The Sun. — London, England, 1867-07-02 00:00:00

IMPERfAL PARLIAMENT HOUSE OF LORDS—LAsT EVENING. The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the woolsack at five o'clock. THE te FORTHCOMING REVIEW. A NOULE LORD suggested that as it was most probable that at the forthcoming review there would be a great number of persons present, he would suggest to the noble lord the President of the Woods and Forests that the tickets issued to peers should be made non-transferable, inasmuch as he had invariably found that the space allotted to peers was filled by strangers. The LORD CHANCELLOR said that some of the tickets had already been distributed, and he did not see how the non-transfer could be effected. After a few other remarks the subject dropped. OF PUBLIC BUILDINGS. In answer to a question, The Earl of 3IAL3IESBURY said that the business of the session was too heavy to admit the introduction of a bill respecting this question during the present session. THE JEWS IN MOLDAVIA. Viscount STRATFORD DE REDCLIFFE moved, according to notice, that copies of the correspondence should be supplied relative to the measures adopted by the Government of the Danubian Principalities for depriving the Jewish residents in Moldavia of their landed property. He stated that it appeared that an edict had been issued by Gratiano, the minister of the Moldavian States, that all the Jews should be expelled from their farms, and that the police should rush in upon the Jews and drive them out like vagabonds. This state of things had increased in intensity, and the greatest distress prevailed amongst those people. All he (the noble lord) could hope was the decree had not been persevered in, but there was an evident persecution going forward. All he could say was that if the people and rulers of Mol davia, who had been protected by the whole of Europe, could act in this tyrannical manner against another class of religionists, must arouse the strongest indignation. lie believed that M. Gratiano was a man of the greatest liberality, and almost approached to democracy, there fore it seemed extraordinary that under his au spices such a decree should be issued. The noble lord then read extracts from the decree which ho had translated, showing the bad feeling that existed towards the Jews, and this feeling he could only account for by supposing that the Moldaviaus were actuated by jealousy on account of the competition which Judaism presented to their own religion. Ho therefore moved for the humble address to her Majesty above mentioned. The Earl of DENBIGH could not help expressing his profound disgust at the treatment which these Jews had received in Moldavia. He thought that this country ought to bring all the pressure that could be brought to boar upon the Government of that country to see that this evil was remedied. The Earl of MALMESBURY said that there was no occasion to discuss the question to-night, because before he entered the house, he had received her Majesty's permission to lay those papers upon the table of the house, and their lordships would hardly discuss tho question until they had read the papers. The motion was then withdrawn. RECOVERY OF CERTAIN DEBTS (SCOTLAND) BILL. This bill was read a third time and passed. COUNTY TREASURERS' (IRELAND) DILL. This bill was committed and passed. THE EMPLOYMENT OF VOLUNTEERS. The Earl DE GREY called the attention of the house to a recent memorandum in regard to the employment of volunteers in aid of the civil power. Ile said he consi dared that great inconvenience would be experienced in employing volunteers as auxiliaries in any popular dis turbance. It was necessary that some more definite regu lations regarding the functions of volunteers should be laid down than those in the memorandum. It was not safe that they should allow volunteers armed like soldiers to go forth to assist the civil power in quelling a tumult. He could see nothing that was more likely to bring dis credit upon the volunteer force. Lord LONGFORD said that the memorandum stated that in case of riot, or tumult, the volunteers might be called upon as special constables, and in cases of tobellion, or revolution that they might act vi et arnzis like every other subject without the presence of the civil power. The memorandum was merely to explain to the Volunteers their duty, and the Government had no intention whatever of calling out the Volunteers without authority. The memorandum was open to revision, and perhaps that might be satisfactory. After some further conversation, in which the Earls Russell, Cowper, Cardigan, and Ellonborough took part, the matter dropped. The Marquis of CLAN RICARDE having inquired whe ther her Majesty's Government bad received a decided answer as to the course which the Spanish Government intended to pursue with respect to the Tornado, and whe ther a tribunal had been specially constituted for the trial of that ship, The Earl of MALMESBURY said thero was great diffi culty in overcoming that description of passive resistance the Sp-,nish Government was so clover in practising. The last despatch received from them had already been pub lished, and in the meantime there was no alternative but to accept their assurances that the case should be tried. Their lordships then adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS—LAST EVENING. Tho SPEAKER took the chair at 4 o'clock. GAME LAWS (IRELAND). The O'DONOGIIITE gtvo notice that to-morrow he should ask leave to introduce a bill to amend the Game Laws in Ireland. THE ALABAMA CLAIMS. Mr. BAXTER asked the Secretary for Foreign Affairs if any further progress had been made in the negotiations with the Government of the United States of America re garding the Alabama claims, and if the clainis made by British subjects arising out of the late war exceeded in amount those on the other side. Lord STANLEY said he could not say that they were making rapid progress in the Alabama claims, but nothing had occurred to lead him to despair of a satisfactory settle ment of the matter. But whether the matter was settled or not, ho intended to lay the whole of the papers con nected with the matter on the table, as ho felt the house and the country hail a right to know what had been done. With respect to the claims of British subjects arising out of the late war he could not oven give an approximation of their amount. A certain number of claims had been sent, but the American Government declined to go into the matter until the other matter was disposed of ; and that fact, doubtless, had led many who had similar claims to keep them back, so that nothing definite could be ascer tained in the matter. CASE OF CAPT. JERVIS. In reply to Mr. OTWAY, Sir S. NORTHCOTE said the exact amount given to Capt. Jervis was £l,BOO, but he could not say it was in onsequence of the decision of the Simla court martial. It was paid as a commutation of the subsistence allowance. The amount was to be paid out of the general revenues of India, and it was made in accordance with the usual rule adopted in all cases of officers removed from the army. THE lIYDE PARK REVIEW. Captain VIVIAN asked the President of the Board of Works what arrangements had been made for the accom modation of the members of both Houses of Parliament and of the public to see the review in Hyde Park on the sth of July. Lord J. MANNERS said each peer would receive two tickets, and each member of that house would receive a similar number. Members of the Ifouse of Peers would receive their tickets through the Secretary to the Lord Chancellor, and members of the House of Commons through the Sergeant-at-Arms. With respect to the arrangements, space had boon allotted to the Diplomatic Body, and other distinguished persons ; also for members of both Houses of Parliament., which it was hoped would be ample, as care would be taken to prevent the recurrence of the inconveni ence which arose on the last occasion, which was pro duced by the circulation of unauthorised tickets, by which means persons having no right obtained admission to the space, and thus brought about all the inconvenience that led to so much complaint. With respect to the seats and sfanding places not allotted they would be placed at the service of the public, but for these the applications were already very great, and if, as he feared, some must meet with disappointment it would be attributed solely to the limit of the accommodation. Lord ELCIIO said he observ , :d that it was laid down in the regulations that officers in uniform were to be admitted within the enclosure, and what he wished to know was whether that would apply to the militia, volunteers, and yeomanry. Sir J. PAKINGTON said the privilege would apply to those officers. (Hear, hear.) THE SATURDAY HALF-HOLIDAY. In reply to Mr. O'REILLY, Mr. llusT said it was left to the superior officers of (lop trtments to arrange for the greatest number of persons to enjoy the Saturday half-holiday ; but there was no general order issued on the subject. MORNING SITTING. The motion of tho CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER that the morning sittings on Tuesdays and Fridays at two o'clock be continued during the present month was agreed to, after au amendment had been moved by Mr. Crawford that on the Speaker resuming the chair it should not "count" the house until 10 minutes after nine. The amend ment was negatived without a division. REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE BILL. The house went into committee. The discussion was resumed on the question that the following clause moved by Colonel Dyott be added to the bill :—" That any person possessing a freehold, copyhold, or leasehold property within the Parliamentary boundary of any borough, and residing within seven miles thereof, shall be entitled to be registered as a voter for such borough, and to vote at the election of a member or members to serve in Parliament for such borough, in respect of such qualification, and not for the county in which such borough is situated." Dlr. BAXTER appealed to the hop : and gallant member to withdraw the amendment. He (Mr. Baxter) had made up his mind to do everything in his power to facilitate the passing of the bill during the present session ; but, look ing at the amendment which at present stood on the paper, and considering they were then in the month of July, he feared that if each amendment were to be discussed there ------ - would bo little hope of the house passing the bill this year. Mr. NEWDEGATE said Mr. Howard strongly opposed the amendment, and Mr. Scourfield was favourable to it, and remarked that it was not because a similar proposal had been already fatal to one Reform Bill in the year 1859 that therefore it was to be withdrawn. . Mr. GILPIN said, as the proposal would result in a wholesale disfranchisement of county voters, he hoped the house would reject it. Mr. BRIGHT strongly objected to the proposed clause. After some discussion, the clause was negatived. A clause to check the practice of creating rent-charges for the purpose of conferring the franchise was proposed by Mr. Neate and supported by Mr. Gladstone ; but, being opposed by Mr. Disraeli, it was withdrawn, Mr. Neste pro mising to bring it forward again if ho received any en- couragement The new clause was moved by Mr. CANDLISH, to do- prive all electors of their votes who are employed for re ward at an election as agents, canvassers, messengers, or in similar capacities, and to make it a misdemeanour in the elector so employed to vote, and in the candidate or agent who employed him. It was discussed at great length, and in a more than usually discursive manner. Objection was taken at the commencement by Mr. Crawford and Mr. Powell to the inclusion of agents, whose value to a candi date did not consist in the single vote they possessed, and Mr. Gladstone took the same view. Mr. Powell suggested that the point should be referred to the Select Committee on the Bribery Bill ; but Sir R. Collier and others replied that it was out of the scope of that committee, and ulti mately the clause was passed with an amendment inserted by Mr. Neato extending the disqualifying period of em ployment to six months before the election, and with the exclusion of the latter part of the clause, which subjects the employer to the penalties of a misdemeanour. Mr. lIORSPALL then brought up his clause conferring a third member on Liverpool, Manchester, and Birming ham. In support of it he showed, referring in detail to the statistics, that in point of population and property these towns were on a par with, and Liverpool, with which he was best acquainted, was superior to, the city of Lon don, and in intelligence also, he contended, they had an equal claim to a larger representation. Mr. ADDERLEY opposed the clause, arguing that the principle of representation by numbers on which it was ba3ed was new, and utterly opposed to the old principle of local representation—that each place should send the number of members, and insisted that the innovation would degrade the representation, by making members mere counters instead of delegates to consult the public good. The clause, he objected, was proposed with an ultimate view to the representation of minorities by the multiplica tion of unicorn constituencies ; and he urged that no town would be better represented either in its local or general interests by an increase in the number of its representa tives, and that if the amendment were accepted these great towns ought to be subdivided, as was proposed in the case of Glasgow. Mr. 11. LEWIS advocated the claims of Marylebone, on the ground of population and property, to at least two ad ditional members. Mr. SMOLLETT complained of the resuscitation of a question already disposed of, and urged the committee not to convict itself of vacillation by accepting an amendment which was inconsistent with one of the main principles of the redistribution scheme—that there should be no uni corn constituencies, agreeing with Mr. Adderley, that if additional members were given to these towns they ought to be divided. His main objection to the bill was that he distributed the " mob" constituencies which wore about to be created, and ho apprehended that to increase their mem bers would be to make the house more unmanageable. Mr. GOSCHEN, in support of the clause, combated the objection that the members for largo towns were over whelmed with private business, and argued as they had more varied Imperial interests to represent than the mem bers for small towns, their numbers ought to be increased. On many subjects, too, the large towns had a separate in terest from the small towns; and as an additional argu ment he pointed out that half the borough population was contained in the large towns of over 150,000 population, which returned only 34 members. Mr. SANDFORD replied to Mr. Goschen that he him self was a signal proof that it did not require a multiplica tion of members to secure the representation of the most varied interests. Mr. T. CHAMBERS,. taking all the arguments urged in favour of the clause, showed that they applied with greater force to the case of the metropolitan boroughs, and insisted that tho acceptance of this amendment by itself would but increase the anomalies of the present system. Mr. BRIGHT argued that it was not more representa tion by debating power that the groat towns required, but an increased voting power more commensurate with their wealth, population, and the greatness of their interests, and reminding the committee that as it was from these large towns had come the movement which had brought Reform to its present position, ho predicted that when they began to turn their minds to this question of redis tribution, the now electors in these groat centres, if this demand wore refused, would see that the house had not dealt justly by them, and would, in the very next Par liament, demand that some of the smallest boroughs should be extinguished and their members added to the great towns. For the sake of three members he urged it was unwise to miss a satisfactory settlement. Mr. BLECROFT explained that ho had voted against Mr. Laing's amendinen+, not because ho was opposed to giving a third member to Leeds, but because it was a cri tical division, and ho did not wish to endanger the passing of the bill ; and after some observations from the other member for Leeds, Mr. BAINES, in support of the clause and its extension to the claim of Leeds, The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER, replying to Mr. Bright's argument that the great towns required in creased voting power, urged that their interests were not represented merely by the two members they sent to Par liament., bat by all the members representing s'milar inte rests—the metropolis, for instance, could command at least 80 members. After touching on the mode in which our present legislative machinery had adapted itself gradually to the representation of the varied interests of an empire, and explaining once more the spirit in which the Govern ment had drawn up their redistribution scheme, both in relation to the counties and towns, ho repeated his objec tions to the accumulation of members, and finally an nounced, as a compromise, that Government would accede to the claim of a third member not only for Liverpool, Manchester, and Birmingham, but for Leeds, feeling sure that this waiving of their principle would not be pushed to au inconvenient extent, but that their scheme for the ade quate representation of counties should not bo interfered with—these four seats must be got exclusively from a re modelling of the borough schedules of the bill. Salford, for instance, must yield to Manchester the additional seat ho had proposed to give it (here there were decided ex pressions of disapprobation from the Opposition), and other boroughs in the schedules would have to submit to a simi lar sacrifice. This concession on the part of the Government called up General PEEL, who, avowing that if ho could accept the franchise in the bill, he should be ready to go to equal electoral districts, predicted that the whole redistribution scheme would be swept away by the next Parliament, and energetically repudiated all responsibility for the measure. Amid loud cheers from the Opposition, and oven from some of his own party, he declared that three points stood out conspicuously in these debates—that nothing had less vita lity than a " vital point," that nothing was loss secure than a "security," and that nothing was more elastic than the conscience of a Cabinet Minister. Mr. GLADSTONE admitted that this was not a ques tion between town and county, but between different classes, and while accepting the concession as a groat boon he warned the Government that the proposal to got those four seats at the expense of large towns would not bo satis factory. Mr: Neville-Grenville and Mr. 11. Berkeley urged the claim of Bristol to a third member. Mr. Baxley and Mr. Cheetham deprecated the proposal to deprive Salford of its expected member, and Mr. Sergeant Gaseleo urged the Government to revert to the suzgestion ho had made some time ago to disfranchise all boroughs under 5,000. Mr. Laing asked whether the Government would state to-day the boroughs which wore to be eliminated, on which Mr. Disraeli declined to pledge himself. After some conversa tion as to the best mode of procedure, Mr. Sandford post poned his amendment that two of the members be taken from the city, and the Chairman put the question that the clause be road a second time. There were loud cries of "Agreed," but several members on the Ministerial benches persisted in pressing a division, when the clause was car ried by a majority of 231-297 to 63, and the eommittee then adjourned until to-day at 2 o'clock. The third reading of the Railway (Guards and Pas sengers' Communication) Bill was carried on a division by 43 to 5. The other business was disposed of, and the house ad jcurned at a quarter to 2 o'clock. The State Auditor of Virginia announces that arrangements have bsen made to pay the interest on the Virginia debt regularly and punctually. Provision, how ever, is only made for the payment of 4 per cent. per annum, West Virginia being considered responsible for the remaining 2 per cent., and also for one-third of the principal. LADVERTISEMENT.i—HoIIoway's Pills.—The truest philosophical sphit of inquiry led to the discovery of this priceless medicine, and the most unselfish labour and ex pense have been incurred in bringing so great a boon to the knowledge, and within the reach, of the afflicted throughout the world. Every invalid who can read will understand the plain directions in his own language which aro folded round the pills, which should be taken in the doses and at the times distinctly specified therein, while great attention should be paid to diet and many minor matters, all of which, however, are important, inasmuch as they augment the curative powers of the pills, prevent them from disagreeing with the most deli citto and spare time Paid ottiforu3g. THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVEAING, JULY 2, 1867. Sheffield Trades' Union Commission. At the sitting of the Court on Friday Mr. Sugg said that he wished to offer the evidence of a volun- tary witness to show that on the night ➢ir. Tyzack was shot at with a revolver he fired the revolver off himself. Mr. Tyzack was then recalled, and stated—On the night that he was shot at, in Abbeydale, no woman came to him and asked him to take her up in his gig. He never said to anybody that night that he was loaded, and could not take anybody up at that time of night. The person who, as he supposed, fired a revolver at him was on the right hand side of the road, on the footpath, going to Abbey dale—on the plantation adjoining Mr. Cockayne's premises. Ile and his brother had had revolvers for some years before this occurred—ever since revolvers were invented. They had spent dozens of nights in watching their premises, revolver in hand, after de predations had been committed. lie had never in his life fired a revolver as he was going home. lie was not carrying it when he was shot at—he re- gretted that he was not, for then he would have faced his assailant. He was quite sure he was shot at in 1862, and not in 1859. Mary Ann Needham, wife of Thomas Needham, who was sentenced to four years' penal servitude in 1865, for blowing up Mr. Tyzack's wheel, at Dron field, was next examined. She said her husband was an engine -tenter. After his conviction she went with Sam Crookes to Derby to see him. Crookes asked her to go, and paid her railway fare. Crookes went in his own name, but he told her to say at Derby that he was her brother. She stayed in Derby a week. She asked Crookes for money, and he gave her some. Before she went to Derby, and at different times afterwards, he gave her some, amounting to £3 in all. Before her husband was sent away from Derby gaol she went to see him, Crookes asking her to go, and paying her expenses as before. Crookes's wife and witness's sister-in law and a brother-in-law went as well. On this occasion Crookes gave witness a new dress and bonnet. She applied to him for money be - cause her brother, Bradley, told her to do so. She lost a child, and Bradley told her to go to Michael Thompson for money to bury it. Thompson referred her to Crookes, saying he did not know her. She said she would make him know her. She said this because she thought by her hus- band sending to Thompson that Thompson knew something about what her husband was suffering for. Mary Ann Morton, sempstress, was called by the defence committee to say that when going home to _ - Abbeydale, one night about nine years ago, Mr. Tyzack, the witness who was shot at, passed her in his gig. Immediately after she heard a revolver fired off three or four times. A person to whom she spoke, Mr. Hall, said it was Mr. Tyzack, who fired it, and added that Tyzack's men were out on strike. Thein ference the committee wished the Court to draw from the evidence was that Mr. Tyzack was in the habit of firing off his revolver when going home, and that it was he who fired on the night when he alleged he was shot at either by accident or by design. Mr. Tyzack was recalled, and denied in every particular the evidence of the last witness. Mr. Hall, of the firm of Martin, Hall, and Co., the gentleman to whom Morton said she spoke when she heard the revolver fired off by Tyzack, was called, and he denied ever having seen Morton. 'The evidence she had given, so far as it had affected himself, was utterly untrue. Morton was recalled, and was told by Mr. Over end that if she had said that which was untrue, it would be the duty of the Court to prosecute her fur perjury. The Court, however, would allow her to save herself if she chose to withdraw what she had said. The witness said she was prepared to stand by her statement, and she gave the names of several persons to whom she related at the time what she had seen. Joseph Machin, secretary to the Scythe Grinders' Union, said the story told by Morton was related to him on Saturday by Wm. Sharpe, and he asked Morton to repeat it before the Court. In further examination witness admitted that a number of rattenings previously spoken to had been done on behalf of the trade. Witness's cash-book was examined, and in 1862, at the time it was stated the union found money to send Need ham out of the country to prevent his giving evi dence against Michael Thompson for having found money to pay for the blowing up at Dronfield, there was a balance in hand of £124. The contri bution book of the same date showed that the ac counts had been fallified, and that the total at the bottom of each page was considerably less than the sum actually received. Witness was still unable to account for these discrepancies. Some of the ba lances represented that more had been received than wag the case. The page in the cash-book opposite to the one containing the balance of £124, and the one which most likely contained entries of how that money had been expended, had ,been torn from the book. By whom and how that was done witness could not say. The auditors had passed the books as they appeared. Thomas Bamforth was called and was questioned respecting the shooting at Mr. Tyzack. He denied emphatically that the woman Morton had ever men tioned the circumstance to him. The witness Morton was again called, and she persisted that her statement was true, and refused to withdraw from it. The Court told her she might be prosecuted for perjury. At present they would not say what they would do with her. Michael Thompson, formerly secretary to the Scythe Grinders' Union, admitted having been im plicated in the outrage at Dronfield. lie paid money from the funds of the union for the support of the wife of Needham, who was convicted of the outrage. He made no entries in his books of the payment of this money. lie was aware that Need ham admitted to Mr. Tyzack that he (witness) em ployed him to do this outrage. He took little notice of this rumour, and did not see Needham after he came out of prison. Witness denied having had anything to do with the shooting at Mr. Tyzack, and he did not find funds to send N eedham to America. Joseph Crossland, secretary to the union of the pen and pocket blade grinders, said he succeeded Bromehead, and most of the books when he came into office had been destroyed. It was said they had been buried with Bromehead. (Laughter.) At a general meeting a question was raised, respoct ing the sum of £7O, which had been invested in the savings bank in the name of four persons, and the names of three were necessary to draw it out. The money had been taken out, and one of the persons, Geo. Law, complained that his name had been forged. Nothing could be learned as to how the money had been got or what had become of it, and at a meeting on the 10th April the following resolution was come to :---“That, after a great deal of investigation, we are of opinion that the £7O was drawn out of the bank for trade purposes ; but, at the same time, we deprecate the manner in which it has been drawn out, and hope in future the committee will be very particular in the mode of doing their business." Witness admitted rattening was practised in his trade, but hoped it would soon be done away. Ho had no doubt the books had been destroyed to con ceal improper entries. The Court then adjourned until Monday morning. 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We might fill a column with illustrations of what we are here asserting, in the shape of stories of cowardly murders perpetrated by women, or friends of women, which juries were asked in vain to punish. The last case of this kind is one of which everybody in this State is now talking—the murder of Mr. Iliseock, a member of the Constitu tional Convention at Albany. He is shot suddenly by one of his friends, a Gen. Cole, and in defence of his crime the murderer tells three different stories -- first, that Iliscock had violated his wife; secondly, that he had seduced her ; and thirdly, that he hid simply insulted her—all of them resting on the state ment of the wife herself, who, it appeared, did not discontinue her intercourse with Hiscock in conse- quence of anything that had happened. The only bit of corroborative evidence drawn from the hus band's observation consisted, it seems, of the highly suspicious circumstance that the murdered man asked him one day, " when was he going away ?" So that if Cole should be acquitted we shall have fresh support for the theory that any woman who has a jealous or crackbraiued husband, and little regard for her own reputation, may have any man shot or knifed by reporting him as having behaved unhandsomely to her. In fact, a bad woman who had tried to seduce a man and failed, might in this way gratify her rage and desire of revenge by hav ing him incontinently " taken off;" and if juries allowed this doctrine to take root and flourish, the best and most proper man in the community would hold his life at the mercy of any worthless couple who happened to have an acquaintance with him, and might for any reason desire his destruction. The law, we believe, forgives the slaying by a husband of a man taken in adultery ; but it does so not because it approves of the prac tice of avenging one's own injuries, but because it supposes some injuries to be too great for ordi nary mortals to submit to them in cold blood. In other words, it is presumed that a man who wit nessed his own dishonour would be sure to lose all self-control. But there is in this no sanction what- ever for the modern doctrine if A. hears or suspects that B. has been ruining his domestic peace he may go in search of him with deadly weapons, and whenever he meets him, be it days or months afterwards, kill him on the spot. In fact, a good many of these moral murders are now committed not only in cold blood, but by gentlemen and ladies who are not much troubled at all by the loss of their " honour," and sleep just as soundly as if they still had it in their keeping. They kill " seducers" simply because it is " the thing" to do, and the public expects it of them ; or because they think it will procure them a little pleasing noto riety. Nothing could better prove the debauched condition of public opinion, as expressed by than juries, the fact that some of the mur- derers whose wrongs have excited most sympathy have been themselves rakes and adulterers of the worst kind, and, after polluting other peo • pie's homes for years, have been supposed —poor fellows—to be incapable of enduring the pollution of their own. We all know the way in which these beautiful justifications of the uncon trollable indignation of the injured husband or the betrayed woman arc got up. The murder is gene rally committed in some public place, so that there may be plenty of witnesses. As soon as it is done, the murderer, though pale, becomes perfectly calm, and surrenders without difficulty, and after giving some slight signs of intended but easy-to-bc-foiled suicide is conducted to prison, where he is the object of marked attention on the part of the gaoler or his wife, and is waited on soon after by some of the liveliest and most graphic members of the " repor torial corps." Then come the most delicious mo ments of the whole drama. The murderer gives his own version of his wrongs, with the delightful con sciousness that he cannot be contradicted, the only person who could contradict being dead. lie tells of his agonies, of " the fire in his brain," his sleepless nights, his horrible misgivings, his early happiness, his passionate love, his wonderful sa crifices for " the frail being" for whose sake he has assassinated ; and down it all goes on paper, and soon appears in print. And while the tale is fresh the newspapers are never weary of making additions to it, and the hero enjoys more notoriety than ever he hoped in his wildest dreams. When the day of trial comes on it is a grand day. The court is crowded ; the audience and the jury lay in extra pocket handkerchiefs ; the prisoner is dressed simply, but with care, and wears an interesting and melancholy air. The leading masters of balderdash at the bar are engaged for the defence, and the defence consists mainly of fulsome praise of the assassin and abuse of his victim. All that fustian can do is done to make woman appear a kind of pretty animal without sense, or discretion, or conscience, whom any naughty man can seduce, and whom naughty men must, therefore, let alone on pain of death. Then comes the description of the husband's agonies, if the husband be the mur derer. lie is presented to t h e jury as a mad bull, whom the mere sight of " the destroy er of his peace" rouses into uncontrollable fury, and who has to go about trying to kill him by a law of his being, just as tigers have to prowl and spring and tear in order to satisfy their hunger. Now we think the better portion of the public has reached the conclusion that we have had enough of this sort of thing ; that it is high time that the old doctrine that premeditated killing, no matter what the provoca tion may be, is murder , and deserves , in the interest of society, to be punished as murder, ought to be reasserted. The only possible excuse that can be put forward for the conduct of juries in refusing to convict " injured husbands" for killing seducers in cold blood, is that the honour of wives cannot be preserved in any other. way ; but this excuse we imagine very few men would be willing to accept as valid if presented to them in its naked simplicity. If wives need any legal assistance in preserving their virtue, it ought to be supplied in the regular way, by making adultery a criminal offence ; so that when a man is accused of destroying anybody's peace, he will at least get a hearing for his version of the affair ; and even if he is to be put to death on conviction, will be put to death with decent human formalities instead of being shot like a mad dog. But pending the provision of legal punishment for these offences, wives and hus bands must be left to take care of their own honour, and must find other means of taki n g care of it than the use of deadly weapons against anybody the wife chooses to point out as her " be trayer." We think that, however opinions may differ as to woman's fitness for the suffrage, very few people will be found to deny that, in her pre sent state of mental and moral development, mar ried women, at least, ought to be able to take care of their owu chastity, and ought to be made to do it, and be punished, if anybody is punished, when it is lost. Their whole training from childhood up is concentrated on their preparation for this one duty, and society and the Church have surrounded the discharge of it with the most terrible sanctions. Married women, too, have what young unmarried women have not, the knowledge and experience ne cessary to warn them of their danger; and there is something false and ridiculous in the popular theory that when they fall they are the innocent victims, the men the real criminals. Women, to be sure, are proverbially " frail," but o are men ; and in the existing state of opinion a woman brings to the violation of the marriage vow a much stronger and more deep-rooted sense of the sin of it than a man does, and is, therefore, on any sound theory of account ability, by far the guiltier of the two. The theory of woman's character and position on which blame, in cases of adultery, is now distributed, and on which the murder of seducers is justified, is really very little superior to that set out iu the laws of Menu. She is so helpless, so conscienceless, so ready to fall, that to throw temptation in her way is con sidered the foulest act a man can commit, and it is so hard to keep her from falling that public senti ment authorises the husband to assassinate his best friends in broad daylight for the protection of her purity. The case of young, unmarried women is, we admit, different. Whether rightly or wrongly, they are so educated that they neither know when they are running risks nor how to guard against them, and as long as this system of education is or has to be continued, fathers and brothers must be armed with summary powers for protecting them, or the legal penalties of seduction must be made vastly heavier than they are now. But, as a matter of fact, the women who take the law into their own hands, and kill their faithless lovers and secure im punity from juries, are hardly ever youthful inno cents. They are generally tolerably mature spin sters, who know perfectly well what they are about, both when they are lavishing their affections on the unworthy object, and when they are pistolling him for running away, and there is probably no more repulsive spectacle to be witnessed than the mock trials of offences of this kind by which our courts are sometimes disgraced. In fact, side by side with the agitation in one portion of the com munity for woman's admission to greater social freedom, is growing up a tendency, in another portion, to release her more and more from both legal and moral responsibility. There is strong re-. luctance abroad to convict a good-looking woman of any offence whatever. We even doubt whether Bridget Dorgan, who killed her mistress the other day in New Jersey, would, though not good-look ing, have been convicted, had she simply killed her master. But when it is made to appear that love is at the bottom of a young woman's crimes, juries become deaf to the claims of order, and law, and morality. As soon as the tender side of the tra gedy begins to show itself in the evidence the jury men wipe their eyes, the court blows its nose, the counsel's voice grows husky, and the " poor young thing" is dismissed with the deepest emotion, and the friends of the dead man sneak to their deso late homes amidst the frowns of the indignant and virtuous crowd.-7he Nation. THE FUEL PROBLEM. The great, important, and constantly increasing part which steam power is taking in the world's progress has awakened the attention of thoughtful political economists to the fact that the material necessary to evolve the vapoury but untiring giant from the simple elevation of water is constantly de creasing in quantity and increasing in value. Coal is now so universally employed as domestic fuel that the immense supply needed for the generation of steam in the various industrial pursuits, and the steam marine of the world's commerce, and the navies of the nations, is taxing the means of almost every individad in the community. The present rapid consumption of coal is therefore a subject of deep and profound interest, and much care and atten tion have been given to maturing plans for a less rapid and more economical consumption of the valuable fuel. The latest discovery in this direction promises to be of the utmost importance, and its ultimate and complete success seems certain. The new method proposes to abolish coal altogether from beneath steam boilers, and put in its place petro leum. The mode of effecting this desirable change was originated by Colonel Henry R. Foote, of Ten nessee, and his process has been patented. The attention of the United States Navy Department has been already called to this new steam generator, and a Board of three chief engineers have examined it, and rendered a favourable report. Chief Engi neer Isherwood ordered the fourth-class United States steamship Palos to be fitted up for a full and compHe trial of the new invention ; and on board of this vessel the experiment is now in progress in Boston harbour. The new apparatus is simple and inexpensive, consisting of a small iron box or retort located in the grate bars, and having burners all around it. Its bottom is kept hot by burners beneath. The oil is carried into it by a small iron pipe and vaporises as soon as it enters. Steam is then intro duced through a coil of iron pipe filled with filings and located over the burners, where it is intensely heated and decomposed, and its gases enter the retort, into which air is at the same time forced, and the whole forms a gas which escapes from some ; nine hundred burners, where it burns with a clear, intense blue flame, completely filling the furnace and extending into or through the flues. The heat is very great. It emits no smoke, can be increased or diminished in a moment, or be entirely extin guished by turning a stopcock. The apparatus is very simple, and any part of it, if broken, can be repaired or made new by any mechanic: No alte ration of boilers is required. It will burn whatever coal will, and the fire can be run by any man of ordinary intelligence after an hour's instruction. It dispenses with all coal heavers, and requires one man to every two or three fires, to keep them in perfect order. It is clean and convenient, and saves the time and trouble of taking in coal and disposing of ashes, and, there being no sulphur in the oil, as there always is in coal, the boilers and flue will be more durable, notwithstanding the greater intensity of the fire. But the great value of this invention in steamers is the gain in space and ton nage. The amount of fuel required is only about one-seventh of the weight and bulk required of anthracite coal, and the inventor is sltisfied that after perfecting his apparatus it will take less than one-tenth, leaving all the remainder for freight or passage room. If this fire succeeds, it will enable ships to steam from sixty to one hundred days, and to visit ports of the world from which they are now excluded, while the direct gain in the saving of the fuel of the civilised world will be almost beyond computation. The best petroleum for the purpose of fuel for steam boilers is that which is obtained from wells in West Virginia, on account of its gravity, which renders it non-explosive, and can be handled and stored with the same safety as lard oil or coal, thus avoiding all the objections to the light oils of Pennsylvania. The quality of the oil used in the experimental test should receive particular attention, in order to make the success complete, which it is sure to be in the hands of practical men. —Philadelphia Inquirer. RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE. The stockholders of the Manchester and Law rence Railroad held their nineteenth annual meet ing at Manchester on Friday, June 8, at which 5,803 shares were represented. The old board of directors were ousted, and a new one elected by over 3,000 majority, as follows :—Asa Fowler of Concord, Ezekiel A. Straw of Manchester, Benjamin F. Martin of Manchester, Joseph T. Cross of Hook sett, Edward A. Abbott of Concord, George B. Chandler of Manchester, and William W. Stickney of Exeter. The new board subsequently organised by electing Asa Fowler president, and re-electing E. W. Harrington of Manchester treasurer, and William C. Clark clerk. The stockholders of the Portland, Saco, and Portsmouth Railroad held their annual meeting at Kittery on Monday, June 3. The receipts of the road for the past year were $529,326, and the ex pense and renewal fund $298,500, leaving a net income of $230,821. A resolution was offered declaring that the contract for the lease of the road to the Boston and Maine and Eastern Railroad Companies had been violated, because they have failed to pay the rental in gold or silver, according to agreemene, and instructing the directors to take posses ion of the road. This resolution and the entire matter was referred to the directors, to be reported on at a special meeting within six months. 'I he old board of officers were re-elected for an other year. The directors of the Boston and Worcester Rail road have given notica of an issue of $500,000 worth of new stock, one share of new to be given to hol ders of nine of old. This makes the capital of the / road an even five millions. The Western Railroad has purchased for $5,000 the Childs Place, at Pittsfield, now occupied by Miss Clara Wales as a young ladies' seminary. The contract for completing the Hoosiac tun nel has not been awarded to the builders of the Chicago lake tunnel as reported, though they have bid for a certain portion of the work, including the whole of the central shaft, at prices much below the estimates of the commissioners and the State engineer. The governor and council, however, have decided to defer the ratification of the con- tract until the sureties required by law are fur- nished. During the month of May 75,724 pounds of mail matter were sent from Boston and 81,353 received over the Boston and Providence Railroad, and 150,711 pounds received, and 206,272 sent over the Boston and Worcester Road and the Wood socket Branch. The main line of the Union Pacific Railroad was completed 361 miles west of Omaha, on Tuesday, June 4, and Senator Wade's party of excursionists spent the day there in General Augur's camp at the end of the track, two and a quarter miles of which had been laid since ten o'clock on Monday morning. General Sherman was with the party, and was to start on Thursday morning for Fort Sedgwick, Julesburg Station, to look after Indians and the safety of the mail route. The Nebraska Legislature has appointed a committee to act with one from the citizens of Omaha, to give the excursionists a grand reception on their return to that city. There were heavy snow storms in Colorado between the 15th and 20th of May, and the snow in the mountains was so deep that the coach could not get through to Central City. The annual meeting of the Chicago and North- Western Railroad Company has been held at Chicago, and the result was the election of the old Board, the Wall-street ticket having been thoroughly beaten. The vote will stand about 240,000 votes, representing $24,000,000 of stock for the old Board, and 60,000 votes, representing $6,000,000 of stock for the opposition. About $6,000,000 have been expended on this road during the last year, which will account for the fact that no dividends have been declared. The permanent value of the road has been so much increased that this stock will now become a favourite one for speculation. On the Board of directors are some of the most sagacious railroad men in the country, and its property, which is developing with great rapidity, is now of great extent and value. There is no injunction pending against the Union Pacific Railroad, as was reported on the authority of a St. Louis paper. At the last meeting of the directors of the New York and New Haven Railroad Company, John T. Shelton was elected treasurer, and Edward J. Sanford secretary. Within forty years 51,000 miles of steam rail roads have been built in the United States, costing $1,502,594,000. New England has 3,851 miles in use, costing $199,071,483 ; New York State, 4,025 miles, costing $152,579,769 ; Pennsylvania, which built the first Railroad in the country, in 1809, 4,038 miles, costing $210,680,000. This road has also 700 miles of underground track in connection with coal mines. The suit of Dr. Mather Williams against the New York Central Railroad Company for alleged damages done to his property along the line of East Washington-street, in Syracuse, was decided re cently, and the damages estimated at $19,600. This case was commenced about thirty years ago, and involved the question of the right of railroad com panies to use the streets of a city or village after permission had been granted by the authorities. The Wall -street Journal informs us that the rates and time for passengers from Omaha, by Union Pacific Railroad and Wells, Fargo, and Co.'s Stages, are as follows : To Denver, Col. „ Central City, Col ,, 3 108 00 „ Salt Lake, Utah l, 7 1 . ... 210 00 „ Virginia City, M on ,, 11 „ 305 00 „ Virginia City, Nev ,, 11 „ 275 00 ~ Boise City, Idaho l7 111 „ 305 00 „ Helena, Montana „ Sacramento, Cal. „ Austin, Nevada ll 10 225 00 The Little niami Railroad Company was to pay, on and after June 20, a dividend of 4 per cent., free of income tax. The correspondent of the Springfield Republican writes as follows on "Railway Projects :"—The Hartford and Erie Bill went thn-ugh the house without even a count of the members for or against it, and with only two speeches on the subject. Still more fortunate, the subsidy of a million dollars to the Williamsburg and North Adams Road went through without even a word of debate. The bill was not even read in the house. There was a sharp fight by Mr. Bird against the grant of $600,000 fur carrying on the tunnel, and also against the appro priation of $lOO,OOO for Provincetown harbour. The Walpole representative got no help in debate from any quarter in his tunnel fight, but got on one stage over eighty votes against the appropriation, and succeeded in defeating the project for changing the commission, which was believed to be designed for the purpose of getting rid of Messrs. Shute and Hudson, and putting the whole work into Mr. Crocker's hands. Rumour says that a large con tract has been made with some Chicago parties, and that Mr. Crocker desired to have them, on account of the exceeding reasonableness of their price, giving bonds, but the governor exempted from council f rom held that that was one of the very best reasons why they should insist upon proper securities. IIIE MURDER AT ALBANY. On Tuesday, the 4th inst., a coroner's inquest was held at Albany on the body of L. Harris His cock, of Syracuse, a member of the New York Con stitutional Convention. The circumstances of his death were these : —Mr. Hiscock was a prominent lawyer and politician; for several years a member of the Legislature, and lately chairman of the Judicial Committee. He was about forty years of age and a widower. The causes of his death were given by his murderer apparently with truth, and for the present at least we accept them. General George W. Cole, brother of Senator Cole, of California, entered the United States army asa private when the war broke out, and attained before it closed to the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel. He was a friend of Mr. His cock, married, and with two children. In 1864, while absent in the army, his wife was taken ill, and sent for Mr. Hiscock to make her will. The lady could not have been in such extremity, as her position appears to have excited the lawyer more to love-making than to drawing wills. Some very curious interviews followed, in which Mrs. Cole appears to have been subjected to strong importu nity and insult, at the same time that Mr. Hiscock professed friendship for •General Cole. The lady dreaded an exposure, and the consequences of in forming her husband of the indignities she bad suf fered. After the General returned from field service, he had occasion to visit Washington about four months ago when Mr. Hiscock renewed his impor tunities. The changed manner of his wife appears to have excited a feeling in the mind of the husband that something was wrong. She seldom smiled, and seemed broken-hearted. His suspicions being aroused, a direction was given by Mr. Hiscock re peatedly inquiring when he would again go away. He wrote to a friend asking if he had ever seen any improprieties between Mr. Hiscock and his wife, who replied he had seen suspicious circumstances. Immediately he applied to the lady, and from her lips learned the circumstances. At her earnest so licitation he delayed shooting Mr. Iliscock at once, intending first to remove his wife, and then force Mr. Hiscock at the mouth of a pistol to beg forgiveness on his knees, for the injury he had clone, and compel him to leave the country in ten days. He went over to his hotel to see him. Mr. Iliscock was leaning against a pillar in the re ception-room at Stanwix Hall, talking to Mose 3 Somers and Patrick Corbett. George Cole ap proached from the Maiden-lane entrance. When about twelve feet off he raised his right hand, Mr. Somers's impression being that he was about to shake hands with him. lie continued to advance, lifting the arin higher until his hand almost touched Mr. Hiscock's head when he fired, and his victim fell backwards on the floor, almost instantaneously dying without even an exclamation. The general, in a rather incoherent manner, kept repeating, " He has dishonoured my simple, innocent wife." He was taken to the station-house, where, besides his pistols, there was found concealed upon him a long sharp-bladed spring-back knife, from which it is supposed that he contemplated suicide. In the Constitutional Convention, ou the sth inst., the death of Illr. Hiscock was announced by Mr. a Andrew; one of his colleagues, and there was great crowd to hear the eulogies pronounced on the deceased. No business was transacted, except the appointing of a committee to accompany the re mains of the murdered member to Syracuse. Mrs. Cole is a daughter of Judge Barto, of Trumansburg, Tomkins county, and half-sister of Henry D. Barto, a prominent Democratic politician, a member of the Democratic States Central Com mittee of the present State Convention. Mrs. Cole has a large property in her own name, and is re ported to have a half-interest in the bank of Henry D. Barto and Co. at Trumansburg. A report is said to be gaining ground that Cole was instigated to the murder by Iliscock having advised his wife not to bequeath all her property to her husband. COUNTRY MARKETS. COLCIIESTEE-JuNE 21. The supply of wheat was again barely sufficient for con sumptive demand. Prices were firm, and against buyers. Beans and peas were scarce, and quite as dear. Wheat, white bas 743 Beane, 111azagan......31a 3 s red; Ms 683 Middle and small..4ls 48s Barley ... l2s 483 Peas, white 38s 42s Oats ...—s sl grey ...368 32s CHELMSFORD-JUNE 28. This market was very poorly supplied with wheat, end little business was done. Last week's prices were about made. Spring corn of all descriptions generally brought the prices of last week. Wheat, old white 528 Gs new b3s 718 old red 'ls 61s new. 538 638 Barley .. 268 33s Chevalier 411 53s Grind,ng '6s 32s Malt 6(3s 748 Chevalier 688 761 Oats 2OB 26s ABERDEE: Peas, Partridge 40s 92s Wh►te ..345 385 B .iling 3433 40s Dun.... ..... 3Bs 40s ditto, new --s —s _ Beans, Tick, '01d......40s 45; new.... 393 433 Harrow ricks.42s 463 new....41s 45s Mazigan . :393 433 -JUNE 28. At our market to-day there was a quiet business done, with a thin attendance. Prices for all kinds of grain were the same as last week. White wheat 58s 0 6 ci d tio° 63s 0 6 d d l 621 b til bushel. Red wheat Potato oats 28s Od to 29s Od} 4Olll 11 bushel. Common oats 9 6s 6d to 27s Od Bere 35s 6d to 36s 6d/. 531 b 11 bushel. Barley 35s 6d to 36s Gil Oatmeal 20s 6d to 21s 6d ?boll of 280tb. Flour, fine 52s Od to 51s Od. 1.1 sack of 280.6. KIRKCALDY—JusE 29. Small supplies of wheat. Only two samples of black oats and no barley. Wheat in favour of sellers. Wheat. Barley. Oats. First...— :'s Od ; 338 Od 30s 6d k-coond 60s 61 I 36s Od 31s Od Third 62s Od 3ds 6d 32s Od COAL MARKET. Price per ton at the close of the market. _ s. d. s. d. West Hartley Kelloo Cassop lB 3 Eden Main East Hartlepool llartlepool Tunstall ships at market, 32—sold. 30. Foreign Mail Packet List. MAILS DUE. Australia and New Zealand, via Southampton July 20. Ditto, via Marseilles July a. Ditto, via Panama . ....... ........... Brazil, Buenos Ayres, and Monte Video July 1. Ditto, by French packet Cape Verde, by Brazil packet July 4. Cape of Good Hope. Ascension. and St. Helena July 8, China, Penang, and Singapore, via Southampton July 3 Ditto, •ia Marseilles Falkland Islands Gibraltar, via Southampton India, via Southampton July 3. Ditto, via Muni]. es Malta, Egypt, &o. July 13. Ditto, Marseilles July 3. Mauritius, Cape of Good Hope, and Natal, via Southampton. July 2% Ditto, via Marseldes July 14. Newfoundland .. July 3 Portugal July 4. Ditto, by private ship to Oporto .. Ditto ditto to Lisbon United States, Canada, California, &c., by British packet Ditto, by United States packet Ditto ditto (New York, Ditto ditto (New York) Ditt•, ditto (Baltimore) ....... ...... Ditto, by Canadian picket July - West Coast of Africa. Madeira, and Tenerin --July 4. Weat Indies and Pacific except Mexico and Balla- 8) Cub and Mexico • Baha:nas, via New York Bermuda, vi,t ditto July '5. .July 2'J. ; July July 3. The Springfield Republican states that a hale and venerable fellow-townsman, who has paid the compliment of 43 years continuous subscription to the paper, Las pre sented it with a copy of the 80.310 n Chronicle of Juno 6, 1768, or just 9 years ago. It is a small quarto sheet, with a folio supplement, "printed by Mein and Fleming, at their printing-office in Newbury-street, almost opposite the White Horse Tavern." It announces with a flourish the latest news from London of the 28th of April, or six weeks previous, and boasts of its large edition of 1,500 copies. Admiral John A . Dahlgren has written the life of his son, Colonel Ulric Dahlgren, whose death in the futile dash on Richmond excited such general national anxiety. Dr. J. G. Holland has sufficiently recovered his usual health to be at work again on his poem, " Katrina," said to be his chef d'oauvre, much of which is already in type for publication early in the fall. Senator Sumner is reported to be preparing a work, but on what subject is nct stated. Rev. Dr. Curry, editor of dre Methodist Chris tian Advocate, says the Atlantic Monthly, is the organ of free-thinkers ; the New York 2'ribune has always been anti-Christian ; the Nation is edited by polite infidels ; the Times is " reckless of truth, propriety, and decency," and the Evening Post has "Unitarian proclivities." On this the Springfield Republican remarks—" The good doctor finds no paper he can read with satisfaction but the Herald, which ho declares to be "the least dangerous of our dailies." What a funny doctor of divinity. The Boston correspondent of the Springfield Re publican tells the following story :—A very eminent poet, resident near this city, is specially sensitive under the scrutiny of strangers ; nothing annoys him so much as conspicuousness. The other day he went into a book-store and was received by an attache who at once recognised his distinguished customer, and shrewedly resolved to make the most of his visit. The store was full of customers. " Step this way, if you please, Mr. -- (in a very loud voice), step this way, Mr. —; I think we have just the book that you want, ➢lr. —; Mr. allow- me to show you this book of plates." And so on fot ten minutes at least, till every one of the scores of people in the store sated their curiosity with gazing, and mentally thanked the officious clerk for his loud proclamations. At last the poet escaped into the street ; but his persecutor followed him nearly a block, and was with difficulty shaken off at all. Such is one of the many penalties of greatness. General Grant, accompanied by his son and several members of his personal staff, attended at West Point the annual examination at the Military Academy, now in progress. The result of the examination is thus given by the Springfield Republican :—" The South appears to take all the honours at West Point this year, strangely enough, but it is only in appearance, for the students ap pointed to Southern cadetships during the war wore chiefly Yankees. The six highest on the list rank as follows : Ruffner of Virginia loads, and Sears of Virginia is third; then thero aro Mallory of Alabama, Rogers and Haupt of Georgia, and Griffith of North Carolina. in the next six there aro three Tennesseeans, Pitman, Maguire, and Bell, while Turtle of Massachusetts, Greer of Pennsylvania, and Heintzelnr.n, at largo, occupy the other three places. Thus all the first six and nine of the first twelve represent the South. Births. Cons—On the Ist inst., at Latymer Lodge, Hammer sndth, the wife of Mr. L. Coils, of a son. CHICHESTER —On tho 28th ult., at Neyland, Pembroke Dock, the wifo of Major E. Chichester, of a son. GOULD n the Ist inst., at Clifton Villa, The Woodlands, lsloworth, the wife of Abraham Gould, Esq., of a son. Marriages. COXHEAD—STILLWELL—On the 29th ult., at S. Clement Panes, Strand, the Rev. John J. Coxhead, M.A., curate of Fulham, Middlesex, eldest son of J. Coxhead, Esq., of Russell-square, to Martha, fourth daughter of J. G. Still well, Esq., of Arundel-street, Strand, and Dorking, S urroy. WIGRAM - SOLLY—On the 29th ult., at St. Luke's, Ber wick street, Robert Wigrarn, of 9, New Burlington-street, fifth son of Money Wigrant, Esq., of Moor Place, Herts, to Mary Edith, second daughter of Samuel Sully, Esq F.R.S., of 6, Saville-row. Deaths. BAYL - r---On the 29th ult., at Richmond Lodge, Forest-hill Charles R. Bayly, Esq.; aged 59. CHARLTON -On the 29th ult., at Picton, Haverfordwest, Henry Charlton, Esq., aged7l. CHORLEY—On the 29th ult., at 76, Chester-square, S.W., John R. Chorley, aged GO.. MAGUIRE—On the 29th ult., at Haslar Hospital, Capt. B. Maguire, R.N., late Commodore on Australian Station. PA:cm:RE—On the 25th ult., at Paris, the Lady Panraure. RUSSELL—On the 29th ult., at The Nook, Mortlake, John Russell Esq., aged 7a. RUTT —On the 29th ult., at Berne Bay, Wm. Rutt, Esq., aged 80. London Printed and Published by WILLIAM ANDREWS , of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at TfIE SON Office, No. 11 2 . Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in the County a Micicilesa.—ltteeday, July 2,1867.