Northern Times. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-08-10 00:00:00

FOREIGN INTELLIGENC E FRANCE. The Marseilles steamer from Constantinople brings letters from that capital up to the 30th ult., Which confirm the accounts of the step taken by M. de Thouvenal, with the tacit support of the Minis ters of Prussia, Sardinia, and Russia. It appears that a note, identical in sense, was communicated by each of the four Ministers to the Porte ; and that it was after their reception Reschid Pacha gave in his resignation. It appeal 4 that Engtand and Austria have stood firmly by the Porte in its difficulties. The Trieste steamer, which was to have left on the Ist, will furnish us With additional and more accurate particulars of this unfortunate crisis. The Austrian Correspondence publishes a telegra phic despatch (rota Constantinople of the sth, according to which M. de Thouvenal had hauled down his flag on the refusal of the Sultan to recall the Caimacans, and had manifested the intention of embarking for France in a few days. The Sultan , has declared that he will address himself to the Emperor Napoleon by writing. It was hoped that a satisfactory arrangement would, nevertheless, be .concluded. According to private letters received at Bremen by the last mail from Hong Kong, the Americans haveoccupied the island of Formosa on the Chi nese coast. The important step could not well have occurred without its becoming known to the British authorities in Hong Kong, and we may therefore consider the information as incorrect. From the salubrity and the great advantages of Formosa it would be highly -desirable that that island should be converted into a British station ; such is probaby its destiny. The trial of the three Italians has ter minated. The same absence of public interest Was manifested. Tibaldi appeared paler and more .anxious than yesterday; the same remark may be applied to Grilli. Bartolotti exhibited, on the other hand, the same indifference. The Procureur General commenced his case by denouncing Campanella, Massarenti, Tibaldi, Grilli, and ,Bartolotti as the active instruments of the plot, while he attributed the organization of the -same to Ledru Rollin and Mazzini. M. Das merat, the counsel for Tibaldi, asserted, in favour of his client, that nothing had been proved by the prosecution, that certain great shadows been raised beyond the frontiers, but that his salient knew nothing of them, and was in nocent of the conspiracy. Grilli's counsel, M. Lacan, then -rose, and maintained that his client had aecepted money for the purpose of assassinating the Emperor, but that he had never for one moment really entertained any criminal idea ; that he had, moreover, never carried a weapon about him when in the streets. M. Lecanu, the counsel for Bartolotti, engaged in the same line of defence, and maintained the innocence of the . latter. The proceedings were tame beyond description. The opinion of the public is that nothing in the evidence has tended to incriminate Ledru Rollin, and that the authorities have committed an error in accusing him formally of complicity in the last plot. The evidence given by Gerana, respecting the in - tended assassin Koelsch, cannot be said to belong -to the present case ; and in England that evidence would probably not have been accepted. The complicity of the Italians in London, including Mazzini, appears less dubious. ITALY. The Piebnontese Gazette of the sth has the fol 'lowing' intelligence, under the head of Turin, :'without quoting the source from which it is taken, and, therefore, must be looked on as being an article published under the sanction of the Pied montese Government Besides like 3 esides the • mp address which many notable citizens of those of Ravenna, Forli and other towns of the l egat i ons, have presented to their senator in order to request him to convey the wishes of the country to the Supreme Pontiff, the Chamber of Commerce and the corporation of advocates and attorneys of the former • city have each sent an address to the Holy Father. That of the Chamber of Commerce treats of the wants of the" commercial and manufacturing interests, and that of the Advocates on law reforms. The students of the University of Bologna have also addressed a petition to their rector, - in which they solicit him to call the attention of the Holy Vather to the necessity of introducing improvements into the University. The publication of such intelligence is the more remarkable that the Armonia, the clerical organ of Turin, has hitherto stoutly denied the exist ence of the other addresses mentitvned in the above article. TURKEY. Constantinople appears to be the chosen battle "field of diplomacy. Every now and again we are called upon to witness stern fights, wherein little blood is spilt but very much ink, and wherein all the aggressive and annoying means of which Am bassadors dispose are largely brought into play— diplomatic notes, protests, ultimatums, delaying of mails and sometimes packing up, thereatening to no—going. The Sultan's Ministers are, of course, always the party attacked, but, although the aggres sors have changed each time, there never has been any change in the staunch friend who has always 'stood by them, and enabled them to resist the unreasonable demands of diplomatic tiros, anxious to gain their spars on this memorable field. What there is in the air of Constantinople which flies to th e b rain of young diplomats and inspires 'them with so much ardour, I cannot presume to say, but ala s ! I could name more t h an one 'P romi sing ambassador who has fallen a victim 'to this baneful influence, and another has just been seized with all the symptoms which precede a 'rapid dissolution ; and yet it is easy to escape, by Adhering strictly to the trite maxim, never meddle 'with what is not your business. When the Congress of Paris lately recognised the. Otto man Empire as a member of the European family, it seems at the same time to have thought proper that it should undergo a term of tutelage and probation before it was left to itself, and as a part, of this system, I suppose, a commission was appointed to watch the execution of certain measures to be adopted in that part of the empire known as the Danubian Principalities. A.great question soon arose—shall these Principalities be left separated , rated, as th e y have been from time imme morial, or shall they be united?—anal, na turally 'enough, it w as agree d t h at the wishes of the people should be taken into account; that the Sultan and his Government should have an opinion and a wish in a matter which concerns an important portion of the Ottoman empire, and that this opinion and this wish should be the maintenance of the ancient order of things, can be easily under ! stood. THE MURDER OF MIL LITTLE. SATURDAY—SECOND DAY. At five minutes after ten, the Chief Justice came upon the bench, and the jury having been called over, the pri soner was placed at the bar. Counsel for the .prisoner applied to have Mrs. Gunning re-called The Chief. Justice Monahan said : Certainty. Mrs. Gunning was then examined by Mr. Sydney : She said that after going to Mr. Little's room she went to other rooms in the building before she went to her own apartment at about eight o'clock ; from the foot of the steps to her own apartment there is but one flight of steps ; the swivel window is kept shut by a hook-and-eye fastened on the side of the widow; whilst in her own apartment she heard no noise underneath; the eye is much larger than the hook, and it would make noise by the wind ; the door leading to the platform was closed at five o'clock; a person could get out at the window on tho grand staircase ; there is a window which opens on the platform ; and there was an iron bar put upon that window, since the murder; that window could be pulled down, and a person could get out at that window on the platform near the gateway, between the gateway and the door leading to the Direc tors' house ; if a preen went down by the back stairs to the basement story, he would have to pass the coal store and other store rooms along the corridor. By the At torney, G2nerat : There was no way of securing the window that pulled down, before the murder ; never saw that window open before the iron bar was put upon it; saw the reflection of light from Mr. Little's room between seven and eight p o'clock on the night of the murder ; went to Cahry s room on these:me corridor and other rooms under Mr. Little's room ; afterwards went out on the platform and returned to the committee-room for a coal-box, and went to her own room and lighted a fire; the clock struck eight when she left her own room and went down to the basement story. By Chief Justice Monahan: She passed by Mr. Little's room only once from the time she saw the ref! ctioe of the light there. The prisoner's daughter was here produced, and on coming to the book the prisoner became affected ; he buried his face in his hands, and applied his handkerchief to wipe away a starting tear; however he soon regained his composure. Chief Justice Lefroy examined the child as to her knowledge of religion, and her knowledge of the obligations of an oath. The Attorney -General requested to be permitted to examine the child : Sne said she was in the habit of saying her prayers as long as she remembered; she said the Lord s Prayer, the Hail Mary, and the Apostles Creed ; a person who told a lie would be punished by God is the next world. Lucy Spollen was then sworn, and examined by the Attorney-General : Lived with her father and mother ; her eldest brother is named James, and she is the third ; James is going on seventeen ; Joseph is thirteen ; she is be weeen ten and eleven years of age ; both her brothers worked for the railway ; their dinner hour was twelve o'clock, and her father was in the habit of (limiter , with the family ; the family took tea at half-past five o'clock, and her father and brother James took tea always with them; remembers hearing of Mr. Little being killed ; heard it the next day ; her father dined with them on the day Mr. Little was killed; her brother James returned from work at half-past five o'clock ; her mother was at home when her brother came !home ; she took tea with them that evening, and her brother James also ; took tea at the usual hour ; her father did not take tea with them that evening ; he came in about seven or eight o'clock ; took her tea after her brother James and mother had taken their tea; her brother Joseph took tea with her; her father had not come home up to the time she had taken her tea, but he came in shortly afterwards ; did not see Sim in the cottage that evening till he came in at the hour mentioned ; sew him Le'bre that on the roof opposla their cottage; saw him on the roof of the house where the smiths used to work ; was looking out at the window when I saw him ; could see him from that window ; all her brothers were with her ; James, Joseph, and George were with her; George is younger than witness; he is going on seven ; was looking out at. the window when she saw her father; both James and Joseph saw him ; it was a moonlight night ; her brother was standing at the hall- I door at the time; saw her father; he was putting some thing down the chimney; that was the forge chimney; it was something round in a lump that he put down the chimney ; during. that time her mother was standing at the hall door ; had not heard her father speak about the place before she saw him on the roof; her mother had left the room a good while before she saw her father on the roof; she saw her father take his tea that, evening —it was late when he took it—her father did not take his tea for an hour and a-half or so after she saw him on the roof; does not know the clock; thinks it was six or seven o'clock when she saw her father on the roof ; did not leave the cottage after she had taken her tea , it was about an hour and a-half after she had taken her tea that she saw her father on the roof; generally goes to bed about nine or ten o'clock ; did not go to bed till after her father had taken his tea; goes to bed by herself; her father had the ladder on the roof with him—the ladder reached from the roof to the chimney. To the Court : Saw him middle way on the ladder to the roof, and when on the roof saw him pull the ladder after him (sensation) —piece of calico produced]—lt had been part of a sun bounet, and had been a duster ; miessd it some time before last Christmas ; often saw the duster about the cottage; never used it herself; was sure that was the same ; saw it shortly before Mr. Little was killed ; did not see it since. Mr. Sydney objected to this line of ex. emanation. Witness. Saw it about three months before Mr. Little was killed ; saw it in the cottage ; it was then used as a duster ; saw her mother use the piece of calico as a duster ; witness and her mother used to clean the house; she was not going to school at the time Mr. Little was killed ; saw the police about the place after the murder. Did your father say anything to you about that time? Witness: He said if I were shown a piece of cea mois not to say I had ever seen it before ; remembers the time her father was arrested; her mother had been ill about a week before that. Do you recollect at the time when your mother was, sick did she express a wish to send for any one ? Counsel for the prisoner objected to the question. The Court decided that the question might be put as tending to elicit further evidence. What did your mother say on that occasion ? She called for the priest. What did your father say ? He said he wouldpot allow either priest or doctor into the house, and the first that went in for either he would have their life; all the chil dren slept in the same room. Cross-examined by Mr. Sydney . Knew thtenature of an oath since she was taught her prayers ; was not at the school for two years before the murder of Mr. Little; her father was not away at the time of the murder ; would swear he did not sleep out of the house for two years before Mr. Little was killed ; heard on the Friday that Mr. Little was murdered the previous day ; heard it about half-past five in the evening ; her brother Joseph told her of it ; lie said he heard it over at the sheds ; her brother James knew it at the same time as her brother Joseph ; was certain that it was the day previous to hearing of the murder that she saw her father doing what she had described already ; did not know the month in which Mr. Little was murdered ; could not say whether it was at the beginning or end of the year ; did not remember what her father was doing on the Monday previous to the murder ; did not recollect what time he came to the house on the Monday after ; thought her father came home at the usual hour; would not swear it. (Counsel here drew witnessess attention to the.neodel which lay on the table) The lunatic asylum looked over on the railway; any one standing on the roof could hit one of the windows of the asylum from it ; knew the parlour window at her father's cottage; there was a table at it, which ran across it ; was standing at the table when looking out of the window ; when at meals they kept the curtain drawn across; the curtain draws either sides ; the curtain was drawn across the night Mr. Little was murdered; there was a candle burning that night in the room; her brother James took his tea with her mother, and Joseph got it with witness after; her mother never lit the candle until it was dark ; it was dark then; the candle was only lit when her father and mother sat down to tea ; they were about half an hour at tea; herself and brother took the "same time to it; it was not eight o'clock when they sat down, to tea ; it was, how ever, after seven o'clock when they sat down to tea (Witness was handed a piece of cloth. Will you swear you ever used• that in your life? Witness: I did; I know it by the pattern, but I am not certain I ever washed it. It was shown to her for the first time after having missed it, at the station-house ; that was after Christmas ; about six weeks after her father was ar rested ; there was talk in their cottage about the reward having been offered, and heard about other people offering to tell of the murder; heard a Mr. Robinson and a Mr. Dowd talking about it in the cottage ; they were not trying to get the reward, but were speaking of the people that were ; she did not, speak of it, but heard her father, mother, and brother speak of it ; did not tell any one be fore she went to the police what she would there swear : could not tell if her mother knew of her going there; Mr. Meares brought her to the poliee office ; her mother was in charge of the police in a lodging in Sackville-place, when she saw her ; stopped there two or three days; did not say anything there about what she swore to in the police-office ; was not asked any qeestions about it by any one; her mother did not know that she was at the police-office; Meares brought her from Sackville place to the stationehouso in the same street; stopped there for about half an hour;' from that she was brought, she thought, to the lodging in Sackville-place or Cnapel-street ; was not sure to which place she was brought; could not say on what day she was brought before the magistrates ; while in the lodgings only went once before the magistrates ; after she went home she went again before the magistraees ; could not tell how many days intervened between the first and second time she appeared before the magistrates ; altoic - ther she was three different times before them ; eat and drank at toe same table with her brothers and mother ; did not speak anything to them about the murder after she returned to the cottage. Mr. Curran here applied to have the informations of the witness Lucy Spoiler!, sworn on the Ist July, read. The Clerk oft be Crown proceeded to read them, which occupied some time. Lucy Spollen, in continuation, re-examined by the Attorney-General : On tbu Friday after Mr. Little was murdered, heard it frora her brother Joseph at about five o'clock ; her brother said that he heard it in the sheds that Mr. Little was ' dead—that he had cut his throat; the curtain was muslin, 1 and ran in a running string ; she could put it aside from the centre at either site; the curtain could be raised at THE NORTHERN TIMES.---LIVERPOOL, MONDAY, AUGUST 10, 1857. BIRMINGHAM ELECTION. Mr. Bright is now the only candidate in the field, his opponents, Messrs. M'Gsachey and Webster, having re tired from the contest on Saturday last. The nomination is fixed for this day (Monday), when no doubt Mr. Bright will be elected without further opposition. The hon. gentleman issued the following address, which gave almost general satisfaction:— TO THE ELECTORS OF THE BOROUGH OF BIRISINGS_IM. GE'TLEMEN,- I am informed that a very influential portion of your body is wishful that I should become one of your Repre_ sentatives to fill the place of the independent and faithful Member you have recently lost, and I have seen in the newspapers, that at a very large Public Meeting my name has been received with great favour. You are doubtless aware that it has been my intention, at least for a time, to keep out of public life, that I might have an opportunity fully to recover from an illness which , for more than a year, has made it necessary that I should abstain from mental labour, and from the excitement which attends public affairs. I have therefore not sought to be returned to Parliament, but have endeavoured to evade all invitations to become a candidate for the suffrage of any constituency. I feel, however, that after tho steps that have been taken by my friends in Birmingham, I am not at liberty to reject the honour and the responsibility which :they are disposed to offer to me, and I have intimated to them that whilst, strictly speaking, I am not a candidate soliciting your suffrages, I cannot withhold such co-oper ation with them as may enable them best to sustain position they have taken in reference to the approaching Election. It is on this ground, and with this explanation, that I venture to depart from my original intention not to interfere in any way in the contest in which you are now engaged. After fourteen years of service in the House of Corn mons, having spoken and voted on almost every great question which has been discussed during that period, I feel it unnecessary to write at length and in detail as to my political opinions and my public course. You will not require to be told that I am a warm supporter of such measures as shall render the representation of the nation more real and complete in the House of Commons, and that I shall value any scheme brought forward by the Government in proportion as it is extensive in its scope and honest in its intention, and that I shall regard a wide extension of the franchise as shorn of half its virtue if it be not accompanied by the safeguard of the Ballot. I need hardly say that I strongly approve of a principle which 1 cannot doubt is dear to the people of Birmingham —that of local control in all matters of local interest. I would entrust more to the inhabitants in each local*, and less to the Government officials and to the Home Office. s 4 With regard to a question which some time ago excited interest among a portion of your body, viz , the disposi tion of the Government to manufacture arms and other articles for the public service, and thus to compete with or to destroy the private manufacturer, I have only to refer you to my course on that subject when it was before Parliament. I think Government manufactures wrong in principle, and always wasteful of the public money. There is another question, which at this moment occu pies and absorbs public attention—the revolt in India. Whilst I deplore this terrible event, along with the rest of my countrymen, I am, perhaps, less surprised at it than most of them are. For twelve years I have given great attention to the subject of India. I have twice brought it before Parliament, once in moving for a Select Commit tee, and once in moving for a Royal Commission of Inquiry ; and I took an active part in the debates on the Bill recently passed to continue the powers of the East India Company, and held public meetings in several of our largest cities with a view to excite public interest in the great — question • of the Government of India. The success of the insurrection would involve anarchy in India, unless some great man, emerging from the chaos, should build up a new Empire, based on and defended by military power. lam not prepared to defend the steps by which England has obtained dominion in the East, but looking to the interests of India and of England, I cannot oppose such measures as may be deemed necessary to suppress the existing disorder. To restore order to India is mercy to India, but heavy will be the guilt of our country should we neglect here- - after any measures which would contribute to the Welfare of its hundred millions of population. I hope that the acts of the Government will be free from the vindictive and sanguinary spirit which is shown in many of the letters which appear in the newspapers, and that when the present crisis is over, all that exists of statesmanship in England will combine to work what good is possible out of so much evil. I will say no more. The kindness shown to me by so many amongst you I feel deeply. I value your good npinion as you would wish it to b 3 valued. I have sought private life. and quiet for a time is needful for me. You have called on me to occupy a very honourable position, and if I am placed in it by your free choice, I cannot refuse it, and I shall strive to give to you and to our country a faithful service.—l , am, with the greatest respect. yours faithfully, JOHN BRIGHT. Tamworth, August 8, 1857. SUICIDE.-0a Saturday morning a ferrate named Mary Oliver, cut her throat in a holm: in Norman-street. An inquest will be held this day, when all the facts will be elicited. CRA.ROI3 of EMBEZZLEMENT. —On Saturday, detective officer Laycock returned from Ireland, having in hie custody a young man named John O'Connor, whom he arrested on a charge of having embezzled £95 from Messrs. Grimshaw, of Goree Pijzza, in whose employment he was. lie will be brought before the magistrates this day. ACClDENTS.—Yesterday, a little girl named Sarah Porlgett, was received into the Northern hospital, having received a severe contusion from accidentally setting her foot upon a piece of orange peel, which caused her to fall. David Spence was also received into the same establish ment, having received a severe bite from a dog. Both the parties are doing well under the able care of the surgeons of that establishment. - - TAI NEWFOUNDLAND STEAMERS. — The steam ship F o lsersonese, which was to have left Liverpool on Saturday, for Newfoundland, has been chartered by government for troops to India. The mails intended for the IChersonese were consequently detained. The owners of the Kher sonem have chartered in her stead tha new and beautiful screw steam ship General Williams. She is appointed to sail on Wednesday next. THE LATE It. V. YATES.—We understand that a sub scription Ist is about to be opened to defray the expense of a handsome Memorial Fountain, to be erected in memory of the above-named lamented gentleman. This is Lo,hing but right: Mr. Yates philanthropy is well known. His conduct with regard to:the Prince's-park showed that he consulted the benefit of the people of Liverpool more than his own personal adVantage. We are glad to learn that Mr McGregor Laird, chairman of the African Steam Navigation Company, has most handsomely off2red to the Cotton Supply Association to convey np the Niger, free of charge, one or two hundred gins and a press, the transmit of which would otherwise cost some £3OO. If we are asked what 'good can this association effect, we point to this very liberal offer of Mr. Laird's as an indication not without significance. — Manchester Guardian. The Great Western's reduction of dividend to I per colt. per annum is one of the most remarkable finetuations of railway finances. It may, however, be attributed to heavy rates of interest on loans received, and the unde veloped lines to, ►he with, which create a large guarantee. At present itese lines are limited in productiveness to local traffic. Until free access be obtained to Manchester, Liver pool, and Bilkenhead, the managers, able though they are, cannot expect to realise their reasonable calculation' of successful working. tha bottom, so as to look under it ; heard her brother James say that there was a reward offered for the discovery of the murderer of Mr. Little. A question here arose as to the legality of the line of evidence elicited by the Attorney-General. In answer to the Court wituess - said she raised the- curtain to look out ; she was amusing herself by doing so; she had no par ticular object in looking out when she saw her father on the roof. To Mr. Sydney : She raised the curtain partly in the middle, and at either end of the table there was room to go to the corner of the window. To the Attorney- General : Her brother James was in the room at a little engine he was making; when she saw her father on the roof, James and Joseph came to the window and they all saw him ; she stated to him (the Attorney-General) that the last time she saw the duster was before it was produced at the police-office about three monthe. The Attorney-General then read her evidence before the magistrates, in which she swore that she had seen the duster in her father's house the day before Mr. Little was murdered, and asked the witness which of those state ments were correct, to which she replied that she had seen the duster three months before the murder. The right hon. gentleman was proceeding with the examina tion when he was interrupted by Mr. Curran, and the court ruled in favour of Mr. Curran's objection. Then with respect to the discrepancy in her evidence in reference to the ladder, in her examination before the magistrates, she swore that her father did not take the ladder up after him on the roof ; and in direct examina tion to-day she swore he did take the ladder up from the ground after him upon the roof. In answer to Caief Justice Monahan, she repeated that he had pulled up the ladder on the roof, and that she recollected it now. To Chief Justice Lefroy : She said that she now recollected that it was three months before the murder of Mr. Little that she had seen the duster. Joseph Spollen, sworn and examined by Mr. Fitzgibbon, Q.O. : I am the son of the prisoner; I want two months of being fourteen years of are ; I remembe • hearing of the death of Mr. Little ; it was between five and six o'clock in the evening when I heard it ; I heard of it at the terminus ; I was at school that day ; I returned from school between three and four o'clock ; after hearing of Mr. Little's death I went to my mother; I went into the bedroom ; I recollect the night before—the Thursday night ; about night-fallen that evening I was at home; I saw my father on that (Thurs day) night; I saw him between halt-past five and six o'clock ; I SAW him crossing the rails at that time ; I had not seen him in the cottage that evening before I saw him crossing the rails; he was going towards the terminus when I saw him ; there was no person with him; I was standing at the hall-door of the cottage when I saw him ; I saw that he had something iu his hand when he was crossing the rails ; I don't know what he had in his hand ; it was something as if it were long ; I had not seen him from dinner time till then ; dinner hour was between twelve and one o'clock ; I saw him again that night ; it was on the roof of the forge I saw him ; that was about eight o'clock; I was then at the parlour window; Mary, and George, and James, were with me in the parlour at that time ; no one else was there ; I was sitting at the table; the table was in the middle of the floor; Mary was at the window and GeOrge was at the window too ; I did not observe how my father got on the roof; when I first observed him he was at the chimney ; I think he was standing on a plank ; the plank was stretching from the roof to the set off on the chimney (the witness having described the premises by the model, the examination proceeded). I was at the right hand corner of the ;window, and Mary was beside me on the left hand side; I think it was at the far side George was ; I think George was at the window before either Lucy or me; the reason why we were at the window was that we wondered what kept my father out ; it was George saw my father first on the roof of the forge; I recollect taking my tea that evening ; it was about six o'clock we had our tea ; James, and my mother, and Lucy, and George took tea that evening ; we did not all take tea together ; my mother and James took tea first, and afterwards Lucy, and George, and myself ; my father was not there at the time ; we had taken our tea before we had seen him on the roof of the forge; it was about a couple of hours after we had taken'our tea that I saw him on the roof ; about six o'clock is our usual time fala taking tea ; I saw James a couple of minutes before half-past five o'clock ; after he got his tea he went to make a mineeuresteam engine; he had it beside the fire In a drawer ; I saw him at work at the engine ; he was working at it about an hour and a halaland then he went to read ; my mother helped them to their tea ; she remained in the room after that; she was cot in the room when they saw his father on the roof ; the two chicatilee I have described are, I think, the only ones visible from the window; oh, yes, there is another— the far chimney of the forge ; I know my father's razors —(razors handed to witness)—these are my father's razors; they are the razors he used to use before the death of Mr. Little—(two other razors handed to witness) —I. do not know these two razors ; I can write, but cannot read well--(witness wrote his name on paper, in accor dance with the direction of counsel—the duster produced) —I saw that duster before ; I saw it on the other trial, that was at Capel-street office; I saw it before then; it had been a sun bonnet, and my sister wore it ; it was always a sun bonnet ; part of the time it was made a duster of; that was at home ; 1 saw it before in my sister's desk; I saw it. a couple of days before his Math ; I saw it out in the old workshop (witness described the situation of the workshop); I did not see it at the cottage after Mr. Little's death ; I saw it next in our own cottage, it was shown to me by Mr. Kemmis and Mr. Ray ; that was before the last trial at the Police-effice ; I remember the day of the coroner's inquest on Mr Little ; it was on Saturday ; 1 saw my father on that day ; I remember when tho police were about the place after the death of Mr. Little; I heard the police were in the cottage, but I did net see them as I was at school ; my father spoke to me about the police; he said if any one spoke to me about a chamois or a red rag, to say I never saw them before (sensation) ; it was about a week before my father was arrested that my mother took ill; it was in the bedroom she was ill ; all the family were in the room when my mother complained of being ill ; my father was there; my mother told me or .lames to go for the doctor, but my father swore by his G—d if any of them left the house he would take their lives ; I remem ber some padlocks that were in my father's possession ; I knew him to make use of those locks; the locks were used for locking the tops of the oil cans ; I only saw two padlocks [padlocks produced and identified] ; they were kept in the drawer when not in use ; that drawer was in the parlour ; my father had these locks before I heard of Mr. •Little's death ; he had them at that time, but soon afterwardn only saw one of them ; I cannot say how long before the death of Mr. Little I saw those locks with my father ; I saw a hammer in my father's possession; I saw more than one I would know those hammers again (hammers produced); these are the hammers I saw with my father ; he had the large hammer before the death of Mr. Little, but he had not the smaller ; he kept the larger hammer in the workshop ; I often used that hammer my self; I could not say how long he had the smaller hammer bebre Mr. Little's death ; that hammer (the large one) was in the cottage before the death of Mr. Little, but I did not see it afterwards ; it had not that putty on'it then that it has now ; I did hot see that hammer at all after the death of Mr. Little till I saw it in the other court and at our own house when I saw it with Mr. Kemmis and Mr. Ray; I remember seeing another hammer with my father bolero Mr. Little's death; it was an old one , he kept the hammer with the putty on it (that is the large one) at the workshop. In answer to a juror witness pointed out on the model the place where he saw his father crossing the rails and also the portion of the old forge. Cross-examined by Mr. Curran : Never saw the model before. To the Court : Did you see any other men vine that way ? he was crossing alone ; James was •at his tea at the time. Witness here describecathe position on the model in which he first saw his father. Cross-examination continued : Was sure it was his father he had seen there ; there was no timber on the place pointed out by Mr. Curran ; there were some waggons ; at half-past five his brother James came into rho cottage ; James had taken his tea before witness had seen his father ; James was at his tea when he saw his father coming up with something in his hand ; James was about a quarter of an hour at his tea; from dinner time till then he had not seen his father ; between twelve and one his father took his dinner ; witness took his dinner between one and two o'clock; this was on the day that Mr. Little was murdered at night ; had taken a key from his father's pocket ; could not guess to the time he had taken it; opened his father's drawers with it ; his father was asleep ; there were eight sous. and 17s 6d in silver in the drawers ; counted it and put it back again ; went to the school at the Black Church ; went at nine and returned at three o'clock ; was going to school a-year before Mr. Little's death ; was punctual in going to school; some days he stopped at home to get his boots repaired ; was not at school the week or day on which Mr. Little was murdered ; never swore that he was ; saw his sister wear the sun bonnet; it is nearly three years since he saw her wear it; never used it himself as a duster, and was not in the habit of using it at all ; he would know it by the pattern ; saw it a couple of days before Mr. Little's murder; would swear it was less than a week before that occurrence that he saw it ; when his father used the words about the red rae, to him, did not recollect if Lucy was present; she never told him any thing about what his father had told; never himself said anything to her about it ; remembers the day his father w.is arrested ; spoke to the police van about his being arrested; had no conversation with his mother about his father's arrest; had tto conversation with his sister about it ; slept with his sisters and brother George ; his mother also slept in the same room; self, brothers, sisters and mother, took their meals together ; never spoae to any l ox d abouthorf many h a e n ywroat razors r his i a f t h t t e h r h r a h i s ; ed n e t v o e r b i hadn r t e h c e o n - la his hand s tve there with Mr. Rae and Mr. Kemmis ; never wee near his father when he was shaving; George was at the far side of the window from him, anti first saw his father; there was a curtain on the window and a table at the windo.v; did not know when he last saw the sun bonnet need as a duster ; could read the word patent on the ,padlock; knew it by the "crown,'' "V R," and " patent'' on it. Mr. Curran requestel that the witnesse's informations should be read over, having previously questioned him as to their having been read over to him before he had signed them. The reading of the informa tions occupied some time. Mr. Curran proceeded to question witness as to the discrepancies between his sworn ness: informationsWas livingat a n t d h t e h e ß e r v o i a d d e s n t oo o n c on s thatuee the d de a ym. Wi r t ; his mother scolds sometimes. Re examined by Mr. Fitz gibbon : His mother and sister were n ot et home when his father was arrested, but he was ; before p s is fathaß was murder arrested; his mother wes nearly a? week from home ; his s's?er was also away; they were away two or three days, In answer to a question by Mr. Fitzgibbon as to the dis_ crepancies , pointed cut by Mr. Curran; the witness said titre was no difference between his former statement and the present one. Witness to Court.: I made some obser vations to the magistrates about a portioneof my inform:- Hoes 'Jeering to be altered, as it was incorrectly taken. Daniel Be an, Inspector of G Division of FoLte sworn and examined by the Attorney-General I am am Inspector of police and was engaged in the investigation of this murder at the Broadstone Terminus; I remember having a conversation with the prisoner relative to his occupa tion on that evening ; I have a perfect recollection of what he said on that occasion ; I have a memorandum I made of that conversation, but not with me; it is in the o_fice ; I cm produce it if necessary ; I said to the prisoner that we were :making an ?inquiry relative to he murder, and I asked him had he any objection to account for his t me and occupation on the evening of the murder, and he said he had not; I said we had examined others, and, Vecrefere, we should examine him ; he said why not. Ile then said that his name Was James Spollen, and that he rosided in the cottage adjoining the poorhouse wall, and that ho gave up work that evening at half-past five :'clock; that he went direct home and drank his tea ; that he remained within till nine o'clock, and at nine o'clock, accompanied by hie wife atel eldest daughter, and his son James, he went to Moore-street to buy bacon • I asked him how he occupied his time up to nine o'clock and he said in reading a book; he said that when they went to IVo , re-stre et his wife went into a shop to buy the b icon ; I asked him what compliment he purchased, but he said he did not know, as he remained outside, on the footway, and his wife went in and muds the purchase; I asked him if it were in Moore-street he was in the habit of dealing, and he said no, that it was in Bolton•street ; he said he merely went to Moore-street for a walk, and returned through Capel- street that he went in and came out under tbe railway clock, and that it was ten minutes past ten o'clock when he returned ; I asked him if he saw any rerson when he was going out, and he said he did not recollect, but when returning he mot Timmons, the watchman, and he bid him good night, and that shortly after ho iient home he went to bed; two days after he cella) to me and said he forgot to mention to me that when going out that evening, ho saw Catherine Campbell, the servant, speaking to the railway policeman; I recollect the second search in the canal ; I was present at it ; I was there when the razor was found ; was within view of Henry Neal when he found it ; it was proposed to wash it, but I prevented it being done; the razor was quite b'ack when! got it into my possession, and the .• jaggs " were on it; it has since got the rust on It. _ SUICIDE OF EM , LY SANDFORD There are few but will recollect the startling and half romantic details and circumstances of the Stanfield Hall tragedy, of which Rush was the hero. Not the least feature of interest, arising out of the disclosures then made public, was the position of the victim of his seduc tion, Emily Sandford, upon whose evidence his fate was sealed. It will be remembered that after the execution of Rush the contributions of the charitable enabled her to seek a home and the means et forgetfulness in Australia. The next that is heard of her is, that her brother who accompanied her was drowned while landing at Adelaide. And now, from a South Australian journal, we learn that, unable longer to endure the inward grief anl distemper of mind to which of late years it would seem she had been subject, she has put an end to an existence upon which mi-ery had for the most part set its seal. At the coroner's inquest it was related that during the last three years she had been in the service of a gentleman of respetability at Caorings, and was generally known as Emily Smith. Her employer described her as being a really good servant. Both himself and his visitors had remarked that she was occasionally " very flighty ;" they thought her eccentric:; "at one moment she would be smiling, and the next in tears, although generally she was in good spirits." Her employer had ventured to joke with her at times, having been so long in his service; her grammar and language being peculiar to herielf• She had an uncontrollable curiosity, and on one occasion it was discovered by her employer that she had been reading some private letters belonging to another person sent to him for perusal. He chided her for it, telling her she was quite at liberty to read his \ letters, but not those of other people. Oa the, evening when she took ale poison—arsenic—she waited at the table as usual, company being present. When called for after supper she did not appear, and was found suffer ing from the effects of the poison. Oa the surgeon's arrival she asked if she was dying, and receiving a reply in the affirmative, she exclaimed, " I thank God for it I" To one of the witnesses she was recently pointed out by those who knew her as Emily Sandford, but of this she was ignorant. The jury returned a verdict of felo do se. And no sod or stone will tell, in a few short years, where lie the earthly elements of a human soul which once, we may be certain, was undimmed by the dark shadows which, in latter years, sufficed to hurry it to premature destruction. —Ballarat Star. A STORNI AT SPA• For some time past the weather here has been extremely hot. Yesterday (Aug. 4) the air was more than usually sultry, thermometer 9) deg. Fahrenheit in the shade. About ten o'clock a.m. a cloud of smoke was seen rising in a southerly direction, and it was immadiately presumed that a house was on fire in the hamlet of Creppe, situate on a rising ground about a mile from the town. The town fire-engine was instantly despatched, but upon its arrival it was found to be perfectly useless, as, in consequence of the long drought, the place was almost absolutely deprived of water. By one o'clock 26 farm-houses and cottages, with hay ricks, Bvc., had fallen a prey to the flames. The church was entirely destroyed. About seven in the evening I drove out with a few friends to the heights, near the old race-course, on the road to Start, to get a little of the fresh air of the bills. Halting for a few minutes, we were admiring the distant scenery through a most tran sparent atmosphere, and a few thin columns of smoke still emerging from the ruins of the devoted hamlet, when, . looking westwards, we observed coming over from the direction of La Reid a dense black cloud, which came on spreading over Designy, Winanplanche, Marteau, Crippe, Spa. and the place where, we had pulled up; it was a whirlwind of impalpable dust and noxious exhalation ; 'this passed over in the direction of Sart, having lasted in i s course about a quarter of an hour. The atmosphere again became bright, but the air remained still sultry. This morning the intense heat continued, the sun shining brightly until about four o'clock, when suddenly the same black-looking cloud came over Spa from the same direc tion, and in a few minutes there fell, amid a roar of thunder like the booming of artillery, accompanied by uninterrupted sharp platoon firing, such a shower of hailstones as no one present in this place remembers ever to have seen. The shower lasted about ten minutes; the first hailstones that fell were of the size of grapeshot, then like marbles, mixed with myriads of others of all shapes and sizes, many of them of the weight of several ounces, the greater number being spherical, nodulated, of a quartz-like aspect, and measuring uniformly an inch and a half in diameter. The windows were riddled, as from a discharge of grapeshot ; slated and tiled roofs were perforated as if traversed by shells. Fortunately, the crowds of visitors who are usually in the after noon riding, driving, or sauntering about the neighbour hood, were just quietly seated at their table d'hote. At the Hotel de l'Orange the hail bcrst through the windows and broke a considerable qaantity of glass upon the table, indenting by their violence the silverdish covers ; at the Hotel tie Fiandre, a friend of mine standing in his bed room, upon a travelling trunk, to reach out of the window and close the persiennes, was struck by a large hailstone on the head,and knocked over. Our lovely walks, such as the Promenade de Sept Hewes, the Place Royale, and the Avenue du Marteau are ankle deep in twigs and branches. At the English Club, the skylights over the billiard-room were brokeu in, and the cloth of the billiard table cut up completely. It would be impossible in a letter ' of this sort to describe all the ravages committed by this truly memorable storm. We are, many of us, busy in getting up subscriptions for the victims of the disaster at Crippe, most of whom. are uninsured. THE GREAT FIRE IN EDINBURGH. Oh' Wednesday, about half past one o'clock, an alarm of flee was given as having broken out in the large high block c of buildings called St. James's Court, at the top of the Es,rthen Mound, between the buildings known as the Free Church New College, and High Church, and the west aide- of North Bank-street. Seeing policemen flying up the High-street in that direction, we proceeded to the spot, and found the fire most alarming, and threatening, unless got speedily under by erenuous exertions, to commit fearful ravages on the densely-built, and on the other side extensively populated locality i:nonslia.tely behind, reaching up to the north side of the L iwamarket. The flames, it seams, were first observed in the fifth flit of the stair in which the publishing office of the Edinburgh. Gazette is situated, but how the fire originated was not for some time ascertained. This block also cintains the prin cipal office of the National Security Savings' Bank, but by great efforts on the part of the officials of that useful establishment, and of other parties, the books, documents, and securities were early looked after, and quickly removed to a place of safety. The fire, commencing in the third flat above that of the Gazette office, rapidly con centrated itself, and extended its devouring ravages to the adjacent erections. These "lands" being all very old and dry, the flames got much stuff to feed on, and fears were rife that a vast amount of property would be likely to fall a prey to the devastating element. The town con stabulary force were homed ately called off their beats into active requisition for the occasion ; and the fire engines from the head police ()Mee and from the other subordinate stations, together with two from the Castle garrison and those from L:ith Fort and Piershitl, were very soon on the spot, and aided by human strength and skill, readily supplied by all and sundry collected in the general crowd—an immense and excitedly active mass of people of all grades, sexes and ages, drawn to the scene of destruction, did excellent service. A want or water only at first prevented more execution being done, in order—to a considerable extent, at least—to-arrest tne onward progress of the Stoles. One or two children were at this time also in some little jeopardy, but we are happy to say that they were ultimately rescued, and no human life was placed in any danger, which the forethought, skill, and brave energy and determination of the busy throng of spectators could relieve any person from, whether young, old, or middle aged. The heat, before this time excessive, was now speedily becoming overpowering, and it was difficulty, without sustaining discomfort, if not injury, to keen always very near the burning and livid mass of rich and ready plunder on which the fire fast fed. It being the corn market day, doubt:ess caused a greater number to be present than otherwise might have found their way; bar, irrespective of the great number of strangers, farmers, and country people, it was' apparent that every person, young or old, who could plunge (during the dinner hour) to be present, was there. We observed the Lord Provost actively exertii g himself in giving directions, a few minutes previously, at the head of Bank-street, in the company of the Lord Dean of Guild Weneyss ; and now v e saw the sheriff, Mr. Gordon, with some of his friends, at the other side assuming the high hand of authority, as he was well entitled to do, considering the emergency and serious aspect of affairs. The fire, it is said, originated —though various rumours are afloat; and the cause has not even yet been exactly ascertained—from two children having been locked up in a room and left there by their mother, when away on some household errand at market. The children, it seems, got hold of some lucifers, which. they set on fire, and thus occasioned the sad calamity which it is our lot to chronicle. Messrs. H. and J. Pillans, printers, especially (with many others), are included in the catastrophe, but they are well insured. Others, to a large number, are also involved; and, altogether, a more terrific conli igration resulting in such destruction of capital has not, perhaps, occurred in Ed!'- burgh for many years; at all events, so far • as we remember, since the great fire at Messrs. RAM:lves drug and drysaltery establishment in Leith-walk four or fi,.e years ago. The pecuniary loss must be large, but we cannot state it with any approach to accuracy. Water was at first the reverse of plentiful; but ultimately more command over it was obtained. and all went on well in keeping the flames under, so far as man's exertion 3 could accomplish it. Women, too (while the stronger sex ire hundreds and thousands were only looking on), were actively busy in saving furniture, bedding, and the usual domestic articles in every household, however poor. Mr. Mitchell, the superintendent of the Fire Brigade, was absent on leave in the country, but his deputy, Mr. Spalding, and his, subordinates all exerted themselves nobly, and entit!ed thethselves to great credit and honour able mention for their useful and energetic services. The- Riflemen were promptly on the spot, and others of the • military, and to them too much praise cannot be awarded. for the interest they evinced in the subduing of the unfortunate calamity. The other military men also rendered important service in keeping order, and other wise rendering active assistants. At length, after much anxiety as to the safety of contiguous buildings, by the most unparalleled exertiens, about five o'clock the atten dant crowds of people came to consider that the fire was pretty well nigh extinguished, and began to disperse on their several routes. Shortly afterwards a gable fell in, and inflicted injuries on some policemen and firemen, wha were carried away on stretchers to the Royal Infirmary. On Friday morning, about a quarter-past ten o'clock, the smouerieg ruins of the great fire at James's C Aid again brote into a blaze. This result, which was quite unexpected after the fire appeared to be extinguished, was evidently owing to the accumulation of materials from the upper storeys above the flats occupied by the Savings' Bank. The bank, which last winter had been improved by the taking away of an intermediate storey, consisted of what used to be the second and third storeys in this corner of the building, and immediately that the fire had. penetrated into this open double-storey saloon, it broke forth suddenly and simultaneously from almost every window. Mr. Mitchell, the firemaster, happened fortu nately to be on the spot at the time, and he lost no time in again summoning his brigade. Engines and men were speedily forthcoming, but again, we are sorry to say, their efforts were frustrated for some time by want of water, and nearly half an hour had elapsed till a good supply was obtained. When sufficient pressure was obtained, streams of water were poured into the bank and into the adjoining portion of the building which stands between the walls on either side like a tall skeleton, and exhibiting. in a striking manner, the awful ravages of the fire While thus employed, the firemen were evidently subjected to most imminent risk, and we saw several very narrow escapes.from the falling debris, which the force of the water upon projecting sashes of windows or loosened stones brought every minute or two about their heads.. They undauntedly, however, performed their perilous work, and, with great and well-directed energy, played into the burning interior, and against the cal ined The re-outbreak of the Are immediately attracted to the spot Mr. Sheriff Gordon and several of the magistrates. Again the Rifll Brigade promptly turned out, and, under the directions of the Sheriff, completely cleared the whole area in front of the building again intercepting all trade by the Mound. At twelve o'clock the fire was in ra great degree subdued, but the hisslog of the water upon its smoking and smouldering ruins showed Um', it ra;got take some time till it could be altogether extin;uished. The principal result of the fresh outbreak is, th it the. Savings Bank, which escaped the first and great conflagration, has. now been completely destroyed. The following is a list of the occupants of some of the houses consumed :—TOck. flat—Mr. Muir- and sou; J. Kellett, wife, daughter,. and two children,;, Mr. Robertson, wife, and two children; Mr. Sheppard, wife, and one child; Mr. Ronald M•Donald, wife, and one child; IVrs. and one child; Miss Thomson and brother ; Mr. , wife, andlono child ; Betty MrDenald, daughter, sister, and her husband; Mr. Ball, wife, and two children. Second Sat—john Williamson, wife. and five children; Mr. Davidson, wife, and three children; Mr. Cameron, wife, and one child ; Mr. Harper, wi'e, and five children ; Mr. MiPherson, wife, three sons, and one daughter ; Mr_ Gardner, wife,'and three children; Mr. wile, and two children. Third flat—Ykr. Mason, wife, and two children; Mr. Russell and. wife; Mrs. Anderson arid daughter; Mr. —, wife, two daughters and sons married, and three children ;. Mr. — 7 -, wife, and two daughters ; Mr. —, daughter, and child. Fourth fl tit— Mr. and wife ; Mr. Stewart, wife, and three children; Mr. Grant, wile, and five children; Mr. Cameron, son, and sister; Mr. Anderson, wife, and four children. First flat—Mr. Alexander Gann, bookseller, Sonth-bridv, wife, and children—three boys and a girl. 1 1 ware houseman to. Messrs. Black w ood vi e t i e re r nt e t s w h, o children. A public meeting has been held, And subscrip tions for the relief of the sufferers are being collected. Her Majesty baying already intimated her , int ention of , placing a aura at th e di sposa l o f th e committee, and the Duchess of Kent has subscribed £25.. IILsT TO EMPLOSERS AND NVOREMEN.-011 Thursday, Mr. Gibia, of the firm of Murray and Gibb, printers, called together the married men in his establishrneat, and addressed thora•on the duty of working mcu to provide against accidents to their households by fire, instancing the utter ruin one of their own number had experienced in the Sr. James's court °enmity. The result of the worthy genileman's remarks was, that twenty-eight m - diately adpibite•l their names to fire insurance schedules. We sincerely wish that such an example was followed in every workshop in the city, and then working men would feel themselves, in this respect at least, to be independent of the assistance from friends and of the charity of the public. What is the paltry yearly sum of 3s 61 or 55 compared to the luxury one feels when he knows that he can for that =Mint, and as far as £5O or £lOO will go, replaeo his household goods should fire destroy them. THE ANN WILSON. EMIGRANT SNIP: By the Wellington papers of 25th ultimo, we learn that the Provincial Government have refused to pay the bounty of .e2O , per head for the immigrants by this vessel, but found shelter and rations for the whole, and employ. ment for such as were not absorbed through private channels. The Port Emigration 05cer, Captain Sharp, also laid an information against the mister of the vessel, Capt. Rutherford, and established the following breaches of the Passenger Act, after a protracted inquirr in the Resident Magistrate's Court, before Mr. H. St. Hill, viz.: 1. That the deck space and ventilation was only adequate for 112 adults instead of 169, the number on hoard. 2. That the proper allowance of water was never served out during the whole voyage. 3. That the galley was so small as to necessitate the employment of cooks day and night. Julgment was recorded, and the following penalties indicted. viz. For conveying 57 passengers more than the Act allowed. .11,140. 2. For 120 days breach of the 35th clause, relating to the issue of water, £6OO. 3. For 123 days' breach of the 36th clause, relating to the provisions not having been issued in a cooked state before two o'clock, £l2O. Total penalties, £1,850. In addition to the above, there ar-o other cases now before the resident magistrate, which have been brought by the cabin passengers for breaches of contract under the above mentioned act. A coAsiderable amount of sympathy has been excited on hehalf of the widows and sick persons landed from the Ann Wilson, but as is always the case in unorganised movements, less good has been effected than migl,t have been accomplished by systematic efforts. Tl'.ose who push themselves for ward are apt to be pette?„ and spoiled, while those who are sensitive and shrir:a from making known their position to every stranger P.re apt to be neglected. An Emigrants' Aid Society v/ill shortly become a necessity, as it must in every place where immigration increases.