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rinrket the bodies of animals that have not been
slaughtered, but have died from accident or disease.
This practice, ho said, is equally reprehensible.
About a month ago the matter was contested with
Messrs. Ilonser and Sons, of Newgate-market, who
had sold the carcass of a dead sheep, :As it is
termed, for food. As in the present case, They in-
sisted that the meat was sound and wholesome,
although for aught he knew the sheep might have
11,7 en accidentally poisoned with arsenical sheep-

wash.
" The rules which he had laid down for the guid-
ance of the inspectors in the matter are, that they
aro to seize the meat of all animals which have not
been slaughtered by the butcher, but have died from
accident or disease. That they are to seize the
meat of all animals killed while in a state of acute
disease, or which have wasted from lingering illness;
and lastly, that they are to seize it when unsound
from putrefaction or disease.
" They were the wholesome rules that have been
acted on from very early times, and arc most reli-
giously observed in the present day by the Hebrews,
who have brought them down from the remotest
antiquity, They are the rules of almost every con-
tinental State, and were strictly followed by the
fedi] es of ancient Rome. Finally, they arc indi-
cated as well as sanctioned by the laws of this city,
and have been more or less observed in every town
in England in all times. It can hardly therefore be
said that the exercise of the authority of the Com-
missioners of Sewers in this manner is an innova-
tion, or that the rights and privileges of the butchers'
trade arc unnecessarily interfered-W(lth ; and even if
they were, it is proper to remember that the preser-
vation of public health is above all such conside-
r itions.

The report was agreed to, and the solicitor was
,nstructed to act as he thought necessary.

ASSIZE INTEL GIG E.Ar C.E.

HOME CIRCUIT.—MAIDsTONE, TUESDAY.

The commission for the county of Kent was
opened in this town on Monday, and business was
proceeded with in both courts yesterday morning,
at 10 o'clock.
The gaol calendar contains the names of 35 pri-
soners, but none of the offences appear to be of a
heinous character. On the civil side there are 25
causes entered, five of which are to be tried by
special juries.
(Before Lord Chief Justice Erlo and a Common.
Jury.)
LOVATT V. TRIBE. _

This was an action to recover £2O and interest
upon an I 0 U. The defendant pleaded that at the
time he signed the I 0 U he was insane, and that
the plaintiff was aware of that fact.
Mr. M. Chambers, Q.C., and Mr. Philbrick were
for the plaintiff; and Sergeant Shee and Mr.
Humphrey for the defendant.
The jury, after a good deal of deliberation, re-
turned a verdict for the defendant upon the plea
that he was not competent to execute such an in-
strument at the time in question. They also found
that the plaintiff was aware that he was in that
condition.

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were undamaged, and the
left them in the morning.
desk.containing money aud
and a variety of articles of wearing- Tipp
papers were to me invaluable. The other articles
were worth from £2O to .E 25. The seal, pencils,
and other articles produced are my property, and
were iu the desk when it was stolen. 1 never saw
the prisoner before.

Po-liec-constable Ball, 61E, said—On the evening
of the 3d inst. I received the prisoner into cu:itoo..y
in South-square ell another charge. Ifoand on bun
23 skeleton keys, a picklock, a chisel, and some
other articles used by housebreakers, which I pro-
duce. Last Friday, from what I heard, I went to
33, Brewer-street; Pimlico, and in the second-floor
hawk room I found the seal and other articles which
have been identified by Mr. Mangham. I also
found a quantity of files which were used for
making skeleton keys, and some used for picklocks.
Mr. William lloUch—l keep the house, 33,
Brewer-street, Pimlico. I are a servant. The pri-
soner was my lodger in the second-floor back room.
He described himself as a cigar dealer, and I have
seen a note in which he represented he had deal.
inns in the cigar trade.
Mr. Beattie said he had gone out, and had locked
up his chambers. A clerk was coming down stairs
and saw the prisoner, who had on an Inverness
Cape, at the door. As the chambers had been
entered about six months before, the clerk's suspi-
cions were aroused, and ho watched the prisoner.
Prom his movements he was induced to give him in
charge, and then it was that the skeleton keys, and
other articles used by housebreakers, were found
upon him. The prisoner, at the station, gave a false
address.

Police-constable Ball said the chisel found on the
prisoner fitted the marks on the doors of all the
chambers that had been forced. In his lodgings he
had found some other articles which had been iden-
tified as belonging to gentlemen in Gray's-inn.
Mr. Barker fully committed the prisoner for
again,
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SOUTHWARK.—Captain William nuncios, of
48, Tennison-street, Waterloo.road, was summoned
before Mr. Combo for assaulting Parvero Ferrara,
an Italian 'organ player, by striking him over the
head and back with a whip.
Mr. Rice, solicitor, of Pall-mall, appeared for the
defendant.

The complainant, through an interpreter, said
that on Monday or Tuesday last, in the afternoon,
he was with his organ and a monkey in Tennison-
street, Waterloo-road. He was playing his organ
when the defendant opened a door close by and
made motions for him to go away. He waved his
hand, and witness left off playing and crossed the
road. He then recommenced playing opposite
another house, when the defendant again came out
with a whip in his hand, and his slippers on. Ha
struck at the monkey and missed him, and he then
struck the witness over the head and back with his
whip. The witness went away, and the next day
came to this court for a summons.

In cross-examination the witness said he could
not recollect whether the day on which the assault
took place was Monday or Tuesday.
Augustus Robertson, a traveller, residing at 5,
Tennison-street, said he saw the complainant play-
ing his organ with a monkey on it. The defendant
came out of his house with a whip in his hand, an't
aimed a blow at the monkey, but he could not say
whether he struck it. He thought the defendant
was in a great passion, as he would not give the
organ-player time to get away. He could not tell
what then took place. He believed it was in the
middle of the day. He did not know whether it
was before or after dinner.

Mr. Rice said he had a complete answer to the
case, and should be able to show that no assault
whatever had been committed. He had two ladies
in court to contradict the witnesses.
Mr. Combe said that neither the complainant nor
his witnesses could tell when the assault took place.
Under these circumstances he could place no re-
liance on their evidence and should dismiss the case.

THE BRITISH MINISTER Al WAS.-a-
ING TON.

• If diplomacy now-a-days is a very different affair
from the system of espionage which the Vene-
tian Republic organised for itself at every Court
of Europe, the contrast is not less striking in
the fate that befalls modern diplomatic corre-
spondence. Instead of being sepultured in secret
archives, like the collection of Simancas, 'whose
mine of gossip, slander, and intrigue European
historians are only now beginning to work, our de-
mocratic publicity demands that Ambassadors an-
nually make a clean breast of it; and all the mys-
steries of diplomatic note paper are yearly unveiled
and laid before Congress or Parliament in the vul-
gar form of a blue-book. The current session of the
British Legislature has brought with it its customary
batch of such official papers, and among these are
no less than six voluminous collections of documents
relating to the United States, of which we have
received copies. We have already drawn largely on
this body of diplomacy, and to-day we make new and
copious selections from that collection of the papers
which contains Lord Lyons' despatches to his Go-
vernment. Collection No. J. of the Parliamentary
papers is entitled " Correspondence relating to the
Civil War in the United States of North America,"
_ _

and consists mainly of despatches from the English
Ambassador at Washington to Earl Russell, her
Britannic Majesty's Foreign Secretary. It contains
156 official papers, the first bearing date of Novem-
ber 12, 1860, and the last coming down to February
of the present year. The series thus covers the whole
period—so opulent in events—from the election of
Mr. Lincoln and the inception of secession, till now
that its mad career is almost run, and a half-ruined
people begin to realise the amazing folly into which
they allowed themselves to be precipitated. Our
selection from this correspondence, which we com-
mence with the period of the attack on Fort Sumter,
inter-
preted
b sincey
thethat
representativetime
neiegdnhi
tbncyaeoweli
of the
dheavrteti
international
aaiei
is made with the design to bring out in. what man-
ner the series of events that have developed them-
d
what
iooe
rnnntse ai
himself
wWhai sc hh ii nhn getthho
ean
has been
otkndinens aaheslnro at
rhoi aimevnn eptshreao nat. -r s'i
tent a part. The great historical interest and value
that attach to this interior view of the most impor-
tant branch of our foreign diplomacy oan hardly be
over- estimated, but we may say it has more than a
historical—it has a vital interest. It is well known
that one of the most important of the ambassadorial
present,public
pasortthaent
ifsuntoctitornasn,semspitecsitaaltleymiennstrohfaaelrlisiims
events to the home Government, which depends,
mainly on the impressions thus received for guid-
ance in its official dealings. It is obvious, therefore,
that we have a direct interest both in the intellec-
tual and the moral qualities of the ambassadorial
reporter. A blockhead easily introduces jangle an&
th iefi confusionare warpedinto o
all relations,r
his
antipathies
BrYeamdPil;
damages the best cause. We do not think eur
readers will peruse the ext • ensive correspondence of
Lord Lyons, which we publish elsewhere, without
reaching the gratifying conclusion that the repre-
sentative of the British Government at Washington
has acted throughout an upright, an honourable,
and a liberal part towards the Government and the
country to which he is accredited. Where he re-
ports facts it is done temperately, judiciously, and
fairly ; and, though he is frequently off the mark,
and sometimes wholly wrong, the error is obviously
not the dictate of ill intent. In his purely official,
dealings, in the numerous transaecatiroendstion
clash,
the,
rights of the two conntlecshapasp
is b t his as'
°lle
strong British ground h uduty, he
interferesw with his modifying
always takes, never
suasion of ' - Justice
his views under the per
.• Early
in the correspondence we get into hot water ; Mr;
suspected (unjustly suspected)
Seward 'scoquetting
with Canada evidently caused some zealous, not to
-ealous pangs, and we have glimps of -
say i es diplo-
matic passadoes between his lordship and the Secre-
tary of State that must have been of
a very high
style of art. Other causes of difference appear in
abundance—the arrest of British subjects, the
threatened seizure of vessels rumoured to have been
purchased by the rebels in Canada, the anticipated
abrogation of ports of entry, and
what not—but it
must be remembered & that
in its very nature, chiefly _. diplomatic interchange is
confined to points on
which there is a disagreement, matters on which
there is agreement requiring no attention. Never-
theless, there are throughout this correspondence
frequent instances of a cordial, conciliatory
spirit, and proofs of a "distinguished considera-
tion" deeper
that is far than verbal. It is pro-
per that this fact should be adequately emphasized •
for there was a time at the beginning of the re-
bellion, when some natural sensibilities of the pub-
lic mind, excited by the course taken towards the.,
rebels by foreign Governments, caused their repro.
sontatives to be looked on with a suspicion f':om
which the British Minister was not wholly ex(.;mpt.
The public will be gratified to learn hey/ little
ground there was for this suspicion. As Lowl Lyons
1 reveals himself in the present correspondence, he
1 gives the impression of a discreet. and sensible,
1 hough not always of an acute
or clairvoyant mind.
There are glimpses of transactions in which his
qualities appear as a poor match for the amazing
flexibility of Mr. Seward's nature. But he is
throughout—and his mission has not been without
its trials—a high-toned gentleman and diplomatist.
The recent hononni which his Queen has conferred
,on him are well merited by his discreet and il
we
___ bearing in the difficult crisis over whi 1 -
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