The Sun. — London, England, 1857-07-08 00:00:00

TIER MAJESTY'S TtIEATRE. IL DON GIOVANNI. EXTRA. NIGHT. TO-MORROW EVENING, July 9, will be repeated, with M o zart's chef d'oeuvre , IL the following unpre cedented cast, DON GIOVANNI :—Zerlina, Mdlle. Piccolomini ; Donna Anna, Mdlle. Spezia • an d Donna Elvira, Mdll e . Ortolani. D on Giovanni, Sig. b eneven tano ; Leporello, Sig. Belletti ; Masetto, Sig. Corsi ; Il Commandatore, Sig. Vialetti; and Don Ottavio, sig. Giuglini. C onductor —Sig. Bonetti. After which, will be produced an entirely New Ballet D vertissetuent, entitled MARCO SPADA. Principal dancers Madlle. Rosati, Mesdlles. Katrine, rasquali, Morlacchi, Signori Ronzani, Boretti, and M. At scot. % per particulars see bills. A. limited number of boxes in the Half Circle Tier have been specially reserved for the public, and may be had on a plication at the Box-office at the Theatre Colonnade, Hay market. Price One Guinea and One Guinea and a Half each. H ER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. L'ELISIR D'AMORE. The Last Night but Two of the Subscription. Picco'omini.—First appearance of Signor Rossi. On SATURDAY EVENING, JULY 11, will be pratduced (first time these six years) Donizetti's Opera of L'ELISIR D'AMO RE. Adina, :Mlle. Piccolomini (first time ); Nem orino, Signor Belart ; Belcore, Sig. Bellatti ; and Dr. Duleamara, Signor Rossi (first appearance this season). To conclude with the admired Ballet, MARCO SPA.D A. For particulars, see bills. A limited number of Boxes in the Half-circle Tier have been wec i a lly reserved for the public, and miy be bad on applica tiou at the Box-office, at the Theatre Colonnade, Haymarket. Price One Guinea and One Guinea and a Half each. HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.— Signor GIUGLINI has the honour to an nounce that his BENEFIT will take place on MONDAY NEXT, July 13, on which occasion he will have the honour to appear in Five of his principal Characters, The Fourth Act of Verdi's IL TROVATORE. - • - - - Leonora, Mdlle. Spezia ; Azucena. Madame Alboni ; I 1 Cu to di Luno, Signor Beneventano ; and Maurieo, Signor Guiglini. The Last Act of LUCIA DI LAMMERMOOR. Lucia, Madlle, Piccolomini ; Bedebent, Signor V;aletti Enrico, Signor Belletti ; and Edgardo, Signor Ginglini. For the First Time, the Last Act of Bellni's IL PEItATA. Including the celebrated "In Vedrai." Imogene, Madlle Ortolani ; Gualtero, Signor Ginglini. LES BOUFFES PARISIENS—St. JAME-3'S THEATRE. Triumphant Success of the FRENCH PLAYS. LAST SIX REPRESENTATIONS. THIS EVENING, Wednesday, July 8, the entertain ments will commence, at half .past eight preci•+ely, by the performance of LE VIOLONEUX. M. Gnyot, M. Mes macre, Madlle. Mareschal. After which (7th time) Opera-Bouffe, moyen age, en un acts, CR iQUEFER, ; ou, Le Dernier des Paladins. To conclude with Buflonnerie Musicale, en un Act, LES DEUX AVEUGLES. M. Pradeau and A. ,lesmacer. • The Orchestra of the Theatre des Bouffes will ace ,m -pany these Representations, under the direction of the composer, M. Offenbach. Boxes, stalls, and tickets may be engaged at Mr. Mitchell's Royal Library, 33, Old Bond-street. MORNING REPRESENTATION.- . FRENCH PLAYS —Les Bouffes Parisiens. —St. James's Theatre.—ln compliance with numerous appli cations, a SPECIAL MORNING PERFORMANCE will be given on SATURDAY NEXT, July 11, commencing at Three o'clock, on which occasion will be presented the three popular pieces, L'IMPRESARIO, Musique de Mozart ; L'OPERA FENETRES, Musique de Gastinel ; and LES DEUX AVEUSLES, Musique d'Offenbach.—The last per formances of the season will take place on Mond+y evening, July 13, and Tuesday evening, July 14.—Boxes, Stalls, and Tickets may be secured at Mr. Mitchell's Royal Library, 33, Old Bond-street ; and at the Box-office of the Theatre. THEA T R E-R OYA L, DRURY-LANE. Lessee, Mr. E. T. Smith. OPEN EVERY EVENING. GREAT EQUESTRIAN AMERICAN and CONTINENTAL COMPANY, under the direction of Miss Ella. Prices—Pit and Promenade, is Boxes, 2s. 6d,, 25., and is. ; Galleries, 6d. Doors open at half-past 7. Commence at S. JACK THE (lANT KILLER, with novel effects. Miss ELLA in Two unapproachable Acts. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE. THIS EVENING will be performed Shakespere's Play of THE TEMPEST. Preceded by LIVING TOO FAST. T HEATRE ROYAL, H AYMARKET Lessee—Mr. J. B. Bucks - tone. MR. BUCKSTONE'S ANNII XL BENEFIT. THIS EVENING, to commence at Seven o'clock. with (first time) a new and original Comedy, in three acts, entitled VICTIMS, in which Mr. Blackstone, Mr. Howe, Mr. William Farrell, Miss Reynolds, ere., will appear. Followed by THE FIRST AND SECOND FLOOR. Mr. Buck stoue will Address the audience. To conclude with a new Ballet, THE GLEANERS. In future the prices will be : Orchestra Stalls (which may be retained the whole of the evening), 6s. each. (No charge for booking.) First Price, s. d. Second price. s, d Dress Boxes 5 0 Dress Boxes 3 0 Upper Boxes ... 3 0 Upper Boxes ' 2 0 Pit ... . ......... 2 0 Pit, 1 0 Lower Gallery 1 0 Lower Gallery 0 6 Upper Gallery 0 CNo half-price to Upper Gallery. THEATRE ROYAL, A. DEL PHI. Lessee—Mr. Ben. Webster. THIS EVENING, will be performed THE CUSTOMS OF THE COUNTRY. Mr, and Mrs. Barney Williams. After which, a new drama, THE FAIRY CIR , ;LE ; or, Con O'Carolan's Dream. Mr. and Mrs. B. Williams. Followed by a new farce, LATEST FROM NEW YORK. Mr. and Mrs. Barney Williams. STRAND THEATRE.—Lessee, Mr. T. Payne. —THIS EVENING will he performed Douglas Jerrold's drama of THE PRISONER OF WAR. Messrs. Stuart, Kinloch, dte.. Miss Craven and Mrs. Weston. Followed by LOVE IN LIVERY. To conclude with the Tate Douglas Jerrold's farce of the SMOKED MISER. Commence at half-past Seven. Stalls, 3s. ; Boxes, 2s. ; Pit, Is. ; Gallery, 6d. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMP ETITHEA.TRE. Lessee and Manager, Mr. W. Cooke. Under the patronage of Her _Majesty anti His Royal Highness Prince Albert. Madlle. Mililos, the celebrated Equestrienne, nightly re ceived with the greatest enthusiasm. THIS EVENING (Wednesday, July 8), and Fri:lay, the en tertainments will commerce with the superb spectacle of MAZEPPA AND THE WILD HORSE. TO-MORROW (Thursd Shakspere's tragedy of RICHARD 111., with Equestrian Illustrations, Mazeppa and Richard 111., Mr. James Holloway. The entertainments concluding with an incomparable rou tine of Mr. W. Cooke's SCENES in the ARENA, introduc ing Madlle. Mililos and other eminent talent. Comma Lee at seven o'clock. Dress Boxes, 4s. ; Upper Boxes, 3s. ; Private Boxes, from 2 ls., no charge for booking; Pit, 2s. ; Gallery, ls. ; Upper Gallery, 6d. H elf-price at lf-past Eight. 80. -oflice open from Eleven till Four. Stage Manager, Mr. W. West. Equestrian Director, Mr. W. Cooke, jun. The Second and Third Series of Morning Performances will take place on Saturdays, July 11 and 18, at Two o'clock. G REAT NATIONAL STANDARD THEATRE. Proprietor. Mr John Douglas. • Last Week of whirlwinds of gest'culated extacy. THIS EVENING, Professor ANDERSON, the Great Wizard of the North, in his entirely New Magical Drama, A 'NIGHT IN WONDER-WORLD ; or, Magic, Mirth, and Mystery. Extraordinary novelties every night, and three new tricks each night for the concluding week of wonders. Attraction increasing every night. Great success of Mr. G. rends, Who is the King of Comic Vocalists. C AN TERBURY HALL. W es tminster-road.— OPEN EVERY EVENING.—The follow 'ng company of Vocalists are engaged for the performance of elections from all the popular Operas, Madrigals, Choruses, Glees, Duets, ?re., viz. ~,,,,,,,,, E. Pearce, Mrs. J. Caulfield, Miss Bruncll, Mis s S ummers, and Madame Marietta ; Mr. J. Caulfield, ITerr F. Jonghrnans, P.. 'Grover, T. Farrant, S. Jon* J. Barker, W. Melling, P. Corri Senor Antonio M. de Solla, and E. L. Mime ; Masters Bennett and Corsi ; MeEsrs. Sam Collins, and E. Mackney. Pianoforte, Mr. Cecil Tricks harmonium, J Caulfield, jun.; lirector, Mr J. Caulfield Comm ence a t Seven o'clock •prec i sely. Sn ,pers, drc., until twelve o'clock WATE[ AT LONDON , sit., i„, THIS DAY—Morn. 35 min. aft. 2—E ven., 55 min a f t. 2 To MOBBOW—Morn. 12 min. aft. 3 —Evan., 31 rsil u) , 3 THE WEATHEU-STN OFFICE, JULY THERMOMETER, IN TAX SHADE. 67 —highest singe noon yesterday. t 2 —lowest. this morning smi urin the night. 64 —this day at noon BAROMETER, 30.00. WIND, W. to W.N. W. ; light, with cloudy weather. , LONDON, WEDNESDAY, JULY 8, I?t7 Although the motion of Mr. ROEBWOK for qv abolition of the Br urnmag, , em Court iu frela rl I was rejected by a considerable majority, the; • were few indeed who had the hardihood to assert that any public advantages were derived from its continuance. The larg e majority of tho se w h u voted for " the previous question," did so on the ground that it was impossible that any legislatioi, could take place on the subject during the present sestiion, and that it would be well to be prepared rtiß SUN, LONDON, _ WEDNESDAY EVENING, JULY 8 1857 with an effectual substitute, before the existing office was finally abolished. Even those who spoke most strongly against the "sham," did not support their speeches with their votes, for one or both of the reasons above mentioned. We, however, fully concur with the Member for Sheffield, in thinking both that the period was opportune, and that in obtaining the expression of opinion from the re presentative branch of the Legislature, he was doing all that could properly be expected at his hands. It was for him to indicate the evil—for the Government to decide on the details by which the matter might be carried into practical opera- tion, and an efficient substitute provided for the condemned office. The question has not been ventilated for the first time. Seven years since it was brought forward as a Government measure, and carried by a very considerable majority, when it received the ap proval and supp irt of many influential members of the present Government. All the causes that justified its continuance have long since ceased ; and there is a good old adage, " cessat ratio, cessat lex," which should decide the question. When Ireland was a separate nation, possessing an inde pendent Parliament, it was essential that all the machinery of Government should exist on the spot, and that there should be an autho•• rity empowered to act on any emergency, without waiting for instructions from London, which, under the then conditions of travelling, it might take weeks to obtain. Such an emergency might arise at any moment. Ages of misgovern ment and oppression had created a considerable degree of disaffection, but now the Trish are as loyal as their English or Scottish brethren. The railway, the steam-boat, and the submarine tele graph have virtually annihilated time and dis tance. In place of tossing about for many days in a sailing packet, driven back by contrary winds, and then spending two or three days more between Holyhead and Dublin, the sea voyage is performed with certainty in four hour& ; and in some ten or a dozen hours the journey from Dub lin to London is effected, while massages can be transmitted in a few seconds—more rapidly, in fact, than from Whitehall to Somerset House ! Why, then, retain the useless office? Why keep up the pinchbeck bauble, which can only be regarded as a badge of national degradation— which renders Ireland a province, in place of being an integral portion of "The United King dom ?" Simply to please the shopocracy of Dub lin—to give the tailors and milliners a little extra employment !" It is, in fact, neither more nor less than " protection" or " boun ties" to Dublin traders that is required, and, for that, nearly 100,0001. sterling is to be abstracted from the Imperial Exchequer. York, Liverpool, Edinburgh, Manchester, and Glasgow can flourish without such meretricious aids. Why should not Dublin do so, when obliged to look to its own resources for its pros perity ? We believe that it would be better in every respect ; that its trade would be sounder, and its inhabitants more prosperous, and far more independent, when the artificial stimulant was removed. It is said that it attracts visitors from the country, that it creates a demand for furnished houses and furnished lodgings in the Irish Me - : tropolis during a few weeks ! If such be the case, the money is withdrawn from the localities where it is obtained, and where it ought to be expended. To provide for the additional outlay, tenants are screwed, and the domestic establish ment placed on reduced allowance. An 'ab senteeism in Dublin is, to all intents and purposes, as bad for parties in Cork, Belfast, or Galway, as if it were in London. What the Dublin shop-, keepers and house agents gain is virtually taken from every district throughout the sister kingdom. Let there be a fair competition ; but do not apply national money to turn the contest in favour of one of the competing parties. Tho favourite argument, however, is, " where can we exhibit our daughters, -where apply for situations for our sons, if the Lord Lieutenancy be abolished ?" We shall not insult the fair daughters of Erin by supposing that their own attractions are not sufficient without being "trotted out" in the Viceregal mart ! The same parties will marry, and be given in marriage ; celibacy will not be encouraged because there are no Castle balls or drawing-rooms to serve as places of meet ing. Indeed the extravagant outlay occasioned by the Court dresses, Sze., more frequently de , tracts from than encourages " the consummation so devoutly to be wished for." A. 9 t 3 asking places for sons, that produces the most mischievous results. " The Cistle" be comes a hot-bed of jobbery and corruption. It distracts the attention of young men from honest industry. They are all seeking for place, and sacrifice their youth and inde pendence in the pursuit. Unfortunately, as in all lotteries, there are many blanks, for each prize ; and if we take the aggregate of those obtaining their wishes, and of those deeply and bitterly disappointed, and the loss of time and money occasioned by the pursuit, there can be no doubt that it would be well for Ireland and for the rising generation that the glittering bait should be withdrawn, and that they should be taught to look more to their own exertions, and less to patronage and backstairs influence. On every ground the Viceroyalty should be abolished, and Ireland amalgamated completely with Eng land—rendered in every respect a portion of the empire, and not a mere province. A National Gallery —worthy of the name—is in store for England. It is in preparation. The old site--the finest sits in all Lyndon—is to be retained ! And there—not down in a suburban dust-hole at Kensington—there, upon that ele vated plateau to the north of Trafalgar square, looking down the perspective of Parlia ment-street between the Strand aud Spring-gar: dens, we are about to erect a Palace of the Fine Arts worthy of confronting the far-away but dis tinctly visible Palace of the Imperial L'sgislature at Westminster. It is a magnificent project this—and one which may well captivate the popular imagination. L.:t us not bungle this time in our arrangements. Let us really do what we intend doing—in ear nest. Let us not, by a misjudged parsimony, be guilty in the end of absolute extravagance--spend ing only a few hundred thousands, it may be, but literally throwing those thousands away. We positively did that in our last venture of this kind —namely, in regwared are to now the miserable abor tion of a b u ildingdown and cart away as so mucrub a b b is o i l i i . t to Whpau l t ever sum we dedicate to the purposes of our new National Gallery, let that sum in the first instance —to the end that it be not entirely wasted lik3 its wretched little predecessor—l e t that sum, we say, in the first instance, be Adequate. And the n .—having secured the two principal essentials to the proper realisation of the n , o s b i l t e design before u s, that of a veritable National Gallery—h- v i ne wisely retained the splendid , our possessioc, and having, besides that, judici ously resolved upon the expenditure, o f an ade quate "Sum " for the occasion—t'aen it will 1.- main With us so to avail ouael, - os o f that Site and of that Sum that our new Palace of the Fine A its may prove worthy of the Capital and of the Empire, of the Age and of the Object, of the People and of the Sovereign. It is not only a magnificent Project—but it is, also, and in a very peculiar manner, a magnifi cent Opportunity. If we only avail ourselves wisely of this opportunity we may really, though indirectly, do marvels almost beyond conception. We are not talking at random, for example, when we. say distinctly that—lf we avail ourselves of this opportunity as we ought, we may, or, rather, we shall, infallibly —Elevate the Public Taste, Advance the Progress of the Arts amongst ourselves, and impart in this country a new and appreciable impetus to the onward movement of Civilisation. It is not by any means our intention to sub scribe in any way to the extraordinary opinions expressed upon the subject of Art in England by the Times of this morning. We cannot admit for an instant that we have now "to begin" to play the part of an artistic people seriously ! We stand astounded, absolutely astounded before the stolid conjecture advanced to-day by our contemporary, in this amazing sentence :—" Whether England is aver to have great historical painters, sculp tors of classic genius, gifted carvers, and p3ttars, and upholsterers, and pattern designers, is hidden in the Future 1" As to the mere patterns and upholstery, we leave them to the School of Dasign and the Pantechnicon 1 But the nobler branches of Art referred to in this most astonishing slur upon the- genius of British Artists, dead and living, we will take, one by one, consecutively. And in doing so, we maintain that, in the first place, among Painters this country can readily enumerate a catalogue of Great Names not un worthy of furnishing materials for a supplement to VASARI 1 Among the limners of Men and Man ners, with the brush and the palette, where shall we find a more thoroughly national painter—equally great as Satirist and Humorist —than Wm - num HOGARTH ? Have we not had a TENIERS of the farm-yard in MORLAND —a Hounrata in COLLINS—have we not still living a rival of VANDERTELDT in STANFIELD—a greater than SNYDERS in LANDSEER 1 From the minor walk: , of the art, like that discernible in the school of fruit painting, in which GEORGE LANCE, for example, defies comparison—from the lesser departments of this beautiful Art up to its noblest and sublimest—whero the Artist stands forth, not simply as the interpreter, but as the Tisual Poet of Nature—England has, so to speak, among her own indigenous Painters, claimants not so much for a High Position as for absolute Pre-eminence ! Enough will have been said, however, upon this division of our subject, when the one gr ea t, incontestably great, name of TURNER has been mentioned. Then as to the other glorious cultivators of Art in this country—illustrious " Masters," whose very existence has been thus cavalierly ignored by the Times of this morning ! Among Sculptors—had FLAXHAN no " classic genius ?" Was WEDGEWOOD no Potter When "gifted" Carvers have been enumerated, have we never heard mention made of the name of GRIN LING GIBBONS? Seriously, indeed, we ask—ls there not something either Pert or Obtuse in that astounding assertion to-day in the columns of our contemporary the Times ; " Whether England is ever to have great historical painters, sculptors of classic genius, gifted carvers, and potters, and upholsterers, and pattern designers, is hidden in the future." Again we say—. This is either evidence of the Pert or of the Obtuse. No—we do not arrogantly purpose Beginning the Cultivation of Art in this country—rather be it said, we purpose beginning, from this time forth, its better Appreciation, as well as a more judicious Application of its ele vating and humanizing Influences. LATEST NEW. FRANCE. PARIS, TUESDAY EVENING. The number of votes stated in the Moniteur of yesterday to have been recorded for the Govern ment and Opposition candidates respectively, in each of the three circumscriptions, agrees with the telegraphic despatch we published yesterday, ex cept that the illoniteur makes out General Cavaig nac's majority to be 1,007 over his opponent, in stead of 998, as formerly stated. The new Legislatve Body contains three mem bers of the Jewish persuasion —MM. Koenigs warter, Goudchaux, and Leopold Javal. The Univers Israelite expresses its satisfaction at this success, which it terms " eiceeedingly honourable for the Jews of France, and for the nobly spiri t o f tolerance which animates the country." A Paris letter, in the Independance of Brusels, says :—" A good deal is said in the financial world of the second report on the present money crisis addressed to the Emperor by M. Emile Pereire. That gentleman is stated to have taken for his text these words, pronounced by the Emperor in 1850 when addressing the Council-General of Agriculture and Commerce :—" Credit, let us not forget, is the moral part of material interests—the spirit which animates the body—it increases tenfold by con& deuce the value of all productions.' M. Pereire then explains how it is that within the last five months the public fortune has decreased by 980,000,000 fratics ; and he concludes by these words—" Tho budget of fear almost equals the budget ofXrance." BOURSE, July 7.—The following were the last quotations Cash. fr. c. End of Month. 4 i per Cents - c. 3 per Cents 67 15 67 25 Bank Shares 2,900 Credit Foncier 670 Credit Mobilier 920 Roman Do. Account 920 Austrian Belgian 41 Fiedmontese (5) 9li— Home Debt RAILWAYS—FOB CASH, f r C. Orleans 1,445 Western Northern Lyons 1,375 New Ditto Mediterranean — Grand Central Geneva Midi ' 692 Austrian Cora. of his friends advised him to play out the game, in hopes that the populace might join him, but Mazzini refused, countermanded the movement, and hastily left Genoa, in order not to be taken." The latest accounts from Leghorn are up to the 3d, and represent the town as in a perfect state of tran quillity. The Grand Duke bas issued a decree, limited to Leghorn alone, forbidding all persons there to carry arms about them, on pain of from sto 10 years' imprisonment. Any murder or at tempt at murder, or even inflicion of wounds, if premeditated, is to be punished with death. Any person committing any other crime, having arms about him at the time, is liable to from 10 to 20 years' imprisonment, provided the law does not prescribe any greater punishment for the crime committed. The permanent court-martial sitting at Leghorn is to take cognizance of all such cases. The Austrian Corresponden ce , in speaking of the late disturbances in Italy, adds that the Austrian government had been for some days informed that the revolutionary party intended attempting dis turbances on several points of Cantral and Southern Italy. THE GLASGOW POISONING. SEVENTH DAY-TUESDAY. The Court met to-day at ten o'clock. ...__ _ The Lord Advocate proceeded to address the jury fer the prosecution. He began by remarking that, after an investigation of unexampled length, be had to discharge the most painful duty that had ever fallen to his share. It was impossible that during so long a trial, in which so many necessarily dis jointed statements had been laid before them, some impression —he feared there was little doubt what that must be—had not been produced upon their minds. It was now his duty to join together the various links of evidence, so that they might be able to arrive at a decision on the whole case. He wished he had been able, after hearing the evi dence on both sides, to withdraw the case ; but he feared, and it would be his duty to convince the jury, that there could be no doubt of the guilt of the unhappy prisoner. There were three offences charged, but they hung together. He would not lead them farther than necessary into those scenes of sin and degradation with which the case was fraught —no language of his, nor of his friend on the other side, could produce a tenth of the im pression already produced by the bare recital. He would add that, while the unfortunate lady is entitled to have it said that such a charge shall not be lightly presumed, if the tale he had to tell were a true one, no criminal had ever been more justly brought within the compass and power of the law. The first point to be taken was, that this unfortunate man L'Angeher died of arsenic—of that there was no doubt. The next question was, by whom was that poison administered ? He must, after the course the trial had taken, put them right as to the steps taken on the part of the prosecution. They must draw a distinction between remarks applying generally to the system of prosecutions, and those which really affect the case of the prisoner. He knew of no case in which such large indulgence had beeu given to the prisoner, who, he could shoW clearly, had suffered nothing from any imperfections in the preparation of the case. He then went over the circumstances regarding the examination of the letters in L'Angelier's lodgings and in his desk at the office. It had been said that this was a very loose way of doing business. He would not say that the proceedings were, in the first place, what he would have liked them to be ; but that did not in the least affect the prisoner. If these letters had not been in the hands of officers of the law at all, but in the hands of relatives, they would still have been good evidence. The compl tint was made of the Crown having refused access to the original documents ; it was absolutely necessary to retain every scrap to prove the handwriting and trace the dates, and to guard a ga i ns t the slightest risk of their being lost or injured. The prisoner bad chosen to run her letters, rendering it absolutely necessary that the case should be prepared within a limited time. If the prisoner's advisers thought proper, they could at once have obtained delay from the prosecution. Whatever migly, have been the theory it has not been the practice thatthe Sheriff-Clerk should have the custody of such docu ments. It had been said that we should never have only part of a correspondence in a c Ise like this. He agreed; but he had produced all that could he got. It was only one side of the correspondence. They had nearly 2001etters of the prisoner--only one copy of a letter from the deceased. Howcame this? They would see from the correspondence that the letters of L'An gelier were not destroyed down to the 7th or Bth of February, and yet no scrap of it could be found. The prosecution had done all it mild to make that corre spondence complete, and they would draw theirown inference from the fact that not a scrap had been found of the letters that were in custody of the pri soner. As to the difficulty of connecting the let ters with the envelopes bearing the postmark, there was no doubt that the use of envelopes was an ob stac'e to the tracing of facts in such cases ' • but if the officers were scrupulously accurate in handling the letters, the objection was not formidable. If the date of the letter say Monday night, and the postmark say Tuesday, such facts would show that, so far as there could be any certainty, the letters had been found in their proper envelopes. But it was more important to. notice that they proved their own dates by the facts that they tell. He came back to the painful details of the case. This young lady returned from a London boarding school at the age of seventeen. She met Angelier in 1854, or beginning of 1855. In 1851 he had been poor, but had worked his way up to a comparatively re• spectable position—liked by all those that came in contact with him—spoken of by his landladies, em ployers, and others, as honest a n d st ea dy. Ani at tachment arose, which was forbidden by the parents; and it was only right to say that the let ters at that time were in a proper and dutiful spirit. The attachment was afterwards resumed, and led to a criminal connexion. He afterwards threatened to show the letters to her father. There was no thing dishonourable in this—the dishonour would have been in allowing her to become the wife of any honest man. She implores to get her letters back. She then bought arsenic. Then her letters resume all the ardour of passion —she is engaged to be married to another man and L'Angeiier died of poison. If the proof be such that no reasonable man can doubt the guilt, then incredible as the story may and fearful as would be the result of the ver dict, that verdict must be given. In occult cases the ends of justice would be perpetually defeate I if there were no conviction except some witness sew the deed done—and in cases of poison that remark applied with peculiar force, as poison is not likely to be administered before witne3ses. The fact of there being no eye-witness to the administration of poison goes for nothing. He would now consider the evidence in detail, going in order of time, be ginning with the 29th of April, 1856. The letter of that date asks to see the prisoner the first night her father is " off," in order that th€y might " spend an hour of bliss." On Friday, 2d May, she writes that her father liad been in bed ; but it would make no difference—he was to go to the gate at half-past ten, and wait for her on Tuesday the 6th May. The next letter was Wednesday morn lug, the 7th May—trusting he got home safe, and containing most unmistakeable evidence of their having had guilty connection the night before. The language was not to be mistaken. That date was the commencement of the tragedy. From that time down to the end of the year she continued to write in a strain he would not characterise —show. ing an utter overthrow of the moral sense, and ex hibiting a picture which he did not know ever had a parallel. If it is said that L'Angelier had his own share in corrupting, it could have been but a small share. He then referred to the letter of the 27th May containing unmistakeable allusions and invitations to further connection, and arguing that their intimacy had not been criminal nor sinful, as she was his wife.- In another letter she says she could not see him till the nights were longer. He then referred to the letter, obviously in September 1856, in which she alludes to Min noch, which she did frequently afterwards, obvi ously preparing the deceased to learn that she in clined to favour that gentleman. He then quote' the letter written before the prisoner went to Blythswood-square, saying that she could not admit him, owing to her room being on the same floor as the front door—a difficulty the jury would see had been got over. She so arranged as to have her room in the sunk storey, and that her window, which was below the level of the pavement, should be the depository of the correspondence, in support of which statement his lordship quoted the letter advising the deceased to use brown enve velopes as being less liable to be seen when dropped down to her window. The jury were then requested to examine a plan of the house, the Lord Advocate arguing that entry could be ob ailed to both flats without disturbing the sleepers in the bed-rooms. He then quoted the first letter from Blythswood-square telling him to come and drop in a letter at eight o'clock, and saying she could let him in at the front door, adding that sbe would not let a chance pass. H e ca ll e d particular attention to the fact that she could give admission at the front door without disturbing the family. He then came to the letters, from which it appeared that there was a serious intention of the parties to elope. Letter No. 73 (17th De cember) showed she was going to a concert, and that her brother and sister had issued invitations to a party. A letter of the 19th complained that the deceased had misrepresented her as to the circum stances under which Minnoch had accompanied her to the concert, and that he always doubted her word. There was evidence here that, after the first few weeks of her intercourse, her feelings to wards L'Angelier changed. She says in another letter that her coolness began when they came to Glasgow in November. The letter No. '79 was of great consequence, as referring to meetings iu the Blythswood-square house—from internal evidence, it must have been posted about the 22d December. Then came a letter, inviting him to the house if her father and mother went to Edinburgh—she could let him in—there was no danger. That meant, you shall come into the house—does it not mean, you have been in the house ? The correspondence thus far proved the greatest intimacy—of such a cha racter that no eye could have seen it with out the character of the prisoner being blasted —she, speaking as being actually the deceased's Wife, and engaging not even to flrt with Mr. Min noch—in that position were the parties at the eud of 1856. On the 9th January, 1857, she writes wishing 4he could have hen with her in bed, but she has also an observation to the effect that she could not see him, and that he must just leave the note and go away. " When we shall meet again I cannot tell." On Saturday, the 10th, she writes, hoping he had got her note, fearing that there was not much chance of meeting him again at that time, and using the strongest terms of enclearment--per haps in ten days she could see him again—" the same as last." On Wednesday, the 14th, she 'Writes that she does not see thatthere is anychance for them getting married at Edinburgh, and thatshe had dined with Miunoch, and liked him. On Mon day, the 19th, she . writes—a manifest chill having C 01319 over her expressions —saying that she forgot she would not be at home to receive her letter, but that C. H. would take it in, and that she had so loved him when he was al the window the night before —so that the jury would observe that she had been at the window with him on the night of Sunday thelBthJanuary. The envelope of letter No. 97, Friday, Jan. 23, contained another letter, bearing date Sunday ; but it is in pencil, and probably never was in an enve lope at all. It speaks of him having just - , left her. The true date is obviously Sunday, the 18th, as proved by her letter of 19th. The next dateis Wed nesday Jan. 21. She asks why th ere was no letter 1 on Monday night, and saying she could not see him on Thursday. The next was Thursday, saying the marriage must be put off—that there was no chance till March. On the 28th the prisoner accepts Mr. Misnoch—this letter having been written on the 23d. The next documents were only enve lopes, and then they came to two letters of the deepest possible consequence • but before reading them they must mark Mr. Kennedy's evidence, that in February L'Angelier had said with tears that Miss Smith had broken off because there was coolness on both side', but that he would not give up the letters, and that she should never wrong any other man. One of these letters began, " I felt truly astonished at having my letters returned" &c.", and repeating the very words abatet `'coolness on both sidea." which had been 'repeated by L'Angelier to Kennedy. In that letter she asked him to bring her let ters and likeness on Thursday evening, and that she would 'give him back his on Friday. She represented that the only reason was coolness on bosh sides. She was engaged to Minnoch four days before. She was to return the deceased's lstters— therefore she had letters ; what became of them we have had no explanation whatever. What a laby rinth of bewilderment this unhappy girl, by her lapse of virtue, was involving herself in ! She thought that what she said would induce L'Ange her to fly off indignantly. She had horrible re collections of the correspondence, and that he had her in his power. L'Angelier did not answer for more than a week ; arid on the 9th she appoint'-d. Thursday, the 12th, for him to come to the win dow. L'Angelier refused to give up the letters or to give up her, but said he would show them to her father. If things had not gone so far between these two, it might have been ungenerous and unmanly in L'Angelier to take this course ; bit he was bound in honour to prevent Minnoch marrying her. He considered her as his wife, and it is doubt ful whether she was not so in law. The appoint ment stood for the 12th, and on Monday, the 9th, she wrote the letter imploring him not to put her to open shame, and saying, "I am flee from all en gagement at present"—a deliberate falsehood of this unhappy girl, and yet one of the least of her crimes. They had thus traced the matter to the point at which she could not extricate herself, and yet at which, if not extricated, she is lost for ever. Ano ther letterfollowed inthesame imploring strain, and confessing that she had "put upon paper what she lought not." It was true, poor creature ! He could not see in this sad history the gradual downward pro gresS of an ill-regulated mind without the most deep compassion ; nor would he deny that L'An gelier had abused his opportunities in an unmanly and dishonourable way—his learned opponent could scarcely say anything on that point in which he would not concur. She theti writes the false hood, even in this despairing remonstrance, that she had given all her love to him, and cared fur no one else. He (the Lord Advocate) had never had to bring before anylaudience the outpourings of such a despairing spirit as those of this miserable girl ; but the jury, though unable to restrain their com passion, must not let their judgment be influ enced. They must also take into ace: uut some surrounding circumstances. L'Angelier seems to have loved her, and he said her. conduct would be the death of him. Two important cir cumstances now occurred. In the second week of Feb. she sent a boy for prussic acid. She hadceased ' to love L'Angelier—she had resolved to marry ano ther. For what could she want the prusst c acid? For what purpose did she say she wanted it ? For-her hands—a cosmetic. There is the first indication of . what her mind was running on. Thera had been a good deal of medical evidence in this case, but had anybody ever said that prus-ic acid had been used as a cosmetic ? She wanted this poison before the meeting she had appointed for Wednesday, the 11th February. Catharine Haggart had said that some weeks before the apprehension they had a meeting in the house ; andhe (the Lord Advocate) had shown from the letters that no meeting had taken place on any other occasion. The prisoner had denied to M. do Theau that the deceased had ever been in the house at all. What took place at that inter view they could not tell ; but they found that the feud had been made up. But on what terms ? Not on the footing of L'Angelier giving up the letters, but on the footing of their engagement continuing. She went on with the old tone of love and affec tion towards L'Angelier, and at the same time going on with the preparations for her marriage with Minnoch, and receiving the congratulations of her friends. She writes appointing a meeting for Thursday, and wanting back her " cool letters," four in number. Thursday was the 19th of Feb ruary. On Tuesday the 17th L'Angelier dined with Miss Perry, and told her he was to see Miss Smith on the 19th. He afterwards told Miss Perry he had seen her on the 19th. A day or two before the 22d of February—l say the 19th— L'Angelier was seized with illness. Those symp toms were the symptoms of arsenical poisoning. He went to the office the day after the 20th ; on the 21st the prisoner purchased arsenic. This was not the first time she had tried to buy poison. She asked for the arsenic openly ; but the use she alleged was, on her own confession, a fa'se hood. Having purchased arsenic on the 21st, L'Angelier saw her on the 22d, and was again seized with the same illness. If the jury be lieved Miss Perry, L'Angelier told her he had seen the prisoner on the 19th, and had been afterwards ill ; and had seen her again on the 22d, and had again been ill ; and that he got from her coffee on the one occasion and chololate on the other. On Wednesday the 25th February—which he insisted was the true date of the letter—the prisoner wrote to the deceased, regretting he was ill, and saying that "everybody was complaining—it must be I something in the air ;" and saying, " You did look bad on Sunday night and Monday morning." She thought it must have been the long walk and the want of food, so she would give him a loaf of bread next time. She was taking some stuff herself to make her lode better. That letter proved that they had met, that she intended to give him something to eat next time, that. she was preparing by saying she used stuff as a cosme tic, and that all this took place after she had bau s h - the arsenic. There was a letter, only dated Wed nesday, which must have been written on Wed nesday, the 25th of February. They were inquir ing into the death of a person who died of arsenic, and into the causes of two other illnesses. They must look at the facts that L'Angelier said he was ill after taking from the prisoner coffee on one occasion 'and cocoa on the other ; that the pri soner admitted that she had given cocoa ; that she possessed the means of preparing it ; that the two illnesses were the same in symptoms; that those symptoms were the symptoms of arsenical poison ing. Still more important it was to remember what was then the position of the parties. The Lord Advocate then spoke of what had been said about the prisoner having been told at school, and read in Blackwood, that arsenic could be used a s a cosmetic. ' But that was the internal use—she was not following the directions of the magazine, in using it externally as she had said she did. There could not be a word of truth in her saying that she had there used the whole quantity at once in a basin of water. She had told two falsehoods about the arsenic—one confessed, the other denied. Could there be any reasonable doubt that she had got it to kill the deceased ? The de ceased gets better—and on the 27th of February the prisoner writes saying she could not see him that week nor f o r a week. What was L'Ange lier about all this time? He was entirely changed—he never recovered his looks nor his health. He never had before been de tained by illness from attendance at the office. His love for Miss Smith remained—he said he was infatuated, and that, if she were to p oison him, he could forgive her.. Unless he felt he had got something in the coffee and cocoa, what could have put this in his head_ ? Miss perry did not say that this was a serious b eliefon his part— but it bad passed through his brain, and been driven away ; they wouldsee how. On Tuesday the 3d marc h, an d Wednesday the 4th, the prisener wrote, advising the deceased not to go to the Bridge of Allan, where her family were going on the 6th, but rather go to the Isle of Wight. Probably she thought if she could get him out of the way she could have her marriage with Minnoch without in terruption. It could not but strike the jury that these later letters, - though using the same words, were not in the same tone and strain. The Lord Advoctat • hen read L'Angehei's reply complaining of the coldness and shortness of the prisoner's notes, referring to what he had heard about Mr. Minnocb, refining to go to !he Isle of Wight, and speaking of their unhappiness at the la 4 preceding interview. This was written on the sth March—he says he will not go to the Isle of Wight, and that if evasions continue he will get at the truth otherwise. The next day the prisoner buys her second ounce of ar senic. She writes saying she would be happy to meet him again. The pretences on which she bought the arsenic were different from the former, and yet quite false, She wrote from Bridge of Al lan, on 10th March, that they would soon be home, and that she would appoint an interview, when she would kips and embrace him ; and again on the 13th to the same effect. What had been done at Bridge of Allan '1 She had fixed the day of her marriage with Minnou L'Ange tier got leave of absence on the 6th, and goes to Edinburgh for a week. He repeated to Mr. Towers that he had been ill after getting coffer from somebody. The week over, he was longing for a letter. He returned to Glasgow on the 17th ; be went to Bridge of Allan on Thursday, the 19th ; and after that a letter came, which was sent aft-r him from his lodgings— that letter was not recovered, but the envelope was fiend in the tourist'Arg belonging to the dece :sad, Lind reached Stirling on the morning of the 20th. On that day M. L'Angalier wrote to his correspon dent that he " should have come to see some one, but the letter had arrive l too late." The prisoner then wrote—" Why did you not come," &c., with marry tender expresdoirs. That letter was found • in the pocket of L'Angelier's Coat. There was an appointment for Thursday, the 19th ; on Wed nesday, the 18th, she bought her third ounce of arsenic. L'Angelier got that letter after nine o'clock at Stirling on the Sunday morning. The guard recognis-d him as leaving at Coati), id ge ; and he , tarted with ROSS in perfect health to walk to Glasgow. He arrived at his lodgings at 8 o'clock,, and his landlady said be was immensely improved in health. He said a letter had brought him back, and his landlady never doubted be was going to visit the lady. He is seen sauhtering along is the direction of Blythswood-square about 9.20 ; it is too soon : he makes a call ; and here we lose sight of him for two or three hours. There is no attempt to show that any man saw him elsewhere than at the place he was going to. Could it be possible that after corning from Bridge of Allan he would give up his purpose within a few hundred yards of the house ? He knew the habits of the family—he knew he must wait till Janet was asleep. What would he do ? He would go to the window. Is it possible that she would not be waiting for him—that she went to sleep that night and never awoke till the morning ? Whatever took place, the jury could not doubt that L'Angelier went to the house ; and they would mark that the prisoner denied it in her declaration. Where did they see him next ? Double-I up with agony at his own door —then the same symptoms as before-- then death. Nobody asked where he had been. They knew the unfortunate victim, unwilling to admit even to himself what he suspected, objected at first that it was too far to go for his own doctor, but is willing Dr. Stevens should be sent for, if he is a good doctor. Was it not strange that the counsel did not ask Mrs. Jenkins whether she thought it was a case of suicide ? The doctor asked whether there was anyone he would like to see, and he said Miss Perry ; and it :was a pity. that Miss Perry did not see him, for more might then have been known of the case ; but death suddenly interposed and shrouded the events of that extraordinary night in a mystery on which the tongue of the vie im could thenceforth throw no further light. His lordship next read the letter by the prisoner from the Bridge of Allan to Mr. Minnoch, remarking that it was written two days before her assignation with L'Angelier, and four days before the note found in his pocket after death. The composure she manifested on hearing, of. his death was consistent with the supposition of her crime • but what bec ame o f h er on t h e morn i ng of the 26th, before she was found in the Helensburgb, :steamer, is unkno wn an d unexp l a i ne d . The lea r ne d lord then proceeded to remark on the evidence for ihe defence, and first on the prisoner's declaration, which he read. He had not been able to find either in Chambers or Blackwood that arseuie had ever been used in water as a cosmetic, those articles showing that it was taken internally. le her declaration, prisoner denied seeing or hearing L'Angelier on the night of his death. Her sister Janet, the maid, and the page, all said they did not hear him come that night. But he had been there often before without their hearing, and it had been shown from the construction of the house that he. might have been let in by the front door. As t° the arsenic, she stood in the position of having in, her possession the poison of which her lover dial' without her Self giving a cons i stent accoun t of it. But it was plausibly said the meeting whine was intended to take place was on Saturdah and not Sunday. If, however, the letter. WO posted after eleven o'clock, the tryst must hal ',eon for Sunday. As to the supposition suicide, he had been unable to see, from firs! to last, that it was a case of suicide. Th e first question was, whether it was between murder and suicide. It had been said that L'Augelier was an habitual eater of arsenic, and had taken an over: dose. The only evidence in support of that proposv, tiun was that o f t wo persons i n D un d ee, who ha', heard him speak of taking arsenic in 1853, and th e , hypothesis that he could have taken it so as to hal 160 grains in his s t omac h , w h en exam i ne d , cou l d not be entertained. Th e suppos i t i on t h at h e had taken arsenic at Stirling by accident was equally ye t ; tenable. He did n o t thi n k it poss ibl e that this coo!' lee taken as a case of su i c id e . M uc h h ad b een sal ' of L'Angelier's temperament, and his threat of suicide when in Dundee ; but he did not card those th eats into execution ; and when men mall); committed suicide, they did not talk about it, O f pretend to make attempts at it in the company other people. A s t o hi s op i n i ons o f suicide 0; pressed at Glas gow , h e (L or d Ad vocate) as ked if was probable that, on the Sunday night •of 11l death, he took arsenic without going near Blythe' r Wood-square, there w as th e poss ibilit y th at she might have seen an d t o ld hi m s h e would gifa him up, after which he committed suicide: But if she did see hi m , what became of the truth; of her declaration 1 It might be suggested that 11 ; had gone to the house, an d, not seeing her ca 0 ; 1 , 1 away in disgust ; but if he had gone, he won" have tried to make her hear, although she- Pr o in her declaration she did not hear him. It vl next suggested that the dose was so large the; it must have been suicide, but might it 1 1 : e, have been that, findidg the two doses she 13 0 1 previously given were too small, she made the thin 7 one much lar ger ! -Th en it was objected that neither soot nor indigo was found in th e s t omac h ° L'Ang,elier, but the analysis did not direct thei f f examination to detect it. Again, the demeanour 0 4 the patient was in no respect that of one who he committed suicide. In conclusion, the Lord Adita . cate left the case entirely in the hands of the jurif s convinced that their verdict would be consiste°l with their oath. H e h a d di sc h arge d a paid° public duty, which he would gladly have bees spared. He had d one hi s d uty, not s t ra i n i ng the 'facts beyond the line of truth. At the suggestion of the Lord Justice-Clerk, till Dean of Faculty postponed his reply until to-U'fZ e row morning. The C ou rt then adj ourn ed at .4 " minutes past three o'clock. GREAT NORTHERN RAILWAY. MEETING THIS DAY. This day an extraordinary meeting of the slA rr holders of this company was held for the purpose o f coin sidering the bill now before Parliament for making provisions with respec t t o cap i ta l f au d u l en tl y crea te d by Redpatb, in the Great Northern Railway. The chair was occupied by Mr. Denison. _ The greatest excitement existed in consequence of the opposition of the preference shareholders to the bill. A long, and stormy discussion ensued on the mode l of the Chairman that the bill be adopted. An amendment was moved to the effect that a elat e be introduced in the bill for the purpose of protectia the preference shareholders in accordance with the pledge made to them by the directors on the 4th °f March. The CHAIRMAN put the amendment to the meeting' and said he thought it was carried by a small majoritl . A. poll was demanded. The Lambeth Election Committee commence their sitting an Friday next. Another mysterious robbery has taken place on board the ship Armenia, which lately cleared out of the ne ° Victoria Docks for Mauritius. A box containing 2,00° sovereigns bad been stolen. The robbery was discovere d whilst the ship was waiting for the mail bags. Mdlle. Rachel, after passing some days at Monti: rency, has returned t o P ar i s , an d taken up he r maiden° in her hotel in the Rue Trudon. Cost OF PRINTED PAPERS.--The total amount of - t cost of reports and papers presented by command of h et Majesty during the session of 1856. was 24,982/. 11)1 is exclusive of the cost of the large amount of printief ordered by the two Houses of Parliament, of job-Wt, printing,, n" and of all printed work not laid before Pa meat. ' t THE BANKRUPTCY OF C. J. MARE. —A PrOpO Sl ti / was made yesterday in the Bankruptcy Court, to paY 6 4 composition of 44. in the pound, if the fiat of banleruP ti y was annulled. Nine-tenths of the creditors assent s The matter was left undecided in consequence of Commiesioner Holroyd being absent from town. THE DISTURBANCES IN ITALY. - The Piedmontese Gazette of the 4th states that the number of persons arrested at Genoa is 52, includ ing 32 Piedmontese subjects, viz.: 23 Genoese, 6 natives of La Spezia, 1 of Ohiavari, 1 of Allesan dria, and lof Mortara. The remaining 20 com prise 1 Frenchman, 5 Parmese, 7 Lombards, 6 from Romagna, and 1 from Modena. Forty-two belong to various trades, two are servants, and there are besides two landowners, a journalist, a secretary, a clerk, and two students. The same journal adds that two large parcels of gunpowder for mining were discovered at Genoa on the 4th in the neigh bourhood of the Ducal Palace and the adjoining barracks, and that two large c h es t s f u ll o f muskets and other weapons were seized in the same locality. To these particulars the Opinione of Turin adds the following :—" On the Ist several armed men were discovered concealed in a coach-house. They had been there since the preceding day, but had not dared to stir, having learnt that the authorities were on the alert. Mazzini has certainly been at Genoa, and was seen at Alb ano a b ou t th e 30 t h u lt. Miss hiie, an English lady, who, according to the Annonia of Turin, had been ordered away from Geooa, is still there." The (Jattolico of Genoa states that several arrests have been made amonc , the Piedmontese navy ; th a t the surgeon o f the' regiment of Savoy stationed at Genoa has committed suicide by taking poison ; and that ft.ere has been an attempt at disturbance at La Spezia. A supplement of the Italia e Popolo l the auu was seized on whose a c zz hi i e riia fe n dit jrn o o r u ha a s l be p e u n blshe a i rres t i. a ,, t Genf:T ., the 3d. On the subject v 'sr, Mazzini, the Gazettes del Popol o of T ur i n says :—" It i s s t a t e d that Mazzini was concealed at Genoa and that he was to appear at the h ea d o f a Praetorian guard as soon as the at tempt had succeeded ; he was then to have estab lished a provisional government in the Ducal Pa lace. He is said, however, to have been much astonished on being informed of the small number of persons prepared for the movement, while he had been told that several thousands - were ready. One TURKEY. We have received Constantinople journals and I letters to the 25th ult., but they contain little of interest beyond what has been already published by telegraph. M. Blonc:eel, the Belgian Minister, was to leave on the 26th for Athens, as had been an nounced. Lists of stfmeription.s were in circulation among the principal houses of commerce for shares in the national bank ; and, although the project has not yet been accepted by the Governm-nt, amount inscribed is stated to be about 1,600,000 f. Preparations on a grand scale were being made for the fetes for the circumcision of the princes, which were to commence of the 29th and continue for a week or ten days. Elegant tents had been erected for the ministers and the diplomatic body. No ting new had been received from the principalities. The progress made by the commissioned appointed, to examine into the question of the navigation of the Danube is not so great as has been supposed. No decision had yet been come to as to which of the passages would be most desirable. England and Austria were in favour of the Stilina, but Russia strongly advocated Kilia. Wtth such a dif ference of opinion, it is expict _d that it will be dif ficult to come to a satisfactory result. The Emperor and Empress of Russia arrived at Frankfort on the 6th. After having breakfasted at the Russian Embassy, their Majesties set off, at noon, by the Hanover Railway, for Kissingen. THE WEST AFRICAN MAIL. PLYMOUTH, TUESDAY. The Candace, African mail steamer, Captain Hawes, arrived here this evening from the West Coast of Africa, with mails and fifty passengers, in cluding tha4e of the missing steamer the Niger, the rumour of th 3 lois of which is confirmed. The Niger was wrecked near Santa Cruz, but the whole of the 3rew, passengers, and mails were taken There is n, news of much political or mercantile to Te u e affe, and thence b roug ht on i n th e C an d ace . intereit from the the coast. At Sierra leone an officer of a West India regi ment had shct another through jealousy. SPO2TING INTELLIGENCE. NEWMARKET JULY MEETING.—TVICSDAY. Only three rtces, but owing to the inconvenient rail way arrangements from Newmarket, we were compelled to post to Cambridge, a distance of 14 miles, to send off our account The sport commenced at half-past 3, and was brought to a close at half -past 4. The July Stakes —the he all and end all of the racing attraction—wasremarkalle for the signal defeat of the favourites, Cocl-a-doodle-do and Greenfinch. The weather vas cloudy, but no rain fell. The at tendance on the Heath was very select, comprising seve ral of the principal aristocratic patrons of the Turf. The sport was decided as under : Handicap Sweepstakes of 20 soya each, and 5 only if declared, &c., for three-yr-olds and upwards. New T.Y.C. 5 furlongs 136 yards. 5 subs, two of whom declared. Captain White's Queen of the East, by Birdcatcher, 3 yrs, 7st 91b (Plumb) 1 Mr. Bayley's Bird-in Hand, 4 yrs, Bst 71b (Flatman) 2 Mr. Angell's Paula Xonti, 3 yrs, 7st 31b...(Cuetance) 3 Betting-6 to son Bird-in-Hand-5 to 2 agst Queen of the East. queen of the East made all the running, and won by length ; Paula Monti, who was last throughout, was was beaten by several lengths. i The July Stakes, a subEtription of 5411 sovs each 30 ft, for two-yr-olds ; colts, Bst 71b ; fillies, Bst Sib. The second to save his stake. New T.Y.C. 5 furlongs 136 yards. 23 subs. Duke of Beaufort's Gin, by Orlando, Bst 71b (A. Day) 1 Mr. Plunitner's Coxwold, fist 71b (Burnby) 2 Mr. Howard's Greenfitch, Bst 71b (J. Goater) 3 The following eil.o ran : — Cock - a-doodie-do, Brother to Mary Copp, and Boelnut. Betting—Even on Dock-a - doodle-do-3 to 1 agst Greenfinch-7 to 1 eaci agst Brother to Mary Copp and Coxwold. Gin, Cock-a-doodle- 10 , Greenfinch, Brother to Mary CJpp, and Betelnut got away together and ran abreast, it b eing i m possible to tall which had the lead ; Coxwold, who lost start, was about two lengths in the rear. On descending the bill, Ccxwold drew up to Cock•a-doodle do, and at the Plantat on was in close attendance upon Gin, who there took the lead. From the dip the race in was confined to the first two, Cock-a doodle-do, who rolled about a good deal, bein g i n ev id ent trouble ; Cox weld Laver quite g ot up, and was beaten, aft e r a fine rice ein' by a aead ; three l eng th s separated the second from the third ; "Cock - a-doodle-do was close up with Greenfinch ; the others were beaten otl. Before the race, 1,000 to 60 w as t a k at a b out Cock-a• doodle-do for theDer3y. Handicap Plate of 501., for three-year -olds and upwards. Suffolk Stakei Course. One mile and a half. Mr. W. Draper's Neva, by Minotaur, 3 yrs, 7st 31b (J. Rogers) 1 Lord W. Paulett'e Druid, 4 yrs, Bst 71b (S. Rogers) 2 Captain White's Moose, 3 yrs, 6st 91b... ...... (Pl um b) 3 The following a lso ran :—Firm ament, Paula Monti, Eupatoria, and Pr os p erit y . Betting-5 to 4on Neva, sto 1 a gst Moose, 7to 1 agst any other (ofi ) Neva made t he running, with Moose seco n d, an d Prosperity third. Ai the correr of the Plantation . The favourit e , h owever, went on o d s h e. alf way up Druid, w h o h a d b een l y i ng s light lead, but on asce n di ng t h e hill N eva Moose took a winning by a length an d a h a lf , t h e se• cand beating the t hird b y a head . Firmament was a bad off, w qu i ti with t j e ot d ihne h e i d m l e , alvd a l o, n cv 1 , fourth. BETT ING AT MANCHESTER, T UESDAY . There was mo re than an averag e a tt en d ance a t th e Rooms to-day, but betting upon future e ven t s was al most too insignificant to require notice. Backers of horses appear for the pre3ent to have suspended opera• tions. livEkPooli CUP. B to 1 agst Prizefighter (offered) 10 to 1 agst Bashi Ba z o uk (taken) 100 to 8 aget Pantomime (taken and offered) GooDWOOD STAKES. 14 to lon the field (offered) GOODWOOD CUP. 100 to 6 aget Fisherman (taken) STOURBRIDGE RACES—TUESDAY. The Ladies Purse. One wile. Colt by Touchstone, out of Lady Jersey Typhon Jack Spring. . 3 Only these three ran. cold Cup. Oakball The Queen, the King of the Belgians, and the Prince Consort, accompanied by the Princess Royal, Princess Charlotte of Belgium, Prince Frederick William of Prussia, and the Count de Flanders, honoured the Prin cess's Theatre with their presence. Prince Frederick William of Prussia is expected to arrive at Berlin on the 11th. He will there meet his aunt, the Empress Dowager of Russia. THE KING OP THE BELGIANS. —By her Majesty's command, the Royal yacht Victoria and Albert, Capt. the Hon. Joseph Denman, ill be placed at the service of his Maje s t y t h e King o f B e lgians and her Royal Highness the P r i ncess Char l o tt e of Belgium, to convey those august td • They are expected to embark on or a bo ut the 11th instant. persons and relatives of the Q ueen t o Os ul The Countess Spencer gave a ball, last evening , at the mansion, in St. James's-place, w hich was honoured by the attendanc e o f their }loyal ' Highness the Duchess of Cambridge and the Princess Mary. APPROACHING MARRIAGE IN HIGH LIFE —A matri monial allian ce is about to take place between Viscount Storinont, sop of the Earl of Mansfield, and Miss Mac gregor, th e b eautiful daughter o f L a dy Macigrepr. TROPHIES of THE LATE WAR.—L , rd Panmure has agree t to sen d two Russian guns an d carriages t o th e city of Cork, i n complianna with a request from the cor poration. Generali Changarnier, Lamoriciere, and De Belem beau, accompanied the Duchess of Orleans, the Count de Paris, and th e D uke de Chartres , f ro m Aix-la-Chapelle to Ostend, on S unday evening. Fin s Ilst 1 3ER3tONDSEY.--Yest'erday morning the engine -hous e an d bark stores 0f M r . W. F is h, tanner, of Bermondsey, cottages, occupi e d b y poor p eo ple, were also seriously damaged. Were destroyed by fire. Four adjoining PRINCE OP W ALES Y A CHT CLUB.—The race for the Grand Challe nge C up of t hi s c lub, open to the world for all yachts of eight tons and under , wi l l take p lace on Friday, the 17th , from E r i t h t o the Chapman Head, and return to Eritb. THE LATE FATAL STEAM-BOAT COLLISION AT PIM LICO-PlER.—Yesterday the adjourned inquiry was re sumed touching the death of Joseph Edward Watkins, who lost his life on Sunday se'nnight by the Starlight steamer coming in collision with Pamlico-pier, Verdict —Ac'cidental Death, At to-da: cent. reduc Tlll Ruania 96 98 Defers l'aa%iv The Way S has ta' eashir, ern, ] and E rates ; dined 15s. eriLan prove' 10s. clined Talu eF. and L Mil. lowing 177. Th( neous man Bank Austl Ori en Bank 3 per a per New. Indi a E in Ala ni Rol E& firm full bale. The prie( on E the on tl Ti; at th of an to 51 ciato and 1 comp 13RE Frew and bill i leasi Sou , oth I