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At twelve o'clock, at the brokers' office, 27, Tithebitrn-street, 110 tons
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FRIDAY, JULY 10, 1857

THE DAY'S NEWS.

Miss Smith has been acquitted on the charge of
murdering L'Angelier. At half-past one o'clock
yesterday afternoon, the Chief Justice Clerk
finished his summing up, which, towards the con-
clusion, was much against the prisoner, and the
jury having retired for a few minutes, came to the
following verdict:—" On the first count, not guilty,
and the second and third counts, not proven "
So far as we are able to judge, the verdict has met
with the almost unanimous approval of the
people of the three kingdoms. That Miss
Smith has acted in a most culpable manner there
can be very little doubt, but the evidence does not
appear to make out that clear case of guilt which
would have warranted a conviction for the capital
offence. That the deceased was poisoned by arsenic
there seems to be no question ; and it was admitted
that the prisoner, on aeveral occasions, purchased
large quantities of that poison, but between these
suggestive circumstances, there was a vast hiatus
in the evidence upon which a just conviction could
have been grounded. The deceased may have
committed suicide. He may have been poi-
soned by accident. He may have been
murdered by some one else. Any of these supposi-
tions is clearly consistant with the case proVed.
Upon the other hand, the prisoner was perfectly
open and unreserved in purchasing the drug ;
she did so with a witness present, and actually
wrote her own name on the chemist's book. Again,
her statement with regard to using the dangerous
compound as a cosmetic, was corroborated in a
great measure by her friend, who was aware that
she had learned it was employed to improve the
complexion. All these facts strongly negative the
presumption of her having committed the crime
with which she was charged. The secrecy which
invariably accompanies the perpetrators of murder
was wanting, and a probable reason was assigned
for having possession of the poison, without in-
tending to use it for an evil purpose. Under
such circumstances we cannot imagine how any
jury would have been justified in finding any other
verdict than that which acquitted Madeline
Smith.

In the London Court of Common Council on
Wednesday, a resolution of condolence with the
Lord Mayor, on the melancholy death of his
brother, Colonel Finnis, who, perished at Meerut,
was unanimously adopted. Mr. Anderton gave
notice of a motion to present the freedom of the
City to the Duke of Cambridge. accompanied by a
sword of the value of 200 guineas, "as a mark of
attachment to the Queen and Royal Family, and
as a recognition of the energy and success with
his Royal Higness has discharged the duties of his
office as Commander-in-Chief of the British army."
" This certainly appears to us," says a Metropolitan
eotemporary, to be a most extraordinary proposi-
tion. We are not are what remarkable services
the Duke has performed as Commander-in-Chief
to render him worthy of this special mark of
honour. If the Corporation adopt Mr. Anderton's
motion, it will add another to many previous
evidences of the sycophantic manner in which our
City magnates are ready to kneel at everything in
the share of Royalty.
Prince Frederick William will meet the Court of
Common Council on Monday.
The inquiry into the cause of the North Kent
Railway Accident has terminated for the present
in the committal of the engine-driver and fireman.
Mr. Goodere, attorney-at-law, practicing in the
Police Court, who had given bail for his appear-
ance on a charge of obtaining money on false
pretences, [yesterday appeared before Mr. Mans-
field, and the charge was entered into; but the
worthy magistrate decided that there had been a
mistake made, and that Mr. Goodere had not
knowingly conducted himself in an unprofessional
manner.

Another scene occurred in the Police-court,
yesterday. A touter for Mr. Cobb, was placed in
the dock, on the charge of obtaining money on
false pretences. The prisoner Buckley had
obtained 3s 6:1 from a person, on the representa-
tion that he was the head clerk of Mr. Cobb.
This lattter gentleman denied that he was in his
employ later than the 17th of June last ; but
eventually acknowledged that he had paid him
money as late as Saturday last. Mr. Mansfield
decided that Buckley was in the employ of Cobb
at the time, and discharged him. We are rather
of opinion that our Stipendiary would be doing a
service to rid the police-court of some of the petti-
fogging lawyers which ingest the precincts of that
building. We know he would gain the thanks of
all the sensible portion of the thousands who have
businass, directly or indirectly, with the courts.
The " touters" outside ought at once to be sup-
pressed. They are a nuisance—yea, more than a
nuisance, for no one is safe who has anything to do
with them.

The weekly meeting of the Dock and Health
Committees were held yesterday, but no business
of importance was discussed. The deaths in the
borough last week were 241, being an increase of
fifty-three over the preceeding week.
Our Paris advices state that the individuals in-
criminated in the attempt on the Emperor will be
tried by the Court of Assizes in the first week of
August. The accused are four in number, three
men and one woman, all natives of Italy.

Letters from Bologna, of the 3rd, say, that the
Pope has been very badly reach-el in that town, in
consequence of certain liberties requested by the
population not having Men granted. The
.Papal
procession was receive& with groans and hisses.
At Ravenna, the municipal Ersthorities .presented
an address which was the opposite to satisfactory.
Intelligence from Constantinople of the 25th ult.
states, that
.on the previous night a head of the
Turkish pollee, Chetki Pacha, was assassinated in
his harem by one of his subordinate agents, whom
he had grievously insulted. The assassin drove a
knife several times into the body of the Pacha, and
then murdered a wife of the latter who had endea-
voured to seize him. He then gave himself up to

his companions, and at once admitted his guilt to
the Cadi.

We have to recerd two capital convictions for
murder—one at the South Wales assizes; the other
at the Central Criminal Court. In each it was the
too ordinary case of a husband killing his wife.
In the former, the unhappy man, George Lewis,
has been left for death, without hope of mercy ;
in the latter, Michael Crawley, has been recom-
mended to mercy.
A ministerial paper says that Viscount Monck,
Lord of the Treasury, and rejected of Portsmouth,
is about to ask the Oxford electors to put him into
the seat Mr. Neate has been turned out of. It is
said that Mr. Cardwell does not intend to offer
himself to the electors

We have interesting intelligence from the Con-
tinent this morning. The accounts to hand, show
that some connection may possibly have existed
between the Italian insurrection and certain serious
insurrectionary movements in Spain. These
latter movements are stamped with a republican
character, but some surprise is expressed as to the
source whence the insurgents derive the ample
funds they seem to have at command. The latest
telegraph announces their defeat and merciless
punishment.

Miss Meriton White, Mazzini's fair agent, pre-
fers to be arrested, and tried in Genoa, rather than
leave the country. Is it courage or bravado ?

The House of Commons had an early sitting
yesterday. The business before the House was
of an interesting character. The Mersey Con-
servancy and Docks' Bill was read a third time
and passed. Some opposition was shown, on it
being moved, that the House should go into com-
mittee on the R-formatory Schools' Bill, but a
division showed HIS for the motion, and only thirty-
seven against. The clauses of the bill, with a
few unimportant amendments, were then agreed
to, and the bill was reported. Mr. Horsfall
presented a petition from the traders, merchants,
and shipowners of Liverpool, in favour of sending
the Resolute in aid of Lady Franklin's exr edition
to the Arctic regions. The Fraudulent Trustees
Bill went through committee, the Attorney-
General undertaking to remodel some of the pro-
visions before bringing up the report.
We have three day's later news from America,
but the intelligence is not of the least importance
The only item of interest is of a melancholy nature.
A steamer on the St Lawrence had been burned,
by which 200 emigrants perished.

WE grieve to be obliged to record another of
those aimless, ill-judged, ill-managed outbreaks,
which seems destined to occur in the unhappy
classic land of Italy; the effects of which must
be to shed innocent blood ; uselessly to sadden
the hearts of enlightened patriots, to give the
enemies of freedom a pretext and an apology
for tightening the bands o f tyranny, and so
indefinitely to adjourn the advent of Italian
freedom.

As yet, the accounts are very confused, and
we wait for more specific and reliable informa-
tion ; but it would seem that, a short time ago,
the Sardinian Government were warned that an
insurrection would be made in some part of
Italy. Disturbances accordingly took place at
Genoa and Leghorn, on June 30th. Some
insurgents got possession of a steamer on her
way from Genoa to Tunis, made a descent on
the island of Ponza, liberated 300 prisoners,
were encountered or followed by royol troops,
and several were killed. This is the old story.
A few over-earnest, hot-headed men break out
into insane and useless revolt ; they are out-
numbered, deserted, or betrayed, and the dust
of their footsteps is soon laid in blood. But
their country is no nearer freedom ; and still
the classic land of the C,ESAR'S and the RIENZI'S
is crushed under the heel of despotism : even
though the noble brothers, the BANDIERAS, and
their companions, may lay down their lives for
Italy, because that which is bravely dared has
not been wisely planned. How often shall we
have to chronicle the same sad facts and repeat
the mournful lesson to the too sanguine patriots

of many oppressed nationalities ? We regret
this outburst the more because it began in the
best governed and most constitutional portion
of Italy ; within the territory of the king of
Sardinia—just the last place where revolt ought
to have come to a head, The king and people
of Sardinia have the warmest respect and
sympathy of the people of England. Sardinia,
without being a servile copyist of England, has
most promisingly entered on the path of consti-
tutional improvement, and any disaster V)
Sardinia would be a calamity to the cause of
progress over all the world. This interesting
little kingdom has, next to England and
Belgium, the largest amount of civil and reli-
gious liberty of any continental nation. She
is strengthening herself against Austria outside.
and developing her railway system for her own
poople. She is practically showing to all
Italians how they may more securely win
freedom than by muskets and barricades. We
should deplore any arrest of her progress as a
misfortune to the world.
We should not, of course, be surprised to hear

of an outbreak in the Kingdom of Naples, where

POERIO is tortured in a dungeon, and hundreds
of noble lives are rotting away under damp, and
chains, and famine. This insurection, so far yet
appears, has had no aim or plan. The electric
wires were cut in one place, and a sergeant and
a few guards were cut down in another. We
are utterly at a loss to see what good result to
any party can follow such a reckless waste of
human life. The men that fell by the insurgents
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had all mothers and relatives that would mourn
their loss ; but if patriots will be cutting their
way with a bloody axe, let them aim directly at
the guilty movers and causes of all this cruel
oppression, and not be satisfied with destroying
the tools and instruments which their tyrants
wield. low little does the common soldier know
or care for the plans and policy of the master he
serves. Yet the burden of war and insurrection
falls upon the rank and file. It is for patriots to
see that no good can come from the mass of the
people shooting each other down, either in
support of freedom or despotism. It is the
policy of tyrants to send the people out to the
mutual slaughter. It should be the wisdom of
those who love their country to disappoint those
tyrants.

This revolt in Italy, as usual, is