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

Naval and Military Intelligence. THE NAVY. VALETTA, Dec. B.—The Vice-Admiral Comman a • in..2llit-i, with a portion of the fleet under his #.;..a.e wand, returned last week from Athens, and it is ilia intention to remain here several months, if not call ed away by unexpected political events. The 'Tra faigar, 70, Capt. T. Mason, was the first to ar xive, having been despatched a day earlier, in con sequence of having on board several cases 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 Sat urday morning flying the yellow flag, but after entering harbour and removing the sick to hospital, she was admitted to free pratique. She brought dorsn val 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, Capt. C. Fellowes, followed by the St. George, 80, Capt. the Hon. F. Egerton, entered port. The latest dates from Athens is the 4th inst, 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 Ecglish ships are to winter at the Pirmus, and no doubt their presence will afford a significant moral support to the new Government, and enable it to organise and establish iteelf 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. Yelver ton, C.B ), Capt. the Hon. T. A. Foley ; the Gibral tar, 81, Capt. I. Prevost ; the Meeanee, 60, Capt. G. Wodehouse ; with the paddlewhe el sloop Trident, 3, Commander C. J. Balfour, and the tender Boxer, are the ships of our fleet that are to pass the winter at Athens. The Fox hound, 4, Commander W. H. Anderson, was also there, but it was not kno own if she would be retained on the it occasion. The Orlando, 46, Capt. G. G. Ran dolet is still at Corfu ; and the Wanderer, 4, Corn. mans ler M. C. Seymour, and the Surprise, 4, Coin. roan, der W. H. Whyte, have not yet been removed fror n - the west coast of Greece. The Firefly, 5, G m . mat ider A. Mansell, which has been employed on surreaying service in the Corfu channel, returned to Mai to at 2 a.m. on Sunday, to take up her : 'winter qua rters, and to undergo such repairs a s may be nec essery. The Hydra, Capt. T. A. 13. Sprat, was to leave Tripoli in a day or two, on return to alts; and the Growler, staff-Com man d er J . Sc okes, which was repairing boilers at Marsala, wa sto leave to-day for this island. The Cossack 20, Capt. W. R. Roll an d , came in on Monday from the coast of Syria. She will be taken into dock to have her bottom examined, having touched the ground whil e on that station. She left on the coast of Syria the Liffey, 35, C3pt. G. Parker, and the Pelica n, 17 , Commander Comber. The Psyche, 2 e despatch vessel, Lieut.-Commander • Sterne, is expecting orders to convey to Alex andria Si:r J. Lawrence, who is to succeed Lord Eigin 48 Governor-General of India. The har bour of Malta is at present crowded with fine ships o f war. They consist of the following :—The Maribol-ottgb, 121 (bearing the flag of the Vice- Admirak Commander-in. Chief); the Hibernia, re ceiving ship. (bearing the flag of Rear-Admiral H. T. ,Austin, C. 8.) ; the Trafalgar, 70; the St. George, 80; the Pbcebe, 35; the Cossack, 20; the Magicienne, 16 ; the Chanticleer, 17 ; the Icarus, 11 ; the Firefly, 5 ; and the Peyche, 2. There is also a Turkish frigate here—the Taiff, 22, Capt. Selina Bey,—which arrived on Saturday in two days from Tripoli. While riding there with four anchors down, she was compelled to put to sea, owing to a violent gale springing up from tha 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 gar risons of Corfu and the other islands." The iron screw steamship Warrior, 40, Capt. the lionL 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 Spithcad on Saturday afternoon for Plymouth Sound. Vice-Admiral Sir M. Seymour, G.C.8., N ava l co mrnander-in-Ch:ef at Portsmouth, hoisted his flag on iatnrday morning on board the paddle wheel fAeam yacht Fire Queen, Staff-Commander Paul, whieh conveyed the gallant Admiral out to SPit.Uead, where he officially inspected the Wasp, 17 uns, screw corvette, Capt. W. Bowden, pre payory to her leaving for foreign service. The Monarch target ship has been removed from 'alongside Portsmouth dockyard to the practice moorings piates Porchester Creek. To-day armour wilt iron shot frenl e tested in the usual manner with c a st- the 68'pouuder gun. The plates are from the fnhowing Sheffield firms:—Messrs. John Brown and Co., Atlas work Messrs. Beale, Park gate Works, Yorkshire the shire; the Mersey Iron W or k s , huild in liverpool g ; an com d Ship party, Iron Works and t lac l kwall. As the plates vary in thickness from go 5 th eme inches, it appears contrary to all reason to test ehlx:ralike with the same gna, weight of shot, and Powers test their armour charges of powder. Foreign calibres according to t h e t Vi t ,es with guns of various 'lluess of the plate under trial. The old sailing frigate Amer ic aived at Ports mouth from Plym outh on Saturday, Geyser, 6, paddle sloop, Commander in p tow of the e!hell and was taken into ha rbour to cleared out and ti prepared for a target sh i p to take the Platt e Monarch. The America was built of the in 1809 as a line-of- battle s hi p from the pia:eakwall f the then Surveyor of the Navy. She w a s allbge Ut o utly rozeed to a frigate of 1,758 tons. The Fawn, 17, screw steam sloop, 751 tone, loo s horse power, which has been brought forward tor the first division of the Sheerness Steam Reser ve, and fitted with a topgallant forecastle, is now ready to be taken out of the hands of the dockard officials and removed to moorings in the harbour. All the necessary repairs have been completed, and the vessel is quite ready for commission. The Wizard gunboat, 60-horse power, belonging 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 from Lords of the Admiralty the Caledonian Steam y Towing Company, and for harbour service " 1 24vonport, has been delivered to the authorities at Sheernesm,aih d n t thoroughly inspected by them,in a ccordanc e with Admiralty orders, previously to depa rting for her destination. The inspection prayed quit e satisfactory, and the vessel will sa il thi 'sa d e a7 (tiday), the iine 7 . : t.b 4 ts att y le ards, and other gear belonging t o screw steamer Irresistible, 500- horse power, ordered to be fitted for the Coast guard ciee, are vessel at Chatha irn m d W n 'e'late l 3' prepared for that ock Yesterday e„pt. Yard. rd at Chatham H. Stewart, C. 8., in com ma, training n r Vncial v i s it o f i nspect i on to the Welleslty, harbour. After inspecting the ship in Chatham and the various portions o f th e e s eamen and marines aitenclea the usual Sunr',aybi vin sh iP, Capt. Stewart :et the termination of which the Whole on board, and lads were mustered on the ma in Of the boys Stewart then preser.ted the prize s 4ideeck. ono. r.warded by the Adnairulty to the lad s f o h h ad been conduct and proficie.ocy in their studit: With half a-crowu each from his own purse. 11,)rninian's Tea is ei:oice and strong, moderatel in price, and wholesome to use. These advantag es have secured for this Tea a general pref.senee. It is sold i n packets by 2,280 Agents. 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 IheThames Ironworks, at Blackwell. It was, f coy: se, 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 ace 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 the river and the vessels at their moorings near the spot were equally crowded with spectators. Not more than a week has elapsed since in our account of the iron frigate Northumberland, a sister vessel to the Minotaur, we gave a long and most detailed account of the principles of construction which render these ships by far the strongest 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 i technical detail o f ribs and girders, the manner n which the Mi notaur is Welded into one piece from end to end. She is the first launched of the new class of Warriors, and a class h ib as ii.' can scarcely be ca ll e d an improvementnow on tu t r h n e s out,form formidable ships which pre ceded them. The Warrior c l ass w are 41,- inches of iron and 18 inches of teak • the ,Minotaur and Northumberland class are 5' inches of iron and nine inches of teak. The ' reduction of the timber and increase of the iron were at the time rather hastily made, and against the advice of many competent to gi • ve a judgment on such matters. Since hen, 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 horse-power; the Hector and the Valiant are of 4,068 tons and 800 horse power; of the largest ships 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 latter 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 Minotaur 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 part of the armour-plates already on her sides. Regarding only her size and the quantity and quality of her work, she has been more qeickly 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 snpports were knocked away and the first effort 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, so as to steady her to the utmost in rough wee ther. Still, at her very lowest trim, her portsills will never be less than nine feet clear from the water, 1 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 tier first cruise in search of bad weather. THE lONIAN ISLANDS. We take the following letter from the .levant Herald:— CORFU, Nov. 16. Nothing has occurred of any importance since my last communication, except the journey to England of the Socre • 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 for 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 possession of which in their present condition in the hands of a weak State will, (it 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 telartolY_been regularly paid. Formerly it was allowed to ge t rutikrzar, and the debt of £90,000 on this head has been th us fan itaoualy presented to Greece by Mr. Gladstone, and will l a , 10 4 4 ,° 13, the British taxpayer. This £25,000 a year meta h er : , The simple question is, did the staff establish cost about Z 2 ,,, , llything like that sumestimated to difference bet ween a year, that being the extra expense or !tall and half•pay; this shows a clear loss to Great t rit thing of the eApitZ l i tt Qt . £23,000 a year, at least, to say no tain reduce her aroma in the fortresses. Will Great Bri ,4nit, lam inclined to thi nk uec ilot ause she gives up these islands ? a suf fi c i en t for the isla n d s Chle regiment would have been was fore p elsewhere, s h e er t c)wnc°ll veuiettilid if England kept four here it will t Z e a healthy station, and they Governme nt maintained all th at °um paid by the lonian for their inrernal protection, The regiments ab,olutely necessary it is presumed, be sent to Malta and nowhere will, cer tainly not struck out of the A rras ' i libraltar, but year even will maintain Engl an d is not riot be saved, bthuattathtriaitisianvginsgumofl/20,0t0h0i this to itro• words on. On the other hand, the I,ro,Nnrth spend-. lishment of the old system of piracy will u bt zestab greater number of small vessels in these waters to a British commerce, and the islanders themselve., fro protect dering incursions from the Albanian Coast, which Were .s 0 frequent before the British took posses,ion, and which will recommence, as the nature of Albanians has not changed sad the inducement has become greater by the large incre me in wealth and prosperity in the islands. It is calculated that about 70 of the best houses, at an average rent of £7 10s. a month, w ill become vrc ant, which X, represents a capital of a million of dollars, saYi33oo a year to the house proprietors. ______ ng [A DVERTISEMENT.] —Holloway' s Pills.—lN—Der ous Ill nesses.---The most nn success has so often . d trials of the s e Pills th a t no i nva li d shou ld d e spair of ob taining as; least some alleviation, if n o t th e thorough cure of his malady from their purifying and strengthening vir tues. Here is the language of one who speaks con scientiously from vast experience of past suffering. "Before I took your Pills I knew no moments' ease for years ; my stomach, bead, and nerves kept me in continual misery ; mindpetite was gon e , my di gest i on most i n fi rm ; b ot h i n juice to t and body I f e l t completely shattered. Now. I re walk as all this i s c h anged ; I can eat, digest, sleep, 44 t 1 as well as most men more robust than myself," , THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 14, 1863, TEE PROPOSED CONGRESS. The following is the answer of the King of the Greeks to the French proposal of a Congress, Athens, Nov. 26, hav e been highly e h e i n g h p l l y e gratified ased to send n b d y MajestymtheeMiinonnvysiotiearriolnmetienhrieFefhr:yhroeeu'47thl inst. to take part in a Congress of Sovereigns to be opened at Paris, with a view to placing tho 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 ' ‘ne most sympathetic reception. The noble thought which predomina • therein could not be bettor,• enhanced than by the tank language and the ju , o .cious considerations with Which your Majesty has accom puled 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 Majeety:on the glorious initiative you have just taken, I sincerely wish that your proposition may be as favourably received by the other Sovereigus, 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 federation : 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 can 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 KITBECK. F ra nkfort.on-the-Maine, Dee, 7, 1863. The following is the reply of the King of Den mark : "Monsieur mon Frere,—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 moment 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 M my people, those two de. visions 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 Euro pe. 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 voce 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 frere, CHRISTIAN, Copenhagen, Nov. 20. 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.— Richmond Examiner. ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE. —DERBY, Dec. 12. MIDLAND CIRCUIT CROWN COURT. (Before Mr. Baron Martin.) Th:. 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 pointed 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 Goodwin, 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 jeot 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 effed upon life of his act ; and second, whether ho 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—l 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—l n the absence of the power of tendering a bill of exceptions ? Baron Martin—You have a much better remedy than that. His Lordship then, addressing the jury, said that by the law of this country, if a man was convicted of murder the judge must pronounce sentence of death, and the prisoner's only hope then l a y i n t h e mercy of the Crown. The result of that trial was, then, o f th e greates t i mportance to t h e 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 was 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 Test 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 hia 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 mind 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 inju r y t o others. There was a somewhat similar case at the last Glocester Assizes, in which a young lady was under the impression that a number of ladies had formed an unfounded dislike to her. In all probability she was labouring under a delusion with respect to there persons, yet she was as subject to the criminal law as any person in that court. W hat the law meant by an insane man was a man who acted under delusions and supposed a state of things to exist which did net 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 lust 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 vt hich 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. If 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 prosecution no allu sion had been made to the state of mind which constituted insanity. 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 he 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 right from wrong, and not under the influence of such an illusion as disabled him from discerning that ho was doing a wrong act, he would be amenable to the justice of his country and guilty bit 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 wore of opinion that that was an unsatisfactory trial. In Offord's case the late Lord Lyndhurst told the jury that they must be satisfied, before they could acquit the prisoner on tho ground of insanity, that he did not know when ho 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 he was com mitting an offence against the lass of God and nature ? In Oxford's cave Lord Denman said, " Something has been 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 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, he 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 she,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 conlusion 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, er 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 1 1 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 Lessons, 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 weep 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 times 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 who 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 bJaalf), 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 hearing hang by its own head." Gay, too, advises well against interposing in quarrels, and Mr. Bright can hardly be pleased to flail 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 2imes 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 mere forcible and effective ; and if we might presume to offer a word of counsel to one we sincerely respectand 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 out. We would ad vise Mr. Cobden to do the same when he comes to anything very angry. Had he been schooled in anonymous writing, 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," " corm pt 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 was 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 abeurdity of the exhibition ho has been making. A skilled con troversialist, 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. The moral character of a state went depends on its own intrinsic truth or fa lsars hood, not upon its authorship. Mr. Cobdenaspp t e o be to be of a different opinion. His that any license of calumny is pervmi m list long who as the author of it gives his name. Aeisw moralist sibsele, as undertakes to reform the tone by abstaining o f uublic writing might usefully begin the great workations of corruption, c an himself from vague which he not only innositn:rove, but does not even venture to describe. "lie art of round, uneompro- BEFORE BRAGG'S RETREAT. The Southern public have long since given up the tradi tional attitude of standing on tip-too 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—loss. 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 cn 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 vertel'ra,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 for 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 Lackon a stronger position, which they will make impregnable in 21 hours, This has baen 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 w, 11 that we have become thus hardened, for otherwise nature could not bearar the anguish, and we should be too much unmanned to at. on our great work. But we venture to say that the d Z i t a l i t o_ugh , t of the majority of the people who have any wounded ' thou ght at all turns to the lists of killed and but Pats the eorrune, like the chary alms-giver in Homer, but doe. , Qt ot joy to our mouths, and " wets the lips, to the dre gs . e. : o the palate;" the chalice of sorrow we drink rgia aha o a n n e ff thing we may count, a fearful ca se° be regain e d ? may be saved, but will East Tennes ohaudr t armyhsaasidl on so g n' e b u r t e e; rush into ßut a theirfigb tooura courage ( t ) a ii i : g o il lu e s o e f t d h e a a t th il iß peuple e ring , It is, on the whole, well for with at large entertain such sober, we on e the subject of the war. pain, and death, The soldiers know that battle means mutilation, d i , fi Z u l r h e • mad impetuosity and more endurin t ot a far nobler, higher, purer, an- g Ype than the swagger so o a f n and o t b h , e s y w d a o r don ofo se. raising, 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 use of 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 pulls, 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 display. Whatever discou raging reflections may have occurred to Mr.Uobden'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 folly 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 an 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 character. 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 onl y without judgment, but without sense. Ha 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 much as ill-advised and blunder ing zeal can eeer do. Mr. Cobden begins his savage reply to the Times by protesting with justifiable indignation against its represeetation 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 7imes 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 perhaps the 7imes, and t hen appears to congratulate himself on having shown why all the other papers are so much less unserupa, lons 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, he only makes a really fine intellect ridiculous, and a femi nine temperament sore to disease. LONDON RETIEW.—Mr. Cobden's quarrel with the 7imes 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 nut 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 political appeals in favour of reform, is it not holding cut 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 Times 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 7imes 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 throwing of stones is a mode of warfare not altogether uncon genialabus to Mr Cobden, is plain from the heawrtayr d pre he gives the 7imes. He cannot henceforward Secondly, tend with decency to be mealy ndman- l u oi t nae n d no o cz e p n lli t : we must observe that Mr. Cobdameen: if the Times has naturally personal corruption columns to accusations ":,, n 3p Yahoo, i names. t ah o mo r o s e. s a . rf t usual po Ica con roversy t o agers. It is not charged directly upon its . to be found in Connell l to a s c a a it was possible for IV Years have gone by since impute motives Mr. Disraeli to describe Davie lima Vipers wholesale,. co ,c o n l and snakes and r f j ns . are only authors of the age o f =us. It is commonly and rightly understoo d that there are limits within whieu those who wish their letters to a news paper to aPPear must confine their powers of denunciation. The next remarkable fact con nected with Mr. Cobden's communication is that it is pure invective and not discuss the question rh nothing more. He does ether the interpretation deliberately put o 1 1 1 Mr. Bright's speech be the true one or not. He simply retorts with a polite spe cies of cursing and swearing. All this is done " without co • mmunicating with Mr. Bright him self." Now, there are 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 gratification in such 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. Sym pathy for a friend's reputation may, however, be (tarried too far. In this case, we fear, it has led Mr. Cobden into an indiscretion which will seriously damage his own. ECONOMIST.—To abolish the anonymous is to destroy its influence, to destroy its influence is to hand the whole press over to the ideologues; and we may warn Mr. Cobden it is not his ideas which they will strive to advance. At the same time, perfect 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 write 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 view of the British Cabinet upon this Schleswig and Holstein affair, how could they either stir up the people to support or resist its action ? They would either have to strike in the dark, so making inex tricable confusion between the country and its governing men, or to dictate the course the Cabinet must follow—that is, in fact, to assume the reins themselves, and, as editors did in France, under Louis Philippe, and do in American now, initiate a policy of their own. They must, to be efficient, ascertain the truth, and responsible statesmen will not communicate information to invisible persons. They must know more or less the individuals they are trusting, and thus the very practice Mr. Cob den assails so bitterly—secrecy to the public and non-secrecy to the Administration—has arisen for Ithe general benefit of all. COUNTRY MARKETS. NORWICH—SATURDAY. There was a good supply of wheat to-day, and the millers not being free buyers the sales made were effected at a reduction of 6d to is per qr on late prices. A fair shoW of barley, and late. prices were nearly maintained for fine sorts; inferior, is cheaper. White wheat. 44s to 46s 1 Red wheat 43s to 4 25 Malting barley ... 36s to 375 1 Chevalier barley 34s to 365 Distilling d 0..... 308 to 328 1 Oats.. 24s to 26 4 Flour, 28s Od to —s Od per sack from the miller. NOTTINGHAM-SATURDAY. _ An average show of wheat to-day, in varied condition• The inquiry was moderate, and prices is per qr lower than last week. Out-door work progresses satisfactorily here. —White wheat, from 41s to 45s ; red wheat, 39s to 42$' Barley—malting, 30s to 40s ; grinding, 27s:to 30s. Oats old, at 24s to 31s Od; new, 20s to 255. Beans sold at 38s to 43s per qr, ; new, 35a to 375. GRANTHAM—SATURDAY. Old white wheat, 44s to 48s ; red, 39s to 425-per 365 t.; new white, 40s to 450; red, 32s to:42s. Malting barleY , 33s to 36s per qr ; grinding, 28s to 30s ; oats, old, 24s t) 28s ; new, 20s to 24s ; beans, 38s to 40s ; peas, 348 to 365. N 0 RT HAMP TON—SATURDAY. There was a fair average show of wheat to-day, but advance upon last week's prices. Other articles as before. —White wheat, 40s to .45s ; red, 37s to 4181; fine, -- -41 to —s per qr. Barley, 33s to 3 88— grinding , 28s to p 3 28' Oats, 28s to 32s per 24 stone. s Beans, 38 s to 42e. 's; 34s to 40s per qr. YORK—S. We were supplied with a ft from the farmers. Dry lots, hi prices generally maintained. Wheat, red 38s to 41s I Oats.... lBs to t o 203 38 e White do .42s to 46s Beans ...... 4O Barley .28s to 32s Peas ....... . . ....—s to .-'-' 8 Malt, 58s to 608 per qr.; rye, 32s per qr.; flour, 303 to 32s per sack. iTURDAY. fair quantity of wheat to-daf owever, were scarce, and late LE ICE STER--Ss.TtTEDAY. There was a tolerably good show of wheat to-day, mostly new. Business flat, and prices gave way ls per quarter. —New white wheat, 40s to 45s ; red, 38s to 41s per 36 stone. Old red, 39s to 41s per 36 stone. Barley, malting, new, 33s to 38s per qr.; grinding, 29s to 325; old oats, 25s to 30s; new oats, 22s to 25s per 24 stone. Beans, old, 38s to 42s per 38 stone ; flour. 30s to 35s per 20 stone. Foreign Mail Packet List. MAILS DUE. Australia and Mauritius, via Southampton Dec. 19. via Marseilles Dec. 1 3 . Llrazil and Cape Verds, by British packet. Jan. 4 • Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, and St. Helena Dec. 2Y,' China, Penang, and Singapore, via Southampton Deo. 1v - via Marseilles Dec. 13. Falkland Islands Gibraltar, via Southampton Dec. 19 ,,' India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via Southampton Dec. l'' via Marseilles D 0 ec. India (Bombay), via Southampton Dec. 2 1 ' via Marseilles Portuga1.... Malta, Egypt, and Aden, via Southampton Dec. 4" via Marseilles Dec. 13. Newfoundland .. .. Oporto and Vigo • •. U. S. and British N. America, by Brit. packet.... Dec. 11 ' by U.S. packet.... by Canadian W.C. of Africa, Madeira, and Tenrill e packet.D e Tan , 10. Bahamas, via New York Dec. .17n' Mexico ....Dec. :4'' ec. 1' All parts of West Indies, including Chili, Peru, 1 Dec. 1 4 ' California. and British Columbia.. - GREAT GALE IN THE NORTH.—A gale greatli exceeding in its fury that experienced in the same' district on the previous week occurred on Tuesday last in the North Riding and the adjoining county of Durham, the di's' estrous nature of which is onlyjust becoming known. At Bar nard Castle a great part of the railway station was blown. down, iron girders being snapped like pieces of wood, and s strongly-built wall also yielding to the force of the ter.npest , In the same district haystacks were dismantled and scat; tered about, and c hi mne y s f o rced through th e roofs to houses. In th e ne i g hb our h o od of Richmond, i n the N Riding,or In 11 the gale was also very severe, and haystacks, as the previous case, were driven about. Chimneys also we blown down. At a short distance from the latter town & whole roof was blown off. Trees were also uprooted in other parts of the Riding. [ADVERTISEMENT.] —Consumption, all nervous, biliottS, liver, and stomach complaints, in every stage, are only ag: gravatect and accelerated by drugs of every description, but perfectly curable by Du Barry's health restoring Revalente Arabica Food, as proved by thousands of cases wh i c h bac" been considered hopeless. We quote a few.—Cure No. 62,9 14 ' Miss Lange, 18 years of age, cured after the medical men had t abandoned all hopes of her recovery from the last stage of pulmonary consumption, with fearful cough, expectorat ion, exhaustion, spitting of blood, perspirations, hollow cheeks. emaciated to a skeleton. She is now, thank God, a perfeali healthy, blooming, fleshy girl.—N. Lange, Commissaire d Police. Cure, No. 46,270. Mr. James Roberts, of Fender Surrey, of thirty years' diseased lungs, spitting of blood, liver derangement, and partial deafness.—Cure, No. 47,121. If° Elizabeth Jacobs, of extreme nervousness, indigestion* gatherings, low spirits, and nervous fancies.—Cure, No' 54,816. The Rev. James T. Campbell, Fakenham, Norfoll4 of indigestion and torpidity of the liver, w hit* had resisted all medical treatment. In tins, 11b, 28 9 d ; 21b, 48 6d; 51 11, lls ; 121 b, 225; 241 b, 40s. Barry du Barry and Co., No. 7 1 i i Regent-street, London ; also Fortn um and Mason; and a grocers and chemists in every town of the United Ringdonl Births. GIBB,—On the 10th inst., at Clevedon, Somersetshire, til e wile of Lieut.-Colonel Gibb, of a d aughter. Eoef au a f or son. b-gar d Met' til litho:L-0n the 11th inst., at Hammersmith, the wife of j• Haig, Esq., of a dau g hter. e B. uT wife G9eterianlBllt', ut at t, c 4 7.8., 47, NAPIE R.--On the 11th inst., at York-road , wife of /' of o 3 l . j t o h r e . M. Napier, Ebq , , of a 80n. the Marriages. r, P AC ES—MASTERS.—O n th e 10th inst , at A.nneslo3ll,7r. , Notts, Horatio, son of the late Colonel' Packe, of t he ford, Norfolk, t o M ary Anne Chaworth, daughter of late and sister of the present John Masters, Esq. ~„oa, i T n h g or d n a e u WHEA T — PEARSON.—On the 10th inst., at Thorne ''" be r• Somenetshire the Rev. C. G. Wheat, vicar of TlEa, iy .. land, Lincolnshire, to Constance Harriette, only ear' o f daughter of Commander Charles Pearson, BEC1" Deaths. ADLAM.—On the 10th inst., at 184, Western•road, gr. Adlam, aged 34. COOMES.—On the lOth inst., at Milford, near &disbar,' James G. Coombs, Esq., aged 84. DELGADO.—On the 7th inst:, suddenly, at Highbury park, George Delgado, Esq , formerly of Kingston; maica, aged 62. GRIEFITIL—On the 10th inst., at Ventnor, Robt. Grifntb° M.A., aged 24. LOVEWELL.—On the 9th inst., at Walthamstow, 8658 Mr. Thomas Lovewell, aged 61. 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