The Sun. — London, England, 1868-08-22 00:00:00

[SPIRIT OP THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. Ile Saturday Review says the twenty or thirty thousand 1 clergymen who are annually abused for not preaching two inillionspf original and impressive►sermons in the year have at leasi a wider range of subjects on which they can i!lfpatiate than the candidates for Parliament who are now attempting to execute variations on one or two hackneyed themes. In operas an air is sometimes allotted to two semi-choruses, who, in their respective characters of per secutors and martyrs, or of courtiers and conspirators, declaim contradictory sentiments to the same tune, and, with the necessary modifications, as nearly as possible in the same words. With the same harmonious discord, Conservatives and Liberals are at present insisting that the Irish Church shall perish or shall flourish ; and Mr. Gladstone is exalted to the skies or denounced with amcebean uniformity. It is remarkable that, while the Liberal leader is introduced into every address for praise pr for censure, Mr. Disraeli, who is, far more than his rival, the ruling spirit of his own party, is seldom men tioned by his adherents. Mr. Disraeli's qualities are more appreciated in the House of Commons than at a distance. Constituencies, having little sense of humour, prefer a statesman who expresses his convictions, if not in the plainest language, at least without covert irony. Mr. Dis raeli's fine prailes would often be ridiculous if they were not evidently intended to delude or puzzle simple minds ; while Mr. Gladstone attaches to every proposition which he announces deep and grave importance. If he had unnecessarily dated a published letter on Maundy Thurs day, he might have been credited with a sincere belief in the paramount solemnity of the festival. Whatever may be the loyalty of professional politicians to their daring leader, the single-minded Conservatives of the country intuitively feel that they are not represented by Mr. Disraeli. The few among them who understand their own principles would have sacrificed a dozen Irish Establish ments on condition of retaining the parliamentary con stitution which Mr. Disraeli has destroyed ; nor can it be believed, except in the remotest political regions, that the actual champion of the Irish Church would not greatly have preferred the antagonistic task which circumstances have assigned to Mr. Gladstone. A sagacious critic, wholly unacquainted with electoral statistics, might perhaps discover, from a comparison of addresses, which is likely to be the winning side. The Liberal candidates, with one considerable exception, repeat with disciplined fidelity the party confession of faith ; but the Conserva tives seem for the most part to be conscious that some apology is required for their determination to support the Irish Church. On the matter of retrenchment, the Saturday Review remarks that, with the exception of Mr. Childers and Mr. Mulkey, few of his adherents have hitherto dilated on the alleged extravagance of the present Government. Whatever may be the causes of the excess, it is undeniable that the estimates have been largely increased since the accession of Lord Derby to office ; and as the cost of the Civil Service constantly advances with the extension of the functions of Government, the only opportunity for serious reduction must be found in military and naval expenditure. As the services are not unduly large or superfluously efficient, it might be doubted whether any saving could be effected in the army or the navy, but for the circumstance that the modern increase of outlay has been largely due to necessary improvements. Financial questions would perhaps occupy a larger space in election addresses if Mr. Gladstone and Mr. Disraeli had not accustomed the country to the easy and vicious resource of providing all exceptional revenue by an increase of income tax. There is no reason to suppose that the reformed Parliaments will become more frugal than their predecessors, while it is nearly certain that they will be comparatively reckless in adding to direct taxation. Perhaps, as the autumn advances, and the store of com monplaces is exhausted, retrenchment may take its place by the side of Mr. Gladstone and the Irish Church. The Spectator believes that most Tories distrust Mr. Disraeli, and many Tories cordially dislike him, but there is not one who has not a profound faith in his strategic capacity. He is not sure, they think, to adhere to the principles of his party, but he is sure to have some device some " combination," some wile by which to attain for the party all that can by possibility be obtained, to extricate it from any scrape, to evade any unexpected form of opposi tion. This confidence, so often justified within the House of Commons, so seldom justified on any broader arena, will, we suspect, be greatly shaken by the course of the present contest. At present, unless we misunderstand all the signs around us, Mr. Disraeli is mismanaging the cam paign. The " cries" he has started, instead of increasing his party, are breaking it into fragments, which shuw every disposition to fly off in different directions, while his " cue "is taking the heart out of his best supporters. For the first time in our modern history the cry of "No Popery " has elicited but a faint response. In Ireland that cry creates nothing but irritation among two-thirds of the people, and the remaining third whom it excites were rigid Tories before it was ever uttered. In England the upper classes have never as a body re-echoed it, the ten-pounders over whom it had influence have lost much of their power, and the householders receive it only with derision. The second cry, " The Throne," has ceased even to be repeated, the electors being as well able as their members to perceive that the throne is not in question, that the Queen will still reign even though the Anglican Church in Ireland should be main tained like the Wesleyan Church in Great Britain. Then came the cry of " The Church in danger," but to this also there was but slight response, except in Wales, where it will probably break the power of the Tory landlords. Then we had "Down with Ritualism," and the " grand demonstration" at the Crystal Palace shews us exactly the value of that "trumpet call." The mass of electors cannot be brought to believe that a Premier who dates letters on Maundy Thursday, and who appoints High Churchmen to every vacancy worth having, and who furnished ideas for Young England, can be a sincere foe to Ritualism, while the cry alienates some of the best supporters of the Tory party, the high-and-dry section of the Church. The London Review reminds us that the increase of insanity among our poorer classes has long been admitted by those who have specially directed their atten tion to the subject, and there is much in the recently pub lished report of the Commissioners in Lunacy, despite its lamentably defective statistics and decided lack of informa tion on vital points, in support of the painful and dis heartening allegation. Of the 31,917 lunatics officially mentioned as remaining, on the lst of January, 1867, in the various county and borough asylums, registered hospitals, metropolitan and provincial licensed houses, and naval, military, and State criminal asylums in England and Wales, no less than 25,998 belong to the pauper class. On the Ist of January, 1868, the number of insane patients `Confined in these institutions had risen to 33,213 ; this marked increase being wholly among the pauper lunatics, the number of which at that date was 27,361, the better class of patients exhibiting a decrease of 67 during the same period. These figures do not include the patients confined in the lunatic wards of our workhouses ; this species of information being apparently considered of remote importance by the commissioners, who merely inform us—in a separate table—that in the 299 workhouses in England and Wales visited under their direction in 1867, the number of insane, idiotic, and imbecile inmates was 7,987. The London Review considers the commissioners' re port far from reassuring, and is convinced that things are considerably worse than they are made to appear. So far as we can ascertain, it would appear that it is the lower and most degraded section of the poorer classes which fur nishes the great proportion of lunacy cases. It is amongst these that drunkenness is most rife. They certainly are the largest consumers of the vilely adulterated malt liquors and spirits common in poor neighbourhoods, and it is most desirable that it should be ascertained whether there be any connection between the wholesale system of drug-poisoning practised by large numbers of beershop keepers and publicans on the one hand, and the increas ing prevalence of insanity among their customers on the other. The Imperial Review describes the past achievements of the Government and its future policy : What the Conservative Government has achieved during the two years which it has held power is a sufficient justifica tion of its appeal for a renewal of the confidence of the constituencies, and a sufficient earnest of the course that will be adopted if that appeal is favourably received. Never, perhaps, has a Government in the short space of two years achieved such important results as those which have proceeded from the legislative and administrative action of the present Ministry. It has successfully dealt with the difficulties incident to an attempt to reform the electoral system, and has passed a measure that whilst providing securities fur the adequate representation of allsec tions of opinion, has extended the suffrage to all who bear a share in the public burdens, and has removed the chief anomalies of representation that previously existed. The Radical party is about to attempt the spoliation of the Church, and thus inflame the dying, animosities between Protestant and Romanist ; and by thinly. veiled hints as to their future action with regard to the tenure of land is t rendering almost impossible the growth of mutual feeling between proprietor' and Occupier in Ireland, in flaming the latter with illusory hopes, and deterring the former from diSplayit ,, that equitable kiielne:;3 to tenants which is only shewn when it is felt that thieve is a commu nity of interests. To this policy the Tory party will give a strenuous opposition. With regard to the Irish land quetition Toryism would legislate in a spirit of complete equity. It would wish that the right of the tenants should be recognised. But it would also take care that the rights of the landlords were not ignored. On the other great questions of the day that press fur settlement, the indications given in the past sufficiently skew what would be the action of the future. The practical reforms that are acknowledged to be necessary would be carried into effect ; and the conviction that much may be done by well-timed legislation to aid in the development of the nhtional resources ' and in ameliorating th e con di t i on of the people, would be actec' upon. To seek the prosperity of the nation rather than the ephemeral advantages of party—to govern in accord• ance with justice r a th er than expediency—to be guided by definite conviction s ra th er than defer to temporary agita tion—are the principles by which th e Conservative policy has been inspired, and thi s policy . undoubtedly entitled to be regarded ao truly liberal. THE LATE BISHOP OP PETE.RBO.ROUGH. In the late Bishop of Peterborough, Dr. Francis Jenne, whose death it is our duty to announce, the nation has lost not only an able and zealous bishop, but one of our earliest university reformers a line in which his merits have never, perhaps, been suffi ciently acknowledged. A native of one of the ; Channel Islands, of French extraction, andi earlyt educated in France, ho came up to Oxford, won his way to the' highest honours unaided by any ad ventitious circumstances, and became in succession head master of a great and important school, the head of his college, than a dean, and lastly a bishop. Such was Dr. Jeune—a self-made ; and as a self-made man he was naturally anxious to afford at Oxford the same advantages to others without restriction as he had himself enjoyed. For this he lived and laboured, and for his services in this capacity we will be remembered in Oxford when the fact that in his latter days he wore a mitre has been forgotten. His father, Mr. Francis Jeune, was a gentleman of Jersey, and represented a family which had settled in that island on the revocation of the Edict of Nantes. Born in 1806, we find the son at 17 years of age, in spite of the disadvantages of a French education, elected to a scholar ship at Pembroke College, Oxford, where he took his B.A. degree, with first - class honours in the classical schools at 21. In due course he became Fellow and Tutor of his college, and Public Examiner, and after having spent a year or two in Canada as tutor to the sons of the Governor-General (the late Sir John Colborne, afterwards Lord Seaton), he was elected in 1834 to the head mastership of King Ed ward's School at Birmingham, which he extensively remodelled, after a fashion certainly more popular now than it was thirty years ago, by the intro duction of English and modern science. His great success here recommended him to the favourable notice of the Liberal Ministry, whose politics he strongly espoused when most of the clergy disdained all connection with " Whigs" or " Whiggery." Lord John Russell, it is said, recommended him for the deanery of Jersey, where he took an active part in the establishment of Victpria College, and the improvement of the local clergy and the condition of the parish churches. Chosen in 1843 as " Master" of Pembroke College, he came back to Oxford, whither his fame as a Liberal had preceded him, and great was the consternation of Tory dons when they saw him enter the Hebdomadal Council Chamber, and take his seat, the youngest and far the most liberal—per haps also the most able—of that august and venerable body. The late Master of Balliol is said to have been especially fearful of the consequences likely to arise to Oxford from the admission of such " a forward young man." It was not long either before he began to make his presence felt among the " Heads of Houses." He was the earliest of the university reformers in their council ; and as when the success of university reform was doubtful he had to bear all the odium, while afterwards, when the odium was at an end, the praise and merit of the scheme were given to others, it is only fair to state here some facts which will not fail to interest Oxford men, both old and young. In the first place he strongly recommended to the Govern ment the appointment of the commission of inquiry, and on becoming a member of it he took the most pro minent and active part in its proceedings. He wrote the greater part of the report which that commission pre sented to her Majesty, and from that time forward there was not a well-considered measure of progress and reform introduced at Oxford in which be did not take a leading share. To him are to be largely ascribed the examination statutes which established the " Schools " of " Natural Science " and those of " Law and Modern History," and though the original idea of a middle-class examination was suggested by Dr. Temple, it was mainly worked out under Dr. Jeune's auspices and by his zeal and energy. In fact, there was not a step forward made at Oxford during the twenty years that he was resident in the uni versity as head of a college which he did not either propose or support steadily in its earliest and therefore most 1111. nopular stages. He was Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford in 1858 and the following years during the residence of the I Prince of Wales, and on all secular matters showe'l limself one of the most ab!e men of business in the university. In 1864 he accepted from Lord Palmerston the deanery of Lincoln; but after a few months' tenure of that post he vacated it, on his elevation to the bishopric now vacant by his early and premature decease, just as he was becoming acquainted with his diocese and the wants and merits of the parochial clergy, but not before be had shewn high promise of a useful episcopal career. He had been suffering for some time from heart disease, induced by gout, but the actual cause of death was the rupture of a blood-vessel in his lungs. LAW AND POLICE. CHARGE OF MANSLAUGHTER.—At the Central Criminal Court, William Wright, a carman, pleaded guilty to having caused the death of Thomas Shelford. On the night of the Bth August the prisoner and deceased were in company at Paddington, and appeared to have partaken rather too freely of liquor. The deceased got quarrelsome, and struck the prisoner twice, knocking him down. The prisoner retaliated by striking him a blow on the chest, and the deceased fell, his head striking the kerb. He got up again, and the prisoner offered to shake bands with him, but he refused, and said be-would fight him again in a week's time. They then parted. The deceased afterwards became ill, and died on the fol lowing day from concussion of the brain, which resulted from the fall. The judge did not think it a case calling for punishment, and discharged the accused. CURIOUS CHARGE OF UNLAWFUL WOUNDING.—At the same court Thomas Arnold, carpenter, a respectable looking man, was charged with feloniously wounding William Purser, a glazier, with intent to kill and murder him. The prosecutor lodged with the prisoner, and on one occasion went out with him to drink. On re• turning the prosecutor sat down, and the prisoner's wife asked for a key which she could not find, and got in a temper about it, and was telling Purser that her husband had endeavoured to cut her throat a short time previously. At this time the prisoner " crawled" from under the bed and dealt the prosecutor a violent blow on the head. In reply the accused impugned his wife's fidelity, and there seemed to be good reason for his so doing. The prisoner pleaded guilty to the count charging him with unlawful wounding, and the leArned judge, after remarking on the great provocation received by tl e pri: over, sentenced him to three months , hard labour. ACTION AGAINST GAMEKEEPERS.—At the Barnsley County Court an action has .been heard in which a furnaceman, named James Birch, residing at Penistone, was the plaintiff, and John Smith and Isaac Sheen, gamekeepers to Mr. R. C. Clarke, Noblethorp Hall, were the defendants. The action was brought to recover £lO, • the value of a spaniel dog which had been seized, and was now held by the defendants. On the 10th of May last the plaintiff and a companion were walking out in a road near to Silkstone, when their dogs ran into a drain, and they began to dig them out. It was alleged that a rabbit ran into the hole, and that the dogs followed it. The keepers got the dogs out, and took them to Noblethorp, as well as the men, who, it was said, for the defence, agreed to pay 2s. 6d. and forfeit their dogs on Mr. Clarke agreeing not to summon them for trespass. Mr. Hamer, who appeared for the defendants, put in a document from Mr. Clarke, as lord of the manor, to Smith, one of the defendants, which authorised him to seize nets or other instruments used for the purpose of taking game. His honour gave a verdict for the plaintiff for £5, or the dog to be given up, it not being proved that it was used for the nurpose of taking game. MANSLAUGHTER OF A WIFE.—At the Liverpool Assizes Thomas Howard, 40, indicted for the murder of his wife by stabbing her, on the 4th instant, was found guilty of manslaughter, and sentenced to penal servitude for life. The prisoner and his wife had quarrelled about a parrot. A French paper mentions that a gentleman whose cellar had been greatly infested with rats, found that they disappeared very soon after he placed a cask of petroleum in the place. The Tintamarre has assuredlywritten the drollest thing in connection with the marriage of Mdlle. Patti. It runs thus :—" A Horrible Drama.—During the marriage of Patti an unknown person who had been hidden for some time behind one of the pillars of the church, suddenly plunged a long dagger into his side, and raised a loud cry, On hearing this Madame la Marquise do Caux turned pale, and came forward to see what it was. And what did she see? Why Art, to which she had hitherto been affin need !" NOVEL DEITIES. —A singular entertainment, almost approa-ling the grotesque, says the Gazette de France, was offered to the King of Prussia lately, on his visit to Wiesbaden. On a small islet on the Rhine vas constructed in woodwork a grand portico, semi -circular, supposed to represent Olympus, and artistically ornamented with the statues of all the divinities. The tallest men of the regiment of infantry were selected to personate these gods and goddesses. They were clothed in white drapery, strongly starched, so as to imitate the rigid appearence of marble; then each, having his face covered with white paint, was raised upon his pedestal. On the right of all was posted a colossal sub-commissioned officer, charged with the preservation of order. He cried out " Steady !" to the divinities whenever the royal steamer came in view. Strict prohibition was pronounced against liquors being o . 3ervecl to the statues during the Ute. THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, AUGUST 22, 1868. 7HE PRO7ESTAN7 DEMONSTRATION - AT THE CRYSTAL PALACE. The great Protestant demonstration at the Crystal Palace in support of Mr. Disraeli and the Throne, of the Irish Establishment and the Constitution, was in every respect a failure. The only man, besides the chairman, whose name was at all familiar to the general pub lic, was Mr. Newdegate. And in numbers the demonstration did not make up for its want of weight; for at no time were more than 1,500 persons attracted either by curiosity or inte rest round the platform. The meeting par took of the " No Popery" character, impressed by Mr. Disraeli upon the question to be de cided in the coming elections. We will not stop to comment upon these tactics of the hus tings, nor upon the criminal folly of attach ing the Throne and the Constitution-to the pillars of an Establishment founded by violenec and upheld by injustice. Such a policy is to expose to danger, only to be averted by the good sense and loyalty of the people of Eng land and Ireland, the best institutions of the country. History will mark with an inefface able brand the man who, exempt from the honest fanaticism of a Newdegate, commits, for party purposes, the dignity of the Throne to the support of such a causeas the Irish Esta blishment. But leaving dishonest policy and sham reli gious zeal to the contempt which it deserves, let us examine for a moment what honest but blind bigotry had to say for itself at this Pro testant Demonstration. The first object to be sought for by such Protestants as those assembled at the Crystal Palace, was the pur gation of Protestantism by the summary eject ment from the State Church of the Ritualists, and of all who were not filled with the pur sang of Protestantism, and the next was to uphold against the machinations of " Popery," the Royal Supremacy, as interpreted by Mr. Disraeli. The most important resolution adopted at the meeting was one, in the principle of which we cordially concur, because it is in perfect harmony with the teaching of the Papal Encyclical and Syllabus. We only object to its application. The resolution says : " That this meeting is of opinion that the principle of an affiance between Church and State is not only in strict accord with the wise practice of Governments in past ages, but likewise fully sanctioned and enjoined by the spirit of Christianity, whose holy mission it is to consecrate things secular by an indissoluble union with things sacred ; and this meeting hereby invites all true Christians, of whatever denomination, to uphold by their vote and in fluence, at the forthcoming election, the union of the State with the Church of the Reforma tion." We grant that it is the mission of Chris tianity to consecrate things secular by an in dissoluble union with things sacred, but we deny that this consecration is carried out by the union of the State with the "Church of the Reformation" to-day. Waiving, for argument sake, the primary objection that the Church of the Reformation is no Church at all, but a heresy, and consequently that the union of the State with it is not a matter of cbligation, but only to be upheld, if at all, as a matter of expediency, we go further, and object that in this Church of the Reformation, as established by law in England and Irelai d, this union of things sacred and secular, is perverted by the exercise of the Royal Supremacy, which subjects things sacred to the secular power. This subjection violates the whole theory, for such a connection between the two powers isnot one enjoined by the spirit of Christianity, but an adulterous connection, dictated by worldliness on the part of the Church, and lust of power on the part of the State ; and what is the result of such a connec tion ? It is becoming every day more and more conspicuous in the degradation of the spiritual power, in the elimination of the Chris tian character of the State. To-day witnesses the rapid development of Rationalism in the Church and in the State to which it is united. The introduction of secular education in the universities and in the national schools will not lag long behind civil marriage and divorce ; and to-morrow the fresh legislation already called for by the Bishop of London, the reforms desiderated by Dean Stanley and the broad Church party will soon succeed in emanci pating the Church of England from the thral dom of the creeds, from the sacramental sys tem, and from the remnant of those things divine, which the established heresy has hitherto preserved. Its union with the State, therefore, when these things come, is no longer to be upheld, for it is no longer expedient ; it opens the gate to Rationalism by giving a seeming religious consecration to its inroads. Better far to drop the mask; if infidelity is to direct the State, let it not be done even under the cover of religion ; let tbe people learn if a secular education is to be intro duced, that it is introduced, not by a State in union with religion, but by a godless State. Let Protestantism, if it possess the vital power, upbraid the rationalizing State, and resist its tin-Christian attacks ; let it withdraw from the State rather than succumb ; let it follow that course condemned by Mr. New degate in his blind unreasoning bigotry, which the Pope has adopted towards the un-Christian Government of Austria. " The Pope has de nounced, condemned, ostracized, the Govern ment of Austria," says Mr. Newdegate, " be cause it was not blindly obedient to his sway," ' or, in truer words, because it introduced secular education and civil marriage into a Christian country. If it would not subject things sacred to things secular, let the Established Church of England act as the Church in Austria acts ; let it assert, if it possesses the gift, its divine mastery or withdraw from a union which is no longer beneficial but criminal. But is it not true, does its short history not show it, that the spirit of Protestantism is the spirit of compromise, of concession in things divine, to the State ? Therefore, its connection with the State in the long run ends in complete servi tude. Sooner or later all those in the Angli can Church who value religious independence more than State Supremacy, who hold positive dogmas higher than a delusive unity, will shrink in horror from upholding the union of the State with the "Church of the Reforma tion" as now proposed " to all true Christians of whatever denomination " in the resolution supported by Mr. Newdegate at the great Pro testant demonstration in the Crystal Palace.— Westminster Gazette. [ADVERTISEMENT. —Holloway's Ointment. —No Enjoy ment with Health.—How sad to see the wealthy in worldly estate laid up by disease, far worse to find a family bread winner incapable of work. 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He felt satisfied that his client would be judged ac cording to the evidence, and not by the prejudice that had been created against her—a prejudice which had reached that court, because a conviction in the case had been said by the learned counsel for the prosecution would rid London of one of its foulest stains. He felt that they would not condemn in the summary manner that was imagined. Her conduct immediately these proceedings were commenced showed that she was quite ready to meet the charge. She did not avail herself of flight, as she might easily have done, but she went openly before the magistrate, and, iu effect, said —" Here I am, ready to meet any char g e that may be preferred against me." A civil action had been instituted against his client, but when her mouth was open friendly negotiations took place, and the matter was withdrawn. The same course was pursued on another occasion when a summons had been issued against her ; but after a long interval had been allowed to elapse, a criminal prosecution had been instituted against her, and then she was called upon to disprove a number of grave charges, the prosecution well knowing that immediately she was plaoedin the dock her month was closed. Another prejudice had been attemptedto be raised against his client, because she dealt in various articles whose virtues were stated to be beneficial to female ap pearance ; but if everybody was to be prosecuted who advertised their nostrums in the public news papers there would be no end of prosecutions. He felt certain the jury would not condemn the defendant because she advertised her specifics, as it was impossible they could take up any newspaper without finding embrocations, emulsions, &c., for every ill that flesh was heir to, staringly paraded in the public prints. Then, again, it was urged to his client's detriment that she was ignorant, but that unfortunate circumstance to his mind showed most unmistakeably that she could not dictate those curi ousepistles with which they had become so familiar. Those letters, peculiar in themselves, were however correct in their composition, and to suppose that an ignorant and illiterate woman could talk about " the overland route to the heart" and various other similes, was a circumstance that completely surpassed his comprehension, and he felt it would that of the jury. It was quite true that his client might pander to modern fashion in Vanity Fair, but that was nut the case. It would neither be fair nor just to visit on Madame-Rachel the sins of a generation. He felt quite certain they would not find his client guilty of the charge imputed to her ; that they would not find her guilty of the possession of valuable property, which it had not been said she had received ; and then with re gard to the simplicity of Mrs. Borradaile, why she appeared to him as sane a woman as ever drew a cheque, and having got herself into a di lemma by her extravagance, she turned round and said she had acted as the blind and trusting tool of a deep, cunning, and designing woman. That they would be the best judges of. Did the evidence bear out such a theory ? He felt they were not of that opinion. When she attempted to make them be lieve that she was anxious for the marriage as an advancement of the position of her daughter, she, to his mind, pleaded the interests of the daughter to excuse the follies of the mother. Bat she had overdone her case, and the evidence of Lord Ranelagh proved that such was the fact. He totally denied all knowledge of the whole transaction, and he felt great pleasure in saying of Lord Ranelagh—a nobleman who had done good service to his country—that his honour and character had come out unstained in that in vestigation. Mrs. Borradaile wished it to be believed that she was particularly simple, but did they believe that she was so extraordinarily simple as to believe that Lord Ranelagh made love through the mouth of his footman. He con tended that it was altogether irreconcilable with the guilt of the prisoner that she should send a letter to Mr. Cope, the relative of Mrs Borrodaile, in Wales—a letter which set the whole prosecution in motion. He concluded with a strong appeal to the jury to discredit the whole of the evidence of Mrs. Borradaile, and the result of that would be to enable them to give a verdict in consonance with British justice—namely, one of not guilty. Sergeant Ballautine, in reply, said he should not attempt to emulate the eloquence of his learned friend; all he should do would be to recall to mind the actual point at issue. The learned counsel for the defence wished them to believe that the prosecutrix had been carrying on a clandestine intimacy with a. person of the name of William— that she had forgotten her womanhood, and that she had come into court to bolster up a pro secution by lies ; and the result of his learn° I friend's appeal to the jury would be, 'suppo.sing they adopted his view of the case, that she would leave the court a convicted strumpet. But there was one part of the case that his learned friend had passed over altogether as quite beneath would doubtless agree withhim important for Madame his notice, that but it w the as jur y most Rachel to show how she came in possession of a all fdroUnlbt that either Madame "William" To him it appearedwhal e heap Rachel was in conspiracy with this "William," that she was guilty of keeping letters intended for another person, or else that the letters, having been delivered beyondof lletters t e at their destination had come back to Madame R ac h e l. By no truthful or honest means could possession, and the whole her presented the appearance of thingsth y h a t v o e comehi mind,into trick and fraud. His learned friend had upon the evidence of A d i w r s e t Borradaile, o v r e r r a y d a i utterly worthless, but he seemed to be afraid . to put a single witness in the box to contradict her. Where, he would ask, was Mi ss Rachel, where was Edward, two very important persons who could perhaps have given more information than was convenient had they been put forward for examination. The conduct of Madame Rachel, when visited by Mr. Cope, was strong confirmation that she had never lent Mrs. Borradaile a single pe nny . H a d s h e b een h e r debtor, did they think that Madame Rachel would have said she was not? Then his learned friend had said something about the charges made by the prisoner, but they as men of the world knew well enough that there were silly foolish people in the world who would readily part with 1,000 guineas for that which was infi n it e ly absurd and i utterly impossible, f, unfortunately , they got into the Sergeant hands h o e fn a str d o e n si g g ly nie a on the conduct of Mr. woman. The learned Mr. Haynes, the solicitor, and proceeded to refer to the evidence given by Lord Rane lagh. It appeared beyond doubt that Lord Ranelagh had bezel to Madame &Isabel's, and he could only say that it was most unfortunate that he should have ever been introduced to Mrs. Borra daile, and with respect to his giving his card to the lady, he could not help thinking such a proceeding on his part was not impossible. That Mrs. Borra daile was a poor weak, vain woman, he would not deny, and her conduct in court showed that in all her actions vanity was uppermost, for the first question of his learned friend to her showed it. She refused to tell her age—she wouldn't tell her age, but boasted of her hair. (Laughter.) His learned friend wanted to know " Who was William?" Why Miss Rachel knew, Edward knew ; and yet neither were called in court. Madame Rachel knew. Where did William live ? He must have lived somewhere--(laughter)—and if even it was in a garret he must have been seen by the people who lived in the parlour. (Laughter.) Then, again, bis learned friend talked about the overland route and Madame Rachel's ignorance of the existence of it, but he seemed to forget that she was a deal er in Eastern perfumes, much of which would have to come by that direction, and her ignorance on the subject was, he was certain, not deeply seated, as had been stated. The evidence of the youth Lin ton did not seem to suit the case for the defence, and it was attempted to make the boy most unworthy of belief ; but as far as he was a judge of human nature, the lad gave his evidence in an open frank manner, and in such a manner as to carry conviction on the minds of all right-thinking persons. It was very unfortunate that the boy's testimony should be set aside by the counsel for the prisoner, because it showed most unmistakeably that the manufacture of all the letters was by "Edward," and that they were all concocted in Madame Rachel's back parlour. The learned Sergeant having commented on the other parts of the speech of the counsel for the defence, concluded by expressing his firm conviction that justice would be done, and that their verdict would be in all re spects in conformity with the evidence that had been -placed before them. 1 he great question for them to determine was whether the prosecutrix was a perjurel strumpet or the woman at the bar a fraudulent person. The Recorder having summed up the evidence, The jury retired at two minutes past 6 o'clock to consider their verdict, and were absent until half past 8, when they returned for a letter and to ask a question as to the disposition of the £1,400. At 9 o'clock they again entered the court, and in-, formed the Recorder that there was no likelihood of their agreeing upon a verdict. The Recorder said that he could take no other than a unanimous verdict, and the jury were again locked up. After a considerable lapse of time they reap peared in the box, and the question was again asked them if they had agreed upon their verdict. The Foreman replied in the negative. A juror wished to ask a question as to the £1,400 which the prosecutrix had given to Mr. Haynes to pay to Madame Rachel for the diamonds. The Recorder said that the evidence was that she had agreed to take £lOO, and b keep the diamonds. The Juror asked if there was any receipt given. The Recorder said that no receipt had been pro duced, but Mrs. Borradaile had said she paid £lOO forfeiture, because the contract was not fulfilled. The £1,400 was paid by Mr. Haynes to Madame Rachel at different times. The Juror—Was Ma,datne Rachel ever authorised to pay £1,400 to Capt. Edwardes ? The Recorder—lt was said that the money wal for the Volunteers. The Juror--Was there any receipt given to Madame Rachel for that money ? The Recorder replied in the negative. The Juror— Was there a receipt given to Mr. Haynes for the money? The Recorder—No. The false pretence charged in one of the counts of the indictment was that Madame Rachel obtained the money and the deed by representing to the prosecutrix that Lord Rane lagh was in love with her, and that he had requested to have the money for the Volunteers. It was said by Madame Rachel that Lord Ranelagh wanted to borrow it. Mr. Digby Seymour—There is no proof in any of the letters that the money was wanted for the Volunteers. The Recorder—No; the letters say nothing about that. After some further conversation, principally with reference to the remarks which his lordship had made in allusion to one of the letters, the jury again retired. The court remained crowded during the whole of the evening, and the greatest anxiety appeared to be manifested to learn the decision of the jury. All parties were doomed to disappointment till ten minutes past eleven o'clock, when the jury once more presented themselves, and The Recorder, addressing them, asked if there was any possibility of their coming to a verdict in a short time. The Foreman—There is no probability at all, my lord. The Recorder—Has this decision been thoroughly considered by you all? The Foreman—lt has, my lord. The Recorder—l think I ought to discharge you, though without any verdict being come to, especially after the attention you have bestowed on this case. I do not thick that I ought to force the consciences of those who honestly differ from their fellows. The jury were then discharged, and the witnesses ordered to reappear this morning. Mr. Digby Seymour trusted that the trial would be postponed. Ile was, in fact, physically unable to reappear, and he felt that justice to his client de manded that her case should be properly presented to any other jury who might be summoned to hear it. The Recorder said that it was evident that, as Mr. Digby Seymour had met with an accident, some allowance should be made, and the trial should be postponed. Mr. Digby Seymour—Till the next sessions, my Lord ? The Recorder—Very well, till then. Mr. Digby Seymour—l have another application to make, and that is that Madame Rachel may be released on bail, and that the bail previously de cided on may be so reduced as that she may be en abled to procure it. The Recorder consented to reduce the amount of bail to one-half of what it then stood, on proper notice being given, and all parties then left the court. MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. (Prom the Anglo-American Tinos.) The Royal Mail steamship ,Scotia arrived at Queenstown at 1 a.m. yesterday, making a passage worthy this renowned vessel, and bringing news from New York to August 12. We are happy to see that the Governor of Alabama has vetoed the bill empowering the Legislature to cast the electoral vote of the State. A more insane measure could scarcely have been passed, or one better calculated to impress the world with the notion that these Legislatures were unfit to make laws. Such an act would have invited a Democratic attack in case of Grant's success, and even if force were not resorted to, supposing the Tammany nominees de feated by such means, there would be little peace thereafter in the Union. People have no right to do evil, even if good may come of it, and somewhere about half the United States doubt the good, and are strongly impressed with the evil. Far better for the Republicans to be defeated than to gain the election by such means. The only other items of United States news forwarded from Queenstown were that Mr. Thaddeus Stevens died at Washing ton on the night of the 11th inst. of general de bility, and that the intelligence from Vera Cruz was correct that her Majesty's ship Chanticleer had raised the blockade of Mazatlan on the 30th ult. The news from Canada by the Scotia is dated Ottawa, August 11. The Canadian Parliament has been prorogued until the 19th of September. It is stated that the Anti-Union Convention at Halifax has passed a resolution strongly depreca ting rebellion against the Crown or annexation to the United States, at the same time favouring the use of every constitutional means to withdraw Nova Scotia from the Confederation, which they allege it was forced to enter against the will of the people. Sir John Macdonald and party have left Halifax for Canada. Their mission to reconcile Nova Scotia to the Confederation is pronounced a failure by the provincial press. It appears that General Russell and Colonel Merewether are to be created Knights Commander of the Star of India, but as there is only one vacancy a special statute is necessary before Colonel Mere wether could be gazetted. We were under the impression that this Order was only bestowed for services in India, and while some of the most gal lant deeds ever recorded, performed in India, remain unrewarded, it is rather rich to see special statutes passed to bestow the decoration on men who for warded to the front the two unfortunate non-com batant mules which fell in the campaign. From the London Gazette, of Friday, Oct. 7, 1859, we take the following extract from a paper received by the Secretary of State for India, signed " Canning, July 2, 1859," entitled " Minute of the Governor- General of India regarding the Services of Civil Officers and others during the Mutiny and Rebel lion. Par. 16 :"—" It is now my duty to recom mend to the favourable consideration of her Ma jesty's Government the following officers :—Mr. John Cracroft Wilson, Judge of Moradabad. I name this gentleman first, because he has the en viable distinctioa of having by his own obstinate courage and perseverance saved more ,Christian lives than any man in India. He did this at the repeatedly imminent peril of his own life. He has since lef t the service of the Indian Government, and has retired to New Zealand, whither I rasp ctfully hope the favour of the Crown may follow him." It is an actual fact that this gentlein au was over looked by the authorities—not being on the spot to urge his claims. They acknowledge that, first in Lot d Canning's Despatch, he should have stood first on the list for distinction, but through some oversight his name was omitted. It seems impos sible to correct a mistake so injurious to Mr. John Cracroft Wilson. Surely it is more incumbent in passing such a statute to rectify a gross official blunder tha a to gratify the mere sentimental glee of the nation over its Abyssinian toy. But at any rate if the one can be done the other can also, and if the statute is to be passed for Colonel Merewether it may be enlarged to include the name of John Cracroft Wilson. All the Cabinet have left Washington except Secretaries M'Culloch and Browning. The Presi dent, who greatly needs rest, was about to leave, and there is some talk of running him for Governor of Tennessee. General Howard has gone South to look after the freedmen. General Rousseau is re ceiving his final instructions ere assuming com mand in Louisiana. Admiral Semmes is as large as life in Washington, and speaks like the man who captured the Kerseage. The wife of Sena tor Trumbull is very ill, with slight chance of recovery, and so was the Hon. Thai. Stevens, whose death has been announced. by the Cable. Ile was lying in a very weak and desponding state. his statement that he would never again be able to enter the house of Representatives did not receive much attention, as he had repeatedly rallied after severe attacks. lbwever, like the man whose life ebbed with the tide, and went out at low water, Thad. Stevens sank with Congress, ending his career at its close. The accounts from Texas do not, as anticipated, bear out the story told by the wire. The Milliken negro riots arose from a sheriff and a crowd of whites firing upon a company of negroes who were not engaged in riotous demonstrations, and following this up by shooting a large number of these un fortunates wherever they could catch them. Col. Gentry, who was sent to investigate the case, blames the whites. He says that five to six negroes only were killed, and the story was greatly exaggerated. It is denied that there was any concentration of armed negroes holding entrenchments, while it is asserted that the affair was a mere massacre. The Ku Klux Khan is again active, and through its agency murders and outrages have increased over the South. In Tennessee the leading men of both par ties are becoming alike weary and indignant at the unlawful course of this organization, and the noted Confederate Generals Cheatham, For rest. and Gordon have been in conference with the military committee of the Legislature to devise means for its suppression. An order by General Meade declares that the power of the military has ceased in civil matters, and the points are desig nate l in Georgia, Florida, and Alabama where the troops are to be stationed. Governor `Yarmouth's letter, asking military aid from the President, pre sented by Colonel Deane, of his staff, was published ou the 6th instant. He applies for two regiments of cavalry, one of infantry, and a battery, furnish ing ample proof of the lawlessness prevailing. The application was to be considered in the Cabinet on the 7th instant; but the Governor's statements are borne out by private advises, and reveal a deplor able state of things. In Florida the Governor also asks for military aid, and an act appointing a secret police has just been passed. The Scotia's intelligence is that the Secretary of War, in answer to the appeal of Governor Warmouth, has sent instructions to General Buchanan, Commander of the Forces in Louisiana, to dispose of the troops under his com mand according to his discretion, and to promptly telegraph for special orders from the President if any emergency should arise rendering it necessary to employ the national force for the preservation of order. The Louisiana Legislature has passed a bill making it a penal offence to organize any military force in the State without orders from the Governor. Reports from Richmond state that a Conserva tive meeting held yesterday in that town was attacked by negroes. A fight ensued, in which pistols were used, and two negroes killed. The election of the United States Senators in Georgia resulted in a compromise, the Democrats, who control the Lower House, offering, in return for a Senator, to let the Republicans have the other, and to ratify the 14th Amendment. Both are old line Whigs, natives of South Carolina, Joshua Hill being an old Congress mad and a consistent Unionist, and Miller a strong Secessionist, but both are in a high degree able and respectable. Joshua Hill has declared for Grant and Colfax, while the other supports Seymour and Blair. General Stoneman has failed to procure the removal of the officers dis qualified for holding office in Virginia, and an at tempt has been made to induce General Grant to move in the matter. The Louisiana Senate has con firmed the five judges in the Supreme Court nomi nated by the Governor on the let inst. John T. Lud ling, the Chief Justice, was a prominent Conservative m !tuber, who refused to sign, and published a pro test against the Constitution. J. P. Taliferro, ap pointed an Associate Justice, latterly a Conserva tive Republican, was President of the Convention, and candidate for Governor at the late election, and two of the others were already on the bench. Governor Brownlow, of Tennessee, recommends the Legislature to remove political disabilities by a Constitutional amendment, and the Senate is wil ling, but the House declines. The Senate of the Alabama Legislature has passed such a bill with only one dissentient voice, and another empowering the Legislature to cast the electoral vote of the State. It is said that Attorney-General Evarts' in, fluence has been exerted over the President to keep him on good behaviour, and this promises to continue, in which case there will be no meeting of Congress in September. Secretary M'Culloch had received notice that Mr. Rollins' resignation had been accepted, and Mr. Evarts had been consulting with Mr. M'Culloch on the subject. Both Mr. Rollins and the Secretary had concurred in the offer of the place to Ex-Governor Cox of Ohio, but he refused it. Mr. Binkley, late Assistant Attorney General, has been appointed Solicitor of Internal Revenue. Numbers of applications have been made for the new appoint ment of Supervisor, of which there are 25 to be filled. The Tice-metev has been adopted by the Commissioner of Internal Revenue for the preven tion of frauds in liquor distilleries. J. H. Black fair is the new Superintendent of Foreign Mails, on a salary of $3,000, an office created by the recent postal law. Although people are getting weary of the Im peachment investigation, there seems to be no ces sation to the flood of written and spoken words it calls forth. Perry Fuller now says that Legate called on him and offered on behalf of Pomeroy to secure the four votes required to acquit the Presi dent for $50,000. Fuller desired to see Pomeroy, who declined the interview, as he would only act through Gaylord, the Senator's brother-in-law. Liarly in, May, Gaylord called on Fuller and offered the necessary votes for $40,000, upon which Fuller said that he thought the sum could be raised. Senators Fowler, of Ten nessee, and Ross, of Kansas, have published in the Congresiional Globe their replies to the Im- peachment Report. After showing Butler's total failure to prove anything, they term him " vile slanderer, national liar, and thief," awl re-string that interminable necklace of blunders and out rages during the war, the General's enemies are so fond of hanging round his neck. It is a pity that these Senators should not have contented them selves with exposing the errors of the report, and proving their own innocence without weakening their case by abuse which ill becomes men in their position. On the Ist inst. Sir A. Macdonald, together with a deputation sent by the Government of the Domi nion to Halifax, were entertained at dinner by General Doyle, but the members of the local Go vernment had the bad taste to remain away. Many. articles had appeared in the anti-Union papers suggesting a most unworthy manner of receiving the visitors from Canada, and the Hon. Joseph Howe had come down with a heavy lash both on the members of the local Government and the anti-Union papers who seemed inclined in their partisanship, to overlook the common laws of hos pitality. After contrasting the way in which the Nova Scotian members, though hostile to the Go vernment, had been received in Cana la, he says that, if they have lost their Constitution, they should at least preserve their manners. England had thrown the responsibility of the controversy on the Canadian Government, and the Nova Sco tians were bound to give a fair hearing to the re medial measures proposed ; nor are the " antis" so strong that they can afford to outrage all sentiment by disregarding the usages of civilized diplomacy. It is said, however, that the Canadian Government had offered a seat in the Cabinet to Mr. Howe, which he thus prepared the way to accept. The Halifax Chronicle talks of the sympathizing nation of 30,000,000 of the bravest people on earth in their immediate vicinity, and suggests the solution of a momentous problem for Mr. Disraeli and his fellow political blunderers out of which to grope their way without shame and disgrace, and it in clines to the opinion that they would be com pelled, as a matter of right, to grant what they had refused as an act of grace. The departure of his Excellency Reverdy Johnson from Baltimore was noted for a demonstration such as has been seldom awarded to Americans on their way to take up foreign missions. He certainly sailed from his own city, and that city is not in magnitude a New York ; stid the leave-taking marked the departure of a man respected alike by all classes and parties of his countrymen. A dozen steamers escorted the Baltimore, Capt. Voekler, gaily decorated, and Fort M'llerry thundered a salute as they passed. A dinner was given on board the Baltimore, at which the Prussian Minister, Gover nor Bradford, General Van Vliet, and many per sonal friends of the Minister were present. Mrs. Lincoln had proceeded to the Alleghany Mountains, and was not therefore a passenger as anticipated. She left Barnum's Hotel, Baltimore, on that day, via llarrisburgh for Bedford Springs, delaying her passage a month on account of the warm weather. The crowd who had gathered to witness her departure were disappointed. His Excellency arrived last Saturday at Southamp ton, where he remained till Monday morning, when he left for London by the 11.40 train for Fenton's Hotel, St. James's-street, wherein rooms had been taken. A saloon carriage was provided by the South-Western Company for the use of has Excel lency and suite. It is interesting to observe, now that so many negroes sit in the Southern State Legislatures, that a negro won the first prize this year for declama tion at Harvard University. With education, and such a field as is now open to them in the South, many negro orators will arise, for it is said that the African has a fervid imagination, and whether able to argue logically or not will at least be able to declaim. Our new Minister has given a proof that the negro excels in another and more useful field. He has carried Wormley, a coloured cook, to Eng land, from Washington, where he earned a great reputation. We should not be surpfsed if he is waited on by the leading chefs of London, and de putations from Paris, to discuss the culinary art. He may give a dash of Southern fire to some insipid Northern pot which may make his name immortal. Some tourists write angrily of the growing extor- tion of the people on the Rhine. Wherever they go to see anything worth seeing they are surrounded by harpies who press their services so pertinaciously that one is employed, however useless in other respects, as a sort of black mail to keep off the rest. Whether it be a ruin or a church, whether the time be day or night, there is no escape, and the extortion so grows that it will end by driviog tourists in another direction. Two steamers 011 the. American model are now plying on the river, which is a great improvement. They run between Bingen and Coblentz and Cologne, the one ascend' ing the other descending, each day. Indian affairs are on the whole not satisfactory . From Fort Lamed the news is that the tribes lately assembled in council with General Sully were dis. contented, as they had not received the usnal plies of arms and ammunition ; others were sullen because of the scarcity of provisions, but they wer e suppressed for the present by the display of a strong mi itary force. General Sherman is at once to convene an Indian Peace Commission, and to visit various tribes on the plains to ascertain the real causes of discontent. In Arizona the depredations had been carried on with impunity, but in Idaho a band of 70 to 80 savages had been captured by a scouting party. In Montana treaties had been made wit h nearly all the tribes, most of whom, before the win' ter, will be settled on their reservations. The battle of labour versus capital continues to rage. The Boston Working Men's Institute re cently met and passed five resolutions concerning the Eight-Hour Bill, which it regards as important, as it tends to a more equal distribution of wealth. Senator Wilson is thanked for support, an d s en ator Sumner denounced for his opposition to the " carp' ing system." The fallacy is exposed, that, is justice to employers, the ratio of wages must be ° a eight hours is to ten hours,.and it is insisted on, that ten bouts' pay must be given for the eight hours ' work ; and thus the question is discussed. In Nev i York the bricklayers remain cn strike to enforce such resolutions as were embodied by the Boston Working Men's Institute, and they are supported liberally by the Trades' Un;ons, which enables the Committee to give $l2 a week to each ina. r : tied man, and $7 to each single man. The c ontes t is watched with interest by ether trades ; building in the meantime is suspended, and rates advance; The Government workmen have been " sold" by tl3 l superintendents' interpretation of the late law. says nothing about pay, so wages are reduced in proportion to the hours struck out, and the n le ic i not lik'ng this have demanded a return to the a' t system. Here they are met by the objects f ° l which the reduction was made—" Time for word O and intellectual Improvement,” "re cr e a tion for t h e benefit of health," &c. The superintendents d ; o e cline to comply, and seem more inclined to "cha ff ' The extraordinary drought prevailing &Oi l ) the English midsummer has led to a dearth of f e° for cattle, and caused much anxiety for their sup' port during the winter. These circumstances 15 ,,, nished another instance of the value of the Atla n o Cable. Messages to New York directed IPO ~ shipment of hay, oilcake, and other " feed," w hic v : is now arriving in large quantities. The crops 135 00 , been unusually abundant throughout the Sta te ; and even the cotton crop is likely to be goods c oo cept in Alabama and parts of Georgia, where op army worm and heavy falls of rain have had injurious influence. Mr. Peabody has been visiting Sir J. Einer ool , l Tennent, Bart., and Lady Tennant, at Tempo 3 1511° P Enniskillen. 05.1 The Revolution says that Mrs. Stanton and J-T- ha Anthony are now visiting their numerous friends i n central portion of New York, that their coming is 01; where greeted with joy, and their word and work hea rt/ approved. The New American Minister to China, J. .6 4 1 Browne,late Commissioner of Mining Statistics, had reach San Francisco from N ew Y or k. H e p roce eded to CP" on August 3, in the new steamer Japan just arrived t ° her place on that line. Having made California his eSPe",, study during the last three years, ho is all the bettor (I% lifted to represent the American Government in C 2, 11 :60 whose inhabitants have more intercourse with the Pa ta' Coast than with any other portion of the American Con nent. 6 013 ' Heinrich Sch'der has been arrested at Pat e 0 0' h New York, charged with the murder of his maste r hor tress, and two children in the grand duchy of Hesse v., 0 , stadt, and will be transferred to the German auther io Theodore's son is at present staying in tb e t tiP of Wight with Captain Speedy. He is to be bro u r i f as the son of an English gentleman, with the l ie entering the Indian civil service. AV, 0 James Whiting, of Roxbury, MassachuSv - f 0 4 mentioned as a candidate for Congress from one .r 9 Boston districts. Ho made a good speech at Roxb u the sth instant. Births. h p ile BYLES —On the 17th inst., at Harefield, Uxbridge, - fs4fr of Walter Barnard Byles, Esq., barrister-at-lava, °f SOBS. di/ OuTBILL—On the 20th inst., at Lawrie House, BIa C the wifo of Alfred Cutbill, Esq., of a daughter. lois* Ross—On the 21st inst., at 10, N or f o lk- s treet, 1 2.311 " - Mrs. Gustaf Ross, of a son. CRAPER—SMITH—On Mar r the 20th iages inst rti a t Christ Li Thgf fo b ' Croydon, Alfred, second son of the late Edwin , Esq., of Clapham, to Mary Harriet, only survi v" of the late Henry Smith, Esq., of Forest-hill. Br ide' SANDFORD— WILLIAMSON—On the 20th inst., at St•l3cheAr Fleet-street, Mr. Henry Sandford, of [ling-streef,,.osol sides, to Ann, eldest daughter of the late T. W illi' of Fleet-street. Deaths. DEVER—On the 20th inst., at 11, 13elsize-Park' s llaverstock-hill, Robert Dover, aged 35. LYLE—On the 18th inst., at Oaks Lodge, countY 14° dorry, Samuel Lyle, Esq., aged 68. Fr e d. 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