Northern Times. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-05-06 00:00:00

~~Y n Dicis i°ll booths for r i., space 111 .4 rai pt up e ight " hat slack, irds 311 cro e roolng contost, , cted. .14e. in the a° and gero ;rapes Di : °me beinA 171 eel hl , ge ~ o ~ A To'll cuP Pu l to IQ es ter, ~ it thou", L. , e5 f lis I ; .rpocil. C 11 °_ _1 veil., bel 1 frol 3t u, sw ti r Le'r_ne • „fr e geot l ' ej ; Lit ti as _dso 40 3 tt 'a n al g ti v irJ a bot 4 4, a ! e of ,herti stst eu A too 1 ° to V° ? beell 40, r 19 6 ' ,pctorf the . " ili Al re. L. 0 If COMMERCIAL. The alteration at the Bank had no effect on the Funds, which opened at the quotations current at four o'clock yesterday, and remained at that level for about an hour after the commencement. There were subsequently some fluctuations, but the closing prices were I per cent. better than yesterday. The rise in the rates of discount causes sales of English Railway and other Stocks thereto held on borrowed money. It thus happens that although Consols have improved, several other classes of securities have again given way. The amount of gold withdrawn from the Bank to-day for exportation was £64,000. £47,000 iu American gold was also purchased for the Continent. — Daily News City Article, Thursday Evening. This has been settling day in the English Funds, and on the whole it has passed off well. No failures have been declared, a delay being granted in all cases of doubt to the end of the week. The Bank of England will now make advances to their customers on six months' bills at 51 per cent. The demand for discount at the advanced rate was very active to-day, both at the Bank and in the open market. All the Joint-Stock Banks have raised their allowance on deposits one per cent., the rate being now 31. The raising of the rate of discount by the Bank to 41 per cent., is a result merely of the movements of the public. There is no excessive pressure from auy immediate wants on the part of the mercantile body, but the enormous outlay consequent on the general arming of Europe, it absorbs specie and causes a continual increase in the value of capital. During the two months preceding the declaration of war against Russia, the Bank lost about £1,600,000 of bullion ; in the succeeding two months, they lost an additional sum of £2,100,000; and from that day, up to nearly the end of the conquest, there was no further serious reduction.— Times City Article, Thursday Evening. The Times says the business of the banking firms of Arnstein at Vienna, which has just failed, was extremely large. Their liabilities are reported as £2,000,000, but this seems to be mere conjecture. The markets for Russian produce remain flat. A telegram from St. Petersburgh announces an advance of 6 ro. in the price of tallow, quotations being 197 ro, on the spot and for delivery in June. Exchange 04 London has fallen to 33/ d, iiolt.ThEtft ° TIRES: TRIDAT, MAC` '6 -IMO T HE LATEST TELEGRAMS. CO MMENCEMENT OF THE FIGHTING. SARDINIAN OFFICIAL BULLETIN. The attempt of the Austrians to effect the passage of the Po, at Frasivetto, commenced on the 3rd. The cannonading lasted fifteen hours, and was re-com menced yesterday afternoon, and continued for the remainder of the day. The Piedmontese only had a f ew Wounded, whilst the Austrians experienced m uch- loss. 4,000 A us t r i ans were yesterday at Castel Nova, Servia, THE FRENCH FUNDS. 1)113 . 18 , Thursday.-11.45 a.m: Rentes commenced „, 6 1.20, fell to 61.5, and are now 61.10. 131120.,7 9 p.m.: The Bourse opened good. Rentes, .2 2 * 26 p.m.: The failures announced from Vienna Berlin are the only subjects of discussion on the 3, 22 P unt. an. Rentes closed 61 for money, and 60. 5 acc PRUSSIA. B t Thursday.—ln the Chamber of Deputies, "ay, the Foreign Minister made a statement with reference to the present position of affairs. He regretted the outbreak of the war, and said that 0 : 486 4 was, without deviation, pursuing her object 1 . Watching over the safety of Germany, the security of national interests, and the maintenance of the bal ance o f power i n E urope . It i s w ith th a t o bj ec t th at the army has been placed in readiness to laisc h• The Finance Minister then moved the addition, for one year of 40,000,000 thalers to the intone -tax, the class-tax, and the taxes on meat and 11 : 4 C orn. This addition to be further increased ." 25 per cen t, i n case th e mo bili s ation of the army Innuld become necessary. FRANCE. • P ARIS, Wednesday.—The Manifesto, or Proclama lan, of the Emperor of the French peop'e, which It Plleared in yesterday's Moniteur, is regarded as a First but no t un f a i t hf u l p l ag i ar i sm o f th ose o f th e Empire. It is indeed so close a copy of any of -t hose early addresses which used at first to thrill, but which afterwards fell heedless on the public mind, that there are some who point to it 'as a proof of the intellectual vigour and or iginality of other days. To the bulletins 411 1 d proclamations of General Bonaparte, ad dressed to his half-famished and half-clothed army, blockaded amid the snows of the Alps, before they Poured along the fertile plains of Lombardy ; the 4 ` Orders of the Day" after Lodi 9r Arcola, or the 'Treaty of Campo Formio ; to the addresses of the Preach people on setting out for some new cam rig; the Proclamation of yesterday presents a con vtitaa. t. not very flattering to the latter. A Deputy, a that ne grower of the Burgundian district, remarked, a " it bore to the first Napoleon's effusions the na mei rel a ti on as a g l ass o f or di nary w i ne an d wa t er ta a draught of Chambertin ! I dare say there -e ' people here and elsewhere who will consider it, 4 ; 1 1, at lea s t, s p ea k o f it, as a model of el o q u ence. this as it may, it has not passed without remark j° 4 l the p eop l e w h o peruse it i n th e o p en a i r , an d those who read it in their closets. They observe Wi th surp r i se (th oug h why they express surprise it 3 ha rd to say) that it makes no more allusion to Senate, the Legislative Corps, the Council of 4 , t ato—in fact, to any one of those which are called " Grand Corps de l'Etat"—than if they had no -existence in the mechanism of government; no existence moral, material, or financial. Alluding t° the Empress and the Imperial Prince, it is to the "l ast surviving brother of the Emperor," Prince Jer ome;, "to the valour of the army that remains in ra nee," to the National Guard, and generally, to th e peopl e , th a t th ese augus t p ers ons a r e confided ; but not a word does the Moniteur say of either Senate or deputies. The Ministers also are conspicuous for their ab sence in this solemn address to the French people. This, however, is less to be wondered at, if it be t rue that the Cabinet is dislocated, and its members g o ing to be dismissed, or sent to the army, with t he valedictory address, "Go where glory waits t hee." It was, in fact, rumoured that M. Walewski de s i red to accompany the Emperor, as well as M. Poald— with what truth I cannot say. The Minister ° f St ate and Minister of Foreign Affairs have been t he most confident of the whole Cabinet, and the 213, ° St anxious for the maintenance of peace. Yet, w ith, , ironical ingenuity, both M. Fould and M. "alowski were selected to deliver the warlike a ddresses in the Senate to the Deputies. It reminds 1 / 1 1 e of the Diablo Predicador of the Spanish comedy, Where the mischevious demon Luzbel is obliged, as ari act of penance, to assume the habit of a Francis- Can friar and preach in the churches of Lucca in fav our of the order which he had most opposed and Most damaged. The activity of Luzbel, who tries to terminate as speedily as poossible a duty which is so repugnant to him—the forced fervour with Which he preaches—his desperate effort to pass off his mortification for zeal—all has been performed over again. That there should be no allusion, therefore, to any of the present Ministers is nothing wonderful ; and perhaps the gold manner with which were received the important communications of the last few days explains the official silence with regard to that body. The Senate, it is said, has given more satisfaction in I this respect. - Imperial Senates have generally bee n more complacent than Representatives ; but it is not forgotten that it was on these that the first Napoleon flung his bitterest sarcasms in the hour of his difficulties. It was the Senate he reproached for never having had the courage to tell him the truth, and for having accepted every wish, every act of his with_ out remonstrance or delay. The allusion to the army that remains in France " to watch over the fron tier," may apply to the Rhine and to the spirits evoked in Germany ; and the hint about the " in °°rrigible men of those old parties who are seen Constantly to unite with our enemies" is to the address of the Legitimists and Orleanists ; and is, I suppose, the most successful mode of winning "er their adhesion and their sympathy. As to the Ministers remaining in, or going out, the. public appear to care very little ; the changes only interest themselves and .the aspirants to their places. The allusion to Prince Jerome would imply that two or three of 'them at least, if not all, will be turned out. The Prince, it is said by his friends,. has little confidence in them ; though it is astonishing how he can enter tain any doubt of, the entire and unreserved de votedness - to the reigning dynasty of such men ,as M. Delangle, who has always (however discreetly) been of that "party ; of M. de Morny, whose civic merits and fidelity to a cause in prosperous or in adverse fortune beat hollow all that is related of ancient or modern times ; of M. Walewski, &c . The Prince, however, will not, it seems, have them as Ministers in the absence of the Emperor. The rumours of Marshal Vaillant quitting the War-office are attributed by the public to the incompletenes of the arrangements connected with his department. The Emperor's departure is again delayed for some days longer—so we are given to understand— and, instead of to-morrow, will not take place,:it is said, before Tuesday. The reception last night at the Tuileries was very well attended. M. Hubner, the Austrian Ambassador, left Paris this morning for Brussels. There is little use us repeating the various rumours of the day about what is going on, or not going on, in Piedmont, as they come without authority. I believe there is as yet nothing of importance to notice. The Austrians seem to be engaged in concentrating their force, and man- oeuvre as if they meant to cover Lombardy -against invasion If we are not quite certain of the movements in Piedmont, we know that Lyons and Toulon are, crowded with troops, all moving towards the theatre of the war in hot haste. In the departments the stream of men recalled to their regiments is un broken ; and the calling out of the contingent for 1859, in advance, has produced considerable impres sion, as if France was actually menaced with inva sion. Volunteers are'said to present themselves for enlistment very numerously within the last few days. The Patrie announces that Admiral Dupony has received orders to proceed to Toulon to-day to take the command of the Imperial yacht Reine Hortense. It is added that the Emperor will take his passage from Toulon to Italy in that steamer. The Patrie further announces that M. Robert, maitre des requites to the Council of State, and M. Lemaire, auditor to the same Council, are to accom pany the Emperor for the service of his Cabinet. The Abbe Laine is to accompany the Emperor as chaplain, and Dr. Conneau as first physician. The Moniteur publishes a decree authorising voluntary enlistments for two years, without bounty, as well as voluntary enlistments after liberation from .the service with bounty for a term of from three to seven years. The decree is followed by a decision of the Minister of War fixing the bounty for re engagements and for voluntary engagements after liberation froin the service. SECOND EDITION. NORTHERN TIMES OFFICE, FRIDAY, 9 A.m, REPORTED CAPTURE OF TANTIA TOPEE. An India Office telegram, dated Bombay, April 11, says : According to intelligence just received from Mahomedna of the Bth of April, Tantia Tepee was captured by Colonel Meade's detachment on the previous night, with the assistance of Maun Singh, whose surrender to Major Reed had previously taken place. On the 2nd April, the columns under Colonels Salis and Rich, in combined movement, overtook rebels in the Seronge jungles, and killed 500. Tantia Topee was present. British loss trifling. THE AUSTRIAN CAMPAIGN IN SARDINIA. The Times speculates on the military operations, and says : After'being seven days on the Sardinian soil invaders have not advanced more than thirty-five miles from the frontier river. It as yet seems as though Austria had staked heavily for an opportunity, won it, and now throw it away. They have gained nothing at present by their choice of the moment, and by their sudden initiative, except the power of making forced contributions in their enemy's country. Sar dinia has her fortresses secure. Turin is in her hands, and all the positions she holds are connected by lines of rail with each other, and with the sea, and witk the Alpine passes, into France. The death of the Duke of Leeds is announced from dip theria. Lord Godolphin succeeds to the title. On Thursday the Duke of Malakoff had an audience of the Queen, and delivered his letters of recall. The Court of Council, on Thursday, voted the sum of 100 guineas to the Neapolitan exiles. Mr. Bernal Osborne is spoken of as a candidate, for the County Waterford. The Court of Common Council on Thursday elected a judge of the Sheriff's Court of London. Mr. Kerr was elected by a majority of two over Mr. Corrie. The number of members returned to the new House of Commons up to Thursday night was 553. The Times estimates the total nett ministerial gain at seventeen—the Herald at twenty-four. MAINTENANCE OF A WIFE.—EXTRAORDINARY DISCLOSURES.. In the Court of Common Plefis; on Wednesday, an extraordinary case was tried. The action was brought by one Cooper against Lloyd. The plaintiff, who had married a Mr. Winter since the commencement of the proceedings, sought to recover the sum of £l2 10s-'for board and lodging, necessaries supplied, and money lent to the wife of , the defendant, who is a captain in the Royal Navy. The defendant pleaded never indebted. Mr. Laxtou and Mr. Patchett were counsel for the plaintiff. Mr.o'Malley. Q.C., and Mr. Francis, were counsel for the defendant. Mr. Laxton, in stating the case- to the jury, said the action was first brought in the Lambeth County Court, but removed into this court by certiorari, in consequence of it involving questions of law with reference to the wife's adultery and the husband's condonation. The lady was married to the defendant in 1847, and lived with her husband about six or seven weeks in Jersey, when he left her to go to sea, and was absent about three years, but before leaving he made provision for, his wife's residing with his family. Before and after the defendant's leaving. Jersey frequent disputes took place between the wife and the defendant's mother and family, and the consequence was, she left them and went to reside with her brother, Captain Rogg, at Fort George, near Inverness. Whilst there Mrs. Lloyd formed an acquaintance with a gentle man named Winslow, with whom she committed adultery, and afterwards she was delivered of a child. On her hus band's return from India she went to Chatham to meet him. He had heard of his wife's having had a child during his absence, and at the Sun Hotel, Chatham, h e taxed her with her misconduct. This was in June, 1852. She at first denied it, but she afterwards drew up a written confession of her conduct during his absence, setting forth her connexion with Mr. Winslow, and her having a child by him, which she sent to him ; and after he had read it, he tore it up, saying, " Phillis, I forgive you, and receive you again as my wife, as if nothing had happened." He then fell at her feet, and replace her wedding ring on her finger, which she had left at his mother's house before leaving Jersey. He slept with his wife that night, and that was the condonation of the offence. The defendant was about to go abroad again ' • but before he left England. he agreed that his wife should live in the neighbourhood of Lon don. She accordingly took up her residence in the Wands worth-road, where her husband visited her. She after wards removed to Blackheath, where he also visited her, and where he wanted to sleep with her, but he could not do so for the want of room, as her nurse was sleeping with her ; but he went there early one morning after her nurse was up, and went to bed to her. The wife about this time had sold some railway shares that had been bought with her own money, and she gave her husband some £4O, also made him a present of a dressing-case. Afterwards a separation was talked of, and the defendant agreed to allow her £3O a year, but it was not carried out, in consequence of her brother considering the proposed allowance insufficient. Mrs. Lloyd after this went to Paris, and various places on the Continent, but returned in February, 1856, to meet her husband at Chatham on his return from the Crimea, when he took her to an hotel, where they slept that night, and afterwards parted. She saw him again in June, 1857, on board the Edinburgh, at Sheerness, when he was again about to leave England. She then upbraided him with not supplying her properly with money, and he promised to pay off her debts and allow her £3O a year in future. He had failed to do so, and his wife had not seen .him since, and hence the present action. Mrs. Sarah Winter was then called, and proved that she had supplied the defendant's wife with board, lodging necessaries, &c., to the amount claimed. Mrs. Lloyd was then called, she deposed : I was married in 1847, in Jersey, to Captain Lloyd. I lived with him there for about two months, at the expiration of which he left for India on service ; differences existed up to and after his leaving between myself and his mother and sisters, which were the talk of the island. When I left Jersey had a little boy ten months old. Captain • Lloyd is his father. I then left and went to my mother at Fort Wil liam, near Inverness, where I became , acquainted with Mr. Winslow.. The witness then corroborated the main points in the learned counsel's opening. Cross-examined by Mr. O'Malley : Whilst my husband was away in India, he corresponded with me up to shortly before his return, in the most affectionate terms. He returned at the latter end of 1850 or beginning of 1851. When I went to Scotland I lived with my brother, and kept his house. I took my son Henry with me. I received money from my husband whilst he was in India, but I don't think it was so much as £4OO. I don't say Mr. Winslow is the father of my second child. I have stated so, but I with draw it. Mr. 'Winslow allowed me £4O a year for the maintenance of my child. Mr. O'Malley : What did he do that for ? don't think I am bound to say more. Mr. O'Malley : What did he allow you that money - for ? Witness : Because I was poor, and in want. I shall not say further for what he allowed me the £4O a year. He allowed it to me before and after my husband returned _home. I told my husband Mr. Winslow had agreed to allow me •X2OO a year. But he never bad allowed me XlOO a year. lam not aware that a bond was to be prepared securing me £lOO a year. I asked him to allow me more than £4O a year, but he said he could not. He allowed me the money simply out of friendship. I had not known him many weeks before I left Inverness ; it waB there I first became acquainted with him. Mr. O'Malley : Then it was in about six weeks this inti mate friendship grew up between you? Witness : He was an intimate friend of my brother's. I do not say he is the father of my child. I have said, but I have also contradicted it. Mr. O'Malley : Is he the father of your second child ? Witness : I decline to answer the question. Mr. O'Malley : Is he the father of your second child ? Witness (to the Judge) : Am I bound to answer this Witness : I question ? Mr. Justice Williams : Yes. Witness : Then I will 'tell the truth. He is the father of that child. Mr, Winslow has given me as much as £3OO altogether, and perhaps more, including the railway shares he sold for me. At the time I became acquainted with Mr. Winslow, he was living with his wife and family. He visited my brother's house, and I visited his. After I left Scotland I went to Jersey, then to Guernsey, and back to London, where I saw Mr. Winslow. From thence I went with him to Belgium and up the Rhine, and after that to Dublin, where the child was born, but I can't give the date. Mr. Winslow left mo in Dublin before the child was born. I was confined at a house in Mount-street, Dublin. Mr. Winslow is now, I believe, in Germany. I heard from him about three months since, and the last time I saw him was about two months before the child was born. We lived together as man and wife in London, but where I can't recollect. I have lived in so many places. I can't recollect, but I think it was at the Bedford Hotel, Covent garden. That, was about nine months before the child was born. I can recollect circumstances, but I can't recollect dates. The child was baptised at Greenwich, in the name of Edwin Isadore Lloyd, of which Captain Lloyd is aware, because I wrote to him and informed him of it long after I gave him the written statement. I lived and travelled with Mr. 'Winslow as Mr. and Mrs. Winslow. After my second child was born I went to Dieppe, and afterwards to Paris, where I lived alone for three years. I supported myself with money I had by me, the £4O a year Mr. Winslow allowed me, and by working em broidery. I can't recollect when I returned from Paris, therefore it is useless for you to ask me. I can't tell within six months when I last came back from Paris. In the summer of 1857 I was residing in the Walworth-road, and before that at Guy's Cottage, Nelson-street, Borough. I was ill at the latter place, and was attended by Dr. Roberts. I was then confined of my third child. Capt. Lloyd is her father. I told him so when I saw him on board ship. I came from Paris to be confined, and re turned there afterwards. I had been in Paris upwards of a year before I came over here to be confined. Captain Lloyd did not visit me in Paris. He did not visit me in France. The last time I saw Captain Lloyd was on the eve of his starting for the Mediterranean, and before I went to Paris, I think he left for the Mediterranean in 1852. I think I next saw him again iu the January or February of 1856. I came from Paris to meet him at Chatham. I remained there about a week. I brought my second child with me. I have always gone by the name of Lloyd. The third child is dead ; it died shortly after its birth. I am not certain about dates. After I left Jersey I did not communicate my address to my hus band. I left the house he had provided me there on my own accord, leaving, my child with my husband's friends. I had been subjected to petty insults by my husband's family before leaving. I was not invited to attend his sister's wedding. After leaving, I first communicated to him in writing. I wrote to him, sayins I should like to see him before he left, and he consented in an extremely kind letter, which, I regret; to say, I have not kept. It was a particu larly kind letter, and signed " Your affectionato husband." He then did not know of my adultery. He pressed me for verbal explanation of what I had done since I had left Jer sey. I declined, and asked to be allowed to do so in writ ing. I do not know if I asked for three days in which to prepare it. 'When I told him of the occurrence I - think I told him I was surprised by Mr. Winslow, that he had drugged me, and that I had had no intercourse w ith hi m except on that occasion. The night Captain Lloyd re mained in my roam was the night of the day I had taken, poison, because he refused then to lire with mil' after that avowal I tried to poison myself' with laudanum, and I . was, given ometics lip my husband, who was sent for, he having left the honse for a walk. I , was ill after, but I ,did not, ask him as a dying request to remain thenight with me. I distinctly swear he' slept with me that night. I have a recollectio,n of the circumstances of that night. I took the laudanum at Miss `Davis's, who had the charge of his child. My husband slept with me the' night I took the poison, and after t I had made to him the avowal of my adultery. The next was after his arrival from the Crimea, at an hotel, at Chatham ; but I can't recollect which, or the street. I only remained there with him for an hour or two. I returned by the train. It took place in a private sitting-room in the hotel, during the short visit of a few hours. •The hotel was a short distance from the railway station. The next time was at -Wel worth. I saw him in the summer of 1857, after the birth of my third "child, on board the Edinburgh. I visited Guy's cottage a second time, and then went to Walworth. On board the-Edinburgh I told say husband of the birth of the ,third child. I was not then negotiating for a separa tion. I did not say I had.never had more than two children. I was on board the Edinburgh with him about two,hours in the day, and I then had Intercourse with MM. His cabin, I imagined was near the mess room, because when I was with him I saw the servants pass with the dishes, and my husband asked me to'dine with the mess. Captain Halitead was the captain of the, ship, and my husband was the commander. Captain Halstead did not order me ashore. I threatened to remain on board till I saw - Capthiu Halstead, because my husband would not give me, any money, and my husband afterwards took me to Captain Halstead on deck, who said he could not interfere between man and wife, and informed me that as ladies were not permitted on board ',must leave the ship, and-I did so. The railway shares sold by Mr. Winslow were purchased by me with my own money in fiinds before my marriage. lam not aware the stock was ever transferred from my name to my husband's. I don't recollect executing any document when I sold the stock. Mr. liornsby, my cousin, sold out the stock, ,and purchased the railway shares for me in the name of Lloyd. I think Mr. - Winslow sold them before we went abroad. I do not know how much they realised, but I sent my husband I'4o of the money. I distinctly swear I sent £4O to him. and I did so because I had added during my marriage £4O to my own money, with which the shares were originally purchased. Re-examined by Mr. Laxton : I do not think I stated, in the statement I sent to my husband, anything about where I had been and with whom. I supported myself in France from money I had by me, the £4O allowed Me by Mr. Winslaw, and what I got by woiking at embroidery. My husband thought I was receiving £2OO a year from Mr. Winslow, as I had Ted him to suppose. M 7 husband corresponded with me constantly whilst I was in Paris. A number of letters were here put in, received by the wife from her husband, but theY were not read at this stage Of the case. , T,4e further hearing of the case was then adjourned. LORD PALMERSTON AT Tr,EnToN.---The eldest daughter . of Mr. John Sharland , one of his lordship's committee, came of age on the 29th (the day of election) , and a bottle of very old Irish whiskey, which had been presented to her at her birth, was to he opened on that day. On the circum stance being mentioned to his Lordship, he at once proceeded to the residence of Mr. Sharland, accompanied by several of, his friends, where, in the presence of a select party, who were celebrating the event, he drew the cork, • filled the glasses, and, in a complimentary speech, drank to the health of the young lady, His Lordship honoured the party for some time with his presence; and after responding. to the toast of Lady Palmerston, he took his leave.---Sherborne Journal. Lova AND DUTY.—A marriage was recently announced in our columns between a gallant son of Neptune and the daughter of a respected clergyman of the Church of Eng land. After the nuptial ceremony, the "happy couple" left town to spend the honeymoon, but scarcely had they depated when a telegram from the Admiralty reached the bridegroom's residence, directing him instantly to join his ship in an English port, as it had been ordered to sail the following morning on foreign service. No time was lost dispatching the telegram after the newly-married couple, whorti, much to their consternation, it soon reached, but the order was imperative, and with that devotion to duty so characteristic of the British officer, the bridegroom at once " tore himself away" from the arms of his weeping bride, and within three hours after his marriage was bowling along at the rate of some 30 or 40 miles an hour: en route td head-quarters, leaving his better half to return to the shelter of the paternal roof till the arrival of more peaceful times...- Scotsman. TREATIES BETWEEN AUSTRIA AND THE ITALIAN STATES. —Yesterday morning were issued copies of treaties (poli tical-and territorial)--between Austria and the Italian States, from 1815 to 1848, presented to the House of Lords by the command of' her Majesty. The contents comprise--- ' 1. Extract from the treaty of Vienna, dated June 9, 181.5. 2, 'Additional and separate article to the territorial treaty be tween Austria and Sardinia, dated May 20, 1815. 3. Pro test of the Pope against certain resolutions of the treaty of Paris and of the Vienna Congress, dated Tune 12, 1815. 4. Extract from a despatch from Sir 'William A'Court to Viscount Castlereagh,' communicatini , the purport of a treaty between Austria and Sicily, dated June (July) 1815. 5. Treaty between Austria and Tuscany, dated June 12 1815. 6. Treaty between Great Britain, Austria, France, Prussia, Russia, and Spain, dated June 10, 1817 (Anex.— Extract from treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle, 1748). '7. Treaty bet Ween Lucca, Ifidena, Tuscany, Austria, and Sardinia, dated November 28, 1848. 8. •Treaty between Austria and Modena, dated December 24, 1847. 9. Treaty betw6en Austria and Parma, dated Feb. 17, 1848. RECRUITING FOR THE NAVAL FORCES.---DUting yesterday the naval rendezvous on Tower-hill was besieged by hun dreds of persons anxious to take service in the Royal Navy under the new regulations awarding a bounty for entering. More than 200 landsmen were rejected, being under the standard height ; and several seamen and landsmen.were not passed by the surgeon. A van, decorated with flags, and containing petty officers and a brass band, peram bulated the leading thoroughfares at the east end with great success, as upwards of three hundred sea men and landsmen were entered before four o'clock. Many watermen of the river Thames have volunteered. Captain Brown will shortly proceed to Liverpool, to make arrangements for the entry of seamen and landsmen into the navy at that port. At Portsmouth a number of continuous service men have taken advantage of the Queen's bounty, and many fine lads have joined the service as ten years' continuous-service men. At Greenock, on Monday, a party of 29 naval volunteers, consisting of seamen and landsmen proceeded to Sheerness, by rail, under the charge of Colour Sergeant Dredge, of the Atholl, Of these, 16 were enlisted on Saturday. The entry of boys still continues. Those youthful candidates are so abundant that 40 Were entered on Monday, and sent on board the Hogue. SERIOUS FIRE IN Sununv.---Yesterday morning, between one and two o'clock, a fire broke out in the premises be longing to Messrs. M. and A. Littler, silk and calico printers, situate at Merton-abbey, Surrey. The premises are probably the, largest in the same line of business in that part of the country, comprising . as they did nearly twenty detached buildings, all filled with goods of a most expensive description. The flames were first discovered by a market gardener, passing along the road for London, who at once gave an alarm, and it was then found that two timber buildings, two stories high, fifty feet long, and forty feet wide, were completely encircled in flames, and at that time there seemed every probability of the whole of the printing and embossing shops sharing a similar fate. The engine belonginc , to the /km was imme diately set to work from the river Wandle, but, notwith standing the powerful streams of water thrown upon and into the burning building, the flames continued to spread, when a mounted policeman started off to London, to call the fire-brigade engines. Mr. Henderson, the chief officer of the D district, started with one of his engines, and a powerful body of firemen, and went to work in an admir able manner. The works, fortunately, will not be stopped in consequence of the disaster. The origin unknown. The loss will fall upon the Phoenix Fire-office. THE WAR IN ITALY.—PUBLIC MEETING IN LEEDS.—A meeting of the inhabitants of Leeds, convened by requi sition to the Mayor, was held in the Civil-court of the Leeds Town-hall, on Wednesday afternoon, for the purpose of considering the propriety, in view of the impending European war, of addressing the Queen in advocacy of the principle of non-intervention, so far as this country was con cerned. The meeting was very numerously and influentially attended. Blvd. Barnes, Esq., M.P., rose to more the first resolution. It was as follows :—"That while the present state and prospects of European affairs are most grave and Alaiming, and call for the greatest watchfulness and the most careful provision for defence, yet it is alike the duty and 'the interest of this country to abide by the principle of non-intervention and to avoid all unnecessary complications with the affairs of other nations." In a' powerful speech, Mr. Baines contended that this war in -Italy was not one which either touched England's interest,. safety, or honour—reasons, in his opinion, quite sufficient of themselves to render any inter ference on our part unnecessary. Again, we could not synipathise with any ar - tug principles concerned in it. The resolution was 'seconcicd gey, Esq., and AIM. , imously carried. EXTRAORDINARY CASE OF SUPPOSED POISONING On Wednesday, Mr. Thomas Smethurst, a surgeon, 'residing ,at No. .10,' AIMS Villas, Richmond, was brought before Edward Penryhn, Esq., M.P., and a bench of magis trates, at the Richmond Police-court, charged with causinK the death of a female with whom he wa's living, by admi nistering poison, supposed to be arsenic, to her. The case has caused considerable excitement at Richmond, for tie last two days, owing to the supposed respectability of the parties, who have for nearly a month lived together as man and wife; at N 6. 10, Alma Villas, where they had apart ments. It appeared that the deceased was possessed of some property, which the prisoner was aware of, and some arrangement bad been desired .to be made for the dis posal of a portion. However, a short time ago she became ill, and wan attended. by Doctors Julian and Bird, of Richmond, who, achninistered the proper medicine for the disease from which she was suffering. All their attention and medicine acted quite contrary to the desired effect, and on Monday, she became so changed in appear ance that suspicion was, excited of foul play, and the police were called in. Mr. Inspector M'lntyre.,. V` division, attended the house, and from what lie saw andwas informed' of, he obtained a warrant against the prisoner, which was placed temporarily in the hand of John Jukes - , 195 V, who' was ordered to remain in the house until further orders.. The deceased expired in great 'agony on Tuesday morning, and it being the opinion of the medical gentlemen who attended her 'that she had been poisoned, the warrant was ordered to be put in execution, and the prisoner was apprehended, and taken before the magis trates in the course of the evening. The evacuations were sent up to Dr. Taylor in the morning, and that 'gen tleman detected a small portion of arsenic, so that the magistrates decided on remanding the prisoner until Wedne sday for further evidence to be gone into. On the case being called on, Mr. 3inns said he appeared for the prisoner. Dr. Taylor was called, and he said he had examined the matter sent up to him, and found a small portion of arsenic, but not sufficient to cause death. He had not, however, examined the contents of the stomach. Drs. Palmer and Martin, of Mortlake, proved making a post mortcns exam ination in the presence of Mr. Bird and Mr. Julian.. The contents of the stomach were sealed up, and in the possession of Dr. Taylor, of Guy's Hospital, for analysation. The brain was healthy, but the liver and stomach were much in flamed. The evidence of Dra. Julian and Bird was also taken ; and it being their opinion that the deceased met with an unfair death, the magistrates decided on remanding the prisoner, to give Dr. Taylor an opportunity of analysing the contents of the stomach. The prisoner was .then removed in custody, and conveyed to the countygaol in Hor.semonger lane. He is a man about 45 years of age, rather stout, swarthy complexion, with dark moustachios., He is a =flied man, but has parted with his wife some time, and he formerly practised as a surgeon in the conntry. Ile seemed to think rather lightly of the matter, although the utmost excitement prevailed all through Richmond and the neighbourhood. The prisoner and the deceased had only lodged at 10, Alma Villas, Richmond-hill, since the 15th of last month, when the latter was shortly afterwards taken ill. She was a single woman, and much respected. Letters from Paris sl 's the sufferings of the French have been terrilly severe.. Toops iu crossing the Alp; The Earl of Derby has offered the Bishopric of Bangor to the Rev. Richard Bonnor, vicar of Ruabon, near Wrexham. The election of the sixteen representative peers of Scot land will take place in the Palace of Holyrood, at Edinburgh, on Tuesday next. There are three vacancies to be filled up—those of the Earl of Seafield, Lords Elphin stone and Sinclair ; and the candidates are the Earls of Morton. and- Haddington and Lord Staltoun. To the election of these noble lords no opposition will be offered. UNEASINESS OF HIS HOLINESS THE POPE.—The Courrier de Marseille says that the report is again current that the Pope is likely to retire to Gaeta during the war between France and Austria, and it adds that " a member of the Sacred College, accompanied by two high ecclesiastical dig nitaries, has hastily left Rome for Paris. The Gazette du Midi also announces the departnre of these personages, and says that the object _of their mission is to pray the two Catholic Powers not to carry their conflict into the Pontifi cial territory. A MOTHER'S PROUD POSITION.—There are, perhaps, few ladies in England who have taken a deeper interest in the present elections than Mrs. Leatham, of Heath, near Wakefield ; a lady beloved by all who know her. To her is vouchsafed the enviable distinction of having two sons and a son-in-law returned as members of the House of Commons. Her eldest son, Mr. W. H. Leatbam, is re turned for Wakefield, his native place; her youngest son has been triumphantly returned for Huddersfield; and he son-in-law is one whom all the world owns and honours-- John Bright GENEALOGICAL AvEl HISTORICAL SOCIETY or GREAT BRITAIN. —The fourth council meeting of the present ses sion was held on Wednesday, when the Earl of Ellesmere, the president of the society, presided. Several interesting pedigrees and manuscripts .were laid 'on the table by the secretary, and after the business of the meeting was con cluded, the noble earl set a gratifying example of liberality, and invited the society to hold iti ensuing annual meeting at his lordship's town mansion, Bridgewater House, upon which occasion the noble owner will throw open the splen did galleries of paintings, and sculpture court, in which arc the : chefs d'ouvre of nearly every artist of celebrity. THE. FRANCO -SARDINIA.N ALLlANCE.—Considerable sen sation was created at Shields on the evening of Tuesday, when the outward-bound fleet were passing out to sea, in consequence of the Sardinian barque San Paolo, Revello, when under weigh, saluting the French brig of war. Aigle, in Owe harbour, by firing a salute, which of course was returned, and both ships, in compliment to the union of their national flags, dipped ensigns; during which the crews of the two respective ships apparently fraternised, by their animated .gestures on board their ships. There are only two Austrian ships in Shields harbour at present, and it is stated their commanders feel souie difficulty in obtain ing freights, in consequence of the war. Tun NEW BIFOTOP or BANOOR.—The Earl of Derby has offered the bishopric of Bangor, rendered vacant by the death of the Right Rev. Dr. Christopher Bethell, to the Rev. Richard Bonnor Maurice Bonnor, M.A., of Christ Church, Oxford, canon of St. Asaph, and vicar, of Ruabon, near Wrexham. The rev. gentleman gradua ted at Oxford in 1825, when he was second class in mathematics, and third class in classics. In 1827 he was ordained by the late Dr. Luxmoore, and, after serving some minor offices in the Church, he was presented by Dr. Carey, Bishop of St. Asaph, to the vicarge of Ruabon , which he has held up to the present time. The rev, gentleman is said to owe his elevation to the influence of Mr. Gladstone, whose brother-in-law, Sir Stephen Glynne, is Lord Lieutenant of Flintshire. MII4ISTERIAL DIFFICULTIES.--A clergyman in a mining village notlar from Riccarton, in the course of his pastoral visits, called at a domicile of a collier in his parish. In quiring at the woman he saw, and whom he presumed to be the \vife, if her husband was at home, she answered—" Deed na, sir, he's at his wark. " "Is your husband, my good woman, a communicant ? " "A communicant! He's naething o' the kind --- he's just a collier !" Astonished at the ignorance displayed, the clergyman could not avoid ejacu lating, " Oh, what darkness !" The collier's spouse, understanding the language literally, not figuratively, was also something astonished. "Darkness ! little ye ken o't ; had ye been here before we got that extra window in the gable, ye would scarcely hae been able to see your finger afore you." The pastor sighed; it was his first visitation of his flock, and their ignorance certainly demanded his prayers. " I must, my good woman, put up a petition for you here." " Petition ? petition !--bide: awee ; nae peti tions will be put up here sae lang as I am in the house ; but at the term we're gaun owre to Newbigging, and then ye may put up as mony o' them as ye like." MA.NNING THE NAVY.-- On Wednesday, the greatest excitement still prevailed at the east end of the metropolis, and the vicinity of the naval rendezvous, Tower-hill, was surrounded by hundreds of men and lads who were anions to join the service of her Majesty. A great num ber of able seamen were selected by the government officers as low as five feet ; but landsmen were not received 'under five feet five inches and a half. No lads have been taken into the service at present, but a day will soon be appointed to hear the applications of all boys and youths considered suitable for the naval service. The bounty money for those already duly appointed will not be paid until five weeks tabor they have passed the examination of the chief offi s cr: adw c A u t the government office s in Ratcliff-highway, , Wapping, Ratcliff, Limehouse, Blackwall, Deptford, and Greenwich, able seamen, landsmen, and a vast number of dock labourers who have been out of work for a consider able period, joined the Queen's service under the new to par th li e am s e e n v ta e g , regulations ; and many were taken on board the Crocodile, lying off the Tower, to undergo the usual train ing, and to receive instructions prior to being sent to Portsmouth, Ply mouth, and other places, for embarkation. About 500 p u r p oe b e y ede th d e agricultural labourers, from the counties of Essex, B or k. morning, Surrey, ca a m nd e • places at the East-end for enlistment, and many - shire,traks Sent, y d cesskl, while others were unable, from 1 were sue the number of applicants, to gain an interview. COURT Or EXCHEQUEIC--MAT 4 BEFORE THE LORD CHIEF BARON, NiR. EAEbt , .: NaRTIN, MR. BARON BRAM*ELL, AND MR. BARON CHANNELL. HICItIB AND ANOTHER v. RoDocAracur....--This was special case stated by consent for the opinion of the:court. The real question to be decided was whether the freight in a substituted ship passes or not. The action was brought tmondaerpyrttecyt. A of insurance agreementuranceaga was iilstthenetdeerefed into ndan etthcorwieelOn the Oa e s y o f t to T o n , ; e e r y e t ad r cc o ahh o sr asetrenorm, soldier master of a ship called the Sarah Sands and the East India Portsmouth o a u ss t e h ng to er Calcutta, cohyee a d t t a o nd he ha p l a f id th w at it s h u i mi n I f 4 or C th o e ni r p a a t e n onethe third i P p h of ad the hn w o h y o e. sailed ysum from Portsmouth, and the remaining two-thirds to be paid after the disembarkation of the troops at Calcutta. If the ship did not arrive at its destination within seventy days after sailing from Portsmouth (unless detained by the perils of the sea), the East India Company were to be entitled to deduct £3O for each day between the 70th day and the day of arrival. Before-the agreement was made, Messrs.. Walton end Son, as agents for the shipowner, insured the vessel, and machinery for £15,000, and the plaintiffs effected the pol4y upon which the present action was brought. Messrs. Walton and Son also effected two , policies on the chartered freight to India, On the 16th August, 185',1, the ship tock on board 14 officers and 355 men, with five women and five children, of her Majesty's. 61st Regiment, the military authorities refusing to send more on board,- although the vessel was fittedtto‘ tarry 504 passengers, and on tkat day the ship sailed. Walton and Son then rendered to the East India Company two accounts, by which ,they claimed £6,73 , 3 6s. Bd., being one-third of the sum for 504 troops, and i'3Bo, being two- thirds ,payable on behalf of the officers. The company disputed the amounts, and endorsed upon. the first £4,733 6s. Bd., deducting for 144, men short of the complement the ship ought to have carried, and after deducting £6O for six days' demurrage, they tendered the balance to the plain tiffs, which sum they , accepted' under protest. On the 11th of November,. when the vessel was about 700 miles to the north-west of the Mauritius, she caught fire, and the captain with the greatet difficulty - and danger succeeded in getting her back to the Mauritius, where the- troops were disembarked. It was found upon an attempt to , repair the damage that she would cost more money to do•so than she was worth, and the captain drew up a notice of the abandonment of her, and forwarded it to the plaintiffs, who accepted it. On the I 7th of February, 1858, the plaintiffs gave notice of abando.timent to the underwriters, who de clined accepting it, but ultimately some of them, including the defendant, did accept it. The captain then chartered a ship called the Clarendon, and forwarded the troops on to Calcutta, paying for freight £6,197 8s 4d, which sum was paid by the East India Company to the owners of that vesse l, and the amount deduct!d from the payments they had to make. After the troops had arrived in India the agents of the assured made a claim on freight,. and after certain deductions the claim wag paid and forwarded by a bill at four months. The case was very fully and elaborately argued by Mr. Bovill (with whom was Mr; F. M. White) for the plaintiffs, and Mr.-Colin Blackburn (with whom was Mr. Wilde) for the defendant. The Lord Chief Baron said that the Court would take time to consider their judgment, but he would take the present opportunity of saving, au opinion in, which all his learned brothers concurred, that it was seldom the Court had an opportunity of listening to such able arguments as they had heard from the learned counsel on both sides. AT GUILDHALL, BEIPORE MR. BARON WATSON AND A COMION. JURY. COPE AND OTHERS V. COREN.—The declaration in this case alleged that the defendant induced the servants of the plaintiffs, while under a written agreement with them, to leave their service and enter into that of the defendant. The second count charged the defendant with having harboured such servants, knowing that they were. under a written agreement with the plaintiffs. The defendant pleaded not guilty. Mr. O'Malley and Mr. Norman appeared for the plaintiffs, and Mr. Hawkins and Mr. Lewis were for the defendant. It appeared that the plaintiffs, Messrs. Cope and• Co., were cigar manufacturers, at Liverpool, and, the defendant, Elias Cohen, was also a cigar manufacturer, carrying on business in London. The case-on the part of the plaintiffs was that, in November, 1857, the defendant came down to Liverpool, and engaged two of the women whO were under written agreements with the plaintiffs to come up to Lon don and work for him ; the women having left their employs without notice, the plaintiffs sent a notice to the defendant, stating the fact of their being their servants, and calling upon him to discharge them under threat of leg-al proceed ings. The defendant did discharge them, but took them again into his service shortly after-wards. The plaintiffs had then brought the present action. At the the conclusion of the plaintiff's case, his Lordship said there was no proof that defendant had any wrong intention in engaging the women, who had represented to him that they were free. The charge of seducing them away from the : plaintiff's service entirely failed, but as ho had again taken them into his service after the plaintiffs' notice there might be something in the charge of his having.harbourcd them. Mr. Hawkins, for the defendant, stated that the plaintiffs had, refused to pay the women's expenses back to Liverpool, and is consequence they were unable to return. Under those circumstances the defendant considered himself justified in re-engaging them. Eventually a verdict was taken by consent for the plaintiffs, with ls. damages, each party to pay their own costs, the plaintiffs stating their belief that the defendant had been misled by the women. 110 W TO PRESERVE THE PEACE OF EUROPE. The aspect of the Continent Now fills us with alarms, When we behold Sardinia, Frazee, And Austria in arms. Not that we tremble for ourselves, Here in . otirhoine sea-girt; Yet still we would the scourge of war From other lands avert. ' The skilled u foreign polities Their brains are racking now Peace to preserve in Europe By all means, no matter how. A General Congress they propose, By means of which they trust The various points of difference To speedily adjust.• With all respect for such wise heads. I rather think I can Propose a much more simple • And a much less tedious plan. The self-same plan which I propose, When India rebelled,• Which plan was then adopted, And behold the mutiny quelled. Let every one who peace desired - To Kelly quickly hie, And him beseech each army With his butter to supply. On tasting which all thoughts of war Within each breast would cease, And every voice break forth in praise Of butter and of peace. And tellme, would each hostile host A whit more glory gain By struggling like " Kilkenny cats.' Till tails alone remain ? • The brilliant suggestion referred to appeared thus, in June. 1857 : " In re" - greased cartridges— " The Government should really send to Delhi, " Some Butter from the celebrated Kelly," And.wo all know - what followed. EDWARD KELLY AND OOMPANY, THE BUTTER PLACE, TOP OF WILLIAMSON-SQUARE, THE FRENCH CORN MARKETS. — The Echo Agricole says z —" For the last week the French corn markets have shown a decidedly upward tendency, and varions reasons are assigned for that movement. First, an active demand in. Belgium and England, which are now the principal customers of France ; purchases made for Marseilles and the south,; and lastly, the uncertainty of political situation. 'e set aside this last consideration altogether, as the war does not at present seem likely to have any great influence on the corn trade. The sea is open for exports and imports, and we see no gronn4 for antici pating any change in that respect. The agglom era ti m of armies takes place in a rich and fertile cpuntry, wh ere (*ation sup the harvest will soon be re ad y , andtill b tehuzents. It may; n r o. e vi b plies ample means of provisioning the however, be supposed that the purchases made by England are stimulated by apprehensions that great er poritical'com plications may ensue, and th a t th e present low prices have induced dealers in that country to iuzrease their stocks. Prices can scarcely become lower ,and besides the possi bility of a short ha rves t , there are' many causes that may produce a rise. The English imports of breadstuffs from the Black Sea and the United States, have been trifling for some weeks past. It is probabletherefore that the English. demand will c on ti nue in the French markets, and if so, prices will keep up. The rise in the south of France is owing to scanty arrivals at Marseilles, and the smallness of the stock in the hands of the farmer,, at a moment when the con sumption is greatly . increased by the presence of large bodies of troops. The demand for Algeria is another cause for the advance. The oorn trade has thus recovered from t its prolonged inactivity. In this movement we do notna.ttrih; bute much influence. to, th e demand for Portugal d existinc , high prices in Spain, which may perhapsopen the markets of the. peninsula to foreign corn, nor thouglt. )9 it .a t , o he flour cargoes shißed in Dunkirk and Rouen for e V_ t. „ these facts can to produce some trey