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bourers in the cotton trade were in a state of the
deepest distress and the most painful privation. He
hoped that these facts would not be forgotten, and
that it would be remembered that in this country
when one interest suffered all must suffer, and that
they would all work together as one people in this
cause. This was a great local distress, and as the
agriculturists were in a prosperous condition, they
would do what they could to alleviate it. The right
lion. gentleman concluded by wishing for the Wor-
cester Agricultural Society a long continuance in
prosperity and success.

THE RIGHT .HON. SIR E. B. LYTTON,
M.P., AT .HERTFORD.

HERTFORD, THURSDAY.

The annual meeting of the Hertfordshire Agri-
cultural Association took place to-day in this town.
The show of stock and implements, &c., took place
in a field near the town, and was a very successful
one.

At the dinner, which took place in the Town-hall
in the evening, the Marquis of Salisbury presided,
and was supported by the following noblemen and
gentlemen :—The Earl of Verulam, Lord Delawarr,
Sir E. B. Lytton, M.P,, Mr. Giles Puller, M.P.,
Mr. Abel Smith, M.P., Lord Eustace Cecil, &c.
The usual loyal toasts haring been proposed,
Mr. SURTEES proposed " The Health of the
County and Borough Members."
Sir E. L. B. LYTTON on rising, was received with
loud and continued cheering. He said—My Lords
and Gentlemen,—ln rising to return thanks for the
honour you have just conferred upon me and my
colleagues, I am reminded that the first occasion on
which I took part in the public affairs of this
county was at an agricultural meeting similar to the
present, held in this very town, and in the room
in which we are now assembled. Whoa I look
round, I see among the younger generation still
many faces with which I then first formed an
acquaintance, and owing, I presume, to the salu-
brious habits and peaceful conscience which belong
to agricultural pursuits, I see amongst those faces
so little of the wear and tear of time, that I could
almost fancy it was yesterday when my health was
first drunk by the farmers of Hertfordshire. Yet the
years which have elapsed since that day have wit-
nessed events so stirring that they constitute one of
the most remarkable epochs in the history of the
world. Gentlemen, before I come to the subject to
which I shall afterwards address myself, let me
pause for a moment, and consider what those events
have been. Since then France has undergone three
revolutions—the fall of the Constitutional Mo-
narchy, the stormy interlude of a Democratic Re-
public, and the restoration of a milder Empire. The
old rulers of Lombardy, of Tuscany, and of Naples
have disappeared, and the map of the world has
been altered to admit of the introduction of the
kingdom of Italy. Austria, long the haughtiest
representative of the principle of absolute mo-
narchy, has commenced the experiment of Con-
stitutional Government, and Russia has laid the
foundation of a new policy and social existence
in recognising the value of free labour, and
abolishing the institution of serfdom. China has
opened her :ports to our merchants, and her
capital to our ambassadors. We ourselves
have gone through the calamities of war in the
siege of Sebastopol and the suppression of the In-
dian revolt, and we have been twice reminded this
evening that the great Republic, which boasted a
superb exemption from the perils and the evils
which beset ancient States and monarchical forms
of government, has been violently rent in twain ;
and whatever may be the issue of that struggle, in
which we see at present only a lavish expenditure
of blood and treasure, still there is no dispassionate
bystander who can believe that the Union can ever
be restored, and no far-sighted politican who can
suppose that the curse of slavery can long survive
that separation, of which it is the most ostensible,
though not the only, nor perhaps the most powerful
cause. (Hear.) Such important events, all leading
to effects so vast, and so permanent in their relation
to the advancement of the human race, have pro-
bably never before occurred within so short a space
of time as that which has elapsed since I first ad-
dressed you in this room. After referring to the
progress of agricultural science, the right hon. Bart.
continued—Now I see that, in the agricultural
meetings that have taken place elsewhere, great
stress has been laid by eminent speakers upon the
importance of utilising the sewage of towns for
agricultural purposes. Lord Derby, who is himself
a high agricultural authority, has done much on
this head, first by the very remarkable speech he
lately made at Preston, in which he stated the re-
sults of the experiments made at the Wellington
College, according to the plan of the filter or tank
invented by the late Prince Consort ; and, next, he
has done much by the prize he has offered to any
company which shall utilise liquid manure of the
sewage of any district comprising 4,000 inhabitants.
(Hear.) Mr. Gladstone, also, with that acuteness of
mind accustomed to seize the strong points of any
question that-he takes up, has directed his attention
to a means of producing wealth which, though it
is sufficiently familiar to some other countries,
has been very singularly neglected in our
own. Why, my lord, I remember, when I
held the Colonial seals, the toil and trouble that
it cost to get a very scanty supply of guano from
some distant island, while, all the time, close
at hand, a few of the sewers of London were casting
into the Thames more than half a million sterling
worth of manure, more valuable for the general pur-
poses of agriculture than that guano which ships
were fitting out to bring home, in order that it
should be retailed at a price which rather fitted it
for the dealing of an apothecary than for the fields
of a farmer. I say that at least half a million was
flaps thrown away in some of the sewers of London,
and I believe that to be a very narrow estimate of
the real waste that is constantly taking place; for I
find that in Flanders, where I was the other day,
the value of the sewage is estimated according to
the numerical population in towns at so much a
head, viz., £1 78_, and in Belgium it is estimated
still higher, so that, taking the population of Lon-
don at 2,000,000, there is upwards of two million of
the national wealth exclusively devoted to poison
the waters of the Thames, and to add to the dis-
eases of our metropolitan subjects. We might upon
this question take a lesson from China. Every one
knows the extraordinary rapidity with which the
Chinese bring the very worst soil into cultivation ;
and the enormous crops which they take from, com-
paratively speaking, a handful of land have been the
wonder and the admiration of all travellers in that
country. What is the secret of the Chinese P Why,
their main secret consists in the utilisation of the
sewage, and the proverbial fertility of Belgium is
attributable to the same cause. It is, however, not
only in the metropolis that this waste goes on, but
also in the rural towns, though I can say without
compliment that thereisin the rural towns a greater
energy and a more just and intelligent desire to find
a remedy for the evil then seem to be manifested by
city aldermen or metropolitan boards. Considering
numbertthheiaconntry I do say
of populous towns which there are in
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population by manure which the towns would gladly
sell, and farmers by manure which they would gladly
purchase. Until some such system is adopted we must
fall back on our old friend, farmyard dung. I suppose
we must agree that Professor Levi is right, on the
whole, when he says that the art of all real s
u application of
repro-
ductive husbandry is iu
manure. I recollect that Dt-aevidkn.ifume, the philoso-
pher, phcr, says in one of his essays, an the apparatus
of our Government has ultimately no other object
or purpose than the administration of justici:,hotrsainy
that
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judges. Well, in the same manner he
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may give
it, or supply those nourishing properties which na-
ture has neglected to restore. Eight hundred years
ago there was a very learned dispute whether or not
the earth was an animal; but I think we have now
discovered that the earth is so far animal that it ro-
quires to be fed and will not be starved. There is a
-very remarkable instance of this mentioned by a
great Practical agriculturist. In certain districts of

America—Maryland and Virginia—which possessed
the most fertile soil in the world, the yield was of
course enormous. But the cultivators were not
tenant farmers. They were esquires, they were gen-
tlemen, and they unhappily forgot manure, They
took from the earth the alkalies and salts, and never
replaced them. The consequence is that those dis-
tricts, even now, are so hopelessly sterile that they
have been altogether abandoned. This shows that
the fertility of the soil depends on the nourishment
bestowed on it. Gentlemen, I turn from these pros-
pects—which I hope the agriculturists of this coun-
try look forward to with confidence—l turn from
them to express the deep sorrow with which we
must all contemplate the unmerited distress of our
fellow-countrymen in the manufacturing districts ;
and our sympathy is rendered more active by our
heartfelt admiration of the patience and fortitude
they have shown. I would fain hope that the
princely capitalists of Lancashire, who owe their
fortunes to the hands which are now stretched out
to them for work or for bread, may show to the
world that their gratitude is in some proportion to
their wealth. (Hear, hear.) It is not only benevo-
lence, it is policy, it is wisdom, to win to them-
selves the hearts of those mechanics at a moment when
those hearts are most responsive to acts of kindness.
It will strengthen between employers and operatives
that tie that never can be loosened without danger,
and perhaps with more danger in the great popula-
tions of the great manufacturing towns than in any
other combination of labour and capital. (Hear.)
My noble friend has intimated to you that next
year we may be called upon to celebrate the nup-
tials of the heir apparent to the throne. May those
nuptials be solemnised under the brightest auspices
which can connect the happiness of princes with
the felicity of nations. (Cheers.)
Several other toasts having been drunk, the pro-
ceedings terminated.

NOR7H WALSHAM AG.RICUMURAL
SOCIETY.

NORTH WALSHAM, OCT. 9.

The annual meeting of this society was held last
evening in this pleasant little Norfolk town, Lord
Suffield presiding. It was expected that the pro-
ceedings would have been enlivened with a speech
from Lord Wodehouse, late Under-Secretary for
Foreign Affairs, but the noble lord's other engage-
ments prevented his attendance. Among those pre-
sent, however, were Mr. E. Howes, M.P., Mr. C.
Buxton, M.P., Sir H. Robinson, Major-General
Windham, Admiral the Hon. E. T. Wodehouse,
Capt. Windham, R.N., the Hon. W. R. Rous, the
Hon. W. Harbord, &c.
The usual loyal and patriotic toasts were proposed
from the chair and warmly responded to.
Admiral WODEHOUSE replied on behalf of the
navy.

Major-General WINDHAM, in replying for the
army, observed that as a soldier he had always felt
proud in having his name coupled with the volun-
teers. Many gentlemen present would no doubt
remember that when he returned from the Crimea
he thought it his duty to write a letter to the lord-
lieutenant of the county, strongly urging the im-
portance of some sort of military organisation.
That letter met with approval, but the system
which he recommended had not been exactly car-
ried out. Volunteers had, however, sprung up in
every direction, and he had much pleasure
in expressing his conviction that they were a
noble body of men, and that the movement was
altogether one of the finest things which he had
witnessed during the whole course of his life.
(Cheers.) Some men would say, " But do you be-
lieve that if a large body of foreign troops were to
land in this country an equal body of volunteers
would be of any use to meet them ?" Well, he had
seen enough of fighting to know that it was, to say
the least of it, a very uncertain trade ; and, there-
fore he would give no answer to the question. Of
one thing, however, he was quite certain, viz., that
the volunteers would make a much better fight of
it after the drill and the military associations which
they had than if they had been taken direct from
the plough at the moment they were wanted.
(Cheers.) From the militia, too, the army had re-
ceived some of its very best soldiers, and as regards
the navy, it was needless to add that without that
valuable service nothing could be done
Mr. C. BUXTON, M.P., responded for the volun-
teers, and said he had listened with much pleasure to
the flattering terms in which his comrades had
spoken of so distinguished a member of the regular
service as Gen. Windham. It was moreover, plea-
sant to respond to the toast at North Walsham, be-
cause he understood there was a corps in course of
formation in the town. He was sure they were
not actuated by the same motives as the people of
a certain town in Staffordshire, who agreed to esta-
blish a corps, but who put in the proviso that they
were not to be called out in the case of invasion.
(Laughter.) Gen. Windham had expressed an
opinion that the volunteers would be found useful
should an enemy attack us; and he (Mr. Buxton)
was glad to be able to corroborate that opinion
from the lips of such an eminent officer as Lord
Clyde. A very distinguished gentleman who was
present at the battles of the Alma and Inkerman
was with Lord Clyde at the Brighton review, and
asked his lordship what he thought of the volun-
teers. Lord Clyde gave the significant an-
swer, "There have been thirty-five battalions
on the ground, and full thirty of them were as good
as anything could be." (Cheers.) While looking
at the show in the course of the day he could not
help feeling that were an enemy to land agricul-
turists would not only have to fight for their hearths
and homes, but also for their beasts and pigs.
(Laughter.) He was particularly struck with the
latter, and he only wished farmers could go to Italy
and Greece and see the creatures that were there
called pigs, and which were something like a cross
between a panther and an antelope. (Laughter.)
These pigs were looked upon by the human race as
enemies, but here they were treated as dear friends
—(laughter)—and he was afraid they were even
looked upon with more respect than members of Par-
liament. (Loud laughter.) He thought the meet-
ing ought to have some discussion upon agricultural
subjects, and even upon the preservation of game.
(Hear.) Upon one question he should certainly like
to hear opinions expressed. Last session a bill
was introduced into Parliament by the Poor-
Law Bbard by which parish authorities were to be
enabled to establish friendly societies in a parish,
and to afford a contribution to such societies of 26
per cent. on the deposits made, and also to guaran-
tee the ultimate payments in case of age or sickness.
The bill was not carried, but it would very pro-
bably be brought in again next session. It appeared
to him that serious evils would result from such a
measure, for nothing was more probable than that
if a parish were made responsible for the proceed-
ings of an independent friendly society, it woald
entail heavy burdens upon the ratepayers. Still it
would be a great advantage to the poor themselves
and to ratepayers if they could be induced to lay
by against "a rainy day ;" but instead of parishes
contributing out of the rates to independent societies
he would suggest whether the object would not be
better gained by adopting some such principle as
that of the Post-office Saving Banks, the parishes
appointing one of their own officers to collect
deposits and to pay out, in case of age or sickness,
a due amount on a properly calculated basis. By
this means pauperism would probably be gradually
diminished, and parishes would incur no risk except
perhaps from the occasional defalcations of some of
their officers. This plan, moreover, would lead to
no expense, as the cost of working it might be ar-
ranged for is the calculations ; it would afford the
poor man an opportunity of placing his savings in
perfect security instead of being as now frequently
defrauded of them, and what was perhaps
better
than all it would prevent the waste of a large por-
tion of the deposits in beer drinking. (Cheers.)
The CHAIRMAN gave " The County Members."
(Cheers.)
Mr. E. HowEs, in acknowledging the com-
pliment, said it must have been observed of late that
at agricultural meetings, members of Parliament
had not only taken upon themselves to give an ac-
count of their own individual stewardships, but also
to make excuses for the House of Commons itself
because of its so-called inactivity- Now, it must be
seen readily enough
that the House of Commons
was not a mere workshop for the manufacture of

Acts of Parliament; it should rather be regarded as
the mouth-piece of the nation—the arena in which
the great principles of our domestic, colonial, and
foreign policy were promulgated for the satisfaction
of our own people at home and the increase of con-
fidence on the part of foreign nations—the publicity
given to the proceedings of the house being the
surest guarantee for domestic union and peace
abroad. (Cheers_) Some reference had been made
to the preservation of game. Now a bill had been
introduced and had recently become law which was
generally spoken of as the Poaching Act ; and he
regretted to say that there was a very strong oppo-
sition to that act in the House of Commons. He
himself supported that bill. (Hisses and cheers.)
If hon. gentlemen would hear him out he was sure
they would themselves agree to the conclusion
to which he had come. The opposition to that
measure was raised on various grounds, but the
principal point to which he wished to refer
was this —he believed the bill we s not
wanted for the county of Norfolk. (Cries of
Oh.") It was wanted, however, for counties in
the middle of England, and it was for the sake of
those counties that he mainly supported the mea-
sure. (Renewed hisses.) Where it was carried
into effect with judgment and discretion it would
be of the greatest possible use, not only in support-
ing laws which has long remained laws ought
clearly to be supported, but it would also have the
effect indirectly of preventing many positive crimes
intimately connected with violations of the laws to
which he had referred. The bill was also opposed
on the ground of expense ; but he believed that in
Norfolk, which had a chief constable of great judg-
ment and discretion, there was nothing to fear on
that head. Upon the new highway bill he need
not say anything, as it rested with the ratepayers
whether they put it into force or not. Another act
passed would be of the greatest use in preventing
collisions between class and class, so far as rating
was concerned ; he referred to the Parochial Assess-
ment Act, which was the first of
.two years' legis-
lation in the House of Commons. Great trouble
had been taken with that measure, and the house
had also been impartial, as the act would impose no
slight trouble upon the counties concerned.
(Laughter.) An amusing episode had been intro-
duced in relation to the pig and the pig feeder, and
to the corresponding relation between constituents
and their representatives. Whatever might be the
support given by the constituent to his representa-
tive, the position of the latter was not a bed of
roses, as the very high position of an M.P. involved
danger and disgrace, if he did not use every effort
to promote the interests of his constituents, and
through them of the community at large. ~Cheers.)
The remaining proceedings of the evening scarcely
call for notice.

E.X7RAORDINABY RELIGIOUS MANIA

IN ST. GILES'S WORKHOUSE.

Yesterday Dr. Lankester, the Central Middlesex
coroner, held at inquest at the Old King's Arms,
Short's-gardens, St. Giles's, on the body of s lunatic
inmate of St. Giles's Workhouse, named Robert
Russell, aged 38. _

James Rankley, the master of St. Giles's Work-
house, deposed that deceased was brought into the
house on the night of last Tuesday week, by the
police, who said they found him in the street. He
was insane, but not of a violent character. Witness
knew nothing more of his antecedents. On Thurs-
day night he was called into the yard and saw de-
ceased standing nearly on the top of a ladder 46 feet
high. Witness persuaded him in every possible way
to come down, but he remained stationary, saying
prayers in a most fervent manner. He then sent
up a man to bring him down, but he only went up
higher. Witness requested the man to come down.
Russell remained at the top of the ladder for half an
hour, praying all the time. At length he sprang up
three spokes higher, and in a frantic attitude he
let go with his hands, gave a spring backwards,
and fell violently on the ground. Since his ad-
mission to the workhouse he exhibited great reli-
gious mania and melancholy. He was not par-
ticularly looked after, because he did not threaten
to lay violent hands upon himself, or exhibit any
appearance of violence.
Mr. Bennett, the resident medical officer, stated
that he saw him the morning after admission. He
appeared to be harmless, and suffering under a
delusion that fistula, which he had, must destroy
his life, and that his neglect of himself would de-
stroy his soul. He was properly cared for iif every
way, and had a warder and a helper to look after
him, but who were not instructed to follow him
about. He died immediately after his fall, his
skull being literally smashed to pieces.
A friend of deceased was examined, and said that
he saw deceased five weeks ago in the street sane.
His only relation, an aunt, lived in Nottingham-
shire.

Verdict—Suicide whilst in an unsound state of
mind.

THE ALLEGED SED UC7 lON AND
SUICIDE OF A MARRIED WOMAN.

Yesterday Mr. H. Raffles Walthew, the deputy
coroner for East Middlesex, resumed, at the Gos-
sett Arms Tavern, Gossett-street, Hackney-road,
the inquiry respecting the death of Mrs. Amelia
Castle, who committed suicide under very painful
circumstances.

It will be recollected that it was alleged on the
previous occasion that the deceased bad been led to
destroy herself through having been induced to form
an improper connection with an individaal who was
married, and who subsequently slighted and cast
her off after her character had been compromised.
The inquiry was then adjourned for the production
of the party in question.
On the Court re-assembling,
Henry Holdane said that he had known deceased
for 12 years, and had visited her sometimes in the
absence of her husband at her house. At times no
persons accompanied him there. He went there to
take tea, and generally left at 7 or 8 o'clock. She
sometimes came to see him, but that was because
she washed for him. Witness was aware deceased
did not take in work for others. She had worked
for him for the last three years. He never got any
receipts for payment, consequently he had none to
show. She cooked for him on two occasions only.
Witness was a married man, but had been separated
from his wi'e for three years. Deceased sometimes
came to him for a shilling or two on account, as she
was without food. She had on one occasion brought
witness cooked food, but that was two years ago,
and he paid her for it. The last time she visited
witness was the Monday week previous to her com-
mitting suicide. She was then in a very excited
state, and witness thought she had been drinking.
She came to say that she could not work for him
any more. That was because he had found fault
with her then, and he used not before. Witness
had not got tired of her, he only wanted her to do
her work properly, as he paid her liberally. He
would swear that she had never stopped with him
until 11 or 12 o'clock at night. On one occasion
she stopped to mind the house for the landlady until
2 o'clock in the morning. Witness, however, was
not then in the house. On Thursday previous to
her suicide she came and taxed him with having a
watch belonging to her, and other things, and said
that his landlady had besides a gola watch of hers,
and was then wearing it. Witness did not believe
that the landlady had it. Witness never knew
deceased to have a watch of her own. Sho also
charged him with having other property—a bed,
some prints, a tea tray, a set of fire irons, and other
things. Deceased had brought the whole of the
property at different times to his rooms in his ab-
sence to dispose of it. Witness knew )f it. She had
not brought a silver watch, but a duplicate of a
watch, Witness was aware it was a very serious
matter to receive the property of deceased's hus-
band. Tile watch now produced from his pocket he
took out of pledge, and paid her a shilling at a time,
35. in all; 13s. the watch cost him altogether. Wit-
ness had not been intimate with deceased's husband
for five years past.
The Coroner—But while you were receiving
carpets and prints, and watches and trinkets clan-
destinely from his wife! The case is a most scan-
dalous one.
Witness said he had sent deceased back with other
'
property. He did not wish for the property. He

ad'anced 10s. on the property, which was all she
asked for. He declined to say whether there had
been any impropriety between deceaned and himself.
After some further evidence,

The Jury returned the following special verdict :

" That deceased, Amelia Castle, took her life in a
state of unsound mind, and that the said Amelia
Castle was induced to destroy her life in consequence
of the improper connection subsisting between her
and Henry Holdane, and the ill-treatment she re-
ceived from him."

GARIBALDIAN RIOT AT BIRKENHEAD.

ATTACK ON A CHURCII.
(From the _Liverpool Mercury.)
Last evening the township of Birkenhead was
the scene of a disgraceful disturbance, in which
about three or four thousand Irishmen, composed
chiefly of dock labourers, took part. Connected
with the township there is a small association called
the Parliamentary Debating Society, which met last
winter in Brooke-street, in the institute attached
to the Holy Trinity Church, of which the Rev. Dr.
Baylee is the incumbent. During the last week
placards were posted on the walls announcing that
the society would meet last evening for the first
time this season in the institute, the subject to be
discussed being " Sympathy with Garibaldi and
Italy." A resolution on this subject, it is said, was
to be submitted by the " member for Bristol." This
announcement seems to have given umbrage to a
portion of the Irish Roman Catholic population of
the place, and, following the example of their coun-
trymen in the metropolis, they determined that the
Parliamentary Debating Society should not have an
opportunity of expressing sympathy with the great
Italian patriot.

The door of the institute in Brooke-street was
opened at seven o'clock, at the same time that the
usual weekly service was to commence in Holy
Trinity Church. No sooner was the gas lighted
in the schoolroom than a number of rough men,
dressed in slops, assembled in front of the building,
and from their appearance it was evident that they
were bent upon mischief. Only two or three
" honourable members" of the society had arrived
when a stone was thrown at one of the windows,
smashing a pane of glass. Inspector Gregory, who
appears to have anticipated a disturbance, now en-
tered the institute, accompanied by three or four
officers, and suggested to the person in charge of
the room that the lights should be extinguished,
This suggestion was immediately acted upon, it
being deemed impossible to hold a meeting under
such threatening circumstances. The crowd of
ruffians outside rapidly increased, and in a few
minutes there were some thousands of people on
the spot, many of whom were women and children.
Although the lights in the institute were extin-
guished, stones and other missiles were thrown at
the windows, and whenever a smash of glass took
place it was accompanied with " Three cheers for
the Pope." Mr. Superintendent Birnie and nearly
the whole police force of the township were
promptly on the ground, but the efforts of 40 or 50
officers to disperse the crowd were of no avail,
Upon addressing the mob the superintendent was
hooted, and it required the greatest discretion on
his part to prevent a collision between his men and
the rioters—a collision in which the police, from
the paucity of their number, must certainly have
been worsted.

During the attack on the institute, the congre-
gation in the church in front were greatly alarmed
and the service had to be abruptly terminated.
After the attack upon the institute, the mob, which
had by this time vastly increased in numbers, ad-
journed to Price-street, and began to throw stones
at the windows of the sacred edifice. Tremendous
cheers for the Pope followed the breaking of the
glass. Whilst the Rev. Joseph Baylee (son of Dr.
Baylee)and the curate of the church were speaking
to Inspector Gregory, the latter was struck with a
missile on the face, and a body of police had to escort
both gentlemen from the ground. Fortunately the
Rev. Father Brundritt and the Rev. Father Golding
made their appearance in Price-street about
8 o'clock. After remonstrating with the mob on
the impropriety of their conduct, the reverend gen-
tlemen succeeded in persuading the greater portion
of them to disperse. The priests were lustily
cheered, and were followed by the rioters to the
north end.

Up to a late hour, Price-street, Watson-street,
and other thoroughfares in the neighbourhood re-
mained in a very disturbed state, and the police
kept patrolling the streets.
It is to be regretted that none of the ringleaders
were taken into custody, and it is to be feared that
the police will not be able to identify any of them.
It was impossible last night to form an accurate
idea of the quantity of glass demolished in the in-
stitute and the church ; but it was supposed that at
least 300 panes had been broken.
The greatest alarm prevailed in the township
during the disturbance ; and much indignation was
expressed by the respectable inhabitants at the dis-
graceful conduct of the anti-Garibaldians.

POLICE IN7ELLIGENCE.— Oct. 9.

MARYLEBONE.

CLEVER CONDUCT OF A SERVANT.—George Scan-
nel, aged 19, described as of no occupation, residing
at 16, Elizabeth-terrace, Liverpool-road, was
charged with the following new and novel mode of
robbery of plate.
Miriam Pitman, being sworn, said—l am house-
maid to Dr. Joseph Skelding, of 16, Euston-square.
About eight o'clock the prisoner came to the door
and said that master was wanted to attend a lady
i❑ Chapman-street, who had been taken suddenly
ill, at the same time giving a name and number of
the street. I left the prisoner in the hall whilst I
went and communicated to my mistress, and she
not knowing either the name or the street sent me to
make further inquiries about the lady. As I came
down stairs I looked over the bannisters, and saw
prisoner coming out of the dining-room. When
I came to the hall I did not tell him what I had
seen, but walked straight to the street-door and
placed my back against it. The prisoner then stood
in front of me, and I questioned him about the lady
whom he said he had come from, when he
inquired " What is the doctor's name here P"
and on being told he expressed surprise, and said
he had no doubt come to the wrong place. I said
you need not be surprised, I believe you have, and
asked him what he went into the dining-room for.
To this he said he had never been in there, and I
said it will not do for you to tell me that ; but just
give me the plate you have taken from the dining-
room table. He swore at me and said he had not
got any, when I turned round to ring the surgery
bell to get the cook to assist me. Whilst I was so
doing prisoner threw down a bag, and catching
hold of me, tried to throw me, but on my scuffling
with him ho was only able to push me on one side,
when he rushed out at the door, and I followed
about six yards in the rear, calling " Stop thief,"
when he was captured and brought back to the house.
Hall, 264 S, said he was fetched to the prisoner,
and took the silver plate from his different pockets
that had been taken from the dining-room table,
and which was identified by the previous witness.
A young man who captured the prisoner, and
who carries luggage from the omnibuses to the
London and North-Western Railway, was called,
but his evidence not being requisite, Mr. Mansfield
awarded him 2s. 6d.
Prisoner was asked if he had any vestions to
put, and replied—Oh, no; it is no use my saying
anything in my defence, the evidence is too con-
clusive.
Mr. Mansfield remanded the prisoner for a week,
and said—Miriam Pitman, you have acted with
great courage and sense, and I certainly do hope
that your master and mistress will reward you for
saving their property in the way you did.

LAMBETH.—SYSTEMATIC FRAUDS. William
Nixon, an elderly man, described as a labourer, and
Mary Nixon, his wile, were charged before Mr.
Elliott with a series of frauds upon several furni-
ture-dealers and upholsterers, carrying on business
in Great Charlotte-street, Blackfriars-road.
Mr. Joseph Phillips, of 5, Great Charlotte-street,
deposed that the female prisoner had been employed
by him for the last 18 months to make up carpets,
and that about a fortnight ago he gave her a roll
of carpet, containing 491 yards, to make up, which
she promised to effect by the following Saturday
.
night. As the work was not brought he went
to her residence in Duke-street, Westminster-road,
when she made some excuse for the delay which
for the time satisfied him ; but, from information he
received from his neighbour. Mr. Lockwood, he paid
her another visit to demand his property, when she
admitted that she had pawned it, and gave up to
him several duplicates relating to it. The male
prisoner was a labourer, and was in the habit of
fetching the material
, and bringing the work home
when finished. The value of the carpeting given
to the prisoner was 1.4 4s.
Mr. Benjamin J. Lockwood, of 67, Great Surrey-
street, furniture-dealer, deposed that, on the 28th ,

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of August he entrusted the female prisoner with
carpeting to make up. It was not
about 50 yards o:
returned, and, on his making inquiries, she admitted
thi
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his property had been flledged
the last witneshe gave
information to Mr. P1011:18'
Mr. Edwin Edmonde, onjs New -cut, upholsterer,
,
proved that he gave the fe=wa,, prisoner carpeting
to the value of 345., which it w 6714 found had been
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disposed of by her in the same way. took the
Sergeant Sheppard, 2 L, proved that
prisoners into custody, when the female gave up
13 duplicates, nll relating to the property. c?,itet
admitted the offence, and expressed her sorrow that
she had been guilty of such conduct. The male
prisoner denied all knowledge of his wife's proceed-
ings, being occupied at his own work as a labourer.
A ho,t of pawnbrokers' assistants produced the*
property, and identified the female prisoner as being;
the individual by whom it had been pledged, a.
process she had effected almost immediately it came
into her hands.
The male prisoner now repeated his ignorance of
what his wife had done.
The female prisoner, however, acknowledged her
guilt.
Mr. Elliott discharged the man, but convicted
the female prisoner of illegally pawning, and sell.-
teneed her, in the case of Mr. Phillips, to pay a,
fine of 405., together with £4 4s , the value of
the property pledged, or, in default, one
month's imprisonment, with hard labour; in
the case of Mr. Lockwood, to pay a fine of 405., with
£2 145., the value of the property, or, in default,
one month's imprisonment ; and, in the case of Mr.
Edmonds, a fine of 405., in addition to £1 145., the
value, or one month's imprisonment.

THAMES.—ABDUCTION.—Henry Bowyer, a
slaughterman, aged 22, in the employ of his brother,
a master butcher in Charlotte-street, New-road,
Whitechapel, was brought up on remand before Mr.
Woolrych, charged with unlawfully decoying from
her home Caroline Julia Nuen, under the age of 16,
for the purpose of seduction.
Mr. Stoddart, solicitor, conducted the prosecu-
tion ; Mr. Charles Young defended the prisoner.
The evidence given confirmed that produced at
the first investigation, and additional proof was
given of the heartless and ruffianly conduct of
the prisoner. It appeared that when he directed
the girl Nunn, who was 14 years of ago on
the Ist inst., to leave her home, he told her to bring
her clothes with her, and said, "Don't stand any of
your father-in-law's nonsense." The same night he
took her to a music-hall, and after plying her with
drink at various public-houses and making her in-
sensibly drunk, he took her to a coffee-house in the
Whitechapel-road, where he seduced her, and re-
mained with her all night. Her mother, who was
labouring under great anxiety, went in search of
her daughter, and took her home. Some days after-
wards the prisoner induced the girl to leave her
home again, and conveyed her to an infamous bro-
thel in John's-place, Stepney, where he visited her,
and boasted to a loose woman in the house, and in
a coarse and vulgar manner, that he had qualified
her for the pavement. The mother found. her
child in the brothel, and took her home a
second time. She met the prisoner on the way,
and reminded him that after he had taken the
girl out in his brother's horse and cart on Sun-
day, the 14th inst., to Forest-gate and back, she had
told him the girl was only 14 years of age, and for-
bade him ever taking her out again. The prisoner
put on a defiant air, and gave utterance to a good
deal of vulgar abuse.
Police-constable Samuel Farthing, 133 H, said
the prisoner was given into his custody on the Ist
inst., by Mrs. Mercy Stenson, the mother of the
girl, who charged Bowyer with decoying the girl
from her home and seducing her, The prisoner
said he had not seen the girl for a fortnight. Wit,
ness said, " That's the night you slept with the girl
at the coffee-house." The prisoner said, " Yes. /
did sleep with her." He said, " Did not her mother
warn you of her age, and say she was not 14 years
old ?" The prisoner said, " Yes, she told me
something about her being 14, but I would not
believe it, if she were to swear it for a week."
He then took the prisoner to the station-house.
The girl did not appear, and the prisoner was
released. On the Friday following, from infor-
mation received, and by order of his inspector,
he took the prisoner again, and said to him, " Have
you not seen the girl since Tuesday night ?" He
said, " Yes, I saw her, and gave her"--
Mr. Woolrych said police-constables had ee
right to question prisoners in their custody. Judges,
magistrates, and coroners, were not allowed to in-
terrogate accused parties, and it was highly repre•
hensible for police officers of any grade to do it.
This most objectionable practice had been repro-
bated over and over again in the course of the
twenty-two years he had been at the bar. He (Mr.
Woolrych) had condemned the practice of policemen
questioning prisoners until he was tired of doing so.
A police-constable who arrested a prisoner should
make him acquainted with the charge and hear
what he had to say, not put questions. All his
complaints had been disregarded. He wanted evi-
dence of facts, not of conversations.
Mr. Charles Young agreed in all that had fallen
from the magistrate. He had frequently heard
the judges condemn the system of police-officers
questioning prisoners.
Mr. Stoddart—l am aware it is decidedly illegal.
I wish to take this opportunity of saying that the
girl Nunn made a mistake when she gave her evi-
dence last week. She said the prisoner took her to
the Moon coffee-house. It was the Sun eeffee-house,
Whitechapel-road, next door to the Moon, where
the prisoner seduced the girl after he had decoyed
her from ber home.
Mr. Woolrych—The proprietor of the Moon will
have the benefit of your explanation, and the Sun
must bear the blame. I shall now commit the pri-
soner for trial at the next Old Bailey Sessions, for
the abduction of a girl under 16 years of age.
Bail was offered for the prisoner and accepted.

GOUN2RI MAW:IAS.

MANCHESTER—Om 9.
This morning there was a fair attendance. Any samples
of dry English wheat offering comvanded full rates, but
the chief supply being in poor condition was unsaleable.
American held firmly at late values. Flour experienced a
slow sale, at about late prices. Old oats and oatmeal un-
altered—new declined 6d to is per load. Egyptian beans
and Indian corn steady.

BIRMINGHAM—OcT. 9.
At this day's market there was an average supply of
English wheat, which sold at 568 to 62s for white, and 52s
to 58s per 36 stone for red, Barley, 36s to 42s per qr.
Oats, 26s to 30s per 30 stone.

EDINBURGH GRAIN—OcT. 8.
A small supply of farmers' wheat to-day, which brought
the prices of this day week.
Wheat on the top is Od up ...average is Od down•
Barley on the top 5s 3d down average 2s 3d up.
Oats on the top is Od down average is 5,1 doWn'
Beans on the top is Od down. average 5s ld down'
Total Supply and Sales.
Wheat ... 464 qrs Sold 287 qrs
8ar1ey........ 598 qrs Sold 531 qrs
Oats
Beans b2 qrs Sold 34 qrs
Flour sells as follows :—Whites, 46s Od ; extras, 44s Od;
households, 38s 6d ; shop, 36s 6d.

CORK—OcT. 9.
The following were the quotations this morning :—lte„a
wheat, lls Od to 24s Od ; white, 18s Od to 28s Od; barley 10°
Od to 14s Od ; oats, 7s_6d to lOs 2d.; new here, —s Od to
—s Od.

DERBY SMITHFIELD—Om 7.
Only a moderate show of fat beasts to-day; the demand
was improved, and the best quality sold well. A short
supply of sheep and lambs. Fat calves were scarce, and
a good show of pigs.
Beet 6ld to 6id Veal . .......... 61d to 7d
Mutton .. 6ld to 7±d Pork . ..... Old to Sid
Lamb Bd to 84d Rough ...... 3d per stone .
.
Hides, 3d to 4ld; calf skins. dto 6d.

BIRTHS•
BRISTOWE—On the .Bth inst., at Herne-hill, :Surrey, the
wife of Thomas Lynn Bristowe, Esq., of a son.
BOOTH.—On the 7th inst., at Portland Villa, Sandgafet
the wife of Robert Booth, Esq., Assist.-Com.- General,
of a son.
HANBURY.—On the 7th inst., at Ord House, Beauly, the
wife of Charles A. Hanbury, Esq. of a lion,
WILLS.—On the Bth inst., at the Grand Hotel, Paris, the
wife of Alfred Wills, Esq., barrister-at-law, of a son.