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

ERIAL P.ARLIATIENT ROI 'SE OF LORDS—Last Evening, The Lo RD C HANCELLOR took his seat on the woolsack at five a clock. PRIVATE BUSINESS. Th e following bills were read a third time and passed : St. Helen's Canal and Railway—South Wales Mineral Rail , ray—Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Rail way (Steamboats) —Dublin Trunk Connecting Railway— Shef ield Waterworks (Bradfield Inundation)—North Web tern and Charing-cross Railway—Metropolitan Dis- triet :Railways. Load REDESDALE moved that the standing orders 'g to private bills be dispensed with for the remainder of the session. The motion was agreed to. WEI( iIiTS AND MEASURES (METRIC SYSTEM) LL. The .house went into committee on this bill. The Earl of DONOUGUMORE appealed to the noble earl (Ft Lrtescue) who had charge of the bill, not to press it at this l viriod of the session. It would not, in his opinion, simplify matters, but would tend to make inexplicable con- fusion. Earl G RANVILLE did not see that the peculiar period of the set 3sion should be considered as a reason for not pro ceeding with the bill. The house was well attended, and he thought they could properly consider the clauses of the me asure. The principle of the bill had already been fully diiscuseed. The bill then passed through committee, and was reported with amendments. CIVIL BILL COURTS (IRELAND) BILL. The Commons' reasons for disagreeing with certain amendments made in this house to the bill were considered, a. id their lordships determined not to persevere with their an Lendments. AND ACT 1864 BILL, IMPROVE MENT OF L The Commons' amendment to this bill were considered as disagreed with. HAIL lIA.B.BOUR ACT AMENDMENT BILL. T his bill passed through committee. JI7DaMENTS, &3., LAW AMENDMENT BILL. Lais bill passed through committee and was reported with an amendment. The standing orders were then suspended, and the bill was read a third time and passed, in. order that it might be sent down to the other house to consider the amendment. ;LOCAL GOVERNMENT SUPPLEMENTAL co. - N 2) BILL. This bill passed through committee. cIUI‘IINAL JUSTICES' ACT (1855) CONTINUANCE BILL. 'This bill passed through committee. A MAGH ARCHIEPISCOPAL REV ENUE BILL, This bill passed through committee. I;;ONSOLIDATED FUND (APPROPRIATION) BILL. bill was read a third time and passed. NEW ZEALAND LOAN BILL. This bill was read a third time and passed. PUBLIC WORKS (MANUFACTURING DIS TRICTS BILL. This bill passed through committee. POOR REMOVAL BILL, This bill passed through committee. EXPIRING LAWS CONTINUANCE BILL. This bill was read a third time and passed. PIER AND HARBOURS BILL. The report of amendments to this bill was brought up pa Id agreed to. HIGHWAY ACTS AMENDMENT BILL. 'The amendments to this bill were agreed to, and the bill was then read a third time and passed. RAILWAY COMPANIES POWERS BILL. 'This bill was read a third time and passed. FOREIGN AFFAIRS. :he Earl of ELLENBOROUGH, on rising to call the atti intion of the house to the changes which have taken plate in the state of foreign affairs since Parliament met, aaia that he took that opportunity to endeavour to draw at tention to our present position. There had been a change, which affected not only the integrity of the Danish domi nions, but the sacredness of the obligations of the treaties by which the Stares of Europe were bound together, the .security of the smaller States, and the steady progress of onstitutional government on the continent of Europe, hich for some years we had witnessed with the greatest see 'defection. When ho last addressed them he had no hope of .doing good; ho had no hope now, and only spoke because he Jett it right to do so. liar Majesty's Government de clared that they would afford no assistance to Denmark, after the failure of the Conference. At the commencement of the session the Opposition declared that it was not their du.t7 to find any foreign policy ; and they had ended by ado:eting the foreign policy ef the Government, while they had commented severely upon the mode in which it had been carried out by the Foreign Secretary. He regretted ibis determination of the two great parties in the State ; nor did he think that such a course would have been adopted by the great statesman whom England declined to honour. He believed, moreover, that there was not more titan one reign—that of James I.—in which such a policy w ould have been acceptable to the country. Lot them ob sc:ve in what state Denmark was now. She lay prostrate at the feet of her despoilers, and had none to protect her, exttept, perhaps the Emperor of France, who might have, perchance, come forward to defend her. At the beginning of the present year Denmark possessed all the provinces secured to her by the treaty of Vienna; and would have continued to do so had it net been for the lawless inva sion of the German Powers. In the first place, they called their invasion a Federal execution, and based it upon certain letters patent issued by the late King. 'Defers, however, Federal execution was levied, those letters patent were withdrawn. Austria and Prussia then declared their intention to occupy Schleswig as a ma terial guarantee for the fulfilment of a certain diplomatic engagement entered into by Denmark in 1850.51—and they did this, although they had made no objection, until it was passed, to the constitution of November, 1863, which united .Schleswig to Denmark. But after that constitution had been agreed to, and the Parliament dissolved, Austria and Prussia desired the King to repeal that constitution, which he could not do without violating his oath. M, Bismark, indeed, observed that he might do so by establishing a state of siege. But had he done so, the King of Denmark would have deserved to forfeit his throne, and have lost the cha racter which he had hitherto maintained. The constitution was not repealed, and first Schleswig and then Jutland were occupied. He inferred from this that this war was not commenced uno irguitu by Austria and Prussia, but that they proceeded step by step from one wrong to another when they saw that the.r aggressions met with no resist ance. Although he believed that there was no treaty of Holy Alliance, he thought that there was an understand ing—not only one—between Austria, Prussia, and Russia, which was indeed far worse than the Holy Alliance. The Sovereigns of the former alliance declared, and they kept to their word, that they would not check territorial aggran disement for themselves, but would limit their action to giving assistance to any sovereign who might be threaten. eued by the revolutionary party, and might ask their aid in maintaining his authority. But Austria and Prussia had not been content with this. Not confining themselves to support the authority of the King of Denmark, they had forbidden him to extend constitutional Government to Schleswig. It was not merely the declarations of her Majesty's Government which had given these German Powers an insight into the pacific policy of the Govern ment. Reduced estimates were introduced at the com mencement of the year, and they were ostentatiously de scribed as peace estimates. Now he quite adu.itted that we were not entitled to demand success in all his under takings from a British Minister—but we were certainly entitled to ask that he should not take measures which rendered success impossible. Now a Government which declared that its strength should never be used, did in the most direct manner deprive itself of all influence. He thought it of the deepest importance that the several sove reigns of Europe should have decided not to maintain the Treaty of 1852 as the basis of their policy, He saw no reason for such a departure. The only ground that could be given was founded on the new doctrine that nations were to decide on their own tats ; but this doctrine had no appli cation to Schleswig and Holstein. In the case of a large homogeneous population, like that of France, no doubt the doctrine of nationality was well founded. Nor did it affect the balance of power in Europe by whom that race might be ruled. Under any dynasty their policy and their action would be the same. But when the people of a particular province desired to withdraw themselves from a State to which they had belonged they disturbed the bala nce o f power in Europe by bringing abou t the dismemberment of the State to which they had belonged. He did not see how or why any treaty should be respected after that of 1852 had been set aside. There would in future be no such thing as international right in Europe, and there would be to security for any State in Europe except t hat which de pended on her strength. There was not a weak State in Europe which did not feel that its security was sensibly diminished by what had taken placiin regard to Denmark. If Kiel might he claimed and taken possession of by Austria and Prussia, what was there to prevent other Powers from seizing the Texel, or France from marching upon Bel ? What tad recently occurred must sensibly diminish the tense of independence of all secondary States. But, besides the regret and indignation which he felt on t uts -;core, he rega r d e d t h e con d uct o f t h e G erman P owers 4 declaration td war against constitutional government. No doubt their behaviour towards Denmark was part of a wickedly-laid plot to destroy liberty in Prussia and Austria also, Ile dreaded thi s, net b ecause i t wou ld last, but because it would interrupt the peaceful progress o f cons titutional fre edom, whi ch , but a few montlis ' ae.a, so'rned geing e n in those States. A dam h a d been thro;z, across the rtreere, which was certain to rifle and over whelm the Governments which hail interrupted its course. It was because these things could not be done without re tribution, and a terrible retribution too, that he viewed them with so much alarm. Then comes the question, what are we to do ? We could not disguise from ourselves that there was much mystery in these recent transaction s —that there was something behind which we could net see —that there was ;something we could not explain in the conduct of Austria, Prussia, and Russia. We must look, *en, to our own strength, We must increase that strength by fortifications, and by keeping bothour army and navy in the most efficient condition. We must endeavour to maintain the best understanding with France. Above all, he looked as our beet security to the revival of tho ancient spirit of the country, which did not consider lucre, but looked to honour. There was no doubt that wb at we now saw passing around us was calculated to fir, us both with indignation and regret. Did history record any instance of cruelty more revolting than that of which the Poles bad recently been made the victims? Did history record another instance in which, as had been the case with the Poles during the last few months—women, children, old men, young men, the glory and pride of their country, had been marched (without any of that assistance required by the age of some and the sex of others) from Warsaw to Siberia, dying on the road or destined to slavery when they arrived at their destination ? When we saw this, and wit nessed the wrong done to Denmark—when we saw the Powers which had despoiled her, proceeding from one wro ng to another until they had appropriated to them selves a large portion of the country—when we saw such outrages as these, which could not remain without decisive retribution, he could only express his hope that those who were not parties to these crimes, that those who had not in any way participated in them, might, by the divine permission and mercy, be exempted from that punishment which should only be inflicted on those who designed the wrong and assisted in its perpetra tion. (Hear, hear.) Earl RUSSELL said this matter had been fully debated in both Houses of Parliament, and both Houses of Perlis- went had come to their conclusion upon it. Bat there were some statements made by the noble earl which appeared to him to require so much correction in order to reduce them to the actual state of facts, that he could not avoid noticing some of those statements. The noble earl had spoken of Denmark as a country that had been invaded by two great Powers, who had invaded it for the purpose of taking from it some of its own provinces. Now, the difficulty of this question throughout had been that while Denmark was a small country there were at the same time two different races—indeed, more than two different races in that country —and that one race, which possessed the power of directing and controlling the Government, were at issue with another race, which occupied part of these provinces. But there was another difficulty still. While the majority might exercise unjustly, and could exercise oppressively if they chose, all their power over the minority, that minority had the power of appealing to a nation on its frontier, close to its boundary—a country of more than forty millions of in habitants, whose feelings, whose position and sympathies, would be with the provinces. In that state of affairs the great towers of Europe made a treaty, but that treaty depended upon the temper, upon the discretion, and upon the good sense of one party, as well as upon the mercy and forbearance of the others. Now, they should remember always that the beginning of this contest was in 1848, when Prussia in vaded the provinces of the King of Denmark. They con tended that they were justified in invading Holstein by an article of the Germanic Confederation, and that they were justified as respected Schleswig. by a special engagement that had been made. Therefore there was a disputa and discussion between Denmark on the one side and the Ger manic Confederation on the other, and it could not be said that Denmark was entirely blameless in that matter, or that she had fulfilled all the promises she had made. He was told that be had looked into the subject of the treaty of 1852 more than it was necessary to do, but he had thought it was absolutely necessary to look into it, and he could neither say the Government of Denmark was blame less, nor that they had fulfilled all the promises by which they had bound themselves to the Germanic Confederation or to Austria. Therefore the question came to this. Were the Powers justified in dividing Denmark in order to compel her to fulfil her promises, and to keep her treaty engage ments ? The question was a complicated one, and no one could say that in going to war purely and simply for Den mark, without asking anything for Denmark, we would have been taking the right course. This was not a question of whether you should go to war or should not go to war; but the main difficulty in a question of this kind was that you should not draw the sword without being convinced that you were in the right. If you were to go to war-. if you were to ask the people of England to contribute large subsidies to that war—if you were to ask them to subject themselves to all the evils of war, you should at least be sure that you were in the right course when you drew the sword. Now when he said that Denmark had not taken a perfectly upright course in this matter, he did not mean to defend the Powers of Germany against the accusation the noble earl had brought, but he would say if they had been willing to submit the matter to the decisica of the Powers of Europe who were not immediately engaged in it, if they had listened to both sides, all this difficulty might have been settled by negotiation. But unfortunately, while Denmark for 11 years continually and l ersh:tently put herself in the wrong, Ger many had determined that she would listen to no reason, and as Denmark would give no promises of redress, she would settle the question by the arbitration of war. He blamed that conduct, and he blamed it the more because is was not the judgment of Austria and Prussia which led them to this; but perhaps together, and perhaps separately, they wished to have popular feeling in Germany in their favour, and it was rather in consequence of that feeling that they felt the cause to be right that they again participated in that war. lie did not agree that in that case we ought to have taken the part of Denmark, and that, although France and Russia refused to be our backers in it, that we should ourselves have proceeded, and by our means have defended the cause of Denmark. He had said the question had been discussed. He held ire his hand the resolution that had been arrived at by the House of Commons, the address which they had presented to her Majesty, after considering this matter, he thought, for four nights together, and knowing, as they must have known, that if it had been a case of war the appeal must have been made to them, as the only email tutional body, for the means to carry on that war. After thanking her Majesty for laying before them the papers, and expressing the regret of the House of Commons that the Conference had been brought to a close without accomplish ing the important purpose for which it was called, they went on to express their satisfaction that at this conjuncture her Majesty had been advised to abstain from armed inter ference in the contest now going on between Denmark and the German Powers. Therefore, if they had called on the House of Commons to carry on a war of that kind, the House of Commons would not have supported the Govern ment in that war. The noble earl had supposed that the honour of England had been impaired. Now, in what re spect had the honour of England been involved in this contest? Was it bound by treaty to assist Denmark? There was no treaty since 1852, and there was no proof whatever that it was to the honour of this country to assist Denmark in this war. He was convinced there was no such obligation, and he was fully convinced also that if any cause should arise in which the honour of England re quired her to go to war, they would have the House of Commons deciding, not by a small majority, but by overwhelming numbers, in suppert of fulfilling the obli gations in favour of which the honour of England was at stake. They might repeat now what Burke said in an eloquent speech made ninety years ago in relation to America. He said, " Slavery is a weed that grows any where. They may have it in Spain, they may have it in Prussia." Now he was loth to think that the people of Prussia, in the course of these 90 years, had not learnt both to value and to understand liberty. His belief was that neither on the part of the Crown, on the part of the House of Lords, nor on the part of the House of Commons, had they yet arrived at a true understanding of what a constitutional monarchy should be. It required no aid and no assistance frem us, but after this question of Denmark had been settled, as it would be without any interference of ours, he believed the best prospect for the future to see liberty and constitutional monarchy established in Germany, was to leave that intelligent people to establish what should be the terms of government between the So• vereign and themselves, and there was no reason why England should interfere in any way in the settlement of that dispute. He was far from thinking that, were we to compare Europe with what it was 40 years ago, at the time of the Holy Alliance, that the people of Europe had not made great progress in political feeling, pecans© he believed that feeling was in abeyance at that time. He believed no sovereign, looking at the signs of the times, would think otherwise than that; but, on the contrary, they would find the sympathies of the people of England to be with the government of a constitutional monarchy. That was his belief, and he was far from thinking if we had been thrust into war, and the States of Europe had been pitted against each other in bloody contest, that we should have promoted the cause of liberty any more than we should have promoted the cause of peace. He believed, on the contrary, that by leaving it to the people and the sovereigns of Germany to settle this question among them selves, the Government had acted not only for the honour and interest of England, but they had done that which was best for the honour and interest of Europe. Lord STAT F ORD DE REDCLTFFE said his noble friend had asked where anything could be found to justify the expression that the honour of England had been lowered. He thought a justification was to be found for it in the manner in which the negotiations had been conducted. The great object of her Majesty's Govern ment was the maintenance of peace in the north of Europe. But, instead of peace, we now had war. Then we had been told that the treaty of 1852 was to be maintained ; but that treaty had been given up by the, English Government i tse lle The hopes which were raised in Denmark had been destroyed. It was, in a word, impossible not to perceive facts which justified the expression that we had suffered a certa i n degree of discredit as a nation. Ho regretted the blame which had been im p uted to the Danish Government, who th criticalr()uhuu n t z d ei all lttlihe proceedings h a d b een p l aced i n a most cult position. Th e con d uct o f the Danes ought to elicit feelings o i f the strong es t a d m i rat i on, and it was m atter of regret teat we meld not show our syn:pathy with trifle in a inore cii't3tive manner. The subject then dropped. SEARCHING FOR, ARMS IN IRELAND. The Earl cf LEITEDI drew attention to a search for arms which had been made in April last, under a warrant of the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland, in the parish of Clonda vadock, in the barony of Kilmacrenan, county Donegal ; and asked the Lord President if there were any law to au thorise the police in Ireland to enter the dwelling-house of any of her Majesty's subjects without a warrant and to search it, or carry off any p ro pe r ty of any kind whatsoever from such h ouse w i t h ou t any wr i tten aut h or ity. Earl GRANVILLE said that all the proceedings in the THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JULY 27, 1864. case which had been referred to by the noble lord were of a strictly legal character. After some remarks from the Earl of Donoughmore and Earl Granville, The subject dropped. The house adjourned at twenty minutes to eight o'clock. The Murder and Suicide in Somers-town, Yesterday afternoon inquiries were made by Mr. Inspector Gibson, with a view, if possible, to dis- cover the motives which prompted the murderer James Brown, to take away the life of the deceased Rosetta Bishop. Oa interrogating the old woman Lodi, or Loader, who resides in the front kitchen, she admitted that she was the medium of a clandee- tine correspondence between the deceased Rosetta Bishop and a man she was in the habit of occasion ally meeting, and she believed that Brown had lately by some means discovered the connection. She then produced and handed to Inspector Gibson a letter which had been addressed to the deceased woman under cover to herself no later than Saturday last. The inner envelope was addressed Rosetta Bishop, and although there was no address, and it was simply initialed "J. W.," the writer addressed her as " My dear Rosetta," and wished her to meet him that night at the corner of Liverpool-street, King's-cross, It is now believed that the knowledge of this connection led to the frequent quarrels be tween the woman and her paramour, and led to the ultimate commission by him of the double crime. Daring the afternoon the sister of the deceased woman and some other relatives visited the deadhouse of St. Pancras Workhouse with a view of speaking to her identity, and, notwithstanding the advanced stage of decomposition, they at once recognised it. The coal•cellar or cupboard in which the body of the murdered woman was thrust after the commission of ,he murder is so small that the murderer must have had some difficulty in getting her into it, more es pecially as she wore a somewhat large and stiff crinoline, which had to be cut off before the corpse could be got into the shell in which it was conveyed to the dead-house. It was generally asserted in the neighbourhood that the house in which the deed :ook place, No. 15, Smith-street, as well as one or wo others adjoining, belonged to Brown, but that is not the case. Inconsequence of the number of previous engagements, Dr Lankester will be unable to hold the inquest before to-morrow. On searching the back kitchen the first point that attracted attention was the evidence that the hearth in front of the fireplace had been recently taken up, and it was removed by the police with the greatest care, but immediately under it ran the drain. It is believed that but for this it was the intention of the murderer here to have buried the body. Having replaced the stone, Dr Sutherin, the surgeon of the S division, next directed atten tion to the hearth-rug, which lay folded up in a corner. On being opened it was found saturated with blood, and contained a quantity of brains, and among them a very cleanly-cut piece of the unfor tunate woman's skull. This clearly indicated the fact that the murder had been perpetrated on the hearth rug and in front of the fireplace, corrobora tive evidence being afforded by the fact that the murderer must have himself collected a portion of the brains and skull after the commission of the act and thrown them on the fite, as a portion of brain and clotted blood was found partly burnt adhering to the back of the grate. From the appearance of the piece of skull found, as well as the wound on the right side of the deceased woman's head, it was the opinion of Dr. Sutherin that the blows had been inflicted by a chopper or hatchet. Brown was known by the lodgers to possess such an instrument, with which he was in the habit of chopping wood to light the fire in the morning, but during the whole of Monday afternoon and evening the most diligent search on the part of the police failed in finding such a weapon. The only other instrument calculated to have inflicted such injuries as those found in the skull of the murdered woman was a large iron gas key, about 18 inches in length, and having a sort of pincers at the end, but on being carefully examined there were no traces of blood upon it. A chisel was, however, found, upon which there were epots of blood. Yesterday morn ing about 8 o'clock, Inspector Gibson, who, with constable Woodrow has charge of the house, dis covered what appeared to be spots of blood on the waterbutt in the back yard, and the circumstance at once suggested to him the probability that the mis sing weapon might have been thrown into the water. He directed it to be drawn off, and, as he conjec tured, at the bottom of the waterbutt was disco vered a large sized axe, such as carpenters use for chipping wood. It was at once taken possession of, and seat to Platt ••street station, where, on being examined by Dr. Sutherin, it was found to still retain, notwithstanding the action of the water, evidence of human blood and a large quantity of woman's hair adhering to it, leaving no doubt that it was the instrument with which the diabolical deed Was committed. The bodies of the murderer and his victim having been conveyed to the deadhouse of St. Pancras Workhouse on Monday night, Mr Jack son, of Brewer-street, under the orders of Dr. Lan kester,,the coroner, made a post mortem examination of that of the woman yesterday morning. Mr Jack son was the only surgeon called in after the disco very of the bodies on Monday, and it was he who took the body oat of the coal cellar. Yesterday he found the whole of the right side of the skull battered in, and a large portion of the brain on that side gone. From the nature of the injuries and from the fact that a chair was found near the fireplace in the back kitchen broken down on the left side, it is believed that the first and fatal blow which drove out the skull before alluded to was given behind, while the deceased woman was seated on it ; but the screams thet were heard would make it appear that other blows were given deceased by Brown prior to this fatal one. It would appear that deceased was enabled to get her own living, irrespective of the man with whom she cohabited, as there was a large quantity of female wearing apparel found, and a eifoular on which was printed, " Mrs. Bishop, dealer in ladies and children's wardrobes, 47, Adam street west, Bryanston-square," and also a book of the Marylebone Savings-bank, with several pounds entered in her name. It now appears that the man Brown, although he slept in the back parlour on the Tuesday night after the murder, and on the night following (when he sent Mr. Townsend's, the first flier lodger, little boy for some beer) had not been seen in the place from that time until the Saturday, w hen he came home about 8 o'clock with his son, a youth about 19, and slept with him. The son di n ed with him and the Townsh e nds on the Sund a y, and, accompanied by Mr. Townshend, they went in the evening to his:daughter's Mrs. Johns, 9, Coburg-street, Euston square. The son declined to return home with Brown, and he came back to the house with Towns hend about half-past 12. On entering the passage the latter spoke to Brown about the smell, and ho said it was the meat Mrs. Bishop had left locked up, and he would go down and remove it. Towns, bend wished him good night, went upstairs, and Brown unlocked the front parlour and went in. It is believed that he had been afraid to sleep in the house by himself, and that finding himself alone he then determined to commit auicide. On opening the safe in the back kitchen there was found a piece of cooked loin of pork and part of a currant pie, both of which were mouldy, as well as a quantity of hard stale bread, indicating that no one had touched it since the date of the murder. The first intimation that anything wrong had taken place was discovered bL a woman named Margaret Murphy, who resided in the lower part of the next house, and who knew the deceased. She had once or twice expressed her want of belief that Mrs Bishop had gone away, and she had such a pre sentiment that something had befallen her that she on or twice went into No. 15. She at last, in consee quence' of the smell, determined on making inquiries. 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Holloway's pills are eminently serviceable to inv alids of irritable con stitution, as they raise the action of eve r y or g an to its na tural standard, and universally exercise a calming and seductive influence. The Newsvendors' Benevolent and Provident Association, Last night the 25th anniversary festival of this asseciation was celebrated at the Freemasons' Tu• vern, Great Queen-stree►, Lincoln's-inn-fields. The chair was taken by Andrew Lusk, Esq., Alderman, and about 120 ladies and gentlemen sat down to dinner. HOUSE OF COMMONS—Last Evening. The sitting was resumed at six o'clock. THE MAGISTRACY OF TEWKESBURY. Mr LYGON gave notice that to-morrow he would call the attention of the house to the late appointments to the magistracy at Tewkesbury, and move for correspondence on the subject. THE YORKSHIRE RESERVOIRS. In reply to a question from Mr FERRAND on the sub ject of the reservoirs of Yorkshire, Sir G. GREY said the report of Messrs. Rawlinson and Beardmore had been printed and circulated, and any mem ber could refer to it himself ; but he did not find it in the statement ascribed to them by the hon. gentleman. They did not pretend to assign the precise cause of the accident ; but they thought the manner in which the pipes were laid might have affected the puddle wall. Mr FERRAND asked whether it was the intention of the Government to appoint a commission to consider the question. Sir G. GREY did not thing it was necessary to issue a Royal commission, but that two or three engineers might be employed to investigate the matter. Mr FERRAND could assure the right hon. gentleman that the lives of thousands of persons were in danger by the present state of those reservoirs, and they were looking with anxiety to have something done before Parliament was prorogued. Sir G. GREY said, if the Government made any change in the law, it could only have a prospective bearing. If the lives of thousands of persons were in danger, he would re commend the hon. member to put himself in communica tion with them, and adopt the measure he had pointed out the other night, and whioh he believed would be an effec tual remedy. PARTY DEMONSTRATIONS IN IRELAND. Mr MAGUIRE asked the Chief Secretary for Ireland whether his attention had been called to recent party de monstrations which had taken place in Armagh during the present month, and whether it was intended to adopt more stringent measures for their suppression. Sir R. PEEL said no action could be taken by Govern ment in such a case unless information was sworn before a justice of the peace; but no such proceeding was taken. Those party demonstrations in Ireland were fast dying out, and he believed the reports in the newspapers of the recent demonstrations were somewhat exaggerated. It was not in tended to make any change in the Party Emblems Act, which was fully equal to meet any emergency that might arise. THE CASE OF MR. FITZJAMES. Mr ROEBUCK wished to put a question to the Secretary for the Colonies, which would require a few words of ex- planation to render intelligible. There was some time since in Sierra Leone a man of colour named Fitzjames, who was called to the bar by the Middle Temple, and afterwards pro ceeded to fill a legal office in that colony. During the ab sence of the governor he became acting governor. The governor on his return showed some hostility towards him, and took means for getting rid of him. The Colonial-office lent themselves to that unworthy purpose. Thinking the man had been ill treated, he had moved for a return of papers bearing on the case. These papers were circulated and taken out of the charmed circle of privacy. In the papers there was a statement relating to two respectable inhabitants in Sierra Leone, which they considered to be libellous. Pro ceedings were taken before a court of law for redress, and he wished to know whether the right hon. gentleman would send out the original documents in order that they might be produced in eviaence at the trial. _ _ Mr CARDWELL said that in the course of the year a solicitor had applied to him for the papers in this case ; but, having taken legal advice and found that the document ap plied for was a privileged communication, he did not feel it to be his duty to give up the paper. He thought it was better to leave the case in the hands of the law courts. CARRIAGE OF TREASURE ON BOARD HER MAJESTY'S SHIPS. In reply to a question from Mr H. TRACT on the sub ject of the carriage of treasure on board her Majesty's ships, Lord C. PAGET said the question of Greenwich Hospi tal would be taken into consideration in the forthcoming autumn, and the Government would be prepared to insert some provision with regard to the freight of treasure on board her Majesty's ships which would meet the case re ferreA to by the hon. member. ROMAN CATHOLIC PAUPER CHILDREN IN SCOTLAND. In reply to a question from Mr MONSELL, Sir G. GREY said no change was proposed in the man ner of affording relief to Roman Catholic children, but new rules were to be made, which would be submitted to the board for registration, and afterwards to the Secretary of State for approval. NEW ZEALAND. In reply to a question from Mr thus, Mr CARDWELL said he had received no proclamation, and had not heard from the Governor of New Zealand any account of a proclamation having been pit:Wished. 'WINE AND SPIRIT LICENSES. In reply to a question from Mr J. EWAILT, The ATTORNEY GENERAL said that by the Act of Parliament absolute discretion was given to the magis . rates to judge as to the granting of licenses. It was quite com petent for them to take into account the requirements of the neighbourhood, as well as the suitability of the house and the character of the applicant. FLOGGING OF PRISONERS IN GAOLS. In reply to a question from Mr. HADFIELD, Sir G. GREY said he had seen a statement in the public papers of two prisoners having been subjected to corporal punishment. He telieved it was strictly in accrrctance with the act passed last session, which required that the judge should specify the number of lashes, and the instru ment with which they were to be inflicted. He did not be lieve there had been any departure from the law in this ease ; but of course the punishment could not be otherwise than disagreeable. (A. laugh.) PUBLICATION OF THE IRISH RECORDS, In reply to Mr MONSELL, Mr F. PEEL said it was proposed to have an inquiry into the charges made against Mr Moran; and the Master of the Rolls in this country had selected Mr Duffus Hardy and Mr Brewer to conduct the inquiry. These gentlemen were competent to perform the task with satisfaction, and would shortly commence the inquiry. THE CASE OF GEORGE O'MALLEY IRWIN. Mr HENNESSY, in moving an address to her Majesty, to grant her fiat to the petition of right of Mr G. O'Malley Irwin, or to satisfy his claims without suit, characterised the ease as one of the most extraordinary that had been ever brought before Parliament, in which a party had suffered injustice owing to the culpable neglect of officers of the Crown. He gave a detailed narrative of the facts of the case, which has been repeatedly, in different shapes, before the public, the main point turning upon the proof ef a letter dated Oct. 12, 1834. He replied to the objections he ex pected would be offered to the grant of the fiat, contending that the Crown had no right to refuse a petition of right that the question might be brought before a jury. Mr O'HAGAN said he had taken pains to ascertain the real facts of the case, which, if there was any truth in Mr Irwin's representation of it, involved imputations upon dis tinguished persons living and dead. He then proceeded to state the real facts, supported by documents, the contents of one of which, written by Mr Irwin himself, were incon sistent with the case he now set up. The case, he ob served, had been investigated when persona were alive who were cognizant of the facts, and he cited opinions of high legal authorities adverse to it. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL pointed out the errone ous views entertained by Mr Hennessy of the nature of a petition of right, a remedy applicable to particular cases only, which he explained, and which did not conclude such a case as that in question, He showed the absurd conse• quences of the doctrine that a petition of right was a matter of pure right that could not be refused. The fiat was to be exercised under the advice of the law officers of the Crown. Mr MALINS was bound to say, after the statement of Mr O'Hagan, that the case of Mr O'Malley Irwin became perfectly ridiculous. After a few words from Mr Hadfield, and a reply by Mr. Hennessy, followed by some remarks by Sir G. Grey, the motion was negatived. The house was counted out at five minutes past 9 o'clock, The Wounded Guardsman at Wimbledon, TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SIR,—As an impression might be conveyed from reading Surgeon-Major Wyatt's letter in the Sun of to-day that had the bullet been extracted the recovery of the poor fellow would be less compli cated, may I beg the favour of your inserting these few remarks ? The ball was felt wedged in between the inter costal space about two inches, obliquely and on the inner side of the left nipple. , I proposed at first to cut down and extract it, but on consulting with my btother volunteer surgeons who happened to be pre sent, also Staff• Assist. Surgeon Guinness, in clurge ,of the Guards' camp, I abandoned that intention• Symptoms of internal hemorrhage were present, emphysema had taken place, and the man seemed to be rapidly sinking. The case, therefore, called for prompt stimulants, &c., and other professional gentlemen who saw the condition of the sufferer agreed that had the attempt been made to extract the ballet, in all probabilty death would then have ensued. Together with• Mr. Guinness I watched the patient day and night till I resigned him to that gentleman's care on Sunday last ; he was still in my tent, suffering much, but a shade better. I have the honour to remain your obedient servant, TORN GUISE WESTMACOTT, M.D., ' Surgeon, From a report which wee circulated in the room, it appears that the amount distributed in pensions and temporary relief had been increased this year to £6l 8s 4d, and the funded capital augmented to over £2,000, and a balance in hand to be carried to next year's account, of £2l 3s sd. After the usual loyal and patriotic toasts had been duly honoured, Mr Alderman LusK, the chairman, gave the toast of the evening, " Prosperity to the Newsvendors' Benevolent Institution." He said he would not waste their time by any remarks deprecatory of himself. (Laughter.) He would not enter into a long explanation of how sorry he was that the duty had not fallen into other hands—(laughter)—be cause he felt proud of the duty which had been entrusted to him, and he remembered that when a chairman, on a similar occasion, had said how sorry he was that the toast had not fallen into abler hands, some ill-conditioned; person rose and said, " So we are all." (Laughter.) He would therefore not apo logise, but do the best he could. (Cheers.) The object of their assembling on that occasion was to further the interests of a {32:serving institution; and without attempting anything brilliant he would try to bring a common-sense view of the question before them. He admired the orator who was so fluent and attractive that the listeners were tempted to exclaim, "Flow on thou shining river." (Cheers and laughter.) He admired the intellectual feats which were performed every day by those who pro duced the newspapers of this country. (Hear, hear, and cheers.) He gazed with wonder and with ad miration upon the sheet of paper which to• day was a perfect blank and to-morrow was vital with ":words that breathed and thoughts that burned." (Cheers.) That which to-night was a blank was to-morrow the reflex of the progress of the world at large. (Hear, hear, and cheers.) But this mighty engine for the promotion of progress in the world would be shorn of half its power were it not for the newsvendors, who distributed its wondrous in fluences and made them permeate the entire social fabric. (Cheers.) He sympathised with the newsvendors in the trials incident to their vocation. (Cheers.) lie knew practically the value of the part which they played in the dissemination of Intel- ligence. (Hear.) People were not apt to be over considerate with newsvendors. They were generally cross if " the paper" was a little late—(cheers and laughter) —and he had often wondered if newsven dors were as impatient with the public, as the public often were with them ? (Cheers and laughter.) In this, as in all other occupations, from a variety of circumstances members of the trade fell into distress, and it was the bounden duty of those who had been more successful to administer to the necessities of their suffering brethren. (Hear, hear.) He was glad, therefore, to do all he could to promote the prosperity of an institution such as this. If they, as a trade, were only true to themselves, this institution would enjoy a far higher degree of prosperity than it had hitherto known. (Hear, hear.) No task could be more noble than that which they had undertaken. He was glad to see so many ladies present, for he was sure that he should not appeal to them in vain. (Cheers.) He concluded by proposing "Prospe rity to the Newsvendors' Benevolent Institution." The toast was drunk with great enthusiasm. Several other toasts were given, and the proceed ings closed in the usual way. Mr. Toole was, as usual, an efficient toastmaster, and the subscriptions reached to nearly £l5O. SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. TimEs.—We think that we can trace in the tone of both Houses of Parliament on the subject of the guarantee of the Loan to New Zealand symptoms of a transition period—that is of a change of senti ment—with regard to the relations of the Mother Country to her Colonies, which those Colonies, and all whe concern themselves with their manage ment in this country, will do wall to lay to heart. Old watchwords are losing their force, and no new ones are found to replace them. A little while ago such words as " our ancient and faithful ally," the faith of treaties," " the legitimate ieflueace of England in Europe," " the balance of power," " the encroacllments of despotism," or " the excesses of democracy," were quite sufficient to plunge us into war with one half of Europe. Now we are grown cooler and older, and require, in addition to these time honoured incentives to slaughter, some proof that our national faith is involved, or our ma terial interests directly and unequivocally compro mised, before we plunge the country into war. Just so with the colonies. In former times, and the tra dition is not yet worn out, a colony had nothing to do but pick a quarrel with a tribe of neighbouring savages in order to convince us that we were at war, perhaps with people whose name we had never heard of, and of whose existence we were not aware till it was forcibly brought to our notice by a de mand for half a dozen regiments and a million of mr:ney. This may still be said to be the official faith on the subject :—We must defend our empire ; a colony is a part of our Empire; therefore we must still defend cur colonies, without troubling ourselves to consider whether they or we exercise the powers of government, or ate responsible for the policy which involves us in native wars. But, though our officials still hold this faith, proofs are not wanting that much and grievous experience has shaken this belief in the mind of the country. We begin to ask whether we do not do enough if out of the taxation and population of the British Islands we find the men for our own wars and the money for our own expenditure ; whether it is reasonable for a country mocked with the style and title of Im perial sway to be called upon to fight the battles of some twenty or thirty communities, having no common link w i t h us except allegiance to the same Sovereiga, and ready to resent as the direst insult any attempt on our part to interpose any check upon their powers of legislation and self government, or to remonstrate against any duty with which they may think fit to burden our com merce or any institution which they may establish at variance with our notion of good government and sound principle. Lord Granville, in moving the second reading of the bill for a guarantee of a loan of a million to New Zealand, spoke by no means as a man satisfied of the goodness of his case. He was very far indeed from taking high ground. He ad mitted himself to be opposed, as a general principle, to the guarantee of loans to Colonies, and justified what was being done purely as an exceptional case. It was impossible, he t hinks, though we know not why, to div es t ourse lves of all responsibility for the commencement of the war, nor was there any good reason for believing that the colonists bad supplied arms t,) the natives to be used against them and against us. For our own part, we cannot conceive by what process of reasoning this country can be held reseonsible for a war which is neither commenced in pursuance of our policy nor conducted for our in terest, and which. when concluded, will be so by Ministers responsible to an Assembly over which we have no control. No doubt the immediate occasion of war was the attack and slaughter by the natives of a small division of British troops ; but this mas sacre was in retaliation for a block of land seized from the natives, and was only a savage way of be ginning a conflict long before determined on for other and weightier reasons. As regards the sale of arms by the colonists to the natives, we will meet the denial by a statement a little more dee tailed. In 1857 the New Zealand Ministry pressed the governor to relax the ordinance which prohibited the sale of ammunition and fire-arms to the abori gines. The Commander-in-Chief officially protested against it, and was supported by th e Bi s h op an d at least one friendly chief. The argument in favour of free trade in arms was the desire to put down the smuggling trade and the propriety of letting the profits of the trade come into regular hands. The measure was eminently successful. In the nine months immediately succeeding June, 1857, there were sold eo the natives 7,8'191b. of powder and 752 single or double-barrelled guns. The English tax payer will be pleased to learn that very large profits were realised by these regular traders. Orders for the sale of ammunition were obtained in blank and as a matter of course. The natives and colonists were equally pleased with the traffic, end for many years the INlaories have purchased little else, and have formed magazines with a perse verance and foresight which do them no little honour. The colonists also have not only realised large sums by the traffic, but have succeeded in attracting a large commissariat expenditure, since it is quite clear that Great Britain, having under taken to defend the Colony against the natives, roust increase her forces exactly in proportion to the degree in which they are armed to oppose her. The worst o' it is that during ail this time the Government has h- d good rea;.ioa to k'aow tha,t the natives were meditating war—a war which they hive foreseen, prepared, and provoked, leaving to us nothing but the honour of carrying it on and the glory of paying for it. Lord Malmesbury was of opinion that the colonies ought to defend them selves, and ought not to rely on the mother country to assist them. The colonists of New Zealand, he thinks, ought to take care of themselves, and not to call on this country for ten or twelve thousand men, thus draining our small army, and staving off the retribution for their mismanagement at our ex pense. If they had themselves to pay and bleed for their own defence, we should have heard very little of the present difficulties. We cannot too soon, Lord Maimesbury thinks, persuade the people of Canada that it is impossible for them to obtain Imperial assistance in the way of English troops. This is tolerably plain speaking for a Conservative leader, and shows upon what congenial ground Ura seed of truth has fallen. Lord Lyveden thinks there is a pretty general concurrence in the prin ciples laid down by Lord Malmesbury, the only difficulty being as to their application. Guaran teeing the loan is guaranteeing everything that has been done by the settlers to the natives, and, while the saving is small, the loss in point of principle will be great. Such is the tenour of the remarks elicited by the discussion on the New Zealand Bill. Many considerations combine to counsel patience under the present infliction. In the first place, it is quite clear that nothing would be more unfair than to charge these events, however calami tous, upon the present Secretary of State for the Colonies. He has succeeded to an evil inheritance, and cannot be expected, by any efforts he may make, all at once to put matters to rights. Five-and-twenty years of gross mis management are not to b© corrected in a week, a month, or a year. All we have a right to expect is that measures may be taken to put an end to the present war and to prevent the recurrence of a new one. This will not be effected by merely warning the colonial public against iniquitous dealing with the natives, either in the way of purchases of land or sales of arms or ammunition. There is no dura- ble chance for peace until we can contrive to im press upon the colonies that all future wars will be carried on at their, and no more at our, expense. We must disabuse them once for all of the notion that we have any peculiar interest in their quarrels with the natives, or that we shall be ready hence.. forth, as heretofore, to bribe them into war by the wealth which our expenditure produces, and the security which the presence of our troops affords. As we cannot take from these Democratic Assem- blies the power of virtually making war or peace at their pleasure, we must at least endeavour to make their interest in keeping the peace as strong as our own. This can only be done, as Lord Malmesbury says, by calling on them to contribute their own blood and their own money, not as accessories and auxiliaries, but as principals in the conflict. if the Colonial Parliament would not be overwhelmed by the responsibility which it undertakes, it must find some means of putting an end to the present struggle, by which one country creates a war which another carries on, and reaps the reward in a large increase of territory for battles which it has never fought, and expenses which others have defrayed. HERALD.—The invasion of Maryland by a pore tion of Gen. Lee's army, at the very moment that he was supposed to be so hardly pressed by the Federal forces in his front that the capture of Petersburg and the imminent fall of Richmond were matters of daily rumour among the gobe• mouches of New York, is one of the most mar• veilons exploits of the American civil war. The history of this wonderful raid reads to us like a fairy tale—like one of those picturesque exploits of knights or paladins of the elder Teutonic times, who, aided by giants and fairies, had the power of transcorting themselves at will from place to place, and confounded their foes by the blast of a magic trumpet or the sight of a talisman fraught with supernatural potency. At first laughed at in New York as a foolish raid, which would so weaken Lee that he was inevitably at the mercy of Grant when he chose to advance, the expedition, as it de veloped into unknown and fearful proportions, caused a panic in the North, which laid bare in a moment the weakness of the war faction. As it became known that, in spite of all opposition, a large army corps of Confederates was working its will in the midst of an unwarlike and sympathising border population, that it had utterly routed the two Federal armies that, on the Potomac and Mon eau, had attempted to check its career, a revulsion of feeling took place throughout the cities of the North, the price of their currency went up, and their spirits went down. The object of the incur sion into Maryland we couceive to have been three fold. It was intended to obtain supplies for the Confederate army ; to create a diversion which would have the effect of withdrawing a portion of Grant's army from the front of Petersburg ; to re• conuoitro the defences of Baltimore and Washing ton, and interrupt, as far as possible, their commu nications with the rest of the North. All these objects have been triumphantly attained. The Con federates are reported to have retired across the Potomac " loaded with plunder." The bread, the sheep, and the oxen, required to feed their army, creased the Potomac with them. The horses re quired for their cavalry were obtained in abun dance. The ammunition, for which a dozen Northern arsenals had been ransacked, the confis cated svealth of thousands of Federal sympathisers, was transferred to Virginia to aid in the patriotic cause. In the terror caused by this invasion the authorities at Washington andthtehe p governors eoplefo o r m f i th : border states appealed vainly to mediate help to save the Government of Mr Lincoln and protect the capital. This help was not forth coming. No hand was stretched out to help the Pre sident of the North and his Cabinet. Had the Con federates only been sufficiently numerous to invest places of such size the cities of Baltimore and Wash ington would have been at their mercy. Pennsylva nia. and New Jersey made no response to the appeal of their governors for troops. The people of Pennsylvania are accused by their governor, Mr. Curtin, of culpable stupidity and apathy in presence of the enemy. The mayor of New York conceived that ho required the militia for the defence of the city in the case of an apprehended riot. The German and Irish immigrants refused to be enrolled, their ardour in the war having been somewhat damped since they have observed that their com rades who have enlisted but seldom return to their homes. The attitude of the North is now far more peaceful than it was; the people are beginning to perceive that a w ar o f p re t en ded subjugation, so uniformly unsuccessful, cannot be prosecuted with credit or advantage to the nation. The peace party is becoming more than ever a power in the state. It looks upon separation as inevitable, and desires only that the best terms should be obtained. Mean while, Sigel having been defeated and Wallace routed, the President had no force available for the defence of the North but the army of Grant on the Appomattox River. We do not yet know whether this army has not been recalled to the neighbourhood of the capital. It is stated, at all events, that a whole army corps has been shipped to Baltimore. The last great attack made by the army of Grant was on June 22, when he fell upon the line of the Weldon Railroad, and was repulsed with loss, Since that the cavalry, under Wilson, has been engaged in a disastrous expedition towards the Lynchburg line of rail, from which it returned to camp with a loss now stated at 3,000 men, and minus all its baggage, ammunition, and artillery. The confidence of General Lee in the strength of his position, and his belief in the utter impotence of the disabled enemy, who was perishing in the swamp at his feet, is proved by the fact that before this raid of Wilson's he detached a strong force under Generals Early and Imboden for one of those incursions into Maryland for which Lee is famous. One hundred miles to the Potomac this force rode on, and fifty miles more to the suburbs of Baltimore. Hunter was far away in Western Virginia, and the Confederates took their course unchallenged up the Shenandoah Valley. ti.t Martinsburg they met with Sigel, whom they put to the rout, and expelled from Harper's Ferry. They then crossed leisurely into Maryland, went north to Hagerstown and threatened Chambersburg, went east to Fredea rick City on the Monocacy River. Here Wallace, with 10,000 men, attempted to withstand them,but was engaged and driven in disorder to the shelter of Baltimore. The invaders now destroyed the rail way between Frederick and Baltimore. Proceeding to that place, they tore up the line and burned the bridge on the road to Washington. They also suc ceeded in inflicting great damage on the lino from Baltimore to Philadelphia, and captured on this railway a train of cars with their passengers, among whom was the Federal General Franklin and his staff. The force which approached Washington came as near as six miles to that city on the north side, and amused itself with bombarding Fort Stephens. The sound of their guns must have recalled Presi dent Lineoln and his Cabinet to the grim reality of that war of independence, which they have foolishly characterised as a petty rebellion, which is certain to be soon suppressed. Mr. Lincoln in Washington is eaposed to far more peril than Mr. Davies in Richmond. For the moment ho has escaped, and ho will act wisely in not exposing himself to so gr eat a risk for the future. Mr. Feesenden, his new Finance Minister, wants a loan of fifty millions to carry on the war for a fortnight. Mr. Fessenden will then want three hundred millions to keep it up till the autumn. And what next, and nest? PENSION TO MIL DISRAELL—Prom a Parliamen tary blue book just published, it appears that in the year ended the 31st March last Mr Disraeli received his pension of £2,000, under the act 4th and sth Will, IV., c, 24. There is one yacinacy under the act. ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE. HOME CIRCUIT—MAIDSTONE, July 2G. (Before Mr Justice Wilke.) Seven labouring men, named Thomas Butler, Charles Pearson, Thomas Cawdle, Thomas Moore, James Webber' John Watson, and Geo. Beulkhein, were cha r g ed with mrs demeanour, in having been guilty of riotously assembling' and assaulting divers persons. Mr Barrow was instructed to prosecute. Mr Ribton was counsel for the defendants, and by his advice they pleaded guilty to the charge. It appeared that the charge arose out of an ill -feeling entertained by the defendants against the persons whom they had assaulted, who were Irishmen, and who had been engaged to assist in some railway works which are going on in the Isle of Sheppy. This feeling led to their assembling in a riotous and disorderly manner, and in the course of the proceedings several of the Irish labourers were assaulted• The learned Judge told the defendants that the course they had taken was a very unjustifiable one, and one that could not for a moment be tolerated. In this country every man, whether English, Irish, or Scotch, had a right t o labour wherever he could obtain employment, and it was well it should be known that every one who interfered in any WaY to prevent him from doing so was guilty of a very serious offence in the eye of the law. In the present case, howeve r, he observed that some of the defendants had already been in prison pending their trial, and he regarded their pleading guilty as an expression of their contrition for what they had done, and he should therefore merely order them to enter into a recognisance to appear and receive the judgment of the Court if the should be called upon to do so. Jesse Gray, 36, herbalist, was indicted for misdemeanour . Mr Russell prosecuted; Mr Ilibton appeared for the de' fendant, who pleaded guilty. The defendant lives at Chatham, where he carries en business as a sort of quack doctor. The offence imputed to him was the exhibition of certain figures in his shop window, giving representations of the condition of the human body in certain diseases. These figures were stated to be of a very disgusting description, and an indictment was preferred against the defendant for the offence of ex posing them, at the last Lent assizes, which indictment now came on for trial. Mr Justice Willes said that the defendant had clearly been guilty of an offence against the law, but as he had promised not to repeat it he should not pass any sentence upon him, but should merely order him to enter into recognisances to appear and receive judgment if he should be called upon. Robert Smith, 25, porter, was charged with setting fire to a stack of barley, value £llO, the property of George Kelsey. Mr Russell prosecuted. The prosecutor is a farmer, living near Canterbury, and on the evening of the 25th Maraa ono of his barley stacks was found to be in flames, and the whole rick was eventu ally consumed. The prisoner was observed at the fire, and he made the observation that it was a good thing the wind was in the direction it was, or several other ricks might have been consumed. He was taken into custody, but the evidence was not considered by the magistrates sufficient to detain him upon, and ho was discharged. On the following morning, however, it appeared that he went to the police station and said that he felt so miserable and unhappy in his mind at having destroyed so much property that be could not bear it, and he had come to deliver himself up, and he then stated that it was he who had set fire to the stack, He afterwards made another statement, to the effect that he had gone to the prosecutor's farm-yard to see if he could find any place to lie down in, as it was too late to be admitted to the union, and that he had set fire to the strict accidentally while lighting his pipe. The prisoner, who said nothing in answer to the charge, was found guilty, and sentenced to ten years' penal servitude. OXFORD CIRCUIT,--STAFFORD, July 2G. ALLEGES) MURDER OF A POLICEMAN AT WILLENHALL. At the opening of the court yesterday Mr Justice Shea passed sentence on the four men who, on Saturday, were found guilty of the manslaughter of the policeman Lyons, at Willenhall, under circumstances already detailed, but who had been tried for wilful murder—Thomas LockleYl who threw the brick-end which gave tho fatal blow, to eight years'—George Lockley, his brother, to six years'—Joh n Edwards, six years'—and Joshua Stanley, who had been by the jury recommended to mercy, to five years' penal ser vitude. The fifth man, George Skilletts, was acquitted, and ho remains to be tried on the charge of stealing the policeman's truncheon. THE HALL END BOILER EXPLOSION. Thomas Johnson, William Edmund Johnson, and WE c Bagnall, alias Bigley, were indicted on the coroner's war rant, for having killed Thos. Knowles. Chas. Mellor, Ben jamin Carter, and others, at the parish of West Bromwi ch. The grand jury having thrown out the bill against Th os ' Johnson, no evidence was offered against him, The pri soner Edmund was the son of Thomas Johnson, and wa s manager at the Hall End Ironworks, near West 13.rofn wich, belonging to his father. Those works consisted of forge and rolling mills. - William Bagnall was the cngince r t and was entrusted with the manage:nent ,of the steam engine, boilers, &c. The circumstances connected with the case was the explosion of one of the largest boilers situated in the centre of the works at Hall End, and which occurred on the let March last. It blow up and caused the deaths of 12 of the workmen. After the examination of witnesses, whose evidence was mainly a repetition of what was given at the coroner's in quest, the learned Judge summed up, pointing out to the jury that they twist carefully weigh the evidence in their own minds, as what might affect one prisoner would not necessarily affect the other. Ho then read over the evidence in chief, and left the case with them. Tho jury, who deliberated for a few minutes without leaving the box, found a verdict of not guilty for both pri soners. COUNTRY MARKETS. LEEDS—TUESDAY. There were very good arrivals of fresh grain this week. Our millers, having bought freely of late, seem to be cow' pletely out of the market, and the transactions to-day are very small at the prices of last Tuesday. Spring corn 01 all kinds fully as well sold. Averaus—July;2s—Wheat 44s 80 per clr• —Oats - —Beans .. 37s - —Peas ..33s 84d - - —Rye 30s Oa LIVERPOOL—TUESDAY. There was a thin attendance of both town and county/ dealers at market this day. Wheat met with an inactivo inquiry at first, but towards the close of the market rather improved. For flour prices may be quoted 3d to 6d lower. Oats and oatmeal neglected, and barely supported Friday ti prices. Beans, barley, and psas without any change. It' Indian corn a limited trade, being rather pressed for sale"' 30s for best American mixed. SHEFFIELD—TUESDAY. There was an average supply of wheat to-day. with moderately good attendance of buyers; but trade ruled slow at former rates. Barley, oats, and and other articles fully maintained late prices, and showed a tendency to ad vance. Aci Red wheat, per load of 3 imperial bushels...l6s Od to 175 - . White 7) ) ...17s Od to las Oc! New red ~.15s Od to 165 0 d New white „ 1, 4 ..18s Od to 206 ad Beans If If Peas, per qr Grinding barley, per qr Malting ditto, „ •• • 4 1 23 4 0 92 s s ss 0 6 00 ! I t t tt 0 0 00 4 1 33 4 5 50 s s : 60 00 1 Oats It 23s Od to 26 5 " Flour, is 4d to is 8d per 14 lb. MELTON MOWBRAY—TUESDAY. A moderate business was done in English wheat to-dal' The following were the currencies :—New white wile". 45s Od to 50s Od ; new red, 38s Od to 45s per 36 steno. beans, 43s to 43s for old; new sorts, 36s to 39s per 38 6 t l ; a : barley, 32s to 35s for inciting, and 28a to 30s per qr. „ ol grinding; new oats, 20s to 24s Oct per 24 stone; 01 d , to 295. MONMOUTH—TUESDAY. The local markets have been well attended by bol a buyers and sellers during the last six or seven days, ari, prices have ruled firmer. Wheat improved about 3d Pe' bushel, and oats also show an upward tendency. The fisl e.. rage quotations are as follows : Wheat, white-5s 3d to 5s 9d I 8ar1ey...... 3s 3d to 3s 94 Ditto red. .0s Od toOs Od I Oats ........2s 3d to 2 s 10d Births. ---- BEDINGFIELD,—On the 25th inst., Lady Bedingfield, of II son. BAUMANN.—On the 25th inst., at 56, HighburY park, Mrs. David B a um a nn, o f a son. FOWLER.—On. the 24th inst., at St. Aubin's, Jersey' wife of Commander G. C. Fowler, of a daughter. ch WARNER.—On the 25th inst., at Grove Hill, Wondft r . Essex, the wife of Compton Warner, Esq., of a clang,'" Marriages. CALVERT—LONG.—On the 21st inst., at Harston, Cam b „ s 3 Arthur Calvert, 111. A., to Katherine Long, the a c°°— daughter of Wm Long, Esq., of the above place. S ole MOOILE—WORTRINGTON.-0a the 2Gth inst., at Trinity Church, Gray's-inn-road, Arthur Clayton ti y oor to Agnes, the third daughter of the Rev. Dr. Worth ton. Deaths. BATES.—On the 23d inst., at Brighton, Thomas Ba tes ' Esq., aged 79. , r „ 1). HOLK — On the 25th inst., at K e l ve d on , Essex, Holm, aged 41. 3- ts• NEREWETIIER.—On the 22d i ns t, at Castlefield , Mr. Sergeant Merew e the r , D.C.L., Recorder of l ' e ing. T z ;oat RoniNsox,—On the 25th inst,, at The Crescen t, Captain Robinson, R.N. iv if. SCHONERSTEDT.—On the 25th inst., at Eton, F..,_;: 4 ; Schonerstedt,Esq., thi r ty- one years German and Master at Eton College, aged 65. hart. WEDGWOOD.—On the 21st inst., at Bonged Lodge, '— ford, Thomas Wedgwood, Esq., aged 64. n rich' WIIITE.—On the 26th inst., Mr. John White , of 2, mend-buildings, Dean-street, Soho. London: I'rfraecl and PrNished by WILL I.sM A tr Dit 1 12. of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at InN Surt 01Lce C % f Strand, the Precinct of the 3a,voy, :n the Covz 11 / I Pltaex,—WedueEday, July 27, 1661.