The Sun. — London, England, 1856-06-09 00:00:00

fttrb °;titttoit SUN OFFICE, Seven o'Clock. —TATTERSALL'S.--{This Evening.) ASCOT STAKES. 3to 1 agst LibelHA (offered, take 7 to 2) 6to 1 agst Banda lore (taken) 6to 1 agst Van Eyk (taken) 100 to 12 agst Redemption (offered) 10 to 1 agst Jolly Marine (taken and offered) 100 to 6 apt Flatterer (offered) ASCOT CUP. 6to 4on Manganese and Saucebox (taken) sto 1 aget Rogerthorpe (taken) Bto 1 agst Winkfield (offered) QUEEN'S VASE. 2to 1 agst Manganese (taken) 3to 1 agst Fisherman (taken) ST. LEGER. 3to 1 offered on the field DERBY. 25 to 1 agst Goldfinch (taken) 30 to 1 agst Bet Oisean (taken) IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF LORDS—(This Evening.) The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the wool sack at the usual hour. THE FOREIGN LEGIONS. The Earl of DONOUGHMCRE said he wished to ask a question of the noble lord the Secretary of War, as to what was intended to be done with the foreign legions. Lord PANMURE said that the foreign legions were enlisted upon the understanding that they should be liable, if it was requisite, to serve her Majesty in any quarter of the globe, precisely in the way that the other troops served. They were to have no claim to half-pay on their being disbanded. When they were disbanded they were to be sent free either to their own homes or to any of her Majesty's colonies. THE BISHOPRIC OF GLOUCESTER. The Earl of ELLENBOROUGH called attention to the fact that for a long time past there had been no re sident Bishop in the diocese of Gloucester, which was a matter of the greatest inconvenience to the numerous clergy of the diocese. He recommended, therefore, that the diocese of Bristol and Gloucester should not be filled until the clergy resident in those dioceses had been consulted and their feelings ascertained on the sub ject. Earl GRANVILLE said the subject was one of great difficulty ; but her Majesty's Government had decided that before the vacancy was filled the feelings of the clergy living in the united dioceses should be inquired into, and the inconvenience as far as possible remedied. OUR RELATIONS WITH AMERICA. The Earl of CARNA.RVON wished to know wheti•or there had been any fresh arrival lately from America ; and, if so, whether any information of a p os iti ve cha racter had been received ? Earl GRANVILLE said that intelligence had been received by the Government of the arrival of the steam ship Asia, from New York, but th e i n f ormat i on brought by the vessel was not of a very intelligible description, p.nd, such as it was, it was mostly of a private character. At the present moment her Majesty's Government was not in the possession of any official information on the subject ; but letters were expected either tonight or to-morrow which it was thought would contain something definite on the point. SECOND READINGS. On the motion of Lord REDESDALE, the following bills were read a second time, viz.:—Shrewsbury and Hereford Railway, Vale of Clwyd Railway, Glasgow Paving, Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton Rail way (Extension of Time, &c.), Fleetwood, Preston, and West Riding Junction Railway, West Ham Gas, Colne Valley and Halstead Railway, and Yarmouth and Hadiscoe Railway Billy; The Cork and Youghal Railway Bill was read a third time and passed. MERCANTILE LAW AMENDMENT DILL Their lordships then went into committee on this bill. The LORD CHANCELLOR explained the nature and object of the bill, which was to assimilate the law of England and Scotland. In consequence of the dif ference at present existing, great difficulty arose as to contracts made on the borders of the two countries. The effect of this bill would be to abolish written con tracts in the majority of cases in which they were at pre sent given. Lord OVERSTO.NE said be should not further oppose the measure, but at the same time he thought that the commercial community would approve of the bill. He concluded by expressing a hope that when the bill was discussed in another place, the whole of the provisions of the bill would be more thoroughly sifted and discussed than they had been in their lordships' house. (LEFT SPEARING.) HOUSE OF COMMONS—(This Evening.) The S2111,1(211 took the chair at the usual hour. PRIVATE BUSINESS. The Lords' amendments to the following bills were considered and agreed to :—Canada Company, S. Ives and West Cornwall Junction Railway, and Shrewsbury Water. The followinz bills were severally read a third time And passed :—Clay Cross Water, Gloucester Gas (No. 2), Godley Lane Road, London and South-Western (Yeovil to Exeter), Sittingtmrtie and Sheerness Rail way, and Wainman's E4tate. The following bills were ordered to be read a third time :—Aberdeen :and Scottish Midland Junction Rail way Companies Amalgamation ; ConA ay and Llandudno Road; Lymington Railway ; Salisbury Market Branch Railway and Market House; Shrew, , bory and Welch pool Railway ; West of Fife Mineral Railway ; WeA London and Crystal Palace Railway CORPORATION RE FOR'. Lord J. RUSSELL gave notice that to-morrow he would present a petition, signed by 4,000 persons, in favour of the bill for the reform of the Corporation of tie City of London. FISHERY BOARD (SCOTLAND). Sir G. B. PECHELL moved for a return, in detail, of the several sums included in Vote No. 8, Civil Con tingencies, viz.: to the Commander of Princess Royal cutter, 2001. ; to the commander of her Majesty's steam ♦essel Jackal!, 1001. ; to Marine Department, 18001.— Agreed to. ENCUMBERED ESTATES COURT. Col. GREVILLE asked the Attorney-General for Ireland, if it was his intention to bring in a bill this session to continue the Encumbered Estates Commis• sion ? Tile ATTORNEY-GENERAL for IRELAND said it was his intention to recommend the Government to continue the act under which the commission was con stituted. RETURN OF THE TROOPS. Sir C. WOOD wished to correct a statement be had made the other night with respect to the arrival of the Princess Royal at Malta with troops on boar]. He had not, when he made the announcement, seen the tele graphic despatch, but he had done so since, and it announced the arrival at Constantinople and departure of the St. Jean d'Acre and Agamemnon one with a regiment of the Coldstreams, and the other with a regiment of the Rifles on board. The Princess Royal was at present at Constantinople taking out her lower deck guns in order to go up to take troops on board. PUBLIC PROSECUTOR. Mr. J. G. PEULLIMORE a9lccd whether it was the intention of her Majesty's Government to bring forward any meagure founded on the unanimous report of the committee of inquiry into the appointment of a public prolocutor ? - Sir G. GREY said it was not intended during the present session to introduce such a bill, but a bill with the above object would be brought forward early next session. WILLS AND ADMINISTRATIONS BILL. In reply to Mr. ILLDIPIELD, . Sir G. GREY said the Solicitor-General would, to morrow, state the course he intended to pursue with respect to these bills. THE CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION. Mr. KENDALL asked the Chancellor of the Ex chequer whethe r he 'could inform the house when the report of the committee would be laid on the table, and what had been the caus e of the delay ? The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER stated that one branch of the inquiry had been completed, and bad been referred to an actuary relative to some calcu lation. The actuary had not yet returned the report, and therefore they were not enabled to lay the results of the commission before Parliament. Mr. ROEBUCK asked on what day they mi ght ex pect the report ? The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said he was not able to state the precise day the report would be ready. THE AMERICAN ENSISTMENT QUESTION, In reply to Major REED, Mr. 1.1. BAILLIE stated that it was his intention to call the attention of the house to this subject as soon as any official information had been received. ALLEGED DISMISSAL OF MR. CRAMPTON. Mr. DISRAELI begged to ask the noble lord whe ther he had yet received any positive information ? Lord PALMERSTON said the Government had not yet received any information on the subject upon which any reliance could be placed. TIPPERARY BANK, Mr. BOWYER called the attention of the Govern• went to certain observations made by the Master of the Bolls for Ireland on Tuesday last in the case of the Tip perary Bank, wherein that learned gentleman expressed surprise at th e G overnmen t a ll ow ing the cas e t o go on without the interference of the Government, and attri buting gross clirelection of duty and connivance on the part of the Government in reference to this case. The A TTO RNEY -GENERAL for IRELAND said that he had seen the statement referred to. He bad communicated with the Crown Solicitor, and had in structed him to make inquiries in order that be (the At torney-General) might act promptly and decisively in the matter if found correct. (Rear.) FIREWORKS IN THE PARKS. ID reply to a question from Lord R. Gnosysson, Sir G. GREY raid it wan not the intention of the G9rernment to repeat the firoworks in the Green•park and Hyde-park, and that the erections lately used for that purpose were being removed. OATII OF ABJURATION BILL. Mr. M. GIBSON moved the third reading of this bill. Sir F. THESIGER moved, in clause 2, to leave out all the words from the beginning of line 7, down to end of line 14, and to insert these words :—" I, A. B. do truly and sincerely acknowledge, profess, testify, and declare in my conscience before God and the world that our Sovereign Lady Queen Victoria is lawful and rightful Queen of this realm, and of all other her Ma j esty's dominions andnountries thereunto belonging. And I do swear that I will bear faith and true allegiance to her Majesty Queen Victoria, and her will defend to the utmost of my power against all traitorous conspiracies and attempts whatsover which shall be made against her person, Crown, or dignity. And I will do my utmost utmost endeavour to disclose and make known to her Majesty and her successors all treasons and traitorous conspiracies which I shall know to be against her or any of them. And Ido faithfully promise to the utmost of my power to maintain, support, and defend the succession of the Crown against all persons whatsoever, which succession, by an act in tituled "An act for the further limitation of the Crown and better securing the rights and liberties of the sub ject, is and stands limited to the Princess Sophia, Elec. toress and Duchess Dowager of Hanover, and the heirs of her body, being Protestants. And all these things I do plainly and sincerely acknowledge and swear aword ing to these express words by me spoken, and accord ing to the plain and common sense and understanding of the same words, without any equivocation, mental evasion, or secret reservation whatsoever ' • and I do make this recognition, acknowledgment, and pro mise, heartily, willingly, and truly, upon the true faith of a Christian. So help me God." His object in mov ing this amendment was to arrest a step which, accord ing to his view, would be of the most serious detriment to the public interest, and to bring the oath of abjura tion back to what it substantially was, and had existed without objection for 150 years, omitting from it those portions which were considered objectionable on the ground of their having ceased in their application. The hon. and learned gentleman then proceeded to address the house at some length, using the arguments that have already been urged both in and out of Parliament against this bill. [LEFT SITTING.] POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—June 7. GUILDHALL.—Wm. Long and George Bell, the landlords of several houses in Plumtree•court, Holborn, and Timothy Dillon, James Cotter, Patrick Collins, Samuel Smith, Patrick Lee, and Margaret Neale, the occupiers, were summoned before Sir R. W. Carden by the Commissioners of Sewers, to answer the complaint of overcrowding the houses in question to such an extent as to render them dangerous and prejudicial to the health of the inhabitants. Dr. Letheby was called, and said that, as medical offi cer of health for the City of London, he visited several houses in Plumtree•court on the 21st of May last. I❑ a small room on the ground floor, in No. 6, he found three beds, in which two men, five women, and five children tad been sleeping. The cubic capacity of the room was 967 feet, or less than 100 feet to each person, instead of 300 cubic feet. The room was also without ventilation and in a very dilapidated state. Long said he let the room to Collins with strict injunctions not to take any other lodgers. Mrs. Collins, in her husband's absence, attended, and said there were only three single women besides her husband and herself in the room, and she thought there was no harm in having that number ; but when she got notice, she turned all her lodgers away. The Alderman expressed an opinion that the present proceedings could not be carried on against Long. Mr. Tyrrell said, under those circumstances, he should proceed against Long under another act of Par liament immediately. Sir R. W. Carden said the public health must be at tended to, and it was such men as Long and Collins that encouraged this state of things. He therefore made the order to abate the nuisance, and fined Collins 405., or in default of sufficient distress, one month's imprisonment. The next case was that of a house rented by George Ball, and the number of persons lodging in the house amounted to 70, consisting of 12 men, 19 women, and 32 children ; and in the upper part of the house the oc cupants slept on the floor, without beds to lie upon. One of the defendants was fined 406., or 14 days' im prisonme .t, and the remainder 40s. each, or one mouth's imprisonment. The warrants of distress to be held over for the nuisance to be abated. BOW-STREET.—Mr. D welly, solicitor to the Board of Inland Revenue, appeared to conduct a charge against Messrs. White and Fairchild, of High-street, Borough, wholesale grocers, for selling coffee adulterated with caramel or burnt sugar. Mr. White, the senior partner, attended for the firm. Evidence was given of the purchase, by John Nicholls, an Excise officer, of 11b. of a "mixture of chi csry and coffee." which, on being analysed by Mr. M 1 Ribbon, one of the chemists to the board, and Mr. G. Phillips, the Government chemist, was found to con tain nearly 20 per cent, of caramel. Mr. White said he had for many years been in the habit of using caramel in roasting coffee, without the slightest notion that it was contrary to law: He also concluded that the estimate was erroneous—there was only ten per cent, of caramel. He produced two samples of coffee to show how the colour was affected by the caramel, and maintained that its use improved the coffee, givicg it more strength and body, and was not injurious, but advantageous to the Excise, on account of the quan- tity of sugar used. The chemical witnesses expressed themselves positively as to the accuracy of the analysis. Dr. D welly observed twat the printed directions issued ly the board and repeatedly given to the defendant strictly forbade the use of caramel, or any colouring matter whatever. Mr. Henry convicted the defendant, and inflicted the full penalty of 1001. CLERKENWELL.—AIfred Jackson and Robert Lister, the latter a cabman, were placed at the bar be fore Mr. Tyrwhitt, charged with burglariously breaking and entering the warehouse of Mr. W. Cook, a fancy trimming and silk manufacturer, of Nos. 25 and 26, Banner-street, S. Luke's, and stealing therefrom a large quantity of Bengal, China, and other silk, in twistg, of the value of 2501., under the following cir cumstances : Poice-constable John Jones, 242 K, said he was on duty in Es,ex-street, Bethnal-green road, at a little before five that morning, when he saw a cab driving rapidly up the street, both prisoners being upon the box. They drove along the Old Bethnal-green-road to the Barley Mow beer-shop. They saw that he was watching them, and then they drove awa y, but c ame b ac k aga i n in about ten minutes. He then ran alongside of the cab, and upon looking inside of it, and seeing a large quantity of raw bilk there, he told the cabman to stop. He asked him where ho had taken his fare from, when Lister said that Jackson had called him in St. Luke's, and he and another man had told him to drive to the Bethnal-green-road. He then took them to the Arbour-square station-house, and afterwards went with the cabman to the house of the prosecutor. William Knight, of 6, Lisburn-street, a lamplighter, said he saw the cab drive up to the Barley Mow, when a man got out from the inside, tapped at the door, and when be saw that he (witness) was watching him, he seemed rather confused. He then spoke to the previous witness, and watched for the cab while he ran after the man who got out from the inside. Shortly after he saw the cab return, and was with the policeman when he stopped the cab. Mr. Cook said he carried on business in Banner street, St. Luke's. That morning he was called up by the police, and found that his warehouse had been en. tered, and China and other silk, of the value Of about 2e01., had been stolen. Police constable Eadds said he was on duty in Ban ner-street, when finding the door of the prosecutor's warehouse open, he called him up, and upon making a search he found a jemmy, a dark lantern, and some ske leton keys. How the thieves had effected an entrance was for some time a mystery, until he discovered they had got dow❑ the area grating. They were obliged to break the door open to get the property. The thieves had endeavoured to break open the iron safe, but had failed. The prisoners were remanded until Thursday next. LOCAL SHARE MARKETS. LIVERPOOL, JuNEI7. STOOK EXCHANGE.—The market has been brisk to-day, and prices were a shade higher. The following were the prices :—London and North Western, 1011 2—South Eastern, 214—Lanca,shire and Yorkshire, 923 i—North Eastern and Berwick, 203 Dutch Rhenish, 1.6.3. p.— East Lancashire, 19.13.9.—Lancashire and Cheshire (late C. and B. 27T. sh.), 151—Caledonian, MANCHESTER, JUNE 7. STOCIZ EXCHANGE.—This market was active, with prices well supported. Blackburn, 60 —Eastern Counties, 104 —East Lancashire, 19 13-16—Lancashire and Yorkshire, 34—London and North-Western, 1024 2—Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, 291 Midland Railway Consols, 78i i—South Eastern and Dovers 211—Manches ter and Liverpool District Bank, 91 p.—Lancashire Insur ance, * p. BIRMINGHAM, JUNE 7. ral .iway IerCIO/C EXCHA.NGE.—This market was brisk today ; stocks generally were in demand, and prices well supported Great Western Birmingham Preference Shares were done at 10.1 6th—London and North Westerns at 102 South Stafrords'2i 78 i—Great Westerns closed at 61t, and LEEDS, JuNtE 7. STOOK EXCHANGE. Great Western of Canada, 8/. Os. 3d. -Midland, 78j a—North Eastern, (Leeds) 174. LtU3finTgßEbEe-CsoaUiditTb, elfoireLirwiNll be attend e d .—How often mustSTAtThEe game thing to ? Dr. Letheby, the City medical officer of health has recently reported to his commission ers on .. he , con dition of the houses in Plumtree - court, Holbor n . Three years and more ago we described the very h ouse in this very court, then as now the abode of disease, an d the cradle of immorality and misery. The statement wag reproduced and commented on in many journals, an d was afterwards by us published in "London Shadows ;" but no amelioration appears to have resulted, and now, three years afterwards, the metropolis hears the descrip tion with the same expressions of astonishment as before, admits the frightful evils to which such a state of things gives birth, lifts its hands,—and will then probably forget all ab ou t i t, as before. Let us hope, however, it will Rot be 404—Bui/dev. THE SU N, LONDON, MON DAY EVENING, JUNE 9, 1856. Spirit of the Public Journals. (From the Daily News of this clay.) Much surprise has been expressed during the late war that a more effectual co-operation with the allies was not afforded by Schamyl and the Circas sians, and that they did not avail themselves of the opportunity which then presented itself for strik ing some decisive blow, which might, to a great ex tent, undo the work of partial occupation which it has cost Russia so many years and so many thou sand men to accomplish. Much of the disappoint ment felt on this score doubtless arises from the general ignorance as to the relative positions of the tribes of the Caucasus, and from the popular error of confounding the Circassians,lwho have no known leader, with the Lesghi and Tchetchenzes, who act under the guidance of Schamyl. A glance at an ordinary map will show that the mountain range of the Caucasus runs in a diagonal direction from Anapa on the north-west, to Baku on the Caspian, the south-eastern extremity of the range. The distance between these two points is about 430 miles, the greatest breadth being under 200 miles. The Circassians occupy that portion which lies to the north-west, and which has the Black Sea for its boundary on one side, and the plains of the Kouban on another, the northern. The Russians have established on the sea coast a few detached forts in addition to Anapa and Soudjouk Kaleh, but most of them were destroyed during the war, while the thick forests and deep ravines of Circassia, so unfavourable for military opera tions, have set at defiance all attempts to establish similar positions permanently in the interior. On the north side a chain of fortified posts serves to protect the road from Temriouk to Stavropol, and to restrain in some degree the incursions of the Circassians into the plains of the Kouban. ' Round Mount Elbrouz are clustered the Suaneti and the Kabardians ; the former constantly threatening Mingrelia, the latter holding their independence with difficulty in the face of the slow advances of the Russian outposts, and al ternately in a state of active warfare or hollow truce with their opponents. Between these tribes and those under Schamyl lies the country of the Ossetians, a people who have been for many years at peace with Russia, and who hold the famous pass of Dariel and the defiles of Mount Kasbek, through which runs the groat artery of communi cation between Southern Russia and Georgia. From Kasbek to the Caspian the rugged hills of Daghestan extend, inhabited by the Lesghi, Tche tchenzes' and other tribes, whose resistance to Russia has been the most obstinate and deadly. It is here that Schamyl exercises a sort of theocra tic rule, aided by his uaibs or lieutenants, making descents sometimes in the direction of Vladikav kas, at others threatening the pass of Daniel, or leading his murids into the fertile districts of Ka tchetia, and creating alarm in Tiflis itself. It was in one of these forays that Schamyl, in July, 1854, at the head of some thousand Lesghi horsemen, crossed the river Alazan and succeeded in carrying off from her house at Tsinondale, the Princess Tchavtchavadze, her sister, the widow of Prince Orbfltani, their children, a French gover ness, and a considerable number of other persons. After sacking and destroying the house and the adjacent villages, the Lesghis retired with their prisoners and booty to their fastnesses in the moun tains ; the ladies and principal captives being car ried to the residence of Schamyl, where they were detained about eight months before they recovered their liberty. The information we possess respect ing the internal policy and condition of those moun taineers is so scanty that every addition to it pos sessing a character of authenticity is welcome. The narrative of their captivity, published at Tiflis, is consequently highly interesting ; although its state ments must be received with some caution, emanat ing, as t'ley do, foal a hostile source, and having passed through the hands of the Russian censors. Katchetia itself, the scene of the incursion of Schamyl, Is a remarkably rich district ; neverthe less, the captives are loud in their admiration of the beauty and fertility of the valleys which they crossed in their journey through Lesghistan to Dargui Vedeno, the head-quarters of Schamyl since the destruction of Dargo, his former resi /ence, by the Russians in 1845. This journey occupied 22 days, and they were finally installed in the harem of Schamyl as prisoners, to await his arrival, in order to discuss the terms of their ran som. Curious as the pictures of the domestic life of the prophet chief are, we pass them over, the more striking and important part of the narrative being that which details the negotiations for the release. It will be recollected that a son of Schamyl, Djemel Ed-deen, had long been a pri soner in Russia, and that various rumours were current during the past year as to his having been exchanged. It was precisely at this juncture that he was restored to his father, and that restoration I facilitated very considerably the liberation of the Princess Tchavtchavadze and her companions. The authority of Schamyl is evidently partly military and partly religious, his body-guard of murids being not only picked warriors, but a species of disciples, much employed, like their chief, in religious exercises. It nevertheless appears that his power is by no means uncontrolled, even at Dareui Vedeno, for he carefully abstained from putting for ward the restoration of his son as a prominent con dition in the treaty, adhering obstinately for a long time to the terms most popular with his murids and naibs, or lieutenants, namely, a million of silver roubles, a sum of which those mountaineers had heard, but of which they were unable evidently to form any clear idea. Finally, the bargain was struck for 40,000 roubles, or about 6,0001., and Djernel Ed deen was, at the'same time, given up to his father, so far Russianised that although remaining a Mee sultnan,he had entirely forgotten his native tongue. It is tolerably clear that although for defensive operations, and for such forays as we have alluded to, the means at the disposal of Schamyl are very formidable, the absence of artillery or infantry, and the habit of fighting without any unity of ac tion, render the Caucasians powerless beyond their mountain defiles and precipices. Nor does their political condition, resembling in many respects that of the Scottish Highlands in former times, offer facilities for combining the operations of the Daghestan tribes with those of the Circassians. Gradually the Russian forts are surrounding them, and narrowing the limits of their natural fortres ses ; but the information derived from every source would seem to show that except by devastating their immediate frontiers, or by harassing the convoys passing by the road of Dariel or that of the Kouban, little aid could have been expected either from the Circassians or from Schamyl, while the communications by the Caspian offered to the Russians an alternative route, though longer, for the supply of troops and munitions to Georgia. It would appear that the only useful aid that could be given to the Circassians or to the warriors of Daghestan must be in the form of money and of such munitions of war as they can use and understand, leafing the business of fighting to bo carried on by them in their own fashion, alone, as it would be impossible to combine our European system of tactics with the operations of their irre gular and undisciplined cavalry. The long siege of Sebastopol in all probability increesed their hesita tion to run any unusual hazards, and it was a stroke of policy to send back Djemcl Ed-deen at that moment, to disseminate his impressions of the power and invincibility of the Russians, whose gold and whose power of fomenting dissensions and jea lousies among the chiefs are to our thinking the great perils, of the Caucasians. (From the Morning Post of this day.) The death of the Bishcp of Gloucesterand Bristol, which has for some time been expected, took place at Stapleton on Friday last, to the great grief of his lordship's personal friend. and the clergy and laity of an extensive diocese. He was one of the compa ratively few Bishops who owed his elevation solely to his great merits and essential fitness for so high a station and so immense a responsibility. His early career is associated with men who have since be come great. Many have, like himself, been promoted to the episcopal bench, whil e o th ers h ave b een con spicuous in other offices of the Church, in Parlia ment, is diplomacy, or at the bar. He is one of a large number of Cambridge men who adorned the beginning of the present century. At that period the mathematical tripos was the sole road to hon ours, and great in many and various ways were the tripos men of that day. The century began with D'Oyly, Lo Bas, and Vice-Chancellor Shadwell. The following year gave us Henry Martyn, Sir Robert Grant, and Lord Glenelg. Dr. Stanley, late Bishop of Norwich, and the late Lord Can terbury come next, followed, a year later, by names still spared to us, Archdeacon Hoare, Lord Wensleydale, and the Bishop of Peterborough. These all graduated in the undergraduacy of Bishop Monk. The year 1804 produced Dr. Kaye, late Bishop of Lincoln, and Dr. Monk, the Bishop whose death we now lament. The next year gave us the Bishop of Ely, and the next Chief B iron Pollock, followed the year after by Lord Langdale, Dr. Bland, of equation notoriety, Professor Sedgewick, and the Bishop of London: It was amongst such men that Dr. Monk early took a high place for scholarship, industry, and research. Although dis tinguished for classical attainments of the highest order, he did not confine his reading to that branch of l earn i ng . Hi s t or y a nd divinity were in high favour with him, and ho pursued them with the suc cess that mi g ht h ave been expected from his perse verance and original powers of mind. The cause of classicallea rn i ng at C am b r id ge i s gr eatly indebted to him, for ho it was, in conjunction with Dr. Kaye and others, who first urgently pushed forward the insti tution of a classical tripos, although it Was not until 1824 that their great desire was accomplished. It was mainly to his own merits, as a laborious and accomplished scholar, and an earnest divine, that Dr. Monk owed his elevation, first to the Deanery of Peterborough, and afterwards to the see of Glous cester. His high academical standing, his publica tions on classical literature, and his effective preaching at Whitehall, recommended him to Lord Liverpool and the Duke of Wellington. Promo tion followed in due course, and he became Bishop of Gloucester. Upon the translation of Dr. Allen to Ely the diocese of Bristol became united to that of Gloucester under an Act of Parliament procured by the Ecclesiastical Commissioners. In his position as Bishop he laboured with all his natural energy, rarely interfering with politics and Parliamentary strife, but addicting himself chiefly to the wants of his diocese, and particu larly the promotion of education, works of charity, the improvement of poor benefices, the building of parsonage houses, and the enforcement of resi dence on the part of his clergy. One of the latest objects of his life was the re- ere cti on o f the church at Stapleton, winch he undertook entirely at his own cost, and which is now rapidly approaching completion. It has not been permitted him to see the conclusion of that undertaking, but the work will remain a lasting monument of his zeal, muni ficence, and public spirit. Only once in the course of his lon g , honoured, and useful life did the voice of slan ier attempt to say one word in depreciation of his merits. It was in the year 1851, when it was the fashion to abuse Bishops. The whole Church policy of Lord John Russell's Administration had tended to bring the Episcopal office into contempt. He had been se verely blamed for the appointments to Manchester and Hereford, and, in return, he bitterly retali ated by stirring up an angry but popular feeling against Church authority altogether ; by casting upon it all the responsibility of the impudent as sumptions of Cardinal Wiseman and the Papal ag gression. From that moment it became the fashion in the House of Commons to attack the Bishops, charging them either with Popery, or with avarice and oppression. Mr. Horsman, taking his cue from the prevailing prejudice, singled out the Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol for a bitter personal attack, charging him with a dishonest administratian of Church property, and holding him up as one unfit to show his face amongst honest men. The Bishop was then in Germany, and unable to meet in Par liament the charges so maliciously made against him. At that time, though personally unknown to his lordship—yet aware, as we were bound to be, of the facts of the case, through channels equally open to Mr. Horsman, or any other public man or public writer—we had the extreme plea ' sure of standing alone of all the London journals in the defence of that injured prelate. We cor rected the leis-statement of Mr. Horsman, and a7pealed to facts. Time went on, and the facts jus tified our appeal. The Horfield estate, which, it was alleged, had been dishonestly diverted from the Ecclesiastical Commissioners to Dr. Monk's own family, turned out to have been conveyed to trus tees for the permanent augmentation of poor bene fices and the relief of necessitous clergymen. In a letter to Sir W. Page Wood, the Bishop trium phantly vindicated every step he had taken in the matter, and proved that, so far from he or his family having been gainers in the slightest degree, he had been a loser to a large extent by the outlay necessary for carrying out his wise and benevolent scheme. We have never heard that Mr. Horsman made any a mende for the unconscionable wrong that he had done to a man whose whole life had exhi bited qualities the very opposite to those which his traducer had venomously ascribed to him. The con spicuous wickedness of that transaction, however, lost Mr. Horsman his seat for Cockermouth at the election that soon followed, and left him for some time at his wits'-end how to get into Parliament again. But good came out of evil, and the misre presentation made in Parliament had the effect of drawing out the attachment of the clergy and prin cipal laity of the diocese, who rallied round their diocesan with a display of confidence and affection which must have more than counterbalanced all that the anti-prelate party could possibly say against him and his order. After a long and useful life ho sleeps in peace, loved and lamented as a Bishop should be, leaving behind him a name to be remembered with reve rence, and an example which his successors may well endeavour to follow. There remains ona duty which seems now to de volve upon the clergy and laity. It is well known that the late Bishop earnestly desired the re-con stitution of the See of Bristol. He found, as every one who succeeds him must find, that the joint diocese was too unwieldy, and, in point both of population and territorial extent, was far beyond the energies of ona man to govern properly. The clergy and laity must have felt the same convic tion. They have now to bring the matter under the notice of Government, and endeavour, by a short act, to get the partition made. The Ecclesi astical Commissioners know where to find the money. The question of a seat in the House of Lords is disposed of. There is no constitutional difficulty. The only obstacles are those arising out of supineness and indifference to the welfare of the Church. ANOTHER ATTEMPTED MURDER ON BOARD THE STIRLING CASTLE. PORTSMOUTH, JUNE 7. On Wednesday another attempt at murder was made on board the Stirling Castle, convict hulk, in this har bour. The person whose life bas been placed in jeo pardy on this occasion was a warder, John Howarth, and mho it appears about seven or eight o'clock on the morning of the above day was unlocking the cells to allow the prisoners to go on to the upper deck. Whilst so engaged a convict named M'Donald rushed behind Howarth and inflicted a stab upon him at the back of the ear. The wound was at the same part of the head as was inflicted by the convict Jones on the unfortunate Mr. Hope, surgeon of the Stirling Castle. The wound was inflicted by the blade of a knife attached to a wooden handle. The instrument has not been found. M`Donald, after inflicting the wound, ran up on deck, and there, mixing up with a namber of convicts, he en deavoured to escape detection. Mr. Howarth, how ever, had identified him, and at once proceeded to give information to Mr. Williams, a senior officer. Captain Warren, the governor of the hulk, immediately ordered M•Donald to be brought before him. This was done, on which the miscreant commenced crying bitterly, and ex claiming, "I did it." Captain Warren banded him over to the county polce, and he was taken bef,re the county bench on Thursday and committed to Winchester. Dr. Wilson was on board, and immediately took Howarth under his care. In the course of the day he was removed to his home in Gosport., where, we are glad to say, he is getting on favourably. M'Donald is 22 years of age, was convicted of felony in December, 1854, at Bolton, and sentenced to four years' penal servitude. Howarth is a married man, but has no family. The above attempt at murder is evidently an outburst of that insubordination of which Jone,'s case was of so murderous a specimen. Both these acts of violence were cool and deliberate, without the slightest provocation existing. There would appear to be some truth in the statement thatlhas been made by more than one convict, to the effect that there is an organised conspiracy on board the Stirling Castle to take away the lives of the officers one after another. One of the convicts has re• cently told a warder that it was intended to serve three or four other officers in the same way. Capt. Warren, the newly appointed governor of the Stirling Castle, has, as far as was possible in so short a period of time, effected some improvement in the state of things on board. He has procured an additional force of warders, six having come down from Milbank prison yesterday. The warders are, however, very awkwardly placed ; they are not even allowed a stave for their own defence, and there is not a sentry on board for the preservation of peace or the protection of the ship. A GRADUATED SCALE OF HUSBANDS,—" Two days ago," writes the Paris correspondent of Le Nord, "there died at Versailles, in complete obscurity, a personage who has a name in history—Count de Born belles, who, after Napoleon I. and the Count de Niep perg, was the third husband of Marie Louise." [ADvsicrissmssr.]—ASCOT RACES.—Siour AND Er s , kaiNo. _ SPECTACLES, POWERFUL TELESCOPES, OPERA, RACE AND PERSPECTIVE ( - 4 , Assr,s.—Messrs. S, and B. Solomons, opticians, 39, Albe marle-street, Piccadilly. 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The valuable advantage derived from this invention is, that vision becoming impair e d i s preserved and s t reng thened, and very aged persons are enabled to employ their sight at the most minute occu pation- can see with these lenses of a much less magnify. ing power—and they do not require the frequent changes to the dangerous effects of further powerful assistance. Deafness—New Discovery.—The Organic Vibrator, an ex. traordinary powerful, small, newly-invented instrument for deafness, entirely different from all others, to surpass any thing of the kind that has been, or probably over can be, produced. Being of the same colour as the skin, is not per. coptible ; it enables deaf persons to hear distinctly at church and at public assemblies; . the unpleasant sensation of singin g noises iu the ears is entirely removed ; and it affords all the assistance that possibly could be desired.-39, Albemarle. street, Piccadilly. Observe—opposite the York OVB RELATIONS WITH AMERICA. (Prom the Examiner.) It is impossible that two great nations with interests so connected can go to war for such causes, is in every mouth, with reference to our American differences. But, unhappily, these very words remind us of the same reliance, so signally falsified, as regarded Russia. Who thought that war possible ? When no escape from it could be shaped out in imagination, yet the hope of peace, or the faith in peace, lingered in men's minds. The ambition of one wilful man brought upon the world the calamity of the war just closed, and precisely the same cause threatens us with the same evil on a far larger scale. The vices of despotism and democracy thus tend to the same end. There are men, says Bacon, such self-lovers that they will not scruple to fire their neighbour's house in order to roast their own egg in the embers. President Pierce is one of this class, and would not hesitate to set the world on fire for so paltry an end as a renewal of power for four short years. This man's use of power is to prolong his power coute qui coute. To play his selfish game thousands may perish, and thou sands more brought to ruin in both countries. Can such wickedness be suffered to prevail ? Will not the good sense and feeling of the American people revolt against such atrocious extremities ? We are bound to trust they may, but we cannot shut our eyes to some ugly facts. A certain recklessness is a strong American character. istic. They do not look before them as we do, they have not our care of consequences. A man in the United States builds up his fortune easily, and as lightly throws it down, to build it up again. He goes ahead heed lessly, because he falls easily, as children fall. Of clever ness, enterprise, and activity there is superabundance, but little forethought and prudence in our sense of the words. The Americans are indeed ♦ery much the spoiled children of circumstances ; they have been for tune's favourites, and are too likely to make the mis takes of those whose heads are turned by a course of prosperity and success. Much hopeful stress is laid on consanguinity, the com mon stock, and the common language. Upon the effects of the last circumstance we have much doubt. Barriers to the communication of ideas have their advantages as well as the contrary. The mass of the French people, the Germans, the Russians, have no knowledge of un complimentary mention of them in English print or converssticn, and our commonalty for the most part are in the same blessed ignorance of offensive comments in foreign languages. Peace gains something by these barriers of foreign tongues. The language in commen with the Ameri can Union has served, not as it ought to have done, as a means of concord, but as a ground of offline in common. They see everything that is said in the English press disagreeable to their self-love, and we as regularly have brought under our view whatever they retort disparaging er insulting to ue. On each side ir ritation is kept up, and national vanity is in a per petual fret. The Americans complain that the British are the only people in the world who ridicule their peculiarities, and find faalt with their habits and man ners. The fact is not so, but they do not see or bear how they are handled in foreign languages, and we, therefore, falsely appear to be their only censors or detractors. Hence a vast deal of undue resentment and spleen. We believe that nothing would tend so much to peace between the two countries as the confu sion of tongues falling upon them for the space of two or three years. It is because we understand each other verbally so well that we understand each other substantially so ill. And, perhaps, if the diplomatic relations are suspended, arid the two Governments sulk and cease to speak to each other for a season, good may come of the interruption of intercourse. The belief that nothing would provoke England to go to war encouraged ,the late Emperor Nicholas to the aggressions which terminated in the event which Russia has had such reason to rue. We trust this example will not be lost on the people of the United States. England has an immense stake in peace with America. She knows how to measure the vast cala mity cf war, but there are evils to which she is pre pared to submit as necesiities, like pestilence and famine, if there be no honourable means of escaping them. Our Government has proposed arbitration upon one question, has expressed regrets and offered apo logy respecting another. If it has been in the wrong inadvertently in the enlistment affair, it has put itself in the right by its conciliatory conduct. There are bounds, however, to concession, especially when there appear to be no bounds to exactions and pretensions. The world has never yet seen such a war as would be the war, strange, foul, and unnatural, between the United States and England, for the world has never be fo.e seen two nations with the same identity of interests, having between them, besides, the ties of kindred and free institutions, the tie of the very largest commer cial relations. The annual value of our trade with America is equal to the whole national revenue of Russia. l Sure scandal would it be to humanity if two coun tries which so serve and enrich each other should turn their powers to injuring each other, which they wofild unhappily do in far greater proportion. How the evil spirits of the world would rejoice at such a spectacle of the fallibility of the free institutions. We have been told that war is a game Kings would not play at if their people were wise. What, then, must be the people who permit the chief officer of their state to play this wicked game for his own separate and particular interest, bidding for a renewal of his power by abusing it ? AQUATICS. THAMES UNITY BOAT CLUB. The first match of the season over the usual course, from Putney-brido to Barnes, for pieces of plate, will take place on Monday, June 30, with the following crews : Black—Messrs. Blineko, C. Mining, Mills, sen., Dillon, and Simmons (steerer). White--Messrs. Bates, Hazlerood, Cross, Fox, jun., and Fox, sen. (steerer). Red—Messrs. Sullivan, Paul, Parker, Barnard, and Whittaker (steerer). Y 4. w—Messrs. Richardson, Hodges, Gough, Glover, and Williams (steerer). PIMLICO UNITY ROWING CLUB. The first four-oared match of the season of this club, from Putney New-bridge to Rirnes Railway-bridge, will be rowed on Monday, June 23, at six o'clock p.m. The following are the entrie., viz. : Red—Messrs. W. Holmes, E. Rainger, J. North, and H. Lidyard. White--Messrs. W. Cragg, E. Keeler, W. Halliday, and T. Nichols. Blue—Messrs. F. Lidyard, A. Beetts, W. Reid, and E. Cole. Steerera are to be chosen at the text meeting of the club, on Monday, the 16th instant, at Mr. Keeler's, the King's Head, Eoury-bridge, CHAMPIONSHIP OF THE THAMES. It was expected that a match would have been made ere this for the championship of the Thames between Henry Kelly, of Fulham, and James Messenger, of Teddington. The occasion on which it was presumed they would meet after Kelly's challenge to Messenger to row him for 1001. within three months, was the appoint ment to give up the stakes in the late great race between Kelly and John Mackinney; but nothing whatever was done, and the matter still remains in abeyance. HENLEY ROYAL REGATTA. Several of the gentlemen amateurs who are to take a part in this great regatta on Monday and Tuesday next have already arrived at Henley, and are training over the beautiful reach of water selected for the sport. The Chester four was great last year, and, encouraged by their suc cess, they have got up an eight for the present regatta, which, it is said, will cut out some sharp work for the university men, and also give the great London club the Argonaut, a warming for the four•oared match, in which Oxford and Cambridge both have also crews of a very first.rate character. Of the two London psirs, Messrs. Playford and Payne, and Nottidge and Cassmajor, the former are 'slightly tke favourites ; and Cassmajor has strongly the call for the sculls. Since our previous no tice of the facilities of reaching Henley per Twyford, the Great Western Railway, for the accommodation of per sons attending the regatta, have put on special trains to and fro, and the transit between Paddington 'and Twy ford will be as follows :—Down, 10 a.m., 11 a.m., 12 50 p.m., 2 p.m., 4 p.m., 8.10 p.m. ; up, 4.30 p.m.; 5.38 p.m., 7.40 p.m., 9 p.m. The last, as well as the ordi nary trains, will call at Slough and Maidenhead. MANUFACTURING STATISTICS.—In England and Scot• land generally, the weekly consumption of cotton is not under 31,500 bales. There are spun 50,000,000 miles of yarn per day, a length sufficient to circumscribe the ►lobe two thousand times : and there are woven by 250,000 power•looms, 3,551 miles of cloth per day, equal to the distance between Liverpool and New York,--or forming an annual produce of cloth that would extend over?a surface in a direct line, of 1,000,000 miles.— Builder. VACANCIES, APPOINTMENTS, AND PROMOTIONS IN THE CIVIL SERVICE.—InIand Revenue Department— Excise Branch—Mr. W. Wrenford, collector of Mid dlesex collection, has been appointed collector of London North, in the room of Mr. Jonathan Bar ber, who has retired after 40 years' honourable ser vice. Mr. Horatio Standley, surveyor general exam iner, has been appointed collector of Middlesex collec. tion, in the room of Mr. Wrenford, promoted. Mr. John Thornick, collector of Lynn, has been appointed collector of Canterbury, vice Mr. W. A. Mark, Mr. Wm. Ritson, surveying general examiner, has been appointed collector of Lynn, in the roam of Mr. Thorndick, pro moted. Legal Department.—A vacancy has occurred in the office of official messenger of the Liverpool District Court of Bankruptcy, by the death of Mr. S. Day. Ctrs• toms.—A vacancy has been caused in the landing-waiters' department by the death of Mr. F. Francis. Mr. Wm. Daly has been appointed a clerk for general business in London. Mr. W. H. Ramsbottom has been appointed a clerk for general business in London. Mr. A. Campbell has been promoted from second to first class searcher in London ; Mr. D. J. Ure has been promoted from third to second class searcher in London ; Mr. J. Tattersall has been promoted from fourth to third class searcher in London. Ireland—The lord lieutenancy of the county Wexford has become vacant by the death of Lord Carew. Mr. Stanley, late secretary to the poor law commission, has been appointed comptroller and accountant -general of the stamps and taxes department, Dublin, in the room of Mr. E. B. Powell, retired on full salary. Cape of Good Hope—Mr. A. Henderson has boen appointed clerk to the civil commissioner of Victoria ; Mr. J. F. J. Wrench has been appointed clerk to the civil commissioner of Albert. Canada—Mr. A. Douglas, of the city of Ottawa, has been appointed a surveyor in her Majesty's Customs to the province of Canada,—Civil Service anotte. LAW INTELLIGENCE.—June 'T. COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH. (Sittings in Banco, before Lord Campbell, and Justices Coleridge, Erle, and Crompton.) IN SA THR PARISY OF WHITECHATEL-COMPENSATION FOR LOSS OF OFFICE. Mr. Metcalfe applied for a rule for a mandamus, com manding the trustees under 16 and 17 Vic., to award compensation to Mr. Simonds, who had been 17 years surveyor of pavements in the parish of Whitechapel. The office bad been abolished under the Metropolis Local Management Act, and when Mr. Simonds applied to the trustees for compensation, they said he must g o t o th e MetropAitan Beard of orks. The Court—What objection have you going to tha board ? Mr. Metcalfe—Because there is no appeal from their decision ; and, in awarding compensation, they generally give very small sums. - The Court—lf we granted a rule, you would only sub. ject yourself to the costs. Rule refused. BAIL COURT. (Sittings in Banco before Mr. Justice Wightman ) IN RE AN ATTORNEY-ALLEGED MISCONDUCT. Mr. M`Nainara moved for a rule calling on an attor ney to answer the matters in an affidavit. It appeared that some time since a widow lady, Mrs. Brown, had' placed several sums of money in the attorney's hands for the purpose of being invested ; he had since become bankrupt, and it has been found he had never invested the money, and the lady had not as yet got either prin cipal or interest. She brought an action against him which was referred to the Master, who found that a sum of 1,8441. was due to her. The defendant had since kept out of the way, and this application was therefore made. His Lordship said he could not grant the rule. The applicant had chosen to proceed by action, and could not have a concurrent remedy by a summary application. Rule refused. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS. (Sittings in.Banco, before Chief Justice Jervis, and Jus. tices Cresswell, Williams, and Willes.) COCKERELL V. THE VAN DIEMEN'S LAND COMPANY-FOR. FEITURE OF SNARES. The plaintiff in this case formerly held 200 shares in the Van Diemen's Land Company, which shares the com pany declared forfeited for non-payment of calls. The plaintiff, however, brought this action to recover the value of the shares upon the ground that they had not been properly forfeited ; and when the action came on f ,r trial before the Chief Justice it was arranged that the facts should be stated in a special case for the opinion of the Court. To-day the matter came on for argument. Mr. M. Smith and Mr. Burston appeared for the plaintiff, and Mr. Hugh Hill and Mr. Unthank for the defendants. The plaintiff had been a member of the firm of Cocke rell, Larpent, and Co., down to the time of the failure of that house, at which time the shares of the company were of only nominal value. Subsequently several calls were made, but the plaintiff did not pay the calls upon his share', and the company declared them to be for feited. The company's act declared that no advantage should be taken of any forfeiture of shares until after 30 days' notice had been given by the directors of the com pany, under the hand of the clerk, to the owner thereof, by aotice in writing, left at his usual or last-known place of abode. In all his connections with the com pany the plaintiff was described as of Austin-friars, and the notice of forfeiture was sent there. The place, how ever, was shut up, and there was a notice that all papers for the firm were to be left at the office of Mr. Coleman, whose address was given, and the notice of forfeiture was sent to Mr. Coleman's office. It, however, never reached the bands of the plaintiff, who was abroad, and who remained ignorant of the forfeiture, and of the fact that calls had been made. The shares continued almost valueless until the end of 1852 ; but, after that time, they rose in value until they reached the price of 191. each. Whilst they were at that price the plaintiff de rnanded the shares, but the company refined that de mand, contending that they had been properly forfeited. The questions for the Court were, whether the forfeiture was regular, and, if not, for what amount the plaintiff was entitled to recover. At the time of the trial the shares were worth 181., and were now at 171. The Court gave judgment for the plaintiff, and it was arranged that the verdict should be entered for 2,6001., after allowing certain deductions on account of calls. TEM CORE AND YOUGHAL RAILWAY COMPANY V. PATERSON -LIiGALITY OF AN AMALGAMATION. This was a special case framed for the purpose of ob tainiog the opinion of the Court as to the legality of an amalgamation which bad been effected between the Cork and Youghal and the Cork and Waterford Railway Com panies ; and the questions raised were two—first, whe ther the directors had power to amalgamate, and se condly, whether they had effectually exercised that power. - Sir F. Kelly and Mr. Lloyd appeared for the plaintiffs and Mr.' Sergeant Ryles and Mr. Hodgson for the de fendant. The Court was of opinion that a deed which had been executed gave the directors power to effect an amalga. tion, and that they had well exercised that power. Judgment for the plaintiffs. (Sittings at Nisi Prius in London, before Mr. Justice Crowder and a Common Jury.) ALDERTON V. BRADSTOCR—SEDUCTION. This was an action to recover damages from the de fendant upon the ground that he had seduced the plain tiff's daughter. The plea was not guilty. Mr. Warren and Mr. Hawkins appeared for the plaintiff, and Mr. Malcolm for the defendant. Mr. Warren, baying shortly opened the case, called Elizabeth Alderton, the plafntiff's daughter who deposed —I am 20 years of age , an d my f at h er i s the head porter at Waltham-cross station. I had been out at service prior to the 20th of of May 1855, when my acquaintance with the defendant commenced. I met him in a lane and ' afterwards took a walk with him ; it was on a Sunday afternoon, about 3 o'clock, and we walked to the Berry green field, which is a short distance from my father's house. (The witness then described the seduction.) I afterwards had a child, which is now in court. I took out a summons against the defendant, and he was taken before the magistrates, but the summons was dismissed. Cross - examineci—Berry-green Lien is an open field, with not many trees in it. It was near a stile where the defendant committed the act. He pushed me against the and I accepted it. I had not the chance of making any application to the defendant after I found myself in the family-way. Whenever he used to see me coming he got out of the way. I did not try to go after him. I called upon him after I was confined. I never went to his father's house after I found that I was in the fam ly-way. My father did not know that I was in the family. way till Christmas. My mother knew the Sun day before Christina'. I had been assisting my mother in washing up to that time. Re-examined—l shall be 20 years old on the 10th De cember. I know that the defendant has spoken to my mother about marrying me. He had spoken to me about keeping company with me. When we were in the field together, nobody was passing at the time, but two men and two women went by afterwards. I have six brothers and sisters, and I am the oldest but one. Fa ther only comes home once a-day. I am not intimate at all with a person named Denman, and there is no pre tence for saying that anything of this sort took place between me and Denman. From the first I kept com pany with the defendant with a view to marriage. Sophia Alderton, the mother of the last witness, said —My husband is a porter at the Waltham-cross Rail way station, and we have six child , ien. The defendant came to our place several times. He wished my daughter not to go to service again, as he wished to keep company with her. This was the plaintiff's case. Mr. Malcolm, on behalf of the defendant, addressed the jury, and said he should call his client before them, who would distinctly swear that be never had any inter- course whatever with the plaintiff's daughter. If this turned out to be so, there would be a direct conflict of testimony, and he (Mr. Malcolm) had no doubt that the jury would rightly decide between the parties. - The defendant was then called and said—l was 19 years old on the 2d December last. I am an armoury sergeant. I had enlisted to repair the arms of a regi ment or rather a depot. I reside in Whitechapel. On the 20th May, 1855, I was residing in London. I went down to Waltham once a week to see my friends. My father keeps flys at the Falcon Inn. I had been ac quainted with the plaintiff's daughter a short time be fore the 20th May. I had visited her at her house once or twice before the 20th of May. I recollect the 20th of May. I went out merely to take a walk with her. We went to the fields and we sat down for about half an hour, and then west home. I had no connection whatever with her there. I did not push her down. I did not take any liberties with her. I was intending at that time to keep company with her. I had heard some thing which I did not like. I stopped there one evening rather late. It was about the second Sunday after I had walked with her in the fields. I said, "It is rather late, I must go, or .I shall be locked out." She said it did not matter, as I could go back and sleep with her. Nobody was present when she said this. She had never said any thing of that sort before, or I should have left her. I never at any time told her father or her mother that I thought of marrying her. She said before the magistrates that I had bad connection with her at Berry-green fields. She was asked if she thought the child was anything like me. A. magistrate asked her. She said she did not think it was, and it was not likely it should be. Den man was the party who introduced her to me, and I said that Denman had said he bad got some steel filings for her to destroy the child. She said it was false. I have never in my life had any connection with this girl. I told the magistrates so. Cross-examined—l have known Denman for five or six years. He works at the Ordnance factory. I should think he is 23 years of age. He has married since this occurrence. Denman is not in the employment of my father, but he has lived in the same house as my father. We were before the magistrates on the 20th March. Since the seduction I have had conversation with him about the plaintiff's daughter. I did not ask him whe ther be had connection with this young girl, and .vthe ther he would swear it. Mr. Warren—Did you ask him to say before the ma gistrates that he had bad connection with her and he refused—upon your oath, sir Witness—l do not recollect. Re-examined—l saw him one Sunday, and he said, "Have you heard anything of this affair ?" I said, " What do you mean ?" He said, "Of the child down the lane." • I said, "You know more about it than I do ;" and he said 1 ought not to Say anything against him, as he had been a friend to me. Denman was sum 'zoned by my father to fio before the magistrates as a witness. He - was not present when I said 'that about the steel filings. The case was not dismissed before Denman was examined. He was call e d, an d b e denied having said that about the steel filings. My father ba employed the attorney to defend this action. By Mr. Warren—l don't recollect that Denman Bald before the magistrates, " I cannot perjure myself for body." I will not swear that he did not say so, or something like 4. The plaintiff's daughter was then recalled, and e l l denied that any such conversation as the defends tit be spoken to, in which she said that he might slee p wi th her, had taken place. There were three beds in he r father's house. Her mother and father slept in or te, her ' self and si s t er i n ano th er, an d h er b rot h ers in the , third,: Mr. Justic e C row d er , i n summ i ng up , sa id thr,t het' the parties were in an humble sphere of life, but that was no reason why the plaintiff should not base Ii ! remedy against th e d e f en d an t if h e h a d com mitto d act to which plaintiff's daughter bad distinctly wore. On the other hand the defendant had sworn posktivelY the other way, and the question, therefore, f or them was whose testimony they believed. If the deforideF ff bad really committed the act complained of, the ploint l would be entitled to a fair and reasonable amount of 0 04. pensation, but if they believed the defendant's testiOeeir then he would be entitled to their verdict. /5 • The jury gave a verdict for the plaintiff—damaf ree (Sittings in Banco, after Term, before Chief Justice jerv iet and Justices Cresswell, Williams, and WilleP.) n Notice was this morning given th a t thi s co urt will , o l - d - WednEsday, the 18th June, and two following days, hod. sittings, and proceed in dispo s i ng o f th e b us iness pee a ing in the special paper and in the new trial p a per, ee,, other business and will also give judgment in !Wit ter ' then standing for consideration. TARRANT V. WEBB-ACCIDENT AT THE CARLTON Cil'gj3 HOUSE. This was an action to recover damages for injuri es sustained by the plaintiff i n f a lli ng from a se4ff°,,, 1 erected at the Carlton Club-house ; and at the trial,7: fore Mr. Justice Crowder, at the la s t s itti ngs in nitlui e ser, the jury gave a verdict for the plaintiff of 25/. 4 Mr. M. Smith now moved for a n ew t r i a l o r to arra% the judgment, and stated that the defendent ' was a / 10°9 ,i decorator and upholsterer, at the West-end, and he ha been employed to decorate the interior of the emi e Clubhouse. In the course of that job he employed be plaintiff, who is a journeyman pai n t e r, an d whilst * work for the defendant the plaintiff and four other al ° went upon a scaffold for the purpose of "flatting' ti ceiling of the entrance hall. They, however, Intl 1 0 been long there when the scaffold fell, and one of tb : plaintiff's ankles was broken, and he claim e d dannibe,; for that injury on the ground that it had been cansei 10 consequence of the scaffold having been improperly e air t strutted. It was how submitted that the judgloq" should be arrested, inasmuch as it was not averred the declaration that the defendant had wilfully at knowingly employed an incompetent person to erect t ue scaffold, and it was also said that the plaintiff ougt t° have exercised his discretion as to whether the Beata i,l % was safe before he ventured on it. As to a new tri.sl , was submitted that the proper question to be tried woof whether the defendant was responsible for the acts persons employed by him of whose incompetence he " I ; not aware ; and that that question had not properly he ° left to the jury. Rule granted. Country Markets. MARKET- JvzE 6- First.. sior o a' 48s 4d HADDINGTON CORD WHEAT. BARLEY OATS. 73s Od 44s Od 333 6d Second 69s Od 1 40s 10d 1 30s 10d I 45e 61 Third 58s Od I 34s 6d 28s 6d I 4 10 a Total quantity of wheat in market, 552 qrs., 5E z i' ol a I', PP barley „ ]35 qrs., 135 o , d ~ PP oats ,i beans PP AVERAGES PER IMPERIAL QUA IIO2 R O3 TE CICIr R rSS . :: 19243 :(:11 Pi PP Wheat, 3/. 9 0' 3-12 tbs 1 Barley, ...21. 010 7-lo b e Oats, ... 1/. 10 10 7-12ths 1 Beans, 21. 5 4 4-1"0" DALBEITH GRAIN MARKET—JUNE 5. , Qrs. Best. Current. Infeil 422 Wheat 73s Od 514 Oats 32s 01 oos Od. 73 Barley 403 6d oos Od 24 Peas & beans 17s Od ._ 00s Od - ABERDEEN—Juz 6. Potato oats r Common oats 9 9 4 5: 6 0 d d to 25 2 2 s s 0 0 d d } 4olbs per blo bs Bore 37s Od to 38s Od. I nq p, B Barley 37s Od t o 38 s Od " " Wheat, red (spring)s6s Od to 60s Od 1 62113 s ~ , white 66s Od to 71s Od Oatmeal 19s Od to 20s Od per boll. Flour 50s Od to 52s Od per sack. PROVISION MARKET. 1 04 Beef, per lb 6d to 8d Butter, p lb. Os 9d to Os d A Mutton, per lb 6d to 8d I Eggs, p doz. Os 7d to Os Lamb, do., Os 7d to Os 9 i Hens, p pair 3s Od to as (Od Veal, per 1b...... 6d to Os 8d Chickens,do.ls 6d to 20 1 Pork, per 5t...5s 9d to 6s Od Ducks, do., is 6d to to Salmon, per lb Os to Os Ducklings,oOs Od to Otl Grouse, per brace Os to Os Turkeys, each 3s Od to its Zi Tallow, p stone, 3s9d to 4s Od Potatoes, pr peck, 6d Ii Rabbits, each 01 to Od. 92g Butter for exportation (present cure) per cwt.—OsOd to d i Eggs, wholesale price, per dozen —d to w' RETAIL PRICES. Flour,l4lb 0s Od to 2s 10(1 Barley flour,l4lb.Os to 20 ,„ 1 Oatmeal Os Od to 25 Od „ dust, O s t o Os 11 5 Bereuioal —.Os Od to is 10d „ per lb 2d to 20.1 Pea,semoal... Os Od to 2s 8d Sids, V 4-Ib. 10af...8d. 12-lb. 10af...4d. Cheese, per imperial stone, 4s. to 4s 6d. DUBLIN, Juni 3. There was a steady market today for wheat and oat° , the former at fully the currencies of Tuesday, and 0 ; latter at an advance of 3d to 6,1 per barrel. There rather less inquiry for Indian corn, and we reduce ou' quotations 6,1 per qr, White wheat, 38s 0,1 to 43s ; red ditto, 35s 6d. to 41. s 0 1 ; barley, 14s 63 to 20s Od ; oats, UN 3d to 14s 6d ' • rapes' . —s Od. to —s 0 , 1 per brl; oatmeal, 14s 01 to 15s 6d ; bate n r i flour, 21s Od to 27s Od per cwt ; Indian corn, 298 Od to 31 3 per 480 lbs. SUNDAY MUSIC IN MANCHESTER.—On Friday nigh t ' meeting was held in St. John's Temperance Hall, Sit s chester, for the purpose of consid er i ng "th e best g e r to he taken in order to provide a band of music to Pea form in Manchester on Sunday afternoons." After dresses from several speakers, a committee of six W l ' appointed. A subscription list was then entered into, and a considerable numb er p u t d own th e i r na mes le t various amounts, as the sums which they were will to contribute during the summer towards the expense the bands. 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Z answered.—From the Venerable Archdeacon of Ross. 32,836.—Three years' excessive nervousness, withpains in ~0 1, 1 „ neck and left arm, and general debility, which ren d ere d my* very miserable, has been radically removed byDußarry'shealtf rest eringfood.—Atsx. STUART, Archdeacon of Ross, Skibereel Supported by testimonials from the ce l e b ra t e d Professors °, Chemistry Dr. Andrew Ure ; Dr. Shorland ; Dr. Harrel: Dr. Campbell ; Dr. Gattiker ; Dr. Wurzer ; Dr. Ingr al f, Lord Stuart de Decies ; the Dowager Countess of Castl e. stuart ; Major-Gen. Thomas King, and many other respoottr persons, whose health has been restored by it, after all ot,,m" means of cure had failed. Suitably packed for all elinlaw": with full instructions. In canisters, 51bs., lls. ; 121b5., super-refined, 11b., 6s. ; 21bs., Hs.; slbs., 225.; 101bs., 339 0 The 101bs. and 121bs. carriage free, on receipt of post.oine; order. Barry du Barry and Co., 77, Regent-street, Loiad°," Fortnum, Mason, and Co., Purveyors to h er M a j e sty, Pre" , dilly ; also at 6 0;Gracechurch-street ; 33d and 451, Strand; ; Cheapside; 68, Ccrnhill ; 49, Bishopsgate-street; 55_ e l la; iing-cross,; (na ; 54, Upper Baker-street; 63 and 150, °' street. BIRTHS. OF A SON. On the 7th 'inst., the wife of the Rev. John Yap% Hughes, of Greenwich. col. On the 6th inst., at Woolwich, the wife of Lieut. - Eardley Wilmot, R.A. Or A DAUGHTn. On the 6th inst., at Ingestre, Viscountess Ingestre. On the 30th ult., at. Nortbehurch R ec t ory , Hems, the wife of the Rev. Sir John Online Seymour. On the sth inst., at Pynes, Devon, Lady Northeote• MARRIED. On the sth inst., at St. James's, Piccadilly Henry L an ; don, Esq., formerly o f W orces t er, t o Ann i e Eli z abeth, tif second daughter o f th e l ate R ev. W m. Ell i ot, rector of Simonburn, Hezham, Northumberland. On the 3d inst., at St. John's Church, Hackney, William Ferrey, of the Ragged School Union, and idr. Queens'-road, D a l eton , t o S ara h, on l y d aug ht er 0 1 Bull, of Chancery-lane. DIED; On the sth inst., at Bath, Sophia, wife of Mr. James Tunstall, of that city, aged 34. Oa the 6th inst., at 52, Fenchurch-street, Mr. rt Russell. On the sth inst., at 23, Strand, Mr. Timothy Testes. On the 4th inst., at Paris, Samuel Gurney, of Uptkr' Essex, aged 71. On the 2d inst., at Castle Borough, county Woxford• Robert Shapland Lord Carew, S.P., aged 69. On the 27th of January last, at Porland, Viotorio: Captain Charles Berkeley, eldest son of the late Rowl sou Berkeley, of Benefield. 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