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IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT HOUSE OF CONINIONS.—(YESTERDAY.) The SPEAKZR took the chair at twelve o'clock. PRIVATE BUSINESS. The British and Irish Grand Junction Railway) Lowestoft and Burgh Saint Peter Ferry and Roads and Pulteney Town Harbour were read a third time and passed. The Besselsleigh Road Bill was further considered and ordered to be read a third time. The Caledonian and Crinan Canals Bill was read a% second time. THAMES CONSERVANCY BILL. On the third reading of this bill, Sir W. CODRINGTON opposed the third reading. Tidal rivers like the Thames were likely to be obstructed by the erection of wharfs, piers, and embankments, by p er sons not responsible for its free navigation. The object of the bill was to establish a Board of Conservancy, who should have power to erect wharfs, piers, and em bankments, and to tax the shipping, using the river f that purpose ; two-thirds of the tax was to go to the board for improving the navigation of the river and the remaining third to the Government, but it was not specified what they were to do with the money. The gallant officer referred to the origin of the bill, which arose from a dispute between the Go vernment and the Corporation of London as to the shores of the river, and he objected to so important a trust as the conservancy of the river Thames being placed in the hands of an irresponsible body — the majority of the members of the board to be taken from the Corporation. of London. He contended that this bill was too important to be unsoldered as a private bill, and urged that it should be made a public bill and publicly discussed. He moved the third reading of the bill this day six months. Mr. AYRTON asked the Speaker if this bill had been properly introduced as a private bill, considering its im portant operation. The SPEAKER said that, according to Parliamentary practice and usage, the bill (however large the interest might be that would be affected by it) had been properly introduced as a private bill. Mr. Alderman CUBITT supported the second read ing, and gave a lengthened history of the dispute be tween the Corporation of London and the Government, relative to the shores of the river, which had been under agitation for a considerable number of years, and had been repeatedly brought under the notice of the public. Sir DE LACY EVANS said that since the last time the bill was before the house many objectionable clauses bad been omitted from it—one clause to tax steamers above bridge. He considered this a species of retrograde legislation, and his principal objection to the bill was the constitution of the board, viz., seven from the Cor poration of London, two from the Trinity House, and three from the Board of Admiralty, the majority of whom could at any time out vote the Government, being unqualified to discharge this important trust. Mr. HENLEY supported the bill from a belief that it would facilitate the reform of the Corporation of London. He considered the board independently con stituted, and he thought the Government had made a good bargain with the corporation for the Crown. Aa the owner of water-side property in London, he bad no complaint to make against the management of the Corporation of London. Mr. AYRTON opposed the bill, on the ground that the board would not adequately represent the commer cial interests of London. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said there had been two objections urged against the bill— one as to the form of proceeding, and the other relative to its contents. With regard to the first, the bill was introduced as a private bill, according to precedent, and he instanced a similar bill for the Mersey now before the house. A private hid gave every facility to interested par ties to oppose it, if they thought proper, before the examiners. After entering into the nature of the dis pute, and the arrangements come to between the Co.:po ration of London and the Crown, whereby the former conceded the matter in issue to the Crown, the right hon. baronet defended the constitution of tha Board, which, instead of being sectional, was general, and the best that could be for promoting the commerce of the ports. After some remarks from Sir S. TREL A.NVNEY, Sir J. GRAHAM opposed the Inn on the ground that the interests of the public, and the owners of private property were not considered by the bill. Though the clause for taxing steamers above bridge was withdrawn, strong taxing powers were retaind, such as I , censing landowners to make docks and wharfs, the leasing and taking tolls of new piers and landine. places. He ob jected to the formation of the board and condemned the conduct of the Government in giving to the corporation of London a majority at the board for their concession of Crown rights. The board ought not to be one of nomi nation but election by the tax-payers. After some remarks from the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER in explanation, Sir J. DUKE said that the parties who had intro duced the bill, having complied with the forms of the house, they ought not to be blamed for its being mane a private bill, arid as objection raised to it in consequence. Only yesterday a similiar bill was passed for the river Clyde without opposition to its being a private bill. Referring to the taxision by the c inservators of the river, he stated that 60 years ago the tonnage on coasters was from 4d. to 2.1. per ton, but it was now reduced to ad. and id. By the bid, provision was made for the disposal of surplus money. He defended the constitu tion of the board, and said that the meinb,rs of the Cor poration of London were capable of effectually discharg ing the duties that would devolve on thorn under the bid, and that they would promote the interests of the commercial community. He should support the third reading of the bill. The house divided. The numbers were— For the third reading 172 Against it 7B Majority 94 The bill was then read a third time and passed. EXPENSES OF THE PFRSIAN WAR. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER pre seated the estimates to the amount of 500,0001. for the expenses of the war with Persia, and also of 500,0001. towards the military and naval operations in China, and moved that they be referred to the Committee of Supply. He also gave notice that in the course of the present month be should move a resolution in Committee of Ways and Means with the view of founding upon it a bill for continuing the present duties upon tea and sugar as fixed by the Act of last session for two years from the Ist of April next. • Mr. ROEBUCK said that the first time the house had received any intimation of the war with Persia being at a conclusion was when they were called upon to pay the bill. (Hear.), He thought the house woul I abdicate its functions, and would be unworthy of the name of the English House of Commons if they did not reprobate such conduct at the proper time. Such a thing had not occurred in the whole history of the House of Commons, from IG4O to the present day, and it bad been reserved for a so-called liberal Government with the present Prime Minister at its head, to throw a slur and a stigma on the House of Commons. If the house submitted to the conduct of the Government in this instance, it would shOw that the noble lord had a better appreciation of them than he (vlr. Roebuck) had. Sir H. WILLOUGHBY said that he understood, in answer to a question which he had addres s ed to the Chancellor of the Exchequer, that the grant to be moved for the Persian war was 265,0001. He wished to know whether the 500,0001. now named in tho estimates was to be in addition to that 265,0001., or whether the smaller sum were included in the greater. He had un derstood, also, that the Indian Government were to bear half the expenses, and he wanted to know, therefore, whether 1,000,0001. would cover the whols expenses of the Persian war ? The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said that it would be unusual and inconvenient for the house to enter into a premature discussion upon the estimates being laid upon the table. He bad merely laid brie estimates on the table at this time as a matter of conve nienoe, and be would only state, in answer to the question of the hon. baronet, that when he stated !hat the amount to be asked this session wculd be 265,0001 , it was early in the session, before the termination of the war, before the signature of the treaty of peace, and upon the best data to which he then had access. The sum which he now stated was inclusive of, and not ad ditional to, that sum. It would be the entire demand to be made upon the souse this session, and it would re place the advances made by the India Board. Mr. F. SCOTT said that by the peculiar form of the expression used by the right bon, gentleman the Chan cellor of the Exchequer, limitin g observations to the present sessi on , h e would see* to infer there was a fur ther sum to be demanded in respect of thi s war upon a future occasion. Wh en the right hon. gentleman said that it was not ut,util to raise a discussion upon laying the estimates upon the table, he nral h .Scott) must t t an the course ei n ob serve that nothing could b e more unus ual which the right hon. g en tl eman hi ms adopted with regard to this question. A s the hon, a ad an d lear ne d member for Sheffield bad t ru ly sa il, the first intima tion of the affair which had b een g i ven te the was that there would be 265,0001. t o h e paid, eeehotubs: intimation was given to them after th e war b ad been t concluded, witboutany information having been afforded to the country that such a thing had been undertaken. Wasn't that somewhat unusual ? The right hon. gen tleman complained that anyone should call attention to the subj- Ct because he had simply doubled the sum which he first stated that the country would be called upon to pay, and then he had guarded his answer to the bon. baronet in such a manner as to imply that even double the SUM was hut an instalment, and that in ano ther session the country would be asked for some un known amount for this unknown war. He wished dis tinctly to be informed whether this 500,000/. was the whole charge which the coun tr y would be called upon to pay fur the Persian war. He thought that the course which had been pursued with regard to the whole Oa r indicated more forcibly than anything that bad before occurred, the servile condition of the Moose of Commons. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said that be did not ask the house now to agree to any vote. He heel merely presented the estimate, and had moved that it he referred to Use corn ittee of supply, which was the proper place for the consideration of the estimate. When the Government asked the comm i tt ee to agree to a vote up on the subject, they would give a fullst t a h tement of the case, which would involve among other an swer to the question of the hon. gentleman who an n who had just sat down. Six J. PAKINGTON rose to order. Wednesdays were, by the rules of the house, devoted to orders, and the right hon. gentleman the Chancellor of the Exche• clutr, no doubt not anticipating any discussio n had in tt rfered with the regular orders of the day by making a iurttion upon a most important subject, whic'i was t. 1.- trensely likely to lead to a diicuaeioD, that tuvtioa wore THE SUN, LONEON, THURSDAY EVENING, JULY 9, 1857, ALTON TOWERS. over, being made wit:lout the slightest notice whatever, without being placed on the business paper, and when no one had the least reason to suppose that the question of the expenses of the war with Persia would be likely to come on. (Hear, bear.) He begged to call the attention of the Speaker to the circumstances under which this motion had been made, and he submitted that the proceeding had been in error ab initio. (Sir J. Graham.—" Move that it be postponed.") Under all the circumstances he should move that the debate be adjourned. (Hear.) I C % a L n A ce ß il O or U o C f n h o e c n o . u f rs ri e en i d the n this matter which was not p erfectly usual and regular. HERE REExcshaeiqdutehrabta tandisrkigenht On presenting the estima tes he had made a merely for mal motion, which it w as neither customary nor neces sary to give any notice of. It was a motion which never gave rise ' to any debate, and the only thing which had been unusual in the present case was that on a merely formal motion being made a debate had arisen. Sir J. GRAHAM and Mr. BUCHANAN rose together ; but there being general calls for the former Mr. Bucha nan g ave way. The right hon. gentleman said that he rose to speak to the point of order. The opinion of the Speaker had been asked upon it by the right hon. baronet the member for Droitwich, and he (Sir J. Gra ham) was about to suggest what he thought would have l i made this proceeding perfectly regular on a Wednesday. He agreed that it was unusual ou bringing up an esti mate and moving that it be referred to the committee of supply that a debate should arise, and he suggested that if the estimate had been presented at any period after a quarter to 6 o'clock the proceeding would have been per tectly regular. No debate, according to the rules of the house, could then have arisen. The motion would have been taken ae a motion of course, and the irregularity into which they had now fallen would have been avoided. But certainly it was open, he imagined, to any member to raise a debate on the motion to refer so large an esti mate of expenditure to the committee of supply, pre sented under circumstances so unusual as those on which comment had been made by the honourable and learned member for Sheffield. Ho did, not think there fore that the Government could be surprised if a debate should arise under such circumstances, and it ap peared to him to be almost challenging discussion to pre sent the estimate at a time when it was open to debate. Under the present circuumstances, he thought that the proper course would ba to agree to the motion of the right hon. member for Droitwich, in order that the house might proceed with the orders of the day. (" Hear," and cries of " chair.") Sir G. GREY said that his right hon. friend who had just sat down had implied that the course which had been taken by the Chancellor of the Exchequer was un usual. Now, he (Sir G. Grey) believed it to be the universal practice of every Chancellor of the Exchequer, before the house proceeded to the ordinary business of the day, to present the estimates which were intended to be considered afterwards in the committee of supply. Tae time for doing that was not, he contended, a late hour of the evening, or just before the adjournment of the house ; but the period selected was always before the house proceeded to the public business of the day. They had now been discussing for two hours a private bill, which took precedence of all the otherebusiness, and immediately that discussion ended his right hou. friend presented the estimates, He believed that the course which had been taken was perfectly in accordance with precedent, both winh respect to presenting the estimates and moving that they be referred to the Committee of Supply, because' unless they were so referred the com mittee could take no cognisance of them. [Sir James Graham—" On a Wednesday t") Yes ' • on any day. During the 25 years that he had been in Parliament be never remembered a discussion taking place upon the presentation of an estimate, and upon the making of the necessary motion to give the committee of supply cog nisance of that estimate. (Hear, hear.) Toe CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said that he had intended to present these estimates on the previous evening, and that he hsd brought them dowu to the house for that purpose, at the usual time, intending to lay them on the table before the hu , iness commenced. He mentioned his intention at the time to the Speaker, and went down to the bar, expecting that he should be called. The Speaker, however, did not see hire, and therefore his name was not called, otherwise the esti mates would have been presented then. He might add that he was not aware of any reason why the estimates should not be presented on a Wednesday as well as on any other day. The SPEAKER said that the right hon. gentleman (the Chancellor of the Exchequer) intimated his inten don t i present these estimates yesterday, but not seeing bins at the bar of the house before the commencement of public business yesterday he omitted to call the name of the right hon. gentleman.. He believed it bad been the universal practice, when a Minister appeared at the bar with an estimate, that on his name being called by the Speaker he should be permit•ed to present the estimate to the house ; and the motion that the estimate be re- ' (erred to a committee of supply had been considered as a motion of course. Therefore he himself suould have considered that what was new, if not irregular, on the present occasion rather was that a motion so-generally received as a motion of course should have been turned into a motion creating a debate. It was for the house to decide whether there was anything in this proceeding which interfered with the regular course of the business, but nothing struck him as being irregular in the motion made by the Chancellor of the Exchequer. Mr. BUCHANAN proceeded, amid cries of " Order !” to call attention to the commercial inconvenience arising from constant alterations of the dates when certain duties on tea were to take effect. ' Sir F. BARING rose to order. The Speaker had already pronounced his opinion on one point of order, hut a discussion on a notice of motion given by the Chancellor of the Exchequer with respect to the tea duties would be even more irregular than the conversa tion which had just taken place. Sir G. GREY trusted that the motion for the ad journment of the debate would not now be pressed. iir J. GRAHAM thought the motion for the ad j.mrnment might be withdrawn, after what had fallen from the Speaker and the Chancellor of the Exchequer. The motion for the adjournment of the debate was then withdrawn, and the proposed estimates were refer red to a committee of supply. BURIALS BILLS, The order for the second reading of the Burials Bills was read and discharged. INDUSTRIAL SCHOOLS. The house went into committee on this bill. Clauses 1 to 8, inclusive, were agreed to after some amendments. Ott clause 9, Mr. BOWYER moved the following addition .—Pro vided, however, that the regulations of every such In dustrial School shall provide that a book shall be kept by the managers, in which the religious denomination or church to which every child admitted to such school, or the parents or the father of such child, shall belong, shall be entered ; and that every minister or clergyman officiating in any chapel or other place of worship duly licensed according to law in the parish within which such Industrial School shall be situated, shall have free access to such book, and also to every child who shall appear by such book to belong to the religious denomi nation of church of which such minister is a teacher. Mr. ADDERLEY objected to the motion from a be lief that it would prevent the free action of the bill. He denied that there was any desire t ) proselytise, and thought the Most effectual way to prevent it was by the members of the Roman Catholic persuasion establishing similar institutions. A. discussion ensued, in which Mr. Gregory, Mr. Newdegate, Sir G. Grey, and Mr. B swyer took part, the amendment was withdrawn, and the clause agreed to. Game 10 to 12 inclusive were agreed to. Oa clause 13, Mr. B A.RROW moved that the period at which the children should be kept at school should be altered from 15 years of acre to 12. Sir J. PAKINGTON supported the clause. After a discussion in whice Sir G. Grey, Mr. Liddel, Viscount Goderich, Sir W. Heathcote, Lord E irington, Mr. Akroyd, Mr. Kendall, Lord Ingestre, Mr. Barrow, Mr. Adderley, Mr, Ridley, Mr. Spooner, and other hon. membere, The committee divided—the numbers were— For the amendment Against it Maj ,rity —llO The clause was then agreed to. , On clause 14, Mr. BARROW moved an amendment, that the com pulsory contributon of parents towards the maintenance of their children should cease at the age of 12 years, in stead of 15 as fixed by the bill. After some discussion the committee divided. The numbers were— For the amendment Against it . 161 Majot ity --83 The clauße was uh iinattly agreed to with amendments, Clauses 15 to 17 inclusive were agreed to. The remaining clauses of the bill were ultimately agreed to. On the motion of Mr. ADDERLEY, clauses were added to the bill enacting that children taken into custody for vagrancy might he sent to school while enquiries were made, and that justices might make a parent re sponsible for the behaviour of bis child. Mr. COBBETT said he objected to the bill altogether, and on the third reading he shouid move its r e j e c tion. The bill passed through committee, and the house re sumed. OXFORD (CITY) ELECTION. The committee appointed to inquire into the return of Mr. Neate, the Bitting member for Oxford (City), declared the election void on account of bribery. 193 voters were employedand paid money, 152 of elm voted for Mr. Neate. MAIDSTONE ELECTION. The commissioners appointed to inquire into the return of the sitting members for Maidstone, Mr. Beresford Hope, and Captain Scott, declared them duly elected The other orders were displsed of, and the house ad• juurned at a few minutes before six o'clock. r [ADVERTISEMENII—HoIIo way's Ointment and Pills —A wide-spread popularity most deservedly testifies to the excellence of these Remedies. Emma Steph ens , wife of Samuel Stephens, boot-maker, of New -street Fulgate•street, Whitechapel, thus writes to Professor Holloway "I was fora very long time afflicted with Fcor butic and scabby eruptions over my face, chest, an d legs. Medical men failed to relieve me; when, at last, by the 'aid of-your Ointment and Pills,' I was marvel lously cured, and feel much pleasure in calling the atten tion of the public to their virtues."—Sold by all medi cine venders throughout the world ; at Professor Hol loway's Establishments, 244, Strand, London, and 80, Maiden-lane, New York ; by A. Stamp, Constanti• nople ; A, Guidicy, Smyrna ; and E, Muir, Malta. " The magnificent contents of Alton Towers, the princely seat of the Earl of Shrewsbury, which, by order of &c., dec., &c., will be sold by auction, by Messrs. Christie and Manson." So runs the grand i'oquent advertisement which announces that one of the noblest families in the English peerage is ex tinct, its effects for sale, and the manor over which the premier earls of England have held right and jurisdiction since the days of Henry 11. is about to pass into the keeping of strangers. Rustics, holy day seekers from the manufacturing districts, coun try gentlemen, and agents from London jostle and crowd about the grand saloons and galleries. Some examine the various lots, note their numbers, and speculate upon their prices ; others wonder at the splendour around, or regale furtively upon the con tents of heavy baskets which they lug about the pa lace, while Ruth and Giles, who till then never sat on anything softer than a dairy stool or five-barred gate recline with easy luxury upon the couches in the music room. No place is shut against the curious, or closed to the depreciating eyes of would be purchasers. The late earl's bedroom—plain, quiet, and unostentatious amid the general magni ficence—is still crowded as forming an important portion of the show. Even the noble cha pel, with its high vaulted roof and stained glass windows, which seem to hush the very daylight into a mournful silence, resoundslwith loud talking and the tread of feet as visitors pour in and out . ach flour. High towers and chambers, the Dona apartments and suite of Arragon saloons, conserva tories, galleries, and corridors, all, from roof to basement, are thrown open to the public and be come as thoroughfares, for the "magnificent con tents of Alton Towers are on view." The history of Alton Towers, which in a few weeks will be closed, may be soon told. Forty years ago the site was one of the wildest and most desolate of moorland hills in North Stafford shire. The approaches to it were bad and difficult in summer, and in winter there was no approaching it at all The land was poor, almost destitute of wood and w` fe at er, and a large farm-house, called Alton lodge, in the centre of au extensive rabbit warren, occupied the spot in which the far-famed seat now rears its lofty towers. The country mansion of the Earls of Shrewsbury was at that time Heythorp Castle, in Oxfordshire, a grand old feudal residence, which with the whole of its contents was unfortu nately a few years back destroyed by fire. Their estates in Staffordshire were seldom visited by tee successive Earls, who on the rare occasions when they did inspect them limited their sojourn to a few days only, and hastened back to forget the dis comforts of the visit in the luxury of Heythorp or Grafton-hall. In truth, they had some reason to avoid the place, for beyond the lonely farmhouse we have mentioned and Alton Castle—a mutilated stone remnant of the feudal times, which had been filially battered down and blown up by Cromwell— no decent house was within miles of the neighbour hood. It was not till 1812 that Charl es, the 15th Earl, who keenly appreciated the beauties of nature, visited Alton-lodge, and, struck with the rough grandeur of the scenery around, and the unrivalled facilities it would offer to a man of taste, deter mined to erect a villa there. When he commenced his design, in 1814, his plan was only to improve and beautify the farmhouse then existing, but the natural capabilities of the place gradually led to an extension of his views, and after going to some ex pense he at length decided to rear an edifice worthy of his rank and great possessions. To this object he devoted himself exclusively, and, as a Roman Catholic could not then take part in the political movements of the day, he was enabled to pursue his darling object undisturbed by the demands of party warfare. He obtained an inclosure act, and planted and enclosed the hills and commons round the edifice, formed a deer park, and planned the gardens, which for rich and „picturesque beauty leave Chatsworth or Trentham far behind. He was still labouring at the works at the time of his death in 1827, when he left the perfecting and completing of his great plan to John, the 16th Earl. He fol lowed in the footsteps of his predecessor, and even added to and improved on his designs. Under his care Alton Towers was finished almost as it stands at present—one of the most picturesque mansions in England. Alton Towers is situated on a lofty eminence in the valley of the Churnet, one of the steep com manding hills which form the base of Derbyshire Peak. The house overlooks a narrow and very steep ravine, which stretches southward for about a mile and a half, terminating in a wild, dark-look ing gorge, like one of the mountain outlets in South Wale.. The approach to the Towers winds from the railway station at Alton up the steep ascent, which is so thickly wooded as almost to exclude the light and give a sombre, melancholy aspect to the scene. The house stands on the very edge of the ravine, down either side of which are the terraced gardens, tier below tier, till the bottommost parterres are almost undistinguishable save for their bril liant colours. The Towers themselves form a noble Gothic pile, vast as a little town, with a whole crowd of turrets and pinnacles stretching high into the air, and visible for miles around. There is a wild and picturesque irregu larity about the structure which gives it an appear ance of antiquity far beyond its real age. The prin cipal entrance is , under a massive square tower of the Gothic type, the broad steps up which are flanked with the armorial bearings of the family, the tyke or talbot rampant. Over the high Norman doorway the emblazonments of the still older fami lies from which the Talbots spring are deeply cut in stone, the shields of the Furnivalls and De Ver dons, whose names are foremost in the Doomsday Book, with the martlet of the great house of Ne ville, whose last heir, Warwick the King-maker, fell at the field of Barnet. The entrance-hall is an apart ment as large as a modern mansion, and nearly 60 feet in height. Hung round wi t h weapons , s t ags ' heads, and hunting trophies, it gives the visitor a good idea of the noble suite of apartments which are to follow, and can be seen from the door, for communicating with the hall is the armoury, and joined to that again is the picture gallery, forming one magnificent vista nearly 500 feet in length, and lofty in proportion. The armoury is a splendid chamber, with a vaulted roof of carved and polished oak, and with every minor fitting, even to the doors and door locks, in keeping with its severe and mas sive style of decoration. It is adorned with a collec tion of antique weapons and armour, second in ex tent, rarity, and value only to those of Meyrick and the Tower of London. Twenty-four figures, sheathed from head to foot in complete mail, stand in niches on each side of the hall, and l oo k so for midably grim and silent, that one can fancy venge ful e es are watching from behind the barred vizors, and though of course not frightened, would vrefer not being left alone with them. Some of these suits are most antique and valuable, complete in all the technicalities of pouldrons, gussets, lobster toppets, cuisses, jambs, and sollat ets. The re s t o f t h e hal l i s filled with dismembered portions of cap-a-pie suits, rich to look at and uncomfortable to wear, with halberds, maces, half-pikes, bills, wheel-guns, and double axes, ail presenting the same general bloodthirsty features, and expressly constructed to gash and maim on the smallest provocation. A fine old screen of pikes and partisans divides the armoury from the picture gallery, a spacious building 120 feet long and 30 feet high. It is lit {limn the roof, and all its decorations are rich and beautiful, harmonising well with the fine paintings, mosaics. and sculpture which adorn its entire length. Here are examples from the Roman, Tuscan, Ve netian, Florentine, and Dutch schools of Art ; pic tures by Raffaele, Domenichino, Titian,Raffaellino, and Veronese ; designs by Michael Angelo, and statues by Canova ; in all 700 paintings hang in the galleries of Alton Towers. Of this large num ber the fame and history of about sixty are chroni cled in every work on art ; the others are mixed works, such as one expects to meet in so large and well-known a gallery. There are some remark ably fine specimens by Rubens, Wouvermans, and Cuyp among them. The greater part of these paintings were purchased by the Shrewsbury family in one lot, from the collection of Madame la Mere, Bonaparte's mother. Here also is the most cele brated Roman Mosaic table in the kingdom, on which the exotic birds and plants seem like pen cilled drawings. At the end of the gallery is a mage niticent statue of Raffaelle by Ceccarini, a crowd of busts by Canova, a superb candelabrum of varie gated marble nine feet high, and a copy of the great Warwick vase in statuary marble, of the same size as the renowned original. The picture gallery opens into the octagon chain cer, a copy of the Chapter-house at Salisbury. Ono noble column supports the groined roof, over which its enriched capitals radiate in all directions. By the side of the column is a representation of the tomb of the first earl—old John Talbot—Shak speare's favourite hero, with his mailed feet resting on a couchant hound, and his stony gaze fixed hard and stern upon the intrusive crowd assembled to haggle over the effects of his last descendant. From this the visitor turns to the tribune of the Talbot gallery, then to the Talbot gallery itself; then to the Talbot corridor, which leads to the State bed and dressing rooms, the library (two spacious chambers), the ante-library, the poet's bay, small dining-room, drawing-room, music-room, and so on from room to room till the visitor is bewildered amid countless chambers, all of which are furnished in a style to extort both admiration and wonder. It is useless to attempt describing how the rooms are situated, or even all the rooms in the place. We have the suite of Doria, rooms, the Arragon rooms, the chintz rooms, the red bedrooms, the yel low bedrooms, the plate-glass rooms, the south rooms, the fleur-de-lis rooms east and west, the SUIVOX and biliiard rooms, the upper - se a bedrooms, and so on till you wonder what on earth they were all built for, and under what possible combination of circumstances (unless the whole county were on tertainel), could they all be used. The State bedrooms deserve especial notice ; their fittings are so gorgeous and Magnificent as literally almost to dazzle the eyes. The ga eate-t efforts, of course, are concentrated upon the bedstead and ap pendages. The former is a very temple of Morpheus, and we should almost fear to say the exact amount of sleeping surface it contains, though it would cer tainly accommodate a whole Royal family with ease. Like Thackeray's bed of the Marquis of Carrabas, a murder might be done at one end, and those sleep ing at the other know nothing about it. The bed stead is adorned with towers and battlements, spires, domes, and turrets, all carved in oak and richly gilt, so as to make the whole affair, in fact, resemble a sleeping Alton Towers, but in which one could not sleep, and would not like to try for all the world. The hangings and coverlid of the bed are silk damask, elaborately embroidered with flowers and gold tracery. The library and ante-library are fit ted up with massive and rather sombredecorations in black oak, with short moral sentences in illuminated letters over each bookcase. The music and drawing rooms aredecorated wrthraremagnificence. Mirrors, mosaic tablets, buhl cabinets, Sevres vases, old Dresden chandeliers, and massive candelabra, with gilt couches and chairs covered with embroi dered Utrecht velvet, make those saloons the very types of profuse luxury. These ceilings are carved oak with ornaments in blue and gold, and the arms and cypher of the family upon the panels. The suites of Arragon and Doria rooms are, however, the most tasteul in ornament, and command the most picturesque views of any in the building. From the drawing-room of the latter suite an al most unequalled prospeot is gained over the series of terraced gardens, fountains, roseries, alcoves, and temples which lie beneath in shady nooks and corners of the deep ravines around the mansion. From the vicinity of the music-room a grand con servatory, every groined arch in the roof of which is draped with flowering creepers and rich exotics, leads out into the private gardens, filling the large square space enclosed by the buildings. These are beautifully laid out in the Italian style, and so as to bring the parterres up to the windows of all the chief groundfloor apartments. The family cypher is executed here on a large scale in shrubs and flowering plants. Attached to this are the ro series, a series of paths walled and closed in above with a trellis-work, and over which aretrained every known variety of the rose tree. The perfume which they shed through these secluded walks is almost ov ni private d terrace hne l e a mt cl h a s en f s r i o o m n . summitthTe The these there d r :e a rl: itevori a ich f t view from this extensive range of grounds and gar dens beneath is one of the most beautiful and pic turesque that can possibly be conceived. At the doors of the turrets along the walks, in question able taste, lay figures in complete armour, seem to keep watch and ward, so that but for the peaceful ness of the scene the visitor might well imagine the first grim iron age of violence and rapine had re turned again. No merely verbal description will convey an ade quate idea of the rare beautyof the pleasure grounds. Though the ground they cover is little more than 50 acres in extent, yet the paths through them are so winding and so diversified as to appear almost - endless. Both sides of the steep ravine down which they extend are divided into a series of terraces, each of which is named and distinguished for some surpassing natural or architectural beauty. Grot toes, fountains, temples, rockeries, statues, refuges, conservatories, and p ago d as ar e disclosed by every inding path, or stand out boldly on little emi nences overlooking the deep ravine. The conserva tories are a noble range of buildings ornamented in front with massive columns, and surmounted by seven large gilded domes, which seem from the op posite side of the ravine to impart to the whole structure the appearance of an eastern mosque or palace. Above the terrace on which this stands is another row of conservatories, almost of the same size, with a oorticcs in the centre and two large gilded domes at either end. Amid the parterres in front of the g reat conservatory is erected a fac simile copy, in marble, of the Choragic monumentof Lysi crates at Athens, containing a bust of Earl Charles, with the appropriate motto, "He made the desert smile." Above the upper conservatory is a terrace decorated with double rows of marble statues and vases,and above this again is a terrace for the reser voirs filled withaquatic plants, and on the uppermost plateau of all a large imitation of Stonehenge has been erected. Lower down the ravine is the great screw fountain, the path from which leads up to the Gothic temple—a handsome solid structure, from the summit of which is the finest view over the grounds and towers beyond. Golden gates lead from the gardens into the rock walk, which, wind ing for more than a mile, terminates at a rough mass of stone called Ina's rock, in memory of the great battle fought on the spot between the Kings of Mercia and Wessex, Coelred and Ina. In the gorge of the ravine is a t a l l Chinese pagoda, which has been convettel into a fountain, and pours into the air all day a lofty spire of water. Such is a cursory mention of the principal ob jects iu the gardens, which have been described by Loudon "as the finest combination of garden building with garden scenery anywhere existing in Europe." For some years past they have been con sidered as public grounds to all the surrounding cts ded thmselves o ne ighbourhood, and thousands of visitors from the manufacturing distri the privilege :during the summer ailyavail . No tick ets wen f required, and every one went in or out as he liked. With a most unus ual amount of consideration for the visitors, the predecessor of the late earl allowed mansionand t a house for the sale of refreshments to be built in a secluded part of the grounds, where refreshments moderate fixed rate. Gradually the are sold at a thrown open—at first ou ticket=, all who came—and though hun dreds daily wandered through its beautiful saloons, a shilling's worth of loss or damage was never sus tained. hen it f s r e e l e f ly w t a: , The Duke of Norfolk, who at present holds the property in trust for his second son , has with much kindness determined to keep up the gardens (though at a cost of 2,0001. a-year) for the benefit of the public in the neighbourhood, who from long right of use consider them almost as their own. The sale co anne nced on Monday, and will con tinue for the next five weeks, when Alton Towers will be stripped and desolate and closed for many year to come On Tue-day a portrait of Philip IV. s. by Valasquez w as sold for 123 guineas, and a cattle piece by Cuyp for 565 guineas. When the litiga tion which i s about to ensue respecting the real ownership of the estates will terminate is not, how ever, quite so certain. The lawyers, we imagine, will prove the real heirs to the property, and, pro bably, after it has been involved for years in the meshes of Chancerh and exhausted by the constant drain of retainers, refreshers, and reminders, and all the lucrative devices employed to keep counsel constant, the despairing litigants may compromise, and sell the encumbered property to the sons of some lad who is now sweeping out master's warehouse in Cheapside, or arranging spools in a cotton mill at Manchester. Thus, then, may the hospitalities of Alton be revived hereafter, under the auspices of a Viscount Cripplegate or a Baron Stockport. But Alton Towers just now is no place in which to indulge in such reflections. The visitor must rouse, and make way for the bustling smployds of Messrs. Christie and Manson. Let them' arrange the couches on which Royalty has reclined in a manner likely to attract the bidders, an'i ticket the banners which have been borne by the Earls of Shrewsbury in the heat of battle, or waved at the coronation of our kings. Let them place in the best light the massive armour of the renowned John Talbot, the suit in which he. fought his way through France by the side of the stout John Folstaffe, in which he en countered Joan of Arc, and died full knightly under the walls of s Poictiers. It is a mere suit of armour now, and the political associations of an extinct line go for nought, for the last heir male of the Shrewsburies has been la'cl at rest for ever, and the " magnificent effects" of Alton Towers are for sale. ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE. HOME CIRCUIT.—HERTFORD, JULY 8. The commission for the county of Herts was opened on Tuesflay by Mr. Justice Willes, and business was proceeded with this morning in the Crown Court. The gaol calendar is nut heavy. The civil business will not commence until this (Thursday) morning, at ten o'clock. very few causes are entered rip to this time, and it is expected that the cause list will be a light one. SOUTH WALES CIRCUIT—CARDIFF, July 7. (Before Mr. Justice Crowder.) MURDER. John Lewis, aged 40, a skinner by trade, stood charged on the coroner's warrant with the wilful murder of his wife, Gwenllian Lewis, at Merthyr. Mr. Giffard and Mr. Rees prosecuted, and Mr. T. Allen defended the prisoner. The prisoner and deceased took care of the offices of Mr. Morgan, a solicitor, and lived on the pre mises. Mr. Morgan resided in the adjoining house. On the 14th of January of the present year Mr. Morgan returned to his office, and on finding his summons to the housekeeper unan§wered, he went down stairs in the dark and thus became acquainted with the awful catastrophe that had happened. From the medical testimony it seemed that the per son of the murdered woman was frightfully mangled. On the prisoner being questioned as to the cause of his wife death, he replied—" I don't know, indeed I was obliged to burst open the back dJor." The evidence was entirely circumstantial, and the cp;ei tion was whether the deceased met her de tth by any act of her own, or whether it was produced by the violence of the prisoner. The jury, after a short deliberation, returned a verdict of guilty of wilful murder. His Lordship, having put on the black cap, pro ceeded to pass the last sentence of the law. He said—After a patient and most anxious investiga tion you have been found guilty of the heinous crime of the murder of one whom you were bound to cherish and protect by every tie, both human and divine. To gain a little money to gratify the lust of intoxication, you have been seduced into the commission of a brutal murder. Although you hurled your wife into eternity without a moment's consid ration here, we will do more for you and afford you some delay to appease an offended Maker. The sentence is that you be taken to the place whence you came, and thence to the place of exe cution, and then that you be hanged till you are dead, and that your body be buried within tho precincts of the gaol, and may the Lord have mercy on your soul ! The court was much crowded during the trial. The wretched man preserved a calm demeanour throughout, and appeared resigned to his fate. A WESTMINSTER CoLLOQUY.—"TaIk of the murrain upon COWS !" - ----- finest milk man ; "blest if I don ' t l ay a ll that 'ere murrain upon A -c Sir Benjamin 'All . " " Wh y I" was the m ild interroga tory. exclaimed an inte lli g ent Broadway milk " 'm has bin and gon e and ruined on e of the strongest claims imbecile rejoi n d er. " Wh y , bless my 'eart, 'aven't he bin and gon e an d walks in Westminster." 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Mr. Combe—Did you see anything in Salvi's 1 and tribunals, and perfect publicity in the affairs of hand ? Government. Witne:.—No, sir. T•te Tort ,n try.o , , oo the 'cos-den of the Id;e abor- Mr. Comhe—Did en Lear Salvi ;_py anything tive f,tt,.--op- J insurre-it.i.itt, a ; .;e: it. to :i:-. z.-...1eu , 1y when he was heat'ng hint '? per'ot. , 7'ed Lie.. dut : :. But we are n t ~, eetielin'e, from the ener g y with whic'i a mad IZe.!.,ubli,etn or Cosniniudst Witness— es, sir. He said, '' You ray that t— the was put do , en, that the people of Tuscany you say that !" very may.b. excited, and he was are not ty . scoritented. they are deeply &sec nt nteed, and if striking him rapidly. I then saw blood flowing front Mr. Robertson's cheek. While Sd.vi was the intelligent Lucca and and it proprietors of Prato . and of j ,nr i, ei.v.,,,tf the p i , e , e l, aheakss for rf its s he Serch h i 0 . , t find t striking Mr. Robertson he slipped off the chair on that ' t i tle' to the floor, and called out "I am murdered I" I obtain from the Grand Dul l % a concordat mainsuch o has je been c th , n saw the blood rushing down his face. agreed to at Naples and Vienna, by which the old liber-• - Mr. Combe—Did you then observe any knife ? ties and Leopoldine laws are to be abrogated for the Witness—No, sir. benefit of the encroachine Church, their deep discontent Mr. Co tube—Does any one in court know whether may as,urne a sturdie r form. Salvi ever had this knife in his possession ? The wisdom and the feresight of the note addressed to Mr. Collwell—Th€re is not, sir ; but Salvi the congress of Paris on the 271 h March, 1856, by the acknowledged that he did it. Pienipot-ntaries, Cavour and Villa.inarina, now plainly Mr. Combo—ls there any further evidence appear. They stated in that note that the Italian Penin against Gower ? sula was a volcano, and suggested measures recom mended Britishedauarterof a certu tiryaige x oby the First Minister Mr. Coll w ell—Wh en. I went into Mr. Robertson's of n of Naples, the room hesaid to me. "Take Mr. Gower into custody, Pope, and Crown. the Grand Buti Duke of Tuscany g have not listened as he instigated Salvi to murder me." I went after to or followed the advice of the wist-st of our statesmen, him, and told him he must go with me and Salvi though repeatedly and urgently pressed on them. before a magistrate and have the matter settled. Whil,t, therefore, we reprobate in the strongest manner He said, " Oh, my God, I am innocent." the projects of hot-headed and unthinking men who fly Mr. Combo—l think there is quite sufficient evi- recklessly to arms, deluging Italy with blood, and draw dence for me to detain both the prisoners for fur- ing down calamities on their countrymen, on the other hand, we cin have no sympathies with, or pity for, ther examination. T shall therefore remand them until to-morrow. th o se worst revolutionists of another ki n d, who, high Mr. Gower, who seemed much excited and over - placed on authority, resist and rejeot all improvement, whoobsoletehuman r s andclingtoh e antiquated atun in i prejudicesthe n and rr e n tto of tom-, hoped his worship would accept bail. He was respectable tradesman, and could obtain bail to any improve, who, ' "damming just ° up reforms till the irresistible amount. He begged of his worship not to send pressure o f accumulated discontent breaks down a ll bar him to prison, on account of his family. tiers and levels institutions which renovating means Mr. Combe—lt is a very serious charge. The m ight have rendered strong and lasting. prosecutor may die from the wounds inflicted on him ; therefore I cannot accept bail for either or SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. you. Both prisoners were then conveyed to Horsemon• ger lane Gaol in the prison van. GREENWICEL—Thomas Perry, driver, Ed ward Whitten, fireman, and John Griffith, signal man at the Blacklit:a'h station, were brought up for re-examination charged with neglect of duty and cawing the deaths of 11 persons at the late acci dent on the North Kent Railway. The evidence against Griffiths was first taken, and the other prisoners were removed from the dock. The station-masters at Blackheath and Lewisham having been examined, Mr. Traill said he should commit the prisoner for trial, but as the coroner's inquest was not closed he should remand him until Thursday week. Perry and Whiffen were then placed in the dock, and, after the hearing of further evidence, com mit!ed for trial on the charge of manslaughter, the inagiarate stating that they also would be again brought up for formal evidence as to the deaths which had occurred. Mr. Trail also stated that any observations he had to make upon particular point; in the case would be embodied in a letter to the directors of the railway, and that a transcript would be forwarded to the Board of Trade. LANCASTER RACES-WEDNESDAY. Members' Plate (Handicap). One mile and a distince. Odd Trick De Ginkel Prince of Orange Ouly these three ran. Won cleverly. Lancaster Cup (Handicap). One mile and a•half. King if the G pies General ,• illy-se•s Hamlet Four ran. Won easy. Borough Plate (Handicap). One mile. Jane Cora Lynne Ulysses Only these three ran ... 3 NEWMARKET JULY MEETING--WzmaspAt. The Midsummer Stakes of 50 sous each, h ft, for 3-yr olds ; colts, Bst 71b; fillies, Bst 31b. Certain penalties and alio , ances. B M. (7 fur. 196 yds.) 8 subs. Mr. Medley's Comquot, by Sweetmeat, Bst 31b (3. Goater), walked over. _ _ HandiCap Plate of 50 sous, for 3-yr-olds and upwards. Chesterfield Stakes Course. (3 fur. 212 yds.) Mr. Evan's Sorceress, 3 yrs, fist 131 b (Plumb) 1 Mr. Boyce's colt by St. Lawrence—Azimuth, 3 yrs, lit 7tb (D. Hughes) 2 Sir W. Booth's Beatrice, 3 yrs, Est 21b (Alderoft) 3 The following also ran :—lndulgence, Sneer, g. Duke of Lancaster, Rackapelt, Sichcus, Delusion, and Marie Agnes. Bating-5 to 2 agst Delusion, 3to 1 agst Beatrice, 6 to 1 agst Sorceress, 8 to 1 agst Duke of Lancaster, 10 to. 1 agst Azimuth colt. - - Won by a neck ; three lengths between the second and third, Delusion was a bad fourth, Sneer gelding fifth, and Rackapelt sixth ; Indulgenee was last. 'Sweepstakes of 10 sovs each, for 2-yr•olds; colts, Bst 71b fillies, Bst 41b. The winner to be sold for 200 sovs, if demanded, &c. Last half of B.M. 5 subs. '- Baron Rothschild's Georgie, Bst 41b (D. Hughes) 1 Mr. Angell's Woodmite ' B,t 41b (Wells) 2 Mr. Ferguson's Psyche filly, 8t 4ib (E. Sharp) 3 Lady Conyngham and Pactolus also ran. Betting—Even on Woodroite, 5 to 2 agst Lady Conyng• ham, 4 to 1 agst Psyche f., 5 to 1 agst Georgie. A fine race in with Georgie and Woodraite ended in favour of Georgie by a head ; the Psyche filly was beaten a head only from Woodrnite, and Lady Conyngham a like distance from the Psyche filly ; Pactolus was about a length and a-half behind Lady Conyngham. The Town Plate of 50 sovs, for 3-yr-olds ; colts Bst 71b, Bnt 31b. B.M. (7 furlongs 195 yards). Mr. Meltish's Huntington, Bst 71b (Wells) 1 Mr. Daley's Renown, Bst 31b (J. Goater) 2 Mr. Alexander's Humbug, Bst 71b (R. Cotton) 3 Perfume awl Chabron colt also ran. Betting—Even on Huntington, 7 to 4 agst Renown. Won cleverly by three-quarters of a length ; very bad third. LATEST BETTING. GOODWOOD STAKES. 12 to 1 agst Rosati 13 to 1 agst Martinet ST. LEGER. sto 2on the Field (offered) 20 to 1 ag-t Sydney 40 to 1 agst Oakball 360 to 300 on Ignoramus and Blink Bonny coupled BOMBA AND 111 S BANDITTI. (From the Morning Post.) The desperate measure adopted by the Neapoli tan King and his sanguinary Commissary of Police, Campagna, of putting arms into the hands of the Lazzaroni, is one of the most indefensible that could be resorted to, and it plainly indicates the straits to which the Monarch of the Two Stcilies is re• duced. Distrusting the native army, and not fee: ing that even fifteen thousand or twenty thousand mercenary Swiss are sufficient to protect him from his own.people, Ferdinand has caused arms to be distributed to the fifty thousand or sixty thousand Lazzaroni who live in the heart of Naple.., and who daily line the Piazza, the Chiaga, the Mole, and the Strada di Toledo. These grinning, shouting, lazy, roaring vagabonds, who act - as fishermen, porters, messengers, bravi, brigands, and some times even in worse callings, and who are ready to do any work. however vile or infamous, for which they are paid, have ever been the ready instra ments of the most superstitious of priests, and of the most despotic and tyrannical of kings ; and there is not a man or woman in Naples obnoxious to the Government who is not at the mercy of this race, who are as wild and reckless as savages, and who are, in addition, steeped in the worst vices of a putria civilisation. - What the Lazzarami were in 1799, at the time of the sanguinary Cardinal Ruffo, they are still. Their cruelties and atroci'ies, when they were had arms in their hands 58 years ago, so great that the French General . Champi - ormet was obliged to disarm them at all hazards, for the life of no man, woman, or child was safe so long as they had weapons at command. Semi-savages, who let themselves out for hire, either to take or swear away a life, either to perjure or to murder to order, can have no moral sense. They only acknowledge the party paying and the priest absolving, and in this way sinning, and being shrivel for the sin, they pass away their hideous lives. These savage mon are now the fifty thousand chosen body-guard of King Ferdinand, to whom he has confided bayonets anti muskets, and we may be pretty sure that their deeds during this month of July will give abundant occupation to the three thousand four hundred and one secular clergy and the one thousand seven hundred and sixty-four monks which Naples is said to contain within its walls. A number of our countrymen and women, as well as Americans, Frenchmen, Russians, and Germans, are now at Naples. These strangers, it appears, ac cording to our Correspondent, are ordered to write their names on the doors of their apartments, as a measure of necessary precaution, though we do not ourselves very well see how the mere writing of names, which the Lazzaroni cannot read, can secure strangers from the violence of this lawless, ignorant, and superstitious banditti. From our Correspondent on the spot, we know the City of Naples was tran quil on the 4th, so that it would appear any attempt at disturbance at Naple , , if suth there were, was put down. But we have accounts from Leoce, Reggio, Corolla, Calabria, and Sicily, which show that the state of things in these localities was very serious indeed. It is openly stated that the Neapolitan army cannot be depended on, and that even the much-boasted Swiss regiments, which the King has taken such costly pains to procure, have shown an unwillingness to be separated from each other. The Neapolitan army, never at any tone highly efficient or disciplined, has been of late dis gusted by unheard-of-severities, and a harassing , system of delation and espionage. Even in one of the cavalry regiments, usually filled by a better class of officers and men, desertions have taken place ; and officers who were counted on as most stanch have been found wavering in their fidelity. If this be so thirty or forty miles from Naples,. in the Principate-Ultra, what must be the condition of affairs in Sicily, separated from the Italian Pen insula, and inhabited by races much more hostile to the King's Government ? Though this Govern ment has exhibited on the present occasion mor• energy and vigour than we inked for, yet if the native army be unfaithful, and the Swiss wavering and uncertain, there is no saying to what extent the insurrection may spread. Should the insur gents in any locality gain the u p per hand, the flame of rebel on is likely to spread to the con tinental kingdom and to the States of the Church. The people of the Legations, and of the Cornaccio, and indeed of Rome itself, are deeply discontented ; and, if it were not for the presence of fen eign troops, would long ago have revolted. The subjects of the Pope are now very well aware that the Liberal movement initiated by Pius IX., eleven years ago, was a proceeding in which the heart or cell viction of the Pontiff had no concern. It was politic in 1846 and 1847 to follow the harsh, abominable, and rigorous measures of Gregory XVI. by an amnesty and a change of councillors, and by this Pius IX. gained a wonde, fill popularity. But when it was known that in 1848 the Pontiff held one language on public affairs in secret, and another and a diametrically opposite language in public, the. most intelligent subjects of the Papacy became aware that the Liberalism of Pius IX. neither arose from conviction nor from far-sighted statesmanship. Of statesmanship, indeed, the Pontiff is wholly incapable ; and though, from the facility of his character and his desire for popularity, he promised much to his subjects in his days of trouble, yet none of these promises have been rea lised. In truth, notwithstanding his affable man ners, gracious deportment, and conciliating cha racter, Pius IX., in all the pretensions of the Pontificate, entertains the notions of the most ab solute Churchmen, end not consent to surren der any portion of his sovereign or ecclesiastical power. In all that relates to the religious part of the question, he is as narrow a bigot as the most ultra of the cardinals, and in the secular affairs of Government he is the mere instrument and dupe of the jobber of the Sacred College, Cardiel ntonelli, as Leo XII. arid yin., in 1 828 , 1829, and 1830, were said to be the instruments and dupes of its d a n c er, the late Cardinal Albani. Notwithstand ing, then, the journeys and dramatico-religious ex hibitions of the Pontiff in the provincial govern ments, he will leave b ehind him lar g e de p osits of discontent in his provinces, and if the insurrection gains any head in Sicily, or in the continental dominions of Ferdinand, it is certain to extend to the States of the Church. In truth, there is only one portion of the Italian Peninsula likely to escape the conflagration, and that portion is the kingdom of Sardinia. It is not the pardon of 20 prisoners that can render the Pope popular, but a general amnesty, the secularisation of the Government, a responsible Ministry, the introduction of the Code Napoleon, and the abolition of ecciesiaitioal judges Country Markets. EDINBITRaII HAY AND STRAW MARKET. JULY 7. Supplies of all kinds these last six days moderate. Oat straw, from 8s od.to lOs Od per kemple oft stones trop; wheat do., 7s Od to lOs Od; barley do., Os Oh to N Od. Hay from is ld to ls. 4d. EDINBURGH MEAL—JULY 7. There were in the market to-day 12 sacks oatmeal, each weighing 2801 b imperial, which sold at 44s and 435 6d. DALKEITH MEAL MARKET—JULY 6. There were in the market to-day 6 bags of oatmeal, oof bar leymeal, and 0 pot barley. Sales dull. Oatmeal, per sack of 2801bs Yirst. Second. Third. im p er i a l Barleymeal, per ditto --s Od —s Od —s C 4 Peasemeal, per ditto Flour, new, per ditto.... —s Od. —s Od —s Oa Pot-barley, new, per ditto.,. —s Od s Od — s od DUBLIN, JIILY 7. White wheat, 35s 61 to 39s Od ; red ditto, 3is 01 to 31$ Oil ditto new, s ; barley, malting, 16s 6d to '2ss 6d ; grind . ing, —s to —s ; oats, old, 14s 6d to 17s; ditto, new, -- -15 Od to —s 0.1; oatmeal, 15s to 18s Od; bere, new, --s to — ll 0 ; rapese d, s Od to —s Od per brl ; bakers' flour, 200 Od to 21s Od per owl ; Indian corn, 38s Oct to 39i 01 Pe t 4750 114, COAL MARK Prices of Coals per ton at s. d Bell's Primrose l3 0 Howard's WeSt Hartley Netherton l6 0 North Percy Hartley l5 0 Earsden's Hartley l5 6 Htl'pool West Hartley 15 6 eKtitield Moor Butes 14 0 Wylam A.eorn Close l5 9 Waßaena, &e Tees l7 6 lietton l7 6 Hetton Lyons Main l5 0 [Copier Grains l6 6 14 9 Ships at marks POLICE INTELLIGENCE-July 8. WORSHIP-STREET.--Joseph Denby, an ill favoured thick-set young fellow, was charged with attempting to break into and enter the dwelling house of Mr. Black, a merchant residing at the "Priory," Lower Clapton, under peculiar circum stances, detailed by Mrs. Black with considerable naivete. About half-past six o'clock in the morning the lady was somewhat alarmed by a slight yet suspici ous noise below stairs, and descending made her way to the larder, fairly presuming from prior in cursions there that it was then the scene of opera tion ; quietly peeping in at the door she observed the prisoner with one hand thrust through the aperture of the iron bars, and tenaciously grasping the tongue of an ox, which he appeared to have selected from the various viands resting in dishes on the shelf beneath. The tongue, however, was too large to pass through the space with the thief's fingers closed on it, and, moreover, being cooked, was like many others, very slippery, and it con tinually fell back again. Mrs. Black noticing that the article was becoming terribly "mauled," thought it time to interfere, and opening an adja cent window, called loudly for "Pluto." The marauder started as the deep bay of a hound broke through the stillness, and leaving the tongue wedged between the bars, he scoured off across the lawn. " Pluto, Pluto," was repeated from the win dow by the lady. A rush was beard among the shrubs at the farther end of the grounds, and just as the fellow reache lit, Pluto made his appearance therefrom in the formidable shape of an enormous Newfoundland dog. Both were at a stand for half a minute ; then the thief stepped slowly and gradually backwards. Pluto majestically followed him. The thief yelled ; Pluto growled ; and at this critical juncture, while the animal was apparently waiting further orders from his mistress, the gar dener and other servants issued from the house, and seized the scoundrel, who manifestly considered their custody much preferable to that of Pluto's. The d )g was prevented from injuring him, and a police constable subsequently conducted the prisoner to the station-house. When asked by the attendant, " What brought you her ?" he answered " Why, my legs to be sure." A sergeant of the N division said he had had the accused in custody three times for felony, and he was a notoriius area sneak. He had also been convicted at the Middlesex Sessions. The magistrate told the fellow that he should not send him for trial this time, but order him to be imprisoned for three calendar months in the House of Correction with hard labour. _ _ _ SOUTHWARK.—Anthone de Salvi, an Italian, residing at 7, Little James-street, Pall-mall, de scribed on the charge sheet as a merchant, and Jabez Samuel Gower, auctioneer, of 26, Barbican, were charged, the former with stabbing Mr. Robt. H. Robertson, with intent to murder him, in the Queen's Prison, and the latter with inciting him to do the same. Charles Collwell said—l am chief turnkey of the Queen's Prison. There is a gentleman named Robert Henderson Robertson confined in No. 4 in 10 room, and he is now in a dangerous state from wounds inflicted on him with some sharp instru ment. About half-past two o'clock this afternoon, in consequence of information I received, I has tened into the yard, where I saw a number of per sons collected, and then I heard that Mr. Robertson had been stabbed. There was great excitement in that portion of the prison, and going towards that gentleman's room I met Mr. Salvi, when some of the inmates of the ward called out " Secure him, he has stabbed Mr. Robertson." laccordingly stopped him and told him he must go with me, when he exclaimed, " I'll go, I'll go." I then took him and lett him in the visiting room, and then I weut to Mr. Robertson's room, where I found him lying on the bed with blood flowing from a large wound in the right temple and another in the right cheek. As soon as I entered he said to me, "For God's sake, Mr. Collwell, take down what I have to say in writing, as I believe I am dying." I got writingmaterialg, when Mr. Robertson t old me that Salvi stabbed him and Gower instigated him to do so. Neither of the prisoners were present at that time. A medical gentleman then came, and I went after Mr. Gower and told him he must go before a magistrate with Salvi, as he was charged with in stigating him in the attack on Mr. Robertson. He seemed very much flurried, and said, "11l go." After they were both secured I went with the doctor to Mr. Robertson's room and saw him attended to. Mr. Thomson, a solicitor, was there, and he saw all that occurred. When SaLvi was brought forward again and" told what he had done, he said, " It's all true, I did it." Among the persons in the room there was one named Wyld, .and he brought in a knife which he said he had picked up at the door, and handed it to Dennis, one of the prison officers. Mr. Combo—ls that knife in court ? Dennis—l am one of the officers of the Queen's Prison. I received this knife from Mr. Wyld. The knife was here handed to the magistrate. It was a large Spanish knife, quite new, with a handle about six inches long, and had a spring at the back. Two inches of the blade had been broken off, and it was all covered with blood. Mr. Combe--d-Where is the other portion of this knife 1 Dennis—l don't know, sir, at present. Mr. Combo to Mr. Collwell—What did Gower say when you gave him into custody ? Mr. Collwell—He said, " Oh, that's shocking to come here with him, and be charged with such an offence." He was very much exciter]. Mr. Richard Thompson examined—l am a solici tor, at No, 3, Finsbury-chambers. I was present when the unfortunate affair happened. I know all the parties. About one o'clock th s afternoon Mr. Satii came to my chambers, and asked me to ac company him and Mr. Gower to the Queen's Prison. I am attorney for Salvi against Robertson, who is detained there at his suit. We called on Mr. Gower and we all went to the Queen's Prison, and saw Mr. Robertson in his room. They went to have the matter settled. Robertson asked me to take I asked a seat, and Salvi and Gower stood near his chai r. Robertson to make some proposition to Salvi, when some angry words took place between them a , bout a b:11 for 2001. Mr. Robertson said to Salvi, I have not the bill," when allusion was an.ade to a Mr. Brown and a Scotch sequestration. Salvi rated Ro bntson about his dishonesty, and said to him, " You say you did not have th e 2001. bill ?" Robertson made some reply about Brown, andthen Gower made an observation to Salvi. The latter then leaned over Robertson's c hair, and I saw him beat him rapidly in the face. I called out ‘‘ Don't beat him ;" and I thought he was onl y striking him ith his hands. Mr. Cornbe—How near was he to Mr. Robertson ? Witness—Close to his chair, leaning over him. ET.—JuLY 8. t the close of the market. Wsllsend, &e. s cl• t3raddyll l6 3 South Hetton 17 3 Russell's Hetton 16 3 4ealiam l6 Hilda l4 6 Barton Eden Main l6 : Framwellgate l5 Haswell 17 6 Kelloe. 15 6 West Kelloe 15 6 South Kelloe 16 6 Coundon Tees l5 ! Fleugh Hall 1 5 j t, 71; sold, 65. LOCAL SHARE MARKETS. LIVERPOOL, JULY 8. STOCK EXCHANGE.—The transactions in this inarke o to-day have been exceedingly inactive, and prices 110 6) somewhat receded. London and North-Western, 103 r Lancashire and Yorkshire, 101—South Eastern, 22 North Eastern, Berwick, 231 4 —Dutch Rhenish, 31 d. Grand Trunks, 144—Sheffields, 44I—East Lancashire ll 97—Ditto new 91., 4 pm. MANCHESTER, JULY 8. STOCK EXCHANGE. —The market opened ratheri,,l to-day, with a very little advance in prices. Leeds, 1g gj Sheffields, 44:1 il—Dovers, 22 7-16—Grand Trunk Canada, 143—Midlands, 833--Great Western of Canad" Lancashire, 974. B liR T H S. OF A SON. On the Gth inst., at Edgville House, Leamington, tl i° wife of W. E. Jones, Esq , M.A., barrister-at.law. On the 7th inst., at Wells, Somerset, the.wife of W. P . Weida, Esq. OF A DAUGHTER. • On the 7th Inst., at Shooter's-hill, the wife of S. ° Flomershani, Esq., C.E. On the 7th inst., at 33, Albert-square, Clapham , tb° wife of David Hutchins, Esq. MARRIED. 1 On the 7th inst., at St. Marylebone Church, Chst 4 oo Jenkin, eldestson of Charles Coles Esq., jun., the FI o O Mitcham, to Charlotte Eliza , the only daughter of Cha r ' Esq., of York-terrace Regent's-park. On the 7th inst., M. T. Levitt, Esq., of Cleadon 17111 5 Clifton-road, east, St. John's-wood, to Maria, young e l daughter of Israel Isaacs, Esq., of Norfolk-ioad, St. J ohn wood. D I E D. On the 7th inst., at Barrett-grove Stoke Newing.,/" John Unwin, E3q., late of the Stock Barrett-grove,, aged On the 6th inst., at Cheltenham, lienry Addenbroo v' Esq., aged 71. On the 7th inst., at Chichester, Harriet May , the tbie daughter of Lieutenant-Colonel George Green Nicol ° Esq. On the 6th inst., at Greenwich, John Simpson, P 6161 On the sth inst., at Malines, Belgium, George Stni Esq., formerly Secretary to the Navy Board, aged 80. Oa the sth inst., John P rotheroe, Es q ., of Cleve av Somerset, aged 82. OOP On the 4th inst., at Haslar Ho s p it a l, H oward J. BY Esq., R.N., aged 25. On the 6th inst., at 4, Warwick - gardens west, Kenool ton, Agnes Kate Bovill, aged 20. LONDON Printed and Publighed by MTIRDO YO -1 / 1 1 0 , of No.. 112, Strand, Printer, at The Sun Office , 4 11 9 , 2traad, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in the CO of Middlesex, Thursday, July 9, 1857. rn a Mn onl be all Tic Said DaClaire AT( the 8 clairt Da any 1 porta their Th Pidly ser e , tribo enlist th e s Door Theh, cath; Itev. tonic New effec quen bons bona 'and to re Its pi Resll 'ldes its u or fo Tt litie the I skin, tonsi • Its sYst( of 11 /"II Jtv