The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-08-27 00:00:00

HOUSE OF COMMONS.-SATURDAY.

The House met at twelve o'clock.
Mr. COCHRANE gave notice that at the next sitting he
should move that the militia should not be called out till after
the harvest, on account of the state of the weather.
Mr. GRIFFITRE called attention to the services rendered by
Abd-el-Bader and the sister of Said Bey in saving the lives of
Christians during the massacre at Damascus.
Lord PALMEASTON replied, that in recognition of the
humanity of Abd-el-Kader and the lady in question the
Government had conveyed to them their formal thanks.

Mr. COCHRANE called attention to a decree in the French
official journal ordering the construction of permanent works
on Lake Leman. If the French thus took military possession
of the neutralised provinces it would be absurd to talk of a
conference.

Lord PALMERSTON knew nothing_ about the matter beyond
what appeared in the newspapers. Her Majesty's Government
held that neither France could take nor Sardinia cede Savoy if
the neutralised territory was thereby to be freed from former
conditions. France had contended that the cession depended
upon two eonditions---that the people of Savoy should give its
consent, and that the treaty 'should be ratified by the Sardinian
Parliament. How the consent of the people was obtained it
was not for him to say, but it was not likely, after th? Govern-
ment of Turin had ratified the treaty that the Parliament
would refuse to sanction it.

In reply to Sir F. Smith,
Mr. Wurrs ,EAD stated that the Government had considered
the project of the late Mr. Rennie for the improvement of the
navigation of the Medway and of Chatham Dockyard; part of
these plans had received the sanction of the Admiralty, but
circumstAes were now so changed that it was no longer con-
sidered advisable to adopt them.

In reply to Mr. White,
Sir G. C. LEWIS said that he was not aware that the paper
makers had sustained any loss in consequence of the decision
of the House of Lords, or were thereby entitled to claim com-
pensation.
The consideration of the Lords' reasons for disagree-
ing to the Commons ammdments to the Conjugal Rights
(.Acotland) Bill was postponed till Tuesday, which is virtually
postpoing the bill till next session.
Lord PALMERSTON, in moving that the House, at its rising,
adjoura till Tuesday, called attention to the labours of the
committees of the House, which he highly eulogised, especially
the printing committee. . .

Mr. CRAUFORD called attention to the ircreaso of the salary
of the Dean of York.

Sir G. C. LEWIS explained the circumstances under which
the salary was raised, adding that three members of the
Government, who formed part of the commissionikhad voted
in the minority against raising the salary.

The House adjourned at shortly after six o'clock till Tuesday.

THE STEPNEY MURDER.

LATEST PARTICULARS.

It has already been stated that application had been ,
made to the authorities of the Home Office to issue a
reward for the apprehension of the murderer or mur-
derers, and that Mr. Faith and Mr. Whittaker, the two
sons-in-law of the deceased, had also declared their
willingness to add £2OO as a further reward for the
discovery of the assassin or assassins. During,Saturday
afternoon the police were busy in posting at the various
police stations monster placards, as well as distributing
small handbills, of which the following is a copy :--
" noo REwARD.—MuRDER.—Whereas Mary Ems-
ley,' widow, has been brutally murdered at 9, Grove-
road, Mile End-road, on or about Monday, the 13th
August, 1860, £lOO reward be paid by her Majesty's
Government to any person giving such information as
shall lead to the apprehension and conviction of the
guilty person or persons; and the Secretary of State
for the Home Department will advise the grant of her
Majesty's gracious pardon to any accomplice, not being
the actual murderer, who shall give each information as
shall lead to the same result. A further reward of £2OO
will also be paid by Mr. Ratcliff, solicitor, Dean Colet
House, Stepney, to any person who shall give informa-
tion as above. A mourning ring, to the memory of J.*
Jones, who died 1830 ; a dark-coloured pocket-book,
containing an acceptence of £25 ; also a check on the
Bank of London for £lO, are missing. Information to
he given to Inspector Thornton or Sergeant Tanner,
Detective Police, Scotland-yard, or to Inspector Ker-
resey, Bow Police Station, K Division.—Metropolitan
Police Office, August 24, 1860."
On Saturday, three well-dressed foreigners, who could
speak English tolerably well, and who, we believe, gave
their names and addresses, called at the police station,
near Arbour-square, Stepney, adjoining the 'Thames
police court, and informed Inspector Griffin of the K
division, then on duty, that they had strong suspicion
as to who were the murderers. They said their sus-
picions rested upon three or four Frenchmen who had
been for some time lurking about the East End
of London, whom they knew to have been Fretch
convicts. Several house robberies and burglaries
have lately been reported as perpetrated by foreigners
answering the description given of these men.
The most remarkable part of the representation, how-
Chat ilao tinuu foLcipnore cfa+ad +he ittepekAvi
that they have seen the individuals to whom they refer
since the period of the murder, and that they are now
well-dressed and have been spending a great deal of
money, It is their impression that one if not two of
these men had called upon the deceased, and having
gained access to the house, and finding she was alone,
had committed the murder. There can be no doubt
that the large reward offered will stimulate the police
to energetic action, and if there are any accomplices
it may lead to one turning Queen's evidence, as it is
understood that not only the reward but her Majesty's
free pardon will be accorded to anyone except the actual
assassin.

THE GRAND TRUNK RAILWAY.

As it is not generally known that the principal object

of the visit of the Prince of Wales to the British North
American colonies, is to place in situ the last stone of
the Great Victoria Tubular Bridge erected at Montreal,
across the St. Lawrence, to connect the 500 miles of

railway owned by the Grand Trunk Company on each
side of that river, a few particulars concerning this noble
structure and the magnificent system of railway commu-
nication of which it is the key-stone may net at the present
time be considered uninteresting. The length of the
bridge is 7,000 feet, and its height in centre 60 feet above
summer water level. It contains 3,000,000 cubic feet of
masonry, and 8,000 tons of iron in its tubes through
which the trains pass, the time occupied in going
through the bridge being ordinarily about four minutes,
but such is the capacity of the structure that trains could
with equal safety be driven at the rate of 60 miles an
hour. By means of this bridge, which will for ever
stand the grandest monument to the engineering genius
of Stephenson and Ross, Montreal, the commercial
metropolis of Canada becomes the centre of a railway
diverging westwards to Lake Huron, and eastwards to
Portland on the Atlantic Sea coast, and to Riviere
du Loup, 250 miles below the tidal waters of the St.
Lawrence—the whole length of line, without a break
of gauge, being 1,900 miles. At Detroit, in the west, a
direct connection has been made with the American
railway system ; so that a passenger from Europe, dis-
embarking at Quebec or Portland, is conveyed to Chi-
cago—a distance of upwards of 1,000 miles—with only
one change of carriage. At Portland the Grand Trunk
Railway connects, in its own depot, the cars of the
Boston railways ; so that direct communication with the
whole of the New England, New York, and the South-
ern States is thereby obtained. At Riviere du Loup the
proposed extensions of the Halifax and St. John's railways
will meet, and thus will the capitals of Canada, Nova
&Via, and New Bi'unswick be brought within a 20 hours'
run of each other. This accomplished, and nearly a third of
the distance between the Atlantic and the Pacific in the
direct line of the proposed railway route through British
America will he completed, as a first instalment of an
undertaking which, it is to be hoped, before a decade of
years shall have passed away, will have become a fixed
fact, and passengers between England and her Indian
empire will be traversing the American continent, and
only occupying in the journey between London and
Hong Kong about seventeen days. The country through
which the line passes is salubrious and fertile to the base
of the Rocky Mountains, and as British North America
contains upwards of 4,000,000 square miles, or
about an eighth of the habitable globe, with in-
exhaustible forests of the finest timber, mines of
coal, iron, &c., a climate unsurpassed by any
other country in the world, a field for the emigrant is
offered, by the opening up of these vast regions, with
advantages far superior to these of which the United
States and the colonies in the Pacific can boast. Em;-
gration for the moment is suspended, comparatively
speaking, but a renewed exodus from the over-crowded
countries of this hemisphere for the new world must
shortly again take place, and with the view of assisting
the emigrant in his selection of a transatlantic home, the
Grand Trunk Company have made arrangements by
which information regarding Canada and British North
America generally can be obtained at their London
office, 21, Old Broad-street. Maps, plans, pamphlets,
bearing on the points of most interest to emigrants to
Britain's North American Colonies, can be had gratui-
tously on application at the offices, or by letter to the
secretary.—Morning Star.

THE SPIRIT TRADE.—The spirit trade has diminished
one-fourth since the recent increase of the duty ; and it
is said that several distillers are going to convert their
establishments into breweries.—Cambridge Chronicle.
ACCIDENT TO AN IRISH LADY IN FRANCE.—lntelli-
gence has been received at the family mansion, Richhill,
county Armagh, of ,melancholy accident, terminating\
in the death of Missichardson. This lady had passed
the summer at Biarritz, a famous watering-place on the ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.
south-west coast of France, and, according to her usual
custom, was walking on the evening of the accident in
MR. G. HONEY AND MR. CLARKE.
company with her sister, Mrs. Bacon. The weather was To-night Mr. George Honey, from the Pyne and
hazy, and it appears that while passing a cliff, the de- Harrison Royal English Opera, and Mr. Clarke, from
ceased lady's parasol fell from her hand, and on attempt- the Strand Theatre, London, commence a brief engage-
ing to recover it she missed her footing, and rolled down ment. The pieces are " Victorine," " The Last of the
a precipice of some 200 feet. On the Sunday, eight days Pigtails," and " The Bonnie Fishwife." We trust this
following, she died, Her sister, Mrs, Bacon, inherit engagement will prove as successful as the high merits
her property, of these performers deserve,