The Sun. — London, England, 1856-02-19 00:00:00

MONEY MARKET AND COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. CITY, Two O'CLOCK. The Liverpool Cotton Market yesterday closed with much animation. Compared with Friday's rates quotations of all kinds were fully sustained. The sales were estimated at 10,000 bales (of which 1,000 were for export and 3,000 on speculation), comprising 260 Pernam and Maranham, 61d. to ; 200 Bahia, 64d. to 61d. ; 150 Egyptian, 64. to 101 d. ; 300 Surats, at 31d. to , 4d.; and 100 Sea Islands, 10d. to 2s. 2d. In the Railway Share Market the business 'was of a much improved character. The tone of the market was better and prices were higher. Letters from Madrid mention that the general opinion of the people is not in favour of the pro posed measure of the new Minister of Finance, Senor Santa Cruz, to replace the octroi duties by an indirect general contribution. It is said that the old law was only oppressive on five articles of consumption, whereas the now law will be oppressive upon all. That the old law was only burdensome to the con sumer, while the new law will be equally so upon consumer and producer ; and finally, that the new Partition of the districts and provinces to come under the general tax is made with perfect equality. The retirement of the former able Minister of Finance, Senor Bruil, is much regretted through out Spain, in the present state of financial affairs of the nation. The Moniteur has published a ,financial state ment of the expenses incurred by the French na tion in prosecution of the war against Russia, Which shows a considerable increase yearly, daring the three years it has lasted. The items are as follows : I#sB 401,641,825f. 1854 601,251,025E 1855 1,079,801,425f. 2,082,694,3751. The foregoing shows an increase in the expendi ture for the army and navy of France during the Past year as compared with that of 1854 of 478 ,550,400 f. ; the total of the year amounting to more than the two previous years. Should the ar continue this year a further increase on 1855 I s expected. These figures are significant of the presaure upon the financial resources of France, as i nfluencing the Government in the present pacific aspect of affairs. The half-yearly meeting of the Blackwall Rail- W aY Company was held to-day, when some discus- Ilion took place. The net revenue for the past half- Year was 23,8961. 14s. 5d., from which the interest ° l l debentures was deducted, leaving 19,3331.75. 4d. available for a dividend of 3s. 6d. per share. There 111 8 some complaint about the falling off in the tr affic. The report and dividend were agreed to. The plan proposed yesterday by the Chancellor of the Exchequer with regard to the new loan has generally been condemned in the city, as the amount is considered disproportioned to the exi gencies of the Government. Indeed the sum to be raised will not suffice for the expenditure of t he country until the 2fth of April, when the *lt instalment will become payable and a further appeal to our capitalists will, in all p r obability, immediately ensue. That a large out lay will be unavoidable, even after the declaration " Peace, is generally admitted, and the Govern "era, with the knowledge of this fact, have no doubt determined to obtain only sufficient fo nds for the public service until it may reason tub' be expected that the result of the Paris Conferences shall have been made known, W hen arrangements for future pecuniary aid can be e ffected more advantageously to the general money tna rket, and to the Government likewise. Still fre quent leans, ev en th oug h th e y ma y b e f or very li mited sums, are objectionable, and tend to impair t he ; and it is n o t, th ere f ore , sur p r i s i n g th at 'he present measure has been objeoted to when the Public were so fullypropared for a much heavier ope ration. If th e G overnmen t h ave th e con fid ence i n t he result of the peace negotiations that may bo Inferred from the various statements elicited from t hose intimately connected with the Cabinet, the n egotiation of a small loan, however, may on the Present occasion prove more satisfactory thata is R othschild anticipated. It is believed that Messrs. 40 thschild only will open a subscription list, but t he usual circular announcing such intention has 11 °t yet been issued. The Funds, which improved yesterday when the particulars of the new loan transpired, have since 4 eotne heavy, owin g t o th e p o li c y o f Si r G eorge 0 ° ruewall Lewis being considered ill-advised. however, as all will depend upon the satis trete ry progress of the Peace Conferences " dealers await the preliminary meeting 1 11: .. i , 2 . 1 % much anxiety, and very little business is much in the meantime to be reported. The de re in prices is about per cent. Consols for A "eY have been 90/ and 901 I, while for the Zecount they have been 904 to 91, and since 140 91 1 - • The New 3 per Cents. have been 911 -1-, h ave he 3 per Cents. 90i t o 91f. E xc h equer Bill s 11. been ss. dis. to par, and India Bonds 2s. di s . auk Stock is 2131, and India Stock 225. The Foreign Market is extremely inactive. t urkish 6 per cents. have declined to 933, and the t Per c en t s. to 99i an d 100. B e l g i an 4 1 per cents. Le 96, and the Dutch 4 per cents. 951 Wile foll ow i ng are th e nominal prices of F ore i gn 2'6e2eks:—Grenada Deferred Bonds, 6171; Mexican, It 1 ; Peruvian, 80 81 ; ditto 3 per Cents., 56 57 ; g rt uguese 4 per Cents., 47 49-; Russian 5 per °21 % 8 •,104 6 ; ditto 41 per Cents., 92 94 ; Spanish Cher Cents., 42k ; ditto Deferred, 23i ; ditto ° .„ r tificatos, 41 5 ; ditto Passive, 61 i• i t 4 tuilway Shares are all rather heavier, but the nsactions are of a limited character. The de -li3One in several instan c es is ss. to 10s. per share. it..r'4ign and Colonial are dull. p a ' l ,,,!lling, Banking, and other shares were without National change. 4a tional Discount Company's Shares are k to 2 preen. 441 T 1 311 FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE U CLOCK. (Proms tht Ofixial List.) Buiines• done. 1 641 , 5 _k Stock 2l3i a Pot' Uent, Redr.ccd Annuities.,, wi,:q Cent Consols Annuities 9 04 3 i • 01, " Crn Cent. Annuities .... ........... t o 2i pe r C en t. A nnu iti es 74 h° 4 Annuities, expire sth .Jau. 1860 — li ic l i tto 30 Years, expire sth April, 1885 l6i 1 4 , -4 Stock 225 /3', 4 , %lids £lOOO "to. under 21000 2 d 40 to tor Account E t 1, 904 1i 901 - e.•equor Bills, 2id• £IOOO 4560 ' . —. 3d Ditto • • h it te Bonds, 1658, 34 per Cent 9i 1. - ' 4 eit OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK. 14, F- 1 5 141, Bonds, 6 per cent Ditto Aeco t 931 131.).itt0 New Scrip 4 per Cent — 1 099 i 100 the above payable fi.anes In London. -k i) tri b l ;110'121v Accounth u r d 8 C " a n t t . h , 44 per Cent.. ex. 25 francs 96 b i el l Exchan ge , 23 per C en t ., 12 G a il ... l ' t° 4 per Cent. Certificates Conßole TWO O'CLOCK. I ° , zeuut ooi 90i 912 p 5 5 10 MARKET NEWS.—(This Day.) HAY MARKETS. tho r it in arngtn.—Meadow hay, 4/ Os to 5/15s : clover ditto. T t.. l to 6/ 10s ; and straw, 11 55 Od to 1/ 1N Od per ;!. ra ther dull. 9t JIIRRittiaND.--Meadow hay t 4/ 45 to 5/ 16s ; clove; do. " to 6/ 10e ; and straw, 11 4.8 to 1/ 9; per fair demand. RITICOHAPEL.—Meadow hay, 4/ Os to 5 1214; clover 4,5 4 . 4 / 82 to 61 14s ; and stra w , 1/ 4s to 11 9 14 per load. Pply good, and trade rather dull. COLONIAL. bal-14.—The market has b een rather firm ; a few forced es of congou rea lis e d Sid, b ut the fair market price may jilzoted at 9d, for common congou, t,P,ugAn.—A moderate business has been done for expor - Zicn to the continent, at last , but home altleitrisxiaeacti:ith great caution. In the refined market but 411 v tra nsactions have taken place for home use, but crushed bme"PlPL—grrhedCeylon has business demand cline in If t tl, rather active, and at full rates, and holders are firm. basl", has been neglected, although no decline in price ar e l / 4 -ac l e - 11 The market 3i oc Mocha lrlecaloinsteis full n steady, , but operations puceof a limited character, at about previous rates. 4.----The inquiry for this article has been steady, and continue firm. Good Demerara realised Be 3d per Ir°° f gallon tiZ AL LoW.— . Very littledemaud exists either for 593 tom (~,peculation. Speculators quotation for P,Y.C. 593 9 V. toWU 51s, _ [lwo WAS ach- ; h is :om and , the hand yam- 1 1. ion t• which inctly 1 with ed on lowed linion I Mr. a fair which ant. 6N. SHARE MARKETS. (THIS DAY.) RAILWAYS. RAILWAYS. Closing Prices yesterday 25t 26i 411 - 8 - 83, 16 - 15 13 - 14 9 - 8 8G -• 88 66:3 66 - 133 ... '..... ... 4 - 2 12 13 10 10 30 32 20 22 71 - 73 52 - 54 - 9i 221 -25 i ••• '.. 83 - 85 6i - 7 9ti 92i 76 - 77 123 -- 125 104 - 106 57i • 54 74 - 77 6i - 7i 6 7i 81i -82 f 7 -- 74 97 - 98 101 1014' 4 t Id Pj 0 92i -93 i, • •• ..... ••• C4i - 25 i - Id 691 701 41 43 10 - 11 49 - 51 3i 34(1' 29 30 740 -75 i 6 d 44 14i 45§ I 51 52 —61 d 10 if 23 - 25 104 -- 106 46 4 74 7 3 6 11 12 64 65 71 73 4 id ; 3 . 5 88 20 -- 22 3i - 4i 4 •-• 6 .. ... ... [raid bit' Aberdeen.. Aml g, Nottng. Boat and Bastn. Junct Belfast & Ballymena Binning. Wolverh Stour Va11ey..... r Birk o.ihd. Llneel.. Cheshire Junet 00. Chesh. dr Birk. £5O and £25 Cans Do., £20 .... . &Tynt origintC .£25 (iesd. at XV, Bristol and Exeter ) lalodonian 'l.:ll.rm. and Cardigan Chester 4 Holyhead. Siork and Bandon... Oork. Black, di Paw, 'lornw . all Do. A Do. B Crietf Junction Dub lindtßelfastJunc, Dun. P. & Al, .r. Jnc 'East Anglian Eastern Counties.. w.ast. rnion, A. StA e., B. Stoet ...... 0., New A. East Kent East Lancashire Edinturgh tk Glasgow 'Edinb. and Peebles Edin• Prth &Dunde Forth & Clyde Jon :. [Furness. Do. Extension.. 'Glasgow & S West. Great N. of Scotlnd. Greet Northern .., !Do., A. Stock , B. Stock IGt. Sth. &West.(lre Great Western Do. Stour Val. Ra►i; Gua. Stk. . iirish South-Baste= ameester & Carlisle Thirds Do. New Thirds,.,,,,, Lanuaeh.andYorksh Do., Wet. Riding Un Liv.Creby.&Snuthpt London & Blackwall Loud. Bright & S.Cet. Lon& and N. Westn Do. Fifths Do.lol. bo. Eighths.. London andS. West' Do., £5l) IDo., £4O Lndwirryik Col °rain TAndndr7. & Enn'.sk Kanch.Shce.k Lincli Do,, Man. tz Lin. Un Metropolitan Midland 110, Birmng. & Derl , Hidld. G. West. (Ire. Do. Half Shares Newcastle & Carlisle :Nwpt.Aberg. & Newry & Nowry Warrenpoin! and Rostrevor Norfolk 'Northn.Conntios Un North British Nth Dr.vor. Rail. 8: Dock Stock 1 , 0., A Stock... B Stook ....... Do., B Guarantee. N. Eastora—Berwic ;Do, do. Extension Dodo. G.N.E. ?twat) Do. Leeds I Do. York North London . Pl+4 Wstrn. , svm etend, And City Jn.. North Stafforcishir,.. North Western—. „. !NT.&S.Weritrn.Junc Vnneaton,Hinekle7, and Leicester.. ... ~. Ox, Wore.. Wolv. Scottish Central .9.cottish dlan Shropshire VI Lit ,Aonth Dovon Sonti. Eastern south Walee 3. Yrkah. 41 Riv. Dnr Do Wok. &Wok !Stockton & Dar ll ;stc.:kton Hnrtlop'• I rag' Vale . Do. Pref., No. 1 1 "'11 , 1(43 Hay. D.& R Ulvorstone ds Lance Vale ol Neath... Waterfd. & Kilkenny WaterfordezLimericii !West Cornwall West End of London I and Crystal Palace Do. A ......,.. Do. B IWest Loudon.., IWimbledn & Croydon' FOR: katwero iiott ra , in Do. 5 p.c. Obigs. con. in Sh. at par till '64 I Ardennes FAstn. June. Beziers to Graiss..ssai! Bombay, Baroda, an ventral India, Seri}, Do. ()enterara Dutch ithenißla Eastern of France Do. New East Indian, g. 5 p. 00. P;ytenEdnn.. D0.4p.c.8ude.,'57 ;10. de. do.. d,„ Gee ong y Melbott ne guar. 5 per c nt.. Do., Lou. allot., do. ad. Tk of Canad%A. IDo. !Do. Cert of Deben., con. into Stk. Do. Comp. 6 p. c., do (It. Coutral of Fran (It. Indian PoninsnlP Great Lnxembourp Constituted Share., Do. ObligationP Do, re-is. forftd. Gt. Western of Cana(' al Shan-a Do. New Do. ads., pay:031(. 1 57, with option till '55., Do. do., '62, p. '56 Do. do., '76, p. D. do., '73, without I option Hamilton & Torontp !Do. 6 por cent. 'Ake Contd. k Bad Lierre and Turnhout Luiroa i Pist. 5 p. c.p. Lyons anti Geneva „. I Lyons & Moditorran IMadrae, guar. 4 ; p.c IDo. New • 0., 5 P. c Do. 4i p. e. Bates Maria Antonia Do. do. Now Namur k Liege (with interest) Do. (ex interest) Northern of France. D0.20L She Do. 201. 3 p. a Bch , (i'my.B. & Arcs. She. NorwegianTrunkPre i Paris and Lyons (Ditto Bonds ;Paris and Orleans Rome and Frascati.. ,Royal Danish laoyalSwedish Do. Obligations I (Sam ,bre and Mouse .. Do. si p. cent. Prof. Scinde, guar. 5 p. a Do Southern of France St. Andrew's and Quebec (A)„. West Flanders rh' ISA Der c. Pref., W. & N. W. of France West. of Svritzerland Wiesbaden Zealand Business done this day. 7i ^ 81 1 211. -s}, - r - xl 39 394 11 -13 21 - 21,E A - I PI 106 . - 14 6 15. 75 - 77 82 - - si; 201 - 201 41 - 3 - 3} 254 -- 3i - 3ii 99 103 122 - 125 122 125 107 109 '25; - 25.1 120 - 125 ii -- 106 19 - 19; a A d 7 9 2 3 51 - 5 1 P9i 111 12 8 4 9 . 49: Io : 19 - 20 - lt - 2i 9 - 91 ••• - 11 •... ... - pm - 4 iii 2 ii Jai JOINT-STOCK BANKS. 76 1.11 A.ngtrawsift - s 4 100 50 Bank of London • 67 •_, 69 40 ' .1 1 Bri , Col. Bk.& Ln, C. ... . 50 1 al . 11ritish N. American ... ...., . 1.. 1 ° 25 I 5 Chart& Bank of Asia par ..... p 20 4 Chrtd. Bnk. of India, Australia, & China -„,. __ ... d 100 50 City ' 70 . 72 100 25 Jelonial • ••• 100 20 Commercial of Loud. ... . 1 ( 0 / 1 : II Goad.coott.s&rtA.. us ß • k Ch . t o . f 17i —. lB - Australia 20 5 Ditto New. 50 20 tendon and County ... ... 100 50 Lnd.&E.Bnkg.CorP par 2p 50 16 London Joint Stock .. • 100 10 Londo n an d Paris 3 --- 1 d 100 20 Loud. & westminster ... ••• 100 35 National Pro.of Eng ... '— ••• 20 10 Do. New ..- •• • 50 22 , National of Ireland.. ...' •-- ~,••• 20 all Ne w South Wales.... 37 " 25 all , Oriental Bank of 1 Corporation.,,,. .. ... 29 .= 4l 100 25 InGvincial of Ireland ... -- ... 10 all Lo. New ..... ... . ...... ... ...„ ... 5 1. R MIS B &Go Im Cc ... ...., ••• 100 50 Royal 8riti5h......... ... - 25 all 4S ou th Australia .... .. 38 --. 40 25 all 'Union of Australi a... 71 —72 = 2iDo. New..........„. 7i Pi 1 . 0 1 Unign ot LOA% jai 27 1... 2 ____....... aema 20 5 20 18 20 25 25 too 211 LOU 10 Di 20 to Ef 10 20 20 100 1(1W~ 100 , 325. 1 100 100 911 ►nn 100 :3/ 1= all 3 all all 1.11 14 *2l 14 4.11 all all all THE SUN S LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING FEBRUARY 19. 1856. Court of Queen's Bench—(This Day.) sleep for the rest of the night. I had seen the girl at the house one Sunday evening before. That was about a month ago. I knew it was the same girl because I opened the street door, and heard my mistress tell the girl to wipe her feet and go into the parlour. I went in, and my mistress and the girl went out, and returned with a box with three clasps. When my mistress went out with the girl she had a large stone with her, wrapped up in a piece of cloth. My mistress told me to go to bed on that night, but I refused, when she took the girl away with her, and told me to stop up until she returned. That was the only occasion I ever saw the girl there. When my mistress went out on Saturday evening, she had the sarse dress on that she now has ; but when she came into the kitchen she had an old black dress on. After all was quiet, my mistress came to my bed-side, and said she had been to market—that she had got change of half-a.crown, hut that she would not pay me until Sunday morning. My mistress then went up to bed, and I did not see her again that night. When she was talking to me at my bed-side she appeared to be very white and much agi tated. Leasia; , , CompanQ Ciostnv enc., yeeterdv. Dulness this day. SECOND COURT. Sittings at Guilcihall at Nisi Prius. (Before Mr. Justice Crampton, and a Common Jury HUNT V. ICKENZIE. This was an action brought by the plaintiff to recover compensation in damages f.r the injuries his wife bad sustained from the alliged negligent driving of the de fendant's servant. The defendant pleaded not guilty. The plaintiff is a builder and a surveyor, of Syden ham, his wife conducting an upholstery business in Lon don, and the defendant is a distiller, carrying on busi ness in Cullum-street, city. It appeared that on the 3d of November last the plaintiff's wife was being drawn along Moorgate-street in a chaise by her foreman. As they were passing the defendant's waggon, which was drawn by three horses, and proceeding at the rate of eight or nine miles per hour, the latter diverged from ths side of the road (rdbably to pass another vehicle), when the waggon came in contact with the plaintiff's chaise. The collision was so great that the plaintiff's wife was thrown out and under the feet of the horses in the waggon, the foreman war, thrown over his horse's bead, and the chaise shattered to atoms. The plaintiff's wife was seriously injured at the time, from the effects of which she was confined to bed for three weeks, and bad been unable to attend to business for six weeks. Her memory had been seriously affected from that time. She would require medical attendance for some further period. The defence was that the injury and damage was purely accidental, and arose from the plaintiff's chaise endeavouring to pass the defendant's waggon at a time when other vehic:es were passing along the street. The Jury, after a short consultation, returned a ver dict for the plaintiff—damages, 100/. ; 251. of that amount being for the wife's personal suffering. By Mr. Corrie—My mistress also Said in the kitchen, while she was walking about, " She will not tell any more lies about me." Both poisoners declined to put any question to the witness. Mr. Georga William Henry Coward, divisional sur geon, having been sworn, said—l reside at No. 6, St. John's-terrace, New North-road, Hoxton. On Sunday evening last at about five o'clock I was called by the police to No. 18, [Anton-street, and in a coal-cellar I saw the body of a child about 14 years of age. I discovered three large wounds from the back of the neck to the front, embracing the whole of the left side. The jugular vein was divided, and the carotid artery bad three small wounds upon it. There were several small flesh wounds about the neck and face, also on the left hand, and one on the left arm, as if done in a struggle to save her throat. Her right side was very dirty, as if she had lain on it when the throat was cut from the front, and then pulled round. From the nature of the wounds I am satisfied they were inflicted by some other party. She could not have done it herself. EXCHEQUER COURT. (Sittings at Guildhall at Nisi Prius, before the Lord Chief Baron Pollock and a Special Jury.) BERKELEY, M.P., V. BERESFORD AND OTHERS—LIBEL. MlThe Attorney-General, Mr. James, and Mr. Grey, were counsel for the plaintiff; Sir F. Thesiger, and Mr. Tomlinson for the defendant. Serjeant George Bexley, No. 12 N, said—Between six and seven o'clock on Sunday evening I went to the house 18, Linton-street, New North-road, and in the first floor, used as a bed-room, on searching I found a pair of stock ings (now produced) under the bed. There were spots of blood on one of them. They were marked with the initials " C. C." which were those of the female pri soner's maiden name, Colestria Christmas. There were also spots of blood on the pillow in the kitchen where the servant girl slept. This was an action brought by the plaintiff, M.P. for Bristol, against the defendants, proprietors of a weekly publication called the Weekly Alliance for a series of libels contained in that publication.. The action arose out of the proceedings of last session with reference to Wilson Patten's act, for the better observance of the Sabbath. Mr. Berkeley considering that that act in fringed the liberty of the subject and pressed harshly on the labouring classes, obtained the appointment of a select committee to i. qu re into the subject, of which the plaintiff was chairman. After hearing evidence that committee unanimously reported in favour of a modifica tion of the above bill, and the result was the introduc tion of a bill into the House of Commons, by Mr. Berkeley, founded on that report, and which was passed into a law. The defendants in their publication had published a series of articles in favour of the better ob servance of the Sabbath, in which they impugned the conduct of the plaintiff, alleging that he was in collusion with the licensed victuallers of Bristol, and with corrupt motives. Rebecca sonelly, searcher at Roxton station-house, said—At half-past six o'clock on Sunday evening I searched the female prisoner. When I took her to the searching room she said " What do you bring me here far ? Is it to search me I" I said "Yes." She replied, "Oh dear ! that foolish girl has been talking. I have a cellar in my house without a plate. A girl was found there stabbed with a knife. I cannot think how she came there, for my house was fastened up at ten o'clock last night." While I was searching ber she bad taken her top dress off, and her petticoat from the fore part to the knee downwards was covered with blood. The pri soner said, " I am subject to bleeding from my nose. I use my petticoat to it. My husband can tell you that he lent me a silk handkerchief." (The petticoat was here produced.) Mr. Inspector Payne, N division, raid that he had used every exertion and made every search, but could not discover the knife or any weapon with which the wounds were inflicted upon the deceased. Mr. Corrie said that there was no evidence to warrant the detention of the male, but he should remand the female until Monday next. The witnesses already examined were then bound over to prosecute her at the Central Criminal Court on the charge of wilful murder. The prisoner, up to this stage of the proceedings, was allowed a seat in the dock by the side of her husband. She appeared to become faint, and leaned her head upon the front of the bar. The husband was now liberated, and the wife was taken from the court to Waddington's (the gaoler's) room. Sir F. Thesiger said at the commencement of the case that whilst he claimed a perfect right for the de fendante, as the conductors of a public journal, to exa mine and criticise the conduct of public men, yet at the same time he admitted that in their energy to serve the cause they had at heart, they had been hurriediy led into the indulgence of expressions and making assertions they did not on that occasion pretend to justily. The defen dants would, therefore, submit to a verdict passing against them. The Attorney-General said the only object his client had in bringing this action was the vindication of his character. That having been'conceded by the defendants, the plaintiff was satisfied. He could not agree with one remark of the learned counsel for the defendants, that they had been hurried into using the expressions com plained of, because the libels were contained in a series of articles extending over several weeks and months. A verdict was then taken for the plaintiff for five guineas, by consent. RtlLWAti c Bedford and Blet chley Bnekghamsh. Clydesdale . Col. Stour Vy. Sud. and Hal. R. Lin. z. 6 pe E. Un. H. Sh. Mas. Barr. & Neils. Direct Do. Now Olstr.& Dn. Fr Hrtlpl. Dk. & Railway Hull & Selby Do. Sharoc. Do. Shares. Lon . &Green' Do. Preference Lon., Til., & S. Lowestoft gr. 4 per cent. Do. 6 per ct. Manch. Bxtn. and Matlock Middlosbro' & Bcdcar Midld.Bradfd Newmarket Bury E. G.spc N.& Est.s p.c. Do. 6 per et. Do. Fixeds p c Prest. & Nl , yr Do. Shrs. A Roystn.& Hit. 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I - I i — s . ... 2 - 21 2 - 26 - 2 66 - 68 36 - 40 - 28 22 - 24 id . 16 2i • id i 12 - 14 * 19 - 21 6 -- 8 2i - 3 3t - 4 - - 4i -- 3i - 4 - 1 "... ••• ROD E. 251 - 2611 4? 10 1127 -- 132 11081 - loot 106 103 109 ill 21 2A 5-01 - 1 la 19i -- 2uh ~,, ...• .•• 3i 41 ••. ••. g 10 5i bi - 1: ii 2 3 id 18 22 i i ••• ....• ••• 1 11 zt - 2~ ... -- ...p I -- Ap - I - r 4 put i 9 THE MURDER AT ISLINGTON. Yesterday the avenues of the Clerkenwell Poliee•court were crowded to excess to gain a view of the two pri soners charged with the murder of a little girl in Lin ton-street. Shortly after 12 o'clock, ;he prisoners, who were very respectably attired (tbe man, who is a foreigner, having a very thick red moustache), were brought up in the custody of Inspector Hatton, of the N division, and placed at the bar before Mr. Corrie, when they gave their names as Charles Somner, aged 29, an engraver, and Celestria Semler, his wife, aged 26, and where charged on suspicion of causing the death of a female child, name unknown, about 14 years of age, at their residence, No. 13, Linton street, in the parish of St. Mary, Islington. The prisoners, who are of short stature, and who appeared quite unconcerned, were allowed to be seated during the examination. The first witness called was Mr. Inspector Hatton, of the N division, who deposed as follows :- Yesterday afternoon, about half-past four, in consequence of information I received, I proceeded, in company with Serjeant Townsend, 23 N, to the house No. 18, Linton-street, Islington ; *hen the door was opened by a girl about 15 years of age. We proceeded along the passage, and saw the feteale prisoner coming up the kitchen stairs. When she saw us she said, " What do you want ?" I said, "We will tell you after we have looked into your cellar." She they, said, "Good God ! what de you want to do that for ?' At that moment the male prisoner came out of the parlour. We then went down stairs and into the kitchen together. A light was obtained, and Serjeant Townsend went into the cella-. He came out shortly aftervatrds and said it is quite right, the body is there. I then went into the cellar, and found a child tbera, apparently about 14 years of age, with her throat cut in a very dreadful roan• ner, and quite dead. Serjeant 'Townsend then took hold of the female prisoner and sail, "You must consider yourself in my custody on suspicion of causing the death of this child." She said, " I did not do it. I know no thing about it. I heard something last night near the railings, but did not know what it was." She then turned to her husband, and said, "I did not say any thing to you about the matter in CASE/ it should make you timid." Both prisoners were then conveyed to the station-house. The prisoners declined to say anything, or to ask this witness any question. SerjeanCEdward Townsend, 23 N, said—l accompa nied the ;ast witness to the house in question about 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon. At the time I did not know the prisoners' names. We knocked at the door, which was opened by a little girl, and upon asking the names of the prisoners, we proceeded into the passage. I met the female coming up stairs, when I asked her if htr name was Semntr ? She said it was, and then asked what we wanted there ? At that moment the husband came out of the parlour, and exclaimed, " What is it ? —what is it you want ?" I then said, "We should like to look into the cellar of your house." The female said, " Look into my cellar, good God, what for ?" I made no answer, but asked her to come down stairs with us. We then all proceeded to the kitchen, and having pro cured a light from the servant girl, I went into the cellar underneath the pavement, and there I saw a girl about 14 years of age lying dead upon her back. I saw blood apparently clotted on the neck and on her throat. I then went into the kitchen, and, addressing the inspec tor, said, "It is quite right; the body is there." I then seized the female prisoner by the wrist, and said, " You will consider yourself in my custody for having caused the female's death." She then sail, "Me ? I did not do it. I know nothing about it." After a short pause she said, " Ah, yes ; I heard a noise outside the area railings last night and then, looking towards her hus band, she said, " I did not tell you, dear, as I thought it would make yon timid." Having procured a cab, I took both prisoners to the station. I afterwards went back to the house and made a careful search of the various rooms. On proceeding upstairs I went into the front room, which was used as a bed-roorn, and under the bed I found an old black gown with spots of blood upon it, and it ap peared to have been partially washed out. I then went to the cellar with the surgeon, and found the door spotted with blood. There were also marks of blood on the kitchen door and on a wafer box. Upon making a far ther search, I discovered a spot of blood on tho pillow of the bed in which the servant slept. The male prisoner, when asked by Mr. Carrie if he wished to ask the witness any question, said, "No ; it is not me. I said at the station-honse that I did not know anything about it, and I again say here that I know nothing about it." The female, in answer to the same question, said, "No, I don't." Rachel Mont, an interesting little girl about 14 years of age, who gave her evidence in the most clear and art less manner, deposed as follows :—I am a servant girl living in the house 18, Linton-street, Islington. I went into the prisoners' service on the 15th of last Septem ber. On Saturday night my mistress went out about ten o'clock, but before she did so she came and said I was to go to bed. I did not go to bed, but sat up mak ing myself an apron. That was in the kitchen. After my mistress had been out some time, I heard the key put in the street door, and then I put out the candle and got into bed. I heard my mistress come into the passage, and she had a female with her. She came to the top of the stairs and said, "Are you abed, Rachel ?" I made no answer. She then went up stairs, and after wards came down and drew the kitchen blind down. She then left the kitchen and said to the little girl, " Come down here." The girl did so, and theTs my mistress went into the cellar, and told the girl to come to her, but the girl stopped at the kitchen door. Mis tress said, " Come here, what are you afraid of ?" They both came into the kitchen. The girl then said, "I am not afraid, but it is a strange place to me. I have not been here before." They then went into the area, when the little girl said, " Some one wants to cut my throat." When my mistress said, " Suppose I was to cut it." The girl said, "Ole, You are going to kill me," and then called out "Murder." This she call e d out several times, and said, " The devil will take you, the devil will take you ! Yon will kill me, you will kill me ! I am dying, lam dying !" The girl then, made a horrid noise, as it she was breath ing hard, mei my mistress said "hush" several times. My mistress then put the candle out, came into the kitchen, and walked up and down in the dark several times, and s: tid to herself, " I will kill you." She then got the lucifer-box, lit the candle, and went into the cellar again, and was there for some time, but I did not bear the girl speak again, and all was quiet. A short time after this she came in, shut the door, and went up stairs. My master was out at the time, but he came home about one o'clock. He let himself in with a key. I know it was about ono o'clock because I did not go to CONFESSION OF THE MURDERESS. • By the untiring zeal and intelligent perseverance of Inspector Hatton and Sergeant Townsend, N division, circumstances have came to light which place beyond the scintilla of a doubt the fact of the poor child, whom they discovered so horriby mutilated in the cellar of the house, Na. 18, Linton-street, being the offspring (illegi timate) of the murderess, Celestria Somner. Immedi ately after the examination of the prisoners yesterday, the officers mentioned proceeded, in company with Karl Somner, the husband, to a hones, No. 4, Peter-street, Hackneyroad, inhabited by an elderly woman, named Harrington, and her two daughters. Here it was ascer tained that a child, aged 10 years, who had been nader the protection of Mrs. Harrington nearly from its birth, was taken away by its mother last Thursday week, be cause she declared her inability to continue longer th• payment of 108. a month far its keep, since which time Mrs. Harrington bag not heard or seen anything of the child. The officers next went to 18, Murray-street, New North-road (adjoining the howe occupied a short period since by Mary M‘Neil, who murdered her two children there), and found it occu pied by a sister of the prisoner, whose husband is also a German, and engraver. Here they learnt that on the evening of the day the girl had bees taken from Mrs. Harrington she was brought by the prisoner and kept until 10 o'clock last Saturday night, when the wretched .woman took her child away, without shawl or bonnet, under the pretext that she had obtained a place for her at a greengrocer's in the neighbourhood ; finally, Mrs. Harlington, Mr. Somner, and the authorities went to the scene of the murder, and the former there identified the victim, who was lying on the servant's bed in the kitchen, to be the same child she had reared from its in fancy. The poor woman's tribulation was very great at the sight, and she repeatedly reprehended herself f,r having parted with her. She said that the child went by the nainl of " Celestria Christmas," and subsequent inquiries elicited the fact of that having been the maiden name of Mrs. Somner, whose parents are most respect able silversmiths, in King-square, Goswell-streetovad. A. direct confession of the murder has been since made by the miserable parent, she alleging that the act was com mitted with a knife, and that she was impelled to the commission of it by the frequent quarrels with her hus band, who was obliged to pay ss. a-week for its keep, but at the same tune she asserts it to be her brother's offspring. Mr. Somner distinctly denies this, and states that 2s. 6d. a week only was pail by him by agreement before his marriage with the prisoner, and that such sum was always paid willingly by him. The prisoner has not made any remark relative to how she has disposed of the knife, nor can any clue he found to the place of its deposit. She has been married two years, ;;nd Mr. Somuer's circumstauces are very respect able. The house, No. 18, is elaborately furnished. LLOYD'S SHIPPING.--(rhis Day.) LONDON% Fob. 19.—Wind this day at noon, N. ; mo derate breeze and dull hazy weather. The Badjaclinger (s.s.), arrived in the river from Oport , was i❑ contact on the 17th inst. in the Downs, supposed with the brig Cremorne, and had stern damaged; the brig sustained considerable damage. PLYMOUTH, Feb. 18.—Wind E.S.E.—Arrived—Rosa Bela, from Dominica; Diana, Lagos. Sailed—Retriever, Africa. RAMSGATE, Feb.lB.—WindE.N.E.—Sailed — Sulphide, for Rio Janeiro. SHIELDS, Feb. 18.--The Jane, from London to New castle, has been got off the Herd Sand and brought in here. MALTH, Fab. 12.—The Pioneer b(s.s. tpt. 232) was fallon in with by the British, arrivod bore from Li verpoo l, on the 10th inst., about 182 miles east of Galita, damaged in her machinery, and was proceeding for Gibraltar under sail. . _ _ ....- PITTENWEEN, Feb. 15.—Tho Frindship, from the Tyne to Aberdeen, was abandoned in a sinking state on the 13th instant, off the Fern Islands—crew saved. 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His " Festus " was a mystery of mysteries floating across the blue empyrian of literature like a magic car drawn by fiery dragons, but drop ping down among us, as it passed by up aloft, fragments of delicious melody, and pearls and jewels of as rare price as ever fell from the lips of the Arabian Princess. Then came his " Angel World"—a mistier mystery of mysteries 1 And last of all " The Mystic"—the very name of which is a confession ! It cannot possibly be that Mr. Bailey's excuse for his incomprehensibility is in any way explicable by an avowal like that of the inscrutable versemaker in Horace—brevis esse laboro, obscurus fig—the Pegasus of our author being, of all the ambling nags within the range of our acquaintance, decidedly about the most long winded, and one having, moreover, the largest scope imaginable in which to show off its paces to perfection. The field traversed by that steed—shod with thunder and maned with light ning —being, in point of fact, Universal Space, "Heaven," " Hell," the "Surface," " Any where," " Everywhere !" What says The Devil, as he is riding by his side ? " See what a long long track Of dust and fire behind, For miles and miles aback ! And shrill and strong, As we shoot along, Whistles and whirls, Like a forest of firs Falling, the cold north wind." Whereto, Festus : " Look ! my way I can only read By the sparks from the hoof of my g i an t s t ee d . " Presently (Pegasus galloping like mad along the edge of a stupendous precipice by the sea-shore) what saith Festus FESTUB--" Wilt take the sea t" "Think of that, Master Brook !" To which, not to be outdone in pluck— LIICIFER—" Ay, that will we ! And swim as we ride, Our steeds astride ; Como leap, le-l') off with me !" FESTUS [half disposed to draw back at a pinch with sud den qualms comprehensible enough is poor mortality]— " What ? shall we leap Sheer off this steep A mile above the sea ?" _ "Surely," thinks theDe;il, - ;nd the Davil says plainly enough what he thinks, and—away they go ! FESTUS.-- " There is a rapture in the headlong leap, The wedgelike cleaving of the closing deep! &n., &c." LIICIFBA [adding]—" By Chaos ! this is gallant sport ; A league at every breath ; Methinks if ever I have to die I'll ride this rate to death." Such is the Pegasus, Mr: Bailey bestrides, riding (these are his o wn words, remember ! vide " Fes tits." 2cl Ed. 1815. p. 91.) — "Right onward ! till we feel the whirling brain Ring with the maddening music of the main ; Till the fixed eyebal: strives and strains to ken, Yet loathes to ken the shore and haunts of men ; And the blood, half starting through each ridgy veto, In the unwieldy hand sets black with pain." Precisely. He describes it to a nicety. Carried away with him in his wild career, hither and thither, here, there, and everywhere, we are soon, be sure of that, stark, staring, raging, ravaging mad ! The poet's eye (M r . Bailey's)—like that of the true bard described by Shakspere, "in a fine frenzy rolling, glancing from earth to heaven, from heaven to earth." Everybody is infected. The cleverest mon of our time sing the Feaus of his praise. The bluff; sturdy, honest, Corn Law Rhymer, tells us of Festics—" It contains poetry enough to set up fifty poets !" Sir Edward Lytton calls it a production "most remarkable and mag,ni fieent." (We are quoting from the puffs-supple mentary given at the end of Mr. Bailey's master piece.) Mr. Marston says, " I know no poem in the language that can be compared with its copi ousness and variety of imagery." Mr. Charles Hooton—(who the deuce is Mr. Charles Hooton ?) —says, " this book is in a modern library, what the garden of Eden was in the old world,—a glory and perfection, in the midst of comparative sterility." Gum cceteri.s paribus—usque ad nauseant. Well—we suppose it is all this. And we suppose, too, that the drivellings of the late Mr. Wordsworth about idiots, and Betty Foys, and Peter Bells, and the like vulgar numskulls, are the sublimest outpourings of poetical philoso phy. We will suppose all this—we will take it for granted. But, for God's sake, don't let us hear after this that there was ever anybody of any note at all, ever burn in Holles-street, London, or in Henley-street, Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwick shire. The two classes of events are incompatible. Accept the one as proven, and the other must in evitably be at once repudiated. However, this may be—certainly it does so appear—that Words worth has his worshippers, and so too has Mr. Bailey: Off with your caps to them, greasy mob ! and fling them into the air ! But when such is done be sure the " fixed eyeballs" strain and strive, and the blood starts in the " ridgy veins" till the hands grow black, and the brain whirls t o th e " maddening music" after the very natural fashion described by Mr. Bailey in his festits, when h@ flies off at a tangent on the back of his bedlarnite Pegasus ! 'turning, however, for a moment from " Festus" and the " Angel World," and. " The Mystic," and the select little excited group of Mr. Bailey's ad mirers, what is the advice we finti hinted to his fellow-scribes by .141 rd Byron ? " Dear authors ! suit your topics to your strength, And ponder well your subject', and its length ; Nor lift your load before you're quite aware What weight your shoulders will, or will not, bear: But lucid Older, and Wit's siren voice, Await the poet skilful in his choice ; With native eloquence he soars along— Grace in his thoughts, and music in his song." Alas ! advice such as this appears to bo either in audible or wholly unpersuasive among many of the leading rbymsters of our generation. An age of poetry strangely prefigured, it seems to us, in those lines of Dr. Johnson, written by the great critic years upon years lago, in ridicule of certain poems published in 1777 " Wheresoe'er I turn my view, All is strange and nothing new; Endless labour all along, Endless labour to be wrong ; Phrase that time has flung away, Uncouth words in disarray, Tricked in antique ruff and bonnet, Ode, and elegy, and sonnet." Unhappily for his honour, not merely odo and elegy, and sonnet, but epic, and dramatic, and di dactic performances of most portentous magnitude- Latest manifestation of which " Endlesi labour to be wrong" comes tohand this amazing Riddle•me-riddle me-ree of " The Mystic." We suppose it is all very fine. Turning it over—with our eyes gradually starting, and our hair slowly bristling up, and our veins imperceptibly s .yelling, and our brain ra pidly churned into a whirl, under the maddening influence of poet and poetry—we read a great deal about the Earth being " reboant," and about a god (with a small g) of " psychopornpous func tion," and about planets which are " plenipotent," and mirrors that are " smaragdine, ' and pearls " enringed with natural nimbus," about " mediates linked and interlapped," and " terraqueous em bouchures," and " demiurgic hosts," and ceviter nal causes," and all that sort of thing— abundantly, prolifically, multitudinously. Pelion —as we turn the pages gets piled upon Ossa, and Olympus shrivels down into a wart, and from the top of Pelion perched on the shoulders of Ossa, high up among the clouds, there comes bab bling down to us, faintly, the ghost of a voice maun dering monotonously about something or other — what must remain, we presume, for ever and ever a mystery alike to Gods and men. Altogether — the thing is as much like a nightmare bro u g ht to 0 book, set up by the compositors, carefullyhcorrecdted, as far as the typography is concerned, by t e . rea ers if the of the Messrs. Chapman and Hall's establishment, and in due course of time issued from the press —nowmhoOre to pass through edition after edition amidst the plaudits a w u e d r i e t s o o n f l e l Bailey s admirers—who, dm coursei rers un derstand what on earth, or in heaven, or in hell, he y M co r nf ß es. a s i means, than he can by any sort of possibility do, himself. H o wever, here the book is actually be fore us to the number of 165 octavo pages, with " second edition" already stamped upon its title-page. It raves at one moment about 64 Heaven's azure world-hive, celled with stars" (p. 8), and a little further on (p. 12) tells us all about somebody (" The Mystic," of course) sail ing— " The sky's abysmal sea of suns In ark crystalline, manned by beaming gods, To drag the deeps of space and net the stars, Where in their nebulous shoals they shore the void, And through old night's Typhonian blindness shine, Then, solarized, &e." And so on—and so on. Very wonderful—isn't it ? Amazing ! In fact so wonderful as to be altogether miles and miles out of the reach of any sane man's comprehension. Finally—let ushere say foronce and for all, that to get rid of " The Mystic," and Mr. Bailey, and his worshippers all together, we are ready to agree with them about its splendour, aud his pre-eminence, and their sagacity, in fact — (there ! if they will only let us have done wit h it) —about everything ! We accept " Festus "as the poemsof poems dwarfing by the force of _ COLL. trast the " lliad " and " Paradise Lost," and tho " 2Eneid" and the " Jerusalem Delivered " into mere grains of dust, into something very little short of absolute nothingness. We accept Mr. Bailey himself as the Coming Man—actually Come at last. And having acknowledged all this, and eaten dirt (as the Orientals have it) without a wry face, and swallowed every thing most submissively—do, for goodness sake, lot us hope that Mr. Bailey's admirers will at last let us enjoy in peace and quietness the Fool's Paradise with which they have provided us ! T.HE LATE JOSKPH HUME, ESQ., AND THE BANK CHARTER ACT OF 1844. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Sir, There is something remarkable in the fact that, with the exception of the war, the two subjects for the moment occupying the attention of the public are the Bank Charter Act of 1814, and the means of rendering honour to its greatest opponent, the late J. Hume, Esq. I avail myself of this fortunate coincidence to beg your in sertion of sumo extracts from a correspondence I had with Mr. Hume on that subject, and I do so under the convic tion that I am acting in conformity with hi s wishes, and at the same time indulge the hope that n ow th at his voice no longer can be h ear d, hi s wishes may h ave the greater influence, and be considered as an iejunction to his coun trymen to carry out his object, namely, the obtaining a repeal of that act, and substituting in its place free trade in the circulating medium. His letters furnish a short history of the rise and all but the fall of the Bank Charter Act of 1844, and show how much the interests of the many were sacrificed to political objects and class interests. It appears from them that a well-known banker (the present Lord Overstone) conceived "that ho could regulate the amount of paper currency"— an article, be it observed, without intending to impute any selfish motive, in which bankers more especially deal, and, consequently, they are not the best calculated to re gulate its quantity impartially. It further appears that. the views of this banker were adopted by Sir R. Peel, and embodied by him in the act of 1814—that on the breaking down of the act in 1847, and on its reconsideration by a committee of the House of Commons, its restrictions would have been repeated, " had not Sir R. Peel obtained, in, exchange for his support of .Lord J. Russell's Cabinet their votes to leave the Act as it w as ." , Here we find the two great parties of the State coaltsc ing with the monied interests to maintain an Act which gives the same protection to money that the Corn Laws gave to corn--raising the rate of interest on the former to the benefit of the money holder, as the slidin g sca l e en hanced th e v a l ue o f th o latter for the advantage of the landholder. Let the mercantile and industrial classes bear in mind that Ministers are dependent for their places on the votes; of Cie members of the House of Commons, and these again for their seats on the votes of the electors, and, consequently, that they have the power in their own hands of procuring,„ a sounder monetary system ; and let them be assured that no Ministers will grapple with this monstrous money monopoly, and risk the loss of office, unless supported by the country, through its representatives in Parliament. We have monuments through the land to Sir R. Peel, and justly he deserved them for carrying out, at the sacrifice of his own power and party, those Free Trade measures of which Mi. Hume was the parent; for to his committee on import duties Sir R. Peel himself admitted the country was indebted fur his Free-Trade Bills. How much more then are monuments due to Mr. Hume, who was through out consistent and faithful to the principles, now so uni versally acknowledged to be sound, of Free Trade, apply ing it not merely to commodities, but to the medium for circulatiug those commodities. He was truly the apostle of Free Trade, and no nobler monument could be raised to his memory than an Act of Parliament establishing free trade in the circulating medium, based on the principle enunciated in his draft report submitted to the committee of the House of Commons on the commercial distress of 1847. Such would be a worthy testimonial to one of the most single-minded and honest patriots that ever adorned this country. _ _ _ I am, Sir, Your obedient servant, HAMER STAXSFELD. The Grange, Burley, near Utley, Dec. 20th, 1855. (Extract from Mr. Efume's letter.) Burnley Hall, 14th Nov., 1853. Your letter to Mr. Gladstone is in my opinion quite correct, and my exertions in the committee of 1848 would have repealed tho act of Peel of 1814, as inconsistent with the principles of Free Trade, and my resolution iu that committee to that purpose was lost by the casting vote of Sir Robert Peel. He was so much in favour of those bills, though sup ported only by the chair of the B a nk, th a t he obtained in exchange for his support of Lord John Russell's Cabinet their votes to leave those bills as they were. We divided five to four—the five wore Lord John, Sir C. Wood, Mr. Gou'burn, Sir R. Peel, and one other I forget —against three others that voted with me. M r . B ar i ng, dr. Disraeli, and four others who were ag a inst th e act of 1814, stayed away and would not vote, for some reason I never could learn, and thus the glaring absurdity was allowed to remain, a reflection to the common sense of all Free Traders. The time Must come soon when these acts of 1814-5, at present the reproach of Free Traders, !Rust be repealed, and lam pleased to see you stirring in that direction. I hope you way be able to get a good petition up by and bl - v, when the Parliarne...tary Reform shall be settled, and Free Trade in circulation must also.he established. Burnley Hall, 23d January, 1854. I have carefully read your letter to the Editors of the Leeds Mercury on the existing Currency Lars of 1841.5. sir Rol,t. Peel never committed so great an error in any of his public measures as he did in passing the acts of 1841-5, for, as he alleged, " the regulations and the restric• tion of the paper currency." _ As a member of that committee on the Bank of England, of which Sir Charles Wood was chairman, I had the op. portunity of observing that Sir Robt. Peel, Sir C. Wood, Mr. Warburton, and almost every member (the member for Birmingham alone excepted), were under the influence of Mr. Jones Loyd's opinions, viz., " that he could regulate the-amount of paper currency," and, further, that deposits in the Bank of England were not part of the currency. These were the two fallacies of Mr. Jones Loyd, and the - perusal of the evidence will show how he brokedown under ny examination, and left the committee-room ; nor would he even have returned to finish his examination if I had not consented to limit my questions, and these, with the answers of Mr. Loyd, are before the public. Sir Robert Peel never could get free from these delu sions; and when he had the pow er, in 1841-5, induced the House of Commons to pass these restrictive and injurious acts. In the inquiry before the Lords' Committee, in 1813, part of which evidence you have quoted in your letter just published, the injury to tho commerce of the country in 1817, from the laws of 1811-5, is clearly made out, and re pelted, to the Lords. In the committee of the Commons, in 1848, on the same subject, " Commercial Distress," I consider that the proof against these Acts of Sir Robert Peel was complete; and when the consideration of the report came on, my draft re port, " recommending the repeal of at these restrictive Acts," would have been carried, it Mr. Thos. Baring, Mr. B. Dis raeli, and other members had not purposely absented themselves from the discussion and from the division on the report; and the draft report of Sir (3Larles Wood was carried by a majority of one only. Lord John Russell who had not attended the sittings of the committee, or taken any part in the discussions, attended, and gave is vote to Sir R. Peel, by which no change was recommended; and from that time no attempt has been made to remove those Acts of 1814-5 from the statute-book, although the great variations in the value of money in the years since 1818 'have exceeded aoy changes before 1814. I am pleased that you arc now.urgiug the subject on the attention of the public, and I hope it may obtain that in• tei est which it requires. [N.B. The words in italics were underlined in th letter.] SUICIDE OF MB. JOHN SADLEIR, M.P. Although until the nature of the evidence as to the motive which induced Mr. Sadleir to commit suicide be known nothing positive can be stated, yet there seems to be an impression that the deceased had disordered his mind by over-speculation. That the deceased com mitted suicide the medical post mortem examination per formed yesterday and other facts which have come to light distinctly prove. It seems that the deceased was at his club up till half-past 10 on Saturday night, at which hour he returned to his residence, 11, Gloucester square. At the club his friends observed nothing strange in his manner, and when he arrived home he seemed in his usual calm state of mind. He then ordered coffee, and, as he required nothing farther, the servants, as was usual with them at that hour, retired to rest, leav ing their master up drinking his coffee. Whether he went out immediately after taking the coffee, or re mained in until early the following morning, and then strolled up to Hampstead, no one can say, but the latter is the presumption, although at the same time it is cer tain that he did not go to bed that night, as his bed was found undisturbed the following (Sunday) morning, and when the servants got up they found their master ab sent. Indeed his hours were to uncertain, on account of his Parliamentary duties, that the servants were not alarmed at his absence on the Morning in question, for they considered he might have made an appointment h l e a t . is t s:ilei t tge h l e ueits p ii r b e ao v md io yp u s s twea n a i ds g , h fa t o . tunjd ll no e konsl w yt a r s aaw s e n w T t h a i e v a e r r h o n s b e. , from il a o n o m d f that inn. It has been erroneously stated that , filo deceased's remains were discovered by the poliCe;but they were found by a man named Bates, a donkey driver, who at half-past eight on Sunday morning was proceeding in search of a strayed animal, when he came upon the corpse as it lay at about 150 yards from Jack Straw's Castle, on the west side of the heath, and close to a small footpath which leads down from the flagstaff at the top of the hill. Bates immediately hurried to the police-station, Inspector Green (S division) and other members of the force at once proceeded to the spot, and there found the deceased lying as if asleep on a small mound, which he had evidently expressly picked out for the occasion, and a silver cup, together with a large sized, bottle, marked with several labels, " Poison,' by his side. Life had been extinct some time, It the body was then warm. Inspector Green paper, on removed to the workhouse, and, upon h S dl Jo n a eir, g which was written in a clear bold hand, There e h x a o d e, i t u h i e o b otdb the deceased's pockets he found a small slip of 11, Gloucester-square, Hyde Park. some some money, in gold and notes, in the decease d 's 1 3 . ckets , e r d as n o o rs d a o n u d b s t everal lumps intended to as of li a m le f o eu a ga c r a , se w c b o i x e i b ta t i h n e in d g eo tw eae o take with the poi son. Inspector Green, thro ugh the slip of paper allude d to, was at once enabled to s end to town and have th e deceased identified, the w riting on the paper being recognised as his own, so that the poor man must have prepared it with the express intention of its being the means of leading to his identification. The silver cup was immediately recognised as the deceased's own property through its bearing his crest. The bottle which had contained the poison, and which would hold at least half a pint, was not only labelled in several places with the word "poison," but the leather covering over the stopper had the same word written thrice across it in large letters. The deceased was a bachelor, and the melancholy event was in the course of yesterday telegraphed to his only relative, a brother residing in Ireland. I 7 ~,~` IOYS. two than f my fined arles eriok pre• pur [von- mpo- two ssell rased army ;sent. s and 1 that DIM -111011 ere ill 'moan ad on ....26 ...24 ...24 _26 ...14 ...22 ~..24 ~..2$ lON. 1 1 Ws -20 1 1 1 60 20 35 4) 5 St. 25 no' to, I 10 1 1 171 1