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T " OXFOR D,
6, OXFORD STREET, W.
THIS EVENING, will be performed Operatic Selections
from Sir Henry R. Bishop's THE SLAVE, CLA.RA, the
MAID of MILAN, and Bellini's SONNAMBULA.

Principal Artistes—Miss Russell, Miss Ellison, Messrs.
Green, Bernardi, Huish, &c., with full band and chorus.

Conductor, Mr. F. Jonghmans.
Flute Solos by Drew Dean dm.

Comic, by UNSWORTH ("or arty oilier man "), Eugene,
W. Randall, George Hodson, and those marvellous French
Clowns, Messrs. ARTHUR and BERTRAND.
Also, a Petformance by Herr SCHALKENBACFI on his
wonderful instrument, the PIANO ORCHESTRE, contain-
inga full band of 40 instruments.

The HALL has just been newly Decorated and Ventilated,
and is one of the most Beautiful in the Metropolis.
Open at 8 o'clock. Admission, ed. ; stalls and balcony, is. ;
private boxes, lOs. 6d.

THE SUN, LONDON, SA tURDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 3, 1863.

The Lord Chief Baron on Agricultural
Science.—Mr. Lindsay, M.P., on American
Slavery and the War.

♦
SIIEPPERTON, Friday.
The annual meeting of the Middlesex Agricultural Asso-
ciation took place to• day in the village. In the absence of
Lord Enfield (who is at present in Ireland), Major General
Wood presided at the dinner, and was supported by a large
gathering of the gentry, clergy, and farmers of the district.
The dinner took place at the Anchor, and the proceedings
were enlivened by some excellent glee and part-singing
. .

under the direction of Mr. Simpson, assisted by Mr. Chap-
lin Henry and Mr. G. Ford.
After the usual loyal and patriotic toasts,
The CIIAIMIAN gave " The Health of Lord Chief Baron
Pollock and the Judges of England," which toast was re-
ceived with loud cheers.

The LORD CHIEF BARON, in responding, said that he
acknowledged with gratitude the honour that they had con-
ferred upon him and his colleagues in the administration of
justice. They had, no doubt, arduous duties to perform, and
it was always gratifying to them to find that they dis-
charged their duties to the satisfaction of the public whom
they served, He must confess that he was more pleased

with this kind of public recognition of their services when it
cccurred at a meeting of his friends and neighbours in this
part of the country ; and he was, therefore, highly delighted
to find himself received at the present meeting as one whom
they respected and were glad to see. He might, perhaps, be

asked what he had to do at an agricultural meeting. He
was afraid that there were very few now present who were
able to recollect that he took the chair at the first meeting
of the Middlesex Agricultural Association. (Hear, hear.)
He also had the honour of filling the chair on a second, and

he believed on a third occasion. Although he was not much
addicted to agricultural pursuits himself, he had not alto.
gether neglected other studies than those which belonged to
his school and college ; nor had he entirely confined his pur-
poses as a lawyer to the dry details of his profession, but he
had studied other matters which had afforded him the delight
of an enlightened existence. Perhaps he might be permitted
to say that he thought agricultural as compared with other

science was a little behind hand, although it was the first
branch of industry that was cultivated by the human race.

He was very glad to hear the tribute which had been paid
by the gallant officer who returned thanks for the army and
navy to the agricultural classes, and hear him say that it

was from that class that our best soldiers were obtained.

Still it was rather to be lamented that agriculture was at

he present moment behind almost all other pursuits of life.

They were, he thought, as a class at least 50 years behind

any other cla= s following pursuits the objects of which were
to increase human means and human happiness, and to do it
by availing themselves of all the circumstances necessary to
ensure success. Mineralogy, meteorology, chemistry, and
mechanics had as yet contributed little or nothing to agri-
cultural science compared with what might be expected
from them—(hear, hear)—and in his view of the question
the science of meteorology alone would become one of the
greatest exponents to teach farmers when it would be pro-
per to cultivate one particular description of produce rather
than another. At the present moment the study of meteo-
rology as an agricultural science was entirely neglected,
and there was no man who attended to it in the slightest

OANTERBUItY HALL " GHOST."—In order
NJ to gratify the curiosity of nightly-increasing crowds,
Mr. C. MORTON has transferred the representation of Pro-
fessor Pepper and HenryDircks, Esq.'s, world-famed spectral
Illusion, " THE GHOST." to the Concert Hall, where a
new and elegant stage is erected, affording a more ample
view of the Illusion from Stalls, Balcony, and body of the
Hall. He has also arranged for Mr. A. Silvester to give
(with all that gentleman's latest improvements and effects),
REPRESENTATIONS EACH EVENING, at half-past
Nine o'clock.
All the other Musical and Pictorial attractions as usual,
including Operatic Selections, &c. ; Comedy by Unsworth
(the modern Demosthenes), Eugene, George Hodson, and the
marvellous Arthur and Bertrand.

There could be no question whatever that the Nor-
therners were very highly prejudiced against the ne-
groes. But apart from all considerations of that kind,
had those who cried out about the emancipation of the
slaves ever considered how that great question was to be
dealt with—how it was possible to liberate all at once more
than 4,000,000 of blacks,who had unfortunately been trained
to slavery ? The thing was impossible. It could not be
done, It would not take merely one, but two generations
to do it. He said still more, with that object in view, if it
was their object, which he did not believe, their conduct had
bothbegin vain and wicked. (Hear, hear.) Mr. Lincoln, in
his proclamation, bad talked of giving freedom to the whole
of the slaves, and of their being sent away to some district
Far West, where the foot of civilised roan had never trod ;
but when offered freedom on these terms the blacks had re-
fused to accept it. Thep hay talked of sending them away
to some other country. But they had never considered the
possibility of carrying out such a scheme—had they ever
considered how utterly impossible it was to convey 4,000,000
of men, or in what ships they could be conveyed ?
The LORD CHIEF BARON—Twenty Great Easterns could
not do it. (Hear, hear.)
Mr. LINDSAY—NO, nor a hundred nor a thousand Great
Easterns. Where were they to take them to ? To Africa,
from where their forefathers came ? Why, if they were sent
to Africa they would have to endure far greater miseries than
they did at the present moment. He had conversed with
Dr. Livingstone on the subject,and Dr. Livingstone had told
him that it was not possible to conceive the amount of de-
gradation to which the black people were subjected in Africa.
(Hear, hear.) If, therefore, they were sent back to that
land from whence their forefathers came they would be sent
to en amount of misery far worse than that to which they
were subjected in the South. (Hear, hear.) Any one who
gave these questions a calm consideration, and who did not
speak upon them merelyfor the purpose of carrying with them
the popular voice, who find, however much he might de-
sire to root out slavery, that any attempt to do so suddenly
by means of a civil war would create an immense amount of
injury, not merely to the proprietors—the white people in
the Southern States—but to the blacks themselves. This
had been found to be the case. He had just received a letter
from New Orleans, in which the writer stated that the plan
of giving freedom had been tried, and that the result had
been that the negroes in general had returned to their owners
on the nominal condition of payment for the labour.
(Hear, hear.) Emancipation had been found impossible, un-
less the 'United States would consent to the establishment
of poor-houses and asylums to support the negroes in idle-
ness. The emancipation proclamation had hurt no one
but its author and his party. It had been stated on reliable
authority that the American Government, in answer to
communications upon the subject, had said, "If the free
negroes refuse to work whip them." So that, after all, they
would get nothing by the change, and the same system of
discipline would be carried out, and probably in a more
cruel manner, by the Southerns than by the Northerns.
(Hear, hear.) He was surprised to find that some gentle-
men, and especially clergymen, had stated that the procla-
mation of emancipation from slavery by President Lincoln
was a humane act. Humane to whom ? It could not be
humane to the slaves, who were not yet prepared for freedom,
and it certainly would not be humane to the five or six mil-
lions of white people in the Southern States, because the
real object, aim, and end of that proclamation was nothing
less than this—" You black men, henceforth be free ; if any
one resist you in your desire to live, resist him, and the
arms of the North will support you in that resistance,"
Practically, that is—" Massacre your masters, massacre your
mistresses, and massacre their children, so that you may
obtain your freedom." (Hear, hear.) Instead of being a
humane proclamation, it was in fact a specimen of the most
horrible barbarity, and a more terrible proclamation than
had ever been issued in any part of the world. There was
one question on which he wished to say a word, he meant
the building of ships here to be afterwards used by the Con-
federate Government. He was not going to enter into any
discussion of the legal part of the question in the presence of
the Lord Chief Baron, but a good deal had been said about
maintaining an impartial neutrality. He was in favour of
doing so, but were they ? It was said that they ought not
to allow ships to be built in this country for the Southern
States; but ought they to allow cannon and ammunition to
go out of this country to supply the Northern States? The
cannota now being used to bombard Charleston was obtained
front this country, and for aught he knew the horrible Greek
fire, of which so much had been saisl, was manufactured
here too. He could not see why they should prevent the
Southern people from being supplied with ships while the
Fedex als continued to be supplied with arms. 0 f course if a
clear infringement of the Foreign Enlistment Act could be
proved the case would be different, but the whole question
at present amounted to this, the South American coast had
been declared to be under blockade, and if they attempted
to run the blockade the Queen's proclamation said that they
must do it at their own risk. Of coarse if a vessel which
was running the blockade, having been made here and in-
tended for the Southerners, was captured, her owners must
bear the loss. For his own part he confessed that ho
could see no immediate chance of the war terminating,
but he could see what the end would be. It would not be
reunion but separation, and he believed that before many
years had elapsed that separation would not be merely into
two countries—the Northern and Southern—but that it
would be separated into four different parts—that was
into North and South, and West and California. The
Southern men and Southern women would fight to the last

Murder and Robbery in the Public Street.

degree in an agricultural point of view. Who could doubt
that if due attention was paid, and a proper record made of
the various changes in recurring seasons, such an accumu-
lation of experience would be obtained as would enable the
farmer to judge beforehand in what manner he should direct
his industry and his course of crops. So again with respect
to the improvement of the soil and the application of manure
much remained to be done. Then again, in regard to the
application of mechanical power to agricultural labour, no
one could doubt that a great change had come over the far-
mers, and many prejudices had been dispelled. Of this,
therefore, they might be assured that no riots worth'
ever take place because machinery was resorted to as a
means of assisting agriculture. It was a remarkable
fact that, according to all experience that had
yet been obtained on the subject, wherever they
had introduced machinery, and had thereby displaced one
labourer, they had actually introduced two others in conse-
quence of the adoption of improved machinery. That ought
to be borne in mind by every one interested in the question.
He recollected very well being Attorney-General at the time
of the introduction of railway traffic, when a deputation of

ARGYLL ROOMS. Windmill-street, Piccadilly.
These elegant Rooms are NOW OPEN for the Winter
Season. They have been entirely redecorated.
Musical Director, Mons. Jullien, of monster concerts cele-
brity. The band is selected from the Cry.tal I'alace, the
Italian Operas, and the Household Troops of her Majesty.
Doors open at 8 o'clock.
Admission, ls.
Manager—M. GRENET.

ROYAL ALHAMBRA PALACE. The
GHOST ! new version—The FAIRY FOUNTAIN—
Grand Divertissement—Favourite Opera Selections—NlCO-
SlA, the eminent Violinist—RAPHAEL DE SOLLA. the
Infant Tenor—LANGLOIS, the Great Juggler, Every
Evening.
Doors open at 7—commence at half-past 7.

puOYAL ALHAMBRA PALACE. Great
Musical Attraction Immense success of SIGNOR
NICOSIA, the eminent Violinist, who will appear Every
Evening.

THE LAUNDRESSES to her late Majesty
Queen Adelaide say, that " BRIGGS' AUSTRALIAN
srAnoil needs but to be tried to be approved." Sole
Wholesale Agent, Harper Twelvetrees, Bromley-by Bow,
London, E.

SZPECTACLES.—The Patent Newly-invented
Tinted Spectacles are patronised by the majnrity of the
Nobility, including:Viscount Palmerston. They afford extra-
ordinary relief to weak, dim, and detective vision.—S. and B
SOLOMONS, Opticians, 39, Albemarle-street, Piccadilly.

TEA.—MOORE BROTHERS respectfully inti-
mate that their New Prospectus is now ready. They
especially recommend their improved Family Tea, reduced.
to 3s. 2d. ; Souchonz, reduced to 3s. Cd. ; mixed Assam, re-
duced to 3s. Bd. ; and the finest Assam, reduced from is. 4d.
to 3s. 11d. per lb.

post-horse masters waited upon the then Chancellor of the
Exchequer, Mr, Goulburn, and put in a strong claim for
the reduction of the post-horse duty, on the ground that the

CELEBRATION of the TERCENTENARY of
the BIRTH of SHAKSPEARE, at Stratford-upon-
Avon. The Tercentenary Committee (of which Sir Robert
N. C. Hamilton, Bart, K.C.8., is Chairman) are now receiv-
ing SUBSCRIPTIONS, and they may also be paid to the
account of the Tercentenary Committee, at the Stourbridge
and Kidderminster or Warwick and Leamington Banks,
Stratford-upon-Avon ; Messrs. Greenway, Smith, and
Greenway, Warwick; or their London agents, Messrs.
Smith, Payne, and Co., Messrs. Hanburys and Co., or Messrs.
Glyn and Co , bankers, London.
The Tercentenary Committee, in submitting the subscrip-
tion list to the nation most earnestly appeal to the admirers
of Shakspeare for their aid and assistance. The Committee
rest their claims upon the ground that Stratford is not only
the birthplace of Shakspeare. but the centre of attraction to
all admirers of the great Poet's works, and that it was his
home. the town he loved. and where he lived and died.

diminution in the amount of duty might be so great that it
would be hardly worth collecting. But, said Mr. Goulburn,
" Gentlemen, if that be the only ground on which you can
urge for a remission of the duty, I assure you that you are
very much mistaken, for so far from there having been any
diminution in the number of posts horses consequent upon
the introduction of railway traffic, the post-horse duty has
actually doubled." And that was perfectly true. Those
who expected that the number of horses would be diminished
by the introduction of the railway system were never more
mistaken in their lives, for the number of horses was doubled.
So, again, when a new mode of conveyance was started in
the metropolis, great complaints were made by the hackney
coach and cab proprietors that their business would be

ruined, whereas, on the contrary, it was greatly increased,
because people soon found out that it was a great advantage
to them not to use up that strength in walking which they
required for the performance of their ordinary duties.
(Cheers.) It was a great pleasure to him to find himself
respected by those among whom he lived,'and ho thought
he might say he had been of some service—(cheers)—for
although he was Attorney-General at the time of the Re-
becca riots, he was engaged and successfully engaged, in
the removal of a toll-bar in that neighbourhood, for which
he had the pleasure of receiving a testimonial at the hands
of the farmers and others passing that road. (Hear, bear.)
In conclusion, he begged to return his sincere and hearty
thanks for the manner in which his name had upon all oc-
casions been received by them. (Cheers.)
The health of the county members was then drunk, the
chairman apologising for their unavoidable absence on the
present occasion.

drop of their blood before they would be reunited to the
States, and if the Northerners persisted in the course they
were now taking, terrible as the war had been, he grieved to
say it would become far more terrible before it was brought
to a conclusion. At present the Southerners felt that they
had got sufficient white men to defend themselves and
maintain their independence ; but if they once called out
the slaves, as they would be justified in doing, no more
horrible scenes hod ever been witnessed than would be wit-
nessed in the American war. In endeavouring to subjugate
the South, the North had committed a grievous mistake.
The employment of slaves would be the last resources of
the South, but when that period came, the retribution and
the vengeance would be terrible. (Hear, hear.) He believed
that he only spoke the sentiments of a large majority of the
people of this country when he said it would be impossible
to restore the Union, and in those sentiments he believed
the House of Commons joined. (Cheers.)
Various toasts of a local character followed, and the pro-
ceedings did not terminate till a late hour.

The next toast was, " The House of Commons, in connec-
tion with the name of Mr. Lindsay, M.P."
Mr. LINDSAY, on rising, was received with cheers. He
thanked them very warmly for 'associating his name with
the House of Commons, of which he had now been a mem-
ber for some years. The longer he was a member of that
house the prouder he was of his connection with it. It was
indeed a noble assembly, and, after all, the palladium of our
national liberties. It was an assembly to which not only
the people of the British Empire looked as an impartial re-
presentative body, but it was an assembly to which the four
quarters of the world looked, and were actuated by the opi-
nions expressed in it, because they believed that the opinions
there expressed were always boldly and honestly avowed.
Above all, it was an assembly which truly represented the
opinions of the great B itish people. No doubt there were
times and occasions when the leaders of that assembly did
not fully adopt the sentiments of the people and the house,
and when even the leaders of the Executive Government
did not fully express the feelings and sentiments of that
assembly. (Hear, hear.) Even at the present moment he
believed there were some great questions on which he was
afraid the Government did not altogether represent the
opinions and sentiments of the people or of the House of
Commons. The noble earl at the head of the Foreign-
office, when speaking the other evening as a member of the
Government and a leader of the executive, said he thought
the sympathies of the majority of the people of this country
were in favour of a particular section of those who were
now engaged in a great civil war in America. He might
have been speaking his own sentiments when he gave utter-
ance to such words, but he (Mr. Lindsay) denied that Lord
Russell had spoken the sentiments of the country or of th e
House of Commons on that occasion. It might be per-
fectly true that the House of Commons felt the propriety of
leaving the Government unfettered in its responsibitity
on this question. The house felt that the responsibility
ought to rest on the Government, and on it alone, because
it was not certainly the duty of the house to dictate to the
Government what course it should pursue in respect to the
civil war now raging on the other side of the Atlantic; but the
noble lord did not express the sentiments of the people of
England when he said that the sympathies of the nation
were with the Northern section of that great people now
unhappily engaged in war. (Hear, hear.) If the people of
England believed that horrible war was being waged in order
to put an end to slavery, then he could understand that
their sympathies would be with the Federals. We, in this
country, however, had seen sufficient to persuade us that
they wore neither honest nor earnest in their profession to
put down slavery, but that there were other reasons which
induced them to wage war against the Southerners. He had
this:i institutioncountry
ad•tmvliirieedh, few
they would have obtained the seen enough to know that if they really desired to put down
y
people, he was happy to say, in
sym-
pathies of a very large majority of thepeople of this country.
(Hear, hear.) But when they found that the President
himself entered office and made it his platform, that he did
not enter office for the purpose of putting down slavery, and
did not intend to take any steps to put down slavery, nor
did ho believe ho could legally de so, the people of England
could not-believe that ho was in earnest, and it was vain for
him to attempt to support a mere political cry by endeavour-
' in; to persuade the people of this country that his motive
for carrying on the war was to put down slavery, and the'
upon that grOund he was entitled to their sympathies. Was
it the fact that the Northern people entertained any itiendly
feeling towards the coloured population ? No r.me who had
travelled in America could believe they did, On the contrary,
they lost no opportunity of showing their disgust when they
were brought into contact in a public carriage, or a steam-
boat, with the negro. He had often witnessed their conduct
on such occasions, and their attempts to exclude even
the most educated and well behaved negroes from puli-
cipation in, the rights and amenities ei: civilised We,

The Ship Run Down by the Great Eastern.

The Receiver of Wreck of the port of Liverpool has for-
warded to the Marine Department of the Board of Trade
the depositions of Capt, Paton, the commander of the Great
Eastern steamship, and Capt, Duff, of the ship Jane, of
Liverpool, which latter vessel was run down in the Atlantic
and two of the crew killed.
Capt. Paton thus reports the catastrophe :—The Great
Eastern left New York on Sept, 8, with passengers and a
comprising grain, provisions, and
cargo of merchandise,
tobacco, and reached lat 51 deg 15 min N, long 14 deg 4
min W, without casualty. On the 18th, at 2 15 a.m.,
weather dark and rainy, wind W., under steam and sail,
standing about E.S.E., at about 13 knot speed, regulation
light burning in proper position, watch on deck, saw a bright
light three points on starboard bow. Put helm hard aster-
board, but finding we were closing with the light, stopped
and reversed the engines, when the ship Jane, of Liverpool,
came alongside on starboard bow, both rolling heavily; car-
ried away Jane's mainmast, foretopraast head, and bowsprit.
As the ship was apparently breaking up fast, succeeded in
saving the master, mate, second mate, and 18 of the crew,
one man being killed, and an other supposed to have fallen
overboard. Having ascertained that no more of the crew
were left on board, backed clear of the wreck. At 225 a.m.,
heavy swell, ship rolling heavily, found it impossible to
lower a boat, and stayed by the wreck until daylight. At
4 35 a.m., steamed twice close past the Jane slowly, but
could not discern any one on board, the rolling of the ship
still rendering it impracticable to lower a boat, continued
our course towards Liverpool. The crew of the Jane were
taken to Liverpool by the Great Eastern.
Capt. Duff states the ship Jane left Liverpool for Quebec,
in ballast, on Sept. 10, and had reached lat 51 15 N, long
14 11 W, without meeting with any casualty. On the 18th,
at 2 30 a.m., weather thick, with rain, wind W.S.W., under
all plain sail, standing at NM., watch on deck, saw the
masthead light of a steamer two points on the portbow,
steeling eastward. Immediately put helm hard sport, the
regulation lights at this time on board the Jane were burn-
ing brightly and in position • The vessels being very near,
a collision occurred immediately. The other vessel, which
was the Great Eastern, struck the Jane on the portbow,
carrying away the bowsprit and gear, fore-topmast, main-
topmast, and all attached, and the mizen top gallantmast.
The vessels now swung alongside each other, and the rolling
of the Great Eastern caused the sponsons to cut the. Jane
down on the port side, so that all hands considered it un-
safe to remain longer on the vessel, and got on board the
Great Eastern as best they could. got
n
of the Jane
were killed by the casualty.
' The names of the deceased men are not given. The
Jane was a ship of nearly 1,000 tons.

ALONG WALK.—Mr.Elihu Burritt, " the learned
blacksmith," well known as the great linguist, and whose
" Sparks from the Anvil" has made his name a household
word, was yesterday to complete a long walk. He has ac-
tually walked all the way from London to John o'Groat's.
He was in Wick.on Saturday, and was to complete his walk
to John o' Groat's House yesterday. He is to lecture this
evening (Tuesday) in the Free Church, on "The Benevo-
lent Institutions of the Day—their Plliloeophy and Power."
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Considerable excitement has been created in the neigh-
bourhood of Shoreditch, by the murder in Old-street-road,
of a pork butcher named Edward Vial, who was brutally
attacked and robbed of a small sum of money by some mis-
creants, who subsequently made their escape. Last evening
Mr. John Humphreys,one of the Middlesex coroners, opened
an inquiry into the circumstances, at the Princess Royal
Tavern, Paul-street, Shoreditch,when the following evidence
was adduced :

Mrs. Phoebe Humphreys, 40, Willow-street, Shoreditch,
said that she was the sister of the deceased, who lived at
14, Willow-street. On Tuesday week, having heard that
he had been robbed, and had received dreadful injuries, and
that his life was in great danger, she went to his house.
she found him lying on the bed. He had been rendered
deaf by the manner in which ho had been beaten on the
head. He was, however, then sensible. He said that on
the preceding evening he had been to the West-end. On his
way back he felt thirsty, and he turned into the Luke's
jlead Tavern and called for half a pint of beer. Deceased
said that when he left the house, which he did soon, he pro-
ceeded along the Old-street-road, until he came to Mr. Fel-
' toles coach factory at the corner of Pump-row. He had then
in his pocket a bag, containing the following pieces of sil-
ver:—two florins, four shilling pieces, one sixpence, and a
threepenny-bit. He said that he saw no person about at the
time, but he suddenly received a dreadful blow on the
temple which dashed him at once to the ground. It was so
violent that he was instantly rendered senseless. He knew
nothing whatever further about the attack, it was so sudden
woo violent. He had no idea of how he got home.
By the Coroner—lt was well known that deceased was in
the habit of coming home by the corner of Pump-row. At
that spot there was a stack of timber, and a person could
easily have concealed himself behind it and have inflicted
the injury upon the deceased before the latter was aware
that any one was there.
Emily Vial, 15, Willow-street, widow of deceased, said
her late husband was a pork-butcher. On the night in ques-
tion he left home at six o'clock to sell some German sau-
sages' She saw no more of him until one o'clock the fol-
inwipg morning, when he knocked at the door. ,She opened
it. and be rushed past her in a terrified state exclaiming

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They're after me. There they are." When he became
sensible he made a statement to his sister. lie said, "My
God ithey have not only robbed but they have injured me,
and
do not know who they are." There were signs of
blows on the back of his head as well:as upon the temple.
Dr. J. Poole Collier said that on the 23d ult. he was
called in to see the deceased. Deceased was then dull and
heavy, and was suffering great pain in the temple and back.
He said that he had received a blow which stunned him,
and he believed he had fallen on the ground. Death
took place on the 20th ultimo. Witness made a post-
mortem examination, and there were extensive bruises
around the neck and on the back of the head and on the
shoulders. Those bruises were the result of a frightful
fall. on the temple there was a lump as if from a blow.
Upon removing the scalp he found the temple muscle
iei
eimoof
thee atber
brain
cause
from o f
highly congested where the blow had been delivered.
A blow
there would produce almost instant insensibility.
On the back part of the head and corresponding with the
mark from the fall there was an extravasation of blood.
The r
the death
violence w as
inflicted. effusion 1
By the Coroner—The blow on the temple was such as into the ve n -
t s
would be inflicted by a knuckle-duster. A person skilled in
the
use of the knuckle-duster would have produced pre-
cisely such an injury.
After some further evidence,
The coroner said that one fact had been very clearly
p
ascertain, if possible, who the perpetrators were,
and to bring them to justice. He should adjourn the in-
quiry, to give the police an opportunity of discovering some
clue to the guilty parties.
The court was accordingly adjourned.
would
-- t
d be to ascertain,
deceased had been murdered. The next step

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flexions, and 119 vaults aro also completed. The value of
these and other works incidental thereto, ineluling about
1,000 yards super of new gran;to paving, amount to X 12,500
£4,500 more than at the date of my last report.
" J. W. BAZALGETTE, Engineer."
The report was received and ordered to be printed.
PROPOSED NEW STREET ntom HOLBORN TO LINCOLN'S

INN •FIELDS.
A report was brought up from the Works and Improve-
ment Committee, stating, in reference to a letter received on
the subject of opening a thoroughfare from Holborn to Lin-
coln's• inn-fields, through Little-turnstile, that it was not
of such acharacter that they could recommend the Board to
entertain it, as it would cost £30,000.
Mr. Alderman LAWRENCE said the sum of £30,000 was
not such an enormous burden to be cast upon the ratepayers
of the metropolis that it should be weighed against the great
benefits which would be derived in throwing open a new
roadway from Holborn to Lincoln's.inn- fields. It was cer-
tainly extraordinary that they should have a large park--
for so Lincoln's-inn-fields was—so enclosed and shut up,
and have no public thoroughfare for carriages. He moved
that the subject be referred to the committee for considera-
tion and report.
Mr. LE BRETON seconded the amendment. _ _

Mr. FREEMAN said there was no doubt that this would be
a great improvement, but it was not so urgent as many
others, and he thought that if they attempted to drive the
public too fast in making improvements they would be
doing more harm than' good.
After a few words from Mr. H. L. TAYLOR the amend-
ment was negatived, and the original motion agreed to.

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EDINBURGH, Friday Morning.
The Prince and Princess of Waleslleft Abergeldice
Castle yesterday morning at half-past nine o'clock,
and posted to Aboyne, which they reached about
11, and from that point they commenced their rail-
way journey to Edinburgh, travelling in a saloon
carriage attached to the ordinary train. At Ferry-
hill Junction, Perth, Larbert, and other places
where stoppages were made, there were large as-
semblages, and the Prince and Princess were re-
ceived with cordial cheering. The train, which was
heavy,
reached Waverley-bridge station at 6 47,
nearly half-an-hour behind its appointed time. At
the platform the Crown Prince and Princess uf Prus-
sia waited thearrival of their distinguished relatives
General Walker and Staff, the Earl of Kintore, Mr.
Sheriff Gordon, and other gentlemen were present.
There was no guard of honour as on the last occa-
sion, the high constables being entrusted with keep-
ing the platform, but, an escort of the 3d Hussars
waited outside. An affectionate meeting took place
between the Royal Party, who left the station in
one carriage, amid the loud cheering of a numerous
and rather eager crowd. Darkness having fallen
during the delay of the train's arrival, the many
hundreds waiting outside could see nothing but the
carriage which contained the illustrious visitors,
whom,mheonwheevr. however, they The e welcomedcarriage
r riage proceeded to the in a very enthusi-
astic Douglas Hotel, which was reached at a few minutes
after 7 o'clock. Apartments bad been taken there
for two nights for the Prince and Princess of Wales
and for their suite, consisting of the Hon. Mrs.
Grey, Lieutenant-General Reel y , 1 s the Hon. m.
Meade, and the Hon. Colonel Keppel.
The Crown Prince and Princess of Prussia, who
arrived in Edinburgh from London yesterday morn-
ing, left Waverley-station this morning at a quarter-
past 9 o'clock by the ordinary train for the north,
en route to Balmoral on a visit to her Majesty the
Queen. They are accompained by their infant
children, the Princes Frederick William and Henry
and the Princess Victoria, and by the Countess
Hohenthal, Lord Charles Fitzroy, &c. After break-
fast yesterday their Royal Highnesses drove out
from the Douglas Hotel, and having made some
purchases of Scottish jewelry and tartans, and
driven through some of the principal streets, they
paid a visit to the Castle. They were received at
the New Barracks there by the Fort Alajor, who
cooducted them through the Crown-room in which
the Scottish regalia are kept, Queen Mary's rooms,
and St. Margaret's Chapel. Their Royal High-
nesses returned to the hotel about 2 o'clock by way
of High-street and North-bridge. The Lord Pro-
vost, the Prussian Consul, and other gentlemen
had the honour of waiting upon the Prince and
Princess, and Earl Russell, who was staying for a
few hours at the hotel, on his way to Aleiklecmr
to Minto-house, Roxburghshire, had also an
interview with their Royal Highness. At half-
past three the Prince and Princess again drove out
in order to visit Holyrood Palace. There they were
shown through the Royal apartments, and they also
visited the Picture Gallery, Queen Mary's room,
and the Royal Chapel, and took a walk through
the grounds. Leaving by the park entrance, their
Royal Highnesses went round the Queen's Drive
by way of St. Margaret's Loch, Dunsappie, and St.
Leonard's, returning to town about half-past five
o'clock. At a quarter past six they proceeded to
the station to await the arrival of the Prince and
Princess of Wales, in whose company they spent
the greater part of the evening in the hotel. In the
course of the afternoon the infant children of the
Prince and Princess were taken out for an airing.
The Prince of Wales was present at the depar-
ture of the Crown Prince.
Prince Alfred is expected to arrive in Edinburgh
from Balmoral on Tuesday next and take up his
abode in Holyrood Palace, where he is to reside for
several months in the prosecution of his studies.
His Royal Highness is to attend the meetings of
the Social Science Congress, which opens on Wed.
nesday next.

NEW STREETS FROM OXFORD-STREET AND NEW BOND-

STREET.

The sanction of the Board was given to a plan for the for-
mation of two new streets to run from Oxford-street and
New Bond-street, in lieu of the existing thoroughfares in
the:parish of St. George, Hanover-square.

FRIDAY NIGHT.

The Lord Provost, Magistrates, and Council of
Edinburgh attended at Holyrood Palace to-day for
the purpose of presenting an address to the Prince
of Wales, which, at a meeting held in the morning,
they had voted. At twelve o'clock the Prince and
Princess of Wales arrived at Holyrood in an open
carriage. They were loudly cheered by a large
assemblage of persons. The civic address was re-
ceived in the throne-room. The Lord Provost in-
troduced the corporation, and the City Cierk read
the address, which was in the following terms

W
"TO HIS nploeYaseeLylofurGrlEßNoEySaSlTllTigrhltnleNBZ_Clwre7tAhLeE.
Lords
Pr‘o‘vi‘olsaty, Isitlagistrates, and Council of the city of Edin-
burgh, most gladly avail ourselves of this the earliest
opportunity of offering to your Royal Highness and your
illustrious Consort our warmest welcome to this city.
In the profound admiration and love entertained by all
classes of the people for the exalted virtues of our beloved
Queen and her illustrious Consort, your Royal Highness,
and every member of the royal family, has a strong hold on
the gratitude and affection of the nation. But the citizens
of Edinburgh cherish the remembrance of more personal
claims established by your Royal Highness during your
residence in this city while prosecuting your studies, and
we rejoice that your visit to Scotland at this time with your
illustrious Consort affords us an opportunity of renewing to
your Royal Highnesses the expression of our warmest
loyalty and devotion. We earnestly trust that her Royal
Highness may have enjoyed and benefited by her residence
in Scotland, and that the associations of her Highland home
may be such as she may recall with satisfaction and renew
with pleasure. We hail her presence in this old Palace of
Holyrood, associated as it is with the most stirring inci-
dents of our national history, in which the destinies of our
Royal House were long centuries ago intertwined with those
of Denmark, as they now happily are. Kindred in race to
that from which her Royal Highness has sprung, the people
of Scotland have rejoiced in the union which your Royal
Highness has formed; and rich as you are in the enjoy•
ment of a noble heritage of love and veneration derived
from your illustrious parents, as well as in the possession
of personal qualities which have commanded the admira-
tion and love of a great and free people, wo earnestly ho ft
and pray that you may be endowed with every other gift
and grace which can adorn your exalted station, and fit you
for the discharge of its high duties.
" Signed in name and by appointment of the Lord PT:
vest, Magistrates, and Council, and the seal off
owe:
city affixed thereto, at Edinburgh, the 2d day o
tuber, 1863.

"CHARLES LAWSON, Lord provost."

reP _Oll for your
The PRINCE read the following
" Lord Provost and Gentlemen,—I thaucti
}Faye alluded
address and for the kind terms in srbieitgY ray studies in
add the Princess 'B
to my residence among you while Pars%oo many interest-
jilt,
go 1 y
eventsr oo d Pi
na l
yourac e—
history.apalace alracvigaets:EtLve expressed to-
thanks to mine for the sentiments Y° j beg you to believe
wards her and towards her e?
burg'h are among the most
that my recollections of Taloa early impressions have
agreeable of my life, and tdt'y the hearty weleome which the
been forcibly strengtben:, received on our return from the
Princess and myself 11:1,-will ever be attended with the most
Queen and my Highlands,a visit wil, , _,,10t but record my gratitude for
pleasing associationse•p:icit''to the
mpossible for either the
much-
the tribute you bay.a_d it will be i
atlinonasn,yanbuatitsthientesvraersmtse.,s,t feel•
lamented fathercif
t%
ur a tY,
ings for yo
ittee of Ladies
The Comm
its
inenstteirttu
Princess or roi.e
nt the gifts
ofthe ladies of Edinburgh. Mrs.
preSe rairsal made the Presentation, and read the
ll' '
following
address:--
„To JEER RONAL HIGHNESS THE PRINCESS OF WALES.
,OlaY it Please your Royal Highness,—The ladies of
Edinburgh are glad to have this opportunity of testifying
their loyalty and devotion to her Most Gracious Majesty
the Quccn and the Royal Family. They desire to express
their warmest congratulations on the marriage of your
Royal highness with his Royal Highness the Prince of
Wales, and they pray your Royal Highness's acceptance of
this gift as a token for the joY with which you are welcomed
to this anti. IA capital."
The Princess briefly expressed her thanks and
admiration of the gift.
In the afternoon the Prince and Princess drove
out to Thilkeith-house.

The Prince and Princess honoured the Lord Pro-
vost by dining at his house with a select company.
The houso was beautifully decorated, and his Lord-
ship afterwards held an evening party.
Their Royal liighnet,scs were warmly-cheered on
their way to the Lord Provost's.
They will leave to-morrow (Saturday) by
.the
London express train, at 10 o'clock in the morning.

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