The Sun. — London, England, 1868-07-24 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS, In the opinion of the Times, Mr. Disraeli and Mr. Ayrton have done their best between them to destroy the poor remains of reputation possessed by the expiring House of Commons. It would probably be erroneous to pretend that they were confederates, but by different ways, and independently of each other, they have worked together to the same end. Much of doubtful propriety has been done within the last eighteen months, but our contemporary remembers nothing so little creditable in the conduct of public business as the way in which the Government contrived to persuade the House of Commons to reverse a decision adopted after mature deliberation by a twice - repeated verdict of the House. The provision added to the Corrupt Practices Bill by the committee on Saturday last, after having been on the notice-book ever since the bill was introduced, was yesterday struck out again, in consequence not so much of the strenuous exertions as of what it is charitable to call the adroit management of the Ministry. But Mr. Ayrton bad his revenge in the evening, by moving a count-out of the House, wherel.y the Cattle Markets Bill is again postponed. The Times cannot, however, suppose that anything will result from Mr. Ayrton's bold manoeuvre, except the postponement of the prorogation from Thursday to Saturday of next week. It may cause certain incon venience to many members of both Houses, but the course of legislation will probably be unaffected. There is, indeed, a certain fitness in the events of these last days of the pre sent House of Commons. The arts of management by which it has been guided have had their influence on the morality of the Assembly ; and the events of yesterday may be a fitting end to a reign of audicity and chicane. The Herald think 3 the vote must be taken not as a refusal of the House to put upon the constituencies the charges of elections, with the proper guarantees for the prevention of absurd contests, but as a declaration that the proposal does not legitimately come within the scope of a bill dealing with corrupt practices at elections. The Daily .News looks upon the event as only one more in that series of petty victoriesWith'Which the Govern ment is bringing the session to a close. It is, however, more than doubtful whether it is a victory on which the more astute occupants of the Treasury Bench will see reason to congratulate one another. Not only does it reverse a decision which was received with universal satisfaction in the country, but it reverses it by one of those suspicious and untimely changes of policy which suggest to unsophisticatel mind:; the idea of government by intrigue. Mr. Disraeli has had enough of yielding, and explaining, and apologising ; he is tired of consulting the opinion of the House, and now that an opportunity has arisen of getting his own way, and en forcing his own opinion, he has yielded to the temptation without counting the cost. Speaking of the remarks made by Mr. Gladstone on the Irish Church, the Herald asserts that the leader of the Opposition knows perfectly well that the remedy he proposes, instead of bringing concord and unity, will only envenom the quarrel ; but in his mad plunge at the Treasury Bench he is careless of the consequences, and seeks to. delude the country with expressions of hope and confidence in the future as sanguine as they are unwar ranted. The impatience with which his ill-timed attempt to impose upon his hearers was received at Romsey should serve to teach him that the country is too thoroughly alive to the issues involved to tolerate any longer the sophistries beneath which he strives to veil their real significance. Referring to the address presented to the subscribers of the Jamaica Committee, the Post believes that they originally undertook what they conceived to be a great public duty ; but, unfortunately, they addressed them selves to their self-appointed functions in a frame of mind which prevented them perceiving when it was that they passed from the position of public prosecutors into that of private persecutors. When the Shropshire bench re fused to commit Mr. Eyre, and when the London grand jury threw out the bills against General Nelson and Lieutenant Brand, they ought to have taken their present step. They never at any time enlisted sympathy, but if they had then avowed that their task was completed they would have fairly entitled themselves to respect. The Standard looks upon the address as a somewhat anxious defence of the conduct of the committee. But with all their daring they are obliged to draw back when the general voice condemns their wild crotchets ; and nothing but the respect which Mr. Mill's literary reputation deservedly commands could have saved him or his assn• ciates in the Jamaica Committee from a severer visitation of public indignation than they have yet had to en counter. Mr. Mill shews signs that he is laying to heart the lesson that even a great philosopher cannot quite dispense with judgment and discretion when he enters political life. The report of the select committee on Mr. Lefevre's Women's :Rights Bill furnishes a peg upon which the Star hangs a leader. No practical result of Mr. Lefevre's effot ts, of course, was possible during the present year, and as much as c,uld reasonably have been l.oped for has bJen gained by placing upon record the recommenda tions of the select committee. The question is expressly and necessarily submitted for further consideration to the new Parliament, and there it is certain to be considered in a spirit more generous and liberal than is common among the members of the old House of Commons. Not, indeed, that there is any reason to com plain of the tone in which the committee has dealt with the right of married women to be relieved from the injus tice under which they at present labour, but the Star fears that the committee is far from representing the tone or the ideas of the average member of Parliament on this subject ; so that perhaps, after all, it is the best policy to wait. The Times does not regret that the subject is put off for a short time. It is so large, and legislation upon it will need so much care, that there is no reason to regret such a delay. If the promoters of the bill will employ the recess in devising, with the help of competent lawyers, a satisfactory measure, the task of the House and of its com mittee next year may be materially lightened. The capture of Mackay for the Norton Folgate murder gives the Telegraph an opportunity of saying a wcrd in favour of the scientific art. The suspected murderer was taken entirely through the production of a photogT4h, which, in the opinion of our contemporary, is very satis factory, as showing that scientific discovery, on the whole, tells against thuse who war against social order and out rage humanity. The electric wire is an agent of swift retribution, and the photograph is a sure detective; and the Telegraph is glad to find that both agencies are so we employed. SERIOUS RIO 7 A7' IV ES7 ON-SUPER-3IARE A rather serious electioneering riot is reported from Weston-Super-Mare. On Wednesday evening Major Allen and Mr. Richard Bright, the two Conservative can didates for the Eastern Division of Somerset, addressed the electors in the Town Hall. The Liberal party, regarding themselves as having been insulted at their recent meeting, a mob of roughs were determined to have vengeance on the Blues, and for that purpose attended the meeting on Wednesday. The candidates could be seen on the plat form, but as to being heard was quite out of the question ; however, during a second's lull they were unfortunately heard to speak against Mr. Gladstone's resolutions, and the words had no sooner escaped their lips than a tremen• dons yelling was set up, accompanied by a shower of rotten eggs and red powder, which completely covered the candi dates and their supporters. A general fight then took place in the room between the police and the mob, when the latter attempted to gain the platform and turn the candidates and their friends off. This, however, they could not succeed in doing, Mr. Bright and his friends striking at the roughs right and left. At length the Con servative party left the room, and on getting outside were most roughly used, and were compelled to run hither and thither for shelter. Colonel Monckland and a Mr. Good. child, who were prominent supporters of the Conservative cause, were beaten in a most brutal manner, and had to seek refuge in the Victoria Hotel ; but the doors were no sooner closed than the house was assailed with sticks and stones, breaking:nearly every pane of glass in the windows. They next proceeded through the principal streets of the town, breaking windows and assaulting all who happened to wear a blue favour. The shops were all, closed at, an early hour, but the rioting continued more or less until -past midnight. An additional force of police has been sent to Weston, and no further disturbance has taken place. The British Arelixological Association has chosen Cirencester as the place for Lolling its annual meeting. The session will continence on Monday, 'll,gt - Lit, 10, and last th,.. entire w cek. E,ITIZAOI:I , I2.I.ItV VITALITY IN .1 CAT.—Wha tho brig Dawn, of Dundee, Captain Caithness, was loading flag at Eiga, about live weeks ago, a strange cat came on board, and took up its abode in the after hold of the vessel. The poor animal, it appears, did not get out again, it having been stowed away with the cargo in a little hole near the cabin deck beams, where it hal only room to turn. The vessel was loaded in due course, and sailed with its " stow-away" on board. Arriving in Dundee on. Monday, the 20th, the process of discharging was commenced, and to the astonishment of all engaged in that operation they came on the unfortunate cat yester day morning, in the hole where it had been imprisoned, after being shut up for twenty-four days without either food or water. On being released, the animal was kindly cared for and fed by the crew. --Dundee Advertiser. THE DOVER MURDER. At the Maidstone Assizes on Thursday, Thomas 18, railway porter, was indicted for the wilful murder of Edward Adolphus James Walsh, at Dove; by shooting him with a gun on the Ist of May last. Prisoner pleaded not guilty. Mr. Serjeant Sleigh was specially retained, with Mr. Straight, to conduct the prosecution, by the London, Chatham, and Dover Railway Com pany, in whose service both the deceased and the prisoner were engaged at the time of the unhappy occurrence. The Prisoner was defended by Mr. Ribton and Arr. Biron. The facts of the case were very few and simple, and the evidence in support of the charge was most conclusive. The deceased had been for several years the station-master at the Priory Station of the London, Chatham, and Dover Railway at Dover, and he was a man of kind and inoffen sive habits, and very much respected by all who came in contact with him or were acquainted with him. The prisoner was employed at the same station as a porter and carriage cleaner, and it appeared that for some time previous to the Ist May, the day on which the deceased lost his life, he had been in the habit of discharging a pistol within the station buildings. He was requested by deceased not to continue such a proceeding. This did not seem to have any effect, and the deceased felt it his duty to communicate with Mr. Cox, a superior officer of the company, upon the subject, and on the Ist of May that gentleman went to the Priory Station, and in the presence of the deceased he told prisoner that he must apologise, and promise not to repeat the act complained, or he should be compelled to report him. The prisoner was evidently in a state of great excitement and anger at having been reported by the deceased, and refused to apologise. Mr. Cox then read the report he intended to send in against him, which recommended that a slight fine should be imposed upon him. Mr. Cox having done this, left the office, and he bad only gone a very short distance when he heard the report of a firearm, and it turned out that the prisoner had deliberately aimed a gun at the deceased, and discharged it at a very short distance from him, the ball passing completely through his head and killing him upon the spot. Immediately after committing the dreadful deed, the prisoner ran out of the office, and jumped into one of the rail way carriages that were standing upon the line, where lie was taken into custody with the gun in his rosssession, and upon the weapon being secured it was evident that it had only been discharged immediately before. Where the prisoner obtained the gun from did not appear. Several of his fellow-porters were called to prove that very shortly before the occurrence the prisoner had been heard to utter deadly threats against the deceased, and that upon several occasions he had openly declared that if the old - (meaning the deceased) interfered any more with him, he would have his life. For the defence an attempt was made by Mr. Ribton, in cross-examinati o to shew that some short time previous to the Ist of May the prisoner had received an injury on the head by being jammed between the buffers of two carriages. None of the witnesses, however, appeared to have the least know ledge of such an occurrence having taken place, except one, who said that he did hear something about the pri soner having sustained some slight accident, and remem bered that he was away from duty for a few days, but after he returned he appeared to be just the same as usual in his conduct. The father and mother of the prisoner were examined, but their evidence mainly tended to show that the prisoner was brought home last July in a nearly insen sible condition, in consequence of his chest and head having been struck by the buffer of an engine. They stated that after this the prisoner appeared very flighty, and conducted himself in a curious manner ; but it appeared that he resumed his occupation in a very few days, and no medical man was called in to attend him. Mr. Justice Willes, in summing up the case to the jury, said it was no part of his duty to answer the speech of the learned counsel for the prisoner, but he felt that it was his duty—and he should not shrink for a moment from performing it—to inform them that the law of this country was that any man who deliberately killed another was guilty of the crime of wilful murder; and they must find the prisoner guilty of that offence or acquit him altogether. The jury, after an absence of not more than five minutes, found the prisoner guilty of wilful murder. Mr. Justice Willes warned the prisoner to give up all hopes in this world, and turn with bitter repentance to the God of mercy for pardon. lie then proceeded to pass the formal sentence of death, directing that it should be carried out according to the statute. This will be the first prisoner executed within the walls of the gaol, pursuant to the new Act of Parliament passed during the present session. 4' LAW AND POLICE. THE rO',VERS OF THE COURT OF CHANCERY.—Before the Lords Justices, the appeal case of Riches v. Owen was heard. The defendant to the suit was an agetit, ship broker, &c., and amongst other things possessed a lease hold interest, in a colliery. On the 20th February he executed a deed for the benefit of his creditors, which was duly assented to and registered. This bill was filed, alleging that the defendant had broken the covenants on his part contained in the deed with respect to the winding up of his business and the realisation of his estate, and that he refused to submit to the control of the inspectors, and the bill prayed the appointment of a receiver. The Vice-Chancellor appointed a receiver, and the defendant appealed. Their lordships dismissed the appeal. CURIOUS DIVORCE CASE. —ln the Divorce Court Mr. John Wormald, a partner in the banking firm of Childs and Co., petitioned the court that a de facto marriage, contracted between his daughter and a man who was once a footman in his service, might be annulled, on the ground of an undue publication of banns. The footman persuaded the young lady to run away with him to be married. The day after the ceremony she seemed sorry for what she had done, and returned to her father's house. She gave a false name to the parish clerk, and this forms part of the peti tioner's case for the undue publication of the banns. The case stands over for argument. The marriage took place in October 1867, and the young lady has now reached the age of 15. THE TOTTENHAM AND HAMPSTEAD RAILWAY.—In the Sheriff's Court, the case of the Contract Corporation v. the Tottenham and Hampstead Railway was heard. It was a proceeding by the Contract Corporation Company against the Tottenham and Hampstead Junction Rail way Company, by a writ of elegit issued out of the Court of Queen's Bench, to recover a sum of £33,888, for which a judgment had been recovered. The counsel for the plaintiff said that the Contract Corporation, whom he represented, had obtained a judgment against the railway company, and they having no goods and chattels which could be taken in execution in the county of Middlesex, a writ of elegit had been issued, and their duty was to ascertain what property the company possessed which could be made available for the purposes of the judgment. The railway company had, under their Act of 1862, made several stations, and completed a line of railway of some miles, which might be estimated as worth, in round numbers, £lOO,OOO, which, taking the annual value at 5 per cent., would make £5,000, which could be made available to satisfy the judgment. All he now required was a verdict finding that the railway possessed the pro perty in Middlesex, on which an application would be made to the Court of Chancery for the appointment of a receiver. The jury found a verdict for the plaintiffs. ACTION AGAINST A RAILWAY COIIPANY.-At the Staf ford Assizes the case of Nixon v. the Great Western Railway was heard. The action was brought by the daughter and executrix of the late Mr. Nixon, a picture iealer of Birmingham, to recover damages for the death of Mr. Nixon, which, it was alleged, was caused in conse quence of the negligence of the defendants. On the 13th of November last Mr. Nixon met his death through a collision between the luggage train belonging to London and North-Western Railway Company, and the train belonging to the defendants, in which he was a third-class passenger. The collision occurred at the Sedgley Junction, near Dudley, and was caused by the admitted negligence of the London and North• Western Company's servants. The only question was the amount of damage. The jury gave £5OO to the widow, and £l5O to the plaintiff. Fn;LEs's GOOD DEEDS AT HOME.-At Marl • borough-street Police-court, Mr. Bacon, the landlord of ionic small houses in Prince's-row, Newport-market, applied to the magistrate for advice. He had let one of the rooms— a bac:: room, second floor—at 3s. 6d. a week to James Finlen, the pers'm who went with deputations to Mr. Gladstene's home and made speeches at the Hyde Park and Reform demonstrations. He would neither pay rent nor go away. He had occupied the room for seven weeks, but had only paid two weeks' rent. his wife, the applicant believed, was in some asylum. There were three children in the room, filthy and starving. There was not a chair, cup, or a plate in the room, and, indeed, there was nothing in it but a piece of old sack ing. The children had no one to look after them ; they were covered with vermin, and nearly naked. The father came borne generally about three o'clock in the morning. Eiden had been twice convicted of deserting his children. One or other of the lodgers gave the poor children food. Mr. Knox asked how Finlen lived ; to which the applicant replied that a short time since 400 Fenians subscribed 6d, each for him. Mr. Knox advised Mr. Bacon to take a broker into the house, and if it was in a filthy condition during the hot weather, the inspector o 1U 1 144 1 4 08 would no 421114 interefere, • THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, JULY 24, 1868. 211 E LATE 111 R. .EFFINGBAiII 1171LSON. (From the City Press) Our columns recently recorded the death of Mr. Effingham Wilson. In the belief that many may like to know something of the life of one who, in his time, held a prominent position, both as a publisher and a politician, the following particulars have been compiled. Mr. Wilson was born about 1783, in the parish of Kirby-Ravensworth, near Richmond, in the North Riding of Yorkshire. He was a member of an old Yorkshire family, and the fact of some of his relations having farmed under the Earl of Effing ham, induced his parents to give him the distinctive Christian name that he subsequently made so well and widely known. His earliest years were passed in the neighbourhood of the place of his birth, and when still a b)y he was removed to Knares borough, in the same county, where he went to reside with his uncle, Dr. Hutchinson, for the purpose of being educated and trained to the medical profession, for which, at that time, he was destined. Dr. Hutchinson was a celebrated man in his district, and possessed an ex cellent museum. It was this same Dr. Hutchinson who went out to Knaresborough Moor, in the dead of the night, and cut down the body of Eugene Aram, which was grimly hanging there in chains, for the purpose of possessing himself of the skall, he being an ardent phrenologist. This skull he secreted for years, and when it eventually came to light, and he admitted that he was the culprit, it was, owing to its peculiarities of formation, the subject of much discussion and controversy amongst phrenologists. Mr. Wilson knew Houseman's widow, the man Houseman who is supposed by many to have been the real murderer of Daniel Clarke, and who turned king's evidence. Mr. Wilson, from these early as:iocia,tions, took a deep interest in all concerning the life and fate of Eugene Aram, and possessed an extensive collec tion of all the works and pamphlets that were, from time to time, issued and published upon that sub ject. The skull, which ht much coveted, and which was at one time promised to him, still re mains in the family, and is now in the possession of Miss Walton, of .Talton, in Yorkshire. Mr. Wilson subsequently determined, from some unexplained cause, to abandon the profession of medicine ; and it is believed that when he left Dr. Hutchinson, he fur some time went to reside with a relation named Fall, at Rood Hall, in Yorkshire, on an estate called the Theakston Estate, since pur chased by the Duke of Leeds. He left Mr. Fall, after a considerable sojourn, and resolved, when still a youth, to come to London, and seek his for tunes in the great city. Mr. Wilson appears to have selected the publish ing business immediately after his arrival in Lon don. He first went to Mr. Aspern's, iu Coruhill, whose place was known by the sign of " The Bible, Crown, and Constitution." From Mr. Aspern's he went to Mr. Thomas Hurst (the firm being Hurst and Robinson), the Longmans joining the house while Mr. Wilson was there, although Mr. Hurst afterwards separated from the now great house of Longman and Co., with which house Mr. Wilson remained for some years. He formed for Mr. Hurst, from this early time, a warm and enduring friend ship, which lasted until the death of that gentle man, a few years since. Many long years after the early time to which we have referred, when Mr. Hurst's fortunes had unhappily changed, Mr. Wilson was chiefly instrumental in securing him a haven in " The Charter House," at which place he died. After leaving Messrs. Longman's house, and com mencing business, Mr. Wilson was for a few years in Paternoster-row, but removed, on the 30th of June, 1812, to the south-east corner of the Royal Exchange, which place he never afterwards quitted, except during the rebuilding, after the fire of January 10th, 1838, returning as soon as it was again ready to the same spot, which still bears his name. Although, with his wonted prudence, he had taken out and held several fire policies for 'years, yet, by some unaccountable oversight, the last premiums had not been duly paid ; and when the great fire came, he learnt too late, greatly to his own perplexity, that he was entirely. uninsured. On the occasion of the opening of the new Exchange in 1844, he was most generously congratulated, on his re-establishment, by the public press. Mr. Wilson was for upwards of 60 years a busy worker in the City, making his corner position cele brated as the birthplace of many useful and instruc tive commercial and important political and lite rary works. Ile had the longest career, and, we believe, the most independent, public-spirited, and fearless career, of any publisher of his time. He was associated with much brave political work that has been well, truly, and laboriously done. He was a link between the past and present generations, and he had consequently seen extraordinary changes. lle took at one time an active and dangerous part in politics, on the extreme Liberal side, and was the producer of works for which it was difficult to find a publisher, containing as theydid daring onslaughts on the established wrongs of the day. We extract the following remarks, in support of what we have said, from the Money Market Re view : Mr. "Wil so n visited his friend Hone, in Ne wg ate, the night before his ce lebra ted trial began, in 1817, i t ni order However e.s, e r t o r nu ail c him in the preparatio n o f bi s d e f ence. h he may have th oug h t H one ' s con duct questionable, and however widely he may have differed from him, both as a matter of taste and feeling, be considered the criminal prosecution to which Hone wa s subjected wholly unjustifiable, and, if successful, a pernicious precedent ;' and un der such circumstances he concluded that it would, in the hour of peril, be an act of moral cowardice to desert his friend. lie was fully borne out in his opinion of the prosecution by the unanimous ac quittal of Hone by three special juries, and this in spite of Lord Elleuborough, who, more in the spirit of an advocate than a judge, pleaded hard for a conviction. The public endorsed these verdicts by a subscription of £3,000. _ "Effingham Wilson was a man of strong im pulses, great moral courage, and unswerving deter mination, of all which his conflict with the leading journal many years ag.) was a memorable example. The journal in question punished him for years by sedulously ignoring both him and his publications; but he never condescended to complain. At alater period, when the hatchet was buried between them, Mr. Wilson's publicAtions were noticed with the same impartiality as those of other publishers. A feature of the late Mr. Wilson's character was a generous inclination to help those who needed help either in politics, in literature, or in business ; and there may be many now living who can testify to the value of the services he has rendered to them. "He was the publisher of some of the earlier works of Jeremy Bentham. He was the publisher also of Wade's celebrated Black Book, in which the pensions and jobberies of the Court and aristocracy of that day were ruthlessly exposed to the indigna tion of the country. The book, though costly, had an enormous sale, and created an immense sensa tion, and there is no doubt it contributed much to arouse that spirit which ultimately carried the Re form Bill of 1832. how are times changed since then 1 John Wade, the author of that book, is now in the receipt of a pension from the Crown, and the instrument in procuring that pension for him was the son of his old publisher. It may also be mentioned that Mr. Wilson was the first pub lisher of Alfred Tennyson (1830) and of the works of Thomas Campbell in a complete form." personal f r i en d o f Dr. Birk _ becjklr,.a\n‘drilstlolkwaas a warm and active interest in the establishment of Mechanics' Institutions, and the spread of popular education. Re contended, in the matter of sound instruction, to use his own phraseology, that every child shou!d «have that given to it which nobody can take away from it." As an apt illustration of how app rec i at i ve l y a li ve he was to the continuity of progress and improve ment, scientific as well as political, it may be worth while to mention, that he was the first man in his own district to cause his place of business to be lighted with gas, and that greatly to the terror of his timid neighbours, and in spite of of their pro phetic remonstrances. He used to ride in the steam carriage that at one time. ran on the common highway ; and he went the first experimental trip, with the directors, on the Greenwich Railway ; and as a contrast in one life, he had known the time when it took him four days to go to Margate in a boy, and a week to go to Edinburgh on a coach. In 1827, years before the " Anti-Corn Law League" was organised (in 1838) he published General I'erronet Thompson's famous Catechism of the Corn Laws. Many thousands of this work were sold and circulated, year after year, with persistent industry, until it could be found, with its familiar ark alustration, in every nook and corner of Eng land. It may be said to have prepared the ground, and sown the seed, for the coming political harvest. In point of argument, this work has been pro nounced convincing and exhaustive, although the subject received, of course, vast and continuous subsequent illustration. After the long Anti-Corn Law campaign was over and the victory was won, Mr. Cobden, with rare and graceful political gene rosity, speaking of General Thompson, said, " He was our master ; Vv e have all been but pupils in his school." General Thompson has been styled " the earliest and ablest asserter of the principles of Free Trade." Many of the works published by Mr. Wilson have gone through numerous editions, and some have existed for years, and have become accepted standard Commercial Works. Mr. Wilson also published at different times a considerable num ber of Educational Works, amongst them the works of M. Merlet and M. Le Page, and some by the well-known Mr. Pinnock. One of the earliest cheap periodicals, 1830-31, entitled Vie Parterre, was his, and had for some time cnsijerable suc cess. He also started in the very earliest days of the railway system The Railway Journal, but this paper was, at the period of its first production, be fore its time. fie sold it to Mr. I ferapath, who tached his name to the paper, and it became after wards a great property. Ile published for mlny years, and his house still publishes, a larger num ber of pamphlets than any other fir:n in the trade, and his was the house that has acted for a long time past for most of the great City nrignateF. Within the lest few years he has published fir the Right Hon. G. J. Goschen, for Mr. it. Wigram Crawford, M.P., and for Mr. Thomson ninkey, M.P. tie published for the Administrative Re form Association the speech of Mr. Charles Dickens, delivered at Drury-lane Theatre ; and, for the Liberal Registration Association, a speech of Earl Lussell, dedvered at Guildhall, on the occa sion of a contested election. It was his invariable cult An to print upon the title page of his books a grasshopper, that being the test of Sir Thomas Gre,,harn, and the sign of the grasshopper having always been placed upon the tower of the Royal Exchange, immediately above his place of business. A friend of Mr. Wilson's, a Mr. Maurice, built the Brunswick Theatre, in Wellclose-square, in 1828, which house, a few days after it was opened to the public, fell down during a rehearsal, crush ing the pro.,rietor, au.l eleven others, in its ruin , . Mr. Wilson, after a long search, found the bogy of Mr. Maurice in th e pi t , i n a painfully mutilate I condition; a friend of Mr. Maurice's who hat b.km with him in the proscenium box during the accident, and who, when the roof be4an to fail, had strongly urged him to stay where he was, remaining unin jured. Mr. Wilson hal the mournful duty of breaking to the family of his friend the sad intelli gence of his terrible death. Ile used to tell, with great unction, the story of how a narrow-minded parson thereabout, who, by way of "improving the occasion," had taken upon himself to denounce. the theatre as a godless house, and had presumed to de tect the hand of Providence in its destruction, and _ At a time when a testimonial was presented to had the steeple of his own church toppled down by Mr. Wilson, on account of the service he had ren- lightning during the ensuing summer—an itnpar- : dered to the Reform cause of 1832 was put forward tiality of dispensation that Must have been obfus by his friends. It showed that, among many other catingly startling to so self-satisfied an interpreter things, he, in 1806, published A Plain Letter to of infinite wisdom. One can well imagine such a H.R.H. the Prince of Wales, on his Plain Ditties man, glasses on nose, gazing with blank amazment, to his Wife, his Child, and his Country. Was in twenty times at least, at the empty space ,here his consequence served with an ex-officio information steeple once had been, before he could gradually by the then Attorney-General (Sir Vicary Gibbs), bring his stunned intelligence into a condition to which caused the whole trade to discontinue the believe it possible. sale of it except himself. 1812. Published Ma- The following is a very characteristic anecdote, terials for Thinking, by William Burden, Esq. A and is an example of the sort of personal encounter threat of prosecution caused many booksellers to to which Mr. Wilson's publications at one time ren abandon the sale of this work. 1821. The Art of dered him liable:--Col. Stephenson, aide-de-camp Packing as applied to Special Juries incases of Libel to the Duke of York, one day called at the Royal Law, by Jeremy Bentham. This work lay in the Exchange and inquired for Efflogliain Wilson. hands of the printers for ten years, wanting a pub- Stepping forward, Mr. Wilson said, " That is my 1 Esher. 1830-2. The Black Book, usually known as name." The colonel then asked if he was the pub the Reformers' Bible, a work which, during the agita- usher of " a scandalous p simplilet reflectng on tion of the Reform Bill, both the London and country H. R.H. the Duke of York." Mr. IVilson replied, newspapers quoted and extracted from to an un- "No, I never issue scaudalous publications. I have precedented extent, greatly to the advancement of lately published a pamphlet, in which his Royal the cause. The sale of this work was impeded by the ; Highness's conduct is truthfully described." Then, prosecution of several country vendors, but no pro- said the c010n.21, " I have come from the duke with secution was attempted against Mr. Wilson in Lou- the intention of horse- whipping you," at the same ' don. 1833. Published The Times Extraordinary. time producing, from under his coat, a formi- This completely stirred up the venom of that joule. dable whip. Mr. Wilson, nothing daunted by 1 . , nal, which took occasion to designate him as the the appearance of his military visitor, or the sight of the weapon, but standing bolt upright, " Radical Bookseller of the Royal Exchange," and recommended the partisans of its newly-adopted , restutVed the colonel to fulfil his commission, but creed to punish such men by the adoption of " ex- he added, " the moment you lay hands on me elusive dealing" with persons of their own political . you will find it necessary to make your appear faith. Th 1 Livery of the Clothworkers' Company ante before the Lord Mayor." The colonel, acting was withheld from him for 25 years (until the Re- i upon the principle that " discretion is the better form Bill conferred it upon him) on account of his , part of valour," decided not to execute his commis- Sion, but departed, threatening all sorts of yen publishing books " inimical to the State," as he was repeatedly told by the dominant Tory faction geance, of which, however, nothing more was of that day, who then ruled the affairs of the Com- ever heard. Those who knew Effingham Wilson pany. Ile became the relater in the cause of the will feel pretty certain that had the Colonel but " Lute Charity," left in trust to the Clothworkera, raised his arm to strike, something would have 1 by which means nearly £7OO per annum was appro- occurred prior to his appearance at the Mansion priated to the poor, which had for almost two house. centuries been applied to the " uses" of the Com- In public life he earuestly desired, to use his fa pany vourite expression, manfully to do his all to " leave Mr. Wilson was at one thee a frequent attendant the world better than he found it ;" his oft-repe a ted in the lobby of the House of Commons, when any idea of the end of all good governme n t was , t o use question of national importance was before the th e words of Bentham, " the greatest happiness of house, being well known to many of the members. the greatest number ;" he che r i s h e d tenac i ous ly our He took a great interest in Queen Caroline, and hardly-cotquered " right of private judgment ;" formed one of the deputation who waited upon her he spoke ever of the great "fourth estate," a free with the late Mr. Alderman Matthew Wood. He press, thus:—" It is like the air we breathe : if we was a volunteer at the ti m e w hen Napoleon Buona- h ave it not, we die ;" he frequently made pecuni parte threatened En g la n d w ith invasion, and was ary sacrifices fo r causes th a t h e l ove d, an d man y a justly proud of having b een so. He had a great time were his private interests rendered subser veneration for the me mor y o f J e remy Bentham, and vient to the p u bli c goo d ; h e was a s t aunc h Pro took his children and hi s f r iends to the house of testant, and a h a t er o f pr i es tl y ru l e an d do- Di Southwood Smitn, to see the Ito ly of Jeremy mination, but an advocate for religious as Benthain, which was kept there embalmed, and well as civil liberty ; and he believed it to be the dressed in the clothes iu which he died. bounden duty of every good citize n to regard stcd 'he great General, th e M arq uess de Lafayette, fastly Bl ac k stone ' s patr i o ti c i n j unc ti on ,. " Th e on the occasion of Mr. Wil so n publishing a trausla_ protection of the liberty of Britain is a duty we owe 1 tion of one of his works, sent him a cordial auto- to ourselves, who enjoy it; to our ancestry, who graph letter, and a bust of himself. transmitted it down ; and to our posterity, who will claim it at our hands as the beat birthright and The novel in the li s t o f wo rks published by Mr. noblest inheritance of mankind." Wilson, entitled Arthur Coningsby, was written by In private life he was full of amenity, kindliness, John Sterling, who was associated, if we are not and cheerfulness. He enjoyed excellent health', mistaken, with the Times newspaper, and of whom throughout his long life, and used often to remark Thomas Carlyle has written a biography. that he had lived sixty years in London without Mr. "Wilson purchased of Thomas Campbell the a headache. lie was fond of athletic exercises, copyright of his life of Mrs. Siddons. Campbell and was a first-rate horseman and swimmer. He was the literary executor of the great tragic actress, was devotedly loved by his family, and had many and she left to him her diary. This diary Mr. c . ordial friend s an d a d m i r e r s amongst all parties Wilson endeavoured to persuade the poet to print, l the State. He was touchingly remarkable but in vain. The publisher contended that the for one trait—his beautiful tenderness to public or histrionic life of Mrs. Siddons was well little children. llis attachment to his native known, and thoroughly appreciated, and that it was county these very peeps behind the scenes, given in the was snigularly strong, and in his later years there was no theme of which he so much loved to pages of a private diary, in which the public would talk as of the dear old Yorkshire days. He.was twice naturally take the deepest interest. Campbell, • cemarried. He married very young, and had nevertheless, we think wrongly, was immovable a very large family, as many as fifteen children. upon this point, and decided to destroy it , or at any , t , ome of his daughters lived to nearly the age of rate the greater portion of it. sixty, and yet died some years before Mr. Wilson When Tennyson forwarded to Mr. Wilson the himself. Besides those children of his own who manuscript of his first poems, from Cambridge, it survive him, he has left some five-and-twenty was accompanied by the manuscript of some poems grandchildren. Ha at length passed quietly and by Mr. Arthur H. lizillatn, the intention at that peacefully away, not one of those sorrowing relatives time being that the poems of the two college friends who surrounded his bed knowing exactly the should appear in the same volume. Mr. Hallam 's MS., however, owing we presume to the advice of moment at which he breathed his last. Like a true and trusty soldier, he had fought the long battle of critical friends, was eventually withdrawn. It was this same Mr. Hallam in whose honour the Poet life with high and with enduring courage. All honour to his manful memory. Laureate afterwards raised that marvellous mental monument to human friendship, his In Memoriam. It will be seen by the two preceding anecdotes that Mr. Wilson published for two Poets-Laureate, Campbell and Tennyson. Mr. Robert Browning was in the Bank of England, in 1836, at the time Mr. Wilson published his Paracelsus for him. It was Mr. Browning's first poetical production. The foregoing is a statement of facts, little mingled with that deeper feeling of bereavement, inseparable from the death of those for whom grief is the most lasting, and the strongest. Those who arc nearest and dearest to him must long feel that his place 4 empty. He ever struggled, guided by the broadest principles, after that which he believed to be the pursuit of truth. All that could promote the go.KI of society, freedom, know ledge, science, and humanity, were dear to him. Around such a nature affection must necessarily have grappled, and long and lovingly will recollec tion cling to his remembrance. He was full of energetic consistency, and he shrank instinctively from compromise. The spirit and power of such a man must in some degree remain, though the life itself may have passed away. He was of a pure, di rect, and healthful nature, ever controlled by whole some and ennobling influences, and some of those whom he has left behind will doubtless feel their lives henceforth impoverished by that which must he to them indeed an irreparable loss. THE HEALTH OF THE NAVY. The annual report of the sanitary condition of the navy during the year 1665 is interesting in two main particulars—the one in that it shows an im provement in regard to the amount of mortality and invaliding amongst the crews of various snips in commission during the year ; the other, that for the first time a section is set apart for scientific communications on naval medicine contributed by medical officers stationed in different parts of the world. For instance, in the appendix we have an interesting account of the "physical geography, meteorology, and medical topography of Somerset, Cape York, North Australia," by Surgeon Haran, who approves of the locality as a suitable harbour of refuge. It is, says this gentleman, " within a short distance of dangerous channels amongst reefs along the north-east coast and in Torres Straits, which have wrecked so many ships, and is on that account free from the most serious evils, connected with the other settlements at Melville Islands, Raffles Bay, and Port Essington, founded along the north-west coast at various pariods since 1823, which were situated some hundreds of miles from the scene of three disasters, while its undoubted salubrity further enhances its value, and its commanding position in Torres Straits must, in the event of a general Euro pean war, lead to its unhesitating occupation as a most important military post and naval station." Assistant Surgeon Sutherland discusses in another paper the peculiarities of Shanghae, and Dr. Mac donald and Dr. Salmon relate certain experiences of cases treated in the Haslar Hospital and the Marine Infirmary at Woolwich. There is little doubt that the medical officers throughout the service will be encouraged by the chance of their observations ap pearing in print to work out various problems of practical importance bearing upon the health of our sailors. But turning to the statistical matter in the re port, we find that compared with the preceding year, in 1865 there was a reduction i❑ the rates of morality to the extent of 2.7 per 1,000, and of in validing 2.5 per 1,000. The total forts was 51,210 ; the total sick cases, 69,315 ; or 1,363.1 per 1,000. Inc number invalide.d was 1687, or 32.9 per 1,000. The deaths numb2red 530 ; of these 416 were from d'sease, 161 wounds and injuries and drowning. I total death-rate was 11.3 per 1,000 ; that from disease alone 8.1 per 1,000. The relative amount of sickness and injury on the different stations may be represented as follows :—Home, per man, 1 ; Mediterranean, 1.3 ; North America and West Indies, 1.6 ; South-East Coast of America, 1.6 ; Pacific, 1.5 ; West Coast of Africa, 2.1 ; Cape, 1.6 ; China, 1.6 ; Australia, 1.4 ; Irregular force, 1.6 ; or on an average, 1.3 per man of the total force ; which is an exactly similar proportion to that of the preceding year. The ratio per 1,000 of men sick daily was : —On the Home station, 45.4 ; Mediterranean, 33.4 ; West Coast of Africa, 73 2 ; China, 80.0 ; the average, • 53.2 per 1,000 as against 51.0 in 18G1. The sick- - rate was excessive, especially in China and the West Coast of Africa, caused by small-pox in the former and yellow fever in the latter case. The rate of invaliding reduced itself on the Home, Mediter ranean, Cape, Pacific, and China stations. The average was 32.9 per 1,000. That on the West Coast of Africa was 82.9—an increase of 29.5 per 1,000 on the previous year. So, in regard to the mortality the rate was 28.4 per 1,000 greater in the West Coast of Africa in 1865 than the pre ceding year. In regard to prevalent diseases, it may be stated that in the twelvemonth the cases of fever numbered 3,978, and of yellow fever 76. Of " contagious diseases" (enthetic), 4,313 ; and of these 130 wee invalided. The daily loss to the ser vice by this cause of illness is equal to 468 men. In the section of the report which specially refers to the Mediterranean station a full account is given of the origin of the cholera epidemic at Malta in 1865. The surgeons all agree as to its importation from Alexandria, and two or more of them refer to the peculiar situation of the quarantine est Lblishment at Malta, which is so placed that the spread of cholera is almost a matter of certainty. Dr. Butler, of the Hibernia, writes as follows :—" The latter (the lazaretto) is situated almost in a central place, having the populous towns of Valetta, Floriana, and Pieta on one side, and Sliema on the other, with a large barrack close by ; the distance between the lazaretto and these places varying from a quarter of a mile to a mile. In this place were crowded all the people who came from Alexandria, until the middle of June ; and it weul I be strange, indeed, if the disease, with its well-known infec tious properties, thus introduced into the midst of a thickly-populated district, should not spread all over the island. As a matter of course it did so, and under the circumstances the details subse quently observed by the authorities in enforcing a strict quarantine were ridiculous in the extreme, and aided to the absurdity of the whole system as re gards the Maltese lazaretto." The surgeon of the Hibernia, Dr. Rickthorne, in his account of the epi demic, rein irks, that supposing the existence of an infected atmosphere in and about the lazaretto, the light sea breeze would set it in motion, and carry it to Valetta, Floriana, Pieta, and Misida. The posi tion of the lazaretto isthus emphatically condemned, and Mr. Butler affirms that " it can hardly be looked upon as a quarantine station at all, but rather as a favourable place to collect persons from infected quarters, for the purpose of spreading disease to the rest of the community. It should be placed at some of the distant parts of the island, where there is good anchorage, w here a rigid system of quarantne might be effectual, and where, at all events, the inhabitants of the large towns would have the advantage of dis tance in resisting the invasion of a pestilence." These facts commend themselves. We have again to notice that there is a deficiency of medical officers in the service, and one of the re gretable consequences of this is shown in the his tory of yellow fever on bo ird the Archer on the West Coast of Africa. The surgeon falling ill of fever, and there being no assistant surgeon on board at the time, it was necessary to throw the work to be done upon the shoulders of the medical officer of another vessel, who indeed could ill be spared. Surgeons are doing assistant-surgeons' duty, and vice versa. Why is the service so unpopuhr ? At all events, such an unhealthy station as the West Coast of Africa should have its full complement of medical officers. MURDER AND SUICIDE. -o-- About seven o'clock on Wednesday evening a murder was committed in a field near Shuttling fields Farm, Walton-le-Dale, about four miles from Preston, and the murderer subsequently succeeded in destroying his own life by hanging. The mur derer and his victim were sweethearts, and a refusal on the part of the girl to longer keep company with her suitor prompted the latter to take her life by cutting her throat with a pocket-knife. The victim of the outrage, Elizabeth Brindle, aged 18, was the daughter of Mr. Brindle, of the Higher Shuttling fields Farm. The murderer, Charles Hamer, was about 20 years old. Both were employed at the will of Mr. Bowne, Brindle. The girl was a weaver, and Hamer was a cloth looker, the father of the latter being manager over the weaving de partment. For about three years Hamer and the girl ha I been on intimate terms. Although she does not seem to have had very much regard for her admirer, yet she permitted him to pay his addresses to her, and all appears to have gone on smoothly until a week ago, when she scolded him for smok ing and chewing tobacco to excess, by which she alleged he was impairing his health. She al.:o told him that if he continued the practice she would cease to receive his attentions altogether. From that time up to Wednesday the two ap pear not to have been on speaking terms. Oa Wednesday, when at the mill, she received a letter from Hamer, asking her to meet him, after leaving work, in Martin's-field, through which she would have to pass on her way home. On leaving the mill she was accompanied by her sister, to whom she mentioned the letter, and stated that if Hamer met her she would tell him she would have nothing more to do with him. When the sisters reached Martin's-field, about 200 or 300 yards from the shutling-fields, they found Hamer waiting. They parted, Elizabeth remaining with Hamer, and the other continuing her homeward journey. A few minutes afterwards a man named James Yates was passing through the field leading to the shutting-fields, when he met Hamer, who was running and had his hands cavered with blood, and carrying a piece of rope, which he had ob tained by cutting a clothes' line belonging to a neigh bouring farmer. Subsequently he found on enter ing Martin's•field the deceased on the ground fearfully wounded. In answer to bis inquiries she said, " Oh, Jim, Charles Hamer has done this, be cause I told him I would not go with him. He said he would go and kill himself. Ido wish I was out of my punishment." Yates at once tried to stop the flow of blood, and then raised an alarm and sent to Preston a messenger for Dr. Spencer. The girl was conveyed to her home, and everything was done to preserve her life, but fruitless, as she ex pired in about three-quarters of an hour after she was discovered. She never spoke subsequent to mak ing the statement given above to Yates. After pass ing Yates Hamer ran into Gregson-lane, where he met his brother, who, perceiving that he was be smeared with blood, asked him the cause, to which he replied that a man at "Moon's Mill had punched him." He handed a letter to his brother and ran off in the direction of Brindle, where is resided. The letter intimated Hamer's intention of taking some person's life and destroy his own, and ordered that his watch, books, and other articles belonging to him should be given to the different members of his family. The report of the murder spread with great rapidity, a❑d soon crowd 3 of paople flicked to the scene of the tragedy, and the utmost con sternation prevailed. The policeman went in search of the wretched fugitive. Their efforts were seconded by a number of the villagers. A man named James Ashton, in searching the wood at tached to Milutholme College, about two miles from the place of the murder, found the body of Hamer suspended from a tree by the rope previously spoken of. Ile was immediately cut down, but life was extinct. 1111L1TARY LVTLLIGE.VCE. The 18th depot battalion, stationed at Pem broke Dmk, under the command of Col. J. Moore, has been inspected by Lieut.-Gen. Sir A. A. Spencer, K.C.B. The men were put through com pany •and battalion drill and various other evolu tions, and the General expressed his entire satisfac tion with the efficiency of the battalion. The Royal Artillery stationed at Pembroke were not inspected, as was intended, as nearly the whole of the men are employed in mounting the heavy ordnance at Popton fortress. A draught of the 41st Regiment, consisting of Major Wavell, Lieut. Webb, Ensign Thackeray, and 55 rank and file, will proceed to Tilbury on Monday to embark in the ship Essex, for conveyance to Calcutta, to join the service companies of their regi ment. An order has been received at Colchester from the Morse Guards, directing four officers and 18 non-commissioned officers and men to be held in readiness to proceed to the llythe School of Mus ketry. Lieutenant-Colonel Moubray, R.A., has been ap pointed to the command of the Royal Artillery in the Eastern district, vice Colonel Knox, who re tires ; Col. Moubray has entered upon his duties. Major Jones, of the Bth depot battalion, has assumed the command of the troops at Languard Fort, Har wich, Shotley, &c., in the room of Major Coxon, of the 4th depot battalion, who has returned to Col chester. TILE GUARDS BARRACK AT BUCKINGHAM PALACE. The Lancet observes that if any one is desirous of seeing how closely wretchedness is placed to royalty let him pay a visit at the dead of night to the guard and barrack rooms which are situate at the southern extremity of Buckingham Palace, just within the railings at the park gate. Here three huge columns support a massive plinth. Behind them are two noble looking doors, which appear more like en trances to a Grecian temple than to the two wretched apartments iu which her Majesty's guard and a company of Grenadiers are quartered. The doors are widely open, and the men (27 in number) are lying down on their uncomfortable guard beds. here, except when on sentry, they remain and take their meals, which are cooked in a small kitchen, of which the stove occupies a large proportion of the space. This guard-room is lighted by two large windows on the western side, and a thorough ventilation is easily secured. It is,however, a palace compared with the barrack-room above, which is an apartment 70f t. in length, without windows at the sides or ends. The low, flat ceiling is broken by two small cupolas, with a lantern opening on the top of each ; and there are iron gratings, which do not lead to anywhere, and seem utterly useless for purposes of ventilation. There are three glazed openings near the floor, which communicate with the outer air under the portico, and some ventilators are placed in the wall opposite. They have been appa rently stopped up, lest the men should look through them and destroy the privacy of the yard behind, OD which, nevertheless, the windows of the room below abut. In this apartment there are beds for 37 men. Here the soldiers brush their clothes and take their meals, and here they attempt to keep , their food until the evening. They are not per mitted to go out except in undress uniform. They have no amusements, and none of the occupations of ordinary barrack life. At the door is a sergeant who takes charge of them, and whose own apart ment is equally unventilated ; whilst close by is the kitchen, lift. by 12ft., iu which cooking is done. The only outlet is a small yard downstairs. In one corner are dirty-looking latrines, the machinery of which is out of repair ; and in another a set of Mac farlane's lavatories, which will nothold water. Hard by is a stinking dust-pit, foul with refuse, stale vegetables, and food which, being spoilt, the soldiers cannot eat. In our short experience we have met with no acconmodation so infamous as this. There is neither light nor ventilation. The comforts of the men have been altogether sacrificed to outside architectural effect. Win lows are not consistent with classic columns and stately temples ; the sul tiers :mist therefore be made to go without. Propriety would be shocked by seeing the me., leaning out of the windows in their shirt sleeves : but this is no reason why they should be confined like birds in a cage. Surely room might be found either in the Wellington or St. George's Barracks (neither of which are now fill), and this wretched barrack-roo.n at once done away with. If her Nlajesty were to inspect her own household, she would be shocked that such a come,' should be found. EXCLUSIVE, VERY IMPORTANT, RARE, AND VALUABLE ire the properties of Lainplough's Pyretic Saline, curing the ar.)rst 1133,1.1,01103, sickn3ss, skin, or biliary affoction3 Pleasant, palatable, and invigorating. Sohl by all Chemists.—[Aalvt.] Births. ni ELLIOT—On the 21st inst., at Upper Norwood, the W. ;f, A. W. Elliot, Esq., of a daughter. le OAKEs —On the 21st inst., at Dublin, the wife of Col eD Oakes, C. 8., 12th Lancers, of a daughter. TAYLOR. —On the 23d inst., at 22, Lloyd-square, Abe of Mr. R. S. Taylor, jun., of Gray's-inn, of a daughter. Marriages. Foßmum—LAwsoN--Ou the 23d inst., at Ail Souls', L 37 35: haul-place, John HArnpilen Fordluim, Esq barriste'—sir law, to Catheriae, the youn . - est daughter of the ha ° Wilfrid Lawson, Bart., of Brayton, 61111berla Bd. CAMPBELL —BAB BP;GTON —Oa the 23d inst., at Westb er r:e Guori46 A H ugusti, second son of C010n ,4 o ,° alo Campbell (late Grenadior Guards), to Alice Louis'' , eldest daeghter of the Hon. Percy Burring:on. Deaths. Seif the 21st inst., at 3, Cambliflge Villa s, Hampton, Charles G. L. Hay, Esq. NASH —On the 22d in suddenly, at his residence, la Lodge, Ilford, Essex, ' William Nash, Esq., aged itomAs—On the 21st inst., at B Allogne, suddenly, u` T ii. Thomas, of Uplands, Surbiton, aged 43. yota , You L-0 u the 21st just at Edmonton, John Bob. Esq., aged 65. - Louden : Printed and Published by WiLLIA. II Pi N ii of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at Tits SUN 0:11.1?, L' 4° ,., of Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in the 0063" Midalesex.—Friday, July 24, 1868. STATE OF TRADE. , MANCHESTER, July 23.—The dulness and nepres sion which have so long characterised the market generally still continue. The rather heavy arrivals of East India cotton this week have helped to de press the cotton market, and this reacts upon the Manchester market. Spinners and manufacturers who happen to be free of stock, and who are makers of classes of goods not in stock, but wanted, can get orders for some weeks forward at prices cover ing the reduced cost of cotton ; but these are excep• tonal cases only, and many manufacturers are still in the position of holding considerable stocks of cloth made when the raw material was much dearer, and which can now only be disposed of at a loss. The offers for goods in stock are mostly at very low prices, and sellers anxious to realise in some cases submit to them, but by no means generally. BLACKBURN, 22d,—The dullness still continues. Prices run from id. to id. per lb. lower than last Wednesday. In consequence of the four or five days' holiday given by the I)arwen manufacturers , owing to the fair, business is interfered with to some extent, and less buyers are in the market. Short time is considerably on the increase, many spinners and manufacturers stopping portions of their ma chinery. BRADFORD, 23d.—Although there is rather less doing in the wool trade than on Monday, at the first market in the week, yet there is much confidence, and a fair business has been done in wool. There is some difference of opinion as to prices ; w hile some staplers say that quot a ti ons are ra th er s tiffer, others maintain that on the w hole prices remain as they were. There i s no d ou bt, h owever , th a t prices arc extremely firm, if they are not in some instances higher. The worsted yarn trade rules quiet. SuPer. 30's, single, with the exception of some low-priced sorts, are somewhat neglected. The principal de mand is in 36's and 40's, single, on home account. The demand for two-fold yarns is less active. GC nappe, and carded yarns are in little request. Srge uers generally are well employed on old orders, and prices are firm. The piece trade is quiet. There is little doing for either home, the Continent, or America. Many houses, however, are, after con: siderable activity in buying, now engaged chiefly 111 shipping goods. Prices are weak. ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE IN TURKEY.—Th° Zill, a local Armenian paper, gives the following latest re sults of an affair mentioned by us at the time :—" Our readers will remember that the murderers of a young Armenian couple who were strangled in bad on their niar riage night, at Musk, in the province of Erzeroum, ba d been been discovered, tried, and condemned according t o law. The central authorities. however, having roceutil learned that the sentence had not only not been execute d, but that the culprits were still at large in their village-- one of them an Armenian Catholic priest, even continuing to discharge his clerical duties —has ordered all the parties to be sent to Constantinople, where the priest Will be signed to the bagnio for life, and his two accomplices 1 1 condemned for 15 years of the same punishment."—Lev ° Herald. Most of the corn in the county of Essex is no W cut.