The Sun. — London, England, 1865-04-27 00:00:00

Naval and Military Intelligence. MALTA, April, 22. There is little to report of either naval or mili tary news since the departure of the last mail on the 17th inst. Her Majesty's ship Himalaya went round from the Great into the Marsamuscetto har bour yesterday, and leaves to day with the 7th Royal Fusileers for Quebec. The Victoria, 102, flagship of the Commander-in-Chief, and the En terprise, 4, ironclad, have been out for a cruise, and have returned into port. The Surprise, 4, leaves to-day for Tunis. The Royal Oak, 35, ironclad, was inspected the day before yesterday by the Com mander-in-Chief. The result, I believe, was very satisfactory. The Swedish corvette Gefle, Captain Pattersen, left on the 11th inst. for Tunis and Cadiz. Mr. F. R. Drummond Hay, Consul at Crete, will, it is said, succeed Col. Herman as Consul General at Tripoli, and Mr. Charles Dickson, at present Consul at Souchum-Kaleh and Redout-Kaleh will take the place of Mr. Drummond Hay at Crete. Mr. Andrews, engineer and general superintendent of the Mediterranean Extension Telegraph Com pany, left Malta on the 17th inst. to repair the Corfu and Otranto cable. The Adjutant-General, Sir James Yorke Scar lett, has promulgated a circular memorandum, ad dressed to general and other officers commanding on stations at home and abroad, dated Horse Guards, sth of April, 1865, containing the follow ing extract of a letter from the War-office, dated the 29th of March, 1865 The Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs has notified to Earl de Grey that the Governments of Austria and Prussia have determined to grant a proirisional national flag to the Duchies of Schleswig-Holstein and Lauenburg until the definite settlement of the con stitution of these territories, and have requested her Majesty's Government to recognisethe flag in ques tion, and to grant ships bearing it the same rights which were accorded to the ships of the Duchies previously to their separation from Denmark. Her Majesty's Government have now agreed to recognise the flag provisionally, saving the rights of the States of Holstein and Schleswig and of the German Con federation, and only till the definite constitution of the Duchies concerned. This flag will have the colours blue, white, and red, in horizontal stripes, and will be distinguished from the Mecklenburg flag, which has the same colours, by a yellow field placed on the blue field next the flagstaff." An order was promulgated yesterday to the troops at Portsmouth by Major-Gen. Lord William Paulet, K.C.8., Lieutenant-Governor of Portsmouth and Military Commander-in-Chief of the South-west District, from the Horse Guards, dated April 24, in which the Field-Marshal Commanding-in-Chief ex presses his satisfaction at the very creditable state in which he found the troops under Lord W. Paulet's command at the late inspection, and requests that he will make this known to the commanding officers of regiments serving in his district. The hired transport Shannon, Captain Daniels, 1,292 tons burden, having e m b ar k e d th e A an d B _ _ _ batteries of the C brigade, now amalgamated with the Royal Horse Artillery, from her Majesty's In dian service, sailed from Calcutta on the 14th of January, and arrived yesterday at Woolwich. The Shannon (one of Green's first-class ships) made the Royal Arsenal pier at 12 o'clock, at high tide, and immediately commenced landing the troops and baggage, under the superintendence of Captain Naugle, Deputy-Assistant-Quartermaster-General, which was effected with the utmost order and ex- pedition. In less than an hour the whole of the troops and baggage were on shore, and at 1 o'clock the Shannon was under way to the East India Docks to clear out her cargo, which consists of indigo, raw silk, saltpetre, &c. The health of the troops was remarkably good. One death only occurred during the voyage, the result of a severe attack of dysentery. Before leaving the ship the officers ex pressed their thanks to Capt. Daniels for the uni form kindness and attention which they had all re ceived at his hands, and which had made the pas sage, they said, most agreeable. For some days after her departure from Calcutta, and until nearing the Western Islands, the Shannon had most favour- able weather, but she was afterwards constantly becalmed, and experienced a succession of head winds. On entering the Channel she was again detained by the fog, and was obliged to anchor one night off Dover, and also on Tuesday night at the mouth of the Thames. After disembarking, the troops were drawn up under the open shed facing the landing- place in the Arsenal, and awaited the preparations necessary for taking over the barrack quarters. At three o'clock Major-General E. Warde, C. 8., Commandant, rode down to the Arsenal, attended by his personal Staff, consisting of Cafft. Williams, A.D.C., Brigade-Major Hay, and Capt. Nangle. He was accompanied by Col. Gambier, C. 8., Deputy-Adjt.-General ; Col. Huy- Ike, commanding the C Brigade ; Col. Anderson, C. 8., commanding the 4th Brigade, Royal Artillery; Lieut.-Col. Reilly, C. 8., B Brigade, Royal Horse Artillery ; Major-Gen. Sandham, R.E., Royal Mili tary Academy ; and others. They were there joined by the regimental and bugle bands of the Royal Artillery, by whom they were escorted to the garri son. The bronzed appearance of the men bespoke a long residence in India. On their arrival on the Royal Artillery parade they were inspected by Gen. Warde, and formed three sides of a square, when the General informed them that he had taken the opportunity of meeting them on their landing, and, from the favourable report which had been forwarded to him of their conduct in the field, as well as their general behaviour in quarters, he was proud to wel come them as comrades and brothers to join the Royal Artillery, of which regiment they now formed a cotnponent part. His despatch, he said, informed him that up to their embarkation at Calcutta they were all men of high soldierly bearing, and as such he was happy to receive them as members of the Royal Artillery—the honour and glory of the army. He had full confidence, he said, in their determination to maintain intact the high reputation they had brought with them from their distant homes, and he should merely caution them to resist the tempta tions which were constantly thrown in the way of soldiers. The men were then dismissed to quarters. The ship Roxburgh Castle, 1,121 tons, Capt. C. Dimsdale, whose arrival in the Channel from New South Wales was announced in The Sun of Tues day, arrived at Spithead yesterday morning, and anchored for the purpose of disembarking the Royal Artillery. She has brought to England the following officers and men belonging to the 3d Bat tery of the 12th Brigade :—Capts. Lovell and Smith; Lieuts. Greer, Larcom, and Hallett; Assist. Surgeon Milburn, 60 men, 14 women and 36 chil dren. The troops will disembark this morning and will be placed in quarters in Blockhouse Fort—the western battery at the mouth of Portsmouth harbour—the artillery at present stationed there re moving to Sandon, Isle of Wight. As soon as the disembarkation of the troops has been effected the Roxburgh C as tl e w ill resume h er voyage to Lon don,, to deliver her colonial cargo. The shipt St. Lawrence, 1,200 tons, Capt. Town bee, from Calcutta for London , also put into Spit head Yesterday mornin g to discharge her Govern ment freight:of troops, consisting of Major , iceii , Royal Artill ery ; 6a Captain Clarke, 7th Dragoon Guards ; Capt. Murph y 97th ; Lieut. sea . y2'3 52d Regt ; Capt. Gould, Money and children Madras Colonel Money, Mrs. and upwards army ; Major a n d Mrs. Garth and family, upwards of 300 time expired men and invalids , sv fromi various regi men t s serving in India, together with a zrosptortLren ionate num bera of women and-children. T towed into Portsmouth harbour yesterdayw by ee w tr Thames steamtug Victor, a n d w i ll disembark her e troops this morning alongside the dockyard, when the invalids will be sent on by Government steamer to the Royal Victoria Military Hospital at Netley, and the time-expired men to the depots of the re- ments to which they belong. The iron frigate Warrior, 40, was yesterday ad mitted into the steam basin of Portsmouth dockyard from her harbour moorings, and it may, therefoie, be reasonably hoped that no time will now be lost by the authorities, either at the Admiralty or at Portsmouth, in bringing forward this fine frigate for recommission as rapidly as possible. The Urgent, screw troopship, Capt. S. H. Hen derson, sailed from Portsmouth last evening for Leith with a few military passengers and some officers' baggage and horses, and will return to Portsmouth with a regiment of infantry for the camp at Aldershott. The following appointments were made yesterday at the Admiralty :—Commander Henry W. Mist to be inspecting commander in the Coastguard, vice Brown ; Lieuts. C. Robinson, E. C. Drummond, N. S. F. Digby, and F. C. de Lousada to the Cale donia ; J. Whittall, paymaster, to the Winchester ; and Henry S. Lauder, astsist.-surg., to the Gleaner. Banquet at the Fishmongers' Hall, The Worshipful Company of Fishmongers gave a grand banquet in their stately hall on London-bridge last evening. The entertainment was in the style of splendid hospitality which invariably characterises the dinner of this, one of the wealthiest of the City companies. The chair was taken by the Prime Warden, Mr. James Spicer. Among the company were the Earl of Shaftes bury, K.G. ; the Hon. G. E. Cartier and the Hon. A. T. Galt, members of the Canadian deputation ; Mr. H. Bernard, Secretary to the Canadian Depu tation ; the Hon. G. Waldegrave Leslie, M.P., Sir C. Wentworth Dilke, Lieut.-Colonel Addison, Mr. Thomas Hankey, M.P., Mr. JoheAbelSmith, M.P., Sir S. M. Peto, M.P., Rev. Dr. Davison, Rev. Mr. Raleigh, Rev. J. Percival, Rev. C. Prince, Rev. J. Aldis, Dr. Reeces, the Deputy Governor of the Bank of England, Mr. Robert Pott (the Master of the Grocers' Company), Mr. W. Gadesden (Prime War den of the Goldsmiths' Company), Mr. Henry Fow ler, Mr. J. D. Cook, Mr. James M. Grant, Mr. Robin Allen, Mr. Alexander Haldane, Mr. Wm. Leaf, jun., Mr. Jervoise Smith, Mr. John Dasant, Mr. J. C. Templer, Mr. C. J. Boydges, Mr. John Fairfax, Mr. H. Bodkin Poland, and Mr. Merry. After the dinner there was an admirable selection of vocal music, under the direction of Mr. Henry Buckland, assisted by Miss Rose Hersee, Miss Whytock, Master Brown, Mr. W. H. Cummings, Mr. T. Dyson, and Mr. Weiss. Mr. John Cheshire performed on the harp. The usual loyal toasts having been given and re ceived with all the honours, The PRIME WARDEN proposed " The Army and Navy and the Volunteers." Lieut.-Colonel ADDISON returned thanks for the army, and Mr. J. C. TEMPLER for the Volunteers. The PRIME WARDEN then gave "The British Colonies," and coupled with the toast the names of the Hon. G. F. Cartier and the Hon. A. T. Galt. The toast having been drunk with cheers, Mr. G. E. CARTIER rose and said,—Mr. Prime Warden, my Lord, and Gentlemen,—The honour which you have conferred upon my country and the Canadian deputation by the kind invitation which you have given Mr. Galt and myself to attend this grand banquet commands a feeling of grati tude on my part. You have been kind enough, and distinguished members of both Houses of Parliament have also been kind enough, on this occasion to allow the toast of the British Colonies to be drunk before that of the Lords and Commons of England. You have connected our visit to this country with the scheme now before the important American co lonies, as well as before the people of this country— namely, that of a confederation of the North Ame rican provinces. Now we have felt in Canada that, notwithstanding the great benefit which the two Canadas have derived from the constitution granted to them in 1840, that constitution has been overgrown by the property and growing wants of the two C anadas. Consequently, we are seeking for a system which will permit us to develope ourselves on a larger and grander scale. We have approached what we call the Lower or Maritime Provinces of North America— Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Prince Edward's Is land. We have told them frankly, in Canada we pos sess two elements necessary for the constitution of a nation—the personal element and the territoral ele ment ; but that there is one element which Canada does not possess, that element which makes the greatness of England—the maritime element. (Loud cheers.) We have told our friends that they wanted territory, and that we wanted seaports, and that with the two united we should become great and prosperous, and take with the mother country a sort of co-national existence. (Cheers.) Our Government determined to send a deputation to England in order to impress on the Imperial Go vernment the absolute necessity of carrying out that scheme of confederation. (Cheers.) We wish to bring about the adoption of that scheme, not only that we may be stronger and more prosperous our selves, but also that we may be in a better position to take our share in the defence of the British Em pire. (Renewed cheering.) We understand very well that, in the event of an invasion, we cannot meet the Joe without the application of the whole force of England ; but we have secured such a union of all the provinces of North America as will enable us to take our share in the defence of the country. (Cheers.) Singly we, in Canada, cannot defend ourselves ; but if we be united with the Maritime Provinces a perfect system of defence can be devised in connexion with the mother country. (Cheers.) When we speak of a confederation of the North American colonies, we do not mean a system the object of which is to weaken the ties between the North American colonies to the mother country, but, on the contrary, a system which will tend to develope the mercantile element in British North America, and to increase the power of the :whole British empire. (Cheers.) Under our scheme of confede ration there will be no fear of a struggle such as that which we have seen in the United States. There can be no danger of a contention between State rights and Federal privileges. We intend in our representation to the British Cabinet to say that we are ready, even Canada alone, to take our full share in the defence of the country ; but we will put before the Imperial Government that if the Confederate scheme is carried out we shall be in a better position to aid Great Britain in an event which I hope will never arise—namely, a war between this country and the United States. (Cheers.) I, how ever, avail myself of this opportunity of remarking that if we in Canada take our share in the defence of the country, that will necessarily involve a great expenditure ; but I may add that you need not fear what you have been told will happen —an increase in the duty on the goods imported from England into Canada. Assertions to that effect are notwarranted ; and as they are causing a deal of mischief, I am glad of the opportunity of making the statement that there is no foundation for them. (Hear; hear.) It has been stated in speeches in both Houses of Parliament, as well as in certain newspapers in this country, that since Canada is so vulnerable it would be better for the security of England that Canada would be left either to assume a position of independence or to be annexed to the United States. (No, no.) We understand in Canada that a cause of war can scarcely arise from ourselves. War in Canada must arise from an imperial cause. We understand that we are vulnerable ; but we are willing that our country should be the battlefield in order that the honour of England may be vindicated. (Loud cheers.) We have no desire to be independent of this coun try, and still less have we any desire to be annexed to the United States ; nor have we any desire to become aportion of the American republic. (Cheers.) Such an idea we view with horror (renewed cheers) but from her Majesty's Speech on the opening of the present session of Parliament we know that our scheme of confederation is approved by her Majes ty's Government and by the sense of the English people. (Hear, hear.) Subsequent proceedings have shown that it has the approval of both Houses of Parliament, and we feel that, under such a sys tem, we can aid England in any struggle she may have with the United States. (Cheers.) If the fallacious argument prevailed that, because the de fence of a particular colony was likely to become expensive to the mother country at a particular juncture, that colony should be left to itself, then all the colonial possessions of England must go. (Hear, hear.) If that argument were carried out to its logical extent, the result must be that theßritish Empire is to be reduced to England, Ireland, and Scotland ; and I presume that no one present is in favour of that proposition. (Cheers.) Afr• GALT—The toast of the British colonies, which has bee n so warmly received by this company, is one in which not merely those colonies but all England must feel deeply interested. By the course of the struggle which has been going on for the last four years in America, the interests of England have been to a certain extent imperilled. We have all hope, and we still hope, that our friends and neighbours in the United States will be enabled once more to come together. We desire, in the interests of humanity, that the struggle between the North and the South should cease, and cease at an early period. (Hear, hear.) We desire that, irrespective of any personal interests which we may have in the matter—we desire it on account of the disastrous results of war, in respect of the inte rests of the world at large. (Hear, hear.) And now I may take this opportunity—the first which has been afforded to me—of alluding to the sad news which has reached London to-day—news which I believe will be a subject of regret to every English man and every inhabitant of the North American Colonies. (Hear, hear.) We have not got the par ticulars of the tragedy to which I allude, but what ever may have been our sentiments—whatever our sympathies—with regard to the struggle in America, we cannot but feel that the death of these two men, the first men in America, who have fallen victims to the hands of the assassin, is an event which must shock the public mind of this country and of the whole world. (Hear, hear.) I must say of these two men, differing as I do from much of their policy and many of their acts, that I believe Mr. Lincoln, who has now passed away, was a pure-minded and patriotic citizen of the United States—(hear, hear) —and I will say of Mr. Seward that I deplore most sincerely his removal from a position in which I be lieve he was performing very high duties in a man ner which proved that he had not only the interest of his own country at heart, but that he was desir ous of preserving peace with this and every other country. (Cheers.) lam sure, therefore, that the news which has reached London to-day will carry a shock of alarm to the mind of every one who is de sirous that the peace of the world should be pre served. (Hear, hear.) With regard to the proposed Confederation of the North American Provinces, after what has been said by my friend Mr. Cartier, I will only observe that our object is not to weaken our ties with the mother country, but to put our selves in a position to perform those duties which we think may be demanded of a great and growing British colony. (Cheers.) We are not coming to ask of the mother country to undertake a greater re sponsibility than that which has hitherto devolved upon her. On the contrary, we are come to show that if this Confederation be carried out we shall be able to assume a greater responsibility than that which has hitherto fallen upon Canada. (Hear.) And let me add this, we feel that the North American colonies ought not only to be a support to the mother country in time of war, but that they should also aid in developing the sources of Imperial industry in the time of peace. (Hear.) It is our desire that the thousands and tens of thousands who emigrate from this country should not pass from under the dominion of the British Crown. (Hear.) We wish that they should come to the North American Pro vinces, where we can offer them employment and the means of advancing them in life, and where they may still remain connected with the empire o. Great Britain. (Loud cheers.) The PRIME WARDEN then proposed the House o Lords. The toast of " The House of Commons" was also drunk, and Mr. J. A. SMITH acknowledged the toast. The " Health of the Prime Warden" was pro posed by the Earl of SHAFTESBURY, and enthusias tically received by the company. Some other toasts having been given and responded to, the company separated after a very agreeable evening. rHE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, APRIL 27, 186 k. went. When the League was established, he (Mr. Smith) had the honour of being the chairman, which office he continued to fill until a delicate state of health com pelled him to resign it to Mr. George Wilson, who had conducted that organisation, as all knew, with much ability to the completion of its work. Richard Cobden, their friend, was one of nature's nobles. God gave him a great mission—a mission of peace and love ; and when he had accomplished his work, He took him home to dwell with the spirits of the great and good men who had gone before him. (Applause.) Mr. J. WerincEw supported the motion. He said that the whole tenour of 'Mr. Cobden's life—every action of his publiclife—was to still the roar of the cannon,to unshackle the commerce of the world, and to make men freer than they had over been—free to work, to live, and to worship like men, so that they might grow strong and stalwart as Englishmen had the pride and consolation to be. (Ap plause.) The motion was passed with acclamation. Mr. H. CoprocK, town clerk, moved the following resolution : " That, in the opinion of this meeting, a statue of the late Richard Cobden would constitute a suitable memorial of his eminent services to the country generally, and to this locality in particular." Mr. Alderman CHAPMAN seconded the motion. Mr. F. HOWARD, in supporting it, said—That inasmuch as it was proposed to erect a new Town Hall, nothing could be more fitting than that the statue of Richard Cob-- den should be placed in front of that building. This, how ever, was for after consideration, but he could not refrain from making a suggestion which he thought appropriate. He would ask the working men to subscribe their mites towards the accomplishment of this noble object. A sub scription of a penny per man would in the borough pro duce a very large sum of money ; and, indeed, the working classes had received more benefits from Mr. Cobden's ser vices than any other portion of the community. (Hoax, hear.) Mr. Alderman A T.T.VN moved that a committee should be appointed to obtain subscriptions, and to carry out the last resolution. The motion was seconded by Mr. Alderman WILD, and supported by Mr. Alderman LONGSON. The meeting was concluded with the usual complimen to the Mayor for presiding. The Road Murder. TROWBRIDGE, Wednesday, April 26. This afternoon Miss Constance Emilie Kent was brought up before the magistrates sitting in petty sessions, charged on her own confession;with the wilful murder of her step brother, Francis Saville Kent, on the 29th of June, 1860. The magistrates present were Messrs. H. G. Ludlow, C. F. D. Killard, J. H. Webb, John P. Stancombe, and Thos. Clarke, Captain Meredith, the Chief Constable, and Supe rintendent, of the county police, were also present. The prisoner was undefended. The business was delayed for some time in consequence of the absence of the Rev. Arthur Douglas Wagner (of Brighton), and upon his arrival the prisoner was brought into court. She was accompanied by Miss Green, the Lady Superior of the " Home" or "Hospital" of St. Mary, and in charge of Inspector Frederick A. Williamson and Sergeant Thomas, of the Metropolitan Detective Police Force, Scot land-yard. Miss Kent was dressed in deep mourning, and wore a thick Tell, but she looked very much flushed on en tering the justice-room, and this was increased upon her taking her place at the bar, where every person in a most densely-crowded court had an opportunity of gazing at her. Several ladies were accommodated with seats on the bench, and during the progress of the inquiry they watched with eager anxiety every particle of the very small amount of evidence which was adduced. It may be stated that Inspector Williamson and Sergeant Thomas took charge of Misi Kent after the examination at Bow-street, and conveyed her to the Paddington Station of the Great Western Railway, whence they proceeded by the 810 p.m. train to Chippenham. From Chippenham they went in a postchaise to Trowbridge, a distance of 15 miles, and during the entire journey Miss Kent did not say a word. Miss Green, the Lady Superior of St. Mary's Hospital at Brighton, was with them, and on Miss Kent being taken to the police-station at Trowbridge Miss Green applied to be allowed to remain with her during the night. This was refused, and Miss Kent was committed to the care of Mrs Harris, the wife of the inspector on duty, who behaved with the greatest possible kindness to her. The prisoner was placed at the bar this morning. The Chairman, addressing her, said—You are brought oh a warrant from Bow-street, where you appeared yester day, and the evidence then taken will be read to you. The warrant, however, on which she appeared was in the first instance formally produced. It was as follows : "Police-court, Bow-street, Metropolitan Police District to wit.—To all and every the constables of the Metropol tan Police Force. "Whereas Constance Emilie Kent hath this day been charged before the undersigned, one of the magistrates of the police-courts of the metropolis, sitting at the police court, Bow-street, in the county of Middlesex, and within the Metropolitan Police District, for that on the 29th day of June, in the year of our Lord 1860, she did feloniously, wilfully, and of malice aforethought, kill and murder one Francis Saville Kent, at Road-hill-house, in the county of Wilts, and whereas I have taken the depositions of the Rev. Arthur Douglas Wagner, a witness examined by me in this behalf, but inasmuch as I am informed that the principal witnesses to prove the said offence against said Constance Emilie Kent reside in the county of Wilts, where the said offence is alleged to have been committed, these are therefore in her Majesty's name to command you or one of you, the said constables, forthwith to take and convoy the said Constance Emilie Kent to the said county of Wilts, and there carry her before some justice or justices of the peace for that county, and near unto the parish where the offence is alleged to have been committed, to answer further to the same charge before him or them, and to be further dealt with according to law. And I hereby further command you, the said constable, to deliver to the said justice or justices the information in this behalf, and also the deposition of the Rev. Arthur Douglas Wagner now given into your possession for that purpose, together with this precept. " Given under my hand and seal this 25th day of April, A.D. 1865, at the Police-court, Bow-street, aforesaid. " THOMAS HENRY, Chief Magistrate." Mr. H. Clarke, the clerk to the magistrates, then read to the Rev. A. D. Wagner, who was present, the following statement : " The Rev. ArthurDouglasWagner, clerk in holy orders, on his oath saith as follows : " ' I am perpetual curate to St. Paul's Church, Brighton. have known Constance Kent abouth 21 months. She was introduced to me for the purpose of being admitted into St. Mary's Hospital at Brighton, which is connected with St. Paul's Church, and she came there about that time, and has resided there ever since.. I have not in any way in duced her to make any confession to me, and to the best of my belief the confession she has made has been entirely by her own free will. About a fortnight ago it first came to my knowledge, and it was entirely her own proposition, that she wished to confess and give herself up, and it was her own proposition to come to London for that purpose. She stated to me, or in words to this effect, that she had alone and unaided, on the night of the 29th of June, 1860, murdered, at Road-hill-house, Wiltshire, one Francis Saville Kent. I have never said anything to Constance Kent to persuade her to confess, nor have I said an ythi ng to dissuade her from doing so, but I have been perfectly passive in the matter, feeling that she was doing the right thing. It is entirely her own free act. She thought of it herself without my suggesting it to her. " A. D. WAGGER."" The Chairman (to Mr. Wagner)—ls that true ? Mr. Wagner—Yes. The Chairman (to Miss Kent)—Have you any question to ask the witness ? Miss Kent—No, sir, I have not. The Chairman (to Mr. Wagner)—You may retire. The Clerk to the Magistrates (to Miss Kent) —I will now read over the statement which you made to the magistrate at Bow-street. It is thus : "I, Constance Emilie Kent, alone and unaided, on the night of the 29th of June, 1860, murdered, at Road-hill house, Wiltshire, one Francis Saville Sent. Before the deed no one knew of my intention, nor after it of my guilt. No one assisted me in the crime, nor in the evasion of dis covery." . Mr. Frederick Adolphus Williamson, who was then called, said—l am an inspector of the Metropolitan Detec tive Force. Yesterday afternoon, the 25th April, I went to Bow-street Police-station, where I found the prisoner. She was undergoing an examination before Sir Thomas Henry, the chief magistrate, and this paper (the confession) was handed to me. (During the reading of this cohfession the prisoner burst into tears—the first time she had exhibited an y e tnotion.) The prisoner was handed into my custody at Bow-stree) and I conveyed her down here last night to Trowbridge. The Clerk—That is all the evidence that can be adduced in the case to-day. The Chairman—Miss Bent, you will now stand re manded on this charge until to-morrow week, at 11 o'clock in the forenoon. Until that time you will be taken care of in the County Gaol at Devizes. The prisoner then left tho court in the custody of Inspec tor Williamson and Sergeant Thomas, and was convoyed to Devizes, Miss Green being allowed to accompany her. It was expected that Mr. Kent, tho father of the prisoner, would be present, but he did not appear. The town was thronged with people during the morning, in the hope that they might be able to catch a glimpse of the prisoner. [ADVEItTISEMENT.I—HoIIoway's Ointment and Pills.— Security against Bad Health.—With the warm, sunny days of spring maladies will be made manifest unless the blood Iv pure and tho skin be active. Eruptions, blotches, and snrmidable skin affections, may be successfully sub use of Holloway's detergent ointment when ' -"to doses of his purifying pills. rough, enlarged glands, '"king this cool `', the more jugated by tnu • it is aided by moue.... Hoarseness, sore throat, chron... and Stiff neck will be at once relieved ing ointment upon the skin overlying or adjacent afflicted part. Holloway's remedies have for many years an, ti,... ; been recommended in preference to all other means for healing sores, wounds, and all varieties of ulcerations, and HERALD.—Th e for giving smooth ness an d e l ast i c i ty to the akin. day received from America ig gut:„ SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOITRNALS. THE LONDON PRESS ON THE ASSASSINATION OF PRESIDENT LINCOLN. TIMES.—The American news which we publish this morning will be received throughout Europe with sorrow as sincere and profound as it awoke even in the United States themselves. Mr. Lincoln has fallen at the hands of an assassin, and Mr. Seward has too probably shared his fate. While the President was sitting quietly with his wife and some friends in a private box at a Washington theatre on Friday week, he was shot by a man who entered the box under a treacherous pretence of public business ; and almost at the same hour an accomplice of the assassin with similar treachery forced himself into Mr. Seward's sick room, and stabbed the Secretary of State four or five times in the face and throat. The President died the next morning ; Mr. Seward, when the mail left, lay almost beyond hope of recovery, and his son, who acted as his secretary, in attempting to withstand the murderer of his father, was wounded to his death. Deeds of such atrocity cover their perpe tratorswith everlasting infamy, and discredit the cause they are presumably meant to serve. We trust it will appear that the crimes of Wilkes Booth and his accomplice were conceived and executed in concert with no one but themselves. The South, broken and defeated, could receive no possible benefit from the removal of Mr. Lincoln and Mr. Seward ; the too probable effect of the crime is an accession of madness and anger, rendering all schemes of recon struction impossible. On the other hand, the waving of a knife before the affrighted audience at a theatre, and the " Sic semper tyrannis," pro nounced by the assassin, indicate the vanity of men willing to immortalise themselves, like Eratostra tus, though the world should perish. Unjust as we believe it to be, the Confederate cause will not escape the dishonour cast upon it by the wanton murders of Mr. Lincoln and the Secretary. The admiration won by the long and gallant defence of Richmond will be lessened; the memory of Lee's lofty bearing and Jackson's deep religious feeling will be obscured by the atrocities com mitted in the name and on behalf of the South. Arson in New York, theft under the pretence of war in Vermont, and assassination in the capital dim the lustre of a four years' resistance to superior forces and of many a well-fought field in Virginia. The critical condition of affairs in America, the position of the Southern States at the feet of their victorious antagonists, the gigantic task of reconstruction which must be undertaken by thepolitical leaders of the North, and, above all, the unpromising cha racter of the man whom an accident has made the ruler of the Union for the next four years, tend to exalt our estimate of the loss which the States have suffered in the murder of their President ; but it would be unjust not to acknowledge that Mr. Lin coln was a man who could not under any circum stances have been easily replaced. Starting from a humble position to one of the greatest eminence, and adopted by the Republican party as a make shift, simply because Mr. Seward and their other prominent leaders were obnoxious to different sec tions of the party, it was natural that his career should be watched with jealous suspicion. The office cast upon him was great, its duties most onerous, and the obscurity of his past career afforded no guarantee of his ability to discharge them. His shortcomings, moreover, were on the surface. The education of a man whose early years had been spent in earning bread by manual labour had necessarily been defective, and faults of manner and errors of taste repelled the observer at the outset. In spite of these drawbacks, Mr. Lincoln slowly won for himself the respect and confidence of all. His perfect honesty speedily became apparent, and, what is, perhaps, more to his credit, amid the many unstudied speeches which he *as called upon from time to time to deliver, imbued though they were witii the rough humour of his early associates, he was in none of them betrayed into any in temperance of language towards his opponents or towards neutrals. His utterances were appa rently careless, but his tongue was always under command. The quality of Mr. Lincoln's ad ministration, which served, however, more than any other to enlist the sympathy of bystanders was its conservative progress. He felt his way gradually to his conclusions, and those who will compare the different stages of his career one with another will find that his mind was growing throughout the course of it. The naivete with which he once sug gested to the negroes that they should take them selves off to Central America, because their presence in the States was inconvenient to the white popula tion, soon disappeared. The gradual change of his language and of his policy was most remarkable. Englishmen learnt to respect a man who showed the best characteristics of their race in his respect for what is good in the past, acting in unison with a re cognition of what was made necessary by the events of passing history. But the growth'of Mr. Lincoln's mind was subject to a singular modification. It would seem that he felt himself a mere instrument engaged in working out a great cause, which he could partly recognise, but which he was powerless to control. In the mixed strength and weakness of his character he presented a remarkable contrast to Mr. Seward, who was his coadjutor for more than four years, and who must, we fear, be reckoned his fellow victim. The Secretary of State, long More his elevation to office, was a prominent citizen of New York. More than a quarter of a century ago he was the Governor of that State, and for 12 years he represented it in the Senate. In the Empire City and at Washington he had attained a culture which the Illinois lawyer never acquired. But the expe rience of the politician had perhaps weakened the independence of Mr. Seward's character, and he never inspired the same confidence as his chief, be cause it was not known by what influences his course might not be modified. What may be the actual destiny of the United States deprived of the guiding hand of Mr. Lincoln and of the experience of Mr. Seward no one would venture to foretell. In compliance with the provisions of the constitution, Mr. Andrew Johnson has assumed the Presidency for the rest of Mr. Lincoln's term. At the time when the last mail left New York the States had not reco vered from the feeling of horror and astonishment created by the news of Mr. Lincoln's assassination. but the possibility of Mr. Johnson's succeeding to the Presidency had been discussed when such an event was thought highly improbable, and it was earnestly , deprecated by all parties. The indecorous exhibition upon the occasion of the inauguration of Mr. Johnson as Vice-President was of a piece with his previous career, and, indeed, the memory of his conduct as Governor of Tennessee must fill every American with the gloomiest forebodings. On the other hand, anything like a violent interruption of the succession is a thing which an American citizen with his almost idolatrous veneration for the Con stitution would shrink from instinctively. The best solution of the difficulty would be a voluntary re signation by Mr. Johnson of an office which no one ever seriously intended him to fill, and if his own sense of decency does not suggest this course it may be hoped that such a pressure of public opinion will be brought to bear upon him that he may be led to adopt it. His instant assumption of the Presidency was probably deemed necessary, and, under such exciting circumstances, little can be gathered from the few words uttered by Mr. Johnson when the oath of office was administered to him. Such as they are, they point to a resolution to execute the duties of the post, but the influences by which the incoming President is surrounded cannot be favourable to his retention of office. General Grant and General Sherman are both in or near Washington, the one the Commander-in-Chief and captor of Richmond, the other the man who first demonstrated the hollowness of the Confederate resources. Neither they nor Mr. Stanton, the Se cretary of War, can wish to see the work on which they have been engaged so long, and on which so much life and treasure has been spent, wasted because it has fallen to a hand which is incompetent to carry it through.' The task which lies before the President and his Cabinet is the most considerable that has engaged the attention of statesmen for several generations. It was doubtful whether Mr. Lincoln could have accomplished it; it is morally , certain that Mr. Johnson cannot. I , he fate of a nation hangs in the balance, and we wait with --;n1 , 37 to see which way it will turn. L—Hing news which was yester ns to throw into the shade even the tremendous catastrophe of the fall of Richmond and the surrender of Lee's army. Mr. President Lincoln has been assassinated, and is dead. Mr. Seward has been stabbed and is reported in a hopeless state. Mr. Andrew Johnson is Pre , sident of the United States. The blow is sudden, horrible, and irretrievable. Never since the death of Henry IV. by the hand of Ravaillac—never, per haps, since the assassination of Cmsar, has a murder been committed more momentous in its bearing upon the times. In the very height and plentitude of his triumph—at the moment when all his hopes seemed fulfilled, all his labours rewarded, wilen the capitula tion of his most powerful enemy had placed within his grasp that prize of empire for which he had so long and so earnestly striven—Abraham Lincoln was smitten to the earth by a dastardly assassin, who shot him through the head from behind. The commander of armies that the Macedonian or the Roman might have envied, the leader in the most gigantic struggle of the 19th century, the ruler, or likely soon to be the ruler, of the most populous, and, in the opinion of many, the mightiest nation in the modern civilised world—the man who had risen from low estate to a power as vast as Was ever wielded by a mortal, whose recent success has astonished and bewildered the universe, is now re duced to some poor six feet of common clay. All texts and sermons of the mutability of human affairs and the instability of life pale into insignificance before this tremendous commentary. Much as we have condemned the attitude of the American people during this civil war, and though we have from the first opposed the policy and censured the acts of the late President of the United States, we must sym pathise with the nation which is widowed by this sudden bereavement. Now that he is dead the good qualities of the unfortunate Lincoln seem to come into the foreground. We remember his honesty and his manliness, we do justice to his con sistency, we give him all praise for the spirit of conciliation which he has shown, for his refusal to be borne along by the sanguinary counsels of his friends, we make some allowance for his frequent and untimely levity, we almost excuse his obsti nacy in the prosecution of the war. Such, we are persuaded, will be the sentiments of every right minded Englishman ; and they will be shared in by the vast majority of the Confederate people. The men who shot Lincoln and Seward were probably lunatics, or men who had been crazed by their mis fortunes in this terrible war. There is no reason to suppose that there was any Southern conspiracy to take away the life of the only man in the Northern Government who was disposed to deal leniently with the South. The Confederates as a nation are too magnanimous to plan or approve of such a cowardly method of revenge. Booth, who killed Lincoln, when he jumped upon the stage and shouted "Sic sernper mo tyrannis" made an unworthy use of the proud tto of 'the State of Virginia. The wretched murderer has been caught, it is said, and will doubt less soon meet with the fate which he so richly de serves. But the most ignoble means may work a stupendous result. The dagger or the bullet, in the hand of the feeblest worm in human shape that crawls the earth, may alter the fate of nations or turn the tide of time. The unfortunate President, shot as he was through the brain, went - unwarned and unprepared to his account. No portents accom panied the deed, no omens foretold it. No sooth sayer bade him beware of the fatal 14th of April. He is gone ; the pilot is gone. His country is left to toss in the sea of a dismal anarchy, a revolution of which none can presume to foretel the issue. The late Vice President, Andrew Johnson, notorious as having so disgraced himself at the inauguration of the 4th of March, is now, according to the consti tution, President of the United States until the year 1868. It is difficult for any one in Europe to appreciate this fact. This incapable and ignorant peison ; this blustering and bloodthirsty ruffian, who has expressed a wish to hang the Southern leaders "as high as Haman ;" this low devotee of the brandy bottle, who has floated like the scum of the cauldron to the surface of the revolution ; this man, who, even when sober, cannot speak or write a sentence in decent English, who is as incapable of the feelings as he is of the manners of a gentleman ;—this Andrew Johnson is now positively the President of the United States of. America. He has succeeded to office at the very moment when the wisest head in America would find a problem before it which it could hardly succeed in solving, when the utmost prudence and discretion are needed in the conduct of affairs, and the most delicate hand is required to hold the reins. The most brutal and unconciliating of Northern demagogues, he has a task to undertake which can only be carried through by the very qualities which he does not possess. His accession puts an entirely new aspect on the American question. It was just possible that the South might have yielded to Lincoln ; it is out of the question that it should submit to such a fellow as Johnson. POST.—The startling intelligence which has reached us from America will excite but one senti ment in the minds of all, no matter what their political predilections. Northerner and Southerner, European and America, slaveholder and abolitionist, must equally concur in reprobating the dastardly crime which has just been consummated. The Pre sident of the United States of America has, in the moment of what he at least considered to be victory, and at the very instant when he had reason to be lieve that the gigantic enterprise to which he de voted himself was on the point of being crowned with success, fallen by the hand of an assassin. The event is so astounding that it is with difficulty we can bring ourselves to realise its occurrence, much less to estimate its consequences. It is but a few short days since the great and crowning events of the civil war took place, since Richmond was evacuated and the army of Virginia laid down its arms, and since Mr. Lincoln, boasting once more to be not only de jure but de facto President of the entire American Republic, proclaimed it to the civi lised world, and appointed a day of general thanks giving to inaugurate the commencement of a new and happier era. On Sunday, the 9th of the present month, General Lee capitulated ; on the following day Mr. Lincoln congratulated his fellow-citizens on the happy issue of the arduous struggle in which they had been so long engaged, and besought their co-ope ration in that no less arduous work of reconstruction to which he purposed devoting the second period of his official career, and on the Friday following he was brutally murdered. In the annals of history there are to be found but too many instances in which the chief magistrate of a State has fallen by the assassin's hand, but we doubt if there is one which, by its surrounding circumstances, will retain a deeper hold on the memory of posterity than the murder of the American President. What Mr. Lincoln might have been, and what he might have accomplished, must always remain matters of spe culation ; but that he should have been arrested midway in his career, and that the wishes of a great nation should be frustrated by the will of a rabid fanatic, points a moral of the futility of all human projects, which, however trite, is not uninstructive. At the very time when most persons would have concurred in approving the policy of the Northern States in again electing Mr. Lincoln to the Presi dential office, and would have gladly seen him en deavour to reconstruct the edifice which has been so cruelly shaken, he is suddenly carried from the scene. " The king is dead. God save the king." As it is in monarchies, so it is in republics. The same mail that tells us of the assassination of Mr. Lincoln informs us of the accession of his successor, It is said that every tragic picture if carefully examined has its ludicrous side, and it must have been - not a little humiliating to the American nation that when the body of their late chief magistrate was still warm, the drunken rowdy, whom in a moment of inadvertence they elected to a sinecure office, should have been solemnly invested with all the attributes of the supreme executive power. STAR.—The appalling tragedywhich has just been perpetrated at Washington is absolutely without historical precedent. Not in the records of the fiercest European convulsion, in the darkest hour of partisan hatreds, have we an example of an as sassin plot at once so foul and so senseless, so hor rible and so successful, as that to which Abraham Lincoln has already fallen a victim, and from which William Seward can hardly escape. Only in such instances as the murder of William of Orange, of Henri Quatre, or of Capodistria, have we any deed approaching in hideous ferocity to that which has just robbed the United States of one of the greatest of their Presidents. But from the fanatic's hateful point of view there was at least something to be said for men like Balthazar Gerard and Ravaillac. They at least might have believed that they saw embodied in their victims the • whole living principle and mo tive power of that religious freedom which they de tested. They might have supposed that with the man would die the great hopes and the great came he inspired and guided. So, too, of Orsini. That unfortunate and guilty being believed, at least, that in Napoleon the Third there stood an embodied and concentrated system. But Abraham Lincoln was no dictator and no autocrat. He represented simply the resolution and the resources of a great people. The miserable excuse which fanaticism might attempt to plead for other political assassins ,has no application to the wretch whose felon hand dealt death to the pure and noble magistrate of a free nation. One would gladly, for the poor sake of common humanity, have caught at the idea that the crime was but the work of some maniacal parti san. But the mere nature of the deeds, without any additional evidence whatever, bids defiance to such an idea. While the one murderer was slaying the President of the Republic the other was making his even more dastardly attempt upon the life of the sick and prostrate' Secretary. It does not need even the disclosures which have now, too late for any good purpose, reached official quarters to prove that two madmen cannot become shnultancotisly spired with the s ame mons t rous p ro ject and iniP pelled at one moment to do their several parts of the one bloody business. The chivalry of the South has had much European compliment of late. It has been discovered to be the fount and origin °I all the most noble and knightly qualities which th e world heretofore had principally known through the medium of medieval romance. Let it not be for gotten that Southern brains lately planned the con• flagration of a peaceful city. It never can be for gotten while history is read that the hands of Southern partisans have been reddened by th at foulest assassin plot th e wor ld h as ever known, ad they have been treacherously dipped in the bloo d of one of the best citizens and purest patriot to whom the land of Washington gave birth. For Abraham Lincoln one c r y of universal regret be raised all over the civilised earth. - • ADVERTISER.—We know not that ever the inb 3- bitants of London were more surprised or s hocked, than they were by the lamentabl e intelligence which reached London yesterday morning from Ameri ca ' The telegraphic announceme n t th a t the Presiden t of the United States had b een assass i na t e d, an d that an attempt had also been made on the life of Mr. Seward, which, it was feared, would terminat e fatally, came upon us with an a b so l u t e ly p a ralysing effect. People can scarc e ly rea li se th e fact; o f yet it came not as a ru m o ur , but with an air O authenticity which left no room for even the fain test hope that it might prove i ncorrec t. L a ter in the day some of the incidents connect e d w ith the fright ful catastrophe reached us in subsequent telegrams' It appears that on the 14th i ns t. th e P re sident I T O been at Ford's Theatre, Washington, with his w il „ and other friends, and that th e assassin, un der thy pretext of being the bearer of despatches from Gel?. Grant, succeeded in getting admission to the box in which President Lincoln was sitting. He then de liberately shot the President with a one-barrell ed pistol. The wound was inflicted on the back of M r. Lincoln's head. The assassin then leaped from the box to the stage, and flourishi ng a d agger exclaim°d " Sic senzper tyrannis." In a moment more, before any one had the presence of mind t o arres t him: „ escaped at the back entrance to the stage. But ' l f ; was afterwards captured. His name is Booth. appears, from a letter found i n hi s t run k, that th e e horrible crime was resol v ed upon on the 4th 0! March, though circumstances occurred to preven t its perpetration then. An attempt was also made .t! assassinate Mr. Seward and his two sons, for tn: particulars of which, so far as their are known: 11 refer to our telegraphic intelligence. No one can evenform the slightest conception of w h a t the eve a consequences of this terrible tragedy will be. they will be of the gravest kind no one can doub The Washington Government, as Mr. Lincoln hir e self confessed after th e ca pt ure o f Ri c h mon d and a surrender of Lee, would have had difficulties ow% to overcome before there could have been a re° °- : struction of the States and a restoration of order' but now all will be chaos—political, social, comm en t cial chaos. We see nothi ng b e f ore A mer iea , : o " confusion worse confounded." Th e pros pect sombre that it may well app a l th e ' s t ou t es t har t ' and unnerve the strongest mind. ' led TELEGRAPH.—No fouler crime stands chronic ' in, in all history than the murder of Ab ra h a m Line ci te , The sorry pleas of state ne cess ity or political tp rest that have been ad vance d ti me ou t o f min .0 palliate assassination cannot even be heard w i ve toleration in such a case as this, for the act is °n that outrages humanity and shocks the coruuloo conscience of the world. It is accursed and suP r o, mely infamous ; it is most cowardly, most l e , Every war has its horro rs , an d th e grea t fight on tween the North and South ha s b een no excer nre to the rule ; but there never was anything man atrocious than this—never anything more base ti at the slaughter of a man who, during years of gr e ,,,j excitement, had scarcely made a si n gle persV enemy. In the agony an d cr i s i s th a t pro, The Robespierre's Rei gn o f T error, D an t on sa id, '0 Revolution, like Saturn, is beginning to devour ~ own children !" Ab ra h am Li nco l n was th e chi ld t in no invidious sense, we may even say the pl, —of the passions of hi s ti me , an d now h e has , come their victim. A fi ne sp i r it o f popu l ar ent o e , siasm made him chief magistrate of the greates t e et public ever known ; the ferocity and the mad o '4 which already loomed so l arge ly. A won derful was Lincoln's—a life quite as startling and surP e r of ing as his death ; but, a t an y ra t e , th e wor st pa' ut b his work seemed over. The resist ance of the S c ' ter o had been crushed. A sturdy, s e ns ible il r ° T ,i o , man, with long limbs and a lo n ger head, Mr. coin had worked his way in the world without i a ir , dishonourable subterfuges or mean devices. " c i s , direct, simple, and straightforward, he had alre 3 ,;. ' during his brief term of office, outlived manys,, s picions, jealousies, misconstructions, and dis.un; He bore his honours well, and was settling dli f i into a quiet simple dignity of manner, and a ki°,o moderation of thought and temper. Terrible P ly been the trial through which he had victorioTtit passed. He was emphatically one of the peePl e, „l e 's his home-spun virtues seemed to justify the choice. At any rate, he had diligently, faitht b t and not unskilfully, laboured according to suc touch as was given him ; and now, as he s e em ed to 3li the goal, his course is abruptly checked. To-daYid party feeling, all political jealousies, must be bu i , s i o and suspended ; to-day n o man i s a symPatj-tile with North or South ; we are all mourners over fate of an honest citizen. Proposed Cobden Memorial at Stockport. Last evening a town's meeting was held in the Court House, Stockport, to consider the propriety of erecting a memorial to thelate Richard Cobden. The Mayor (W. L. Eskrigge, Esq.) occupied the chair. There was a crowded meeting. The MAYOR said that, when a memorial was presented to him requesting him to call that meeting, he felt that he could do nothing but cordially assent to it. Personally, he should be exceedingly glad, with his fellow townsmen, to contribute his quota to do honour to the memory of such a great and good man as Richard Cobden, who had con ferred great benefits upon the commercial community. (Applause) A telegram was read from Mr. Watkin, M.P., apologising for his unavoidable absence. Mr. Alderman WILLIAMSON moved the first resolution, which was as follows : "That the inhabitants of Stockport, in public meeting assembled, desire to express and record their deep sorrow on account of the death of the late Richard Cobden, Esq., M.P. His disinterested patriotism, virtue, energy, and elo quence enabled him to lead and effect some of the greatest commercial reformations of the age. That borough having afforded him the first opportunity of expounding in Parlia ment, and carrying into law, the principle of his political economy, always took a special interest in his life and mea sures, and the inhabitants now desire to join in the national sorrow at his decease ; and at the same time to express grati tude for the great works which he was enabled to achieve." He (Mr. Williamson) remembered well Mr. Cobden's early career. His name was almost unknown until 1837, when he first sought election as a member of Parliament for Stockport. The inhabitants, at that time, however, did not honour the man who wished to honour them, for Mr. Cobden was rejected by a majority of about fifty Votes, the result of the polling being that Major Moreland re ceived 467 votes, Henry Moreland 467, and Cobden 412. During the four years which elapsed between the election of 1837 and that of 1841, Mr. Cobden was by no means idle, for, with his friend Mr. Bright, he scoured the country, enunciating, in the manufacturing and agricultural districts, the propriety, justice, and honesty of the free trade prin ciples of which they were the great advocates. In 1841 Mr. Cobden again presented himself as a candidate for the representation of Stockport, and the inhabitants on that occasion did honour to themselves and to the matt whom they returned to Parliament. The late Mr. Andrew was the mayor of Stockport at that time, and the late Sir Ralph Pendlebury, with Mr. W. Nelstrop, were the proposer and seconder of Mr. Cobden. In the conduct of that good man there were many characteristics which every one could not but admire. His replies to those who opposed the principles of which he was so great an advocate were, perhaps, the most withering ever uttered by any man. Like many other great men, he was much calum niated, greatly misrepresented, and grossly abused. That was the period (in 1841) when the Chartist agita tion prevailed, when the country was in continual ter ror and confusion. Those misguided men on all occa sions opposed free trade, and one of the most success ful persons in replying to their arguments and refut ing their assertions was Richard Cobden. (Applause.) His success in the House of Commons all would remem ber. Although the principles he advocated first met with derision, ho won the respect of the house, and was eventually listened to with the greatest attention. His greatest achievement was the conversion of Sir Robert Peel; and he (Mr. Williamson) had often wondered which of those two great men was most honoured—the Prime Minister of the day, who acknowledged that he was in debted to Mr. Cobden for his conversion, or for the change which took place in his views on commercial questions and free trade, or Mr. Cobden, who had been tho means of securing that conversion. While he lived, in his day and generation, Mr. Cobden did his duty ; and it was hoped that the inhabitants of Stockport would feel bound to do their duty. (Applause.) Mr. E. WALMSLEY, in seconding the resolution, said tho great men of the present day were those who rectified the mistakes of their predecessors. Richard Cobden had been one of those—a man who had created his own fame, and the inhabitants of Stockport might well feel proud of the honour of having first sent such a man to represent them in Parliament. (Applause.) Mr. J. B. SMITH, M.P., said that, inasmu c h as they Lad re turned to the House of Commons Richard Cobden, and thereby introduced him into that sphere of usefulness which achieved for him such great renown, and conferred such great benefits upon the country, it was peculiarly fitting that the inhabitants of that borough should raise a monu ment to his memory—(applause)—for the name of Cobden would be for ever associated with Stockport. (Applause.) Twenty-eight years had elapsed since ho (Mr. Smith) had first the pleasure of Mr. Cobden's acquaintance, when ho first connected himself with the anti-corn law agitatioh. When Mr. Cobden became a total repealer, ho adopted as his motto, " A fix e d d u ty i s a fixed injustice." An Anti - Corn-law Association was fonned in Manchester, of which he (Mr. Smith) had the honour to be chairman. He invited Mr. Cobden to join that Association. Mr. Cobden did so, and from that time things took a new turn. Devoting a very long portion of his attention to the question, Mr. Cob den infused into the Association that energy from which sprung an agitation th a t l asted from seven to eight years, and resulted so suc cess f u ll y, One of the first g•teps taken by Mr. Cobden with r es p ec t to the corn-law quest::.°ll was to invite the co-operati on o f ne i gh b ouring towns. Ho eZta blished a journal, called the Anti-Corn Law Journal, which was first published once a fortnight, and subsequently once a week. He spent months in traversing from town to town, both in England and Scotland, especially in the agricultural districts. He thus created a sensation through out the country, and prepared the inhabitants of large towns for that great organisation, the League. His gentle ness, extreme kindness of manner, earnestness, and love of truth won all hearts, and created confidence wherever he COUNTRY MARKETS HULL.—T lIESDAY. Since our last a fair business has been done in the C trade. Wheat advanced is to 2s per qr. • beans, is p° E n and peas, 6d. Barley and oats, of which there have „et large arrivals, have declined in value ; the former I rio qr. and the latter 6d. A largo business has been doves A both oats and barley. At our market to-day here fair supply of English wheat, but the high prices ask° 4 0 farmers checked sales. Tho prices paid were 388 t o f id per qr. for red, and 44s for white, being au advance °' to 2s per qr. SALISBURY.—TUESDAY. f N flOf t At to-day's market there was a mode ra t e su pply offered by the growers, and there w as a f a i r spill:lke - O 'V prime qualities. In the barley d e p ar t men t th e suplot e followinglesseningeve week. 0 31 The are present p r i ces : —Wh ea t re alised 40 36s to 42s ; barley, 23s to 29s ; oats, 19s to 28s ; to 46s ; and peas, 34s to 48s per qr. Winter tares, fro" to lls per bushel ; B es t b rea d , 10d ; h ouse h o ld dit , ' per 81b loaf. NEWCASTLE-ON-TYNE.—TUESDAY. A good demand was experienced for English ill ) ri te° samples of foreign, at an advance of 1s per qr. on tb ° ier! of this day week, but secondary samples of fore. r ig li it difficult to move. Grinding barley at late rates. firm. Beans inquired for. Peas brought 36s to 31;00' foreign being inferior moved off slowly at 3s to 40 TUe Oats unchanged. Flour 6d to is per sack dearo!' r gi c i average price of wheat during the week w a s 39s flc!P i joto Northumberland wheat sold from 32s to 445, Noll?„ 05 1 ' Suffolk, 39s to 45s • Dantsic, 39s to 46s ; oats, 210 pl itA barley, 26s to 31s ; beans, 36s to 40s ; rye, 27s to 3( ; 51s to 62s per qr. ; flour, 26s to 28s per sack. LYNN.-TUESDAY. 14 011 Le, „ ne weather since thi s d ay wee k h as b ee n finnaio a 0 sharp frosts at night s . Th e w h ea t p l an t i n som e 1 0 ,;,,. 05 is reported to be a tt ac k e d w ith w i re - worm . W e h a d derate show of wh ea t a t to-day's market, all fresh Ora je, samples must be noted fully 1s per qr. dearer • odic' JO 7 0 scriptions 6d to is per qr. higher. Spring corn cowl' the full rates of this day week. 30 f New wheat, 44s to 46s ; new red, 37s to 38s;d fo 4 41s to 42s ; old rod, 38s to 39s per 36 stone. B' r lo !,%,4 malting, 33s to 35s ; secondary, 30s ; ordinary, 2 6 S per qr. Oats, 22s to 24s per 24 stone. Beans, larg'' to 36s ; small, 37s to 40s per 38 stone. o s The averages were—wheat, 38s lid; barley, -- oats, 22s 3d ; and beans, 38s 5d per quarter. MARKET HARBOROUGH.—TuEsDAV; . Did ~ vir There was a middling supply of wheat to-day, 1 1 , - ; s rioj6 the trade was steady, at is per qr over last week ~,er —New white wheat, 42s to 45s ; new red, 37s to 415 .43 r r cl, stone. Barley, fine 34s ; other kinds, 26s to 2 80 r, Oats, new, 18s to 23s ; old, 25s to 28s per qr. Be a 1 1" 40s to 425; new, 34s to 38s per qr. Births. BAILEY.- -On the 25th inst., at 26, Orsett-terrace+ li t park, the wife of Vincent Bailey, Esq., of a daug - 11 0 DAIINLEY.—On the 25th inst., at Cobham Hall, I C- e° Countess of Darnley, of a son. DUNCOMBE.—On the 25th inst., at Bayswater, Mrs' Duncombe, of a son. Stoke, D GOSSETT.—On the 25th inst., at Penlee Villas, ( - 4-o ss ‘' t port, the wife of Lieut.-Colonel Wm. Driscoll - 1.E., of a daughter. Marriages. ARRUTHNOT—PITT.-- 1 -011 the 28th inst., at TOilftr- ° WiltS, Captain Willi am A r b u th no t, 14th 1 / 1 1 05 a r r't0 ( son of Archib a ld • an d th e H on . M rs . A r buthn" r j Av Hon. Alice Charlotte Pitt, fourth daughter of Lady Rivers. 0-.1; O'NEILL--EGG.—On tho 25th inst., at St. ro tc : ‘ ,o l ,,l , sington, John O'Neill, of 37, St. Luke's-road, ,i to Henrietta, only daughter of Henry Egg, of "' dilly. Deaths. d o n JoNms.—On the 25th inst., at C e rnfaes, near RV; a. Jones, Esq., late of the Bank of England, aged 13°0 KmETy.---On the 25th inst., at 33, Conduit-streeyaer street, Lieut.-General George Kmety, of the q. st Turkish and the late Hungarian Armies, age otrejr MASSIE.—On the 25th inst., at The Cottage, liev 0' Thames, Catharine Massie, aged 95. f tb ° • - el STRANGWAYS.—On the 25th inst., Jane, relic t Edward Strangways, of The Leases, Bedale , 1/ aged 81. gored, WILLIAMs.—On the 23d inst., at 4, High-stree t, Mary Anne, relict of the late Thomas Wi lli° f Brecon, aged 55. NDSI) .4, London : Printed and P u blished by WIL LIM/ t o t of No. 112, Strand, Painter, at THE SUN atlic e e ' ou nti Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in th e - Middlesex.—Thursday, April 27, 1815. T' Cad uep o roe' lot: Iton E cia Walt ! ! on Aob e tra IreaF The The Pi to for tt e allot Paid in e: mat; men of Ni eiail hat, real uP ; thei takl acti tor, vot e th e he I TM T N‘L, the T COI Q in Shi tar