The Sun. — London, England, 1863-06-25 00:00:00

The Trial Trip of the Italia. The trial trip of the Italia, the first ship of the reorganised London and Mediterranean Steam Na vigation Compa:Ay, took place yesterday afternoon in the Lower ',lope. The day beinc fine, and great interest ma',iifested in the success of - the new corn patty by 'she Greek and Italian City firms, an un usually large number of influential persons assem bled at Blackwall towards 11 o'clock, and were rowed in small boats to the Italia in the stream. Among those present were the members of the fol lowing firms—Messrs. Cahlman Brothers, Skwar con, and Co., D. Georgiades, Leonim, Pana, ere mida, and Co., D, and F. Rasseili, D. Navone, No velli and Co., Mager, Benporath, Cotterell, Ham ber, Loverdo,W. C. Laming and Co., Maclin, Field, Sereombe, Ullathorne, Whetham, Puseley, &c, These are familiar and influential names—names seldom appearing in connection with steamship trial trip s , and the inference they necessarily sug gest is that the Italian and Greek trades are hence forth to assume an importance worthy of the two new kingdoms. England, Italy, and Greece are an future to cultivate more intimate and profitable relationship ; and, all things considered there is no reason why the trade between London and the Mediterranean should not very soon assume really large proportions. London is both the largest and the bcst market for every article of Italian and Greek produce ; and Greece and Italy, for those reasons, ought to be good markets, notwithstanding that they may neither be the largest nor the best markets for those commadities that London can supply. Then those who have endured the misery of a railway :trip from Calais—first to Paris, and next to Mar seilles, before the shores of the Mediterranean are reached—will see no reason NI by a large amount of foreign travel to Genoa, Leghorn, Naples, Mes sina, and Palmero should not at once be diverted seaward the moment the ships of the London and Mediterranean Steam Navigation Company com mence running. With all the unpleasantness of a day or two's sickness there is comfort, pure air, variety, and good living on board a steam boat, and these all offered at a low price must necessarily prove attractive. In addition to the representatives of so many of the leading Greek and Italian firms present, the proprietors and directors of the com pany were represented by Mr. Margetson (Welch and Margetson), chairman; Mr. Laming (London and County Bank), director ; Mr. Grant, secretary; and Mr. Alfred Laming, broker. The last expected visitor and pleasure seeker being on board the Italia shortly after 12 o'clock, the preliminary warping head down stream was proceeded with. For this a short time sufficed, and the down-river trip began. The fine engines by Messrs. Mandalay, Sons, and Fi e ld, o f t h e same pattern as those of the Royal Oak, which did their work so well the other day, commenced their revolutions, and it was at once apparent that all the river craft encountered were to be left hopelessly behind. The engines did their work better than even the skilful makers counted on, and up and down stream the same superiority was displayed. Only one noteworthy incident occurred in the running up stream. In the going down the Italia passed an Admiralty yacht or dispatch boat making way to Wool wich, and after the measured mile had been run in the Lower Hope it was resolved to overhaul the despatch boat, then some two or three miles away. Mr. Bowman, the superintending engineer of the London and Mediterranean Company, stood by the engines, and Capt. Suckling (Lieut. Suckling, Royal Naval Reserve), and the pilot, were at their stations on the bridge. Away went the Italia in chase of the Admiralty yacht, and although the bridge of the yacht was thronged with officers, doing their best to get ahead, the Italia passed the yacht a good mile below Woolwich. A more incontestable proof of the goodness of Messrs. Maudslay, Sons, and Field's work, and of the fine sailing quali ties of the Italia, could not possibly have oc curred. The Greeks on board were so much pleased that one of them volunteered to supply the whole outward cargo of the Italia on his own account, and another volunteered a large lump sum, were a cargo of new currants brought on his account to London. Both offers were as speedily declined as offered ; the Italia and the sister ships being in the market as regular packets only, to sail on stated days, full or not fall, and pay or not pay. In the wisdom of the determination the enterprising Greeks, of course, concurred. After the satisfactory run at the measured mile, giving an average speed of 111 knots, or about 14 statute miles, a sumptuous dejeuner was spread on the poop, and Mr. Margetson, in giving the toast of I the afternoon, briefly reviewed the history of the first London and Mediterranean Steam Navigation Company, and stated the determination of the new company, of which he is the chief. The old com pany unfortunately began the world with two steamers only, and these had the misfortune to he fitted with fuel and space-saving machinery, which in a sense altogether failed. Not that the machinery or the boilers could not do their work, but that no metal could be found of sufficient durability to resist the rapid corrosion of the distilled water in the tubes employed. The result was that the tubes gave way and discredit fastened on the company in conse quence of delay. The new company had got rid of the old machinery, and placed their ships in the hands of Messrs. Maudslay, Sons, and Field, to re ceive the best boilers and machinery that capital could purchase and English skill supply. What ever, therefore, the shortcomings of the old company, the new company came before the public equal to their work, and prepared to do it. His determina tion, and the determination of his coileegues is, that the ships shall sail on the appointed days, namely, on the Ist and 15th of each month, and at the ap pointed hours, no matter whether they are full or not, or whether the cargoes will pay or not. Of the com mercial success of the company he has no doubt, both on account of the now happily settled condition of Greece and Italy, and by reason of the patronage extended to the old company, of which Colonel Sykes was the head. The Justitia will follow the Italia, and the Justitia will be followed by the Alex andra and the Clotilda, new steamers. COURT OF ALDERMEN. A Court of Aldermen was holden after the Common Hall. Mr. Alderman Copeland, M.P., presided, as locum tenens for the Lord Mayor. The Sheriffs reported the state of the City prisons to be as follows Newgate there are 143 ; in Whitecross-street, 112 ; add a Holloway, 368 prisoners. CITY BROKERS. fir• 'Henry Downing Curtis was admitted a broker ; and an aPPlication by Mr. Archibald Freeman, to be also admitted to that °Mee, was referred to the General Purposes Com mittee. Mr. Alde ra I au EItrILEGES TO THE COURT. Wilson brought up a report from the Pri vilege Commi ttec u i r n a r m eferen ce to the election of Mr. Cubitt, ALP., the late ilartilolo ayor, to be president of the Board of Governors of St. ni w's Hospital, which stated that they had iu t r a . k n en oTin opiniontheitecoorfdSir Fitzroy Kelly, Sir Hugh Cairns, , and the Common Sergeant in reference to the election, a n d they. were of opinion that the election of Mr. Cubitt to be 1, governor of the h os pit a l was not valid, as he did not hold the office of alderman at the time of such election. purposes _The report was referred to the General Com mittee, for them to take w hat st eps the), may t in the matter ; and i t was also pro p osed an d car ried that proper that the Lord Mayor should communicate the terms of the report to the Court of Common Council at its next meeting, The Court shortly afterwards adjourned. Full benefit of reduced duty obtained by Put chasing Horniman's pure Tea; very choice at 3s. 4d. and 48. "High Standard" at 45. 4d. (formerly 4e. Bd.), is the strongest and most delicious imported. .Agents in every town supply it in packets. M EET ING IN PRESTON IN FAVOUR OF THE SOUTHERN CONFEDERACY.-0a TUeFday night a crowded meeting took place in Preston to advocate the cause of President Davis and the Confederacy, when reso lutions were agreed to—first, that in the opinion of the meeting the Confederate States of America, by their efforts to accomplish their independence, were entitled to their sympathy ; secondly, that the time had arrived when the British Government might safely interfere to stop the dis astrous war in America, which entailed so much suffering on the manufacturing districts of England ; and, thirdly, that apetition be presented to the House of Commons in sup port of Mr. Roebuck ' s motion in favour of recognising the Confederate States of America. An amendment in favour of continued neutrality was proposed, but rejected without Idose ssi . ivi on. The meeting was very disorderly towards the PRIZE DECISIONS. On the 25th of May , jndge Marwin gave judg ment in the case of the Dolphin steamer, captured by a Federal steamer near Porto Rico, while osten sibly prosecuting a voyage from Liverpool to Nassau. The vessel and cargo were claimed by Mr. Grazebrook of the former place, and the cargo was consigned by him to Messrs. Chambers and Raw of Nassau. It consisted of a general assortment -46 cases containing rifles, and 20 cases of cavalry swords ware described in the freight list as " hard ware." The Judge said,—" If it was the intention of the owner that the vessel should simply touch at Nassau, and should proceed thence to Charleston or some other port of the enemy, then the voyage was not a voyage prosecuted by a neutral from one neutral port to another, but to a port of the enemy, begun and carried on in violation of the belligerent rights of the United States to blockade the enemy's ports and to prevent the introduction of munitions of war. The act of sailing for a blockaded port, with a knowledge of the existence of the blockade, and with an intent to enter, is itself an attempt to break it, which subjects the vessel and cargo to cap ture in any part of the voyage. So also the offence of attempting to carry articles contraband of war to an enemy is complete,and the vessel liable to cap ture the moment she enters upon her voyage. The offence consists in the act of sailing, coupled with the illegal intent." The master swore that the voyage was to terminate at Nassau ; he was to de liver the steamer to Messrs. Chambers and Raw, and the crew were to be sent home. The mate and other witnesses confirmed this testimony, the mate stating that his engngement was from Liverpool to Nassau and his passage home. But the Judge said, —" It is hardly credible that this vessel was to end her voyage at Nassau. For what was she going and how was she to be employed there ? It is not suggested that she was going there for sale. Was she to be employed in making short voyages, suited to her capacity, to and from bl oc k a d e d ports, i n like manner as so many or all the other steamers of about her size which have lately come out from England to Nassau have been employed in making until captured ? Except such voyages, it would be difficulty to think of any trade she could engage in at Nassau, or at any other port in the West Indies, by which she could defray the ex penses of running. What was to be done with the cargo ? It was to be delivered to Chambers and Raw. But what were they to do with it ? Nas sau furnishes no market for any such cargo as this. It is a small town. The adjacent islands possess but a small population, dependent on it for sup plies. Probably, not three merchant steamers ever arrived at that port from any part of the world, until after the present blockade was established, except the regular Government mail steamers. Was her cargo to be sold in Nassaa, including the 920 rifles and the 2,240 swords ? These are questions which it is not unreasonable that a prize court should ask and expect some reasonable solution of in a case like this." But the judge considered the letters of the shipper found on board to be conclu sive. In those of earliest date he addressed the con signees as likely to get rid cf the cargo, and employ the ship in carrying rum to the French army, or trading between New York and Nassau, or bringing coals from Prince Edward's Island to Nassau, but said nothing of paying off the crew or sending them to England. " These letters," said the judge, " were evidently written to be shown to our cruisers." But there was d letter of later date, per haps unknown to the master, in which the shipper wrote, referring to the former letters, " 1 now cancel those instructions; I shall send you a power ofat torney for certain purposes by next mail. I hope you will be able to get some more goods on, instead of taking any off." The judge said, "The studied effort to conceal the ulterior destination, the swords and rifles found on board, and denominated in the freight list hardware,' the almost certain impossi bility of employing a steamer of this class and size in any trade in this part of the world by which she could earn her expenses even, other in the trade and business of violating the blockade, all point with unerring certainty to Charleston or Wilmington as the ulterior destination of the vessel and cargo. Con demnation of the ship and cargo follows." The judge then proceeded to the case of the Pearl, seized on the voyage from Liverpool to Nassau, with no cargo but a few sailors's jackets on board. He said—" I think the law is, that if an owner sends his vessel to d neutral port, with a settled intention to commence from such port a serves of voyages to a blockaded port, he thereby commences to violate the blockade and subjects his vessel to capture, notwithstanding he may also intend to unlade the vessel at the neu tral port, discharge the crew, and give all other ex ternal manifestations of an intention to end the voyage at such port. Now, it is a notorious fact that a considerable number of steamers, near the size of this, being swift sailers and drawing but little water, have lately come out from England to Nassau, and have entered at once upon the business of running the blockade at Charleston or Wilmington, and have continued regularly in that business until they have been captured. We do not hear of any of them en gaging in any other business or trade. Indeed, it is very well known that there is no other business or employment at Nassau for steamers of the size of this in which they can engage, with a reasonable prospect of clearing the expense of running even. Add to these considerations the facts that part of the crew concur in saying that although they were hired only fora voyage to Nassau, yet they bekieve that the business of this vessel was to be in running be tween that port and Charleston or Wilmington ; and some of them give as reasons for their belief the con versations had on the subject and the circumstances attending the late purchase in Glasgow of the vessel by the present claimant. Some of them say, too, that there was a Confederate flag on board, put on board in Glasgow as a part of her fitting out. They concur in saying that it was the common opinion of the crew, although they were not bound by their shipping agreement to go any further than to Nas sau, that they would have an opportunity there to reship in this vessel or other vessels employed in that trade. Neither the master, the mate, nor any other witness examined pretend t' give any reason for the vessel going to Nassau, nor any opinion as to what her voyage or employment was intended to be. The claimant, Mr. Wigg, simply says, in refer ence to the subject in his letter to the consignee in Nassau, " You will have received instruction by re gular mail in regard to this vessel." Now, it does seem to me that the testimony as it stands, taking all the facts together, does raise a very strong presump tion that the owner was sending out this vessel to Nassau with the settled purpose that she should be employed in running between that port and the ports of Charleston and Wilmington, in violation of the blockade." But the Judge determined in this case to give time to the claimant to produce further evidence touching the use he intended, at the time of the capture, to make of the vessel after her ar rival at Nassau, the trade or business he intended sne should be engaged in, and for what purpose she was going to that port. The New York Herald re porting these decisions, says :—" We doubt, after all, whether instructions from the Navy Depart ment to our cruisers not to capture any vessel sail ing between two neutral ports (except in the clearest case of continuous voyage to an enemy's port) would not be wise and judicious. Too rigorous an asser tioa of the last title of prize rights may return some day to plague the inventors." Altr-TREASURES AT MADRID.—The possession of forty pictures by Titian would of itself be suffi cient to establish the reputation of the Madrid Museam. Ucavenly by o C th h e arl v es V, and and his family to the uptlictaltm:r l , ed , 1 r 1 e, is a del i g heatanh tbdiyyjthalavoehi nt ß eheti a eya s y s re a cee n .e o h s even with t i h r, e ,l E n mp s e h ro o r w ,s s r h el o i w gio s n t . ra i n h g e el r y s c oa e rf r e s e m he o r 1 : In many, " The going into the where the sturdy wives depicted on household cares ehathof featherbeds fastened "Lord's Supper," intent, and being under on to their backs. Juan de Joa'ng considered by many to be equal tos s Laedrrdo a da he V ad in , c t i': e . Pasi:vrlards the In the golden halo surrounding each name is inscribed—a needless precagurtiipoinnig loving features of St. John, and the pression of Judas. One wearies of the endlessarlsZuidiziesemo; Ribera from emaciated skeletons writhing in an gu i sh, a looking more like St. Simeon Stylites than Christian a:L and martyrs. In damp and gloomy chambers are stowed awa y a perfect wealth of works of minor Dutch painters, all doomed to certain destruction from want of air and light.—Once a Week. LAW INTELLIGENCE—June 24. COURT OF PROBATE AND DIVORCE. (Before Sir C. Cresswell and a Special Jury.) RIDGWAY V. ABINGTON AND OTHERS. Mr. M. Chambers, Q.C., Mr. Sergeant Pigott, and Dr. Tristram appeared for the plaintiff; Mr. Karslake, Q.C., and Dr. Spinks for the defendant, and Mr. Sergeant Shee for Mr. Wedgwood, an in tervener. This was a suit instituted for the revocation of probate of a will and codicil of Joseph Mayer, late of Hanley, near Stoke•upon-Trent, in Staffordshire, dated respectively the 23d of April, 1800, and the 26th of June, 1860. Probate had been granted to the defendants as executors, and the plaintiff, who was the son of a deceased cousin of the testator, pleaded undue execution as to the will and codicil, and incapacity and undue influence as to the codicil. Mr. Mayer died at the age of 85 on the 28th of June, 1860, leaving real and personal property of the total value of about £200,000. He was un married and had no near relations, and by the will he divided the whole of his property among his first cousins and their descendants. On the 23d of June, 1860, he executed a codicil, but as it was not alto gether satistactory to him another codicil was pre pared, which was executed on the 26th of June. By that codicil two annuities of £2OO, one of £lOO, and one of £5O, were given to different relations and friends; smaller annuities were given to servants; to the plaintiff's uncle, John Ridgway, was given £20,000; to the plaintiff Edward John Ridgway, i-5,000; to each of the three executors, Leonard James Abington, Paul Smith, and Thomas Goddard, £1,000; to William Ridgway, the father of the plaintiff, the income of £lO,OOO for life and the capital to his children, except E. J. Ridgway, after his death; to various charitable institutions, legacies to the amount of about £12,000; and the whole of his real estate, of the value of about £50,000 to Leo nard James Abington and Abner Wedgwoou, as tenants in common. The codicil contained clauses ex cluding those persons who were namedin it as legatees from their share in the residue as cousins under the will, and directed that any of the legatees who dis puted its validity should forfeit his or her legacy, which was in that event to fall into the residue. The deceased bad accumulated his fortune in the pottery business. Mr. Abington had succeeded to his busi ness, and had been his intimate friend for 30 or 40 years. Mr. Goddard was his medical attendant, and Mr. Wedgewood was the brother of a lady who had lived with him as his adopted daughter until her death, and had always been treated by him with great kindness and affection. - The witnesses who were examined to-day in sup port of the will were Dr. Walker, who had attended the deceased during his last illness, Mr. Taylor, the attorney who had prepared the instruments pi ()- pounded, and Mr. Leonard James Abington, the defendant. They proved that the deceased was, in their judgment, of perfect testamentary capacity. Mr. Taylor, who stated the manner in which he had received the instructions for the will and codi cil in the first instance from Mr. Abington and those from the deceased, to whom he had read them over and explained them before their execution. He was one of the attesting witnesses, and Mr. Abington's son was the other. Mr. Abington, upon being cross-examined by Mr. Chambers, positively asserted that he had used no influence whatever to induce the deceased to make his will or to arrange his affairs, and that the de ceased was quite competent to attend to business up to and at the date of the execution of the codicil. Mr. Abington, who is in business as a potter, and whoialso describes himself as a Baptist preacher and lecturer, said that he had never attempted to " per suade" the deceased in any way, for he was a very selfwilled man, who would not even listen to the word persuasion, but he had sometimes acted as a mediator between deceased and his relatives. At the end of his cross-examination Mr. Chambers put some letters into his hand which he had written to a member of the family in June, 1860, just before and just after the codicil was executed. In them he had stated that the deceased was unable to at tend to business, that he and Mr. Goddard had used their utmost endeavour to get his affairs pro perly arranged, but in vain; and as to those who had claims on him, but who were not related to him he could only say, " Alas, alas, alas !" In a letter of the 24th of June he said, " Now all is arranged and." Mr. Abington said he had no ex planation to give with regard to these letters ; and immediately afterwards turned very pale and fell down in a fit in the witness-box, and was carried out of court. The trial was then adjourned, as it was after 'our o'clock. COURT OF EXCHEQUER. (Before the Lord Chief Baron and a Special Jury.) THE ATTORNEY••GENERAL V. SILLEM AND OTHERS-THE CASE OF THE ALEXANDRA. In the Court of Exchequer yesterday, the Lord Chief Baron in summing up, said this is an information on the part of the Crown for the seizure and confiscation of a vessel that was in course of preparation, but had not been completed. It is admitted that it was not armed, and the question is, whether the preparation of the vessel in its then condition was a violation of the Foreign Enlistment Act. The information is an exceedingly long one, but the main question you will have to decide is this—whether under the 7th section of the Act of Parliament the vessel as then prepared at the time of seizure was liable to seizure. The case you have to decide is no doubt one not merely of great importance, but really it is a momentous question, and the importance of it it is impossible to exaggerate. It is one that produces varied sentiments—sentiments of the deepest regret that such a question should have ever arisen; and I cannot help expressing the deepest, utmost anguish which one feels that such a question should have arisen by the dissension among those who are conneeted with us by the dearest possible ties that can bind nation to nation—a common lineage, a common language, common laws, a common literature, and, above all, by a strong desire for constitutional freedom. I, for one, protest against the doctrine that no man is to be convicted of any crime if there is a possible solution of the circumstances by an imagination of his innocence ; but there must be at all times a thorough, sober persuasion and satisfaction with respect to the guilt of the party aecuyed, and undoubtedly you must act upon proof, and not upon suspicion. With these remarks, Igo at once to the statute under which these proceedings are taken. The statute was passed in 1819, and upon it no question has ever arisen in our courts of justice ; but there have been expositions of a similar statute which exists in the United States. I will now read to 3ou the opinions of some American lawyers who have contri buted so greatly to make law a science, and, indeed, I may say an agreeable one. His lordship then read passages from Storey and others. These gentlemen are authorities which show that when two belligerents are carrying on war a neutral Power may supply without any breach of international law, and without a breach of the Foreign Enlistment Act, munitions of war— gunpowder, every description of arms, everything, in fact, that can be used for the destruction of human beings. Why should ships be an exception ? I am of opinion, in point of law, they are not. The Foreign Enlistment Act was an act to prevent the enlistment or engagement of his Majesty's subjects to serve in foreign armies, and to prevent the fitting out and equipping in his Majesty's dominions vessels for warlike purpose without his Majesty's license. The title of an act is not at all times an exact indication or explanation of the act, because it is generally at tached after the act is passed. But in adverting to the preamble of the act I find that provision is made against the equipping, fitting out, furnishing, and arming of vessels, because it may be preju dici,bl to peace in his Majesty's dominions. The question I shall put to you is whether you think that vessel was merely in course of building to be delivered in pursuance of a con tract that was perfectly lawful, or whether there was any in tention, in the port of Liverpool, or any other English port, that the vessel should be fitted out, equipped, furnished, and armed for purposes of aggression. Now, surely, if Bir mingham, or any other town, may supply any quantity of munitions of war of various kinds for the destruction of life, why object to ships ? Why should ships alone be in them selves contraband? I asked the Attorney-General if a man could not make a vessel intending to sell it to either of the belligerent Powers that required it, and which would give the largest price for it, would not that be lawful ? To my surprise, the learned Attorney-General declined to give an answer to the question, which I think a grave and a pertinent one. But you, gentlemen, I think, are lawyers enough to know that a man may make a vessel and offer it for sale. If a man may build a vessel for the purpose of offering it for sale to either of the belligerent parties, may he not execute an order for it ? That appears to me to be a matter of course. The statute is not made to provide means of protection for belligerent Powers, otherwise it would have said you shall not sell powder or guns, and you shall not sell arms, and if it had done so all Birmingham would have been in arms against it. The object of the statute was this—that we should not have our ports in this country made the ground of hostile movements be tween the vessels of two belligerent Powers, which might be fitted out, furnished, and armed in those ports. The Alex andra was clearly nothing more than in the course of build ing. It appears that, according to " 'Webster's Dictionary,' equipping is furnishing with arms, and furnishing is given in other dictionaries as the same thing as equipping. It appears to me that if true that the Alabama sailed away from Liverpool without any arms at all as a mere ship in ballast, and that her armament was put on board at Ter ceira, which is not in her Majesty's dominions, then the Foreign Enlistment Act was not violated at all. The most important evidence is that given by C a pt a i n I ng l e fi e ld, w ho vessel a t gave a very mo d era t e s t a t ement, an d has b een spoken o f on both sid es i n th e hi g h est terms of approbation, and I think myself hi s ev id ence was very fa i r and candid. A f ter readin g some of the evid ence , hi s l or d s hi p sa id if you t hi n k that the object was oo: t t oh that i s furnish, a fi t out, different equip matter and ; butarmi f that you [ an order in cot:1 Whatreally w u a s s e to th b e build i l t d h o a u s g h h i think the object bought it to obedience to t p ance with a contract, leaving those who P t i fit n of i it, , then appears to me that the Foreign Enlistment Act has not been broken. The jury immediately returned a verdict for the defen dants. The Attorney-General tendered a bill of exceptions to the Lord Chief Baron's ruling. Cock Fighting at Donington Hall on Sunday. CONVICTION OF THE MARQUIS OF HASTINGS AND THREE OF HIS GAMEKEEPERS. LOUGHBOROUGH, Wednesday Evening. This usually quiet town this day somewhat departed from its ordinary character, in consequence of the legal proceed ings which had been instituted against the Marquis of Hastings, a wealthy member of the peerage, and owner of a vast amount of property in the neighbourhood, that noble man having been cited at the instance of the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals to appear, in con conjuntion with certain other persons (amongst whom is a magistrate for the county) before a bench of magistrates, to answer the charge of being engaged in the cruel and illegal amusement of fighting cocks at his mansion at Donington Hall, the Sunday afternoon being selected as the occasion when this should take place. The proceedings were taken against the Marquis of Hast ings and John Storey, jun., for causing a cock to be ct uelly tortured, under the 12th az d 13th Vict., chap. 92, sec. 2 ; and against John Storey, sen., Robert Storey, Henry Storey, Edward Platts, Joseph Farebrother, and James Dumellow, for aiding and abattingin the said offence, under the 11th and 12th Vict., cap. 43 (Jervis's Act). The magistrates were E. C. Middleton, Esq. (chairman), Charles Shakespeare, Esq.. and Thos. Caddick, Esq. (lord of the manor), and there were present a great number of the most influential persons in the neighbourhood. Mr. Sleigh, specially retained, conducted the prosecution (instructed by Mr. John Cclam, the secretary of the society) ; Mr. Merewether (instructed by Mr. Fisher, of Ashby-de-la-Zouch), appeared for the Marquis of Hastings and the other defendants. Soon after the proceedings commenced the court was crowded almost to suffocation. The Marquis of Hastings and all the defendants with one exception were present. Mr. Sleigh opened the case. The following witnesses were then called. Mr. Wm. Love, examined by Mr. Sleigh, said—l am principal constable of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. On Thursday, June 4th, about two o'clock in the day, in consequence of instructions which were received from the secretary, I came down to this county, On that day I called on the defendant Platts, at a lodge be longing to the Marquis of Hastings, at King's Mills. I sent an officer to his house before I went myself. I saw Platte, and after making allusion to the state of the weather, asked if he had a game cock to sell, or could tell me where I could purchase one. I said afterwards, " I understand the Marquis of Hastings had some cock-fighting at the hall a few Sundays ago." He replied, " Ah, we had some good sport a little while ago at the hall." I asked him how long it was, and he said three weeks last Sunday. In answer to further questions put by myself and the officer who accom panied me, Geo. Cloyce, the defendant, said, "We fought six pair of cocks at the kennels, near to Old Bradley's house and there were six cocks killed. The cocks had all steel spurs put on them, and I heeled most of them. The mar quis put the spurs on one cock himself, and he put them on the wrong way, when young Jack Storey, of Lockington, who was there, said, "What the devil are you about; you have put them on wrong." Dumellow and another keeper held the cocks while we heeled them. Dumellow and the keeper heeled the cocks. None of them were trimmed, only heeled, and as they were fighting blood flew about to some tune, I can tell you. Farebrother, gamekeeper to Lady Edith, at Wellesley Park, brought 12 cocks in a cart, but they did not all fight. The marquis and young Jack Storey put the cocks together to fight ; in fact, they fought them all. There were present, besides the marquis, old Jack Storey and his sons Harry, Jack, and Bob. I did not see old Harry while the fighting was going on, but I expect he was somewhere where he could see it all, as I know he likes it." Mr. Merewether interposed, and objected to Platt's state ment as to what his imps essions were as to old Jack Storey, Lord Hastings, or anybody else. Evidence continued—He said old Bradley, the keeper, was there. "He said, " The marquis has got twelve dark places put up for cocks, and I expect we flail have a rare go in at cocking when the marquis comes of age." The next day I called, in compitny with Choyce, on Fare brother, at Wellesley. He gave substantially the same in formation. Cross-examined by Mr. Merewether—l was formerly a companion to a blind gentleman. I have the control of the officers under the direction of the secretary. It is no part of my duty to go to hotels and talk to gentlemen's servants. I went by the name of Dillon. That was the name written on a card on my portmanteau. I stopped at Donnington about a week. I went to Packington on the Thursday night and stopped one night there. Ido not find people drink at the society's expense, except when I find it neces sary to do so. I think I did not find it necessary to treat more than one of Lord Hastings' servants. I went to see the hounds there, and I am not prepared to say they are guilty of cruelty to a hare or fox. I called Platte "Ned Platte," as if I had known him all my life. I took out all the summonses, but I produced no evidence before the ma gistrate when I took them out, I saw Dumellow two days before I took out the summonses. I may have asked him as to his health, and how his peas were going on, If I asked Dumellow if he had any cocks to sell, but I do not think I gave him a reason for it. I did not say I wanted them to fight a main of cocks at Birmingham. I said I had been at Birmingham, where there was some good cock fighting. I asked him if the spurs drew blood, and he said, "Oh, yes; the blood flew out, and lay about in flakes," Ido not re member saying that if we got a cock from the head keeper, and another two or three they had been talking about, they should do for their main at Birmingham. I asked when Lord Hastings came of age, and he said on the 22d. Fare brother accompanied me to the railway station, and I asked him to have something to drink. He did not say any thing about cocks not being bred about there, but he did say he knew how to heel cocks. He said, " I heeled some of the cocks, and Ned Platte heeled the rest." I said to him, " I understand Lord Hastings had some good cock fighting at the hall a few Sundays ago," and he said "Yes." They did not all say that there were a great many cocks, but they did not all fight. Platte said so. Dumellow said there were 19 cocks. I did not go to Lord Hastings. Re -examined—l have been 10 years in the employ of the society, The president is Lord Harrowby, and the corn. mittee is composed of noblemen and gentlemen, and I have had their confidence for 10 years. Geo. Choyce, another officer of the society, corroborated the form , r witness. Gee. Young, examined by Mr. Sleigh—l am in the em ploy of the society. I called on Lord Hastings in St.James's place, on Monday, the Bth of June. I was accompanied by the secretary of the society, who said, " I am secretary to the Royal Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. I received information that on Sunday, the 10th of May,your lordship, a magistrate of the county, and other gentlemen, had a cock-fight at Donington Hall. I always make it a rule, whenever a charge is made against a gentleman, to make him acquainted with it, so that he may have an oppor tunity of proving whether the charge is true or not." The secretary then pointed out the Act of Parliament relating to the offence, and his lordship said, " I did not know that cock -fighting was against the law, but I knew dog-fight ing was." The secretary said the judges had decided that it was not an offence under the 3d section, un'ess they were fighting cocks in a place kept for the purpose. The mar quis said, " Well, that was not a place kept for the purpose." The secretary said, "Certainly not, but the judges have de cided that a cock is a domestic animal, and the cruelly tor turing a cock comes under the 2d section of the act. I am not going to say that your lordship acted cruelly to any animal, but my information says your lordship ordered the fight, and that you handled the cocks, and that six out of 19 were killed." The marquis, in answer said, " Well, I don't know how many were killed. Thtre were a great many cocks and hens there fighting, and neither I nor ray servants stopped them." The secretary then said, "If I understand your lordship, you deny that the fight took place ;" and his lordship said " No; there was ene in the manner such as I have described. The secretary then said, ‘, Your lordship denies taking any part in the fight, or that there were any other persons except your servants present ?" The marquis answered, " Oh, no ; all the Storeys were there, as well as the keeper ; and, as far as I am concerned, I dont care a —, but I am sorry for young Storey." The secretary said, "So am I ; but when cruelty to animals is . proved it becomes my duty to prosecute, whether the offenders are rich or poor." The secretary further said, .' I am told the cocks fought with spurs and with extraordinary courage, and that 6 out of 19 were killed." The marquis said, " I do not know how many were killed, it is so long ago ; but I should like to know who gave you the information, then I should know my friends from my enemies." The secretary refused to name his in formant. Cross-examined by Mr. Merewether—l was with the secretary, and took a note at t h e t i me . W e wen t t o N o . 25, St. James's-place, and saw the Marquis of Hastings there. Mr. John Colam, secretary to the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, examined by Mr. Sleigh —I went with the last witness to Lord Hastings, and had a conversation with him. The statement made by the last witness is substantially correct. A consultation here took place between the counsel en gaged on both sides, and at its conclusion, Mr. Merewether said he thought that the bench would find that the time his learned friend end himself hel been occupied had not been wasted, and said, after the admission which Lord Hastings had made to the secretary, he thought he could not say that there had been no cock fighting; but his lordship denied altogether that there had been any cruelty used in the sense of the words of the information; there fore, after the admission of Lord Hastings, it would ill be come him (Mr. Merewether) to dispute the facts. He had always denied the cruelty—he denied it then; and therefore he (Mr. Merewether) should retire from the case, as far as he was concerned, and could only say that he had uninten tionally transgressed the law on this occasion. As regarded the detendauts Dumelow, Platts,and Farebrother,.he consi dered that evidence had been obtained from them in a very improper manner. A conviction against them was then entered. Mr. Merewether then addressed the bench, and said tha a Mr. Munday, a magistrate, had travelled all day to be pre sent, and he was ready to be called to state that Mr. John Storey accompanied him on that Sunday afternoon from Lockington ; that he never quitted him, and therefore that he could not have been present to be a spectator or taking part in such a sport on the Sunday afternoon. That being the case, he hoped he would stand acquitted not only in that court, but by all who knew him. The Magistrates then retired to consider their decision, and on their return, in about two minutes. The Chairman said—On my own part I beg to say that as long as I have been on the bench, which is now about 20 years, I can safely say that on no former occasion have,l sat with more painful feelings and with greater regret than I have done on the present, as there has evidently been a gross violation of the law, and that has arisen in quarters from which we expected other things. The Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals have done their duty and no more, and therefore the bench now fines the Marquis of Hastings in the full penalty, £5, and the three gamekeepers—Platts, Farebrother, and Dumellow—in the sums of £2 each. SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. TIMES.—In order to correct any misconception and to prevent any suspicion of change, it appears from the letter of our correspondent at Paris that the. Emperor of the French hes again addressed our Government on the American War. His proposal is a joint yecognition of the South, with the double object of stopping a carnage which, besides its un exampled horrors, is manifestly fruitless, and re storing to their proper course a cultivation and com merce in which Europe is very much interested. Certainly we should have offered to mediate long ere this but for the extreme susceptibility of the American temper, particularly towards this coun try. It is better not to mediate where the media tion is certain to be declined, and to be construed into an affront and an injury. It is possible that the I, ng and utterly useless addition to the series of American horrors since the question was last before us may have broken even that stub born and implacable race into something like com mon sense and humanity. Her Majesty's Ministers may therefore think now, on the receipt of the com munication to be expected from Baron Gros, that the time has at length arrived for making some attempt. We are not left to doubt what the communication will be. It appears that Mr. Roebuck and. Mr. Lindsay have done a little piece of extra-official diplomacy, and obtained an interview with the Emperor in order to ascertain his views and put him in motion. The British Cabinet will once more have to accept or refuse an offer of joint recognition, or hit on a third course, if one can be suggested. We certainly are called upon to do what we can. It is said somewhere that if a man see a brother doing wrong he is hound to point out to him the error of his ways; and there is no one nation so much the brother of another as our revolted plantations are still to ourselves. As for the actual interest, we are vastly and singu larly interested in the peace and prosperity of the United States. The fact is so manifest that some of the American papers will not believe we have any other motive for interfering. This must be our reason. It is, therefore, needless that we should insist upon the fact. But, after bearing and forbearing now for two years, and after seeing our mills closed and our population starving till these insane people have finished their quarrel, we ought by this time to be allowed a little credit for not acting purely on in terested motives. Just, however, at this moment there occurs an example and precedent so oppor tune and appropriate that it is scarcely possible to avoid it. The three Great Powers have remonstrated with Russia on the folly and cruelty of her attempts to force the Russian regime upon Poland, and have suggested six points upon which they are hopeful that concessions may be made to Polish nationality. We say three Powers, because Lord Palmerton himself regards them as co-operating, and giving one another mu tual countenance and aid; though it is very true that Austria, mindful of Hungary and of her own policy in a similar case, has largely modified the suggestions sent to her for consideration. But Eng land certainly has not hesitated to send Russia six points of a hard and salient character, most intelli gible in their nature, whatever opinion there may be as to their working. They amount to the greatest severance compatible with one Crown and one foreign policy—if, indeed, the policy would be reserved, and the Crown secure, under such circumstances. Now, why should not the same course be adopted with the imperious Cabinet which is now engaged in the suicidal attempt to reduce to Federal unity the Confederate States of America ? There is a singular amount of resemblance between the two cases. In both the expanding dream of a world wide empire finds itself suddenly and rudely balked by a noble but impracticable race, which has no wish to conquer the world, bat has some rather strong opinions on the matter of its domestic policy and in stitutions. The Poles wish to be Poles, and are con tent with that simple character. The Southern States wish to remain very much what they were when they found themselves obliged, some of them very reluctantly, to cut the connexion with the mother country. In both cases a very fiee race wishes to dissolve partnership with an ambitious and specu lative brother. It is a very great trial to the temper of the more ambitious and imperious brother in both cases. But younger brothers have always been apt to inflict such trials. We cannot wonder at Poland having no taste for co-operating in the conquest of Turkey, the extermination of the Circassians, the settlement of the Amoor, or the taming of all the wild tribes that roam about Siberia. in like manner, every week furnishes ad ditional proof of the perfect incompatibility of the Northern and Southern temperaments. They have hardly an idea or a sentiment in common. The only wonder is how they have got on so long toge ther. Then why don't they agree to disagree, and divide a continent between them ? They are simply fighting now because they are fighting. The pas sions roused by war are urging the war onwards. The dread question, " which is the best man ?" keeps the combatants in the arena which is swim ming in their blood. Then on what terms is peace to be made ? If war is not easy, peece seems impos. sale. But the war is internecine, and threatens absolute depopulation. Ali that history tells of fair regions laid waste, cities fallen to decay, public works in ruins, wild beasts and vermin getting ahead, savage tribes resuming their sway, and out rage taking the place of law, is brought within the compass of probability. No doubt, in such a case we should be the great sufferers, France the next, and Spain, as it seems, not the least. Russia, of course, will be happy to show on a perfectly dis interested occasion that she is humane, liberal, civilised, and self-denying. But all Europe is in terested. States which possess no port yet send their teeming myriads down the great rivers and through the netevork of railways to people the desert, end now to fill the armies, of North America. That ever open house has received the overfiowings of our trade and our population. We know not how much the United States are still part of ourselves. We have, then, even if we put this or that article of trade out of the question, a right to be heard in America, and the human race has a right to plead for her children massacred in vain hecatombs, and for her kindly instincts so fear fully disregarded. What next, we may well ask, when that vast paradise, those happy villages, that glorious temple of peace, that hive of industry, that inviolate shrine of justice and equity, are all conta minated and profaned by daily scenes of fratricidal slaughter on a scale this poor world never saw be fore ? So " is there not a cause" for Europe to re monstrate ? It is only justice to herself, and should is difficult affront to Republican di gn ity. At all events, it difficult to see how Europe can escape the ana logy of Poland. If E uro p e may as k a se p arate Constitution for the one, surely it may ask indepen dence for the other. HERALD,—The case of th e Al exan d ra h as termi nated in a much more signal defeat to the prosecu tion than could have been anticipated. Without quitting the box the jury gave a ver di c t for the de fendants—a verdict which releases the ship, and will saddle the Crown with heavy damages for a deten tion which is thus pronounced illegal. We do not pretend to know in what light the Government will regard this decision. It condemns their proceedings in the case; itwill mulct them in c os t s ; it convicts them of injustice to British subjects and of servility to' the American embassy ; but, on the other hand, it may be said to clear them from blame in regard to the escape of the Alabama. They were blamed for not seizing that vessel upon the first information ; and it was argued that the amount of evidence subsequently collected being clearly sufficient to condemn her, she ought in the meantime to have been arrested on suspicion. In the present case, however, the Government have taken the course which it is said they then ought to have taken ; and although the evidence is certainly quite as complete as it was against the Alabama, the consequence has been a defeat, which will entail great annoyance and expense on the Government, and give encour argement to all who may be disposed to embark in similar speculations; for when a jury gives a ver dict without quitting the box it is pretty c er t a i n that the verdict is not accidental ; that any other jury would take a substantially similar view in a similar case. The verdict of the defendants, then, may possibly not be altogether disagreeable to the Foreign Secretary and his colleagues, however mor tifying to the professional pride of the Attorney and Solicitor-General, by whose advice the prose cution was undertaken. T o th e A mer i can Govern ment it will, of course, be exceedingly unwelcome. They cannot quarrel with the Minister who has done all in his power to oblige them--who is con victed by a jury of his countrymen of having out stepped the law in order to oblige them ; and a jury is not amenable to diplomatic reproaches or to menaces of future retribution. The Northern people will likely regard the verdict with angry exaspera tion, as another proof of the bitter and malignant hatred with which they are regarded by the British aristocracy; and it will be in vain to assure them that our jurors are chosen from the people ; that no Government whatever can pack a jury—especially in London; and that the Courts of Great Britain do not decide at the bidding of a military commander or in accordance with the directions of a Minister, but in obedience to written law and established precedent. But we have nothing to do with the irritation of Mr. Seward, or the p ro b a ble clamours of the New York Tribune and Times, Dr. Cheever and his brother preachers of arson, murder, and pil lage, may say what they please, and we shall not care to vindicate against their complaints the justice of England towards the Northern States. We do not intend to discuss the propriety of fitting out in England vessels destined to serve under the Confederate flag without ever having seen a Con federate port. It may or may not be that in this matter we have done the North less than jus tice, as in so many other ie spects we have done grievous wrong to the South in order to keep well with the North. This matters little; for had we acted on the letter of the law, not a few Southern cruisers, but the whole navy of England would now be engaged in harassing American commerce and driving from the seas the flag under which Admiral Wilkes is still allowed to insult our ports and plun der our merchantmen. What concerned the jury, and what now concerns us, is not whether there is a breach of neutrality to be feared, but whether a breach of the Foreign Enlistment Act has been com mitted. And we agree with the jury that this latter point is " not proven!' The Alexandra was not fitted out as a ship of war or transport, and she was not armed, though it may be—though we be lieve it is—the fact that she was intended to have the guns and fittings of a gunboat. This being so, we hold with the jury that she was not equipped according to the act for the service of the Confede rate States, and therefore that her condemnation would have been an abuse of a law which was in tended not to interfere with commerce in contra band, but to prevent private war. POST.—The Moniteur yesterday morning an nounced some important changes in the French Ministry. The official journal did not explain them, and we have yet to learn their precise bearing. All that the Moniteur condescends to tell us is, that the Emperor thinks proper to modify the position of the speaking Ministers whe, without portfolio, repre sented and spoke for their colleagues in the Chain , hers. Henceforward the Minister of State, " freed from administrative functions," and the Minister President of the Council of State, are to be deputed to defend the policy of the Government in the de bates of the Legislative Bodies. This is the sum of the explanations afforded to us. Why Count Wa lewski, M. de Persigny, M. Rouland, and M. De- Jangle leave office we are not told; still less are we informed for what reason they are replaced by such unknown men as MM. Boudet, Duruy, and Behic. It reads like a Ministry of transition. These gen tlemen are not known to public fame, nor is a single notion of public policy, internal or external, connected with one of their names. Until some certain intelligence reaches us we can only lose ourselves in conjectures as to the possible reasons of these remarkable changes. In the first place, then, we may suppose that M. de Persigny has fallen a sacrifice to the result of the recent elec tions, which seems to be accepted by the Emperor as a sort of vote of want of confidence in the Home Minister, if not in the whole Government. In this instance we can hardly be in error in assigning a desire to conciliate the newly-elected opposition as the direct motive of this change. In the next place we may presume that M. Rouland, who entered on so sharp a controversy with the seven bishops, has been dismissed in order to propitiate the great body of the clergy, who may be supposed to have sym pathised with the fiercely attacked episcopam. In this instance also the reason seems sufficiently ob vious when deduced from recent events. But when we come to Count Walewski we are at fault. It is said that he has advocated the cause of Poland too fervently. That is, however, a cause which has so many warm supporters in France that it is difficult to believe that such a course on the part of the Minister of State would lead to his overthrow. M. Delangle, again, was one of the most upright and able Ministers who ever held the portfolio of Jus tice, and the reason of his fall is yet an enigma. The counsels of an Imperial mind cannot be read like those of a Parliament in the broadsheets of the press, so we must content ourselves for the moment with the obscurity which is only made more obscure by the light of this sudden announcement. As far as the alteration of the position of the Ministt es porter= is concerned, we may at once admit that the Emperor must have acted rightly, for any change in their position must be for the better. In future, instead of mere advocates crammed with a brief, real Ministers will address the Representatives, and will defend what they may truly assume to be their own policy. The position of the Ministres porte voile would have become as painful as ridiculous when assailed by the power of eloquence, logic, and wit which is now imported into the Chambers. MM. Billault and Rouher are men of the highest ability, and, now that they stand in strong responsible posi tions, as exponents not only of Governmental ideas, but of the policy which they may be supposed to have assisted in forming in the Cabinet, their oratory will be listened to with interest and respect. Thus Parliamentary Government is once more winning its way in France, and the debates of the Chambers will no doubt be looked forward to with intense curiosity and anxiety on the part of our neighbours. It seems evident that the French people wish for more power, and that the Emperor is by no means unwilling that the public voice should be associated with his own will in the decisions of those great questions of the day which must often cause him the deepest anxiety. The responsibilities he has borne during the last ten years must have weighed heevily on him, and we can well understand his welcoming a new state of things which shall admit of their being partly taken off his shoulders. Pro gress is the e' ernal law, and the Emperor is not slow to understand that France could not ever sit still under the dictation of one man. He may con ceive that he has done sufficient to secure his dynasty ; he has wreathed his brows with laurel ; lie has , enriched the country and made her great. Never for many long years, has France occupied such a place in Europe. No question is raised but her arms or vote decide it ; no proposition is sug gested but her course is watched and attended to. Frenchmen have attained both to wealth and glory beneath his sceptre, a combination heretofore un heard of. They wish once more to be their own pilots, and the hand of the man who hitherto firmly held the helm relaxes his hold in the expectation that his word will still be all-powerful in guiding the vessel if he choose to speak it. We can only offer these general remarks upon this singular crisis, waiting to see what further evidence may be pro duced of the meaning of these changes. It is cer tainly very curious that MM. Walewski and De Persigny should quit office together, and it is very inexplicable ee by a number of Ministers of repute should be replaced by men hitherto unheard of. We must be satisfied for the present with considering the general bearing of the Emperor's policy as developed in this step, leaving the details of it, es well as the precise motives which prompted him to take it, to be explained as occasion may arise. Inhuman Conduct of a Father. A shocking instance of cruel parental treatment has just been brought before the Buxton bench of magistrates. A blacksmith named Samuel Vanes, residing at Doveholes, three miles from Buxton, was charged with ill-treating his daughter, a young woman 22 years of age. Inspector Shaw stated that, from informatics received, he went to prisoner's house last Thursday, in the front room of which upstairs (which was in a most filthy state), he found the young woman in a pitiable condition. She was fastened to the bed by a rope, having her hands also tied together. Her only attire was a man's shirt, and she presented a very wretched appearance. Her father coming in, the superintendent or dered him to immediately release her, and having procured a cart, the officer took her to the union workhouse of Chapel .. en-le-Frith. From subsequent information it appears the poor girl was confined only about a fortnight ago ; that she had no medical attendant on the occasion, and since then scarcely the bare necessaries of life, and that her mind had become partly affected. Several witnesses corroborated the fact of her being ill-treated, and said they had frequently seen Vanes whip his daughter, and that he, in fact, pur posely kept a whip to do so ; that on several occasions (the defendant having locked the outside door) screams were heard by the neighbours, who, on looking through the win dow, saw him throw several cans of water on the girl, which ran in a stream outside from under the door. In defence, the prisoner pleaded that his wife was very ill, that he had a large family, and when he went to his work he was forced to tie his daughter up, to keep her out of mischief; that what ho did was for the best, the water having been thrown upon her by the doctor's ,order. The Bench commented very severely upon the prisoner's harsh and cruel treat ment, and sentenced him to two months' imprisonment. [ADVERTISEMENT.]—HoIIoway's Pills.—Potent .Puri fiers.—Hundreds of causes contribute to render t he blood impure and thus to produce man's besetting maladies. These admirable Pills address themselves at first to expel all taints from the vital fluid, and in the second place to restore regularity and harmony throughout the organs of assimilation, secretion, and excretion . Holloway's Pills improve the digestive capability of the stomach and . gradually give it strength enough fairly. to appropriate any ordinary food when wholesome in quality and moderate in quantity. These Pills act beneficia ll y on the liver, kidneys, and bowels, and so constitute themselves the protectors of the dyspeptic, nervous, low spirited, and e debilitated , ans, digestion be occasionally cor rected b y such means, the blood cannot be pure, Births. COIESWORTIL—On the 24th inst., the wife of William Cotesworth, Esq., of a son. HUGIIES.—On the 23d inst., at Shorncliffe, the wife of Major Spier Hughes, 84th Regiment, of a daughter• ROBINS.—On the 23d inst., at Long Lodge, Morton, the wife of Julian Robins, Big., of a daughter. WETHERALL.— On the 22d inst., at Loddington, Nor thamptonshire, the wife of Captain T. Wetherail, late 6th Dragoons, of a son. Marriages. BLACKWOOD—HARRIS --On the 23d inst., at St. Marga ret's, Lee, William Blackwood, Esq., merchant, Edin burgh, to Mary Eliza Collins, daughter of the late John Harris, Esq., of Cresswell-park, Blackheath. HENSLEY—.TERRELL.—On the 22d inst., at St. Matthias, Richmond, Surrey, the Rev. Lewis Hensley, vicar of Hitchin, Herta, to Gertr ude Hull, daughter of Hull Terrell, Esq., Richmond. Deaths. CnAmrrox.—On the 22d inst., at East Grinstead, F. We ion, Esq , aged 74. at Brompton, George Godwin, 1 G : C D , N R P t e o h ci he 23d t a h g e e d i n233s 23d inst., Miss Emily Henderson. inst., at 9, Inverness-terrace , HuTTox.—On the 23d inst., at the Rectory of St. Paul's, Covent garden, the Rev. Henry Hutton, aged 55. PEPPERCORNS.—On the 23d inst., at 78, Gloucester -ter race, Hyde-p ar k, w id ow of the late James Peppercornet Esq., of Thurloe-square, Brompton. PIERCE.—On the 24th inst., at. 17, Albion-road, HollowaY, Captain George Pierce, R.N., aged 71. STRINGER.—On the 23d inst., at New Romney, Kent, Stringer, solicitor, aged 72. London : Printed and Published by WILLIAM ANDREWS' of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at THE SUN Office, No. 1122 Strand, in the Precinct of the Bavoy, in the County 171 litddlesex.—Thursday, June 25, 1863. HEALTH OF LONDON. (From the .Registrar-General's Weekly Return.) The mortality of London declined in the second week of the present month, and this lower rate continued in the week that ended last aturday. The number of deaths in the present return is 1,191. The average number as ob— tained from the returns of corresponding weeks in 184-62, and corrected for increase of population, is 1,143. The actual number is therefore in excess of the estimated number for the middle of June by 48. The deaths from smallpox, which showed a decrease in the first and second weeks in June, having been 56 and 43, rose again last week to 64. Of this number 10 occurred in the west districts, 18 in the north, 6 in the central, 17 in the east, 13 in the south. There were 3 in the sub-district of St. Margaret, W estminster, 4 in Camden-town, 3 in Hag gerstone West, 3 in Poplar, 3 in St. Peter's, \Valworth. Of the 64 cases 5 were stated to have occurred to persons who had been vaccinated. The deaths from scarlatina rose to 97, only 3 of which occurred in the west districts. This complaint was fatal in 4 cases in Kentish-town, 10 in Islington, 12 in Newington. In the sub-district of St. Mary, Newington, 2 children died of scarlatina in one family, 2 in another, and also 2 in a third. The Registrar returned 6 fatal cases in the week. Two deaths occurred from glanders in the week. There were 3 from intemperance, and 4 from delirium tremens. The oldest person recorded in the returns is a man, aged 95 years. Last week the births of 938 boys and 941 girls, in all 1,879 children, were registered in London, In the 10 correspond ing weeks of the years 1853.62 the average number (cor rected) was 1,864. At the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the mean height of the barometer in the week was 29 . 705 in. The reading rose to 29.87 in. on Sunday, and fell to 29.38 in on Friday. The mean temperature of the air in the week was 58.8 deg,. which is o'6 deg below the average of the same week in 43 years (as determined by Mr. Glaisher). The lowest night reading of the thermometer was 45.4 deg on Sunday. The highest day reading was 72.7 deg on Thursday. The range in the week was therefore 27.3 deg. The mean daily range was 18 2 deg. The difference between the mean dew tem perature and air temperature was 6.5 deg. The mean de gree of humidity of the air was 79, complete saturation be ing represented by 100. The wind blew generally from a westerly or south-westerly point till Saturday, when it was in a northerly direction. The amount of rain was 1.66 in, of which almost an inch and a half fell on Friday. Rain fell on four days. The mean of the highest temperatures of the water of the Thames was 621 deg ; the mean of the lowest was 60.5 deg. The highest reading of the thermo meter in the sun was 112.3 deg. on Thursday. COUNTRY MARKETS. ~.____ NEWCASTLE-TUESDAY. The supyly of wheat was limited ; the quality was toler ably good. The trade was firm, and full rates obtainable. No malting barley, and grinding sorts scarce. The prices for maize and Indian corn were at about the same as last week, but with a small supply. Oats moved off slowly, at former quotations. Old white wheat..6ls to 60s New do. .. 50s to Ns Malting barley....37s to 42s Grinding d0.....29s to 32s Old red wheat, ..53s to 56s New do. ..45s to 60$ Oats 22s to 30s Beans 358 to 45s HULL-TUESDAY. The wheat trade since our last has been very firm. At to-day's market there was a small supply of English wheat, which was taken off by local millers at is per qr advance on last week's rates. Foreign sold in retail at fully last week's currency. Barley, beans, and peas held for about the same money. Wheat.... Old white per qr. Old red New white .. „ New red .... „ Grinding 26s 6d to 28s Ocl Saal and Oderbruck Holstein and Danish Grinding Oats English, old 26s Od to 28s Od Archangel and Riga, per at Friesland and Dutch Swedish and Danish Beans ....English, old, per qr. 43s Od to 458 Od New pigeon 42s Od to 448 Od New tick. Egyptian Peas ..Foreign boilers .. Grinding Tares .... Spring. —s Od to —s Od Indian Corn Linseed, feeding crushing Linseed cakes (Hull) Foreign 8 15 0 to 9 0 0 Rape cakes Bones NEWARK , •WEDNESDAY. . White wheat new, 47s to 54s ' Barley, grinding.. 28s to 30s Red do. 438 to 49s Oats, old, .. 2Bs to 33s Old white Red do. —s to 8 Beans.. 37s to 448 Barley, malting.... i sto —8 Beans, new —s to —s Peas, .... 388 to 445. COAL MAttKET. Primo of Coal per Ton at the close of the market. s. d. j Eden Main ...15 3 Wylam l5 6 Carway and Duffryn Malting l9 6 Byass's Bebside West Hartley ...15 3 Tanfield Moor Butes..l3 0 Lambert's West Hart- a. d. ley 15 0 w alker Primrose 12 9 West Hartley 15 3 North Felton Gas.. l3 3 Ships at market Walls End. Heugh Hall 16 0 Hetton South Hetton 17 0 Russel's Hetton 15 3 Braddyll's Hetton 15 6 li elloe ..15 9 South Kelloe Gosforth l4 6 101; sold, 61. Foreign Mail Packet List. MAILS DUE. Australia and Mauritius, via Southampton July 19. via Marseilles July 13. Brazil and Cape Verde, by British packet. July 5 ,, Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, and St. Helena June 2.. China, Penang, and Singapore, via Southampton July 2 . via Marseilles June 27. Falkland Islands Gibraltar, via Southampton July 2. India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via Southampton July 2. via Marseilles July 10. India (Bombay), via Southampton June 25. via Marseilles June Portugal.... Malta, Egypt, and Aden, via Southampton via Marseilles Newfoundland Oporto and Vigo U. S. and British N. America, by Brit. packet.... J jjjj u ilialuuu l nun y yyeeeB 2 2222- . 970.: by U.S. packet.... by Canadian packet. June 26. W.C. of Africa, Madeira, and Teneriffe July 10 Bahamas, via New York July 2. Mexico.. All parts of West Indies, including Chili, Peru, 1 June 29. California. and British Columbia.. THE CANARY AND THE " BOIT."—At the begin ning of last week, says the Glasgow Journal, a beau tiful yellow canary bird flew away from its owner, and perched itself on ono of those trees at Camphill, bordering on the South Side Park, where it has now taken up its resi dence: It, however, was not going to remain alone, unlike the other birds, and seeing the example shown it by a neighbouring thrush, it commenced to pour out its earnest entreaties also. This was followed by succesg, for boldly came forward a little jumping or hopping " hoit "—the vulgar name in this country—which, by the way, comes about this time of the year to " woo and marry an' a'." The canary was agreeably disap pointed at the first appearance of its lady -love, and having passed over a friend's thanks to the thrush for the valuable lesson, the canary and " hoit" having no objection to each other, paired before the eyes of the thrush, the latter of which gave a heartier whistle than usual when going to roost that night. The two worthies still continue to lodge amongst the trees, and when hunger comes upon them, they both fly together in search of food, and return again together. The wonder now is, amongst the ornithologists in the locality, how will the canary assort itself in a mouse-like nest which the "hoit" builds on the ground ? or how will the " hoit " be at ease sitting on eggs abovs ground ? Since the ceremony has gone all right, we anxiously look for,the fulfilment of the remainder. THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, JUNE 25, 1863.