The Sun. — London, England, 1857-08-10 00:00:00

StJ, LONDON, TRIAL OF THE CONSPIRATOR,3 AT PARTS. SECOND DAY. PARIS ) rItIDAY. The court was much more crowded to-day. Nearly every seat was occupied. Among the spec tators were the Marquis Pes de Villametina, the Sardinian ambassador ; and C donel de Valabregue, the Prefect of the Pal see of the Tuderies. As soon as the judges had taken their seats, M. Vaisse, the Procureur-General, rose to address the jury iu support of the prosecution. The honour able and learned gentleman, who has a fine voice and considerable powers of elocution, spoke through out in a so'emnly emphatic tone. He said : " Gentlemen of the court and jury —If all the in. terests of this affair were concentrated in the three prisoners at the bar our task would be easy ; two of them confess their crime, and the third by his general denial in the teeth of manifest evidence only shows how well founded the accusation is. But the interest of the case .goes further. When a political assassin is taken with a poniard in his hand the public conscience neither exaggerates nor undervelues the importance of the capture. While feeling horror for the crime, it has a sentiment of pity for the unhappy men who are often but the blind instruments of others more guilty. In such cases the public cry out for chastisement upon the real criminals, but justice unftrtunately cannot reach them, and is able only to punish the second. ary agents. But on this occasion a fuller satisfac- Von will be given to public opinion. They who put arms in the hands of assassins, who sport with the lives of o th ers w hil ) never risking their own, who pay the wages of crime with money begged from public charity—they who hide themselves . shall be unmasked. We have caught them in the meshes of their own abominable intrigues, and we will expo=e them to the reprobation of Europe. Our proofs are complete. Oh, we know that in a c see of this nature people pretend to be very particular about evidence. Party men, well versed in the machinery of intrigue, begin by spreading a report that there is nothing serious in the affair. When pressed by documentary evidence, they deny its authenticity, and they insinuate that the confessions of the criminals are stories told out of base complaisance to the Government. There are coffee-house poli ticians who say that the plot is got up by the police. All these rumours and conjectures Jo, we are aware, raise doubts of the genuineness of the best founded accusations. But on this occasion we have no fear of failure. Protest as you will in foreign journals, accumulate lies upon lies—do all you will to mislead public opinion, we will prove against you, so conclusively as not to leatte a shadow of doubt, that you have been the instigators of this attempt at assassination ; that you have abused the hospitality extended to you • and that you must now be plac e d ou t o f the pale of civilised Europe. In a cause of this importance we do not speak, gen tlemen of the jury, to you only ; we speak to France and foreign nations interested in the result of this trial. The - great institution of the jury, against which the real criminals protest by their absence, has preserved its purity and sincerity in Nei() of our political transformations ; it is now what it always has been, whatever the absent may say. Yes, gentlemen of the jury, you have always been zealous in defending liberty when it was in peril, in protecting order when it was menaced. And I ask where is the peril now? All voices will be united when assassins have to be stigmatised. Therefore, let the refugees cease to protest, to ap peal to such or such an opinion. There is no ques tion of politics here ; there is nothing b* an inten tion to assassinate. This is what we had to say to you on the justice of France, against which the re fugees have protested. And now we will proceed to lay our proof& before you, and we enter into an engagement to offer them to you complete." After this exordium the procureur-general went on to say that the government had employed none but legal means to obtain a proof of the conspiracy Maz zini," said he, "is not a man of action ; he employs his time in writing letters in all directions, and we learned that he sent letters from Genoa addressed to a man named Stalford ; justice, exercising an incontestable right, had one of these letters opened in the course of the month of June. It con tained three letters, one addressed to Massarenti, another to Campanella, a third to Tibaldi. In the letter to Campanella were these words En closed is a line for Massarenti's friend, who resides Rue Menilmontant, 122 ; it is there that the mate riel will be found.' After this we had only to go to the Rue Menihnontant, where Tibaldi resided. It 'was thought right not to allow the project of assas sination to go farther, and Tibaldi and the other two men were arrested. You thus see that justice followed a strictly legal path in obtaining the indi cations of the crime. It may even be said, to the confusion of Mazzini, the instigator of this criminal project, who has the reputation of being clever, that it is to his imprudence that we are indebted for a knowledge of it ; this man, in fact, has been caught in the threads of his own intrigue l" The learned gentleman then proceeded to examine the evidence against Bartolotti, whom he described as a member of one of those bands of Italians in which partisans, instruments, and soldiers for all bad causes and all bad designs san always be found. He reminded the jury th It it was at York that Ma'sa renti picked the man up and induced him to follow him to London, and that he was afterwards sent to Paris with the object alleged in the indictment. His own confession proved his guilt. " But we must see how and why he made disclosures," continued the procure ur-general, "for by so doing we shall reply to suspicions, which in this class of affairs attaches to revelations. On the 13th June, Barto lotti, who badtjust been arrested, was taken before the Commissary of Police ; and M. Pietri, the Pre fect of Police, was present. He admitted that he had come from London in April last with a passport in the name of Lazzeri, and that he was accompa panied by Grilli ; but that was all. He main tained that ho neither knew nor had seen either Massarenti or Mazzini, and that he bad not re ceived any mission from them. He admitted also that he went to England to pass a few days, and that on his return he saw Tibaldi ; but he would say nothing more. He did not know that in mentioning those two names, Tibaldi and Grilli, lie had unveiled the truth. He did not know that justice had in its hands the- overwhean ing letters which have often been referred to. When those letters, and especially that of Massa renti, dated London, the 26th May, in which he told him what the old man,' meaning Mazzini, had said, were read, he (Bartolotti) could not.re• sist making avowals. In presence of the evidence, he was constrained to do so." Proceeding nsxt to the charge ageiest Galli, the Procureur-General s lid tsat he else had confessed, and had clone so with a humility which would have been touching, if it had not be€ n caused by fear. The fact was that lie was a more cunning conspirat n. than Bar tolotti; h at first maintained that it was in a steamer he het! met that man, and he insisted that he had never seen either Mazzini or Massarenti ; in a first, a second, and even a third interrogatory he would not make any revelations. But when he was told that Bartolotti had revealed all, be made a full and complete avowal of all he had done ; be went further than Bartolotti, for he said they had come to Paris not only to watch the movements of the Emperor but to assassinate him. With respect to Tibaldi the Procareur-General maintained that the letters of Mazzini, the replies of the prisoner himself, the declarations of Grilli and Bartolotti, • and the seizure of the trunk containing the arms, proved his guilt most undeniably. He then pro ceeded " And now, gentlemen, what is the leg a l qualification to be given to his crime ? On this point there is no difficulty. In law, there is a plot where two or several persons take the rescaution of acting in concert. Now, I ask if, in the acts with which not only thee() men at the bar, but those who ! gent them, there are not the proofs of a concert What they did was not a vague projecs, revealed by a few words let fall by chance ; no, it was a matured idea—a resolution come to. Mazzini "rote, " The thing is more necessary than ever, it is a vital question." We may also invoke the ag gravating circumstance that the plot was followed an act destined to preface the executio n o f it." The Proctireur-General, after some further argu ment on the le say; 44 W e aboxfil definition of th e cr i me , wen t on t o should dissimulate c s rt l e P a a P oint public expectation, we i n fatty,if w e were t o b e silent m e respecting certainmi xe d up i n thi s a ff a i r. We will speak of it, f or on it a a s on all others, light p ane ll iit c e o ra na r es m first ; h he is an must be thrown. Cam Italian, he calls himself a abs a e n n , ce e of i the friend and agent of Mazziui. In theY zini, it is he whose mission it is to cause his ordersz- Maesa.renti, to be executed. We see that by the letters that ant reso been seize.l. .Mazzini wrote to pable of actin g , "Da you think them ea lute? If so, go to Oampan ella; I have charged hi m sic." Therefore it was c l ear that Campanella had entered into the resolution to act. In another let ter Mazzini wrote to Campanella himself. " W i ll you have a secret conference with Massarenti o n The second man is the affair of Paris 1" (tc. participation this man in the plot Mas sarenti. The Wis greater an d b e tt er proved. - e have proofs of his guilt not only in the letters seized, but in the arri vals of Grilli and Bartolotti. Mazzoni calls him secrecy incarnate. It was lie who picked up in a public house in London the two men who are now here, who tempted their misery by making gold glitter before their eyes, who excited their political opinions. When Bartolotti secretly left Paris to go to England, it was Massarenti who scolded him in the letter which has been read to you —a letter full of blasphemies—a letter in which the Emperor of the French is designated under the name of the exe- cutioner(bourreau). Th us C ampane ll a, M assarent i , Tibaldi, Gnili, and Bartolotti are the active instru- Vie . nts of the pl o t ; b u t whatever the share of the crime of this scum of Italy ) there is aeridedifference between the culpalelley o f suc h instruments and the criminality of the two Pion who organised and directed everything—blazzini and Ledru Rollin. These two man have played a part of a certain im portance in the affairs of their country, and since then they have affected to regulate the interests of the whole of Europe. From the unionof their efforts arose a plot against thelife of the Emperor. Mazzini is the princip a l au th or o f th e cr i me . H e is the ?n -ventor of a new thooryofassassination—assassination by two men—by isolatedhands, who do not kno w each other; and these coupl es o f assass ins are cast into our country as fast as they can be found. But hear his theory from one of his own letters :—" Remem ber what 1 have told you as to the method to be followed. Act independently—two by two ; that is the only way. The two new ones must be economical. I would give millions if I could, but I cannot ; expenses in Italy are incredibly high." Gentlemen of the jury, we have no letter of Ledru Rollin, for it is well known that prudence has al ways been his system ; but we have the declaration of twAvomen who were with him for a short time. In two circumstances we shall find him inftagrante delicto of conspiracy. If the proceedings were re gularly opened against him, I could prove that he already rendered himself guilty of conspiracy in 1853. At that period a captain of infantry, named Koelsh, came to Paris with two Italians, and by his interrogatories which were read to you yester day you saw that he avowed that he came with the intention of attempting the life of the Emperor, and he admitted that he had made known his project to Ledru Rollin. Yesterday you heard the witness Geraux, who was mired up in his intrigues Geraux, who afterwards became discontented with Ledru Rollin, gave some valuable ingormAion. He had been charged by that person to take a sum of 500 f. which he was to give to an individual whom he was to meet on the place de la Madeleine. The witness pretends that he was ignorant for what object this sum was sent. Koelsh avowed his projects, he was excited by the persons by whom he was surrounded, but scarcely had he set foot on French soil,. and found the real state of things and of public opinion in France, than he discovered that he had been deceived. Can all this, gentlemen, leave any doubt as to the culpa bility of Ledra Rollin in 1853 ; and at present, also, he has performed the part of purveyor of money, councillor, and instigator. Grilli, before the . examining magistrate, made declarations which he repeated before the court yesterday. He was, he said, at the house of Mazzini with Massarenti and a Frenchman n ame d R on d rone , Rolline. Make allowance for the Italian pronun ciation 'of Grilli, and no doubt can be felt as to Ledru Rollin having been present at the meeting. Besides, Grilli gives a description of his person, a tall, stout man, wearing moustaches. Bartolotti declares that he asked Massarenti for money, and that the latter replied, "Mazzini will give you some when the Frenchman has given it to him." " I am very certain," added Bartolotti, " that the name of Ledru Rollin was mentioned at that time.° Every tirq money is the subject, Bartolotti is clear and precise. Besides, if he invented the statement, would he not be making Ledru Rollin play a very important part ? How can it be believed that those two men should speak falsehoods in this part of their declaration, while all the re s t o f th e i r recital corresponds word for word ? If Mazzini were here, gentlemen, he would also, there is no doubt, pro test against the accusation of assassination. " I am incapable of such an act," he would exclaim. We ' will, therefore, place the protests of Mazzini by the side of those which have been made by Ledru Rol lin. These two men, who have been always seen united together for evil, would not separate at the moment of crime. Besides, is not assassination the logic of their revolutionary opinions, and if we exa mine the writings with which they poison the dif ferent countries of Europe, shall we not find in them a proof of this fixed idea ? Ledru Rollin writes, "Paris knows that the life of the cursed one has been twenty times threatened, and that the armyhas famished its contingent," &c. Thank God, that is a falsehood. The Procureur-General conclud ed his speech in these words ; "And now gentlemen of the jury, measure if it be possible the extent of the disaster which would have happened if the machina tions of these two men had succeeded. The elections of Paris, the assassination of the Emperor, a gene ral rising in Italy were to work together for the success of their enterprise. The theatre which they had chosen for this vast but miserable scene was not Italy, and not France only, but Europe. Who can doubt that if France and Italy were in flames, the conflagration would extend to Europe ? I know of no nation, not one, that could . have hoped to escape from this grand disaster. It was the constitutional government of Piedmont that was to have been attacked the first. What a lesson for those, who think to establish a solid alliance between constitutional liberty and demagogue license Thank God, the danger is gone from us. Our general elections, which the agitators of France fixed upon as a certain occasion of trouble and dis order, went off with. .a. calm and regularity which show conclusively that the political rights of a people are never so freely exercised as under a government which is at once strong and respected. Italy, instead of responding to Mazzini's cry of insurrection, and joining his armed bands, repulsed them by faithful troops and national guards, and cursed once more the name of Mazzini, so fatal to liberty. What remains of these attempts, happily so abortive ? For France, the conviction that she is at this moment the bulwark of Europe, and that those who desire to trouble the world are driven to conspire against France and her sove reign. For Italy, the conviction, now more certain than ever, that Mazzini is her most danger ous enemy, and that she will never attain the object she pursues until this indefatigable conspirator shall be driven out of Europe. A 3 to Mazzini and Ledru Rollin, I tell them, witl all the authority that I derive from the ere of the universal conscience, that their political career is at an end, and that this day, on whisk their crimes are disclosed to the whole world, vvil. be more fatal to them than ten lost battles. It was not on that day when your armed bands were repulsed with indignation by the faithful troops of Piedmont and Tusciny, or by the armed peasants of Calabria ; it was not on that day your power faded away ; but it was on the day when you were proved to have orgeni , ed and methotlised assassination—on the day when you preached to your adepts and put in practice the theory of assas sination by couples going about separately and " in dependently" —on the day when you earned the title of the King of Assassins. Whether foreign nations shall now repulse you, or continue to you an hospitality which you so little deserve, you will see around a second and more terrible exile. The prestige of misfortune is no longer yours. You are nu longer entitled to the privileges of a political enthusiast. Ah ! you are no longer dangerous to the peace of Europe. You have hitherto agitated in the name of liberty ; but hear this—you are no longer entitled to speak or to fight for liberty be cause you are a n assass i n . S ay what you will, there is nothing political in this accusation against you. These poniards, these pistols, which we see on the table before 119, and which were seized at the house of one of your accomplices, are not arms of war ; they are instruments of assassination. They were bought with your gold, and it is you who put them into the hands of murderers. May the stigma of this accusation for ever weigh, upon your head, and may it finally unmask you and destroy you in the eyes of Europe, whose worst enemy you are. There never was in thi s wor ld an accusation resting upon more precise, more consistent, more judicial evidence. The confessions of your accom plices, your own letters, the letters addressed to you, the arms seized—all shows your guilt, and justifies the requisitions that we may make against you. Gentlemen of the jury, we have done our duty. It is now for you to do yours with the firm ness and independence of free and honest men." M. Destnarest, counsel for Tibaldi, then rose and said :—I will not follow the Procureut-General through Europe. My task is simple and modest. I have only to defend Tibaldi. The Procureur- General admits that Tibaldi is an honest workman, but be describes him also as a skilful conspirator ; that is, I believe, an honour to which he c annot i aspire, and all that must be taken nto considerati on in the excellent and honourable testimony unani mously given in his behalf by the witnesses of yes terday. He is depicted as a person perfeotly mild, calm, polite. But if all that is a mask—if he has been able to deceive everybody, if be is really a skilful conspirator, some evidence of that moral disgu;se could surely have been brought forward. It has been said with reason that a great crime is always preceded by a smaller . crime. But let us examine if that is the case with Tibaldi. M. Des naarest her e t race d t h e ex i stence of his client since his arrival in Paris, and depicted him as always oc cupied _witt never known He asked how such . a man, give rise to the who Who had never known to attend any political meet ever mingled in conspiracies, could The public prosecutor brought against him. I,2:,)rthlas .thought . proper to speak of absent per sons u . avoid these peraonaluc questions. him ; I will My attention is ex clusively devoted to Tibaldi, I defend. I hare y , m a y d chent is too in nothing todo with such pe rs ' e w ne o f t ' that merited significant for such. corneat; neither that excess of honour e ' e danger. The public prosecutor has allud e e x cl e t ese of theories of assassination, but -.; .. e proclaim to new that we cannot any more admit different theories for such a crime than we can different theo r i es of morality. Our theory i s that under empire, mo. narchy, or republic, human life should be re spected; and that is the only theory that the de ftnce wi l present. Let 1 - 0 say alorid, and congra itlate oursdlves on the fact, that the importance whi , :h may have been attached to the plot previ ously to the publ'c trial, can no longer be admitted. Tits danger has not been great ; in truth no real danger ever existed. _ Floquet, second counsel for Tibaldi, entered into legal arguments ou the following point, which he afterwards placed in writing on the .ablis of the court :—" In admitting as proved the evidence against Tibaldi, it would result that in 1857 Tibaldi proposed to Grilli and Bartolotti a plot having for aim to attempt the life of the Emperor, which pro position was not accepted by the said Grilli and Bartolotti ; we submit to the jury, as resulting from the debate, the following question—ls Tibaldi guilty of having, in 1857, made to Grilli and Bar tolotti a proposal, not accepted, having for object the crime mentioned in Art. 86 of the penal code— a crime provided for by Art. 89, par. 4, of the penal c ede ?" - M. Floquet's motion was rejected by the court. M. Lacan addressed the jury on behalf of Grilli. He demanded the acquittal of his client on the ground, that if he had really acccepted money to come to France and assassinate the Emperor, he never really e atertained that criminal idea. His client never even walked the streets with weapons on his person, since the daggers entrusted to him were found concealed in a room which he did not even inhabit. Moreover, it had been shown that Grilli had never s een th e E mperor , w hi c h proved that he had not sought to execute the project for which he had received money. Let us now examine the men of the pl9t. We see the conspirators assembled. Tibaldi is reclining apinst a chest of drawers while Bartolloti and Grilli are looking on. Weapons are distributed all round, and what does then occur I Why the conspirators conceal their weapons ; Grilli saunters about, eating and driuking to his heart's delight, while Bartollotti. who has more of an amorous nature, rushes off to York after a yonng English ge. Well, the conspirators are assemble.' in Paris, and they conceal the arms en 4rusted to them. All that I desire is, that if ever my life is menaced, the dagger may be brandished by Grilli, and the pistol aimed by Bartolotti. (Laughter.) M. Lecanu engaged in the same argumentl on behalf of his client Bartolotti, whose acquittal ,he also asked for. The Procureur-General then replied upon the whole case, and denounced Tibaldi as a dangerous political fanatic, a well-chosen agent of Ledru Rollin and Mazzioi, upon whom he made a still more violent attack than he had done in his opening speech._ M. Desmarest, pursuant to French practice, which gives the prisoner the last word, replied for Tibaldi in a speech of extraordinary eloquence, to which no translation can do justice. He said in substance—" I feel obliged to the public minister for his reply ; he has given me the right to answer him. In my first address I carefully ab stained from saying a word about those absent men. whom the Procureur-General considers to be the chiefs of the conspiracy. But since he has again re ferred.to them in his reply—since he will introduce the name of Ledru Rollin whenever he speaks of Mazzini, it becomes my duty to clear the cause of these phantoms. It is not for me to speak of Mazzini —he is a foreigner. His letters are on the record of this trial. But I will say that, apart from this prose cution, Mazzini's name is more associated with the sacred cause of Italian independence than with any political struggles. The Procureur-General, with a boldness to which we have of late years been but little accustomed, has pronounced in a sympathetic tone the word Poland. That name reminds me of other peoples, who are also struggling for their na tionality. For Heaven's sake, let us not confound domestic insurrectionary movements with those sacred explosions of patriots against oppressors, which should command our admiration. Let us re spect all those men who work for the resurrection of nationalities—who would see Poles reign in Poland, Italians in Italy, and Frenchmen in France—each on the soil given them by God. I will now speak of Ledru Rollin. His name has a double interest for me. He is a Frenchman, and a brother barrister. There is no evidence whatever to justify the intro duction of Ledra Rollin's name into this cause. The prosecution has raked up the testimony of a man, to whom it is said Ledru Rollin gave a sum of 500 f. in a mysterious manner many years ago. But of this alleged fact there is no proof whatever—no guaran tee, no check, no opportunity of contradiction for the accused party, and consequently the accusation is a nullity—a dream. Have we fallen so low in France that the records of administrative inquiries, which it may be it was very right to make, but which at all events were made exparte and in secret, are to be received as evidence in a court of justice ? We have before us no fact whatever against Lean' Rollin. Bartolotti proves nothing. The French m.9.n whom he says he saw went away before his conversation with Mazziui. He has told you that not a word was said in that Frenchman's presence. A letter of Mazzini's, speaking of Ledru Rollin, has been cited, but the terms of that letter exclude the idea of assassination.* The expressions there attributed to Ledru Rollin evidently amount to nothing more than prudential counsels given to a young man in whom he took an interest not to risk his career by embarking in po litical adventures. It was the kind paternal advice which we who knew Ledru Rollin might expect from his noble, open-hearted, generous nature. Let us leave to the judgment of public opinion, the pro per tribunal, the appreciation of historical person.. ages and let us come to the facts of the case before us. M. Desnaarest here recapitulated the moral im probability against Tibaldi's guilt, upon which he had before insisted, and concluded as follows : "In considering this case, gentlemen, you may safely dismiss all political considerations from your minds. Your verdict, whatever it may be, can never be considered either as an act of flattery or an act of opposition to the Government. I affirm emphati cally --and I trust that my words will be made public beyond the a! ena of this court—that assassi nation, under any circumstances, is always a crime and a cowardly hction. In the days of my youth I was never a partisan of what may be called classi cal assassination, and I adopted even Brutus with reserve. A verdict of acquittal, or of moderate seve nty, will in no respect imply that you do not hold in horror the crime of assassination. Such a verdict will signify only that the plot has not the import ance, and was not big with such perils, as the pro secution would have you believe:9- The President summed up the case ina perfectly unobjec•ionable manner, and the jury, after retir- • ing for three quarters of an hour, returned a ver dict of guilty against all the prisoners, but with extenuaing circumstances iu the case of Bartulotti and Grilli. In consequence, the court condemned Paoli Ti baldi to the punishment of deportation for life; and Bartolotti and Paolo Gnlli to 15 years' im prisonment. * It is remarkable that no evidence was given that the letters attributed to Mazzini were really in his handwrit ing. The fact, however, does not seem to be doubted by the prisoner's counsel. 1- The French journals are prohibited from publishing the most striking part° of this reply THE LATE MURDER AT JHAD WELL. LATEST PARTICULARS. On Saturday morning and yesterday (Sunday) ' Inspector Allison and Sergeant Terry, of the K division, were busily engaged in making inquiry respecting the late murder of Sarah Hamilton alias Brown, the unfortunate young woman who' was stabbed in the abdomen by an American seaman, named Francis M'Clasky, at a house of ill fame, situate at 13, Albert-place, Albert-street, St. Paul's, Shadwell, on Sunday morning, the 2d instant. The Chief Commissioner of the metropolitan force (Sir Richard Mayne) gave orders on Saturday afternoon for an additional number of detective offi cers to be placed on duty in the eastern district of London, in pursuit of the alleged murderer, who is supposed to be in the metropolis. L a te on Saturday evening information was re ceived at the King David -lane Police Station, Shadwell, to the effect that the man M'Clasky had been seen in the company of other foreign seamen, in the vicinity of St. George's street, Ratcliff-high way. A number of active constables were sent in search of the fellow, but after the officers had visited numerous low dancing rooms, until midnight, they were unsuccessful in their exertions to find him. The jury empanneled to inquire into the cause of the death of thg unfortunate female, requested Mr. W. Baker, the coroner for East Middleiex, to communicate with Sir G. Grey, the Secretary of State for the Howe Department, with the view of obtainin( -, a reward for the apprehension of M'Clasky. The coroner accordingly complied with the wish of the jury, and on Friday morning a letter was sent to the Home-office, Whitehall, but on Saturday no answer had been received. It is fully expected that a reward will be granted by Government for the apprehension of the accused. T.vo American seamen were taken into custody on Saturday morning, on suspicion of being the murderer. The first man was apprehended at Liverpool, and the other was arrested at Ports mouth, but both were subsequently discharged. The police have been busily employed during the last few days in searching various vessels lying in the docks and on the river Tnames ' • but last night at 9 o'clock, the a ccuse d h a d no t been cap tured. The paddlewheel steam yacht Osborne, master George H. K. Bowyer, with the Lords of the Ad miralty, left Plymouth on Friday evening for the eastward. IRELAND. MURDER OF MR. LITTLE. SECOND nAY. DUBLIN, SATURDAY t VrNING. The trial was resumed this morning at 10 o'clock. Ann Gunning was recalled for the purpose of having some questions asked of her by counsel for the prisoner. From her replies to those queries it appeared that there were several other modes of egress from the railway terminus besides that used by the prisoner as alleged on the part of the prosecution. Lucy Spollen, the prisoner's daughter, was next introduced and placed in the witness chair. The prisoner, at sight of her, became excessively nerv ous, his hands clinched, and his countenance, of which immobility is the prevailing characteristic, was suddenly contorted by strong emotioniwhile sobbing, which an effort of powerful will succeeded in repressing, Was for a moment quite audible to those in his vicinity. The little girl was subjected by the Lord Chief Justice and the Attorney- General to a most rigid examination as to her knowledge of the nature and obligations of an oath. The result of this being satisfactory to the court, she was sworn, and in reply t) the Attorney- General, deposed that on the evening of the 13th of November last the prisoner came home about 8 o'clock, that from the window of one of the rooms of the cottage she saw her father standing on the roof of the greasehouse. It was a moonlight night. Mrs. Spollen was standing at the door while the prisoner was on the roof of the greasehouse. The litter was putting some "round thing in a lump" down the chimney. In about an hour and a half after she saw him on the roof the prix mer took his tea. Her father was on the roof about 6 or 7 o'clock. He ascended to the roof by a short ladder, which he drew up after him and reared against the window. Identified. a fragment of calico, which she describes as the remnant of a sunbonnet pre sented to her by a cousin, but which was never used by her in consequence of it not pleasing her taste. Saw this calico used as a duster about three months before Mr. Little's death. About the period of Mr. Little's murder the prisoner told her that if she were shown a piece of chamois or a red rag, to say that she had never seen them before. About a week before the prisoner's arrest her mother was taken ill at night. The prisoner was then re quested by her mother to send for a physician and a clergyman. The prisoner, in reply, said that he would not allow a priest or doctor into the house, and that the first who would leave to go for them he would " have their life." Cross-examined—My father was sometimes away from home when he was down the line, but he never slept out of our house for two years previous to the murder. At half-past son the evening of Friday, the 14th of NOvember, we heard that Mr. Little bad been murdered. My brother heard it among the workmen. lam sure it was on the evening previous to our so hearing of the murder that I saw my f a th er on t h e roo f o f t h e greasehouse.During the we e k i n w hi c h t h e mur d er was com mitted I thi n k my father came home at the usual hour, but I cannot say. The l unat i c asy l um i s at the back of our cottage, and from the windows of it the roof and Chimney of the greasehouse can be distinctly seen ; the greasehouse is very exposed, and is visible from all the spots around.; across the window of the parlour of our cottage a table ex tends ; a chest of drawers is also there. A curtain covers the window about half-way up. That cur tain was drawn across the night of the murder, and there was a curdle burning in the room. My brother James took tea with my mother that night, and afterwards I and Joseph got our tea. The candle was then lighting. It was after 7, about half-past, whet my mother and James sat down to tea. They wire half an hour at it, and then Joseph and I lore about the same time at our tea. Upon my solenn oath, as I expect to be believed, I have used Os piece of calico. I know it by the pattern. I hale no mark upon it. I never washed it myself, nor do I know that it ever was washed by any person. I have heard conversations in the cottage by men belonging to the railway about people who coild give information as to who mur dered Mr. Litte in order to get the reward. We were not looling for the reward, but we were speaking abort persons who were. After I was first examined at the police-office I never spoke a word to my rather or any other person about what I had sworn, ror did my mother say anything to me about it. : never spoke a sentence to either of my brothers or to my mother about what I have deposed to her this day. On the application of counsel for the prisoner the informations oithe witness taken before the magis trates were hen read. The Attoenee, General proposed to ask the wit ness, had she received any direction not to speak to any one abort the evidence which she had given or was to give? The Court cllined to reieive the evidence. In reply to cpestions from the Court the witness deposed that, h order to look out of the cottage window, she bat raised the curtain which covered it. There was room at each side of the table to ap proach the winder. She had no motive, except to look out, for going to the window. Did not do so in expectation ofseeing the prisoner. The Attorney-General, having examined the wit ness as to her informations, elicited the fact that her brothers Janes and Joseph came to the win dow and saw the prisoner on the roof. In the ori ginal information theiwitnesi deposed to having seen the rag which enveloped the money, and which had been used as a duster in the cottage, on the day of, or the day before, the murder. She now said that she recollected it was three months previously she had seen it. The question was then put—" What explanation have you to give to the Court and the jury of this difference in your evi dence I" Witness—l don't understand you sir. In reply to a question from the Lord Chief Jus tice, the witness, however, stated that the discre pancy in her evidence arose from her better recol lection now. The child gave her evidence in a singularly cool and colected manner. She was throughout calm and self-possessed t, an extraordinary degree, and exhibited in all her conduct the possession of intel ligence to an extent far in advance of her years. From the moment she came upon the table until she left it her eyes were studiously averted from the• countenance of the prisoner. The same ob3er va- Vous hold good as applied to the next following witness. Joseph Spollen, examined by Mr. Fitzgibbon —The prisoner is my father. lam within a *month of 14 years of age. I saw my father on the evening of the murder between half-past 5 and 6 o'clock crossing the lines and proceeding towards the terminus. He had something swinging in his hand. Ido not know what it was he carried ;it appeared to be somewhat lengthy. I next saw him about eight o'clock on the roof of the forge. I was then at the parlour window. My father was stand ing by the chimney. He was standing on what I thought was a plank which was raised from the roof to the set-off of the chimney. We were induced to look from the window in consequence of our won der at my father being so late away from home. My brother George was the first to see my father on the roof. I recognise two razors out of the four now shown me as belonging to my father. Ido not know the other two. The rag now produced belonged to my sister. My father told me about the time of the murder that if the police should show nee a piece of red rag or chamois leather to deny all knowledge of them. The hammers I now see belonged to my father ; one of them he had lent a short time before Mr. Little's death ; another was - in the old paint shop ; and the third was'used for nailincr up scarlet runners. (The witness here gave evidence in corroboration of the previous wit ness with respect to the prisoner's conduct during the illness of his wife.) The locks now produced are those which my father used to fasten the oil cans. He had them both up to the time of Mr. Little's murder, but soon afterwards he had only one. Cross-examined—Previous to my father's arrest I took a key from his pocket and opened a drawer, in which I saw eight sovereigns and 17s. 6d. in silver ; I counted it over and put it back. I was in the habit of going to school regularly. I don't think I was at school on the day of the murder. I positively say I never swore that I was at school on that day. I saw Lucy nearly three years ago, wearing the sun bonnet. I never used it as a duster myEtelf, but I know it by the pattern. Ido not think I told my mother what my father desired me to say about the rag or chamois in case the police showed them me. I did not on the day of tho arrest know - what it was for, but asked a police ' man. I held no conversation with my mother or any one else about it. The witness's informations were here read over by the Clerk of the Crown. In those the witness made no mention of having seen the prisoner from dinner time (1 o'clock) till the petiod when he saw him on the roof of the old forge, aud, in fact, said that h e did not see hi m within those hours. He was now asked for an explanation of this discrepancy, as well as to explain why it was he had stated that he was at school every day during the week in which I the murder was committed, while now he said he was ni.t at school on the day of the murder. He made no reply. Mr. Fitzgibbon asked the witness a few questions arising out of the cross-examination, and elicited the fact that the prisoner's wife and daughter were both away from home on the day of the arrest, and had been so for a week previously. Inspector Ryan, of the detective division of the metropolitan police, deposed to statements made by the prisoner as to his vrhereabout on the evening MONDAY EVENING, AUGUST 10, 1857 of the murder, by which he endeavoured to accoun for his time on the railway premises up to 9 o'clock,- and then from that hour to ten minutes past 10, at which time he alleged he returned with his wife after the purchase of certain necessaries. Th's witness also deposed to the tinding of the razor towards the end of June last, with the name " Spollin" upon it. The blade of this razor was quite black when taken from the canal, but a red rust formed upon it upon exposure to the air. Henry Nagle, Joseph West, James Mogill, and Donelly,, a constable, were then examined,l but their evidence wb.s not material. A locksmith was next put upon the table to open the brass padlock found in the red lead bucket in which the silver was concealed in the privy. On the cap being removed and the interior exposed to view, it was observed to be quite full of red lead. Evidence was then given of Spollen having in the course of his business received red lead, but in a square box, not a round tub in any way similar to that in which the silver was fouud. A witness was also produced to account for only onelrazor being found in November last. This he did by showing that the dam put up did not include within its compass the spot where the second razor was found. After the examination of several other witnesses as to matters of detail, the case for the Crown closed shortly before 8 o'clock. Mr. Curran will address the jury for the defence on Monday morning. It is said that only one witness will be called for the prisoner—namely, James Spollen, the eldest son. THE MELLO. In the Dublin Freeman, of this morning there is an account of one of those nearly-forgotten inci dents of Irish life in the past ages, familiarly known as "an affair of honour." The cases belli, as in nine cases out of ten, was "a lady." Here is the bulletin : " Mr. John T. Walker, Mr. W. W. King (17th Lancers), Mr. Francis Edward Thomas, and Sir E. Hutchinson were brought before the sitting magis trates yesterday in custody—the first named two gentleman charged with having intended to fight a duel yesterday morning. Mr. Thomas and Sir E. Hutchinson were also arrested as accessories. The scene of the intended rencontre was a retired spot in the vicinity of Kilbarrack churchyard, near Howth. The police authorities having received in formation 'of the intended duel took every precau tion to prevent it, and constables selected for the purpose succeeded in arresting Mr. King and Sir E. Hutchinson at Kilbarrack churchyard. Mr. Walker and his second, Mr. Thomas, were taken into custody on their way to the appointed place of meeting. The principals in the transaction (Mr. Walker and Mr. King) were released from custody on their entering into their own recognisances of 1,000/. each, and two sureties of 2501. each. Sir E. Hutchinson and Mr. Th omas were di sc h arge d on coming bound in 5001. each to keep the peace. The cause of the intended duel is said to have arisen out of a misunderstanding between the principals relative to a lady, a connexion of one of the parties." knstralasia.. Bank of Egypt PRICES OF SHARES. • From the Official List. PUBLISHED EVERY TUESDAY AND FRIDAY EVENIN LONDON, FRIDAY, AUG. 7, 1857. CANALS. 4 Dividend Names of 4 Dividend Names of w Companies. A per Price. Companies. ti per Arum. Pri ce. M Annum. ---- — —. X ' X Ashtn &Oldh 98 71. F. ct. 140 Peak Forest. 78 51. Os. Birmingham 40 41. 90 Regent's •• • • 30 17s. 16% Coventry.. • • 100 111. 195 Rochdale.... 85 41. 80 Derby.. •• • • 100 6/. 15s. Stffrd &Wor, 140 281 GrandJunctn 100 21. pr. ct. 59% Stoarbridge. 1 48 121. 10s. 310 Do., 6 pr. Ct. 10 6/. pr. et. Severn and l Grand Union 100 7s. 6d Wye Rail. j 26 ,1/. 16s. 25 Kennt & Ave 40 6s. 6 % Warwick & Leeds &Livrp 100 251. 410 Birming. 3 100 21. 10 Leicester.... 100 6/. Warwick &"I Leicstr &Ntb 83 11.55. 13 Napton.. j 100 21 ' ...... Loughborogh 143 701 Worcstr 81 AI7B 10s. 16% Macclesfield. 100 21. 10s. 51 , Birming. Neath ...... 100 161. `Wilts & Brks 7s. Od. Oxford...". 100 105 1 Name of Company. Berlin .... • ....... East London Do. 4 per Cent Pref. Do. 5 per Cent Pref. Grand Junction Do. New ••• • • • Kent.... • • ...... .... Lambeth ........ • • . • New River Company.. Southwark & Vauxhall West Middlesex .. .. Do. 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His bold face and figure, the model of the " dash ing dragoon" in the popular song, are to be met with at the doorway of every photographer for the million. To judge from the shop windows, Lord Cardigan was the very Achilles of the Crimean war. One would think that, catching grape shot in his teeth and treating thirty-two pound shot as vulgar skittle balls, he stormed Sebastopol, slew the Rus sian Emperor, and ended the campaign in three Doi rich vici blows. In one window he is spiking a gun, exclaiming, "Here goes the last of the Cardi gans !" in aother he is leading on his men, with ue other general insight, th e fleet in the distance waiting for his orders to land and support the cavalry, as all Irishmen might say. He has been done in collodion, and with the honeyprocess, touched and not touched; and in various cases of celebrated men he ranks with Gordian Cramming, the lionkiller, the Rey. Mister Sturgeon, missionary from the D ee p Sea Fishery, and Rambo Sambo, the 2Ethiopian Hln dco, supposed to be born in Connaught. Te crown these two dozen brilliant immortalitiee, • the gallant hero who took a Russian gun with each hand, not to mention his feet, has engaged Mr. Sant, the brilliant and fashionable . painter. of fashionable child ren , w h o w ill not po i nt the portrait of an ugly person on any terms, to re present him " describing the Battle of Balaklava -CO the royal family at Windsor Castle." The picture, apart from the vanity, is a good one. In a richly.furnished room of the palace, at a table by au embrasured window, edged in witli busts on marble pillars, stands . the hero, pointing with his usual animation to a map, with a plan of the battle. Prince Albert, with another mat in his hand, stands near, with his handsome oval face, a little thinned and flattened by the courtly and polite painter. The two eldest chilirent dressed in red and green tartan, with sporrae, &c., stand near, watching the lordly finger With wary interest. The youngest son, in the fore ground, has dropped a flag he has been playing with, and stares with childish awe at the wild Horseman. In the background in Lord Rivers, and a lady of the court, while the two Princesses, holding each other's hand, and presenting_ clear and beautiful profiles, form an interesting group: Our only objection to the picture is, that , Lora Cardigan does not fill the whole canvas. Th e composition and colour of Mr. Sant's pidure at o better than the drawing—the touch, for him, 15 b,ld and free. ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE. HOME CIRCUIT. —CROYDON, AUG. 8. (Before the Lord Chief Baron and a Special Jury. EDWARDS V. BULLEN. This was an action of assault. Mr. E. James, Q.C., Mr. Lush, Q.C., and Mr. Needham were for plaintiff; Sergeant Shee, Mr. Brown, and Mr. Worsley appeared for the defendant. Mr. Ed - w - in James, in opening the case to the jury, said, the plaintiff, Mr. Edwards, carries on the business of an insurance broker, in partnership with a gentleman named Pitman, and the defen dant is engaged in the same occupation in partner ship with a gentleman named Hancock, and they are all members of Lloyd's, and it appeared that up to the time of the c ommencement of these pro ceedings, both firms had business transactions toge ther, and were on intimate terms. The wife of the defendant had, it appeared, shortly before the month of June in the present year gone on a voyage to Quebec, by the advice of the physician who had been in attendance upon her for a serious illness. On the 17th of June, Mr. Pittman went on a visit to a gentleman named Wilson, who resides at Brox bourne, in Hertfordshire, and during the visit, Mr. Wilson made a communication to Mr. Pittman upon the subject of the defendant's domestic affairs, and particularly in reference to the journey of his wife to America, which was certainly of a very offensive character, and Mr. Pittman upon his return to town told the plaintiff what he had heard, and said that he should in consequence decline to do any more business with the defendant, and directed the plaintiff to close the account. The plaintiff was unwilling to do this, for the sake of all parties, as their business ap peared to be mutually profitable, without making inquiry and ascertaining whether the statements respecting the defendant were true or not, and he accordingly, a day or two afterwards, spoke to a gentleman named Beddome, also a member of Lloyd's, and whom he knew to be intimately ac quainted with the defendant and his wife. The only object the plaintiff had, in doing this, accord ing to the statement of his learned counsel, was that the business transactions between them might not be broken off without some explanation, and solely from a kind feeling ; but, it appeared, that Mr. Beddome at once communicated to the defend ant what had been stated by the plaintiff, and on the 24th of June he sent a message for him to come to his counting-house, and upon his going in, his partner, Mr. Hancock shut the door, and the defendant then, without giving him any oppor tunity of explanation, laid hold of him, and he a t him in a most violent manner for several minutes with a stick. This was the assault complained of, and for which the present action was brought against the defendant. Evidence having been adduced, Serjeant Shee Made a most eloquent speech to the jury on behalf of the defendant. He admitted that the defendant had committed an assault, and the plaintiff was therefore entitled to a verdict, but he said that when the jury looked at all the facts of the case he thought they would have no difficulty in coming to the conclusion that the plaintiff had brought it entirely upon himself by the slanders he had been the means of promulgating against the wife of the defendant, and for which the defendant had no legal remedy, and was conse quently obliged to take the mode of redress into his own hands. _ _ _ The jury, after a short deliberation, returned a verdict for the plaiiff—damages 2501. NORTH WALES' CIRCIIIT..CHESTER, Aug. 8, ATTEMPTED MURDER. John Woolley was charged with having on the Ist of Auvust stabbed Ann W►lliams, a married woman, with intent to murder her, or do her some bodily harm. The pn-tsecutrix was going home from market between four and five o'clock in the afternoon, and when going through a stile gate with a basket and an infant, the prisoner rushed on her, and knocked her down. She got up, and was again knocked down, when she felt something hurting her. After a great deal of struggling a man came up and re leased the woman, who was then found to be stabbed on the neck and breast in six different places, and a clasp knife was taken from him, and he was secured and taken into custody. The learned judge having summed up, the jury returned a verdict of guilty of wounding with in tent to do grievous bodily harm. Sentenced to 10 years' penal servitude. MURDER OF A GAMEKEEPER. John Blagg, 47, shoemaker, was charged with the wilful murder of John Bebbington, game keeper, at Tilstone, on Aprill6. The deceased was in the service of Mr. Corbett, of Tilstone-lodge, near Tarporley, and on the 16th went his rounds. Nothing was heard of him till the next day, when he was found lying dead in a field with Ins loaded gun by his side. There was a gunshot wound in his chest There was a set of footmarks in the field corresponding to the pri soner's boots. The marks were traced to the prisoner's house. Wadding was extracted from the body of deceased, and wadding of the same material. • was found in the rrisoner's possession. The prisoner had been heard to threaten Beb bington. Mr. Brandt addressed the jury for the defence. The jury returned a verdict of guilty, and his lordship passed sentence of death. The prisoner was quite unmoved throughout the trial, which lasted from nine in the morn ing till seven in the evening. We regret to learn that Mr. Augustus E. Fuller, late M.P. for East Sussex, died on Thursday afternoon, after a very short illness, from diarrhoea. The deceased gentleman was born in 1777, and was son of the late Mr. John Trayton Fuller, by the daughter of the first Lord Ffeathfield. 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Stampa, Constan tinople; A. Guidicy, Smyrna; and E. Muir, Malta.' Dividend Name of Company. per Annum. Southwark .......... Ditto New of 7% p.c. Waterloo..... ........ Ditto Old Ann. of 8/. Ditto Ww ditto of 'II. Vauxhall Name of Company Commercial •...... Do. Preference East and West India.. Grand ~nrry D. & Canal Do. Loan Notes .. .. Do. 5 per cent. Pref. London .• • . •••• • • • St. Katharine ........ , outhampton ........ Victoria •• •• •• Ditto New •• •• •• • • BRIDG: lOs per cent.l 11. 12s. Od. 1/. Ss. Od. 28s. DOCKS. Dividend per Annum. M. pr cent. 61. pr cent. 41. per cent. 51. pr „ cent. 4%7. per ent. 4 per cent. 51. Os per C. GAS-LIGH' Name of Company. 'RANCE CO: Dividend per Annum. :5!. per cent.l LIST OF SCOTTISR . COMPANIES' PRICES. Divideud Amount Name of Company. per of Paid. Price. Annum. • Share. s. d. dE s. d. Rank of Scotland ..•• 71. per cent. 100 C 0 100 0 0 195/09 British Linen Company 81. per cent. 100 0 0 100 0 0 224110 Caledonian Bank .. •• V. per cent. .10 0 0 210 03/ 16s City of Glasgow Bank 51. per cent. 10 0 0 10 0 0 13117 s Clydesdale Bank .. • • 5% /. p cent. '2O 0 0 10 0 0 14 c 7s C , inmercial Bank .. 71. per cent. 500 0 0 100 0 0 24810 s Eastern Bank.... •• 61. per cent. 25 0 0 10 0 0 141 5s Edinb. & Glasgow.... 3%1. p cent. 5 0 5 0 0 51 2s National Bank •• 6% per cent. 100 0 0 100 0 0 19310 s Northof Scotlandßank 51. per cent 20 0 0 210 051 10s Royalßank of Scotl. 51. per cent. 100 0 0 100 0 0 1491's Union Bank of Scot. .. 81. per cent. 100 0 0 50 0 0 106110 Western Bank •• .. 71. per cent. 50 0 0 50 0 0 821 Os Alliance Fire and Life.. 8%1.pr cent. 100 0 0 11 0 0 17/12s British Guarantee . 41. per cent. 10 0 0 2 0 011 7s Caledonian Fire Tway 10c.per cent. 100 0 0 10 0 0 251 Os City of Glasgow Lite.. 61. per cent. 25 0 0 2 0 041 4s Colonial Life ......... 51. per cent. .50 0 0 3 0 0 61 Os Edinburgh Life Incur. 61. portent. iOO 0 0 15 0 0 28115 s Eng. & Scot, Law Life 5/.oer cent. 50 0 0 3 5 0 41 6s Life Assoc. of Scotland 6/. per cent. 40 0 0 3 0 0 ;11 15s Nationa. Fire and Life 64 per cent. 10 0 0 1 4 0 21 Os North British Insar... 71. per cent. 200 0 0 20 0 0 36115 s Northern Assurance Co. 20 0 0 1 0 0 11 16s Scottish Provincial .... 50 0 0 2 0 0 2/ 19s Scottish LTnion Insrnc. 7341. pr cont. 20 0 0 1 0 0 11 15s Standard Life .. •• .... 5/. per cent. 50 0 0 7 0 0 221 Os COMPANIES. Amount of Share. Paid. SUICIDE OF EMILY SANDFO_RD. (From the Ballarat Star.) There are few but will recollect the startling and half romantic details and circumstances of the Stanfield-hall tragedy, of which Rush was the hero. Not the least feat ure o f i n t eres t ar i s i n g on,'" of the disclosures then made public was the pow tion of the victim of his seduction, Emily Sand' ford, upon whos e ev id ence hi s f ate was sea l e d. It will be rem e mb ere d th a t a ft er th e execu ti o n of i l Rush the con t r ib ut i ons o f t h e c h ar i ta bl e enable(' her to seek a home and the means of forgetfulness in Australia. The next that is heard of her is, that her brother who accompanied her via e drowned while landing at Adelaide. And now', from a South Australian journal, we learn that, unable longer to endure the inward grief and die; temper of mind to which of late years it would seem she had been subject, she has put an end to an existence upon whi c h m i ser y h a d f or t h e most part set its seal. At the coroner's inquest it wesp related that during the last three years she had been in the service of a gentleman of respectabiliti at Cooringa, and was generally known as Emily Smith. Her employer described ber as being a really good servant. Both himself and his visitorn had remarked that she was occasionally " ver l flighty ;" they thought her eccentric. At on e moment she would be smiling, and the next ill tears, although generally she was in good spirits' Her employer had vent ure d t o j o k e w i t h h e r at times, having been so long in his service ; he r grammar and language b e i ng ha d an She , an uncontrollable cu r i os ity, an d on one occas ion lu, was discovered by her employer that she bad, been reading some privat e l e tt ers b e l ong i ng t o an other person sent to him for perus a l. H e c hid e d be" for ha s letters, telling her she w as qu it e a t lib er t y t o read Las _ letters, but not those of other' people. On t he evening when she took the poison (arsenic) s he waited at the table as usual, company being pre' sent. When called for after supper she did not . appear, and was found suffering from the effects a the poison. On the surgeon's arrival she asked if she was dying, and receiving a reply in the affir mative, she exclaimed, " I thank God for it." To one of the witnesses she was recently pointed out by those who knew her as Emily Sandford, but of this she was ignorant. The jury returned tell verdict offelo d e re . A n d no sod or stone te„,u" in a few short y ears w h ere li e t h e earthly eletne"' of a human soul which once, we may be certain, was undimmed by the dark shadows which in latter years sufficed to hurry it to premature de struction. Country Markets, DALICEITH GRAINMARKET—Aua. 6. Qrs. Best. 429 148 Oat s at 62s 041 35s Od 29s 64d 2- 68 Barley 36 s 6d 20 Peas & beans 498 Od 34s 2A 4 3 3 0 i 478 Id v..0c1,,i HADDINGTON GRAIN MARKET— Atm. 7. WHEAT. RAREST; OATS. 1 BEAI , O. First 6Bs Od 383 6d ' 36s 9d 1 523 04 Second 43s 5d 34s 6d ) 333 5 ( 1 ) 463 11a Third 34s Od 32s 01 I 31s Od 1.45 s oa Total quantity of wheat in market, 844 qrs., sold 82„ 5 barley •„ 196 qrs ., so ld 15,, oats if 162 qrs., 161 8° 14 , 1 OP beans Hi 89 qrs ., 86 1301 u AVERAGES PEE IMPERIAL QUARTER. Wheat, 2/. 3 5 0-12ths 1 Barley, ...1/. 14 t 4-12 tbs Oats, ... V. 13 5 0-12ths 1 Beans, .....2b. 6 11 3-12 tbs PP ABERDEEN—A ia. 7. Potato oats Common oats 2 2 45 5 s 0 0 d d to to 26 25 s O s Od l Bere 30s 03 to 33s Od t 401bs per bushel Barley 30 s Od t o 33 8 03 f 531bs ' 1 ' Wheat, red (spring)37s Od to 40s Od 1 PO 621bs white 36s Od to 46s Od Oatmeal 21s 03 to 22s Od per boll. Flour 41s Od to 455 Od per sack. PROVISION MARKET. Beef, per lb 53 to 93 Butter, p lb. Os —3 to is 03 I Mutton, per lb 5d t o 93 Eggs, p doz. Os 8(1 to Os 10d Lamb, do., Os 7d to Os 9, I Hens, p pair is Gd to 28 Od Veal, per lb ... 63 to Os 93 I Chickons,do. 1B Od to IEI 61 Pork, perlb...os 6(1 to Os 7(1 Ducks, do., is 63 to 2s 03 Salmon, per lb .........1 s Od. 1 Ducklings,ols 63 to 2s 01 Grouse; por brace 0s to Os Turkeys, each 4s 03 to 4s 63 Tallow, p stone, Os to us 03 Potatoes, pr peck, d —to 103 Rabbits, each Od to Od. Butter for exportation (present cure) per cwt.... 945 to 963 Eggs, wholesale price, per dozen 6d to 7d RETAIL PRICES. F10ur,141b....0s 03 t o 2s 63 Barley flour,l4lb.Os to 2s 2d Oatmeal Os Od to 2s 13 „ dust, ... ..Osto Os 10d Beremeal Os Od to 2s 03 , per lb - • 23 to 2id Peaserneal... Os 03 t o 2 s 4d Sid's, 1 7d Cheese, per imperial stone, 4s. 03. to 4s 6 A 4-Ib. 10af...8d. 1 2-lb. 10af...4d. DUBLIN. Au*. 7. We had a slow market to-day. Wheat sold at the rates of Tuesday. The supply of old oats being small, an ad vance of 6d per barrel was obtained. Now bere brought 16s 6d to 17s 6d 2 • new white oats 17s to 17s 91 ; an d t awn y oats 15s 6d to 16s. No change in Indian corn. White wheat, 35s Oct to 37s 6d ; red ditto, 31s Oct to 353 Od; ditto new, —s; barley, malting, 16s 6d to 25s ; grind ing, —s to —s ; oats, old, 15s 6d to 18s; ditto, new, —s Od to —s Od ; oatmeal, 15s to 17s 3(1; bere, now, --s to —s Od ; rapesetd, 23s Od to 35s per brl ; bar. rs' flour, 19s Oct Od to 24s Od per cwt; Indian corn, 38s 61 to .39i Od par 480 lbs. BIRTHS. OF A 80N. On the Bth inst., at 15, Camden-road Villas, the wife of Mr. T. Harbottle. On the Bth inst., at 10, Eliot-place, Blackheath, the wife of James Hill Bowen, Esq. OF A DACGIITER On the 6th inst., at Croydon, the wife of John Harris Danvers, Esq. • On the 7th inst., at 32, Chester•square, the wife of Frederic Bernal, Esq., H.M•'e-Consul at Madrid. MARRIED. On the 6th inst. , at Cheriton , Hants, Chas. B. Russ e ll Esq., ge o s f t s r f-oinlli barrister-at-law, to C aro li ne , th e he Rev. Henry H u bb ar d , rector of Ch e riton. On the Bth inst., at St. Pa ncras N ew -road, Mr. Henry e g o h l n t ' e Carter, of Finsbury pavement, to Elizabet:a Aynsley, of y Denton, Norfolk, wido w o f the late J. Bell Aynsley, of Lincoln's-inn, Highbury. On the Sth in s t. DIED. , at the Grove, Hackney, John Ayre, Esq., M.D., aged 78. On the 7th inst., at Hammersmith, Win. Pooley, Esq., of the late firm of Debenham, Pooley, and Smith, Wig more-street, and Thornton in Lonsdale, Yorkshire, aged 57. On the 6th inst., at Mile-end, Dr. J. S. Robertson, aged 49. On the 6th inst., at Durdham-park, near Bristol, the Rev. George Armstrong, A. 8., age d 65. Killed, before Delhi, on the &a June, Colonel Charles Chester, 23d Bengal Native Infantry, and Adjutant-Ge neral of the Army, eldest surviving son of the late Sir R. Chester, Master of the Ceremonies to her M a j es ty. On th e 3d inst., at Clifton, the Hon. Ann Caroline, the Wife of th e R ev . 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