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SATURDAY, AUGUST 22, 1857.

THE DAY'S NEWS.

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The House of Lords had a pretty smart
debate, yesterday evening, on the motion of
Lord Redesdale, that the Commons .amend-
ments to the Divorce and Matrimonial Causes
Bill be considered that day three months.. The
noble lord having been severely taunted by the
Lord Chancellor, Lord Grenville, and the Marquis
of Lansdowne, consented to withdraw his motion,
after having in a most determined manner
defended the course which he took, and stated
that he believed from his soul that the Bill was a
most mischievous one, and that he bad now the
opportunity of defeating it, if he pleased. The
Bill, it was ultimately agreed, should be considered
on Monday ; but, if Lord Bedesdale carries his
conscientious scruples into practice, the Bill may
yet be lost this session. The standing orders
were suspended, and the Mersey Conservancy Bill
(No. 2) was read a second time ; Lord Grenville
announced that it would be impossible to adjourn
Parliament on Tuesday. We suppose he fears
' protracted debates on the Divorce and Matri-
nionial Causes Bill.
At the early sitting of the Commons, Lord
Palmerston replied to a que.stion put by Mr. W
Williams, that the French Government had not
called for the expulsion of the French refugees
from Eng'and, and, morever, that if such a demand
bad been made, the Government were without
powers to comply with the demand. His Lordship
also intimated that he would introduce a bill next
session to facilitate the retiring Bishops, and that

would include the case of Dr. Hinds, Bishop o
Norwich ; and then a lengthened discussion
ensued on the Divorce Bill, and it was read a
third time and passed.
We learn that a circular has been addressed
from the East India Company to all the officers
of this efficient body, at present on furlough,
ordering them to India immediately. It has been
a matter of general surprise that this order has
been so long delayed.
The local news this morning. although not im-
portant is at least interesting. The lovers of
gossip and scandal have a little food for talk
respecting an elopement from Dublin, with an
account of their arrest in Liverpool, and
the transhipment to ancient Eblona. At
the Assizes yesterday, Bridget Cochrane was
indicted for poisoning her children, hut at the
direction of the learned judge, B :rein Watson, the
jury acquitted her for want of evidence. Another
charge of the same kind was preferred against
woman named Elizabeth Kelly, residing at Ashton-
under-Lyne, terminated in a similar manner. In the
Nisi Prius Court, Mr. Baron Channell was
engaged the whole of the day with a
nuisance case,—the Queen verses Spence, in the
indictment charged the defendant with having
• erected a manufactory for the production of chemi-
cal substance°, the smoke of which was foul,
obnoxious and injurious to the health of the inha
bitants. As an evidence of the importance of the
issue, we may mention that Sir Frederick Thesiger
came down specially for the defence. The matter
-will again be before the Court te-day.
Our readers will perceive that Sir Jas. Graham
has made some pertinent remarks to his consti-
tuents at Carlisle, on the Indian crisis, and that he
takes a very hopeful view of the matter. May he be
correct, and his most ardent aspirations fulfilled to
the letter He said when a fire rages our only duty
is to put it out ; and he declared himself to be of
opinion that the loss of India would be the com
mencement of England's downfall. With such
views he exhorted his audience, and through his
audience the whole country, to rise with courage
and determination, and uphold the renown of our
flag, and preserve our fame and our honour.
We observe that the Bishop of Oxford has
issued a pastoral to the Clergy under his control,
stating that the insurrection in Bengal is not only
a most deplorable event, but a Divine judgment.
He writes to the Archdeacons to say that the
teachers of religion should " unite in the inter-
cessions for our fellow-countrymen in the East,
and in acts of humiliat'on for those sins that
have drawn down upon us the national judgment
of the Indian mutinies." We notice the last
expression particularly, because other bishops who
have issued instructions do not seem to imagine
that our own conduct can have the remotest con-
nection with the revolt and massacre. Dr. Wil-
berforce has also written a few words of prayer,
which he recommends for use in private worship.
Among the latest continental news we learn that
King• Ferdinand of Naples is reported to have
written to her Majesty the Queen of England, in
which he begs her Majesty to take pity on the
unhappy inhabitants of Corfu, and also to give in-
etructions for the discontinuance of the horrible
massacres and butcheries of rebels now taking
place in India. Although the rumour affirms that
several high diplomatic personages bad spoken of
the existence of this letter, it does not adduce any
sufficient reason to show that such is really the
case. Those high diplomatic personages—or the
correspondent—have probably been amusing them-
selves with this invention, which, however, shows
what animosity is created by interference with
other people's concerns.
Our Paris advices inform'us that General Wynd-
ham has arrived in Paris, on his way to Me)seilles
to embark far India, where, as already announced,
be has been appointed to a high military command.
A despatch from Marseilles, of the 18th Aug., says
that the Lombard papers denounce uew Mazzinian
meetings and plots at Genoa.
The Spanish journals of the l 6th have arrived ;
the principal point of intelligence in them being
the details of the reception at Sr. Petersburg by
the Emperor Alexander of M. Istitu' z, the Spanish
Ambassador. Everything appears to have passed
in the ordinary manner on such occasions ; the
Emperor, however, it is stated, having testified
unusual interest in the health of the Queen, pro-
bablyto her Majesya
owing present interesting
situation.
The tone of the Neapolitan Government has
become of late more unfriendly to the Sardini.'n
Government. It i 3 expected. that diplomatic
relations will be broken off between the two
Governments before long. The Sardinian Govern-
meat has, of course, made no remonsttance against
the arrest of certain of its subjects by the Neapo-
litan authorities for being on board of the
Cagliari when she was captured. On the contrary
it wishes that every inquiry on the subject should
be proceeded with ; but it naturally expects that
they should be treated as human creatures ought
to be.

Acelrcling to accounts from Dusseldo)ff, in tlie
Deutschland of Vienna, a working tailor has been
arrested in that town, in consequence of informa-

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tion received by the police from Hanover. A large
quantity of incendiary writings were found in his
possession, and he was stated to be the head of a
secret society having regicide for its aim. Several
arrests have likewise been made in Cologne.

Despatches from Monte Video state that on the
reiterated demand of France and England, the
Government of Uruguay has just authorised the
nomination of a mixed commission to arrange the
claims of the subjects of those two nations.

IT was only yesterday that our readers had the
opportunity of perusing the singular and ill-
advised " personal narrative" of JAMES SPOLLEN.
In publishing the narrative we had another object

in view than merely gratifying the curiosity of
all who peruse the columns of the NORTHERN
TIMES. That object was, that they might know
what a man accused of the highest crime known
to the law could say in his own defence, seeing

that he had determined to brave the indignant
frowns of an angry populace. We were also in
hopes that something might take place which

would throw some fresh light upon the myste-
rious tragedy of the murder of Mr. LITTLE. If

our readers have gained no additional information
thereon, they have had such an augmentation of

circumstantial evidence as must satisfy them
that SPOLLEN'S jury was about the most merciful

" that ever sat in Green-stree`," and the most

pliant to the coaxing powers of the astute and
able lawyer, Mr. CURRAN.

A. word as to the " exhibition" itself. It
came off in a Dublin Theatre. There were no

shifting scenes—stage machinery or elaborate
plot. The great hero and the sole actor was

SPOLLEN himself. He commences to tell to

about a dozen of men and children his penury
and want, and urges that as a reason why he

should outrage the feelings of the citizens by
appearing before them as a martyr; but every
one present looked upon him as a pardoned
murderer. The narrative had not proceeded far
when SPOLLEN was interrupted by a Mr. FITZ-
PATRICK, who, in very indignant terms,
denounced SI'oLLEN's audacity in appearing as
he then did, and seeking to obtain funds from
the people of Dublin, when it was a well-known
fact that he had as much as would take himself

and his son to America. Mr. FITZPATRICK

was certainly very severe upon SPOLLEN, but his

‘. Irish blood was up," and he spoke as he felt,
and left the exhibition with a promise that he
would consult the Lord Mayor as to whether
the SPOLLEN nuisance could not be put clown.

After Mr. FITZPATRICK had taken his departure,

but before SPOLLEN Junior gave him an im-

pertinent badgering, and threatened to send fo"r
the police to eject him if he continued his re-
marks to his father, a number of questions were
put to SPOLLEN the Elder touching the murder,
but to all these he gave evasive replies, the sum

and substance of which clearly proved that he
alone was in the secret of the tragedy.

It is really too bad that the public feeling
should be so outraged by the audacious display
of a man whose every act, since his liberation
from the Dock in Green-street, has been to prove,
beyond the possibility of doubt—if any such
could have previously existed--that the gallows
has lost a full-fledged candidate. Only think of
a man accused of such a horrid crime as that of
Mr. LITTLE'S murder standing on the boards of
a Dublin Theatre and asking his audience—
" Suppose I did commit the murder, would you
starve me ?" But his conduct with regard to his
wife should stamp him in the public estimation,
as a dastardly coward, a libeller—aye, and some-
thing worse'. In his defence he instructed his
counsel, Mr. CURRAN, to insinuate that the
prosecution was the result of his wife's
infidelity, and her connexion with a paramour.

The learned advocate, in his zeal for an
acquittal, had recourse to the expedient of black-
ening the poor unfortunate woman's character
when defence was impossible. SPOLLEN follows
up the same idea the moment he is acquitted,
and in his never-to-be-forgotten address to the
court and jury, he designates the partner of
his life " a female tigress." This was done for
the purpose of making an impression as to the
probability of his innocence. His subsequent
conduct belies the imputation, for we find him
no sooner clear of the precincts of the Court-
house, than he sends a message to his wife,
seeks reconciliation, and asks that the past
may be forgotten, and that they should live
happy for the future. Gracious GoD ! was
there ever such inconsistency of conduct ?
Was there ever a course of procedure which so
clearly, emphatically called to mind,:and applied
to the utterer of such gross calumnies, the
words of the Prophet :—" And NATHAN - said
unto DAVID, thou art the man."
In corroboration of this view, it will be
observed that when questioned at the Theatre
on Tuesday, he abstained from repeating his
accusations against his wife, and was Jesuitical
in his replies as to how she knew where the
money was hidden, as if he had been brought
up at the College of Rheims. The whole affair
of the. " personal narrative" was a disgusting
exhibition—an attempt to extort money from
the public, to one who has forfeited all confi-
dence or claim whatever. We are glad to see
that the affair has been a failure, and that our
brethren of the Irish Press have denounced the
scheme, as it richly merits. We take the fol-
lowing as a specimen of the indignation with
which SPOLLEN'S stage exhibition is viewed.
Our cotemporary, the Cork Reporter, says :
" Seriously we think it would be well that he
should be sent out of the country, as he is will-
ing to leave it; for here he cannot obtain an
honest livelihood, and it is no economy to make
such a man desperate. Public morals require