The Sun. — London, England, 1848-03-09 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, THURS DAY EVENING, MARCH 9, 1848. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. ROUSE OF COMMONS, Match 8. ROMAN CATHOLIC RELIEF BILL. (Continued from our Afternoon E dition of yesterday.) The amendment having been withdrawn, Mr. HENLEY then moved the omission of a num ber of words beginning at the 17th line with the words "so much," and ending with the word, "mainprise." The ATTORNEY-GENERAL stated the opi nions which he had formed with respect to the powers of some of the Acts proposed to be repealed. He thought that in consequence of the ambiguity of the words, in the 9th and 10th Victoria, c. 27, repealing the penalties of Elizabeth, it might be open to a question whether the violation of the statute was not still an offence at common law. Mr. LAW seconded the motion of the Honourable Member for Oxford, for the omission of the words. He differed with the Learned Attorney-General as to the effect of the words of the 9th and 10th Vic. These words had been introduced upon the most serious consideration by Lord Lyndhurst, and their object was to keep alive, as it were, the offence, by removing the penalty which had previously attached to it, and making the violation of the Act an offence at common law, indictable under the form of a viola tion of the statute. After a few words from MI-. GOULBURN and Mr. NEWDEGATE, Mr. HILDYARD wished to know from the At torney-General what offence at common law the vio lation of the statute of the Ist of Elizabeth would be, the 9th and 10th Vic. being considered as repealing the p enalties contained in the original statute. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL said that a denial of the temporal supremacy of the Crown was treason at common law. Mr. LAW wished to know from the Attorney- General whether it was his opinion that a denial in the terms of the Ist of Elizabeth of " the spiritual and ec clesiastical supremacy of the Crown" would or would not be an offence at common law? The ATTORNEY- GENERAL said that in answer the question of the Hon. and Learned Member he would state that an Act which should assert the ecclesiastical and spiritual supremacy of any other party in opposition to the Crown, which was de slared by statute " pre-eminent in this realm " would be an offence at common law. After a few words from Sir R. Inglis, Mr. Goul burn, Mr. Henley, and Mr. C. Anstey. Mr. SHELL said the question in this case was whether they would keep an inoperative statute upon the book. The pains and penalties of the statute of Elizabeth had been abrogated, its sting had been withdrawn. What was then the use of keeping it upon the statute-book ? The statute it self contained a direct falsehood, and why was not this false and offensive statute to be repealed ? (Hear, hear.) That statute states that the Pope had no authority in this country ; the Pope had a spiritual authority—he had the appointment of bishops in this country. Mr. Justice Coleridge had said " that the Pope was the rightful head of the Christian world"—(Cries of " No, no") —at least, before the Reformation.—(Laughter.) He had collected this to be the opinion of that Learned Judge from remarks he had made in a judgment recently de livered by him. The words he had put into his mouth were not the precise words that his Lordship had used.—(Hear, hear, and laughter.) If the Pope, then, was the head of the Christian world before the Reformation, he still exercised de facto a spiritual authority in this country. The bishops of the Roman Catholic Church nad been recognised by various Acts of this country ; they had been appointed upon commissions of trust; they had been given precedence to by various Acts.—(Cries of " No, no.") He insisted that they had been so appointed ; the title of Roman Catholic archbishops and bishops had been recognised. [An Hon. Member, "Not Roman Catholic."] The titles of archbishops and bishops had been introduced into various Acts. Those technical expressions intimated the spiritual authority of the Pope. The statute stated what was not true ; it states that the Pope had no authority; he (Mr. Sheil) maintained that he had, and that the statute spoke a direct falsehood.—( Hear.) Sir JAMES GRAHAM said that the fact of the recognition of the Roman Catholic bishops could not be denied. The 9 and 10 Vict., which had been alluded to, was brought in by the Government of which he had the honour of being a member. That measure had been introduced by the then Government, upon the recommendation of the Criminal Law Commissioners, to whom had been re ferred the whole question of obsolete statutes affecting the religious opinions of the people of this country. It was the intention of her Majesty's Government upon the fullest consideration to propose by that Bill the entire repeal of the Ist of Elizabeth, the statute now under discussion. Lord Lyndhurst, who was at that time the High Steward of the University of Cam bridge, apprehended no danger from the measure, and he introduced that Bill into the House of Lords. The Hon. Member fur Dungarvan (Mr. Sheil) had said that the sting had been withdrawn from this statute ; then in such case the common law would not be in the least degree affected. If, however, the sting be not withdrawn, then he, for one, certainly thought that, in good faith and honour, he was bound to see that the sting was withdrawn.—(llear, hear.) If the common law be inoperative to punish a party in this country for denying the supremacy of her Majesty, he would be quite content that the common law should not create that an offence which affected the liberty of conscience of more than one-third of her Majesty's loyal subjects. He saw no danger in leaving the common law inoperative in such matters, for any attempt to enforce that law would be per fectly inconsistent with the peace and liberty of the people of this country.—(Hear.) With respect to an opinion of the Learned Attorney General, that the denial of the supremacy of the Crown amounted in common law to treason, he must say that he felt considerably surprised by the announcement of such an opinion.—(Hear, hear.) He had a perfect horror of such an opinion, because if every denial of the su premacy of the Crown could be construed into treason, then would a toast which was very fre quently given, viz., " The Sovereignty of the People," place the persons proposing that toast in danger of an indictment for high treason.—(Laughter.) He had no hesitation whatever in giving his most cordial support to the repeal of the clause recited in the Bill as it now stood.—(Hear, hear.) Mr. NEWDEGATE supported the amendment Mr. 11. DRUMMOND recollected the time when a Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland was ejected from his office for proposing the sovereignty of the people. The motto of the Qtieen was Dieu et mon droit, and he could not allow the Roman Catholics to be the only legal ised traitors in the country.—(Hear, and laughter.) After some observations from Mr. Spooner, the Earl of Arundel and Surrey, Sir R. Inglis, Mr. Sheil, and Mr. Gardner, The Committee divided, when there appeared— For amendment ll9 Against it _ _ . Majority against the amendment ..-32 The amendment was consequently lost. On our admission to the gallery, we found The ATTORNEY-GENERAL on his legs, mov ing the omission of certain words in the clause, for the purpose of acknowledging the authority of the Pope on certain matters. Mr. C. ANSTEY supported the omission of the snords. Mr. NEWDEGATE opposed the omission of the words. Colonel SIBTHORP also opposed the motion. After some observations from the ATTORNEY GENERAL, Mr. LAW, in supporting the amendment of the Hon. Member for the county of Warwick, warned the Committee of the danger they were running in legal ising the introduction of bulls into this country, - which might ultimately lead to the subversion of the honour of the country. In a few days they would, no doubt, be called upon to consider a Bill to establish diplomatic relations with the Court of Rome, and what the end of this mischievous system of legislation would be he was really at a loss to say. There was every prospect, however, of our being mi xe d up with the disputes of half-revolutionized states of Europe, and it therefore behoved every Member of the Committee, who valued the peace of his country or the safety of his Sovereign, to take care not hastily to p ass these pernicious measures. After a few words from the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER, who suggested that they should only repeal so much of the Act of Elizabeth as re lated to the bulls mentioned in the preamble, . Lord MAHON sail th e suggestion of the Right Hon. Gentleman would certainlyiremove his objection to the clause. Mr. LAW said it was much too grave a subject to be dealt with in so inartificially a manner as sug gested by the Right Hon. Baronet; and, in order to avoid all future doubt upon the question, they ought to recite and re-enact so much of the Act of Elisabeth as the House wished to continue on the statute-book. Mr. C. ANSTEY had no objection to adopt the proposal of the Hon. and Learned Gentleman the Recorder, but the Acts of Elizabeth were so compli cated that it would be difficult in the present day to re-enact them.—(llear, and laughter.) 'Mr. STEWART said there were bulls both of a dangerous or treasonable and of an innocent charac ter; and if he understood the Right Hon. the Attor ney-General, he proposed by his amendment to legalise the introduction into this country of bulls of the ...SEW" latter , flenription. Now, would it not be safer to leave ~...------ this clattge as it stood, and legalize the introduction , y `,` '';•' ",. of innocent bulls by a separate and distinct enactment ? ~ , After a few words from th e E ar l of MARCH, " 1f.,":_±114,.,- Mr. SHELL said, in the course of this discussion 14:7 the Hon. Baronet the Member for the University of Oxford had attributed falsehood to him in connexion 7:- ' -1 ....__ :With a statement which he (Mr. Sheil) h a d repre- Ar. a sented Mr. Justice Coleridge to hate trade relating to the Pope. Had such an imputation come from any other Hon. Gentleman he should have felt himself called upon to ask for an explanation.—(Oh, oh.) But, in order to justify the Hon. Baronet, he had been out and copied the exact words Mr. Justice Coleridge used, which were these :—" If the Pope had been con tent with his power as patriarch, he might have re tamed his appellate jurisdiction, which rightly be longed to him as the universal head of the whole Christian church." Sir R. H. INGLIS doubted whether the Right Hon. Gentleman had acted wisely in reviving this discussion, but notwithstanding the insinuation of the Right Hon. Baronet, he trusted he knew well en ough how to behave himself as a gentleman, and a Christian one too.—(Hear, hear.) He doubted much whether even the words the Right Hon. Gentleman had just used would justify the statement he had made, but he thought, as it might be asked the Right Hon. Gentleman whether it was customary to take the opinions of a Learned Judge from a newspaper report or from the accredited reports of Adolphus and Ellis?— (Hear, hear.) He could, however, assure the Right Hon. Gentlemen that he never intended to impute falsehood to him, but what he did mean to convey to the Committee was, that the Right Hon. Gentleman had drawn a conclusion from a statement which was not consistent with the fact.—(Hear, hear.) After a few words from Mr. SHEIL, Sir J. GRAHAM wished to know exactly how they stood with regard to the clause ? If the proviso proposed by Government was insisted upon, he should feel it to be bis duty to vote against the clause. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said Government proposed to add the proviso now. Mr. LAW said, then he would move as an amend ment that the Chairman do report progress, and ask leave to sit again. The Committee then divided, when there appeared, 'Noes Ayes Majority against reporting progress . —5l The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER then moved the insertion of several words, limiting the prohibition pertaining to the introduction of bulls into this country. Colonel SIBTIIORP then moved as an amend ment that Mr. Bernal do now leave the chair. Mr. MILES seconded the amendment. _ _ After a few words from the Attorney-General, Mr. M. J. O'Connell, Mr. Law, and the Earl of Arundel and Surrey, Colonel SIBTIIORP said, that when he found the House disposed to adopt every trick, even treason able ones--(Laughter)—to carry them through the Rouse, he should always feel it his duty to stand up for the rights, the liberties, and the throne of his country. He was responsible for his conduct not only in the House but out of it. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER suggested that the most proper course, considering the lateness of the hour, would be for the Chairman to report progress. Mr. C. ANSTEY said that after the unfair man ner in which it had been endeavoured to get rid of the Bill, he should feel it his duty to take the sense of the House upon the motion. Sir G. GREY said that he did not see what good could result from dividing on the motion. Mr. M. J. O'CONNELL said that, as the Learned Recorder, who was a judge of the land, had stated that he could not understand the clause, perhaps it would be better to allow him three weeks to under stand it, and by that time, with the assistance of the Gallant Colonel (Sibthorp), he would no doubt be prepared with a clause on the subject.—(Hear.) Colonel SIBTHORP said that he would have no objection to withdraw his amendment, if the pro posal of the Chancellor of the' Exchequer were ac ceded to. Mr. HUDSON thought the better course would be to allow a little time for fully understanding the proposition before the House. Mr. C. AN6TEY said that he should certainly persist in pressing the House to a division. The result of the division would, he had no doubt, prove a warning to Hon. Members not to propose a similar motion in the future discussion of the Bill. Mr. WOOD said that at an early stage of the dis cussion on this Bill it was stated that the statutes sought to be repealed were mere waste paper. He could not now comprehend the reason for wishing for further time, in order to be able to digest the nature of a proposed clause for the repeal of these very Acts. The Hon. Member had completely turned round, and seemed now to 'imagine that the throne and the reli gion of the country were in perfect danger from the repeal of those inoperative clauses. For himself, he had so deep-rooted an opinion as to the truth of the religion that he professed, that he feared but little bow many bulls were brought into this country. He de precated strongly the attitude taken by those Hon. Members Rho styled themselves the defenders of Protestantism, representing as they did their religion in the light of a decrepid old female, unable to support herself hut by the retention of these obsolete statutes upon the book.—(llear, hear.) Mr. STAFFORD was in favour of the postpone ment of tke further consideration of the measure, that they might not be forced to a premature decision on a subject of such great importance. After a few words from Mr. Wood in explanation, and from Mr. Law, strangers were again ordered to withdraw, but upon the request of Sir George Grey and Mr. Colvile, Mr. C. Anstey declined to press the motion to a division. The CHAIRMAN then reported progress, and obtained leave to sit again. The House resumed. GAME CERTIFICATES BILL. Mr. COLVILE moved the second reading of this Bill. Mr. G. BERKELEY thought that this Bill would be the means of placing fire arms in the hands of a larger number of persons than were at present en titled to carry them, and gave notice of several amendments which he should propose in Committee. Colonel SIBTHORP supported the second reading, reserving to himself the right of opposing nearly every clause in the Bill while in Committee. As he had thus promised his support to the second reading of the Bill, he hoped the Hon. Member (Mr. Colrile) who had charge of it would assist him in opposing the . '" monster motion," he would call it, of the Hon. Member for Manchester (Mr. Bright), on the subject of the game-laws, that Hon. Member not knowing, as he be lieved, " a pointer from a pig." —(Laughter.) The Bill was then read a second time. EXEMPTIONS OF SMALL TENEMENTS. This Bill was read a second thud. The other orders of the day were then disposed of, and the House adjourned. FMECTION COMMITTEES. BE `V DLEY. (Continued from our Afternoon Edition of yesterday.) A number of voters were then called to prove that an extensive system of treating prevailed at the last elec tion. They were all of them plentifully supplied with drink and edibles, both during and after the election, free of expense, but it was only upon the condition that they voted for Mr. Ireland. The Committee adjourned at four o'clock till eleven to-morrow. LINCOLN. (Continued from our Afternoon Edition of yesterday.) John Shaw, a freeman, proved that he voted for Mr. Seeley, and afterwards received from a Mr. Keely 305., which he presumed was for voting. Before the election he received pecuniary assistance from Mr. Seeley'a book keeper, and was treated on several occasions. Thomas Martin, a joiner, and freeman of Lincoln, proved that he received a sovereign from one of Mr. Secley's friends; but it did not appear that that was for his vote Joseph Talkes, another freeman, proved that Alderman Graham, of Lincoln, induced him to vote for ;.vlr. Seeley, and afterwards took him and another voter to the Green Dragon, where they were treated and feasted most libe rally, free of expense. On the Saturday following the election he went to Mr. Seeley's counting-house, arid received 185. There were other voters there being paid, and the money was taken from a bag. There were many dishes with silver lying on the table. A man named Lawton, who had also voted for Mr. Seeley, accompa nied him to the counting-house, and received 185. too. Upon entering the counting-house nothing was said to them. While waiting outside his name was called out, and when he entered there were several people in the room, and upon being paid they were directed to retire immediately. The same amount was paid by Colonel Sibthorp's party, and ho had received money at every election when he voted. Similar evidence was given by other freemen who had lcen treated, an d w h o h a d rece i ve d money on th e -iSa turday after the election. The Committee adjourned, at four o'clock, till eleven o'clock to morrow. The Select Committeae,,aianpstoi HARWICH nted to try the merits of the petition presented for the borough of larwich the o t a f i nr . the first . time return of Mr. Attwood yesterday morning; Mr. Stuar'traNY Sergeant t in y the chair. .in \ g i lake,.and Mr. Sergeant Wrangham, Mr. p S e e titionnerg ; j i am r. es ßr w ig e g re s Mr. Power appeared fur the Andrews, :Mr. Alexander, and Mr. Edwin counsel for the sitting Member. Mr. Sergeant IVRANcuam opened th e case for the petitioners, stating that it was on e o f a rather novel nature. Mr. Attwood, the evidence would prove, obtained his election by the interposition o f a third party—namely, Sir Dudley Hill, who earns forward, before the election, as an . indep en d ent candidate, but who, in point of fact , was introduced to the borough by Mr. Attwood as a sort of blind to enable him to pick up the votes of parties who were susceptibl e to bribery and treating. Before the election Sir Dudley Hill carried on a joint canvass, and threw open a number of puhlic-houses. These proceedings were conducted by Sir Dudley Hill in his individual capacity ; but the Committee would find that on the eve of the nomination day Sir Dudley Hill resigned, and the gentleman who had acted with him in bribing and treating the electors, became the managing committee forMr.Attwood, and after the eleotien they paid all the expenses which hwi been incurred on behalf of Mr; Attwood in the course of the I election. There was, hoffeier, atiothlr feature in the case, which was more immediately connected With the sitting Member. Mr. Attwood, the Committee would discover, had been in the habit of purchasing large num bers of houses in Harwich, and letting them to electors at low rents, upon the condition that he should always have the control of their votes, while in numerous other instances it would bo shown that Mr. Attwood had from time to time advanced money on loan to electors at a low rate of interest upon the simple proviso that the borrowers should at every election place their votes at his disposal. But he should be able to prove beyond all question that a number of voters were bribed with presents of sums varying from 201. to 25/. to support Mr. Attwood, and he was sure, after they had heard the evidence proving these facts, the Committee would have no hesitation in unseating that gentleman. Mr. ANDREWS objected to the petition on the ground that the petitioner was not an elector of Harwich. The point was argued at great length both by Mr. Andrews and Mr.:Alexander; but the Committee, with out hearing counsel in reply, overruled the objection, on the ground that any party who claimed a right to vote, which was so in this case, had the power of peti tioning. John Baker was then called. He stated that he was a voter of Harwich, and gave a description of the secret meeting that was held in Harwich before the elec tion, in support of Mr. Attwood's interest. He refused to promise his vote for Mr. Attwood, because it had come to his knowledge that Mr. Attwood's private secretaries had supplied a Mr. Mesham with means to bribe voters. After the election of 1841, he told Mr. Attwood that he never would have been returned had he not bought the borough, whereupon Mr. Attwood told him that he supplied his agents with 10,0001. previous to the election, but they had since only accounted to him for 6,0001. Mr. Attwood subsequently promised, that ifile would vote for himself and Sir Dudley Hill he would make some expenses which wit ness had incurred in connexion with a railway " all right," but witness had no faith in these promises and refused to pledge himself any way. The Committee adjourned at four o'clock till eleven o'clock to- morrow morning. THE LIVERPOOL WILL FOR GERY CASE. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SIR,— Observing in your widely circulated paper of the 23d instant, whilst in London, a paragraph headed " The Liverpool Will Forgery Case," I beg leave on the part of the friends and relatives of the late Peregrine Bowen, Lieutenant in the Royal Navy, and also as a decided and firm advocate in the cause of justice and truth, to be allowed the privilege of publishing a few facts with reference to the above case in your valuable paper, in opposition to the untrue statements which are circulated in the public prints. F►rst—The executor did not, as is asserted, prove the first will (made by the testator, the late William Mus grave Bowen, previous to his leaving England) until after the second will was received from China by Lieutenant P. Bowen, through Miss Bowen, of Pope bill, Pembrokeshire, the latter person receiving it first, by mistake, and then transmitting it to the late Lieute nant Peregrine Bowen, to his own residence in Liver pool. This fact is proved in the most undoubted manner by the circumstance of the solicitor of Haverford west, who received the last will from the surrogate of that town, exhibiting it to the executor of the first will. _ . Secondly—l deny most positively and in toto this statement, that " the forgery of the second will was substantiated," on these grounds, viz., that there is not a particle of evidence to prove it being a forgery, and that the evidence of several persons, including that of the testator's legal adviser, which affirms the hand writing of the second and last will to be that of the tes tator; also the evidence of the witnesses, who saw the testator execute the said last will on the 15th March, 1846, in China, together with the fact of the said will being received six months afterwards by the pre sent tenant of Pope-hill, near Haverfordwest, Pem brokeshire. These I look upon as most convincing and undeniable proofs of the genuine nature of the last will, and also of the innocence of the late Lieutenant P. Bowen of the charge which has been so unjustly and cruelly preferred against him, thereby causing his ruin, and bringing affliction and misery upon his unfortunate and bereaved family. With urgent and earnest hope that you will give this letter a corner in your valuable paper, for the satisfac tion of the late Lieutenant Peregrine Bowen's numerous friends, and fur the ends of justice and truth. I am, Sir, your most obedient servant. HENRY SANDERSON, jun. Hope-street, St. Jude's, Liverpool, Feb. 27, 1848. COURT MARTIAL ON LIEUT. CROVirTHER. CHATHAM, MARCH 6.—This day was promulgated to the 63d Regiment, now lying at these barracks, the sen tence of a General Court-martial, held on the 14th of December last, and which continued by adjournment to the 21st of the same month, for the trial of Lieut. Wm. George L. Crowther, of the same corps, who was ar raigned on the undermentioned charges :- 1. For having on the 14th November, 1847, at Chat ham, absented himself without permission from the bar rack room of his company when it was visited by his commanding officer, according to the notification in regimental orders, dated 15th November. 2. For having at the same time and place stated that he was present at the barrack-room when visited by the commanding officer, knowing it the time that such statement was false. 3. For having, on the 15th of November, at Chatham, he then being subaltern officer of the day, disobey.d the regimental orders, dated the 15th of November, requiring him, as such officer of the day, to inspect the issue of brand and meat of the different messes of the 63d Regiment. 4. For having, on the 16th of November, made a false report as subaltern officer of the day preceding, as fol. lewa :—" I inspected the bread and meat yesterday morning, which appeared to me of a good and whole • some quality, and I also saw the same issued to the dif ferent messes of the regiment at the proper time," which report was signed by the said Lieutenant Crowther; such report and the statement contained therein, that he, the said Lieutenant Crowther, inspected the bread and meat, and saw the same issued to the different messes, being wholly false, and known to the said Lieutenant Crowther to be false at the time he made such report. _ . Upon which charges the Court came to the following decision :—That Lieutenant Crowther is guilty of the fir,t charge; second charge, not guilty; of the third charge, that he is guilty, with the exception of that part of the mkr which relates to the inspection and issuo of meat to the different messes of the 63d Regiment, of which the Court acquits him; of the fourth charge, that he is guilty, with the exception of the word " ;holly," and that part of the report and statement contained therein, which regards the meat and bread, of both of which portions of the charge the Court acquits him. The Court having found the prisoner guilty of the first charge, not guilty of the second, and guilty of so much of the third as is above expressed, and guilty of so much of the above charge as is above repeated, which being in breach of the Articles of War, does in virtue thereof sentence him the said prisoner, Lieutenant W. G. L. Crowther, of the 63d Regiment, to be severely reprimanded. The Court having pronounced sentence upon the prisoner, Lieutenant Crowther, cannot close its proceedings without most respectfully remarking upon the circumstance, that he, the prisoner, was employed upon certain duties subsequent to the commission of the charges for which the prisoner has been tried, and which circumstance came only to light during the pro ceedings. The proceedings of this trial having been laid before her Majesty the Queen, by Field-Marshal the Com mander-in-Chief, her Majesty was pleased to approve and confirm the finding and sentence of the Court.— Signed J. Macdonald, Adjutant-General. Lieutenant Crowther, having been reprimanded ac cordingly, was released from arrest, to the satisfaction of his brother officers. FRENCH NATIONAL ASSEMBLY. The Monzleur publishes textually the decree respect. ing the elections and the convocation of the National Assembly. It is as follows: " The Provisional Government of the Republic, desir ing to remit as soon as possible to a definitive govern ment the powers which it exercises on behalf and by the command of the people, decrees:— " Art. 1. The electoral assemblies of cantons are con voked for the 9th April next, to elect representatives of the people to the National Assembly, which is to decree the Constitution. " Art. 2. The election shall be on the basis of popu lation. " Art. 3. The total number of representatives of the people shall be nine hundred, including Algeria and the French Colonies. " Art. 4. They shall be divided between the depart ments in the proportion set forth in the following table. " Art. 5. The suffrage shall be direct and universal. " Art. 6. All Frenchman aged twenty-one years, resi dents in the commune for six months, and not deprived of or suspended from the exercise of civic rights by a judicial decision are electors. " Art. 7. All Frenchmen aged twenty-five years, and not deprived of or suspended from the exer cise of civic rights are qualified to be elected re presentatives. " Art. I. The ballot shall be secret. "Art. 9. All the electors shall vote at the chief place of their cantons, by ballotting lists. Each list shall contain as many names as there aro representatives to be elected in the department. "The examination of the votes shall take place at the chief place in the canton, and the declaration of them at the chief town of the department. No person can be nominated a representative of the people if he have not 2,000 votes. " Art. 10. Each representative of the people shall re ceive an indemnity of 25 fr. a day fur the duration of the session. . . " Art. 11. An instruction of the Provisional Govern ment shall regulate the details of the execution of the present decree. " Art. 12. The National Constituent Assembly shall open on the 20RI1 of April. " Art. 13. The present decree shall be immediately sent to all the departments, and published and placarded in all the communes of the Republic. " Done at Paris, in the Government Council, the sth of March." (Signed) By the Members allie; Provisional Government. The sch e d u l e annexe d to t h e d ecree g i ves the following as the number of representatives to bo chosen in each department, there being one representative for every 40,000 inhabitants, viz, the departments de I'Ain 9. Aisne 14, Allier 8, Alpes (Basses) 4, Alpes (Hautes) 3, Ardeche 9, Ardennes 8, Ariko 7, Aube 7, Aude 7, Avey ron 10, Botkches-du-Rhone 10, Calvados 12, Cantal 7, Charente 9, Ch , xreute-infArieure 12, Cher 7, Corr2ze 8, Corsica 6, Cote-d'Or 10, Cotes-du-Nord 16, Creuse 7, Dordogne 13, Doubs 7, Drome 8, Eure 14, Eure-et-Loir 7, Finistare 15, Gard 10, Garonne (Haute) 12, Indre 7, I are 15, Indre et-Loire 8, Jura 8, Landes 7, Loir-et Cher 6, Loire 14, Loire (Haute) 8, Loire Infitrieure 13, Leiret 9, Lot 7, Lot-et-Garonne 9, Lozere 4, Main-et- Loire 13, Manche 15, Marna 9, Marne (Haute) 7, May enne 9, Meurth 14, Meuse 8, Morbihan 12, Moselle 11, Niarre 8, Nord 28, Oise 10, Orne 14, Pas-de-Calais 17, Puy-de-Dome 15, Pyrenees (Basses) 14, Pyril-6es (Hautes) 6, Pp 6nees•Orientales 6, Rhin, (Bas) 15, Rhin (Haute) 12, Rhone 14, Saone (Haute) 9, Saone-et- Loire 14, Sarthe, 12, Seine 34, Seine-Inferiture 19, Seine-et Marne 9, Seine• et-Oise, 12, Sevres (Deux) 8, Somme 14, Tarn 9, Tarn- et-Garone 6, Var 9, Van clusa 6, Vendife 9, Vienne 9, Vienne (Haute) 8, Vosges 7, Yonne 9-in all 885;-Algeria and Colonies, 15.- Total, 900. man, predisposed as he was to oppression on the brain by anger and intoxication. Verdict—Not Guilty. Mr. Baron ROLFE was engaged the greater part of the day with the cause of Jackson v. Oates, an action for a malicious prosecution. It arose out of a transac tion dating so far back as 1845; when the plaintiff be came the purchaser of some portions of the wreck of a vessel which bad been driven ashore at Sunderland. The defendant also purchased some other portions, and the plaintiff, in removing those he had purchased, took, it was said, some of those belonging to the defendant. A search-warrant was accordingly obtained, and the plain tiff taken before the magistrate, and the complaint dis missed, as being, in fact, a question of property. He commenced an action against the defendant, after which the defendant indicted him for larceny at the sessions, where he was acquitted. This action was delayed by various circumstances, and finally discontinued, and the present one commenced. The jury had not returned their verdict when the re port came away. Mr. Knowles and Mr. Heath for the plaintiff, and Mr. Martin and Mr Atherton for the defence. WESTERN ClRCUlT.—Salisbury, March 7. CROWN COURT.—(Before Mr. Justice WIGHTM 104.) STEALING A LETTER.— Reuben Waite and Thomas Haywood were placed at the bar, the former charged with having, whilst employed under the Post- officn, stolen a certain post letter containing a 10/. note of the Bristol branch of the Bank of England, and a half sovt•reign, the property of the Postmaster-General, and Hayward was charged with having received the said 10/. note, well knowing it to have been stolen. Mr. Rogers, Q.C., and Mr. Poulden, conducted the prosecution. Mr. Hodges defended the prisoner Waite—Hayward was undefended. It appeared from the evidence adduced on the part of the prosecution, that the Rev. Mr. Frampton, the Rec tor of Coomb Floy, in Somersetahire, had occasion to remit ten guineas to the Rev. T. Frampton, who lived at Tetbury, in Gloucestershire, and accordingly, on the 11th of November, 1847, enclosed a 10/. note of the Branch Bank of England at Bristol, of which he took the date and number, together with a half-sovereign. This letter was ,directed to Mr. Frampton, and posted at Gore Inn, at Bishops Sideard, which was the nearest post office. This was forwarded to Tiverton in a post bag, and then on to Chippenham, where it was the course of business for the letters sent in that bag to be sorted, and those for Tetbury put in the Tetbury bag and forwarded to Tetbury. The letter however, never reached its destination. Inquiry was then made, and the note traced to the possession of a Mr. Broad, a clerk in the Chippenham station of the Great Western Railway. He was enabled to trace it, having received it from Woodman, another clerk in the station, and having taken down, in the company's book, the number and date of the note. Woodman, however, could not remember from whom he received the note, but believed he did so in the ordinary course of business at the station, and here for the time all further trace of the note or the person stealing the letter was lost. On the 26th of January following, the prisoner Waite, who, it was shewn, was occasionally employed as a clerk in the post-office at Chippenham, was in a public•house at Chippenham, with a man named Swaine, who is a porter employed at the railway station there, and asked him if anything had been found out about the note which had been stolen. Swaine said " No," upon which Waite said I had the bill—l gave it to a man called Hayward, to get it changed for me, which he did, and I gave him two sovereigns for doing it. Swaine, upon this, told the pri soner that he should give information to the police of what he had said. He begged him not to do so, but Swaine persisted that he should, and accordingly he did so. Search was made for Waite and Hayward, but it was found that they had absconded, and ultimately they were both found at a brother of Hayward's at Ciren cester. Waite had shaved off his whiskers, and otherwise disguised himself. Upon being taken into custody, Waite made a similar statement to the policeman to that which he had to Swaine. Evidence was given to show that, at the time the let ter was posted. the prisoner Waite was employed in the Chippenham Post-office as a sorter of letters, and had been so for about a fortnight, and in the ordinary course the letter which had been stolen would hare passed through his hands. On his cross. examination by Mr. HODGES, it was elicited that the prisoner was only occasionally em ployed in the service of :the Post-office, and on this oc casion was so owing to the illness of one of the ordinary clerks. Mr. lIoDGEs said the prisoner was not a servant to the Post-office within the meaning of the Act of Parlia ment, but merely a temporary servant. There were several cases on the subject cited in Fossil and Simins, 2d vol., p. 213. Mr. Justice WIGHTMAN said that the cases there cited were before the statute under which the present indict ment was prepared, Ist Vic., cap. 36. In that Act the word office is used, but the interpretation alone enacts that that word shall include any person emplyed in any business of the Post-office. The simple employment by the Post-office of any person would bring him within the meaning of the Act. _ _ _ Mr. Hodges then addressed the jury for Waito, and Mr. Justice Wightman having summed up, The jury found both tho prisoners Guilty. Waite was then sentenced to be transported for seven years, and Hayward to twelve months' impri sonment. Riehard Newport and Ann Barer were indicted for having, on the Ist of September, assaulted George Church, and robbed him of 371. 10s. at Swindon, in this county. Air. Slade conducted the prosecution, and Mr. Chap man Smith defended Baker; the male prisoner was un defended. It appeared that Mr. Church, a farmer, wont to Swin don, on the Ist of September last, to attend the market. At about eight o'clock in the evening he had occasion to go down to what is called the New Town of Swindon, when he came near to a place called the Gas House, he was knocked down by a man by a blow on the side of the head. The man came so softly, that the prosecutor stated that he had no doubt that the man had no shoes on. On the prosecutor falling to the ground, three men came round him and two women, one of whom kneeled on his breast, and the other two held his legs. While on the ground the prosecutor was able to distinguish the features of the men, and clearly identified the prisoner Newport as the man who knocked him down, and the woman who held his legs he identified as Ann Baker. While the prosecutor was thus held on the ground, one of the men turned out his pockets, and robbed him of his purse, containing bank-notes, gold, and silver to the amount of 37/. 10i. They then all ran away. Ile (prosecutor) pursued them for some little distance, but lost sight of them by a turn in the road, near a lone house. Witnesses were then called, who proved that the pri soners had lodged at the house near which the prosecu• for lost sight of them. That they came there a few days before the robbery in company, having with them two dog -carts and five dogs. Just before the robbery, the two girls were standing outside the cottage, and called to the two men, Newport and the other, who were in the house, to come out ; that they did, and went up the road together towards the spot where Mr. Church was robbed. At this time Ann Baker had on a black bonnet and a " whitish" shawl. In about twenty minutes one of the women returned, and was observed to put something into the dog-cart which had been owned by Baker and Newport. Just before this the witness had heard a noise as if some one had called out in the direction of where Mr. Church was robbed. Shortly after Ann Baker returned without a bonnet. Shortly after, from information given by Mr. Church, the prisoner Baker was taken into custody and fully identi fied by Mr. Church, and in the yard was found her bonnet, and in the dog-cart the shawl she had worn when she left the house. Newport was also appre hended. The other throe persons concerned in the robbery absconded, but two of them were afterwards ap prehended on another charge for felony, and are waiting their trial at Maidstone gaol. Mr. SMITE having addressed the jury for Baker, The Learned JUDGE summed up the case to the jury, who immediately found both the prisoners Guilty. Newport was then sentenced to be transported for ten years, and Baker for seven years. Mr. Baron Platt has been trying prisoners all day in the Nisi Prius Court, but no case of public interest has been taken. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. BOW-STREET. CAUGET AT LAST.—Yesterday Andrei, Green and Samuel Green, father and son, were brought before Mr. Henry for re-examination, charged with stealing the sum of 13s. 6d. from a servant girl, at a coffee-shop in Drury-lane. The prisoners were ordered to be remanded on Satur day last, in consequence of the elder prisoner having mentioned the names of several respectable persons with whom he pretended he was connected, as the proprietor of the Parliamentary Chronicle, a weekly publication, in order to give the officers an opportunity of making in quiries into the correctness of the representations, the result of which was by no means satisfactory, several gentlemen being in attendance to make disclosures of a suspicious character against the prisoners. In consequence of the elder prisoner having said that he was occasionally employed in the gallery of the House of Commons by Mr. Neilson, of the Times, that gen tleman came forward to disclaim all knowledge of him. The prisoner attempted to deny having ever said he he was in the habit of attending the Hou ses of Parlia ment for any morning paper. Mr. Neilson, upon looking at the prisoner, said he re collected, some years back, - having seen the prisoner in the gallery, and knowing he was not attached to any public journal, he requested the messenger to put him out which he did, but he never had any dealings with him, and, as to the Parliamentary Chronicle, he believed it had not been published for a great number of years. Inspector Marsh, F. division, informed the court that he had been :to Southend, where the prisoner said he resided, but he could obtain no intelligence of them. He had also been at the Pulpit office, in Glasshouse yard, with which he said he was connected, and he got a very unfavourable account of the elder prisoner. A gentleman came forward and said that the prisoner was in the habit, for several years, of obtaining money from different insurance-offices to insert their advertise meats in his journal, although it had not appeared for many years. He had obtained six guineas from the Atlas Insurance Office to insert their prospectus, but it never appeared ; nor could a single bookseller, from whom he had obtained money under the same circum stances, say that their advertisements ever appeared. The prisoner was then charged with obtaining money under false pretences. Mr. Thomas Johnson, solicitor, of Lincoln's Inn-fields, stated that the elder prisoner came to him on Friday, revesenting himself as Dr. Green, and mentioning the name of his late father and Mr. Barry O'Meara, with whom he had frequently dined, offered him orders to the Opera and other theatres. Ile then gave his card, 3, Curzon-street, Mayfair, and said that the sum of 161. 15s. 6d. was due to him by his father for the journal, and that ho had been directed by his executors to get a cheque from witness for the amount. Witness had since seen his brother upon the subject, and they could find nothing about the journal since 1836, when two volumes were supplied by Mr. Norcroft, the original propribtor. On Saturday he came again in the evening, and said that he was obliged to take up a bill for 3001., which had been dishonoured, and that he was in the habit of paying to his workmen 250/. per week during the Par. liamontary session. Witness, upon this representation, not only gave him a cheque fur the amount, but also cashed it ; and, on Tuesday, he discovered he had been imposed upon. The prisoner gave a stamped receipt, and said he would call again with orders for the Opera, and other theatres. Mr. Burton, ironmonger, of Oxford•street, identified the prisoner as being the same who, some years ago, obtained goods from him under falze representations, at which time he drove up in a handsome tilbury, and gave his address Curzon -street, Mayfair ; but in a short time he was told, when demand was made for the amount, that Dr. Green was dead. Mr. Natali, a bookseller, also identifhd the prisoner, to whom he was in the habit of paying five guineas yearly for the insertion of advertisements in his journal, which was not in existence. Mr. Henry told the young female who had been robbed i❑ Drury-lane that the evidence did not press against the younger prisoner, and he was discharged upon the same recognisances to appear again if zlices sary ; hut the elder prisoner should be again remanded without bail for a week, and then be committed on the two separate charges. After the deputy bailiff of the County Court at Graves end came forward to say something to the disadvantage of the prisoner, he was removed from the bar. LAW INTELLIGENCE. WESTMINSTER COUNTY COURT, Marck 8. (Before D. C. MOTLAN, Esq., Judge.) LITERARY LABOUR. 7 .7OBSON V HANSARD. In this case (which has been two or three times before tho Court) Mr. Luke James Hansard, the well-known printer, was defendant, and Mr. D. W. Jobson, the plaintiff, the action being brought to recover a sum of money for writing a "Sketch of the House of Lords," and two reviews, for a journal called The Spirit of the Times. - The case on each occasion lasted a considerable time, and excited much interest. In the month of March last, the defendant started a journal, having for its object the elevation of the " socia l and moral condition of the people," the plaintiff being employed on it as one of the writers. In one of his interviews with Mr. Hansard the plaintiff produced a "Sketch of the House of Lords," which he had written for a magazine. Mr. Hansard, on seeing it, expressed a wish to have it for the second number of The Spirit of the Times, agreeing, according to plaintiff, to give " three times magazine price for it.' The plaintiff accordingly gave up the article, and also wrote a review of the works of the Rev. Robert Hall, and one on the works of Schlegel, purchasing the books at the request of the defendant, in conse quence of the publisher refusing to send them gratui tously. The plaintiff admitted that none of the articles were inserted in The Spirit of the Times, because of its " stopping short," but contended that it was the custom in the literary world, and amongst newspaper pro prietors, to pay for articles written by order, whether they were inserted or not. In support of the custom Mr. A. B. Reach and Mr. T. P. Healy, proprietor of The Medical Times, were ox amined. The former gentleman could not speak pod- Lively as to the custom, but had been informed that it was usual to pay a gentleman for an article written to order whether it appeared or not. Mr. Healy said if he ordered a gentleman to write an article for his paper, he should feel bound to pay him for it if it was not wanted. He was in the habit of employing literary gentlemen, and had paid them for articles which had not appeared. Mr. Hansard distinctly denied the contract entered into with the plaintiff. He merely took the article, with the consent of the plaintiff, to look over at his leisure, and put it amongst other similar contributions. The Learned JUDGE said he was clearly of opinion that no contract had been proved by the plaintiff, and therefore it was useless to entertain the question of custom . The plaintiff having failed to prove any con tract, he must order him to be nonsuited. ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE. HO ME ClRCUlT.—Chelmsford, Marsh 8. The Commission for Essex was opened on Monday. The criminal calendar is very heavy; but the business on the civil side is lighter than usual, there being only four special jury cases. William Parsons, late sergeant in the K division of police, was tried on Tuesday for a misdemeanour, in having conspired to defeat the ends of justice by giving false testimony upon an inquiry before Mr. Lewis, the coroner for Essex, touching the death of a police-con stable named Clark. Mr. Clarkson and Mr. Deedes prosecuted. The circumstances under which the charge was made against the defendant have been so frequently reported that it will be unnecessary to go into them on the pre- sent occasion. It will be remembered that in June, 1846, a constable named Clark was found dead in a cornfield at Dagenham, under circumstances which left no doubt that his death was the result of violence. Several long inquiries took place before the Coroner, and in the end a verdict of " Wilful murder against some persoa or persons unknown" was returned. At the last summer assizes, two constables, named Hickton and Kimpton, were convicted of perjury upon the evidence given by them before the Coroner, and the present charge arose out of the same transaction. The LORD CHIEF JUSTICE, after several witnesses had been examined, expressed an opinion that the evi• dunce did not support the indictment at present before the Court. It merely went to show that the defendant had induced the other parties to make certain statements to screen them all from a charge of neglecting their duty; and, at the time when the supposed offence was committed, there was no legal inquiry pending. The jury accordingly returned a verdict of—Not Guilty. Ifm. Douglass, 27, a constable belonging to the Eastern Counties Railway, stationed at Colchester, and James Keys, 20, a cab-driver, were indicted, the former as a principal in committing a felonious assault upon Agnes Mary Ann Luen, and the latter as an accessory in aiding and abetting in the commission of the offence. Mr. Ryland prosecuted; Mr. Charnock appeared for the prisoners. From the evidence adduced, it seemed that the pro secutrix, a very good looking girl, sixteen years old, was the daughter of a beer shopkeeper at Ardleigh, and she was in the service of a family near Colchester at the time this occurrence happened. She had been, it ap pears, to pay a visit to her father, and returned back to Colchester by the luggage train at night, and when she got into the town she inquired of the constable, Dou glass, whether he could procure her a cab or fly to con vey her home. He said he would do so, and called for the cab driven by the other prisoner, and when the pro secutrix got in he said,he would see her safe home, and she consented. The prisoner accordingly got in, and when they had proceeded a short distance he pro ceeded to take indecent liberties with the prosecutrix, and, according to her testimony, succeeded in commit ting the offence imputed to him. She also stated that when she called for assistance the other prisoner drove all the faster and took no notice of her cries. The jury found Douglass Guilty of an assault, and Acquitted the other prisoner. Douglas was sentenced to be kept to hard labour for two years. NORTHERN CIRCCIIT.—Durham, March 7. (Before Mr. Baron ALDHRSON.) Mary Ann Wood, a young woman about 19 years of age, was indicted for concealing the birth of her child. Mr. Matthews and Mr. Seymour conducted the prose cution ; the prisoner was defended by Mr. Otter. The prisoner, it appeared, was, about the 3d of January, married at Bishop Wearmouth, to a person of the name of Wood, a sailor. About three weeks after wards, while she and her husband were stopping with Mrs. Robinson, her mother-in-law, prisoner was taken ill in the night, and her husband called Mrs. Robinson up. She complained of internal pain, and some remedies were given to her, by which she seemed relieved, and Mrs. Robinson's servant was sent to attend her and sleep with her the remainder of the night. The servant was asleep for some hours, and on awaking went down stairs, leaving the prisoner alone about an hour and a half. In the course of the forenoon the prisoner, who appeared to be better, wished her mother to be sent for; but, before she arrived, some circumstances occurred which induced Mrs. Robinson to charge her with having had a child ; and finally the dead body of a female child, of which she admitted herself to be the mother, was found i❑ a drawer in the bedroom, of which the prisoner had the key. There was no doubt the child had been still born. The prisoner was found Guilty, but strongly recom mended to mercy. His LORDSHIP said he thought it a groat pity there had been any prosecution. The old law on this subject was, that the woman could not be convicted of conceal ment except under circumstances such as would justify the grand jury in bringing in a bill for murder. He thought the present law not an improvement. his Lordship sentenced the prisoner to be kept in custody till the rising of the Court, and then to be discharged. James Hay was indicted for cutting and wounding John Wade, with intent to do him some grievous bodily harm. Mr. Liddell conducted the prosecution; the 'prisoner was defended by Mr. Matthews. It appeared from the statement of the prosecutor that on the day when this occurred he was in a beer-shop at Bury Edge, in this county, and was sitting in a room, looking ou t o f th e w indow. The prisoner came in, and before the prosecutor could turn round to see who it was he received a blow on the head from an iron bar about five feet long, used to fasten a window, which the prisoner snatched up in coming into the room. The blow inflicted a very severe wound, and a large scar on the prosecutor's fore head sho we d th e v iolence with which it had been given. The prosecutor had no qua rrel . with the prisoner, who would seem to have mistaken him for some other party, there having been some quarrelling going on just before in another part of the house. Guilty, to be imprisoned one year. John Graham was indicted for the wilful murder of Robert Ileseltine, at Brancepeth, in this county. Mr. Warren conducted the prosecution ; the prisoner was defended by Mr. Matthews. It appeared that a person of the name of Lamb had been quarrelling with Hoseltine, who having the worst of it, ran off to a beer-house in the neighbourhood, and called out a person of the name of Peart, who went back with him, and commenced fighting with Lamb. Lamb was knocked down, and Graham then desired him not to fight any more, as Peart was too heavy fur him. llesel tine, using some coarse expressions, asked what ho had to do with it ; on which Graham repeated what he had said before. On this Ileseltine rushed at him and caught him by the hair with one hand, while he struck him several times with the other. Gr a h a m closed with him and caught him by the handkerchief, when a struggle took place between them. The attention of the bystanders was attracted for some seconds by the other combatants, but when next seen Graham and Reselling were in a stoop in g position; one of Ileseltine's arms being over Graham's shoulder, the other hanging by his side. It was called out that lleseltine was hanging, and Graham was forced from his hold, when Ileseltine fell to the ground insensible, and in a few seconds was dead. On a post mortem examination the death was found to be caused by suffo cation. Mr. MATTHEWS then addressed the jury for the de fence, contending that Graham being so assailed by ifeseltine, had only endeavoured to protect himself from violence, and had thus caused the death of the unfortunate WORSHIP-STREET. Yesterday a middle-aged man named Jeseph Mundell, was placed at the bar, before Mr. Arnold, charged with the following outrageous assault upon Mr. Robert Witherden, agent to a gentleman holding extensive household property at Spitalfields:— The complainant, one of whose eyes was terribly woolen and' contused, and who exhibited other evidence of serious ill-usage, stated that the defendant being greatly in arrear with his rent, and it being impossible either to obtain the money from him or to induce him to quit the premises, the witness was instructed by the landlord to effect the latter object by issuing a distraint upon his goods, but not with the intention of taking them, if it could be avoided. On proceeding to the house, at 12 o'clock that day, accompanied by a broker, an entry was effected in the defendant's absence, but he shortly afterwards came in, and on witness offering him to forego the execution if he would vacate the tenement he indignantly refused to do so, loaded him with the vilest epithets, and felled him to the ground by a terrific blow over the eyes which nearly stunned him. The bro ker then attempted to rescue him from the defendant's fury, but was immediately knocked down by a blow on the face, which smashed his spectacles, and this was rapidly succeeded by another blow across the hand from a heavy stick, and a third upon the crown of the head, which caused a severe gash and covered his clothes with blood. The defendant then attempted to seize a hammer, and was proceeding to further violence, when a police man fortunately happening to pass the house, was called in, and the detendat was given in charge. Robert Bushell, the broker, and a man named Urwin, his assistant, fully corroborated the first witness, and the former, who exhibited a severe wound in his head, declared that he had been seriously ill ever since. When called upon for his answer to the charge, the defendant said that upon reaching home he found the brokers in his house, and being informed that they had effected an entrance by bursting in his door, he knew that that was illegal and attempted to resist it, but is as immediately assailed by one of the complainants with a heavy piece of wood, and, considering himself in great danger, had protected himself as well as he could. This statement, however. was positively contradicted by all the witnesses, who declared that there was not the slightest foundation for it, and Mr. ARNOLD, who severely reprehended the outrageous conduct the defendant had been guilty of, sentenced him to pay the full penalty of 51. for the assault upon Mr. Witherden, a second 51. for the violent attack upon the broker, or in default to be committed to the house of Correction for two months for each penalty, and in ad dition ordered him, at the expiration of the respective terms, to put in substantial bail for his good and peace able behaviour for the succeeding three months; neither of which conditions was the defendant able to comply with, and he was therefore removed in the van. ASSIZES OF THE HAUTE GA- RONNE. TRIAL OF FRET E LEOTADE. The important events which have occurred within the last ten days have so fully absorbed public attention, that it has been impossible hitherto for us to continue our report of the proceedings of this remarkable trial. Now that calm has been restored, and the press of matter connected-with the revolution is less severe, we shall give a resume of the sittings of the Court of Aesizes of the Haute Garonne, observing first, that although the interest of the trial of Leotade had not fallen off, the evidence produced has been of such a nature that even if we could have found room for the reports, they must have been short. The affair, besides, has taken a turn which enables us to draw up our summary in brief terms. It will be remembered that, up to the 17th ult. inclu sively, the date of our report, most of the witnesses for the prosecution had been heard, and that Madeleine Sabathie, who had been ordered into custoly on a charge of prevarication and false evidence, had retracted her declaration of having seen Cecile Combettes in the street after the hour at which she was known to have been in the establishment of the Freres. She was ex amined again after her retraction, with a view to ascer tain whether she had been suborned to give false evi dence, and who were her suborners; but en this point she persisted in declaring that she had invented her story merely with a view to serve the freres, and without having been in any degree influenced by dirt ct or indi rect overtures from them. The Frere Leurien, the gar dener of the establishment, who had also been ordered into custody for false testimony, was repeatedly examined during the remainder of the trial, but he continued to persist in his first declarations, and when detected in prevarications and inconsistencies, attributed them to a detect of memory. The defence set up by Leotade was chiefly by way of alibi. His object was to prove that he had been so engaged in various matters at the tune when Cecile Combettes must, according to the accusation, have been inveigled from the parlour of the establishment of the freres, and taken to the spot where she was violated and destroyed, that he could not have committed those crimes. He had also combined his defence in such a way as to cast doubts upon the evidence "of Conte, as to that witness having seen him and the Frere Jubrien at the moment when Cecile Combettes was in the establish ment, and to create a supposition that the crime might have been committed by Conte himself. A host of wit. nesses, consisting principally of Freres and pupils of the establishment, came forward to establish the alibi. Their evidence was of such a character that, if it could be be lieved, it was utterly impossible he could have been the murderer, but most of these witnesses appeared to the President to have had a lesson got up for them, and when pressed hard by the President and the Pr,cureur du Itoi they contradicted each other in such a way as to confirm the suspicions which were entertained of their veracity. They deposed to a variety of minute circum stances which they could hardly be supposed to have re membered after so great a lapse of time, and when asked how they could recollect them, they had nearly all the same answer ready, namely, that they recollected the 15th of April, because it rained on that day. Until the inconsistency of these statements, however, was pointed out to them, and they began to contradict each other, nothing could be a more regular and consecu tive chain of testimony which had been prepared. The freres deposed, with an apparent convic tion of truth, to their having seen Leotade at such an hour, such a moment, and such a place, and the young pupils who were examined gave their evidence cooly and deliberately, as if they had previously all got it by heart. Some witnesses, unconnected with the establishment, also came forward to declare that they visited it on the 15th, and had seen Leotade occupied in various parts of the premises at the very time when, according to the act of accusation, he must have been engaged in the perpetration of the horrid deed for which he was now undergoing his trial. It appeared, however, that some of these individuals had had their memory re• freshed by letters from Frere Jubrien, written some months after the murder, and the impression of the Court appeared to be that their evidence, although honestly meant, had been the result of this contrivance by Jubrien, who was at one time implicated as an accom plice of Leotade. On the other hand, however, some of the witnesses who were called for the prosecution stated facts which were of a nature to raise doubts as to the correctness of the premises on which the act of accusation was based, and to confirm portions of the testimony of the witnesses for the defence, which had at first appeared to have been got up for them, and to be false. The President, on more occasions than one, declared the embarrassment that he felt, and directed the jury to take particular notice of these points, so that they might be weighed and appre ciated in connexion with the whole affair. On the 25th ult. M. Joly - , the advocate for the partie civile, addressed the Court, the evidence having closed, and he was to have resumed his address:oa the 26th. But on that day the agitation in Touluse, on account of the news from Paris of the revolutics, was so great, that it was foiled impossible for;the Court to proceed with the calm which so grave and difficult an affair required. M. Joly was absent at the Hotel de Ville, re-organizing the National Guard, and M. Saint-Gresse, one of the counsel for the defence, was absent on account of the recent death of his father. The Procureur-General made an application to the Court, to put off the affair to another ass•ze, and the Court, after a short deliberation, and with the consent of M. Gasc, the other counsel for the defence, adjourned the case to the next assize, on the double ground of the absence of M. Joly and M. Saint-Gri ace, and the excited state of the city of Toulouse. By order of the Court, Madeleine Sabathie and Frere Lauriene were ordered to bo set at liberty. _ - -- - ATTEMPTED MURDER AND GALLANT DEFENCE.— At Six-mile Bridge, Limerick, two ruffians took 1 d ings a few nights since in the house of Mr. Irwin, a respectable inhabitant. At midnight they called fix a candle, and thrusting the servant into a room, threatens d to shoot her if she opened her lips, and then admitted a third bandit. Afterwards they went into Mr. and Mrs. Irwin's bedroom, and cautioned them not to stir, or mark the consequence; they, however, disobeyed, and struggled hard with the assailants, whom Mrs. Irwin's cries so alarmed that they fled. In their flight they left behind a bayonet, a gun, and a hat. Dispatches were received yesterday, at the Colonial office, from the Governor of the Mauritius. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. PORTSMOUTH, MARCH B.—The Leander, 52, built in the North Dock, on the design of Mr. Blake, was floated out to—fay, after being named by Miss Prescott, daughter of Rear.Adwiral Superintendent Prescott, C.B. A number of the men of the 76th regiment have been removed from the Java hired transport, at Spithead, to day, and taken in the Echo tug to Cowes for removal to Parkhurst barracks, Isle of Wight, to avoid the infection of the measles, others from the depot there not liable to infection having been sent to replace them. The Netley tender arrived to-day from Devonport, with a good number of fine looking seamen, 34 of whom were for the Prince Regent, 92; and the rest for the Powerful, 84, fitting in this harbour. The former ship is now only 70 or 80 short of her compliment of 820. She is a most efficient-looking ship, and rigged to the admiration even of landimen. She was to have gone out of harbour to-day, she will most probably go out to morrow. The Victoria and Albert, Royal Yacht, was docked to-day, to have her periodical refit. The Fanny, Dlaster•Commander Searlett, the tender of the Commandur.in-Chief, sailed for the Thames to-day. Wind W.S.W., moderate breezes, and dark hazy weather with rain. Last night the dockyard artisans gave a concert at the Green row Rooms, Portsmouth, the receipts of which were to augment the fund for the relief of the destitute and distressed by the loss of the Avenger's crew. Rear- Admiral Superintendent Prescott and family, and all the officers of the dockyard, patronised the entertainment ~kith their presence. The performances were of a most creditable character throughout, and yielded a sum of from 35/. to 401., which has been handed over to the relief committee formed at this port. THE PACIFIC SQUADRON. On the 2d of December the Collingwood, 80, flag of Rear-Admiral Sir George Seymour ; the Constance, 50, Captain Courtney, and Carysfort, 26, Captain Seymour, sailed out of Valparaiso Bay in company, the Admiral on board his ship to hare a trial of sailing—the Caryl fort on her way to England. On the 3d, in latitude 32.50, longitude 73.30, at 9 30 A.M., the Collingwood made signal to the Constance " Chase Carysfort" At this moment the three ships were thus placed—Carr fort a considerable distance a-head, Constance about 700 yards astera of Collingwood, and about two points on the weather bow; the three ships close hauled and car rying all plain sail. At 10.15 the Constance passed the , Collingwood about SO yards to windward; at 12 the; Constance passed the Carysfort, about 10 yards on the weather beam, Collingwood being at the time about 2,900 yards astern and to leeward. Rate of sailing six, knots; both ships quickly overhauled Carysfort. The Constance i❑ this trial clearly proving superior on this point of sailing, was ordered again to take her station astern of the flag ship, arid at 2.30 the Constance having gone about and brought the Collingwood abeam, found t►er to he 3,500 yards to leeward; wind moderate, with little southerly swell during the trial.' Trial took place to the westwa►d of Valparaiso in the regular southerly . trades prevailing at this season on the coast. Orders at starling were to sail to southward. This completed the trial of the 3d. On the 4th, at 10 A.m., the Collingwood and Constance started, the flag ship then 2,000 yards a• head. At 11.30 Constance closed with her within 100 yards, and had weathered on her very considerably. Wind light with a southerly swell. Later in the day (at 6.30 P.M.) the flag ship had gained a few hundred yards on the Con stance. The third and last trial took place on the sth, in lati tude 33.10, longitude 77.25, off the wind, with topmast and topgallant studding sails set, the ships started at forty-five minutes past five o'clock A. 31., with wind a-beam; Constance 500 yards astern of Collingwood. At thirty-tive minutes past six o'clock had lost 600 yard& This ended the cruises. Tho Carysfort in these trials was slow but weatherlyl she could not keep station with either of her larger com petitors. The Constance, when stationed on the west coast of Mexico, sailed in the same direction on a wind with the United States' corvette Portsmouth, one of the fastest sailers in the American navy, so it is said, and beat her " all to sticks;" the advantage was so great that it could scarcely be called a contest at all, although the Ports mouth did her best. On the sth of December, the Carysfort parted com pany to proceed to England with freight; the Constance to return to Valparaiso, where she arrived on the 7th and the Collingwood proceeded to Juan Fernandez. The Chilien brigantine of war Janequeo accompanied the British ships in their trial cruise, and afterwards proceeded to Juan Fernandez. The Collingwood re mained at this island for eight days, and returned thence direct to Valparaiso, where she arrived on the 17th of December, making the passage in about forty hours. The Constance was at Valparaiso on the 30th of De cember. She was to leave on the Ist of January for Callao. The Calypso, 20, Captain Worth, arrived at Valpa raiso on the 17th of December, from Otaheite, forty days. The French armed transport Sarcelle sailed from Valparaiso, for the Sandwich Islands, on the 30th of November, with a French consul for Cobija, in Bolivia, and another gentleman going in the same capacity to the Sandwich Islands. Squadron all well on the 30th December. A brig, believed to be th• Star, 8, from Sheerness, passed through Spithead to the westward this afternoon. ADMIRALTY, MARCH S.—APPOINTMENTS —Edmund B. Walker, Clerk, to the Ganges; Edward M. Collier, Naval Cadet, to the Ganges; Samuel Parry, Chief En gineer, to the Pluto; Samuel Derry and Alexander W. Brush, Assistant Engineers, to the Pluto; Henry T. Vernon, Lieutenant, to the Penelope; Frederick Robin son, Lieutenant, to the Investigator; Francis Rooke, Lieutenant, to the Blenheim; Charles B. Payne, Lieu tenant, to the Havannah; W. E. Von Dadelyen, Mid shipman, to the Fisgard; James Crosby, Second Master, to the Shearwater; J. M. Jefferson, Clerk in Charge, to the Shearwater. PROMOTIONS.—Mr. Thomas Goss and Mr. James E. Elliott, Masters, to be Lieutenants. RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS. LIVERPOOL, MARCH 8. STOCK EXCHINGE.—The sales are—Ambergate, Notting ham and Boston, 2 3 % dis. c.—Birkenh e ad, L ancas hi re , a nd Cheshire Junction, 311. Shares (late C. and B.), 6 dis. Bolton, Blackburn, &c. ( B), 3 ,8 dis.—East Lancashire, 194 —Great Northern, 7 1 / 2 dis.—Lancashire and Yorkshire, Fifths, % dis.—London and North-Western, 133 c.—Ditto, New .Quarters, 3 g p.—Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln shire, Quarters, No. 1, % dis. —Ditto, Preference, par—Ditto (Sheffield and Lincolnshire), 6t dis.—Midland, 104—Ditto, Halves, 4% dis.--North Staffordshire, .c. dis.—Preston and Wyre, 34—Shrewsbury and Chester date N. W. M.), p.—Shrewsbury, Oswestry, and Chester,--5% dis. —Ditto, Preference, 27' s p. —South-Eastern and Dover, 26—Ditto, No. 4, 23‘ i p.—York, Newcastle, and Berwick, Preference, %P. bIANCIIESTER, MARCH 8. STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—Birkenhead, Lanca shire, and Cheshire Junction, 6 1-16 dis.—Ditto (late C. and B.), 15 1 % c.—Bolton, Blackburn, &c. ' • (A), 63 i Eastein Counties, 13ji —East Lancashire, New, 5 die.-- Edinburgh and Glasgow, 37 1 A—Lancashire and Yorkshire, Fifths, % n. dis.—Ditto (West Riding Union), 3 dis.—Lon don and North-Western (Manchester and Birmingham), Quarters (A), 3 p.—Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, Quarters, No. 1, par—Ditto, Grim,by Dock, 9 dis.—North Stainrdshire, di:.—South-Eastern and Dover, 27—Ditto, No 4,2% die. LEEDS, MARCH 7. STOCK EXCHANGE.—The following are the prices at which sales have been effected to-day :—East Lancashire, 194-- Ditto, New, 5/. Bs. 9d. dis.—Ditto, Quarters, 29a. dis.—. Last and West Yorkshire, 77 t i c. dis.—Great Northern, 7% dis.-- Huddersfield Manchester, and Thirds, 1 3 4 - dis.—Lancashire and Yorkshire (West Riding Union), 595.: dis.—Leeds and Thirsk, dis.—Manchester, Sheffield, 'and Lincolnshire, Preference, 2s. 6d. p.—North British, Thirds, 16s. dia.-- Ditto Extension, ss.dis. North Staffordihire, 10s. dis.--• North-Western, dis. BIRMINGHAM, MeacniB. STOCK EXCHANGE.—The transactions reported to-day were —Caledonian, 30—Great Western, 6 p. ex div.—London and North- Western,l3s ex div.—Manchester, Sheffield, and Lin colnshire, Preference, par—Midland, 106 ex div.—York, Newcastle, and Berwick, No. 2 (New Benvieks), 1% p.-- Ditto (G. N. E. Purchase), 1 p.—North Staffordshire, % —Shrewsbury and Birmingham (A), 3% dis.—Ditto (B) 2% dis.—Shropsbire Union, 2N c. dis. YORK, Hanoi 7. _ _ _ STOCK EXCHANGE.—The following are the quotations this day : Great Northern, 5/. 16s.—Ipswich and Bury St. Ed munds and Norwich, s—North British, Thirds, 1% —York, Newcastle, and Berwick, No. 2 (late New Berwicks), 11% —Ditto (G. N. E. Purchase), WA. A GIANT.—Mr. Robert Hales, named " the York shire Giant," who will exhibit in Nottingham next week, is nearly eight feet in height, and weighs 4621 b. (33 stone). His longitude is inherited from his parents, his father, a farmer, being six feet six inches, and his mother six feet (weighing 14 stone). Of this Patagonian couple, the progeny were all remarkable for their stature; the boys were " sons of Anak," and the daughters of Amazonian development; any of them quite a Glum• dalclitch. The four sons averaged six feet five inches in height; the daughters, six feet three and a half inches. But the flower of the flock was and is the one now in Manchester. His sister, aged 20, attained seven feet two inches, and weighed 16 stone, but she died in 1842. Mr. Hales is now in his 28th year, of fair proportions• with p , easing features and good•humoured, cheerful countenance. He is vivacious and intelligent, and altogether a very different sort of being to the heavy lumpish louts we have seen in caravans. With him are exhibited a male 'dwarf and two female Albinos. Notts Review. r DVERTISEMENT.]-THE EARL OF ALDBOROIION AND HOLLOWAY'S I'ILT,S.—An aritounding cure by this miraculous medicine, after every other means had failed. See extract from b$ Lordship's letter, dated " Villa Messina, Leghorn, Feb. 21, 1245. Professor Holloway—Sir : I heg to acquaint you that your pills have effected a cure of a disorder in my liver and stomach all the Mee t eminent of the faculty, at home and all over the continent, bad not been able to effect; nay, not ever the waters of Carlsbad or Me rient,ad. (Signed) " ALDBOROUGn." 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