The Sun. — London, England, 1870-05-26 00:00:00

THE UXBRIDGE TRAGEDY. EXAMINATION OF THE PRISONER. Jenkins was yesterday morning brought up before Sir R. 13. The court Captain Farrar, and Mr. Coleman, at Slough. court was closed to the public, but a large and excited crowd congregated outside, their shouts and loud con versation being plainly heard through the open windows, and occasionally reaching a pitch that interrupted the Proceedings. The prisoner, who had remained in the police ceils all night was brought in shortly after eleven o'clock and Placed in the dock handcuffed. He is apparently a man ti)if,.,2, or 43 y ears o f age , an d was dressed in clothes which I tu been supplied by the police. In appearance he is B r rt, thick-s e t, w ith black, bushy beard and moustaches looked cut round. His face was ghastly pale, and he roked lik e a man w h o h a d no t s l e pt for several days. He l eaned over the bar of the dock and listened, apparently w ithout emotion, to the circumstantial relation by Super tentlent Dunham of the position in which the several " le tinii of the murders were discovered, with the marks e ach bore of the blows of the axe. The witness having deposed to the finding of the bodies, edentinued : In the front room" I found a pair of old c a r e trousers and a pair of boots (produced). There are marks of blood on the trousers, and the boots are saturated :ith l, blood. Upon one boot there is a piece thi ' u lnan brain. There was nothing abstracted from cp s room. In the room facing the Smithy I found an were corduroy coat and waistcoat patched all over. They f e re Pushed under a imall table in the room. I also ° nod a number of pieces of old flannel, a fustian jacket, In old blue shirt, a necktie, and an old " billycock " hat. 'al this room two boxes and two drawers were pulled open, a nd several articles were lying about the floor. On the ate est of drawers there was a watchstand and key, but no h• Yesterday afternoon I went to a lodging-house ealled t h e Oxford Arms Reading. A man named ,-;(,.)oreb s w as w ith me and a policeman from Reading. a ';':e went into the tramps' kitchen, where there were rut twenty persons. The prisoner was sitting facing thtte as we entered, and Coombs directly said, " That's man." The prisoner said, " I have never murdered 4 -a a., woman, or child." The charge had not been made 4salust him then. I went to him, and cauFht him by the I :croat : The Reading policeman said, He's pulling tj a lne tning out of his pocket," and, catching him by e hand, pulled out this pistol. It was loaded Pr n t,c , the muzzle with powder, and pieces of iron wire. The C lerk : Which pocket was it in ? „The prisoner (in a sullen tone) : The left-hand pocket. f Witness : The pistol was not capped, but I afterwards i ld a cap in his pocket. I charged the prisoner with t he murder, and he replied, "I have never murdered any 4 1 1 e, but I know who did." I said, " Why, you've got on h e murdered man's shoes." He said, " That may be." I We a black silk necktie (produced) from his neck. I then t to a secon d-h an d c l o th es shop in Reading, and re eelvd from Margaret Lyons, the shopkeeper, a black cloth hat and a light waistcoat. The prisoner at the time of i s apprehension was wearing a calico shirt, dark striped th °l ' s cre, and spring side boots, which I now produce. On 9eft bo o t th ere i s a s pot of blood. prisoner.„ : The blood came out of my nose last night. Ivjtness : A s il ver w atch and gold guard I produce I ained from the shop of Mr. Butcher, pawnbroker, at xbridge. v ,efiarles Coombs said : I am a bricklayer, and first saw e g,e Prisoner at Bullen's lodging house, Uxbridge. He Z ill e in about half-past three o'clock on Saturday after- e -e n• I came back at nine o'clock, and found the ii,soner had gone out. He did not come home again li st night. I next saw him on the following morning. v e cam e down about 10 o'clock in a new suit at clothes. He 'had on the black coat, light vest, il oi _striped trousers produced by the last witness. I said b I don't hardly know you now." He said, " I've hate to my brother's and got a suit of clothes off him." tk t Witness here identified the old corduroy coa ti a :;Which were found in the house of the murdered man l u escribed in the evidence of Superintendent Dunham.] of 4'w the prisoner wearing those things on Saturday eruoon when he arrived at the lodging house. ye sterday morning about five o'clock the prisoner came a,° nay bedroom and asked me for some tobacco. I .‘": I had none , and he then asked me for some break - I gave him what I had, but he did not touch At seven said he was going off to Reading by the 6.45 train. If se ven o'clock on Monday night 1 was in the Queen's ott ad, Reading, in company with the prisoner and several bel' men. A man came in and said, " Have 3 ou eard tell of the murder ?" The prisoner said, " Has there i 4. ; e4 , a murder done ?" and asked me to shew him the way ° lnto the back yard. He came back in ten minutes, and I 4d;, Well, I'm going home." The prisoner said, "I'll go tout We both went home and the prisoner went to bed. awat five minutes to two on Monday I met the prisoner, th - told me he was going to pawn a watch. He was p_wearing the watch and chain now produced. th e witness Clerk to prisoner : Have you any questions to ask ,e Witness ? me : Yes, sir, I have. Now, Charlie, did you see 37 at three o'clock, or four o'clock, or five o'clock on -W,a3 7 ' afternoon? Now tell the truth. !Lness : I am not sure, but I think— °, ,Ilsoner • I was not there at three . o'clock or four e.Lo e k . • officer: Don't make a statement; ask any question Yon want P • • 2 1 soner : What's the good of me being here if I am not T eak t' Ti le Clerk : You can ask questions, but this is not the le to ma k e a s t a t emen t. T he : All right ; it don't matter. 'ae Prisoner was then remanded till Tuesday. ta he left the dock he nodded to the witness, and said, °od bye, Charlie." f , T he prisoner's arrival at Slough, and hib departure Pe., et , —lat the examination was closed, attracted a crowdPe of - e. It required all the exertions of the constabulary, b a l it had done on the previous night, to prevent him 411 g seiz e d by th e mo b. This was especially the case `Yesterday afternoon. When the examination was over he taken to the cell at the back of the station to await a quiet Opportunity for removal to the Sloug 1 h Station, hence he was to proceed to Aylesbury Gaol. At half-past C a e , s u L e Was put into a cab and driven towards the station, ah - r• Drake, the Chief Constable, Superintendent Denson, other officers attending. The 8.35 train for Aylesbury NvBey. due when the police reached the station, and there the few persons about. The prisoner was taken to er o - office,-office, and his appearance soon attracted a v a i"u• The officers of the railway company tried in to keep the platform clear. By the time the 1.35 dow n A y l es b ury t ra i n arr i ve d at Slough it was do - I . e i ,,aPparent that the police would experience consi e difficulty in getting the prisoner into the train. cr ob lllse mass of people, principally working men, rsa;f u ed the platform opposite the doors, and WO a desperate rush whenever the door was opened. vveo the train ran into the station an effort me „ Made t o p u t the prisoner into a compart (Run which the officials at Paddington had been re t-44ed by telegraph to reserve. So great, however, was . li o , s t .l b ishin g , yelling, and hooting , that it . was foiindt_ml effo_l le to get the man into . the train, and . in heir I lki rts to effect this object Captain Drake and his officers t 6 to stand some rather rough work. In the midst of inn confusion then.persons in the train showed their feel de,,ias Well as th ose u pon the platform. Meanwhile, the hi t j e of the crowd to get at the prisoner and to ill-treat compel no abatement, the officers were reluc- NW compelled to return him to the booking-offic. tea ue this was going on the up Gloucester goods train to t e i lted Slough, and the down Windsor train was run up to i t. e latformp i w ith a couple of empty carriages attached by th 'lle people were then cleared from the platform of th e e klice and railway officials. The two last carriages Wea t ncisor train were deta run into the empty ched—the Windsor part tart rh ell,i and the prisoner was cora np;ent of a second class carriage, Captain Drake, Mr. being with him. As qukl as osible th Glou the• e t goods engine was hooked to y p the carriage in e which While stoner was seated, and it was run out of the station. ,the ~,e i st he Police were getting their prisoner into the train, ' 1 '44 1 - "wd again broke into the station, surrounded the r ri ; and yelled and hooted to their hearts' content. • tel ighout the journey to Aylesbury he behaved in a • audacious manner, and at various places while threwl.lg. trains, or on taking his seat in the cab, 7kaselled what he would do to some of the . wileiirated if he were only free. At one place he m s aid, gip ,: u. ) watched pretty well, but I may give you the t. e io .ts as Ido not mean to dance in the air if I can help ella ' L e eared very nervous each time he had to "tit 1 1 0 8: : and walked hurriedly from carriage to carriage, to ahe _ safely taking his seat assumed in turns a look of / 4a : t uba Jeering defiance. , 411 11 0 ,, eight most intense excitement was created by the ac,ement that John Jenkins, the alleged murderer, °)N„„".° 11 e he was in the police-cell at Slough, made the it • og confession :—" I did it. I alone was engaged in ilr'oth e ° /ly else had anything to do with it. lam not a Ti le r o f Marshall." keci h . Itkede in which the murder of Emanuel Marshall It al family was effected has now been clearly shown. or ti 8 Probably comm itt e d b e f ore th ree o ' c l oc k on S u nday ce t h g, the murderer waiting until after daylight, that fort a tt obtain the plunder he sought, and from the com ',l3tai, e 4 0 Pearance of the cottage, he might expect to „`uko \ ,„,„.- 1 - 11 the interval which elapsed between the k'tisoa,,ThY of the murders and the apprehension of the Publi c every alehouse, lodging-house, and house of ,Nhresort in Brentford, Uxbridge, and the surround olerbouthoods was closely searched for the prisoner. ,!' 4l lt of l jenderson sent down an inspector and an assis ,4 detective police of Scotland-yard, to assist -I.l ivect sea reh, but the capture was made when they Th e k ''et 1, 3 a eY of the murdered man's house or shop—it is a ti a t . Yeari,, l l _vv,hich—has been found in the lodging-house ( 4 , . : t Where the murderer was captured. It appears in th e day of his capture he offered the key to any 'jeer]. e lodging house who would accept it, but all ho --' al legingthat they did ot wish to be taken up L. l - 18 :b e reaki n - g. He then pushed n the . key through a ch ell .pboard that was kept locked in the tramps' ' ll l s b o • esterda a an named Willis unlocked the thli,atios:dii,tftoluand the key and took it to the Reading police an ordinary, but rather large door-key , the oil it. T e bent, and there is also some white paint ho here is no doubt but that it belonged to Mar l% Ilse. day . e belt D • es of the murdered victims are to be buried to- P 'leell e ri o n f g i-t he Whole of yesterday large crowds visited the oolatahli,wle murders. About mid-day, several carriages, Th ie ee llPaa t tf elualies of high position, were driven up, and the 1 4d . ho lvey `teaveured to obtain admission to the cottage. les, eoh _ si d e r el, a w b a i lot a p p e p r o m i n i ttteedd, wentb y th a e w p a o y l . i ce, and the IMPERIAL PAMAA aiENT. HOUSE OF COMMONS--WEDNESDAY. The Speaker took the chair at twenty minutes past twelve. CLERICAL DISABILITIES BILL. Mr. HIBBERT moved the second reading of this bill, and in doing so said he must disclaim any desire on his part to push forward the subject. He would much rather the Government had taken it in hand, but probably, seeing the great business which the Government had ,in hand, it was perhaps excusable that a pri vate member should introduce the question ; The bill proposed to deal with a grievance not affecting a large class, but still a very considerable class of her Majesty's subjects. The grievance was one which had existed for a great number of years, and although efforts had been made to alleviate it to some extent no success had been achieved. In 1862 the member for Kilmarnock brought in a bill to relieve the clergy from the disabi lities which weigned upon them. Thatbill, although it only dealt in a more limited manner with the subject than his bill, did not pass through the House. The measure to which he referred only allowed a clergyman to relin quish his calling when he professed dissent from the Esta blished Church. Now, in the bill which he had intro duced it was thought better to allow a clergyman to relinquish his calling " without giving any reasons why he did so relinquish his calling." He believed that the actions of a man should be looked to, not his motives. It had been stated that these disabilities weighed upon a very few people. Still, if they were few in number, when Parliament had removed the grievances complained of by other classes, he did not think the House would refuse to take away the disabilities under which the clerical body laboured. He referred to the disabilities imposed upon a clergyman who wished to retire from his calling by the 76th Canon. by an Act passed in 1801, and by the Municipal Corporation Act. The hon. member called attention to the fact that the canon said nothing about a man being in holy orders, because at the time it was passed the feeling of the Reformed Church in England was contrary to the doctrine that Holy Orders were indelible. He did not intend to go into the question as to whether Holy Orders were indelible or not. By one of the clauses it was provided that if a clergyman, after having left the Church, wished to return to it, he could upon certain conditions ; with the consent of the Bishop and Archbishop. Having commented upon the disabilities which clergymen suffered under in respect of not being able to sit in Parlia ment, he remarked that he should not object to unattached clergymen being allowed to take seats in the House. The hon. gentleman said when they considered the early age at which persons were admitted into the Church, and that there were 20,000 clergy in the country, it might be assumed that some who were ordained at an early age, might, either through unfitness for their calling, or through dissenting from some of the formularies of the Church, or from change of circumstances, wish to become laymen. Mr. JOHN LEWIS seconded the motion. He said it might be argued that the bill would admit an inferior class of men into the House, but he believed that the present system in consequence of the irrevocable character of the engagement, tended to keep out many men who would become admirable clergymen. _ _ Mr. WALPOLE stated two broad objections to the bill. In the first place it was extremely undesirable that persons who took holy orders should enter the sacred profession lightly or unadvisedly with an experimental mind. He thought the mind of a person should be thoroughly made up before he took the step. In the next place he did not think that when a person had served in the Church he should chop and change about. He thought it was undesirable that the services of a minister of reli gion should become more or less of a merely professional character ; and that, according to profit or advantage, he should change from this side to that. He saw no reason why unbeneficed clergymen should not occupy seats in that House and Corporation. Sir L. PALK said that the bill would but add to the in ducements to young men to enter the Church when they found that they could retire when they pleased from their calling. Besides, it was a new matter to him that the House had any right to release men who had taken deliberately, and of their own accord, the most solemn oaths, and bound themselves by the most solemn obliga tions. There never was a more objectionable bill intro duced. Mr. B. HOPE said the bill provided a measure of relief for those who had the moral courage to declare their un fitness for the Ministry, whilt those who still remained in the Church were denied the rights of citizenship. He would much rather that the bill had only dealt with civil disabilities. A distinction should have been drawn be tween the clergy in the actual discharge of their duties and the clergy who had no immediate cure of souls either as incumbents or curates. There were good reasons for persons holding the cure of souls not to be involved in secular occupations. He approved of the provisions as to the readmittance of the retired clergy. Mr. BOUVERIE could not agree to the plan suggested by Mr. Hope as to relieving unbeneficed clergymen from the restrictions imposed upon the clerical body. In speak ing of the proposition that unbeneficed clergymen should have the opportunity of entering that House, he said it was a well.known fact that the Crown had the largest share of Church patronage, and it might be that one of these gentlemen might, by becoming the favourite of the Prime Minister obtain livings and high position in the Church. It was really a question of . the rights of the constituencies to elect whom they pleased. He thought it was a most cruel hardship that a young man who on entering the Church had to subscribe to a vast number of theological and dog matic teaching should be compelled to remain in the service of the Church, if he afterwards conscientiously felt that he could not believe in them. Mr. NEWDEGATE argued that if they admitted the clergy into Parliament, they would have to admit the Roman Catholic priests. He complained that step by step, indirectly the house was being persuaded to disregard and contemn every one of the restrictions, which at the revolution and subsequently were found necessary to guard the freedom of this country. Mr. HENLEY objected to the bill. Mr. BRUCE, on the part of the Government, supported the second reading of the bill. The House divided. . Ayes Noes Majority The hill was read a second time. GAME LAWS ABOLITION BILL. Mr. TAYLOR moved the second reading of this bill. He spoke of the universal condemnation of the game laws. Wherever farmers met together there was discontent and complaint about them, and there was not a public meet ing in the great centres of the country without the utmost indignation being expressed. Judicial statesmen and philanthropic authority had long since condemned the game laws, and it was now a case of the upper classes against the benefit and interest of the general order. The game laws were a curse to farmers, as was universally admitted—(no, no). At any rate the farmers thought so, and the laws placed them in the most ridiculous and anomalous position. It had been said that farmers ob tained compensation for injury, but he had accumulated a mass of evidence which proved to him that compensation was seldom asked for, and that it was impossible to estimate the damage. The game laws were not only a curse to the farmer but to the agricultural labourer, who was constantly tempted to commit crime. He alluded to the great increase in the number of convictions under the Game Laws, and then quoted figures to shew the loss of food to the people and the consequent rise of prices by the preservation of game. He asserted that there was a regular system of warfare between gamekeepers and poachers, and remarked that the most shameful feature was that the latter were bunted down by dogs like slaves. One remedy which had been proposed was to make game private property, but he contended that it would introduce an indefensible principle into the English law. The bill he proposed, in his earnest conviction, was a simple measure of justice, and was in his opinion a matter of inevitable necessity. It was only a question of time, to day or to-morrow, and he appealed to the House to deal with the question in a comprehensive spirit, and he ap pealed to the landed gentry to do what could be done with some remains of graciousness rather than to prolong a struggle, the continuance of which would tend to increase the already sufficiently lamentable indifference to the interests and sympathies of various classes. Mr. DICKENSON seconded the motion. He condemned the game laws as a great public evil, and he thought the sooner they were expunged from the statute book the better. He was quite aware that there were certain pro tective laws with respect to the Reeerfalticon of figraCtA but then he contended the two things were totally different, because the latter was an important article of rood. It was also most important that steps should be taken to prevent the taking of those fish in the close time, when they were unfit for human food ; there fore some public object was served by the maintenance of laws for the protection of salmon, but such was not the case as regarded the protection of game. There were number less arguments in favour of the repeal of these game laws, and he did not know a more important one than the put ting an end to those dangerous conflicts that took place between keepers and poachers, where human life was so commonly destroyed in the most reckless manner for the sole purpose of preventing a pheasant or a partridge being shot. Mr. HARDCASTLE opposed the motion, and moved the previous question. He objected to the bill because, if it should pass, it would become quite unworkable, and result in the end in a more stringent law with respect to trespass taking its place. He also thought the bill was a step backward in legislation. He did not believe that tenant farmers could not fight their own battle. The last election shewed that such was not the case, and to his mind it proved most indisputably that if the tenant farmers put their heads together and took any matters up with a view of change, that change took place without any extraneous aid being required. (Hear, hear.) The bill in his opinion would become inoperative, because it set out with calling upon the landlord to tell how much game he was the owner.of, an estimation it was impossible for him to make. He regretted that, as the Government had touched the matter, they had not taken it up in a bolder spirit than they had, but with regard to the present bill he had the greatest objection, and therefore he asked the House to agree to the motion he had submitted to it. Mr. STURT opposed the bill, believing, from a long ac quantance with tenant farmers, and not the subject under discussion, that it would be most unwise to pass the bill because it would increase crime, and bring about a most lamentable state of things. Mr. M'ComsrE read a number of private letters from large tenant farmers in Scotland, all condemning the Lord Advocate's measure, and approving of the bill brought in by the hon. member for Leicester. He said he should give his vote in favour of the second reading of the bill now under consideration. General FORESTER said he should not have spoken had not an allusion been made to his brother. It had been stated that a little boy had been fearfully lacerated by a dog belonging to his brother. The fact was that much annoyance had been experienced by the depredations of boys, and the dog was kept to scare them away. On the case in question, the dog was muzzled, and only scratched the boy. The sum of £5 was sent to the boy's mother, and the keeper was discharged. The case had been much exaggerated in the public prints. Mr. M'LAGAN objected to the bill, and " talked it out." TELEGRAPH EXTENSION BILL. The Marquis of HARTINGTON obtained leave to bring in a bill to extend the Telegraph Acts 1868-69 to the Chan nel Islands. THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, MAY 26, 1810, POSTAGE REGULATIONS, The Marquis of HARTINOTON also obtained leave to introduce a bill for the further regulation of duties on postage, and for other purposes relating to the Post Office. The House adjourned at ten minutes to six. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. BATH RAOES-WEDNESDAY. The Juvenile Stakes of 10 sous each, h ft. Half a mile. Lord Rosebery's Andorra, by Elland— Murals, Bst 71b - (Grirnshaw) w o The Welter Stakes (Handicap) of 5 soya each. Once round and a distance. Mr. H. Temple's Fitz-Ivan, by Ivan—Diana, 6 yrs, lOst 61h (including 6lb extra) Mr I. Woolcott's The Detective, 3 yrs, lOst 61b (in 61b ex.) (Eadss) 2 Mr. Ruff's Viscount St. Albans, 6 yrs, list 61b (in 61b ex) (Goater) 3 Won by three parts of a length. The Weston Stakes of 10 sovs each. Straight half mile. Mr Merry's Perth, by Dundee—Lady Dot, Bst 101 b (in ;,lb extra) The Somersetshire Stakes of 25 sovs each. About one mile and five furlongs. Mr A. Taylor's Threatener, by Caractacus—lntimidation, 4 yrs, 6st bib (in bib extra) (Gradwell) 1 Mr Merry's Phcebus, 5 yrs, 7st 91b Mr E. Brayley's Cock of the Walk, 5 yrs, Bst 31b (Cannon) 3 The following also ran :—Miss Sheppard, Lady Somer set, and Mortlake. At the top turn Mortlake passed the Lady Somerset filly, and took fourth place at the mile post, where Miss Sheppard joined Phcebus, the latter Fair closing with Threatener in the straight. Miss Sheppard was the first to give way, and at the distance nimbus headed Threatener, but could not stay home, the latter getting the best of it in the last few strides, and winning by a neck. The Dyrham Park Handicap of 100 sovs. Once round and a distance. Mr T. Day's Chivalry, by Rinalde—Pelion, 4 yrs, 7st 11lb (in 71b ex) Mr Hadley's Good Wine (La Rose), 3 yrs, 7st (in 71b ex) (Mordan) 2 Mr Merry's f by Costa, out of Morgan la Faye, 4 yrs (Butters) 3 Won by three quarters of a length ; a bad third. The Doddington Plate (Handicap) of 40 sous. Half a mile. Mr T E. Case's Pericles, by Newminster— Peri, 6 yrs, Bst 121 b Mr H. Woolcot's Review, 3 yrs, 7st 4th (Rowell) 2 Colonel Martyn's Duchess of Kent, 3 yrs, 7st 61b (Butler) 3 Edna, Una, Split Vote, Detective, and The Nigger also ran. Won in a canter by two lengths. The Bath Handicap of 10 sous each. Half a mile. Mr. H. Goater's Nightingall, by Handsome Jack—Polly, 3 yrs, Est 51b (in 51b ex) ... (Jewitt) 1 Mr H. Sutton's Daylight, 3 yrs, 6st 21b... ...(Crickmere) 2 Mr P M Hadley's Lord Berkeley, 3 yrs, Est 51b LGradwell) 3 Minnie Warren, Stockhausen, and Lady Annie also ran. Won by a length; a bad third. LATEST BETTING AT BATH. DERBY. 5 to 4 on Macgregor (taken) 11 to 1 agst Camel (offered) 14 to 1 agst Sunshine (offered) 100 to 6 agst Prince of Wales (take 20 to 1) 20 to 1 agst Kingcraft (offered) ARRIVALS AT CROYDON. Antipodes, Coprolite, Contempt, Electricity, Elferon, 30s Polly, Election, Guile c, King Theodore, Lady Clinton, Tit bit, Lincoln, Trifle, Vivandiere, Royal Princess, Sarcolite South Durham, Sophie: Walmer, Wilful. The Epsom horses will arrive in the morning. Expected—Transgressor. ARRIVALS AT STAMFORD. Anton, Aftermath, Eddish, Finley, Jeanne d'Arc, Faith, Forget-me-not, Ironstone, Jersey, Juliet, Johannisberg, Vex, Knight, Lady de Trafford c, Lady Scarlet, Moccolo, Miss Sharp, True Blue, Tibthorpe, Vagabond. • - • SCRATOBINGS. Borough Members' Plate— Whiteleg c. Bohemian colt, out of Stamford engagements. Jeanne d'Arc, out of Borough Members' and Westmorland Plato. CI f Y BETTIN G.—YESTERDAY. THE DERBY. 60 to 50 on Macgregor (taken) 10 to 1 apt Camel (taken and offered) 10 to 1 agst Sunshine (offered) 100 to 6fagst Bridgwater (taken and offered) 20 to 1 agst Palmerston (taken) 20 to 1 agst Kingcraft (offered) 20 to 1 agst Normanby (offered) $ to 1 agst Palmerston and Bridgwater coupled (offered) PLACE BETTING. 3 to 1 on Macgregor (taken and offered) 3to 1 agst Normanby (taken and offered) GRAND PRIZE OF PARIS. 5 to 2 agst Sornette (taken) BEITING AT MANCHESTER-YESTERDAY. DERBY. sto 4 on Macgregor (offered) 103 to 8 agst Sunshine (taken) 100 to 6 agst Camel (taken) 100 to 6 agst Bridgwater (offered) 100 to 6 agst Prince of Wales (offered) 20 to 1 agst Palmerston (taken 1000 to 15 agst Bonny Swell(taken) 1000 to 10 agst Sarsfield (offered) 1800 to 10jagst Ptarmigan (offered) Yesterday the inquest on the five men killed by foul air in sinking a well at the gas works, Barking, was concluded, and a verdict of accidental death returned. FADVERTISEMENT ]—HOLLOWAY'S PILLS AND OINTMENT. — Deranged Stomach, Si , k Headache.— Our comfort, happi ness, and security depend upon the knowledge that most diseases originate by apparently a trifling begin ning, , and the large proportion of them spring from inattention to the state of the stomach. Professor Holloway has turned this knowledge to useful account by discovering medicines which rectify the error as soon as it is seen, and save the patient from loss of appetite, strength, and energy, which are, with out exception, the attendants on disordered digestion. They ward off likewise the torturing sick headache. The Ointment should be well rubbed twice daily over the s t om ach, liver, and bowels ; to them it penetrates, and upon them it immediately exerts its renovating influence. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. DEFEAT OF THE FENIAN RAIDERS 'ON CANADA. (CENTRAL PRESS TELEGRAM.) NEW YORE, Miy 26. The first Fenian raid upon Canada has signally failed. The insurgents advanced, two hundred well armed, under the command of General O'Neil, and crossed the border near Franklin, Vermont, at noon yesterday. The Cana dian Volunteers, having lain in concealment, surprised them. The Fenians, however, returned fire, and a fight commenced, which lasted for some time. General O'Neil while at the right of his command was arrested by a United States officer, Marshal Foster. He attempted resistance, but was thrust into a coach and driven rapidly to St. Albans, and from thence to Burlington. The raiders, deprived of their leader, recrossed, having lost one killed and one wounded. The Canadians report their force 100 strong; no loss. The general movement of Fenian parties northward still continues. Canadian forces are hurrying to the frontier. Prince Arthur has gone to the front with Lord Russell's regiment. The arrest of General O'Neil, however, dampens Fenian enthusiasm, and the defeat of his company is considered decisive. No other crossing is reported. (REUTERS TELEGRAMS.) WASHINGTON, May 25. Despatches received from the Canadian frontier are of a conflicting character. A general movement of Feniaws towards the frontiers is certainly going on, and it is even reported that a Fenian force under O'Neil has actually crossed the boundary near Franklin, in Vermont, and that fighting has com menced. It is further reported that 150 United States troops have gone to Ogdensburg. Fears are entertained that the Fenians will make an attack upon Cornwall TORONTO, May 25. General Lindsay has collected a large number of regular troops and volunteers at the Eastern frontier. The Prince Consort's Own Rifles left Montrose for the front this morning. H.R.H. Prince Arthur goes with them on the Staff of Lord A. Russell. At noon, on Wednesday, the Fenians crossed the line, and encamped at the bank of the Toronto river, fifty miles south-west of Montreal. No troops are yet on the spot. The villagers of the district are forming a company in order to attack the marauders, who are already pillaging the stores in the neighbourhood. The Proclamation of President Grant against the Fenians has produced a good effect here. The Canadian steamer Chicora, carrying troops and stores for the Red River Settlement, has been allowed, after disembaiking the troops, to pass the Sault St. Marie Canal. AMERICA. NEW YORK, May 25. Congress has finally passed the bill enforcing the Suf frage Amendment, and imposing heavy fines and impri sonment for obstructing the operation of the provisions of the Amendment. The bill gives to the United States Court jurisdiction in premises, and authorizes the President to employ the army and navy for the purpose of enforcing the Amend ment referred to. The Postal Telegraph Bill will not be reported until December next. The steamers leaving to-day for Europe take out $375,000 in , t pecie. Gold dosed at 1141; the highest quotation during the day was 1141; the lowest 1141. Sterling Exchange on London lO9l Five-Twenty U.S. Bonds, 1882 ll2 Ditto 1885 llll Ditto 1867 ll4 Ten-Forty ditto 1867 lOB/ Illinois Shares Erie Cotton, Middling Upland Petroleum, Standard White 27lc Flour, extra State Corn, old Mixed $1 14c. INDIA AND CHINA MAIL. MESSINA, May 26. The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer Tan jore passed Messina at four this morning, en route for Mai seines. MALTA, May 26. The Masailia, with the heavy portion of the above mail, left at midnight for Southampton, where she may be expected about the 4th proximo. The Pera, from Southampton 14th inst., arrived at 1 p.m. and left at 8 on the evening of the 23d for Alexandria. IThe following news appeared in our First Edition pal fished at Eight o'clock this morning:—] (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPII . ) FRANCE. PARIS, May 25. The Press Law has been passed by the Corps Legislatif —194 votes for it, 3 against it. According to the Mbniteur France and Spain have con cluded a treaty, to come into effect next year, under which civil judgments in either country would have effect in the other. The Bourse closed at 74f. 62c. SPAIN. MADRID, May 25. The state of affairs in Lisbon continues to excite great interest. It is said that Louie intended to arrest Saldanha, fearing his possible return to office, and meant to send him to sea in a ship of war, when he was to have the alterna tive of accepting a foreign mission or of being imprisoned in one of the colonies. Saldanha, on learning these de signs, resolved to anticipate them by a pronunciamento. PRUSSIA. BERLIN, May 25. The draft of the New Penal Code has been passed in the North German Parliament. The Lottery Loans Bill has come on for the second reading, when the Finance Mini ster cautioned the house not to attack property legally acquired. Bourse speculators would be affected by the prohibition of foreign lottery loans. The Ist clause of the bill, forbidding the future issue of such loans, was adopted, and a resolution passed asking the Government to intro duce a bill dealing with the whole question. The other clauses were withdrawn. BELGIUM. BRUSSELS, May 25. Judgment has been been delivered in the case of Armaud Mendel, who had published some articles against the Pro curateurs of the Court of Appeal in his journal. The jury acquitted him upon all the charges, and the decision was received with applause. INDIA. BOMBAY, May 25. The President at Hyderabad is to be abolished, and an agent substituted. It is also thought that the Central Provinces will be formed into a Lieutenant-Governor ship. A treaty has ,been concluded between the Government and the Maharajah of Cashmere. THE NEW RIVER COMPANY.—A sale by auction of a somewhat unprecedented character, took place in the City, at the Auction Mart yesterday. It consisted of parts of shares in the New River Company, which were offered iu forty-seven lots, representing an income of £2,100 per annum, and the gross amount realised by the sale was about £62,430. Some striking facts as to the increase in the value of the shares of this company were 'mentioned by the auctioneer ; among others that King Charles TI. gave up possession of 36 shares in the company in consideration of an annual payment of £5OO, which payment still continues to be made under the title of " The King's Clogg," and that one of this 36 shares was tested by public auction iu 1823 to be worth .£17,050. So that the thirty-six shares which were surrendered for a commuted payment of £5OO a year in Kieg Charles the Second's time were, in 1823, worth £613,800, or an annual income at 4 per cent. of £24,452! This statement seemed somewhat to astonish the crowded room of City capitalists ; but the result of yesterday's sale was still more remarkable, for it proved that the public estimate of the value of one of the shares of the King's moiety is £48,000. The 36 shares, therefore, are now worth £1,728,000, representing an income at 4 per cent. of £69,120, or 138 times more than King Charles was con tent to accept for his share. (CENTRAL PRESS TELEGRAMS.) THE PRINCE OF WALES' INTERNATIONAL YACHT RACE. The match for the Cup presented by the Prince of Wales to the Royal Yacht Squadron, to be sailed for by yachts of all nations, is to take place on Wednesday, June 22nd. The starting place will be West Cowes Castle at 5 o'clock in the morning. The course will be through the Needles, round the Shambles, near Portland, returning by the back of the Isle of Wight, and by the Nab lightship and Ryde Pier. AQUATICS AT OXFORD. The sixth of the series of eight oar races at Oxford took place last evening. The first four boats maintained their position. There was a splendid race between Brasenose and Christchurch, but the latter, although within a few inches of Brasenose, failed to make the required bump. New College continued to make its victorious career by bumping Merton at Saunders Bridge, but there was no other change. SERIOUS OUTRAGE AT NEWPORT. A sailor belonging to the ship Northumberland has just been apprehended on a charge of committing a rape on a child five years of age. The outrage is of a most flagrant character, and has caused great excitement in the town of Newport. The accused will remain in the police-station until Friday, when he will be brought before the borough magistrates. COLLISION ON THE NORTH BRITISH RAILWAY. . . A collision occurred yesterday afternoon at tatho, on the North British Railway, between an express train and a mineral train engine thrown off the line. The passen gers we're considerably shaken, but not severely hurt. MELANCHOLY DEATH BY DROWNING AT NORTH SHIELDS. Yesterday morning a keelman, named John Buckbon, while lying asleep in the cabin of his wherry, on the Tyne at North Shields, met his death by the sudden sinking of the boat, which was loaded with iron. A leak in the side of the keel was the cause. THE ABOLITION OF TESTS BILL-MEETING AT CAMBRIDGE. The resident and non-resident opponents of the aboli tion of tests in the University of Cambridge mustered at the Senate House yesterday in great force, in order to carry a petition to the Houses of Parliament against Sir John Coleridge's measure. The non-residents found a large proportion of the supporters of the placets. The non-placets, though present, declined to vote, and the numbers were—placets 135, non-placets 2. ALLEGED ATTEMPTED MURDER. At Longton Police-court, Staffordshire, yesterday, Chas. Steele was charged with feloniously shooting Charles Frost. The men are colliers, and live at Stockton Brook, near ilanley, On Tuesday night Steele, while in state of drunkenness, smashed the fur niture in his cottage. Frost and other neighbours remonstrated with him. Steele went to his father's house, a mile away, and returned with a gun loaded with shot. On seeing Frost, he fired at him, and the charge lodged in his arm. Frost raised his hand just as Steele was firing, or he would have received the charge in his body. Frost now lies under the care of a surgeon, so Steele was remanded. THE MANCHESTER OUTRAGES. The man Ryan, who has been in custody on his alleged confession of being the incendiary at Johnson's timber-yard, Ancoats, and who was remanded after examination at the City Police-court, on Saturday last, has been discharged from custody. The police haVe not been able to obtain further evidence, or to shew that the prisoner was near the timber-yard on the night of the fire. An inspector of detectives said he hal examined the books of the Brickmakers' Union and found no entry of payment such as the prisoner confessed to the informant he had received. The stipendiary magis trate remarked it was not likely they would keep a record of such a payment. The Deputy Chief Constable having stated that it was not possible to obtain further evidence, the Stipendiary said the prisoner's con fession must be regarded as arising from the delusion of a drunken man, and therefore he discharged him. THE BISHOP OF PETERBOROUGH AND THE EDUCATION BILL. A meeting in support of the general principles of the Education Bill was held at Daventry yesterday afternoon. The Bishop of Peterborough presided, and amongst those present were Sir Rainald Knightley, Baronet, M.P., Major Cartwright, M.P., Mr. C. Sackville Stopford, M.P., Sir H. E. L. Bryden, Bart., Hon. and Rev. Lord Alyne Compton, General Sir F. Horn, K.C.8., Captain Stopford, R.N., Mr. E. Ashworth Briggs, Mr. M. W. Dickins, J. P., Rev. W. L. Collyns, Rural Dean, and a large number of the clergy, gentry, and agricul turists of the district. The Bishop, in the course of his speech, dealt at length with the subject of education, and said that to forbid religious teaching would be as atheistical as to impose religion would be tyranny. But to permit religious teach ing would meet the wishes of the country. The con science clause he thought indispensable, and a time table under suitable regulations. He was in favour of unde nominational inspection, which he thought a good feature of the bill. He had been the patron of a school in Ireland for some years, and he found the system work no harm. He thought Earl Russell, with many others, confounded things that differ when he spoke of denominational schools in Ireland and in England. He hoped the No-Popery prejudices of the people would not lead them into mistake respecting education in Ireland. The question of education would distract the national mind, and we shall need to exercise great care, tolerance, and forboarance. A BISHOP ON THE CONTAGIOUS DISEASES ACT. At a meeting of the Manchester and Salford Sanitary Association, held yesterday, the Bishop of Manchester, who presided, referred to the agitation going on in respect of the Contagious Diseases Act. He said the controvery was raging with extreme bitter ness, which almost precluded calm discussion. The controversy was exceptional, because the facts with reference to the operation of the Act in garrison towns. were stated by the two parties in direct anta gonism, the one to the other. One party alleging that moral, and the other that immoral effects were produced. He thought the subject must be made one for an authorised and competent inquiry. Looking to the prevalence of hyinotic diseases, which were a form of scrofula, and the fact that scrofula was propagated more than by any other cause by syphilitic taint, this question being also at the root of the opposition to the Vaccination Acts, it seemed to him that there was a case made out for calm dispas sionate investigation as to how far these contagious diseases are preventable, and the sanitary question ought to be kept entirely separate from the moral one. The moral question must be dealt with by its own proper remedies. CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY. The grace accepting the statue of the Prince Consort as chancellor of the university from the Duke of Devon shire on behalf of the subscribers, was carried at congre gation yesterday without opposition. The following degrees were conferred :—Masters of Arts.—William Douglas Dodkin (King's), Henry Bruce .Armstronge, Edward Bell, Charles Samuel Chilver, Alfred Thomas Coore, Harry Harbord, John Mills, M. Francis, Henry Latham, and Claude Cecil Thornton, (Trinity), Alfred Grainger ( Caius ), William Marsdam Du Rieu, Wm. Hatfield Green, Robert Ker shaw Judson, Herbert Radcliffe, John James Thornley, John Mills Walker (St. John's), Charles George Barr (St. Peter's), Wm. Edward Mirehouse Clare, James Jardine, Henry John Leach, Thomas Cunningham M`Laren, John Martyn, Joseph Charles T. Smith (Caius), Edward Daniel Mellor, George Linton, Henry Drury Warr (Trinity Hall), John Langley (Corpus Christi), Alfred Maline, George Gilbert Scott (Jesus), Geo. Shaw (Christ's), Hugh Fortescue, George William Botham (Magdalen), John Freeman (Emmanuel), William Yatesfoot, Arthur Patteson Wharton (Downing).—Masters of Law : Tracey (Trinity), J. T. Seabrook Johns, 8.A., W. G. Simpson (Caius) LLB, Ward Malik (Caius). The Chancellor's gold medal for the best English poem in the present year, has been awarded to Edward Anthony Beck (Trinity Hall); the Powis medal to F. C. Huddlestone (Kings) ; the Porson prize to Edmund Gurney (Trinity) ; and T. E. Page (St. John's), equal, Sir William Browne's medals have been adjudged as follows :—For the Latin Ode, T. E. Page (St. John's) ; for Greek epigram, Charles (Dixon) Caius ; for Latin epigram, H. W. S. Wood (St. John's). ATTEMPT TO UPSET A PASSENGER TRAIN At the North Shields Police-Court yesterday John Keenan, a private in the 98th Regiment, was brought up on a charge of having attempted to upset' a passenger train on the Tynemouth branch of the North Eastern Railway, en Good Iriday last, thereby endangering a great many lives. From the evidence it transpired that while a heavily laden passenger train was about 300 yards from the North Shields Station the engine driver ob served several large stones and bricks placed on the rails, but fortunately he was able to pull up before any serious damage was done. The prisoner, who was loitering about the spot, was pursued and captured. He was committed for trial at the ensuing Northumberland Assizes. BRISTOL ELECTION. The hearing of the Bristol electionpetition was resumed this morning. Mr. Sergeant Ballantine opened the case for the respondent, and contended that a pure election was never fought. He said he should disprove the evi dence cf Frost about the rabbit ; and also Kemp's evi dence about treating. The only point worth fighting for was the legal one as to treating at the test ballot. By the request of the Judge, Munday, who had not been called was sent for. Lord Mahon, the Conservative candidate for East Suf folk, addressed the electors of the district at Saxmund ham yesterday afternoon. His lordship confined his remarks to the topics mentioned in his address, but stated, in contradiction to reports, that he was neither a Roman Catholic, Irishman, not Fenian. Later in the afternoon Sir Shafto Adair, the Liberal candidate, also addressed a meeting of electors at the same placer An extraordinary general meeting of the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway Company was held at Manchester yesterday. The Directors were authorised to raise seven hundred and eighty thousand pounds additional capital The new shares will be issued to existing shareholders at the rate of six pounds five shillings a share to every holder of the ordinary hundred pound shares, the calls to extend over rive years. Shareholders paying in advance will receive four per cent. interest of the money paid up until 1875, and new shares will then be converted into ordinary shares, so that if the company's stock maintains its price and 130 ordinary shareholders investing now will have obtained as the chairman explained at the rate of ten per cent. on their money at the subsequent meeting. Bills were approved for acquiring lands for ex tensions in the West Riding of Yorkshire for running steam vessels between Belfast and Fleetwood, for the ex tension of Preston station and other purposes. The two last specifiedbills are promoted in conjunction with the London and North-Western Company. THE CAPTURE OF ENGLISHMEN IN SPAIN Intelligence has been received from Madrid stating that the captured Englishmen arc a gentleman named Borell and his nephew and their servanig, They were carried off near Furm Sabar And no trace of them has been found. LAW INTELLIGENCE.—(Tms DAY.) A NEWSPAPER OFFICE Iv RUINS.—At the Vice-Chan cellors' Malin's Court, this morning, an application was made to the Court by Mr. Glass, Q.C., and Mr. Grahans Hastings, on behalf of Mr. D. W. Dowling, proprietor of the Investors' Guardian Newspaper, to restrain Messrs. Gil lett, contractors, from pulling down certain premises iu Lombard-street, without taking such precautions as would enable the work to be carried on without further injury to the plaintiffs premises. From the statement of the learned counsel, it appeared the defendants were engaged pulling down certain premises in Lombard-street, when all of a sudden one of the party walls fell with a tremen dous crash, and the bricks dropped upon the roof of Mr. Dowling's premises in Change-alley, break ing in the skylight, and causing the building to have the appearance of a perfect wreck, and Mr. Dowling had fortunately left that part of the office only about two minutes. If he had not the probability is that he would have been killed. The remaining portiods of the building, it was ccntended, still remain in a very dangerous state, and the plaintiff now prayed his Honour to grant an interim rnj action to restrain any further demolition. Since the accident the office bad been one mass of bricks and•rub bish, which had prevented the carrying on the ordinary business of the office, thereby subjecting the plaintiff to great loss and inconvenience. Hie Honour having heard the application, at once granted the injunction prayed for. POLICE INTELLIGENCE-Ims DAY. AN UNDESIRABLE NEI GREW:M.— CRUEL ASSAULT.—Esther Outtle, a married woman, living at 37, Old Compton-street, was brought before Mr. Knox, at the Mai lborough-street Police-court, on a warraut (having failed to appear to a summons), charged with assaulting a little boy named Wm, Hayes, shop boy to a tobacconist and newspaper dealer of 37, Old Compton street. The boy said that on the Bth May he was standing at the shop door where ho was employed, when the prisoner tore down some of the newspaper bills, and ou his telling her that she had no right to do so sha knocked him down and trod on his fingers, and on a previous occasion she had kicked him. Mr Charles Harris, hosier, of Old Compton-street, said that he saw the prisoner fly at the boy savagely and knock him down, and she then aimed an other blow at him, but he did not know whether it took effect or not. The prisoner appeared to be mad drunk. She was committed for a month. SAVAGE ASSAULTS ON A TRADESMAN AND THE POLICE.— Edwin Hodges, a well-dressed and grave-looking man, aged 32 years, and described as a seaman, of No. 3, lreland-iow was charged, at the Thames Police-office, with being drunk, disorderly, cresting a disturbance in the shop of Mr. George Woolven, and assaulting him, and also with assaulting the Police-constables, 63 and 494 K. The prisoner entered the shop of Mr. Woolven yesterday, and pulled his meat about. Mrs. Woolven interfered, and begged of the prisoner to desist, which he refused to do, and Mr. Woolven was called down stairs, and requested the prisoner to withdraw from his shop, on which he commenced a brutal attack on the butcher, who put him out of the shop three times. The prisoner came in a fourth time and kicked Mr. Woolven. He also attempted further and more dangerous mis chief, but eventually the prisoner was turned out of the shop, and he went down Rose-lane, and was fol lowed by Mr. Woolven into Broad-street, where a police constable, 63 A, was met. The prisoner was given into custody. Stork attempted to remove the prisoner, who fiercely attacked him, lay down on the ground, and got his arm round the policeman's leg and throw him heavily. Crockford came to the assistance of Stork, and the prisoner seized Crockford's whiskers, pulled them, and after releasing them lay down again and kicked at Crockford on the chest and head. The prisoner was sentenced to 14 weeks' impri so ment and hard labour fo the three assaults. THE MONEY MARKET AND COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. CITY, Two o'CLocx. A fair amount of animation has been noticed in the Stock Markets to-day. The tone of most departments has been healthy, and Railways and Foreign Bonds show, in many in instances, a further improvement. Con sols have been steadier, at 941 to 941 for delivery, and 941 to 941 for June. Reduced and the New Three per Cents 921 to 921; Exchequer Bills, par to 5s prem. Bank Stock has been marked 234 to 23G. India Five per Cents. have been done at 1141 to 1141. Foreign bonds have been in request. Spanish have ex perienced a healthy inquiry, at an advance of 1. Egyptian also have been freely dealt in, and have risen ; whilst for Peruvian there has been a strong demand, at enhanced quotations. The Central Council of the Church Institution held a meeting yesterday evening at King's College. Lord Bandon, M.P., was in the chair. Mr. Raikes, M.P., read a paper on "Church Reforms," and a discussion on the subject followed. LICENSED VICTUALLERS' ASYLUM.—The annual dinner in connection with the Licensed Victuallers' Asylum took place at the Crystal Palace yesterday, uud9r the chair manship of Mr Arthur Bass, M.P. Mr M. T. Bass, M.P., was also amongst the guests. The usual loyal and patriotic toasts having been given, "Continued Prosperity to the Asylum and Success to the Endowment Fund" TV IS pro posed by the chairman, who briefly sketched the objects and pointed out the value of the institution. The toast was cordially received, and by way of response a subscription list of more than £l,BOO was read, including 500 guineas from the chairman, and 100 guineas from Mr M. T. Bass, THE NATIONAL HOSPITAL FOR CONSUMPTION, ISLE or WIGHT.—The anniversary festival in aid of the funds of this institution was held last night, at the Ter minus Hotel, Cannon-street. In the absence of the Lord Mayor, who was detained by official duties, the chair was taken by the Right Hon. Sir Laurence Peel ; and amongst those present were—Mr. Sheriff Patersen ; Viscount Eversley, president of the hospital ; the Right Hon. Sir Laurence Peel, chairman of general committee ; his Highness the Nawab Nizam of Bengal, Prince Ali Kudhr Bahadoor, Prince Soliman Kudhr Bahadoor, and suite ; his Excellency General Peryet, late President of Peru ; Sir Walter Stirling, Bart. • Captain Sir F. Leopold M'Clintock, R.N. Mr. J. Snowden Henry, M.P. ; Count Andrea Metaxa; Mr. Wilke, General Consul of the North- German Confederation. The subscriptions included 100 guiueas from her Majesty, £3O from the Nawab Nizam of Bengal, £lOO from Mr. Morley, 220 from Viscount Evers ley, and amounted in the aggregate to between £ 3,700 and £3,800. dreo I give pro- itY IS a re idle hem,: ;'''P' thos e litOrY llUd er ion 4t on t o 'We d, f that ,natal .11 the n the cony °be' ; b the 3a . his Sill,l a that ctioa , s kiag i n the nittee ara ble meal' ) f etr 0 but ao ot un t : with leter - , nd 0 , cool; ;opted btless tb°" erg f case , fly, ER. Sue° r ooPs su b- Aty: the der' 0 of tor f yes