The Sun. — London, England, 1856-05-28 00:00:00

KISH a cy the vlusurus 3r of her ranston- Queen, xacted a and the rst lively rved ex' general sounding Iler r of the and, col Madame t the en. ention of :hamber ment set ac^.o(rl• rredericl A Lril al house- took the Madame the stairs' ch struck )f Eastern , ct of the line, The an amber abric, the :h crossed .td marble• ma velvet the regal State is Majesty Let our ersonages , estendieg is another übling the ehind the flowers of r on either with deli f one vast xl and re' realise the to the as . vhich bad rty, were tan dreg', wore th e the Prince e. placed out oom open' 'clock the roman& to the Queen taking the er gracious .efreshn 3 en t ised dais in vas served . Leh otber- 1.- other blue rds, was ex', entirely °' lected uty by o w In the mowing up nd piashmg If refreshing ndant chart' shed a oar' shone plat e rkling wit' :elain, mad e , h contained s. ressed to g• i her visit to esty s hort'," as upon bet' Di oyMent 0f ing. rairivE 2 s n arrived morning, °J3 n. Mortimer ueen), Co l ' and pr . noon, by tilt' n-bridge ter Ty to Prin . ° and his sui te ,onveyed the the Qui 3e9l or illustrboJ ended by t 1 ;. 6 a:nen of 3 the Ducbel Duchess at their re' RUSSIA' tne/, sap , • If ussia can oD Her iMaie s o ' l o icial z °opt' quit her b & I ' ll thorities, ilmpress D n,o ae which 1 , 1 ; all niedic'„" ° iat she is c' 9 "; countenO d t, g. Dr. A1 5° ,3 tat illness, onsequenc e .o y the Ittotr, b. on. the- 0 0 ` his skill, ion, at win. l a ce, will decided tPt,l go—either th e ,lenbad, in T g ' iri f the OVA' r 11. arriV e o Frote to of es.ci te ; eiguers to the m° his MajestY, o and at 0 0 ", / 1, proceedi ° ; the Cr,, e i, s to th© 9 6 , was to st°r; nnumerabtliite )ies with, tat Is, burneci ut 3 these lig',„ ( l assed to . s ' o t p-rb viad u l 9 I the iris' )ereur , he s over° l ( l he appe 3re y ,nied onif o f Minister 4 , f the latt`ti; -camp O f t h e ge, with inperor, tUr rfect hEw", r if exceedob , d es air 11 rounded- o f etabilitie%v the eniPi n. ve edo Lic ; of AnS t ' . a l3 ie Pri lss " i e 0 p to Pri ij voy front t ho after t ror,Lieuten it 3 2nd then t he rest after 3 ipanied j, Catile a r i jl y 3CI YeSt I the fun rd, o ,t chur eP. n bread Oa fie ErrV er v isit e then vents of l a y e venivF.? o :pected Li 3ssefrode ,r 0 Stet"P < f 4 .0 t) P -c ; 4), 4 h Azi.F 7 , 1 P 11P SUX OFFICE, Six o'Clock. EPSOM RACES —(This Day.) (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) THE DERBY. liilington Yellow Jack Cannobie Twenty-four ran. TOWN PLATE. Weathercock 'Vulcan Eight ran. OiKS. Ralipyge is scratched. oic E ",d1 11. 7 E T AND C INMERCIAL I:ITELL/ f.7.ENCE. CITY, Two O'CLOCK. The Liverpool Cotton -Market yesterday closed l 'eavily, and prices of all kinds lean to the buyer. I le sales were estimated at 3,000 bales ; 800 Surat, 4±d. to sd. The Railway Share Market C losed steadily, and prices improved. The Hogue, which arrived from New South ... Wales y es t er d a y, is now ascertained to bring 000 sovereigns, coined in the Sydney Min t, and ,5 , ( ) 00 ounces of 'gold. A large amount is also u rought by private hand. The rates charged for the negotiation of three months' bilis on the principal cities of the Conti- sent yesterday afternoon ruled firm. As the coarse of exchange at New York on London will Y i eld a profit on shipments of the precious ketals to England, further supplies from that c lnarter may be expected, and as the arri :als of gold from Australia ar e lar g e, and likely to continue so, a speedy and material aug kentation in the stock of bullion held by the Bank °I England may be expected.. These circumstances, together with the limited demand now current for discount accommodation, and the abundant supply capital, have given rise to the impression, that a r eduction in the course of a week or two will be made in the minimum terms now c urrent in Threadneedle-street. Letters from Paris mention that the great na 'Lionel undertaking to drain the agricultural lands () ,,,E the country is under the consideration of the t ' ol incil of State, and likely to rezeive their Banc ,l°ll. To this project the Government are to lend l )0 million francs, and that they are to emp ower t he Company to drain such lands as are necessary. , ~, 'he subscribers to the loan are to be reimbursed ' 4 20 years, at the average of annuities, with the ° l: 4 km of selling out in 3,4, 6, and 8 years, and kith the interest at the rates of 3 and 4 per cent. IL is calculated that the expense of draining one h ectare will be about 230 f. ; that each hect ar e thus 'trained will produce more tlan six hectolitres of I theat ; and that when all the lands in France are t irained, it will add from four to five million hec tolitres of wheat. No public sales of colonial produce have been ad .vertised for to-day or to-morrow, and business in , departments, in consequence of the Epsom ''aceS, is quiet. -Notice has been given that the Scrip Certifi t'tes for the deposit on the loan for 5,000,0001. /l ere obtainable this morning a t 11 o'clock. The English Stock Market is buoyant, but in , co nsequence of the absence of so many of the sealers there is not much animation. Consols ° Pehed at 941 for naoney, but have since been 95 1, and the account price is 95 to 951, being 1 Per cent, higher than yesterday. The New Scrip 43 2 1 A. The New Three per Cents. have been 1 The Reduced Annuities 93 i I, and the New 21 per Cents. 78. The March Exchequer sills have been dealt in at 4s. premium, and the same ditto, 3s. discount to par. India Bonds under I,OOGi. are 2s. discount., in the Foreign Market the dealings have b een very limited, but the prices are firth. Turkish 6 per Cents. are dull at 99, A Per Cents. Guaranteed 1024. Mexican Bonds h ave been dealt in at 23 1. P eruvian Deferred P 54 Russian 5 per Cents. at; 1061, and Spanish Threes 464. Dutch 2i per Malts. are steady at eti, and the 4 per Cents. at 94,. Th e following are the nominal prices of Foreign Stocks :—Grenada Deferred :Bonds, 7i 2 ; Mexi- Ze, 23i 4 ; Peruvian, 77 79 ;, Ditto 3 per Ce nts., 6 ; Portuguese 4 per CentFi.., 50 2 ; Russian 5 per Cents., 105 7 ; Ditto 41 per Cents., 95 7 ; 'Panish 3 per Cents., 46 ; Ditto Deferred, 25i 1 ; Ditto Certificates, ; Da to Passive, —. Railway Shares are at full p rites, and owing to he preparations for the settl e ment the market is rath er active. Some of the sl ntres, such as North- Eastern, Berwick, and Midl arid, and South-West ern, are fully 15s. to 11. beittfer. The foreign are at about previous values. the other descriptions of shares are quiet. t RITISH FUNDS THIS DAI r..—CLOSING PRICES. ( Prom, the Offwvi ( %.isi. nroes- done. Sank Stock . 217 t'er Rel•e.ad .... 9:34 ?; Per CoSOII G n 53 43 51- Ni ."z 3 par cent. Annuities 94t 2A nor Cent. Annuities ... . °IV; Annuities, eNpire sth Jan. 1 560... 3 3-15 bitto 30 Years, expire sth April., 1885... 17i Indi a Bonds, ,ZlOOO .. c ditto ' under kl.tloo ?r , r Account 'onsol Scrip 1 .'...4.,eciu0r B4ll®, 20. .; - todo X5OO ;!Ltall .. 2 d 9 5 24 4 p March. June. .. 4p 3dpar 3dpar 3dpar PRICES OF FOREIGN I EIINDS THIS D.AY. Grenada New Active, 21 per Celli;. Ditto Deferred kexican 3 per Cent Ditto Account - 23! i I '' 'avian Bonds 4! per Cent ... . .... Ditto 3 per Cent Prussian Bonds, 16'22, 1:, St., 5 pc r Cent IOGI 7 Ditto 4i per Cent. ftr..,, F l: ;,,,,is, 3 per Cent ... ..... Ditto Account „..3itto Yew Deferred, 3 per Cen t.. .ku r i t i,i, B on ds, t; per cent . 99 1 Ditto Guarabteed, 4 per Cent , veuezuela Bonds, 4 per Cent ... .... 29 Dividendl on the above *sty cl'le in London. li elg'ian, 2A per Cent., ex. 25 fiat ms — ,Ditto CI per Cent.. ex. 25 fran a. 3 Dutch Exchange, 2 i , i per Cent., 1:: Guilders 641 Ditto 4 per Cent. Certificates . THREE O'CLOCK. Consols for Money 95 Ditto Account (June 4) . 'BETTER LATE THAN NEVER .—The Burnley Improve n,bnt Commissioners have at last come to their senses. -their notorious regulation of November last, (on which ?he Sun commented at the tin 2e)re q uiring their servants 'n vacate their situations befo re making an application for a n increase of salary, was rescinded on Thursday 1 ”t, having been found to Cl )erate precisely as we said i t Would, viz.—to deprive ti se compa n y of their best s ervants. It is satisfactory tc. add the proposer of .the l 'egulation moved its being rescinded, and the motion was carried nern. eon. GENERAL WILLIAMS AT Sl'. PETERSBURG.—A letter l'ona St. Petersburg of the 1 7th, in the NoYd of Brus sels, says :—" The festivities of this week were closed 'Y a ball given by the Pt iricess Youssoupoff. The bperor was prevented by slight indisposition from being present. General Wilhams was one of the lions of the night. A valiant and brave Russian soldier like the English General would no doubt have been well received in England, but it: is permitted to question whether the principal ladies 'of the English aristocracy would as was done at 'this ball , h a ve caused the General to be presented to them, and have shown him Ileh deep interest. Generta Williams has a fine head, and wears his uniform well; but General Ney was even more remarked, Russian sympathies for France being greater than any that England can inspire. These foreign guests appeared astonished at the magnificence of the Hotel Youssoupoff and at its immense collec tions of works of art and of ancient and modern fur niture. The collections of pictures, statues, and, above all, the celebrated family plate of the old Russian type, a PPeared greatly to interest the Eng lish visitors." The gallant general left St. Petersburg, accompanied by his tljutant Major Teesdale, and arrived a t S t e t tin in the Vladimi r steamer. On leaving the Russian capital the vessel got fast in the ice, and remained so for 12 hours, In the . course of which time the paddles became very trt.luch injured, HO that it has not been able to leave ztettio on its return passage until to-clay. SHARE MARKETS. 'THIS DAY.) ItATV:CAYS. ItAILWATB. Closing Prices this day !Paid L. It ;t o I an 41 all 24 nil all 22 1. 1 .4 26 all It. 100 It. 100 .0 61a. All 0 an ;0 18 !O all .0 8 [0 13. • 45 • all h. 100 :0 0 It. 100 lOts gi Business done , this day. 26 -2/ Ai .erdt.en y • • bg. Nottng. Boot and Eastn. Jima_ ilfast & Bagymona. irming. Wolverh , 3tour Va11ey....., eab.d. Lanosh. a elnea taro Junct )o. Cheah. & Birk. £5O and £25 Cons Do., ...... & Tyn origins, £25 (lead. at £45 Bristol and Exeter Caledonian. H. and Cardigan Chester A Holyhead. Cork and Bandon Cork, Black, & Pas, Cornwall Do. A 4i-- 5 8i - 9 17 - 18 15 - 16 12 ...! 13 87 - 89 611 -61 i 15 - 16 Do. B Crier Junction Dubiindtßelfastiunc. Dun. P. & Aber. Jnc. East Anglian Eastern Counties.. . East. Union, A SU 0., B. iit.yvic Do., New A............ East Kent East Lancashire ...d 16} - 17 10 , - 101 32 - 34 22 - 21 78 - 80 60 - 62 Edinburgh& Glasgow Edinb. and Peebles Edin.Prth &FSnade• Forth & Clyde Alll3. Furness. Do. Extension 30 - 31 ••• .. Glaagow&S. Weak '• Great N. of Scoend. Groat .Northern Do., A. 5t0ck....., Do., 13. Stock 188 - 92 - 84 I 954 - 96 79 80 128 - 131 105 - 107 Cl j - 61ij Gt. gth. &West. (Ire. ) Great Western Do. Stour Val. Rail Gus. Stk Irish South-Eastern Lancaster & Carlisle Do., Thirds Do. New Thirds Le.ncash. andYorksh D,., Wst. Riding lin Liv. Crioy. &So athpt London & Blackwall Lond. Bright & S.Cst. Loud. and N. Wentn. D. Fifths Do.lol. Do. Eighths,. London and& Westn. Do., L5O Do., £4O Ludndrry& Col erai n e Lndndrry. & Ennisk. Manch .Shef. Ic Lincin Do., Mar,. &Lin. Un Metropolitan Midland Do. Birmng. Midi& G. West. Om Do. Half Shares Newcastle & Nwpt.Aberg. &Aril Newry & Enniskillen Newry Warrenpoint and Rostrovor ... 70 - 75 6- 7 p 6 -7!, 921 - 93 64- 102 IC4 102 —102 i par par •-• pi 97~ 98i 1•0 ... 9.} -29. f - 79 -79 i 48 - 50 , 1.41 WON ... 13 - 15 Norfolk Northn.Counties Un North Nth Devon Rail. & Dock Stock 1)0., A Stock )0., B Stock Do., 8 Guarantee N. Eastern—Berwic Do. do. Extension Do.do. 1 9 nroh Dol Leeds ......... Do. York North London N &S. Warn. ,Haml stead, and City Jn North Staffordshire , North Western N. & S. Westrn. June. Nuneaton, Hinckley, and Leicester.. Or., Wore.. & Wolv. Portsmouth Scottish Central... 1 Scottish Midland... Shropshire Un Jan South Devon South Eastern South Wales . S. Yrksh. 8c Ric. Mu, Do Staines, Wok. &Wok Stockton & Darla Sto,;kten & Hartlepi • Taff Vale Do. Pref., No. I Thames Hay. l).& R Myerstone & Lanes all Vnie of Neath all Waterfd. & Kilkenny all Waterford&Limerick all West Cornwall all West End of London and Crystal Palace all Do. A ......, 3 Do. B all West London all Wimbledn &Croydon 55 57 3} Ss 35 36 82 -83 4t 31 - 20 1 17i - 1 8 59 60 88 -EO ii - 61' 6 - 6i 10i - 11 27 "- 28 03 105 76 78 46 48 14 15 716 716 72 4 2 16 id 86 76 37 19 -- 20 4 - 5 6A - 7A 6 - 2 - - ••• -- 7 ••• 6 - FOREIGN. W 3.11 ‘utwor...;•ti , :tt rd• ID 81 81 fi 40 40 Do. 5 - p.c. Oblgs. con. in Sh, at par till '64 •• • 20 10 Ardennes .............• 51 —6/ p 5 all ilelgian Eastn. June. 2 •••, 21, 2(.) 14 q,ezierstoGraisacssa 4 -5/ p 18 41 Rombay,Baroda,an Centralindia,Scrii 11 2 18 all Do. i. 74. all Demerara 'AO 11 Dutch Rhenish IA 11 y 20 all Eastern of France 20 19 Do. New 20 All East Indian , g. 5 p. 3 23 241 10 15 Do. EirtellgiOn.. 231 —2. l 100 all D0.41p.c.8nd5.,'57 too a I Do. ‘le. do.. '59, d - . 20 16 Geo'ong ;.•; 7 _slelbourne guar. 5 per c nt.. 221 23 221 / 20 all Do., Lou. allot., do. ••• 25 2211 Gd. Tk of CanadaA 10 9 13 }l3 1 25 'I Do. ..................... 15 6 151 100 9) Do. Cert. of Dcbcu. con. into Stk. 01'6 73 77 10 0 all De. Comp. 6p. c., do 8 sc, 2C , 14 Gt. Central of Franc c 8/ 91; 23 all rit. Indian Poninau l o , 23 231 23 2/ 26 14 Great Luxerabonrf Constituted Share - 51 6 5i 4 all Do. Obligation._ • •• • •• • 70 11 Do.re-is. ,orftd. Sh. 20 43t,•14'nsteruof Oanag a 26 261 26 s 1 206 5,4, Do. New............ 3i 31. 1 , 9 100 all Do. iO3s., payable's7, with option till '55.. 99 101 1.00 all Do. do., 'fi2, p.'66... .•• ••• 100 all Do. do., '76, p. '6o. 128 132 100 all Do. do., '73, without option.... lO9l 1101 20j, all Hamilton St Toronto ••• 100 all Do. 6 per cent. 20 17 'Lake Const. & Bast 20 all ILime and Turnhout ...d 5 all 'Lucca Sr Fist. sp. c.p • PTM' 20 16 'Lyons and Geneva . 12 .-- 13 20 14 I Lyons & Mediterrs.t. 20 all Madras, guar. 44p.c. 201 -- 201 203 20 10 Do. New '•o., sp. c. 2 21 17i 20 10 De. 4/ p. c. Eaten 1p all!Maria Antonia 10 all 00. do. New 20 all Namur dr Liege (witl interest) 7l 7i 10 all Do. (ex interest) 6l 16 all Northern of France 4G 4GA 451 6i 20 all M 3.201.8113 ••• ••• LO Do. 201. 3 p. c Bde (fray.B.& Ams. Shs. 10 all liorwegianTrtmkPre 8 • 9 20 all Paris and Lyons . 60 601 40 all Ditto Bonds %) all Paris and Orleans 57 59 10 5 Rome and Frascati.. ?.0 all Roysl Danish l9l 20/ all Royal Swedish ... 4 all Do. Obligations ••• 20 all Sambre and Meuse_ 12 121 121 1.0 all Do. 51 p. cent. Pref. 9/ —9/ 91 20 5 Scinde, guar. sp. c 3 20 a l l D 0... ................ ••• 20 all Southern o iFrance.. —pm - 20 16 St. Andrew's and Quebec (A), ••• 1 8i r.ll West Flanders — 48 - n 3 10 all Do 54 per c. Pref ••• 20 . 18 W. &N. W. of Franc 371 381 2G all West. of Switzerland ... ••• 6 all Wiesbaden 20 all Zealand JOINT-STOCK BANKS. 0 it ~isnstraia~ y7 99 96i 25 5 Bank of Egypt par - 100 50 Bank of London 66 68 40 lsri. Col, lik.&Ln. C. 50 all liritigh N. American 25 5 Marta. Bank of Asia I'P 20 6 Chrtd. Bnk. of India, Australia, &. China 100 50 City 65 -- 67 100 25 Colonial 100 20 Commercial of Lond. 20 a ll Eng.Rcot.BtAns.Cht. 16A -- 17 171 20 all Lond. Chart. Bk, of Australia. lBi 19 20 5 Ditto New 2 1 d 50 20 Tendon and County: 100 50 Lna.&E.Bnkg.Corp par 2p 50 10 London Joint Stock 100 10 London and Paris — 2 100 20 Lond . Westminstei 491 100 35 National Pro.of Eng 20 10 Do. New ........... • 50 22A National of Ireland ... 20 all New South 42k 25 all Oriental Bank of worm ration, 39 41 20 10 Ottoman Bank P 101 100 50 Royal British 25 Ali ith ekustralis . 38i 25 4 Union of Australia- 72 74 Do. New 8 .;:w . lO 50 1 0 ~f London ••• 100 3J West= Bk of Lond s ha- 4 L`2 all 50 ell 161 14 Eh. 100 _3 Bt. 100 St. 100 20 16 10 Si at 100 50 all 40 all 25 all 25 all St. 100 It 2e as. 10 1 St. 100 it. 100 50 all 25 all r all 50 8 4 ) 20 AD St. 1100 50 .3i R. 1)0 t. 100 100 8 all 8 all 100 15 21i 50 al St. 100 St. 100 10 3i is ?,0 el 10 all tO it. 140 11 St. 100 St. 100 St. 100 it. 100 h. 100 ?,0 15 I10) 100 THE SUN, LONIWN, WEDNESDAY EVENING; MAY_ 28, 1856. 'ESCAPE OF FELICE ORSINI FROM AN ATTSTRIAN DUNGEON. [The simple and unaffected account of his escape from the Castle of St. Georgio, Mantua, which Felice Orsini gives in the following letter, is full of the most varied interest. The courage, resources, and self-reliance of Orsini himself are the first things that strike the reader. Next comes the rancorous cruelty of the Austrian Government as is shown by the character of the cells in which they immure their prisoners. But the most im portant truth revealed by the letter is the moral isolation of the Austrians in their Italian dominions. In descending from his prison win dow Orsini injured one of his feet so severely that he was lamed. Day dawned, and the streets became filled with passengers before he could emerge from the Castle ditch. There could be no doubt that he wasa prisoner broke loose. Yet the casual passers-by did not hesitate to help him out of the ditch and Wow him to go his way unchal lenged. From Mantua till he gained the frontier was a journey of eight days. Strangers befriended and concealed him—no one betrayed him. He was an enemy of the Austrian—that was sufficient recommendation to hospitality and protection. The Austrians, it is clear, are surrounded by a population whoi detest them. Among these ene mies are men like Orsini, who can work their way out of dungeons in, which men of ordinary mould would have abandoned themselves to despair, and whose first use of their regained liberty is to renew the internecine struggle with their hated tyrants. Against such adversaries no combination of police spies and military mercenaries can permanently prevail.] " Dear Friend,—l have already written to you that I am free ; now I will give you the particulars of my escape, the details of which have been sur rounded by party journalism with uncertainty and falsehood. I was arrested at Hermannstadt, in Transylvania, on the 17th December, 1854, sub mitted to a long examination, and conveyed hea vily chained in a cart to Vienna on the sth January. There I underwent three long examinations from the police authorities. They knew my real name, caused my portrait to be taken, and handed me over in charge to the criminal tribunal. I did not find that my late journeys in Lombardy told espe cially against me, but my whole antecedents since 1844 were known, and my constantly manifested hatred to Austria was of great injury to me. They knew everything concerning me. The Austrian police and her higher authorities receive re ports from all the other governments of Italy, as well as from their own military commanders of the Italian provinces, concerning all the individuals in any way politically compromised. They were, how ever, unable to condemn me legally, so they in formed me that I should again be' put into the hands of the police, and confined in some fortress, and that the duration of my imprisonment would depend upon the peaceful or stormy course of events in the political world, and upon the total inertia of the revolutionists. Such is the name by which they qualify all who either attempt political reforms or seek the national independence. " On the 25th March I was sent in charge of two gendarmes and a superior police officer to Mantua, where I was again examined by Baron Sanches. I then learned that the documents re lating to the political mission I had fulfilled in Milan in 1854 had fallen into the hands of the Aus strian Government when the Milanese committee was arrested, and that I was doomed to die on the scaffold. In Mantua I was examined at least 20 times. " On reaching Mantua, we stopped in the large courtyard of the Castle of St. Georgio. On each of the four sides is a tower, and the castle is surround ed by a ditch 7or 8 yards wide and 6 deep. On the side near the Bridge of St. Georgio is an arched way passing under the street which leads from the bridge to the city. By means of this arcade, when the waters of the lake are high, the ditch round the castle is filled with water. The whole is strongly guarded on all sides by a large detachment of troops with artillery. "At the time of my escape orders were given that all ingress and egress should be forbidden be tween the hours of 8 p.m. and 5 a.m. " When political trials are going on, the pri soners most jealously guarded by Austria are always sent to the Castle of St. Georgio, and after the revolution of J 848 an exoress order was sent from Vienna that the fortress be exclusively used for the detention of political prisoners. The secret cells are in the upper storey, and in the lower storey are kept the archives of the city of Mantua. All the cells, except Nos. 12 and 7, have at the windows two rows of thick iron bars, about a yard apart (which will give you an idea of the thick ness of the walls), and outside the outer row is a thick gratime of iron wire. The wont cells are Nos. 3 and 4. No. 4, the smaller of the two, is the one from which I escaped. It is about six paces long, and rather more than three broad. The cells 2,3, and 4 open into a corridor guarded by eight soldiers, changed every 24 hours. There is a sentinel posted at the single door which leads to all the prisons, and the others watch the doors of the cells. At night all these regulations are even more rigorously enforced, and there is a special sentinel for the cells 2,3, and 4, who hears the slightest noise, and reports it to the keepers, who sleep in a little room opening out of the corridor which leads to Nos. 2,3., and 4. This room has two doors, and every night the door leading to the courtyard is shut, and the inner door is always closed, and has a sentinel posted on the inside. In the day-time there are • three keepers c h arg ed with th e surveillance and service of the prisoners. These are changed at ei g ht o ' c l oc k ever y , morning. One of these i s res p ons ibl e f or th e prisoners, takes them thei r f oo d, an d ma k es th e daily and nightly visits, when he alone enters the cells, another meanwhil e guar di ng th e d oor with a chain. This last has charge of the keys of the upper and outer door, which is, as I told you, also guarded by a sentinel. No one can enter or leave the castle without hi s spec i a l k now l e d ge an d permission. Each of these various officers is bound to keep watch that the others do their duty, and has a separate responsibilit y i n case o f th e esca pe of any prisoner. Besides all these, there is the capo custode, who has th e surve ill anc e over the whole; sleeps in the castle, governs and orders all, and has under him the corporal and all the men of the , guard. In the night-time he keeps all the keys, and the keeper has to apply to him for them, in order to make his nightly visits to the cells. " The day visits are made at 6,8, 10, 12, 2,4, and 6 o'clock ; the night visits at half-past 9 and half-past 1. They then examine the state of the irons of the windows, the walls, &c. In the intervals of the regular visits the keeper comes in and out at all hours, so that the poor prisoner has never a moment of quiet " From these details you can see the impossibi lity of escaping even with the help of ono guard— at least three would have to be in the secret, and even then false keys would be necessary, as the keys are all kept by the cape custode ; and once out one would find oneself in the midst of Mantua, as the castle has only one entrance, which leads into the city. There is, therefore, no other mode of escape than the one I took, of letting myself down from a height of thirty yards into the ditch. But how did I contrive this escape ? By patience, and the firm determination i to attempt and endure anything in order to free myself to work again every possibleinjury i . nmy power to the detested Austrians. Animated by this hatred to Austria, I assumed anew character, and, after seven months of solitary and most rigorous confinement, during which I was never allowed a light, or even a glass to take the medi cine necessary for my fever, I contrived by my quiet and uncomplaining conduct to make the guards so satisfied with me that they ceased to take the trouble to examine the bars of my windows. I had obtained six little saws of the very finest steel, but how I had obtained them the Austrian Govern ment will never know. If poor Colonel Calvi, who was confined in cell No. 1, and with whom I had kept up a correspondence of signs through the wall, had not been so soon executed, he and I should have escaped together from the castle. I had once asked the cape custode, a German, if he thought th e sen tence of death recorded against me would be put iu execution. answered he should be sorry to awaken .illusive hopes—perhaps no, perhaps yes— and that was all. "About the (Ad of January I was put into cell No. 4, the worst in the castle, and I almost de spaired of ever being able to escape from it ; the window was more than, two yards from th e groun d, 'and to work at it I was obliged to stand on the back of my chair. The rows of iron b ars were a yard apart ; the outside grating being one-tenth of the distance beyond. The bars w ore ex t reme l y thick, especially the inside ones, and the height froin the window to the level o f the dit c h was 30 . yards—l myself measured with a string. " I could not work at night, because the noise of the saws, though very quiet, would have been heard by the sentinel, who, after the half-past nine o'clock visit, came every five minutes to the door. I worked therefore in the day time, and, my ear had become so accustomed to the step of the sentinel that before he opened the door I always co n t r i ve d t o ge t down and put my chair in its place, and sometimes I would be walking up and down humming. I co vered over the marks of my work with brick-pow der mixed with black wax and bread. By thus working in the day time in the intervals of the visits, in 24 days I bad cub i away seve n o f the out side bars and one of the inside ones, where they were fixed into the wall, and from th e wall I had extracted eight bricks, which I hid in the straw of my mattress. As for the cord I had thought of t -that before. -Oa the ist of. February I kept " back, without their knowing, the sheets that I i ought to have sent away to the wash, and on the Ist of March I kept back the towels which were as wide as the sheets and a little longer, and by cutting these into strips I was able, on the 27th of March , to make my cord, fastening it with sailor's knots. I let it down into the ditch to try its length, and found it even longer than neces sary. The 28th and 29th I passed with great fear of discovery, being more than usually persecuted by the attentions of the -sentinel, $o that I could not attempt my escape. I therefore pretended during those two days to be ill, and did not rise from my bed, for fear they might chance to examine my straw mattress. They had ceased, in my case, to examine the bars. At half-past nine on the evening of the 29th, at the usual visit from the capo custode I pretended to be asleep ; but the moment they wore gone, and while they were going the round of the other visits, and so making some noise, I rapidly removed the iron bars I had cut—made up two little bundles of neces sary clothing—fastened - the cord to one of the remaining bars—let it down all its length— hid the bars [ had removed in the stray, and then lay still again till the second visit, at half past one. I again pretended to be asleep, and the instant they were gone I rose, and quite calmly proceeded to let myself down by the cord. When within six feet from the ground I felt I could no longer sustain myself. I looked at the depth below me, and let myself drop. A sort of swoon came over me. I however moistened my mouth with an orange I had had the precaution to have upon me, and lay for some moments quiet, to recover myself. I then dressed myself, and wan dered round and round the castle, seeking some means to g et out of the ditch, but I had so hurt my foot in th fall that I could scarcely walk. I hoped to escape from the ditch into the lake, but the en trance to the lake was barred by a grating. I then endeavoured, with the help of two nails, to scale the wall of the ditch, about 6 feet high, and had almost reached the top when the foot I had hurt failed me, and I fell to the bottom. Fortunately there had lately been a little water in the ditch, and the soft mud prevented the sentinels hearing the noise of my fall.. I remained there in the dread of being retaken till 5 in the morning, when the city gates were opened, and then some people wont by. I called to them, saying that the night before I had been drunk and fallen into the ditch, and begged them to help me out. Some refused, but at last some bolder ones helped me, and I was dragged out with much difficulty, as I could scarcely help my self. My hands were cut in many places. I was very lame, and covered with the mud of the ditch above the waist,yet in that condition I had to cross the bridge within gun-shot of the castle. What happened after that I must not tell. In eight days I was in Switzerland, and able for the first time to attend to my foot. What the Austrians would have done or given to get me again you can imagine. Police circular followed circular, and telegraphic despatch followed telegraphic despatch. All letters were in discriminately stopped and opened at the Post office, and perquisitions made in every part of Mantua, but this did not prevent the citizens from openly rejoicing over my escape. We shall now soon meet. "May 20, 1856. "FnLICE ORSINI." BEALTH OF LONDON DURING TUB WEEK. (From the Report of the Registrar-General. ) In the week that ended on Saturday, the deaths of 565 males and 476 females, in all 1,041, persons, were registered in London. In the corresponding weeks of the 10 years 1846.55 the average number of deaths was 988. If this is raised in a certain proportion for com parison with the deaths of last week which occurred in an increased population, it becomes 1,087. The figures show that the rate of mortality last week was slightly below the average. Zymotic or epidemic diseases produced in the aggre gate 233 deathe,whiie the corrected average of correspmd ing weeks in previous years is 242. Typhus continues to be more fatal than any other epidemic, but the mortality under any head in this class is not excessive. It was stated in last return that the deaths from typhus bad risen to 76 ; they have declined to 57. Of these 57 cases. 5 occurred in the Central division, 6 in the West ern, 12 in the Northern, 19 in the Eastern, and 15 on the South side of the river. Five men died of typhus in St. Luke's Workhouse (situated in Hoxton New Town) between the 14th and 22d inst. inclusive. The regis trar, Mr. Angell, remarks that three of these were brought in a dying state, and that the disease is "very bar in the workhouse at present. A painter was found dead on the 4th pf May, at 28, Norfolk-place, Shore ditch,—a house which, according to the coroner's jury, who held an inquest on the body, contained at that time 26 persons. It is stated by the Registrar that this man's wife and 6 children lay ill of fever in the same room, but that they have since been removed. Nine ehildren and 7 adults died of small-pox ; 27 children and a person about 30 years old, of measles ; 33 persons of scarlatina; 11 of diarrhoea, ; 23 of cancer ; 5 of hernia ; 3 of intus sasception ; 1 of spleen disease ; 2 of intemperance; 5 of delirium tremens ; an artist's . colourman, aged 42 years, of colica pictonurn. The widow of a tailor died in the Tailors' Asylum, Haverstock-hill, and a labourer died in Lambeth, the former at 91 years of age, the latter at 92, being the two oldest perscps mentioned is the returns for the week. Last week the births of 859 boys and 895 girls, in all 1,754 children, were registered in London. In the ten corresponding weeks of the year: 1846-55 the average number was 1,442. At the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the mean height of the barometer in the week was 29•564 in. The highest reading in the week was 29 . 94 in. on Tues day. The mean temperature of the week WM 53 . 1 dsg.,which is 0•9 , 1eg. below the average of the same week in 33 years. The mean tempA-ature was below the average on every day except Tuesday and Wed nesday, when it was slightly above the average. The highest reading of the thermometer in the week was 70 degrees, which occurred on Wednes day ; the lowest was 41 degrees, and it occurred on the same day. The highest reading in the sun oc curred on Tuesday, and was 95 deg. The mean dew point temperature of the week was 45,8 deg., and the difference between this and the mean air temperature was 7,3 degs. The temperature of the water of the Thames ranged from 52.7 degs., the lowest at the be ginning of the week, to 59.4 des., the highest at the end ; and the mean was 55.edegs. The wind blew generally from the south-west. Rain fell to the amount of 1.08 in., of which 0.26 in. fell on Sunday (the 18th), and 0.65 in. on Thursday. There were showers both cf hail and rain on several days. MORTALITY IN THE METROPOLIS. NUMBER OF DEATHS FROM ALL CAUSES E,EGISTEBED IN THE WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, MAY 21. Zymotic Diseases Diseases of Uncertain Seat Tubercular Diseases Diseases of the Brain, Nerves and Senses Diseases of the Heart and Blood-vessels 3B Diseases of the Lungs and other Organs of Respiration Diseases of the Stomach, Liver, and other Organs of Digestion Diseases of the Kidneys, &c. Childbirth, Diseases of the Uterus, &c. Diseases of the Joints, Bones, and Muscles Diseases of the Skin, &c. Malformations .. 1 Premature Birth and Debility 23 Atrophy 27 Old Age • . 3B Sudden lO Violence, Privation, Cold, and Intemperance j 42 2 Causes not specified DEATHS FROM ALL CAUSES Population Deaths in corre- De,atl s Enumerated. sponding week in the 1851. of 1855. Week. West Districts North Districts 490,396 Central Districts 393,256 East Districts 485,522 South Districts Totals 1,187 Males 565 Females 476 BIRTHS IN THE WEEK. Females.. Total ~ - 1,764 .••....... MARKET NEWS.—(This Day.) CORN EXCHANGE. The supply of English wheat in to-day's market was chiefly composed of Monday's unsold samples, for which the demand was in a sluggish state, at that day's decline in price. We were fairly supplied with foreign malt, and most de scriptions moved off slowly, on former terms. The few samples of barley on show realised previous rates. The malt trade was very inactive,' but no change took place in prices. The supply of oats was small, and the oat trade ruled steady, at only full prices. Beans and peas were firm. In flour very little was doing. 1 Wheat. 3nglish .. 870 Irish •• •• Foreign 1 1 960 ARRIVALS THIS WERE. Barley. Malt. 1 Oats. Flour. 690 sso 520 2,700 4,980 ; 4070 brls 1840 sks 5,200 BOROUGI There is a fair business doing rices are well supported. HOP. n most kinds of hops, and WHITECHIPEL. Beef, from 2s 1011 to 4s Od ; mutton, 3s 4d to 4s 4d; lamb, 4s 8d to 5s 81; veal, 4s 8d to 5s 8d ; pork, 35 2d 45 8d per 81111., by the cartage. A moderate demand. 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'lneiner.s thta thy. 174} 10 k 30k 30 4 93 i i i 107 61 a i 92j f 103 1021 2 li 2 97 64 7i 184 781 91 8j Is' 481 82; 2 16 171 59 72 la 21 Spirit of the Public Journals. THE. TRIAL OF PALMER. (Front the Morning Post of this day.) That remarkable trial has now come to a close by which, for the 13 last days, so much of human ability has been employed—on which so much of justice and fairness has been shown to the wretched man accused, and at last convicted, of the deepest of crimes against society. There cannot be a sha dow of reason for the morbid cry that Palmer was sacrificed to a . panic or to a prejudice. Everything that could be done in order that his trial might be a fair one was done. The place where he was tried was removed from Stafford to London,- because it was said that popular feeling ran so high in the former place as to make a just verdict difficult, if not impossible. The time was adjourned until the minds of men should have had time to cool. He had the ablest counsel to defend, the best judges to try, him—a jury as free from all suspicion of prejudice as could be obtained. The case against the prisoner was stated by the Attorney-General in one of the clearest, the most calm, and, at the same time, in one of the strongest speeches that we ever heard. It was a speech which addressed itself to the reason, of the jury. It left their passions untouched. No worn-out clap-trap of sentimen talism was used to rouse their feelings. It dealt with evidence and with facts ; and it put these so logically—in so broad and clear a light—before those who had to judge them, as to leave a hard task indeed for the defence. There can be no doubt that that defence was conducted with the utmost skill, with the greatest ingenuity, with the strongest attempt at success of which the case ad mitted. It failed, as the most eloquent defence must have failed, before the facts of the case, though the question had been tried at 50 different times by 50 distinct juries. We have carefully abstained, while the issue was doubtful, from a word that might affect it—we have refrained from the shadow of a comment on the conduct of the prisoner on any circumstance, trivial or momentous, that might influence opinionson the subject so momentous to him if he were innocent, so momentous to society and to justice if lie were guilty. We may now fairly and openly, with all the evidence before us, express our concurrence in the verdict of the jury ; we may congratulate them on having done their painful duty well and fear lessly. In all cases of poisoning there comes the main difficulty that much of the evidence must be circumstantial. The weapon which the murderer used is not nigh at hand. That bloody witness cannot be traced to his possession. He is not driven to ghastly expedients to get rid of the body of his victim. He has no clothes stained with the proofs of his crime which testify against him. There is nothing to convict him but the strong chain of cir cumstances ably linked together—the character, the motive, the opportunity for the deed—the evi dence that he used that opportunityt—the testi mony of events before and after the death. In Palmer's case all these combined so strongly as to leave no possible escape from the facts even to the utmost ingenuity. The only point on which the defence could set up the shadow, of a case was on the fact that strychnine was not found in the body, or the inference thence drawn that the deceased did not die from poison at all—that he died solely from convulsions, produced by natural causes. Medical evidence was, as usual, produced in abun dance on this side of the question. It had the natural effect of opinions pushed so far a 3 to be come absurd. No jury could believe that a man in perfect health should suddenly become the victim of symptoms such as could not be proved to have occurred except from strychnine ; unless lie had taken strychnine no jury could believe, in the face of the opinions given to them, in the existence of those symptoms from any other cause, when the strongest witnesses for the defence could only bring forward something like them in constitutions strangely and singularly reduced. No set of men could in fact come to any conclu sion, from the facts before them, but that Cook died from strychnine—that poison was traced to the possession of Palmer. In two cases he was proved to have bought it immediately before the remarkable death of the deceased. No attempt was made by the defence to account for this purchase, or to state what he did with the poison. The motive for the use of it, of which he has been convicted after the most patient and careful investigation, was unhap pily but too apparent even for the ingenuity of Ser geant Shee to conceal or distort. There was the amplest opportunity for the commission of the crime. There was the most extraordinary coinci dence between the death of Cook and the presence of Palmer. There was proof of his'having broken the law in one serious particular, at least under the pressure of circumstances. Of what other crimes he has been guilty rests between him and his God. Human justice has done its part in the long and patient investigation which has just been brought to a satisfactory close. The law has shown its su periority over the most deliberate and the best de vised appliance of the resources of crime. It is, to our thinking, a very happy thing that this is so. Had Palmer not been convicted, public opinion would still have found a verdict of guilty against him. It would have shakeh the confidence of the world in the power of justice—it would have given strength to the bad man—it would have increased the temptation to the most diabolical of crimes—it would have stood as the record of the success of villany the most deliberate and atrocious, assuming the shape most terrible to man—it would have been the triumph of a crime which the boldest of us may well shrink from for its smooth, secret, and silent course. Justice was fairly matched against murder, and has fairly won its stern victory. In this coun try we do not bring the whole power of the law to bear against the defenceless prisoner. We give him every opportunity to make good his case. Every point that will tell in his favour is put forward by his counsel. The judge sums up the evidence for both sides fairly and calmly. He points out to the jury the strength and the weakness of either. If, after so steady and solemn an inquiry, there comes at last the verdict of Guilty, we may well be convinced of its truth— we may well concur, as we do in Palmer's case, in the deliberate and unanimous opinion of the three judges that he committed the crime laid to his charge. ( From the Daily News.) After a trial of unexampled duration, conducted with singular ability, the most impartial fairness, and the most exemplary patience, William Palmer has been found guilty by the just judgment of his country. The verdict by which he has been thus branded as one of the most odious and execrable of felons must long since have been anticipated by all those who have attentively watched the progress of this most remarkable investigation. It was impos sible to read the lucid and masterly address with which the Attorney-General opened the case for the prosecution without feeling that if the evidence at all came up to the statement the prisoner at the bar was a doomed man. The evidence did come up to the statement. In the six days occupied by the case for the prosecution there was not a single ma terial witness who broke down, not a single mate rial point which was•not made out. As the long detail of proof evolved itself, it was curious to watch how each fact seemed to fall into its proper place, till link by link there was substantiated in evidence that chain of circumstantial narrative which the skill of the great advocate had already wound in deadly, but polished, folds round the culprit's neck. The case for the prosecution was altogether admi rably got up. The interests of truth and society were in good hands. It is fortunate, indeed, that it was so. Had a single weak point been left—had there been any gap in the evidence—any break in that continuity of circumstances, each in itself un important, but in their aggregate effect overwhelm ing—instant advantage would have been taken of it by the counsel for the defence, and instead of rejoicing, as we now do, at the just doom by which this unparalleled offender has been overtaken, we should have had, in all probability, to submit to the scandal and the misfortune of witnessing his escape. In a case of such absorbing interest we may safely conclude that the generality of our readers have made themselves acquainted with the evidence, as it has day after day been recorded in our columns. On the present occasion we shall only glance at a few of the more salient points. The case for the prosecution was, that Palmer had an interest in Cook's death ; that he first practised on him b y antimony, and finally poisoned him by strychnia ; that all the symptoms under which Cook died were referable to poisoning by strvchnia, and to nothing else ; while the admitted failure to discover any traces of strychnia in the body after death was not in itself incompatible with guilt, and was utterly nugatory as a defence in the face of all the proved facts of the case. The defence took issue on all these points—but principally relied on the absence of motive, and the non-discovery of poison in the dead body. Neither of these grounds, though both were urged with considerable ingenuity and confi dence, could give rise for a moment to any reason able doubt. As to motive, it was abundant. On this point it is only necessary to' recall the facts of Palmer's position on Tuesday, the 13th of Novem ber, when Cook's horse, Polestar, won the Shrews bury Handicap. He had long been in difficulties. For two years his normal state had been that of a man who is paying constantly increasing losses by perpetually accumulating loans. His book was al most uniformly ill made up. He had repeatedly raised money at 60 per cent. on the security of life policies and forged acceptances. In 1854 he had just managed to clear himself by what no one, we suppose, will now doubt to have been the timely proceeds of an enormous crime. In September of that year his wife perished, and I t o obtained the 13,0001. for which he had insured her life. In 18 he made a desperate effort to secure the same resource; In August of that year Walter Palmer, the brother, died, just in time to satisfy the pressing claims of his creditors ; and if the offices had paid - the 13,000/. for which the brothers's life had also been insured, the Rugeley poisoning cases might never have been heard of. But the offices refused, and Palmer's case at once became desperate. The usurers rapidly grew importunate. Pratt held acceptances to the extent of 11,5001., every one of which had been forged by Palmer in his mother's name. Palmer had Inane unheard-of efforts to carry on the battle. He had frequently sent up small remittances to Pratt ;he had imploringly pressed for time. " As well," exclaims the Attorney-General, " might a man appeal for mercy to a rabid tiger, as to a usu rer when the securities he has advanced upon have failed." On the 9th November, Pratt, tired of law yers's letters, actually issued a writ for 4,0001. against Palmer and his mother. Everything, forgery and all, was on the point of immediate ex posure. Palmer had 91. 16s. at -his banker's, and not another resource in the world. Shrewsbury races came on. He was obliged to borrow 251. in order to go there. He had a horse—The Chicken— to run at those races ; eventually it did run, and lost. Cook's horse, Polestar, was more fortunate. On Tuesday, Nov. 13, 1855, Polestar won the Shrewsbury Handicap. Cook had large payments made to him on the course. He gave Fisher be tween 7001. and 8001. to take care of for him on the Tuesday night. Fisher returned it to him the next morning, and since that time it has never been ac counted for. Besides this, Cook was to receive in London on the next Monday (the 19th), the settling day at Tattersall's, a sum of 1,0201., as appeared by his betting-book. That book, which was sworn to be in his possession up to the time of his death —which Palmer must obviously have consulted be• fore he went up to town on the Monday to receive Cook's debts—has never been found since. If Palmer could procure this sum of nearly 2,0001., and appropriate it to his own uses, was there no motive here? Why, by a j udicious use of this 2,0001. he could get rid of the pressure of his liabi lities until the January—he would have nearly two months' respite from the usurers ; and to the sanguine temper of a turf man, two months, under such circumstances, is a species of eternity. True, Palmer owed at that time about 19,0001. in the aggregate ; but a larger sum than 19,0001. has been made by the reckless gamblers of the turf on the issue of a single race. Time—time, was all the man warAted—a month's, a week's, a day's respite was worth everything. And time he deli berately purchased by Cook's destruction. While Cook, having left Shrewsbury and returned to Rugeley, is labouring under the effects of antimony administered by Palmer, this man, who was com pelled to borrow money in order to carry him to the races, and who, instead of winning, had lost there, is found paying away money to the more pressing creditors who were harassing him at Rugeley. On Monday, the 19th, he leaves Cook ill at the Talbot, and goes himself to get paid at Tattersall's those bets which Cook has won. Every farthing of these bets is applied by Palmer's directions to getting time on the bills for whose payment Pratt Is pressing him. Motive !—why it is not left to speculation. We need not ask what motive he could have had, we need only ask what he has actually proved to have done. How did he collect these winnings of Cook's ? How did he procure the accurate information of the sums due to him by different parties in town ? How—but by Cook's betting-book ? What became of this book ? It has never been produced. When Palmer was asked about it by the stepfather of his victim, his reply was, " Oh, it's of no use ; a dead man's bets are void." True, but Cook's bets had been received during his life. They were taken on Monday, the 19th ; Cook died on Tuesday, the 20th. Who received them ? Palmer. Who was answerable for them ? Palmer. Who had an in terest in concealing their amount ? Palmer. On Monday, having thus applied to his own pur poses every farthing of Cook's winnings, Palmer returns to Rugeley. The antimony has been a failure—come more stringent means are requisite. It is absolutely indispensable to Palmer's safety that Cook should never rise from the bed on which he is lying to learn the manner in which his money has been applied. On his return from town on the Monday, if we believe Newton, Palmer purchases three grains of strychnine ; on the Tuesday, be yond a doubt, he purchases six grains. Of the manner in which this quantity of strychnine was disposed of no attempt was made on the part of the defence to offer auy account. On Monday and Tuesday Palmer is in possession of this deadly poison ; on the Monday Cook is seized with fright ful spasms in consequence of taking pills admin istered by Palmer on Tuesday, within one hour after taking a similar dose, he expires in the ter rible convulsions of spasmodic tetanus. How to judge from the symptoms alone, was that teta nus caused ? Taking the whole evidence together on this point, it completely corroborates the opi nion of the most eminent surgeon of our time. Sir Benjamin Brodie distinctly declared that, referring to the symptoms themselves and the course they took, the tetanus of which Cook died was not idio pathic (or constitutional), not traumatic (or caused by external injury), hut that it was referable to nothinc , else but poisoning by strychnia. In the deplorable case of Mrs. Serjeantson Smith, where strychnia was the undoubted cause of death, the symptoms were almost identical with those of Cook. The spasmodic convulsions, the sense of suffocation, the dying request of the . agonised suffer, "Turn me over," the iron rigidity of the limbs, the fright ful distortion, the incutved body, the absolute emp finer:B of the heart, were the same in both. But then in Cook's case there was no strychnia found in the body. Admitted ; but what does that prove ? Ono of two things, neither of which is in any way incompatible with guilt. Either that Dr. Taylor . did not employ the proper testQ, or that the dose ad ministered ha,d been so nicely calculated that it was only just sufficient to kill, and was consequently all absorbed in the system. Half a grain destroys life. , Experiment shows that when two grains are administered the poison cat be reproduced in some abundance—when one grain is taken, it can still be detected—but when only halt a grain, there is no instance in which it has been discovered. Fortunately for the safety of society and the in terests of justice, the admirable reply of the Attor ney- General and the masterly summing up of the Lord Chief Justice, guided the jury to the cardinal points through the mass of irrelevant matter in which they might otherwise have been bewildered. Nor would it be fair to omit all mention of the debt of gratitude which the public certainly owes to the jury, who for a period of 14 days have given their close and undivided attention to this most arduous and protracted case. They have manfully done their duty. The work of investigation is completed ; it is now for the law to take its course. The safety of society imperatively demands that no mistaken clemency should be shown to so unex ampled an offender against its most sacred laws as the wretch who was yesterday condemned to die a felon's death by the stern sentence of retributive justice. IRELAND. DUBLIN, TUESDAY MORNING. TEIE TIPPERARY BANK. Litigation proceeds in the law courts as well a 3 in the Master's office. Haidly a day passes that the affairs of the Tipperary Bank are not before the judges, in one form or another. Yesterday the Court of Common Pleas was for a considerable time occupied with a legal argu ment in a new action—M‘Dovvell, the official manager, against Robert Keating, M.P. The amount claimed is 4,000/., for an overdrawn account. The debt was admit ted, but the defendant pleaded that the official manager had no right, in point of law, to sue him. Mr. M'Donough, as counsel for the plaintiff, argued that this plea was frivolous, should be set aside, and he sought iberty to demur. t 4 The Chief Justice—There is no doubt that the official manager has a right to sue in certain cases, but the ques* tion is, is that right to interfere with the 33d of Geo. 11., which is in full force still ? Do you, Mr. 111‘Donough, *lean. to argue that if the Winding•up Act had never passed that this old act would not apply, because it was not a bank of issue, after the decision of " Faussett v. Hodges," the Agricultural Bank case ? Mr. M'Donough said he assumed that case to be law in his argument, although he disapproved of it. Judge Ball—The Agricultural Bank was a bank of issue, I believe? Mr. M'Donough replied that it was ; and then pro ceeded to say that if the Court would not set aside the plea as embarrassing, their lordships should allow him both to reply and demur, in order to prevent delay. If the manager was embarrassed by frivolous litigation he would not be able to pay a dividend to the creditors as soon as he expected. Judge Ball.—What I A dividend ? How much in the pound ? Sir C. O'Loghlen, Q.C.—There is a great chance of a dividend after a call of 401. a share being made on Saturday last. Mr. M'Donough said he was instructed that there would be a dividend soon if the official manager was not unnecessarily impeded. Judge ILL—Your proceedings at law could not go on together with proceedings inequity, and there is nothing to prevent a bill being Wed under the 33d Geo. 11. Mr. M'Donough—•There can be no difficulty on that subject, for the Chancellor would never grant relief in such a suit under the old statute, after the Master of the Rolls—a branch of his own court—making an order under the modern statute. Judge do not see why he would not, and then you would have both a receiver and an ager ; and I would like to know how they would work together. Both could not collect the debts. The Chief Justice—What we will do is this—we will not set aside the plea. but we will let the plaintiff both plead and demur, and direct the coats to be costs in the cause, _