The Sun. — London, England, 1863-12-17 00:00:00

Liberal Demonstration at Lee ( Is that prosy pe r it y than those who have habitually op posed it." (Cheers.) And I don't know how we are to acoonnt for this position unless we assume a state of thie4p; which we in England don't quite un derstand—Viz., that there is nothing for it but a re• gular turn and turn about for all the profits and conveniene es of office, and that, therefore, patty existence shall collapse. I might be inclined to say that theasa was some reason in this argument did I not feel, that there is still, and that there ever will be, a f indamental difference between the men who wish fin progress and the men who wish to remain still. (Cheers.) We may well allow that toe vete ran utatesman who was a party to the repeal of the Test and Corporation Act, to the emancipation of Roman Catholic fellow-subjects, to the revision of the, Poor Law, to the establishment of your munici pa I franchises, and to the great Reform Bill — (c veers)—we may well allow him, in the decline of his ilge, to say that be wishes to" rest and be thank ful." (Applause.) But the nation to which we be long is not a veteran nation. It is young and still fresh, and full of future energy and future hope, and therefore we will say to him, "Rest and be thankful, if you will. Grateful to you are we for all you have done, and we wish only that there were many like you, but you must permit the nation to which you belong to say that we wish to asc e nd t o still further heights and to still nobler develop ments." (Cheers.) The difference between us and our adversaries is this—that we do desire to keep ever open the portals of our Constitution to the foot of honest endeavour and of noble aspiration. (Re newed cheers.) We do not desire that these portals shall remain hermetically Closed until some evil day they are forced open by an "ugly rush," such as one intelligent individual had prognosticated. (Applause.) Therefore, Ido trust that this assem bly—each one of them in their own spheres and in their own localities —will do all in their power to promote this issue and advance tee interests. Let them beware of any supineness ita this matter. Let those in Parliament know that there is a good genuine Liberal constituency in the West Riding, and let there be no want of vigilance, or enthu siasm, or interest. Let your friends know that we have not to deal with any supine or idle enemy. We have to deal with men who, Tories as they are, still are enough of Englishmen to know that it is the business and duty of Englishmen to be active in the political position which they occupy. They are active, and you must be active too. They are vigilant, and you must be vigilant too, or else they will beat you in the race, and distance you in the objects you are pursuing. (Hear.) There is no doubt whatever that there is at this moment in the country what is called a great Conservative spirit. Much of it is honest, mach of it good, much of it wise, much of it safe. It is for us to see that that Conservative spirit does not go on till it tends to excite the feelings of those outside to fancy they are excluded from the benefits and blessings of our Constitution. Let them remember that the greatest danger, the greatest calamity, perhaps, of the times in which we live was when the people of France thought that the electoral body was an exclusive body, that that body made itself into a separate country within a country, and that it stood by itself apart from the interests of the whole community, depending upon itself and think ing only of itself. Then it was that they rose and crushed it by revolution, which ended in its turn in a miserable despotism. Let them see that there is nothing more unhappy for a country than to yield to the impulses of fear. Dont let us distrust each other. Don't let the employer distrust the employed. Don't let the wealthy and powerful in this country believe that merely by education, by counsel, and by example they can raise others to their own level; but let them do all in their power so that we may grow gradually, extending the power and greatness of this England of ours until this country, which knows no classes, which knows no divisions, which knows no essential interests between all classes of the people, shall become, as far as God permits, a homogeneous and glorious whole. (Loud cheers.) -- Oa Tuesday evening a demonstration of th e Li beral party in the Northern Division of the West itidieg of Yorkshire took place at the Queen Hotel, Leeds, when several members of the Legit dature were present. Mr. H. S. Thompson, M.P e pre sided, and proposed the toast of " Her Ms jesty's Ministers," saying that two of them (Sir C. Wood, and Lord de Grey) had promised to be press nt, but important business connected with the occupation of Denmark by German troops made it net :essary that a Cabinet Council should be held, and the ,t they should go to London. Mr. BeINEs, M.P., proposed, " The Haiuse of lords." (Cheers.) Although they belonged to the democratic portion of the Constitution, and the Lords to the aristocratic; although they were .most o f them earnest reformers, and although the HA-use o f Peers was supposed to be rattler conservatively di s posed, yet, notwithstanding that, he believed. the noblemen of Yorkshire were not one-sided politi cians, but were capable of viewing more than "one side of a question. Looking at history, and loo'teing around upon the Governments of the worlei, he thought he had reason to be confirmed in our at tachment to our glorious Constitution—to that mixed form of goveratnent of King, Lordt t, and Commons which seemed to be pronounced loy the verdict of history to be more conducive them any other to true liberty, solid prosperity, and „peace at home and abroad. (Cheers.) The House of Lords, he conceived, was entitled to their respect, not merely for its great antiquity, which caused it to be rooted in the very foundation of the commonwealth of England, but also because it had proved itself to be, at many of the most important periods of our his tory, the best defender of the liberties of the people. (Cheers.) Meny a time and oft had the peers of England prevented the liberties of the people from being swallowed up by the prerogatives of the Crown. He need not say that those old barons wilo assembled at Runnymede took for their motto, " We will not that the laws of England be changed ;" nor remind them that at our glorious revolution the foundation of that great change was laid in the blood of a Russell, and cemented by the patriotism of a Cavendish. (Cheers.) Nor need ho tell any of them that in our great modern charter—the Re. form Bill—the people had for their leaders Grey and Brougham. (Cheers.) Therefore, he thought they had reason to pride themselves that the peers of England had held an exemplary position in the history of the liberties of this country. Th e i rs was a history which he thought would not fall much below that of any other class in any other country of the world in brilliancy and real dignity. (Hear, hear.) There were aristocracies which were of a very different character to this. There were those w h o were so separated from the bulk of the com munity that a man could neither descend from them nor ascend from the plebian ranks to them—an aristocracy which had been distinguished by being e xempted from the burdens of taxation, and by not being amenable to the same laws es their fellow subjects. But how great was the difference between them and the aristocracy of England. (Hear, hear.) They were amenable to all the laws to which the meanest subject was amenable ; they had to pay all the taxes which any yeoman, farmer, manufacturer, or artisan had to pay. They were also intermixed in various ways with the bulk of the people, and, as commoners, the sons of peers had been distin guished as legislators by their wisdom and their patriotism. In Yorkshire they had happy recollec tions of a Milton, a Morpeth, and a Goderich, most beloved representatives of that popular and popu lous constituency who had ever been true to their early lives and pledges. They were peers who rose from the ranks of the Commons to the higher House, and he was happy to say that they had one noble friend there—(Lord Houghton)— they had hoped to see two noble friends—who had been raised by desert the most unquestionable to the dignities which had been conferred upon them. It was a subject of great regret to Lord Mon eagle that he was not able to be 'with them thw Mr, J. I). DENT, M.P., proposed " the Army, Navy, and Rifle Volunteers." H e b e li eve d th a t a evening, but he was happy to see the you nges t member of that illustrious assembly, the Hou se o f reduction in the expenditure f or th e arm y an d navy Lords, then present. (Cheers.) He classed him could alone be accomplished by the efforts of such without hesitation in the same category as Lord men as Earl do Grey and Ripon and Mr. Stansfeld Morvengle, for he knew that the name of Richard (Applause.) He saw no reason to disbelieve a para- Monekton Milnes, that was inscribed upon bright graph of a semi-official character referring to the pages in our literature, was honourably known in services of Mr. Stansfeld during the recess for the the House of Commons, and was inscribed in the reduction of those expenses—(hear)—an dhe thought hearts of a great number of Students of our educe- they ought not to begrudge the large expenditure, timed institutions, whom he at all times had bat the money waited by ofDeials. (Hear, hear.) honoured and encouraged. (Hear.) Mr. Baines then That was the motto of the Liberal party. There remarked that he did not know any aspect in which were one or two small wars on hand—wars expen the interests of the Heuse of Lords were adverse to sive and reflecting discredit upon the country. the interests of the great bulk of the people; on the (Hear, hear.) He did not mean to say that the contrary, he believed their interests to be most army and navy were the cause of that discredit, strictly and indissolubly bound np with the safety, but there were Englishmen who were only English the honour, and prosperity:of the country. It might men in name, men who thought they could do be admiteted that the Lords were not directly repre. what they liked with barbarous nations, and sentative, nor were they directly responsible, yet it fell upon the country to redress the grievances substan s tialiy he thought they were both one and which they had created. (Hear, hear.) There the other, and stood as much, or more, exposed than was but little credit to bo made with wars in any class in the country to pubEe opinion, which India, New Zealand, or battles in Japan, bat there no men in this age dared to set at nought and de- was a sad loss of life and expenditure of money, a spice. (Cheers.) He did not see any reason why loss of the best men in the services. (Hear, hear.) there should be any jealousy on the part of th e He wished they could see the conclusion of those House of Lords of a full and free representation of miserable pettifogging little wars. (Hear, hear the People in the H ouse o f C ommons . Th ey gave to S i r J . W . R AMSDEN, M. P ., b r i e fl y proposed "the the the Leves most cheerfully the rights which for so Chairman and Committee of the Liberal Registra many ce ntur i es they had held, and to which they tion Association for the Northern Division of the were ent -, a; but they on their part claimed that West Riding." (Cheers.) He expressed an opinion the Hoe ft of ~u ate re...sr ent uo . mmons should be a true and ads- that the Northern Division would return two ‘ nglanc - t i : (chetTon of the people and Commons of Liberal members, and that a gentleman would be He was glad to find that that selected as his (Sir John's) successor who would do eves the opi n ion s ' ) Of clean\ He tu.. __ . the meeting as well as his. honour to the representation. (Hear, hear.) ' de . "natthey would not find that the quesaon of th e ezte . when Mr. THOMPSON, M.P., the chairman, acknow leouintiston of the franchise was lodged the toast. He spoke of the efficient way in a pproached there t h e part of the Lord s; he be any opposition on which the Liberal registration for the West Riding held the there was not on had hitherto been conducted ; but he said the the part of those wh o cer t i he principles of true observation was often made, " What is the use of Con servatis tn, becaus e tie, ; it w z i ervatistu was always it, there is no difference now between Conservative in favour of real reform im p r ovement false Conser- and Liberal ? Real Liberalism is de vatism which opposed all defunct or at least a v ti ment indiacrimi- as dormant as if it were not of any practical use." nately, and of that false Consery h . e would not He did not believe it. The statement was an inven , suspect them until it was proved to recei s ,v i e s d t. (Rear.) tion of the enemy. He stood up, as chairman of the Lord HOUGHTON was warmlyhie regret on rising association, to give it a most unqualified contradic to respond. After expressing twothat the tion. Did any one really believe that Conservative West Mding would be for the futur e i n to hie divi- tactics had changed —(cries of No)—when there sirens for electoral purposes, he alluded , r _ own were any great questions to b e cons id ere d ? Th e elevation to the peerage in the fo l lowing t e By the favour a our g racious Sovereign an w ti ie— he Conservatives did sometimes, i n sma ll matters, bid kind regard of the great and popula r Mi nister jam as high, or perhaps higher, th an even th e Lib era l s plaeLd on the threshold of another a ssem bly the —it suited their purpose to do so; b u t t h e measures that weich 1 hav e b e en a part of for t he last teen of . progress which they would h ave supporte d or tv b en would have been small indeed bat for the and twenty years. I own that that circumstance Their r al party, who kept them up to the mark. would be to me one of unalloyed regret (and it is they . tl7 (Conservatives') maxim was to keep what accompanied with sufficient regret in leaving those frnn Y e a,e se, got. In considering any measure of the old friends, and those old benches, and those old m it must make an essential difference, faces, and ad the familiar as sets, and ail the wh et u h l er looked at it with a view to give as t nmults and confusions of that period), if I believed much fte the " ' the j v c e ould, or give as little as they could. that I was going to join an assembly which did not Again, pail told that there was no liberality in permit me to continue my sympathies with the the Liberal _an . d the supposed proof given popular cause. (Hear, hear.) I b e li eve — a nd the in the fact of feYvvt liberal meal s e having was passed of assertion of Mr. Baines, veteran Lib era l as he is, late years , and it, Liberal measures which had been proves that he at least beli eves — t h at b y go i ng i n to proposed being rejected, coxtrae He was not going to de- that H ouse Ido not in any degree abdicate those fend altogether the m p e :rsued by every member interests. (Applause.) I think that a man must of the Liberal party. reed very ill the signs of the times who believes that there to find fault with individuals ) He was not any aristocracy can exist in this or any other country party might have done more ha , but to say the 1 whit;, nd he though t it I I they been entirely • does not sympathise with and take an hate- unanimous ; a rest in was of all when they We of things the the pursuits and progress of the people. most important, Not - looking at the wealth, not hospitality not the graces and am meei Liberals e a political party, that th e ties ofFociuly not knowledge, e . - - ae e lost of late by not 3' should see how not learning, not even much they had virtue itself ' will id lay corning cordial! preserv e an aristocracy in its together. Therefore he would ay dow n, as y pOwcr, itk, di maxima, that for the e one et ;may, or even in its securit in the ' in which we 1 , ,, - ,. from , it' it remains exclusive, apart. should eschew crotchets, and pursue all great tneo. and alieris.t e d the destinies of the people. sures with unanimity, and turn a deaf ear (Loud cheers.) 1 , t o the n%, n m at ebl i e the feeling with which I suggestions of the enemy that they were divided and a p i ero9ch that a with h —that l s the fe e ling with useless. (Hear.) Now be believed thoroughly that i t weich I leave thes s whom I hr;ve been so lot g was because there were no great qu estions afloat th at tesecieted• I know i t • 18 said by many persona that there was proved That party' interests are enti rely extinguished diff erence that there by the consideration that no changes were called for is really no longer any no ir e: between parties, through practical injustice or disabilities, or from a and that therefore it is of tit:it:dance whatever mant of rights: for if he compared this country with whet party is predominant i n it serrn to me, at least, a very str„cnountry. Now, any other on the face of the globe, there was no other zent m ierei ode of ar- in which the people were enjoying such perfect gurneet that cur cPPoneule, th e g liberty and independence as this. (Hear.) He did not have opposed , as so long, should hav e Come il who con tothis say this in order to prove that there was no occasion conclusion, —that we have brought the to do more, but after looking back upon what had so contented a position that the measures into whi Y ehv.e _ ti been done, they must n o t b e surpr i se d t h at peop l e ' s have passed have resulte d in much pros p eri ty. -1 gentlemen, time should be taken up in realising the r e sults of own that I am inclined to sa y to these '`Surely you can't find fault if th e countr y should great measures. Th e r e f ore , un til some o th er measures came up, people would not be found rather favour these persons Wh o have produced sivin g SO much time and attention to the political Tab SON, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 17, 1863. questions of the day. One of the greatest of these was the question of Parliamentary Reform. The men in the West Riding had already plainly stated their opinions on this subject, but the Liberal party had /ailed to carry a n ew measure. That was in consequence of the great middle class of this country not taking that hearty interest in it that they should have taken. The Reform Bill of 1832 caused,a perfect revolution in this country. It caused a revolution bloodless and peaceful such as was never exce e d e d i n any country.association, In thatconclusi on, whenever e r h e t said,he t i me should come he speaki ng o f t hi s was persuaded they would show that they were stronger than ever they were before, and more united. (Cheers.) at l ieh o se r d for th e tt C he A el e v e N et i N oo p rn ; h s i re , n o w n h e o i division, f t i t s h e u p n Lr d oi e bp r eo s rs t a o e d w can T idi hl d Liberal Members of the House of Commons." He approved th e course which the Government had taken on for e i gn a ff a i rs, and said that it gave him great pleasure to think that the struggle in America would result in the downfal: of slavery. (Cheers.) Mr. LEATHAM, M.P., in replying to the last toast, expressed a sincere hope that that evening's banquet would draw closer together the various sections of Liberals, and animate them all with common hopes and purposes. Sir F. CROSSLEY, M.P., proposed " The Liberal electors of the West Riding," and in doing so said that so much progress had been made during the last 30 years, and so much had been done for the advantage of the great bulk of the population, that they must now look well at every step, lest they made matters worse. Just let him glance at a few of the reforms which had been accomplished during the last 40 years. Prohibition had been removed from the statute-book. (Hear.) Soon after that Protection was removed—a word which General Thompson very appropriately said ought to be stated in the dictionary as meaning " robbing some body else"—(laughter)—and so it ought to be. Then all the duties on the necessaries of life had been to- tally removed. (A Voice—" No ; malt;') Malt was not a necessary of life. (A Voice—" Sugar.") (Laughter.) The duty on bread, on meat, on bricks, on timber, on glass, and' on salt had been totally removed, and, in fact, a working man could please himself whether he paid any taxes to the State or not. (A Voice—" Sugar, coffee, and tea.') If he drank, or smoked, or snuffed, he must pay, and so he ought. (Laughter.) He believed these taxes did good to the buyer as well as to ;,he receiver. It was good for the State to receive these taxes, and it was good for those who had to pay, for if the prica of these articles were reduced the quantity consumed would do more harm than good. The duty on tea had been reduced from 2s. 2d. to ls., and he was not prepared to say that they might not reduce further the duty on tea, sugar, and coffee, provided they had the retrench ment which Mr. Leathern alluded to; but he thought all those articles were articles which should pay duty. (Voices—" No !") They were not protective duties, but only revenue duties on articles which we do not produce in this country, and therefore they were articles on which we should pay a fair and moderate duty. (Voices—" No!") As to the ques tion of reform, he had read with great care the two speeches made at Rochdale by the two great autho rities on but, whil e g i v i ng t h ose h on. gentlemenr free trade every eedit for being ea rnes t re f ormers, f he was of opinion that those speeches had done more to retard reform than to advance it. (Voices No, no.") They had frightened those who had the power of giving reform from giving it. (A Voice—" Why ?") They had become frightened because these gentlemen made it out that the work ing men were an injured class, not because they were without a vote, but that they were injured and oppressed by those who had the vote ; whereas, as he (Sir F. Crossley) had shown, the registration of the last 30 years had tended towards the ameliora tion of the very class which did not possess the franchise. He was as earnest in favour of re form as any one, bat he wanted to go the right way to get it. They would not get reform by frightening those who had the power to give it, for they had no very great grievance with which to go to Parliament. They could not expect to take reform by storm ; it must be done by persuasion. They could only du it by persuasion, by showing that they had an intelligent class who had no vote, but were fully and fairly entitled to it ; and if they possessed these qualifications, they knew that the legislation of many years past had been in their favour, and that, if they were allowed to enter the lists, the state of things would not be very much altered. His opinion was, that by going honestly, fully, and fairly for the object they had in view, they would accomplish it better than by trying to make out a case which was not to be made out. The foreign politics of the last two years had been stir ring matters, and he believed he was not going too far when he said the present Government had the confidence not only of its usual supporters, but of the country at large. (Applause.) The policy of non - intervention had kept us out of many and grave difficulties. We had been a long time in learning that it was enough for England to manage her own immense affairs, the interests of her teeming popu lation, and her immense colonies ; and although it was very flattering to be looked up to by all coun tries, and called in to settle their disputes, yet we had at last learnt that we had really not time and money, or strength, to be always engaging in other people's battles. (Hear, hear.) The Government had lately had a very important subject to consider — namely, the European Congress to which they were invited by the Emperor of the French. No one could read carefully the reply of Earl Russell without seeing that he gave very sufficient reasons why England should decline to enter that Congress. The conduct of the French Emperor had been so straightforward towards this country that every suggestion of his could not but be received with the greatest courtesy and respect ; but England ex• pected something more from her Minister than the attempt to pleas© a foreign potentate. (Hear, hear.) They expected their Ministers to look at all ques tions with a view to England's interests, and he thought that Earl Russell showed sufficient reason w hy England was not justified in going to the Congress without knowing whether the resizlts of that Congress were to be enforced by war. (Cheers.' Mr. FORSTER, responded to the toast. was tried in Cork. This had been obtained, and the Lord Chancellor was now asked to say that the compromise which had been made was for the benefit of the minors, in order that an Act of Parliament might be obtained to give effect to the arrangsment. Under a consent-order Lord Egmont had brought into court £125,000, which had been invested in Consols, except a sum of £llB, which would now be brought in. There were two estates mentioned in the will of the late Sir Edward Tierney, and it was necessary to determine what portion of the money was to represent the Kanturk estate and the Churchtown estate respectively. For this a reference to the Master was absolutely necessary. Lord Eg mont is to receive the rents of the estates from November, 1863. The Act of Parliament will direct that the money which is entailed on the minors shall be invested in land for their benefit. Lady Tierney, who is no party to the compromise, has an annuity of £5OO charged uron one of the estates. But while Lord Egmont holds the estates, subject to her rights, he is to be indemnified by Sir Lionel Darell for any claim she may make. LAW INTELLIGENCE—Yesterday. DIVORCE COURT. (Before Sir J. P. Wilde and a Special Jury.) FITZGERALD V. FITZGERALD. Mr. M, Chambers, Q.C., and Dr. Warabey, instructed by Messrs. Thomas and Co., appeared for the petitioner; and the Queen's Advocate, Mr, Huddleston, Q.C., and Dr. Spinks, instructed by Messrs. Freshfield and Co., for the respondent. Mr. Chambers stated the case. The petitioner, Mrs. Charlotte Georgiana Fitzgerald, prayed for a divorce from her husband on the ground of cruelty and adultery, to which the respondent pleaded denial. Major Fitzgerald was the son of Lord 'William Fitzgerald, and the petitioner was the daughter of a gentleman of fortune, named Bellesworth. The marriage was solemnised at St. George's, Hanover • square, on the 12th November, 1857, and in about a week afterwards the ill-treatment was commenced. It appeared that at the time of the marriage Major Fitzgerald was in debt, and receiving only £5OO from his father-in-law, he abused him and his wife's mother in the hearing of his wife. After the marriage the parties went to Paris and they returned to Dublin, where the parties resided in Hume street for some months. Major Fitzgerald was deputy quartermaster. general, and in the course of his official visits he became acquainted with a gentleman named Mallet, who held a situation in the Castle at T ablin, and it was with the wife of that gentleman that the adultery was alleged. The intrigue with this lady was carried on during the honey moon, and the neglect and ill-treatment were alleged to have been continued during the period of their cohabitation which lasted until the 23d of August, 1862, and in two in stances his conduct produced premature confinements and the death of the children with which she was then enciente • Major Fitzgerald took on himself to decline invitations for his wife while they were in Dublin, and he was in thelhabit of leaving her alone from breakfast until the evening. It further appeared that the respondent was entitled to be tween £20,000 and £30,000 in the event of surviving his wife. Mrs. Fitzgerald was examined by Mr. Chambers. After the marriage, she and her husband went to Folkestone, and then to Paris, where they stayed at the Hotel Deux Mendes for seven or eight days. They breakfasted together at the hotel, but Major Fitzgerald left her alone:all day, and only took her out once, and that at the instigation of their land lady. He abused her parents in the most offensive man ner, calling her father "a scoundrel," and her mother " a sharper," and "a designing, wicked old woman." He also treated her very ill while they were in Paris, both by lan guage and contemptuous manner, and took a fan from her stating that he was going to get it repaired ; but he did not bring it back, and said that it had been given to her by some " - lover of hors." On their return to London after leaving Pads, she wanted a riding habit. He told her that Mrs. Mallet had sent one back, and it would do for her, but she refused it. She heard him constantly talking about Mrs. Mallet. When he spoke of Mrs. Mallet it was in an expressive manner. On their way to Holyhead on their return from the Continent, he addressed her only in monosyllables. There was something strange in his appearance, and she asked him if he was ill. He replied, "I never did love you, and only married you for your money," and he cursed his father for not having prevented the marriage when he knew the state of his feelings. When they returned to Ireland they remained for some time at Salthill Hotel, near Dublin. He had to attend at his office only about two hours in the day, but he was in the habit of leaving her alone. While at Salthill Major Fitzgerald called her "an old screw, and a battered creature." He did not ill-treat her beforelservants, He requested ber to visit Mrs. Mallet amongst the first whom she west to see in Dublin. On ono occasion he said, with reference to their having children, that if they were like her they would be " such disgusting little imps." With reference to taking her into society in Dublin, he said, "I am not going about like an ass with a wife tied to my tail." In May, 1858, they came to England and she took up her residence at Dover for two months, but her husband remained in London. Major Fitzgerald was in the habit of praising women to her who possessed what she did not in their personal appearance, such as the colour of hair and complexion. 119 called her an old scarecrow, and he likened her to a lump of dirt. He had conversation with her about married women who had intrigued, and advised her if she was not happy to do the same. She said she would not, and that if she left him she would return to her parents, and he replied that she had better do so as anyb o d y e l se would drop her like a lump of dirt. The witness then detailed a series of acts of violence on the part of her husband which led to her premature confinements, and the effects of which were visi ble in bruises mad marks on her person, and on one occasion he jammed her between the door of a room. Major Fitz gerald said with respect to her premature confinement in Chester-street, what a fool she must be to live with him after that event. The Queen's Advocate cross-examined the witness at great length. She met her husband fi rs t at M aldon, and she was acquainted with him about th ree or four months before the marriage. Major Fitzger a ld expected to have received £l,boo from her lather at their marriage, but he only got £5OO. It was a misunderstanding on her husband's part. There was £B,OOO settled by her husband's father on her and LlOO a year, which her husband received. Her husband had about £5OO a year. She admitted that some letters produced were in her handwriting, but denied that others were. She said that on the occasion of one of her confinements she was examined by Dr. Perry, who put her to pain. She de n i e d that she ever s t a t e d t o Lady Ann Cberson th a t D r . P erry had caused the death of her child, but she believed that when her husband said so she adopted his statement. She did not make any suoh statement to Dr. Pettigrew or any one else. They purchased with her money a house at Bra den, Malmesbury, and here they had an altercation re specting some trees which her husband wanted to cut down, and he called her a viper. Some time before that he caused her spasms at the heart by hie violence. During two years that he absented himself from her bed there, was no necessity ,for his doing so from the state of her health except for about six weeks. In August, 1861, her husband was at Cowes, not in consequence of bad health, but for pleasure. She could not say that the letter now produced was in her handwriting. She knew a man named Kelly, who had been a butler in Mr. Mallett's family. When the present proceedings were instituted he was lying ill in the Bath Hospital, and expressed a wish to see her. Sho went to him, and carried him what she thought from bis state he might require. She knew a Mrs. Hopkins, who was out of her mind in consequence of the persecution to which she was subjected with a view to prevent her giv ing evidence in the suit. With respect to the child to which she had given birth, and which died in 36 hourg afterwards, she did not refuse to see it. When it was moan ing in its last crisis, she desired it to be taken upstairs that she might not be disturbed by its cries. Re-examined —She put the case into the hands of a soli citor. She never suggested to the witnesses on her behalf what they were to state, but on the contrary she declined to speak to them on the subject of the suit. Kelly died a month after she saw hi m a t B ath, and all she took to him were two apples, a bunch o f grapes, and a biscuit. She saw him three times while she w as at Bath. Hopkins was a cook in her family when her child died, and was a witness for her both to the adultery and the cruelty charged. She wrote a good many letters to the sisters of Major Fitzgerald, and she ex pressed herself in terms of affection towards him. Her rea son for doing so was that so long as they lived together she wished that the interior of their home should not be dis closed, as it might have the effect of injuring her husband with het father. The same motive influenced her with refe rence to other parties as regarded the alleged cause of her child's death, she being anxious to uphold her husband's character so long as she remained under the same roof with him. She wrote a letter to her mother complaining of Ler husband's conduct. Mr. Perry, F.R.C.S., said that he had been called in t see Mrs. Fitzgerald at Chester-street in 1859, in order to give an opinion as to her condition. She was eight months in pregnancy. From what she stated as to an alternation between her and her husband some days previously, she felt very ill, and from tha symptoms she described he felt satisfied that she was carrying a dead child, The witness then stated that he adopted means to ascertain the fact, of which he was quite satisfied. The means were of the most simple nature, and, as far as he could recollect, he did not think that he had rec:urse to the use of an instrument. He could not have killed the child without endangering the life of the mother. He did not remain with Mrs. Fitzgerald more than a quarter of an hour, and had not seen her since except in court that day. On the day when ho was called in to Mrs. Fitzgerald ho saw Major Fitzgerald, and he be lieved he made a report to him relative to his wife, and the Major gave him his fee. By the Queen's Advocate--Although the witnesses had been ordered out of court he was present when Mrs. Fitz gerald gave that portion of her evidence which related to him. He was told that he might come into the court, which accounted fur his presence during the examination of the petitioner. At the conclusion of this witness's evidence the case, which is likely to occupy some d a y s , was adjourned u n til to-morrow (this day). ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE. HOME CIRCUIT,—MAIDSTONE, Dec. 16. The winter assize was to open here to-day, but as Mr Baron Pigott was detained at Taunton, the comtcencement of business here has been postponed till to-morrow (Thurs day), the commission being opened this evening. The calendar is not very heavy. There are altogether about 20 cases, of which two are cases of homicide, one being charged as murder, and the other as manslaughter. There are about six cases of arson, one of which is a charge of firing a dwel ling-house, the other the ordinary cases of rick or stack burning. On Monday, the 21st, the commission opens and business commences at Lewes, where the calendar is at present light, On the next day, Tuesday, the 22d, the commission opens at Chelmsford, where there is a charge of murder, and pro bably as much business as here. On the very next day, the 23d, the commission is opened and the business commences at Kingston, where also there is a charge of murder and some serious cages, and it is not at all improbable that there will be two assizes on the same circuit at the same time, nor is it impossible that there may be three--Sussex, Essex, and Surrey—all at the same time. Another judge, Mr. Baron Martin, is coming to Surrey, and it is not impro bable that Mr. Baron Pigott may not be able to finish at Lewes in time to go to Essex, in which case another judge will be required, and as not only all the judges but all the sergeants-at-law are on the commission for the winter assize, it is probable that the new judge, Mr. Justice Shee, may commence his judicial duties on this his old "circuit, The occasion may not be inappropriate Co mention that there is among the Bar a universal feeling of cordial approval and satisfaction at the new appointment, and this not only on the Home Circuit, but on every other, and among gentle men of every political party and every religious creed. Mr. Sergeant Shee was extremely beloved and respected on this circuit, of which he has long been leader, and the Bar have for a considerable time past on all occasions expressed their feeling that he ought to be elevated to the judicial bench, Aa no judge was ever more lamented than Mr. Justice Wightman, so never was the elevation of any more cor dially hailed than that of Mr. Justice Shee. MIDLAND CIRCUIT—Yortx, Dec. 15. (Before Mr. Justice Mellor.) John Booth and Emmanuel Jarvis were indicted for assault and robbery upon John Ellis, and stealing from him £l2, at Rotherham, on the 19th Sept. last. Mr. Blackburn and Mr. Gully prosecuted; Mr. Maule defended Booth, and Mr. Middleton appeared for Jarvis. The prosecutor, having been at Sheffield, got to the Tra vellers' Rest, a publichouse near to the Masbrough railway station, about half-past 4 o'clock in the afternoon. At that house he stayed until half-past 11 o'clock at night. In the course of the evening the two prisoners, as well as some others, were in the house, and the prosecutor, who appears to have had a large sum of money in his possession, paid for drink, which was consumed by the prisoners and him self. He, being the worse fur liquor, left the house alone, and, according to his own statement, he was followed by three persons, the two prisoners and a third man, who knocked him down at the second bridge on the way to Rotherham, and there robbed him. In cross• examination it was elicited that the prosecutor was found lying on the road, very dirty and apparently drunk, by the police. He was taken to the lock-up at Rotherham, and being brought be fore the West Riding justices, was by them fined ss. and discharged. At ter he was in custody he gave infot mation of the alleged robbery, but it seemed that he only mentioned the name of one of the parties who he said had robbed him, and even with regard to him the prosecutor admitted that the assailant himself said his name was Major Booth. The only remaining evidence was that on the following morning one of the prisoners was found in the possession of a consi derable sum of money, although the day before he was ap parently without any. When the case had proceeded to this point, his lordship having 'ascertained from the counsel for the prosecution that he could not corroborate the prosecu• tor's statement with regard to the actual fact of the rob bery, put it to the jury as to whether, upon such testimony, they thought they could safely convict. The jury expressed the opinion that under the circumstances it seemed to them useless to pursue the inquiry further, and returned a ver dict of not guilty. Edward Carlop and Henry Bridgwater, two soldiers, were charged with assault and robbery upon Charles Hur croft, at Gate Fulford, one of the suburbs of York, and stealing from him his watch, on the 18th of October last. Mr. Broughton prosecuted ; the prisoners were not de fended by counsel. The prosecutor, who was very drunk, had called at a publichouse called the Soldiers' Rest, and there came into company with the two prisoners and some other men. The whole party, after drinking together, started for York; and when a very short distance from the point where the two roads into York diverge, he was assaulted and robbed of his watch. In support of the case it was shown that the morning following a woman was sent to pledge the watch by the prisoner Carlop. This latter subjected all the wit nesses to a very long and rambling cross-examination, after which the jury found both prisoners guilty, and each was sentenced to four years' penal servitude. Alfred Shepherd and Edward Tasker were charged with assault and robbery upon Richard Walker, and stealing from him £6O, on the 31st of October. Mr. Wheelhouse prosecuted; the prisoners were unde fended by counsel. 'I he prosecutor, a farmer, and a hale old man of 70, was on his way from Leeds into the country, where he was going to purchase and pay for some cattle. When about a mile from Leeds, going along the York-road, he was joined by the prisoner Shepherd. The two walked on together for some distance, and the old man told Shepherd that he was going to " pay for some beasts." When the two had got to a somewhat lonely point in the road, the other prisoner, who had passed them but a few minutes before, turned back, and then the prosecutor was thrown down upon the road, and while one man held him down, covering his face and putting dirt into his mouth so as to stop his cries, two others rifled his pockets. The old man bad 12 £5-notes in a sort of purse placed in an inside pocket of his weistcoat, and, in their search discovering this, those who attacked him tore it away, and, taking money it contained, ran off with it, A youth named Howard, who happened to know both the prisoners, and who was driving a horse and cart, came up the moment the robbery had been effected, and he identified both the prisoners as having been two of the three men. Thereupon Shepherd was apprehended and lodged in the lock-up, and the other prisoner went away from Leeds. In about a week he returned, and, having no doubt in the meanwhile heard that Shepherd had been examined before the justices, and found out what evidence had been given, went to the house occupied by the boy Howard and offered him 10s. if he would not appear against him, saying at the same time that he had not got a sixpence of money. The lad said, " What I saw and what I said I shall tell over again —for if it had been my own brother I would have ap peared against him if he had tried to rob an old matt like that." The prisoner then observed, " Why, but if thou's the only witness again me, we shall both get off with, may be, three months or six months on it," and went away. The Judge said he hoped that the witness would always act as he had acted on that occasion ; and, after summing up the case, the jury found both the prisoners guilty. They were sentenced each to be kept in penal servitude for 6 years OXFORD CIRCUIT.—SHREWSBURY, Dec. 16. (Before Mr. Justice Crompton.) Mary Almond was indicted for attempting to murder her child on the 11th day of September, at Ellesmere. Mr. Benson was for the prosecution. The pris , ner was in the service of Mrs. Wenlock, at Cole mere-woods, and was known by her mistress to be in the family way. About three weeks before the 11th Septem ber, in answer to questions put to her, the prisoner told her mistress that she would be able to continue in her service till Christmas. But ou the 11th September, between 1 and 2 o'clock, Mrs. Wenlock heard a cry as if from under the privy. She sent her man-servant to see what it might be and questioned the prisoner as to whether she had been confined, but theprisoner 'enied it. The man-servant took up some flagstones, and n scovered a live child two or three feet from the privy. Tb nwal string was torn close off to the body of the child, and :;s 4f after birth lay near it' The prisoner subsequently stateu,:lat she had not thrown it where it was found, and that she could net help it. There were no signs of blood in the privy. The prisoner had not prepared any baby linen. When the child was brought to her she showed feelings of affection towards it and suckled it. Early in the morning of the day in question the pt1;;12; complained of being unwell and asked her fellow servant to get her a bucket of water, and she was seen afterwards com ing from a bakehouse near the privy with a bucket of water, and stains of blood were found on the floor of the bake house. No surgeon was called. The theory of the prosecu tion was that the prisoner had been confined in the bake house and had carried the child to throw it away. The pri soner's statement suggested that she had been suddenly taken in the pains of labour and that the child had fallen where it had been found. His Lordship summed up, and the jury found the pri soner not guilty. The business of these assizes .was brought to a close this afternoon, and as this is the last place on this circuit for which the commissions have been made out, the winter as sizes for the Oxford Circuit are now concluded. Mr. Jus- Lice Crompt on w ill proceed to Welchpool to-merrow, — to open the commission for Montgomeryehire, with reference to the state of the calendar in which county his Lordship stated at Stafford, in alluding to the spread of the crime of arson, that out of 12 prisoners reported to him as awaiting their trial 11 wore charged with that offence. NORFOLK CIRCUIT—CAMBRIDGE, Dec. 16, (Before Mr. Baron Martin.) Cornelius Smith and Joseph Smith, described as tramp ing gipsies, and of the age of 16, were charged under the 36th section of the 24th and 25th Vic., cap. 97, with unlaw fully and maliciously putting upon and across the Great Eastern Railway two iron chairs and one iron connecting rod, with intent to endanger the safety of persons travelling and being upon the said railway, at Harston, on Aug. 22. Mr. Ortidge appeared for the prosecution; the prisoners Were undefended. His Lordship having expressed his opinion that there was no case against the prisoner Cornelius Smith, the jury were directed to find a verdict of Not Guilty as far as he was con. certted. Against the other prisoner the facts, as far as appeared from Mr. Orridge's opening statement, and from the evi • deuce of the witnesses called by him, were as follows : On the day in question, Saturday, Aug. 22, the train that leaves Cambridge at 10 minutes past 6 in the evening, and runs along the Great Eastern branch to Hitchin, was pass ing between Harston and Poston, conveying a large num ber of passengers, who had been attending the market at Cambridge, when something was seen on the line by the enginedriver in time for him to moderate the speed of the train from 14 miles to 5 miles an hour. It turned out to be an obstruction of a very formidable kind, in the shape of three chairs for holding the iron rails, lying on one of the rails, one placed over the other, and an iron bar laid across the two rails on which the train was proceeding, and though the train was pulled up in the manner described, the shock was such that it was felt through all the carriages, and one of the chairs and the iron bar were cut in two. The train was immediately stopped, the driver and guard jumped down, and while they were looking about them a lad was seen by them and by one of the passengers running away from the railroad across a field. To bring the , charge home to the prisoner several witnesses were called, some of whom spoke to the face of their having noticed the appear - ance of the lad who was running away, which they said was such from his height and dress as to lead them to the belief that the prisoner was he, while a .labourer who was at work in an adjoining field, and a lad who was with him, deposed to their having seen and spoken to the two prisoners just before the train came up, and noticed them passing out of the field into and across the railway, and then return to the line, after which no more was sPen of them till the ac cident happened to the train, when the prisoner Joseph Smith was observed running across the field from the rail way towards a gipsy encampment to which they both be longed. In the meantime the signalman at Harston, who had hurried up on hearing of the stoppage of the train, ran across the field to the high road, which bounded it on one side, and made for the gipsies' encampment, where, while he was in conversation with one of the persons belong ing to it, and a short time after the affair, the two pri soners came up, hot and out of breath, and with all the appearance of persons who had been running hard, and in answer to bis question where they had come from, Joseph Smith said from Riston (a place in an opposite direction). Some time after this a policeman, who had been sent for, went to the gipsies' encampment, and in answer to his questions one of the prisoners said they were not the persons who had caused the obstruction, for they had never left the road on which they then were. They were then taken to the police-station, and on being searched a piece of galvanised iron like telegraph wire was found in the pocket of one of them, and another piece very like it was picked up close to the place where the obstruction had been put. His Lordship, in summing up the evidence, drew the attention of the jury to the section of the Act of Parliament on which the prisoners were indicted, remarked on the very serious nature of the offence and of the punishment conse quent upon a verdict of guilty, and pointed out the fact that however strong a case of suspicion might be presented, the jury must not be satisfied with the mere suspicion that the prisoners did the thing charged, but must found their ver dict on evidence; that, in addition to a confusion in the evi dence as to the different times when the prisoners were seen Ling to and from the railway, the greater part of the evi dence merely amounted to the fact of a boy being seen run ning away who was like the prisoner Joseph ; and that what the jury would have to decide was, first, whether the prisoner Joseph Smith was, beyond all doubt, the buy who put the obstruction on the rails; and, secondly, whether he dii it with the intention of taking the lives of the passengers. It the evidence me rely showed that the act committed was not with the intent of taking life, but out of idle mischief, the prisoner could not be convicted under the statute. The jury returned a verdict of not guilty. Peter Crisp and John Graham were indicted for feloni ously setting fire to a stack of straw, the property of John Webb, at Horseheath, on the 14th of October. Mr. Naylor appeared for the prosecutor, and Mr. Hillam Mills defended the prisoner Peter Crisp ; but as his Lord ship thought no case for the p►osecution had been made out against him the jury were directed to acquit him. Graham pleaded guilty, and, in passing sentence, _ . His Lordship said that had he been aware of the number of charges of arson that were to be tried at the different places he had visited, he should have hesitated about the amount of punishment he began with allotting, In this par ticular instance the reason given by the pr.soner was be. cause be was hungry—a most absurd excuse for such a scandalous offence. " Well for you," said his lordship, " that I have been passing sentences for this offence before these assizes. I shall adhere to the same amount of punish ment that I have already given, which is three years' penal servitude." In another case of arson, against Philip Green, in which Mr. Graham appeared for the prosecution, the prisoner's reason for setting fire to a quantity of straw in a farmyard at March, on Dec. 12th, was because he had not been taken into the Union Workhouse, but had only received a night's relief. And so, said his lordship, " because the master would not encourage you in your idleness by taking you into the workhouse and make others support you, you revenge your. self upon an uneffending neighbour. lam unwilling to make any variance in the punishments I have allotted to this crime, and therefore I sentence you to three years' im prisonment." Jeremiah Lawrence, a little boy between 10 and 11 years of age, was oleo charged with setting fire to stack of corn at Haslingfield, on the 10th August. The prisoner was defended by Mr. Naylor; Mr. Orridge conducted the case for the prosecution. In this instance the offence was committed out of revenge, because the prisoner's master, Mr. Serjeant, the owner of the stack, had given him two or three strokes with a whip, over the shoulders for beating his pigs. His Lordship, after explaining to the jury the law in a case of this kind with reference to the malicious act, went through the evidence, and left it to them to say whether they had any doubt about this boy doing the act on purpose and in consequence of the blows he received. The jury found the boy guilty, and recommended him to mercy. Sentence was deferred, in order that steps might be taken ror getting him into a reformatory. WESTERN CIRCUIT.—TAuNzoN, DEC. 16. (Before Mr. Baron Pigott.) Emanuel Cash was indicted for ravishing Charlotte Feaver, on the 7th of November, at Ansford, and six other men were charged with aiding and abetting. There were other indictments charging each one as a principal. Mr. Edlin and Mr. Hooper were counsel for the prosecu tion ; Mr. Frideaux defended Coles ; Mr. T, W. Saunders defended Pitman; Mr. Ffooks defended all the others. This was one of those brutal cases that unhappily some times disgrace our courts of justice, but we shall only allude to the facts very briefly. It appeared that the parents of the prosecutrix lived at Castle Carey, the father being a gardener. The girl, who was 20 years of age, worked in a factory, and lived with her parents. She was keeping company with a young man named Sylvester Sheen. On Saturday evening, the 7th of November, after leaving work, she returned to her father's house, and shortly afterwards Sheen called for her, and they went out to take a walk. About ten o'clock they went to the Half-moon publichouse, which was kept by Coles, one of the prisoners. The girl had a glass of peppermuit, and Sheen had a pint of beer. The prisoners came into the house and joined them. They remained at the publichouse till 12 o'clock, when they all went out of the house, Coles accompanying them to the door of the house. ' Some of the prisoners knocked down Sheen, and they seized holy of the girl, all of them, with the exception of Pitman and Coles, effected their purpose, assisting each other. The girl cried "Murder I" Coles stood by. A man named Wright came up and threatened to send for the police. Coles sari it was a shame, but he did not like to interfere amongst so many men ; but he added, " Take her into the stable, as there is acme clean straw there." They then dragged her into the stable, threw her down, and then all of them, with the . exception of Coles, repeated the offence. The girl after a time went home, her father left her in, and she then told her mother what had happened; but no complaint was made to the police until the following Saturday. Three of the prisoners were immediately ap prehended, the others absconded, and were not „taken for some time. Charlotte Feaver deposed to the facts of the case. She was cross-examined at considerable length by the learned counsel for the defence, but her evidence was not shaken. She pulled their hair, she struck them in the face, she called "Murder !" and cried to be taken to her mother. Seven had intercourse with her in the stable. They were there an hour. Silvester Sheen corroborated the statement of the prose cutrix as to the outrages. The men pushed him about and struck him. He was afraid to interfere. Coles said there was clean straw in the stable, and they had better carry the young woman there, and not make a noise in front of the house. They then dragged her into the stable. They were an hour in the stable. He could see all that was going on. He could not interfere, because they threatened him and struck him. George Wright came up and saw the men surrounding and dragging the girl, and he heard her cry " Murder I" Thomas Goodrich, a neighbour of Coles, heard : h 0.,, cries et " Murder 1" and a call of " I wish my dear mothe r u an hour. There were cries of a woman in distress for h He opened his beim= window and listened, and the window again. then shut the girl, said that her dress Burge in misted -shawl was off her heel, George Feaver, the father of was torn when he lot her ill. A policeman had Emanuel and her teeth wore covered we talk of what they had 1 31' in their cells, and heard thorn • _it c h ii a b e sh r loo a d n . d I wade able defences for ea./ espective clients The comase Coles and Pitman witn Others of the prisoners lso made tatitat,etaents.. c ' one. On the part of Co , ebses Were calico Mr. Baron Pigott summed up with great care, reading who certainly did not he)p their case, ev er the whole evidence as it applied to each prisoner. " Th e jury Lund all the ptisonersguiltv, but recommended The Judge then sencenced Emir a different punishment as regarded Pitman and Coles, Burge, and HaLett, to be kept Giles tube kept in penal servitude ' for three years, - Cash, William in penal servitude for five years, Giles and Coles to be iMprisonA fur two years. a COUNTRY MARKETS. -01 LYNN-TUESDAY. At to-day's market there was a fair supply of wheat, with a small attendance of the tr.de. The nenpmd was not active, and the prices of last week were 6d to is lower. Malting and grinding barley at late rates. Oats as before. Peas and Leans were steady. W rite ..44s to 45s / Barley 36s to 378 BA.. .. 39s to 40s I Grinding .. 338 to 318 Beans .43s to 448 I Oats New 3BB to Cis I Peas —s to IRELAND. DUBLIN, Dee. 15. The winter show of the Royal Dublin Society was opened yesterday in the Agricultural hall, Kildare street. The entries were not very numerous, but the size and qualities of the animals exhibited are said never to have been surpassed in Ireland. There were 50 entries of horned cattle, 40 of sheep, and 20 of pigs. The fat cattle are for the most part magnifi cent specimens of their kind ; some of the swine are monsters for size, and the sheep are said to be of excellent quality. There are 170 entries of poultry, which ate exhibited in one of the galleries. There is also an immense show of field and garden pro duce, many of the specimens of turnips, mangolds, cabbages, parsnips, &C., being of enormous size and weight. The hall contains a large number of farm. ing implements of various kinds, and the depart ment of Irish frieze is well filled with specimens from all parts of the country. A silver cup, value 50 guineas, was contributed by Mr. Allan Pollok, J.P., of Lismaney, for the best animal. It was won by a heifer, cross-bred between a Hereford cow and a short-horned bull, the property of Mr. Gavin Low, salesmaster, Dublin, Tne blue riband in the farm Produce was won for the Earl of Charlemont by his steward, Mr. James Brady, with a magnificent col lection of r oo t s . Th e pr i ze cons i sted of Messrs. Klee mg and Robertson's challenge cup. I n thi s de partment t he Ilutton soc i ety ' s medal was w on by M r . Th os. Mutton, The attendance at the show was most numerous and fashionable. B u y ers f rom the Engli sh markets were well represent e d. Th e well n. show was open i n the even i ng also, the ball being lighted with gear but notwithstanding the at traction of an excelleu't military band the attendance was very thin, and the appearance of the hall rather dreary. Th e Egmont will case wa s _ again before the Court of Chancery yesterday. It had stood over in order to obtain the certificate of the Judge by w h om it HULL-.TUESDAY. At this day's market the show of English wheat was good, with a ready sale, at a decline of is upon late rates. Foreign was negl;:cted, but quite Is lower to sell. Sizing corn very little altered, but tending downwards. Wheat.... Old white per qr. 42s Od to 41s Od Old red 9 I Nell white .. „ New red .... 378 Od to 438 Od Barley.... English malting' , 32s Od to 36s Oa Grinding Saal and Oderbruck Holstein and Danish 303 Od to 318 03 Grinding Oats English, old Archangel and Riga., per at oBl2ld to 13(1 Friesland and Dutch oBl3d to 08.130 Swedish and - Danish Osl2ld ; - ,o 0:3131 Beans ....English, old, per. qr 4os Od to 438 Oil New pigeon 4'is Od to 41s t;c l New tic. 4os Od to 428 Ocl Egyptian Peas Foreign boilers .. . Grinding Tares .... Spring Indian Corn Linseed, feeding.... crushing * 4os Od to 52s Od Linsee'd cakes (dull) £9 5 () to £0 0 0 Foreign, SIS oto 9 0 0 Rape cakes 6 0 oto 0 0 0 Bones MELTON MOWBRAY-TUESDAY. The following were the currencies :—New white wheat, 41s Od to 46s Od ; new red, 38s Od to 42s per 36 stone ; beans, 38s to 40s for old; new sorts, 35s to 37s per 36 st. ; barley, 33s to 37s for malting, and 29s to 31s per qr. f" grinding; new oats, 22s to 25s Od per 24 stone; old, 265 to 30s. COAL MARK ET. Primo of Coal per 'Von at the oloue of the market. d.l 13yass's Bebside West Hartley ....16 6 Cowpen Hartley 16 6 Lambert's West Hart- Walls End. ley 16 3 West Hartley 16 6 iiolywell 17 6 Elastings Hartley l6 6 rar_field Moor 15 3 ranfield Moor Butes 15 3 Wylam 17 6 Eden Main ..18 3 159 ; sold, 10G. Haswell S.Guth Hetton 20 0 Tunstall .... Hartlepool l9 Trimdon Hartlepool 19 6 Caradoc l9 6 Gassop l7 0 Trimdon Thornley l9 0 Hough Hall 1 9 Riddell..... Stewart's 1 0 North Hartlepool 1 9 9 136huonl lB 6 Walls End. Kelloe Ships at market Foreign Mail Packet List. MAILS DUE. lustralia and Mauritius, via Southampton. Dec. 19. via Marseilles drazil and Cape Verds, by British packet. Jan. 4. .Jape of Good Hope, Ascension, and St. Helena.. Dec. 29. ;hina, Penang, and Singapore, via Southampton. Dec. 1 9 . via Marseilles ...Dec...a. Falkland Islands 3ibraltar, via Southampton Dec. 1 9 . India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via Southampton Dee. 19. via Marseilles Dec. 27 India (Bombay), via Southampton Dec. 27. via Marseilles Dec. 21. Portugal.... Ivialta, Egypt, and Aden, via Southampton Dec. 19. via Marseilles Dec. 21, Newfoundland ..Dec. 2 3 . .__ .. . iiporto and Vigo • • • • : U. S. and British N. America, ty llrit.'nztOtot....Dec. 23. __ _ .... ~- - - - - . -by U.S.plii:ket..... by Canadian packet. Dec. 18. W.C. of Africa, Madeira, and Teneritfe .. Tan. 10. Bahamas, via New York Nlexico .. •••• All parts of West Indi es , i nc l u di ng Chili , Peru,• Dec. 29, California, and British Columbia.. THE DROWNING OF Two NAVAL OFFICERS AT LAGOS.—In a letter to his father, a midshipman on board her Majesty's ship Investigator gives the following details of an accident which occurred on the Ist of Septem ber last on the bar off Lagos, and which was noticed by us some time since :—" On the morning of the Ist Septem ber Lieutenant Dolben came on board in his whaler to see the Commodore, as he bad only just received his appoint ment to the Investigator, and, was to command the expedi tion. He came out over the bar without shipping a drop of water, about eight a.m., and after making arrangements with the Commodore he asked for a midshipman, and I volunteered to go with him, with one of our lieutenants, poor Atkinson, who also asked that I might be allowed to accompany him. Lieutenant Dolben seemed to think nothing of going in, no more than pulling on shore in a harbour, so we shoved off from the Rattlesnake, and pulled in about a mile before we approached the bar. I, so far from thinking there was any danger, was sitting in the bottom of the boat smoking my ripe, and poor At kinson was smoking his, and we wet e laughing and talking about our expedition up the Niger. We arrived on the bar at 1.15 p.m., having left the ship at 12 o'clock, and the very first breaker we met capsized the boat, and rolled her with tremendous force over and over. I just heard poor Dolben say, before the boat cap sized, ' Here it comes;' and, being in the bottom of the boat, I put my head over the gunwale and looked, and saw' a towering sea curling down upon us; the next thing I felt was a smack on the face from it, and over we went. In my first attempt to rise to the surface I hit my head against the boat, but succeeded the second time in laying hold of her, when I found all my companions holding on with the ex ception of one of the Kroomen, whom we never saw again. Poor Atkinson asked what was to be done, when Dolben said, Hold on to the boat, and we shall be seen from th e shore in a minute.' He had scarcely spoken when a sec sea washed 113 all again into the water, and we had to swie l up to her again to catch hold. Poor Atkinson was hit on th° head by the boat, which was washed on the top of hill' ; and when I looked round for him he was gone. I heard him call for help to one of the Kroomen, but it was impossible to save another person in a sea like that in which we were struggling, The near, sea washed us off for the third time. I was the first to regain the boat, and saw Dolben a little distance away from the boat, but unable to swim from ex haustion and the weight of hi clothes. One of the Kroo men succeeded in pushing a mast to him, to which he clung for a time, and then all of a sudden disappeared. There now' remained the o..ree remaining Kroomen and myself, and Iva held on for a few seconds, scarce y long enough to recover our breath, when we were again washed off. This went en for half an hour. Once I went right to the bottom, and gave myself up for lost, being quite done up, when I gave one struggle more and rose to the surface, and fortunately go t on the top of the boat, and there I' lay during a lull for nearly a minute. That gave me breath, and I then began to feel able to swim again. We went on for some time like this, until the Kroomen proposed that we should roll the boat over and over broadside on the curt, so as to bring he r in shore, because all the time we were out there we Wer e beaten about in a most frightful manner, and liable at any moment to be taken by sharks. 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Births. , at E v ington - P , GOLDSMITH.—On the 13th inst., at Carisbrewk-villat Btackheath, Mrs. Henry P. Gold sm i t h, of a lace, Kent son. MORIEL—On the 13th inst., at Berlin,, son. Moss.—On the 12th inst., a t tho old Palace , Lincoln, the of a daughter . wife of Wm. Moss, Esq ., HONYWOOD.—On the 14th inst. Lady Honywood, of a son. Mrs. .Morier of a a .— c O o a lo t ti he i C l.sth inst., at St.Thonias's • William Id a rriages. iii c n h Err u s r. o h N , — ii w y e rd dauq v t s c h oa e: h _ l. : r o c:l :mi t h e es a t r h inst.,. (3 1 L i o r r APlnry e b hu b i : L l ßL ( B.. in y, , lEi t e o ssge :u l dl i ae l : t I Barratt-li. : 1 14 ::: . h . ,0 0laa B. "Wood E, , , q., barrister, of Pennsyl vania, Only daughter of 3. lioruby 111, Broseley, Saluu. W a o o:- Deaths. fiacK.—;edOntldni.lsth inst., at Walthamstove., Mrs. Ellen Back, 1 BATEs.-011 th a o te l B 2 , t E h lust., s at Ityder-strect,, St. James's, W Henry . B BE GIIIZ.—On the 13th IrS • t P. I. Al. Begrez, Esq., aged 79. BANk..s.—On the 12th inst., at New-crosi, George Thomas Banks, R,q., aged 37. GREEN.—On the 13th inst., at The Mount, Iladloy, Nid dlesex Joseph Henry Green ; Esq., D.U.L„ F.R.S., aged 72. MciLkswonnt.—On the 11th inst., at Clapham, Paul Francis, second son of Sir Paul Willis is Moleswoith , Bart., aged 9 years. R.I.P. SHirrNEß.—On the 14th inst., at Chichester, the 'Rev. Sir George Shiffner, Bart.. aged. 72. UNGER,--On the 14th inst,. at Morden College, Johann Andreas Unger, Eeq., aged 86. -- --- London: Pr;ned and ru ,- .!lshed by WILLIAM_ ANDIti.:I-5 of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at TUE SuN °Mee IN 0. 11 Strand, in the Precinct of the `Savoy. 'n the CoußtY "i iitilf:l-? , :e. - s. Thursday, December 17, 1863. - de rvi‘. On ft.m by . Or; ,11 web SE I TZ the k good Clem from , Ever ,Th Pai !tree Mere Th 8 04 ree Pa: Tp Ilia IT. cu Thoi J. P. 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