The Sun. — London, England, 1856-10-31 00:00:00

E Y MARKET CRITvIIITAL CO RT.---(This Day.) Tvmal servitude, and directed the authorities of the gaol to ascertain if either of the juvenile reformatories was applicable to his case. tNI+ OLD COURT. 4 7 0 NIMERCIAL INTELLICIEN.O (Before Mr. Baron M:327':,ia and Mr. Jus.ticß Erle.) THE CRYSTAL PALACE FRAUDS. EMBEZZLEMENT. 011`Y; Two The Liverpool Cotton Market yesterday closed with a quiet, yet steady aspect, compared with the current rates of last week. The sales were esti mated at 8,000 bales, 2,500 cf which were taken by the exporters, and 500 by the speculators. The Railway Share Market manifested an active ap pearance, and prices of all the leading stocks ad vanced from 1 , to 1 per cent. on Wednesday's rates. The Colonial Produce Markets this week have been rather quieter, but a fair demand has never theless existed for most of the principal staples. Sugar has been dull, purchasers having refused to give the full prices demanded by importers. Coffee has been in steady request, but plantation Ceylon 1 3 rather cheaper. Cocoa has been heavy. Tea has been quiet, and rice at slightly reduced quota tions. Saltpetre is dull at a decline of 6d. per Cwt., and for Cochineal there has been very little inquiry. In Spices there has not been much ac tivity, and prices have remained without variation. Tallow has realised former values. The Indigo sales, consisting of 67,633 chests, terminated yes terday. Accounts from Berlin of the 28th inst. state that the recent treaty entered into by Prussia and Aus tria, for the purpose of facilitating the business of the customs' on the frontiers of the two countries, has been completely annulled by the unwillingness of the Austrian officials to carry out the spirit of the treaty ; and it is considered that the only way of effectually assisting the trade between Prussia and Austria is to admit the latter State into the Zoll vereiu Union. The Prussian Minister of Finance has recommended to the municipalities to choose officers of the first class to form the commissions for calculating the impost dues. Letters from Hamburg mention that the failure of one of the principal commercial houses at Mag deburg has created much inquietude amongst the Banks and the credit establishments which have been created during the current year in most of the petty German States. It appears that many of the new banks are creditors of the firm alluded to. The amount of their liabilities is about 80,0001., and the ass e t s cons i st of extensive sugar refineries. There has been an increased buoyancy in the market for Public Securities to-day, a rise of about to 2 per cent. having taken place. The dealings have been numerous, and stimulated in some degree by the reported arrival of the James Baines from Victoria, with a large amount of specie. Al though that vessel has been 84 days out, however, no Special notification of her arrival has yet been given. The public are buying, and the disposition to spe culate for a rise increases. Consols have been 924 I, 024 and 92,i 7 ; . For the 6th proximo there have been dealings at 921 3, and 923 ; and for December 4, 93 1. The New 3 per Cents. have been 912- to 921 ; and the Reduced 93 3 t Exchequer Bills are par to 4s. premium. Bank Stock is 214. William James Robson was again placed at the bar, the case being set down in the ordinary course for trial to. day. Mr. Gifford applied to their lordships to postpone the trial till next sessions, on an affidavit that had been sup plied to the solicitor for the prosecution. That affidavit, sworn to by Mr. J. G. Lewis, of Ely-plae, Holborn, the prisoner's attorney, stated that the prisoner was committed on 13th October last on two cases of larceny, and that he (Mr. Lewis) bad only been retained fur the defence within the last ten or twelve days. Hearing it rumoured that other indictments were to be preferred against the prisoner, he wrote on Friday last to the solicitor for the prosecution to be furnished with the particulars of the charges. Late on Satur day night he received an answer i❑ reply, and on Monday at an interview with the prisoner he informed him of tire nature of the o)rnmunication. Want of information on the multiplicity of charges to be preferred against the prisoner, and the number of cases the deponent had to attend to this session, prevented him from making the necessary inquiries, and the effect of pressing on the trial this session would be that the prisoner would be undefended. The letter received from the prosecutor's solicitor enumerated the charges which were to be preferred against the prisoner for stealing eight certificate shares, belonging to Mr. Robertson, of Leith ; five do., belonging to John Bond and Jonathan Dun, and the various charges of forgery, amongst which was one for forging the name of " G. Grove," at the back of a check for 3611. 142 , . 6d. These charges were to be supported by 20 witnesses, and probably more, the names of whom were communicated to Mr. Lewis in the same letter. The late hour at which that com munication was received on Saturday night had pre cluded him from making the necessary inquiry into the nature of the charges and the evidence by which they were to. be supported. He (Mr. Gifford) hoped their lordships would not allow this trial to be forced on under the circumstances, and the prisoner deprived of being defended. Mr. Sergeant Ballantine said the prosecution bad no unjust desire to press on the charges for trial against the prisoner, and he (Mr. Sergeant Baliantine) had no wish to press charges against persons in the unhappy position ' of the prisoner. It was, however, his imperative duty to do so on this occasion, in consequence of the nature of the charge and the great number of persons who bad been brought from all parts of the country to give evidence on the trial, at a great expense to all concerned. The witnesses and the company feel that a postpone meat of the trial would be of great injury and annoy ance to them, and the latter that they bad an extra ground of complaint from the prisoner's conduct on the present occasion. He would call the attention of the court to two letters that had been forwarded to the company by Mr. Robson, and he thought their lordships would concur with him in thinking that the present course was adopted in an endeavour vexatiously to annoy the company, and to put them to further inconvenience and expense than be has already done. It was well known that Mr. Robson was taken into custody in another country, and when brought be fore a magistrate he was prosecuted by the Crystal Palace Company. At the last hearing Mr. Hawkins, barrister, who attended for the prosecution, expressed his willingness to adjourn the case for further investi gation, in order that the whole of the charges to be preferred against the prisoner might be first investigated befora a magistrate, whereby the prisoner would be in possession of all the facts; but Mr. Robson, wishing to save as much publicity as possible, stated his desire that the charges should be got rid of as shortly as possible, because he intended to plead guilty, and in con sequence of that two charges only were entered into, just sufficient to warrant the prisoner's committal, it being intimated to him at the time that others would be preferred against him at the Old Bailey. His answer to the affidavits put in was contained in two letters forwarded by the prisoner to the directors of the Crystal Palace Company. In the first letter he said—" May I ask, as I intend to plead guilty, and make every reparation in my power, whether it is not possible for me to be charged with one large offence, instead of many small ones v' In conse quence the company, instead of indicting him on a num ber of charges of larceny as a servant, charged him with the committal of forgery, and it appeared rather extra ordinary that now, after they had complied with the prisoner's request, he should complain at their proceed ing with the trial this session. In the other letter the prisoner said—" I intend to make no defence, but plead guilty. I shall pray for an immediate committal, as it will save the company much expense, and anxiety to those few left who still love me." He thought it must be obvious to all who had heard the discussion on the application for the postponement of the trial, and who knew anything of the case, that no injury could by possibility be done to the prisoner by the trial proceeding in the ordinary course at the present sessions. He was ready to give prisoner's counsel every information con nected with the charges of forgery. He, therefore, felt bound, under all the circumstances, to object to the ap plication. The Foreign market is quiet, but prices are generally firmer. Turkish 6 per Cents. have ad vanced to 91i, and the 4 per Cents. 1001 with a further upward tendency. Venezuela 4J per Cents. are 34i. Spanish Deferred 23. Sardinian 5 per Cents. 89, and Russian 4i per Cents. 96L The follbwing are the nominal prices of Foreign Stocks :—Grenada Deferred Bonds, 6 ; Mexi can, 21i ; Peruvian 41 per Cents., 75 7 ; ditto 3 per Cents., 54 6 ; Portuguese 3 per Cents., 413 5 ; Russian 5 per Cents., 106 8 ; ditto 41 per Cents., 95 7; Spanish 3 per Cents., 411 ; ditto Deferred, 231 24; ditto Certificates, 51 ; ditto Passive, 6 Messrs. D. Bell, Son, and Co. report that in the market for American Securities during the last week there has been less business doing, and the few transactions both in State stocks and railroad bonds have been at somewhat lower prices. Redeemae. Per Cent. United States 6 p er C en t s . 1867-1868... bl lo4i 1051 tTnited States 6 per Cent. Bonds 1868...104 1051. Alabama 5 per Cent SECURITIES. Kentucky 6 p er C ent. Bonds 1869-1872._ 90 Maryland 5 per Cent. (Sterling Bonds) ... 89 91 Massachusetts 5 per Cent. (Sterl. Bonds) ... 93 Mississippi 6 per Cent. Pl. Bk Bonds lB4l-1871... 40 42 Mississippi 6 per Cent. Union Bk Bonds ... 15 16 Pennsylvania 5 per Cent. Stock Pennsylvania 5 per Cent. Bonds '877. 78 80 Virginia 6 per Cent. Bonds 1886... 82 84 LOANS OF CITIES. Boston 5 per Cent. Bonds 1883... 85 86 Montreal 6 per Cent. Bonds 1856-1865... 83 85 New Orleans 6 per Cent. Stock 1883... 78 80 RAILROAD BONDS. Illinois Central 7 per Cent. Ist Mortgage, _ _ 81 not Con ver tibl e lB7 5.- 8° Illinois Central 6 p er Ce n t 1873... 77 79 Illinois Central 7 per Cent. Freeland Bonds 1860... l 2 93 Illinois Central (Shares), $25 paid Michigan Central Sp. C en t., C onver t ] 860— I. do. do. l 869... 89 91 New York Central 7p. Cent., Convert 1864... 91 93 New York Central 6 per Cent., not Convertibl e 1883... 80 82 New York and Erie 7 per Cent. 3d Mort gage 1883... 83 84 N. York and Erie 7p. Cent. Convertible 1862... 80 82 N. York and Erie 7 per Cent. Sinking Fund 1875... 81 83 Panama 7 per Cent., let Mortgage (Ster ling Bonds), not convertible 1859... 90 92 Panam a . 7 per Cent., Ist Mortgage 1864... 90 92 Pennsylvania Central 6p. Cent., I stMort 1880... 87 89 Railway Shares are all firmer, the rise, in most eases, being ss. to 10s. on the principal lines. Midland, NOrth-Western, and South-Western have been in moderate demand. Foreign and Colonial are quiet. Mr. Gifford said that the letters which had been read by Mr. Sergeant Ballantine had reference to the charges of larceny, and not those of forgery ; and had the charges of larceny only been proceeded with, the prisoner would have pleaded guilty to them, but he had always pleaded not guilty to the charges of forgery. The objection to the postponement of the trial had varied since yesterday. Then it was founded on the illness of a material witness, but now it was based on the inconvenience of the direc tors and the witnesses. The guilt or innocence of the prisoner was not to be assumed by either side in this application—their only question for consideration now being, whether the prisoner had bad sufficient time al lowed him to prepare his defence to the charge of forgery that bad been preferred against him, and to inquire into the conduct and circumstances of the facts which up wards of 20 persons were to depose to. He thought he was entitled (not knowing the facts to which these wit nesses would depose) that the postponement of the trial till next sessions should be granted. BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY.—CLOSING PRICES. (Front the Official List.) Bank St oc k ,-, Tkineb , done. 3 per Cant. R educed Annuities .. 91 1 , 214 .. 1 i I / 3 per Cent Consols Allmuties '2,i 3 , 2 siiii Net , 3 per P ent. Annnitip, New ,‘A 91; 2 ; per Cent. A nnuities 5 per C en t . Annuities. ... Long Annuities, expire sth .tan 1861) IDitto 30 Years, expire sth April, 1885 l7l ndia }low's, 41060 . ..... . . ....... Con Ditto, - or undAc er 2100 0 ........ sol s onnnt LEzehequer Bills, 2icl. 21000 ........... ... ....... .. 5ma112560 . ................ . Ditto Bonds, 1858, 3i per Cent. Bra-PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY. -P Bonds, 5 per Cent. ............... Russian Ronda, 1 g22, V, St., 5 per • Cent , Ditto 4i per Cent. .. ...................... 961 Sardinian Ronde, 5 per Cant. ... ..... .... Ditto Account, 5 ...... Bp,loo I.ioi.ls, 3 per Cent . ................ DittDitto New Deferred, 3 per Cent. Irkio Account ... ................. , .......... 231 kh Bonds, 6 per cent ~... •.. Ditto account, November 14 ... .......91 901 li 90/ 1 x d Ditto Guaranteed, 4 per Cont. ............ 99i 100 VenDitto Account ................. , . 1001 * ezuela Bonds, 41 per Cent ...... ... ...... 34', t rench Rent es, litleen s on the above payable in L ondon. d4i per Cent. ..... Ditto 3 per Cent . .... ............. ........ ... ........ 66f. 50c. ex 251. 25e. TABLE 0' CV, uCI C. .......... 92 i Cnn,ls, money ....................1 Ditto, account, November 6 ............... 92t UNION SCREW COLLIER STEAM COMP ANY. Mr. Justice Erie said the application ought to be re fused. It appeared to him that the ground of complaint on which the application was founded was brought about by the conduct of the prisoner himself. So far as he (Mr. Justice Erle) could gather from what had been stated, the whole of these charges would tve been pre ferred agaicst the prisoner at the police court, where he would have heard the whole of the facts connected with them, had he not wished to avoid publicity, and asked to be committed. Mr. Gifford said the prosecutors had not filed affidavits to that effect. Mr. Baron Martin—But there are the letters written by the prisoner, the authenticity of which can be proved. Mr. Gifford—Yts. Mr. Baron Martin—You should have objected to the non-production of affidavits by the prosecutors before the letters were read. Mr. Justice Erie said that what the prisoner now complained of was the result of his own conduct. He could not allow the consideration of the multiplicity of the , engagements of an attorney engaged to defend a prisoner to be placed against the inconvenience of a number of persons summoned from different parts of the country, and compelled to attend here to carry on this prosecution. He did not apprehend the least in jury to public justice from the decision he had come to. A conversation took place between the learned coun sel when the trial should take place, and to-morrow (Saturday) was named, Mr. Gifford still protesting that by such a course the prisoner would virtually be un defended. ft was then suggested by the prosecution, and assented to by the court, that the trial should be proceeded with at once, and agaia that it should take place to-morrow (Saturday). At a meeting of this company, held Yesterd a y , a qi vidend of 11. per share was declared, an d the re- Port and accounts were unanimously adopted. It l'ass tated that large profits had been r ea li sed during e Ath War, and th a t th e ves sels will i n f u t ure be ern °led in the cargo trade with the Brazilian po. thorit rts y was given to the directors to t o or ganise the comp an y under the titl e of the Union. Steam Company, with the view of aVailing themselves of limited liability. Annexed i s an abstract of the report "The : profit and loss account shows a profit on the earn ings of the vessel s for the year commencing the let of September, 1855, and ending the 31st of August, t 8 56, of 15,6081., after maki ng due provision for wear, ea r , depreciatio n , and cont i ngenc ie s , out of which 12,0001. h as already been appropriated to the dividend n ! , 4 / per sha re , pai d in April last, leaving a balance of :' 6 ° B /. From this balanc e the directors recommend ,nvida divid en d o f 1 /. per share be declared, makini 4 a tend leav ing per share, o r 95 per cent. for the past ea,r, and a balanc e of 608/. to be carried forward !Ileo the credit of nest year's account. The cessation of fro war, and th e consequent discharge of the vessels turn te the transport servi ce , has caused the directors to A r!atheir attention to the best means of employing them 7tue more profitable manner than in the coal trade. 1 iliter due inquiry they have been led to conclude that a aidve_e_ of auxiliary screw vessels, chiefly adapted as these are to cargo conveyance, bets field Southampton d o t he Brazilian ports, would yield a fair remunera tri ~ anl tl-tey have, theref, re, determined t o m a ke a '': of the ling, the communication to ho monthly. The of Norman_ proceeded on the first monthly trip on the 23d 23,r1?!Eltpber, and the Union on the second trip on the be ;I October. The whole of the vessels continue to . 4F4 trod against all risks." Mr. Gifford asked if he understood rightly that the trial was then to proceed ? The youth Pratt, who pleaded guilty on Wednesday to an indictment, charging him with embezzling 981. 10s., the property of his employers, the directors of the Bank of Australia, was placed at the bar to receive sentence. It will be recollected that the prisoner had the money intrusted to him to procure stamps from Somerset-hoese, and that in the evening he was induced to enter a brothel in the City-road with the money in his possession, and was then robbed. His Lordship said that the prosecutors Lad pressed much in favour of the prisoner, and he was willi❑g to believe that public justice would be satisfied, although he had taken a considerable sum of money, the property of his employers, by the sentence he would pass on him. The company believed he had formed no preconcerted intention of taking the money, but that he yielded to circumstances at the time. He sentenced him to nice months' imprisonment, with hard labour. Mr. Justice Erie said he declined to proceed then With the trial. Mr. Gifford said ho hoped his lordship would express an opinion that the prisoner should be supplied with the nature of the evidence to be brought against him. Mr. Sergeant Ballantine said he had no objection to do so, or, if the learned counsel wished it, his bri e f. (Laughter.) he might read Mr. J us ti ce Er that satisfy you, Mr. Gifford? Mr. Giff or d — Fes, my lord. (Laughter.) The trial was accordingly filed for to-morrow, to be taken by th e L ord Chief Baron. POST LETTER STEALING. Timothy Jones, Joseph. Jones, and George ITall lict2l4°ll convicted of stealing post letters containing money The former, being the keeper of a receiving house, v ,733 sentenced to six years' penal servitude, the other two to four years' penal servitude each. FORGERY, &C. Thomas Clerk, a youth 15 years of age, but just high enough to look over the dock, was convicted of felo niously forging and utterin g an order for 101. 105., with intent to defrsud Robert Cooper Lee Bevan, and others. The prisoner has been previously convicted of a similar offence. After forging the document in question he gave it to another boy to get cashed. His Lordship sentenced the prisoner to four years' THE SUN; LONDON ; FRIDAY E'V'ENING OCTOBER si, iese. tiavvi aud Mibcary irtteiligence. HE "NONITTUR" AND TRE ZNGLISH PRESS, H.M.S. Hannibal, 91, screw two-decker, Cape. C. J. D. Hay, at Spitbead, is ordered to complete her arma ment (she left some of her guns at Malta), and send her pay books to Setnerset-house. She will most probably be "paid down" and sent on further service. The hired-sailing transports Typhoon, Capt. Morris, with commissariat stores ; Lady Valiant, Capt. Mont gomery, with- anchors, chains, and machinery ; and Cc.eur de Lion, Capt. Clendon, with sundry stores, all from Constantinople, arrived at Spithead yesterday morning. (From thc Timm) The lifoniteur of yesterday translates at consider able length articles from our contemporaries the Morning Post, the Standard, and the Morning Chronicle, of the Tith inst. It is not, perhaps, wonderful that our foreign contemporary should avail itself of these exceptions to the general indig nation with which its silly rebuke has been received by the free press of a great country to delude the people of France, where liberty of the press does not exist, as to the real feeling of the British peo ple on this question. The true cause for wonder is the fact that three British newspapers should be ready to excuse, applaud, or defend—whether from perversity, stupidity, or interest—so gross an attack on the most sacred rights of their own coun trymen. We have already laid before our French readers some extracts from English journals which indicate the true feeling of the country ; and, it the Moniteur should ever have the courage to favour its readers with both sides of the question, it may add the three excellent articles given below to the number o its translations from the English press. Among the Crimean troops who were yesterday dis charged at St. Mary's barracks, Chatham, cn account of wounds or injuries received during the Russia❑ war, was Colour-Serjeant Timothy Murphy, of the Ist battalion of the Rifle Brigade. He served in the Caffre wars of 1846 and 1847, and 1852 and 1853, for which he received a medal. He was also present at the action against the insurgent Boers, at Boem-Plaits, on the 29th Aug., 1849, where his conduct was brought under the notice of the Cornmauder.in•Chief. He was present at the action against the Basouta chief, Mo shesb, at Berea, on the 20th Dec., 1852. On the brc•aliing out of the Russian war he was sent with the Rifle Brigade to the Crimea, where he served during the whole of the campaign, having been presentat the bat tlesof Alma, Balaklava, and Inkerman, and also at the final assault on Sebastopol, for which he is decorated with the Crimean medal with four clasps. He has also been granted a silver medal for distinguished conduct in the field, and more especially for his remarkable gallantry at the tattle of Inkerman. On his extraordinary bravery being brought under the notice of the Emperor of the French, his Majesty immediately nominated him a Knight of the Legion of Honour, in addition to which he received the sum of 51. from the Emperor and Lord Raglan for distinguished gallantry in the field. His case has also been represented to her Majesty, who has ap pointed him to a situation at the Tower. In addition to his pension, he has been presented with a gratuity of 151., and it is understood that ho will also receive an annuity as one of the Knights of the Legion of Honour. The troops belonging to the Corps of Royal Engineers and the East India Company's Sappers and Miners at Chatham are undergoing a course of instruction in the use of the Lancaster rifle under Lieutenant G. R. Lenapriere. Yesterday the largest draught of troops ever dis charged at Chatham left St. Mary's Barracks, an order having arrived' fur the immediate discharge from the ser vice of those non-commissioned officers and men who had been recommended by the board of commissioners from Chelsea Hospital, which recently assembled at Chatham. The number who were yesterday discharged amounted to 237 non-commissioned officers and men. From the Scotsman.) • The-dozen lines in which the French Moniteur makes reference to "different organs of the English press" com prise, perhaps, as great an amount of indiscretion as was ever before crammed into so small a space. ft is an ill thing exceedingly ill done, and an exceedingly petty thing done by the Government of a mighty country. That the French Government should feel dissatisfied with comments which were never meant for its satisfac tion is natural enough ; but that it should show that its annoyance is greater than can be endured in silence, and that it should formally speak only to cause the world to understand that if it had the power or the opporfk nity it would resort to weapons against free discussion only used by the most tyrannical of governments and the meanest and basest of individuals, are facts which are only to be believed because they are seen, but which must remain unaccountable even on the lowest ground of prudence or expediency. Not to bark till you can bite is a piece of homely wisdom, even more applicable to great governments than to the humblest of men or in stitutions; but the French Government barks not only when it can do no More, but when the mere fact of being angry, which it thus exposes, is in itself a discredit, an encouragement to its enemies, and an offence to its friends. Look at it as you may, it is impossible to find any adequate cause or excuse for this act, either in prin ciple, policy, or even provocation. A foolish thing to do at any time, it is peculiarly foolish at this time, when "calumnies against the Fr enc h G overnment, " of which the Moniteur is made to complain, are rarer and milder than at almost any former period, or at the least are receiving no share of public attention ; 99 people in a 100 in this country will learn for the first time from the Moniteur that any appreciable portion of the British press is engaged in " calumniating" or indeed of speak ing either good or evil of the French Government ; and when they do learn the accusation they will be puzzled where to look for the offending matter. And, as that matter, since it is not popularly known, must be small in amount and obscure in its source, the inevitable infe rence is that great must be the weakness of that Govern. ment which is enraged and terrified by so small a hurt. The Moniteur is instructed to say that the calumnies in question "can only be answered by contempt." But this angry appeal by the French Government, through its formal organ, is the opposite of contempt—it is one of the most memorable acts of homage ever paid to the power of a free press. What is too contemptible for re ply ought to be too contemptible for notice-- still more, for angry and unwonted appeal. And that appeal is all the more remarkable and unwise that it is utterly hopeless. The British Government can no more stop or moderate the comments of the British press upon French affairs than can the French Government itself. " The English people"—to whose " common sense and good faith" the appeal is specially addressed —neither can nor will do anything in the matter ; those papers that really offend in the way complained of they punish already by neglect, and this case of " foreign intervention" will oiw i ty tend towards lessening that neglect and gaining for the o end ers not only a greater, but a more favourable a n. As for the press itself, those members of it who he eyes of the French Government have been sinning hereto fore will go on to sin with greater ze d than before, flat tered and encouraged by such signal proof that their blows are felt ; while those members who have hitherto been friendly, or respectful, or silent, will feel the safety and honour of the craft, the interests of freedom, and the sentiment of nationality calling on them to protest and resent. An instance of this latter fact has been furnished on the moment by the Times, whisk, having for a long time past been peculiarly abstinent from all such topics, replied to the Moniteur's appeal by a statement that while the Emperor and his system might be spoken of respectfully as the-apparent choice of the French people it is not necessary, nor desirable, to extend the same lenient views to some of his Ministers, who, it is broadly hinted, are not only faithless in politics, but dishonest in commerce or speculation, turning the power, or at least the knowledge, belonging to their official position to the purposes of stockjobbing for their own profit. It appears to us, however, that the Times does not do justice to the case of the British press, and does more than justice to, the unhappy step of the French Govern. ment, by making a parallel between this case and that of the Belgian press, which Count Walevvski brought before the Paris Conference. The complaint against the Brussels press was unwise enough, but it had this pallia tion—it was directed only against certain newspapers designed not for Belgian, but for French circulation, and , devoted less to the discussion of principles and measures than to the instigation of rebellion, and especially assas sination. No such grounds of complaint exist against the British press, which writes for the British people, ' and does not, even in the extreme cases, say more against the French Government than is or may be said any day against our own — conde mns the arbitrariness of the sys tem, and censures the policy or questions the motives of the men, but calls neither for barricades nor daggers. As if the mere complaint were not sufficiently . absurd and offensive, the French Gover nment backs it with a J . threat—the comments of the British press on French affairs may "destroy the confidence between the two ' Governments," and "disunite the two nations." The instant answer of every man will be that the moment OUT a lliance with France becomes incompatible with the entire preservation of our own liberties the alliance is of ' course at an end. All this is so exceedingly plain that me belief is due to the rumour that the do cument has ! come the sanction of the Emperor, but has been put forth by his Ministers, partly in resentment of their own hurts, partly in erroneous and exaggerated interpretation of the privately expressed impatience of their master. " It is the curse of kings to be attended " By slaves that take their humour for a warrant." (From the Manchester Examiner and Timm) We are getting slowly to the dregs of the loving cup which diplomacy filled for us at Paris. Russia took the first draught ; while it was sparkling and effervescent; Belgium got the next ; a deMser and less agreeable "pull" fell to the share of Naples; and, lastly, we are politely requested to drink the rest. Perhaps, in strict truth, the only fault we are authorised to find with this invitation is that it was not given sooner. When the plenipotentiaries remonstrated with Belgium on the " excessive freedom permitted to the Belgian press, and hinted at the possibility of severe measures if some steps were not taken to restrain it, everybody, felt that the principles which warranted this interference applied to England as much as to Belgium. The experiment of repression was first tried on a small scale in corpore viii ; but it would argue total blindness not to see that if it was just in one case it would be equally just in another precisely similar case, and that, after Lord Clarendon had acquiesced without a protest in the threat against Belgium, the retort was perfectly natural, " Physician heal thyself." Louis Napoleon ought to be the last man in the world to complain of the English press. It is true that, when he fires established his throne on the ruins of the Republic, our sense of justice and morality led us to exclaim against the measure by which he secured his elevation. It is also true that many foolish things were said in the heat of the hour which all parties have agreed to forget. We have outlived our fears of a Franch invasion, and for three or four years past the inhabitants of Brighton have slept comfortably in their beds. But, when the tide once turned, the Eaglish press atoned for its candour by plunging into the opposite extreme. Louis Napoleon all at once became a r great man. The arts of rhetoric were exhausted in order to find ont new ways of adminis tering flattery. Every journalist became the high priest of a new system of hero-worship, and every journal an altar of incense sending its fragrant fumes in the face of a new divinity. The atmosphere grew so redolent of intoxicating odours that honest men could hardly stand it, and were forced to hold their noses. Even now, when the illusion is partly dissipated, all that is noble and beneficial in the Imperial regime is appreciated bet ter in England than it is in any other country in the world. We are not blinded by prejudices. We do not insist upon applying our ideas of constitutional government to the political exigencies of France. Not only are we penetrated with the most sincere admiration of and friendship for the French people, but we have liberally acted out the maxim that we have no right to find fault with a mode of government with which they are contented. We re peat it, no potentate who had mounted to power by modes so very repugnant to the ideas which exist among free communities ever received more generous treatment than Louis Napoleon has received from the English press, and if the independence which constitutes its vitality did not spurn the idea of a recompense in any form we might retort with a heavy charge of forgetful. ness and ingratitude. The Aloniteur charges "various organs of the English press" with "circulating calumnies upon the French Government." The word which is here used to desig nate our offence is often used with some latitude. Men are disposed to regard everything as a calumny which touches their character. Probably, the day before Sir John Dean Paul closed his bank be would have branded as calumnious the charge of having embezzled the pro perty of his customers. In such cases the question is, are the charges true? for, if true, the persons concerned must accommodate them to their characters and con sciences as they best can. Public institutions and public men are the property of the public. Their eminence is enjoyed on this condition. They are trustees on behalf of the communities they represent ; the whole nation are their clients. In a certain sphere of action a Govern ment may become morally responsible beyond its own territory. Europe and the United States form one great commercial family. We all prosper or suffer together. , Some writers would be disposed to extend this responsi bility W actions purely political, but there can 4e no doubt that it covers the Whole ground which is occupied by commerce. Now, the French Gov ernmen t b ee not confined its activities within a purely political sphere. It has not been sausfleil with laying an embargo •;13 the press, and repressing the liberty of priva:c It has been as active in commerce a; in politics ; and, unless grave mistakes have gut abroad about the simplest matters of fact, or the establi -tied maxims of political economy are wrong, we are now suffering, in the stringency of the money market, for the policy of the French Government. In such circumstances have we no right to speak ? Are we to be prevented from criticising actions performed in the face of day, with all the pretences of philanthropy and sound statesmanship, but which we believe to be only less in jurious to ourselves than they are to France ? If it is true that members of the French Government have lent themselves to a system of excessive speculation, to a wholesale tampering with public credit, and have con descended to use this policy as an instrument la. building up their own fortunes, aro we to bedeuounced as calum• nistors because we trace these tortuous deeds to their source, and exaciee their true character by confronting them with the maxims of science and the dictates of public morality 2 The Emperor of the French is not nice about measures when his own interests are con cerned ; surely he will not refuse us permission to take care of ours. But why this sensitiveness to the comments of the English press ? We were not aware that they ever penetrated farther than the French Post-office. Uuless the French Government allows itself a liberty which it refuses to Frenchmen in general, it must he profoundly ignorant of any unfriendly sentiments which find their way into English newspapers. If truth is so disagreeable it would be easy to carry the system of repression a little further. Let the members of the Government place themselves on the common hoodwinked level, and our severest strictures will not harm their nerves. Perhaps we have sometimes sp ken more freely than We might have done if we had not known that the French Govern. ment knew too well how to protect itself, and that the censor's scissors supplied a ready antidote to the bane of free discussion .If we are to understand that/every French man who knows English will in future be permitted to read what we write, and that French journals will not be prevented from translating into their columns those pungent observations which may be thought likely to prove acceptable to their readers, English journalists may be induced to be more scrupulously guarded in their expressions. This would be something like "an appeal to the good sense and loyalty of the English people." Happily we are not menaced, as Belgium was menaced, with an armed intervention in case of non-compliance, We are simply "forewarned "- of the "dangers of a system which de stroys confidence between the two Governments." Why this avowed moderation ? We confess the principle on which it is adopted is not quite satisfactory. The Moni teur says :—" We know the respect which surrounds the liberty of the press in England, and therefore in pointing out its errors we confine ourselves to making an appeal," &c. The liberty of the press is surrounded with quite as much respect in Belgium as in this country, yet this did not prevent Count Walewski from intimating that un less some restrictions were placed upon it an armed in tervention would follow. We are in precisely the same predicament, if we are not the greater sinners of the two. Why, then, is not the same remedy threatened ? It may, of course, be said that England is able to defend herself. We have a well-appointed army and a powerful fleet, which are quite able to guard our printing offices against an invasion of imperial censors. We can see no other reason for the difference between Count Walewski's language to Belgium and the language just addressed to ourselves in the Moniteur, and it leaves an impression by no means comfortable. It is another illustration of the policy which we are assisting to carry out against Naples—a policy which makes up by astuteness for what it wants in honesty, which adopts one rule for the weak and another for the strong, and reduces a so-called system of moral influence to a mere calcalation of physics ability to resist attack. We do not pretend to be alarmists. We believe the Emperor of the French is desirous of remaining in alliance with this country, and if that alliance is re stricted to legitimate objects we have no wish to see it severed. At the same time, this manifesto in the Moniteur makes its appearance at an awkward mo ment. The previous acts of the alliance have placed us in the midst of complications which make it difficult to ascertain how we stand. Causes of jealousy are rife on all sides. A mischievous rivalry is going on at Constantinople. The question of the principa lities, involving the mode of government to be adopted in those provinces and the continuance of Austria's occu pation, is yet unsettled. The recent demand of the Porte for the recall of our ships from the Black, supported, as is alleged, by the influence of M. Thoivenel, may furnish a new occasion of difference. To crown all, there is the Protean intervention in the affairs of Italy, which has already assumed so many shapes, and is on the point of making us look so supremely ridiculous. Whither will these things lead ? Assuredly it behoves us to hold the reins of our foreign policy with firm hands, and, above all, to hold them in our own. As for the press, we know our province, and we mean to retain it, come what may. We have, doubtless, certain sins of our own to answer for, but they are not such as our impe rial censor has a right to condemn, and, with whatever other trophy he may adorn his marvellous career, be must not hope to intimidate or stifle the free voice of the English people. UTTERING FORGED 51. BANK OF ENGLAND NOTES. Ricltard Crump Barford, convicted of uttering forged Si. Bank of England notes, was also brought up for judgment. The prisoner, a labouring man, 47 years of age, dressed in a white frock, and having the appearance of a smith, uttered four forged Si. Bank of England notes, at separate times, at a beef and ham shop in Leadenhall-street. His practice was to go to the shop, purchase a small quantity of ham and beef, and give a forged 51. note in payment, receiving about 4/. 183. in change. On presenting the fifth note he was appre hended. Six years' penal servitude. THE CRYSTAL PAT,ACE COMPANY AND THE STOCK EXCHANGE. In consequence of the resolution of the committee of the Stock Exchange declining to recognise any further dealings in the shares of the Crystal Palace Company, the directors have caused the following letter to be for warded to the committee : " Crystal Palace, Oct. 29. " Sir,—The directors have had under their considera tion to-day the resolution of the committee of the Stock Exchange, passed at their meeting on Monday last, to the effect that—' In consequence of the extraordinary conduct put sued by the directors of the Crystal Palaee Company in denying the validity of transfers of shares which had been registered at the office of the company, the committee would not recognise any further dealing in the shares, and direct that the name of the company be struck out of the official list.' " I am directed by the board to say that the committee appear to have misapprehended their intention, which was only pending the inquiry into the extent and nature of the frauds in the transfer office, to give a general notice of the existence of an irregularity in regard to every transfer in which this was detected, but without drawing any inference or conclusion therefrom, as to the ultimate liability of the company in respect to the shares. " I am now, however, desired to state that our directors having had the whole subject under their anxious consi deration for some time, and having obtained thereon the opinio❑ of eminent counsel, have dete..nined that it is in cumbent on the Crystal Palace Company to recognise the transfers of all shares which have been duly entered in the register of shareholders, and upon which the usual certifi cate of registration of transfer has been issued. " Acting in accordance with the above, the shares thus on the register will be entitled to a dividend, and recog nised as shares in the company. " It is proposed to give legal effect to the adoption of these transactions by exercising to the requisite extent the power to raise additional capital vested in the company by the act of parliament of last session. " I am further desired to mention, for the information of the committee, that as the directors find that the exist ence of so large a number of shares—amounting to nearly 24,000—in the hands of a very numerous proprietary leads to great expense and intricacy, and also affords facilities for the commission of frauds of the nature of those lately practised, they ha s e determined to exercise the powers also given theta by the same act to consolidate the shares of the company into stock. " The directors, in conclusion, desire me to express their hope that this explanation will bo satisfactory to the com mittee, and that their resoluCon will not be confirmed. — I am, sir, your obedient servant, "Gm. GROVE, Secretary, " To the Secretary to the Committee of the Stock Exchange." MARKET NEWS. —(This Day.) CORN EXCHANGE. We have again to report the arrival of a very moderate supply of English wheat up to our market this week, coast- wise and by land carriage. To-day the show of samples was limited. Those of prime qualities sold at Monday's currency, but other kinds met a dull inquiry, at that de cline in value. The imports of foreign wheat are only 10,960 quarters, but the supply on offer was tolerably extensive. Importers were very firm, but the amount of business doing was by no means large, at Monday's quotations. Fine barley was scarce, and quito as dear as on Monday. Low qualities met a dull inquiry. The malt trade ruled steady, at late rates. We had a dull inquiry for oats, and damp parcels were rather cheaper. Beans, peas, and flour realised Monday's quotations, ARRIVALS THIS WERE. Wheat. Barley. Malt. I Oats. F. um . ( English .. 2,020 410 1,970 80 I 1,070 Irish , 5,700 i - Foreign 1 1 10,960 I 3,170 s 9,990 351 obrl sk. METROPOLITAN CATTLE MARKET. The show of beasts in to-day's market was very moderate, and most breeds came to hand in poor condition. On the whole, the beef trade ruled steady, at prices fully equal to those realised on Monday. Although the supply of sheep was limited, the mutton trade was in a sluggish state, at unaltered quotations. Prime calves were in fair request, at fully late rates; but inferior qualities were dull. In the value of pigs no change took place. Mulch cows were very dull, at from 141. to 191. each, in cluding their small calf. Per 81bs to sink the offals. s. d. s. d.I 0. d. a. d. Interior Beasts.... 2 Bto 3 llPrimeSouthdown 4 8 5 0 iecend quality.... 3 2 3 S lArge crse. calves 3 8 4 4 Prime large oxen 310 4 qrime small do 4 6 5 0 Prime Scots, dtc. 4 3 4 10/Large hogs Inferior Sheep ...3 4 3 61Small porkers Second quality ...3 8 4 O i Suckling calves 23 0 30 o Prime crse.-wlled.4 2 4 4(Quarter old pigs 21 0 28 0 TOTAL SUPPLY. FOREIGN SUPPLY. Beads •• •• •••• •• 925 i 8ea5t5................„ • 212 iheep Calves ...... .• ...• •• • • 212 Calves... •• ••.. •• • . Pigs ..•• • NEWGATE AND Each kind of meat sold slo , Per Blbs by LEADENTIALL. wly, as follows : the carcase. s. d. s. d. Beef, inferior 2 6 2 10 Do., middling 3 2 3 6 Do. prime large 3 8 4 0 Do., do. small 4 2 4 6 Pork, large 3 S 4 4 0. d. s. d. Mutton, Inferior 3 0 3 4 i Do., middling 3 6 4 0 j Do., prime 4 2 4 6 Veal 3 6 4 8 Perk, small 4 8 5 6 BOROUGH HOP. Although the duty is called 255,0001., and the show of samples is extensive, there is a much beAer feeling in the demand for most kinds of hops, as follows : Mid and East Kent pockets, 31 103 to 51 12s per cwt.; Weald of Kent, Si 3s to 4110 a ; Sussex, 3103 to Si 15s, COLONIAL. Common congou realised 9.;d, and good congou ls per lb. mixed leaf TEA.—At the public sales prices generally ruled firm The only green teas disposed of wero com mon ;(I to 10d per lb. The grey hyson, which sold low, viz., 9 demand for the finer qualities was not active. SUGAR—There has been a very limited demand for home consumption, and bat few transactions have been reported for exportation. Colonial descriptions maintained previous quotations, but foreign may be described as somewhat lower. Cuba Muscovado com to fine yellow 46s 6d ytello 48s; Havannah fine brown 46s Gd to 47's ; low to good ow, 47s 6d to 495. Bengal realised 37s per cwt. COFFEE.—A better demand has been exhibited for Plan- tation Ceylon, and a fair business has been done at fully previous prices. Fair qualities of Jamaica have been much inquired for, at firm rates. Native Ceylon has been steady at previous rates. RICE,—The market has been very quiet, with little or no alteration in prices to notice. Fine Carolina realised 28s to 29s per cwt. Rum.—No bu s i ness o f an y importance has been done ; holders, however, continue to demand full prices. SPICES.—A. very limited business has been done, and previous quotations have been barely sustained. SALTPETRE.—At th e pu bli c sa l es p r i ce s did not improve for o r Bengal, mer va 1 butues. Bombay refractionm eta ready sale brought at fully 28'; to lbs refr ac ti on , 32s 6d per cwt. COCHINEAL. ---There is n o c h ange t o notice in this article. Prices continu e s t ea d y w i th a very limited d eman d. 33 s f, INDIGO.—The public sales closed yesterday. There has been a good demand for the most of the consuming quali ties, and Knrpahs advanced 3d to 6d per lb on low quali ties, and 6d to 9d on the finer descriptions. The quantity offered has been 17,G33 chests, of which 6 451 have been withdrawn, 3,885 bought in, and 7,294 sold. TALLOW.—The market has ruled firm P.Y.C. on the spot is quoted 57s 6..1, and sp r i ng . s6a 9d to .579 per cwt. CRYSTAI I PALACE. —One Shilling Da y.—Thursday. —Admissions on payment, 1,574 ; ditto by season tickets, 435. Total visitors, 2,0Q9. APPROACHING BREVET.—A brevet for services in the Crimea will shortly be promulgated. It is to be hoped that advantage will be taken of this opp °dimity to in- elude officers vho have hitherto been g ussed over, or very inadequately rewarded. We could r aention nume rous cases of peculiar hardship, and, as an example, call attention to that of Major Sargent, late of the 95th Regiment, who served through the whole of the great siege, from the first landing, and wa6 present in all the actions, receiving for his services oni'y the rank of major, so late as the commencement of the pre sent year. Major Sargent brought his regiment out of action at Inkerman, and was twice wounded. By taking the substantive rank he is necessarily placed on half-pay, and thus the country is deprived of his s ervices. The gallant officer, having com , inanded the re giment at Inkerrnan, could, for that service claim th, I brevet step of major, and, was entitled to be made a I. Tevet lieutenant-colonel at the close of the siege. Certain we are that the facts have rmly to be laid before the Commander-in-Chief to receive the full con sider. %tion of his Royal lii,ghnefo.—C altiurn's United ,9,ervic.c AlCtycGine. (Front the Manchester Guardian.) If thunder in a clear sky was regarded by the ancients as an omen, we should like to know what is to be thought of the grave accusation made by the official organ of the French Government against a portion of the English press. Certainly, there is nothing within the political horizon, as we scan it, to acc )unt for this extraordinary burst of celestial wrath. The accusation runs that for some time past certain of our newspapers have indulged in calumnies against the French Government, which, we are told almost in a tone of threat, are calculated to dis unite two nations whose alliance is the best guarantee for the peace of the world. Not to dispute with this writer as to what may properly be called calumnies, we can honestly say that we are at a loss to sur mise what manifestations of hostility or ill-will are alluded to .According to our observation ofcontemporary journalism, there have been several occasions since the conclusion of the war on which the complaint might have been made with more plausibility than at the pre sent moment. It is true that the monetary crisis in France has been discussed in this country with an inte rest which its bearing on our own prosperity involves, and with the freedom which we employ in regard to questions of our own domestic administration. It is equally true that the embarrassment and discontent in which artificial causes have mainly contributed to plunge the working people of Paris have been occasionally re ferred to on the indisputable evidence afforded by the extraordinary measures of precaution and repression which the authorities have been seen to take. But i t appears to us, speaking of our contemporaries generally, that the manner in which these subjects have been treated is so far from betraying malignant satisfaction that it has been marked by friendly respect not only for the French nation, but for the Government of Louis Napoleon. The singular want of judgment evinced in the publi cation of this imperial remonstrance is not alleviated by any propriety or grace in the language in which it is couched. Nothing can be more groundlessly querulous than the statement that the "calumnies" which we are accused of spreading " are the more odious as they are concealed under an anonymous mask, and can only be answered by contempt." The sufficient answer to this absurdity is to ask what more the French Government could do for its own vindication if it were informed in large letters that Mr. So-and-So wrote this lead ing article or that letter ? The truth is that all laical comment and dissertation—everything that does not involve the allegation of unknown and unauthenti cated facts—is just as much entitled to respect when published anonymously as when bearing all the names and surnames of its author. As for such writing being only answerable by contempt, it is manifestly not less subject to be met by proof and argument because it is given to the world without a personal name. Both in law and in controversy an aggrieved person has exactly the same means of redress in dealing with a journal as an institution, and with its proprietors and printers as responsible individuals, as when he can fasten on the actual writer. There is no commoner object of virtuous indignation than anonymous writing ; but by observation it will be found that this is, in 99 cases out of 100, the resource of people who seek a pretext for evading the refutation of reproaches under which they smart. Equally improper is the language of the Moniteur, in warning us that the offence ascribed to the journals is this country may tend to destroy confidence between the Cabinets of London and Paris. The French Government must be perfectly well aware that that of England has not the slightest power of dictating to, or controlling, the press, and cannot therefore be made responsible for any course which it may be seen to pursue. Altogether, this article is marked by so little of justice, dignity, or truth fulness that we gladly fall in with the suggestion of more than one of our contemporaries that it must have found its way to light without the knowledge of the remarkable man who adds often-proved sagacity to an intimate ac quaintance with the conduct and sentiments of the E❑g. lish people. That its publication should have created intense and injurious excitement in Paris, where the English journals are only allowed to penetrate, as it were, tentatively and intermittently, we were bound to expect. The natural inference from so solemn an accu sation would be that a great part, if not the whole, of the British press was in a flame of animosity against the Imperial Government. Nothing can be further from the truth, but this danger is an example of the miserable impolicy of that system of repression to which the French Government appears to be increasingly devoted. Such a phenomenon arises most inappropriately in connexion with remonstrances against our habit of publicity, and whoever may imagine that its effect will be to cause either law or public opinion to be exerted against the perfectly unfettered action of the English press must assuredly bo mistaken. THE BIRKENHEAD DOCKS,—At the usual meeting of the Liverpool town-council, held yesterday, the Birken head Dock Committee recommended that the sum of 1,0001. be given to Mr. J. B. Hartley, son of Mr. Jesse Hartley, dock-engineer of Liverpool, in consideration of his services in connexion with the Birkenhead Docks since they have passed into the hands of the corpora tion ; and that Mr. J. B. Hartley be appointed perma. neat engineer of the Birkenhead Docks, at a salary of 7501. a-year. Mr. Alderman S. Holm., in moving the confirmation of the proceedings, stated that Mr. Thom son, contractor, had commenced the excavation of the great float (Birkenhead), and that he expected to have a large body of men at work in a few days, as soon as his machinery - was completed. The works would then be prosecuted with vigour. Mr. Robertson Gladstone seconded the proposition, which was adopted non. Ws. TM CAP—TP.7IO:v 4011.1 . 12 , Zotllol (Front f 1 Freemen.) When we were tittle boys our preceptors often set no asking this question. It was nut w orth while perhaps impossible—to name the delinquent, or it suspected, it might be undesirable to use the birch ; still our Moniteur wished us to he aware that the delft had come to his knowledge, are: theueht that the " cap," if invisible to others, would keep the memory of the offender warm and wary. We have known what, it was to go about with the invisible cap on our head, afraid lest M. lc Mo niteur should let us know that it was not invisible to him ; afraid lest our fear should betray itself in a look or a blush. Io lighter cases we have known the appeal made to the " feather on the nose " of the culprit, and seen the laugh excited by the involuntary act of confer _ sloe. The MOWiteur on the other side the water seems to have been trying the cap or feather trick on us de linquents on this side the British Channel. It has vent us over a lecture in the old, as we had hoped, forgotten style. "Now journalists —you there in the great city of shopkeep‘re, or you in the manufacturing city of Lancashire—l know all about it ; I have seen your celiceel anonymous calumnies against the French Go vernment ; I treat them with utter contempt ; the com mon sense and good faith of Englishmen prevent their doing any mischief, though you want to break up the alliance between the two nations. Let those whom the cap fits wear it." Forthwith 41. le Moniteur casts his solemn glance around to see whom be has frightened, or who unconsciously, feels for the feather. But, alas, for our worthy Moniteur, first a titter runs round the the whole saucy circle, and sly looks are exchanged, till at length the whole break out into a hearty laugh. "Haven't you got a cap for all of us ?" shouts out at last some scapegrace. We should all like to be fitted." It's all over now with poor Mr. Monitor; he has nothing for it but to pocket his dignity and stalk back to his principal with his wings clipped, only to be asked, " Why did you try it on in that fashion ? Those rude English won t stand it like Leopold and his Belgians." To be serious, it really must have done Count Walew ski's heart good, if it can be bettered by rebuke, to see how his Moniteur's advice was received in England. Never was professed contempt met by more real con tempt. That is the sting of it. He could not speak in his Government organ without showing that he winced inwardly, while professing unconcern at the "calumnies" of the English press ; but the Euglish press shows still more plainly that it cares not one farthing what he and his may think of its doings. The press shares indeed the common feeling of the country ; it approves, and would &aerial), the alliance with Frenchmen ; but the alliance with the heroes of the 2d of December is no wish, no object, either of the English people or of the English press. All that the French nation bas done we show respect to ; we have censured but little their rati fication of the military absolutism established by perjury and bloodshed in 1852 ; we felt that they were the beat judges whether or not it was for their interest to yield themselves, bound hand and foot, to the man who had purchased their army with their own money, and who could even cannonade the Boulevards to 'show that he would do anything to be the autocrat of France. • We also felt that they had good reason not to forget Water loo, and that they might think it 'wor - h their while to place a Napoleon on the throne, to redeem France front the ignominy of subjection to a family imposed on her ny conquest. There is a feeling in every English breast which would doubtless embrace the first opportunity of restoring a royal family exiled by foreign troops, and of banishing the one whom they had seated on our throne. We can readily, therefore, understand what Frenchmen did in 1852. They did but say, "Submit we must to the master of half a million of bayonets ; and submit we aill, for a time at least, even to a subverter by treachery and violence of the constitution he has sworn to observe ; we submit, if but to show that we have shaken off the yoke of the Holy Alliance." Aware of all this, the press here has carefully avoided annoying Frenchmen, while it has not shrunk from moderate criticism on their Government. Evidently Count Walewski is elated with having suc cessfully brow-beaten Belgium and warned Sardinia. Neither country could afford to displease its great mili tary neighbour ; and the representative of England at the Paris Conferencas by no means repudiated so en tirely as he ought to have done the threats of Walewski against the Belgian press. The Count, therefore, has ostentatiously paraded his feats against the Belgian journals in the document in wLich he explained why France and England withdrew their representatives frem the Court of Naples. We wonder who authorised tip Count to include us as one of the parties cordial in forc ing on the Belgian'Government more rigorous dealing with the press ? If Lord Palmerston knew what • would appear in the Moniteur on Monday week (see last week's Freeman) he has betrayed England ; but, if not, the French Government has insulted, us, or, at least, been guilty of sharp practice. Let not Count Walewski ima gine, however, that he can in the least influence e ith er the press of this country or the Government in relation to it. No one ought to know better than Louis Napo leon that the most powerful minister here would not - - dare to suggest restrictive laws on the press. He would fare worse than for opening letters at the Post-office. Hence, perhaps, the modest style of " confining him self to an appeal to the common-sense and good faith o f the English people." Confine himself ! Yes, forsooth, and well he may ; for any Government to which he had ventured to appeal would, in self-defence, have been compelled to read him such a homily as diplomacy sel dom sees. The pretence for noticing in this vague style —so vague that whether tales about Cayenne, or about the Empress, about Spain or are meant, no one knows—the pretence is that " the alliance" will be, en dangered by destroying confidence between the two Go vernments. But what in the world has Government to do with the matter ? The pretex is simply silly. No English writer, from the penny-a-liner to the thunderer in the Times, ever thinks of asking the Government's leave as to what he writes. The public, not the censor, is the only government which controls our press. What public opinion will deem libellous, a jury will punish criminally or with damages ; and what the public dis believes, or considers foolish or imprudent, it will soon soon cease to read. Count Walewski may try, if he likes, to raise up another Mackintosh to defend another Peltier; our courts are open to him. Or, if he thinks it will serve "the alliance," he may fight the battle out in the pages of the Daily News, or of any English journal. They will readily reprint his defence against the "calum nies"—only, he must be prepared to hear the reasons for believing them not to be calumnies. We may suggest to Count Walewski, however, that it is of questionable prudence to attack our Argus-eyed press. It has the means, if it choose to use them, of performing for the English public the function of a Hebrew prophet. Eng lish gold could tell us the words (fey: enough perhaps) that even a taciturn a ut o c ra t u tt ers i n his bed chamber, or at least in his council-chamber. absCloulurtbeeflrief freedom th mo a the FEorgelnischh press. r . le Ifejoic not, 'we in the do. tyrants o a f r e e x i d le i e a . cussedcan All , a.lohneerethoenlmy j a gd re e i t e h g e e s e p f ee E ch e e r s e p e e n e d Alliance hinder it. The photograpbs of Italian dun geons and French penal settlements may we ll b e annoying to vindictive cruelty ; the exposure of despotic cunning and perfidy, and especi a ll y o f sham liberality, is sufficiently galling ; but it must b e sub mitted to. England is the despots' picture gallery, and our press is the artist. Despots are extinct animals here, though having too many habitats elsewhere. In their own countries they can only be painted like the sketchings of the Egyptians, according to a stereotyped rule ; here we exhibit them as they are, and all the foreigners who come over look at them as Aneas did at the Carthaginian paintings —only instead of bursting into tears, they burst into imprecations ; and surely there ought to be one country in Europe where tyrants may be openly cursed. As to the press, our conviction is that its error has been quite in the opposite direction to that hinted by Louis Napoleon. The danger has been that the greatest successful villany since 1849 should be forgotten in its success. Morality half been almost sacrificed to political prudence. It is this, per' baps, which has emboldened the tools of despots to calumniate truth by calling it calumny. Perhaps, how ever, the motto about libels is applicable here—that the greater the truth the greater the calumny. CONVICTION OF EIBNRY HA.RRISON, THE LEEDS WIZARD. We have already reported the particulars of the charge preferred by Eliza Croft against Henry Harrison, the wi zar d of the South-market, Leeds. At the Leeds Court-house, yesterday, before Darnton Lupton, Esq., and a full bench of magistrates, the case was again in vestigated. The court was densely crowded in every part, and the greatest excitement prevailed - in the neigh bourhood of the police-effice. After Harrison had been placed in the dock Mr. Ferns, the attorney for the defence' replied on the whole case at great length. He exposed the inaccuracies and inconsist enc i es o f th e g irl's statement, and contended that her evidence was unworthy of cred ence . they returned into court Mr nearly an hour. When t the n the written decision o f bench . O n The magistrates deliberated on their judgment for money fr om the prosecutrir, Lupton real theund preteece n o n f her d estiny, by unlawful means the bench found the prisoner guilty, and ordered • • the terms of the Vagrant Act, to be imprisoned hiromin °obftaiinafii'ngencing for three months. (The reading of the clause " as a rogue and vagabond" was cordially approved by the crowd.) With regard to the graver accusation—that of having violated the person of Eliza Croft--the prisoner was also found guilty, and sentenced to be imprisoned in the r b or ough gaol for six months, such sent snce to com mence at the expiration of the forme r t erm of punish ment. thesems of imp r i sonment had ex pired find sureties follow, for his good Harrisonsno both b e haviour during the six mo n th s then to or in default, accept the alternativ e o f remaining This judgment was r ece i ve d with generalia prison. d hearty H W a n was ordered satisfaction by the crowd e d court. an As the prisoner was alsout to be removed from the dock, an elderly female stepped forward and said that she had also a complaint to make against Harrison. When the confusion arising from this little incident had some what subsided, the woman stated that her name was Jane Harrison, and that she was the wedded wife of the prisoner, and that she now charged him with having in termarried with another woman, viz., Mrs. Brown, who has acted in the capacity of the prisoner's housekeeper. When the charge had been stated- the crowd testified their pleasure in a somewhat noisy manner, and ap plauded the woman several times during her subsequent statements. On this new charge Mr. J. M. Barret applied for a remand. _ _ The magistrate granted the application, and the pri soner. stands remanded on this serious charge until S&. turday, Nov. S. DEPARTURE OF THE MERRIMAC. SOUTHAMPTON, OCT. 30. The United States' steam frigate Merrimac sailed to day for Brest, proceeding thence to Lisbon, Cadiz, and the West Indies. On the eve of the departure of this noble ship of war Captain Prendergast and those of the officers who were not present at the late banquet given by Mr. Andrews, the Mayor, were entertained at dinner by his worship at his country seat, near Wi nc h ester. . They were conveyed thither two carriages and pairs, and during the afternoon visited the cathedral, the col; lege, the hospital of St Cross , and oth er o bj ects of inte rest. The Mayor also took his visitors to Hursley, distant from Winchester about four miles, and the antiquities connected with the village greatly delighted and inte rested the American gentlemen. On their return to Winchester they were most generously entertained by his worship, and during the evening Captain Prendergast acknowledged in most grateful language the kindness he had received at all hands during his short sojourn in England, and regretted that his anxiety to visit the lions of the island should have been the means of de priving him of his share in the generosity a n d at t ent i on which had been so specially paid by the people of South ampton to the gentlemen connected with his ship, and more particularly by his worship the mayor. The officers of the Merrimac leave behind them the best recollections of their kind and attentive courtesy to all classes of the inhabitants, by whom they have been most hospitably received. Yesterday afternoon the South-Western Company's steamer Despatch conveyed a party of gentlemen, consisting of dock directors, and others officially connected with the port, to view the Merrimac previous to her departure. They were most politely received, and every attention was shown them by the officers in charge of the vessel, who exhibited and explained the peculiarities in the construction of this fine ship, compared with others of less recent date. Many regrets were expressed that the time had arrived for them to quit Southampton Waters, and their hope was that they might again shortly visit this coast so as to enable them to testify their appreciation of the many attentions and hospitalities they had received from all persons. MURDER IN SHREWSBURY. SHREWSBURY, THURSDAY. A murder, arising from the use of a knife, was com mitted here last night by a young man named John Hollis, who cohabited with a woman named Annie Usher, better known as "Annie Laurie." Hollis has been in the habit of ill-using Annie, and on more than one occasion has been brought before the magistrates and punished. Last night, about half-past ten o'clock, he went into the Market-square,..where he saw Usher dancing with a young man named Clewett. He approached her and abused her for her conduct. He had a knife in his hand, and attempted to strike her, but he was pre vented. The girl then struck Hollis three times, and a man who, was near felled him to the ground. The girl then ran away across the Market•square, near the Plough Inn, where she met a man named Benjamin Bromley, with whom she stopped to converse. Pre sently one or two others joined them, and in the course of a few minutes Hollis joined them, and attempted to strike the girl, but failing to do so he kicked her, whereupon she struck him and ran away. Pritchard, one of the party, now went up to Hollis, and, hold ing up his fi s t, c h a l lenged him to fight • ' but Bromley stepped forwa r d an d cried out, " No ; I 'have only one arm like him, and I will fight him." He thereupon shook his fist in Hollis's face. The latter observing that two against one was not fair, struck Bromley a blow in the chest. Bromley reeled and fell into the gutter, while Hollis immediately ran off. After Hollis bad given the blow it was noticed that he had a knife in his hand. Bromley, who had ut tered no word of exclamation of any sort, was picked up, and died immediately. He was taken to the in firmary, when it was discovered he had received a deep wound, about three-quarters of an inch in length, near the region of the heart. Information was at once conveyed to the police, who in about half an hour succeeded in capturing Hollis. The prisoner Hollis was brought up to-day before the magistrates. When charged with the murder of the deceased man, Bromley, he made no reply, nor was any one present to defend him. He maintained a calm composure during the examination of the wit nesses, but he nevertheless seemed to feel acutely the position in which he was placed. He was remanded until next Tuesday, in order that the evidence against hi m may be completed. An inquest will be held on the deceased, Benjamin Bromley, to-morrow. He was about 30 years of age, and obtained a livelihood by fishing and working as a labourer. • LLOYD'S SHIPPING, --(This Day.) LONDON, Oct. 31 .—Windthis day at noon, W. ; light breeze and dull cloudy weather, with d r i zz li n g ra i n PLYMOUTH, Oct. 30.—Wi n d S.S.E.—Arrived-:-Prin cess Royal, from Quebec. DARTMOUTH, Oct. 30.—The Lota, fro-xt London ' for Santander, which went on shore at Torcross, on the 24th inst., has been got off last night with considerable damage, and towed in here to-day. SALCOMBE, Oct. 3J.—Wind S.E.—Sailed—Briton's Pride, for Newfoundland. CARDIFF, Oot. 20.—Wind S.S.E.—Sailed—Glanoe, for Rio Grande. SWANSEA, Oct. 30.—Wind W.—Sailed—Eliza, for Co quimbo. KILRUSH, Oct. 29.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Carl, from Quebec. .oct. 30.—Wind S. S .W. — Sailed — Aunt Mary, Oct. 27.—The Dunrobin Castle, from Hart lepool, arrived hero to-day, with loss of ma i nmas t an d leaky, having str uck several times on the chann e l i n coming in. for S m J ll l :a x t E m i Jamaica Sc (PER ELECTRIC T E LEGRAPH.) SOUTHAMPTON, Frid a y M orn i ng . Arrived—Don , Royal Eag le, Tib er , Florida, Hero, and s t ea mer, Cardiff; Thomas, % Emily, and Margaret, and John TL hivo amn as Dn , Sailed—Petrel , for Dartmouth; Gratitude, Hu ll; Eagle , s t ea mer, Sunderland . LIVERPOOL, F r id a y M orn i ng. Powell, land ; Mary, Swansea. f ro m Newport ; Sovereign e y t l f i r l o a m del S p t h ' i D a o ; m A in r g o o nningo, New Y or k ; ; Georgina, Bahl _ Wind N.N.Ar Balti more; r; i Hezekiah Willia ms, St. John's, New Brunswick ; Shark , Pr i nce Edward's Island ; Alex a nder, screw steamer, Alex .wey—omCionrgoi: andria ; Elizab eth, Toulon ; Cintra, screw steame r , Lis bon • Ernst, D antsic ; Derwent, Antigua ; Dol p hi n , New foundland; Arn o, screw steamer, Na ples; Alarm, Gib raltar.vd. Sailed—Sultana, for the Cape of Go o d H ope. QUEENSTOWN, Oct. 29. Wind S. Arrived—Exact and Idun, from Gala,tz ; Comet, Lubeck; Ariadno, Sidonia ; Vesta, Amelia, A nge li ca, J ul i a Au gusta, Alice Gill, and Warrior Queen, Taganrog ; Augusta, Mary and Kate, and Eliza Hunter, Alexandria; Albina, Denia ; Woodside, Cadiz ; Breeze, Constantinople ; Jame, Leghorn. DUBLIN, Oct. 30. Wind S. Arrived—Enig Kate, from Memel ; Dion, Cadiz. decree just issued for promoting the throug h y aY and populous provinces of the Commercial advises from Naples . give the following sv on eraall o itwh f the kingdom, will unite the Tuscan seas, as work of evident utility, Apulia, which, tra ctTevrooeyannrrnsstrisitnhlnraeguetnnci toetthianoal continental 000tsfr a t itteai A gentleman a few nigh , ts . ago was nearly successfully important advantges. i n the Gray s-inn-road, in the vicinity of St. Andrew's Church -yard. The state of darkness in a “ n g d a p ro ro tt m ed isi7 which this place is during the night is a disgrace to the parish. A plumber's labourer, named. Law, was yesterday committed for trial by Mr. Come, for stealing 14 lbs. of lead, the property of Mr. Cubitt, the builder, of Grayro• iuu-road, 4 ri