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

THE ME ,TROPOLITAN BOARD OF WORKS. i rde ust tal weekly meeting of the Board was held yesterday at the office in Spring-gardens; the iairme.o., Mr. J. Thwa.ites, presiding. ST. TI10:1IAS'S HOSPITAL AND THE PROPOSED SITE AT STANGATE. The Engineer (Mr. Bazalgette) reported to the Board I :hat he had been requested by gentlemen connect ed with St. Thomas's Hospital to make affi davit e ,s to the healthfulness of the site at Stangate, which the Governors had agreed to purchase of the Board, subject to the decision of the Court of Chan cery. The evidence he proposed to give was con tained in the following facts :—That, by July next, the greater portion of the main drainage works for the draining of the metropolis will be completed, and teen the sewage or the metropolis, instead of being discharged, as it now is, at low water around the metropolis, and so mixed only with a small volume of water, will be discharged during high water at Barking, which is about 13 miles below London-bridge, where it will be diluted with a maximum vuiume of water, and carried by the ebb tide to about 26 miles below London•bridge ; and it was the intention of the Board to carry out great Improvements on the banks of the river by embank- in°, when the land on the shore of the Thames would form a good site for any public building — 'Lore especially as the several noxious trades now carried on in the locality would be removed. Mr. PHILLIPS moved that the engineer should be allowed to make fan affidavit in accordance wits the facts stated. Mr. DIXON said that there could be no doubt of the healthfulness of t he river shore, for down by the docks and by the banks of the river in the neigh bourhood of Limehouse and Bermondsey the people were very healthy, and so much so that a doctor could not make a living there. (Laughter.) After some further remarks, Mr. LOWMAN TAYLOR observed that the Board ought not to commit itself to any statements the engineer might make. The officer of the Board might be compelled to give evidence, but it Would not be right for the Board to be mixed up 10 the matter. This p: srt of the subject then dropped. The Si tlicitor brought to the notice of the Board that at e previous meeting a resolution w as passed relative to obtaining an act in the ensuing session of Parl lament that the Board might acquire addi tional lands at Stangate for the purposes of the Southern Embankment of the Thames scheme, and he ',low needed further instructions, the preliminary steps fur obtaining such an act having been taken. It was moved and seconded that steps should be taken for obtai n i ng t h e necessary powers. Mr.-RocHE desired to know why the Board should go to Parliament at a great expanse in order to have powers to purchase a piece of land, if that land was afterwards to be sold for St. Thomas's Hospital, as he 'understood it was to be. The land was either for the purpose of the Board or for St. Thomas's Hos- Pv , a I, and he wanted to know whether the hospital autilorities would pay the expenses the Board would go :co in obtaining this act it the land was for them. 2vlr. FREEMAN answered that the site as it Ste od at SLingate was not perfect, inasmuch as roi oda Would have to be made, and ;he purchase of the lands treated of in the proposed bill was neces sary to make the site per eet ; and then, it the site should not be used for the hospital, it could be sold for other purpose. The Act was not for Si. To oraas's Hospital, but for the Board. nr.DERMER asked who would pay the expense. The gor'ernors of the Hospital had voted £95,000, arid tb.e answer was in the negative, so i: the board expi,eted to get any of these expenses it was mis take o. The CHAIR3IAN said the purchasers of the site wo aid pay ail necessary expenses. Mr. COLLINSON stated that at a meeting of the Governors, wri',ch was reported in the Times, the question was asked if there would be any expenses required for the site beyond the £95,000, and the answer wac s in the neg•aive, so it the board expected to get any ot these expenses it was mistaken. An an ienduaent was moved that the whole ques• Lion be 'referred to the Thames Embankment Com mittee, but this was negatived by 28 against 7, and the Ol ; _ginal motion was carried. TLIF. NEW STREET FROM THE MANSION HOUSE. A letter was read from Mr. Daw, the clerk to the City Commissioners of Sewers, asking the board to con tribute half towards the expense of forming that iitr.iet, whatever the expense might be. Mr. LOWMAN TAYLuR, moved a resolution in ant binding the board to comply with the request stated in the letter, and in doing so said that the expense of forming this new street had, he believed, been greatly exaggerated beyond what it rually would be, because when city people were required to sell land they did not know how to ask too much for it. In one case he knew the sum of £62,000 was asked for certain premises and a busi ness, and a ,jury had given £ll,OOO ; and this was an instance ot what might be asked and what given. A small piece of land near the Union Bank was set down in .7 Ale at £17,500, but that sum would no doubt be greatly reduced, and he had little doubt that IV hen the street was made there would be a lur proat in which the board would stand in equal b • laugh.) being brought to the notice of the Board that pr as g .tribute a a resolution bound the Board only to con a future (3tltated sum, the matter remains over until to reseinde:si°l:l' as notice is required to be given np such resolution. The ciLtimi luE FIRE BRIGADE. stated that he had rec e iv e d a communicationfr the Secretary o f S tate f or t h e r elative to the Fire Bri ga d e o t t H h o e m e me D tr e o p p a o r li t e m . entr° It was agreed that th e letter should be referred 0 a coutmittee unread , it was also agreed, On t , that application should be ue_motion of Mr. RocitE, parishes in the metrop o i i3 f Z a tle to each ot the the ,rreturn showing the cost for several years of the amounts paid f or 4' r.. E-etigine establish ments, tributions to the Fire Escap e l iu ti r , :wkrds, the eon employed, mi %Yle (it any), the number of persons tor other infor mation on the same subjeci. After other business ;;he Board •L e d Hoz . *Aman's Tea is choice and strong, moderate in price, and wholesome to use. These adva To ., secured for this Tea a general preference. It is pa&ets by 2,280 Agents. n, MURDER IN SCOTLAND.--A-,—Tuesday th e bed 3' found lying v?"° of 4 woman named Nancy Stevens or Laffy, the • of a miner residing near Holytown, was violence inehe w eeT. , road near Newarthill. Various marks o f discovered; there was a cut, extending to thre e e jaw; th e in length, under the chin on the left side of th under part of the left ear was torn off, and hanging the face y 100 sel attached; bruises and scratches on the arms; - was covered with blood, and the hair dishevelled acr oss the face, clotted with blood and dirt, thereby re ndertn the features at first scarcely recognisable,and the bay mus t have been dragged some distance along the road. It appear s that on Monday the deceased went to Airdrie to see h er husband, who had been committed fcr some minor offance, and in that town she met a man named Doyle, a miner, whom she knew. They were drinking in several public houses during the afternoon, and left to walk home about 6 o'clock. On the way they went to another public-house, and quarrelled because the deceased refused to stop there all bight. Doyle went out and shortly afterwards returned,when he Was told that the deceased had left, Nothing more was seen of th em till th e b o d y was f oun d th e nex t morn i ng. i _, ( 1 10 was taken i n t o cus t o dy. H e h as a w if e an d s i x chil uren. Tae deceased leaves a family of 14 children.—Glas ''''' Ilerald. AuvnartsnuE vate c h t , ni _ NT.l—Avoid medicines: they always aggra- R es t orin ii ev co a luldaints, but Du Barry's Delicious Health Its coat i n other Arabica Food, which saves fifty times perfect dige.tinu,r.etmedies, invariably cures them, restoring pure blood, refreslafir 14' nerves, sound lungs, healthy liver, to the most disorder;isloeep• functional regularity, and energy enfeebled. i We extract a few out o f 60,000 Cures -.4 . 1.,„ e r lir6han. Paris, o f a dyer Co % 58,216 of the Marchioness de a neZlaint, wasting away for seven years, debility, with dh4est f o n,constantsieepl ene : palpitation all over, bad .p.ithe most intolerable nervous atefford, of tr‘ivted.—Cure No. 1,771. Lord ;:ii:tellti:.telYaßYthemara4, a , ; i tat ion, and dreadfully low many years' td•S•jusi ;1 ,1 erdpf),E,l,,itpa! . e D 7) e tl:s c i: i : e : s, 4n9 L e, r v5 0 3 r .20 d ..0 L s Cough, i ndescribable agony ins, witness, and otm . constipation, flatulen 3 7, spa 'l O. Mr. James Robe l rt. ---In g• — hlaria .lolly." l i ocal, Uver derange • Prir olrY• Surrey,of —Cure No. '13,21 ed lungs, spittin g °f thirty years' ment, and partial dis e as ed Minna, No. 4 b 7 vousness, indigeatiou. Iliss Elizabeth Jacobs, of extreme nerncies._ Cure No. 5 , 4,5% 5. a T tb , er togs, low spirits, and nervous la Norfolk, "of indige.tiZ Rev. Jas, T. Campbell, FakenhaM, resiste I all medical trati torpi dity of the liver, which had (id ; 51b., 118. ; lath., e 2: ent ''' In tins,l lb., 2s. 9d. ; 21b., 45.,.. '‘. 77, isegeat-street, t0;u9.41b 40s.—Barry 13u Barry and CO., k , o• Greet rs and Qbe • "ni mint a In also Fortnum and Mason ; and all every town of the United Kingdom. ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE. MIDLAND CIRCUIT—DERBY, Dec. 11. George Victor Townley was indicted for thl murder of Miss Goodwin. Mr. Boden, Q.C. (specially retained), and Mr. Bristowe appeared for the prosecution; and Mr. Macaulay, Q.C., and Mr. Sergeant O'Brien (both of whom were specially re tained), with Mr. Stephen, defended the prisoner. The court was densely crowded with people anxious to hem this remarkable trial. The prisoner, who was described as a man of very quiet and refined manners, a good linguist, and an accomplished musician, and who was apparently about 25 years of age, on being arraigned pleaded not guilty in a low but firm voice. Mr. Boden, in opening the case for the prosecution, after adverting to the painful interest it had excited in the county, and asking the jury to dismiss from their minds the rumours which were floating about, and to attend to the evidence only, stated that the prisoner was a member of a respectable family living at Hendham-vale, a mile or two from Man chester. His father was a commission agent at Manchester, but the prisoner had no employment, unless it was that he acted as a clerk in his father's office. Miss Elizabeth Good win, with whose death he was charged, was the daughter of Mr. Henry Goodwin, and granddaughter of Captain Good win, who had long lived in the county and acted as a ma gistrate there. Mrs. Henry Goodwin lived at Chester, and up to the last three or four years Miss Goodwin had lived with her mother, but about that time she left Chester and went to reside at Wigwell- grange, or hall, with her grand- 1 the and clua a M.iss Good win h e of acquaintance formed father, who is an old man u p wards of 80 years of ag G oo d w in was nearly 23 years of age, Captain Go e. odw i i iis n s 's eldest a o him had physician i at Manchester, ‘ o v ir a visitw sonil the Townleys. That acquaintance led to the forming of a strong attachment between the prisoner and the deceased, b an d ultimately, about fou r years aci.o • they became engaged. Owing to Townley's want of means to support a wife the engagement was not app roved by the lady's friends, and for some short time it was broken off. It had been renewed, however, shortly afterwards, and contin to exist to within a short time of h er death. Mica Goodwin ued written to the p r i soner on the 14th August appears to p b e r a e r a s k tove off ff ha the engagement. Her lett ers , h owever, h a d, w ith one excep tion, been given up b y T own l ey to h er friends, who de stroyed the m . O n the 15th ' of August Townley wrote to Miss Goodwin as follows : " Hendham- vale, Sunday. "My dearest Bessie,—Dearest:you will always be to me ; to say that I am not terribly cut up would be a lie, but, at any rate, you know I am not the man to stand in your way. I answer nothing to your last letter, except that I wish to hear from your own lips what your wishes are, and I will accede to them. You know me too well to suppose that I should give way to any unnecessary nonsense or sentimen talism. I have had a singular run of good and bad luck lately ; it suffices to say that I have an offer to leave Eng land. Before Igo I wish to see you once again, and for the last time, though God knows what misery it gives me to say so. You will admit that my desire to see you is but natural. Say in your next where you will meet me. I will come by the first or second train from Derby on Tues day or Wednesday morning, whichiiver suits you of course, without any one knowing, The sooner it is all settled the better for both parties. .._. "Eve;, dearest Bessie, your affectionate " GEORGE. " P.S.—I arrived too late from Bolton to answer yester. day. Will you write by return ?" On the Monday he wrote again : " Ilendham-vale, Monday, "Dearest Bessie,----It is doubtful whether you will get the letter I wrote you yesterday till to-morrow. I posted it myself last night at 11 o'clock at the general office (I could not before), and being Sunday, could not make out about the mails, so I put it into the extra stamp box for the chance of its going, "This is simply to say that in my haste I mentioned Tuesday or Wednesday, forgetting that I should have to leave here to-day in order to see you to-morrow—that is, if I see you in the m aming, as on the last occasion ; but if it suits you better ',could arrive by the same train that Kate and I came by, and you could meet me the same evening, I returning the following morning. I suppose it would not be possible the name night. I think if we say Thursday evening or Friday morning it will be best, as then there will be plenty of time for you to say which you prefer, so at any rate in your next say at what time and whereabouts I can Fee you. I suppose anywhere between your house and \Vhatstandwell would do. lam ill and thoroughly upset, and Ido not wonder you are. We shall both be happiar and better in mind, as well as body, after this last inter view. Address, care of W. Arrowsmith, Gilnow• Bolton, where I am going back to-morrow. Of course, if I hear to-morrow, and you fix time and place of meeting, I shall be at your appointment, cozite qui coitte.' Always your affectionate, G.V.T. " Train.—l can arrive at Whatstandwell-bridge at 4•2 afternoon, or at 9340r11 37 in the morning, whichever you like," - • On the following Wednesday, the 19th, the prisoner wrote again as follows : " Gilnow-mills, Bolton, Wednesday. "My dear Bessie,—l will only say here that I will arrive by the train you mention (1137 a.m., Friday morning), and that I hope, dear liessie,you willnot bother yourself unneces sarily about all this as tar as lam concerned. For my own peace of mind I wish to see you, which I hope you won't think selfish. I.)u reste, I only repeat what I have already said —I have but to hear from you what your wishes are, and they shall be complied with,and that I have sufficient savoir vivre not to make a bother about what cannot be helped You can write to the Midland Hotel, Derby, where I shal stay to-morrow night, or leave a note at the inn at What standwell-bridge for me. Don't let me be the cause of ,any row between you and your G. P. If you like to call at the inn I will not stir out till you come; but I leave all this to your judgment. " Ever affectionately, " G. V. T. " Miss Bessie Goodwin, Wigwell-grange, Wirks worth, Derbyshire," On the same day Miss Goodwin wrote a letter to the prisoner, which had been preserved, and was as follows : "My dear George—l write this in the greatest haste to tell you not to come on (any) account. I leave here to-day, and can't tell when I shall or can be back again. Ido not wish to see you, if it can possibly be lavoided, and indeed there will be no chance now, so we had better end this state of suspense at once, and say ' Good-bye' without seeing each other. I feel sure I could not stand the meeting. If you write once more within the next three days I can get it, but not later than that time without its being seen, for my letters are strictly watched, and opened, " Yours truly, " BESSIE, " Wednesday, " Immediate. " G. V. Townley, Esq., Hendlam-vale, Smedley, near Manchester." This letter reached Hendlam-vale on the Thursday morn ing, and Townley's mother, perceiving from whom it came, opened it, and immediately telegraphed to the prisoner, who was then staying at Mr. Arrowsmith's, at Bolton : " Letter front B, [Bessie]—Come at once. Will meet you at the station. Wit! wait. Immediate." Immediately on getting this telegram the prisoner seems to have left Bolton and gone to Hendham-vale. From there he went on the same day to the Midland Hotel, at Derby, where he slept. On the following morning, Friday, Aug. 21, he left Derby, and went to Whatstandwell, the nearest sta tion to Wigwell-hall, which is about a mile and a half dis tant, He reached this place about half-past 11, and went to the Bull's Head Inn, which is close to the station. The learned counsel then detailed the facts of the case as they appear in the evidence of the witnesses below, He added that it was clear that Miss Goodwin met her death at the hands of the prisoner, and it seemed to be equally clear that if the prisoner was responsible for his acts, the offence amounted to murder. He was not in a position to antici • pate the defence that would be set up on the prisoner's be half; but if that defence was that the prisoner was not re sponsible, the jury must be satisfied that he was labouring from such a defect of reason, from disease of the mind, as not to know the nature and quality of the act he was doing; or, if he did know it, that he did not know he was doing what was wrong. After proving the-facts already stated, Mr. Boden called Ann Burley, who said—l keep the Bull's Head Inn, at Whatstandwell-hridge which is about three miles from Wig well-grange. The prisoner came to my house on the morn ing of Aug., about half-past 11, and asked if thew was a note for Mr. Townley. On hearing that there was not, he asked for a glass of brandy and water. After walking about some little time he came back and asked if he could have a bed, as he said he might probably want one that night, and having had another glass of brandy and a pill, which he (took from his carpet bag, he left the house in the direction of wi tarell•grange. It aPPeared from the evidence of the next witness that the r pue 4° , l4 Z, after leaving the Bull's Head Inn, must have gone %iv:Tell-grange, which is about half way between the Th e la c t and Wirksworth, to the last named place. wkk awo Jlerbert H arr i s —l k ee p th e grammar s chool at well-gra n ge !hich is about a mile and a half from Wig- August, at 11 .2 8 prisoner came to my house on the 21st of a friend of mias tst 1, an d sa id , "I h ave ca ll e d on you as e ngagement h e t we rvin. I suppose you know there is an an engagement, b ut tt" hadd " I understood there was 14 : it been broken off." He said, want break off the engagement, and She has written to k navi t t i t_t? know how matters stand." I saiei declinestnoysiehei u m g e at wigwell. I said who vtiswill find it out somehow cannot satisfy you." Re B":l4a,oioinlfidence, and, therefore, I iirthee ogyman who had He then asked ciot,4 b . en told that there but I declined to give his name:. li re had been one there, b or ee o n th s e fa r y .' i i ng was an en i n is there three N ., ga,enacnt between Miss was sta y eeb s win and the clergy man who Goodwin was r a month ago. He then asked if Miss th o ught any coerc ion had been used sew but no coercion had towards ara herett, and if I said she was at Wigwel ), " S beenm her. l e i tow d s her that I was aware of. He sai d ooner or late r I m as ar see her, I have written to roles° her fr o m the euga t _ but I must hear from her self that shegivesoitt up. Sue is 0f lam n age and must p l ease herself. I know lagood told raateh, then and have no wish to stand in h er way. " 2tau h• must leave him as it was my school -hour (2 o'clock), b ut if he would call at half-past 4 I would see him old I t again. /le him h then left and came again at half - past 4. is best course was to write a note to Miss Goodwin, and Isaid if send l it by poet, requesting her to see him in the morning. e said he had already written and without eff ect. you were to call at the house perhaps Miss Goo dwin would see you. He said he would do so, and get it all his mind. He lett, saying he would call again, but did not do so. His manner was that of an ordinary Dian, perfectly ca lm and collected. There was nothing to attract my attention. Cross -examined—I had only seen the prisoner once before. That was at Mr. Goodwin's. I was told of the engagement with the clergyman by Miss Goodwin herself the Wednes day before her death. Elizabeth Margiirot Po well-hall. The • Yser—l am the housemaid at Wig -11. prisoner came to the • hall on Friday even- THE SUN. LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 12, 1863. ing, the 21st of Auguts, at 20 minutes to six, and asked for Miss Goodwin. I showed him in, and Miss Goodwin met him at the drawing-room door and theywent into the garden. Half an hour after I went into the garden and found them sitting on a seat a short distance from the house, I told Miss Goodwin she was wanted, and she came to the house and remained there till a quarter to seven, when she went out again. I went out at a quarter past seven and found her again sitting on the seat with the prisoner. I told her tea was ready, and she said "I am coming directly." I left her, but she never returned alive. I had seen him before. His mann er was like that of other people, and was not different on the 21st from what it bad been at other times. Thomas Biddulph—On the night of the 21st of August I was coming up tho Wigwell-hill-lane, about half-past 8. On getting to the top of the lane, where it opens into the turnpike-road, I saw a matt and woman walking together towards Wigwell-hall. The woman was Miss Goodwin. After passing then I looked back, and saw she had turned round in ftont of the gentleman with her back to the hall. Reuben Conway—l work for Mr. Bowmer, who lives just opposite the hall. On Friday night, between 8 and 9 o'clock, as I was going along the turnpike-road from the hall towards the Wigwell-lane end I heard a moaning noise, which appeared to come from the direction of the Mill-lane end. I ran forward, and found Miss Goodwin guiding herself by the wall and coming towards the hall. Her face and the front of her dress were covered with blood. She asked me to take her home, and said there was a gentleman down there had been murdering her. I put my arm round her and carried her about 20 yards. She asked me whether I could see anyone, and on looking down the road I saw the prisoner 60 or 80 yards below towards the lane end, and nearer the lane end than the place where the blood was afterwards found. He was cross ing the road, and then came towards me. When I first saw him, he was about 40 yards from the hunting gate, As he came up, I went towards him, and asked him who heel been murdering Mine Goodwin, He said he had stabbed her. I asked him to go and help me, and he took hold of her head and 1 of her body, and we carried her towards Wigwell. He called her " Poor Bessie" several times, and said. "You should not have proved false to me." She said nothing then. We laid her down near a gate, and prisoner asked me for something to put round her neck to stop the bleeding. I said I had nothing, and he asked me to go for help. I asked him if he would stop with her, and he said he would. I went to Mr. Bowmer's yard for help, leaving the prisoner with Miss Goodwin, I was away about four or five minutes, and on coming back found the prisoner holding something round her neck. I asked if she was living, and he said she was. She said, "Take me home." We then carried her a short distance further until Mr. Seeds and his brother came up. Mr. Seeds asked who had done it. The prisoner said " I have done it." We then carried her further, and met James Conway, who also asked who had done it. The prisoner said, " I know, and he knows ; lam the man who did it, and I shall be hanged for it." Miss Goodwin then said she was dying. We carried her further, and met Mr. Bowmer, who also wanted to know who had done it. The prisoner said " I have done it, there is no question at all about that." After going a little further he said he was afraid she was dead, and bent down and kissed her. She was dead. We met Captain Goodwin and Ann Poyser, the housekeeper, just within the hall gates. Captain Goodwin asked what we had amiss, and the prisoner answered, " It is your granddaughter Betsy, murdered," Capt. Goodwin wanted to know who had done it. The prisoner said, " I have done it ;" and on the captain asking who he was, said "My name is George Townley." The body was taken into the kitchen and put on the floor. Captain Goodwin then asked the prisoner what made him do it. He answered— " She has deceived me ; and the woman that deceives me must die." He then went into the drawing-room with Captain Goodwin. Ann Poyser, the housekeeper, corroborated the last part of the preceding witness's evidence, Dr. Newton Matt—l was eallod in to Wigwell-hall on the Friday evening, and found Miss Goodwin dead, There were three Wounds on the right side of the neck, one a stab behind and below the right ear; the second a stab in front of this, superficial ; the third wound still further in front, three inchom long, and extending nearly to the chin. The back part of this wound appeared to have been produced by stab directed downwards and backwards. The external carotid artery and the internal jugular vein were severed. These were severed by the third wound. The first wound was probably given from behind and was not mortal. I should have thought that a person could not have walked after receiving the third wound. The knife produced (an ordinary clasp :knife, found on the prisoner) would have caused the wounds. I saw the prisoner that night. He ap peared to be perfectly calm. Croes-examined—l was with him 10 or 15 minutes in the drawing room. There was much blood upon him. Capt. Goodwin—(This witness, who is 84 years of age, appeared to be somewhat infirm, but spoke with a strong clear voice.) After stating what took place at the gate — which has been already given—the witness, who was much moved, continued—Atter saying that the woman who de ceived him must die, the prisoner said, " I told her I would kill her, She knew my temper." Be also said, "I had the means two months ago, and I have the means at the present time." I observed he had money in his hand. I declined to take anything. He then produced two packets of letters. lie gave them to me and said, " Will you take care of these ? You may read them, burn them, or do what you like with them. I don't wish these to be brought into court." I kept them for a few days, and then threw them all into the fire. I did not read a line of them, but I believe them to have been my granddaughter's letters. The prisoner was staying at m y h ouse f or a f ew d ays a t Ch r i s t mas t ime . I did not see much, hardly anything of him. On the Friday evening he behaved with the greatest indifference. I thought I saw a little excitement about him just before he offered me the things. He had been so perfectly.indifferent before that I noticed the change. Cross -examined--After the prisoner was remanded a policeman, Parnhatu, asked me for ene of the letters pro duced in court (the last from Townley), and another police • man, Burton, asked me for the packet of letters, and sus pecting he had some improper motive 1 burnt them, I thought ho was pumping me, and, being annoyed at that, I burnt the letters. Charles Parnham—When I got to Wigwell on the Fri day evening the prisoner came towards me and said, " I wish to give myself up for murdering the young lady." I cautioned him and asked him if he was aware of the nature of the charge ho was giving himself up for. He said "Yes, quite so, and will go with you quietly, only let me see her first." I then said to him, " What have you done with the instrument or knife you committed the deed with ?" He took the knife now produced out of his pocket and gave it to me. It was wet with blood. I then took him into the kitchen. He looked at the body stedfastly, but did not speak. On the way to the lock-up he said "I am far hap pier now I have done it than I was before, and I trust she is." I searched him and found two other knives (penknives) upon him. Next morning I asked him if he knew anything about a shawl. He said, " I saw one on the road and threw it over the wall." This was Miss Goodwin's shawl. I examined the road and found a small pool of blood at the corner of Wigwell-mill-lane, At the hunting-gate, which is about 200 yards from the lane and nearer the hall, I found another large pool of blood. I did not notice any between the two places. Cross-examined—l did not say, "Are you aware of the nature of the charge ?" because I doubted whether he was, but because he seemed so anxious to give himself up. I noticed marks of whitling on a gate opposite to the hunt ing gate. Three or four pieces had been cut off. The gate has been completely pulled to pieces and carried away by the persons who have visited the spot. This closed the case for the prosecution, and it being now half-past one o'clock the Court adjourned for half an hour. On the reassembling of the Court Mr. Macaulay addressed the jury on behalf of the prisoner, He strongly hoped that he should satisfy the jury beyond all doubt that by a m s s " talons dispensation of Providence the prisoner had been deprived of his reason to sueh a degree as to render him not amenable to the laws for the dreadful deed which undoubt edly he had committed. His fattv r was a man of good d m e e e a g n h s t a e r n , d et. position, w h em t a h n e d had s t e h e r r e e w c e h e i t l h d e r e e n l , d e t w e t o . s o F n r s e a m n d e h a pri early age his behaviour had been somewhat peculiar. He was perfectly well conducted, perfectly gentle, perfectly quiet, perfectly well behaved, He was exceedingly accom plished, but h e was f o und to have no aptitude or capaci t y for the serious business of life. When very young he was noted for his taste for music. At school he acquired lan guages with facility ; but when put into a merchant's count inghouse he could not learn the business. The learned counsel then went into a detailed account of the evidence he proposed to adduce, which from its importance we have given as it fell from the lips of the witnesses. At the close of Mr. Maeaulay's address his lordship ob served—Perhaps, Mr. Macaulay, you had better address to me the questions you desire to have left to the jury. Mr. Macaulay—l should prefer doing so after the evidence has been heard. Baron Martin--Of course. I have not sat here to try this case without well considering what questions I should leave to the jury, and I will now read to you what I have written down, and what I propose to leave to the jury. I shall tell them that if they believe that, although there might have been disease in the mind to some extent, yet if the prisoner knew that the act he was committing would probably cause death, and that the doing it would subject him to legal punishment, there was criminal responsibility. Mr. Macaulay—Many men have been acquitted with approval who must have been convicted under such a direcs tion. the . Baron M art i n—l have drawn that from a summ i ng u p of Ju stice Le Bl anc, which has been much approve d o f , an d from a d ec i sion of Lord Denman's, and another of Lord LYnn hurst's, an d I b elieve it to be a correct statement o f ruliu law g ot 4 IDA—, wh o t r i e d B e lli ng h am , b ecause th a t s I have p u t as id e from my cons id era ti on th e ruling has b een obje c t e d to. The following witnesses were then called— ep. r i s I o n l a e a r d . Emma Marsden —I am the prisoner's maternal aunt, and have known him ill his life. lb is very affectionate and :uranunfatt:earmedshMe adreystMroyaresdden, herself,the w as supposed to be insa ne . and Gilbert Ainsworih, a first cousin once removed , Bourne for many years in a lunatic asylum. Titus . , roy maternal uncle, had 10 of whom five were insane • Two Were confined in children, sviesrtyerhoufmthane an asylum. Another maternal uncle had six children, of whom one has been insane. He is not now in an asylum. Cross-examined--He was occasionally subject to fits of ill-temper. He was not ill-tempered generally. The Rev. Wm. Bourne Masters, the prisoner's maternal uncle, corroborated the evidence of the last witness. Mary Townley—l am the prisoner's mother. He had a very poor capacity for business pursuits, and had no profes sion in August last. In March of this year I received a let ter from Miss Goodwin, expressing great affection for my son. They were upon the most affectionate terms, and my son's affection continued the saute as ever. On the 12th of August he received a letter from Miss Goodwin, which I saw. (The letter was one of those given by Townley to Capt. Goodwin and burnt by him.) It spoke of a clergy man, the most delightful man she had ever seen in her life. He had been staying at Wigwell, and her grandfather thought he would just suit her, but that would not do. It ended, " Yours affectionately." The usual conclusion was "Your own darling," or something of that sort. I saw him on the Saturday, three days after he received that letter. There was another from Miss Goodwin to him on that day. It said she had a good deal to say to him, and it had better be said at once. Grandfather had found cut that they cor responded, and was wild that there was anything in the way. " I want you to release me," the letter went on, " that I may have it to say lam free, Don't take this too hardly in pity foe me, I shall not marry if I can help it." That was signed " Yours sincerely," That letter seemed to have turned his brain. He was in such an excited, sup pressed state of feeling that I asked Mr. Arrowsmith to sit up with him. The next morning I went to my son's room. He was at the door, and appeared Very excited, but exter nally calm. He had hot been in bed. He took nothing but tea and brandy for breakfast, and only very little for dinner, That evening (Sunday, August 16), he wrote a letter to Miss Goodwin (the letter dated Sunday, and given above.) He took a long time to write it, and was nervous and excited while doing so. He came down on Monday morning and lay on the sofa. He appeared very restless. His hands and feet were twitching nervously. I gave him some morphia. He remained on the sofa till dinner time, and took no dinner. After dinner he wrote another letter to Miss Goodwin. (This letter is also given above, and is dated Monday.) He had a little difficulty in finding words now and then. He was so nervous that he spoilt several envelopes in directing the letter of Sunday, and had to tear them up. On Tuesday morning he took hardly any break fast, and appeared not to have had a night's rest. He then went to Manchester to give a French lesson, and on coming back he was in a perspiration, and said he hoped he was not going to have an illness. That afternoon he went to Bolton, to Mr. Arrowsmith's. On Thursday another letter came from Miss Goodwin (that given above), and I telegraphed to him to return home. On arriving he showed me a letter he had received from Miss Goodwin at Bolton. The pur port of it was that if he wished to see her he was to go to the Midland Hotel at Derby, where he would find a note from her, but she did not wish to see him. There was a postscript, " After all you had better come," and she men tioned the trains. 'We consulted on what was to be done at the station, and fixed that he had better go to Derby. 'l he letter I gave him from Miss Goodwin evidently distressed him. I could see he was dreadfully upset, but he always kept quiet. Shortly afterwards he left for Derby. His man ner was generally reserved, but excited. I noticed an ex cited manner. That was his natural manner during the whole course of his life. He was only excited on occasions. I noticed a change after the receipt of Miss Goodwin's let ters. I should describe that change as a suppression of deep feelings. 1 believe an objection was made to my marriage with Mr. Townley on the ground of the insanity in my family. Cross-examined—The French lesson was given to the son of a neighbour whom my son had been in the habit of teach ing from motives of kindness, Catherine Townley, the prisoner's sister, confirmed the evidence of her mother. Washington Arrowsmith—l am a cotton-spinner at Bol ton. On the 12th of August I saw the prisoner before and after he received Miss Goodwin's letter. He seemed much depressed by it. He seemed more depressed after getting the second letter. I sat up with him on the Saturday night, the 15th. He waeshernately depressed and excited, and wept for about four hours in the course of the night, not continue usly. I assisted him in writing the letter of Sun day. He supplied the substance of the letter and I the words. He seemed to have a difficulty in finding words. He was with me at Bolton from Tuesday to Saturday, the 20th, and appeared to be suffering very severely in mind. He received a letter from Miss Goodwin during that time, which seemed to make him more despondent. I did not see him again after he received the telegram of Mrs. Town ley. His mind and manner underwent a marked change after he received the letters from Miss 'Goodwin. He appeared to be lost in thought, and did not observe me sometimes when I spoke to him. His natural disposition was very kind, but very reserved. Cross-examined—He was subject to passion like anybody else. The letter from Giinow-mills he wrote himself. lam not aware that he had any medical advice on the night I sat up with him. He appeared to be very much distressed and kept walking. That made me think it not safe to leave him. William Glover—l have been acquainted with the pri soner 4 years. He is extremely gentle and humane, and a close and attached friend. He was very reserved to strangers. I have seen him extremely impulsive and excitable at times- He was a man with li t t le ho p e, and looked despondingly at inostth things. sometimes he would address me, and on my continuing the conversation did not appear to notice me. His mind appeared to be wandering on something else. John Grew - I am waiter at the Midland Hotel, and re member the prisoner coming to the hotel on T uursday even ing, the 20th August, He asked for chops and tea, At first there was nothing to attract my attention, but afterwards he walked up and down the cot:fee-room. He took very little indeed of his tea, and after writing a letter, asked what time the mail went out,and on my replying 9 o'clock, he went out !Apparently to post,the letter himself. The next morning he asked if there were any letters for Townley. Ho poured out a cup of tea and had some dry toast. Before that he walked up and down, and muttered something which I understood to mean soda and brandy. He had a wild excited appearance about his eyes. After breakfasthe walked up and down muttering to himself. I thought him very eccentric. He asked the way to the smoking-room, and when I told him he said, "I don't want to know the way to the smoking-room. I know my way all over the house." 1 came to the conclusion that he was not right in his mind. inspector Davis and chief-constable Fox have been to me, and I told them that, in my opinioa, the pri soner was not quite right in his mind. Cross-examined —l do not recollect having told Davis on the following Saturday that I noticed nothing about Town ley. I told him that Townley was very strange in his manner. The Rev. John Leighton Figgins, incumbent of St, Clement's, Blanchester --I should set the prisoner down as a person deficient in what I might call logical conclusion. I have conversed with him s ince he has been in prison. Ido because I n ever h a d s i m il ar conversa the difference between good n ti o o t n s s e b e e a t n or y e. cha l n i g n e o , t knowing and evil is a sign of derangement, I should say he is de ranged now. Cross-examined — When I say that he does not know the difference between right and wrong, I mean there are cer tain things which I consider sinful and which he does not. He was rational in the sense of understanding what I said. Dr. Forbes NV inslow—l have seen the prisoner twice in the presence of Mr. Sims, the governor of the gaol. He was not aware of my name or the object of my visit. His be haviour was quite natural and not assumed. I talked to him largely on the subject of the crime. I was with him , nearly two hours on the first occasion and three-quarters of an hour on the second. I think that at the present moment he is a man of deranged intellect. He was deranged on the 18th November, and I thought still more so last night, when I saw him the second him. If I had any doubt as to his insanity on the 18th of November, I had none whatever last night. 1 adverted to the conversation I had had with him on the previous occasion, with a view of satisfying my mind that I had lett him with an accurate impression of what he had said. He repeated to me that he did not recog nise he had committed any crime at all, neither did he feel any degree of pain, regret, contrition, or remorse for what he had done. I endeavoured to impress on his mind on my first visit the serious nature of the crime he had committed. lie repudiated the idea of its being a crime either against God or man, and in reply to some observation of mine, attempted to justify the act, alleging that he con sidered Miss Goodwin as his own property—that she had been illegally wrested from him by an act of violence —that he viewed her in the light of his wife who had committed an act of adultery, and that he had as perfect a right to deal with her life as he had with any other descrip tion of property, as the money in his pocket, &c. I endea voured to prove to him the gross absurdity of the statement and the enormity of his offence, and he replied, " Nothing short of a miracle can alter my opinions." The expression that Miss Goodwin was his property was frequently repeated. He killed her to recover and repossess himself of property which had been stolen from him. I could not disturb this, as I thought,:very insane idea. I said, " Suppose any one robbed you of a picture, what course would you take to re cover it ?" He said he would demand its restitution, and if it were not granted, he would take the person's life without compunction. I remarked that he had no right to take the law into his own hands; he should have recourse to legal measures to obtain restitution. He remarked that he recog nised the right of no man to sit in judgment upon him. Ile was a free agent, and as he did not bring himself into the world by any action of his own, he had perfect liberty to think and act as he pleased, irrespective of any one else. I regard these expressions as the evidence of a diseased intel lect. Last evening he said that he had been for some weeks previously to Aug. 21 under the influence of a conspiracy. There were six conspirators plotting against him, with a N iew to destroy him, with a chief conspirator at their head. This conspiracy was still going on while ho was in prison, and he had no doubt that if he was at liberty they would continue their operations against him, and in order to escape their evil purposes he would have to leave the country. He became much excited, and assumed a wild, maniacal aspect. lam satisfied that aspect was not simulated. I could not get from him the names of the conspirators. Istr. Macaulay—lf the present state of mental derange- ment existed on Aug. 21, would it be likely to lead to the commission of the act then committed ? Dr. Winslow—Most undoubtedly. Assuming him to have been on Aug. 21 as he was on Nov. 18 and yesterday, I do not believe that he was in a condition of mind to estimate, like a sane man, the nature of his act and his legal liability. Cross-examined—He referred to the conspiracy in general terms on the 18th of November. 1 should class his case as one of general derangement. He does not appear to have a sane opinion on a moral point. I have no doubt he knows that these opinions of his are contrary to those generally enter tained, and that if acted upon they would subject him to punishment. I should think he would know that killing a person was contrary to law and wrong in that sense. I should thing that from his saying he should be hanged he knew he had done wrong. His moral sense was more via_ ated than I ever saw that of any other human being. His opinions were pretty much those of atheists, but he was beyond atheism. He seemed incapable of reasoning cor rectly on any moral subject. He denied the existence of a God and of a future world. He would suffer from his con finement, which would add to his excitement. It was more remarkable last evening than on the 18th of November, and might not have existed on the 21st of August. Ho said it was a matter of perfect indifference whether he was dead or Re-examined—He merely gave utterance to these opi nions dogmatically, and seemed incapable of arguing upon them. Dr. Gisborne, the surgeon of the Derbyshire Infirmary and of the County Gaol, gave similar evidence, and added that the prisoner's condition at this time was similar to his condition when he was brought to the gaol in August. The prisoner stated to him that he looked upon a woman en gaged to him in the same light as his wife, and that he ought to have the same control over his wife as over any portion of personal property, On cross-examination this witness stated that the pri soner's language implied that he knew that what he had done was pnnisbable, but that he (the witness) believed he would repeat the offence to-morrow. Mr, Sims, the governor of the gaol, gave similar evidence as to the conduct and statements of the prisoner. This concluded the case for the defence, and as it was now 6 o'clock, Mr. Baron Martin suggested that it was not desirable to go on with so important a case at so late an hour. The Court adjourned till 9 o'clock to• morrow morning. WESTERN CIRCUIT.--EXETER, DEC. 10. (Before Mr. Baron Pigott.) James Stevens, pugilist, and John Burke, labourer, were indicted for the wilful murder of John Mears, jun., at Teigngrace, on the 14th of August. Mr, Holdsworth and Mr. Bere were counsel for the pro secution; Mr. Carter defended the prisoners. Mr. Holdsworth having opened the case, Various witnesses stated that deceased, a man aged 31, employed at the Bovey Tracey potteries, had been at the Newton Races on the 9th of August, dressed in a dark coat and corduroy trousers, and had not subsequently been seen by them. After some evidence had been given, The jury said they had heard enough. The Judge said he had never in all his experience heard so unreliable a case. There was not a trace of one drop of blood having been found, and if the fight had taken place in the high road, the blood must have been seen. Tha boy remained silent until the offer of a reward was published, He first pitched upon Finnerty, and he said Burke had given him 6d. not to eay it was he, and he allowed Finnerty to be taken off in custody, until the policeman suggested that his description was more like Burke, and then he said it was Burke. The man's body had got into the water, but how it had got there no one could tell. The jury returned a verdict of not guilty. alive, SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS TIMES.—The enemies of Mr. Layard, if he has any, will read his last speech to his constituents with a malicious pleasure. If it is enjoyable to watch the troubles of the storm-tossed mariner from the shore, there is amusement, too, in the embarrassments of a restless spirit safely lodged in a quiet berth. It is due to Mr. Layard to admit that he betrays much less wildness than might have been expected, and submits to official restraints with a very good grace. He boldly accepts the responsibility of his position and undertakes to reconcile individual liberty with subordination. Last year he was frank enough to tell the electors of Southwark that a man in office should consider himself as much out of office as ever in respect of personal opinions, and was lucky enough to have the Chinese question ready to hand as an illustration of his own consistency. This year he speaks with still more openness and confidence, de fending every measure of the Government from an independent point of view, and palliatir:g their only sin or omission in a most orthodox manner. "He regretted very deeply" the speeches of Messrs. Cobden and Bright; "they were painful speeches." He protested that " the Government possessed the be,t information of what took place on ,the Con tinent, and could alone know the state of foreign arman:anats." He gave a great deal of good advice to those who, with very limited means of information, presume to set the Treasury Bench right on matters of State. He stated it as his deliberate conviction that "the acts of the Government were marked by liberality and patriotism," and deserved the grate rude of the public. This state of mind, supervening on a Quixotic passion for reform, realises the poet's idea " tnat men may rise on stepping stones of their dead selves to higher things." The transformation on which Mr. Hawthorne founded his most popular novel was not more complete. The most merciless of critics hiss become the most versatile of apologists; the most dashing of assailants has shown himself a master in the tamer arts of defence. Mr. Layard's address belongs to the approved type of modern vacation oratory. Thirty or forty years ago, when the debates were not so generally read, no one thought of volunteering speeches in the country. Now and then Canning and Peel delivered them selves of orations on some grand occasion, or ventured a few words on a practical subject, but the fashion of reviewing the session and touching slightly upon every question of the day, as if for the very purpose of committing oneself, is quite new. However, the practice is established, and every member of Parlia ment must be prepared with a synoptical view of the state of things at home and abroad. Mr. Layard only does what others have done before him us quo ad nauseam, but ho does it with great tact end ability. Dealing first with the old charge of Parlia mentary apathy, he told his hearers plainly that " they could not have sensation Parliaments if they had no sensation questions in the country." At the same time, he avows his adherence to his former opinion that there should be an extension of the suffrage, and that it had better be granted in quiet times. Not that he denies the wise discretion shown by Reformers in forbearing to press their proposals on the House, but he still distrusts the policy, to which he bows, of making no concessions except to agitation. From this topic he passes to the conduct of the working classes during the distress of the last two years, and combats the theories promulgated by Messrs. Bright and Cobden at Rochdale. He con tends that our labouring classes are better off than those of most old and long-settled countries, that they exercise indirectly more political power, and that if they are not as highly educated as in Prussia, " that arises from the greater amount of liberty en joyed in England." Where education is forced on the people from above, the benefits which it confers are chiefly intellectual, and we may learn from the example of Prussia itself that such education may fail to qualify its possessors for political action. After declaring himself in favour of an educational franchise, Mr. Layard plunges into Foreign Affairs. He endorsee the principle that England cannot exert a proper moral influence on Europe with out a large military expenditure. He quotes figures to show that in the year 1861, selected by Mr, Cobden in his " Three Panics," the estimated cost and strength of the French Navy, taken by him as the basis of his calculations, was almost doubled by supplemental credits. He cordially adopts the arguments of Lord Russell on the Con gress, justifies the language of his chief about Poland, and points out, fairly enough, the absurdity of objecting in the same breath that, it was a cruel kindness to encourage the Poles so much, and that we should nut have let out that we did not intend to go to war. He then claims credit for the in flexible neutrality of the Government towards America, but, soon returning to the East, discusses successively Turkey, China, end Japan. According to Mr. Layers], Admiral Kuper was satisfied by the capture of the three steamers of Prince Satsuma, and would have steamed quietly out of the bay if the forts had not fired on him. Such is not the impression which we received from his own de spatch ; and, however much we deplore any suffer ing inflicted on the peaceable inhabitants of Kego sima, we are far from sure that the confiscation of the steamers would have been an adequate punish ment. On another point, however, we quite agree with Mr. Layard. We allude to the misdeeds of those adventurers who disgrace the English name in the Eastern seas. Their claim to be protected in fraud and lawlessness is one of the groat obstacles to our Commerce and influence, and it would be well if they were guilty of no worse practices than " writing home complaints against our official re presentatives. It is creditable to Mr. Layard that he can win acceptance for such moderate and sen sible views from the constituency o f Southwszorkt,3 and maintain his seat by virtue of 1:!-.e wo higher than those of a local candidate. lagh and official o te u n cannot help smiling at his altered tone last to re proach him complacency, we should be with it as a fault. It his own experience of is a C::::nigae that must, come over every man who bug"tamiliar truism that it is political action. It is easy to criticise, but hard to act ; easy to discern of ght lobe done, hard to die from the outside what inside the right way of doing it. ei!rn trona the mete. Why the one should be so easy and the other so hard in politics is not so obvious as the truth that it is so. The chief reason, we believe, will be found in the fluctuating nature of the materials with which statesmen have to dee!. Others have to collect facts, to form opinions out of them, and perhaps to apply those opinions to new combinations of circumstances. A statesman has a far more complicated task than this—a task all the more difficult because each of ia3 processes appears so simple. Let him be an historian, an economist, and a man of the world ; let him be gifted with the imagination to conceive and the nerve to execute; he will still fail of success unless he have a profound and sympathetic insight into the motives and opinions of men and nations. To him sentiments are facts, causes as well as effects, means and ends at once. The stumbling-blocks of co-operation are great, and the sacrifice of indivi dual convictions to the necessities of joint action is trying, but the real and permanent difficulty of statesmanship is the anticipating, interpreting, leading, following, and giving practical expression to, publ:c opinion. The political necessities which dominate over one generation are often the creation of the former; their component elements were opi nions, and their present force is embodied in opinions only. So hopeless does it appear to master all these moral conditions of domestic and foreign policy that the great majority of public men in power trust en tirely to instinct, and are content to take external pressure as a good rough test of opportuneness and expediency. This tends to make a Minister little more than the agent of the public will, and implies a deep scepticism as to the value of political prin ciples. We cannot acquiesce in this as the ultimate ideal of government, but it is often the nearest ap proach to it that we can get, and is at least safer than the theories of amateurs. If we mistake not, Mr. Layard has learnt this lesson, and is already less of an optimist than he once was. How the Queen's Government can be carried on with safety and efficienny is not the highest question that an administrator can ask himself, but it is a vital one, and while he is engrossed by the solution of it he must leave to others the suggestion and elaboration of organic projects of reform. POST.—There are few offices in the kingdom more difficult to discharge at the same time with dignity and efficiency than those which are held by the occupants of the judicial bench. The model judge should, in order to come up to the popular standard, be an individual not only of profound learning and consummate ability, but of unwearied patience and unfailing courtesy of demeanour. By many be is expected to present a living epitome of all the Christian virtues; by the vulgar he is in variably regarded as the incarnation of all that is at once the most wise, the most majestic, and the most awful. Stripping, however, from the judicial cha racter all that may be regarded as clap-trap, there remains quite sufficient to make it desirable that promptitude, precision, and unswerving fidelity upon the judgment-seat should be tempered by moderation of language and dignity of demeanour. We all remember the painful scene which occurred some years ago at the Guildford Assizes, when a feud sprang up between the judge and the high sheriff, in which both parties committed themselves, the latter perhaps the most unpardonably, and where a breach, which had been already once patched up by the intervention of the Chief Justice, ended in the infliction of a heavy fine upon the official guardian of the public peace. The scandal which was thus occasioned has hardly yet been for gotten, and remains as a lesson of the extreme cau tion which it is requisite to exercise if the,boun daries of that reverence and respect which should surround the judicial bench are never to be trans gressed. It is therefore with the more regret that we have noticed the charge delivered the other day by Mr. Baron Pigott to the grand Jury at Exeter. The learned judge is, until a successor to the late lamented Justice Wightman is appointed, the junior of his fraternity, and has just en tered upon the honourable and onerous duties of his first circuit in his judicial capacity. After some sensible remarks upon the demoralising ten dency of pugilism, and the utter absence of any countervailing benefits to lessen the evils of the unmitigated ruffianism to which it gives rise, his lordship proceeded to comment upon the arrange ments which had been made to receive bim. He com plained in strong terms that the business of the country had been retarded by the negligence of " some authorities in the town," and that the com mission could not be opened from " the stinginess" of those who declined to light the cathedral for afternoon service at his request. Of course such a charge, if founded on fact, would do anything but redound to the credit of those who had laid them selves open to it. Unfortunately for Baron Pigott, one story proverbially only holds good until another is told. The Dean, the chief authority in the cathe dral, turns out not to have been in the city, having been summoned to attend the funeral of a near relative. Both the Canons in Residence, however, have come forward to give their own version of the affair, which is substantially as follows. It is quite true that a notification was received by the autho rities of the cathedral that Baron Pigott would pre fer attending church on a certain afternoon, instead of waiting till the following morning. But it is equally true that this request was coupled with an intimation of the time at which he would arrive, which would have rendered it imperative, in order to comply with it, to change, in the first place, the hour of the afternoon service, and to fix it, in the second, at such a time as would have rendered it im possible to conclude it during daylight upon a short llecember's day. From this alternative the Chapter might well shrink after the outcry which was excited some time ago at the mere report of an unseemly deference having been displayed towards Royalty itself at Peterborough. It involved also the ques tion not of the expense, but of the possibility, of lighting the cathedral. It is true that facilities for doing so exist in the choir, but the cortege of trum peters and javelinmen who accompany the judge attract a following which is rather numerous than select, who generally await in the nave the egress of the judge. This portion of the church has been recently fitted up for service at the private expense cf a member of the Chapter, but, from the time at which the service ordinarily takes place, no pro vision has been made for lighting it. It is needless to point out how unseemly would have been the spectacle of a rabble composed of the riff-raff of the town thronging the nave at an hour when the efforts of the authorities to preserve anything like order or decorum would have been effectually paralysed. Such is the counter statement put forth upon the part of the Chapter by Archdeacon Bartholomew and Canon Hurington, the Chancellor of the diocese, men wpose motives and character are alike above suspicion. We are bound to say that, in our opinion, the Church has the best of the argument. Baron Pigott does not deny that arrangements had been made to receive her Majesty's representative with all fitting honours on his way to morning service, nor does he explain why he himself should have se lected for his arrival an hour which interfered with the ordinary services of the day. It is difficult to imagine that a little consideration upon his part would not have prevented a collision of any kind, and still more difficult to justify a hasty accusation of " stinginess" made from the bench against a body who, whatever else may have been their shortcom ings, have never before been accused of any failures in this respect. We can quite believe that the new judge may have been eager to resent a fancied affront to his newly acquired dignity. But he would have done well to pause before he accused a society of loyal and honourable men, in the absence of their head, of an intentional omission to pay pro per respect to the representative of her Majesty. Had Baron Pigott arrived earlier or later, the ques tion could not have arisen. But it is rather too much, even for a judge, to time his coming at an hour which would interfere with the usual service, and then to grumble not only that the time is not changed to suit his convenience, but that it is not changed to-an hour which would render the preser vation of order and decorum difficult, if not ira scible. YANKEE TOASTS.—The following toasts were given at a recent dinner of New Jersey Democrats:— " Blessed are the peacemakers." " The last man and the last dollar—May the one be an Abolitionist, and the other a shinplaster, and may they both perish in the last ditch together." " State rights; may they not be forgotten in delirious and bloody triumph of state wrongs." " Things we remember—Habeas corpus and trial by jury." "T° the first Governor who shall have the virtue and courage to keep his oath of office, and protect and defend the cosotif;t: tion, laws, and sovereignty of his State and the rtighwtsore s citizens. ', The light of other days, when lib: T r T ie Demo. white face and America was not a n egro." shodd 8 " The aboli tion' ii and greenbacks had dem oralised its council s . " it . tre . achery, cratic party, as it was, befo re cowardice,y stay at home." ct may it, and those who think it is wrong war for disunion —Let those who think is right go to shall never have the U n i on t a h s ose it whowa say sfollowexample of their b rot h er traitor J u das Isca riot, who died and went t o his own place. „ ,6 Th e War Democrat—A w hi te man's we the face on the body of a negro." "The only possible remedy for secession and the only hope of the i U,.,on—Peace, mu tual concession, and compromise." [ADVERTISEMENT.] —Holloway's Ointment Relief and Remedy. — There and Pills.— are t i c doloreux, and neuralgia, now many cases of sciatica, and strength of thousands who wearing out the patience ease by the use of Hollow might derive incredible matter what has b een the Holloway's Ointment a nd Pills. No how severe and exeruci duration of the complaint, nor will be diminished b 'ilmg have been the sufferings, they with this unguenty watnt fonientaiions, brisk friction and treatment has ofte n t, suitable doses of the Pills. This had proved perfectly when every variety of seda tivemust depend on the y useless. The doses of the Pills constitutional habit, as their purifying and kstrtngtheran,, slats of lierl ,_ llB , properties are more required in this Q diseases than their aptneut powers. COUNTRY MARKETS• -- - - 1 LIV ERPOOL—FRIDAY. At this day's market we had a small attendance both of millers and dealers, with a limited business in wheat. at a decline of 2(1 to 3d on the week. Flour a dull sale, and 6d cheaper. Indian corn heavy, and 6d down. Beans met a very dull sale, but not lower in price. WAKEFIELD —FRIDAY. The show of grain to-day was moderate. The trade in . wheat limited, and last Friday's rates were nearlsly mover. ain tained for fine parcels, but general runs were Barley in slow demand. A ve rages for the weetc : 1,788 qrs., at ........ 43s 31d Wheat Oats 46 ........ 20s Od Beans l3 ........ 38s 9(1 Peas .... 9 9 ........ 31s 1 lid Barley.... . 457 ........ 32s Rye 2O ........ 30s 9d STAMFORD—FRIDAY. White wheat, 40s to 44s ; red, 36s to 41s per 36 stone. Barley, malting,l,34s to '478 ; grinding, 30s to 33s per qr. Oats, 20s to 25s per 24 stone. Beans , old, 40s to 42s per qr. ; new, 34s to 365. —FRIDAY. Coffer at our market to-day, is per qr dearer. Barley, grinding.. 23s to 33a 23s to 2 5 a Oats, old, ...... New d 0.......... 205 to 258 Beans.. .........• 38s to 41s Beans, new ..... .34s to 388 LINCOLN. A fair quantity of wheat on with a moderate business, at 1 White wheat new, 42s to 46s i Red do. 3Bs to 40s 1 Old white —s to —a Red do.. —s to —s Barley, malting 34s to 38s CORK—FRIDAY. The following were the quotations this mo rnin g 5s wheat, 8s Od to 8s 10(1; white, Ss Od to 9s 8d , bar le y , Gd to 8s Oct; oats, 4s 10d to 6s 2d ; black do., 4 s 4d to 53 33. :--Red DUBLIN• s. d. s. d. Wheat, 'white,. 24 0 to 26 6 Do., red 2l 6 to 24 0 Do., new Barley Oats Do., black — 0 to 0 s. d. s. d ' Oatmeal lO 0 to 13 0 Beans.. . —oto -- 0 Bere . — 0 to -- 0 Rapeseed Bakers' flour Indian corn -F RID A Y . BRISTOL SUGAR—FRIDAY. The market for sugar shows a better feeling this week' and buyers begin to have more confidence, and appear posed to purchase at about is 6 d p er cwt above the late lowest point. Refiners' produce neglected, and stocks al' accumulating. A good dem4nd for rum at full prices. COAL MARKET. ermea of Coal per on at the Mole of the market. s. d. Byass's Bebside West Hartley ...16 9 Cowpen Hartley 16 9 West Hartley Holywell Hartlepool W. Hartleyl6 0 alker Primrose 16 0 Hastings Hartley l6 9 I'antield Moor Butes l5 6 West Wylam 16 0 Eden Main ..19 3 Ships at market r 3. d. Walls End. Hetton .............. 21 0 Wharncliffe .......... 18 9 Haswe ll ........21 0 Bruddyll' Hetton ..... 19 9 elloe ...... •... 19 5 Tuns t a ll H ar tlepool ......... ..20 Trimdon Hartlepool...2o 3 KeiperGrauge ........ 19 a, 50 ; sold, 49. RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE. TRAFFIC RECEIPTS FOR THE WEEK. Miles Opened. Receipts., ..---A---,,...----,..---, 1863. 1862. 1863. 1 862 X 4 126 2 Belfast and N. Counties 136 136 2,004 - 0 Belfast and Comity Down 49 49 599 ! b 'f , Blyth and Tyne 2B 28 1,654 1, 46 ‘ ) Bristol and Exeter 12 14 121 4 5,514 5,281 Ca l e d on i an Cockermouth & Workington B4 81 _ 859 Cork and Bandon 2O 20 405 Cork, Blaekrock, &Passage 6l 65 131 !! 6 Cork and Youghal Cornwall, 064 65' 534 1,203 A,.. } Deeside l7 17 315 ,'',, z Dublin & Deltas t J unction Dublin and Drogheda 75 63 1,536 ...,,, 7 " Dublin and Meath Dub. &Wicklow and Wextd 915 484 2,786 2 + 04 9 17 Edinburgh and G-lasgow 1691 1691 7,800 7.,, 1 Furness, &c 5O 5 i 2,809 2 , ‘,-,' Glasgow & South-Western Gt. Eastern,Nrf k.,&E. Union Great Northern 353 351 30,311 28,F; Great North of Scotland 5B 58 1,787 1.,1 Ut. Northn. & Westn. (Irel.) 7 15 661 486 r; qt.Southn. & Westn.(lrind.) 3731 329 7,974 7 , ',',7; Great Western 10561 10324 58,347 5 2,) ,',.'"' Inverness & Aberdeen June 864 864 1,299 1,,' Inverness & Perth Junction 1195 - 1,1 8 '; Irish North-Western 145 145 1,720 1,91 Lancashire & Yorkshire Limerick and Ennis... Limerick and Foynes Idanelly 4 2 04 2 24661 39 224 5 466 1 32 , 2 1510 5 3: 0 67 3 94114709 London & North-Western London and Blackwall London & South-Western Lond. Brighton, &S. Coast 2614 2111 16,1f,S 17,6746 London, Chatham, .46 Dover 724 721 1,003 2 „ sv x Do. Metropolitan Extension 104 51 875 IL' Loud., Tilbury, & Southend Han.,Sheiffeld,&Lincolnsh Manch. S.J un.& A ltrincham 9l 91 1,203 1,0 5 s Ilaryport and Carlisle 2B 28 1,414 1,197 Metropolitan 35 - 1,852 -- Midland (incl. N.-Western) 641 6141 43,375 39,522 Midland Gt.Westn. of Irind 2591 1921 5,151 5,633 blonkland 714 714 1,513 1,643 Monmouthsh. Rail. & Canal North British, Edin., Perth and Dundee N-Eastern and Stock. & DarL 1095 .10775 55,918 49,956 North London 9 9 3,209 3,01 2 North Staffordshire 254 252 8,433 7.6, 6 . 1 ; Oswestry and Newton... 5O 42 1,023 77 , ,`i Rhymney l9 19 1,010 ,11149 St. Helen's Canal & Railway 52 52 1,725 703 Scottish Central Scottish North-Eastern l3B 1325 4,690 7.'...., Somerset and Dorset 66 391 - 2, 796 South Devon 6464 South-Eastern Taff Vale 306 3 05 17,1 5 ; Ulster Vale of Clwyd 2.C41 Vale of Neath 325 251 2, 3 " y 2t ) 2 Waterford and Kilkenny 3l 31 267 4,443 Wateribrd and Limerick 77 77 1 ,416 650 West Cornwall 271 271 663 4,771 W.Hartlepoolllarbr.&RaiL 43 18 4,211 46/ W'haven,Cleator,& Egrmnt 7 7 65 718 Whitchaven Junction l2 12 967 - ,,, z g - Whitehaven & Furness Jun 35 35 830 ""'" FOREIGN AND COLONIAL. Antwerp and Rotterdam 52 Austrian B2B Belgian Eastern Junction 264 Bombay, Baroda, & Cen. India 1835 Buffalo and Lake Huron l6ll Detroit and Milwaukie lB9 Dutch Rhenish Eastern Bengal Eastern of France East Indian Grand Trunk of Canada lO9O Great Indian Peninsula 5381 Great Luxembourg .. . Great Southern of India Great Western of Canada 345 Madrid, Saragossa &Alicant 650 Northern of Canada .....• •-• 91 697 N o rthern of France ....•••••• Norweg i a n Trunk .......... 44 Ottoman Paris, Lyons, & Mediterrn lBO5 Paris and Orleans l 6 74 Pernambuco 4 Royal Danish 69 Sambre and Meuse 6B South Austrian Southern of France .. . 770 Victorian 196 Welland ......... ..... .. 25 West Flanders 75 W. and N.W. of France Railways. 1,172 1,015 34,732 37,91 z 335 331 2,1(.0 ,I; 2,736 102' 5,371 4,74/ 572 3,46 0 3, - 1,798 1081 56,361 49,958 639 --- - 1090 20,460 19,17° 495 8,928 5,045 134 4,057 4,100 79 545 403 315 - -- 490 18,027 16,0 27 9 9 1,385 1, 95 61 58,660 55,550 44 5,002 V 25 48} 324 291 , 1676 142,637 1 33,455 1 431 70,432 61,723 559 506 69 705 , 68 1,121 1.5% 1315 52,069 48,08, 680 25,y45 24,501 151 9,031 7,405 25 408 021 7:1 985 901 813 40,640 35,911 828 26i 132 161} 180 1082 Foreign Mail Packet List. NAILS DUE. „Dec' 13: Australia and Mauritius, via Southampton...•• via Marseilles ......... 4, Brazil and Cape Verds, by British pacßet. ....... 0, Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, and St. lieleua..Dec• 19, China, Penang, and Singapore, via Southam p ec. p t u n.ec• 13. via Marseilles ..D Falkland Islands Gibraltar, via Southampton .................. Dec'„ 19, India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via Southampton. • Dec, via Marseilles.... Dc• 12. India (Bombay), via Southampton ............ I) , Th ee ; 6. via Marseilles ................ '''''''' 4. Portugal.... Malta, Egypt, and Aden, via Southampton ...... Dec,. 6.- via Marseilles ........ n Dec,9, Newfoundland Oporto and Vigo , UU. S. and British N. America, by Brit. pac ket.. • • De by U.S. packet.... 1,,,,, Dec by Canadian packet. Dec' ,0. W.C. of Africa, Madeira, and Tenoriffe .......... Dec. "Dec. ec. 1;1 ;,f . ' Mexico ................................. .... ', All parts of West Indies, including ....... Peru, 1 Dec. 0. California. and British Colu mbia. ........... : Bahamas, via New York ................. ... --e.) Births. C IT AMPION.—At 1 , Le nnard-place, Circus-road, 5t.J0h13.1'6.: wood, th e wife of Major J. H. Champion, Assist...AO ylusaAnodue rl r y s O a n g h t the of 9th N i V s a o w d General' Mhow Division of the Army, of a daughter. le HUTTON.—On the 1 1 th inst. , at Upper Tooting, the 14.1 of Thomas 0 . H utton, Es q ., of a da ughter. ,icohiatheeonw.ife of rEythß M penols a ato ri r a g o e s . POTTINGER—SHIPP n the 10th inst., at C li .,.. e° : eSdeateruedge daughter enHr of tt county of Durham v .. lig the tte WAItD--CLARKEI,I2-On pie,te eldestrter-le-Street, a lu. og e Eit he r, t eit E inr. io.ot q f.s , 7e , hnat o iht.p f epot t elh h rar a e etd erslef Roberti nly n g : liAc r o t::e _ i ii j i t e r. ,I. 0 1 j vce ; Sir Henry Pott . niejohistasedgPlileingstoonno, ItojAosnethie,tl B h a de rt , G.C.13., to Mary ...., a r . Clarke, Esq., of Cold Harbour, Oxon. Vard, Esq., el the Manor Id ~t• Deaths. ly Oh BLYTH.—On the Bth inst., at Brighton , Samuel i, Esq. CROOK.—On the 11th inst., at 13, Wellington-road, "'l' berwell, Charles Lees Crook, Esq ., a g ed Oh Char le° n CAtoN.—On the 10th inst., at Upp er Holloway,, _(''do, Thomas Capron, E: , ,q., of the Stock Exchange. JJ aged 73. _ JEVII a n ' EVANS —On the 10th inst., M r . Daniel Maurice of 208, Regent-street, W. , a g ed 43. II A. H it a ft r r i i s s o e ri e ~ —E O B q n , the 0 19 t t h he in it s e t. y , a at r i a t g ri o in e u s g s , a t a e gce lll l , l . i3ul „ , we er. 0' CONNELL.—On the 10th inst., a t the Spa , ti li o bt ged Mary, relict of Lieut.. General Sir M. C. O'Cunne 80. ingh..ni-gate, William Ituthery, jun., Esq., age d RoTHERY.—On the 9th inst., at 18, Jarues-street,:le- Louden : Pr'in zed and Putquilied by WILLIA.IIIANDIII'.I of O. 112, Strand, P rinter, at TUE SUN Otlice NO* 11- ; ,n the Precinct ui the savoy. 41 the Count/ Strand, 12, liiiidiegex. at urglaY.. DecemberlBo3. I T '-'rehest tivinit; Gr a ; / 3 7 th e °re lleg tl 3 TI A. In co vend s Issued 1 Per cen at the 1 /t r. Grl at one atte n d . 2,0 c Pour ttbov e tonci or B ev ery . °frice all into On p lience Office 4, TO- - CoN G Xelod M. 3 ISIONI Till follow MAID DE L, -- dies and El Also Celebr A -n d Pz tkiN- Com V. H a Jol la (4 The moat ] Op e and bi n~ F' I I I Gran 7 111S_ A' Du ] M a i e , XVli \Vile ;Siam pars! 4 % ttv Di Pens to t afro Birv, 115 e An( Pal Pat