The Sun. — London, England, 1865-02-18 00:00:00

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT HOUSE OF LORDS-LAST EVENING. The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the woolsack at the usual hour. THE READING CLERK. The LORD CHANCELLOR announced that he had appointed, subject to the approval of their lordships, the Son. Bothell to the office of Reading Clerk and Clerk to Private Committees of the House of Lords. THE CASE OF THE LATE ABDUCTION FROM DOVER. The Marquis of TOWNSHEND moved for copies of all correspondence relating to the abduction of a nun named Mary Ryan. Earl RUSSELL said there was no objection to the pro duction of the correspondence. EDUCATION. Earl GRANVILLE laid upon the table the minutes of the Committee of Council on Education, the first pro vide that small sc h oo ls, not less than two, and no to t more than six, might be provided with a certificate master, and the second to make provision for the better examination of those attending evening schools. Their Lordships then adjourned. r HOUSE OF COMMONS—LAST EVENING. The SPEAKER. took the chair at 4 o'clock. PRIVATE BUSINESS. The standing orders were declared to have been com plied with in the case of several private bills. The following bills were read a second time : Blaydon Gas, Lanarkshire County Prison Board, Linlith gowshire Roads, Liverpool Licensing, Mellis and Eye Railway, Rastrick Gas, Regent's Canal (Limehouse Basin and Cut), Spilsby and Firsby Railway, and Wood Green, Winchmore Hill, and Enfield Railway. The second reading of the Liverpool Licensing Bill was postponed until the 24th inst. PETITIONS. Petitions in favour of a reduction of the duty on fire insurance were presented by Mr. IL Berkeley, frpm the bankers, merchant; and other inhabitants of Bristol ; by Lord Fermoy, from the inhabitants of Marylebone ; by Lord Stanley, from the inhabitants of King's Lynn. Se veralother petitions, to the same effect, were presentedfrom different parts of the country. Col. Sykes presented a Petition from several officers in the Indian army, reiterat ing complaints :of giievances under which they had laboured, and praying for redress. POLAND. Mr. HENNESSY gave notice that he would bring for ward a motion on the subject of Poland. THE EMBASSY AT WASHINGTON. Mr. WATKIN asked the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether Mr. Burnley Hume was still in charge of the Embassy at Washington ; and if so, when her Majesty's Ambassador, Lord Lyons, might be expected to resume his duties ? Mr. LAYARD said that there could be no doubt of the ability with which Lord Lyons had discharged the important and laborious duties which devolved on him. In no single instance had he not received the approval of her Majesty's Government. In referring to the labours of Lord Lyons, he said that in one year alone his correspondence and despatches amounted to 69 large folio volumes. The noble lord had returned to this country in consequences .f the state of his health, and no one now would wish him to resume his duties at the riskof his health. Mr. Burnley Hume was filling his place during his absence, with the full approbation of the Government. MEDICAL OFFICERS OF IRISH UNIONS. Mr. BAGWELL asked the Secretary to the Treasury whether her Majesty's Government propose to adopt the resolution of the select committee of 1858, and place the medical officers of Irish unions on the same footing as similar officers in England and Scotland, one-half of whose salaries are paid from the public revenue. Mr. F. PEEL explained that there were some difference in regard to medical officers which accounted for the differ ence of their position as compared with that of the same class in this country. THE ARMSTRONG AND WHITWORTH COMMIT TEE. Sir J. HAY asked the Under Secretary of State for War to lay the report of the Armstrong and Whitworth Com mittee upon the table of the house. The Marquis of HARTINGTON said that the report was not ready. PARTY PROCESSIONS—IRELAND. Mr. O'REILLY asked the hon. member for Belfast whether he would proceed with his motion relative to the late disturbances in Belfast before the report of the com mission appointed to inquire into the subject, which the Chief Secretary for Ireland had stated would be laid upon the table of the house in a very few days, was in the hands of members ? Sir R. CAIRNS replied in the affirmative. COMMITTEE OF PUBLIC ACCOUNTS. Lord R. MONTAGU asked why the committee of public accounts was not appointed at the same time as the other standing committees, and when that for the present session would be nominated? The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said that the accounts were not yet presented with which the com mittee had to deal. FOOD FOR CATTLE. Mr. FENWICK asked whether it was intended to print a report of the experiments recently made by direction of the Board of Trade on the relative merits of malt and barley for feeding cattle ; and if so, when we might expect it to be in the hands of members ? Mr. HUTT said he would take care that the report and papers should be in the hands of hon. members in time for their full consideration. • THE CHURCH OF ST. BENET, CITY. Mr. CRAWFORD asked the member for Kilmarnock, as a Church Estate Commissioner, why the removal of the church of St. Benet, Gracechurch-street, and the union of the benefice with that of Allhallows, Lombard--treet, had not been carried into effect, as recommended by the said commissioners ? Mr. BOUVERIE said that an act had been passed for the purpose of enabling the two parishes to be united, and for the sale of the site of the church in ques tion. That act was very complicated, and the pivot on which the whole matter turned was the sale of the site of the church, to which the archbishop, the bishop of the dio cese, the Home Secretary, and the archdeacon of the diocese. should be parties. The site of the church was very valuable, and, as he understood, was estimated at £30,000. All the parties, with the exception of the archdeacon, approved of the union of the parishes, but he dissented from the po licy of selling the sites of churches. NOTICES OF MOTIONS AND ORDERS OF THE DAY. Lord R. CECIL moved that the Speaker be requested to give directions that a copy of all notices of motions and orders of the day standing in the order book of the house be circulated among members every Saturday morning. The SPEAKER said that there would not be much diffi culty as regarded the printing, and the expense would be trifling, therefore he had given an order to meet the object of the motion of the noble lord. NAVY ESTIMATES. Lord C. PAGET brought up the report on the Navy Estimates, which was ordered to lie on the table. NATIONAL EDUCATION. Mr. BRUCE, in laying papers on the table, said that some minute alterations had been introduced into the Government system in order to render it more efficient. So far as populous parishes were concerned the subject worked well, but as regarded less populated parishes the contrary was the case. The right hon. gentleman cited instances in confirmation of his statement, and said the alterations would relate to the inspection of schools and other details, and the papers on the subject would be laid on the table within one calendar month after the assembling of Parlia ment. --- In reply to Sir J. PASOGTON, Mr. BRUCE said he had consulted the Speaker, and Ni ce rtaine d that it would be informal to give notice of his (Mr. Bruce's) intention to make any motion on this Budget, but he would afford, in private, to hon. members every in formation. (Hear, hear.) RMY ESTIMATES. The Marquis of HARTINGTON brought up the Army Estimates, which were ordered to lie on the table. PARTY PROCESSIONS IN IRELAND. Sir H. CAIRNS asked the Chief Secretary for Ireland a question relative to the commission of inquiry into the re cent disturbances at Belfast, and called the attention of the house to the circumstances connected with that commission, and to the administration of the law Re against processions in Ireland, and move d for p apers. regetted as much as any other person the religious animosities that prevailed in Ireland, and he did not ap proach this subject • denied there with any party spirit. It could not be He referred : t as s t o t state of things which required alteration. subject t e length to the state of the law as re garded the contended that the of party processions in Ireland, and objec tion. The commissioncommission was open to grave objec- Irish bar, who, by th e i r certainly included members of the But it appeared tuat one of had attained this position. for parties who were involved in Barry, was counsel in disturbances which took place in 1858, and depre ca t ed a co mmission on th e su bj ec t at which circumstance the time. It also appeawasred th nt he Was advise r t o t h e crown, deuce as to his impartiality. The lO lated t o i nspire confi eil then spoke on the scope and constitli a o rul learned member sion, and contended that the inquiry had been Cemmis een conducted by the au by the commissioners and the law administer thorities in Dublin Castle in a partial and unfai r d spirit With regard to the policy of issuing commissi ons of inquiry at all, he did not mean to say that they were illegal,but if they obstructed the administration of justice they became unconstitutional. He believed there had been a wan firmness, impartiality, and wisdom on the part of thel t- n s h of Government, and that the result was a grave and serious miscarriage and failure in the administration of the law. He hoped the Government would be able to give the house an assurance,calculated to calm the public mind in Ireland, that the law would be administered in a firm and impartial manner. Sir R. PEEL argued that on public grounds it would have been better had the motion and speech of the hon.. and learned gentleman been postponed until the more op portune moment, which would have presented itself when the commissioners had made their report. He maintained that the conduct of the Government in the ad nin'stration of the law relating to party processions in Ire!ar d had been strictly constitutional and entirely impartial. This he as serted on the authority of the late Attorney-General for Ire land. The blame for what had occurred in Belfast did not fairly attach to .the Government. The fact was, the local magistrates had entirely failed in their duty, and the Lord Lieutenant of the county had himself declared, in the town of Belfast, that if the mayor had remained at his post, and the local magistrates had done their duty, the disturbances would have been suppressed in a few hours. The right hon, baronet also excused the absence of the Lord Lieute nant of Ireland, the Lord Chancellor, and himself from the country at the time of the riots, and admitted that in these circumstances General Sir G. Brown was the only lord justice present, and that upon him alone devolved the duty of issuing the commission of inquiry. So far as the conduct of the commissioners was concerned, its pre fect impartiility and fairness had been testified in public court by a leading member of the corporation of Belfast. The true cause of the discord that prevailed in the pro vince of Ulster was the religious animosity and intolerance which pervaded the two parties there, and to this it was that he attributed the periodical ebullition which had marked the recent history of Belfast. With regard to the report of the commissioners, it would be laid upon the table with the evidence in the course of a few days. Lord C. HAMILTON denied that the north of Ireland was the seat of religious discord, or that the same sectarian dislike existed there as formerly. He charged the Govern ment with gross partiality in the administration of the Party Processions Act, and asserted that 100 banners had been carried by 100,000 men in Dublin on the occasion of laying the foundation stone of the O'Connel monument, and that the Government had not interfered, while if a single banner were raised by half-a-dozen boys they would be prosecuted forthwith. Mr. Mcg AAM recommended the Government to legis late for Ireland as they would for an English county, and to do away altogether with the vice-regal court. Mr. WHITESIDE held that a more unconstitutional act could not have been committed than for Sir G. Brown, or any other single person, to assume an authority which did not belong to the Sovereign herself. The proper course would have been, after a certain time had elapsed and the public excitement had abated, to issue a special commission for the trial of the rioters, instead of which two sessions were allowed to pass, and then a commission of inquiry was sent down. He warned the Government how it continued to rule Ireland in the interest of a clique, and continued to escudo the local gentry from all share in the administration of justice. The country would not submit to such a system, and, however popular the Premier might be, he might find too late that a loyal and generous people would rise against his authority and subvert it. Sir G. GREY replied to the arguments of Mr. White side, and defended the conduct of the Irish Government in the matter of the commission. He contended that simi lar commissions had been held in England, and that there was nothing either illegal or unconstitutional in them. With regard to the great procession in Dublin in August last, he denied that the Executive had failed to do their duty, as the banners used on that occasion were not of a party character, but were trade or guild emblems, with national and not political mottoes. He trusted that when the report of the Belfast commissioners was laid upon the table it would lead to some useful legislation which would prevent a recurrence of those disgraceful proceedings by which the peace had been broken several days in one of the largest towns in Ireland. Mr. MAGUIRE said there was no Irishman worthy of the name who did not regard with horror and indignation the abominable outbreak of ferocity and fury which had paralysed the civil power in Belfast. The object of Sir Hugh Cairns in bringing the subject under the notice of the house was to break the full force of the censure which he knew was about to fall upon his constituents. Mr. HENNESSY ridiculed th 9 idea that green banners and harps without crowns were treasonable emblems, and pointed to the fact that they formed portions of the deco rations of the very chamber in which they were then assembled. Mr. NEWDEGATE - asked how it was that the report of the commissioners had not been laid upon the table on the first day of the session. The conclusion at which he had arrived after hearing the debate was that the Party Processions Act ought either to be enforced or repealed. After some observations from Major Knox, Sir Henry Bruce, and Sir P. O'Brien, the subject dropped. A THREEPENNY P STA GE-S TAMP. Mr. D. GRIFFITH asked the Chancellor of the Exche quer whether he saw any objection to allow a postage stamp of the rate of 3d., which is now in use for certain foreign and colonial postage, to be made applicable to the internal postage of the country. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said he had the pleasure of giving the hon. member an answer which, he hoped, would meet his views in a great degree. He would not enter into details, but he would say that the Post Office and the Treasury had under consideration an alteration or modification of the present arrangement. A scale of postage would be adopted which he thought would confer considerable accommodation on the public, and would include the change which the hon. member de sired. (Hear, hear.) THE TERMINATION OF THE RECIPROCITY TREATY. Mr. WATKIN called attention to the correspondence respecting the attack on St. Alban's, Vermont, and naval force on the North American lakes, and moved an address for copies of all papers in the possession of her Majesty's Government respecting the " Reciprocity Treaty" and the "Bonding Act," of dates subsequent to December, 1861. He stated that the house was without information with respect to these matters, which involved a trade of ten millions sterling, and the right of fishing over 1,500 miles of coast, and that it did seem that in a matter of such gravity some information should be afforded. Last May it was stated that there were negotiations proceeding with reference to this treaty, although the discussions for its abrogation had commenced in the United States so far back as 1861. He wished to know whether any explana tion had been afforded by the American Ambassador with respect to an intercepted letter, which stated that a Con federate agent had made an arrangement with a Federalist of importance and position, under which the blockading squadron was to be passed by five millions pounds of meat, to be exchanged for five million pounds of cotton. If that letter was genuine it would appear that, though we had been rated for breaking the blockade, positively, under the signature and sanction of President Lincoln, the blockade was to be broken and the Confederate army fed. If that were not true, it ought not to have been published without explanation. But if any information had been forwarded by the American Minister, that information had been withheld. Mr. KINNAIRD hoped the hon. member would not press the Government for the production of any papers which might tend to disturb the good feeling which, on the assurance of the noble lord at the head of the Government, they knew now existed. Mr. LAYARD assured the hon. member that there was no correspondence to be produced, and that no notice had been given to her Majesty's Government that the Recipro city Treaty was to be abrogated, though resolutions on the subject had been submitted to Congress. Mr. PEACOCK pointed out that no answer had been given to the question as to whether the intercepted letter was genuine. If such explanation was not given, he hoped the hon. member would bring the matter forward in a clear and definite manner on some other occasion. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL said the American Am bassador believed the letter to be genuine, but it did not follow that what it contained was true. The motion was then withdrawn, and the house went into committee of supply pro format. GAME LICENCES (IRELAND) BILL. This bill was read a second time. DUBLIN INTERNATIONAL _EXHIBITION (1865) E o read ORDI E l s RLe second N t- Fl e lt . The house having resolved itself into comm i l o tte a e, Mr bill for confirming M. GIB SON g G ap S ro O v t in i o o b n t a a lo e r d ave de l r e made t b o y b t ri he n bring in of Trade ' under "The Merchant Shipping Act Amendment Act, 1862," relating to the pilotage of th e Ri ver Tyne • The bill was subsequently r ea d a fi rs t time. * CIVIL COURTS PROCEDURE (IRELAND) AC T (1864). Sir R. PEEL obtained leave to bring in a bill to amend certain clerical errors in this act, and the bill was subse quently read a first time. The house adjourned at five minutes past twelve o'clock. SHOCKING ACCIDENT ON BOARD THE PENINSULAR, I, AND ORIENTAL STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY'S Num STEAMER RANGooN.—By the arrival of the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company's mail steamer Ran goon at Suez. telegraphed to the company yesterday, in telligence has been received of a very shocking accident having occurred on board that vessel by explosion, shortly after her departure fr om Bombay to Suez. According to the brief particulars contained in the telegram it appears that the catastrophe took place on the 18th of last month, when a quantity of gunpowder, stated to be about 71b., ex ploded somewhere in the vicinity of the after cabin saloon, causing the death of two passengers (a female and a child), and doing damage to the furniture and fittings of the state cabin; that afterwards it was discovered that the explosion had set fire to some portion of the cargo in the after hold, but by the prompt exertions o f t h e cre w it was soon sup pre ed • The names of the sufferers are not given. ........_ Pills, a spec ifi c remedy L An vEnTismmENT.l—Holloways d that there perience of many years it is incontestably prove is no medicine equal to Holloway's for complaints to which females are liable. After the ex diseases incidental to females. The invigoratin g duce Purifying properties of these admirable pills soon pro . sanative revolution in the system. They are composed of rare balsams, and are so mild and innomous that they may be taken by females of all ages. As medicine for pills for the cure of a family use Holloway's pills are unequalled, because, power fully efficacious as they are in the banishment of disease, they act so gently on the stomach, that they may be give n with the utmost confideace and perfect safety to young children. THE SHUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 18, 1865. Naval and Military Intelligence. The Virago, 6, paddlewheel sloop, 1,059 tons, 300-horse power, now being dismantled in Sheer ness dockyard, preparatory to being paid out of commission on the 25th inst., is to be repaired and placed in the third division of the steam reserve, in stead of the first division, as originally intended, the state of the vessel having been found worse than was anticipated. The Scout, 21, serew steam corvette, 1,462 tons, 400-horse power, which has been thoroughly re paired both in hull and machinery and fitted with a new forecastle and poop in Sheerness dockyard, is now ready for commission. She got up steam in the large basin this day to test her machinery and boilers preparatory to being taken to the measured mile off Maplin Sands. Both boilers and machinery acted most satisfactorily. The Himalaya, screw transport, Capt. E. Lacy, was taken alongside Portsmouth dockyard yester day to receive her new crank shaft preparatory for further troop service. The Urgent, screw troopship, Capt. S. H. Hender son, refitting at Portsmouth, will be ready for trial and further troop service by Wednesday next. She has about two months' trooping before her on the home, or Channel station. The Edgar, 70, screw liner, Capt. G. P. Hornby, flagship of Rear-Admiral S. C. Dacres, C. 8., is fitting in the Warrior dock at Portsmouth for her Lisbon voyage with the Earl of Sefton and suite. She will not be =docked before the 25th inst., her after-shaft tubing requiring a new metal lining. In accordance with orders ',received at Chatham from the Horse Guards, the three Depot Battalions at that garrison are to be made up of the following corps on the breaking up of several of the Depot Battalions at the close of the financial year :-Ist Battalion—let and 2d battalions of the 4th King's Own Regiment, let and 2d battalion's of the 15th Regiment, the 35th Regiment, the 77th Regi ment, and the 94th Regiment ; 2d battalion of the Queen's Royals, let and 2d battalions of the 12th Regiment, let and 2d battalions of the 20th Regiment, 29th Regiment, and the 52d Light Infantry Regiment ; 3d battalion-Ist and 2d bat talions of the 10th Regiment, let and 2d battalions 19th Regiment, 65th Regiment, 80th Regiment, 81st Regiment, and 102 d Royal Madras Fusiliers. The examination of candidates for commissions in the medical department of the army will commence at Chelsea Hospital on Monday, the 20th inst., be fore Major-Gen. F. W. Hamilton, C. 8., Vice-Pre sident, and the other members of the Council of Education. The examination will occupy the entire week. The following engineer officers have obtained 2d class certificates from the Director-General of Edu cation to the Admiralty at Portsmouth dockyard : Messrs. W. F. Capps, G. Wilson, J. Roberts, J. G. Shearman, and W. Smiley, acting chief engineers ; F. H. Herrman, W. Laird, E. Lewis, W. Maxwell, IL W. Tregilgas, G. Mills, D. P. Steddy, G. J. Hunt, W. Ironmonger, J. Marwood, M. Murray, J. Stiven, W. Harvey, J. Martin, L. Backler, E. Miles, T. H. Morgan, F. Innes, G. Booth, W. Skeen, P. T. Gruchy, J. Heffertaan, and G. Hostey, engi neers ; and J. Cleverly, second assist. engineers. Chas. Welch, George J. Fraser, H. M. G. Pillew, and F. Hooper, engineer students in the factory at Sheerness, have received certificates of efficiency as the result of Dr. Woolley's half-yearly examination on Dec. 13 and 14, 1864. The following appointments were made yesterday at the Admiralty--Capt. C. A. Campbell, to the Royal Adelaide, for service in the Narcissus, when the books of the Bombay are closed ; the Rev. J. C. Hordern, chaplain, to the St. George, vice Picton, whose period of three years' home service has ex pired ; the Rev. R. Picton, chaplain, to the Edgar, vice Hordern ; H. S. Smart, assist. surg., to the Ar tillery division of the Royal Marines ; S. Sweet man, assist. surg., to Greenwich Hospital ; John Simpson, assist. surg., to the Edgar ; R. Ferguson, assist. surg., to the St. Vincent, for the Sealark ; R. F. Bridgford, assist.-surg., to Plymouth Hospital Robert Nelson and John S. Lewis, assist.-surgs., to Haslar Hospital; N. J. Aaron, assist.-paymaster, to the Fisgard ; Wm. Smiley, confirmed as chief engi neer; John P. Shearman, confirmed as chief engi neer, and appointed to the Asia for the Ringdove ; and W. T. Beaton, engineer, to the Procris for Gibraltar-yard. ELECTION INTELLIGENCE. - - THE CITY OF WESTMINSTER. Last evening a meeting of the electors of the city of Westminster was held in St. Martin's-hall, Long acre, on the invitation of the Hon. Capt. R. W. Grosvenor, to hear " a statement of his political opinions, and the principles upon which he seeks the honour of representing them in Parliament." Mr. Roger Eykyn presided, and introduced the candidate, who was supported by many well-known electors. Capt. GROSVENOR, who was received with warm applause, adverted to the loss which the City of Westminster would sustain in the retirement of Sir de Lacy Evans, and paid a tribute of respect to that gallant officer. With respect to his own political opinions, he said he might refer to his published ad dress, which had appeared, it seemed, to the preju dice of " peculiar trousers" and the adorable Men kin on the sacred pillars of the Marble Arch. The first claims which he had upon the electors of West minster were that he had spent his life among them, and that the name he bore was to them as a "house hold word"—(cheers) --a name connected with them by the social tie of property, and by its champion ship on behalf of social and religious liberty. This was a time of great difficulty to political men in the quietude which reigned in political circles, but he did not regret this quietude, as it gave time for the consideration of great social questions, as the work ing of the poor laws, the extension of education, the displacement of the working classes by railways and public improvements, questions which public men would be foolish indeed if they did not wish to decide. These were all important matters, but public attention was generally turned to questions which had been before the Legislature, and perhaps his audience would like to hear his views on these. With respect to ecclesiastical matters, he might say ,that the question of church-rates was practically ex tinct in Westminster ; but it was not so elsewhere, and though he had a great desire to support the Established Church, as he saw an extension of liberal views which would eventually bring into its communion many who were now outside its pale, yet he should vote for the abolition of church-rates, as there was neither sense nor justice in attempting to levy a rate upon a large portion of the public for the suppirt of that in which they did not participate. (Cheers.) With respect to the ballot, though he did not look upon it as the panacea for all the ills under which voters laboured, he should vote for protection to be given to the voter. He should support a revi sion of the Poor-law, and he expressed himself as against legislative enactments for making the people sober. In regard to convent inspection, he said he should hope that the Roman Catholics themselves would not object to such a supervision, if only to relieve themselves from the charges which had been made against them. On the subject of Parliamen tary reform, which he characterised as the toast of the evening, he said that these were quiet times d q n ui o te t. w st a i i l t l, n a n n til d t h h e e w fe as elin of gs op of in t i h on e pe th o a p t le re gr form ew enough, but histo r y s h owe d t h at i t was not w i se to standshOlil so strong that it could wring from the Legislature that reform which it should offer. He thought that a moderate reform, as household suffrage in boroughs, and 40s. freeholds in eounties, would meet all views. He then passed on to America and pointed to the war now raging as the Collapse of democracy (a remark a w n h d i c a c i a d l l t e h d a f t o r: h h o expressions r o o f v a e p d p r o o f v t a h l a e n n d e dig utr s ali en t t y ) now maintained by Government, yet he should expect if John Bull's patience got exhausted under the in sults he received from the Northern States, and he turned round and knocked Brother Jonathan into the " middle of next week," that the verdict would be " Sarve him right." (Cheers and dissent.) He advocated non-intervention and non-interference in the affairs of other Sta tes, and after other remarks proceeded to say that he had come forward inde pendent of all parties or sections, and, if elected, would not be the delegate of any, but the repre sentative of all. An ELECTOR, amid some laughter, asked the hon. gentleman if he was " real staunch for the Protes tant interests," and would do all he could " against the Roman Catholic interests." Captain GROSVENOR replied that he was warmly attached to the Established Church. Mr. BIDGOOD spoke on the question of church rates, and expressed himself, as a Nonconformist, in favour of the candidate's views. Mr. WEST moved a resolution pledging the meet ing to support the hon. candidate, which motion Dr. Griffin seconded. Mr. WORLEY moved an amendment, amid some confusion and laughter, to the effect that no candi date for Westminster was worthy of support who was not in favour of manhood suffrage. Mr. J. B. LENO seconded the •amendment ; and after speeches by Mr. Truelove, Mr. Acland, Mr. -Oakey, and others, a vote was taken, when the amendment was lost, and the original motion carried by a very large majority. NORTH WILTS. Mr. Southern Estcourt has issued an address to the electors of North Wilts, stating that increasing bodily infirmity renders it necessary for him to re tire from Parliament at the earliest possible oppor tunity. The rightt` hon. gentleman says :—lf I had reason to hope that rest or other remedies might re store me to health, I might still further rely on your extending to me the same generous indulgence with which you have borne for upwards of two years my frequent absence from engagements in Parliament and the country ; but my own personal convic tions, the experience of last summer, and the posi tive injunctions of my medical adviser warn me that I must not again attempt any service in the House of Commons. It would not be right that North Wiltshire would remain another year with one of its members incapable of taking a part in the busi ness of the nation ; nor should I be willing to retain a charge which I cannot again hope to fulfil. I must not therefore hesitate to ask you to substitute a more efficient representative for one whose work is done." In his retirement Mr. Estcourt will carry with him the esteem and regard of every Wiltshire man. It is probable that Mr. Walter Long will not again offer himself for the representation of the county, and it is said that the Right Hon. E. P. Bouverie, the present member for Kilmarnock, will offer himself as a candidate for one of the seats in the Liberal interest. He is building a large mansion in the neighbourhood of Devizes, and commands considerable influence in that part of the county. Some of the leading Conservatives naturally looked upon Mr. Richard Long as his father's successor, but it is understood that the hon. member stands pledged again to contest Chippenham, in conjunc tion with Sir J. Neeld, in opposition to Mr. Lysley, the present Liberal member for that borough. RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE. NORTH LONDON. The directors of this company, in their report, recommend the declaration of a dividend at the rate of 6 per cent. per annum for the past half year, ending the 31st of December last, leaving a balance of £2,155. MARYPORT AND CARLISLE. The directors . of this company recommend a dividend on the ordinary shares of the company at the rate of 11 per cent. per annum for the past half year. SOUTH-EASTERN. The report of the directors states that the gross receipts for the half year ending the 31st of January amounted to £699,255 (including £29,669 for steamboat traffic), as compared with £652,847 for the corresp on di ng period of 1863-4, being an increase of £46,408. The working expenses during the six months had been £261,188 ; the rates, taxes, tolls, and Go vernment duty, £42,240 ; and the expenditure on the steam packet service, £13,587, or a total of £317,016, against £301,565 for the corresponding period of 1863-4, being an increase of £15,451. After providing for rents of branch lines, interest on laons, annuities, guaranteed dividends, and all preference charges, there remained a net balance of £226,317 available for dividend on the ordinary consoli dated stock of the company. The directors recommended that a dividend of 17s. 3d. per £3O stock, or at the rate of £5 15s. per cent. per annum, be paid on the 2d of March, leaving a balance of £7,530. The total number of passen gers conveyed during the half year was 7,568,709, of which 5,012,289 were third class, 1,741,460 second class, and 814,960 first class. The increase in the total number car ried was 900,000, of which 789,161 were third-class, 42,270 second-class, and 68,569 first-class, as compared with the corresponding half of 1863-4. Of the increase of 900,000 passengers 536,624 were booked locally on the Charing cross Railway. Several circumstances had concurred to prevent a larger increase in the receipts from this source, which would otherwise have been exhibited in the half year's accounts. Among those had been the opening of the London, Chatham, and Dover Company's Metropolitan Extension to Blackfriars and Ludgate-hill, which had the effect of abstracting traffic from the South- Eastern lines, and the opening of the same company's coast line to Ramsgate and Margate. Those losses had, however, been in some measure compensated by the working of the Charing-cross line and terminus, which had led to a consi derable development of the through traffic, and the result was a net increase of £23,554 in the passenger receipts for the half-year. It was expected that the completion of the direct line now in course of construction between Lewisham and Tunbridge, by shortening the main line route 13 miles, would soon place the railway in a more favourable position with respect to the Ramsgate and Margate traffic, and enable the company eventually to recover the greater portion of that which had been abstracted during the past half-year. The increase in continental passenger receipts had been £7,523, of which £4,800 was in respect rf traffic between London and Paris, showing a continuous increase in the in tercourse between the two cities. The traffic agreement with the London, Chatham, and Dover Company was now in process of completion by counsel, with a view to its being submitted to and approved by the proprietors. The capiial expenditure during the half-year had been £332,559, less £3,362, realised by the sale of surplus lands. The expendi ture onthe Tunbridge and Dartford lines had been £147,340, the city branch and terminus of the Charing-cross Railway £103,836, additional rolling stock £34,319, and on the main line, Bricklayers' Arms station enlargement, £18,093. It was expected that the Tunbridge line would be opened to Chiselhurst in the course of the spring, and that the Dart ford direct line would be ready for opening by the month of August next. The capital account showed that £13,024,151 had been expended, including £3,226,496 on the Charing cross railway and stations. NORTH-EASTERN. The half-yearly meeting of this company was held yes terday at York; Mr. H. B. Thompson, P.P., presided. The report was taken as read. The CHAIRMAN observed that one of the most striking features in the report was the very large increase of re ceipts, amounting to £172,671. The item under the head of locomotive power showed that, as compared with the corresponding half of last year, there was an increase of £31,794. Of that £18,316 had occurred with regard to coke and coal alone for the use of locomotives. The increased price of coke amounted to £9,792 out of the £18,316. The increase in the expense for the maintenance of way and works was £25,998, of which £9,548 arose from an altera tion in the account keeping. The amount paid in com pensation during the h a lf- year was £6,737, which was an increase of £4,555. He alluded to the satisfactory p osition of the fund for the r enewa l o f th e permanent way and of the Great North o f England purchase account. Wtth respect to the latter £29,206 had been received, and £50,506 of purchase debentures had been paid off, and the amount of the bal ance rema i n i ng was £333,443. That, he thought, had quickly worked itself into a manageable posi tion. He next noti ce d t h e propose d reduction in the pas senger fares. During the past half-year, as comp ared with the corresponding half of the previous year, the receipts from first-class passengers showed an increase of £3,054 ; in the second class an i ncrease o f £9,445 ; in the third class an increase of .£2,732 ; an d i n the fourth class an i n c rease of more than the oth er th ree c l a sses put together. The number of passenge rs during the same period o f the first class showed an incr ease o f 9,506, of the second class of 25,437, of the third c l ass o f 150,407, and of the fourth class of 224,627. The reduction which the directors proposed to be made in the fares was more or less an experiment, and it involved a considerable sum of money. They there fore proposed to spread the reduction over the next three years. It was an experiment, speaking financially.; but he considered it a nece ss it y a t th e same time. The shipment of coal had increased i n th e h a lf year, as compared with the corresponding half of 1863, to the extent of 76 , 487 tons, and £5,774 in money. In the coal for land sale there was also an increase of 278,446 tons, and of £29,000 in money. He thought this was a very encouraging return. There was also an item of £138,000 received for the conveyance of ironstone and mi nera l s, th e i n crease amounting to £23,269, of which a veiy --- cons iderable portion was due to their friends in the D ar li ngton di s t r i c t. If the proposed amalgamation with the West Hartlepool Company was car ried out the first payment they would have to make would be this time next y ear . Th e ra t es o f guara ntee, commenc ing at 31 a nd ending with 4 per cent., were not high, but the interest would require a larger sum than the receipts of the West Hartlepool could realise either now or for some time to come. They had seen on the part of more than one company attempts made to reach Hartlepool. The new branch mentioned in the report would be 43 miles in length, and the estimate, including the expenditure for the Leeds station, was £829,000. They were prepared to re commend that they should subscribe £50,000 to the Hull dock, as it was important to connect their line with that dock. The directors proposed to extend the time of issuing the preference stock they had lately issued until the 14th of March, and out of the 411 railway companies in the 'United Kingdom there were only five which could give as good security to their debenture holders as the North-Eastern Company was now offering for this stock. - . Mr. Alderman LEEKAN seconded the motion for the adoption of the report, and after some remarks from the Hon. J. C. Dundas, the Hon. Mr. Duncombe, M.P., Mr. Stables, and other shareholders, the report was adopted. The CHAIRWI then moved the declaration of the divi dend recommended in the report. Mr. H. PEASE, M.P., seconded the motion, and it was carried. The agreement for the amalgamation with the West Hartlepool Company, on the terms mentioned in the report, was approved; and the retiring directors and auditors were re-elected. - • GREAT LUXEMBOURG. The net earnings on this company's line for the half year ending the 31st of December last, amounts to £69,060, against £63,342 for the same half of 1863, showing an in crease of £5,718. The Board propose to declare a dividend of 6s. 6d. per share for the past half year, ending the 31st of December, leaving a balance of £1,058. RAILWAY BILLS. Yesterday, before the Examiners, the following Bills were declared to have duly complied with the Standing Orders of Parliament : CHESHIRE Lins.—To enable the Midland Railway Com pany to become joint propietors of the Woodley Junction, the tStockport, Timperley, and Altrincham, the Cheshire Midland, the West Cheshire, the Garston and Liverpool and the Liverpool Central Station Railways, with power to the Midland Company to raise funds by the creation of new shares. PLYMOUTH AND DARTMOOR.—To make arrangements with the South Devon. Capital, £35,000, with power to create an additional capital of £75,000 by new shares, and to revive borrowing powers. WOLVERHAMPTON AND WALSALL.—A railway from Wolverhampton to Walsall on the South Staffordshire. Capital, £120,000; loan, £40,000. TOTTENHAM AND HAMPSTEAD JUNCTION.—For devia- ions from authorised line. MOWDDWY.—For a railway from the Cambrian Railway ;o near the town of Dinas Mowddwy. Capital, £21,000 ; Loan, £7,000. MONMOUTH, FOREST OF DEAN AND STANDISH JUNC TION.—For a railway connecting these places. Capital, £300,000 ; loan, £lOO,OOO. TEES VALLEY.—For a railway from Lartington to Mid dleton-on-Teesdale. Capital, £50,000; loan, £16,000. FolicErr.—For a railway from near Sanford to Forcett, in the North Riding. Capital, £30,000; loan, £lO,OOO. CALEDONIAN TERMINUS AND GLASGOW HARBOUR AND CALEDONIAN.—For amalgamation, also for extension to Dumfries and the Lockerby Railway. Capital, £110,000; loan, £36,000. . . BLANE VAT.TIIY.—For an extension to the Forth and Clyde Junction, and diversion. Capital, £25,000 ; loan, £B,OOO. GIRVAN AND PORTPATRICH..—A railway from Girvan to East Challock, in Wigtonshire. Capital, £250,000; loan, £83,000. CRIEFF AND COKRIE.—For a line between these places. Capital, £10,000; loan, £13,000. The bill of the Bristol and North Somerset Railway for lines to the Great Western, near Bath, and the Midland at Bristol—capital, £165,000 ; loan, £55,000 —was declared not to have complied with the Standing Orders in some particulars. The Bills withdrawn were those for the Balham and Brixton Junction ; the Llanfair ; the Andover, Hungerford, and Farringdon ; and for the Maryport and Carlisle and Whitehaven Junction, and other railway arrangements and amalgamation. SELECT COMMITTEE ON STANDING ORDERS.--Yesterday this committee, consisting of Colonel Wilson Patten, chair man, Mr. Walpole, Mr. Henley, Mr. Wrightson, Mr. Gregory, Mr. Bramston, Mr. B. Carter, Mr. Lefroy, Mr. Dunlop, Mr. Egerton, and Mr. Paget, met for the first time to take into consideration those Bills declared by the Ex aminers not to have complied with the Standing. Orders. _ _ The Bills before them were those of the East London, Ashby-de-la-Zouch and Nuneaton, Northampton, and Ban bury Junction, Bedford, Northampton, and Leamington, Monmouthshire, and East and West India Docks. After deliberation, the committee decided that the Standing Or ders might be dispensed with and the parties be allowed on certain conditions to proceed with their Bills in all these cases, with the exception of the Bedford, Northampton, and Leamington. Railway Traffic Returns for the Week Miles Opened. ' Reoeipts. Railways. 1864. 1863. 1864. 1863. x 1,966 1.815 649 651 1,7J3 1,331 5,405 6.078 18,339 16,5..0 1,411 1,294 306 280 117 112 393 387 1,431 1.368 261 248 ,233 1%38 1,493 1.456 245 190 1,857 2,116 2,843 3,093 7,836 8,007 29,582 28,703 32.947 28. W 2,081 2.393 34 406 7,6 6 6,463 59,578 5.0611 Belfast and N. Counties 136 138 Belfast and County Down 49 49 Blyth and Tyne 2B 28 Bristol and Exeter l2ll 1211 C a l e d on i an Cambrian Cork and Bandon 2O 20 32 32 5 Cornwall 651 6 5 5 Deeside l7 17 C Co o r rk k, a ß n l d ac y kr o o u c g k h , a & 6 I •• • • Passage... 1 65 Dublin & Belfast Junction.... 63 63 Dublin and Drogheda 75 7 5 Dublin and Meath Dub. & Wicklow and Wextd 914 915 Furness, &c 5O 5 0 Glasgow & South-Western Gt. Eastern,Nrik.,&E.Union Great Northern 387 353 Great North of Scotland 9J 99 tit. Northn. & Westn. (Irel.) 7ll 7 1 4 at.Southn. & West n .(l r i n d . ) 384 3731 e t rn W es e s s : nl Perth Junction 1195 1195 Inverness 1225 118 4 Hull and Hurnsea l3 Inverness & Aberdeen June ll7l 1171 Irish North-Western 145 145 Sent Coast 27 27 Lancashire & Yorkshire 403 402 Limerick and Ennis ... 241 24/ Limerick and Foynes 26 261 Llanelly 46 461 Llynvi Valley London & North-Western London and Blackwall 5l 51 London & South-Western Lond. Brighton, &S. Coast 2671 2411 London, Chatham, & Dover 72 725 Do. Metropolitan Extension 1i 104 Lon., Tilbury, & Southend Aan.,S hetlield, & Lincolnsh Manch. S.J un.& Altrincham 95 95 Slaryport and Carlisle 2B 28 Metropolitan 3lidland (incl. N.-Western) 6635 611 Midland Gt.Westn. of Irind 262 2591 llonkland 7ll 711 Monmouthsh. Rail. & Canal 44 44 North British, Edin., Perth and Dundee . . . N-Eastern and Stock. & DarL 1095 North London 9 North Staffordshire 254 Rhymney l9l Scottish Central ll3 Scottish North-Eastern . . 138 Somerset and Dorset 66 South Devon South-Eastern 3OB Taff Vale 57 _ _ _ 840 816 935 918 1,615 1,586 430 250 35,100 34. 57 142 1.4 130 153 562 590 430 353 98,260 94,041 1,717 1,612: 18,770 16.740 15,519 13.7r3 4,476 3,78 1,451 125 962 1,025 16,735 !6,631 1,254 1,147 1,187 1.428 2,468 1,961 43,160 41.604 4,772 4,556 1,561 1,441 2,674 2,6.3 5831 19,056 18.257 1095 53,468 61,922 9 3, 11 3,139 251 7,572 8.100 191 992 9;0 113 5,089 4,900 138 5,296 4,694 66 :2 594 751 3.177 2,959 808 17,650 15.763 67 6,080 5,890 1051 2,118 2.389 10 155 147 431 2,461 2,417 31 371 308 77 1,129 1.159 271 616 776 52} 4.181 3.292 10 445 602 13 802 1,011 35 758 916 Ulster lO5l Vale of Clwyd. Vale of Neath 431 Waterford and Kilkenny 3l Waterford and Limerick 77 West Cornwall 27i W. Hartlepool Harbr.&Rail 52 W'haven,Cleator,& Egrmnt lO Whitehaven Junction l3 Whitehaven & Furness Jun 35 'FOREIGN AND COLONIAL. Austrian B2B Bahia and San Francisco Belgian Eastern Junction 261 Bombay, Baroda, & Cen. India 185 Central. Italy lB3 Detroit and Kilwaukie lB9 Dutch Rhenish 108! Eastern of France 1176 27,708 26,953 547 - 299 244 2,800 3,513 3,787 3,377 4,278 3,908 57,649 52,515 :.776 1,440 33.984 24,791 20,251 22,33 5,459 4,886 15,714 10,871 4,986 3,718 ----- Eastern Bengal ••• o llO East Indian Grand Trunk of Canada 1377 Great Central of Belgium 295 Great Indian Peninsula 5:)3 Great Luxembourg 134 Great Southern of India Great Western of Canada 345 Madras o •••• 571 Madrid, Saragossa &Alicant 6BO Northern of Canada Northern of France 697 Norwegian Trunk Ottoman .. Paris, Lyons. & Mediterrn 1967 Paris and Orleans 1616 Pernambuco 774 Sande.... 1025 Do. Punjab, &c 32 South Austrian, &c -.... • 1461 Southern of France 123 Victoria Welland ..... 25 W. & N- Westn of France..., 1011 473 9,297 14,050 7,437 5 234 20,132 20.910 1,328 1,421 53,179 50,547 4 77 6-,2 481 1781 1811 77i 105 1360 770 196 497 317 125,.524 119,017 61.657 61.412 1,412 1,25 827 1,914 343 266 26, C 6 25,558 11,631 9,156 _ - 37,505 36,896 Foreign Mail Packet List. Australia and New Zealand, via Southampton Feb. !8. Ditto, via Marseilles Feb.—. Brazil and Cape Verde, by British pac. et Mar. 6. Ditto, by British packet Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, and St. Helena Feb. 19. China, Penang, and Singapore, via Sou hampton Feb 18. Ditto, via Marseilles Feb. —. Falkland Islands Gibraltar, via Southampton India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via Southampton.— Feb. 18. Ditto, via Marseilles India ( B.,mbay), via Southampton. Feb. 26. Ditto, via NI amines Mauritius, via Southampton Ditto, via Marseir e 3, .. Newfoundland Feb. 15. Portugal Ditto, by private ship to Lisbon.. United btates and British North America, by Bri tish packet Ditto, by United States packet, via Southamp t,.3n Ditto, via Cork Ditto, by Canadian packet, via Londonderry.. Feb. 17. West Coast of Africa, Madeira, and Tenerille Mar. 13. West Indies and Pacific (except Bahamas, Cuba, and Mexico . Feb. 13. Bahamas, via New 1 ork. Mar. 9. Bermuda, ditto Feb. 15. Cuba and Mexico SPLIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. TlMES.—Within the space of the current month a criminal case of unexampled character has been presented in its successive developments to the wonder of the public. We think we may say that such a case, involving so many contradictions and so strange a conflict of evidence, is not to be found in the calendars of crime. Justice herself has been perplexed in the matter, for, whereas the offence was apparently brought home to one man upon a formal trial, it has since been charged against an other upon his own confession, supported by inde pendent testimony. On the 26th of last December some ten or dozen Italians and as many Englishmen were :drinking at the Golden Anchor tavern on Saffron-hill—the Englishmen in one room, the foreigners in another. An affray occurred between them, and an Englishman named Michael Harring ton received a mortal wound, of which, after being removed to St. Bartholomew's Hospital, he presently died. On the 3d of this month an Italian named Serafino Pelizzioni was tried at the Old Bailey for the murder and found guilty. The defence offered was that though poor Harrington had been un doubtedly killed in the scuffle, and by an Italian, the guilty Italian was not Pelizzioni, but another of the party named John or Gregorio Mogni, but spoken of as Gregorio. Mr. Ribton did not hesitate to say, in his speech for the prisoner, that this Gre gorio "was the man who had committed the murder." Nevertheless the jury convicted Pelizzioni, and Mr. Baron Martin, in pronouncing sentence of death upon him, used these words I am as satisfied as I can be of anything that Gregorio did not in flict this wound, and that you were the person who did." That the crime itself was extenuated by circumstances almost reducing it from murder to manslaughter, the Judge acknowledged, but of the identification of the prisoner as the perpetrator he had no doubt whatever. In the face, however, of this uncompromising decision certain countrymen of the prisoner, feeling still persuaded of his inno cence and of Gregorio's guilt, resolved to bring the latter to justice, and by means of his conviction, if possible, to clear Pelizzioni of the charge. This they have actually done with such effect that Gregorio himself, notwithstanding the verdict against Pelizzioni, now stands committed for trial, and it is the story of these conflicting proceedings which we propose to tell. The evidence which pro cured the conviction of Pelizzioni was undoubtedly upon the face of the testimony as complete and as cogent as had ever been produced against a prisoner at the bar. The nature of the affray admitted of an unusual number of witnesses, and their deposi tions were consistent, uniform, and clear. Three of the Englishmen present saw Pelizzioni strike the deceased, and the deceased fall from the blow. A fourth saw Pelizzioni " on the top of the deceased as he lay," and while he was in that position " took hold of him and held him till the police came." A policeman received Pelizzioni from the hands of the last witness, and took him into custody. Nor was this all. While Harrington lay on the bed in the hospital, conscious of his approaching end and in the agony of death, Pelizzioni was taken and placed by the bedside among ten or twelve others, and the dying man was asked to look round and say if he could see anybody who had stabbed him. He did look round, and pointed to the prisoner and said, " That's the man who did it" This he said with no vindictiveness, adding, indeed, expressions indi eating his forgiveness, but he said it distinctly and without hesitation. The reader will probably be of opinion that the force of evidence could be car ried no further, and yet there was confirmation still to come. Though Harrington was the only man killed, he was not the only man wounded. The pot man of the tavern had been stabbed in the affray, and he swore distinctly to Pelizzioni as the man who inflicted the wound. Moreover, he and another witness stated that they had struck Pelizzioni on the head in the scuffle, and when Pelizzioni was exa mined at the station-house that night his head was found cut. Lastly, and as if to exclude the possi bility of doubt, the witnesses concurred in affirming that when Harrington was struck down one Italian only was in the room where the Englishmen were as sembled. The others were outside ; Pelizzioni alone had entered the apartment where he was found and taken. That being the case against Pelizzioni, we may now describe the evidence which has been brought to upset it and to transfer the guilt from Peliz zioni to Gregorio. We will put the strongest point first. Gregorio has " confessed" the crime. What his confession amounts to has yet to be deter mined. He does not say that he killed Michael Har rington, or speak with distinctness or directness to any particular blow, but he says that he was in the Englishmen's room in the affray of that night, and that, fearing to be overpowered, he used his knife in self-defence. In support of this statement, testi mony was produced to the effect that Gregorio had, on the very evening of the murder, made the same statement to some ' of his friends, and that he had even got rid of the knife which he had used. It is beyond doubt, too, that he left London shortly after the affair and quitted his place of work, though he was under no notice to leave. One of the Italians also distinctly contradicted the statement that Peliz zioni was the only one of their number in the Eng lishmen's room, and deposed that Gregorio was there. In short, whereas the evidence against Peliz zioni on this point was directly impugned by counter evidence rendering it conceivable that the perpe trator of the act might possibly have been some other person, Gregorio acknowledges enough to make it highly probable that he was this person, and it was sworn that he made such acknowledg ments on the very night of the affray. Some at tempt was made to present the case as one of mis taken identity, but that ground did not appear tenable. The landlord of the tavern distinguishedpot who was . plainly between Gregorio and Pelizzioni, whom he had known for three months. The man stabbed, and who swore to Pelizzioni as the man who stabbed him, had been acquainted with him for four or five years, and had also known Gregorio, and he roundly affirmed that there was " not the slightest resemblance between them." Moreover, in addition to the men who were wounded in the scuffle, there was a woman who was knocked down at the door of the Englishmen's room, presumably by the same man who killed Harrington, and this woman swears that the man who knocked her down was certainly Pelizzioni, and was certainly not Gregorio. Then, if the re cou ld b e no mistake ofidentity, what theory can be offered to invalidate the concurrence of testimony against Pelizzioni ? The theory, as it seems, of a general conspiracy. The conductors of the case against Gregorio allege that the landlord of the tavern "had a feeling " in the matter, and his customers sha r ed hi s i m p r essions, and that their evidence all flowed, as it were, from one source . and was tinct u r e d b y a preva di ng co l ou r. But will this hypothesis touclithe dying statement of the deceased i himself ? Th e con f ess i on of Gregorio, i unless t s to be discredited, may be held to excul pate everybody else, 'f or he pleads 4; Guilty r to hav ing laid about hi m with his knife and wounding three persons, if not four, whereas there were but three persons wounded, and no more, including the deceased. In p ar ti cu l ar, if G regor i o really inflicted a stab upon Harrin g t on , it m i g ht be inferred that Pe lizzioni did not, for the hospital surgeon deposed that the wounds in the intestines of the deceased had all been produced, in his opinion, by " one stroke of the knife." It is also certain not only that Gregorio was at the tavern that night and, indeed, the origi nator of the disturbance, but that he had a knife with him, or at any rate produced one immediately afterwards. The knife, too, was forthcoming and traced to Gregorio, and was such a knife as might have inflicted the wounds, but it was not bloody, though the suggestion was offered that the blood might have been washed off it in the place where it lay for the night. Another knife, however, found outside the tavern, and presumed to be the knife employed, was produced, and this was covered with blood, though, on the other hand, it had no such point as'the surgeon thought might be required fo r infliction of the wound. Such is the brief recital of these remarkable proceedings. The case against Pelizzioni was strong and complete almost be yond precedent, not a -link being wanting. The case against Gregorio is of no great strength except from his own confession, but that confession admits enough to include the whole crime, and is su pp or t e d by testimony, though i . f the advocates on one side may object to the evidence of the Englishmen, those on the other may take a similar exception to the evi dence of the Italians. Whoever killed poor Har rington killed him in this pothouse affray, and without the malace probably that we assoc i ate w i t h murder, though without the provocation, according to the ruling of the Judge, which would have con stituted manslaughter ; but which of the stories is true, or whether the two are to be reconciled, we must leave to be elsewhere determined. PosT.- 7 -L et us be just. Ge nera l B ut l er i s as con sistent in his sayings and d o i ngs as any A mer i can o f his time, and he is the most typical of his country men whom the war has p ro d uce d . G reater men are in the Federal service ; abler men, better men. There are men who can speak more eloquently, fight more successfully, scheme and act more resolutely ; but no one, taken altogether, can compare with Butler for the variety and adaptability of his powers. There is peace, and he is'a lawyer. There is war, and he leads an army. There is conquest, and he rules a province. Finally, his reputation as a war rior being wrecked, the man of few words becomes a first-rate rhetorician. All this is essentially Ameri can. In America alone do we find the Jack-of -all- Trades flourishing and shining in every profession— a humbug in each, by virtue of his audacious uni versal pretensions, but, in the main, by no means a humbug. He comes to the ground, of course, and it is there that the contact with his mother earth gives him renewed vigour. Butler may be a detest able soldier, and a quack in the divers ser vice° iter has attempted, but there cannot be a doubt that he is a fine speaker. If he fails in riding, he fait splendidly. Americans are naturally ready wi t ': the tongue. The volubility of Butler in his presene plight is astounding. Conscious innocence and th genius of the soil alone could do it. He meets the Mayor of Lowell and his fellow-citizens the re a clear brow and the cleverest narrative of his traLs actions in the war that it could be possible to device ' did better than he has done in his mils capacity ? Not Gen. Grant, as he proceeds to sho re , to ' and it is impossible, while we read his speech , member that Gen. Terry did so very much better. Butler's simple claim upon the gratitude of b his coat; 1 trymen is his humanity ; nor are we exactly prepar.c'e to say that it is an unfounded claim. The gen, l l s Yankee is humane. Both in the persistency 01 1 ,,,,% efforts to free the negro, and in his kindness to when free, Butler has behaved with disting u ' — iit sincerity towards the doctrines of the Abolitiou_e section in the North. We see no reason to disbe. t.hever him when he says that at Big Bethel and For t Fis" o , severally his object was to spare, as much as ,P ° o „ e sible, the effusion of blood. His only error , and his that will in all probability accompany bin' r ot hel grave, is to think himself a soldier still. Big Pvi, ic i touched the civilian in him , and Fort Fish er t him bare. He assures his l f e ll ow - c itizens th ee r Fort Fisher he only did what his subordinat e onto in advised. And it was a temptation, he says , tog t he for honour and glory; but in consideration for rice mothers, the fathers, the wives among the auci le ti o facing him, he withstood the tremendous terePt ° to advance , and he prudently retired. W ere ..:0 soldier speaking this stuff we should think his lera, a little confused, but it is the very langu a g e : As.s civilian. He might have taken the place, as been recently taken, but it would have to be ta at a cost ; and while looking through his telesee;srei at the redoubtable fort, from the deck of his toy posted in observance, General Butler a ceurs t tha weighed his temptation in one scale, ag o ou t er, domestic sensation of Massachusetts on th se whereupon the temptation kicked the beam". the' rejoices that he, of all the generals produced hi h o butwar on the Northern side, is the only one t no not induced disaster. " Failures perhaps ;or disaster." The civilian method of conducting o r fare, as exemplified at Fort Fisher, is so sure ! du d of precluding disaster that it might be stereo ; i ia in America as Butler's Patent . Safety Attain `idier Retreat System. A man with a spark of the_st.eet in him would have been silent for shame, or cu._^,;l l . from the dictate of his judgment. This thcr°io%}) going Yankee has no such idea. He is a cap e 10 Ile to the point of bloodshed. There he stops. cup his friends and neighbours to pronounce their oi . e itt gistic verdict on his conduct, laying of cours, et their stress on his strategy, and assuring them 04100 civilian general has committed no P ro v a tioa sacrifices ; and so, with a sweeping condeTillvetal of the West Pointers, and especially of neve, Ulysses Grant, interspersedwith puns, not illeiV er tert upon the name of his arch enemy, Ahmiral ir iAg he terminates a speech that is a placard of el. f oci Yankeeism. Things do not endure for evei a tier even Yankeeism dies. Were there no wa r . 110 would still be ahead. But it is a time of Nornit' d , for war himself. " Fight on," he says,, " 7 e lit the fair land of the South be the ineit ell „idier• volunteers and the booty of the victorious oldie fo‘ It is a gallant utterance ; but the war he calls tone s extinguishes him, and with him the man , t ts• o the fashion of the period which he represeo,l, the war continues, Yankeeism goes stest"sher' the background, and Butler must go with it ,ara'' man and Grant are the men who com e f°ll/1(1 th serious and very silent men habituallY; country takes its tone from these. We mg r a s we ll the change operating slowly over the pr os as the people in America. That the `"ti n der tic Yankee will kick before he is submerged-.g, Iv% modern American, born of hard campaig a , be anticipated of so lively a creature, an 1307 0 amount of kicking is to be expected fronesistibl. ere he consents to run in the harness of r o e 10, facts. Personally, he is of little import:oe 'ell. career is run until the age of oratory d. s ',,,„ o rthi„! more upon America ; but, typically, he ' 5 7, be being studied, and he is not absolutely to 000.01 esteemed. The Yankee maxim to stop a' fro nt ° was ingrained in his being until he came oda; Fort Fisher. So great was his representauLtiales2 city that he did not hesitate to offend the an.,, of all civilisation by an outrage upon the diC , 'bet lv delicacy of the sex. No doubt it was a fr e J to was the carrying out of the YankeeprinciP adatioli; run obstacles of every nature. In his d e t r vo and subsequently, (for he promises to _op gener al erf further years) in the pages of is ler will see himself execrated, while the , i.a lll l ' dea lt with e r the new school,successful or not, are _ eD iV that recklessness is a challenge tO partial terms. If he thinks it unjust, let him re . m e so t i n justie. • ree s despised the sentiment of mankind where it is ,, a h in shrewdly alive. The world will be as thca v " o l l tY the punishment it inflicts. The humanistll o f tb e , American Generals will suffer the worst he ooa cii,c,i common reprobation and contempt. 1 1 ' 5 1 towards the unhappy ladies of New Or e,, ers o soil him in a more deadly manner than thet.rloagli blood set flowing by Grant. It was mere going Yankeeism, but the world reads it as aZ i g to baseness. He did but express himself leis co untr y for v ,5 0 ... 5 . to 11 ) 2 8 the bidding of the Yankee geniu s ' be con_ of a decal; men heaped no reproaches 0 31 2 iiln tent to end li military disgrace, but he must the penalties of the representative nu'of ing system. If, in the new order things e , o f Gen h 0 America, one or two of the characteris It . os for Ge t he Butler survive, it will be a good th ing aro o • verY W poa country. It was impossible to like hira. ° nu t but even the world which sits ill v n iti n kee di ' t it Butler would be pained to see the -,- a ht goo altogether ; and, little civilised as he ra!f iko. ,tiolLe times, it would retard the advance a e;;10 - g America if some of the qualities became extinct. COUNTRY MARKETS LIVERPOOL.—FnIvA ir. an ds P At to-day's market there was a thin atteudartetoititio a moderate business was done in wheat, fi ne Icin cl4 o 4 American spring bringing id advance, and °tile o a ts a io full rates of Tuesday. Fl o ur without change. r. oatmeal very dull, at late rates. Beans 6d des lin corn was m fair request, .Danubian bringi n g 2° tity, and 26s 3d to 26s 6d in retail. LINCOLN.—FRIDAY. to 4151 New white wheat, 40 s t o 44s ; n ew red, 3- 5 ~ wiei -° stone. Barley for malting , 31 s to 34 s per c t e tt .as, 28s to 30s per 30 stone. Oats, 21s to 249. ' 40$ per qr. .36 DERBY—FRIDAY. aig t o 4 r4 , 05 New white wheat, 41s to 44s ; new reg. , . ; , 5 9 g t stone. Barley for malting, 30s to 330 pe r a`'": o lo 27s to 28s per 30 stone. Oats, new, 230 to 2u 15 .Z. 37 0 27s per 24 stone. Beans, old, s 42s to 45s Il e " per qr. WAKEFIELD.—FittaI; e CO, The wheat trade is firm to-day, and the b lls th Tm• is to a moderate extent, at last Friday's o ' l " m art e i e c t l s es a n s o lo a w lte s ra al t e i , on a . nd prices are rather lowe r ' 1 ; 0 ; apotde T b: h pi e e3a f :s— o , l_l w ow hq i er n as g .t: e Nee ‘,O - 20s lid ; oats, '213 qrs. a . t 20s 8d ; beans , g 6 a570-78tshcielersla,vaetrallessirdr; the STAMFORD.—FitiDAY. 4,4901'n New white wheat, 40s to 425, new red, „ B° O . ° '2 65 ° fie' stone. Barley, malting, 32s to 348 • grin 2s B per '24 per qr. Oats, new, 18s to 245; old, '2ss to 28$ ier o. her eto Beans 38s to 40s per 88 stone . Peas as fit, BRISTOL SUGAIL—FitID O I " A f &' o r o , The demand is very limited and sales arae - li o rice to eels of good and fine have been sold at ftl 0 1 3 8.1 0 $ fined quiet at late rates. Rum—there are 1/_________ __,/ port _....................,,, Births. Eo .1 0" ° v 115 ENGLEFIELD.—On the 17th inst., the wi fe ° f A fs 0 field, Esq., of Bridge House, Maidenhead' wile"' ter. ° o a f u F rr a M . v — er O sh n a t m h , e 9 1 f 4t a h a i: u s g t h ., t t e h r e . wife of Ni-r• I°l.° 00 4 ' v ii..,,ip _a erectp ROBERTSON.—On the 15th inst., at 52, St. Lxv - io re , the wife of W. Wybrow Robertson, BA , ' b A. fr' of a son, stillborn. eVi r °''' WOOD.—On the 15th inst., the wife of Jel lie° Park-house, Tollington-park, of a daug hter' „ f or Pi i al , Marriages. Affirl '° 'l3e o ;der, BEETAN—MORIER.—On the 16th inst., at St,. -- 1 , 5 r1e,,,,. e' 0 ston-square, Frederick Lincoln, son of 1-I,oow —rigs Esq., of Bryanston-square to Augusta, , lito daughter of the late Vice-Admiral Wi illtuji cjittr e : , Eastbourne, Sussex. ~,,40.,,,,ad. ,e,,,r SHAw—AMBLER.---On the 15th inst., at f,t,.;,,"" - -fagP',,,." or ' Manningham, Henry Marsden Shaw, f'" - ' field, to Matilda, the third daughter ford. Thos Esq., of Oakfield, Manningham, Bra nrElu l Deaths. , t ie , - BLOUNT.—On the 12th inst., a t Rotherwas-Pry Deg ford, the Rev. Henry Blount, 0.5.1. Inll' A FURNEAUX.—On the 14th inst., at Alberaarleii. vet G port, Vice-Admiral John Furn ()aux, ag ed ' c all' GRIFFITH.—On the 16th inst , at 21, Onslow7oll' pel Kensington, Thomas Griffith, of Viceßalli es-c° r 3e ' 00 HARRISON.—On the 17th inst., at Dintoo Tict'l.' Aylesbury, Bucks, the Rev. John Jlarris en ' JO ' 78. A li golltl i JEAFFREsoN.—On the 16th inst., at 2 1 , '-'- a 6 6 ' 40 1 p street, Wm. Jeaffreson, Esq., H.E.1.C.5., ag e , 9 ,1 1 V 1 ' ATTLE.—On the 9th inst., at Dawlish, fet ed 0 " (to rt ' Pattle, C.B , Colonel of the 9th Huss ars, t t g e neO lit TEDLPLER.-o . n the 15th inst., at Stoke, n ear m ~ John Lino Templer, Esq. 0 ' AS P r ll' London: Printed and Publihhed by WILLI)1,01 e, - il yf 411 of No. 112, Strand, Punter, at THE SO " ii :OO Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy , 02 t Middlesex.—Saturday, February 18, 1865. ' bri 1 417, I 4111 ( 41 tkr;