The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-07-21 00:00:00

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

JUDICIAL COMMITTEE OF THE PRIVY •
COUNCIL .—WEDNESDAY. EDNESDAY.
(Present, Lord Chelmsford, Lord Kiugsdown, Sir E.
Ryan, and Sir James Colville.)
THE PETT.T.ERS.-17ELLISION.
This was an appeal from a decree of the Court of
Admiralty of England, in a cause of damage, civil and
maritime, brought by the European and American
Steam Shipping Company, the owners of the screw
steamship Jason, against the vessel Peerless, and the
freight due for the transportation of her cargo; and
against Messrs. Prowse, of Liverpool, the owners, who
intervened.
Their Lordships affirmed the judgment of the court
below with costs.

BRIBERY AT WAKEFIELD.

BY BRITISH AND IRISH UAONETIC TELEGRAPH

NISI ARIUS COURT, YORK-YESTERDAY.

(Before Mr. Barou Martin).

THE QUEEN V. JOHN BANFF CHARLESWORTH.--:—.
Special Jury.--The Solicitor-General, Mr. Overend,
Q.C., Mr. Monk, Q.C., and Mr. Cleasby were counsel
for the Crown. Sir Fitzroy Kelly, Mr. Maule, and Mr.
Melluish for the defendant. The defendant was charged
with having advanced to Jose Luise Fernandez £3,700,
and gave, or caused to be given, to several parties, sums
varying from £3O to £6O, to induce them to vote for J.
B. Charlesworth, one of the candidates at the.last Wake-
field election. The Solicitor-General applied to the
judge that this and three other cases might be post-
poned, on the ground of the absence, through illness,
of Joseph Brear, a material witness in the cases. Sir
F. Kelly opposed the application, stating that -the
records ought to be withdrawn. It was agreed that
the records against the two Charlesworths, Archibald,
Crowther, and John Jubb should be withdrawn. It is
understood that Mr. James will make an application to
the Court of Queen's Bench, in the case of Mr. Leatham,
on the point that it did not appear that the information
was laid within 12 months after the act was committed.

TIP QUEEN V. EDWARD HINCRLIFFE. Special
Shall appeared for the defence in this case.
The defendant resides at Wakefield, and he took an
active part in the election for that borough. The
specific charge against him was that he gave to George
Wainwright £2O ; to Sarah Jackson, the wife of G.
Jackson, a voter, L3O; to Mary Ann Bairstow, the wife
of W. B. Bairstow, another voter, £2O ; and to John
Rogerson £3O, to induce the several voters to vote for
Mr. Leatliam, The case was tried. Mr. Shaw said he
would advise his client to F*4 guilty. It was agreed
that the defendant should he allowed tc, withdraw his
plea of not guilty.
THr QUEEN V. WINI. MARSLAND.—SpeCiaI Jury.—
The Solicitor-General, and the other counsel already
named, appeared for the Crown. . The defendant, who
iankooper at Wakefield, e.vuelueled hib own case.
There were three counts in the information. The first
count ,charged ,the defendant with offering a bribe of
£2O to Wm. Newsome to induce him to vote for Mr.
Leatham ; the second count charged hiro "Sitil promi-
sing the discharge of a debt of 496 due from William
Catley to himself, to induce Carley to vote for Mr.
Leatham; and the third count charged the defendant
-with himself receiving from Geo. Kenworthy the sum of
£96 on account of his vote for Mr. Leatham. The
defendant went to Newsome and told him he had
better promise to vote for Mr. Leatham, and then, if he
would do so, he (Marsland) would give him £2O or £3O.
Newsome rejected the oiler. Mr. Catley, inn-keeper,
owed Marsland about £96, and the defendant waited
won him, and asked him who he intended to vote for,
and Qat,key said, Mr. Leatham. The defendant then
told him he had succeeded in getting £9r; from /ien-
worthy to pay off the bill of sale Gatley bad giyen to the
defendant. Marsia.ud had obtained £c44o from
Kerl-
worthy, and it was alleged that this sum came frpm the
hands of Mr. Leatham's election agent. The defendant
stated that what he said to Newsome was a mere joke,
and he denied any intention to bribe. The defendant
was found guilty on the second count.

TkIL Qt'EEN 1,. GODFREY NOBLE.—Special Jury.--
Mr. D. Seyrnour defer. e 4 Noble, who was charged with
having corruptly offered to '4
ohn 4p0f,1?.t fp, to induce
him to vote for Mr, Leathatn; and with having promised
to Ann Ingham to discharge the del t of £l9 due to the
West Riding Loan Investment BoGiety, to induce her
husband to vote for Mr. Leathern. Guilty on the first
count, not guilty on the second.
Tye QUEEN v. DANIEL BOYES.—.Special Jury.—The
Solicitor-kieneral, Mr. Overend, Q.C., and Mr. Cleasby
were for the Crown ;,r. Edward James, Q.C., Mr.
Price, and Mr. Jones for the 4efe44,7v. The defendant
is an innkeeper at Beverley, and the charge preferred
against him was that at the election for Beverley, in
1859, he caused to be given as bribes sums of money to
six voters, named Pougher, Best, Rushton, Annstrong,
Bentley, and Kirk. There were four candidates—Mr.
R. Walters, Major Edwardes, Mr. Glover, and Mr.
Walker. The two former were elected, but on a peti-
tion Mr. Walters was unseated. Mr. Walker was after-
wards elected iu his place. An empty house was used
for the purpose of administering the bribes, and after the
voters had been seen by Mr. Boyes in one room, they
went into an cajoining one, where they received money
from a man who;was not knovn. The select committee,
to whom petitions were made, made a represention as to
to the practices at Beverley to the House of Commons,
and that House expressed its desire by resolution that
proceedings should be taken against the,defendant Boyes.
Guilty on one count only.
TtfE gums v. TAYLOR.—BRIBERY AT BEVERLEY.—
C.ase broke down. I.iot guilty.

Mr. Sortain, the celebrated preacher at Brighton, died
on Monday last. His popularity was attested by the
vast congregations which attended his chapel.
DEFENCES OF PRUSSIA.—" Onr readers will remem-
ber," says the Leipie Gazette, "that a commission,
composed of I:p.p.-then of the different military and
naval administrations of Berlin, was named some time
since to devise a system of defence for the coasts of
Prussia. This commission proposed the alternative of a
powerful navy, or the construction of seven strong
fortresses, and the government has decided in favour of
a navy. According to the plan adopted, the Prussian
navy is to consist of ten ships of the line, twenty fri-
gates, and a proportionate number of corvettes and
gunboats,"
A Rp:.,t.A.NyAl- SLAVE.—An advertisement in the Ata-
lanta Intelligenper,' foi a Futialitay slave, is curious in its
style. We give portions of it :--"Sg00 Reward.7Ran
away from me on the 19th inst., at night, my negro man
Ben, about 24 years of age, about five feet 11 inches,
high, spare made, of yellow complexion and bright : has
but one fourth negro blood in him. . . . His char-
acter heretofore has been spotless. I raised him as my
thatdeuh he eh
not
i,
body servant. -
by the
for him, if caught and deposited in a safe jail, so that I
can get him, out the county of Handcock. I doubt not
lhletrwavilell
cut
trtahileioadoff,..7 may easily be arrested
Mayors or any other person. . . . He went
off with a Week mustache, but, from his intelligence, I
SIEGE OPERATIONS AT CHATifilf.—An affair of
this nature has jnst taken place at Chatham, in which
the w4ole pi 044 garris9n,
as well as the Gillingham Vo-
lunteer Artillery
Stutti the Rochester and Chathan Rifle
Companies Were engaged. A number of manoeuvres
were effected with great skill and spirit, the attack and
d
conducted in a manner that reflected much
credit
te several corps which took part during the day'
ions were conducted under the command of
defence
rta
Theefn
o on e
p the
being
General H. Eyre. The whole occupied nearly three
hours, and gave a lively idea of what a real siege would
be. At the conclusion, the troops formed into, brigades
and marched past the Queen's colours to their quarters.
tr• I,9.rge number of spectators present. This
event is fo:be
•
There ws.a r
~foliovro by
z gaud night attack, in which
nearly all the volunteers of sent are to i.,ae part. The
number 'of troops was nearly'39oo. ' , : ;

'THE DAILY TIMES, SATURDAY, JULY 21,11860.

THE PRINCE OF WALES CROSSING THE

ATLANTIC.

There is a Prince of Wales on the seas, wending his
way by a course which a Prince of _Wales never yet
followed, to an object which none of the young gentle-
men bearing that proud title ever yet cared for. The
earliest of those travelled youths went abroad under
mournful auspices ; misery was the fellow-wayfarer of
some ; others went with menace against the land which
they visited, and where they were little welcome. The
first of them who "left old England on the lee" was
scarcely thirteen years of age when his mother, Isabella,
led him over to France, and in a tew months of 1325,
and the following year, unconsciously moulded him into
the dethroner of his father, Edward of Carnarvon.

The traces of the next travelled Prince of Wales are
found in words which still ring with the echoes of glory,
Cressy won at fifteen years of age; Poictiers in princely
manhood; and that brilliant sojourn of nine years in
Guienne, which rendered the governorship of our Black
Prince there the admiration of statesmen, as his deeds of
arms had secured for him the love of every soldier.

From his return thence in 1371, above four score
years elapsed before we meet with another Prince of
Wales leaving, in this case most unwillingly, the shores
of England for a foreign land. A boy, nine years of
age, is driven ashore at l'Ecluse, with his mother, the
indomitable Margaret of Anjou. The boy had known
sorrow long before that, but now he commences a seven
years' exile, the happiest years of his chequered life,
during which his mother trained him to be worthy of
the throne of Henry the Sixth. When the lesson was
completed, this Prince of Wales returned only to find a
bloody grave at Tewkesbury.

Again, half a dozen princes succeed to the title, all
home-keeping youths. Then comes Charles Stuart, with
his picturesque character and romantic miseries. He
goes to Spain, not like his predecessor, the Black Prince,
in arms, to come back victorious, but in love, to come
back baffled and humiliated. His was the most unpo-
pular and unprofitable voyage ever made by a Prince of
Wales. To it succeeds another voyage. It is a June
morning of 1646 ; a ship is running between Jersey and
the French coast, and it is freighted rarely. Noblest of
all there, in point of rank, is a good-humoured lad of
sixteen, who occasionally takes the helm in hand, and
to whom Jermyn and Digby speak with deference: IV
is young Charles Stuart, on his way to St. Germaine,
not to set foot in England again till long and weary
years have passed away, and finally open to him the
golden opportunity which he so lamentably abused.
Of the two succeeding Stuart princes who held the
title by courtesy of their followers, but not by the law
of the land, they were necessarily sojourners abroad ;
but we pass these princely travellers against their will
to notice the Princes of Wales of the House of Bruns-
vii4. These have travelled to, but never from England
until now, in the person of young Albert Edward.
The first Brunswick Prince with this English title
did not step on English ground till he had counted
more than thirty years, and then he came among us
with more love for what he had Ist.ft than regard for
what he was arriving at. One singularity concerning
him is, that he had a very narrow escape of visiting
America, under circumstances altogether different from
those which mark the progress tq p4nada of the present
heir of England. Lord Berkeley *as so much moved
by the ferocious hatred of George the First for this
scapegrace of a son, that he offered to relieve his royal
and sufering lord, by kidnapping the Prince, and so
disposing of him amid the Transatlantic plantations,
that his living whereabout should never more be known
to mortal man! If all the reported details of this story
be true, it displays wonderful instinct of race in the
Berkeleys--one of whom lent his castle for the "dispo,
sing" of the very first man who had borne the title of
“walesik—poor Edward of Carnarvon.
No other heir-apparent of the same family made even
so near an approach to "going abroad" during his heir-
ship as this. Frederick, the fattier of George 111.,
traversed the sea in his 22nd year to assume among our
great-grandsires the dignity of English prince. There
is a tradition among some of the old officers of the
household of ffeorge TV. that, prior to the Regency, he
made a stolen visit to the Duke of Orleans. The
tradition is mainly upheld by the prince's familiarity
with the topography of Paris ; but such a knowledge
would imply that he must have been tolerably well-
known also ; and this story we take to be apocryphal.
Finally, we have now, for the first time a Prince of
Wales moving from England over the waters unitnpelled
by 4dyersty, or uninfineuced by a 944 of aggression.
Happy circumstance and praiseworthy purpose alone
accompany this son of an English mother. May Can-
ada return us our Prince with new experiences, happy
memories, and endowments which shall make of his
manhood a time of glorious usefulness, and a period to
be pointed at as exemplary and felicitous for England.

" PUNCH'S " ESSENCE OF CONGRESS.

(From Punch.)

ISGQ. June 4, Monday. In the Senate, the bill for
the Admission of Kansas' as 4 Free State came on for
discussion. The honourable Charles Sumner, who about
four years ago was brutally assaulted by a ruffianly
slaveowner named Brooks (since dead), addressed the
House for the first time since teat outrage. He applied
himself to a long and elaborate argument to show the
barbarism of slavery, and proposed to knock out the
"black marble block" which the South declares to be the
key-itone of the arch of the 4Merican constitntien. He
showedstlecessiVely and successfully the" domestic insti-
tution" makes brutes of the slaves, and worse brutes of the
masters—that it checks education, industry, prosperity,
and population—that it generates violence, foul vice,
cruelty, duelling, and ruffianism generally—that its ad-
vocates in and out of Congress are the worst citizens,
and the worst men in America—that it has been con-
demned by Washington, Jefferson, and Franklin, and
by all statesmen and moralists of eminence—and that its
poisonous influence is actively working towards the de-
struction of the noble Republic. Mr. Surnuer's speech
was chiefly characterised by its closeness of argument
and lucidity of diction ; but he occasionally introduced
a passage of highly-wrought eloquonce, or an image of
singular vividness ; and in England, however the orator's
sentiments might have been objected to by a political
antagonist, Mr. Sumner would have received the com-
pliments of gentlemen on both sides, upon so remarkable
an exhibition of sustained power and intellectual skill.
Mr. Chestnut, of South Carolina (slave-owner), rose,
and after abusing Mr. Sumner for " ranging ever
Ritrope, crawling throligh the baccioqrs to whine at the
feet of British aristocracy, craving pity and reaping
contempt," called him. the " incarnation of malice,
mendacity, and cowardice," and declined on the part of
the slave-ownerism to make any reply, because he was
not inclined "to send forth the recipient of punishment
howling through the world, yelping fresh cries of
slander and malice." The punishment in question
alludes to the brutal assault with a bludgeon, committed
by the nor defunct Brooks upon an unarmed and un-
suspecting the `f4laiie7rnasers in the Senate gentleman.
then surrounded Mr. Chestiint, and approved his speck."
The question was postponed.

Mr. Punch begs to offer his respectful congratulations
to Mr. Sumner upon his magnificent speech, and, even
more earnestly, upon the ample and perfect testimony
that was instantly given, by the besotted slaveowners, to
the truth of his assertion of the barbarism of slavery. It
is not often that an orator's enemies are in such a despe-
rate hurry to prove his case for him. But here he was
scarcely down when the ail; PTIY together to
proclaim themselves the ru ans he had painted them,
and in the published copy of the oration, Mr. Sumner
has given at once the calmest and the deailiest blow to
the system he denounces—for he prints Mr. Chesnut's
speech. All the bludgeons in the hands of all the
"chivalry of the South" cannot beat that demonstration
of Mr. Sumner's case out of the heads of the pnblio in
and ont of tIo States. The epeeph should be rep'rinted
in gagland, and eiretilateclin thousands. What is the
Anti-SlaVery Society about ?

PUBLIC OPINION IN NAPLES.—The general feeling
of the country is in favour of the dualism of Italy, and
of the independence of the kingdom of Naples.
There is no desire to be blotted o9t of the page of his-
tory ; and if ainexationism has gained ground here it
has been the result of suspicion and hatred of the
Bourbons, and of a despair of any other means of
arriving at liberty. I feel persuaded, therefore, that
efforts to bring about a reconciliation with Sicily would
be more generally regarded with favour than any attempt
to merge this kingdom in that of Piedmont; and the
settlement of the entire Neapolitan question appears to
me at the present moment to hang on such a contingency
as this. If England sees her way clear to unite
_with
France in bringing about such a solution, and if their
good offices shOuld prOve iueoessful, I should consider
the question of annexation as done for. The Two
Sicilies will prefer their separate and independent
existence. Should, on the contrary, these good offices
be refused or fail, then great difficulties will arise.—
Letter from Paris.
EFFECTS OF COAL GAS ON PLANTS.—A collection of
exotic plants in a greenhouse in Philadelphia was,
through the breakage of the city " mains," and the con-
sequent leakage of a large quantity of gas, exposed to its
deleterious influence. The plants, numbering nearly
three thousand, were almost entirely ruined. Those in
leaf did not suffer, nor did a row of maple-trees imme-
diately over the leak ; the injury sustained being entirely
through their I#eathing organs.. The general sympathy
known to exist between the genera of the same natural
order extends to the .action of this deleterious substance
gm them. The beautiful Amantiacefe were so keenly
sensitive to the poison, that even large old specimens
were stripped at once. The floor was covered with
leaves, and oranges and lemons in all stages of growth,
from fruit first formed to that fully matured. The
trees, by careful pruning and nursing, were somewhat
restored. Camellias were in full bloom in about 120
varieties ; not a leaf, bud, or flower remained upon the
largest and finest plants.—Timis's Curiosities of Science,
Second &ties,