The Sun. — London, England, 1863-12-12 00:00:00

THE METROPOLITAN BOARD OF WORKS, The usual weekly meeting of the Board was held 'yesterday at the office in Spring-gardens; the ::airman, Mr. J. Thwaites, presiding. ST. THOMAS'S HOSPITAL AND THE PROPOSED SITE AT STANG AT E. The Engineer (Mr. Bzaigette) reported to the Board that he had been requested by gentlemen conn::eted with St. Thomas's Hospital to make affi davit as to the healthfulness of the site at Stangate, which the Governors had agreed to purchase of the Board, subject to the decision of the Court of Chan ?eery. Dv) evidence he proposed to give was con tained in the following facts :—That, by July next, the greater portion of the main drainage works for the draining of the metropolis will be completed, and then the sewage of the metropolis, instead of being discharged, as it now is, at low water around the metropolis, and so mixed only with a small volume of water, will be discharged during high water at Barking, which is about 13 miles below London-bridge, where it will be diluted with a maximum volume of water, and carried by the ebb tide to about 26 miles below London bridge ; and it was the intention of the Board to carry oat great improvements on the banks of the river by embank ing, when the land on the shore of the Thames would form a good site for any public building— more especially as the several noxious trades now carried on in the locality would be removed. Mr. PHILLIPS moved that the engineer should be allowed to make an affidavit in accordance with the facts stated. _ . Mr. DIXON said that there could be no doubt of the healthfulness of the river shore, for down by the docks and by the banks of the river in the nei hg bourhood of Limehouse and Bermond se y the people were very healthy, and so much so that a doctor could not make a living there. (Laughter.) After some further remarks, Mr. LOWMAN TAYLOR observed that the Board ought not to commit itself to any statements the engineer might make. The offi cer of the Board might be compelled to give evidence, but it w ou ld not be right for the B oard to be mixed up in the matter. This part of the subject then dropped. The Solicitor brought to the notice of the Board that at a previona m eetin g a res olution Was passed relative to obtaining an act in the ensuing session of Parliament that the Board might acquire addi tional lands at Stangate for the purposes of the Southern Embankment of the Thames scheme, and he now needed further instructions, the preliminary steps for obtaining such an act having been taken. It was moved and seconded that steps should be taken for obtaining the necessary powers. Mr. ROCHE desired to know why the Board should go to Parliament at a great expense in order to have powers to purchase a piece of land, if that land was afterwards to be sold for St. Thomas's Hospital, as he understood it was to be. The land was either for the purpose of the Board or for St. Thomas's Hos pital, and he wanted to know whether the hospital authorities would pay the expenses the Board would go to in obtaining this act if the land was for them. Mr. FREEMAN answered that the site as it stood at Stangate was not perfect, inasmuch as roads would have to be made, and the purchase of the lands treated of in the proposed bill was neces sary to make the site perfect; and then, if the site should not be used for the hospital, it could be sold for some other purpose. The Act was not for St. Thomas's Hospital, but for the Board. Mr. DERMER asked who would pay the expense. The governors of the Hospital had voted £95,000, and the answer was in the negative, so if the board expected to get any of these expenses it was mis taken. The CHAIRMAN said the purchasers of the site would pay all necessary expenses. Mr. COLLINSON stated that at a meeting of the Governors, which was reported in the Times, the question was asked if there would be any expenses required for the she beyqnd the £93,000, and the answer was in the negative, so if the board expected to get any of these expenses it was mistaken. An amendment was moved that the whole ques. tion be referred to the Thames Embankment Com mittee, but this was negatived by 28 against 7, and the original motion was carried. THE NEW STREET FROM THE MANSION HOUSE. A letter was read from Mr. Daw, the clerk to the City Commissioners of Sewers, asking the board to contribute half towards the expense of forming that street, whatever the expense might be. Mr. LowMAN TAYLUR moved a resolution in effect binding the board to comply with the request stated in the letter, and in doing so said that the expense of forming this new street had, he believed, been greatly exaggerated beyond what it really would be, because when city people were required to sell land they did not know how to ask too much for it. In one case he knew the sum of £62,000 was asked for certain premises and a busi- Dees, and a jury had given £ll,OOO ; and this was au instance of what might be asked and what given. t Ai . small piece of land near th e U n i on Bank was set " 11 in value at £17,500, but th a t sum would no doubt be greatly reduced, and he had little doubt that proat 7 in hen the street was made there would be a which the board would stand in equal share s . ItrAS a previou, :ought to the notice of the Board that sta‘leslution bound the Board only to con tribute a f uture ece4i ll ori tluni, the matter remains over until to rescind any e,;:8 notice is required to be given resolution. 11-1 FIRE The CHAntx, , , ll tt BRIGADE. th e that be had received a c o Intinication from h Secr e tar y of State for the Hoare' epartment relative the Metrol"l i • to the Fire Brigade of It w,•As agreed that the l etter to a committe e unread. should be referred it was a l so egreed, on th e raw that application should .!3i, itatA. , ° I °U . of Mr. ROCHE, pari,hes in the metropolis for s Le t o each of the cost for several years of the ft re Ztn : showing the mints, the amounts paid for fire 4 . 1 _ 13 1 establish tributions to the Fire E,cape Bri g ,„j ti lle: the eon number of persons em ployed, and f er ( o "„ithy), the Leer infor mation on the same subjec% After other business to e B cord adjou,zed. --=__ - Horniman's Tea is choice and strong, tn n a eval e in price, and wholesome to use. 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MIDLAND CIRCUIT—DERBY, Dec. 11. George Victor Townley was indicted for th 3 murder o: Miss Goodwin. Mr. Boden, Q.C. (specially retained), and Mr. Bristowe appeared for the prosecution; and Mr. n,eaulay, Q.C., and Mr. Sergeant O'Brien (both of whom were specially re tained), with Mr. Stephen, defended the prisoner. The court was densely crowded with people anxious to heat this remarkable trial. The prisoner, who was described as a man of very quiet and refined mancers, a good linguist, and an accomplished musician, and who was apparently about 25 years of age, on being arraigned pleaded not guilty in a low but firm voice. Mr. Boden, in opening the case for the prosecution, after adverting to the painful interest it had excited in the coun t y , and asking the jury to dismiss from their minds the ru mours which were floating about, and to attend to the ev idence only, stated that the prisoner was a member of a respectable family living at Hendham-vale, a mile or two from Man chester. His father was a commission agent at Manchester, but the prisoner had no employment, unless it was that he acted as a clerk in his father's office. Miss Elizabeth Good win, with whose death he was charged, was the daughter of Mr. Henry Goodwin, and granddaughter of Captain Good win, who had long lived in the county and acted as a ma gistrate there. Mrs. Henry Goodwin lived at Chester, and up to the last three or four years Miss Goodwin had lived with her mother, bnt about that time she left Chester and went to reside at Wigwell-grange, or hall, with her grand father, who is an old man upwards of 80 years of age. Miss Goodwin was nearly 23 years of age, Cap tain Goodwin's eldest son was a physician at Manchester, and Miss Good win f a wo c ue q er u n : i et n ha t a:sup: prisoner os e d nt he er t o ya b t n h ed e c at fi e r m e e i n n g g ag o ef deceased,d w i n while on a visit to him had f ormed the acquaintance of the To ultimately, attachment 1 a b e ao That ub et a s a t n r d on uim g Owing to Townley's want of means to support a wife the engagement was not approved by the lady's friends, and for some short time it was broken off. It had been renewed, however, shortly afterwards, and continued to exist to within a short time of her death. Miss Goodwin appears to have writtento the p r i soner on the 14th August to break off the engagement. Her letters, however, had, with one excep tion, been given up by Townley to her friends, who de stroyed them. On the 15th of August Townley wrote to Miss Goodwin as follows : " Hendham-vale. Sunday. "My dearest Bessie,—Dearest:you will always be to me ; to say that I am not terribly cut up would be a lie, but, at any rate, you know I am not the man to stand in your way. I answer nothing to your last letter, except that I wish to hear from your own lips what your wishes are, and I will accede to them. You know me too well to suppose that I should give way to any unnecessary nonsense or sentimen talism. I have had a singular run of good and bad luck lately; it suffices to say that I have an offer to leave Eng land. Before Igo I wish to see you once again, and for the last time, though God knows what misery it give s m e t o say so. You will admit that my desire to see you is but natural. Say in your next where you will meet me. I will come by the first or second train from Derby on Tues day or Wednesday morning, whichever suits you of course, without any one knowing, The sooner it is all settled the better for both parties. "Ever, dearest Bessie, your affectionate " GEORGE. " P.S.—I arrived too late from Bolton to answer yester day. Will you write by return ?" On the Monday he wrote again : " Hendham-vale, Monday. "Dearest Bessie,—lt is doubtful whether you will get the letter I wrote you yesterday till to-morrow. I posted it myself last night at 11 o'clock at the general office (I could not'before), and being Sunday, could not make out about the mails, so I put it into the extra stamp box for the chance of its going. "This is simply to say that in my haste I mentioned Tuesday or Wednesday, forgetting that I should have to leave here to-day in order to see you to-morrow--that is, if I see you in the m ,rning, as on the l as t occa s ion ; but if ! it suits you better Ilcould arrive by the same train that Kate and I came by, and you could meet me the same evening, I returning the following morning. I suppose it would not be possible the same night. I think if we say Thursday evening or Friday morning it will be best, as then there will be plenty of time for you to say which you prefer, so at any rate in your next say at what time and whereabouts I can see you. I suppose anywhere between your house and Whatstandwell would do. lam ill and thoroughly upset, and Ido not wonder you are. We shall both be happier and better in mind, as well as body, after this last inter view. Address, care of W. Arrowemith, Gilnow• mills, Bolton, where I am going back to-morrow. Of course, if I hear to-morrow, and you fix time and place of meeting, I shall be at your appointment, mite qui cor4te! Always your affectionate, " G.V. T. " Train.—l can arrive at Whatstandwell-bridge at 4.2 afternoon, or at 9340r11 37 in the morning, whichever you like." On the following Wednesday, the 19th, the prisoner wrote again as follows : " Gilnow-mills, Bolton, Wednesday. "My dear Bessie,—l will only say here that I will arrive by the train you mention (1137 a.m., Friday morning), and that I hope, dear liessie,you will not bother yourself unneces sarily about all this as far as I am concerned. For my own peace of mind I wish to see you, which I hope you won't think selfish. Du rests, I only repeat what I have already said —I have but to hear from you what your wishes are, and they shall be complied with,and that I have sufficient savoir vivre not to make a bother about what cannot be helped. You can write to the Midland Hotel, Derby, where I shall stay to-morrow night, or leave a note at the inn at What standwell-bridge for me. Don't let me be the cause of ,any row between you and your G. P. If you like to call at the inn I will not stir out till you come; but I leave all this to your judgment. Ever affectionately, " G. V. T. " Miss Bessie Goodwin, Wi r ,mwell-grange, Wirks worth, Derbyshire." On the same day Miss Goodwin wrote a letter to the prisoner, which had been preserved, mad was as follows : "My dear George—l write this in the greatest haste to tell you not to come on (any) account. I leave here to-day, and can't tell when I shall or can be back again. Ido not wish to see you, if it can possibly be ;avoided, and indeed there will be no chance now, so we had better end this state of suspense at once, and say ' Good-bye' without seeing each other. I feel sure I could not stand the meeting. If you write once more within the next three days I can get it, but not later than that time without its being seen, for my letters are strictly watched, and opened, " Yours truly, " BESSIL t , Wednesday, " Immediate. " G. V. Townley, Esq., Hendlam-vale, Smedley, near Manchester." This letter reached Hendlam- vale on the Thursday morn ing, and Townley's mother, perceiving from whom it came, opened it, and immediately telegraphed to the prisoner, who was then staying at Mr. Arrowsmith's, at Bolton : " Letter from B, [Bessie] —Come at once. Will meet you at the station. Will wait. Immediate." Immediately on getting this telegram tha prisoner seems to have left Bolton and gone to Hendham-vale. From there ho went on the same day to the Midland Hotel, at Derby, where he slept. On the following morning, Friday, Aug. 21, he left Derby, and went to Whatstaniwell, the nearest sta tion to Wigwell-hall, which is about a mile and a half dis tant. He reached this place about half•past 11, and went to the Bull's Head Inn, which is close to the station. The learned counsel then detailed the facts of the case as they appear in the evidence of the witnesses below. He added that it was clear that Miss Goodwin met her death at the hands of the prisoner, and it seemed to be equally clear that if the prisoner was responsible for his acts, the offence amounted to murder. He was not in a position to antici • pate the defence that would be set up on the prisoner's be half; but if that defence was that the prisoner was not re sponsible, the jury must be satisfied that he was labouring from such a defect of reason, from disease of the mind, as not to know the nature and quality of the act he was doing; or, if he did know it, that he did not know he was doing what was wrong. After proving the facts already stated, Mr. Boden called Ann Burley, who said—l keep the Bull's Head Inn, at Whatstandwell-bridge which is about three miles from Wig well-grange. The prisoner came to my house on the morn ing of Aug., about half-past 11, and asked if them was a note for Mr. Townley. On hearing that there was not, he asked ,o for a glass of brandy and water. After walking about , roe little time he came back and asked if he could have a Zed as he said he might probably want one that night, and too : .. t ro had another glass of brandy and a pill, which he w i ' w _!3, his carpet bag, ho left the house in the direction of It 4 1 r, i• ei trange. prison er , ..." 1 from the evidence of the next wiiness that the past w i ' g Za el l leaving the Bull's Head Inn, must have gone Bull's H eed 4 .l taage, which is about half way between the The Revair t ,Wirksworth, to the last named place. Wirksworth, „ wi Zt i liarris—l kep the gammar school at well -grange. Th e tai l a s about a mile and a r half from Wig- Aug ust, at half•p aet 1 4t er came to my house on the 21st of a friend of Miss G oodw 4:4 said, "I have called on you as engagement between / 1e. ., 1 suppose you know there is an an engagement, en to m writhatttbute to it hbraeaid "I understood there was "She lea broken off." He said, S d ec li n es to see m e. I want to kuoff.the engagement, and said, {f A n ything I kno w is in , 0 ,,, t w dew matters stand." I canno t satisfy you. ,, He said, “1 " 4 17 ", and, therefore, I 111 ace • wa s -ad it out someh ow or other." He th en asked who aa the tie •at Wigwell. I said "There,_ s 'gFman who had been staying . "4 b een en oast but I declined to give his name." I hadh em , . e ere, between Miss Goodwin and that there was an engagement 'A th 1 three weeks or ee erg y. man who was staying there ___. a month a He then asked if Miss Goodwin was at Wlgwen, and _go l . thought any coercion had been used towards h er. 1 I d had been used t she was at Wigwell, but no coer cion °wards her that I was aware of. He said " Sooner or later I must see her. I have written to relasc her from the engagement, but I must hear from herself that she g ives it up. She is of age and must please herself. I know I am not a good match, and have no wish to stand in her way." I t hen told him I must leave him as it was my school-hour ( 2 o'clock), but i e if he would call at half-past 4 I would see him again' his best left and came again at half-p as t 4. I told him best course was to write a note to Mi ss Goodwin, an d send it by post, requesting her to see him in the morning. Il e said he had already written and without effect. I said if you were to call at the house perhaps Miss Goodwin would see you. He said he would do so, and get it off his mind. He left, saying h e wou ld ca ll aga i n, b ut did not d o so . His manne r was that of an ordinary m a n,and perfectly calm \ collected. There was nothing to att rac t m y a tt en ti o n. _ro U ss-examined—l had only That Was at Mr. Good with the clergyman dav • b e f ore her death. Elizabeth Margaret P Wig well-hall. The • seen the prisoner once before. win:s. I was told of the engagement by Miaa Goodwin herself the Wednes day am the housemaid at Wig prisoner came to the hall on Friday even- ing, the 21st of Auguts, at 20 minutes to six, and asked for Miss Goodwin. I showed him in, and Miss Goodwin met him at the drawing-room door and theywent into the garden. Half an hour after I went into the garden and found them sitting on a seat a short distance from the house, I told Miss Goodwin she was wanted, and she came to the house and remained there till a quarter to seven, when she went out again. I went out at a quarter past seven and found her again sitting on the seat with the prisoner. I told her tea was ready, and she said "I am coming directly." I left her, but she never returned alive. I had seen him before. His manner was like that of other people, and was not different on the 21st from what it bad been at other times. Thomas Biddulph—On the night of the 21st of August I was coming up the Wigwell-hill-lane, about half-past 8. On getting to the top of the lane, where it opens into the turnpike-road, I saw a man and woman walking together towards Wigwell-hall. The woman was Miss Goodwin. After passing then I looked back, and saw she had turned round in front of the gentleman with her back to the hall. Reuben Conway—l work for Mr. Bowmer, who lives just opposite the hall. On Friday night, between 8 and 9 o'clock, as I was going along the turnpike-road from the hall towards the Wigwell-lane end I heard a moaning noise, which appeared to come from the direction of the Mill-lane end. I ran forward, and found Miss Goodwin guiding herself by the wall and coming towards the hall. Her face and the front of her dress were covered with blood. She asked me to take her home, and said there was a gentleman down there had been murdering her. I put my arm round her and carried her about 20 yards. She asked me whether I could see anyone, and on looking down the road I saw the prisoner 60 or 80 yards below towards the lane end, and nearer the lane end than the place where the blood was afterwards found. He was cross ing the road, and then came towards me. When I first saw him, he was about 40 yards from the hunting gate. As he came up, I went towards him, and asked him who had been murdering Miss Goodwin. He said he had stabbed her. I asked him to go and help me, and he took hold of her head and 1 of her body, and we carried her towards Wigwell. He called her "Poor Bessie" several times, and said. "You should not have proved false to me." She said nothing then. We laid her down near a gate, and prisoner asked me for something to put round her neck to stop the bleeding. I said I had nothing, and he asked mete .go for help. I asked him if he would stop with her, and he said he would. I went to Mr. Bowmer's yard for help, leaving the prisoner with Miss Goodwin, I was away about four or five minutes, and on coming back found the prisoner holding something round her Leek. I asked if she was living, and he said she was. She said, " Take me home." We then carried her a short distance further until Mr. Seeds and his brother came ap. Mr. Seeds asked who had done it. The prisoner said " I have done it." We then carried her further, and met James Conway, who also asked who had done it. The prisoner said, " I know, and he knows ; lam the man who did it, and I shall be hanged for it." Miss Goodwin then said she was dying. We carried her further, and met Mr. Bowmer, who also wanted to know who had done it. The prisoner said "I have done it, there is no question at all about that." After going a little further he said he was afraid she was dead, and bent down and kissed her. She was dead. We met Captain Goodwin and Ann Poyser, the housekeeper, just within the hall gates. Captain Goodwin asked what we had amiss, and the prisoner answered, " It is your granddaughter Betsy, murdered," Capt. Goodwin wanted to know who had done it. The prisoner said, " I have done it ;" and on the captain asking who he was, said "My name is George Townley." The body was taken into the kitchen and put on the floor. Captain Goodwin then asked the prisoner what made him do it. He answered-- " She has deceived me; and the woman that deceives me must die." He then went into the drawing-room with Captain Goodwin. Ann Poyser, the housekeeper, corroborated the last part of the preceding witness's evidence. Dr. Newton Mant—l was called in to Wigwell-hall on the Friday evening., and found Miss Goodwin dead. There were three wounds on the right side of the neck, one a stab behind and below the right ear; the second a stab in front of this, superficial; the third wound still further in front, three inches long, and extending nearly to the chin. The back part of this wound appeared to have been produced by a stab directed downwards and backwards. The external carotid artery and the internal jugular vein were severed. These were severed by the third wound. The first wound was probably given from behind and was not mortal. I should have thought that a person could not have walked after receiving the third wound. The knife produced (an ordinary clasp :knife, found on the prisoner) would have caused the wounds. I saw the prisoner that night. He ap peared to be perfectly calm. Cross-examined—I was with him 10 or 15 minutes in the drawing room. There was much blood upon him. Capt. Goodwin—(This witness, who is 84 years of age, appeared to be somewhat infirm, but spoke with a strong clear voice.) After stating what took place at the gate — which has been already given—the witness, who was much moved, continued—Atter saying that the woman who de ceived him must die, the prisoner said, " I told her I would kill her. She knew my temper." He also said, "I had the means two months ago, and I have the means at the present time." I observed he had money in his hand. I declined to take anything. He then produced two packets of letters. He gave them to me and said, " Will you take care of these ? You may read them, burn them, or do what you like with them. I don't wish these to be brought into court." I kept them for a few days, and then threw them all into the fire. I did not read a line of them, but I believe them to have been my granddaughter's letters. The prisoner was staying at my house for a few days at Christmas time. I did not see much, hardly anything of him. On the Friday evening he behaved with the greatest indifference. I thought I saw a little excitement about him just before he offered me the things. He had been so perfectly indifferent before that I noticed the change. Cross -examined—After the prisoner was remanded a policeman, Parnb am, asked me for one of the letters pro duced in court (the last from Townley), and another police• man, Burton, asked me for the packet of letters, and, sus pecting he had some improper motive 1 burnt them. I thought he was pumping me, and, being annoyed at that, I burnt the letters. Charles Parnham—When I got to Wigwell on the Fri day evening the prisoner came towards me and said, "I wish to give myself up for murdering the young lady." I cautioned him and asked him if he was aware of the nature of the charge he was giving himself up for. He said " Yes, quite so, and will go with you quietly, only let me see her first." I then said to him, " What have you done with the instrument or knife you committed the deed with ?" He took the knife now produced out of his pocket and gave it to me. It was wet with blood. I then took him into the kitchen. He looked at the body stedfastly, but did not sp2ak. On the way to the lock-up he said "I am far hap pier now J have done it than I was before, and I trust she is." I searched him and found two other knives (penknives) upon him. Next morning I asked him if he knew anything about a shawl. He said, " I saw one on the road and threw it over the wall." This was Miss Goodwin's shawl. I examined the road and found a small pool of blood at the corner of Wigwell-mill-lane. At the hunting-gate, which is about 200 yards from the lane and nearer the hall, I found another large pool of blood. I did not notice any between the two places. Cross -examined—I did not say, " Are you aware of the nature of the charge 2" because I doubted whether he was, but because he seemed so anxious to give himself up. I noticed marks of whitling on a gate opposite to the hunt ing gate. Three or four pieces had been cut off. The gate has been completely pulled to pieces and carried away by the persons who have visited the spot. This closed the case for the prosecution, and it being now half-past one o'clock the Court adjourned for half an hour. On the reassembling of the Court Mr. Macaulay addressed the jury on behalf of the prisoner. He strongly hoped that he should satisfy the jury beyond all doubt that by a mys terious dispensation of Providence the prisoner had been deprived of his reason to such a degree as to render him not amenable to the laws for the dreadful deed which undoubt edly he had committed. His father was a man of good means and position, and had three children, two sons and a daughter, of whom the prisoner was the eldest. From an early age his behaviour had been somewhat peculiar. He was perfectly well conducted, perfectly gentle, perfectly quiet, perfectly well behaved. He was exceedingly accom plished, but he was found to have no aptitude or capacity for the serious business of life. When very young he was noted for his taste for music. At school"he acquired lan guages with facility; but when put into a merchant's count inghouse he could not learn the business. The learned counsel then went into a detailed account of the evidence he proposed to adduce, which from its importance we have given as it fell from the lips of the witnesses. At the close of Mr. Macaulay's address his lordship ob served—Perhaps, Mr. Macaulay, you had better address to me the questions you desire to have left to the jury. Mr. Macaulay—l should prefer doing so after the evidence has been heard. an asylum. Another maternal uncle had six children, of whom one has been insane. He is not now in an asylum. Cross-examined— He was occasionally subject to fits of ill-temper. He was not ill- tempered generally. The Rev. Win. Bourne Masters, the prisoner's maternal uncle, corroborated the evidence of the last witness. Mary Townley—l am the prisoner's mother. He had a very poor capacity for business pursuits, and had no profes sion in August last. In March of this year I received a let ter from Miss Goodwin, expressing great affection for my son. They were upon the most affectionate terms, and my son's affection continued the same as ever. On the 12th of August ho received a letter from Miss Goodwin, which I saw. (The letter was one of those given by Townley to Capt. Goodwin and burnt by him.) It spoke of a clergy man, the most delightful man she had ever seen in her life. lie had been staying at Wigwell, and her grandfather thought he would just suit her, but that would not do. It ended, " Yours affectionately." The usual conclusion was "Your own darling," or something of that sort. I saw him on the Saturday, three days after he received that letter. There was another from Miss Goodwin to him on that day. It said she had a good deal to say to him, and it had better be said at once. Grandfather had found out that they cor responded, and was wild that the re was an y t hi ng i n t h e way. "I want you to release me," the letter went on, " that I may have it to say lam free. Don't take this too hardly in pity for me. I shall not marry if I can help it." That was signed " Yours sincerely," That letter seemed to have turned his brain. He was in such an excited, sup pressed state of feeling that I asked Mr. Arrowsmith to sit up with him. The next morning I went to my son's room. He was at the door, and appeared very excited, but exter nally calm. He had not been in bed. He took nothing but tea and brandy for breakfast, and only very little for dinner, That evening (Sunday, August 16), he wrote a letter to Mies Goodwin (the letter dated Sunday, and given above.) He took a long time to write it, and was nervous and excited while doing so. He came down on Monday morning and lay on the sofa. He a p peared very restless. His hands and feet were twitching nervously. I gave him some morphia. He remained on the sofa till dinner time, and took no dinner. After dinner he wrote another letter to Miss Goodwin. (This letter is also given above, and is dated Monday.) He had a little difficulty in finding words now and then. He was so nervous that he spoilt several envelopes in directing the letter of Sunday, and had to tear them up. On Tuesday morning he took hardly any break fast, and appeared not to have had a night's rest. He then went to Manchester to give a French lesson, and on coming back he was in a perspiration, and said he hoped he was not going to have an illness. That afternoon he went toßolton, to Mr. Arrowsmith's. On Thursday another letter came from Miss Goodwin (that given above), and I t e l egraphed to him to return home. On arriving he showed me a letter he had received from Miss Goodwin at Bolton. The pur port of it was that if he wished to see her he was to go to the Midland Hotel at Derby, where he would find a note from her, but she did not wish to see him. There was a postscript, "After all you had better come," and she men tioned the trains. We consulted on what was to be done at the station, and fixed that he had better go to Derby. The letter I gave him from Miss Goodwin evidently distressed him. I could see he was dreadfully upset, but he always kept quiet. Shortly afterwards he left for Derby. His man. ner was generally reserved, but excited. I noticed an ex cited manner. That was his natural manner during the whole course of his life. Ha was only excited on occasions. I noticed a change after the receipt of Miss Goodwin's let ters. I should describe that change as a suppression of deep feelings. 1 believe an objection was made to my marriage with Mr. Townley on the ground of the insanity in my family. Cross-examined—Th e French lesson was given to the son of a neighbour whom my son had been in the habit of teach ing from motives of kindness, Catherine Townley, the prisoner's sister, confirmed the evidence of her mother. Washington Arrowsmith—l am a cotton - spinner at Bol ton. On the 12th of August I saw the prisoner before and after he received Miss Goodwin's letter. He seemed much depressed by it. He seemed more depressed alter getting the second letter. I sat up with him on the Saturday night, the 15th. He was alternately depressed and excited, and wept for about four hours in the course of the night, not continuously. I assisted him in writing the letter of Sun day. He supplied the substance of the letter and I the words. He seemed to have a difficulty in finding words. He was with me at Bolton from Tuesday to Saturday, the 20th, and appeared to be suffering very severely in mind. He received a letter from Miss Goodwin during that time, which seemed to make him more despondent. I did not see him again after he received the telegram of Mrs. Town ley. His mind and manner underwent a marked change after he received the letters from Miss Goodwin. He appeared to be lost in thought, and did not observe me sometimes when I spoke to him. His natural disposition was very kind, but very reserved. Baron Martin—Of course. I have not sat here to try this case without well considering what questions I should leave to the jury, and I will now read to you what I have written down, and what I propose to leave to the jury. I shall tell them that if they believe that, although there might have been diseaEe in the mind to some extent, yet if the prisoner knew that the act he was committing would probably c ause d ea th, an d th a t th e d o i ng it would subject him to leg a l pun i s h ment , t h ere was cr i m i na l res ponsibility. ap 7 r r o • :acaulay—Many men have been acquitted with tin t . who must have been convicted under such a direc. Cross-examined—He was subject to passion like anybody else. The letter from G ilnow-mills he wrote himself. lam not aware that he had any medical advice on the night I sat up with him. He appeared to be very much distressed and kept walking. That made me think it not safe to leave him. William Glover—l have been acquainted with the pri soner 4 years. He is extremely gentle and humane, and a close and attached friend. Ho was very reserved to strangers. I have seen him extremely impulsive and excitable at times. He was a man with little hope, and looked despondingly at t attention, ten most things. Sometimes he would add ress me, an d on my continuing the conversation did not a pp ear to not i ce me. His mind appear€d to be wanderin g on something else. John Grew— I am waiter at the Midl an d H ote l , and re member the hotel tio n on , T b n u t u r a s cif afterwards w ards t even ing, the 20th August, He asked for ch o p s an d tea. At first prisoner to comingettract o my h there was nothing he walked up and down the coffee•room. He took very little indeed of his tea, and after writing a 'letter, asked what time the mail went out,and on say replying 9 o'clock, he went out apparently to post the letter himself. The next morning he asked if there were any letters for Townley. He poured out a cup of tea and had some dry toast. Before that he walked up and down, and muttered something which I understood to mean soda and brandy. He had a wild excited appearance about his eyes. After breakfasthe walked up and down muttering to himself. I thought him very eccentric. He asked the way to the smoking room, end when I told him he said, " I don't want to know the way to the smoking-room- I know my way all over the house." 1 came to the conclusion that he was not right in his'mind. inspector Davis and chief -constable Fox have been to me, aEd I told them that, in my opinion, the pri soner was not quite right in his mind. Cross-examined--I do not recollect having told Davis on the following Saturday that I noticed nothing about Town ley. I told him that Townley was very strange in his manner. The Rev. John Leighton Figgins, incumbent of St. Clement's, Manchester - -I should set the prisoner down as a person deficient in what I might call logical conclusion. I have conversed with him since he has been in prison. Ido not see any change, because I never h a d s i m il ar conversa tions before. If not knowing the difference between good and evil is a sign of derangement, I should say he is de ranged now. Justice from a dacisiionnhaeao: Baro n Marti La Bla u —I have drawn that from a summing up of has;h b i e e l h ieve it b t e o e b n e m a u eh correctapp ro s v ta ed tem of, n statement of Lyndhurst's, , i ,„ -f -baer:rithen Lord Denman's, and another of Lord rulingt rulingb e Ia w h o f a . e the been objected jugeilthaside from my consideration the 04:ried Bellingham, because that The following witnesse s ; called— Emma Marsden—l ara t She M aryd Marsden, the h av e known him all his life, i i :Z er 's maternal aunt, and very hunsane. I had an aunt riattaa v d e affectionate and ai es ti t a royed herself, cousin once removed, was confined for and dtewr was s f sthneppporsiseodntenr b s e gr in an sa d n fa e t . her G . iibert many o y ri e h a , r a in first lunatic asylum. Titus Bourne, my maternal uncle, had a d 10 children, of whom five were insane. Two were confined in Cross-examined—When I say that he does not know the difference between right and wrong, I mean there are cer tain things which I consider sinful and which he does not. He was rational in the sense of understanding what I said. Dr. Forbes "Winslow —I have seen the prisoner twice in the presence of Mr. Sims, the governor of the gaol. He was not aware of my name or the object of my visit. His be haviour was quite natural and not assumed. I talked to him largely on the subject of the crime. I was with him nearly two hours on the first occasion and three-quarters of an hour on the s econ d . I think that at the present momen t he i s a man of deranged intellect. He was deranged on the 18th November, and I thought still more so last night, when I saw him the second him. If I had any doubt as to his insanity on the 18th of November, I had none whatever last night. 1 adverted to the conversation I had had with him on the previous occasion, with a view of satisfying my mind that I had lett him with an accurate impression of what he had said. He repeated to me that he did not recog nise he had committed any crime at all, neither did he feel any degree of pain, regret, contrition, or remorse for what he had done. I endeavoured to impress on his mind on my first visit the serious nature of the crime he had committed. Ile repudiated the idea of its being a crime either against God or man, and in reply to some observation of mine, attempted to justify the act, alleging that he con. sidered Miss Goodwin as his own property—that she had been illegally wrested from him by an act of violence —that he viewed her in the light of his wife who had committed an act of adultery, and that he had as perfect a right to deal with her life as he had with any other descrip tion of property, as the money in his pocket, &c. I endea voured to prove to him the gross absurdity of the statement and the enormity of his offence, and he replied, "Nothing short of a miracle can alter my opinions." The expression that Miss Goodwin was his property was freqaently repeated. He killed her to recover and repossess himself of property which had been stolen from him. I could not disturb this, as I thought,:very insane idea. I said, " Suppose any one robbed you of a picture, what course would you take to re cover it ?" He said he would demand its restitution, and if it were not granted, he would take the person's life without compunction. I remarked that he had no right to take the law into his own hands; he should have recourse to legal measures to obtain restitution. He remarked that he recog nised the right of no man to sit in judgment upon him. He was a free agent, and as he did not bring himself into the world by any action of his own, he had perfect liberty to think and act as he pleased, irrespective of any one else. I regard these expressions as the evidence of a diseased intel lect. Last evening he said that he had been for some weeks previously to Aug. 21 under the influence of a conspiracy. i libertyorder r they er There were six conspirators plotting against him, with a would to escape view to destroy him, with a chief conspir ator at their head. This conspiracy was still going on while h e was in prison, e a o n n d t h in e n h e a t d he n i o r odpoeurbattiotnhsatagiafinhset washiinand n d at their evil purposes he would have to leave the country. He became much excited, and assumed a wild, maniacal aspect. lam satisfied that aspect was not simulated. I could not get from him thnnames of the conspirators. Mr, Macaulay:--If the present state of mental derange- MB SUN. LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 12, 1863, WESTERN CIRCUIT.—EXETER, DEC. 10. (Before Mr. Baron Pigott.) ment existed on Aug. 21, would it be likely to lead to the commission of the act then committed ? Dr. Winslow—Most undoubtedly. Assuming him to have been on Aug. 21 as he was on Nov. 18 and yesterday, I do not believe that he was in a condition of mind to estimate, like a sane man, the nature of his act and his legal liability. Cress-examined—He referred to the conspiracy in general terms on the 18th of November. 1 should class his case as one of general derangement. He does not appear to have a sane opinion on a moral point. I have no doubt he knows that these opinions of his are contrary to those generally enter tained, and that if acted upon they would subject him to punishment. I should think he would know that killing a person was contrary to law and wrong in that sense. I should thing that from his saying he should be hanged he knew he had done wrong. His moral sense was more viti_ ated than I ever saw that of any other human being, His opinions were pretty much those of atheists, but he was beyond atheism. He seemed incapable of reasoning cor rectly on any moral subject. He denied the existence of a God and of a future world. He would suffer from his con finement, which would add to his excitement. It was more remarkable last evening than on the 18th of November, and might not have existed on the 21st of August. He said it was a matter of perfect indifference whether he was dead or alive. Re-examined—He merely gave utterance to these opi nions dogmatically, and seemed incapable of arguing upon them. Dr. Gisborne, the surgeon of the Derbyshire Infirmary and of the County Gaol, gave similar evidence, and added that the prisoner's condition at this time was similar to his condition when he was brought to the gaol in August. The prisoner stated to him that he looked upon a woman en gaged to him in the same light as his wife, and that he ought to have the same control over his wife as over any portion of personal property, On cross-examination this witness stated that the pri soner's language implied that he knew that what he had done was pnnisbable, but that he (the witness) believed he would repeat the offence to-morrow. Mr, Sims, the governor of the gaol, gave similar evidence as to the conduct and statements of the prisoner. This concluded the case for the defence, and as it was now 6 o'clock, Mr. Baron Martin suggested that it was not desirable to go on with so important a case at so late an hour. The Court adjourned till 9 o'clock to. morrow morning. James Stevens, pugilist, and John Burke, labourer, were indicted for the wilful murder of John Mears, jun., at Teigngrace, on the 14th of August. Mr, Holdsworth and Mr. Bere were counsel for the pro secution; Mr. Carter defended the prisoners. Mr. Holdsworth having opened the case, Why the one should be so easy and the other so bard in politics is not so obvious as the truth that it is so. The chief reason, we believe, will be fettled in the fluctuating nature of the materials with which statesmen have to deal. Others have to collect facts, to form opinions out of them, and perhaps to apply those opinions to new combinations of circumstances. A statesman has a far more complicated task than this—a teak all the more difficult because each of is processes appears so simple, Let him be an historian, an economist, and a man of the world ; let him be gifted with the imagination to conceive end the nerve to execute; he will still fail of success unless he have a profound and sympathetic insight into the motives and opinions of men and nations. To him sentiments are facts, causes as well as effects, means and ends at once. The stumbling-blocks of co-operation are great, and the sacrifice of indivi dual convictions to the necessities of joint action is trying, but the teal and permanent difficulty of statesmanship is the anticipating, interpreting, leading, following, and giving practical expression to, public opinion. The political necessities which dominate over one generation are often the creation of the former; their component elements were opi nions, and their present force is embodied in opinions only. So hopeless does it appear to master all these moral conditions of domestic and foreign policy that the great majority of public men in power trust en tirely to instinct, and are content to take external pressure as a good rough test of opportuneness and expediency. This tends to make a Minister little more than the agent of the public will, and implies a deep scepticism as to the value of political prin ciples. We cannot acquiesce in this as the ultimate ideal of government, but it is often the nearest ap proach to it that we can get, and is at least safer than the theories of amateurs. If we mistake not, Mr. Layard has learnt this lesson, and is already less of an optimist than he once was. How the Queen's Government can be carried on with safety and efficiency is not the highest question that an administrator can ask himself, but it is a vital one, and while be is engrossed by the solution of it he must leave to others the suggestion and elaboration of organic projects of reform. POST.—There are few offices in the kingdom more difficult to discharge at the same time with dignity and efficiency than those which are held by the occupants of the judicial bench. The model judge should, in order to come up to the popular standard, be an individual not only of profound learning and consummate ability, but of unwearied patience and unfailing courtesy of demeanour. By many he is expected to present a living epitome of all the Christian virtues; by the vulgar he is in variably regarded as the incarnation of all that is at once the most wise, the most majestic, and the most awful. Stripping, however, from the judicial cha racter all that may be regarded as clap-trap, there remains quite sufficient to make it desirable that promptitude, precision, and unswerving fidelity upon the judgment -seat should be tempered by moderation of language and dignity of demeanour. We all remember the painful scene which occurred some years ago at the Guildford Assizes, when a feud sprang up between the judge and the high sheriff, in which both parties committed themselves, the latter perhaps the most unpardonably, and where a breach, which had been already once patched up by the intervention of the Chief Justice, ended in the infliction of a heavy fine upon the official guardian of the public peace. The scandal which was thus occasioned has hardly yet been for gotten, and remains GS a lesson of the extreme cau tion which it is requisite to exercise if the,boun daries of that reverence and respect which should surround the judicial bench are never to be teens• greased. It is therefore with the more regret that we have noticed the charge delivered the other day by Mr. Baron Pigott to the grand Jury at Exeter. The learned judge is, until a successor to the late lamented Justice Wightman is appointed, the junior of his fraternity, and has just en tered upon the honourable and onerous duties of his first circuit in his judicial capacity. After some sensible remarks upon the demoralising ten dency of pugilism, and the utter absence of any countervailing benefits to lessen the evils of the unmitigated ruffianism to which it gives rise, his lordship proceeded to comment upon the arrange ments which had been made to receive him. He com plained in strong terms that the business of the country had been retarded by the negligence of " some authorities in the town," and that the com mission could not be opened from " the stinginess" of those who declined to light the cathedral for afternoon service at his request. Of course such a charge, if founded on fact, would do anything but redound to the credit of those who had laid them selves open to it. Unfortunately for Baron Pigott, one story proverbially only holds good until another is told. 'fine Dean, the chief authority in the cathe dral, turns out not to have been in the city, having been summoned to attend the funeral of a near relative. Both the Canons in Residence, however, have come forward to give their own version of the affair, which is substantially as follows. It is quite true that a notification was received by the autho rities of the cathedral that Baron Pigott would pre fer attending church on a certain afternoon, instead of waiting till the following morning. 'But it is equally true that this request was coupled with an intimation of the time at which he would arrive, which would have rendered it imperative, in order to comply with it, to change, in the first place, the hour of the afternoon service, and to fix it, in the second, at such a time as would have rendered it im possible to conclude it during daylight upon a short December's day. From this alternative the Chapter might well shrink after the outcry which was excited some time ago at the mere report of an unseemly deference having been displayed towards Royalty itself at Peterborough. It involved also the ques tion not of the expense, but of the possibility, of lighting the cathedral. It is true that facilities for doing so exist in the choir, but the cortege of trum peters and javelinmen who accompany the judge attract a following which is rather numerous than select, who generally await in the nave the egress of the judge. This portion of the church has been recently fitted up for service at the private expense of a member of the Chapter, but, from the time at which the service ordinarily takes place, no pro vision has been made for lighting it. It is needless to point out how unseemly would have be en the spectacle of a rabble composed of the riff-raff of the town thronging the nave at an hour when the efforts of the authorities to preserve anything like order or decorum would have been effectually paralysed. Such is the counter statement put forth upon the part of the Chapter by Archdeacon Bartholomew and Canon Harington, the Chancellor of the diocese, men whose motives and character are alike above suspicion. We are bound to say that, in our opinion, the Church has the best of the argument. Baron Pigott does not deny that arrangements had been made to receive her Majesty's representative with all fitting honours on his way to morning service, nor does he explain why he himself should have se lected for his arrival an hour which interfered with the ordinary services of the day. It is difficult to imagine that a little consideration upon his part would not have prevented a collision of any kind, and still more difficult to justify a hasty accusation of " stinginess" made from the bench against a body who, whatever else may have been their shortcom ings, have never before been accused of any failures in this respect. We can quite believe that the new judge may have been eager to resent a fancied affront to his newly acquired dignity. But he would have done well to pause before he accused a society of loyal and honourable men, in the absence of their head, of an intentional omission to pay pro per respect to the representative of her Mejesty. Had Baron Pigott arrived earlier or later, the ques tion could not have arisen. But it is rather too much, even for a judge, to time his coming at an hour which would interfere with the usual service, and then to grumble not only that the time is not changed to suit his convenience, but that it is not changed to an hour which would render the preser vation of order and decorum difficult, if not im possible. Various witnesses stated that deceased, a man aged 31, employed at the Bovey Tracey potteries, had been at the Newton Races on the 9th of August, dressed in a dark coat and corduroy trousers, and had not subsequently been seen by them. After some evidence had been given, The jury said they had heard enough. The Judge said ho had never in all his experience heard so unreliable a case. There was not a trace of one drop of blood having been found, and if the fight had taken place in the high road, the blood must have been seen. The boy remained silent until the offer of a reward was published, He first pitched upon Finnerty, and he said Burke had given him 6d. not to say it was he, and he allowed Finnerty to be taken off in custody, until the policeman suggested that his description was more like Burk:. , , and then he said it was Burke. The man's body had got into the water, but how it had got there no one could tell. The jury returned a verdict of not guilty. SPIRIT OP THE PUBLIC JOURNALS, TIMES.—The enemies of Mr. Layard, if he has any, will read his last speech to his constituents with a malicious pleasure. If it is enjoyable to watch the troubles of the storm-tossed mariner from the shore, there is amusement, too, in the embarrassments of a restless spirit safely lodged in a quiet berth. It is due to Mr. Layard to admit that he betrays much less wildness than might have been expected, and submits to official restraints with a very good grace. He boldly accepts the responsibility of his position and undertakes to reconcile individual liberty with subordination. Last year he was frank enough to tell the electors of Southwark that a man in office should consider himself as much out of office as ever in respect of personal opinions, and was lucky enough to have the Chinese question ready to hand as an illustration of his own consistency. This year he speaks with still more openness and confidence, de fending every measure of the Government from an independent point of view, and palliating their only sin of omission in a most orthodox manner. " He regretted very deeply" the speeches of Messrs. Cobden and Bright; they were painful speeches." He protested that " the Government possessed the best information of what took place on .the Con tinent, and could alone know the state of foreign armaments." He gave a great deal of good advice to those who, with very limited means of information, presume to set the Treasury Bench right on matters of State. He stated it as his deliberate conviction that "the nets of the Government were marked by liberality and patriotism," and deserved the grati tude of the public. This state of mind, supervening on a Quixotic passion for reform, realises the poet's idea " that men may rise on stepping stones of their dead selves to higher things." The transformation on which Mr. Hawthorne founded his most popular novel was not more complete. The most merciless of critics has become the most versatile of apologists; the most dashing of assailants has shown himself a master in the tamer arts of defence. Mr. Layard's address belongs to the approved type of modern vacation oratory. Thirty or forty years ago, when the debates were not so generally read, no one thought of volunteering speeches in the country. Now and then Canning and Peel delivered them selves of orations on some grand occasion, or ventured a few words on a practical subject, but the fashion of reviewing the session and touching slightly upon every question of the day, as if for the very purpose of committing oneself, is quite new. However, the practice is established, and every member of Parlia ment must be prepared with a synoptical view of the state of things at home and abroad. Mr. Layard only does what others have done before him usque ad nauseant, but he does it with great tact and ability. Dealing first with the old charge of Parlia mentary apathy, ho told his hearers plainly that " they could not have sensation Parliaments if they had no sensation questions in the country." At the same time, he avows his adherence to his former opinion that there should ;se an extension of the suffrage, and that it had better be granted in quiet times. Not that he deni.s the wise discretion shown by Reformers in forbearing to press their proposals on the House, but he atilt distrusts the policy, to which he bows, of making no concessions except to agitation. From this topic he passes to the conduct of the working classes during the distress of the last two years, and conabats the theories promulgated by Messrs. Bright and Cobden at Roc'edale. He con tends that our labouring classes are better off than those of most old and long.settled countries, that they exercise indirectly more political power, and that if they are not as highly educated as in Prussia, " that, arises from the greater amount of liberty en ' joyed in England." Where education is forced on the people from above, the benefits which it confers are chiefly iDtellectual, and we may learn from the example of Prussia itself that such education may fail to qualify its possessors for political action. After declaring himself in favour of an educational franchise, Mr. Layard plunges into Foreign Affairs. He endorses the principle that England cannot exert a proper moral influence on Europe with out a large military expenditure. He quotes figures to show that in the year 1861, selected by Mr, Cobden in his "Three Panics," the estimated cost and strength of the French Navy, taken by him as the basis of his calculations, was almost doubled by supplemental credits. He cordially adopts the arguments of Lord Russell on the Con gress, justifies the language of his chief about Poland, and points out, fairly enough, the absurdity of objecting in the same breath that it was a cruel kindness to encourage the Poles so much, and that we should nut have let out that we did not intend to go to war. He then claims credit for the in flexible neutrality of the Government towards America, but, soon returning to the East, discusses successively Turkey, China, and Japan. According to Mr. Layard, Admiral Kuper was satisfied by the capture of the three steamers of Prince Satsuma, and would have steamed quietly out of the bay if the forts had not fired on him. Such is not the impression which we received from his own de spatch ; and, however much we deplore any suffer ing inflicted on the peaceable inhabitants of Kago eima, we are far from sure that the confiscation of the steamers would have been an adequate punish ment. On another point, however, we quite agree with Mr. Layard. We allude to the misdeeds of those adventurers who disgrace the English name in the Eastern seas. Their claim to be protected in fraud and lawlessness is one of the great obstacles to our commerce end influence, and it would be well if they were guilty of no worse practices than " writing home complaints against our official re presentatives.t It is creditable to Mr. Layard tha he can win acceptance for such moderate anat Southwark, sen sible views from the constituency and maintain his seat by Of Thoug,h we higher than those of a local cand e id d a t t:- virtue of pretensions tone and official cannot help smiling at his altered complacency, we should be thhaensgaesttthoartepmrouascthcohmime with it as a fault. b is u y il a c h's own experience of over every man wh l o t . political action. It is a familiar act ; easy to discerniliar truism that it is easy to criticise, but hard from the outside what ought to be done, hard to dis cern from the inside the right way of doing it. YANKEE TOASTS.—The following toasts were given ata recent dinner of New Jersey Democrats:— " Blessed are the peacemakers." " The last man and the last dollar—May the one be an Abolitionist, and the other a shinplaster, and may they both perish in the last ditch together." " State rights; may they not be forgotten in delirious and bloody triumph of state wrongs." " Things we remember—Habeas c or p us an d t r i a l by jury." "T° the first Governor who shall have the virtue and courage to keep his oath of office, and protect and defend the constitu tion, laws, and sovereignty of his State and the rights of its citizens. " The light of other days, when liberty wore a white face and America was not a negro." " The Demo cratic party, as it was, before cowardice, treachery, shoddy, and greenbacks had demoralised its councils." The aboli tion war for disunion—Let those who think it is right go to it, and those who think it is wrong stay at home." "May those who say we shall never have the Union as it was follow the example of their orother traitor Judas Iscariot , who died and went The War Democrat —A to his own place? , white face on 'he body of a negro." "The on] y remedy possible man's f o r secession and the only hop e of the Union—Peace e mu tual concession, and comp romis , , [ADVERTISEMENT.] —_Holloway's n; Relief and Remedy.—There a ' 8 Ointment and Pills. — tie doloreux, and neuralgia, are many cases of sciatica, and strength of thousand' now Wearing out the patience ease by the use of Holl s who might derive incredible matter what has been the duration Ointment and Pills. No how severe and of the will be diminished b excruciating have been the sufferings, they with this unguent and y Warm fomentaions, brisk friction treatment has often suitable doses of the Pills. This i•u ce e useless.when every Tu e variety s e s ut theo seda tive had proved perfectly must depend on the constitutional habit, as their purifying and strengthening properties are more required in this clears of IlerYOU diseases than their ap6rieut powers, COUNTRY MARKETS. LIVERPOOL—FRIDAY. At this day's market we had a small attendance both of millers and dealers, with a limited business in wheat. at a decline of 2d to 3d on the week. Flour a dull sale, and 6d cheaper. Indian corn heavy, and 6d down. Beans met a very dull sale, but not lower in price. WAKEFIELD—FRIDAY. The show of grain to-day was moderate. The trade in wheat limited, and last Friday's rates were nearly main tained tor fine parcels, but general runs were is lower. Barley in slow demand. Wheat.. he a t . . .. .A . . v . e l r , a 7 g B e B s f g o r r s " l e t week : 43s 31d Oats Beans Peas . 99 8ar1ey......... 457 Rye STAMFORD—FRIDAY. White wheat, 40s to 44s ; red, 368 to 41s per 36 stone. Barley, malting,ll34s to 375; grinding , 30s to 3 3 s p er q r. 20s to 258 per 24 stone. Beans, old, 40s to 42s per qr. ; new, 34s to 368. LINCOLN.—FRIDAY. A fair quantity of wheat on offer at our market to•dah with a moderate business, at is per qc aaror. White wheat new, 42s t0 , 46.s Barley, grinding.. Red do. 38s to 40s Oats, old, .. ...... 23s , Old white —a fo —s New do 203 to 25s Red do. —s to —3 ( Beans. 38 3 to 418 Barley, ma1ting....348 to 388 1 Beans, new 348 w 3 88 283 to 33s CORK—FRIDAY. The following were the quo t a ti ons thi s morning Ed wheat, 8s Od to Ss 101; white, 8s Od to 9s &I , barley , _ 6d to 8s Od ; oats, 4s 10d t o 6 s 2d ; bl ac k d o ., 4s 4d to 5s 3d. -FRIDAY. s. d s. a. Oatmeal lO 0 to 13 0 Beans.. - 0 Bere . — 0 to -- -0 A Rapeseed - ' Bakers' flour Indian corn DUBLIN• s. d. s. d. Wheat, white 24 0 to 26 6 Do., red 2l 6 to 24 0 Do., new Barley Oats Do., black — 0 to 0 BRISTOL SUGAR—FRIDAY. The market for sugar shows a better feeling this we e Yt and buyers begin to have more confidence, and appear dote posed to purchase at about i s Gd p er cw t abov e the 0 lowest point. Refiners' produ ce n eg l e ct e d, and stocks a r accumulating. A good demand for rum at full prices. COAL MARKET. Prices of Coal per Ton a 43. d. Byass's Bebside - West Hartley ....16 9 Cowpen Hartley 16 9 West Hartley l6 9 Holywell Hartlepool W. Hartleyl6 0 Walker Primrose 16 0 Hastings Hartley l6 9 l'anfield Moor Butes 15 6 West Wylam.. . Eden Main l9 3 Ships at marke the close of the market. e. Walls End. Hetton 21 0 Wharncliffe .....•18 7„ Haswell ....... 2 u 0 Braddyll's Hetton ...... 19 = lielloe .......... •.5Tunstall Hartlepool ••„ ,1 3 Trimdon 0 KeiperGrange ........ 19 t, 50 ; sold, 49. RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE. TRAFFIC RECEIPTS FOR THE WEES• Miles Opened. RecelP9'7 Railways. --- 1863. 1852 X Belfast and N. Counties 136 136 2,004 2,12 2 Belfast and County Down 49 49 549 ,,55 Blyth and Tyne 2B 28 1,654 a , B l Bristol and Exeter 1213 1213 5,514 v , 29 Caledonian Cockermouth & Workington 2 381 23 8 0 3 37,3 - 53 1517-- Cork and Bandon 2O 20 405 $ 59 146 Cork, Blackrock, &Passage 6l 6} 131 ,49 Cork and Youghal lv o Cornwall 553 54 1,20 3 29 4 Deeside l7 17 315 a D 45 3 Dublin & Belfast Juncti on 63 63 1,406 1, .. 4 1 1 Dublin and Drogheda 75 6.3 1,536 . 122 Dublin and Meath Dub. & Wicklow and W ex td 9l} 483 2,786 1 79 Edinburgh and Qelasgow l69} 169} 7,9 00 ' o '7ll Furness, &c 5O 5 J 2,809 . 1 , 5 Glasgow & South-Western Gt.Eastern,Nrfk.,&E.Union - 663 611 29, 04 / ,i'577 Great Northern 353 851 30,3 11 ';'7sl Great North of Scotland 5B 68 1, 78 . 7 a '496 (It. Northn. & Westn. (Irel.) 713 165 4. 7 532 `3rt.Southn. & Westn.(lrlud.) 3733 329 7,97 4 1; 5 21352 Great Western 10561 10323 58, 3 1% 1,053 Inverness & Aberdeen June 863 861 1, 2 Y 9 ., Inverness & Perth Junction 119} - 1, 1 • 1 ' 1 gl2 145 145 1, 72 Irish North-Westerna ..- 31.587 Lancashire & Yorkshire 402 395} 32,25 0 230 Limerick and Ennis..... 241 24} 19 7 3 24 Limerick and Foynes 264 26} 517 136 4 8 9 Llanelly 46f 461 0 . 4 0 84, 935 London & North-Western London and Blackwall 53 6} 1 - ,665 -. , 37,366 London & South-Western Lond. Brighton, &S. Coast 261 2414 16, 158 2 750 London, Chatham, & Dover 72 72} 4,003 .95 Do. Metropolitan Extension 104 53 875 I 006 Lond., Tilbury, & Southend Han.,Sheffield. & Lincolnsh Manch. S.Jun.&Altrincham 95 95 1,203 1, 0 5 , Ilaryport and Carlisle 2B 28 1,414 1,19 7 Metropolitan - 1,852 -- Midland (incl. N.- Western) 641 6143 43,375 30,522 Midland Gt.Westn. of Irind 2595 1925 5,151 5,0 3 Monkland Monrnouthsh. Rail. & Canal 44 44 2,490 2,3 15 North British, Edin., Perth and Dundee 0 N-Eastern and Stock. & Darl 1095 10773' 55,918 419 : 962065 North London 9 9 3,209 3,01 North Staffordshire 254 252 8.4„72., 7'861 Oswestry and Newton 5O 42 1, "" 907 Rh ymney l9 19 3,010 2 149 St. Helen's Canal & Railway 52 62 1,725 'O3 Scottish Central Scottish North-Eastern l3B 1323 4 , 690 4 ' 4 Somerset and Dorset 66 395 South Devon South-Eastern 30 6754 308 754 137 : 42 ,; 12 b 7: P 7946 1 Tall Vale 57 65 ~ ' l ' .4, 1:827 Ulster Vale of Clwyd Vale of Neath 32} 25} 2,36 0 282 Waterford and Kilkenny 3l 31 267 Waterford and Limerick 77 77 West Cornwall 275 275 W.Hartlepool Harbr.&Rail 4B 45 4 1 , 8 4 2 6 3 61 1 6 0 1 3 34 : 68 %1 04 / W'haven,Cleator,& Egrmnt 7 651 1 s 967 '" Whitehaven Junction l2 12 Whitehaven & Furness Jun 35 35 FOREIGN AND COLONIAL. Antwerp and Rotterdam 52 Austrian B2B Belgian Eastern Junction 26 Bombay, Baroda, & Cen. India 185 5 Buffalo and Lake Huron l6l Detroit and Itlilwaukie lB9 Dutch Rhenish Eastern Bengal Eastern of France East Indian Grand Trunk of Canada lO9O Great Indian Peninsula 5383 Great Luxembourg 134 Great Southern of India Great Western of Canada 345 Madrid, Saragossa &Alicant 650 Northern of Canada Northern of France 697 Norwegian Trunk Ottoman Paris, Lyons, & Mediterrn lBO5 Paris and Orleans lOl4 Pernambuco...,,,,,,, 77/ Royal Danish Sambre and Meuse *********** 68 South Austrian Southern of France .. . 770 Victorian 196 Welland ***** 25 SO West Flanders * -""". 75 W. and N.W. of France . 932 1863. 1862. 5 3 61325 2 4 1 743 3 :11 6 : 3 73 3 57 810 0 2 6 2 1 4 3 9 i 7 9 9 : ° 79 i s431;11 828 132} 1611 180 1082 1081 0330 1090 405 134 20,463 10, 170 6,9.e8 0, 046 1,057 1, 160 015 103 18,027 16, 0 , 1,383 I,Y2'', 58,660 55,aav, 1,002 il,l 324 2 0 1 142.637 133,455 70,432 6 L,723 559 -- 705 , 5 _94 1,421 I.'" 52,069 48,087 28,045 24,501 9,031 7, 465 408 62! 48} 1676 1431 1315 0 151 9" . ;i 901 40,640 35,917 Foreign Mail Packet List. 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