The Sun.
London, England, 1838-09-07 00:00:00

MR. WILHERE AT YARMOUTH.

On Tuesday last Mr. Wilshere made his entry into Yar-
mouth. On his arrival at the Guardian Angel, in South-town,
in a carriage and four, he was joined by an immense procession,
accompanied by a band of music and a profusion of flags and
banners, and on their arrival on the quay, not less than half
the entire po:Julation was assembled to greet him, and wel-
come him once more among his constituents. The procession
having gone round the town, arrived about half past seven
o'clock on the quay, when Mr. Wilshere, accompanied by his
late representative, Mr. George Steward, left the carriage,
and passing over the shoulders of the people, at length artived
at the hustings, which had been prepared fur him opposite the
Star Inn, where he was received with tremendous shouts and
cries of " Where's the shadow?" and after repeated calls for
silence, proceeded to address the immense multitude, who lis-
tened with great silence, as follows :
" Gentlemen, the cordial welcome you have given me on nay
return among you—the procession which has accompanied me
on my way round the town—a procession more numerous, and,
I believe, with hearts more sincere than ever accompanied a
Member of Parliament on such an occasion, convinces me that
I am returned among friends from whom the force of circum-
stances, and not my own inclination, has kept me but too
long absent. Gentlemen, I cannot adequately express to you
the sense which I feel of the position in which the freemen
of this borough have placed themselves ; they have been
maligned, but they hate shown that they have been ma-
ligned wrongfully ; they hare been considered as men
with whom a bribe was the best reason. They have
now shown a resolution to exercise freely and independently
the elective franchise, which proves not only that they
are fit to be trusted with it, but that they feel it to be the
most important duty they have to discharge.—(Cheers.)
And what increases the honour of such freemen as voted for
me is, that, while some of their neighbours yielded to tempta-
tion, they scorned a bribe, and came to vote for " a shadow ;"
but for such shadows as one must come down to Yarmouth to
see—a ateadow which could, against such a substantial man as
Mr. Baring, poll 735 votes.—( Cheers.) Now, gentlemen, I
feel how inadequate I am to the attempt I would fain make
el thanking you for that proud and distinguished honour which
you have conferred spoil ma. Gentlemen, there is perhaps no
Member ofthe House of Commons VI he can stand in the same
high position, with regard to his constituents, that I now stand
in with regard to you.—( Loud cheers.) Gentlemen, I must
allude, and it shall be but briefly, to a few circumstances which
have transpired since I last met you here. A petition, as you
know, was presented against the return of Mr. Rumbold and
myself. Now, Gentlemen, lam not here to advocate or defend
bribery, I have not the advantage of that high legal authority
(Mr. Lacon) which Mr. Baring had when lie addressed you,
who could define so very nicely where the limits of bribery
lay, and found they were confined by the payment of two
pounds two shillings ; but I do a:lc you, is it fair, is it right,
is it honest, does it comport with common consistency, that
those parties who did petition again;! us should have so peti-
tioned ?_( Cries of " No.") Could they come into Court with
clean hands ?—(Cries of " No.") Were they not tarred with
the same stick ?—( Cries of " Yes.") There is an old pro-
verb—" What is sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander."
13ut I say for the party who first of all tempted the freemen of
Yarmouth to petition against us, because they were Leaten with
the same weapon, it is too Lad. The result of that petition,
as you all know, was an agreement by which the petition was
to be dropped, upon the condition of one of the sitting Mem-
bers resigning his scat at the end of the Session of Parliament,
in order that Mr. Baring might come down to Yarmouth,
stand on his well-known popularity, and walk over the course,
as if he had nothing else to do.--( Cries of " Ile could not_
he soon walked out.") Nov, Gentlemen, when the choice
came between my colleague and myself, as to who should re-
sign the honourable post appointed to us, I felt there could
not be a moment's doubt. A long connection with the bo-
rough, the many important services he had rendered it, the
highly honourable and strictly conscientious character of Mr.
Rumbold, made it impossible for me not to hesitate one mo-
ment on being the retiring Member. Now, Gentlemen—
(Cries of " Silence")—agreeably to that understanding, when
the Session was ended I did resign my seat ; and here I must
crave your indulgence for a few moments, while I allude to a
circumstance which is Personal to myself; and I am sure that
the interest you have shown me, the regard you have mani-
fested to me, render it needless for me to apologise for thus
troubling you. Gentlemen, it has been insinuated from cer-
tain quarters that I have not honourably and conscientiously
fulfilled my part of the agreement.—( Cries of " lou have.")
Gentlemen, I fling back with the scorn and contempt it de-
serves that imputation upon my honour.—( Loud cheers.)
I undertook not to interfere in the election of Mr. Baring, and
from the moment that I gave that pledge, I have not inter-
fered in his election.—(Csies of " No, that you have'at.") I
abandoned nay scat, and almost before the ink was dry with
which I solicited the appointment to the stewardship of the
Chiltern Hundreds, I was on my way out of England, to avoid
even the suspicion of taking any part in the proceedings that
were to take place consequent thereon. I did not even know
the freemen had met and determined to put me in nomination
till the very day before my neminatien took place, and then
my attention was only drawn to it by a friend I accidentally
met in the streets of Paris.—(Cheers.) Now, Gentlemen,
that I solemnly assert is the conduct I pursued in consequence
of my part of the agreement come to, and I appeal to you
whether there is anything in my conduct which can possibly
bear the character of dishonour.—( Cries of " No.") There
is not a mats living, however exalted his station be, who would
not be proud to stand in the situation I hold towards you.
Scarcely, however, had the gratifying intelligence of the re-
sult of the last election reached ine, than an application vas
made to me by Mr. Baring to vacate my seat again—
( Laughter)—in order that he might again
tryhis popularity
, among the electors of Ysral use—
outh—( Cries of 'Tis no

(Abridged from the Glasgow Chronicle.)
On Monday night a large puielic meeting was held in the
Lyceum, for the purpose of adopting regulations and appoint-
ing Directors and Office-bearers of an Association, recently
originated, to be called " The Glasgow and West of Scot-
land Universal Suffrage Association." The hall was crowded
to overflowing.
Mr. A. HEDDERWICK having been called to the chair, said
he was glad in that place, where the friends of liberty had so
often met, to see around him so many of the same faces he
was accustomed to meet when the Politicai Union was in ex-
istence ; and he was glad to see that the same spirit was ani-
mating them.—( Cheers.) There were many paesent whom,
the last two or three years, he had met on occasions
like this,
;:hen there was some bold effort to be made for
the people', rig,':!s, and they were aware of the results of
those efforts—of the
uits of their exertions in the Po: tied
Union, and at other pubii.7 meetings in so far as the Refo..m.
Bill was concerned. They were aware of the working of
that Bill. They were aware that it had fallen short of the
end to be gained.—(Cheers.) lii order, therefore, to makes
amends, they had commenced a new agitation, and as it was:
one which was likely to last awhile, it was necessary that
some combined organization should take place; for, under
existing circumstances, it seemed to be a general opinion that
nothing like fair p'ay could be gained without it. The ten-
pound constituency had not sent men to Parliament who
would do justice to the people. Under these circumstances,
and in connection with the late demonstraiion in the Green,
and elsewhere, in favour of Universal Suffrag-e, it had been
resolved to form an Association to be called "be Glasgow
and West of Scotland Uuiversal Suffrage Associati.v!." The
present rulers during the short time they had been LI power,
bad shown themselves indifferent to the wants of the ieeople.
Just now there was an extensive agitation going on for
a repeal of the accursed Corn-laws which be feared thcro
was little hope of gaining until they bad a House of Com-
mons very different from the present.—(Great cheering.)
But to join in that agitation and neglect Universal Suf-
frage would be a frittering away of their strength. They
might go as far as they could along with those who were
engaged in that agitation, but they must .hold fast by the
principles of Universal Suffrage. The Association then was
formed to obtain by legal and constitutional means the ac-
knowledgment by law of the right that every man of sane
mind, twenty-one years of age, and not sullied by grime,
should have a voice in the representation. The rules would
be laid before them, and they would lend them that courts-
tenance of which they were worthy. He had little doubt
that the Universal Suffrage Association would number in
its ranks as many thousands as had signed the National Pe-
tition.—(Cheers.)
Mr. GILLESPIE read the rules of the Association.
Mr. Mote, in moving the adoption of these rules, said be
need not tell them that their object was to follow up the Na-
tional Petition. A great principle of this kind could not
be carried into effect without extensive co.operation and
union among the people. This was perhaps the greatest
movement which had been made in this country for a cen-
tury back, and he need scarcely add that it was of the
greatest importance.—(Cheers.) If every man had a voice
in the Legislature, they would not have a House of Commons
so utterly destitute of regard to the people as they had now.
—( Cheers.) Mr. Spring Rice, that small-beer Chancellor
of the Exchequer, had said that any man who should pro-
pose a repeal of taxation would be a dishonest man.--( Hear.)
There was no inclination they saw on the part of Mr. Spring
Rice to lessen their burdens, but a determination to support
them when they cried for relief.—(Cheers.) Was that the
reason the Whigs called upon them to keep out the Tories ?
The present Ministry we carrying on the affairs of the country
at a greater expense than before—the majorities of professed
Liberals in the House of Commons were beginning to dwindle
away, and in a short time, in our town councils, as well as in
Parliament, the Tories would be in a majority. Was ibis not
a sta.e of things to call for their exertions ?—( Cheers.) Mr.
Moir contended that the working classes, from which he
sprung, were as well entitled to the franchise as were the pre-
sent constituency, and he called upon them not to lose sight
of Universal Suffrage by engaging in an agitation for the re-
peal of the Corn-laws. He differed with his friend Mralied-
derwick on this point, for he would not have them assist
those who had entered on an agitation for the repeal of the
Corn-laws to the exclusion of the principle of Universal
Suffrage. Do not be misled. If you obtain Universal Suf-
frage, the repeal of the Corn-laws will follow ; but although
you obtain the repeal of the Corn-laws, you will not get Uni-
versal Suffrage.—( Hear and cheers.) He was sorry to see
that the Argus had again went wrong on this subject. Mr.
Moir referred to the views of Mr. Cobbett and others, and
contended for, along with the repeal of the Corn-laws, such a
reduction of the national burthens as would enable the farmers
to compete with the corn-growing countries. He went along
with Mr. Duncan. He thought that the National Debt must
be reduced when the Corn-laws were repealed. Calling on
the people to pay the National Debt was a robbery which it
would be his duty to get rid of as early as he possibly could.
(Cheers.) He moved the adoption of the rules which had
been read. —( Cheers.)
Mr. BURN congratulated the meeting on the unanimity which
prevailed among them, and referred to the corruptions which
obtained under the boroughmongering system, and dwelt on
the inefficiency of the Reform Bill. Mr. Moir had adverted
n strong and pointed language, to the agitation for the repeal of
the Corn-laws. There were men engaged in this for the purpose
of diverting the public mind from Universal Suffrage. They
knew that to obtain Universal Suffraese they required to put
forth all their energies; for the landed interest would never
give up what they considered their vested rights, until there
was something like the apprehension of—he was going to say
physical force.—( Loud cheering. But there was no use ior
physical force. Raise the public voice.—( Continued cheer-
ing.) They did it before, and the Reform Bill was thrown as
a bone to the dogs to shut their mouths. The Whigs must
come out of office—their doom was scaled—their little coterie
of nominees was beginning to dwindle away.—( Cheers.) The
Ministry would go out of office with the execration of their
country on their head. They would be branded with being
dishonest men.—(Cheers.) The Tories could not have the
hardihood to do as they had done. They could not do them
much harm—they would give them a bonus perhaps to keep
them quiet.--( Cheers.) He seconded the motion.
The CUAIRM 9N, having taken a show of hands, declared the
rules unanimously approved.
Mr. M‘Gowae said it was necessary to direct their ener-
gies to one given point. They knew what associations had
achieved. They were told that if they asked Uuiversal Suf-
frage they would embarrass the Ministry.—(Here a person
called out " the sooner the better.") To be sure, that was the
very idea he wished to bring out.—( Continued cheers.)
With reference to the Corn-laws, he found in the Argus news-
paper a criticism on a speech by Abram Duncan, in which he
was blamed for not saying a word on the repeal of the Corn-
-1 iws. lie would demand from the Editor of the Argus in re-
turn, while he advocates a repeal of the Corn-laws, that he
should say something in favour of Universal Suffrage.—( Hear,
and bud cheering.) He endeavoured to throw ridicule on
every public man who cause forward to agitate for Universal
Suffrage, and yet he had at the head of the leading article of
his paper " Extension of the Suffrage, Vote by
.Ballot, Sae.,"
and all these fine things, in peculiar letter, to attract the at-
tention of the reader. Let him advocate the right of the
people to Universal Suffrage. He concluded by seconding the
adoption of the list of Directors.

PUItDIE, without submitting any motion, urged them to
choose men for Directors in whom they could place conQ.
dence—men who would brave difficulties and dangers, nay
death, if neecs3ary.

The list was approved, and the meeting afterwards appointed
office-bearers to the Association.

ROYAL SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS.-
The eruption of Mcunt Vesuvius, always attractive, has,
within the last week, been rendered still more so by the „raddi-
tion of new incidents, which, by combining sound with. sight,
greatly enhance the interest of the exhibition. Alarm ; bells
are rung in the town, drums beat, houses are seen in flames,
some vessels in the harbour also take tire, whilst others are
seen getting under weigh to escape its fury, all tending, by
their combined effects, to complete the illusion. As the season
for this clever exhibition must shortly close, we advise all who
have not already done so to take an early opportunity of visit-
ng these gardens, the Zoologic rl department of which has also
een considerably enriched lately.

Yesterday afternoon, about three o'clock, a 'ahem-.
ing man. named Halloran, employed with others in repairing a
bowie in St. Martin's-lane, fell fr:im the scaffolding level with
the second floor window to the ground, and was so much in.
jured oa the head and body that his life is despaired of.
A man named Leake was yesterday fully com-
mitted for trial from the Brentford Petty Sessions, on a charge
of having robbed a fellow-lodger of a sum of money and a
quantity of wearing apparel. The robbery was committed at
New liimpton, but the prisoner was apprehended at Houns-
low, with all the propertrin his possession, one of the prose-
cutor's shirts being on his back. He said nothing in't I

defence.
Yesterday afternoon, as Jasper Robertson, a young
Dials,pork butcher,
was residiegi rt,
Little b .engaged on his
father's premises cutting sausage meat by the aid of a steam-
dorfetacg'se:strteheet,aoSaeovef na
steam-
engine, by some accident the sleeve of his shirt got entangled
man 19 years
in the machinery, and before it was possible to stop the engine
his hand was drawn in, and the whole of his fingers instantly
chopped off. Ills band was otherwise so dreadfully mutilated
that it is feared amputation of the arm must be resorted to.
lie was conveyed to Charing Cross Hospital.

LONDON :
FRIDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 7, 1838.

One of the misrepresentations of the Landed-In-
terest Journals is, that those who advocate the Repeal
of the Corn-laws are resolved to ruin the agriculturists.
Our belief, however, is, that the abolition of the
Corn-laws will be the greatest boon to the agricul-
turists which can be bestowed on them. Ever since
1815, when those laws were first passed, as well
as since 1828, when they were amended, the
agriculturists have never been flourishing, and
have never ceased to complain. There has scarcely
been a year in which their poverty and . their
degradation has not been hawked on society to the glo-
rification of the landowners and tithcowncrs by con-
tinual announcements that my Lord This has abated 10
per cent, from the rent of his pauper tenants, and theßec-
torof That has graciously struck off 15 per cent. from his
tithe composition, because the serfs—for, in their
present state of dependence, they deserve no other
name—could not pay it. Ever since those laws
mere passed, the agriculturists and landowners have
been sinking in the scale of absolute wealth and
of relative importance, and hare earned for them-
selves the disesteem of all the rest of the Com-
munity. --"ow any man, with these facts star-
ing him in the face, can defend tho Corn-laws as
useful to the agriculturists, we cannot understand ; and
the advocacy of them by clever writers seems to us
only explicable on the supposition that they disregard
facts. Those laws were intended to answer a certain
purpose ; and the clever writers 4'llo ought to examine
their effects have taken it for granted that the purpose
has been effected. They have spoken from a brief
by the
landlords and the titheovvners, and
supplied
have never inquired into the truth of what they as-
serted.
The Corn-laws are as injurious to the agri-
eultut ists
as they a; e to the merchants and manufac-
turcrs.

The Coroner's Jtiry have returned a verdict of
Wilful Murder against the principal, Mr. ELIOT, and
his assistants in the late duel. We think their de-
cision a correct one. We cannot conceive what other
verdict can ever be given, with justice, in any such
case of wilful and resolved homicide ; though
there may be a multitude of circumstances which
would make it excessively unjust to visit
such an act with the same punishment as
the atrocious, cold-blooded perfidy of GREENACRE.
In this particular duel, however, much requires ex-
planation before the parties concerned can be exone-

rated, and they are very properly, by the Coroner's
verdict, placed in a position to compel them to give that
explanation or sutler the consequences.

We are reluctant to continue any remarks on the
authority of the Bible as opposed to the authority of
observation, or on the authority of tradition as opposed
to that of science, but when the former is used by the
Tories for a party purpose, our reluctance must give
way to our conviction of what is due to truth and the
welfare of society. An Evening Paper, last night, for
example, says, " that the efforts of another Ministerial
Journal to discredit the Bible, as the collected fables of
ignorant Israelites' are wasted on the desart air." Now

our Evening Contemporary knows that, on this question
at least, it is not warranted in calling The Sun
rt Ministerial Journal. We have always advocated
opinions at variance with those of the Ministers on
Church questions, and have not unfrequently re-
proached them with their servility to the priesthood.
But to serve a party purpose by connecting them with
us, the pharasaical Journal, the religious opinions of
which--whether embraced with a view to profit or not
we are ignorant—have a high pecuniary value,
is not ashamed t,-, imply what is not true, in order
to raise a prejudice against the Ministers. On
those Joornalists, therefore, who continually mis-
use i'ne Bible and misuse religion to attain political
objects, and who in their names foster ignorance, and
advocate misrule, be the responsibility of making them
the subjects of discussion in political Journals. The
topic is forced on the public by the vituperation heaped
on science by the Tory Journals, in the name of reli-
gion ; and we cannot, without neglecting our duty, as
guardians of the public welfare, and one of the organs
of public opinion, refuse to notice it.
The passage we have quoted is meant to reprobate
those who call the Israelites ignorant ; and we are told

that MILTON, SELDEN, LOCKE, and NEWTON, did
not so think of the Bible. Now, in relation to the subject
in dispute, namely the authority of MOSES, as opposed
to the authorityof geological observation, we must repeat
our assertion that MOSES, as well as all the Israelites,
were extremely ignorant. The question at issue is,
whether the description which he gives of the Deluge
applied to the devastation of a small part of the earth
by water, or to the devastation of the whole round
globe, such as the progress of time has made it known
to us. Now, if our Evening Contemporary can find
any vestige in the writings of MOSES that he was ac-
quainted, either by tradition or by inspiration, with
the form and extent of the globe, there may be
some reason to believe, but not otherwise, that
his description was meant to apply to the whole
earth, and not alone to that limited portion of it
with which he and all the Israelites, and all the early
tribes, and races of men were acquainted. If there be
no inkling of any such knowledge—if the progress of
geographical science can be distinctly traced step by
step, from country to country, as the human race spread
themselves over its surface, and communicated with each
other, till its whole extent and globular form became
known—then it is irrational and unjust towards the his-
torian to give to the description of MOSES the wide ex-

tension which modern knowledge gives to the terms
the " whole earth." We arc not Hebrew scholars, but
we will undertake to say that the Hebrew word, what-
ever it may be, which our translation has rendered by
the words " whole earth," or universal deluge, stood
for no such knowledge in the mind of MOSES as the
words " whole earth" stand for in our minds. He of
course spoke of that earth which was known to man
at the time, but as the Deluge happened long before he
wrote, the description of it which he gives, derived
from tradition or from preserved records, must have
applied to a much narrower and smaller portion of the
earth than he was actually acquainted with. It
seems to us preposterous to make his description
of what must have been, as compared to the
whole earth as we know it, a local phenomenon, a
bar to the investigations of the geologists, and the
ground of imputation on their science, if they
do not agree with the incorrect interpretations given
to the Mosaic account by the moderns. To call the
Israelites ignorant, in comparison to our knowledge,
is no more a reproach than to say that they lived a
few thousand years before us.

In adverting to the matter on Wednesday, we
observed that the Antediluvians were subject to simi-
lar moral laws with ourselves; and we hinted at

the circumstances, that they were obliged to ac-
quire arts, and made a considerable progress in ac-
quiring them, as the proof that such was the
case. Being subject to similar moral laws, their
testimony, and the testimony of their historians,
must be weighed on the same principles as the testi-
mony of other men. MOSES vouches for the Deluge,
and as a limited phenomenon there are abundant facts
to support it ; but who, as a general overwhelming of
the earth, will vouch for MOSES ? Baron HUMBOLDT
has described some extraordinary scenes in South
America, and, if other men could not see the same
things the Baron would be set down as a fabulist. Poor
BRUCE was satirized as a Munchausen, till subse-
quent travellers confirmed his narrative by witnessing
facts similar to those he described. In all cases, then, men
refer to facts—refer to the external world—.to confirm
or disprove every thing which they arc told. In the
particular case, however, of a universal deluge, the
instant any geological observations are made which go
to disprove that, as we say, false interpretation of the
Mosaic account, those who have adopted it cry out
infidelity and irreligion, and will not allow the theory
to be brought to the test of the only facts by which it
can be proved. There is to be no voucher for MOSES.
The false interpretation given by our priesthood to his
assertion is not to be tested by the works of nature.

In our humble apprehension this is irrational and
unphilosophical, and those who set up such an autho-
rity, above that of facts, are poor wretched idolators,
who worship man, and deny GOD.
Our Contemporary seems singularly unfortunate in
the names he has quoted as admirers of the authority
of MOSES :
" We suFpeet that he meant (says the Chronicle) by_bring-
ing forward three Arians out of four of the great Englishmen
who thought highly of the Bible, to pay a complimenttho Unitarians at the expense of the Established Church.
INlilton was an Arian, Locke was also an Arian, and Newton
was an Arian, and something more, But of this enough.
The Tories must be sadly perplexed to reconcile the doctrines
of the Bible with their worldly notions. The New Testament
does not certainly favour the notion of honouring religion by
loading its Ministers with worldly riches."
It is something for Englishmen to learn that MIL-
TON, and LOCKE, and NEWTON, and SELDEN, can
be quoted, in defence of cant, intolerance, and oppres-
sion, and in opposition to the progress of knowledge.
f they thought differently of the Bible from the mo-
derns, they had not lived to see it perverted to so
many base uses. They had not seen a great body of
fanatics injuring and tormenting the community, by
applying precepts borrowed from the Bible, and
adapted only to a pastoral state of society, when men
had but one occupation, to Qur people among whom
extensive division of labour, and many arts, render it
impossible to keep the Jewish Sabbath. They had not
seen Protestant England condemned to a great system
of ecclesiastical extortion, the parent of strife and
bloodshed, checking the cultivation of the ground and
imposing fetters on commerce, and giving rise to the
starvation or devil's laws ; they had not known Pro-
testants call this system divine on the authority of the
Bible—and they had not seen that Book made the in-
strument in Protestant hands for stopping the pro-
gress of science, and for justifying, in the name of the
Protestant religion, a vile scheme of social oppression.

If they had witnessed anything of the sort, the perver-
sion Was made by the Catholics or foolish Prelates,
and they had sense and pit enough to discard
gle3nes and interpretations which went to stop know-
ledge, and justify tyranny. In their hands the Bible
was a manual of freedom ; and we persuade ourselves,
that if they lived now, and saw the vile uses made of
it by an interested priesthood, they would have felt it
to be their duty to subject its authority to a rigid
examination.

There is no news of any general interest in the Paris
Journals of Wednesday. We publish in another
column a letter addressed by the French Minister of
Foreim) Affairs to the Duke of fVIoNTEBELLO, autho-
rizing his Excellency to demand his passports, and re-
turn to France in the event of the Vorort refusing to
expel Prince Louis NAPOLEON from the Swiss
territory. As in the body of this letter instructions
are given to the Ambassador to allow the President
of the Vorort to take a copy of it, the clumsy attempt
to intimidate the Deputies is as clearly seen
through as generally despised. But the withdrawal of
M. de MONTBELLO from Berne, will only be the
signal for the Ambassadors of Austria and Prussia
to fulminate their threats in the ear of the Diet,
which cannot be expected to hold out long against
such a combination of frontier States. England still
maintains an attitude strictly neutral.
The French Journals publish letters from the Medi-
terranean, the tendency of which is to show that the
best understanding exists between the Commanders
of the British, French, and Turkish fleets. An ex-
tract from the Smyrna Journal to the same effect
will be found among the paragraphs copied from
Wednesday's Papers.

The Smyrna Journal states that on the 11th ult. the
Turkish Admiral had given, in the roadstead, a sumptuous din-
ner on board the flag-ship the Feuzieh, to the Consuls, com-
manders of line-of•battle ships in the roadstead, and the princi-
pal Turkish authorities of the city. During the dinner one of
the Consuls proposed the Sultan's health, which was drunk
with enthusiam by all the guests, accompanied with a salute
of 21 guns from the Capitan Bey's ship. The Capitait Pasha
then gave the health of all the Sovereigns in alliance with
Turkey, which was also accompanied with a salute of 21 guns.
The Beacon bomb-vessel, Captain Graves, was at Smyrna,
where she had returned from a cruise in the Archipelago, dur-
ing which her Commander had made several surveys and cor-
rections of the usual charts. Mehemet Ali's steamer Gene-
roso, which had for some time carried Tuscan colours, but
which now forms part of the Egyptian fleet, had also arrived
in the roadstead on the 16th. She had sailed on the 18th for
Constantinople, whither it was said she was conveying the
Kisvci- Cheriff, or sacred carpet, which had covered the tomb
of the Prophet at Mecca, and which is changed every two or
three years. The Capitan Pasha had furnished her with the
coal necessary for her voyage, and at her departure all the
Turkish vessels hoisted their flags and fired several salutes, to
pay the customary honours to the precious objects which had
been conveyed on board from the Temple of Mecca.
BISHOPRIC OF ALGIERS. —The Papal bull for the formation
of the bishopric of Algiers has been published in the Bulletin
des Lois, in Latin and French. His Holiness commences with
expressing his satisfaction at the relief of his mind from the
grief with which it had been affected by the present deplorable
aspect of religion ; he hopes, from the establishment of a
bishopric in the province of Julia Caesarea, vulgarly called
Algiers, to arrive at last at the re-establishment of the ancient
bishoprics of Africa. Tne principal church of Algiers, which,
as the bull states, has long witnessed the celebration of the pro-
fane and monstrous rites of the Koran, is erected into a cathe-
dral under the patronage of St. Philip the Apostle ; and the
new Church is taxed with the payment of 370 goring for the
Camera at Rome.

DUELLING EXTRAORDINAILY.—A few day ago two grisettes
of the Quartier Latin, after exchaging blows for an inconstant
student, who might have sung with Macheith, " How happy
could I be with either," decided upon an appeal to the laws
of honour. The fair belligerents fought with pistols, and were
attended to the ground, in the neighbourhood of the quarries
of Montrouge, by two dressmakers. After the exchange of
two shots, happily without effect, the seconds declared that
honour wus fully satisfied, but the feminine combatants,
though obliged to submit to the eat, quitted the ground un-
feconciled. Our informant assures us that the pistols were
loaded with ball

A Royal decree has lately been issued at Naples authorizing
fathers, and they being dead, mothers, having the concurrence
of two Mends of the family, to send their unmarried daughters
into convents. This is applicable to the children whether
they have attained their majority or not.
The Helvetic Diet, in its sitting of the 31st ult., bad the
three projects of replies to France laid before it. The pro-
ceedings of the day were opened by the deputy for Friburg,
demanding the communication of certain documents which
had formed the groundwork of the reports of the commission of
the Duke de Montebello's note. This was supported by the
deputies for St. Gall and Argau, the latter of whom demanded
that the communication, mentioned some days before by the
President as having been received from the French Ambassador,
should be laid before the Diet. Upon this a discussion arose,
the note alluded to having been addressed by Count Mole to
the Duke de Montebello, and not to the Diet ; and the Pre-
sident therefore maintained that the Diet could not demand its
production. Ultimately it was ♦oted unanimously that litho-
graphical copies of this note should be distributed to all the
members of the Diet ; and on the question that the Diet
should adjourn the debate on the fundamental question of the
reply until the 3d inst., a majority of fourteen states voted in
the affirmative.

Besides the recent ordinance promulgated by the Emperor
of Austria for increasing the pay of the officers of his army,
another has been issued relative to their pensions. In future,
a captain will receive a sum equivalent to 1,750 f. per annum ;
a first lieutenant, 1,250 f. ; a lieutenant, I,ooof. ; and a sub-
lieutenant, 750 f.
The Chamber of Commerce of Havre has just addressed to
the Minister of Commerce, a powerful remonstrance against the
continuance- of the duty on sugars of our colonies. It calls
for a reduction of the duty, without which the colonial sugar
cannot maintain the competition with indigenous (beet-root)
sugar in the markets of France. It likewise protests against
the plan said to be entertained by the Government to authorise
the free exportation of colonial sugar to foreign parts. The
chief object of their application is to obtain the absolute equa-
lity of duty on the sugar of both kind,. The Chamber of
Commerce of Bordeaux and Nantes, have also sent remon.
strances to the Ministry, against the system which it seems in.
clined to adopt with respect to this article.
The Duke of Oilcans is expected at the Camp of St. Omer
during the first fortnight of this month, to be present at the
Grand Reviews.

A letter from the Camp of Bouffarick, of 22d August, says,
—" It was reported that the new Bey of Milianse had entered
our territory with an armed force, in consequence of which
a strong reconnoitering party, commanded by General Gain-
gul, left the camp of Blida, on the night of the 20th August.
The party, composed of troops of all arms, followed the bed
of the Oued-Keber to its junction with the Chiffa; it then
descended the course of this river till its junction with the
Boursumy.
This party, which proceeded first along the mountains
of Beni Sala, then those of Beni Messaouo, and a great
part of the country of Hadgortes, met with no trace of the
arrival of the Bey of Milianse. It returned to the Camp of
Blida after a march of seven or eight hours, through a fertile
country, in which there are numerous Silos.—Le Constitu-
honnel.

FRENCH FUNDS. —PARIS, SErrnatneu 5.
P iye per lents., 111 f. 40e. 30c. 45c.
Four and a Half ner Cents. 106 f. 50c.
Four per tents., 104 f. 50c.
I tile,. per Cents., 80f. 60c. 75c. 70c.
Bank Actions, 2,'25f. 2,6301.
Acme cc Naples, 29f. The. '7oc. 75c.
Roman Five per Cents., 101. X.
Swinish Actives, 21.
Belgian Five per Cents., 10314.
Belgian Bank, 1,140 f. 1,442 f. 50c.
IlAytiati Lean, Zlsof.

EXCOANGIL ON LONDON.
Or, month, paper, 25f. 3714 c.; money, 2tf. 35c.
Fxree tntmths, paper, `l5l. `..!Se.; money, '2sr. 20e,

LATEST PRICES.

Five per Cents. 111 f. 50c.
Three per Cents., 80f. 85c.
Rank Actions, 2,63 f.
Romans, 101 N.
Belgian Loan, 103%.
Belgian Bank, 1,44:4. 50c.
Spanish Actives, 21.
itaytian Loan, 350.

The following intelligence from South America is
from a second edition of the Times of this morning :----'
FALMOUTH, SEPT. s.—The following packets have arrived
this day :—The Lapwing, Lieutenant Coglan, from Halifax,
in twenty days, having sailed on the 16th ult; the Reindeer,
Lieutenant Dicke.), from the West Indies, departing from St.
Thomas's on the Ist ult., and the Hope, Lieutenant Rees, from
the Brazils, having left Rio de Janeiro on the 11th July, Bahia
on the 20th, and Pernambuco on the 29th following. In the
Brazilian provinces ever) thing was quiet, excepting at Rio
GI wale, where there appeared very little chance of the Go-
vernment succeeding in re-possessing its authority, each divi-
&on of troops sent against it sharing the fate of its predeces-
sor. The Imperial Government had passed a law permitting
the employment of a foreign legion, and when such was raised,
against the revolters.
a larger force, with a better chance oiwifyintsinu:caccfer.seßsi,g.
transhipped in the Hope, and
de o ;To
Dorn,
mightht am amounting
ts ienngt
, had arrived
to -100,000
Thel4Zoi o 0
,J(S),o.l.loaegi rfor
dollars,f;.Tro't.n
this vessel has brought in addition about 350.000 dollars more,
at Rio, Bahia, and Pernambuco, the largest packet
shipped ,I.Co
whichut round
was
freight from the southward for many years. Exchange at
Rio, 281 28.
The latest intelligence from the Argentine Republic repre-
sented Buenos Ayres still in a state of active blockade by the
French squadron, and no nearer approach to a settlement of
differences than by previous advices. The Republicans were
determined to resist by every means in their power.

Brussels and German Papers of the latest dates
have arrived this morning. We copy from the latter

an extract from an interesting letter froth Constan-
tinople, dated the 17th ult. We trust that the surmises
of tl p writer. relmiye to the influence of REDSCHID
PACHA in the councils of lu. POrter will eventually
prove to be well founded; although all who are ac-
quainted with the policy of the Divan must be aware
that extraordinary missions are rarely intended as
especial marks of Imperial esteem:—

BRUSSELS, SEPT. 6.—ln the course of last month the
number of passengers on the Belgian rail-roads was 369,036;
the receipts amounted to 469,679 francs 80 cents.
CONSTANTINOPLE, AUG. 17.—Redschid Pacha, to whom
the Sultan has confided an extraordinary mission to London,
leaves Constantinople to morrow. He is to Fti..VOF,,t to Italy,
where he will pass some time at the Court of lurltt, ttiOide
to Berlin, next to London, and on his journey return to Paris.
All persons who have the interest of the Porte at heart
admire and esteem Redschid Pacha as the only man of great
talents in the Councils of the Sultan, the author of
the new organization of the Council of State, the Council of
the Sublime Porte, and the Council of War, a zealous and
judicious Reformer--a man who has had an European educa-
tion, and the only one who was able to check the old Pacha of
Egypt. His fall, or long absence, from public affairs, would
he universally regretted. It may be easily' supposed what
astonishment seas caused in Constantinople by the news of the
unexpected mission of Redschid Pacha. Many persons
looked on it as an indication of the decline of his favour, and
a plausible pretext to remove him from public business. To
me it appears only to show the importance of the mission,
which seems to concern the relations of the Porte with Egypt,
Russia, and England, which may be of the greatest tmport-
ance. The Sultan seems fully to appreciate the talents of
this eminent statesman, and to give him by this mission
a new proof of his confidence. It appears, rather, that
the favourite Ahmed Fethe Pacha is in disgrace since his
presence in Paris and London was not thought sufficient to
protect the interests of the Porte. Other circumstances
seem to confirm this idea.

Baron Barante embarked yesterday in a Russian steamboat
for Odessa, where he is to pet form quarantine. His presence
here infused some spirit into the monotonous way of life in
Pera and Therapia, and his sudden departure is regretted by
many persons. The fete given in his honour by the Lady of
Redschid Pacha was, in many respects, more interesting than
the ball at the French Ambassadors.

The new seraglio of Dschcragan, near Dolma Bagdsche, is
delightfully situated on the European shore of the Bosphorus ;
but there is nothing remarkable in the interior except a splendid
saloon, 150 paces in length, the ceiling of which is supported
by fifty gilt pillars. The beautiful park is laid out by a
German gardener. The architecture of the palace is a strange
medley of the Asiatic and European styles. The seraglio in
the city is in this respect more interesting, for though it is only
a mass of buildings erected at different times, the whole has a
decidedly Asiatic character.

BELGIAN 1. U NDS—BeussELs, SEPT. 5.
Actual Debt, 2% per Cent.
Rothschild's Loan, 5 per Cent. lOl%
Loan of Thirty Millions, 4 per Cent.
3 per Cent.
Loan of City, 1832, 4 per Cent —
Society of Commerce, 4}Q per Cent 149%
Bank of Belgium, 5 per Cent l4O
National Society .
—Brussels Papers, Sept. 5.
AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—VIENNA, Auo. 28.
Five per Cents. Metalliques
Four per Cents.
Three per Cents.
Bank Shares
—2lllgemeine Zeitung, Sept. 2.

MONEY AND COMMERCIAL NEWS.

CITY (THIS DAY), TWELVE O'CLOCK.

Arrivals this morning— French and Ostend Mails ; also a
Mail from Rio, by the Hope, sailed on the 11th July, Bahia
22d July, Pernambuco 29th July ; a Mail from Halifax by the
Lapwing, sailed on the 16th August ; a Leeward Island Mail
by the Reindeer, sailed on the 23d July, from St. Thomas's
Aug. 1 ; and Halifax Papers received to Aug. 14.
PRINCI EDWARD'A ISLAND, AUG. B.—We understand that
his Excellency the Lieutenant Governor has received a com-
munication from Earl Durham, stating that on the re-
ceipt of his dispatch communicating information of the out-
rage committed by an American fishing-vessel, of the northern
coast of the island, in June last, in plundering the wreck of
the Archibald Campbell, a representation was immediately
transmitted to her Majesty's Minister at Washington, so we
have reason to expect that no means will be left untried to
obtain a reparation for the injury inflicted, and to bring the
offenders to punishment.

We learn further that in consequence of the representa-
tions made by his Excellency of the inadequacy of the naval
force on this station, her Majesty's ship Pearl and the Charybdis
schooner have been ordered to cruize in the Gulph for the re-
mainder of the season.

We have received the Price Current from Rio Janeiro of
the 9th July.
OBSERVATIONL—The Exchange since our last of the 12th
and 16th ult., has continued gradually to decline from 281 d.
to 28d. ; at the latter rate a good deal of business was done in
the middle of last week ; subsequently it looked rather eat,
but to-day some amounts have again been passed at the same,
and it appeared as if it had seen its lowest for the present.
Y. S.—TvimsnAv, JULY 10, 2 o'CLocK.—The Exchange is
firmer ; little doing at 28d. Cane Sale, this morning,
2,000 bags, chiefly ordinary descriptions ; superior, less firm.
Rio Janeiro Papers to the 12th June state, from Monte-
video, that a battle took place on the banks of the river Saint
Anna, in which the Government troops were completely
routed, with the loss of 350 prisoners. The blockade of
Buenos Ayres, continues, by the French squadron, and no near
approach to the settlement of differences. The Stag frigate
had arrived with a freight of 400,000 dollars, whch was trans-
shipped in the Hope, and she has on board, in addition, about
350,0001 shipped at Rio, Bahia, and Pernambuco. Stocks,
85+ to 85i Ex-dividend. The Treasury at Rio Janeiro have
still deferred selling more Stock, though, owing to the greater
scarcity of money in the market, they have been obliged
to give 7 per cent. prem. ; in 1650 centos, Exchequer Bills.

THE FUNDS.
Consols opened this morning at the closing prices of yester-
day, 944 f for Money, and 94-1- 1 for the Account ; Exchequer
Bills 71 73 ; India Bonds 72 74 ; Bank Stock (shut); 204
2091 for the opening; India Stock 264 k 2155.
In the Foreign Market Spanish Active 191, with Coupons;
Portuguese 351 36} ; Brazilian 83} 84 ; Mexican 231 241 ;
Colombian 256 26 ; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. 531
54 ; Five per Cents. 102} /.
PRICKS OF STOCKS I'HIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Bank Stock ........ ............. . - India Storm 265
3 per Cent, rte.!
3 per Cont. Cons. 944 %ISouth Sea Stock .-..
N per Cent. Old .knonitics -
Ditto Red -
New 3% per Cent -
New 5 per Cent-
Rink Long Annuitiebtocxpire I Ditto .501, 7l 74 pm.
Jan. 5, 1860 i Ditto Small
Oct. 10, 1,159 15% 7-166 Ditto Commercial ......... - - pm
Jan. 5, ISM ' Ditto Advertised - - I ir.
Jan. 5, 1680 Bank Stock for Account -
April 5-, ISM lndla, Stock for Acc0unt........ --
Jan. 5, 1870 Consols for Acconnt .. 94%
PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCi- .
Austrian Bonds -
Belgian Bonds - Ditto Account ...... ..... . ..... -
Ditto Account Portuguese Bonds -
21' a Ziliall Bond: Ditto New Bonds
-
DM) Account ....., .... ...... 835{ Ditto Account
Buenos Ayres Bonds - Ditto, 3 per cent.... ...... -
0:tto Account Ditto Account...... -
C dilifce Bonds . ........... - P7'"3ian 13"d' -
)itto Account . Russian Bonds, int' ... ... -
C,:urribian Bends ... ....... ....... - Ditto Account
Ditto Account ....... ..... - Ditto Meta11ic.................. -
Cilimibian Bonds, 1824 Spanish Bonds -
DiZto Account.. Ditto Account ...... ....... -
Dinish Bonds .......„ .., ......... - Ditto Bonds, 1833 .. -
Ditto Account
Greek 8end5....... - French, 5 per ccut.......... -1..
Ditto Bonds, 1625 ---- 4 per c,-cit.
Ditto Account ..- ..... ........ -- 3 per cent -f. --r.
Mexican Bonds, 5 per cent... _ - Exchange -1. -c
Ditto Account ........... ...... . - Dutch, 2% p,er cent 503,4
Ditto, 6 per cent. -
Ditto Account - Ditto, t- per ch- t IC2%
NcaiKtlit-in - Ditto Account -

PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.

Per Share
77 S
8% 9
1534
37%

Paid.
Birmingham and Derby Railway Company 4O
Great Western Railway Company 65
Brighton Railway Company ll
London and Blackwall Railway
London and Southampton (New) Railway l5
Asphalte, Claridge's Patent 2
Do 13ritish
HALF-PAST ONE.

To the present hour the Consol Market continues steady
with little doing at the morning's prices of 94 Money,
and 9441 for the Account. Exchequer Bills, 71, 73 ; India
Bonds, 72 74 ; India Stock, 2644-5 ; Bank Stock, shut.
In the Foreign Market Spanish Active is not so good as in
the early part of the morning, and may be quoted at 19- .8
with Coupons ; Portuguese also receded from the morning
prices to 35i 36 ; Three per Cents., 231; Mexican, 234 241;;
Brazilian, 831 i; Detch Two-and-a- Half per Cents., 534 64 ;
Five per Cents., 1021
Very little doing in Shares, but prices are rather higher.
Great Western, 131 prem. ; Brighton, 2 discount.

THREE O'CLOCK.

Consols for Accouit, 94 11.
THE FUNDS.—CLOSING PRICES
BRITISEI FUNDS.

Bank Sock India Stock —
3 per cent. Red
3 pox Cent. Ccds 91% Ditto Old Annuities —
3 !:, per Cent — Ditto New Annuities
3i4 per Cent. Bed — Ex. Bills, 1,0001.......2d 71 pm
New :”.', per Cent 101 Tb Ditto 5001 74 pm
Long Annuities to expire; Ditto 5001 72 pm.
Jan. 186 ,
Oct. 1851
Jan. 1860
FOREIGN FUNDS

Austrian, 5 per cent — Portuguesei Ponds, 5 per cent..
Belgian, 5 per cent
'Ditto New Ditto 1574
83 yi , Prussian, 5 per cent
Brazilian Bonds —
Bu— r Russian Bonds, 5 per cent. onos Ayr: s, 6 per cent.
Ditto, Metallic
Chilian, 6 per cent —
Colombiam, 6 per cent — Spanish, 5 per cent 19%
"2ni , Ditto, Consolidated
Ditto, 1824
Danish, 3 per cent d French, 5 per cent.: —f. —c
Greek Bonds, 1825, 5 per cent. Exchange
—f, —c
Mex ican, 5 per cent, _ French, 3 per cent
—f. —r
Ditto, 6 per cent., 152., . - Dutch, 2% per cent.
Peruvian, 1825,6 per cent lBli Ditto, per cent. 102%
CLOSING PRICE OF SHARES.—(THIS DAY).
(
riirmingharn and Derby:Railway
• •..... 3N
Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway
.1N
Great Western Railway
ii%
London and Brighton W 7
iilway .....
London and Blackwall Railway
5%
London and Birmingham Railway
--
Ditti Bonds 4 per Cent.
10344
London and Southampton Railway

London and Southampton Railway (New) 47q
38
South Eastern and Dover

It is stated that the Committee wlio arranged the
recent fete at Beaulah Spa for the benefit of the Distressed
Poles, lost upwards of 3001. ming to the unpropitious state of
of the weather, in consequence of which the funds for afford-
ing temporary relief are now quite exhausted,

THE LATE DUEL ON WIMBLEDON

COMMON.

ADJovaNED INQUEST—FOURTH DAY.
This morning the Jury met for the fourth day to inquire
into the circumstances attending th© death of Charles Flower
Mirfite
The first wittieSe eailed Wet. Henry Lee, of 12, Paul-square,
Finsbury, who had becti eerVent td Captain Eliot for about a
fortnight, and entered his serviet: Azimut a month ago. The
Captain resided at the Colonnade Hotel, in Charter-street,
Haymarket. Witness went down to Wimbledon Conimon
on last Wednesday week. He went out with his ilittater
in the cab about one o'clock. Mr. Young and Mr. Webber
were then with him. The lad was kept at the door about a
quarter of an hour. Mr. Eliot and Mr. Young then got in
and drove to several places ; amongst others to Newman's in
Regent's-street. Mr. Eliot went in and left Mr. Young in
the cab. After that he nee directed to take the cab home to
die elleueveter Mews, and then to join him at the hotel.
When he did s 3, he taw Mr. Eliot standing at the door.
Shortly after Mr. Young anel Mr, Webber, and a stout gen-
tlemen, whom he had never seen !.‘efore, came out of the
Coffee-room and went up stairs with his mast''---they stopped
up about a quarter of an hour, and when they came %.levvn they
all got into a carriage which was standing at the door.
except Mr. Young, who got into his own cab. Witness was
sitting on the carriage when lie saw Mr. Eliot give the man
attending it a carpet bag, which was put into the carriage.
They drove to a common, but he had never been down the
road before. Mr. Young drove them, and had a gentleman
in his cab, but he did not knew him ; where he was taken rip
witness did not know. On arriving on the common, a gig
drove up, end Mr. Webber got out of the carriage and spoke
to one of the gentlemen in the gig. Witness had never seen
either of tile two gentlettlee in the gig before. After the eon•
versation they were driven round the common near to the mill.
On arriving there, Mr. Eliot, Mr. Webbeto and the strange
gentleman got out, one of them carrying the carpet bag, and
they went down the hill. Mr. Young was there first, and
went down along with them, as did also the gentleman who
accompanied him. Witness was told to get into Mr. Young's
cab, and remain there. There was also the gig and a street
cab at the same spot. The gentlemen who were in them also
went down the hill. One of them stopped a little, and sat
down on the grass, and spoke to two young girls. Witness
did not then know for what purpose the gentlemen had as-
sembled. He went to sleep in the cab, and saw no more until
Mr. Young came up to the cab and awoke him. Mr. Eliot soon
followed with Mr. Webber and the stranger who came down in the
carriage, but he did not notice which of them carried the carpet
bag, but it was put into the carriage. They all got into the car-
riage. Mr. Eliot wanted to get out again but they would
not let him and Mr. Webber get out and went down the hill.
A gentlemen out of the gig got into the carriage, which was
then driven towards town over Putney Bridge. Mr. Young
went a different road, and Mr. Webber was left behind. The
gentleman who got into the carriage from the gig got ont. dt
Knightsbridge, and got into a street cab; he was driven to-
wards Hyde Park-corner, at which place the other gen-
tleman got out, and he also got into a cub. Mr. Elliot
ordered the post-boy to drive across the Park to
the Edgeware-road, where he was put down ; it was
near Cambridge-terrace. Witness took the carpet bag out,
and went with his master to 11, Southwick-street. A lady
lived there ; he did not know her name. His master sent him
to Mr. Timberlake's to tell him to get his horse nice and fresh
by Saturday ; he was going out of town, and would be home by
that time. He told witness to go home. He had never seen
his master or any of the parties who were at Wimbledon since.
Witness did not know that a duel had been fought until Satur-
day, when he went for his coat to the tailors.
Richard Cowling was re-called, and recognised the fore-
going witness as the boy that went with Mr. Eliot on the
day they drove to Wimbledon-common. The boy was sitting
in the cab when the duel took place. Did not observe whether
the boy was asleep or not, but was certain he did not walk
down the hill to see the duel.

Inspector Field said he had no other evidence.
Henry Lee, on being re-called, said that Mr. Young
lodged with his master, Mr. Eliot, at the Colonnade.
The Coroner said it was now his duty to make a few observa-
tions. He begged the Jury to dismiss from their minds anything
they might have heard out of doors, or have read in any paper.
The question for there to consider, as far as regarded the
law, was a very simple one. If they were satisfied
as to the identity of the parties—that the deceased received
his death in the encounter—and that that encounter was by
appointment—they must find that that was wilful murder. Had
the parties suddenly quarelled, weapons been placed in their
hands, and had immediately retired to a field, and one of
them been shot, that would only have amounted to man-
slaughter. It would have been done at the impulse of the
moment, and before the passions had had time to cool. But,
in the present case, it was to be presumed there was
a malice of the party, therefore who killed the
other was guilty of wilful murder. They were only investi-
gating the cause of the death of the late Mr. Mirfin, and were
not trying the parties implicated for their lives—it was only,
therefore, their duty to say whether or no death had been
caused in the manner he had described. The other gentlemen
who were present there could be no doubt were aiding and
abetting the principals, and, therefore, the Jury must consider
them as principals in the second degree. As regarded Mr.
Scott, he stood in a very delicate situation. He had come for-
ward to give evidence against certain parties. Previous to
his coming forward they had the evidence of Mr. Smith, who
bad given them to understand on his oath that Mr. Scott
had acknowledged he was present at the time the
firing took place. They were aware of the part he took in
it, and that he had made himself a very active party in the
affair. It would be for the Jury to consider whether they would
think it reasonable and just to send Mr. Scott to trial, with any
of the other parties they might find implicated, or whether
they would treat him rather as a witness, who had thrown great
light upon the unfortunate transaction, and who has been the
means of identifying some of the other parties. However, that
was a question for their consideration. If they found a verdict
against him, as well as against the other parties it would be
his duty to commit Mr. Scott for trial with those par.
ties. It was quite clear Mr. Murphy's death was caused by
the pistol shot wound—that was proved by Mr. Scott
himself. Tho Jury would consider whether they would
include Mr. Scott with the other parties, or whether,
coming forward as he had done, they would exempt him from
their verdict.
The room was then cleared.

The Jury consulted together for 50 minutes. When the
public were admitted, they were informed that the Jury had
returned a verdict of " Wilful Murder against Francis Lionel
Eliot as principal, and against John Young, Henry Webber,
Edward Delves Broughton, and two other persons unknown,
as principals in the second degree."
Mr. Scott was then called in, and informed by the
Coroner, that the Jury had been very considerate
in not including him in their verdict, but they had
required that he (the Coroner) should bind him over to
appear at any time when called upon to give evidence,
in case of any of the parties being apprehended. He was
bound over in his own recognizances for 3001.
The Jury then desired that the Coroner should return their
thanks to Inspector Field, for the great diligence he had dis-
played in ferretting out the evidence.
It appeared as if there had been some tampering with the
boy Lee, as he tried very hard to escape from being produced
as a witness. The Coroner thought his testimony of consider-
able importance, and Inspector Field has been indefatigable in
tracing him, which he was not able to do without very great
labour and fatigue, having been upwards of seven hours in
tracing him from place to place.