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Incorporated under "The Companies Act, 1862." Capital £1,000,000, in 40,(0 ) Shares of £lO3 each. First issue, 20,0"0 Shares. Deposit on anplieation £1 per Share, and £2 on allotment. No future call to exceed £5 per share, and at intervals of not less than three months. DIRECTORS. Wm. Latham Bailey, Esq. (Crawshay Bailey Brothers and Lo.), Liverpool. Anthon " f • ontazue Baillie, Esq. (Baillie, Baillie, Cave, and Co.), Old Bank, Bristol. Kington Baker, Esq., Director of the Great Western Railwyay Company George S. Beecrolt, * Esq., M.P., Director of the London and North-Western Rail say Company. Joseph Royce, Esq, Director of the Royal Bank of Ireland, Thos. D Great Western Railway Company, Dublin. :rhos. Esq., Alderman. Stauross Ditheroglue, Esq. (G. J. Cavafy and Co.), Thread needle -street. bmith Dixon, Esq , Govan Iron Works, Glasgow. Thomas Gooch, Esq. (Gooch and Cousens), Director of the _ Rank of London. uantain . J. W. 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It is admitted that, in many instances, the terms upon 'which nlone contra Aors, even of known position and wealth, are enabled to rai se the necessary funds for carrying their ePerations into effect are so onerous that it is only by profits of extraordinary magnitude that such charlies can be met ; and it follows that a Company having a large wit-4 sub scribed by a wealthy proprietary, and with an able executive, 'would enjoy great advantages and, at the same time, fre quently afford imoortant aid to the individual contractor. The sub-lettings of contracts are known to bean important source of profit. In addition to this the Company will nos aess the advantage of raising funds upon debentures secured 11 Phn its unpaid capital at rates which would be small as corn- Naed with those charged to snb-contractors. It i s n o t con a, iplated, therefore, to call up any considerable portion of I, n ! pital. unless the operations of the Company may show re be des mole. 'rhe security of a large subs ribed capital Will necessarily inspire confidence on the part of Govern ments loinancoil Compsnies, and others with whom the C'ea,„ ~- - psny may have to deal. "h the event ot no allotment being made the deposits will ye returned in full. Should a less number,of shares be al tiThed than are applied ior the deposit will be made available °wards the tJaymeat on allotment, and the balance, it any, returned to the applicant. Pro s ro oft, pectuses r. d forms of application for shares may be iled at the offices of the Company, of the Brokers, and the bond ors. 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The learned counsel, however, elected to address the jury on behalf of his client at once, and urged strongly upon the jury the very unsatisfactory nature of the medical testi mony. The Court ejourned at the conclusion of Mr. Metcalfe's speech. HOME CIRCUIT.—MAIDSTONE, Dec. 17. (Before Mr. Baron Pigott.) CHARGE OF ARSON.—Sydney George Sneed, 33, a re spectable looking man, Eurrendered to take his trial upon a charge of having feloniously and maliciously set fire to a dwelling house in his occupation, persons being therein at the 6. e. Mr. Barrow prosecuted and Mr. Ribton defended the prisoner. botthhoneeeo laltrrhtoodweoomo,e the tvna T m h ed i a A ca n s n e e s a t n oo d d El o i v za er be f t r h om Ga th ri e .h la , s w t h a o ss o i c z c e u s p . ie l d t tw ap o p r e o a o r m ed s ..... m on p e ri o s n on: h r e c fi a r r s r t ie fl d io o r n a t s he a b s u it s t i i :e g s , s ro o o f m a t , a a i n lo d r a a t n ß ot o h c e h r es as ter s , night of the 30th of March last and it appeared ear dthat cfi o b th roe 7 t r eh.. l ara i t ved with him, and two maiden sisters and that h ad : r s ihe m se e ve n : i s . the subject w went ntto, of b inquiry ed abopupt took quarter place ock at night, and very shortly prisoner's mother go to her bedroom, and in a few afterwards they minutes thereafter the prisoner also went to his own room, and, according to the evidence, alm os t . immediately after wards the house was di scovere d to be on fire. The ladies endeavoured to go down the stairs, but there was such a quantity of smoke coming from the lower part of the house that the) were unable to do so, and they eventually made their eseatexte by eeladder fro their hedgeelee vr The prisoner and his mother also got out, and none of the inmates of the house received any injury, although no doubt but for the timely discovery of the fire their lives would have been seriously endangered. Mr. Radley, superintendent of the Kent constabulary, and some of his men obtained admission to the premises very soon atter the alarm was given, and they succeeded in putting out the fire before Eta) , material amount of mischief was done; and it appeared the company with which the prisoner had effected an insurance ( the Commercial Union) paid him the amount of his loss b y the fire, the agent stating, as was proved during the t rial, that " it was not worth their while to contest claims o f such a trifling cha,-, reefer, or to prosecute, whatever their a u s p icious might be. The magistrates of the city of Rochester, however, from the facts that were laid before them, felt it to be their duty in the interest of the public to take up the matter, and it ap peared that the prisoner was in the first instance Summoned before thew, and the result was that he was committed to take his trial upon the present charge, which would have been disposed of at the summer assizes, but an application was made to Mr. Baron Chaunell to postpone the trial, which was granted, and in the meantime the prisoner was allowed to be at large upon bail. The principal facts that appeared to be relied upon in support of the charge were, that accord ing to the opinion of the two ladies who lodged in the house, at the time the prisoner went up to his bedroom the house was actually on fire, and he must have been aware of the fact ; and it appeared that they made an observation to this effect to the prisoner on the night the fire happened, and he replied it was all right when he wert up to bed ; and this, according to the theory of the prosecution, could not have been the case. Another circumstance relied upon to sup port the charge was that upon the police going into the house they found fire under the stairs, and after they had extinguished the fire they discovered that the counter in the shop was on fire in two places, and it was suggested that these were all distinct fires, and could not have bean comma. nicated one to the other. It also appeared that when prisoner was questioned about the fire by the superintendent he said the house was quite safe when he left the lower part of it, and that he was in bed when the alarm was given; but upon the officer going into his bedroom the bed did not ex hibit any appearance of having been slept in. Besides this, it appeared that in the bedroom of the prisoner's mother there was found, fastened to the bed, a long cord, knotted and with a hook at the end, which was evidently in' ended es an instrument to facilitate the escape of any person in case of the house being on fire. The whole of the facts proved in support of the prosecution appeared, however, merely to make out a case of suspicion; and with regard to the last mentioned piece of evidence, it appeared that the prisoner told the officer that the rope had been in the possession of his family for a great many years, and there were no grounds for doubting this to be the fact. A good many of the suspi cious circumstances in the case were also to a coneiderable extent explained away in the course of the cross-examina tion, and it was not at all distinctly negatived that the fire was the result of accident. Mr. Ribton made an able address to the jury on behalf of the prisoner, and he contended that the evidence had alto gether failed to establish the fact that the fire had been oc casioned wilfully, and he urged that it was monstrous to suppose that the prisoner should have committed such an act, which might have resulted in the death of his own mother, without, as it appeared to him, anything like an adequate motive for the commission of such an atrocious crime. In the course of his observations the learned coun sel said that it was clear the case had been got up by the police, and that it exhibited a strong illustration of the want of a public prosecutor ; and he said if there had been such a functionary, he felt satisfied that such a charge would never have been brought forward. He then proceeded to com ment upon the facts of the case, and said that fires were constantly occurring which could not be accounted for, and that this had been the case ever since the Fire of London, which was at first generally attributed to the Papists, w'th out the slightest foundation for such a suspicion ; and he cited the well-known lines of Pope upon this subject : " Where London's column pointing to the skies, Like a tall bully lifts its head and lies." He then called a number of witnesses, who gave the prisoner an excellent character. The learned judge having summed up, the jury, after a short deliberation, returned a verdict of Not Guilty, and the prisoner was then discharged. MIDLAND CIRCUIT.—Yortx., Dec. 16. (Before Mr. Justice Mellor.) • Joseph Hartley, Charles Shepherdson, Robert Haigh, and John Scott, were charged with night poaching, being armed, at Womersley, on the 30th of October. There was also a second indictment charging the prisoners with shoot ing Thomas Hiles, with intent to do him some grievous bodily harm, at the same time and place. Mr. Maule and Mr, West prosecuted ; Mr. Blackburn appeared for Haigh and Scott, and Mr. Bruce for the other two prisoners. It appeared that on the night named in the indictment Lord Hawke's keepers and some watchers were out near Daffy-wood, at Womereley, and hearing a shot in the direc tion of another woad named Broad Oak , the party went at once to the edge of it. On their arrival s ome of the watchers were sent into the plantation, the k ee p ers and t h e rest stationing themselves behind the trees in the immediate neighbourhood. While they were there four men, who were stated to be the prisoners, came out of the wood, and one of the party at once exclaimed, the moment he saw the keepers, "There are the keepers; shoot them ;" using at the same time a coarse expression. On this one of them wh o had a gun, and was stated to be the prisoner Shepherdson, immediately fired at Thomas lilies. The shot took eff ect and Hiles became partly insensible. One of the men then added; "Go in and fi nish him," and the keeper was a good or two after the ocLurrence Lordnd deal maltreated. In order to connect the pr sorters with the of West offence Hiles deposed that he had known Haigh before, a dm'a rewardAday of £5O for the discoveofficers, rHecaowgkneizoeffderhei one nea near f the hlni sg O b l e d Church r y of the offenders. In the meanwhile the superintendent Riding police at Pontefract, Mr. Hall, h ay . then being the ap prehended municated twov ii t with, of le t e h , e men, accompaniedwho lived v b e y d nemid middle e e o ut t at Pontefract. They were each found i e e r n is s t i o ne that to t s h e e e y k 11 bed, of them partly dressed, and when asked how it h swaeyrien i g n t b h e a d t a a t l t t h h a u t u t z i time e h o e f h d a a d y , the forenoon, one of them attempted to account for it by work, he had not obtained it, and ' b i c t en at F a c : had therefore gone to bed when ho returned. Haigh village of Knottingley, and was taken the same day at the about four miles from places being in the prisoners wereShepherdson at Tanshelf, both the immediateworkanth vicinity of Pontefract, and e Broad Oak wood. To show that Riles, a m Womer i all mixed up with the affair, and to cor roborateon his way to L i y the prisoners, named Salkeld, a labourer who WAS about 6 o'clock in the morning, met two of the prisoners, -s iU to Pontefract. Mr. Hall obtained the boots worn whom ho knew, coming up a by-read from eft by the :die of the wood, they wore found to correspond and on eon; paring them with footprints exec; iy, cross-examination it was elicited that Hiles during the 6 ay before had been drinking, and he admit:ed that although he saw Mr. Hall, the superintendent, the next day, he did pressed for not mention Haigh's name to him, an d on being his reason for no t having done so, said he had forgotten to do it In . defence, Mr. 131ackburn urged that practically the pri soners were sought to be convicted on the testimony of Hiles, almost unsupported, and that he was iu such a state from his previous day's drinking ss to be totally unreliable,besides which he had admitted that he did not mention Ilaigh's although he said he h ad recognised irm, until after Lord nme, Hawke had offered the reward. fir,Brace (who commenced his address by stating that b e appeared for Mr. Campbell Foster, who, he was • p n o si n ste th d e th fa a: sa y, was prevented by illness from coming to court s ) o u lry to pailsocleikteooto!tricosn,gaandreilukrintheere upon correspond. ttohfethjaery must not 1:J 4 once of the footprints, and fuCrlther pointed optifilir which might apply to any o ne of the accuse cessarily apply to any one of the others. His Lordship having summed up, the jury r 1114, having been absent for about an hour, returned wit v el a die*, of guilty against all the prisoners. Hartley, Shepherd.. son, and Haigh were thereupon sentenced to be kept in penal servitude four and Sai'Us for three years. Henry Smith Evans was in dieted for stealing and Thomas Dryhurst for feloniously receiving a large quantity of silver, the property of Joseph Bradbury and another, at Sheffield, on the 19th of October last. N C hi a sFr i ‘ m l o Campbell v. other bsoeldt In(l prisoner, BlackburntoiaAmptFoster, who and M was r . Gully,absent from holding illness, the brief ro oe prosecuted u e f d r t time e p a a r s e t d E f for Evans, viatns; appeared, a d i.lr had . been employed by the prosecutors, in his care almost the 'll w o h il o a l ci e of 6x From events aelirielojearresgdi silver e h sr t : topEcl of fs havingwsilavei the constant habit of making up parcels, which he said N\ s 'er n e forwarding h s o v su a us r ed d s i i n no g rß t t h ihr e len iM i n t o ,hn polici the y‘eint o .o t t h h :. e r o w , h i e was te e .ai et ; ; iB e ug. r:: id , n a it n no d tah t latter One of these parcels sold Was admitted i ttahkaetnhotobalidryg'houtrpBat,reNeVlEsoo%, i s n ilv r e e r p from a Enod:el3B7:ll6 que s ti o ns, o n th s' at sa h ici e la te i d ins t e h l a r t r h e e . g h o a t d n d e i a sp rl o y se x cl l o o f fo th r e t m he o l n as h t i l s ot ac h e e ou ji n a t d , commission, previouslyfor th e r a s d on who ceived something like £5 as a sort of transactior s. When asked whether the for warded the silver was the same Evans who P h been in the same house as he then was, h 3 sob.; further 'rated that he had sold the silver to some IreB ' " t ns iand Bi r mingham. Thereupon he and Evans were both takes into custody, and, inquiries having been made by the Pic both the prisoners were committedup m the present ch a o rg 4. The only point really contested throughout the case w:7 s . whether the silver had been sufficiently identified ; and The learned Judge bold the jury that they must, o f course, before they convicted either of the prisoners, be satisfied that the silver was Messrs. Bradbury's prop erly ; and if they were so, then the question, so far as Dryhurst was concerned , still remained—did he know that it had been stolen when he received it ? If so, he was guilty, His lernship also took the opportunity of remarking that be considered the plan pur-ued by the policeman of obtain ing a statement from Dryhurst was extremely objectionable, and he also made some strong observations with reference to the facilities apparently afforded, in this case, to the ptf senors for getting rid of property evidently so valuable as this, by purchasers being found almost immediately. The jury found each prisoner Guitty, at the same time adding their full concurrence in the last remark of his lord ship. The prisoners, having both begged for mercy, were then severally sentenced to be kept in penal servitude for six years. 4 - -It -,.. VtA r ..„ •,,, ~. • +14P:'.9:40):C7 an , ' • ,c::' -.., S THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENINGS DECEMBER 18, 1863. L 0 NOl' FORGET YOUR APPOINTMENT. —We Sup at EVANS', Covent-garden, after Jullien's Concert. K INAHAN'S LL WHISKY T. COGNAC BRANDY. 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Office Roars from 10 tal 4 daily, Yearly subscribers of One Guinea supplied with every ohs of Servants free of extra charge. Upper Servants, ss. ; Under do., 2s. 6d. having property than in a country where they are deprived of the advantage of political power. (Hear.) You will observe in the above passage from my speech, taken from your own report, that I use the words, "I don't want any agrarian outrages by which we shoula change all this ;" and now we must appeal to the tribunal of the lexicographer. If you turn to Webster's (quarto) Dictionary you will find the word "agrarian" interpreted, on the authority of Burke, as follows Rdating to lands, Denoting or pertaining to an equal division of lands; as, the agrarian laws of Rome, which distributed the conquered and other public lands equally among all the citizens, limiting the quantity which each might enjoy, Again, in the same dictionary the word agrarian• ism is given as " an equal division of lands or pro perty, or the principles of these who favour such a division." Thus, in repudisting the agrarian sys tem I repudiated in pure and unquestionable Eng lish, according to Burke, the principles of those who favour an equal division of land; I repudiated the agrarian laws of Rome; and yet, in spite of this, you charge me and Mr. Bright with "proposing a division among the poor of the lands of the rich," and you associate us with Gracchus in schemes of socialistic spoliation. I will leave Mr. Bright's case or the future, as you seem to prefer it, to his own good keeping, merely observing that his remarks upon the land question were more slight and inci dental than even my own, and quite as incapable of being perverted to your sense. I must add a word with reference to the explana tion I have given of what was passing in my mind when I spoke at Rochdl,4osainst agrarian outrage. - In the 'Tense of e6mmois a speaket is anowed to put his own interpretation and meaning , an his dis puted utterances. This is fair in viva voce discus sions. But I decline to claim or accept the benefit of this practice in the present case. There is no dispute as to what I said. I accept your own ver sion of my speech ; it is a marvellously accurate re port, and I will abide by every word of it in its simplest and most obvious meaning. And now, having given you the above materials, which I do solely to leave no ground for a pro longed correspondence, I ask whether you are pre pared to adhere to the charge that I proposed at Rochdale on the 24th ult. to divide "among the poor the lands of the rich," and, if so, I call on you to cite those "certain passages" from my speech which you say " will bear no other interpretation." I must be allowed to remind you that it is now wholly a question of proof; that there is but one issue before us, and that any attempt to evade this issue by raising others, or entering on vague and irrelevant discussions, cannot be tolerated. I will repeat the assumption that you could not have made this grave charge without believing it to be founded in truth; that in alluding to " certain pas sages,', you thought them to exist. I call on you to produce them in the specific form in which you would feel bound to establish your charges before a solemn legal tribunal, and as you are still more bound to do, at that higher tribunal, the public opinion of this country, to which this correspondence will be referred. I remain, Sir, your obedient servant, klidhurst, Dec. 14. R. COBDEN. P.S. I purposely abstained from saying a word in the bcdy of my letter in answer to other parts of your communication, because I wished to have a distinct and categorical answer from you on the single question at issue; but, es you seem to be curious upon the subject of my alienation from your pages, I will give you a trivial historical inci dent. When entering on the arrangement of the details of the treaty with France, in Paris, in the spring of 1860, I found that the Times arrived daily at the offices of the Commission, in rae de l'Universite. While every faculty of my mind was employed on the task in hand, I found my efforts thwarted and opposed day after day in the columns of your journal, where the treaty was in cessaotly denounced, ridiculed, and misrepresented. I knew of course that the statements made in the Times were groundless, I knew that the writers could not know them to be true, and I believed then, as I believe now, that you were actuated by the mercenary fear (foolish enough, as I say) that the abolition of the paper duty, which was contem plated as a part of the measures in connection with the treaty, would be injuriou3 to the interests of your journal. To prevent this you appeared to be ready to destroy the treaty, defeat the Budget of the year, sacrifice Mr. Gladstone, or worry me to death. I was tongue-tied and could Rot speak,owing to my official position, and it was only through the confidence which the Chambers of Commerce placed in my commercial knowledge that I was enabled to defeat your unpatriotic efforts. I was naturally led to inquire how the Tunes reached the Commissioners' office, and was told that it came from home as a part of our equipment. Jr seemed strange enough that a Government pro fessing to desire the success of the treaty should favour a journal which was doing its best to pre vent it. Resolved that so long as I was at the head of the Commission the Times should not enter the premises, I sent a communication to the proper quarter requesting that the Daily News should be substituted in its stead. This Was done, and from that time the Times has never entered my house except by accident. qect, what is the mean i ng and o bj ect o f t h e pas sage to which you have referred me ? As I write I find that Mr. Cobbett is in a similar difficulty. For myself. I can but rep ea t t h at " certa i n pas sages in your speech will, in my op i n i on , b ear no other interpretation than that ascribed to them," a nd you have yourself quoted the very passages ojusti t 3 my opini on ,-II rema i n, p • ‘STiro,neycwo.uhlri6co.hbledry i servant, JOHN T. D ELANE. i el nt P.S.—ln your postscript you mention what you call " a trivial historical incident." It is of little interest to me or to the Times why or when you ceased to read it ; but you must allow me to remind you that the Times, as the largest consumer of paper, has always recognised its own interest in the abolition of the Paper Duty. Your negotiation a Paris affected not the limes, but the papermakers , who complain, as I still think justly, that while 3 . on made such concessions to France as the under taking to levy no export duties on coal, you omitted to stipulate that the French export duty upon the materials of paper should not be maintained. Surely it was not unbecoming a great commercial journal to remind the British n( gotiator of such neglect while there was vet time to amend it ? RIDGWAY & CO. SORTHAND.-PITMAN'S PHONOGRA PHIC TEACHER. 6d. ; free by post, 7d. SRORTHAND.-PITMAN'S PHONOGRA PHI.; MANUAL. Free by post, is. 6d. MR,. COBDE I AND THE TIMES." We publish today another instalment of this most unnecessary correspondence: — To JOHN T. DELANE, ESQ. Sir,—l have received the letter dated from your private residence, and bearing your proper signa ture, in which you take on yourself personally the responsibility of the interpretation put by the l imes on the speeches of Mr. Bright and myself at Roch dale—namely, that we proposed " a division strong the poor of the lands of the rich." Your letter to me says:— You attribute to the Times a deliberate misrepresentation of your meaning, and that of Mr. Bright, as to the means of amending the unequal distribution of the land between the rich and the poor. I repeat that certain passages in your speeches will, in my opinion, bear no other interpreta tion than that ascribed to them. This is a grave accusation. lam told that, if proved, it would bring Mr. Bright end myself within the provisions of the Act 57th George 111., cap. 19, and render us liable to the penal conse quences of transportation for seven years. I will not believe that you can be so wanting in the respect due to others, as well as yourself, as to have addressed this accusation to me, unless with the belief that you have evidence to substantiate it. I call on you to give me those " certain passages" to which ycu refer, and which are really now the only quest:on at issue between you and me. That there may be no excuse or ground for delay, I accept the report which appeared in your paper as an ac curate version of my speech ; and to aid you in your task I have cut from the Times the entire passage which contains all I said in reference to the condi tion of the whole people, or to the agricultural population and the land question in particular: But ►et it be distinctly understood that I do not confine you to this passage, but that I give you the entire range of my speech. Before giving the passage I will say a few words, which, although I do not in the slightest degree claim for them the character of evidence, may have interest in some quarters. It is known that I am not in the habit of writing a word beforehand of what I speak in public. Like other speakers, practice has given me as perfect self-possession in the presence of an audience as if I were in my closet. Now, my one constant and overruling thought while addressing a public meet ing, the one necessity which the long experience ot the arts of controversialists has impressed on my mind is to avoid the possibility of being misrepre sented, and prevent my opponents from raising a false issue—a trick of logic as old as the time of Aristotle. If I have, as some favourable critics are pleased to think, sometimes spoken with clearness, it is more owing to this ever-present fear of mis representation than any other cause ; it is thus that the most noxious things in life may have their uses. When in my speech at Rochdale I came to touch upon the subject of the land, the thought in stantly Irshscl through my brain—and none but the public speaker knows with what velocity thought moves when in the presence of 4,000 listeners—that I was dealing with a question about which there is a superstition in England unknown elsewhere, and that the enemy would raise the cry of agrarianism against me, and hence my denunciation of agrarian outrage, which will be found in the following ex tract. Had I been inspired with the faculty of se condsight, to have foreseen the Editor of the limes bitting bodily penning his criticism on my speech, I could not have more completely refuted and con founded beforehand the charge now brought against me. Tne following is the passsge referred to : It has been a fashion of late to talk of an extension of the franchise as something not to be tolerated, because it is as sumed that the mass of the people are not fitted to take a part in Government, and they point to America or France, and other places, and draw comparisons between this coun try and others countries. Now, I hope I shall not be consi dered revolutionary, beCause at my age I don't want any revolutions. They won't serve me, lam sure, or anybody that belongs to me. England may compare very favourably with most other countries, if you draw the line in society tolerably high, and if you compare the condition of the rich and the upper classes of this country, or a considerable por tion of the middle classes, with the same classes abroad. I don't think a rich man, barring the climate, which is not very good, could be very much happier anywhere else than in England; but when my opponents treat this question of the franchise as one that is likely to wing the masses of the people down from their present state to the level of other countries, I say I have travelled in most civilised countries and that the masses of the people of this country do not compare so favourably with the masses of other countries as I could wish. T find in other countries a greater number of people with property than there are in England. I don't know a Protestant country in the world where the masses of the people are so illiterate as in England. Those are not had tests of the condition of a people. It is no use y our , talking of yoor army and navy, your e. - :ports and your im ports—it is no use telling me you have a small portion of your people exceedingly well off. I want to bring the test to a comparison of t h e ma j or i ty o f th e p e ople with a ma . j peasantry of th e p eop l e in other countries. Now, I say with regard to s ome th i ngs in foreign countries we don't com pare favcurably, T he condition of the English bats-no parallel on the taco of the earth. (Hear.) You have no other peasantry but that of England which is en tirely divorced from the land. There is no other country in the world where you will no t fi n d men h o ldi ng th e p l o ugh and turning up the furrow upon their own freehold. I don't want any agrarian outrages by which we should change all this; but this I fiad, and it is quite consistent with human nature, that wherever I go the condition of the people is generally pretty good, in comparison with the power they have to take care of themselves; and if you have a class entirely divorced from political power, while in another country they possess it, they will be trea'ed there with more consideration, they will have greater advantages, they will be better educatei, and have a better chance of To RICHARD COBDEN, ESQ., M.P. Sir, —Having done already all that in your first two letters you seemed to think essential to your purpose, having abandoned " the shield of an im 'penetrab!e secrecy,' havin g tbyirdinrcleivrsidonuaolfityth,"eoerdtiet refused to 'suppress m r " i a s t h i n e l o d m m i n y a s t v l f e n l d under might very reasonably decline to do more than acknow ledge the receipt of your letter of yesterday, and leave you to that remedy which you seemed to think all-sufficient if you could only confront a e e r r ona that l entity .lhave liv l in t g a m pp a e n ar i s ns t t o ea m d e o , f a h n ow im ev p been dragged into this correspondence entirely by the exaggerated intensity you have chosen to attach to the oaten-quoted phrase, " Mr. Bright's proposition for a division among the poor of the lands of the rich." The very passage to which yeu refer me with SO much confidence conveys, in my opinion, the whole of this meaning. You seem to assume that I cherged you with proposing that this division should be acco mplished by violence. But your own words were there to prove to me that such was not your meaning, and to confute me instantly if I had at tempted to attach that interpretation to it. There are, however, as no one knows better than yourself, other and more effective, because more enduring, means than violence for the division of the land of the rich among the poor. We see in France, for example, the effect you described to your Rochdale audience as so desirable in En t g.and—the amorcel lenzent of the land.—produced by the law of succes sion which prevails there. A similar measure proposed by yourself, or by Mr Bright, and carried in a Parliament elected princi pally by the peasantry whom you desire to enfran chise, because they would then " have a better chance of having property," would in two or three generations not only check the accumulation of land in few hands, but would break up all existing estates great or s mall, and thus largely increase the number of proprietors. In another generation, probably, the peasant himself would " turn up the furrow on his own freehold," and be no longer " divorced from the land." You suggest so obviously that it is by legislative measures—rendered possible by giving political Power to the peasantry —you propose to " amend the unequal distribution of the land between the rich and the poor," that no one would think of chargin g you with en deavouring to effect this great Change by violence. But if you did not desire to produce by other W eans than violence a " division among the p oor of the land s o f th e rich," allow me to ask, wit h all re- ~a r ~/ ~ ~- ~- ~' ~, ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE. NORFOLK CIRCUIT—CAMBRIDGE, Dec. 17. (Before Mr. Baron Martin.) THE MURDER AT WHITTLESY. John Green, a labourer, 26 years of age, was charged „with the murder of Elizabeth Br,a,wn t at Whittlesey, on the 12th of March, 1863; and William George Sinedley, de scribed as a magistrate, age 45, was charged that he did feloniously receive, harbour, and maintain the said John Green, well knowing him to have done and committed the felony aforesaid. Mr. D. D. Keane and Mr. Markby conducted the prose cution; the prisoner Green was defended by Mr. Metcalfe and Mr. Orridge ; and Smedley by Mr. Sergeant Tozer, spe cially retained. The case excited great interest, and the court all day was very full. Excellent arrangements were, however, made by the persons in charge, so that at no time was it inconve niently crowded, This trial should have taken place at the last summer assizes, but quite unexpectedly, and at the last moment, the prisoner Smedley, who before the magistrates and coroner had been examined as a witness for the prose cution, was given into custody and indicted jointly with the prisoner Green. Mr. Metcalfe was then instructed to defend both prisoners, and feeling embarrassed by this sud den step on the part of the prosecution, applied to the late Mr. Justice Wightman for the postponement of the trial. After some discussion and consultation with the Lord Chief Baron, the application was granted. To-day Mr. Keane stated the case for the prosecution, and the following narrative will embody what he said. Mr. Whyle is a maltster, having large premises in the town of Whittlesey, and both prisoners, at the time of the murder, were in his employment—Green as a labourer, the elder prisoner as foreman. Adjoining the malting is a publichouse called the George and Star; and on the night preceding the murder there was a dance at the house. The prisoner Green and tho woman were there (Green only at the dance), and at about half -past one in the morning were last seen leriving the house together, going down the lane in a direction for the malting. This was the last time she was seen alive, and between that time and 6 o'clock the prose cution say the poor creature was barbarously murdered. A native of Whittlesey, she had :ed a very immoral life, and at the time of her death was about 35 years of age, living in a cottage alone, gaining her livelihood by prostitution. The prisoner Green is a married man, and also a native of the place, and lived at Inham's End. It seems that in Whittle sey the ancient custom of ringing a morning bell at a quar ter before six still exists, and there is a funationary styling himself the public behringer. On the morning of the 12th of March he was going rather late to the church bel fry when he was startled by a sound as of a door hastily shut. He looked round towards Mr. Whyte's malting door, but saw no one, and went on to his duty. A f ew minutes after this a man named Stevenson, going to his work and towards Inham's End, was passed by a man running fast towards the prisoner's cottage. His braces were hanging down, and Stevenson called out, " You'll lose your brace, old partner." The man continued running, adjusted his braces without turning, and his face was not teen, but al most immediately after two men coming from Inham's End met a man running whom they distinctly recognised as the prisoner Green. He was well known to both, and they saw that he was dressed in the clothes he had been wearing the night before. A man living in a cottage next door to Green also heard about this time a noise as of some one running towards his house, and almost immediately Green's street door open and some one go upstairs to the bedroom. The prisoner Smedley now must come upon the scene, for on going to his work as usual to the malting, immediately on opening the door of the kiln furnace room he found the room filled with a thick smoke, and saw the body of, as he supposed, a man lying upon a heap of smouldering sacks. He turned back at once, and meeting in the street a man named Robinson, called to him; " Jim, Jim, make haste, Jim, Jack Green's got barned to dead. I know he's dead, for he can't speak. Ha's in the kiln house." Robinson at once went and Smedley with him ; they were soon joined by more, and Mr. Crisp, a surgeon, was sent for. The doors and windows being opened and daylight becoming stronger, it was found that a settle opposite the furnace door within two or three feet of the fire was burning, and upon a heap of partly burnt sacks was the bed yof a woman, partly consumed and still burning. Water was thrown on and a door brought, on which the remains were placed. It was a horrible sight. She was lying on her back inclining towards the left side, the hands were clenched, the knees drawn up towards the body, the tongue protruding and almost bitten in halves by the teeth, the features much burnt away, the eyeballs col lapsed by fire, and much of the tissues and miracles destroyed. On attempting to raise the body it was found that the left arm was brokenin an oblique direction between the shoulder and elbow, and not only broken, but the part from the frac ture removed as if by some instrument, for the edges of the bone were clear and uatouched by fire. This part of the arra was never found, and on a minute examination made by Mr. Crisp, some of the ribs were found fractured as if by some instrument and untouched by the fire. From these circum stances there can seem little doubt the poor creature was, cruelly murdered before an attempt was made to burn the body. Green, who usually came to his work a little before six, did not arrive this morning so early, and eves sent for by Smedley. His wife answered the messenger from the bedroom window, and soon after Green came to the place and assisted with others in disposing of the remains. The same morning. about eight o'clock, Smith, the superinten dent of police, in the presence of Mr. Whyle, spoke to Green, who was then at his work, asking him what time he left the malting the night before, and when he got home. He turned pale, looked confused, and said he left the malt ing about half-past eight, and was at home by 11 o'clock. Being asked further if he had seen Elizabeth Brown last night, he said he saw her in the George and Star taproom, but never saw her afterwards. Shortly after he was taken in custody, and it was then observed that his clothes smelt strongly of burning, and his hair was slightly singed. He said to the policeman, " Oh pray don't, pray don't," and trembled violently. Near the body of the woman was found a cap belonging to him, and which acme women had eeen him in the George and Star the night before believed he then wore. A son of the prisoner Smedley was called fer the prosecution, and explained that the malting doors had Chubb's locks, and were always carefully locked by his father upon leaving work. If the prisoner Greeen could possess himself of the le , ys he might have entered and admitted the woman, but nothing seemed disturbed, and there was no unusual appearance with the exception of a window, a pane of which was broken, as it was suggested, from the inside, and some foot marks on the yard gate, and an impression of a . boot e rm some ice on the top of a water cask that stood insides the gates. It may now be asked, but how is Smedley im e cated p He was a witness in the first instance befor p the magistrates against the prisoner Green in seems to have to tween that time and the assizes in July March, and be sWhittlesey, a come to the knowledge of Mr. Smith, theit olicitor for t the prosecution and clerk to the magistrates was returning on the morning of the murder, as Sne ered the body lying oh from the malting after he lead discovered be met the driver of the the floor, before giving an slarm,cel for him, and that he mail cart, who was to carry a par told he had, instead of asked if he had received it—being addressed as ! Jim l" telling what he had just seen he told the next man he met, who it will be remembered Smithand uponthere INseemed Smith nothing . The mail cart driver told Mr:. unusual in Smedley' neha,a eempidloyncodt fronting the driver ansdinSailledsley t a h a e flraitgtebrteadmditthed did safe' nothing to the driver, but "he was know." His present master (dr. Whyle} him for the last two years, and upon entering his service he w ith a charac ter for good conduct horn his last ere cslon'ye er, with whom he had been for 20 years and upwards. Upon such evidence Smedley was given into custody, and has had this charge hanging over his head for live months. To -day the evidence only went as tar as this—and upon Mr. Keane continuing to call wituessea who could prove no more, Mr. Baron Martin interposed, and said, in his opinion there was no more a case against Smedley than against himself (the learned judge). There was no evidence what• over that he knew any felony had been committed, and in laV7, unless it could be clearly shown the he knew of the ,-- N The Fire Brigade System of London, Last evening, the parish, Rhodes in the chair, --se-- at the usual meeting of the parish of St ' Mary, Lambeth held at the vestry room of Kennington-green, ' Mr. Churchwarden Mr. KNIGHT called the attention of the vestry to the Secretary for the Home a report which he H eard, that Sir George Grey, p m ar e l pepartment, intended, the t . ament, to introduce a ir . prevent suv would understoodno o t u l fire r e brigade cause gt that e t during next session bill for the abrogation of it under the establishment, and of placin g superin tendence of a different body 0 to t llo B ,o u o b o .. whether such transference of managem en t ; expense to the ratepayers of from a year. He wanted, therefore, to know the vestry had received any infurraation"ven ject. ,: Mr. F. DOULT O N , M.P., said ho was not aware that any such questio n would be as ked; but at t h e same lO n Otnimthe'eassuhbejwecat, h s ire possession of som e inform had much pleasure i n cow _ municating it to the meeting. Tne matter was very important, and in the course of a week or two the vestry, together with the other vestries of th e metropolis, would have their attention called to it, and have placed before them the whole facts of the case. The insurance cempanies, as they were aware, had hitherto supported the fire brigade at a cost of about £30,000 per annum. In the last two or three years, however, these companies had protested against charges thus placed upon them, as a large number of the premi,es where fires occurred, and where their engines attended, yielded them no thing, in consequence of the premises barnt down not having been insured. They stated, in fact, that the properties were not insured at nine-tenths of the fires their engines aided in putting out. They, therefore, under these circumstances, hinted in the course of last year that they were not prepared any longer to carry on the system. On that circum stance becoming known, the question arose what was to be done ? Of course the Home Secretary was the party to apply to on the subject; and feel ing a deep interest in it, he put a question to Sir George Grey respecting it, and the result of that ... - - was that a committee of the House of Commons was appointed on the subject. The committee cer tainly did not report that the insurance companies should support and maintain the fire brigade of the metropolis. He believed Sir George Grey had recently b:en in communication with the Metropo litan Board of Works on the subject, and within the last two days he believed that that board had received notice of a measure to be introduced into the next session of Parliament for placing the fire brigade of the metropolis under the superintendence of that board. 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