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

THE M .ETROPOLITAN BOARD OF WORKS. The ' isnal weekly meeting of the Board was held yester l e y at the office in Spring-gardens; the Chairman, Mr. J. Thwaites, presiding. ST, THO'SIAS'S HOSPITAL AND THE PROPOSED SITE AT STANGAT E. The Engineer (Mr. Bazaigette) reported to the Boa rd that he had been requested by gentlemen coune cted with St. Thomas's Hospital to make affi davit as to the healthfulness of the site at Stangate, which the Governors had agreed to purchase of the subject to the decision of the Court of Chan cery . Th-; evidence he proposed to give was con tained in the following facts :—That, by July next, the greater portion of the main drainage works for the draining of the metropolis will be completed, and then the sewage of the metropolis, instead to being discharged, as it now is, at low water arcoand the metropolis, and so mixed only with a small volume of water, will be discharged during high water at Barking, whicn is about 13 miles below London -bridge, where it will be diluted with a maximum volume of water, and carried by the ebb tide to about 26 miles below London•bridge ; and it was the intention of the Board to carry out great -Improvements on the banks of the river by embank lug, when the land oa the shore of the Thames would form a good site for any public building— more especially as the several noxious trades now carried on in the locality would be removed. Mr. PHILLIPS moved that the engineer should be allowed to make an affidavit in accordance with the facts stated. Mr. DIXON said that there could be no doubt of the healthfulness of the river shore, for down by the docks and by the banks of the river in the neigh bourhood of Limehouse and Bermondsey the people were very healthy, and so much so that a doctor could not ma ke a living there. (Laughter.) After some further remarks, Mr. LOWMAN TAYLOR observed that the Board ought not to commit itself to any statements the engineer might make. The officer of the Board might be compelled to give evidence, but it would not be right for the Board to be mixed up iu the matter. This pt at of the subject then dropped. The So Jlicitor brought to the notice of the Board that at a previous meeting a resolution Was passed relative, to obtaining an act in the ensuing session of Parliament that the Board might acquire addi tional lands at Stangate for the purposes of the Southern, Embankment of the Thames scheme, and he now needed further instructions, the preliminary steps for: obtaining such an act having been taken. It wits moved and seconded that steps should be t a k e n for obtaining the necesssry powers. Mr. ROCUE desired to know why the Board should go to Parliament at a great expense in order to have powers to purchase a piece of land, if that land was after Wards to be sold for St. Thurals's Hospital, as he understood It was to be. The land was either for the purpose of the Board or for St. Thomas's Hos- P ita ioirui he wanted to know whether the hospital authorit;,es would pay the expenses the Board would go to in obtttining this act if the laud was for them. Mr. 'ORF.ExtA.N answered that the site as it stood at Stangate was not perfect, inasmuch as roads would have to be made, and the purchase of Lntis treated of in the proposed bill was ue.ces- 1 barY to make the site per eci,; and then, if the site. shui_ild not be used for the hospital, it could be 80 1 d for some ocher purpose. Tne Act was not for Thomas's Hospital, but for the Board. Mr. DERMER asked who would pay the expense. The governors of the Hospital had voted £95,000, and the answer wax in the negative, so it the board expected to get any of these expenses it was mit]. taken. The CIIAIRMXN said the purchasers of the site would pay ail necessary expenses. Mr. C'JLI:INSON stated that at a meeting of the Governc,rs, which was reported in the Times, the questio n was asked if there would be any expenses requir.er'i for the site beyond the Y.,95,000, and thg answ er was in the negitive, so if the board expected to !..;et, any of these expenses it was mistaken. A . . 1 amendment was moved that the whole ques• tier, be referred to the Thames Embankment Com mi - .tee, but this was negatived by 28 against 7, and original motion was carried. THE NEW STREET FROM THE MANSION HOUSE. A letter was read from Mr. Daw, the clerk to the City Commissioners of Sewers, asking the board to contribute half towards the expense of forming that street, whatever the expense might be, Mr. LOWALIN TAYL'JR moved a resolution in tfiect binding the board to comply with the request stated in the letter, and in doing so said that the expense of forming this new street had, he believed, been greatly exaggerated beyond what it really woilld be, because when city people were required to sell land they did not know how to ask too much for it. In one case he knew the sum of £62,000 was asked for certain premises and a busi ness, and a jury had given £ll,OOO ; and this was an instance of what might be asked and what given. A. small piece of land near the Union Bank was set flnwri in value at £17,500, but that sum would no giouot be greatly reduced, and he had little doubt 'that when the street was made there would be a in which the board would stand in equal 'M rs. (A laugli.) a , t r being brought to the notice of the Board that , r r br , e 7 . l ous resolution bound the Board only to con , "` - ' 4 Stated sum, the matter remains over until futur e • ° easion as notice is r equire d t o b e g i ven to reseuld. ‘tlY such resolution. The e lu‘ THE FIRE BRIGADE. cominu a i etti :; \ t , aX stated that he had received a Home .11e partm ' e r ti orn the Secretary of Stale for the the 'Metropolis,. t relative to the Fire Brigade of It was agreed that to. a ewnmittee unr eud the letter should be referred it was also that a pplication sho u l d the motion of Mr. RoGITE, parishes in the metropoi i : f radde to each of the cost, for several years of i t , ° " a return showing the ments, the amounts paid f or a tire-eugine establish tributions to the Fire Escap e fi re rewards the eon nu mber ot 144 tor other infer persons employ e d_ t ` . _ i gad,e (if any), the mation on tho scne subjew. •After other ousioess rue Boird adjourned. Horn:iman's Tea is choice and str ong, m _ in price, an d w h o l e some to use. These aueutaosdaehraate secured for this Tea a gener al p reference , i t z Soul is Packets by 2,280 Agents. MURDER IN SCOTLAND. —On Tuesday the g od 11 of a woman named Nancy Stevens or Laffhttibil e of a miner res idi ng near H o lytown, was found lying 4 road near Newarthill. Various marks of violence we re discovered; there was a cu t, extending to three in c hes i n length, under the chin on the left side of the Jaw; the under part of the left ear was torn off, and hanging l oose ly face was ; bruises and scratches on the arms; the was covered with blood, and the hair dishevelled across the face, clotted with blood and dirt, thereby r endering the features at first scarcely recogni sa bl e , an d the body must have been dragged some distance along the road. It appears that on Monday the deceased went to Airdrie to see her husband, who had been committed fer some minor offsnce , and in that town she met a Lean named Doyle, a miner, whom she knew. They were drinking in several public houses during the afternoon, and left to walk home about 6 o'clock. On the way they went to another public-house, and quarrelled because the deceased refused to stop there all night. Doyle went out and shortly afterwards returned,when he was told that the deceased had left, Nothing more was seen of them till the body was found the next morning. Q t e 7le was taken into custody. He has a wife and six chil n- Tke deceased leaves a family of 14 children.—Glas .9ol/., Iteralti. vIiYD r u o lt i s c x 3 4ENT.]—Avold medicines: they always aggra lt Restoring Rev complaints, but Du Barry's Delicious Health its coat in other remedies, Arabica Food, which saves fifty times perfect digestion st invariably cures them, restoring pure blood, retres‘tthriong nerves, sound lungs, healthy liver, to the most disorderegdaleoP, functional regularity, and energy of 60,000 Cure,,,___euroer enfeebled. We extract a few out Ilrehan, Paris, of a Live _ No. 58,216 of the Marchioness de , rs debility, with n 'tomplaint, wasting away for seven ycJ, , di_ es ti on, constant sleeplesesZus Palpitation all over, bad 74, the most intolerable nervous •,.. . i o n and dreadfully h„,,, a,,1,3, , p o i t r N i v ted.—Cure No. 1,771. Lord its rt de Decies, Lord Lieut. Te a a t r ertord of many years ' e . ___,INTo. 49,832. "Fifty epsia, nervousness, asthma, Years' indesc ' indescribable agony from dysp spa.sms, sickness, and. ,ornicough, constipatioo, ilatulen. y, 2-0 Mr. James Roberts, of Jolt ~ —Cure No. 46, , • Bs of Frimley Surre y, y. d lunge, f-pitti thirty years' disease f ess —CurX ed bl " d, liver ,dp of and partial dea n• - .?. 47,1 21. ‘..,. - . range. ment, nervousness, ind,gestion Elizabeth Jacobs, of extreme , s - Cure No. 54 t, ' ga ,, th k e ' l ogs, low spirits, and nervous ianctc . Norfolk, " of indi , 16 ti ' ;" e I toy. Jag T. Campbell, Fakenham, resists I all medical s-4 and to t: dity of the liver, which had re ; 51b , lls. ; t reatme nt 121 b,, In tins,l lb., 28. 9d. ; 21b., 4s. 6d ~ 7 RV-eat-street, ® ; ; . 441 b 408.—Barry Du Barry and CO., No. ' '' h ers and London , also Fortnum and Mason ; and all Groc ers Chemi sts 1. , :t every town of the United Kingdom. ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE. MIDLAND CIRCUIT—DERBY, Dec. 11. • George Victor Townley was indicted for the murder of Miss Goodwin. Mr. Boden, Q.C. (specially retained), and Mr. Bristowe appeared for the prosecution; and Mr. Macaulay, Q.C., and Mr. Sergeant O'Brien (both of whom were specially re tained), with Mr. Stephen, defended the prisoner. The court was densely crowded with people anxious to heat this remarkable trial. The prisoner, who was described as a man of very quiet and refined manners, a good linguist, and an accomplished musician, and who was apparently about 25 years of age, on being arraigned pleaded not guilty in a low but firm voice. Mr. Boden, in opening the case for the prosecution, after adverting to the painful interest it had excited in the county, and asking the jury to dismiss from their minds the rumours which were floating about, and to attend to the evidence only, stated that the prisoner was a member of a respectable family living at Hendham-vale, a mile or two from Man chester. His father was a commission agent at Manchester, but the prisoner had no employment, unless it was that he acted as a clerk in his father's office. Miss Elizabeth Good win, with whose death he was charged, was the daughter of Mr. Henry Goodwin, and granddaughter of Captain Good- ; win, who had long lived in the coun t y and acted as a ma. gistrate there. Mrs. Henry Goodwin lived at Ches t er, and up to the last three or four y ears Miss Goodwin had lived with her mother, but about that t ime she left Che ster and d n p r h ly 2 physician yearsat Blanchester, of age, Ca pta and in Miss Gooi Good winwi‘li_nis,s 8 went to reside at Wigwe ll - g r ango , or hall, with h er grand father, who is an old man upwards of 80 y ears of age elesGoodwint son was a ys was ea while on a visit (o him had formed the acquaintance of the TownleYs. That acquaintance led to the forming of a strong attachment between the prisoner and the deceased, Owing engagement to en nle ' years ago, they became engage d. and ultimately, ab eng T t o w w asn y o ot s ut four want of tly h a er after war m iss Goodwin appear s t o h ave approved by the lady's fri e nd s , an d f or some short tim e it Was means to support a wife th e r b d mken off. It had b een renewe d, h a o s w h e or v t er t , im sh e o of r s, and continued t o e xi s t t o w ithi n written to the pri • soner on the 14th August to break off the engagement. Her letters, however, had, with one excep tion, up by Townley to her friends, who de stroyed them Bliss , On the 15th of A ugus t T own l ey wro t e to Goodwin as follows : I" " Hendham-vale, Sunday. My dearest Bessie,—Dearest:you will always be to me ; I to say th a t I em not terribly cut up would be a li e , but, at any rate, you know I am not the man to stand in your way. I answer nothing to your last letter, except that I wish to hear from your own lips what your wishes are, and I will accede to them. You know me too well to suppose that I should give way to any unnecessary nonsense or sentimen talism. I have had a singular run of good and bad luck lately; it suffices to say that I have an offer to leave Eng land. Before Igo I wish to see you once again, and for the last time, though God knows what misery it gives me to say so. You will admit that my desire to see you is but natural. Say in your next where you will meet me. I will come by the first or second train from Derby on Tues day or Wednesday morning, whichever suits you of course, without any one knowing, The sooner it is all settled the better for both parties. " Ever, dearest Bessie, your affectionate "GEORGE. " P.S.—I arrived too late from Bolton to answer yester day. Will you write by return ?" On the Monday he wrote again : " Hendham-vale, Monday. "Dearest Bessie,—lt is doubtful whether you will get the letter I wrote you yesterday till to-morrow. I posted it myself last night at 11 o'clock at the general office (I could not before), and being Sunday, could not make out about the mails, so I put it ►nto the extra stamp box for the chance of its going. "This is simply to say that in my haste I mentioned Tuesday or Wednesday, forgetting that I should have to leave here to-day in order to see you to-morrow—that is, if I see you in the m .rning, as on the last occasion ; but if it suits you better %could arrive by the same train that Kate and I came by, and you could meet me the same evening, I returning the following morning. I suppose it would not be possible the same night. I think if we say Thursday evening or Friday morning it will be best, as then there will be plenty of time for you to say which you prefer. so at any rate in your urxt say at what time and whereabouts I can see you. I suppose anywhere between your house and Whatatandwell would do. lam ill and thoroughly upset, and Ido not wonder you are, We shall both be happier and better in mind, as well as body, after this last inter view. Address. care of W. Arrowsinith, Gilnow- mills, Bolton, where I am going back to-morrow. Of course, if I hear to-morrow, and you fix time and place of meeting, I shall be at your appointment, coide qui coiste.' Always your affectionate, G.V.T. , _ " Train.—l can arrive at Whatatandwell-bridge at 4.2 afternoon, or at 934 or 11 37 in the morning, whichever you like," On the following Wednesday, the 19th, the prisoner wrote again as follows : " Gilnow-mills, Bolton, Wednesday. "My dear Bessie,—l will only say here that I will arrive by the train you mention (1137 a.m., Friday morning), and that I hope, dear Bessie,you will not bother yourself unneces sarily about all this as far as I am concerned. For my own peace of mind I wish to see you, which I hope you won't think selfish, be reste, I only repeat what I have already said —I have but t o h ear from you what your wishes are, and they shall be complied with,and that I have sufficient savoir vivre not to make a bother about what cannot be helped. You can write to the Midland Hotel, Derby, where I shall stay to-morrow night, or leave mote at the inn at What standwell-bridge for me. Don't let me be the cause of any row between you and your G. P. If you Up to call at the inn I will not stir out till you come., but I leave all this to your ju:lgtuent. '` Ever affectionately, " G. V. T. " Miss Bessie Goodwin, Wigwell-grange, Wirks worth, Derbyshire." On the same day Miss Goodwin wrote a letter to the prisoner, which had been preserved, arid was as follows : "My dear George—l write this in the greatest haste to tell you not to come on wry) account. I leave here to-day, and can't tell when I shall or can be back again . Ido not wish to see you, if it can possibly be avoidd, and indeed there will he no chance now, so we had better end this state of suspense at once, and say Good-bye' without seeing each other. I feel sure I could not stand the meeting. If you write once more within the next three days I can get it, but not later than that time without its being seen, for my letters are strictly watched, and opened, " Yours truly, " BESSIE. " Wednesday, " Immediate. " G. V. Townley, Esq., Hendlam-vale, Smedley, near Manchester." This letter reached Hendlam-vale on the Thursday morn ing, and Townley's mother, perceiving from whom it came, opened it, and immediately telegraphed to the prisoner, who was then staying at Mr. Arrowamith's, at Bolton : " Letter from B, (Bessie] —Come at once. Will meet you at the station. Will wait. Immediate." Immediately on getting this telegram the prisoner seems to have left Bolton and gone to Hendham-vale. From there he went on the same day to the Midland Hotel, at Derby, where he slept. On the following morning, Friday, Aug. 21, he left Derby, and went to Whatstandwell, the nearest sta tion to Wigwell-hall, which is about a mile and a half dis tant. He reached this place about half- past 11, and went to the Bull's Head Inn, which is close to the station. The learned counsel then detailed the facts of the case as they appear in the evidence of the witnesses below. He added that it was clear that Miss Goodwin met her death at the hands of the prisoner, and it seemed to be equally clear that if the prisoner was responsible for his acts, the offence amounted to murder. He was not in a position to antici • pate the defence that would be set up on the prisoner's be half; but if that defence was that the prisoner was not re sponsible, the jury must be satisfied that he was labouring from such a defect of reason, from disease of the mind, as not to know the nature and quality of the act he was doing; or, if he did know it, that he did not know he was doing what was wrong. After proving the facts already stated, Mr. Boden called Ann Burley, who said—l keep the Bull's Head Inn, at Whatstandwell-bridge which is about three miles from Wig well-grange. 'The prisoner came to my house on the morn ing of Aug., about half-past 11, and asked if thete was a note for Mr. Townley. On hearing that there was not, he asked for a glass of brandy and water. After walking about some little time he came back and asked if he could have a bed, as he said he might probably want one that night, and having had another glass of brandy and a pill, which he took from his carpet bag, he left the house in the direction of wigwell•grange. „It appeared from the evidence of the next witness that the r''''° er after leaving the Bull's Head Inn, must have gone Dast i ' It teis well-grange, which is about half way between the Th et ,,E l and Wirksworth, to the last named place. wirkWollierbert Harris—l keep the grammar school at well- gr 4:!hich is about a mile and a half from Wig- August, et 4 1 : 1 21 . e prisoner came to my house on th e 21st of a friend of ' Aim ' p r, ast 1, and said, "I have called on you as engagement bet,47:win. I suppose you know there is an an engagement, t ,It s '''understood there was e b s a t e o vi se ri e tt m en e. to e t it had been broken off." He said, ja w_ to break off the engagement, and said, "Any thing I ki, ow idl i t tO . know how matters stand." I cannot satisfy you." Re fut " l ;oonfidence, and, therefore, I d " e S cl il in or other." He then ask e d ~,1.10 ';I will find it out somehow at Wigwell. i aaja „There clergyman who had been staying had but I declined to give his nam e: , ~_ been orfe there, was engag ement between AR ee ' o ng.d been told that there an man who was staying there three v s. :Z: r and the clergy- He then asked if Miss Goodwin waR at , v„ri_ 4_ month ago. ht any coercion bad en used t ent % 1 1 1 ; and if I thong but no coercion had bee, r. I said she was at Wigwelit b • If said " Sooner need towards her that I was aware of. .--e , or l ater I must see her. I have written to relase her from the engagement but I must hear from' herself that she gives it up, She ,i), age and must please herself: I know I am mot a geod : te f and have no wish to stand in her way." I then told hi nl a i must leave him as it was my school -hour (2 o'clock), but in. him again, if he would call at half-past 4 I would see h I told hint his R e then left and came again.at half-past 4 • s best course was to write a note to Miss Goodscin, and send it by post, requesting lidr to see him in the niorniug. He said he had already written and without effect. I said if you were to call at the house perhaps Miss Goodwin would see you. lie said he would do so, and get it off his mind. Re lett, saying he would call again, but did not do so. His manner was that of an ordinary man, perfectly calm and collected. There was nothing to attract my attention. Cross-examined—l had only seen the prisoner once before. That was at Mr. Goodwin's. I was told of the engagement with the clergyman by Miss Goodwin herself the Wednes day before her death. Elizabeth Margaret Po well-hall. The ' yser—l am the housemaid at Wig well-hall. prisoner came to the hall on Friday even- THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 12, 1863. ing, Gtheoo2dlwstion. I showed of Auguts, at him n 20 minutes and ms Goodwin teatos i i s x, asked G an o d w2 ii for Miss met him at the drawing-room door and theywent into the garden. Half an hour after I went into the garden and found them sitting on a seat a short distance from the house, I told Miss Goodwin she was wanted, and she came to the house and remained there till a quarter to seven, when she went out again. I went out at a quarter past seven and found her again sitting on the seat with the prisoner. I told her tea was ready, and she said "I am coming directly." I left her, but she never returned alive. I had seen him before. His manner was like that of other people, and was not different on the 21st from what it bad been at other times. ---- --- Thomas Biddulph—O n th e n i ght of the 21st -- of August I was coming up the Wigwell-hill-lane, about half-past 8. On getting to the top of the lane, where it opens into the turnpike-road, I saw a Man and woman walking together towards Wigwell-hall. The wntaan was Miss Goodwin. After passing them I looked back, and saw she had turned round in front of the gentleman with her back to the hall. ' Reuben Conveay—l work for Mr, B o w mer , w h o li ves j us t oppo s it e th e hall. On Friday night, betweenS and 9 o clock, as I was going along the turnpike-road from the hall towards the Wigwell-lane end I heard a moaning noise, which appeared to come from the direction of the Mill-lane end. I ran forward, and found Miss Goodwin guiding herself by the wall and coming towards the hall. lier face and the ftntit of her dress were covered with blood. She asked me to take her home, and said there was a gentleman down there had been murdering her. I put my arm round her and carried her about 20 yards. She asked me whether I could see anyone, and on looking down the road I saw the prisoner 60 or 80 yards below towards the lane end, and nearer the lane end than the place where the blood was afterwards found. He war cross ing the road, and then came towards me. When I first saw him, he was about 40 yards from the hunting gate. As he came up, I went towards him, and asked him who had been murdering Miss Goodwin. He said he had stabbed her. I asked him to go and help me, and he took hold of her head and 1 of her body, and we carried her towards Wigwell. He called her "Poor Bessie" several times, and said. "You should not have proved false to me." She said nothing then. We laid her down near a gate, and prisoner asked me for something to put round her neck to stop the bleeding. I said I had nothing, and he asked me to go for help. 1 asked him if he would stop with her, mud Le aattl he would. I went to Mr. Bowmer's yard for help, leaving the prisoner with Miss Goodwin, I was away about four or five minutes, and on coming back found the prisoner holding something round her neck. I asked if she was living, and he said she was. She said, " Take me home." We then carried her a short distance further until Mr. Seeds and his brother came up. Mr. Seeds asked who had done it. The prisoner said " I have done it." We then carried her further, and met James Conway, who also asked who had done it. The prisoner said, " I know, and he knows ; I am the man who did it, and I shall be hanged for it." Miss Goodwin then said she was dying. We carried her further, and met Mr. Bowmer, who also wanted to know who had done it. The prisoner said " I have done it, there is no question at all abou. that." After going a little further he said he was afraid she was dead, and bent down and kissed her. She was dead. We met Captain Goodwin and Ann Poyser, the housekeeper, just within the hall gates. Captain Goodwin asked what we had amiss, and the prisoner answered, " It is your granddaughter Betsy, murdered," Capt. Goodwin wanted to know who had done it. The prisoner said, " I have done it ;" and on the captain asking who he was, said "My name is George Townley." The body was taken into the kitchen and put on the floor. Captain Goodwin then asked the prisoner what made him do it. He answered— " She has deceived me ; and the woman that deceives me must die." He then went into the drawing-room with Captain Goodwin. Ann Poyser, the housekeeper, corroborated the last part of the preceding witness's evidence. Dr. Newton Mant —I was called in to Wigwell-hall on the Friday evening., and found Miss Goodwin dead, There were three wounds on the right side of the neck, one a stab behind and below the right ear ; the second a stab in front of this, superficial ; the third wound still further in front, three inches long, and extending nearly to the chin. The back part of this wound appeared to have been produced by a stab directed downwards and backwards. The external carotid artery and the internal jugular vein were severed. These were severed by the third wound. The first wound was probably given ,from behind and was not mortal. I should have thought that a person could not have walked after receiving the third wound. The knife produced (an ordinary clasp :knife, found on the prisoner) would have caused the wounds. I saw the prisoner that night. He ap peared to be perfectly calm. Cross - examined--I was with him 10 or 15 minutes in the drawing room. There was much blood upon him. Capt. Goodwin---(This witness, who is 84 years of age, appeared to be somewhat infirm, but spoke with a strong clear voice.) After stating what took place at the gate — which has been already given—the witness, who was much moved, continued—After saying that the woman who de ceived him must die, the prisoner said, " I told her I would kill her. She knew my temper." Be also said, " I had the means two months ago, and I have the means at the present time." I observed he had money in his hand. I declined to take anything. He then produced two packets of letters. He gave them to me and said, " Will you take care of these You may read them, burn them, or do what you like with them. I don't wish these to be brought into court." I kept them for a few days, and then threw them all into the fire. I did not read a line of them, but I believe them to have been my granddaughter's letters. The prisoner was staying at my house for a few days at Christmas time. I did not see much, hardly anything of him. On the Friday evening he behaved with the greatest indifference. I thought I saw a little excitement about him just before he offered me the things. He had been so perfectly,indifferent before that I noticed the change. Cross-examined—After the prisoner was remanded a policeman, Farnham, asked me for one of the letters pro duced in court (the last from Townley), and another police man, Burton, asked me for the packet of letters, and sus pecting he had some improper motive 1 burnt them. I thought he was pumping tee, and, being annoyed at that, I burnt the letters. Charles Parnham—When I got to Wigwell on the Fri day evening the prisoner came towards me and said, " I wish to give myself up for murdering the young lady." I cautioned him and asked him if he was aware of the nature of the charge he was giving himself up for. Ho said "Yes, quite so, and will go with you quietly, only let me see her first." I then said to him, " What have you done with the instrument or knife you committed the deed with ?" He took the knife now produced out of his pocket and gave it to me. It was wet with blood. I then took him into the kitchen. He looked at the body stedfastly, but did not speak. On the way to the lock-up he said "I am far hap pier now I have done it than I was before, and I trust she is." I searched him and found two other knives (penknives) upon him. Next morning I asked him if he knew anything about a shawl. He said, " I saw one on the road and threw it over the wall." This was Miss Goodwin's shawl. I examined the road and found a small pool of blood at the corner of Wigwell-mill-lane, At the hunting-gate, which is about 200 yards from the lane and nearer the hall, I found another large pool of blood. I did not notice any between the two places. Cross -examined—I did not say, "Are you aware of the nature of the charge ?" because I doubted whether he was, but because he seemed so anxious to give himself up. noticed marks of whitling on a gate opposite to the hunt ing gate. Three or four pieces had been cut off. The gate has been completely pulled to pieces and carried away by the persons who have visited the spot. This closed the case for the prosecution, and it being now half-past one o'clock the Court adjourned for half an hour. On the reassembling of the Court Mr. Macaulay addressed the jury on behalf of the prisoner, He strongly hoped that he should satisfy the jury heyena all doubt Shut by a mys terious dispensation of Providence the prisoner had been deprived of his reason to such a degree as to render him not amenable to the laws for the dreadful deed which undoubt edly he had committed. His father was a man of good d m e e e a g n h s t a e r n , d e p t o w s i h t i e o m n , t a h n had h ed prisoner tre wase c i t l h d e r e e n l , d e twosons e t. Fre a m n d a an ti early age his behaviour had been somewhat peculiar. He was perfectly well conducted, perfectly gentle, perfectly quiet, perfectly well behaved. He was exceedingly accom plished, but he was found to have no aptitude or capacity for the serious business of life. When very young he was noted for his taste for music. At school he acquired lan guages with facility ; but when put into a raerchant's count inghouse he could not learn the business. The learned counsel then went into a detailed account of the evidence he proposed to adduce, which from its importance we have given as it fell from the lips of the witnesses. At the close of Mr. Macaulay's address his lordship ob served—Perhaps, Mr. Macaulay, you had better address to me the questions you desire to have left to the jury. Mr. Macaulay—l should prefer doing so after the evidence has been heard. Baron Martin--Of course. I have not sat here to try this case without well considering what questions I should leave to the jury, and I will now read to you what I have written down, and what I propose to leave to the jury. I shall tell them that if they believe that, although there might have been disease in the mind to some extent, yet if the prisoner knew that the act he was committing would probably cause death, and that the doing it would subject him to legal punishment, there was criminal responsibility. Mr. Macaulay—Many men have been acquitted with approval who must have been convicted under such a direc. Baron Martin—l have drawn that from a summing up of Juit' lee Le Bl anc , w hi c h h as b een muc h approve d o f, an d a de c i s i on of Lord Denman ' s, and another of Lord d go the law. I ruling ected to. Emma Marsdewn believe it to be a correct statement of have. put aside from my consideration the itn were then The follow n i esses ruling has th be Jud g e who tried Bellingham, b ecause th a t called— have known hi m all hi a s m li the prisoner's maternal aunt, and bsniriannfif ate . th e er i . . s very hed e affectionate stroy e d h herself, r s a e n l f d t named Mary Marsden, the as V in e sd r t ye was haousf thems u an p humane. or si selsdnhteaorl was c3nanGedilbert Ainsworih, a first snycloumre.moivletdu,s Bourns children, of whom five were imame maternal uncle, had 10 Two were confined in for many years in a lculstinic a° an asylum. Another maternal uncle had six children, of whom one has been insane. He is not now in an asylum. Cross-examined.-- He was occasionally subject to fits of ill-temper. He was not ill- tempered generally. The Rev. Wm. Bourne Masters, the prisoner's maternal uncle, corroborated the evidence of the last witness. Mary Townley—l am the prisoner's mother. He had a very poor capacity for business pursuits, and had no profes sion in August last. In March of this year I received a let ter from Miss Goodwin, expressing great affection for my son, They were upon the most affectionate terms, and my son's affection continued the same as ever. On the 12th of August he received a letter from Miss Goodwin, which I saw. (The letter was one of those given by Townley to Capt. Goodwin and burnt by him.) It spoke of a clergy man, the most delightful man she had ever seen in her life. He had been staying at Wigwell, and her grandfather thought he would just suit her, but that would not do. It ended, " Yours affectionately." The usual conclusion was "Your own darling," or something of that sort. I saw him on the Saturday, three days after he received that letter. There was another from Miss Goodwin to him on that day. It said she had a good deal to say to him, and it had better be said at once. Grandfather had found out that they cor responded, and was wild that there was anything in the wa y. " I want you to release me," the letter went on, " that I may have it to say lam free. Don't take this too hardly in pity for me. I shall not marry if I can help it." That was signed " Yours sincerely," That letter seemed to have turned his brain. He was in such an excited, sup pressed state of feeling that I asked Mr. Arrowsmith to sit up with him. The next morning I went to my son's room. He was at the door, and appeared very excited, but exter nally calm. He had not been in bed. He took nothing but tea and brandy for breakfast, and only very little for dinner, That evening (Sunday, August 16), he wrote a letter to Miss Goodwin (the letter dated Sunday, and given above.) He took a long time to write it, and was nervous and excited while doing so. He came down on Monday morning and lay on the sofa. He appeared very restless. His hands and feet were twitching nervously. I gave him some morphia. He remained on the sofa till dinner time, and took no dinner. After dinner he wrote another letter to Miss Goodwin. (This letter is also given above, and is dated Monday.) He had a little difficulty in finding words now and then. He was so nervous that he spoilt several tinvelupeb in directing the letter of Sunday, and had to tear them up. On Tuesday morning he took hardly any break fast, and appeared not to have had a night's rest. He then went to Manchester to give a French lesson, and on coming back he was in a perspiration, and said he hoped he was not going to have an illness. That afternoon he went to Bolton, to Mr. Arrowamith's. On Thursday another letter came from Miss Goodwin (that given above), and I telegraphed to him to return home. On arriving he showed me a letter he had received from Miss Goodwin at Bolton. The pur port of it was that if he wished to see her he was to go to the Midland Hotel at Derby, where he would find a note from her, but she did not wish to s ee him. There was a postscript, "After all you had better come," and she men tioned the trains. We consulted on what was to be done at the station, and fixed that he had better go to Derby. Ihe letter I gave him from Miss Goodwin evidently distressed him. I could see he was dreadfully upset, but he always kept quiet. Shortly afterwards he left for Derby. His man ner was generally reserved, but excited. I noticed an ex cited manner. That was his natural manner during the whole course of his life. He was only excited on occasions. I noticed a change after the receipt of Miss Goodwin's let ters. I should describe that change as a suppression of deep feelings. 1 believe an objection was made to my marriage with Mr. Townley on the ground of the insanity in my family. Cross-examined—The French lesson was given to the son of a neighbour whom my son had been in the habit of teach ing from motives of kindness, Catherine Townley, the prisoner's sister, confirmed the evidence of her mother. Washington Arrowsmith—l am a cotton-spinner at Bol ton. On the 12th of August I saw the prisoner before and after he received Miss Goodwin's letter. He seemed much depressed by it. lie seemed more depressed atter gating the second letter. I sat up with him on the Saturday night, the 15th. He was alternately depressed and excited, and wept for about four hours in the course of the night, not continu6usly. I assisted him in writing the letter of Sun day. He supplied the substance of the letter and I the words. He seemed to have a difficulty in finding words. He was with me at Bolton from Tuesday to Saturday, the 20th, aLd appeared to be suffering very severely in mind. He received a letter from Miss Goodwin during that time, which seemed to make him more despondent. I did not see him again after he received the telegram of Mrs. Town ley. His mind and manner underwent a marked change after he received the letters from Miss Goodwin. He appeared to be lost in thought, and did not observe me sometimes when I spoke to him. His natural disposition was very kind, but very reserved. Cross - examined—He was subject to passion like anybody else. The letter from Ciilnow-mills he wrote himself. I aui not aware that he had any medical advice on the night I sat up with him. lie appeared to be very much distressed and kept walking. That made me think it not safe to leave him. William Glover—l have been acquainted with the pri soner 4 years. He is extremely gentle and humane, and a close and attached friend. He was very reserved to strangers. I have seen him extremely impulsive and excitable at times• He was a man with little hope, and looked despondingly at most things. Sometimes he would address me, and on my continuing the conversation did not appear to notice me. His mind appeared to be wandering on something else. John Grew - I am waiter at the Midland Hotel, and re member the prisoner coming to the hotel on T nursday even ing, the 20th August, He asked for chops and tea• At first there was nothing to attract my attention, but afterwards he walked up and down the cotfee•room. He took very little indeed of his tea, and after writing a letter, asked what time the mail went out,and on my replying 9 o'clock, he went out apparently to post,the letter himself. The next morning he asked if there were any letters for Townley. He poured out a cup of tea and had some dry toast. Before that he walked up and down, and muttered something which I understood to mean soda and brandy. He had a wild excited appearance about his eyes. After breakfasthe walked up and down muttering to himself. I thought him very eccentric. Ile asked the way to the smoking-room, and when I told him he said, "I don't want to know the way to the smoking-room. I know my way all over the house." 1 came to the conclusion that he was not right in his mind. Inspector Davis and chief-constable Fox have been to me, and I told them that, in my opinion, the pri soner was not quite right in his mind. Cross-examincd—l do not recollect baying told Davis on the following Saturday that I noticed nothing about Town ley. I told him that Townley was very strange in his manner. The Rev. John Leighton Figgins, incumbent of St. Clement's, Manchester- I should set the prisoner down as a person dEficient in what I might call logical conclusion. I have conversed with him since he has been in prison. Ido not see any change, because I never had similar conversa tions before. If not knowing the difference between good and evil is a sign of derangement, I should say ho is de rangea now. e diff C e r r o e s n s e e x b a e mi t w n e e e d n — r g hhte andn I s w a r y o t n h g a , t I h e m d e o a e n s t n h o e t r e know e t e h r tain things which I consider sinful and which he does not. He was rational in the sense of understanding what I said. Dr. Forbes NVinslow—l have seen the prisoner twice in the presence of Mr. Sims, the governor of the gaol. He was not aware of my name or the object of my visit. His be haviour was quite natural and not assumed. I talked to him largely on the subject of the criree. I was with him nearly two hours on the first occasion and three-quarters of an hour on the second. I think that at the present moment he is a man of deranged inteiteec. He was deranged on the 18th November and I thought still more so last night, when I ARw him the second him. If I had any doubt as to his insanity on the 18th of November, I had none whatever last night. 1 adverted to the conversation I had had with him on the previous occasion, with a view of satisfying my mind that I had left him with an accurate impression of what he had said. He repeated to me that he did not recog nise he had committed any crime at all, neither did he feel any degree of pain, regret, contrition, or remorse for what he had done. I endeavoured to impress on his mind on my first visit the serious nature of the crime he had committed. He repudiated the idea of its being a crime either against God or man, and in reply to some observation of mine, attempted to justify the act, alleging that he con. sidered Miss Goodwin as his own property—that she had been illegally wrested from him by an act of violence —that he viewed h'er in the light of his wife who had committed an act of adultery, and that he had as perfect a right to deal with her life as he had with any other descrip tion of property, as the money in his pocket, &c. I endea voured to prove to him the gross absurdity of the statement and the enormity of his offence, and he replied, " Nothing short of a miracle can alter my opinions." The expression that Miss Goodwin was his property was frequently repeated. He killed her to recover and repossess himself of property which had been stolen from him. I could not disturb this, as I thought,:very insane idea. I said, " Suppose any one robbed you of a picture, what course would you take to re cover it ?" He said he would demand its restitution, and if it were not granted, he would take the person's life without compunction. I remarked that he had no right to take the law into his own hands; he should have recourse to legal measures to obtain restitution. He remarked that he recog nised the right of no man to sit in judgment upon him. li e was a free agent, and as he did not bring himself into the world by any action of his own, he had perfect liberty to think and act as he pleased, irrespective of any one else. I regard these expre ss i ons as th e e vidence of a diseased intel they would lect. Last evening h e sa id th a t he had been for some weeks previously to Aug. 21 under the influence of a conspi racy. There were six conspi ra tors plotting against him, with a view to destroy him, w ith a ch i e f co nspirator at their h ea d . , andli berty in order to escape This conspiracy was still go i n g on while he was in prison, a oo n n d t h in e n h e a t d he n i o r odpoeurbattiotnhsatagiafinhset him, at their evil purposes he would have to leave the country. H e became much excited, and assumed a wild, maniacal aspect. I am satisfied that aspect was not simulated. I could not get from him the names of the conspirators. Mr. Macaulay—lf the present state of mental derange ment existed on 'Aug. 21, would it be likely to lead to the commission of the act then committed? Dr. Winslow—Most undoubtedly. Assuming him to have been on Aug. 21 as he was on Nov. 18 and yesterday, I do not believe that he was in a condition of mind to estimate, like a sane man, the nature of his act and his legal liability. Cross-examined—He referred to the conspiracy in general terms on the 18th of November. 1 should class his case as one of general derangement. He does not appear to have a sane opinion on a moral point. I have no doubt he knows that these opinions of his are contrary to those 'generally enter tained, and that if acted upon they would subject him to punishment. I should think he would know that killing a person was contrary to law and wrong in that sense. I should thing that from his saying he should be hanged he knew he had done wrong. His moral sense was more via_ ated than I ever saw that of any other human being, His opinions were pretty much those of atheists, but he was beyond atheism. He seemed incapable of reasoning cor rectly on any moral subject. He denied the existence of a God and of a future world. He would suffer from his con finement, which would add to his excitement. It was more remarkable last evening than on the 18th of November, and might not have existed on the 21st of August. He said it was a matter of perfect indifference whether he was dead or alive. Re-examined—He merely gave utterance to these opi nions dogmatically, and s,•!emed incapable of arguing upon them. Dr. Gisborne, the surgeon of the Derbyshire Infirmary and of the County Gaol, gave similar evidence, and added that the prisoner's condition at this time was similar to his condition when he was brought to the gaol in August. The prisoner stated to him that he looked upon a woman en gaged to him in the same light as his wife, and that he ought to have the same control over his wife as over any portion of personal property, On cross-examination this witness stated that the pri soner's language implied that he knew that what he had done was pnnisbable, but that he (the witness) believed he would repeat the offence to-morrow. Mr, Sims, the governor of the gaol, gave similar evidence as to the conduct and statements of the prisoner. This concluded the case for the defence, and as it was now 6 o'clock, Mr. Baron Martin suggested that it was not desirable to go on with so important a case at so late an hour. The Court adjourned till 9 o'clock to• morrow morning. WESTERN CIRCUIT.—EXETER, DEC. 10, (Before Mr. Baron Pigott.) James Stevens, pugilist, and John Burke, labourer, were indicted for the wilful murder of John Mears, jun., at Teigngrace, on the 14th of August. Mr, Holdsworth and Mr. Bere were counsel for the pro secution ; Mr. Carter defended the prisoners. Mr. Holdsworth having opened th, case, Various witnesses stated that deceased, a man aged 31, employed at the Bovey Tracey potteries, had been at the Newton Races on the 9th of August, dressed in a dark coat and corduroy trousers, and had not subsequently been seen by them. After some evidence had been given, The jury said they had heard enough. The Judge said he had never in all his experience heard so unreliable a case. There was not a trace of one drop of blood having been found, and if the fight had taken place in the high road, the blood must have been seen. The boy remained silent until the offer of a reward was published. He first pitched upon Finnerty, and he said Burke had given him 6d. not to say it was he, and he allowed Finnerty to be taken off in custody, until the policeman suggested that his description was more like Burke, and then he said it was Burke. The man's body had got into the water, but how it had got there no one could tell. The jury returned a verdict of not guilty. SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS, TIMES.—The enemies of Mr. Layard, if he has any, will read his last speech to his constituents with a malicious pleasure. If it is enjoyable to watch the troubles of the storm-tossed mariner from the shore, there is amusement, too, in the embarrassments of a restless spirit safely lodged in a quiet berth. It is due to Mr. Layard to admit that he betrays much less wildness than might have been expected, and submits to official restraints with a very good grace. He boldly accepts the responsibility of his position and undertakes to reconcile individual liberty with subordination. Lest year he was frank enough to tell the electors of South wark that a man in office should consider himself as much out of office as ever in respect of personal opinions, and was lucky enough to have the Chinese question ready to hand as an illustration of his own consistency. This year he speaks with still more openness and confidence, de fending every measure of tne Government from an independent point of view, and palliating their only sin of omission in a most orthodox manner. " He regretted very deeply" the speeches of Messrs. Cobden and Bright ; " they were painful speeches." He protested that " the Government possessed the best information of what took place on ,the Con tinent, and could alone know the state of foreign armaments." He gave a great des! of good advice to those who, with very limited means of information, presume to set the Treasury Bench right on matters of State. He stated it as his deliberate conviction that "the acts of the Government were marked by liberality and patriotism," and deserved the grati tude of the public. This state of mind, supervening on a Quixotic passion for reform, realises the poet's idea " that men may rise on stepping stones of their dead selves to higher things." The transformation on which Mr. Hawthorne founded his most popular novel was not more complete. The most merciless of critics has become the most versatile of apologists; the most dashing of assailants has shown himself a master in the tamer arts of defence. Mr. Layard's address belongs to the approved type of modern vacation oratory. Thirty or forty years ago, when the debates were not so generally read, no one thought of volunteering speeches in the country. Now and then Canning and Peel delivered them selves of orations on some grand occasion, or ventured a few words on a practical subject, but the fashion of reviewing the session and touching slightly upon every question of the day, as if for the very purpose of committing oneself, is quite new. However, the practice is established, and every member of Parlia ment must be prepared with a synoptical view of the state of things at home and abroad. Mr. Layard only does what others have done before him us que ad nauseant, but he does it with great tact and ability. Dealing first with the old charge of Parlia mentary apathy, he told his hearers plainly that " they could not have sensation Parliaments if they had no sensation questions in the country." At the same time, he avows his adherence to his former opinion that there should iae an extension of the suffrage, and that it had better be granted in quiet times. Not that he denies the wise discretion shown by Reformers in forbearing to press their proposals on the House, but he still distrusts the policy, to which he bows, of making no concessions except to agitation. From this topic he passes to the conduct of the working classes during the distress of the last two years, and combats the theories promulgated by Messrs. Bright and Cobden at Rocledale. He con tends that our labouring classes are better off than those of most old and tong-settled countries, that they exercise indirectly more political power, and that if they are not as highly educated as in Prussia, " that arises from the greater amount of liberty en joyed in England." Where education is forced on the people from above, the benefits which it confers are chiefly intellectual, and we may learn from the example of Prussia itself that such education may fail to qualify its possessors for political action. After declaring himself in favour of an educational franchise, Mr. Layard plunges into Foreign Affairs. He endorses the principle that England cannot exert a proper moral influence on Europe with out a large military expenditure. He quotes figures to show that in the year 1861, selected by Mr, Cobden in his " Three Panics," the estimated cost and strength of the French Navy, taken by him as the basis of his calculations, was almost doubled by supplemental credits. He cordially adopts the arguments of Lord Russell on the Con gress, justifies the language of his chief about Poland, and points out, fairly enough, the absurdity of objecting in the same breath that it was a cruel kindness to encourage the Poles so much, and that we should nut have let out that we did not intend to go to war. He then claims credit for the in flexible neutrality of the Government towards America, but, soon returning to the East, discusses successively Turkey, China, and Japan. According to Mr. Layard, Admiral Kuper was satisfied by the capture of the three steamers of Prince Satsuma, and would have steamed quietly out of the bay if the forts had not fired on him. Such is not the impression which we received from his own de spatch • and, however much we deplore any suffer ing inflicted on the peaceable inhabitants of Kago sinaa, we are far from sure that the confiscation of the steamers would have been an adequate punish ment. On another point, however, we quite agree with Mr. Layard. We allude to the misdeeds of those adventurers who disgrace the English name in the Eastern seas. Their claim to be protected in fraud and lawlessness is one of the great obstacles to our commerce end influence, and it would be well if they were guilty of no worse practices than " writing home complaints against our official re presentatives. It is creditable to Mr. Layard that he can win acceptance for such moderate and sen sible views from the constituency of Southwriioros and maintain his seat by virtue of pr-etensh we higher than those of a local candidate. cannot help smiling at his altered ttoonree preach him complacency, we should be the test that lanurgfacmial m ust cu: with it as a fault. It is a cha n ' over every man who buys his own experience of political action. It is a familiar truism that it is , • easy to discern easy to criticise, but h ard to act from the outside what ought to be done, hard to dis cern from the inside the right way of doing it,. Why the one should be so easy and the other so hard in politics is not so obvious as the truth that it is so. The chief reason, we believe, will be found in the fluctuating nature of the materials with which statesmen have to deal. Others have to collect facts, to form opinions out of them, and perhaps to apply those opinions to new combinations of circumstances. A statesman has a far more complicated task than this—a task all the more difficult because each of is processes appears so simple. Let him be an historian, an economist, and a man of the world ; let him be gifted with the imagination to conceive and the nerve to execute; he will still fail of success unless he have a profound and sympathetic insight into the motives and opinions of men and nations. To him sentiments are facts, causes as well as, effects, means and ends at once. The stumbling-blocks of co-operation are great, and the sacrifice of indivi dual convictions to the necessities of joint action is trying, but the teal and permanent difficulty of statesmanship is the anticipating, interpreting, leading, following, and giving practical expression to, public opinion. The political necessities which dominate over one generation are often the creation of the former; their component elements were opi nions, and their present force is embodied in opinions only. So hopeless does it appear to master all these moral conditions of domestic and foreign policy that the great majority of public men in power trust en tirely to instinct, and are content to take external pressure as a good rough test of opportuneness and expediency. This tends to make a Minister little more than the agent of the public will, and implies a deep scepticism as to the value of political prin ciples. We cannot acquiesce in this as the ultimate ideal of government, but it is often the nearest ap proach to it that we can get, and is at least safer than the theories of amateurs. If we mistake not, Mr. Layard has learnt this lesson, and is already less of an optimist than he once was. How the Queen's Government can be carried on with safety and efficiency is not the highest question that an administrator can ask himself, but it is a vital one, and while he is engrossed by the solution of it he must leave to others the suggestion and elaboration of organic projects of reform. POST.—There are few offices in the kingdom more difficult to discharge at the same time with dignity and efficiency than those which are held by the occupants of the judicial bench. The model judge should, in order to come up to the popular standard, be an individual not only of profound learning and consummate ability, but of unwearied patience and unfailing courtesy of demeanour. By many he is expected to present a living epitome of all the Christian virtues; by the vulgar he is in variably regarded as the incarnation of all that is at once the most wise, the most majestic, and the most awful. Stripping, however, from the judicial cha racter all that may be regarded as clap-trap, there remains quite sufficient to make it desirable that promptitude, precision, and unswerving fidelity upon the judgment-seat ;should be tempered by moderation of language and dignity of demeanour. We all remember the painful scene which occurred some years ago at the Guildford Assizes, when a feud sprang up between the judge and the high sheriff, in which both parties committed themselves, the latter perhaps the most unpardonably, and where a breach, which had been already once patched up by the intervention of the Chief Justice, ended in the infliction of a heavy fine upon the official guardian of the public peace. The scandal which was thus occasioned has hardly yet been for gotten, and remains as a lesson of the extreme cau tion which it is requisite to exercise if the;boun daries of that reverence and respect which should surround the judicial bench are never to be trans gressed. It is therefore with the more regret that we have noticed the charge delivered the other day by Mr. Baron Pigott to the grand Jury at Exeter. The learned judge is, until a successor to the late lamented Justice Wightman is appointed, the junior of his fraternity, and has just en tered upon the honourable and onerous duties of his first circuit in his judicial capacity. After some sensible remarks upon the demoralising ten dency of pugilism, and the utter absence of any countervailing benefits to lessen the evils of the unmitigated ruffianism to which it gives rise, his lordship proceeded to comment upon the arrange ments which had been made to receive him. He com plained in strong terms that the business of the country had been retarded by the negligence of " some authorities in the town," and that the com mission could rot be opened from " the stinginess" of those who declined to light the cathedral for afternoon service at his request. Of course such a charge, if founded on fact, would do anything but redound to the credit of those who had laid them selves open to it. Unfortunately for Baron Pigott, one story proverbially only holds good until another is told. Tne Dean, the chief authority in the cathe dral, turns out not to have been in the city, having been summoned to attend the funeral of a near relative. Both the Canons in Residence, however, have come forward to give their own version of the affair, which is substantially as follows. It is quite true that a notification was received by the autho rities of the cathedral that Baron Pigott would pre fer attending church on a certain afternoon, instead of waiting till the following morning. But it is equally true that this request was coupled with an intimation of the time at which he would arrive, which would have rendered it imperative, in order to comply with it, to change, in the first place, the hour of the afternoon service, and to fix it, in the second, at such a time as would have rendered it im possible to conclude it during daylight upon a short ll.cember's day. From this alternative the Chapter might well shrink after the outcry which was excited some time ago at the mere report of an unseemly deference having been displayed towards Royalty itself at Peterborough. It involved also the ques tion not of the expense, but of the possibility, of lighting the cathedral. It is true that facilities for doing so exist in the choir, but the cortege of trum peters and javelinmen who accompany the judge attract a following which is rather numerous than select, who generally await in the nave the egress of the judge. This portion of the church has been recently fitted up for service at the private expense of a member of the Chapter, but, from the time at which the service ordinarily takes place, no pro- vision has been made for lighting it. It is needless to point out how unseemly would have been the spectacle of a rabble composed of the riff-raff of the town thronging the nave at an hour when the efforts of the authorities to preserve anything like order or decorum would have been effectually paralysed. Such is the counter statement put forth upon the part of the Chapter by Archdeacon Bartholomew and Canon Harington, the Chancellor of the diocese, men whose motives and character are alike above suspicion. We are bound to say that, in our opinion, the Church has the best of the argument. Baron Pigott does not deny that arrangements had been made to receive her Majesty's representative with all fitting honours on his way to morning service, nor does he explain why he himself should have se lected for his arrival as hour which interfered with the ordinary services of the day. It is difficult to imagine that a little consideration upon his part would not have prevented a collision of any kind, and still more difficult to justify a hasty accusation of " stinginess" made from the bench against a body who, whatever else may have been their shortcom ings, have never before been accused of any failures in this respect. We can quite believe that the new judge may have been eager to resent a fancied affront to his newly acquired dignity. But he would have done well to pause before he accused a society of loyal and honourable men, in the absence of their head, of an intentional omission to pay pro per respect to the representative of her Majesty. Had Baron Pigott arrived earlier or later, the ques tion could not have arisen. But it is rather too much, even for a judge, to time his coming at an hour which would interfere with the usual service, and then to grumble not only that the time is not changed to suit his convenience, but that it is not changed to an hour which would render the preser vation of order and decorum difficult, if not im possible. YANKEE TOASTS.—The following toasts were given at a recent dinner of New Jersey Democrats:— " Blessed are the peacemakers." " The last man and the last dollar—May the one be an Abolitionist, and the other a shinplaster, and may they both perish in the last ditch together." " State rights; may they not be forgotten in delirious and bloody triumph of state wrongs." " Things we remember—Habeas corpus and trial by jury." st To the first Governor who shall have the virtue and courage to keep his oath of office, and protect and defend the constitu tion, laws, and sovereignty of his State and the rights of its citizens. " The light of other days, when liberty wore a white face and America was not a negro." " The Demo cratic party, as it was, before cowardice, treachery, shoddy, and greenbacks had demoralised its councils." The aboli tion war for disunion—Let those who think it is right go to it, and those who think it is wrong stay at home." ct may those who say we shall never have the Union as it was follow the example of their brother traitor Judas Iscariot, who died and went to his own place." " The War , Democrat —A white man's face on the bod y of a negro.' "The only• po ss ibi e remedy for secession and the only hope of the Union—Peace mu tual con cession, and compromise," , CADYERTISEMENT.I-110110WaY'S o. i Relief and Remedy.—There ntment and Pills.— are many cases of sciatica, t i e doloreux, and neuralgia, now Wearing out the patience and strength of thousands who might derive incredible ease by the use of Holloway's matter what has been the Ointment and Pills. No how severe and excruciating have duration of the complaint, nor will be diminished by w have been the sufferings, they arm fomentations, brisk friction with this unguent suitable doses of the Pills. This treatment has often succeeded when every variety of seda tive had proved perfectly useless. The doses of the Pills must depend on the constitutional habit, as their purifying and strengthenino. properties are more required in this class of nervous di seases than their apolent powers. COUNTRY MARKETS. .. - ‘1 .. . -..-. LIVERPOOL—FRIDAY. At this day's market we had a small attendance both of minors and dealers, with a limited business in wheat. at a decline of 2d to 3d on the week. Flour a dull sale, and 6d cheaper. Indian corn heavy, and 6d down. s a le, e a very dull sale, but not lower in price. WAKEFIELD —FRIDAY. The show of grain to-day was moderate. The trade in wheat limited, and last Friday's rates we nearly lower. main tained for fine parcels, but general runs were Barley in slow demand. Averages for the week : Wheat 1,788 qrs., at 43s 31d Oats Beans Peas .... 99 ........ 318 111 d Barley.... 457 ........ 32s 711 Rye 2O ........ 30s 9d STAMFORD—FRIDAY. White wheat,,: 40$ to 44s ; red, 36s to 41s per 36 stone. Barley, malting 34s to 37s ; grinding, 30s to 33s pet qr. Oats, 20s to 258 per 24 stone. Beans, old , 40s to 42s per qr. ; new, 34s to 365. -FRIDAY. offer at our market to-dal, .s per qr duarer. Barley, grinding.. 28s to 2 54 to 335 Oats, old, ...... 23s 1 New do .......... 20s to 2 55 1 Beans.. .......... 388 to 415 Beans, new...... 34s to 385 LINCOLN. A fair quantity of wheat on with a moderato business, at ' White wheat new, 42s to 46s Red do 3Bs to 40s Old white —s to —s Red do.. —8 to —s Barley, malting 34s to 38s CORK—FRIDAY. The following were the quotations this morning :^-11ed wheat, 8s Od to 8s 10d ; white, 8s Od to 9s Sd , bar le y , 6d to 8s Od ; oats, 4s 10d to 6s 2d ; black do., 4s 4d to 5s 3d. DUBLIN• s.d. s.d. Wheat, white 24 0 to 26 6 Do., red 2l 6 to 24 0 Do., new Barley Oats Do., black — 0 to 0 s. d. s• d• Oatmeal lO 0 to 13 0 Beans.. . —o to ° Bere . —o to 0 Rapeseed 0 0 oto ° Bakers' flour 14 oto 20 Indian corn •FItIDAY. BRISTOL SUGAR—FRIDAY. The market for sugar shows a better feeling this W C and buyers begin to have more confidence, and ap pear do; po4ed to purchase at about is 6d per cwt above the date lowest point. Refiners' produce neglected, and stocks 51" accumulating. A good demand for rum at full prices. COAL MARK ET. rrioes of Coal per Ton at the olose of the market. d. Byass's Bebside West Hartley ......16 9 Cowpen Hartley 16 9 West Hartley l6 9 Holywell Hartlepool W. Hartleyl6 0 \‘. siker Primrose 16 0 Hastings Hartley l6 9 fantield Moor Butes l5 6 West Wylam.. ..... l6 0 Eden Main .....19 '3 Ships at marke 0. d. Walla End. Hetton . Wharneliffe. ......... 18 9 I B i r a :d w d e y i 11 'a Heti o s ...... 11 2 1 91' °9 K elloe Tunstall ...... IS H art l e pool ......... ..20 Trimdon Hartlepool... 2o K e i per G r ange ........ 6 it, 50 ; sold, 49. RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE. TRAFFIC RECEIPTS FOR THE WEEK. Miles Opened. lieceiP t " 1863. 1862. Railways. Belfast and N. Counties 136 136 1 2 81 , 63 00 . 4 j2 . 844312 V, Belfast and County Down 49 49 599 6'.1 28 28 1,65 4 I ' 7 l Blyth and Tyne s 28 Bristol and Exeter 1214 1211 6,514 5+729 Caledonian 17,35 3 1 5, -- Cockermouth& Workington B4 81 - 559 Cork and Bandon 2O 20 405 ~4 5 Cork, Blackrock, & Passage 65 64 131 ''. Cork and Youghal . . 325 324 391 1 0 6+ Cornwall 65"1 531 1,203 ~ -,0 4 Deeside l7 17 315 -`,;),3 Dublin & Belfast Junction 63 63 1 , 406 I," t Dublin and Drogheda 75 63 1 ' Dublin and Meath Dub. & Wicklow and Wexfd 9 14 48 4 2,786 -, 7 9 Edinburgh and Glasgow 1694 1695 7,50 0 7 . 1 71 2 Furness, &c 5O Si 2,809 2 ,, , , 0 5 Glasgow & South-Western 2 8, 007 26,2 ,,6 Gt. Eastern,Nrfk.,&E.Union Great Northern 353 351 30,311 2 8, ti Great North of Scotland 5B 58 1,78 7 1 106 tit. Northn. & Westn. (Irel.) 486 „„2 qt.Southn. & Westn.(lrind.) 37 34 4 329 664 „, 7,974 ..% ' g Great Western 10561 10324 58,347 5"-Z Inverness & Aberdeen June 864 86 2 1,299 1,':,., Inverness & Perth Junction 1194 - 1,148 ,y, z Irish North-Western 145 145 1,720 1,„, Lancashire& Yorkshire 402 3955 32,250 31q` o Limerick and Ennis... 241 241 197 ~,t Limerick and Foynes 264 261 136 " 517 480 Ll ane lly 461 46 84,935 London & North-Western London and Blackwall . 5 1 6 ! 1,665 '366 London & South-Western Lond. Brighton, &S. Coast 264 2114 16,P 8 1 7 . 5 b London, Chatham, & Dover 725 721 4,003 ' ; 0 5 Do. Metropolitan Extension 104 51 " 1 006 Lond., Tilbury, & Southend slan.,Sheflield,&Lincolnsh Manch. S.J un.& Altrincham 95 95 1,203 1,6 ,_, 5 ; Ilaryport and Carlisle Metropolitan - 3! - 1,852 , .., Midland (incl. N.-Western) 641 6144 43,375 39, 0 :?,;' Midland Gt.Westn. of Irind 2591 1921 5,151 5,u , '", Monkland 714 714 1,513 1.61.' Monmouthsh. Rail. & Canal 44 44 2,490 2,315 North British, Edin., Perth and Dundee N-Eastern and Stock. & Darl 1095 10771 55,918 49,9 66 North London 9 9 3,209 3,01t3 North Staffordshire 254 252 8,433 7,8 61 Oswestry and Newton... 5O •42 1,023 0 1 Rhymney 8 , 19 6 8 19 5 1 ~ 20 7 521 7 0 5 :2 1 (I)4 ° r;.. St. Helen's Canal & Railway 52 Scottish Central Scottish North-Eastern l3B 13242 1 4,600 Somerset and Dorset 66 391 South Devon South-Eastern 306 306 '-‘ .", 7 5,031 5 68 Taff Vale 67 55 4 : 078 1,827 Ulster Vale of Clwyd. . - : :2 3 254 :0 I 2 2 7: . 16 : 44602146 Vale of Neath 325 255 -, , A 7 282 Waterford and Kilkenny - 31 31 " 2 44S Waterford and Limerick 77 77 1,416 ' 65 0 West Cornwall 274 271 ti 63 W. Hartlepool H arbr. & Rail 4B 48 4,21 1 4 ' 7 , 0 71 / W'haven,Cleator,& Egrmnt 7 7 654 2 967 7g , Whitehaven Junction l2 1 2 83 0 Whitehaven & Furness Jun 35 35 FOREIGN AND COLONIAL. Antwerp and Rotterdam 52 Austrian B2B Belgian Eastern Junction 26 Bombay, Baroda, & Cen. India 185 Buffalo and Lake Huron l6l Detroit and Milwaukie lB9 Dutch Rhenish Eastern Bengal Eastern of France.....-.. 1167 East Indian Grand Trunk of Canada lO9O Great Indian Peninsula 5381 Great Luxembourg 134 Great Southeen of India Great Western of Canada 345 Madrid, Sarag - oss a &Alicant N or thern of Canada N or thern of France 697 Norwegian Trunk 484 Ottoman Paris, Lyons, & Mediterrn.... 1805 Paris and Orleans 1614 Pernambuco 772 Royal Danish 69 . Sambre and Meuse 6B South Austrian Southern of France .... . 770 Victorian Welland 25 1 West Flanders ..".* 75 W. and N.W. of France 1,172 015 34,732 3i,9A . 33x 335 2'5 2,11 0 1 ',21 2,736 1, 41 5,371 4,7 5163,:31096681 958 828 2r3i 132 i 161 k 180 1081 1081 639 1090 495 134 g 17 0 20,460 i 'Zo46 8,9Z8 4,057 4, :03 315 18,027 1 6 + 0" 6 1,385 1,95 p 58,660 55,%".;6 1,002 • „o 324 0 1 5 5 112,637 70,432 705 05 7 7 1,42 L "" 8 / 2 52,069 48,0_, 8,945 24,57,40 _ 9, . 031 408 621 985 40,640 35 901 ,947 48-i 1676 1434 1315 680 161 Foreign Mail Packet List. MAILS DUE. Dec. 19' Australia and Mauritius, via Southampton. ...• " Dec. via Marseilles ......... l3, 4 , brazil and Cape Verds, by British pachet. ....... Jan• Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, and St. Helena.. 19. 19. China, Penang, and Singapore, via Southanipton .Pee ' via Marseilles ...Dee' Falkland Islands ............... Gibraltar, via Southampton Dec. 19' India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via Southampton Dee• 13, via Marseilles...• ne e ' India (Bombay), via Southampton Pe e ' 6. via Marseilles .... . . Portugal.... 'Malta, Egypt, and Men, via Southampton ft ?' via Marseilles Dee. Newfoundland Oporto and Vigo • - 9 U. S. and British N. America, by Brit. packet... De°. by U.S. packet . 15' by Canadian packet Dec 10, W.C. of Africa, Madeira, and Teneriffe Dee'' 11• Bahamas, via New York Dec. 2,9. Mexico.. Dec , il All parts of West Indies, including Chili, Ferut I pee. California. and Briti s h Columbia. Births. 0 , CHAMPION.—At 1, Lenard-place, Circus-road, St-/ as jjt.' wood, the wife of Major J. H. Champion, Assist -P . General dhow Division of the Army, of a daught er ',ife iII:ITTON.—On the 11th inst., at Upper Tooting, the " of Thomas O. Hutton, Esq., of a daughter. COO' L YS AGHT.--On the 9th inst., atWoolwi c h, the Wife of 'mi nder Lysaght, of H.M.S. Fi sgar d , o f a son. ter-le-Street, Henry P Es q., of the ) ., t 0 0 a , ple, second son the late Gen. the: POTTINGER—"S' 0 t E Rnostoteierou, Marriages.t... the . mitage, county of Durhamv.. E. H. 1313 HenryS:r.et. Pottinger, Bart., G.C.8., to v y A u c l 1 ' Nair lg lunar Tol l: : e ' er . c Jo h s a e d p i b il , 3g s t o o n n, of to J A os n ep n h ie, W d a a r u d gh E te s r 0 ; Clarke, ed s daughter of the Rev. E Shi erdeon, Of WARD.... 0 3 CLARKE.—On the 10th inst , at Grazely' set a loth lust., at Cher t (I ' , ' 0 bort -Ka(l., of Cold Harbour, Oxon. Deaths. Kaul4. Deaths. r '/ A c tlif BLYTH.—On the Bth inst,, at Brighton, Sa muel Esq. CROOK.—On the 11th inst., at 13, Wellington roa d, 0 111 r berwell, Charles Lees Crook, Esq , aged 61. „ to les CAPRON.—On the 10th inst., at Upper H0110way,,,,,!:,03, Thomas Capron, Esq., of the Stock Exchange, -bum aged 73. Eva l3 ' . EvANs —On the 10th inst., Mr. Dan i e l Maurice ot '2OB, egent- street, W., aged 43. HARRISO R N.—On the 10th inst., at Ramegate,eldirrill Harrison, Esq., late ot the Royal Dragoons/ Ivg . ,_ . , ces ter. O'CONNELL.—On the 10th inst., at the Spa, Guagca Mary, relict of Lieut.. General Sir N. C. O'C onnell, 80. et Do cX' ii. oi,TigHhE.Rmy:g—atOenovthileii9atnhi itinustth.,erayt,liBu,n., Janes-Diresqtig ,63. London : Prin. - ad and ru,,:islied by WILLIAIIIAND1 so ' of No. 112, Strand , Printer, at TEE Surf Office ; ' a Strand, at t h e Precinct of the Savoy. 'n the COUI2J Ididellesex.—Saturday, December 1, 1663. TEST DtEE HI , RopEE 4 ,7 0 LE 6 7, ci FREE, F of landed the noble cottag e OwNEn ;Lace th( rds, 0 b• I .state Llmley !here tilt the /e ,l'ienees l'il EnE chaser i s and the n Auctf, -_________ I T Four p ;wove d "Ando: del% 1301' every 10 Office N, zext,.in all in . p R f a) Een O ‘...e o Offices, AU . 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