The Sun. — London, England, 1856-07-24 00:00:00

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. country into contempt, and the more it was known the treater would be the indignation of the people against it... He could not help regretting that the noble lord at thee head of the Government had soiled his hands with suck. a dirty bill. He for one would not be a party to it. Mr. GLADSTONE said that whatever might be that result of the debate, great scandal would arise from this' bill. The session was now far advanced, still it would. be impossible to collect the opinion of the house on the, subject, and, therefore, he trusted that the bill would be rejected, and that the Government would not collect all its powers and force this bill into a law. Legislation on this subject was not at all required. The act of 1534 provided for the appointment of suffragans to assist the bishops. There might be cases where a resignation would be better than the appointment of a suffragan, but on the other hand a suffragan would in some cases be pre ferable to a resignation. It had been said that a rector could not retire on a pension, but a rector could appoint a curate, and the act of Henry gave the power to bishops to appoint a suffragan, which was, in fact, a bishop's cura te. (Hear.) The sums set down in the bill as pen sions were generally considered too large, and many of the m embers of the house had stated although they wou ld vote for the second reading of the bill, they would not pledge themselves to assent to the amounts so set down. He begged to put a ques tion to her Majesty's Government, which he wished answered. What he wanted toknow was, whether it was competent for the house to go into committee to reduce the amount of pensions without endangering the passing of the bill ! For the reasons he had stated he should vote against the bill. Sir G. GREY defended the bill, and stated there was no contract in this case. The letter of his noble friend that had been alluded to was merely one which stated that the wishes of those rev, prelates should be submit ted to Parliament with a view to their being carried into effect. The act of Henry, if applied to this case, would have compelled the retirement of the bishops on their full salaries. He trusted that the bill would receive the sanction of the house, and thus approve of the means that had been adopted to *meet the difficulties of the case. Mr. HENLEY insisted that any court of law would hold a transaction similar to the present to be simony, if it bad occurred between the poor rector and his patron with regard to the resignation of his benefice, and that the Court of Chancery would hold that thb nego tiation which had been entered into between the two prelates and the Government was a binding contract. Lord PALMERSTON said the Government intended to stand by the salaries as proposed in the bill, and if the pensions were reduced it would be for the bishops to decide whether they would retire. The Go vernment had fulfilled their part of the bargain by the introduction of the bill, and it was for the house to de cide whether it should be adopted. The Government had been asked during this discussion what course the bishops would adopt if the proposed salaries were re duced in committee. The only answer he could give to that question was that it would be for the bishops them selves to decide. Mr. GLADSTONE—My question was not what course the bishops would take, but shat the Govern. ment would do if the salaries were reduced. Lord PALMERSTON—The Government would wit. lingly announce what course they would take if the re I dne. - ,ion of the salaries was insiste d on. (Loud cries o " Oh, oh."). The house then divided, when there appea r ed — For the second reading l5l Against it Majority in favour of the second reading -79 The bill was read a second time, and was ordered to b committed to-morrow at 12 o'clock. The other orders of the day were then disposed of, and the house adjourned at six o'clock. RAILWAY REFORM ASSOCIATION. Yesterday the first ordinary meeting of the Railway Reform Association was held at the London Tavern, Bishopsgate•street. It was numerously attended by in fluential shareholders in the principal railways. HOUSE OF COMMONS.—{YESTERDAY.) The S2EAKER took the chair at a quarter past twelve o'clock. TEIE SHEEP CONTAGIOUS DISEASES PRE VENTION BILL. On the motion of Mr. LABOUCHERE, this bill, which was a continuance bill, was read a first and second time, and ordered to be committed to-morrow. THE VENTILATION OF THE HOUSE. Mord R. CECIL, in consequence of the excessive heat of the house, moved that the windows be opened. The SPEAKER said that opening the windows would aggravate the evil complained of by the noble lord. It would increase the temperature of the house by 10 degrees. Mr. THORNELY said there was another objection to the windows being opened. Some members could stand excessive heat and cold, but could not sit in a draught without suffering severely, and that was his case. (Hear, hear.) Lord R. CECIL then put the question of which he had given notice, viz.,—To ask the President of the B ,ard of Works, whether he has any objection to place a complaint-book in each of the division lobbies, in which members may enter any complaints they may have to make with reference to the ventilation of the house. The SPEAKER, in the absence of the President of tee Board of Works, said that any hon. meriiher having a complaint to make of the temperature of the house Should mention it to the Sergeane a t-Arms. (Hear.) The subject then dropped, and the windows were subsequently opened. LORD LUCAN AND THE JUDGE-ADVOCATE GENERAL. Mr. KINNAIRD asked whether it was likely the report of the Board of Inquiry at Chelsea would be in the hands of hon. members b efore the prorogation of Parliament?: Mr. VILLIERS said he had every reason to believe the report would be in the hands of hon. members before that time, and be should therefore forbear continuing a controversy which a noble lord in another place had originated and seemed disposed to continue. (Cries of order, from Colonel French.) He hoped the friends of the noble lord in that house would allow him (Mr. Vil liers) to say a word or two more on this matter, which was of a personal nature, and] attacked bis character. (Hear, hear.) He repeated that he should decline continuing the controversy then, because he thought it showed a want of respect for that house to bandy personalities there with the noble lord — (hear, hear)—and also because the report would shortly be in the bands of hon. members and before the public, when they would have an opportunity of .judging whe ther he had stated anything incorrect with respect to the inquiry or to the evidence. (Hear, hear.) They would then see whether a solitary case of personal ani lealversion by the Commissioner.; was satisfied by the Evidence, and whether the inquiry with regard to it was or was not complete. (Hear, hear.) He was convinced a friend of the noble lord's in that house would convey to him what passed there, and if be did so be hoped he would tell the noble lord from him (Mr. Villiers), that lie treated with the utmost indifference his personalities. (Loud cheers.) Col. FRENCH said that be considered the explana tion of the noble lord in another place perfectly satin. factory. Thu noble lord there denied that he had said anything offensive to the right hon. gentleman, and fur thernicre that he never meant to have done so. The subject then dropped. GRAND JURIES, &c., (IRELAND) BILL. After a short discussion the motion for the seen d readirg of this bill was withdrawn. POOR LAW (IRELAND) BILL. The order for the second reading of this bill was dis charged. BISHOPS OF LONDON AND DURHAM RE TIREMENT BILL—ADJOURNED DEBATE. On the resumption of the debate on this bill, Sir W. TIEA.THCOTE said that, in the unavoidable abeence of the right hon. gentleman the member for Oxfordshire, he intended to move the motion of which the right hon. gentleman had given notice. He (Sir W. Heathcote) urged the Government not to push for ward this bill at that period of the session ; and, if there was no other objection to be urged against its progress, it was the want of time to properly consider a measure that would be of the utmost importance in its imme diate application to the Church, and the conse quences that might result from it in the considera tion of other causes of a similar character. He called upon the Government to abandon this measure, and in the next session introduce one of a general nature. If driven to a decision on this bill, he should feel no diee culty in voting against it on its merits, believing that it partook largely of the character of simony. The Go vernment might not to force the house to a decision, and he hoped hon. members would support him in his amendment, that the bill be read a second time that day three months. (Rear, hear.) Lord ROBERT CECIL seconded the amendment. He objected to the principle of the measure, because it would have the effect of leading in every case to re tirement for a twofold bargain. One between the re tiring bishop and the Government relative to the amount of the pension, and the other between the Government and Parliament relative to granting it. It was also likely to give rise to political jeebery. He should give the measure his most strenuous opposition. Mr. M. MILNES said this was an exceptional mea sure, and to consider that it would be taken as a prece dent or as the groundwork of a genera! measure, was an assumption on the part of those who a lvanced that line of argument that he hoped the House would not listen to. This measure would he advantageous to the dioceses in question, and no scandal would attach to the Church from it, except from that which had fallen from those who opposed it. lie hoped the house would not be led away by the exposition of schemes for a general measure, and in consequence reject this bill. There were only two grounds on which the house could reject it,—first, upon the ground that the duties of a bishop were so unimportant that these aged prelates were able to per form them as well as any one else ; and secondly, on the ground that the terms which the bishops had proposed were so exorbitant that the house could not agree to teem. Mr. NAPIER supported the amendment. He thought Parliament ought not to be called on to assent to the conditional resignation of a bishop, which was unsouni in principle. The resignation of a bishop, ac cording to the doctrines of the Church, should be pure, simple, and absolute. The correspondence between Lord Palmerston and the Bishops of London and Durham showed that the resignations of these bishops would not be pure, simple, and absolute, but that they would par take of a siinoniacal character. Mr. CARDWELL supported the bill, as being neces sary to provide efficient supervision for the two dioceses in question. He considered the charge of simony un founded. Mr. ROEBUCK opposed the bill. lie condemned the house providing " soft cushions" for these effete bishops on their retirement, in the shape of a pen sion of 6,000/. a-year, whilst they deprived aged and infirm clergymen from making similar advantageous arrangements. The whole of the business was a scandal and a shame to the Church, and he hoped the house would not sanction it. Mr. A. BLACK supported the bill. There was no thing immoral in a bishop asking for a retiring pension, nor was it contrary to the Bible. If they rejected the bill they would be inflicting a great injustice on the country. He should be glad if the Church was left to itself, but so long as the house meddled with Church affairs so long must these discussions continue. Sir J. GRAHAM acquitted the noble lord at the bead of the Government of possessing any desire to in crease his patronage by this measure, because the corre- The mania for establishing Credit Mobiliers in Ger spondence between him and the rev, prelates referred to many shows no signs of subsiding. To those of Vienna, showed that it did not originate with hen. He (Sir J. Frankfort, Darmstadt, Leipsic, Dessau, and others, of Graham) would rather continue the evils complained of which the shares are at premiums ranging from 10 to from these bishops being unable to effectually die- 90 per cent., there are now two additions which have charge their duties a little while longer than by agree- just been introduced at Berlin. The first consists of ing to the second reading of the bill affirm a principle several second-rate merchants and bankers. The other, On Monday Sohn Hannah, John Rogers, James Don , that was novel, dangerous, and had been unwisely which is designated the Society of Commercial Credit, nelly, Peter or Patrick Handling, Francis Watson, Ed adopted by the present Government. (Hear, hear.) It counts among its administrators some of the first mere ward M'Cann, John M'Anally, and Francis M‘Williams was impossible to consider this question apart from cantilenames in Berlin. The capital is fixed at 15,000,000 were brought before the mayor and magistrates of the correspondence alluded to, and simony, divested of thalers (or 2,250,0001.), of which the directors take Gateshead charged with riot and assault at the Felling all technicalities, was this : the purchase or sale of the 7,500,000 thalers at par, while the remainder are to be gate. John Spence, who was severely wounded in the voidance of a spi r it u al cure f or a mon i e d con - so ld a t a p re mium, which is to be carried to the credit affra y , stated that he was one of the Orange procession sideration stipulated to be paid upon its void- of the company. Upon a subscription being opened for on Saturday week, which was stopped and assaulted at ante. In making the se p ro p osa l s th e t wo bishops a portion of the amount at 10 premium applications the Felling-gate by a party of Ribbonmen ; he was appe eared to have had that i n v i ew . They 'felt were sent in to the extent of 140,000,000 thalers The car r y in g a Bible. One of the party struck him with a there was a legal obstacle to su c h an arrangeme nt eagerness to obtain shares is attributable to the fact of " Morgan Rattler'; three of his teeth were knocked out, as this, for they both used the same remarkableexpres- the company having at its head commercial men who sion, "if the law allows it"—clearly ' feeling that the law have always been known to be successful. The managers and he received 7 wounds on the head. He would n ot . know the man that struck him. On cross-examination of simony was, as they understood it, a preliminary ob- reserve to themselves sper cent. out of the profits, and he said there were many Orange lodges in the town, and jection. The right hon. baronet then proceeded to look the directors are to have 5 cent. before any distr'bu at the question in that light, and called attention to the lion whatever i s made their object was to support Protestant principles. There was no oath administered, but the men were bound to effect it would have on the clergy if such privileges were are of 200 to the per shareholders.The shares l attend God's worship. When they were stopped by the to be given to the heads of the Church and at 17 per n t en a t e p re re e nu ac iu h m , and are already in great demand Ribbonmen they had ten minutes parley amongst them denied to them. He objected to the bill becau se Laberee eiseestes .i SiorrrHEARING SPBC selves. The band would not go any further • but some that where money PEIWERFUL TELBSCOPE — S, ERAND A--.PERSTPAECCTLIEV3E, it had been laid down GLA3SEA.—MeSBI'S. S. and B. Solomon:, in the procession said they would go on. O ' ne man in was considered, however pure the intention of the party, it was simony, and that the bill, if passed, would prevent l e ly . ise u r rd e i lajesty's Royal Letters Patent op f t o i r cia v n al s melee-street, Piccadilly. Observe—opposite the York iota]. of o ffi ce. He was the " tyler." Mary, wife of WM. t ua 3 b 9 l , e A l a b n e d - the procession carried a sword, but that was only a sign hereafter the adoption of a general measure to extend brilliant .r Telescopes,inirovrents in the most powerful and Airley, said she walked with the Orangemen, and she to other bishops. At this time there were two other ' I e identified M'Anally ae the man who assaulted Spence. spective Glasses, to knaraowli, th ß t; acecourse, Opera, and Per- One was the prelates in the Church whose cases were similar to those She also saw eleWilliams with a gun in his hand. When under the consideration of the house. distances of objects viewed poss ee ess tomit° army, t y, cr avY ; through them—of great importance navy, the procession was stopped a man came from the gate, Archbishop of York, who from paralysis was unable to and others. These telescopes leave his mansion ; and the other was the Bishop powers that some three and a-half inches, with e an x raexotrraineayr• walk knee-deep in their Orange blood. William Brown, and said if they did not turn back the Ribbonmen would of Norwich, who had expressed his desire to p an ieee, th w e ill do s u h b ow distinctly Jupiter's moons, Satn rn ' s r ij ag " , a labouring man in the Orange procession, carried the retire, feeling incapable of efficiently discharging d le cou sta t rs ; with the same telescope can be first banner on which was an inscription " KieF , seen a person's and an object from n l6 en t a o n ; are of larger anda.ll his episcopal duties. From the Reformation downwards th r ee ies miles and a half distant William, Derry, Antrim, Enniskillen, and Boyne. &c.—The th a e i sizes, with increasing powers m ace . orrn e e y ly co ; ve w r h rn ile or t u he t i h r vary. (with the exception of the case of the non-juring bishops) there had not been a case of resignation by a lug rem 4 to 6 inches enable us to die above, and the Georgian, with his 6 satellites, number of men having scythes, sticks, guns, pistols, This man stated that the procession was stopped by a bishop of his episcopal duties or a seat in the House of Exhibition, 1851.—Valuable, newly-invented, very small, and other weapons. Two men came forward with sticks Peers. In the rein of George 111., when Bishop Sher lock was Bishop of L on d on , the duties of the bishop powerful waistcoat-pocket glass,the size of a walnut, by which a person can be seen and known 1 i miles distant ; they answer and said they had been sent to give the Oraagemen warning that if they went on a foot further they should were performed for seven years by Bishop Pierce, Bishop of Rochester, without scandal to the Church,die. Witness remonstrated, and reminded them that eve ry purpose on the race-course, and at the opera houses, the Irishmen bad been allowed to proceed quietly on country scenery, and ships are clearly seen at Bto 10 miles. St. Patrick's day. Rogers, who had a stick in his hand and without inconvenience resulting Doubts there were entertained as to the legality of a bishop resignino', and They are invaluable for shooting, deer-stalking, yachting, to with a spike at the end of it, said, "To hell with the with wonderful the resignation of the Bishop of Rochester was approved eporteraen, gentlemen, naand g p a e m rs o p k e e e e t p i e v rs e , l and touri s ts. Opera, Church and state ; come on, boys." A general shouting by the Ministers. The right hon. baronet then said there race-course, camp, was no immediate necessity for the house adopting this eower. N e wly-constructed r) Spectacl g e Lenses of the great power. The valuable advantage derived and yelling was then set up, and witness was struck by Metenally with a " Morgan Rattler" on his head ; he ' measure, because the duties could' be done by deputyinven tion is, that vision becoming impaired is was knocked down and lost his senses. When he.reco as was now the case. H© thought the bill as intro- from this d and strengthened, and very aged persons are vered Hannah fired a pistol towards him, and witness duced into the House of Lords, to meet the late case of est transparent , , preserved the Bishop of Bath and Wells, if it had been also enah e . d to employ their sight at the most minute °cell. felt on his head as if he was touched with a hot iron. pawn-. ca n see with these lenses of a much less magnify. 1 Other witnesses were called to show that Donnelly fired pegg ed, would have met the evil now complained of. in power—and they do not require the frequent changes agun a t Mr. WALPOLE, in a lengthened and eloquent speech, to the dangerous effects of further powerful assis tance. Organic Vibrator, Handling were active in throwing stones. A man i named bundle n O n e n t e u n i u Duffy int,,g u , n s e p l (!) o w d h e a r s aud absconded,sbet. Theh d supported the bill, which he said was in accordance with Deafness—New Discovery. — the statute 2leth of Henry 111., which had been consi- traorainary powerful, s mall , newly The invented instrument an ex r- there to su ass an law of the Ch urch, deafness, entirely different tron.i all o / rP Y-1 of a " Morgan 'Rattler" was produced, having been butt - end dared and was now th© . . bably ever can be • sited the hill It would be Sir J. SHELLEY supp . • thing of , the kind that has been, or pro . . the skin, is not per. ! . incised op after the disturbance. lt was composed of dioceses Ile objected to for the advantage of the • the prod colour as uc , 3d, Being of the same e t'bi it dea f parsons to hear distinctly at church / gutta percha with a piece of lead inside, and had formed having to do duty for the Bishop of ep i e ; enablesperse •nt sensation of singing part of a very formidable weapon. Three witnesses were Bishop of Oxford i and at public assemblies ; the unpleasant called to prove an alibi" M'Williams, and in the case of London. I noises in the ears is entirely removed' and it affords all the • e d —39 Albemarle. ho was discharged, T he committed for trialthe others were Mr. T. D CINCOMBE opposed the bill. This was a assistance that possibly could be desired.- 33 , • / bill likely t bring the Church Sea the religion of the . street, ricc e diily, ob lervo _ o ppoite the Yea #44. , at assizes. PARLIAMEIVTARY Mr. MALINS (the chairman) presided, and congratu lated them on the success of the efforts of the association to obtain a reduction on the proxy stamp duty. A depu tation bad waited on the Chancellor of the Exchequer, who was so convinced of the necessity for the reduction that he readily assented to it. The chairman proceeded to detail the subjects which the committee thought Par liament ought to be memorialised upon for the security of shareholders, the principal of Which were—the sepa ration of revenue from capital ; that the common seal of a company should not be binding merely because the di rectors bad sanctioned the proceeding, but that the share holders generally should have a voice in the matter ; that there should be an uniform system of accounts on all rail way companies ; that power should be given to reject a director before his term of office expired, in the event of his conduct not being satisfactory ; that a similar system for managing railways to that existing in France should be instituted by the appointment of three directors, who should be paid well enough to devote all their atten tion to the affairs of the company ; that a majority of three-fifths of the shareholders should have the power of applying to Government for the audit of accounts, which should take place before the bills were paid; that there should be published rates and tariffs ; that no favour should be extended to any particular company, as was the case with the Northern and Eastern Coal Company on the Eastern Counties Railway, but that all persons without distinction should be at liberty to use any mil -1 way upon the same terms ; that three-fifths of the share holders should have power to reject any person who does not give satisfaction, to prevent any official from refus ing to quit his appointment because he had been elected for a fixed period ; that the legislative powers exercised by the two houses of Parliament in relation to railway property should be limited, and that a competent autho rity should be appointed to decide various questions in stead of leaving them to the decision of a committee of four members of Parliament ; and that directors should be made responsible for the proper management of the affairs of the company. - Various other subjects were also mentioned by the chairman as deserving of attention. Major COURT thought a great deal of existing mis management was owing to the apathy of shareholders, who already possessed power to make directors do their duty. Several speeches were made in favour of the sugges tions of the chairman ; and a resolution, approving of a memorial to G..wernment, in which they should be em bodied, having been carried, the meeting separated. MANCHESTER, SHEFFIELD, AND LINCOLN• SHIRE. Yesterday the half-yearly meeting was held at the Palatine Hotel, Manchester ; Mr. Chapman presiding. An abstract of the half-yearly report, and statement of accounts, has already appeared in The Sun. A letter was read from the Earl of Yarborough, the chairman of the company, expressing regret that the state of his health still compelled his absence from the meetings, and his en tireapproval of the measures adopted during the half-year. The Chairman having commented on the improved posi tion and provects of the company moved the adoption of the report, which was unanimously agreed to, as were subsequent resolutions declaring the guaranteed divi dends on the various preference stocks of the company (including the new 3.1 per cent. stock), and a dividend at the rate of ss. per 1001. of original stock, for the half year ending 30th June last ; all payable on the 15th Aug. The meeting was then made special, and a resolution was passed for the creation of debenture stock to the amount of 2,370,000/ , and for the extinction of deben ture bonds now existing, the holders to be entitled to a perpetual guaranteed 4 per cent. interest, secured by a first charge upon the tolls, &c., of the company ; the new stocic, is shares of 101., to be offered rateably to the shareholders in the proportion of 101. for every 251. of share capital ; and to be paid up in instalments of 10s. to 1/. 155., from the 15th Dec: next to the let Jan., 1361—the shares net so issued to be disposed of at the discretion of the directors for the interest of the com pany. It was stated that the necessary act of Parlia ment was obtained some years ago. HOUSE OF COMMONS.-JULY 23. BISHOPS OF LONDON TEDAN DURHAM RETIRE - Order read for resuming adjourned debate on Question, " That the Bill be now read a second time :"—Question again proposed :—Debate resumed : Amendment pro posed, to leave out the word " now," and at the end of tho Question to add the words " upon this day three months :"—Question put, "That the word ' now ' stand part of the Question :"—The House divided ; Ayes 151, Noes 72. COLCHESTER, STOUR VALLEY, SUDBURY, AND HALSTEAD. The report of the directors of this company states that the rent due on the Ist of July bad been paid by the Eastern Counties Railway Company. The board con sider it is of the greatest importance to the interests of the shareholders to call their special attention to the position of the bond debt of this company, now amount ing to the sum of 34,6251., of which upwards of 30,000/. will fall duo on the let of February, 1853. These bonds are at present principally held by the parties to whom they were originally issued, and most of them have been twice renewed by such holders. At the half-yearly meeting held in August, 1855, the shareholders autho rised the creation and issue of 9,000 guaranteed shares of 51. each, for payment of the bond debt. It was anti cipated that by these means the company would have been ab'.e to discharge the debt falling due on the let of February last, but, although the directors issued the shares at 5 per cent., the shareholders did not take them up to any sufficient amount, and had it not been for the kind consideration of the holders of the several bonds then falling due in agreeing to renew them for two years longer, the company would most probably have been placed in a situation of great embarrassment. The board have now ascertained that there is no probability of the renewal of the great bulk of such bonds falling due on the lst of February, 1853. In deliberating upon this question the directors had to regard the fact that the entire surplus income of the company from the present period to the Ist of February, 1853, would be insuffilent to liquidate the amount of the bonds then falling due by a sum of about 25,0001. They therefore put themeelves in communication with the holder of upwards of 30,0001. of such bonds, and ascer tained that he is willing to agree that if the company will bind themselves to apply their surplus income every l.alf-year to the payment of such bonds until the whole of the bond-debt shall be discharged he would accept payment of the whole of his bonds in such manner and at such half yearly periods. The directors state that four years and a half would be sufficient to effect the extinction of the company's bond-debt, and they strongly recommend the adoption of the proposition by the shareholders. They state that the effect of thus paying off the bond-debt out of revenue will be an addition of 1 per cent, to the dividend on the ordinary shares. The capital account shows that 281,7531. had been expended. The revenue account shows that 4,4331. for the half year's rent had been received, and that 1,1631. would be required to pay expenses and interest on loans and pre ference shares, leaving 3,2801. towards paying off the bonds of the company. BRISTOL, SOUTH WALES, AND SOUTH. AMPTON UNION. A new line of railway is projected under favourable auspices, which is intended to effect a great saving of distance between South Wales and Bristol and South ampton. The object is to unite Bristol with South Wales, and to connect the railways on the English side of the Bristol Channel with those on the Welsh side by a floating steam bridge, crossing the channel at the narrow point, called the new passage, near the mouth of the Wye, and thus uniting the South - Wales at Port skewit station, about 30 miles from Glocester, with the Great Western, Midland, and Bristol and Exeter Rail ways at Bristol by means of a short line of railway, about eight miles, between Bristol and the south side of the channel at the new passage. By this means a saving in the distance by rail between Bristol and Newport and Cardiff of about 55 miles will be effected, the present route being by the detour through Glocester. THE ORANGE AND RIBBON RIOT NEAR GATESHEAD. ATES-151. -- - .A grew, Sir A. Gower, F. Osborne, R. Antrobus, E. Greene, Thomas Paget, Lord A. Baines, Rt. lion. M. Gregson, Samuel Palmerston, Viscount Baldock, E. H. Grenfell, Charles Patten, Col. II ill, J. Grey, Rt. Hon. Sir G. Peel, Sir R. Ilsring. Sir F. Grey, R. Peel, F. Bass, M. Grosvenor, Ld. R. Pellatt, A. Beckett, W. Gurney, S. 11. Pinney, Col. Bakeley, F. Gwyn, iIONVOI Ponsonby, A. Bethel', Sir R. Hall, Sir Benjamin Portman, W. Black, Adam Hankey, T. Price, W. Pugh Illamlford, Marquis ot Hardy, G. B mham-Carter, J. Hastie, Archd. Rams' D. den, Sir J. Baiverie, Ilon. E. P. Hayes, Sir E. Reed, J. Bowyer. G. Ireadlam, T. Ricardo, S. Brocklehurst, J. Herbert, P. hitch, 11. Brockman, E. D. Iferamod, T. Ridley, George Bruce, Lord E. Horsman, E. Robertson, P. Buckley, S. Howard. C. Bolt, P. Butler, C. S. Hutt, W. Russell, F. W. Cardwell. E. Ingham, R. Sandon,Viscotmt Castlerosse, Via. Ingram, IL gawk, C. Cayley, E. S. Irton, S. Seymour, IL Challis, T. Jones, D. Seymour , W. D. Chaplin, W. Kinnaird, A. Shelley, Sir J. Chelsea, Viscount Kirk, W. Smith, M. Cholmondeley, Lord Laboucliere,ltt.llon.ll Smith, R. Cockburn, Sir A. J. E. Langto. Sooner, R. Cocks, T. S. Lemon, Sir n, U. G C. S p tanley, Lord Coffin, W. Lewis, Sir G. C. Stuart, Captain Corry, 11. T. L. Lindsay, Col. J. Thompson, G. Cowper, W. Littleton, E. Thornely, T. Cranny.* E. H. J. Lockhart, A. E. Tynte, 01. C. Cabitt, IV Lowe, R. Villiers, C C. Dashwood, Sir G. M`Gregor, John ole. S Walcott, Admiral. Davis, Sir IL R. F. Magan , IV. Walp. Denison, J. E. Malins, Richard Watkins, Col. De Vere, S. E. MarjoribankS, D. Wigram, Loftus T. Dlrett, E. Martin, J. Wilkinson, W. Drurnlanrig, Vis. Martin, P. Willcox, B. Duncan, Viscount Massey, W. Williams, W. Dunces, George MiMes, ft. Williams, Sr W. Dundas. F. Moffat, 0. Wilson, J. Esmonde, J. Mo nck, Vis. Wood, Sir C. Farnham, E. Moncreiff, J. Wrightson, W. Feilden, M. Mostyn, E. Wynn, 5 r W. Ferguson, Colonel Mowatt, F. Wyvill, M. Ferguson, J. Mowbray, J. R. Forster, John Mulling% J. R. Fortescue, C. S. Neeld, John . Freestua, Colonel Nisbet, R (Ilyn, G. Norreys, Sir D. NOES-72. Annesley, Earl of Graham, Lord M. Beresford, Et. Iln. W. Grogsn. Edward Berkeley, lion. 11. F. Hadfield, George Brady, J. Hale, Robert Bramley-Moore, J. Hall, General John Bramston, T. W Hamilton, G. A. Bruce, H. A. Hamilton, J, Dime'', Sir C. Henley, J. Clinton, Lord R. Herbert, Sir T. Codrington, Sir C. W. Hildyard, R. C. Coles, H. Hume, W. Conolly, T. Jolliffe, Sir W. Dalkeith, Earl Kennedy, T. Deedes, William Kershaw, J. Disraeli, B. King, L. Duncombe, Thomas Knightley, H. Duncombe, lIon.W E. Leslie, C. P. Elm , ey, Viscount Lowther, Col. 11. C. Fitz Gerald, Sir John Lowther, Capt. Fitzgerald, W. R. S. Lushington, C. M. Fox, W. J. MacGregor, James Fuller, A. E. Meux, Sir H. Gaskell, J. Morgan. 0. Gladstone, W. Morris, D. Grate am, Sir I. Mundy, W. TELLERS. flayter, W. Mulgrave Earl of, Murrough, J. P. Napier, J. Newdegate, C. Noel, G. North, Col. J. Palmer, Robert Pechell, Sir G. Peel, Gen. Pilkington, J. Powlett, Lord W. Jiepton, G.' Roebuck, J. A. Scholefleld, W. Stafford, A. Stracey, Sir H. Taylor, Colonel Tite, W. Tomline, G. Vance, John Vernon, V. Willoughby, Sir IL Yorke, E. TELLERS. Cecil. Lord I/cathcoatc, Sir W. PAIRS. For. Against. Mr. Shafto Colonel Knox Lord Haddo Mr. Whitmoro Lord Raynham Mr. Seymer Colonel French Mr. Holford Sir W. Somerville Lord Bective Sir E. Gooch Mr. J. Greene HE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, JIMY ,24, 1856. RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE. ARC.HDEACON DENISON' S CASE. BATH, WEDNESDAY. Yesterday the Court ruled that the citation which had been objected to by Dr. Phillimore was good ; that the articles being informal should be amended ; and on the question as to filing the report in due time and in the proper place, Dr. Lushington said it was a question which would take him time to consider, and he, therefore, deferred it till this day. Dr. Phillimore then said that if his objections were overruled by the Court he should appeal for an adjourn ment of the case before its merits were gone into, so that he might appeal to the superior courts, which were not now sitting, to see if they would confirm or nega tive the decision of his Grace. Dr. Phillimore told the Court that the articles had been re-formed, and that he had no fault to find with the amendment. Dr. Lushington then proceeded to deliver his opinion of the question which was brought before him yesterday, and which we have alluded to above. The learned doctor observed :—The objection to be disposed of arose in the following manner—lt was alleged on the part of the archdeacon, that in these proceedings the directions by the statute had not been complied with, and it was argued that the consequence of non-compliance was that his grace must dismiss the defendant. On the other side it was averred that the prosecutor had done all in his power, and that he ought not to be made responsible for the portions of the statute which it was not in his power to prevent. He could not accede to the argument on the part of the defendant, that to the extent to which it had been embodied it might be legitimately received. He thought if the statute had been so framed that it was all but impossible to carry its provisions into effect, or from whatever cause directions contained in it had not been obeyed, if these directions were essential to the administration of justice, or if the defen dant had been deprived by the non-observance thereof of any means of defence, he was entitled to avail himself of such error, and not to be subjected to this prosecution. The solution of the question appeared to depend on the nature, quality, and effects of the directions said to be violated, and how far such direc tions have been neglected, or in what respect they affect the essential parts of the case. It could not be success fully contended, in proceedings wherein the statute it self gave so much latitude as to the course to be pursued, that every unimportant direction should, even in a cri minal case, vitiate the whole, and entitle the defendant to be dissatisfied. Let them first consider the conse quences. Such a principle, if adopted, would apply not only to a case like this, but to those of a more serious nature, both to the Church and defendant, and would equally throw a shield of protection over charges of blasphemy, and evils of the grossest nature. The fear of such consequences ought not to deter him from following the due course of law, if that course be clear; but none could deny that they would deserve most serious consideration. He did not forget that the accused was liable to the bene fit of all reasonable doubt, but he did not accede to the arguments advanced on either side as to the mode by which he was to arrive at such conclusion. He be lieved that for the last 30 years the judges of the land— and beyond all doubt the legislature—had discouraged technical objections ; and though the ecclesiastical law had not undergone similar legislative change he appre hended that the disposition which had animated courts of justice ought not to be wholly discarded by him as legal assessor for his grace under a new course of pro ceeding established by parliament. At the same time he disclaimed the reasoning that had been offered on the part of the prosecution, as any excuse for the omission of any essential conditions. The learned gentleman then proceeded to show what course the statute pre scribed, and remarked that he was of opinion that the transmitting of the report was simply ministerial, and it was wholly incompetent for the commissioners when they had pronounced an opinion to alter the report in any respect whatever that was not conformable to the opinion declared. The report was to be filed in the re gistry of the diocese, and no time was fixed when the re port should be filed. It was not for him to justify the whole of the statute, but he could not fix a period when the legislature had fixed none. The report was filed, if he were right, originally in the registry of London, and an office copy was filed with it in August, 1855, in the dio cese of Bath and Wells ; but the office copy and the original depositions were not transmitted to Wells until the beginning of June, after the articles now attempted to be acted upon were filed, and the question now asked was, whether the Court should pronounce that filing of the articles before the original depositions were filed was or was not a fatal error ; and if they wer3 called upon to dismiss the defendant ? It was quite clear, he thought, that the defendant had suffered no real injury from any irregularity, and he was not prepared to say that an office copy was not equivalent to the original depositions themselves. He concluded that the archbishop had no other choice bat to proceed, and that the objection could not be sustained. The application of Dr. Phillimore to be allowed to ap peal to a superior court, was now by implication re fused; and the Rev. W. James, of Wells, was called, and examined on the part of the prosecution. The rev. gentleman simply spoke to baying received certain pamphlets from Archdeacon Denison, being copies of sermow preached by him. The Rev. C. E. Ditchard offered similar evidence. Mr. Everitt, mayor of Wells, was also examined upon the fact of having heard and read some of the defendant's sermons, in ono of which he found the following : "The bread and wino, retaining their very natural sub stance, become in some ineffable way the body and blood of Christ, through the consecrating power of the priest." This passage struck him more forcibly than any other part of the sermon. He heard this preached by the rev. defendant on the 7th of August, 1853. Cross-examined by Mr. Phillimore—l do not recollect the context. It caused a great sensation among 'those who sat near me. I sent a copy of the sermon to Arch deacon Law, who came to me, and asked if I would swear to having heard these words preached by the de fendant, and after some hesitation, I said I would do so. Mr. T. Syrreil was next examined, and subsequently Bishop Carr—His lordship recollected sitting on the commission at Clevedon, and reporting upon the case of the defendant to his Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury. Cross-examined—l refused to receive a plea on behalf of the rev. defendant, and we came to the conclusion that we would not hear counsel or the party in person on the question of doctrine. Dr. Phillimore now addressed the Court at great length on two objections. The first was that the archdeacon had not been tried by impartial judges ; secondly, that the common right of the meanest individual had been refused to the accused. The learned advocate quoted several high authorities with a view of proving that the commission was not properly constituted, and that in consequence his grace must dismiss the archdeacon, whom he considered to be a cruelly ill used and persecuted, but good man, whose triumph over his accusers was morally certain. Dr. Bayford having combatted the various legal argu ments adduced by Dr. Phillimore, The Court decided that the objection raised did not vitiate the report, so as to prevent the case being fully heard. Dr. Phillimore subsequently applied for the case to be adjourned, in order that he might appeal to a superior Court, when Dr. Lushington said he thought the defendant was entitled to make an application, and also to have it over ruled. It was open for him to apply to the Lord Chan cellor or the Master of the Rolls. A question was then raised on behalf of the defendant as to the insufficiency of the evidence respecting the printing and publishing the three sermons, when it was decided that as regards two of them the objection was not good, but respecting the third it was held that the evidence was insufficient. The Court was then adjourned till to-morrow. MIDDLESEX SESSIONS.—Tuesday, July 22. (Before Mr. Creasy.) James Taylor, 42, was found guilty of having stolen a coat, value 205., the property of George Morris. It was proved that he had been previously convicted, and that he had been frequently in prison, where he was reg arded as a highly skilled workman at his trade, that of a carpenter. In 1842 he was sentenced to 12 months, and his last term was nine months in 1855. Mr. Creasy said he appeared to be a regular thief, and sentenced him to four years' penal servitude. Edward Evans, 31, labourer, was indicted for having stolen a clarionet, the property of John M`Carthy, from his person. The prosecutor was an itinerant musician, and his evidence was that on the 25th of June he was on his way back to London from a fair he had been to, when he called at a public-house at Ealing to get some beer, and to earn a few pence by playing his clarionet. There were a number of persons assembled there, among them the 'prisoner, and some disturbance took place about a pot of beer. Prosecutor and a companion, a man named Bod gers, went out, followed by the prisoner and two others, who asked him to play them a tune. He did so, and they told him that by going up a certain lane they would save a mile and a half in the journey to London. When they got up the lane they found there was no thorough fare, and on turning round they saw the prisoner follow ing them. The prisoner went up to M'Carthy and said as he had had so much to say about the pot of beer he might take that, at the same tune giving him a blow on the right eye. He was knocked down, and the prisoner then snatched the clarionet from his hand and ran away. After searching for a policeman for some time he at length found one, and they then began to search for the prisoner, who, with his companions, was ultimately discovered on the top of a hayrick, pretend. ing to be asleep. Every effort was made to find the clarionet, but without success. The prisoner said it was only a fair fight, and he knew pothing of the clarionet. Bodgers, in reply to the jury, said that M'Carthy was ' quite sober at the time, and that he saw the clarionet in his left hand at the moment the prisoner struck him. The jury found the prisoner Guilty, and a document was produced showing that the prisoner had been sen• tenced to three months' imprisonment at Reading for stealing lead from the Great Western Railway. Mr. Creasy sentenced him to four months' hard labour, and hoped this would be a caution to him, as no such leniency could be shown him again. Joseph. Simpson, who was convicted last week of as saulting Henry Lomack Edmonds, with intent to rob him by the "garotte" method, was brought up for judgment. Mr. Creasy said it was a most fortunate circumstance for the prisoner that the robbery, which clearly was the object of the assault, was not effected, because if it had been he would have been sentenced to a long term of transportation or penal servitude. The offence he was found guilty of was an assault only, but it was one of a most serious character—a case of garotting, and all such cases must be visited by severity of punishment. He then sentenced him to 18 months' hard labour. William Thompson, 27, was found Guilty of stealing a pint pewter pot and a knife, the property of Martin Gahekiss, a publican, and for assaulting Henry Clark and Joseph Norton, two constables, who took him in charge. Mr. Creasy sentenced him to eight months' hard labour.—Adjourned. POLICE INTELLIGENCE.-July 23. MANSION-HOUSE.--Joseph , Dunn, waiter at the Antigallican public-house, Billingsgate-market, was fur ther examined before Mr. Alderman Wire, charged with the manslaughter of Richard Branscombe. Mr. Hobler at the last examination attended on behalf of the prisoner. Mr. T. Crosby, surgeon, of 13, Fenchurch-street, de posed 'that he made a post mortem examination of de ceased, but the body was so decomposed that it was impossible for him to tell whether the head was bruised or not. The skull was not fractured. He attributed the death of the deceased to a shock of the system occa sioned by a fall or blow. He could not tell by the post mortem examination whether deceased was drunk at the time of his death. Mr. F. Bowler, the brother of the landlord, who was examined at the last hearing of the case, Mr. W. S. Dame, a licensed victualler, Mr. F. Cumming, de ceased's landlord, and Hezekiah Ingle, a waiter, were next examined, their evidence being mainly in confirraa tioti of that given on the previous examination. Mr. Hobler for the prisoner submitted that the death resulted entirely from accident. With regard to the in quest having been held on the body so soon after death, the fact was that another inquest was being held close at hand at the time. The man was pronounced to be dead, and the coroner took the opportunity of swearing the jury to inquire into the circumstances connected with the death of Richard' Branscombe. The jury had returned a verdict of" Accidental death." Alderman Wire—Probably, if there had not been so muck haste in holding the inquest, the inquiry here might have been rendered unnecessary. I think that my brother alderman (Alderman Humphery) not only discharged his duty to the public by ordering a post mortem examination of the deceased to be made, but that it would have been a disgrace to the magistrates of the City if they bad not instituted further inquiry. As this is a case affecting the life of a man, I do not think I should discharge my duty if I did not send it to a higher tribunal. The prisoner was then committed for trial, but ad mitted to bail ; himself in 1001., and two sureties in 501. each. GUILDITALL.—Catherine Thompson, a married woman about 30 years of age, of very respectable appear ance, was placed at the bar on the charge of attempting to commit suicide by trying to throw herself over the parapet of Blackfriars-bridge. James Braine, a country lad, stated that he was on Blackfriars-bridge about 2 o'clock that morning when the prisoner asked him if he thought there was six feet of water there ; to which he replied that he did not think there was. She then said there was enough for her, and immediately jumped up on the seat and put her foot on the parapet in order to leap over, but was stopped by witness, who called for assistance and gave her into ' custody. Poliee-constable 350 corroborated a portion of this witness's testimony, and added that she gave various ac counts of herself both last night and this morning at the station-house. Sir R. W. Carden—Have you no friends ? Prisoner —Yes, I have a husband and friends in Lon ' don, but I will not send to them. Sir R. W. Carden—You are liable to 6 months' impri sonment for attempting your life, and unless you can bring some one here who will give some account of you you must go to prison. Prisoner—You may do with me what you please, but I will not give the names of any of my friends, nor will I say anything more about myself. Sir R. W. Carden then remanded her for a week, with instructions to have herbrought up sooner if she gave the ❑ame of any cf her friends. He also ordered 2s. 6d. to be given to Braine for his loss of time. BOW-STREET.—Joh.n, Haddart, of Tyler-street, Re gent-street, grocer, appeared to answer a summons at the instance of the Excise Commissioners, charging him with having in his possession a quantity of adulte rated pepper. It was proved that 40 per cent. of one parcel of pepper was rice, and 10 - per cent. hardwood. Another parcel contained 10 per cent. of hardwood. Mr. Henry hoped the public would be made acquainted with the facts of the case, as he believed it was not gene rally known that wood was used for adulterating pepper. Mr. Dwelly observed that hardwood was used to a considerable extent not only in the adulteration of pepper but of snuff. Mr. D welly said the officers had inspected the stock of the wholesale house, who supplied the de fendant, and found that it was genuine. Mr.;Henry fined the defendant in the mitigated penalty of 50/. John, Daley, who had evaded apprehension since the 28th ult., was charged with having been concerned in stealing a ring from Mr. Stocker, who was knocked down and killed in High-street, St. Giles's, on the morn ing of the day stated. It appeared that the prisoner was one of those who were present when Mr. Stocker was knocked down, and assisted in carrying him home. The prisoner then went away to drink with his companions. Dennis Leary (who was on Saturday committed for three months fcr stealing a key from the deceased) and a young woman named Margaret Kealah, were of the party. One of the men was sent from the public-house to sell a ring, and on his return, according to the evidence of the woman, Kealah, he gave the money (35.) he had obtained for it to Daley. Daley said, with an oath, " You got more than that ! you shall have none of the drink." The man protested that he had received no more, and Daley allowed him to have his share. The 34. was spent in drink amongst them. Inspector Checkley said the prisoner was an exceed ingly bad character. He was in the habit of " follow ing" prostitutes, upon whose infamy he lived. He bad been several times in custody, once for a violent assault upon ono of those unhappy creatures with whom he w as then !Jiving. Kealah was a fruit girl, and the police knew nothing to her disadvantage. She had lived in Church-lane from her childhood. The prisoner said that the inspector was mistaken in stating that he was a follower. In answer to Mr. Henry, he said he would plead guilty, but that he did not steal the ring himself. Mr. Henry committed him for three months, with hard labour. The police are still in search of the man Doody, by whom the ring was sold, and also for another of the party, who is supposed to be the actual thief. WESTMINSTER.—Hcnry Bently, the driver of a patent safety cab, appeared to a summons charging him with having unlawfully, by careless driving, run into the brougham of Lord A. V. Tempest, and damaged it to the amount of upwards of 5/. Mr. Sleigh appeared in support of the charge, and Mr.Binns defended the cabman. _ Mr. Sleigh, in opening his case, said that the com plaint was brought forward by his lordship purely on public grounds, and if the defendant were disposed to plead guilty to the charge he might undertake to say that there was no desire to press for a penalty against him. Mr. Binns declined to adopt this course, and the evi dence was gone into at considerable length. The Earl of Bective, Mr. Vim. Kennedy, and Mr. Kneliar were called in support of the inlkrmation, T'vo " rit " P'eS were called for the defence. Mr. Arnold said that the question for his consideral .ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE. HOME ClRCUlT.—MainsiorrE, July 23. (Crown Side.—Before Mr. Justice Erle.) Robert Osborne, 19, was indicted for stealing two post letters containing money, the property of the Postmaster- General. Mr. Wordsworth and Mr. Woollett conducted the prosecution ; the prisoner was defended by Mr. Campbell. It appeared that the prisoner was in the service of a person who keeps the post-office at Bexley-heath, but was not employed in any way in conneetion with the duties of that office ; but, of course, he had opportuni ties of going to the letter box, and it would seem that ho contrived to abstract letters therefrom. In conse quence of numerous complaints of the loss of letters, two " test letters," as they are called—one of which con tained three half-sovereigns, and the other a half-sove reign and two sixpences, the whole of which coins were marked so as to render them capable of being identified] were posted at the General Post-office for delivery in the Bexley-heath district. At the time when, in the ordinary course, they would have arrived at their destination Mr. Sculthorpe, one of the principal clerks in the Post-office, accompanied by Peake, the officer of the establishment, proceeded to Bexley, and upon exa mining the box it was found that the letters had been abstracted. Mr. Sculthorpe at once suspected, from the inquiries he made, that the prisoner was the disho nest person, and he asked him to produce what money ho had in his pocket. The prisoner did so, and among it was one of the marked sixpences, which Mr. Saul thorpe immediately identified, and he then directly ac cused the prisoner of stealing the two letters, and he ad mitted he had done so, and said that he had bought a watch with the three half-sovereigns he had taken out of the letter. The jury found the prisoner guilty, and he was sen tenced to be imprisoned and kept to hard labour for 12 , months. Auguste Winchler, 23, one of the German Legion, was indicted for feloniously cutting and wounding Henry Decros, one of his comrades, with intent to do him grievous bodily harm. It appeared that on the 10th of May last the prisoner, the prosecutor, and another foreign soldier were at a public-house called the Alma Tavern, at Folkestoncy, when some altercation took place between them, anu the prosecutor laid hold of the prisoner and pushed him away from him. The prisoner upon this retreated two or three paces, drew a knife from his socket, and rushed at the prosecutor and stabbed him on the shoulder, and then ran out of the house. The prosecutor was not at first aware that he had been woundel, but shortly af terwards Le found that he was bleeding, and upon exa mining his clothes he !found that they had been com pletely stabbed through. The actual injury loft &el upon his person appeared, however, to be of a very trifling character. The prisoner was found guilty of : i nalawfully wound ing, and sentenced to six weeks' hard labour. tioa was whether the defendant had committed an of fence for which he was specially liable, not whether he had been guilty of carelessness generally, for the conse quences of which he might be amenable by action at law. He certainly agreed with Mr. Binns that that was not a case which it was necessary should have been brought forward on public grounds, there being no such misbe haviour to entitle the matter to be treated in that way, or enable any person to take merit upon himself for pro secuting on behalf of the public. There was no other carriage, it seemed, in Halkin•street when defendant was first observed, and therefore nothing to induce him t fear collision when in the middle of the road, while the brougham turning into the street at a tolerably rapid pace there was hardly time afforded to prevent the car riages coming into collision. Although a man ought to be on his own side he could not say that defendant had been guilty of that sort of carelessness which would jus tify him in imposing a penalty upon him, although lya or the owner of !the cab might probably be civilly respons ible for the amount of damages. The summons was accordingly dismissed. MARYLEBONE.—M ary Anne Lynch, and Emma Burcher, paupers in Marylebone Workhouse, were charged with riotous and disorderly behaviour in that establish ment. The prisoners, on being asked what they had to say, replied that the master came to them, and when he ordered them to go to bed be bad a whip under his arm. Burcher said she was going, when he seized hold of her, and called for the two porters, and then gave Green some money to buy some canes. He brought some back, and Green and Brown, who had one each, commenced beat ing the whole of the girls that were there, and the reason why they (prisoners) were locked up was because they had no marks of violence on them, and there ware three °there who were so dreadfully cut about that the officers were afraid to bring► them before the magistrate. Bur chell added that she was obliged to wash the face of one of the girls, who was in much pain from the injury which she had received. Mr. Ryan said he was compelled in self-defence to order the porters to use the cane. Mr. Broughton sent for the three girls, who, on being examined, were found to have weals and bruises upon their backs, shoulders, and other parts of their bodies. Mr. Broughton, after a careful investigation of the facts brought forward on each side, said he looked upon the case as one of considerable importance, inasmuch as neither the master of a workhouse nor any parson acting on his authority wartjustified by law in inflicting per sonal chastisement on adults. He should adjourn the case for a week, and in the meantime the board of guar dians and directors would of course have all the facts of the case placed before them at their next sitting. The prisoners were taken back to the workhouse, as were also the girls who deposed to the caning inflicted upon them. LAMBETH.—Mrs. Alice Mills, the wife of an omni. bus driver, was charged with having in her possession a silver-gilt dessert spoon, bearing the arms of George or William IV., cf which she could not give a satisfactory account. The spoon was supposed to be a part of the property stolen on Saturday, the 15th March last, in front of the Masons' Arms public-house, Porchester-street, Padding ton. A box containing plate, belonging to the Royal nursery, was taken from a van while the latter was on its way from Buckingham Palace toWindsor Castle, and Inspector Wilcher, of the detectives, was in consequence in attendance to hear the evidence. Police-constable Thomas Norman, 195 L, said he was called into the shop of Mr. Kitchards, pawnbroker, Westminster•road, and the prisoner was pointed out as having just offered in pledge the dessert spoon produced. The shopman, observing the royal arms on the spoon, sent for him (witness). He questioned the woman, who said that her husband was an omnibus driver, and that about, three weeks before his conductor found the spoon in the omnibus, and made her a present of it. This statement, together with her admission that she came from her resi dence in Camden-town to Westminster-road to pledge it, did not satisfy him, and he took her to the station-house. In reply to the harge the prisoner said the facts were those stated by the officer, and said her husband was in attendance to corroborate them. Mr. Elliott declined to examine the husband, but de sired that the conductor spoken of might be sent for. Francis Drake said he was conductor of one of the yellow omnibuses plying between Hungerford-market and Camden-town, of which the prisoner's husband was the driver. About a fortnight ago, while going along the Tottenham-court-road he stopped at the end of Goodge street to put down a passenger, and while doing so he bear,' something drop from the omnibus, and picked up the spoon in question. He carried it to the er.d of his journey, and asked all the passengers as they got out whether it belonged to them, but none of them owned it. He then carried it to the house of the prisoner and her husband, with both of whom he dined on that day, and told Mrs. Mills, the prisoner, to place it on the shelf, and that any one claiming it might have it. He did not make the prisoner or her husband a present of the spoon. Mr. Wilcher requested a remand, to give time for fur ther inquiry. Mr. Elliott complied with this request, and remanded the prisoner on bail to Saturday next. Charles and Henry Taylor, uncle and nephew, who had been remanded from Monday last on a charge of shooting two fowls, the property of Mr. Adams, a gen tleman residing on Peckham-rye, surrendered to their trial in discharge of their recognisances. The magistrate was rather disposed to treat the charge as one of intended felony, but ultimately convicted the defendants in a penalty of one guinea each. HEALTH OF LONDON DURING THE WEEK. (Prom the Report of the Registrar•©eneral.) In the week that that ended on Saturday the deaths of 1,018 persons, viz., 551 males and 467 females, were registered in London. Tho average number in the ten corresponding weeks of the years 1846.55 was 1,932, and if this is raised in proportion to the increase of population it becomes 1,135. The deaths of last week are therefore less by 117 than the rate of mortality which ruled in corresponding weeks would have pro duced.' The mortality of zymotic diseases in the aggregate is below the average. Six children and 2 adults died of small-pox ; diarrhoea exhibits a tendency to in crease, and was fatal to 56 children and 6 adults. 01 the 62 deaths from this disease 10 occurred on the south side of the river, the remainder on the north side. Three children died of cholera, viz., a boy, aged 6 months, at the Kensington workhouse, " cholera infautuni ;" a boy, aged 18 months, at 12, George's place, West, Bermondsey, "English cholera (2 days) ;" and a girl, aged 4 months, at 9, Burdett-street, Wal worth, " infantile cholera (5 days)." The deaths from typhus and common fever were 45, or rather fewer than in previous weeks. There were 16 deaths from typhus in the East districts, 7 in the Central districts, 11 in the North districts, 6 in the West districts, and only 5 in those districts on the Surrey side of the Thames. From phthisis 138 persons died, from dropsy and diseases of the heart 53, from apoplexy and paralysis 34, from deli. riurn tremens 4, and from intemperance 2. Five nonagenarians died, 3 females and 2 males. The 2 oldest persons recorded in the week's returns were a gentleman at Brixton, aged 97 years, and the widow of a gentleman at Haggeretone, aged also 97 years. During the week the births of 798 boys and 765 girls, in all 1,563 children, were registered in London. In the ten corresponding weeks of the years 1816.55 the ave rage number was 1,349. At the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the mean height of the barometer in the week was 29'840 in. The mean temperature of the air was 60 . 1 deg., which is 1,9 deg. below the average of the same week in 38 years (as de termined by Mr. Glaisher.) The highest temperature in the week was 77'6 deg. on Tuesday ; and the lowest was 48 . 0 der. on Thunday, when the range of temperature was 23'5 deg. The mean dew-point temperature was 541 deg., and the difference between this and the mean air temperature was 5.4 deg. The mean temperature of the water of the Thames was 63.4 deg. ; its temperature ranged from 62'2 deg. to 611 deg. The direction of the wind was south-west. The rain measured by the gauge was 0'33 in., which fell nearly all on Tuesday. MORTALITY IN THE METROPOLIS NUMBER OF DEATHS FROM ALL CAUSES REGISTERED IN THE WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, JULY 19 Zymotic Diseases Diseases of Uncertain Seat Tubercular Diseases „ 195 Diseases of the Brain, Nerves and Senses Diseases of the Heart avid Blood-vessels 43 Diseases of the Lungs and other Organs of Respiration . .. lO6 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 Di seas es of the Skin, &e. Malformations .. 2 m 0 t ur e Birth and Debility 25 0 273 Prema.._ Atrophy Old Age Sudden Violence, Privation, Cold, and Intemperance 45 Causes not specified DEATHS FROM ALL CAUSES Population Deaths in corre- Death Enumerated. sponding week in 01 1851. of 1855. Week West Districts North Districts 490,396 Central Districts 393,256 East Districts 485,522 South Districts Totals ......... 2,362,236 915 Males 551 Fomales 467 BIRTHS IN THE WEEK. 1,018 Males 798 Females 765 Total 1,563 [ADYERTISEMENT.] — HoIIoway'd Ointment and Pills, undoubted remedies for swellings and stiffness of the Limbs.—Mr. J. P. King, chemist, of West Cowes, writes to Professor Holloway, that Robert Hunt, of East Cowes, fell from a scaffold three years ago, causing enormous swellings, which produced such a stiffness of the limbs as to incapacitate him from walking. He tried all medical men, and was in the Newport Hospital for three years, but turned out incurable. After constantly using your Ointment and Pills for four months he is now perfectly cured.—Sold by all medicine vendors throughout the world ; at Professor Holloway's Esta' blisbnients, 244, Strand London ; 3L l+l 80, lane, New York ; by A. Starcpa, Constantinople ; A. Guidioy, &tyrna ; and E. Muir, Malta. Country Markets. EDINBURGH MEAL MARKET—JuLt 21 There wore in the market to-day 14 sacks oatmeal, each weighing 280 lbs imperial, which sold at 51s. 6d. EDINBURGH HAY AND STRAW MARKET- JuLx Supplies of all kinds these last six days large. Oat straw, from 12s Od to 13s 6cl per kemple of 16 stones trop; wheat do., 103 Od to 13s Od; barley do., IOS Od. to 10a 6d. Hay from is to 15d. .ARKET-JuLT 21. -day 21 bags of oatmeal and ady. 5 1: a irst o . d. Second. 6 1 Third. --s Oct —s Oil I—s 01 —s 0(1 —s Oa —s Od —s Od —s Od —s Od —s Od s Od —s Od DALKEITH MEAL There were in the market to• bags barleymeal. Sales re: Oatmeal, per sack of 2801bs imperial Barleymeal, per ditto Peaseineal, per ditto Flour, per ditto Pot-barley, per ditto DUBLIN, JULY 21.. White wheat, 41s Od to 46s Od ; red ditto, Ss to 44s 6d ; barley, —s Od to —s Od ; oats, 14s 6d to 16s Gd • rapcsotd, —s Od to —s 61 per brl; oatmeal, 163 Od to:l7s Od ; bake s' dour, 23s Od to 26s Od per cwt ; Indian corn, 29s 01 to 311 6 d per XBO BRISTOL SUGAR-JULY 23. Tho market is quiet, and only few refining sugars have been sold to-day. Buyers seemed disinclined to operate, and merchants are by no means desirous of pressing sales, and have brought forward their samples but sparingly. 'Toro is more doing in rum, and prices have advanced ld to 2d per gallon. rr.—JuLT 23. the close of the mutes. Wallsend, COAL MAR Prices of Coal per ton at s. d. Bate's West Hartley 16 0 Buddle W. Hartley l6 6 Byass's West Hartley l6 6 Howard's West Hartley Netherton 16 6 Tanfield Moor l4 0 Tanfield Moor Butes 14 0 Walker Primrose l4 6 West Pelton l5 C Grey's West Hartley l6 0 Wylam 17 0 New Tanfield l5 ') Hastings' Hartley l6 6, Lletton West Hartley l6 0 Ships at market... roes 2O 0 Bell's Primrose l4 3 Eden Main lB 9 -- Braddyll lB 0 Belmont 18 6 (mbton 19 9 Framwellgate lB 6 Russell's Hetton 19 0 south Hetton 19 9 Reugh Hall lB 0 Evenwood 16 0 Goaforth l7 9 Harvey Wylara 14 6 i 8 I Sold LOCAL SHARE MARKETS. LIVERPOOL, JULY 23. STOCK EXOSANGE.—The market was quiet to-day, and prices were about the same as yesterday, closing at the following rates :—Caledonian, 30i—South Eastern, 22/ — Eastern Counties, 101—Lancashire and Yorkshire, 98/ Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln, 331—Midlands, 841 London and North-Westerns, 108/ 4—Great Western of Canada, 261—Ditto, new, 3} p.—Chester and Holy head, 17/. MANCHESTER, JULY 23. • STOOK EXOHANGE.—This market was firmer today, and rather quiet. The following were the quotations : Sheffields, 344—Blackburn, 84 -Caledonian, 304—Great Westerns, 624 Midlands, 84 South Eastern, 22ft Lancashire and Yorkshire, 98k—Sheffields, 6i. Pref., I } p. BIRMINGHAM, JULY 23. 6TOOK EXCHANGE. —The market has been doing a very limited business to-day, but prices were a shade better. Little railway stock was offered, all parties apparently awaiting the declaration of the approaching dividends. SEABORIVB MAILS. (N signifies that the mails are sent it'om the General Poet-orate ?y the night—and M by the morning—despatch.) Day wo en made up From what Wilco 001INTELEV. in General Post- Port due !..2 Office, London.* Dispatched. England. irnorica(byErit.pitekra T.very Friday .... Liverpool ... Weekly l.merlap. (by Unitod Bts. pachat) Every Tuesday .. Southastaton Weekly inaerica (by U. Stater packet) ..........N Liverpool • rai Australia (via Liver pool) 4th and 19th .... Liverpool .. Twice rasa Ditto (via Marseilles) N Ditto (via Capo of Good • • ... Um:senate Africa (West Coatit)..N lad of Ohs month Plymouth .. 6th of ma. 9.1caandria..........N 10th L 26th 01 r. o Dover ......;9d t 19th A1e5andria..........31 4th lb 20th of mon Southamptoi 4&21 of rn Bahamas 17th of tbo month Southampton 16th aolgium • • ........1 1 Dover D. y Brasil • • 31 9th of the month Southampton July 16. Buonos Ayres •• ....M 4th of tbo month _ Southampton July 16 Cape of Good Hope ..N Uncertain Cape of Good llopo ..N Once do Vends ( )the. th. month Southampton 16th of me Ceylon (see India) 10th and 26th lb & 99th Ceylon .............. 14 4th and 2oth Channel 151e5.......•1ti Yron., ed.,&e it,. Southampton 1,u.T.....t. la 2d & 17th of month Southampoh 1 and 4 and 1 29 6 China .... Dover .... 2 and 19 Constantinople .......N 1 10th and 26th.... Constantinople 4tra & 20th of mon. 30 oillaMptoh / and 24 Cont. of Europe M & N Twice daily Dover Twice dal Egypt (seo India) franca ........ & Tattoo daily.... Dover ...... Tvrjo!.." l , Gibraltar 4,7,17.20,27 rfm. douthamptoa 9 4 4 . " o°. Greece (soe India) Greytawn ..........141 2nd & 17th of mon Bouthamptow 1 and 16 ilemburgh Daily London aavannah ..........M and of the month Southaurptai, 2d or mo !Tolland ............114 Daily Dover ....... Daily Honduras 17ta of the month Southampton 16th India (viaßouthampt.)3l 4th 5 o 20th of mon. Plymouth .. and 91 India (via Marseilles)bi 10%&26th of moth Dover ..«« 15 re 29 . 132 lonian Isles (see India) •• • • •• • • • Dover.. Ireland & N Twice daily'.. Holyhead Usben 2d of n o Maaelra ............3 1 9th of the montt Bouthamptoa 6,116 >y 4).1 Madeira 234 of month Liverpool Malta (ace India) Malta 4, 10, 20, arid 26 Dover 4. 214 15 . 29 Mauritius (see India) Mouritlua 20th of the moan 15. 29 Ind of the month., Southampton ist bTap1a5......... •• Daily-- D over . New Granada ad YG 17th of month Southampton . JULY IS Hew Tolle a month .. Various port. Paaal ttatos •• • . 11 Daily— ••• • • Dover ...... 4 weal/ Panlnsula M iouthamer Peru rd & 27th of mon. louthamp pt tor Ist & 16th Port Natal N fly private ship.. Various ports Sicily Every Saturday.. Dover ... Weekly Vonoauell .• • • —Y. id& 7th ofmouth Southampton lln 16m n Tuscany ••••••••• ••••1 4 Daily •• _ „ _ D over .." •• Van biernen's Lond (se , Australia) • Ith of m0n..... ! monthly Welt Indies Ica •ni ionthamptet 11 and 16 Ist 16th II k 16ra n montbly ,Il and 16 Whenany of those dates fall on a Sunday, the mails witi be de spatchod on the following day. with the exception of the thole l . 's ?oathampton), and the Malta, both of which will be dospatch^d the preceding day. EsnosioN.—Two men, named Parkinson and Slater, wer.! killed, on Tuesday morning, by the bursting of the throttle valve at the New Preston Cotton Mills, lately erected by the Messrs. Horrockses and Miller at Preston. On Tuesday morning a second despatch of Minie rifle ball-cartridges was forwarded from Woolwich to London and Chester for embarkation to the Cape. This despatch consisted of about 100,000 rounds, and closes the amount of cargo which will sail from Chester to-morrow. 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