Northern Times. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-09-25 00:00:00

WS' !llN a ‘ nd ami d ;On Ile° ;;Took to Pra"; )eror THE INDIA MAIL. ALARM AT CALCUTTA. PRO)1 OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT. T. . 26 : 4 )oTO tew , at the lealth t° Of 11(It Ore. 0 0 ; b 1 goID~ c&I~ Of : iji o t lel [de°. es , ire° 4111 V L OF FUGITIVES FROM DELHI A ND LUCKNOW. SOUTHAMPTON, THURSDAY. Th e steam -ship Peninsular and Oriental Company's ; i ll e e-e-dlip Colo Oriental Captain Field,nrrived off - .es, last night, at 11.30., and came into aticek this morning. She brings the heavy por ta,l„ of the East India, China, and Australian ~.4 . 1 185 184 passengers, 4,8001. in specie and on 1 " 11 frei g h t passengers , 24 1 packages of gum, three cases o f el a wli, two cases of opium, seven packages of 18 eases teeth, 1;285 bales, 140 packages, and 15 eas es of silk, three turtle, 125 bales of wool, a Pa ckages of mother-of-pearl, and 123 pack ge3 of Iltldries. be l s ler 'ul"ajesty's ships at Alexandria were the . `da t./el:at e ~,... 3 R qua Caradoc ; at Malta, the Hibernia 1 --exer ; 11 tare at Gibraltar, the Curlew and ref in e reftpfColombo brings home a nnmber of d t . he reiltti,ces who have suffered from the Indian Lie , 111 ; e r s ' a mong whom is Coloncl Lennox, with 2 24,fi l ta and datio-hter, who belonged to the b eiti -e g itt lent, at Tyzabad, and escaped after wereg secreted for a number of days. There i (th e w al ; s f a fi fty-six children on board. Ali( y !kap ,i'ce of an officer) with four children, casli a e ,,, 44) ea Delhi. She is not aware if her at e ,-,' is alive or dead. Many of the refugees t ore plaint dressed, being entirely depende l n 14 4 -e lily of the merchants and gent e terks°f Calc utta, of whom they speak in high at S on - 1 Great solicitude has been felt for them_ No -l'athl3toll, and orders were transmitted ield ll6 the Peninsular Company t 9 Captain for,rtillieeldfistthreesedCol.ollabo, to provide every comfort t ° rem ad Y Mayoress has arrived from Lond ta gr eet r services, and was among th e , first iv e land 114 t. et a nd Welcome the sufferers to their Scores of t° see -s of People were assembled in the docks erie the Passengers by the Colombo land.. Th s War e s ill he docks at the meeting of friend afT eet • . 4 411 ong in the extreme. 110 W Yo f the ladies were hurried out of Luek ktni,„4,aci Del hi at the commencement of the _ , t hei r - ' l ,' and do not know what has become of card,b,ashands. They have suffered . great 5...,,n, 'taos t ' Rally of them made their . escape i ' l ligi; . . na ked, and were nearly starved in the j4 k t littl e d lg. is on board the Colombo, belong 11 Y ti c , 101 1e1 Gold ney, whose life was sought d with wound- nanous sepoys. The dog is covered s It escaped from Delhi with Mrs. Th e eV 'whh is on board the Colombo. l fate ,passengers give a frightful account o of the Ificl'a. - Calc utta and the upp er provinces 1 I 'th e offeet,4lY troops left at Ceylon were Malays : t : r ,&: ii f: r i e ! ; : ili. . ttitvae l:ll the European troops have gone report being all well treated by '`',,')ae N , } 'ants at Calcutta, and supplied with ` - 'eloth"C° send them on, immediately o . n the l ette -f‘i°' arrival. Captain Field received a til e r AO -4.141 e Relief Fund Committee, through - ising -ILl.lasalar and Oriental Company, aut . o ~, filth 4 -4 . s; - to render tfie passengers every relief 4s -stance. LETTERS FROM INDIA. - -- ----• Alt oa „ •---__ - "z3•3 OP THE REBELLION IN INDIA. tx titk " kit o 3l A Ltr CETI IVRITTAN lir A REUDEXT IN CALCUTTA. : t.li llt , August 7, 1857. ' ll leer. I w rote you last affairs are getting in a bad state te ttet6 tilie rebellion is eztending, and coming hl,m • the° Ilie i,„, 4 eUtta, 4 1tti,i'l e 13aellity where I cannot any longer say we are secure. of our government has-so emboldened the 1, 411 13 ' that °Pertly and without attempt at concealment, f r. 4 42 tt Us,„l th ings -Wm .plotting An immense concourse o t,r04:6--Tn-ag-misst°rfaatells lc ojrotlslyhsaaaya e "I the assemble in the town. The . 'tieil ~ lu to deal with such lli p e e r o e pl i e s , and . the Legi.lative no law whi . ch e . m kk °Lev eh le *k ite. " cl are the law to be quite sufficient for all our , n 'itelsi o ~. er snarl, natives who are caught lii)lasnunnisu.,geven .nog their 4 0 fort, counting and measuring 4 14 • r bearings from various points, if b t ro e ught ' oefore si lki l d it i t% 0 4°, c annot be punished, but must be admonished are -cl ecrt • I ° Fort William all sorts of vagibonds hh . - °atioil wltvstder abou-, endeavouring to open comm. i a Lord ; I ' t he Xing of Oude blB4,lllthia444lll,l°g.doe-s not like . sev d eriti e ; h n te ordoes he like to it; thus he has ar i d ,1 41 P10 r a".7 hould do,. unless . r, di ale co h m ' 0 proclaim martial war, because all Calcutta b: 0 - z l etefi„, ti- i n •Y i around has been . for some mith tl eh - blit t o h . of cuurse he refusesman openly i.B after time -•oo ' e is 1 ' Itmee • h ' lll discovered in some treasonable correspor oshes chl to be reprimanded 7 1 4° rc o w a 3 to have stabsed him after breakfast one tissr ll g to r ~, 9 gets a severe 'R''' -ni ng, a reproof, but neith.r . hlg (1,,, '"glng. Two men were ,. caught:in the act of -ee tt fla g ' w , ll ihe colours in Fort William and hoisting the f ort f or 130 00 h ol y . Prophet; ,trocpsxwothllle bull, i f c e e ar yo o u f r _ ; it " °l the this was to have been the g met to make a dash at the h.Ntitin•rtulg from L a rd a Canning the order for th_;, mutiny among the European k'e 43, which was done this blessed morning. w ' 4, which Ittio„,, d .. escapsd one very dangerous period, the the Mo -44•11re • '‘n feeivilof the Bucker Fed ; but odeNl 16 al) • it 1 entire days, and such %NI ,11 Proaching, lasts ten 19 0 b , 11.813 es of people are fiock'rg here, I feel cer• but fight for i .per y ii -11 t have int simply a row, a , °t • t • t • " v er ; and G dalone knows how we shall get ou th iii k rol e ? talk of sending every woman .nd Plit itt !tA r d b e : tn re is a o ttii• . 13 0, o n P m' • at as for any useful measures of pre- L i tia 1,,,.. r au'horities do not dream of . them. Our „'" g ri ,"' a Measure fo ced down Lord Canning 's ' throat, -54 14 loreeat have thrown every discouragement they unitlslintl.ta w aY The wea lth and respectability ofthe %so 9 ha • 14, 4, , after undo formed a fine body f o nubbing as infantry, kw got 0 4 1""°rgoing all sorts o s left, the other 000 odd ~, lo g i ,,, Y Borne 550 bayonets godly ;!'r 111 ba ck Government Government now would most late - ; we 'I& h t 7e4, our make much of us ; but it is tooth for for i. rs r our own houses and neighbourhoods — not 4 4t • As f le „ -r tu rn i n _ to bear arms, g out some 3,000 men fit . c a -sis mot t b • will be f too energetic -tir e 0 e thought of , it ar i, • 1 1 :41 1:,14 8 ,,, tbe country cannot be worse Berhampore, - l ' i l b "'dee off, w ith• large and ill disposed popnlati"n, 4,;.. tit 0 e . a. (gte f P ray in rebellion . At the Raneegupg T i tl e ° the r . 1 ' e te stLollt-riss-at'vntY. we hear cf a small army of invasion. ./re and Alla -140,,-"4 ar e o „,. a re being destroyed. Cawnp . fo t meral g avel mio• own once more—at least, the ruins of them. ee . _ock marched from the former p * oh t o:4 1, g nA place with a 5,.. s s. '''' raerl—had some very severe fighting, and as Q e ° l4,ll • 4 3? to with' sight of Lucknow, when he . w . 1 , 4 ed b ... _. knees in odds s e a llow ~/. sic and overwhelming . to retire , ,;',ll,eil bay God help the garrison there, fearfully and ! I t ',geerii„,"l easuslities, sickness, and hunger, _ ___ 4,,,;' 11 ' 4 1, 41nong them near 200 women and chil .e l';;41k11. 611belieapital of the North West Provinces, . 1 tpit.l ged. Patne, With the entire provision reeed;l4 for a year, is I fear gone before now. T e poz., Cora Stud of Ilissar, Karuntadee, Blum, and Ghazee 'he oo e all a a q -estroyed, and the horses scattered loose over th ° kitl llt ,?• A.t Delhi we learn our beseiging force is cut Lek e(Vrounded, and, unless the Punjaub force be with jtrab s elfi, will be, destrod. We can only h gather a te ,peY foe comfort from the Madras troops coming here;_ I ° tie sox, 11,13 posed to be staunch, if not, we are dished and l k Ice , it •,.... sae at best a silly idea sending for them at befog the,,,°,ue knows the temptations which will be laid ktfliera is no to rise and massacre us. ' td er i 4 ° USe i my all d• g to the horrors of rape, / 0 11 d 13 .ut d a - u in- l t l enacted— gat e , er, sco which have been a ° Y ee kl LI t he papers, and the English press has been most liberally furnished with all that which their Indian "brethren dare not publish, for fear of the new gagging act. August 9, 1857. After I had written thus far the Shannon has come in from China with Lord Elgin and a nice reinforcement, and she brings us a promise of the loan of the whole China force, not before we wanted it. We shall therefore, I trust, not be exterminated this time. Up the country matters do not improve ; every available European has been sent to the railway terminus, Raneegunge, with 2,000 Madras troops, to disperse an army of disbanded Sepoys. There is said to be another collector at Brrhampore, but the Queen's 35th should dispose of that if not fettered by orders. The pros pect in Calcutta is lively ; the gun trade most active among the native population, and 1 cannot trust myself to mention the quantities of lead and copper caps I have eeen passing, under the eyes of tte police, into the worst parts of the town. Still, with all this, and a great deal m're, before his eyes, Lord Canning will not have the natives coerced in any way. If more eLergy is riot blilwn, by next mail you will hear ore of two things —a vigilance committee a la California, or a mutiny among the European troops. May God in his mercy avert eitter-; but both the e and the European inhabitants are thoroughly exasperated. J— keeps her courage up nobly among the funkers, men and women, who surround her ; the children are quite well, and, barring colds from standing eentry in wet nights, I am well. EXTRACT FROM A LtTTER FROM CALCUTTA, DATED AUGUST 2. Almost all business is at. a standstill, and the only news we have is about tee mutiny, s hieh is daily assuming more formidable proportions. and will continue to do so unt 1 the arrival of some 25,000 men from home. The sooner they come the better, and right well may they avarga th'e death and horrors to which our poor defence less men, women, and children, have been enhject This is no time for mistaken leniency—there is rio use treating an Asiatic as you would an European The Sepoys have been petted too much by former authorities ; let us have a man like the late Sr C. Napier as Commander in -Chief, and &really able Governor-Gene-al, and then we may hope to see England's brightest jewel restored to something like itr former eplendour. A nigger is like a dog; pet him, and he'll bite you; thrash him - wAt, - and he'll do what he's told. Asiatics are accustomed to be ruled by fear, and love will never have any influence' on them. 'the c)untry has retrogaded fifty years at least—many thanks to Lord Cannirg and his advisers—nor have our military men come out in strong colJurs, with a few brilliant exfeptions. We must have at once a different mcde of legislation, and a new person in command, Lord Canning hat shown himself throughout utterly imbecile and incompetent.' What can you think of a man who has invariably pooh poohed all idea of danger until it bas ac ually broken out; Rho refuses to dis rm Sepoys who have not revolted until the very last moment, when they are on the point of rising; who allows his wife openly to pity the "poor dear Sepoys ;" who declines and ridicules the offer of the citizens of Calcutta to become volunteers, until he finds they are actually necessary, when he accepts their offer with such a bad grace as to disgust them all ; who, when a large deputation of genticmAn wait upon him to request that he will allow the sth Fusiliers t 3 stop'an hour at Dinapore to disarm the regiments there, refuses to do so until the consequence is a regular outbreak ; who declin s to prevent the sa'e of fire arms to native, until all are dis;osed of ; who accepts, declines, and again accepts, when too late, the offer of the ruler of Nepaul ; who, when everyone is congratulating himself that we shall at all events have 5 000 of the ChineFe troops to save India from being lost entirely, quietly writes to Lord Elgin to say that 1,500 will be enough, and allows the rest to go on to Chins, and the country go to the dogs ? What can you .think of a man who gags the English press because it exposes his unfitness ; who dallies and puts off, and has no foresight, no system, no great views ; who cannot make up his mind, and who can scarcely do a single thing worthy of his name and of the position which he fills? Such is the general (Onion here of George, Lord Canning, at present governor of 150 millions of people. The sooner he goes home to the Post-olce again the better. EXTRACT OF A PRIVATE LITTER PIM ONE CF TIIE FIRST MCRCANTILE FIRMS IN CALCUTTA. Lord Canning and his councillors are most lamentably in want of precaution and energy ; every measure has been used too late to prevent mischief; a deep, settled, and intense disgust is felt by all. In Calcutta, measures of precaulior, after most culpable delay, had been taken. He further adds—The immense importance of preserving Calcutta frcm even the smallest outbreak, on account of the injurious effect on the neighbouring districts that would follow, ought to induce Lord Canning to preserve here an attitude of great force. He says farther—We are safe here with ordinary precaution. May God grant it! But these precautions must be taken. and I feat they are not adequate.. Dear Cohn, I write to you not to trouble you with my anxietieq, which would be useless, but to beg you to enforce on the directors, if you can, the positive necessity that stringent orders should be sent out for more positive measures f precaution being taken in Calcutta. Lord Canningt is not' 'equal to the emergency ; more firm ness, more severity is required, for the naives to believe that we are not weak, of which every act of leniency or forbearance is believed to be a proof. B A RRACKPORE. Burackpore, Ac g: 6, 1857 I mite while a great panic exists not only here, but to a pait.ful degree in Calcutta, in consequenni of the Mahomedans having to celebrate one of their greatest feasts for two or three days, commencing to thy It is feared that they will rise from their fanatical state of mind about dur reign having ceased, and that they will produce their concealed arms and murder us. Troops are to be stationed in different parts of Calcutta. The Volunteer Guard are obliged to remain permanently as soldiers, and a sharp look out is to be kept Affdrs are getting worse in this country. and I have little doubt that we shall have our turn in this place,,for we have only 200 men of the 35th. with 50 sailors, as I have said, and it is manifest that the rebels are working their way towards Calcutti. At Raneegunge. which is about 100 miles from here, and the to minal station of the railway which unites it with Calcutta, there is great anticipation of a shine. Last night 150 r.. , ikhs and a few men of the Calcutta wing of our regiment went down there to preserve the teleraph and railway lines, the des truction of which have been at,empted by the Sepoys and disaffected villagers. At Calcutta every, cue is now alarmed at the awful position which we are placed in, and in which we must remain until we have an army large enough to sweep every rebel from the country. A great mny Madras sepoys arrived in the Hooghly yesterday, but the experiment o° using them for our defenee is consid- red very generally a dangerous one. The Governor's body enard, numbering 200 or 300, and consisting of picked fighting sepoys, delive ed up th,cir arms yesterday cf their own accord ; but they knew that guns would ba pointed at them if they did not. FROM A VOLUNTEER IN GENERAL , VAVELOCR . B C )RPE4 Camp, Cawnp.-,re, July 22, 1857. I have been to see the place where the poor women and children were imprisoned, and afterwards butchered It is a small bungalow close to the road. There were all sorts of articles of women and children's clOthing Ladies' hair, evidently cut off with a sword, back combs, &c. There were also parts of religious books. Where the mas• sacre took place it is c...vered with blood, like a butcher's slaughter-house. One would fancy that nothing could be worse than this, bat in the well at the back of the house are the bodies and limbs of the poor things • I looked down, and saw such a sight as I hope never to see again. The whole cf the bodies were naked, and the limbs had been separated. I thought of the two poor Mrs. and the three poor girls, and felt very sad. By all accounts, the women were .so ill treated, that death —even such a death— must have been welcome to th m. I will not enter into more details. I have told yon enough to cause you to make allowance if I write savagely. I have looked upon death in .very form, but I could not look down that well again. THE NORTHERN TIMES.---LIVERPOOL, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1057. THE ARRAN DISASTER EXTRACTS FROM A ,MEDICAL OFFICER'S LETTER IN HER MAJESIT' 4 IOS rE, DATED DINAPORE, AUG 2 All our men are badly wounded, and for the last two days I have had herd work amputating and extralting balls. I wash the blood from my hands to go and write this to you, and again to return to the hospital. Poor Erskine was mortally wounded in the abdomen: he expired yesterday. Sandwith and Battye were also wounded, but both, I am happy to say, are doing well. The names of the officers of the 37th killed are—Lieute nant Begenall, and Ensigns Birket and Sale. INIr Isgleby, of the 7th Regiment, was also killed. He was one of the European officers of the native reiiments who volunteered, several of whom have come back here badly wounded ; some have been drowned, and others are missing The treasure has beer, removed from here, and we a-e all in great excitement. General Lloyd had leer, I am jnforrned, nearly fifty years in India, and from bodily infirmity is altogether unfit for such a command in such troublesome times. Surely it is high time 'Ler any field officer to retire when he requires help to be: put on and tak Al off his hale. We are all disgusted with him, and vexed beyond measure that he has prevented the brave 10th from\ proving to the world that with on'y 400 men they would have licked, and that most effectually, three reg ments of insurgent Bepoys. We hear that large supplies of troops are coining, to our al I hope the British government will bear ,In mind the necessity of keeping up a continued flow of fre.h regiments for some time to come, so as to supply the deficiency which sickness will- create. It is not the mere sending of 50,000 men that will do in this presidency alone, unless that number is steadily kept up by an infusion a healthy men sent - out for some years to come, to supply the place of inval ds sent home and in the sick hospital. This, believe me, is a most trying climate for Europeans I will (D.V.) write by next mail. FRANCE. PARIS, WEDNESDAY EVENING It is nit very unusual for persons of sanguine and ima ginative temperament, to dwell upon a hypothesii, until they fancy it proved ; and proceed to reason upon it as earnestly as if it were an established and inemtrovertible fact. An instance of this sort has lately occurred in the c..se of a portion of the French press, which, while con sidering. and Rerhaps exaggerating, the ex'ent cf oar Indian difficulties, and at the Eame time underrating our, means of surmounting them, has come to the hakty conelu- sion that, sooner or later, we shall have to s aid from France, and has even g so far as to spe culate on the terns upon which it may be granted On the part of the legitimist papers, there was nothing astonishing in this unfriendly haste to profit by a - neighbour's m sfortunes • to drive a gocd bargiin, but it may well excite surprise when the friendly Siec'e out Herods our habiival Les in its desire to make of England's d fficulty France's opportunity. -The most rebid of our opponents, viten anticpating, without the slightest grounds, an applicaticr, from 'England for succour, stipulated terms usurious enough, and, at one stroke of its catholic quill, swept us out of the Mediterranean ; but at least it gave us something in return for Malta, Gibraltar, and the rest. A French army was to gl and re-establish us in our Oriental possessions. Of course we felt a proper amount cf gratitude. We by no means underrate the value of the proffered aid, nor doubt that in Hindostan, as in the Crimea and wherever they hare fought, the French would prove themselves most gallant and useful soldiers. But these is such a thing as waiting till you are asked ; and of this we may remind those who appear to forget the history of the present century, and the power and resources displayed by Great Britain when opposed to Europe combined against her by one master mlnd and seeming y resistless hand. Taey may be quite sure that the British nation, since then enormously increased in numbers and wealth, has lost none of its energy or patriotism, and that by the exertion of these it is well able, without seeking foreign assistance, to vancieish even greater difficulties than the very serious ones that have arisen in the East. To return, however, to the Siecle. Notwlthstanding the guarded and friendly terms in which it is couched, Alert is only one meaning to be attributed to the article I have referred to, and that is, that now would be a good time, when England has her handl full, to press for a revision' of the treaties ot 1815 This article—which is nominally suggested by the interview of Btuttga dt, taken as a peg on which to hang an iteration of some of the leas't sensible and practical of the ideas usu .lly alvocated by the Siecle—is considerably weakened by the fact that it starts from suppositions, unsupported •by proof, and opposed to what is at this moment generally believed to be the truth. "'The meeting of the two Err perors," it commences by saying, " puts the whole political world of Europe in a flutter; it is thought with reason that these two chiefs of powerful nations do not quit their dominions merely to shake each other by the hand. Two Cabinets especially appear greatly pre-occupied by the interview, and those are the Cabinets of St. James's and Vienna." That the political world, diplomatic and jonrnalistic, should find matter for speculation in the inter view of the two Emperors, especially at a moment when scarcely anything of interest is going on in Europe, is nct very surprising, but the Siccle exaggerates the importance generally attributed to the Stuttgardt meeting which is looked upon as a mere amicable demonstration, and not as a grave political event. Such is certainly the prevailing impression here. Of course there have been plenty or coujectunes and reports. It was said that a reduction of standing armies, would be the principal subject brought forward, but this bleW over as a more rumour, and the fact is that the French army is already reduced as low as is consistent s, ith a proper regard to the internal tat qeility of the country and the necessary occupa tion of Algeria. As to the English Government's being vivented preoccupe with the interview, it would be rather interesting to know whence the Siecle got the piece of iuformation. The intended meeting at Stuttgardt was known of, alth.ou t h the period was not fixed, before the Emperor's visit to Osborne. Neither then nor since clld it cause the least sensation on your side of the .Channel, nor does there seem reason to believe that the English government attaches more importance to it than the Euglteh public. The assumption, however, leads off an article with good effect, and gives tie writer an oppoqunity of informing us why the liritish Cabinet is thus uneasy. It fears that the friendship engendered • by the Stuttgardt meeting may be so much deducted from teat prevailing between Fratice and England; "it fears, also, perhapq, that by a just requital of things here below, France may be tempted to profit by the unfortunaie circumstances in which Great Britain finds itself " Your Part; cotemporary cannot be supposed, however deserving of the distinction, to be in the confidence of the English Government, so that one must take this as its own estimate of the probabilities. An assurance, however, shortly follows that the French Government cannot have the wish to alienate the English alliance, and then succeed some expressimis of goodwill and of a desire to maintain that alliance, whose sincerity I do not doubt, although they are practically inconsistent with the aspirations intimated in other parts of the article. I extract the next passages : "As to profiting by the embarrasments of Great Britain, the straightforward, and sometimrss a little too chivalrous, character of our nation is .ft sure guarantee to her that she has not, to fear unhandsome conduct ; but that in the arrangements that might take place in Europe the French Government should a,l{ her assent; and, in case of need, her devoted Co. operation, to obtain just satisfaction, that mi.& well be —we will even say, with our liberty, free from all Govern mentel r-spingibtlity that ought to be. And the states men of England would have too strong a feeling of what is equitable not to agree that, in 1814 and. 1815, Europe ain't:el of ,v:c:ory, and that reparation is due to France. The Sieee said, a few days ago, that this reparation ought to be the fruit of the alliance, and not the fruit of war." With Austria the Siecle deals summ rily enough, as far as condemnation goes, but does not fix the punishment to be inflicted on her for her ingratitude to Russia, and ind,f&rent filth towards France. Nevertheless, it throws cut a hint : "If we thought that our wishes miet be heard, oh ! then; we would not hesitate to express them, and we should be agreed with all those who have patriotism in their hearts and sincere sympathy for oppressed . nations. We know how to make allowance for the difficulties which the firmest will may encounter in such delicate and numerous questions ; yet France has recovered her influence in the councils of Europe, and the chief of the govrainent is not ignorant of what the nation desires." This evidently po'nta to the liberation of Italy. The " reparation due to France" can only mean a rectification of the frontier—in other words territorial aggrandize ment, the old object of ambition of the I arty to which the &eels belongs. It is a pity the iccle should allow it* to be dine run away with by its hobbies. Hit really prizes the English alliance it will not wish France seeking revision of the treaties of 1815 or aiming at a reconstruction of the map of Europe. such attempts would only be the signal of fresh calamities for a country that has certainly had its full share of them. The Emperor left Chalons camp for Lunevlle at two this afternoon. To-morrow he reviews the troops at Luneville, and proceeds to Strasburg. He will review the garrison there, and reach Stuttgardt on the 25th, will leave on the 28th, return by Fcrbach and Metz, and be back at the camp on the 29th. Count Walewski arrived in P trig yesterday and left early this morning for the camp. The Russian Ambassador and. suite leave Patis this afternoon for Stuttgardt, for which place the Minister of Wurtemberg will leave to morrow morning. The Duke of Cambridge has returned to Paris. The brig cf war Bailleur, which has just sailed from Brest for New Caledonia, had on board several convicts sentenced to transportation, who are to be landed at the island of Pines, where a provisional penal settlement has been established. _ _ Tne french Government has received despatches front Admiral iiigault de Gerioutlly, dated Hong Kong, the Bth inst. The Admiral announces that he was about to make a reconnaissance in the direction of Shanghai. The French frigate Pomone anchored at the Pi ceu3 on the Bth inst., coming from Syra. On her arrival the flag of Admiral Bouet-Villaumcz was saluted by the Russian frigate Polkau and the Austrian brig of war Hussard Three Russian screw corvettes were at the Dardanelles on the 15.11 inst., waiting for a firotaa to enter the Black Sea. These vessels a-e, it is said, t 3 serve as guardship3 in - the ports designated by the treaty of Paris. THE IMPERIAL MEETING. A telegraphic despatek from Stnttgardt, dated Wednes day, Sept. 23, says:— " The Czar Alexander is expected here on Thursday evening; the Emperor Napoleon on Friday morning. They will give a g and banquet on that day, and an evening party at the Prince Boyai's country seat near Cannstadt. " On Saturday the august visitors will pay a visit to the R Ira breeding stud at Hohenheim, and will attend an evening party at Wilhelm&loss, the gardens of which Regal .Patace will be illuminated " The Minister of Foreign Affairs will have an assembly the same evening of all the members of the diplomatic corps "The festivities will terminate on Sunday by a grand banquet at Court, and a gala spectacle at the theatre. The Emperors will take their departure on Monday morning " ITALY. TURIN, SEPT 21. Tee P.ince de la Tour d'Auvergne, the new French Miniver at this Court, is expected here to-day from- Florence, and the Due de Gramont will leave this for Paris in the course of the week The weather has lately become settled again, after having been broken for some time, and the warm &Lys and cool nights of the lest week have exercised a most beneficial effect on vegetatior, it is said. .The maize crop is in the moat perfect state. This crop, which is of so much importance to the rural population, will, it is now asserted, produce more than an average yield. In the Romagna there has been a long drought, and the want of wa . er for irrigation had in some degree been injurious to the rice there, but from Ltmbardy and the Lomellina the accounts of this crop are highly satisfactory. Many proprietors have g-eat hopes of improved crops next year from the system of drainage they purpose adop ing, and which has been found to succeed admirably in many p'aces where it has been adopted. While the oidium on the vines has been less felt in the south than in the north, it has iu a groat measure disap peared in Italy, without any reference to climate. It i, much diminished in Lombardy. A fair quan ity of wine gill be- made- is the Romrgia, a little in Tuscany, a little in Naples, and an average q tentily iu Sicily ; a half crop may be calculate,l on in the island of Sardinia, and some thing more in Eedneont. Oa the whole, it is reek ate that the crop will produce, perhaps, alkfch more than that of last year. • The gonitore Toscano announces that the Archduke Charles, the G-^ and Duke of Tuicany's second son, has also been seized with an eruptive fever. The disorder, it app.ars, is following its regular course, and inspires no apprehension. SPA. Lii. The Madrid journals of the 191 inst. state that, in expectation of a visit from the Empress of the French, the inhabitants of Arteaga, the place in which her Msjesty's cha-eau is situated, had, on the 141, erected a triumphal arch, bearing the inscription, " Arteaga to the Empress Eugenie its Protectress," and all the authorities of the neighbouring towns and villages had assembled ; but, finding that Her Majesty did not arrive, the authorities partook of a splendid banquet at the he use 'of the French Consul of Guernica. A letter from Melilla, of the 12th, says that the Moors of the tribe of Benisidel had, after nine months' peace, recommenced hostilities against the place, though at the time several of their body were in the town. Tne Spaniards generously allo Ned the latter to leave before returning the fire. The result is not stated. The chief of the tribe had, however, expressed his regret to the Spanish Governor that he was not able to restrain hie men. TUNIS. We have been favoured with the following extract from a letter, dated Tunis, Sept. 12 : " The Bey, convinced by the earnest rep' esentations and persuasive arguments of the British and French agants, tams numerous consultations with his ministers, deter mined to %aka the improvements in his system of govern ment which were proposed to him, and on the morning of the 91h of Septembe , , having invited the fire'gn agents and some of the principal European residents to wait upon him at his Palace of the Barth), in their presence he gave a con stitution to his country, swearing to observe its provisions, and causing his priests, ministers, and people to do the tame. " The constitution consists of 11 articles, which would be too long to set out in extenso, and I therefore, only give the substance of them, viz : 1. Security of life and property. " 2. , Equal taxation. - "3 Eqnality before the law of all classes and denomi- n ations "4. Religious liberty. "5 Limitation of the pnriod of military service. 6. Admission of non•Mussulman assessors in the cri minal tribunals. 7• Establishment of a mixed commercial tribunal. 8. Abolition of all immunities and privileges now en joyed by Mnssulmans. " 9 Libor y of commerce, abolition of monopolies, and interdiction to the government to trade. ' " 10. Permission to foreigners to exercise all pro fessions, trades, and callings, and to introduce foreign en te, prise, &c. " 11. Right for foreigners to purchase and possess houses, landed property, &c. " The importance of this refjrm connot be too highly estimated." VIENNA, Wednesday.—The Emperors of Austria and Russia are to meet at Weimar. The Emperor Francis Joseph leaves Vienna on the 29th instant. TIIE INDIAN RELIEF FUND —The Daily News suggests I that a national character should be e inferred upon the Indian Relief Fund, so as to give it a national centre and neuclus like the Patriotic Fund. Tug Litton WOODS MUSDEE.—The feniale who was ' Murdered at this place, near Bristol, has been identified as Charlotte Pagsley, who had been in the service of a gentle- M , lll ' residing near Bath. She left Bristol in company with a man to whom she was about to be married. The police are now in pursuit of him. Ma. W. RIGDEN'S SAL : AT EIoVE --The anneal sa'e aad letting of ewes and rams belonging to the Hova ck tows place on Friday last, when a numerous and influential gathering of flo ;kmasters, bath from this c minty and trom a distance, assembled to take part in the proceedings. Rigden has gradually and steadily worked 11;15 way to a high position,. as a South town biee.ier. The first lot, 5 full-mouthed ewes, were, after spirited competion, knocked down at five guineas per head, to Sir Thomas Lennard, a similar lot being bought by the agent of his grace the Duke of Riehmend at an advanced figure, viz., 5i guineas rt. head. Other lots at 41 and 3-1 guineas, fell to the hor. baronet from Essex, aha likewise 1)-came a purchaser of some of the larger lots at prices varying trom 465. to 565. and 635. per bead. The shearling ewes went at prices varying from 40s. to 463. and 50.. per head. On the whole, the average of the ewes was a fraction over £3 per head, a result whisk can se xrce'y ba deemed other th to satisfactory. The rams for sale c ime next, and were knocked down at prie - s varying from six to seven and twelv• gu'neas. A few ram lambs were (though not in tho catalogue) put up by reqiiest, and went at £6 6s. The rams " let" ranged from £lO 10s. to £l7 53. Mr Waters secured one lot at 23 gni - teas. Mr. J. P. Gorringe takiig another at 30 guineas. 1 very handsome animal was knocked down to Mr. Madgviick, at 25 guineas.—Essex Advertiser. THE Paws IN PERSIA A letter from Teheran says : " Although P..rstia,lfrom her geographical situation, has little communication with the nations of Europe, she is not slow is appropriating their most useful inventions. Amongst other things the Persians possess the art of lithographic printing, which was introduced to them in 1829 by Mira Saleh, Moustotifi (secretary of state), who brought it from S . Peterehurg, where he was sent on a mission, and by tneaus of it they have produced numerous copies of their ancient manuscripts and of modern works. The art is now practised more or less extensively at Tebrie, Teheran, 'spatial', Kee - line, and other towns. A catalogue of works lithegr .phed, though not professing to be complete, shows that in the last fifteen years no fewer than 263 important works, ancient and modern, have been produced, and that fifty-three of them are in Arabic. These works treat of law, religion, history, noetry, &c. Amongst them is the chronicle Itouzef. Oussefa, a his - ory cf Persia from ancient timei down to cud including the early part of the reign of the present sovereign, in tea volumes foli o , by I:t.z Koulikhan ; the chronicle " Djamea Outtevarikk," by Rechid Udine, in four volumes ; a his ory of " T a rikbi Peti" (Peter the Great); a Persian D ctionlry ; a treatise on Mathematicks, translated from English by Mirza Djefei Kouli Khan, engineer ; " Debistane," a treatise on all known religions ; and the complete works of Seadi, tisk, Enveri, Djami, and other poets. The various works are well executed, and are ornamented in the Oriental style. Ferruck Khan, the Persian Amb.issado-, took. toloies of a number of them to Paris." THE BELFAST RIOT SINGULAR FRACAS AT THE POLICY_ COVET On Tuesday seven persons were chargel with tton - ;.• mitting an assault upon a young man named Davidson, on Sunday evening, the 6th inst. After the evidence for the prosecution.had been given, Mr. Rea addressed the bench for the prisoners ; and, in the course of his remarks, commented in strong terms upon what he called the unjustitiable and inquisitorial investigation in the Police-office, by Chief-Constable Lindsay and Messrs. Thomas and Robert Lindsay, who took upon themselves to do what no magistrate had the right to do, and said that the two latter gtntlemen might yet have reason toregret inch a proceeding. Immediately aftet Mr. Rea had concluded, Mr. Thomas Lindsay arose, and, addressing himself to Mr. Rea, said—ft is most disgraceful;. it is a slander 1 Mr. Rea—Let the Messrs. Lindsay take their remedy. Mr. Lindsay—Remedy 1: against a beggar. Mr. Rea—Sit down, sir, Mr. Lindsay—l wish to state that thisis a most false attack. It is false so far a 4 we are cpncerned. The magistrates then retired to their room to consider their decision ; and as soon as their door was closed be hind them, Mr. Lindsay arose, and, addressing the Reporters, said—l wish to say that this is a slander upon us. Mr. Rea who had been sitting in the box, rose hastily, and exclaimed—Sit down Sir Mr. Lindsay—l will not. Mr. Rea—lf you don't sit down, I will drag you out of that. Mr. Rea then, in a state of great excitement, and look ing very pale, nag seen to prepare himself apparently for a • set to.' He first took the precaution of taking the ring off his Linger, and putting it into his pocket, and then jumped out of the attorney's box upon the witness table, where Constable Wi'son of the constabulary, was stand ing, as is Customary, to place the witnesses, and make them observe order. Ile stood for a moment, and again called out to Mr. Lindsay to- be silent. and then made a step in advance, as if he was about to (lash at him: Con stable Wilson put his hand towards Mr. Rea, in order to pi event him from leaving the table to rush at Mr. Lindsay, and it had the effect of keeping hiM still upon the table, though he might have broken away from Constable Wilson, and easily jumped into the box where Mr. Lindsay was then sanding, if he had chosen. The place where Mr. Lindsay.was standing was the box immediately under the bench, and in that part of it where Chief-Constable Lindsay usually sits when calling out the names of the pri soners. He and Mr. Rea were,therefore,ouly separated 'roe) each other br a short distance, perhaps no greater than a yard and a half. Mr. Shidals, of the detective 'erne, was bebide Mr Lindsay, and he and Constable -Wilson, who was afterwards av:sted by another member of the constabulary force, acted as pacific ;tors at.d intermediators, ocelsimally stretching out their hands to prevent a collision between the two gentlemen. At this ft ige of the business the uproar in court was considcrable, all the spectators, m ih3 and female, young and old, eons`abulary and local p dice, were so overwheltned wi h astonishment at the scene, that they looked on at what was oseurri.ng with open mouths and staring eyes, wihout any of them attempting to i iterfere.. The scene was well cal allated to inspire the profanum vulgus with a wholesome dread of the law, or a proloan,i respxt for the seat of justice ! Mr. Lind-sy all the time remained calm, gni seemed prepared to meet hi , antagonist, if he had atZerryted to cots the Rubicon ; and, wl i'st the latter atampfd, and menaeod, and gesticulated upon the table, and cried boldly "Sit down, sir ! ' the former continued to repeat "I say it's false ; it was a slan derous ,sta'emen*." Tee pacifieators, forgetting for a moment the two principals in the sc ne, began to accuse each other of something that no person save them selves knew anything about, and they were ob served with their arms s'retched towards each other in a way that left the spectators in doubt es to whether it was not th iir in'ention to take a ' lift" en their own account. They were frequently heard to exclaim, "Sit d VSl7,Sheals! you are as b,d as him." "No, I'll cot sit down, Wilson ; sit on down." Seeing the bAlicose aspect of the business, and the g.neral disorder and confusion that prevailed, Mr. Orr, Clerk of the Court, climbed up to the bench and made his way into the m igistrates room, in order to apprise the magistrates of the state of things in their absence. Out came the magistrates in haste, an] they stood, for a moment, looking with astonishment an I wonder upon 1113 sight that then presented itself to their view. Mr. Rea then stepped off the table into his box again, and he and Mr. Lindsay both attempted to speak. Mr. Lindsay s'hid he was only about making an observa tion in the presence of the reporters, when Mr. It threatered to commit an assault upon him. Mr. Hunt : You must retire, sir; we can't allow tt is. Mr. Rea : I was here in tho discharge of my professional duties, when Mr. Lindsay rose to address-6- 014, Lindsay : I only wanted to sly that his statement was a slander, and Mr. Hunt: You must be silent, sir. nauFt be protected., Mr. Lindsay : One word, if you please. Mr. Hunt : No ; you must conduct yourself properly. Any other place, bit not here. Mr. Rea : I would soon have silenced his", if I had got liberty. Mr. Hunt : Mr. Rra must be protected. Mr. Li ndsa:, - : But • Mr. Iruat : You will have an opportunity el , ewhere, but not here—not in this court. Professional men The magistrates agtia retired, and, after deliberating for a short time, returned into court to give their dc- cision. Dr. 114`Gr2.e slid that the magierates bad come to the decision that Owens, Barr, the two Hagane;and M`Grahan, should be discharged, and that Quin and Boyle should be imprisoned for two months each. He also said that they placed no cmfi fence in the evidence given by the witness Dy er wllatever. Mr. Rea appUed for costs in the case, but they were refasect. As the discharged prisoners were leaving the court, a cheer was given for them by their sympathising friends, who seemed mach rtjaiced at t`le result of the investigation. IrENEZU•LAN BOND 3. A meeting of the Bondholders was held on Wednesday, in the London Tavern. Mr. Fowles occupied the chair, and called attention to a rerrt presented o the bondholders several days before, which contained an acconnt•of all that had been done to obtain a settlement of their claims from the Government of Venszoula. It was stated in the report that Mr. Mocatta, who had been sent to Vene zuela, to endeavour to obtain a settlement of the claims, has returned to London, and the result of his mission showed that all the negotiations which have been going forward in resp2ct to this debt for so long a p.riod have• had no object in view but that of interminable delay. It was considered neither more nor less than a mockery for the Venez ielan G 'vernment to send commissioners to this country expressly nuthoriseri to adjust this debt with the committee—inves i I one of those com missiones with the office of Charge d'Affaitea from the Republic to Great Britain, and then repudiate the agreement solemnly coudicted by such commissioners. It was then suggested thafthe bondholders should lay the circumstances before the Seere:ary of State for Foreign Affairs, and solicit the inte- ference of her Majesty's govern ment to obtain jastice f r the bondholders. Resolutions were adopted, expressing regret that the Venezuelean Government had repudiated its agreement, alleging that the cAiduct of the Venezculean G ivernment, in respect to its foreign deb', hid bees m irked by a total want of good faith—declaring that the Venezeulean Government hal no serious intention to dejustice, and to continue negociatiois for the liquidation bf the debt nider the circumstances, was a mere mockery—and resolving that Lord Clarendon should be requested to obtain that justice fo.n the bond holders from the Venezuelean Government, which they were unable to obtain for themselves. The meeting then separated. EXPLOSION OF A STEAM THRASHING MACHINE —Oll day afternoon, about three o'clock, an explosion of the b nler o! a thrashing machine took p'aca on the farm of Mr. Joseph Drake, called llor,kheath Farm, near Per brook, by which sad occurrence a man named Pearce, the driver, suet iced such serious injuries that he did not survive a s'c md—his left leg was blows off, his bowrli protrudei, his watch wss scitter , d in fragments, bat the case was found, the purse in his poaket destrojed, one sovereign and a t shil ing piece being picked up in various parts after th explosion. Toe unhappy sufferer was a single man, and co2sidere 1 of very religious habits. Another man was very seriously injured In the back part of his head, but h pea- are en'ortained of his recovery. The explosion created immerse havoo ii its immediate locality. — Sussex Advertiser. THE GREATEST STEM INVENTIO , I YET.—The Boston Rouge Gaze/ te, under the above heading, has the following : --" Wm. S. Martin, of th s city, h s invented an engine which can be constructed, bailer and all, for &bent 50 dols. The machine is so simple that we might with propriety say it is merely an escape pipe, taking up no more room. The steam is admitted into the centre of a drum or cylinder, in which the shaft works ; from this power is applied directly without farther friction. The other day we saw the model of the engine pumping water about 20 feet and throwing it into a reservoir at the brewery. This is the apparatus wanted for getting in a cheap manner one or two horse power to drive small machinery. Mr. S. Mania has made application for letters patent, and when he gets. them we think he has a fair prosp:et ahead to re din saw..thing m from the result of his genius. THE: CASE OF DE SALVI, THE QUEEN'S PRISON AS 'AS 31N. The course that was taken by the legal advisers of this prisoner, upon his being brought up to take his trial last week at the Central Criminal Court, for the murder of Robertson, in the Queen's Bench Prison, appears to have been quite unexpected on the part of this prosecution, /tad the case, fcon this fact, and the other peculiar circum stances connected with it, appears to excite a great deal of 'interest. There can b 3 no difficalty now in stating sleet 'there is ne doubt that the motive far the cosinfssion o f the desperate act which has placei the primer in his present position, was a feeling of reveage against the deceased in consequence of his having repudiated a I debt doe to De Salvi, and which, it is sail, involved the whole of his savings d ning the periol be was in serv:ce, and amounting to between eight and nines hundred pounds, The prisoner must, however, still haver considerable means, or else have very powerful friends to assist him in his defence, ae the fees paid to Me. Elwin James, the leading counsel, who attended in his behalf at the last sessions, amounted altogether to one hundred and sixty guineas, and Sergeant Perry was also paid special fees t , a large amount ; a third counsel, Mr. M Mahon, being also retained in his behalf. The public is aware that the prisoner, havirg been acquitted at the August segsionse of the Central Criminal Cour, upon that count of 'he indict ment which , charged him w:th felo'iously wounding the deceased with ineent to murder him, was convicted upon the minor charge of wounding wide intent to do grevious bodily harm, and thereupon sentenced to fi leenyeer's penal servitude. At the late teossiorns upon thepris oner being ar rained for wilful murder, a plea of entrefois acquit war recorded for the prisoner. This plea 'e ,ing of a very novel character, it may be as well to state is in the folio wit g terms: —" The said Antonio de Salvi, in his own proper person, cometh into court here, and having heard the said indict.. ment read, saith that our lady the Queen ought not further to prosecute against him so much of the said indictment as charged him with having, of has malice aforethought murdered the said Robert Honierson Robertson because he saith that, heretofore to wit, at the General Session of the delivery of the Q teen's gaol of Newgate, holden for the jurisdiction of the Central Crimi • nal Court, at justice hall in the Old Bailey, in the suburbs of tie City of Landon, on Monday, the 17&h August, in the Soar of our Lord one th onsand eight hundred and fifty seven, before Sir Samuel Martin, K ,fight, one of the barons of our said lady the Queen, of her Court of Exchequer ; Sir Richard Buiden Crowder, Knight, one of the justices of our said lady the Q teen of her Court of Common Pleas, au I others, their fell )ws, justices of our said lady the Q teen, assigned to deliver the said gaol of Newgate of the prisoner therein being, he, the said Antonio cue Salvi, was, in due form of law, indicted, arraigned, and tried upon a certain indictment. which charged him, by the name of Antonio de Satvi, for that he had on eighth day of July, in the year of oar Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven, in the county of Surrey, and within the jurisdiction of the. said court, unlawfully and • feloniously did stab, cot, and wound one Robert Henderson Robertson, with intent thereby, then and there, feloniously, wilfully, and of his malice aforethought, to kill and murder the said Robert Henderson Robertson, ag sinst the form of the statute in such case made and provided. And Chet he, the said Antonio de Salvi, further that saith upon the trial of the said indictment he was lawfelly acquitted of the said offence therein charged as aforesaid, as by the record' in that behalf more fully and at length appears. And he further) saith that he is the same identical person as the said Antonio de Salvi in the said last-mentioned indictment named, and not another and different peson, and that the said &ben Henderson Robertson, in the same indictment named, is the Fame identical pellet: as is named in the indictment to which he, the said Antonin de Salvi, is now here pleading, and not another and different person, and that the cruse of the deatls and of the said 'supposed killing and murdeting of the said Robert Henderson Robertson, was , certain stabs, cuts, and wounds, for the inflecting of which with intent to murder the said Robert Henderson Robertson, he, the said Antonio de Salvi was so indicted, tried, and acquitted as aforesaid; and not a:ny other stabs, cuts, and wounds, or stab, cut, or wound whatsoever, and not any other cause or injury whatsoever. And this he, the said Antonio de Salvi is ready to verify. Wherefore he pear judgment, and that by the court here he may be d'smissed and discharged of so much of the present indictment as charges him with having of his malice aforethought murdered the said Robert Henderson Robertson, and as to. the murder and felony of which he the said Antonio de Salvi now stands indicted, he saith that he is not guilty thereof, and of this he puts himself aeon the country " It is understood that on the part of the Crown a demurrer will be entered to this plea, the effect of which proceeding is that the facts stated in the plea are admitted, but it will-be contended that they do not make out that the . prisoner was ever placed in jeopardy noon the charge of wilful murder, and that, consequently, the plea of entrefa'is acquit cannot be supported.. Tnis will be argued on the first day of the judges taking thee'r sews at the Central Criminal Court next session, and if the point should be decided against the prisoner, he will at once be tried upon the charge of murder. The general opinion in legal circles is, that the fact of a man,having been tried and acquitted of wounding with attempt to murder, is no answer to the charge of murder where the wounded person afterwards dies; and it is bilievei that the only object of the course taken in behalf of the prisoner is, that the jury may have, formally, brought before them the facts that the prisoner has been already tried and convicted of an offence arising out of the same transaction, and sentenced to a very severe punishment, in the hope that it may operate upon their minds, and induce them to return a verdict that will not affect the life of the unhappy prisoner. A VINDICATION OF PAUL PRY. At the Bow-street Police.eonrt, on Wednesday, a Mr. William Burke le The ' who informed the megistra'e that he was` the editor or Paul Pry, attendel to draw attention to some alleged inaccuracies in the newel:over reports of the proceedings h , fore Mr. Jardine, on the previous day, in reference to the sizere of indecent hooks and prints in Holywell-street and Ilrjh-street. Mr. Henry recommeeded the applic ant to wait until the matter again came before the court, as he (Mr. Henry) was unacqoainted with the facts of the case, and as the books, &a., were not b4ore him. Mr. Roche sail that if the meanwhile a certain amount of Kai chi f was going on which be &sired to stay. In one statement all the mernine, papers concurred, viz., that some numbers of Paul Pry bad been seiz Id. That was not true. He male the denial advisedly, for ha had been to all the shop., and had been aesu-ed that no Paul Prys had been seized. The Chief Usher : Then you have been mis in'ormed. Mr. Superintendent Dark in drew the attention of Mr. Jardine to'some copies of No. 14 of Paul Pr#, and pein'ed out passages as obteere. Mr. It iche said that other papers had also been seized, one called the Town and another called the Little Wonder. Why were they not also mentioned ? Ha then produced a copy of the Morning News, and c implained of a long account of a cenvers ation tending to produce the impression that Paul Pry was a moat immoral work. He denied that Paul Pry was obscene. As editor he was p-epared to take the whole respensibility of what appeared in the paper, as at present can luc'ed. Why was the conversation giren is extenso in the Morning Yews? Ile believcd that the reporter had an at itnus ageii st Paul Pry, and against himself person ally. The reporter refe.Ted to here observe.'.: Although itis not usual to jo a in ouch ece.vereation, I must a k your warship's leave to tell the applic ant that I have no animua against him. I have net even the slightest acquaintance with him, and never spoke to him in my life. The passage he moot particularly complains of was not written by me, but was extracted from an evening paper, and interpolated in the middle of my report, as the applicant may satisfy hienself by reference to the evening piper. I did not mention the ToWn or the Little Wonder, as I did not know th , y were seized. They were not produced or mentioned here, as was Paul Try. If they had ben I should have mentioned them. Mr. Roche : Was it stated here that the publisher was still in prison ? The reporter : Certainly it wee. It was as stated by the polio.. Mr. Roche : Then I can only sty that he bas been out these two months. I hope that statement, at all events, will be corrected. I assure your worship that Paul Pry is not an obscene publica tion, and has not been since that time. Mr. Henry : You have altered it sines the prosecution ? Mr. Roche : That is not exactly it. But the two numbers which were objectionable, and for which the publisher was i mpr i so ned were never said. As soon as it was found that they contained objectionable meter they were all destroyed. At present nothing objectionable appears in tha paper; and I true, as an act ce Justice, Chit this con r adietion wilt go forth. Mr. Henry : Ido not see that you have :hewn any inaccuracy, but at the next hearing the books and papers will be roduced, and it will than he fOr the magis trate to judge. You will have every opportnrity of showi g that you work is not obscene, and I am aware that it is sometimes difficult to decide what is obscene and what is not. Applicant : lam not here to defend the , parties who sell obscene publications, bat I deny that Paul Pry is obscene, and I think it only fair to take all the responsibility of . what it really does contain. At the same time, it never was sold in Holywell•street from first to last. Mr. Roche ultimately left the court, evidently dissatisfied with . the magistrate's view of the case.