The Sun. — London, England, 1863-12-29 00:00:00

SCHLESWIG-HOLSTEIN. the Vmes Correspondent.) 1-IAMBUItG, Dec. 25. The intelligence has just reached us that Lord Wedehousu'a mission has been successful, that the Ministry at Copenhagen has resigned in a body, and that the Rigsraad has been summoned to reas ecmbie for the purpose of cencelling the recent Act for the incorporation of Schleswig. It is further stated that the King has le t his capital in order to join the army in Schleswig. This requires confirma tion ; but should the news cited above prove to be correct, there cen be no doubt that a very serious crisis is impending, and that very much still remains to be done in order to avert all danger of war. Let me endeavour to place the general bearings of this very difficult Schleswig-Holstein question before your readers, in order that they may judge for themselves. It will be remembered that the subject already attracted some attention in political circles previous to the decease of the late King of Denmark in November last. Rumours reached England that the Ministry at Copenhagen had throughout a course of years violated the engagements contracted by Denmark in the ranch talked-of London Protocol in 1852; that she was systematically encroaching upon the rights and privileges of the German Duchies united under the Danish sceptre—so much so, indeed, that Holstein had represented her grievances to the German Confederation, of which that Duchy is a member, and that the Frankfort Diet contemplated exercising the legal right of in tervention belonging to it. This measure, long de bated upon, was still only under consideration when Frederick VII, suddenly died. With him the male decendants of the elder branch of the house of Oldenburg, which has occupied the throne of Den mark for four centuries, died out, so that the provi sions of the Treaty of 1852, which had been framed in anticipation of this event, were called into force. Bat the right of succession in Denmark proper differs from that in the Duc hies precisely in the same manner as that which prevails in the House of Brunswick with regard to England and Hanover— that is to say, whereas in Denmark proper in de fault of male issue the female representative is called to the throne, the German Duchies recognise the male line only. This fact, so opportune at th e h as been seized with great avidity by moment, y by the mass of the German people, who are endea vouring by the external pressure they are able to exercise to force their respective Governments to the claims of Duke Frederick of support—firet? Augustenburg, the present pretender to the duke dom of S c hleswig-Holstein; secondly, to claim the inseparable ueion of the Duchies (Schleswig and holstein) between themselves under his sceptre— i,e., to sever them entirely from Denmark. Thus, you sea, the question has two distinct bearings, both vesting more or less on the London Protocol of 1853. That Treaty re-established the rights and privileges of both parties—Denmark, on the one hand, and the German Duchies on the other, as existing ante helium (1848.9); but Denmark has notoriously dis regarded this point, and recently consummated a series of acts of encroachment by the formal incor poration of Schleswig. Hence the interference of the German Confederation (whose duty it is to up hold the rights of each and all of its members), which has led to the military occupation now in course of execution. The same Treaty (1852), with a vie w to preserve the integrity of Denmark, also entered upon the subject of succession. The difficulty which has just arisen was first mooted by Christian VIII., in 1846, in his Letter Patent addresfed to his subjects. The intention expressed in that , letter with regard to succession in Schleswig only —a step calculated eventually to separate that Duchy from Holstein—formed one of the causes of the outbreak in 1848. Christian died in January, 1848, and was succeeded by Frederick VII., the late King. On the assembly of the representatives of the five great Powers and of Sweden after the - War of Independence, which had been raging in different phases for three years, had been put a stop to by the armed intervention of Austria and Prussia in 1851, the question of succession, as before stated, was brought prominently before them. The last male representative was now upon the throne, and the difficulty stared them in the face. In the pro bable eventuality of the decease of King Frederick without issue, the Crown of Denmark, according to the existing law of succession, would devolve on his sister, married to the Langrave of Hesse-Cas sel, and still living. But the Duchies recognize no female Sovereign, and might by their law pro claim the Dake of Augustenburg the legal represen tative of the junior line after the extinction of the elder. Holstein, in virtue of oldhistorical con aexion and of a nationality exclusively German, is, with Lauenburg, a member of the. German Bund, She claims the rights e too (which the Danes up to the present time have certainly recognised), of insepar able connexion with the sister Duchy of Schleswig; but Schleswig has never been represented in the German Bund ; on the contrary, at an earlier Period of her history, she was for nearly two centu incorporated with Denmark ; but on the acces sion of the House of Oldenburg to the throne by election in 1460, the old existing state of things was reste ( : 1 1; 1).nd since that time the intimate connexion between the Duchies has hitherto been successfully asserted "4 maintained. So that it is evident that the succession of the Augustenburg line would not only lead 4 othe entire independence of Schleswig and former Duchy holstein, hut would place the under the Confederation. Con sider that One third in round numbers, of the in habi tants of ' Schleswig are Danes, consider too that such a result Equivalent to the reduction o f the D zni sh mo narch; which is considered to be v:tal importan ee of to to the present en'itical system of Eurc)" „ utter insignificance, and you will eaeity underetand " 4 is that k so perseveringly- en d eavouredatDchlhAr has to inborporate or Damze Schleswig on the one band, and why maintained stein Ho lstein has so steadily connection with the sister Duchy in •- r " I "Te their joint order to . -p i % JlWitbil:494hteCahtiltthoei nationality and historical traditionsi en the other. Such, thon, was the difficu Great Powers had to deal in 18 0 -• the labours of their representatives was, that th e preseet occupier of the Danish t hrone, Chriatim ax, married to Louise, only daughte r of the Lanagrs„..., l • of Hessen-Cassel, and named by ki ng r rede r i ett VII. as his successor, should, on the renunciation tell their rights by that lady and her only son (the future l Landgrave of Hessen-Cassel), be recognised by,them, on the decease cf Frederick, as King of Dena -ark and Duke of Schleswig and Holstein, to the exclu sion of the Auguetenburg claims. These claims could hardly have been so readily disposed of had that Duke not taken so prominent a part in the recent insurrectionary war ; his large estates had been cenfiecated, and he was consequently outlawed and reduced to poverty. As future trouble might, however, be anticipated from that quarter, the Duke was called upon in return for a large sum of money—three millions of rix-thalers—to execute a document in which he declared that neither he nor his family would offer opposition to the arrange ment effected. This he did, and received the tmoneyeu accordingly; but his brother, Prince Angus b the urg-Noer, protested immediately, and his son, l a r t esent Pretender, protested in 1859. far it was lawful, as an act of political eXpedi et r e Y : ' n the interests of the integrity of Denmatk ao l a the preservation of peace on the part of the five great 1 g . r: tNy at European Powers, and Swe den, to alter of succession in the Duchies, I must leave others to determine; this much is cer tain, in Denmark p ro per the validity of the ar rangement a i s na has an Act inasmuch formally laid before e mbody in g itshelnaaltlesPrauttiaobnieN; the Danish Diet, and there ratified, b u t th e D ac hi es were not t h er e represented, a nd the Germans assert never be fore the that it was laid Schleswig or holstein. A nx ious to ascert ain the exact state of feeling in Duchy It ev ident that i n th e days' I have been travel- _a Holstein for the last few d ling through that Duca towns the German party, ide as of un ion with a Ger many, and of the el evation of the An-e tenburg fami , y to the dukedom of Schleswig-Holstein pre.. dominate, but the landholders and county popuin., tion have little sympathy with the supporters of the claims of Duke Fre derick, and `noels remain (1 7 .e . 0?; contentedly under the rule of King Christian. The Holsteiners have little to complain of at the hands of the Danish Government. Under the CPI y eyes of the Dani,h military the book shops item with brochures published in the Augusten . )erg cause, portraits of the Duke himself are pa cly exposed for sale, and political opinions are as freely broached as if no Danish policy had power, and no Danish muskets were piled in the guardhouses of the dis trict. The Federal execution has hitherto taken place with the greatest order and without any resistance. An hour before the Federal troops arrive at the various towns the Danes march out. Except for the differences of the uniforms, one would imagine that regiments were being relieved in the ordi nary course of military duty. On the de parture of the Danish troops the Duke Frederick of Augustenburg has been proclaimed in most of the towns as Duke of Schleswig-Holstein, the arms of Denmark have been quietly taken down from the post-offices and custom-houses, and the tri colour flag hoisted in their place. Properly consti tuted committees have undertaken the management of the duties of the local police and revenue depart ' ments, and have resolved to suppress any disposi tions towards riot or disorde r. The g eneral adminis tration of the Duchy is provided for by th e Commissioners of the Germanic Confederation, who have taken up their quarters at Alton. It is stated on reliable authority that the Duke of Coburg has given permission for the organisation on his territory of the volunteerarmy which is destined to assert the claims of the Pretender. This fact, together with the resolve of the Frankfort Parlia ment to report on those claims, is some proof of the height to which German feeling has been raised on this subject. From the appearance of freshly-erected batteries at Newmuns ter, an important strategical point where the communications of the Duchy centre, it may be inferred that the Danes have only within the last fortnight definitely decided to evacuate Holstein on the approach of the Federal troops. No doubt, how ever, now exists that the Danish troops will fall back to the line of the Eider, which is the frontier between the Duchies of Schleswig and Holstein. It is just on the cards that here a collision may take place, for on the south bank of the Eider, on Hol stein territory, the Danes have thrown up a tete du pont to cover the bridge leading into Frederic stadt. As this fortress is the key of the military position, which, extending from the town of Schles wig to the mouth of the Eider, protects the south frontier of the northern D achy, the Danes will be exceedingly averse to evacuate the work, and it is loudly asserted that the Confederation are deter mined to insist on the occupation of every yard of Holstein ground, and are fully prepared to support this demand by fame. This for what it is worth. The Recent Disturbances at Guildford. At a special petty sessions, held at the To wn-hall. Guildford, yesterday, before the Mayor and Messrs, Adams, Cooper, and Sells, borough magistrates, Mr. Henry Piper (late Mayor of Guildford) ap plied for compensation to the amount of £l7 lls. for damage alleged to have been sustained by him " by means of certain persons, riotously and tumul tuously assembled together, having on the evening of the 21st of November last, between the hours of 11 and 12, at the parish of Stoke-next-Guildford, feloniously demolished, pulled down, or destroyed in part the house wherein he resided, thereby demo lishing and destroying the front door of such house, and also demolishing and destroying tke inside shutters of a window of such house, and by break ing, demolishing, and destroying the glass and framework of three windows, and the glass of an inside door of such house, and the blinds belonging to such windows, to the extent of the value above stated." Mr. J. R. Capron appeared for the claimant. In his address to the Bench he stated that the proceed ings were taken under the 7th and Bth George IV., cap. 31, which was , an Act for consolidating and amending the laws relative to remedies against the hundred in the case of property destroyed by a mob. The second section of this statute provided that if house, stable, coach-house, &c., should be " feloni ously demolished, pulled down, or destroyed, wholly or in part, by any persons riotously and tumultu ously assembled together, in every such case the in habitants of the hundred should be liable to yield fuli compensation to the person or persons damni fied." Sections 3 and 8 pointed out the mode_ of procedure to be adopted by the person damnified ; and the Bench would fine that every requirement of the Act in the matter of notices and the like had been fully complied with by the claimant. He should lay the facts of the case before them in evi dence, and then confidently rely upon their worships to grant the compensation sought for in the present instance. The first witness called was Lewis James Har• vey, clerk to Mr. Capron, who proved the signature of the claimant to the notices required by the Act, and that they had been duly posted on the church doors, and had remained there the proper time. Police-constable William Sutton, of the Guild ford borough constabulary, was next called, and deposed as follows :—I remember the night of Saturday, the 21st of November. Between ten and eleven o'clock on that night I was standing at the bottom of Tun's-gate. I noticed that a great riot took place against Mr. Weale's at about half-past ten. There was a great crowd of persons, many of them being masked and armed with heavy blud geons. They were battering in Mr. Weale's shut ters, and shouting, and making a great disturbance. They were also discharging fireworks and throwing missiles at the upper windows of Mr. Weale's house. I was proceeding up town, in the direction of the disturbance, when I met Mr. Vickers, the then superintendent of police, and I turned round with him and walked up Tun's-gAte, where I paned with Mr. Vickers. While standing at Tun's-gate, which is close to the entrance to the police-station , three or four men in disguise came upon me, knocked me down, and struck me three or four times when I was down. I got up, however, and endeavoured to defend myself with my staff, but I was knocked down again, and struck both on the body and the head. When I was on the ground I heard one of the men say, " Murder the --." J then became insensible, and remember no more of what occurred. lam unable to recognise any of the men who assaulted me, bat I saw that they were ' , tined with heavy bludgeons. I cannot describe 114, weapons with which Mr. Weale's shutters were stt s NlZi.ed. but I believe that they were bludgeo ns. Henry Piper (the claimant) deposed —l It occupy . of Guileth ouse in the Merrow-road, in the borough Novemb :% . l recollect the night of the 21st of after 11 o'clock on that night :;a t i l s Y e and rattling at my shutters. , I I: nere heardwaa:rastl,4llt 1 ,. ‘ I should think, of from 50 to 100 '''', and they made a fearful noise. _7 \l a 4 which demolished the whole of the bedroom win v , 6.4, and came through into the MOM where my Spetorsnoensswaessreemtbh slit ua t e t d e i r n e g a;u aw ft wife 4.1 a. I were in bed. The panels of the front door were broken leaving nothing but Side door was also in "lea and glass of the jtuhreebda,raenfdrathmee whole of the windows were completely I found the same Anotherbtlt smashed.am m n n t the catah produce otnhereeoirutihbe esatsaeisr.w., stair-landing, it, sitting-room, and the t d h r i e r e d ni ti think but quite sure—in the be very much to burn. I vt,,ti fire, as one of the carpets began alarmed, and feared that the house would - nee a number of stones which wer e hurled into the house, and a thick black veil, with eyeholes, Which was recogni. found in my front garden, and which had doubtless been worn by one of the rioters to prevent ith •. t he legal tion. After proving compliance w that forms required by the statute, witness added done he had actually paid to repair the &wog . £l6 ss. 11d., in addition to which he bad sustained other losses, which would more than make up the difference between that amoun t and the sum claimed. Police-constable James Marshall, of the Guildford borough constabulary, produced three bludgeons. (They were formidable weapons, resembling the spokes of a cart wheel ; they were weighted with lead at one end, and had slings at the other to attach them to the wrist.) Witness deposed to having found them on the morning of the 22d ult., together with a quantity of fantastic clothing, THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 29, 1863. which had apparently been used for the purpose of disguise, under a straw rick near the Union work house, and within a short distance of Mr. Piper's residence. Mr, Capron having summed up the evidence and addressed the bench at some length, their worships consulted together for a few minutes in private. When the court was reopened, The Mayor intimated that the bench had no hesi tation in deciding upon this application. It was a perfectly clear case, and they were unanimous in determining that the claim should be allowed. Mr. Capron then applied for costs, which were also allowed, and the proceedings terminated. We understand that Mr. Weale, who sustained much more severe damage on the night in question, and whose loss is estimated at upwards of £lOO has entered into the necessary undertaking to bring an action for the amount to which he has been damni fied, THE CRAWLEY COURT-MARTIAL; (Army and Navy Gazette.) The great Aldcrehot court-martial has terminated in the Full and honourable acquittal of Colonel Crawley upon both the issues which formed the groundwork of his trial. The court has said that Colonel Crawley did not cause the orders for the close arrest to be carried out with undue and unnecessary severity, thereby inflicting great and grievous hardships on Lilley and his wife, and it says that he did not make a false statement in attributing the inconvenience that might have been suffered to Adjutant Fitzsimon. We are not disposed to quarrel with this decision. The great and grievous hardships alleged against him had become much diminished from the proportions they assumed when the first communications from India reached England. Because Colonel Ci awley's offence was not so enormous, it is held not to exist at all by the public. Colonel Crawley, in his vigorous and very bold defence, made some remarks upon the share of the press in the transaction. lie designated certain writers as self-consti tuted social hangmen, going about, rope in hand, with a morbid desire to practice their dreadful calling upon per sons in authority. But, unless a reflection of public opinion, the dictum of this or that writer has no influence upon the conduct of affairs. The instrument of the social hangman is of no more value than packthread, unless he can weave round it the strengthening support of the pub lic, and gain this by truthful statements and fair and unprejudiced reasoning. In this particular instance, the press has undoubtedly had to do with the hold ing of an investigation, but that Colonel Crawley in the main has good reason for complaints against it may well be doubted. What is the state of the case ? In July or August, 1862, accounts reached England of a very unfortunate state of things in a dragoon regiment at Mhow —a tyrannical colonel carrying everything before him with a high hand, and in a cruel manner, trying his paymaster, and depriving him of the privilege of communicating with his witnesses, accusing one-fourth of his officers of perjury illegally confining the principal non-commissioned officers, and inflicting cruel hardships, resulting in one case in death and another in madness. This is the picture that reached us from India. No doubt it was falsely coloured by those on the spot, and the statements about "another black-hole of Calcutta," and baking sergeants alive, were quite unjustifiable. No one will for a moment dispute that if the story were substantially true, it was a case for prompt and vigorous action on the part of the authorities, and as that action was only shown in the shape of a memorandum condemnatory of the military autho rities in India by those at home, the press demanded some thing more, namely, the trial and punishment of the person guilty of these enormities, whoever he might be. No one can fairly say that the circumstances did not constitute a case it which further investigation was not only justified, but urgently demanded. After a perusal of the evidence it is beyond all question that illegal proceedings took place in the Inniskilling Dragoons, and that these proceedings tended to cause the death in confinement of a non-commis sioned officer who had always borne a blameless character, and who was pronounced legally innocent of any crime. Colonel Crawley's trial was not the act of the press, The press asked that, whoever was responsible should be arraigned and Vanished. The authorities selected Colonel Crawley, and their failure against bim i s not to be cast in the teeth of the press ; nor can Colonel Crawley fairly turn round upon his journalistic enemies. For, though he is protected to a great extent by superior orders, and is thus legally exonerated from the more serious part of the accusations, it cannot be denied that his representations had much to do with the illegal punishment to which these men were subjected. As Colonel Crawley stated in his defence, neither General Mansfield nor General Farrell had any animosity against Lilley, Wakefield, and Duval. But he does not follow up his remark and lead us to its natural conclusion, which is, that the exercise of authority by these generals was brought about by representations made by Col. Crawley, who might have animosity against the men, for he knew they were to be damaging witnesses against him in a case in which he was vitally interested. A piece of illegality was harshly carried out, and it was done at Col. Crawley's instance, and with Col. Crawley's know ledge, although not upon his legal responsibility. This appears to be the state of the case as established by the evidence. We are not aware whether it is proposed to punish Sir Wm. Mansfield for his share in the business. Sir William says that he did not intend that his orders should be literally mild out for the detention of the sergeant majors in arrest, that he had reason to suppose the Mhos, court-martial would bo over several days before it was over, and that it was in this belief he had allowed the arrest to continue till Captain Smales's defence had closed. Upon this view his offence seems to have been one only of negli gence, arising from confidence in those by whom the arrest was carried out, and to whom he might perhaps not un reasonably look for a compliance with the spirit, and not the letter, of his order, The case is that of a man brought before a magistrate, regarding whom the magis trate says there is no case to warrant his committal for trial. but who is nevertheless kept for weeks in close confinement, We know how public feeling would resent such an outrage upon the liberty of the subject, but we are stating no more than the bare fact, when we say that in a legal sense Lilley, Wakefield, and Duval were each in the position of such a man. Colonel Crawley is not legally responsible for this, but surely somebody is ; and, unless the somebody is brought forward and punished, we are forced to arrive at the conclusion that the law may sometimes bo violated against a soldier, provided the responsibility can be dis • tributed between two or three officers of high rank. write to my friend, J. H—, in Brisbane, who promised to I send my letters to me if 1 sent him my address. I sent it to I post by Mr. D---- when he again went for the drays. Be fore the drays came we wont short of flour and sugar, so that we were living on nothing but meat and tea. I would rather be without meat than flour; but the want of water is worse than anything. I have felt the want of it (water) often. When at last the drays got up I was glad to see some men with them, one of whom took my place, and I left the next day to look for shearing. You may remember that I told you in my last letter that I had bought two horses, one of which I left on the Downs with Mr. F—; the other (the one through which I lost myself in finding) I brought with me, and sold him when I got employment for £l5, making £5 on him. I bought another from Mr. D—, when I was leaving, for £3O. She is nearly a full-blood mare, but too spirited for me. She threw me three times, and went back to Mr. D---'s; the third time she threw both me and the saddle off. I walked back to Mr. D—'s, but she was not there, and I have not heard anything of her since, and I am here (at Mr. S---'s) about three weeks. I bought another horse here, a young one, for £l2, intending to look for the mare with it, and as also q man requires two, one for himself and another to carry his swag,' having to travel so much ; but he has got such a bad cold he is not fit to travel, so that I cannot go shearing yet. I did not shear much here, as my fingers got sore, but I cooked for the shearers, for which they gave me 4s. a week each. There were eight shearers. They also allowed me to shear what I could. " Mr. S— has offered to send a black fellow (a native) for my mare if I will stop and lamb down' for him, which will be about six weeks; so I think it is the best thing I could do, as it will give me time to get both my horses right, and I will be able to get another shed before the shearing is done. You ask me if Igo to church. My dear mother, there is not a single one nearer than Rockhampton, so it would be hard for me to go—and as to keeping Sunday, I have not had six Sundays to myself since I left Brisbane. Sheep have to be fed on Sundays as well as week days. As to the land order, I found that the smallest allotment you could • get was 40 acres, of which the order wouid buy but 18. Well, as I did not want the land, I sold the order for £l2 108., which I spent in Brisbane and on my way up the country, when I first landed." Execution of Alice Holt at Chester, Yesterday the extreme sentence of the law was carried into effect on Alice Holt, at Chester Gaol, for the murder of her mother by poison. The evi- dance at the trial, before Mr. Justice Willes, on Dec. 8 and 9, showed that prisoner, her mother, and a man named Holt, with whom she cohabited, lived together at Stockport. In Feb. last the deceased Mary Bailey, was taken ill, and the prisoner insured her life for £26 at a premium of 6d. per week. She induced a woman named Betty Wood to personate her mother before the doctor, telling her that the agent said " Anyone would do." The proposal was accepted by the Wesleyan Assurance Society, and from that time the mother became worse. Prisoner called the parish surgeon and the infirmary visiting officer, both of whom were ignorant of the other's visits, and complained of their medicine not being given. On the 25th and 26th the prisoner bought some arsenic—a quarter of a pound each time, which she put in a jug with some boiling water, and sprinkled about the room where her mother lay to kill, vermin. The night of the 26th deceased had some brandy and water, and complained of grounds being at the bottom. Prisoner said, " You ought to have drunk grounds and all." Mary Bailey died in the morning with all the symptoms of arsenical poisoning, and was buried. The personation came to the ears of the office, and the body was disinterred on June 12, when the body was found perfectly fresh but " saturated with arsenic," of which no less than 160 grains were found in the stomach and ad jacent parts. The unfortunate woman was not tried at the Summer Assizes, in consequence of her being enciente. The child has since been adopted by Holt's uncle, the only person who has visited her since her imprisonment. She has been sullen, and strongly protested her innocence. Ou Sunday, the 27th, the prisoner made the fol lowing statement:— " On the Monday before mother died, I brought the insurance paper home, insuring my mother's life for £26 and mine £2B. He then proposed I should get some charcoal and put it under mother's bed alight when shewas asleep, and she would never wake more. On Wednesday night Holt and I never went to bed. He said it would be a great releasement if she was in her grave, and he would buy some stretchnine (strychnine) if I would give it her. I said, Thou'lt be found out.' He said, They cannot find it out by that.' I said, ' Thou has brought me to destruc tion, and now thou wants to bring me to the gallows,' He then beat me. In the beer of which I spoke I saw, after my mother had drunk it, a quantity of blue arsenic grounds. I said, ' Thou halt given my mother arsenic.' He said, 'lf thou tell aught, I'll have thee up for defrauding the insur ance,' and said, ' Nobody will believe but what thou has done it thyself.' This was the only arsenic my mother ever 'had." Another statement was afterwards made by the prisoner to this effect :- 4 , George Holt offered mother some beer, in which the arsenic was put. Mother was sick and could not take it, and set it on the mantelpiece and went out. I said, Mother, can'st not sup this gill of beer ?' She then took it from my hand and supp'n it. When I looked at the jug I saw the blue arsenic at the bottom. There was lion. left in the jug —as much as would fill a smelling bottle. I put the jug on the top shelf of the cupboard, and thought of taking it myself. When Ann Bailey cleaned the cupboard out it was washed out. She says—' This is arsenic. That is the jug my mother had her beer in.' I said, Yes, I did not know how it had got in,' Betty Wood then came in, and our discourse was dropped off." Both these statements were signed. In the middle of the night of Sunday she was removed from the county to the city gaol, accompanied by the chaplain, Rev. J. Kilner ; the city sheriff, R. Littler ; and the governor of the gaol. On her arrival she par took of toast and coffee, and listened attentively to the exhortation of Mr. Kilner, joining audibly when in chapel in the prayer for murderers introduced in the Burial Service. The execution took place at 10 minutes past S. When near the drop her courage failed her, and she was half dragged, half carried to the scaffold. On the platform she fell on her knees, and moaned piteously, "The Lord have mercy upon me," which she continued to do while Calcraft pulled the bolt. The drop only fell partially, and when it was at last pulled down she swung about partially strangled for two or three minutes, the fall not being enough to break the neck. About 1,000 people witnessed the scene. ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE. HOME CIRCUIT.—KINGSTON, Dec. 28. (Before Mr. Baron Pigott.) DARING ROBRZRY. Frederick Cox, 30, John Curry, 17, and James Elsey, 16, were charged with a robbery, accom panied by violence upon Edward Law. Mr. C. Smith prosecuted the prisoners were un defended. The offence committed by the prisoners was of a most daring and aggravated character. The prose cutor is a publisher, residing in Essex-street, Strand, and it appeared that at half-past five o'clock in the evening of the 29th of August last he was walking along a place called Ccobm Hurst, about a mile from Croydon, iu the direction of Coombe, when, as he was passing a small coppice by the side of the road, he hoard a rustling in it, and at the same instant two men, whom he afterwards recognised as the prisoners Cox and Curry, rushed upon him, and Cox struck him a blow, either with his fist or a stick, at the back of the head, which felled him to the ground and rendered him for short time totally insensible. They then endeavoured to drag him out of the road into a field, no doubt for the purpose of rifling his pockets; but the prosecutor having somewhat recovered attempted to give an alarm, upon which Cox seized him so tightly round the throat with one hand that he was scarcely able to breathe, and with the other struck him several blows on the head. The prisoner Curry then snatched his watch from his neck, breaking the guard-chain ; after which all of them ran away, in consequence, as the prosecutor supposed, of their hearing some one approaching. The prosecutor also stated that before the attack was made upon him he observed the prisoner Elsey following him, and ap parently dodging his footsteps, and there was no doubt that he was ors the watch ready to give an alarm. The prisoners made their escape, and were not taken into custody until November, when it ap peared that Curry sold the watch that had been stolen from the prosecutor to a boy named Crouch,' and his father suspecting there was something wrong in the transaction gave information to In spector Smith, of the P division, and this led to the prisoners being taken into custody. The prisoners, when called upon for their defence, merely asserted that they were not the parties by whom the robbery was committed, and they ac counted for the possession of the watch by saying that they "picked it up." The Jury found all the prisoners guilty. Mr. Baron Pigott sentenced Elsey and Curry to 12 months' hard labour, and C3X, who there was reason to believe was the ringleader in the affair, was sentenced to five years' penal servitude, and to receive 25 lashes with a cat-o'-nine-tails. Two other cases were then disposed of, the details of w b h u ic e tt u areess of theunfitfoHr publication, Circuit. n,and this concluded e diseases is [AzvEnT - - -- - hest Complaints.—The enumeration of these Dange rous riENTl—Holloway's Ointment and Pills.— lishmen scarcelyknow them necessary, as unfortunately most Eng common colds. influenza, to their cost. Whooping cough, croup, bronchitis, asthma, pleurisy, cilea S t t treated by rubbing Holloway's inflammation of tel its earlier stage s , are largs, and even consumption, in sitoulders. It penetrates upon the back between cold shiverings, relieves theates internally, checks the cl en w t7 ' t s h F ey ili p s u a r h i o fy uld th a e blood, promote per tOhientnient on the the chest, and removes the oppreg _ over-gorged r lungs, gra duallyll wu r t a o tyr sea treating t eiug distressingly etto nswhile class re stores disagreeableheo h s a t n r ud chighly e s d p l a zi rao 4 ' 'File usingof diseases, the o spiration, and allay dangerous irritations, Ointment; IRELAND, DUBLIN, Dec. 28. Several soldiers belonging to the 86th Regiment, at present stationed in Beggar's bush barracks, were in a house of ill fame, in Fulham's-court, off Brown street, on Christmas night, when two of them Henry Edwards and John M'Namara, had a quarrel. The latter drew a knife, which the other and a woman , endeavoured in vain to wrest from him. Edwards soon after left the house, but he was followed by M'Namara, when the quarrel was resumed. Ed wards ran away into Brown-street; the other pur sued him, drew his knife, and stabbed him through the heart. He then tried to escape, but he was arrested by the police with the aid of some civilians. It was Saturday morning when this occurred. The deemed was in coloured clothes. He was a waiter at the mess, and is said to have been much respected in the regiment. A coroner's jury, which did not conclude the inquiry till late on Saturday afternoon, brought in the following verdict: — "That Henry Edwards, a private in the 86th Regiment of Foot, died on the morning of Saturday, the 26th of Decem ber, 1863, from the effects of a certain wound inflicted on him the same morning by John M'Namara, a private soldier in said regiment, now in custody." The prisoner was then committed on a coroner's warrant for trial at the next Commission. On the 15th of this month a piece of silver plate was presented to Mr. M'Mahon on behalf of the fisheries of Galway and Mayo, in the form of a silver salver, 19 ieches in length, and weighing 90 ounces, with the following inscription in Irish and English : "Presented to Patrick M‘Mahon, Esq., M.P., by 172 fishermen and others in Connemara, and in other portions of the counties of Galway and Mayo, Ireland, in acknow ledgment of his invaluabla services in obtaining the Act of Parliament to amend the Fishery Laws (Ireland), 1863," SPIRIT OP THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. TIMES.—In the spring of the present year it was announced, on the very highest authority, that a terrible calamity had befallen the French Govein meet. The Government had not, indeed, to re proach itself tleat this calamity had overtaken it through its own remissness and supineness; the evil had been long foreseen and manfully struggled against. This, in fact, was the only consolation that an evil fortune had left them. All was lost except their honour, the honour of maintaining to the last a stern though unavailing struggle. If Troy could have been saved it would have been by the hand of Hector, and if M. Thiers could have been kept out of the Legislative Cnamber it would have been by the superhuman efforts of M. Persigny. He fore saw, and he proclaimed the danger. If he fought like Hector he prophesied like Cassandra ; but, like Cassandra, no one regarded him. We are now in a position to ask, was the election of M. Thiers a real, substantial misfortune, or was it one of the Govern ment's own creating ? Were their dreadful appre hensions the result of reason and good sense, or were they the frightful phantoms of a distempered ima gination ? We have had one sample of the reality, and we confess that the aspect which it wears to our eyes is not extremely formidable. Perfectly calm and collected, with unruffled temper and irreproach able taste M.lThiers moved his amendment for reduc ing the amount of Treasury Bonds which the Mi nister of Finance is allowed toissuefrom 300,000,000 f. to 150,000,000 f. Since he last addressed a popular assembly twelve years have elapsed, years eventful and interesting alike for France and for himself. There has been no demand in France for that clear and persuasive eloquence which shone so brightly in the times of Louis Philippe, and swayed with so much advantage to the best interests of France the deliberations of the Constituent Assembly. Some things have happened in the interval the remembrance of which would not be very favour able to a oalm and orderly discussion—things which no ono ever forgets, and very few sincerely forgive. During those twelve years M. Thiers, instead of indemnifying himself for the absence of all opportunities of political distinction and the interruption of a brilliant career by the enjoyment of wealth and ease, has undertaken and brought to a conclusion a gigantic enterprise, the " History of the Consulate and the Empire," a noble contribution to the literature of France, and an im perishable monument of his own genius. Many men would have availed themselves of the first opportunity of speaking in public which had pre sented itself for so many years to make some passing • allusion to what they had don© and suffered, and to define the position which they intended to occupy with regard to the Government and the Assembly. With excellent taste and judgment P.Z. Thiers has risen superior to this temptation. He has felt appa rently that his antecedents are too well known and his position too thoroughly recognised to render such remarks necessary, and that there would be little dignity in complaint or oxplanation where it is quite clear that he could not, without placing himself in an attitude hostile to his audience and incurring frequent interruption and reprehension from the President, do justice to the whole subject. He promises to give us on a future occasion the reasons which have induced him to return to public life. In the meanwhile he has contented himself with getting up a very pleasant little debate on a rather abstruse financial subject, explaining the whole question with incomparable clearness, con ciliating the assent of his audience, and winning the admission from the Government themselves that his views and theirs are almost entirely identical. There was an opportunity, doubtless, for any amount of sarcasm and invective which M. Thiers might have thought fit to employ. He who speaks of the expendi ture of public money may easily be drawn in to consider the objects for which that expenditure is made, and thus to discuss almost any part of the policy of the Government which he pleases. This temptation also M. Thiers resisted. He refused to be drawn aside, and M. Picard would have done wisely to follow his example, into the consideration of the policy of the Mexican Expedition, to pay for which 210,000,000 f. out of the 300,000,000 f. were spent. He started from the plain and sensible pro position that the money having been spent under a lawful authority must, at all events, be made good, and that the whole question was one similar to that of a reserve in the case of a private banker, how much of floating debt was it expedient for the country to have. He proposed, now that measeres had been taken for reducing that debt,to take at the same time steps which would prevent its being legally increased by the Government up to the amount at which it now stands. - There was nothing very alarming in all this; it was a practical ques tion, treated by an experienced statesman in a thoroughly business-like way. Everybody seemed satisfied, and so the debate ended. There is, to our eyes at least, nothing very' alarming in all this. We observe in this debate nothing which leads us to believe that chaos has come again, or that the Em peror is likely once more to require frnishd James apartments in in the neighbourhood of St. odate square. The man who was able to and himself to the Chamber of the Orleansadecynnasinty shown that to the Assembly of the Republic with the same tact he can adapt h h all imself to the Assembly of the Empire. He -has caught the tone of the place, and will probably improve f it which before the he leaves it. He will state opinions, soma of BUSH LIFE IN QUEENSLAND. The following is an extract from a letter written by a young gentleman who left Dublin in January, 1862, for Queensland, and, as it affords a good illus• tration of bush life, it may be read with interest by those who intend emigrating to that colony River, Queensland, Sept. 21, 1863. tg tell you my history from the time I wrote you last. " I left Brisbane on the Ist of January, with my horse's head towards the north. I stopped that night at William B.'s, as I bad seen him in Brisbane and told him I should do so. He is situated on the Pine River, about 16 miles from Brisbane. " I spent a very pleasant evening, and in tha morning went to look for my horse, and in looking for him lost my self. At first I ran here and there in great confusion, but I came to myself soon, sat down, filled my pipe, and thobght, but I could not make up my mind in which way the house lay. At last I found a creek (a creek is what you would call a stream at home, only that in this country it is but a continuation of water holes in dry weather). We ll,l knew that the creek must flow into the river, and if I once was_on the river I could make the house, so 1 resolved to follow it, but I did not come to that determination till I walked a mile or so all round in every direction but one, which one I was sure was not the right one. I set out to look for the hot se before sunrise, it was now about ucon when I started to run the creek down. I walked on until the water holes became a stream, and, as I had been thirsty for some time, but in too great a hurry to give myself time to drink, I could not withstand the temptation of the stream, it looked so cod and sweet, so I took a deep draught before I found, to my disgust, that it was salt. I followed the . creek for seven or eight miles more, till my thirst, which had increased, forced me to come back to the water holes from whence I started. I again struck out in every direc tion but the right one, which I had also avoided in the morning, and it was not until the sun had set, and after I had made a fire to sleep by, that I could bring myself to try it, when to my great joy I got home, hungry, and tired of outmae, which was fully repaid by tho lei,son taught—viz., never to leave any place without looking at the direction of the sun. I found that R--n and others had been looking for me, and had at last gone round to all the neighbours to get them to help them the next day in the search, I and my mate then rode about 400 miles before we could get a job. In the winter months work is anything but plenty, as more than half the population live by sheep, so that when shearing and lambing are over there is no work but for a few shepherds. At last I got a job with a party of travel ling shepherds belonging to Messrs. G., W., and Co., of Sydney, which were going to form a new station. 16 WM a badly fitted out party, having only one small horse dray, and no tents but one for the overseer, so that we always slept round the fire. Every man has his own bed, which he carries about with him wherever he goes, and which is com posed of a pair of blankets ; however, it is no hardship sleeping out in this country during the most part of the year so long as it does not rain. Unfortunately, it rained with us more or less for the first month, and all my paper which I had wrapped up in my clothes got destroyed. I have been out all day with the sheep wet to the skin, and in the evening found my blankets wet through, the ground covered with water, and the rain coming down as if it had not rained a drop for a year. We would then make a good fire, and cut a lot of boughs to lie on to keep us out of the water. I for one have got some of the most renovating sleep in that way that ever I got in my life. I believe if a man is tired and wet one of the best things for him is a pair of wet blankets. We got our breakfast at sunrise, then the flock of 5,000 was divided into four, with one man to each division. We then fed them along the road for a distance of 5 to 10 miles per day, accord ing to where we might find water. (I asked the overseer se veral times when we passed a station to buy me some paper, but he always forgot it). At night the sheep were boxed, and each man had to watch two hours every night. After a while we left the road, and we then went through some of the wildest and roughest country I ever saw. We followed up the bed of a dry creek through the ranges for three or four days. We then left the creek, crossed a mountain, and got on some beautiful country. The dray was unable to come with us, and had to wait till Mr. D--, the superin tendent, found a road for it where it could travel. Mr. D— then went down to Rockhampton, distant about 200 miles east from here, to send up stores. He promised me to get a man to take my pace, as I did not like the shepherding, but when he came back in two months he had neither bullock drays nor the mar. The drays were at the other side of the Dawson river for the last month, and would have remain there for some time longer, as that river was flooded, and they could not go; across. He himself had to swim it. This time I got from him the back of a letter which I used to Government doubtless will accept, and others which they will reject. But that ready seems to be all. And it was to prevent this that every instrument of calumny, coercion, and corruption was lavishly em ployed, and that the Minister of the Interior did all in his power to persuade the world that on the elec tion or non-election of M. Thiers depended the future destiny of France. Few people in England have been persuaded to view the matter in this very serious light. For ourselves, we are inclined to think that the election of M. Thiers and his active participation in the business of the Chamber is a solid advantage for the Imperial Government, and that instead of putting forth their whole power to oppose him, the Goverument would have done not unwisely had they tendered him their support. One of the greatest difficulties in way of a return to something like a Parliamen tary system has ever be en that the celebrities of the old Chambers of France have resolutely held aloof from any share in the Government, and forced the discussion of public affairs into hands greatly inferior to their own, and have thus lowered the character and weakened the influence of the Im perial Chambers. The absence of well-known names and voices perpetually reminded France that the Government under which she lived was not pos sessed of the confidence of a class of statesmen who had been trained under a freer system, and the fact that her Parliaments had been elected under uni versal suffrage could not, except in the eyes of very enthusiastic democrats, compensate for the dearth of talent and the absence of statesmanlike experi ence. That a man like M. Thiers, an oratorical and literary celebrity of the very highest order, should come forward to join an Assembly to which he could only be admitted upon taking the oath of alle giance to the Emperor's Government, was a sub stantial triumph and advantage which nothing but the most extraoreinary perverseness and short sightedness could turn into a defeat or a disgrace. But while we think that the appearance of M. Thiers in public life cannot be otherwise than a gain to the Imperial Government, we are by no means so sure that it is fraught with the same amount of benefit to M. Thiers himself. Far advanced in life, possessed of an ample fortune and of an established reputation, we are unable to see what object M. Thiers will gain to compensate him for the very considerable sacrifice of sitting in a Chamber so con stituted as that in which he has just made his debut. Had he wished for office under the present dynasty, it has doubtless often been within his reach • but he bee chosen—he who has been the Prime Minister and the leader of the Opposition in a Parliament to which the Administration was responsible—to fill a seat iu a Chamber which is never entered by those who have the real management of affairs, and which cannot aspire to anything more than the transac tion of ordinary business, the adoption of Estimates which it cannot refuse, and the tendering of advice to the Government which it may take or may reject with the like impunity. If this be a duty it is a melancholy one, and we wait with some curiosity to hear the reasons which have induced M. Thiers to undertake it. POST.—The Home Secretary has ordered a medi cal inquiry in Townley's case, and there can be no doubt that it is desirable to obtain further evidence as to the mental capacity of this unfortunate young man. If he be now insane, that will be a ground for staying the execution f the sentence passed upon him ; if it can be proved by conclusive scien tific eestimony that when Townley murdered Miss Goodwin he was not in a condition of mind to be legally responsible for a criminal action, that may be a ground for reviewing the verdict of the jury. But these are questions that must be approached with the utmost caution, and considered with ex ceeding care. The law is clear. If a man knows that he is committing a criminal act, the knowledge makes him responsible for it. But it is contended that the legal definir:on of insanity is at variance with the true definition Of the disease. Tha law requires that a delusion, or hallucination, should be proved ; but medical opinion fecognises a form of insanity which developer itself in a momentary irre sistible impulse. A criminal act which is a phe nomenon is said to be evidence of the suspension of intelligence. If a husband kills a wife he loves, or a mother the babe she is nursing, that, we are told, is necessarily an act of insanity. The will is led captive by a sudden disordered impulse which is uncontrollable, and this is called " instinctive mad ness." Now, if this be true—if the principle be a r ght principle—we are bound, we suppose, to adopt it without regard to consequences. But looking at it, as we own we prefer to do, as a psychological theory simply, we may be suffered to test it by re ference to the case in which it was sought to be established. That case is by no means an uncom mon one. Townley was engaged to Miss Goodwin, and he appears to have been deeply in love with her. When, therefore, she broke the engagement he was very much grieved, and, as it seems, more grieved than surprised. He admitted he was not a good match for her; he . 1 1EO reason to think she had seen some one she likes better ; and he only asked to hear her decision frord her own lips. Foolishly, and fondly, perhaps—for iliss Goodwin evidently desired to part in kindness with her lover—this request was granted, and he vent to Wigwell Grange, and, after spending some time in her company, committed the murder for which he now lies under sentence 'f death. Such, in few words, are the facts of Townley's case, and we can find nothing in them to take it out of ordinary category of crime, except it be the position in so ciety which the parties occupied. The soldier who was tried and condemned last week for being acces sory to the murder of his sweetheart acted, no doubt, under a like " irresistible impulse," only that, in stead of defending and reasoning on his act, as Townley did, he attempted self••murder. But then it is said Townley's grandmother's sister was a lunatic, and that in the interval between the receipt of Miss Goodwin's letter, asking to be relieved from her engagement, and the murder, he gave way to his feelings of regret, refused food, and took brandy and morphia. This again is not, we believe, ex ceptional conduct, only it does not usually culminate in murder. The incidents of the tragedy are indeed commonplace, and the denouement is not out of the order of an ill-regulated and passionate nature. Taking this case, therefore, to be a leading case of " instinctive madness," one may well ask where a legal line is to be drawn between insanity and crime ? The medical theory is that Townley did not medi tate murder, but that he was suddenly, mysteri ously, impulsively, and uncontrollably moved to its commission. They throw in the lunacy of the grandmother's sister as a makeweight; but the gist of their argument, as we understand it, is, that in the course of his conversation with Miss Goodwin this young man's reason forsook him, and that he acted on an insane impulse. Carried out, this means that any man who commits an emotional crime is not legally responsible for his act. It admits, we conceive,of no other construction, and looking at it in that light we must demur to a proposition which would in effect break up the framework of society. We are, we confess, more concerned about this general, sweeping, and, as we think, dangerous and destructive proposition, than we are about the fate of Townley. It would not be a bard matter to show that the murder of Miss Goodwin was, as far as we have the means of forming an opinion on it, not an act of sudden uncontrollable impulse, and we might even go so far as to say that, if it was committed under the influence of insanity, the insanity was of the character known to and defined by the law, for Townley said at the time, and he says still, that he acted upon a theory or a delusion of his own—that Miss Goodwin having engaged herself to him was his property, and that he had a right to deal with her as such. He maintained this when her blood was still warm on his hands, and he maintains it to this day. But while, as regards Townley, we may think it is desirable to obtain further evidence as to his state of mind, we are, we repeat, far more impressed with the importance of the general question that has been raised in his be half. That question is one that ought, we submit, to be considered apart from any particular ease, and to be decided as justice and the security of society require, without respect to any sympathy or senti ment which have been interpolated in the interest of Townley. If there be any doubt in his case, let him have the full benefit of it, but let there be no mistake about the principle on which his sentence is varied. It has been suggested that there may be grounds on which the clemency of the Crown can be exercised irrespective of the plea of insanity, but for our own part we must say that we have not been able to discover in what they consist. If the a°!: was the act of a sane man it was murder without extenuating circumstances. All the sensaotui t of writing on the subject must be swept dcelernanPed cell, the discussion. The horrors of the topics. There agony of the convict, are all irrelevant the waiting for an ignominious death, agony the last is no text in this case for have been mooted affect ishment. The questions that the root of hi' a sermon on capital p un . safety. public morality and g They touch the very . core h es t human ern.They o to f our social system. comprehend the obligations, and 1.. w the principles laid down Fasting in our ten derest Are we i relations.to the administration of they embrace the Are Stlb • 85uirol ? j e not to be accounted for b Are we to accept the generally influence me tion that a crime which • violates nature, and insanity or the irresponsibilityiisi h o p criminal i o n A i; i or n si t a i h ard justice,n d _ y any of the motives that n itself o f evidence the criminal of t h the Are acts Nhich are suppose d to b e th e resu lt o f vehement passions, wheth er o f love or hate, or of both combined, to be treated as features of mental disease • These are momentous questions ; and, in 80 far as they will have to be answered in the in- Quiry which has been ordered in Townley's case, it is to be hoped that scientific ingenuity may be tem pered with judicial common sense. In dissecting the human mind we must be careful not to loobell or sever the sacred ties that bind together families and nations. _ Disgraceful Scene in a Catholic Chapel. On the morning of Christmas• day a disgraceful proceed ing took place in St. Anne's Catholic chapel, Lord-street, Edge-hill, Liverpool. As is usual at this festive season of the year a midnight service was performed in the chapel, the Rev. Father Sullivan and two other resident priests assisting at the altar. The doors of the sacred edifice were opened about five minutes before 12 o'clock on Thursday night, but some time before that hour a large number of people had congregated together in front of the chapel, and it was noticed that several of the crowd were in a state of intoxication. Money was expected at the doors on entering the chapel, and the majority of those who went in contri buted; but about a quarter past 12 o'clock, in a few moments after the service had commenced, the Rev. Father Sullivan and the other two officiating priests being at the altar, two men entered the chapel, but refused to pay anything at the door. They were observed to be intoxicated, and it was also noticed that they were acting in concert with a group of men outside, who also appeared to be more or less drunk. The two men above named had not been in the chapel many minutes before their conduct became very unbecoming and disorderly. In a loud tone they made use of very offensive epithets in reference to the Catholic religion, and ultimately the officers belonging to the chapel made an effort to eject them. This was the signal for the commencement of $ scene of indescribable confusion and disorder. Some 40 or 50 men, apparently labouring under the influence of liquor, and in a state of wild excitement, rushed in the chapel and jumped on to the benches during the time service was being performed. They shouted and bawled as they stood on the benches, making use of foul language. The chapel was nearly filled with the regular congregation, and on the dis turbance commencing, and the remarks above named being ma , le, several of the members present endeavoured to turn the disorderly persons out, on which a general row took place. attended with fighting between the parties inside the chapel. The service was of course stepped,:andi as may be imagined, the greatest consternation was caused. The Rev. Father Sullivan, who is said to be in very indif ferent health, was so much affected by the scene of disorder and riot before him, that he fainted, and was carried away from the altar robed in his full vestments, into an adjoining apartment, and the two other priests also retired until order could be restored. Information of what was going forward in the chapel having been conveyed to the police authori ties, Inspector Wilson and a number of officers entered the chapel, and in a short time succeeded in turning out the dis turbing parties ; many of them, however, endeavoured to go in again but they were prevented from doing so. The doors of the chapel were locked, and in a short time the ser vices were resumed, and concluded about half-past 2 o'clock in the morning. Although the malcontents could not again obtain admix • sion to the chapel, large groups remained in front of it out• side, and for several hours the immediate neighbourhood of the edifice was a scene of the greatest excitement and die order. We learn that there are large number of Orangemen 1: 8 * siding in the neighbourhood, and it is believed that the dis graceful outrage in question was instituted by some of the members of that body,—Liverpool Daily Post, COUNTRY MARKETS. -.ifs COLCHESTER—DEc. 26. There was a very short supply of wheat at our market to• day, and the currencies of last week were well maintained• Trade inactive. In barley, which comes scarce, fully 1 8 per qr more money was made. Beans and peas were again rather lower. Wheat, white ..44s 50s Beans, Mazagan..2Bs 3 28 red 40s 44s middle & small.32s 3 68 Barley Oats GLOUCESTER-DEC. 26. There was a fair show of English wheat to-day from the farmers which mostly sold at rather improving prices. Foreign. wheat was dull, with no advance on the prices of last week. Oats, barley, beans, and peas were dull, bu t still unaltered in value. CHELMSFORD—DEc. 24. At this corn exchange to-day there was a moderate shovr of wheat, with an inactive business doing, and the prices of las , week were maintained, but no increase in price W 8 obtainable. Other grain unchanged in price, with a dull trade. Wheat, old white...3os 46s , Fees, Partridge.... 360 3, 9 ° new ..44s 49s White 38s 3 ,Y, ° old red....34s 39s Boiling 3 90 418 new 38s 41s Dun 330 38° Barley ..27s 37s Ditto new ......—s "" 9 ",, 8 0 Chevalier 2Bs 39s Beans, Tick, old ..348 0 --a Grinding 22s 31s new.. -0 408 Malt.... Chevalier . 64s 69 0 new.. --s —8 Oats 20s 28s Mazagan ..... . , 30s 38° KIRKCALDY GRAIN—DEc. 26. We had good supplies of barley and oats at our market to-day, but small of wheat. Sales were slow. Wheat and oats 6d, below the currencies of last week. No change on barley. Wheat. Barley. Oats. First....3ss Od 25s Od l6s 6d Second .. 37s Od 26s Oct 17s 6d Third....4os Od I 29s Od 18s 6d COAL . 1 6 Prizes of Coal per Ton at s. d. LUCK ET. the close of the market. Byass's Bebside West Hartley ..16 3 Cowpen Hartley 16 3 Lambert's West Hart-:. ley 16 0 West Hartley 16 6 Holywell 17 9 Hastings Hartley l6 6 Eden Main 18 6 Wylam 17 6 West Wylam.. l6 0 Walker Primrose 15 0 Tanfield Moor Butes l5 0 End. Tunstall Haswell South Hetton s.. ; 2 2 0 0 00 Braddyll's Hetton ........ 19 0 Hartlepool East Hartlepool...... 0 20 0 Reugh Hall •• 19 8e110e............ .19 Harton 18 0 Wharncliffe lB uo Framwellgate .... .• • 18 ...0 Cassop l9 0 Caradoc l9 n South Kelloe l9 0 Hetton 2O :et, 116; sold. 86. Walls End. Russel's Hetton 19 0 Ships at marks Foreign Mail Packet List. MAILS DUE. 113. Australia and Mauritius, via Southampton .. San' v, via Marseilles Jay- 4 Brazil and Cape Verde, by British pacXet. JO. 9. Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, and St. Helena .Jan' .. China, Penang, and Singapore, via Southarnpton Jao• a, via Marseilles Dec. Falkland Islands Gibraltar, via Southampton .. Jan. 2. India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via Southampton ‘, via Marseilles... • D ec ' India (Bombay), via Southampton 6. via Marseilles J Portugal.... Malta, Egypt, and Aden, via Southampton .......... Ja aull ' via Marseilles ........ Dec. Newfoundland •• Oporto and Vigo U. S. and British N. America, L y packet d . . . by U.S. packet.... n l. by Canadian packet.. 10. W.C. of Africa, Madeira, and Tencritre an. ' j 14 , Bahamas, via New York ... • J 1312. 29. Dee• Mexico.. All parts of West Indies, including Chili, Peru, I Dec. 29. California. and British Columbia. ..... „ AnvEnrrisEmENT.J—Avoid medicines: they always„ -- `, f atn vate chronic complaints, but Du Barry's Delicious I ' l '4 o oo Restoring Revalenta Arabica Food, which saves fifty t 1 a° its cost in other remedies, invariably cures them, ref" e r, perfect digestion, strong nerves, sound lungs, healthy "e' r 9 pure blood, refreshing sleep, functional regularity , and en out to the most disordered or enfeebled. We extract a ieW de of 60,000 Cures :—Cure No. 58,216 of the Marchion ess y _ Brehan, Paris, of a Aver complaint, wasting years, debility, with a nervous palpitation all over, / 3 _, digestion, constant sleeplessness, the most intolerable nerf o r ; agitation, and dreadfully low spirited.—Cure No. 1,771. 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Courtney, Esq., of Oxford-ter;ace, Hyde-park, ageu.ne DiGint.—On the Feast of the Holy Innocents, at Kett e ar ton, after a painful illness, Sister Mary Anne Beinhe Order of St. Benedict (Mary Ann Lceutia DigbY),/y, beloved daughter of lienelm Henry Digby, Escl T S ' ive r , HEATH.- On the 26th inst., A. W. Heath, Eq. , 14° parade, Leamington. MYLNE.—On Christmas-day, at A mwell, Hoes, - C, Mylne, Esq., C.E., FA:4S., aged 83 It London: Primed and Pubitshed by WILLIAM AND s . o . of No. 112, Strand, Printer , at THE Surf ffle r , e — up - ty Strand, in the Precinct of the in t O h e Middlesex. —Tuesday, Decemlnr 29, 1803. ~Y 1 mer neat V: zt. klikr A Tax ( in th boys of tt Cool Man Com Item She' Cam Port Phil Bou Bav Poi Bolt 11111 Yd be lo ab