The Sun.
London, England, 1854-06-03 00:00:00

MILITIA AND YEOMANRY.

In consequence of the unfavourable weather yesterday
morning the Essex Rifle Militia were prevented from
assembling in Hyde park. In the afternoon the regi-
ment was mustered in the Tower moat and put through
a number of evolutions, crowds of people congregating
on the hill to witness the display. At ten o'clock to-
day the regiment was reviewed in Hyde-park by Lord
Ilardinge.
The time for the drilling of the Royal Berks Militia
will close next Thursday, and a thoroughly steady and
attentive set of men they have proved. It was supposed
that this corps would be permanently embodied, but, as
the chief portion of the men are agricultural labourers,
and their removal would occasion serious inconvenience
to the farmers in the county, it has been deemed advis-
able not to detain them beyond the 28 days. There is
to be a grand field-day on Monday, when the corps will
be inspected by Colonel Garratt.
Three at least of the six West York Regiments of
Militia are to be employed in barrack duty. The Ist
West is to occupy York Barracks for a short time, and
afterwards to go into garrison in a northern town. The
2sl West, recently dismissed at Pontefract, is to be called
out again for permanent duty. The 3d West is already
stationed_es in barrack quarters at Berwick-upon-Tweed.
Y • terclay
teroietinhaanvdin g the enrolled pensioners of the Derby dis-
m oicolnpleted their annual training under the
by Lieutenant-:itain Vaughan
.J.ones, were reviewed,
sioners, on the lio°l
neelTulloh, military inspector of pen-
of a large coneourZfs ground Derby, in the presence
expressed himself highlspect!stors. The reviewing officer
ciency. At the conclusion satisfied with their state of effl-
ment of Derbysh Militia, of
the review the let Regi-
which was on the ground,
was formed into sirelid4a; When Lieutenant-Colonel
Tulloh presented Sergeant-4'a
Ist Derbyshire Regiment, wki:::llael:ll77jeßr Burton, of
ae
gratuity of 151., for long service and good conduct.-,Ser.
to joining
geant-Major
th emilitia.urton was 21 yearsin the army previously
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The 4th West Yorkshire Regiment of Militia, under
the command of Colonel Lord Beaumont, will
for training at Leeds cavalry barraeks on the 4troth
enti:
ensuing month.
Nearly the whole of the men. of the Barnsciale troop
of the Ist West Yorkshire Yeasoanry, under Captain
Sir W. R. C. Cooke, Bart., as,t‘well as several of the
other five troops composing ftttic ,h_ e regiment, have volun-
teered their services for perin event duty,if required by
Government. The regiment will be disbanded on Mon-
day, unless any orders to Thlr contrary should be pre-
viously received by Visea
tfht Milton, the Lieutenant-
Colonel Commandant.
The Queen's Own Regiment of Yeomanry Cavalry
have been reviewed duritthe past week by Colonel
Griffith, of the 10th Hussa s, Commandant of the Maid-
stone Garrison, who congrpulated Lord Ilehester upon
having the command of siith a fine body of men.
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THE SELECT COMIIITTEE ON MR. STONOR.

The following has been forwarded to us as the re-
port of the select committee appointed to take into
consideration the case of the appointment of Mr.
Henry Stonor to the office of a judge in the colony
of Victoria, the said Henry Stonor having been re-
ported by a committee of the house to have been guilty
of bribery at the election for the borough of Sligo in
1853 :
"At their first meeting Mr. Moore, at whose motion
the house had granted the committee, attended, and stated
his inability to prosecute the inquiry, and declined the re-
sponsibility of so doing, unless he were placed in a position
to conduct it himself ; in which case he would undertake
positively to prove that persons, ' having the ear of
the Colonial-office, must have. been cognisant of Mr.
Stonor's corrupt pract ces. '
"Your committee instructed their chairman to move
the house, in conformity with the course adopted in the
Carlow Election Committee in 1836, that Mr. Moore be
added to the committee to conduct the case, and one other
member to watch the proceedings on the part of the Colo-
nial-office, but without the power of voting. This was
done, and
Loi d Elcho and Mr. Moore were added.

,‘ The substance of the allegations which form the sub-
ject of the inquiry submitted to your committee appears to
be, that Mr Stonor received the appointment of a judge in
the colony of Victoria as a recompense for political services
at Irish elections, at which he had been reported to the house
to have been guilty of corrupt practices ; that his appoint-
ment was made, not in ignorance of such practices or in
spite of them, but because of them, at the instance of Irish
members having influence with the Colonial Department.
" The witnesses before the committee were the Duke of
Newcastle, Mr. Peel and Mr. Merivale, Under-Secretaries
for the Colonies, Mr. Roberts, private secretary of the
Duke, and the Solicitor-General. The examination of each
witness was conducted by Mr. Moore.

"The evidence of the Duke of Newcastle was to the fol•
lowing effect :

" That on the 19th of August, 1853, a despatch was re-
ceived from Mr. Latrobe, the Governor of Victoria, in
which, after alluding to former despatches, in which he
had reported the absence on leave of Chief Justice
A'Peckett, and the difficulty he was likely to experience
in supplying the vacancy from the colony, he stated the
unanimous opinion of the Executive Council that, under
the peculiar circumstances of the colony, he had no alter-
native but to apply to the Home Government to ' select a
thoroughly qualified officer to fill the temporary vacancy
—one, if possible, whose standing would at once justify
the measure which he took upon himself to recommend
and he urged the importance, under the present circum-
stances and prospects of the colony, that the judicial bench
should be filled by men, not only possessed of unimpeach-
able character and general qualifications. which might
command the public respect, but also of high legal attain-
ments.'

" That upon the receipt of this despatch he (the Duke)
expected that candidates would offer themselves, as was
usual on similar occasions. That no applications, how-
ever, were made, which he attributes to 'the undesirable-
ness of the appointment, on account of its temporary cha-
racter; that he spoke on the subject to Mr. Merivale, the
under-secretary, and Mr. Roberts, his private secretary,
both lawyers of distinction ; and that he was assured it
was exceedingly improbable he could find any person corn-
pent to the task who would be willing to take a judgeship
that would last only a year or 18 months, with a possi-
bility, for it was no more, of an appointment to a fourth
judgeship, if that should be created, at some future time ;
that th' only application he received besides that of Mr.
Stonor was from a gentleman whom he did not consider
eligible, because he was connected with the Australian
colonies.

" That Mr. Stonor made his application on the 30th of
November, and appended testimonials, signed by Chief
Justice Campbell, Vice-Chancellor Sir J. Stuart, Judge and
Master Sir G. Rose, Mr. Peter Brodie, Mr. J. Campbell,
Q.C., Mr. Measure, and Mr. Griffiths, to which two others
were subsequently added by the present Solicitor-General
and Mr. Bowyer. That these papers we, e passed in the
usual way to him from the two under-secretaries and his
private secretary, and that he gave them a mere cursory
glance to ascertain that they were genuine.
" That there was attached to the packet of testimonials
an envelope, containing two printed papers—one, a state-
ment as to the resolutions of the Sligo Committee, and the
other a pamphlet containing a report of the debate ; that
he certainly did nit open this packet, and had no doubt he
considered it to hold another testimonial.
" That he had never heard the name of Mr. Stonor
before this application reached him, and did not know of
his existence.
"That Mr. Stonor was recommended to him by Mr.
Merivale, in some such words as the following, in the way
of conversation Your Grace has received a letter from
Mr. Stonor, applying for the judgeship which has been so
long vacant. I can, from personal knowledge of Mr. Stonor
for several years, express a satisfactory opinion of his capa-
bilities and fitness.'

" That he deferred coming to any decision from the 6th
of December, on which day the papers reached him, to the
20th, in order to make a further effort to find some one for
the office whose name would have carried to the colony a
more distinguished legal reputation ; but, owing to the un-
certain nature of the appointment, and the doubt of its
leading to promotion, he felt there. was no such prospect.
" Questions were put to the Duke as to the part he took
in the late Irish elections at Carlow, Dungarvan, county of
Dublin, Athlone, and Sligo ; from his answers, it plainly
appears that any interest he may have taken in these elec-
tions had no bearing whatever on the appointment of Mr.
Stonor.

" The Duke also stated distinctly that he received recom-
mendations in favour of Mr. Stoner from no person, except
Mr. Merivale, and that the sole basis of the appointment
was that recommendation, together with the testimonials
appended to the application. •
" The substance of Mr. Peel's statement corresponded
with that of the Duke in respect to the circumstances
attending the receipt of the application and testimonials.
With regard to answers made by him to questions put in
the house, he said that on the first occasion, when he stated
that tie heads of the Colonial-office, having become aware
of the report of the Sligo Committee, were not prepared
to cancel the appointment, it would have been more correct
if he bad said the Duke was not prepared to cancel the
appointment, and that he (Mr. Peel), having read the re-
port of the committee and the evidence on which it was
founded, did not think the Duke would be justified in
doing so.
"That the packet containing the report of the Sligo
Committee attached to the testimonials passed unexamined
by him.
" That, although as this was an application from a per-
son who was not already employed under the department,
he did not consider it the duty of either of the under-
secretaries to examine the testimonials ; he at the same
time admitted that he would have done better in this in-
stance if he had examined them, as the letter of Mr. Stonor
had been rendered official.

" That at the time that he first replied to Mr. Moore's
question in the house he was unacquainted with the grounds
on which the application had been made, and knew nothing
of any other recommendation besides the testimonials.

" Mr. Merivale stated that he had had a long, though
not an intimate, acquaintance with Mr. Stonor ; that in the
course of last October and November, Mr. Stonor had occa-
sion to come to him at the Colonial•offce, on business con-
nected with his brother, who had been for some years in
the service of the Government in Van Diemen's Land, and
whose health had broken down ; that Mr. Stonor spoke to
him about the vacant judgeship at Victoria, and said it
would suit him ; that he '(Mr. MeriValeradVised him to
apply for it in Mat usual manner, by a letter of a public
nature, addressed to the Duke of Newcastle or himself,
enclosing such testimonials as he could obtain ; that Mr.
Stonor sent such a letter; but, as it treated of the office
as a permanency, he (Mr. Merivale) returned it to be
amended, which was done ; that, in a conversation with
the Duke or Mr. Roberts (he is not certain which), he re-
collects saying he thought Mr. Stonor a fit person, ' if that
affair of Mr. Townley's were not considered to militate
against him ;' but is positive the Duke made no remark to
him about it.

" That he was generally aware, at the time of the report
of the Sligo Committee, that he did not think it was his
business to call the atrention of the duke to the report, as
he supposed it must be known to him ; that having ob-
served that the house had ordered no prosecution, he
thought it was regarded as a dropped matter; that, as
neither law nor justice allowed that a man should remain
under a charge without a trial or means of explanation, it
must be considered as a thing gone by.
" Mr. Merivale acknowledged that he saw his impru-
dence in supposing thr•t the Duke and Mr. Peel must have
known the circumstanced, but his impressionhad been that
it was a matter of notoriety.
" That he had had no conversation respecting this appli-
cation with any one but Mr. Stonor; that Mr. Stonor
passed for a man of very fair legal attainments ; that he
possessed knowledge of equity law, which wus particularly
wanted at Melbourne ; that the vacancy had long remained
unfilled, and that there was no other applicant.

")Jr.. Roberts stated that he had several conversations
with Mr. Merivale as to the difficulty of making the tem-
porary appointment which was required by the Governor;
that Mr. Merivale told him tha he thought Mr. Stonor
would be willing to accept it, and that he would be a
fitting person; that he (Mr. Roberts) suggested that Mr
Merivale would be the proper person to bring the name of
Mr. Stonor before the Duke ; that no allusion was made to
any report of the House of Commons derogatory to Mr.
Stonor's character in any way; that he never knew or had
even heard of him until his name was mentioned by Mr.
Merivale ; that, if he had known anything that cast an
imputation on Mr. Stonor's character, he should havecon-
sidered it his duty to communicate it to the Duke ; that
the Duke had never mentioned to him anything about this
report, and that he was confrdentr from -the -communica-
tions between himself and the Duke, that, if he had known
of it, he would have instituted an inqui*y.
" That he had never read the testimonials, because he
hid understood Mr. Merivale to have stated that Mr. Stonor
svis'a fib and proper person, and he thought there was no
°cession:for him to do when the permanent under-secre-
tary of tho'bffice haciiirlitcOwn knowledge recommended
him.

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Stonor,th eatpteerestoi
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"Your committee, after careful consideration
foregoing evidence, have come unanimously to re of theconclu-
sion
that it altogether fails to establish the charge brought
forward by Mr. Moore with reference to the motives which
influenced the Duke of Newcastle in the appointment of
Mr. Stonor ; and, while they think it clue to Mr. Moore to
state that lie has withdrawn, in the fullest and most un-
qualed manner, all imputation of political corruption on
the Duke of Newcastle, they deeply regret that, upon
grounds so insufficient as those which appear to have led
to this inquiry, so serious an accusation should have been
preferred.
" At the same time, your committee are also unani-
mously of opinion that in filling up the vacancy which had
occurred in the office of a judge in the colony of Victoria, a
want of due caution and discrimination was evinced by the
colonial department, and that no sufficient care was taken
to insure compliance with the wishes of the Lieutenant-
Governor of the colony, or to satisfy the requirements of
the public service."

KossuTH AT NOTTINGFIA3I.—POLISH %VOMITR
TION.—The Nottingham Review announces that prep
tions are being made for holding a great public meeting
in Nottingham in favour of Polish independence. M.
Kossuth, in a letter to one of the committee, says
Having accepted an invitation to attend the Polish
meeting et Sheffield. it is but a duty that I do the same
for Nottingham, endeared to my heart by its consistent
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