The Sun. — London, England, 1870-05-28 00:00:00

OLYMPIC THEATRE.-MISS BA I'EM AN.- THIS EVENING, at 8, MARY WARNER: Mary Warner, Miss Bateman; assisted by Messrs. Vernon, D. Fisher, Blakeley, Roberts, Elliott, Vanghan, and G. Belmore. receded by, at 7, MUSIC HATH CHARMS: Miss Mattie Reinhardt. To conclude with THE 'VARSITY BOAT RACE. Mr. Geo. Belmore. L - 1 4 MOSES and SON supply every description of . clothing, ready-made, or made to measure, for all ages, all occasions, and all classes; also Hosiery and Drapery, Hats and Caps, Boots and Shoes, and complete outfits for all climates. All Goods marked in Plain Figures. Any article exchanged if not worn or injured. List of Prices, with Rules for Self-measure, Patterns, and Fashion-sheet, gratis and post-free. E. MOSES and SON'S Establishments are closed every Friday evening at sunset, till Saturday evening at sunset, when busi ness is resumed until Eleven o'clock. The following are the only addresses of E. MOSES and SON : LONDON. CORNER of MINORIES and ALDGATE. NEW OXFORD-STREET, CORNER OF HART-STREET. CORNER of TOTTENHAM-COURT-ROAD and EUSTON-ROAD. COUNTRY BRANCH, BRADFORD, YORKSHIRE, JOHN GOSNELL and CO.'S CHERRY TOOTH PASTE is g reatly superior to any tooth powder ; gives the teeth a pearl whiteness, protects the enamel from decay, and imparts a pleasant fragrance to the breath. Price is. 6d.— Red Bull Wharf, 93, Upper Thames street, London. YCEUM THEATRE (under the management of Messrs Mansell). THIS EVENING, at 7.30, HIS OWN RIVAL. Mr. F. Charles and Miss L. Morgan. At 8, BREAKING THE SPELL. After which, at ..30, LITTLE FAUST: Mr. T. Maclagan, M. Marius, Mr. Aynsley Cook, Mr. Odell, and Mr. Wilmot; Millie. Debreux, Mesdames Lennox G:ey, Lawson, Lee, and Emily Soldene. yiMOSES and SON, 1 . e CORNER of MINORIES and ALDGATE. NEW OXFORD - STREET, CORNER of HART-STREET. CORNER of TOTTENHAM-COURT-ROAD and EUSTON-ROAD. BRADFORD, YORKSHIRE. EMOSES and SON'S PRICE LIST of a GENTLEMEN'S CLOTHING. 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V 4 MOSES and SON'S PRICE LIST of • B OY'S CLOTHING : ilss. 19s. 21s. 265. 30s. 365, 325. 365. 48s, Brighton 1 18s. 235. Suits Harrow Suits ) 183. 235. 265. 325. 365. 483, SUNDAY CLOSING OF PUBLIC HOUSES. A great open-air WORKING MEN'S DEMONSTRATION will take place at Lismore Circus, Haverstock Hill, on SATURDAY, May 28. Speakers :—Rev. J. Morgan, and Messrs. G. Dibley, J. Hilton, and J. Leicester ; the Rev. E. Mathews, M.A., Travelling Secretary of the Central Association, will attend as a Deputation. The Chair will be taken by M. A. GAIWEY, Esq., LL.B., Barrister at-Law, at Five o'Clock, p.m. LIFE BOAT S ERVIC ES. —During the storms of the past 17 months the NATIONAL LIFEBOAT INSTITU- T lON contributed to the saving of 1,592 lives from various ship wrecks and 43 vessels from destruction. It has now 220 Lifeboat Stations under its management. CONTRIBUTIONS for their support will be thankfully received .by Messrs. Willis and to , Coutts and Co., Berries and Co., by all the London and country bankers, and by the Secretary, RICHARD Lions, Esq., at the Insti tution, 14, John-street, Adelphi, London. NOTHING IMPOSSIBLE, A GUA AMARELLA restores the Human Hair to its pristine hue, no matter at what age. J NO. GOSNE I.L and CO. have at length, with the aid of one of the most eminent Chemists, succeeded in perfecting this wonder ful liquid. It is now offered to the public in a more concentrated form, and at a lower price. Sold in bottles, Ss each; also 55., 7s. 6d., and 15s. each, includ ng brush. lied Bull Wharf .Angel-passage, V 3, Upper Thames-street, Lon don, E.C. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Sole Lessee ; Mr, Buckstone. THIS EVENING, at 7 o'cicck, NO SOING NO SUPPER: Mr. Kendal, Mr. Compton, Mr. Ecla aid Oshorne, Mr. Clark; Miss F. Wright, !dies Francis, Miss Fosbroke, and Miss F. Gwynne. After which, at 8 precisely, BA RWISE'S BOOK: Mr. Sothern, Mr. Chippendale, Mr Compton, Mr. Kendal, Mr. Buckstone; Miss C. Hill, Mrs. Frank Matthews, and Miss Fanny Gwynne. And (by desire) A REGULAR FIX: Mr. Sothern, &c. Concluding with A IKSS IN THE DARK. AD ELP HI THEATRE.—New Company. —N ew Drama.—At 7.30, FREE LABOUR, a drama, in four acts, by Charles Reade, played by a new company, selected from first-class theatres. New scenery by Hawes Craven. ROYAL STRAND THEATRE. Sole Lessee and M anageress, Mrs. 4wanborough. THIS EVENING, at 7 o'clock, LOVING HEARTS. Messrs Edward Teary and Turner; Mesdames }Raton Santley. Fcllowed by SIR GEORGE AND A DRAGON. Messrs Tames, terry, Fenton; Mesdames Fantley, Dashwood, Goodall, Hughes, Anstiss, and Metcalfe. VAUDEVILLE THEATRE, STRAND.- Lessees—Messrs H J. Montague, D. James, and T, Thorne.—THlS EVENING, at 7 30, an original Comedy, by A. Halliday. entitled FOR LOVE OR MONEY. At 9.46, the new Burlesque, by Conway Edwardes, entitled DON CARD )S; or, The Infante in Aims. Supported by the following COmpany:— Messrs H. J. Montague, G. Honey, 11. Irving, W. H. Stephens, C. Garthorne, E. Elton, and Thos. Thorne ; ?Jesdames Nelly Power, Cavendish, Amy Fawsitt, K Irwin, L. Claire, J. Beauclerc, R. Evelyn, Kemp, T Lavis, F. Garthwaite, R. Power. THE LATE EDITION of " THE SUN" at Mr. BEAUMONT'S. " The Wellington," Wellington-street, Strand, ruHE LATE EDITION of "THE SUN" at 11 W. SMITH'S " Camden Stores," 78, Park-street, Camden- town. THE THEATRES, &c. HAYMARKET—At Seven, No Song No Supper. Barwise'e Book. And. A Kiss in the Daik. PRINCE OF WALEs's—At 7.30. Quite by Accident. M.P. Dearest Mamma. LYeaum—At 7.30, His Own llival, Breaking the Spell. At 8 3^, Little Faust. OLYMPIC -At Seven, Music hath Charms. At 8, Mary Warner, l'he 'Varsity Boat Race. OIkIETY—At Seven, The Man of Quality. The Princess of Tre bizonde. QUEEN'S —At Seven, My Wife's Dentist. 'Twist Axe and Crown. STRAND —At Seven, Loving Hearts, Sir George and a Dragon. VAUDEVILLE—For Love or Money. Don Carlos. ST. JAMES'S—At Seven, Fron Frou. La Belle Sanvage, WOOD'S'S CARPET-BAG AND SKETCII BOOK. Egyptian Hall, Pic cadilly, every Evening (except Saturday), at 8; tiaturday Morn io gs at 3. A dmission ls, 2s, 3s. CHRISTY MINSTRELS. St. James's Hall, Every Night, at 8; Wed nesdays and Saturdays, at 3 and 8 all the year round. MADAME TIISSAITD'S EXHIBITION, Baker-street, from 11 a.m. till alO p.m., and from 7 till 10 p.m. Admission, le.; extra rooms, Gd. ooLoGicAL GARDENS, Regent's-park. Open daily iexcept Sun.. day t-) Admission, is.; on Mondays, 6d. Children under twelve, ed. Knickerbocker 1 9s. 6d. 13s. 6d. 16s. (3d. 21s. 265. 304 Suits 50s. 634. THE LONDON, SATURDAY MORNING, MAY 28, 1870. ! j ‘ _ , MORNING EDITION. community, and thus the ignominous tale will be perpetuated. Could those miserable beings, who passed from this world in us sad a con dition as our fallen nature, can sink to have looked beyond their wretched death bed, they would have seen that their wrongs would be chronicled, and their oppressors called to account, when they had passed from the scenes of their sufferings. It has been truly said that the altars of NEMESIS are beneath every outraged roof, and so it has proved in the St. Pancras Workhouse. In the hurry-skurry of existence, the ceaseless whirl of events seemed to push the matter out of sight, when, lo and behold, the scene shifts, and we find ourselves called upon to witness another act in the supposed completed tragedy of St. Pancras. It has been said— " All fame is foreign, save that part, Plays round the head, but touches not the heart." And so disgrace does not consist in the things that most readily catch the eye; but in those that lie too deep for casual observation. The true eau c of shame for the late Guardians was the state of the workhouse in which they presided, and not in the outcry and clamour which was raised about it. However, as some minds cannot be affected by any thing that is not directly put before their eyes in the shape of immediate loss, let us trust that those who have carelessly turned away from the records of the sick untended,the dying neglected, and thepoverty-stricken ground down to the lowest point, will think it a dis grace on the parish that this sale should come off, and visit their wrath and indignation on those who brought about such a fiasco. For the sake of the public may this affair be the last scene of all in this strange eventful history, and may other and better fashions prevail. Let those whom it most immediately con cerns—the other guardians of parishes—lake heed by the lesson, and reflect that, if weighed in the balance, they too may be found wanting, and that a far stricter test will henceforth be applied to all who are placed in authority over the poor. The game has been played out with t vengeance, and no other metropolitan parish can be permitted to emulate St. Pancras in its strife and discord, its sad disclosures and harrowing stories, and to crown the edifice, in the scandal of the seizure and sale of its parochial goods and chattels. THE news from Canada, although not altogether satisfactory, gives no ground for uneasiness. The move ment of the Fenians, so far from producing the effect which its designers hoped and expected, has met with a prompt and vigorous resistance. There has been little fighting, the losses and injuries being reckoned by units, so that the Hibernian heroes cap not even take consolation in the recollection of a spirited encounter. They have been baffled and re pulsed in the most ignominious fashion, their leader has been arrested and imprisoned, their force demoralised, anrl, according to some accounts, entirely dispersed. Even O'Neill's imprisonment is deprived of the faintest prestige of martyrdom by its being occasioned for want of the necessary bail to answer a charge of in fringing the neutrality laws. It would be difficult for an elaborate scheme to break down in a more complete and ignoble manner. and the disowning of all know ledge of the affair on the part of the President of the Fenian Council gives evidence of the popular estimate of it's ill-success in the States. The United States Government has acted with com mendable promptitude and decision in the matter. For some time past the columns of the New York press have been filled with quiet little satires on what they termed " The Fenian scare," plainly intimating that the apprehen sions of the Canadians had overturned their judgment. When, however, the recent events shewed those apprehensions to have been only too well founded, the Government at Washington did all that could possibly be expected. A. proclamation from President Grant, warning all persons to keep aloof from illegal expeditions, and directing United States officers to arrest their progress, if possible, was immediately followed by the movement of American troops to the border, which they still guard. The arrest of O'Neill, which is said to have completely demoralised and disorganised the Fenian force, was accomplished by the United • States Marshal, General Foster, and latest accounts report that both sides of the border are efficiently guarded by the Canadian troops on the one hand, and by the American troops on the other. A telegram from New York, May 27, repeats the statement that a large body of Fenians, variously estimated at from eighteen hundred to four thousand, had crossed from Malone, and entrenched on the Trout River, a mile from the border, a spot distant some eleven miles from the station of the British troops at Huntingdon. There had, however, been no fighting, and so thoroughly are the Canadians on their guard that should the invaders be rash enough to renew 'the attempt of Monday, there can be no question whatever as to the result. The events of the last few days have at all events shewn us that one long-standing and general apprehension has been hitherto exaggerated. There is no insuperable difficulty in guarding the Canadian frontier, at all events from such a foe as the Fenians. The vigorous co-operation of the American Govern ment has, no doubt, greatly facilitated the task; but the energy and patriotism of the Canadians have proved fully equal on their side of the border to the exigencies of the case. We have seen enough of the Fenians on both sides of the Atlantic to know that if not thus firmly met they would have been unscrupulous, if not actually formid able foes. Even now, though having failed in disabling a single Canadian or in keeping possession of a rood of ground, they have done some mischief by cutting the telegraph wires and impeding communication with the States. We have, too, yet to hear the particulars of the disastrous fire at Quebec, the origin of which has not been accounted for. The loss and annoyance occasioned by an enemy is not always to be measured by his dignity or his importance. A guerilla warfare has been known to harass and perplex the most brilliant and successful general, and these miserable Fenians, whose efforts against Great Britain scarcely rise above the level of absurdity, once contrived by their Clerkenwell exploit to startle -the Eng lish metropolis. Out of the midst of all the evil they have caused, there arises, however, some good. The Canadians have shewn that they are fully capable of their own defence, and whatever their future, truly and thoroughly English in their courage, their patriotism and their discipline. The Fenians have accomplished other ends which they certainly did not include in their programme. They have strengthened the slackening ties between the colony and the mother country by the keen interest excited by the hour of danger, and they have promo ted a good understanding between the Governments of London and Washington through the ready and effi cient enforcement of the neutrality laws by President Grant. In reply to the Earl of Carnarvon, in the House of Lords at evening, Earl Granville declared that there was no change in the Government policy in refer ence to Canada, but added that orders had been given to suspend the movements of the troops during the continuance of the Fenian ex citement. The noble for i also stated during the evening that he should bring up the Irish Land Bill at the beginning of next week, and on Tues day propose an adjournment until Monday, the 13th June, when, unless such a course were objected to, he should move the second reading of the measure. Their lordships were engaged for several hours discus sing the Ecclesiastical Titles Act Repeal Bill. Much opposition was offered to the second reading, but ultimately the bill was read without a division. The Beverley and Bridgwater Disfranchisement Bill was also read a second time. In the House of Com mons Mr. Monsell made a statement with reference to the Fenian attack upon Canada, which was well calculated to reassure those who might have entertained any apprehension of very serious results from the inroad of the Fenians. Lord E. Cecil brought forward a motion, de claring that in the opinion of the House the present state of the law with regard to the use of false weights and measures, and the preventing and punishing the adulteration of food, drink, and drugs, was most un satisfactory. The evidence which the noble lord adduced in support of his motion was indis putable, and he withdrew his proposition after receiving an assurance from the Home Secre tary that the subject should have his best attention. An unusual scene occurred, when the House at 12 o'clock went into Committee on the Burials Bill. The forms of the House were frequently resorted to, in order to postpone the further consideration of the measure, and an hour and a half was wasted in fruit less efforts to accomplish that effort. The House adjourned at five minutes past two. L 2 2, ~ , , ,,k Caurt ''':.. ‘,,,,--_:-.-, '--- Circular „.......„ \4 „„ v , .. THE UXBRIDGE TRAGEDY. RESUMED INQUEST ON THE BODIES. At 10 o'clock yesterday Mr. Clearaby, the coroner for the southern division of the county of Bucks, resumed, at the Swan Inn, Denham, the inquest on the bodies of the unfortunate victims of this horrible massacre—Em manuel Marshall, 35 ; Charlotte, his wife, 33 ; Mary Ann Marshall, his sister, 29; Mary Marshall, the grand mother, 77 ; and the three children, Gertrude, Theresa, and Mary, aged respectively four, six, and eight years. The interest in the matter has not a whit abated since the first hearing before the Coroner, and a crowd of persons surrounded the inn in which the inquiry was being held. The exigencies of the case, however, required that only those absolutely interested should be admitted, and a strong body of the Bucks constabulary, under Capt. Drake, the chief constable of the county, and Superinten dents Dunham, Jarvis, and Denson, - maintained order both in and around the building. The bodies of the victims have since the hearing been placed, the elder ones in decent elm coffins, and the younger in the steriotyped blue sarsnet, studded with white nails. The house has been visited by many thousands, and it has required all the courage of the police upon the spot to prevent the curious breaking in. The Coroner stated that the inquest had been adjourned for the purpose of enabling the police to prosecute the inquiry. Since then a man had been apprehended and taken to Slough. He (the coroner) added that in justice to the man he had attended at Slough, and requested that he might be brought before this court, and Captain Drake had given him a very satisfactory reason for the non-attendance of the prisoner, he considered that in the excited state of the public mind he would not be able to answer for the safety of the man. If during the inquiry suspicion pointed to any second man, he doubted not that the jury would grant a further adjournment, meanwhile they would go as far as they could with the evidence before them, and he would state that there was most important evidence forthcoming. Thomas Dunham was then called and said—l am superintendent of the Bucks Police, stationed at Slough. I received information of the murder at Denham on Monday. Witness then detailed, as stated by him at the inquiry, that he went to the house and found the murdered persons. Mrs. Marshall was only partially dressed and had severe wounds on the head, and her sister a wound over the eye. He proceeded to the kitchen, where he found old Mrs. Marshall, lying on her left side, having severe wounds about the head. She had one stocking on, the garter partly fastened, and her night dress on. Near her was the youngest child, and the others in the fire-place. Mary Marshall was very much cut about the head, and lay across Theresa with her face uppermost, and she had evidently been struggling. In the workshop I found Marshall. I felt the bottoms of his stockings; and was sure that he had not walked across the blacksmith's shop, as there was no dirt on them. I may add that I examined the body, and found the two pockets pulled completely out, and hanging down. The Coroner : Were there serious injuries on the head ? Witness : Yes, and he had evidently been pulled back wards, his hose being pulled back, and his waistcoat bundled up under his arm. His head had evidently fallen on a machine near the door. I found blood also on the step, and on the lintel of the door outside. The beds had evidently been slept in, and the clothes had the appearance of having been pulled down in a hurry. In the front room I found a pair of old corduroy trousers with a piece of blue cloth on the right knee. The bottoms of the trousers were smothered with blood. [They were here exhibited, and were those usually worn by tramps.] Witness : I also found two boots in the same room. Upon one boot is a piece of human brain (sensation), and they are evidently those of a tramp being rather large with rag soles inside them. In the room facing the south I found a waistcoat and cord jacket (produced), and also a black cloth coat, billycock hat, three handkerchiefs and pieces of cloth, a blue and red striped shirt, a smock, and a hammer. The drawers in the rooms had been ransacked, and in the bureau was an empty watchstand. Witness then detailed the information he had received from Coombes, and the action taken thereon, and con tinued : I apprehended the accused at a lodging-house in Silver-street, Reading, the tramps' kitchen being in the rear. I was told he carried a pistol, and therefore used some cau tion in taking him. Before I crossed the room he said, " I never killed man, woman, or child." The Coroner : Before you spoke to him? Witness : Yes. I saw his hand go to his pocket, and we rushed at him and secured him, and took a pistol out of hfs pocket, loaded with powder and a slug. We hand cuffed him and charged him with the murder. He denied it, and I said " Why you scroundel you've got on the murdered man's shoes." He said, " That may be ;" " and his trousers," said I ; to which he made the same reply. I found in - his pocket the purse produced. On the prisoner I found the boots produced,rbelonging to the murdered man, and a shirt corresponding with those in Marshall's house, which will be identified by the person who made them. At a shop in Union-street I found some other articles belonging to the murdered people and the woman identified Jenkins as the man who sold them. When I apprehended the man I said, " I know you, you've just come out from two months for stealing stockings." He said, " That's my b name now ;" he never speaks without an oath, and I never met such a man before in that respect. The Deputy-Governor of Reading Gaol identified him as John Jones, an old offender. John Spencer Ferris Bell said : I was called in on Mon day evening at half-past seven to the house of the Mar ehalls. In the first room I found the corpse of Charlotte Marshall just inside the door, lying a little on her left side, with her face covered with blood, her head against the wall, and the wall smeared with blood. Close by, Mary Ann Marshall was lying, with her feet on the other, her face and head covered with blood. In the back kitchen I saw the dead body of the grandmother with her arm round the youngest child, who was dead by her side. Both of their heads were covered with blood. In the fire-place were the bodies of Mary and Theresa. In the forge was the father com pletely covered with a sack, his legs crossed, lying on his back, with his feet without shoes. On removing the sack I saw two wounds on the back of his head. Turning him over I found his face completely smashed in. At two P.M on May 24 I made a post mortem examination of all but Mary Ann and Charlotte, and next day on them, assisted by Drs. M`Namara and Pratt of Uxbridge, and Dr. Fox of Scarborough. and we were of opinion that they had been dead sixty hours, though there was still riger mortis. On the back of Emmanuel's left hand was a severe bruise, and the fingers of the right hand grazed, but no wound except on the head and face. The front of the face, clothes, and body were covered with grit and ashes, as though they had been dragged along. There were four wounds on the face, over the right eye, . top of the nose, and left eye, and a long, large, deep one over the chin. The upper and lower jaw, even to the bone under the eye, were completely smashed, and the hair matted with blood and ashes. The scalp had five wounds—one over the left side of the heed, another behind 1 inches long, behind that a smaller one, at the back a large wound, and at the right side of the head a long lacerated wound. Neither of these fractured the skull. There was a fracture of the skull, right across, so that the skull could be pulled in half, great effvsion into the brain, the scalp wounds were probably produced by the poker, and those on the face and skull by the sledge hammer or back of the axe. Theresa Marshall, aged six, had no fracture or bruise of limb or body, wound of scalp and Vrofusion of blood on the right side of the head, blood coming from the ear; face uninjured. On removing scalp several pieces of bone came away revealing the brain, in fact the whole right side of the skull was smashed, even down to the spine. The whole injuries on this side were probably produced by one blow of the sledge hammer. Mary Marshall, jun., aged eight, no bruises, wounds or fractures of body or limbs. Semi-circular incision five inches long, almost completely detaching the right ear from the head, Small wounds at the back of the head near which a scarred cut was seen. These were made by the poker, except the starred cut. Wound on right side of the face, and the upper and lower jaw broken, and a punctured fracture corresponding with the starred cut. Base of skull fractured, and skull divided in half. With regard to Gertrude Marshall, aged 4, blood came from nose, mouth, and ears, no bruises, wounds, &c., of limbs or body ; two small cuts on left side of scalp ; all the bones on the left side of the head completely stove in and fractured in all directions ; frontal bone alone intact ; many fragments of bone detached ; extravasation in brain, which injuries 'were probably made by a sledge hammer. On Mary Marshall, sen., aged 77, there was a graze on right knee. Bruise over right and left eye, triangular wound on temple. Right side of head, wound three inches long-, behind which there was another of the same length. Behind right ear a wound, also cuts, deep and lacerated. Blood oozing from left ear. Fracture across base of skull, so that skull could be pulled in half. much effused blood in brain. On Mary Ann Marshall (32), slight cut on upper lip ; wound, inch in length, on outer angle of left eye; teeth knocked into mouth ; wound, inch and quarter long, down parting of hair, as if done by axe ; large fracture on the right side of the skull. Base of skull fractured right across, so that the skull could be pulled in half, and several pieces of bone detached. Charlotte Marshall (wife) had the left upper eyelid bruised, blood coming from left ear, jagged transverse wound an inch long over right ear ; wound three inches long at back of head ; another of same length in middle of the head ; another jagged at the left side of back of head ; human blood under scalp ; fracture at base of skull, right across, so that skull copld be pulled in half. Injuries done by sledge-hammer or back of axe. A feeling of relief was expressed in court at the end of this hideous recital. George Houseman M`Namara proved assisting in the post-mortem examination, and agreed with last witness in every particular. Charles Coombes, through whose evidence the prisoner was apprehended, was - next called. He detailed a con versation in which Jenkins said he could earn his living between three and six, before they were up. (Sensation.) This statement did not surprise the witness. Coombes was then severely examined as to the whole of the occupants of the lodging-house on Saturday. He said: There were Jenkins, Carter, and Phil. When I came down on Sunday Dan says to me, " You wouldn'tknow the blacksmith." I said, " Why not ? " Dan said, "Why, he's got a watch, a carpet bag, and a suit of clothes." That was about nine in the morning. About ten Jenkins came downstairs. I almost stepped back with surprise. I said, " Halloa ! What have you been doing." I told Mrs. Balland there must be something wrong. A brother would not give a man his watch and chain and strip him self. Mrs. Balland says, " Nonsense, there's nothing the matter. I have no doubt he got them all right." I says, " Well, you'll hear something by and bye." Witness continued : At night when they were going to bed, Jenkins said he should go out into the road and fetch in a horse and trap, he had bought of a man that was driving it along the road. He went out and witness again asked Mrs. Balland what she thought, now ? and she made the same reply, but witness was sure there was something wrong, and continued to think so. Next morning he saw Jenkins coming out of the Bell beershop with two "gals," and in the evening he told him he wanted to pawn a watch and witness made an excuse to get rid of him, but he followed him and then they got drinking. - While they were in the Queen's Head, a man said " Have you heard of the murder." I says " Murder," he said " yes, of seven people." Jenkins then suddenly said, " Which is the way into the back yard." I shewed him and saw him go into the closet. I told Mrs. Balland again, I said, " That man's done the murder and no other." By the Coroner : I fancy Marshall had a pony and chaise, and that Jenkins went there on Sunday for them. He told me that he had stolen as many horses as there were in Uxbridge. Coroner : When was that ? Witness : Before he " did " the two months. He told me he stole his father's horse, and sold it for 214, and that then he wrote to his father and told him where it was, and he went and fetched it. Sarah Alderman, landlady of the Doc , and Duck, about a mile from Marshall's house on the Uxbridge- roaa, proved that at a quarter before eight on Sunday morning a man came to her house and wanted to be served. He said he was a traveller, and came from Wycombe. He had a carpet bag like that (produced) and paid her ls. out of a purse. Mary Ann Sparks, sister of Mrs. Marshall, recalled, said she recollected Marshall wearing such a hat as that which was worn by the prisoner before his arrest. " This shirt is like those I helped to make, and I know my sister altered the collars like this. That is my brother's tie, and those his trousers. [She then identified every article seriatim.] Daniel Love, warder of Reading. said I knew : the accused as Reynolds, alias Jones, alias Owen. I recog nise this jacket as one whichbelonged to a man who served seven years. I gave it him. He also had these boots, which belonged to a warder, and are somewhat peculiar. That was on the Bth of January, when he left, and he had done eighteen months for stealing a ewe and a lamb ; when he left he asked me how long it was to Uxbridge. He said he knew a man who had got some money, and he would have it, and rather than have eighteen months again he'd murder him. He is described in our calendar as a widower, and smith, and I fancy comes from Bath. I believe his name is Owen. The Court adjourned at 1.30 for half an hour. James Western, assistant to Mr. Butcher, pawnbroker, Reading, said on Monday evening a man came in with a watch and chain, and asked 255. I asked him his name, and he said, " George Wilson, of Reading." I said, "Is it yours?" He said " Yes," rather sharply. He added he was going to Reading, and was on the spree.' I said, "We don't lend to people on the spree." He said, "Oh, lend me something, if its only 155., as I must go to Reading to see my father.'' Mr. Butcher advised him not to leave it, and he said, " You're one of those quiet men ; you're like my father." I then gave him a duplicate, and lent 15s. The Coroner: Has the other half been traced? Superintendent Dunham said he could prove he was trying to sell it in Uxbridge. Superintendent Duncomb said that Jenkins was offer ing this watch to a man in Denham on Sunday, but he had not been able to get him yet. It was possible that he had exchanged the watch with this man. In answer to the coroner, the superintendent said he thought the militiaman who had threatened ' Marshall knew nothing whatever about the murder, as it had been clearly discovered where he was during the time and all the night. P.C. Trevener, to whom the accused had related the story of the man trying to throw his wife into the cut, identified the tramp's clothes found in Marshall's house as those worn by the man he had met. This concluding the evidence, The Coroner said the whole of the evidence was very strong, thoagh circumstantial, and it all pointed to one man. That man as far back as January, had stated' his intention to have Marshall's money or murder him. Ile came to Uxbridge, but committed an offence for which he suffered imprisonment, and only came out on Saturday, and then he was clearly proved to be out all night the night of the murder. He returned to the. house on Sunday with a carpet bag, wearing Marshall's property, part of which he had since destroyed, and beyond this in the bedroom were articles which he was seen to wear at the lodging-house on Saturday, and with which he had not returned to the lodging-house. At this point Superintendent Dunham produced the key of the house of the murdered family, brought from Reading, which was found on the accused. The jury at once returned a verdict of " Wilful murder" against John Jones, alias Jenkins. LONDON, SATURDAY, MAY 28, 1870. Iberian unity, in spite of all the disclaimers audible, both at Lisbon and Madrid, from the lips of leading politicians as authoritative as PRIM and SALDANHA, is still the mirage floating before the dazzled eyes of the more imaginative Spaniards and Portuguese. The Prime Minister of King Luis, it is true, has gone out of his way to swear alle giance to the cause of his country's independence. While, on the other hand, the Prime Minister of the Regent SERRANO'S Government, repudiates the de sign, at the moment that he evidently regards it with a longing eye, wistfully, askance. Upwards of half a century has elapsed since— almost immediately after the conquest of Portugal by JUNOT, the Duke of Abrantes, in the name of NAPOLEON—the then Lord Paramount of Europe, in the spring of 1808, offered, imperially, to cede to the Spanish monarchy his newly-acquired realm of Portugal. Since then, time and again, the same magnificent dream of amalgamation has flitted across the vision of political optimists in all parts of the Iberian peninsula. " Union is strength" has been the thought encourag ing their aspirations. An aspiration precisely similar, though of a much more readily realizable nature, one might haveimagined, to that which we have seen, nevertheless, triumphantly carried out, in our own time, in the instance of Italy, although that day-dream had in its day been derided as a mere " geographical idea" by no less astute an observer of passing events during his epoch than the late Prince MEITERNiux. It is not always that circumstances fit in so satisfac torily, for the consolidation of a hitherto divided country, as they did three centuries ago, among our own ancestors, in what has, since then come to be known, the whole world over, as the United Kingdom. Only, there, in that in stance, it was the lesser country, it was the smaller population, that gave a Sovereign to the larger. It was Scotland who gave her Sixth JAMES to become the First JAMES of England. A dynastic bond thence forth bound the two nations securely together. It is equally remarkable, in the instance just now ad duced of the work of amalgamation or consolidation► accomplished within the last few years in the Italian peninsula, that it is the comparatively minor kingdom of Savoy that has dominated, alike, in the north over the Lombardo-Venetian provinces, and in the south over the kingdom of the Two Sicilies, absorbing into it at the same time all the lesser archduchies and principalities. It would be calculated, one might be disposed to conjecture, at the first blush, to afford the smaller portion of the Iberian peninsula the oppor tunity of offering Spain, now, a like reasonable chance of amalgamation with Portugal, by the presentation, to the two countries united, of the Portuguese SOVERElGN—particularly, seeing that Spain is almost, as one may say, for months past, going a begging for any Sovereign at all. _ Only, that, now, upon the morrow of Marshal SALDANHA's astound ing revolutionary seizure of Ministerial authority out of the young KING'S grasp, the crown and sceptre of Portugal, have in a manner been trundled into the dust, and utterly and, as it seems to us, irretrievably degraded. Alike among the Spaniards and the Portu guese, the monarchical system has received a shock that threatens to prove equally disastrous, at l‘ladrid and at Lisbon, to that particular form of Constitu tional Government. The unfortunate parish of St. Pancras will never expiate its sins ; it is for ever called to the bar of public opinion, there to receive the just sentence for its shortcomings. Just as we thought the worst was over, that old things had passed away, and a new and better order of things would prevail, a most astounding piece of intelligence appears, and the public are frighted from their propriety by hearing that the furniture and effects of the St Pancras Guardians have been seized by the broker, and will be sold by public auction. The task of providing legal assistanee to defend themselves against the charges brought against them has proved more than they can accomplish. They en tered on a warfare without counting the cost - , and the result has been a fatal one. It is true that those who are called upon to pay are not alto gether responsible, for the greater part of those who offended the public last year have now been super seded, but the disgrace to them is the same whether they actually bear the expense or not. At a special meeting of the St. Pancras Board of Guardians on Thursday a letter was read from the Poor Law Board in answer to a message which had been sent to them for advice in the emergency. The Poor Law Board abstained from giving advice, but suggested that an application might be made to the Court of Chancery for a❑ injunction to stay the execution. At the same time a hint was given as to the reason of the persecution, the Board reminding the Guardians that the " present difficulty had arisen in consequence of the course pursued by the late Board of Guardians, who, after the expenses in question had been incurred, neither paid the amount nor defended the action brought for their re covery." Mr. WATKINS said that he was willing to contribute his share provided the Board agreed to get over the difficulty. Mr. JOSEPH SALTER also suggested that the money shoull be paid, and declared that such would be the wisest and most prudential course to pursue. "He would move that a cheque be now signed to settle this unfortunate affair, and thus prevent a great public scandal in the sale of the property of a great metropolitan parish for debt." This wise advice was not taken, and it was eventually resolved to allow the law to take its course by the rejection of Mr. SALTER'S motion, and the sale of the guar dians' effects will therefore be carried out this morn- Ding. An exciting scene may be expected. Much as this affair is to be regretted, some salu tary lessons may be derived from it. Perhaps it may do no harm for the former Board of St. Pancras Guardians to feel how completely they have missed their destiny, and failed to secure the respect of the community. Justice has overtaken those who seemed indifferent to the voice of mercy, and if they do not visibly and directly bear the loss of this affair, every one knows where to impute the blame, and whose culpable conduct has brought the crowning disgrace on the parish. The sad disclosures of the St. Pancras wards will dwell in the minds of one r elass, and the forced sale of the effects of the Guar dians live in the memory of another section of the HER MAJESTY. BALMORAL CASTLE, May 26. The Queen went out in the morning, attended by the Hon. Harriet Phipps. in the afternoon the Queen drove to the Linn of Muick, accompanied by the Princess Featrice. Princess Louise rode out. The Princess of Wales drove out yesterday, attended by the Hon. Mrs. Stoner. In the evening the Prince and Princess of Wales were present at a ball given by the Duke and Duchess of Man chester, at their residence in Great Stanhope-street. La attendance were the Countess of Mort n and deut.-Col. Teesdale. FASHIONABLE ARRANGEMENTS—To-DAY. Her Majesty's Birthday officially celebrated. Full-dress banquets by the Ministers of State. Mrs. Gladstone's Assembly in the evening, at 11, Carlton lionso-terraeo. Lady Mo:e,worth's evening party, at 87, Eaton place, Belgr.ive-square. LArly Pauucefort Duncombe's matinee musicale, at 19, Portman-square. Miss Burdett Coutts's afternoon party, from four o'clock to half-past six, at 1, Stratton-street, Piccadilly. At the Crystal Palace, in celebration of h r Ma jesty's Birthday, besides the concert in which Mdlle. Ilma de Murska, Madame Sinico, Mdlle. Orgeni, Signor Mon gini, and other artistes of the Drury-lane Opera-house, will sing. The Garden of Roses, with 3,000 new and choice varie ties of that exquisite flower from Mr. W. Paul's nurseries, at Waltham Cross, will be opened —the flowers being ar ranged in banks and beds in one of the open corridors over looking the grounds, and forming one of the loveliest dis plays of the kind ever witnessed. The rose garden will be opened at one o'clock this afternoon. GOVERNMENT AMENDMENTS ON THE ELEMENTARY EDUCATION BILL. At a meeting of the sub-committee of the Manchester Education Bill Committee, held yesterday, the following resolutiLns were unanimously adopted : " 1. That this committee expresses its satisfaction with the amendment proposed to be i serted in Clause 7, which will establish a strict time-table conscience clause in all schools receiving public aid, adequately securing the rights of minorities, and will ren,ove the most serious objections which have been taken on religious grounds," "2. That inasmuch as the amendments proposed do not touch any of the following points : (1). The creation of school boards in every district. " (2). The unsectarian character of rate-provided schools. "(3). The substitutionof positive provisions respecting attendance at school for permissive bye laws drawn by school boards. The general committee be recommended to persevere in supporting the amendments to secure those objects which Mr. Hibbert, Mr. Jacob Bright, and Sir Thomas Bazley have placed on the notice paper of the House of Commons." SPIRIT OF THE PRESS. The Times says that Lord Granville truly described the Fenian raid on Canada as a most wanton affair, and that nothing has been proved but the recklessness of the proceeding. The invasion has collapsed before it had well begun. Men like O'Neill take their lives in their hands, not because they are impelled by some transcen dent motive of action, but from mere carelessness of exist ence. But if the penalties of the law are brought home to them with any certainty, if they find that their plots end in a wearisome imprisonment, their spirits are broken and their designs are checked in the bud. It will be some bcompensation countrymen f all the annoyance incanada if t the e n d raiddi stress o f t h s i uffd s er e week should set the law of the United States in action so as to restrain all desire to repeat the attempt. The Post declares that the last intelligence from Canada has fully justified its previous remarks. The invasion of Canada may be said to be over. It is as well that no extreme measures have been taken because angry feelin gs might have been provoked thereby. The United States Government have done all that was required of them, and the Fenians have had no chance of escaping between the troops of America and the Dominion. This fiasco has shown the folly of attempting to invade Canada. There are few things, observes the Standard, more exasperating than the notorious existence of a wrong which apparently cannot be righted, and, judging from the length of time during which the question of short weight and adulteration has been pressed upon the attention of the Legislature, one might almost despair of securing redress. The improved tone of the Government last night, however, and the eagerness with which the House took up the question, encourage us to hope for better things. Mr. Bruce carried the general sense of the House, and the acquiescence of the mover with him, when he declined to undertake the question during the present session. But he made no pretence of adopt ing the line of argument pursued by Mr. Bright last year. Mr. Bruce admitted without any reservation that giving short weight is not less a crime than picking poekets, and that adulteration is a form of obtaining money under false pretences. For the reasons we have cited, the motion and the demand for legislation during the present session were not pressed ; but we see no reason to doubt that next year one of the worst abuses of the day will receive a decided check. The Daily News thinks Mr. Forster's conciliatory reply to Sir George Grey last night will tend to lessen the dis appointment eaused by his amendments to the education bill. The discretion given to the school boards will open the way to endless sectarian strife. In every board there will be a fight between those who wish for secular, and those who wish for denomina tional education. But there is room for compromise, and if Mr. Forster is to succeed in settling the question at all it can only be by at least excluding Denominationalism from the school boards and the rate-provided schools. The Telegraph asks who invented the phrase—Time table Conscience clause. The term must suggest to sane readers a kind of nightmare combination, as if " Brad shaw" and the " Church Catechism" h a d got mixed up, or the Athanasian Creed were travelling to and fro along the South-Western Railway. Yet it is simple enough, and now forms the cardinal principle of the Government Bill, as may be seen from the new amendments which have been printed. As the State knows no sectarian distinction when it calls on people for rates and taxes, it is only fair that no sectarian " fear ' favour, or affection ' should be displayed in the distribution of its funds. That is simply the secret of the difficulty which lies at the root of the matter and that difficulty the Time-table Conscience Clause is in tended to meet. THE FUNERAL. The gentry of Bucks, being undesirous that the family should be buried by the parish, subscribed a handsome sum to defray all expenses. The bodies left the house in procession at 4.45., followed by Mrs. Spoonen, Marshall's sister, Mrs. Marshall's sister and brother, and an enormous cort4ge, comprising those from the immediate neighbourhood as well as many from the surrounding towns, Captain Drake, the Chief Constable for the county, Superintendents Dunham, Jervis, and Denson, and fifty of the Bucks County Con stabulary keeping order. The bodies were laid in separate graves, side by side, in Denham Churchyard, except the elder Mrs. Marshall, was interred along with her hus band, and the service was read in the most impressive manner by the Rev. Mr. Joyce, of Denham. THE FENIANS IN LONDON. At the Marylebone Police-court, yesterday, t: fe in quiry into the charge against Michael Davitt an i John Wilson was resumed. The prisoner Davitt is descril.)ed as of no occupation, residing at 35, Milman-street, Guil, lfor street, and John Wilson, as a gun and pistol manufa turer, of Harper's-buildings, Birmingham. The form was charged with loitering on the platform of th e Great Eastern Railway for a supposed unlawful purpose and the latter with having 50 six-chamber bar relled revolvers in his possession, and not being able to give a satisfactory account of the same. The prisoners are supposed to be connected with the Fenian move ment. The approaches to the court were crowded by men and women of the lowest class, and every precaution was taken by the police to prevent surprise or attempts at violence, a number of constables being scattered about the court armed with revolvers. It will probably be remem bered that Mr. Poland, instructed by the solicitor to the Treasury to prosecute, stated, when applying for a re mand a week ago, that Inspector Clarke, who had the charge in hand, was in the country making inquiries. A tele gram had been received from him, stating that he bad received very important information. He would be able to shew that the prisoner was concerned in the raid upon Chester Castle in 1867. Mr. Collins appeared for Wilson, and Mr. Pain for Davitt. Mr. Poland said in consequence of the additional time given for remand the police had been enabled to make inquiries, and he was in a position to lay before the magis trate very material evidence. 'lke case shaped itself into one of treason-felony against the two prisoners. It would be remembered that Davitt when captured at the railway station had £l5O in notes in his possession, and he was there without giving any satisfactory account of himself- It was stated that he came from Manchester, that he had no fixed abode, but had, according to his statements , come to meet a friend, and that he was a speculator. It was believed he was there for the purpose of meeting Wilson, and when he (Wilson),was taken into custody the address of the other prisoner (Davitt), who went by the name of Matthews, was found in his pocket. He thought from some matters he should state that his worship would see the reason why Wilson brought up the arms and whY Davitt was at the station to meet him. No doubt Davitt had been going by the name of Jackson in the Euston-road. He should call a witness who had given evidence before in Fenian prosecutions of the name of Corydon, who knew the pi soner Davitt by sight, and he should shew that the pri soners were connected in committing overt acts for the purpose of carrying out the objects of the Fenian con spiracy. He should also be able to shew that Wilson had been connected with Davitt at Birmingham in par' chasing arms, and that those arms bad been 'sent to different parts of the country with the object that they should ultimately be sent to Ireland. John Joseph Corydon said he was a member of the Fenian Brotherhood, which he joined in 1862. It was an organisation established to overthrow the authority of the Queen's Government in Ireland. He joined the organled- tion in America, and was acquainted with nearly all W till leaders. He came to Ireland in 1865. as in Liverpoo l in 1866 and 1867. He knew Davitt. He saw (Davitt) immediately after the intended attack on Chester Castle. Saw Davitt at three or four Fenian meetings , where the overthrow of the Government and the establish ment of the Irish Republic was discussed. The sth of Mare"' 1867, was arranged as the day of the rising. Thought be gave a description of Davitt to Mr. Williamson before he (prisoner) was arrested. At the House of Detention he knew Davitt at once. By Mr. D'Eyncourt : I am an Irishman, but have live d in America. I have lived in Ireland. Davitt : You can't live in Ireland. Reptiles cannot live there, you know. Corydon : They do when I catch them, When I c atch them I make them bite. The case was adjourned. A GANG OF STREET ARABS.--Sig Sheffield street, Arabs have just had a rather extraordinary career °' crime checked by the police. For some time past th e Z had committed numerous peculations amo n gst crowds '- various places of public resort, and so skilfully have th e y managed their nefarious businesses that it has been ' l t matter of some little difficulty to detect them. The eldes l. of the gang seems to have acted in the capacity of sch° ° . master, and curious stori es are told of the in annerA which the younger memb ers o f th e f ra t ern ity were taii!' t how to pick pockets an d th e lik e. Th ey were brough t before the Mayor and remanded. D UNVI LLZ:and Co Belfast, are the largest holdel of whisky in the world. Th e i r Old I r i s h Whi s ky is recommend ( ' by the medical profession in preference to French brand . ! , 1 , 3 ; plied in casks and cases for home use or exportation. Quotatijis -011 application to Messrs DUNVILLE & Co. Royal Irish. _ tilleties, Belfast ; or at their London Offices, 4, Beaufort Building' Strdnd, W.f. 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