The Sun.
London, England, 1849-11-26 00:00:00

ROSSUIII'S ADDRESS TO TUE REFUGEES AT

WIDDIN.

The National Zeitati,a publishes the following tran•
lation of the speech which' M. Kossuth addressed to
the Hungarian refugees on the occasion of their de-
parture from Widdin
" Gentlemen,—I am happy to be the bearer of the
greetings and blessings of the good and glorious Sul-
tan —(Cheers.) A messenger from the great
Monarcli arrived hrre e,terdiq, bringing the joyful
news that the Sultan has resolved not to listen to
Austria and Russia's demands for our surrender.—
(Groans ) No ; the Sultan has sworn by the
Prophet that he will protect us at any hazard, even at
the risk of the overthrow of his empire.—(Cheers.)
"Gentlemen, it is now certain that we are to leare
Widlin. The war for which we yearn—that war
which alone can liberate our poor country—the war
which hitherto was doubtful —ic is now certain. The
question of that war, of its outbreak, 13-, is now
but a question of time, and its commencement will he
determined by Fuad F,ffeedi—for inch is the object
of his mission to St. Petersburgh. My brethren!
the sun has nut yet set ! there are still some rays of
light! a nobler pelt remains still fur us. The Hun,
garian emigration is of high importance in the politics
of Europe. To deserve that impertance is our task—
which, though difficult, is most glorious! But do
not fear, my brethien, that we stand alone—as we
did; that we are disowned, as we were. No, indeed.
We are held up by Turkey, by England, and by
France. Put lie opinion in England, in the Parliament
and without, has indeed for a moment become doubtful
of us. But r, hy? because seine of us have adopted
the Mahometan faith. But what these men did finds
some excuse in the prevailing desire to make prose-
lytes; and, besides, whatever they did they did as
men, not as Hungarians. As men they will have to
bear the consequences, and not only they but also
certain people in this city of Widdin who urged them
to this step. But that is all. A letter which I wrote
to the Noble Lord Palmerston, and the unremitting
labours of an English friend (Mrs. Thomson) have
served to place the question in its true light, end the
organs of the British press, of all parties, raised their
voice in our favour. Gentlemen, I am enabled to
assure you that England and France are for us,
and that they have declared that, allied with the
Most High Porte, they will fight for the
liberty and independence of our country. In
consequence of these important events the Host
High Porte has resolved to send the Hungarian
emigrants from Widdin to Shumla. Shurnla is,
according to my opinion, if not the best, at least the
most advantagpous place for the Hungarian emi-
gration, for in the case of a war against Russia and
Austria, we shall be enabled-to proced to and cross
the Danube at Rustshuk, and to reach our country,
where hundreds of thousands of kind hearts and stout
arms wait for us to rid the earth from the wretched
remains of a bloodthirsty dynasty, which exhibits the
just curse of an angry God by those atrocious deeds
which in its frenzied blindness it perpetrates against
a poor and helpless people. But if Shumla were
threatened—though, indeed, there is not much fear of
that—there are fourteen British vessels in the Dar-
danelles, prepared to take us to England, where we
are sure of a kind treatment, fur Great Britain—to
speak with Lord Palmerston, has not indeed orders
and ribands for a murderer like Haynau ; but that
noble country can admire and respect the remains of
a gallant nation which prevailed against and shook to
its foundation the firm and towering stronghold of
tyranny.—(Che.ere and shouts of the Turk, Bin
jasha Kossuth !"Bin jasha Dembinski !' or ' May
Kossuth live a thousand years!' &e )
When silence was rescored Kossuth proceeded—

"I bare but a few words to add. To prevent dis-
orders the Most High Porte wishes the emigrants to
forms a corps under my leadership.—(Loud cheers.)
If it is your will, Gentlemen, I consent.—(Cheers.)
But I wish for harmony and order, for without these
our corps cannot exist. That corps is to be a mili-
tary institution, which I will do my best to improve.
To prevent the possibility of any violence on the part
of the Russians, we are to journey by land. To de-
fray the expenses of that journey, the High Porte has
sent me 241,000 piastres, as a Bairam's present for the
emigrants."

TATTERSALL'S—THIS EVENING
six o'cLovii.

CHESTER CIYP.
50 to 1 agst Whim c.
50 to 1 agst Peep-o'-Day Boy
50 to 1 agst Lady Evel3n
66 to 1 agst Melody
1000 to 10 ngst Dough
1000 to 15 agst Sir ltlchard
1000 to 15 agst Vesta
'WARWICK STAKES.
7 too agst Doctrine
4 to 1 agst Priestess
5 to 1 agst any °tilt-I-.
DERBY.
9 to 1 agst Bolingbroke—taken

10 to 1 agst Ghillie Callum
12 to 1 apt Inight of Avenel
15 to 1 agst The Italian
22 to 1 agst Cyprus
23 to 1 agst Sweetheart

33 to I agst John o' Groat
33 to 1 agst Pitsford
33 to 1 agst B to Epirote
35 to 1 agst the Nigger
LEAMINGTON STEEPLECHASE.
6 to 1 agst Chandler
8 to 1 agst British Yeoman
10 to 1 rgst Doctor
12 to 1 agat Vernon
12 to 1 agst Knight of Gwynn
15 to 1 agst Abd-el-Kader

STOCKS AND STONES.

We have no hesitation in saying that whoever,
after reading some of the recent disclosures in the
Morning Chronicle, can wear a cheap stock, must
have a heart of stone. If we were Prince Albert, we
would at once insist on the total release of our royal
name from those hateful ties which are paraded in
the shop-windows as " Albert ties," and for the
making of which only 61 a dozen is paid ! It is a
libel on his Royal Highness, who has lately shown so
much warmhearted interest in the cause of the in-
dustrious classes, to couple him, even nominally, with
those stocks and neck-ties, whose wearers—if they
knew the horrible sacrifices entailed by the low price
manufacture—would be ashamed to hold up their
heads over even the stiffest of these odious articles.
We shall never look upon one of those cheap stocks
again without feeling our choler raised in an extra-
ordinary degree ; and we could not put such a thing
round our neck without a.sort of throttling sensation,
engendered by the knowledge that, for the production
of these stocks and ties, rapacity has taken necessity
by
the throat. The wealthy capitalist, who watches
the daily fluctuation of the funds, has thought hitherto
but little of the fearful conscqus enccs retultirg from
the downward tendency in the pricesd. of another kind
of stocks. A fall in Spanish
thousands or hundreds, the galnayof tmh;nib' by a few
millionairet or
a fall
the less opulent speculator, but in heA Albert
of
ert
Stock-market curtails the already insufficientcrust
the poor necdlewoman, and sends tottering into the
abyss many who were trembling cn the edge of the
slippery partition between starvation and crime.
" The Albert Stocks used to be 3s. 6d. to 45. a
dozen when they hest came up. They're 2s. to ls. 9d.
row," says the informant of the Morning Chronicle.
And we venture to ass: rt, that the decline in the
Stock Market is more appalling in its consequences
than the ups and downs of that other Stock Market in
which knavery and jobbery, avarice and recklessness,
folly and cunning, pursue their unhallowed course.
Hencefovh, whatever we may km- said of prosperity
in connexion with rises in the funds, we shall cease
to have fAith in the soundness of the sate of things,
until we are satisfied that the Albert Stocks are look-
ing up.—Punch.

AN IMPORTANT INQUIRY.
(From the Carnarv9n and Denbigh Herald.)
An inquiry of great public importance was held at
the Union Tavern, Garth, Bangor, on Monday, the
19. h, and by adjournment on Wednesday, the 21st
inst., before Captain Claxton, R.N.
The inquiry was ordered by the Admiralty, in con-
sequence of a memorial from master mariners, pilots,
shipowners, fishermen, and others interested in the
navigation of the Straits of Menai.
The memorial represented that Grisia Bach, at a
small bight to the westward of Garth Point, was an
ancient landing place, which, with the adjoining
beach, had from time immemoral been used and en-
joyed by the public, without let, hindrance, or mo-
lestation,—that it was the only place during easterly
gales at which boats could land, or from which boats
could put off, either from or to vessels lying in, or
sailing through, the Straits—and that depriving the
public of its free use, as the walls and buildings now
erected bad done, was a great injury inflicted upon
the coasting trade, and a serious damage to the navi-
gation of the Straits; and lastly, praying the Admi-
ralty to institute an inquiry, and to adopt effective
means to remedy the grievance complained of.
After the memorials and the Admiralty instructions
for instituting the inquiry had been read,
Captain Claxton called upon Dr. 0. 0. Roberts, as
the person who had forwarded the memorial, to pro-
duce evidence in support of the allegations contained
in it.

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Dr. 0. 0. Roberts explained that, having been
cared upon by a deputation from the parties more
directly interested for advice as to the best course for
them to pursue, with a view to preserve Grisia Bach,
as a laading place, he had suggested the one that had
been ado-,:ted, and forwarded the memorial to the Ad-
miralty. Ile had not even signed the memorial
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himself.
Captain Claxton—Then who is to call the evidence!
Dr. 0. 0. Roberts—Had not the slightest ol,jee•

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ti n to perform that duty, and called
John Hug'nes, pilot, who stated that he had known
Grisia Bach from his childhood. It bad always been a
public landing-place; and the dosing of it up, by the
present wall, had inflicted a serious injury on the na-
vigation. It was the only place, when it blew fresh
from any point between -North-east and South-east,
that could be used to communicate by boats between
vessels and tl'e shore. Before the b'ght at Grisia
B ch w. s enclosed they could always land or launch
their boats ; but since the place had been enclosed
with the present wall they could not do so. (Wit-
ness was then shown the plan of a wooden pile pier,
which it is contemplated to construct; and when
adi:ed his opinion as to its prob.lhie etii,ct upon the as-
vigation, he answered, that it would not interfere with
his caning as a pilot, but in drifting out when there
was no wind, he thought that vessels might run foul of
it, or that in heavy gales vessels might be driven against
it when their anchors did not hold ) With respect to
the old weir at Gorad y Gut, he considered it dangerous
to vessels, 'A hen those on board were unacquainted with
the locality. It was surrounded by a bed of soft good
ground for vessels to lie upon. Masters of vessels
navigating the Straits took care generally not to
get foul of the weirs to the eastward of Port Pcnrhyn.
In beating to windward, vessels were of course forced
to make shorter tacks to avoid those weirs, as well as
to kfep clear of the ballast bank.
In answer to a question by Captain Askew, did not
know win se duty it was to prevent ballast being
thrown into the Straits.
Examination continued by Dr. 0. 0. Roberts—
There are at times a large fleet of coasters, and other
vesiAs lying wind bound opposite Garth, and if they
hs deprived of Grisia Bach, as a landing place, they
cannot in many cases have n free and sate communi-
cation with the shore.
Mr. liaison, the gantieman connected with the
inclosure of Grisia Bach, declined putting any ques-
tions to the witness.

John Hughes, master mariner, deposed in sub-
stance to the same facts. Ile bad known Grisia
and used it as a public landing-place, for between
forty and fifty years. The closing of it up had se-
riously interfered with the navigation of the Straits,
and with the interests of those who were concerned
in it.

In answer to Mr. Dodson—He had b: en in the
habit of using Grisia Bach es a landing-place, and to
be blocked out of it would seriously injure himself
and others.
John Nanney, master mariner, deposed that he had '
been in the habit of using Grisia Bach &r about
twenty years; and that its use was of great import-
ance to the navigation of the Straits, so that closing
it up was a serious injury. His opinion as to the
proposed pier was in accordance with that of the
preceding witnesses; and, with respect to the weir
nearest the quay, it did not interfere much with the
navigation, because in general a vessel would strike
on the ballast bank before coining up to the weir.
Captain Askew observed that she would then be
swamped on the ballast bank, instead of being scuttled
on the weir.
In answer to Mr. Dodson, Captain Minney said
that he very frequently used Grisia Bach t even when
it blew a gale from the eastward, he could always
land at Grisia Bach, and haul up his boat, so as to be
in safety.
John Jones, a pilot—Had known Grisia Bach from
his childhood. Its use was of great importance to the

public. Five or six boats could he hauled up in the
bight, and left in safety, to be launched when wanted.
Nothing of the kind could be done now. The steps
were cut in the rock; and near the top they were
formerly protected with masonry.
This witness gave testimony similar to the former
ones touching the pier, and after some answers as to
the effect of weirs on the navigation,
Captain Claxton stated that he was to inquire
touching Grisia Bach, and the proposed pier, and to
report upon the weirs and other alleged obstructions,
and that he had put questions in reference to the latter
points merely for his own satisfaction.
Captain 11. Ellis, an old master mariner, was about
to be examined, but in answer to Captain Claxton,
Dr. 0. 0. Roberts stated, on behalf of the memo-
rialists, that though there were a great many master
mariners, fishermen, pilots, and others present, to tes-
tify as to the ancient usage and value of Grisia Bach
as a landing place, still, astheir evidence would be
substantially the same as that already given, he con-
sidered it a waste of time to call them.
Captain Claxton then read a letter from the Bishop
of Bangor, and called upon
Mr. Dodson, who stated that the shore ground
between high and low water mark belonged to the
Bishop. He had not had a lease for the portion of
it in question from the Bishop, but he had the pro-
mise of a lease from Lis Lordship's legal adviser.
1 The wall had proceeded so far as to be four or five
feet high, when a deputation of pilots and master
mariners waited upon him about Grisia Bach as a
landing place.
John Hughes, the pilot, here appealed to Mr. Dod-
son's foreman, if he bad not protested against the
works when the foundation was being cut ?
Mr. Dodson—Perhaps it might have been so; but
when the deputation waited upon him he told the
parties composing it that they must establish their
legal right before he would attend to them. The
work was half done when he received an intimation
from the Admiralty that the Board must be supplied
with maps, plans, and sections of the ground and
proposed erections, and that the works in the mean-
time were to be stopped. He intended putting up a
vertical ladder, but did not tell the pilots so. He pro-
posed to grant permission, not as a matter of right,
but on sufferance, to pilots and masters of vessels to
use the vertical ladder to land on the pier.
Mr. H. B. Roberts who appeared to support the
Bishop's claim to the shoreground, stated that the
application was for a lease to build a pier.
Dr. 0. 0. Roberts denied that there was any
pretence for the Bishop's claim. The public claim
the use of Grisia Bach_ and the adjoining beach, not
on sufferance, but as a matter of right, and he had
advised a memorial to the Admiralty in the first
instance, instead of a more summary method of
asserting that right.
Mr. Dodson then called John Morgan, who stated
that he had been three years on the Garth Ferry, that
they seldom used Grisia Bach as a landing place.
John Hughes, pilot—The boats belonging to the
Garth Ferry are now kept on the Anglesey side ;
they were until recently kept on this side, and when
that was the case the ferry could not be worked
without having the bight at Grisia Bach. He had
seen the ferry boat but a few days back unable to
land at Garth point, which they might have done had
Grisia Bach been left in the state it used to be.
In answer to Captain Claxton, John Morgan as-
signed as a reason of not landing at Grisia Bach
oftener that their boats LOW in use were too heavy ;
but that lighter boats, such as used by the pilots
and the masters, used to do so.
Mr. Jones, harbour master, of Beaumaris, was
called and examined, as to the probable effects of the
proposed wooden pier ; and stated that he considered
it a ould be beneficial to the navigaticn.
In reply to Captain Claxton, Mr. Jones stated that
the conservancy of the Straits, within the port, was in
the Corporation of Beaumaris. lle supposed that it
there was a vessel sus k, so as to obstruct the naviga-
tion, it would be his duty as harbour master to re-
seal e the same if the owners did not.
John Hughes, pilot—The harbour master of Beau-
maris collects anchorage mcney and other dues, and
take to notice whatever of the injury done to the Port
of Bangor, and to the navigation of the Straits by
olsitldteintg stones, and ballast being constantly thrown
u
wecn high and low water mask, so that even
the most experienced pilots could not bring in a vessel
at high water without danger of being damaged. At
that very time, %ben the tide urea
whole beach below where they then gspi;
g out,
the
were was studded
ith heaps of stones and ballasj
Captain Askew observed, that from what he had
seen, he had no doult whatever that the weirs and
other.erections to the eastward of Garth Point, and

the wholesale manner in which ballast was discharged
in the Straits, had materially and seriously injured
the navigation. Ilad a tidal gauge been kept that fact
would have appeared very evident to every one.
Mr. Jones said, in reply to Captain Claxton, that,
as harbour master, he was of opinion that the removal
of some of the weirs and large stones, especially those
between Beaumaris and Penmon, would improve the
navigation ; but he thought the proposed pier at
Garth would be en improvement.
In reply to Captain Askew, Mr. Jones stated that
he had never been the master of a vessel, nor had he
ever teen at sea in his life.

John Williams, thought that the proposed pile
pier would improve the navigation. The ruins of the
old weir, Gorad y Gut, was very dangerous to stran-
gers sailing in either ships or boats. He had not long
since sent a boat over from Anglesey, and saved a ma❑
whose boat had been scuttled on one of the old piles
of the weir.

Captain Parry thought that a vertical ladder, at the
extremity of the proposed pile pier, would do instead
of Grisia Bach as a landing place.
Dr. 0. 0. Roberts stated that tha object of the
memorialists, whom he represented, was to preserve a
safe r.nd convenient landing place for tile use of the
public, such as Grisia Bach had always been. The
last thing they would think of would be to put Mr.
Dodson unnecessarily to the slightest trouble or ex-
pen: e.
Captain Claxton congratulated the meeting upon
the kind feeling which evidently existed among all
parties.
Mr. Wyatt suggested a path by means of a parapet
to a proper pier at the western side of where Grisia
Bach landing place had been cbsed.
Captain Claxton then adjourned the meeting to
twAve, which was afterwards changed to eleven
o'clock, on Wednesday, the 21st inst., so that Mr.
Dodson might, in the mean time, prepare plans and
sections of the required accommodation.
On Wednesday, at tile appointed time, the plan of
the accommodation proposed was submitted to the
meeting. It wile, instead of a parapet, to place wood( n
steps, or rather a ladder to the westward of the pro-
posed pier, with a free path of four feet wide from
them to the road onside of the slate yard.
Captain Claxton requested Dr. 0. 0. Roberts to
explain the plan to those, whom he facetiously desig-
nated his constituents.

After the plan had been carefully examined, it was
unanimously pronounced utterly inadequate as a
iobititute fur Grisia Bach.
A good deal of desultory conversation then took
place, Captitin Askew calling attention to the fact, that
there was at that very time close to the place a vessel
discharging ballast between high and low water mark,
a great part of which would, every tide, be carried off
by the etb and flow to form banks, injurious to the
navigation.
Captain Claxton asked Mr. Dodson what he proposed
next ?

Mr. Dodson replied that the more favour was
granted the more was demanded.
Dr. 0. 0. Roberts said that there was nothing
esked as a favour. The ancient landing place of
Grisia Bach, and the free use of the adjoining beach,
which had been illegally enclosed, was claimed as a
right. They were all anxious to accommodate Mr.
Dodson as far as possible, but they would not be
satisfied without having Ls a substitute for Grisil
Bach, a place where they could land and leave their
boats in a shelter.
A stone pier, with stone steps, was then proposed to
communicate with a four feet wide path, and acceled
to, provided it be made of proper dimensions.
At this period Mr. Williams, solicitor, of the firm
of Lloyd, Roberts, Williams, and Jor:es, Carnarvon,
arrived, and gave Captain Claxton and the meeting
officially formal notices, by directions of the Commis-
sioners of Woods and Forests, thnt they claimed all
the shore ground on the coast, between high and low
watt r mark, as the property of the Crown; and utterly
denied the Bishop's claim.
Captain Claxton--All the shore ground, as well
within as without people's weirs !
Mr. Williams—Yes, certainly ! Prima facie, all
the shore ground is-unquestionably Crown property,
unleFs where the Crown has disposed or alienated it.
Mr. Vincent Williams—What, all the shore
ground ! The shore ground is very extensive, Mr.
Williams. Does the Crown's claim extend to the
French shore!
Mr. Williams—When the Crown of France was

worn by the Sovereigns of England, those Sove-
reigns claimed the shore ground on the French coast,
and should her present Majesty become Queen of
France, she would ur:questionably again claim that
shore ground, in right of that crown.
The meeting broke up apparently very abruptly,
when neither plans nor specifications of the pro-
posed works, as a substitute for Grisia Bacb, were
produced.
This preposterous claim extends in length about
six miles along the Menai, and includes a portion
leased in July, 1844, by the Woods and Forests to
Thomas Assheton Smith, Esq. We are informed
that under some just as valid a claim, the 7001
awarded to the Crown from the Cheater and Holy-
head Company for Crown's land in Anglesey, have
been quietly paid over and received, not by the Crown.

THE NEW EDINBURGH CORN

MARKET.

It has been arranged that the formal opening o
the new Corn-market is to take place on the firs
Wednesday of December. Business will, of course,
be transacted as usual in the old building on that
day, but it will afterwards be transferred en-
tirely to the new and more commodious structnre
which has been reared, a few yards distant,
on the south side of the Grass market. The
present market-place was erected in the year
1817. In the course of the 32 years that have elapsed
since that time, the Edinburgh corn-market has been
gradually rising in importance, and it is now on all
hands admitted to be the leading grain mart in Scot-
land. Although Mark-lane is the principal regulator
of prices, our local market's range of influence is,
nevertheless, very wide, and always extending. This
is mainly to be attributed to the circumstance
that Edinburgh is situated in the very centre of the
great corn-growing district of the Lothians. It is
also partly to be ascribed to the facilities of commu-
nication we possess in the number of railways which
concentrate in this city, and radiate to almost every
quarter of the kingdom. Our market unquestionably
ones much to the railways; and but for the accom-
mod ition which they afford, it is doubtful whether
it would ever have surpassed Haddington in
the way that it has dune. In consulting the
weekly reports of the Edinburgh and Haddington
markets, even after our present market-place had for
some years been built, we find that the sales in the latter
generally exceeded those in the former. The present
market-place could never have been well adapted for
the purpose which it was intended to serve. It was
always dark—a great objection in a grain market;
and very soon after it came to be used it was found
to be too limited for the business transacted in it. A
consideration of these circumstances led the town
council to apply to Parliament for power to erect a
new market-place. The Bill giving this power, and
allowing the council to borrow, in prosecution of
their object, a sum not exceeding 20,0001. upon
the faith of the market dues, received
the Royal assent on the 21st of June, 1847. Having
obtained the necessary authorization from Parlia-
ment, the council set vigorously to work—purchased
a site in the Grass-market, within a short distance
of the present market, got the old houses which
stood upon the site taken down and removed, pro-
cured plans and entered into contracts, and now,
after a lapse of little more than two years, we re•
ceive notification of the fact that the elegant and spa-
cious building which has been reared will be com-
pleted and ready for occupation in the first week of
December. We understand that the outlay connected
with the erection of the new market will nearly ex-
haust the 10,0001. allowed to be expended on the
building. Whether what remains of the 20,0001., after
paying the purchase money of the site, cost of the act,
&c., will be sufficient to enable the council to take
advantage of the authority which they have in the
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Lady Wynd on the west, remains to be seen.
The new building was designed by Mr. Cousin, is in
the Italian style, massive, elegant, and well suited to
the site which it occupies. The mouldings are rich
and imposing, without the necessity of having had
a great deal of labour expended upon them. The
design of the windows, which is varied in all the
three stories, is very effective; and there is a hand-
some Doric doorway, with two rustic columns. The
main front of the building is about 98 feet in breadth
and 60 feet in height. The remainder of the façade
is made up of two wings, both receding about 13
feet, having staircases within—that on the west being
carried up as a campanile, or bell and clock tower.
Upon getting inside the building we discover for the
first time, that that part of it at which we
have been looking from the street is, in reality, only
the vestibule, and that the market, somewhat in
the style of a railway station, but having a
triple roof; stretches away a considerable distance
to the rear. The roofing of the back part is con-
siderably lower than the front. It is supported,
in the centre, by two rows of metal pillars; and is
entirely lighted from the roof by means of patent tile-
glats. The extent of the entire area of the building
is 1.52 feet from north to south, and 92 feet from
east to west; so that it will at once be evident that
there is "ample room and verge enough" for all the
purposes of the mark( t.—Scotsman.

THE OLD CHURCH SPIRE AT BIRMINGRAM.—Th's
spire has been declared, by a majority of architects and
surveyors, to be decidedly unsa'e and liable to fall down
if not taken down. It is to be hoped, however, the

whether the latter or the former, such an ancient land-
mark as St. Martin's spire wil! be at once restored; for
in a place like Birmingham, where all is new and Is ith-
cut associations—every ancient landmark passing away
ono after another—so prominent a monument of the
olden time can ill be spared. The question has been
started whether the church should not be entirely re-
built; but however identical in form and position, it may
be a second question, subtle and profound as that of the
identity of Sir John Cutler's silk stockings darned with
worsted till no silk remained—whether ouch a rebuilding
would constitute a restoration of the ancient fabric of
St. Martin's.—Builder.

We are glad to find that the election of George
Leeman, Esq., to the chair of the York, Newcastle, and
Berwick Rahway Company has given the most entire
and general satisfaction iu this district. The Journal
(who was sole defender of Mr. Hudson here) speaks of
Mr. Leercan as "en able and respectable man;" and
the Sunderland Herald, after designating him " honour-
able and trustworthy," says, " Mr. Leeman, it will be
remembered, discharged the laborious duties of secretary
to the Committee of Investigation, and this appointment
bears elecpent testimony to the value of the advice and
assistance he rendered in that capacity. We wish the
company a good start and a prosperous career under
his presidency."—Newcastle Guardian.
LIBERATION OF MISS LEGGOTT.—We understand
that this young person, the victim of the lottery of split
quills, drawn by the jury who tried leer at the late Leeds
Borough Sessions, was on Thursday liberated from cus-
tody. It will be recollected that w hen the verdict of
guilty :pas arrived at by the extraordinary means
:knurled to, the Learned Recorder sentenced Miss
Leggott to six weeks' imprisonment. Immediately
afterwards the discovery was made that. her fate had been
fixed by lot. Such art outrage on an Englishman's uo-
tioes of trill by jury—the great bulwark of personal
freedom in this country—was, of course, at once made
the sulject of an application t 3 the Home Secretary for
her release on the ground of the unparalleled eh:Teeter
and illegality of the finding of the twelve unensieble
inert who sat upon, and ought to have jugged her case.
The answer to this application wcs received by the Go-
vernor of the Leeds Borough gaol on Thursdey, Sir
George Grey directing Miss Legeott's immediate libera-
tion. The result is but an act of justice to Miss Leg-
gett, while it conveys a well-mer ited censure upk:n the
jury; and we hope it will answer as a check against V.,e
eggrievation of the n'toriety which Yorkshire juries
have of late attained, by their dcci.ions in this case, the

Barnard Castle murder, and a few other Listanoes.—
Lteds eury.
A HUNGRY PACK.—The Monmouthshire hounds,
last weth, ran into the fox a long way k-head of the
horsemen, and ate him up, bones and al!, not even a
remnant of the brush being left.
Never put a curb on humanity ; we are too opt to
stop without it.—Eliza cook's Journal.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.
BAIL COURT, Nov 24.
(Before Mr. Justice PATTES-N.)
CRIMINAL INFORMATION.
THE QUEEN V. WILLM ER AND SMITH.
The ATTORNEY- GENERA f. (with w hom was Mr. G.
flayes) applied, upon the part of Mr. J. Ricardo,
M P., chairman of the Electric Telegraph Company,
and of the directors of that company, for liberty to
file a criminal information against the dt fendants for
a libel published in the Morning herald of the II th
of October last. The gentlemen on whose behalf he
made this application were the representatives of a
large property, which they had invested in certain
work., for the purpose of furnishing the quickest in-
telligence of important events to all parts of the
country. It would be evident that it was of the
utmost importance, not only that the personal
character of these gentlemen sh)uld be above all
suspicion, but that they should never even be supected
of improper conduct in their establishment. Messrs
Willmer and Smith, against whom he made this ap •
plication, were gentlemen residing in Liverpool, and
were correspondents of the Morning Herald ;
and the libel of which his clients cern-
plained having been published in that news-
paper, an application had been made to Messrs.
Willmer and Smith, to ascertain whether they ac-
knowledged the authorship of the libel. He had in
court affidavits, stating that those gentlemen had ad-
mitted the authorship. Some reasons seemed to have
induced Messrs. Willmer and Smith to suppose that
a preference had for a long time, been given by the
Telegraph Company to the Times and other news-
papers over their own immediate correspondents.
That supposition was without the slightest foundation;
and had the charges against the Telegraph Company
been confined simply to statements of this description
it was possible that the directors of that company,
relying upon their own honour and character, might
have passed over such charges with the indifference
they deserved. But after having published from time
to time imputations of this kind, Messrs. Willmer
and Smith had at last screwed up their courage to
make a direct and pointed attack upon the honour of
the directors, who felt bound to come to this Court,
and to seek its interposition. The libel in question
was very lengthy, containing various charges of undue
partiality on the part of the company towards the
Times and other papers, to the prejudice of the Morning
Herald ; and in this libel Messrs. \Vintner and Smith
had taken occasion to allude to a communication
made to London from Liverpool in July, 1848—a
pericd of great excitement and disturbance here and
elsewhere, and they had accused the directors of
having made that communication public in the neigh-
bourhood of Capel-court for their own peculiar pur-
poses—he supposed for purposes of stock-jobbing. He
would read to the Court the passage to which he re-

ferred :
" On the 27th of July last year a hoax was played
upon us, by fictitious news from the south of Ireland
being handed to us for publication in the London morn-
ing papers. Tho news was of a very astounding descrip•
tion, and proved to be utterly untrue; but that fact is
quite immaterial to the case at present. Upon taking
it to the Electric Telegraph-office, the clerk said that
the wires were engaged on their own message, but on
sceirg the news sent to us they agreed to forward it at
once to the Morning Herald without charge, on the con-
dition that they might afterwards use it themselves.
This arrangement, to save time, was consented to. The
ditions, however, were entirely broken by the com-
pany, for the intelligence was first made known in
Capel-court, afterwards to Sir George Grey in Down-
lees-street, and at eleven o'clock was delivered at the
Morning Herald office, though it had been given to them
at Liverpool at a quarter past seven. So much for good
faith."
No one could doubt that the object of this paragraph
was to insinuate that Mr. Ricardo, the chairman, and
other highly respectable gentlemen connected with
the company, had made use of the information they
had obtained for private purposes—for stock jobbing
purposes—and had suppressed the communication
they had promised to make to the Morning Herald.
The real facts were these :—At the time this message
was brought by a person named Ross, a reporter em-
ployed by Messrs. Willmer and Smith, to the ma-
nager of the electric telegraph at Liverpool, the
telegraph was engaged in communicating to London
intelligence receivsd from Ireland for the purposes of
the company's own news-room. Seeing the nature of
the intelligence brought by Mr. Reis, which stated
that her Majesty's troops had been defeated in Ireland,
that some of the railway stations were in flames, an
that disaffection existed among the military—seeing
the importance of this intelligence, and doubting its
authenticity, the manager of the telegraph required
that if he stopped the course of communication he was
making for the purposes of the company, the company
should be at liberty to use this intortnation for their
own news-room, and to: send it equally to all the
papers. The manager also sent up with the message
these directions :
" Tho news just sent was received in Dublin last night,
by special engine to Mr. Conway, editor of the Dublin
Evening Post. It was brought to this office to be sent,
as a private message, to three of the London papers.
Our express—which had no reference to this important
news—was in course of transmission. I declined to stop
our express—which had no reference to this important
news—unless they allowed it to go to the company;
assuring them that all the papers would be supplied.
Rather than delay it until ours was fiaished, they agreed
to do so. You can, therefore, make any use you think
proper of it. Is it to be posted? It is known in the
town. Mr. Bean and Willmer and Smith's clerk came
together. I have the original report received from Mr.
Conway, which I refused to send until I had seen Mr.
Conway's letter in which the report was inclosed."
The message was transmitted with these directions to
the office of the company in London. It happened
that at the time the message was received there, Mr.
Cooke, one of the directors of the company, was
present in the office ; and that gentleman, seeing the
extreme importance of the news, particularly in the
excited state of London at that moment, and fearing
that its publication might be attended with most
serious consequences, thought it right to give the
most positive directions to all the clerks and officers
of the establishment that no communication whatever
should be made to any one until the matter had been
referred to Mr. Ricardo, the chairman of the company.
A communication was accordingly made to Mr. Ricardo,
at his residence, in Lowndes-square, and that gentlem an
acted as he (the Attorney- General) apprehended every
true and loyal subject of the Crown would have felt
bound to do under similar circumstances. Feeling the
extreme importance of the message, Mr. Ricardo at
once went to the Home Secretary, and communicated
to him the news received by the company; and he
also placed the instruments of the company at the
command of the Government that they might ascer-
tain the authenticity of the intelligence. Mr. Ricardo
also stated to the Hotne Secretary the nature of the
message, and informed him that, from the conditions
on which the company had received it, they could not
delay its delivery more than half an hour or three-
quarters of an hour. Having communicated the in-
formation to Sir G. Grey, and enabled him to give
such orders as might be necessary in case any excite•
ment should be caused in London by the publication
of the intelligence, Mr. Ricardo went to the branch
office at Charing cross, and gave directions that the
information shout.' be sent to the various rims, end
should be posted in the company's news-room. He
(the Attorney-General) had the most positive affi la-
vas of Mr. Ricardo, and other gentlemen connected
with the company, declaring that beyond what he

had stated they bad, neither on that or on any other
occasion, used that or any other news for their own
purposes. They expressly denied in the most indig-
nant terms the charge which had been made against
them ; and he (the Attorney-General) had, in addi-
tion, affidavits going into various charges—which
were, indeed, trifling compared with the charge he
had mentioned—denying and explaining the accusa-
tions which had been preferred against the company.
He trusted, considering the serious nature of the
charge, and the parties by whom it had bee❑ made,
that his Lord,hip would be of opinion that this was a
case which called fur the interference of that Court.
The rule was granted.