The Sun. — London, England, 1865-03-25 00:00:00

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT HOUSE OF LORDS-LAST EVENING. The LORD CHANcmon took his seat on the woolsack a five o'clock. EXCHANGE OF TITHES. The Duke of MARLBOROUGH brought in a bill for the purpose of enabling district churches in the new parishes to exchange tithes with other parishes. His grace said that he would reserve any explanations in refe rence to the bill until the second reading. PRIVATE BUSINESS. The Agra and Masterman's Bank Bill was advanced a stage. The Glasgow City and Suburban Gas Bill was read a second time. The Dingwall and Skye Railway Bill, and the Leaming ton Gas Bill was read a third time and passed. ILLEGAL DETENTION IN A LUNATIC ASYLUM. The Earl of MALMESBURY called the attention of the house to the illegal detention of the late Mr. Docknall in a lunatic asylum at Sedgefield, and moved that all the docu ments in reference thereto in the possession of the Home Office should be produced. From inquiries he had made, ho could vouch for the accuracy of the brief narrative he would submit to the house. It appeared that in 1863 the late Mr. Docknall, a respectable bookseller, who had formerly been a clerk for 17 years in her Majesty's service, opened a shop in Chester-le-street, Durham, and was for some time engaged there in business. Through what he understood was a conspiracy between the wife of the deceased and a gentleman, Col. Johnson, the deceased was taken to a lunatic asylum at Sedgefield. Only one medical man's certificate was obtained, while the law required two, and it was stated that Col. Johnson had not examined the deceased. After five days detention the deceased was dis charged, it being proved that he was not insane. He was advised to bring an action against Colonel Johnstone, and laid damages at £5,000. Owing to the pressure of business before the court, he was unable to have his case heard, and ho applied in vain for redress to the Home Office. These circumstances operated on the mind of the deceased to each an extent that he committed suicide by taking prussic acid last October. The noble lord then read a correspon dence between the father of the deceased and the Home office, as well as affidavits in support of his statement, and said that the conduct of Col. Johnson was most repre hensible, for he had committed a most illegal act while in the discharge of his official duties. His lordship proceeded to state that the deceased had been treated with great cruelty, having been taken away from his home forcibly while he was at dinner. It appeared also that Col. Johnson had offered £BO as compensation to the deceased, thereby ad mitting that he had been guilty of an illegal act. He thought he had made out a case for inquiry into this matter, assuming that Col. Johnson was not reprimanded for his conduct. Earl GRANVILLE contended that the Home-office had not acted improperly in the matter, and was understood to say that the documents in question would bo produced. The Earl of SHAFTESBURY contended that the sub ject should be rigidly inquired into, for here was a case in which a magistrate had stated what was false, and acted in violation of the statute law by affirming that he had made an inspection of the deceased. The Earl of DERBY agreed with the noble lord (Shaftesbury), and he could not see why the Home-office had abstained from an inquiry into the subject. Earl RUSSELL said he did not know whether Colonel Johnson had been communicated with, but he thought the facts should be laid before the Lord Chancellor. After a few words from Lord MALMESDURY and the LORD CILLNCT.LLOR the motion was agreed to. The Felony and Misdemeanor Evidence and Practice Bill, the Consolidated Fund (£175,650) Bill, the Elections Petitions Act (1848) Amendment Bill, and the Dublin In ternational Exhibition (1865) Bill were read a third time and passed. Other bills were advanced a stage, and their lordships adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS-LAST EVENING. The Srziuun took the chair at the usual hour. PRIVATE BUSINESS. The following bills were read a third time and passed : Brighton, Hove, and Preston Constant Service Water, Crystal Palace District Gas, Great Eastern Railway (Bishop Stortford Railway Purchase), Bolton Improvement, Bristol Joint Station, Leicester Lunatic Asylum and Im provement, Limerick Embankment and Reclamation, Liverpool Improvement, and West Worthing Improve ment. The Belfast Borough Bill was read a second timo. LAYARKSHIRE COUNTY PRISONS BILL. On the motion for the second reaAng of this bill, Sir E. COLEBROOKE took objection to the motion, and moved as an amendment, that the bill be read a second time that day six months. Lord ELCHO seconded the amendment. After a short discussion, The LORD ADVOCATE said he intended to bring in a bill that evening which he thought would render the present bill needless. Tho house then divided, when there appeared— For the amendment 95 Against it Majority —s6 The bill was oonsequently lost. PETITIONS. Mr. Cox presented a petition from certain Indian offi cers praying for redress. Mr. HADFIELD presented petitions in favour of a reduc tion of the mileage duty. Mr. HUBBARD presented a petition against the Bank Notes Issue Bill. Mr. BRADY presented petitions from different places in Leland praying for an alteration of the law with regard to landlord and tenant. Mr. S. FITZGERALD presented a petition from certain Indian officers praying for redress. BLEDLOW SCHOOLMASTER. Mr. FERRAND moved for a copy of all correspondence between the Poor-law Board and the guardians of the Wycombe Union, and other papers relating to the serious charges whieti had been made against the master of Bled low school in that union.—Agreed to. ORDNANCE EXPERIMENTS. Mr. H. BAILLIE moved an address for return of all the experiments carried on by the Ordnance Select Committee, including those in progress from the Ist day of January, 1859, to the 20th day of February, 1865 (also including those made on Armstrong guns whether adopted into the service or not), showing the name of the originator or proposer, and the nature or object of each experi ment, and by whom recommended to be carried out ; the amount of the cost paid or agreed to be paid by the ori ginator or proposer of each experiment ; the total cost of each experiment and the estimated cost of those in pro gress ; the sums of money paid or recommended to be paid by the Ordnance Select Committee to any inventor between the above dates, together with the name, rank, and occu pation of each inventor.—Ordered. CHIEF JUSTICE MONAHAN. Sir T. BATESON asked whether any further informa tion had been received relative to the charge brought against the magistrates of the County Down of administer ing justice partially? He should like to know whether he had made any retractation of the terms complained of. Mr. HOGAN thought that notice should have been given the Chief Justice Monahan that this matter was to be brought again under the consideration of Parliament. Sir R. PEEL thought it would have been better, after what he had said the other evening, had this subject not been brought before the house again. He had, however, ' received a letter from Chief Justice Monahan, in which ho stated that he had no recollection of having made the statements to the effect that the magistrates of the county Down administered justice partially. He believed it would be admitted that a more impartial and upright judge than Chief Justice Monahan did not exist, .nd if he had been betrayed by a little hasty feeling into making some statements which, in his cooler moments, he would not have done, he was not the first person who had done such a thing. He had already said that Chief Justice Monahan was not justified, if he had made the assertion, of accusing certain magistrates of partiality. Mr. HOGAN asked if the learned judge had made any statement of the matter to the Government. Sir R. PEEL said he had reported. Mr. HOGAN asked whether it would be produced, but no answer was given. Col. FORD then proceeded to make some observations on the same subject,.when Col. GREVILLE askedthe Secretary for Ireland whether ho would produce the report he had received from the learned judge. Sir R. PEEL said he did not think it advisable that the report should be produced. Mr. HENNESSY thought it highly desirable that the report should be produced. (Laughter.) Sir G. GREY said his right hon. friend had given the best answer he could, being asked the question in the way he had. If the hon. gentleman particularly wished for the report, the proper way would be to move for it in the ordinary manner. The subject then dropped. THE OUDE CLAIMS. Mr. KNIGHT asked the Secretary of State for India if the report of the Calcutta Commission on the Oude claims had been received ; and if so, when he would lay it upon the table of the house. Sir C. WOOD said no such report had been received. THE EASTER RECESS. Mr. A. MILLS asked the First Lord of the Treasury when the adjournment would take place for the Easter holidays ? Lord PALMERSTON said the state of the public busi ness would not render a departure from the ordinary ru l e necessary, which was to adjourn from the Friday before Good Friday. SUPPLY—THE HE LLENES. On tho motion for going into committee of supply, Mr. B. COCHRANE rose to ask the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether the pensions assigned under schedule B of the Convention of March 29, 1864, be tween her Majesty and the King of the Hellenes, had been paid in accordance with that convention ; and, whether her Majesty's Government intended to take any steps for the security of the recipients of those pen sions, by placing those British subjects who served Her Majesty under the lonian Constitution on tin st me foot ing as pensioners of the British Crown. Mr. LAYARD said the Greek Government had not ob jected to pay the pensions to persons who liar: been in the service of the lonian, and not of the Brlti,.ll Government, and whose pensions had accrued under ti e laws of the islands themselves. The pensions had been paid, though not punctually, and there were only two pensioners who had not received them. These were Sir Patrick Colquhoun, who appeared determined to be a martyr, and another gen tleman, both of whom had refused to go through a common form as a preliminary to receiving their pensions. The Greek Government had bound themselves to pay the pen sions, and he had every reason to hope that they would continue to pay them and maintain their good faith. The hon. member also stated that the English Government were not prepared to incur responsibility for the payment of what the Greeks were liable for. A discussion ensued, in which Mr. Kinglake, the Chan cellor of the Exchequer, Mr. C. Bentinck, and other mem bers took part, and in the course of which it was contended that these gentlemen were appointed by the protecting Power, not by the lonian Government, and that they had a legal and equitable claim to consider themselves officials of the British Government. PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. _ _ Mr. W. EWART moved--That it was expedient to issue a digest of Parliamentary papers and blue books from time to time, and consolidated into one or more volumes at the close of each session, under the authority of the Statistical Department of the Board of Trade, for tho convenience of members and the diffusion of information among the public. The motion was seconded by Mr. KItiNAIRD, and sup ported by Mr. YORE. Mr. PEEL admitted that if such a work as that proposed were well executed and brought out promptly within a week or two after the presentation of the papers, it would be of considerable use to members who desired to have the information contained in these voluminous papers in a con densed, classified, and portable form. But with all this advantage it would not be a saving of the expenditure for Parliamentary printing, nor would it dispense with the necessity on the part of the Government of still presenting and printing in extenso papers of which a very small pro portion was deserving of extraction, whilst many were of an ephemeral or merely local character. Mr. A. MILLS observed that the Government had it in their power to limit the number of documents that were presented and printed, but never read, and suggested that they would do well to exercise a rather more arbitrary au thority in refusing what were termed " unopposed returns." Mr. HENLEY feared that whatever might be the advan tage of an abstract it would not be commensurate with the expense it must entail. Ultimately the motion was withdrawn. Mr. MALINS brought under the notice of the house the petitions of the general committee of the Thames and Isis navigation and the mayor and corporation of Wallingford, complaining of the decayed state of the upper portion of the Thames, and the probable destruction, ore long, of the navigation in that part of the river. Ile called upon the Government to appoint a Royal commission or a committee of the house to inquire into the subject, or introduce some measure to prevent a continuance of the present state of things. • Colonel NORTH also urged the importance of immediate steps being adopted to remedy the evil complained of. Mr. GIBSON admitted that the navigation ought to be maintained ; but then it should be self-supporting, and as long as the old heavy tolli were collected there was little chance of that. He should be willing to agree to a com mittee of inquiry for the purpose of ascertaining what was the condition of the navigation, and whether any measures could be devised by Parliament which would enable it to support itself. If, as the result of such an inquiry, it were shown that it presented a proper security an advance might be made by the Public Works Loan Commissioners, but he could not otherwise consent to any grant of public money for the work. Mr. HENLEY doubted whether the inquiry could be well conducted by a select committee, owing to the vast number of conflicting interests that were at stake. A small commission, with proper scientific assistance, would collect much more valuable information, and was, there fore, to be preferred. Mr. CARDWELL. replying to a question of Mr. Ayrton, said it was not his intention to ask the sanction of Parlia ment during the present session to a guarantee of a sum of money required to complete the railway from Halifax to Quebec. When the colonists had fulfilled the engage ments they had entered into with the Duke of Newcastle, the Government would be prepared to perform their share of the contract, and make a proposal to the house. The house having gone into committee of supply on the army estimates, resumed the consideration of the vote of £811,421 for works, buildings, and repairs, which after some discussion was agreed to. The following votes were also taken :—£153,500 for military education ; £88,345 for the survey of the United Kingdom; £130,700 for miscellaneous service; £26,100 rewards for military service ; £74,200 pay of general officers ; £455,000 pay of reduced and retired officers; £152,100 widows pensions' and compassionate allowances ; and £28,200 pensions and allowances of wounded officers. Progress was then reported. The second reading of the County Voters' Registration (Ireland) Bill was opposed by several Irish members, on the ground that the existing law did not require amend ment, and that the bill would entail unnecessary expense and inconvenience. Mr. BAGWELL moved that the bill be read a second time that day six months ; and upon a division the motion was carried by 32 to 30. The bill, a Government measure, was therefore lost. The other business 041 the paper was also disposed of, and the house adjourned at half-past ono o'clock. The Reciprocity Treaty, The following papers respecting the termination of the Reciprocity Treaty of June 5, 1854, between Great Britain and the United States, have been pre sented:-- No. 1. MR. ADAMS TO EARL RussELL.--(Received March 17.) " Legation of the United States, London, March 17, 1865. " My Lord,—Under instructions from the .Government of the United States, I have the honour to transmit to your lordship a certified copy of a joint resolution of the Congress of the United States, approved by the President on the 18th January, 1865, in regard to the termination of the treaty concluded between the United States and her Bri tannic Majesty on the sth of June, 1854, commonly known as the Reciprocity Treaty. " I have the honour further to inform you that I am directed to notify her Majesty's Government that, as it is considered no longer for the interests of the United States to continue this treaty in force, it will terminate and be of no further effect, as provided by the terms of the instru ment, at the expiration of 12 months from the date of the reception by your lordship of this notico.—l pray, &c., (Signed) "CHARLES FRANCIS ADAMS." Inclosure No. 1. Joint Resolution providing for the Termination of the Re ciprocity Treaty of Juno 5, 1851, b e t ween t h e united States and Great Britain. " Whereas it is provided in the Beoivrocity Treaty con cluded in Washington, the sth of June, 1854, between the United States of the one pert,and the United Ki ng dom of Great Britain and treiand of the other part, that this treaty shall remain Li force for 10 years from the date at which it may come into operation ; and further, until the expira ti.n of twelve months after either of the high contracting parties shall give notice to the other of its wish to termi nate the same ;' and whereas, it appears by a proclamation of the President of the United States, bearing date 16th March, 1855, that the treaty came into operation on that day ; and whereas, further) it is no longer for the interests of the United States to continue the same in force ; therefore, " Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, that notice be given of the termination of the Reciprocity Treaty, according to the prevision therein contained for the termination of the same ; and the President of the United States is hereby charged with the communication of such notice to the Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. "Approved, January 18, 1865." No. 2. EARL RUSSELL TO MIL ADAMS. “ ah 17Foreign-office, Marchrc ” Sir,—l have the hon our to acknowl edge the receiptl B6s' of your letter of this day, containing a resolution of the Con gress of the United States approved by the President, in regard to the termination of the Treaty of 1854, commonly known as the Reciprocity Treaty. "Her Majesty will instruct Sir Frederick Bruce, on his proceeding to Washington. as her Majesty's Envoy Extra ordinary, upon this subject.—l am, Sce., (Signed) "RUSSELL." --- BREAKFAST BEVERAGE.—Homco p tio practitioners, and the medical profession generally, nc;mmend cocoa a as being the most healthful of all beverages. When the doc trine of homoeopathy was first introduced into this country there were to be obt fined no preparations of cocoa either at, tractive to the taste or acceptable to the stomach; the nut was either supplied f a the crude state, or so unskilfully manufactured as to obtain little notice. J. Epps, of London, Elomceopathic Chemist, was induced in the year 1813 to turn his at_ention to this subject, and at len;th succeeded, with the assistance of elaborate machinery, in being the first to produce an article pure in its composition, and so refined by the perfect tlituraton it receives in the process it passes thro •gh, as to be most acceptable to the delicate stomach. For general use Epps's Cocoa is distinguished as an invigo rating, grateful breakfast beverage, possessing a most deli cioua aroma. Dr. flassall, in his wo,k, "Food and its A.dulteratio 5," says -"Cocoa contaics a great variety of im portantiegrowth nutritive principles —every ingredi4ut necessary to and su s t enance of the C o d y. " Aga i n: " As a nutritive, cocoa i stands very muc h hi g h er th an ether coffee or tea." D r,"Htillendsu; with Two boilingteaspoo water s e o r ottr lkhme powderi .Secured in in tin-lined ilb., O b ., and llb a breakfast cup . labelled packets, and sold by all grocers, confecti oners, and chemists • - ovT.J THEriSUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENEIG, MARCH 25, 1868, THE CIVIL WAR IN AMERICA. (From the Times' Correspondent.) NEW YORK, March 10. So much anxiety is felt for General Sherman's safety [that the Government, the Press, and the people are reduced to the consolation of declaring that "no news is good news." Nothing official or authentic has been heard of him since he quitted Columbia, and the Richmond papers,:which probably know the line of his march—whether it be an ad vance or a retreat—confine themselves to the pro mulgation of vague assurances that his doom is sealed, and that nothing but a precipitate and suc cessful retreat towards the sea can save him from a crushing disaster. General Sheridan has been ope rating with partial success in the valley of the She nandoah, and has captured a detachment of General Early's forces, numbering 1,300 men, with eight pieces of artillery. This feat was magnified by de serters into the total rout of Early and 48,000 men ; and by subsequent reports into the capture of Early himself. General Grant communicated the grateful intelligence to Mr. Stanton, and the latter, always ready to believe in victory, lost no time in taking the public into his confidence. For 24 hours the shouts of victory arose from all the cities of the North, and the praises of the gallant and lucky Sheridan were on all men's tongues, and filled the " sensational" columns of all the leading newspa pers ; and when after that interval the true state of the case was made known no one appeared to be disappointed, or be particularly angry with Mr. Stanton for giving official currency, not for the first or hundredth time, to a gross exaggeration. There has to-day been a heavy fall in gold, the cause of which has been traced to the receipt of pri vate telegrams from Washington, announcing a " great victory" by General Sherman—the time, place, and opponent not stated. Military critics attach no credit to the report, and attribute it en tirely to the machinations of a " ring" of specula tors whose headquarters are at Washington, but the scene of whose operations is in New York. The general public, as the day wore on, became as in credulous as the military critics, and gold went up again from 861 to 88k. One of the causes which has aided the downward movement of the last few days has been the publication of extracts from late Richmond journals, filled with recriminations, at tacks, and the gloomiest possible pictures of the state of affairs in the Confederate capital. Some of these articles hint at the possibility of the depo sition of Mr. Davis, the expulsion of the Confede rate Congress, and the investiture of General Lee with supreme and dictatorial power. The Northern people believe that all these things are symptoms of a fast approaching collapse of the Confederacy. They already see the commencement of a counter revolution in Richmond, and look upon the approach ing elevation of General Lee, of which they enter tain no doubt, not as a sign of renewed vigour in the South, or as any proof of a determination to carry on the war with greater energy and singleminded ness than ever, but as a consequence of Southern despair. Lee, however, it is known to the Federal Government, if not to the Federal people, com mands an army of nearly 100,000 men, of whom four-fifths are veterans, and can defy any assault upon any side of Richmond that Grant may make with a third of the number. He can consequently spare a respectable army from the defences of the capital to reinforce General J. E. Johnstone ; or despatch it to any other point at which it may seem more advisable to strike a blow. General Grant has about 125,000 men—not all veterans of the old Army of the Potomac, but fully 40,000 of them recruits, and continually calls upon the Government to supply him with better men. I learn on good authority that he is quite convinced that Richmond is impregnable unless by a combined military and naval assault, both to be made by a colossal force, and that he has persuaded the President, Mr. Stanton, and Mr. Welles to place at his disposal a strong fleet of gunboats, ironclads, and Monitors, to be commanded by Admiral Farra gut, and force the passage to the James River to within shelling distance of Richmond. It is calcu lated that :the assault will be costly in human life, but that, if vigorously conducted by the land and naval forces, it will result in such a splendid victory as virtually to end the war. At the great inaugu ration ball at Washington on Monday evening last, at which the gallant and joyous Farragut distin guished himself as much in the dance as he always does in battle, he turned to the President, who said, sotto voce, but loud enough to be overheard by several persons, "My next dance, Mr. President, will be at Richmond." Admiral Porter's fleet is, it appears, to be withdrawn from Wilmington to aug ment the force at Admiral Farragut's disposal, and the grand assault is to be made as soon as it is pos sible to organise the details and make all necessary arrangements. The painful exhibition made by Vice-President Johnson on Saturday last, in presence not only of the highest dignitaries of the Senate, the Govern ment, and the representatives of Foreign Powers, but of more than a thousand ladies, assembled to witness the:most solemn ceremony of American State life, continues to excite indignant comment in every private society and in every newspaper of the coun try, except in a few Administration journals which would willingly conceal the indecency they cannot but condemn. It is not only the drunkenness of the Vice-President that is denounced and deplored, but the vulgarly offensive and brutal manner in which the drunkenness displayed itself, and which proved but to palpably that no force of circumstance or advancement in worldly and political position was sufficient to raise Andrew Johnson to the rank of a gentleman. There is an old proverb which sa y s that you can't make a silk purse out of a sow ' s ear ; put a clean shirt upon a pig, you waste your and another that iirif you linen and do not improve the both which have been extensively quoted since Mr. Johnson Johnson courted their application to himself by his behaviour on an occasion which should to him, of all men, have been the most sacred and solemn of his life. He is ex officio President of the Senate, but as he has seen fit to re new the inebriation of Saturday, or rather to per petuate it since that time, he has not been able, even if he have been proposed, to make his appearance in that body. The Senate, without reference to his misconduct, but acting in consequence of it, passed an order on Monday, prohibiting for the future the sale of any intoxicating drinks in the refreshment room of the Capitol, popularly knownas the " Hole in the Wall," a piece of legislation which will do nothing to cure the evil in Mr. Johnson's case, or in that of any other senator, if there happen to be one who is af flicted with Mr. Johnson's infirmity. Whisky shops " groggeries," and " nun holes" as they are promis cuously called, abound in every street in Washing ton, and within a stone's throw of the Senate Cham bers there are scores of such plaees in which any thirsty senator, so disposed, may find either the re freshment he needs or the stimulus he craves. Mr. Charles Sumner has publicly declared that the Fede ral cause could have better afforded to lose a battle than to have been represented on the 4th of March and in the presence of the world by such a Vice Pre sident as Mr. Johnson ; while Mr Thaddeus Stevens loudly proclaims that if the House of Representa tives were in session he would feel it his duty, if no one else moved in the matter, to propose a vote of censure on the offender, and call upon him in the he whichwawas incompetenth he had di disgraced, name of the representatives of the people to resign offic e which he g t r o a d ce is d c , h a a n rg d e t m h , e ith dutiesof gentle manly propriety. It is highly probable that the Senate will be compelled by the pressure of public opinion to pass a vote of censure, and that it will under no circumstances allow Mr. Johnson to preside over its deliberations. No power, known to the Con stitution or the law, except an impeachment by both houses, can deprive Mr. Johnson of the Vice-Presi dency if he choose to retain it ; and if an impeach ment were successful, the difficulty of electing aVice- President by a popular vote in all the States, at a time when no other election was pending, would be so great, as well as so costly, as to deter Congress from adopting so large a remedy to crush so small and unworthy a criminal. In addition to this diffi culty the House of Represent a tives, not being in Session, would have to be summoned by proclama tion of the President, actually, if not nominally, for this very business, a course of conduct which it is very likely the President would not think it ad visable to pursue for the punishment of a colleague in whose defence it might be argued that he was unconscious of what he was doing, and that he has already suffered the high penalty of public disgrace and permanent loss of character and influence. The Senate, however, has full power over its own deli berations, and may appoint from time to time, as long as Mr. Johnson is Vice-President, a temporary chairman, in the person of any gentleman willingto accept the office. The Lock-out in the Iron Trade. WOLVERHAMPTON, Friday. The Earl of Lichfield, Lord-Lieutenant of Staf fordshire, came to Wolverhampton about noon to day and had an interview, by appointment, with a representative of the Ironmasters' Committee, the business secretary of the committee being present. Lord Lichfield listened with great attention and in terest to the wishes expressed by the committee. It was shown that the ironmasters of South Stafford shire were most anxious, before they took any steps to obtain the services of a number of men to go into North Staffordshire and commence work, to see if the necessity for adopting such a measure might not be avoided. Such, unhappily, had been the feelings of the North Staffordshire workmen towards their employers that the two had scarcely met since the strike had begun. The committee thought, however, that the men would, perhaps, not object to meet their own masters in the presence of masters from South Staffordshire and a deputation of masters from the north of England, if the Lord-Lieutenant of the county would consent to preside over such a meeting. On that occasion the men would have an opportunity of fully stating their case to those who understood it and in the presence of the highest authority of the county, who would be able to judge impartially, and who could then, if necessary, state their case in the highest quarters. The Earl of LICHFIELD expressed his warmest desire to promote any project that might have the effect of bringing about a resolution of peace. He expressed his fullest confidence in the sincerity of the wishes of the South Staffordshire masters to terminate the lock-out, and he believed that the masters in the north of the country were equally desirous that such a result should be arrived at as speedily as possible. He concluded by saying that if it should be shown to him that the men of North Staffordshire were as willing to meet the masters, to lay their case before them, as he believed the masters were to hear what the men had to say in support of their claim for the wages which they were asking, he would have no objection to take part in such a meeting. If the men would attend he expressed his readiness to have the meeting called for an early day next week. The meeting is intended to be altogether pre liminary and in order that the men may be in any way discouraged from expressing themselves fully it is proposed that newspaper reporters shall not be present. To-day the Board of Guardians of the Wolver hampton Union were engaged four hours in con sidering special applications for relief from those labourers at the ironworks who are thrown out of worklin consequence of the lock-out. The Brierly-hill Executive have sent to the local press a statement, complaining that it should be stated that they declined to approve the declaration drawn up by Messrs. Lloyds, Foster, and Co., of Wednesbury. In proof of their having approved it, they have forwarded for publication the following as a copy of the reply to Messrs. Lloyds, Foster, and Co.'s message :-- " Castle Inn, March 21, 1865. " To Messrs. Lloyds, Foster, and Co. "The Executive Council have no objection whatever to young men signing the paper shown to them, of which the following is a copy :—‘ Old Park Axle and TreoWorks, Wednesbury, March 21, 1865.—We, the undersigned, puddlers, shinglers, rollers, employed at Messrs. Lloyds, Foster, and Co.'s, do hereby declare that we will not directly or indirectly contribute or assist to support in any way whatever the North Staffordshire puddlers, shinglers, and rollers until they (the North Staffordshire puddlers, shinglers, and rollers) have resumed their work.' 4 ' I am, sir, yours obediently, on behalf of the Council, " WILLIAM HOBSON." The Executive express their surprise that no men tion should be made of this document of theirs, which they gave to the two workmen in Messrs. Lloyds, Foster, and Co.'s employ who took them the declaration from Messrs. Lloyds, Foster, and Co.'s works. The council believed that this was all which would be needed to the communication from Wednesday, but the deputation said that the men had an objection to sign any declaration, and desired that the Executive would write the note in which the Executive explained that no support of any kind had been sent from the funds of the union since the 4th inst. The deputation left the Executive stating that if the employers were satisfied with the note last referred to, which they should first present, then that one in which the Executive consented to their signing the declaration would not be presented. There would seem to be reason to conclude that, imagining that their masters were satisfied with one note they did not present the other. The note which they certainly did present w as pl ace d b e f ore the Ironmasters' Committee on Wednesday after noon at Wolverhampton, and it was declared to be unworthy of serious attention. NEWCASTLE-ON-TYNE, Friday Afternoon. A private meeting of the Committee of the Northern Ironmasters was held here yesterday, when the various suggestions advanced at the meet ing of the trades' delegates in London on the pre vious evening were brought under consideration. It is understood that the general feeling of the com mittee was that if the men would consent to refer the dispute to arbitration, an important step towards a satisfactory solution of the present difficulty would by this means be attained. A general meeting of the north country masters will be held at Darling ton on Monday, when it is anticipated that the means to be adopted to settle the present difficul ties will take a more definite form. In the mean time the suggestions made by Mr. C. M. Palmer, the chairman of the Northern Ironmasters' Associa tion, to put an end to the strike, more especially by the masters and men withdrawing from association with Staffordshire, has met the hearty concurrence of the men throughout the district 'generally. At Jarrow the millmen continue to refuse to go in to work the mills until the puddlers are set on. At Middlesborough a committee of the Labourers' Union has waited upon the Mayor, Mr. Atkinson, and placed the painful position of that class of workmen, especially non-union men, before him, with a view that something should be done for their relief. The committee represented that their case was very urgent, and that some families were suf fering very much from the effects of poverty. The Mayor promised to bring their condition before the magistrates and town council. The Gateshead Exe cutive have now no less than 450 applicants for pas sages to America, independently of the families who propose to go from Wilton Park, Spennymoor, Mid dlesborough, and other places. A crowded public meeting was held in the Mechanics'-hall, Skinner gate, Darlington, last night--Mr. 11. Percival in the chair—to devise means of alleviating the dis tress which at present exists among the ironworkers and labours. Several workmen connected with the iron trade addressed the meeting. The following resolutions were adopted : " That in the opinion of this meeting the sympathy of the public ought to be expressed in a practical manner, and that steps should be at once taken to raise the necessary funds for the relief of those who aro in immediate want. That this meeting cordially sympathises with the operatiyos recently engaged in the iron trade at Albert - hill, Darling ton, and aro now suffering from the present unfortunate lock-out." A committee was appointed to act with the iron workers in the distribution of the funds that might be raised to alleviate the distress at Albert-hill. BARNSLEY, Friday. The lock-out has acted most beneficially for this district, where the men have agreed to accept the reduction, and promised not to aid their brethren on strike. At Milton, Elsecar, and other works in our immediate neighbourhood the men are fully employed, puddlers and millmen alike. The men, no doubt, take a deep interest in the struggle, but so far they have good faith with their employers. The dispute, so many works being closed, has caused a large munber of orders to reach our iron- masters from quarters not previously sending here. The demand for plate iron, more particularly for the extensive shipbuilding yards on the Thames, Liverpool, and the North of England, is such that the orders far exceed the means of supply for months to come. At the meeting of the London trades delegates held on Wednesday evening last a resolution was unanimously adopted and accepted by the North Staffordahlre delegates present, Messrs. Baker and Phipps, the latter cause of which was as follows : " That the meeting recommend the North Stafford shire men to submit the question of their wages to arbitration, when the masters reopen their works, and allow the men now locked out to resume work.' This cause, expressly framed for the purpose of opening a way for - an amicable settlement, appears likely to have the desired effect. The letter which appeared in the papers yesterday morning from Mr. Roden, the chairman of the North Staffordshire Ironmasters' Association, in which he referred to the above meeting, was early yesterday morning brought under the notice of Mr. Baker, the secretary of the North Staffordshire men. He was at the time with some of the London delegates, and, acting upon their advice, he at once telegraphed to his committee to place themselves in communication with Mr. Roden, and inform him that the North Staffordshire men were prepared at once to resume work, and submit the wages question in dispute to arbitration, providing the ironmasters would at the same time re-open their works and terminate the lock-out. The men state that they are perfectly sincere in thus acting on the advice of the London trades, and should the offer made be refused, which can hardly be expected, the onus of any continuance of the lock-out will depend upon the masters. The result of Mr. Roden's efforts with the masters' as sociation is looked for with much interest. SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. TIMES.—As the inquiryby the House of Lords into the case of Mr. Edmunds approaches its conclusion we begin to gain a little more insight into the true na ture and bearing of the transactions on which the Committee will have to report. We do not by any means know all of which we expect to be informed, but we extracted a day or two ago from a Scotch contemporary an amount of matter, certified to be authentic, which must have been read with very lively interest. We know now a little more of the real nature of the charges against Mr. Edmunds, and a great deal more of the grounds on which the name of Lord Brougham has been mixed up with these transactions. The general effect is by no means favourable to Mr. Edmunds or Mr. William Brougham, and shows that these gentlemen at least have had a great deal to explain away before they could expect to convince the committee of their in nocence. We cannot doubt, from the respectable testimony by which they are supported, that these statements are correct, and we shall proceed to lay them before our readers, with such comments as are necessary to explain them, and such additions as our own information may enable us to make. The case undoubtedly which is most interesting to the public is not directly affected by these revelations. The Lord Chancellor has been examined before the committee, but we are in no condition to add any thing to what is already known concerning his con duct, except indeed that the charges against him may be thought to be strengthened or weakened in proportion as the personal character of Mr. Edmunds is raised or lowered by the results of the investiga tion. It looks as if a considerable part of the contro versy would resolve itself into the question whether Mr. Edmunds was to be believed in his statement that the Lord Chancellor had held out to him the prospect of a pension as an inducement to resign. 'There is also another way in which the investiga tion into the character of Mr. Edmunds may bear on the case of the Lord Chancellor. The Lord Chancellor - was charged in the House of Lords with having oppressed an innocent man, and driven him unjustly from the public service, and this accusation will gain or lose force according as the character of Mr. Edmunds rises or falls in the esti mation of his judges. The charges against Mr. Edmunds are many and intricate. The first occa sion on which he appears to have incurred censure does not point to pecuniary corruption. An inquiry was made by two Queen's Counsel, who were ap pointed by the Commissioners of Patents to investi gate certain irregularities in the Patent-office. Their first Report stated that for a long time Mr. Ed munds's attendance had been little more than nomi nal. In 1863, however, a clerk had been detected in peculation, and Mr. Edmunds had since attended more frequently, but only to make matters worse. He was intemperate in manner, and his conduct to his subordinates was offensive, harsh, and unneces sarily severe. The Reporters would have recom mended his dismissal at once had they not hit upon more serious matters. He and his chief clerk made between £5OO and £6OO a year by appropriating to themselves the discount on stamps allowed to sta tioners at the Stamp-office. The charge as to the stamps was not denied, and was declared to be with out excuse,dishonest, and disgraceful. Then Mr. Ed munds had neglected to pay over money to the amount of £2,681, which would never have been re covered but for this inquiry, and had appropriated to his own use half of the sum designed to make good the defalcations of the clerk. For these instances of misconduct the investigators recommended that Mr. Edmunds should be dismissed from his office. His defence was very unsatisfactory. He considered the appropriation of the discount on stamps as a com mon custom;. he had paid the money with the receipt of which he was charged into an account at Coutt's, called the Patent-office account; but then he appears to have drawn money out of that account at pleasure, so that the public gained nothing by this reservation. Mr. Edmunds appears also to have neglected to pay the clerk whom he employed ; the clerk was in the habit of making false entries in order to pay him self, and continued the practice after he had become Clerk of the Patents, with a salary of £4OO a year, not without suspicions of connivance on the part of Mr. Edmunds. These statements are derived from official documents, the Reports . of Commissioners, men of character and ability, employed by the Lord Chancellor. There are others, but these thus authenticated may well serve as samples. If but a tithe of what is alleged against him be true, Mr. Edmunds is not a person on whose unsupported word we would receive a charge against any human creature, much less against one of the principal personages of the State. So far the Lord Chancellor undoubtedly profits by the discovery of so many and such gross deeds of misconduct ; but if the crimination of Mr. Edmunds weakens the case against him in one respect, it undoubtedly strengthens it in another. This Mr. Edmunds is the person to whom, on his own admission, the Lord Chancellor, with culpable facility, permitted the Committee of the House of Lords, who had no official knowledge of his misconduct, to grant a pen sion which he in no degree deserved, and his right to which he had distinctly forfeited. So much stands admitted by the Lord Chancellor's statement ; but he denies—and is entitled to full credit for the denial until the contrary be proved by a witness more credible than Mr. Edmunds—that the resignation of that person was occasioned by any inducement he had held out to him. In the meanwhile we now learn more of that part of the story with which the name of Lord Brougham is mixed up. The case has no connexion, so far as we can see, with the offences of Mr. Edmunds, except so far as the sort of plunder to which he alleges himself to have been subjected may account for his readiness to lay hands in his turn on public property. The story, to which we are able to add some circumstances, is briefly as follows. In 1827 some land belonging to Lord Brougham was mortgaged to the sisters of Mr. Ed munds for £5,000, in order to pay off a previous mortgage executed by Lord Brougham in 1811. The money is said not to have been for the benefit of Lord Brougham, but for his brother James. In 1833 Lord Brougham appointed Mr. Edmunds to be Clerk of Patents, with a salary of £4OO a year. From that time forth till 1864 Mr. Edmunds paid out of that salary £2OO a year to his sisters as inte rest due on the mortgage of £5,000, and £lOO to Mr. William Brougham, who had taken the place in the transaction of his deceased brother James. Mr. William Brougham also owed Edmunds £1,200 formerly lent to him, part of which was made up of the payment of the interest on the mortgage from 1830 to 1834. In 1864, after Mr. Edmunds had continued to pay thi s money f or t hi rty years— relying, we presume, on the fact that no payment of interest could be traced except to Mr. Edmunds himself, and that ther e f ore th e mortgage had b ecome extinguished by lapse of time—all knowledge of the mortgage was denied. Mr. Edmunds, on the other hand, claimed b ac k b e t ween £ 9,000 and £lO,OOO,- which he asserted was paid on behalf of the children of John Brougham, and which had never found its way to their hands. Lord Cranworth awarded the £5,000 se cure d on th e mortgage to Mr. Edmunds ' sisters, and the £1,200 to Mr. Edmunds himself, but refused to give him b ac k th e £9,000 w hi c h h e claimed on.the ground that the trust had not been fulfilled. Comment on these facts is almost super fluous. There seems every reason to believe that by some one the office was sold to Mr. Edmunds for the annual payments which he made, but it is only just to say that the transaction is not brought home to Lord Brougham. The public will wait with much anxiety the result of these unpleasant dis closures, which probably form only a part of what we have yet to learn, and will, we doubt not, with hold a final opinion until it sees the facts found after the careful sifting of an impartial Committee. POST.—It must occasionally happen, notwith standing the most equable temper on both sides, that the members of the Judicial Bench and of the Bar will come into collision, and that the one will say something or do something without reflection which will give offence to the other ; on the whole, however we have reason to congratulate ourselves on the harmony which subsists between the two great bodies which are mainly instrumental in the administration of justice. The Bench and the Bar are both independent, and they ale equally alive to the necessity of exhibiting mutual forbearance. The former is recruited from the latter, and the judge consequently never forgets that he has been a bar rister ; whilst, on the other hand, the barrister sees upon the bench those who have been formerly his companions, and with whom he has striven in gene rous conflictin the same arena. Under circumstances such as these it is not surprising, therefore, that the administration of justice should but seldom be dis turbed by unseemly squabbles between men who, however different in a yank, are equally gentlemen, equally independent, and who are, or who have been, members of the same liberal profession. The Bench necessarily takes precedence of the Bar, it is invested with a superior authority, and it may justly claim from the latter a greater show of outward respect than it is called upon to render in return. But, on the other hand, it possesses comparatively little power of enforcing that respect if it is denied. To evince disrespect to a judge is termed contempt of Court, and the law invests a judge with almost arbitrary powers of punishing the delinquent who, in his person, insults the majesty of justice. But the very arbitrariness of the powers thus conferred in itself conduces to their non-enforcement. A man who has been trained to the study of the law, and who has, by the talents and the ability manifested in the discharge of his professional duties, raised himself to the judicial bench, naturally shrinks from consulting himself in his own cause, and it is only in very extreme cases that judges venture to exercise the powers granted to them in their own defence. Notwithstanding, therefore, the authority which they wield, the judges are, for all practical purposes, compelled to rely on the courtesy and the good feeling of the Bar to treat them with that respect which is due to their high office. Nor is this reliance misplaced. Our system of administering the law may not be absolutely perfect, but we may truthfully say that in no country in the world is justice meted out with greater decorum. The perfect independence which, as we have already remarked, is enjoyed both by the Bench and the Bar makes both equally interested in preserving and respecting mutual rights. But occasionally it will happen that the fallibility of human nature will disclose itself, and that judgment will be overruled by the impulse of the moment. An accident has, we regret to say, just taken place at the Manchester assizes, which proves that men moving in the highest sphere of the Legal profession are not exempt from failings which it might have been supposed a long experience would have entirely cured. On Wednesday last Mr. Justice Mellor was engaged in trying a cause at Manchester, when, the defendant's case having been opened, the plaintiff's counsel, Mr. Edward James, asked the judge if he intended to proceed any further with the hearing of the cause on that day. It was then ten minutes to six o'clock. Mr. Justice Mellor replied that as the assizes would ter minate on the following day, and as several causes remained undisposed of, he would conclude the case then before him the same evening. Mr. James, who, by the way, holds the local rank of Attorney- General, thereupon pressed upon his lordship that he had been engaged the entire day, and therefore prayed for an adjournment. The judge answered that he had the same grounds for complaining of fatigue as the learned counsel, but that, under the circumstances he could not, consistently with his duty, rise at that (for circuit) comparatively early hour. Mr. James thereupon, after remarking that his junior, Mr. Thomas Jones, was absent, rose and left the court. By the departure of the Attorney- General his client, the plaintiff, was necessarily left unrepresented by counsel, and as soon as the de fen'lant's counsel had called his first witness no one was present to cross-examine on the part of the plaintiff. At this point Mr. Justice Mellor commented strongly on the conduct of Mr. James in leaving the court, and endeavouring, by so doing, to coerce him into adjourning, and put it to the jury whether they desired to proceed. The jury having expressed their willingness to try out the cause, the judge per mitted the plaintiff's attorney to cross-examine the defendant's witnesses, and .the trial proceeded. At 20 minutes to 7 o'clock Mr. Jones, the plaintiff's junior counsel, came into court, and applied to the judge for an adjournment, on the ground that, having been absent during the preceding stages of the trial, he was unable to cross-examine the defen dant's witnesses as effectively as he would otherwise have been. To this application the judge refused to accede, having already declined to entertain it when made by Mr. James, and again took occasion to refer to the want of courtesy which the latter gentleman had manifested in leaving the court because he had refused to adjourn. Mr. Jones then evinced his readiness to remain in court whilst the trial lasted, out of respect to his lordship, though he professed himself, for the reasons he had assigned, unable to conduct his client's case. Ultimately, however, the notes of the evidence having been read by the learned judge, Mr. Jones was enabled to discharge his duty to his client with his customary ability, and the trial was brought to a close the same evening. Now, we think no diversity of opinion can exist respecting the merits of this unfortunate incident. It is scarcely necessary to remind the public that on circuit judges are constantly obliged to sit until a late hour, in order, within the limited tine allotted to them in each assize town, to dispose of the muses which are set down for trial. They take their seats on the bench at 9 o'clock in the morning, and are frequently compelled, though at a cost of great personal fatigue, to sit until nightfall. The application of Mr. Attor ney-General James for an adjournment before six o'clock in a part-heard case, on the last day but one of the assizes, with several causes still remaining for trial, was therefore pringi facie unreasonable. But, having made it, he was clearly bound to abide by the decision of the judge, who on public, grounds thought it expedient to refuse it. Mr. James pleaded personal exhaustion, but it could not have been greater than that of the jud g e t o w h om h e appea l e d. Assuming, however, that it was so, and that Mr. James found himself absolutely compelled to retire from the court (of which, however, to borrow a lawyer's phrase, th ere i s no ev id ence ) , no justifica ti▪ on can be offered for the manner in which he did so. He did not offer a single word of apology to the judge for taking a st e p w hi c h , on it s f ace, was gross l y di▪ srespectful, nor did he make the slightest attempt to protect the interests of his client by obtaining the attendance of his junior before leaving the court. Such being the case, we are driven to the unavoid able conclusion that the fatigues of a long day's work deprived Mr. James of his habitual judgment and command of temper. Nothing, however, we may add, could be more satisfactory than the expla nation which Mr. James made in court on the fol lowing morning, and the only regret we can feel is that it was not made on the preceding evening. He was, as he stated, overcome by physical exhaustion, and compelled to withdraw. Mr. James cannot, however, be held excused for not having at the time made the judge aware that his withdrawal was not, as it had every appearance of being, an act of disre spect. The judges may be entrusted with the sole authority to determine the fitting time of adjourn ment, and any indirect attempt to deprive them of a right so important, regard being had to the inte rests of the public, must justly excite the strongest reprehension. "And then he drew a dial frem his poke, And looking on it with lack lustre eye, Says very wisely, ' It is ten o'clock : Thus we may see,' quoth he, ' how the world wags." 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The calendar contains tho names of 76 prisoners —one charged with murder on the high seas, nine with man slaughter, 16 burglary, 11 robbery, two bigamy, seven wounding, four passing base coin, three larceny, four per jury, one breach of Bankruptcy Act, one embezzlement, one forgery, one concealment of birth, and one rape. ADVERTISEMENT.]—HoIIoway's Pills and Ointment.— Happiness round the Hearth.—With the sore trials, temp tations, and accidents daily endangering health and life in large cities, it is most important to have at hand some means of stopping the budding evil, for the longer it is neglected the more wide-spread is the generation. Hollo way's medicaments supply this great want; they are inex pensive, purchaseable everywhere, can be readily used, aro safe in inexperienced hands, and perfectly reliable as healers and purifiers. Holloway's ointment and pills cure inflammation; abscesses, and ulcerations with a facility hitherto unknown. Holloway's noble remedies will give relief to sufferers from skin diseases of the most revolting character, for which in bygone days a dangerous mineral was often administered with fatal consequences. Extraordinary Case of Perjury. A case was disposed off yesterday at the Lewis Assizes, before the Lord Chief Baron, of a very extraordinary cha racter. Mr. Henry Mowbray, an elderly man of respectable appearance, and who has for many years held a responsible position in the* town of Brighton, surrendered to take his trial upon an indictment charging him with misdemeanour in having committed wilful and corrupt perjury before the judge of the county court at Brighton. Sergeant Parry was specially retained, with Mr. Pearce, for the prosecution. The defendant, it appeared, contrary to the advice of his friends, determined to conduct his own defence. The cir cumstance under which the charge was preferred was very peculiar. It appeared that the defendant, in addition to carrying on a business at Brighton, was an agent for an accidental death insurance company, and he was acquainted with the prosecutor, who is a person of great respectability , and who holds an official position in the town, and a few weeks back the defendant, who was upon friendly terms with .the prosecutor, called upon him, and asked him to effect an insurance against accident with the company he represented. The prosecutor expressed his willingness to do so, and the defendant pressed him to insure to the extent of a £5 premium, but he would not insure to that amount, but did so for a sum that required the payment of £1 as premium, and he gave a check for that amount. Accord ing to the case for the prosecution, and which did not in deed seem to be disputed, the prosecutor put the proper amount of £1 on the counterfoil of the check, but he droll' the check itself for the sum of £5, but owing to the coun terfoil being correct, the mistake was not discovered until he obtained his cancelled checks from the bankers, and he then immediately applied to the defendant for the restitu tion of the £4 that had been paid him in excess. The de fendant then seemed to have made the same statement he all along persisted in, viz., that it was true that he had received a check for £5, but that he had paid over to the prosecutor at the time he received it the change of four sovereigns, and he positively refused to pay the amount demanded of him. The prosecutor, upon this, instituted proceedings in the county court against the defendant, and both parties were examined, and the defendant then declared, upon his oath, that he had paid the four sovereigns, the change for the cheque, to the prosecutor. The latter, however, swore as positively that he had never received the money, and after a long and careful inquiry, the judge of the court, Mr. Tin' nor, gave judgment against the defendant. He was not satisfied with this decision, but applied for a new trial, which was granted, and as, on account of the sum in dis pute being under £5, the defendant himself had not the right to claim that the matter should be decided by a jurly the learned judge himself exercised the power vested in him by the County Court Act, of directing that a jur9 should be empanelled to try the cause, as he considered the decision of such a tribunal was likely to be more satis factory to both parties than his own. The cause accord ingly came on a second time, and the defendant and the prosecutor were again examined, and both swore positively as before, the one that he had paid awl the other that he had not received the four sovereigns, but in the result it verdict was again returned against the defendant, and the present prosecution was then proceeded with. The evi dence now given was of course pretty much the same that given on the former occasion, except that the defen dant could not be examined, and although there were doubtedly some circumstances tending to confirm the pro secutor's statement, still the case pretty well resolved itself into one of oath against oath-. The defendant-made a long statement to the jury when he was called upon for his de fence, in which he again asserted that he had paid the money, and said that if he had not he must have bee" labouring under a most extraordinary mistake, and he urged the improbability that he should have sacrificed the respectable position he had so long enjoyed for such s paltry sum as the one now in question. He also said that when he swore that he had paid the money ho had sworn what he really believed to be true, and that he had nev er contemplated committing such a crime as % ilful and cot,- rapt perjury. The defendant received a high charac ter from several respectable witnesses. The learne d Judge summed up the case very favourably to the defend ant, and the jury, after having deliberated for some thee+ inquired of his lordship whether, in the event of their finding the defendant guilty, they could recommend hint t° mercy ? The Lord Chief Baron said he thought that in tb case like this they could not, and he observed at the ssn' time that by their desiring to take this course it would dicate that they had a doubt of the defendant's guilt, and a this was the case, they ought to acquit him, and he remin ds them that they ought not to find him guilty, unless 00 were satisfied that he had wilfully and deliberately sw orn that which he knew to be false, and that he had not merely made a mistake. The jury then retired to deliberate , and ` upon their return into court they gave a verdict of The learned judge having taken time to consider the matter, the defendant was placed at the bar to receive judgrnes i t i and he then again declared that; he always had, and a' still, conscientiously believe that ho had paid the money' The Lord Chief Baron then said that he thought the de fendant had been ill-advised in taking upon himself to co n " duct his own defence, and expressed his opinion that if be had been defended by counsel, a different result would hav e been arrived at. The jury, however, had found him guil t s' and he was bound to pass sentence upon him, and that sentence would be that he should be imprisoned and kep t to hard labour for four months. He would, however, sal that if the prisoner, or his friends, chose to memorialise the Secretary of State, either for a pardon or a commutation of the sentence, and if he was applied to, he should give his opinion in reference to the case. COUNTRY MARKETS LIVERPOOL.—FRIDAY. We have had only a small attendance at our corn ex change this morning, and though sellers of wheat have ob-: tamed the extreme prices of Tuesday (ld to 2 d per cental over this day week) they have not been able to get on sp. freely as then. Barrel flour is steady at full rates, and sacks are 6d dearer. Indian corn creeps gradually up, an we quote the advance since last Friday at 9d per qr., 1 911 , we have only a retail business to day. Oats scarce and fully id per bushel higher. Oatmeal 3d per load agail. buyer. Beans, peas, and barley are each held for an a vance of 6d per qr. Market steady, but not so brisk as ° lir last. LINCOLN.—FRIDAY. r 36 New white wheat, 39s to 435:; new red, 36s to 39 8 P e e ling , stone. Barley for malting, 30s to 34s per qr ; gri n a s s to 26s to 29s per 30 ston e . O a ts, 21s t o 265. Beans, " 40s per qr. DERBY—FRIDAY. 36 New white wheat, 41s to 45s •, new red, 36s to 40s pe g stone. Barley for malting, 31s to 34s per qr. ; g ri rg t 26s to 29s per 30 stone. Oats, new, 22s to 24s ; old, 'leg 26s per 24 stone. Beans, old, 41s to 445 ; new, 36s t° per qr. S TA ORD.—FRIDAY 6 New white wheat, 40s 1FF to 42s new rod,. 35s to Ms P -1. 30 3 0 stone. Barley, malting, 31s to 1 335; grinding, 27s 0 ,.„ 1 0. per qr. Oats, new, 22s to 225; old, .— s to —sper 24 sk" Beans, 36s to lOs per 38 stone. Teas as heretofore. WAKEFIELD.—FRIDAY. Wheat meets a moderate but' consumptive demand at la advance. Barley in short supply, and fully 1s dearer di The following are the averages for the week 011 94D March 13 :—Wheat, 3;888 qrs., at 39s 3-id; b a rley', roi qrs., at 28s Od ; oats, 50 qrs., at 22s 7d ; beans, ti at s Od ; peas, qrs., at —s Od. BRISTOL SUGAR.—FRIDAY. a n The demand is 'inactive, and prices are 6d loliVer wee r.. last week ; the sales do not exceed 100 hhds. for the ales; Refined is very dull and is cheaper. Rum —u° prices nominal. COAL MARKET. Price per ton at the close of the market. . d. s. d. 20 b 3 3 Byass's Bebside West Braddyell's Hetton.... 1 9 Hartley l5 0 Walls End Gosforlh 0 9 Cowpen Hartley Tunstall South Kelloe Heugh Hall 2O 3 Dean's Primrose .•••••.. , 13 ,, 0 Carway and Duffryn ''' 9 West Lambton ......... .0 Malting 22 0 Cassop ... .. ......... .... 3 0 0 East Hartlepool Ships at market, 46; sold, 42. J. J th e of thy 1 8 , Births. i j adir ATIILUMNEY.—On the 23d inst., at Somerville? Athlumney, of a son. w ife FALCKE.—On the 24th inst., at 23, Bedford-square, the of Beare Falcke, Esq., of a son. s Afejo l ' Mows.—On the 23d inst., at Tiverton, the wife 0. General Morris, R.A., of a son. 4 .he PAnzs.—On the 23d inst., at Childown, ChertseY, "- of John Pares, Esq., of a son. Marriages. FURRKEN—GIBBS.—On the 23d inst., at Saint '-' — stocl‘ - Liverpool, E. Fuhrken, Esq., of 4, Binfield-road, 1 Jolla well, London, to Caroline, youngest daughter 0 Gibbs, Esq., Liverpool. stoc^ . SEATON— KING.—On the 23d inst., at St. Michael's,,,, n of well, Walter Lewis, son of Thomas Seato, -roVio• West Mailing, Kent, to Nancy, elder daughter King, Esq., Stockwell. Deaths. Sa m uel BARNES.—On the 20th inst., at Woolwich, CaP" Barnes,,R.A., aged 95. Boy Al- JENCKEN.—On the 22d inst., at his residence, Age terrace, Kingstown, Dr. Ferdinand John Jene ln3lll 79. Geo. KEYS.—On the 21st inst., atßredgar Lodge, Croydol3' Keys, aged 75. i c .„strenti Sir Nlcnom.s.—On the 24th inst. at at 17 , Hyde-Par George Nicholls, K.C.8., aged . 83. pilaf NOBLE.—On the 21st inst., at Dover, Captainn Wheeloch Noble, R.N., Myor of Dover, aged 6v. c den" PEGG.—On the 22d inst, at Fir Hill Lodge, Lovrerl B ,„a ham, Samuel Pegg, Esq., of Bankside, Southwo Brierly-hill, Staffordshire, ci ” aged 66. re C• IV* WYNNE.—On the 22d inst., at Portman-'squa- C. • Wynne, Esq., of Voleas, Denbighshire, aged n s,Of London : Printed and PubliEhed by WIL LIAM AN'',4lo of No. 112, Strand, Plinter, at Ties SUN °Mee, 01 Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy , in t he Co' Middleselc—Saturday, March 2'4_1865.