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

SCHLESWIG-HOLSTEIN. (From the Times Correspondent.) HAMBURG, DEC. 25. The intelligence has just reached ns that Lord Wodehouse's mission has been successful, that the Ministry at Copenhagen has resigned in a body, and that the Rigsraad has been summoned to reas semble for the purpose of cancelling the recent Act for the incorporation of Schleswig. It is further stated that the King has lett 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 can be no doubt that a very serious crisis is impending, and that very m uc h s till rema i ns 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 Ministryat Copenhagen had throughout a course of years violated the engagements contracted by Denmark in the much 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 ont, so that the provi sions of the Treaty of 1852, which had been framed in anticipation of this event, were called into force. But the right of succession in Denmark proper differs from that in the Duchies 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 mule issue the female representative is called to the throne, the German Duchies recognise the male line only. This fact, so opportune at the present moment, has been seized with great avidity 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 support—first, the claims of Duke Frederick of Augustenburg, the present pretender to the duke dom of S c hlEswig-Holstein ; secondly, to claim the inseparable ution of the Duchies (Schleswig and Holstein) between themselves under his sceptre i.e., ~ to sever them entirely from Denmark. Thus, yo u see, the question has two distinct bearings, both resting more or less on the London Protocol of 1853. That Treaty re - established the rights and privileges of both p a rties—Denmark, on the one hand, and the German Duchies on the other, as existing ante bellum (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 view 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 addressed 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 1351, 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 hie sister, married to the Laroersve of Hosee-Cas- Bel, and still living. But the Duchies recognize no female Sovereign, and might by their law pro claim the Duke of Augustenburg the legal represen tative of the junior line after the extinction of the elder. Holstein, in virtue of oldhistorical connexion and of a nationality exclusively German, is, with Lauenburg, a member of the German Band, She claims the rights, 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 Band ; on the contrary, at en earlier period of her history, she was for nearly two centu ties incorporated with Denmark ; bat on the Rues- Sion of the House of Oldenburg to the throne by election in 1460, the old existing state of things was "'tared, and since that time the intimate connexion between the Duchies has hitherto been successfully asserted and maintained. So that it is evident that the 81 leessi on of the Augustenburg line would no t only 1„,344. to the entire independence of fSocrhmleeerwi l)and Holstein, but would place the 1 1 under the Confederation. Con sider tha t : of the inhabitants i r e et:) third, in round numbers, f Schleswig are Danes, consider too that such tat is equivalent to the redaction of the Danish Eno 14"e hY which is considered to be o f such vital import ance ' to the present political sys t em of Europe, to litter insignificance, and you _ w ill easily understand 'hp is that Denmark has so perseveringly en de "°x l red to incorporate or Dani:e Schleswig on the one hand, and why Hol stein has so steadily maintai ned order to her connection with the sister Duchy i n ieserve their joint nationality and historical traditions on the other. Such, then, was the difficulty ' 4l th which the Great Powers had to deal in 1 8 2 5 the result of the labours of their repretentatives.. that the present occupier of the Danish throne, tsaottin LI • married to Louise, only daughter of th,..e edttaavine of Hessen-Cassel, and named by king Pre‘rick VII. as his successor, should, on the renunciati on of their rights by that lady and her only son (the rotate Landgrave of Hessen-Cassel), be recognised by:thea, on the decease of Frederick, as King Of Denmark and Duke of Schleswig and Holstein, to the exclu• sion of the Augustenburg claims. could hardly have been so readily disposed These claims that Duke not taken so prominent a part in the recent insurrectionary war; his large estates had been confiscated, and he was consequently outlawed arid 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 money accordingly; but his brother, Prince Angus t.enhaeg-Noer, protested immediately, a n d hi s son , the present Pretender, protested in 1859. I n how far it was lawful, as an act of p o liti ca l e_ Deoroe xpediz y, in the interests of the i n t egr ity o f and of the preservation of peace on the part of the aye great European Powers, and Swe den, to Alter t h e law of succession i n th e D uc hi es , I must leave othe in Denma r k Proper to determine; this much is cer tain,oper the va lidi ty o f t h e ar raersaoat is .P a bl e inasmuch as an Act em bodying the alterationand threweas formally laid before the D e nish Diet, ratified, but the Du c hi es were n et there represented, a n d the Germans assert that it was never laid before th e Estates of either Schlecw Anxious to nec!rtain swig or stetHoti. the eU et state of feeling in • Holetein for th c row dfiy,t i s,T gave been that It eent ling through that D uch y . evident in the towns the German party, ideas of union with of the A no Ger many, and of the elev ation eustenb ur Schleswig-nea t , i g Emily to the dukedom of n pre dominate, but the landholthr.3.and county.popnia.s haVil little sympathy e'r'e B:lPlunit ra of 9 , 0 , 11 1 .1 th'clauseof Dulp) Fcerlesic.k; relal,mtk contentedly under the rule of King Christian, The Holsteiners have little to complain of at the hands of the Danish Government. Under the very eyes of the Danish military the book shops teem with brochures published in the Augustenburg 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 revenge depart ments, and have resolved to suppress any disposi tions towards riot or disorder. The general admini s , tration of the Duchy is provided for by the Cpmmissioners of the Germanic Confederati on , who have taken up their quarters at Altona. It is stated on reliable authority that the Duke of Coburg has given permission for the organisation on his territory of t he volunteer army 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 Newmunster, 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 vont to cover the bridge leading into Frederic stedt. 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 Duchy, the Danes will be exceedingly El7erS9 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 force. 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 117 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 the inside shutters of a window of such house, and by break ing, demolishing, and -destroying the glass and framework of threa 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 BZII 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 ba 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 daly 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 gpticed 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 parted 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 ---." I 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 armed with heavy bludgeons. I cannot describe the weapons with which Mr. Weale's shutters were Mtacked, but I believe that they were bludgeons. Mr. Henry Piper (the claimant) deposed—l oe c „ py a house in the MerroW-road, in the b oroug h of exto " a _ Novetaord. I recollect the night of the 21st of Shortly after 11 o'clock on that night I heard t' at at noise and rattling at my shutters. There wat! t : persons asass r , I should think, of from 50 to 100 tlt 7 4 and . they made a fearful noise. Stones were ri which demolished the whole of the bedroom wi„4_,, 8 end d came through into the room where my Wife I were in bed The panels of the front door we te%t o • ken, leaving nothing but the bare frame etand intt; e side door was also in jured, the shutters and end frames and glass of the whole of the windows wer e s _ Qmpletely smashed. I squib cases which _ produce threel. found the same night; one 012 the stair-landi tt, the third-1 th.t a i nother in the sitting-room, and k, but am not quite sure—in t he bedroom. I Was very much alarmed, and feared that the housewould eaten fire as one of the carpets began t o burn. I pracluee ,a number of stones which were burled into th eh ouse, and a thick black veil, with eyehnios) which was found in my front garden, and which had doubtl ess been worn by ono of the ri )ters to p re vent recogni tion. After proving compliance, w ith the legal forms required by the statute, witness added that he had actually paino repair the damage don" £l6 sa. 11d., in addition to which he had sustained other losses, which wonld tore than make up the difference between that amount 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 ono end, and had slings at the other to attach them to the wrist.) Witness deposed to having f oun d th em on the morning of the 221. t oge.thr with a quantity of fantastic th . Ic o ing, THE SUN, LONDON, TOESDAY ITENING, DECEMBER 20, 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, an d whose loss is eßtimated 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 Aldershot 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 Ciawley'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. He 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 spat, 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 tthat 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 circumstancesdid 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 punished, The authorities selected Colonel Crawley, and their failure against itim is 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 ehould be literally card(' out for the detention of ' the sergeant majors in arrest, that he had reason to suppose the Mhon court-martial would be 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 responsib!e 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 be 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 send my letters to me if 1 sent him my address. I sent it to post by Mr. D-- when he again went for the drays. Be tore the drays came we went 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, frr £3O. She is nearly a full-blood mare, but too spirited for me. She threw me three times, and went back to Me. 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 a man requires two, one for himself and another to carry his swag,' having to travel so much ; but hs 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 theshearing 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 woutd buy but 18. Well, as I did not want the land, I sold the order for £l2 10s., which I spent in Brisbane and on my way up the country, when I first landed." 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 deceased 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 Foldier 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 pieco of silver plate was presented to Mr. MlMahon on behalf of the fisheries of Galway and Mayo, in the form of a silver salver, 19 inches in length, and weighing 90 ounces, with the following inscription in liish and English : " Presented to Patrick M'Mahon, Esq., M.P., by 172 fishermen and others in Connemara, and in other portions of the counti, a 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," 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, '11;0 that the Minister of the Interior did all in his power to p t ;rsuade the world that on the elec tion or non-election of M. niers 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 oppose him, the Government 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 bLen 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 has 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 in 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 testimony that when Townley murdered Miss Goodwin he was not in a condition of mind to be legally responsible for Is 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 definition of insanity is at variance with the true definition of the disease. The law requires that a delusion, or hallucination, should be proved ; but medical opinion recognises a form of insanity which developes itself in a momentary irre sistible impulse. A criminal act which is a phe nomenon is said to Le evidence of the suspension of intelligence. If a husband kills a wife be loves, or a mother the baba 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 be 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 had reason to think she had seen some one she liked better; and he only asked to hear her decision from her own lips. Foolishly, and fondly, perhaps—for Miss Goodwin evidently desired to part in kindness with her lover--this request was granted, and he went to Wigwell Grange, and, after spending some time in her company, committed the murder for which he now lies under sentence if death. Such, in few words, are the facts of Townley's case, and we can find nothing in them to take it out of the 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 s weetheart 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. 'raking 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 hard matter to show that the murder of Miss Goodwin was, as far as we have the means of forming an opinion on it, not as act of sudden uncontrollable impulse, and we might oven 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 act was the act of a sane man it was murder without, extenuating circumstances. All the sensatiotaoa writing on the subject must be swept cleaneo.uceuf, the discussion. The horrors of the condeee. theclean Q I last the waiting for an ignominious death, t ar ics. There agony of the convict, are all irrelevant is no text in this case far a sermon o n c apital pun. have been mooted affect ishment. The questions that root . of public safety. in the a dintnistra'ion of public morality and go to the They comprehend the highest ,,fiaence subsisting ns, and They touch the very _core of ohuurmsaoneutoibslyigstaetTo. the c in our tee they embrace derest relations. - • to fo:o the principles • criminal justice, , Are . vve , , , laid down Are we to accept the proposition that a crime which propos].Violates nature, and not to be accounted for by by Pritchard and Es . qutrol is infl t u h e e nce men, any of th e motives that gen erally is in it se lf ev id ence of th e i n sanity or i rresponsibility of the criminal ? Are acts which are supposed to be the result of vehement passions, whether of love or hate, or of both combine', to be seated as features of mental disease The . so far as they are momentous questions ; and, in will have to be answered in the in quiry w hi ch has been ordered in Townley's case, it i s to be hoped that scientific ingenuity may be tem- Pared with judicial common sense. In dissecting 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 dence 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,vertnin. 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 j scent 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. On 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 bill some stretchnine (strychnine) if I would give it her. I s a id, Thoult 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 hast 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 : " 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 lioz. 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. IVhen Ann Bailey cleaned the cupboard out it wa s was h e d out. S he says— ' Thi s i s arsen i c . Th a t is the ju g my mother had her beer in.' I said, Yes, I did not know h ow it h a d go t i n .' B e tty W oo d 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. M. Kilner ; the city sheriff, R. Littler ; and the governor of the gaol. Oa her arrival she par took of toast and coffee, and listened attentively to the exhortation of Mr. liilner, joining audibly when in chapel in the prayer for murderers introduced in the Burial Service. The execution took place at 10 minutes past 8. 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 ROBBERY. Frederick Cox, 30, john Curry, 17, and James Eisen, 16, were charged with a robbery, accom panied by violence upon award 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 Crobem Hurst, about a mile from Croydon, in the direction of Coombe, when, as he was passing a small coppice by the side of the road, he heard 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 hi ea, and ap parently dodging his footsteps, and there 'was no doubt that he was oa the watch ready to give an alarm. The prisoners made their escape, and were not taken into custody until November, when it ap• peered 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. 'rho prisoners, when called upon for their defence, merely asserted that they were not the parties by whom the robbery was committed, and they ac minted 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 Cos, 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 which aro unfit for publication, and this concluded the business of the Home Circuit. ei t r , t - f Abvp,„ - diseases i: 1,,,„ a ,, ,,,ii l'sr.Ntr NT.] —lTolloway'A Ointment and Pilb.— Cetuplainte.—The enumeration of ttilPFo 11$111nell kiL;Ff sil e Y necessary, as unfortunately most Eng common ooids tn 1n , 0 their cost. Whooping cough, croup, inflammatio ' 11,fleuenza, bronchitis, asthma, pleurisy, its earlier sages,ta :,. j .o ungs, and even consumption, in Ointment on t le u r_, ea st treated by rubbing Holloway's the shoulders. ii u P t : and upon the back between cold shiverings, relieves the internally, checks the dually removes the oppression from.vr-grge lungs, re storesgra- the obstructed respiration hitherto the chest, and disagreeable and highly dang erous : so distressingly of diseases, Holloway's Pil►s should alwaysn treating this class using the Ointment; they purify the id be taken while spiration, and allay dangerous irritations, promote per. 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:— "Dawson River, Queensland, Sept. 21, 1863. ig will 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 had 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 the 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 thought, 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). Well,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 home before sunrise, it was now about noon 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 cocl 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 course, which was fully repaid by the lesson 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 mo, 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. Ic waa 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 ono 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 s aim beautiful country. The dray was una ble to comp with us, and had to wait till Mr. 11--, 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 place, as I did not like the shepherding, but when he came back in two months ho had neither bullock drays nor the man. The drays were at the other si de of the Dawson river for the last month, and would have to remain there for some time longer, as that river was flooded, and they could not get across, lie himself had to swim it. This time I got from him the back of a letter which I wed to SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS, the spring of the present year it was announced, on the very highest authority, that a terrible calamity had befallen the French Govern ment. The Government had not, indeed, to re proach itself that 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 lit c!or he prophesied like eas'sandra ; but, like Cassandra, no one regarded him. We are now in a position to ask, was the election of M. niers 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.[l'hiers moved his amendment for reduc ing the amount of Treasury Bonds which the Mi nister of Finance is allowed to issue from 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 cairn and orderly discussion—things which no one 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 bad done 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 M. 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 hie 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 end 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 r.n experienced statesmen in a thoroughly business-like way. Everybody seemed satisfied, and so the debate ended. There is, to onr 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 furnished apartments in the neighbourhood of St. Jam accornmta e a s a s te square. The man who was able to y and himself to the Chamber of the Orleans to the Assembly of the Republic has s hown to the with the some tact he can adapt dYn ow as n - that i s l e i ,e ni ght the tone Assembly of the Empire. He bas rove je before ho of the place, and will probably which the leaves it. He will state opinionle,melOme of the human mind we must be careful not to loose 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 Rey. Father Sullivan and two other resident priests assisting at ire 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 wore 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 a scene of indescribable confusion and disorder. Some 40 or 50 men, apparently labouring under the inf'.uence 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 made, 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 stoppedjand, as may be imagined, the greatest consternation was caused. The Rev. Father Sullivan, who is said to be in very indiff 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 admis • 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 dis order. We learn that there are large number of Orangemen re 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. ----- - 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 is per qr more money was made. Beans and peas were again rather lower. Wheat, white. 44s 50s Beans,Mazagan „ale 325 red ...40s 44s middle & small.32s 36 0 Barley Oats GLOUCESTER—DEc. 26. There was a fair show of English wheat to-day from the farmers which mostly sold at rather improving pric es- Foreign wheat was dull, with no advance on the prices of last week. Oats, barley, beans, and peas were dull, but still unaltered in value. CHELMSFORD—DEC. 24. At this corn exchange to-day there was a moderate shovi of wheat, with an inactive business doing, and the prices of las week were maintained, but no increase in price was obtainable. Other grain unchanged in price, with a dull trade. Wheat, old white...3os 46s new ..44s 49s old red....34s 39s new 38s 41s Barley 27s 37s Chevalier ..28s 39s Grinding 22s 31s Malt.... Chevalier . 64s 69s Oats 2OB 28s Peas, Partridge 36s 39s Whit e 38s 3 90 B o ili ng 39s 4 1 s Dun 333 363 Ditto new —s ---0 Beans, Tick, old 348 398° new 0 Harrow Ticks 3ss 408 new -- 5 38s ""' S Mazagan 3os 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 ls. and oats 6d, below the currencies of last week. No change on barley. lARKET. tne Close of the market. Walls End. Tunstall .... .. lB 0 Haswell .• • .. 20 0 South nett on 20 0 Braddyll's Hetton 19 0 Hartlepool 19 9 East Hartlepool 20 0 fleughli.all 19 0 K elloe Harton 1 8 0 Wharncliffe .... 18 6 Frainwellgate ... 18 0 Canso p .......19 0 Caradoc ............•19 u 0 South Kelloe. ........ 19 Hetton ...... `2() 0 :et, 116 ; sold. 86. Wheat. Barley. Oats. First....3ss Od 2ss Od l6s 6d Second .. 37s Od 26s Od 17s 6d Third...4os Od 29s Od 18s 6d COAL/ Writes of Coal per Ton at a. d. Byass's Bebside West Hartley 16 3 Cowpen Hartley 16 3 Lambert's West Hart ley 16 0 West Hartley 16 6 Holywell Hastings Hartley ....16 6 Eden Main 18 6 Wylam 17 6 West Wylam 16 0 ‘,:\ alker Primrose 15 0 Tanfield Moor Butes l5 0 Walla End. Russel's Rotten.. 19 0 ships at mark, Foreign. Mail Packet List. B. a MAILS DUE. Australia and Mauritius, via Southampton. . .Sall• I t via Marseilles jan.. „. Brazil and Cape Verds, by British packet. Jan. 4 n • Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, and St. Helena Jan. '2o' China, Penang, and Singapore, via Southamptun Jan. -4* via Marseilles Dec. ',. Falkland Islands Gibraltar, via Southampton Jan. l• India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via Southampton Jan. 2 ,; via Marseilles Dec. 2 1 , • I n di a (Bombay), via Southampton .. Jan. 1" via Marseilles Jan. 5. Portuga 1.... Malta, Egypt, and Men, via Southampton Jan. ,-.;,;. --via Marseilles Dec. '''''' Newfoundland Oporto and Vigo ti . 6. and British N. America, ty Brit. packet.... Jail' _ ' by . L`.6. packet , i. by Canadian packet... ) 'd i i o. W.C. of Africa, Madeira and Teneriffe Ja. Bahamas, via New York ' .... Jan. 14' Mexico. All parts of West Indies, including Chili, Peru, i Dec. 2 9 ' California. and British Columbia, ADVERTISEMENT.]—Avoid medicines: they always egg„ 3 ,: vate chronic complaints, but Du Barry's Delicious lle a ''; Restoring Revalenta Arabica Food, which saves fifty Wee' its cost in other remedies, invariably cures them, restoring perfect digestion, strong nerves, sound lungs, healthy l iver ' pure blood, refreshing sleep, functional regularity, and enerq to the most disordered or enfeebled. We extrac t a few IL of 60,000 Cures :—Cure No. 58,216 of the Marchioness de Brehan, Paris, of a liver complaint, wasting away for sev eli ct years, debility, with a nervous palpitation all over, 1)4 ~ digestion, constant sleeplessness, the most intolerabl e nervo l agitation, and dreadfully low spirited. — Cure No. 1,771. Lot , Stuart de Decies, Lord Lieut. of Waterford, of many Yea rs ., dyspepsia.—No. 49,832. "Fifty years' ind escribable agel" from dyspepsia, nervousness, asthma, coug h, constipatioil,: flatulency, spasms, sickness, and vomiting.—Maria Jolly.a, —Cure No. 46,270. Mr. James Roberts, of Frimley , du:;:aenYge thirty years' diseased lungs, spitting of blood, ll i v o e o r vi z abeth " e f i i - ule dical treatment." ment, and partial deafness.—Cure No. 47, 121 ' therings, low Jacobs, of extreme nervousness, indigestir 6g.. 1 7'he Rev. Jas: „,. , 121 b., 225. ; •,•411:0• spirits, and nervous fancies.—Cure No. 4..6:igestion and torpi- T. Campbell, Fakenham, Norfolk, dity of the liver, which had resisted s i . In tins, 1 lb., 2s. Od. ; 77, itegent-street, London; 40s.—Barry Du Barry and Co., (14;°:;11 G rocers and Chemists Ln also Fortnum and Mason ; en c, „ _ every town of theLn2s.l2Kln.-w" 21b., 4e. Od ; sib* , 1 Births. onChristmas' day. at 12, Upper H d Par k ' . y e- BRIGIIT.---- the 27th inst., at Surbiton, Kingston, the wife Conn. —On E a Rhodes Cobb, sq., of a son. On the 26th root EDE ,4 . — ., at Cantley, the wife of the HO. li , ni. G. Eden, of a son. gardens, Lad,' Br'g , a son. LiTMLEY.—On the 25th inst., at 20, Montague-place, Rug' AYTotTN—K sell-square, the wile of L. C. Lumley, Esq., of a son. Marriages. b, Lau Edmendstoune Aytoun, Esq., D.C.L., Will' . ' Sberal. INNEAR.—On the 24th inst., at Edinburg.d. of Orkney and Zetland, to Fearne Jemima, the secoaa daughter of the late James Kinnear, Esq., Writer t o the Signet. ~,-‘ , ;(1 AGNEW—WHAILTON.—On Saint Stephen's-daY , ~.•"- . 1 1 , Charles Agnew, to Mary, widow of the Rev. xi- Wharton, late vicar of Mitcham. Deaths. BOYLE --On the 26th inst., at 9, Portugal-street, Grosso' nor-square, the Viscountess Boyle, aged 26. r CI COURTNEY.—On the 26th inst., at Chelmsford, 1i • 55. Courtney, Esq., of Oxford terrace, Hyde-park, age", ~,,. DIGBY.—On the Feast of the Holy Innocents, at Kenia.`",_ ton, after a painful illness, Sister Mary Anne 13algit; Order of St. Benedict (Mary Ann Lcotitia DighY)t.r.r, beloved daughter of Kenelm Henry Digby, Esq. Li.' r , HEATH.—On the 26th inst., A. W. Heath, Esq., Lcs we parade, Leamington. Mania ° Myr,NE.—On Christmas-day, at Am well, Herts, - C. Mylne, Esq., C E., F.H.S., aged 83. --....m...........° ---.---- Louden: Prinzed and Pub!Jelled by WILLIAM. ANDIII;V,!. of No. 112, Strand, Printer , at THE Stag Office J .Z0 ,..',,, ,t Strand, in the Precinct o f the Savoy. in the C0413'" blildit'f!ex.—Tuce . lsY, DcCeluDer 29, 1803. igoale atree , CO l'inttc A Tavel In the cloy s 4) f Ulf Coops liars] C ot/4 Ite m j Shen Cam ' Portl 1 %111 tout liayl Won 3101t 4 Mill( ItYdk IA , Itert Lem Cori The Acr 'FAME Divi Pro!