The Sun. — London, England, 1850-07-11 00:00:00

fourtblibition SUN OFFICE, Seven o' Clock. THE ASSAULT ON THE QUEEN, CRIMINAL COURT.-(THIS DAY. OLD COURT. (Before Mr. Baron ALDERSON, Mr. Justice PATTESON, and Mr. Justice TALEOURD.) Some time before the opening of the court the doors and entrances were besieged by crowds of well-dressed people, who were anxious to be present at the trial of the man Pate for assaulting her Majesty, but no one was admitted without an order from the Under-Sheriffs, and the court was at no time over-filled. There was an un usually large attendance cf gentlemen of the long robe, while on the bench and in other convenient parts of the court a numerous bevy of fashionably-attired ladies were accommodated with seats. Their Lordshi p s arrived a few minutes after ten o'clock, and the prisoner was im mediately placed in the dock. There was nothing new in his appearance to call for remark. Ile was dressed, as before, in a blue sot Jut buttoned up to the neck, and seemed to be but little concerned at the situstiou he found himself in. He stood fiim and erect, with his hands behind him, and his whole demeanour and bearing was than of a military man. He was described in the calendar as " Robert Pate, aged 30, gentleman," and the charge against him was thus stated—" Unlawfully and with a stick striking the person of our Lady the Queen, with intent to injure our said Lady the Queen." Upon 1-eing called upon in the usual form, he pleaded "Not guilty" in a firm voice. The Attorney-General, the Solicitor-General, Mr. Welsby, Mr. Bodkin, and Mr. Clerk appeared for the prosecution; and Mr. Cockburn, qu., with whom was Mr. Huddlestone, defended the prisoner. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL opened the case, and he commenced by stating that it was always painful to him to appear in that court as a public prosecutor, but it was with increased pain that he appeared to prosecute in the present instance. The prisoner at the bar, who had hitherto moved in a high sphere, aad passed as a gen tleman, wus charged with having assaulted our most gracious Maj t-ty the Queer, and alihotigh such an of ferce was calculated to excite) disgust and abhorrence in the minds of all loyal and well-disposed persons, it was his duty to warn them not to attach any weight to anything they might have hitherto heard in connexion wits this case prejudicial to the prisoner or otherwise, End to try the case in a dispassionate tem per, and deQide according to the evidence that would be placed before them. ,They must dispose of this case as if they were dealing with an ordinary transaction, and acquit or convict thu prisoner according to the testimony of the witnesses. The prisoner v.as the son of a gentle man of independent fortune, who had filled the office of high-sheriff of his ccuety, and formerly held a cemmis sion in her 111a]est)'s 10th IlussArF, but he retired from tt:e regiment some time ago, and had since been living in retirement. The LearLel Attorney-General then proceeded to relate the facts of the case as they were afterward disclosed in evidence, and then wort on to tell the jury that it was not his province t, speculate upon wh , t could hare been the motives of the prisoner. He understood, however, that it was intended to set up a plea of insanity, but before the jury gave credence to that plea they mu!t, be satisfied that it was true beyond all possibility of doubt. Colonel Grey wes the first witness cant d. He was examined by the FOLICITOR. GENERAL. I EMI Equerry-in- Waiting to her Majesty, and I remember attending on her Mjesty on Thursday, the 27th or June. Her Ma jesty left Buckingham Palate in an open barouche' about 6 o'clock. She was driven up Constitution hill and down Piccadilly to Cambridge House. Her Majesty alighted there and remained till half-past six. On leav ing Camb,idge House I saw the sergeant-footman of ber Majesty seize the prisoner by the collar and drag him behind the rumble. The police shortly afterwards got hold of him, and sceirg that be was secured, the car riage was driven on to Buckingham Palace. Sir James Clark was then sent fur, and her Majesty's eye-brow war. bandaged. I saw blood flowing from it. Mr. Robert Renwick, ber Majesty's sergeant-footman, was in attendance upon her Majesty on the 27th of June last, while she was leaving Cambridge House. He saw the prisoner strike her Majesty across the forehead, and immediately seized him by the collar. Immediately af terwards the police came up, and the prisoner was given into their custody. James Silver, 8 A, of the Metropolitan Police, stated that he arrested the prisoner, who had a stick with him, which he now produced. He protected the prisoner from the violence of the mob, and conveyed him to the Vine-street station, where the prisoner was searched. The prisoner stated that his name a as Robert Pate, that be resided at '27, Duke street, St. James's, and that he was formerly a lieutenant in the loth Hussars. Ile cautioned some men who were describing the assault at this time, and said they did not know whether he hit her Majesty's f , rehead or her bonnet, adding that it was a slight blow with a slight stick. Cross-examined by Mr. COCKBURN-11a gave his right address. Samuel Coling examined by Mr. CLERIC—I am a bookseller, residing in Fetter-lane. 1 remember being at Cambridge House en Thursday evening, the 27th cf June, waiting for her Majesty to come out. The pri soner stood by me, and as the carriage came out, which stopped for a moment at the gate, thu prisoner struck at her Majesty with a :t'clr. By the COURT-It was on the Hyde-park side. The blow appeared to me to fall partly on the bonnet and partly on the face. It was not a violent blow, though it was hard. He did not strike with all his force. Examination continued—From the attitude of the prisoner, it is my impression that the blow was aimed so as to fall upon the face of her Ma jesty. I was the first person to seize the prisoner. I observed three children in the carriage with her Majesty. Cross-examined—There were between 200 and 300 persons present at the time. They were all round us except in front. Sir James Clark examined by the ATTORNEY-GENE RAL-I am physician to her Majesty. I was sent for to her Majesty on Thursday evening, the 27th of June, and I reached Buckingham Palace between eight and nine o'clock. I examined a Majesty's face and found a tumour on the right angle of her Majesty's brow, and a small cut. The bleeding had stopped. The wound might have been inflicted by the stick produced, but I was surprised to find that so severe a wound could have been inflicted by so slight a stick. Cross-examined—l assume that the blow was struck at the bonnet which was an elastic one. This was the case for the prosecution. Mr. COCKBURN then proceeded to address the jury fur the defence. He said he could not dispute the fict that the prisoner had been guilty of the act imputed to him, and certainly, if the prisoner had been responsible for what be did, it was an act meriting the severest punishment, but his Learned Friend had rightly con jectured that the act would be excused on the ground of insanity. Now let the jury look at the act iteeF. Here was a gentleman, living in a comfort able station of life, lifting his hand against a Sovereign, who was not only respected for her position, but beloved and revert need far her good ness and virtues, in the presence of a laxly of people whose feelings he must have known would be so out raged by the act that they would immediately take summary vengeance upon its perpetrator. But it was not in the folly of the act itselt that they must lo( .k for evidence of insanity. They must go beyond that, and ascertain whether or no there was anything in the pre vious conduct of the man who had committed such an act to justify a belief that at times he was not respon sible for his actions. New, the prisoner had been rightly described as the son of a gentlemen of fortune, who re sided in Cambridgeshire. In 1841 he joined the 10th Hussars in Ireland, and up to a particular period. which he should presently refer to, he performed ati the duties of an officer to the satisfaction of hi 4 supe riors. He was very much attached to animals, and had two favourite horses and a dog. The dog, while suffer ing from an attack of hydrophobia, bit the two horses, and eventually they died in a state of :rightful madness. This circumstance so affected his mind that he became gloomy and strange in his manner. His father, how ever, having heard of the loss, sent him over to Dublin a very valuable horse; but before it reached there the, prisoner, without saying anything to his groom or ser vants, quitted Dublin and came over to London, where be was met by some of his friends. His manner ap peared to them so wild and extravagant that they per suaded him to go down to his father's house, where he became still more outrageous in his behaviour. He declared to b is father that the reason he bad left Dublin was that the cooks and mess of his regiment had entered into a conspiracy to poison him. His friends, however, succeeded in dis abusing his mind of this ['elusion, and he returned to Dublin, but he had not been there long before he sent word to his father that his inside was filled with brick bats. His father immediately repaired to Dublin, and consulted Dr. Murray, the surgeon of the regiment, upon the state of his son's health. The general impression then was that he was harmless and light-headed, no thing more, and his father allowed him to remain in Dublin. Shortly afterwards the prisoner again came to London, and, without communicating with his father or his friends, he sold his commission, and went to live in German -street. Here his habits were of the most re gular character; he always dressed the same both in winter and summer, kept regular hours, and, strange to say, for fifteen months, at four o'clock in the day, no matter what the weather was, wet or dry, he went in the same cab, which was a Hansom, to Putney common, where be would remain for an hour at a small pound without any apparent purpose. His conduct in the cab was always violent and strange. After this he went to live in Duke-street, where his conduct was equally preposterous and silly, while his mode of con ducting himself in the street, and the manner in which he threw bis arms about was so utterly at variance with the practice of a sane man, that the police had long kept a watch over him. Now, if all these facts were proved to the satisfaction of the jury, could they have any doubt about the prisoner's state of mind? Suppose a commission of lunacy had been taken cut against the prisoner, and these fact s were adduced as evidence in sup port of it, could they hesitate what would have been the result of such an inquiry? The very act itself, in the circumstances of the prisoner, was that of a madman; it was without motive. The prisoner was not in want— on the contrary, he was the son of a wealthy man and i n a state of affluence. Political motives wore out of the question; he had no political grievance to complain of, nor had he auffered any individual wrong, done in a state of things which could induce him to revenge it on so amiable a personage as her Most Gracious Majesty. Why, the very act itself had almost subjected him to the vengeance of an infuriated multitude, naturally outraged by so dastardly an act. Looking at all thee things, then, coupled with the antecedents connected with the prisoner, who could hesitate that this strange act was the result of some momentary impulse of a disordered mind? He would lay facts hawse them, and then it would be for the jury to decide whether or no they satisfactorily made out the plea of insanity. The prisoner remained unmoved during the address of his Learned Counsel; indeed, he appeared to pay no attention to it, but devoted his attention to scrutinising the people in court. Colonel John Bandeley examined by Mr. HODDLE STONE—I was Lieutenant-Colonel of the 10th Husears at the time prisoner joined that regiment in 1841. He joined as cornet; he afterwards became lieutenant; he was in the regiment till March, 1846. When the pri soner joined the regiment was in England. In 1844, a portion of the regiment was at Clare, and at Clonmel. The very first day the prisoner joined there was some thing strange about him; his hair, for instance, was cut very short, indicating a belief that his head had beer. shaved. As an officer he discharged his duties to my etni.sfecdon, and he was very much liked by his brother officers and the regiment. He was always mild and eectlemanly in his behaviour. After an accident oc curred to his horses, I noticed a change in his conduct. The prisoner was of a very sensitive dtspcsition, and he felt hurt as his father had made a claim upon his brother officer for the loss of his horses, whose death were occa !ioned by the bite of a brother efficer's di fir. The dog belonged to Major Wallington. He never after that period took much interest in his profession, but continually took long walks in the wild districts. On one occasion he complained to me of being unwell. and could get no relief from the medical officer of the regiment. I asked him what was the matter with him. and he said his bowels were full of bricks, and the doctor had not the skill to remove them. He was constantly on the sick list after this. On another occasion I sent aim with a detachment from Newbridge to Dublin, with or ders to return on the following day. He, however, did not return, and I understood that he went to England. This was an offence of a serious character, and I telt i. to be my duty to communicate with the Adjutant- General on the s& - .ject. He returned to the regiment in about nine or ten days, when he appeared very wild, and could give no account of himeelf. I, therefore, felt it to he my duty to make a representation to his Sather on the subject of his sanity. Two months after he left the regiment. Cross examined by the ATTORNEY-GENERAL—On his return he told me that he had been in England, and he was put under arrest. He did not remain in arrest he loft the service. After he was discharged from ar rest he continued to do his duty es btfore. Re-examined—From his general conduct I should decidedly say his mind was affect, d. By the COURT—My opinion of his state of mind was such, that, had I been General, I should hate requireo him to sell out. Captain Frith examined by Mr. COCKBURN—I arn paymaster of the 14th Light Dragoons. I was fora erly in the lath Hussars. I joined that regiment about twelve months after the prisoner. I was very intimate with him, and I know he was very much liked. After the loss of his horses I observed a gr: at charge in his manner. It excited general remark in the regim , ne He of.en absented himeelf from the mess, and on one occasion he complained to him of the messman and the cock. Ile said he was afteid they had conspired to poison him. He made the complaint seriously. By the Cour.T—l understood gun to mean that puisnr: ou:d be mixed with the dishes ter the purpose of de stroying him, and I pointed out to him th it such a pro ceeding would kill other persons as well as him. Examination continued—l frequently heard him com plain that his inside was filled with 'stones and bricks. At this time he was wild and excited in his manner, without any apparent cause, and my opinion was that his mind was unpaired owing to the loss of his horses. When the prisoner left the regiment he made a present of his accoutrements to the edjuttnt, which was rather unusual. Oa the evening of the assault I met the pri soner mid way between Duke-street and Canibraige Home. He appeared very much excited, and was throwing his arms about in a peculiar manner. He al ways carried a stick with him. The e was always something peculiar in his gait, but I never saw him so excited as on this occasion, which camed me and a friend to make remarks about him. Cross examined by the ATTORNEY-GENERAL—J.Iu recognised me in a very eccentric and wild manner. His gait was always exaggerated and strange, so much so that the people turned round in the streets to luck after him. Sir Thomas Munro examined by Mr. HUDDLESTONE— I joined the 10th Hussars as a captain in 1842, and I was with the prisoner before the accident happened to his horses. I saw him at Newbridge afterwards, when he seemed rather more odd than he had been before. Ile had always appeared strange. His manner and conduct was matter of observation and comment in the regiment. I have seen him once since he left the regiment. It was in the Green-park, at the beginning of this year. He was walking very upright, very fast, and throwing his arms about in a strange manner. Thomas Penn, a corporal in the 10th Hussars, ex amined by Mr. COCKBCRN—I was in the regiment a hen Mr. Pate • joined, and I had charge of horses in the same stable with Mr. Pate's. I remembsr he had a very fine Newfoundland dog, which was destroyed under a general order. It was supposed that three horses be lot ging to Mr. Pate had been bitten by a mad dog which had belong , d to Major Wallington, and they were shot. Mr. Pate said he did not know what he should do if his favourite bay horee was killed. Ile was afraid he should be almost ready to go and make . a hole in the river. He was very much depressed after the death of his horses. George Pitt examined by Mr. ITUDDLESTONE—I am a sergeant in the 10th Hussars, and was in the regiment at the same time as Mr. Pate. Mr. Pate was very much attached to his hole es and after their death he appeared much depressed in his spirits and eccentric in his manner. Thomas Martin, examined by Mr. HUDDLESTONE—I am trumptter in the 10th Hussars, and I knew Mr. Pate when he was in that regiment. After the death of his horses his manner seemed strange, and the general re mark of the regiment was that he was not right in his mind. He often stood about as if lost in thought, and then suddenly he would start up and march off, as if walking fJr a wager. Mr. Robert Francis Pate, examined by Mr. COCKBURN —I am the father of the prisoner. I remember his leav ing the regiment when it was in Ireland. He came down to me at Wisbeach, and said he came away without orders. I was astonished to see him, and asked what was the occasion. He said ho had been hunted about the public streets in Dublin, and had seen the same people waiting for him. He therefore made his escape, and got to London in a vessel coming to Liverpool. I could not let him remain with me, and I told him he must return directly to the regiment, as I did not know what might be the consequence. I was afraid he would be shot, and be promised to go back the next morning. He did go, and Jterwards 1 received a letter from his Colonel, ad vising me to take him out of the regiment. Ho came again to London, where I met him. Aft:r he had been in London some little time he sold his commission, without my knowledge. When I heard of this I again came to Lon don, and ascertained that he had sold cut for 1,8001. About a year and a half afterwards I received a com munication from a medical man, which induced me to come to London. I found him in Duke-street, and his manner was so strange that 'consulted Dr.Connully about tee state of his mind. In the meantime my daueht-r came to town, and Dr. Connolly advised me nog ter take steps to confine him while his sister was in town. Dr. Connolly did not see him. Cross-examined by the ATTORNEY-GENERAL--When my son came to me in 1844 he told me that he had lsft without ]cave. We had very little conversation, as I was anxious that he should return. When I ascertained that he had sold out, he told me that he got 1,800/. for his commission, and should have 1,200/. left when he had paid his debts. I seldom saw him, but I heard of him through a Doctor Starkie. He always appeared to be unsettled end uncomfortable. I did not know how to go about to get him into an asylum, but I always felt that he must go into one. Re-examined—l was afraid ho would be shot for leaving his regiment, and I told him so. He said he could not help it if be was. Charles Dodwin, examined by Mr. HUDDLE/TONE— I was formerly in the 10th Hussars. I was servant to Mr. Pate after the loss of his horses. I noticed his conduct and manner, which was always very strange and eccentric. I accompanied him from Newbridge to Dublin. We went to Morrison's Hotel. He left me there, and went away. I ultimately found that he had been to Kingstown. He gave me no intimation had go gone ef overhis toEngland going, ut s A u b f s e q u h e e nl t c y a m fo e u n h d ae t k ha l t he had opport un i es of noticig . hisconduct. more melancholy than before n he e wente r He seemed away, and ee se cluded himself as much as he could. He was very much liked :by the officers and men. In March, 1846, after he had left the regiment, I joined his service in German -street. I rememberuia that in 1847 he was habits were waterregular; wth whisky he thrown to fersohm his his a basin that the two pails usedw e h ad o r i s n e . mixi ng pint and h a n half of theof water. and H c e a spehde generally soto bathe, a fluid mixed with 2 oz. of camphor served him for three mornings. Whilst is the bath ho used to sh out and a noise, and sometimes sing , which rather amuse d the people of the hcuse. He never mixed in parties, and always kept the blinds do wn in the room where he sat, Whiz', was on the ground floor . Ever y da y , at a l twelve, be invariably went to dress, and at a quarter to three he came down and entered a cab, which was always waiting for hire. He paid 9s. for the cab, and always insisted upon having 6i. and a large penny to pay for the gate. It was always the same cab that waited f or him. He would not have any half-crowns or sixpences which puttingl h t a n d e 6 t o d . p a l n a cdeiedv.,e he y e d a a m y on o g n s h t itshderensieniengshteilblilneg. In dress would wasnever have always twothe acme halfpence winter or a sma ll and p en n y. summer, but His he always continued his fire in sumnierd.urinHge which away in the cab every day fo r 18 months, time he never received company but once. Cross-examined—That was on a Derby day. He was particular in the management of his affairs, and paid his bills regularly. Ile kept the receipts. He paid his lodgings and my wages very regularly. Except the eccentricities he was very regular, but he was always wild and strange, which attracted the attention of every body. By tle COURT—He used to read books. He read the nursery rhymes through. He read Hogarth's works. I never knew bin read a religious book, nor did he ever go to church, he used to go in the cab on a Sunday the same as any other day. William Baker Lb-a examined, by Mr. CCCKBURN—I drive a cab, and I remember I used to drive Mr. Pate in 1847 regularly every day. I was obliged to be at his house punctually every day at a quarter past three. I used to drive him down Brompton-road over Putney-bridge to Putney-heath, to one particular spot, where he got out. He then walked thrcugh the thickest of the hushes in the heath. He always:went the same way, and I used to meet him at a pond on the other side of the heath. He used to stand at the pond lcoking in tently into it, and suddenly ho would start up, jump into the cab and tell me to drive off as fast as I could. Soon afterwards he would tell me to pull up and go at a foot pace. I drove him along Roehampton-lane to Barnes common, where he would again take) a walk amongst the bushes. He always got down and got up at two fixed spots. We returned home over Hammersmith-bridge. He always be haved very strangely in the cab, and no matter whether it hailed or rained, he took the same walk. In winter it was dark before 'he reached the common; he always had a small stick with him, which he used in a very strange manner, and people used to stop me and ask if he was mad. I have repeatedly been stopped by gen tlemen in that way. This lasted from fifteen to eighteen months every day. At first he paid me 108., but one day he said he would only pay me 9s. He always paid me in shillings in a row, with the face of the man upwards, and always looking the same way. He paid a shilling and a penny for toll gates, which were always laid on the cushion of the cab. The cabmen on the PiccAilly stand always made el servations about his conduct. Cross-examined.—Sometimes he used to get Wet through, which always p:eated him, and after running over the thicket, he would return and say he had much enjoyed the Lad storm. By the COURT —lt is now two yurs ago since I ceased to drive him. Mr. Charles Mason, examined by Mr. HUDDLESTONE —I keep a livery stable in Park-lane. I know Mr. Pate. In 1846 he n:ed to hire my horses. On one occa sion he had an accidt nt with one of them. Since 1847. I have seen him three or four times a week, puling down Piccadilly, and latterly I have observed that he has been very strange in his manner; indeed, last May, I told my foreman that I thought he was losing his senses. Mr. Jas. Storton, examined by Mr. r ...00KBURN—I am a surgeon, living in Sutton-row. In 1849, the sister of Mr. Pate came to live with my family. Mr. Pate used then to visit me. In 1848 I met him once in Kensington gardens, and as I thought he was insane, I told my wife, who was with me, not to attract his attention. His look was always that of a man whose mind was vacant. I did not know him then, but when he came to see his sister, after 1849, I had conversations with him which still induced me to believe that he was insane. On one occasion when he visited me there were some gentlemen of classical attainments present. I advised him now that he bad left the army to go to college, and obtain a classical education to fit him for some other pref:ssion. He said, " Oh! I don't believe there is a man in England who could teach me or anybody else the classics." Ultimately I thought it ne cessary to communicate with his father, who is a friend of mine, on the subject of his intellect. George Fercn Gardner, examined by Mr. HUDDLE STONE—I am one cf the Burlington-arcade beadles. I have frequently seen the prisoner pasting up and down Piccadilly. His manner was always strange end ( ccen trio, so much so that people used to say he was mad. Mr. Inspector Squire, of the Metropolitan Police, examined by Mr. CeCIiBURN—I have known the pri soner from his beite:.; much about town. He always Cal - ried a stick with him, which he used in a very strange and wild manner, which induced me to give him the name of " cut and thrust." Cross-examined —I have known him for some two years and more. I never directc d the prd to watch him. John Murray, examined by Mr. II CIDDLESTONE—I am ken per of the Buckhill-gate of, K. nsington-gardens. About two years ago he passed through the gate every day at one o'clock. He behaved himself always in a very extravagant manner, but never spoke t'.) any one. The O'Gorman Matson, M.P., examined by Mr. CLARKSON—I am acquainted with Mr. Pate. I have known him 10 or 11 months, and I have had repeated conversations with him. From the first day I ever saw him I concluded that he was not sane, end subsequent experience confirmed me in that opinion. Cross examined—He always behaved as a gentleman. He had the instinct that naturally guides animals, and I do not think he would do an ungentlemanly or dishonest act. Be-examined—He is the last man in the world whom I thought would have been guilty of a disloyal act. The Rty. Charles Biscce, the Lecturer of Bow Church, examined by ➢lr. EITDDLESTONE—I have met Mr. Pate at Mr. Storton's, but tefore that I knew him in the street by sight. The conversation I had with him induced me to think he was not in his sound sense:. On the evening of the 27th of Juno I was going to dine at the Army and Navy Club, when I saw Mr. Pate standing at the west gate of Cambridge House. He appeared more excited than usual, and his manner was altogether strangely wild. Cross-examined—He generally threw his heels up so high that I was often surprised how he sustained his equilibrium. It was more his manner than his conver sation that indue, d me to think him insane. Dr..Connolly, re-examined by Mr. COCSBURN—I am a physician, and have devoted my attention very much to insanity. lam physician to the lianwell Lunatic Asylum. I was applied to by his family last November, when his previous habits were described to me, and thiuking he was improving in them by going into society, I recom mended that no steps should be taken to irritate him. I have even him since he has been in custody, and in my opinion he is of unsound mind. I form that opinio❑ in a considerable degree from the conversations I have had with him. In his present state he presents an ex ample of a person of very slender mental, power of no ambition, and altogether unfit for any occupation of I: f.. In conversation he is able to distinguish between right and wrong, but otherwise I thick he is not. Cross-examined—His disposition is frivolous and idle. He is w ell aware that he has done wrong. By the COURT—Has ho any delusion, such as fancying himself the Emperor of China? Re-examined—He does not deny having done this, but he can give no account of it whatever. He seems to have acted under some strange morbid impulse. Dr. Munro, examined by Mr. HUDDLESTONE—I have had five interviews with the prisoner since he has been in custody, v.nd from my observation of him, and what I have heard to day, I certainly believe him to be of unsound mind. From his own lips I have had an account of how he left Ireland in 1844, and certainly then ho was labouring under delusion. Cross-examined—He was aware, perhaps, that ho was doing wrong in many things; he certainly is capable of distinguishing between right and wrong, but he is, never theless, suffering from morbid insanity . Re-examined—His whole history induces me to believe that he is decidedly insane. Mr. Baron ALDERSON remarked that that was a question which must be left for the jury and Court to decide. So long as he remained on the bench he would not allow medical men to take upon themselves the func tions of the Court and jury. Dr. Munro bad only given his opinion; he was not aware that he had done wrong. This was the defence. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL replied, reminding the jury that if they were of opinion that the prisoner was incapable cf distinguishing between right and wrong, he would be subjected to imprisonment f)r life, while, if they found otherwise, the punishment would be of a more minor character. Now, it was said that as there was no motive for this act, it must have resulted from mad ness; but if he was not mistaken, from the earliest ages of which they had any history or account, persons in elevated situations had been the subjects of attack and insult at the hands of parties who were anxious to obtain a morbid notoriety. It was this very knowledge, backei by experience of similar oc currences in modern times, which induced the Legislature to pass the Act under which this prisoner was arraigned, and before the jury could acquit him of the offence with which he was charged they must be satisfied beyond the possibility of doubt that his mind had been so impaired that he could not distinguish between right and wrong. This was no new doctrine. It was a rule laid down by no less a judge than Lord Hale himself, and if the jury would just consider for ono moment they would see that the maintenance of this rule was for the interest of the public. Some short while ago, however, the rule of law in deciding sanity or in sanity in cases of this nature was settled by the judges upon questions propounded by the House of Lords ari, , ieg out of the doubts which had been created by Nl‘Naughten's case. It was then laid down that if a party was sensible of doing injury at the time of his committing an unlawful act he was liable to be punished for it, and the immediate question for the jury now to decide was this—did the prisoner know and feel that he was doing wrong when he struck the Queen? if he did, then they must convict him accordingly, but if, on the other band, they did not think hetknew what he was about, they must acquit him on the ground of insanity. Well, then, was the eviaence they had to-day incon sistent with the existence of a state of mind capable of discriminating between right and wrong ? Certainly it established that the prisoner was an extra ordinary and eccentric man—it did not prove that he was so mad as to 'make him an irresponsible agent. The past conduct of the pri soner must convince everybody that he knew he was doing wrong. For instance, immediately after he was taken into custody, be was so far alive to his own interest, that he warned the witnesses to think before they spoke, while he observed the blow could not have been a hard one, cleatly showing that ha knew what he was about and laboured under no mental delusion or disease which should excuse him frcm the consequences of the act. Mr. Baron ALDERSON, in summing up the case, told the jury that there could be no doubt as to the fact that the prisoner struck her Majesty with some degree of violence, and therefore the whole question to be decided provewa u c a r t was y in his auhssi must take that done. d washa sNon turned upon the state of mind he was in at the time the r eewfn,a t rhs h ee e ftcohoremyhmicmiot prisoner afsoes: htunsoundoe- it today, y vv w m , siatnhn mind when t l w e i h a b t acquit a prisoner on the ground of the offence. Now had the evidence could asi proved aniadlutcy htahte?y must Thej be satisfied that the prioner's insait i com mittal of the offence he was cyhargededwthiteh.t was a delusion to suppose that insanity necessarily rendered a man dispuni s habl e f or an unlawful act; be fore that state of things could exist it must be shown that the disease of the mind under which the prisoner laboured rendered him incapable of judging between right and wrong, or whether at the time he was betrayed into the act he knew that the act was a wrong and un lawful act for him to do. Now, did the evidence adduced for the offence accord with those prin ciples ? True, at one period the prisoner appeared to have laboured under a particular delusion, but although that delusion might have been a very good defence, this unfortunate gentleman for the m wc u r r e der th o e f y tin the ry m g essman, it was no more a defence to this case than it would have been a defence to an action had lig seduced his peighbour's wife at the THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, JULY 11, 1850. time the delusion prevailed. A man might be insane on one subject, and sane on every other, and if he com mitted an unlawful act, which could have no possible reference to the particular point cf delusion, it by no means followed that he eras irresponsible for it on the ground of insanity. These were the principles which ought to guide the jury in disposing of the present defence. The Learned Judge, after recapitulating the evidence, commenting upon it as ho went along, left it for the jury to say whether they were clearly satisfied that the pri soner was suffering from a disease of the mind, which incapacitated him from judging whether the act which he had committed was right or wrong for him to do. If they were convinced that he was unconscious of what he was about, they must acquit him ; but, on the other hand, although they might believe him to be an eccentric character, which made it a matter of regret that he had not been taken better care of, yet, if they thought he was sufficiently sane to distinguish between right and wrong they must convict him accordingly. The jury they, at twenty minutes past three o'clock, retired to con'ider their decision, and had not returned when our report left. There appeared to be no chance of their agreeing. f iftb Ebition THE VERDICT. The Jury returned into Court at ten minutes pas seven o'clock with a verdict of GUILTY. Mr. Baron ALDERSON, in a feeling address, sentenced the prisoner to be TRANSPORTED FOR SEVEN YEARS, observing that it Kas only cut of respect to his family that the Court refrained from ordering him to be publicly whipped. The prisoner, who remained unmoved to the last,:was then taken away. FORGEB.Y.—J(!hn Jr.nec, a respectably dres!ed young man, pleaded guilty to an indictment charging him with (° cheque upon the L on d on an d Westminster Bank for gin Westmins ter 2sol , and was sentenced to ten years tranpor tation. TATTERSALL'S—THIS EVENING Six o'CLocs. No business doing. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT (THIS EVENING.) HOUSE OF LORDS. Their Lordships mot at Five o'clock. PETITIONS. The Earl of FALUOUTIi presented several petiConi against any alteration in the original Ten Hours Bill. The Earl of LONSDALE presented several petitions from miners and others against the Coal Mines Inspec tion Bill. Lord BEAUMONT prEsensed a petition in favour o a Ten Hours Bill. L , rd BROUGHAM presented several petitions to the same efftet. METROPOLITAN INTERMENTS BILL. The Earl of CARLISLE brought up the report on this Bill. Lord REDESDALE would consent to the bringing up of :he report, and would reserve what he had to say ()a the subject until the third reading. The Duke of BEAUFORT presented a petition from th,) inhabitants of Eriih, praying that the cemet)ry might not be cs'ablished in that neighbourhood. After a few words from the Earl of CARLISLE, the report was received. THE LORD CHANCnLLOR. Lord BROUGHAM had expressed his high satisfac tion at the putting of the Great Seal in Com mission. He understood that an end was to be put to that arrangement, but he still continued of opinion that that arrangement was a good one, but if any arrangement was to be made by which that Commission was to be terminated, and the Great Seal t) be intrusted to any individual, he knew no person more fit than one of the most learned, able, and efficient lawyers in West minster Hall, and he begged to add that he did not know a more honourable or more honest man to whom it could be intrusted than Chief Justice Wilde. ENCUMBERED ESTATES. The Earl of GLENGALL pre3entr d a petition from an individual whose estate had been brought under the jurisdiction of the Commissioners of Encumbered Es tates, complaining of the bale of his property to pay ff the encumbrances. It was a disgraceful and scandalous' system to sell these estates in this manner, to pay off encumbrance?. The Marquis of WESTME tiTII said he held in his baud a paper containing twenty-one columns, and twelve of them were appropriated to confiication, being adver tisements for the sales of encumbered estates. The Government had brought upon their heads the im prec stions of the higher classes of Ireland for having reduced them to a state of beggary and destitution. If Ireland was reduced lower than she was this magnificent country would go along with it. It was most unac countable that England should refuse to assist them. The Bishop of OXFORD presented a petition from the Church Union against the opening of the Post- office on Sunday; also several petitions from the clergy of various places against the appropriation of the educa tiongrant. _ _ _ TIC() Marquis of BREADALBANE presented several petitions against a Post-office Sunday delivery. BENEFICES IN PLURALITY BILL. Oa the motion for the third reading f this Bill, ' The Earl cf ELLENBOROUGII expreited his o . jection to the measure, and was (LEFT SPEAKING.) HOUSE OF COMMONS. The SPEAKER took the Chair shortly after Twelve o'clock. WATERFORD, WEXFORD, WICKLOW, AND DUBLIN RAILWAY BILL. Mr. BROTHERTON move, pursuant to notice, thak the order of the 13th day of February last, for the se cond reading of the Waterford, Wexford, Wicklow, and Dublin Railway Bill, be discharged; that the Bill be withdrawn, but without prejudice to the motion of Sir W. Verner for a Committe of Invemtigation. Agreed to. THIRD READINGS. The following Bills were read a third time and passed: — River Dee Conservancy and Improvement. Sir Peter Hesketh Fleetwood's Eitate. MERCANTILE MARINE BILL. Mr. LABOUCIIERE moved the postponement of the Committee on this Bill to Mond a y next , at twe l ve o ' c l oc k, owing to the impossibility of some Honourable Members attending to day who . felt an i n t erest i n t h e measure . WOLVERHAMPTON IMPROVEMENT BILL. On the mction of Mr. THORNELY it was ordered that it b 3 an instruction to the C ommittee of select i on, that they do appoint, if they think fit, the Committee on the Wolverharni,ton Improvement Act Amendment Bill to meet forthwith. Several te.itions were presented for and against the present postal arrangernents. CONVICT PRISONS BILL. S'r G. GREY moved the third reading of the Convict Prisons Bill. — Lord MAHON said that no opposition had hitherto jetchoisulidLinl'otaanldlow he believed none was in titl but th tbeenednedm,the Bill to pass it; last stage without cx ressing the happiness opinions he had always held he felt that the d treatment of convicts had beenwith respect to the by so great an authority as the responded to, present could not, however, but expres s his r regretsent Earl Grey. He that had formerly been pu rsue d by that Noble Earl with at the course reference to transportation; he alluded to convicts upon reluctant colonies. Thethe forcing ot adopting that course had damaged Noble Lord in greatly the system of transportation. Sir G. GREY expressed his opinion that the present measure was of a kind which, while it maintained punishment t f transportation, would ultimately contri bute to the prosperity of the colonies to which convicts were sent. After a few words from Sir J. PAKINGTON, Mr. SLANEY expressed his conviction that h ject of prison discipline was regarded with more t san e sub ject expectation than could be justified by the circum stances. In his opinion measures for the prevention of crime were much needed, and he hoped to see one brought forward in tho course of next session. Mr. HENLEY expressed his general approbation of the present Bill; but he objected to one of the clauses towards the end of the Bill, which concentrated the powers of the governors of Parkhurst, Pentonville, and Millbank in one individual. After a few words of explanation from Sir G. GREY, The Bill was read a third time and passed. POOR RELIEF BILL. On the motion that the House resolve itself into a Committee on this Bill, Sir H. WILLOUGHBY objected to that part of the Bill which gives power to the guardians of any union or parish to raise out of the poor-rates funds for the pur chase of burial-grounds. lie did not object to the en largement of any existing burial-grounds out of the rates, but simply to the creating of particular burial-grounds to be used specially for the burying of paupers, which, in his opinion, would be distasteful to the feelings of the poor. - Sir JOHN PAKINGTON took that occasion to ex press his earnest hope that this was the last of those an nual poor-law Bills, because he was convinced that the present prac'ica of introducing such Bills for the pur pose of amending the poor-law had the effect of render ing the law on that sut•ject exlemely complicated. Sir GEORGE PECHELL also expressed his dissa tisfaction with the preeent complicated system of poor laws, which those annual Bills only tended to aggravate. Mr. SLANEY likewise expressed his wish to see an early consolidation of the poor-laws. Mr. BAINES said it was his intention to ask for leave to bring in a Bill to improve and consolidate the law of settlement ; and with respect to the present Bill, one consideration operating on his mind in asking the House to pass it, was the circumstance of the Committee of the House of Lords now sitting to inquire into the opera tion of the law relating to parochial assessments, and which a committee had not yet made their report. The necessity for every clause which he had introduced into this Bill had been impressed upon his by mind - eircumstneces which bad ari.en, and for which the law in its p r esent state afforded no adequate reed—•._ hear.) Ho hoped the House would permit the Bill to go into Committee; and, if so, he would then b e prepared to would disarm much of the oppcsition manifested towards it, especially e that of the lion, Member opposite (Sir H. Willoughby), The House then went into Committee on the Bill. Mr. MILES expressed a hope that when tho Hon. Member (Mr. Baines) brought forward his Bill next session with respect to the law of settlement, ho would bestow his consideration on the necessity of reconstruct ing the urban as well as the rural unions. Clause I was then agreed to; but clause 2 was with drawn. Clause 3 was agreed to, withian amendment that the parish children between the ages of ten and sixteen, in tended to be sent out under it to the co!onies, should, previous to their emigration, have given their consent to such emigration b( fore two magistrutes. The other clauses of the Bill were then agreed to with some verbal amendments. Three rew clauses were proposed and agreed to. On the motion of Mr. GAIN ES, The CHAIRMAN reported progress, and the House adjourned at four to five o'clock. The House resumed at Five o'clock. PETITIONS. Sir H. VIVYAN presented a petition from a place in Cornwall against certaia clauses in the Savings Bank. Bill. Sir W. JOLLIFFE presented a petition from a place in Surrey against certain clauses in the Highway Bill. Several petitions were presented against Sunday labour in the Post-office. KENSINGTON-GARDENS. Mr. B. COCHRA.NE gave notice that to-morrow he would abk the Government whether they would support an address to h , r Majesty, praying that she might allow a part of Kensington-gardens to be set aside for cques trian exercise. SANITARY STATE OF BRISTOL. Mr. H. BERKELEY wished to know wLat progress had bee❑ made by the Board of Health to bring Bristol under the op( ration of the Health of Towns Act? Mr. BOUVERIE replied that inspectors had hem sent to Bristol, and upon their report a provi sional order would be made, which would be sub mitted to the approval of the local body; but there was no ressontble probability of Bristol being dealt with by Act of Parliament this session. ECCLESIASTICAL COURTS. Mr. DISRAELI presented a petition from the clergy in the diocese of Oxford, praying for a better court of appeal in ecclesiastical cases. ACCIDENTS IN MINES AND COLLIERIES. Mr. HUME presented a petition from Ashton under Lycra sigued by between 6,000 and 7,000 per sons employed in mines and collieries, Fray ing that inspectors might be appointed to inquire into and report upon the state of mines and collieries. The Hon. Member took the op portunity of asking the Secretary for the Home Del.art ment whether there was any probability of no Bill which had teen introduced into the House of Lords, being passed this session? Sir G. GREY 'said the Bill which he find prepared was read a second time in tno House of Lords the other day, itud ho hoped it would be brought dAvn for tfe consideration of this House at an early period. BEER SHOPS. Mr. HUME presented a petition from Paisley praying that Lo restriction might be put on the increase of beer EX PORTS. In reply to Mr. ANSTEY, Mr, LABOUCLIERE said a return had been prepared by the Board of Trade with regard to foreign tariffs, and to the tariffs of our own colonies, and the reason it had not been laid on the table was that some of the colonial returns had not been received. The Secretary for Foreign Affairs bad sent instructions to our consuls abroad to send copies of all foreign tariffs to the Foreign office. CAPE OF GOOD HOPE. Ia reply to Mr. ADDERLEY, Mr. HAWES bald that according to the letters patint, both Chgrubers in the Cape of Good Hope would be elective; but he could not say what construction lawyers might put on the Charter. PUNISHMENT OF DEATH. Mr. EWART after presenting petititions in favour of the abolition of the punishment of death from Liverpool, Brighton, Shrewsbury, Sunderland, Glas goer, Colchester, Edinburgh, King's Lynn, the Liverpool Peace Society, and other places, proceeded to bring on his motion for leave to abolish the punishment of death. He said he assuredly should net again have brought forward that motion, if it were not for the increasing conviction in his own mind of the justice and expediency of the measure he advo cated, and unless he had been convinced that there was an increasing public opinion on this subject through out the country, and that that public opinion cou tinued to receive accessions from day to day. Ou former occasions this question had been argued by figures, which had been triumphantly ap pealed to on both sides. He believed that on both sides of this question it was a drawn battle; but he thought, on the whole, the weight of statistics was on the side of the abolitionists, and that the mitigation of the punishm+ et of death wherever it had taken place had been attended not only without danger but also with security to society. On this occasion he should to be no statistical view of the subject. He should endea vour to show that the present system of retaining the pu ni,hreent of death was inconsistent with that great object of all punishment, namely, the certainty of punishment which was laid down by Blackstone as being the proper principle of all punishment, and with which no punish ment could be said to be effectual for ins object. He believed if any gentleman would consult the returns which were laid upon the table of the House he would find many cases of murder in which prisoners had been acquitted, not because juries entertained a doubt et the crime, but a dread of the punishment. Lie would refer to the case of Jane Mitchell, tried at Newcastle on the 20.11 of February, 1819; that of Re• becca Smith, tried at Devizes on the 9th of August, in the same year; and Sarah White, tried at the Central Criminal Court on the 10th of January, 1850. In the two great cases the jury recommended the prisoner to mercy in consequence of their antipathy to the punishment. In the last case the same feeling in duced the jury to return a verdict of not guilty. When we have such cases of the law becoming powerless through its own severity, he thought the time was come fur some interference. They had the testimony of Jus tices Coltman and Alderson that juries often gave their verdicts in the teeth of law and evidence in consequence of their great dislike to the punishment ; and beyond this the prisoners were oftentimes more desirous of bring tried for murder rather than for a smaller offence, because they had a feeling that juries would acquit them. They had the opinion of Chief Justice Wild, Justices Wightman and Colman, besides several members of the Irish bar against the punishment of death. If there was one thing on which he was more convinced than another, it was the purity of the motives which influenced the Right Hon. Gentleman the Seen tery for the Home Department, but it did happen that the public were very much perplexed to know, for what reason one criminal was reprieved by him and another criminal punished. He was at a loss to know on what ground the Right Honourable Gentleman would oppose the motion which he now proposed. On a firmer occasion the Right Hon. Baronet supported capital punishment ought on the ground of a certain de finite ie.ee, which he supposed existed in the minds of the population on the subject. That, however, was not now the case. Another opinion which he formed was, that the public were in favour of capital punishment, but if he were to call public meetings all over the country, and take the it opinion on the subject, he would find that they s ere decidedly opposed to retaining this species of punishment. The Hon. Member concluded by moving for leave to bring in a Bill to abolish the punishment of I death. Mr. HUME rose to second the motion, and was (LEFT SPEAKING,) SHERIFFS' COURT.—(THIS DAY.] (Before Mr. Under-Sheriff BURCHELL and a Specie: Jury.) RAILWAY COLLISION.-PHILLIPS It. THE LONDON AND BLACKWALL RAILWAY COMPANY. This was an action brought to recover compensation for injuries received by the plaintiff in consequence of the negligence cf the defendants' servants. Mr. BEAVAN stated the case for the plaintiff, who is a commercial traveller, in the service of Messrs. Foster, of Friday-street. It appeared that on the 7th of No vember last, about five o'clock in the evening, the plaintiff was coming up from Blackwell to London by railway, and when near the junction line at Bow, a col lision took place through the negligence of the railway officers, and the plaintiff and several other gentlemen were severely injured. Mr. Craexsosr, on behalf of the plaintiff, objected to any statement being made as to accident to others, for the company had settled with them. Mr. BEAVAN then called witnesses, who proved the accident, and that the plaintiff had been laid up from the 7th November to the 31st December, and was still suffer ing from a thickening of the skin over one of his legs; his expenses for medicine, &c.. was 10/. Mr. CLARKSON, for the defendants, said it had been claimed on behalf of the plaintiff, that he should be paid for his loss of time, but it had been stated, end he would prove, that us to the loss of time, the plaintiff had been paid as usual by the respectable firm by whom he was employed. Mr. Prince Hoare, ono of the firm, was called and proved this fact, and that they had paid another person ter doing his work. Mr. BEAVAN replied, and contended that Messrs. Foster and Co. ought to be reimbursed. The Learned UNDER -SHERIFF said that it was matter of difficulty to say what amount of da mages ought to be given fur bodily pain and injuries, but in such a case it ought to be taken into consideration whether the injuries were caused by wiliulness or wantonness, or whether by sheer accident. The jury, after retiring, gave a verdict for 70/. MARLBRO'-STREET.-(THIS DAY.) A RUFFIAN.—Joseph Wheeler was placed before Mr. Bingham charged with cruelly ill-treating a donkey. Mr. Wm. Fitchew, silversmith, 400, Oxford-street, stated that about nine o'clock this morning, he was standing at his first floor window, when his attention was called to the prisoner and two other men, who were riding on a truck drawn by a miserable little donkey, not much larger than a Newfoundland dog. Besides the men the truck contained three large bags of oysters, and the poor animal bad the greatest difficulty in draw ing its burden. Witness, observing the state of the d9r:key, went out and remonstrated with the men, ,y hereupon the prisoner a b use d h im with the foulest language, which he follor, ed up by belabouring the donkey m' re unnv-rcifully wirli the butt end of the whip ~%er the head. Wiftess then coll,rcd the prisoner and give him in charge to a constable who at that moment came up. Mr. Diticuam, after saverely lecturing the prisoner on his cruelty, fined him 103., and in default committed him for too days. FRANCE. In the Assembly yesterday, the discussion of the Law on the Press was resumed. The whole of the first article was adopted. The President then read the second article, which was similarly voted. It was as follows : The proprietors cf journals and periodical publica tions, at present existing, are allowing a del•iy of one month, from the date of the promulgation of this law, to accomplish the above formalities." " Art. 3. When the editor of a journal or periodical publication shall have been sent for trial before a Court of Assizes by a decision of the Court of Inquiry, for a crime or offence committed by the press, if a new desi sion of the same kind should intervene against the edi tors of raid publication before the decision of the Court f Assizes, a sum equal to one half of tho maximum of the fines he may have incurred for the new off , nce must be lodged, within the three days of the notification of each decision, even were the Court of Cessation apps sled to against the sentence. de Tnguy moved the following amendment : " Every article on political, philosophical,:or religious questions inserted in a journal, must be signed by its atrhor, under the penalty of a fine ( f 500 r for the first offence, and of I,ooof. for the second." _ _ In order to prevent all false signature, M. de Tin guy asked that the author convicted !of that fraud should be sentenced to a :fine of I,ooof. and an im prisonm€nt of six months. M. L2vergue supported the amendment, but on the condition that the cautionnement and stamp be sup pressed. its principle, he said, was eminently re publican, and he claimed for his political friends the initiative of a measure which must tend to moralize the press. M. Heurtier combated the amendment, which was supported by M. Laboulie, who contended that if journalism was a rostrum, as it was generally de scribed, the writer should boldly ascend that rostrum and fearlessly present his breast to the man he at tacked. If he was obliged to sign his article, the vile pamphleteer, who insulted the National Assembly, would consider before he dared to do so. Messrs. (Janet, Larochejacqueleir, and Chasseloup Lautat were next heard, after which a division having been called for there appeared for the amendment, 313; against it, 281. The — amendment was accordingly declared to be adopted. This decision occasioned great agitation in the As sembly, and the proceedings were for a moment sus pended. _ _ _ When the sitting was resumed, M. Charancey, in the name of the committee, proposed the following additional paragraph . „ . " The slit - mulu., the author shall be affixed to the original manuscript of the article, the communication of which can only be r(quircd by the Attorne-General within the month following publication." The Assembly being consulted, took the paragraph into consideration, and referred it to the committee. SPAIN. Madrid journals of the sth have been received. The accouchment of the Queen was hourly ex pected. MADRID BOLSA, JULY s.—The Three per Cents. were done at 33 , Z T for paper; the Four per Cents., at 123 ; for cash ; the Five per Cents. 12 13-16 ; the Debt without Interest, at 3i ; and the C.mpons, at 7e. ITALY. The Giornale di Roma of the Ist announce that the Pope has pardoned Count Carpegna and Signor Buzzi, who had served in the revolutionary army. Capanns, formerly in the service of the Republican police, has been given up to the Papal authorities by the French. The Messagere of Modena of the 2d states that Signor Gaggiotti, the notary who had made the inventory of the Pontifical Palace during the revolu tion, has been released from prison. In its sitting of the sth, the Chamber of Deputies of Turin voted the Bill for the issue of 6,000,000 of Rentes by 119 votes to 28, a result doubly im portant as it implied a vote of confidence. The National Bank Bill was afterwards passed, as amended by the Senate, by 116 votes to 8. The Minister of Finance then deposited the budget for 1851. Signor Gavotti then addressed a ques tion to the Minister of the interior concerning the reorganization of the artillery of the National Guard of Genoa. The Minister answered that the National Guard could not possess special corps without author isation to that effect. A discussion arose on the sub ject, and was adjourned to the following day. PRUSSIA ANI) DENMARK. A telegraphic dispatch from Berlin of the 9th in stant in the Kolner Zeitung announces that the official Staats Anzei ger of that day contains a copy of the protocol which accompanied the Treaty of Peace between Prussia and Den mark as ratified by the two contracting Powers, while the Treaty of Peace itself is published by the llemburgh papers of the sth inst. The same papers publish a proclamation which the Stadtholders have addressed to the inhabitants of Schleswig and II , lstein. In this document the Stadtholders say— The treaty of the peace infers a recognition of the rights of our country, while the protection of those rights is left to us." The Stadtholders protest that they will do their duty, and that any attempt at invading the Duchies on the part of the Danes shall be opposed to the last in their power. The Com mander of the Schleswig-Holstein army has published a proclamation, inviting the officers of the German Federal Contingents to enter the Schleswig-Holstein army as volunteers. THE HEALTH OF LONDON. (From the Weekly Return of the Registrar-General.) In the week ending last Saturday, the deaths regis tered in the metropolitan districts were 794—a number which shows that the diminished rate of mortality con tinues, and which, taking the corresponding weeks of ten previous years is less than in the week of any year since 1842. The average of the ten weeks is 877, or, augmented in the ratio of in creased population, 957, compared with which the de crease of last week amounts to 163. The whole number of deaths recorded as caused by the zymctic or epi demic class of diseases is 159, whereas in the same week of last year they rose to C 93, and the corrected average of ten corresponding weeks is 227. To take particular epidemics:—small-pox carried off 6 per sons, the half of whom were children ; measles was fatal in 17 cases; scarlatina in 20; hooping-cough in 23, all of these exhibiting a inutility of less than the usual amount. Typhus, of which 35 persons died, shows the ordinary amount of mortality; but it is much less fatal than in the same weeks of 1847-9. On the other hand, diarrhosa continues to increase, as is usual at this period of the year, but its progress is not remarkable; in the last four weeks the deaths from it, for the most part among children, have been 17, 18, 33, and (last week) 40. The average is 27. A case of English cholera is thus recorded:— On the 4th of July, at 3, Pembroke-place, Upper Marsh, Lambeth, a boy cf seven years, the son of an engineer, died of " English cholera (14 hours), dropsy (9 days), effusion into the pleura (12 hours)." Exclusive of consumption, the deaths from diseases of the tevira tory organs were only 70, which is less than in any cor responding week of 1840-9, having ranged from 76 to 96. From consumption there were 121, whereas they fluctuated in the ten corresponding weeks from 116 to 152. On the 31 of July, a greengrocer's assistant, aged 18 years, died in St. Ueorge's Hospital, to which he had been brought from Kensington, of " chorea (9 days), softening of spinal cord," post mortem. In the sub-district of Saffron-hill, a skin-dresser, aged 43, died from "diffuse inflamma tion of cellular membrane of chest and neck from the absorption of some animal poison (3 days)." A man and a woman died from intemperance. MORTALITY in the METROPOLIS. NUMBER OF DEATHS FROM ALL CAUSES REGISTERED IN THE WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, JULY 6, 1850. Epidemic, Endemic, and Contagious Diseases ... *159 Diseases of Uncertain Seat ... ~. 38 Tubercular Diseases ... ... 168 Diseases of the Brain, Nerves, and Senses... ... 112 Diseases of the Heart and Blood-vessels •38 Diseases of the Lungs, and other Organs of Respiration ••• ••• .•• ••• ••• ••• 70 Diseases of the Stomach, Liver, and other Organs of Digestion... ... ••• -•• ••• •.. 57 Diseases of the Kidney s, &c. •• g Childbirth, Diseases of the Uterus, &c. 8 Diseases of the Joints, Bones, and Muscles "'lO Diseases of the Skin, &c. ... ••• M alformations... „, ••• 3 Premature Birth ... •• ••• Atrophy ••• ••• ••• •••• 32 „„, Old Age ••• ••• ••• ••• ... 25 •.• ••• Sudden ... ... 30 Violence, Privation, Cold, and I ntemperance 25 Causes not specified ..• ••• .„, 3 DEATHS FROM ALL CAUSES ... ... 794 Population Deaths in cone- Deaths Enumerated, sponding week in the 1841. of 1849. Week. West Districts... 301,189 . . 130 ... 136 North Districts.. 376,568 .. 196 ... 146 Central Districts 374,199 ... 183 ... 119 East Districts ... 393,067 ... 194 ... 166 South Districts .. 503,346 ... 367 ... 227 Totals... ..... 1,948,369 ... 1,070 ... 794 Males ... ... ... ... ... 406 Females ... ••• ... ... ••• 388 BIRTHS IN THE WEEK. Males ... ... ... ... 640 Females ... ... ... ... ... 607 Total ... ... 1,247 *ln this number are included 20 by Scarlatina, 35 by Typhus Fever, 40 by Diarrheett, and 1 by Cholera. PORTSMOUTH, JULY 10.—The Patience from Leghorn, in coming into bR , I) , ur to-day, got on chore near the Swahway, hut it is expected stie will come oil next tide. LIVERPOOL, JULY 9.—The Connopolitan, Slater, from Camaroons, arrived here to-day, lifter being aground in the Mersey. ....-• ..---------- i• THE COUNTRY MARK E T " #1 g LIVERPOOL, JULY 9.—There was a good attenclanslio the weather being broken, et:allied with the advance is:, t . tilt lane yesterday, h as occas i one d ra th e r an animated tr.' Seel to day. Wheat is 3d to 4d per 70ib3, and flour Is P L e j ea riP dearer. Spring corn no change. Indian corn the tur d Oats the emand moderate. what ca l' fi ! LEEDS, JULY 9.—We had a good arrival of week ; the trade is more buoy a nt than of late, and pries eta' tinue to creep up. An advance of Is to 2s per quarter i . this blished on Friday's rates, and fully 2s from the rates (tteo day week. Barley as before ; oats and shellings steadri; without variation. , all ° ° i NEWCASTLE CORN MARKET JULY 9. — A - ou r • 4taas this morning we exp er i ence d a rea dy s ale for all deser43 1104 English and foreig n w h ea t, a t an a d va nce of from 19 t t al Ise the rates of Saturday last. Flour met a good sale a " 8 9 0° sack more money. In ali kinds of spring corn there fl variation to uote. de NEWCASTLE q CATTLE MARKET, JULY 9."" t relt li/ market we have to no t e a d ec li ne o f near ly 300 bead 0 " li t as compared with the number on show last TuesdaY-0 o bit quality was middling, and an advance of 6d Per S TA ° 19 realised; but trade was dull, and part remained ono.- - rid' sheep and lamb trade was more active, at rather better O; Beasts, 380; sheep and lamb, 6,700. Beef , 55 tc.' Id mutton, 4d to sid; lamb, 5d to 6d per lb. EDINBURGH MEAL MARKET, JULY 9 tat ,1 the meal market to-day 17 sacks oatmeal, each weighill,4l, imperial, which sold thus :-1 at I/ lOs Cd, 3 at 1 19 ,1 5 e :10 2 sacks flour, which sold at 28s. 3 13 at 118 s Od ; average price of the wh&le j 1 8a 3 " b . If lel --Mere _9 which sold thus :--1 at I i 4s, and 2 at 118 s O sa d c . ks P :::, t 6 ,, 1 : EDINBURGH HAY AND STRAW M A RKET , ''.;, 0 1 :i Oat straw, from 6s Cd to 7s 6d per kemple of 1 6 9 t en l o "! wheat ditto, 6s Od to 7s Od ; Larley ditto, 66 di Ilai DA , f L r K om Err l ii s to M I E s A 2 L d pe A r tt st ß on x od t° bags oatmeal and 9of barl eE ey T m , ~. W er e te" __, i ,ere e' 1 meal at B this (10 r y 0 4 .10 sales ready ; oatmeal up ed per hag on the top, is P:,:1 0 1 ;4 22stl second price, and is 6d on the lowest ; one Pr,— , of"' per bag, inferior quality; barleymeal fully Du ' , dearer. A 1/ 1 ,1 Oatmeal, per sack, of 280 lbs. First Second 5 057, 1 - e e p y m e n r e l i e a a a i l l, per ditto ." • p B e a i a r m l s Flour ... ... ... ••• —s Od - - s , 4 6 ' ...4 , tr ' Pot barley ... ... ::: —s 01 - -- s ". I .. 2 1 7 7 : 66c11 2 ......17 75 5s Od 00 ....4.....4 1 ... ... —s Od Buddle's W. C H O a AL rtley M Al3itsK6EdTl:a—mYbtloBnTE•E.D.•jt.l•••••: ... Uarr's W. Hartley l3s 6d Lumley ............... Chester Main l2s 3d Richmond.. •• ... *.. ',. Davison's West Hartley 13 s 6d R usse ll' s Hetton o° . .. East Adairs Main lO3 9d Stewart's ............. Ravenswcrth'aW.Hart 133 Od Whitwell .•••• ..... .... 'Canfield Moor - .• "........ Walker's Primrose Wylam Wall's End, &c. ! Ileugh Hall ........ Acorn Close Bewicke and Co. Elm Park I3s Od Kelloe ............. . •• Gosforth ... .... llarton ... Heaton 133 3d Denison ............. • ...... Lawson l2s se Whitworth ......•••••'` Walker ... Il A i d a e c l i a e i a d n e , s Tees Tees ................. Eden Main Lambton Primrose Braddyll 15s 3,, Tees . ..... . ......... fletton Haswell 163 ?c Hartley ............. Scarborough .. 13s 9t . Sidney's Hartley . Ships at market. 129. SOUTHWARK POLICE-C °C bor A young man of respectable apreerance , w h oto t or to give his name or address, was brought, be rg s e j it) A'Beckett for re-exsmination, upon the e l - s'ol, tering a forg; d cheque tor the payment of h intent to defraud the Southwark branch o f t ,m e i,oo m and Westminster _Bank, Wellington -str ee t ' • ti bridge. Tee evidence taken upon the former e e. l e which has already appear e d, h av ing been on" ny Mr. Mullens, of the firm of Bush and Alui l , e „%edlio prosecution, addressed the magistrate, and ie'"; o se,t) that since Monday, the day on which the P vi c i 0; 4 1 taken into custod3 - ' it has been ascertainer ro e 02 0 , name is William Thoms, and that he WO 'd Co r i' clerk in the employ of Messrs Gooch a ll " 07 , 41 wc,olstaplere of London-wall, in th h e C o fi r was also ' found that he lived wi tu a reitee ' V who resided at No. 5, Red Lion-street, -tits at which house were discovered seeeraldoc elee „ 00 1) portauce in elucidation of the present cha,vga lie 0 as of a forgery to the amount of 721., "'T a t belt) committed on the firm in whose employ be 7i,fr , London-wall. This latter circumstance be t ` e pr i 'd lens) mentioned with a view to show tha t T a e c etle',l ll must have been well aware of the consei lle t - t eriofdle act he had so recently committed, that of w l1 " - es tei n , „Pei* forged cheque for 2501. on the London Bed Bank, purporting to be in the handwriting ° 8 „„ rto_,' the woolstapler, of Bermondsey, who kept with that establishment. He (Mr. Mullen:P tbenAli should not on the present occasion enter inteebotQ deuce of the case of forgery a ll u ded to, b e , t Pit a future period be enabled to establish t" 5 O the as well as that of uttering the forged cheque I in question. hoe ° it° Mr. ATECKETT, addressing the prisoners, It be 00 much distressed at the situation in ve b ,,, le r : o placed, asked him if he had now an • object`":t Ole" his name aft , r having heard the statemen t .1" - • Mr. Mullens? eid ° The prisoner merely shook his head, e -4 reply. s, s "et T. J. Snook was then called into the vir -e t 9 he e', examined—He stated that he is a clerk O r ; IPA of Messrs. Gooch and Cousins, woolstaPti t o gii; wall; that he knew the prisoner, who wa g - ,, 0 13 0t L'e, in the same firm, but left his situation a" - , 3 months ago. A paper was here shown to write,o'„ found at the prisoner's residence ; it was d r!. ir tifiv ate of his character given to him by e r and Co. at the period ho quitt e d their eteili n '' handwriting was proved by the witness. a Michael Hayden, of the City police, stanesielge the preceding day he went to the prisone' st eo o 5, White Lion-Areet, Whitechapel, and on search of the apartments he occupied be f loe cument and papers produced, consisting of Is 60 0 0 4 and also a pass-book belonging to Mess r et re e? Co., together with a cheque for 1,000/. Pe i; i od if ; some papers on which an imitation of th e , :dif e° ,;l e s of Mr. Davis appeared; and the witness a's".. oreri the forged cheque for 2501., which the prisee:e'stee for payment at the London and Westet i l3- 00°,:ilf on Saturday last, but which was rejected of '•, - , 0 , 0 j clerks, who made a memorandum of the el l - he; fusel on the face of it. The prisoner,it vi :„ - pro:, lected, called again at the bankonMon dal 'JO' 0 . 1 7 the . letter, inclosing another cheque fo r th e having excited the suspicion of Mr.liiegef°'-' t' t ger, led to the pri soner ' s a pp re h ens i o n. is bea v ' e ll Mr. ATECIKETT asked the p r is o ner if be v f ,„ f or t Y any question to e ith er o f th e witnesses , or w h o a' statement in reference to th e c h ar ge, giving - eeo same time the usual caution. a t h° fO ° The prisoner, however, s till maintsin e n , 01 0 silence he had exhibit e d on his first b eing tr custody, and only shook his head. ss to. cria 0 He was committed for trial to the Lic e ' h ege'd Court, and appeared so weak that he was f ear supported from the bar to the cells at tr' e court. * Cetylr6 TEE SCRAPING PROCESS AT lIAMP" I4 ,a to 10) As you told me that a r es id en t h a d contracti o n/1g ment that the brickwork of Hampton Court is " - Os I considered it my duty to m a ke another visit t e r n order that I might ascertain the truth of oil ores impressions. A few days ago, therefore, I we"-of isJ to Hampton Court, and found that to one frow,: brirwo way in question they had scraped the whole oft fgder 6 : 7 p, some of the stonework being new and the renvuet wis,ld I could at once see that such was the case, b t iete,: e have a " resident" or two on my side of the V e t t of one what bad been done; he informed me,`,. - e li sia e "; and stonework had been scraped. A second '-otte only said the same, but that the two fine terracotta P ei lions inserted in the walls had undergone the 5 ,7 0 /0, 1 0, The scaffolding is now on that front of the ge" or e" or o e forms part of the first quadrangle; the same P ri g l oj restoration, but spoliation—is going on here, an d to vs , be completed in about a week. If the scraper 1:1401,si entire round of the building there will be an to 11 , quiet grandeur which so particularly belong s „pea glorious old Palace of Hampton Court.—Carr the Builder. if I F fl o ptt MONUMENT TO ADDISON. —The fo- the A A inscription: upon the stone recently p l a ced 1 1,ter l 'is Ellesmere over the grave of Addi son West li t: - 4 The lines are by Tickell. The i Montague SR Charles, first Earl of Halifax:— " Ne'er to these clia ‘ m ‘ A be D r p s, ls w ° h ll e . re the leig, ht e l eytelt. Since their foundation, came a nobler go' Nr,-- • Nor e'er was to the bowers of bliss conid el) A fairer spirit, or more welcome s hade. Oh, gone for ever, take this long adieu , ,„0 i llg' And sleep in pe ace neat thy lov'd Monteb.ecl, " Born, 1672-4)1 6, " Egerton, Earl of Ellesmere, P.O , 1849•" ~r O O The carri age w hi c h is t o b e us ed at the i Tior g i , rt i of the Emperor of Austria, says a letter fro ibis (P io t c o made in the reign of Charles, for the marriage (/ '„ 5 1,6 1 109 Maria Therefa. Since that time it has been ~- c oOt4 corona ion of the Emperors. The gilding e 1 .,, (11 403 0 t florins. The paintings on the doors are by -0- flt it :e r i ° 60,000 florins.—Galignani. SHIELDS, JULY 9.—The Tweed of this r ii r c ijoig when loading in the river, sprung a leak , cri'ered to discharge and repair. itr d MARRIED. AP! On the Ist inst., at St. Leonard's-on-Soot pia' lo t son of Mr. Peter B an k s , o f H as ti ng s, to dt4. fl ,/ , daughter of Mr. Samuel Ch es t er , of St. Leoni a Bboo,io On the 4th inst., at Bolton, Cumberland, R s ,' to P r eldest son of Joseph Dixon, Esq., of Baysivo,*arcl Susan, eldest daughter o f th e Rev. Clarborne. I i 1 i f f .ro l( Lee l ED. On the 6th inst., a t his r M esidence, Ch a rlott e pcP 0 worth, Charles B arra tt, E sq., o f h er Majesty' s tA i ~ stre e ~0 Whitehall, aged 58. , fis.. - - h,, , , ,, On the 6thl inst., Jehn s harp, Esq., °A aged 3. p e rlOh l i rg rr On the 6th inst., at her seat, Ascot-place, -- ow' , i daughter of the late John Ferard, Esq., of 'g F Surrey. ntA i' . n - n _ 50 , iol London: Printed and Published by MU E Vitice/ 0 0114 1 No. 112, Strand, Printer, at The Sun, ..., t he Strand, in the Pr ec i nct o f t h e Savoy, w Middlesex, Thursday, July 11, 1850. BIRTHS. --- 1 0' OF A SON. On the 7th inst., at Hevbridge, Staffordshire, the _A k i )° the Rev. Wynter homas Blawayt. .., 0 060 ii p On the 7th inst. T ,at Tackley Rectory, near " fr r wife of the Rev. L. A. Sharpe. Veg ellt On the Bth inst., at Upper Avenue-roe. , 6, 4 the wife of Hugh Adams Silver. Oe OF A DAUGHTER. WS' A il On the 2d inst., at Walthamstow, Esse ,r, f p' Dorman Tyser. wife ° On the sth inst., at Richmond, Surrey, the • Ai Baker Roberts, Esq., soli c it or . i eild