The Sun.
London, England, 1863-03-28 00:00:00

N°a 22,073.

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A set Dinner, at Five Shillings each, is served from 3 p.m.
The Three Shilling Dinner, and Dinners from the " Carte,"
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1L The Shadow of Ashlydyat. By the Author of " East
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CHESTER MEETING.
The following races close and name on Tuesday next,
the 17th of Mar, h. For conditions see sheet Calendar and
Bo k Calendar. Nomioation received by Messrs. Weatherby,
London; Mr. H. Johnson, St. Mary's, York ; and Mr. E. W.
Topham, Chester.
The Palatine Cup Stakes.
The Wynnstay Handicap.
A Handicap Plate of 50 sous.
A Sweepstakes of 5 goys each.
The Eton Stakes (Handicap).
A Sweepstakes of 10 nova each.
Handicap of 70 soya.
'1 he Marquis of Westminster's Plate.
The Cheshire Welter Cup.
Handicap of 5 soya each.
The Cheshire Stakes.
The Stewards' Cup.
A Handicap Plate of 60 soya.
In all races, where fewer than three horses start, the added
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STRATFORD-ON-AVON STEEPLE CHASES
will take peace over the Borden Hill Ground, on Wed-
nesday, April 8,1863.
The STRATFORD-ON-AVON ()PEN STEEPLE CHASE (Han-
dicap) of 10 sovs each, 5 it, and 2 only if declared on or before
Thursday, April 2, 1863, with 60 sovs added, over aLout four
mil of fair hunting country; the winner of any handicap
steeple chase, after the weights are declared, to carry lb
extra ; the winner to pay 10 sr.vs towards expenses, and the
sezond horse t save his stake. To close and name to Capt.
Hamilton, Shottery, Stratford-on-Avon, on or before Mon-
day, March 23, 1.63 ; weights to appear in " Bell's Life," on
the 29th day of March ; the 5 sovs ft, name of horse, and
colours of rider to be enclosed together, or the nomination
will not be received ; three horses to start or the public
money will not be added.
The HUNTERS' STARES of 5 sovs each, 3 forfeit, with 30
sovs added, over about four miles of fair hunting country, for
horses that have been regularly hunted with any established
pack of foxhounds in the season 1862-63 ; four years 12st,
five years 12st 71b, six and aged 13st ; winners 71b extra ;
professional riders 71b extra ; the winner to pay 5 sovs to-
wards expenses. To close and name to Capt. Hamilton,
Shottery, Stratford-on-Avon, on or before March 23. 1863;
the 3 sovs ft, name of horse, and colours of rider to be en-
closed together, or the nomination will not be received ;
three horses to start, or the public money will not be added.
The WELTER CUP, added to a Sweepstakes of 10 sovs ean ;
13st 71b ; about three miles ; a winner of 100 sovs to carry 71b
extra, and of 200 sovs 141 b extra ; gentlemen riders : nomi-
nation, with entrance-money, name of horse, and colours of
rider, to be sent to Capt. Hamilton, on or before Wednesday,
April 1,1863.
The FARMERS' AND TRADESMEN'S STARES Of 2 sovs each,
with 15 sovs added, for horses bona fide and unconditionally
the property of farmers or tradesmen residing within fifteen
miles of Stratford-on-Avon, and that have not been in a train-
ing stable for six months from date of entry ; 12st each ; to
be rid ten by farmers, tradesmen, or their sons ; winners of
any steeplechase or hurdle race 101 b extra. To close and
name (with entrance money) to Capt. Hamilton, Shottery,
Stratford-on-Avon, on or before Wednesday, April 1; about
three miles ; three horses to start, or the public money will
not be added.
Sir HARLES MORDAUNT, Bart., M.P.,
Sir ROBERT HAMILTON, Bart,, K.C.8.,
Capt. PEACH, Stewards
Hon. W. H. NORTH,
Lord CONYERS,
F. W. HAMILTON, Shottery, Stratford-on-Avon,
Ho Secretary and Treasurer.

DEATH-CRY, YET SLOW-POISON'D HOPE.
For Church-law riddance of Carib-red Indian's Civic-
Tie, as Prince Consort for soil-right, under Quebec's quad-
ruple 3ty-1764; in Russia's Canada-paper guarantee-'66, on
Clement 14's Pekin Jesu Col. veto t so Partition of Poland,
'72-6, on the Behring-str. mark of Asia's union ingress and
dgress agency to Prince of Wales' Cape, to Labrador's Mo-
ravian act HeLeofminster settlements in America.
PETER BASQUET, with white Ally, prays YE l on his
knees, to consider their Keyholt position—of your own
creation—as the elect of England's Income-tax succession,
by medal Badge (as was his uncle, Indian Joseph Brant, of
Stamp Act 1775) mark—Toll-set by Zoliverein Convention
Treaty of 2d March, 1841, by order of Palmerston, BULo,
and Labouchere, for America's criminal law, as extended to
New Zealand, &c, Medal-attested by late King of Prussia
at Windsor Castle, as the 3-mix't Church's man, under the
Berlin 3ty toll-weight standard on 5-6 W. 4, c 63, Prince
Consort'Ment on the day of (N. South) 'WALES' equatorial
Christen'ng, 21 years past, Vestibule met by DOURO, Wel-
lington's son, when conducted and paid by, police superin-
tendent Carter, till Lord Ashhurton association on board
the Warspite, 74, with His flag union of England's Tower
issue, Jan. 31, 1842, under the Admiralty limit red flag
Commission of Array,' 7 Geo. 4, c 38, 1826, for the King's
Bank° in Chancery, by Sheriff Perley's writ return as the
fit elect by seizin of Lord Seaton's Criminal court badge, for
trial of ' Canada's bills' of Soil-indictment.

THE SCOTTISH CHAMPION OPEN
1- MEETING, under the auspices of the Biggar and Cale-
donian Coursing Clubs, by the kind permission of the Right
Ho.. the Earl of Home, Ar 4.. will be held at Douglas, on
Tuesday, March 24,1863, and following day', when the fol-
lowing stakes will be run for:— '
I. Th, CALEDONIAN CHAMPION CUP. for 32 all-
aged greyhounds, at £lO lOs entrance ; to be divided in
the fo lowirg manner :
Winn(r £l6o
Runner-up
Third and fourth, each
Fifth, sixth, -eventh, and eighth, each 10
IL The DOUGLAS CUP, for 32 all-aged greyhounds, at £5
ss. entrance ; divide as follows :
W nner £BO
Runn r-up 25
Thi' d an , fourth, ear‘h lO
Fifth, sixth, seventh, and eighth, each
111. The CLYDE STAKES. for 16 puppies of 1861, at £4
10s. entrance ; divided as follows :
£4O
••••
Winner

lIMES.—The complaints of the New York Cham-
ber of Commerce found expression, if not an exact
echo, last night in the House of Commons. A dis-
cussion on the proceedings of the Alabama since she
steamed out of an English port, unarmed, or. a
"pleasure excursion," was inevitable ; and no one
can regret that it has taken place, if the explana-
tions tend to allay the angry feeling excited in
America by what this ship in the hands of Captain
Semmes has done to damage the commercial in-
terests of the North. The anger is most natural,
and full allowance should be made for irritation ;
but the most useful effect of passion is to disable the
reasoning powers, and expend itself on the first ob
ject at hand, when the real worker of the mischief
is out of reach. When a man with small means
contrives to do more with them than another can
effect with tens of thousands at his command, the
difference of result must be attributed to greater
skill, better management, or ability of some kind
which more than balances the material advantage
on the other side. It is futile to blame the ship-
wrights of Birkenhead for mischances and losses of
which the real instruments are the extraordinary
energy and daring of two ship's crews. Europe
knows what they have effected with limited means,
and the real deficiency of the North, to which it
should ascribe the damage it has sustained at sea, is
the want of the qualities that have made the Ala-
bama and her consort so formidable. In one of the
latest American despatches an opinion is expressed
that the officers of the Federal navy are inferior to
the Southern commanders. The misgivings ex-
changed between Mr. Adams and Mr. Seward are,
perhaps, not unfounded. But they might be carried
further. The efficiency of the Northern navy, it is
admitted by the American journals, confirmed by
official inquiries made too late, has been sacrificed
to the inveterate spirit of jobbery that has prevailed
at Washington, wasting the " boundless resources" :
of the North, and obtaining lees war power out of
them than the South has secured at comparatively •
small expense. The North has a fleet of nearly
400 vessels. Why has it not one that can chase and
capture the Alabama ? Because, instead of building
or causing to be built ships of the best material and
model, merchant vessels, river steamers, and ferry
boats were chartered by the score and made part of
the navy, By exhausting the means of construct-
ing fifty Alabamas, the mercantile marine of the
North swims the ocean as defenceless against the
two ships of its enemy as a shoal of herrings chased
by two sharks. It is impossible for any European
nation to act on the Northern theory of what neu-
trality ought to be. It cannot treble its police at
every seat of manufacture and at all its outports for
a fruitless attempt to prohibit a contraband trade
which would beffle any official vigilance ; still less
can it allow one belligerent to have full access to
the market and exclude the other. Mr. Laird last
night struck a balance between the amount of war
materials exported for the Federal Government
and the two ships built for the South at Liverpool.
One side has purchased cannon and rifles, the
other these two ships. Both supplied themselves
with what they most needed. The advantage was
plainly on the side that had most money, and till
recently the wealthier party had not to evade any
police of the sea at all. By no precedent of inter-
national law are we bound to prohibit supplies of
war material. We leave ships, cargoes, goods, and
speculators to the risks they incur. They may be
sunk, burnt, and captured in transztu, and we give
neither crews nor owners any protection, leaving
them to be dealt with by the strength and vigilance
that determines the issues of war. The Foreign
Enlistment Act, it should be observed, is a statute,
and to put it in force requires a prosecutor, who is
bound to be provided with legal evidences of its in-
fraction. In the case of the Alabama it appears
that this evidence could not be obtained. All that
has made her dangerous has been added to her since
her escape. In the condition in which she left Liver-
pool she might have been captured by a single gun-
boat, for she was only armed when far out of
British jurisdiction. For her feats on the sea we
cannot be made responsible, as we certainly did not
sell the South either Captain Semmes or his skill.
Just as little, in selling cannon and rifles to the
North, did we furnish the more or less of efficiency ,
with which they have been employed in the field.
MORNING POST.—ltumours were yesterday flying
about town which had their origin in the recent
seizure of the Peterhoff by Admiral Wilkes. It was
asserted that the law officers had given an opinion
that the capture was in violation of international law,
and it was also said that our fleet in the West Indian
waters was to be at once largely reinforced. In
short, it was assumed that we were to have another
Trent affair on our hands. We believe we are
corect in stating that the rumours in question are
devoid of foundation. As far as we know at pre-
sent, the case of the Peterhoff is not likely ta as-
sume any alarming aspect, and it is not true that
an additional force is to be despatched to the West
Indian station. With regard to the course which
Admiral Wilkes chose to adopt in the
present in-
stance, we have yet to receive official information
an the subject ; but in the meantime, it is quite
clear that a belligerent has a right to seize a neu-
tral vessel upon reasonable grounds of suspicion,
and to carry her before a prize court. If his suspi-
cions turn out to be groundless, as we think it is
highly probable they will in the present case, then
the neutral can recover adequate damages for the
seizure and for his loss of time. We do not see why
any doubt should exist as to a satisfactory issue in
the ca,e of the Peterhoff. If Admiral Wilkes was in
the right, there will be nothing to complain of ; if,
on the contrary, he was in the wrong, the owners
of the Peterhoff will of course be amply indemnified.
Their case has nothing in common with the stop-
page of the Trent on the high seas and the forcible
removal of two of her passengers without form of
law. Messrs. Slidell and Mason were taken
from under the protection of our flag by the arbi-
trary proceeding of a naval officer of the United
States. This constituted a gross outrage on the
rights of nations, and, as such, was resented by
other Powers, who felt it incumbent on them to
join with ourselves in our protest against an act
which menaced the freedom of every flag. The
Peterhoff is, however, to be duly carried before a
competent tribunal, whose decision we cannot but
presume will be in accordance with that strict ex-
position of international law which American jurists
have always set forth and observed. The matter is
no doubt unpleasant, for, according to all the infor-
mation of which we have at present possession, the
capture was effected upon an accusation which will
not justify the condemnation of the vessel or her
cargo. But it would be preposterous to suppose
that we can properly decide on this from one aided
representations, when the whole case will be tho-
roughly sifted before a court to which we have no
reason to take any exception, and whose duty it
will be to award full and complete compensation to
the owners of the ship in the event of Admiral
Wilkes's failure to prove his case against her. We
may, therefore, dismiss from our minds any anxiety
as to a serious disturbance of our relations with
the United States arising from the case that gave
birth to the rumours to which we have referred.
MORNING HERALD.—The steamer Peterhoff, one
of a line of vessels trading between London and
Matamoras, left the former port laden with a regu-
lar cargo, having on board nothing suspicious; no-
thing which, had she been bound for an unblockaded
Confederate port, would have subjected her to con-
fiscation as carrying contraband of war. She was
boarded off St. Thomas by the Federal cruiser Ala-
bama, which overhauled her, and endorsed on her
papers the record of the visit, and the admission
that her papers were regular and her voyage ,
regular. She went into St. Thomas to obtain
coal ; and on quitting that station she was seized
by the Vanderbilt, under orders from Capt. Wilkes.
This vessel, bound from a neutral port to a neutral
port, and laden with a perfectly innocent cargo, has
been captured in neutral Waters and sent into Key
West for adjudication by one of Mr. Lincoln's prize
courts—that is, for confiscation. This is the con-
sequence, as Mr. Fitzgerald said, of the weakness
displayed by the Government on previous occasions:
of their patience under the blockade of Bermuda,
and of Lord Russell's very foolish and impertinent
reply to the merchants who protested against the
interruption of the trade between Liverpool and
Nassau. What makes the matter worse is that the
name of the Peterhoff occurs in a list of suspected
vessels supplied by Mr. Adams to Lord Russell,
which vessels, as it appears from their own repeated
assertions, the Federal cruisers have received orders
from head-quarters to seize whenever and wherever
they might find them. It does not appear that the
Foreign Secretary gave warning to the owners of
the Peterhoff; or that he warned Mr. Adams that
the capture of a vessel bound for Matamoras would
not be endured by Great Britain. It is evident,
then, not only that the ouirage was premeditated
by the American Government, but that it was, as it
were, sanctioned beforehand by our own. It be-
hoves Lord Palmerston's Government to give some
explanation of their previous conduct, and some
pledge as to the future ; some security that
they will no longer treat with " a cold and un-
friendly neutrality" the quarrel of their countrymen
against the Government of the United States, and

that they will remember, first, that tame submis-
sion to wrong is worse than war, and secondly, that,
in dealing with the United States, such submission
only tempts fresh insult, and renders utterly im-
possible the maintenance of peace.
DAILY NEWS.—Are we to go on building Ala-
bamas in this country on behalf of a Slave Power
we do not recognise, and for the purpose of devas-
tating the commerce of a nation with whom we are
on terms of amity and peace ? Ate British ship-
builders to be allowed to fit out and equip fighting
vessels for the Confederates, and this with compara-
tive if not complete impunity ? Such appears, at
all events, to be the existing practice. A list of Con-
federate war vessels now in course of construction
in this country was read openly in the House of
Commons last night. The facts are notorious, the
number and names of the vessels, the names of con-
tractors, the yards in which they are being built,
their relative stages of progremehave been authorita-
tively stated, and are familiar to all connected with
the trade. Now the real question for the Government
and the country is to consider whether this violation
of our law is to go on, and if so, what will be the
natural and probable result. No one doubts that
the Government, by a little ordinary vigilance and
a little decision, could pat a stop to this illegal traffic
at once. A declaration of their determination
to institute a searching inquiry and enforce obedi-
ence:to the law would suffice. There can hardly
be two opinions as to the supreme duty of pur-
suing such a course. It is dictated by a regard alike
for our interests and our honour. The people of
this country desire nothing more earnestly than the
maintenance of the friendly relations which exist
between England and the United States, and we
may happily accomplish this by doing our duty in
an honourable and straightforward manner. At
present, undoubtedly, the Americans have a serious
ground of complaint against us. We have failed
to carry out our own law, and this failure has in-
flicted on tbem terrible injuries, such as inflame the
passions of a people, and bring on war. We do not
want war with the United States of America. It is
equally opposed to our principles and our interests,
and if any section or party desire to involve us in
hostilities with this free, friendly, and kindred
people, they are the enemies of their country. We
cannot accept Lord Palmerston's exculpation of his
subordinates, and we are sure that impartial ob-
servers in Europe will not accept it. There is not
a maritime power in the world that would submit
to have Alabamas fittea out in neutral ports while
it was at war. We notice, however, Lord Pal-
merston's declaration that the English Government
sincerely desires to maintain peace, and act in a fur
and honourable spirit towards the Government of
the United States, so that if there has been any
negligence in the past, we may hope there will be
no future ground of complaint on this score.

h unner-up l2
Third and fourth, each 5
IV. The .b'ORTH STAKES. for 16 greyhounds, pupped on
or after Ist, June, 1t.61, the age of which has been nut"-
lished in "3 he Sporting Gazette," " Bell's Life," or
" The Field," during the season 1862-3, or proved to the
satisfa,tion of the stewards and committees ; divided as
follows :
Winner £4O
Runner-up
Ti ird and fourth each 5
V. The SELLING STAKES, for 16 all-aged greyhounds,
at £2 10s. ; tt,,y dog ent• red in this stake may be claimed
for £lO, except the winner and runner-up, which may be
claimed for £l5 each ; the owner of the runner-up to
have first c aim for the winner, but all claims must ba
lodged with the secretary within fifteen minutes after
the stake is won ; divided as fo lows :
Winner . £2O
Runner-up 6
Third and fourth, each 2
The meeting to be governed by the National Club rules.
All winners of £2O and ui wards to pay 5 per cent. to the
dinner fund. The drawings for Nos. 1,'2, 3, and 4, will take
place at 6 p.m., in the Douglas Arms Hotel, Douglas, Lanark-
shire, on Monday, the 23d March, 1863, previous to which all
entries must be made, and entry moneys paid. Dinner imme-
diately after the drawing. All nominators in Nos. 1 and 2
must take a dinner ticket, price 3s. 6d. The entry and draw-
ing for the Selling Stakes will take place after the second
day's running. Single nominations secured in the order of
application to E. J. Lindsay, Esq., Hon. Secretary, fiallcraig
House, Carluke, Lanarkshire, N.B. If the stakes do not fill
by the 14th March, double nominations will then be given in
the order of application. A four-hone omnibus will be in
waiting at Carstairs Junction station, on Monday, the 23d
Marcia, which will start for Douglas direct at 6 2,, p.m., for
the exclusive accommodation of gentlemen attending the
meeting. The express train from Carlisle at 120 p.m., the
expresses from Glasgow at 4 p.m., and from Edinburgh at
4 15 p.m., will c tch the omnibus, the arrival of which at Dou-
glas will be waited for for dinner. Private conveyances can
be had at any time at Carstairs or Lanark by ordering them
beforehand of Mr. Irving, the Clydesdale Hotel, Lanark. The
meet each morning will be within a few yards of the Lanark
and Douglas turnpike-roads at 930 a. M. Quarters for men
and dogs can be secured by applying to Mr. Amos, Douglas
Castle, Lanarkshire.
BIGGAR CLUB. CALEDONIAN CLUB.
J. Gordon, Esq., of Aikenhead PRESIDENT.
AEsq., of Capellie His Grace the Duke of But,-
j L.
Esq., of Calder- clench
. .Graham,
Ewing,
unix STEWARDS FOR 1862-3.
H. B. Irving, Esq., of Milbank Earl of Haddinzton
W. M. Gilmour, Esq., oi Glas- John
Lord BiGibson nnin, Esq.
gow
Es of Glasgow ' Major Boothby
J. Jardine, of Arkleton John Gordon, Esq.
E. J. Lindsay, W. G. orrOnE,slsq.,
Hallcraig House, near Car- G. Blansbard,Esq., Hon. Sec.
Hon.See.,l A. Graham, Esq.
luke, Lanarkshire 1 Mr. WARWICK, Slipper.
Mr. APERR, Judge.

On this Carib event Ld. Stanley, now DERBY, said "Tis
well you came over to England, as this is the headquarters
of your Indian state elect.' So on his arrival in 1851 Earl
Grey's official Nov. letter on Fact of felony says, "Justice
shall be done to your report of marine stores on premises
without license." So his successor, Pakington's letter says,
"No money in this office for your constables' mileage
and maintenance" [Yet, money-provided by the Police Act
of 10 Geo. 4, cap. 44, to Carter in 1842, under extraordi-
nary expenses in the execution of orders, and to Mr. Police-
man Dowling, of Liverpool, in 1851], So, on refusal the
successor of Lt. major Cartwright, with Brant, to the Crown
and Colonial Superintendency of the Indian Tribes on £OO
per year since 1820 as Governor's Lt.• dcputy C. H. Acker-
lev, R N.—came to his aid, as supreme court Stay, by
1817-19-26 acts—still 43 years unrelieved from this duty.

He under Antipodean anomaly, as England-set in the
4th Geo. 4, c 96, sec. 4, 28-forperpetual tax, conjoined with
the Montague Exchequer bills, in Russia'a Canada paper,
on Bank of England security under 9th March ii 1826, as
extended across the earth, by 1823-6 Act for duty by nava
lieutenants either on full or half-pay as tha criminal juries
Court-pivot of Crown colony Newfoundland Bermuda-tie,
with colleague'd Deputy Commissioner, Chief Justice F.
Forbts, as extended to New South Wales Supreme Court,
by sec, 40. So Ackerley has spent, in this case, all his
savings, £1,700, to aid & support his Indian coadjutor (all
parties being dead) and he, the Admiral's-Lt., being made
to carry the meter word of faith-burden, of 1820-25-Brazils,
Stuart de Rothsay '2B-ia Egypt, its Stamp man of Greece,
and '37 England's J.P., as conjoin 'd with the Indian chain
guaranteed by Derby and Grey's Treasury rota.
So 1 if mistake has had place, for God's sake visit not the
innocent—or sanction a compromise of Carib birth-right to
the tidal law for one and all, never being told that the civil-
law churches claimed his ' special' services, therefore pro-
tests againat any breach of the Indian right of vote, by
juggling, self-interested fiends, as MACBETH says—
*• " That palters with us in a double sense,
SfOrvEtln,e'a
• • That keeps the word of promise to the ear
::• • - And breaks it to our hope."
Patient inP 21 years on duty-111 years wait'ng
In God's hope nNdwalll'iwegarurpd.ehairdant.
of landing on his GASPE strand.'

At, 5, Swallow-street. London, March 25, 1863.
t ' We (Christians) could not enslave the aboriginal Red
Indians, or make them useful to us in the cultivation of
their soil, or amalgamate with them—the only thing we
could do was to exterminate them. This Policy, North,
South, East, and West, has had place till only 350,000
remain in North America. Yet obliged to reserve one as
State representative.—See limes of 23d Marsh, '63.

0 For progress to the New Papal Churches GLEXELo's
July letter order-passage allowance of £6O for each minis-
ter, and £4O for 6 males and 6 Roman Catholic female
teachers to the late ' 1826' Georgean Public School trust,

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NEWSPA.PEii
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£5OO, appointing his son Sir Benjamin resjdnary
441 • legatee.
The will of the Venerable Charles Thorn .D.D
F.R.S., Archdeacon of Durham, was4roveci ins ~f
London on 4th inst., the personalty being sivorni
under £45,000. The executors nominated are his
relict and his son, the Rev. Charles Thorp, Vicar of
"ED ....Ka, Elingham, together with W. Dickson, DI, of
Alnwick, Clerk of the Peace for the county of
, Northumberland, The widow and son arc the act-
,use ing executors. This venerable dignitary had nearly
reached his 80th year, and was the senior Canon of
the Cathedral Church of Durham. He was ap-
pointed, in 1829, Warden of the Durham University
and Master of that college; had held the living of
Ryton since 1807, and died at that rectory in Oct.
last. Dr. Thorp executed his will in Feb., 1860.
His lands and property at Farne Island and Monks
House he bequeaths to his wife for her life, and
after her decease to his son ; and leaves his estate
at Chipwell Hill in like manner. His freehold in
Durham he leaves to his wife and a daughter for
their respective lives ; then to his eon. He also b:_,-
queaths to his wife an annuity of £3OO, payable our.
of the general estate, and an immediate legacy of
£5OO ; likewise all monies, policies, and such like
effects ; and sic may select plate, pictures, and fur-
niture to the amount of £BOO. The Doctor bequeaths
to each of his daughters who have not received mar-
riage portions sums varying in amount from £3,500
to £4,000, to be held in trust ; leaving to each
daughter £2OO, with permission to select plate,
books, and furniture to a certain amount. Legacies
are bequeathed to his sister, nieces, and cousins.
Legacies are also left to the doctor's servants. Tho
residue of his property, real and personal, he leaves
to his only son, the ltev. Chas. Thorp. His seven
cartoons of Raphael, now in the college of Durham,
he directs to be offered to that university for the
sum of £soo—if refused, then to the Dean and
and Chapter ; and, if not accepted by them, they
are then to merge into the residue of his personal
estate.—lllustrated London News.

STAMPED ..„isd.

police, whose suspicions were turned to him because
of the known ill-feeling between himself and the
prosecutor, and in answer to the questions put, said
ne had not been out of the house on the night in
question. The motive for committing such an act
was a strong ill-feeling on his part towards Reed,
arising out of disputes and lawsuits; and Reed's
wife was called to prove that he had on one occa-
sion said to her, " - you ; I'll lay you and your
husband low;" and another witness spoke to this
expression of his against Reed, "- him ; I wish
I had him dead, and then there would not have
been this trouble." Besides the above facts and the
expressions just mentioned, there was evidence of
some boots used by him, cleaned in the afternoon,
and found dirty next morning: and also of footirarks
across tiOMe fields near King IL;rry's-grove. For
the defence it was elicited in cross-examination that
most of the witnesses were strongly prejudiced
against the prisoner by quarrels and lawsuits, in all
of which the prisoner was victorious. It was also
shown that he was most unpopular in the neigh-
bourhood.

Mr. O'Malley, in his address to the jury, pointed
out to them the length of time that had elapsed
since the transaction, the fact that every circum-
stance connected with the affair was known to the
police within a few hours after it had happened,
the weakness of the evidence ad to the footmarks,
and the varied statements of the policemen on this
point, the fact that motive was wanting, because
the prisoner had always had the best of it in his
suits, and malice is borne by those who lose, not by
those who win, and commented generally on the
improbable nature of the story as affecting the pri-
soner.

After a most careful summing up,
The jury returned a verdict of Guilty.
The prisoner was sentenced to penal servitude for
life.

THE LATE RIOTS.

NORTHERN CIRCUIT.--LivERPooL, March 27.

CROWN COURT.
(Before Mr. Baron Martin.)

STALEYBRIDGE, Friday.

There has been no renewal of the late disturb-
ances, but out of the 13 adult schools in the town
only three have as yet accepted the proposal of the
committee, that the relief should be given half in
money and half in kind, by tickets on shopkeepers.
The scholars of the central school, many of whom
are Irish, have to-day declined the proposal. This
afternoon they were invited, and attended in con-
siderable number, to meet Sir J. K. Shuttleworth
at the Town-hall, to hear an address from him on
the subject. The Mayor and Mr. Commissioner
Farnall were present. The latter took no part in
the proceedings.
Sir J. K. SHIITTLEWORTH, in the course of his
speech, reviewed the measures which had been
adopted for the relief of the distress in Lancashire
by contributions from all parts of the empire, and
the great exertions that bad been made by all
classes with that object, especially by ladies. The
£1,000,000 or £1,200,00 that had been subscribed
would certainly not have been forthcoming, nor
probably £lOO,OOO, had it been supposed that the
working classes of Lancashire were impatient under
trials which were the fault of no class in the coun-
try, or ready, as in former times, to rise at the in-
stigation of any ignorant, selfish, or passionate agi-
tators. The relief given in the neighbourhood of
Ashton and Staley bridge had been in excess of that
in almost any other parts of the county. It had be-
come necessary to take measures for the im-
partial apportionment of the relief funds. He be-
lieved the proposed reduction of 4d. per head in the
payment to those attending school was generally
acquiesced in.` With regard to the opposition to
distribution of relief by ticket, he believed that there
was no such difficulty as had been alleged in ob-
taining change from shopkeepers for the tickets; but
whatever might be the grievances, the complainants
had not, as it behoved them to do, made in the first
place a temperate representation of them to the local
committee. The authors of the late disturbances
had done not only themselves but the working
classes of the whole of Lancashire a deep and last-
ir g injury. They had produced an impression which
would add force to the views of those who were
anxious to reduce the political power of this district,
to represent the district as of no importance to the
commonweal, but rather an element of disorder,
tumult, and danger than of strength and security.
Those who entertained the sanguine hopes that had
been expressed by the friends of the working merit
that they had hire, based ul,on increased intelligence
and increasing sense of public duty and respect
for property, a stabler condition of society than
existed in any other part of the empire, would re-
ceive from all sides the rebuke of scorn and disbe-
lief in consequence of those riots in Staleybridge.
The manly, patient, and intelligent conduct of the
working classes of Lancashire formed one of the
most powerful practical arguments for the exten-
sion of the electoral franchise. But now if any man
desired to find an objection to that argument ho
would say, " that is a delusion, these men are for
the time being quiet, but they cannot resist the
pressure of the evil consequent upon dependence ;
let them for a few months be dependent upon the
bounty of the public, let them for a few months have
to suffer privation, and to live upon only one third
of their earnings, let them for a few months be dis-
sociated from the discipline of the mill, and the
ordinary regulations under which their life has in
times past been spent, and they are like
children, they quarrel with the first diffi-
culty they encounter ; being incapable of rea-
soning, they act with insensate passion, disturb
the peace, violate property, rob shops, disturb
and injure defenceless people, they assault the house
where a sick woman has since died, and, insensible
of the degradation of insulting a woman, they cause
loss of life by their violence and insensate animo-
sity." Sir James concluded by advising the atten-
dants at the school, on reflection, to accept the com-
promise that had been offered them by the commit-
tee. He read them the substance of the following
address from the Central Executive Committee to
the operatives of Staleybridge and their families :

Levi Taylor, a youth of 18, was indicted for the
murder of his wife, Mary Ann Taylor, on the 31st
January last, in Manchester.
Mr. Sowler, who opened the case for the prose-
cution, said that this was one of the most melan-
choly cases of murder which had ever been brought
before the notice of a jury; but if he proved the
facts laid down in his instructions there could be no
doubt as to the conclusion which the jury would
form. It was the case of a young man of 18, who
up to a particular day had lived reputably and com-
fortably with his mother at Failsworth, but who
oue Saturday afternoon in October last left that
place to spend his half holiday in Manchester.
There he met with the deceased, an abandoned wo-
man, who persuaded him to go with her. He did
so, and unhappily fell in love with her. His friends
remonstrated with him several times, but in spite of
their remonstrances after the lapse of a few weeks
he married the girl, and took her home. He hoped,
no doubt, to induce her to abandon her evil courses,
but after staying for a short time with her husband
at Failsworth, she deserted him, went back to
Manchester, and resorted to her old haunts.
Taylor followed her from time to time, and did all
he could to reclaim her, but unfortunately her
moral character was too far gone. On the 27th
January the deceased entered the service of a person
named Schofield, who kept a part beerhouse and a
part disorderly house, called the Jolly Hatters, in
Shade-hill, Manchester. The prisoner discovered
this, and followed his wife to Schofield's, where he
saw her on the 28th, on the 29th, on the 30th, and
finally on the 31st. Shortly after 2 o'clock on the
afternoon of the 31st, the deceased, the prisoner,
and several other persons were assembled in the
tap-room. Taylor asked a female friend of the de-
ceased, who was present, to play on the organ. This
led to drink being called for, and some little dispute
took place between the deceased and the prisoner in
consequence of his not ordering any liquor foi her.
After this he did. Subsequently Taylor said he
must go by a train at half-past four, and he asked
his wife to leave the room and go upstairs with him
for the purpose of taking leave. When they got up
stairs the prisoner induced the deceased to lie down
on one of the beds, and she had scarcely done so
when he put his hand under her chin, and taking
out a knife which he had ready in his pocket, he
cut her throat. As soon as this was done she
managed to get off the bed and out of the room.
Sbe went down stairs, and into a room where the
landlord was lying upon a sofa. She tried to speak,
but could not do so. About the same time the pri-
soner presented himself to the landlord, and asked
leave to go into the yard to wash his hands. His
hands were covered with blood. The woman was
conveyed to the infirmary, where she died almost
immediately. A knife, covered with blood, was
afterwards found in an outhouse in the yard. In
fact, when apprehended, the prisoner told the
officer that he had gone into the bedroom with the
determination of putting an end to his wife's life,
even if ho should swing for it, and that if the
officer would search a particular portion of the yard
at Schofield's house, he would find the knife with
which the deed had been executed. The evidence
of the surgeon would leave no doubt as to the cause
of death, as the internal and external jugular arte-
ries had been cut through.
Evidence haying been given in support of the
above facts,
The jury, after consulting for about ten minutes,
returned a verdict of guilty, with a recommenda-
tion to mercy.
His Lordship passed sentence of death in the
usual form, and the prisoner, who become insen-
sible, was carried below by two officers.
Mrs. Jessie Black, wife of Lieutenant Black,
pleaded guilty this evening to an indictment
charging her with robbery of jewellery, the pro-
perty of military officers at Fullwood-barracks.
She was sentenced to 18 months' imprisonment.

"We have been entrusted with large funds for the relief
of distress, and we are distributing them with every sym-
pathy for your wants, and with every care for your welfare ;
those funds cannot be claimed by any particular district, but
are to be given where we think it best, taking into considera-
tion distress, good behaviour, and local circumstances gene-
rally. We deplore the disturbances which have recently
occurred. We hope they are not shared in by a very large
number. If they are continued, we know that there are
many elsewhere who will gratefully receive all we can afford
them ; and the Boards of Guardians, the ordinary channels
of relief, are always open to others. We, therefore, appeal
to all among you, who value our relief, to aid us in our
wish to continue it to you. 'We beg you, conseguenlntly:o to
avoid and discourage meetings which may lead to disturb-
ances, and to assist, to the utmost of your power, the local
authorities and others, whose duty is the preservation of
order for the good of all. We deeply sympathise
distress ; none of us know how long it may last. We must,
therefore, be prudent in distributing that relief which the
generosity of the public has given, but which disturbance
will cause to cease, Unless order is duly preserved, mat-
ters must pass from our hands into those of the constituted
authorities of the country,
" Signed for the Committee,ou
"JAMES P. K WTH, Vice-President.AY-SIIITTTLE
" WILLIAM MActxuE, Honorary Secretary."
The Rev. Mr. HILTON, Roman Catholic, was ad-
dressing the meeting when this report was des-
patched.

It is understood that a meeting of the school at-
tendants will take place to-morrow morning, to r©•
consider the question.
The reference in one of the concluding passages
of Sir J. Shuttlewortli's vetch was to Mrs. Bates,
the mother of the sccutury of the local Relief Com-
tnittee, whose bout-0 was attacked by the mob,
where the lady w.s lying ill, Mrs. Bates died this
morning.

INsANE POOR.—On the Ist January, 1562, there
were in England and Wales (not including a few
concerning* their poor) 946,166
paupers chargtablo to the poor-rates, and of this nutuber
parishes making no returns
34,271 wort, insane—namely, 22,960 lunatics and 11,311
idiots; in other words, 3'62 per eent. of the pauperism watt
ascribable to insanity, the lunatics being 2'43 per cent., and
the idiots 1.19 per cent. 14,936 were males, 19,335 females.
18,318 were in county or borough lunatic asylums, 1,193 in
registered hospitals or licensed houses, 8,603 in union or
parish workhouses, 955 in lodgings or boarded out, and
5,172 resided with relatives,