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07--7 - to • , :46 tA uz i tr . V 4400.' . Airy 4 4 SUN OFFICE, Seven o'clock. READING R A.CE3.—(This Day.) (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) CAVETISFIAYI S TAKES. RotterdAm M agno li a D.amatlst Ten ran. FORBURY STAKES Ccck of the North liarrie Four ran. STAND PLATE. G -and Duchess Abel IrapatLnce T Neaty-seven ran. READING STAKES Sister to Bishop of amaburg polly Peachum elita Six ran. LATEST BETTING. sto 1 agst MJngrel (taken) IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT HOUSE OF LORDS.—;This Evening.) The LORD CHaticsLLon took Lis seat on the woclsack at 5 o'clock. Lord DUNGANNON gave notice that to-morrow lye should ask the Lord Privy Seal whether, in consequence of the funds falling into the hands of the Ecclesiastical Commis-lion, by the death of Bishop Bloomfield, it is in the contemplation of the Government to offer any remu neration to Dr. Hinds, who has lately resigned the see of Norwich. Kord REDESDALE presented a petition from the Dean and Chapter of Ely praying to be heard at the bar of the house against the Ecclesiastical Commission Bill. THE BENGAL ENGINEERS. Lord ELLENBOROITGLI said it wouli be recq leetiod that a short time ago a statement was made by a noble lord (Lord Melville), not now in his place, respecting the discipline of the Bengal army. It appeard that some stores were found hid under a tarpaulin, and such a circumstance ne cessarily led to some very severe animadver• Pions on the character of the Bengal Engineers. He had a communication from Col. Mansell informing him that the matter had been inquired into by the hate Genral Which, and he begged that the house wOull suspend its judgment on the circumstance until the result of the inquiry was made public. Tne officers in the Bengal Engineers were taken into the corps by competitive czarnina'ion, and this was the first charge he hal ever heard against the corps. TAFF VALE RAILWAY. _ _ On the motion of Lord REDESDALE, the Taff Vala Railway Bia waq ri , ad a third time and passed. THE SWANSEA CEMETERY. On the order of the day being read for going into corn. mittee on this bill, The Bishop of St. DAVIDS called the attention of their lordships to some charges that bad been made against him by no less a person than the Secretary of State in the other house. If the matter merely related to himself he should not have troubled their lordships with any observations, but the matter was of deep interest to the clergy of the Church of England, and such being the case, it was his dcty to enter into some explanation. In the first place, he solemnly protested, if guilty of fany violation of the law, it bad been committed most unconsciously-, and nothing that had occurred warrant e d such a charge against hire. The charge against him was that he had not availed himself of then discretionary power vested in him before be did the act for which he had been so harshly censured. Toe right rev, prelate, who made a statement to their lordships the other evening Lad by mistake very much overstated the income of the Vicar of Swansea. The total income of the vicar from all sources only amounted to 981. per annum. A 'correspondence between himself and the Burial Board, a copy of which he held in his band, bad been printed and circulated, from which it appeared that he bad been applied to consecrate a new burial ground, to which request he wrote to the board expressing his %illitgness to consecrate the ground provided. A conveyance was provided to coney the vicar to and fro as he resided a considerable distance from the spot, and was in possession of so small an income that he did not think scab a re quest unreasonable, but the members of the Burial Board refused to accede to such a request, and the re sult was that he had refused to consecrate the cemetery. [LEFT SPEAXING HOUSE OF COMMONS—(rhis Day.) The SPEAK= took the chair at 12 o'clock. PRIVATE BUSINESS. Shepherd's Disabilities Removal &1 was read a third time and passed. Lord Rivers' Estate Bill was read a second time and ordered to be committed. LA.MBET a MANUFACTORIES. Mr. ESTCOURT enquired of the Chief Commissioner of Works if be had received any answer from the autho rities of Lambeth relative to the communication be had wade to him in reference to the noxious trades carried on in that parish on the banks of the Thames, which affected the atmosphere in the neighbourhood of the Houses of Parliament ? Sir B. HALL said that the matter ma') one for serious consideration, in consequence of the course the Vestry of Lambeth bad thought it right to pursue in reference to this subject. To show the house what a hoptless case it was of any remedy being adopted by the parish autho rities, he r:•ad a letter sent from the officer of works, on Cie 30th July, to the Vestry of L unbetb, comphining of the nuisance, and the answer he had received from that body, dated 10th A.gust. The latter sated that the subject was submitted to a meeting of the ve,try held on the 6•h lust,, but they were not prepared to take legal proceedings against th par4ies. The houie would thcro tore see how unfortunate it was that the bill of 1855 wa.3 passed without a clause imposing a PeriZTO;paii,h authorities for neglect of their duties. If such a clause Lad been introduced into that act any persou could have proceeded against a 13c , 1 body that neglected to do its duty towards the public And themselves. Is wai too late this ses,ion to introduce a bill to remedy that defect, Ir.‘t he hoped next session the house wouk! pass a bill that would compel palish authorities to (xs cute the powers vested in them under th) powers of th- act of 1855. Tile fUbj - c', then dropped. D - ITv'ORCL4'4 AND MATRIMONIAL CAUSES BILL. -The comcniaera on this bill was resumed. On ciansc 25, giving divorce for cruelty and desertion, Lord J. MANNERS moved the introclnction of the wprdo "or adultery committed within the conjugal 'T s:deuce." Tee ATTORNEY -GENERAL opposed the amend ment, on the ground that the bill was only to consolidate acd not make any change in the present law. Mr. GLADSTONE said that the learned Attorcey- General appeared by his remark; to be wrong, both in fact and prinCiple, with reference to the effect of this bill The further they advanced in its discussion the mire obvious it became that that house should subject the measure to a greater examination ar-d scrutiny than it had been subjected to in the House of Lords or by her Majesty's Government, who were responsible for its pro duction. The change which this bill proposed in the law was patent, and when the Attorney-General stared the contrary it only showed the crudity and precipitancy with which the bill had been introduced, and the scarcely decent haste it had been determined on and was attempted to be forced through the house. If divorce was to be given to the poor for cruelty, the same power should be g!ren to the rich in the shape proposed by the amend ment, because there could be no greater cruelty inflicted on a woman than to know that her husband was living is adulterous intercourse in the conjugal residence. There was no such cruelty in the higher classes as was known in the lower classes, but the scandal attaching to the fact of a man in the higher classes outraging his Wife's feelings by converting his house int) a scene 'of infamy, whilst observing all the external demands of society, was ,the greatest cruelty that could be inflicted on a woman. It should be the object of this bill to meet such cases. Mr. DRUMMOND supported the amendment. He cont ended that th e woman an d man s h oul d b e put on an equality in the process of obtaining divorce ; and the than who turned his house into a brothel, ought not is go scs.theleSe. Mr' 1113G(4ESSEN also supported the amendment. Be said that woman ofsinned from her weakness—man latter was entitled to hiB, passions. If, therefore, the With first was more so. The amend a.em t grappled tend great social evil, and believin 4 the amendment would remedy it, he should vote agailigt the government, ettohough he had supported the second reading of the bil l. pp Mr. AYRTON said that as the e a otzsittee were con sidering the law of divorce with y to th i i t n a g ara in end. ment, it was their duty to consider e:ler ference to it and take care that the prineipi E , "- down was such as would promote morality and laid relief to the greatest and grossest form of ale (Hear, bear.) Where a man brought home a „ met, : bine, the wife ought to have power to sue fo r a d ivorce. Air. HENLEY spoke in favour of the amendment, \ urging that the woman bad equal rights with man. • The LORD ADVOCATE said that the law o f Scotland; with reference to divorce, proceeded on the principle that the two sexes were on a footing of equal. lty—(hear, hear)—and he thought it well-founded both - on principle and social experience. (Hear, hear.) The Wife used the remedy as two to fi ve, proving clearly that •the reme d y was not extrrvagantly made tweet. The law was applicable to the whole of Scot - I land, and I roin areturn he had bad made, be found that out of 175 cases, 73 only were at the suit of the wife, and about 103 or 104 at the suit of the husband, which he thought wee not a large amount, in a popula tion of 3,000,000. Du r i ng the last year there were 17 cases of divorce in Scotland, seven of which were at the suit of the wife, and the remainder at that of the h us b an d. He entirely concurred in the amendment, THE SIPN, LONEON, riIUIiSDA EVIE.'.`-“NG Auousr 13, 1857 lelieving it ou'' lit to be the principie on which divorce should proceed. Lord J. MANNERS addressed the committee at con siderable leneth in support of his amendment. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL said that the bill was confided to him on the principle which he distinctly again stated, that of embodying the t xisting law in regard to divorce. It was true two years desertion and cruelty did now give a claim to divorce, • but with that'exception his statement was substantially true, and he complained of the language that had been used against him in reference to the bill. The amend ment would be most apposite if the committee were dis cussing, the foundation of the marriage law, but that was not the case, and on the terms on which the bill had been committed to his care he could not enter on the larger question. He approved of the equality contended for, but the committee was limited to the embodying of the present law. (Hear, hear.) Legislation need not stop with this bill, but be pro ceeded with in a fature session of Parliament. (C'aeers.) He replied to the censures that had been passed upon him by those who appeared to have suddenly awakened to the woman's wrongs. He asked how the country could place any faith in those who on the second reading of this bill opposed the dissolubility of marriage, but were now the hollow advocates of the enlargement of the law of divorce by introducing other crimes for a divorce a vincula. The hon. and learned gentleman then referred to what he termed the gilded propositions of hon. members, in which no one could could believe they were sincere. Mr. GLADSTONE said that the remarks of the right hon. and learned gentleman would not deter him from doing his duty in regard to this measure, which was now beginning to show it was not a fit sub ject for discussion in that house. He complained of the remarks of the Attorney-General in reference to the sincerity of hon. members, and said that that learned gentleman very nearly, if he had not in fact, crossed the line, when he ought to have been called to order by the Chairman as a disorderly member, who had abused the liberty of of speech. (Hear, and laughter.) It was not usual for one member to challenge the sin cerity of other members in the propositions they advanced. The statement of the Attorney-General, in reference to this, measure, showed that he did not appear as an inde pendent English gentleman in the debate, but the official organ of another, and that the observations he had made did not emanate in his own breast and conscience, but that they were delivered as the pure organ of a commander, who sent his command from above. The Attorney. General had, however, given tongue in refe rence to the bid, and whilst admitting the equality of man and woman, he was determined to precipitately pass a measure that would place women in an inferior and unjust position. Lord PALMERSTON defended the conduct of the Attorney-General, and said that if those , who voted against the second reading of the bill new voted ' 1 for the amendment, they would be making, in effect, a recantation of their previously expressed opinion of the indissolubility of marriage. (Cries of "No, no.") He hots ever, repeated the assertion, and proceeded to say that he was opposed to the equality of man and woman, in reference to divorce, from a be lief that there was a difference in the nature of the social cffence of adultery. He opposed the amendment from a belief that it would give rise to opportunity of collusion between the parties, and much assist the husband and wife who wished to get rid of each other by a legal process, more easy under the amendment than the bill as it now stood. He agreed with the Attorney-General that it would be better to pass the bill as it at present stood, but being anxious to pass the bill he would not press the question to a division, but give way, protesting however against his giving way being made a precedent in more obj.-ctionable cases. Atter some remarks from Mr. HENLEY, remarking that the Government had given way in two points, that of the County Court , . ' and the noble I)rd's amen d men t s . Lord J. RUSSELL said he was glad the noble lord (Lord Palmerston:) had acceded to the amendment, which was necessary for the improvement of the bill from the difficulty likely to arise under the word "de sertion." When a man in the higher classes brought home a mistress and the wife was competed to leave her home she would have bad no remedy under this bill. He considered the taunt of inconsistenty against honourable members, which he thought, however, of but little weight, because in committee honourable members had a right to discuss and alter the details of a measure on the prlsess.le of which they agreed. He thought the Government ought not to have called on the Attorney-General to support propositions in which he did not agree. He undereto id on a former occasion that this was to be a permanent measure, and he regretted to find that in another eeslion a question of such great importance was again to be the subject of agitation, the same as the "Limited Liability" Bill of a former session. Legislation on marriage divorce should be conducted in a manner consonant with its gravity and importance, and should be of a permanent character. Continual legislation on this subject was likely to shake our social relations to the foundation— (bear, hear)—and ought not to be adopted by any Go vernment. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL thought the amend ment of the noble lord would not accomplish what was desired. It should not be for mere adultery once com mitted, and he moved to amend the amendment that it should be adultery committed by a husband with a mistress in the P ane house in which his wife resided. Mr. HENLEY thought the amendment of the At torney-General would fail in the object desired. No man would be such a vitlian as to take his mistress horse. The relief should be given where adultery was com mitted with the servants, as was often the case. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL said that he had no desire to propose anything that would set aside the de cision of the committee. His object was to give the relief not to one act of adultery, but in cases of habitual adultery. The present law gave a wife relief for habitual adultery committed in the conjugal residence, and it was to preserve the principle of the present law that he pro posed this amendment, He, however, would withdraw the amendment. Mr. CLAY alluded to the difference of opinion ex presssd by society with reference to the crime of adul- tery in man and in woman. He thought it was unde sirable to give too great facilities to woman to dissolve the marriage tie, especially in what might be considerol the accidental irregularities of the husband. He sug gested that the clime should be amended, giving woman divorce where adultery was habitually committed in the conjugal residence. Mr. GLADSTONE said that crime in men and wo men was tinged with their relative position. In the ease of drunkenness and many others, the crimes were considered worse in woman than in man, but yet legisla tion affected them equally, and why should it not be the same in this Ca'e. He thought there would be a diffi culty in proving habitual adultery, and referring to the words of the Attorney-General's amendment he said that terms varied so much there would be a doubt in affixing a true meaning to the word "mistress," because in pre sent society mistress was the wife. Tee ATTORNEY-GENERA.L withdrew his amend meet. After some remarks from Lor 1 J. MANNERS, Mr. MALINS appealed to the noble lard not to pro ceed further with the bi'l after the discussion. that bad taken place on the clause, and the principle acceded to by the noble lord (Palmerston). Mr. STEUART supported Mr, Malins' appeal to Go vernment. • The amendment was then agreed to. Sir W. HEATHCOTE called the attention of the committee to the words in the clause giving power of divorce to the wife on proof of bigamy on the part of the husband. The words, as they stood on the bill, would apply to bigamy on the part of the husband only. He moved the omission of the words. Bigamy was a stattr able offence, and did not constitute adultery without cohabitation. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL said he understood the word bigamy in the clause to mean cohabitation with a woman to whom a man bad been secondly married. Mr. GLADSTONE said the meaning of bigamy in law was merely proof of the perft , rmance of the marriage ceremony on the first and second occasion, but by this bill a new meaning world be given to it. To give di vorce for bigamy without adultery in a bill where divorce in certain cases of adultery was to have been withheld would be a gross, shameful, and disgraceful binder. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL proposed to amend the clause by adding after bigamy, followed by cohabi tation. Mr. GLADSTONE said that would not meet the difficulty. It it was to to bigamy, followed by cohabi• tation, it ought also to be applicable to bigamy preceded by cohabitation. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL proposed to amend the clause with the words "adultery and bigamy." Mr. AYRTON said that under those words the adultery might be committed by one person and bigamy by the other. (Laughter.) He suggested the words should embrace bigamy and adultery in the same persons. After some further discussion, The ATTORNEY-GENERAL proposed the words should be " bigamy and adultery with the same persons." itA dissension ensued on the application of the words, and it being four o'clock, it was arranged that the chair man should report progress, and resarne again at six o'clock. The other orders were disposed of, and the house then suspended its sitting. The house resumed at six o'clock, and was [LEFT HITTING.] CABINET COUNOIL: A Cabinet Conn cil was held yesterday, at the official residence of the First Lord of the Treasury, in Downing-street. The steamer Atlantic has brought 72,8001. in specie from Now York o • a portion of which is probably on French account. Of the specie brought from New York by the Vander bilt, about 49,0001. yesterday reached London, of which a portion consists of Mexican dollars. The gold will probably be sent to th e C on ti nent. The following vessels have been taken for the con- T o e r yan e c e e y o lo f . t Atheline tor' the to th e E ast : —Th e H ydasp e s steamer the Scotia steamer and the Matilda The deanery of her Kurrachee. Bombay, and the Alipure and Athlete for Majesty's Chapels Rlyal, ren dered vacant by the d Aur h o op of London. conferred upon D r , T a l t ath ßi o s f Bishop Blomfield, will be DIE GREAT SALE AT of the sale is now almost ov il T°l‘3llB6 During the week the —The interest attendance of visitors has be e nv descript e i ? small, the articles anritzesisting chiefly sold being of an ordinary and with the sa l ,l? u s le ns d ore useful of the contents of bed-rooms, and of of than ornamental. Saturday witnessed the last lots in the catalogue ; excellent collection of plants in the garden .. the • incurs. Christie and Manson's duties will have dosed. TRIAL OF SPOL LEN FOR THE MURDER OF MR. LITTLE. - ACQUITTAL OF SPOLLEN. DUBLIN, TUESDAY EVENING. Chief Justice Monahan summed up this morning elabo rately and impartially. He referred to the extent and na ture of the wounds and the weapons with which the mur der was probably committed. He dwelt strongly on the circumstance that access to the building might be had by others besides the prisoner ; although, doubtless, Spollen had much greater facility than any other person, from the nature of his employment. The learned judge regretted that the servant, Catherine Campbell, was not produced, and observed that no evidence was given to connect the hammer found in the canal with Spollen. The facts con netted with the razors, his lordship said, were important ; but the identification of the sun-bonnet was the principal feature in the case. The statement of the prisoner to In spector Ryan, that he returned home at half-past 5 o'clock on the evening of the murder was disproved by the chil dren's evidence, which deserved the most serious attention of the jury. His lordship then read over the deposition and evidence of Joseph Spollen, commenting upon the dis. crepancies between it and that of his sister. Throughout the judge's char ge , th e pr i soner ma i n t a i ne d hi s usual calm and collected bearing. The charge of the learned judge occupied more than four hours and a-half in delivery, and the concluding portion of it was delivered in a most solemn and impressive manner. The razors, hammer, and calico rag having.been banded to the jury, they retired to consider their verdict at 20 minutes to three o'clock. The prisoner was then removed. Having remained in consultation for an hour and a half, the door of the jury-room was opened, and the prisoner was then placed at the bar. He was paler than when he had been removed, held the rail in front of the dock with a nervous grasp, and watched the jury with intense and evi dent anxiety. THE LAT.& JOHN WILSON CROKER. John Wilson Croker was a conspicuous man during a long course of years in politics and litera ture. He was widely known as Secretary to the Admiralty —which office he held for one-and twenty years; as a member of Parliament for twenty-five years; as an industrious and accom plished author ; and, abov©. all, perhaps, as the wickedest of reviewers ; that is, as the author of the f ml and false political articles in the Quccrterlg Review, which stand out as the disgrace of the periodical literature of our time. His natural abilities, his capacity and inclination for toil, the mingled violence and causticity of his temper, and his entire unscrupulousness in matters both of feeling and of statement, combined to make him a remarkable, if not a very loveable personage, and an useful, though not very honourable member of a political party. He was the son of the Surveyor-General of Ire land, and was born in that Connaught which was then the "hell" of the empire. "To Hell or Connaught," was still the imprecation of the day when Croker was born; that is, in 1780. He was always called an Irishman ; and very properly, as Galway was his native place ; but he was of English descent. As for temperament, we do not know that either England or Ireland would be very anxious to claim him : and he certainly was sui generis— remarkably independent of the influences which largely affect the characters of most men. He was educated at Trinity College, Dublin, and was called to the bar in 1802. His first publication, " Fami liar Epistles to F. E. Jones, Esq.," s h ows that his proneness to sarcasm existed early ; but the higher qualities which once made him the hope of the Tory party were then so much more vigorous than at a later time, that the expectations'excited bythe outset of his public life were fully justifiable. It was in 1807 that he entered Parliament as member for Dowupatrick, and within two years hewas Secretary to the Admiralty. He bad by that time given high proof of his ability in his celebrated pamphlet on the " Past and Present State of Ireland." The author ship was for some time uncertain. Because it was candid and painfully faithful, the Edinburgh Review, so early as 1813, could not believe it to be his a while, on the other band, there was the wonder that the man who so wrote about Ireland should be so speedily invited to office by the Government under Perceval. That Irish pamphlet may now be re garded as perhaps the most honourable achieve ment of Mr. Croker's long life of authorship. Just before this he had joined with Mr. Canning, Walter Scott, George Ellis, Mr. Morritt, and others in setting up the Quarterly Review, the first num ber of which appeared in the spring of 1809. The Edinburgh Review had then existed seven years ; and while obnoxious to the Tory party for its poli tics, it was not less so to the general public for the reckless ferocity of some of its criticism, in those its early days. If the Quarterly proposed to rebuke this sin by example, it was rather cm ious'that Mr. Croker should be its most extensive and constant contributor for forty years—seeing that he car ried the license of anonymous criticism to the last extreme. Before he bad done his work in that department, be had earned for himself— purchased by bard facts—the following character, calmly uttered by one of the first men of the time : "Croker is a man who would go a hundred miles through sleet and snow, on the top of a coach, in a December niglat, to search a parish register, for the sake of showing that a man is illegitimate, or a woman older than she says she is." He had actu ally gone down into the country to find the register of Fanny Burney's baptism, and revelled in the ex posure of a mis-statement of her age ; and the other half of the commentary was understood to have been earned in the same way. He did not begin his Quarterly reviewinewith the same virulence which grew upon him in his later years. That malignant ulcer of the mind, engendered by political disap pointment, at length absorbed hie better qualities. It is necessary to speak thus frankly of the temper of the man, because his statements must in justice be discredited ; and because justice requires that the due discrimination be made between the hon ourable and generous-minded men who ennoble the function of criticism by the spirit they throw into it, and one who, like Croker, employed it at last for the gratification of his own morbid inclination to inflict pain. The propensity was so strong in Croker's case that we find him unable to resist it even in regard to his old and affectionate friend Walter Scott, and at a time when that old friend was sinking in adversity and disease. He reviewed in the London Courier Scott's " Malagrowther Letters," in 182 G, in a way which called for the delicate and touching rebuke contained in Scott's letter to him, dated March 19th of that year—a rebuke remembered long after the trespass that called it forth was disregarded as a piece of " Croker's malignity." The latest instance of this sort of con troversy called forth by Mr. Croker's public vitu peration of his oldest and dearest friends, was the series of letters that passed between him and Lord J. Russell, after the publication of Meore's Diaries and Correspondence. UP to the last his victims re fused to believe, till compelled, that the articles had proceeded from his pen—well as they kit ,tw his spirit of reviewing. When he had been staying at Drayton Manor, not long before Sir Robert Pool's death, had been not only hospitably entertained, but kindly ministered to under his in firmities of deafness and tad health, and went home to cut up his host in a political article for the forth coming "Quarterly"—his fellow guests at Drayton refused as long as possible to believe the ar icle to be his ; and in the same way, as Lord John Russell informed him, Mrs. Moore would not for a long time credit the fact that the review of the poet's " Life" was his, saying she had always understood Mr. Croker to be her husband's friend. It was in the " Quarterly" that the disappointed politician vented his embittered feelings ; as indeed be him self avowed. He declirecl, when Lord Gray came into office, that he did not consider his pension worth three mouths purchase ; that he should therefore lay it by while he had it, and make his income by " tomahawkin" liberal authors in the " Quarterly." Ile did it, not only by writing articles upon them, but by interpolating other people's articles with his own sarcasms and slanders, so as to compel the real reviewers, in repeated instances, to demand the republication of their articles in a genuine state and a separate form. When he entered parliament, he was an admi rable debater—ready, acute, bold, and well fur nished with information, and not; yet so dangerously reckless as to make him feared by his own party. It is rather strange now to find his name foremost in the list of parliamentary orators in the books of foreigners visiting England after the peace. He was listened to by the house as an inferior kind of Disraeli, for the amusement aff,rded by his sar casm ; and foreigners mistook this manifestation of the old bull-baiting spirit for an evidence of the par liamentary weight of the satirist ; and a House of Commons that enjoys that sort of sport deserves the French commentary—the imputation of being led by a Croker. There were occasions, however, on which he apiSeared to advantage on other grounds than his sarcastic wit. It should be re membered that it was he who, in 1821, before Ca tholic Emancipation could be supp , ised near at hand, proposed to enable the crown t') make a suit able provision for the Catholic clergy. Lord Cas tlereagh opposed the motion, which was necessarily withdrawn ; but Mr. Croker declared that he con sidered the principle safe, and should bring forward the measure till it should be adopted. He was steady to the object, and in 1823 actually obtained a majority upon it in the Commons ; and there is no question of his earnestness in desiring a mea sure of considerable relief to the consciences and liberties of the Catholic body. He held his ground with the chiefs of his own • party by other qualities tlian his official ability. His command of detail was remarkable, and so were his industry and his sagacity within a small range. His zeal for party interests was also great--a zeal shown in his eagerness to fill up places with party adherents, from the laureateship (which he pro cured for Southey) to the lowest office that could be filled by an electioneering agent ; but he was also a most acceptable political goss;p. It was this which made him a frequent guest at the ,Regent's table, and an inimitable Ac quaintance at critical seasons of ministerial change, when such men as he revel in the inci dents of the day, and in the manifestation of such human vices and weaknesses as come out, together with noble virtues, in the conflict of personal interests. The congenial spirit of the Beacon news paper, which made s u ch a noise in 1822 , made him the p ro p er rec i p i ent o f S co tt's confidence on th e matter ; and to hi m th e refore Scott addressed his painful explanations, as they stand in the " Life." It is prob a bl e th at the i ntercour se between him an d Scott, th oug h not w i thout an oc casional ruffle, w as about th e most cord i a l th a t the survivor ev er enjoyed. S cot t' s rea l gen i a lity and politic obtuse ness to offence enabled him to bear more than most men would : and in their literary relations, he contrived to show himself the debtor. He avowed that his " Tales of a Grandfather " were suggested and modelled by Croker's "Stories from the His tory of England ;" and he was aided in his "Life of Napoleon," by Croker's loans of masses of papers. He met cabinet ministers, by the half dozen at a time, at the Secretary's table ; and re ceived from them reports of handsome sayings of the Regent's about him. The cordiality could not, on Croker's side, withstand the temptation to insult a friend through the press, as he showed at the very time by his remarks on Malagrowther ; but on Scott's side it was hearty. When the political changes of 1827 were going forward, his first thought seems to have been for crolier. "I I fear CrAcer will shake," he wr o t e , " an d h eart il y sorry I should feel fur that." The shaking, however, I only shook C. oker more firmly into his place and function. In 1828 he became a rrivy councillor ; and he retained his Admiralty office till 1830. It was the Reform Bill that destroyed him politically. It need not have done so. There was no more reason for it in his case than in that of any of his com rades ; but he willed political suicide. He declared that he wou'd never sit in a reformed House of Commons ; and he never did. He expectei revo lution ; and he thought it prudent to retire while he could yet save life and fortune. His view is shown by his mournful account in the House of the spectacle of a Montmorenci rising in the French Constituent Assembly, to propose the extinction of feudal rights and dignities, such as his ancestors had earned and been ennobled by ; and he let fall no word to show that he recognised any grandeur lin the act. He thought that pitiable which to others appears the crown of the nobleness of the Montmorencies. He proposed to grant no thing to any popular demand, because something might at length be demanded which it would be im possible to grant; and before the shadows of the pos sible evils which he conjured up, he retired from pnblic life, leaving its actual difficialties to be dealt with by men of a higher courage and tk more disin terested patriotism. His political action, for the rest of his life, consisted merely in the articles he put forth in the Quarterly Review—articles which (to say nothing of their temper) show such feeble ness of insight, such a total incapacity to compre hend the spirit and needs of the time, and such utter recklessness abouttruthof both statement and prin ciple, that elderly readers are puzzled to account for the expectations they once had of the writer. It was the heart element that was amiss. A good heart has wonderful efficacy in making moderate talent available. Where heart is absent, the most brilliant abilities fail, as is said in such cases, " un accountably." Where heart is not absent, but is not good the consequences are still more obvious; t e faculties waste and decline, and the lifo sinks to nothing before death comes to close the scene. It is impoSsible to avoid such reflections as these while contrasting the strength and goodness of Croker's early work on Ireland with his latest judg ments on public affairs in the Quarterly Review, and his correspondence with Lord J. Russell on the busi ness of the " Moore Diaries." It may be observed by the way how such a spirit as his stirs up the dregs of other people's temcers. Lord J. Russell's no' e, in allusion to Mr. Croker, in "Moore's Life," appears to be unnecessary ; he was moved to it by seeing Mrs. Moore stung by the review ; and he met speedy retribution. Pain was inflicted all round ; and Croker was the cause of it all. Hewas the author, editor, and translator of various works, the chief of which is his edition of "Boswell's Johnson," a book on which he' spent much labour, and which was regarded with high and trustful fav our till Mr. Macaulay overthrew its reputation for accuracy by an exposure of a singular series of mis takes, attributable to indolence, carelessness, or ig norance. That review (which is republished among Mr. Macaulay's Essays) destroyed such reputation for scholarship as Mr. Croker had previously en joyed, and a good deal impaired that of his industry. His other works of bulk are the " Suffolk Papers," the " Military Events of the French Revolution of 1830," a translation of " Bassompierre's Embassy to England," the " Letters of Lady Hervey," and " Lord Hervey's Memoirs of the Reign of George II." Mr. Croker was an intimate of the late Lord Hertford ; and his social footing was not improved by the choice of his friendships, and the revelations made on the trial of Lord Hertford's valet. In brief, his best place was his de k at the Admiralty ; his best action was in his office ; and the most painful part of his life was the latter part, amidst an ignoble social reputation, and the political odium attached to him by Mr. Disrael's delineation of him in " Co ningsby. The virulent reviewer found in his old age the truth of the Eastern proverb—" Curses are like chickens, they always come home to roost." He . tried to send them abroad again —tried his utmost severity in attacks in the Quarterly on Disraeli's Budget. But it was too late, and the painter of the portrait of Rigby remained master of that field in which the completest victory is the least enviable. Looking round for something pleasanter on which to rest the eye in the career of the unhappy old man who has just departed, we may point out that his name stands honourably on our new maps and globes. He was Secretary to the Admiralty during the earlier of the Polar expeditions of this century ; and it is understoOd that the most active and effi cient assistance was always given by him in tho work of Polar discovery. Long after politics! un scrupulousness and rancour. are forgotten, those higher landmarks of his voyage of life will remain, and tell a future generation, to whom he will be otherwise unknown, that there was one of his'name to whom our great navigators felt grateful for as sistance in the noble service they rendered to their country and all future time. TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION WITH lIVDI4. The public of England and India are deeply in terested in this question. Its importance, great even in ordinary times, has become vital at this crisis, when instantaneous communication would prove a most powerful arm to aid the military ar -rangements upon which alone our hold over India depends. Under these circumst Imes we are all concerned in knowing at whose door is to be laid the blame that a telegraph to India has not been in operation at least since•the beginning of the year. Prima facie one would imagine that a telegraph to India would in the natural course of events pre cede a telegraph to America. Whether we regard it in a political or a commercial point of view, the Indian telegraph, connected as it is with the rapid transmission of intelligence from Sincaporo, China, and Australia, is at least equal in importance with the American. its construction iseasier. The Ameri can telegraph has to traverse 2,000 miles of ocean, the Indian only 500 miles at one stretch ; the feasi bility of the latter was‘therefore known several yews back, and that again was a reason why it should have had precedence. These are the broad facts of the case. They suggest the question, how comes it that the natural order of events has been reversed, that the Atlantic cable is at this moment be;ng laid whilst the manufac•ure of the Indian c able is not begun ? We unhesitatingly say that the Treasury are alone in fault that we have not for many months been in telegraphic communication with India. More than two years ago the East India Company gave the'r adhesion to the Red Sea telegraph project. With that support the Com pany applied to the Treasury. The cold shoulder was turned upon them ; they were, in short, snubbed, and plainly told they must abandon all hope of Government aid. The company then broke up, 0r,,t0 use the expression of the chairman, remained in abeyance, after having despatched an agent to Constantinople and Egypt to obtain the necessary firmans. These he obtained with the sup port of the Foreign-office and Lord Stratford de Redcliffe. The Treasury, however, were not to be thus foiled. During the agent's absence the Euphrates telegraph project was started, and was subsidised by Government, the East India Company guying a reluctant assent. This was done on the opinion of Sir W. O'Shaughnessey, who condemned the Red Sea line, alleging that the coral reefs would cut the cable. It must bs observed that though Sir W. O'Shaughnessey laid 4,000 miles of land wires in India in the short space of two years, yet he knew nothing whatever about submarine cables ; that an eminent firm of contractors for sub marine cables are, in spite of the coral, ready,to lay the Red Sea line at their own risk, and deliver it over in perfect working order to the cothpany at the ordinary rate of charge ; that the Mediterranean line to Corsica has been in permanent work for several years, though it crosses coral in more than one place ; and that in the Red Sea the coral is confined to the shores, which the cable need only approach twice, i.e., at Kossier and Jiddah, and by taking careful soundings, it is expected that it can be avoided even there. We have frequently compared the two projected lines by the Red Sea and the Euphrates. We shall only state that the Turks, who may be supposed to know their own country and their own power over the inhabitants, have refused to sanction the construction of the Euphrates line, on the ground that they have no power to protect it, naturally also refusing to allow the Company to do so, and thus by degrees become masters of the country. In fact common-sense at once points out that isolated telegraph wires laid before the completion of the proposed railway, and without the protection of any established transit route, would never be safe, even in times of peace, and would inevitably be destroyed the first war that occurred between any two tribes, or between any t tibe and the Turks or Persians. The stations in the Red Sea line only occur every 400 to 500 miles, and will be at large garris , )ned towns, and on the seashore, wh ere th ey cou ld b e protected by a ship if necessary. The Treasury, however, having, against the opi nion of the East India Company, of the Foreign office, and Lord Stratford de Redcliffe, and without giving the Red Sea Telegraph Company any notice of the objections made to their route, or any oppor tunity of answering them, hastily subsidised the Euphrates telegraph line, and given it the monopoly of Government business, and two years to make their atrangements and c3nstruct their line, say that during those two years their bands are tied, that they cannot subsid;se a competing line and pro mise it any portion of their business. If the Trea sury have made a mistake it lies with them to re medy.it as well "as they can. It cannot for a moment be toleriVed that a feasible project of this immense itnp , ,rtance should b sukp,nded for two y 'ars-longer by a projertt that is impractica►,le, and to which the Porte has refused its assent. We trust that the Eist India Company a►;d the Board of Control will act independently of the Treasury, and grant the pecuniary aid which will enable the Red Sra lino to be executed within 12 months.—Daily A ewes. SUMMER ASSIZES. HOME CIRCUIT.—CROYDON, Aug. 1?. (Before the Lord Chief Baron and Special Juries. ) BECKWITH V. THE EASTERN COUNTIES RAILWAY COMPANY. Sergeant Shee and Mr. F. J. Smith were for the plaintiff ; Mr. Bovill, Q. C,, and Mr. Ha wkins ap peared for the company. This was an action to recover damages f'r an in jury sustained by the plaintiff upon the occasion of the explosion of the fog signals at Stratford on the 26th of February last. It appeared that the com pany had made an announcement of the intended' sale of a quantity of stores, and the plaintiff, who is a smith and engineer, had gone to the stution at Stratford with his brother to inspect them, and they happened to be near the factory at the time the ex plosion took place ; and the consequence was that the plaintiff's brother was killed on the spot, and he himself had his leg broken, andreceived other in juries from which, it was stated by the surgeons who were examined, he was likely to suffer for the remainder of his life. The defence attempted to b 3 set up by the com pany was that the plaintiff was a trespasser, but it altogether failed, and the jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff—Damages, 750/. THE MARQUIS OF SALISBURY V. THE GREAT NORTHERN RAILWAY COMPANY. Mr. Rivill, Q.C., Mr. Lush, Q.C., and Mr. Watkin Williams were for the plaintiff ; and Mr. Hawkins and Mr. Rochfort Clerk appeared for the com parry. This was an action of ejectment to recover pos-, session of a piece of land at , HatfielX in the county of Hertford. The land in question Was formerly a portion of the old York-road, which had been di verted where it was crossed by the railway. There were a variety of points of law raised, and eventu ally it was arranged that a special case should be drawn up for the opinion of the Court. (Before Mr. Justice Willes and a Common Jury.) WILLIAMS V. DE VILDRAY. This, case was disposed of late on Tuesday evening. It was an action brought by the adminis - rairix and representative of the firm of Williams and Sowerby, silk mercers, dr.c., of Oxford-street, to re cover 521. for silk dresses and other goods supplied to the defendant. The pleas put upon the record in answer to the plaintiff's claim admitted the receipt of the wads, but alleg 'd that they were sold for an immoral pur pose,—namely, to enable ths defendant to carry on the occupation of a prostitute. Mr. Petersdorff was for the plaintiff ; and Ser geant Parry and Mr. Joyce for the defendant. The issue being upon the defendant, Alga daTilbray, the defendant, a tall, elegantly dressed Frenchwoman, was examined, and she stated that she had been in the habit of purchasing , articles of dress at the establishment of the plain tiff, and always paid ready money f)r them. Upon one occasion, however, she saw Mr. Grant, the manager of the establishment, arid he inquired whether she was not a gay woman, and she told him she was ; and he th en sa id t h at h e t h oug h t she might get more friends if she dressed more ex pensively, and that she might have anyaing she required upon credit. He showed her some ex pensive dresses, and said that she would look like a queen in them, and at thesame time told her that she should go to the Argyll-rooms and other places of a similar kind, and she would easily find a friend who would pay the bill. She stated that it was solely in consequence of this that she was induced to purchase the dresses, and she afterwards 'wore them in the pursuit of her vocation. The defendant was cram-examined at s'lne length by the learned counsel for the plaintiff, but nothing was elicited from her that at all tended to shake her testimony, and she per s'sted in declaring that the plaintiff's manager was perfectly well aware of her position at the time the goods were supplied, and that he induced her to purchase them under the circumstances she stated. Mr. Petersdorff then addressed the jury for the plaintiff, and he called _ _ Mr. Grant, the person referred to by the defen dant, who stated that she was introduced to him by a Frenchman named Dorbas, who represented that she was a resp?ctable married lady, and that her husband was abroad, and would not return for a fortnight, and th It the arrangement was that half of the a;coonut of goods supplied was to be paid down, and the remainder when the husband re j :turned. He state.' th a t a ft er th e goa d s h a d b een ' sent in an excuse was made for not paying what was agreed upon, and subsequently it appeared that the defendant never intended to pay, and therefore the present action was brought against her. He also positively declared that be had never made the suggestion she represented to her. Mr. Justice \Vides explained to the jury the law in reference to a case cf this description, and said that if they believed the evidence of the defendant she was entitled to a verdict, and the only question for them was which of the witnesses they con sidered entitled to credit. The jury, after a short deliberation, returned a verdict fur the defendant. OXFORD CIRCUIT. -GLOUCESTER, Aug. 11. CIVIL COURT. (Before Mr. Baron Martin v and Special Juries.) Mr. B iron Martin has be .:-,n .occupied the whole day in the trial of a cause in which the question is as to the competency of a party to make a will. The criminal business of the assiz-s wa3 brought to a close last night after the (Lspatch of our re port. CRIMINAL COURT. (Before Mr. Baron Bramwell.) Ann Bird was charged with wilful and corrupt perjury at Cheltenham. Mr. Fallon appeared for the prosecution, and Mr. Sawyer defended the prisoner. It appeared the prisoner, whowas servant to Mrs. Col. Gordor, living iii - Gansdown terrace Chelten • ham, had laid an informatir n a g a i ns t a kr. Cilas. Neale, a printer, for a burglary and robbery com mitted in the house of her mistress on the morn ing of Friday, the 24th of April. The prosecutor had been apprehended and taken before the ma gistrates, and the prisoner there swore that she came downstairs a little before 6 o'clock on the morning of Friday and saw a man going across the hall to the kitchen door ; that he looked up and said that if she told of it he would mur den her ; that she knew it was, Neale by the black patch on his eye, and- had known him for years ; and that he then went out at the back and got over the wall. The prosecutor stated that on the night in question he was not at or near the house of Mrs. Gordon, but that from 9 to 12 on that night he was with a man named Wallace, and that from 12 o'clock till 8 the next morning he was at home in bed. This evidence was confirmed by Wallace and by Mrs. Neale ; and his little girl said she went into his room a little before 6 in the morning to get some matches to light the fire, and saw him in lied, where he remained till 8 o'clock. A man named BreWer said be was at work at the back of Mrs. Gordon's house on the morning in question, and if anybody had got over the wall he must have seen him. A policeman named Sheen said he had examined the premises, but there was no appearance of any breaking or forcible entry, but a man might have got in at an unfastened window at the back of the house, but this window was 12 feet from the ground. A good many things were scattered about the place, and the sum of 51. had been taken from the box of a French servant. Mr. Sawyer having addressed the jury for the prisoner, the jury found her guilty, and Mr. Baron Bramwell sentenced her to be im prisoned, with hard labour, for one year. Mary Browning, who had been convicted o f the i mans l aug hter of the iiegitimate child bf her daughter, was brought into court, and Mr. Baron Bramwell sentenced her to be im prisoned for one year. It was stated td the co,irt that the prisoner had been certified to be of unsound mind, and she would be removed to a lunatic asylum. John Townsend and William Holland, two ser vants of the Great Western Railway Company, were charged with stealing seven bottles of wine, the property of Messrs. Wheeler and Co. Mr. Cripps and Mr Gilmore Evans appeared for the prosecution; Mr Powell defended the prisoner. It appeared the Messrs. Wheeler and Co., wine merchants, had cans. d a hamner of wine to be delivered at the Great Western Railt - FaY wation at Gloucester, to be forwarded to their correspon dents at Swansea. This hamper was safely re ceived in a luggage truck at the inwards goods station to the knowledge of the prisoners, who were porters of the company, an d the hamper re mained safe in that truck till half- p ast 10 at night at least. Between 10 and 11 o'clock, on the arri val of the Hereford train, goods van No. 261, which came with that train, w s shunted near to the luggage truck in which the hamper w as . Shor,ly afterwards the prisoner Townsend engagel Byett, the night policeman, in conversation in a place from which the truck and van could not be seen, and at the same time the other prisoner was seen close to them by a porter who chanced to come down to the gcods station. Byett observing THE VERDICT. At ten minutes past four o'clock the jury came into the box, and the foreman handed clown the issue paper. Mr. Alley, the Clerk of the Crown, having called over the names of the jurors said—Gentlemen of the jury do you agree to your verdict ? Foreman—Yes. Clerk of the Crown—Yon say James Spollen is not guilty. (Some applause in the gallery, which was imme diately suppressed.) The prisoner on the entrance of the jury, had stood up from his seat in the dock and leaned forward on the bar, manifestly endeavouring to maintain his self-possession. immediately on hearing the finding he sunk into the arms of the gaolers in a half fainting condition. His necktie was loosened by those about him, and his face and head were bathed with water. While in this state he audibly uttered the words "My children." In the meantime, The Foreman of the Jury said—My lords, we hope that from the long attendance we have bad in this case that we shall be exempt from attending on trials for some time Chief Justice Monahan—This is the last case, gentle men. The business of the commission has concluded. The Foreman—Oh, but on future occasions. We would wish to be exempt for a year or so. Chief Justice—Oh, I have no power to do so. The prisoner having now recovered came forward to the bar, and in a somewhat broken manner addressed the Court as follows :—" Well, my lords and gentlemen, I find that lam net exactly deceived. My conviction was fixed that I stood before 12 of my countrymen—men of •age, experience, and that had happy firesides, and confi dence in their family circles. I thought that they would impartially take my case into consideration, atd they have done so. It is not for me to commence to praise myself, but I have been brought here in a wrongful way—wrong fully by—l will not condemn the woman. I always liked the man and I loved the woman ; but it is a dreadful thing to be in the hands of a female tigress. I should have re turned thanks to the two gentlemen, the honourable gen tlemen, pillars of the law on the bench. I may be too sensitive when I say the servants of the Crown have black. ened my character too much in their addresses to the jury. I have, however, thanks be to God, escaped (raising his hands), thanks and praises be to God I Amen. (Here the prisoner sat down on the chair in the dock, but immedi ately rose and began speaking again.) My character, I am afraid, must remain triflingly impaired—my children, the only ones I love, I have to provide for. (The prisoner here again was overcome by his feelings.) If I had means to retire to some— Chief Justice Monaghan—ls there any other charge against the prisoner ? Governor of the Gaol—No, my lord. Sp3llen proceeding—lf I can find means of retiring to an asylum in some of these colonies where I can continue for the remainder of my life to support existence, and to— Chief Justice Lefroy—Do the Crown intend to proceed with any other charge against the prisoner ? Mr. O'Donohoe—l am not instructed that the Crown intend to proceed with any other charge against the pri soner. Spollen proceeded to say—To the gentlemen of the press I return my sincere and hearty thanks for the manner in which they remained silent during my incarceration. As for shaking hands it would be foolish in me to do so. The public witnessed the untiring energy and scrutiny with which, as the gentleman himself said, ho had grown old in the service, your hon. friend Mr. Curran, my counsel, and the untiring energy he displayed. But he is not so old in the service that he does not retain a large fund of that which will go to support many and many a poor client be neath his able hands. May he live many a day with a similar case as mine to defend ! (Sounds of cheering outside the court-house became audible as soon as the news of the verdict had passed oat.) Mr. Curran—lt would be well if the prisoner were not discharged immediately. There are great crowds outside. Mr. Sidney—Your Lordship will please to order his dis charge, Chief-Justice Monahan—He is now formally discharged by the jury and the Court. Mr. Sidney--The jailor will kindly assist him in retiring privately. The Court was then tvijourned. Country Markets. EDINBURGH HAY AND STRAW MARKET. AUG. 11. Supplies of all kinds these last six days large. Oat straw, from 5s 6d to 10s Od per kemple of 16 stones Iron ' • wheat do., 5s Od to 8s Od ; b ar l ey d o .. 5 s 61 t o 6 s 6d. Hay from is id to is 4d; new do., 9d to /od. EDINBURGH MEAL—A.uG. 11. There were in the mark e t to-day 12 sacks oatmeal, each weighing 2801 b imperial, which sold at 44s Oil and —s. DALKEITH MEAL MARKET—AUG. 10. There were in the market to-dn.y 9 bags of oatmeal, 0 of barleymeal, and 0 pot barley. Sales dull. Oatmeal, per sack of 2SOlbs First. Second. Third. Imperial Barleymeal, per ditto -s Od ,—s Od —s Cd Peasemeal, per ditto Flour, new, per ditto —s Od —s Od —3 Od Pot-barley, new, per ditto —s Od -- s Od —s rd DUBLIN, AUG. 11. White wheat, 353 0i to 37s 6d ; red ditto, 319 Od to 35: 01; ditto new, — = a; barley, malting, 16 3 6 d t o 25 s 61 ; grind ing—s to —s ; o a t s , o ld, 1 53 6d to 18s; ditto, new, —s Oa to —s 01 : oatmeal, 15s to 17a 6d; bero, new, --a to s Oil ; rapese. d, 23a Od to 35a par brl ; flour, 193 al Od to 243 Od per owt ; Indian corn, 33s 61 to 39a 0.1 por 480 lbs, COAL MARE Prices of Coals per ton al ET.-AuG. 12. s. d.' Hastings Hartley... 17. 31 Benton West Hartley 15 61 Htl'pool . West Hartley 16 C Newcastle Hartley 15 C Holywell l6 0 Wallbettle Hartley 15 C Wallsend, Eden Main l6 9 Ships at market the close of tho market Wantland, &o. . Efaswell s d lB 9 Kepler Grainge l7 6 Russell's Hetton l7 0 south Eletton lB 6 Ite wart's . 18 6 Elunwiek l5 6 f/osforth l5 9 ', 38 ; sold, 35. LOCAL SHARE MARKETS. LIVERPOOL AUG. 12. STOCK EXCHANGE.--The transactions in this market to-day are merely nominal, the market continues dull, and prices of all the leading stocks have again declined. North Staffordshire, xd d 4# 8s 9d —South Eastern, 21i — London and North-Western, 1024-01cdonian, 38 Eastern Counties, MA — Midlands, 83—Grand Trunk of Canada, 13—Dutch Rhenish, 4f d.—Luxembourg consti tuted, 7A —Chester and Holyhead, 174—North Eastern, Berwick, 234. i—Ditto, L ee d s, 22—Great Western, 55 —Great Western of Canada, 21 BI.II.IIINGHAM, Aug. 12. STOCK EXCHANGE.—The market was rather better to day, but there was not much improvement in prices. Birmingham and Stour Valleys, at 81—Great Westerns, 55 56—Birmingh am G uaran t ee d S tock, 721 4-7-South Staffordshire, 9 3-16. MANCHESTER, AuG. 12. SrOCK. EXCHANGE.—The marke t was active t o -d a y, b u t prices were a shade lo wer . Near ly the whole of the busi ness was for next account. Dovors, 21 15 - 16—Sheffields, 40* 40 39i 4—London and North Westerns, 102— East Lancashire, 954—Great Western of Canada, 21— Lancashire Assurance, d—Great Western, 56—Warring ton and Stockport, 6 i —Leeds, 99 4. [ADVERTISEMENT.I—SPORTEMEN AND GENTLEMEN OF VIE ARMY AND NAVY.—S. and B. So'omons, opticians, 39, Albemarle. street, Piccadilly West. O bserve --opposite the York Hotel. —Portability, combined with g! eat power in the Field, Race course, Opera, and general out-door day and night powerful waistcoat-pocket Perspective Glasses, weighing only four ounces, each containing 12 and 18 lenses, constructed of German glass, will show distinctly a person's countenance two and a half and three miles. They servo every purpose on the race-course, and at the opera-houses. Country scenery and ships are clearly seen at eight to ten milts. They are also invaluable for shooting, deer-stalking, and yachting. Single ones, the size of a walnut, possessing the same great power. Her Majesty's Coast Guards are making use of them as day and night glasses, in general use by gentlemen of the Army and Navy, and by sportsmen, gentlemen, gamekeepers, and tourists. The most powerful and brilliant teles co p s, possessing such extraordinary power that some, three and a half inches, wi'h an extra astronomical eye-pi ece , w ill s h ow distinctly Jupiter's moon; Saturn's sing, and the double stars. With the same telescope can be seen a person's coun tenance three and a half miles distant, and an object from 14 to 16 miles. All the above can be bad of larger and all sizes, with increasing powers, and are secured by H er M a j es ty' s Royal Letters Patent. Newly-invented Spectacle Lenses of the greatest transparent power. The valuable advantage de rived from this invention is, that vision becomes preserved and strengthened; very aged persons are enabled to employ their sight at the most minute occupation —can see with these lenses of a much less magnifying power—and they do not re quire the frequent changes to the dangerous effects of further powerful assistance. Persons can be suited at the most re mote part of the world by sending one of the glasses out of their spect icles in a letter, and stating the distance from the eye they can read small print with it, and those who have not made use of spectacles by stating their age. Deafness— A newly-invented instrument for extreme cases of deafn ss, called the Sound Magnifier, Organic Vibrator, and invisible Voice Conductor, It fits so into the car as not to be in the least perceptible. Th9 , nnpleasant sensation of singing noises in the head is entirely removed. It affords instant relief to the deafest persons, and enables them to hear distinetly at church and at public assemblies. 39, Albemarle-street, Pic ot:dilly (opposite the York Hotel) W. the prisone:s to hang alioat the place, and thinking soute - hTng was wr,,ng, wet down to the van ; and when he got near to it ire saw Townsend come out and liohattd t , t) in, and then heard tie clash ing of Lat. - les, and the drop of the lid of P, locker. On asking what was up, it was an swerd to Bye t that they had a couple of women in the van. They further refused to let Byet; have their light to see whether all was right, and refused to let him ko into the van. Byett kept wat .h over the van, till, aft.-r many various attempts to induce him to leave, the prisoners de parted. He then went into the vat), and feeling about ob serve d some b ottles. Byett comunicatp ing these facts To the superintendent, a search was "made, and six bot4es of wine were discovered in the van, and it was found that the door of the truck had been raised, the hamper tr..ken open, and seven bottles abstracted. It was further shown that the prisoners' duty was to shunt trucks, and could cause them to be at offices situated at some considerable distance from the truck and van. It was elicited on cross-examinat . on that the shouter's duty was to look into the van before passing it down to the good,station, but that this duty should be performed at a spot far removed - thence, and whence the trucks ran down an incline of themelves to the goods station. In addition, it appeared that more labourers were at the passengers' station a little way off. Mr. Powell having addressed the jury for the prisoners, Mr. Baron Bramwell summed up the evidence. The jury found the prisoners no'; guilty. This case concluded the criminal business of these assizes. Mr. Baron Bramwell then stated that he would. be pr pared to assist this d'ty•in the trial of causes; but the offer not having been.accepted by counsel in due time, his Lird-ship has left. POLICE INTELLIGENCE-Aug. 12. MANSION-HOUSE.— James Bannister, the driver of an omnibus belonging to the London Ge neral Omnibus Company, plying bet ween Putney and the railway terminus of London-bridge, ap peared before Mr. Alderman Wire in answer to a summons, which charged hula with misbehaviour. Tire court was densely crowded with omnibus proprietors. Mr. Sleigh appeared for the complainants, the Saloon Omnibus Company, and Mr, Robinson at tended on the part of the defendant. Mr. Sleigh said that the summons against the de fendant was taken out under the 28th section of the 6th and 7th Vic., cap. 86, which enac Led " that every driver of a hackney carriage, or driver or conductor of a metropolitan stage carriago, who shall be guilty of wanton or furious driving, or who ley carelessne=s or wilful misbehaviour, shall cause any hurt or damage to any perBon or property being in any street or highway, or shall make use of any insulting or abusive language, or shall be guilty of any insulting gesture or misbehaviour," shall be liable to fine or imprisonment., He should contend that what the defendant had (I ,4 ;ne amounted to mis behaviour within the meaning and spirit of the Act. It would be proved that the defendant, who was the driver of an omnibus belonging to the London. General Omnibus Company, had, on the day stated in the summons, followed in the very closest proxi mity, short of touching an omnibus belonging to the Saloon Company, from the city to Putney bridge. Joseph Sexton said—l am driver of a saloon om nibus from Putney to the LOndon-bridge railway terminus. On the 3d inst. I was in the city at five minutes past 4 o'clock. I came over into King William-street. I saw the defendant's omnibus on London-bridge. It was behind me. He followed me within five yards all the dfstan'!e from London bridge, through the city, and on to Putney-bridge. He passed me at Walham-green. Through the city I had one omnibus before me, and if I pulled up its driver stopped, a n d th e defendant also pulled up. When I drove fast the defendant drove fast, and when .1 drove glow he drove Wow. He did not in -terfere by putting the pole to the door F 6 a 3 to pre vent me from getting passengers. He did not pre vent any passenger from getting in, but if a passen ger hailed me the conductor of the *defendant's om nibus got down and tried to get that pa , seng,er. This occurred once or twice—once iu the city, but I cannot say where. The defendant might have passed at various places, if he had liked. I had & time allotted by the company, but not by the Com missioner of Police. . Cross-examined by Mr. Robinson—My conductor is in court. I was formerly in the service of the Lo ndon General Omnibus Company. That company' had a time at 8 o'clock. My omnibus was started on the morning in question at 8 o'clock for the first time. .The General Omnibus Company's omnibuses start from the private properny of, the company.` An extra omnibus went before and the defendant's omnibus behind me. A fow days ago I was ordered out of the railway station for taking a wrong time. George Foster, a superannuated police-officer, said—l was employed by the Saloon Company, and rode on the complainant's omnibus on the 3d inst. We left the railway station abuit 4 o'clOck, and on coming through the city there wa4 one omnibus in front, the defendant's omnibus being in the rear. We stopped in King William-street and took up pasengers. The other omnibus also stopped. The defendant drove fast when we drove fast. We took up.ab mt nine pasetwers between London bridge and Sr. Paul's. I did not see the defen dant's conductor take any passengers away that journey. When the omnibus was hailed both con ductors alighted and spoke to the passengers who appeared to me: to hail the Saloon omnibus. Mr. Sleigh asked for a conviction Upon this evi dence. Mr. Robinson submitted that no misconduct or misbehaviour whatever had beenproved against the defendant, and that the Act of Parliament did not touch the alleged grievance. Alderman• Wire—l am clearly of opinion that this summons cannot be sustained. Ido not be here that the conduct imputed to the General Om nibus Company comes within the meaning of the Act of Parliament, and therefore I am bound to dismiss tie complaint. Mr. Sleigh said there wer e summonses aga i ns t osher persons of a siroiler nature to the one just disposed of, but that, after the construction which the worthy gild-rmau had put upon the act of Par liament, tie should not proceed with them. Alderman Wire—The public is greatly advan taged, no doubt, by the omnibuses belonging to boil' companies. I think it would he a great ad.van tage if an arran ,, ement could „be come to by the e tw ae o hmatter for poatrhtei;s,s, times. However, t t H iv o iy w s e l v io e u r, ld th n a o t t is int a erfere. with their own consideration. I cannot enter into Q. 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