The Sun. — London, England, 1857-07-27 00:00:00

SUN OFFICE, Seven o'clock. TATTERSALL' S=(This Evening.) There were very few members present,, and no trans actions worthy of note took place. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF LORDS.--(This Evening.) ROYAL COMMISSION. The Royal assent was given to the following bills by commission :—Grand Juiiss (Ireland) Act (1846) Amendments, Turnpike Trusts Abolition (Ireland) Amendments, Constabulary Force (Ireland), Briton Ferry Docks, Glasgow City and Suburban Gas, Scottish Central Railway, Stamford and Essendine Railway, Victoria (London) Docks, Great Northern and Western (of Ireland), Great Southern and Western Ex tension Railway, Leslie Railway, Keith and Dufftown Railway, Dexchorp Turnpike Trusts, London (City) Coal Duties, European and Indian Junction Telegraph Company, West of Fife Mineral Railway, Clyde Navi gation, Pultenay Town and Harbour, Elie Harbour, New Quay Pier and Harbour, Reading Junction Rail way, Slaney River Improvement; Stockport, Disley, and Whaley Bridge Railway ; Worksop and Altercliffe Road, Westminster Terminus Railway Extension (Clapham to Norwood), Blackwater Bridge and Road, Cork and Yougbal Railway, He ss ard CA thedral Restoration &tate, Atlantic Telegraph Company, Dartmouth; and Torbay Railway, Dun dalk and Enniskillen Railway,l Newton and Mac lasuleth Railway, Prestwick, Bury, and Ratcliffe Roads ; Shropshire Union Railway and Canal, (London and North-Western Railway and Shropshire Canal Companies), Deeside Railway, Banff, Macduff, and Turiff Extension Railway ;. Stockton New Gas and Stockton Gas Consumers, Banff, Portsoy, and Strathisla Railway ; Buralem and Tornatall Gas, Bristol, South Wales and Southampton Union Railway ; Newcastle under-Lyne and Leek Roads, Longport,' Somerton, and Castle Cary Roads; Lowestoft Water Gas and Markets, Australian Agricultural Company, Ely Tidal Harbour and Raila , ay, Margate Water, Tyne Improvements, Wimbledon and Dorking Railway, Shrewsbury Gas, Lewes and Uckfield Rail way, Newry, Warrenpoint, and Rostrevor Railway ; Mallow and Fermoy and Great Smithern and Western Railway, Bury Gas, Stlby and Market Wighhton Turn pike Road, West Somerset Railway, tratfurd-upon- Avon Gas,London Gas Light Company (Capital), Milford Improvements, Orkney Roads, East Kent Railway, Midland Great Western Railway of Ireland (Sligo Ex tension), Monklaods Railway, Flemings Estate, Camp bell's Divorce, and Smith's Divorce. -The Royal Commissioners were the Lord Chancellor, the Earl of Harrowby, and the Marquis of BreadaLane. Their lordships adjourned during pleasure. The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the woo : sack at five o'clock. THE TRANSATLANTIC CABLE. The Earl of DERBY presented a petitioa from a gentleman stating that the cab'e manufactured for the Transatlantic Cable was by no means strong enough to bear the pressure of the water upon it. He prayed to be heard at the bar to support his allegation. BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE. The Earl of DERBY called the attention of their lordships to the state of the business of Parliament, with a ♦iew of adopting some means of bringing it to a conclu sion. There were no less than 38 bills before the Howse •f Commons, of which their lordst.ips knew nothing. Of these no less than 19 we. e waiting for committal, and five for a third reading. He had heard the 20th of Au gust mentioned as the time taxed for the prorogation of Parliament, but it was more likely to t e the 20th of Sept. if the business was not facilitated. had hoped that the Government would have interfered to prevent the great scandal of sending up bids to their lordships' house for which there was not sufficient ti ne for discussion, and he did not think it at alt >4 reasona')le that they should fix the 4th of August as the day teyocd which they would not receive any Lille from the other house of Parliament. Earl GRANVILLE said the evil was no doubt very great, but he bad heard from his noble friend near him that there had been a number of complaints for the last 50 years of the same evil, It was a su. j,ct which required to be very delicately han dled, but if the noble earl wont' agree to the 7th of August as the day beyond whiLh no bills would be re , °lived, he should offer no opposition on the part of the Government to such an arrangement. The Earl of DERBY said he bad no objection to the 7th of August being named ; on the contrary, he would wi Tingly assent to it. All that he . wanted was, that a certain day should be fix:d. Lord REDESDALE then gave noticethat to-morrow would submit a resolution to the effect that no bills, tx cept those of pressing necessity, should be received trom the other hou4e atter the 7th of Augu-t. i'INO.t UP-Ar DAtev u r_r_ Lord WFNSLEYDALE moved that in the cave of the Finsbury Palk Bill (No. '2) the sessional order twat no private bill be read a second time after the 21st of July , be dispensed with, in order that the bill be read a second time. After a few words from Lcrd REDESDALZ, the motion was agreed to and tie bill am read a second time, THIRD READINGS. On the mothn of Lord REDESDALE, the following bills were severally read a third time and passed : Baroness Windsor's E.ta . e,.Metropolitan Railway (No 2), Watchet Harbour, South Sta ff ord s hi re W ater ( as amended), and .S a lford Borough (as amended). AFFAIRS OF INDIA. The Marquis of CLANRICAR OE moved for c3pies of the correspondence of the Court of Directors with the Board of Control and with the Goveri.or-Generalof relating to the account of European forces, either of the British or the Indian army, to be maintained in that country since the I.t of April, 1856, or relating to the employment of military officers upon political or other civil services. The noble lord proceeded to review the state of affairs in India, and remarked tbat alth,,ugh then had been great mismanagement no fears need be entertained for time ultimata result, as he felt assured that cur arms would be triumphant in vindicating the British honour and the British sovereignty in India. [LEFT SPEAKING.] TBE ATLANTIC SUBMARINE TELE GRAPH. HOUSE OF COMMONS—(This Evening.) The SPEAKER took the chair at four o'clock. NEW MEMBER. Lord A CHURCHILL took the oaths and his seat for Woodstock, in the room r,f the Marquis of BlandforJ. PRIVATE BUSINESS. The Lords' Amendments to the Midland Great West ern Railway of Ireland (Streawstown and Clara Junc tion) Bill were aorpaidered and agreed to. The Eastern Bengal Railway CJrupany's Bill, and the Scinde Railway Company Bill were read a second time. ROYAL ASSENT. The SPEAKER and several members attended the linuse of Lords to hear the royal assent given by com mission to numerous bike. (See Loris.) - AFRICAN SLAVE TRADE. Lord CASTLEROSSE appeared at the bar of the house with her 'Majesty's gracious answer to the Ad dress-relative to the sieve trade in Air , ca, in which her Majesty stated she would do all in her power to carry the wishes of the house into effect. PORTSMOUTH ELECTION. The SPEAKER announced that the petition against the return of Portsmouth had been withdrawn, and the order for referring it to a committee was read and di-- charged. THE lONIAN ISLANDS. Sir D. LACY EVANS asked if there was any truth in the statements in the pubic j urnals, that the loni ans bad declared their readiness of shedding their blood; to cast off British control ; and, if true, what measures had been taken to prevent it? LABOUCHERE said that he bad received no official information from the lonian Islands, but he bad seen several private letters from that par On two or three occasions lately the lonian Assembly had passed early in the session resolutions striking at the communi cation with this country, and it is usual on such occasions for the Governor to prorogue the assembly forthwith on such occasions. The Assembly had not passsed such a resolution this session, and in consequence the Assembly had not been prorogued. The disturbances alluded to bad arisen from the presentation of a petition to this house by Sir J. Pakiegton from M. Montgomery, rdla ties to the propriety of there being a representative for the lonian Isles in this house. He was unable to state what had been done in consequence. INDIAN NEWS. • 'ln answer to a questi on from S r J. ...P IV AKINGTO, -Lord PALMERSTON said that the Government had not received any telegraphic communie. tion in antici P a ef the new, f rom I nuia. The Government were ignora nt of what it was likely to be. THE BUSINESS OF THE DAY. Lord the order of PALMERST ON mov e d the Pos tponement o the day till after the disloosalof Mr Disraeli motion on India. — Aereed to. - INDIA. The inconvenience arising from the " blunder" is, we , hink, overrated by you, and really of small importance.—We are, Sir, your obedient servants, R. S. NEWALL, AT CO. 24, Abingdon.street, Westminster, July 24. ItPIIESENTATION OP BIRMINGTIA.m.—An announce ment was made by tbe mayor of Birmingham on Wed nesday, at a public meeting, that Mr. Muutz will, in a day or two, be likAy to aacept the Chiltern Hundreds. —Birmingham Daily Press. THE SESSION.—There seems to be no probability of Parliament being prorogued before the 20th of August. There are still some very important measures in an ad vanced state, which it is desirable to mature into Acts of Parliament instead of tiding them over to another ses sion. The House of Commons now sits every day as well as every night, and the new inemb,ra especially seem disposed to keep up their attendance till the work of the session shall be done. tr. DISRAELI called the attention of tho house to the state of affairs in India and moved for tahneypnrioinduutee tion of the following papers :-1. Copy of or despatch addressed to the Governor-General of India by his Excellency the Commander-in-Chief, the late Major-General the Hon. G. Anson, dated on or about March, 1856, relative to the state of the Bengal army. 2. 'Copy of a report on the organization of the Bengal army, drawn up by the late Lieut.-General Sir C. Napier, and transmitted to his Grace the Duke of Wellington,K. G. In moving for the above documents the right bon, gen tlemen alluded to the great revolutions that had taken place from small beginnings, acd instanced the two greatest revoluti ons that had ever occurred in France bad its commencement in a mob, and no one at the time dreamt that the visit of a Russian soldier to Constar-Ai tipple would have caused so great and sanguinary a war as that lately closed. After referring to the iatelligence we had recently received from India, and to the news likely to be received by this ma , l from that country, the right hon. gentleman reviewed what.had been stated in this and the other house of Par liament relative to the outbreak in India, and said it was material that the house should be made acquainted by the Government with the real state of India, and he I ventured to suggest it on a formcr occasion but it was objected to. He thought the qtustion, whether it VACANCIES, APPOINTMENTS, AND PROMOTIONS IN TEE CIVIL SERVICE. —The Home Department : The t•ffice of Lord-Lieutenant of Cardiganshire has become vacant by the death of Mr. Thomas Lloyd. The Duke of Marl borough has been appointed lordl ieuten'ant of Ox"ord ' shire, in the room of his father, the late duke. War 6 Department : Mr. Marriott, late clerk, storekeeper's department, Bosphorus', has been appointed second class military store clerk, Tower, London , vice E. R. Liverotti resigned ; Mr. Balmois, first class sn ore fi ra r i s li t tatt .. o lerk, Gib ra ltar, has been appointed military flora clerk, Malts, vice Suggate, placed on the redund ante-ri. list; Mr. M. Iretherick, late store-clerk, rice Bal m ois, c. as been appointed fi rst clerk, Gibraltar, bat been appointed a clerkniatisioutChuSsthoieruldss:; Mr. A J jam Co e s s Cory has been promoted from third to second class . locker in London; Mr. Sampson Bankeshas bee n incei?moted from weigher first class to be locker third clam E. IL Creswell has beea promotedfro msecondt o o n fi d i 7 ; Mr* weigher in London. East Indies: Major F EV 'it class F. • clle, de puty comissioner in the Punjaub has been appointed a deputy commissioner o f the fi rst class in Onde, vice Mr. C. E. Boileau, deceased ; Captain D. Brown, assistant conimissioner. at Tbarrawaddy, has been appointed to act as deputy commissioner at Bassein, vice Major Fytche, appointed to officiate in Tenaesetim and Mana han provinces ; Lieutenant M. B. S. Lloyd, officiating magistrate at Rangoon, has been appointed to act as as sistant commissioner of Tbarrawaddy, Tice Captain Brown.—Civil Serrice Gazette. : was a milit a ry mu ti n y or a na ti ona l revo lt , t4v 1 1 ;1,0 - 14tqwuae:triillihrthimeVort:gaelesehouild"ktnwoawsifaitmairloitsaerTrornmutiimnY pulse, or was the result of premeditation, because what was required to put down one would fail to effect it in the other case, and therefore it was necessary the house should be primarily made acquaintainted with the real I state of affairs to know how to support the Government. After the house had been made acquainted with the real cause of the outbreak, it would be for the house to consider the best means to be adopted to pat it down. The condition of the Bengal Army had been and was at the time of the outbreak, satisfactory. On that subject the house had ample information in the despatches of General Sir Charles Napier, Lord Melville, and Colonel Jacobs, and it was unnecessary for him to enter into the question whether that army was properly officered or not, or that its condition in every other respect was what it ought to have been. He contended that the disaffection of the Bengal army arose from the con duct of men not so much the avengers of professional grievances as the exponents of general dis content. He thought he should be able to show • that the conduct of the Government in India had lately had the effect of ali.inating or had alarmed almost every influential class in that country, and. be considered he should be able in his speech to trace the cause of the outbreak from its commencement. For some time India had been in a state of combustion, and it wanted only the opportunity to break forth. The right hen. gentleman referred to the late report of the late Governor-General of India (Lord Dalhousie), in which, while it referred minutely to every thing connected with the European soldier, the native soldier was but slightly touched upon, and that in terms stating that his condition required but little improve. ment. Of late years a great change had taken place in the Government of India. Ti'l within the last 10 years the principle on which our Government was based in India was to respect nationality. We often now talked of our conquests in India, and of cur having to reconquer some of them. Our conquests in India bad been in the same sense as William of Orange conquered England. We had been ca'led in by a population suffering under a tyranny, and we had entered into their principalities to protect their reli gion and property. Up to within the last ten yearn, as he had stated, that had been the policy adopted towards India, and they looked upon us as the protectors of their property and their religion, and in that was our strength. The principle of their policy since that time had been the reverse, and one that had destroyed nationality, and everything in India bad been 4hanged. The laws, the manners, the customs, the usages, the political organisation, the tenor eof property, and the religion of the people had all been changed, or attempted to be changed, or it had been supposed by the population of India to be the intention of the Govern ment that they should be changed. (Hear, hear) He would range under those heads what had led, in his opinion, to the accomplishment of that result, at :d to the general discontent amotngst all classes in that country with Europeans. (Hear, hear.) He described them farts :—Our forcible destruction of the native authority ; secondly, our disturbance of the set tlement of property ; and, thirdly, our tampering with the religion of the people. (Hear, hear.) Directly or indirectly he believed ad the principle causes of public discontent and p , pular disturbances would range uuier these heads. (Hear.) The right hon. gentleman said that there were now in India 200 princes govern ing about 60 millions of inhabitants, with whom their own Government had entered into treaties, substantially the earns, though varying in details, which was that provided the native princes adhered to the terms of the treaty, we would secure to them, and to their heirs to thrones on which they sat. He then proceeded to review what was done after 1848. in India, on the termination of the wars of that period, dotiich be proposed to apply in proof of his first propositii n, viz., to our forcible destruction of the native princes. Adoption of heirs was the keystone of Hindu° society, but in 1848 commenced the alteration of policy he had noticed by annexing the territories of princes who died without heirs, by repudiating the law of adop tion. That policy was evidently adopted for the par pose of increasing our Indian revenue. [LEFT SPEAKING.] The following letter has been addressed to the editor of the Times:— Sir,—We have just read in an article in The Times of this day headed "Atlantic Submarine Telegraph" the following paragraph : " We have already explained to our readers how the cable is coated with closely woven spiral wires, to prevent damage to the core in paying out ; bur, in consequence of the two halves having been made at different places —one at Birkenhead, by Messrs. Newall, and the other at Greenwich, by Glasse and Elliot, a most egregious blunder has been com mitted. It will scarcely be credited, but is never theless true, that the twi s t o f th e sp i ra l w i res of the Birkenhead half is in exactly the opposite direction to the twist of the wires in the half wade at Green "viol:. Thus, when joined in the centre of the At lantic they wilt lorni a rigut hand and a kit hind screw, and the tendency of each will be to assist the other to untwist and expose the core. By at taching a solil weight to the centre joining it is hoped this difficulty and danger may be overcome, but none attempt to conceal that the mistake is much to be regretted. We are informed that Messrs. Glasse and Elliot had nearly 100 miles of the'r portion of the cable completed before Messrs. Newall commenced theirs, and that therefore -the fault rests with the firm which began last. We rely on your sense of fairness to allow •this letter a corner in the Times to rebut the charge of our having commit•ed a " most egregious blunder." 1. The conclusion drawn by your correspondeut that we are in fault is certainly not warranted. Admitt . ng all the premises, how were we to know anything about Messrs. Glasse and Elliot's work ? We have no entry to their premises, and could know nothing of the by of the cable they bad mauuractureS. 2. We took our contract from the Atlantic Tele graph Company in December last, and we were supplied by their en g ineer with a specim en o f th e cable to be made. We constructed new machinery specially adapted for the manufacture of this cable of the same lay as the specimen supplied to us. We began to manufacture the last week of Feb ruary, and when we began about 200 miles Lad been ma !e at Greenwich. The engineer of the company then found that the lay of the cable at the two works was in reverse directions, and asked us to alter it in ours. W e cou ld not do this without altering the machinery, which, as bef,re s lid, had been specially prepared for the work, and this would hive involvel a delay of three weeks, so that the engineer decided against any alteration. As it has turned out it would certdiu ly have been better to have altered it, for, al though we had not begun our half of the cable till the Greenwich firm had completed about 200 miles, yet we had completed our part when they had up wards of 150 miles still to do, so that thee would have been ample time to mske the necessary alter ations in the machinery without delay in the corn : pletion of the cable. However, that was no affair of ours ; we were bound to complete the cable by a terrain day under a penalty of 501. a-day, and we did it ; and it the engineer expected the same punctuality from the other contractors, we think he was right in not risking delay by alteration of our machinery. 3. The specimen of the cable given to U 3 for our guidance in the manufacture was not made by us, but we believe it was made by Messrs. Glasse and Elliott. At any rate, it is for the engineer to ex plain how it came to pass that different directions were given to the two contractors ; and perhaps the gentleman who gave you the information that we are in fault can throw some light on the subject as to hew the specimen given to us happened to be o a contrary lay to the cable manufactured at Green wich. rHE suN o LONIJON, MONDAY EV:CNING, JULY t 72 18#7 THE PANAMA POUTE. naval and Military intelligence. (From the Sydney Morning _Herald) The treatment of the Panama qtr son by the Melbourne Chamber of Commerce at its first meet ing to consider it, does not certainly promise very well for a hearty co-operation, hut we do not des pair of seeing the question considered in a more sa tisfactory manner. In bringing about co-op er a amongst colonies which, wilst in many respects united by common interest, are still in some respects rivals, comparisons, though they may be +odious, are unavoidatle. We are prepared to hear a good deal about the respective merits of Sydney and Melbourne, and their relative claims to precedence and supremacy. But we are not prepared to see the great que,rtion which is proposed for consideration, and which requires from us a prompt and practical answer, smothered up by other considerations, of far less importance. We are not prepared to believe that the immense advantages which will accrue to Australia from opening at one and the same time a regular and swift communication both with America and Grsat Britain, will have to be surrendered because the citizens of Sydney and Melbourne cannot agree as to the exact share of the advantage which they should respectively gain, and for which they should pay. However strong the spirit of rivalry may be, good sense, not to say self-interest, will assuredly prove stronger. The Melbourne Chamber of Commerce del not discuss the real question at issue. Thee owing to the production of gold, the value of the export from the port of Melbourne has reached the value of. twelve millions sterling in a year, while the value of the New South Wales export does not reach one-third of that amount, is a fact which is not in dispute, and which no one denies, but which dues no& touch the core of the matter under con sideraion. The point to be dwermined in Mel boure is, whether it is worth the while of Victoria as a colony to make a contribution from the public funds in aid of the Panama service, and if so, what would be the equitable amount of such contribution. There is nothing vague or uncertain about the nature of the offer made by Mr. Wetton. It is as clear and definite as such a proposal can be. There is to be a trunk line to Sydney, with a branch line fume New Zealand to Melbourne. A certain rate of speed is guaranteed, a fortnightly mail with England will be secured, and a fresh highway opened up to commerce and immigration. It is for the Melbourne people, knowing as they do their own position and wants, to consider how far such an enterprise will forward their interests, and how far, therefore, . it is worth their while to contribute to establish it. Instead of discussing this point, which is really the only thing to be discussed, the Chamber of Commerce appears o have diverged into a consideration of the poss.ble modification of the conditions of the proposal. Now these conditions are for the pre sent unalterable. They are not arbitrary, but are founded on facts. Sydney is the first port of arrival, because of its geographical position, and it is the terminus, because of its harboure accommoda tion. These are fa c t s w hi c h cannot be ignored, and which must be taken into consideration side by side with estimates of relative commerce. All the speechifying in the world would not alter them. When all is said, Sydney is still to the east of Mel bourne, and the diy dock is at Waterview Bay, and not at Williamstown. In course of time a dock may be constructed at Port Philiip, which will offer all necessary accommodation to the largest class of steamers. When that is the case, if the relative productiveness of the gold fields remains the same as it is now, the course of mail communi cation will be at liberty to follow that of commerce. But at present the con-ideration of harbour con veniences has a constraining force which cannot be resisted. It is said, indeed, that in two years' time a large patent slip will be built at William stown. But every one who is acquainted with the management of large steamboats knows that the owners of vessels of two thousand tons burden, would never trust them on a patent slip, except as a last resort, and certainly not if the convenience of a dry dock could be obtained within a short dis tance. That Port Jackson must inevitably be the terminus of the Panama line for the present is sufficiently proved by the fact that it is pro posed to make it so. The Directors of the Royal Mail Company know where the gold fields are as well as the members of the Melbourne Chamber of Commerce do. And they have no special affection for Sydney over Melbourne, or any desire whatever to favour it. But they know the relative accommodation the two harbours afford, and they know theref..re that their vessels must rrfit at Port Jaeks ,, n. Coeteris paribus, they would just as s , ,on make one port their terminus as the other. With the emulous patriotism of the Sydneyite, anxious for the supremacy of his native or adopted city, they have no sympathy or concern. They are biassed only by obvious facts, and by unbending calculations of pounds, shillings, and pence. Does any man in his senses suppose that the company would not gladly carry their steamers on to Mel bourne if they could conveniently do so ? The yes seliare to stop short at Sydney, not because it is the oldest capital, nor because the Governor-Gene ral lives her-, but simply because there is a splendid harbour and a commodiousdock, and every facility for repairing vessels. We are not without hopes that our neighbours in Melbourne will come round gradually to see the matter in this light, and that though everything may not be as they would like it, they will be con tent to do the best with things as they are. If they sannot get everything, they can get a great deal, and certainly what they receive will be well worth what they are expected to give. Victoria has been the loudest to blame the con duct of South Australia, in refusing to co-operate in the existing mail service, because the main ocean ieretraer does not call at a South Australian port. It is to be hoped that the censure of such conduct is not the preliminary t') its imitation. We notice with regret that the Legislative Assembly of S ruth Australia hae, like the Council which preceded it, rejected a bill to vote a contribution to the postal subsidy. Hitherto the Adelaide mails have beenput on board the steame-s only in consequence of, apro mise made by the Colonial Treasurer of that colony to the Victorian Government that every exertion should be used to induce the recalcitrant l.gislature to yield. To dothemernbers of the CabinetinAdelaide justice, they seem honestly to have fulfilled the pro mi-e of their colleague, and, short of making it a Ministerial question, they did their best to pass the bill. As, however, the South Australian Legisla ture has for the second time deliberately and posi tively refused to subscribe towards the subsidy of the European and Australian Alta Company, it re mains for those colonies which do contribute to con sider what measures should be adopted to meet the refusal cf co-operation. The Adelaide people t ,lk as if _th-y had nothing to do but to fetch their let ters from Melbourne, but it is obvious that if they will not pay the fractional cost of their carriage be tween London and Melbourne, they cannot expect to receive them. It appears that Mr. Rowland Hill has mitten out to say that as the contract was made without the express assent of South Austra lia, the old divisi on o f postal receipts will have to be adhered to if that assent should be refused. And upon the basis of this statement it is assumed that the British Postmaster-General approves of the Adelaide mail being landed at Melbourne, just the same as if the colony contributed. But in the first place, Mr. Rowland Hill's words will not bear the construction put upon them, and if they would that gentleman has no power to dictate on the question. The Home Government isnot the only party to the contract. The joint colonies of New South Wales' and Victoria, who have become equally responsible for the Australian half of the subsidy, have a voice in the matter, and are entitled to forbid any such comfortable arrangement as that which the South Australians hope to enjoy. A conference of dele gates from each colony is to meet in Melbourne on the Ist of June to open the tenders for the inter colonial branch service. Whether South Austra lia will send a delegate to this conference may be doubt° I, seeing that it has detached itself from co operation, but the delegates from the remaining colonies may consult together as t) what is best to be done with the refractory fmeteber of the confe deration. The Aliquis freight-ship, Captain Pain, embarked at Portsmeuch, on Saturday morning, the re m a i n _ iug p: r son of the 3d Batt:lion of the Rifle Brigade for India, comprising Lieutenant -Colonel Macdon aA, C.B. ; Captains Lindsay Stephens, Deedee, and Egerton ; Lieutenants Whalley, Fortes cue , Cragg, and ascelles ; Ensigns Broadbent and Hook ; 22 sergeauts, 3 drummers, 352 rank and , file, 21 women, and 17 children. Lieutenant- Colonel Wright, Assistant-Quartermaster-General of the south-west district, superintended the em barkation. The berths for the troops and women are admirable, and the accommodation for the offi cers first-class. His Royal Highness the Prince Consort being the Colonel-in-Chief of the Rifle Brigade, her Majesty notified to Major-General Breton, the Commander-in-Chief of the south west district, on Friday night, her wish that the ship might be detained in port, to enable the Prince to inspect her and the battalion before leav ing, which of course was done ; and at a quarter to 6 o'clock on Saturday evening the Fairy, with her Majesty, the Prince Consort, and Prince Alfred on board, entered Portsmouth harbour under salutes from the garrison battery and flag ships. Her Majesty did not leave the yacht, which remained in the harbour channel. The Prince Consort and Prince Alfred landed from the Royal barge at the Queen's stairs of th e d oc k yar d , w h ere the Port Admiral, Sir George Seymour, Colonel Wright, and the dockyard guard on duty for the day, improvised for a guard of honour, under Cap tain Stuckley Buck, of the Royal Marine Artillery, were in waiting to receive them. Their Royal I:l,ghnesses were conducted to the Aliquis along side the jetty, where General Breton met them and escorted them on board, when Colonel Mac donnell was presented to the Princes, and, accom panied by the commanding officers before men tioned; paraded the Rifles under his command for the Royal inspection. The Prince examined the cabins for the officn.s, and the quarters of the men, women, and children, and also the new improved rifle wish which the battalion is armed at the suggestion of his Royal High ness. After a minute inspection of the men and ship the Prince warmlyshook handswith Col. Mac donnell and took leave, wishing him and his officers, non-commissioned officers, and men a safe and pros perous voyage and fursher disfnction. On quitting the ship the Prince was greeted with a general burst of cheers from the troops and ship's company, who also vociferously cheered the Queen on first disco vering her Majesty viewing them from the deck of r the Royal yacht, which at about 7 returned to Os borne. Prince Albert's standard was hoisted at the dockyard during his visit. The Aliquis was towed to Spithead at 11 o'clock yesterday morning and her gallant freight were loudly cheered from the shore as they passed out of harbour. She sailed forthwith for Calcutta, wind and weather very fair. On ThnrsdaY next the 42d Highlanders, about 786 men, from Dover ; the no, about 829, from Aldershot ; and one wing of the 20th Foot, about 450. also from the camp, proceed to Portsmouth to embark for India in the great clipper sailing ships James Baines and Champion of the Seas, of 2,515 and 2,470 tens respectively, and the Whirl wind freight ship, appropriated as follows : In the Whirlwind as many officers and men of the 42d Foot (including one assistant-surgeon) as may be requ;re.l—with the detachment of the 19th Foot —to till that vessel. In the James Baines the re mainder of ire 42d Foot, with medical officers, and the vessel ti be filled up with a portion of the 97th Foot, including a med o officer. In the Champion of the Seas the remainder of the 97th Foot, with medical officers, and the vessel in like manner to be filled up with the wing of the 20th, including a medical officer. The Deputy-Adjutant-General Col. W. F. Fors ter, K.H., arrived at Chatham Garrison on Satur day tor the purpose of inspecting the troops at St. Mary's Barracks who have recently returned to this country from India, and claimed their free discharge. Several hundred men belonging to the cavalry,and infantry regiments serving in India have arrived at Chatham in the past month, the whole of whom have applied for their free discharge ac cording to the regulations of the service. Owing, however, to the aspect of affairs in India, the au thorities at the war-office are anxious to retain the troops in the service, and with this view the Deputy- Adjutant-General on Saturday assembled the men claiming their discharge, informing them thit the Government was desirous of retaining them, and that each non-commissioned officer and private who would w.thdraw his application to be discharged could remain in the service, and wo.ild be allowed three mouth,' furlough before be would be required f , .r duty. It is expected that a very few cf toe meu will recall their application for discharge. Among those claiming to be discharged are some of the finest troops lately in the Indian army. The authorities at the Horse Guards intend raising immediately 12 second battalions, for the purpose of takiug the place of those corps now at home who are ordered to embark for India. The Royal Artillery force proceeding fo India is to be stationed ie three divisional districts, — namely, Madras, the head -quarters, in command of Col. Barker, C. B. ; Bombay, in command of Lieut.-Col. Phillpotts ; and Calcutta in command of Lieut.-Col. Faddy. , On Saturday reinforcements for the 32d and 75th Regiments, to the number of 240 men, under the command of Brevet-Major W. C. Mollan, 75th Regiment, left the Provisional Battalion, Chatham, and embarked on beard the Oetavia for the purpose of joining head-quarters in India. On the same day detachments for the Bth, 10th, 32d, 35th (Royal Sussex), and 60th Rifles from Chatham, a l so em barked on board the Monarch at Gravesend for Calcutta. The First Division of the 2d (the Queen's Dragoon Guards., from Maidstone, also arrived at Gravesend on Saturday, and embarked on board the East India Company's ships Blenheim and Monarch for India. The Ist Battalion Rifle Brigade will leave Alder shot to-day for Edinburgh, and the 2Cth and 79th Regiments for India via Portsmouth on Wednes day. The 2d Battalion of the Rifle Brigade arrived at Portsmouth on Sa urday evening from Winchester, and embarked in the Irish steamer yesterday for Dublin, to join the service companies. The Caledonia transport has arrived in Kings town herb ,ue, and the let Battalion of the Ist Foot emb irked in her on Saturday morning. The troops consist of 371 rank and file, and about 17 officers. The Robert Lowe, screw transport, arrived in Kingstown harbour on Friday morning. Nur Malta corresp indent's edvices reach to the 21st July. He states that the Scamander, screw steamer, arrived from Alexandria with a general cargo, having on board the Australian mails, des patched from Sydney on the 25th of May by the Simla, which reached Suez on the 12th and Alex andria on the 14th of July, from which latter port lfrGre en jor wLhoiverpool on continuedtthies they were sent on by her Majesty' s C onsu l i n c h arge of his son, Mr. A.el voyage in the Scamander sam;day, having only landed the portion of the mad intended for the overland route. The Jura, steamer, with the outward Australian mail from Southampton, reached Malta at 1 p.m., on the 20th, and the Cambria, from Marseilles, with the overland portion of the same mail at 8 p.m. The Jute left for Alexandria at 6 a.m. on the 21st, and the Cambria at noon on the same day for Marseil les with the overland mail brought by the Scam mender. Her Majesty's steam-sloop Desperate ar rived from Rhodes on the 20th. The Thessalia screw steamer, with a general cargo, arrived from Constantinople and Smyrna on the 18th, and left for Liverpool on the same day. i s b e i n g fitted out at P or t smout h Jo T hn he se V ec u o l m ca b n e , , steam troop-frigate, Comma n d er to carry troops to India. The Royal, yacht Victoria and Albert, Captain the Hon. Joseph Denman, embarked H.R.H. the Prince Consort and suite, yesterday noon, at Osborne, and weighed at half-past 12, with his one of Gree n ' s fi st e a eT n th, d e a e r Nra d vbi a na t ds,k he .o:d r r m chase a r i t n pl , ea,s f s o ae r n Antwerp. n g e e w rs s a h n ip ci stack at Ports mouth on Saturday, and sailed yesterday for Bom bay, calling on the Malabar coast. The new screw corvette Pelorue, 21, which was commissioned at Devonport on the 18th instant, [ADVERTISRMENT.]—The great injury inflicted ou many i n- by Captain F. B . p . S e y mo ur, for s erv i ce i n th e valids by drugs increases the interest the public t a k e i n Du East Indies, was docked on Monday, masted on Barry's Revalenta Ambles Food, which cures without me di c i ne Thursday, a n d i s near l y man ned. indigestion (dyspepsia), flatulency, constipation, nervous, The screw despatch boat Mohawk, 4, commis bilious, and liver complaints, cough, asthma, consumption, and sioned at Deeo n p oe t o n Thursday by Mr. G. D. debility. We quote a few out of many thousand cases of Perry, master, for Commander P. C. C. cure, by this delicious food :—From the Dowager Countess of Castlestuart. Cure 52,612. Rosstrevor, County of Down, Ire- M•Deugall, was placed in dock the same day, to . land, December 9, 1854.—The Dowager Countess of Castle- have her copper e xam ined. stuart feels ind uce d, i n th e i nterest of Buffeting humanity, t o The steam s t oree hip Rhadamanthus, Master state that Du B arry ' s excellent Revalenta A ra bi ca F ood has Commander W. L. Browne, sailed from Devon cured her, after all medicines had failed, of indigestion, bile, port yesterday for Woolwich. great nervousness and irritability of many years' standing. This food deserve s th e confidence of all sufferers, and may be hdT defectshes cr w s a t d e e a m gooedg, o d o e d - , p a I t v c a h s b p o l a i tt t out Viper, of d h o a c v k i having considered a real bles s i ng . I nqu i r i es w ill b e c h eer f u ll y ad answered.—From the Venerable Archdeacon of Ross. No. -LieVe'nPrq't on Monday ; and the brig Brit mart, 32,836.—Three years' excess i ve nervousness , w i t h pa i ns i n my 8, was p l aced in dock on Tuesday to b e examined ink and left arm, an d genera l d e bi l i ty , wh i ch ren d ere d my life an d repaired. . very miserable,has b een ra di ca ll y remove d b y D u B arry ' s health restoring food.—ALBX. STUART, Ar c hd e acon of R o ss, Skibereen. The mail stem-ship Candace, Commander Supported by te s timo n i a l s f rom t h e ce l e b ra t e d P ro f essors of iclawkesley, sailed from Plymouth of Africa.mout}ton Friday fo r Chemistry, Dr. And rew li re; D r . Shorland ; Dr. Ha r v e y ; Madeira and the W es t Coast Dr. Campbell; Dr. Gattiker ; Dr. Wurzer ; Dr. Nouns; The paddl e - w h ee l s t eam - ve ssel Banshee (tend er Lord Stuart de D ec i es; th e D owager C oun t ess o f C as tl e . to the flag-ship Fisgard), Master Commander Stuart; Major-Gen. Thomas King, and many other respectable persons, whose health h as b een res t ore d by it, afte r a ll o th er Allan, left Woolwich yesterday morning under means of cure h a d f a il e d. S u i ta bl y pac k e d with full in. special ct d a i d l irections to proceedyaeht Victoriat o Dover to a and Albert,ttend on in struetions. In can i s t ers , lib , 2 s . 9d. ; 21b, 4 5 . 6d. ; 5 1 b , the 11s ; 121 b, 2 25. The 121 b canisters are sent ca r ri age f ree ,. conveying his R i . ya l . Highness the Prince Consort on re ce i pt o f P ost-Office order.—Barry Du Barry, & Co., to Belgium t e b e present a t the marriage o f th e 77, Regent-street, London. IMPORTANT CAUTION_ against the fearful dangers o f spur i ous imitations •—The V ce-Chancel lor Sir Willi am P age Wood granted n B elgium' 10th Ma r ch, 1854, against Alfred Hooper Nevid, for imitating - Archduk e o f A ustr i a w i t h t h e P r i ncess Ch ar l o tt e o f a . Injunction on th e The Agamemnon, Master-Commander Cor ne li us ! . , Du Barry's Revalenta Arabica F oo d T. A. Nodtlall, arrived at Sheerness on Saturday, from the Thames, to have her oompasses adjested. An accident, attended with disastrous results, oc curred when the ship's company were about to heave anchor from Cnapman s head, where she lay for the night on her course from Greenwich to Sheerness. It appears that the caution to lay en the check, termed the " pawl," had been disre garded. The steam having been turned on the vessel went ahead to ease the anchor, when the capstan overpowered the men a t the bars and they were dashed about the deck, and 16 of them sustained severe injuries. Cots were promptly provided, in which five of the most severe cases were conveyed on board her Majesty's steamer Widgeon (tender to the flagship Waterlol), and were despatched to Woolwich. On being admitted to the Royal Marine Infirmary there some of the sufferers were found in an almost lifeless condition, having been maimed in the skull, ribs, arms, and legs. One poor fellow had suffered a fracture of an arm, and a double fracture of a leg. The Agamem non completed adjusting her compasses yesterday, and will leave this day at three-quarter flood, so as to clear the Sheerness Middle Ground. She is in pilot charge of Mr. Barnes, Queen's pilot. Tee following appointments were made on Satur day at the Admiralty : Lieut. A. H. W. Battiscon3be, to the Pelorus ; Lieut. J. C. Purvis, to the PylAdes ; C. J. Brown rip, mate, to the Chesapeake; S. Bowden, surgeon, to the Pelorus ; W. Ross, surgeon, to the Assur ance • F. Leonard, assistant-surgeon, to the Ganges; A. B. Woodifielti, assistant-surgeon, to the Ajax; J. Heath, clerk, to the Pelorus; J. E. Evans, clerk, t 3 the Royal William ; and G. Wooldridge, assis tant7clerk, to the Pelorus. during the day. She died at 11 o'clock en tues. day night. The prisoner was there, but not Ifs wife. On the Monday before her death the prisoner told me he hid taken the rent book. He tild me that be bad taken it "as it would be his right." In Vie course of Tuesday William Bacon asked for the b.)ok, and I said Thomas had got it. Whilst we were talking Thomas came in, and William told him he should not have taken the book, when Thomas replied " I have taken it." The vomits were thrown away. After her death I laid her out and placed her in the coffin. In the spring of this year I attended at Great Casterton church yard and saw Ann Bacon's Boly exhumed. The coroner, Dr. Taylor, and Mr. Jackson were pre sent. Cross-examined—l thought the attack of which she died was very much like the one she had in March. The prisoner appeared very kind and at tentive to his mother. By the Court—l never saw the bottle that Mrs. Bacon spoke of. Ann Bacon recalled and cross-examined by Mr. Stevens—First mentioned about the bottles when she heard a suspicion of Mrs. Bacon's death. By the Court—On the night of his fire, he was accused of having caused it, and also with having poisoned bis mother. That was the first she heard of it. The prisoner appeared extremely kind and attentive. Elizabeth Blacker—l am a widow, residing in Stamford. I went to nurse Ann Bacon on the Monday before her death. I found her in bed. She complained of pains, and said she had been very ill from the day before. She was very _ill. I got into bed with her, at her request. After I had been in bed two hours she began to twitch all over, and she said she felt as if she was paralysed from head to foot. About two o'clock the prisoner came and stayed one hour, and went away. H e c ame again about five, when he went to Dr. Barber's. I only gave her tea during the night. I remained till 11 o'clock on the Tuesday morning. She was worse when I left than when I went first. She was convulsed all over. • Mr. Edward Barber—l am a surgeon at Stam ford. I knew the deceased, and attended her in March, 1855. She was suffering very severe pain. I gave her some medicine, and she recovered. In May following was called to see her at her son Thomas's house. She was suffering from cramps and vomiting. She appeared 'to be suffering from a disorder like the secondary symptoms of arsenic. The symptoms under which she laboured were con sistent with arsenic. Vomiting and purging are the natural effects of arsenic.. The first action is vomiting. If given in a fluid it would be thrown up, but if in a sufficient quantity to form a sedi ment it would be found in the stomach. At the time I thought she had died of disease of the brain, knowing nothing of the ar sen i c . Cr. as-examine by Mr. Stevens—l have attended cases of arsenical poisoning, and seen inflammation of the bowels produced by it. If the whole of the arsenic were thrown up I do not think there would be any secondary symptoms. Mr. Mark Willson Jacks in—l am a surgeon living at Stamford. I was present at Great Caster ton churchyard, in February last, when Mrs. Bacon was exhumed. I took charge of the body. I made a post mortem examination of the body. Upon opening the body the omentum was loaded with fat. It was very fi:m, and had a peculiar red ness upon it. It was in a high state of preserva tion. The rest of the viscera were so firmly united that they could only be severed by cutting. It was a very peculiar condition ; but it is such as is de-, scribed as arising from the effects of arsenic. The contents of the chest were examined. The lungs were in a state of decomposition. Those psrts would not have been submitted to the action of the arsenic. I removed the whole of the contents of the abdomen and delivered them to Dr. Taylor. They were sealed up in jars and taken possession of by police-constable Mitchell. By Mr. Stevens—The coffin was in a good state of preservation. There were no holes in it. Dr. Alfred Swain Taylor, examined by Mr. Mellor, deposed that he was present in Great Cas terton churchyard when the body of Ann Bacon was exhumed, and that he made an analysis of the 'hontents of the atom ich and viscera. Mr. Mellor—How did you find the stomach ? Witness—The stomach was reduced to about one-half its usual size. The coats were thin, but firm. When l a id o p en th e i nner coat was ound covered with a thin, black, pasty-looking substance closely adhering to it, and giving a dark colour to all its coats. There was no redness on the mucous membrane, and no mineral matter could be per ceived by the magnifying glass when the surface was examined. The cows with the black sub etance adhering to the inside were examined for mineral poisons, and arsenic was extracted from them. No other poison was extracted, and there was no trice of food. Dr. Mellor—You also examined the spleen I be lieve? Dr. Taylor—Yes; I found the sp l een very small, and much diminished in size—that also contained arsenic. Mr. Mellor—What did you next do ? Witness—l examined the kidneys; they were of a reddish brown colour ; they had shrunk to about one-third their natural size. I detected arsenic in them—a larger proportion than in the spleen, but not so much as in the stomach. Mr. Mellor—You then examined the heart ? Witness—l did ; and faind it collapsed, its cavi ties were quite empty, and it was much reduced in size. The outside was bordered with fat. The valves in the ventricle were plainly distinguished. I never saw them more clear. They were free from arsenic. I next examined the liver and gall bladder. The liver was in a good state of preservation. 12 oz. were analysed, and arsenic was found in it in about the same proportion as in the rest of the stomach. The gall bladder was also well preserved, and the inner coat was covered with a thick layer of bile. There were no gall stones. The gall bladder yielded arsenic in greater proportion than the stowed). The intestines also yielded arsenic in greater proportion than the stomach. From what I discovered I have no doubt that arsenic was taken by or administered to Mrs. Bacon shortly before her death. By the Judge—Arsenic taken in any state, as long as a person lives a quantity must be thrown off by the vomiting and purging. The secondary symptoms affected the brain, the nervous system, and the spinal marrow. The effect on the spinal marrow produced stiffness, rigidity, and twitching. I think the symptoms described by Mrs. Riley were produced by numbness. By Mr. Mellor—l never heard of arsenic being used for hardening iron ; in fact, it could not be. It would be dissipated, as it is quite volatile at 353 deg. Evans, Bacon's apprentice, was then called, and proved ha v i ng b een sen t b y his master, some time before his mother's death, fur 6 oz. of arsenic, whit the chemist refused to serve Lim. He was told _ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE. MIDLAND CIRCUIT.—LINCOLN, July 25. TRIAL AND CONVICTION OF BACON. A message having been received from Dr. Taylor that he would be in this city to-day, the Court ap pointed 11 o'clock to proceed with the trial. The learned judged took his seat at that hour. Every part of the court was densely crowded, but no pro ceedings took place till half-past 12 o'clock, when the grand jury came into court and handed in a true bill for murder, and a true bill for felony. The prisoner was then. put at the bar. Mr. Mellor, Q.C., and Mr. Brewer appeared for the Crown. Mr. Stevens, by direction of the judge, defended the prisoner. During the whole of the trial the prisoner was weeping. Before the trial was proceeded with Mr. Mellor said, with his lordship's permission, he would pro ceed with the second count first, as he thought the ends of justice would be better consulted. The prisoner pleaded not guilty. Mr. Mellor opened the case by stating that the charge was for causing to be administered to the deceased a large quantity of arsenic. His mother was an aged woman, and resided in Stamford—she was possessed of some property. On the 13th of May, 1855, she dined with her son. and was taken very ill, was purged, and vomited a great deal. She was taken hoine ; she recovered, and was well on the Monday, but on the Tuesday she was again ill and died. All= the symptoms were those of arsenic, but the medical men would not pledge themselves that her death was caused by it, although there was no doubt it had been administered. Professor Taylor, on his analysis, found about three-quarters of a grain of arsenic. It was the opinion of Dr. Taylor that the poison had been administered shortly before her death. Although nearly three quarters of a grain was found, it must not be for gotten that she had shortly before her death been suffering from purging and vomiting, which of course would carry off a large quantity, and it was two years after her death before it was detected, when the body was exhumed from Caste ton churchyard. The prisoner's mother was possessed of several houses, which he bel eyed would c me into his possession at her death, and immediately after that event lietook away the rent- book; tu t it did not turn out that the property was left in that way, as hie mother divided it amongst the children. He should prove that the prisoner had purchased arsenic only 8 days before his mother's death. He had some time before endeavoured to procure that poison. He sent his lad for it, saying that he re quired it for hardening iron, but the_chemist re fused to sell it. The next time he procured it by stating that it was to poison rats. The first witness called was Ann Bacon, who deposed as follows—l am the wife of Wm. Bacon, of Stamford. He is brother of the prisoner. In May, 1855, we lived at Peter-hill, Stamford. The deceased Ann Bacon,yesided about live minutes' walk from us. I saw her en the Sa turday before her death. She appeared quite well. She was 63 years of age. On Sunday evening. May 13, 1855, I was sent for to go to Mrs. Bacon's house. I found the prisoner there. He was in the 'front room. I asked hint how his mother was, and he said she was seriously ill. He further stated that she was takes ill at his house. I went up stairsand saw Ann Bacon ; the prisoner did not go up with me, but followed shortly afterwards. In the pri soner's presence I asked Mrs. Bacon how she was taken ill. She said she was taken ill whilst having some broth. She was taken with violent sickness and purging —that it lasted tdl abe got home. I remained with her till ten o'clock that night ; she was sick twice in my presence. I did not notice what she threw up; she complainedofpain andthirst. Before I left her a draught came from Mr. Palmer'e. I went home and sent her some barley water. - By the Judge—Did it appear in the conversation what time the dinner was 7—Yes, immediately after coming from church. Judge—That would be about l'o'clock 7—Yes. Witness continued—The prisoner's wife was pre sent when I was there. On the Monday morning, between 6 and 7 o'clock, I went aga i n t o the house of the deceased. 1 found the prisoner in the roam and Mrs. Riley. The deceased was very ill—in the same state I left her the previous night, or not so well. She sat up in bed and took some tea. She then got better ; the purging and vomiting had ceased, and, she was very cheerful. In the course of the day the prisoner and his wife came in. to see the deceased. The prisoner was there fre quently during the day. Medicines were adminis tered to her during the day. Sometimes I give them, and sometimes the prisoner: When I lett on the Monday night the prisoner was there with Mr. Blake. lam not sure whether his wife was there. Ou the Tuesday morning I was going down to see the deceased, when I met Mrs. Riley. When I got to the house, the deceased's limbs were very stiff, and she was in great pain ; the prisoner was in the house. I asked deceased how she was, and she said she was very ill, that she could not think what was . the mater with her. At eight o'clock on Tuesday morning she remained unconscious, and remained so during the day. I stayed with her during the day; she died at 11 o'clock that night ; she was quite stiff and rigid all day. I sent for Mr. Barber, the surgeon, in the morning ; he came. I had some conversation with the prisoner on the Monday, as I was leaving the bed-room of the de ceased. The prisoner referred his wife to a bottle that was on the dressing table, saying he thought his mother had better have some out of that bottle. Immediately after Mrs. Bacon's death I saw a bottle iu the prisoner's bands. He said, " This is no use now ; I may as well take it away." He took away a bottle ; it was a square one, not an ordi nary medicine bottle. It was whitish stuff in it. I cannot say whether it was thicker than water. There were other bottles and glasses on the table when he took the one away. Cross-examined by Mr. Stevens—The prisoner is a whitesmith. Bacon's wife was backward and forward several times whilst I was there. Mrs. Bacon has been long absent from Stamford, and, as far as I know, is confined in a lunatic asylum. I had not noticed the bottle on the table before Bacon took it away. Mrs. Riley said—l knew the deceased. I was one of her tenants. On the death of Mrs. Bacon the prisoner collected the rents. He did so be cause he became heir to them. I remember her death ; for some days before I had seen her every day. She was very cheerful a few days before her death. I saw her on the Saturday night before her death. Whilst I was talking to her the prisonercame in. I next saw h3r on the Sunday evening. I wits fetched to her by Thomas Bacon. He said the old lady was taken very ill, and he thought she would die. I went to her. She was in bed. She was very ill indeed. She was very sick, but did not throw up much matter. She complained of her feet being cold and her limbs stiff. I made her barley water. She said she had dined at her son Thomas's, and was taken ill afterwards. She got better after the barley water, and had several hours' rest. The sickness ceased between 10 and 11 o'clock. The prisoner left about 10 o'clock, and took the key with him. He returned about one o'clock. He asked me how she watt, and I told him she was a li tt l e better. He then left, and came again between three and four o'clock, and stayed about half an hour. He came again between five and six o'clock. 'remained with her all day. On Monday she was much better. I left her about nine o'clock and went to my own house. Between five and six on Tuesday morning the prisoner same to my house and said, "his mother was woes*, and he thought she would die now." I went to her house, and prisoner went to Mr. Barber's. Mrs: Bacon had a great desire to know what Mr. Barber thought of her, and whether she would die. She was very feverish and delirious. At 11 o'clock that morning -we put her into a warm bath. She was very stiff. She appeared better whilst in the bath ; we put her to bed again ; she was so stiff, we could I not dress her, The prisoner was in the house any questions were asked he was to say it was for hardening iron. Mr. Pritchard, chemist, of Stamford, proved the selling 1 oz. of arsenic to the prisoner on the Bth of May, 1855. It was sold in the presence of a witness, and the prisoner signed the b oo k f or it. He said he wanted it to destroy rats. Mr. Halkius, of Stamford, said—ln May, 1855, I occupied one half of the house the prisoner lived in, and also had the cellar under Bacon's part. I had lived there five years before Bacon. I never saw but two rats in seven years. Mrs. Bacon was then re-c Ailed and re-examined by Mr. Stevens.—Do you remember under what circumstances the deceased partook of that broth on the MOnday ? Witness—Yes ; deceased said she should like some broth, and asked me to make some, when Mrs. Thomas Bacon said she h .d some ready-made. The prisoner was not then there. This was about two o'clock. She did not vomit after that. It re mained on her stomach. Mr. Stevens—Till you left ? In answer to a question from Mr. Stevens, Dr. Taylor said that the longest time he had known of arsenic being in the stomach before it took effect was nine bourn. The case for the prosecution having been closed, Mr. Stevens addressed the Court for upwards of two hours, and made a for c ibl e appeal to the jury on behalf of his client, who, he maintained, was being prosecuted through prejudice. He. main tained that there was not the Slightest proof of the administration of arsenic by the prisoner. That was not the first time his client had been charged with murder. He had just been found not guilty of the muder of his children ; and his wife, who committed the crime, had been acquitted on the ground of insanity. The learned council then en deavoured. t o s h ow t h at the arsen i c was admims- .„.. terel to the deceased by Murtha Bacon, the pri• eoner's wife. Mr. Mellor having replied for the Crown, The learned judge summed up the whole of the evidence in the most careful planner, pointing out to the jury all the bearings of the evidence. The jury retired for five minutes, andupon their return into court they returned a verdict of guilty. The learned judge, in passing sentence, said h e entirely concurred in the verdict, for he beli eve d that the prisoner's guilt had be; l brought home t o . him without any reasonable doubt, and he should carder judgmen t of death to be recorded againsthim. Judgment of death was recordei accordingly. OXFORD CIRO:HT.—STAFFORD, July 25. (Before Mr. Baron Bramwell.) EKTRAORDINARY CASE. Chas. Parish was charged with having stolen 12 COWS, the property of W. Curuock and J. Coxon. Mr. M'ldahon and Mr. Scotland. proacoated ftba Mr. iluddloatosr, Q.a, and 'Afv. rowan, d2i fended the prisoner. • The circumstances of ihis case and the mode in which it wai treated by the learned judge were out of the ordinary course. Pariah bad been in tie habit of going about from fair to fair' and selecting yeasts at such places and giving information to the various butchers, with the view to their purchasing them. On the 18th inst. Coxon and Curnock, butchers of Bitmiughgn, the prosecutors, agreed to go to Oakham fair and divide it—that is to say, all the beasts they bought at that fair should become common property, and a partnership should exist as to the cattle so pur chased. Parish was anxious to go to Oakharn, and borrowed 10s. from Coxon to enable him to lay his fare. At the fair Parish saw 11 of 12 beas's, which he recommended to Coxon, and which were after wards bought by h'm. C .xon and Cornook pur chased in the whole 36 beaws, 27 of which t'ley sent by the railway to Wolverhampton. Coxon then went ti Leico;ter with Parish, and while there it was agre-d that they should go to Melton market, but when Coxon was ready Parish made EOl/0 excuse, altered the marks on twelve of the beasts, and started off for Wolver hampton. He then took the twelve blasts out of the field in which they were lying, and drove them to Dudley, sold t'lem all at an under price, and when taken into custody he was a-3ked what money he had in his possession, and he denied having more than half-a-crown. On being searched, 1121., the produce of the sale of the bean s, was found upon him. Mr. Huddleston, for the defence, contended that there was a partnership existing between the pri soner and Coxon, and that whatever he did was in. assertion of a right. He proceeied to c 11l witnesses with a view to prove a partnership between the prisoner and Coxon. - Mr. M‘Mihon replied, and commenced by stat ing that if he felt the facts of the ca-e did not war rant him in pressing the jury f T a conviction, he should deem it his duty at once to retire from the case. Baron Bramwell —Then you Would do wrong. I should deem it your duty —and I hold it to be the duty of every member of the har—to try to prove, if requisite, that black is white • that he is hound, where any comme n t i s capable Of being made upon the evidence, to make such comment fearlessly and without reference to his own conviction. Mr. M‘Mahon—My lord, I should deem it my duty to withdraw from a prosecution if I saw there was no evidence. Baron Bramwell—No doubt that is proceeding on a very high principle, for which Mr. McMahon is noted ; and he may be right, or he may ha wrong% He may have studied the subject more than I have, although I have given the greatest attention to the question under discussion of late ; and I must ad mit that the greatest ornaments of the bar who are now upon the bench have carried out the principle I have now stated to the fullest extent ; for what injury can be done in starting a proposition that cannot carry conviction ; whereas, if a subject is open to doubt, it is also open to argument. Mr. McMahon—My lord, I still think that I am right ; but I submit respectfully to your lordship's rule, and bow to it. Baron Bramwell then made some lengthy com ments on the duty of the bar in respect to the particular course he had alluded to. His lordship afterwards summed up, his observa iions going decidedly adverse to the prisoner. Ia one part of his address to the jury, however, be requested them to acquit the prisoner in the event of their believing that he had acted in the assertion of his right ; yet, while the jury were deliberating in retirement, he ordered them to return into court, and in' imated to the foreman that he had consulted with his learned brother (Baron Martin), vvil ° thought that he had propounded the law wronglft and he now wished to say that every man was set ) : posed to know the law, and unless the prisoner bad some right or interest in the property tuey were bound to find him guilty. The jury, after remaining locked up for twe, hours, returned i nto court with a verdict 01 guilty. _ His Lordship sentenced the prisoner to three months' imprisonm en t w ith hard labour. lt is said th a t b e t s were pending to the amoun t of several thousands of pounds in the Birmingba° l market upon the probable result of this extra' ordinary trial. Country Markets. DALKRITH GRAIN MARKET—JuLy 23. Qrs. Best. Current. Infellor 344 Wheat . , 69s 0,1 191 Oats 32s 6.1 29s 74L1 27 ,, r 86 Barley 3 Bs 6d 34s 104 d ..... ... 31. r 23 Peas & bean s 50 3 Od 47s lid 43 v" lIADDINGTON GRAIN MARKET-JULY 24. WHEAT. I BARLEY OATS. I RHANt a First 658 Od 40s Od 34s 6d 1 538 Second 453 Od 1 353 Od ; 31s lid ; 463 „ 6 1 [ 'bird 32s Od 1 30s Od I 28 3 6d I 448 ''' id Total quantity of wh ea t i n mar k e t , 4 13 qrs., 33 0 soi d barley ~ 130 qrs., 82 B c4 oats ,) 154 qrs., 154 so '' IP beans „ 58 qrs., 40 $O AVERAGES PER IMPIRTAL QtTARTER. Wheat, 2/. 5 0 6-12ths 1 Barley, ...1/. 15 0 8-12th Oatz, ... 11. 11 11 3.l2ths I Beans, .....21. 6 6 6.120° PP , ABERDEEN —JULY 21. Potato oats Common o a t s 25s Od to 25s Gd /401bs per bushe l Bere 318 Oct to 32s Oct Barley 31s Oct to 82s Oct 1 531bs ~ Wheat, red ( s p r i n g)4 2 o s s s Od to t t o o 4 2 2 6 5 4 Od d 1 1 621bs ~ , white 3 Bs Oct t o 46 s Od Oatmeal 20s Od to 21s 0,1 per boll. Flour 45s Od to 468 Od per sack. PrtOVISION MARKET. Beef, per lb 6d to 9d I Butter, p lb. Os lid to 1s „°1 Mutton, per lb 6d to Oct I Eggs, p doz. Os 8,1 to 03 A u i Lamb, do., Os 8d to 0,9 i i Hens, p pair 28 93 to 33 „v i Veal, per lb ... 6d to Os Oct Chickens,do.ls 6d to 2i: ` ‘ , l l Pork, perlb...os 6d to Os 7d Ducks, do., Os Oct to Os ,; 1 Salmon, per lb is 21. Ducklings,ols 61 to 2s ',.; 1 Grouse, per brace.....os to Os Turkeys, each 4s Oil to 4. L a ' j Tallow, p stone, Os to lls 01 Potatoes, pr peck, 12d to I. ' Rabbits, each 3d to 4d. Butter for exportation (present cure) per cwt.... —s to 9 2 0 g Eggs, wholes a l e p r i ce , per d ozen . 6d to 60. RETAIL PRICES. Flour, 14 1b....03 Od t o 2s Gd Barley flour,l4lb.Os to 2 s - 2 4 0 Oatmeal ......Os Od t o 2s ld „ dust, Beremeal ....Os Od to 2s Od , per lb Peasemeal... O s Od t o 2 s 4d Sids, ‘ 1 Cheese, per imp er i a l s t one, 4 s. Od . to 4s 6d7 to 2r.11 4-Ib. 10af...8d. I 2-lb. 10af...4d. ii • DUBLIN, JULY 24. Our corn market to-day was poorly supplied. Wn was very dull, an d oa t s ra th er firm at the currencies 0 Tuesday. The business in Indian corn was small, but th e reduced prices of last market were supported. A few 83 02 ' pies of new rapeseed appeared, and were sold at all rate° from 23s to 355. White wheat, 35s 01 to 37s 6d ; red ditto, 344 04 to S . , 04; ditto new, — s; b ar l ey, malting, 16s 6d to 25, 6d ; grind in —s to —s ; o a t s, o l d, 148 64 to 17s; ditto, new, 04 to —s 0,1; oatmeal, 158 to 17s 6d; bere, new, to 6 „1 Od ; rapese , d, 283 Od to 353 per brl ; flour, 19A 04 to 24s 04 per cwt ; luuian corn, 393 01 to 40, 01 Pe r 480 Ibt. LA.DVERTISEITENT —Holloway's Ointment and rill!: -- By the joint action of these two inestimable speCifies all cutaneous eruptions are quickly banished from the system, the worst description of wounds or ulcers are easily eradicated, the mor bifi c ma t ter wh i ch nature fi n ds to her is th rown out, and a thoroughly- h ea lth y s t a te ' 3 , the blood an d fl u id s i s the result, restoring a sound mind and body after other treatment has been found inelv clout, in niany cases saving surgical operations, and ewer life itself by their miraculous power.—Sold by all rned,`" eine vendors th roug h out the world, at Profess or licw llway's Establishments, 244, Strand, London ; and B °' Maiden-lane, New Yo r k ;b y A. Stamps, Constant' ' nople ;A. uidicy, Smyrna; and E. Muir, Malta. B lIR T H S. OF A SOY. On the 24th inst., at 35, Rutland-gate, the Countess of Munster. On tau 24th inst., at 1, Grosvenor-place, the wife of Jamea R. Lane, Esq. On Friday, the 24th instant, at 61, Upper Seymour street, the wife of Henry S. Scabell, Eq., of The Abbey," Pershore, was aaftly delivered of a son. off a DAVGIITER. On the 23d inst., at Cleveland-square, Hyde-park, the wife of Richard Horn, Esq. On the 24th inst., at Albion-road, Stoke Newington , Mrs. Charles Barbet. MARRIED. On the 22d inst., at All Saints', Lambeth, Fraser Wrpi B. Bloxam, Es q ., t o M arion Elizabeth, fourth daughter 0 . David Hutchison, Esq., of 10, Canterbury-place, Law bath. On the 25th inst., at St. George's, Southwark, Mr. 3.4 2; Higham, of Quorndon, L e i ces t ers hi re , to Mary Ann, t u elth9t , titer of Robert Ar ms t rong , E sq . , of O ver -T a b. hy, Cheshire. On the 24th i nst., at 3, Que Den's-place west, Hammer smith, Mr. Jonathan Sawyer, late of 2, St. Alban's-ter race, V auxhall-bridge -road, Westminster, aged 74. On the 25th inst., at Wimbledon-common, Surre9 l Caroline, wife of Charles Meredith, Esq. On the 24th inst., at 3, Bower-terrace, Maidstone, Joh° Arkcoll, Esq., aged 72 On the 23d in: t., at Beccles, Suffolk, W. R. Sharpie, Esq., aged 66. On the 23d inst., drowned while bathing at Soutbev a d! Mr. Sam ue l J o h n H arr i s, of 27, Pembroke-terrace, Cale donian-road, aged 57. On the 224 inst., at Jersey, Balmer Hedley, Esq., p.A. , Commissary-General, aged 31. On the 21st inst., at Worthing, the Rev. Geo. Clayton' rector of Warmingham, Cheshire. LONDON : Printed and Published by IiTTEDO YO UN ( ' of No.. 112, Strand, Printer, at Tice Sun Mae, 14° ' 112, Strand, in the Precinct of the Say ey, in the count/ of Middlesex, Monday, July 27, 1857. Dosed t the nal aingula are cov the Eri foyer j, Much e Julia S, Highlat lit tle IT One, TI 69, Qua Pleased amine It I is the m is the ill renclere< Drell dev Puble in one) / Two, an explanal In the atter tivi A Lect 011 Negl.; _EARL) Dany the Rristi one o'clo taken at The Tr. and will I Ing on th Yaddinl FREIga NOT C( and other; Vernor an thority to ,be Procur DC obta nr / he Cot to the shit deseriptlol A N .Bg., havii and ciimni followinz he conside of nervous send ffee, 1 ed envelop medical wi Thu las , I MR. , PrerAt T Perfectly n the origins decay, nild TI:1A Inettit o peration, frnaranteeil riolvard'a I thi cal, he h cared teetl The Sucee; 0 ss l po t on, and t ailing off Scurf and in the grovi Ng in its st mended, as ,1 17 the B, Xt that it Ittstro. Pri I CB. 6d, ; JAUTIO L AXDs' MA and their st Sold at 2 Utaer s. VALIDS F . O m ore easily "" 1 - 111 ; aclli ness, serofb t he system 'aye reared to, azbi a e( ; I ; 2 talnped , ent-st re at2ls, Th l ' e ceiPt of r Wel . PH' INCAP 'qui and in Anatomic free by p 4 THE e ffeCt i S of s qtlences fro lio ns of mai fl • Wat4l, a nd Cordon The COR to rent:mate its Power it sexual dehi lities arisin it 4 unvaryi or four qua] „ The CON remed3 Me varied l 3 kin, blotch tonsils, and Its action gYstem is u of lis. PERRY':: tual remed3 and disease or box. Sold by Hooper, 43, G. P. Watt W. Edward street; e nardinv, 4, medicine ye TqF SECS •lust pablis ELF-: KJ on th , ql,l on the from viclom to Alanheod Vase in its.. rEmarks on , nYsteries " urinary exm complaints, katriculnt( Memt•er APOtheCa The ester s equences r Which hare hood, and p Other class Particularly their phys the health, bntitled, It is abs(); Principles o out incur& aced the he 3 tria3 , be mit and how the that there is derangemer Published rattY be hal Gcrdon, 146 c onsulted di tedford-squ „. The work va lcutta—Bl Circulator 0 COlonikbo. 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