The Sun. — London, England, 1863-12-14 00:00:00

11"a' ial and Military Intelligence. THE NAVY. VAL ,ETTe i Dec. B.—The Vice-Admiral Comman der-in -Chief, with a portion of the fleet under his cema land, returned last week from Athens, and it la his ia tention to remain here several months, if not cailee, away by unexpected political events. The Trafalgar, 70, Capt. T. Mason, was the firs,' ‘ t o at .: rive, having been despatched a day earl'.er, in con sequence of having on board several eases of scarla tina, which were at first reported to be smallpox, a disease that has been rather prevalent in Greece for some time past. She appeared off the port on Saturday morning fly leg the yellow flag, but after entering harbour arid removing the sick to hospital, she was admitted to free pratique. She brought down naval supernumeraries. The Magicienue, 16, Capt. W. Army tage, came in on the following even ing, and the next evening the Vice-Admiral's ship, the Marlborough, 121, Cept. C. Fellowes, followed by the St. George, 80, Capt. the Hon. F. Egerton, entered, port. The latest dates from Athens is the 4th lest, Great excitement prevailed in Greece and the lonian Islands in consequence of the determina tion of England to demolish the fortifications of Corfu, and it is said that the Greek Government has intimated that it will only accept of the lonian Islands on condition the fortifications be left intact. According to present arrangements some of the English ships are to winter at the Piraeus, and no doubt their presence will afford a significant moral support to the new Government, and enable it to organise and establish itself firmly. A few of the foreign ships of war are also to remain. The Re venge, 73 (bearing the flag of Rear-Admiral H. R. Yelverton, C.B ), Capt. the Hon. T. A. Foley ; the Gibraltar, 81, Capt. J. Prevost ; the Meeanee, 60, Caret. G. •Wodehouse ; with the paddlewheel sloop Trident, 3, Commander C. J. Balfour, and thc, tender Boxer, are the ships of our fleet that are to pass the winter at Athens. The Fox. Found, 4, Commander W. H. Anderson, was also there, but it was not known if sh e would be retained on that occasion. The Orlando, 46, Capt. G. G. Ran dolph, is still at Corfu ; and the Wanderer, 4, Com mander M. C. Seymour, and the Surprise, 4, Com. mender W. H. Whyte, have not yet been removed Com mander from the west coast of Gre ece. The Firefly, meander A. Mansell, which has been employed on surveying service in the Corfu chan ne l , returned to Malta at 2 a.m. on Sunday, to take up her winter quarters, and to undergo such repairs as may be necessary. The Hydra, Capt. T . A . B. Sprat, was to leave Tripoli in a day o r two, on return to Malta; and the Growler, Staff -Commander J. Stokes, which was repa i r i ng boilers at Marsala,. was to leave to-day f or this island. The Cossack, 20, Capt. W. R. R o ll and, came in on Monday from y the coast of S yr i a. She will be tak e n into dock to have her bottom examined, having touched the ground whil e on that station. She left on the coast of Syria the Lffey. 3:5, Capt. G. Parker, sod th e P elican, 17, Commander Comb.. The P syche, 2, despatch vessel, Lieur.-Commander terne,, is expecting orders to convey to Alex andrta Sir J. Lawrence, who is to succeed Lord Eig:n as Governor-General of India. The har bour of Malta is at present crowded with fine ships of War. They consist of the following :—The Marlborough, 121 (bearing the flag of the Vice- Admiral Commander-in- Chief); the Hibernia, re ceiving ship (bearing the flag of Rear-Admiral H. T. Austin, C. 8.) ; the Trafalgar, 70; the Sr. George, 80; the Pncebe, 35; the Cossack, 20; the Megicienee, 16; the Ch-eatieleer, 17 ; the Icarus, 11 ; the Firefly, 5 ; and the Psyche, 2. There is also a Turkish frigate here—the Teiff, 22, Capt. Selim Bey,—which arrived on Saturday in two days from Tripoli. While riding there with four anchors down, she was compelled to put to see., owing to a violent gale springing up from the northward and westward. She was engaged when the gale came on in shipping the baggage of relieved Turkish troops for Salonica. She will return to Tripoli, when the weather moderates. There is a rumour of several changes being in contemplation of the troops in garrison, in con sequence of the anticipated removal of the gas rieons of Corfu and the other islands." The iron. screw steamship Warrior, 40, Capt. the lion. Arthur A. Cochrane, and the Resistance, 16, Capt. William C. Chamberlain, both from Ports mouth, arrived yesterday in Plymouth Sound, where there are also the Black Prince, Defence, and Aurora, and the troopship Tamar. The eastern division of the Channel Fleet, con sisting of the Edgar, 71, Capt. G. C. Hornby, bear ing the flag of Rear-Admiral of the Red S. C. Dacres, C.B. ; the Warrior, 40, iron screw frigate, Capt. the Hon. A. A. Cochrane ; and the Resistance, 16, iron screw frigate, Captain W. C. Chamberlain, sailed from Spithead on Saturday afternoon for Plymouth Sound. Vice-Admiral Sir M. Seymour, G.C.8., Naval Commaneher-in-Chief at Portsmouth, hoisted his flag on Saturday morning on board the paddle wheel steam yacht Fire Queen, Staff-Commander Paul, which conveyed the gallant Admiral out to SPiti'.ead, where he officially inspected the Wasp, 17 guns, screw corvette, Capt. AV. Bowden, pre paratory to her leaving for foreign service. The Monarch target ship has been removed from alongside Portsmouth dockyard to the praeice moorings in Porchester Creek. To-day armour Prates will be tested in the usual manner with cast- 4°ll shot from the 6S pounder gun. The plates are tl.e following firms :—Messrs. John Brown and Atlas Works, Snot ffield ; Messrs. Beale, Park :gate Work s , Y or k s hi re; th e M erse y I ron W or k s , Liverpool; and the Thames Iron Works and Ship building Company, Black wall. As the plates vary In tuickcess from 3 to 51 inches, it appears contrary to all reason to test them alike with the same gun, 'weight of shot, and charges of powder. Foreign Towers teat their armour plates with guns of various calibres according to the thickness of the plate under The old sailing Eri c m 6 Am erica arrived at Ports mouth from on Saturday, in tow of the Geyser, 6, paddle commander Pechell, and wa s taken into harbour to prepared for a tar g et shi p toe cleared out and was built place of the Monarch. Tile America in 1809 as a line-of. battle bilitr u ora ilt at Blackwall then Surveyor of the Navy. She wi t s he plans of the razeed to a frigate of 1,758 tone. subsequently The Fawn, 17, screw steam Sloop, 15, Itos i 100. horse power, which ha s been brought forward for the first division cf the Sheerness Stea m i a j a B rve, and fitted with a topgallan t forecastle, iS now r e ed to be taken ou t of Inc hands of the dockardoti:?" and removed t o moorings in the harbour. An the necessary repairs have been completed, and the vessel is quite ready for commission. The Wizard gunboat, 60-horse power, belongin g 5 to the first division of the Sheerness Steam Reserve, has completed fittings in the dockyard at Sheerness, and will leave the basin this day (Monday) waiting commission. It is reported that her destination will be the West Coast of Africa. The Scotia steamtug, recently purchased by the Lords of the Admiralty from the Caledonian Steam Towing Company, and intended for harbour service at Devonport, has been delivered to the authorities at Sheerness, and thoroughly inspected by them, in accordance with Admiralty orders, previously to departing for her destination. The inspection proved quite satisfactory, and the vessel will sail this day (Monday). _ . The masts, yards, and other gear belonging to t h il e i, lina-of-hattle screw steamer Irresistible, 500- 2_ r , e .e P e ower, ordered to be fitted for the Coastguard service, at ar c e to be immediately prepared for that Yesterde:athuth dockyard. ra „, d at t j t _ . •'lit. W. H. Stewart, C. 8., in coin to the w 4 e t u ll t. In,paid an official vihit of inspection harbour. Art : l - ; . YI 72, training ship in Chatham the seamen end marines and the variou%.-: 1 -. 6 1 ) , ee ' - ing attonded th 2 usi r e q u ons of the ship, C ipt. Sty wa .t a t the termination ot . 11 : 1 1 .5 1) ivihe service on board, the whole of the boys slid lads were mustere4d'eell stewa rt then prcsent ed th ' e l a the main deck. Capt. 3, t 0 the which had been in theirth by the Admirals ads for exemplary a wqrded proficiency conduct and n each from his 0 mil pur,studies, with half a-crow ..................—____ie• Theteronag, moderate Hornirnan's Ilea is choice and in puke, and wholesome to use. secured for this Tea a general preferene e : a .g" have packets by 2,250 Agent& It is sold in LAUNCH OF THE MINOTAUR, Another magnificent addition to our ironclad fleet was made on Saturday last by the launch of the famous Minotaur from the yard of ill) Thames Ironworks, at Blackwall. It was, • ' c; , ilzse, a great fete and holiday in the neighbourhood of the works, and really the care and attention which the Thames Company bestow upon the perfect aarangement of their launches justify the pleasure with which all look forward to them. Lofty and ample stands were erected on both sides of the huge vessel, for the ac commodation of visitors, of whom an immense number were present, a special stand at the bows of the ship being set apart for the Duke of Somerset and a large party of distinguished guests. In ad dition to these privileged visitors, every part of the vast yard was thronged, and the banks of th e river and the vessels at their moorings near the spot were equally crowded with spectators. Not more than a wesk has elapsed since in our account of the iron frigate Northumberland, a sister W vessel to the Minotaur,e gave a long and most detailed account of the principles of construction which render these ships by far the btrongest wrought iron fabrics that have ever been rivetted together since wrought iron was first used by m an . It is unnecessary, therefore, on this occasion, to re capitulate all their technical detail of ribs and girders, the manner in which the Minotaur is Welded into one piece from end to end. She is the first launched of the new class of 'Warriors, and a class which, as it; now turns out, can scarcely be called an improvement on the formidable ships which pre ceded them. The Warrior class are 41 inches of iron and 18 inches of teak; the Minotaur and Northumberland class are 51 inches of irou and nine inches of teak. The reduction of the timber and increase of the iron were et the time rather hastily made, and against the advice of many competent to give a judgment on such matters. Since then, however, it has been shown that the thickness of the backing to the armour plates is to the full as important as the thickness of the armour-plates themselves, and the Minotaur target recently tried at Shoeburyness failed, to say the least, to realise the expectation which were formed of its powers of resistance. Opposed to a vessel of the Minotaur class, " Big Will," it is now evident, would have no difficulty in sinking it with a couple of shots. In size and estimated speed, however, the new class are an improvement on the old. They are 20 feet longer than the 'Warrior, and will have engines of 100 nominal horse power greater. There are at present, exclusive of the wooden ironclads, three pairs of iron-plated ships afloat. The 'Warrior and Black Prince are each of 6,170 tons, with engines of 1,250 horse power; the Defence and Resistance are each of 3,720 tons and 600 horsepower; the Hector and the Valiant are of 4,068 tons and 800 horse power; of the largestships there is the Minotaur, 6,812 tons and 1,350 horse power, and the two sister ships now in course of building—the Agincourt and Northumberland—the former at Birkenhead and the ratter at Millwall. The six ships first mentioned are only partially pro tected by armour-plates ; two of them, the Hector and the Valiant, have armour carried right fore and aft, covering all the guns ; but for about 60 feet at each end they are unprotected on the water line. The three last-mentioned are protected from stem to stern on the battery as well as the load line. The Minot.tur was intended when contracted for to be launched in May last, and is therefore now six or seven months behind her time. The cause of delay, however, has all arisen from the various changes and improvements which the Admiralty have from time to time introduced into the method of her construction. Still, as it is, she is likely to precede her sisters on the water by nearly a twelve month. She is launched, too, in a very forward state, all her internal fittings being quite complete, the teak backing finished, and a great pert of the armour-plates already on her sides. Regarding only her size and the quantity and quality of her work, she has been more qzickly built than any other of the iron fleet. The Achilles, building at Chatham, though not nearly so large, nor carrying much more than half the weight of armour-plates of the Mino taur, was yet begun nearly ten months earlier and will not be afloat yet for another fortnight. The launching on Saturday was, as is usual at the Thames Works, managed to perfection. The last supports were knocked away and the first effet: of the hydraulic ram moved her. Then, and not till then, Mrs. Romaine dashed the bottle against the iron bows, and the huge vessel, even then weigh ing more than 6,000 tons, glided at once slowly, but most majestically, into the river, amid the cheers of thousands. When afloat she seemed low in the water and rather down by the head, which of course took off something from the fine effect of her beautiful lines. When finished and ready for sea she will, of course, be many feet lower still, and can be brought many feet lower even than that again by the arrangements made for admitting water into her compartments below, 80 as to steady her to the utmost in rough weather. Still, at her very lowest trim, her portsills will never be less than nine feet clear from the water, more than three feet higher out than the vessels of La Gloire class. The work of fitting the Minotaur with her five iron masts, and generally completing her for sea, will be effected in the Victoria Docks. It will be quite next autumn, however, before she is ready for her first cruise in search of bad weather. THE lONIAN ISLANDS. We take the following letter from the Levant Herald:— Conn:, Nov. 16. Nothing has occurred of any importance since my last communication, except the journey to England of the Secre tary of the Lord High Commissioner, at the request of the Home Government, to afford any explanations as to what had taken place between the lonian Assembly and the Lord High Commissioner which might be required, and the pro rogation of the Legislative Assembly f.r six months, doubt. less much to the surprise of many of its members. All here are anxious to know the decision as to the fortresses, the possessi n of which in their present condition in the hands of a weak State will, lit is believed, be warmly opposed by Austria and Turkey. It is clear that fortifica tions which would require 10,000 British and at least 15,000 of any other troops to man them might be useless in the hands of the Greeks. In fact, they could only serve the purpose of any strong Power whose views would be suited by seizing them in case of need. The argument that a saving will be effected by Great Britain by the cession is most fallacious; but, on the con trary, she will be a loser. The lonian Government pays £25,000 a year for military protection. This sum has lat terly been regularly paid. Formerly it was allowed to get into arrear, and the debt of £90,000 on this head has been magnanimously presented to Greece by Mr. Gladstone, and thus falls on the British taxpayer. This £25,000 a year will be lost. The simple question is, did the staff establish ment here cost anything like that sum ? It is estimated to ' i s tf t. abo u t £2,000 a year, t h at b e i ng t h e ex t ra ex p ense or loos Great e noebetween staff and half- pay ; this shows a clear I am i ne l i hereat Britain of £23,000 a year, at least, to say no thing of the oipital sunk in the fortresses. Will Great Bri tain redu ce army because she gives up these islands ? sufficient r,e(j. „ toua think not. One regiment would have been was for her owl e i islands ; and if England kept four here it elsewhere, as a healthy station, and they will be sent Government reabat 4 a 7re, and the sum paid by the lonian all that was absolutely necessary for their internal p ro 4 : l it is presumed, b e Reut tn. The regiments now here will, the Malta and Gibraltar, but cer tainly not struck out of even will not be saved, that this saving of £2,00 0 Ety A• ea rraY List. Many maintain but a trifiin o g n. fillnl on lik th e e th o i t s to hR " ing words England is not worth spend tYhe:veill necessitate a lishment of the old system o il t - a r ir , a t e he probable re-estab notue..wanluch will t hemselves to protect ber of frequent before the British took possession, were so gßrt elatitBer i n en° c um u m r l r as o nm u Ida the the h jeflabeillagt Coast, whiche from plun deringa increase th eiml recommence,ucetuenast thhaesubaettclorileloOf g A r i e b a a t n e i r an b a y ha th% r 4, (3(1 and in wealth and prosperity in the islands. It is calculated that about 70 of the best bo ils es, at an average rent of £7 10s. a month, will become vacant, which represents a capital of a million o f dollars, say £0,300 a3,ear to the house proprietors. [ADVERTISEMENT.] —Holloway ' s Pills. --Dangerous , o 1 Ill nesses.—The most marked success has s o often attended trials of those Pills that no invalid should des p air. taining at least some alleviati on , if not the thorougn cnre of his malady from thei r purifying and strengthening vir tues. Here is the lan g u age o f o ne who s p eaks of nre scientiously from vast experience of past suffering. Be I took your Pills I knew no m omen t a ' ease for years; mY stomach, head, and nerves kept m e i n continual mise r y ; my appetite was g o ne, my di ges ti on mos t infirm ; both iu mind and body I f e l t comp l ete l y s h attere d. Now. I re " 10 , e all this is changed ; I can eat, digest, sleep, land walk as meat men more robust than myself." TEE PROPOSED CONGRESS. The following is the answer of the King of the Greeks to the French proposal of a Congress , Athens, Nov. 2G, Monsieur mon Fthe,—l have been highly gratified by the invitation which your Majesty has been pleased to send me in your letter of the 4th inst. to take part in a Congress of Sovereigns to be opened at Paris, with a view to placing the political edifice of Europe on new and more solid bases, and thus to prevent commotions which might endanger the general peace. This appeal to conciliation which your Majesty has just made in the interest of European order has been inspired by views too generous and too elevated not to find in me the most sympathetic reception. The noble thought which predominates therein could not be better enhanced than by the frank language and the ju dicious considerations with which your Majesty has accom panied your proposition. In accepting it without reserve, I fully share the hopes which I find expressed in your Imperial Majesty's letter. The meeting of the Congress will perhaps be the best solu tion of the grave questions which justly preoccupy all minds in Europe, and will contribute to develope the general pro sperity by the maintenance of tranquillity. Every one feels indeed, that it is necessary to take into account the spirit of the age, the political aspirations of nations, the circum stances of the time, and to endeavour by all possible means to secure the future by regulating the present so as to eli minate every element of trouble and discord. The common work to which your Majesty invites the chiefs of the European States would be, beyond doubt, one of the greatest onward movements of our day. Its success would realise wishes long since formed by the friends of humanity and the noblest minds. In congratulating your Majesty:on the glorious initiative you have just taken, I sincerely wish that your proposition may be as favourably received by the other Sovereigns, and I flatter myself with the hope that the interests and rights of the Christians in the East will find in your Ma jesty a generous defender in the future International Council. It is with these sentiments that I earnestly offer to your Majesty the renewed assurances of the high esteem and the inviolable friendship with which I am, Monsieur mon Frere, your Imperial Majesty's good brother, GEORGE. (Countersigned) P. DELYANNI. The following is the reply of the Germanic Con ederation Sire,—The invitation to a Congress which your Majesty addressed on the 4th of November last to the Sovereign Princes and free cities of Germany is considered by the Germanic Confederation as a proof of your Majesty's senti ments of friendship, and of your desire to assure to Europe the benefits of peace. Called upon by its fundamental treaties to be principally directed by pacific views, the Germanic Confederation could not refuse its consent to a project tending to assure the peace and order of Europe. Although frankly adhering to the pacific idea of your Majesty, the Sovereign Prince and free cities of Germany could not concur with a hope of success, in the realisation of this project, unless the treaties which established the Germanic Confederation as well as the political edifice of Europe were considered as the basis of the negotiations. Without ignoring that even the most solemnly concluded treaties cannot remain unaltered in the midst of the irresis tible course of history, a pacific policy could not disavow the principle that no modification or cancelling of a treaty call be effected without the consent of the parties interested. It is this principle which will point out the rule of duties, the title of rights, and the curb of pretensions which, with so just and penetrating [an eye, your Majesty has deemed necessary to tranquillise Europe. This basis for negotiation once adopted, it will be possi ble to designate beforehand, with the consent of the parties interested, the international questions which the Congress will undertake to regulate, and afford to Europe the assur ance that, far from being the source of fresh differences, it will put an end to those which exist. In conformity with these views, the Germanic Confede • ration will be disposed to respond to your Majesty's invita tion, and take part in the Congress, by causing himself to be represented by a special Plenipotentiary, 'who will be there with those members of the Germanic Confederation invited by your Majesty. The Sovereign Prince and free cities of Germany cherish the hope that your Majesty will be good enough to see that these frank explanations are a proof of their sentiments of friendship, of the care they have devoted to the consideration of the step taken by your Majesty, and of their desire that this step may be fruitful in happy re sults. Hereupon the Sovereign Princes and free cities of Germany pray God to have you in his just and holy keeping. . . The Germanic Confederation, and in its name, The Austrian Minister, President of the Diet, BARON VON KUBECK♦ Frankfort.on-the-Maine, Dec. 7, 1863. The following is the reply of the King of Den mark : "Monsieur mon FrZre,—During the few days that I have occupied the throne of Denmark I have been enabled to take two resolutions of high importance for the destinies of my country. Providence has in a sad and unexpected manner terminated the career of my august predecessor at the very mcment when the nation expected him to sanction by his signature the new Constitution for the common affairs of his non• German provinces, and to accept the invitation of your Imperial Majesty to attend a Congress. It has fallen to my lot to accomplish this double task. Happening at the same critical moment for the welfare of my people, those two de cisions tend to the same end, for it only settles the present, the other will, I hope, assure the future of the Danish Monarchy. Your Majesty has taken the glorious initiative of substituting decrees of justice and of reason, instead of an appeal to arms, to settle the questions actually pending in Europe. Denmark, which has always been the constant ally of the Emperor, is resolved, frankly and without reserve, to associate itself to the generous endeavours of your Majesty to realise that great idea. I accept, therefore, with real pleasure, your Majesty's invitation to attend a European Congress. lam not yet sure whether circumstances will allow me to attend in person, but I beg your Majesty to believe that it would give me the greatest pleasure to enjoy once more your cordial hospitality, and to express to you viva coca my warm and sincere congratulations, as I had the honour to do on a former occasion. I congratulate myself that the relations which I shall have the honour of entertaining with your Majesty open under auspices of that great inspiration, and I eagerly take advantage of this opportunity to offer to you the assurance of my high esteem and unchangeable friendship. I am, Monsieur mon frere, of your imperial Majesty le bon fa:re, CHRISTIAN, Copenhagen, Nov. 20. THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 14, 1863, common at the outbreak of hostilities. And the courage of the people will not be diminished if they bring themselves face to face with thereal character of the struggle. "Liberty or death" is no mere phrase to us ; and it will do no harm if we look steadfastly at the less agreeable alternative.— .litchmond Examiner. ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE. MIDLAND CIRCUIT—DERBY, Dec. 12. CROWN COURT. (Before Mr. Baron Martin.) The trial of George Victor Townley for the murder of Miss Goodwin was resumed this morning at 9 o'clock pre cisely. As before, Mr. Boden, Q.C., and Mr. Bristowe appeared for the prosecution; Mr. Macaulay, Q.C., Mr. Sergeant O'Brien, and Mr. Fitzjames Stephen defended the prisoner. Mr. Boden now replied on the part of the prosecution. He contended that the evidence for the defence proved that the prisoner knew the nature and quality of his act and that it was prohibited ; and although, owing to a state of mind differing from that of the majority of men, he conceived that his act was right, yet it was clear that he well knew that others thought it wrong. Miss Goodwin's letters, which he had been unable to lay before them, had been supplied by those who conducted the defence, and afforded a clue to the prisoner's act. They showed that he went to Wigwell-hall with a knowledge that Miss Goodwin was desirous to break off her engagement with him, and in the hope of inducing her to change her mind upon that subject, It had been attempted to prove that he set out upon that mission in an insane state of mind. The evidence used for that defence consisted partly in the alleged existence of hereditary insanity in the family, It had not, however, been shown that any lineal ancestor of the prisoner had ever been mad, and the evidence given with respect to some collateral relations of the prisoner failed to establish hereditary insa nity. The other evidence painted to the state of his mind upon and after the receipt of Miss Goodwin's letters. That evidence entirely failed to show anything resembling insa nity in the prisoner's conduct, while it showed a motive for the murder. The stronger his attachment to Miss Good win, the more likely it was that in resenting her rejection of him he should in a state of distress have been hurried into the commission of this act. The prisoner's letters were the letters of a sane and rational person. The evidence given by Grew of his behaviour at the Midland Hotel was almost ludicrous. His conduct there was entirely natural under the circumstances, and it was clear that neither the land lady of the Bull's Head nor Mr. Harris perceived anything at all peculiar in his manner. Dr. F, Winslow's evidence simply showed that the prisoner entertained certain specu lative notions inconsistent with the wellbeing of society; but it would be most dangerous that any one who consi dered that stealing was not morally wrong should be enabled to commit robbery with impunity. The law permitted the holding of notions of this kind, but the very essence and ob ject of law was to prevent those notions from being carried into action. Dr. Forbes Winslow admitted that the pri soner knew his act was punishable, and that knowledge was sufficient to make him responsible to the law. Dr. Forbes Winslow had introduced a new species of insanity, which he called general moral derangement, but such a doctrine was fraught with danger to the wellbeing of society. At the conclusion of Mr. Bolen's reply, Mr. Macaulay rose and, addressing his lordship, observed —I understand, my lord, with reference to the questions you will leave to the jury, that you will ask them—first, whether the prisoner knew the effect upon life of his act ; and second, whether he was conscious that he was incurring legal punishment. Baron Martin—l shall tell the jury that, assuming that the prisoner's mind was diseased on the 21st August, yet, if he knew the act he did would probably cause death, and that what he was doing was against the law of God and the subject of legal punishment, he is responsible for his act, Mr. Macaulay --I humbly submit— Baron Martin —Mr. Macaulay, is this right? At the close of your address yesterday. I read out to you the ques tion I proposed to leave to the jury, and gave you an oppor• tunity, and, indeed, invited you to comment upon it. You declined to take advantage of that opportunity, and it would be most irregular to hear you now, after the reply of the counsel for the prosecution is over. Mr. Macaulay —In the absence cf the power of tendering a bill of exceptions ? Baron Martin—You have a much better remedy than that. His Lordship th en, a dd ress i ng the jury, sa id th a t b y th e law of this c ountry, i f a man was conv i c t e d o f mur d er the judge must p ronounce sentence o f d eat h , an d t h e pr i soner ' s only hope then l ay in the mercy of the Crown. The result of that trial was, then, of the greatest importance to the public with reference to the protection of life. The law of England attached the highest value to human life. Even in the case where life was taken by accident, the law re quired an investigation of the circumstance. While, there fore, the interest of the prisoner in the result of their deli berations was the greatest possible, the interest of the public was equally great, and it wts their duty to give their verdict upon the point of law he should submit to them, and to leave the responsibility of acting upon that verdict to others. So far as the act was concerned, it was the clearest case he had ever had the misfortune to try. It was plain that the prisoner suffered as much as probably any man ever suffered. That was clear from the evidence of his friends and of the waiter at the Midland Hotel ; but it was equally clear that he did not appear to be insane in the eyes of the landlady of the Bull's Head or in those of Mr. Harris. The prisoner then went to the hall, and remained in the company of the young lady from half .past 6 to nearly 9 o'clock, when the deed was committed. It was probable that he implored her to renew the engagement, and perhaps reproached her with her conduct towards him. She may have been conscious that she had not behaved well to him, and may have remained in his company from a sense of his distress and from an anxiety to do all in her power to relieve his mind. At any rate, if that was not the true explana tion of what took place between them, it could not possibly place the prisoner's case in a worse light than any explana tion that could reasonably be suggested. He then inflicted upon the young lady the wounds which caused her death, That was murder, subject only to the question of insanity. No one could doubt that the prisoner knew what he was doing and that it would cause death. 'Unless he was insane, therefore, under those circumstances he was guilty of mur der. No word was more vague than insanity. Probably, there was not one of the jury but was acquainted with some man who was in the habit of doing extraordinary actions, and of'' whom people said, " why, that man must be in sake." Two years ago an investigation took place into the condition of mini of a gentleman from the eastern parts of the county. There was a long inquiry, which excited great public interest, and there was a great divergence of opinion among medical men. Great eccentricity of conduct on the part of that person was shown, yet there was nothing to relieve him from criminal responsibility. Probably he was not the wisest of men, yet he was of sufficient in tellect to take care of himself and avoid doing injury to others. There w as a somewhat similar case at the last t G h l e o ces ter impression that Assizes,in which a y oung l a d y was under a number of l a di es h a d f orme d an unfounded dislike to her. In all probability she was labouring under a delusion with respect to those persons, yet she was as subject to the criminal law as any person in that court. What the law meant by an insane man was a man who acted under delusions and supposed a state of things to exist which did not exist, and acted there upon. A man who did so was under a delusion, and a person so labouring;was insane. In one species of insanity the patient lost his mind altogether and had nothing but instinct left. Such a person would destroy his fellow creatures as a tiger would his prey, by instinct only. A man in that state had no mind at all, and, therefore, was not criminally re sponsible. The law, however, went further than that. If a man labouring under a delusion did something of which he did not know the real character, something of the effect and consequences of which he was ignorant, he was not re• sponsible, An ordinary instance of such a delusion was where a man fancied himself a king and treated all around him as his subjects. It such a man were to kill another un der the supposition that he was exercising his prerogative as a king and that he was called upon to execute the other as a criminal, he would not be responsible. The result was that, if the jury believed that at the time the act was com mitted the prisoner was labouring under a delusion, and be lieved that he was doing an act which was not wrong, or of which he did not know the consequences, he would be ex cused. If, on the other hand, he well knew that his act would take away life, that that act was contrary to the law of God and punishable by the law of the land, he was guilty of murder. That was the real question they had to try. In the able address of the counsel for the pro,ecution no allu sion had been made to the state of mind which constituted insan ity. He had called the learned counsel's attention to that point, because he was desirous of hearing his views on the subject. He had already stated that in his opinion the law upon the subject was best laid down by Justice Le Blanc, as able a judge as ever sat on the bench. Justice Le Blanc, in ithe case alluded to, observed to the jury that it was for them to determine whether the prisoner when he committed the offence with which ho stood charged was in capable of distinguishing right from wrong, or under the influence of any illusion which rendered his mind at the moment insensible of the nature of the act he was about to commit; since in that case he would not be legally responsible for his conduct. On the other hand, provided (hey should be of opinion that when he committed the offence he was capable of distinguishing light from wrong, and not under the influence of such an illusion as disabled him from discerning that he was doing a wrong act, he would be amenable to the justice of his country and guilty in the eye of the law. That in his (Baron Martin's) opinion Was a correct statement of the law. He should not allude to Bellingham's case because many were of opinion that that Lyndhurst told the jury that they mu st be satisfied, before was an unsatisfactory trial. In Offord's case the late Lord they could acquit the prisoner on the ground of insanity, that he did not know when he committed the act what the effect of it if fatal would be. with reference to the crime of murder, the question was, did he know that ho was com mitting an offence against the laws of God and n ature ? In Oxfotd's case Lord _Denman said, something h as b een said about the power to contract and to make a will; but• I think that those things do not supply any test, The ques tion is, whether the prisoner was labouring under that species of insanity which satisfies you that he was quite un- BEFORE BRAGG'S RETREAT. The Southern public have long since given up the tradi tional attitude of standing on tip-toe in expectation of a great battle. It rather plants itself firmly on its feet and sets its teeth closely, the better to receive the shock. We have proved our prowess on too many fields to require the encouragement of one victory more ; we have met with too many disasters to have our balance disturbed by a single defeat ; and by this time we have attained to a sad philo sophy, which embraces both victory and defeat in one category—lose. Our loss seems always to outweigh the immediate positive gain; and, to parody the famous line of Filicaja, the South appears to be doomed " always ' to lose' or conquering, or conquered." Our adversaries see this clearly, and have based their calculations on it. They design to wear us away piecemeal —to reduce our army by battle and by capture, and then to break the back-bone of the rebellion, vertebra by vertebra,and extract the marrow at their leisure. Of course, we regard this Yankee plan as an utter mistake ; as a false application of mathematical principles, to the working of organic structures. It is not a question of sub traction ; it is a question of vitality. One man loses both legs and both arms, and lives; another dies from the ex traction of a tooth. But, mistaken as the Yankees are in thinking that the whole matter resolves itself into two diminishing series, of which the series is to become infini tesimal, yet they are not mistaken when they gloat over the sufferings which our losses in battle occasion us. These losses have been great—have been sufficient to glut the appetite of any being but a New England ghoul ; and these are the losses which, whenever a battle is imminent, the public anticipates, even before the skirmishers are deployed, and the pickets driven in. As we look forward, then, to the struggle in the West, we cannot indulge in any feeling of exultation at the prospect. We hope fur victory; we may have some reason to expect it ; but we know it to be possible that somebody will be a few hours too late; that some point of the enemy's line will not be pressed, in spite of the explicit orders of the command ing General ; that the ammunition will be exhausted just 10 minutes before the Federals receive reinforcements ; that some stupid courier will lose his way; that some heedless aide-de camp will forget to deliver his message, and that the Yankees will retire in good order, hotly pursued, at a re spectful distance, by our cavalry ; and fall beckon a stronger position, which they will make impregnable in 21 hours, This has been the history of every victory of magnitude on the Southern side, and it may be the history of other victo ries. And then, the fight over, in come first as single spies, and then in full battalions, the casualties. It is said the war has hardened us to the horrors of death. It is Nitll that we have become thus hardened, for otherwise nature could not bear the anguish, and we should be too much unmanned to carry on our great work. But we venture to say that the first thought of the majority of the people who have any claims to thought at all turns to the lists of killed and ‘brounded. Fortune, like the chary alms-giver in Homer, but puts the cup of joy to our mouths, and "wets the lips, : t t h tt _ o es not wet the palate ;" the chalice of sorrow we think See L ' e d r regs. Georgia may be saved, but will East Terines tale our ea gue s o „ f a d in ee d ? On one thing we may count, a fearful ca use t had almost said Our army has that battle meansni and they do not r of Job's war horse, h:tththaerd suffering, It is, on the whole, well for higher, purer, and mor e w ri s e:p in, l t e tit :: : ::arge entertain such sober, we losombre, views on the subject of the war. guuetuittertained them. The soldiers know disfigurement, pain, and death, t‘ :: t a th fig . bt with the mad impetuosity courage is ot a far nobler, enduring type than the swagger so aware of the nature, character, and consequences of the act which he was committing; or, in other words, whether he was under the influence of a diseased mind, and was really unconscious at the time he was committing the act it was a crime." His lordship continued that the jury must judge ofthe act by the prisoner's statements, and by what he did at the time. Unless they were satisfied—and it was for the prisoner to make it out— that he did not know the conse quences of his act,or that it was against the law of God and man and would subject him to punishment, ho was guilty of murder. His lordship then went most carefully through the evidence. The prisoner's letters appeared to be the most sensible letters he had ever read. Again, the reason the prisoner gave for his act was " She should not have proved false to me." Now, if his real motive was that he conceived himself to have been illused, and either from jealousy of the man who was preferred to him, or from a desire of revenge on her,he committed the act,that would be murder. Those were the very passions which the law re quired men to control, and if the deed was done under the influence of those passions there was no doubt that it was murder. The prisoner's expression that he should be hanged for it indicated that he knew the consequences of this act. Another reason he gave for what he had done was, " The woman who deceives me must die." If a young lady pro mised to marry a man and then changed her mind, it might be truly said she deceived him ; but what would be the con sequences to society if men were to say every woman who treated them in that way shc.uld die, and were to carry out these views by cutting her throat? The prisoner claimed to exercise the same power over a wife as he could lawfully exercise over a chattel, but that was not a delusion, nor like a delusion. It was the confusion of a man who had arrived at results different from those generally arrived at and con trary to the laws of God and man, but it was not a delu sion. Evidence, indeed, had been given of an actual delu sion in the prisoner's mind in supposing that there was a conspiracy against him. That was an apt and common in stance of delusion. There was also evidence of insanity in the maternal line, and it was true that insanity was here ditary and did descend in families. The object of that was to show that it was possible and not unlikely that the here ditary taint might exist in the prisoner. All the evidence, however, failed to show the existence of any delusion in the prisoner's mind which could explain this act. None of his family conceived him to be mad. It was clear that such an idea had not entered into their mind, or they would not have recommended him to go and see Miss Goodwin. They treated him as sane from beginning to end, as a proper person to contract matrimony and re-engage the affections of this young woman. The account of his state of mind upon receiving her letters was most probably correct. Most men would probably suffer in the same way under similar circumstances. It had been said by one of the witnesses that the prisoner did not know the difference between good and evil. If that was a test of insanity many men were tried who did not know that difference. In truth it was no test at all. The idea of a conspiracy was a delusion ; but the mere setting himself up against the law of God and man was not a delusion at all. The question for the jury was, was the prisoner insane, and did he do the act under a delusion, believing it to be other than it was. If he knew what he was doing, and that it was likely to cause death and was contrary to the law of God and man, and that the law directed that persons who did such acts should be punished, he was guilty of murder. The jury then retired, and after an absence of five minutes returned into court with a verdict of guilty of wilful murder. The prisoner was then called upon in the usual form to say why sentence of death should not be passed upon him. Baron Martin, having put on the black cap, said—Pri soner at the bar, after every possibility in your favour has been urged with an ability never excelled you have been found guilty of wilful murder, and in that verdict I entirely concur. It the defence which has been set up in your behalf had prevailed, it would in my opinion have been attended with consequences dangerous to society. If it entered into the minds of men' that they might take the life of any woman who was fickle, the results would be fearful. I have now only one duty to perform. With regard to that I have no discretion, but am under an absolute necessity of fulfil ling it. I beg of you to take advantage of your opportunity to make your peace with God. I have no desire by any comment of mine to distress you or any other pei sons, but will, without saying more, pronounce the sentence imposed by the law. His Lordship then, with much emotion, passed sentence of death upon the prisoner. After finishing this case, and trying three or four other cases which do not require a report, Baron Martin left for Nottingham, where he opened the commissions for the county and town. SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS EXAMINER.—The Great Fight! Which is the , Great Fight of the week, the Great Fight between the American and the Englishman. or the Great Fight bet ween Mr Cobden and the Times? We give , the preference to the latter, but heartily wish neither had taken place. For the encounter, it is enough to say that Mr. Cobden was angry and the 7 hazes cool.. And when any man sits down to write in an angry mood he ought to know that he will be answered with all the advantage of coolness, his adversary avoiding his fault and profiting by it. Then as to the merits of the quarrel, it was one by adoption. Now, a man whu is childless may not unnaturally adopt another's child; but Mr. Cobden, pacific as he may be in purpose, is not so quarrelless as to be driven to adopt another's quarrel, and espe cially the quarrel of the most pugnacious character of the time. Indeed, when a man feels moved to take up the cudgels for another (who is apt enough to resort to them on his own b,:half), he ought to ask himself the question whether his real object is to vindicate his friend, or to assail a third party ; and he may be sure that the latter is his true mo tive if he finds in himself a disposition to employ terms of abuse which prove nothing but ill will. In matters of this kind, as Sancho Panza says, "every tub should stand on its own bottom, every herring hang by its own head." Gay, too, advises well against interposing in quarrels, and Mr. Bright can hardly be pleased to fad his friend more touchy about him than he is about himself. To take a quarrel out of his own hands, his staff of life, is in deed like taking the bread out of his mouth, and certain we are that he thinks he could have done the thing much better himself, and probably he could. The matter of complaint was a construction, that an argument went to a division of land amongst the poor; but why was the question of the fairness of a con struction to be extended to the question of anony mous writing, and to personalties not boldly out spoken but insinuated, betraying the willingness to wound together with the fear to strike. The cha racter of the limes is of by far too mixed a nature to be disposed of by unmixed vilification. Many faults may be found with a journal wielding so great a power, but if it deserved the character given to it by Mr. Cobden its existence would most gravely impeach the intelligence and morality of the British public. Mr. Cobden more measured would be more forcible and effective; and if av,.! might presume to offer a word of counsel to one we sincerely respect and esteem, it would be to mistrust impulses of intense indignation, which in some temperaments proceed not from the judgment, but long-nourished preju dice and exaggerated imagination. Johnson ad vised a young writer to read over carefully what he had written, and when he came to anything he thought very fine, to strike it cut. We would ad vise Mr. Cobden to do the same when he comes to anything very angry. Had he been schooled in anonymous writimg, instead of trusting to the au thority of his name, he would have learnt to rely for effect only upon facts and reasoning, not upon words of sound and fury signifying nothing but the vituperative. SATURDAY REVIEW.—In these days of indiffer ence and apathy, it must be some satisfaction to a writer in the limes to have made a veteran public man like Mr. Cobden, who ought to be thick skinned, so particularly angry. The readers of the Radical journals are accustomed to be lashed into a fury, and no doubt feel a pleasing ex citement in the process; but even they must have been startled at the list of forcible epithets which caught their eyes as they glanced down Mr. Cobden's letter. " Gross literary outrage," " groundless and gratuitous false hood," " foul libel," " calumny," " pre-eminent un scrupulousness," "slander," "servility," "corrupt advantages," " traducer," "calumniator"—here is a catalogue of gems. Surely Mr. Cobden must be composing a philological work upon the vocabulary of the New York Herald, and A as incautious enough to write to the limes before he had got the results of his studies sufficiently out of his head. Other wise we shall be obliged to assume that he was very deeply wounded by that passing sentence of the limes; and no doubt he has been quite long enough in France to know whether it is truth or falsehood that wounds the most. If it be only the truth that wounds, the remarks of the Times must haa e been very true indeed. Mr. Cobden must have been goaded into a state of ungovernable fury to have been able to blind himself to the absurdity of the exhibition he has been making. A skilled con troversieist, who can only answer a grave state ment of opinion by calling his adversary names, must be in very evil case. Mr. Cobden ought to have been above the vulgar claptrap of railing at the anonymous character of the public press. Its assertions are made openly ; if they are false, they can be refuted with ease; if they are true, their truth would be neither lessened nor increased by the affix of a name. Tile moral character of a state ment depends on its own intrinsic truth or false hood,s not upon its authorship. Mr. Cobden a a PP t r b r e to be of a different opinion. His viewseems long that any license of calumny is permissible, 1 . t who as the author of it gives his name• undertakes to reform the tone f A u m bi r i: writinglB might usefully begin the greattiownOsrkilby of corruption, a bstaining himself from vague insinurauve, but does not even which he not only cannot pt - e of round, uucompro venture to describe. the mising, abusive denial is a very valuable art to pos sess. It is very difficult to disbelieve in the sincerity of a man who has really contrived to work himself up into a rage. But he should not work his powers in that respect too hard. Mr. Cobden is likely to have plenty of opportunity for the useof them, especially now that Mr. Bright has become desperate, and will let the cat out of the bag upon all occasions. It must be very aggravating to have a companion tacked on to you who, like Moliere's L'Etourdi, always will tell the wrong truth at the wrong mo ment. We can pardon some irritability in Mr. Cobden's mind at the discovery that his colleague's imprudences have not passed as unobserved as per haps he hoped. But he will only damage himself by such letters as that which he printed in the Daily News of Wednesday. Like a fish that palls, he is only fastening himself further upon the hook. It is safe, up to a certain point, to count on the well known maxim that the British public abhor small print ; and if he would leave them alone, Mr. Bright's speech might pass quietly into oblivion. Bat, of course, if he will provoke them to it, a cer tain number will refer back to the report of what took place at Rochdale. Any that do may possibly admire the courage of Mr. Cobden's denial, but will not extend their admiration to any other mental or moral qualities it may disph y. Whatever discou raging reflections may have occurred to Mr.Cobden's mind, they are no reason for writing a letter full of Billingsgate. He should take a lesson from his friends the Yankees, who, if they do occasionally lose a battle, are never so foolish as to admit it. By his own and his friend's indiscreet candour, he has done an injury to his cause which it may be difficult to repair. But it is only adding tolly to folly to admit his consciousness of his blunder, and of its disastrous consequences, by such a letter as that which he has just published. SPECTATOR.—When Mr. Cobden takes up the gloves for an old friend and colleague Mr. Bright, he is not only guilty of a work of supe rerogation, but of an error which he, as au economist, ought to feel more keenly still, a very mistaken division of labour. In challenging the Times for his burly fellow-labourer, he not only goes up, like David, to an unequal battle, but, unlike David, goes up to his unequal battle on be half of a Goliath, and a very willing and able Goliath, as well as against one. This is a sad mis take. There is a kind of intellect which is stimu lated and strengthened by the animosities of the combatant, and there is a finer and more delicate kind which is paralysed and perturbed by them. Mr. Bright's is of the former, Mr, Cobden's of the latter kind. Mr. Bright's intellect is, as it were, the mere instrument of a very powerful charaeter. Mr. Cobden's is a delicate scientific apparatus, which is disordered, or even utterly spoiled, by the excite ment of a personal affray. Mr. Bright deals blows with a heavy hand and takes them with an equal mind, though not without some perceptible increase of force in giving back again to his antagonist, at the first suitable opportunity, "full measure, pressed down and running over." He seizes the fitting moment, and speaks of his great enemy in the press as " Privilege with blatant voice" proclaiming falsehoods to the British people, and probably the blow not only took a stinging effect, but is partly accountable for the certainly very wilful misrepre sentation of Mr. Bright's and his colleague's views on the land question which has excited so deeply Mr. Cobden's wrath. Mr. Bright's mind is not ruffled by combat—it is just heated thereby to the red heat of successful oratory. But Mr. Cobden's intellect is quite of another kind. More limited, but far more delicate and flexible than Mr. Bright's within its narrow limits, it is only deranged and con fused by anger. Unlike the cuttlefish, Mr. Cobden blinds not his pursuer, but himself, by those moral secretions which a threat or a thrust provokes. His fine intelligence (which is a certain limited field, and working under tranquil and unimpassioned conditions, is almost unrivalled in its way) is rendered turbid, nay muddy, and worse than useless, by irritation, and his personal onslaughts are often made not only without judgment, but without sense. He loses one of his keenest powers, the perception of reason and consequent, puts forward as the case of the plaintiff what is really the only excuse for the defendant, and altogether, not unlike Mr. Winkle, when volunteering his eager and injudicious evi dence for Mr. Pickwick, contrives to strengthen his opponent's case as touch as ill-advised and blunder ing zeal can ever do. Mr. Cobden begins his savage reply to the Times by protesting with justifiable indignation against its representation of the Roch dale orators as advocating a confiscation of the land of the rich for the benefit of the poor—a protest which we ourselves were the first to make. He goes on to say that the pre-eminent unscrupulousness of the Times , " which places it in mordid contrast with the rest of the periodical press," is mainly due to its writers' reliance " on the shield of an impene trable secrecy," and then immediately proceeds to explain that, in the case of the Times, this reliance is peculiarly foolish, because everybody, in the politi cal world at least, knows who is responsible for its articles. Here we find one of the most acute logicians in public life, first ascribing a peculiar and " pre eminent" unscrupulousness to a privilege which the limes shares with all its contemporaries, and then explaining that every other paper is far more secure in its possession of that privilege than this pre eminent offender. In other words, Mr. Cobden lays down the premises which would prove all the press unscrupulous, except perbaps the limes, and then appears to congratulate himself on having shown why all the other papers are so much less unscrupus lous than their great rival. So keen a logician as Mr. Cobden could never have written such an argu ment as that, if his mind had not been clouded by the fever consequent on intellectual mosquito-bites. Mr. Cobden's imagination and theoretic power are only fit for acting impartially on very simple matters, of which he really holds the key or fundamental prin ciple in his own mind. When he attempts to apply the same method to his own personal pangs, hesanly makes a really fine intellect ridiculous, and a femi nine temperament sore to disease. LONDON RETIEN.—Mr. Cobden's quarrel with the limes is another instance of those faults of temper which disfigure the political career of him self, of Mr. Bright, and of their friends. The re cent speeches of the two great Free-traders hap pened to contain a considerable quantity of unplea sant and ugly complaints directed against the owners of landed property. Show Mr. Bright or Mr. Cobden a great landowner, and it is like show ing a bull a red flag. They cannot abide the sight, and make no scruple of saying so. The remarks made by both gentlemen at Rochdale were reported at great length in the leading journal, and with unimpeached accuracy. Two long articles followed the next day and the day after, devoted to a criti cism of the opinions propounded at the meeting. Exception was taken by the writer to Mr. Cobden's and his friend's attack on the present system of tenure, as meaning nothing more or less than anarchy or revolution. "Is not your language," said the Times, "an incentive to working men to look over the fence of the neighbouring proprietor and learn to think that they have a natural right to a slice of the soil ? When coupled with politi ca l appeals in favour of reform, is it not holding out an agrarian law as the result to be gained by a reduc tion of the franchise ?" Such was the argument of the Times. It is possibly not altogether conclusive, because Mr. Bright and Mr. Cobden would pro bably reply that they did not mean that landed property ought to change hands violently, but that the law should put facilities in the way of its changing hands more easily. Though not conclu sive, the argument was not, however, unfair or in appropriate, because the masses whom Mr. Bright and Mr. Cobden work upon are, perhaps, not logical enough to draw fine distinctions, and often accept inflammatory language for more than it is worth. It was, in fact, a forcible and rhetorical way of put ting the dangers and absurdities of such a mode of working mob. Finally, lest injustice should be done, the Tunes invited Mr. Bright and Mr. Cobden to explain themselves more clearly if they did not wish to be misunderstood. The first thing to be remarked is that Mr. Bright and Mr. Cobden, who object to strong language when applied to them selves, do not seem to mind applying it to others. What the limes said of these gentlemen may or may not be plain and rough speaking, but it is certainly not a bit more plain or more rough than the lan guage they are themselves in the habit of dealing out to those whom they dislike, at large meetings in Birmingham, in Rochdale, and at similar places. Rhetoricians who use invectives as a kind of French polish for their political victims must expect to be treated upon the same system ; and that thr owing of stones is a mode of warfare not altogether unbcon genial to Mr Cobden, is plain from the hearty: use he gives the limes. He cannot henceforwar pre tend r n r d u p m t a i o n w we m awithmust n b d a e a c r e v n e c decency that be m r m . mealy-mouthe d. y b - d m e n o u ? t a h o e dn d o . to open its if the Times has naturally decsl t Secondly, p P r e o r p °l r nn ie e t i nrs o a columns to accusations ' ill oow p fn olitical controversy charged I d t ir is ect n l o y t a u p s o u n a i l t agers. man l t are i t s h e c i. o r n limits t t ) o ° aw n within hi o n Disraeli impute motives vehoyswalaes, oprostsoibclaellfonraes.Years have gone by is sin ; c i‘ l a t s'Connell as a Yahoo. Mr. to describe ..arixe- Vipers and snakes and ruffians .are only to be found in there u a n t iu which those who wish their letters news paperly and to appear must confine authorsrightly o u f n t d h e e rs a t g oo e d a t j h denunciation. The next remarkable fact con nected with Mr. Cobden's communication is that it is pure invective and nothing more. He does not discuss the quest i on one or not. He simply and whether the interpretation deliberately p u t on r. Bright's speech be the true re! or ts with tab Pis olito dspe cies of cursing. swearing. All without communicating with Mr. Bright him self," Now, there ere occasions on which it is right and lawful to be wroth on account of injustice done to a silent friend. But these are usually occcasions on which the silence of the friend is compulsory. Otherwise, the friend himself is the proper person to tell us whether his language has been miscon strued or no. The question at issue can hardly be said to be, what meaning is to be placed on Mr. Bright's language. That is a matter purely of opi nion. The Times thinks one thing ; Mr. Cobden thinks another. The truth, we may well imagine, lies somewhere between the two. The real question here is whether, on so slender provocation, Mr. Cobden has a right to fling aside all ordinary con ventional restraints, and to attack the editor of a newspaper—it may almost be said by name—in a most extraordinary and unjustifiable manner. We regret the whole matter for the sake of Mr. Cobden himself. The journals who published his diatribe did not consult the best interests of Mr. Cobden or of progress. Mr. Cobden is too great a man; he has done too much service to the country and indeed to the world for any one to find gra tification in su ch a scene. It is on many grounds deplorable, and most deplorable perhaps because it exhibits the un happy gulf that divides the different sections of the Liberal party. The only particle of apology 'we can find for Mr. Cobden in the matter is the warmth of his feeling for Mr. Bright's reputation. SYce" patby for a friend's reputation may, hoveever, carried too far. In this case, we fear, it has led Mr' Cobden into an indiscretion which will seriousli damage his own. ECONOMIST.—To abolish the anonymous is to destroy its influence, to destroy its influence i s to hand the whole press over to the ideologues; and we may warn Mr. Cobden it is not his ideas whic h they will strive to advance. At the same time, p vela© secrecy would be most prejudicial to the true value of English journals, for it would shut up the very best channels of information. Editors cannot wrtte beneficially without data, and data can only be ob tained from the men who really guide events. Suppose no editor in England really knew the v ie l of the British Cabinet upon this Schleswig all Holstein affair, how could they either stir up W id e people to support or resist its action ? They 001 either have to strike in the dark, so making itle 4 l .: tricable confusion between the country a nd governing men, or to dictate the course the Wine must follow—that is, in fact, to assume the rein ° themselves, and, as editors did in France, under Louis Philippe, and do in American now, initiate ft/ policy of their own. They must, to be effiej3rlif ascertain the truth, and responsible statesmen Vgi not communicate information to invisible persons. They must know more or less the individuals the:: are trusting, and thus the very practice Mr. Cc' A den assails so bitterly—secrecy to the public an; non-secrecy to the Administration — has arises f° Ithe general benefit of all. COUNTRY MARKETS. NORWICH—SATURDAY. A the There was a good supply of wheat to-day, an; millers not being free buyers the sales made were euto-sf at a reduction of Gd to la per qr on late prices. A fair $ of barley, and late prices were nearly maintaine d for Du sorts; inferior, Is cheaper. White wheat. 44s to 46.9 1 Red wheat 43,, to }2e White to 3aS I Malting barley ...36s to 37s Chevalier barley • 24` 0 .26i Distilling d 0..... 30s to 32s Oats.. Flour, 28s Od to —s Od per sack from the miller' NOTTINGHAM—SATURDAY. An average show of wheat to-day, in varied con than The inquiry was moderate, and prices is per qr lower,t ra, last week. Out-door work progresses satisfactorily Pe442,5. —White wheat, from 41s to 45s ; red wheat, 39a to oa ts Barley—malting, 30s to 40s ; grinding, 27s' to 30s• a si old, at 248 to 31s Od ; new, 20s to 255. Beans sold lo to 43s per qr. ; new, 35s to 375. GRANTHAM—SATURDAY. qat. ; Old white wheat, 44s to 48s ; red, 39s to 42810 Old new white, 40s to 458; red, 32s t 0,425. Malting bate 33s to 36s per qr ; grinding, 23s to 308; oats, old, 28s ; new, 20s to 24s ; beans, 38s to 408; peas, 34s to 30. NORTIIAMP TON—SATURDAY. but There was a fair average show of wheat t o-daY, advance upon last week's prices. Other articl es as bef°,B; ' —White wheat, 40s to 45s ; red, 37s to 41s!' 612e'325. to —s per qr. Barley, 33s to_3Bs—grinding, 28s tore 0; Oats, 28s to 32s per 24 stone. Beans, 3 8 s to 422. 34s to 40s per qr. TURDAY. (air q uantity of wheat to-e3l towe ver, were name, a nd late YORK-8. We were supplied with a fi from the farmers. Dry lots, hi prices generally maintained. 0 0 3 i s s t Wheat, red 3Bs to 41s I Oats . White do .42s to 46s Beans ... - 0 .--- Barley .28s to 32s Peas ...- 0 Malt, 58s to 60s per qr. ; rye, 32s per qr.; . .. f 1.80- 11r1 : :2 to 32s per sack. LEICESTER—SATURDAY. There was a tolerably good show of wheat to-day, rao new. Business flat, and prices gave why is per quart —New white wheat, 40s to 45 s ; red , 38s to 41s p er stone. Old red, 39s to 41s per 36 stone. Barley, rualtlOo+ new, 33s to 38s per qr.; grinding, 29s to 32 s ; old 00' 11 25s to 30s ; new oats, 22s to 25s per 24 stone. Beall° , old, 38s to 42s per 38 stone ; sour, 30s to 35s per 20 gone, Foreign Mail Packet List. MAILS DUE. 10. ALstralia and Mauritius, via Southampton, ..... .Dec' ° 1 . , , - Vitt Marseilles ......... Dec. 4, LINA and Cape Verds, by British packet. ....... Jg l ' 2 9. Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, and St. Helena..De c ' . 1 9. China, Penang, and Singapore, via Southa tu pton.De c 1 3, via Marseilles ...De c ' Falkland Islands Dec , Gibraltar, via Southampton India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via Southampton Dec' 1 5 via Marseilles De e ' 21. India (Bombay), via Southampton ....... De c ' 21. via Marseilles Jail. Portugal.... Malta, Egypt, and Aden, via Southampton D e c. 1 3 ' via Marseilles ....... De,..0, Newfoundland Oporto and Vigo ............... Dec. l . l U. S. and British N. America, by Brit. packet.. • • -`-' by U.S. packet.• • •- nee . lg• by Canadian pack ,J 10, W.C. of Africa, Madeira, and Teneritfe .......... " e°. 11 , Bahamas, via New York Do• 0 9, - Mexico.. 14' All parts of West Indies, including Chili, Peru,•pee. California. and British Columbia. GREAT GALE IN THE NORTH.—A gale gr eEt o exceeding in its fury thut experienced in the 135- tia district on the previous week occurred on Tuesday last in dict' North Riding and the adjoining county of Durham , tbe Lrm as t ro us nature of which is only just becoming known. A t nard Castle a great part of the railway station was blosc d, down, iron girders being snapped like pieces of wood, ail t• strongly-built wall also yielding to the force of t he ten3Pas In the same district haystacks were dismantled and se j tered about, and chimneys forced through in the Noe.); houses. In the neighbourhood of Richmond, Chimneysstacks, as in Riding, the gale was also very severe, the previous case, were driven about. also We: blown down. At a short distance from the latter town,! whole root was blown off. Trees were also uprooted ill the roofs other parts of the Riding. 110 1 ' 5 ' ADVERTISEMENT.I—Consuraption, all nervous, b liver, and stomach complaints, in every stage, are only grav aten and accelerated by drugs of every description, but perfectly curable by Du Barry's health resto rin g Revale' o Arabica Food, as proved by thousands of cases WhiCll,ll9o, been considered hopeless. We quote a few. — C ure No 6'„cl Miss Lange,lB years of age, cured after the me dical men P-of abandoned all hopes of her recovery from the last stag;,l, p u l m o na ry consumption, with fearful cough, expeetollte'o, exhaustion, spitting of blood, perspirations, hollOW emaciated to a skeleton. She is now, thank God, a P e , i - f re healthy, blooming, fleshy girl.—N. Lange, Cornini as- i - ,,aid Police. Cure, No. 46,270. Mr. James Roberts, of F r A - iiver Surrey, of thirty years' diseased lungs, spitting of bloc"'010 derangement, and partial deafness.—Cure, No. 47,1 , 21. 0 01 Elizabeth Jacobs, of extreme nervousness, in-tre! gatherings, low spirits, and nervous fancies.---v;TorfolP 54,816. Ihe Rev. James T. Campbell, Yakenhalv,:".,siste4 of indigestion and torpidity of the liver, which li ed all medical treatment. In tins, 11b, ‘ , 61 9d ; 21b, 40 ';,:? 0 lls ; 121 b, 225; 241 b, 40e. Barry du Barry and CJ.' 511 Regent-street, London ; also Fortnum and Mason; all_doin grocers and chemists in every town of the United Milt; Births.lil GIBB,—On the 10th inst. , at Clevedon, Somersetshire, wife of Lieut.-Colonel Gibb, of a daughter. f f HAIG. —On the 11G9etthjaheirniansistR.t,. inst., c 4. Hammersmith, - ° tt, NAF , ER. --On the 11th inst. at Haig, Esq., o f a daughter. H u w z i f rr e . — 0 f 0: 10 j t o h r e . f the wife ° NaPier) Esq., of a son' York-road, ~BoetauafosioVardeDs, Marriages. •-P pAcKE—Mi.STERS.—On th e 10 t h i ns t , at A.nnesl To' Notts, Horatio, s o n of t h e l ate Colonel' Parke, 0 o f ill ford, Norfolk, to Mary Anne Chaworth. daug hter late and sist er o f the present John Masters, lA' WHEAT— PEARSON.—On the 10th inst., at Thorn,,,itober„ Somersetsbire, the Rev. C. G. Wheat , vicar o! land, Li nc olnshire to Constance Harriette, on Y jug daught er o f C omman d er Ch a rles Pearson, " Thorne House. Deaths. J. ADl,Am.__O n the 10th inst., at 184, Western-road, ltir' Adlam, aged 3t. Coombs.—On the lOth inst., at Milfo rd, near Sa•.-3bud' ti James G. Coombs, Eel., aged 84 . , ' , I . ;t e DELOADO,—On the 7th inst., suddenly, at Highbur) Jr* park, George Delgado, Esq , formerly of Ni la gstoib maica, aged 62. ift itlit GRIFFITR.—On the 10th inst., at Ventnor, Rat. G r M.A., aged 24. LOVEWELL.—On the 9th inst. , at Walthantstosct `;° Mr. Thomas Lovewell, aged 61 . Oe llri 'Within' RonEnTs.—On the 11th inst., at Bath, Roberts, Esq., aged 85. , We. STANFORD.—On the 10th inst,, Mr. John Stan f or d ' street, Horsham, aged Gl. sliptit ; ' °' London : Prinzed and Pitt , iislied by WILLIAM A-- ~tr" of No. 112, Strand , Pr inter, at TILE SUN 0/BCC `;tyoi Strand, in the Precinct of the 3avoy, ,ti the C o ' - itii,Wiegex.—liondaY, December 14, 1801 - „ VURN PI oi l he kinz'd o 7erel'l 8 at A zymen r crra, ' r trY ni tL 1%11 S ;t?e Co • are p , ;quailed }I Tni r'tl3l ' e dSte d s e Post-f ree ' t° Mrilet ez a i e e A; P O ,, ztb ov -k- , re I, o e day cioi' 8 1 1 :1, ev er 100 c e "(t i N o • 411 On res kr i , , ,l' e PaYr Off i : e f a. 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