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London, England, 1865-07-04 00:00:00

be congratulated on its
by the majority. It ii

the LOILD bitaircimoit's
fend him with chivalrous

bat moment, and quite another
vernment to swept the LORD
damnation ea their own.
Kr. 800T1131211 amendment
malt lest evening.

We cannot say much for the LORD CHAN-
ear-Los's apologists, however. The Loan A.DVO-
cm's amendment was in effect nothing leas than
an exculpation, and in accepting it the House
,would have stultified itself, and exasperated MUM
Wan appeased public indignation and impatiens.
It is worth remarking how very weak and poor al
thing this mere lawyer-like ingenuity appears wheal
II happens to be employed on a bad ease; how it lel
shattered to pieosethe moment it strikeethe common I
sense of cosameniminds. It was no doubt very inge-
nious to coastroot an amendment agreeing with just
so much of the Report of the Committee as ac-
quitted the Loan Crunceixos from all charge
except that of haste and want of caution. It was
still more ingenious to round off this easygoingl
amendment with a suggestion that the House should
take the opportunity, notof censuring any particular
offender, but of expressing its opinion that some
further check should be placed by law on the
granting of pensioaa to the holden of offices. And
yet the result of all this exceeding inge-
nuity in composing an innocuous amendment,
was indeed to disperse the poison of the cen-
sure, but to disperse it all over the patient's
frame instead of suppressing or expelling it.
The LORD ADVOCATE'S surgery was not needed
to destroy his patient ; but we believe
it contributed opportunely to that end.
Nor was the Arrontszr-Garizzoi more felicitous
in his operation. Either the honest man was too
much for the advocate, or the case was beyond the
reach of rhetorio. The Loan ADVOCATE had con-
fessed and avoided, but the Arromuse-
Garszasi pleaded the character and achieve-
ments of Lord WESTBURY as a law reformer,
his great capacity, his disinterestedness
in giving up three hundred ecclesiastical benefices,
and all his other acknowledged public virtuee.
There was something in this part of the defence in
which assuredly many members on both aides of the
House could not but concur ; but the Arroxels-
GENERAL threw away the grace of it by his assumed
indignation at the unfairness of alluding to the ED-
MITNIA case in connexion with the transactions of
Mr. WILDS, Mr. W awn, and ME.RICHARDBrrinn.z.
Within the space of six weeks, it seems, the House
and the country should have forgotten all about
the EDMUNDS scandal ; and the LORD CHANCELLOR
should have been allowed to come before the
Committee of the House of Commons on the Leeds
scandal with perfectly clean hands. There is no
such thing as cumulative evidence for or against
the character of an accused, though we hear
of such things in police courts. Lord WESTBURY
was certainly unfortunate in his defenders last
evening ; but we daresay, with all his knowledge
and experience, he will acknowledge that their
worst was their best. Lord PauszarroN, however,
swept; away the last hesitations of the
majority by proposing the adjournment of the
House till to-morrow evening, on the ground that'
Mr. Bouvezia's motion involved questions which'
the House was not in a position to decide off-hand.
This was too much for the gravity of members who
had come together at great inconvenience for
one night only to decide a question which could be
no question at all for any reader of the evidence
and report of the Committee from which
the substance of every speech in this debate
was made up. The Plasm]: showed more
of his usual tact in accepting the rejection of the,
adjournment as sufficiently decisive of the feeling'
of the House in favour of Mr. BonvezieS amend-
ment. Lord Pauezerrox never deserts even the 1
humblest colleague in extremity ; and Lord Wear-
BURY was something more than a mere col-
league ; but there are circumstances in which a
Government must sacrifice personal feelings
to the preservation of its own honour
and the opinion of the country. Lord WISTBURY
has, of course, resigned. It may be that some
public, and personal, and professional animosities
may accompany him into a retirement where he
will not enjoy, like one of his illustrious
predecessors, the consolations of philosophy.
But he may rest assured that the public
takes no part in any bane exultation, and would
gladly have been spared such a witness to the
truth, that capacity without character is worth-
less, and that even to the greatest men conduct
is fate. Lord WESTBURY may yet outlive his
present disaster in the grateful recollection of the
country, which, we trust, he may long be spared
to serve, without being the dupe of knavish
dependents.
ity

The Lord

THE HOUSE OF COMMONS AND THE
LORD CHANCELLOR.

The Prince. of Wales took a arriage drive, attended by
the Courses of Macielesdeld. .
The Prises est Mosso of Wales gnus a dinner to the
Queen of the ifitherlaoris in the evening.
The following were invited to meet her Majesty :—The
Duke of Cambridge, Prime Edward of faze-Weimar and
the Cortese Doraberg, the Prince al Tear, the Minister
for the Netherlands, the Deal* Yielder, the Earl
and Counties of Macclesfield, Earl and Countess
Spencer, the Fail sod Omer@ a Clarendon, the
Conntsis Cowley, Mal Russell, \Mounter Pal-
merston, Lord Harris, Lord Llanovor, the How
R. H. Meade, Lieutenant-General Sir Pelelikk WOWS.
Sir Andrew and Hon. lady Bohemia, Sir Henry sad Lady
Howard, Count de Readedir, Mt de Weckhalin, Baroness
de Pabst and Baroness de Dana (in attendance on the
Queen of Holland), Colonel the Hon. James Macdoestd
(Equerry in Waitiag to the' Duke of Cambridge), Lars-
not•General %trolly*, and Major Grey.
The band of the Coldstream Guards (conducted by Mr.
A. F. Godfrey) wee in attendance and perfumed a selection
of musk.
A depratioa of the National Committee of British
Farness' Aid Associations bad an iIIidITIOW with Earl
Russell at the Foreign-office, ea Saturday last. The depil-
ation consisted of the Hon. E. L. Stanley, Mr. J. Gurney
Barclay, Dr. Hodgkica, Dr. Tories (Secreta7 of London
Association), the Rev. J. 0. Gallaway, M.A., Mr. Albright,
and Mr. B. H. Cadbury (seeretarke Birmingham and Mid-
land Freemen's Aid Associations), Mr. L .A. Chamerovsow
(Secretary of British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society), the
Be,. Ampinall Sampson (Secretary of National Committee),
Mr. F. W. Moon, Mr. Smith Harrison, and Mr. Robert
Alsop.
The following members of her Majesty's Men Honour-
able Privy Council at yesterday at the Conseil Chamber,
Whitehall, to hoer the arguments of counsel for and against
a prepared alteration by the States of Gusresey of the bar.
boar dos of the Liked of Giveraney Earl Granville (the
I ord President), the Right Hoe. Sir George Grey, the
Right Hoe. T. 11116111 Gibson, the Right Hoe. Sir Edward
Ryan, and the Right Hon. Rabat Lowe.
A deputation from the townships of Erato lad West
Derby had se interview with the Right Hoe. C. P. Villiers,
at the altos of the Poor-law Board, Whitehall, yesterday.

VISIT OP HER MAJESTY TO THE
DQUEEN OP
TEE NETHERLANDS.-(THIS AY.)

This morning, morning, at a quarter to 10 o'clock, her
Majesty the Queen, acionmpenied by her Royal Highness
Priorities Helene, and attended by the Duchess of Rozburghe,
Major-Gweral the Hoe. A. N. Hood, &a., left Windsor
Castle for the metropolis, in order to visit the Queen of the
Netherbuids. The Queen mid Printer, after a short stay,
drove beak to Paddington.

The Prince of Wales was present during a part
of the debate on the motion on the conduct of the Lord
Chancellor in the House of Commons last night. Three
Japanese noblemen, subjects of Primes Detzusetma, of
Kagoeima, were also present in the House of Commons last
evening.
Yesterday morning the Queen of the Netherlands
visited the Consumption Hospital at Brompion. Her
Majesty returned to CLArkire's Hotel to luncheon, and
afterwards paid a visit to the Countess of Clarendon. On
returning to the hotel her Majesty received visits. Later
in the afternoon the Queen west to the Howe of Lords
and listened to the debates from the Ladles' Gallery. In
the evening her Majesty dined with the Prince and Princess
of Wales at Marlburoagh House, and afterwards honoured
the Duke and Dueller of Sutherland with a visit at Stafford
House, a select party having been invited on the onoesion.

TRIAL OF DR. PRITCHARD•

EDINBURGH. July 3.

This morning, at 10 o'clock, the trial of Dr.
Pritchard on the charge of murdering his wife and mother-
io-kw, in Glasgow. took place in the High Court of Jus-
ticiary here, before the Lord Justice Clerk, Lord Ardmillan,
and Lord Jerviswoode. The court room was crowded, and
many were disappointed in obtaining admission. The in-
dictment charged the prisoner with administeriog tartarteal
antimony, aconite, and opium to his mother-in-kw, Jane
Cowper Taylor, in tapioca, and in porter or beer, and in •
medicine called Hatley'seedativs solution, between the 10th
and 25th of February, 1865 ; and it also charged him with
administering, on repeated °omelets, in February and
March, 1865, Unwind antimony and soothe to hie wife,
Mary Jane Taller, in articles of food and of medi-
cine. The prisoner entered the dock at 10 o'clock,
dressed in deep mourning. He WAS calm and out and looked coolly around the court
when he had taken his *eat. He is • stout. well-built math
prispeeesming in appearance, and with sharply-defined fea-
tures ; be wears his hair long, and has a large bushy beard,
bet no moustache. The prisoner's brother, Charles
Auguste. Pritchard, secretary to the naval commander-in-
chief at Plymouth, by permission of the court, took hie mat
beads him in the dock, and remained with him all day.
The prosecution was conducted, in the absence of the
Lord Advocate in London, by the Boliciter4enenl,
waisted by Mr. Gifford and Mr. Crichton, advocates-
deputy. The defence was conducted by Mr. A. B. Clark,
Mr. William Watson, aced Mr. David Brand, advomtee.
The prisoner's counsel moved the wait to separate the
two charges of murder, on the ground that it embarrassed
the defence to try the two together.
The court utanimously refused to gnat the request.
The primmer was than celled upon to plead to the indict-
ment, and in a clear diatinotvoiee he pleaded " Not guilty ;"
and &jury having been empanelled, the evidence for the pram
cution commenced about half pmt 11 o'clock. The re-
mainder of the day was occupied with the examination of
five witnesses, three of whom were merely formal, and ors-
eupied only a few minutes. The two important witnesses
Were Catherine Latimer, • cook, and Mary MiLsod, •
housemaid and none in the servies of Dr. Pritchard.
Catherine Latimer spoke to Mr.. Pritchard having been
frequently sick in the month of February, and retching
violently, and to being attacked with severe pais. orerszeps
in the stomach on two occasions. Mrs. Pritchard was gene-
rally sick after taking tea. Om one occasion Mrs. Pritchard,
when ill, said kilter husband ea be was Analog at her bed-
side—" Don't ay, for If you do so you area hypocrite." She
also said, referring to the doctors, "You are all hypo-

orites."
Mary Wired, the housemaid and nurse, who was wider
examination for above four hours, entered in great detail
into the circumstances 'flooding the illness and death of
the wife and mother-iodaw of the prlsooer. She said that
during part of the illness of Mrs. Pritchard no doctor at-
tended her but her husband, she was frequently sick after
her meals, sad melted and vomited. On the erasion she
got sick after takieg egg-flip one of the servente tested of
the egg-dip, and said, " What • taste it has.' Witness
admitted that io the course of last summer Mrs. Pritchard
saw Dr. Pritchard kissiag her in • bedroom. Witness said to
Mrs. Pritchard she would go away, but Mrs. Pritchard
said she would speak to the doctor, and that "he was a
nasty dirty man." Witness admitted that she bad been
with obild by the prisoner, sad that she bad had a miscar-
riage. After gnat hesitation, witness admitted that pri-
soner once said to her he would many her if his wife died
before him. Witness got • ring, and a brooch, and • photo-
gisph of himself from the winner.
The court adj•unied at half-past six o'clock till Tuesday
morning at tea °Weak.
The trial is not expected to be !Walled this week.

THIS DAY.
(IT =gnu° nutows.)
(now on owx oomuseconua

EDINBURGH, TMESDAT.
The trial was resumed this morning.
Mary Patersow, who sated as cook after Latimer, deposed
to havfog tested a bit of cheese which she bad
toned in the pastry alter it had some from
the table et her mime= on the previous evening, and
to Inning, after eating it, been nisei with sickness,
bunting in the throat, and vomiting. Bile subesguelly
observed Dr. Prltebord putting something in an egg
elp which she thought to be sonar, mid on tasting it she
I was seised with the like symptoms.

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and easparing eel of the Trearury whip, they would roomed interview with her Itidpsty.
for the Low) cHAN.iia getting a small majority is their favour. Is this they
have been disappointed, but not the lees ere they bound to The Princes" of Wales took a 'leafage drive; attended by
w. The .1091 D A.DVO- aseopt last night's defeat as the emphatic expressicm of the Countess of Macclesfield.
ffect nothing leas than ainippenni with which the holm reprols the manner in The Prises and Maori of Wales pve • dinner to the
ceptiog it the Home which Lord Westbury has dealt with his patronage, and Queen of the Witherlaads in the evening.
and exasperated rather that is which the government has thought proper to The followlog were invited to moat her Majesty :—'The
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very wean and a fond to have brought discredit on the office he fills, On the Corintass Bamberg, the Prince al Teak, the Minister
ministry to which he belongs, and the country which he has for the Netherlands, taw Denial' insister, the Earl
ingenuity appears when est .
&Hiltons served." and Countess of Macclesfield, Emil and Comber
n bed core; how it in so "
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noiro. Ciountsie Cowley, Berl Russell, Thocantess Pal
--a... tom Harris. Lord Llanovra, the Hon