Northern Times. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-07-02 00:00:00

THE NORTHERN TIMES.--LIVERPOOL ) THURSDAY, JULY 2, 1857. AMERICA. IMPE RIAL PARLIAMENT. 13y British and Irish Magnetic Telegraph. HOUSE OF COMMONS, WEDNESDAY. The PPEARER took the chair at twelve o'clock. The Kinrosshire Railway Bill was read a third time, and passed. THE MEDICAL BILLS. Mr. HEADLAM moved the second reading of the Medical Profession No. 1 Bill. Mr. CRAWFORD moved that the bill be read a second time that day three months. His objection to the mea sure was upon the belief that it created elements of dis cord which did not at present exist, and he gave the pre ference to the bill of his noble friend, Lord Elcho, because it carefully regarded vested interests. He had allowed his name to be placed upon that measure because, without being open to the objections of Mr. Headlam's bill, it would carry out the required objects of reducing the fees of students, and facilitate the obtaining of licenses to prac tice in any part of the United Kingdom. Lord BURY proposed the amendment, the object of which was to throw out the bill of the member for Newcastle, and to substantiate that of the noble lord. must withdraw the bill, leaving the responsibility of the withdrawal in the , quarter in which such responsibility arises. Sir J. GRAHAM : I imagine that that decision applies also to the next bill the Birkenhead Docks' Management Bill. _ _ _ L. Mr. MmixwErrizit : Certainly. We withdraw both the Construction and Management Bills. Sir J. GRAHAM then directed the committee-room to be cleared, and on the re-admission of the public, at the expiration of an hour, Sir J. GRAHAM asked if the next bill—the Liverpool and Birkenhead Docks' Bill would be proceeded with ? Mr. JOHNSON said it would. He was perfectly pt.( pared to go on with it. Mr. MitaxwirritEa : The Corporation take no part in that bill. They have neither petitioned .for nor against it. Sir J. Gitankai : Do you take any part in the next bill—the Liverpool Town and Dock Bill ? Mr. 11.1enawErusa : Yes, we oppose it. The Birkenhead Docks' Construction Bill, and the Birkenhead Docks' Management Bill were then ordered by the Chairman to be withdrawn from the consideration of the committe e LIVERPOOL & BIRKENHEAD DOCKS' BILL. The Committee thenproceeded to consider this bill. Mr. Johnson appeared for the promoters, and Mr. Alexander, Q.C., opposed on behalf of the Liverpool Dock Trustees. Mr. JOHNSON, in opening the case of the promoters, stated that the object of the bill was to exempt vessels resorting to the docks in the County Palatine of Chester from the payment of certain dues. The preamble recited the several acts which had been passed—and they were very numerous—which had reference to the trustees of the Liverpool docks. The evidence already before the Committee, in the inquiry just concluded, would con siderably curtail the evidence which he should otherwise have had to offer. The evidence of Mr. Aspinall Turner would be that to which he should more particularly refer, as it applied more particularly to the case of the Braziliers, which he was especially anxious to lay before the Committee. In that case, the Committee would be already aware that the B”aziliera took in her cargo at Birkenhead and cleared out into the river, where she subsequently took on board a few parcels which had arrived late. The Dock Trustees thereupon levied a sum £45 53 3d. which had the effect of subjecting the vessel to the full rates, which would have been charged if she ha] used the Liverpool docks instead of those at Birken head. Several other cases would also be heard before the committee—among others those of the Sarah Sands, and of the Sir Harry Smith. The great grievance complained of was the prohibition which was placed upon vessels which would otherwise use the Birkenhead Dock, vie., the incubus of having to pay the full Liverpool Dock rates if she happened to take a package on board within the stream of the Mersey. The question which would naturally ccsur to the committee in the first instance was, whether such a power really existed, and whether the legislature had ever sanctioned its exercise by the trustees of the Liverpool Docks. He con tended that in reality the legislature gave no such power, aid that the right claimed by the trustees rested on no satisfactory bssis. But, considering that it had been exercised for so long a period, he should have considerable difficulty in recommending any t f the vessels frequenting the port to contest it in a court of law, and he therefore believed that the promoters, in introducing the present bill, had taken the best course to resist the charge. Ac cording to the view of the trustees, if any vessel, after leaving the Birkenhead decks. took on board a single parcel, she rendered herself liable to the payment of the full dues levied by the trustees upon vessels loading in the Liverpool docks, The promoters now asked the committee to relieve them from this serious imposition, which was most unjust and unfair, and placed the docks at Birkenhead at a (serious disadvantage. He did not appear as the rep,esen t-tive of persons interested in the docks transferred by the act of 1855, but on behalf of Mr. Laird, and gentlemen who had decks of their own at Birkenhead, and who found that by the exercise of the right claimed by the Dock Trustees operated as a serious drawback upon the trade of Birkenhead. Various efforts had been made to carry out the ele]ecta now sought for in the present bill since 1844, but by some unfortunate circumstances, they had never been brought to a satisfactory issue. The learned counsel contended that the time had arrived for the interference of parliament to prevent the Liverpoool dsck interest from destroying that on the opposite side of the Mersey, and quoted a report of the Board of Trade in support of the views of the promoters of the bill. The Board expressed in their report a strong opinion that the power now exer cised by the Liverpool Dock Trustees, in reference to the loading of vessels from the Birkenhead Docks, should be eb lished. All that the promoters asked was, that vessels which used the Birkerhead &aka should not be liable to the Liverpool Dock Rates, when they simply need the stream of the Mersey, and aid not avail themselves of the accommodation which the Liverpool docks afforded. They had no desire to oatain any undue advantage over other vessels frequenting the port ; but, on the contrary, they were perfectly ready to contribute to the buoyage, lights, landmarks, telegraphs, and other harbour improve ments which conferred the slightest degree of benefit upon HOUSE OF COMMONS, WEDNESDAY, JULY 1. the shipping. The general feeling in Liverpool and Birk enhead upon the question was, that Parleiment ought to The Select Committee re-assembled this morning, at step in and remove an unjust burden. The Corporation of twelve o'clock, Sir JAMits GRAHAM in the chair. Liverpool were not unfavourable to the bill, and he Sir JA3IEB GRAHAM said the committee were prepared to believed that the Deck Trustees were not unanimous in hear at once the decision of the Liverpool Corporation. opposing it. Mr. MEREWETHER :In our most earnest desire to pro- Mr. Joine LAIRD was then examined. He said he was ceed with the Birkenhead Docks Construction Bill, we have the principal p °motor of the bat though the benefit employed the time which the committee were kind enough which would accrue from it would be partici to give us, in full consideration of the position in which pated in by other individuals in Birkenhead. Was affairs are now placed, and that consideration has been an extensive shipbuilder at Birkenhead, and had also applied to the solution of two difficulties. In the first a t wen ty-five years' lease of the Graving-docks from Place, I understood the committee to express their deter- th e Liverpool Corporation. At the present moment mination not to depart in the slightest degree from the be was in pessession of four docks which were capable of Principle of the decision arrived at the other day; and, in a ff o rding accommodation to. vessels of very large tonnage the second place, the gentlemen whom I represent are In point of fact he bad a greater depth of water in his equally firm in the resolve not to do anything which docks than in sny graving-dock in Liverpool. The docks might be tortured by their opponents into the most remote were opened in August last and soon afterwards a vessel acquiescence in the principle of that decision. We have from New York, the Edinburgh, a vessel of 2000 tons endeavoured to consider every alternative by which these burden, was docked there. 'The total charge for docking difficulties might be solved. We thought it might be the vessel was £4O, and if the Dock Committee had levied possible, and not inconsistent with your decision, their rates as well, an additional charge amounting to £4O to refer to the legislation of 1835, in which a or £5O would have been imposed. The owners of the power was given to she Corporation to give certain vessel wsre prepared to back witness in resisting the thinge with a fixed contemplation of their having charge if the Deck Trustees had attemp-ed to levy it. The to transfer them ultimately to others. We have also con- Dock Committee, however, made no charge, and witnesses sidered that out of the bill should be etruik the naming of thin wrote to des mon the 2nd of October last, inquiring any operating hand, so that the bill m i g ht p resen t itself whether the Edinburgh was to be considered an exceptional neither in conflict with the views of the committee, nor as case, and intimating his readiness to psy for lights, buoys, a waver of our own. But we find, from those who are or any other charge from which the shipping derived competent to advise us upon the subject, that by the forms advantage, but to contest the right of the trustees to charge of the other h ouse of par li am ent, a bill s o f r amed could not dock dues for vessels which did not use the Liverpool docks. pass through the standing orders, because, when the bill He re c e i v ed a letter in reply from Mr. North, the solicitor arrived at t h e House of L or d s , t h e p rom oters would have to the trustees, wile said that all ships loading or discharg to make a decla-ation of the source from whence the fuel's ing in the stream of the Mersey was liable to the payment are to be supplied, and by whom they are to be supplied of dock rates, and he could not recommend the trustees to The consequence would be, that a bill framed as we intended forego their right to levy them. The object of the present to suggest could not pass the House of Lords, or, if it did. bill was to declare, in definite terms, that the trustees had would return to the Rouse of Commons with provisions at no right to levy a tax which hal the effect of discouraging variance with the bill as it parsed this committee. 'There shipping from entering the docks at Birkenhead. In the was, however,_ a further alternative—that the bill might case of the Edinburgh, the charge for docking at Birken- Among other facts to show the failure of the be a clause head amounted to £4O, but if the vessel had had a cargo of pass as framed at present, but that there should attempt, supported as it was by the connivance of inserted at the end binding the transfers of the works at iron or any other article, and Ithtened a portion in the the Government at Washington, to crush out the some given date, to the parties who should represent the stream, she would have rendered herself liable to the full Free -State overning body; but when we came to refer to the bill, we Liverpool dock rates, which sum would have amounted w spirit 0 f K ansas, we must me ntion the fund that by the money clauses which it contained, it was more than the entire charge for docking at Birkenhead. A. following :—The Lawrence Herald of Freedom, imperative upon the Corporation to raise the money, and few weeks ago, the Khersonese from North America, ar- Which was destroyed a year ago as a nuisance, and that, too , upon the security of the borough fund. Of course rived in the Mersey on a Friday evening, and was docked Whose editor was imprisoned four months for tree- the committee will understand that, on making this disco- in witness's docks on the following morning. She there Son, for daring to publish a free and independent very, an insurmountable difficulty was created to the pro- discharged her cargo, and was hauled into the stream newspaper, now boasts of a circulation of 8,000 secution of the bill in that shape, because elihough the within a week. She took her coals on board In the stream Copies. It comes to us printed on a steam power- proposi ti o n mi g ht be that there should be an execution by and was, in consequence, compelled to pay the full dock press—the only one, we wou ld venture to say, the Corporation of the works, and the payment during that rates of" he Liver') )01 Dock Trustees, notwithstanding thet west of the Missisippi, save at St. Louis, which is execution b y them, they being bound to transfer at the she had never ente,ecl the Liverpool docks. But for the also a Free Labour City. A complete' job and first cost on payment of interest, you will readily see that accommodation afforded by the Birkenhead docks, the office and bindery are attached, the whole book another insurmountable obstacle was created. We believe ve ssel would have been in docks at Liverpool for recently renewed at a establishment having been that, as far as in us lies, we have contemplated four or five weeks unable to get away. It cost of 8,000 dols. the various modes by which, under present circum- the Brazilliera were to be charged the full Liverpool A contract has just been entered into for the stances, the bill might be proceeded with; d u es every time she used the Birkenhead docks, she would but in the interval which the committee were be compelled to pay from £5OO to £6OO a year for acro completion st on the Ist of November next of a bridge kind enough to give us we have also had an oppirtunity of accommodation which she never received. In the case of of 70,000 dols. Kansas River at Tecumseh, for the sum entirely consid e ri ng the ' full e ff ec t o f w hat fell from the t h e Sarah Sands, that vessel arrived in the Mersey from be erected, dols. Two piers and three arches are to right hon. chairman of the Committee, which, though Portland on the 25th March, 1854, and after discharging i gh tv a t t e d wither mark. , the latter to be 40 feet above ordinary expressed i n t erms p er f ect l y c l ear , was c ot quite so clear her cargo into four fiats in tit river, went into the Birken alongThis town, it will be recollected, to us at the moment. [Th e learned counsel here read an head docke, -where she unleaded ihe verneander of the cargo, has recentlya u almost all the other towns in Kansas, extract from the sho r th an d wr i ter ' s notes o f th e proceed- and reloaded her outward cargo. She sailed for Po rtland and capital. ecumbed to Free-State influence jogs yesterday, containing the stat e me n t of Sir J. Graham, on the 30th March, and stuck fast in the Wood side basin that the Committee would upon no account alter the deci- coming out. She was charged, and paid for dock dues as Messrs. Tott en and G fine kiln of 168,000 brickreen are .just burning a v sion to which they had arrived in reference to the Conser- follows :—Livereool dock dues on 931 tons, at is 4ael per the Free-State Hotel, to 81; already contracted for ancy Bill, by agreeing to provisions in an , thee bill which ton, £6l Os ii, although. she never entered a Liverpool contravened that decision.] I must admit that at the dock : Birkenhead dock dues on 031 tons, at is per ton, on the site of the one e erect e d at Lawrence, time I did not feel the full force of the observations £46 IL In 1851 the Sir Harry Smith unloaded a portion Sheriff" Jones and his burnt last summer by which fell from the right honourable chairman. But of her cargo in the Mersey, and paid £5B Se 6, the full posse. The new town Quindaro, which as the port and harbour for may be regarded .at the present moment the question is one of time, new vessel, built in Liverpool, where she coaled Missouri, though founded only Lawrence on the and viewing the prospects of the bill passing through and swung compasses, proceeded to the Bit.- - month since, some three or four the Committee in time for the. House of Lords, kenhead docks, loaded, and sailed for Portland s has a free school, a Free St did that practically ce not only by paper, and connection with Lawrence not sate news- w© a it would be impossiblefor the bill on the 2nd March, 18.4. She paid for Liverpool Paper, - to pass through parliament this session. I have now eau• dock dues on 811 tons at 9d per ton, £3O 10a 6d, and for a line of light draught boats running up and down t he Kansas, but by road, with good didly avowed to the committee what has passed in our Birkenhead (lock dues on the same cargo, only £2O is. brLd substanti a l minds. We believe, at the same time, that the plan which He did not think that at the present moment any incon the ges across all streams. 'we propose is the best that could be carried into execution, veuience 'arose from loading or - unloading in the former. e There. are undeniable marks that the Free -State ' both for Liverpool and Birkenhead—and we are honestly If any inconvenience did arise, the Corporation of Liver "aPsthit still lives. One does not read of such doing 1 desirous of going on with it ; but we find that the circum- pool would have power under their act of 1855 to regulate cu ese in any Slave State, whether Slave State i embr . Stances of the case, and the decision of the committee the ',corking of the Mersey. Had not been p a party to any yo or Slave State in fact. a , upon the Conservancy Bill, present such insurmountable difficulties that, however reluctantly upon our parts, we 4 ma Sense which would prevent him from promoting this gill, but on the contrary he had endeavoured, on more Col. SYKES concurred in the principle of the two bills, which he understood to be to provide for a perfect system of education, and to extend the liberty of practising to the whole of the United Kingdom. There were some points which he approved of in each of the bills, but he must op pose the measure proposed by Lord Elcho, on account of the nomination by the Crown provided by it. Mr. DBASY here appeared at the bar, and stated that in consequence of the illness of the Duke of Marlborough, the Marquis of Blandford had been absent from the Cam bridge committee, and since that information had reached him, he had heard from the noble lord that his father was dead. For this he moved that the noble lord should be discharged from further attendance upon the committee. The motion was agreed to. The debste on the Medical Profession Bill was then resumed. Colonel FRENCH wished to know what course Lord Elcho intended to pursue, that they might know what they were about. ➢lr. W. EwanT, notwithstanding the allurements of a representative assistant, gave his support to Lord Etchls bill, as the more suitabi-. Mr. HATCHELL supported the bill before the House. Mr. A. BLACK approved of the details of both measures, but thought Lord Elcho's bill a better stock than Mr. Headlame, upon which to graft the best provision of the other. Mr. GROGAN preferred no one as a stock bill to No. 3, and after eulogising the medical profession in Ireland, stated that its approbation was unanimemly given to Mr. Headlam's measure. Mr. VANCE opposed Lord Echo's bill, on the ground that it violated existing rights. Mr. Thomas DUNCOMBE was opposed to state physic, and gave his vote against both measures. Mr. BLAKE supported the measure proposed by Lord Eleho and Mr. Brisco. _ Mr. BRI6CO supported the bill before the House. Lord ELCHO defended his bill. He stated that both measures had the slime object in view, but he claimed support for his upon the ground, that it did not give a monopoly to Corporations ; and in support of his proposi tion he quoted the opinions expressed by a Corporation in Dublin,—by the Edinburgh College of Physicians—by the British Medical Association, and by the medical men of Jersey. Mr. NArrna supported the principles of Mr. Headlam's bill, which met with the approval of his conseuents. Mr. Cowrim preferred the bill of Lord Elcho's to the measure before tie House. Mr. HEADL AM replied, and the House divided, For the second reading, 225 Against it, 78 Majority, 147. The Christchurch, West Hartlepool, Bill was read a third time and passed. ROCHDALE ELECTION. Sir J. Y. Btrum reported from the Rochdale Election Committee that Sir A. Ramsey was duly elected to serve in parliament for the borough of Rochdale. The House adjourned at five minutes to six. THE BIRKENHEAD DOCKS COL STIWC HON BILL. (FROM OUR OWN REPORTER.) than one occasion, to obtain the insertion of clauses to remedy the evils of which he now complained: To Mr. ALEXANDER : The ':dinburgh did not. load or unload any portion of her cargo in the stream. I was not aware that a ship subsequently entering the Liverpool docks might discharge a portion of her cargo in the stream within a reasonable distance of the docks of Liverpool without being charged with deck dues. The Khersonese did not discharge any portion of = her cargo in the river. It was all landed at my graving -dock, but her outward cargo was taken in in the stream, and she paid dock rates for it. _ At four o'cloek the Committee adjourned till Thursday. TH BALLOT. HOUSE OF COMMONS—WEDNEaDAY, JUNE 30. DIVISION. Mo . ion made and Question put, " That leave be given to bring in •, Bill to cause the Votes of the Parliamentary Electors of Great Britain and ire!and to be taken by way of Ballot "—(Dir. Henry Berkeley.) Ihe Home divided—Ayes, 189 ; Noes, 257. MINORITY—AYES. p Adair, II II Fortescue, C S O'Flaherty, A Alcoek. T Gilpin, C Ogilvy, -Ir 1 Anders an, Sir-3 Glyn, G C ()Aherne, R Atherton, W G Jderich, Viscount ' Paget, C Ayrton, A S Grace, 0 D J Paget, Lord A Barfp.rd, T Greene, J _ Paget. Lord C Baxter, W E. Greer, S M'Cnrdy Pcchell, Sir G B Beale, S Greg:on 9 Perry, Si• 'I E Beamish, I B Greaten, C W Rhilips, R N Berkeley, V WY . Greville, Col F Pigott, F Bethel, Sir - II Ilackblock, W Pllking on, J Biddulph, R'" Hadfield, 0 Platt, J• Biggs, J - Hall, Right Hon Sir R Price, W P Black, A Haskey, T Ramsden, Sir J W Blake, J Hammer, Sir J Rebow, J G Bland, L H Hardcastle, J A Ricardo, J L. Bonham Carter, 3: Harris, J D Ricardo, 0 Bonverle, lit ILI E P . Hastie, A R dley, G Bowyer, G Hat. hell, J Robartes, T J A Brady, J Henchy, D O'C Roebuck, J A Buchanan, W Ho gson, K D Roupell, W Bury, Viscount Holland,E Russell, Sir W Butler, C S foreman, Rt Hon E Sal . sbary,.E G. , Caird: J Butt W Schneider, H W Calcntr, F Br Ingram, H Scholefield, W Campbell, It J It Keat ng, Sir H S Scrope,:.G P• Clay, J Kershaw, J Smith, J-A Clifford, C C King, Hoe P J L Smith, J B Clifford, H IS Kinglike, A \V Smith, A C:ive, G Kingiake, J A Somerville, Rt Hon Cobbett, .7 H Kinnaird, Hon A F Sir W M. Cogan, W El F Kirk, W Stanley, Hon W 0 I lollier, It P Lairrstonf J H ^ Slit,deton, J Coningham, W Langton, H J Stuart, Lord J Cony ngham, Lord Ft Laslett, W Stuart, Colonel Copeland,. W 'l' Lind: ay, W S Sullivan, 51 Corbaliy, Id E Locke, J Sykes, Colonel W IL owan, 0 liacarthy, A Talbot, C K H Cox, W KicEvoy, E Tancreed, H W Cranfurd, E H J AP C ullagh , W T Thomdson, General Crawford, R W Megan, W H 'I hoinely, T Crook, J Maguire, J rr Tite, W Crossley, F Mangles, R 13 To lemache, Hen F J Dalglish, R Mangles, C E Townsend, J Dashwood, Sir G H Marjoiibanks, D C Trelawny, Sir J S Davie, Sir H R N Martin, P W Tynto, Col K Peasy,. Et Marlin, J Villiers, Rt Hon C P Do:.ison, Hon WII F Massey, W N Vivian, H H De Vere, S E 1 . ..1 erry, J Vivian, Hon J C W Devereux, J T Mals, T Waldron, I. D.llwyn, L L Mitchell T A Watkin, E W Divett, E Moffat,, G Watkin , , Col L Duke, Sir J Monsell, Rt Hon W Wezuelin, Tld Dane in, Viscount aloole, G II Whitbread, S Dancombe, T Morris, D White, J Ellice, E Muli,:rave, Earl of Willco,, B Nl`Ghie E.ton, Sir A H Napier, Sir C Williams, W Esmonde J Neato, C Willyams, E W B Evans, Sir De L N i c oll, C Woods, H E wart, W Norrep, Sir D J Wyld, J l':wart, J C Norris J. T. Fon yi.k, H o'Bilen, P Ftzgerald,Rt Hn 3 D O'Brien, J Foley, El J W O'Connell, Capt D Fors er, C O'Donaghoe, l' MAJORITY.—NOES. Tellers. Berkeley, IL Shelley, Sir J Adderley, C B Fitzwilliam, Hon G W Mowbray, JII Akroyd, E Foljombe el J B Naas, Lord Althorp, V scoent Forde, Colonel Napier, itt Hon J annesley, Hon. H Forester, Rt lion Col Newark, Viscount Archdall, Captain H Forster, Sir G Newdegate, C N Baillie, El J Foster, W 0 Newport, Viscount Ball, E Gallwey, Sir W P Noel, Hon J C Baring, Rt Hu Sir F T Gard, R S North, Colonel Baring, T Gaske 1, J Si Owen, Sir J Baring, Hon F Gilpin, Colonel Pakenham, Colonel Bernard, T T Glover, E A Pall, L Barrow, W H Glyn, 0 G Palmer, R Bathurst, A A Goddard, A L Paull, H Beach, W W B Grooves, E Feel, General Beaumont, W B Greened, G Pennant, Hca Col Beecroft, G S Gregory, W II Peveusy, Viscount Bentinek, 0W P Gray, Captain Portman, H on WH B ffere,ford, Rt fin W Griffith, C D Powell, F S Blackburn, P Grogan, E Pritchard, J Biakemore, TW B Grosvenor, Earl Pugh, 1) Boldero, Colonel Gordon, H Puller, C W Booth, Sir R G Gurney, J H Ramsay, Sy A Botfield, B Haddo, Lord Robertson, P F Bovil', W liamiltim, Lord C Rolt, J Boyd, J Hamilton, G A Rushout, G Bramlcy-Moore, J Hamilton, J H Russell, Lord J Brown, J Handley , J Russell, li Bruce, Lo d E Hayes, sir E Russell, F W Buller, "ir i V Hayter, Rt Hon W G Sandon, Viscount Bunbury, WB WC Heatlrote, Sir W &later, G Burgialey, Lord Heathcote, Hon G H Scott, Captain E Burke, Sir T J Beneage, G F Saymer, II K Barrel, Sir T M Henley, Rt Hon J W Sheridan, H B Buxton, Sir E N Henniker, Lord Sibthorp, Major Cairns, H Mc Herbert, H A S,Dith, AI I' Calcr.ft, J H Herbert, Itt Hon S Smith, Rt Hon R V Carden, Sr It W Ilildyard, R C Smith, Sir F Cameo, Sir J R Hodgson. W N Smyth, Colonel Cavendish, Lord Holtord, It s Smollett, A Cavendish, Hon C C Hope, AJ B B Spooner, It Cavendish, Hon G Hopwood, J T Stafford, A Cayley, E S Horsfall, T B St ff trd, Mai•enis of Ce il, Lord R Holborn, Lord Stanholie, J B Child, S H iward, Hon CW G Steel, J Christy, S Hudson, G Steuart, A Clark, J J Hun , e , VW F Stewart, Sir DI 11 S Clinton, Lord R Ingestre, Viscount Sturt, II G Clive, Hon It W Jermyn, Earl start, C N Cloiie, 11 C Jervoise, Sir J C Taylor, Colonel Codrington, Sir W Johnstone, Hon H B Tempest, Lori A V Codrington, John Johnstone, JJ II Toliemache, J Colebrooke, Sir T E Joliffe, Sir WG II Tomline, G Collins, T Joliffe, H H Trefusia, Hn C H It Colville, C R Kend s I , N Trollope, lit lin Sir J Cooper, E J Kerrison• Sir E C Vance, J Cowper, Rt Hon W F King, J K Vane, Lord H Coote, Sir C H King, E B Vansittart, G II Corry, Rt Hon Ii L Knight, F W vansiita.it. IV Cotterell, Sir II G Knightley, It Verner, Sir W Dainer, L D Knox, Ho i W S Verney, Sir H Davison, R Labouni ere, lit Hall Wad iington, ti S Denise', E Lennox, Lard A F Walcott, Admiral Disraeli, lit Hon B Leslie, C P Walsh, Sir J [Cod, J W i ewis, Et fin Sir G C Warburton, 0 D Du cane, C Liddell, Hon !I G Warre, J A buff, G s Lincoln, Earl of Warren, S Dunbar, Sir W Lisburne, Earl of Welby, IV E Halides, G Lockhart, A E White, H Dunlop, A 111 Lopes, Sir II Whitmore, H Du Pre, C G Lowe, Eig•,t Hon R Willoughby, J P Dutton, Hon R II L Jwther, lion C Wise, J A East, Sir J B Lygon, Hon F Wood, Rt Hon Sir C Egert)n, W'F L ton, Sir GE L B Woodd, Bl` Egerton, E C Macartney, 0 Worsley, Lord Elcho, Lord Macaulay, K Wrigi tson, \ 7 T B Ellis, lion L A Mackie, J Windham, General r imley, Viscount 11PClintock, J Wyndham, General E.ptainstone, Sir J Mainwaring, T Wyndham, li Ennis, J Matins, 11, Wyndham, \V Estcourt, T H S Manners, Lord J Wynn, Colonel Euston, Earl of Marsh, M H Wynne, W NV E Farnham, E B lliatheson, A York, Hon E I' Farqnhar, Sir II Matheson, Sir J. Ferguson, Sir it Miller, T J Finlay, A 5 Miller, S B Fitzgerald, IV R S Mils, A Fiizwilliam, lion C Milton, Viscount VT W • Morgan, 0 Tellers. Grey, It W Galway, Viscount PAIRS. FOIL AGAINST. rheetham, John .. •• • , „Palmerston, Viscount Brown, William ...... ....... .... The- iger, Sr F Turner, J. A.... • • • • • • Pryi:e, E L Westhead, J P Bass, Michael Hanbnry, R Grosveror, Lord Robert, Buxton, Charles ........... Cross, B A 51`Mahon, P Freestun, C010ne1.... .............Bailey, sir J M`Cann, James . Hardy, G Dunne .. Levinge, Sir R...... North, Frederick.. .. • Fagan, Willi km .... .. • Garnett, W J 1 Fergus, John .. Bridges, Sir B Ferguson, Colonel .... .,.. —Hill, Lord E Shafto, a D Grenfell, C P ....... Jacks ,n William .. Locke, Joseph .. .. Bailey, Crairshay Jones, David Sheridan, it .. ... .. ... ..Repton, George W Byng, George Wickham, H ...................Thornhill Win Lord Henry Lennox and Mr. Chirlosworth were accidentally shut out, and tla.2reby prevented from voting against Mr. Berkeley's motion on the ballot. Lord Ashley was also shat out; he intended to vote against the ballot. ____.....-- A return moved for by Mr. Thomas Baring, gives the name, owners, date of build, port, length, breadth, ton nage, and horse-power of every steam vessel registered in the United Kingdom up to the let of January last. The total number is 1,669, and the tonnag , ?, exclusive of engine room, is 333,598. PAOJECTED MEWING or TDB SOVEREIGNS OF AUSTRIA AND Patis3ix.—" We learn that the Emperor Francis Joseph," says a letter from Vienna, in the German Journal of Frankfor/, " will proceed to Toplitz at the commencement of July, to visit the King of Prussia, with whom he will remain two or three days. Count de Buol and M. de Manteuffel will accompany their sovereigns, and important political questions will in all probability be dis cussed." A KING AMONG SerioLAns.—The Academia della Cruses, Florence, held an extraordinary sitting on the 14th, to celebrate the arrival of its correspondent, the King of Saxony. His Majesty honoured the sitting with his presence, in company with the Grand Duke and the here ditary irince of Tuscany. The President, in an appro priate address, did justic e to the King's metrical translation of Dante, and to the Grand Duke for his splendid edition of the poems of Cosmo the Mag,nificent t of the works of the great Galileo. and the arranging GLASGOW' POISONING CASE TRIAL OF MISSIYII SMITH FOR MURDER; On Taesday morning, theta Hight Court of Justiciary at Edinaurgh met o try Miss Madeline :Smith on the charge of the murder of Emile L'Angeller, a young foreigner, her acknowledged lover. On the bench were the Lord Justice Clerk, Lord Handysida, and Lord Ivory. The Lord Aevocate, . the Solicitor-General, Mr. Donald M'Kenzie, advocate depute, and Mr. Hector, advocate depute, con ducted the prosecution on the part of the crown. The Dean of. Faculty, Mr. George Young e and Mr. A. Moncrieff appeared to defend the prisoner. As Boon as thadoors were opened, the various galleries and other parts of the court were quickly filled by the eager crowd, who for some hours previous.had been waiting outside. There were only, however, some half-a-dozen lailies in court. The prisoner, accompanied by her waiting maid, and guarded by two constables ; was placed in the dock. She wore a brown silk gown, a black silk cloak, and a straw bonnet with-white ribbons and a black silk veil, and maintained a very composed demeanour. The indictment was then read. It concluded by stating that the prison.r'a declaration on the 31st March, before Sheriff Smith, along with other documents, letters, likenesses, arc., would be umd in evidence against her. The charge having been stated by the Lord Justice Clerk to the prisoner, she plead in answer to it, in a. low but firm and clear voice, "Not guilty." The jury was then impannelled. Mr. Archibald amith, examined by the Solcitor-General—l am ens of the sheriff substitutes of Lanarkshire. I know the prisoner. She was judicially examined before me on this charge. Shown. a declaration dated 31st March, 1E67. This is the declarationeef the prisoner. The declaration bears that certain letters and envelopes were shown to her. George Grey, clerk in the sheriff-clerk's oboe, Glasgow, was present when the declaration was made by the :prisoner. Ann Dathie or Jenkins, residing in 11, 1 , ranklin-place, Glasgow, was examined by the Lord , Advocate—l am the wife of David Jenkins, and reside at 11, Franklin-place, Glasgow. I knew tae late Emile L'Angelier, He lodged in my house. He came about the end of July, and remained in my house until his death. He was a civil man, and sometimes went oat at night, though not often. He was in good health in general, until about the end of January. I recollect his being ill somewhere a!-out the middle of February. That wag the first serious illness he had. He had an illness afterwards, but I cannot remernbor a hen it was. He came home badly one night. I had gone to bed, and did not hear him come in. His door was locked, as far as I can remem ber, when I first went to it. i knocked, bu , i did not gee any answer the first thee. I knocked ;Tatra and he said, "C me in, if you please." I then went in, and found bairn very unwe'l ; and he said, " Look atwhat I have vomited.'' I said. " I think that is bile." It was of a greenish colour. There was a great deal of it, and it was about the thickness of gruel. I said', Wily did you net call on me ?" He said, "On the road coming home I was seized with a violent pain in my bowels and stomach, and when I was taking off my clothes I lay dawn on the carpet, and thought I would have died. I was not able to ring the bell. If y.'u please to make me a little tea; I don't think I w ill go out." He then went to sleep, and slept about an hour, tint' nine o'clock. When he awoke, he said he was batter, and would go out. He hid got some tea by this tine. Mr. Tanen, another lodger, had also seen him. I think it we; betwixt tan lama eleven o'clock —I can't exactly say—when he went out ; he said he was going to his place of business, but was going to call on some lady on his road. He returned about three in the afternoon, and nai i he had been at the doctor's and got a bottle. He complained of being very thirsty, but I did not hear him complain of auy paia except in his bowels. At three o'clock he still complained of being thirsty, but nut so much as in the morning. He took the medicine. This illness made a great change on his appearance. He looked ye low and dull, and not what he used to be. He complained of cold after he came in that day. He lay down on the sofa when he came in, and I put a railway rug over him. He never was the same afterwards. He got a Halt better, and when I asked him how he felt, he said, "I don't feel well." I have nothing about me which could make me remember the date of the first illness. I think it was about the 22nd of February. It was upon a Monday morning about four o'clock that he called upon me. 1 found him vomiting the SAME:sort of stuff as he had vomited bolero. I think it was of the aims colour and hind; but there was not quite so much of it. He complained of pains is hie boweis and stomach, and thirst. and said he was very cold. I was not aware that he had been, out the night before, and he did not telt me he had been. I put more blan kets upon him, and bottles of hot water to his feet and stomach, and game him a great many drinks of toast and water,. and lemon and water. I left him after he got a little betel'. He staid in bed till the forenoon whea the doctor a came, but. I don't remember the hour. He saw L'Angelier, and wrote oat a pre scription for a powder. I sent for, and got them. Oa this occasion he remained eight days ill. I remember L'Angelier taking one or two of these powders. He said he did not think, they were doing him the good he expected. M. L'Augelier was in the habit of receiving a great many letters; but I thought they were in a gentleman's handwriting. A groat many were in the same hand. The envelopes were sometimes yellow, and, I thi..k, also white. Shown an envelope marked 87,—Tnat is the hind writing. Shown an envelope marked 97—That is like the yellow envelopes which c one, and I think it is the same handwriting; but I am not so sure of the writing. He never told me who these letters were from. Remembered seeing a photograph of a lady lying about his chambers. Shown No. 179, a ehetograpb, and ideatlaed it. I asked him, "Is that your intended, sit ? " He said, " Perhaps some day." I never thought the letters were from a lady. M. L'Angelier never said anything to me about taking in the letters. I always took them in. M. L'Augelier told ma he intended to, be, married. About the end of September he wished a dining-room and bedmom. Ha told me he was going to get married about the end of Dive!), and ho would like if I would take him in. I did not agree to do so. One time, when he was badly, I said, "It will b 3 a bad thing i; you are badly, and you going to get married." And he said, " You'll not see that for a log time." When he came home on the 17th March, he milted if I hal got any latter? I said, " H • seamed to 'expo A to have found a letter, and seemed disappointed at no. finding it. He came on the 17th, stopped over the 18th, and went away on tee 19th Before he went away he ordered any letters that ama to be given to Mr. Thuan to address them. lie said he was going to the Bridge of Allan. He went away about ten o'clock on the 19th. A letter came for him on that day. it was like the same letters that we,e in the habit of coming. I gave it to Mr. Thuan to address it. I don't re member of any letter coming on Friday. One came on the Saturday. It was more like a lady's hand. When L'A.ogeller wreit away, he said he would not be horns till Wednesday night or Timr,d ay next wee'l, Ho said he was ping to the Bridge of Allan. I don't know whether he went anywhere else first. Shown two envelopes, Nes. 137 and 14A —No. 137 is like the one which canto on Saturday ; the other I did not notice so much. I nest saw 51. L'Angethr oa the night of the Sabbath following, about eight o'clock. Was surprised to sea him so soon. I asked him why he had come so soon? He saA, " Ihe letter you sant brought ma_ home. When did it come ? " I said it came on Saturday afternoon. He told me he had walked 15 mites, bu t did not say where he had come from. I understood he had been at the Bridge of Allan. He said he intended to go back to the Bridge of Allan early next morning, and desired me to call him. He we ut out that night. I thin,lz it was about nine o'clock. lie said before lie went, " If you please for the pass - key , I am not sure, but I m a y be late." He told me to call him early in the morning, to go by, the first train. He did not say what hour. The naxt time I saw him was about half-past t o'clock on slonday morning. He did not use the pass-key The bell rung with great vie once. I rose out of bed , and called ou.t, " Who's there ?" He said, "It is I ; open the door, if you please' When I opened the door, he was standing w;th his arms crossed over his stomach. He said, "I am very ill. I am going to have another vomiting of that bile." He went on saying, "I, was so ill on th e road." He did not say whether it was pain, or that he had been vomiting before he came up. The first thing he said was, "Give me a little water." I gave him a tumbler full, and he thank the whole of it. He wished a little tea then. I went into the room, and found him half undressed, and vomiting very severely. It was always the same substance and colour, to appearance, as before. The gas was lighted. The second occasion was his easiest, but this time the vo miting was attended with great pain. I said, " Have you not takes something that has disagreed with you?" He said, " No, Mrs. Jenkins; I have taken nothing. I, never felt better than the few days I have been at Vie coast." I said, " You never took any meai eine, air." He said, " I never approved ofm-dicine." He then , sishitir. hot water for his feet and stomach. I got these for him. I got towel and water for his feet, and another tor his stomach, and three or four pairs of blankets and a couple of ma's. He got no easier. Abou t four o'clock he got very bad again, and I said I would go for Dr. T notnp son. His bowels and stomach still co-tamed to be ba-I, and about seven o'clock I noticed he was dark about the eyes. I said I would go back for the doctor, and if I did not gat him to come I won' d go qn to the next. He said he wished I would. I visited Dr. Stevens, and he followed immediately. L'Anglier was anxious to get the doctor by that time. Dr. Stevens came a little after I returned. I brought the doctor into the room, and he ordered mustard. immediately. so I left the room to get the mustard. I did not hear tke doctor ask L'Angelier what was the matter with him. When the doctor came in I said look what he vomited. Ho said the smell was sour, and that it was making him faintish. When I went into the room. again wlam I was putting the jar of hat w .tar so his stomach, 12Angelier said that that waathe worst attack he had ever had, and 1 said I thought it was. I feel something here," he than said to the doctor, pointing to his forehead. "It is not perceptible," replied the doctor, "it mint be inwardly, for I do not -eo anything wrong." I asked the. doctor whether there was myth ng else I could do for L'Ang*ie , ? Ile m id time and quietness were what was wanted. I then signed to the doctor to come and speak to me. He want out of the room with me, and I asked him " What Is wrong wto him ?" He said, "Is he a parson that tipples?" I said " No, quite the opposite—what is wrong with him? He is very unlike a versed that tipples," I said. "Is it n t strange that he should go oat quite well, and come back badly ? Can you tell me the cause of it ?" " I will give you an explanation after wards," returned the doctor. lop mod the door for him when he went away, and he said he wou'd be back betwen ten and eleven. I went back to L'Angelier, and when he saw me he asked. what the doctor had been saying to me. I said, "Tee doctor says yen will get over it." He put the question to ma again, and I made the same answer. " Oh," he said, "I am far Wolvie than the doctor thinks." I thought he was very ill. He said. "If it would not be platting you to too much trouble, I would Wise to sea Miss Berrie." He told me her bee; or, address. I think it Was Back-street, but I don't remember the num- I may bet tenfteld. Was it 14 4 , Renfield -street ? I don't ecolitect. I never saw the la dy. I sent-for her her, and she came Before she came, I went in at id out of his room throe or four times He said, "If you please, dray 7 these curtains. Oh, if I could but get five minutes' peace I think I s could be better." These were the last weds I heard him speak. I left him then, and! came back in about five or tea minutes. I want q Wetly into the room. He did not speak. and I went quietly oat again, thinking he was asleep. The do-tor Came not aleove five or ten . minutes-after. He said, "How is your patient?' I said," He is only over asleep, It is a pity to waken him."' The doctor said he would like to see hYrn. We then went into the room: The doctor felt his pulse; he rs ised his head,and it fell down again. I said, "Is there anything wren g." He said; "Draw those curtainse'e and I did-so. M. L'engelier te as dead. The foreman to Menzies, undertaker, came first. Miss Berry came immediately after the undertakers. Dr. Thompson, Mr. Todd,' and one or two others. Stevenson is one of. the young rn ea in Huggins' employ. I told him I Wehed him to take charge, lot :k up his wardrobe, and he did so.. The clothes he took off at night were laid on the sofa. When they locked up his clothes they took a Getter out eehis pocket. Some per.. son—l don't remember who it wa " This expiates ell," I said, " That is the letter that came on , Saturday." At the time I said this, Mr. Thuan, Mr. Stevenson, and, I think, Mr. Rennedy and Dr. Thom eoin were present, I think it was Mr, Stevenson who said that letter expressed all, but I cannot be petit ire. Mr. Stevenson looked up the things. When M. L'Angelier cam e back from the Bridge ef Allan, the night before he died, I cannot :be sure whether it was a coat or a jacket he hal on; but it was close .buttoned, and I remember seeing a handkerchief in his pocket. He ha don his head a Glengarry or blue bonnet, when he came home. Croon -examined by the Dean of Faculty —I cannot tell the date of the illne 99 before the let of February. It emight be about eight or len days beacre tee second illness, but I cannot be posit it's. The wend illness was on a Monday mottling. The beef was got on Saturday the 21st. Sunday was the 221 d, and it was on Monday, the 23rd, that he was so ill. Ito dined at hems on the Sunday. I cannot remember w'sether ho went out on Sunday. I have no recollectimeof him going out. I think I. would have remembered if he had asked .the check key; So fir as I know he was not out.—Did r understand you to say that he was confined to the house for eight or ten days .after that Saturday? For eight days, I think. He - age unt once, I ti.ink, on the 23.1 or 24th. There were eight bottles kited in L'Angclier's room alter his death. One ct them I know contained laudanum; another was a bottte he brought home in his first illness, and there •was some powder. The authorities got them away. I think Mr. Murray was one and Mr. Stevenson another. I don't, remember the date when they got them away. It was some days. There wailaudanttm-in his press, but he refused to take It. He amid, " Besides, it's not good;.it's been stapling without the cork." The. doctor- raid to me M. L'Angelier would get over it. I asked him particularly. its said• he would get over it the same as before. I think I remember about his complaining about his throat being sere that Inc:ming. When the doctor was giving him water, 1 .think he said the weter was ceoking him.—When he was lying in bed that morning, was he lying with his arms stretched out over the bedclothes? He always did so.—Do you mean that morning Yes, he held hs arms straight out. The right hand was clenched when he died. When Miss Barrie cams in I said, "Are you the Intended ?" She said, oh, no ; I'm only a friend." I supposed that was his in tended. I told her he was dead. She seemed very much over whelmed. I sent my little boy to t3ll her M. L'Angelier was very ill, and to come and see him. I don't remember whether she aced to see the body, but I took her into the room. They were dressing the body, and I took her aside. I don't remember what she did whet she went is. You seem to remember very little ; do yon not remember what she did? Did she kiss tee body ? I think she kissed the fore head more than once. She seemed very sone , bat not in violent grief. She seemed cryiag very much. Mr. Scott, foremen to the undertaker, was also present, and, I think, mysister. Cr. L'Angelier had two desks in his room. They .were good writing desks. I did not take any note of the things taken away. William Fairfoul said deceased appeared well when he left Stirling on March 22nd. Wil liam e. Stephenson said deceased had complained of something from a damp bed, at Briclee of Allan. Ile was ill la consequence. He found a letter on deceased, signed " Minnie;" also a memorandum book. He waled these, and hive them to the authorities. The other evidence was unimportant, and the court adjourned at six o'clock, to Wednesday. ARRIVAL OF THE ATLANTIC. The United States Mail Steamer Atlantic, arrived here yesterday afternoon. She left New York on the 20th ult., same day as the Vanderbilt, arrived at Southampton, and brings 110 passengers, and 1,128,581 dollars in specie. Among the Passengers by the Atlantic is F. A. Abbot, Esq., of the American Press, and Robert Hoe, Esq., the well-known fast Press builder. The Fulton arrived at New York on the 19th, and was seized by the Custom-house officers, 13,000 dollars worth of precious stones and jewels having been discovered in the room of the steward, Mr. Kane, who is held to bail in 5,000 dollars to answer the charge. Ex-Governor Philip Frank Thomas had formally declined the Governorship of Utah, the office, according to the statement of his friends, not being sufficiently remunerative. It is untrue that Major Hopkins, of Florida, was offered it. The proba bility is that Colonel Cummings will be appoint ed as no other person is now mentioned in that 'connection. The official documents show that no instructions were given by Secretary Dobbin to Commodore Mervine or Captain Davis, relative to General Walker and his men. The language of Seere tray Dobbin to Commodore Mervine was :—" It is prudent and for the interests of the coun try to have a man-of-war visit San Juan del Sur." The Navy Department have determined to build one of the five private sloops-of--war by private contract, for which proposals are soon to be issued. Baron Von Leimburg was introduced, on the 17th ult , to the President, by Assistant-Secretary of State Appleton, and delivered his credentials as Minister of the King of the Netherlands. Mutual assurances of a desire to maintain the friendship which has always existed between the two govern ments were expressed. Baron Von Liemburg was in full court dress. The New York Herald says, the Spanish plot against Mexico is rapidly being brought to a head. Santa Anna is to go to Havana and take charge of a Spanish filibustering expedition, consisting of three ships of war, and 1,500 troops, which are to protect his attempt to revolutionize Mexico. For this he is to acknowledge the fraudulent claims of 1853 between Spain and Mexico, pay one mil lion dollars for the Spanish killed at ban Vicente, and make a grand offensive and defensive alliance with Spain against the United States, which is approved of by the Spanish Government of Cuba, and sent to Spain for ratification. A destructive tornado has passed over Central Illinois destroying everything in its course. It has levelled twenty-five houses in the village of Pana, and done serious damage to fifty others. Many of the houses left standing are worthless. Kentucky and Canada have also suffered by the tornado. From Kansas we learn that the Free States Legislature was in session at Topeka. Governor Walker and suite were there. They had, it appears, discountenanced all measures of violence against the legislative body. A despatch from Chicago, dated June 18, says the Kansas Free State Legislature met at Topeka on the 11th June. Governor Robinson sent in his I nessage. He recommends immediate and thorough organisation of the state government, and codifica tion of the laws; examines the inaugural of Governor Walker; contends that the Topeka constitution is the only clear expression of the popular will of Kansas ; thi n k s it i nco mpetent for the neighbouring states longer to exercise sovereignty in Kansas ; and declares it impossible for free state men to vote at the bogus ele c ti on . H e conc l u d es by sa y i ng he will maintain the position of resistance to usurped authority at all hazards and at all times. The examination just completed in the coast Survey office, fully confirms the fact of suffi.lient depth of water in Long Island Sound for the pas sage of the Great Eastern. COMMERCIAL. NEW YORK, Jive 20- The demand for money to-day was more active than for some days past. This is usually the case a short time prior to the semi-annual dividends payable in January and July. Capital is, however, readily available on first-class securities at seven to eight per cent. COTTON: With only a fair daily demand, prices are daily hardening, especially for even grades of Middling of all growths, which are in demand for Continental ports, and for home use. Fully Middling Savannah sold to-day at 14-tc, and even Middling New Orleans is worth 141-,. to 14ie. The sales of past three days are 3,100 bales. jSR EADSTUFFS The unfavourable weather contributes to the dullness of the market, an I throughout it is ex tremely inactive. For the low grades, a further decline would probably be accepted, but in the absence of tran sactions of moment, we make no material changes in them. The rapid decline in the market, within the past three days, cannot be attributed to any change in the leading features, from those which prevailed when prices were firm and even buoyant. The receipts are quite light—not exceeding to-day 5,000 brls ; and, with favourable weather, there is a demand from the local and eastern trade which takes up more than this quantity. At ruling prices for wheat, millers cannot replace flour sold at cur rent quotations. W Tile AT yields somewhat, but rot materially. Sales— fair Milwaukie club at 1 dol. 50c. ; gond do., at 1 dol, 51c.; and prime do. at 1 dol. 52c.—the two last for export. CORN is rather lower and inactive. At an early hour a sale of western mixed was made at 89c., delivered, but could not have been repeated. The reports from Chicago show a large falling off in the receipts of corn there. PROVISIONS: There were sales of 1,500 brls mess pork at at 23 dols, 500 do at 23 dols 121 c, in the regular way ; and 100 brls at 23 dole 12A-c, check to-day, closing firm at 23 dol., with small sales at 23 dols 25c. Lard is dull, and rather lower, and cat meats being more freely offered, must be quotod at a slight decline. Other provisions are unchanged. Fnmorrts : To Bremen, 500 brls shoe pegs at is 6d ; 300 do r os i n at Is 93. The schooner Amy Chase, 156 tons, was chartered for six months in the Gulf trade, at 700 dole per month. INDICATIONS FRONT KANSAS. By British and Irish Magnetic •Telegraph. The trial was resumed yesterday at ten o'clock, and the examina tion of witnesses for the prosecution was prcceeded with, The court adjourned the further hearing of the case until ten o'clock thin (Thursday) morning. DEATH OF THE DUKE OF MARLBOROUGH. (By British and -Irish Magnetic Telegraph.) A telegraphic message was received in London yesterday, stating,. that his Grace the Deice of Mariborough,died early yesterday morn ing, at Blenheim House, Woodstock. The deceased, George Spencer Churchill, Bake of Marlborough, Marquis of Blandfcrd, Earl of Sun derland, Earl of Marlborough, Baron spencer, of Wormleighton„ county Warwlek„ and Baron Churchill, of Sandbridge, county Herts, in the peerage of Great Britain, a prince of the Holy Roman Eippire, was born in 17;3,-and succeeded his father in 1843. He mauled la 1 819, his con , in, Lady Jane Stewart (daaditer oi George, eighth Earl of Galloway), who died in 1844; married, steondly, in 1846,Charlotts Augusta (daughter of Henry, fourth Viscount Ashbrooke), who died in Me; and thirdly married, October 57, 1851. Jane Francos, daughter of the late Hon. Edward Richard an Lady Katherine Stewart. By the first marriage he had issue John, Winston, Marquis cf Blandford, M.P. for Wooistoek, who is uow Duke of Marlborough. The present duke was born in 1822,• and. married Lady Frances Anna Emily Vane, daughter of the late Marquis of Londcusderty. Lord• Francis Gordon, *while on his return home from the south or Franco, died on Friday last on the Continent. His. Lordship had. been in declining health for two years, and w,s in consequence obliged to relinquish his commission in the Ist Life Guards. Last autumn he was ordered by his medical attendants to resort to Pau for the winter, the milder climate being likeiy to improve his health.. Latterly be continued gradually to grow weaker, and. it was feared he amid not survive the journey home. The members of his family were consequently prepeici fur the mournful event. He was in the 49th.. year of his ago. ELECTION COMMIT.TEE3. By, British awl Irish Magnatio Telegraph. 800 EIDALE. The Committ , e decided clut the mambar, Sir A, Ramsey., iad been duly elected. MAYO. Mr. John M`Loughlin, who was partly examin al on Tuesday, was recalled. _On Sunday, IVir.rch 14, he was at mass. Father Ryan said he would not give the rights of the church to any person dyng who voted for Higgins.. Mr. Montgorn , ry, a stipendiary magistrate, was next examined. He was applied to, during tho election, for a warrant for the arrest of the Rev. Mr. Curly, whichhe refused, lest it, should create greater excitement, John Gannon, a. small farmer. stated that Father Cahill stilted him to vote for Moore and Palmer. lie refused, and Father Cahill said they would denounce him from the altar. Mr. Sharkey stated that ha acted as deputy sheriff at the elec tion, at Moore and Palmer's committee-room, which was in an hotel. He saw four mean takenlorcibly up stairs. Ho saw a number of priests in the polling booths. He had to threaten to take three priests late custody, for suggesting the names of candidates to voters, and shak ing their fiats at voters. On cross-examination, the witness stated' that he ws , s a great frisnd of Colonel Higgins. He applauded part of.. the Calm tel's speech on the hustings, and expressed his dissent front art of - Mr. Palrecr's speech. (Laugher.) , The Committee adjourned, at far( o'clock. TAE GRE&T EASTERN STEAM-SHI P. By British and Irish Magnetic Telegraph. The report read at the half-yearly meeting of the company yester day, stated that the hull of this vessel was complete, and ready to float. The screw and screw shaft were ready and lying alongside. It was expected that the vessel might be launched in September next. The total cost of the ship will be about £600,000. There was a far ther suit of Lie 0,000 required, which it was agreed to raise by debea- THE MURDER OF MR LITTLE. By 1i itish and Irish Magnetic Telegraph. DUBLIN, WEDNESDAY EVENING. Tills morning, the search of the bed of the canal was proceeded with, under the superintendence of Messrs. Guy, Ryan, and other officers of the detective force. In the curse of the search, a razor was found• wrapped in a piece of leather, with the name of Spollen plainly writ— ten upon it. This will bo produced as slpplementary evideneeagainst the prisoner. This day, at twelve o'clock, Spollen was br ught up before t',e magistrates, when the informations taken on Saturday were proceeded wilh, and the several witneAles bound in .4100.eacn to I , rosecute at the next commission. Spollen was then committed for trial n the capital charge. THE LAST FRENCH D E FAULTER.—Monsiour Thurneys *an, late banker of Paris, and associate of De Morey, Pereire, and the other demi-gods of the Credit Mobilier, fled from Paris some days since, leaving debts amounting to a trifle under five millions of dollars, and made his eFcape to this country. His name will not be found in the list of passengers by the late steamer. because M. Thurneys -8:111 is a man of too much judgment to travel under his ovra name; but he came, nevertheless, and arrived safely, and is staying. now in a comfortable home in this country. That home is not unknown either to the police or the French Consul ; but he has not been arrested. —New York Herald.