The Sun. — London, England, 1852-06-25 00:00:00

HOUSE OF LORDS.-(THIS DAY.) APPEALS. Their Lordships sat this morning to hear appeals. Tile Peers present wire Lord Truro, Lord Bough-ar, Lord Torrington, the Bishop of London, and the Bishop of S ilisbury. GOSLING V. VELEY (THE BRAINTREE CHURCH-PLATE CASE). The Judges attended to &fiver their answers to the qa, - stions which had been put to them in this case. This ease, under the name of the Braintree Church Rate, has been so frequently before the public that it will be scarcely necessary to reiterate • the circumstances. The parish of Braintree has long been celebrated for its re inset to pay church-rates, and has been 'involved in se veral suits before the Consistorial Court in consequence. The present case dates from the year 1841, when, in consequence of a monition addressed to them by the Consistorial Court of London, the rector, churchwar dens, and parishioners, assembled in vestry, for the purpose of making a rate to repair the church. At that vestry an amendment was moved, rejecting the proposi tion for the levying of a rate, which was carried by a large majority. Upon this the delendent, who wee then churchwarden, conceiving that the supporters of the amendment had abandoned their functions, made a rate of 2s. in the pound, with the usual formalities, in spite of the protest of the dissentient parishioners. To en force the payment of this rate a suit was commenced by the churchwardens against the plaintiff in the Consisto rial Court of London, before Dr. Lushington, who decided against the validity of the rate. The churchwardens then appealed to the Arches Court, and on the 25th March Sir H. J. Fust gave judgment against the plaintiff, reversing the judgment of the court below, and pronouncing in favour of the rate. The plaintiff then applied to the Court of Qison's Bench, which refused the application, and tdeciued in favour of the rate. From this court the case next came before the Court of Exchequer Chamber, which in 1850 affirmed the judgment of the court below. Three courts, therefore, out of the four before which the case had come, decided in favour of the rate, and the case was now brought before their Lordships on a writ of error. The Learned Judges then delivered their opinions, Mr. Justice Talfourd, Mr. Justice Wightman, Mr. Jus tice Maule, Mr. Baron Platt, and Mr. Justice Coleridge being in favour of the validity of the rate; and Mr. Jus tice Crompton, Mr.Barou Martin, Mr. Justice Williams, Mr. Justice Erle, and Mr. Baron Parke being of opinion that the rate was invalid. The opinions of the Learned Judges are, therefore, equally balanced, five in favour of, and five against the rate. On the motion of Lord TRURO the opinions of the Judges were ordered to be printed, and the further con sideration of the case adjourned. ELECTION OF SHERIFFS. Yesterday was the day appointed for the election of Sheriffs of London and Middles , x fur the ensuing year. The Right Hon. the Lord Mayor presided in common hall, there being present several of the aldermen and common councilmen, amongst whom we noticed Alder men Wire, Carter, Duke, M.P., Sir George Carroll, lint., Challis, Sidney, M.P., Salomons, Moon. and Finnis; Common Councilmen John Wood, H. L. Taylor, Godson, De Jersey, Heaps, Deputy Holt, Barnard, Maugham, Dakin, Osmond, Deputy Lake, M‘Gregor, Blake, and several others. The sheriffs, Messrs. Cotte rell and Swift, and the under-sheriffs, Messrs. Millard and Hopwood, were also present. • The hall was well filled, but the proceedings were not of that interest which is usually felt upon such occasions. After the usual preliminaries, the choice of parties for sheriff took place. Several gentlemen were ,nominated, but the choice of the citizens fell upon Mr. Alderman Carter and Mr. John Hulbert, a merchant of high stand ing in the City. The former gentleman, however, de clined to serve. Deputy HOLT then called the attention of the Hall to the election of auditors of the, City accounts for the en suing year. He moved that Mr. T. Woodsell Booth, of the Distillers' Company, be one of them.—Agreed to. Mr. James Gardiner was also elected. The following report of the auditors was then agreed to:— " We, whose names are hereunto subscribed, elected by the Livery of London, in Common hall a,liembled, on the 24th of June, 1850, and 24th June, 1851, auditors of the Chamberlain's account of the Corporation and Gresham fund, and of the bridge master's account of the Bridge-house estate, do report as follows: " That the account of the receipt and expenditure of the Corporation of the city of London, laid beiore us to audit, was the seventh report of Anthony Brown, Esq., chamberlain of the city of London.'" The report gives the cash account from the Ist of January to the 31st of December, 1850. Subjoined is the abstract:—Balance on preceding account, 12,8131. 17s. 4.-td.; receipts of the year 1850 (including th e sum of 70,0001. for building the new House of Correction at Holloway), 257,4004 10s. 101c1.; expenditure, 247,931/ 14s. 24d.; balance of cash upon account on the 31st December, 1850, 22,2821. 13s. Hid. In the Gresham account the following results ap peared:—Balance in the hands of the Chamberlain, 3781. 6s. 11d. Bridge-house estates, balance in hand, 651. 13s. The hall was then dissolved. COURT OF ALDERMEN. Yesterday a - Court of Aldermen was held. The Sheriffs and Common-Sergeant appeared in court for the purpose of making the return of the gentlemen elected to the shrievalty for the ensuing year. The names of Alderman Carter, citizen and clock raaker, and John Hulbert, Eeq., citizen and grocer, having been accordingly returned, the usual forms were observed. Sir PETER, LAURIE took occasion to observe that a mistake had been made with respect to the company to Which Mr. Hulbert belonged. In the printed paper, which he believed had been issued from the Town Clerk's office, it appeared that Mr. Hulbert was stated to belong to the Girdlers' Company, which designation Was perfectly correct; but in the paper containing an account of the return of the sheriffs that gentleman was called a grocer. That was, he apprehended, an error fatal to the return. The Court took no official notice of the error, which no doubt will be corrected at the proper time. The City chamberlain and the bridge-masters for the year ensuing were sworn in. The Court then proceeded to consider, with closed doors, motions proposed by Alderman Wilson connected With certain privileges of the corporation. COURT OF COMMON COUNCIL. Yesterday a (Curt was held, for the special purpose of receiving a report from the Thames Navigation and Port of London Committee, " for sealing deeds of agreement with water-works companies." THE GREAT NEW MARKET. Mr. ELLIOTT wished to know from the chairman of the Markets Committee what progress the committee were making as to the purchase of land upon which to build the new market which was to substitute Smithfield Market.—(Hear.) Mr. H. L. TAYLOR replied that the committee were proceeding satisfactorily in the purchase of seventy-two acres of ground upon a site which he would venture to say was preferable to any other that could be found in every respect. It was a site so much more eligible than the Islington site that no comparison could for a moment be instituted between them. (Hear, hear.) It was quite evident that Islington Market would stand no chance of competition when the market of which he spoke should be erected. It was, he considered, neces sary to state so much to the public, as he believed the Islington Market Company were endeavouring to induce the public to be the purchasers of their shares.—(Hear, hear.) That market had always been a failure, and always would be henceforward a deadly failure. He made that communication for the benefit of his fellow citizens. [Mr. H. L. Taylor was supposed by the Court to allude to the ground in Copenhagen.fields, about which it has been reported they have been for some time ne gotiating.] Mr. Deputy HOLY said money was so plentiful at present that every sort of speculation appeared to be legitimate. Mr. ELLIOTT said he supposed that Mr. H. L. Taylor's object in giving such an answer to the question was to prevent his fellow-citizens from joining in any specula tion which was likely to be crushed by coming in contact with the powerful influence of the corporation. The deeds of agreement were then sealed. THE MORE EASY RECOVERY OF SHALL DEBTS. Upon the motion of Alderman WIR.E, the Remembran cer was directed to draw up an abstract of the City of London Small Debts Extension Bill for circulation amongst the citzens, the subject being one of the greatest interest to all classes within the operation of the Act. Toe Court adjoufned after a very short sitting. ExTRAORDINARY AND FATAL INSTANCE OF MA TERNAL LOVE.-0a Monday night Mr. G. S. Brent held an inquest at the Prince Alfred, Lisson-square, Marylebone, on M ry Mead, aged 44, the wife of a respectable master baker. 8 x months ago deceased buried a favourite child, for whose d .ath she was inconsolable. She would go constantly to Kensal-green Cemetery, throw herself upon the child's grave, and wsep for hours. She would then gather the flowers that grew over the grave, bring them home, a nd leave them in water until they decayed, when she would eat them. Day after day she thus indulged her grief, and, upon returning home last Tuesday week, after visiting her child's grave as usual, she told her husband, children, and friends, that she only had a few days to live. She then had the mourning made for her children, which they were to wear for her, and having directed her husband to have the dead bell tolled for her, refused all medical aid, nourishment, and consolation, until Friday, when she fell a lifeless corpse from her chair to the ground. Mr. Obre, surgeon, performed the autopsy, and found the deceased died of disease of the heart, produced in his opinion by deep affliction. The jury, whom the e v.l deuce greatly affected , ret urned a verdict in accordance with the medical testimony. THE WEATHER AND CH Ps IN SCOTLAND. Enough of rain has now fallen for the growing crops ; but, from information from the n orth and from Ayrshire, we lear n that moisture is much required there. Here wheat is n ew bursting into ear, and in some of the more forward fields the ear is fully out, and is unusually large and well developed. The other crops are making rapid progress, and the almost universal flush of grass raised by the late genial showers, has caused an unusual demand for grazing stock of all kinds. Several fields of hay are cut, but the damp weather has re tarded operations. It seems, on the whole, to be a light crop ; and is the only exception to the most promising ap pearance of all kin's of crop that we have had for several SeasOns.—Scotsman. LECTuRFS ON GOLD AT TUE GOVERNMENT SCHOOL OF MINEs —The council of the Society of Arts have ap pointed a deputation to wait upon the director of the Go vernment School of Mines, to request th the eminent pro fessors of that school should immediately arrange a series of lectures on gold for the instruction of emigrants to Australia; and it is understood that they will endeavour to obtain the deliyery of thepe 'Kw.%) in the email* reek. THE SUN, THE CASE OF DR. ACHILLI AND DR. IVEVVMAN. 7 • - (Frein the Times.) gia - Chrious to observe upon se neo - , narrow issues the spirit of party virulence end religious iiiscord can con centrate themselves. The animosities of England and Scotland centred tor a time on the disputed authenticity of the poems of Ossian, and Whig and Tory never en countered each other more fiercely thau on the appa rently celiateeal question raised by the frailties of Queen Caroline.- Thelong animosity which has pre vailed between the Churches of England and Rime has been stimulated 'to the highest point by aggression and retaliation, by political egitation . and private contro versy. In no breast, however, does the flame of reli gious hatred burn so fiercely as in that of a convert. Vjohld you hear ull that can be said against the doc trine and discipline of the Church of England? —seek it from the lips of a renegade priest. Would you hear the rabid tirades of - Exeter-hall against the Church of Rome outdone?—attend the preaching-a and read the publications of some apostate friar. Thus it comes to pass th2t qaestions of the highest dignity and last im portance are brought down to the level of a personal brawl, aud that the great cause of the freedom of pri teatejadgrat-nt and the progress of the human intellect is, bound' up with this questionabl e ch arac t er o f an ohschre ecclesiastic. We cannot accept this issue; we cannot concede that this great controversy can be in the slightest degree advanced by attacking or defending the character of. Dr. Achilli, and we feel that the scandalous antrindecent matter which both parties, in their zeal to damage each other, have brought before the public eye, is likely to do more injury to the cause of morality and religion than any seeiarian or controversial triumph can possibly counterbalance. In apportioning the blame of this public scandal it is impossible to acquit Dr. Newman of having been the deliberate cause of the revolting con- Iliet we have just witnessed. In his zeal to destroy the evidende of Dr. Achilli against the Church, which few persons have condemned with more severity than himself, :Dr. Newman did not content himself with general and sweeping charges, but entered into details of time, place, and name, which were, in fact, more in the nature of a challenge than a criticism. The challenge was as greedily accepted as it was vauntingly offered, and so, by the mutual consent of the professors of two rival religiops which agree in teaching that " Blessed are the pure in heart," we have been involved in one of the most indecent investigations which ever sullied the atmosphere of a court of justice. What has either party gained by dragging these revolting details before the public eye? The Protestant supporters of Dr. Achilli have, indeed, succeeded in painting in very forcible co lours the known and admitted tendencies of the Church of Rome; they have shown how awfully the superhuman pawer which Rome places in the hands of weak and fallible mertals may tie prostituted and abused. They have shown that before man shall be permitted to pry into the heart end probe the conscience of his fellow creatures, ho ought to be invested with the perfection as well as the omniscience of the Deity. Little has the victim of this frightful power to hope frei'm the boasted discipline of the Church of Rowe. The- confessor shrouds the shame of a brother priest under the injunction of eternal silence. The religious orders connive at the delinquencies of a brother whose eloquence can support, and whose teaching edify, the Church. If scandal becomes trou blesome a change of residence removes all difficulties, and the Church is willing to let the discipline sleep which cannot be enforced without casting obloquy on the priestly character, and exposing the hollowness of the system on which she builds her pretensions and from which she derivea her riches. The dreaded Inquisition itself, that name of blood and terror, waxes mild in deal ing with merely moral offences, and reserves for heretics penalties which she is too mercihil to impose on the erring sons of the Church. These things have undoubtedly been presented to us by this remarkable trial in a tan , gible shape; but who is there so little versed in the his tory of the Runtish Church as to require three days o indecent details in order to convince him that if weak ness ha,s compelled abstinence from her favourite sin of cruelty; the Church of Rome still permits to her minis ters scarcely less licence than of old in the indulgence of unbridled last? It was scarcely worth while to pro voke such a discussion for the sake of enlightening wtestablished.inform those whose knowledge of history was too narrow so ill It vu igur generallytriumph, by andstimu lating so Dr. imaginations aw o n f t at antagonist. dd lue wtuin taev popular coarse o r fe indignationwhatever l b ti e t u i d t e s T , e t hf r o se d ert r e a ir w ; regard to him, leaves this part of the question wholly untouched. But, whil e t h ey have been thus success f u l in damaging by these most exceptionable means• the ob ject of their cherished aversion, have the ultra-Pro testant supporters of Dr. Achilli done nothing to lower their own charaFter for f a i rness and impart i a li t y, to im • pugs their own Judgment, and to bringc'ontempt on their own proceedings in - the never•ending controversy with the Church of Rome? How comes it that a man sus pected in the relations of private life, subjected to penal ties which would h a ve b een b ut a f e eble retribution for alleged vices and crim es , h as on ly to escape from the prisons of the Inquisition, and to inveigh with sufficient bitterness and pun genc y against the head of a church in which he was educated, in order to con ciliate for himself at once the friendship, the respect, and the affection of the Protestant party in religious and moral England? flow comes i t that to denounce the , Pope and the Inquisition superse d es the necessity of inquiry, of caution, and of probation? A man has no thing to do but to desert the belief in which he has been brought up, which experience informs us is seldom per manently exchanged far any other, in order to become a hero among per so n s w h o fi n d i n the revelations of the renegade Papist a stimulus to their curiosity which no other species of theological incentive can supply. Let his past lite have been as suspicious as it may, the single merit of conversion supersedes the necessity of inquiry. Such a man is selected, above all others, to preside over the education of the young and pure, and to teach a religion, his belief of which is taken on trust. Titus it comes through the singular want of judgment and less singular, but more deplorable, itching for novelty of our pre-eminently , Protestant leaders, that the defence of the doctrines of the Reformation has been for a moment identified with the career of a private person who has, at any rate, the nsisfortane to be the object of very numerous accusa tions. These things the supporters of Dr. Achilli have brought upon themselves, and, if they have wounded the Church of Rome, the sword has passed through their own sides. There is but one party who can gain by such a course, those whom Dr. Achilli calls the " nega tive" party, to whom Protestant and Catholic are both alike, to whom religion is mere priestc r a ft, its ministers hypocrites, and its ceremonies mummeries. Such per- s° " , see these things and smile , for they know from this unchristian conflict both parties must arise weakened and discredited, and that the only gainer from such a struggle will be ' not the Protestant prosecutor nor the Roman C a th o li c a ccuser. but the infidel who sneers and the blasphemer who scoffs at them both. (From the Daily Ames) The Achilli case is over. The huge scandal that has crowded tie newspapers, and has been the topic of so many discussions -- is—so far as the Queen's Bench and its reports are ceaborn e d c oncluded. Never since this journal w as established have the detai ls of such a trial totted rec or d i n its columns, an d— a cting upon the rule kid down for the exclusion of such details as that of the Newman libel —never would such a case have been re ported by us, had it not prese nted an aspect very differ ent from th ose which c haracterise trials revealing mere gross but ordinary criminality. In the p resent case, however, no rule of exclusion could be permitted to operate—since it was impossible to separate the cha r g es against Dr. A c hil li from the animus of those who pro moted them. The case has been, in truth, a priestly quarrel, fought out in a legal court, with debauchery for the charge, and oath against oath in the investiga tion. It has not been the mere case of a criminal upon trial. The women who came forward at the instance of Dr. Newman, as witnesses to declare that the ex- Dominican priest had polluted them, were not in court to ask justice ag a i ns t th e alleged debauchee. It was not an investigation of the damage done to the Cephalonian by criminal conversation with his wife; nor was it an inquiry into the fitness or unfitness of Dr. Achilli as a member of the Church under the shadow of which he is accused of committing so many sins. The case had a wider scope altogether, and involved a variety of interests that rendered it imperative upon every journalist to give each fact brought forward in evidence, and every argument both for and against the accused. In short, the case was one between two rival Churches —the Church of St. Peter and the Church that had its foundation, at the Reformation. It was a strife between the priesthood of Rome and the Evangelical Alliance— between a seceder from Popery and the most active agents of the Pope. The Papist slandered the Protes taut, and this disgusting trial has been the result. As the trial has proceeded, the interest in the public mind nas grown from day to day, until it has spread—with the reports of the investigation —to every oorner of the land. When the case was first opened, the statements of the witnesses were so decided, so circumstantial, and so numerous, that the feeling ran strongly against Achilli—any second thought upon the subject being one of astonishment at the amount of systematic perjury committed, if the various allega tions against him were untrue. When the case of Achilli was opened, upon the cross-examination of the several witnesses, and subsequently by the examination of the ex-Dominican himself; that astonishment was not diminished, however much the balance of belief might have inclined in his favour. Indeed, long before the seve ral advocates had fulfilled their duty, it was perfectly clear that, on ore side or the other, there was an amoui.t of perjury positively terrible to contemplate. And when the balance 'of evidence turned against the Romanists, an additional and overshadowing horror arose at the idedof what ramifications the perjury seemed to pass through—of, what men in high places in the Church of Rome might be implicated in the crime—and with what deliberate pertinacity the whole web of untruth had Been whven, until it seemed strong enough to entangle and defile, if_ not destroy, any reputation, however pure, against which it might b 3 turned. Many points of the trial and of the evidence provoke especial criti cism. Sir A. Cockburn warned the jury to be on their guard against the unconscious bias of any Protestant prejudices. This was' an allowable enough oratorical flourish—a hint that Dr. Newman and his witnesses might not meet with absolute fair play at the hands of professors 'of an alien creed. But, on the other hand, it might be urged that the Italian witnesses really were liable to suspicion on account of the manner in which they had been ferretted out and brought together. Dr. Newman sent over emissaries to Italy, who applied to dignitaries of the Romish Church and inquisitors to aid them in collecting' witnesses to defend their champion, Dr. Neiman, and ditqkhle their antagonist, Dr. Achilli —by blaclenit,g his character. This aid was willingly lent. • Many Italians were naturally disposed to htip their priests against one whom they deemed an apos tit(/' la additton, to refuse to beer evidence aguiust Achilli might, at this moment, expose any Italian to a charge of favoeriog 'duo Lettlr, it was naturally enough stated by Mealiest. Giustini or Vallenti that when first ilitsrregatect by her curate as to whether she could tell anything agaiest Dr. Achilli, she inquired whether it would be " for her own good?" end was assured it was "tor the honour of the holy Church," " for the honour of God." Undue influence it is clear could be brought to bear on the Italian witnesses; undue influence, j it Vallenti can be believed, was brought to bear on at least .one of them. These proceedings cannot exactly be called unprecedented in an English court of justice. The charges brought against Dr. Achilli, and the means re sorted to for obtaining witnesses in support of them, re mind one of the trial of Qu een Caroline, and the green bag commission of Milan. The charges were spread over twenty-six years of Dr. Achilles life; he was called upon to rebut charges of iecontinence with persons not named, in places and at times not specified. It was a terrible ordeal to undergo which no man unsupported by conscious inno cence, and even io that ease no man not possessed of more than average couraee, could have braved. The parallel with the case to which we have compered Dr. Achilles is the stronger frees the entire breaking down of the evidence so unscrupulously brought together. We hare no space to examine th e w h ole of that evidence i n d eta i l, bat, telting it in gro u p s or classes, its weakness, its ir relevance, can easily b e indicated. There was a Cadaoic priest adduced to prove the general bad character of Achilli, and some documentary evidence was offered in support of his testimony: there were witnesses brought forward to prove specific the lonian Islands; there W ere w i tness es produced to prove offences in England. sow offences in Italy, ~ ith regard to the first, the priest stated that at the time to which he referred he Malta, and was a boy of from ten to thirteen years of age. Among all the priests and monks of Viterbo, was there none who was then of mature years to spzak from actual obser vation to what the younker spoke of from hearsay? He declared that Achilli had a bad character at Viterbo, but admitted that he did not know why. Of the ex parte memorandum of a policeman offered as a substitute for records i a.leged to have been de stroyed in the revolution, it is unnecessary to speak, for it was not received. But Mr. Harting, a solicitor, pro ducsd " an official copy of the judgment of that court (the Inquisition) on Dr. Achilli." This " judgment," when examined, turns out to b e merely the declaration of a notary that he had examined th e " acts" in the case of Achilli, and that it appears from them that he bad confessed him;elf guilty of incontinence with various women; and that for these es °eences and "others re corded in the acts," he had submitted himself to the censure and punishment of the court, and bad been sus pended from the exercise of all Priestly functions. The so-called " judgment" is, in fact, at h e st, a garbled ex tract from the writings in the c ue of A c him preserved in the archives of the Inquisition, When it is remem bered that in the proceedings of that court the prisoner is not confronted with the witnesses aeainst him,—is examined in private,—is tortured with interrogations and his answers recorded by th e Inquisitors in their own words,—even a fun and certified copy of the whole written proce°dings and t h e judg ment pronounced would be very equivocal testimony; but extracts of isolated sentences apart from the context, that might have th rown a different light on them, interspersed with the remarks of the extractor, are utterly worthless. They may be Perverted by the mis takes of the excerptor, even on th e that he assumption made them in perfect g ood faith. As for the females who swore to Achilli a misconduct with them, Mme. Vallenti, for a woman in her rank of life, snowed a most suspicious familiarity with the etiquette of the con fessional. To one confessor she merely sa id she bad sinned with an ecclesiastic, witlaput mentioning his name, because that is not customary ; to another s he named Achilli lest be should suspect other and innocent persons. The instruction of a more instruct e d , war , y and expe rienced mind is here palpable. T he other female, and her mother, swore that the father and mother had accosted Achilli while making one of a procession, which they would not have been allowed to d The daughter, by way of making her story more p atheei , e, said her tether l had died of grief on account of her seductionbut of this the mother knew nothing! Th e , o witnesses — , one of whom was exhorted to give her evidence " for the ho nour of the Church," " for the honou r o f G o d," have been living for weeks together, talking ov er the evidence they were to give. Bat this is as nothing compared with the utter failure of the charg e too _ - -specting a tailor's wife at Corfu. The tailor himself was brought to this country, but made a precipitate retre4t, and refused to return, when be knew that the Inspector-General of Police in the lonian Islands was here. I n li eu of him was produced one witness, who swore that he had seen from a distance a person of Achilles stature leave the woman's door at night, and another of bad character who swore that be had seen the husband seize Achilli, though he confessed he had never seen Achilli before or since, and consequently could not know him. It is strong corroboration of Achilles t ruthfulness that he frankly admitted the incident, t h e proof of which had so signally failed, and produced the woman to allow of her being cross-questioned. Of Mr. Reynolds, whospoke to an alleged offence at Zante, it is enough to say that he is hostile to Dr. A c h i lli, who reb u k e d him for intern perancee—that he admits he has varied in the reasons he has at different times assigned for suspecting Achilli— that in the witness-box be betrayed his state of mind by assuming what he was afterwards obliged to admit he did not know—and that there are contradictions between his own evidence and that of his servant. As to the witnesses brought forward to prove criminality in England, their characters, as described by themselves, would be enough to deprive them of credit. And all of them admitted that they had been silent in cir cumstances when it is scarcely credible they could have abstained from making the charges now pre ferred—and all of them speak under the influence of anger. These and all other points of the case were doubtless fully considered by the jury who—after the three days' investigation had closed—deliberated amongst themselves for between two and three hours before giving their verdict in favour of Dr. Acbilli. And what does that verdict do? It shows to the fullest extent that Father Newman did indeed slide from the altitude of Christian faith to the depths of unworthy slander. It shows that his zeal for his new faith tempted him to leave logic, and argumen t, and learning—the proper weapons for his use —to take up a series of unworthy and slanderous allegations ready at hand in the pages of a Romish review, in which they had been placed by an anonymous but scarcely eunknown writer. But the ver dict does more. It confirms t h e dark suspicions that began to accumulate when the Italian women came, one after another, i nto the witness -box to swear away the reputation of Acbilli. Indeed, imagi nation is positively fatigued in the attempt to follow out those ramifications of criminality suggested by the idea that the whole case against Achilli must be one vast conspiracy_defeated in an English court of justice, but h aving its organization over half Italy. Wholesale perjury h as, i t i s clear, been corn mated. What share a —4 h ‘. the original author of the slanders in the concoction of this case for their defence; what share had Father Newman in the procuring of thesewitnesses, whose ev i dence has been upset; whatshare had the Romish priestly organization in Italy in the build ing up of the caos thrown into the dust by the verdict of last night? All these as , uestions thousands will now ask, and there is little doubt but the general answer wi vol e d. o M ne lieanwhile ttle favourable to an y of the reputations inve w e may f a irly pride ourselves upon the full investigation that the case has met in our open court—so unlik e the se r sition before which Dr. A _ et tribunal of the Inqui- , ... t '' ' un lill had formerly o stand. _.........—. NAVAL IN rr . c , - ,, , LLIGENCE. PORTSMOUTH, JUNE 444---The Edinburgb, 56, screw gunnery ship, Captain Howlett (acting), having had a returned to S . b d this morn• pit ea ing, and into harbour to cor a 1 Piete her outfit this evening. On her cruise she proceeded as far as the Land's•end, good trial cruise at sea, goicg down under sail, and returning under steam. She has in this proved her se lf a good seaboat, both under steam and sail, and is reported desired in a ship of her character. In beating down Channel she is reported to ha ve seagoing worked well and steered easy; and when under steam, to us all that could be have averaged a speed of between eight and nine knots er hour. When out her crew were well exercised at thee great gun drill, firing at an unmoored target, sailins. gtlnnery ship is reported of most satisfactorily. The Grampus, 50, advanced heex L p experiment r v i e m j e y n n t a i , l al li g frigate, has been taken to her moorings to day. .. z'ound it, 86c. Altogether to-day, with stores for Rear-Admiral Corry's squadron, , at Queenstown. The Boat Brigade of the ' Qr tstnouth Dockyard Bat talion has been exercised last this T nigh t and the previous night outside the harbour's mouth in firing blank cart ridge from their bow 2 ns —ti --' utide r th e command of Lieutenant-Colonel Davis (master attendant of the Royal Clarence Victualling Establi s h mee ,, v and they acquitted • themselves of their several duties with much satisfaction to their officers. Last night Captain W. A. A. Hemil ton, second secretary . to the Ad --a airaltv, accompanied Colonel Davis in his gig to see the e volutions of the bri gaPLde, Y MOUTH, with which he expressed himself much pleased. ' rHURSDAY:—The Black E ag l e Admi t' • --acht with Sir Baldwin Walker, ralty b earn I ' of the Navy, Mr. Stafford, Secretary to the Admiralty, and Mr. Grant, arrived from Portsmoh on Tuesday. The crew of her Majesty's steamut -v esse l BuzzArd. Commander Debbie, were paid advance on Tuesday, and she sailed yesterday for the West Indi a and North Ame rican station. _ The friga24, Trincomalee, 1,,,,, commissioned yes terday by Captain Wallace Houst on) with a complement of 210 men. The --- , alee, ;nd li l g arn ht: n r s H ai a lrsdwicke,to-day, w i th 16 caulkers, to work on the Windsor Castle, at P3mbroke. The 'tortoise East from Bombay, w" off the port last evening, bound to h , p v.aintlel. The Sprightly, s.team-tender, arrived here to-daY from Portsmouth, with supernumeraries. She sighted the Hieflyer, Dauntless, A!rogunt, and Encounter, steainiug westward, thirty miles euAt of Start Point. They are ordered to call at this port on their way down Channel. - --- A mooting of influential electors of Marylebone took place on Wednesday evening, at the Marylebone Court house, Mr. A. Daniell in the chair, when a com m ittee Was a ppointed to carry out the necessary a rrangements for se curing the re-election of Sir Benjamin Hall, Bart., and Lord Dudley Stuart, and it was una nimously dete r mined to return the Hon. Baronet and the Noble Lord free of expense. The Chairman stated that such a proceeding had been adopted in the case of Sir Francis Burdett in 1807, and it was a reflec tion on the constituencies that such a principle had been allowed to lie dormant for forty years. A DELICATE SURPRISE. — A lady whose no ti o ns of p ro p r i e ty would not permit her to visit th e th eatre t o sea Lola Montes on the stage , d et e rm ined , neverthel ess , t o g ratify her curiosity. The dans euse lod ged at the hotel w here the lady boarded, and whe n Lola returned from the theatre, the peeped in through latter walked softly to t he door and the crack. There, to be sure, was the lioness, seated at the table to a cozy supper, her companion being the peeping lady's °Wu husband.•-. Boston Gazette. LITERATURE PERSOIVAL ADVENTIII?ES of" OUR OWN , C ie SPO A' DE NT'' in ITALY. Ay Michael Burke Ronan. 2 Vols. Chapman and Ball. The reader is particularly informed, at the com mencement of these. hooks, that " they are not a reprint nor a reehauffe of the corresnandenee from Italy in the Times." They are, oe the contrary, perfectly original; and the author has specially avoided making my reference to of aial statements, the object being to relate his personal adventures, and cot compile historical facts. The anecdotes are written in a humorous style, and great ingenuity is displayed in their arrangement. They are evidently the reminiscences of ono who writes con aware, - and enjoys his pleasures over again in the recital. The events of his travels are very remarkable, and it is evident that he possessed the true spirit of a traveller, especially one seeking information, accommodation to circumstances, and the genius fur contrivance and invention. This facility enabled him to effect his entrance where others found closed doors ; and on one important occasion he managed to convey authen tic reports to London of the Congress at Iveplitz, in Bohemia. This last achievement took piece, how ever, at a much earlier period. A great deal of infor mation concerning the war in Italy is here given, and, from an intimate acquaintance with many leading characters, the narrator has gleaned intelli gence. of much value, which is made manifest in a novel and attractive manner. To all desirous of ex tending their knowledge of that momentous epoch referred to, and eager to become acquainted with the customs of those often discussed characters, it will doubtless be gratifying to meet with, these volumes. The following is a sample of his many difficulties :-- " I bad at Plaisance to undergo the greatest danger that bad occurred to me since the opening of the Canis paign. ,‘ It seems that my bad manner of pronouncing. Italian, added to my fair complexion, and desire to push forward, had induced sew ral of the violent but not fight ing patriots to believe that I was an Austrian, and of course a spy. Many a man was sacrificed for less during the latter days of the war of independence—not where the Piedwontese soldiers were found, for they were ready to prott et one, but in out of the way places, where native susceptibility or Italian pusillanimity had full play. "I was followed from the inn door by a crowd, till at our arrival at the bridge of boats which crosses the Po, I had to meet a mob of at least a thousand men, all vociferating 'Tadeschi and `Spin!' followed by the consoling word ' Mortal' Happily for me I retained a moderate share of composure; so standing up in the carriage, I entreated a moment's silence, stated I was an Englishman, and asked if there was any one present who could read. This appeal was answered by a school master or a parish clerk, and to him I unfolded first my British passport, and next the special privilege I had obtai❑ed from Charles Albert. This last document was a cleneher, as it was written in Italian, and bore all the official seals, and, confirmed by it, the validity of the passport was admitted. Had I not produced the Italian pass, the other paper would have been disre garded, or rather it exposed me to fresh suspicion, as no one in reality knew what it meant, and the eagle at tached to the Austrian Minister's visa rather produced an impression against me. "I saw at a glance, however, that a new doubt was engendered, certainly not creditable to an, and if I were first stopped as an Austrian spy, it was clear I was now sent as one employed by Charles Albert. The mob cheered me as I drove off, though one moment before they would have spilled my blood—hut such are the risks we correspondents run, though no lady thinks o giving us credit for nor adv.pro, HISTORY OF TIIE IL CONQUESTS IN INDIA. By Horace St. John. Colburn. This interesting work commences with toe intro duction of the Ecglish to India, and follows the his tory of the establishment of their power to the present constitution of the company. It is a singular fact that the first English who proceeded to India did so in the simple character of merchants, and the original charter of their association recognised no idea of political empire. "It has," observes the author, " been deprecated by the representatives of British power in the country, forbidden by peremptory de crees of the Imperial Legislature, opposed by the supreme authorities in the Company, and, since 1784 especially, incredible pains have been taken to confine its limits. Their policy throughout has been opposed to territorial acquisition." The following extract from the second volume shows, however, that though opposed to territorial acquisition, it has nevertheless been their destiny The monuments of a genuine and pious civilization are not pyramids, or pagodas, or towers, or columns, or any of those huge trophies by which the daring but bar barian genius of a Pharoah or a Mogul endeavoured to perpetuate its fame. The achievements of the English in their Indian possessions belong to another order. " They did not appear to the natives like the Spaniards, as centaurs, wielding the lightnings of heaven, or like the Arabs, irressistible in their religious z-al, or like the Tartars in China, or the Gethic invaders of Southern Europe. They came without a plan ; they followed those who had dedicated the old Nestorian churches on the coast of Malabar, and in less than one hundred years accomplished the erection of an empire, spacious as that which nine centuries of .113 man conquest, from Romulus to Trajan, were required to complete. Every ancient power has disappeared before them. The only independent princes remaining, are recent usurpations, and the governors whom their toleration allows to rule, are stanning accusations against their justice, and the sincerity of their desire to promote the civilization of Asia." As we have before said, the work traces the whole history of British India in its political aspects, as well as in the more minute details respecting its in habitants. The style is attractive, and the informa tion to be gained considerable, and though not pos sessing the varied adventures of travels to fascinate the reader, it commands his interest and attention by its complete and consistent account of so important a subject as the political history of British India. ROYAL POLYTECHNI C INT- IT UTION.— During th i s week the institution has been visited by the Duke of Wel lington, Duchess of Northumberland, Duchess of Sutherland Duchess of Buccleuch, Marchioness of Exeter, Marchioness of Douro, and a large number of the aristocracy. ROYAL DISPENiARY FOR. DISEASES OF THE EAR. — The thirty-fifth annual meeting of the governors and friends of this useful institution was held yesterday at the dispensary, Dean-street, Soho-square ; the Rev. W. Brock in the chair. The report stated that the institution bad been in operation upwards of thirty years, and during that time had been the means of restoring an important faculty to thousands, who would otherwise have been disqualified from following their daily vonations. During the past year, 1,029 patients had been received,' of whom 335 were cured, 129 relieved, and 502 remained under treatment; and in no case had the treatment adopted produced injurious results, where it failed to effect a cure. The patients generally consisted of clerks, needlewomen, domestic servants, artisans, dis tressed foreigners, soldiers, and sailors, who have received advice from Mr. Harvey, the medical officer, to whom the institution is chiefly indebted for its success. The principal causes of the loss of hearing are stated to be living in confined or damp localities, the want of due precaution against wet or dampness, uncleanliness, and insufficient or adulterated food. The mode of treatment has been purely constitutional. Operations have not been resorted to except in urgent cases, and the result is that none have been injured by the system pursued. In conclusion, the report stated that the funds had been augmented of late, although not commensurate with the great increase of applicants. Strict economy had, how ever, prevented any great increase of debt. They acknowledged a legacy of 1051. from the late Mr. T. Roberts, and the ready assistance of the clergy. On the motion of Mr. Clarke, who bore testimony to the able treatment adopted, seconded by Dr. Richards, the report was unanimously adopted. Other resolutions were also agreed to, returning thanks to the patrons, subscribers, and officers of the institution. A vote of thanks to the chairman concluded the business. ROYAL GENERAL PENSION SOCIETY.--.-The apnual general meeting of this society for granting pensions to de serving and necessitous aged persons was held yesterday at the offices of the society,:32, Sackville-street, Piccadilly; Sir Peter Pole, Bart., in the chair. The rep ,rt of the past year was read and adopted, from which it appeared that there were eight men at 3s. 6d per week, and 30 women at 2s. 6d per week, who were receiving the society's bounty, twenty nine of whom were upwards of seventy years of age. The receipts for the past year amounted to the sum of 8541 175., when, after paying all expenses, there was a surplus fund in the hands of the treasurer amounting to 2351. 17s , in conse quence of which it was determined.to raise the weekly pay ments sixpence per week extra. INFANT ORPIIAN ASYLUM, WANSTEAD.—Yesterday the anniversary fete of the above institution took place in the beautiful grounds and building at Wanstead. The weather was truly propitious, and drew fourth a numerous and fashionable assembly of about 400 ladies and gentle men, amongst whom were Earl Manvers, Lord R. Grosvenor and daughter, the Bishop of St. Asaph, Lord Calthorpe, Sir J. Morrison and lady, &c. The examination of the 280 children gave great satisfaction. Subscriptions were an nounced to the large amount of 5,53'' 1., which included do nations from her Majesty, Prince Albert, the Duchess of Kent, Lord R. Grosvenor, &c. MR. WILLIAM CORBETT. Th tlns r g ee returns have the writs and ap plications for writs of habeas corpu s i l u io s n t b to ee t n h p e ri o n n t e ed al b r L d o y rde e r ot o i f ee t d h , e sh l e l w o eof Lords, in addi tt i and the numb er o f Cobbett actions brought by Mr. William Co nth o e common l a w ' t s he ße p n l c e h e were courts. In the Crown side of the Court of ases7, actionsa n in 5 writs of habeas corpus were issued , and ol ue o e f n side 19. In forma pauperis there person, 5, making the 19 . In the same side writse were brought. In the Court of Common Pleas 4of habeas co rpus were issued , besides which , 0 applications f writs were made to the Court sitting in banco , all of which, o f w t h e exception of one, were refused. In the same cout i tt i 7 th o act i ons were brought, and no further steps taken. In Court of Exc he q uer 42 a pp lications were made by Mr.t" Cobbett or on his behalf, out of which 19 were refused. M Cobbett brought 17 actions in the Court of Exchequer. The return already noticed showed that 32 writs of habeas corp us had been applied for out o f the Court of Chancery by Mr. Cobbett. CAMBRIDGE, JUNE 24.—MEmBvits' PRIZE mAN .—The prizes given annually by the representatives in the best dlssertw compose the • Parliament for the . Univer3ity to two Bochelors of Arts who ions in Latin prose, have been ad judged Trinity College. present year to Dr. Edward Henry Perowne, o_dlege, and Dr. Corpus Christi Spencer Perceval Butler, have been awarded. co mmencement. No under pos„s at the rrheexercises will be recited by their com graduates' prizes LIBERAL BEQuEcTs.—The will of Mrs. Msrianne Becker, of Bath, has just been proved, in which a sum of about 28, 0 00/. is bequea t h e d to various charitable and reli gious purpuse. Among these We hotice—The Church Alis sionary Society, 3000/. ; the Church Pastoral Aid Society, 3,0001.; the Society, 1,0006 ; th e hie r a v i au 1,0004 LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, JUNE 25, 1852. BRITISH ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH COM PANY BILL. Thrown out upon the ground that "Standing Order No. 176 of the House of Lords" was applicable, and had not been complied with, and ought not to be dispensed with. The following is a copy o memorial memorial nbout to be presented to the Prime Minister from the bankers, merchants, brokers, shipowners, and other s of the large cities, manufacturing and seaport towns of England, Scotland, and Ireland. inserted by order, GEORGE SAWARD, Sec. London, June 24, 1852. THE HUMBLE MEMORIAL OF BANKERS, MERCHANTS, SHIPOWNERS, MANUFACTURERS, AND OTHERS, OF THE TOWN AND PORT OF LIVERPOOL, TO THE RIGHT HON. THE EARL OF DERBY, PRIME MINISTER," &C. Sheweth—That your memorialists in particular, and the public in general, have lately enetained a greatisjur,y in the loss of the British Eiectric Telegraph Company's Bill, under circumstances so wholly unprecedented, as to point to the absolute necessity of some constitutional measures being adopted to insure for the public an assi milation of those technical regulations of the two Houses of Parliament professedly formed for the protection of the public, and known as the Standing Orders. That while your memorialists fully admit the consti tutional and practical importance of separate inquiries being made in each House of Parliament into the merits of every Bill, they earnestly submit that common justice and common sense alike imperatively require either that one inquiry in limine us to matters of form should suffice, or that the two inquiries as to matters of form should, by arrangement between the two Houses of Parliament, take place in the outset of every Bill. That the contrary practice often entails the following state of things:— A Bill is introduced into the House of Commons. The Standing Orders are inquired into for days together before the examiners, who find them to have been complied with. Leave is therefore given to introduce the Bill. The Bill is introduced accordingly. It is road a second time, and large House fees in curred. It goes before a Select Committee, where many thousand pounds, great industry, and much time are spent in establishing its merits. The Select Committee reports favourably. The report is considered. The Bill is read a third time, and then sent to the Lords. Then 'commences the most grievous anxiety on the part of the promoters, not in respect of the merits of the measure, for all admit that it is just enough that a review of the merits (being in the nature of an appeal) should take place. But all this anxiety arises from the revival of the points of mere form with which all this costly process first began, viz., Standing Orders : In vain do the provincial public express their incredu lity that a measure thus far tostered by so much money, labour, and care, can possibly be allowed to be wrecked in half an hour by the putting upon pure forms a con struction differing from that which had in the outset with infinite nains been put upon the same forms ; or by the sudden leap into life of a standing order long since believed and understood to be dead, and which had passed into desuetude for more than 21 years. The work of months of labour is extinguished, the parties have practically no appeal, and they go home to complain bitterly that they have suffered in a manner which no foresight cou!d have guarded against, but which, nevertheless, a slight amount of co-operation and courteous understanding elsewhere might have wholly prevented. - They have not the comfort of feeling that this Bill has fallen in a fight on merits, but as it were in an un worthy and obscure skirmish, which they would have avoided if they could, or they feel it to have been thrown into a mediaeval oubliette, the existence of which they could scarcely bring themselves to believe. That such has been the fate of ono of the most im portant, useful, and necessary measures of the present year. - That your memorialists allude to the British Electric Telegraph Company's Bill, which, having been for four teen days investigated before a Select Committee of the House of Commons, was unanimously approved of by that Committee, and which was carried by a majority of 150 on the second reading. That the following matters were, among others, proved before that Committee: — That the old Electric Telegraph Company had succeeded in drawing a hitherto impassable barrier or cordon around the metropolis, so that no electric communication can reach or leave London by rail way but by the telegrapbs of the old company only. _ That the old company have effected that state of things by coercing or by inducing, for valuable con sideration, railway companies to exclude the tele graph of other companies from railways having termini in London. The chairman of the Great Northern Railway Company gave evidence before the Committee of such coercion having been effectually practised upon that reluctant company. That the chairman of the Old Electric Telegraph Company has a private signal, known as" A. K.," and that the moment any message with that signal is sent to any of such Company's Telegraphic Stations, all other business is instantly put aside and precedence given to " A. K." before all messages, even those of her Majesty's Government, or of the Royal Family. That the chairman of the Old Electric Tet=graph Company has the telegraph wires carried into his own private house. That the public are highly dissatisfied with the present mode of conducting the electric t e l egrap h communications to and from the metropolis, and earnestly desired, and by very numerous petitions to both Houses of Parliament, prayed (though prayed in vain) for the safe passage through Par liament of the British Electric Telegraph Company's Bill. That your memorialists, in speaking on a public sub ject, are fairly entitled, without imputing any motives, or desiring, or in the slightest degree intending to sug gest or insinuate anything unworthy; to say that in this great commercial country, where knowledge is indeed power, and where the first intelligence upon public matters of importance is invaluable, and may be indeed a source of untold wealth, these gigantic powers ought not to remain as at present in the sole keeping of the old Electric Telegraph Company, but ought to be at the equal service of the public. That the Select Committee were satisfied that the British Electric Telegraph Company's Bill would have remedied these public evils by accomplishing the follow ing objects:— _ _ _ 1. A compulsory power (subject in the case of each railway both to the veto and to the regulations to be made by the Board of Trade) to take tele graphs along the railways so as to reach the ra e • tropolis. 2. Limited liability (as to future matters), with out which it was clearly proved by most eminent witnesses to the Select Committee that no company could raise the capital, from time to time required to carry on the business of the public, and to erect telegraphs fcr the use of the Government, especially in the face of the gigantic status and monopoly ob tained by the old Electric Telegraph Company by the means before mentioned,, That this most important Bill came under the fullest consideration of the Government, and passed the House of Commons amidst the good wishes and congratulations of the public, and especially of that portiCta of the pub lic which is suffering so much from the present system, and which knows how to appreciato the inestimable value of the progress and development of one of the greatest boons which a beneficent Providence has of late years given to mankind. That, on the suggestion of the old Electric Telegraph Company and their allies, this important measure has been treated as deserving to be thrown out, because, in pursuance of a Standing Order (No. 176), the British Electric Telegraph Company had not deposited in the Bank of England the enormous sum of 225,0001., being three-fourths of the maximum amount contemplated to be raised under the powers of the Bill from time to time, as the extension of telegraphs might be required, which sum, under the circumstances above detailed, it is alto gether unnecessary for your memorialists to say the company could not raise and deposit and the raising of which sum, moreover, in the first instance would be a most extravagant and useless proceeding, inasmuch as the very nature of these telegraphic works is their gra dual extension as exigencies from time to time arise. That your memorialists desire to make every state ment within the strictest bounds of accuracy, and, there tore, they respectfully beg that careful inquiry may be made into a statement which they have reason to be lieve, viz., that such Standing Order bad slept in desue tude for about twenty ono years, until the 21st of June, 1852 —in fact, during a time sufficiently long for a new generation to be born and to grow up. Tbat the said Standing Order was made so long ago as the 2d of June, 1824, to meet the bubble companies, which were the offspring of the then monetary excite ment, and is opposed to the whole current of the modern amended Standing Orders relating to public works; and, as an evidence thereof, your memorialists state the striking fact that it applies just as much to railways, water-works, gas works, &c., as it can by any ingenuity be made to apply to electric telegraphs; and that, (had it not happily fallen into desuetude) its application would as effectually have prevented the existence at this moment of almost every railway, &c., in the kingdom, as its recent application seems unhappily but too likely to key this country behind all other countries in the use and spread of the electric telegraph. That in the case of several public works analagous to electric telegraphs, not even a subscription contract is re quired by the Standing Orders, and in the case of no other public work whatsoever do the Standing Orders of either House of Parliament require more on that head than th© following:- 1. A subscription contract to the extent of three. fourths of the estimates. 2. Ono tenth only of the three-fourths so sub scribed to be deposited in the Bank, And yet, in consequence of this revival of a Stand ing Order passed many years before electric telegraphs were known, and when railways themselves were only just beginning their existence, it will he quite impossible for an electric telegraph company to obtain the same footing as other companies of vastly less importance, unleE's such Electric Telegraph Company can do what no other company ever could do, viz.—lied and actually deposit thr,e-fourths of its cepital as a condition, pre cedent to getting its Act givii:g it incorporation like railway, g,s, and other like companies. That the evils complained of in the numerous peti tions of the public have thus been unhappily rivetted upon them, and the parties who were active and ener getic in,endeavourin g to remedy these evils have begin greatly and unexpe: tedly discouraged. Your Memorialists, therefore, humbly pray that the shove important public facts may be taken into your Lordship's most grave consideration; and That such measures may be taken, or represen tations made, as to your wisdom may seem best calculated to procure the assimilation of the Stand ing Orders of the two Houses of Parliament, and their uniform and concurrent action in the outset of private Bills; and To amend such Standing Orders in such re spects as may be necessary to prevent their impeding the due progress of the wonderful improvements of, and the answering the great necessities of, the pre sent generation. And your Memorialists will ever pray, &c. SPORTING NOTES. No. CCU THE NE WCASTLE MEETING— k RETROSPEC TIVE GLANCE. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUM. SlR,—The Pas`; meeting at Newcastle has resulted in some untoward cons€ will materially affect some of the great n - e s z i e , s e; o w f hi t c h h e tumn. Tuesday':, r ace , were remarkable for the victory of Lucio in the N ort h Derby and for that of The Cutler in the Members' Pl a t s Handicap. former was ow ing ing to the bolting of th e Marine The lla I h otherwise could hardly have l os t ; and the la t ' w o tter for some time past under-estimated, now in fine form and tavoured by a moderate weight, e h first time in his existence that he for the a- was pos sessed of considerable speedy powers, beating that fast filly of Mr. Meiklam's, Evadne as he others, including The Italian, M a id of Tea'maVa ten and Pelopidas. This race of The C u tl er i t must be Hey' re membered was only for a mile, and at th at distance, at a moderate weight, he will be found very d angerous during the present year. The fact of Azeth being dead amiss did not reach m e in safficient time to enable me to give it publicity so as to prevent money being thrown away on his chance for the Second Triennial Produce Stakes, or the loss of many p.p. bets about him would not have occurred. If he had been in anything like form, it is perfectly clear to any one that the Miss Whip colt would have stood. no earthly chance of defeating him; as it was, Lord Glas gow's colt quietly walked over. That clever filly of Mr. Bell's, by lago out of Miss Eliza, 'yclept Ann Eliza, managed to beat o,borne's Lambton very cleverly by a neck for the Tyro Stakes; Charming Woman finishing a bad third. Both Ann Eliza and Lambton are useful animals in a second-rate field, but would have very little chance if pitted against any first-rate class two years old. Happy Joe somewhat ustonished his friends and the public b,y winning the Trial Stakes cleverly from Sham rock, Brawn, and five others, including Agnes Wickfield and England's Glory. This performance of Happy Joe's, who previous to the race was valued at 50 pounds or under, found him a new proprietor at 200 soya. Here it must be also borne in mind that this victory was obtained over the T. Y. C., and that any distance exceeding that would be completely against the horse, as his qualities are those of speed for a short distance, but without the power of staying. _ _ The Produce Stakes on Wednesday were won some what unexpectedly, and yet very easily, by Sir C. Monck'd colt by Touchstone out of Garland, who b"at the favourite. Lord Fauconberg, the son of Birdcatcher, and Alice Hawthorn, without any difficulty by two lengths. The Northumberland Plate resulted, as I and every body else expected, in favour of Mr. Meiklam's slashing colt Stilton, who won without any difficulty under the pilotage of Aldcroft by half a length; Colsterdale, giving only four pounds for the sear to the victor, being second, Cossack a bad third, Snowdrop fourth, Caracara fifth, the gelding by Morgan Rattler sixth, Stafford seventh, and Neasham, who finished his racing career by breaking down, last. The race was run at a fair pace from end to end, and well tests the merits of Stilton as a racehorse. The immediate con sequence of his victory was of course his elevation to the rank of first favourite for the Goodwood Cup, for which he stands a capital chance, and not more than 3 to 1 is obtainable about his winning it. This victory, however, entirely spoils his chance for any of the great handicaps of the present year, for he is sure to be dosed with a stiff weight—too stiff to win, I calculate. Mr. Meiklam's rattling filly Evadne, after carrying Est 61b, and running second to The Cutler at 7st 51b for the Members' Plate on Monday., comes out on the following day with 6st 111 b up, ued beats the Knight of the Garter, receiving but 101 b for the year, for the Free Handicap, by a head, after a beautiful race, walking over the same day for the third Triennial Produce Stakes, Pelopidas being afraid to meet her; and yesterday finishing her three days' performances by defeating that wonder of other days, Nancy, rather easily than otherwise, by three parts of a length. These per formances are very superior, and prove that getting a distance and speed are qualities she is not deficient in; her victories this week having been over the mile, three quarters of a mile, and two mile courses. She must not be forgotten. It is an old saying, that " it never rains but it pours," for Dawson, after having swept the Northumberland Plate Free Handicap, Third Triennial, and Gold Cup, brings out his Chief Justice, who is evidently much im proved since last year, and wins her Majesty's Plato very easily with him from the Marinella colt, Presto, and tour othere, on the Wednesday; and the Corporation Plate, with Sst 71b_up, beating a good field yesterday. Such luck as this is not often seen. The greater part of the good things this year seem destined to find their way into the northern stables. Sir Charles Monek's Brother to Vanguard, after beat ing Lord Fauconberg on Wednesday, was again victo rious yesterday in the rac3 for the Grand Stand Stakes, beating with considerable ease Anteverta, Lambton, Roger Thornton, and Nestor. In my opinion this horse is quite equal to his brother ; and being co, will often bear Sir Charles's colours in the van; more over, he is very susceptible of improvement, his present condition and appearance being not altogether of the most blooming description. The Gateshead Lottery Stakes being over the two mile course, suited Pdopidas to a nicety, he winning rather easily from Happy Joo and that curiously named horse The Varmint. The Speculation Plate and Scurry Handicap require no comment. -- The three southern meetings of Bibury, Stockbridge, and Winchester, I shall make a point of dilating upon to-morrow.—l am, Sir, &c. THE SPIRIT OF THE TURF. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. NEWCASTLE-ON-TYNE RACES.—TEIIIRSDAY. The Gateshead Lottcry Stakes of 10 soya, each, p.p. and 50 added, the second to save his stake; three yrs old, colts, Bst 7!b, and fillies, Bst 41b. Two miles. (14 Subs.) Lord Klinton's Pelopidas (Marlow) 1 Mr. Dawson's The Varmint (Cartwright) 2 Mr. Morris's Happy Joe (Basham) 3 Betting-6 to 4on Pelopid as . W on easy by a length and a half. The Gold Cup Stakes of 10 sovs. each, p.p., for three yrs old, Est 1011); four, Bst 51b; five, 9st; six and aged, 9s 31b; mar es and geldings allowed 31b. Two miles. (12 Subs.) Mr. Meiklarn's Evadne, 3 yrs (Aldcroft) 1 Mr. Martiuson's Nancy, 4 yrs (Msrson) 2 Betting -7 to 4on Nancy, who was beaten cleverly in a good race by a neck. The Corporation (Handicap) Plate of 60 guineas. Once round and a dis. Mr. Williams's Chief Justice, 5 yrs, Bst 71b (T. Lye) 1 Mr. Hesseltine's Lough Bawn, 4 yrs,6st 91b(Aldcroft) 2 Mr. Walters's Mary Nobbler, aged, 6st (J. Hall) 3 Mr. Walters's Maid of Team Valley, ist 81b (Arnold) 4 Mr. J. Anson's Haricot, 5 yrs, 7st (Dickson) 0 Mr. John Osborne's Kathleen, Est 131 b (J. Osborne) 0 Mr. Goodwin's La Gazza Ladra, Est 81b (Charlton) 0 Mr. Altardyce's Fancy Girl, 3 yrs, Est (Chilinan) 0 Mr. Whit.3's Snowdrop, 3 yrs, sst 31b (Carroll) 0 Mr. Harrison's Lindrick, 3 yrs, sst .........(F. Bates) 0 Mr. Barker's bg by Roscius, 3 yrs, 4st 101 b (Gunter) 0 Betting-5 to 4 agst Chief Justice, sto 1 each agst Haricot and Kathleen, 6 to 1 each agst Snowdrop and Roscius gelding, and 7to 1 agst Lough Bawn. Won in a canter by a length, the same between the second, third, and fourth. The Speculation Plate of 20 sovs., added to a sweep. stakes of 5 sovs. each, the second to receive 10 goys. out of the stakes, and the winner to bo sold for 2001, unless entered for a smaller sum. Once round. (8 Subs.) Mr. T. Lister's Brawn, 3 yrs (501.), Est llb (Carroll) 1 Mr. Meiklain's Cleveland, 3 yrs, 6it 41b (Aldcroft) 2 ...... s) b 0 Mr. J. Gill's bc by Melbourne, 3 y rs (Chiltnan) .1 Mr. Hardman's Gumfliwer, 6 yrs, 7st 71b ...(A rnold) " 0 Mr. S.,ence's Miss Lavinia, 3 yrs, Est llb ...... (Wells) 0 0 Mr. Dawson's Miss White, 3 y rs , Sat 71b Mr. H. J. Thompson's br g by Morg an R attler (B, 7st ate4l ßrawn. Betting—Even on Cleveland, t . n d 4 to 1 agst Won by a neck, the second beating the third by the same. The Grand Stand Stakes of 10 sovs. each, 5 ft, and 50 added, the second to save his stake, for two and three yrs oid. T.Y.C. (10 Subs.) Sir C. Monck's Vindex, 2 yrs. 6st 121 b Mr. J. Dawson's Anteverta, 2 yrs, 6st 91b...(Aldcroft) 2 ' Mr. J. Osborne's Lambton, 2 Yrs, 6.t 12Ib ..(Arnold) 0 Mr. J. Gill's Hecate colt, 3 yrs, Bst 121 b (J. Ilonves) 0 Mr. F. Walker's Roger Thornton, 6st Arnold) ") t o 1 al(72:lt.b.(lCC a l : dli t e h r andl : 3 e t : ° e n r ) t3 'l ' Betting—Even on Lanabtop, 3to 1 agst Anteverta. Vinctex mad e nearly run ning, and won a fine race k ~ 3 ' a short nec k l A re . n ' t ' beating Lambton by a head; the rest "n„,°,70 where. the The Scurry Handicap of 3 sovs. each 01 7; 5 - Subs.) second to save his stake. T.Y.C. ' (Vells) 1 3 , yrs, t .5 2 t 1b 5 . 1 . b . ... . ..................... 3 I Mr. T. Lister's Brawn, 3 yr., Mr. C irter's Farmer's Bhy, 6st Mr. Brown's Rattlecap, 2 yrs, 4.4 61b . : .„, 9 .... ( ......... 0 I Mr. Spark's Presto, 4 yrs, Mr. Barker's Tordesillas 5 yrs, ,--- -lb .. - f.j. Sh ar p e ) 0 ~, (J.Osborne) 0 Mr. Wright's Miss Ply awa y, 4 yrs, 7-- s - t l 7 ,b (Dickson) 0 Mr. Skeene's Lola Aloutes, 5 Y"' 7 .7- t 41b (T. L y e) 0 Mr. Df.,,WSOla'S Ernerystone, 3 rs, , 21b ...... (Aldcroft) 0 Mr. Cook's Tom pin c h,3 yrs, Tat Est 101 b ...(Chariton) 0 . Bst ..... , ...... ib l M. Wentworth's ilafed, 3 Y" , i 1 . 21b (J. Gill) 0 Mr. J. Gill's Shanarock , p 2 re Y s r t s o ' n,d - 4 to 1 asst Rattlecap, 6 Betting -5 t o 2 apt Etnerystone, 7to 1 apt to 1 each agst Farmer's 13 4 0 - d , Bra wl .) , and S to 1 ag s r t .-'3 lengths between second and Won by a length' Two third. IDLE RACES.—THITRSDAY. The Third Year of ' yrs old colts and filliez; the winner s"s• each, for four the Second Triennial Stakes of 10 s . tow STOOKBra— , to pay 25 sous. ) ar towards expenses. Two miles and a a halt. (36 Lamartine, Sat 101 b (A. Day) 1 Mr. Poriaci6 s IT 1 4. ~., ----- .-, 'i G~%~ ~ f = r Lord Clifden's Harpsichord, :70 / M r . R. Eswall's Iracundus, Bst ke,;;l/4% ~-„,(6ereY Duke of Richmond's Antigone, Won with difficulty by a nor.k. off, and Antiaone broke down.; iron in 5 ruin. 4 secs. The Second Year of the Third Triennial Seakes of 10 soya. each; for three yrs old colts, Bst 101 b ; Bilies, g st 5113, &c. The winner to pay 25 soya. towards ex penses. One mile and a hail. (43 Subs.) L,rd Ribblesdde's Kingston, Bst 71b Mr. Parker's Joe Miller, Bst 71h (Goater) 2 Mr. Herbert's Lithograph, Bst 101 b (Sly) 3 Mr. Dorrien's Chief Baron Nichol son , 82171 b ......... 4 Betting-6 to 4en Joe Miller, 4to 1 aga t K ingston, and sto 1 egit Chief Baron Nicholson. Won in a can ter by three length;, the same between second and third. The race was not timed. The llottisfont Stakes of 15 sous. each, 10 ft, and 100 soy& added; for two yrs old colts, Bst 71b; and fillies, Bst 41b. Winners once 51b, twice or more 71b extra. The winner to pay 25 sore. towards expenses. Tme. (45 Subs.) Lord Clifden's b c Cheddar (F. Butler) 1 Mr. Howard's Vauhrois (A. Day) 2 Mr. Whieidon, jan.'s Prevention (Rogers) 3 Mr. R. E. Cooper's Miss Tennyson ...(Bartbalomew) 0 Mr. U. Dorrin's Goldeit Plover (Kitchener) 0 Mr. Farrance's Miss Emma .... (H. Goater) 0 Mr. Grevillea Peach (Platman) 0 Mr. H. Hill's Ireland's Eye (Keton) 0 Mr. Vickers's Lascelles (A. Cowley) 0 Betting-7 to 4on Vsultress, and 4to 1 each agst Cheddar and Prevention. Won cleverly by a length and a half, VataWeis beat ing Prevention by two lengths. Run in 1 min. 27 sees. The Stewards' Plate of 100 sovs., added to a Sw( ep stakes of 10 Boys. each, h ft, for three yrs old and up wards. The winner to pay 10 sovs. towards expenses. Two miles. (62 Subs.) Lord Palmerston's Buckthorn, 3 yrs, Est 6lb (Cowley) 1 Lord Clifden's Poodle, 3 yrs, Est 101 b (G. Mann) 2 Mr. Oshaldeston's Mountain Deer, Bst 4lb ...(Hiett) 3 Mr. J. M. Stanley's Clincher, 5 yrs, Bet 1116 (A. Day) 4 Lord Enfield's Hernandez, 4 yrs, Bst 41b (Flatman) 0 t Betting— n/.41.r. S Aeon's The Black Doctor, Bst 4113...Wraham) 0 '''", r• . 1 . Clark 's Elcot, 3 yrs, Est 1016 (Kendall) 0 it '",„` P R. Pigott's Father Thames, Est 10lb (Castleman) 0 --..r. j. ' Woolcot's Kate, 3 yrs, 6st 121 b agst Black (Burn) 0 o 1 each sto 2 agst Buckthorn, 7to 2 agst Poodle, 6 'WA Hernando and Mountain Deer, 8 to 1 second place Won cleverly b y ' length and a half. A fine race for Doctor and 10 to 1 a s tvst Clincher. The First Year of 50 sees. was a won by a neck. Run in 3 min. sovs. each, fo r Placid, Cuckoo fl two Fourth Triennial Th Stakes, of 10 sovs. towards ex Mr.Osbaldeston's S " . to yrs old. Dee e r, wt s ti t c s ;r b ( t H o ie p t s t y ) 25 1 vet ' s " Si furlongs. (30 Subs.) Mr. Armstron g's Duke of Richmond's Cuckoo c (Rogers) 2 --, Bst 2'b (Fla man) 3 Mr. J. Powney's Cineas, B.:t 7113 .. ' ". (A Day) 4 Mr. Vickers's Psaltery, Bst Sib ............. A. _ Betting-2 to 1 agst Ci neas, 5 .... 6 to 1 sgst Sister to Mount a i n D eer agat C (ulckoo ton) fi y, .... ......... Nia ll b and 50 to 1 agst Psaltery. . 6 to 1 agst Placid, Won cleverly by a length, two len gt h s se cond and third. Cineas a bad f ourth. between Run in one In Th in e . S 2 tae 29 secs. o ecs. f 5 sovs, each and 25 addc,d, for two &c. yrs old and up (6 Subs.)wards. Winner to be said for 150/., T.Y.C. Mr.Armstrong'sTheMoor, aged (80/.)Bst 61b (A.D a . v ., Mr. Magenis'sPslma f, 2yrs (SC/ )4st l3:1( Elempae' Mr. Dorrien's Chaplet, 4 yrs, (1001)8st 21b(K,t c h„ai. ) 2 Mr. S. Scott's Joy, 3 yrs, (1001.) 7st 2lb (G, Alarm) 0 8 Mr. Farrance's Terpsichore, 4 yrs, Bst 71b (W. Day) 0 Mr. T. Smith's Lady Octavia, 2 yrs (50/) 4st 131 b 0 Betting-5 to 2 agst Palms filly, 3to 1 sgst The Moo r. Won by two lengths. Time 1 min. 23 secs. COURT CIRCULAR. The Queen and Prince Albert, accompanied by the Prince of Wales, the Princess Royal, Prince Alfred, and the Princess Alice, and attended by Msjor-General Buckley and Colonel Bouverie, went yesterday morning to Westminster Hell, and afterwards inspected different parts of the New Palace of Westminster. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent visited her Majesty yesterday at Buckingham Palace. Her Royal Highness also paid a visit to her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester, at Gloucester House. Her Majesty and his Royal Highness Prince Albert, accompanied by the Princess Helena and the Princess Lunisa, took a drive in an open carriage and four yesterday afternoon. The Equerries in Waiting, Major- General Buckley and Colonel Bouverie, attended on horseback. The Queen and Prince Albert, accompanied by the Prince of Wales, the Princess Royal, and the Princess Alice, and attended by the Duchess of Atholl, the Honourable Caroline Cavendish, Lord Byron, Major- General Buckley and Colonel Bouverie, honoured the Royal Italian Opera w i t h th e ir presence last evening. Viscountess Canning has relieved the Countess of De sert in her duties as Lady in Waiting to the Queen, and the Hon. Caroline Cavendish and the Hon. Flora Mac donald have relieved the Hon. Amelia Murray and the Hon. Lucy in their duties as Maids of Honour in Waiting to her Majesty. Her Majesty's private band attended after dinner in Buckingham Palace on Wednesday. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, attended by Lady Fanny Howard and Lcrd James Murray, ho noured the Haymarket Theatre with her presence last evening. The Marquis of Westminster had an interview with the Earl of Derby, yesterday, at his official residence, in Downing-street. Viscount Torrington had also an interview with the Noble Earl. A Deputation on behalf of the London and North- Western Railway Company, consisting of Captain HUiitil, Lir. Carter, and Mr. Stewart; and a Deputation, on be half of the Shrewsbury and Birmingham Railway Com pany, consisting of the Hon. R. H. Olive, Mr. W. G. Ray, Mr. Knox, and Mr. Walker, had an interview with the Right HOB. J. W. Henley, yesterday, at the Board of Trade. The Marquis Camden had an interview with Mr. Secretary Walpole, yesterday, at the Home-office. Mr. Hildyard, M.P., had an irate: view with the Right Hon. J. W. Henley yesterday, to present a memorial from Whitehaven, against compulsory pilotage in the Mersey; The Knight of Kerry, and Mr. Herbert, M.P., had an interview with the Earl of Derby yesterday, at his official residence in Downing-street. Mr. Sinillie, Advocate-General, South Australia, had an interview with Sir Juhn Pakington yesterday, at the Colonial office. A deputation from the British Beet-root Sugar Com. pany, headed by Mr. Robert Oxland and Mr. Henry \ridlance, had an interview with the Right Hon. J. Vv. Henley yesterday, at the Board of Trade. Dispatches were sent from the Colonial-office yesterday to the Lord High CommisLioner of the lonian island s, the Governor of Malta, and the Govern ors o f Ilona_ Kong and Ce3l..n. A deputation from St. Anne's, Westminster, On the subject of the Metropolitan Burial Bill, hail an interview with Lord John Manners on Wednesday, at the Office of Public Works and Buildings, Whitehall-place. The de putation consisted of Mr. Joseph George (churchwarden); Messrs. David Lerigo, Richard Ilayletr, Jtimes Chatfield, and H. Reeves (overseers) ; an d M r. Joseph Rogers, ogers, surgeon. CREIVIottNE GARDENS. The fine weather has given the Crc.rcorne Gardens a . fresh of the season —that of ViTeineaday— Lie grounds were densely crowded—the there was ing h nig st h a t rt; and on what may be Called the second open quite a gals. In tneatre, the tents, and the dancing arena at ° n k io a „ , the course of the evening a balloon ascent to b o a llet, in Mr. Coxwell being the adventurer; and a new w ich is very which the Custni3 L,iiters appear, and highly `v appre gracefully and Picturesquely got up, ".05 ao pe of eques elated. We understand that a regular " Monday. Other el ie e d e —the trians commence their peri, rmance s net attractions, too, are announced, and in a brilliant Simpson requires Only blu e sky to proceed summer Campaign on the whole Mr. gentleman died DEATH of w- -- , ----- 1 — ?0x .6 , ESQ.—The above iturem iieri near Naples, on the 13th inst. lie was at La Para, 0 to to g r g . e s L a a c ri k e vi F ll o e x La E ne s enabled to confirm Bramham- arli neatlY ci f l ox of , ALP _ e r' Nv , rorkshitreo, an the Hon. William Temple's mis sion at the Co a i s irt ottfafiei3g Ferdinand of Naples. TH E - h -&-,ISsoLETTIoN OF PARLIAMENT.—We are the statement we made on Monday, in w ell-informed Sunday paper, relative related oPPosition to a usually to the ( ) ueen ' s dissolving Pa rliament in p erson. The day of the dissolution ' is not, however, yet fixed. T The prorogation, it is will take place on . hursday next, the Ist ~ expected, d the dissolution will be deferred till d ulv b u t it is suppos e .., , ,y The Lord Chamberlain has issued the following Tuesd 'On . to the House of Lords his tickets of admission on the day of th e dissolution,blank or f leaves athe day. H er M a j esty but and Prinee Albert yesterday visited.the new Ho uses of Parliament, an d spent a long time in ; going .over them.— ildrert iser. BRITISH ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH COMPANY.—The «rioters of the Bill haverested a petition to the House p TO— wing that they maybe allowed to proceed with of Lords, praying Bill, and that the standing orders may be dispensed t heir with. T HE SHERIFFS DINNER TO THE JUDGES.—On Wednesday the Sheriffs of London and Middlesex gave a very elegant dinner to the Judges, at the Albion Tavern, Alders gate-street. The chair, as usual upon these occasions, was jointly occupied by the Sh er iff s Cotterell and Swift, wh o , i n the course of the evening, alternately proposed the different toasts. Among the guests we observed—Lord John Russell, M.P., Vice-Chancellor Turner, Mr. Justice Erle, Mr. Justice Talfourd, Mr. Justice Crompton, Baron Martin, Alderman Sir W. Magnav, Alderman Sir G. Carroll, Alderman Hooper, Alderman Sir J. Musgrove, Alderman Moon, Alderman Fin nis, Alderman Sir R. W. Carden, Alderman Carter, Mr. Ser geant Manning. Mr. Sergeant Herbert Jones, Mr. Sergeant Bellasis, Mr. Sergeant Wallenger, Colonel Phillips, Captain Erskine, Captain Hire, R.N., Captain Gordon ' Sir G. E. Hodgkinson, D. Nicoll, Esq., Hon. J. Dormer, Mr. Ryland, Mr. Locke, Rev. Dr. Rice, Mr. Secondary Potter, Mr. Deputy Harrison, Mr. Norris, Mr. Barber, Mr. James Thomson, . John Wood, Mr. Bunning, Mr. Stoner, Mr. T. I oA,nelye , Rev. Mr. Calvert, Mr. Piumley. Mr. Catty, M r. Under- Sheriff Millard, Mr. Under-Sheriff Hopwood, and about b 0 other gentlemen. GLASGOW, JUNE 19.—Cotton—There has been very little demand for cotton this Week, an d sa l es h a ve been made only to a small extent. The b etter qual t i es o f Ame rican, however, continue steadv, b ut a d ec l i ne in the mid dling and lower classes of lid: per p oun d has taken place. For goods and yarns the demand i s l ess active, and manu facturers and spinners are disp ose d to meet buyers on more accommodating terms. The liner counts of yarns are still, however, very high. I ron —Pi g i ron market steady, a fair demand existing. Holders require 40s. cash for m.n. war rants, and 41s. open. The advance has, however , checked business, there b e i ng few transac tions at these quotations. Mcnufactured iron is in good demand. Bars, from 54 10s. to 61. per ton ; rails, 6/. net. Four boatmen were drowned at Lymington . on Saturday, by at tempting to rea ch a venal in Me Creek *inlet in a state of intoxication.