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IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT HOUSE OF COMMONS.—(YESTERDAY.) THE COUNTY RATES BILL. (Continued from First Edition of yesterday. ) Sir J. PAItINGTON had listened with great satisfac tion to what had fallen from the noble lord. In o ffering a few observations on the subject, he would implore the house and the noble lord to bear in mi nd what was reall y the animus of this bill. He could not conceal from him self that the animus of this bill was to strike a blow at the magistracy of England. The noble lord might not be aware of the vote come to last year in a discussion on the same subject. The hon. member for Manchester brought in a bill last year differing from the present only inasmuch as it dispensed with the services of the magis tracy altogether, and after some discussion the house re jected that bill. In consequence of that rejection, the right hon. gentlemen has brought in the present mea sure, and he had stated that his object was to proceed by instalments to supersede the magistracy, and he had re sorted to two fallacies, which he had repeated year after year until perhaps he believed them himself. He was glad that the noble lord had detected those fallacies. The first was, that the great principle that taxation should only be imposed by one's own representatives was revoked by this bill. The second fallacy was an invidious one—it placed the magistracy on one side and the ratepayers on the other. (Hear, hear.) He was not disposed to oppose the second reading, but he reserved to himself the power to take the gravest ob*- jection to all the most important provisions of the bill. He thought that a bill of such a, magnitude ought to be taken tip by the Government, and not be carried forward by a private member. (Hear, hear.) In his opinion it would be most impolitic and unwise to deprive magistrates of their existing powers, seeing that they without the slightest emolument, discharged many heavy and onerous duties with great honour to them selves and credit to the country. Though he was always an advocate for the Boards of Guardians, he viewed with great dread their being converted into local councils for the transaction of matters entirely foreign to the duties prescribed for them by the Poor Law Act. Sir G. GREY entirely concurred in the course taken by the noble viscount the Secretary of State for the Home Department. He declared now, as he had done before, that it was, in his opinion, desirable for the satis faction of ratepayers, that the representative principle should be applied to the election of the boards charged with the administration of the .financial affairs of coun ties ; he had stated so much in reference to a former bill of the hon. member for Manchester when he was in office in 1851. He had no doubt that if the amend ment proposed by the noble viscount were introduced into the bill it would be greatly improved, and would stand a great chance of passing the house. Mr. HENLEY urged' the necessity on the part of the executive of not allowing any interference with the ma gistrates in the management of prisons and lunatic asy lums. He objected to turning boards of guardians into electoral-councils, that being a principle which was quite new and foreign to our constitution. If the financial boards were to be elected, it would be much better to place their elected in the hands of the rate-payers than to intrust it to the guardians. He hoped the Govern ment would take charge of the bill, and put it in a shape more likely to meet the approval of the house. Mr. BAINES explained that the proceedings ' of the new financial boards would be entirely public, a clause having been introduced into the bill expressly for that purpose. Mr. BARROW said he,approved of the bill, though he had no wish to interfere with the executive power of the magistrates. It had been said that the bill would deprive them of their ancient rights, but not one of the powers proposed to be conferred on the financial boards vas given to them by the commission of the peace ; they were conferred upon them by driblets, because there was no machinery in existence by which the rate-payers could elect financial boards. That machinery was, how ever, now supplied by the boards of guardians. He was not indisposed to consent to some amendments being made in the bill, but he trusted the principle' would not be so fitted away in committee as to render the bill almost inoperative when it passed into law. M-:. T. B. SMITH supported the bill. Mr. PACKE went at some length into the details of tire bill, and pointed out the ill effects it would have upon many parts of county administration, particularly the management of lunatic asylums. Mr. WHALLEY thought the present bill would benefit the county magistracy in the opinion of the ratepayers, by removing from them all those imputa tions which most undeservedly now rested on them. Mr. HITME thought that the bill ought to be in the hands of the Government. Its effect would be to place the ratepayers in the counties in the same condition as the ratepayers in boroughs were placed by the Reform Bill. Mr. PACKE thought that to place the ratepayers in Rome of the western counties in the same condition as `the ratepayers in small towns would be the greatest in jury which could be inflicted upon them. After a few words from Mr. M. GIBSON, who est pressed his acquiescence in the proposition of the Go vernment, the bill was read a second time, and ordered to be committed fro forma on Friday. COURTS OF COMMON LAW (IRELAND) BILL. This bill went through committee pro forma. MAYNOOTH COLLEGE.—ADJOURNED DEBATE. Mr. FAGAN opened the adjourned debate. Ho con tidered that the principal object in renewing this discus sion was to keep alive the violent religious spirit which had been awakened in this country by the hon. gentleman the member fur North Warwickshire, assisted by the late Government, with a view to influencin g the deci sion of Iri s h e l ec ti on pe titi ons, w hi c h would shortly be before the house, and in which accusations were made against Roman Catholic priests of interfering with the elections by means of intimidation.' The honourable gentleman then proceeded to animadvert at some length upon the penal laws of former times, and "the corruption of late times, which he contended had' beet unable to destroy the Roman Catholic faith, which was still the national religion of Ireland. Although he would prefer to'see the &man Catholic religion:independent of the Government, yet still he thought it was the duty of every Government to see that the clergy of its Erdbjects were maintained, and the means of education provided. On this ground he had always supported the Queen's College, and still more the grant to Maynooth. The college of Maynooth was founded in the year 1795, in the midst of the French revolution, and though so many reasons had been given for it, he believed that the real reason was political, to prevent the Irish youth destined for the priesthood from being sent to France and imbibing French doctrines. The final settlement had been made by Sir R. Peel, and. with that settlement Ireland remained contented until it it was disturbed by the hon. member for North War wickshire. The arguments which the hon. member had used to urge for the abolition of this grant, if carried out, . must lead to the discontinuance of all Protestant mis sions and establishments in our colonies and in foreign countries. The hon. member evidently had not read the report of the committee of 1827, because in every line of it. was contained a refutation of his arguments.' ° The 'non. gentleman bad relied greatly upon his quotations from Bellarmine and Thomas Aquinas ; but the hon. gentleman ought to know that the doctrines laid down by those writers, with regard to the point for which the hon. gentleman quoted them, were repudiated and dis avowed by all the Catholic universities, and all thinking Catholics. The lion. gentleman said that the Roman Catholic religion was subversive of liberty; but he would ask on what side had Irish Roman Catholic members always been found if not on the aide of civil and religi glens liberty ? The hon. gentleman then found fault with the dispensing power of the Roman Catholic reli gion to relieve from oaths. Why, he had taken the trouble to collate the opinions of Roman Catholic and Protestant divines on this point, and he found that they were exactly the same, namely, that the dispensing power was limited always by the law of nature. With regard to the order of Jesuits, he believed that no body of men had done more than that order for the civil and religious liberties of the world, and it was for that rea son that the Sovereigns of Europe had persecuted that order. He hoped that the hon. gentleman's motion would be rejected by a large majority—that it might be caushed for ever. Mr. A. MILLS said he should support the motion, because he believed that the Roman Catholic system was calculated to ruin and destroy the social resources of every country which adopted it. This was the real rea aoi.i why the English constituencies had so strong a feel upon this matter, and not from any religious motives. Mr. J. BALL wished to direct the attention of the house to the answer to this motion which their own archives contained. There were reports in the library which refuted all the statements which the hon. member for North Warwickshire had made, and he could not but regret that this motion had been proposed. The lan guage which accompanied its introduction was most un called for. It was justly offensive to the Roman Catho lics o the f hous e , and he could not help feeling that the hon. member for North Warwickshire ought to have been called to order when he used it. He warned the house that these discussions could have no good object, indeed they were calculated strongly to create disaffec tion in Ireland. The parties who were now spending their days in a penal settlement for treason committed in Ireland, never used half so many invectives to sedi tion as they heard from the hon. member for North Warwickshire last night. The authoritie s of Maynooth did not object to an inquiry being instituted into their system, but what they complained of was the manner in which this motion, and others similar to it, were m a d e. The late Government profited very largely• by the anti- Maynooth cry, and before this debate closed, he hoped soKne of the members of that Government would favour tie h o u se w ith t h e i r op i n i ons upon th is motion. The establishment of the grant was received by Ireland as a disposition on the part of the British Legislature to deal g raciously with her ; an d when the lat e Si r Robert Peel suc ceeded in carrying the measure, Ireland was not want ing in srpplin manifestations of her gratitude. But, in queFciiins of this sort a perpetual display of gratitude Was quite uncalled for, because when this grant was pass...A it was conceded not as a mark of favour but an 1 act of justice: Lord LOVAINE said, the honour and good faith of - the country was, pledged to the continuance of this grant, unless it could be shown that it had been grossly mis applied, or willfully abused. No proof, however, of such mis a p p li cat i on or abuse had,yet come before them, and he, therefore, felt himself bound in honour to resist this motion. Mr. PO RTESCIJE was glad that this was not a mo ti°4 for in quirY, but a directproposal to withdraw the grant, as it would enable the house• to come to a direct vote upon the subject, at once put a stop to this Anti-Maynooth granting of a committee would only.have increased the excitement, and the eries THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENINCT, FEBRUARY 24, 1853. of "No Popery" from the Rotunda and Exeter-hall, would have been unceasing. A stop ought to be put to such occasion for the display of religious intoler .ance, and he almost regretted that something: , like a statute of limitations could not be passed to determine at what point the Lord George Gordon argu ments, which were usually imported into discussions of this nature, should be brought to a final clOse. Vast changes had taken place since the Maynooth" grant was increased in 1845. Famine and pestilence had visited Ireland —sedition had overtaken some ofher younger sons, while, lastly, a cry of Papal aggression had spread dismay from one end of her shores to the other,' but none of these evils were attributable to the resistance of this grant. They were rather to be traced to a system of misgovernment ; but Ireland was now entering upon a new state of things, and he therefore regretted the more the introduction into the legislature of topics of a polemical character. Such discussions could lead to no good result, and since it was acknow ledged that, for a time at least, the act of 1845 settled the question, he hoped they should hear very few such speeches as that which they heard last night on the introduction of this motion. ; The feelings of the Ro man Catholics must be respected ; and if the house wished to extend the blessings of a liberal Government, and to cement the union that existed between the three sections of the United Kingdom, viz., England, Ireland, and Scotland the house must set its face against the sentiments of religious intolerance which these debates were calculated to inspire. Lord STANLEY thought it was desirable that this debate should close to-day, because every day and every hour that tliis question was kept open tended to incense those feelings of religious animosity which the establish ment of the Maynooth grant was intended to allay. IXe could not, however, allow the debate to close without expressing his opinions upon the motion as a tnember of the late Government. He felt bound to give the motion his reluctant opposition. The grant was adopted as a compromise in 1845, and it would be an act of injustice to abolish it now. Since before that period the grant was made annually, but from the time of the Union down to 1845, no Parliament undertook to refuse it, and the Legislature, in his opinion, did right in placing the grant upon such a footing as to prevent a recurrence to those angry and irritating discussions which generally attended the annual vote of the grant. The Maynooth College was the same now that it was in 1845, but supposing that it was not so, there was no condition attached to the grant. The grant was made upon the understanding that it was not only to be un conditional, but that it should be permanent, and for his part he was bound•to confess that as yet he had heard no good reason why he should now vote for its absolute and unconditional repeal. Mr. LUCAS expressed his opinion most decidedly both against the amendment and the original resolution. No Roman Catholic could vote for either ; but at the same time that he said this, he was bound to add that the temper of the speech of the hon. member who moved the amendment was in far better taste than that of the hon. member for North Warwickshire. It was a feeling of bigotry, however, which dictated both the amendment and the original motion, and the same op position-to Catholicity as much pervaded the one as the other. • The amendment did not put the question of the Maynooth grant. The honouralle member who proposed it talked of the grant being a beg garly grant of 30,0001. a-year, and called upon the Roman Catholic members to reject it, be cause it was not: worth the gratitude which it en abled this country to claim of Ireland. But for his part he for one denied that any gratitude was due ; the grant was only an instalment of a great act of justice which the British Legislature had so long denied to Ire land. Do away with such grants as the Re gium Donum, and that gigantic robbery, the Established Church of Ireland, and he should be quite ready to give up this Maynooth grant. Those who proposed motions of this nature, it appeared to him, went upon the principle of taking what they could get, and sticking to it when they got it—(a laugh)-- 7 but such a principle was rotten at the core, and sooner or later must break down. (Cheers.) The Maynooth grant was not conceived in a spirit of liberality, but of State policy ; and as this mo tion for its repeal came from the tail or fag-end of a party, it was impossible that it could pass. One object of Sir Robert Peel in making this grant permanent was to put a stop to angry discussions like this. In this respect the object had failed but those who proposed such a resolution as this knew very well that the legislation of the country could not be carried on. He had, therefore, no fears of the passing of this resolution. With regard to the opinions which the hon. member for North Warwickshire ex pressed last night, it would be treating them with too much respect to condescend to answer them. One would suppose, from the tone of the hon. member for North Warwickshire, that the Roman Catholip religion was a thing which had recently dropped from the moon, but he was too obedient a child to that church —(a laugh)—to lower himself so much as to answer to the aspersions which had been so freely cast upon her in the course of this debate. (Hear, hear.) Let there be a case made out against the administration of the Maynooth grant, he should by quite ready to vote for a committee of inquiry, but until then,he must resist all motions of this nature. (Hear.) Mr. DitUMMOND said his constituents had re quested him to vote for this motion, but he should do no such thing. (A. laugh.) He would be no party to an act of injustice ; - but though he could not vote for this motion, he thought the people of this country had a right to complain of such in cii as Paul Cullen and his master, the Pope. The religion which they preached was this—they said there was no other true religion but their own, and that all other forms of worship but their own was heretical, and every means used for suppressing it would be perfectly justifiable'. Now, for a man who professed such a doctrine as that tp talk about religious 'toleration, was little better than a fraud, and he hoped the house would treat the liberalism of such speakers as the last with the disregard that its sincerity merited. He found just as much fault with the doctrines taught by the Jesuits ; he denied that so far as this part of the question was concerned, that it partook at all of a reli g ious character, it was a qu e sti on no t on ly o f re li g i on , but of liberty, and one which affected the freedom of thought throughout the world ; and since the doctrines of the Jesuits, which were so inimical to civil and religious freedom, were taught in Maynooth, there ought at least to be an inquiry into the mananag. ment of that establishment. (Cries of "Hear, hear.") Lord CLAUD HAMILTON, amidst some impa tience, moved the adjournment of the debate. Mr. MOORE said the hon. member for Meath had curtailed his remarks upon the understanding that the division was to be called to-night, Sir R. H. INGLIS said if the motion for adjournment was carried, he must take the opportunity of protesting against the language which the honourable member, for Meath had applied to the Church`of England as by law established. Mr. LUCAS disclaimed any intention or desire to hurt the feelings of any follower of thq Established , Church. What he said he meant to, apply to the Irish Church as an establishment, and note to the doctrines which it taught. • After a few words from Mr. CLAY, Mr. Sergeant SHEE said he agreed with the hon.• member for Meath in many questions 2 • but he begged it, to be distinctly understood that the hon. member did: not express his own and his friends feeling upon the; matter, when he declared that the Established Church, of Ireland was a robbery conceived in fraud. (Cheers.), The motion for the adjournment of the debate was, then put from the chair, and negatived without a division., The house then divided on the original motion, when! there appeared= For the motion Against it Majority against 3O Mr. Spooner's motion was accordingly rejected, but there was no time to put the amendment, it being past six o'clock. The house then adjourned at a quarter past six. STATE OF TRADE. (From the Manchester Guardian of yesterday.) MANCHESTER, TUESDAY.—We have had a continu ance to-day of that indisposition to operate, on the part of buyers, which characterised our market last week, in creased in some degree, no doubt, by the non-arrival of the New York steamer, whose intelligence seems to have become necessary to the imparting of any decided cha racter to a Tuesday's business. The feeling of uncer tainty about prices has therefore been more marked thaw before, and the sales of the day unusually limited. As compared with this day week, we should say that, in yarns,, there is an advantage on the side of buyers of fully id. per lb. on the average of counts from 50's downwards. Pincops and warps are more affected than bundles. Good qualities of finer numbers continue quite firm. In the department of cloth there is a somewhat more favourable tendency. This is more perceptible in India fabrics than any others. Shirtings have now re ceded 3d. per , piece from the late highest rates—other, descriptions lid. Domestics are more difficult of sale ; and printing .cloths are. less keenly sought for—the wider ones not so firm as they lately were. The Liver pool cotton market is quoted id. per lb. below the rates of Friday week. ROCHDALE, MONDAY.—We have had little change in the flannel market to-day ; prices have been steady, and the demand has been tolerably good. The wool market has been much the same as that of the previous Mon day. HALIFAX, SATURDAY.—In our piece hall to-day there has been a very slender attendance of buyers, and scarcely any goods, either plain or fancy,, have been disposed of. The yarn market is firm, but not active. The manufacturers purchase somewhat readily, but' the export houses are very shy of giving out orders. - Wools - are very stiff. Lincolnshire wethers, which are greatly in request, have realised higher prices,- but for oth er sorts there is no,change in the quotations. lIUDDERSFIELD, TUESDAY.--Our market has been quite as b r i s k last week, and low goods of any kind go off well. Ilanufacturel7s continue well employed •to orrter. We have had a pod many foreign buyers is town to-day for Continental -orders. • FORFARSITIRE ELEcTicfN.---The day of election for a member to"serve in Parli.vment for the county of, Forfar has been fixed by the she ff to take place at Forfar on Friday next, the 25th ins t. No opposition has at pre- Isent been offered against the return of the Hon. Col. Lauderdale Alaule., the L vte member. Forts are to be erectckl. at Carey's Sconce and War iden's Ledge, at the we: stern extremity of the Isle of Wight. Batteries exist(xl on these spots three hundred ears ago. • EMIGRATION.—The Ivat er onl Chronicle states that, on Friday, nearly 400 emig Tants left that city for Liver pool, to tale shipping for A.dnerica. LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF CHANCERY.—FEB. 23. (Before the Lord Chancellor.) IN RE FUSSELL.-LUNACY. This is a petition for a commission. It was opened on Wednesday, the 16th ; the arguments were continued on Saturday, the 19th, and they were concluded to-day. The alleged lunatic is Mr. John Fussell, a manufacturer of hardware at Frome, and who, in addition to other property, has made a successful speculation in Australian Land and Bank Shares, and is supposed to be worth more than 200,0001. The petitioners for the commission are his two brothers and his nephew. They are opposed by the wife, who, with his two daughters, are deeply in terested in the result, in consequence of Mr. Fussell having recently executed a will and codicils, which gives them all his property, in the form of life interest to the wife, and the reversion of the principal money to the daughters. The petition, which alleges that Mr. Fussell is incapable of taking care of his person and property, is supported by the affidavits of Dr. Winslow and Dr. Green, and is opposed by those of Dr. Connolly, Dr. Seymour, and Mr. Morgan. The Solicitor-General, Mr. Glasse, and Mr. Prender gast are for the petitioners. Mr. Rolt and Mr. Sandys, contra, were heard to-day, and contended at much length that Mr. Fussell, although in a very delicate state of health, and labouring under paralysis, was yet perfectly competent to the selection of persons who were to be entrusted with the manage ment of his affairs, although not in a condition from bodily weakness to manage them himself. The Solicitor-General, in reply, adverted to an alle gation he had been instructed to make in opening the petition, that the codicils to the will were improper in struments, and procured by improper representations, and not calculated to benefit the family. The Lord Chancellor said cases like that now under consideration were equally difficult and distressing. The Court must arrive at two conclusions ; first, that the object of the petition was insane or non compos; secondly, that the insanity was of such ; ,a nature as to render it imperative on the Court, for the protection of person and property, that it should issue its authority for a commission. The line of interference under such cir - stances was difficult to draw. Much mischief might be done in one case, by a too hasty interference —much injury might accrue in another by neglect ing to exercise it at the proper time. If the pro tection of the Court was withheld danger might arise to the person or the property of the alleged lunatic ; and yet, if the Court did, on the other hand, interpose, there was the other danger—that of alarming and exciting the 'object it wished to protect, and thereby producing most mischievous, if not fatal, results. There were cases— and this was represented to be one of them—in which the state of the subject of the petition, and the circum stances in which he was placed, were of such a nature that an inquiry, through the machinery of a commission, might, probably, much aggravate his delusions. These were the considerations and consequences his lordship felt he had to battle with in deciding the question at issue ;- and, as it required a most careful and attentive examination of all the documents and evidence in the matter to • guide him to a safe and satisfactory conclu sion, he thought it most expedient to take due time for that purpose ; and he therefore deferred his judgment on the petition till that day (Wednesday) week. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS.-FEB. 23. (Sittings at Nisi Prius, in London, before Mr. Justice Talfourd and a Common Jury.) WILLIAMS V. RODWAY..--BREACH OF PROMISE OF MARRIAGE. This was an action to recover damages for a breach of promise of marriage ; and the defendant in his pleas, de nied the making of the promise ; and denied that a rea sonable time for performing it had elapsed before action brought. Mr. Sergt. Allen, in opening the case to the jury, said that the plaintiff, Miss Ann Williams, was the daughter of a builder, carrying on business at Notting-hill ; she was now about 24 years of age, and was possessed of con siderable personal charms. Some years ago she accepted , a situation as lady's maid to Lady Erskine, and lived with her ladyship, in Wales, for about four or five years, and whilst in that situation her conduct was in all re spects satisfactory to her ladyship. In the beginning of Nov., 1851, her father, who is a widower, had fallen into difficulties, and the plaintiff consequently left her situation, and went home to manage his house and busi ness. The defendant, Jacob Rodway, a young man about 30 years of age, was her cousin, and kept a baker's shop, in Windmill-street, Tottenham-court-road, and was a person of some substance. The plaintiff was fearful that her father would be unable to meet some engagements, and she left, home, and went to a relation named Izzard, who ad v i se d her to go on a visit to the defendant's sister, and she did so. When she had been there about a month, the defendant's sister took that opportunity of going to see her relations, in the country, and the plaintiff during her absence occupied her position, and managed the defendant's house, and attended to his business. Durinc , this time, the offer and promise of marriage, upon which the action was founded, were made ; although in this case no letters had passed between the parties, yet ho believed he should be able to show, in the most positive manner, the prd mise made by the defendant, and that the understanding that the marriage was to take place existed between them for a considerable period of time. Of course promise of this kind was not likely to be made in the presence of third persons, and in the present state of the law, he had not the power to call the plaintiff herself as n witness. The jury therefore would not expect direct testimony on this point, but they would find sufficient to show that the defendant intended at that time to marry the plaintiff. Her father called upon him, and he re ceived him in the kindest manner, and as a person under such circumstances would do. It could not be shown that the defendant, on any occasion, said "Yes, I will marry your daughter;" b - ut he had made statements which clearly showed that that was what he meant. On one occasion he said he understood his father objected to the marriage, but he should do as he liked. The marriage was fixed to take place in October , and, pre- Nvvihoauts partto that time , i s fufurniture i t t u h r e e plaintiff's tii e w father eaibdethteer was e breaking up his establishment, y and uthey had like, and they, in accordance with this, selected a number of articles. On one occasion they all went to Windsor to see theplain a dress r, d afterwards plain tiff's brother, who was assistant t e o s a iwl l ke in d e ddne n ri d sg ra s pe n gave th h the plaintiff sent. a np pattern a sky - for h lu a veil, would,for the under t purpose he ei circumstances, being nistan worn he et apprehended,the hbe There n no difficulty or doubt as to the pr e o e nise ; . and as to the second plea, that sufficient and reasonable time had not elapsed to perform the promise, he apprehended there would likewise be no difficulty. T a h n e d co t n h t e ract, he understood, was to marry in October ; , and vrit h was not issued wuna t s il ci t u h i e te m s i da ddl e e ie o n f t J ti a in n e u . ar T y h : e this,question, h e apprehended, and for fo e r arhended, wm oi si t in con- would come to be one of damages, they would look to see what the plaintiff had l ull e ch She hadsequ a l n o c s t e of the p a r defendant tieiption breaking his e apnrso purpose should think, upon the evidence, the defendant had : th b eY this was not all. She had lost those feelings of affection' ut which; in a man might be easily excited, but which when a i a e sui chosendeaside s, a ss h no w oa i f s lk e oen o dg f , e t ar h nfi e dt de fendant, once crushed in a woman, could never return, She had e also in her family and in her own little world, lost caste. She hd ia h sn a td, wife h been nt; representedannodw fors iie allwatsh as e casts e t causes, had no doubt she should receive, a, temperate, but ade quate compensation at the hands of the jury. Mr. Robert Williams,. the father of the plaintiff, stated that in November, 1851, the plaintiff came home, and she kept his house until the end of the following. July, when she became afraid that lie would not be able to meet some engagement, and that his home would be broken up ; and she removed her property, and went to a relation named Izzard. This lady recommended that she should go upon a visit to the defendant's sister, and she went there about the end of July. In conse quence of a communication from his daughter, plaintiff went, in company with his brother Emanuel, to the de fendant's. Nothing particular occurred on this occa sion, but when lie went again defendant said he saw, by his uncle Emanue l ' s q uizzical appearance,. that he had been telling him about his intended marriage. On an other occasion, the defendant said he had received at his a let ter from his father, w ho did not seem pleased in tended marriage. He also said he wished the matter had been kept quiet until his sister's return to London. The plaintiff said she would decline the matter rather than there should be any unpleasantness in the family ; but he said he was his own master, and he would d'o as be liked. lie said he had written to his friends to in form them of it, out of respect, but he should do as he liked. When they went to Windsor, the wa p at tern not was produced in defendan t ' s presence, but it s said that it was the pattern of the wedding dress. At the beginning of September the plaintiff came home, but she afterwards again keturne the defendant ifd to the defendantthere's. About the end of October he told any part of his furniture he liked they might have it ; and the plaintiff chose some tea things, tea trays, sauce pans, &c., and she and the defendantdefendant s eemed took them away. There was an easy-chair, which the to fancy, and witness said he would give it to him ; arid the defendant said whenever witness came s wato visit home, them he should sit in it. Whilst the plaintiff at the defendant came t o see her every Sunday, an d gene rally once a week besi des, and she always let him o rt, and occupied 5 or 6 mit in so doing. Cross-examined —The nu plaintiff finally left the defen dant's' house on the 12th January, and on the 15th o that month the writ w as issued. H before e never g the gave instwrit. of tions to the attorney to write, issuin Henry Williams, the plaintiff's brother, and Emanue n l Williams, her uncle , were also examined, and they i part confirmed the foregoing evidence. As to the defendant's circumstances, Robert Izzard, also a relation, was called, and he stated that the de fendant was, in his opinion, in "decent circumstances," and he offered, on a recent occasion, to lend witness 300/. or 4001. This was the plaint iff's case. Mr. Serjeant Wil kins then addressed the „jury on that the speech of his l earned brother, in opening the case, reminded him of a conversation be had had i wth that celebrated cook, M. Soyer, who told him that le could make a quart of good seep, fit for a meal for a labouring man, for three farthings •; and he thought that when they canie to analyse the speech of Mr. Sergt. Allen, although they would find plenty of skill, they would find that the materials were about as substantial as those which com posed M. Soyer's three -farthing soup. (A laugh.) It was a rather strange circumstance, that although his client was burning with affection yet he had not written a single letter to ,the object in whom all his affection was centred. The case stood thus :7-- d. The plaintiff's brother had proved about nothing, and. The of Emanuel, the uncle, who rejoiced in the 113111 said that the plaintiff and defendant were cheerful at dinner. Now, if there was one time at which people were cheerful, it was whilst eating the joint, or " toad in the hole," which had just come from the baker's. (Laugh ter.) The case rested entirely upon the evidence of the father. His brother Allen had made a very eloquent speech upon the position and the rights of women ; but although it might suit the pride of man to call woman the weaker vessel, they would bear in mind that Anthony had succumbed to Cleopatra, and that in nine cases out of ten the ladies were more than a match for them. (Laughter.) His learned brother had, indeed, been very eloquent ; and he had no doubt that the ladies in court would go away with the impression that his brother Allen kis e nsmight, quite " a duck o f a man. (L aug ht er. ) I t was that this youfigl a d y h a d grea t persona l charms, an d that being so, some littl e fli rt i ng h a d very li kely place between the plaintiff and defendant, and ght, perhaps, have r ip ene d i n t o l ove an d mar riage but for the interfer ence of that perfect extin guisher of all love —an attorney. (A. laugh.) The learned counsel further contended that there was nothing to show that the time for the marriage was fixed for October, and that at all events the time between the 12th and 15th January was not a reasonable time for the performance of the promise. He, however, believed the consideration of these matters would be unnecessary, inasmuch as the jury would be' of opinion that no promise. had been made by the defendant to marry the plaintiff. His Lordship direCted the jury that the two points for their consideration were—first, whether the promise had been made ; and, if so whether a reasonable time for the performance of it had elapsed before the com mencement of the action. The jury expressed their opinion that no promise hai been proved, and a verdict was entered for the defer dant. ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE. MIDLAND CIRCUIT, OAKIIA3I, FEB. 22. Mr. Baron Parke opened the commission for this county yesterday evening, and this morning sat in the Crown Court and disposed of the only two cases. In one the grand jury ignored the bill ; in the other, which was a charge of attempting to commit an abominable offence, the prisoner was found guilty and sentenced to one year's imprisonment. NORTHAMPTON, FEB. 23. The Lord Chief Justice of the Court of Common Pleas arrived here yesterday afternoon, and opened the commission for this county. Mr. Baron Parke presided on the civil side ; but the cause'list contained an entry of two causes only, and of these one was undefended. The calendar gives a list of 31 offenders, but the num ber of charges is only 21. These include one case of murder, one shooting with intent, one of cutting and wounding, one of child murder, two of attempting to conceal the birth of a child, one of rape, one of bigamy, one of arson, two of night poaching, three of burglary, five of robbery with violence, and one of assault. In one of the cases of the night poaching ten men are jointly charged. (Before Mr. Baron Parke and a common Jury.) ♦LLEN V. STEVENSON. This was an action for a breach of promise of marriage. Mr. Sergeant Miller and Mr. Hayes appeared for the plaintiff; Mr. Macaulay, Q.C.`, and Mr. Field for the defendant. The plaintiff is a comely widow of 30, who keeps the Watts Arms at the village of Hanslop, in this county, and the defendant a respectable farmer in the same neighbourhood. It appeared that the defendant, who had become a widower for the second time, and had four or five children, was, during 1851 and 1852, in the habit of frequenting the widow's house, that he was voted into the landlord's chair, appeared to be on - very intimate terms, used expressions as to his wish to marry her, and had presented her to some friends as his intended wife. But in June of last year he absented himself from Hans lop for a short time, and then informed the plaintiff that he could,pot marry her, and in fact married a sister of his deceased wife. One of the plaintiff's witnesses cre ated considerable amusement by the high terms in which he spoke of the plaintiff's personal appearance. He stated also that he had on one occasion said to the de fendant, " How comes it that you are paying your addresses to that fine made, noble, high-inettled woman ?" to which the defendant replied, " Nothing venture nothing have. I have thousands on thousands, and the settlement has done it." The same witness also swore that in August, 1852, after the defendant had mar ned his present wife, he (the defendant) had stated to the witness that the reason of his not marrying the plaintiff was that she had been too intimate with Mr. Bull, and three other men, whom be named, and all of whom were now called as witnesses to repudiate that imputation. On another occasion, in July, it was sworn that he had said, " Mr. Bull's dog was lying one night outside the widow's chamber door, but where was Mr. Bull ? I will subpoena Mr. Bull and his dog." Bull and the defend ant were drinking together at time ; and the defend ant had previously said that there was not a more " var tuous" woman in the world than Mrs. Allen. The defendant had a farm of about 200 acres well stocked, and also some interest in a mill in Lincolnshire. Mr. Macaulay, in his address to the jury, on behalf of the defendant, denied that he had ever intended seri ously to cast the smallest imputation upon the plaintiff's character, who was, no doubt, a very good-looking and agreeable women. He could not deny that the defend ant had committed an imprudence and bound himself by an engagement which he was unable to fulfil ; but, upon the question of damages, he submitted that the buxom landlady of, a thriving inn, justly popular among her neighbours, who never appeared to have professed any violent affection for the defendant, could not be sup posed to have sustained any very serious loss, because a man who farmed under 200 acres of land, had had two wives before, and had five children living, had failed to perform his promise to marry her. The learned Judge summed up, and . . _ The jury found a verdict for the plaintiff.—Damages, 1501. MIDDLESEX SESSIONS.—Feb. 23. (Before Mr. Sergeant Adams, Assistant-Judge.) Frederick John Ilaselton surrendered to take his trial on an indictment in which he was charged with having obtained from the treasurer of the Haymarket Theatre several sums of money, with intent to defraud Benjamin Webster of the same. Mr. Ballantine appeared for the prosecution ; Mr. Parry for the defendant. The learned counsel, in opening the case, said the prosecutor was Mr. Webster, the lessee of the Haymar ket Theatre, and the defendant was engaged by that gentleman as master carpenter at that establishment, he having previously been a working carpenter. The situation of the defendant was a very confidential one ; as he had the general superintendence of all the carpen ters' work at the theatre, a great deal of money passed th ro ugh his hands. He had the engaging of the subor dinate carpenters, and the regulation of their wages, and he had to make out his account to the treasurer, who paid it without inquiry, the greatest confidence being reposed in him, and the utmost reliance placed in his integrity. As was usual, the defendant at the close of the last season left the theatre, under the impression that, as formerly, he would return to his situation when the theatre reopened, but from circumstances which came to the knowledge of Mr. Webster in the interim, that gentle. man declined to re-engage him, and appointed another person in his place, but not from any circumstances con nected with the subject of the present inquiry. He thought it right that he should mention that the defen dant brought an action against Mr. Webster on a claim for which there was not the slightest shadow of founda tion, and it was abandoned by an order of Court. Sub sequently to this an inquiry was made into the accounts sent in by the defendant to the treasurer, a task of some little difficulty, in consequence of lapse of time ; but, with the aid of the treasurer, Mr. Webster went through with the investigation, and it was found from informa tion given by persons employed about the theatre that the defendant had been guilty of that conduct which had led to the present charge being preferred: Mr. Benjamin Webster was then called. He deposed that lie was lessee of the Theatre Royal Haymarket. The defendant had been about five years in his employ as head carpenter, his service in that capacity having commenced in 1847, and continued to August, 1852. The defendant's wages were 2/. 10s. per week. He (wit ness) did not take him on at the next season after August last. It was the defendant's duty to superintend the workmen, engage them, keep their time, ascertain what they had earned, and report to the treasurer, who then paid him the amount, and he paid the men. Witness had nothing whatever to do with the details of those payments—he gave cheques for gross amounts. He owed the defendant nothing at all. The inquiry which resulted in this case was commenced two, months ago. Francis Cave deposed that he was a carpenter. He was employed as such by the defendant to do some work at Mr. Webster's residence, at Brompton, and also at 68, Regent-street, for Mr. Harrison. the singer. He worked three days four hours at Mr. Harrison's, and earned 18s. That was just after quarter-day, in Septem ber, 1851. The defendant paid him for what he did at Mr. Harrison's. He received only 18s., not 1/. 16s. Bd. He never received that sum from the defendant. He never made seven days and a quarter in one week. James Bumpas, a labourer, was employed at Bromp ton. He began his work on a'Saturday, and made a full day, for which he was paid by the defendant 38. He did not receive 18s. ' The day's work he was paid for was the day that the work commenced at Mr. Webster's, and the 3s. mentioned was the first payment he received. Edward Cooper, another workman, proved that he began work on a Thursday afternoon, and the amount he earned that week was lls. 9d., which amount he re ceived on the Saturday from the defendant. Samuel Ayton, a carpenter, gave evidence showing with other evidence, that the defendant had charged more time for him than he had worked, and that he had been paid by the prisoner only for the time he really had made. William Lawton, ano ther workman, proved that he had been engaged by the defendant at 4s. per day, and that he had received from him that rate of pay, with one or two exceptions, when lie was paid at the rate of ss. per day. On the first of these occasions, he returned the shilling a day in excess, but on the others he kept it. The treasurer to the theatre produced and proved the accounts of the prisoner. It appeared that he had charged 1/. 16s. 3d. in his account for the week when Cave was at work at Mr. Harrison's, as his (Cave's) pay for that week. He charged and received a full week's pay for Bumpas when he had only worked one day, and for Cooper, for the week in which he only earned lls. 9d., he charged and received a full week. He charged and received 55. per day for Lawton. Several witnesses gave the defendant an excellent cha- meter. The jury retired, and after some deliberation fqund the prisoner gdilty. In answer to an inquiry made by the Assistant-Judge, the treasurer stated that for two years the defendant had been receiving Lawton's pay at the rate of 55., while he paid him but 4s. per day. The Assistant=Judge sentenced him to hard labour for 18 calendar months. There was an indictment against the prisoner for felony —stealing a carpenter's work bench—but it was not pro ceeded with. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. WORSHIP-STREET.—The Rev. J. S. Angley, who was fined 20s. by Mr. D'Eyncourt, the magistrate sitting at this court, on the 7th inst., for an assault, and ob structing two police-constables, has received the follow ing letter from the Home-office, to which he appealed against the decision of the police magistrate : " Whitehall, Feb. 22, 1853. Sir,—l am directed by Viscount Palmerston to inform you that his lordship has made a full inquiry into the com plaint of the police, which you addressed to him on the Bth inst. Lord Palmerston has considered the conflicting . evi dence which was given at the Police Court, and is of opinion that the decision of the magistrate cannot be supporta]. ; and his lordship has therefore directed that the fine which was imposed shall bo returned to you. Lord Palmerston directs me at the same time to admonish you that you were wrong in interfering - with the policeman on the spot ; and that if you thought ho ltad exceeded his duty, and the case was ono which required notice, you should have repre sented the matter in writing to his lordship, in order that the proper and necessary steps might be taken. It was not at all necessary for this purpose that you should take the constable's number, as Lord Palmerston could easily have ascertained what constable was on duty on the spot at the time.—l am, Sir, your obedient servant,— " H.WADDINGTON." WESTMINSTER.—Gcorge Stansbury, £he conduc tor of a Chelsea omnibus, was charged with exacting more than his legal fare. Mr. Joseph Robert Nichols, of 6, Globe-place, Chel sea, stated that about 12 o'clock on the night of the 14th inst.; he got into the defendant's omnibus at the top of Sloane-street, Knightsbridge, and rode to Church-street, King's-road, Chelsea, where the defendant demanded 6d. and refused to take less. There was a large figure of 3d. on defendant's window, and upon complainant stating that he should summon him for the overcharge, defendant replied that if he did he would have to pay his day's work. Defendant, in reply, alleged that he had not been guilty of any overcharge, and produced a copy of the table of fares which were fixed, as required by law, in side the omnibus, and which, amongst other things, con tained the following item—" After 10 o'clock at night all fares 6d. Mr. Arnold felt reluctantly compelled to dismiss this summons, because it charged the'tlefendant with having taken more than his legal fare, when, in point of fact, according to the table of fares inside the omnibus, placed there as required by law, he had not. He at the same time thought that placing the large " 3d." in the win dow, which was not required by law, in a prominent and conspicuous manner, with the comparatively small cha racters around it, was a great fraud upon the public, as leading persons to infer that 3d. was the fare they were to pay, there being no time for persons to make particu lar inquiry at the time of their getting in. This prac tice of small ticketing was extremely reprehensible, and, had complainant refused to pay more than 3d., and been summoned for the other 3d., he (the worthy magistrate) would certainly, not have compelled him to pay it. The summons was accordingly dismissed. Defendant applied for costs for his day's work, but the magistrate refused to allow it. MARYLEBONE.—Titomas Mackett, against whom a coroner's jury has returned a verdict of wilful murder, was again examined, charged with drowning Eliza Lee. The former examination had been adjourned for the production of a bargeman. This witness, Thos. Ducas, now deposed—l am captain of the Cornelius barge. I remember the day upon which the alleged- murder hap pened. I was in my barge on the Regent's canal,Jew's harp basin. While in my barge at half-past six I heard some one exclaim, " For God's sake, Tom, don't ;" and I think the exclamation came from a female. I also think I heard the words, "Don't drown me;" but I can not be positive about that. The sound seemed to come from the direction of the Regalia. I have often heard such cries, and did not leave my barge to see what was the matter. The night was very foggy. The magistrate did not deem it necessary to have the evidence of the witness Ducas given in with the other depositions, as the prisoners could not have been the party to whom the cries of " Oh, don't, Tom," were di rected,- inasmuch as he and the deceased were drinking tea together at a house in Pratt-street at seven on the night of the drowning. - The prisoner, who by the advice of his solicitor had nothing to say, was fully committed. Mary Anne Griffin, a delicate-looking young woman, aged 22, was placed at the bar before Mr. Broughton for re-examination, charged with the wilful murder of her male infant, by cutting its throat with a pair of scissors. The prisoner was housemaid at Mr. William Hart's, 7, Gloucester-place, Hyde-park-gardens. Some particulars connected with the shocking affair have al ready appeared in our paper. 4 Mr. W. F. Cooper, solicitor, New Church-street, Edgware-road, attended for the prisoner. Harriett Mitchell said—l am lady's maid to Mrs. Hart. Prisoner was housemaid there, and I had no idea that she was in the- family way. On Thursday, January 27, the nursemaid came to me, and in conse quence of what she said I went up stairs with her, to the prisoner s bed-room. She (prisoner was sitting on a chair, apparently very ill, and much excited. I asked her what was the matter, but she gave me no direct answer. From the change in her appearance, I told her I thought she had given birth to a child, when she said she had not, she had only miscarried. I told her I was , afraid it was something worse than that ; and at the same moment I heard a kind of gurgling noise in her box. I asked her for the key, which, without any hesitation, she gave me ; and on opening the box, I found a hand basin filled with stained cloths of different kinds ; and in a bundle close by, was a child wrapped up in two petticoats and a gown, which the prisoner had on when I last saw her. I and the nursemaid then took the child out of the box, and sent for a doctor. I laid the child on the floor, when the head fell back, and I saw a gash in its throat. The prisoner attempted to stab herself with a pair of scissors, declaring that she would destroy her self. I and the nurse knocked the scissors out of her hand, and put them away. The prisoner and the child, were on the following Monday removed to the Padding ton workhouse. _ _ . Susan Burford, the cook, said— At about three in the afternoon of the 27th of January, I went up to the room with Dr. Golander. Prisoner was then lying in bed. The lady's maid had in her lap the child, whose throat was cut ; it was bleeding profusely. On the same evening at half-past seven, I went up again to prisoner, and held the infant till a•nurse who had been sent for came. The prisoner told me that it was her intention to have killed herself and the child too. On the next day the nursemaid showed me a pair of scissors which she S had picked up from behind a box. There was blood upon them, but it has since been wiped off. I went to the prisoner once or twice a day after wards, and she seemed very fond of the baby. I ob served blood upon her petticoat. I did not see any baby linen in the room. Sarah Clements; a nurse in the workhouse, and Ann Kidley, a pauper therein, deposed that when prisoner was brought, into the house she said, "I've done it ; I've done it but she was unable to account for the way in which die child's throat was cut. It lived ten days after its admission into the workhouse. It took a deal of nourishment, and swallowed well for many days before it died. Mr. Cooper declined to cross-examine either of the witnesses in the present stage of the proceedings, and, as the medical gentleman was not present, the prisoner waS remanded till Wednesday next. CAREER OF A GOVERNMENT EMIGRANT TO AUSTRALIA. —One of the chief master builders in Melbourne is a native of Hampshire. He served his time to a cabinet maker in Ramsey, in that county, and afterwards worked as a journeyman to a master builder and cabinet maker at Andover, in the same county, where he got an insight into the carpentry business. Three years ago he was sent out to Australia as a government emigrant. This was before the gold discoveries. He settled at Mel boUrne, where he got work at his trade, and earned 8s a day. He soon saw that housebuiiding would be a profitable occupation, on account of the influx of strangers, and the want of house accommodation. He accordingly worked as a journeyman for a twelve month, saved up money enough to build a house, by which he did well, then he built other houses, and did better. The gold discoveries were then made, and such was the madness of everyone to rush to the diggings, shat the Hampshire carpenter found his trade worth nothing, because he could get no one to work for him. At the beginning of this year he had purchased a large supply of timber for building houses, but he could not proceed for want , of hands. He, therefore, and four more persons, went to th e di gg i n g s ; an d i n three months they returned to Melbourne with about 1501. worth of gold a piece. He now re-commenced business, got, eight or ten journeymen to work for him, whom he paid somethine. like 20s. a day each for labour, and is getting , on swimmingly. He is a married man, and has thre e children. H e h as sen t recen tly to his relatives i n Hampshire a very handsome sum of money as a pre sen t . Such is the success of a man who three years ago was assisted by the government to emigrate to Australia. LOOKING-GLASSES . . The manufacture of looking progress. What was originally an object of l uxury i s glasses in France has of late years made a remarkable now a matter of necessity. Thus the factory of St. Go bain, which thirty years back furnished about 200,000 square feet of looking-glass, has extended its pro duction to 500,000 square feet. Its shares, which in 1830 were worth 10,000 f., had risen in 1835 to 30,000 f. The factories of St. Quirin and Cirey, esta blished n s esi m O c Pk O cie f llany . l , rat insaitrdi quantity. In icenel t g j ain ritlLn affordedeiooo produced f. , prosperity ginin it t t l i l l e e blished at a later period, and afterwards united to that of St. Gobain, followed the same' progress ; e i m sti e j t ) if r . r'° nds, arait marked r ilo:sfeso: it s in h wi le a claii r tasc. e ph s it ,. juht manufactory of St. Marie d'Oignes presents the same and the I,ooof. shares are at present worth 1,8351 In fine, the manufactory of Montlucon, the last estab lished, obtained the silver meslal at the exhibition of Paris in 1849, and the Er'gliih medal at the exhibit ion of London in 1851. Thi s establish• estab lishment, which de livered its products to consumption, in only in 1850, has b e h e ld i ts sales increaseany quantity, in two years from 5,000 square metres to 12,000. A ".CALOItIC ENGINE" IN SCOTLAND.---We learn from the Duidee Advertiser that the foundry works of that town were between 1843 and 1845 carried on with a " Caloric" engine. THE AFFRAY AT SIX-MILE-BRIDGE. ENNIS, TUESDAY EVENING. —The commission was I opened this morning, in the Criminal Court, by the Right Hon. Judge Perrin, at half-past ten o'clock, and the grand jury having been sworn, His Lordship proceeded to deliver the following charge :—Sir Lucius O'Brien and gentlemen of the grand jury of the county of Clare, the calendar is very heavy, and presents severalcases of serious charges, several of homicide and other offences. There is one case which has been the subject of a great deal of observation, con versation, and discussion in the journals of every part of the empire and elsewhere. In the case to which I refer, unfortunately and deplorably, a number of persons lost their lives ; and there are, I believe, nine persons charged, eight soldiers and a ,gentleman who is a magistrate of your county. The soldiers were bound, and were there under orders. There was nothing illegal in their pro ceeding through the crowd with the freeholders, pos sibly like any other body of freeholders and their com panions, but doing and offering no unnecessary violence, nor were they to be subject to any violence from others. They had no right to force a way through the crowd by violence, nor to remove any obstruction by arms, still less by discharging deadly firearms. They had no right to repel a _trespass on themselves, or on the escort, by firing or inflicting mortal wounds. You will observe the distinction I take between removing an obstruction and repelling a trespass in another part of the case. They had a . right to lay hold of, as every subject of her Majesty has, and to arrest persons guilty of any assault or trespass, or other act tending to a riot, either to re strain or make them amenable. There is no distinction between soldiers and others in that respect, Lord Mans field says, and his attention was verygmuch called to this subject, touching the military engaged not as soldiers, but, he says, as citizens, and I say,, as subjects of her Majesty. No matter whether their coats be red or brown, they are employed not to subvert but to pre serve the laws which they ought to prize so highly, taking care not to commit any unnecessary violence, or to abuse the power vested in them. Every one is justi fied in doing what is necessary for the faithful Uischalge of his duty, although he is deeply culpable ii he wan tonly commits any illegal act under the pretext of law. If assaulted, or struck with stones, they had a tight to repel force by force, but not with deadly or mortal weapons ; though if provoked by blows, so as to lose the command of their tempers—though more forbear ance, perhaps, would be expected from soldiers than from others—if they did, when so provoked, use the mortal weapons in their hands, not with any previous premeditation on their parts so to use them—and I have marked the distinction between soldiers and others under such circumstances—in such repulsion or affray, the law, in consideration of the provocation and the frailty of human nature, reduces the crime which would otherwise be murder to manslaughter. And if it should still further appear that, having been so assailed and attacked, they having been guilty of no aggres sion, and repelling force by force, the violence proceeded so far that, without any misconduct on their part, their lives were threatened, and in actual danger ; and if it appears that, in order to save themselves and their lives, they were obliged to fire, and did fire, in the defence of their lives, and slay, the homicide is excusable and jus tifiable. But in order to warrant that finding by the jury, or that proceeding by the soldiers, you must be convinced by actual proof that their conduCt had been all through correct, and by actual proof—not the sayings nor the opinions of any individual—that their lives were in danger, and were saved by the firing, and only by the firing. In order to warrant such a finding as that, you must entertain that conviction founded upon the evi dence given before you. The facts evincing .danger im minent to their lives, and which could be prevented only by the firing, must be established by clear evidence, de monstrating that such danger existed, and could be pre vented only by resorting to that deplorable remedy. In considering that matter, you will recollect that there were of the party forty soldiers fully armed, with fixed bayonets, under the command of two officers and two sergeants ; and further, that it is at least doubtful whe ther there was any legal command upon them to fire. No command was given by their officers. I think that is admitted on all hands. And, further, you must recollect that the firing cannot be justified upon the ground merely that otherwise the freeholders might either have escaped or been withdrawn. That would afford no justification for slaying the assailants. You will also consider where the matter occurred—in this respect favourable to the ac cused—a narrow lane. In another point of view (but this is a matter for inquiry), it is said to have been near the court-house, and near an open road where there was a large body of police and a strong detachment of soldiers stationed, and where several magistrates were in attend ance. Yon will consider the matter I have before taken into consideration, whether the soldiers fired without orders, and whether they showed the steadiness and for bearance that they ought. I need not again repeat to gentlemen of your intelligence that when I state any thing I merely state what I have been informed ; and I will not state a word as to that, but you will look to the evidence before you. If it shall appear to you that shots were fired, and some persons were killed, at a consithjr able distance from the lane, and out of that lane, and by some of the soldiers who had occupied and immediately came from it, and gained the open ground without any continued resistance—where there was no pretence of danger to their lives, and the persons were some at a great distance, and some of them with their halo; turned—if that state of facts appeared, without previous excitement and previous provocation, it would amount to a case of murder. If you should find that the homi cide was of the worst description, and that they had un necessarily, and without provocation and excitement tp excuse, and also a warmth of blood, for which there is an allowance made, you could not visit their act upon the whole body ; and, therefore, it will be material for you to ascertain who those individual persons were. With respect to those slain in the lane, if you are con vinced that the soldiers were not the aggressors, but that when they fired they were unlawfully assailed, so as to be in real danger of their own lives, and could not otherwise save them —a s I before mentioned, it would amount to justifiable homicide, and ought to be so found. But if you think that, though they were not the a - sors, and that they were assailed and struck, ggraend being thereby prov o k e d , repelled force byforce w ows th e affray thickeni ng , and they receiving' blows, either from weapons in the ha n d s , stones cast upo n them —that they wereprovoked so, and repelled fo rce b y force, so as to get th p eir blood so heated that th e y fi re d and slew them—l think, then, you ought to find a bill of manslaughter against all, that is against every m an w h o i s proved to you to ha ve dis charged his musk e t on t h at occasion . but you must such proof, o f course. And whatever you find with respect to tho se s l a i n i n the lane- -manslaughter homicide in self-d e f ence — you ought to find a bill f manslaughter, at th e very l east, against every soldier who is proved to you to have fired in the broad street, called Lodge-road. The grand jury then retired, and, previous to the ris ing of the court, th e y came i nto the box, and Sir L O'Brien, the foreman, on h and i ng in some bills, stated. that it was too late theli.to enter on the consideration of the Six-mile-bridge case, and accordingly it was post poned until to-mo rrow a t eleven o'clock. There are twenty witnesses to be examined. STATISTICS OF DRUNKENNESS IN THE METROPOLIS. A Parliamentary paper has been published in return to a motion made by Mr. Hume, showing the number of persons taken into custody for drunkenness and for dis orderly conduct by the metropolitan police force, with similar returns relating to the city of London, and to the cities of Edinburgh and Glasgow. Thi s i n t erest i ng paper throws a favou ra bl e light on the progress of so briety and good conduct in the various districts of London. In 1831, when the metropolitan popula tion amounted to 1,515,585, there were 31,353 persons arrested for drunkenness, and 10,383 for disorderly conduct ; of the drunkards, 11,605 were women, and 19,748 were men • among the pers ons w h o conducted themselves in a di sorderry manner there were 7,287 women and 3,096 men. In 1841, when the population had increased to 2,068,107, the numbers of the same offences were still enormous, the total for drunkenness being 15,006, and for disorderly conduct 15,810 ; there were among these totals 5,123 female drunkards and 9,883 males, and among the disorderly there were 7,913 women and 7,897 men. In th e same year the city police took up 2,313 persons for drunkenness and 802 persons for disorderly conduct among a population, as shown by the census return; of 123,563 persons. In 1851, when the population of the metropolitan dis tricts had increased to 2,399,004, the total number of persons arrested for drunkenness had decreased to 10,668, 6,207 of whom were men and 4,461 women, and the total of disorderly persons arrested was 6,138, 2,556 of whom were men an d 3,762 women. In the city the numbers were in 1851—drunkards arrested, 280 ; dis orderly persons arrested, 681. Edinburgh, with 140,000 inhabitants in 1841, shows 4,824 arrests for drunkenness and disorderly conduct in that year, and in 1851, when the population was 166,000 the arrests were only 2,793, while Gla sgow, with 333,651 inhabitants in 1851, had in that year 10,012 arrests for the reasons mentioned above. SIR CHARLES WOOD AND FRANCE--- Si . ood has no w d oubt received a severe rebuke d ro h m s his W col leagues ; and it is unquestionable that, whether de lauded or not, a sufficient apology has been tendered to and accepted by the representative of France, which for the present terminates the affair; But Sir Charles Wood must be taught to - bridle his his tongue. When Chancellor of the Exchequer, his great fault was that he scarcely ever ut tered a sentence intelligibly, and that his bud gets were confused and incomprehensible jumbles. In this instance he was unfortunately but too distinct, and his reiteration of the "gagin " rase which appeared so to delight him, only g con g firm p s h the general tenor of his remarks, and makes us, wish that, for once at least he had been the subject of his remarks, and makes us wish that for once at least, he had been the subject of his complaints, and that himself, like the French press, had been " named." Sir Charles Wood will be m ore di screet for the Future ; or, in the words of Sir James Graham —another sinner, by-the-bye, in this very same matter—the public will know " the reason wh y." — Edinburgh. Advertiser. [ADVERTISEMENT.]-11ollowa,y's Pills for Invigorating the Weak and Strengthening the Debilitated.—These wonderful and efficacious pills are the only medicine adapted to invigorate weakened constitutions, persons of low an d nervous habits, or those who are healthsu suffering r li n a g s from b a d di gest i ve organs, or others whose become d erange d b y bilious affections,eewith disordered stomachs, or liver com pl a i n t s . Those affected coughs, colds, as th ma , or shortness of breath, s h ou ld have rec ourse t o th ese i nva l ua bl e pills, as their mighty powers will be found a certain and efficaciou s remedy for all these c o m pl a i n t s , imparting at the same time strength, new lif e , v i gour an d buoy anc y of spirits to the afflicted, and may be taken with perfect safety at any Holloway'sestablishment, 244, Strand, London. COUNTRY MARKETS. EDINBURGH MEAL MARKET—FEB. 22. There were in the market to-day, 5 sacks oatmeal, eacu weighing 2301bs imperial, which sold at 30s. . EDINBURGH AA Y AND STRAW MARICET--- FEB. 22. Supplies of all kinds these last six days again large. Oat str aw , from 5s Od to 7s Od. per kemple of 16 st°ll,L. trop ; wheat do., 5s Od to 6s 6d ; barley do., 4s Od to 5 s uu Hay from 8d to 10d per stone. DALKEITH MEAL MARKET—FEn. 21. i There wer e i n th e mar k e t t o -d ay 39 bags o atmeal 50 `! t 6d 9 bags of barleymeal ; sales rea dy. The top o atmeal the per bag up, seco n d qua lit y 9d per b ag up ; barleynlea` same as last week on the top ;no pot-barley in mar ket. a Oatmeal, per sack of 2801bs First. Second. nr ,T ilir o:l imperial Barleymeal, per ditto oc t Peasemeal, per ditto -s Od. —s Od Oa Flour, per ditto --s Od —s Od Pot-barley, per ditto KIRKCALDY- FEB, 19. The following are the quotations foigrain : Be Wheat. I Barley. Oats. 23s 6d I os oa First - 03Oil Second I Third 46s Od 29s Od 19s Odl -ad - Oatmeal, per bag of 2801bs imperial;29B Od to 00i u ' RAILWAT SHARE MARKETS. LIVERPOOL, FEB./23. •„, n rOVe a , STOGIE EXCHANGB.—The market for shares 1-• x , oe c: to-day, and prices for Midland and Leeds have 2 ' 1 °,1 ,iso one per cent. Although prices of other stocks 1 13 ,1 w i u g advanced, the amount h as no t b een so grea t. The ties, ties, are thotations :—Abrdeen, 15i • Eastern tie" - • 13 7-16 e ;East Lancashire, e 19 ; Lancashire and S r ° rks r li c l ,fti 783 ; ditto Fifth shares, 4i dis. ; London and . 1 1% ;)1 G.; Western, 12(:q • Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln , 7 "Zire, Midland, 78i ; 'North British, 9 1-16 ; North Stafer; o ld 4 5-16 dis. ; South E as t ern an d D over , 24 ; Yor cola North Midland, 304 ' • Manchester, Sheffield, sh', l herh 101 shares, 11; ditto 6/ new shares, 946 prem. ; I ' 4° Union B, 177. MANCHESTER, FEB. 23. , • ~sisat STOCK EXCHANGB.—There has been a fair nitsm.77l; improving rates. Eastern Counties, 13i ; Leed s ' ff i e jA Midlands, 784 ; Caledonians, 31i; Dovers, ; S'a e 30 ; ditto Pref., 11; ditto New Pref., 9-16 prom' ;Fleet' chester and Birmingham C Quarters, 1 9-16 prem. ; woods, 6i dis. LEEDS FEB. STOCK EXCHANGE.—The , share market on the : 30 11 ,0 is a shade better this mo r n i ng , th oug h by n° lag buoyant. The followi ng are th e c l os i ng transseT 01- 'Change :—East Lancashir es , 19/ ; Y or k and Nor t oa ieclo' lands, 30 ; Lancashire and Yorkshires, 781 ; nians, 31g. BIRMINGHAM, FBB. 23. rket STOCK EXCHANGE.—The railway share ins- otioll dull to-day, with little business doing . The qn° - sof were :—London and North West ern stock, 1201 . .,01 Valley 101 8s 9d ; South Staffords, dis. ; Shrevob vE r%terg Birmingham Gua ran t ee d L on d on an d North " stock was done at 72. LIVERPOOL PRODUCE MARKETS, Feb. 22' TEA. --There has been rather an improved den lsect _inoo; common congou, at 10d to 10id per lb. for good co and at a sale held last week of about 2,000 p a ekages_;, with all faults) nearly the whole found buyers at fu-' The market closes pretty firm to-day. , the COFFEE has b e en operated. in to some extent a url „ i iag ° ' week, the s a l es consisting of fully 2,000 bags St. J2, °- 6cl chiefly at 42s 6d t o 44 5, 200 b ags L aguayra a t 5 30 t o sr 57s 6d, 100 bags old Java at 48s , and 150 bags Ri o, rive, at 46s per cwt. If Sugar has continued in extensive request, pp- e d . th East India and foreign description ,s 'at stiffer pro :I 34 11 transactions comprise 150 hhds. chiefly Demerara c ot iod 64.1 to 40s 6d for vacuum pan, with Jamaica and B i ' r iit aiug within the sam e range ; 7 , 000 b ags Bengal,net Benares, at 35s 6d to 33s 6d ; •dates, at 35a to 3 6 s uu ;Aloe Bhaur at 295, and Madras at 32s 6d to 34s 6 d• is ll P 11,300 bags Pernams and Paraiba, chiefly at 17s t°,, i boO ' to 22s 6d for whit e ; 500 b ags Ceara, at 21s ; and 60 '" Havannah, at 20s p er cw t. Of molasses no sales. ' t oe, Of rum, about 250 puncheons Demerara have been at about previous rates. 19; RICE. -700 bags fine table realised at auction toT t ij o .i and 1,100 bags Arra can h ave b een di spose d o f cwt. 011 DYEWOODS.—The market keeps very firm, a na moderate business has been concluded since our last_ff , r pfr DRYSALTERIES.—Of argols the supply being si n i,siie vents business; onlylimited sales o f berries without c t The transactions in madders and root s are Only 6 3 ' vious rates; 25 bales Bombay roots are reported at et' and 800 bags Palermo sumac taken at 14s to 14s 3d io r Higher prices are asked for brimstone, and 200 top s brought 6/ to 6/ 7s 6d per ton. Of saltpetre scsre e 4lo bags have been sold, at 26s Gd to 29s ; 100 chests 0 " t,"; are reported without change ; 100 bags sago flour, a a , e so 250 bags Baltimore quercitron bark, at 9s ; 40 bai ° ,, 7330; gedda, at 31s 6d ; a few casks of tartar, at 74s 3 d w e A 400 slabs Straits tin, chiefly for arrival, at 107$ 7 4 41 110 s Gd in store ; and 150 tons nitrate of soda, at . 18 0 , a small lot at 18s Gel per cwt. all! 1 OILS.—For olive oil there; is rather more inqui t rilor 50 tuns taken at v er y f u ll ra t es . O n ly a moderated 13!: ness has been doinc , in fish, at last Pri ces 7 l .,, fi per e V " realised 33s 6d, anespirits oft urpentin TALLOW.--The market remain s ing at 45s 6d ; 220 pipes South American are reportedo 40s up to 455. American lard is nominally worth 60s to per cwt, but there is very littl e d g , . 2 0 1 JUTE.—Holders keep very oni'd require ear— quieet,thjwis prices, consequently no sales. 50 bales Manilla reported, at 41110 s per ton. 150 bags black pepper have brought 3id to og i - g ; bags piment o 5N per lb, a n d 50 boxes pearl sago cwt. SEABORNE MAILS. (N signifies that the malls are sent from the General r 4 by the night—and 11 by the morning —dispatch.] Day when made up in General Post- Office, London. From what ' Port Dispatched. (Every Friday ... I Liyerpool ..! IFeb. 44 Liverpool ... Morch 4 (Southampton 4th of March i fith of March SonthamptOn Dover ...• •• 22d of February .. 23rd of the month. 2,9, 24, & 30 - of m 4th & 20th of mon. 2nd of the month I /ally_ „ „ 9th of the mouth.. 9th of :he month.. 14th of the month 2n4 of April 14th of the month. Plymouth •• Plymouth •• Dover .. •• •• Southampton Southampton Dover . •• Southampton Southampton ,Plymouth • • Plymouth • • Plymouth •• 14th of the month 14Iort.,Wed cd&l7th of monthl Plymouth Southampton Seuthamptoril 7,8,17,21,&27 of m 4th & 20th of mon Twice daily Dover .. •• •• South=WW l Dover .. • • • • Twice daily 4,7, 17, 20, 27 of m Dover .. . • • • SouthamP ton, 2nd & 17th of mon. Tuesday & Friday 2nd of the month Wednesday & Sat. 17th of the month. 4th & 20th of mon. Sth& 24th of month 4 outhfunpt onl London. •• Southampto l. London. • • Southampto n Southampto n Dover • • • • • • Twice daily ...... 7,9, 17, & 27 of m. 9th of the month 23rd of the month Holyhead • • • Southampto n Southampto n Plymoutk • • 17,17,19,27, 30 ofm Dover ..... • 14th of the month 2nd of the month. sth I bth2sthofmon & 17th of month By private ship .. s thlsth2s thounon. "th I 7th27thofrnon Id & 17th of mon 14th of the month sthl sth2sthohnon. sth I 5th25 thofmon. 2d & 1 7th of month Plymouth .• Southampto n Dover .. • • • • South,unpton Yariou, Port` Dover . • • • • • SouthamPW n 4outhamP[Dover ton Plymouth t. . n.: 2d. 17th of month ISouthatnPto o l gotISVi"O de, 0 0 , 44. !, r if f d Feb' 94 il 4 APr APr il garcji n Feb' rep* 4 ist of - 0111 Y, 16 31 01 , MO / 6 „ Feb' 1 , Dia rc 26 3u Feb' Feb' 56 f* mon rep, sgar7,lo l rwic _not e b. t Vare t 4s , . , T.) e 9 ', I 31 a rc Ou r ' m on., 16 Ma rc 9 ` l o Fet,i,' - I e ,l ° vo ic . ' Febl'• 1 , 1 6 313r e i , I% mare rep' 0 11. s t o-4 3 Feb,Una . 3,o l nplit 1 wrc. o Fe" 1 I,sr; ti F,))• NiS rel I NorC4l 1 6 rep COUNTRIES. A merica(byßrit.pack)N Afnerica (by United Sts. packet) .... •• • • ..N America (by U States packet) .... So • • ....N Australia (via uth ampton) ...• • ... Ditto (via Marseilles) N Ditto (via Cape of Good Hope) ...... •• • ..N Africa (West Coast)..N Alexandria .. ........ N Alexandria... .• • . .M Bahamas ..... • . M Belgium .... . . • • • . ..N Brazil .. • • • ....M Buenos Ayres .. .. • Cape of Good Roue ..N Cape of Good Hope ..N Cape de Verds .....N Ceylon (see Indi a ) Ceylon Channel Isles Chi1i........ • • China (see India) Constantinople .. • ...N Constantinople M t:ont. of Europe M s & N Egypt (see India) France ...• • • .. M & N Gibraltar • • Greece (see India) Greytown .... • • llamburgh ....N Hayannah Holland . M Honduras . • • ... • • • • pt..M India (viaSoutham.)M India (via marsetues)m lonian Isles (sea India) Ireland .... • • & Lisbon„•.....M Madeira .. .• •• • • .31 M adeira ...... • • • • • • N Malta (see India) Malta .N Mauritius (see India) 'Mauritius •••• •• • • „N. Mexico •••••• • • • • • t Naples.. .• • • • • •• • • • • New Granada .. ••• • 31 New Zealand Papal States .... • • •• N P eninsula .....• • • •• M Peru Port Natal . • • • • • N Tuscany Venezuela .....• • • • •31 Van Diemen's Laud (see Australia) •• West Indies I ret o6 /0" DISTRICT SCHOOLS OF PRACTICAL ART IN T tl,e d e ' TROPOLIS.—It ought to be generally known thatis partment of practical art, upon receiving reVreraf from parochial and other authorities, ar e new P 00 1 ' to laid in forming district schools of art, an crele';: l ight ! drawing c l asses . A su it a bl e room or ro oms, wi t ,h e 10 0 , ing and fi r i ng , w ill h ave to b e ,prov ided by ' f olli c ' c i authorities, towards d e f ra yi ng the expense s lied, 31 ,4 certain fees received for instruction may be aPP:o l iti the depa r t men t w ill appo i n t, an d g uarantees b° 7plf ° a suitable mas t er , an d assis t i n p r oviding a S ,, r , sti r copies, exampl es , mo d e l s , &c., fcr the use of w dents. Thi s i s a s t e p forward.—The Bui/der: BIRTHS. F. icoll' OF A Box. J. D On the 22d inst., at Dul w i c h- commo n, Mrs. son, of twins. OF A DAUGHTER. o f S. On the 22d inst., at Brighton, the w ll ill° Esq., M.P. o h Qn the 20th i ns t ., at Effingham-lodge, 11-°rlv wife of S. T. Clarke, Esq. • MARRIED. Fre d geo t On the 22d inst., at Clapham-church , — r , °- Wilkinson, of Old Bond-street to Harri et osrk'e s alt,. daughter of Mr. Thomas To end, of Clapha in .:' ol On the 19th inst., at the parish church, StePn e J ' Pc1,1 0 4., youngest son of the late Morgan Choapside, to Clara, fourth daughter of James -r of Shadwell. loc°lgne,the 13th inst , at Peckham, DlEp• f Mill t'f' On n wi t d h o e mi s o t f h e i On tahnedliritnhitis-ct"., Union-court BlackdlietalPa.sr°Fkliu, lien, ° „ a 46,, , on , Broad-street, -s ree , ci j t l s P t i7 l: l_if e l t ! the • h n a s if t l:3s a Ty t a r:e a lk v l a a n te cvile( o ti f a S g i e o , n m e ° s li rg e i ,' r e s et . t i i° o ter, ti()fs„.3.7:_qa. remont-square, Penton •.1 solicitor. Lincoln's-inn. the 19th inst at London Colney, near A. Herta, Elizabeth . widow of W. Roberts, '“ l. ' 0 , 20 On the 21st inst , at P k lace, St. Jam ' Hamlet, Esq., aged 84. 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