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18 )Per At Last ; the sons , be used day day; hown el till rcast, cirro noon. ,vered Ly the rams. ed till 3 and Berate cloud Elec- , veered is, and -Posi sparks main -1 mean at the 57.94 66: in• on the 1; de ised to 'ed in• d yes abour• we at eagre; the Jib ivellicb' THE CASE OF MR. MATHER. The following is the further correspondence re specting the aseault committed on Mr. Erskine Aldher at Florence, which was laid on tha table of the House of Lords yesterday : No. 1. TIIE EARL OF MALMESBURY TO SIR HENRY BITLWEB. , Foreign- office, Muy 29. 1852. Sir,—With regard to the course which her Majesty's Government' now require the Tuscan Government to pursue in order to bring the vexatious discussion respect- ing Mr. Mather'a case to a close, I have to state to you that her 51-.jesty's Government expect, first, that the Duke of Casigliano's note of the 10th of May, contain ing the objectionable expressions in regard to the ma tires by which the Grand Duke was actuated in grant ing 1,000 traccesconi to Mr. Erskine Matter, shall be withdrawn; Mr. Scarlett's note of the 11th of May in reply being alio es a matter of course cancelled ; secondly, that the Tuscan Government s hall distinctly admit the principle that Tuscany is boand2, either through her courts of law or through her Executive Go vernment to protect Englistiman in Tuscany against the violence of Austrian soldiers; thirdly, that the Tuscan Government shall convey to that. of her Majesty an ample expression of regret for the prongieflicted on Mr. Erskine Mather, in words equivalent to those us , d by Prince Schwerz-nberg i n his dispatch to Count Buol of the 12h of M a rch, of w hich a copy was trans mitted to Mr. Scarlett in my dispatch of the 9th of April. If the Tuscan Government concerts to these demand her Majesty's Government have no wish to press fur any pecuniary compensation to Mr. Mather. That gentle men's father, as you will perceive by the enclosed copy of his letter of the 27th infltent, expresses himself in diff-rent as regards that point; and her Majesty's Go vernment here heretofore instated upon it as much from the practical proof which such payment would have aff)rded of the ahmisslon by the Tuscan Government of its responsib i lity for the acts of the Austrian officer, as from a desire that some substantial atonement should b e ,Wade to the sufferer by those acts. If the mcan Government refuses to accede to those demands, nothing will remain for you but to make arrangements for quitting the Grand Decal Court. As the Tuscan Government have long been aware of the nature of the demand of her Majesty's Government, and of the principle on which her Majesty's Government iriaist, they cannot require much time to come to a de cision on the question as it now stands. I will not specify any exact time within which you are to require to he made acquainted with the decision of the Tuscan Govt rnment; bat it is obvious that the decision should be taken by the Tuscan Government itself, and not at the instigation of any foreign Court; and therefore you will not be justified in allowing a sufficient time to elapse for a reference to Vienna, before the determina tion of the Tuscan Government is made known to you. If you are unfortunately obliged to quit Florence, you will, in applying for passports, notify the time of your intended departure to the Duke of Casigliano, and ex press to him your regret that under the circumstances of the case you are precluded from taking leave of the Grand Duke. You will then proceed, as you may think most ad visable, either to Parma or Modena, to which Courts you are accredited, taking with you the several members of the mission, and sending, if you find it convenient to do so, the archives of the mission to her Majesty's Consul at Leghorn for safe custody. I am, &c., (Signed) MALMESBURY. No. 2. SIR HENRY BIILWER TO THE EARL OF HALMESBURY. (RECEIVED JUNE 25.) Florence, Jane 18, 1852. My Lord,—After receiving your Lordship's commu nications of the 29th of May, relative to the arrange ment that had been made by Mr. Scarlett, I had a long interview with the Duke of Casigliano. The Duke ex pressed himself exceedingly surprised and pained at the reopening of an affair which, he said, he deemed closed, inasmuch as it had been settled on the basis of a note which he had received from her Majesty's charge d'affaires, and that it had been subsequently defended by your Lordship in Parliament. He then continued to say that the opinion of the council was against any fur ther concessions. My first duty seemed to mo to convince the Duke of Casigliano that the conduct of her Majesty's Government had been perfectly straightforward; that Mr. Scarlett had not only exceeded his instructions, but had unfortu nately acted in opposition to them; and that when your Lordship paused an opinion upon this affair it was upon the impertect impression thereof which had been pro duced by Mr. Barron's first communication of the 9th; and in order to establish such conviction I read to the Duke passages of your Lordships communication to me of the 21st, of Mr. Barron's letter of the 9th of May, and other such papers as seemed to me to bear upon this point. I then told the Duke that, after the strong and continued expression of an opinion which her Ma jesty's Government held—viz., that the Government of Tuscany was responsible for all acts done in Tuscany, it was impossible for your Lordship to receive any re paration which did not clearly admit this principle. I then read to the Duke the whole of your Lordship's dis patch of the 29th May, and after I had promised to send him a copy of the same, and to write to him a note re petting the substance of the principal arguments I had used in conversation, we separated, the Duke having shown throughout this conversation a very conciliatory spirit, but an apparent belief that we had entered upon a negotiation which it would be very difficult to conduct to a happy issue, My next care was to furnish the Duke of Casigliano with a copy of your Lordship's dispatch of the 29th of May, according to my promise, which I did in a note, of which I here enclose a copy, and which repeated almost verbatim the remarks I had previously made in conversation. I deemed it advisable to commence that note by fore stalling the arguments which might otherwi-e be again used against re-opening the discussion, by frankly ad mitting the facts that bad taken place, and which might have justified the belief that Mr. Scarlett's settlement had the sanction of her Majesty' s Government, and then explaining the real position in which that affair stood. The rest of my note is addressed to the main object I had in view, and which I naturally desired to place before the Tuscan Government in such a manner as would best vindicate our rights, and least shock its susceptibilities. This note, I may venture to say, produced a consider able and favourable impression; I deemed it, however, well to inform the Tuscan Minister, at the same time, though not officially, that I should only await his reply till Wednesday morning. I will not trouble your Lordship by entering into further details as to the different meetings and conversa tions which took place between myself and the Duke in the interval; but on Wednesday I received a note, which I could not consider as altogether unsatisfactory, but which, at the same time, did not seem to me expressed sufficiently clearly to place beyond all doubt the position in which Tuscany considered herself placed with respect to foreign subjects in certain exceptional cases; respect ingvrhich ca ses , as I d eemed the main point of my ne gotiation to be involved therein, I conceived that the language used (though of course I could not dictate the precise words) should be free from all ambiguity that might seem intentional. Theee objections on my part were considered by the Tuscan Government, and submitted to the Grand Duke; and the final result seas the document as it now stands, and which I deem it my duty to receive and submit to your Lordship. The difficulties I have had to Overcome were: t —. o enter 1. The inducing the Tuscan Government anew into the discussion of a busine ss which it had been summoned to conclude in a particula r manner by ,her Majesty's late chsrg6 d'affaires, and had concluded in that manner. 2. The inducing of the Tuscan government to recog _ nize as null, an d o f no more e ff ec t than if they had never existed, the aforesaid proposal of Mr. Scarlett, and the correspondence which ensued in consequence of that prop )sal, 3. The inducing the said government to make a satis factory amende in an ample expression of regret for Mr. Mether's misfortune—an amende. however, which I must only in justice say it was perfectly willing to ren der; and 4. I had under very disadvantageous circumstances to Procure from the government of Tuscany the recogni.ion d of a principle whi c h up to t h e admitting, at t t e t i D n g u , k a e n 's d pre senthad note it had always rank from ate d indeed declared it could not admit. All this I have at last done; and taking the whole tenor of the correspondence which I f orward to your Lordship into consideration, I thi n k it may be accepted r us satisfactory. I have not deemed it wise to humble or humiliate this state unnecessarily. It seems to me our policy, on the contrary, to sustain and encourage its just pride and independence, to which, indeed, many of our arguments throughout this affair have been addressed. But, on the other hand, I have deemed it wise to uphold unflinch ingly that opinion which we set out by professing, and thus to leave no doubt as to the firmness of our conduct on any important principle which may hereafter be at issue. I have, &c., (Signed) H. L. BIILWEIt. Inclosure 1 in. No. 2. SIR HENRY BULWER TO THE DUKE or CISIGLIANO. Florence, June 11, 1852. Sir,—l do myself the honour of enclosing to your Ex cellency herewith the copy of a dispatch which I have already read to you, relative to the case of Mr. Mather, and the manner in which a settlement thereof was made by Mr. Scarlett. I am desirous, in the first place, at once and frankly to admit, that, considering that the proposition on which that settlement was made came from her Majesty's chargé d'affAires, Your Excellency had reason to sup pose that this affair was terminated, and moreover that the manner in which that arrangement was lately de fended in Parliament was lik e l y to have confirmed your Excellency in this impressio n . It is, therefore. my desire to explain to your Excel lency, in the clearest manner, now that I feel myself uncl.:r the necessity to re-open this negotiation, that my doing so is by no means in real contradiction with the two facts which I have above cited. Not only did L or d Malmesbury in th e i nstruct i ons which he gave on different occasions to Mr. Scarlett (pas sages from which instructions are referred to in the en , most uniformly affirm that closed dispatch of th e 29th) an indemnityf was required for -r • Math er , partly as a ' compensati on t o t h at gent l eman , but also mor e especially as en acknowledgment that the Governm e nt of Tuscany was responsibl e for the security of her Majesty's subj,-cts within the Tuscan dominions, but his Lordship clearly and positively expressed this same principle to myself, in the instruction s which I received when I was com manded to repair this mission, as you w ill perceive by the subjoined extract:— For all acts dyne iu Tummy to the prejudice of T fl 141 British subjects, the British Government must hold the Tuscan Government to be solely responsible. " The violence egainst Mr. M ether, which is still un atoned for, is at present the c test, i m portant of those cases to whiehl hare alluded. * * And her ajesty 7 s Government feel it their duty to instruct M you • not to remit ie any manner the principle upon which their last demands are made." I flatter myself that, after this ex position of the spirit in which her Majesty's Secretary of State has on all occasions framed the inetrections given by him to the different agents employed with reference to this effeir, it will appear to your Excellency sufficiently evident that only one idea has prevailed in her Majesty's Go vernment concerning it. But ween her Majesty's Secretary of State for Fo reign Affairs first received information of the arrange ment that had been effected by Mr. Scarlett, it was in a portion of a dispatch from Mr. Barron, acting during the illness of Mr. Scarlett, which dispatch was dated the 9sh of May; and in order that the impression which Mr. Barron's communication wan calculated to produce may be fully apprecfated by your Excellency, I will here transcribe it:— " I have the honour to acquaint your Lordship, by the desire of Mr. Scarlett, wish the following important facts. The Stratford and Mather cases may be coosie dered as settled. These two questions were the subject of an interview between Mr. Scarlett and the Duke of Casialiano on the 5•-h instant. It was then intimated to Mr. Scarlett by the Tuscan Minister that an indemnity of 1,000 faancesconi (or 2221 45.) would be offered to Mr. Mather. Mr. Scerlett'e reply was, that that sum was far inferior to that which he was instructed to claim, and that one condition alone would induce him to accept it—viz,, the immediate release of the Mr ssrs. Stratford. His Excellency ansvvered, that the Grand Duke intended to redeem the pledge given by his Minis ters on that bead, but that it was yet too soon. "The matter stood in this position till the 7th, when the Duke addressed to Mr. Scarlett a confidential letter, informing him that `his Imperial and Royal Highness the Grand Duke, yielding to his noble impulses, and making use of his Royal prerogative, consents to the commutation of the Messrs. S'raceorda' penalty into per petual banishment from his sta'es.' Mr. Scarlett has de sired me to express to the Tuscan Minister his satisfac tion at this arrangement, and to report the same to your Lordship. The presence at Leghorn of her Majesty's steam-vrssel Growler, Commander Stoddart, offers an opportunity for the immediate removal from Tuscany of the Messrs. Stratford. I shall immediately communicate with Commander Stoddart and with the Tuscan Govern ment for that purpose. " With reference to Mr. Mather's claim, Mr. Scarlett has thought himself justified, after much consideration, in accepting the composition offered. Although it is not so much as could be desired for Mr. Mather, it is as much as could peesibly be obtained by negotiation," Your Excellency will immediately see, on reading the above (which is the precise copy of Mr. Barron'a words), that the idea which it naturally carried with it was that the Tuscan Government had proposed to Mr. Scarlett a pecuniary compensation, and that he had accepted such compensation, from which, as nothing was said as to the manner in which such arrangement had been effected, it was naturally to be inferred that the compensation in question had been proposed and accepted according to the principles on which Mr. Scarlett bad been in structed to apply for it. The question of amount was the only one alluded to by Mr. Barron as hav g in given rise to any difficulty, and a reason was assigned for ac cepting a less amount than her Majesty's Government had instructed Mr. Scarlett to accept, that reason being the liberation of the Messrs. Stratford; a motive which showed at least an earnest and laudable desire on the part of Mr. Scarlett to put an end to all difficulties between her Majesty's Government and that of his Imperial and Royal Highness. On t h ese grounds her Majesty's Government were prepared to accept and defend, and did accept and de fend, Mr. Scarlett 's arrangement, considering that the Tuscan Government had thus given a proof of their re gret at what had occurred, of their desire to atone for that occurrence, and of their recognition of the principle that British subjects were, when residing in Tuscany, under the protection of the Government of Tuscany, which held itself responsible for their lair treatment. But when a second dispatch arrived from Mr. Barron, containing copies of a correspondence that had passed between our Excellency and her Majesty's chargA d'affaires, they perceived that the arrangement as explained by that correspondence, was directly the re verse in principle of that which they had previously imagined it to be. A proposition had come from Mr. Scarlett, and not from your Excellency, and that proposition commenced by placing altogether out of discussion the main point welch her Meksty's Government did insist and always had insisted upon. It *as, therefore, utterly impossible any longer to accept or defend an arrangement which bad hitherto been accepted and defended precisely for reasons which did not apply to it. The demand which her Majesty's Government has up to this time made, and which it now makes on the Tus can Government, for satisfaction with respect to the case of Mr. Mather, is founded on the right that every government has to expect that its subjects will have impartial justice done to them within the territory of a friendly state by the government of thst state. The administration of such justice is generally confi ded by governments to their legal tribunals; but when a government closes such, tribunals, it takes upon itself those functions, as far as foreign nations are concerned, with which such tribunals were invested. . . It, therefore, the Government of Tuscany make a tem porary arrangement such as that which it has made, re ceiving the aid of Austrian troops on the understanding that they are not to be subject to Tuscan law; that Go vernment, if any offence is committed against British subjects by Austrian troops, is bound to administer that justice towards the aggrieved party which such party cannot obtain from a court of law. To suppose anything else is either to suppose that the subjects or citizens of friendly states are. in such cases to have no redress at all (a conclusion which is absurd), or it is to suppose that, for offences committed within his Imperial and Hoyal Highness's dominions they are to seek for satisfaction from a foreign power; which would be to establish as a fact that there is a foreign power in Tuscany which other nations are to consider as superior to the authority of the Grand Dake himself; and that would of necessity prevent Great Britain from soy longer recognisiog in the Grand Duke that independent sove reigety which it has hitherto fully recognised. The satisfaction which her Majesty's Government, in conformity with these opinions, originally sought, was an award of money to the party injureefe because it deemed that it was more fair to him to seek that sort of repara tion which would affect himpersgonraa nlltyesdan to d him.whic which a ß c u o t u a r s t of law would probably have Mr. Mather has now declined receiving ahy pecuniary compensation, her Majesty's Government feel at liberty to place their demand in another shape; and I am in structed, Mr. Scarlett's note of the 6th May being, as I have explained, disavowed, to require that your Ex celleney's note of the 10th May should be withdrawn, end Mr. Searlett's reply thereto cancelled; and further more, that the Government of his Imperial and Royal Highness should convey to that of her Majesty an ample juin abiee_.gylseat.lyh.s in reality expression of regret at the violence inflicted upon Mr. E. Mather, and an assurance that there was nothing in such violence which is to be considered in the slightest degree as a manifestation of disrespect towards the Queen of Great Britain or the British nation; and finally, that your Excellency, in the name of the Tuscan Government, should clearly recognise the principle, that the Government of Tuscany, whose duty it is to protect British subjects in Tuscany, is responsible for any acts of violence committed upon such subjects within the Tuscan territory, whoever the por:ons committing the sl:igod?r:tcr.tishounf tribunals. violence may be; and that the executive au wtt! ei lty is bound to make due atonement for the same, u such atonement cannot be sought for through the ', it must anyalways be a matter of regret to me to have to make demand upon a friendly Government, andywehai rcs e h s sin p e n eye: ownaiY intimate unen . a Governmentil d valued Governmentuheada relations maintained,i butfor s s o ue m h a r n e y . 8, .;:in ho t n h o e ur idiminishedn o interest Government,r m eis y nt bgyretthien etohnespidreerseairtlitenintshtaanteist,e; now instructing me to claim from your Excellency that satisfaction which it deems due to the required nothingthe sare whichte o itf my countrymen. and according to the aignity of the Tuscan Government Tuscan Govern menttached to the responsibility w hich the usc to grant ; for though there ma y be inconveniences at tached that those inconveniences may be somewhat =Fees si is thus requested unequi vocall y to assume, by the temporary and peculiar position in which it new stands with respect to the Austrian force employed at this time in Tuscany, such inconveniences a r e nothing in comparison with the honour and advantag e which at tach to the frank assumption of all the attributes of that independence which it is the first pride and interest of e very prince and people to possess and pre serve unimpaired; and perhaps your Excellency Will allow me to express a belief that her Majesty's Govern ment is only giving a n e w proof of its sincere amity towards this state, and of its high respect for the illus trious Prince who rules over it, when it shows a jealous susceptibility as to Tuscany abandoning in any degree that position i nit es t hich it has hith e rto so honourably main tained. fritter myself that thi s persuasion will have its due weight W position of 'T with teh one who can so well appreciate the and the relation of Tuscany with other nations, and and n u e r d E a i x d c e i l n l e b u r c i y n g i w n i g l l t a h ff i s o r u d e g m e e y ou r friendly,. tiation, so long pending, to a happy and suitable termi nation. But I am obliged to announce to your Excellency that should the Tuscan Governmentee not bo ready to grant instructed to require, I the reparation whic h I have b n am then ordered to wi t hdraw her m my instructions icstls furthermore enjoin me not to conti nue Ch ia the Court of Tuscany; an d negotiation for more than a 1 ile a very few days. As the Lame of her: M ki o chargd d'effairee gY'il late has been so frequently p.riod in thi e no t e , I can not cancluie it withou; giving !myself t h e steiefec u Lion of stating that which I know y ou r Excellency will hear' with similar satisfaction — viz , that though her MeijeJty'a Gove=rnment has found itself under the neces sity of disavowing the arrangement meek) by Mr. Scar let; in its name, still it fatly recognises the zeal and ability which this gentleman has displayed on a variety of other difficult and trying occasions, and attributes the involuntary error he hero fell into to the effects of that violent indisposition under which, at the date o f his letter of the 6th May, he had already began to suffer, I avail, &c., (Signed) H. L. BULWEII. (Translation.) Florence, June 16, 1852. M. le Ministre ' —The note dated the 11th instan: -, which your Exc,llency has a3dressed to me, enclosing a e )py of the dispatch which you have received from Lord Malmesbury, relative the Mather affair, which dis- UN, path you had communicated to me previously, has peen seriously examined in the Council of Ministers, and submitted to the high consideration of my august Sovereii n s I mnsi, in the first place, answering with an equal frankness the sincerity of your Excellency's declarations, state that his Imperial and Royal Highness the Grand Duke's Government has been painfully affected and sur prised at the receipt of these documents, and that my august Prince has shared this sentiment. Being charged to signfy to you the painful impres sien which has been felt at their perusal by my So vereign and the members of his Government, 1 mind add that the latter was necessarily entitled to look upon this affs,;.r es terminated, after it had been arranged with the (l kis! representative of the British Government, and that this negotiation had received in the English Par liament the most explicit and solemn senction, with flat tering eulogiums of the conduct of that honourable agent. Relying on those acts, the Tuscan Government had reason to expect that no modification would be made in the settlement of this affair, such as Mr. Scarlett had accepted it; and the British Government cannot forget that, as appears from the dispatch of Mr. Birron, who acted in the place of the Cherge d'Affaires during his illness, of which dispatch your Excellency has commu nicated to me en extract., the pecuniary indemnity ac corded to Mr. Mather was accompanied by a generous and spontaneous act of the sovereign prerogative to wards the Messrs. Stratford, English subjects, who had rendered themselves guilty of a political crime, for which act the Government of her Majesty the Queen of Great Britain, yieldiug to a sentiment of just pro priety, has already expressed to his Imperial and Royal Highness the most forme' thanks. Your Excellency, in admitting that the negotiation had been at first accepted and justified by your Go vernment, then developes all the succeeding stages of this affair, quotes the instructions which your Excellency has received on the subject, and explains how, according to those which had been given to Mr. S urlett himself, the British Government has thought itself obliged to disavow, as is declared in Lord Maltnesbury's dispatch, the conduct of its representative, and annul his work. In appreciating these explanations, I hasten to come to the main points of the question, and to declare that the Grand Ducal Government will never ignore its rights and its duties, counting amongst the first thereof that of being just to every one, and of according to foreign subjects the most extended and cordial hospitality; nor can the excep tional case of the special jurisdiction to which the soldiers of the Austrian auxiliary force are subject affect the exercise of those rights and of those duties. The refusal of Mr. Mather to receive any indemnity having induced the British Government to give to its demand the new form which is, according to your instructions, communicated to me by your Excellency, I must first remark that the note of Mr. Scarlett, which led to the conclusion of the affair, having now been completely disavowed by the English Govern ment, and being annulled, I acknowledge that all the correspondence which followed, and which was only a consequence of the first document, shares logically the same fate. The whole is therefore to be considered as if it had never taken place, and passing on (to other subjects), sre lam happy to seize eagerly this occas ion to bk a you to be the means of expressing to the Govern mans of her Majesty your august Queen the most lively regrets of the Grand Ducal Government at this unfor tunate affair of the wound received by Mr- Mather, which affair ought not in any wise to disturb such an cient, such intimate, and such amicable relations as ours; and concerning which, moreover, a satisfaction has been given by the Australian military aut horit y . The per fact harmony which bas constantly unit ed the two Go vernments, the friendship which reig ns be tween the two august Sovereigns, and the sympathy which has al wa y s been felt in Tuscany towards the illustrious English na tion, must dispel every supposition contrary to these sentiments, and the Tuscan Government rejects such a supposition with all the energy and ell the sincerity of the sentiments which it has already experienced. The Grand Ducal Government, in priding itself on the identity of its conduct with its sentiments, is always dis posed to accept the obligation of maintaining the rights and of providing for the safety of British subjects, as well as of other foreign subjects in Tuscany, by means of the tribunals, as a general rule, and hastens to recog nise the principle that this duty becomes more impera tive on the executive power in those exceptional cases, such as the one which now exists in respect to the Aus trian auxiliary force in Tuscany, which cannot be submitted to the ordinary tribunals. It therefore de clines none of the consequences imposed on it by that protection. I am happy to acknowledge X le Ministre, the great tact and the conciliatory spirit of which your Excel lency has given a proof in this delicate conjuncture; and I have the confidence that you will derive from my language a conviction that th i e nd T e u p s e c n a d n en G ce o , v o e f rn w m h e i n c t p a r b ou a ri t s ed res i o ts lved, on the contrary, to i f t arh is fr j o e m alou h s av a i n n d g uphold the rights and to exercise the duties of that in dependence. The enlightened and impartial Government of her Majesty the Queen of Great Britain will no doubt share this conviction; and nothing will henceforth be able to disturb the continuation of these official and amicable relations which are of ancient date, and ,which the two Governments have ever been so happy to maintain. For my part, I shall be proud to contribute to drawing closer these bonds, and I doubt not but that your Excellency desires equally to arrive at the same end. The justice which your Government is desirous of rendering to the zeal and talent of the Hon. Mr. Scar lett, notwithstanding the disavowal given in this case to his conduct, induces me to express, on behalf of the Grand Ducal Government, the esteem and confidence which that able gentleman has constantly merited. I avail, &c., (Signed) THE DUKE OF CASIGLIANO. No. 3. SIR HENRY BULWER TO THE EARL OF MALMESBURY. (Received Jtine 2 5 ) Florence,,June 18, 1852. __ • My Lord,--Your Lordship will read the correspon dence which has taken place between the Duke of Ca 'sigliano and myself, and appreciate the difficulties which I have had to encounter previous to obtaining the note from the Duke which I did myself the honour to forward. In regard to the two most important of her Majesty's Government's demands, the answer of the Duke of Casig liano seems to me in perfect conformity with the letter and spirit of those demands. In the third there is a slight variation between the terms of my request and the terms of ,the Duke's reply, though it appears to me there is no essential difference between the tact consummated in the one case and the object sought for in the other. Her Majesty's Government requires the withdrawal of the Duke of Casigliano's note of the 10th of May, and the cancelling of Mr. Scarlett's note of the 11th of May; and I am also authorised by your Lordship to withdraw Mr. Scarlett's note of the 6th of May, which gave rise to the subsequent correspondence. Tho Duke of Casiglismo accepts the disavowal of Mr. Scarlett's note of the 6th of May, and recognises that all the subsequent correspondence is annulled or annihilated by that disavowal, and is to be considered as if it had never existed. The main point at issue is the annihilation of Mr. Scarlett's proposal, and of the notes pro and con, founded thereupon, with the view that neither the one nor the other can ever be hereafter cited; and according to the Duke of Casigliauo's present communication, not only is this point obtained, but a principle directly the reverse of that suggested by Mr . Scarlett, and laid down in re ply by the Duke of Casigliano, is clearly and solemnly recognised. to the es Wi , h respect, howeve r, especial form of with drawing the notes in question, the Grand Duke has a personal and very strong objection. He considers it is a degradation which ho has not merited, and an acknow:- ledgment that he inten ded to inflict an insult whi c h h e never did intend to inflic t . The Duke of Casigliano 's note, written b y his autho rity, was not a note that he volunteered—it was a note elicited from him by a pr o p osal from her Majesty's chargé d'effaires; the answer was in the spirit of the offence or proposal it replied to. An act of liberality was asked for; it was granted. t might be improper to ask for this act as an act Casigliano. I not see any of liberality, but it cannot be deemed an at all events a voluntary oftenco to grant wh o' is adtegthraedsaatmioen time, having asked for. Such is the argument of the Duke of do not agree with it in one particular. I . de, discussion, e?ncession notes y any more than in the act of mutually destroying them; .but the a a v e i t n o g f obmtuaitnueadllya completewitharawie m, . on the really important matter hitherto unde r and which, by being thus settled, must prev ent all future di spu t e s similar to that c oncern i n g Mr. Mather, as well as change, as a mat t er of course, ere a verylon g elapsed, the p eculiar nature of t he foreign time has force at pre sent employed in this countr y , I hav e considered that it would be injudicious to refuse to receive the Duke of Casigliano's no te, and to break a negotiation sodif ficult, and which is so successful ul in every other parti cular, on so comparatively small an issue. I should add that the Duke of Casigliano has bogged me to intercede with her Majesty' l ; a —overnment g w g ith respect to this matter; and I. n?Tse .deem it not unwise or unfair to show some consideration for the Grand Duke's feelings on a mere matter of form which is of no • al value, the more especially as it i s practical always to be remembered that, however irregular the bargain, there was a bargain made witlo.respect to the Me ssrs . Strat ford, and those gent lemen are now free i n consequence thereof, their liberation being, under any C i rcumstances an act of grace on the part of the Grand Duke, circumstances, to under the idea that it would be agreeable to the Bri tish Government. still I ' At all events the question i'9 ef, for your Lord shipl have, 8,,, to decide. .9 (Signcd) H. L. BIILWER. No. 4. TILE EARL DIALMESBUItY. R d j F a l u o e re 2 n s eo ) , June 19, 1852. asigh:orltilepulLywoEfath. e a acknowledged d,g al e l d d i o t u b hy t the the SIR HENRY BULW ( F.R ec T e O ive Lore;,—ln order to place real meaning of the Duke of 16th to my note of the lltb, I enclosed communication . I have, &0., ---- 1 (Inclosure in No. 4.) SIR HENRY BULWER TO THE PURE OF CASIGLIANO. Floren ce, June 17, 1852. Sir,—l have received your Excel lenc y 's communica tion of the 16th, in reply to the one I had the honour of addressing to you on the 11th instant. I understand That th o by Tuscan ths tcom Government,munic w hilst painfully s ur - a t io n : L prised at my communication to the effect that Mr. Saar. left's arrangement was disavowed, appreciat e s the tea_ sons for th at act wh i c h I d eve l ope d. 2. That th e G overnment o f hi s Iniparial and Royal gtig 4lloo4 M9g11114011 014 ail the MU) Qf Alr' § 9 R 190 0 - LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, the 6th May is disavowed, it is in fact annulled, and that consequently all the correspondence which followed that note, including your Excellency's of the 10:h of May, and Mr. Scarlett's reply thereto, is annulled also, and is to be considered as if it had never been written. 3. That the Tuscan Government expresses its pro found regret at the violence inflicted on Mr. Mather, end repels all idea of that unhappy'event being considered as in any wise testifying disrespect towards her Majesty or the English nation; and 4. Thrs Government of Tuscany recognises in its ful lest sense the duty of protecting British subjects by th e ordinary tribunals as a general rule, and by the executive authority in all those cases in which the ordinary tribunals cannot be applied to, including such as may arise during the nrasent arrangement with Aus tria respocting the auxilliary troops of that Government stationed in the Tuscan territory; and that his Imperial and Royal Highness accepts the full responsibility at tached to the duty of the aforesaid protection. With the understanding that I have thus repeated the sense of that note which I have just had the honour to receive, I beg to acknowledge the same, and to state that I shall instantly forward the correspondence which bas passed between us to her Majeqy's Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, who, I have no doubt - , whilst at tentivek; considering that correspondence, will set a due value on the expressions by which your Excellency so unequivocally denotes the desire to maintain the most friendly relations between our two Governments; and will also duly appreciate those which as strongly testify the determination of the Tuscan Government to main tain the independent position of the Grand Duchy of Tuscany. It only remaies for me to thank your Excellency for your courteous mention of the effirts which I have naturally made with the view of terminating. so painful a question as that of which we have had to treat, in a manner honourable to all parties, and to assure you that I likewise set a proper value on the friendly desire which you have manifested throughout our negotiation, to satisfy the just expectation of my Government whilst upholding the honour of your own. I have, &e., (Signed) U. L. BULWER. No. 5. THE EARL OW MILMESDURY TO SLR HENRY BETLWER. Foreign Office, June 26, 1852. Sir,—lt is with great satisfaction that her Majesty's Go vernment have received your dispatches of the 18th and Mh instant, which announce the result of your negotia tion•with the Court of Tuscany on the subject of the as sault on Mr. Mather. Her Majesty's Government entirely approve of the able and judicious manner in which you have brought this intricate affair to a conclusion, which, while affirm ing the important principle whi c h th e y asserte d as d ue to the British nation, Equally tends to maintain the dignity and independenne of Tuscany herself. You will inform the Duke of Casig:iano that her Ma jesty's Government have received with unfeigned satis faction the expressions of regret which his Excellency has offered at those unfortunate occurrences which have lately caused an es t rangemen t b e t ween t wo C ourts which ancient associations and mutual interests should always unite in the most friendly alliance. You will also assure his Excellency, that in urgently contending for that recognition of responsibility from Tuscany which Mr. Starlets so inconsiderately waived, her Ma jesty's Government felt assured that they were consult ing not leas the honour and independence of the Tuscan Government than the protection due to British subjects. Until lately these have always found hospitality and pro tection in the Grand Ducal territory; and her Majesty's Government earnestly hope that the exceptional posi tion in which the Tuscan Government is now placed by the apparently necessary presence of a foreign auxi liary army will induce the Tuscan Government to be even mere jealous than ever to assert its independence by a ready and attentive recognition of international law. Her Majesty's Government consent to cede the point urged by the Duke of Casigliano, and agree to con sider the two notes of the 10th and 11th of May as cancelled. You will read this dispatch to his Excellency, and assure him of the sincere desire of her Majesty's Go vernment to maintain with the Court of Tuscany the most friendly relations.—l am, &c., (Signed) MALMESBURY. No. 6. SIR HENRY BULWER TO THE EARL OF DIALMESBURY. (Received June 28.) Florence, June 21, 1852. My Lord,—l think it right to make known to your Lordship that I have heard a fact, upon good authority, which may in some degree account for, though it can in no wise excuse, the conduct of the Austrian officer to wards Mr. Erskine Mather on the 29th of December. This fact is, that two days previous, when. some Aus trian troops were marching through the streets of Florence, in somewhat the same manner as on the day in question, a sergeant was struck with a knife by some person in the crowd jostling against him; a circumstance which tended to make the officers more than usually scrupulous as to persons who appeared to be Italians following and corning too near to their ranks. _ I am not aware whether this incident has ever before been brought to your Lordship's notice, but as it bears upon the case, and has been communicated to me by a person likely to be well informed, and on whose veracity I can rely, I have deemed it fair to state it to your Lordship.—l have, &c., (Signed) H. L. BIILWER. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. PORTSMOUTH, WEDNESDAY.—Her Majesty's yachts Victoria and .Albert, Captain Lard Adolphus Fitzcla rence, G.C.LI. ; Fairy, Mr. Welch, Master, R.N.; and Elfin, Mr. Balliston, Acting Master, R.N., were taken out for a trial cruise to-day by Commander Crispin, second in command of the royal steam squadron, to test their readiness for her Majesty's service, as the Queen and Court aro expected to require them in their transit from Gosport to Osborne-on Friday next. Thc Infl -xible steam-sloop, Commander P. H. Dyke, remains at Spithead. She will be inspected to-morrow by Admiral Sir Thomas Briggs, G.C.M.G., the Com mander-in-Chief, after which she will come into harbour. SHEERNESS, WEDNESDAY. HOT Majesty's Screw steam-troopship Meezera, 6, Mr. J. C. Barlow, Master, commanding, arrived here from Woolwich on Tues day, at 115 P.M. We are informed she is to be paid off forthwith. Her Majesty's cutter Gossamer, Mr. Charles H. Dil lon, Master, commanding, sailed on the 27th instant, at ten A.M., for service in the North Sea during the sum mer months. Her Majesty's paddle-wheel steam-vessel Wildfire, Mr. Brockman, Second Master, commanding, having completed her internal fittings, was warped out of the discharging basin on Tuesday, and having got up her steam to try her engines and machinery, took up her moorings in the harbour. Her Majesty's screw steam-frigate Amphion, 34, vee hear, will shortly be commissisined by Captain Elliott, who commanded the Spartan when on the Mediterranean station. Her Majesty's cutter Hart, tender to the Waterloo, has completed her fittings, and is ready to resume her usual duties. The drills of the Royal Dockyard Brigade, commanded by Colonel Reed, aro now regularly continued four times weekly at the parade-ground in the dockyard. WOOLWICH, JUNE 30. PROMOTION. George B. Jeffreys (flag. lieutenant to Admiral Dixon), to be commander. APPOINTMENTS. Master Thomas J. Whinier (1846), to the Leander, 50, at Devonport. Clerks—Cornelius W. M'Dermott (1850), recently serving in the Driver steam-sloop, to the Leander ; Ralph Roberts, to the Imaum, 72, receiving-ship at Jamaica. Lieutenant—E. C. Maunseil, Revel Naval College. Acting-Master—Thomas J. Whither ' to the Leander. Naval Cadet—Evelyn Wood, to the Queen. Admiral Sir Francis William Austen, was present at the Admiralty to•day at the reception given by his Grace the Duke of Northumberland to flag officers. COWES, ISLE OF WIGHT. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) COWES, JUNE 30, Loss OF THE FRENCH BRIO PAULINE, OF GRANVILLE. —The English brig Crusader, Elacquoil master, arrived at this port this morning, in thirty-four days from St. Jago do Cabs, with coiLe for or ders, by w hi c h we learn the loss of the French brig Pauline, of Gran ville, Captain Le Chevalier, on the 17th instant, in lat. 44 30 N., and long. 40 10 W. of Paris, having been struck by a whale, and in twenty minutes afterwards foundored. The master and crew, together with a pas senger (in all eleven persons), took to their boat, and for three days were at the mercy of the winds and seas, when they were fallen in with by the Crusader, and brought to this port. The Pauline was laden with sugar, and bound from Porto Rico to Europe. The unfortunate crew of the Pauline, on their arrival at Cowes, presented themselves to the French consular agent, Mr. William S. Day, through whom they have been provided with clothing, Stu., and will be forwarded to France, as soon as Captain Chevalier has made his report and protest. Tau MINISTERIAL Frsu DlNNER. — Yesterday her Majesty's Ministers had their annual white-bait dinner at the Crown and Sceptre, Greenwich. There were present— the Earl of Derby, Lord St. Leonards , Earl Lonsdale, Mar quis of Salisbury, Earl Malmesbury, Earl Depart, Duke of Northumberland, Lord Colchester, Earl Hardwick°, Lord Colville, Duke of Montrose, Marquis of Exeter ' Earl Jetsey, Lord Crofton. Earl Sandwich, Earl Talbot, Earl Roslyn, Right Hon. G. Bankes, Right Hon. W. Beresford, Right Hon. R. A. Christopher, Right lion. B. Disraeli, Captain the lion. A. Duncombe, Right lion. Colonel Forester, Vis count Galway, Mr. G. A. Hamilton, Lord C. Hamilton, Right Hon. J. C. ilerries, Right Nom J- W. Henley, Sir W. Jolliffe, Sir Eitzroy Kelly, lion. W. S. Knox, Lord Henry Lennox, Viscount Mandeville, Lord John Manners, Mi. W. Forbes Mackenzie, Viscount Newport , Sir John Pakiugton, Mr. Augustus Stafford, Lord Stanley, Sir F. Thesiger, Sir J. Trollope; Sir J. E. Tennent, and the Right Hon. S. H. Walpole. The party went from Hungerford to the tavern by the Waterman steamer No. 2, in twenty-five minutes. NAvvoo.—This city of the Mormons once held 20,000 inhabitants ; they are now about 2,000. One-half of the houses the Mormons left have been removed or pulled down, and the other half are tenantless. Each lot contains an acre. The mansion of Joe Smith is kept by his wife — once his widow, but now again a wife of another and a live man—as a tavern. The front wall, and the one next to it, which formed the vestibule, are all that is left standing of the achievement of fanaticism called "The Temple," which, as the inscription on a large stone, worked in the inner wall, informs the visitor is, "The House of the Lord, built by the Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter-Day Saints. Com menced April 6, 1841." A company of French Socialists have purchased a portion of the property, the site and the ruins of the temple included. They number about 400. Jgadison Courier. JULY 1, FATAL RIOT IN STOCKPORT. ONE MAN *KILLED AND SIXTY WOUNDED, THE MILITARY CALLED OUT. We have receive) a more full and detailed account of the riot at Stockport, of which we, yesterday, gave a brief outline. Our correspondent prefaces his notice with a semi-official account from the third edition of yesterday's Manchester Guardian, whieh is as follows: " For soma time past there has been in Stockport a bad feeling between the two classes indicated, partly on trade quarrels, partly on national grounds, but chiefly the result of religious differences between ignorant Irish Catholics on the one hand, and as ignorant English Pro testants on the other. Collisions have frequently oc• curred, which have come before the magistrates — charges and counter-charges have been made—the English have been attacked by the Irish; the Irish have been assailed by the English; and it has been obvious for some time past that there only needed the spark to fire the train and explode these inflammable materials into some extensive and bloody fray. That occasion has arisen under the following circumstances:—Sunday last was the anniversary of the usual procession of al the Roman Catholic scholars connected with the three c hapels in Stockport. The recent Royal proclamation against, Romer' Catholic processions was much discussed, and the Irish Orangemen and other Protestants, English anti Irish, eentended that the procession oug h t no t to b e allow e d. Various' respectable residents of Stockport, apprehensive that if the procession took plats it would lead to some serious breach of the peace, applied to Mr. Sadler, chi e f consta b le of the prohibit bo it, under know whether ' subject, the authoriti es meant to w e believe, the powers wns a i s o o brought under the The f the proclamation notice of the mayor and the borough i d but, e f from procession, w h at e whatever iit cause, tn took ko place. orders werePre viously, r . the Rev. Randolph . Brith, of he Ca tholicgivenev formeri i g e ey, who, .we believe, is the senior priest in Stockport Lite; on Mr. Sadler, and gave the a m kpn o po s e t wa s nr o i l n e t ne htah n te a th ss e ur p a r n o c c e pers t o h sci at no symbol or garb should procession beyond what had been usual on anniversaries;e or anything that could be deemed procession nmwatnionnla not t hen ne i p t re b ve ec n a t d ty efi fe a e n l c r i e e r g o a a e f m eta o t n n h g ts st the lower classes ran high, t me h de e put down. Th t d h e e c y l a r i w n a par Catholics boasting g ould that n . o t t neir be pro s e t e o s p s p in e n d Ed s g t e a l t e in y t , ,, w an h d ich be put It started about two o'clock from the The procession, however did on , Sunday afternoon, and, on the whole, across the Waterloo -road, ' takeoat i n d g h t ought e t o place weitington-road South, proceeded is a suburb down of E t d h! dw u n p Church gate c o h n -. g w a a t t e d a 's n t d re P et a ' rk -su r t, through Warren-street t Cp o aa w stsh n eed n hoe e ff a r chapelt h e railway a t and •so returning again to the Roman Catholic Chapel, Edgeley, Th Heaton lane, up the procession was headed by the priests,and a number of Irish labourers Willidag SIX a breast ; then came the numerous boys and girls in the Sunday and day schools. There were no banners in the procession ; the priests did not wear canonical vestments, but appeared in or dinary attire; even the girls handkerchiefs or vests, which they usually wore on these occasions, were laid aside ; an d they only wore white frocks, an d little crosses suspended round the neck by ribb ons . The only b a dges or symbols that might be supposed to contravene the 'proclamation were a ball and cross, g il t dove. As we have said, the procession passed and a along its coarse, without the slightest disturbance, beyond occasions' groans and hisses from zealous Pro entente, an d they finally -dispersed without any breach of the peace of which we have heard. Even Sunday evening, wh i c h is often disturbed in Stockport by noisy brawls, amonet the Irish population (who are said to exceed 14,000 in the borough), passed over with more than usual tranquillity, not one individual having been apprehended by the ' police, directly or i n di rect l y con cerned in any `row. On Monday afternoon information reached the police office that an Englishman and an Irishman, b o th o f t h em in liquor, had been fighting in the liquor vaults of the Bishop Blaize public-house, and that expressions had been used hav i n g relation to the processi on o f th e ,pre vious day, and to " Popery" and Pr otes t ant i sm ; b ut i t seems that the co mbatants were separ a t e d, an d went t h e i r ways, neither being apprehended. In the course of Mon day evening one of the police officers reported at th e police office t h at a nu mber of English and Irish were fighting; but as this was by no means an unusual occurrence in Stock port it was regarded as a mere drunken row, and by no means supposed to be of a more serious or r i o t ous charac ter. The numbers, however, of the combatants rapidly increased, an d this affair taking place in the Hillgate, one of the principal thoroughfares, information of its continuance and increase was dispatched to the police office, and Mr. Sadler, who had previously sent two or three officers, proceeded to the spot himself at the head of a body of firemen; but on their reaching the place they found the mob dispersed and everything apparently quiet. During the remainder of the evening, and throughout the eight, all continued tranquil; there was no renewal of the disturbance in any part of the borough. On Tuesday morning, however, there were rumours of much ill-blood amongst the Roman Catholics, in con sequence, it is said, of their regarding the English as the aggressors in the first brawl in the Bishop Blaize vaults; and Ma Sadler resolved to take measures to put down any fights that might arise, not having any reason at that time to apprehend that anything more serious than an Irish row would occur. During the whole of Tues day everything remained tranquil; but the Rev. Mr. Forster, priest of St. Michael's Roman Ca tholic Chapel, in the Park, called on Mr. Sadler, and stated that there appeared 'to be considerable angry feeling on the part of the Irish Catholics, and that he was apprehensive that they would assemble in the evening in considerable numbers in the locality com monly known in Stockport as Bomber's Brow (or Gar nett-street), and observing that Mr. Sadler was popular amongst them, proposed to meet him at eight o'clock, and that they should go together to the spot, as he was sure that they could in this way prevent any disturb ance. Mr. Sadler agreed to meet him; but about half past seven o'clock in the evening Mr.'Forster sent to Mr. Sadler, to say that he had an evening service at his chapel, and would be unable to keep his appointment. Under these circumstances Mr. Sadler proceeded to take such precautions as he thought advisable. The police force of the borough is obviously too small for such a population, consisting only of Mr. Sadler him self and ten constables, with two or three assistants, or at most half a dozen, for duty on Saturday nights and Sundays, the seasons when there is most dis order and brawling in Stockport. Mr. Sadler sent three or four of his officers into the Hillgate, to ob serve whether there were any signs of assembling; and about a quarter before eight o'clock on Tues day evening, one of these officers, named John Leigh, sent a verbal message to the police-office, by Mr. Charles Brown, agent, &c,, to the effect that all was perfectly quiet, and that there were no indications of any unusual assembling. Mr. Sadler contented himself with sending a few more officets to the locality, and within a quarter of an hour after receiving the former message he re ceived information at the police-office (which is within the Court-house, Vernon-street) that very suddenly con siderable numbers of English and Irish had simultane ously made their appearance in Hillgate, and had com menced fighting with sticks and other weapons. Which party commenced the fray Mr. Sadler was unable, either then or subsequently, to ascertain. He immediately got together soma assistant constables, and was proceeding with them to the spot, when information reached him that the rioters had been driven back by the police and others from Hillgate, and that a considerable number of Irish had gone in the direction of High-street, which leads to a neighbourhood principally inhabited by them, and known as Rock-row, Petty Carr, Carr Green, &c. On learning this, Mr. Sadler, at the head of his small staff of assistant constables, proceeded along Undorbauk, down Chestergate, and so to Rock row, which he entered from the bottom, and saw a num ber of people collected at the upper end of the row (which, with only one or two exceptions, is inhabited wholly by Irish), and extending into a field adjoining St. Peter's Church. They appeared to be in conflict, and as he was proceeding towards them with his men they were met by a considerable body of Irish, who assailed the police with stones, brickbats, and other missiles, while various sorts of projectiles were cast from the houses, and even women were seen upon the roofs of the cottages hurling slates, bricks, &a, on the police. How ever, the small force under Mr. Sadler's command suc ceeded in driving back and dispersing their assailants, many of whom rushed into the houses; souse of them being captured and conveyed to the police-cffiee; and ultimately comparative quiet and peace being restored, Mr. Sadler left a number of officers, with some special constacles, in that locality, and returned to the Cour a Court house, whence he immediately dispatched o othroyd, messenger for the Mayor, Mr. John h-I3 distant attorney, who resides at Shaw Heat eiayor s about a mile from the Court-house. Tess, __ as E oon arrived, as did Messrs. P. E. Marsland, Pl"' trat sk rigge, and Sir Ralph Pendlebury, all maga es of th e was instantly borough. From them a communicati on al made to Major Kennedy and Captain f , commanding detachments of the 4th Regiment of t la r antry, now lying in the barracks, Hall-street , , Stockport, ,e,questing them to send a detachment of troops to t rou 11;n. the civil force in maintaining the peace of the a h at r th g (I Both officers, and several others, soon arrive_ s e _ourt-house with a detachment of about 60 rank and filo. Meanwhile, the form of declaration, t h e read s in,,g of which is usually called " reading the Riot M t, was copied out in readi ness—[printed copies of this ought always to be in rea diness in populous towns] — and the Mayor and the ma gistrates named, with the addition of Mr. Turner, we believe, with the po lice, and a number of special con stables (just before sworn in for the occasion by the magistrates), and the, troops, proceeded down Chester gate to Rock-row, and Petty Car r . Th ere th e y f oun d a considera bl e assemblage, and the Riot Act was im mediately read; on which, aided by the efforts of the police and special constables, the mob speedily dis persed. The civil and military authorities and force then proceeded by St. Peter's-square, through High-street and Hillgate, up Edward-street, and through Greek -street, to Edgeley, where they found the large Catholic chapel completely sacked and gutted, and the priest's house pretty nearly in the same condition. The rioters hero had brought the furniture,i &c., cut of the chapel and the residence, and piled_d ersed the road and set fire to it. The mob hail ro l ifps of before their arrival, and they only found , F en _ se e. persons standing quietly by theShesps of I !"_` e i s 6 sen i" g " er terials. While the authorities were there, a messenger arrived proceeded to arrived with information that the ma in the Park (near St. Michael's Roman Catholic chapel 'clowe, and were c' the Court-house), had broken the wen, and military ,e- The OW thorities the furniture, &c. with all speed, and and forces proceeded t h it her on their arrival found that the furniture had b een d ragged out, broken up, and some of it set fire to; and th a t some force open of the rioters had attempte d t o a large iron us safe, supposed to contain various .. articles of silver used in l The police removed this safe the service of the chape . . (the look of which h a d resisted the efforts of the rioters) 1852. to the police-office, for safe keeping. Some portions of a paters, a pyx cover, &a, ell of silver, were picked up inside :the chapel, and Mr. Sadler took possession of them, as well as of various books of prayers which were lying strewed about. These were lodged in safety at the police-office. The police arrived in tima to appre hend several men in the very act of breaking and de stroying furniture in the chapel, and these were appre hended and lodged in the lock-ups. With the aid of the police, quiet was speedily restored, and a considerable number of men and youths, who were known to have taken part in some of these riotous proceedings, were apprehended and conveyed to the Court-house. Many of these wero severely wounded, and from four o'clock in the morning till noon, four medical men wore more or less engaged in dressing their wounds and hurts. These were Dr. Rayner, M.D.; Mr. Walters. surgeon; Mr. Rigby, house surgeon at the Stockport Infirmary; an d Mr. Brooks, surgeon. Thus far we have given a semi-official account of the riotous proceedings of the night, from information which was most readily communicated to us by Mr. Sadler and soma of the officers under his control. But as the police force was generally too late to come np with the rioters while their reckless acts of destruction were being committed, we have endeavoursed to ascer tain from other sources how the proceedings arose. Great confusion prevails, both as to the order of events, and the time of any particular attack; but wo believe the following to have been the order in which the events occurred. After the police had dispersed the mob in the Hillgate, the Irish, in a tolerably compact body, re treated towards Rock•row, the lower end of which opens upon St. Peter's-square. At the corner of Rock-row and the square stands a large house, the residence of Mr. Graham, surgeon, who, we believe, has in some way incurred the hatred of the Roman Catholics. They assailed this house with volleys of stones and brick bats, smashed most of the lower windows, and the ser vant man received a severe wound in the forehead from a stone. In this attack, the next house, belonging to Mr. White's factory, also suffered considerable injury in the lower windows. The mob then turned their attack upon the Sunday-school connected with St. James's Church, which stands opposite to Mr. Graham's house, l on the other side of the square, and they had broken some of the windows in the building, when they were overtaken by the English, who attacked and drove them up Rock-row, and then seem to have proceeded in reta liation to Edgeley, gutted the Roman Catholic chapel and priest's house there, and thence to St. Mi chael's Catholic chapel in the Park, which they also sacked, as already stated. Here the more serious outrages to property seem to have been stayed; but fights between small bodies of both factions continued for some hours afterwards. In these fights one life has been taken, and it is not improbable that other very severe injuries may terminate fatally. Between 11 and 12 o'clock a party of police succeeded in cap turing a stout athletic young Irishman, whose name is said to be Darby Searle, about 24 or 25 years of age, who was said to have wounded three or four mon with a pitchfork. When apprehended, however, he had re ceived a severe fracture of the skull and other injuries, and as he was evidently dying he was removed from the other prisoners and placed in a room below the Court house, where he expired about a quarter before two o'clo c k thi s (W e d nesday) morn i ng. It was atter midnight before the disturbance was quelled. The following is o ne o f t h e sad casualt i es reporte d to us as having o ceurredduringth eevening:— A man named Jas , Ogden , printer, was charged by adr to assist the a block constables in preserving the pea M ce r , . Sadler and was for some time on duty•wtth others pro tecting the Mersey Inn from a riotous attack. Returning thence, he heard a great noise down an entry in Mrs. Walker's Square, Back Brook - street. Ho ran down the entry, and found a number of Irish and others fight ing in a low cellar. He entered it, but was immediately assailed with stones, kicks, &c. Finding himself in danger, he attempted to escape, and laying hold of th e door for that purpose, some one behind struck at his hand with a sickle or reaping -hook, and completely severed from his right hand the whole of the fore finger. The poor man went direct to the Stockport Infirmary, where his hand was dressed, and he then returned to the cellar, which he found deserted, and, looking about, he picked up his finger, where it had fallen behind the door. He is in great distress, as he told us it was the very finger he most required in his trade, and he was afraid he could work no more. To add to his sufferings, he is a married man, with a family of six children, and his wife will shortly again be confined; and so much was he afraid of the effect upon her, that at first ho dared not acquaint her with what had befallen him. We trust this case will have the benevolent consideration of all the well-disposed. THE C3IIRT-HOUSE, YESTERDAY. .. The Stockport Court-house presented an extraordi nary scene yesterday morning. During the night it had been converted into a prison hospital, and at one end, were penned up about 108 ruffilialy looking fellows, up wards of 60 of whom were suffering from wounds re ceived in the riot or in their encounters with the police when taken into custody. One with a dislocated shoulder was yelling under the manipulation of a surgeon, and another was shrieking under the pain of handling a dis located ankle; others were writhing, moaning, and bleed ing; and as the surgeons moved to and fro amongst them dressing their wounds, tile place presented a singular picture. The man who had been killed was in the cellar underneath the Court-house; his name was Darby Searle, aged 24, and his wounds were a fractured skull and a cut on the head 4 inches long. The following is a list of the wounded ptisoners:— James Paton, 29, fish dealer, 17, R)ek-row, cut be tween eyes. Owen Doyle, 54, labourer, High Bankside, two cuts on head. William Donovan, 30, Carr-green, a cut on head. Darby Mulkeeny, 40, Walker's yard, three cuts on head , and fracture of shoulder blade. James Davies, 17, Swan's -street, bruise on head. Martin Mulligan, 18, Daw-bank, two cuts on head. William Riley, 40, Rock-row, two cuts on head. Michael Morris, 14, Carr-green, a bruise on head. John Bloyd, 38, two cuts. William Shepherd, 45, one cut on head. Patrick Stanton, 46, stranger, three cuts on head. , Patrick Naughton, is, Shecherd'a..-buildings, a cat on head. John Cuddy, 28, Rock-row, ono cut on head. Patrick Curly, 45, stranger, two cuts on head. James M`Donald, 23, stranger, four cuts on bead. Patrick Flaherty, 23, stranger, one cut on head, ankle injured. Welter Welch, 23, Rock-row, one cut on blear'. John M`Owen, 22, Rock-row, one cut on head. John Brennan, 20, stranger, one cut on head. Michael Quin, 21, stranger, one do. Patrick Quin, 24, do., do. John Griffin, 22, Rock-row, three do. Michael Gallagher, 4 0 , fligh• street, one do, Michael Garvin, 16, Carr-green, one do. Patrick Tester, 40. Rock-row, one do. Patrick Crocan, .20, Brown -street, one do., and nose injured. Patrick Riley, 20, Kay-street West, one do. Patrick Reynolds, 50, Rockow, one do. reen, one do. John Kennedy, 24 , C arr_ g Michael Shaughnessy , 30, Rock-row, one do. John Donnelley, 50, Jackson's• alley, one do. Barney Kelly, 30, Carr-green, one do. James Foot, 27, Rock-row, two do. Thomas Fearock, 21, Jackson's -alley, one do. Michael Doran, 17, High-street, two do. James Cain, 17, Millga , e, a cut on fa ce. John Finnigan, 22, Rock-row, a cut on he a d. Patrick Brett, 23, stranger, three eats on head. John ()ban, 23, one ditto. W m. Burns, 29, Carr-green, two cuts on head, one on lip . onetwo cuts on head. Patrick Welch, 26, High-street, Rock-r p o e tv ces. John Fearock, 15, ditto. Thomas Murphy, 30, St. gate, one ditto. Thomas Ryder, 18, St. Peter's gate, one ditto. John Luddon, 18, Adlitigt, n . square, cut on forehead. Thomas Owens, 21, - -Piccadilly,cut on head. Michael M`NallY, 71 1 Lower - Bank Side, cut on leg. Lackey Tally, 21, Rock-row, cut on head. Michael Hart, 26, stranger, two cuts on face. Edwar d Dorraby, 28, Rock-row, three cuts on head, one on leg. Michael Canna, 27, Bomber's-brow, cut on eye and hand. John Quin, 3 5, Shepherd's bridge, cut on head. John Thurles, 53, Rock-row, ditto. Patrickoi, Regan, 23, Chester ate, cut on nose. J 'II *Nally ' 19 , She herd's-bridge, cut on head, shoulder bruised. P Patrick Flannigan, 27, Rock-row, cut on head. Michael Bark, 54, Rock-row, two ditto. Patrick O'Hara, 30, Chostergate, cut on head, and sabre cut on hand. Roger M`Dermott, 50, Low Bank-side, two outs on the head, and one on the nose. Francis Tully, 19, Rock row, cut on head. Patrick Kelly, 45, Chostergate, cut on head, on leg, and on buttock. Michael Connor, 19, Carr - green, one on he ad• Wm. Lawlees, 10, Grape - street , cut on bea d . Darby Kelly, Rock-row, five cuts on bea d, one on shoulder. - i cats on head, and Thomas Griffiths, Carr-green, mei several hours in one on lip. Our correspondent was kept waiting commence Delon the Court-house for the the magistrates; and it until nearl half ...that they came upon proceoetdings to co , ypast zoothroyd Esq , pre two o'clock yesterday agir.l,2:oonhonn the bench. The gay" , :125.a_gistrate Henrys we_rp d P. l E. M . a:rsland, sided; and the oth er Esq., El MartearmanlC h M . rs and, Esq., Tatton, Efcl- , A ep as Howard, Dr. Turner, and S. B. Carr in g tc .' n, Esq. The following prisoners were called up, and identified having taken part in the disturbance:—Thomasas Walter Welsh, Bri " Y ir th Michael Shottery, James Hag gerty, imo yF innigan, James Welsh, Owen Doyle, John 13lyth, loger Maedarmot, Michael Cunyart, Tho mas FinneY, James Herretty, Patrick O'Hara, Patrick Curley, Michael M`Dermut, Thomas Garvar, James Flynn, Patrick Locherty, Thomas Morris, Richard Rhodes, Thomas Rider, James Finn, Matthew Mullagan, James Paton, JJan Brannan, Thomas Owen, John M`Nally, Patrick Kelly, Michael Flynn, George Bell, Samuel Royle, Michael Burke, and James Foley -33 in all. The following were bound over on their own recog nizance of 51. each, to keep the peace and appear when called upon:—John Griffin, Lacky Tully, John Cuddy, James Gannan, Wm. Crofton, Jos. Foster, Miele:el Free man, Thos. Sumner, Michael Connor, John Quin, Mar tin Finnigan, Thomas Finn, James Smith, Wm. Law less Wm. Nixon, of Runcorn; M'chael Gallagher, Darby Mulchieny, Michael M.'Nally, Patrick Flaherty, Patrick Stanton, of Precott. near Liverpool; Joscph Cochlin, Patrick O'Connor, Michael Dower, John Dot , ton, Patrick Mangle, John M‘Owen, James Cade, Patrick O'Brien, Patrick Goghan, James Connoly, Pa -1 trick LoWanY, Michael Gregan, Thomas Fearaeh, Michael Kelly, Thomas M‘Darmot ' John Coch, John Feargus, Patrick Welsh, Francis Tulley, Patrick R e y. noids, J::mes Davis, Peter Sbanley, Wm. Sandford, Ja s . aPDaniel, Barney Kelly, Edward Herretty, Patrick Bret, Walter Ford, John Thum, Patrick Riley, Michael Gavin, Patrick Flannagun, James Clossick, Michael Clossick, John Gallagher, John Feach, Thomas Jen nings, Michael Quin, Patrick Quin, William Riley, Michael Hart, John Gallagher, Thomas Finnigan, To rer.ce Mohan, John Hopin, John Donnelly, William Donovan, John Kennedy, William Burns, Thomas Collins, John Reynolds, James Ford, and Owen Bradley. The following were in custody but could not be iden tified, and were consequently discharged:—John Gal lagher, Thomas Riley, James Heretty, Thomas Murphy, Patrick Kelly. John Sherlock was absent undergoing a surgical exa mination. - It will be seen from these lists that the total number of Persons apprehended was 114. Mr. Gibson, tho town-clerk of Salford, appeared on behelf of Mr. Frith, the Catholic priest, whose house was sacked, and several of the prisoners. The whole of those who were identified were re manded till Friday. STOCKPORT, WEDNESDAY, MIDNIGHT.—The streets have , been crowded, and great excitement has prevailed Bodies of cavalry and infantry are under arms. The magistrates have just finished ewearing in 500 special constables, and a retaliation by the Irish was ex pected, but hos not yet b een attempted. Bodies of rut:- tians have again gone about a t tac ki ng the houses of the poor Irish; and , having broken d own t h e i r doors and destroyed their furniture, some of the honseless Catho lics have encamped for the night in Crookley Wood, in Brimington. COU litT CIRCULAR. The Queen will hold a Privy Council this afternoon at Buckingham Palace. Summonses were issued yesterday from the Privy Council-office to the Minis ters and officers of State. The ceremony of the baptism of the Princess G-au. romma, daughter of his Highness Prince Vere Rejunder, ex-Raja of Coorg, took place at one o'clock yesterday afternoon, in the Private Chapel of Buck ingham Palace. The ceremony was performed by the Archbishop o f Canterbury, assisted by the Rev. Lord Wriothesley Russell, Deputy Clerk of the Closet in Waiting, and the Hon. and Rev. Gerald Wellesley,Domestic Chap. lain to her Majesty. Her Majesty the Queen was pleased to stand spon so. The other sponsors were the Viscountess Hard inge, Mrs. Drummond, and Sir James Weir Hogg , Bart., Chairman of the East India Company. The Princess was named by her Majesty " Victoria." His Royal Highness Prince Albert, their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales, the Princess Royal, Prince Alfred, and the Princess Alice, and his High ness Prince Vere Rejunder, were present at the ceremony. Her Majesty was attended by the Duchess of Athol], Mistress of the Robe., the Viscountess Can ning, Lady in Waiting, Lady Caroline Barrington, the Hon. Caroline Cavendish, and the Hon. Flora Macdonald, Maids of Flpnour in Waiting, the Mar quis of Exeter, Lord Chamberlain, Lord Byron, Lord in Waiting, Colonel the Hon. C. B. Phipps, Sir Frederick Stovin, Groom in Waiting, Major-General Buckley, Equerry in Waiting, and Lieutenant-Colonel Biddulph, Master of the Household. The Marquis of Abercorn, Groom of the Stole, and Colonel Bouverie, Equerry in Waiting, were in at tendance on the Prince, The Viscount Hardinge, the Right Hon. John C. Herries, President of the Board of Control for the Affairs of India, and Major Drummond, 3d Bengal Light Cavalry, were also honoured with invitations to attend the ceremony. After the christening the distinguished circle were conducted to the dinner-room, where luncheon was served. Prince Vere Raj under and the Princess Gauromma attended by their ' suite, left th e P a l ace at t wenty minutes past two o clock. At three o'clock the Queen held a Court and Privy Council. At the Court, the Duke of .Augustenburg, attended by Chevalier Bunsen, the Prussian Mi n i ster, had an audienee of her Majesty, to winch be w as in troduced by the Earl of Malmesbury, the Queen's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, an d conduced by Major-General the lion. Sir Edward Cust, K.C.H, her Majesty's Master of the Ceremonies. M. de Lossel (Chef de la Cour) was in attendance on the Duke. The Earl of Derby had an audience of the Queen. The Right Hon. J. C. Herries had an audience of her Majesty. The Queen was graciously pleased to confer the honour of knighthood on John Kincaid, Esq., late Captain in the Rifle B►ivade and Senior Eion of her Majesty's Royal Body Guard. Captain Grant had an audience of the Queen, kissed hands on appointment, and received from her Majesty his silver stick of office rs Egon of her Ma jesty's Body Guard of the Yeomen of the Guard. Lord de Ros, Captain of the Yeomen Guard, pre sented the Mums to the Queen. Sir John Pakington, the Queen's SEcretary of State for the Colonies, presented to her Alajesty Te Raupatara, Chief of the Ngutitoa and Ngatiraukana tribes, New Zealand. The Lord President of the Council had an audi ence of her Majesty. The Privy Council was attended by his Royal Highness Prince Albert, the Lord Preiddent, the Lord Privy Seal, th First Lord of the Treasury, the Secretarks of State for the Home, Foreign, and Colonial DEpartinents, the Crancellor of the Exche quer, the First Lord of the Admiralty, the President of the Board of Control, the President of the Board of Trade, the Postrnpster-General, the Lord Steward, the Lord Chamberlain and the Groom of the Stole to the Prince. At the Council the QtLeen's speech on the closing of Parliament was arranged and a greed upon. The lion. William Bahurst was the Clerk of the Council ia Waiting. The Right Hon. George Banker, Judge-Advocate- General, had an audience of the Queen, and sub mitted to her Msjesty the proceedings of some courts martial. The Queen was attended by the Captain of the Yeomen of the Guard, the Marquis of Anglesey, Gold Stick in Waiting, the Vice-Chamberlain the Controller of the Household, Lord Byron, Lord in Waiting, and Sir Frederick Stovin, Groom in Waiting. His Royal Higbnes Prince Albert, attended by Colonel Bouverir, went to Wormwood Scrubs at tea o'clock yesterday morning. His Royal Highness returned to Buckingham Palace at half-past twelve o'clock. _ _ Tne Qaeen and Prince Albert received by electric telegraph on Tuesd:iy evening the melancholy news of the death of Count Mensdorff-Pouilly, who died at Vienna on the evening of the 28th inst., after a pro tracted illness. Her Majesty and his Royal High ness were, in consequence, prevented being present at the St. James's Theatre on Tuesday evening, an d have recalled the invitations to the Palace for yester thy and to-morrow. Count Mensdorff had married the eldest sister of the late Duke of Saxe Coburg and Gotha, her Royal High ness the Duchess of Kent, and his Majesty the King of the Belgians, and was consequently T'tly uncle a tombaitserunaoyalul Highness glaness Prince Alb ert. He died in his 76th of her Majesty, an d year, a distinguished ornament of the Austrian army , and universally beloved and re spected by his relations and all who knew him. The Count has left three sons in is Austrian milita r y ser vice, of whom the second s now Military Plenipo tentiary at the Court of St. Petersburgh. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, at tended by. Baroness de Speth, went to Frogmore yesterday .morning. Her Royal Highness returned to her residence, Clarence-house, St. James's last evening. Lord Belhaven transacted business yesterday at the R gi wa y Departm qit of the Board of Trade. Mr. George Hudson, M.P., had an interview on Tuesday with the Chancellor of the Exchequer at his official residence in Downing-street, to present a me. morial from Sunderland. Dispatches were received at the Colonial-office yesterday from the Governor of South Australia. THE MARIONETTES.—There is no foundation for the report that a distinguished member of this company is about to contest the representation of Lincoln at the ap proaching election. Nevertheless, Mr. Albany Brown would prove at least as efficient a senator as the present Honourable and Gallant Member for Great Tom. Mr. G. V. BEooKE.—This English tragedian lately hired the Astor Place Opera House, New York, for dramatic performances. Finding that the "legitimate" an did not succeed, he introduced a troupe of mo nke y s, whereupon an injunction against him was issued by the proprietors of the house. Thus far the mono tkeys have triumphed, having appeared one nigh t enraptured audience. The move for an injunction is not yet decided. The New York Herald thinks the monkeys ought to win, and says—,, We do not think that there exists any reasonable ground of complaint against their performances, particularly in view of the fact that the owners of the Astor-place Opera - hous e have lately let it out t,, a juggler, for the exhibition of tricks of legerdemain, the manufacture of hasty pudding) in tho bottom of gentlemen's hats ; and the production of hens' eggs ad libitunz, with other classic performances. DODGING THE RESPON SIB ILTY.—" Sir! ' said Fiery faces, the lawyer, to an u nwilling witness. " Sir, do you say, upon your oath, that Blimpkins is a dishonest man ?' "I didn't say he was ever"locu ?al of being an honest man, did I?" replied Pipkins. Dtß's the Court understand you to say, Mr. Pipkins, that the , i laintiff's reputation is bad?" in uired the Judge, mer q e `Y i I utt ng the question to keep his ' - eyes open. " I didn ts• tiJ It was good, I reckon." " Sir," said Fieryfaces, "ssir, upon your oath—mind, upon your oath - you s ay that Blimpkins is a rogue, a villain, and a thief?" " You say so," ww- Pip's reply. " Havn't you said so ?" " Why , You're said it," sa'd Pipkins, "what's the use of my repeating i t r "Sir-r!" thundered Fieryfaces, " I charge you upon your oath, do you or do you not say Blimp kind stole things?" " No, sir," was the cautious reply of Pipkins , " I never said Blimpkins stole things, but I do say er he's go t . a way of finding things that nobody lost !" " Sir ,* ; Oa Loryfacee, "yell cma retire;" and the Mixt adlorned. I