The Sun. — London, England, 1865-07-29 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, JULY 29, 18&. Belligerent Rights• The following is the latest despatch on the sub ject of the cessation of belligerent rights, addressed by the Foreign Office to the American Government : EARL RUSSELL TO SIR F. BRUCE " Foreign Office, July 6, 1865. " Sir,--I have received and laid before the Queen your despatch of the 19th June, with a copy of Mr. Seward's note on the subject of the cessation of belligerent rights. " Her Majesty's Government are sorry to find that the reservations and explanations which accom panied the orders of the 2d of June are deemed un acceptable by the Government of the United States. " Her Majesty's Government did not expect, in deed, that the United States, after the course they have hitherto taken, would now acknowledge that the original concession of belligerent rights was either necessary or just, or sanctioned by the law of nations. " Her Majesty's Government, however, having, in common with all the maritime powers of Europe, acknowledged the belligerent rights of blockade on the part of the United States, and having recognised the existence of a belligerent against whom that right was exercised in conformity, as they are con vinced, with the law of nations and the practice of centuries, could not be expected on their part to shrink from the consequences of the course they had deliberately adopted. Her Majesty's Government, therefore, considered that a due regard for national faith and honour required that any Confederate vessel of war called upon to depart from her Majesty's ports, harbours, or waters should have the benefit of the 24 hours' rule. But you will observe to Mr. Seward that this rule is then to be enforced for the last time. " Consequently no Confederate vessel of war, taking advantage of this rule, could ever again have the benefit of it. " Her Majesty's Government have, in a like spirit, allowed that vessels lying in her Majesty's harbours or waters, or which, during the space of a month, shall come into these harbours or waters, shall be permitted to disarm and assume a peaceful cha racter. Otherwise vessels at sea, ignorant of the termination of the war, might be driven with out coals or sails to perish on the neighbouring rocks, or to founder at sea. Such inhospitality would not become the character of the nation for good faith and honour, or for humanity. " But you will observe that her Majesty's Go vernment have instructed their authorities in distant ports distinctly to apprize the commander of any such Confederate vessel that he is to expect no further protection from her Majesty's Government, except such as he may be entitled to in the ordinary course of the Administration of the law in time of peace. The 24 hours' rule would not be applicable to such case. The Government of the United States will, there fore, be entitled to maintain that such vessels are forfeited, and ought to be delivered to the United States upon reasonable applications in such cases made. Only such applications must be made good in a British court of law if the vessel is found in British waters. "In the case of a vessel captured at sea by a naval force of the United States, under whatever flag, the claim ought to be made good in a court of law of the United States. " Her Majesty's Government will further illus trate their views on this head by the enclosures to this dispatch. " Part of these enclosures consist of dispatches to and from Paris. Her Majesty's Government can never admit that in the presence of a great war which interrupted and destroyed a friendly and useful commerce extending along 3,000 miles of the American coast—a war reducing great numbers of industrious families of b9th nations to poverty, and afflicting a whole continent—the governments of England and France should not, as far as possible, act in concert, in pursuance, not of any formal en gagement, but of a mutual understanding. "Her Majesty's Government, however, are grati-, fled to find that the United States no longer claim the belligerent right to search British vessels, and that the normal relations of the two countries are practically returned to the condition in which they stood before the civil war. her Majesty's Government trust that these ex planations founded upon views which her Majesty's Government have maintained in a spirit of just neutrality, will prove to be favourable to the estab lishment of a lasting and intimate friendship be tween the two natioiis.—l am, &e., (Signed) " RUSSELL." Naval and Military Intelligence. The Duke of Somerset, K.G., First Lord of the Admiralty, and the other members of the Board, resumed and brought to a close their official inspec tion of the dockyard and other naval establishments at Chatham yesterday. In consequence of the length of time devoted by their Lordships on Thurs day afternoon to receiving deputations from the various bodies of workmen employed in the dock yard, and the lateness of the hour when the last of them was dismissed, the accustomed visit was not paid to the factories, engineering works, and other departments in the dockyard. The members of the Board were desirous of devoting as much of the ti at their disposal as possible to the most im portant part of their duties—that of the inspection of the works now in progress, to the eastward of the present dockyard, for the conversion of the whole of St. Mary's Island and the adjoining flats of waste marsh land into basins, wharves, and docks, by which the existing dockyard will be 'in creased to more than four times its present extent. Their Lordships, who had remained on board their steam yacht Enchantress, Staff-Commander J. E. Tetley, in Chatham harbour, on Thursday night, embarked in the Admiralty barge at half-past nine yesterday morning, and were landed on St. Mary's Island, close to what will form the entrance to the first of the three basins now in course of formation, for the purpose of taking up their inspection at the point concluded on Thursday evening. The mem bers of the Board present were the Duke of Somer set, Admiral the Hon. Sir F. W. Grey, G.C.8., Rear-Admiral the Hon. J. R. Drummond, C. 8., and Mr. H. C. E. Childers, M.P., Rear-Admiral Eden being prevented by other duties from accom panying his colleagues. On disembarking at the island, their Lordships were conducted by Mr. Bernays, under whom the extension works are being carried out, and the officials connected with the engineering staff, to the western or repairing basin, the site of which was marked out by lines of red flags. The basin has a water space of 21 acres, with a depth of 30ft. at high-water neaps' and a wh ar f age f rontage o f 3, 500 ft. Wi t h the exception of outlets at intervals for the drainage of the water from the creek, the whole extent of the river wall ha% been completed. About a mile of the wall has been finished, and the requisite steam and other cranes have be en erected. The whole of the works have hitherto been carried out by means of con vict labour, the number of pri B s o o o ne to rs l d ,o a o i 1 0. y The act on the —Wand varying from act recently passed will, however, a d m i t of the re mainder of the works being put up to contract, and it is therefore decided that the extension works, progress, shall be em contemplated as well as in braced in three separate contracts, the first of which will '7melude the construction of the great western basin and two of the adjoining docks, the sides of which. are now distinguished by blue flags ; the second contract will include the cost of the construc tion of the factory basin ; and the third contract will he for the execution of the factory buildings, the foundations of which have been completed by the c onvicts. The repairing basin and factory basin, with the two adjoining docks, the works con nected: with which engaged the chief share of their lordshtle attention, cover an area of 42 acres, and these sere to be entirely completed by the autumn of 1869. 'he site of the propossd fitting out basin, covering an area of exactly 33 acres, was also in spected, but beyond the boundaries being marked out, nothing has yet been done in the way of exca vating fc the required foundations, the main object at present' being the construction of the factory and repairing 1 mains, and their completion by the period specified. Passing along the river wall for a length of al Kota 2,000 ft. their lordships inspected the proposed site for the large fitting out basin, the entrance to which will be from the extreme west ward end of the dockyard, communicating with the river at its deepest part by means of locks, with a depth of water, at neaps, of 30ft., and a wharfage front of 5,800 ft. Of the entire area of 380 acres which have been taken in and added to the existing dockyard, 74 acres will be taken up with basins constructed on the natural line of creek sepa rating St. Mary's Island from the mainland. The lines of flags running in various directions across the island will indicate the great extent of surface which will be covered by the several docks, basins, fac tory buildings, and wharves, the works connected with which will extend over the next ten years, before the whole can be completed. Accepting the estimate of £1,250,000 as the cost of the entire works, a sum estimated at £50,000 per annum will be re quired to be paid during the next four years for the employment of convict labour, which is the most ex pensive possible. Up to the present time compara tively little in the way of excavating for the docks and basins has been done by the convicts, who have been employed chiefly in constructing the embank meat forming the sea boundary of the island and in making bricks, the whole of those required for the works being made by the prisoners. During the visit of their lordships yesterday they inspected two of the brick-making machines by Varney and Clay ton, each of which turns out between 20,000 and 30,000 bricks daily. As soon as the additional buildings at the St. Mary's Convict Prison have been completed about 400 more convicts will be sent to Chatham, increasing the number of prisonerswho will be employed on the extension works to about 1,200. Before completing their inspection of the repairing basin their lordships decided that the western and factory basins, with two of the four docks communicating with the former, each of which is intended to be 500 ft. in length, together with the factory buildings, shall be proceeded with, so that they may be completed within the period decided upon. Their lordships completed their inspection shortly before 11 o'clock yesterday morning, and quitted St. Mary's Island at Cookham-wood-reach, where the Enchantress was in waiting, with her steam up, for the conveyance of the members of the board to Sheerness, for the annual inspection of that dock yard. They a- ived in Sheerness Harbour from Chatham, in the Enchantress, about 12 o'clock. The ships in the harbour manned yards in honour of the occasion, and the usual salutes were fired from the guns of the Cumberland, guardship of the Steam Reserve, and from those on the Camber, manned by the Royal Artillery. As soon as the Enchantress hove to Vice-Admiral Sir Charles Talbot, K.C.8., Commander-in-Chief at the Nore, went alongside in his gig and conveyed their Lordships to the landing place in the dockyard, where they were received by Capt. Hall, Capt. Superintendent of Sheerness Dockyard ; Capt. Fulford, of her Majesty's ship Formidable ; Capt. the Hon. G. D. Keane, of the Naval Barracks ; Capt. Reginald J. G. Macdonald, of her Majesty's ship Arethusa ; Col. Freeth, com mandant Royal Engineers, and the chief officers of the various departments in the dockyard. A guard of honour, consisting of a detachment of the Royal Artillery, accompanied by their band, under the command of Capt. and Adjt. Eden and Capt. Hit chins, were drawn up in line and saluted their lord ships on landing. After transacting business in the Captain Superintendent's office, their Lordships visited the Icarus, 11, screw steam sloop, 150-horse power, which is undergoing repair in No. 1 dock. Thence they proceeded to the North Star, which has been lying in an unfinished state for several years. The Favourite, screw iron-cased corvette, 400 horse power, one of the experimental vessels builtfromthe plans of the Chief Constructor of the Navy, and which is being brought forward for commission in the large basin , was next inspected. Their Lordships then visited the Etna, one of the old floating batteries constructed for the late Russian war, which it is pro posed to turn into a station for the water police, now stationed on board the Nymph, about two miles up the river. The present station is found to be very inconvenient and very difficult of access in rough weather. The new station will be placed between the town pier and the dockyard jetty, and will be, in every respect, much more convenient than -the one now in use. The , factory was next visited and the tubes of the Arethusa inspected. Their Lordships then proceeded to the Naval Barracks, which they thoroughly looked over, especially the new recreation rooms and skittle alley, which have recently been fitted up for the use of the sea men. The Duke of Somerset and the other Lords then proceeded to take luncheon with the Captain Superintendent at his official residence in the yard. At the conclusion of the luncheon a visit was paid to the saw mills and the joiners' shop, after which their Lordships again adjourned to the Captain Superintendent's-office, where they received deputa tions from the joiners and shipwrights of the yard relative to an increase of pay. These interviews occupied nearly two hours, during which time the whole of the naval and engineer officers, stockers, seamen, and marines belonging to the Steam Reserve were mustered in the dockyard and inspected, as were also the officers and seamen of the Naval Barracks. Their Lordships then went on board the Arethusa, after inspecting which they dined with Admiral Sir Charles Talbot, K.C.B. Early this morning their Lordships were to lave Sheerness and continue their tour of inspection. The hired sailing transport Dilawur, 1,305 tons, Commander Bailie, Royal Naval Reserve, embarked yesterday at Portsmouth, the headquarters of the 26th (Cameronians) Regiment, for conveyance to Bombay in the following strength :—Major W. Masse, in command ; Capts. W. H. Salwey and —Turner; Lieuts. 0. Cresswell,—Sharpe, A. B. Wade, A. B. Eden, and E. M. Dougherty ; Ensigns 11. F. Townsend and C. 11. Dougherty, Lieut. and Adjt. Brunker ; Surg.-Major Gamble and wife; 328 non - commissioned officers and men, 48 soldiers' wives and 42 children. The embarcation was effected at midday in a very steady and quiet manner under the superintendence of Capt. R. Locke, embarcation officer to the Hon. Council of India, and the Assist ant Quartermaster-General of the south-west dis trict. The ship was appointed to sail from Ports mouth for her destination at 8 a.m. to-day. The Dilawur is a new ship of very beautiful form, built by Mr. Charles Lungley, at Deptford-green. She has been constructed on the composite system—an iron frame with an outer wooden skin. She has a length seven times her breadth, has a very lofty main deck for troop accommodation, being 7ft. be tween the deck planking and lower edges of the overhead beams, and is ventilated in every part in a ' very superior manner. The cabin accommodation aft is well arranged and commodious, and the fit tings are in good taste. The ship's three lower masts, with the three lower and six topsail yards, are built of steel. The sails are tanned a light brown colour by a patented process, and all the running rigging aloft is of white Manila rope, thus reversing the old rule of white sails and brown ropes. The yards aloft are all very square, and will spread a large area of canvas, and are fitted without studding sail gear. The ship was swung in the Thames before leaving to ascertain the devia tion of her compass, and it is somewhat remarkable that the disturbance was found to be greater than it would otherwise have been had the ship been wholly built of iron. The Dilawur belongs to Messrs. Smith, Fleming, and Co., of London, and is one of six ships building for th e fi rm on t h e same p r i nc i p l e. She is a very handsome ship, carefully fitted in every part, and is calculated to do full justice to the motto emblazoned on her after deck—" Let the deed show." The Royal Yacht Osborne, Commander J. D'Arcy, arrived at Portsmouth yesterday, after dis embarking, ,the previous evening, their Royal High nesses the Prince and Princess of Wales and suite, at Osborne, on their return from their Western cruise. __ _ The steam troopship Hydaspes, now hi the Vic toria Docks, has been chartered by the War De partment for the conveyance of the A brigade Royal Horse Artillery, under orders at Woolwich for Ben gal. The arrangements are so far complete that the 10th of August is now fixed for the embarkation, which is to take place at Gravesend. Col. Middle ton, C. 8., who has been appointed Adjt.-Gen., and who, it was previously announced, would command the brigade out, has obtained permission to accom pany his family by the Overland route, and will leave England probably in the commencement of October. Capt. and Brevet-Col. the Hon. E. T. Gage will consequently take the command. Her Majesty'siron paddle sloop Trident, recently on the Mediterranean station, having been surveyed at Woolwich, was yesterday condemned by the Board of Admiralty and was ordered to be sold. The estimated expenses for the necessary repairs to render the Trident fit for further service were be tween £3,000 and £4,000. The War Department steamship Lord Panmure, H. T. Moore, Commander, yesterday sailed from Woolwich, laden with gun shot and barrack stores for Portsmouth. The transport Malabar, Captain Pearce, from Gravesend, on Sunday, with 500 troops, being de tachments from the 6th Lancers, 19th, 35th, 93d, and 94th Regiments, was near the Eddystone yes terday morning, all well, bound for Bombay. The left wing of the 49th Regiment embarked on Friday on board the hired steam transport Mel bourne, Hugh Auld, commander. The steamer was inspected on behalf of the Council of India by Capt. Schombgrg, R.N., and for the military of Col. E. Seager, Assist.-Quartermaster-Gen. of the Dublin division, and Dr. O'Flaherty, the principal medical officer. Every arrangement has been made for the health and comfort of the troops. The follow ing is the detailed list of those embarked :-398 men, rank and file, 18 sergeants, 4 drummers, 47 women, and 61 children. The officers comprised Major C. Fitzgerald, in command ; Capts. Young, Cresswell, Fordyce, and Hincks ; Lieuts. Fenn, Fisher, Temple, Wooldridge, and West; Ensigns Bogue, Cockburn, Williams, Cleasby, and Wreford; Assist.-Surg. Orwin in medical charge. Immediately after the embarkation the Melbourne left the pier for the buoys, and will steam at daylight out of harbour to-day. On the 24th inst. the headquarters of the 41st, the Welsh Regiment, embarked on board the tran sport ship Winchester, at Kingstown, for convey ance to Calcutta. The following are the names of the officers :—Major H. Rowlands, V.C., command ing; Capts. Peddil, Michell, Quayle, and Sadler ; Lieuts. Warner (adjutant), Caulfeild, Montgomery, Michell, and Auly ; Ensigns Kelly and Thackery ; Surgeon Leitch, Paymaster Simpson and Mrs. Simp son, Quartermaster Ward and Mrs. Ward, together with 389 non-commissioned officers and men. On the 25th inst. the right wing of the 41st Regiment, under command of Major Allan, embarked at King ston, for Calcutta, in the transport ship Albert Vic tor. The following is the distribution of the num bers embarked :—Capt. and Mrs. Noble, and Capt. and Mrs. Thompson ; Lieuts. Pack, Westby, and Taylor ; Ensigns Barnes, Hughes, Seymour, and James ; Assist.-Surg. Norris-11 officers, 310 men, 35 women, and 43 children. The following appointment has been made in the Royal Naval Reserve :—To be Sub-Lieut., Charles Henry Palmer. SUMMER ASSIZES. WESTERN CIRCUIT, EXETER, July 28. CROWN COURT. (Before Mr. Justice Keating.) THE TORQUAY MURDER. Mary Jane Harris, aged 23, and Charlotte Winsor, aged 45, were placed at the bar on a charge of having murdered Thomas Edward Gibson Harris, on the 14th February, at Torquay. The prisoners were not called upon to plead, as they were tried upon this charge at the last assizes before Baron Chan nell. The jury were locked up on that occasion for seve ral hours, but at 12 o'clock on a Saturday 4 night, as they declared there was no chance of their agreeing to a verdict, the learned Baron discharged them, but ordered the pri soners to be detained in custody to be again tried at the present assizes. _ _ Mr. Carter and Mr. Bere were counsel for the prosecution ; Mr. Prideaux and Mr. C. A. Turner appeared for Harris; and Mr. Folkard for Winsor. . The learned Judge having taken his seat, Mr. Carter said he was instructed on the part of the prosecution to apply for leave to call the younger prisoner (Harris) as a witness; his learned friend and himself being of opinion that the ends of justice required it. Mr. Justice Keating—Mr. Carter, if you and your learned colleague, having considered the matter, have come to that opinion, I, having read the depositions, see no objection to that course being adopted. . . Mr. Prideaux said that, on the part of Harris, he could make no objection to such a course of proceeding, but he would submit whether it would not be necessary that she should be first acquitted. The learned Judge said he had considered the point, and he thought it was not necessary. Harris was then taken from the bar, and Charlotte Win sor was put upon her trial alone. The prisoner was then called upon to challenge the jury. Mr. Folkard objected to this, contending that the pri soner having been once in peril, could not again be put on her trial before another jury. Mr. Justice Keating said ho did not see how ho could interfere ; it must be taken as error. Mr. Folkard said that it was laid down in " Hawkins's Pleas of the Crown" that a jury having been sworn, and a prisoner given them in charge for a capital offence, the jury could not be discharged without the consent of the prisoner. That opinion was also repeated in " Foster's Crown Law." Mr. Justice Keating said there was a case where a jury having been discharged without giving a verdict, the pri soner was tried a second time with a like result, and was subsequently tried . by a third jury. Mr. Folkard observed that in the present case the jury had been discharged on a Saturday night. lied they been locked up till the Monday, they might have given a verdict. The Judge thought that could make no difference. Mr. Folkard said the law upon this subject was in a most unsatisfactory state. It had been said that the judge ought not to exercise his discretion, except from particular neces sity or from illness of the jury. In this case there had been no particular necessity, and there had not been any illness among the jury. Mr. Justice Keating said he had no power to review what the learned judge had done, whether he was right or whether he was wrong. He had no doubt in his own mind ; but, having the assistance of his learned brother who was presiding in the other court, ho thought it right to consult him, although he must repeat that he had not the slightest doubt in his own mind. Mr. Justice Keating having left the court, on his return said—ln this case I have had the advantage of consulting Mr. Justice Willes upon the point raised and put before the Court. I am clearly of opinion that the objection is not tenable, and Mr. Justice Willes entirely concurs with me. I have no materials before me for entering upon the question as to whether the discharge of the jury upon the previous occasion was right or wrong —whether the learned Baron had properly exercised his jurisdiction ; but it would require a very strong fact to in duce me to suppose that one of the most learned as well as one of the most cautious judges had exercised his discretion otherwise than as he ought to have done. Mr. Carter then opened the case on the part of the pro secutor. The prisoner was the wife of a man who lived in a small cottage in a retired spot in the neighbourhood of Torquay, about half a mile from the Tor Station. T hero lived with them a little granddaughter eight years of age, named Selina Pratt. On the 15th of February last some persons in walking along the road which led towards the prisoner's house observed a parcel lying on the side of the road. Upon taking it up they found a wrapper sewn up with worsted. They opened it, and it contained the body of a male child wrapped up in a IVestern Times newspaper of the Gth of May, 1864. Tho child appeared to be about four months old. There were no external marks upon it. Information was given to the police, and they searched the registry of births, and they found that in October the birth of a child had been registered in tho name of Thomas Edward Gibson Harris. The police then went to the house of the prisoner and saw her, and asked her if she had not had the care of a child; she answered that she had, but the mother and aunt of the child had taken it away on that day month. They ascertained from her that the mother of the child was named Mary Ann Harris, who lived in the ser vice of Mrs. Wansey, at Torquay. They went to the house of the aunt, who lived on the moors, but no child was there. They then proceeded to Mrs. Wansey's and took Harris into custody. She was taken to the police-station, and while sitting there the prisoner came, and when she saw her she put her band to her neck as representing hang ing, and Harris nearly fainted. The prisoner then said she was sure Harris had not murdered the child, as her aunt had taken it away. The next day the police again went to the prisoner's cottage and asked her to describe the child. She said it had hair on its head, and she should know it anywhere, as it had a a mark or wart on its groat toe. The police asked her if they might search her house, and she said "Yes." They found a child's hood and socks. They asked the prisoner to whom they belonged, and she replied " To her baby." She was asked where the baby was, and she pointed to a box. In that box there was a doll, but not a baby. In speaking of Harris's child she said, "Pretty dear, I hope nothing has happened to it." A warrant was got, and the prisoner was taken into custody and removed to the police-station. She expressed a wish to see the body of the child, and upon its being shown to her she said that it was not Harris's child, and she took up the leg and said, "No, that is not the child ; it has no wart on the toe. I am glad I have got rid of it, for I had only 2s. a week for keeping it." Some worsted was found in the prisoner's house which was darker than that with which the bundle was stitched up. Some newspapers were also found in the house, but not one of the date of the 6th of May, in which the body was wrapped. When in the cell one of the officers went to it at night to see that all was right, and the prisoner said, 6c The nasty —(Harris)will be transported. One night she came to my house and took the child in her lap and gave it something. I asked her what it was, and she said Some sweetstuff.' I took up the child and put my tongue to its mouth to discover what it was, and I found it very sour Harris said Don't taste it, as it will poison you ; it is what they clean brass with.' I said You nasty -; if it will poison me it will poison the child.' I went out for a short time, and when I came back she was holding its head in a pan of water. I said You nasty -, you will hang yourself and me."' The way in which it was sought to identify the child was by the evidence of a Mrs. Gibson, at whose house Harris was confined in October, and with whom it remained until Dec. 12. That child had no mark or wart on the toe. Harris had obtained a situation, to which she was to go on Dec. 12, and on that day the child was removed to the pri soner's house. Mrs. Gibson was certain the body found was that of the child of which Harris had been delivered in her house. The prisoner's granddaughter was shown the body at the station, and she at once said " Oh, that's little Tommy." The medical men were of opinion that death had resulted from pressure or exposure to the severity of the weather. On Feb. 9 the prisoner and Harris were to: gether at the prisoner's cottage. Harris had the child in her lap. When the girl returned she missed the child, of whom she was very fond. She used to wash and dress it. She inquired where the child was, and she was told that the aunt had taken it away. She never saw the child again alive. The learned counsel then narrated the evidence he expected Harris would give, but we prefer giving it from her own mouth. put away my child. I did not go into the bedroom to pre vent it, as she had filled my mind up and I was led away by her. I did not go and communicate with the police. Ido not know why I did not. Although she told me of so many murders, yet I trusted my child with her when the other refused to take it. I did not communicate the conversation to any one. I had agreed to pay her every quarter. I never asked the prisoner to do it. I saw her take the child into the bedroom and I did not say authing. I used to go to church, but not after this had occurred. I saw the child after it was dead. I did not laugh or think it a matter of great rejoicing. I told prisoner of Mrs. Gibson's dream, and when Mrs. Gibson told me of it I felt alarthed. I never told the prisoner I wished the child made away with. I told my attorney what I have said to day. I also told Verge the policeman part of it. I asked Mrs. Edwards, the po liceman's wife, if I should be hanged, and she said, " oh, nonsense, who said you would be hanged ?" I have not been told I shall be pardoned. My conscience has induced me to speak the truth. Ido not expect to be pardoned. I don't know what is to be done with me. Re-examined—Mrs. Gibson told me she had had a dream. I asked her to go up the lane with me at night, as I fancied I heard a child crying. The,witness gave her evidence with great calmness, but her statement created the greatest sensation in a very crowded court. The prisoner sobbed bitterly when Mr. Carter stated that he should call Harris, and was detailing some facts of the evidence she would give. It evidently took her by the greatest surprise. Witnesses were called 'With a view of corroborating Harris in such instances as it was possible to do so. The trial was proceeding when our parcel was despatched. Extraordinary Case. At the Maidstone Assizes, yesterday, Emily Elizabeth Inglis, a married woman aged 26, dressed in deep mourning, was charged before Mr Baron Pigott with the wilfulmurder of her female child. . Mr. Grady and Mr. Addison conducted the prosecution. The prisoner was defended by Mr. Barrow and Mr. Wil loughby. The circumstances under which this charge was preferred against the prisoner were of rather an extraordinary charac ter. It appears that she was a person in a respectable posi tion of life, and she was married a fewyears ago, and she and her husband kept a public-house called tho Shipwrights' Arms, at Gravesend, but it seemed that they disagreed, and in March, 1864, a sparation took place between them by mutual consent. The prisoner subsequently applied to the Divorce Court., with a view to obtain a formal separation from her husband ; but the judge refused to make the order, and advised that the parties should resume cohabitation. The husband did not seem inclined to carry out this sugges tion, and the prisoner went to the house of a sister of her husband, who resided at Gravesend, and at that time no suspicion appeared to have been entertained that she was in the family-way. The prisoner appeared to have been deli vered upon the morning of July 4, and upon an alarm being given the body of a child was found in her bedroom. It was alive when it was first discovered, but died very soon after wards, and a number of wounds were discovered on the head and breast, and these injuries were alleged to be tho cause of death ; and the suggestion on the part of the prosecution was that the prisoner had wilfully destroyed the life of her child, with a view, if possible, to conceal her shame, and keep the fact from the knowledge of her husband. The following evidence was adduced : Rebecca James deposed that she kept the British Queen public-house at Milton, and the prisoner was her sister-in law, but she was separated from her husband. The prisoner came to her house on the 29th of June, and at that time she had no suspicion that she was in the family-way. Witness went to her bedroom on the morning of July 4, and asked her to come to breakfast, and she said she was very ill and did not wish to be disturbed. Witness went downstairs, and shortly afterwards Mrs. Livermore made a communication to her, and witness went to the prisoner's door and listened. She called out "Emily," and the prisoner told her to go away—she had been sick, but was better. Witness went into the room, and saw the priscner standing in the room, and she missed the hand basin from the stand and saw it under a chair, and she pulled it out and found the dead body of a child in it. It had a handkerchief tied round its head, and she observed a cut across the breast, and upon seeing this she ran down stairs screaming. Cross-examined—Witness was aware that there had been proceedings in the Divorce Court with a view to a separa tion between the prisoner and her husband. She did not remember hearing Sir James Wilde, the judge of the court, recommend that the parties should live together again, but he dismissed the case, and the prisoner afterwards went to her husband's house and said that she had come home. Witness's brother refusued to live with her, but said that if the prisoner went and took lodgings ho would pay for it, but she refused to take a lodging. She said she had no clothes, and her husband promised to bring her some, and he also promised to let her have a gold watch that belonged to her. Witness was summoned by the prisoner for an assault, and she was fined by the magistrate. Mrs. Elizabeth Livermore deposed that at the time in question she was at the house of the last witness, and in consequence of something she told her she went to fetch Dr. Nisbett. After the doctor had been, witness saw the prisoner and said to her, " Poor thing, I am sorry for you." She replied, "You need not be sorry for me. I did not in tend to kill that, I intended to kill a larger one." Witness did not know what the prisoner meant by this observation. The doctor told witness to watch the prisoner, and shortly afterwards she was removed to the workhouse by witness and a Mrs. Hinkley. Witness saw the child in the work house about a quarter to eight o'clock, and at that time it was alive. Mrs. Elizabeth llinkley deposed that she was a widow, and she was sent for to the British Queen about seven o'clock in the morning of the 4th of July, and saw the prisoner. She was dressed kid appeared to be very ill, and witness saw a baby in the basin. It was alive, and she saw its arm move. Witness took up the basin, and the prisoner asked her what she was going to do with it. Witness went to the police-station, and when she returned she went to the prisoner's room and said to her, Oh, dear me, how cruel you have been." The prisoner replied, " What have you done with it ; you can hush it up if you like, and you shall be paid." Witness told her not to mind the pay, and the prisoner then said, "Can I depend upon you ?" Witness then asked the rrisoner what she had done it with, and she said, " Can I trust you ?" At this time witness observed that the prisoner's hands were covered with blood. She asked the prisoner again what she had done it with, and she said with a scissors, and they were at the end of the sofa. Witness looked on the sofa, and found a small pair of scissors, very bloody, and the prisoner told her to take them home with her. As they were going to the workhouse the prisoner said, " Don't let anybody know it— don't let Fred White know who I am." The person she mentioned was the policeman. Witness asked her how she came to do it, and she replied "Porhis sake." Witness asked her if she meant her husband, and she replied "No, I do not want to hear anything about him. I have not seen him for 15 months." The prisoner afterwards asked her to post a letter for her, and she promised to do so. She asked the prisoner on a subsequent occasion how she could be so cruel as to cut her child in such a manner,and she made no reply, but pressed her hand. Frederick White, the police-constable, deposed that as he was assisting the prisoner out of the cab she said to him, " Be my friend, keep quiet." He afterwards read the charge to her, and she then said, "I know the charge." The wit ness then produced the scissors referred to by the last witness. Mr. R. Nisbett, the surgeon, deposed that he examined the body of the child, and observed three wounds on the left side of the breast,with dark-coloured blood oozing from one of them. This was the only penetrating wound, the others merely penetrated the skin. Thore were several small punctured wounds in the head. The child was alive when ho saw it, but it was nearly dead, and only breathed at in tervals of 15 seconds. The wounds he referred to might have been produced by such an instrument as the scissors that had been produced. Ile believed that the death was produced by one of the punctured wounds in the head, which had penetrated the brain, but the wound in the breast might very probably have had something to do with it. The prisoner seemed very much excited, and hardly knew what was going on, and he heard her say that she wondered what all the fuss was about ; she thought they were making a great fuss about nothing, Cross-examined—There was no post-mortem examina tion. Two of the wounds were such as might be made by merely closing a pair of scissors, but he did not think the larger wound could have been entirely caused by that means. This wound passed into the chest. It would be very natural for a woman to use such an instrument as a scissors in a case like this. Baron Pigott, to the witness—Pirould you be surprised, in such a case, that the child might be wounded accidentally ? Witness-1 should not. In answer to a question put by Mr. Barrow, the witness said that ho did not think the injuries of the head could possibly have boon occasioned by falling on the ground. Ile added that ho was unable to say how deep the wound in the chest extended. By the Court—The wound in the head appeared to pass completely into the brain, and there was, therefore, no doubt as to the cause of death, and ha considered it un necessary to make a post-mortem examination. The probe passed completely through the skull into the brain. Mr. Barrow, at the close of the case for the prosecution, made an able address to the jury on behalf of the prisoner, and after reminding them that if they returned an adverse verdict to her the inevitable result would be. that her life would be sacrificed upon the scaffold, he contended that, in the first place, there was no positive evidence that either of the injuries that had been alluded to was the cause of death ; and, secondly, that there was nothing to show, even supposing this fact had been proved, that those in juries were not inflicted accidentally, under the excite ment of the position in which the prisoner was placed. With regard to the .motive that was suggested for the crime, he submitted that there was no evidence that the child in question was not the child of the husband, and he remarked that if the prisoner bad been aware that it was the result of an adulterous intercourse with some other man it was not likely that she wouldhave gone to her husband's house and requested him to receive her if she had been aware that oho was likely to be de livered of a child of which be was not the father within a month afterwards. Some respectable witnesses wore called, who gave the prisoner an excellent character for humanity, and who also stated that she was exceedingly fond of children. Baron Pigott, in summing up the case to the jury, said that undoubtedly, before they would be satisfied in finding the prisoner guilty, they ought to be satisfied that the in jnries were the cause of death, and that they were inflicted wilfully ; and if any doubt existed within their minds upon either of these points, the prisoner was entitled to an acquittal. The jury, after very short deliberation, returned a verdict of not guilty. There was some applause when the verdict was given, and the prisoner was ordered to be immediately discharged. Witnesses were called, who proved the above facts. They were cross-examined, but nothing particular was elicited from them. One of the policemen stated that when the prisoner and Harris were in the magistrate's private room Harris asked the prisoner if she had seen her child. The prisoner answered." Yes." Harris said "Is it mine ? " The prisoner paused and then said "I can hardly tell after the child is dead," adding " You will neither hang me nor transport me." Mrs. Gibson saw the child in January ; it appeared to be well treated. She never said to Harris thatshe did not think the child would live, but she had said to her it would be a good job if it did not. Harris was to pay the prisoner 3s. a week for the child when her quarter was up. Harris endeavoured to put the child with other persons be fore she took it to the prisoner, who was at first unwillingto take the child. It was also shown that after the child was missed the prisoner was seen washing some of its little clothes. The granddaughter proved having gone with her grandmother to the spot where the body was found. Mary Jane Harris was then-put into the witness-box.—ln February last I was a servant at Mrs. Wansey's. I went there on the 12th of December last. Before that I lived 13 weeks with Mrs. Gibson. I went to Mrs. Gibson's and was confined at her house on the 16th October. I had the child registered as Thomas Edward Gibson Harris. I used to wash and dress it. There was no particular mark on its foot. It was a fine child. On the 12th December the prisoner called on me, and we took the child to the prisoner's, having on tho 10th of December made an arrangement with her to take care of it. I had previously been to two other persons to ask them to take care of it. It had three short frocks, two long ones, three shifts, two white petticoats, two flannel petticoats, and one pair of white socks. It had nothing for its head. I saw the child four times while it was at the pri soner's. As we were taking the child to the prisoner I said there had been one child picked up in the country. The pri soner said, "I wonder I had not got myself into it once before." Sho had put away one for a girl who was confined at her house, who had promised to give her £3, but she did not give it her. I asked her how she did it. She said she put her finger under the jugular vein. She said she had stifled one three weeks old for Elizabeth Darwen, and thrown into Torbay, and when it was picked up it was nearly washed all to pieces ; that she had put away one for her sister Poory, as her sister said she would give her £4. While her sister was staying at the house directed a letter to be left at the Jolly Sailor for the father of the child, and she received £5 by return of post. She said she only gave her 4, but that when her husband returned from sea she would make her a handsome present ; but she had not done it. I then went on with her to her house and had tea. I asked her if she was not afraid. She said, "To with you ; its doing good," and she would help any one that would never split upon her. I was leaving, and she said, "I'll do whatever lays in my power for your child." I said, " All right," and went away. I saw my child a fort night after in Mrs. Wansey's kitchen. The prisoner brought it. She said if I would give her £5 she would away with the child. I said I had not got £5 to give her. She asked me to give her a note to the father of the child. I said I could not do that. She said, " Get it any how else ; I'll put them all by for thee if thee hast 40." I said 1 should not do any such thing. She said she did, and I could do the same. The prisoner was there better than half an hour. She then went away. On Sunday, Feb. 5, I saw the child at the pri soner's. I got there about half-past 7 ; they were in bad. I knocked at the bedroom window. She said, " Is that Mary?" I said, " Yes ; I want to come in and see my child." She said, "My husband will let you in," and he let me in. I went into her bedroom ; the child was in bed with her. She said, " I've made it all right, with my husband. I shan't keep the child after the quarter." She said if I would give her the £5 sho would do away - with the child, and asked mo if I would come • over one day in the week and take away the child. I said she might if she-liked. I asked her how she could do it, and she said she could get some thing at the chemist's. On the Bth of February I asked leave to go out, but I went out on the 9th to the prisoner's, and got there at half-past three ; the baby was tied in the chair and the granddaughter playing with it. Tho prisoner was sitting on a stool. After talking a little time she sent the little girl out. After she was gone the prisoner said she did not do it before I came out, because if I told \ on her I must tell on myself, for one would be as bad as the other. I said I would never tell if we were never found out. She asked me if she should do it. I asked her how she would do it. She said put it between the bed ticks. She then took the child into the girl Pratt's bedroom. I did not go. She stayed ten minutes ; then came back without the baby. She asked me to look in ; she said it would soon die. I looked in, and saw the bed matte, but no child. The child did not cry. The prisoner's husband came in, and asked, "Where's the boy ?" She said het aunt had been and taken fastened taw theay.lihandle.esaid 4 0h !' She b roug ht hi m a p a il an d he with the pail. He said up to the wood. He wont away, and the prisoner said to me, "Did you hear the child cry ?" I said, " No." She said, " I did, and I was afraid my hus band would hear it." The girl Pratt came back and staid a short time, but was sent out again by the prisoner to fetch some buns. The girl went out and the prisoner said she must make baste, as her girl would soon be back. She went out of the room and came back with the baby. It was dead. She undressed it, and we went into the bedroom and opened a box. I took out the things it contained. She wrapped the child up in newspapers and then she put it into the box. I put down the lid, and she locked it and put the key into her pocket. Pratt came home, and the prisoner told her that Mary's aunt had been and taken away little Tommy, and put red socks on it. I had given her a piece of carpet, which is the one in which the child was found. I then made an engagement to meet the prisoner on the 14th at the Clarence Hotel, to go over around Peignton with the child. I did not meet her. I saw her on the 15th at Mrs. Wansey's. She came there with her little girl. She had a basket. She said "You did not come out last night." I said "No." She said " Never mind, let me have 4s. to take it up to Exeter." I said I had not got 4s. She said I might draw from my mistress. I went to Mrs. Wansey, who gave me ls. Gd. I gave it to the prisoner, and said I could not get any more. The prisoner said she would send up the next day for the rest, and she did send, but I had not the 2s. Gd. On the next Sunday I wont to Mrs. Gibson's and had some. con versation with her, and then I went to the prisoner's house; she said, " Oh, it's you, Mary ?" I said, " Yes." She said she had just come home. I said "There has been a child picked up, between three and four months old." She said, " Yes ; they tell me the Government will take it in hand." I said, "So they ought." We went into her bedroom. She said, "I've got you under the rabbit-box." I said, "Have you really ?" She said, "Yes, I have." I said, "Mrs. Gib son has dreamt it was mine, and that you have killed it and lam going to be hung for it." She said, " Ob, nonsense ; don't let her get anything out of you." I asked her again if she had it, and she said, "Yes, I have, upon my soul." She said she was going away to-morrow if I had not come, as she had received a letter from Plymouth enclosing an order for £3 from a girl she had done it for before, asking her if she could take her in again for £4, as she was looking to be con fined soon. She had sent back to say she would not, as if she had been honest she would have paid in the first place. She could not go in the train with my child, because there was such an air with it, but she should take it out on the moor. On the Wednesday I was apprehended. On Friday she came to me at the station, and she made a sign round her throat. In the gaol I asked her if she had seen the child. She said, "Yes." I asked if it was my child; sho said she could hardly tell, it had been dead so long, but I was not going to hang her. Coming up in the train I asked her if it was my child. Sho said, " I rather think it is." I said, " Did you carry the child there ?" She said, "I did not." I said, " Who could have done it, then ?" She said, " That is a mystery." I said, " You know you were there—the little girl said you were." She said, " Yes, I was —I went to show her where you lived." I saw her again in the gaol, and I asked her if she did carry my child there, and she said, " I did." Cross-examined--I have taken my trial for this offence. On my solemn oath, before my God, I did not attempt to poison that child myself. I did not give it stuff that poisons rats and mice. Indeed, I wished the child to live. It's true that I saw it barbarously murdered. I was there when it was done. I did not put it there for the purpose of being done away with. The conversation took place as we were going to her house, and yet I left my child with her and wished it to live. Farmer Nicholls allowed me something for the child, but not after it went to the prisoner's. I had had a few words with Nicholl's, the father of the child, and had had Bs. 6 d. a week for a previous child. I had known Nicholls seven years. I never had but those two children. I never took anything to procure abortion. The inter course was carried on for 61 years. I had only seen the prisoner twice before the first conversation. Mrs. Gibson worked for me. I went to her house four times while my child was there. I stayed one night at the prisoner's. I did not ask that my child might sleep with me that night. I always found my child well cared for while it was at the prisoner's. I never asked any one to SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. TlMES.—Yesterday one of the most cruel and cold blooded of murderers suffered the punishment due to his crimes. The magnitude of political events, the absorbing excitement of a busy and restless pri vate life, take away, in this age, something of the interest with which great crimes are naturally re garded. Were it not so Dr. Pritchard would be more than a nine days' wonder. If people had not more important things to think and talk about, they might well dwell on the cruelty, callousness, and hypocrisy of the Glasgow doctor. We do not re member any criminal in our time whose acts show a more complete depravity of nature. Rush shot down his enemies and all who came in his way, as an Indian fanatic might run a muck ; but the whole thing was executed in a few minutes, and was pro bably planned not very long before. Palmer was certainly a very bad specimen, and the two doctors may divide the crown of wickedness between them ; but even Palmer, though a poisoner, was not as slow a poisoner as Pritchard. Pritchard played with the life of his unhappy wife as a cat plays with its feeble prey. He kept her alive week after week, sometimes increasing, sometimes diminishing, at times even, we may presume, intermitting the doses. Nothing that the most diabolical skill could effect to give the illness caused by the drugs the appear ance of natural disease was neglected by Dr. Prit chard. He called in a medical man to have a wit ness that all was right and a person to certify the cause of death. His wife died, after all, in the most natural manner possible, and the murderer's skill and patience were nearly rewarded with success. Indeed, there is little doubt that he would have escaped altogether had it not been that he thought fit to send his mother in law out of the word also, and from some impatience inexplicable in one so caphble of biding his time he killed her very rapidly. A man may poison one member of his household, for a single death excites no suspicion, but double murders are very dangerous work. Mrs. Taylor died. Mrs. Pritchard died, and when the alarm was given there was no avoiding an examination which brought out the whole dreadful truth. All the skill and circumspection shown during several weeks were thus made useless by the want of due moderation. Happily for the safety of society the most accomplished murderer is not wise at all times. If Pritchard had kept his mother-in-law a few months longer, he might now be practising his more legitimate profession with success, and enriching by his researches the journals of the learned societies of which he was a member. As it is, he was dis covered, and perished miserably ou the gallows yes terday morning. In one respect he was superior to Palmer. He did not go lying to the scaffold. He equivocated for a time, and made that half confes sion which is not uncommon with murderers, who, even when all hope of life is lost, shrink from ap pearing to mankind in their full infamy, and seek to make the world think that though guilty they are not offenders of the very deepest dye. Dr. Prit chard was at first contrite enough to confess the justice of his sentence, but not contrite enough to stand before his children, his fellow-citizens, and the public as the most execrable of poisoners. To equivocate to Heaven is the habit of unfortunates in this state of mind. The blackness of their sin must not be hid, but they make it appear that it was not so black. But When he found that nobody believed him he determined to tell the truth. This was that he poisoned both the women in the manner laid before the jury at the trial. Perhaps he had not that coarseness of nature which enabled Palmer to prevaricate to the last, with something like a chuckle of satisfaction at having spread abroad the impres sion that the jury was wrong. Pritchard was a man of talent and education, and these faculties swayed his mind at last in the direction of truth. He made a kind of poor amends to the profession on which he had brought infamy by admitting the correctness of its scientific conclusions. In other respects his memory remains utterly abominable. The crime of poisoning by a medical man in the course of profes sional attendance goes to the limits of all that we can, conceive of wickedness. Treachery of the basest kind is added to the ordinary cruelty and malice which con stitute the guilt of murder. What is the crime of the low-bred ruffian who knocks down his victim for a watch and a purse—what, we may say, is even that assassination which stabs or shoots an unsus pecting enemy--to the guilt of him who answers the confiding look of a patient with smiles and words of encouragement and then hands the deadly draught ? And when the victim is a poor, helpless, trusting woman, and the drugging goes on day after day and week after week, it is difficult to conceive that the perpetrator has the ordinary nature of mankind. Yet, of this most foul, strange, and un natural crime there have been several instances of late years. The facility of the deed and the impro bability of detection seem to suggest it, and men not wanting in talents, in good manners, and in that demeanour which conciliates the good will of the world, are transformed until they become morally worse than the most degraded garotter who is serving his time in gaol. The French doctor the other day was a man of education and manners, but he poisoned his victims with a ruthlessness from which ninety-nine out of a hundred of the worst criminals in France would have shrunk. Crimes of poisoning are recorded in every age, but it cannot be doubted that the facilities are more numerous than at any former time. There is, of course, no remedy but to execute ri g id justice wherever the offence has been proved. Whether it be a physi cian like Pritchard, or a nurse like Catherine Wilson, no pains are too great to bring home the crime to the perpetrator, no determination too strict to refuse any mercy when guilt has once been proved. In the case of Dr. Pritchard we may con gratulate the public on the success with which the medical examination was conducted, and the con sequent removal of all doubt as to the justice of the verdict. The poisons used were those which, if present in large quantities, are easily detected, and on this occasion competent men were employed to make the analysis. Bat there may be more skilful poisoners even than Dr. Pritchard, and drugs less susceptible of the chemist's tests may be used by future practitioners. To keep the power of detec tion up to the level of guilty ingenuity is a praise worthy and indisputable application of science. HERALD.--The two houses of the Austrian Reichs rath have been closed with a speech delivered by deputy from the Throne. The Archduke Ludwig Victor, speaking in the Emperor's name, dismissed the members of the Vienna Parliament with many congratulations. He spoke of their indefatigable zeal and patriotic activity ; he referred to the new customs and commercial treaty with the States •of the Zollverein ; he praised the Budget on the point of economy, and he looked to the future with con fidence. This was not a very ample budget of con gratulations ; but it was, perhaps, the best that the Vienna Cabinet just now could speculate upon. There can be no denying that throughout the em pire trade and industry have never flourished so well since the convulsions of 1849, that the legislation and diplomacy of recent years have fostered trade, or that the Imperial credit has been improved. All this may cheerfully be conceded. But it may be questioned whether the Austrian system, which the Archduke Ludwig Victor so warmly eulogised on behalf of his family, on Wednesday last, has been so practically improved that it can work with per manent efficiency. The Grand Duke says--" Im portant reasons affecting the general interests of the monarchy, and which upon that account have found patriotic and eloquent expression in both houses of the Reichsrath, counsel the accelerated convocation of the legal representatives of the peoples in the eastern portions of the empire, and bring with them the necessity of postponing the Budget of 1866 in this session." Here we marli the weak point in the Imperial speech. Austria has not, as her detractors prophesied seven years ago, sacrificed her principle of local government to a despotic bureaucracy ; she has completed since then many great reforms, but this delay in the discussions of financial policy is at all times rooted to a mischievous principle. Three broad reforms were promised by the reigning Th The e first ofwas Em peror when he mounted the throne. one of decentralisation ; the second was o reli gious liberty; the third wasonssecoofteis have sy.stema littleticfinanc e Assuredly the Hungarian di rea son to complain ; they are no longer Eth andtreesatedas an inferior caste ; the Protestants of Komorn occupy their old position ; and the only check imposed is one which, while it grants them security from Catholic interference, and a complete ecclesiastical government of their own, subjects them merely to such a surveillance ou the part of the state as will prevent them from using their re ligious liberty either as a cloak for political disaffec tion or as an instrument of annoyance to their Catholic neighbours. Thus far, the Austrian Em peror has been faithful to his pledge. With reference to local administration, he has encountered more difficulties than were predicted to him by his former Ministers, yet even in this respect theßeichsrathof has triumphs to chronicle. But, in thematter finance, the postponement of the Budget discussion is nothing better than an attempt to obscure, with a vapour of words, a gulf evidently unfathomable. The City maxim, that the strength of a state is measured by the extent of its credit, might be more wisely applied to herself by Austria were she less addicted to silence on the subject of her borrowing policy. These huge deficits are not in themselves ruinous, it is only when they alarm the state itself that the credit of the state comes in question. When Mr. Disraeli spoke of the British national debt as " a fleabite," he raised the national credit ; but when Austria postpones for a year the debate on her Budget, the figures of many years past seem to confuse themselves painfully. We have had Aus trian loans in the market during the last 15 years. At the same time it must be granted that there have been important accumulations of capital in the Austrian empire. What we have to ask is which side of the question does the Imperial apology re present ? The German papers tell us, when com menting on the remarks of the Archduke Ludwig Victor, that Austria is accustomed to, and can always sustain, a deficit. We are far from following them, either in their affectation of confidence or in the imputation which it implies against the Austrian Government. No Power could last under the neces sity of making such continual and enormous demands upon native and foreign capitalists. We are equally far from applying to Austria the sneer of Metter- nich against his master, " Austria never knows its resources till it is bankrupt;" but the postponement of a budget, we are bound to say, very much re sembles an act of financial recklessness if not of re pudiation. Nor did it appear necessary. The budget of 1865 had been passed amid general approval. It was not, and is not, anticipated that the balance sheet for 1866 will be less satisfactory, and there fore it is to be regretted that the session of the Reichsrath for the current year should have been brought to a close by a financial evasion. On the other hand the Imperial speech contains hints tend ing to prove that, at last, the Austrian Government is beginning to understand where her actual strength lies. " The general interests of the monarchy" are appealed to. Only as an imperial confederation can Austria ever maintain her rank among empires. It may be wise for her princes to congratulate the na tion on its prosperity, its legislative progress, its industrial power and intellectual energy, its fiscal economy and its diplomatic triumphs ; but if the imperial speech have any permanent meaning, it consists in the aspiration that " in a near approach.. ing future a firm tie of union between all the peoples of the empire may be formed by a common treat ment of the rights, duties, and interests which aro the same in all the provinces." That is the leading truth of Austrian politics, and it is inseparable from the financial policy to which we have referred as upholding the entire system of the ;empire. Nor, when the Austrian Parliament disperses can it be suggested that the event, or the influences characte rising it, are of minor interest to the rest of Europe. Austria, occupying a middle place between the east and the west, the north and the south, is the ballast of Europe ; it is essentially a great pacific power ; it is a mighty political flywheel, and its interests are bound up with those of every conservative and con stitutional power in the Old World. Credit is, with Austria, however, a supreme necessity. It is not to be insinuated, of course, that the imperial responsi bility has been shaken by a temporary conceal ment of the financial card ; but where was the necessity for adjourning the Reichsrath before the Budget for 1866 had, according to custom, been produced ? We ha ve very li tt l e dou b t of Austrian credit. We expect that it will soon produce a budget with which any Government might be proud to face the world. We think the monetary position of the Vienna Cabinet healthy and solid, and only question the wisdom of dealing in suppressions, as though the Emperor's Ministers were afraid of having contracted a bad bargain with the future. They have fallen into error, no doubt ; they have converted state securities for considerations compa ratively worthless ; they have raised loans without Parliamentary sanction, and the raising of their revenue is effected at an exorbitant cost. But, taken at large, they have honestly represented both the Emperor and the Empire ; and if we doubt their wisdom in attempting to throw a veil over the finances of the country, until it can appear in a more acceptable shape, we must not deny that the Austrian rule, in its regular progress and its influ ence over the many millions comprised beneath its sway, is no dishonour to the polities or to the civi lisation of the time. It is improving for Germany the principle of Parliamentary government. COUNTRY MARKETS LIVERPOOL-FRIDAY. To-day's market was but thinly attended, and there was a quiet tone throughout, and It limited demand for wheat at a reduction of 2d. to 3d. per cebtal on Friday's rates. Flour dull and unchanged. Indian corn firm, with few transac tions. Oats firm. Oatmeal unchanged. DERBY—FIIIIAT. Our market to-day was moderately supplied with wheat, the trade in which ruled slow at a decline of Gd. to is. per qr. on recent currencies. Barley came slowly to hand, and prices were stationary. Last week's prices were generally supported for oats. The corn crops are progressing favourably. New white wheat, 45s to 49s Od ; red, 40s to 44s per 36 stone. Barley for malting, —s to —s per qr. ; grinding, 27s to 29s per 30 stone. Oats, new, 22s to 255; old, 25s to 28s per 24 stone. Beans, old, 438 to 455; new, 40s to 42s per 38 stone. STAMFORD.-FRIDAY. Not much wheat on offer, but enough for tho demand, at prices slightly on the decline. Barley made recent cur rencies. Oats limited, at late rates. In this district pas tures and turnips are improving. New white wheat, 42s to 465; new red, 40s to 42s p er 36 stone. Barley, malting, 32s to 335; grinding, 28s to 303 per. qr. Oats, new, 22s to 28s; old, to —s per 21 stone. Beans, 40s to 42s per 38 stone. Peas as of late. WAKEFIELD. —FRIDAY. Demand for wheat extremely limited. There is not much disposition to press sales, but the business done is at Is. decline. Spring corn unaltered. • Averages, July 2 4:—Wheat, 2,044 qrs, at 44s 1d; bar+ ley, 188, at 31s 11d ; oats, 95, at 24s 4id. LINCOLN:L-FRIDAY. About the usual quantity of wheat at market to-day. Via demand was languid at about ls. per quarter less money. New white wheat, 45s to 48s ; new red, 388 to 44s per 3G stone. Barley for malting, 308 to 32s per qr; g r inding, 27s to 31s per 30 stone. Oats, 22s to 255. Beans, 40s to 428 per qr. BRISTOL SUGAR.--FRIDAY. The market is rather quiet and but little business hal) been transacted this week. Refined is rather lower. COAL MARKET. Price per ton at the close of the market. s. d. 0. d. Byass's Bebside West Carway and Duffryn Hartley ... —. .......... 17 9 Malting 24 0 Cowpon Hartley ...... 17 9 Tunstall Hastings Hartley.,,,,, 17 9 Braddy e ll' s H e tt on l9 3 Wylam .................. 17 0 Walls E n d H aswe ll 2O 0 Eden Main ... ........ 18 9 Hetton Lyo ns lB 0 East Hartlepool ...... 19 9 Hartlepool South Hetton .. . ...... 20 0 Heugh Hall l9 3 South Hartlepool l9 0 Hetton ... 20 0 Russell's Hetton 19 0 Ships at market, 33 ; sold, 33. Efi ADVE RTISEMENT.I — HoIIoway's Ointment and Pills.— ectual Aid—ln the sad time of sickness it is cheering to know that a remedy does exist, and that it can be pro cured at a little cost. Holloway's ointment and pills are always useful in relieving pain, in reducing inflammations and regulating disordered actions. They never can be misapplied, nor can they under any circumstances cause mischief. They are a blessing to the rich when tormented by indigestion, gout, skin disease, &c., and a precious boon to the poor when struck down by illness. Hollo w ay's medicines should be in the possession of all soldiers, sailors, and emigrants, who will then be in a position to ease pain and cure disease when medical assistance cannot be pro cured. Births. BLAIR.—On tho 26th inst., at Blairquhan, N.B.:Lady Hun. ter Blair, of a son. CREITHAM.—On the 27th inst., at 16, Elgin-crescent, Not ting-hill, tho wife of Mr. C. H. Cheetham, of a son. ICEMBLR—On the 28th inst., at Twickenham, the wife of Francis Kemble, Esq., of a son. TIDMAN.—On the 28th inst., at 5, Westbourne-square, the wife of Paul F. Tidman, Esq., of a son. Marriages. BARRETT—LYALL.--0 11 the 27th inst., at St. Leonard's Streatham, Surrey, Samuel Barrett, Esq., 3d (King's Own) Hussars, only son of Hill H. Barrett, Esq., Dublin. to Alexina, eldest daughter of the late James Lyall, Esq.: Earnock House, Hamilton, N.B. ELTON—BAIRD.— On tho 27th inst., Lieut. Wm. H. Elton, R.N., second son of the Rev. Win. Tierney Elton, rector of Whitestaunton, and nephew of Sir A. H. Elton, Bart., of Clevesden Cou r t, S omerset, to Eliza Sophia, second daughter of the late Capt. J. C. Baird, 15th Hussars. Deaths. ARBUTHNOT.—On the 28th inst., at Kingston-on-Thames, George Arbuthnot, Esq., aged 62. BLEAYMIRE..—On the 26th inst., at Templesowerby, West morland, Miss Bleaymiro, aged 84. DE COUCY.—On the 23d inst., at Aix-les-Bains, France, Madam Do Coucy. HAVERS.—On the 27th inst, at Ewell, Maria, the wife of John Havers, Esq., 10, Bedford-place, Russell-square. HOLLAND.—On the 25th inst., at 5, Williams-terrace, Turn ham-green, and of 254, Oxford-street, Joseph Holland, Esq., aged 73. FORDE.—On the 25th inst., at Folkestone, the Lady Harriet Ford; aged 81. SWEETING.—On the 25th inst., at 3, Greville-place, burn, Robert Sweeting, Esq., aged 54. 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