The Sun. — London, England, 1864-07-27 00:00:00

IMPERIAL FA.BLIAMENT 11.0 USE OF LORDS—Last Evening. The LORD CHANCELLOR took his s2at on the woolsack at five o'cicek PRIVATE BUSINESS. The following bills ware read a third time and passed : St. Helen's Canal and Railway—South Wales Mineral Railway—Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Rail way (Stearnboat,)—Dublin Trunk Connecting Railway— Sheffield Waterworks (Bradfield Inundation)—North Western and Charing•cross Railway--Metropolitan Dis trict Railways. Lord REDESDALE moved that the standing orders relating to private bills be dispensed with for the remainder of the session. The motion was agreed to. WEIGHTS AND MEASURES (METRIC SYSTEM) BILL. The house went into committee on this bill. The Earl of DONJUGIiMORE appealed to the noble earl (Fortescue) who had charge of the bill, not to press it at this period of the session. It would not, in his opinion , simplify matters, but would tend to make inexplicable con fusion. Earl GRANVILLE did not see that the peculiar period of the session should be considered as a reason for not pro ceeding with the bill. The house was well attended, and ho thought•they could properly consider the clauses of the measure. The principle of the bill had already been fully discussed. The bill then passed through committee, and was reported with amendments. CIVIL BILL COURTS (IRELAND) BILL. - - - The Commons' reasons for disagreeing with certain amendments made in this house to the bill were considered, and their lordships determined not to persevere with their amendments. INIPROVEME:•.iT OF LAND ACT 1864 BILL, The Commons' amendmsnt to this bill were considered RS disagreed with. HARWICH HARBOUR ACT AMENDMENT BILL. This bill passed through committee. JUDGMENTS, &3., LAW AMENDMENT BILL. This bill passed through committee and was reported with an amendment. The standing orders were then s uspended, and the bill was read a third time and passed, in order that it might be sent down to the other house to consider the amendment. LOCAL GOVERNMENT SUPPLEMENTAL (No, 2) BILL. This bill ceased through committee, CRIMINAL JUSTICES' ACT (1855) CONTINUANCE BILL. This bill passed through committee. ARMAGH ARCHIEPISCOPAL REVENUE BILL. This bill passed through committee. CONSOLIDATED FUND (APPROPRIATION) BILL. This bill was read a third time and passed. NEW ZEALAND LOAN BILL. This bill was read a third time and passed. PUBLIC WORKS (MANUFACTURING DIS TRICTS BILL. This bill passed through committee. POOR REMOVAL BILL, This bill passed through committee. EXPIRING LAWS CONTINUANCE BILL. This bill was read a third time and passed. PIER AND HARBOURS BILL. The repot t of amendments to this bill was brought up and agreed to. HIGHWAY ACTS AMENDMENT BILL. The amendments to this bill were agreed to, and the bill was then read a third time and passed. RAILWAY COMPANIES POWERS BILL. This bill was read a third time and passed. FOREIGN AFFAIRS. The Earl of ELLENBOROUGH, on rising to call the attention of the house to the changes which have taken place in the state of foreign affairs since Parliament met, said that he took that opportunity to endeavour to draw at tention to our present position. There had been a change, which affected not only the integrity of the Danish domi nions, but the sacredness of the obligations of the treaties by which the States of :Europe were bound together, the security of the smaller States, and the steady progress of constitutional government on the continent of Europe, which for some years we had witnessed with the greatest satisfaeiion. When he last addressed them he had no hope of doing good; ho had no hope now, and only spoke because ho felt it right to do so. Har Majesty's Government de clared that they would afford no assistance to Denmark, after the failure of the Conference. At the commencement of the session the Opposition declared that it was not their duty to find any foreign policy; and they had ended by adopting the foreign policy of the Government, while they had commented severely upon the mode in which it had been carried out by the Foreign Secretary. He regretted this determination of the two great parties in the State ; nor did he think that such a course would have been adopted by the groat statesman whom England declined to honour. He believed, moreover, that there was not more than one reign—that of James I.—in which such a policy would have been acceptable to the country. Let them ob serve in what state Denmark was now. She lay prostrate at the feet of her despoilers, and had none to protect her, encept, perhaps the Emperor of France, who might have, perchance, come forward to defend her. At the beginning of the prcient year Denmark possessed all the provinces secured to her by the treaty of Vienna; and would have continued to do so had it net been for the lawless inva sion of the German Powers. In. the first place, they called their invasion a Federal execution, and based it n.oa certain letters patent issued by the late King. Before, however, Federal execution was levied, those leUers patent were withdrawn. Austria and Prussia then declared their intention to occupy Sebleswig as a ma terial guarantee for the fulfilment of a certain diplomatic engagement entered into by Denmark in 1850 51—and they did this, although they had made no objection, until it was varied, to the constitution of November, 1863, which united Schleswig to Denmark. But after th tt constitution had been agreed to, and the Parliament dissolved, Austria and Prussia desired the King to repeal that constitution, which he could not do without vicnatieg his oath. M, Bismark, indeed, observed that he might do so by establishing a state of siege. But had he done so, the King of Denmark would have deserved to forfeit his throne, and have lost the cha racter which he had hitherto maintained. The constitution was not repealed, and first Schleswig and then Jutland were occupied, He inferred from this that this war was not commenced t4no intuitts by Austria and Prussia, but that they preceded step by step from one wrong to another when they saw that then- aggressions met with no resist ance. Although he believed that there was no treaty of Holy Alliance,, he thought that there was an understand ing —not only one—between Austria, Prussia, and Russia, which was indeed far worse than the Holy Alliance. The Sovereigns of the former alliance declared, and they kept to their word, th a t th e y would not check territorial aggran disement for themselves, but would limit their action to giving assistance to any soveeeign who might be threaten ened by the revolutionary party, and might ask their aid is maintaining his authority. But Austria and Prussia had not been content with this. Not confining themselves to snpport the authority of the King of Denmark, they had forbidden him to extend constitutional Government to Schleswig. It was not merely the declarations of her Majesty's Government which had given these German Powers an insight into the pacific policy of the Govern ment Reduced estimates were introduced at the com mencement of the year, and they were ostentatiously do ecribed as peace estimates. New he quite admitted that we were not entitled to demand success in all his snde.r takings from a British Minister—but we were certainly entitled to ask that he should not take measares which rendered success impossible. Now a Government which declared that its strength should never be used, did in the most direct manner deprive itself of all influence. He thought it of the deepest importance that the several sove reigns of Europe should have decided not to maintain the Treaty of 1852 as tee basis of their i; peeer. He saw no reason for such a departure. The only ground that could be given was founded on the new doctrine that nations were to decide on their own fate ; but thin doctrine road no appli cation to Schleswig and Holstein. In the case of a large homogeneous population, like that of France, no doubt the doctrine of nationality was well founded. Nor did it affect the balance of power in Europe by whom that race might be ruled. Under any dynasty their policy and their acti on would be the same. But when the people of a particular province desired to withdraw themselves from a State to which they had belonged they disturbed the balance of power in Europe by bringing about the dismemberment of the State to which they had belonged. He did not see how or why any treaty should be respected after that of 1852 had been set aside. There would in future be no such thing as international right in Europe,tand there would be no security for any State in Europe except that which de pended on her strength. There was not a Weak State in Europe which did no t f ee l th a t it s secue ity was s ensibly diminished by what had taken place in regard to Denmark. If Kiel might be claim ed and taken possessi on of by Austria and Prussia, what was there to prevent other Powers from se i z ing the Texel, or Prance from marching upon Bel gium ? What had. recently • occurred roust sensibly di m i n ish the sense of independence of all secondary States. But, besides the regret and indignation which he felt on this score, he regarded the conduct of the Glernettn Powers as a declaration of war against constitutional gov erament. No doubt their behaviour towards Denmark was part of a plot to destroy liberty i n P russ i a an d wickedly -laid Austria also. He dreaded th is, net because it would last, but because it.would interrupt the peaceful progress of constitutional freedom, which, but a few months ago, seemed going on in those States. A damn had been thrown across the stream, which was certain to rise and over whelm the Governments which had interreapte d its course. It was because these things could not be done without re tribution, and a terrible retribution too, that he viewed them with so much alarm. Then cornea the question, what are we to do ? We could no t di s guise from ourselves that there was much myst er y in these recent t ransactions —that there was something,hehe ed which we -could not see —that there was :something w e could n ot ex plain' i n the conduct of Austria, Prussia, and. Russia. We must look. thenito our own strength, We r gust increase ti iat atre Rgth by fortifications, and by keeping bothour army and navy in the most efficient condition. 'We must endeavour to maintain the best understanding with France. Al ove all, he looked as our best security to the revival of the ancient spirit of the country, which did not consider lucre, but looked to honour. There was no doubt te w' at we now saw passing around us was calculated to ,:.; us both with indignation and regret. Did history record airy instance of cruelty more revolting than that of which the Poles bad recently been made the victims? Did history record another instance in which, as had been the case with the Poles during the last few months—women, children, old men, young men, the glory and pride of their country, had been marched (without any of that assistance required by the age of some and the sex of others) from Warsaw to Siberia, dying on the road or destined to slavery when they arrived at their destination ? When we saw this, and wit nessed the wrong done to Denmark—when we saw the Powers which had despoiled her, proceeding from one wrong to another until they had appropriated to them selves a large portion of the country—when we saw such outrages as these, which could not remain without decisive retribution, he could only express his hope that those who wore not parties to these crimes, that those who had not in any way participated in them, might, by the divine permission and mercy, be exempted from that punishment which should only be inflicted on those who designed the wrong and assisted in its perpetra tion. (Hear, hear.) Earl RUSSELL said this matter had been fully debated in both Houses of Parliament, and both Houses of Parlia ment had come to their conclusion upon it. Bat there were some statements made by the noble earl which appeared to him to require so mach correction in order to reduce them to the actual state of facts, that he could not avoid noticing some of those statements. The noble earl had spoken of Denmark a& a country that had been invaded by two great Powers, who had invaded it for the purpose of taking from it some of its own provinces. Now, the difficulty of this question throughout had been that while Denmark was a small country there were at the same time two different races—indeed, more than two different races in that country —and that one race, which possessed the power of directing and controlling the Government, were at issue with another race, which occupied part of these provinces. But there was another difficulty still. While the majority might exercise unjustly, and could exercise oppressively if they chose, all their power over the minority, that minority had the power of appealing to a nation on its frontier, close to its boundary—a country of more than forty millions of in habitants, whose feelings, whose position and sympathies, would be with the provinces. In that state of affairs the great towers of Europa made a treaty, but that treaty depended upon the temper, upon the discretion, and upon the good sense of one party, as well as upon the mercy and forbearance of the others, Now, they should remember always that the beginning of this contest was in 1848, when Prussia in vaded the provinces of the King of Denmark. They con tended that they were justified in invading Holstein by an article of the Germanic Confederation, and that they were justified as respected Schleswig by a special engagement that had been made. Therefore there was a dispute and discussion betwet Denmark on the one side and the Ger manic Confederation on the other, and it could not be said that Denmark was entirely blameless in that matter, or that she had fulfilled all the promises she had made. He was told that he had looked into the subject of the treaty of 1852 more than it was necessary to do, but he had thought it was absolutely necessary to look into it, and he could neither say the Government of Denmark was blame less, nor that they had fulfilled all the promises by which they had bound themselves to the Germanic Confederation or to Austria. Therefore the question came to this. Were the Powers justified in dividing Denmark in order to compel her to fulfil her promises, and to keep her treaty engage ments ? The question was a complicated one, and no one could say that in going to war purely and simply for Den mark, without asking anything for Denmark, we would have been taking the right course. This was not a question of whether you should go to war or should not go to war; but the main difficulty in a question of this kind was that , you should not draw the sword without being convinced that you were in the right. If you were to go to war if you were to ask the people of England to contribute large subsidies to that war—if you were to ask them to subject themselves to all the evils of war, you should at least be sure that you were in the right course when you drew the sword. Now when he said that Denmark had not taken a perfectly upright course in this matter, he did not mean to defend the Powers of Germany against the accusation the noble earl had brought, but he would say if they had been willing to submit the matter to the decisica of the Powers of Europe who were not immediately engaged in it, if they had listened to both sides, all this difficulty might have been settled by negotiation. But unfortunately, awhile Denmark for 11 years continually and persistently put herself in the wrong, Ger many had determined that she would listen to no reason, and as Denmark would give no promises of redress, she would settle the question by the arbitration of war. He blame! that conduct, and he blamed it the more because it was not the judgment of Austria and Prussia which led them to this; bat perhaps together, and perhaps separately, they wished to have popular feeling in Germany in their favour, and it was rather in consequence of that feeling that they felt the cause to be right that they again participated in that war. He did not agree that in that case we ought to have taken the part of Denmark, and that, although France and Russia refused to be our backers in it, that we should ourselves have proceeded, and by our means have defended the cause of Denmark. He had said the question had been discussed. He held in his hand the resolution that had been arrived at by the House of Commons, the address which they had presented to her Majesty, after considering this matter, he thought, for four nights together, and knowing, as they must have known, that if it had been a case of war the appeal must have been made to them, as the only c3nsi tutional body, far the means to carry on that war. After thanking her Majesty for laying before them the papers, and expressing the regret of the House of Commons that the Conference had been brought to a close without accomplish ing the important purpose for which it was called, they went on to express their satisfaction that at this conjuncture her Majesty had been advised to abstain from armed inter ference in the contest now going on between Denmark and the German Powers. Therefore, if they had called on the House of Commons to carry en a war of that kind, the House of Commons would not have supported the Govern ment in that war. The noble earl had supposed that the honour of England had been impaired, Now, in what re spect had the honour of England been involved in this contest? Was it bound by treaty to assist Denmark? There was no treaty since 18 i 2, and there was no proof whatever that it was to the honour of this country to assist Denmark in this war. He was convinced there was no such obligation, and he was fully convinced also that if any cause should arise in which the Honour of England re quired her to go to war, they would have the House of Commons deciding, not by a small majority, but by overwhelming numbers, in support of fulfilling the obli gations in favour of which the honour of England was at stake. They might repeat now what Burke said in an eloquent speech made ninety years ago in relation to America. lie said, " Slaveey is a weed that grows any where. They may Lava it in Spain, they may have it in Prussia." Nov he was loth to think that the people of Prussia, in the course of these 00 years, had not learnt both to value and to understand liberty. His belief was that neither on the part of the Crown, on the part of the House of Lords, nor on the part of the House of Commons, had they yet arrived at a true understanding cf what a constitutional monarchy should be. It required no aid and no assistance from us, but after this question of Denmark had b2en settled, as it would be without any intewarence of ours, he believed the bust prospect for the future to see liberty and constitutional monarchy established in Germany, was to leave that intelligent people to establish what should be the terms of government between the So • vereign and themselves, and there was no reason why England should interfere in any way in the settlement of that dispute. He was far from thinking that, were we to compare Europe with what it was 40 years ago, at the time of the Holy Alliance, that the people of Europe had not made great progress in political feeling, because he believed that fe lie.g was in abeyance at that time. He believed no sovereign, looking at the signs of the times, would think otherwise than that ; but, on the contrary, they would find the sympathies of the people of England to be with the government of a constitutional monarchy. That was h's belief, and he was ter from thinking if we had been thrust into war, and the States of Europe had been pitted against each other in bloody contest, that we should have promoted the cause of liberty any more than we should have promoted the cause of peace. He believed, on the contrary, that by leaving it to the people and the sovereigns of Germany to settle this question among them selves, the Government had acted not only for the honour and interest of England, but they had done that which was best for the honour and interest of Europe. Lord STAT F ORD DE REDCLIFFE said his noble friend had asked where anything could be found to justify the expression that the honour of England had been lowered. He thought a justification was to bs found for it in the manner in which the negotiations had been conducted. The great object of her Majesty's Govern ment was the maintenance of peace in the north of Europe. But, instead of peace, we now had war. Then we had been told that the treaty of 1852 was to be maintained Governmentmisaintaine d; but that treaty had been given up by the English itself. The hopes which were raised in Denmark had been destroyed. It was, in a wo.d, impossible not to perceive facts which justified the expression that we had suffered a certain degree of discredit as a nation. He regretted the blame which had been imputed to the Danish Government, who throughout all the proceedings had been placed in a most critical and difficult position. The conduct of the Danes ought to elicit feelings of the strongest admiration, and it was a matter of regret that we could not show our sympathy with them in a more effective manner. The subject then dropped. SEARCHING FOR ARMS IN IRELAND. The Earl of LEITRIM drew attention to a search for anus which had been made in April last, under a warrant of the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland, in the parish of Clouds vadock, in the barony of Kilmacrenan, county Donegal; and asked the Lord President if there were any law to au thorise the poli ce i n I re l an d to enter the dwelling -h ous e of any of her M a j es t y ' s su bj ects without a warrant an d t o search it, or car r y o ff any property of any kind whatsoever from such house without any written authority. Earl GRANYILLE said that all the proceedings in the case which had been referred to by the noble lord were of a strictly legal character. After some remarks from the Earl of Donoughmore and Earl Granville, The subject dropped. The house adjourned at twenty minutes to eight o'clock. HOUSE OF COMMONS—Last Evening. The sitting was resumed at six o'clock. THE MAGISTRACY OF TEWKESBURY. Mr LYGON gave notice that to-morrow he would call the attention of the house to the late appointments to the magistracy at Tewkesbury, and move for correspondence on the subject. THE YORKSHIRE RESERVOIRS. In reply to a question from Mr FERRAND on the sub ject of the reservoirs of Yorkshire, Sir G. GREY said the report of Messrs. Rawlinson and Beardmore had been printed and circulated, and any mem ber could refer to it himself; but he did not find it in the statement ascribed to them by the hon. gentleman. They did not pretend to assign the precise cause of the accident ; but they thought the manner in which the pipes were laid might have affected the puddle wall. Mr FERRAND asked whether it was the intention of the Government to appoint a commission to consider the question. Sir G. GREY did not thing it was necessary to issue a Royal commission, but that two or three engineers might be employed to investigate the matter. Mr FERRAND could assure the right hon. gentleman that the lives of thousands of persons were in danger by the present state of those reservoirs, and they were looking with anxiety to have something done before Parliament was prorogued. Sir G. GREY said, if the Government made any change in the law, it could only have a prospective bearing. If the lives of thousands of persons were in danger, he would re commend the hon. member to put himself in communica tion with them, and adopt the measure he had pointed out the other night, and which he believed would be an effec tual remedy. TLIE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JULY 27, 1864. The Murder and Suicide in Somers-town, Yesterday afternoon inquiries were made by Mr. Inspector Gibson, with a view, if possible, to dis cover the motives which prompted the murderer James Brown, to take away the life of the deceased Rosetta Bishop. Oa interrogating the old woman Lodi, or Loader, who resides in the front kitchen, she admitted that she was the medium of a clandes tine correspondence between the deceased Rosetta Bishop and a man she was in the habit of occasion ally meeting, and she believed that Brown had lately by some means discovered the connection. She then produced and handed to Inspector Gibson a letter which had been addressed to the deceased woman under cover to herself no later than Saturday last. The inner envelope was addressed Rosetta Bishop, and although there was no address, and it was simply initialed "J. W.," the writer addressed her as " My dear Rosetta," and wished her to meet him that night at the corner of Liverpool-street, King's-cross, It is now believed that the knowledge of this connection led to the frequent quarrels be tween the woman and her paramour, and led to the ultimate commission by him of the double crime. Daring the afternoon the sister of the deceased woman and some other relatives visited the deadhouse of St. Pancras Workhouse with a view of speaking to her identity, and, notwithstanding the advanced stage of decomposition, they at once recognised it. The coalscellar or cupboard in which the body of the murdered woman was thrust after the commission of the murder is so small that the murderer must have had some difficulty in getting her into it, more es pecially as she wore a somewhat large and stiff crinoline, which had to be cut off before the corpse could be got into the shell in which it was conveyed to the dead-house. It was generally asserted in the neighbourhood that the house in which the deed took place, No. 15, Smith-street, as well as one or two others adjoining, belonged to Brown, but that is not the case, In consequence of the number of previous engagements, Dr Lankester will be unable to hold the inquest before to-morrow. On searching the back kitchen the first point that attracted attention was the evidence that the hearth in front of the fireplace had been recently taken up, and it was removed by the police with the greatest care, but immediately under it ran the drain. It is believed that but for this it was the intention of the murderer here to have buried the body. Having replaced the stone, Dr Sutherin, the surgeon of the S division, next directed atten tion to the hearth-rug, which lay folded up in a corner. On being opened it was found saturated with blood, and contained a quantity of brains, and among them a very cleanly-cut piece of the unfor tunate woman's skull. This clearly indicated the fact that the murder had been perpetrated on the hearth rug and in front of the fireplace, corrobora tive evidence being afforded by the fact that the murderer must have himself collected a portion of the brains and skull after the commission of the act and thrown them on the flue, as a portion of brain and clotted blood was found partly burnt adhering to the back of the grate. From the appearance of the piece of skull found, as well as the wound on the right side of the deceased woman's head, it was the opinion of Dr. Sutherin that the blows had been inflicted by a chopper or hatchet. Brown was known by the lodgers to possess such an instrument, with which ho was in the habit of chopping wood to light the fire in the morning, but during the whole of Monday afternoon and evening the most diligent search on the part of the police failed in finding such a weapon. The only other instrument calculated to have inflicted such injuries as those found in the skull of the murdered woman was a large iron gas key, about 18 inches in length, and having a sort of pincers at the end, but on being carefully examined there were no traces of blood upon it. A chisel was, however, found, upon which there were spots of blood. Yesterday morn ing about 8 o'clock, Inspector Gibson, who, with constable Woodrow has charge of the house, dis covered what appeared to be spots of blood on the waterbutt in the back yard, and the circumstance at once suggested to him the probability that the mis sing weapon might have been thrown into the water. He directed it to be drawn off, and, as he conjec tured, at the bottom of the waterbutt was disco vered a large sivd axe, such as carpenters use for chipping wood. It was at once taken possession of, and sent to Piatt street station, where, on being examined by Dr. Sutherin, it was found to still retain, notwithstanding the action of the water, evidence of human blood and a large quantity of woman's hair adhering to it, leaving no doubt that it was the instrument with which the diabolical deed was committed. The bodies of the murderer and his victim having beon conveyed to the deadhouse of St. Pancras WOrkhousc on Monday night, Mr Jack son, of Brewer-street, unthr the orders of Dr. Lan kester,the coroner, made a post mortem examination , of that of the woman yesterday morning. Mr Jack son was the only surgeon called in after the disco very of the bodies on Monday, and it was he who took the body out of the coal cellar. Yesterday he found the who!e of the right side of the skull battered in, and a large par tion of the brain on that side gone, From the nature of the injuries and from the fact that a chair was found near the fireplace in the back kitchen broken down on the left side, it is believed that the first and fatal blow which drove out the skull before alluded to was given behind, while the deceased woman was seated on it; but the screams that were heard would make it appear that other blows were given deceased by Brown prior to this fatal one. It would appear that deceased Vf as enabled to get her own living, irrespective of the man with whom she cohabited, as there was a large quantity of female wearing apparel found, and a circular on which was printed, " Mrs. Bishop, dealer in ladies and children's wardrobes, 47, Adam street west, Bryanston-square," and also a book of the Mary lebene Svings-bank, with several pounds entered in her name. It now appears that the man Brown, although he slept in the back parlour on the Tuesday night after the murder, and on the night following (whe n he sent Mr. Townsend's, the first fl )or lodger, little boy for, some beer) had not been seen in the p lace from th a t ti me u ntil the S a t ur d a y, w hen he came home about 8 o'clock with hit eon, a youth about 19, and s l ep t w ith him. The son dined with h im and the Town s h en d s o n th e S un d ay , and, accomp anied by Mr. Townshend, they went in the eveni n g to his:daughter's M:s. Johns, 9, Coburg-street, Euston square. The son declined to return home with Brown, and he came back to the house with Towns hend about half-past 12. On entering the passage the latter spoke to Brown about the smell, and he said it was the meat Mrs. Bishop had left locked up, and he would go down and remove it. Towns. bend wished him good night, went up stairs, and Brown unlocked the front parlour and w ent in. It is believed that he had been afraid to sleep in the house by himself, and that finding h imself alone he then determined to com m it suicide. On opening the sa f e i n the back kitchen there was found a piece of coo k e d loin of pork and part of a currant pie, both of wh ich were mouldy, as well as a quantity of hard stale bread, indicating that no one had touched it since the date of the murder. The first intimation that anything wrong had taken place was discovered by a woman named Margaret Murphy, who re sided in the lower part of the next house, and who knew the deceased. She had once or twice expressed her want of belief that Mrs Biship had gone away, and she had such a pre• sentiment that something had befallen her that she ones or twice went into No. 15. She at last, in conse quence of the smell, determined on making inquiries. 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Holloway's pills are eminently serviceable to invalids of irritable con stitution, as they raise the action of every organ to its na tural standard, and universally exercise a calming and seductive influence. The Newsvend9rs' Benevolent and Provident Lssociatien, Last Light the 25h anniversary festival of this asseciatiou celebrated at the Freemasons' Ta. yarn, Great Queen•street,Lincolia'F.J.inn-fields, The chair was taken by Andrew Link, Esq., Alderman, and about 120 ladles and gentlemen sat down to dinner. From a report which was circulated in the room, it appears that the emonat distributed in pensions and temporary relief hed been increased this year to £6l 8s 4d, and the funded capital augmented to over £2,000, and a balance in hand to be carried to next year's account, of £2l 3s sd. After the usturl loyal and patriotic toasts had been duly honoured, Mr Alderman LUSK, the chairman, gave the toast of the evening, " Proeperity to the Nevesvendors , Benevolent institution." He said he would not waste their time by any remarks deprecatory of himself. (Laughter.) He would not enter into a long explanation of how sorry he was that the duty had not fallen into other hands—(laughter)—be cause he felt proud of the duty which had been entrusted to him, and he remembered that when a chairman, on a similar occasion, had said how sorry he was that the toast had not fallen into abler hands, some ill-conditioned . person rose and said, " So we are all." (Laughter.) He would therefore not apo logise, but do the best he could. (Cheers.) The object of their assembling on that occasion was to further the interests of a deserving institution; and without attempting anything brilliant he would try to bring a common•sense view of the question before them. He admired the orator who was so fluent and attractive that the listeners were tempted to exclaim, "Flow on thou shining river." (Cheers and laughter.) He admired the intellectual feats which were performed every day by those who pro ducad the newspapers of this country. (Hear, hear, and cheers.) He gazed with wonder and with ad miration upon the sheet of paper which to• day was a perfect blank and to-morrow was vital with "words that breathed and thoughts that burned." (Cheers.) That which to-night was a blank was to- morrow the reflex of the progress of the world at large. (Hear, hear, and cheers.) But this mighty engine for the promotion of progress in the world would be shorn of half its power were it not for the newsvendors, who distributed its wondrous in fluences and made them permeate the entire social fabric. (Cheers.) He sympathised with the newsvendora in the trials incident to their vocation. (Cheers.) He knew practically the value of the part which they played in the dissemination of intel ligenee. (Hear.) People were not apt to be over considerate with newavendors. They were generally cross if " the paper" was a little late—(oheers and laughter)—and he had often wondered if newsven dors were as impatient with the public, as the public often were with them ? (Cheers and laughter.) In this, as in all other occupations, from a variety of circumstances members of the trade fell into distress, and it was the bounden duty of those who had been more successful to administer to the necessities of their suffering brethren. (Hear, hear.) He was glad, therefore, to do all he could to promote the prosperity of an institution such as this. If they, as a trade, were only true to themselves, this institution would enjoy a far higher degree of prosperity then it had hitherto known. (Hear, hear.) No task could be more noble than that which they had undertaken. He was glad to see so many ladies present, for he was sure that he should not appeal to them in vain. (Cheers.) He concluded by proposing " Prospe city to the Necvsvendors' Benevolent Institution." The toast was druuk with great enthusiasm. Several other toasts were given, and the proceed ings closed in the usual way. Mr. Toela was, as usual, an efficient toastmaster, and the subscriptions reached to nearly £l5O. SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS, TIMES.—We think that we can trace in the tone of both Houses of Parliament on the subject of the guarantee of the Loan to New Z :eland symptoms of a transition period—that is of a change of senti ment—with regard to the relations of the Mother Country to her Colonies, which those Colonies, and ail who concern themselves with their manage ment in this country, will do wall to lay to heart. Old watchwords are losing their force, and no new ones are found to replace them. A little while ago such words as " our ancient and faithful ally," the faith of treaties," "the legitimate influence of England in Europe," " the balance of power,' " the encroachments cf despotism," or " the excesses of democracy," wore quite sufficient to plunge us into war with one half of Europe. Now we are grown cooler and older, and require, in addition to these time honoured incentives to slaughter, some proof that our national faith is involved, or our ma terial interests directly and unequivocally compro mised, before we plunge the country into war. Just so with the colonies. In former times, and the tra dition is not yet worn out, a colony had nothing to do but pick a quarrel with a tribe of neighbouring savages in order to convince us that we wereat war, perhaps with people whose name we had never heard of, and of whose eaistence we were not aware till it was forcibly brought to our notice by a de mand for half a dozen regiments and a million of mtney. This may still be said to be the official faith on the subject :—We must defend our empire ; a colony is a part of our Empire; theref ore we must still defend our colonies, without troubling ourselves to consider whether they or we exercise the powers of government, or are responsible for the policy which involves us in native wars, But, though our officials still hold this faith, proofs are not wanting that much and gticcous experience has shaken this belief in the mind of the couatry. We be g in to ask whether vie do not do e noug h if out of the ' taxation and population of the British Islands we find the men for our own wars and the money for our own expenditure ; whether it is reasonable for a country mocked with the style and title of Ina poriel sway to be called upon to fight the battles of some twenty or thirty communities, having no common link with us except allegiance to ha same Savereiga, and ready to resent as the direst insult any attempt on our part to interpose any check upon their powers of legislation and self government, or to remonstrate against any duty with which they may think fit to burden our com merce or any institution which they may establish at variance with our notion of good government and sound principle. Lord Granville, in moving the second reeding of the bill for a guarantee of a loan of a million to New Zoilend, spoke by no means as a man satisfied of the goodness of his case. He was very far indeed from taking high ground. He ad mitted himself to be opposed, as a general principle, • 1 to the guarantee of loans to Colonies, and justified what was being done purely as an exceptional case. It was impossible, he thinks, though we know not why, to divest ourselves of all responsibility for the commencement of the war, nor was there any good reason for believing that the colonists had supplied arms to the natives to be used against them and against us. For our own part, we cannot conceive by what process of reasoning this country can be held responsible for a war which is neither commenced in pursuance of our policy nor conducted for our in terest, and which, when concluded, will be so by Ministers responsible to en Assembly over which we have no control. No doubt the immediate occasion of war was the attack and slaughter by the natives of a small division of British troops ; but this mas sacre was in retaliation for a block of land seized from the natives, and was only a savage way of be ginning a conflict long before determined on for other and weightier reasons. As regards the sale of arms by the colonists to the natives wo will meet the denial by a s ta t ement a little 'more de tailed. In 1857 the New Zealand Ministry pressed the governor to relax the ordinance which prohibited the sale of ammunition and fire-arms to the abori gines. The Commander-in-Chief officially protested against it, and was supported by the Bishop and at least one friendly chief. The argument in favour of free trade in arms was the desire to put down the smuggling trade and the propriety Dilating the profits of the trade come into regular hands. The measure was eminently successful, In the nine months immediately succeeding June, 1857, there were sold to the natives 7,8491 b. of powder and 752 single or double-barrelled wane, The English tax payer will be pleased to learn that Very Marge profits were realised by these regular traders. Orders for the sale of ammunition were obtained in blank and as a matter of course. The natives and colonists were equally pleased with the traffic, and for many years the Maories have purchased little else, and have formed magazines with a perse verance and foresight which do them no little honour. The colonists also have not only realised large sums by the traffic, but have succeeded in attracting a large commissariat expenditure, since it is quite clear that Great Britain, having under taken to defend the Colony against the natives, must increase her forces exactly in proportion to the degree in which they are armed to oppose her. The worst of it is that during all this time the Government has had good reason to know that the natives were meditating war—a war which they have foreseer, prepared, and provoked, leaving to us nothing bat the honour of carryi ng it on an d the glory of paying for it. Lord Maimesbury was of opinion that the colonice ought to defend them selves, and ought not to rely on the mother country to assist there. Tee colonists of New Zealand, he thinks, ought to take care of themselves, and not to call on this country for ten or twelve thousand men, thus draining our small army, and staving off the retribution for their mismanagemoat at our ex pense. If they had themselves to pay and bleed for their own defence, we should have heard very little of the present difficulties. We cannot too soon, Lord Maimesbury thinks, persuade the people of Canada that it is impossible for them to obtain Imperial assistance in the way of English troops, This is tolerably plain speaking for a Conservative leader, and shows upon what congenial ground the seed of truth has fallen. Lord Lyveden thinks there is a pretty general concurrence in the prin ciples laid down by Lord Maiinesbury, the only difficulty being as to their application. Guaran teeing the loan is guaranteeing everything that has been done by the settlers to the natives, and, while the saving is small, the loss in point of principle will be great. Such is the tenour of the remarks elicited by the discussion on the New Zealand Bill. Many considerations combine to counsel patience under the present infliction. In the first place, it is quite clear that nothing would be more unfair than to charge these events, however calami tous, upon the present Secretary of State for the Colonies. He has succeeded to an evil inheritance, and cannot be expected, by any efforts he may make, all at once to put matters to rights. Five-and-twenty years of gross mis management are not to be corrected in a week, a month, or a year. All we have a right to expect is that measures may be taken to put an end to the present war and to prevent the recurrence of a new one. This will not be effected by merely warning the colonial public against iniquitous dealing with the natives, either in the way of purchases of land or sales of arms or ammunition. There is no dura ble chance for peace until we can contrive to im press upon the colonies that all future wars will be carried on at their, and no more at our, expense. We must disabuse them once for all of the notion that we have any peculiar interest in their quarrels with the natives, or that we shall be ready hence forth, as heretofore, to bribe them into war by the wealth which our expenditure produces, and the security which the presence of our troops affords. As we cannot take from these Democratic Assem blies the power of virtually making war or peace at their pleasure, we must at least endeavour to make their interest in keeping the peace as strong as our own. This can only be done, as Lord Malmesbury says, by calling on them to contribute their own blood and their own money, not as accessories and auxiliaries, but as principals in the conflict. if the Coloniel Parliament would not be overwhelmed by the responsibility which it undertakes, it must find some means of putting an end to the present struggle, by which one country creates a war which another carries on, and reaps the reward in a large increase of territory for battles which it has never fought, and expenses which others have defrayed. HERALD.—The invasion of Maryland by a pere tion of Gen. Lee's army, at the very moment that he was supposed to be so hardly pressed by the Federal forces in his front that the capture of Petersburg and the imminent fall of Richmond were matters of daily rumour among the gobe• mouchee of New York, is one of the most mar vellous exploits of the American civil war. The history of this wonderful raid reads to us like a fairy tale—like one of those picturesque exploits of knights or paladins of the elder Teutonic times, who, aided by giants and fairies, had the power of transporting themselves at will from place to place, and confounded their foes by the blast of a magic trumpet or the sight of a talisman fraught with supernatural potency. At first laughed at in New York as a foolish raid, which would so weaken Lee that he was inevitably at the mercy of Grant when he chose to advance, the expedition, as it de veloped into unknown and fearful proportions, caused a panic in the North, which laid bare in a moment the weakness of the war faction. As it became known that, in spite of all opposition, a large army corps of Confederates was working its will in the midst of an unwarlike and sympathising border population, that it had utterly routed the two Federal armies that, on the Potomac and Mon cacy, had attempted to check its career, a revulsion of feeling took place throughout the cities of the North, the price of their currency went up, and their spirits went down. The object of the incur sion into Maryland we conceive to have been three fold. It was intended to obtain supplies for the Confederate army ; to create a diversion which would have the effect of withdrawing a portion of Grant's army from the front of Petersburg ; to re connoitre the defences of Baltimore and Washing ton, and interrupt, as far as possible, their commu nications with the rest of the North. All these objects have been triumphantly attained. The Con federates are reported to have retired across the Potomac " loaded with plunder." The bread, the sheep, and the oxen, required to feed their army, crossed the Potomac with them. The horses re quired for their cavalry were obtained in abun dance. The ammunition, for which a dozen Northern arsenals had been ransacked, the confis cated wealth of thousands of Federal sympathisers, was transferred to Virginia to aid in the patriotic Cause. In the terror caused by this invasion the authorities at Washington and the governors of the border states appealed vainly to the people for im mediate help to save the Government of Mr Lincoln and protect the capital. This help was not forth coming. No hand was stretched out to help the Pre sident of the North and his Cabinet. Had the Con federates only been sufficiently numerous to invest places of such size the cities of Baltimore and Wash ington would have been at their mercy. Pennsylva nia and New Jersey made no response to the appeal of their governors for troops. The people of Pennsylvania ere accused by their governor, Mr. Curtin, of culpable stupidity and apathy in presence of the enemy, The mayor of New York conceived that he required the militia for the defence of the city in the case of an apprehended riot. The German and Irish immigrants refused to be entolled, their ardour in the war having been somewhat damped since they have observed that their com rades who have enlisted but seldom return to their homes. The attitude of the North is now far more peaceful than it was; the people are beginning to pei env° that a war of pretended subjugation, so uniformly unsuccessful, cannot be prosecuted with credit or advantage to the nation. The peace party is becoming more than ever a power in the state. It looks upon separation as inevitable, and desires only that the best terms should be obtained. Mean while, Sigel having been defeated and Wallace routed, the Preaddent had no force available for the defence of the North but the army of Grant on the Appomattox River. We do not yet know whether this army has not been recalled to the neighbourhood of the capital. It is stated, at all events, that a whole army corps has been shipped to Baltimore. The last great attack made by the army of Grant was on June 22, when he fell upon the live cif the Weldon Railroad, and was repulsed, with loss, Since that the cavalry, under Wilson, has been engaged in a diaastrons ezp i editinn towards the Lyncht , : rg line of rail, from which it returned to camp, loss now etat e d at 3 , 000 men, with a anq minus all its baggage, ammunition, and artilltry. The confidence of General Lee in the strength of his positi on , an d his belief is toe utter impotence of the disabled enemy, who was perishing in the swamp at his feet, is proved by the fact that before this raid of Wilson's he detaehcd a strong force under Generals Early and Imboden for one of those incursions into Maryland for which :lase is famous. One hundred miles to the Potomac this force rode on, and fifty .miles more to the suburbs of Baltimore. Hunter was Jar away in Western Virginia, and the Confederates took their course unchallenged up the Shenandoah Valley. M Martinsburg they net with Sigel, whom they put to the rout, and expelled from Harper's Ferry. They then crossed leisurely into Maryland, went north to Hagerstown and threatened Chambersburg, went east to Fredea rick City en the Monocacy River : Here Wallace, with 10,000 men, attempted to withstand them,but was engaged and driven in disorder to the shelter of Baltimore. The invaders now destroyed the rail way between Frederick and Baltimore. Proceeding to that place, they tore up the line and burned the bridge on the road to Washington. They also suc ceeded in inflicting great damage on th e li ne f rom Baltimore to Philadelphia, and captured on this railway a train of ears with their passengers, among whom Was the Federal Gener a l F ran k lin and his staff, The force which approach e d W ash i ngton came as near as six miles to that city on the northside, and amused itself . with bombardi ng V ert Stephens. The sound of taetrguns must have reca ll e d Presi dent Lincoln and his Cabinet to the grim reality of that war of independence, which they have foolishly characterised as a petty rebellion, which is certain to be soon suppressed, Mr. Itin_calu in Washington is exposed to far more peril than Mr. Davies in Ftichitond t For the mome n t h e h as escaped, an d be will act wisely in not exp os i ng hi mse lf to s o great a risk for the future. M r . F essen d e n, his new Finance Minister, wants a loan of fifty millions to carry on the war f or a fortnight. Mr. Fessenden will then want three hundred millions to keep it up till the autumn. And what next, and next PENSION TO MR. DISRAELL—Prom a Parliamen tary blue book just published, it appears that in the year ended the 31st March last Mr Disraeli received his pension of £2,000, under the act 4th and sth Will, Iv., c, 24. There i$ QUO Vacancy under the act. PARTY DEMONSTRATIONS IN IRELAND. Mr MAGUIRE asked the Chief Secretary for Jreland whether his attention had been called to recent party de monstrations which had taken place in Armagh during the present month, and whether it was intended to adopt more stringent measures for their suppression. Sir R. PEEL said no action could be taken by Govern ment in such a case unless information was sworn before a justice of the peace; but no such proceeding was taken. Those party demonstrations in Ireland were fast dying out, and he believed the reports in the newspapers of the recent demonstrations were somewhat exaggerated. It was not in tended to make any change in the Party Emblems Act, which was fully equal to meet any emergency that might arise. THE CASE OF MR. FITZJANES. Mr ROEBUCK wished to put a question to the Secretary for the Colonies, which would require a few words of ex planation to render intelligible. There was some time since in Sierra Leone a man of colour named Fitzjames, who was called to the bar by the Middle Temple, and afterwards pro ceeded to fill a legal office in that colony. During the ab sence of the governor he became acting governor. The governor on his return showed some hostility towards him, and took means for getting rid of him. The Colonial-office lent themselves to that unworthy purpose. Thinking the man had been ill treated, he had moved for a return of papers bearing on the case. These papers were circulated and taken out of the charmed circle of privacy. In the papers there was a statement relating to two respectable inhabitants in Sierra Leone, which they considered to be libellous. Pro ceedings were taken before a court of law for redress, and he wished to know whether the right hon. gentleman would send out the original documents in order that they might be produced in eviaence at the trial. Mr CARDWELL said that in the course of the year a solicitor had applied to him for the papers in this case ; but, having taken legal advice and found that the document ap plied for was a privileged communication, he did not feel it to be his duty to give up the paper. Ile thought it was better to leave the case in the hands of the law courts. CARRIAGE OF TREASURE ON BOARD HER MAJESTY'S SHIPS. "ftln reply to a question from Mr H. TRACY on the sub- I 'l ject of the carriage of treasure on board her Majesty's ships, Lord C. PAGET said the question of Greenwich Hospi tal would be taken into consideration in the forthcoming autumn, and the Government would be prepared to insert sorao provision with regard to the freight ct treasure on board her Majesty's ships which would meet the case re ferred to by the hon. member. ROMAN CATHOLIC PAUPER CHILDREN IN SCOTLAND. In reply to a question from Mr MONSELL, Sir G. GREY said no change was proposed in the man ner of affording relief to Roman Catholic children, but new rules were to be made, which would be submitted to the board for registration, and afterwards to the Secretary of State for approval. NEW ZEALAND, In reply to a question from Mr MILLS, Mr CAItDWELL said ha had received no proclamation, and had not heard from the Governor of New Zealand any account of a proclamation having been pu:)lishtd. WINE AND SPIRIT LICENSES. In reply to a question from Mr J. EwART, The ATTORNEY GENERAL said that by the Act of Parliament absolute discretion was given to the ruagis rates io judge as to the granting of licenses. It was quite com petent for them to take into account the requirements of the neighbourhood, as well as the raitability of the house and the character of the applicant. FLOGGING Oi PRISONERS IN GAOLS. In reply to a question from Mr. lIADFIELD, Sir G. GREY said he had seen a statement in the public papers of two prisoners haVing been subjected to corporal punishment. He t elieved it was strictly in accordance with the act passed last session, which required that the judge should specify the number of lashes, and the instru ment with which they were to be inflicted. He did not be lieve there had been any departure from the law in this case; but of course the punishment could not be otherwise than disagreeable. (A. laugh,) PUBLICATION OF THE IRISH RECORDS. In reply to Mr MONSELL, Mr F. PEEL said it was proposed to have an inquiry into the charges made against Mr Moran; and the Master of the Rolls in this country had selected Mr Duffus Hardy and Mr Brewer to conduct the inquiry. These gentlemen were competent to perform the task with satisfaction, and would shortly commence the inquiry. THE CASE OF GEORGE O'MALLEY IRWIN. Mr lIENNESSY, in moving an address to her Majesty, to grant her fiat to the petition of right oi Mr G. O'Malley Irwin, or to satisfy his claims without suit, characterised the case as one of the most extraordinary that had been ever brought before Parliament, in which a party had suffered injustice swing to the culpable neglect of aficers of the Crown. He gave a detailed narrative of the tacts of the case, which has been repeatedly, in differant shapes, before the public, the main point turning upon the proof of a letter dated Oat. 12, 183. He roptted to the obj e cti ons he ex pected would bo offered to the grant of the fiat, contending that the Crown ha d no right to refuse a petition of right that the question might be brought before a jury. Mr ourAG..kN said he had taken pains to ascertain the real facts of the case, which, if there was any truth in Mr irwin's representation of it, involved imputations upon dis tinguished persons living and dead. He then proceeded to state the real facts, supported by documents, the contents of one of which, written by Mr Irwin himself, were incon sistent with the case h© now set up. The case, he ob served, had been investigated when persons were alive who were cognizant of the fee's, and he cited opinions of high legal authorities adverse to it. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL pointed out the errone ous views entertained by Mr Hennessy of the nature of a petition of right, a remedy applicable to particular cases only, which he explained, and which did not conclude such a case as that in question. He showed the absurd cense• quences of the doctrine that a petition of right was a matter of pure right that could not be refused. The fiat was to be exercised under the advice of the law r ffipera of the Crown. Mr MALINS was bound to say, after the statement of Mr O'Hagan, that the case of Mr O'Malley Irwin became perfectly ridiculous. After a few words from Mr Hadfield, and a reply by Mr. Hennessy, followed by some remarks by Sir G. Grey, the motion was negatived. The house was counted out at five minutes past 9 o'clock, The Wounded Guardsman at Wimbledon, TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SIR,—As an impression might be convoyed from reading Surgeon-Major Wyatt's letter in The Sun of to-day that had the bullet been extracted the recovery of the poor fellow would be less compli cated, may I beg the favour of your insertieg these few remarks ? The ball was felt wedged in between the inter costal space about two inches, obliquely and on the inner side of the left nipple. I proposed at first to cut down and extract it, but on consulting with my brother volunteer surgeons who happened to be pre sent, also Staff-Assist. Surgeon Guinness, in charge of the Guards' camp, I abandoned that in:ention• Symptoms of internal hemorrhage were present, emphysema had taken place, and the man seemed to be rapidly sinking. The case, therefore, called for prompt stimulants, &?.., and other professional gentlemen who saw the condition of the sufferer agreed that had the attempt been made to extract the bullet, in all probabilty death would then have ensued. Together with Mr. Guinness I w a t c h e d the pat i ent day and n i ght t ill I resigned him to that gentleman's care on Sunday last ; he was still in my tent suffering much, but a s hade better. I h ave the honour to remain your obedient servant, JOHN GUISE WESTMACOTT, M.D., Surgeon, N.R.A. ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE. HOME CIRCUIT—MAIDSTONE, July 2G. (Before Mr Justice Willer.%) Sven lAouring men, named Thomas Butler, Charles Pearson, Thomas Cawdle, Thomas Moors, John Watson, an d G eo . B eu lkh e i n , were c h arg ed with mis demeanour, in havin g b een gu ilty o f r i o t ous ly assembling and assaulting divers p e r sons . Mr Barrow was instructed to p rosecu t e . Mr Ribton wa s counsel for the defendants, a n d by hi s a d v i ce they pleaded guilty to the charge. James Webber, _ It appeared that the charge arose out of an ill -feeling entertained by the defendants against the persons whom they had assaulted, who were Irishmen, and who bad been engaged to assist in some railway works which Are going en in the Isle of Sheppy. This feeling led to their assembling in a riot ens and disorderly manner, and in the course of the proceedings several of the Irish labourers were assaulted. The learned Judge told the defendants that the course they had taken was a very unjustifiable one, and one tha t could not for a moment be tolerated. In this country everY man, whether En;,, , ,lLh, Irish, or Scotch, had a right tolabonr wherever ho could obtain employment, and it was well it should be known that every one who interfered in any waY to prevent him from doing so was guilty of a very serioue offence in the eye of the law. In the present case, however, ho observed that some of the defendants had already been in prison pending their trial, and he regarded their pleading guilty as an expression of their contrition for what they ha d done, and he should therefore merely order them to enter into a recognisance t o a pp ear an d rece i ve t h e j udgme nt of the Court if the should b e ca ll e d upon to d o so. Jesse Gray, 36, herb a li s t, was i n di c t e d f or m i s d emea nour , Mr Russell prosecut e d ; M r Ribt on appeare d for t h e de' fondant, who pleaded guilty. The defendant lives at Ch a th am , w h ere h e carr i e s ott business as a sort of quack doct or . Th e o ff ence i mpu ted to him was the exhibition of c er t a i n fi gures i n his slier window, giving representati ons o f t h e con di t i on o f the human body in certain diseas es . Th ese fi gures were s tated to be of a very disgusting description, and an indictmen t was preferred against the defendant for the offence of ex' posing them, at the last Lent assizes, which indictment now came on for trial, Mr Justice Willes said that the defendant had clearly been guilty of an offence against the law, but as he had promised not to repeat it he should not pass any sentenoe upon him, but should merely order him to enter into recognisances to appear and receive judgment if ho should be called upon. Robert Smith, 25, porter, was charged with setting firs to a stack of barley, value £llO, the property of George Kelsey. Mr Russell prosecuted. The prosecutor is a farmer, living near Canterbury, an d on the evening of the 25th Marctt one of his barley stacks was found to be in flames, and the whole rick was eventu ally consumed. The prisoner was observed at the fire, and he made the observation that it was a good thing the wind was in the direction it was, or several other ricks might have been consumed. He was taken into custody, but the evidence was not considered by the magistrates sufficient to detain him upon, and he was discharged. On the following morning, however, it appeared that he went to the police station and said that he felt so miserable and unhappy il l his mind at having destroyed so much property that he could not bear it, and he had come to deliver himself upt and he then stated that it was he who had sot fire to the stack, He afterwards made another statement, to the effect that he had gone to the prosecutor's farm-yard to see if he could find any place to lie down in, as it was too late to be admitted to the union, and that he had set fire to the stack accidentally while lighting his pipe. The prisoner, who said nothing in answer to the charge, was found guilty, and sentenced to ten years' pena l servitude. OXFORD CIRCUIT.--STAFFORD, July 26. ♦LLEGED MURDER OF A POLICEMAN AT WILLENIIALL. At the opening of the court yesterday Mr Justice Slic e passed sentence on the four men who, on Saturday, were found guilty of the manslaughter of the policeman Lyons , at '\Villenhall, under circumstances already detailed, but who had been tried for wilful murder—Thomas Leckie'' , who threw the brick-end which gave the fatal blow, to eight years'—George Lockley, his brother, to six years'--J° llll Edwards, six years'—and Joshua Stanley, who had been by the jury recommended to mercy, to five years' penal ser vitude. The fifth man, George Skilletts, was acquitted, and he remains to be tried on the charge of stealing th e policeman's truncheon. THE HALL END BOILER EXPLOSION. Thomas Johnson, William Edmund Johnson, and Wea' Bagnall, alias Bagley, were indicted on the coroner's war' rant, for having killed Thos. Knowles. Chas. Mellor, Ben' jamin Carter, and others, at the pariah of West Bromwich , The grand jury having thrown out the bill against Thos. Johnson, no evidence was offered against him. The pri soner Edmund was the son of Thomas Johnson, and was manager at the Hall End Ironworks, near West Brom wich, belonging to his father. Those works consisted of forge and rolling mills. William Bagnall was the engineer, and was entrusted with the manage:nent of the steam engine, boilers, Tho circumstances connected with the case was the explosion of one of the largest boilers situated in the centre of the works at Hall End, and which occurred on the Ist March last. It blew up and caused the deaths of 12 of the workmen, After the examination of witnesses, whose evidence Nva 6 mainly a repetition of what was given at the coroner's ill' quest, the learned Judge summed up, pointing eut to thet jury that they must carefully weigh the evidence in their own minds, as what might affect one prisoner would not necessarily affect the other. Ho then read over the evidence in chief, and left the case with them. The jury, who deliberated for a few minutes without leaving tho box, found a verdict of not guilty for both pri— soners. COUNTRY MARKETS. ---------•t~---_--_._. LEEDS—TUESDA.V. There were very good arrivals of fresh grain this week. Our millers, having bought freely of late, seem to be com pletely out of the market, and the transactions to-day ern very small at the prices of last Tuesday. Spring corn of all kinds fully as well sold. Averages—July.2s--Wheat 44s Sid per qr. —Oats - -- —Beans 37s —Peas ..33s - —Rye 30s LIVERPOOL—TURSDAY. There was a thin attendance of both town and countrY dealers at market this day. Wheat mat with an inactive inquiry at first, but towards the close of the market rather improved. For flour prices may bo quoted 3d to Gd lower. Oats and oatmeal neglected, and barely supported Friday's prices. Beans, barley, and pass without any change. 13 Indian corn a limited trade, being rather pressed for sale- - 30s for best American mixed. SHEFFIELD—TUESDAY. There was an average supply of n•heat to-day. with a moders.te:y good attendance of buyers; but trade ruled slow at former rates, Barley, oats, and and other articles Sully maintained late prices, end showed a tendency to Ad vance. Red wheat, per lead of 3 imperial bushels 16s Od to 17s 5d White ~ , ▪ 17s Od to 19 s Od New red , 15s Od to 16s Oct New white „ to ; 18s Od to 20s Od Beans ~ 77 l4s 6d to 15s 61 Peas per qr....... Grinhing barley, per qr Maltiaag ditto, Oats 97 40s ss Od to t tt 0 00 4 33 4 50 8 58 Od 1 ~ 238 Od to 26s Od Flour, is 4d to is 8d per 14 lb. MELTON MOWBRAY —TUESDAY. A moderate business was done in English wheat to-day. The following were the currencies :—New white wheat, 45s Od to 50s Od ; new red, 38s Od to 45s per 36 stone; beans, 43s to 43s for old ; new sorts, 36s to 39s per 38 at. ; barley, 32s to 35s for malting, and 28s to 30s per qr . for grinding; new oats, 208 to 24s Od per 24 stone; old, 29 4 to 295. MONMOUTH—TUESDAY. The local markets have Leen well attended by both buyers and sellere during the last six or Seven days, and prices have ruled firmer. Wheat improved about 3d per bushel, and oats also show an upward tendency. The ave rage quotations are as follows : \Vilest, white 5s 3d to 58 9d I 8ar1ey...... 3 8 3d to 3s Ditto red .0 s Od to O s Od Oats ....... 2s 3d to 2s 10a Births. BEDINGPIELD,—On the 25th inst., Lady Bedingfleid, of a son, BaxmANN.—On the 25th inst., at 56, Highbury nw park, Mrs. David Baumann, of a son. FOWLER.—On the 24th inst., at St. Aubin's, Jersey, the wife of Commander G. C. Fowler, of a daughter. WARNER.—On the 25th inst., at Grove Hill, Woodford. Essex, the wife of Compton W arner, E sq., of a daughte r ' Marriages. CALVEILT—LONG.—On the 21st inst., at Harston, Cana'ol, Arthur Calvert, M.A., to K at h er i ne Long, the seco nd daughter of Wm. Long, Esq., of the above place. MOORE—WORTIIINGTON.-011 the 26th inst., at H° l / Trinity Church, Gray's-inn-road, Arthur Clayton Moore. to Agnes, the third daughter of the Rev. Dr. Worthing" ton. Deaths. BATES.—On the 23d inst., at Brighton, Thomas PIO* Esq., aged 79. How/ —On the 25th inst., at Kelvedon, Essex, Mrs. 94 Holm, aced 41 . MEREWETHEE..—On the 22d i ns t . , a t C as tl e. field, Mr. Sergeant Merewether, D.C.L Recorder of Read ing. ROEINSON,—On the 25th inst,, at The Crescent, RiPc lP ' Captain Robinson, R.N. w SCIIONERSTEDT.—On the 25th inst , at Eton, F. •• • yr Sehonerstedt,E sq., thirty-one years' German a nd iiebre Master at Eton College, aged 65. WEDGWOOD.—On th e 21 s t i nst., at Bengeo L o dge, Bert" ford, Thomas Wedgwood, Esq., aged 64. WHITE.—Oin the 26th inst., Mr. John White, of 2, Rich.. mond-buildings, Dean-street, Soho. London : Printed and Prblished by WILLIAM AIiDRI% of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at TUE SUN Office No. 112! Strand, in the P rec i nc t o f the Savoy, n the Con , Court -I 141 ddlQie 2 C.-7Wetilleaday, July 27,1681.