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NOTICE.
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ROYAL AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY OF
ENGLAND.
SHOW OF CATTLE, HORSES, SHEEP, PIGS, AND
AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENTS AT WORCESTER.

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

TIMES.—The veteran Londoner, who has learnt
patience and meekness from long years of disap-
pointment, will peruse with a melancholy smile Mr.
Bass's protest against organ-grinding in the House
of Commons last night. There must be much fresh-
ness of spirit and hope in any one who believes it
possible that we can be ever rescued from our tor-
mentors. The man must have a good memory for
distant events who can recollect when the first in-
dignant outcry was made against the disturbers of
the public peace, and in those days they were few
and far between. A Buy a-brcorn, or Jim Crow,
or an old-fashioned organ erne rnented with little
rotating figures was tee worst invader of the in-
valid's or student's quiet. But now every street
or square of dwelling-houses resounds from morn-
ing till night with the crash of German
bands, the rattle of niggers' "bones," the
melancholy drawl of women and children pre-
tending to sing something, sacred or sentimental.
Nebuchadnezzar himself could not have brought to-
gether such a variety of extraordinary instruments
as may be heard within a few hours by a gentleman
seated in his own library in a London house. It may
be that some day outraged humanity will revolt,
and London householders, headed by Mr. Babbage,
will take vengeance on their persecutors ; but that
time has not yet come, and to look for a remedy
from Parliament is only the delusion of a simple and
sanguine mind. But if we must still endure all that
these terrible melodists can inflict, there is a better
hope with regard to a class of nuisances which,
though very old, and having, of course, many
warm friends, have been hel‘lly attacked during the
present session. We speak of those which it is
the object of the London (City) Traffic Regulation
Bill to remove. It need not be said that things
must have become very bad indeed when the most
conservative and immovable of Corporations felt it
necessary to interfere. Perfectly content with itself
snd things in general, the City Corporation has not
been able to bear any longer the anarchy and
confusion of its own streets. The state of the
thoroughfares from 9 to 5 daily, and particularly
towards the hours when the morning and evening
tides or vehicles flow to and from the City, is such that
the business of the community is seriously impeded.
What is exceptional in other cities at the time of
some great pageant or solemnity is the normal
state of London, particularly in the thoroughfares
which converge on the Bank. There is every day
something equivalent to an Alexandra procession;
every day witnesses a state of things which no
police can control or bring into order. Much of
this is irremediable. The witnesses examined before
the Select Committee of the House of Commons
say that the omnibuses will take their old routes,
though new routes have been opened to them ; that
Cannon-street has done much less than was ex-
pected to relieve Ceeapside ; and that the obstruc-
titres are continually increasing, not only from what
ss legitimate traffic, but also from the great quan-
tity of unnecessary business which is transacted in
the daytime, instead of at night, or early in the
morning, as in Continental capitals. In Paris, for
instance, not only is heavy traffic of all kinds, such
as the passage of carts, drays, vans, pieces of tim-
ber, ladders, &c., put under strict regulation, but
one of the hief causes of annoyance—the loading
and unloading of goods—is avoided altogether by
toe law or custom which provides that it shall take
place at en early hour in the morning. With these
and many other matters a Traffic Regulation
Bill endeavours to deal. The traffic of heavy
vehicles, such as waggons and omnibuses, the load-
ing and unloading of vans at unseasonable hours,
thepassage of scaffold poles and long girders through
the streets during the busy parts of the day, are
among the nuisances proposed to be remedied ; and
the City further asks the power of directing more
completely the stream of traffic, and dividing it be-
tween the thoroughfares• After some opposition
by the London General Omnibus Company and some
of the London traders, the Select Committee have
roported in favour of the bill, with some limitation
of the powers originally sought. It is to advocate
the passing of the bill this session that we have
mentioned the subject. Whatever powers are neces-
sary to prevent the delay and confusion in the public
streets from increasing should be conferred at once,
for the evil admits of no remedy except the strict
control of a municipal body. The provisions of the
bill are so harmless and so useful that we trust it
will not be thrown over to another session.
POST.—Austria has advanced another step with
her centralised Parliament. In a quarter in which
she had apparently the least claim to anticipate
sympathies in her modern and revolutionary policy
of centralisation, the general scheme of government
of which the Reichsrath is a main example appears
to have obtained support. Transylvania is the most
remote dependency of the Austrian Crown. More
distant from Vienna than either Galicia on the north
east or than Venetia or Iliyria on the south, it might
have been fairly expected to have presented one of
the greatest government difficulties of Austrian
statesmen. Transylvania lies to the east of Hungary,
and bounded by Wallachia on the south and by
Moldavia on its own eastern frontier. This little
community of two millions, formed of four distinct
nationalities, has long held aloof from its immediate
neighbours. Neither the Hungarians, nor the Mol-
davians, nor the Wallechians, nor the Polish Seta-
vonians, have succeeded in uniting themselves with
it. Transylvania has so long presented itself in
the character of a petty State struggling for its
independence—or, at least, for its distinctive pri-
vileges—against all these formidable neighbours,
that the Austrian Government, with its usual in-
stinct, has put itself forward as its protector. In
just that invidious spirit which led Maria Theresa
to support the Lombard peasantry against their
nobles, it has been the Austrian policy to support
the Transylvanians against the Hungarians and
all others who have encroached upon their rights.
Thus Transylvania has long been a favoured State;
and in that little country representative govern.
ment, annual parliaments, religious toleration,
secular and ecclesiastical education, and even Pro-
testant endowment, have existed even in a period
in which any such liberalism was unknown in Eng-
land. The foundation of the favours thus showered
in past ages upon Transylvania by Austrian princes
has thus lain in policy, andnot in abstract liberality.
But whatever may have been the motive, the result
has been the same. Transylvania has for the most
part been an ally of
been the enemy Austria when Hungary has
of Austria. The privileges, indeed,
thus guaranteed to her have often been invaded, but
far less frequently than in the case of Hungary; and
if Transylvania is not uniformly grateful, she is at
least grateful for the exceptions that have been made
in her favour. It would seem that the Transylvanian
Diet, which has just been opened, is fully disposed
to support the Reichsrath, while Hungary still
holds herself aloof. An address of thanks has
been voted by its members to the Emperor, on ac-
count of the Imperial rescript, confirming the dis-
integration of these two States of the Austrian
empire. This is certainly what the Hungarian Diet
would refuse to do; and the tone and temper of the
Transylvanian deputies lead to a belief that they
ate desirous to adopt the Austrian alliance. Thus,
the scheme of a centralised representation, which
the present advisers of the Emperor have invented,
appears to prosper. Of this we are sincerely
glad, for we believe it is the best practicable
mode of securing at once freedom and strengtt
to the Austrian empire. For the last three years
Austrian statesmen have been content to hope
that their dream might be realised. When the
catastrophe of their Italian war had awoke them
to the illusion of their former centralising and
military despotism, they hit up sn a new scheme of
government. The provinces demanding liberty and
autonomy on the one hand, and the Executive in-
sisting upon despotism and centralisation on the
other, a compromise was devised. The Emperor
agreed to surrender the element of despotism if the
provinces in turn would surrender, in part at least,
the element of autonomy. In other words a central
Parliament was devised. This was the Reichsrath.
But it was not entirely to overrule provincial dis-
tinctions, for the provincial Diets were still to meet,
and were required to delegate deputies to the Cen-
tral and Supreme Parliament or Reichsrath. To
this proposal some of the component. States of this
composite Austrian empire agreed and some objected
to it. Thus the Government of Austria has remained
in an anomalous condition, the Legislature consist-
ing of half a Parliament. By degrees, however, this
Reichsrath seems now likely to be amplified, and,
on the whole, we believe it to present the fairest
scheme for uniting the different interests, or, at leas',
for compromising the different hatreds, in the Aus-
trian empire. The pervading error of Austrian
policy, both at home and abroad, has long been that
it has been founded, not upon moral principle, but
simply upon fear. Austria has been the enemy of
Italy, just because she has feared that Italian Libe-
ralism would rob her of Lombardy and Venetia.
On the other hand, she has been the friend of Turkey,
because she had feared that Russian encroachment
would endanger and overlap her eastern frontier.
In her domestic relations the same guidinga
ed
ed
motive
has been equally apparent. She long conedhie
Lombard and Hungarian people, because
shot
from
Lombard and Hang, rian arietocrecv fear

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the moment that either the power of the aristocracy
broke down, or that the people sided with the aris-
tocracy, she opposed them both, through a fear of
their importance—in combination. It is just the
influence of this policy which has made Austiia so
much distrusted by her own subjects. Where Go-
vernment is not reduced to a definite moral princi-
ple, it is impossible, or at least difficult, to put trust
in it. Thus it is that the Hungarians still hold out
where the Transylvanians are disposed to compro-
mise. The two millions of Transylvanians are so
parcelled out that no one of the four nationalities
un gain an appreciable ascendant over the other.
There are the Wallacks, the Szeklers, the Magyars,
and the S ixons. Each of the three latter has its
distinct territory within the limits of Transylvania.
But the Wallacks, on the other hand, are scattered
over the whole eoil, or nearly so. Of these four ele-
ments of the Transylvanian population, the Saxon
element is naturally Austrian in point of political
sympathy. And even the Magyars, who are least
so in point of national connection, are apparently
too much dissociated from the Magyars of Hungary
to be any longer strongly drawn into their policy.
For all these reasons the Austrian Government has
succeeded, at a great distance, in conciliating the
Transylvanians more perhaps than any of her ex-
tra-German subjects. The present loyalty of Tran-
sylvanian co Austria affords another pledge of the
security of the political system of that part of the
east of Europe, as well as of the consolidation of the
Austrian rule in the remotest provinces of the
empire.
HERALD.—The provision for Fortification Ex-
penses Bill, debated on Monday night, brought the
question, " What are our future ordnance to be,"
again prominently into notice. After the expendi-
ture of some four years of time—and as it now
appears—three millions sterling money in experi-
ments to determine the best sort of heavy ordnance,
it is not a little humiliating that the War Office and
Admiralty have arrived at no conclusion, and that
hon. gentlemen who defend the war administration
before Parliament still point to hope for the solution
of difficulties that are probably no less great at
present than when the era of iron-coated war ships
aad rifled ordnance was first inaugurated. On
many grounds it is to be regretted that any high-
flown announcements of what the guns of certain
ordnance constructors had achieved—or rather had
been said to have achieved—should ever have been
promulgated. In the early days of heavy rifled
such exaggerated records of the range and penetra-
tion of heavy rifled shot and shell were published
that favouritisms grew up in behalf of this or that
inventor—blind and unreasonable prejudices mostly
hence the more to be regretted, seeing that public
obstinacy has been substituted for public opinion in
a matter concerning which it is high time that some
salutary control of the latter should be made mani-
fest. Very frequently have we had to enunciate the
proposition—oneundeniable in the abstract, though
constantly evaded, if not denied, in practice—that
actual demonstration constitutes the only authority
in matters of experimental science. Names are
valueless as authority in such matters, except so far
as they may be received as provisional guarantees
pending repetition of trial of experiments already
performed. Applying now these postulates to the
case of heavy rifled ordnance, we affirm that it would
be well if the public were to disabuse their mind
of whatever fame and prestige may have been
accorded to this or that ordnance contractor—
this or that peculiarity of gun ; deliberately con-
templating the evidence as it stands today, after
more than four years of anxious waiting and
costly experiments. Speaking plainly, then, as the
case demands, and as our own sente of fair play
prompts, the hope so commonly entertainea not
very long ago, that one, at least, of the many breech-
loading systems of heavy ordnance would be found
efficient—that ordnance thus constructed would dis-
place muzzle-loading ordnance—all such hope, we
say, has been rudely dissipated. Whatever differ-
ence of opinion there may be in respect of the com-
petence of any particular breech-loading system, as
restricted to field-pieces, there can be none, to any
unprejudiced comprehension, in the case of ordnance
beyond the size of field-pieces. However great the
shock may be to national hopes entertained, or
opinions formed, or principles vouched for, that
which we announce is the issue made manifest by
experiments conducted assiduously for at least four
years. Whether the problem of ever adapting suc-
cessfully a principle of breech-loaaing to heavy
ordnance admits of affirmative solution or the con
trary, is of course a pure matter of opinion ; one,
however, the negative probability of which is
greatly enhanced by the fact the two cannon-
builders best known to fame, each in connection
with a breech-loading gun, have retired from this
arena of contest, and have for several months past
been associating their names respectively with two
forms of muzzle-loading cannon. Those explana-
tions made, let us clearly understand that the hopes
of British artillery constructors are limited to the
accomplishment by main force of what had been
expected to be achieved by science. Atter so many
years of waiting and experiment we seem to have
come back to te point of acquiring that sort of
artillery power which was sought by the Turks,
when soon after their accession to the Eastern
empire, they planted their enormous cannon along
the TY-Irdanelles. Mere increased dimensions of
bore and strength of metal seem all that our lead-
ing artillerists have to rely upon for penetrating the
iron armour-plates of war ships. All the beautiful
devices of breech-opening, which a few years ago
found such favour,whereby loading should be facili-
tated and gunners protected—whereby portholes
should be capable of diminution to mere round aper-
tures scarcely larger than the muzzle of a gun—these
are abandoned, and seemingly for ever. All that
faculty of accomplishing enormous ranges so much
vaunted awhile ago counts now but little,seeing that
penetration, not range, is the quality of paramount
importance. The case, we say, is provoking, not
to say humiliating. After complacently speaking of
muzzle-loaders as remnants of barbarism, and vaunt-
ing breech-loaders as alone worthy a nation so gene-
rally advanced in science as ourselves, so pre-emi-
nently distinguished for our competence in metal-
lurgy, the return to muzzle-loading effected by
English artillerists is anything but consolatory.
Better know the truth, however, than go astray
under any self-imposed blindness : we have posi-
tively no heavy breech-loaders in the practice of
which any confidence is placed either for land or
sea service. For broadside guns it is still question-
able whether any sort better than our old cast-iron
68 pounders have yet been constructed ; and
amongst such naval authorities as think well of
rifled ordnance for certain special uses the impres-
sion is beginning to prevail that cast-iron guns
rifled and jaeketted would be equal—size for size—
to pieces of the more costly construction which
have so frequently during the past four years been
brought under notice. As for the monsterordnance
which are alone competent to effect the destruction
of armour-plates at ranges from 1,100 yards, these
it is conceded, are not yet manufactured. Lord
Clarence Paget professes himself strong in hope as
to the speedy advent of these, and points by way of
confirmation to the development of artillery during
the past twelvemonths. All we can aver as to this
matter is, that if any such development there be
published records have failed to make it known to
many lookere-on not less watchful than Lord C.
Paget.
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The proceedings in this
Chelmsford Assizes yesterday,
After were resumed at the
After Mr. Roupell had beeeyn. examined on Thurs-
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of the warders of Pentonvillude9,
exhibit any appearance of feeelitprlaset";he painful He did not
po-
sition in which he was placed, but answered every
question that was put to him
th
pos-
sible coolness and deliberation. He was
greatest
was brought
down to Chelmsford again this morning,
further examination was proceeded wi when
his
Mr. Roupell said, in answer to questions put by
Mr. Lush—l cannot tell what became of the6orif,l
nal drafts of the leases of this property after I had
copied them and made the alterations in them, but
I believe that I destroyed them. When fair copies
had been made of the leases I took them to Mr.
Wnitaker to be engrossed, and authorised him to
raise as much money as he could upon the property,
and I understood that he applied to several gentle-
men with that object, and among them to a Mr.
Longman, and I think the sum of £6,000 was spe-
cially mentioned to be obtained from him.
Baron Channel' interposed, and expressed his
opinion that it was quite unnecessary to go into
those details. The fraud and forgery had been posi-
tively spoken to, and it really appeared to him
unnecessary to examine the witness as to the
particulars.
Mr. Roupell then proceeded to state that he sub-
sequently executed a lease to the present defendants
of the Essex property that was now in dispute, and
that the transaction took place on the 26th of
January, 1856, and he said he afterwards forged
fictitious leases as from one of the defendants, and
he induced John Truman to attest the signature of
that gentleman, by telling him that he wished him
to attest his own signature. The witness then ex-
plained the proceeding he resorted to in order to
deceive the witness Truman, and he said that he
mixed several eocuments together and wrote his
name to one of the false documents.
Baron Channeil wished to know how the witness
induced Truman to sign four documents when he
must have known that he was only required to sign
two leases.

Mr. Roupell said that Truman placed great con,
fidence in him, and he was no lawyer, and might
not have known that he was signing more instru•
meats than were necessary. This was all the ex-
planation he could give. He deceived him lev mix-
ing the documents altogether, and placing a piece
of blotting paper over the names of the persons who
purported to be the real parties to the deeds.
Baron Cherwell—This is your explanation?
Mr. Roupell—lt is.
He was then further questioned at very great
length with regard to the transactions that took place
between himself and Mr. Whitaker relative to the
raising of money upon the forged deeds, but it will
not be necessary to go into the details, which were
very complicated, and appeared to have little or
nothing to do with the real question at issue.
Mr. Roupell then stated that before Mr. Longman
would advance any money he insisted upon having
a valuation of the estate, and he employed Mr.
Foster, of Pall-mall, to go over the property for that
purpose, and he accompanied him, and informed
him of the particulars, in accordance with the false
statement as to the rent and the term of the lease,
and upon this false statement he made a valuation,
and Mr. Longman advanced £6,000. He subse-
quently, however, called in the money, and was paid
off; and down to the time when his father died, on
the 12th of September, 1856, he had not been able
to raise sufficient money upon the estate to pay off
the amounts he required to relieve himself of his
embarrassments. His father was ailing for about a
fortnight before he died, but he went to his busi-
ness in Cross-street as usual, and at the time of his
death witness was negotiating with Mr. Whitaker
for a lease, but the arrangement came to nothing,
and the present defendants ultimately advanced him
£12,000 upon mortgage of the property in question.
After some further evidence Mr. Roupell said that
he had burned a great many documents connected
with these transactions on the night before he left
England, and heals° stated tnat Mr. Truman, whose
name appeared as the attesting witness to some of
the documents, was the superintendent of the
brickfield upon the Roupell-park estate.
Mr. Bovill having again objected to tne reception
of some of the evidence,
Baron Claannell said he thought the evidence was
admissible upon the ;ground that the witness had
admitted himself to have committed a very wicked
crime, and if he was to be believed, the counsel for
the plaintiff was justified in proving everything he
could to show that he was speaking the truth.
Mr. Roupell then said that when he found him-
self hopelessly involved at the commencement of the
year 1862, he considered what was best to be done,
and resolved upon making a communication to Mr.
Whitaker, and he did so a few days before he left
England, in March, 1862. His father died in Cross-
street, and at the time he died witness was not
aware that he had made a codicil to his will a few
days before.
Mr. Bovill objected to any evidence being given
in relation to the will. The plaintiff did not claim
under any will, but under a deed of gift, and they
had nothing to do with the will, or whether it was
genuine or not.
Sergeant Shee submitted that it was necessary to
show how it happened that the witness obtained
the entire control over his father's property after his
death.
The court, after some technical discussion, decided
that the evidence as to the NN ill was admissible.
Mr. Roupell was accordingly examined with re-
ference to the forged will, and he repeated the evi-
dence he gave on the former trial. He said that he
knew nothing about the codicil until a few days
before his father's death, when he wished him to
draw up another codicil. His father said that as
the property at Roupell- park was liable to litigation
and required a great deal of improvement, it would
be better to leave the property to witness subject to
annuities to his mother and other members of the
family, At this time he saw the will of 1850, and
the codicil that was made on the 10th of August,
but he did not read it. He said he advised
his father not to make any alteration in the
will, and nothing was done. At this time
he expected his father would die, but did not
expect his death would occur so soon. He was in-
formed of his father's death at Brixton on the
morning of the 12th Sept., 1856, and he and his
mother went to Cross-street immediately, and wit-
ness went into his father's bedroom alone. His
mother was in the room below. He examined the
thrust
it into his pocket. The codicil was annexed fioi at
(the
this time. He afterwards prepared a fredsh
c
one that has been so often alluded to and
whays
vestedwhi
the whole of the property of the deceased
awpiplolininteda
in Mrs. Reupell, and the witnesswthe
joint executor with her). He placed
db eo sukt
him for se.
writing desk and carried it abouth
withwill until a week
veral years. He did not read t
after it came into his possession•
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The
rwi er t g
was a small one, and he constantlythe
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will some
with him. him. It contained besides
until the night respondence of immediate yiterest. The genuine
will remained in his possessionrch,e 1h86a2:
be-
fore he left England
n
plaintiff, and this con-
By the
will the Warley estate was burned it with a nun'rinof other papers.
previouslylewfthethhies
genuine
foirag:hae
brother Richard, the present plaintiff, h
firmed him freshr will. He explained that
the to eof Joh 11 at
the way the eigsres to the for luggeridge, one of
the supposed witnest_ orged will,
was hus,—M came upon
the document ggeridge was an old
was in the habit of collecting man who rent for his
father, and he went to him, and
gave him £5 to buy
mourning with, and he signed a r
;
gna
&t receipt, and he said
that he then forged his
old, 84 • and he thoughtvery ure. 'Muggeridge was
and in he was not likely to
live long,
Point of fact he
w he died shortly after-
words. The witness
gave these details with the
most perfect sang-froid, and did not seem to feel
the slightest shame or regret at having committed
such flagrant, acts.
will with He wrote aportion of the forged
a gold pensP
'at her 's name he wrote
with a pen which he and his' himself. Witness
attended the funeral of hardlim. einadoeiderd
the forged
will was read afterwardso atls Aspinlhouse. He sub-
et quently took the will to his father's proctors,
Messrs.uggested that
Ring and Co.Co, and they
his molt, under the will,
mother should also prove
hut at his request she wrote a letter to Messrs
Ring, in which she expressed her urwillingnes
to do so, His mother knew very little of his
father's uffairs. Witness made a rough draft of a
letter to Messrs. Ring, and his sister Sarah drew
it up. It was to the sffect that his mother felt her-
art in business trans-
self incompetent to take any p
actions, and wished everything to be left to her son
William, in whom she placed the utmost reliance.
By the genuine will the property of his father was
devised pretty equally between the different mem-
bers of the family, and witness was described as
"My son, called Williamßoupell," The same de-
scription was given of all the other children except
Richard. After his father's death witness, in the
character of executor, assumed the entire control
over the property. end he " minted young Mug-