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t tfitiOn SUN OFFICE, Seven o'Clock. COMMON PLEAS.-(THIS DAY.) iii,ting3 at Nisirrius, before Lord Chief Justice WILDE and a. Special Jury.) CIIFFLEY V. BONE. This case, which occupied the Court a part of Tues day, was resumed this morning. It was an action brought by the plaintiff, who sued in forma panperis for damages sustained by the seduction of his daughter, by the de. , s' ndant, Mr. Bone, a bookbinder, of Fleet street. Mr. Sergeant Shim and Mr. Browne appeared for the plaintiff; Mr. M. Chambers and Mr. Maynard for the defendant. Mr. Sergeant &HEE opened the case for the plaintiff, reciting the evidence which he was about to offer. The fi'a't witness called was the young woman herself, Ann Cuffley, whose evidence was to the following effect :—She had been a booktolder in the establishment of Messrs. Bone, employed in folding sheets for the binders. She had also been often employed in doing little matters in the counting-house of Mr. Bone, jun., such as lighting his fire and sweeping his room. He had always treated her with more attention and favour than the other girls, often giving her fruit. He had also taken her to Greenwich,and once to Sadler's Wells Theatre. On the 16th of October, 1848, the defendant met her on the stairs in the warehouse, and desired her to go up stairs and light a fire in his counting-house, which was on the second floor; he followed her up stairs, and fetched her the coals and firewood for her to light the fire. After that he brought up some walnuts, and gave her some thing out of a bottle which he said was wine, and which made her stupid and sleepy; she also drank some thing out of another bottle. which he said was gin. , He then threw her down on the floor, and began to take impro per liberties with her, and afterwards effected her ruin she resisting and crying out at the time. He would not allow her to leave the room, but kept her locked in for three hours, until five o'clock, when the porter brought up Mr. Bone's tea to the counting-house. She then went into a cupboard while Mr. Bone went to the doer, unlocked and took the tea from the porter. She had some tea with him, and afterwards went down stairs, creeping under tb e counter to escape the notice of her fellow workwor.nen, and got out of the warehouse without being seen. fine was questioned ou the following morning by the foreman as to the reason of her absence, and said that she had been locked out and could not get in in time. About a month after she told the defendant that she was with child, he told her it was only a cold; but, at any rate, he would give her something to take. On the 14th of July, 1849, her child was born; and she afterw..irds went to the de'endant with her mother and brother, to try to prevail on him to allow something for the child's support. Her cross-examination, by Mr. M. CHAMBERS, elicited that she bad been in the habit of often going to public houses with young men and drinking spirits with them, also of going to theatres and concert-rooms unknown to her mother. She had also made assignations, and had mwde an appointment with a gentleman to take a ride wi th him in his gig to Kew; but she did not do so be cl.use it rained on the day appointed. William Cuffley, the brother of Ann Cuffley, was the next witness, and he deposed that having learned that his sister was in the family way, he went with her and his mother to the defendant to prevail on him to make some provision for the child. The defendant, however, refused to do anything in the matter, denying that he had ever had any connexion with witness's sister. At a subsequent interview he still persiated in his denial. Harriet Pounceby and Maria:Peacock were called and deposed to the attention which the defendant had paid to Ann Criffiey. The former witness had heron in her com pany ou one occasion when the defendant had taken them to a pablic•house called the Blue Hart, and treated them to some refreshment. The second witness de• posed. to the defendant's having given the girl fruit on vrtrious occasions which she brought down into the warisbouse, and shared with her fellow-workwomen. Also to tb a tact of Ann C 41,7 having been discharged from the service or' Messrs. Bone some time after by the fore m s n fir some alleged misconduct. Mr. MONTAGUE CHAMBERS defended in" a speech of c rnsiderable length. The tale of Ann Cuffiey, was, he contended, a palpable falsehood, and after commenting 'at some length upon it 4 probabilities, he left it to the jury to say wheth er th ey wou ld b y t h e i r ver di ct d estroy tne character and position of the defendant on such evidence as had been adduced in the present case. His LORDSHIP summed up, and the jury, after a short deliberation, returned a verdict for the defendant. TAT TERSA LL'S—TH IS E VEINING Szx o'CLocs. No business doing. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. CARLISLE RACES.—WEDNESDAY. Vile Speculation Plate of 5 sous. varh, 3 ft, with 25 sous. added from the Fund. Sotheran na br f Miss Lottery, 3 yrs... (Arnold) 1 Mr. T. Walter's br m Mystical, 4 yrs 2 Mr. Hesseltine's b c Andalusian, 4 yrs 3 Betting-3 to 4 agst Andalusian, 2to 1 agst Mies Lottery, and 4to 1 agst any other. Miss Lottery took the lead, followed by Andalusian and Mystical ; was never headed, and won by a length. The Cumberland Plate of 100 guineas for horses, &c., of all ages, added to a Handicap Sweepstakes of 15 sous. each, 10 ft and 5 only if declared on or befure the Ist of April. Twice round and a distance. Mr. A. Johnstone's b f Jenny Lind, 4 yrs (G. Oates) t Mr. R. Russell's b m LizzTe c f Brampton, aged 2 Mr. J. Osborne's gr m, Lady Hylda, 6 yrs (G. Abdale) 3 Mr. Btnnie's en c, Sir Astley Cooper, 3 yrs (T. Dodd) 4 Betting —Even on Jenny Lind, 2 to 1 agst Lady Hylda, 4 to 1 agst Sir Astley Cooper. Lady Hy Ida took trp tho running, and maintained it till the Style Turn, 'when Jenny Lind and Lizzie of Brampton challenged her, and the three ran abreast to the distance, when Jenny Lind came away, and won by three lengths; the same distance between second and third. The Carlisle Stake of 20 sous. each, p.p., with 10 sous. added. One mile and a halt. Mr. Graham's b f Durbar, 4 yrs ......... (J. Graham) 1 Captain Prettyman na b g Jerry, aged .(Owner) 2 E'ven on Durbar, 2to 1 against Jerry. Durbar took the lead, and maintained it until going along the fist, w)aen Jerry challenged her, and a good race ensued. c.Von by a length and a half. The Tradesmen's Plate of 40 soya., for horses of all 8 2 . ' 4 , Was won by Mr. A. Johnstone's b c by Charles IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT (THIS EVENING.) HOUSE OF COMMONS. The House resumed at Half-past Four o'cicck, some time before which there was an unusually large attend ance of Members for that early hour, who were doubt- less attracted by the intimation that fell from Sir G. Grey at the morning sitting that the First Lord of the Trea sury would this evening make a statement with reference to the great bsreavement the nation has suffered in the lamentable demise of Sir Robert Peel. By half-past four the body of the House was nearly filled with Members, as were also the side galleries. The strangers' gallery was likewise crowded to ex cess. The benches below the bar assigned for the re ception of Members of the House of Lords and distin guished visitors were occupied; whilst the Speaker's gallery was more than ordinarily filled. The first quarter of an hour or twenty minutes was taken up with the preliminary business of presenting petitions, and giving notices of motion. - PETITIONS. Mr. MUNTZ presented a petition from the corpora tion of Birmingham, against the recent alterations in the Post-office. Mr. SHAFT° ADAIR presented a petition to the same effect. A considerable number of petitions were presented against the admission cf Jews into Parliament. Mr. REYNOLDS presented a petition from Dublin against the Mercantile Marine Bill; also several peti tions against the excise regulations with respect to Irish spirits. Mr. H. BERKELEY presented a petition from the Odd Fk , llows, praying for an alteration of the Friendly ocietiea Act. Mr. ELLICE presented a petition from Coventry, numerously signed, against the recent Post -office regu lations. A considerable number of petitions to the same effect were presented by several other Hon. Members. Mr. HUME presented a petition from Glasgow against any further legislative restrictions on the sale of beer. Lord DUDLEY STUART presented a petition from Marylebone in favour of Hyde-park being selected as the site fur the Exhibition of 1851. Lord NAAS presented a petition from Lisburn against the excise regulations respecting Irish spirits. Mr. SCULLY presented two petitions from Thorles and Nenagh, to the same effect. Mr. LABOUCHER,E presented two petitions from Brornpton and Chelsea, in favour of Hyde-park as the site, for the Exhibition of 1851. DEATH OF SIR ROBERT PEEL. Lord J. RUSSELL rose at five minutes before five o'clock, and, after bringing up the report of the Com missioners respecting the Exhibition of 1851, said—Sir, in moving that these papers be laid on the table, I will ask the House to allow me to take this oppor tunity of mingling my voice of sorrow with that of the House in general at the great loss which this House has sustained. Sir, at the first contemplation of this misfortune it is impossible not to be overcome by feelings of awe that one who so late as Friday night last inform-d the House by his judgment on one of the most important discussions of the year. should have already psts.‘ed away from us, and that not by disease overcoming nature, but by one of those Com raon accidents to which we are all liable. Sir, in speaking of that great man it is impossible not to lament that hereafter this House will be no longer guided by that long and large experience of public affairs, by that profound knowledge, by those rhtorical powers, by that copious yet exact memory, with which this House aas wont to be en lightened, instructed, and g uide d. — (Cheerv.) It is not for me or for this linear, to sp ea k of the career of Sir PPS. • t• tsconert lqel. It never happ ened to me to be in c. -77-1-ratio-at finnexion with him, b ut so late as that last de to'whi2th I have referred, I took occasion to thank • ~71 1-Z 4 s r theit‘fair an d frank support which h e had given c:•"' ,il;oteeeipt Government. --( Hear .) Si r Robert Peel, ~~.., .:._:. az~~-_. i~ ~~ _:S THE Sir, in that speech which preceded the one which I addressed to the House, and in which be opposed the policy of the Government, spoke with such temper and such forbearance towards all those who might hold an opposite opinion to his, that it must be a satisfaction to those remaining that his last act should have been one of such candour and kindness towards all those around him.—(Hear, hear.) Sir, there can, I think, be no doubt that, however history may deal with the wisdom of the course he pursued, that it will be ad mitted that on two great occasions when he held power, undisturbed and apparently with every sign of security, and when he proposed measures to this House which shook and after a time subverted his party, he did so from those motives of deep love for his country which ever distinguished him.—(Cheers.) Sir, of these occasions I shall not speak, but there is one part of his career to which I perhaps may be allowed to refer, because I feel it due to him to pay that tribute which has not hitherto been rendered to his deserts. I allude to the period which elapsed from 1832 to 1841. After the contests which took place on the corn-laws, it was to be dreaded that those who had opposed that Bill, expecting results from it calamitous to the country, might have retired in disgust from public office, and thereby leave a war of classes to be carried on which might have in flicted permanent injury on the country.—(Hear, hear.) I consider Sir Robert Peel to have been the man who pre vented any such occurrence happening. Although he had opposed the Reform Bill, yet he addressed himself manfully in the situation in which:he was placed—he addressed himself to the country on behalf of a prin ciple of which he was the most eloquent defender, and brought back again the various powers of the state into harmony, and he showed himself not afraid of abiding by the verdict of the people on those measures and principles of which he was the advocate.—(Hear, hear.) But without wishing to enter into the merits of that gifted and accomplished man, having all the means fur taking a part in the political struggles of this House, and having likewise a love of literature and a taste for art, which might well have occupied his time and made his life happy apart from political contests, I may be allowed to say that I consider the example of such a man in devoting himself to his country ought not to be silently passed by.—(Hear, hear.) I have from time to time, in common with many other Members of this House, differed from many of his political views, but although it would be out of place to discuss the grounds of that difference, this I will say, that I -shall always be ready to bear my testimony to the utility of massy of his public acts, indeed during a recent time of peril and contention in every part of Europe the_tto.fety of this country was mainly attributable to the previous fore- sight of Sir Robert Peel, and the course of policy which he had pursued. With these feelings, Sir, I wish to say that if it should appear to the family and friends of the late Sir R. Peel to be desirable to take such a course, though I shall not now proceed to make any motion on the subject, I will give my willing support to a proposal for confer-ring the same honours on his remains that were awarded to Mr. Grattan and Mr. Pitt.— (Loud cheers.) I may, perhaps, be permitted to add that I thought it right to obtain the sanction of the Crown before I made this proposal, and I feel assured that anything which could do honour to the memory of Sir Robert Peel. or which could add any further tribute of respect to his name, would be unhesitatingly ac quiesced in by her Majesty.—(Cheers.) Sir, I wish, therefore, in concluding these few words, to say that in disposing of this proposal I place myself entirely in the heeds of the friends of the late Sir Robert Peel.— (Hear, hear.) Having had no political connexion with him this proposal comes from me without the tinge of partiality; and I may say in conclusion, without any fear of a charge of insincerity, that I do feel that this country, as well as posterity hereafter, in recognising the claims of individuals deceased to the title of eminent statesmen who have adorned the annals of this country or contributed to its lustre, those of the late Sir Robert Peel will be amongst the foremost.—(Cheers.) Mr. GOULBURN was sure the House would not con sider it unnatural, after what had fallen from the Noble Lord if he who had had the inestimable advantage of having been connected with the late Sir Robert Peel in intimate bonds of friendship, and who had been selected by him to carry into effect his last wishes, and as he had been authorised by his family to speak their feelings on this subject, if at that moment he addressed a few ob servations to them. He did not rise to add anything to the testimony of respect which the Noble Lord had so gracefully bestowed on his lamented friend, but he rose simply to express to the Noble Lord and the House the feelings of his friends and his family with respect to the proposition which the Noble Le. d had made.—(Hear, hear.) He accepted it on their behalf with the deeiest gratitude as a proof of the gracious disposition of the Sovereign, to acknowledge the merits of a great public servant.—(Hear, hear.) He accepted it too as the highest tribute of respect which the House of Commons could pay to the memory of his deceased friend. He spoke now not only in his own name, but in the name of his family, and again he must be allowed to repeat that he felt deeply the honour of having such a proposal as that which he had just heard suggested by the Crown and so affectingly responded to by the House.—(Hear, hear.) He might, perhaps, be permitted to add this,—that those who were unacquainted with the late Sir Robert Peel could have but little idea of the simplicity of his charac ter. If ever there was a man who was peculiarly dis tinguished by a desire to avoid ostentation, that indi vidual was Sir Robert, Peel.—(Cheers.). Pomp end ostentation he particularly reprobated in the nee of public men—(Hear, hear)—and from the earliest period of his connexion with him his wishes and habigs had been of the purest and simplest character; but per haps the House generally would be more satisfied of ,;his if he read to teem a declaration which his late lamented Friend signed on the Bth of May, 1844, when he was in the full possession of all his mighty faculties, and when he was in the full possession of power, and at the bead of a large political party in that House.—(Cheers.) That paragraph was as follows:—" I desire that I may ' be interred in the vault in the parish of Drayton-Bassett, in which my father and mother were interred, and that my funeral may be without ostentatioa or parade of any kind."—(Murmurs of applause.) Nor did this sentiment undergo any alteration, for not later than six weeks since when alterations were made in that particular church to which that memorandum referred. Sir R. Peel pointed out to Lady Peel the very spot an the vault in which he wished and trusted his body might be laid, without any of that parade or ostentation which he so strongly deprecated, and the absence of which gave him such great satisfaction in the case of the funeral of the late Queen Dowager. Under these circumstances, therefore, he was sure that he (Mr. Goulburn) had but one duty to perform and the family of the late Sir Robert Peel but one wish, and that was the thankfulness with which he (Mr. Goulburn) on their part had to acknowledge the intentions both of her Majesty and her Parliament in wishing to confer on his late lamented friend that, the greatest honour that could be paid to a subject a proposition which they were compelled respect fully but thankfully to decline. He (Mr. Goulburn) only entreated the House to add to that mark of respect which they had paid to the ability and public services of his lamented friend the further mark of respect to his simplicity of character, and give effect to his de sire as to the way in which he wished his funeral obsequies to be conducted. The entry of the adjournment of the House immediately after its meeting yesterday, out of respect to the memory of the deceased statesman, was an honour which would live for ever in the journals of that House, and an honour which was never before paid to a subject.—(Hear.) Mr. HERRIES said through all the various suc cessions of political change from the year when he had first a seat in that House to the year 1841, when it was his fortune to go abroad, it was one of the proudest circumstances in his life that he had lived on terms of amity with the late lamented Sir Robert Peel. Atter a separation of sometime, occasioned by his (Mr. Herris'a) absence, he returned unfortunately in decided opposition to measures of the greatest magnitude and the deepest importance on which that great statesman had embarked his political reputation, but that opposition he (Mr. Herries) was proud to say did not cause the slightest disturbance in the personal friendship which had long subsisted between them. It would be vain, indeed, if he were to attempt on this occasion to speak in the language of panegyric; he rose only to add his testimony to that universal expression of admiration and regret which bad arisen in all hearts on this tension, and to express what he believed, and in deed, what he might confidently say, he knew to be the feeling of those around him (the Op position)—(Cheers)—that no reminiscence of diversity in political feeling would for one moment mingle with the sentiment of profound regret and sorrow at the melancholy accident which had deprived this country' of its most eminent statesman, and that House of its most distineuished ornament.—(Hear, hear.) BUSINESS OF THE SESSION. state what On the m ot i on f or reading the orderstof the day, Lord JOHN wereh t RUSSELL ont ol r o o t s i rose Intentions and o f sa id . the that he woul d now Go ve rnment with respect to the Bats which_ were now standing over undisposed of. As he had already stated that the late debate had disarranged the, course o f public to the extent of te n d ays , h e thought it r ea s onab l ea pro position publicthat should those not Bills osentwhichup to hadnot the be en otlee l r o business the so late a period, when th ere cou ld b e hardly lung b u e s f o u a r e t time to go through with them. That was not , however, applicable to measures of revenue. The Ch ance ll or of thrlEixecalle3ele que r would, therefore, pr ocee d w i t h t h e Stamp Bill- The next Bill which he would mention was one of great importance, upon which the House had already decided in favour of its principle, and that was the abolition of the Lord-Lieutenancy of Ireland. As it was, however, probable that there would be a great deal of discussion as to the mode of exercising the authority of the Crown in that country which had been hitherto exercised by the Lord Lieutenant, and as the Bill would not reach the /other House before the begieeing of August, that would be too late to propose so very large a charge in the mode of governing Ireland.—(Cheers.) !Another Bill with regard to Ireland, with respect to which there had been also much discussion, the Security for Advances (Ireland) Bill would net be proceeded with, and he proposed that the House sit on Monday, at twelve, fur the purpose of proceeding with the Bill The Merchant Seamen's Bill would not be proceeded with. The Wood and Forests Bill, for the re-arrange ment of that department, required a great deal of altera tion, and would not be proceeded with. - To morrow night, Monday, and the Friday following, he proposed to devote to Supply, as there were se veral important votes yet to be taken. He thought t'here was very great inconvenience in protracting the si melon of Parliament by frequent debates into a time w,lien Hon. Members found it necessary to leave this cot.'ntry for the benefit of their health. There was one other Bill which he would mention, which he did not intend ro go on with, and that was the Railway Audit Bill. The Parliamentary Oaths Bill would be proceeded with on .thet • day - fortnight" SUN, LONDON, TITURSDAY EVENING, JULY 4, 1850. He did not think it necessary to state the intentions of to do so at their peril. The Court has nothing to do Government with respect to every Bill on the order with any other Act of Parliament. book, but ha might state that it was proposed to proceed C. J. NAPIER, General, with the Charitable Trusts Bill. Commander-in-Chief, East Indies. In answer to a question from Mr. DISR AELI, FINDI The CHANCELOR of the EXCHEQUER said the REVISED carefully r NG. ead and taking into Savings Bank Btll would cer'ainly be gone on with; but The Court, having as it could not come into operation until the sth of Oc- consideration the remarks o f hi s E xce ll ency t h e tober, and not on the sth of July, as originally intended, Commander-in-Chief, ar e o f o pi n i on t h at t h e pri there was no immediate hurry. soner, Private Thomas B an k s , N o . 2 , 820 , o f h er Mr. HENRY HERBERT wished to know the inten- Majesty's 7th Regiment, did kill Sookah Ram, Se lion of Government respecting the Landlords and Ten- poy, at the time and place stated in the charge, but ants Bill, about which there had been much agitation in that he did not murder him, and they acquit the Ireland. pr i soner accor di ng l y ; and that, as the prisoner is L or d JOHN RUSSELL said that he had frequently not charged with having feloniously " killed Sookah stated in that House that the Government did not in- Ram, Sepoy, the Court consider th emse l ves prec l u d e d tend to go beyond the second reading of this Bill. It was merely meant to lay a foundation for some future from awarding any punishment, f or th e f o ll ow i ng measure. reasons : Lord J. MANNERS complained that the President o f The Court respectfully submit f o r th e cons id era ti on the Board of Trade had not fulfilled his promise in of his Excellency the Commander-in-Chief, that laying upon the table of the House a Bill for the conso- under the 31st article of war no doubt exists in their lidation of the mercantile code. minds as to their powers—for by that article of war Mr. LABOUCHERE said the Noble Lord bad made they are bound to proceed in conformity with the some mistake. What he had moved was, that after common and statute law of England in all trials for the Mercantile Marine Bill had received the sanction non-military offences; that the statute 9 George IY., of the House, he would lay such a Bill upon the table c. 74, is the law applicable to the case of Private of the House. Banks ; that the Adjutant-General's circular, dated Mr. ROCHE bad not distinctly beard whether the the 15th of June, 1829, expressly called the attention Noble Lord intended to read the Landlord and Tenant of the army to that statute ; and th a t copies of it, Bill a second time? having been supplied by the Supr e m e G overnmen t o f Mr. S. CRAWFORD said he could not positively say I what course he should a d o pt w i t h respect to hi s Bill, India for use at general courts-marti a l, h ave so b een until he knew what course the Government would take in use for twenty years. with respect to their measure. The Court further respectfully submit that in no - • - - - - Lord J. RUSSELL thought it would be better to read the Government Bill a second time, and then they might consider when the Hon. Memb e r fur Rochdale should proceed with his. In answer to a question from an Hos. MEMBER, The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said he could not name any particular day on which the Friendly Societies Bill could be proceeded with. In answer to a question from Lord DUNCAN, Mr. C. PEARSON stated that if the state of public business permitted it he should proceed with the Sunday Trading Bill this session, although he felt that the period of the year was not very auspicious to the measure. THE COURT OF CHANCERY. In answer to a question from Mr. WALPOLE, Lord J.tRUSSELL said he would state on Monday next whether it was the intention of the Government to in troduce any measure with reference to the better regula tion of the Court of Chancery during the present session? RAILWAY AUDIT BILL. Mr. LABOUCHERE, in answer to a question from Mr. Locke, said that he must object to the further pro ceedings on the Railway Audit Bill, unless it was t.) contain the provisions proposed by the Government. THE GREAT EXHIBITION OF 1851. Lard J. RUSSELL, in answer to a question from Sir B. Hawes, said that be bad no objection that the discussion on his motion with respect to the exhibition of 1851 taking place in Hyde-park should take prece dence of the order of the day. Sir DE LACY EVANS having presented a petition against the proposed exhibition taking place in Hyde park, part of the Mutiny Act fur her - Majesty's forces is the crime of homicide provided for, and that the 31st article of war, in authorising general courts-martial to take cognizance of the crime, restricts their powers to the criminal law of England. Disapproved. C. J. NAPIER, General Commander-in -Chief, East Indies. Head-quarters, April 25, 1850. REMARKS BY HIS EXCELLENCY THE COMMANDER IN-CHIEF. The Court has acquitted the prisoner. The presi dent and members have, I must suppose, decided " according to their consciences and the best of their understanding." The prisoner quitted his barrack at an unlawful hour, in a dark night, taking with him his arms and ammunition; he wounded one native sentry, and he killed another. This was "an offence which, if committed in Eng land, would be felony," and it comes under the cog nizance of the 31st article of war The precise terms in which the charge should be couched are nowhere dictated, either in the Mutiny Act or in the Articles of War, or in any regulation whatever. It is therefore sufficient for a court martial that the accusation or charge be made clear and distinct to the Court, and that the crime be one which " in England would be felony"—that is to say, malicious, wicked, malign; but it is not even neces sary, according to the 31st article of war, that the crime should be felony. New, the understanding of the Court must be exceedingly limited if it required an attorney to explain to it that the killing of one sentry and stab • bing of another sentry by a soldier who issues from his barrack in a dark night contrary to orders, and fully armed, " would be felony in England." If the president and members of the Court consci entiously believed the prisoner to be innocent (which belief would be incredible if they had not themselves recorded the extraordinary fact), they were right to acquit the prisoner. But unless they were so con vinced they have deliberately erred, and have broken the 31st article of war, in not convicting the prisoner of murder, for that article does not say that the pri soner is to be charged with having " feloniously" committed a crime, but who shall be accused of any offence "which, if committed in England, would be felony," and it goes on to say, "or of having com mitted any offence against the person or property of any of our subjects," &c. This (whether felonious or not felonious) does away with the necessity for using the word felonious, or other legal technicalities, in forming a military charge against a soldier brought before a military court. I will here quote the words of a high legal func tionary at Calcutta, expressed on this very case : " Charges affecting the life of another cannot be framed with too much particularity, but it does not follow, neither is it desirable, thatthey should be framed with the precise technicality of an indictment. All that is essential in a charge is, Wet the prisoner and the Court should be distinctly informed of the nature of the offence for which the prisoner is to Ee tried. In the present case (of Private Banks), as the altered charge contains the word murder, I am ot opinion that the accused can be convicted and sen tenced for murder under such altered charge." To be sure he could, and the court has been misled by quibbles, instead of being guided by the Articles of War and plain sense. I am quite at a loss to discover why the court refers to the Adjutant-General's circular, dated 15th ot ,Tune, 1829. That circular was issued by order ot the Commander-in-Chief to warn the European pri vate soldiers that a change had been made in the law of the land, and that a man who wounded another could, by that change, now be banged, whether the wounded man lived or died. What, then, has this circular to do with the present case, where a sentry was shot dead ? What had the court to do with this circular ? Nothing whatever; and a reference to it by the court was calculated to pervert the course of justice, by making a delusive use of that circular. I therefore publicly express my disapprobation of this improper introduction of irrelevant matter. I was the special duty of Lieut.-Colonel Horsford, a•• president of the court, to have prevented the insertion ot this absurd reference in the proceedings, which he ex officio conducted. These quibbles appear to me to be unworthy of officers forming a court of honour and of equity, and sworn to judge according to their consciences and the custom of war; they are calculated to injure the dis cipline of the army. They afford protection t( crime ! The result of the Court's finding and sentence is, that the prisoner, who quitted his quarters at an il legal hour, in a dark night, taking with him his arms, loaded and prepared for mischief, who wounded one sentry and slew another, is to return to the ranks an absolved man, because th e unnecessary word "felo nious" was not inserted in the charge on which he was tried . Thus the i n t egr i ty of discipline remains unvindicated. (LEFT SITTING.) HOUSE OF LORDS. Their Lordship? assembled at Five o'clock. The Earl of LONSDALE presented a petition against the Metropolitan Interments Bill. JUDGMENTS (IRELAND) BILL. This Bill was read a third time and passed. POLICE IMPROVEMENT (SCOTLAND) BILL. This Bill was read a third time and passed. COURT OF SESSION (SCOTLAND) BILL. This Bill was read a third time and passed. SIR ROBERT PEEL. The Marquis of LANSDOWNE, after laying on the table certain papers relating to the subject cf education, said, I will now, with the permission of your Lordships, take the liberty of asking the attention of your Lord ships for a few moments to a subject which I am sure is present to the minds of. all of us.—(Hear, hear.) I have to request your Lordships' attention while I for a few moments diverge from the usual course of your'Lordships' proceedings.—(Hear, hear.) It is quite true that if we look around this House we do not per ceive any loss that we have recently suffered, there is DO important-personage absent from his place here, there is no great blank in this place. But we are all aware of, and we all deeply deplore, a great and a lamentable loss which has occurred in another Assembly with which we are connected with many and most intimate ties—(Hear, hear)—ties and relations both political and per sonal so numerous that we may be said to breathe the same atmosphere. To that Assembly there has befallen a great calamity, a great personal loss which has been deeply felt by that Assembly.—(Hear.) And extraordinary, indeed, would it be if the deep voice of sorrow which has been heard throughout that Assembly did not find any echo here.—(Hear, hear.) This is not the time to sit in judgment on the political conduct, or the public actions of any great statesman who has at the present moment been suddenly withdrawn from us.—(Hear, hear.) Posterity alone can judge of these, and to that judgment they will be submitted, and those who sit in judgment on them will be better qualified, from their distance from the scene of action, to contemplate them calmly and without prejudice. But, my Lords, we are called upon to pay oar tribute of respect to the memory of a great public man, who has been suddenly called from us, and to whose unwearied labours in the public service we have all of us been witnesses. We are called upon to add our ex pression of sympathy to that public expression of sympathy which unasked, unsolicited, unthought of, emanating from all classes of society, has been attending —I wish I could add cheering—the dying moments of the public statesman.—(Hear, hear.) That feeling, unmixed by any thought of political opinion, is I am sure entertained by your Lordship, no less deeply than by every other class of the community.—(Hear, hear.) I can only say that it has been my fortune, in consequence of my prolonged life, to assist at the commencement and at the dev elopment of the career of him whom I must now unfortunately call the late Sir Robert Peel. I witnessed his first exertions, I witnessed the whole of that career that has prematurely ended for more than forty years, and I can bear witness that that career has been distinguished by an unmitigated zeal, exclusively devoted te public objects, and by a life devoted to the servica of the state.—(Hear, hear.) And I am sure that your Lordships will join with me in an expression of sympathy and condolence which I believe is felt by all the people of this country.—(Hear, hear.) Lord STANLEY had not expected that the Noble Marquis would have drawn the attention of the House to this subject. He had been opposed to Sir Robert Peel, and had also been joined with him as a colleague, and although, tours years past, it had been his mis fortune to differ from him on a most impor tant subject, yet he was happy to say that he had never imparted any personal hostility in his opposition to him. There had been no interruption in their private friendship, and he was convinced that what ever Sir R. Peel had done he bad only done because that distinguished statesman felt that it was necessary to hie country's good and to what be believed to be his country's welfare, Sir R. Peel had made greater sacri fices than any statesman had ever made. _ C. J. NAPIER, General, Commander-in -Chief, East Indies. By order of his Excellency the Commander-in-Chief ARMINE S. H. MOUNTAIN, Colonel A. G. H. M. Forces in India. HOP INTELLIGENCE. MAIDSTONE.-Our reports from all quarters uni formly speak of the clean st a t e o f the plantations anc the growth of the bine. The hail storm on Friday, indeed, did some damage in its course, but its limit: were very narrow. • Lord BROUGHAM bore his testimony to the merits of the eminent statesman who had been taken from us. The DUKE of WELLINGTON, who was frequently inaudible from emotion, and who was affected to tears, stated that he had enjoyed the friendship of Sir Robert Peel for many years. (LEFT SPEAKING.) OTHAM.—The hops in this parish continue pro gressing, looking healthy, and at present no fly, but there will not be a large crop owing to the slackness of bine in many of the gardens. HORSMONDEN.—Our hops are still quite free ot vermin, and are beginning to show a profusion of lateral branches ; altogether they are presenting F. very luxuriant appearance. SIR C. NAPIER AND THE INDIAN ARMY. Head-quarters, Simla, May 9, 1850. No. 25.—At a General Court-martial, re-assem bled at Umballah, on Tuesday, the 26th day of March, 1850, Private Thomas Banks, No, 2,820, of her Ma jesty's 75th Regiment of Foot, was arraigned on the following charge OANTERBI RY.-14e have little to say in respect of the hops, except that they progress most favourably, and are tolerably free from vermin. General ac counts speak of the bine being vigorous. TICEHURST.—The hop bines in this parish haw made great progress. They are quite clean, and in many gardens have attained the height of the poles. There is at present every appearance of a good crop. —Maidstone Journal. " For having-, at Umballab, on the 31st of January, 1850, killed and murdered Sookah Ram, Sepoy, 15th Regiment of Native Infantry, by discharging at him a musket loaded with gunpowder and ball, and thereby inflicting a mortal wound on the left side of the abdomen of the said Sookah Ram, whereof he died on the same day." TUNBRIDGE.—The hops in this distriet are getting on remarkably well. They are perfectly free from fly, though, perhaps, not quite so forward as at some seasons. I have been through the principal grounds round Hadlow, Gold Hill-green, and Peck ham, and find them all equally good. A gentleman connected with the trade was commissioned by a fac tor to send him all the fly he could get. I think he said he found half-a-dozen after looking through af‘ many acres, but did not suppose he could find another for a sovereign. TUNBRIDGE WELLS. — The accounts are still highly favourable in this locality as to the progress of the plant, and we have no vermin. . . SUSSEX.—The;ccounts generally state the hop grounds to be in a very flourishing condition. EDINBEIDGE.—The bine continues in a very heal'hy state, growing very fast, and free from vermin. Nnw ZEALAND COMPANY.—At the meeting of the New Zealand Company, on Tuesday, the report of the di rectors was read, and much discussion took place, but no re solution was come to as to continuing or discontinuing ope rations after the sth inst., the whole matter of the report being left to the consideration of a committee of three share holders (Messrs. Deane, Woolcomb, and Frederick Young), who are to report to a special meeting on Thursday. KING'S COLLEGE, LONDON.—The following honours have been obtained by the students of the college and the school during the last academical year :—At Oxtord—litt chin, Ist class classics and mathematics; Ashpitel, Ist class mathematics and the senior university mathematical scholar ship; Irving, the junior mathematical scholarship; Batty, Downes, Day, and Liddon, 2d class classics; Wilson, 2d class mathematics; Pearson, scholar of Exeter; Murray, Lusby scholar; Stebbing, scholar of Lincoln. At Cambridge— Watson, 2d wrangler and 2d Smith's prizeman ; Irving, Har rison, Greenwood, Northcott, Heywood, De Lisle,wranglers; Nicolson, Geddes, Coryton, Wiltshire, senior optimes ; Hey wood, let class classics; Cowie and Williams, elected scho lars or Trinity; Scott, Morgan, Walker, scholars of Jesus; Pigou, scholar of Pembroke. Dicey obtained the classical scholarship at the University of London. HALL OF ASSEMBLY FOR WEST-.END.—A capacious music or assembly hall has been projected for erection in Langham-place, Regent-street, on the site of the carriage repository adjoining All Souls' Church. The cost is estimated at 20,0001. to 25,000/. including purchase of lease, &c. A plan of the building, by Mr. W. A. Boulnois, architect, has been lithographed for private circulation.—Builder. THE EXHIBITION OF 1851. The fullo%-ing is a copy of a letter addressed by the eJnmissior.crs cf the Exhibition of 1851 to the Lords cf the Treasury, enclosing memorandum as to the site of Cie exhibition building in Hyde-park:— Palace of Westminster, July 1, 1850. Sir,—l am directed by her Majesty's Com:nisioners f)r the Exhibition of 1851 to transmit to you here with, for the information of the Lords Commissioners of her Majesty's Treasury, a memorandum of the grounds on which the present site has been selected for the exhibition, and of the proceedings that have been taken in consequence of that selection. I have, &c., (Signed) STAFFORD H. NORTITCCYTE. The Right Hon. W. G. Hayter, M.P., &e. Memorandum of the Grounds on which the Site has been selected for the Exhibition of 1851, and of the Pro ceedings which have taken place in consequence of that selection, prepared for the information of the Lords of the Treasury, by the Royal Commissioners for promoting the Exhibition. 1. It is within the knowledge of the Lords of the Treasury that, from the time of the earliest announce ment of the proposed exhibition, it has always been in tended that it should take place in the metropolis. Not )nly was such an intention matter of notoriety at the time that the que.tion of issuing a royal commission was ender consideration, but the commission itself, when "sued, formally recited that it was proposed " To estab lish an enlarged exhibition of the works of industry of all nations, to be holden in London, in the year 1851 ;" and t was to further the holding of such an exhibition that he present commissioners were specially appointed. 2. Considering the importance of tho undertaking, and the circumstances attending its promulgation, the selection of the metropolis as its intended locality ap pears to have been both natural and proper. It will be oorne in mind that the exhibitions which have been from time to time held in foreign countries have gene rally, and, as the commissioners believe, invariably, been held in the capitals of the respective countries. Iu the present case it was peculiarly important that an under taking which required the constant superintendence of a body of commissioners, whose occupations for the most part confine them to London, should be carried on within their immediate cognizance, and not removed to a dis tant situation. 3. It being thus distinctly evident that the exhibi tion ought to take place in London, it is further elisions that the actual site which may be selected for it -should be within the precincts of, or in the closest vici aity to, the most central and'accessible parts of the me tropolis itself. It need hardly be pointed out that it would be objectionable to impose upon persons coming to London from a great distance, the necessity of an ad ditional journey to visit the exhibition; a consideration which has already b een urge d upon th commissioners , )y the representatives of several of the most important provincial towns, who are apprehensive of the inconve nience to which artisans, in particular, might thus be subjected. Moreover, the removal of the exhibition t ) any distance sufficient to diminish the number of visitors would rsot only militate against its essential character of general accessibility, but might most seriously affect the receipts upon which its self-supporting character must depend, a point upon which it appears much stress has been laid. 4. Although Hyde-park, and even the particular space now in question, had been already mentioned before the issue of the commission, and, indeed, so far back as Oc tober, 1849, as a probable site for the exhibition, it is ennecessary to assure the Lords of the Treasury that the Commissioners approached the question of the site, after their appointment, without having in any degree prejudged the merits of particular localities. On the 14 of February, their attention having been directed to the importance of determining the site by the committee then recently appointed for all matters relating to the building, they deputed two commissioners—namely, Lord Granville and Mr. Labouchere—to wait upon the Chief Commissioner of Woods and Forests, and to confer with him upon the subject. The result of this conference is set forth in the report presented by the building com mittee at the next meeting of the commissioners (Fob. 21), of which the following is the portion which relates to the question of the site. " With respect to the site, it appeared to your com mittee that, firstly, the north-eastern portion of Hyde park; secondly, the long space between her Majesty's private road and the Kensington road, in the southern part of Hyde-park; and thirdly, the north-western por tion of Regent's-park, are the only available spaces about the metropolis which would afford the necessary accommodation; and it is believed that the order in whch they have been named represents also their relative eligibility. As regards the first, the committee are in formed by the Chief Commissioner of her Majesty's Woods and Forests that considerable objec tions would arise to its occupation for such a purpose, and that no such objections would be rai,ed to the use of the second; the committee therefore recom mended the adoption of this site, which, amongst other advantages, is remarkable for the facility of access afforded by the existing roads. Upon this occasion a letter was received from the Westminster Committee, stating that the Local Commissioners for Westminster had visited the site in Hyde-park, and a site suggested in the Regent's-park, and that they were of opinion that the site in Hyde-park was the preferable one." The recommendation of the Building Committee having been agreed to, a form of advertisement requesting plans and suggestions for the building was at the next meet ing (28th February) submitted for approbation, and was ordered to be immediately issued in the English, French, and German languages. To this advertisement was appended a ground plan of the site in Hyde park, for the guidance of those to whom the advertisement was Addressed. The details of this plan were discussed in th e presence of the Chief Commissioner of Woods and Forests, and were settled in conformity with his Lord ship's wishes. 5. In consequence of the advertisement thus issued no less than 248 plans and suggestions, many of them ..he productions of foreign artists, were sent in to the commissioners. A large number of these were of a very elaborate character, and bore evident marks of con siderable application and ability. 6. Soon after the site had been selected, some other important arrangements having also by this time been made, the commissioners prepared and published a statement (February 21) explanatory of the nature and objects of the exhibition, which was widely c i rcu l a t e d i n this country, was forwarded to our consuls abroad, and co the foreign consuls in England, and was officially transmitted by the Secretary of State to all foreign Governments, and to all the governors of the British colonies, as well as to India. In this statement it was announced that " her Majesty had been graciously pleased to grant a site for the purpose (of the exhibi tion) on the south side of Hyde-park, lying between the Kensington drive, and the drive commonly called Rotten-row." 7. The site having been thus deliberately chosen and formally announced, all subsequent proceedings con nected with the building have been taken with direct reference to it. The plans have been prepared with a view to its peculiarities, and the form of the b u ildi ng and its internal as well as its external arrangements have been determined by them. The amount of space available for the display of articles has been calculated upon the data afforded by the site, and from a calcula tion of this amount. the commissioners have been able to assign to each foreign country a definite space for the arrangement of its own productions. All the neces 4sey working drawings and specifications have been pre pared with very great labour, and at considerable expense, and have now been issued in a form which will insure to the commissioners the certainty of obtaining, within s few days, bowl fide tenders for the execution of a design 'presenting every facility for construction within the time prescribed. The mechanical difficulties have been surmounted, and all the preliminary arrange ments, even to the extent of provision for an effective irainage and a sufficient water supply, have been en tered into. The whole of these preparations have re ference to this particular site only, and are inapplicable or unsuitable to any other. 8. From what has been already stated, it will be seen that the present site was not selected without considera tion, and that the proceedings which have been taken with respect to it were not commenced until the commis sioners had good ground for believing that there would be no objection to its occupation. The attention, how ever, which has lately been directed to the point has ;aused them anxiously to reconsider the whole subject, and renders it new necessary for them to enter into somewhat more of detail as to the grounds upon which they have come to the conclusion which they have formed that this is the only site in or about the metro polis which is at once suitable and practically available for the purposes of the exhibition. 9. Of the other sites which have been suggested, the following are the only ones deserving of particular con sideration : (a) The north-eastern portion of Hyde-park. (b) The north-western portion of Regent's-park. (c) Battersea-park. (d) Victoria-park. (e) Wormwood Scrubbs. 10. The north-eastern portion of Hyde-park would, in the opinion of many members of the Building Com mittee, be a very eligible situation; but, as has been al ready mentioned, an objection was taken to this locality on the part of the Commissioners of Woods and Forests, on the ground that the building would interfere with some important thoroughfares in that part of the park, and on account of other considerations of public im portance, and the idea was abandoned in consequence. 11. The site suggested in the Regent's-park has been found, since it was visited by the Building Committee, not to be available, as the leases under which the houses in the neighbourhood are held contain a clear and strin zent provision that no new building of any kind shall be erected within the limits of the park. 12. With regard to the ground in the neighbourhood of Battersea proposed to be purchased by the Govern ment, and converted into a park to be called Battersea park, the Lords of the Treasury are of course aware that only a small proportion of the whole area has as yet been purchased, and the Commissioners found on inquiry that this proportion consists of numerous small detached pieces, utterly insufficient to accommodate a building of the contemplated size, and separated from each other by intervening plots of ground, many of them in a state of high cultivation, and belonging to a great number of different proprietors, with whom it would be absolutely impossible to effect arrangements within any time which would afford the slightest chance of the Commissioners being put in possession of a site in time to complete their building by the spring of next year. It should be added that the site of this district is very low, a great portion d of it being some feet under high-water mark, and that the nature of the soil presents serious objections to its use as a building ground. 13. Victoria-park is situated in an inconvenien t not very accessible p art o f t h e town. It would, and over, be impossible t o erect i n i t a building of th ni e o r re cquired size with ou t most ser i ously interfering with the plantations and ornament a l water which ha ve been re. cently laid out there, thus inflicting on the classes for who,e recreation that park has been opened an incon venience infinitely more serious than could be c !used to the frequenters of the very much larger area of Hyde vtrk by the proposed occupation of a comparatively small portion of it. 14. Lastly, as regards Wormwood Scrubbs, besides that the distance is a very serious objection, the rights of the commoners i❑ that locality would prevent its ap propriation ; and the commissioners arc advised that it would be impossible to erect the building there without risk, as any single commoner would have it in his power to interrupt the proceedings, and to cause them to be discontinued at any stage of the work, however ad vanced. Similar objections apply to Wandsworth and some other commons in the neighbourhood of London, which have been occasionally mentioned as possible sites. 14 a. As regards Primrose-hill and the Isle of Dogs, the want of a level space en the former, and the objec tionable situation and dampness of the latter, render them so obviously unsuitable as to make any particular observations unnecessary. 15. But even could the objections to any of these sites be removed, or could another and unobjectionable site be pointed out, the commissioners feel bound to state, from their experience c f the time, thought and labour necessarily consumed in the investigation, arrangement, and preparation of the great mass of detail requisite to enable them to carry out this extensive work, that they are fully convinced of the impossibility of now adapting their plans to any other site, with any reason able prospect of being able to complete the work within the time to which they stand pledged in the face or the world; and they could only regard a change of site, particularly if it should involve a change of plan, as tan tamount to the postponement of the exhibition till another year. And the commissioners cannot shut their eyes to the fact that a postponement of the exhibition would, under the circumstances, certainly lead to its entire abandonment, 16. In order to give the Lords of the Treasury some idea of the consequence of an abandonment of this scheme, the commissioners would in the first place direct their attention to the large amount of money already subscribed towards its completion (which is at press -at nearly 64.0000, to the number of local committees (now about 240) which have been called into existence throughout the country, to the funds now being raised by subscriptions out of their wages among the working classes in all parts of the country towards enabling them to visit au exhibition to which they are anxiously look ing forward, and the abandonment of which would be a great disappointment to numbers; and still more to the extensive preparations which are now making for the supply of articles for exhibition. It is within the know ledge of the commissioners that several individuals in this country have incurred several thousand pounds' ex pense in such preparations, besides the anxiety which they have occasioned. 17. But the evils which would result from postpone ment, so f ir as this country is concerned, are as nothing when compared with those which would arise in the case of foreign nations and the colonies. The plan of the exhibition has been widely circulated for several months, and the following states have already signified, through their respective Governments, that they have appointed committees or commissioners, consisting of the most distinguished individuals in those countries, to co-ope rate with the Royal Commission in this country:—Rus sic, Sweden, Norway, France, Holland, Belgium, Den mark, Prussia, Saxony, Austria, Bavaria, Hanover, Oldenburg, Mecklenburg, Hauge Towns, Spain, the United States, Turkey, Sardinia, Venezuela, Switzerland, Nassau, Anhalt, Dessau, &c. Besides which it may be mentioned that special commissioners have been sent to this country by France, Russia, and one or two other states; and that in most cases the Governments have un dertaken the collection and the transmission to this country, at their own expense, of the articles intended for exhibition, for which, of course, their preparations are now made. 18. In all the countries which have been mentioned active preparations for the exhibition are now going on, and in some considerable expense is known to have been incurred. The Russian Government has announced that the goods intended for exhibition will be shipped from that country in the autumn of this year, and questions pointing to a similar arrangement have recently been put by the Government of Denmark. The Austrian Government have given notice that the Great Exhibi tion which was to have been held at Vienna in the year 1851 has been postponed till the year 1852, in order not to clash with the exhibition in London. All these cir cumstances tend to show that the postponement of the exhibition would be seriously inconvenient to many countries, and would probably occasion considerable and natural irritation at what would appear like national vacillation, besides the certainty of rendering these countries unwilling to run the risk of a second disap pointment, and of deterring them from continuing their preparations for a later period. 19. These inconveniences would be felt also by the British colonies. Committees have been announced as formed at Malta, Ceylon, Nova Scotia, B ar b a d oes, Galena, and several of the West India Islands, and it is probable that others have been appointed elsewhere. In India most extensive preparations have been made, and the East India Company have incurred very great ex pense by their exertions to contribute to the exhibition. 20. After what has been said, it is unnecessary that the commissioners should enlarge any further upon the consequences to be apprehended from the postponement which would be occasioned by an alteration of the site of the building. They will proceed to offer a few re marks upon some of the objections which have been taken to that at present proposed. 21. An idea appears to prevail in some quarters that the occupation of the park is intended to be of a perma nent, and not, as has been repeatedly announced, of a merely temporary character, and the commissioners are given to understand that, by proposing to construct a building into which a good deal of brickwork is to enter they have shown an intention at variance, wish their pro fessions. Upon this point they have to remark, in the first place, that, although the eminent architects and en gineers whom they have consulted, and to whom they have uniformly given instructions to prepare plans suit able to a temporary structure, have agreed to recommend the use of brick and other durable materials, they have left it perfectly open to contractors to send in their tenders for the execution of the work in any material or materials whatsoever, and have notified their readi ness to entertain such tenders on the single condition of their being" accompanied by working drawings end spe cifications, and fully priced bills of quantities." It is probable that some such tenders will be made, and if made they will be impartially considered; but the commissioners must protest against the supposition that it is necessarily more judicious to construct a temporary building of perishable than of enduring materials. The first requisite of the building is, that it should be suit able for its purpose, capable of protecting ,the valuable goods deposited in it from injury of every kind, as, for instance, from the weather, from the effects of the damp ness of the soil, from the danger of fire, and so forth, and that it should be strong enough to avert all risk of accidental damage. Its next requisite is, that it should be economical, and in estimating its cost, regard must be had, not only to the expense of erection, but to the faci lity of removal and the value of the materials when re moved, as a building may easily be conceived to be cheaper which should cost 100,000/. to erect, but of which the material could afterwards be sold for 50,000/., than another would be which cost but 80,000/. in the first instance, but of which the materials should be come so far deteriorated as to produce.osly 20,000/. when taken down. It is the opinion of those who have devised the plans in the present case that a build ing constructed of durable materials will in the end be cheaper than one constructed of such as are more perishable; particularly as a considerable portion of the building, namely, the iron roofing, will be of a kind which is generally used in the construction of railway stations, and will probably be disposed of for that pur pose after the close of the exhibition, as its temporary application to the purposes of the exhibition will be of no - detriment to its being so. An opportunity of testing the correctness of this opinion will be given when the tenders are received, as, in addition to the customary form, it has been required that they should also be sent upon the understanding that the materials shall remain the property of the contractor, and shall in fact only be hired for the purposes of the exhibition. The third re quisite of the building is, that it should be at least seemly, though it may not bo necessary that it should be highly ornamental. The commissioners trust that it will fulfil this condition, while they would at the same time point out that no expense is to be incurred for merely ornamental purposes, unless it should be thought desirable to select a dome for covering in the large space which must necessarily be left in the centre of the building to suit the internal arrange ments. A cheaper mode of covering in this space will probably be resorted to, and the commissioners have directed that a special estimate of the cost of the dome should be laid before them when the tenders are complete, in order that they may judge of the propriety of sanc tioning its erection. Having offered this short explanation, they can only repeat once more the assurances they have already given, that the building is not intended to be permanent, and that it will be entirely removed, in accordance with the conditions prescribed by the Lords of the Treasury on yielding up the site, within seven mouths after the clos ing of the exhibition, which cannot be deferred after the Ist of November, and will probably take place at an earlier period in the autumn of next year. 22. Another ground of apprehension is stated to be, lest the park should be injured by the erection of the building, and th e i n j ury s h ould continue after the structure is removed. Thi s apprehension is, how ever, groundless; a small clump of ten trees has been allowed to be removed; in compensation for which, it i s p ro p ose d b y the Commissioners of Woods and Forests to plant another clump elsewhere. It is not intended to cut down any more than that clump. As regards the surface of the grouud to be occupied, it will not only not be injured, but will ultimately be ma terih gra tors for the ally improved by b e i ng drained and freshly sown contrac wit ss seed. It will b e a strict condition with the building that they shall. on its re moval, restor e t h e ground to its present condition. 23. Some dissatisfation has been expressed at the prospect of a furnace being erected to heat the boiler an‘'. drive the steam apparatus. It is, however, intended to construct such furnace on the principle of consuming its own smoke, or to burn coke instead of coal, should that upon the whole appear the best mode of preventing annoyance. Care will also be taken not to erect any chimney of an unsightly character. 24. As regards the amount of traffic which will be occasioned by the transport of materials and goods to the site, the commissioners have been furnished by t h e building committee with an approximate estimate that it will not in the whole exceed the ordinary amount of three weeks' general traffic of a single railway station, and as this traffic will be spread over a period of more than six months, it is manifest that its amount has been enormously exaggerated by public estimation. 25. The Queen's Ride, though in the immediate vi cinity of the site, will not be in any. degree interfered FINDING. The Court, from the evidence before them, are of opinion that the prisoner, Private Thomas Banks, No. 2,820, of her Majesty's 75th Regiment of Foot, is Guilty of the charge preferred against him, with the exception of the words " and murdered," of which they acquit him. The Court having found the prisoner guilty to the extent above recorded, abstain from awarding any sentence, under section 58 of 9 George IV., c. 74. Head-quarters, Camp, April 7, 1850. Revised.—l cannot understand how a man can be acquitted of murder who quits his barracks at night without leave, and, against all orders, takes with him his musket loaded and his bayonet fixed, and, while thus breaking through all discipline, shoots a sentry dead who was on his post and doing his duty. I must hope that the Court will consider the necessity of protecting sentries from being murdered on their posts ; if the Court adheres to its finding, I really much fear it will have the natural effect of making sepoy sentries very summary in the proceed ings if an armed European soldier approached their posts at night 0 a n kingsd eswear na r.. withc to h the idoe fwhichj h a ve ev as 2d—But w h et h er the Court may deem i t proper to alter its findi ng or confirm it, I must insist upon its pronouncing a sentence, whatever that sentence may be, and not ex cuse i tse l f from doing its duty by neitherquoti n g the anci e ntC u r Court nor et the s o f ancientcm ta a i n rce y e ta c nc o ca n on c rt e d r iu n nngd etor whatever.tthheeß u les uo la T etsh h . e andpresident hAeryw tiee .ise f o r and member s Go vernment of her Majesty's Forces, and if any doubt shall arise which is not explained by the said Act and Articles of War, then according to their consciences, the best of their understanding, and the custom of war in like cases. There is nothing in this oath which re fers the members to be guided by law-books or laws enacted by former Sovereigns, but the reverse. The Court has the Mutiny Act and Articles of War given to it by her Majesty, and I call upon the president and members to pass a sentence upon the prisoner ac cording to their oath and the Articles of War, or refuse with, except that it may be advisable to rail off a striP nut exceeding ten f:-!et, or one-sixth cf the whole in width, for foot nasser•gers, in order to prevent the ill' convetiiencsa of crowding tha space open to riding parties. By this arrangement the riders will be secant' from annoyance. 25 a. It has been said that the cffect cf the ereotion of the building will be to drive the inhabitants of London out cf their pirks. The Commissioners think it right to draw the attention of the Lords of the Treasury to the following statistics:— The area of Hyde Park i 3 378 acres. „ Kensington Gardens 290 „ ~ Regent's Park 9 , St. James's Park Green Park „ Victoria Park ,9 Greenwich Park making a total ef 1,568 acres, while only 20 acre are proposed to be taken fur the purposes of this exhi' bit inn. 26. In eenclusion, the commissioners think it desire able to call attention to the fact that the last three exhr bitions of this nature which have taken place in Parts have been held on a site (the Champs Elysi,ni) very closely corresponding to our own Hyde-park in many resp, cts, and particularly resembling it in being t 1 3 .0 most fashionable an d th e mutt f requented promenade 10 Paris, more frequented, indeed, than the particular spot selected on the present occasion has ever been, or is likely to b e; an d yet i t d oes not appear that the Part' sisna have had occasion to complain of those annoy' anccs which are now apprehended by some persons 1 0 this country. And the commissioners are informed 010 the exhibition in Vienna was held in the Prado, the principal publi c pl ace i n t h at c i ty ; and that the exhibl• tion in Berlin was held in the Thiergarten, which is not only the principal public place within the city, but is re' matkable as being the only open park of any sort within several miles. 27. In the foregoing observations the commissioner' have thought it right to confine themselves strictly to discussion of the practical difficulties which would attend a change of site. They cannot, however but eV press their decided opinion that the renouncement of the selection of the most beautiful park in London for the sconce of the exhibition may be looked upon as indicat' ing a diminution of interest in the undertaking, and ,L would materially detract from that appearance of hoe' pitality on the part of England which has been one greet cause for the very favourable reception which this pro' poEal has everywhere secured. They must add thlt the possibility that the bringing the exhibition into Hyde -park should be considered n° an interference with the enjoyment of that park by the public has never entered their minds. They have, on the contrary, always intended it as a means of recreative and intellectual enjoyment of the greatest portion o f bet Majesty's subjects, and they have hitherto had reason to believe that it has been so regarded by the country h i general. The following are the names of the Building Cony mittee :—The Duke of Bucclench, Lord Ellesmere, Mr. Barry, Mr. Cubitt, Mr. S . ephenson, Mr. Brunel, Alf' Cockerel!, and Mr. Donaldson. N TO THE EDITOR OF THE TIMES. Sir,—As an old inhabitant of Battersea, I wish V, correct a wrong impression that might be formed by 0 1 : 1 Y\ stranger to thi s l oca li ty f rom reading the memorandue? of the Royal C omm i ss i oners, pu b l i shed in your paper 0 \ to-day; in the 12th paragraph of which it is stated, i ft reference to the site of the proposed park in this neigh" bourhood, " that only a small proportion of th e w hole, area has as y e t b een purchased, and that -in detache d pieces;" and they urge this as a reason why this sP °6 should not be selected. Now, inasmuch as they alive that only 20 a cre s w i ll be required for the proposed building, surely there crie be no difficulty in selecting a suitable site out of the 3 9° acres scheduled to be taken for the park, the proprietor ,: and occupi e r s o f w hi c h h ave b een long ago served Wit. notices in conformity w i t h t h e A ct of Parliament and l, therefore only remains for the Com m i ss i oners o f Wood' and Forests, is case of disagreement with the parties, to . summon a jury to as sess th e value, which may be doll° in 14 days, and possession immediately obtained. Takla the maximum value of the laud at 3001. per acre, if tb! whole 20 acres had to be purchased, it would 001 amount to 6,0001., an d as th e ara bl e l an d i s cropped W ir early wheat or potatoes, which, from their present tli r pearance will probably be ripe, and might be cleared bl the end of th e p resent mouth, w i thout damage to t be occupiers, wh o are a l together f e w (one principal farteeti cultivating the greater portion), an d w i t h whom I fin the best eling and disposition to give every facility r e the undertaking, th ere i s consequently no reasona ble ground of objection on the above score. In the latter part of the same paragraph it is furthe r stated—. The site is very low, a great portion of it befell' some feet und er hi g h water mar k , and the nature of t he soil presents serious objections to its use as a buildieg; ground." In reference to which, although I admit tb! l description will apply to the meadows next the river, r, that portion of the l an d w hi c h wou ld naturally be gel lected as the most con ven i ent f or t h e projected buildil fronting the low e r Wandsworth-road, and withi n a f' o3 hundred yards of the South-Western Railway, is 10 , c , 10 to 15 feet above the meadows, to which, no dev i l their description r efeers. This is, perhaps, as dry 5 B° ,o and as suitable f building purposes, as any withiO the miles of London ; in proof of which, I refer to 1 4 church lately erected in the neighbourhood; whilst t it great and paramount advantage of adopting this s pot u l; that the building might remain, and be reserved to t he public as a %inter garden, and, is connexion with 1 ... ,1 $ park, become a permanent bene fi t. And, as regal:, access, there is none so convenient to all parts of t' a. metropolis, either by railway, steamboats, or oreeibuse: . and this might be materially increased by erecting ' temporary wood en b r id ge f rom the Red-house to Bali lagh, i n li eu o f t h e i ntended suspension -bridge, the °is from which wouid certainly, in on e y ear , cover the vvii° expensa o f t h e construction, and probably leave a c°`'' „ siderable surplus. I am, Sir, your old subscriber, JAMES PHI LLIPS , Churchwarden of Sr. George's, -Battersea-5 0 Battersea•fields, July 3. __- RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS. BOL, 3. STOCK EXCHANGE.— Th e share JULY market was inanin' fitg ,i, to-day, but pric es rema i n tolerably firm, without any.deiD, ation from l as t quotations. The business was princiPio confined to the Great Western and Bristol and Exeter Shat LIVERPOOL, JULY 3. STOCK EXCRANGE.—There was very little business doll to-day, and prices were a shade lower. The transacti o ; were as f ollow:—Lancashire and Yorkshire, Consol., 94tAsrof Liverpool, Chester, and Stockport, 5% dis.—Great Waste, 58 3 /—Kend a l and Windermere, Preference, 6 per cent.,k London and North-Weste r n, N ew Q uarters, 11-16 p. —Dl land, Halves, 2.5 dis.—York, N ewcast l e , an d &awlc y, (G. N. E. Purchase), 5 per cent. till 1850, 4% slis. MANCHESTER, JULY 3. u t STOCK EXCHANGE.—The m ar k e t was fi rm to-day, b 00 the amount o f b us i nes d one was limited. The traneactioc, were as follow :—Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire Jil l/ J tion, 17 15 -16—Great Northern, 14 dis.—Lancashire Yorkshire, Fifths, 9 13-16 dis.—North Staffordshire , e % 7-16 dis.—South-Eastern and Dover, Consolidated St ° (No. 4), 4%. BIRMINGHA JULY 3. SToox ForintArws.—Business M, in this share market very flat to-day, and no transactions occurred which at indicated a change in the market. JULY 2. STOCIC E YO XCIIANGE.—TRKhe, transactions to-day were, / follow :—North Staffordshire, 6L 4 —Great Northern, 9 York and North Midland, Preference, 7%. [ADVERTISEMENT.] Skin Diseases, Cutane„ ° „ l 111 , Eruptions, Rin gworm , an d S corbutic Humours, cured by P'o,. loway' s Oi n t ment and Pills —The vi ru l ence of these e° blo Aj, plaints is very muc h i ncreased by the impurity cf the therefore to cleanse the same is the first step towards cheexid the ban e f u l effecs of these ma l a di es on the constitution, a 1 there is no medicine so efficient for this purpose as HollovOi t „ Pills, with whi c h s h ou ld b e applied his invaluable Oint ogl3 4 o as, when combined, there is no disease of the skin that resist their curative powers. For the cure of old wolle_ r s unequalled.—Sold swellin gs , an d u l cerous sores, these medicines i r o , unealled.—S o ld b y a ll druggists, and at Professor fl° l way s Est a bli s h ment, 244, Strand, London. [ADVERTISEMENT.I---BOTANIC WATER BEARS' G REASE .—Wh en the hair is becoming thin, and od ing otr, the o n ly e ff ectual remedy, besid es s h av i ng the be a d ; is the use o f t h e two above -named articles, applied ali;01 nately, the botanic water to cleanse the roots from scurf, ' as a stimulant, an d t h e b ears ' grease as a nourisher. If 11 V ;10 further evidence was required of the virtues of bears' gre for renovating and preserving the hair, Mr. Catlin's ace of the quantity use d , and the length of hair obtaine d some of the North American Indians, would be a suflici:et, answer. —Ross & S ows. 119 and 120, Bishopsgate-stye London, who first introduced the us e of bears' grease is country, and who fat and kill the animals, recommenc'dol public to purch ase none other but with their names Iv address printed on the pot, or the chan ces are th e i r 01)0 ing a spurious article. BIRTHS. . On the 12th ult at T hree OF A SON. 1 , • Rivers, Canada, Mrs. Ediv" H. Hopki ns. On the 28th ult., at Drumboe, Lady Hayes. On the 19th ult., at Bath, the wife of J o h n Soden Esq. On th e I st inst., at Addiscombe, Mrs. J. T. Crosstliwal. e , On the I s t i ns t., at Wilt on - p l ace ' j , the wife of A- 1 Hanson, Esq. OF A DAUGHTER. ,f On the 27th ult., at Boul s t on , P embrokeshire, the w i fe o Thomas Allen, Esq., of Freestone. :re o f On the 29th ult., at B e l more, Lymington, the wile Captain George Vaughan Tin ling, R.E. On the 30th ult.. at th e C ottage, Bradfield, Berke, the • sf ire of the Rev. J. F. Moor. MARRIED. qtr On the 25th ult., at Lambeth Church, John B. r im i be Esq., late of L ew i s h am, to Louisa Elizabeth, daughter of late Charles Dirck Wittenoom,_Esq. On the Ist i nst . , at the Cathedral, Ma nc h es t e r Fowler, E sq ., o f Queen-square -place, 'Westminster, to, 100 D r il it t• beth, daught er o f the late Sr.muel Broadbent, Esq., 191 trincharn, near Manchester. „ ro i tin the 2d inst., at Carleton Church, Carleton-hall, SIT to Major Petrie Waugh, son of the late General Wa",...g4 114 Mary Murray. only daughter of Sir Murray Maxwell, B e d' and widow of the late Captain Hallowell Carew, of "" dington park, Surrey. NED. v i ; On the 11th o f A pril, at the Cape of Good Hope, wi'alil " t i eldest son c f t h e late William Hamilton, Esq., of the '' is office. On the 15th u l t, 104 , at his resid ence , Marion-villa, 05' George-road, Guern s ey, Willi am Henry 'Hamby, Esq., ageriol• On the 30 t h ult., at Lyncombe, Bath, Frederick rob brooke, Esq., formerly Captain 11. M. 36th Foot, an d , oi Light Dragoons, aged 74. ife On the dth nit., at Bromley, Middlesex, Susan, °- Aeneas Coffey, sq., aged 70. D 'O l3 On the Ist inst., at lirook-street, Richard Betenson - Esq, aged 77. 0 1 Or L':indon: Printed an d P ublished by MURDO Y,Tric 11 dill. 1 No. 112, Rrand, Printer, at :me Bu* Office, Fi g t y qr . . f . %e !g a l l3 v n y. i n rho COo° Middlloz,Thunday, July 4,1 850.