Co - 29 0 0 all Peel River.Land&Alin. - 50 0 all 2 1 A Pen. & Oriental Steam 71. per cent. 50 0 0 all 79 Ditto New .• - 50 0 0 10 0 0 - Reversionary Int. Soc 4% /. pr cent 100 0 0 all - Ditto New Royal Mail Steam l/ D. share. 100 0 0 ur 0 4 - 6 - 334 Scottish Aus. Invest l5l. per cent. 10 0 a ll 114 Swab .ustrallan Land 71. per cent. 25 0 0 all 373 Trust and Loan Comp. 734.. pr cent. 90 0 0 5 a 0 510 Vas Diemen's Land.• lOs. 1100 0 0 28 10 0 10% 6 per cent. Bends - j - - INSURANCE CO. Dividend per Arinum. THJ PENIIVSULAII MAIL. SOUTHAMPTON, MAnou 7. The steam ship Tagus, of the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigatic,n Company, Captain E. Christian, with the usual Peninsular mail, in charge of Lieutenant Cartwright, Admiralty agent, azrived this day at noon. The !Tagus, during the voyage, experienced strong winds, with long westerly swell across the Bay ; off Vigo on the 10th February, thick fog ; all along the c'utsts of Spain and Portugal, strong head wirds and bad weather, with heavy north- cesterly swell. H meward eound, strong gales from north to north-east and north wes!, with heavy sea. Her dates of sailing were—Gibraltar, F b. 25; CaTz, Feb. 26 ; Lisbon, March 2 ; Oporto, no com munication ; Vigo, March 3. The freitbt of - the Tagus consists of 21 packages of value 9,9151 , 35 boxes of eggs, 9 casks of wine, 25 boxes of dates, 200 boxes of almonds, 324 half-chest■ of oranges, 29 boxes of tangerines, and 83 packages of eundriss. Her MejeAy's ship Curlew was at Gibraltar. The Ptninsular and Oriental screw a e.rmer Colombo ariived at Gibraltar at nine a.m. on the 25th, arid :railed at 2.30 p.m. same day for Malta and A.lexan dria. March 2, off the Rock of Lisbon, the Ta4tue spoke the screw steamer Cintra, ho Ind to Lisbon. At Vigo, screw steamer Vista and screw steamer Rattler, for Oporto, weather bound ; the screw steamer France Comptors, of Havre. March 2, off Cage Mondigo, at ten p.m., the Tagus passed the screw steamer Alhambra, hound to the Peninsular ports. March 5, at 7.30 p.m., 70 miles to the southward of Ushant, passed the screw steamer Indui, outward bound. They have bad heavy falls of rain in the south of Spain, which commenced on the evening of the 23d, and c rntinued with little intermission until the departure of the packet from Cadiz. It is expected that the forth coming vintage will be much benefited in consequence. The telegraph is now open betsveea Loudon via Paris to Cadiz. Country Markets. GRANTHAM--MARCH 6. At our corn market to-day there was a moderate show of wheat, which wet a ready sale at last week's prices. Thers was very little doing in barley, at an advance of ls. No change in oats and beans. NOTTINGHAII—IURea G. A good supply of wheat and a fair attendance of the trade. Wheat a dull demand; fine qualities at hilly last week's prices; inferior almost neglected, the best whit• samples realising 53s and red made 495 per 36 stone. The quantity of barley full equal to the demand, and prices as before. No change in oats and beans. PER QUARTHR. PER (WARM , . Wheat, red (old) 42s to 49e Barley, grinding ... 278 to 31s Ditto (new) Ditto, white s(s to 57e Peas Ditto (old) Barley, malting ... 32s to 42E Flour, per sack LEICESTER-MARCH 0. A tolerably act vs trade i❑ wheat to-day,, with a good supply, and the transactions must be quoted at the rates of last week. Barley was unchanged in ♦alue, with a moderate show. Oats and beans as before. NORWICH—Menon 6. ►heat is good supply, and trade active. Business wee done in some instance■ at 15. advance. A small show of barley, and trade much the same as last week. In oats. beans, and peas little doing. White wheat, 48s to 60s ; red, 421 to 455 ; barley, 391 to 41s. ; flour, 3 s 6d per sack ; beans, 40s to 441; peas, 425 to 431; oats, 285 to 30s. DA.LKEITH GRAIN MARKET—MARCH 5. Qrs. Best. Current. Inferi. 593 Wheat 45s Gd. 1268 Oats 3os Od 24s 3d .... ..... 19 Olt 741 Barley 116 Peas & beans 433 Od 3Bs Od HADDINGTON GRAIN MARKET—MAID:aI 5. WIINAT. BARLBY I OATS. 1 /MAIO). First "' 52s Od 404 Od 1 35s Od 1 48s Od Second 9 ,9 s 8d ; 303 Od 1 26s 7d j 39. 7d Third 32s 6d 121 s 6d 1 *.is 3d i 353 01 Total quantity of wheat in market, 659 qrs., 566 sold PP 1, barley „ 720 qrs., 648 sold PP , oats ,1 1210 qr5.,1045 sold IR PP beans Of 228 qrs., 173 sold AVERAGES PER IMPrRIAL QUARTER. Wheat, 11. 19 8 9-12ths 1 Barley, ...11. 10 0 B.l2ths Oats, ... 11. 6 7 0-12ths I Beans, 1/. 19 7 9-12th DUBLIN, MincH 2. There was a small supply and r tther a sharp market to• day. Wheat and oats fully 6d dearer, and barley at Tues day's currency. Indian corn hell for a further advancf-_, White wheat, 26b (id to 28s Od , red ditto, 23, Od 262 Od; ditto new, s Od ; barley, malting, 13s to 188 Od; grind ing, —s to —s ; oa,s, cld, 113 Od to 14s; ditto, new, --11 Od to —s Od ; oatmeal, 14s to 15s Od; bere, new, 14s to 151 Od ; rapes , d, 23s Od to 25s Od per brl ; haael flour, 154 Od to 203 Od per cwt ; Indian corn, 31s 01 to 333 6d Per 180 lbs. On Friday Col. H. W. Parke, commandant °f the Chatham division of Royal Marine Light In* Pantry, gave up the clminand of the division to Col. E. Rea, second commandant, and proceeded on leave of absence. [ADVIRTIMIGIIIENT.I—We quote a few more of th• extraordi nary cures without medicine effected by Du Barry's delicious health-restoring Revalenta. Arabica Food of Indigestion (Dyspepsia), Flatulency, Constipation, Nervous, Bilious and Liver Complaints, Cough, Asthma, Consumption, and Debility: Cure No. 180.—" Twenty-five years' nervousness, constiPa" tion, indigestion, and debility, from which I bad suffered great misery, and which no medicine could remove or relieve, have been effectually cured by Du Barry's Food in a vorl short time.—W. R. Reeves, 181, Fleet-street, London." curs No. 4,208.—" Eight yeare dyspepsia, nervousness, debility, with cramps, spasms, and nausea, for which my servant had consulted the advice of many, have been effectually cured by Dn Barry's health-restoring Food.—l shall be happy t • answer any inquiries. —Rev. John W. Haven, Ridlingtes Rectory, rfolk." No. 32,836.—" Three years' excessi ve nervousness, with pains in my neck and left arm, and general debility, which rendered my life very miserable, has been radically removed by Du Barry's health -restoring Food.—Alex. Stuart, Archdeacon of Ross, Skibereeti." Supported by testimonials from the following eelobrai,ed Pre fessors of Chemistry: Dr. A Ure; Dr. Shorland; Dr. Harvey; Dr. Campbell ; Dr. Gattiker ; Dr. Wurzcr ; Dr. Ingram ; Lord Stuart de Decies; the Dowager Countess of Castlestuart; Major Gen. Thomas King, and many other respectable per sons, whose health has been restored by it, after all alter means of cure had failed. Suitably packed with full instrus' tions. In canisters, llb. 2s. Pd. ; 21... 46. 6d. ; 51b. 11s- ; 121 b. 22e. The 121 b canisters are sent carriage free, on re• ecipt of Post-office order. Barry Du Barry, and Co., 77, Regent-street, London. Important Caution against the fear ful dangers of spurious imitations.—The Vice-Chancellor sir William Page Wood granted an Injunction on the 10th March, 1854, against Alfred Hooper Nevill, for imitating Barry's Revalenta Arabica Food." l aavn-erientear. l SIGHT AND TrgARM SPECTACLU-0 POWERFUL TELESCOPES OPERA, R A CE, AND PER S/Tar r GLASSES.—S. and Solomons, o pticians, 39, Aibemare: ,treet, Piccadilly. Observe—opposite the York Hotel, W By her Majesty's Royal Letters Patent for valua ble and es" traordinary improvements in the most ower ful and brilli ant Telescopes, Camp, Race-course, Cpera, and Perspe ctive Glasses, to know the distances. These Telescopes possess such extraordinary power that some, three and a-half inches , with an extra eye-piece will show distinctly Jupiter's moons, Saturn's ring, and the double stars ; with the same telescop e can be seen a person's countenance three-and-a-half miles distant and an object from 16 to 20 miles. For the waist' coat-pocket, and aro of larger, and all sizes, with increming powers accordingly. The Royal Exhibition, 1851. A valu able, newly-invented, very small, powerful, Waistcoat-pock et Glass, the size of a walnut, by which a person can be seen and known one and a-half mile distant. They answer every pur. pose on the R.aco-course and at the Opera-houses. Country scenery and ships aro clearly seen at 12 to 14 miles. They aro invaluable for shooting, deer -stalking, yachting, to sportsmen, gentlemen, gamekeepers, and tourists. Opera, Coawinepr,s.Pezvpleacit,abiivel,eandprlelseacrev-icnogurssepOeclaustcslees, L w e i n th ses won o d f wonderful powers e greatest transparent power. The great advantage derived from this invention is, that vision impaired becomes Pre served and strongtkened and very aged persons are enabled to employ their sight at the most minute occupation—can see with those lenses of a much less magnifying power—and they do not require the frequent changes 'to the clan' gerous effects of further powerful assistance. F°r s°l : l l . can be suited at the MOO remote part of the world by sen, ing one of the glasses out 3t their spectacles in a letter, an. stating the dist nice from the eye they can read small print with it, and those who have not made use of spectacles by stating their age. Deafness.—New Discovery.—The Organic Vibrator, an extraordinarily powerful, small, newly-invented Being of the same colour as th e skin, is sinusrtprzsmincingtanfoyr d tuin efn g a o e f ss t , he en k ti i r n e d ly different from that has been, can tie, produced. or all prO t t a a e b rs ly ' not perceptible. It enables deaf persons to hear distinct ly ali church and at public assemblie , ; the unpleasant sensation of singing noises in the ears is entire' v removed, and it affords all the assistance that possibly could be desired.-39. AlUe marle-street, Piccadilly --Opposite the York Hotel,W B I T.Hp. Brßog--On tho 3d inst., the Hon. Mrs. William Byron, of a son. MAITLAND—On th© 4th inst., Mrs. Maitland, of 8, Tor rington-place, of a daughter. MADDOX— Ou the let inst., at Upper Albany street, 1 16 ' geht's-park, Mrs. J. Maddox, of a daughter. SILYVSTER—On tho 4th inst., at Hum Lodge, the wife of 11. E. Silvester, Esq., Mayor of Beverley, of a dough O r ' MARRIAGES. COLLINS--WADE—On the 4th inst., at St. Marylebone• Church, W. L. Collins, Esq., of Mortimer-road, Si' John's-wood, to Charlotte, youngest daughter of Jolla Wade, Eaq., lato of Tetbury, Glocastershire. BIGNELL—HADNUTT—On th© 4th inst., at Camber l ° e . ll _ New-road Congregational Chapel, Mr. E. Bignell, Ann Caroline, eldest daughter of Mr. George Liadnuu of Camberwell. DEATHS. DOUGLAS--On the sth iust ,at the residence of his father, Lieut. John James Douglas, Royal Marines Light In fantry, second son of Commander John Douglas, R.N., aged 27. MOYCE— On the 4th inst., at his residence, Sinclair Cot tage, Bromley, KEnt, Usury Moyce, Esq., aged 54. NicHoLLs—On the 4th inst., at Totnes, James Nicholls, Esq., age ► 87. PnycE—On the 4th inst., at Newtown, the Rev. R• fr. of Guuloy Montgomeryshire, Age d 59• Mostyn Pryco, WALL—On the 4th inst., Mr. J. P. Wall, surgeon, 6, Mount-street, Grosvenor -square. W EBBER —On the 4th inst., at Great Bedworth, the Rev. George 11. W o bber, vicar of Groat Bedworth, and can , ,n of Ripon, aged 57. late of LONDON • Printa . i anri bli ghi.Vi by i)1 " of NJ 112., Printer, At rh4 su3 ortict,, 112, Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in the count"' 1858. of Middlesex, Monday, Alarch 8, ( Dividend per Annum. A is. d. all 18 15 0 50 0 0 all 6 0 0 50 0 0 25 0 0 20 0 0 all 20 0 0 50 0 0 10 0 0 20 0 0 35 0 0 10 0 0 5 0 0 22 10 0 15 0 0 25 0 0 all all 2 10 0 3 0 0 10 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 U