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ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS, Regent's-park, Open daily(except Sundays). Admission. ls.• on Mondays, 6d. Children nnder twelve. Gd. (14 , ) t .474444-4 LONDON, MONDAY, MARCH 28, 1870. The acquittal of Prince PIERRE is precisely what might only in reason have been anticipated. He was charged with the murder of VICTOR SALMON, otherwise NOIR. That he shot this man NOIR, he does not himself in the least deny. His assertion simply is, in reg,ird to the act of homicide, that he Committed it under intense provocation. The facts are undeniable that the two persons aimed at by Prince PIERRE—one fatally, the other twice ineffectually—went uninvited to • the private dwelling-house of the Prince, one of them at the least (the survivor, as it happens) armed to the teeth, carrying about him, in fact, a sword and a loaded six-shooter revolver. This was DE FON VIELLE, the individual, whose flagrantly disgraceful conduct in Court, throughout the whole of this ex traordinary trial at Tours, has really, as much almost as anything else, led to the complete acquittal of the prisoner. The scenes witnessed in Court day after day have been in point of fact a disgrace to modern civilisation. It is with a sense of relief that we know now the whole spec tacle has been played out. In the result arrived at we can see no miscarriage of justice. That there was provocation it would be simply an abSurdity to deny. The arms carried into Prince PIERRE'S private dwelling-house by his visitors are proof positive on that point. Had they gone there unarmed there can be no manner of question but that then in that case the verdict of the jury must have been altogether different. Then, th J mere circumstance of any amount of insult or provocation on the part of two unarmed men could never, would never have been regarded as in any way justifying the shooting at either or at both of them by the insulted and assailed. The act of homi cide, the killing of VICTOR NOIR, would have been considered, could only have been considered an act of murder, a a . of deliberate assfissination. The arms carried by Al. DE FONVIELLE—anns intended no doubt to be employed on emergency as offensive weapons against Prince PlERRE—have proved, in point of fact, triumphantly defensive weapons for him and his reputation. They have warded off from him the otherwise inevitable verdict of murder or of a homicide in no way justi fiable. The whole incident is calamitous. But - , we still cannot but think that the decision come to by the Court of Justice at Tours is the only one at which the jury there empannelled could, in the exer cise of their common sense, have arrived. TEE M.P.'s who plodded their way to the 'House or Commons on Saturday through the vile slush and mud of a London snow-storm, must have felt as dis pirited within as they wore comfortless without. Four years ago they assembled on a Saturday morn ing to pass through all its stages a bill to suspend the Habeas Corpus Act in Ireland. On Saturday they found themselves again assembled at an abnormal time in order to pass an abnormal bill. In 1800 Mr. Bright made one of his grandest speeches. He opposed the Suspension Act, declaring that these repeated violations of the Constitution were a scandal to succesive Ministries, and that Ireland would con tinue to be a disgrace to us until we devoted a Ses sion to measures for ameliorating the political condi tion of that country. On Saturday Mr. Bright was unhappily absent; yet, if he had been present, he would have been compelled to side this time not with the little minority, but with the large majority. For his remedy has been tried, and it has failed. We have, given religious equality, we are protecting tenants against the tyranny of their landlords, anp yet there is neither peace nor order in Ireland. And sc . We find '. ourselves forced to resort to the old style of legislation disguised under a new name, and to forbid the carrying of arms, to suspend trial•by jury, and to authorise the suppression of newspapers. All this is terribly unsatisfactory and wearily sad. But at least we are acting with a clear conscience. There are hot-headed political par tizans who rejoice over the discomfiture of the Government, the failure of the Ministerial policy, an,."4 argue that because it has failed it ought never to have been tried. This is not the argument of states men: They will say that they were bound to do their duty, and that having done this they are now enabled to appeal to all right-thinking men to support them in taking a course which is as necessary as it is lamentable. It was under these circumstances that the Peace Preservation (Ireland) Bill passed the House of Com mons on Saturday. At the same time we are not surprised that certain provisions of it have met with serious opposition in committee. The proposal to give Government the power to suppress newspapers without trial by jury is a very serious one. It is altogether novel, and it might become excessively dangerous in the hands of a despotic Ministry. And -though no one can suspect the present Govern ment of being unduly severe, though its enemies accuse it of being slack and over lenient, still we must remember that the Gladstone Ministry: is not eternal, and that it may be succeeded by an Administration far more rigorous in its conduct. But, after all, the question comes to this—are peace and order to be main tained in Ireland ? Are life and property to be secured against violence ? If so it is im pbssibls that the present "nationalist " journals can be allowed to continue. They spread the poison of sedition throughout the whole country, and they incite to the worst of crimes. They carefully abstain from counselling a civil war, for if they did counsel it they would render themselves liable to a prosecu tion for treason. But they tell the people to be pre pared for certain contingencies and conditions, which are desgribedi and which tsar au unmistakeable aua logy to the present state of things. Yet while they do this it is useless to prosecute these journals; conviction could not be sustained technically, and even if it could, the journals prosecuted would continue to publish their perilous stuff, would put forth fresh claims to popular support on the ground of martyr dom, and would prosper by the very means taken to check them. What Government requires is not the power to punish seditious journalists, but the power to suppress the 'publication of seditious journals. Pro visions for seizing printing presses, confiscating newspapers and giving warnings, have an unpleasantly French sound ; but there is no help for it, and we may be quite sur3 that the present Government, at all eveat3, is not likaly to exercise its power with undue harshness. We must trust to the influence of public opinion for restraining within duo bounds any Ministry which may succeed the present. There is the less cause for apprehension because the Act. is for a limited period, and if its renewal should be required a year hence, Ministers will be compelled to obtain the permission of Parliament. IT cannot be said that the majesty of the law has added anything to itself by the bribery prose cution at Taunton. It is right that efforts should be made to enforce the decisions of the Legislature, but it is none the less deplorable that in this instance such efforts have served only to chew that the latest Parliamentary edicts against bribery are quite useless. Of the two men who were charged .with worlcing in the cause of cor ruption, the one has been taken and the other left; but no one desired that an Act should be passed, and an elaborate machinery set in operation with no better result than the conviction of a mere agent, such as Mr. Fennelly, whilst the principal accused escapes altogether. The end may be in accordance with the law, but the law that cannot secure us a more satis factory issue than this is a mere farce, and the time of Parliament might advantageously have been devoted to some more profitable labour. We might just as well have been content with the old committee of the House of Commons system. The committees invariably let off principals as injured persons whose characters had been unduly blackened by agents who had bribed in their behalf, and with equal uniformity these committees condemned the agents as monsters of electoral iniquity. The new-fangled machinery, however, has accomplished nothing more. Mr. Vanderbyl is, beyond doubt, in no degree more blameable than many other gentlemen who have displayed equal anxiety to get into Parliament; but the plain facts are that he was unseated by one of the judges, and specially reported against by the Commissioners, who held such an astonishingly lively inquiry. Yet ho has escaped; and upon the same terms it is probable that most, if not all, other incriminated members will be equally fortunate. The circumstances of the Bridg water contest were such that we can hardly expect worse elsewhere. Few candidates aro likely to do more than Mr. Vanderbyl did, and very many have managed to win seats in good style, give ample " satisfaction" to their constituents, and yet do, a great deal less. It was quite clearly established that Mr. Vander byl opened his campaign with the determination to conduct proceedings without corruption. This reso lution was formally announced to a meeting of those great worthies whose records are enshrined in the report of the Commissioners. But his conduct afterwards is much less reassuring. The said worthies strongly objected. Great resistance was shewn to the iniquitous decree in favour of purity. Though Mr. Vanderbyl was the sitting member, and possession is nine points of the law, he soon - found that old associations were as nothing compared with the endearment of pelf. Serious flaws were discovered: in his - conduct as representa tive of the . b6rough, and criticisms Were pas: , ,cd, which were never dreaMed of so long as Mr. Vauderbyl was prepared to spend. .They vanished, likewise, as soon as it was known that he was ready to conform to the goal old rule, and pay the electors of Bridgwater for their services. Mr. Fennelly told the local worthies that money should be ,spent. The old game commenced with more than pristine vigour. The old agencies were set in motion ; the old slang vocabulary called into play. Mr. Fennelly was looked to as the cashier of the candidate, and inferior agents distributed the Money. In all these transactions Mr. Vauderbyl keep aloof from direct complicity, and the result is . that his partner is convicted, whilst the evidence is found insufficient to trace bribery hothe to the actual candidate. In almost any other branch of crime the evidence that a person, who derived no advan tage from a certain act, had committed that act on behalf of some person who did profit thereby would be held to involve the latter. In Parliamentary proceedings they manage these things better. Hundreds of pounds, spent on Mr. Vanderbyrs behalf by his partner, cannot be traced to him. All that can be said is that no other candidate need, unless he be very foolish, commit himself to any greater extent than the ex-member for Bridgwater. The result is such a miserable failure that it would be more honest to dismiss Mr. Fennelly without punishment, and give the business up as hopeless under present conditions. TIIE COURT.— Preparations are being made at Windsor Castle for tho reception of her Majesty an 1 Royal Family on Wednesday next. SERIOUS ILLNESS OF GENERAL GRET.—Gen. Grey was, we regret to stato, seized on Saturday with epileptic fits of a very severe character. The latest intelligence which the Queen has received from Sir William Jenner is that the General is in a critical state, but that there is a slight im provement. • A serious fire occurred yesterday morning in the premises of Mr. Murray, a fish salesman, in Grafton-street, Soho. It was with the utmost difficulty that six of ihs lodgers were rescued - from the burning house alive. The drapery establishment of Messrs. Reid and Sons, Clonmel, were destroyed by fire on Saturday morning. Twenty assistants were sleeping in the house at the time, but, fortunately, all escaped. The origin of the fire is unknown, and the loss is estimated at £B,OOO. Mr. Taylor will move the rejection of Lord Chehr. s ford's Sunday Trading Bill on the second reading iu the House of Commons to-morrow. The execution of William Mobbs, for the murder of a boy named Newbury, at Linford, took place this morn ing within the walls of the borough prison. Woolwich Arsenal is closed this week for stock taking. A Special Court of the Common Council will be held on. Thursday next, when the first motion to be brought forward is that of Mr. Rudkin relative to the desirability of constructing on the vacant land in Smithfield a new market for poultry. terrible conflagration occurred on Thursday last at Comptaaßombay, 200 houses and 6,000 docras of cotton, equal to 2,500 bales were burnt, leavinr , a stock of only 4,000 docras. The loss is estimated at 25 laks of rupees (t 250,000.) The Army and Navy Gazette understands that Mr. Seely has given Mr. Childers notice that he intends re viving again during the session the question as to the wisdom of continuing naval officers as superintendents of her Majesty's dockyards. The Elgin Courant understands that a marriage is arranged between the Earl of Wicklow and Lady Geor gians Hamilton, daughter of the Duke and Duchess of Abercorn. The Abercorn family does not seem to fear the result of the trial much. A return, called for by Mr. Charles Forster, has been issued containing an account of the property of felons forfeited to the Crown in each county,' city, and town in England, and Wales since 1864. It also specifies how much of such property was restored by the Crown. The Queen has had a telegraphic wire connected with Windsor Castle, and a few days since her Majesty sent a message to Prince Arthur and went for a walk on the slopes. There was an ans - sver on the Queen's return. Of coursgAl zire§.§4.ge§ aiYgPiaskt&th.4 4yal cipher, The very extensive Distillery now being erected at Belfast, with all recent improvements for the manufacture of Irish vrhisky, by Mess's. DUNVILLE & Co., who have gained a world-Wide celebrity for their Lino old Irish whisky, is to be called The Royal Irish istillery:: • • gig , . din al Tirtnlbtr. 11LIZ MAJESTY. CLAREMONT, March 26. The Queen, accompanied by. their Royal High nesses Princess Louise, Princess Beatrice, and Prince Leopo:d arrived at Claremont ya.tterday evening. . March 27. Her Majesty and the Royal Family and the Ladies and Gentlemen in Waiting were present at Divine service, wh . ch w a perform' in the house. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) FRANCE. THE TRIAL OF PRINCE BONAPARTE. THE VERDICT. TOURS, March 27, Evening. The court opened at noon to-day. The prisoner rose and said the ignoble Marseil laise had calumniated him. He said he never com mitted a murder in Algeria, and never suffered punishment there. His cousin the Emperor was present. From such -calumnies they might judge the rest. The verdict of the street, the only one Maitre Laurier recognised, pretended to be that of 200,000 persons, but of these nine-tenths were the simply curious. The Paris population had too much good sense to bi led astray. He had told the truth, and nothing but the truth. • There was much applause as the Prince sat down. The President charged without bias. He agreed with the Procureur that there must have been pro- vocation: The Jury retired at balf-past one, and at 2.50 re turned, and pronounced a verdict of "Acquittal.". It is reported that there were 18 for and 18 against the imposition of a fine of 25,000 francs, and costs in civil action. The prisoner was immediately liberated. The town is tranquil. There is a great but peace able crowd opposite the hotel of the Princess. PARIS, March 27, Evening. In the civil action brought by the Noir family against Prince Pierre Bonaparte, the latter has been condemned to pay 25,000 francs damages and costs. BOURSE, March 2G.—Three o'clock—The market closed as follows : 4 per Cent. 3 per Cents 74 30 Bank Shares 2820 ItaFan gives 56 Austrian Fives Ottoman Loan 431 50 Do. Debt 46 75 Spanish Threes 27 25 Home Debt — Deferred — End of mouth 74 171 Orcdit Mobilier 280 Transatlantic 202 50 Uredit Fonder 1307 50 Paris Gas 1785 Suez Canal 337 50 RAILWAY Cash 10071 Orleans Western . N ortheru 1177 1 Strasburg •• 6l3i Lyons and Mediterranean Southern..... 626i Sardinian ____ Austrian Lombard North of Spain Saragossa Roman , Bl2k 505 AMERICA. (Per French Atlantic Cable.) NEW YORK, March 26. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. CLOSING PRICES. Gold closed at 1111 ; the highest quotation during the day was 112/ ; the lowest, 1111. Sterl►ng Exchange on London 5-20 U., S. Bends, 1382 1885 1867 105 1.111 25 22/c 26c Corn—Old 10-40 Illinois Erio Cotton—Mid. upland Petroleum—Standard White Flour—Extra State, $1 50c. to $5, 10c. mixo3, $1 3c. ST. NAZAIRE, March 28. The Transatlantic Company's steamer Floride has arrived here. Her dates are Colon, March 4;• St. Martha, 6th ; and Martinique, 12th. She brings 89 passengers. BREST, March 28. The Transatlantic Company's steamer Pereire ar rived here to-day at 6 a.m. with 86 passengers. BRAZIL. RIO DE JANEIRO, March 7th. No further advices have been received from Para guay, but the return of another body of Brazilian troops is looked for within the next four days. The result of the - operations undertaken by General Camaro will then be known; he was marching rapidly towards the Brazilian province of Matto Grosso, there to intercept the passage of Lopez on his way to Bolivia. PLYMOUTH, March 28. The Spanish screw steamer Aniberis, from Bayonne, with brandy and wine for Antwerp, burst her boiler at sea, between Ushant and Plymouth, at 5 p.m. yesterday. None of her crew were hurt. To day she was towed into Plymouth Sound by the steamship Britannia, from Cadiz to London. UNIVERSITY TESTS. It is reported that Mr. Gladstone has requested the Solicitor-General to introduce before Easter the Government bill for the abolition of University Tests. Its leading provisions are said to be similar to those of the measure with which the public is already familiar; but it is probable that a clause will be inserted enabling Nonconformists to be elected members of the governing bodies of the Universities. THE PREMIER AND THE PORTE 4. The Liverpool Mercury relates the following story, as shewing how the vicissitudes of fortune sometimes mani fest themselves in strange places :—" Many years ago there Were two schoolfellows, one named William Ewart Gladstone, the other Luke Hamer. The former quitted school for the Senate, and became as distinguished in politics as he had in early life become in letters. Fortune was not fickle to him, and he is now the Prime Minister of Great Britain. Luke Hamer's career seems to have been far more chequered with the ills of life ; and the world, for aught we know, would have re mained ignorant even of his existence had he not recently applied for an appointment to a public office. The office in question has no connection with the Cabinet ; it is only that of a porter at the Ormskirk workhouse. Poor Luke Hamer, who now verges on his 60th year, has probably. had x hard battle in the world, and things must have gone ill with him if his story is true, that he went to school with the present Premier. We have, says our con t e mporary, no reason t o d ou bt it , f or it was told to the guardians, who could easily have tested its truth had they thought it necessary to do so. Luke Hamer was one of rive candidates for the humble office, and the guardians appointed him to it on Thursday. The trite saying that truth is stranger th an fiction irresistibly intrudes itself when we hear this story of two schoolfellows, one of whom becomes a Prime Minister, the other a workhouse porter. LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET.-(THIS DAY. Sales probably 10,000 bales. Market quint. 111011 WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Morning. . Evening MONDAY 0 min past 12 12 min past 12 TUEBDAV 40 miu past 1 9 8 min past 1 WEDNESDAY 9 8 min past 1 50 min past 1 TDURSDAY 5 miu past 2 - 9 4 min past 2 EMDAY m!! ".• 4lO min past 2_........ 56 min past 2 LITERATURE. Ancient Classics for English Readers. Homer's Iliad and Homer's Odyssey. William Blackwood and Sons. Specimen volumes these two are, but as such they are—we may assert it confidently at once—all suffi cient. They are introductory to a new series of educational works—Nl orks of themselves introductory to all ancient literature. The appearance of a set of educational looks of l recisely this character could not pessibly be more opportune. At the very time when the physical sciences and modern languages are giving —not the a all, but—the go-by to some among the choicest masterpieces of all literature, to the great authors of ancient Greec,i and of ancient Rome, it is, in a very especial way, desir able that sorae endeavour should be made systema tically to ensure a familiarity with the glories of lettered Paganism in the minds of those who will otherwise run a very imminent risk of foregoing al together any acquaintance whatever with the noblest authors of antiquity. An enterprise exactly calcu lated to meet the rising want of the age is here there fore inaugurated, most acceptably, under the respec tive auspices of an editor as ripe in scholarship as the Rev. W. Lucas Collins, and of publishers as sagacious as the Messrs. Blackwood of London and Edinburgh. "Ancient Classics for English Readers" will be edited, as a whole series, by the Rev. Lucas Collins. As indicative of the char acter of the scheme thus projected, the editor of the entire series has himself very judiciously produced the two first volumes. To himself and to other contributors, the public will be indebted for other works by which these initial books, or rather booklets, will be followed. Fittingly enough, the first two masterpieces of antique poetry, thus introduced to non-classical English Readers, are the two grand epic narratives of Homer the Iliad and the Odyssey. The first, the most heroic, narrative ever penned. The second, the most enthralling record of marvellous and romantic ad ventures. Than Homer's record of " the Tale of Troy Divine" there is nothing grander or majestic in all literature. Than his description of the vicissi tudes of the wanderer Uly,ses, there is nothing more enthralling in all the treasures of fiction. The story of Ulysses or of Odysseus has about it all the glamour of an Arabian Nights' Entertainment. Its incidents are as attractive and as prefundly interesting as any that have ever been described by the most sensa tional novelist or by the most wildly imaginative romanciSt. No two narratives therefore could be in any way more peculiarly well calculated to catch the fancy and captivate the attention of the most care less student whether of ancient Or of modern litera ture. Beginning with the beginning, the editor of the whole series, the author of these two volumes, has also -begun with the best—with the greatest master piece of ancient Literature, and with about the two most enthralling and exciting histories that have ever yet been related. The design kept in view in each instance is that of explaining adequately, for mere general readers, who the great writers of antiquity were, and what it is they have written— who HomER was, for example, and what it is that he has sung, first of all in the Iliad, and afterwards in the Odyssey. Succinctly, the outline of each story is traced, the facts recorded are defined, and the whole is very carefully "checked by the results of modern investigations." Not only this, but the works themselves—the " Iliad," for ex ample, and the "Odyssey "—are presented to the English reader's view piecemeal, that is to say, by the presentation of their more striking passages, in the shape of a selection, here and there, incidentally, from several of the more approved English transla tions. In this way it will be seen at a glance that the animated and scholarly prose descriptions here given by the Rev. Lucas Collins, now of the "Iliad," now of the " Odyssey," are inte:spersed with the choicest fragments from the rhythmical readings of Homer into English verse by Alexander Pope, by William Cowper, by Dr. Maginn, by Lord Derby, by Mr. \Vorsley, by Sotheby, and by others we wish we could have added, very frequently also by one of the most Homeric of all the English translators, old George Chapman, whose rugged genius Mr. Collins apparently altogether fails to appreciate. Reading these two little books, each of which extends over but very little More than one hundred pages of the prettiest pocket volume, the non-classical reader can never after affect an ignorance of themes with which it would be a crying shame if any intelligent person of the most ordinary education were not in some way or another more or lesii familiarly acquainted. The appetite will then grow with what it feeds on. But, even supposing, for the sake of argument, that it did not—this taste of antiquity is surely and quite obviously better than no taste of it at all. Our con viction is, however, that the majority of Mr. Col lins' readers will turn at any rate to the translators, if debarred from all thought or hope of ever turning directly to the originals. Herodotus, the Father of History, is promised, we are glad to see, in the next volume, now immediately forthcoming—and after Herodotus, we have the fair prospect, now, book by book, of similar epitomes of Virgil, Horace, Cicero, Juvenal, lEschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristo: phanes, Terence, Salim', Livy, Caesar, Tacitus, Anacreon, Lucretius, and others of the great authors of Pagan antiquity. • The Immortals; or, Glinzpses of Paradise. By Nicho las Michell. One Vol. 'Pp. 224. W. Tegg. Another Poem from the hand of Nicholas Michell. Already he has produced five others more or less remarkable. The " Ruins of Many Lands"— " Pleasure," in Seven Books—" Sibyl of Cornwall" —" The Homeward Bound" —and " The Poetry of Creation" a work (this one last mentioned), in a great measure analo & ous to the one he bas just now completed under the more fanciful description of The Immortals." It is one of our more agreeable remembrances that, in these same columns, we were among the very first to recognise the poetic gifts of the writer of these six volumes of harmonious verse and of delicate and elevated imagination. This recognition of Mr. Michell's capacity dates back now, as we very well remember, beyond an interval from this present time of more than a whole round score of years. Since then, our author has been true to his office as a rhythmical celebrant of the glories and beauties of Nature. If it be part of the Poet's office to lift the thoughts of his fellow men from the dust over which they are, here, in the flesh, moving —to lift them up into the abysses of the vast Ifniverse—thiA office of the Poet, the writer of the book now under notice, has most certainly fulfilled. The range of his view is beyond all doubt magnificent. It widens out into the Infinite. His flights of fancy are among the nebulae and the constellations. If there be one point in space around which he may be said to revolve with. anything more like constancy than round another, it is that Central Sun which is now very generally believed among astro nomers to be one of the Pleiades. The poem is full of elevating thought, and even the explanatory notes appended to it are replete with ennobling suggestive ness. had we space for quotation, there are many passages we would gladly excerpt in evidence of the poetic force of our author's language, and of the vitalizing power of his imagination. According to apparently authentic advises from the Red River, a Canadian named Scott has been shot by order of Rion, the commander of the insurgent force, for having been engaged in Boulton's late movement for upset ting the insurrectionary Government after his release on parole from Fort Gan y. THE Loss OF TIIE ADVANCE. —The inquiry of the Board of Trade into the abandonment of the ship Advance concluded at Liverpool on Friday, when the Court decided to return Captain Flannery his certificate: SPIRIT OF THE PRESS. THE ACQUITTAL OP PRINCE PIERRE BONAPARTE. • The Times thinks the result of the trial of Prince Pierre Bonaparte at Tours will disappoint public expectation and the sense of public • justice in France. Prince Pierre Bonaparte has been acquitted. This result, however it -- ny have been expected, is to be regretted. It is true his ariLagonists have done their best to destroy our sympathy for his victim, but the fact cannot be obscured that Prince Pierre has shewn himself a dangerous member of society —one whose liberty ought to be. restrained if those who have the misfortune to come in contact with him are to enjoy any security for their personal safety. It is this man who- has been acquitted, when. it might have been supposed that • the only question would have been the amount of MI punishment. His bearing during the course of the trial its2lf confirms the worst impressions of his disposition. Ha has allowed hisassions to rule him, and especia ll y his passion of wrath and revenge, until lie has become''. creature who should never be trusted with weapons of offence, lest he should, at any moment, when an ob stacle arises to' his will, let the brutality of his nature explode in ; a fit of homicidal frenzy. The appropriate p u nishment o t ! such an offender would have included surveillance an denial of the privilege .of bearing arms, and it m a y be believed that Louis le Grand wouldlave - thus treated any kinsman of his who had in the same degree revolted th e conscience of the nation and proved himself unworthy of the priVileges of honour. If such a result had followeqf the tragedy at Auteuil would have been an honour, as lt ; is now a slur, upon the empire. The trial of Prince Pierre Bonaparte has ended, as w e have always believed it would end says the Standard , in finding an acquittal of the accused. The of the jury w,i ll , certainly be canvassed with more or less acrimony by t Liberal press throughout Europe • and we may expect o sea the whole judicial system of france discredited. Wh at the verdict of the larger tribunal will be we cannot P.re," sume to say. But we confess we do not see how the H i g u Court sitting at Tours could have arrived at any oth.,,er conclusion. Whether the finding of the High Court will not furnish a new argument for the enemies of the ImP e " rial dynasty, whether a slight punishment would not jciu bs e li s e i. served the Imperial Government better, are open tions. For our own part, we incline to the opinion t ha, the jury have taken a common sense view of the case, sec ` have acted a bold and honest part iu acquitting the pri soner. - • - The Daily News remarks it is curious to reflect upon the matter from an English point of view. To us, who di -3 , W no distinction between duelling and murder, and who would, in case of a fatal duel, hold the bearer of the original cartel as an accessory before the fact, all the parties seem equally guilty, and our view of the matt er would really be decided by what we knew of the characters of the actors in the sad drama. T he jury, however, seem to think that a blow justifies a man in shooting another, and that the onus probandi lies with the prosecution, wil ° have to demonstrate that the murder was not provoked. From this point of view the acquittal of the Prince is onlY natural. That he would have been found guilty of dilibe . rate murder was never expected. The doubt was whether he would be acquitted altogether or found guilty of ills ti ‘ fiable homicide. Had the witnesses for the prosecutio n been a little more discreet, Prince Bonaparte's evil reputa tion, would doubtless have had more weight, and th e verdict would not have been one so entirely repugnant to our English notions. The Post would be sorry to admit that a blow thus give ll is a sufficient justification to shoot the person who e lle ' it, and to Englishmen it must seem extraordinary that it should be allowed to be so. Human life is too sacred to be sacrificed save under the most unavoidable ne cessitl such as had not arisen when Prince Pierre s be Victor Noir, and we cannot but consider it be be a failure of justice that the Prince should u e held—as he is by the verdict—entirely blameless, and allowed to go entirely unpunished. But these mat" ters are looked upon in a very different light in France , and there are few Frenchmen who would hesitate entirely to support the act of the Prince as one that was impell tively called for by his honour. In England we Pu ll ' s the duellist who kills his adversary as a murderer, and w e have by this course, supported as it is by public feeling entirely stopped duelling; but in France that method e` redressing injury is still in full vogue. The trial of Prince Pierre Bonaparte at Tours, says the Pall Mall Gazette, has concliided, and contrary to expecta tion the jury returned a verdict of acquittal on ev e l charge. From th e fi rs t it h as b een c l ear enoug h on whi c . side the sympathies of the jury, as well as of the Pres!: dent and the. Procureur-Imp6rial were enlisted, but 1: was supposed that the Prince would be convicted at leas" of some minor offence, if only for the look of the th ing ' The whole course of procedure in this case has been si° extraordinary that we must c onfess we have very lit astonishment left for the verdict. The Prince's behavl in court, however, confirms the impression that he mro' be just the man to open fire with very little provocati o ? . Viewed in a political light, his absolute acquittal must be deemed rather a misfortune for the Emperor and Ministry, since it will give colour to the complaints of t A irreconcilable press as to the unfairness of the trial. partial conviction, with a light sentence of imprisonme r " would have certainly been much more in the interest of the Government. The Telegraph observes that the trial of Prince Pierr,, e Bonaparte ended in a-Verdict of " Acquittal on all p oints of of the indictment ;" a result which may somewhat qi7 appoint the ,general anticipation as to the issue, but what probably will not lead many Englishmen to assert ths; there has been a gross miscarriage of justice. Loolch.;!, back upon the whole case, the only surprise to any bo % conversant with the course of legal-proceedings 1„, this country must be, that the trial could he' l i ; lasted a whole week. There can be small doubt that a English Chief Justice and a Middlesex jury would he r : disposed of such a little matter in a couple of hours. t should say that the French Emperor and his Minister would have been too happy to endorse and f 0 the decision of the j ur y a t Tours, whatever it might ha\ been ; but both m us t as h ear tily aqu iesce in the acquittiae'd the reasonableness of w hi c h wa s not a little recomme ll , by the outrageous behaviour of M. de Fonvielle an d " other Irreconcilables in the court. GOVERNMENT POLICY IN IRELAND. The Standard declares that the Government must hq° known two months ago, as well as ten days ago, that 0; powers were inadequate, and it was its duty to ha s ', asked of Parliament, the moment it assembled, such extension of them as it deemed necessary to enable it t ° fulfil the first, the chief, the all-important functions ef:, Government. The question is not whether Mr. 0 -15 ' c t stone has allowed agrarian crime to go unpunished a 1 35 spread unchecked out of good intentions or for resse' n ,.. which may be acceptod in foro conscientice. The V tt . tion is whether he has neglected the duty of puxiisri ing and checking crime ; an d if he has—and eV a, man in Parliament, except his own supporters, who ' t a m not say what they think, allows it—he has betrayed a trust reposed in him by the Soverign, and done the he grievous wrong to the people. of Ireland. However, er . G - overnment has how asked and obtained powers the ex „t cise of which, it asserts, is necessary, and will be suffic l ,.. not only to check the spread of agrarian crime but to 154',te'r press it. And if it finds these powers insuffi c i e nt aS e having proposed and obtained an interference with vd liberty of the subject, for which no parallel can be, f"for in our modern history, it must not shrink from ask'a a suspension of the Habeas Corpus Act. BRIDGWATER BRIBERY PROSECUTION. iir 64 The Daily News b e li eves th a t a ft er th e disclos which haVe been made, Bridgwater cannot claim &cl o d tion from the doom which has befallen Lancaster 10 Great Yarmouth, Mr. Vanderbyl and Mr. ICil l g t er• are likely to prove the last members for Bridgw' n ds They close it s P ar li a mentary history. The matters nt r . thus. Mr. Vanderbyl is acquitted on the ground 01 . Fennelly:s unauthorised zeal, and Mr. Fennellys 11 cretion is half excused on the ground of Pr e bite: Whose pressure ? Where is the primula I n ' ° t he Working our way backwards, we find it I_ ll the local electioneering agents, and especially 111 ,t r y, political attorneys of Bridgwater. These g: t h e ir knowing the circumstances and the weaknesses of 0,0 neighbours, seem able to manipulate the constituency' they choose. The only thing which will sensibly rvo.l.l_!„. their power for mischief will be the Ballot. Secret s t fa will make their knowledge comparatively useless, ca t ca will deprive them of a great portion of the • which they now exercise. What has t a ken ou plac 1 7_ Bridgwater affords a strong and a tinahlerbtahllot! means a novel argument in favour of t ere is scarcely a constituency d into the light of days ace i n the Kingdom th d e doings of not bear similar testimony. f which, if they were f STRIKES aoor llitasesasetTit N AIL TRADE.—There are 11° S m . c o h r i c l e d s r t e e n rs , hir are e, ou a t nd of neenairpliyoya. throauroof two strikes in the wrought- nail trade of South Staffor shire e e l a av r no e ind h e o En rse sa-t n n a dW il makers and part of them are coro 1 41 1 ; a nail m akers, resident principally around Old-hill, i ll : to, But a worse fate t o,oth h ,fhwe a n oeltradhl sitetshtathh. whole ree i thi u s eheoetee si l e , ;e : : :: :xotfer : tt i eo b p it,t_oehrno e aa u neidi l smi m i g e r,2a Y p tuaesu e ntaer n ent d ddr d i i esa s ,se t y : t r i g e t Ovei the trade. Six months e tie progress,that n o, sna a tp t s ur. from c e oe t e s m w ys v riw o ie e f ur ad ta s • s i v lm t o i d hn r ae k e tve m d s a e i t g t n i longer to the list, and therefore ever one in must make the best arrangement they could with the vi°-r people. THEFT OF £B,OOO FROM THE NATIONAL at On Thursd a y l as t t h e pol i ce rece i ve d the i n f orm ation t4; he £B,OOO had g one amissing from the National Ban k. - 3 ,13 - cash consi s t e d o f £lOO notes, and they had beerliiieo stracted from a de s k o f one o f the tellers. After in l l YoU had been made, suspicion pointed to a clerk, naroeu i . the White, who was apprehended ; but the evidence at to to time being somewhat defective he was not convoreu the police:office, but detained in the bank buildlbite charo•e of detective officers. On Friday morning trot admitted that he had taken the money, and stateu „ro• the cash would be found in his lodgings. • After aNat priating the notes. on Thursday, the prisoner haris £7,400 into an envelope, .and sent a porter with it t ' the house ; and at a later period of the day he despatnil eu lo st. remaining £l,OOO to his lodgings through the cot White is a young man, and has been in the em ploy tis of the National Bank for nearly seven Year s ' be believed that he was labouring under mental sinell ration when he committed the act. He was esa, ni nu --- before Sheriff Clark, and committed to V . ' s " Scotsman. died Three pupils of Marlborough College have h oe from scarlatina. Altogether about sixty of the boYs the been attacked. The epidemic is entirely confined t ° f the college, not a single case existing iu any other pa rt town. . Dr. Grant, Roman Catholic Bishop of Soutlilt is convalescent, and able to celebrate Mass. t It be remembered that a few weeks ago he was reportE:Gl a t i j e lying so dangerously ill at cometi? have 1 ;" "VQ itk§t of the Clarclu • I