The Express.
London, England, 1865-06-28 00:00:00

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• foe his sou.=" isfillii-g -MC
. geopel bie indopeodenos and entice. These win taken plum poetics asked in this house ass ma Abe
it do. rue thrum and naturally called upon the Lord 3rd of Month, mod the too member is woos in ststhm_thall
Chan her to direct an inquiry into Mr. Wilde's so proesedinp took place in the BOW 01 Lorne Maths
...Awe. sod if primal, to cony out the pen. 27th. That le so %ethane', sad, I banes,
an komosst
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Hove weedingpeocimiat Mr. Wilde wore pi nding, ' resolved from the beginning sot to give tho appnallooth to
imi the fifitli of Jay Yr. Miller, asocadiog to knows amount I his moo, that be was foe a moment overcome by slaw
• • he the Ananias of' the Laid Chasoellor, red accoading to preastre to say that be would not gully imathelo
ths Lord Obsoodior's amount by his dinctioa to • certain !aim from the Mike, ball that wliam be mom to
wan% wok • lOW to Ma Wade statieg it 'grieved hias i Mikan how his ma bad boss widening blie
Meek to inform Win that 4114110 he heard from hem la 00111111 WI is the interval, be retuned to the *loom
grit that
be meant to to be alit-wed to retire, he Ihe had roalesised for eight undo, sod ranged that
histruatiews tram the La Cbarcellor to say he lust Ibe would mot appoint him. (Hoar, boar.) Bo far free
ga slued with
a ratios to appear in court aid show there being one imputation opal the Lord Chancellor's
mum why he 'both] not be dismissed from his ! amino% sa far sa those setters me coomirsod-I ass not
Hike a Manta Now it was quite nom to speaking a the raking puska, but as regards all the east
the Lord Chancellor that if these charges war. i-I ley that, oa the contrary, be has safforad under impa-
ssable% Mr. Wild. ho might to I e dismissed 1 tattoos which are utterly neust-(bear, Dear)-imputatione
=t once. He (Mr. Hardy) would sot nisi. tri the . founded on so fads whatever, and that be has suffered this
. - other part of the letter, as he intended to enter into nothing , still mars grievous hardship of baying been brought iota
which the Lord Chuoellor had sot and
in his seldom' this politica by •• misenhor of his owe family, shine& he
been the committee. Now upon that Mr. Miller-whom I himself has oohed was Si. sod basoaxabbs isaanar,
IM looted Attorney.Gooeral hod thought it right to **quit however painful it to the feelings of • father
a soy improper °Pointe, whereas the committee had to do so. (Cheers.) Tim Moslem:es in the comictithm in
him with the grossest falsehood, with having steer. legend to other chattier* in them transactions are very
wakesupon himself duties which did not belong to panda sortainly, and apes thou mann Ido not wish to
him, and with othe r acts which &poured to be miodtmas. ny • word ; nit tho imprownon on my end ia that so far
aeon is his once-suggested that Mr. Wilde should nook as the parity of his motives has bees tramensod. the Lord
. a mrialasto, sod the
present • petition to be allowed to Obaualor had no object whatever allopt on tha am bud
Miro upou a undoes. Yr. Miller, attar denying that he did to do as I habeas he has done--cell the unmans of the
ee, drew tat petition himself oaths certificate which Mr. Public to the state is which the bankruldeY aahl.t_h_.of th4)_
Wilde hedObteined. That certificate was a mo.textraordisaly costar; were p'aoed, sad dal with • ate"; use" 'dm
earhodit ought not to have puma thoscrutiny of amylase of thou who mamma to require it ; and, on the unto hand, to
ordisan ineolligeow, sod with an ordican desire to do ea deal the strictest and must impartial justVe mu tO a MM.
duty. Mr. Miller mid he dal call the &kooks mad the bow of his owe tassfly,
_Listed theirs.)
Lord Chancellor to it, but dm Lon Chascolkr mad hei did Lad CRANBOURNE did not desire to go into tha
nos ; hat it must be remembered that only fur days pre. odious, because be cemented that it woe not desirable
• 'Mab to Load Chancellor Ind given bistiwitions that lir. that those who only had their knowledge on hearsay should
Wilde abouldb• called upon to show muss why hi
should enter into such • disonsion. But he was bound to sty.
sot be dismissed from his Mika, and then he received an althoopi au moat arouse • good deal the Lague" of
appliestios from him to be allowed to retire with s pear°. advocates who had ruined • Ink/ her the drieue in a
upon this cartifiatto, which did not state that Mr. hey de rather difficult case-(laughter)-that the impatatioos
• "yea bad sear been had. or tat he wag in a state of ill. which had been throwo oat whist the hom member for
• heath ; sod it should be remarked that the date Mallow were wholly without foundation. (Hear, hear.)
• of the certificate was in • different toodwritiog. The hoo. member had not spoken without a hnowledge c
All that ought to have called attesticro to the matter. Rut the evidence, for he hod barn peanut daring Um investiga-
., farther, the Lord Chdocallor bad called upon Mr. Wilds don. sod he bad not spokes to a government ignorant of
as a culprit to resign, or show cause why he should cot, be it, beams they had rocsived the ervidosoe from day to day.
disesimed, bat be sated to be allowed to resign upon • (Hear, hem)
• peosioo, and without • moment's delay the resignatioa was The ATTORNEY-GENERAL-I have not nose • word
accepted, sad • pension was granted, sod upon the same 01
day another appointment. Did the Lord CMecellor con- Lord CRANBOURNE regretted that the hon. aod honied
wider Mr. Wilds • culprit, or did he sot! If he did con- reotheman had bees so ill instructed- -(a laugh)--but the
rider tine a culprit, Lod liable to be dismissed from his office, Lord Chancellor bad seen the evidence. It was not true
by allowing him to retire urea •la he waa disgracing therefore that either the attack oe the defence had bees
the office which he had, and by allowing ouch • certificate so made is igeortisce-
Mr. Wilda presented, which did not show thathe was is ill. Colons' D. PENNANT emplained that the Lord Chan.
health at all, the Lead Chancellor was making himself spun caller in his evidence said that so far from making say
to the incaution, and be oueht to take the respoasibility complaint of not baring received the evidence he bad
and consequences upon hinnalL (Cheery.) The Lent
Chu- grinned to cocoa forward and glee evidence befall) ha was
•
allot said he did not read all the cictoments, but that be aware of what had been maid. This committee, however,
might in ninnies to have read them all. He (Mr. Hardy) coosidering that it wee virtually • trig of the Lord Chan-
. could underlined in orffiaary caw that a Lord amusing calor. thought it their dun in dint inmost to both Ponies
who was overwhelmed with business would leave sub that ths hon. =mobs: for Devomport (Mt. Fenand) and the
2'. docunionts to be road by hie officers, but hale wise • mss
Lord Chmoslior should be furnished with the evidence
charged with crime, and whom he had oilled upon to show from day to day. (Hen. hear.)
cense why he should not be dismissed, and then did not see Lord CRAN HOU RNE said that proved =burrect of
Et that it was an essoutial part ot hisedu,
duty to have the inquiry hie statement, and thus diaapplared thele fabric of
t fullyearriettout By omitting to do that the Lord Chancellor virtuous indigestion which the Attoreey-Gmoral, skint
lad gromely neglected his duty, and he had perpetrated au bursting into tears, bad raised. (" Oh, oh," and laughter.)
• injustice, for be bed made tho country • party to the trans. The &TroRNET-GENERAL--1 have not seen a word
action in giving Mr. Wilda a pension of 660/. a you. The of ne widish'.
• Home of CIRDISOOR would also base grossly neglected %hair Lord CRANBOUBNE regarded that as another proof of
. . duty if they had not at the earliest moment, without whits' the harmony and cordial cooper
which existed
for the evidence-for they had known of instaooes whore swoop% the members of the pignut admirably-coostituted
papers had been kept back by the government natil the got/momenta ALenghter, and "Oh, oh.") Of conies be
v end of the seemoo, so that no notice should be taken of was sorry the Lord Chancellor should not have thought it
theysubjchaws called attention to the facts of this case. win to entrust the evidence of his proceedings to the
The Lord Chancellor, opts his own showing, hod grossly Attorney-Genarth (" Oh. oh," and laughter.) They
maglacted hie dun, for he had not dome that wooed in hie were all well &Immolated with the character of the boo. sod
high office, be was board to do, and he bad allowed • man learned gentleman, and could understand that the Lord
whom he ooasid•rod to be • culprit to mein a pension and Chancellor might not be very willing to inherit the
to retire into private Rh et the explain of the country details to the Attortey-General. (" Oh, oh," sod " Hear,
which he had offended. (Chasm) hear.") The Batumi indignation that any one must teal
Kr. E. EGERTON, RI • member of the committ,e, male on heal-log thou details was a sufficient cause and expla-
in regretted that this prrmature discussion has place, nation of the desire of the boo member for Mallow to take
as the evidence was not in their bands. It was only fair to the opportunity, before the hour, separated. of laying
the gentlemon whom characters Ma been impageed, and to baton the public his own conclusions aims the subject, anti
the committee, that the matter should not have keen sang the questions he had put to the governmeot. He
hamlet forward until the house could form as opinion upon (Lord Crasbourne) bad heard with regret one statement of
the whole of the evidence. Then Mbar persona the Attorney.Gemeral, and it was ors which be, the right
whose conduct had been impogrood, butwhose name' had not hon. and learned gentleman on reconsideration, would
bun 'motioned in the repast. He regretted that sayf wish to ecorract--"anialy,that'no proceedings whatever wore
this" mote should have beem said otter the obaervations of to be taken against Mr. Miller. (Hear, hear.)
the Attorney -Gement, for the homes could not come to any The ATTORNEY.GILNERAL-I said that until 1 saw
decision upon the questions which had been raised at pre• the evidence it was quite impossible to judge whether there
• sent. (Hoar, hear.) was any MOOD to take prooesffiogs, but that I do pot find
The LORD-ADVOCATE entirely "greed with the hon. that the sommittu have charged him with being • party to
gentleman that it would be impoesiblis Ice do house to come any connEtlon- (Bear, hear.)
to any conch
without the whole of dm evidence Lord C ANBOURNE said that was the very point be
bong before them. The Mo. pntlemsa oppo. wished to cal adontiou to-the bearing of the committee
site maid that time was short, and that parliament upon the conduct of Mr. Miller. The Lord Chancellor's
woold mos be dissolved ; but these things were no age appeared to have been sot up for ion,
_end that
Ho for committing an iolustice apse any ono I wastrele In lir. Richard Bethell, sad that Mr. Miller was
Ho ha' Rateneg with the grestaat gurpriss one wonder et : a friend of Mr. Bethel'''. It also appeared that mot only
the speech of the hon. and learned gontlanma ths member was the Lord Chancellor's patronage set up for sale, but
for Mallow, for he not only chose to draw his own ouch. that which was sacred and more importent, namely, his
noes from he of
stated in the bat he had choose judicial
power of inflicting pocaltisal was also set up for
to assume that there were other him •h w in the mae, and that for the rake of certain money trans-
report at all. (Hear, bear.) There was noevidence that actions Mr. Richard Bethel) appeared to Dave used '
Mr. Miller was the Mood of Yr. Welch. The hon. acidi hie influence with Mr. Miller-he did not say with !
learned gentleman had stated that that was a fact, and be Mr. Miller's cognisant*, for of that there was
bad in the course of his remarks used language sod epithets no evidence-but Mr. Bethel" appeared to have induced Mr. '
which in all his (the Lord-Advocate's) eperiosce he had Miller to write, without authority, the summary letter to ,
never hoard in parliament before, and he= had charged the Leeds, for the purpose of procuring Mr. Wilde" rapigutice ,
Lord Chancellor with having profited by a corrupt tor and to draw up the appointmeat of Mr. Bethel', which the
cmc,veshils it was clear from the evidence that dm Lord Lord ChasoeUor afterwards refused to walnut. (Hoar,
llor never saw Mr. Welch, and know nothing of him beet.) Those were circosostamses of grave suspicioo, ind
except from the rectommondations which be bad received it was difficult to ovoid concluding, that when a corrupt ,
Them any erpiment wipes on the Northera Circus (Hear.) transaction had taken place, and a public officer who had'
The itiquiry into the matter of the Bankruptcy Court of hoes an instrument in that transaction was • Mead of
Leeds took place in 1864, at • time when public 'O'Mara one of the panies to it, flint that officer was cogonant
bad been called to the cuodition of the bankruptcy courts of the transaction. The goveranmat would Dot be doing I
all over the kingdom ; and not without reason, as the repeat their duty unless they instituted s dose iavastigatioo
of the tookruptcy committee will show. And when the into to, sod assnithied bow far Mr. Miller was
Lord Chancellor began his inquiry it was not, and °told `rantcogn of all Mr. Bath was doing, sad also, lit: ,
son have km, for the purpose or obtaining offices for his boned to add, inflicted some pueishroeot uposoitral Mar
son for his son at that time had • good office in the Bank. for his extreme harshness in the isthmus of his
topic, Court in Londe. The inquiry west on sad 16- (Hear, hear.)
volved the whole of the officials st Leeds, not 'only Mr. Mr. DENMAN andentood that the government Had
Wilde, but the other registrar, Mr. Payne, both the official undertakers to do the very thing the noble lord mom-
assignees, and both this messengers of the court, sod it mended, namely, to amunino Mat closely the evidence
implicated also a great many other porton. That isquiry when it was in their possaorion. (Hear, hear.) The poi-
bas produced the repayment of OWN 20,0001. which had beam
Moo of the hon. member for
Mallow wag much like that of
improperly obtained by the officials of the Leeds sod other • Juryman in waitiog, who might be some day called epos
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bankruptcy knits. In the coarse of the proceedings the to discharge % t•ry important fuoniorts epoo his solemn
Lord Chancellor instructed Mr. Miller to'send sotifications, renonsibility, but wan not called upon at all to act at the
not only to Mr. Wilde but to other officials, to say thee present time. The hen. member was not bound to it
unless they obtained 'sufficient answer to the charge, he front day to day to hear the evidence takes before the
should cot upon them to show coma irs coar• why they committee. He (Mr. Duman) did Dot rise to justify the
should not bo dismissed. That was on the I.6th of May. Lord Chancellor, or ammo* concerned in these trausatieos,
On the 14th, No Richard Bethel, for whose sake it is said but to do justice to the committee, who had hardly had
the Lord Chancellor wag privy to a corrupt bargain, was jestios dorm to them in the dimwit:to. (Hear, boar.)
compelled by his father to resign his office. The hon. gen- Without any evidence beisce them they were snowing the
tleman seemed to insinuate that Mr. Bethel and his father bee. and leaned member who volunteered to sot as amnia
were in communication upon the subject of this office ' for the Prasetaloo not only to impeach the Lord Mao-
From tha 14th of May down to the month of February tailor, but also to impeach the committee. That womb
of the sett year he had had no communication was vorrunfair. and one that ought not to be immoneld
of any kind or description with his too ; but notwithatand. h 1 the boss& (Phan)
ino the upontalatious addressed to Ida by Mr. Millar, toe Mr. HENNESSY observed that the evidence war
thief registrar of bankrintoy, he had refused, over sod Printed daily for the use of the committee, and that the
over again, to matt his sog is ODIC% (Hear, hon.) Is it whole was in type ten days go. In ten days more par-
not too bad that under those circumstanom the Lord Chu. liannot would be dissolved. There ws evidence in tho
calor should be accused of plotting at the end of April, Penn presented to parliament some we
eks ago
.respectimg
1864, to make • tracsocy for his aim, when his son was at the Leeds Bankruptcy Court, sod the report *AGM owe.
that time in posumion of • bettor office, and when he tamed a great deal of voluble evidence.
turned him out of that office a fortnight afterwards ) 0 the Mr. A.T ETON thought it rather a wide jump for the
evidence had eve* tun other, the la aof the hom gu. hon. member who had. just sat down to conclude that some- I
Osman could not have bean dahib a, t 1111 it is, it is body had been guilty of gross misconduct because the evi. I
totally inexplicable. (Chum.) Is it at the close of • par. deuce had not bars roosived. Ordinarily ea. I
lianient that the thancters of mu, be they high or low, dense wu not laid on the table till several
Ire to b• assailed? (Mors.) The Lard Chanor could days after the inquiry by a committee had
• have no motive sod had so Motive, for insisting upon Mr. dosed, and this was necenarily the case, as it had to to hi-
-1 Wilde's resignation. It is maid that he know nothing of dead and carefully examined before presentation. It was
; Kr. NO doh. Re know the. however, of Mr. Welch, that on =tiro misupreheasion on the part of the noble lord to
t Sir William Atherton linden the leaden on the Northern suppose that Mr. Bothell was the person
who managed the
e Cirenit had recommeoded him as • person fit to he pro- transestica respecting the resignation of Mr. Wilds. Mr.
0 mated to oat
is
The Lord Chancellor did not require Bethel) in no way counselled it. and had nothing whatever
l Mr. Wilds to resign, but told Mr. Miller to serve this to do with it. thou thane showed the detour of entering
optics he had served upon the other officials. The question into questions of this kind before then had the
evidence in
.
i whether the Lord Chancellor was right in allowing Mr. their possession. He complained that the hon. member for
1 Wilde to resign is entirely different sad distinct from the Mallow under the notice he had placed upon the paper, had
i cioestion whether be was mixed up in the corrupt pram travelled beyond the report. He could not see that it was
tsom to which the bon. pattern:to has referred. (Hear.) the duty of the Lord CheaoolloT to place the evidence as
But if tho hones should to of opinion, as the committee ho noshed it hi the buds of the governmmit ;on the as
were, that the Lord Chumillor not only mu/ not mixed nary, such a Proceeding would have beau a brut& of faith
• up in these transactions but sou had not this most re. with the committee.
mote au of their 'esteem, then the question whether or Sir L. PALK wished 10 11111 atteetioe to the single fact
1 not he improperly allowed Mr. Wilde to tosigi sumo. that apes two oceesione, lather from extreme negligence or
1 • another aspect. (Hoar, boor.) Ido sot ogres . with the loormoy of the. Lord Otontellor, puska; had been granted
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boo. gentlamas that if the aortiketo bed been in proper to people who it woo now admitted were sell to nuns
terms there wag nothing womgdone by the Lord Chancellor teem He trusted that when strict justice was meted out
to permitting the resignation, sod apcm this grocod, Mr. to all below the Lord Chancellor in authority, that fan
wale was no doubt accused of conduct which had brought would not be forgotten. Be felt convisted that the country
l the court into considerable disrepute, and he had permitted would ask whether a high official who had twice bean guilty,
the official smeigness and istosiempers to Main sums which 'odor eircomirtuoss ef peculiar suspiorm, of permitting
they ought sot to have rekked, sad bad shows a laxity is pearloos to be gine to unworthy people, wee coo deserving
• ' ' the cooduot of the court That was quite sufficient ground of the honour and respect of the probation of which he wam
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for the Lord Chancellor total upon Mr.Wllde tubes cause the leader. (Hoar, boar.)
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in open court why he 'bond not be dismissed. Mr. Mr. SCULLY was sag to hoar the tone the dionissioo
i Wild. said that bet bad followed the practice of Mr. Payne, had taken. He ens In the MOW position as his hon. friend
l and the Lord Chncellor nye, "The practice of both has the mamba. for the Tower 'Lulea. Be had not read the
you bad,and I sell upon both of you to show cause obi mart, and not anticipating each a discumion be had not
l you Auld tot be diorama." But he permitted them both brought it with him to the bongo He thought therefore
1 • to retire bemuse there was no imputation upon their that it was quite premature to enter owe the discussion of
i howdy, though the* was meat imputation upon the mods the question at the verse moment, and they might in his
in which they had conducted the hokum of the court. opinion to adopt the comelosion of the committee, who
That is an alionont we must entertain when we come to having fully inquired into on the circumstance' a the tau
consider. this question, but it is a totally different matter had acquitted the Lord Chancellor el everything but haste
to that of which this Dow gentleman ho
spokes. From sad wasted cantioa.
, May, 1864, to Pasoan, 186 N rho
Lord Chausllor had no- Lord PALMEREYPDN-Sir, I art awry to prolong this
thing to do with Mr. Riamsd Bothell. (Hear.)_ He had bun discussion arsa by a few words. bat I cannot let it doe
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I warmly appealed to by the family on behalf of his son, without expressing the pain. I may say indignation,
E but had absolutely refused in the strongest somanor with which I hatemed to theme ada by too hoe.
i - , and with the strongest language, to give htm the appoist. member for Mallow in
wtta.this subject.
nont. Bat in February, Ink h. a did say that if his son's This how" is compooth of appalls and it iii loc-
i debts wore &diluted and his croditon satisfied, he would folly fair for the solimbsert a ou party to take Uvula.
wonder whether he should not have the ap
pointment. of any fair pound et coewaseadad stew the ocoduct of, „Per-
.
I Was there an
wrong it that 1 I think tf its so mas who may bolos' to the opposlite _taigt.i, imago. 117 If
hold it will be dealing out a measure ot injustice the =lt peesoashappsn to hold oaks. But hitherto it has
' Loader,assoollor, because no man would so deal with a b
een the character of this hums, that, however post have
strang much Imo with his own moo. (Cheers.) The ben. bun our animosities, however strong the party Wise
I member,
for Mallow threw out the insinuation that it MSS in which divides ISMISSWIeII On best side teem the other, et all
co's/queue of the amide' in soother plus that this sp- ernes the porous aosmith have bad fair play. (Choirs.),
; Miintmont was not made, but he did sot go• into Now, the Chancellor has not bad fair play from drama.
the dates. He said that the appointment of lit. and Lamed member for Mallow. (Bur, hurl That hon.
Bothell was announced on the 24th ; but two member data' that he was proud during the whole of this

am litsgeop—imppgr-
by what the faiert-henr.) It -11arefore behold thirshulseile ions—inthelitrilidrlirowiressuld he mini Mat be was gaily, liv
widens, gives was • but it Imo
ham *dad by perume who ; des, ti they cased their .edger prlinsgss, to overt tisk biji askeithie mat ; sat ae as wk. gentle.. sj,
were aka present that he has made wed
of matters•
power, sad rebus to pwilseust these mem who woalisedbel
im="iii: Di' its • sum may ha wa-
ybill' are net easteined in that widow, and which will qt their anedest rights, sad sapped the bunco MOS be deduced Modest set
which
not be found la Mud widow whoa it is produced. yal the British Natio. (Load chem.) Yuattessr hen it is imsy to go along wog without sal desist
Mr. LONOFIELD—I mime the *obis lord that I had . Cortex mood • resslation to the easet Ih4 the 'of this.Thefriesids of the banana, reesived uglier al a Dew
se imitation whatever to wake any misrepresentations. meting haviag heard the political expeditor' 4 Moors. i abjection They ere selelesd that the steam far dashing
Lord PALM ERSTON—It will he for the hoe. 'member Lyall aed Fowler, pledged themselves to exert their *West 1 the balled is fear, sad so men should be afield. When the
for Mellow to justify his coeds:slay making out the correct-1 isdueece in Near* their return for the City 8f Leaden Emperor Charles V. was told al soseebely who boated of
sir at hie swertican Mr. Lust wooded the mita" and it wee aura by lavas sew knows feu, he replied ' This be sever
Mr. LONOFIELD— I assure the noble lord that I did soolunaties. ward a seare with Isis flasass.• If men wire to do
sot make a single assertios that la not cestaised in the 1 Boobies bemuse they feared, we should hoe baresse pro-
'videos.Lent evening the liberal oandidatee for the City, testis( opiate the Bringiseas of bolts and shutters,
Dna pAudiatsrobi..4 most ass say that :sate mese Messrs. B. W. Orawf red, Gosolles, sod Laerreses,_ sad sad the spudsl eow:rdlos of putting polieseses into she
grieved to bear the kite
char of invective whir* the hen. Mr. N. Rothschild, es the rearesestative of his father. Baton I striate. A man has a vote, that It rosy be known what
member threw into the charges which be made agaisat the itotheshild, tot the stealers of Cripplirate Ward at i his own Johnsen are ; not the intends of theme be
Lord Chnoellar. He was perfectly justified in stating that ' Oawar's 1111epoitositary, Barbican. Mr. Deputy Bad lis staid of. " l'hs farmer rotes for the repeal of the
which was
borne out by the evidence which he baud, but I presided. set by • lame snobs, of the Common i enelt.tas ; the imaaufseturer votes ter the Frock treaty ;
be wee not justified in that Miter personal invective whith Councilmen sad Wolin inhabsteau of the word. There i the landlord votes against the repeal of the cers-lawn"
Isar not inaptly been stigmatised by the Attorney-Oenersl i was • very large attendees,. The ewersl gentleine• leaving i Thew an all this to lake can of themselves, sad the ballot
as more ebantotei Buie or the Old Money than of the ordinary I addressed the IWO*. • 1•1°1•4•• was •d•Vt4dl •• the 'le for thole who Mr• not. The upshot is. that the ballet is
practice of the courts or of professional gentlemen. Bat, sir, motion al Mr. Hall, eseoaded by Mr. Smith (Comas an old easetitatiosal right, and its decal is defended only
I complain of the manner is which the hosourible ' Comeallates), sad supported by Mr. Tamer (Comm= by 'epsomite suck as the strop; are is the habit of sing
member ogt thts subject under discussion. If I Connoilmaa), pledgbg die supporta( the mestiog bathe four against the weak. Whence the duty al the patee-lovieg
be tidedbasedseo to make an attack On the lard Chsarellor !Blond caachdates who bed trateed A. On the mottos public is to work foe its recovery, as tbay would in say
bad as evidence which
woos not in Om hands al Me. 'of Mr. Kirkman Hodgson. if.P., a vote of thanks was given other ease where the gravity of the wrong was equalled be
mbas, bat which it woos he had heard, he ought, et Ito the amine" sod the misting emseinded. the flimsiness of the nestaxtei The candidate woo is ad-
ell event s, toe ave giro ample notice. The Dodos. how. ruse so the ballot desire the sosysion of the voter. Every
ever, which be did give was of a questles to be asked so voter, Hurler*, for his own proteedies. should support
little indicatg his intestiou to go Into a pommel and virs- that sandulate only who favours the adoptive of the ballot.
list attack as the Load Chasosllor, that I latended to have Jane 2'7, 1863.
answered the queen** Wised of the Attersey•Geoend
Wag under the imp:erica that he wanted to know what LETTER 7110 M JOHN MITCHEL.
cause the goveromeat assent to take upon the *videos
when it was produced ; arid I was going to tell the hca. ,
sod leaned mouthy that it was the lc-tuition of the goyim
meat to lay that inkiest» and the report before the taw
officers of the crows. in eniu that such UPI
steps might he takes thereupon es they justified,
so much did the wide. that was given of the
question imply that it was directed against
other persons and not mislaid the Lord Chanoellar. If you
look st the words of the settee you will MO that It was to
ask what steps would be takes against the parsecs impli-
cated to the corrupt traossotioas which wan then detailed.
I co *sly say that I very mach wet the coarse which the
hoc. and learned member has taken, so entirely opposed
as it is touted sodiffereat from the noel course eves
by the most violent pasty member. I am corniced that
wbes the evidence is before the house hon. member will
acme to a very different aonclusioa to that which his hem
adopted by the hon. and learned member (originate; midst
to far from there being any fouodation for the charges
against the Lord Chancellor. the house will beer out the re-
put of the committee, acquitting him of any improper or
incorrect motive is the whole course of the transactioos re
[wed to. (Cheers.)
THE PROROGATION OF PARLIAMENT.
Mr. FORSTER, in the SWORN, 01 Mr. Monis% asked the I
Rest Lord of the Treasury whether he could inform the
house en what day the prorogation would take place!
Lord PALMERSTON—Di sower to the question of my I
hos. friend I may say I believe that, as far as public bask
nay in the two hoses of parliament is oecosened, there is '
Bathing that will keep parliament sitting logger than
Thursday week—(obsers)—and that that event, width we 1
all look forward to, will take plane at the latest on the 6th '1
of July. I know that there are certain railway bills
sow before the House of Lords, the discoed=
of which might be concluded a few days later, I
ad • wish has bees expressed that parliament should I
be kept misting for the purpose of settling the squabbles
of those railway companies, but we all know that
great public ilIC011,•Diall011 would arise from any unneces-
sary delay, throughout the whole of the United Kingdom,
and I think that the house will be of opinion that the
government are consulting the public, advantage is fixing
that day. Wear, hear.) It is entirely In the power of
taw who tike an interest in the disputes of the maws,
companies, and those interested is the bills, to resume them
in the miss condition is which they will be left by the
dissolution on Thursday week.
CONDITION OF POLICE PRISONS AND CELLS,
Mr. SHERIDAN, whohad • notice for a select committee'
tau this subject, in withdrawing it expressed a hope thee!
an inquiry would take place sot session.
The hawadjourned at • quarter put eight o'clock.

Bannot,.—Most enthusiastic, as was to be ex-
pected, was the reseptiee accorded on Mooday night by the
populism to Mr. Berkeley sad Sir 8. M. Poo as flair
snivel in this oily as ceadidates for its repreesetation ta
pediment oa liberal prisciple• The &monstrance—foe
the mention wee a demoostration of the morn &mamas.
tire and emphatic kind—must have removed all doubt, if
doubts were over eetertaimd, as the point as to the side in
the oommg straggle which hire the popular symps-
, this'. The 000temptible attempt which wee had
recourse to by the tories to stir up populer og po- 1
silica to Sir Morton Peto, by the postbag of large placards'
' having reference to a dispute which bad at me period arisen
between the hoe. beroust aad hie workmee, wee a complete
failure. The working clews leashed alike at the
and their exhibitors, and showed, by the ahem wig=
they greeted their future teprernetativee that they bare
perfect confidence in him, both as a legislator sad • great
employer of labour. The demeestastioe ass is 41 respects
worthy of the city and the mass which called it forth, sad
we scampi it as indicative of a triumph as the ponies day of
the most complete and gratifyingkiad.—Wastere Daily
Beirsuiv.—Mr. Bernhard Samuelson has ironed
as address stating that he has completed a perms' casvass
of the borough, and satisfied himself that heti supported by
I litarnedagthkdto gm: tiles" ofpollt.b.thrlibCerissleset"DtTgianss,d theja liberalast
sitting member, offers himeelf for re-election ; sad Mr.
Bell, • miserrative, is is the field.
Barron.—On Monday evening a meeting was
held ie this town is support of the candidature of Mr. B.
T. Gourley, mayor of Sunderland. Mr. ()outlay is a liberal.
eomervative.
Burrowersit.—lt is said that Sir J. V. Shelley
(liberal), now M.P. for Westminster, will staled for Bridg-
water in the place of Colonel Tynte (liberal). who retina
Mr. Kienhke (liberal) seeks re-election, and Mr. Westropp
Mends in the conservative interest.
Ileartsrerts..—A third conservative candidate
bail appeared, in the person of Mr. Whichnord, architect.
DAZLISLI.—On Monday the contest et Carlisle,
whims there will be a severs straggle, was regularly com-
mand. Huth the silting members basing arrived from
Leaden that morales their adrenal were issued, and by
mid-day canvassing was commenced. lo the afternoon the
eueservative candidate, Mr. W. Nichol s= Hodgson. of
NewbiGrange,tiesed his address.
FALMOUTIL—Mr. S. Gurney's address is issued
to hie oonstituests, annonedag his intention of seeking re-
election. He appeal' to hi past efforts on behalf of civil
sad religious liberty as groaads for future confidewes.
IiuDDEBSFIZLD.—The Leeds Intelligencer says
that Mr. W. M. Lomas (ooneurvatif el wilt cosiest this
seat spinet Mr. E Leathern (liberal), the sitting member.
MeNcasareu. —Mr. Batley has decided to make
common cause with Kr. Jacob Bright in the election for
Manchester. The hon. gentleman has team this step in
,compliance sot only with the wish of the selection cm-
I mittes, but with that of his "many supporter." Weed
meeting were held last night in Cboron-on-Medlook, both
oe ths part of mews. Barley and Bright and Mr. Alderman
Heywood, and active measures were resolved upon at both
assemblies.
NORFOLK (Wner).—Mr. George William Pierre-
point Beldam* hes privately announced his intentica not
to contest this division of the musty. This determinatim
is caused by the umartain state of Mr. Bestinek's health.
Normonen.—Yesterday morning twenty lot
the rioters were taken before the mayor and magistrates.
charged with disorderly conduct on the previous evening.
After some consideration the mayor mid the viewers
would be discharged on prondelog not to Abed spat. The
required proems was gives sad the men were all set at
liberty. -Messrs. Paget and Morley, with a deputation,
afterwards waited upon the magistrates, and presented •
memorial complaining that they did sot receive proper pro-
teotiore from the police. The mayor said they had acted
upon the advice of the chief coestables of Notts, Derby,
and Lincoln. but they would retain an answer to the me-
morial on Wednesday.
Rsii.ere.—Mr. Leveson Gower, liberal, the
sitting member, has issued an address soliciting reelectioo.
The Hon. E. friceson, also liberal, will crostest the borough
in opposition to the sitting member. . I
SOUTHICILW DIVISION OF rtes WEST RIDINO.—AI
meeting of the metre' committee of the libeled electors ell
the southern &Asko of the riding was held on li=
Wakefield. Mr. Childers in the chair. Sir John
Bart., M.P., and Mr. Richard H. Batillaoei, of Whitish,
were present. We understand that Sir John Ramer I
declared his intention pot to be • meditate for the rem-
maxillae of the el/vides, end the meeting deferred
adoption of any resolution as regards the selection et
another candidate to be brought forwerd along with Mr.
Beaumeet —Leeds Mercury.
SOUTH LANCLSHIRI.—Sir J. Kay.Shuttleworth,
the third nominee of the Bedford hundred liberals, tale
graphed yeetarday evening to say that be would give their
offer his best ooseidrustioe, and Ist them have him decision
this morning.
Sours STAFFORDSHIRE. —We understand that
circulars have recently bean issued to the emearvatim
voters in the above oonstinteeey, intinsaiiag that Viscount
Linder and Mr. John Nook Begesll wadi solicit tee
suffrages of the electors, if a remiemehlroigeoi regaidtion
were presented to them requesting them to became candi-
dates. We hear that both gentlemen have consented to
stand, mid that there will be a motile ler the southern
division of the county.—Nriocastie earmark.. •
TZWILISBUZY.—Mr. William Dowdeswell, of
Pull-OmA, will come forward in the consersative interest be
thin borough, in oonienetkm with Mn. Hogimild Yorke, the
predict coussrvative member. It is generally undamped
1 that Mr. Martin, the liberal member, will again offer

The following letter, addressed to the Hon.
Billjlllllll Wood, proprietor of the Nei York Dally News
ban Lan published :

" New York, Jute 13, 1865.
" Dear Sir,—As my arrival in this city, and connexion
as an editorial contribotor with your jaunts", has cues-
Blood much hostile onsinest from some other sewep.pan
of New York, which persist la terming me' rebel.- sad
loudly Gall for ay punishment as • traitor, I think it de-
miscible that I should ones for all ' define my position,' se
that seems to be • subject at some interest toe portio I of the
public. Bo bog so a Soatliere Confederacs existed was si
Cosfedeeste mosesionist, or whet tome persons chose to term
a rebel. From the moment of GeseralJohnstone's surrender
to °goers' 'Theatre, at Grossedsore, I perceived that the
onus of the Confolosay was utterly lost. Then was so
looser • Ooefederste goversment—it hid disappoint' from
hums eyes ; and inasmuch r • country asst be
without • government, mid the only goverment then is
fact subsisting being the Federal sovernmeet of the United
States, I owed to is., from that instant, full obediesce—
which obedisace lat ono yielded in good faith. as I
think my fellownitimns at the South very generally did at
the same time and for the same moos. I am, therefore,
no longer • secessionist nor • rebel ; but • Unionist, and a
'win' (Oise& By appeal to arms, in assertion of the right
to secede, the Southern States wanted beforehand the ar-
bitrament el that sovereign tribune'. The decisioe
by
goo egainet them—no matter by what means, or by virtue
of what overwhelming odde—against them it is. And I
believe that all Southern men of high and honourable ohs rao-
ter do frankly moot the sew position that wear ho made for
them, and aeknowledgetheduty of applying themselves to the
task of reoeustrectiag ad re-establishing their society linos
the basis at the Union sod the constitution of the United
States. This they will sesuredly do, If they us permitted
to do It is pone; if the government do wet
them Into the earth, or torture them by prance-
Pose for the mime of bevies seesited • right keg kaown to
have been chimed by most Southern politicians, and ad-
mitted by many at the North also
" The institution of slavery is virtually abolished on this
oostionst. The irrepootible Goodie% between free labour
and slave labour has mine ; and slave labour has gone
down. To this also the Southern people submit. On this
point oleo they swept the decision of the war • sad if they
do so with reluctance and regret, it Y bat just to
them to say that in most cease their sorrow is
more for the fate which threatens that unhappy
moo they have protected so long than foe the 10•1 of
the mosey value of their staves ; w hicks money ohm indeed
was less ha' nothing, inasmuch as they could at all times
have had labour on cheaper terms, Some newspapers Oust
me with inocosisteney, is that I stood up for liberty in my
native country sad thou came sad advocated slavery hero.
I cannot perceive the ineoesistesco. The liberty whi& I
sought for Ireland was national ishipeedesoe Gaily • and
that only was what I sought for the Saab. I wiohed that
Ireland should bays the power to regulate her institu-
tions is her own way. and I wished the Southern SiailS
to have the same power. I wished to repeal an es•
forced ' Usk. ' of behind with &gland. sad I whited 1,
to resist the enforcementof • Union Woos Vies II
glob and New York. When is the isesesiseosy ?!
Others persistently 'harp m• hith haste' writtes
everything objectionable to them which the, ma rake
up oat of the columns of the Richmond Examiner and the
Richmond Enquirer for sans years past. I was over. at
any time, the editor of either of these journals. I refused
to be responsible for all that appeared It them ; never read
their ' personal s' wed never used that medium to give aid
and comfort to the enemy, or either ot the cooties. Fur-
ther. I never, by writing or speech, approved of any mal-
treatment or starvation of Federal prisoners as the South ;
nor was I aware there ever was any maltreatment or *tar-
' ,stun. The orders, as I knew, were to give these prisoums
the same as the roafederste soldiers received
understood that those mesa were carried out. Todne
ewe, Confederate ratites were sometimes meagre slough ;
bat I mast be excused if I decline to behove all the
dreadful stories told about this matter, or, indeed, &heat !
&wilting else, by witassses before the military gentlemmil
' at Washington.
What more must I deny ? I never moommeoded the,
reeellog of my follow creatures with vitriol and oamphins,
mew
ttanies, l& either of them. Whst mom? I never devonnA
e whether roast or boiled, with vitriol mom, or
with dragon's blood. And if anyone 'firms that I Sagged
to death my negro wenches in Alabama with a odes*
twisted cowhide—or that I hired Booth—or pursiased the
bowie knife for Psyne—l would modestly ask him to prove
the fact—but sot before the military gentlemen!
Washingtoo. no that. So moth for the pest As for
the present sad future, I have thought proper, without leave
asked of soros, to fifer you such &misnames I ma gives!
in the only daily journal in New York which has steadily
upheld the tree demorstie principle of state Tights, his
deprecated a war to enforce as morning Union, has
advocated, when that war ourrod, a system of real
pesos sad oonciliatioo, such as would enable Souther'
nos heartily to 00-operate in the task of recoadructioa
4-sol above alibis mooed senseless prosecutioes for what
is Nod Improperly called Immo and the illotoesed peer
the et courts in time of pesos. The separate
I isdepessieses of the South being proved to be ion le,
11
has seemed to me that the best hope of preserving the
Sherds' cd the whole country lies in the Dellialltliio party,
with whisk the whole South will naturally ally Solt as
before, and of which I conceive the Daily News to be the
truest and boldest organ. II my that I asked leave el
nobody to corns to this city, sad to writs in the News.
Further, Ido not connive myself to be here, and going at
large, by virtue ot the ' &moody that some papers have
mentioned. Neither have I Wied any ' pardon ;' and I
trust the Prandeot will set prim • perdon upon ms until I
shall booboo first ooavisted of something. I should he
obliged, with shanks for his poiltesese, to decline it. Ws if
very kin! ; but I do sal nos the artist&
" Joss Ilrecnem.*
rapetj.