The Sun. — London, England, 1863-12-07 00:00:00

THE BOMBAY MAIL• By the arrival of the Bombay mail we have re ceived flea of papers from Bombay to Nov. 14. We tala, the followin g summary of news from the Bombay Ga=ette of Nov. 14 : " His Excellency the Viceroy and Governor- General Lord Elgin, has had a dangerous attack of illness, caused it is said by the fatiguing character of the route he has taken in his journey towards the - North-West Frontier. A telegram from Lahore, dated the 10th inst., reports the state of his lord ship's health to be alarming, and holds out but /slight hope of his recovery. " His Excellency the Commander-in-Chief, Sir Hugh Rose, was at Hotta on the 26th, when he visited the tea plantations there, en route for Kan gra, and was expected to reach Lahore a few days ago. ' "His Ex ce ll ency Sir Bartle Frere, Governor of Bombay, is at present staying at Nlatheran. "His Excellency the Commander-in-Chief, Sir Mr. Mansfield is at Poorundhur. "Mr. David Sassoon, the well-known Jew mer chant ir . Bombay, has offered to Government the sum of 60,000 r. (X,6,000), on condition of Govern ment giving an equal sum and a site on the Espla nade for the erection of a suitable building for the :Mechanics' Institution and for public meetings. " The Bishop of Calcutta, as Metropolitan in in India, will hold his primary visitation in the Cathedral Church at Bombay on Tuesday, the Bth of December next. " Tb.e Chief Commissioner of Oudh, accompanied by his secretary, has left for Roy Bareilly, for toe purpose of holding a conference with the principal settlement officers of the Oudh Commission. Thence, we believe it is the intention of the Chief Commissioner to make a tour through the northern division of the province. " Sir Robert Montgomery, Lieutenant-Governor of the Punjab, returned to the capital of the pro. vince on the 23d ult. " A commission for the investigation of claims preferred against the late Government of Oudh Will sit in Calcutta as soon es possible after Dec. 1. " It is reported that Oudh will be annexed to the North-Western Provinces, in place of Saugor Ter ritories separated last year. ."flae •3xpedition against the Sitt anee f anatics, under Gmeral Chamberlain, forced the pass ; and on the 2 it'n ult. the picket commanded by Colonel Vaughan was attacked by the Benair people ; in the action tb e hill men suffered Nery severely, their killed being estimated at 170 and many woanded. Our loss was 22 killed and o 6 wounded ; two officers, lieutenants Richmond and Clifford, were killed, and two. others Wounded. At a subsequent encoun ter Col one,' Hardi ng and two officers were killed. " The health of the town of Bombay has shown a decidr;d improvement during the fortnight. THE VOLUNTEERS, The - The distribution of prizes which have been com peted. for during the year by the members of the 37th Middlesex (Bloomsbury) Volunteers took place en - Saturday evening at the Music-hall, Store stroet, Colonel M'Murdo, the Inspector• General of Volunteers, who presided, opened the proceedings by a brief address. After expressing the pleasure which he felt in attending upon such occasions es the present, the gallant colonel observed that the vast year had been marked by several events of much importance to the Volunteer cause. A Royal Commission had been appointed to inquire into the condition...of the Volunteer force, Parliament had de liberated upon the report of that Commission, and had come to the determination of voting a certain sum of money in aid of the Volunteer force. Those were in error who supposed that the acceptance of a Parliamentary grant would deprive the force of its volunteer character, for the unpaid services and time of officers and - .nen would still be given for the pu'ilic bens fit. It was not to be expected that the large expenses for drill grounds, ranges, and other rke6essary arrangements, could continue to be borne exclusively by the Volunteers and their priv,te friends. The Government, acting upon the report of the CotAinission, obtained power to make cer tain graret s in eid, end the creation of that power wasibilifeved by the passing of a new Act of Par liament, under which all Volunteers were now serv ing- There were also new Orders in Council de- Ruin g. the degree of efficiency to be required to eutdele the various corps to receive the public grants, alitl then came certain regulations by means of 'Which the Government had reason to expect that - the public money would be well and profitably expended. (Hear, hear.) Speaking of the :force itself, he could say that although 'he had not yet received the annual returns he believed it was maintaining its strength, and it certainly was pro gressing in efficiency. (Cheers.) During the year he had, as Inspector-General, attended county musters of the Volunteers of Essex, Suf folk, Devonshire, Dorsetshire, Lancashire, Durham, Worcestershire, and many other counties at which the various corps in each respective county had been brigaded ; and he was gratified to find that in bat talion, in brigade, and in divisions of brigade, the Volunteers worked together efficiently as armed and disciplined men should do. (Cheers.) With respect to the 37th Middlesex, he had had the pleasure of hearing from the commanding officer that their n umbers were increasing, and he could himself s p e ak of th e i r s t a t e of efficiency as highly satisfac tory, (Rear, hear.) Upon the subject of shooting, Nv 1 the prizes about to be distributed had for s glven, he wished to say a few words. Prizes t i mes "ben,.the use of weapons had been gi ven i n had thei trove the Christian e ra. Th e G ree k s tors wer e er"lYtaPie games, iu which th e vie successful tu w a n , ed with a l aure l wrea th ; b u t t h e doubtless, pref r e 4 r smen of the present day w ou ld, ) voltl aeilver cu p t o t h e wreat h o f l aurel. (daughter.) Volunt eers should remember that th e beautiful weepona with were intended to be which they were arm e d eilenly . i! the occasion should ever against an arise when men practised tahcloti l n levading our island ; and bear in mind that they hootin g at a h target they should shoot at living targets, i n the ,night be called upon to well armed as themselves, tie he P d e s of me . n equally m times gone . to see the firing of the crack shot of a good shooting corps ; but it frequently happened fa c t that the o f beingera the Inspector-Gen ! Preeeut caused such nervousness that no hits at all wer e mode. ( Laugh ter.) But Volunteers s hould recolle et in* their - practi ce th a t it m ight ban" to them tt ' ha" to of th shoot not only i n the presencee e they ,Y if -rnTeCtOr were nervous but of an armed enemy, and ere nervous at a friendly vett • -, it Would not do to be so with well-armed foes aiming at them. (R ear, hear.) As an old soldier, ho would advise ther n , when practising to consider that the target was an enemy armed like themselves and advancing upon them ; and if ever it should happen that they were actually in the presence of armed and advancing enemies he would recommend Volun teers to regard them as so many targets at which to take good aim, (Cheers, and laughter.) In the present day the use of marksmen was to keep down the fire of long-range cannon and to resist cavalry. They were aware that to meet a charge of cavalry infantry was usually formed in square, but by that formation a very large proportion of the fire of a regiment was lost. Troops formed in line to resist Cavalry attacks could deal far more destruction to the enemy; but such a formation required very steady soldiers. At Balaklava the late Lord Clyde, with a R ißilland regiment in line, met and re p e ll e d t h e Russian Cavalry ; but that gallant general knew that he Could rely upon his men. V o l un t eers must bear in mind that good shooting w as no t t h e on l y thing required from a goo d so ldi er . Di sc i p li ne and drill were ve ry confidence to importantuse his to give the comman d er (Hear, hear.) T he s men to the utmo s t a d van t age . to distribute the prizgels,li th colonel then proceeded wereeshd cash, a rifl e , a of a most varied description, including, b os i d t Bible, cups, tankards, en gro , ie g 9, servi el ces, cruet stands, and oth er artic les. Te, utmost good feeling s eemed to prevail among the corp s , the non-winners, c heering the rec i p ients of the Prizes as heartily a th oug h the awards ha d been i n their O wn favour.s Lieut.-Col. Corrie then proposed votes of thanks to thanks to the donors of prizes, and to Col. 24.NIurdo for presiding, which were adopted by acclamation. The shooting for the cheneuge. cup peesented to the Cambridge University Volunteers by his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, honorary colonel of the corps, took place on Friday. A p , 'iminary match to select the six best shots in the battalion was held on Wednesday and Thursday, in which the following members made the highest scores, viz. :—Lieut.-Col. Baker, Capt. E. 'less, Corporal Doe, Private Powlett, Private Thornton, Private Stowe. The shooting on this occasion was not very good, owing to the unfavourable state of the wea ther, which was boisterous and wet, but in the final match it was remarkably good. The match took place on the rifle g roun d o f the corps, which is, perhaps, one of th e fi nes t in England, having a range of upwards of 1,000 yards. ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE, ORD, Dec, 5. CROWN y in est t e h r e . HOME CIR C UIT — c H o E u n it E T. F o for ru n g consideration passed sentencef rom (Before Mr. Justice Williams.) s cases which The learne h d a J d u s d to g o e d th o i :e m r day. The two men named Hankin and Garratt, who were yes terday convicted of night poaching on land belonging to Mr. Pullen, M.P. for the county, were each sentenced to one year's imprisonment with hard labour. The three men, named Peel, Cooper, and Turner, who were convicted on their own confession of setting fire mali ciously to farm buildings, including dwelling houses, and against whom previous convictions were proved, were sen tenced respectively to 12 years' penal servitude. Three men, one a tailor of Burton, Yorkshire, one a tailor of Paddington, and one a labour of Suffolk, convicted of setting fire to two stacks of clover hay at Ware, were sen tenced to 10 years' penal servitude. Two young men, one named Wright, describ:A as a la bourer of Notti ng h am. but who appeared to belong to a much bette r position in life, and looked rather like a clerk or shopman, and the other named Rhodes, a labourer of Rickmansworth, who had been convicted of setting fire to stacks or crops of wheat in this county, were each sentenced to six years' penal servitude. The learned Judge was occupied the greater part of the morning in trying a meat curious case of fowl stealing, in Which not leas than six men were charged with stealing 30 fowls and a pair of gloves at Offiey. Mr. G. Taylor conducted the case for the prosecution. The prisoners were not defended by counsel, but defended themselves with considerable acuteness, and as there were six of them, and each of them cross-examined every witness the trial was necessarily protracted. The prisoners being so numerous, and not having been seized in the act or on the spot, and the fowls taken being so common, the case in volved some difficulty in proof, and was very complicated. In substance the case was this:—The fowls were all stolen from a farm at Oftley, a place about six miles from Luton, on Friday night, the 14th Nov. last. On the same night the prisoners, all of whom lived at Luton, were seen four miles away from that place in the direction of Offiey. On Saturday they were found selling a large quantity of fowls, six of which were identified, and several wet e produced in court. On Sunday some of them were at Welwyn, a con siderable distance from Luton, and when two of them were apprehended the rest fled and were taken 10 miles off. In the course of the case the learned Judge took occasion to observe on the improper and inconvenient manner in which the depositions of the witnesses before the magis trates were written. Not only were they written in an ex tremely illegible hand, but on both sides of the paper, and the result was that they were very difficult to read. In con sequence of this, as it was very essential in a criminal trial that the judge should follow the evidence of the witnesses on the depositions, the time occupied in the trial was a good deal prolonged, and the labour of trying the cases very much increased. He hoped that the magistrates' clerks would really take a little more care in preparing the deposi tions, and if they could not themselves write them legibly, at least get them so written by others. The complaint thus made by the learned judge is one which is constantly made by the judges at the assizes all over tho country, and has been made from time to time for years past. It may appear a trivial matter, but those who have been at all in the habit of observing the ad ministration of criminal justice are aware that, practically, it is one of great importance. The depositions of the wit nesses as taken before the magistrates on the committal of the prisoners for trial are returned to the assizes for the express purpose of being read by the judge and referred to at the trial, in order, on the one hand, to guide the judge in charging the grand jury, and, on the other hand, to be compared with the oral evidence of the witnesses, in order to detect any discrepancies, contradictions, or inconsistencies. Any one who has ever had to read much of other persons' handwriting is aware that it is even at the best a tiresome operation—and when the handwriting is not only strange, but bad :and indistinct, especially if the lines are close together and confused or straggling the difficulty of course is much enhanced. But if to all this be added the difficulty arising from the writing being on both sides, the writing on one side being partly seen through tending to darken and obscure the writing on the other, the task of reading be comes more arduous, and extremely trying to the temper. And this trying task is imposed upon judges in criminal trials—often in cases of life and death, when the very essence of the utility of the depositions is that they should be capable of being referred to and read in an instant, in order to observe how far the oral evidence either tallies or varies. The difficulty is still greater in a case like the present, when there are several prisoners, and it is necessary to note very carefully how the evidence affects arch ono in particular. Our reporter has often had occa sion to refer to the depositions, and has found them almost always extremely difficult to read with facility, so as to follow the evidence with the mind. This is the less excusable because the self-seine depositions when copied into briefs by attorneys' clerks aro found written in a large legible hand (always on one side only of the paper) ; and it is hard to see why magistrates' clerks should write so badly while attorneys' clerks write so well. This is the more important because in most criminal cases the evidence--as in this case—is circumstantial, and depends on minute facts and details, the due appreciation of which is greatly inter fered with by the constant difficulty of reading. After a laborious trial and a careful summing up the jury found all the prisoners guilty of the stealing except one, whom they found guilty of receiving. One of them was proved to have been convicted before of felony in October last year, another was proved to have been convicted of felony in December last year, and another was proved to have been convicted of felony in 1861. The leatned Judge in passing sentence said it was an ag gravated case, and sentenced the worst prisoner to 3 years' penal servitude; the others to one and a half year's and one year's imprisonment with hard labour, and the receiver to 6 months' imprisonment with hard labour. The learned Judge then took the case of the burglary at the house of the Hon. and:Rev. Chetwynd Talbot, rector of Hatfield, in which the butler was charged as the robber. The property stolen was plate to the value of about £650. The case was rather remarkable as a curious instance of circumstantial evidence. The prisoner, whose name is So; gee, and who appeared above 40 years of age, was placed at the bar indicted for burglary. The crime of burglary, it should be mentioned, may be committed by breaking out of a house as well as by breaking into it, the purpose being robbery ; and the indictment charged that the prisoner, having committed the robbery, " burglariously broke out" of the house. He pleaded not guilty. Mr. Clark and Mr. Bushby were for the prosecution; Mr. Woollett and Mr. Ludlow for the defence. The Hon. and Rev. Chotwynd Talbot is rector of Hatfield, and the prisoner was his butler,and had charge of the plate, and slept, either in the pantry, where it was kept, or a room which adjoined, called the housekeeper's room. For some months past he had slept in the latter room, and he did so ott the night of the robbery, and from the head of the pri soner's bed to the pantry-door was only two or three feet. Some week or so before the robbery the prisoner asked for and obtained from Mrs. Talbot some green baize to make bags to keep the plate in, and one of these, it will be seen, was afterwards found, not with plate, but with burglarious implements in it. On 9th Nov. last, Mr. Talbot was at home, lt nd at di nner use d t h e b readbasket, which was of silver, s.._'(laome of the plat e w hi c h was a f terwar d s stolen. Before 6 uing to bed that night he and his wife lighted their candles with a Piece ball of paper, the remains of which they left in the chainot d . which turned out to be one of the links in tho mornin g el'%lirastantial evidence, for it was found next waiarltaiet Overton, saw the prisoner in the pantry l„dy,, maid, the house. About 20 minutes past 9 the ereeaedki,nhg,,,daniten oield him Brown, the gardener, night, a ppear to have retired good night. Eliza. Milward, the night, and came home at 10, with tottbout half-past 10 the household g drawn was over the kitchen, heard the lady's maid, wh ose be ' d e:t, and about that time Harriet, pa a noise l , a o s ' c o l o f c a k, c the r choeetku, Elea' !. as of some one walking in along bricks. At a little bedroora gard en, the sound being ib,uute4sdhaey, No:o hoardthe garden, a noise from the out sidea r u a 13 I ill Windown:Bes at reo t s‘ h va e ai dr back tt he o de f an v d ery sh n e e h ar ea h r e d r gave that the , one were up. Thi s p o a f then footstepsth 3 o , u , s a e s .. alarm. and gave her the inap t " • about 20 I ;i n f i s ti n u in ti t: s Aboutbutler N 7 v a s o'clock u p an in d gardener, Brown (who lived over the stable), Went " to , the th thein the morning pantry, e pantry window to ask the butler if he Was going ti, light found the Window open and no one in the pantry. He looked in, and the bread b asket was not there, and he must have seen it if it had been there. He went round the front of the house and in front of the conservatory, and observed footmarks. Turning back he met the prisoner coming round suddenly from the direc tion of the pantry, apparently in a very excited state, holding up his hands and saying " Good God I the house is robbed I The plate is gone l" The gardener pointingout to the prisoners some of the footmarks, he put his feet on some of them until told by the gardener not to do so, as it would erase them. Going round to the pantry, the prisoner said "they had left the plate-basket behind," and which was afterwards found by him, as he said, under the pantry window, though, as already stated, the gardener Swore it w as not t h ere. Tho police were cent for, and the footmarks from the cons erva t ory d own to the lawn w i th i n 12 yards of the pantry window corresponded, according to THE SIIN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 7, 186 fl, the e a v r i k de a n a c f e v , io w le it u h ee th itl e ; h ca o t e i s u o g f in th a e u p y ri w s a o y ne u r r . at Thereany part a were f found erand have ascrew been driv f e r r es w hl was forced s fouud n t o he m house an entrance from the outside, but the "ha s p" o f up pantry y window in a drawer in the pantry. The prisoner th en went and told his master of the robbery, admitti ng th at h e had left the pantry shutters unfastened, a n d t h at he had found the a a i n f t w r it h a s re w was screwdriver, v plate-basket outside the pantry. According to the evidence of the gardener this could not have been the case, and the basket when produced by the prisoner was found quite dry. One or two articles suggested to be the prisoner's were found outside the house; and sometime afterwards one of the green baize plate bags was found with burglars' imple• merits inside. No part of the plate, however, had been re covered, and the value Was estimated at about £5O. The case appeared to excite some interest. The court was crowded, and the bench was full of country gentlemen. :tit, Clark, in opening the case for the prosecution, Which he did with mach ability, said the case was one of great importance, not only from the magnitude of the rob bery, but from its circumstances, and especially from the position of confidence in which the prisoner had been placed. He did not believe it would be disputed that there had been a robbery. Mr. Woollett, fcr the prisoner, said he should not dis pute it. The learned Judge remarked that in a criminal case, and one so serious, he could not take any admissions. Mr, Clark said it was manifest, and it could not be dis puted, that there had been a robbery, and he believed the evidence, though entirely circumstantial, would, by a chain of numerous and curious links, bring home the guilt clearly to the prisoner. It was apparent that the robbery had not been committed from without, and must have been com mitted from within. The prisoner slept in the next room to the pantry, and was the only person who slept down stairs. Moreover, he had isolated himself from the rest of the house by keeping a door of internal communication with the pantry. The noise heard by the servants upstairs he could hardly have failed to Lear downstairs ; and there could be little doubt that ft must have been at that time the robbery, by whomsoever it was committed, was in course of com mittal. It would be for the jury to consider whether the prisoner could 1, - ossibly have been ignorant of it. Of course, the printer being known to be there, no alarm was felt about the noise, and that was the very circumstance which I gave such cogency to the case. The statement as to the finding of the plate-basket would be proved to be false, and the only conceivable reason for the falsehood was guilt, and the only reason for the retention and production of the plate-basket by the prisoner was that it was part of the con trivance, in order to divert suspicion from himself. The case for the prosecution was that the plate-basket was not found, as the prisoner pretended, outside the house, but that it had never been there at all. For if it had, as the prisoner suggested, been left behind by the robbers, it would have been outside all night, and, if so, it must have been covered by the hoar frost, and when brought in would have been wet, whereas it was quite dry. Another important part of the case was that which related to the footmarks, which were all the more observable because of the hoar frost upon the ground. And the footmarks to and from the pantry were alike, and were the prisoner's. The suggestion, therefore, in the case for the prosecution was that the prisoner had got out of the house with the plate and then, of course, returned. He was seen in bed by one of the servants only a few momenta before; just after the gardener came to the pantry, ho was met coming from the pantry declaring that " the plate was gone." The gardener had already observed the footmarks before the prisoner was out, and when the prisoner's attention was called to them he put his foot on them and was treading them out. No one could doubt that if the prisoner was not the actual robber he must have " put up" the robbery, to use tho expression which the police applied to such cases—that is to say, that others had been put up to it by some one inside the house, and who could it have been but the prisoner? The robbery had been planned, and skilfully planned, and who could have planned and carried it out at that early time of night but the prisoner ? He must have been awake between half past 10 and 11 o'clock at night, for he had not long retired to rest, and no one but he would have ventured so early to perpetrate such a robbery. Whether he was the actual rob ber or not was not material, for if ho were privy to it, and planned it, and took part in it, he would be guilty. Had any one heard the noise and came down to inquire, he would have replied from behind his locked door that he was up, and that it was all right, and thus further inquiry would be stopped. That was the very reason why he had managed it at so early an hour, which no one else would have done. The whole affair was skilfully planned, and could not have been carried out without his aid. No doubt there were others engaged in it. Seven hundred pounds worth of plate could not be carried off without assistance, And very likely the burglary would be performed by accomplished burglars. The bag which had been found contained implements of burglary. No doubt burglars would never go on any such work without their implements, although it had so happened on this occasion that by the aid of the prisoner they were enabled to dispense with them, Having perpetrated the robbery with his aid they would naturally throw the useless tools aside ; and hadthey used them traces of violence would have been found on the outside. There were no circum stances to cast suspicion on any one else in the house, and no one else could have ventured to attempt it at such a time, or could possibly have succeeded in it without the aid of the prisoner. Mr. Woollett addressed the jury, and urged upon them that the case was one of suspicion only, even if all the facts relied upon were proved, but that when carefully examined they one after another melted like shadows away. The learned Judge carefully summed up, and the jury, after some deliberation found a verdict of not guilty. OXFORD CIRCUIT —WORCESTER, Dec. 4, CROWN COURT. (Before Mr. Justice Crompton.) John Green was indicted for the manslaughter of William Boughton. Mr. Best was for the prosecution, and Mr. Richards for the prisoner. The prisoner was a clerk in the office of Messrs, Clifton and Hooper, proctors, of Worcester, and had been a clerk in the District Registry of the Court of Probate, and Wm. Boughton, the deceased, was a horsedealer, of Glocester. On the night of the 2d September last the prisoner and the deceased and some others formed a drinking party at the Albion Hotel, in Worcester, andabout midnight some earlier bickering led to a quarrel between the prisoner and deceased, which resulted in a scuffle. The subject of the quarrel was as to whose turn it was to pay for the last beer had. The landlady interfered, but on her leaving the room the quarrel was renewed, and the deceased, who was a fine, powerful, tall man, began to follow up the prisoner, who is slight and short of stature, as he retreated into the passage, They got into the passage together, but in a minute or so the deceased returned into the room where the party had previously been, and it was discovered that he had been stabbed in the abdomen. The prisoner had earlier in the evening been comparing a spring clasp-knife of his with that of a man named Corbett, and afterwards stated to the superintendent of the police that he had had the knife open up his sleeve, and that he supposed he had stabbed the deceased in the scuffle. A doctor was sent for, as soon as the wound was discovered, and the deceased was put to bed, but ho never rallied, and died on the 6th of Sep tember. The prisoner got a good character for peaceable ness from one of his employers; and, after the summing up of the learned judge, the jury found him guilty. His Lordship sentenced him to 15 years' penal servitude. NORTHERN CIRCUIT.—DURILAM, Dec. 4, (Before Mr. Justice Wightman.) Daniel Downey and Sarah Downey, brother and sister, aged respectively 29 and 27, were indicted for the man slaughter of William Thomas, at Felling, on the night of the 30th of August last. Mr. Campbell Foster and Mr. Laycock appeared for the prosecution; and Mr. Blackwell defended the prisoners. It appeared from the opening statement of the counsel for the prosecution, and from the evidence, that a large num ber of Irish resided at Felling, and between those of them who were Protestants and those of them who were Catholics a bad feeling existed. On the night of the 30th of August the deceased man Wm. Thomas and a friend of his named Fox were talking on some religious question in a loud tone in the streets of Felling, and Fox said " Well, I'm as good a Protestant as anybody. This observation seemed to have attracted notice. They went to the house of a man named 111‘Voy, and had not been long there before several persons came and knocked at the window shutters ; on Fox going out soon after stones were thrown at him, a rush of a num ber of men was made upon him, and he was knocked down, his head being cut and himself rendered insensible. Among the crowd were the two prisoners, the female prisoner having a poker or coal rake in her hand. The deceased man Thomas then came out of M'Voy's, and shouted to them to "stop that work," and on going up to where Fox was lying bleeding on the ground, said "You unmanly scoundrels, would you murder the man 1' A man named Hagan cried out "By Tasus, we will murder you," and immediately a man named Kelly threw a half brick at him, which appeared to have struck him on the head and knocked him down. Hagan, Kelly, and the two prisoners and others then all rushed at the deceased while he was down and commenced kicking him. Mrs. M'Voy having raised a cry of " Police 1" " Murder I" assistance came, and the two men Fox and Thomas were removed, Thomas to his lodgings. He became sick soon after he was carried home and never spoke after, and died at two o'clock the following day, A post mortem examination of his head showed that there was a severe bruise on the left side of his taped hat head. O n o p en i ng th e s k u ll un d er this bruise a clot of blood was found, a b ou t th ree ounces i n we i ght, which, pressing ' 1 13.0n the b ra i n, h a d caused h i s death. There was no direct proof how he ca me b y thi s bl ow, b ut pro b a b ly it was from th, ha • d ndhedaslet brick th rown b y Kelly. Both Kelly and Hagan gtakpeenrsoinnsto who were kicking n i tgwae Thomascon w te had a common was Purpose and design of ill- us i ng hi m , o f which th e i r acts were evidence, it was i mma t er i a l w h ose hand gave the blow which really mused the death of the deceased, f or all wereWaahlt s e liabl e . For the def ence it co ntended that the evidence was not conclusive th a t the prisoners had d one anyt hi ng to t h e deceased, and that his death clearly by attributable to the brick kcfluent eutoru p the evidence, flung at carefully him y ed K n elly blo i w fis fr L o , m ,rd t s h h e ip h , alf bz haviu g ar thof left it to the Jury whether, in their judgment, the death the deceased was not caused by the half brick thrown by Kelly ; and, secondly, if so, did they think that the two pri soners had a common design with Kelly to kill the de ceased, seeing that they had dono nothing till after the half brick was thrown, which probably really caused his death, The jury retired, and, after a short absence, found the prisoners not guilty. SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. SATURDAY REVlEW.—England is so invariably worsted, whenever she attempts a diplomatic con test, that few of us will be inclined to regret that the Government have declined to fight with wea pons which, as a nation, We little under s t an d. If, indeed, upon our diplomatic list it had been possible to find a representati'e capable of finessing against the trained Intriguers of Russia or France, the en terprise might not have been so hazardous. But with no one to send except the amiable statesman who was talked over into signing away an impor tant maritime right at the Conferences of Paris, or the less amiable Foreign Secretary who contrived to juggle so awkwardly at the Conferences of Vienna that he drew down upon himself a direct disavowal from the Austrian Minister, and was compelled to resign in disgrace, our position at a tournament of the sharpest wits in Europe would have been very forlorn indeed. If our plenipotentiary had escaped from the arena with any portion of our maritime rights or any fragment of our foreign dependencies unconceded, the nation would have had great cause to congratulate itself on the result. Some such possession as that of Malta, transferred possibly to Italy as compensation for the cession of Sardinia to France, would have been the very smallest penalty that our Government would have paid for venturing within the magic circle of the arch conjuror of Paris. But though England individually has nothing to lose by the failure of the Emperor's scheme, if it should fail, the world will have to lament the depri vation of an edifying spectacle. It would be plea sant to witness the gambols of the happy family of European nations, once fairly gathered within four walls. There have been men, of great social emi nence, who have made their reputation in that line by the practice of gathering all the most antago nistic elements of which a dinner party could be possibly composep. No small zest would be lent to such entertainments by the distrustful courtesy and transparent irritation of the Tractarian and Re cordite, the Orthodox and Heretic, the Negro and the American, who were suddenly brought into un wonted and unexpected neighbourhood. The Con gress, if it takes place, will present something of the same sort of scene. The only difference will be that the guests will come to the reunion each well prepared with a hoard of acccumulated grudges against his neighbours. It will be a kind of Loan of-Grievanc3 Exhibition, to which every contribu ting Power will bring all the specimens, ancient and modern, bran-new or half worn-out, that can be hunted out of the archives of its Chancellerie. Every Plenipotentiary will come fully armed with all the points which will be most unpleasant to his neigh bour, but also, in his secret heart, knowing that his neighbour is fully prepared to expatiate upon some matter that is at least equally unpleasant to himself. Each will appear at the Congress with the fullest intention of treading upon his neighbour's toes, and the fullest consciousness that his own are full of corns. The habits of diplomacy are proverbially powerful in overcoming human infirmities of tem per; but the office of President over such an assem blage of diplomatists, gathered together for no other purpose than to bait each other, will he anything but an enviable situation. It is a matter of curious :pecu lation what the order of proceedings at this unprecedented gathering will be. The object of the meeting is t o reconstruct the map of Europe according to the exigencies of the epoch, and re-write the treaties of 1815 accord ingly. Perhaps the most effective way of commenc ing business would be for every Plenipotentiary to put in a map of Europe constructed according to his own ideas of justice and expediency; and then, having compared the various documents, to ascer tain if there was any one singe point upon which all, or even a majority of the Congress, were agreed. There would be some cases, of course, of limited agreement between two or three separate Powers. Russia and Italy would be well content that France should have the frontier of the Rhine. Germany would be delighted that France should acquire Genoa and S ard i nia. Sweden might suggest Syria as a very eligible field for French aggrandizement, and Belgium would point out that the true field for French ambition lay upon the other side of the Pyrenees. Russia, as the moat powerful, would probably combine the greatest number of enemies ; but, even in her case, there would be a strong dif ference of opinion amongst her neighbours as to the provinces she ought first to be compelled to dis gorge. Each would be moved by an irrepressible impulse of compassion to vindicate the wrongs of some victim of Russian oppression. Sweden would feel that there were no wrongs like tne wrongs of Finland ; Austria would mourn over the guilty par tition of Poland ; Turkey would compose diploma tic eclogues upon the simple virtues of the inhabi tants of Crim-Tartary. But if any Dane talked of Nor wegisnin dependence,theS wedishplen ipotentiary would shrug his shoulders with contempt ; Austria would fire up at the bare mention of Venetia; and the Turk would begin to say his prayers if any In fidel dog were to allude to the present sufferings or the old independence of Mess ily and Epirus. France would join vehemently with the Spaniards in the suggestion that Gibraltar ought to return to Spain ; and she would quite understand that a legitimate sentiment of nationality prompted the Italians to join themselves to the Maltese. For, she would justly observe, the inhabitants of Gibraltar were once Spaniards, and the inhabitants of M a lt a are in the m a i n I tal i ans. But i f any im pertinent ally were to suggest that Strasburg was once, and is still, German, that Dunkirk is unmis takeably Fleming, and that Algeria is obstinate:3r Arab, sae would only remark that he did not com prehend the demands of his epoch. Perhaps the most amusing arrangement would be to require each Power to vote for some principle upon which the map of Europe should be reconstructed. For we live in an age of principles ; and everybody who desires to help himself at his neighbour's expense has always some eternal truth or inalienable right to cite in his own justification. It would be in structive to observe how many Powers could vote for any one principle consistently in respect of all their claims. Nationality, as the most modern fancy of the kind, would first be put to the vote. Russia would vote aye in respect to the Sclaves of Servia and Bosnia; no, in respect of Poland. Sweden would vote aye for Finland ; no, as regards Norway. Den mark would - vote eve for Norway ; no 58 respects Schleswig-Holstein ; Germany would vote aye for Schles-wig-Hol stein and Alsace's no, for Posen, Hungary, and Venetia. France would vote aye as respects Geneva ; no, as regards Alsace and Algeria. And so it would go on through the States of Europe. We will not be unpatriotic enough to inquire how England might vote, if her plenipotentiary were present at such a division. A similar doubleness of sentiment would be elicited if the older, and almost antiquated, doctrine of a respect for treaties were brought up for judgment. With C racow in her mind, A ustr i a woul d vo t e that treaties were not w ort h muc h ; b u t the mention of the wor d a Venetia" would revive h er reverence for them in all its force. Spain ' might be inclined to pooh-pooh them when Oliveuca or the Slave-trade were under discussion ; but the introduction of the topic of Mexico would lead her back to more orthodox views. Germany would idolise th e sanct i ty o f trea ti es on her Polish frontier. Italy would manifest that semi-developed reverence for th e m w hi ch wou ld i n dicate that she remembered her origin, which would hardly consist with them, and her fut ure , which would scarcely be secure without them. France would be almost the only power that could afford to set treaties at defiance ; for they have done their worst upon her, and she has nourished in spite of them. Whether Napo- ' loon 111. has sufficient sense of fun to have con ceived this project merely for the sake of the amuse ment it would cause, is a question which future historians must decide. Undoubtedly a great Por tion of the joke would be at the expense of the country over which he rules. But if he could get over his aversion to that result, there is no doubt that considerable diversion might be taken out of the awkward contortions of the various tun pied Governments as their various weak points were touched on. Their policy upon any ethical ground is so completely purposeless and inconsis tent, the principles which they sometimes profess to revere are so absolutely hollow, that any meeting at which they were compelled to justify their re spective policies by an appeal to any abstract doc trine could not fail to be rich in matter for amuse ment. Such disclosures, however, are not for the benefit of mankind. It is not good men should see through the fictions by which they are ha bitually led. It is illegal to go physically naked; but the motel nudity which throws off those de corous clothes of principle and virtue under which politicians and States habitually conceal the natural shape and hue of their policy, is more injurious still to the ment a l we ll-b e i ng o f the community. It i s good that mankind should believe in the principles which are preached to them by those whom they respect; and therefore any trial which should dis play too palpably the hollowness and impractica bility of such doctrines as that of nationality is much to be deprecated. THE SPECTATOR.--Jll selecting Sir John LAW rence as Lord Elgin's successor the Government has broken, and rvi: , cly broken, the soundost rule of Indian administration. It is from no caprice and no jealousy of the Company's servants, that the highest Indian offices, political, military, legal, and eoclemasticallhave for fifty years been reserved to men freshly imported from England. The Duke of Wellington may have been moved by tile second feeling when, after the half-hattu mutiny, be ad vised that no Company's servant should ever be Commander-in-Chief; but her Majesty's Govern ment were not. They were perfectly willing when they found men like Lord Metcalfe, to entrust to them the most valuable British dependencies but they abstained from giving them what might seem the natural prize of their lives. No Indian was appointed Governor-General, or Commander-in• Chief, or Metropolitan, or, with an exception more apparent than real, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. The Indian officer, however able or dis tinguished, or well informed, laboured, it was justly felt, under two fatal disqualifications. He had been bred up among the class whom he was called to govern, probably married among them, certainly formed friendships and intimacies which, in that great family party the Indian administration, were fatal to strict control. If he were a nepo tist the machine would probably come to a stand : if he were not a nepotist, everybody would believe that he was. Sir Chorles Metcalfe was pure in patronage, but men who heard aide-de-camps call the ad interim Governor-General " Charley" across the table, were not predisposed to believe so. So urgent was the necessity of avoiding this danger that a rule was introduced, and is still observed, prohibiting the employment of kinsmen in office in the same country ; no native, it was known, would appeal, say from the magistrate to his father-in-law the judge, nor would any native Prince resist a Resident whose kinsman sat on the throne. More over, and the second difficulty was far more impor tant than the first, no Indian could ever be made to feel the true relation of India towards the British Empire. Imported young, and with their minds still immature, the Indian civilians regardediodia almost as their own land. That terrible vastness of scale which is the special feature of everything on the Indian continent, a vastness no man accustomed to Europe can ever fully realise, possessed their imaginations, till England seemed to them a neces sary but annoying appendage to their magnificent empire. To this day, greatly as this tone has altered, hundreds of Anglo-Indians cannot conceal their contempt for the " parochial interests of Great Britain" as compared with the "Imperial interests of a fifth of the human race." The notion that the smallest English innovation affects the character of a race whose daily action will influence the whole future of man never enters their heads, and they persistently postpone Imperial interests to those of the Presidency in which they live. They have many of them a positive pleasure in tariffs which, as they think, protect native muslins against the English invaders, and resent expenditure for the Empire, as if England did not relieve India of the cost of a foreign policy and maritime de fence. The feeling is immaterial, or even healthy, in subordinates, but England must have some link between the Empire as a whole and her vast dependency, and that link has been sought in Governors-General not bred up in India. The habit of English statesmanship, moreover, the cone stant collision amidst which English rulers work, if it does not increase mental power, does develop intellectual moderation, and intellectual moderation is the one quality Indian statesmen lack. They are always for beginning afresh, in preference to im proving the old machine, are capable, for example, of octroying a new code of procedure, because the old one gives to creditors a little too much power. In practice the remedy for these defects has worked exceedingly well. The principles of government are everywhere much the same, and a succession of " ignorant" servants of the Queen have since the days of Hastings built up, consolidated, and re formed the Empire, for wt ich the Company had the credit. It was Lord Wellesley, Sir H. Hardinge, the Marquis of Hastings, and Lord Dalhousie, who conquered the martial races of India, not the Com pany; the interlopers who built the trade, not the old officials ; Lord Dalhousie who founded the rail way scheme, not an Indian engineer; Sir Charles Wood not the Council, who carried out the recent reorganisation. The rule was and is a wise one, but the use of such rules is simply to secure the man best fitted to do the work required, and there can be little doubt that in the present conjuncture Sir John Lawrence is that man. We do not mean simply that he is qualified only by his services, though these have been beyond compare. Indian stories are always so crowded with details that their drift too often escapes the public ; but the popular theory about Sir John Lawrence is, as a whole, quite true. He did most unquestionably save us from the necessity of having to conquer India. From the moment the Sepoys seized Delhi, to the moment when its fall made civil government once more pos sible, India was cloven in twain, with Lord Can ning ruling on one side and Sir John Lawrence upon the other, but with scarcely the faintest means of communication between the two. For three months, we believe,not an order from Calcutta ever reached the Punjaub. There, however, was Sir John Lawrence, with less than 10,000 effective Europeans, with 50,000 drilled veterans in revolt between him and his only source of reinforcements, with the Afghans threatening him on the West, all lost away to the South, the Khalsa or fighting Sikhs held in order only by their personal awe of him, one great Sikh Prince with an army and treasury at disposal, and hosts of small chiefs as hostile as mediatized chieftains always are. For five months Sir John Lawrence, without help save from within, main tained his position, inspired his own Cromwellian energy into his chief subordinates, induced demi hostile princes to guard his communications, hurled two armies successively upon Delhi, for whose fall all Sikhs were watching, bribed the Afghans, raised loans on his own bare word, enlisted the doubtful warrior clan, the Khalsa, whom we had but just settled down to the plough, actually ventured to sanction the Khalsa national rite, " the baptism of the sword," and when, in September, all seemed un availing, sent forward to Delhi his last hundred of reliable troops, and stood amidst thirty millions of nearly certain foes, confident only that his duty had been done. There never was in the whole history of British India such an interval as the fortnight which preceded the fall of Delhi—Northern India was utterly exhausted, the Mahrattaa were gather ing round - Lord Elphinstone, and the Sikhs even before Delhi were muttering that the hour for them had arrived. If Delhi did not fall, the Empire would, and it was then that the application was made to Sir John to choose between an assault which, had it failed, would have been followed by the massacre of every white face north of the Nerbudda, and a suspension of the siege. Lord Lyveden is right when he says that Lord Canning had no intention of retreating from before Delhi, wrong when he implies that retreat was out of the question. Lord Canning could send no orders, and did send none ; but every purely mili tary reason was against the assault. The responsi bility was thrown ‘ on Sir John, and to his prompt reply it is owing that we had not to reconquer India against, instead of with, the Sikhs. He authorised, without legal power, an act of military madness — the storm of a fortified city supposed to be defended ny twice the besieging force and by a hostile popu lation tenfold the assailants' number, with an army which ten minutes' check would instantly have dis solved. Three days later the tidings, " Delhi has fallen," were flying along that rapid telegraph of successive human voices which so often puzzles ob servers in Asia, Bombay was subsiding into its usual discontented calm, the Sepoy army was flying to Rohilound, the Sikhs as a nation were rallying to the British standard, and Lord Canning was able to write that the neck of the rebellion was broken before a man had landed to his aid. That Sir John bad marvellous assistance—Edwardes, who held the dangerous valley of Peshawur with a garrison his fors could have • eaten ; Nicholson, in whom England lost that boundless source of power, an original General ; Montgomery, who en abled hie chief to double himself, is true; but then, who saw and selected these men f The first attri bute of a born ruler is his ability to pick his own tools, and that ability is possessed by Sir John Law rence in the highest degree. There was one point, moreover, on which even these men could lend him no assistance, for it required a quality always in communicable, Major Edwardes could have crushed the Sepoys with just as heavy a hand, Nicholson might have planned an even more perfect campaign, Mr. Montgomery could infuse into all classes equal zeal and equal hardihood, but the Sikhs were the true masters of the situation, and they looked to " Jan Sahib" alone, feared him only among men, quailed only before the thought of his unchangeable fortune, and had cholera or over-exertion carried him off—as seemed 0" "1Y too probable— energy, and generalship, ann. :dull in the guidance of men would alikeh a ve been unava:_ lin g' u l e ih t, e h Sikhsant us. a would have conquered India for another.. . t It is not, howev e r, on ac count of his servie: B n we believe this appointment wise. Better pay a_ for services in any coin than governments for which they are unfitted. But we believe Sir John Law rence is, at this juncture, the very man to fill his splendid position. The two Indian difficulties are at this moment the disturbances on the frontier and the necessity of maintaining severer discipline within within the new Sikh force, and the mere a rriva l e the Viceroy will probably terminate both. Tfive frontier tribes will not face the man w i years kept the bit so strongly within their ned who teeth ga that every raid cost them more than they w ill distrust in money as well as lives, and S i khs req uire for their the dangerous prophecies w fulfilment that the " foreheEtab" of their hero should ill face English bayo pass under a cloud. Tfokii7funwe, and while they are nets sooner than faithful the disaffected throughout North India must perforce remain inactive. That is in itself equal in value to t. great victory; but air John Lawrence meets also the requirements of internal administration. The new organisation must be completed by a man on the spot, who shall possess the confidence of the advocates both of the new and the ancient systems. Sir John Lawrence is himself their very point of agreement. A civilian of civi lians, he was the one man on whom the " settlers" relied for a comprehension of their claims, and though he never bore a commission, and maintained haughtily the supremacy of civil rule, he was obeyed by generals older than himself. A strong governor in the old sense of the word, with a full sense of the necessity of maintaining the absolute power of the Government, and fully persuaded that India can as yet be held only by the sword, he is, nevertheless, a man who believes in justice and progress, in railways, and canals, and free trade, in better education and swifter justice, in fresh careers for natives and more ample means of acquiring weaith. Familiar with the old ideas, he has, during his resi dence at home, comprehended those upon which the Government must now be based, and though he re sisted the new organisation, he will now that it is accomplished devote himself to the task of making it work more perfectly than the old. The natives know him of old as one who right or wrong is, at all events, irresistible; the Europeans will accept at his hands the compromise in which their claims must end; the civilians will feel his appoint ment an omen of a new future for themselves ; and the army has for years studied his opinion as that of a general made by commission higher than the Queen's. The administration, painfully working its way through heaps of the debris of rotten systems, needs an accession of force, and Sir John Lawrence is to all other rulers what a locomotive is to a cart. His single temptation wil lbe to crowd the work of a life into his term of rule, but the obstacles are so many that the only result of this foible will be a slightly swifter advance. The locomotive will be steadied by the weight of the train behind. LONDON REVIEW. —A meeting of the English bar to consider a question of law reform is so unprece dented an event that the grievance which brought it to pass must be considered as beyond measure serious. Indeed, we may measure the burden in tome sense by a pecuniary test. The hours of a well employed barrister are golden, his very minutes are silver; and so when some 500 members of the pro fession, including a large proportion of its leaden:, spend, as they did on Wednesday, a couple of hours in affirming a statement of the need of reform, and in taking the preliminary steps for securing it, we may consider they have testified their sincerity by a subscription of 1,000 guineas to the cause. Nor, certainly, is the cause undeserving of the sacrifice. It is not an amendment in any one special branch of law that is sought, it is an amendment of the system by which the whole law is established and promul gated. For a great deal more of our law is made by our judges than by the Legislature; and whet the Legislature does is, in fact, only supplementary or corrective to what the judges have already done. But between the huge mass of judge-made law and the far smaller bulk of statutory law there is this important distinction, that while the latter, what ever its faults, is at least immediately printed and published by authority, the former, whatever its perfections, is only printed at uncertain intervals, as a mere commercial speculation, and without receiv ing the sanction of authority at all. So the result is that there are above half-a-dozen different re cords of every point, all possibly, and frequently, at variance in some essential particular. No lawyer, therefore, can be sure of the law as aejudged at any time unless he peruses all the different reports, and their actual cost is not less than £45. But even when he has perused them all he cannot be certain, when they disagree, which will be adopted by the judge before whom they are cited. The consequence, then, is a very heavy personal outlay and enormous additional labour, with the result of uncertainty and confusion. And as whatever thus affects the bar rister recoils upon the public, it is very evident that the subject of which the profession now stands pledged to attempt the reform is one in which the public is greatly interested, and is bound to lend the aid of its intelligent consideration. The ques tion is very slightly technical, it depends ohiefly upon maxims of common sense, and we may there fore fairly invite our readers to review with us the several schemes proposed. There are in the first place some inveterate Free Traders, who maintain the superiority of thepresent system to any that can be, or at least has yet been, devised. They urge that in competition is to be und the only security for obtaining the best articles, that the attendance of skilled legal reporters is the only practicable check upon the.) udges, at once deterring them from pro nouncing bad law, and preventing them from doc toring for publication the bad law they may have uttered, and that these advantages more than counterbalance the gain which would ensue from possessing only a single authoritative report,whether prepared or not under the judge's eye Then there are those, headed by Mr. Daniel, the leader in the present movement, who maintain that the business of reporting is properly the business of the State, inasmuch as the law which is thus made public binds all her Majesty's subjects, and who consequently call on the State to appoint officers to perform the duty. They would make the duty a monopoly, by forbidding the courts to admit any rival report, and they would make the proper performance of the duty im perative by placing the • actual reporters under the immediate supervision of a committee of the bar or the judges. Next there are some, whom Mr. Pulling may be taken as representing, who would have the duty in some respects subdivided, by appointing an officer in each court whose busi ness should be to preserve a sufficient record of every ease, while an official reporter should extract from the record such cases as were proper for publication, and edit them with that view. There are others again who would have the work taken in hand by an incorporated body of barristers, who should come in the place of the bookseller as bearing the profit and loss of the work, and by these means be urged to expedition and accuracy, enjoying some degree of favour, but not excluding competition. The first objection which occurs to every one of these pro posals is, that they contain no element which would effectually'and permanently cure the existing evils. The official reports would still be liable to imperfec tion, and imperfection would invite competition, It is idle to say that competition could be excluded by a formal rule that none save the official reports should be of authority or be allowed to be cited. Supposing the official report to be unintelligible, or to contain evidently bad law, it would be impossible to prevent a judge from referring to a rival series which might explain or correct it. To do so would be indeed to enthrone injustice and error. The rule would be at first indirectly infringed, the judge would surreptitiously look at the unauthorised re port, but soon what was done in darkness would come to the light, and the rule would be a dead letter. Here, then, in a few months or years, we should find ourselves brought back to our present position, with merely the addition of one new series to the present supply. Or if, again, we were to try to obviate the danger of any official reporter thus misunderstanding or misstating the import of a case, by requiring the judge who has decided it to revise and certify the report, we come into the danger to which the bar showed itself at the meeting very sensitive, that the judge may on reconsideration alter the statement and the argument so as better to support his own opinion. Human nature seems to be supposed by the bar not to become impeccable even when clothed with ermine. Finally, all these schemes are cer tainly open to the objection that they contain no security for making official persons punctual in the despatch of their business, and consequently might leave the profession and the public in arrear of months or years in regard to the decisions of the courts, save in so far as the void might be supplied by the competition of private enterprise. Another proposi tion, however, was made the other day in the columns of a contemporary by Mr. Boyd Kinnear, a member both of the English and Scottish bar, which, as distinct in principle both from the exist ing and any proposed plan, deserves to be noticed. This gentleman argues that the real cause of the existing evil is the want of authoritativeness in any of the reports; that the reporters, being unable to say which of the facts were considered material by the judge, are obliged to state them all; that the desire to omit nothing which may have in fluenced him leads to a rivalry in prolixi t y , while the wish to give every word which drops from his lips leads to a verbatim record a his speech, con taining all its incidental, as well as d of this observations. He would call in, for retee:y_ cl e judge state of things, the principle of requiring its pertinent et ' the himself to make, in every case, a short note d _ e facts which in his opinion are material, .an h authorities which were cited before w h r l i tn ti , ng an ; d a t e o append to this note his judgment whole being issued at the time of giving judgment, so that there would be no opportunity for afterwards -dapting the facts to the opinion. These notes and draeyg to registrar to he the jjudges, d p g printer, whoe a `'ments, according to his scheme,. are at on ce t o j t : goodri b t ' ]Yo a tanb lreitt . e s d by be r bad ,nt, ,ld decide, not wh et h er the •ud but merely wh e th er the eagse netxhte in, proof t nii isssa i s worth being published, a,:ld on this being settled it would at once be published, so the: in no case would there be occasion for more than a week's delay. Mr. Boyd Kinnear anticipates in the carrying out of this system no great delay or difficulty ; as he urges that the judge's note-book at present contains, or ought to contain, such a note of the relevant facts as is all that would be required for a report.; while the practice of writing the judgments would conduce, he thinks, to their greater brevity and accuracy ; and he observes that competition would be effectu ally excluded, for no other reporter could expect to explain the judge's meaning better than himself, or would find any advantage in stating facts which the judgment was not based upon. There is certainly reason in these arguments; but the change pro posed is so large that it is not easy at once to see its lull effect, and we must be content to suspend our judgment on it till it shall have been more fully discussed. Discussion enough we avi sure to have, now that the lips of the Bar have been unsealed. COUNTRY MARKETS• - __- r . ~____..... NORWICH --SATURDAY. There was a good supply of whea t to-day, and the sales made were at late prices. A fair show of barley, and prices were fully maintained. White wheat. 45s to 47.. 1 Red wheat 41s to 43e Malting barley ...36s to 37s I Chevalier barley 34s to 3 55 Distilling d 0..... 30s to 32s Oats. - to 263 Flour, 29s 6d to —s Od per sack from the miller. NOTTINGHAM—Bev:m: O .Y. White wheat, from 41s to 455; red wheat, 38s to 425• Barley—malting, 32s to 40s ; grinding, 28s to 31s. Oats old, at 24s to 31s Od ; new, 20s to 255. Beans sold at 38 3 to 43s per qr. ; new, 37s to 38s. LEICESTER—SATURDAY. There was a good show of wheat to-day, with a fairerle. —New white wheat, 40s to 44s ; red, 36s to 41a p 35 stone. Old red, 39s to 41s per 36 stone. Barley, malt in g ? new, 33s to 38s per qr.; grinding, 29s to 32s ; old oath 25s to 30s ; new oats, 22s to 25s per 24 stone. 1 30316 old, 38s to 42s per 38 stone ; four, 30s to 35s per 20 stone. GRANTHAM—SATURDAY. Old white wheat, 43s to 46s ; red, 39s to 425 - per 3 bar6st., ; new white, 42s to 47s ; red, 37s to 40s. Malting ley t 3 33s to 36s per qr ; grinding, 27s to 30s ; oats, old, 2 4 s 288; new, 20s to24s ; beans, 40s to 425; peas, 34s to 400. NORTHAMPTON—SATURDAY. There was a fair average show of wheat today, b at advance upon last week's prices. Other articles as bef° P3 ; —White wheat, 40s to 44s ; red, 35s to 42s ; fine, to —s per qr. Barley, 35s to 39s—grinding, 28s to 300! Oats, 28s to 32s per 24 stone. Beans, 38s to 425. Pte' 34s to 40s per qr. YORK—SATURDAY. We were supplied with a fair quantity of wheat to-dalf and prices were in favour of the seller. 18 8 Wheat, red 37s to 40s 1 Oats.... Ba hi rley Wte do .408 to 45s Beam .29s to 32s Peas e . '•.—s to .'" e Malt, 62s to 64s per qr. ; rye, 30s per qr.ifl 3 o ss ur tt j oo 23°:°316 to 32s per sack. Foreign Mail Packet List. MAILS DUE. Australia and Mauritius, via Southampton .. Dec' Ig, via Marseilles Dec.?' Brazil and Cape Verds, by British packet. Jan. It' n Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, and St. Helena Dec. :I.' (Mina, Penang, and Singapore, via Southampton Dec. 1 via Marseilles Dec. 13' Falkland Islands Dec. 11 ' Gibraltar, via Southampton India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via Southampton Dtc• , / . 4 9 : via Marseilles Dec. India (Bombay), via Southampton .. Dec. 1 ' via Marseilles Dec. 6. Portugal.... ...... Nlalta, Egypt, and Aden, via Southampton Dec. ,'" via Marseilles Dec. w' Newfoundland „Dec. 9' Oporto and Vigo .. 9, U. S. and British N. America, by Brit. packet.... Dec. by U.S. packet.... 0, by Canadian packet. Dee. 0 W.C. of Africa, Madeira, and Teneriffe.. Dec . 1 Bahamas, via New York' Dec. 11, Mexico.. All parts of West Indies, including Chili, Peru, i Dec , 14. California. and British Columbia.. THE AFRICA.—At the end of last month the Council of the Mercantile Marine Service Assoc is : tion, Liverpool, submitted to the Committee of the Pri v y Council for Trade a series of remarks in reference to theme cent sentence for the suspension of the certificate of OW" - Stone, of the Africa, in the hope that, upon considerstin their lordships might see proper to reverse the sentence c) Court of Inquiry. The observations were as follows The verbatim copy of the evidence given upon the 0 0°1cl-- does not, the council believe, upon a fair construction of 14 bear out even the opinion of th nautical assessors, upon whic': the sentence was given. 2. It was impossible to weigh L 1 evidence in favour of Capt. Stone against the opinion of nautical assessors, who were not exposed to strict croge examination upon the reasons which led them to the c en t : elusion on which the sentence was pronounced, while Capt' Stone, the accused, was subjected to the strictest Grose; examination, and, practically, their lordships will s ee that he is condemned upon the assessors' interpretation of admission extorted from him. 3d. An unprecedented site' ration appears upon reliable evidence to have taken place to the currents of the Gulf Stream, with the extent of whtctl the assessors were and are not acquainted, and the extent e* which is still even imperfectly known to any one. 4. 111° soundings in the neighbourhood could not have told vii',," certainty the position of the Africa, had soundings beei g taken. 5. The course pursued by Capt. Harris in his cross' examination of Capt. Stone, the question put, and the opi' nions expressed by him in court,:appear to the council t e , show that he considered himself somewhat in the position 0) a prosecutor as well as an assessor. 6. The sentence s cat if Captain Stone to have been guilty of a culpable want ° caution, The council is anxious to point out to their lore ships that a culpable fault is such as would expose Copts! Stone to a prosecution and conviction, had a pemer ger be . e u. injured, and the owners to a verdict against then,' b271:1111; pers of goods. There appears no reason to suppo se "1 uncil is or would be the case. 7. It does not appear to Te at just to single out Captain Stone for inquiry, while 1-- majority of cases are not inquired into at all. 8 . Tll°.,,is cil cannot suppose that it was the intention of the l'"or lature that in these inquiries the person whose dace, and certificate depended upon the result should be °X mined on oath against himself; as that is a precedereisti, variance with all the principles of jurisprudence ; and has reference to the anomalous mode in which the charge made, or rather decided, during the inquiry, an d the ore.to ceedings were conducted, the council refer their lordshiPB, o the circumstances that in inquiries before the local rastirtio, Boards, involving the suspension or cancelling of a c it cote, a distinct charge must be made, and a coil ° t o handed to the accused at least 48 hours befor e the cc)ber sits. The Board of Trade, in their reply, dated Deca l itt 3, state that they have received a memorial from CaPto Stone appealing against the decision of the court, and 119 they have in their reply (in which they have entered O n e into the circumstances o f the case) informed Captain St4o that they do not feel themse lves j ustified in interfering WI the decision of the magistrate and his assessors. [ADVERTISEMENT.]-1101loway's Pills—lndigesti oo ;ol In all cases of indigestion, producing weariness , .6%00 spirits, palpitation, and feverishness these famous pills of the p a i t i o l m s should be resorted to as the ntlest ' and surest correo"to, a d e i h sp , and th the best fantidote t o o : vt a i ieer l e t li v o t 0 11 0 0 afflicted with it may rejoice at the Y sale P itod results which can be secured at so small a org y ° p s u s r purchase of a box of Holloway's Pille o ' cu l - o es i growth' strengthen, and remedy imperfect develop and health in young persons. 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C. i , of CRADOCK.—On the 3 d in st., at Hartfo rth, the wuo - Cr a dock, Esq., of a daug hter. ,„ til ° DURHAM.--On--Onn the 4 th inst., at Lambton Cae tm C oun t e ss of Durham, of a son. _ ; ( 0 0 , PHILLIPS.-O n the 2 d inst., at Royston, Hertz, th e All w Hill Lady' .- - Walsh, of a son. thsug.P_hoilln ip th e, e dun., 3a inst., at 35, Esq., of a son. street, c 0 8 . y ;: . ::: 3:-- g e. Charles youngest a I daughter s gh o Shia t N e ri 7o , n ar fi r l i e a fd e in l st., at St La'' ° 'lat e 0 rt .street, Corse, Esq., of PAUL L B E e rr a eh :l:e a st . surviving son of the at i 631;fSmrhoilrleiadmitcHh,etonryfunliarriaoa El-lriza:':o l °: —tiI STANDISII.—On the 3d inst.,at S t. - ' Hanover -square, Charles William, late Ca Ch arlie , : a . re t g p H a u u s i zrs,eldFst son of the Hon. and ov. Lordd.3, O h , to 'Susan Amelia Georgina Carr Stan ~, ~„g l isx. second surviving daughter of the late William Pti"" Standish, Esq., of Duzbury• park. Deaths. BLAND.—On the 2d inst., at his residence, street, George's-square, William Michael Blanc 4 aged 75. " h- gar BEVINGTON.—On the 4th inst., at 43, Bessbon.rocillz9, f acne, Pimlico, Henry P. Bevington, Esq., u. ° ' ,too, ° BOUGHTON.—On the 2d iast., Mr. Peter Doug.' Hounslow, aged 70. foro eril COOFER.—On the 3d inst., Mrs. Frances Cooper, of Brentwood, aged 98. T A itle"Nrilee' HAEDING.—On the 4th inst., at 15, —nod Barnes, Surrey, Mr. J. D. Harding, artist. S om erse t ' S° l3l ' HOSKINS.—On the 3d inst., at North Perro n, Wm. Hoskins, Esq , aged 77. , i g k VIO — L Bessltioro".4ll, Sumtg.—On the 3d inst., at Bideford, Devon, 2 ,•_•••?; - Sutton, ......_ Et:c__.,.....—.------'"--. ,_8,,, __---_-----77:11_ ~ t, ,1 lit, London : Pr;nzed and Published dy WILLIA.a Nv; o . , of No. giddlemex.—Monday, December 7, 103. 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