The Sun. — London, England, 1867-07-03 00:00:00

Sheffield Trades' Union Commission. TWENTY-FIRST DAY (TUESDAY). The Commission resumed their sittings to-day. Mr. Overend, the chief examiner, who met with an accident a few days ago, came into the court sup ported by crutches, and during the day he reclined on a couch. Mr. John George Robson, manager for Mr. H. E. Iloole, stove, grate, and fender manufacturer, was the first witness. He said in 1861 there was a dispute with the fender-grinders in Mr. Hoole's employ, in consequence of a non-union man having been engaged. The reason of his being engaged was because the union men had been out drinking and neglecting their work. Mr. Iloole asked the foreman if he could not find some steadier men, and be got a non-society man named Taylor. The first day he worked at the wheel the whole of the grinders turned out. On the day afterwards Mr. Iloole re ceived threatening letters. The foreman was re quested by Mr. Iloole to get men in place of those who had turned out, and five or six were engaged from Masborough, all of whom were non-society men. When the unionists found that their places were being filled, they desircAl to come back upon certain conditions being complied with, but Mr. Boole refused to allow them to be set on. Broad head and Charles Bagshaw called a day or two after the non-society men had commenced work, and had an interview with them. They offered them £5 each if they would leave their work, and on that . being refused an offer of £7 10s. was made. The men, however, refused to leave unless they were paid £2O each. Another offer, this time of £lO each, was made and refused. That was in the month of June. Some few weeks afterwards the men were intimidated, and three of them, including the foreman, Mr. Sibray, were attacked , as they were going home one night, and one of them was left for dead. The foreman was suddenly sur rounded by some six or eight men, and was struck in the face with some hard substance like stones tied in a handkerchief ; several of his teeth were knocked out. After that the men had to be guarded by the police in going home. John Sibray, stove grate manufacturer, said in 1861 he was manager to Mr. Hoole. He proved that in June of that year Mr. Hoole desired him - to get a man in the place of one who was very un steady. He got a man named Charles Taylor from Masborough, who was a non-society man. As soon as he commenced working all the grinders left work, and some other non-society men were engaged. Some little time afterwards several threatening letters were received, and a deputation, consisting of Broadhead, Bagshaw, and some of the grinders, waited upon Mr. Hoole with respect to the society men being again employed. On the sth of Nov., as he was leaving the union wheel, he was assaulted by two men, one of whom struck him with some hard substance on the mouth. The reason of his being assaulted, he believed, was because he had engaged non-society men. There had been no dis pute respecting rules, and he had no private quarrel. Before he was assaulted he had given notice to Mr. Hoole, because of the threatening letters ; he was afraid of what would be done to him. George Wastnidge, a fender-grinder, of Mas borough, said—ln June, 1861, I was engaged by Mr. Sibray to work for Mr. Thole. Some short time after I had been there Bagshaw and Broadhead waited upon me and offered me money to leave my situation. I refused to do that, and said I was will ing to join the union if they would allow me to work in peace and quietness. Efforts were made to in duce me to leave Mr. Hoole's employ, among others by Broadhead, secretary of the Sawgrinders' Union, and Mr. C. Bagshaw, now president of the amal gamated trades of Sheffield. Broadhead and Bag shaw came to me two or three times and offered me money to quit Mr. Hoole. They said Mr. Hoole was agreeable to this. I saw Mr. thole, and he said he knew nothing about it. I continued work ing. I went to Broadhead's house on the invitation of 'Broadhead and Bagshaw.. I saw Broadhead there. Roddis, Cooper, and Redback went with me. We had plenty of beer free of charge, and then came away. Nothing was said to us. I had not much fear of being molested, but policemen had to be employed to protect the men on their way to and from work. I and Cooper were attacked in the streets one night. On the 23d of November I, my wife and child, slept in the attic, and Mrs. O'Rourke, a lodger, in the chamber. About midnight my wife beard conversation in the street, and then a crash at the chamber. She exclaimed, " Oh, dear ! what's that?" And jumping out of bed, looked through the attic window. My wife then went into the bed room, and found Mrs. O'Rourke, with something in her hands, which turned out to be a can of gun powder, with a fuse attached. My wife took the can from Mrs. O'Rourke, and it exploded in her hands, setting her dress on fire. My wife ran back to the attic in flames. I pulled her burniug night-dress off and then attended to the child, fearing it would get on fire. While I was doing this my wife, naked as she was, jumped out of the attic window in her fright. A ladder was afterwards put up for me, but it was too short, and after letting down the child I also jumped out of the window, breaking my fall by catching the ladder. I was slightly burnt myself. I afterwards went into the house and found Mrs. O'Rourke in the zellar. Iler clothes were burnt off, and she was taken to the infirmary, where she died. My wife, whom I found in a neighbour's house, was removed in an insensible state to the infirmary, where she remained in a precarious state for some time, but ultimately recovered. I was at the infir mary a fortnight, after which I resumed work for Mr. Hoole. I remained in his employ until April, when I was sent to prison for an assault. I bor rowed money from Mr. Iloole to maintain myself while I was unable to work. I paid this back by ss. a week, and when I had douo so I left Mr. Hoole's employ, not because I was frightened, but because I was dissatisfied with Mr. Hoole's treat ment. 1 thought I ought to have had some recom pense for having sustained so much injury on his account. In addition to personal injuries, my house was set on fire by the explosion and my furniture destroyed. So far from making me any recompense, Mr. Iloole, after putting a sovereign in my hand on the morning of the explosion, sent for it back in the afternoon. Harriet Wastnidge, wife of the previous witness, was called to confirm his statement. She said—l did not hear any conversation in the 'street. I was awoke by the crash of Mts. O'Rourke's bedroom window. Onlooking through the attic window I saw two men running away. On immediately afterwards going into Mrs. O'Rourke's room I saw her standing in a corner with th e can of powder in her hand. The fuse was throwing out sparks. I told her to throw the can out of the window, and she said " Here , take it." I snatched it to throw it out of , the w 1 • dow and it exploded in m y h an d s. I have no k n: 1- ledge whatever of what f o ll owe d until I foundev. my self at the infirmary. I was bli n d a f ortnight ;I have the marks of the powder still in one eye, which is permanently impaired. I am still also lame of one knee. I was marked all over with the explosion and have still fearful marks upon me. A fortnight before the explosion a neighbour woman called me into her house and asked if we kept our cellar o rate fastened. I said "No ; w h a t f or ?" Sh e said" If you do not keep it fastened a man in the next street will blow you up." I told Wastnidge and he fas tened the grate. Robert Renshaw, after being duly cautioned, said --I will tell you the whole truth. lan: a file grinder, ant am sorry to say I know a fender grinder named Cutler. I often raw him before Wastnidge was blown up. I met him and Baylis at Green's puhlichonse. Cutler offered me 101. to " knock IVastnidge 011 the head." I refused, saying it would he ranch better to do him at home. Cutler gave the 10s. to buy 31b. cf Pev;der with. Instead of buying 31b., as he wished, I got only 11b. l put it into a can and attached a fuse. ilt h t hen went t o th e th ea t re , and on returning thre w r "L' l ' the window of Wsstuidee's house. I went into Ebenezer Chapel-yard, and ° lay down until a crowd collected a but the house. Three or four po liceman ran to th e ' late. I then went to P Se e ili zli , t e t . iad gone on, and helped to bring out Mrs. vlasd.to I was the state she was in. additional if grieved to see job, and /3 have had £6 for the the money. . Baylis paid imeelit well. I never got tt day or two after the blowing up. I applied to Cutler for £2 more, and he said he bad paid themoney to Baylis. I went to Baylis, who had not got the money, and threat ened to serve Cutler as I had served Wastnidge if he did not pay me. Baylis brought me the £2 before I was out of bed next morning. Cutler was the man who tempted me to "do" Wastnidge, and who drew the money to pay me. He employed Baylis to pay me. They wanted Wastnidge blown up because he was wrong with the trade. I did not know the man at all ; I had never seen him, and bad to get Cutler to show me his house. I know Broadhead, but he had never anything to do with me. I never spoke to Bagshaw in my life. Nobody spoke to me but Cutler and Baylis aboutthe matter. I do not know Thomp son, the man who was tried for the murder. - Witness was severely cross-examined, but he persisted in say ing that he alone was engaged in the matter. No one was with him. Ile repeatedly said Mrs. Wast nidge " lied" in saying she saw more than one man running away. Mrs. Wastnidge at the trial said one man caught his jacket against the cotter of a win dow shutter in running. That was the " biggest lie" ever told in Sheffield. Mrs.Wastnidge told "nought but lies" at the trial of Thompson. At this stage Thompson was called in, and witness said he knew him by sight, but not by name. He had met him at public-houses, but Thompson never spoke to him about doing any injury toWastnidge or any one else in connection with this matter. Witness said he had quarrelled with Cutler because he had not paid all the money he owed him. He had frequently de manded money of Cutler, but never in the presence of other persons to his knowledge. Mr. Overend—Have you ever mentioned the sub ject to other persons ?—Never before to-day. Mr. Overend—Why have you come to tell us to day ?—Well, I will tell you. I came down yesterday and saw Cutler and his witnesses waiting to give evi dence, but you were not sitting. I thought he was going to do me, so I made up my mint to come and tell too. I remember seeing Cutler a short time ago, and he besought me to keep my tongue still or we should all be ruined. Cross-examined—l have never said that either Steel, Hellewell, or Platts had anything to do with the outrage in Acorn-street. I am confident no one was with me when I threw the can. into the window. I lighted the fuse in an entry near, threw the can through the window, and walked away. I did not take the can with me when I went to buy the powder. I bought best diamond powder, but Ido not remember what I gave for it. Ido not think I have spoken to Thompson since he came out of pri son. I did not go to Powell's, in High-street, a week before the explosion and ask if they sold fusees, neither did I go to Wilson's, in Snig-hill, on a similar errand. I have been engaged well sinking, and have bought powder and fusees for blasting. I know a man named Warburton, but I never told him Ilellewell, Steel, and Platts engaged me to blow up Wastnidge. It was Cutler who engaged me, and I would blow him up too—a scamp to engage to give me £6 to blow up a man, and then only to give me £5. Mr. Overend pointed out to the witness the peril ous position in which he had placed himself is the event of his not having told the truth. Witness--I have told the truth, and I don't care if I am tried for my life to-night. 'What good will your certificate do me when every person, as I pass along the streets, will point me out as the murderer of an innocent woman ? I have told the truth. If I bad had an accomplice, and he had been " game" I would not have told of him. Mr. Overend—That is what I am afraid of. I and my colleagues have the fear you are not speak ing the truth. We have the impression you had an accomplice whose name you will not divulge. Witness protested that he was speaking the truth, and that no one was with him at the time he com mitted the outrage. The Court was dissatisfied with the manner in which the witness had given his evidence, and, at the close of his examination, he was given into the custody of the chief constable. Samuel Cutler, fender grinder, was next called, and was examined as follows :—I am a member of the Union, and know a man named Baylis. lie was a member of the Union at the time Kenworthy was the secretary. I remember Iloole's men being out on strike, and we were angry with men coming from Masborough to work for him. Baylis told me that he and another man beat Sibray. Previously Baylis asked me to tell him where Sibray lived, but as I did not know I took him to Thompson, who showed us Sibray's house. Thompson said Sibray and Hoole were just the men he wanted doing. I did not make answer that I knew a man who for £5 would do them all. Thompson said he had been watching bole, but he had a policeman to protect him. He said, however, that he was to be got at. I knew other men were attacked because they were " knobsticks," but I did not care to know who did it. I did nothing to Wastnidge beyond getting the £6 for doing him. Baylis gave him the £6, and be sail it was for ~ welting them fellows." I saw Robinson, who was acting as secretary of the union, give Baylis the money, and Baylis gave it to me. I went to a meeting at the King William, and there saw Baylis. He said to me, " Yon red man (Wast nidge has red hair) will break up the Union, I should like to do him one." I said I would have nothing to do with it, but I took him to Joe Green's. We there saw Renshaw, and an old man whom I did not know. We commenced talking about Wastnidge, and Renshaw said thrashing had no effect upon him; ho bad better have a bit of powder. We agreed to give him £5 or £6 to give Wastnidge a good thrashing —something was said about blowing Wastnidge up. Renshaw was to have .£lO if he did it well, £5 if it was a failure. I agreed to meet Baylis again, and a day or two after the explosion I saw him. He spoke, saying, " Isup pose thou 'last heard of it." I said, " Why have you used powder ?" and be replied that Wastnidge could not be got at without. I said they had done very wrong. Baylis spoke as though he was with Renshaw when the outrage was committed. Mr. Overend—Repeat carefully what he said. Witness—lle said "We ran down into the Wicker, and never met a policeman all the way, and it was a good thing we did not." lie said he had pistols with him, and would have shot the first man he met. I paid Baylis £6, and he wanted £7. I refused to give him £7, as I had only agreed that Wastnidge should be thumped. He said he would make it all right. Examination continued—l do not remember that Baylis ever said in my hearing that he knew a man who would kill any chap for £5. Did Thompson know anything about the outrage ?—No ; nothing. Do you mean to say that you allowed Thompson to be tried for this outrage, and took no steps to prove his innocence 7—We agreed to subscribe £1 each to defend him, and the remainder of the expense, amounting to from £6O to £7O, came out of the funds of the union. Hollowell engaged the at torney, but we did not tell him to do so. Thomp son was innocent. I believe Hellewell did not see the money paid by Baylis for committing the out rage. I only agreed that Wastnidge should be beaten, and I never gave money for the purchase of p lw o ta ll oi v s: d daw e v r ihet . asked iillynoi ß ultie c h : saes s te l il : ni a nd w olhzteheni ws n i g ioau to wldl d am o teal l , k v y i ; tl i L t i l t a . lslar ! g a it y it l i. i n s, y i: . money, and terday, and he told me I ought to go to hell for " snitching" (telling). What did you say ?—I told him it was his own fault, as he had gone up and down telling what he had done. lie slid it was a lie. I then walked away. I h a d no thi ng to do with any other. outrage. No one ever told me anything about threatening letters sent to the men at Mr. Hook's. All I had to do with the outrage in Acorn -street was to receive money from Baylis, and pay it to Renshaw. I quite, however, disapproved of the act. The only persons present when the outrage was planned were myself, Renshaw, Baylis, and an old man whose name Ido not know. No one else to my knowledge knew anything of the outrage, and I only agreed that Wastuidge should be thumped. On your oath had you not deliberated among yourselves and agreed that ho should be blown up ? —No, we had not. Baylis and Renshaw wanted to blow him up, but I would not hear of it. Thompson also was auxioua that Wastnidge should be beaten, but not blown up. You laelieveThompson had nothing to do with the blowing up ?—I am sure he had not. You allowed him to be tried for the offence ? Yes. If he, had been found guilty and sentenced to be hanged —you came very near it—would you have allowed the sentence to be carried out without de claring his innocence ?—I could not have helped myself. I had passed my word to Baylis and Ren shaw that I would not tell. If Thompson had been sentenced to death, I should not have felt very comfortable. I might have altered my mind even tually. Further examined witness said—l never told the committee who committed the outrage, or that 'Thompson was innocent. Thompson was expelled from the union because he made a false statement after his trial to the Chid Constable of the borough. 1-do not think he was expelled because of the scan dal created by the Acorn -street outrage. I did not attend our meetings for some weeks after the out rage, as I felt I knew too much, and I did not like to face the members. I do not remember Platts pointing out a man named " Slipper Jack" as a likely person to do a blowing up, or Thompson making answer, " He is just the man I would chose to do it." I was never present at a meeting of our Union when it was agreed that something should be done to Sibray. Mr. Bagshaw had nothing to do with our society, and I am not aware that he bad anything to do with paying for the defence of Thompson. I believe Hellewell advanced the money for the defence, and he was afterwards repaid. At the suggestion of Mr. Bagshaw, the witness was asked if he had any authority from the Union or any of its officers to agree with Baylis and Ren shaw for something to be done to Wastnidge. Witness replied, no; but when further pressed he admitted that the he received from Baylis came from Robinson, who was acting as secretary to the union. Joseph Thompson, the man who was tried for the murder of Bridget O'Rourke, and acquitted, was called. He answered emphatically that he did not throw the can of powder into the window, that he did not know who did it till to-day, and that he had never been asked to injure or beat Wastnidge. He was one of the men who turned out at Hoole's, but he was never set to watch Wastnidge. Ile was set by Cutler to watch Sibray, to learn where he lived, because " there was a party going to drop on him." There was no intention to blow Sibray up. He gave the information to Cutler. While he was in prison his wife was kept by " the trade," except a few pounds collected in public-houses. After examining one more witness the commission adjourned. Miscellaneous Foreign News. A letter from Rome, dated June 19, says : The series of feste has commenced. The Pope Leld a Cappella Papale in the Sistine Chapel the clay before yesterday, on the occasion of the anni versary of his election. The Mass was celebrated by Cardinal Morichini, the second cardinal created by his Holiness. The Pope afterwards received the congratulations of the Sacred College, ad dressed to him by Cardinal Patrizzi, subdean of the Sacred College. The reception was made as short as possible, in order to spare the Holy Father unnecessary fatigue, in consideration of the ar duous work before him. There was no political allusion either in the address or in the Pope's reply. Yesterday, and four following days, were to be devoted to audiences of the various members of the corps diplonzatique, ministers, prelates, Govern fient officers, the Senator of Rome, &c., on the occasion of the anniversary of St. Peter and of the Pope's Coronation, on the 21st. The members of the corps diplontatique are ad mitted one after another separately, so as to avoid jealousies as to precedence ; prelates, college by college ; State officers, all together. On the 21st is to be another Cappella Papale ; the Mass to be celebrated by the first cardinal created by the Holy Father. It is announced that his Holiness will take part in the annual procession of Corpus Christi, which shows he is pretty well. He walked also in the Pinico yesterday, and for a long way up the Corso, followed by an immense crowd of Romans and foreigners, who hailed him loudly in his cha racter both of Pope and King. The number of superior ecclesiastics arrived has risen now to between 280 and 300, and the streets are filled with pilgrims of every degree. We continue to hear of an occasional isolated case of disorder which people like to call cholera, in the most crowded and poorest districts—the Trastevere and the Monti, but the Municipality are growing very particular and vigorous in their sanitary regulations, which will prove of great be nefit to the salubrity of these localities. The only news of brigandage we have heard 0. late is a report of a band of about forty in the province of Viterbo, chased over the border by a detachment of Pontifical soldiers. We seem guaranteed for F any question of an entente for some time to come, by the spirit of division which has been developing in the ranks of the revo lutionary party. One faction wants the rising to begin in Rome among the Romans, only the Ro mans wont rise; and another faction wants to send in a revolutionary column raising the country as it moves along. There is no doubt that they are to a great extent kept in check by the Ponti fical army, which, in spite of the smallness of its numbers, is formidable by its enthusiasm and devotion. Consequently their great work is to thin its ranks, and nothing is left untried towards this. The Tivoli poisoning was part of a great scheme with this purpose, which, however, had no very extensive success. They arc now bribing a consi derable number to come over to their ranks, and, by suggestions bf discontent, inducing others to desert. It can only be the worst spirits, however, who can be thus influenced, and a little such weed ing, though it may thin, will not weaken the Pon tifical forces. Most of the foreign bishops have brought consi derable offerings to the Holy Father from their dioceses. Mgr. Ledochowski, Archbishop of Posen, brings 100,000 thalers ; Mgr. Stercka, Car dinal Archbishop of Mechlin, 400,000 francs ; Mgr. Gainza, Bishop of Nueva-Ciceres, 500,000 francs ; the Archbishop of,Westminster, £5OO, as you know, and so on. The Florence revolutionary papers appear to be greatly incensed at this, and write as if they would like to waylay the bishops and annex to the Revolution the money of which they are the bearers. As St. Peter's day falls this year on a Saturday, which is kept as a, fast in Rome, the Cardinal Vicar announces a dispensation for this year only. The Municipality has voted 50,000 fr. to 'defray the expenses of a conversazione with musical and poetical recitations to be given to the foreign bishops in the Capitol, from the windows of which they will have the opportunity of seeing the ruins of the Forum illuminated by Bengal lights. Pius LX. intends to crown his pontificate by an act worthy of himself and of his eventful age—so full both of light and darkness. On the 26th or the 29th of June he will announce to the assem bled bishops his intention to hold a general council in a year and a half from this time. Though this resolution has only just transpired, Italian revolutionists are already up in arms about They apprehend its importance better, per haps,o move than n s i n k n e y l Catholics ; and feel the effect such a m to have on their late develop. increase ment, and how it is likely to incr • e the strength and vigour of the Church. When one seriously considers the relative situa tion clf the world and the Chtirch, one sees, indeed, tha+ this act is necessary, that it is not the simple result of the will of one man, but that it issues from the dictates of the Holy Ghost Himself. Fur the world has undergone great modifications of moral attitude, and he whom St. John calls Princeps lmujus mann reigns supreme, and this, it must be confessed, is more true of the so-called Catholic countries than of those in which religious error is established. Thus, at this very moment Pius IX. is surrounded by members of the Epis copate from England, Holland, America, and the extreme East, who come to him full of joy and hope at the daily-increasing proportions of their THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JULY 3; 1867 flocks ; while from France, Italy, Spain, Mexico, even Austria, and, most of all, Portugal, they come round him full of laments over the perse cution they have to endure from their various Go vernments, not to speak of Poland, the deepest in mourning of all Catholic countries. In non-Catholic countries the possessions of the clergy are not interfered with, though perhaps they are nowhere large enough to excite cupidity, but they can found religious institutions without let or hindrance ; while in Catholic countries rulers sanction the most iniquitous laws—authorise the spoliation of the clergy, and under the pretext of furthering what they call the liberty of public worship, treat the true worship of God with in difference and contempt. Further than this, they are wanting to their own.mission : while retaining the titles conferred on them in olden time by the Church' they openly encourage freemasonry, be long to it themselves, nominate the dignitaries of the sect, and even, as in France, require that ma sonic insignia should figure in the ceremonies of Catholic worship. Hence it is a vital necessity for the Church to remedy all these disorders ; and it is precisely in a general council that the Church would be enabled to trace the future line of operations. Many events will have occurred before the eighteen months, to intervene, will have run out. The present attitude of European diplomacy suggests every probability that we shall have had a deep taste of war in the interval, leaving to the Church her old mission of advocating maxims of peace, justice, and truth. You see that Pius IX. possesses the quality which has, ere now, been ascribed to him, of knowing the tide of human affairs ; all he does is done in its own time. 'What was said of the defi nition of the Immaculate Conception may be said also of this council—they are each appropriate to their time. Another letter from Rome, dated June 22, says : The Spanish steamer, St. Quentin, brought the Cardinal Archbishop of Seville and twenty-two bishops of Spain to Civita Vecchia last Saturday, making the whole number of Spanish bishops here thirty-five. The newly-arrived were received at the landing-place by Mgr. Scapetta, Apostolic delegate of the province, who would have provided carriages to take them i nto the town, but, saying pilgrim s , th ey one and all re together to the cathed ra l, w h ere t f h u e se y d, h a a n d d c: , m alk e c a d s they heard Mass said by one of their number ; after which Mgr. Scapetta entertained them at breakfast. Later in the day they were brought I on to Rome by a special train. The Archbishop of Mexico brings about 300,000 francs to the Peter's Pence tribute. The whole of the offerings amount, it is said, to about 10,000,000 fr. An American photographer has applied for per mission, which has, I believe, been given, to pub lish an album of portraits of all prelates present at the Centenary feste, with that of the Holy Father for the frontispiece. Alessandri, however, had previously entertained the same idea, and it will not be easy to beat him in photographic portraits. A very unusual occurrence took place here las\ week. A person named Francesa Prosperi was seen walking quietly along the bridge of Sant' Angelo about three o'clock in the day, when she suddenly made a spring on to the parapet, and flung herself into the water mid-stream. The act was so sudden that it was impossible to arrest her. No ground whatever can be assigned for the act, which is, therefore, ascribed to a fit of temporary insanity. The Municipality and resident nobility of Rome seem to be vieing with the Church in giv ing splendour and interest to the approaching feste. The Girandola of the Piazza del Popolo is to be given on an even gran d er scale than usual. Abundant alms ha ve b een vote d for distribution to the poor of the city, in various forms. The Senat or gives a grand rec e pti on a t the Capitol in honour of the foreign bishops, and also holds an Acca demia vocale eel instrunzerdale. The Forum is to be illuminated with Bengal lights, while concerted pieces are being performed, and a grand effect is to be produced by the illumination of the whole spacious terrace round St. Piet ro in blontnilv 'church built over the spot of St. Peter's Martyr dom). This will be quite a novel addition to the illuminations and an appropriat e one to the occa sion, while, from its elevated position, it will afford a splendid spectacle from almost any part of Rome. In th e gro u n d s o f the Villa Borghese, and other localities, there will be popular games, races, and other diversions, at which above 500 prizes will be distributed. You will very likely have heard alarming news of cholera at Civita Vecchia again, but the only thing like it occurred in the case of some poor fishermen, who, having . been out all day in the burning sun, with nothing to drink, incautiously drank too freely of some impure water, which they got on their landing . at Fiumicino. On the way back to Civita Vecchia, next day, one of them died, and another was so ill with cholerai c symptoms that it was thought wiser to send hi m to the Lazzaretto on landing. Hi e s, however, lik ely to recover under the care he has re ce i ved there. With every disposition to wish th e greatest pos sible numb er o f enjoy R ome, it is im possible not to feel a little incom moded now a n d then bye the public pl ace , and I might e er overwhelming num b ers who now almost say every street. The entrance to every hotel i s so crow d e d wi th arrivals that it is often hard wor k to f orce one ' s way through to make a call. E ven one ' s l e tt ers are delayed, because the t a r r a e in e s ve a ry re d s a o y o b v e e h rl i o nd adteldmwe.ith p a ssengers that th ey There seems, f rom all I hear, two principles at work in the management of the Italian railways—one, prompted by a desire to make the most of the influx of travellers, ad vertizes cheap tickets to draw people to their line of route ; and the other, by the obstructivity of revolutionary tendencies, which causes continual annoyances to the travellers they have secured— annoyances the more provoki ng f or their very pettiness. One of the most serious was a trick served on a party of French ecclesiastics, all of whose tickets, being " returns," were wrongly divided at one of the Piedmontese stations, and the consequent delay just sufficed to make them miss reaching Rome in time for Corpus Christi. I must confess the various centres of attraction on the day were crowded enough without them, and set one speculating as to what is to be done with any more who May arrive before the 29th. It was a lovely morning. The Holy Father carried the Blessed Sacrament and gave Benediction as usual in St. Peter's. The procession started before half-past eight, and it was nearly eleven before it had fully completed the tour of the Piazza. I have spent many crowded Easter& in Rome, but never saw St. Peter's so densely packed. Three hundred and forty bishops were counted in the procession, but Ido not know that computation is absolutely accurate. Some of the Orientals were dressed in vestments of most peculiar form. Some wore low, crown -shaped mitres, decorated with miniatures i n medallions of the four Evan gelists, others with the twelve Apostles. On the 21st (the Pope's Coronation day), there was a review before General Kanzler, in the grounds of the Villa Borghese. The French por tion of the spectators were very demonstrative, and, besides the usual cries, shouted " Vive la Gloire 1" " V ive la France !" and, ultimately, " Vive Mgr. Dupanloup !" "All th e w orld" seem e d th ere, yet the vast ch urc h of St. Tgnazio was as full as it could well h o ld to celebrate the day of San Luigi di Gonzaga. The illumination of the Colisseum with Bengal lights, in the evening, I hear, attracted the usual concourse. The Figaro gi ves the following description of Juarez :—" He is a jovial sort of fellow, ready enough to laugh and talk with his friends, and na turally of a humane disposition. Of the acts of cruelty attributed to him not a tenth are true, encies of a difficult s i tuation, and never without the sanction of th e l aw. In person he is of generally been dictated by the ex t . ci a m n i d dd t l h e e s h e haveeight, and, t o say the least, not a handsome exampl e of the mixed native and European race ; high and prominent cheek-hones, low forehead, straight, lank hair; small, black eyes. He is said to be exact, regular, and abstemious in his habits, not afraid of work; his only recrea tions are reading, riding, and playing at chess, at which, however, he is not very strong." A worthy citizen of Geneva, M. Revilliod, has just made a donation of 100,000 f. to the town towards the formation of a public museum and library. A letter from Turin, dated June 24, says : The Ecclesiastical Property Commission con tinues very assiduously at its labours, sitting three times a day. All its deliberations, however, are wrapped in the profoundest mystery, which is a new subject of discontent for the Florence journals, who find it impossible to obtain any certain infor mation as to what is going on ; it is whispered, however, that its disposition is to go . even beyond any former scheme of spoliation. The President and Secretary of the Commission had a long con ference with Signor Ferrara last week. Parliament has only got through the votes on the budget of four departments as yet, and it would seem im possible to get the whole voted in time for the pressing needs of the State. It is said Government is accordingly preparing a bill for obtaining a vote of ad interim supplies. Other subjects of debate of general interest have been the revelation of mal-administration and egregious abuses in the department of naval ad ministration by the Deputy de Cesare. A vote for the support of colonies on two somewhat sterile, but, nevertheless, not unimportant, though almost unknown, islands in the Mediterranean, half-way between Sicily and Africa, by name Linosa and Lampedusa, which the late dynasty was at pains to secure to the Kingdom of Naples ; the abolition of the privilege of franking letters to deputies; and a very hot and violent discussion on the disturbances at Trani, which the Left made an opportunity for angry recriminations on the clergy. ' The Florence Ministerial journal, Il Corriere Italiano, has the impudence to assert it is informed that the most influential members of the clergy are resolved, under advice from Rome, to withdraw all opposition to the Government schemes for the conversion of ecclesiastical property. The Corriere musthave little respect for the judgment of its readers when it presents them with such nonsense. The plague of locusts in Sardinia, to which I adverted before, seems to have done fearful devas tation in the island. A letter of the 14th describes it as in no way abated. The general distress is so great from this and other causes that emigration is going on to a great extent. Another difficulty is puzzling the authorities at Naples ; what with political arrests, vagabondage, and brigandage, results of an unsettled Government, and the stagnation of trade, all the prisons are full to overflowing. They have 600 detenuti on their hands, and no place to lock them up in securely. In a large munber of cases, however, there is no need of very secure keeping. The distress is so great that they have no place to go to, and are thankful for the shelter even of a lock-up. The Bolletino, a masonic organ, was sequestrated in Naples last week. At Florence the representation of a piece entitled " Frh Paolo Sarpi " has been prohibited. I do not know what exact ground of offence it con tained, but it was pronounced poco opportuna nelle attuali .circostanze. Count Rosario Messina has just sent 1,710 fr. as the contribution of the Maltese to the collection making here for presentation to the Pope on St. Peter's festival. A touching offering, too, has been received from the mission of Tripoli, which is en tirely under the direction of Italian priests. It only amounts to 114 fr., but it is one of the very poorest missions, and was in part made up by the "mites " brought by children in the schools. A former general of the army, who left it from conscientious motives, has contributed some curious coins. One, a gold piece called a marengo, struck in the year nine of the French Republic, now rather rare, bearing the legend " L'ltalie delivree h Marengo," and a still rarer gold piece, which Napoleon I. had struck in honour of his son, with the inscrip tion, "Napoleon F.F.C. Roi de Rome, XX. Mars, MD CCCXI." It is now expected that the Mont Cents tunnel will be completed in the eourse of 1869. Last year the rate of progress was an average of five metres a day ; this year it is six. It was announced that the through line from Leghorn to Rome - would be opened to the public on the 19th to do the . journey in nine and a half hours without any change of carriages. The works have been pushed forward, so that it might be inaugurated in honour of the Centenary of St. Peter. The Lyons Railway Company has purchased the portion of the Victor Emmanuel Railway which traverses the annexed Province of Savoy. THE RESTORATION OF THE RELIGIOUS ORDERS IN SPAIN. (From a Correspondent of the Westminster Gazette.) What will the Independance Beige say of us now ? Senor Claros has presented the petition which, as a good Catholic and as a Narvarrese deputy, he had been requested by the Bishop of Pamplona to submit to Congress. Prim's rapscal lions in Brussels must have howled with rage when they read that " not even a murmur " against the proposal was to be heard even from the liberal union gentry; and that the Government had actually promised their co-operation in carrying out the long-desired restoration. The Bishop's petition was a very modest one--it merely asked that novices might be admitted into the Franciscan monastery at Olite, to wear the religious habit, and be trained up for missionary work in Spain. But Senor Claros went a little further, for he demanded the admission of all the religious orders the prelates and the Government might consider necessary. Referring to the opposition raised in some quarters against the monastic habit, the illustrious orator said: " Admire, gentlemen, the eccentricities of this self-styled age of reason and enlighten ment. The great question we are about to debate may even be said to be reduced to one concerning a dress, a habit, and nothing more ; for the reli gious orders are here already, living and working in the midst of all, as the Government knows offi cially. But they are not permitted, forsooth, to wear the habit ! .... But I t e ll you o f the religious orders what that General of the Jesuits said when a reform was demanded in the constitu tion of that most perfect of institutes : Aut sint ut sunt ; aut non sint.' And if the religious orders are not good, drive them from the country. But if they are good . . . . let the cries of your children, the entreaties of your wives, the wail of lamentation from your colonies, and ,the void in your system of education which all your pedantic jargon cannot fill up, move you to re store them as they are and wish to be. • • • I declare that when I see the development of im piety and revolution in Spain, it is not as a Catholic that my heart suffers, but as a Spaniard. The manifestation of revolution in France was hor rible but it was grand. The assault upon the Church there had all the attributes of a gigantic crime but amongst us the crime has been changed purely and simply into mere pilfering. Everything is, laid hold on ; the priest is stripped and gagged ; and the nun who, being but a woman, can give no cause for fear, is left contemptuously to take charge of the rubbish that remains. The former has Satan's greatness ; the latter is no more nor less than pettifogging. • • • But first let me remark that the venerable Bishop of Panaplona says that these Franciscans ask no help from Government, but are ready to main tain themselves. You arc now preparing to con sider the financial estimates. Calculate the num ber of eniplo!ids that are too many, and the smallness of the means left to maintain them on. Think of the shrines now falling into ruins, and for which you will have to find repairs ; think of the other obligations of,public worship . . . and say if you should not b!,..tss that holy poverty which sends you labourers asking nothing for themselves or for their churches, save that you remember nei ther the one nor the other." Adverting to the horror of poverty which is the characteristic of the present day, Senor Claros went on to say : "You have indeed reason to be afraid. What think you is at the root of this aim question ? Nothing more nor less than the dread which exists of poverty, increased by a dread of honest work. No one now is content to be poor, . . . and as every one wishes to be rich at any cost, we must needs have swarms of office seekers, both regular and vagabond, intriguing in the press or conspiring in the clubs ; to say no thing of military leaders who resort to promincia mientos for promotion, or sergeants who, Judas like, sell their officers' blood, as on the 22nd of June of last year." After speaking of the benefits conferred on the human race through the labours of the monks, in every art and science known to man, to the wondrous deeds of charity that brought about the redemption of captives, the foundation 'of hospitals for the sick, for the aged, and for orphans, the orator next referred in the following terms to' that order which is the glory and the pride of every countryman of Ignatius and Francis Xavier : "Its primacy is seen in its very name, for it has a name which is above every other name. There is no doubt as to its origin, or that the master and the disciples are one, for both are alike abhorred by the spirit of evil. Thus, as it bears its august name, it reproduces too the symbols, and reflects the mysteries, connected with that name. It had the superhuman obedience of Isaac, and the divine foreknowledge of Joseph. Having been sold into slavery by philosophers, it taught the very Pha raohs to drink of the cup of wisdom ; it ascended Golgotha as one condemned, and there was loaded with calumnies and opprobrium; and one by one it suffered every agony of Calvary." He next refers to the universal desire for their complete restoration, even in infidel or heretic countries, and quotes the statistics published by the Revue des deux Mondes, to show that even in France the number of convents has gone on in creasing till it now amounts to upwards of 14,000. A generation has passed away since they were robbed or suppressed in Spain, so that no one can now impute to them the bankruptcy and beg gary that afflict the country, nor the intellectual darkness amid which the only names visible are those of Balmez and Donoso Cortes, whose writings in support of the Faith are worthy of that six teenth " century of Giants." Claros then pro ceeds to lament the corruption of the present day, the extravagance in dress as seen in the wives and daughters of " some of our poor employes, decked out in lace and with trains that a duchess of the times of Charles 111. or Ferdinand VI. would have envied ;" the general love of idleness, as visible in every department of the State. You once found fault," said he, " with the excessive number of priests and religious required for a population of 16,000,000 ; and now you have 500 generals and 11,000 other officers for an army which never amounts to 100,000 men ; and you have from 60,000 to 70,000 employes for the worst admini stration known to Europe, an administration which takes eighteen years to dispose of one question only, and which allows 40,000 petitions in one department alone to remain unanswered. People used to complain of the robbers of the Sierra Morena; but one single bubble company, or one single speculator, will do more robbery now in a day than all the bandits in every Sierra in Spain did in the reign of Ferdinand VII. And what shall be said of the religious spirit of the governing classes ? Is it not evident, from the pass that things have come to since Liberalism took to re generating Spain ? Are we not asking for the re ligious orders in most Catholic Spain the freedom allowed them by the Moslem in Turkey, and the heretic in England?" • "The 22nd of June is near at hand," continued Senor Claros ; "let us celebrate the sad anniversary. • . . Thirty years ago, the infamous assassins whom the gold of the clubs had hired, thrust their daggers into the hearts of unarmed and vir tuous monks here in the peace and quiet of the cloister . . . . and not a soldier or an officer moved from the barracks to hinder the foul deed, in the name of Christian justice or of the ancient and proverbial chivalrousness of Spaniards. Thirty years passed by, and the officers of the Spanish army saw those same dazaers, that had been for merly steeped in the blood of innocent religious, and twice stained by contact with the gold by which they had been prostituted, thrust into the breasts of their noble companions." This allusion to the noble fidelity of the officers who refused h la mort to join in the revolt got up by Prim's ser geants last year, had a most wonderful effect ; and the speaker had the house altogether with him from that moment. " Would that I had time," he went on to say, "to draw a parallel between the sixteenth and the nineteenth centuries, the age of the monks and the age of the newspaper writers. Allow me to offer one example only. A short time ago, the intelligent and highborn Liberalism of the present day sought to give a proof of its power by recovering one of the gems torn from the Crown of Castille. The occupation of one island only, :a fatal island for us . . . cost us more men and money than the conquest of Peru, and yet we had to abandon it, for we had no Pizarro there. But why do I say, of Peru ? That island cost us more men and money than the conquest of the whole of America. 30,000 men, and 300,000,000 of money, could not enable us to conquer the half of Santo Domingo. And *yet a few Dominicans, merely by the force of their preaching, gave the island its Spanish administration of old, and the name of their holy founder. A few Jesuits, with no other arms than the Cross, yet managed to colonize and rule the whole of Paraguay." Fi nally, referring to his own past efforts in the cause of the old religion of Spain, throughout which his gu idi n g maxim had been, fidelity to the Church, In ipsa, et cum ipsd, et per ipsam, the illustrious anti liberal deputy concluded thus: "In the name, then, of that order of ideas which you are here to repre sent; I demand the solemn, complete, most just, and, above all, legal restoration of the religious orders. But I wish no one to abstain from voting it. After haying demanded it in the name of reli gion, of order, and justice, I now demand it in the name of liberty. Do you wish to know where true liberty alone is found? There, where the Word which lies not has told you that it is found. There, where the Spirit of God is. Do you wish to know what true liberty is ? It is to love in freedom that which it is our duty to love. The contrary is to become enslaved to the passions. Do you wish to know what is the noblest liberty ? It is that of the Catholic religious : the heroic liberty of Leonidas and his companions at Thermopylae; the liberty of Dasiz and Velarde and those noble soldiers who, from that very barrack beside us, hurled death upon the tyrants of their country, knowing, the while, that their own deaths would be the certain consequence—the heroic liberty of sacrifice." I have not space left to give you extracts from the magnificent (extemporised) speech of Senor Nocedal in reply to the Marquesde Pidal who, after a very powerful defence of the religious orders, thought proper to throw the Liberals a sop by admitting that in the eighteenth century the monks and nuns had become unworthy of their sacred calling. I must, however, give you one extract as a specimen of the staunch fidelity of the growing party whom Nocedal now leads in Con gress : " Yes, gentleinen ; they who, like me, have now but a few grey hairs on their heads,—they who remember the first years of childhood—they who were wont to see the habit of St. Dominick or of St. Ignatius worn by our old masters and teachers, by those who then directed us in the ways of wis dom and virtue, which not all of us, perhaps, have followed since can never call to mind those sacred habits, those dearly-loved masters, without tears in their eyes, or without their hearts beat ing joyfully and gratefully at the remembrance. I cannot speak of the sons of the Spaniard Domi nick de Guzman, and of the lessons of that true philosophy once given in the Convent of St. Thomas Aquinas, without the profoUndest emotion of my heart ; it was there I learned the little of that knowledge which I now possess. Nor can I think of that modest habit borne by the members of the Society of Jesus, without proudly lifting up my head and saying : " That Company that has been so reviled by the impiety of the Revolu tionists, -,was a Spanish one ; it was in Spain, as God willed it, that that heroic saint first saw the light ; he who is the glory of all Europe, the glory of all Christendom, the special glory of the Spa nish people." And Senor Nocedal was greeted with loud cheers, and not a whisper of dissent was heard in that Chamber where for a generation past such deeds of sacrilege and infidelity have been sanc tioned under the Liberal regime. Happier days are coming for Spain, and St. Isidore's prayer that her faith might never falter is not forgotten. And Senor Prim, and his sergeants and scribblers, had better take a long lease of a house near the offices of the Independance, at Brussels ; for " Othello's occupation's gone." LOSS OF THE SHIP ASS.IYE. OFFICIAL REPORT. To the Lords of the Committee of Privy Council - for Trade. Lords,—We, the undersigned, two of her Majesty's Justices of the Peace for the county of Renfrew, have had an official inquiry into the stranding and subsequent foundering of the ship Assaye, which occurred on the morning of the Ist inst. in the vicinity of the Blackwater Light vessel. The Assaye was built of iron at Greenock in the year 1853, and registered at that port of the burthen of 785 tons. She was owned by Messrs. James and William Stewart and others, of Greenock, and was commanded by Mr. James Jones, who holds a cer tificate of competency as master; dated in February, 1858. The Assaye left George Town, Demerara, on the 2d day of April last, bound to Liverpool, with a valuable cargo of colonial produce. She was pro perly and efficiently found, and was manned by a crew of 2l men all told. Nothing occurred on the voyage to call for remark, and on the 31st May, at 10 o'clock at night, the Saltees Lightship was made, bearing E.N.E., at a distance of six or seven miles. - At 11 o'clock the lights were lost sight of, "bearing N.N.W., and the distance from them was computed, both by the master and mate, at from six to seven miles, the computation of distance being obviously very difficult in thick weather; From this position an easterly course was steered tilled 2 o'clock a.m. of the Ist June, when the ship struck upon the south rock off the Tuskar, the weather at that time having become so thick that they were unable to see that brilliant light although in such close vicinity. After the casualty the ship freed herself of the rock, but shortly commenced to leak. Sail was set, and efforts were made to get her round the north end of the Blackwater and beach her on the Irish coast, but these efforts were ineffectual, as the vessel foun dered in 20 fathoms of water, within half-a-mile of the Blackwater Lightship. The incidents of this casualty lie within a very small compass and a very short interval of time, and no doubt might have been avoided by a more cautious course, and due atten tion to the lead, &c. The weather both on making and after passing the Saltees is represented as being very thick, and here was the primary error in over estimating the distance from that light. A course to pass the Tuskar, which would be safe at a dis- Lance of six miles from the Saltees in fine weather, became manifestly unsafe in thick weather, and, in fact, with a leading wind and the whole Irish Channel open, it was highly imprudent, in such .thick weather and with a strong spring flood, to attempt to round the Tuskar so closely. - We must, therefore, hold Mr. Jones responsible for the loss of this valuable ship. In awarding the sentence the Court took into consideration the previous caution of the master in heaving his ship to, and casting his lead with care, upon making the Saltees ; and it is much to be re gretted that the same caution deserted him when approaching the Tuskar. The Court, however, was not disposed to visit Mr. Jones's omission with severity, but they could not overlook the fact that a fine ship had been lost, with a leading wind and in moderate weather, by a neglect of ordinary pre- caution. The sentence of the Court was that Mr. James Jones's certificate of competency be sus pended for the space of three calendar months. The certificate is forwarded to your lordships herewith. COUx4TRY MARKETS. LEEDS-TUESDAY. The corn market to-day had a very poor attendance, and what business there was done in fresh wheat was at the same prices as last week, yet trade was dull. Barley no minal. In oats and beans no alteration. MELTON MOWBRAY.-T UESDAY. White wheat, 67s to 74s ; red, 65s to 69s per 36 stone. Barley for malting, 40s to 52s per qr; feed, 32s to 38s per 30 stone. Oats old, 30s to 355; new, 28s to 32s per 24st. Beans, old, 52s to 545; new, 45s to Ns per qr. LIVERPOOL-TUESDAY. We had a goodtittWldtttO; at our market to-day. Wheat was in fair request for consumption at no advance on late prices. Oats and oatmeal were without change in value or demand. Flour met with only a retail sale. Barley, beans, and peas were unaltered. Indian corn in limited request, at a decline of Gd to is per qr. on the week. SHEFFIELD-TUESDAY. There was very little business transacted to-day in the corn trade, and only a small attendance. Where sales of wheat were effected the finest samples brought late prices. Flour maintained last week's prices. A quiet business was done in other articles. Red wheat, per load 013 imp. bushels 21s Od t0255:0 1 White do do 26s Od 29s Od New red do do ',Os Od 21s 6cl New white do do 23a 6cl 25s 64 Beans do do l9s Od 224 0.1 Peas. per qr. Grinding bailey, per qr 35.4 Od 38s Od Malting barley, c o Oats, - do 27s Od 328 Od F10ur....2s 4d to 24 8d per 141 b. MARKET TEARBOROUGEL—TirEsnAy. Old white "wheat, 70s to 72s ; new red, 60s to 68s per 3 6 stone. Barley, fine, 52s ; other kinds, 23s to 36s per 30 st• Oats, new, 26s to 35s ; old, 31. s to 35s per qr. Beans, old, 46s to 535; new, 42s to 47s per qr. CORK—A7L4 White wheat., 12s Od to 12s Gd ; red, 12s Od to —s Od ; black oats, Os Od to —8 Od ; White, 108 8d to — , 7-6 Od. Fors ig,n Mail Packet List. MAILS DUE. Australia and New Zealand, via Southampton..... July 20. Ditto, via Marseilles .. . ..,,.,..July 11. Ditto, via Panama ....... .......... ... Brazil, Buenos Ayres, and Monte Video July 4. Ditto, by French packet July 17 Cape Verde, by Brazil packet ...... July 4: Cape of Good Hope, Asconslon..aud St. Helena July S. China, Penang, and Singapore, via Southampton... July 3 Ditto, via Marseilles July --• Falkland Islands . Gibraltar, via Southampton .. July:3. India, via Southampton July 3. Ditto, via Marseil es July 7. Malta, Egypt, &c. Ditto, Marseilles July 3. Mauritius, Cape of Good Hope, and Natal, via Southampton. Ditto, via Mareei les July 14. Newfoundland ,July 3 Portugal July 4. Ditto, by private ship to Oporto Ditto ditto to Lisbon United States, Canada, California, &c., by British packet' July 3. Ditto, by United States packet Ditto ditto (New York , • Ditto ditto (New York) Ditto ditto (Baltimore) Ditto, by Canadian packet Tilly - -. West Coast of Africa, Madeira, and Teneriffc......J uly 4. West Incites and Pacific ,except Mexico and Baha mas) July 5. Cub 1, and Mexico ...July 21 1 . Bahamas, via New York Bermuda, via ditto Births. BUXTON —On the 2d inst., at Beaumont Lodge, Shepherd's' bush, the wife of Hoary Button, Esq., of a son. IVES - On the Ist inst., at 28, Wilton-place, the lion. Mre• Cecil Ives, of a daughter. PALGRATE—On the Ist inst., at 5, York-gate, the wife Of P. T. Palgrave, Esq., of a daughter. • , Marriages. COUSENS—GREEN'—On the 2d inst., at Christ Churc h ( ' Lancaster-gate, Charles B a xt er , f our th son o f Richard R. Cousens, Esq., of 4, K ens i ng t on P a l ace - gar d e o, Catherine Sir* youngest daughter of R. E. Ureen, of 5, Kensington lace-gardens. - - JONES—MIGHT—On the 2d inst., ai, St. George's, FIR I3 „i over-square, Percy, eld es t son o f W. J ones , Esq., ."„ Southern Lodg e , F en ti tnan ' s - roa d , Cl ap h am, t o FM" only daughter of George Knight, Esq., of 18, 13looras" bury-street, W. Deaths. BRUCE -On the Ist inst., at The Grange, Itendham, uth Saxmundham, G eorge A. B ruce , E sq ., of 'l3, So square, Glay's-inn, aged 30. BENNICKE - On the Ist inst., at 16, Hargrave-park-terr ath Junction-road, N., Mr. James J. Bennickie, aged 5 6 . , t. ECKFORD the 2d inst., at 33, Clarendon-road , P f Ilelier's, Jersey, Lieut.-General James Eekford, H.M.'s Indian Army, aged 81. FAGG—On the 30th ult., at Oak Lodge, Acre-lane, Bri. ° Geo. Fagg, Esq., aged 71. IZANT—On the 2d inst.. at Clue Lodge, Park-hill, G it ' r ham, Fr e d. 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