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

Liberal Demonstration at Leeds O a Tuesday evening a demonstration of the Li bera I party in the Northern Division of the West RA' mg of Yorkshire took pl.ace at the Queen Hotel, Lee ,ds, when several members of the Legislature we re present. Mr. H. S. Thompson, M P., pr e . aided, and proposed the toast of " Her Majesty's 31" misters," saying that two of them (Sir C. Wood, arAd Lord de Grey) br,d promised to be present, but i , ,nportant business connected with the occupation of Denmark by Ceerman troops made it neccessary that a Cabinet Council should be held, and that they et..ould go to London. Mr. B.:IINEs, M.P., proposed, " The House of Morels." (Cheers.) Although they belonged to the democratic portion of the Constitution, and the Lords to the aristocratic; although they were most of them earnest reformers, and although the House of Peers was supposed to be rather conservatively dispos'ad, yet, notwithstanding that, he believed the noblamen of Yorkshire were not one-sided cian s, but were cmpable of viewing more than one aide of a question. Looking at history, and looking around upon the Governments of the world, he ti ., ought he had reason to be confirmed in our at tachment to our glorious Constitution—to that mixed form of government of King, Lords, and Commons which seemed to be pronounced by the verdict of history to be more conducive than any other to true liberty, solid prosperity, and peace at home and abroad. (Cheers.) The House of Lords, he e*tceived, was entitled to their respect, not merely Tor its great antiqalty, which caused it to be rooted in the very foto aation of the commonwealth of England, but also because it had proved itself to be, at mfeny of the most important periods of our his tor;, the best defender of the liberties of the people. (C,heers.) Many a time and oft had the peers of 'ngland prevented the liberties of the people from being swallowed up by the prerogatives of the Crown. Ha need not say that those old barons who assembled at Runnymede took for their motto, " We will not that the laws of Englend be changed;'' nor remind them that at our glorious revolution the foundation of that great change was laid in th e blood of a Russell, and cemented by the patriotism of a Caveudish. (Cheers.) Nor need he t e ll any of them that in our great modern charter—the Re form. Bill—the people had for their leaders G rey and Brougham_ (Cheers.) Therefore, he thought thee/ had reason to•pride themselves that the peers of 'england had held an exemplary position in the history of the liberties of this country, Theirs was n history which he thought w ou ld not fall much below that of any other class in any other country of the world in brilliancy and real dignity. (Hear, hear.) There were aristocracies which were of a very different character to this. There were those who . were so separated from the bulk of the com munity that a man Could neither descend from them nor ascend from the plebian ranks to them—an aristocracy which had been distinguished by being exempted from the burdens of taxation, and by not being amenable to the same laws as their fellow stebjects. But how great was the difference between them and the aristocracy of England. (Hear, hear.) 'They were amenable to all the laws to which the meanest subject was amenable ; they had to pay all the taxes which any yeoman, farmer, manufacturer, or artisan had to pay. They were also intermixed in various ways with the bulk of the people, and, RS commoners, the sons of peers had been distin guished as legislators by their wisdom and their patriotism. In Yorkshire they had happy recollec tions of a Milton, a Morpeth, end a Gederich, most belc,ved representatives of. that popular and. popu loris constituency who had ever been true to their asrly lives and pledges. They were peers who rose from the ranks of the Commons to the higher Mouse, end he was happy to say that they bad coo noble friend there—(Lord Houghton)— they heti hoped to see two noble friends—who bed beeu raised by desert the most unquestionable to the dignities which had been conferred upon them. It was a subject of great regret to Lord Mont eagle that he was not able to be - scith them that evening, but he was happy to see the youngest member of that illustrious assembly, the House of lords, then present. (Cheers.) He classed him - without hesitation in the same category as Lord Monteagle, for he knew that the name of Richard 3.donckton Miln€, s , th a t was i nscr ib e d upon bright pages in our literature, was honourebly known - in the House of Commons, and was inscribed in the hearts of a great number of students of our educa tional inetite tions, whom be at all times had honoured ant . ' encouraged. (Hear.) Mr. Baines then remarked tliett he did not know any aspect in which the intern., is of the House of Lords were adverse to the intferrJsts of the great bulk of the people; on the contraea . : , he believed their interests to be most striet'q and indissolubly bound up with the safety. the 'rumour, and prosperity:of the country. It might be aimitted that the Lords were not directly repre sentative, nor were they directly responsible, yet sul)stantialiy he thought they were both one and tt,e other, and stood as much, or more, exposed than etny class in the country to public opinion, which no man in this age dared to set at nought and de spise. (Cheers.) He did not see any reason why there should be any jealousy on the part of the Souse of Lords of a full and free representation of the people in the House of Commons. They gave to t he Lords most cheerfully the rights which for so ta t °s' centuries they had held, and to which they we ts entitled • but they on their part claimed that the _ e °us of Commons should be a true and ade- Ecri:,,tleatti . repres en tation of the people and Commons of (Cheers.) He was glad to find that that wee the opini on of ( the meeting as well as his. Hear.) li t , the questioa t o 4 ;:lught they would not find that when t h ere extension of the franchise was approached thel : 7ould be any opposition on the part of the part of thoseZ he was sure there was not on held the principles of true Conservatism,bect eue o t Conservatism was always in favour of real roan:a:it. was only false Conser vatism which opposed con rn a prove . ment indiscrimi nately, and of that false atism he would not them until it was suspect r t e oexist. fiear.) Lord HOUGH TON was received on rising to respond. After expressing his regret that the West Riding would be for the os . he all uded to his own f uture in tw o divi sions for electoral purposes, elevation to the peerage in the following terms ~,eracious Sovereign By the favour of our en and the kind regard of the great and popular Mi t e than Ministe r am placed on the threshold o f another asseme,Y that which 1 have been a p art of for the -' l ast and twenty years. I own that that eircuna sf would be to me one of unalloyed regret (and i t is accompanied with sufficient regret in leaving th ose old friends, and those old benches, a nd those old faces, and all the familiar aspects, and all the tnmults and confusions of that period), I believed that I was going to join an assembly which did not " permit me to continue my sympathies w ith the popular cause. (Hear, hean) I believe — and t he assertion of Mr. Baines, veteran Liberal as he is, proves that he at least believes—that by going into that House I do not in any degree abdicate those interests. (Applause.) I think that a man must read very ill the signs of the times who believes that any aristocracy can exist in this or any other country which does not sympathise with and take an inte rest in the pursuits and progress of the people. Not wealth, not hospitality, not the graces and ameni ties of society, not knowledge, not learning, not eves v irtue itself will preserve an aristocracy in its iPower, its dignity, or even i n i ts secur i ty i n t h e t i mes n which We live, if it remains exclusive, apart, and alienated from the destinies of the people. (Loud eh e „ s. • , ) That is the feeling with which I approach that a ssembly —that is the feeling with which I leave these with whom I have been so long a ssociated. I know it is said by many persons that party interests are entirely extinguished that there 1 5 rea lly no longer 505 , ° difference between parties, and that therefore it is of no importance whatever what party is predominant in thi s country. Now, it seercs to m e, at least, a very strang e mode of ar gum nt that our opponents, the gentlemen who eyeseeed US 80 long , h i s-oh.t. have come to this ' et we have brought the country into so contented a po sition tni .at theme,s ures which w e have passer have resul, much prosperity. 1 ; to say to these own that I tiTT I 1 , gentlemen " Surely you can't fit : f au lt if the Count r y should 13 who have prod uced rather favour those person conelasion, — th a TEE SUN. LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 17, 1863. that prosperity than those who have habitually op posed it." (Cheers.) And I don't know how we are to account for this position unless we a , nme a state of things which we in England do a quite un derstand—viz., that there is nothing fo , t but a re• gular turn and turn about for all profits and conveniences of office, and that, therefore, party existence shall collapse. I might be inclined to say that there was some reason in this argument did I not feel that there is still, and that there ever will be, a fundamental difference between the men who' wish for progress and the men who wish to remain still. (Cheers.) We may well allow that tee vete ran statesman who was a party to the repeal of the Test and Corporation Act, to the emancipation of Roman Catholic fellow-subjects, to the revision of the Poor Law, to the establishment of your munici pal franchises, and to the great Reform Bill— (cheers)—we may well allow him, in the decline of his age, to say that he wishes to" rest and be thank ful." (Applause.) But the nation to which we be long is not a veteran nation. It is young and still fresh, and fall of future energy and future hope, and therefore we will say to him, "Rest and be thankful, if you will. Grateful to you are we for all you have done, and we wish only that there were many like you, but you must permit the nation to which you belong to say that we wish to ascend to still further heights and to still nobler develop. ments." (Cheers.) The difference between us and our adversaries is this—that we do desire to keep ever open the portals of our Constitution to the foot of honest endeavour and of noble aspiration. (Re newed cheers.) We do not desire that these portals shall remain hermetically closed until some evil day they are forced open by an " ugly rush," such as one intelligent individual had prognosticated. (Applause.) Therefore, Ido trust that this assem bly—each one of them in their own spheres and in their own localities —will do all in their power to promote thi s i ssue and advance these interests. Let them beware o f any supineness in this matter. Let 'hose in Parliament know that there is a good genuine Liberal constituency in the West Riding, and let there be no want of vigilance, or enthu siasm, or interest. Let your friends know that we have not to deal with any supine or idle enemy. We have to deal with men who, Tories as they are, still are enough of Englishmen to know that it is the business and duty of Englishmen to be active in the political position which they occupy. They are active, and you must be active too. They are vigilant, and you must be vigilant too, or else they will beat you in the race, and distance you in the objects you are pursuing. (Hear.) There is no doubt whatever that there is at this moment in the country what is called a great Conservative spirit. Much of it is honest, mach of it good, much of it wise, much of it safe. It is for us to see that that Conservative spirit does not go on till it tends to excite the feelings of those outside to fancy they are excluded from the benefits and blessings of our Constitution. Let them remember that the greatest danger, the greatest calamity, perhaps, of the times in which we live was when the people of France thought that the electoral body was an exclusive body, that that body made itself into a separate country within a country, and that it stood by itself apart fram the interests of the whole community, depending upon itself and think ing only of itself. Then it was that they rose and crushed it by revolution, which ended in its turn in a miserable despotism. Let them see that there is nothing more unhappy for a country than to yield to the impulses of fear. Dont let us distrust each of her. Don't let the employer distrust the employed. Don't let the wealthy and powerful in this country believe that merely by education, by counsel, and by example they can raise others to their own level; but let them do all in their power so that we may grow gradually, extending the power and greatness of this England of ours until this country, which knows no classes, which knows no divisions, which knows no essential interests between all classes of the people, shall become, as far as God permits, a homogeneous and glorious whole. (Loud cheers.) Mr, J. D. DENT, M.P., proposed "the Army, N:wy, and Rifle Volunteers." He believed that a r€duction in the expenditure for the army and navy could alone be accomplished by the efforts of such men as Earl de Grey and Ripon and Mr. Stansfeld (Applause.) He saw no reason to disbelieve a para graph of a semi official character referring to the services of Mr. Stansfeld during the recess for the reduction of those expenses—(hear)—an d he thought they ought not to begrudge the large expenditure, but the money waated by officials. (Hear, hear.) That was the motto of the Liberal party. There were one or two small wars on hand—wars expen sive and reflecting discredit upon the country. (Hear, hear.) He did not mean to say that the army and navy were the cause of that discredit, but there were Englishmen who were only English. men in name, men who thought they could do what they liked with barbarous nations, and it fell upon the country to redress the grievances which they had created. (Hear, hear.) There was but little credit to be made with wars in India, New Zealand, or battles in Japan, but there was a sad loss of life and expenditure of money, a loss of the best men in the services. (Hear, hear.) He wished they could see the conclusion of those miserable pettifogging little wars. (Hear, hear.) Sir J. W. RAMSDEN, M.P., briefly proposed " the Chairman and Committee of the Liberal Registra tion Association for the Northern Division of the West Riding." (Cheers.) He expressed an opinion that the Northern Division would return two Liberal members, and that a gentleman would be selected as his (Sir John's) successor who would do honour to the representation. (Hear, hear.) Mr. THOMPSON, M.P., the chairman, acknow- ledged the toast. He spoke of the efficient way in which the Liberal registration for the West Riding had hitherto been conducted ; but he said the observation was often made, " What is the use of it, there is no difference now between Conservative and Liberal ? Real Liberalism is defunct, or at least as dormant as if it were not of any practical use." He did not believe it. The statement was an inven tion of the enemy. He stood up, as chairman of the association, to give it a most unqualified contradic tion. Did any one really believe that Conservative tactics had changed —(cries of No)—when there were any great questions to be considered ? The Conservatives did sometimes, in small matters, bid as high, or perhaps higher, than even the Liberals —it suited their purpose to do so ; but the measures of progress which they would have supported or given would have been small indeed but for the Liberal party, who kept them up to the mark. Their the (Conservatives') maxim was to keep what ' they . had got. In considering any measure of the i !ct . nehise, it must make an essential difference, whether they looked at it with a view to give as Age n it as they could, or give as little as they could. Li ' ber nY were told that there was no liberality in the in the fac a t i party, and the supposed proof was given late years, of Liberal measures having passed of t in Liberal measures which had been proposed being r t e He was not going to de fend altogether of Zi til (Hear, hear.) He was not of the Liberal ra individuals, but to say the there to find fault might have a o , e party had they been entirely Were . looking at the whentheya was of all things the munoasnticairnopusor;taahndt,he thoughtn a political party, 4 y should see how much they had lo3t of late by not ia c Liberals as oming cordially together. Therefore he wool lay down, their fundamental maxims, that f or the futureas one of should eschew crotchets, and purs ue all gret they mea sures with unanimity, and turn a dear ear to the that they w ere . suggestions of the enemy divid ed and he believed useless. (Hear.) Nowthoroughly that it was because there were no great questions,, afl oat th a t I there was no greater unan imit y . That was p roved es by the consideration that DO chati ri . „ were called f or • through practical injustice or disabilities, or from a wantof rights : for if he compared this country with any other on the face of the globe, there was no other in which the people were enjoying suc h perfect liberty and independence as this, (Hear.) He did not say this in order to prove that there was no occasion to do more, but after looking back upon what had been done, they must not be surprised that people's time should be taken up in realising the results of those great measures. Therefore, until some other great measures came up, people would not be found giving au much time and attention to the political questious of the day. One 'of the greatest of these was the question of Parliamentary Reform. The men in the West Riding had already plainly stated their opinions on this subject, but the Liberal party had failed to carry a new measure. That was in consequence of the great middle class of this country not taking that hearty interest in it that they should have taken. The Reform Bill of 1832 caused a perfect revolution in this country. It caused a revolution bloodless and peaceful such as was never exceeded in any c a o s u s o n c t i r a y t i . n n t h e : c y I; h t e n ,:e r h t e h s e a i t d i m , e speaking co o m f e this e was persuaded they would show that they were stronger than ever they were before, and more united. (!','leers.) Ltird F. CAVENDISH, who it is understood will, at the next election, be one of the Liberal candi dates for the Northern division, proposed " The Liberal Members of the House of Commons: , He approved the course which the Government had taken on foreign affairs, and said that it gave him great pleasure to think that the struggle in America would result in the downfall of slavery. (Cheers.) Mr. LEATHAM, M.P., in replying to the last toast, expressed a sincere hope that that evening's banquet would draw closer together the various sections of Liberals, and animate them all with common hopes and purposes. Sir F. CROSSLEY, M.P., proposed " The Liberal electors of the West Riding," and in doing so said that so much progress had been made during the last 30 years, and so much had been done for the advantage of the great bulk of the population, that they must now look well at every step, lest they made matters worse. Just let him glance at a few of the reforms which had been accomplished during the last 40 years. Prohibition had been removed from the statute-book. (Hear.) Soon after that Protection was removed—a word which General Thompson very appropriately said ought to be stated in the dictionary as meaning " robbing some body else"—(laughter)—and so it ought to be. Then all the duties on the necessaries of life had been to tally removed. (A Voice—" No ; malt.'') Malt was not a necessary of life. (A Voice—" Sugar.") (Laughter.) The duty on bread, on meat, on bricks, on timber, on glass, and on salt had been totally removed, and, in fact, a working man could please himself whether he paid any taxes to the State or not. (A Voice—" Sugar, coffee, and tea.') If he drank, or smoked, or snuffed, he must pay, and so he ought. (Laughter.) He believed these taxes did good to the buyer as well as to the receiver. It was good for the State to receive these taxes, and it was good for those who had to pay, for if the price of these articles were reduced the quantity consumed would do more harm than good. The duty on tea had been reduced from 2s. 2d. to is., and he was not prepared to say that they might not reduce further the duty on tea, sugar, and coffee, provided they had the retrench ment which Mr. Leathern alluded to; but he thought all those articles were articles which should pay duty. (Voices—" No !") They were not protective duties, but only revenue duties on articles which we do not produce in this country, and therefore they were articles on which we should pay a fair and moderate duty. (Voices—" No !") As to the ques tioa of reform, he had read with great care the two speeches made at Rochdale by the two great autho rities on free trade ; but, while giving those hon. gentlemen every credit for being earnest reformers, he was of opinion that those speeches had done more to retard reform than to advance it. (Voices —" No, no.") They had frightened those who had the power of giving reform from giving it. (A Voice—" Why ?e) They had become frightened because these gentlemen made it out that the work ing men were an injured class, not because they were without a vote, but that they were injured and oppressed by those who had the vote; whereas, as he (Sir F. Crossley) had shown, the registration of the last 30 years had tended towards the ameliora tion of the very class which did not possess the franchise. He was as earnest in favour of re form as any one, but he wanted to go the right way to get it. They would not get reform by frightening those who had the power to give it, for they had no very great grievance with which to g) to Parliament. They could not expect to take reform by storm ; it must be done by persuasion. They could only du it by persuasion, by showing that they had an intelligent class who had no vote, Silt were fully and fairly entitled to it ; and if they possessed these qualifications, they knew that the legislation of many years past had been in their favour, and that, if they were allowed to enter the lists, the state of things would not be very much altered. His opinion was, that by going honestly, fully, and fairly for the object they had in view, they would accomplish it better than by trying to make cut a case which was not to be made out. The foreign politics of the last two years had been stir ring matters, and he believed he was not going too far when he said the present Government had the confidence not only of its usual supporters, but of the country at large. (Applause.) The policy of non-intervention had kept us out of many and grave difficulties. We had been a long time in learning that it was enough for England to manage her own immense affairs, the interests of her teeming popu lation, and her immense colonies ; and although it was very flattering to be looked up to by all coun tries, and called in to settle their disputes, yet we bad at last learnt that we had really not time and money, or strength, to be always engaging in other people's battles. (Hear, hear.) The Government had lately had a very important subject to consider —namely, the European Congress to which they were invited by the Emperor of the French. No one could read carefully the reply of Earl Russell without seeing that he gave very sufficient reasons why Engle nd should decline to enter that Congress. The conduct of the French Emperor had been so straightforward towards this country that every suggestion of his could not but be received with the greatest courtesy and respect ; but England ex pected something more from her Minister than the attempt to please a foreign potentate. (Hear, hear.) They expected their Ministers to look at all ques tions with a view to England's interests, and he thought that Earl Russell showed sufficient reason why England was not justified in going to the Congress without knowing whether the results of ' that Congress were to be enforced by war. (Cheers.) Mr. FORSTER, responded to the toast. IRELAND. DUBLIN, Dec. 15. The winter show of the Royal Dublin Society was opened yesterday in the Agricultural hail, Kildare street. The entries were not very numerous, but the size and qualities of the animals exhibited are said never to have been surpassed in Ireland. There were 50 entries of horned cattle, 40 of sheep, and 20 of pigs. The fat cattle are for the most part magnifi cent specimens of their kind ; some of the swine are monsters for size, and the sheep are said to be of excellent quality. There are 170 entries of poultry, which ate exhibited in one of the galleries. There is also an immense show of field and garden pro duce, many of the specimens of turnips, mangolds, cabbages, parsnips, &c., being of enormous size and weight. The hall contains a large number of farm ing implements of various kinds, and the depart ment of Irish frieze is well filled with specimens from all parts of the country. A silver cup, value 50 guineas, was contributed by Mr. Allan Pollok, J.P., of Lismaney, for the best animal. It was won by to heifer, cross-bred between a Hereford cow and a short-horned bull, the property of Mr. Gavin Low, salesmaster, Dublin, The blue ribaud in the farm produce was won for the Earl of Charlernont by his steward, Mr. James Brady, with a magnificent col lection of roots. The prize consisted of Messrs. "Legg and Robertsou'd challenge cup. In this de partment the society's medal was won by Mr. Thos. via Hutto n, ra Drumeondra. The attendance at the show at numerous and fashionable. Buyers from tue show E n g lish markets were well represented. Th e w ape well lighted wnitihn the evening also, th e h a ll b e i ng traction of but notwithstanding th e at wasil the appearance of the hall rather dreary. The Egmont will ease Nvta,sha of Carincery yesterda had o ain t 3d over in order before the Court y. to obtain the certificate of the ' Judge by whom it was tried in Cork. This had been obtained, and the Lord Chancellor was now asked to say that the compromise which had been made was for the benefit of the minors, in order that an Act of Parliament might be obtained to give affect to the arrangement. Under a consent-order Lord Egmont had brought into court £125,000, which had been invested in Consols, except a sum of £llB, which would now be brought in. There were two estates mentioned in the will of the late Sir Edward Tierney, and it was necessary to determine what portion of the money was to represent the Kantutk estate and the Churchtown estate respectively. For this a reference to the Master was absolutely necessary. Lord Eg mont is to receive the rents of the estates from November, 1863. The Act of Parliament will direct that the money which is entailed on the minors shall be invested in land for their bent fit. Lady Tierney, who is no party to the compromise, has an annuity of £5OO charged uron one of the estates. But while Lord Egmont holds the estates, subject to her rights, he is to be indemnified by Sir Lionel Darell for any claim she may make. LAW INTELLIGENCE—Yesterday. DIVORCE COURT. (Before Sir J. P. Wilde and a Special Jury.) FITZGERALD V. FITZGERALD. Mr. M, Chambers, Q.C., and Dr. Wambey, instructed by Messrs. Thomas and Co., appeared for the petitioner ; and the Queen's Advocate, Mr, Huddleston, Q.C., and Dr. Spinks, instructed by Messrs, Freshfield and Co., for the respondent. Mr. Chambers stated the case. The petitioner, Mrs, Charlotte Georgiana Fitzgerald, prayed for a divorce from her husband on the ground of cruelty and adultery, to which the respondent pleaded denial. Major Fitzgerald was the son of Lord William Fitzgerald, and the petitioner was the daughter of a gentleman of fortune, named Bellesworth. The marriage was solemnised at St, George's, Hanover • square, on the 12th November, 1857, and in about a week afterwards the ill-treatment was commenced. It appeared that at the time of the marriage Major Fitzgerald was in debt, and receiving only £5OO from his father-in-law, he abused him and his wife's mother in the hearing of his wife. After the marriage the parties went to Paris and they returned to Dublin, where the parties resided in Hume street for some months. Major Fitzgerald was deputy quartermaster. general, and in the course of his official visits he became acquainted with a gentleman named Mallet, who held a situation in the Caw le at Dublin, and it was with the wife of that gentleman that the adultery was alleged. The intrigue with this lady was carried on during the honey - moor., and the neglect and ill-treatment were alleged to have been continued daring the period of their cohabitation which lasted until the 234 of August, 1862, and in two in stances his conduct produced premature confinements and the death of the children with which she was then enciente. Major Fitzgerald took on himself to decline invitations for his wife while they were in Dublin, and he was in thelhabit of leaving her alone from breakfast until the evening. It further appeared that the respondent was entitled to be tween £20,000 and £30,000 in the event of surviving his wife. Mrs. Fitzgerald was examined by Mr. Chambers. After the marriage, she and her husband went to Folkestone, and then to Paris, m;here they stayed at the Hotel Deux Mendes for seven or eight days. They breakfasted together at the hotel, but Major Fitzgerald left her alone.all day, and only took her out once, and that at the instigation of their land lady. He abused her parents in the most offensive man ner, calling her father "a scoundrel," and her mother "a sharper," and a designing, wicked old woman." He also treated her very ill while they were in Paris, both by lan guage and contemptuous manner, and took a fan from her stating that he was going to get it repaired ; bdt he did not bring it back, end said that it had been given to her by some " - lover of hers." Oa their return to London after leaving Paris, she wanted a riding habit. He told her that Mrs. Mallet had sent one back, and it would do for her, but she refused it. She heard him constantly talking about Mrs. Mallet. When he spoke of Mrs. Mallet it was in an expressive manner. On their way to Holyhead on their return from the Continent, he addressed her only in monosyllables. There was something strange in his appearance, and she 'asked him if he was ill. He replied, " I never did love you, and only married you for your money," and he cursed his father for not having prevented the marriage when he knew the state of his feelings. When they returned .to Ireland they remained for some time at Salthill Hotel, near Dublin. He had to attend at his office only about two hours in the day, but ha was in the habit of leaving her alone. While at Salthill Major Fitzgerald called her "an old screw, and a battered creature." lie did not ill-treat her beforelservants, He requested her to visit Mrs. Mallet amongst the first whom she went to see in Dublin. On one occasion he said, with reference to their having children, that if they were like her they would be "such disgustinz little imps." With reference to taking her, into society in Dublin, he said, "I am not going about like an ass with a wife tied to my tail." In INlay, 1858, they came to England and she took up her residence at Dover for two months, but her husband remained in London. Major Fitzgerald was in the habit of praising women to her who possessed what she did not in their personal appearance, such as the colour of hair and complexion. He called her an old scarecrow, and he likened her to a lump of dirt. He had conversation with her about married women who had intrigued, and advised her if she was not happy to do the same. She said she would not, and that if she left him she would return to her parents, and he replied that she had better do so as anybody else would drop her like a lump of dirt. The witness then detailed a series of acts of violence on the part of her husband which led to her premature confinements, and the effects of which were visi ble in bruises arid marks on her person, and on one occasion he jammed her between the door of a room. Major Fitz gerald said with respect to her premature confinement in Chester-street, what a fool she must be to live with him after that event. The Queen's Advocate cross-examined the witness at great length. She met her hu s b an d fi rst at M aldon, and she was acquainted with bine about three or four months before the marriage. Major Fitzgerald expected to have received £1,500 from her father at their marriage, but he only got £5OO. It was a misunderstanding on her husband's part. There was 4000 settled by her husband's father on her and £lOO a year, which her husband received. Her husband had about £5OO a year. She admitted that some letters produced were in her handwriting , but denied that others were. She said that on the occasion of one of her confinements she was exa she min ever eclb stated by Dr. sprt. Perry, wh o p ut h er to pa i n. She denied that ed to Lady Ann Cherson that Dr. Perry had caused the death of her child, but she believed that when her husband said so she adopted his statement. She did not make any suoh statement to Dr. Pettigrew or any one else. They purchased with her money a house at Bra den, Malmesbury, and here they had an altercation re specting some trees which her husband wanted to cut down, and he called her a viper. Some time before that he caused her spasms at the heart by hie violence. During two years that he absented himself from her bed tnere' was no necessity :for his doing so from the state of her health except for about six weeks. In August, 1861, her husbandin consequence of bad health, b not say that the letter now ut for pleasure. was a t Cowes, shec notou could produced was in her handwriting. She knew a man named Kelly, who had been a butler in Mr. Mallett's family. When the present proceeding s were instituted he was lying ill in the Bath Hospital, and expressed a wish to see her. She went to him, and carried him what she thought from his state he might require. She knew a Mrs. Hopkins, who was out of her mind in conseciaence of the persecution to which she was subjected with a view to prevent her giv ing evidence in the suit. 'With respect to the child to which she had given birth, and which died in 36 hours afterwards, she did not refuse to see it. When it was moan ing in its last crisis, she desired it to be taken upstairs that she might not be disturbed by its cries. Re-examined —She put the case into the hands of a soli citor. She never suggested to the witnesses on her behalf what they were to state, but on the contrary she declined to speak to them on the subject'of the suit. Kelly died a month after she saw him at Bath, and all she took to him were two apples, a bunch of grapes, and a biscuit. She saw him three times while she was at Bath. Hopkins was a cook in her family when her child died, and was a witness for her both to the adultery and the cruelty charged. She wrote a good many letters to the sisters of Major Fitzgerald, and she ex pressed herself in terms of affection towards him. Her rea son for doing so was that so long as they lived together she wished that th e i n t er i or o f their home should not be dis closed, as it might have the effect of injuring her husband with her father. The same motive influenced her with refe rence to other parties as regarded the alleged cause of her child's death, she being anxious to uphold her husband's character so long as she remained under the same roof with him. She wrote a letter to her mother complaining of her husband's conduct. _ _ Mr. Perry, F.R.C.S., said that he had been called in t see Mrs. Fitzgerald at Chester-street in 1559, in order to give an opinion as to her condition. She was eight months in pregnancy. From what she stated as to an altercation between her and her husband some days previously, she telt very ill, and from the symptoms she described he felt satisfied that she was carrying a dead child, The witness then stated that he adopted means to ascertain the fact, of which he was quite satisfied. The means were of the most simple nature, and, as far as he could recollect, he did not think that he had recourse to the use of an instrument, lie could not have killed the child without endangering the life of the mother. lie did not remain with Mrs. Fitzgerald more than a quarter of an hour, and had not seen her since except in court that day. On the day when he was called in to Mrs. Fitzgerald he saw Major Fitzgerald, and he be lieved he made a report to him relative to his wife, and the Major gave him his fee. By the Queen's Advocate —Although the witnesses had been ordered out of court he was present when Mrs. Fitz gerald gave that portion of her evidence which related to him. He was told tbat he might come into the court, which accounted for his presence during the examination of the petitioner. At the conclusion of this witness's evidence the case, which is likely to occupy some days, was adjourned until to-morrow (this day), ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE. ---~ HOME CIRCUIT.—MAIDSTONE, Dec. 16. The winter assize was to open here to-day, but as Mr Baron Pigott was detained at Taunton, the commencement of business here has been postponed till to-morrow (Thurs day), the commission being opened this evening. The calendar is not very heavy. There are altogether about 20 cases, of which two are cases of homicide, one being charged as murder, and the other as manslaughter. There are about six cases of arson, one of which is a charge of firing a dwel ling-house, the other the ordinary cases of rick or stack burning. _ _ On Monday, the 21st, the commission opens and business commences at Lewes, where the calendar is at present light. On the next day, Tuesday, the 22d, the commission opens at Chelmsford, where there is a charge of murder, and pro bably as much business as here. On the very next day, the 23d, the commission is opened and the business commences at Kingston, where also there is a charge of murder and some serious cases, and it is not at all improbable that there will be two assizes on the same circuit at the same time, nor is it impossible that there may be three—Sussex, Essex, and Surrey—all at the same time. Another judge, Mr. Baron Martin, is coming to Surrey, and it is not impro bable that Mr. Baron Pigott may not be able to finish at Lewes in time to go to Essex, in which case another judge will be required, and as not only all the judges but all the sergeants-at-law are on the commission for the winter assize, it is probable that the new judge, Mr. Justice Shee, may commence his judicial duties on this his old circuit, The occasion may not be inappropriate to mention that there is among the Bar a universal feeling of cordial approval and satisfaction at the new appointment, and this not only on the Home Circuit, but on every other, and among gentle men of every political party and every religious creed. Mr. Sergeant Shee was extremely beloved and respected on this circuit, of which he has long been leader, and the Bar have for a considerable time past on all occasions expressed their feeling that he ought to be elevated to the judicial bench. As no judge was ever more lamented than Mr. Justice Wightman, so never was the elevation of any more cor dially hailed than that of Mr. Justice Shee. MIDLAND CIRCUIT—Youx, Dec. 15. (Before Mr. Justice Mellor.) John Booth and Emmanuel Jarvis were indicted for assault and robbery upon John Ellis, and stealing from him £l2, at Rotherham, on the 19th Sept. last. Mr. Blackburn and Mr. Gully prosecuted; Mr. Maule defended Booth, and Mr. Middleton appeared for Jarvis. The prosecutor, having been at Sheffield, got to the Tra vellers' Rest, a publichouse near to the Masbrough railway station, about half-past 4 o'clock in the afternoon. At that house he stayed until half-past 11 o'clock at night. In the course of the evening the two prisoners, as well as some others, were in the house, and the prosecutor, who appears to have had a large sutra of money in his possession, paid for drink, which was consumed by the prisoners and him self. He, being the worse for liquor, left the house alone, and, according to his own statement, he was followed by three persons, the two prisoners and a third man, who knocked him down at the second bridge on the way to Rotherham, and there robbed him. In cross• examination it was elicited that the prosecutor was found lying on the road, very dirty and apparently drunk, by the police. He was taken to the lock-up at Rotherham, and being brought be fore the West Riding justices, was by them fined ss. and discharged. At ter he was in custody he gave information of the alleged robbery, but it seemed that he only mentioned the name of one of the parties who he said had robbed him, and even with regard to him the prosecutor admitted that the assailant himself said his name was Major Booth. The only remaining evidence was that on the following morning one of the prisoners was found in the possession of a consi derable sum of money, although the day before he was ap parently without any. When the case had proceeded to this point, his lordship having ascertained from the counsel for the prosecution that he could not corroborate the prosecu • tor's statement with regard to the actual fact of the rob bery, put it to the jury as to whether, upon such testimony, they thought they could safely convict. The jury expressed the opinion that under the circumstances it seemed to them useless to pursue the inquiry further, and returned a ver dict of not guilty. Edward Carlop and Henry Bridgwater, two soldiers, were charged with assault and robbery upon Charles Hur crott, at Gate Fulford, one of the suburbs of York, and stealing from him his watch, on the 18th of October last. Mr. Broughton prosecuted ; the prisoners were not de fended by counsel. The prosecutor, who was very drunk, had sailed at a publichouse called the Soldiers' Rest, and there came into company with the two prisoners and some other men. The whole party, after drinking together, started for York; and when a very short distance from the point where the two roads into York diverge, he was assaulted and robbed of his watch. In support of the case it was shown that the morning following a woman was sent to pledge the watch by the prisoner Carlop. This latter subjected all the wit n'tsses to a very long and rambling cross-examination, after which the jury found both prisoners guilty, and each was sentenced to four years' penal servitude. Alfred Shepherd and Edward Tasker were charged with assault and robbery upon Riehard Walker, and stealing from him £6O, on the 31st of October. Mr. Wheelhouse prosecuted; the prisoners were unde fended by counsel. Ihe prosecutor, a farmer, and a hale old man of 70, was on his way from Leeds into the country, where he was going o purchase and pay for some cattle. When about a mile from Leeds, going along the York-road, he was joined by the prisoner Shepherd. The two walked on together for some distance, and the old man told Shepherd that he was going to " pay for some beasts." When the two had got to a somewhat lonely point in the road, the other prisoner, who had passed them but a few minutes before, turned back, and then the prosecutor was thrown down upon the road, and while one man held him down, covering his face and putting dirt into his mouth so as to stop his cries, two others rifled his pockets. The old man had 12 £5-notes in a sort of purse placed in an inside pocket of his we istcoat, and, in their search discovering this, those who attacked him tore it away, and, taking money it contained, ran off with it. A youth named Howard, who happened to know both the prisoners, and who was driving a horse and cart, came up the moment the robbery had been effected, and he identified both the prisoners as having been two of the three men. Thereupon Shepherd was apprehended and lodged in the lock-up, and the other prisoner went away from Leeds. In about a week he returned, and, having no doubt in the meanwhile heard that Shepherd had been examined before the justices, and found out what evidence had been given, went to the house occupied by the boy Howard and offered him 10s. if he w6uld not appear against him, saying at the same time that he had not got a sixpence of money. The lad said, " What I saw and what I said I shall tell over again—for if it had been my own brother I would have ap peared against him if he had tried to rob an old mot like that." The prisoner then observed, " Why, but if thou's the only witness again me, we shall both get off with, may be, three months or six months on it," and went away. The Judge said he hoped that the witness would always act as he had acted on that occasion ; and, after summing up the case, the jury found both the prisoners guilty, They were sentenced each to be kept in penal servitude for 6 years. OXFORD CIRCUIT.—SHREWSBURY, Dec. 16. (Before Mr. Justice Crompton.) Mary Almond was indicted for attempting to murder her child on the 11th day of September, at Ellesmere. Mr. Benson was for the prosecution. The pris ner was in the service of Mrs. Wenlock, at Cole mere-woods, and was known by her mistress to be in the family way. About three weeks before the 11th Septem ber, in answer to questions put to her, the prisoner told her mistress that she would be able to continue in her service till Christmas. But ou the 11th September, between 1 and 2 o'clock, Mrs. Wenlock heard a cry as if from under the privy. She sent her man-servant to see what it might be and questioned the prisoner as to whether she had been confined, but the prisoner then denied it. The man-servant took up some flagstones, and discovered a live child two or three feet from the privy. The naval string was torn close off to the body of the child, and the after birth lay near it: The prisoner subsequently stated that she had not thrown it where it was found, and that she could net help it. There were no signs of blood in the privy. The prisoner had not prepared any baby linen. When the child was brought to her she showed feelings of affection towards it and suckled it. Early in the morning of the day in question the prisoner complained of being unwell and asked her fellow servant to get her a bucket of water, and she was seen afterwards com ing from a bakehouse near the privy with a bucket of water, and stains of blood were found on the floor of the bake house. No surgeon was called. The theory of the prosecu tion was that the prisoner had been confined in the bake house and had carried the child to throw it away. The pri soner's statement suggested that she had been suddenly taken in the pains of labour and that the child had fallen where it had been found. _ _ His Lordship summed up, and the jury found the pri soner not guilty. The business of these assizes was brought to a close this afternoon, and as this is the last pace on this circuit for which the commissions have been made out, the winter as sizes for the Oxford Circuit are now concluded. Mr. Jus tice Crompton will proceed to Welchpool to-morrow, to open the commission for Montgomeryshire, with reference to the state of the calendar in which county his Lordship stated at Stafford, in alluding to the spread of the crime of arson, that out of 12 prisoners reported to him as awaiting their trial 11 were charged with that offence. NORFOLK CIRCUIT—CAMBRIDGE, Dec. 16, (Before Mr. Baron Martin.) Cornelius Smith and Joseph Smith, described as tramp ing gipsies, and of the age of 16, were charged under the 36th section of the 24th and 25th Vic., cap. 97, with unlaw fully and. maliciously putting upon and acr oss the Great Eastern R a ilway two iron chairs and one iron connecting rod, wit h intent to endanger the safety of persons travellin2.g and bei og upon the said railway , at aerofoil, on Aug. 2oners Mr. Orridge appeared for the p rosecution; the pris Wercr Lndefened. His, Lordship having expressed his opinion that there w ere as no e' gle against the prison er Cornelius Smith, the jury w directed to find a verdict of Not Guilty as far as he was con cerned. _ _ Against the other prisoner the facts, as far as appeared from Mr. Orridge's opening statement, and from the evi dence of the witnesses called by him, were as follows : NV On the day in question, Saturday, Aug. 22, the train that leaves Cambridge at 10 minutes past 6 in the evening, and runs along the Great Eastern branch to Hitchin, was pass ing between Harston and Foxton, conveying a large num ber of passengers, who had been attending the market at Cambridge, when something was seen on the line by the enginedriver in time for him to moderate the speed of the train from 14 miles to 6 miles an hour. It turned out to be an obstruction of a very formidable kind, in the shape of three chairs for holding the iron rails, lying on one of the rails, one placed over the other, and an iron bar laid across the two rails on which the train was proceeding, and though the train was pulled up in the manner described, the shock was such that it was felt through all the carriages, and one of the chairs and the iron bar were cut in two. The train was immediately stopped, the driver and guard jumped down, and while they were looking about them a lad was seen by them and by one of the passengers running away from the railroad across a field. To bring the charge home to the prisoner several witnesses were called, some of whom spoke to the fact of their having noticed the appear - ance of the lad who was running away, which they said was such from his height and dress as to lead them to the belief that the prisoner was he, while a labourer who was at work in an adjoining field, and a lad who was with him, deposed to their having seen and spokento the two prisoners just before the train came up, and noticed them passing out of the field into and across the railway, and then return to the line, after which no more was seen of them till the ac cident happened to the train, when the prisoner Joseph Smith was observed running across the field from the rail way towards a gipsy encampment to which they both be longed. In the meantime the signalman at Harston, who had hurried up on hearing of the stoppage of the train, ran across the field to the high road, which bounded it on one side, and made for the gipsies' encampment, where, while he was in conversation with one of the persons belong ing to it, and a short time after the affair, the two pri soners came up, hot and out of breath, and with all the appearance of persons who had been running hard, and in answer to his question where they had come from, Joseph Smith said from Histon (a place in an opposite direction). Some time after this a policeman, who had been sent for, went to the gipsies' encampment, and in answer to his questions one of the prisoners said they were not the persons who had caused the obstruction, for they had never left the road on which they then were. They were they taken to the police-station, and on being searched a piece of galvanised iron like telegraph wire was found in the pocket of one of them, and another piece very like it was picked up close to the place where the obstruction had been put. His Lordship, in summing up the evidence, drew the attention of the jury to the section of the Act of Parliament on which the prisoners were indicted, remarked on the very serious nature of the offence and of the punishment conse quent upon a verdict of guilty, and pointed out the fact that however strong a case of suspicion might be presented, the jury must not be satisfied with the mere suspicion that the prisoners did the thing charged, but must found their ver dict on evidence; that, in addition to a contusion in the evi dence as to the different times when the prisoners were seen going to and from the railway, the greater part of the evi dence merely amounted to the fact of a boy being seen run ning away who was like the prisoner Joseph ; and that what the jury would have to decide was, first, whether the prisoner Joseph Smith was, beyond all doubt, the boy who put the obstruction on the rails; and, secondly, whether he did it with the intention of taking the lives of the passengers. If the evidence me rely showed that the act committed was not with the intent of taking life, but out of idle mischief, the prisoner could not be convicted under the statute. The jury returned a verdict of not guilty. Peter Crisp and John Graham were indicted for feloni ously setting fire to a stack of straw, the property of John Webb, at Horseheath, on the 14th of October. Mr. Naylor appeared for the prosecutor, and Mr. Hillam Mills defended the prisoner Peter Crisp ; but as his Lord ship thought no case for the prosecution had been made out against him the jury were directed to acquit him. Graham pleaded guilty, and, in passing sentence, His Lordship said that had he been aware of the number of charges of arson that were to be tried at the different places he had visited, he should have hesitated about the amount of punishment he began with allotting. In this par ticular instance the reason given by the prisoner was be- cause he was hungry—a most absurd excuse for such a scandalous offence. " Well for you," said his lordship, " that I have been passing sentences for this offence before these assizes. I shall adhere to the same amount of punish ment that I have already given, which is three years' penal servitude." In another case of arson, against Philip Green, in which Mr. Graham appeared for the prosecution, the prisoner's reason for setting fire to a quantity of straw in a farmyard at March, on Dec. 12th, was because he had not been taken into the Union Workhouse, but had only received a night's relief. And so, said his lordship, " because the master would not encourage you in your idleness by taking you into the workhouse and make others support you, you revenge your self upon an unoffending neighbour. lam unwilling to make any variance in the punishments I have allotted to this crime, and therefore I sentence you to three years' im prisonment." Jeremiah Lawrence, a little boy between 10 and 11 years of age, was also charged with setting fire to stack of corn at Haslingfield, on the 10th August. The prisoner was defended by Mr. Naylor; Mr. Orridge ccnducted the case for the prosecution. In this instance the offence was committed out of revenge, because the prisoner's master, Mr. Serjeant, the owner of the stack, had given him two or three strokes with a whip, over the shoulders for beating his pigs. His Lordship, after explaining to the jury the law in a case of this kind with reference to the malicious act, went through the evidence, and left it to them to say whether they had any doubt about this boy doing the act on purpose and in consequence of the blows he received. The jury found the boy guilty, and recommended him to mercy. Sentence was deferred, in order that steps might be taken for getting him into a refoimatory. WESTERN CIRCUIT:TAUNTON, DEC. 16. (Before Mr. Baron Pigott.) Emanuel Cash ,was indicted for ravishing Charlotte Feaver, on the 7th of November, at Ansford, and six other men were charged with aiding and abetting. There were other indictments charging each one as a principal. Mr. Edlin and Mr. Hooper were counsel for the prosecu tion; Mr. Frideaux defended Coles; Mr. T. W. Saunders defended Pitman; Mr. Ffooks defended all the others. This was one of those brutal cases that unhappily some times disgrace our courts of justice, but we shall only allude to the facts very briefly. It appeared that the parents of the prosecutrix lived at Castle Carey, the father being a gardener. The girl, who was 20 years of age, worked in a factory, and lived with her parents. She was keeping company with a young man named Sylvester Sheen. On Saturday evening, the 7th of November, after leaving work, she returned to her father's house, and shortly afterwards Sheen called for her, and they went out to take a walk. About ten o'clock they went to the Half-moon publichouse, which was kept by Coles, one of the prisoners. The girl had a glass of peppermnit, and Sheen had a pint of beer. The prisoners came into the house and joined them. They remained at the publichouse till 12 o'clock, when they all went out of the house, Coles accompanying thew to the door of the house, Some of the prisoners knocked down Sheen, and they seized holi of the girl, all of them, with the exception of Pitman and Coles, effected their purpose, assisting each other. The girl cried " Murder I" Coles stood by. A man named Wright came up and threatened to send for the police. Coles said it was a shame, but he did not like to interfere amongst so many men ; but he added, " Take her into the stable, as there is some clean straw there." They then dragged her into the stable, threw her down, and then all of them, with the exception of Coles, repeated the offence. The girl after a time went home, her father left her in, and she then told her mother what had happened; but no complaint was made to the police until the following Saturday. Three of the prisoners were immediately ap • prehended, the others absconded, and were not taken for some time. Charlotte Feaver deposed to the facts of the case. She was cross-examined at considerable length by the learned counsel for the defence, but her evidence was not shaken. She pulled their hair, she struck them in the face, she called " Murder I" and cried to be taken to her mother. Seven had intercourse with her in the stable. They were there an hour. Silvester Sheen corroborated the statement of the prose cutrix as to the outrages. The men pushed him about and struck him. He was afraid to interfere. Coles said there was clean straw in the stable, and thoy had better carry the young woman there, aad not make a noise in front of the house. They then dragged her into the stable, They were an hour in the stable, Ho could see all that was going on. He could not interfere, because they threatened him an d struck him. George Wright came up and saw tho men surrounding and dragging the girl, and he heard her cry Thomas Goodrich, a neighbour of Coles, heard .ti es " Murder!" and a call of of what astaitdhetyhahtandedrodnree.ss ~ I wish window ma nyddear listened, m m ot h er w u t r a n d s ee e r : h ere." There shut There were cries of a woman in distress for half d an hour. was off h He opened his belroom custody, the window again. 'made statements George Feaver, the f a ther defences for their respective clients. was aß A d h t p o e o r ii n i teeth e w em h ewileberaedl e ° ot;lerareiii :W e . o l i f t tc h a i it la h k b e s er h l osoandna.dw Burge i n in their c ells, a nd heard them e.snPoeirtman witnesses were called • TheOOuth the°r scounselof partth the prisoners a c d made b a e b ali l ee and i d p e a f l Mr. Baron Pigott summed up who certainly did not over the whole evidence as it applied The jury found all the with great care, reading ease to each prisoner. a different punishment as p r r e i g s a o r n d e e r d s g p u i i t l m ty a , n bu a t n r d ec c o o m le m s. ended The Judge then sentenced Emanuel Cash, William each, Burge, and Hallett, to be kept in penal servitude for five years,and ittaau and „ Giles to be kept in penal servitude for three years, Voles to be imprisoned for two years. COUNTRY MARKETS. ,I , -,-... LYNN--TUESDAY. At to-day's market there was a fair supply of wheat, with a small attendance of the tr de. The (inland was not active, and the prices of last week were 6d to is Malting and grinding barley at late rates. Oats 43 before. Peas and Leans were steady. Whi te 44 s to 455 jßarley ....... 364 to 37 8 Red .. 39 s to 40 s I Grindin g ..33s to 3 4 g Beans .435 to 44s j Oats ..... New 385 to 4Us I Peas HULL—TUESDAY. At this day's market the show of English wheat WitE. good, with a ready sale, at a decline of is upon late rates. Foreign was neglected, but quite la lower to sell. Spring corn very little altered, but tending downwards. Od to 4 4 s Od Wheat.... Old white.... per qr 42s Old red New white New red .... , Barley.... English malting ' Grinding 4433 1 327 s s: 0 000 d ddd t ttt 0 000 4 443 4 663 5 888 t o : 0 1 24s Od to 260 6c l Saal and Oderbruck Holstein and Danish Grinding Oats English, oldl3c l Archangel and Riga per st.. 23 22s 08 gda di i 0 8s sl ° 2 (I 100 ° t 0 323141:8 : , 001 Friesland and Dutch ' osl3d to Mk?, Swedish and Danish Osl2ld to 051 3 c, 1 Beans ....English, old, per qr 4 os Od to 433 (..- New pigeon 42s Od to 413 VI- New tick 4os Od to 423 01 Egyptian Peas Foreign boilers .. Grinding Tares .... Spring Indian Corn Linseed, feeding OO — 3 333 0 223 88 s ss 06 0 00 c i d d: t ct t : 0 0 , 0 , 33 3 ; 3 3: 5 : 6 000 da u c id i 52s Od to 563 01 crushing • Linseed cakes (Hull) £9 5 0 to £ 0 n e) (1 Foreign, Bl5 oto 9 'i,' 1 :, Rape cakes 6 0 oto 0 „" 0 Bones 5 5 oto 5 it' MELTON MOWBRAY—TUESDAY. I, at, The following were the currencies :—New white w- e 418 Od to 46s Od ; new red, 38s Od to 42s per 35 O il ": beans, 38s to 408 for old ; new sorts, 35s to 37. per 3 8 s t f ,%; barley, 33s to 37s for malting, and 29s to 31s per 9,r• 0 . 60 grinding; new oats, 22s to 25s Od per 24 stone; 010, to 30s. COAL IV Prim of Coal per Ton at s. d. AItKET. the dose of the markot , a A. Byass's Bebside West Hartley ....16 6 Cowpen Hartley 16 6 Lambert's West Hart- Walls End. 0 Haswell .......... 20 0 South Hatton ... 20 , Tunstall ...... ...... 38 g Hartlepool ......... .• 1 „ 9 6 • Trimdon Hartlepool.• Iv 6 Caradoc ....... v ...... 19 ‘. .....19 Cassop l7 . 0 Trimdon Thornley •• 1 6 Eieugh Ha ll .......... 9 9 Riddell..... ..... 1 0 Stewart's ............ 1 9 9 North ii ar tlepool....•• l 6 B6lmont ....... 10 ley 16 3 West Hartley ..16 6 olywell 17 6 Hastings Hartley l6 6 ranfield Moor 15 3 Canfield Moor Butes l5 3 Wylam 17 6 Eden Main lB 3 ;,159 ; sold, 106. Walla End. K elloe Ships at market, Foreign Mail Packet List. MAILS DUE. Australia and Mauritius, via Southampton .. Dec' " via Marseilles .. Ja n ' r • Jraxil and Cape Verds, by British packet. Jan. Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, and St. Helena.. Dec. 19": China, Penang, and Singapore, via Southampton. D e e• via Marseilles " Falkland Islands Gibraltar, via Southampton India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via Southampton De e '4, D via Marseilles D/. eo. 21 India (Bombay), via Southampton . Dec. 0,, via Marseilles Portuga1.... • • • 1 . Malta, Egypt, and Aden, via Southampton . •ne e ' 1. .„_„. via Marseilles • Dee. l 3• Newfoundland .. y. Oporto and Vigo U. S. and British N. America, by Brit. packet.... by U.S. packet.... iS. by Canadian packet. Dee• W.C. of Africa, Madeira, and Teneriffe .......... Jan. Jan. j 4. Bahamas, via New York Mexico . All parts of West Indies, including Chili, .1 3 ;;I e e c c . . 2 2 99. ' California. and British Columbia.. THE DROWNING OF TWO NAVAL OFFICERS '° LAGOS.—In a letter to his father, a midshipman °„° board her Majesty's ship Investigator gives the followillP details of an accident which occurred on the Ist of Septe t ''' . ber last on the bar off Lagos, and which was noticed hi us some time since :—" On the morning of the l et Septe ber Lieutenant Dolben came on board in his whaler to see the Commodore, as he bad only just received his aFPn il ' t.. o pedi" ment to the Investigator, and was to command the tion. He came out over the bar without shipping a drop of water, about eight a.m., and after making arrangentel with the Commodore he asked for a midshi p man, and volunteered to go with him, with one of our lieutenants: poor Atkinson, who also asked that I might be allowe d to accompany him. Lieutenant Dolben seemed to thitti nothing of going in, no more than pulling on shore in harbour, so we shoved off from the Rattlesnake, and pulled in about a mile before we approached the bat , I, so far from thinking there was any danger, was sitting in the bottom of the beat smoking my pipe, and poor At' kinson was smoking his, and we were laughing and talking about our expedition up the Niger. We arrived on the b at ; at 1.15 p.m., having left the ship at 12 o'clock, 811: the very first breaker we met capsized the b°a" and rolled her with tremendous force over and O'l I just heard poor Dolben say, before the boat Or: sized, Here it comes;' and, being in the bottom a thy; boat, I put my head over the gunwale and looked, and sa t It a towering sea curling down upon us ; the nex t thing I l e y was a smack on the face from it, and over we went. In T o first attempt to rise to the surface I hit my head again st t boat, but succeeded the second time in laying h old of /1 8 ' when I found all my companions holding on wi th the 81'. caption of one of the Kroomen, whom we never saw atilt; Poor Atkinson asked what was to be done, when Dt","l,-,, said, Hold on to the boat, and we shall be seen fr BBl , h il shore in a minute.' He had scarcely spoken when 88eho sea was h ed us all again into the water, and we ha d to swtue up to her again to catch hold. Poor Atkinson was hi t o , t • head by the boat, which was washed on the top of :7 ho 0; and when I looked round for him he was gone. I hear' -lop call for help to one of the Kroomen, but it was il:01)(to to save another person in a sea like that in which We 7 . . 0 , struggling, The next sea washed us off for the third t7'oB, I was the first to regain the boat, and saw Dolben a distance away from the boat, but unable to swi m frota 0, haustion and the weight of his clothes. One of the P‘ 9 ~ 4 men succeeded in pushing a mast to him, to which he 6 7" for a time, and then all of a sudden disappeared. There fr o , remained the three remaining Kroomen and myself, an ci fe r held on for a few seconds, scarcely long enough to re& 00 our breath, when we were again washed off. This we llt oe for half an hour. Once I went right to the bottom, a nd g o ne myself up for lost., being quite done up, when I ggo' "et struggle more and rose to the surface, and fortunatel_lii'fot on the top of the boat, and there I lay during a nearly a minute. That gave me breath, and I then beeio to feel able to swim again. We went on for some titl e this, until the Kroomen proposed that we shou ld roll her boat over and over broadside on the surf, so as to bring ,0 I in shore, because all the time we were out the re We aOL.I beaten about in a most frightful manner, and liable at ; i v moment to be taken by sharks. We succeeded thus in r io t' ing the boat to within 30 yards of the shore , when ecoet a canoe coming off. I then let go, and swam for the 8 " 1- 1 0 which landed me and the Kroomen, and the boat was W as upon the beach." o io f to [ADVERTISEMENT.] — HoIIoway ' s Pills.—Pros trat, Strength.—When the system is weak and the nerv es 00 0 strung, disease is certain to present itself unless 81,04 purifying and strengthening means be resorted to to cot the threatening mischief'. In such cases no tresint e ,t o be equal that by these excellent pills—no other pia from the pursued so well devised for ejecting all impurities stirutina. blood without straining or weakening the cop ulate tb Holloway's pills so fortify the stomach and reSilitta liver that they raise the capability of digestiant create new power. This is the reason why 0011°1;y life have gained their present popularity, and vinY . 6 of r e been lauded throughout the globe as a "fres h sou and strength," Church, lc eaywl°4c3 otp GOLDSMITH.—On the 13th 'lust Births. a t Carisbrook-vili * Blackheath, Mrs. Henry F. Uoidonith, of a son. HONYWOOD.—On the 14th inst., at Bvington-place, 1:004 Lady Honywood, of a son. MOHIER.—On the 13th inst., at Berlin, Mrs. Morier, of lb son. Moss.—On the 12th inst., at the Old Palace, Lincoln, tie Ryde, Lieut.-Colon w if e o f w w . MOBS, BrICI., of a daughter. Marriages. IBBETSON—AVIIITING.—On the 15th Lieut.-Colonel C ' third daughter of William P.lnlsbtbeatstoSnt, tTobt:: Henryen Whiting, Esq., woonslAw —On the 1 _ A: em s a . r h y : nosnti.; daughter Alpheusß o a t y J 1 i . e ide o f son of Nicholas B. vania, U .S., Wood, Esq., barrister, of P en ru b! B rratt-hill, Broseley, Salop. Deaths. BAcii,t—On the 15th inst., at \V a lth ams t o w, lira. Ells Back, aged 61 BATES. —On the . 12th inst., at Ryder .street, St. Jar' clt'Bf Henry W. Bates, Esq. age d BEGREZ.—On the 13th inst., P. I. M, Begrez, Esq., 79. riol o4 BANKS.—On the 12th inst., at New - cross, George •- Banks, Esq., aged 37. GREEN.—On the 13th inst., at The Mount, HadleYl dlesex, Joseph Henry Green, Esq., .13.0. L,, aged 72. 1 1,14 MOLESWORTIL—On the 11th inst.' a t Clapham,oles 011.11 Francis, second son of Sir Paul William Al cf Sit Bart., aged 9 years. R.I.P. -a f• SHIFFNER —On the 14th inst., at Chichester , the AO George Shiffner, Bart.. aged 72. to ° UNGER.--On the 14th inst., at M or d en College, - ° Andreas Unger, Esq., aged 86. —O4 London: Primed and Published by WILLIAM ANP%. 11 1 ; of No. 112, Strand, Printer , at TnE Sox Office ', o ty ° Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, ,n the Co" kitidleeex.—ThurtylaY , December 17, 1863. 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