The Sun. — London, England, 1852-10-12 00:00:00

SUSPECTED MURDER OF A WOMAN IN A BROTHEL. Yesterday, for some hours before the business of the court commenced, a crowd of some hundred persons bad assembled in the vicinity of Marlborough-street, at tracted by a rumour that a woman had been murdered in Shepherd-street, and that the murderer was in the ens tcdy of the police, and would be brought up for exami nation in the course of the day. At ten o'clock, upon the arrival of our reporter at the court, he instantly made inquiries as to the foundation of the rumour, and found that it was too true, and that a man was in custody on suspicion of having caused the death of Ann Mathews in a brothel, 11, Shepherd-street. At two o'clock he was brought up in custody of Inspector Monck ton and Sergeant Barnes, C 4, and placed in the dock before Mr. Bingham. On the charge being read to him by Mr. Lewdly, the chief clerk, the prisoner, in reply to the latter gentle man's inquiry, said his name was James Phillips, and that he was 29 years of age, and resided at 11, Shepherd street, St. George's. The following evidence was then gone into:— Mary Richardson said—l am a widow. lam servant at 11, Shepherd-street. I have been there eight years. The house is a brothel. I know the prisoner. He lived there as porter since the deceased, who was his aunt, bought him off from the Marines two years ago. The deceased was housekeeper. Prisoner and deceased co habited together. They did not agree well together, and there was hardly a night but what they quarrelled. On Saturday night last, the prisoner came in about 12 o'clock, rather in liquor. My mistress (the deceased) had been having her supper, and when he came in she sent for a pot of porter. The deceased was then laying down on the rug before the fire. Deceased gave me some beer, when prisoner came in and used very bad language, and called her a dirty —, and told her (deceased) she was sitting in a dirty position. prisoner told the deceased to go to bed. She refused, and, at that time the door bell was rung. I went out to answer er the and in going out I heard my mistress say, Oh, Mary," mean ing witness. The words were spoken very slowly. When I went back s he was l y in g f ull lengt h, h e r feet to the fire p lac e , and her head withto the drawers. I stooped down to raise her head up, but I tremnled so that I could not do it. The pri soner then jumped into bed, and I said to him, " Oh, you have murdered your auat at last! come and as.ist me to raise her up." ores lnstad of dn so the risoner stamped upon her three our times with his foot as hard as ever he could, at the same time calling out, " Here, look!" The deceased never moved or groaned after that. The prisoner jumped into bed again, and I told him be never was going to bed leaving his aunt like that. Prisoner replied, she was all right enough. I then got a cushion and put it under her bead. Prisoner then got out of bed and assisted me in lifting her into the bed. She was then quite deadi Prisoner then sent some one for a doctor, bat did not go himself. The deceased had been drinking during the day, but was not in liquor at night. The gold chain, eye glass, and other articles produced were the property of the deceased. She did not give them to the prisoner. Sarah Noye--I am a servant at No. 11, Shepherd street. I have been there about a week. About a quarter to eleven on Saturday night she was sent for some beer. Deceased aas then sitting before the fire on the hearth-rug. Prisoner shortly atter came in and told me to go to bed. I said I would not till my mistress went, er till she told me. My mistress, about twelve o'clock, sent me to bed, and about a quarter to one I was woke up by the prisoner, who came in the room and called out " Get up, we shall all be hung, we shall all be transported, your mistress is dead." I took my clothes on my arm e nd went down stairs, and saw my mistress dead. I called out, when prisoner said, " D—n thee, hold thy tongue." A doctor was fetched, and as soon as he came he noticed a scar on de ceased's forehead, and asked how it came there. Priso ner said his aunt bad knocked heeselt against the sofa. Thomas Westlake, 2, Union-street, Bond -street, grccer—About half-past twelve on Saturday night I heard a knocking at the door, and a person called out " For God's sake get up, Mrs. Brown is dying." I got up and pat on my things, and told them to go for a medical man. I afterwards went to the house and saw the deceased. The prisoner was there, and said, "It is all over. I told you how it would be." I then went for Mr. Clark, the medical man, who came, but deceased was then lifeless. Francis Clark,l4, Henrietta-street, Cavendish-square. surgeon—l was in the habit of attending deceased. Yesterday morning, between one and two I was called np to attend deceased, whom I was informed had met with en accident. lat once sent my son, who shortly returned saying that she was dead. I then went myself, and saw the body, and found on the right temple a large bruise ; and prisoner, without being asked, said his aunt heel fallen down against the sofa. I made a further examination of the body, and felt con vinced she had been unfairly dealt with. I then com municated my suspicions to the police. My opinion is that she died from the effect of a severe blow on the head Whether it is a blow from the foot or the hand I cannot at present positively say. The blow might have been given by a double fist. She had been dead apparently about half an hour. Sergeant Barnes, 4 C.—About two o'clock on Sunday morning, in consequence of information I received from last witness, I went to No. 11, Shepherd street, in company with another constable, where I saw the first witneai. I said to her. " Mary, I hear Mrs. Brown is dead " She replied, " Yes, poor crea ture, she is." Just as I was going in I saw the prisoner going cut of the room, and called to him. He came back, and I questioned him about the death of his aunt. Prisoner said, " Yes, she died very suddenly, just as I was getting into bed. She fell down by the fireplace, and I and Mary lifted her up. and put her on the bed ; that was natural enougb, was'nt it ?" I said yes, but you must go with me to the statiun, and make the same statement to the inspector. The prisoner, who was in liquor, at once went with me ; and on the way to the station, prisoner said deceased had drank a great deal of gin, and that she had vowed she would not come to bed with num that night alive. I searched him at the station, but found nothing of consequence upon him. The prisoner then made the same statement that he had made to me to thu sergeant on duty, which ho took down in writing. Martin, 86 C, corroborated the evidence of last wit neas, and in addition said he searched the room, and on the mantelpiece found a pair of spectacles doubled up and broken. He also found a knife, which prisoner ad mitted to have used for the purpose of cutting deceased's stay lace. Prisoner told him deceased had fallen off the sofa and hurt herself. Sergeant Bennett, 20 C—About half-past one on Sun day morning the prisoner was brought to the station. I detained him till he had sent for Mary, the servant, and when she came I read the charge over to him. He said he did not see why he should be charged with this. He then made a statement, which I took down in writing. The sergeant here reed the statement made by the pri soner, which was much the same as the one ho made to Barnes. The prisoner, after being duly cautioned, said "I have nothio,_f , to say. Ur. J3INGII/131 remanded him till Monday next. FRANCE. The day for the entry of the Prince President into Paris has been again changed. It is now decided, until further orders, that the ceremony shall take place on the 16th, as originally intended, and not on the 17th. It has been suggested that it were better to make no change in the original programme, as no event of sufficient importance was likely to occur to justify it, and to avoid giving greater proportions to the act than naturally belonged to it. In the meantime ih a e m i zi preg.arations for the entry are actively go i ng , on triumphal arch of the Pont d'Austerlite'will before b long assume regular proportions. Workmen have been busily employed for some days in preparing the ee r n ou d nd, and several trees that stood in front of the Jardin g Plantes have been removed for the purpose. It is stated that the ope ratives who were employed in the construction e eavi of the new Circus on the Boulevard des Filles de re have requested to be allowed to erect on the same spot a triumphal arch, on the model of the one of the Pont d'Austerlitz. The civic force will p arti c i pate in the military character of the spectacle, and the National Guard of the departmen ts of the Seine, the Seine - et- Oise, the Seine-et -Marne will form the double line alternately with the regular army. The Prince Pre sident__ will, it is now believed , pr o c eed at once t o the Tuileries, and then in a day or two to St. Clo u d or Fontainebleau. Ths inquiry into the affair of the gunpowder ma nufactory is the Dordogne is actively going on. Besides the seven p e r so ns arrested, 30 others have been exami ne d b y the magistrates, and it is ru moured, but as that important disclosures notbipg more than rumoured, urea have been made. It is at a town called Vergt that the inquiry is conducted, and the Prefect will not return to Perigueux till the informations are completed. These discoveries, on the following close Marseilles plot, have been followed by very rigorous measures in some of the would departments ; and it that the number of persons arrested at Lyo n : PPel d u r journey was 77, of whom, however, the Preaident's eve 44, after un dergoing an examination, h ave been s r e tat liberty. The Journal du Barre announce; ce that the Fr enc h , s hip Minos, from Panama to Havre,wee")7en the sth west lon- September last, in latitude 13 north and g itucle, fired into by an English three -masted ship, sup p o sed to be a transport with convicts for New South Wales. T he masts, sails, and rigging of Minos bore mark s of the English vessel's shot. captain of the Minos sa y s that he was the more e sur prised at the unprovoked aggression as he bad spoken with the commander of the unknown ship in friendly terms, and bad informe d him that be was a French man - a very few minutes before the shots were fired. ITALY. A letter from Rome of the 2d inst. announces the return to that city of Mr. Freeborn, the British Con sular Agent, and the departure for Civita Vecchia of Viscount Pietro de Casablanca. The privilege granted to the inhabitants of Civita Vecchia by a Papal decree, to import foreign wines for their own use free of duty, is further extended to the 30th September, 1853. 140,000 crowns' worth of old paper money was burnt on the Ist inst., in front of the palace of the Mont de Piet6. A letter from Mantua of the 4th inst. states that forty one individuals bad been arrested in th2t city last week s ebargel with high tromp. THE SUN, PERSIA. We learn by letters from Constantinople that, in consequence of a rumour that the Shah had been assassinated (an account of which has already appeared), the Curds and other mountain tribes were in open insurrection. It is added that the Shah is fast recovering from his wounds, and intends to appear in public in Teheran as soon as possible. DENMARK. The Diet of Denmark was opened at Copenhagen on the 4th with the usual formalities. The First Minister read the following Royal message : " Receive, Danes, the salutation of your King. It is the first time that the Almighty, after years of hard trials, has permitted us to address the Diet in the un disputed possession of our Royal authority in all parts of the monarchy. Thanks be rendered for it, after to the fid constancy God's assistance, of the Danish people, as well as elity to and the reciprocal union and confidence which exists between the King and the people. The preservation of this pacific and legal state Of things, and the necessity of securing it from all the storms with which it may be threatened, form the object of our most lively solicitude, and we rely on your co-operation and support. For the indivisi bility of the monarchy and its basis, and the order of succession to the throne, which we desire to see estab lished on constitutional grounds, in the event of the male line becoming extinct, we have entered into a treaty with the Great Powers of Europe, and with the King of Sweden and Norway; the Diet will receive our Royal Message on this subject. Our relations with the Germanic Confederation, which were for a long time complicated, have at legth been regulated in a satis factory manner. We have endeavoured to carry out, as far as possible, the resolutions announced in the Royal Patent of the 28th of January. We propose also to prepare, on constitutional grounds, for the definitive ar rangement whioh is to unite together all the parts of the Monarchy. The state of the finances is satisfactory. The re.estahlishraent of our Royal authority in all the p arts of our kingdom allows us to make them for the future participate in all the receipts and expenditure, and to restrict the latter as much as possible for the next year. A Bill will be presented to the Diet, in order to regularise the Customs' duties throughout the Mo narchy. We pray God that our united labours may turn to the salvation of our country, and in the mean time we recommend you to the Divine protection." THE AUSTRALIAN MAIL PACKETS. PLYMOUTH, OCT. 9.—The Australian Royal Mail Steam Navigation Company's iron screw-steam . ship Melbourne, Commander James Arthur Cox, which left Gravesend on Friday, the Ist inst., arrived here on Friday, the Bth. She was appointed to sail from Plymouth with the mails on Sunday, ,the 4th. Her detention has caused some anxiety to a con siderable number of passengers, who have been waiting her arrival at this port. It appears that the Melbourne left Gravesend at 5 P.m. on Fri day, getting through the Queen's Channel the same night. On Saturday she passed the Downs as far as Beachy Head, where she met a fearful gale from S S.W. to W., the barometer being at 29.6. The misen topsail was set with difficulty, the steam was kept going easy, and the vessel's head brought up to the wind on the starboard tack. In this position a heavy squall rolled her main and mizen top gallant-masts over the side. About 5 or 6 P.M. it was reported to Captain Cox that a large quantity of water was on the gun-deck, and all the pumps were put to work. At 10 P.m., by a sudden lurch, the deck spars were set adrift; and at 12, there being no decrease in the water, the ship, after a consultation, bore up for the Downs, where she an chored with 120 fathoms of chain, the barometer being at 29 10. It was not until Sunday, about 4 P.M., that the water was got out of her. The leakage came in through the lower ports and the waterclosets ; the lower ports are each fitted with two half-doors, one opening upwards, the other down ; the latter were said to be caulked at Woolwich, but it will be readily perceived that any attempt to caulk one-half the ports must be insufficient, especially in a ship constructed like the Melbourne. When the ship plunged in heavy weather the sea was forced up through the soil pipes of the two closets on either side of the bow, and of the two on the larboard quarter. These closets will be removed, and other accommodations adopted. :The intention, in caulking the lower halves only of the lower ports, was to give extra ventilation in the tropics, but the ports will now be fastened, and caulked above and below, and ventilation will be attained by brass scuttles and by cowl pipes from the deck. The en gines of the Melbourne are new, by Rennie; the crank shaft bearings got heated coming down Chan nel, and it was also found that the wooden cogs of one of the wheels were rather thrown out of order by the water used in lubricating the iron work. With these exceptions the engines are in capital order, and perfect throughout. It is understood that the directors are prepared to make every reasonable allowance for the inconvenience to passengers caused by the detention of the ship. On Saturday morning she was placed alongside the Vigo hulk, in liatnosze, and instructions from the Admiralty having preceded her, the Port- Admiral, the Commodore Superintendent, Mr. Eiye, the Twister builder, Mr. Mills, master attendant, and Mr. Stuart, engineer, made every ar rangement for the prompt repairs of the ship, which, it is hoped, will be ready for sea by Tuesday evening. The Australian, belonging to the same company, which left Plymouth on the sth June, was due at Sydney on the 14th Septernhar, and should be now on her homeward passage, between S. George's Sound and the Cape. The Sydney, which left on the 3d of August, will be near St. George's Sound on her out ward passage. It, is understood that th e ,di rec t o r s a r e negotiating with the Government f o r th e establish ment of a monthly,instead of a bi- m on thl y , p os t a l communication with the Australian colonies most desirable measure, now that the traffic is so much increased. By the agreement with the di rectors the commanders of these steamers can, in the event of losing seamen at the colonies, obtain hands from any of the ships belonging to her Majesty's navy. At seven o'clock this evening a meeting of dissatisfied passengers, convened by public adver tisement, was held in the Royal Hotel, Mr. Robert Mellor, second cabin passenger, in the chair. Mr. Marshall, secretary to the company, Captain Cox, Mr. Walcot, jun., shipping agent in London, and Mr. Wilcocks, the company's agent here, were present, and gave such explanations as induced the proposer of a condemna'cory resolution to withdraw it, and caused an expression of satisfaction from all assembled. ASTONISHING ARRIVALS OF GOLD AT Tf:iE MELBOURNE TREASURY. We kistve the pleasure of publishing the tollowing extract from the Melbourne Morning Herald of June 25, in confirmation of the startlin- intelligence from private so . arces, contained in a recent Times money article:— " The escort from Mount Alexander gold fields came in yesterday at 3 P.m. with 19,032 oz. of gold, conveyed by packhorses. We have been accustomed to chronicle extraordinary events in these exciting times, but never have we been so completely staggered' as when hearing from official authority, the immense quantity of gold collected at the Mount, waiting transit to the city. When yesterday's escort left the Mount there remained eighty six thousand ounces still on hand, which are to come down early next week, by two escorts, which have been provided for the express purpose. This amazing quan tity, it will be remembered, is altogether distinct and in dependent of the ton weight we have already announced, as waiting the return of Mr. Dieted private comp an y, and also of the large quantity brought down during the last few days by private hands. Last week the amount of gold received at the treasury alone exceeded ninety one thousand ounces; and the week before eighty thou sand ounces. This week it will exceed on e hundred a five thousand ounces! Where on earth will it all end?" —Australian and New Zealand Gazette. ROYAL THAMES YACHT CLUB.—Tile wrst_aosf held winter monthly meetings of this distinguis hed on Wednesday evening. Mr. Green, the vice-commodore, presided, in th e a bsence of Lord Alfred Paget, the gall ant commodore. Sir Thomas Wbichcote, Bart., and a number of other gentlemen of position, having been balloted for and duly elected, Mr. Wheeler, the treasurer, proceeded through the receipts and disbursements of the club, from which it ap peared that, over and above the 9001. in the Console, the isfundsi h h a a r e e dA in so letterou r i h recommending inemamcoeneddiintigon that upwards of 270/. the de Lareux as the c l u b' s agent at Dieppewaasppn oltm submittednt of M. to the the consideration e o n f t me . s t n e e e r s g , ballot at the next meeting, c l osed the evening's e a n n t d iee t. t ( t ie ha L v a in re g ux honoured with g be ,s en hu p s r i o n p e o a s s e . d for LOSS BY THE INUNDATION S OF THE RHINE.—It has been officially ascertained that 22 communes were more or less devastated by the recent inundations of the Rhine, and that the total loss exceeds 2 ,000,0001. The authorities of the hospitals of Ileguenau, Wessemburg, and Lauterburg have ordered the children belonging to families who have suffered most to be received in those hospitals and tempo- tardy taken care of. RAILWAY AMALGAMATION.—An arrangement h as been made by the boards of directors of the York, New_ castle, and Berwick, and York and Notth Midl an d , and Leeds Northern Railw a y Companies, which waits the con firmation of the shareholders of the three companies. The arrangement is of the nature of a traffic amalgamation, e ac h company taking a certain annualperandeendtagding such nete of the net traffic receipts of the united concern , _ e receipts among the shareholders of theresh called togetherpective companies. The shareholders of each company will shortly to consider and determine as to the arrangement pro posed.—Bradford Observer. We are requested to mention that the securities referred to in the protest of the Bank of Portugal , described on the Bth inst., had no connexion with the guarantee to be accorded to Mr. Hislop's proposed railway from Lisbon to Santarem, and thence to the frontier. The project for which they are understood to have been taken is the " Northern Railway "from Santarem to Oporto, which has not yet re ceived any Legislative sanction.— Times. Tun CH ANCELLORSHIP.—Th e declaration in favour of Lord Darby has been signed by nearly 1,200 members of convocation, including the Bishops of Oxford, Exeter, Ripon, Bath and Wells, Salisbu r y, Town. Eighteen heads ofyhoCuhsei s eh hv e a ste e r, Antigua, and Cape also appended their names. A VERITABLE MISER.—Died at Ballaghy, on the Ist instant, Rachel 24.`Cartney,. aged 67. Th rough care f u l dealing and wretchedly penurious habits she managed to save a considerable sum of money. A short time before her death she swallowed 50 notes of I/. each, and also some so vereigns. Rarely has there been such an in s t ance of the aursacra "the ruling passion strong i n d eath. " In bey w retched pallet and on her person We re f ound, after i fames, death, large guns of money. LONDON, TUESDAY EVENINCr, OCTOBER 12, 18b2. THE ARMY. The following general order, relative to leaves of absence and furloughs, has just been issued : " GENERAL ORDER. " Horse Guards, Oct. 4. " The General Commanding-in-Chief is pleased to ap prove of general officers commanding districts in Great Britain, and officers commanding in garrisons not in cluded in any military district, granting leaves of ab sence to officers and furloughs to non-commissioned officers and soldiers, under the following regulations and restrictions, viz.:— " 1. The loaves of absence granted under this order to officers may commence as soon as the half-yearly inspec• tion shall have been made. The furloughs granted to non-commissioned officers and soldiers may commence from the Ist of next month. " 2. These indulgences are to terminate on the 10th of March next, when, in conformity to her Majesty's regulations, all officers and soldiers are to be present with their respective regiments or deFits. "3. One field officer, one-half of the captains, and one half of the subaltern officers, are always to be present with their regiments. " 4. No officer (except in the performance of duty, or for the purpose of joining his regiment) is to quit the United Kingdom without haying first received her Ma jesty's special permission. "5. The officers employed on the recruiting service, or on the staff of the army, are not to be included in the number hereby fixed for the constant duty of the regi ment or depot. " 6. The applications for leave for regimental pay masters and medical officers are to continue to be made in the mode prescribed in the regulations and orders for the army. " 7. In cases of short leaves of absence being requested by adjutants,ridingmasters, quartermasters, or veterinary surgeons of regiments, it wilt be necessary that a special report shall be made as to the mode in which their duties are to be performed during their absence, and that the commanding officer is satisfied. " 8. The proportion of non-commissioned officers, trumpeters, drummers, and private men to whom furloughs may be granted, is not to exceed ten per troop or company. When regiments are not stationed in garrisons or military districts, the officers commanding are at liberty to use their discretion in granting the indulgence of leave of absence under the foregoing restrictions to the officers and soldiers under their command, reporting the same to the Adjutant-General. His Lordship expects that the general and other officers who are empowered to grant leave of absence under the provisions of this order, will strictly confine that grant t) the proportion of officers herein specified. " By command of the Right lion. General Viscount .Hardinge, Commanding•in•Chief, " G. BROWN, Adjutant- General." ROYAL ARTILLERY. WOOLWICH, OCT. 9.—Captain Taylor's troop of Royal Horse Artillery marched from the garlisou here on Thursday morning, under the command of Captain Anderson, Captain Taylor being in the caul try on leave. The brass bands of the Royal Horse Artillery and the Field Batteries played the troop to the top of Shooter's-hill. The troop arrived at Canterbury, where it is to be stationed, on Satur. day, the distance from Woolwich being three days' march. The Resistance troopship, which left Woolwich on the 24th of August last, arrived at Gibraltar on the 13:h of September, and landed Captain Fitz gerald's company, sth battalion, at that garrison. to relieve Captain Phillpott's company, 9th battalion, under orders to return to head-quarters at Woolwich. She left again for Malta on the 15th of September, and arrived at that station on the 231 of September, to relieve Captain Hamilton's company, under orders to return home to bead-quarte rs, havin g been on foreign service since January, 154 1 . Previous to the embarkation of Captain Hamilton 'a company to re turn to England in the Resistance, the non-commis sioned officers were entertained a t dinner by the non-commissioned officers of Major Shone's com pany, and the evening was inspent the great es t harmony. NEW NIGHT SIGNALS. These signals have now been almost in constant use in the Western Squadron for the last four months, and the result has been satisfactory. At the close of the long series of trials of coloured lights at Portsmouth, some months ago, it was not in contemplation to produce more than 400 general signals, and these were considered to be a boon to the service. The old method did not admit of more than 19 signals, without guns, rockets, or blue lights, and this, in the presence of an enemy with steam ships, was deemed most highly objectionable. Now there is established in the fleet not only general signals to three times the amount of the old method, without guns, &c., but there is also a com plete and perfect system of telegraphing. There is no number which may be conceived, there is no idea which can be expressefl, and there is not a word that can be spelt, but may be readily communi cated by the new lights from ship to ship, or from the shore to ships in the darkest night, up to 3} mils. The following table wil of the two systems :- 1 THOMSON'S SYSTEM. 1. Lights hoisted vertical as flags 2. Weight 10Ibs 3. Coloured lenses 4. About 400 general sig nals 5. Ditto, ditto, without guns 6. Nuoserical table 7. Alphabet 8. Vocabulary (day) 9. Ilorary, to minute 10. Geographical table] 11. Compass complete 12. Seen at all points 13. Seen with other lights show the relative merits M OLD METH() 1. Hoisted angular with yards 2. Weight 10Ibs 3. White plateglass 4. About 19 signs's 5. 103 with guns, &c. 6. None 7. None 8. None 9. None 10. None 11. Not complete 12. Not seen at all points 13. Not easily seen with other lights 14. Seen 31 miles 14. Seen 3i miles 15. Seen with heavy sea, 21 1 15. Seen with heavy sea, 3i miles miles 16. Not confounded by gales 16. Gales of wind affect the of wind sound of guns 17. Candles made on board, 17. Wax csndles, great ex. at little expense. pense. IMPORTANT WILL CAUSE. The Jury Court at Glasgow has been occupied for several days up to Friday last in the trial of the im portant will cause of Gilmour against Gilmour, before Lord Robertson and a special jury, in which property of the value of 300,0001. depended on the result. The wills in dispute (and which were in the Scotch form of deeds of disposition) were those of the late Mr. Adam Gilmour, a merchant, of Glasgow, who was the architect cf his own fortunes, and by his exertions and integrity had amassed an enormous fortune in business there, from which he retired shortly before his death, taking a very large capital. By a testa mentary disposition made in 1833, he bequeathed the bulk of his fortune to his nephew and heir-at-law, Mr. Adam Gilmour. jun., merchant, the pursuer (or plaintiff) in this suit. In the year 1848, shortly before his death, the testator executed another deed, making the former deed null, and set tling his property on anothew nephew, Mr. Adam Gilmour, of Portnor, the defendant in this suit. The validity of that disposition was now questioned, and the jury were now ca ll e d u p on t o decide—first, whether the testator was in a weak mind and easily imposed up on w h en h e execu t e d it ; secon d, if that deed of 1848 was obtained by fraud, &c. Twenty two witnesses were examined, and on Friday the pur suer declined to proceed further with the contest, de claring that he had been actuated by a desire to as certain the facts, and his honourable feeling dictated the course now of consenting to a verdict for the de fendant. The counsel for th e d e f en d an t b ore test i mony to the high character and principle which had tated that step, a n d L or d R o b ertson also testified to the high feelings of justice which had dictated such a surrender of the contest, r e m ar ki ng th at t h ere were higher considerations in this life than the mere attain ment of money, and the jury gave a verdict for the defendant on this, the fourth day of the trial, -- SEABOUNE MAILS. [N signifies that the mails aro sent from the General Post-oftlee by the ~ignt—and hi by the morning —dispatch.) When made up ilyrm‘ial PLACPLACES.GeneraIPost-ofllce port die- When due. London: I patched. ...._____ --........: ........... .. ` . ..... l , souL Li iv v e e th rp rp r oamp l i t ..... 00 Arri cett.. v 21 e 03 d f ampton) .. .. .. 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A Board of Admiralty, including the Duke of Northumberland and Mr. Secretary Stafford left the Admiralty yesterday, on an official visit to Devonport Dockyard and the other Admiralty estab lishments at that port. Sir John Heron Maxwell, Bart., has arrived at Devonport to meet their Lord ships. Commander William Wynne Eyton, who has been promoted to the reserved half-pay list, entered the navy on July 10, 1805. as first-class volunteer, on board the Neptune, 98, Captain Thomas Francis Fremantle, and on Oct. 21 following participated in the battle of Trafalgar. Removing next to the Sea horse, of 42 guns and 251 men, Captain John Stewart, he assisted, on the night of July 5, 1803, in putting to flight the Turkish frigate Alis Fez in, of 26 guns and :230 men, and in capturing, after a memorably furious engagement, and a loss to the British of 5 killed and 10 wounded, her consort the Bedere Zuffer, mounting 52 guns, with a complement of 543 men of whom 170 were slain and 200 wounded. While in the Seaborse, Mr. Eyton also contributed, as midshipman, to the reduction of the islands of Gianute and Pianos% In the course of 1811 he joined in succession the Ville de Paris, 110, and Rodney and Milford, 74's, bearing each the flag of Rear-Admiral T. F. Fremantle, under whom, in the Milford, we find him co-operating in the capture of Fiume and Trieste, in July and October, 1813. Being confirmed in the rank of lieutenant on July 29, 1814, he was appointed ultimately, on Jan. 7 and Oct. 5, 1819, to the Rosario and Redpole, sloops, commanded in the Channel by Captains William Hendry and William Devereux Evance ; on Sept. 15, 1927, as first lieutenant, to the Wolf, 18, Captain Geo. Hayes, in the Mediterranean; and on Feb. 17, 1829, May 1, 1830, and F e b. 18, 1831, in a similar capacity, to the Victory, 104, St. Vincent, 120, and Asia, 84, flagships at ortsmouth and off Lisbon, of Admirals Sir Robert Stopford, Sir Thomas Foley, and Wiliam Parker. During his attachment to the St. Vincent, Mr. Eyton appears, in November, 1830, to have been appointed to the Lightning, steamer, for the purpose of conveying Charles X. from Lulworth to Leitb. He invalided from the Asia on June 16, 1832, and has not since been employed afloat. Commander Lamont, who has been removed to the list of 1816, is as officer of au ancient Highland fa mily, of great respectability. He entered the navy on Dec. 28, 1798, as first-class volunteer on boar 4 the Repulse, 64, Captain James Alms, lying at Ports mouth ; and in tte course of 1799 joined the Queen Charlotte, 109, bearing the flag of Sir Guides Thompson, and Charon, 44, Captain John Mackellar, in which latter ship, on his return from a visit to the Mediterranean, he assisted at the evacuation of the Helder. Becomi ng m id s hi pman i n J anuary , 1800, of the Hebe, C a pt a i ns Willi am Bi rc h a ll an d G eorge Reynolds, he accompanied the expedition in 1901 to Egypt; after which he was for more than two years employed in the North Sea in the Clyde, 38, flag-ship of Sir John Borlasse Warren, and for nearly one, as master's mate in the Mediator and Renommie, both commanded by Sir Thomas Livingstone, on the Channel station. He was then, in August, 1805, ap pointed sub-lieutenant of the Staunch, gun-brig, Lieut.-Commander Benjamin Street; and on the 16th of the following October he was confirmed a full lieutenant of the Moselle, 18, Captains John 2urman Carden and Alexander Gordon, employed at first in the Mediterranean and next in the West In dies. In 1808 it was Mr. Lamont's lot to be severely wounded white boarding an enemy's vessel in the Gulf of Mexico, for which he received a gratuity of 801 11.. 6i. He was obliged in consequence to in valid in June of that year. Unable to procure fur tber employment, he accepted his retired rank, April 18, 1838. CCURT • MARTIAL AT PORTSMOTJTII.-A court martial took place yesterday morning on board the Victory flag-ship, in Portsmouth Harbour, to try Mr. Roger ; gunner of the Ajax, on charges of drunken ness, brought against him by Captain Quin. In the absence of Rear-Admiral Superintendent A. Fan shawe, C. 8., Captain Cbads, C. 8., presided, and , wit h Captains M a rtin, C.B , Scott, Henderson, C. 8 ,, King come, King, Freemantle, Giffard, and O'Cillaghan, with Deputy-Judge Advoce.te W. Greatham , E s q ., formed th e court. The business was over before 12 lo'clock, aid the prisoner was found Guilty, and sen tenced to be dismissed her Majesty's service. He was, howeler, strongly recommended by Capt. Quin, in consideration of his long services as a seaman and petty offices, to be allowed a pension, which, no doubt, will be awarded to him by the Admiralty. Echo steam-tug proceeded to Spithead yesterday morning, wih 72 convicts from the new prison, and put them on board the Ocean Queen, for Australia. Rolla apprentice tender, Lieut.-Commander Fen wick, went cut of Portsmouth Harbour yesterday morning, for exercise. Vesuvius, C, steam-sloop, has gone up to Ports" mouth Harbour to join the steam reserve vessels. Linnet, 6, was commissioned on Saturday by Com mander Need; her complement is to be 80 officers and men. THE FIRE oz thARD THE CAMEL, LIGHTER. — The sbipkeeper who absconded (Anderson) was tried on Saturnay, at Saltash, before the mayor, charged with wilfully setting „ fire t o t h e vessel b ut the evi dence not being sufficient to convict him, he was acquitted. PORTSMOUTH, OCT. 11.—The leviathan screw line of-battle ship Duke of Wellington, three decker, 140, arrived at Spithead this morning from Pembroke, in tow of the Inflexib'e and Desperate steam sloops. Her port appearance and town, and the wall s o f P ortsmouth were s p ee dily very thickly tenanted by anx i ous gazers . in sight was quickly rep or t e d t h roug h t h e The vast numbers congregated on the shore to witness the grand match between the yachts Sverige and Ame rica also s welled the number to a considerable extent. The Duke of Wellington is truly a stately ship; she sits upon the water most majestically, and, notwith standing her enormous body, seems a very graceful model of a first elassman of war. Sbe is a fine illustra tion of the tales of the new master shipwright of altered at Pembroke, w hil e h e was master (Mr nt . .4,bethel) under whose eye she was of that establishm en t. N um b ers o f persons shipwrightb this ul t d o a c n k d a rd went out to Spat:lead in boats to make a closer in spection of the n oble fab ric than they could make from the shore th ree or four miles off. Admiral Sir Thoma Thomas Briggs, G.C.M G., the Com man d er -i n -Chi e f , accompanied 9' Captain G. B. Marti n , C.B. with his 14g flying on bo ard the Fire Queen, port tender, M. Paul, master, commanding, steamed out and made an external inspection of the Duke of Wellington this afternoon. She is anchored et Spithead for the night, and will be towed into harbour to-morrow to be match between the S we d e an d th e forthwith equipped for service . n ot come off to-day, th e seven -k not bArmeTeehzreeicsaytiaphcuhalstated for not blowing at the hour ap pointed for starting-11 AM. PLYMOUTH, OCT. 11.—The following members of the Board of Admiralty are expected at Moorshead's Royal Hotel, Devonport, this afternoon, viz. :—Rear- Admiral his Grace the Duke of Northumberland, Captain Sir Thomas Herbert, K.O 13., Captain the Hon. Arthur Duncombe, M.P., First Secretary Augustus Stafford, Esq., M P., Captain the Hon. F. Surveyor of Pam, th e e l h N avy • S a i n r dB Colonela ld win Walker,K C B , Yesterday (Sunday) afternoon, between four and five o'clock, three men - of-war, apparently British, were observed about three leagues south of the Breakwater, going up channel ; wind north-west, light breeze; the headmost, a barque, supposed to be a small frigate, under canvas and steam, but whether screw or paddle could not be distinguished. She was closely followed by the second, a vessel similar to herself. The third was a large ship, looking like a line-of-battle ship, less than a mile astern, under canvas only, with an ensign half- way up the peak. Wooawien, OCT. 11.—The St. Jean D'Acre, building at Devonport to carry 90 guns of large ca libre, is now in an advanced state, and will soon be ready for launching, and when launched she is to be immediately fitted with engines of 600 horse power, of Messrs. Penn and Sons' construction, on their patent trunk plan, which gave such sa tisfaction when tried in the Agamemnon, 90, now at Sheerness. The engines of the Sr. Jean D'Acre are already in progress, and all the castings and works are to be made and finished from the models used for casting and making the engines of the Aga memnon, these models having been used for the first tt 3 hh2 engine equal ng h too shaft 7 tiOt time for the en g i nes o f th a t v essel. The diameter of the 'cylind ers o f t h e eng i nes i s 78 i nc h e s, the tr un k !. olikn3ecih3 feet inches, e w t h 6 inches,e n a t n h dh e ttrhuetnhskce screw ed s deducted;ams shaft at fe tr lo 2f inches. The di ameter o f the air-pump is 23} inches, the diameter of the screw 18 feet, with a pitch of 20 feet G inches, the length being 3 feet 4 inches. The boilers are in 4 pieces, and the tubes 1,904 in number, each 2} inches diameter outside, and 6 feet 6 inches long. The fire-grates are 20 in number, and so ar ranged that the position for the stokers is well venti lated. There is also ample space for getting to every part of the engines, and the whole of the boilers and engines being considerably under the water line, they are well protected from injury in the event of the vessels in which they are fitted being engaged in actual warfare. His Grace the Duke of Northumberland, Commo dore Sir Thomas Herbert, K.C.8., Captain the Hon. Pelham (Private Secretary Mr. Stafford, M.P. (First Secretary), and Captain Pel ha Arthur Duncombe, M.P., to the Du ke of Northumberla nd), left the Admiralty this morn ing on their annual official inspection of the dockyard . establishments. _The return i of the Prince Albert to Aberdeen, bringing intelligence THE .AECTIC EXPEDITIONS. - from Ca ptain Sir Edward Belch er's expeditiohannel, n that he had :nem able to proceed up wellington Channel, it b eing quits clear of ice, has given fresh hope to warty of the I.elations and friends of the missing na vig atom, as 0 % 3y naturally infer that if fix Edward Belcher could proceed up the Wellington Channel this year, Captain Sir John Franklin and his companions could have passed up with similar ease in 1846 Sir Edward Belcher's opinion that Sir John Franklin did not leave his winter quarters at Beechy Island in a hurry has given additional hope that traces of the further progress of the missing expedition will be found, and the great suspense which has hitherto prevailed relative to their fate will shortly be removed. RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE SEVERN VALLEY.—A deputation from the direc tors, consisting of Mr. J. Thorpe and Mr. W. Reed, attended public meetings during the last week at the various towns in the districts of the proposed line. The meetings were numerously and influentially at tended, and resolutions were passed to the effect that the construction of the S, , vern Valley Railway would be a great public convenience, and afford increased facilities for the development of the agricultural, manufacturing, mineral, and other resources of the districts, and pledging the meetings to cordially sup port the undertaking. The line as proposed termi nates at Coalbrookdale ; but, from the opinions ex pressed at the meeting in favour of continuing it to Shrewsbury, it is expected the company will decide on going there. SOUTH WALES.—Yesterday the 30 miles of addi- tional railway from Swansea to Carmarthen were opened for public traffic. It will be remembered that a formal opening of this portion of the line took place more than three weeks ago, but, in consequence of certain requirements of the Government Railway In spector being unfulfilled, the opening for traffic was deferred. The inspector has given his sanction to the use of the line for public traffic. Five trains run daily to and fro on the extended line, and a person may now breakfast in London at 9 A.M., and dine in Carmarthen at half- past four. The new stations are Loughor, Llanelly, Pembrey, Ferryside, and Car marthen. FORTH AND CLYDE JllNCTlON.—Preliminary measures are now being taken to promote a Bill in the ensuing session of Parliament for the construction of the above line. Oa a former occasion a Mil waa promoted with a view to obtain the sanction of Par- liament for the construction of the line at a cost of 400,0001., but now it is proposed to construct it for about one-third of that amount. It is stated that a most responsible contractor is ready to undertake the work and complete it for something less than 140,0001., and to take in part payment above 40,0001. of that sum in shares in the undertaking. RAILWAY EXCURSIONS TO IRELAND.—It is stated that upwards of 250,000 persons have visited Ireland during the last year through the cheap excursions by rail way. ULSTER.—This company's extension line is to proceed via Glasslough, Monaghan, Clones, and Belturbet, to Cavan and Mullingar, at a cost of 350,0001. POLICE INTELLIGENCE, MARYLE HONE. Yesterday the Rev. John Berrington was placed at the bar before Mr. Broughton fur re-examination, charged with having carried on an extensive system of swindling, principally through the medium of ad vertisements in the newspapers. The particulars of what previously transpired have already appeared, and it will be remembered that the " rev. gentleman" (the prisoner) had obtained from Miss Anne Richardson the halves of tour 51. Bank of England notes, upon an understanding that she was to go out to Australia with him and his family as governess, at a salary of 1201. per annum. He told her that he was fitting up a ship, and that he would give her good interest for any money she might ad vance ; but upon her making inquiry she found that the ship Diligence, which he had named, was not known. Mr. Clarke, solicitor, attended for Miss Richardson ; and Mr. Cooper for the prisoner. Mr. 13MOUGHTON (to Lock ber y, 180 S)—Have you any other case connected with this district to bring for ward ? Lockerby—Not at present, your Worship; but there are parties here who are ready to give evi dence in some swindling affairs. Other evidence was gone into, showing that the prisoner had, by artful representations, obtained money from parties under false p re t ences; and nu merous papers found upon him were produced. One of them was from the Bishop of Oxford, inhibiting him from preaching within his diocese. The said in hibition was dated in 1849. Three years prior thereto the Bishop of London had issued a document to a similar effect. Some other cases against the prisoner were gone into, and he was remanded for a week. SOUTHWARK. CABS AT RAILWAY STATIONS.—MY. ATECICETT on Friday gave his judgment in a case of great im portance to all the railway companies within the me tropolitan police district, as well as to the public using the various stations. On Tuesday last a cabman was summoned by Mr. Welsh, a barrister, for refusing to carry him as a fare from the cab stand or rank inside the Brighton Railway terminus, London-bridge, when Mr. Lewis attended for the defendant, but mostly to argue the question on behalf of the railway company. He contended that the defendant did not become amen able to the Act of Parliament, inasmuch as the rail way station was not a public place, and therefore, defendant could not be liable to punishment for re fusing to take a fare when plying for hire. After some considerable discussion, at the request of Mr. Lewis, the Magistrate suspended his judgment until yesterday, when the court was crowded by railway officials and cab owners, who were anxious to ascer tain the decision on this very important case, espe cially as it is final, and cannot be taken to a higher court. Mr. Lewis and all the parties being in attendance. His Wortsnir proceeded to deliver his judgment as follows :—This is a summons against the defendant, as the driver of a hackney carriage within the metro politan police district, for re f u sin g to g o w ith t h e complainant who was desirous of hiring the said car riage for the legal and proper fare. It has been argued on the defendant's behalf—first, that a cab within a railway terminus is not k hackney carriage within the meaning of the Act; secondly, that the de fendant was not plying for hire ; and lastly, that th e railway terminus is not a place contemplated by the Act of Parliament. The first point may be briefly disposed of by reference to the Act of the 6th and the second section of w hi c h de 7th Victoria, ca p 86, fines a railway carriage to be " every carriage except a stage carriage which shall stand on hire or ply for pas sengers for hire, at any place within the limits of the city of London and the liberties thereof, and the metropolitan police district." That is a much clearer definition than that given by the Ist and 24 William IV., c. 22, the fourth section of which limits the definition to a car riage with two or more wheels standing or plying for hire in any public street or road, and any place, whereas, from the more recent Act, the words "any publi c street or road" are omitted. The second point raised on behalf of the defendant is that he was not plying for hire. Now, the words of the Act Ist and 21 William IV., c. 22, and sec. 35, have stated clearly " that every hackney carriage which shall be found standing in any street or place, and having therein any of the numbered plates required by this Act to be fixed in the hackney carriages, shall, unless actually hired, be deemed to be plying for hire, and the onus of proving the previous hiring is thrown on the party complained against. The second point being thus disposed of, I come to the last, upon which most stress has been laid,—namely, that a railway terminus is not a place within the meaning of the statute. Now this argument is clearly untenable, even if a railway terminus were not a public place of resort, and, in my opinion, to be within the Act; but there is no doubt that the ter minus, though the property of the railway company, is a place of public resort, and a place which, by Act of Parliament, the public have a right of resorting to. An opposite view of the case would be most in convenient to the railway company themselves, as well as the public, for many offences committed at a terminus were punishable by being committed at a place of public resort. If a cabman could not be punished for refusing to taking a fare at a terminus, neither could he be punished for abusive language, extortion, or other misconduct at a railway station. The rail way officials have no right to assume an authority over hackney carriages, or to lay down regulations inconsistent with the law, and those drivers who act under this improperly assumed authority must take the consequences of the illegality of their actions. There has been put into my hands by the solicitor of the defendant a printed copy of rules and regale ' tions for the government of owners and drivers of cabs standing for hire at the station of the London, Brighton, and South Coast Railway. These regu lations confirm what I have said as to the illegal as sumption of authority by the railway companies over hackney carriages. Among other things I find that the public are expected to pay certain rates for lug gage in addition to the ordinary fares ; and the public are told that otherwise the charge is discretionary with the cab-driver. Now, this is an error of which the public mind cannot be too speedily disabused, as the cab-drivers can make no charge at all ; and the only discretion they have in the matter is that they may refuse to overload their cabs with an un reasonable amount of luggage. They are bound to carry any reasonable amount with ou t any c h arge, and it is time that the railway companies should understand that they are not authorised in fixing cab-fares, and that they are very improperly mis leading the public by issui ng suc h regulations as those just placed before me. Thi s i s not a new case, and the complainant in the present instance has been the complainant on previous occasions, when, some times on account of a promise that the illegal re striction on the public convenience should be abolished much forbearance has been shown, and a Brasil or no , minia penalty inflicted, ha there as been P lll4 ° b "- _ stinacy in continually violaing the., law, and as the parties doing; so have been acting under the sanctic,n, or rather under the coercion of the railway' com panies, it is nec , ss-.try that the law should be fully carried out, and I shall therefore inflict on the defen dant in this case the full penalty of 403., with the costs of the summons. SIR CULLING EARDLEY AND MR. LUCAS, 2LP. In the Tablet of Saturday there was a curious correspondence between Sir Culling Eardley, Bart., and the Hon. Proprietor of that journal. As Sir Culling's letter is short and Mr. Lucas's plsguy long, we subunit the first for publication, and about an equal quantity of the second : " Geneva, 03t. 1, 1852. " Sir,—l observe in the Tablet, the Team Herald, and other Irish newspapers, that a movement has been begun by Irish Roman Catholics, with the proposed object of attaining religious equality.' In one of those papers (the Tablet) I see it is argued that the first step to wards attaining the blessing of secure homes and safe altars, must ba the destruction of everything in the shape of privilege, precedence, monopoly, or unfair ad vantage on the via of the Established Church. " Ia that movement your name is prominent. " I need not suggest to you that for public men to command respect they must act upon a principle. To profess to desire religious freeJom in Ireland, and not to the best of their ability to promote it elsewhere, would be to be politically unprincipled. "It is not my purpose to express any opinion about your Irish movement, but I take the liberty of address ing you on the following subject. " You are, no doubt, aware of the imprisonment of Sig. and Signora Madiai in Tuscany for religious causes. They are condemned severally to three years and a half and four years-and-a-half confinement with hard labour, for:having read the Scriptures, and worshipped God out of the Church of Rome ; and for having induced or as sisted others to do the same. " Upon such cruelty it is superfluous to comment. The public prosecutor distinctly stated at the trial that there was no political acousation whatever. The prose cution was avowedly for religion, the religion of the Established Church of Tthcany; and the puuishment is the grossest conceivable invasion of the most rudimen tary principles of religious liberty. A deputation from various countries—the United Kingdom, France, Holland, Switzerland, and Germany —is about to wait upon the Grand Duke of Tuscany, in order to solicit, in the name of religious freedom, the liberation of the Madiai. I expect to na: et these gen tlewen at Marseilles, and I take the liberty of asking whether I may inform them that they have your per mission to state at Florence that you, whose name and position are well known there, regard, with indignation, the incarceration of the Madiai, in the supposed interests of your faith, and that you wish success to the object of the deputation. " I reserve to myself the right of making a public use of the correspondence as soon as it is completed; end I request that it may not be considered as completed until I have had time to acknowledge the honour of your reply. " The gentleman who will wait upon you with this letter will arrange with you for the reply to meet me at Marseilles. " I am, Sit, your obedient servant, " C. E. EARDLEY. " Frederick Lucas, Esq., M.P." The substance of the reply of Mr. Lucas is, that he will not comply with the suggestion of his corre spondent. Why and wherefore you may discover from the closing part of his elaborate epistle, i. e.:— "If I were a member of a csustitutionel state, like Belgium or like England, on whichever site the majority happened to be, I would advocate the strictest impar tiality and equality of treatment for all. If I were an absolute monarch under the like circumstances I would practise the same rigid impartiality. But if I were an inhabitant of a country like Ireland—governed, nomi nally by a representative government, in which the vast ' majority of the people profess one religion—in which a miserable minority, besides robbing the majority of their estates, have robbed them also of the religious en dowments accumulated by the piety of their ancestors for centuries before—by the aid of those endowments uphold themselves in a position of social and legal supe riority over the mass of the people—use these endow ments as an instrument of insult and a means and a mo tive for every kind of misgovernment, and the mainte nance of every species of abuse—in such a case, I care not whether I belonged to the majority or the minority, to the class of the oppressed or the class of the op pressors, to the Catholic or the Protestant—in any event I should be earnest, with my whole soul, for cutting oat of the flash of the state so foul a gangrene, and establishing perfect religious equality among the people. " This is the opinion I entertained before I became it Catholic and ever since I came to the age of reason. I uphold it now on the same principle on which I adopted it then, but with a fuller knowledge, a deeper conviction, a profounder hatred of the wrong, and a more resolute determination to abate the nuisance. Show me a case in which a Protestant majority is so treated by a usurp ing, plundering, and oppressive Catholic minority, and I will be as forward in expressing my indignation at the conduct of the Catholic oppressors, and my sympathy with the Protestant oppressed. " But when you dare to suggest to me a similarity be tween Tuscany and Ireland—between the Madiais and the Catholics of this land—between your souping, swind ling, mammon-proselytism, the whole practical aim of which is directed to root out the Christian faith, and to plant infidelity in its stead—to disturb, destroy, disor ganise, break, and tear asunder an ancient and virtuous society, by foreign influence and foreign gold; to make men devils, or anything, if it were possible, that is worse, rather than allow them to save their souls in the pure way in which their fathers worshipped God; when you dare to suggest to me , a parallel b etween se sistance to the first beginnings of such revolutionary i nnovat i ons, and of such hostile invasions from w it h out , an d the efforts of the Tory bigots her-, to maintain their plunder and their ferocious gripe upon the throats of a famished people, I turn from the suggestion with a contempt which, assuredly. there is nothing, either in your letter or in anything I know of your career, to modify or diminish. " I am, Sir Culling, your obedient servant, "Tablet Office, Saturday, Oct. 9." "F. LUCAS. F . ro r m eli g ta i ,e ms 7l e n a le h u s t?lity," in the Irish The advocates of and special sense of the phrase, have encountered an awkward opponent on the very threshold of the commit to being forget , devout t h ese upholders f a , commit tee-room. The other day, our d readers are not likely exclusively to itself, conscientious creed a which simple c - o m n salva tionifiunde:d and justifies the extirpation of religious differences by fetters and fagots, recorded a series of extraordinary r eso l ut i ons, t tot , h y e t ' o effr a t; i that , spi ritual freedom was the g e nu i ne folhri h that theseveral denominations of Christians pup possessed ee. respectively their own proper claims to consideration, and that the first step towards securing the blessing of se cure homes and safe altars must be the destruction of everything in the shape of privilege precedence, mono poly, or unfair advantage on the part of the Established Church." This notification met the eye of Sir Culling Eardley, and acted on the free smiled baronet as a proclamation by Lord Hardinge for disbanding the entire army might be expected to act on Mr. Bright. For years had Sir Culling been labouring in the work of religious equality and evangelical freedom all over the world, and for years had ho and his coadjutors regarded the Romish esta blishment as the incarnate terror of poor God-fearing souls. But here were not only Papists, but Irish Pa pists ; and not only Irish Papists, but Irish and Popish " archbishops" and " bishops" assembling together to put on record doctrines of religious liberty which might pass good muster at a convention of the Protestant Al liance. Into what emotions Sir Culling was thrown on the spot must be left to imagination to conceive. Per haps he did as Colonel Sibthorp was represented by a facetious contemporary to have dine in the lobby of the House of Commons when the Crystal Palace was fi nally condemned ; but, at any rate, he then and there applied the discovery to prompt and practical use. A poor man and woman in Tuscany of the name of Madiai have been just sentenced to four years' confinement with hard labour for having read the Scriptures and worshipped God out of the Church of Rome. 'There was no suspicion, charge, or implication of moral or political criminality attaching to the case. The public prosecutor frankly declared at the trial that there was no such accusation whatever, and that the prosecution was wholly and avowedly for the religion of the established Church of Tuscany. Sir Culling, in concert with many other benevolent persons of this andlother countries, was then compassing the ris cue of these unhappy prisoners, and in furtherance if this charitable object a deputation was proceeding to solicit their pardon from the Tuscan Court. Now, if :ti n ; the Irish confedera t e s, bein g of this ve ry Ttlieetl an d known indeed throughout Europe es out- Romani the Romans themselves in all the genuine characteristics of Popery. would but concur in suggestively recommend. ing to their brethren a t Florence scene - of those maxims which they were proclaiming 80 Clamorously at home, what a catch it would be for the deputation! So thought Sir ro Mr Culling, Frederick Lucas, , t 1 r activeessed himself and a public, exp litter of th causes promoter P o u f ° I t i o n e ,: r t. i qu l ß it e y fe m rr o i v o u g m t e o u t t; he ' declaration of the confederates touching " secure houses," " sate a ltars," end the method of " at taining such blessings " by the destruction of ecclesiasti cal monopolies, Sir Culling ventured to introdueo the question of the Mediais. Nothing cer tainly could ha ve more forcibly ill us t rate d t h e principles on which Mr. 'Lucas and his colleagues were now taking their stand. The case seemed made for the very pur • pose. How terribly an " established church" might interfere with " secure homes and safe altars" was shown to some effect in a sentence or four years' impri sonment:for reading the Bible without that church's permission, and spiritual " privilege, prece fence, mono poly, and advantage" were most assuredly exemplified to the life in decrees which visited the very smallest dissent with the penalties of a common folon. So, after quoting the resolutions of the " equality" committee, and alluding to the purposes of the deputation then tin its road, Sir Culling " took the liberty ot asking" Mr. Lucas whether he, " whose name and position were well known at Florence," would permit the deputation to state that he " regarded the incarceration of the Madiais" with the " indignation" professed and recorded against all privilege , monopoly, or advantage ot au esta blished church.' and whether he would contribute his public " wishes" to the " success" of the mission? Well spoken, Sir Culling! You have not always o,r ried English opinions with you, but you have got them now. And what did Mr. Lucas say? Why, he first lock Sir Culling roundly to task for presuming to expect an answer to so impertinent an application, and he then, with truly Irish consistency, wrote an answer filling three whole columns of a newspaper. As far as this repri uaand condescends to reasons, it proceeds on the differ- ence detected by Mr Lucas between two cases so app'' rently siredsr. True, the Popish religion is establishe d in Tuscany and the Protestant in Ire.isnd; hut Protes t ' autism in T uscany is " a crime in the sight of God, end a an injury to soc i ety, " w h ereas P opery i n Ireland (11' we must infer by antithesis) is a real and genuin e blessing to the Mate. The Tuscan Government, agsh i l is " Catholic," and the country is " exclusively Cathcr he," and, therefore, in repressing dissent, its rulers tray use any means they thi n k ex p e di en t. B u t t h e esta blished Government of Ireland and the Established Church 01 Ireland are both as truly Protestant as the Tuscan ests' blishments are Popish, and why may they not act sc . corclinely ? If precedence, monopoly, and privilege arc 65 detestable as Mr. Luna thinks them they can certainly b e none the better or being absolute, or, if this is held to b e the case, we have only to make the Government of Ire . land still more Protestant than it is, and lock up Mr . Lucas end Dr. M'Hale for four years, instead of merely not allowing them to steal other men's goods at their die' cretion. We have only to termi na t e a il t o l era ti on , and then we shall no longer be chargeable with intoleranc e ' Po give a Dies - sting community free scope and Hato ° for all its tenets and ceremonies, and to interdict it solely from outraging the laws of the State and appropriating the property of its neighbours, is persecution; to cc° and imprison every Dissenter, and to stifle the very faintest utterance of dissent, is no per s e cu ti on a t a ll, bu t , a rightful exercise of power, in which j us t so much (igour should infusei as is necessary for effect. N'? don't say so, Mr. Lucas! Don't preech such dcetrinc o ' They are dangerous at the present moment, we can 0 6 ‘ sure you. It Papists ought to have everything the/ want or nothing at all, the former will not be th 4 alternative pr e fe rre d by t h e B r i t i s h nation. v, course, Popery with NIL Lucas is all that „,1 precious, and P rotestant i stn alt t h at i s v i le. course, Protestant Church Missions are a scheme o f 01' gaeized evil—" a souping, swindling, mammon prose, lytistn, the whole aim of which is directed to root 0 0 the Christian faith and plant infidelity in its stead; t° disturb, destroy, disorganise, break and tear asunder 011 ancient and virtuous society " (is this Ireland?) " by foreign it fluences and foreign gold, to make men devils' or anything, if possible, that were worse;" while the way of Dr. M'Hale and his fellow priests is the " P 01. 6: way "of righteousness, and so forth. In short, Pope]; is truth and Protestantism heresy; truth ought to promoted and heresy rooted out, and therefore Popis h ! establishments may imprison P ro t estan t s, b ut P rotes tso , , establishments ought to admit Papists to " This is the practical view of th e new committee. SP" Culling Eardley. meantime, has certainly got an ansviert and a pretty stiff one too, but the members of the ( l e i : putation are called inapertineet for asking anything,t tools for expecting it, and the B arone t hi mse lf is dit% missed " with a contempt which there is nothing in hl; letter or his life to modify or diminish." " Equality for ever! THE COUNTRY MA The following is the official statement corn, &c., received in the port of Loi Essex, from the 4th Oct., 1.852, to both inclusive : LRKETS of the quantities °' lon from the ports I° the 9th Oct., 16551 ts ; ' .Z *i 4 : 3 1 ,1 173 ' Colchester ... 97) 22 23 ~.(B °„ A Harwich Leigh Mallon 1320; 407 116 388 :3_l° CHELMSFORD, OCT. B.—Prices to-day were as follows, Wheat, white, old 46s Od to 54s Od, new 42s to b 29 ,, red, old 40s to 465, new 35s to 408; barley, 26 s to 0, 9 ; chevalier 27s to 325; grinding 21s to 27s ; malt 55p to s °„ l/ o ', chevalier 555 to 58 5 ; o a t s 19 s t o 25 s ; p eas , p ar t r id g e, 0 „ to 365 ; white, 3u s t o 32 s ; b o ili ng , 35 s t o 37 5; d un , ne w 2 '; to 315; beans, tick, 32 s t o 34 s ; h arrow ti c k s , 31 s t o b 6" ms sagan, 29a to 325. goi COLCHESTER, OCT. 9.—Wheat, white 40s to 50s ; red co 455 ; oats, 17s to 22s ; beans, mazagan 283 to 325; and small 32s to 365; peas, white 34s to Zi6s, grey, 3 00 ' 32s ; barley, 28s to 32s per qr. KIRKALDT, OCT. 9.—The following are the quotati oo for grain:— Wheat. Barley. Oats. First 51s Od 29s Od 228 Od , econd 46s Od 26s 6d / 21s Od Third 37s Od i 23s Od 1 19s Od Beans. —s Od I "4 —B oi --5 3 t)i Ins 01 ../ prices u s Od —s Od 28s Od to are the Oatmeal, per bag of 2801bs imperial, HADDINGTON, OCT. B.—The followir grain at our market to-day:— Wheat. I Barley. Oats. Biala Fir5t.......... 4Bs Od 28s 6d 22s Od 35s o a Second ...4`2s 0 i Third 3d 27s Od 2)s 6d 333 i Third .... ..... .. 35s Od 22s Odd 17s 6d I3111,9:0 Total quantity of Wheat in market 757 qra., 6b7 Do. Barley do. 794 qrs., 750 °I I I Do. Oats do. 529 qra., 558 6° o o Do. Beans do. 15 gra., 7 5 COAL 51AEKET.—YEsTEaDA7. Prices of Coal per ton at the close of the market :-.• 0 Buddle's W. Hartley.. 16s Od Pensher Holywell Howard's W. H. Neth l6s Od Richmund 1 65 " 9d Newcastle Hartley .... 15s Od Stewart's .. North Percy Hartley.. 163 Od Whitwell South Peareth l3s Od Cassop Canfield Moor ......... 143 3d Hartlepool ... 11 5 9 j Canfield Moor Butes... 14s Od H eug h H a ll Tees Tantie:d 6 Townley West Hartey West Wylam Trader.. 15s 6a Brown's Deanery 1 65 j Wall's End, etc. r Clavering Tees .. 155 6 j Acorn Close ... 17s Od P ease ' s W est 145 9d4 3rostorth ..... . ......... 16s 6d S eymour T ees Harton liebburn ....... ....... 16s Od St. Helen's Tees Lawson Riddell ..... ... ......... 16s Gd Woodhouse Close. 175 Od Eden Main ...... ...... 17t. Od BirchgroveGraigola... 2 63 od Lambton Primrose ... 17 Od Derwentwater Hartley 16 5 tielmont l7s 01 Nixon's Merthyr and 0 Braddyll i etton Haswell lBs 0 Ships at market, 109 ....Sold, 102. RAILWAY SHARE MARKETe'• BRISTOL, Oar. 11. il iet STOCK EXCHANGE.—The share market has been cl- ej , to-day, The sales were confined to Taff Vale (New) 81 10 which were done at 3 3 4, p. LIV ERPOOL, Ocr. 11. et e 4 STOCK EXCHANGE . — The rail wa y s h are mar k e t °P o dull this morning, but improved towards the middle 0 1 jos day, and closes at its best. The decline i n Ch es hi re Junc i ,d, stock, since the meeting on Saturday, h as b een very marf:o, The transactions were as follow :—Birkenhead, LancasP i and Cheshire, 6 11-16 dis.—Ditto (late Chester Birkenhead), 21 lA—Caledonian, 23 3 / B —Ditto, Preference, l ",4 —Eastern Counties, 11 5 16 _ Edinb urg h an d Gl asgo w, 3u , —Great i• orthern, Preference, Redeemable Stock, Lancashire and Yorkshire, 84 3 4 London and NO% Western, 119 i2—Manchester . Sh e ffi e ld, and Li nco l n shir e Preference, 1 —Midland, 7651 a —North S ta ff or d s hi r e, 3 0 dis.—Shrewsbury and Hereford, 1 5 / 8 dis.—South-Bs-91 and Dover, 2 - 2 -y B —York and North Midland, 24 7 4. MANCHESTER, OCT. 11. of STOCK EXCITANGE.—There was a tolerable amount e business done to-day at firm prices. Th e transac tions], ported were—Caledonian, 238%4—East Lancashire, 1 - B P,d# Lancashire and Yorkshi re , F i f t h s, 3 7-16 dis —North Pl' fordshire, 4 dis.—South-Eastern and Dover, 224. BIRMINGHAM, Ocr. 11. l' STOCK EXCHANGE.—Th e i mprovement wh i c h h as 1 735 1 e 4 fested itself in the sh are mar k et for the last few days "„ce generally maintained to-d a y ; b u t f ew sa l es of import°ol have been effected, and there was little variation from 0 London quotations, which usually govern the Biriningr o o market. The newly-project e d l oca l li nes o f ra il wa y r Nuneaton to Leic,ster, from Birmingham to Stourbtlit and from Hattlebury (where it will j o i n th e W orc ester $ 4 , Wolverhampton), and run by Kidderminster StourPoi, Bewdley, and Bridgenorth to lronbridge and Coalbrook f is d begin to excite considerable attention, and promise to be 11 supported. [ADVERTISEMENT.] Holloway' s Ointment .0 Pills have Effected a most extraordinary cure of Serofilla ve Twenty Years standing.—Mrs. Jackson, of 17, Upper Bro °7 o . street, Derby, was afflicted nearly twenty y ears w i t h a 00'04 lour ulcer in her wrist, the pain fromwhich was in cess ant so excruciating. She resorted to all kinds of remedies witil ° o . avail, and was for a long tim e a pat i ent i n the hospital, be t f ceived no relief whatever until she had recourse to Hollols Ointment and Pills. Th ese excel l ent medicines soon catoe,bo portion of the bone to come away, and, notwithstandiog a d dreadful state of the wound, it is now perfectly healed, her health entirely re-established.—Sold by all Druggists as at Professor Hohoway's Establishment, 244, Strand Lond°'.',l A MAN B URIED A LIVE. —A n I r i s h man w h o 0 0 suddenly on the railroad was buried at Wheeling (Vra , ),4 Tuesday. Th ose w h o a t ten d e d th e f u neral. aft er lowr'''o the coffin into the grave, returned to their home, leavil l °o man to fi!l up the grave. It appears that, after throvviaigt a few shovels full of earth, he was . alarmed by a s i o go o noise as of kicking and struggling. in . the coffin, so that ran away. Coming up with Mr. Fitzsimmons, he told WP o il he had heard, and both immediately returned, raised ft .. . 4 ats.hfiartsitf heard, the coffin 00 0/ 0, opened the coffin, and found the man turned on his face, ; 3 6 ;1 The the commotion was might have been saved, and that he died solely from ou cation.—New York Paper olt b h e is en pe o r p s e e n n e w d a fv re hen RAILWAY COLLISION.-- A severe collision t ° ° place last night at Porto Bello, th ree m i les from Edinbillie O n e man was killed and several passengers injured. . flo g ac cident occurred in consequence. of a l u ggage tr a in staflu',o on the rails, and the road train, whi c h l ea v es Edinburg, at s i x o'clock, coming into c o lli s i on w i t h it. The pag e o f gers injured returned to Ediuburgh.—Liverpool .Paper Saturday. B.! R2'1:18. OV A SON. On the 3d inst., the wife of the Rev. W. M. H. Ch— „rclio vicar of Geddingten. 1 0 At Bredbury-hall, Cheshire, on the Bth inst., the Wif e John Ponder, E.g. 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