The Sun. — London, England, 1856-02-07 00:00:00

ELECTION INTSLLIGENCE. __-_, LEEDS. The Right Hon. M. T. Baines, who had vacated his seat on accepting the office of Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, was yesterday (Wednesday) re-elected for Leeds without opposition. Prior to the election the right hon. gentleman met a numerous party of his c o ns tit uen t s a t breakfast, at the White Horse Hotel. The nomination took place at 11 o'clock, in the yard of the Coloured Cloth-hall. Mr. Baines was proposed by Mr. Alderman Suaw, and seconded by Mr. Alder man WILSON. After being declared elected, The Right Hon. M. T. Rims, M.P., rose, and was most warmly applauded. He said :—Mr. Mayor and gentlemen, the only regret I feel in this day's pro ceedings is this—that I should have been, however innocently, the cause of bringing you out in weather such as this, and from which some of you may suffer, I fear, serious inconvenience. (A Voice : " Never mind, we're happy to meet you." " Hear, hear.") Well, I am sure I feel happy to meet that gentle man. We are met to-day to perform one of the most im portant duties that can devolve upon Englishmen. By a very wise and salutary principle of the constitution, whenever any member of the House of Commons ac cepts office under the Crown, the immediate effect is, that he has to vacate his seat, and thus has been given to the constituency who sent him originally to Parliament the power of declaring whether or not their confidence in him continues. If you, as a constituency, have rea son to think that in accepting office he has been influ enced by selfish, unworthy, or corrupt motives—if you think that ho has played false to the great principles that he was elected to represent—you have the right to reject him when he offers himself again as a candidate for re election. This is the principle of our constitution, and I think you will consider, with me, that it is a wise and s dutary one. By that principle I am here again standing before my friends and fellow-townsmen, whom I have represented so long in Parliament, and the honour of representing whom in Parliament I consider greater than any other honour that has fallen upon me. (Ap t plause.) Here I stand to ask any titan if ho can impute to me any unworthy, selfish, or corrupt motive in taking the step I have, and accepting office ? (Hear, hear, and applause.) When I was invited to take a place in the present Administration, with a seat in the Cabinet, it became my duty to consider very !carefully how far I should be promoting, or otherwise, those prin ciples which I knew most of you bad at heart, which I had professed originally to you, and which I had been sent to Parliament to advocate. (Hear.) Now, with regard to all domestic policy I do not propose to go into details here, because you bad an opportunity for merly of hearing my sentiments on these subjects. I expressed them to you with the utmost distinctness, and with all candour, when I was first elected ; and they have undergone no change since. (Applause.) I have oonstantly acted upon them. I have never swerved ono hair's breadth from the principles on which had the honour of receiving your confidence ; and I be lieve they are already perfectly well known to you all. (Hear, hear.) The question, I say, which paesented it self to my mind, when I was called upon to join the Administration was this—how far I should he giving effect to the principles which you know me to entertain ? With regard to all questions of domestic policy, I could have no doubt, when I looked at the composition of the Cabinet, that I should be giving greater effect to the principles I have always espoused when I joined that Cabinet. I saw that it consisted of men who were advocates of civil and religions freedom, and therefore there could be no inconsistency in joining them. Is such a Cabinet it will be almost invidious to mention names ; but there was one man whom I could look to with great c eifiklence, and whose name never fai's to elicit the approbation due to a long life of unblemished honour and patriotism—l allude to the Marquis df Lansdowne, who though not now holding office, nevertheless has a seat in Lord Palmerston's Cabinet, and giving it the benefit of his high character and counsel. (Hear, hear.) Lord Lansdowne is a man who for fifty years has lived in the sight of the public, maintaining a character of the utmost possible consis tency, whose character has been unblemished, whose conduct hag never been suspected in the smallest degree, and who has ever been the champion of those princi ples and liberal tendencies which meet with your appro bation and mine. (Hear, hear.) And this gave me the strongest assurance that those principles would receive the concurrence of the Cabinet which I was invited to enter. (Hear, hear, and applause.) Gentlemen, there was another man—unfortunately now passed away from us—whose presence in the Cabinet had great weight with me. The late Sir Williens Molesworth was well known in this borough. You once elected bias is represent you in Parliament ; and I believe a more honest and enlightened man did not exist. (Hear, hear.) He was a member of this Cabinet up to the time of his death, which took plies about the time I joined it. His presence in the Cabinet had great weight w.th me, and I think you will concede that it also had some weight with you. (Applause.) Gentlemen, on questions of domestic policy I do not trouble you further ; but I come at once to that which presses most upon the minds of all men—a matter which has arisen since I first ad dressed you in this place ; for none of us then dreamt that war was at hand. (Hear, hear.) Now, however, we are engaged in a war. Gentlemen, I have never had an opportunity of stating to you what my opinions are of the origin of that war. You have a right to know what these opinions are, and I am delighted to have an opportunity to state them with that unreserved confi dence and frankness which should always exist while we re connected as at present ; for as long as I seek to represent you, you should know who and what the man is you are sending to Parliament. (Hear, hear.) With regard to the war, then, I have been of' opinion from the first that that war was a strictly just and necessary one. (Great cheering.) I believe it was is war forced upon this country by the unprincipled and dangerous policy which Russia had thought fit to adopt. The immediate object of that war, as you know, was the protection o the Turkish empire against the aggressions —which hue then become perfectly plain —on the part of Rtessia. It was abundantly manifest that Russia was intending, with as little delay as possible, to take possession of Constantinople. This, though involving the integrity of the Turkish empire, and the independence otan ally of ours, world not have been the only consetpilence of the success of Russia ; because the immediate consequence of her taking possession of Constantinople would have been that it would have given to Russia such a prepon derance in Europe that it would have brought the greatest possible danger on the rest of Europe, and particularly on those states whose advanced civilisatiou and free institutions would have been most likely to be obnoxious to a power like Russia. Upon these considerations, I think you will concur with me in regarding the present as a just and necessary war on the part of this country. (Cheers.) Therefore, when I was asked to take a place in the Administration, I thought my sentiments were in unison with those of the Cabinet in respect to the origin of the war. (sear.) And now with regard to its conduct. I saw at the head of the Cabinet a nobleman who about a year ago was called by the almost unanimous voice of the people of this country to form a Cabinet for the purpose of carrying on the war with vigour and efficiency. The public veicepointed out Lord Palmer ston—(hear, and applause) —as the fittest man for the post —and he was so distinguished, not only from the extraor dinary abilities he possesses, but by his gallant spirit and his unrivalled acquaintance with foreign affairs, acquired during a long life passed in the transactions of our foreign affairs. (Hear.) I had every reason, therefore, to be lieve that the head of the Cabinet would carry out the war upon those principles which I believed to be right, and those principles were these. At the time I joined the Administration there seemed to be no prospect of peace. There was no hope that the infatuation of our enemies was likely to give way ; and it was under that conviction that I expressed the opinion, in the address which you may remember I put forth at the time, that the true course for England to pursue was, to prosecute the war with the greatest energy, decision, and vigour, as the true means, not of prolonging the war, but of bringing about a peace, and of bringing about a peace as would be worth having. Now, gentlemen, we might have had a hollow and unsubstantial truce—discre table in itself, and to be broken as soon as it mated the convenience of the enemy to break it. That, however, would have been putting a most unsatisfactory conclu sion to the war ; and therefore I thought the only course was to carry on the war with vigour, decision, and energy. These were the principles which I enter tained when I took office ; these were the principles which I knew were entertained by the Cabinet ; and I thought there could be no reason against my join ing a Cabinet with whom I agreed upon principles of foreign and domestic policy. agreed upon principlev of foreign and domestic policy. In November, when I came into office, preparations were going on, and have been c on ti nue d , t o ena bl e us to prosecute the war with the greater energy ; and I am happy to tell you that there Sever was a time in the history of this country when both the-land and naval forces in this country were in a state of greater efficiency than they are at this moment. The preparations for war are not relaxed, but are proceeding with. vigour. And now , gentlemen, we come to a particular period of y time when a new state of circumstances has arisen. are all aware that a short time ago Austria thought proper to submit it to Rus sia certain propositions ae the general pacification ; and that Russia to had th t w it e zght fit, !Tin what unexpectedly, to accede propositions. The question then immediately arose in our Govern ment what was to be done in regard to these pro positions ? lam quite sure that whatever of prosearof us may think o f war , or th e necess i ty it with vigou r w hil e it l as t e d, no man could eating that the British Government would have done their duty if they had turned a deaf ear to any propositions which seemed to involve the chance of attaining a safe and ho nourable peace. It was their duty to attend to these propositions, to weigh them carefully, and to give effect tothena if they would secure the only peace which the Government, the Parliament, or the people of this coun try would ever be likely to accept —a safe, a lasting, and n honourable peace. (bear.) W ell, gentlemen, nego tiations are about to be commenced. I may assere you that, so far as England is concerned, these negotiations will be conducted in the most frank and straightforward manner. (" Hear," and applause.) England has never had any sinister object to gain by the war. (Hear.) She undertook it on principle, and will maintain it in the same spirit, and also on principle. She will go into these negotiations with a disposition to do that which is right—te aim at no sinister advantages for herself, but with an endeavour to carry out the great objects we had in view in the outset. (freer, hear.) And if it turn out —as I hope it be gained may—that the great object of the war can by the negotiations, I am sure you will think with me th at the war ought to terminate, and that we should be restored to those blessings which we cannot value too highly—the blessings of peace. But this peace must be made upon such ter ms a insure its endur ance- Such a p eace it will be thes will anxious endeavour of the Government to bring about ; any peace but that they will not think it their duty to accomplish by any means whatever. Negotiations are about to commence, as I have told you—to commence under the best auspices —to commence simultaneously with the fullest preparations for war, if war is to be carried on. (Loud applause.) There will be no relaxation of our preparations, no re linquishment of our gains in the war, and no delay of any kind, which would be very much to be depre cated. The negotiAtlons will be in the bands of the best statesman that can be selected—the Earl of Claren don, the present Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. Gentlemen, I have expressed my opinion frankly on the causes of the war, and I wish I could speak more positively in regard to the future ; but I think you will have gathered from what I have said the principles which I think ought to guide the Government—and which I think will guide the Government and the coun try in the negotiations and in the prosecution of the war, if the war must be con ti nue d . I h ope you w ill think that I ought not to go into the particular condi tions upon which we ought to insist. (Hear.) I hope you will think that that is a topic upon which I ought not to speak, and on which I ought not to be questioned. I have told you the principles on which the Government will be guided, and I hope these principles will meet with your approbation. (Hear, and cheers.) Gentlemen, I have really nothing to add upon the topics on which I have spoken to you ; but I should be doing injustice to my own feelings if I closed my address to you without ex pressing the obligation which I feel more and more every time I stand before you, for the continued kindness I have received at your hands. To those from whom I have received these repeated acts of kindness I feel mere grateful on this than perhaps on any other occasion, as also feel the honour the greater. (Hear, hear.) I tender my thanks to my honourable friends who have moved and seconded my election to-day in such kind and eloquent terms. I thank my political friends whom I now see before me, and many of whom, I am proud to say, combine also the character of per sonal friends; I thank them for being here to-day, and for so receiving my nomination. (Applause.) I feel ex tremely thankful for the confidence which they have placed in me ; and I also thank those who, so far from having generally been political supporters of mine I must rank as political opponents, that they have thought proper to abstain from opposition. (Hear, hear.) I duly appreciate the motiv e by w hi c h t h ey have been actuated, and which does them great honour. They have ab stained at this crisis of our history from anything which might have the appearance of divided councils among ourselves, or of crippling or embarrassing her Majesty's Government in the important duties which that Go vernment has now to discharge. That I understand to he the motive by which they are actuated, and to them I offer my thanks, along with my own friends, on the conduct which they have thought fit to pursue. I hope that neither they nor any other portion of the consti tuency will have reason to regret the termination of these proceedings. If I can benefit you, command my best exertions. I shall shrink from no labour to dis charge my duty to you in Parliament, I shall do all in my power to serve you, and in so doing I shall know no distinctions of sect or party. (Applause.) Having said thus much, I have now only to thank you for the kind ness with which you have received me, and the honour which you have conferred upon me—an hononr which I consider the highest that a man can receive. (Cheers.) The meeting soon afterwards separated, and the right hon. member returned to town the same afternoon. ROCHESTER, The nomination of the two candidates for the repro son tation of this city,—namely, Mr. W. H. Bodkin and Mr. P. Wykeharn Martin, takes place to-day in the Guildhall, and the polling to-morrow. There is no doubt that the contest will be the closest which has been known in Rochester for many years, the friends of both candidates feeling confident of success. The popularity of Mr. Martin has been daily on the increase, and, his political principles being in accordance with those of the large majority of the electors, his friends are perfectly satisfied that he will obtain a maj,rity on the day of election. A large and crowded meeting of the Liberal electors was held last evening, on which occasion speeches were delivered by Mr. Lee, M.P. for Maid stone ; Mr. C. W. Martin, of Leeds -castle ; and Mr. P. W. Martin ; and a resolution unanimously passed pledg ing the meeting to support Mr. Martin. Mr. Bodkin has been busy canvassing, and has received additional promises of support. The Mayor has issued notices cautioning the electors against resorting to bribery and intimidation. NEWCASTLE. The election of a member to serve in Parliament for the borough of Newcastle upon-Tyne took place on Tuesday murninr , in the Guildhall, in the presence of the Mayor and :large portion of the electors. After the usual fOricis, Mr. Alderman Hodgson pro posed Mr. George Ridley as a fit and proper candidate to represent the borough. Mr. Isaac Lothian Bell, cf the firm of Messrs. Loch, Wilson, and Bell, seconded the nomination. Mr. Watson proposed Mr. Richard Hart. Mr. Thomas seconded the nomination. Mr. G. Ridley (Ministerialist) and Mr. Hart (Radi. cal) then addressed the electors. The Sheriff now took a show of bands. A large num ber was held up for Mr. Ridley, but a muck greater number, especially in the body of the hall, for Mr. Hart. After a short delay the election was declared to be in fa vour of Mr. Ridley, and thus the proceedings terminated. Naval and Military Intelligence. Her Majesty's steam-frigate Dragon, 6, Capt. Stew art, C. 8., was unlocked at Portsmouth, after refit, yes terday, and the Rosamond, 6, steam-sloop, Commander Crofton, was put out of commission. A heavy south-westerly gale blew all day yesterday at Portsmouth, and nearly stopped communication with the Spithead fleet. The sea was very rough, and squalls of rain frequent ; an unusually high tide flooded the lower parts of the shore last night. The steam transports Holyrood, No, 77, and Eglinton, No. 116, arrived at Spithead yesterday from the Crimes. The report of the loss of her Majesty's steam-sloop Polyphemus in the Baltic created a very painful sensa tion at. Portsmouth (where she fitted out) yesterday. She was built at Chatham in 1340, was of 800 tons, and 200-horse power. Commodore Christopher Wyvih, Superintendent of the Dockyard, Chatham, having been promoted to the rank of Rear-Admiral, continues to hold his appoint ment until the return of his successor, Capt. George Goldsmith, of her Majesty's ship Sidon. There are now 5 men-of-war on the Irish station, un der Admiral Sir G. Sartorius, a part of the Baltic fleet sent there to winter, at the requisition of the citizens of Cork. Their names and stations are as follow :—The Russell and Hastings, GO gun-ships, at Queenstown ; Edinburgh, 60, at Dublin ; Meander, 50, is the Shan non ; and Hecla frigate, at Waterford. Long-service and good-conduct medals having been forwarded to head-quarters of the Royal Marines at Woolwich, were yesterday presented at parade, in the barrack-square, by the Commandant, Col. Brown. The recipients of these medals were Quartermaster-Sergeant Daniel John Ryan and Privates Jas. Hobbs and Sam. Jarrard. Quartermaster-Sergeant Ryan was entertained in the evening by his brother sergeants and his com rades in their mess-room. During the last few days a considerable increase has been made in the number of labourers employed in the various departments of the Arsenal at Woolwich. Some idea of the vast amount of labour performed in that esta blishment, where upwards of 9,000 hands are constantly employed, may be formed by stating that the consump tion of powder yesterday in preparing ammunition for cannon, independent of small-arms cartridges, exceeded 46,000 pounds. Besides the large number of shells cast in this establishment, contracts with the Scotei, York. shire, Liverpool, and other foundries are on a very ex tensive scale. 2,000 of these shells are loaded and pre pared daily, and 200,000 musket cartridges. The build ings for the standard foundry and the shell factory are progressing rapidly ; the spacious area in front of the carriage department having been cleared, the foundation walls were commenced yesterday. Twenty more guns and mortars have been added to the trophies at the en trance of the Arsenal grounds ; some of them are heavy iron guns of large calibre, and of a most singular ap pearance. The Dial-square now presents a novel spec tacle, having two spaces enclosed, which contain large numbers of Russian implements of war. The following notice has been issued :—" The new scale of half-pay for Naval Instructors—First entry, 361. 10s. per annum, or 2s. per day; after three years' service on full pay, 541. 15s. or 3s. per day ; aft er 10 years' service on full pay, 821. 2s. 6d., or 4s. 6d. per day; after 15 years' service on full pay, 911. 55., or ss. per day ; after 20 years' service on full pay, 1271. 155., or 7s. per day, with leave to retire." Orders have been issued from the Horse Guards for 260 of the Coldstream Guards and 224 of the Scots Fu silier Guards, with the customary complement of officers, to hold themselves in readiness to embark early in the ensuing week on board the Indus, at Portsmouth, fcr active service in the Crimea. Assistant-Surgeon Grant, 70th Regiment, is under orders to leave the garrison at Chatham, and embark for India, to join the head-quarters of his regiment. The following promotions and appointments were made yesterday at the Admiralty : Second Masters to be Masters -- George Turpin, William J. Rid dell, Wm. Laurie, F. W. Rea, Alfred J. Veitch, Sam. D. Wayth, D. /I. Speer, Charles F. Cooper, and Gilbert E. Green. Gilbert E. Green, Master to the Coquette ; W. H. Faweliner, Second-Master to the Porcupine; James Warsley, Second Master to the Otter ; John Palmer, Second-Master to the Arrow ; Wm. Smith, Acting-Master to the Vulcan ; N. B. Denneye, Assist ant-Clerk to the Trusty ; E. Rees, Assistant-Clerk to the Lightning. MILITIA. The Royal North Gloucestershire Regiment last week gave 96 volunteers. The 54th, 21st Foot, the Marines, and Artillery seemed on this occasion to be the favou rite corps. The regiment is under orders to proceed to morrow to Pembroke. Notwithstanding a large number of men have volunteered during the last few months, the regiment is still about 500 strong. The following additional particulars have been pnb lished -in connection with the recruiting in the West York Rifles, now doing duty on the Irish establish ment :—" Major Fitzgerald, commanding the Went York Rifles, having intimated to the Major-General commanding the Limerick district that he was prepared to allow any men of that portion of the regiment at C.r low to volunteer into the line, Capt. Scott, of the 9th Regiment ; Mr. Wilson, Royal Artillery, and Staff-Sur geon Gore, attended at Carlow on the 28th ult, to re ceive any men who wished to volunteer. The men hav ing been addressed by Major Fitzgerald, 95 at once stepped out of the ranks, of whom 52 were finally passed by the medical officer ; the remainder were rejected for I very trivial defects. Captain Scott then informed Major Fitzgerald that his orders were to keep the volunteering open for a week. Major Fitzgerald informed Captain Scott that he denied the power of the Government to issue such an order, and declined having the volunteer. ing kept open beyond the evening of the 28th, on the ground that a week's volunteering was in fact turning the regiment under his command into a drunken rabble for that period, and that his desire to preserve the disci pline of the regiment and the peace of the tows in which he was quartered alike forbade his giving his sanction to such proceedings. Major Fitzgerald further informed Captain Scott that in the event of his persisting in try ing to keep the volunteering open for a week he would refuse to sign the discharge of any man who volunteered, and would confine his men to barracks until after Cap tain Scott's departure. Captain Scott then wrote to Limerick for fresh instructions, and received orders to complete the attesting of the men who had already vo lunteered and return to Limerick." THE NEW PROMOTIONS IN THE ARMY AND NAVY. In the Gazette of Tuesday appear the names of some 20 or 30 military and naval officers, most of whom have been promoted for their services, either in the Peninsu lar or in the present war, to the second and third divi sions of the Order of the Bath. The British public will recognise among them with satisfaction Major-General William Feu wick Williams, the gallant defender of Kars. The following brief account of the services of the most distinguished of those officers who hare been thus ho noured by her Majesty will not be out of place. It will be observed that some of the honours now bestowed are rather tardy recognitions of services in the field : General James Wallace Sleigh, C. 8., attained the rank of full General in 1855, and is Colonel of the 9th Lancers. He entered the army in February, 1795, as Cornet in the 11th Dragoons, became Lieutenant in the name year, a Captain in 1798, and obtained his majority in June, 1805. He bad previously served in Flanders in Lhe campaigns of 1795 and 1796, and was present at the actions in Northern Holland and the Helder, on the 10th and 19th of September, and 2d end 6th o f O cto b er, 1799. Having been promoted to the rank of Lieutenant- Colonel in 1809, he was again ordered on foreign service, and served in the Peninsular campaigns of 1811 and 1812. He commanded the 11th Dragoons at Waterloo, towards the close of which battle the command of the Fourth Brigade devolved upon hitn. Attaining the rank of Colonel in 1819, he proceeded with his regiment to India, and command e d th e C avalry Division at the siege of 131:urtpore in 1825 and the following year. He ob tained the Waterloo medal and the war medal with one clasp for Salamanca. lie became Major-General in July, 1830 ; Lieutenant -General in 1841 ; and was ap pointed to the Colonelcy of the 9th Lancers in 1839. In 1840 he was nominated a Companion of the Bath for his services in the Peninsula and India. Lieutenant. General Richard Goddard Islare•Clarges, C,8., entered the army in 1796 as Ensign iu the 14th Foot; became Lieutenant the same year, and Captain in 1803. He served in Egypt under. Sir Ralph Aber• cromby, in Hanover under the late General Lord Cath cart, and in Spain under Sir John Moore, where he ren dered good service during the retreat to Coruat:a. He was on the staff of Str Thomas Graham (afterwards better known as Lord Lynedoch) in the Walcheren Ex pedition, and Assistant-Adjutant-General of a division in the Duke of Wellington's army in the Peninsula. He received the gold medal and one clasp for Neville and Nive, and the silver war medal, with nine clasps, for Egypt, Corunna, Busaco, Barossa, Ciudad Rodrigo, Badajoz, Salamanca, the Pyrenees, and San Sebastian. In 1813 he attained the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel, and that of full Colonel in 1830, became a field officer in 1841, was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant-General in 1831, and succeeded the - Hon. General Meade in the following year as Colonel of the 12th Foot. Bri..adier-General William Fenwick Williams, whose name is so familiar to our readers for his gallant defence of Kars, was born about the year 1309, and educated, we believe, at the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, from which he entered the Artillery as Second Lieute cant in 1825. Two years later he was promoted to the rank of First Lieutenant, and to that of Captain in 1840. Youne'as he is, comparatively, in the service, he has considerable military and diplomatic experience, having been employed in Turkey from 1840 to 1813 in the latter capacity, when he was sent as British Com missioner to meet the Turkish and Persian Phinipoten tearies at Erzeroum, and took part in the conferences preceding the treaty signed at that place in May, 1847. In the June of the following year he was appointed British Commissioner for the settlement of the Turco-Persian boundary. In May, 1846, he received the brevet rank of Major for his military and diplomatic services in Turkey, and the brevet rank of Colonel in March, 1843, for his political services at Erzeroum. In December, 1152, he was honoured with the Companionship of the Order of the Bath. In Augu,t, 1354, while the British Army was at Varna, he was appointed her Majesty's Commissioner with the Turkish forces in those parts, with the local rank of Colonel in the army, and while so occupied he was raised to the local rank of Brigadier. General on the 19th of December last. Rear-Admiral the Hon. Richard S. Dundas, C. 8., is the next brother and heir presumptive to Major-General Viscount Melville, K.C.8., who is at present General in command of the Scottish district. He is second son of the late Viscount, by his wife, the daughter and co heir of Richard H. Saunders, Esq., M.D. He was b orn at 'Melville Castle i n 1302 , and entered the naval service in 1815 ; he acted as private secretary to his father when First Lord of the Admiralty from 1828 to 1830. He was engaged in the early part of the Chinese war of 1841, and received the Companionship of the Bath for his ser vices on the coast of China. He held the post of Super intendent of the Deptford Dockyard for a short time in 1851.2, and in December, 1852, was appointed a Lord of the Admiralty by Lord Aberdeen, a post which he continued to hold under Lord Palmerston, until he was anpointed to the command of the Balticfleet in the spring of last year. Sir U. Maclean, Commissary-General, is also of Scot tish extraction, being the son of one of the magistrates of Dysart, North Britain, and captain in the local militia. He entered the Commissariat service in 1812, and served in the Peninsula and South of France till the close of the campaigns of 1813 and 1814 ; thence he proceeded to America, but, returning to France, was present with the army of occupation from 1815 to 1818. He was subse quently employed in the same capacity on the West Coast of Africa, in Canada, and th e W est I nd i es, and while stationed at Sierra Leone became a member of the Exe cutive Council there. He afterwards served in Van Diemen's Land (now called Tasmania), and was made a Commissary-General for his services there. In the same capacity he afterwards served at the head-quarters of the forces in the field during the Kafir war of 1852-3, and accompanied the expedition across the Orange River to Platsberg. He received the honour of knighthood early in 1854, for his African services, immediately upon his return to England. Sir John Eox Burgoyne, G.C.8., whose elevation to a baronetcy for his services in the siege of Sebastopol we briefly mentioned yesterday, entered the Royal Engineers in 1798, and served in the blockade of Malta and sur render of Valetta in 1800, and also in the campaign in Egypt of liol, tinder Sir R. Abercromby, including the capture of Alexandria and the attack on Rosetta. He also took part in the Peninsular campaigns, including the retreat to Corunna, the passage of the Nitro, and the affair of Salamonde, when he blew up Fort Concep tion in the presence of the enemy. He was also present at the battle of Busaco, the retreat to and occupation of the lines of Lisbon, and the siege of Badajoz in 1811, the action of Elbodon, the siege and storm of Ciudad Rodrigo, the second siege and storming of Badajoz, the siege and capture of the forts at Salamanca, the battle of Salamanca, the advance to Madrid and capture of the Retire. He was also wounded at the siege of Bur gos. lie was present at the battle of Vittoria and the siege and storming of San Sebastian, where he was again wounded. He also took an active part in the liege of the Castle of S e b ast i an in September, 1813, as well as in the passa ge o f Bi slassoa, the battles of Nivelle and Nive, the passage of the Adour, the blockade of Bay onne, and repulse of the sortie. He afterwards served in the American war, and was present at the attack on the lines before New Orleans in January, 1815, and at the capture of Fort Jlowyer. Sir John has re ceived the gold cross and one clasp for Badajoz, Sala. manta, and the other Peninsular victories, and the silver war medal with three clasps for Buse's°, Ciudad Rodrigo, and Nivelle. When the war broke out in 1854 Sir John Burgoyne accompanied the forces sent out is aid of Turkey; and jwhen the British army landed in the Crimea and _sat down before Sebastopol, it was to Sir John Burgoyne that Lord Raglan in trusted the conduct of the siege. In April of last year he was superseded by Sir Harry Jones, and soon after wards returned to England. The University of Oxford conferred jupon him last year the honorary degree of D.C.L., and at the same time he received from the Sultan the Order of the Medjidie of the first class, and was also appointed to the Colonelcy of the Royal Ea gineers. Sir John Burgoyne's services, however, are not entirely of a military character ; in 1849 he was appointed Inspector-General to the Metropolitan Com missioners of Sewers, having for several years previously held the post of Chairman of the Board of Public Works in Ireland. He has, also, since 184$ held the appointment of Inspector-General of Military Fortifl.ca• times. A very large sailing ship, called Arthur the Great, is appointed to leav6 Southampton, on the 18th, with Go vernment emigrants for Geelong. She is 1,389 tons burden. No ship is allowed to take more than 400 Government emigrants. [AnvEsrisEmssr.] The most inveterate liver com plaint and diarrhoea, which had resisted all medicines for years, yielded to Du Barry's delicious Revalenta Arabica Food, which removes indigestion (dyspepsia), flatulency, constipation, nervous, bilious, and liver com plaints, cough, asthma, consumption, and debility. Our old friend the great Indian traveller, Major Edie, writes as follows : " London, 20th March, 1852.—Dear Sir, —Ha v:ng suffered fearfully for two years from an enlargement of the liver and an inveterate diarrheea, brought on in India and China, and having tried the advice of the most eminent professional men in China, India, and at home, without any other result than gradual decay, I was on the brink of the grave—unable to lift my arms from perfect exhaustion, when Capt. Wraughton, of the Hon. E. I. C. Service, recommended Inc to try Du Barry's excellent Revalenta Arabica Food, and to discard the drugs I was then taking. The result of eatin: this delicious Fool is the perfect restoration of my health within amonth ; and I take a peculiarplea,snre in recommending all ufferers to follow my example. I shall be happy to answer any inquiries. I am, &c. ,W. Ems, 3laj or, H.M.S., Unattached. In canisters, 51bs. Ils. ; 121b5., 2:25. The 121bs. carriage free,. on receipt of ~o st-ofliee order. Barry du Barry and Co., 77, Regent•strs.'„ London; Fortnum, Mason, and Co., Purveyors to her Majesty, Piccadilly; also at 60, Grace chutch.streot ; 33J and 451, St ran d; 4, Chcapsid e ; 68 Cornhill ; 49, Bish o p sga t e - s t reet ; 55, Charing-er os 04, Upper Baker - etreet; 63 and 150, Oxford-street, WHAT IS AN ARMIST IC B ? (Front the Morning _Herald.) England may be proud of her representatives, and of her representative institutions. Among the first, in both Houses of Parliament, only one man, Colonel Dunne, has been found sufficiently clear-sighted to see, and suf ficiently honest to call attention to, the most monstrous of all the political iniquities which have disgraced our diplomacy since the ill-omened hour when the first Coa lition overthrew Lord Derby, and brought on, as an in evitable consequence, that war which we have conducted in disaster and are about to close in disgrace. Such are our representatives. As for the institutions —what are we to say ? Simply this : that having found a man to bring forward a matter of first-rate importance, the forms of the house prevent any more efficient mode of proceeding than asking a question. We all know what that is. In the prevent instance, however, we have certainly learned from Lord Palmerston that we are to have an armistice—with the additional informa tion that it will be postponed to a period of the year which will afford the greatest possible advantage to Russia—viz., the spring months. The working of our institutions may be further illustrated by the fact, that with a dishonourable peace staring us in the face the legislative wisdom must hold their tongues, and leave the arrangements on which almost the futura existence of the institutions in question depend in the hands of men whom no one thoroughly trusts, while their own power is limited to the privilege of pronouncing a futile opinion, as soon as all the mischief is complete and utterly without a remedy. Said we not right when we alleged that England might be proud of her institutions ? Let L3puta show a parallel to this elaborate system of sitting looking stolidly on while the steed is stolen, and then gravely shutting the door, Colonel Dunne's question referred to the proposed armistice. As we pointed out some days since, it has been announced in the Moniteur that this Austrian dodge—attempted once before—at the time of that sapient arrangement, the occupation of the Principalities —is to precede the opening of the conferences for peace. Lord Palmerston has confirmed the disgraceful intelli gence. The Augsburg Gazette announced a few days since the opinion of that well-informed journal—an opinion which we gave to our readers three weeks ago—that Russia has no object in entering into negotiations except for the purpose of sowing dissensions among the allies ; and adds that the probability is that the conference will ex tend to the end of April. Of course the armistice will endure as long as the con ferences, if not some weeks longer. Do our readers know what an armistice is ? We be lieve not. Not only do hostilities cease, but blockades are raised, and everything is restored as if t' a state of profound peace. An armistice, therefore, signifies to those who will observe it a suspension of all movements necessary for future operations of war. It signifies a gain of two mouths to Russia in Asia, where General Mouravieff's army is at present without the possibility of receiving assistance, but which, with the aid of the time provided for that purpose by this precious armistice, will receive reinforcements the. moment the passes are open, and be fore we can operate effectually against him. Were we at once to make our preparations at BatOnlll or Trebizonde—according to the direction in which we intend to operate--we might he on the Russian cee ueral's communications, and the campaign might be decided before his expected reinforcements could leave the mouth of the Wolga. But if we cease or suspend our arrangements during the armistice, we shall not be in a condition to leave the coast of the Black Sea until the middle of summer, when the unhealthy season will have set in in the deep valleys of the Phasis, and when, thanks to our delay, and the warnings w)oioh we have given—aa we did at Kin bourn--the Russians may have converted Kutais and Tiflis into fortresses on the model of Sebastopol and Nicolaieff. This, indeed, would be following up the betrayal of Kari to a useful purpose for the Czar ; and who doubts that it will be done ? Will the people of England never see that Russia is not to be effectually attacked ; and that feeble as may be the pretended assaults on her, she is always fore warned in time, so as to give her the opportunity of making that impossible which before was only difficult ? Such are some of the evils which this yielding to foreign interests must inevitably create ; but there are others of a different nature, and fully as injurious, to be considered. Among the many pressures which have been brought to bear upon the people of this country, in order to cow•. pel a Russo-Austrian peace, we have often mentioned, in addition to the dear food and the cloverly-got-up American difficulty, as the most efficacious of all, the money pressure. Now, we would beg our readers to look closely into this matter. The armistico will probably commence in a month, or say six weeks, previous to the breaking►-up of the ice in the Baltic, but affording ample time for foreign mer chants and patriotic English traders to prepare every vessel they c'iu lay their hands on for a rapid speculation in Russian produce fur the English market. Every harbour on the ca-tern and southern coast of the Baltic will be crowded with shipping to take off all produce which may be there accumulated, and every pound of that produce will be sold in England for gold —in reality, if .not ostensibly. The abstraction of this gold —all of which will ulti mately go to Russia, and be employed in preparing ar maments against ourselves should the war continue— will of necessity entail the diminution of our paper cir culation, and equally of necessity increase the pressure in the money market, under which some great houses have already sunk; and many more are tottering. Here is a palpable advantage to our enemy, and an injury to ourselves, which of itself should be sufficient to expose any Minister who may sign an armistice to a just im peachment. - But what can we expect? England is content to allow her monetary laws to be concocted, and her cur rency to be arranged, by " Mercator" and others, who are at this moment gaining from 7 to 10 per cent, by discounting b.llB in consequence of the money pressure which those very laws have called into existence. One more sign of the times and we have done. We have heard that a neutralisation of the Baltic is in contemplation, as a supplement, we suppose, to that of the Black Sca. In the first this will of course involve the destruction of the Swedish fleet—her only security against aggres• sion, and so pave the way for her future subjugation. While in the second, Russia has no fleet, and Turkey has a very powerful one. Is the latter to be destroyed because the ships of the Czar are rotting at the bottom of the harbour of Sebas topol? This is worth consideration. We must.not sneer at the Turks as a maritime power, when we remember that, except for the direct inter ference of our own ambassador, acting by order of the Foreign Secretary, who prevented Admiral Slade from entering the Black Sea, that foul blot upon modern civilisation, the massacre of Sinop°, would, we verily believe, have never been attempted, or, if attempted, would have result e d i n a d es t ruct i on of the ships of the aggressor, as complete as that which, by English agency, befell the frigates and transports of our unfortunate ally. RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE. CALEDONIAN. A meeting of the shareholders in this company was held at two o'clock on Wednesday afternoon, at the Clarendon Rooms, Liverpool, to consider the position of the company in reference to the Edinburgh and Glas gow Company, and the steps which should be taken to bring about a pacific policy, and put a final stop to the existing competition, which was alike injurious to both companies. There were fifteen shareholders present, and one of the Edinburgh and Glasgow line. Mr. GILLOW took the chair, and, having stated the ob ject of the meeting, proceeded to read his own address. It, was a lengthened document, and went to show that at the preient time the competition between the two rival companies had arrived at a ruinous extent, the result of which was that the Edinburgh and Glasgow were for warding passengers, first class, at one half-penny per nide, and third-class passengers at one farthing per mile— a tariff, which the Caledonian was also adopting, and, consequently, no dividend could be expected ; and he had reason to believe that for the past eighteen months the dividend had been paid—out of the capital of the company. Corresponding reductions is the cost o transit had also taken place in the contracts, one of which he instanced. Where pig-iron had been conveyed over 31 miles for 4s. 41 per ton the charge was now only 2s. 2d. per ton, - and the directors had entered into the contract for five years. He thought a searching in quiry ought to be made into the matter, and that the shareholders should express their feelings whether they had confidence in the direction. He exhorted them to bestir themselves, as there would be matters before Parliament affecting the Caledonian which would require their consideration before further capital was sunk. Alter readi:,g several extracts from newspapers, having reference to the competition, the chairman proposed that at Committee be appointed to address a circular to the shareholders soliciting their support to the following tesoliesion to be proposed at. the next half•yearly meet ing :—" That a committee of gentlemen, in whose sound judgment and principles the shareholders might have confidence, be appointed to examine into the present position and management of the company, and through whose intervention an attempt may be made to conclude a fair and mutually benefiical joint-working agreement with the Edinburgh and Glasgow Company, similar to that lately entered into between the Scottish Central, and Edinburgh, Perth, and Dundee Companies, and in effecting this, it should also be aimed at, that the best understanding should be maintained with the last-named companies." This resolution was carried unanimously, and after a vote of thanks bad been passed to the chairman the meeting separated. LIBEL.—TfIE PRESS.—On Tuesday the proprietor of the Roscommon Journal obtained a verdict for 251, against the proprietor of a rival paper, the .Roscommon Reporter, for stating that the Journal had died. AMERICAN WHEAT FOR FRANCE.—The New York. Journ a l of Commerce, of Jan. 16, quotes the following from. the Chicago Daily Press, without giving date. Some days ago we noticed the shipment of 20,000 bushels of wheat from this city, via the Illinois Central Railroad and Cairo for. France. From the Lasalle Press we observe that similar shipments are being made from other points for the same destination. On Saturday I set 8,000 bushels wer received at that place from Io over the Rock Island road, which was transferred to the Illinois Central to go to the Cairo and then to France. The Press says :—" A still larger quautity is to arrive from the same State this week for the same destination. This, IN e believe, is the first instance- in which grain has been shipped from lowa to New Orleans via Lasalle, and is perhaps but the forerunner of more shipments.", TRE AUSTRIAN PROPOSITIONS. The following letter, dated the 24th, has been received from Constantinople : "The sensation produced by the news of the accept. ance by Russia of the Austrian propositions has by no means subsided here. The speedy conchision of peace is fully believed, and a day or two ago it was rumoured that an armistice would be proclaimed forthwith. "There is reason to fear that the unlocked-for change in the policy of the Cabinet of St. Petersburg may pro duce a certain degree of perturbation in the trade of Constantinople. Immense quantities of provisions bad been purchased on the certainty of the Continuation of the campaign, and if, as there is reason to believe, peace be made, great losses will accrue to houses that deeply engaged in the provision trade in the expectation of the energetic resumption of hostilities. "Conferences are held daily at the Seraskierate on the question of the situation of the Christian subjects of the Ottoman Empire. The Grand Vizier takes part in them, as also the French and English Ambassadors, and Prince Callimaki. The Turkish Government seems most favour able to reform, and the most satisfactory results are ex pected. The French Ambassador has received from the Sultan the decoration of the Medjidie of the first class. " The 3d Regiment of the Auglo-German Contingent bas lately arrived at Constantinople. It has established its encampment on the plain contiguous to Kululee, and which contains already 4,000 men. Gen. Shirley has ar rived at Constanti no pl e , an d l eaves to-day for Varna ; the outrages committed lately by the Bashi-Bazouks ren der the presence of the General in that place necessary. Apropos of Varna, I have to mention that after various operations it has been discovered that the submarine telegraph was broken about 25 miles from Cape St. George. A portion of the wire has been found, but the weather is not yet favourable to the operations necessary for searching for the other portion. Baron Tecco, the Sardinian Minister, leaves Constan tinople on Monday next for Turin. The First Secretary will take charge during his absence. Mr. James Brant, English Consul at Erzeroum, has been appointed to the same post at Damascus. My last letters from the Crimea are of the 19th, but they mention no fact of impor tance. The weather was still fine. The north forts had almost entirely ceased their fire, though it was not believed that the Russians were aware of the accept ance of the Austrian prepositions. General Lebeenf, who bad been sent by Marshal Pelissier to Kinbourn, in anticipation of an attack from the Russians, has re turned to the Crimea. General Vivian has node the greatest efforts to complete the fortifications of Kerteh and its environs. The Circassian deputation, whose arrival from Anapa I announced in my last letter, left the day before yesterday for Trebizond, whence it nro cceds directly to the head-quarters of Omer Paella." VIENNA, Feb. 2.—lt is necessary to make the following slight alteration in the text of the Vienna protocol of the Ist of February :—lnstead of " Plenipotentiaires, qui , munis des pleins pou voirs necessaires pour proceder a la signature des preliminaires de paix formels, conclure uu armistice," etc., it should be, " Plenipotentiaires munis des pleins pouvoirs necessaires pour pro ceder a la signature des preliminaires do paix formels, conelure nu armistice," etc. In con sequence of the omission of the words " et pour " (and to) before the word " conclure," the sen tence is heavy, but its sense is, that the five Mi nisters agreed " their respective Governments should appoint Plenipotentiaries furnished with full powers necessary for proceeding to the signa ture of formal preliminaries of peace, and for con cluding an armistice and -a definitive treaty of peace." The Vienna protocol was signed yester day at a few minutes after 12. The first person who put his name to the document was Isaan Bey ; the second, Count Buol ; the third, Sir Harnilton Sey mour ; the fourth, Baron do Bourqueney; and the fifth, Prince Gortschakoff. It is said to be evident from Prince Gortschakoff's signature that his hand was less steady yesterday than it was when he signed the various conference protocols some ten months ago. There are many persons in this city who have no great confidence in the sincerity of the Russian Court, and they one and all express a hope that the 'Western Powers will not grant a long armistice. The term proposed by Rus sia is four months, and this fact is calculated to excite some little suspicion, that her object is to gain time rather than to make peace. If the armistice were concluded for a month from the date of the signature of the preliminaries of peace, it might be prolonged should it appear ad visable. It is stated that the allies do not intend to insist on the neutralisation of the Sea of Azoff ; but the newspaper, Germany, contains au article on the subject, which is well worth attention. The following is a brief summary of it "The Sea of Azoff is likely to give the diplomatic world some trouble. I s it, lik e the Euxine, to he closed against all ships of war? if it is considered a mere gulf in the Black Sea, the reply must be in the affirma tive. If it i 4 viewed in the light of an inland sea, it is not underthe interdict contained in the third article, and Russia can keep as many ships of war in it as she pleases. The Sea of Azoff is extremely shallow, but the events of the present war have clearly shown that ves sels drawing but little water may effect much." " Russia will probably, by the conditions of the ex pected treaty of peace, be entirely separated from Tor- key in Europe, but her Asiatic frontiers will remain un-. changed ; she will retain her trans-Caucasian possessions, and with them all the passes into Asia Minor. If Russia ever wishes to go to war with Turkey, she can, without anything being known in Europe of what she is about, send great numbers of troops by way of the Caspian to her trans-Caucasian provinces, and suddenly make such a tremendous inroad into Asia Minor that she will carry all before her." 7, 1856. HER ArAtrEsTnN SHIP EDINBURGH, The citizens of Dublin were on Tuesday gratified by the rare exhibition of great-gun practice from this fine vessel now lying in Kingstown Harbour, with the addi tions, of a mock attack by boats, and subsequently a boat race. The Edinburgh, 64, screw frigate, commanded by Captain Hewlett,'Yvas the flag-ship of Admiral Chads at the bombardment of Bomarsund, and was prominently engaged on that occasion. The weather yesterday morn ing was fine, and the Eastern Pier was thronged with an assemblage which was both numerous and fashionable, and by whom the proceedings were viewed with the greatest interest. The targets were three buoys moored outside the harbour, at a distance of 1,000 yards from the vessel. To guard against accidents, a signalman with a flag was placed at the end of the pier, whose duty was to stop the firing in case the approach of any craft outside rendered it necessary. The practice with round shot was wound up with three broadsides from the lower deck gune. Then followed the boat attack. Five armed boats, each under the command of en officer, surrounded No. 4 pilot boat and cannonaded her, and received her fire in return, and after some manoeuvrin g , they finally closed i n an d t oo k h er b y boarding, The prize was then towed astern of the ship. Last came a race between the two boats of the Edin burgh, which was excellently contested. The ,practice and the boat attack were under the immediate direction of Lieut. Pritchard, second officer of the Edinburgh, a gentleman who has served with distinction both in and previous to the present war. With characteristic urba pity and hospitality, Captain Hewlett and the. officers entertained and attended to the numerous visitors on board, and after a sumptuous repast, dancing com menced, and was kept up until a late hour on the quar ter deck, over which a tastefully decorated awning was thrown for the occasion. 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His features are somewhat dull and heavy, and from the dreamy, apathetic manner in which he stood at the front of the dock whilst the evidence was being given, he seemed like a man who was recovering from a long career of drunkenness. Mr. Payne having briefly recapitulated the facts, and in so doing intimated that the defence would, in all probability, be that the prisoner was not at the time of the commission of the offence responsible for his acts, called the first witness, who said-1 am the wife of Thomas Fearon. I was upon Christmas-day at Mr. Burton's in the Minories. Pri soner and his wife, myself and husband, Mr. Marley, and others were there. I went at five o'clock in the after noon, and remained there all night. The men sat up and we went to bed. We had been playing at cards in the evening. I saw the prisoner leave the room in the morn ing to go to the warehouse and he wished me " Good morning ;" that was about nine o'clock, and he was going to the East India warehouse where he was employed. The prisoner and his wife lived at 7, Selby-street, Water loo Town, Bethnal Green, The two eldest children of the prisoner were lodging at my house. The prisoner camo into the room where I was with Mrs. Corrigan and looked very cross. He said to her "you should have come home and looked at the baby first." I said the baby was all right. He then said he would have tea at home. I advised him to go to Mr. Burton's. He ob jected to go for some time, but afterwards agretel. He said he should prefer his tea at home, but afterwards said, " Very well, I will have a wash and ge." We started, and it rained very hard. The prisoner said, " Are we to get wet, or shall we have a cab ?" We bad a cab, and the prisoner seemed more cheerful. The horse shied, and the cab was nearly overturned. The prisoner seemed to care nothing about it, and did not offer to assist ue. We got to Mr. Burton's about 4 o'clock. We went into the bed-room to take our wet clothes off, and the prisoner and Mr. Fearon were left in the sitting-room. 'We did not shut the bed room door, but had scarcely been in the room one minute when I observed the prisoner upon the lan ding that is between the sitting-room and the bed-room. There is a gate on the top of the stairs, and from the sound I fan cied somebody was opening it. I called out, "Is that you, Tom ?" He made no answer, but came into the room, walking hastily. He draw Mrs. Corrigan towards the bed. I said to him " What are you doing ?" He then commenced striking her, and I rushed towards him and tried to separate them, but , could not. I put up my hands and felt pain in my arm. I screamed out " Murder" several times, and the wife screamed, but prisoner said nothing. The de ceased was lying on the bed, and he struck her with his right hand, but where about the body I cannot say. I did not know that he had anything in his hand. I rushed down stairs and Mr. Marley over took me, and I told him what had happened. I ran to the doctor's as my own arm was bleeding. When I got about four doors from Mr. Burton's I turned round and saw the deceased fall upon the steps. When I got to Mr. Cook's, the surgeon's, I saw the deceased carried in by four men. I have known the prisoner between 11 and 12 years. He had been drinking, but the wash seemed to refresh him. I could tell ho had been drink ing, because he looked wild about the eyes, as he gene rally did when he had been drinking. They lived rather unhappily together. Cross-examined by Mr. Ballantine—He always be haved kindly to his wife that ever we saw. We have seen her violent upon some occasions. He always treated her kindly when sober. The prisoner has been given to the habit of drinking some years—most partieu• larly these last six months. Both prisoner and deceased spoke about his having suffered from deliriunt tremens. She said that week she had to sit up with him all night, as he had fancied that something was at the head of his bed. When I left them in the morning they were all drinking. Prisoner had been drinking all the week before. He had upon the previous night struck a young man whom he had never seen before. His eyes looked so wild and bad that everybody remarked it. I never knew him to be jealous of his wife. His wife was sometimes violent, and he was always mild to her when sober. She had tried to scratch his face, and he merely held her hands. We have not seen a very great deal of them these last two years. Re-examined by Mr. Payne—lt was about two years ago that I saw his wife try to scratch his face. Have not seen much of them together lately. I believe he al ways attended regularly to his business. He was a commodore or foreman at the East India Docks. Ann Burton—l live in Church-street, in the Mieories, and am a married woman. Have known the prisoner and his wife about five years. They came to our house about five in the afternoon of Christmas day. He seemed happy and cheerful. About eleven at night he seemed to change, and said he was very ill. His wife said, and well he might be, as he had been drinking some months before. The witness then gave evidence similar to the first witness, as to the prisoner and men being left up drinking, and said that when he went out in the morning to the docks he had two cupsof cocoa, which he drank standing, being in a great hurry. He came again in the afternoon, and left my room to go to his wife, who was in my bedroom, and heard faint screams at first, and then violent ones. As I went towards the bedroom some one rushed by me. I was so excited that I did not know who it was. When I got into the room I found prisoner had forced his wife on my child's bed, and was stabbing her about the body. He held the knife in his right hand. After some struggling, I forced the knife from him, and de ceased was got out of the room. I locked the knife in an iron safe. I asked the prisoner if he knew what he hal done, and he made no answer. Cross-examined--I had no opportunity of observing how they lived together. I saw the prisoner very often. I never saw him out of temper. He was a very quiet, harmless man. When I saw him with the knife in h hand he looked very wild and agitated. I shook him and asked him what be had done or what he meant to do. Edward Burton—l am an optician, in Church-street, Minories. I remembar prisoner and his wife being at our house on Christmas-day. I saw the prisoner the day after Christmas-day, and be was in my company from six o'clock on Christmas night till nine in the morning. He had h a d some drink, but not more, than would be found in the meet rational society. Prisoner breakfasted hurriedly, as he had to get to business. He did not appear intoxicated then. He looked remarkably strange at times during the night, after the ladies had retired. After be bad left in the morning I saw him again (about half-past twelve). He then said " Where is a►y mistress ?" I said, i❑ the other room, He then ' left my house, and I saw no more of him. Later in the afternoon the prisoner came into the 0 : t- ting-room where I was, and almost immediately run out again. I then heard screams and I rushed into the bed-room, and there saw my wife balding the pri soner in a lying position. I assisted my wife in getting the knife away from the prisoner. I saw Mr. Corrigan afterwards at Mr. Cook's surgery. I never saw him in such a state as he was then in my life. Cross-examined by Mr. Ballantine—l have seen him intoxicated and his appearance then was different to what he seemed then. He had a wild glaring of the eyes, and I never saw him look so strange. All the night that he sac up he seemed lost, and not as drunk. I have known him nearly 16 years, and have associated with him intimately. lam sorry to say I have seen his wife provoking him. I never saw him attempt to strike her in my life, but I have seen her strike him. I led him down stairs after the transaction, and gave him into cus tody. Sarah Brown, servant to Mrs. Burton, gave similar evidence. After scme further evidence merely corroborating that which has already appeared, the case closed when Mr. Ballantine addressed the jury for the defence, and the learned judge having summed up the jury retired. The jury having been absent for about a quarter of an hour returned a verdict of guilty. Mr. Justice Wigbtmas then passed the sentence of death, telling the prisoner that he could not hold out to hint the slightest hopes of mercy. THE VICTORIA DOCKS.—The Government are, we believe, in treaty for the purchase of the Victoria Docks, situated on the opposite side to Woolwich. ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS. —Ti e following m em ben; of the College, having u ndergone the nec'ssary ex amination?, were admitted licentiates of midwifery at the meeting of the board on the sth inst. :—Messrs. G. S. Gabb, Newent, Glocetlershire F. Shepherl, Faver sham ; T. M. Donaboo, Westminster-road ; R. H. Bakewell, Parton, near Swindon, Wiltshire ; T. G. Brook, Caxton, C a mbridgeshire ; W.' G. Coombs, Win ford, Somerset ; W. Kirk, Hedon, near H u ll ; H. Gib 'bons, Wolverhampton ; S. D. Rine, Nottingham ; C. C. Blades, Tattershall, Lincolnshire H. H. Vernon, St. Mary's Hospital; EU4 F. Wilton , Glocester. Country Markets. EDINBURGH MEAL MARKET—F • • Thorc wore in the market to-day 16 sacks it, DS & e le I weighing 2SO lbs imperial, which sold at 40s. o,t. EDINBURGH HAY AND STRAW MARKET- FEB. 5. Supplies of all kinds these last six days again large. Oat straw, from 9s Odto 12s Od per kemple of 16 stoe tron; wh ea t do., Ys Od to 10 6d; barley do., 7s Od to 65 . 6d. Hay from 10d to 15d. DALKEITFI MEAL MARKET—FEB. 4. o °a. Oatmeal, per s ac k o f 2801b s virst. Second. Third imperial Barleymeal, per ditt o Peasenaeal, per ditt o —s ' Oct a Oct — I AA Flour, per ditto 32s 6d. —a Oct --s "" O d Pot-barley, per ditto DUBLIN—FEB. 6. We had a perfect panic to-day. Wheat was 2s to 35 ' oats 1s to is 6d, and barley is 6d lower than on FridaY) and even at these reductions only a very trifling htisi° e ': was done. Indian corn un sa l ea bl e, th oug h press ed ' l, ; decline. of 3s to 4s per qr. There is a feeling that if P, h ea e s 'i be proclaimed soon wheat will go d own t o 30s, and °" grain in proportion. White wheat, 3.7 s Od to 39s Od ; red ditto, 31s to 38 , barley, 14s Od to 19s Od ; oats, Ile Od to 14s Od ; rap —s Od to —s Od per brl ; oatmeal, 153 0i to 17s Od ; Od flour, 24e Od to 283 Oi per cwt; Indian corn, 32s 01 to oe" per 480 lbs. M.-:-FEB. 6. the close of the market. Wallsend, g P. Braddyll l7 Plummer l6 v n Russell's .. ********* 17 " 'Stewart's ....... is 6 South Kelloe l7 I l Eveuwood ************* l6 60 Derwentwater Hartley .18 15 I Sold Feb.l 9 I,ncee ~~affl , d b 1R• I~ eito 1 , 6 Ire" • It si' lye b ' ° ITOOO` !...104•'" 4. 013 ,16. 1001 rt o^ 1,6tt1? , 1 6 - 0 0 i 4 14 11 I, w ise • Veo• ; 4 2°D Feb' 16 I~ n ~ r yw !nor ° 0 0° COAL MAR Peat's of Coa►l per ton nt g. d. Buddle W. Hartley lB 0 Byass's West Hartley .. 17 0 Davison's West Hartley 18 0 Holywe.ll l7 0 Low Bitehburn 15 6 raolield Moor Butes 16 0 Walker Primrose l4 9 Wallsend, Harvey Wylam 16 0 Ships at market... 11 s.EA (N sigh! hes that the ay the night—and M by BORNE MAILS. post e l° nails are sent from the General ho morning--despatch.) 1 d r:l 1 mTigissd._ Day when made up From what corrNTR/Es, In General Post- Office, London.* Dis Port patched.. kmerica(byllrit.pack)/ 1 Every Friday ',mode?, try United fits. •• • • Liverpool . packet) •**** ""' • • Liverpool •;k amarica (by U. States packet) • • •• .. so t ithamptor!ri anstralia (via South ampton) ...... M •• • •• .. Southampton Ditto (via Marseilles) N • • • •-• •• • • • Dover Dittd(via Cape of Goed Hope) ....... • • • • &fries. (West Coast) ..24123d of the month.. piymontii •• In k'exandria.......... N 9, 24, &80 of in. & 20th of mon. Dover ...• • • 1 Southamptot ; Bahamas of the month Southampton! Belgium ••••• • • • • • I .C' " II Y ••••••• • • • • • Dover .... • •11 0 ' Brazil ..............31 9 th of the month.. Southampton 9th el the month.. S,ritharn?ton Buenos A,yre5........M Cape of Good Hope ..N Various port U l l Cape of Good Hope ..N Cape de Verde 9th of the month Southamptonlye Ceylon (see India) Ceylon... N Chaimel „ „N ffon.,Wed.,&Frid. Southampton 't Chi1i,...............31 2d & 17th of month southampter• China .... . Constantinople ..N '8,13,1 8,23,&28 ot in Dover .....• Canstantinopie ......., 4th ?s 20th of mon. Sonthamptar Cont. of Europe M & N Twice daily .• • • • • Dover TI Egypt (see India) France ........ M N Twice daily.-- Dover Gibraltar .. ...... 11411, 7,17, 20, 27 sfur. Southamn• Greece (see India) Croytown & 17th o' mon. 1 54,atithampti Dr mhurgh Tuesday & FridaylLoadon i.lavannati .......... mllni of the month ISouthamptoil ilolland Dal 1 Y • • • • • • • • • • • • Dover iionituras ......., (Ithe month.Southamptor !nilia(viaSouthampt.)?,4l4th 20th of mon. Plymouth •• ' India (via Marseilles)lll 9th&2sth of monthlDover -• lonian IWes (see India) 7, 17, &27 of monlDover •• Ireland ........M & N Twice daily •.....11104., head ~•1' 7 9, 17, & 27 or ni.lsouitiamptoo tladoira ........ „ „Al 9th of the month!Sonthampton 1W eira ....... N 1234 0 1 month •• • • Liverpool ... Maita (see India) 1 Malta „„1 , 'B, 18, &28 of mon. Dover ,„ Slituritins (see India) 1 KAU rl tlus ....N 14th of the mouth Mexico ............M 2nd of the month.. Southampton Fe Napici , . . ..Nl sthlls th 2s thormon. l Dover .... ••1 New Granada ! ▪ I St ll7 private slip i & 17th of monthlSouthampton I New Zesland lVarioits port ,, ' l l l Papal States „Is Ith 15th25thofinon. Dover Peninsula M Ithlith27thoftnon. iouthetrpten & 27th of mon.; 4 outha ts.pton Port Natal „„„. „. lly private shin...i Various ports'ill s t llls th 2s tho r min,'Dover 51 . 1 i 1 Mh 25 thofrr-on.lDover •• •• Tuscany ............N fonezuels ,„ _At )d 17th ofmonth,Southa ptor 1 1 Van Dietnon's Land ( se. Australia) •• 1. 1 West Indies 2117•1' 17th ' l l month 'South* n ol4n1•1 1 011 I a , South* fl otot 6 1 When any of theie dates fall on a S un d ay, the i Villn will 1 4patched on tho following day, with the e xce pti on o d 4 f the Tl 4 ,d •,..outhampton), and the Malta, b o th o f w hi ch will bci 4.lesPot`a preceding day, SHARE MARKETS,. LIVERPOOL, FEB. 6. STOCK ExonaNGE.—The tone of the mr u Ica ho s -4 , dull to-day, and p r i ces a shade lower than yestsr.o3, London and No r th W es t erns, 1001 e ...-Birketth i e Lancashire, and Ch es hi re (C . and B. 271. shares). 691 Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln, 241—J lidlanc).., 9 Bi—Eastern Counti es , 9.lB.9.—Great Wiestern, Lancashire and Y or k s hi re, 81 p. South Eastern, 1Q.13.:. 4 . g 11s. 3d.—Dutch I :,henishdi Groat Western of Cana.qa, 25 51—Ditt o , re w, per —North Eastern and B erw i c k , 184 —St. :a -.ol°n'6h cent. Stock B, 103—L ancas t er an d Carlisle„ new ' c ' e pt.t p. 7—Manchester,,Stockport, an d Lincoln 6 per 111. ....1......mm1i MANCHESTER, FEB. 6. STOOK EXOEANGE.—The mar k e t to-day hi s be es an active business, and prices declined ui til near close, when there was a slight reaction. Leeds, 8 6"9., Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln, 244—MiilloldNoril! Dovers, 18 9 . l6—G rea t Western, 55i—Load 0 n an d 01 Western, Eighths, dis.—Great Western of ( Caned* , —Eastern Counties, Of —Crystal Palace, 2i. BIRMINGHAM, FEB. 6. STOCK EXCHA.NGB.—The tone of the met at Wad 0 brisk, and the prices generally were firm. 1 londorlho, North Westerns c l ose d at 1004—Midland, 38 irmi r t n ioo and Derbys, 40—Old Bi rm i ng h am Canals, 90 ....Old Mills, 17g. DUBLIN, FEE. 5. 901' STOCK EXCHANGE. —Three p er C en t . CO's 110 A, : • Ditto for Account, Feb. 7, 903 0 3—New Thri e Feb., Stock, 901 i—Ditt o , f or t h e Account, 7th of :Feb ., 2201 —Great Southern and Western, 521 3—Bank VtockP vi i-• —Mining Co. of Ireland, 14 2—Ditto, for accA me , 1 Hibernian Bank, 323—R oyal Bank of Irel load, J 201.0 e.• Dublin and Wickl ow (f or account), s"4—Kill al ^no *a' tion (101. paid), 7i—N a ti ona l Bank of Ireland,. 325 1 hs lf land Great Western and Royal Canal, 493 — shares, 24J. t A HINTHINTu FOR MR. DRUMM OND . —Said Effen e ie s-e ,,e r tl the Sultan, is dead. S ea l e d tenders, wits sp ech- de• jokes, are to be rent by th e fi rs t of April, by 11 ersono ed , sirous of cont e sti ng fo r th e p l ace o f the droll dec ess. N.B. Bowstrings abolished ; an d, i n proo f of the gr''„ ins intelligence of the Porte, it i s no t i n di spel sa ble tu ,oo _., candidates should be of the Moslem p w " usi sior. Punch. The Oesterreichische Zeitung has ret rived following news of the 21st January fro j n 0c1 05 : Vast masses of troops, consisting of infant' cavalry, and artillery, continue to ail rano° wards the Danube. The troops have iconsultt everything within an area o f 150 verst ;, t 7 d there is a great d ear th. T he tschetivel -,t; of 00 ';', I which two years ago cost one silver rot b1e91 10 ,4 costs eight, an d ,the prices o f a ll o th er • kinds °f grain have r i sen i n the same proportiot 3 . T ue " l has been a great mortality among the n ow „,battli lions of Rifl es , as a consequence of the meta hav ing greedily eaten of the honey o f th e coun'iry• jo honey brou g ht on dy sen t ery . " The cleat] I of 1 01 0 Napoleon was report e d i n Od essa ." S omf ) d a ys ag a there was such a conflict between the Fl3snoli an Turkish pzisoners that the Russians well) oblige to separate the combatants by force. !. C'he leaders were put into irons. • BIRTHS. J. A SON. On the 6th inst., at Fitzroy-park, Highgate, :Mrs. We" Gladstone. On the sth inst., at Bryanstone-square, a r rd. Sourl Fowler Broadwood. or A DAWCOINNE. On the 6th inst., at Willenhall, Mast Barnet , the wil d of Charles A. Hanbury, Esq. On the sth inst., at Marston House, Dorset, t the wife 01 Thomas B. Hanham, Esq. MARRIED. On the sth inst., at St. Mary's Church, Easte* 1 , goo , Edward Adams, of Cloak-lane, Cannon-street,, London' and Berrylands, Kingston, Surrey, solicitor, yovalgest son of the late Georgo Adams, of Old Jewry, so hieitor, to Helen, eldest daughter of the late John Aylward, .of Warn' ford, and Exton, Hants. On the sth inst., at All Souls' Church, Ma rvleboneo Charles Lander, Esq., to Maria, second daughter' of Geo' Draper, Esq., of London. DIED On the sth inst., at Brighton, Charles Thelluseon, Esq . ' aged On the 4th inst., at the Vicarage, Bishop's Lydeard, Somerset, Alexander Warre, Esq., of the Admiralty, S°' merset-honse, aged 46. On the 4th inst., Mr. Thomas Mutlow Williams, 155. Oxford-street, aged 39. On the Ist inst., Thomas Rumble, Esq., architeot, of Reading, aged 65. On the lit inst., at Maida-hill, E. Stone; Esq., aged 37. On the sth inst., at her son's house, 1, Tenterden-street, Hanover-square, Mrs. Jane Perry, aged 88. At Paris, rue de Rivo]i, Mary, relict of the late Lieut.' Col. Charles Bond, Bombay Artillery, aged 76. On the 27th ult., at the Curragh of Kildare, Major 3. Snodgras, 96th Regt., aged 39. ~~~ LONDON : Printed and Published by Isitritllo of No. 112, strand, Printer, at The Sun °trice, No. 312, Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in the cotter ° f Middlesex, Thursday, February 7,1856. •- _ _ TE Posit IQI Pan vottsep Rob Blaol THIf )3LACI it has Profess To b tical, a Prepay, Pens° b SARI wing a THE c GnoT the old Gentle: %dotter sh ape , lief in : Gooi (Indy° the wh TH QII: THE 128 Q, THE VOY THE Wei TA Pre] M bra: • Mar war Cht lien Wa oh th illo 110 li r