The Sun.
London, England, 1856-03-15 00:00:00

L)NDON, SATURDAY, MARCH 15, 1856.

" Germanism" is in the ascendant ! Neutrality
has triumphed ! The policy of abstention has
achievedaremarkablesnecess ! Prussia has actually
been invited to resume the functions she wilfully
and deliberately abdicated, and to take part in the
Conferences from which she had banished herself
by her own acts. This will be painful intelligence
to the English people. Nor will the causes that
must have led to the obnoxious proceeding render
it more pleasing. There can no longer be any
doubt on the subject. Not only has it been offi-
cially published in the Government organ at Paris,
but our own Premier has acknowledged it

in the House of Commons. We can imagine
the shame with which the painful revelation
was made. The triumph of unconstitutional
influences admitted. Is there any longer an Eng-
lish party in Parliament ? Are there any of the
chosen representatives of independent constituen-
cies who will abstain from toadying the prevailing
power ? There might be some few men ready to
put forward sentiments in accordance with those
of the great majority of the nation. But, alas 1
the age of chivalry has departed. There are none
to undertake duties, however urgent, that nay
render the party obnoxious in high quarters.
The explanations rendered by Lord PALMER-
STON are by no means calculated to alleviate the
general uneasiness felt at the inauspicious tidings.
The Noble Lord adduced unanswerable reasons
for the previous exclusion of Prussia. She was
not, it appears, to take any part in the negotiations
for which her own conduct had most properly
disqualified her. It was only to accede to the
results arrived at by others more deeply interested
in the matter. There is, then, every reason to
dread that peace had been actually concluded be.
fore the ill-omened invitation was transmitted, and
on terms which, from aught that has hitherto
come to light, cannot be considered very condu-
cive to the honour or interests of Great Britain.

There is in all. this matter for deep and serious
reflection. How is it that Germany has been so
highly favoured in every respect, while every
British feeling has been treated with contumelious
indifference? "The passions of families," the
interests of dynasties, should not be permitted to
control the course of public events. It is unfor•
tunately but too notorious that there are family
arrangements in progress that render it desirable
to get Prussia out of the scrape, in which her
mistaken and injudicious policy has involved her.
But "England has no cousins or uncles." Her
interests are not to be sacrificed with impunity for
others, with which her people can have no
sympathies. There was no point which induced
the nation to welcome with greater enthusiasm
the accession of Queen Vicronia than the suppo-
sition that it completely severed the German
connexion, that had operated so prejudicially for
a succession ofyears, under five different Monarchs.
Let us not unnecessarily degenerate into even a
worse condition than that from which we were
so happily exempted in 1837.
Prussia advisedly selected her own course.
She had been one of the Great Powers of Europe,
but voluntarily abandoned the position. She
connived at the aggression that led to the War--
encouraged the AUTOCRAT in the course on which,
unfortunately for himself, and for the peace of
the world, be eAterqd. ,Her only object from the

col nu teneementof the difficulty, was to acquire large
pe, :u niary profits for herself at the expense of those
who adopted a more decided and straightforward
coux se. It was not the fault of the people, but
of t he ruling classes, who avowed themselves the
this k-and- thin partisans of the AUTOCRAT, whose
drto orations and roubles were profusely lavished
on, all by whom they would be accepted, and whose
services were worth the liberal price paid and. re-
ce iv3d. The same spirit that led to the murder
of an able and impartial Minister was in operation,
and has at length been rewarded by the adulation
of 'ranee and England.
S ecret diplomacy has many evils, but none
greater than the prevention of indignant protests
on exe part of the people against such untoward
proooedings. What would be the verdict of Eng-
land if the admission of Prussia to the Con-
ferences were put to the vote ? There would be
a majority of at least 50 to 1 against the sug-
gestion. But the matter is concluded
without their knowledge or consent. They
are only informed after the matter has
been concluded, when their sanction is invited
for the irreparable evil. It is not so with our
transatlantic brethren. They insist on a full
knowledge of all points in which they are con-
cerned, aud they are not the less respected there-
for. What would the American Congress say to
any remonstrance as to the "inconvenience
of questions respecting diplomatic proceedings."
The Minister that offered such an insult to the
popular representatives would. have but a brief
; tenure of office, and few opportunities of repeat-
ing it.

The events that have occurred since the Im-
perial revelation respecting the anticipated divi-
sion of the assets of " The Sick Man " form an
important chapter in English history. They will
be impartially discussed by future annalists, and
we fear that the manner in which we have
truckled to Germanism will not redound to the
credit of the present race. Our descendantsmay hear
much of the unconstitutional and irresponsible
influences which operated so prejudicially to the
honour and interests of the country, but which
none of our present representatives will endeavour
to bring to light. One who, like the DOUGLAS of old,
would undertake " to bell the cat," would indeed
achieve undying fame—a monument more en-
during than brass or marble.

Lord STANLEY has just been honoured with a
testimonial of greater value than many much
more costly and pretentious. Four hundred of
the inhabitants of the borough of Lynn, which he
represents, most of them electors, have forwarded
to him a brief and simple address on his public
conduct, one perhaps as honourable to the con-
stituency as to its representative. If it dwells
on his merits, it is no small merit on their part
to appreciate them as they do. In 1848 Lord
STANLEY was elected for the old Tory borough as
a Protectionist, and has sat for the place since that
date. At the general election in 1852 he was
vigorously opposed by the Liberals, but, of
course, triumphed over his Liberal opponent.
Since that time lie has been steadily evincing
Liberal tendencies, chiefly on points of imme-
diate and practical interest, though generally
grounding his advocacy of them on clear and sound
theoretical principles. He first astonished his
old Toryfriends in Lynn by his manly speeches and
votes on the Church-rate question, then on re-
pealing the Taxes on Knowledge as they were
termed, and now lately by a remarkable speech
on the "Sunday question ;" indeed, ho deviated
widely last year from the standard of Sunday
orthodoxy common both to Churchmen and
Dissenters in Lynn, as in most other places.
It is gratifying to see that this last act of in-
dependence has not brought on him an angry
warning to quit, but a frank commendation of his
independence. The memorialists not only express
their •‘ approval of his general public conduct in
supporting liberal and progressive measures of re-
form," but of this particular case as—a " proof of
his courage and sincerity"—they also define their
own interpretation of his vote, as evincing no
de,dre to increase labour, or even attendance on
worship, on the Sunday, but the wish rather to make
legislation equal for the rich and the poor, and to
extend the range of refining and humanising in-
fluences among the working people. We believe
the address emanated in part from those who do
not quite coincide in opinion on the Sunday ques-
tion with his Lordship, and, so far, is a truly
honourable illustration of the fair dealing
which men like Lord STANLEY ought to
meet with from the public. It is obvious enough
that on thie,•as on other " progressive measures
of reform," Lord STANLEY has to face the dis-
pleasure of the majority of his own political party ;
he can vote under none but honest motives, and
it is a happy sign when constituencies show a
marked preference for honesty and independence
to mere conformity oven with their own views.
Too many representatives are fit only to lee depu-
ties. Lord STANLEY has the ability for a 'degis-
lator. He has, at least, the grand qualification
of being able to grasp a great principle, and to
follow it to its consequence. Nothing, fQr in-
stance, can have contrasted more painftelly of late
than the shifty Whig votes and nvAches of Lord
;Tome RUSSELL-votes and speeches founded on
no liberal principle whatever, and the deeply-
thought reasoning and un-party votes of Lord
STANLEY.

In gratefully acknowledging the unexpected
mark of political confidence, Lord STANIZY
indicates a preference of practical over organic
reforms—a real preference, as we ought to be-
lieve, when stated from such truthful lips,
though, of course, we have heard it often enough
as the excuse for indifference to popular liberties.
Possibly, in time, his Lordship may regard some
of the more practical organic reforms as coming
within his selected province. One thing is cer-
tain, that in proportion as the condition of the
people, socially, intellectually, and morally is
advanced, their power, both direct and indi-
rect, will advance also. Practical reforms
are the preparatives for political reforms,
and the latter issue again in renewed prat•
tical advances. The readers in Lord STANLEY'S
libraries will rapidly become a class to which,
having done so much to create it, he would not
like to deny the elective franchise, and having
acquired it, they would he likely electors to choose
the right man for the right place.
Lord STANLEY regrets, iu the House of Com-
mons, as elsewhere, the predominance of the
combative over the industrial element. Honour-
able Members like party battles better than work.
It is doubtless, and always has been, the bane of
free assemblies; the fault, however, not belonging
to this or that form of government, but to human
nature. Ambition of political distinction or
supremacy is as rampant in Russia as here ; its
mode of working, only, different. An earnest
man, however, must be continually annoyed
with the party debates on which so much time
and eloquence are wasted. He may even enjoy
the evening, but in his walk home sighs over the
empty result. There is, however, nothing for it
but to bear with patience. Englishmen are as
combative as they are practical. In Lord STAN-
Ur; and a few more, the latter element much

predominates—in the majority we fear the former.
Hence he himself hardly ever joins in a party de-
bate, whila his untitled chiof in the House of
Commons can find no interest in a practical sub-
ject, except it afford scope for his party objects
or his sarcastic attacks on opponents.

Two things may fairly be gathered from a
perusal of the voluminous documents recently
published by the Government of the United
States on the Foreign Enlistment difficulty and
the CLAYTON-BULWER Treaty. The first is, that
subsequently to the commissien of that grievous
blunder, the spiriting of American citizens to our
territories for enlistment, the real dignity of this
country has not been compromised by its Govern-
ment. The second, that in relation to both
questions the United States Government has
manifested an exigency of demand indicative of
the unsettled greatness of the people—of a con-
sciousness of real power unguided by that magna-
nimity with which time, we would fain believe,
will associate it.

No new facts of importance are forthcoming.
What was necessary fer a thorough appreciation
of the matters in dispute between the two Go-
vernments was known in this country already.
No evidence is produced to show that our Minis-
ter at Washington knowingly violated the laws of
the United States, nor is it now alleged that the
municipal law of the States was ever broken by him
at all. The all but inexpiable offence alleged to
have been committed is not an intended nor an
actual breach of the municipal law of the States,
but an offence of a much more shadowy, if more
serious nature. The British Government, it is
gravely asserted, has failed to respect American
sovereignty ! What that is, it is somewhat difficult
to guess, and it must strike the reader as somewhat
unreasonable on the part of the American Go►ern-
ment to magnify into something little short of an
inexpiable crime an alleged offence against a some-
thing or nothing, the claims of which it had pre-
viously failed alike to prefer or define. In this coun-
try, and where barbaric authority does not prevail,
the sovereignty is in the law. Not so—we learn
for the first time—in the United States. There,
it would appear, the sovereignty is a mysterious
essence, which is not only separable, but practi-
cally separated, from it. Thus no chance of escape
is allowed to Mr. CRAMPTON. If the law acquit
him •f wrongful intention or deed, the serjeant
of " sovereignty " taps him on the shoulder, and
would cast him into limbo fcrr an offence against
"it." Why, this is reviving the worst despotism
of the worst periods of European or Eastern
despotism with a vengeance, and in the
opinion of all reasonable men of both countries,
must be regarded as au outrage on common sense,
and utterly unworthy of the great American
people. For whatever offences may he proved
against the laws of the United States ample
amends are forthcoming ; and for anything else
the denial of intention should suffice. But no
offence can be proved, and the American Govern-
ment refuses to be satisfied with the ample apo-
logies offered. Almost equally unreasonable is its
conduct with regard to the Bunwiat-CnitToxf
Treaty. Met in a spirit of perfect fairness by our
Government, it endeavours to evade referring the
question for arbitration to a disinterested third
party, and maintains a state of uneasiness between
the two countries which ought not to have sub-
sisted for a week.

We are very far, however, from despairing of
a satisfactory issue to this diplomatic embroglio.
We confidently look for it. Neither the people
of this country nor the great majority of the
citizens of the United States have any desire to
go to war, nor any conceivable interests to be
served by war. It is not more certain in point of
fact that the sun will rise to-morrow than it is
that the people of both countries would be griev-
ous sufferers from the prosecution of hostilities,
and the apprehension of each is too clear not to see
where the real hitch lies. The American Govern-
ment is on its last legs, and by this time we fancy
has discovered how vainly it has sought to obtain a
further lease of power by its unreasonable de-
mands on this country. Thank GOD, there is uo
probability at present of a war between us. The
ties of a common origin, common interests, and
similar duties aro likely to prove too strong for
that, and before long we look to find it as ge-
neral a matter for regret in the United States as
it is here, that the unprincipled ambition of a
political adventurer should have had sufficient
scope to hazard the peaceful relations so long and
happily existing between the two great branches
of the great Anglo-Saxon family.

BUENOS AYRES BONDHOLDERS.

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The sluices from Bue7oe Ayres are 51 tone and spirit
much the same az Not a mail arrives but some
petty revolutions announced as either attempted, or
in contemplet-on, within one republic. The object of
uch entererises may nit be very perceptible, but they
are pee:dibly got; up in order to cloak some unworthy
mea...ture emanating from interested parties. On this
',ccasion, bon-ever, it is stated that two discontented
aspirants to power—namely, Generals Flores and Costa
—have paid dearly for the bald advancement of their
preteneiens, both having been signally defeated by the
troops of Buenos Ayres. The attempts of these two
individuals would appear to have been of the most con-
temptible nature, As the result of an inquiry made of
Messrs. Baring, on the part of the Spanish-American
Committee of Bondholders, it seems that $5,000 have
been augmented to $lO,OOO, which have been received
by the contractors of the loan. This is the first arrival
of what ie termed, "the double driblet." The bond-
holders look with confidence to the effect of the decided
tent) recently adopted by the noble lord at the head of
the Foreign-office. The bonds were, of course, not
lower--yet, on the ether hand, they were not mate-
rially higher. Indeed, with the disgraceful arrear of
twenty-six years' interest attached, amounting to
nearly 160 per cent., the 8 per Cent. Bonds were
quoted at no more than 57 to 59, which by no means
equals the value of a 3 per Cent. Chili Bond ez div.,
which is 69, the Peruvian 3 per Cent. Bond being at
58. Such being the state of affairs, the Buenos Ayres
bondholders are naturally disgusted at the shameful
and long-continued injustice of which they are the
victims. They have good cause !—lt will pay about 3
per cent. insteal of 1i ; but the directors will corns to
no settlement of Baring's neglected loans. The house
made a terrible mistake in ever lending 1,000,0001. at
85 per cent. It is not worth 20 per cent., as bond and
interest now represent 257 stock as quoted at 53.
Lord Clarendon should show the swindlers up after 33
years' suspension.

NEW Ross ELEOTION.—The nomination took place
yesterday, and the polling on Monday. The struggle
will be a close one.

In consequence of the public remonstrances which
have been trade, Lady Torrens, widow of Major-General
Sir Arthur Wellesley Torrens, is to have her pension
increased to the full sum of 4001. a-year.
RUMOURED DEATH OF SIR G. GOODNIA.N.-117e are
glad to contradict a rumour to the effect that Sir G.
Goodman died yesterday. The hon. gentleman is resid-
ing at Brighton, and is in excellent health.
NEWSPAPER MORTALITY.—The Liverpool Standard, a
weekly Conservative newspaper, died on Wednesday,
making the second newspaper death in Liverpool in little
more than a week.

TIIE COURT OF INQUIRY INTO THII MISMANAGEMENT
IN THE CRlMEA.—Preparations have been made at
Chelsea Hospital, for the accommodation of upwards of
1,200 persons. Tue public will be admitted at the hall
under the clock.

THE MANGERTONSTEAHER.—At Maidstone, on Wednes-
day, the case of Richard Bouchier, charged with man-
slaughter arising out of the running down of the Jose-
phine Willis, was brought to a conclusion. Toe jury
returned a nrclict of " Not Guilty."
The two army surgeons charged with the manslaughter
of William Stenson were yesterday tried at the Maid-
stone Assizes, by Baron Alderson, and acquitted. It
will be recollected that through the neglect of some
person opium was administered to the deceased at the
Chatham Military Hospital instead of a black draught.
THE TirrsRARY BANK.—The Waterford Mail, speak-
ing on behalf of the Carrick shareholders and depositors
in the unfortunate Tipperary Bank, insists upon a search-
ing inquiry with respect to the as yet wholly mac-,
counted for dacionay of $OO,OOOl,

The Postmaster-General has tkdtdeti that country
postmasters are not compelled to weigh letters to enable
the public to know the number of stamps to be affixed.
The Anglo-Californian Gold Mining Company hive
received advice* up to January 31. The mill had worked
satisfactorily day and night for seven days. The manager
states that a remittance may be expected by the mail
leaving San Francisco en the 20th February.
MATIRILATICAL SCHOLARSHIPS—OXFORD, March 14.
—Mr. Charles Joseph Faulkner, 8.A., of Pembroke
College, has been elected to the senior, and Mr. David
Thomas, of Jesus college, to the junior mathematical
scholarship.
THE FIRE AT COVENT-GARDEN THEATRE.—Tho work-
men employed in pulling down the walls commenced their
labours on Thursday morning, at the usual hour ; bat
is consequence of the high wind which set in it was ap-
prehended that the walls might be blown down, in which
case they could not escape from being killed, and they
were therefore ordered promptly off ; consequently very
little progress was made in demolishing the walls.
THE FIRE AT DRURY-LANE THEATRE.—The committee
of Drury-lane Theatre met on Thursday afternoon, the
Earl of Glengall in the chair, to inquire into the
circumstances connestal with the discovery of a fire
at Drury-lane Theatre on Friday morning last. It
appeared that the fire had reached a beam under
the flooring of the flies, which is supposed to have
been caused by burning wadding from guns fired
duriog the pantomime. The fire, however, was discovered
by two firemen, named Girard and Webster, by whose
activity it was extinguished without doing any injury.
The committee eulogised their conduct, and a vote of
thanks was passed for their attention and assiduity in
tracing the fire out and preventing a serious loss of pro-
perty. The two firemen were complimented with a very
handsome present, for which they expressed their thanks.
THE RAGLAN MEMORIAL.—On Thursday the commit-
tee appointed to arrange the Raglan memorial assembled
et the United Service Institution, Whitehall, in order
to deliver to the present Lord Raglan, the title deeds of
the Kefntilla or Fairfax estate, near Raglan Castle,
which had been purchased as a memorial of the esteem
and admiration entertained for the late noble lord.
The Duke of Richmond, who presided, in offering the
title deeds of the estate to Lord Raglan, gave a brief
description of the property. The estate, he said, bad
formerly been known as the Fairfax Farm, having been
the head-quarters of General Fairfax during the siege of
Raglan Castle in the great civil wars, and had been pur-
chased of Mr. C. Bailey for 5.5001. Lord Raglan
having received the title deeds from the chairman, with
much emotion expressed his gratitude, and said he
deeply regretted that his dearly-beloved father could not
enjoy the estate he had so much wished to possess, and
which was now so nobly given to his descendants.
SUICIDE AT ST. PAUL'S.—Yesterday a person named
Alexander smart committed suicide by precipitating him-
self from the whispering gallery of St. Paul's Cathedral
into the nave, a distance of nearly 150 feet. The de-
ceased had been a clock and watch maker, but had re-
tired from businees a considerable time, and had been
residing with his wife at 4. South-street, Berkeley-
square. After he had waited in the gallery until the
clock struck 12, be mounted the handrail of the gallery,
gave three hysterical laughs, and cried out each time,
" Ab, ah, ah !" Two vergers named Thompson and
Hutchins, who were both in the gallery, anticipating what
he intended, rushed forward, but before they c ,uld get
to the spot he had succeeded in jumping from the hand-
rail and fell upon the stone flags which pave the nave.
Mr. Keating and another gentleman were sent for and
promptly attended, but upon examining the body, they
pronounced life to be extinct. The deceased had re-
iseived compound fractures of the left shoulder, the legs
and one arm were broken, the spinal cord was dislo-
cated, and besides other injuries the head was beaten in
by the fall.

STRAlcruz DELUSION.—On Thursday afternoon Mr.
Jardine, Solicitor to the Treasury, accompanied by Ser-
geant Leckyor, of the detective police, left town for St.
Alban's, for the purpose of inquiring into the conduct
of a Mr. C. Parker, who has for the past two years re-
sided in that neighbourhood. Recently, and se late as
the 4th of March, two letters, purporting to come from
Mr. C. Parker, as above, were received at the Palace,
addressed to her Majesty, in the first of which the writer,
after describing himself as the Prophet Elijah, proceeds
to assert his right to the crown, and requires of her
Majesty to surrender her rights and dignities to him, as
the Prophet chosen of God. If her Majesty refused,
then he would command it by main force at the point of
the bayonet, and her Majesty was to abide the conse-
quence when he ascended the throne. The second letter
held out no personal threat. The unfortunate man was
conveyed to the station, where evidence was taken as
to his state of mind and his strange conduct f,ir the last
12 months. An order having been made for his re-
moval to Bethlehem Lunatic Asylum, he was taken
frora the town the same evening for London. Ile is
very respectably connected, and has a brother a bar-
rister in the Temple.
DISCOVERY OF MORN GIGANTIC FORGERIES BY THE
LATE MR. SADLEIR.—We are enabled to state that
within the last few days discoveries of forgeries have
been made in the City, of which the slightest suspicion
did not exist before. We allude to the fact which has
just been ascertained, that the late Mr. Sadleir—incom-
parably the most skilful as well as the most daring and
gigantic swindler which the world ever witnessed—had
forged the names of three directors of a well known corn-
peaky to the extent of 100,000/. Wo are also in a posi-
tion to state that up to the present time the number of
slimes fergesl, for one purpose or other, is not much short
of 100, and these, as a mattsr of course, embracing every
variety of handwriting. In ono day, some six or seven
months since, he lost no less than 120,000/. in a sugar
speculation. On another occasion his loss on a hemp
transaction was 30,000/. ; while by an iron purchase he
suffered to the extent of close o❑ LO,OOOl. When we
first brought the frauds and forgeries of the late member
for Sligo before the public, we estimatel their amount
at nearly 1,000,000/. We have now an announcement
to make which will create almost as great surprise as our
first—which is that, including his liabilities, the man
who a few weeks ago closed his earthly career by h;s own
hand, on Ilampstead-heatb, left the world with obiiga-
tions to the etiortriVis extent of 1,500,0001. And these
were aU ineurred, as all his fratui,, wet forgeries were
committed, in the short space of from four to five years.
—Morning Advertiser.

HUMANITY REWATIDED.—On Saturday evening last,
at Kingstown, near Dublin, a small but interesting
meeting took place. It may be premised that Mr.
George Bla3kmore, the master of the trawler Sara,h, of
Kingstown, and crew, succeeded in saving, on the 12th
of February last, at some risk, the lives of 11 per.oos
from inevitable death, by taking them from a portion of
the wreck of the American barque Proteus,—tending
them with all care, and landing them the following day
at Kingstown, Captain Hutchinson, the Rtray
harbour master, who, like a true sailor, is
alway anxious to see humanity and bravery re-
warded, had succeeded in getting allotted for the
reward of this praiseworthy crew, the sum of 301.
from the surplus fund of the melancholy Tayleur, of
the committee of which Lord Talbot De Malahide is
treasure", Captain Hutchinson, as Chairman, ex-
PlaiP'od the pleasing duty he had to perform, and men-
tioned that the trustees of the Tayleur fund were
determined to reward every such act of humanity as far
as it lay in their power. The Rev. T. Denham Smith
thee addressed the brave master and his crew with much.
eloquence and feeling, and by his address evidently excited
the sympathies of his audience in favour of the general
cause of saving lives from shipwieek, as also of the
merits of this individual case, speaking at the same
time in high terms of The F.sherman and Mariner's
Shipwreck Society, of which the chairman was the
honorary agent for that locality. Mr. J. Orton, who
had taken an active interest in the subject of the re-
wards from Government for the preservers of life at
sea, then addressed the meeting, and encouraged the
exertions of the seamen on that side the channel by his
eulogies of the indomitable Deal boatmen, amongst
whom he had formerly resided, and whose cause he had
publiely advocated both in these columns and through
those of the Times. The money was then distributed,
and after a few 'plain but honest and manly words of
acknowledgment on behalf of himself and craw from Mr.
Itlockmore, and a heartfelt thanksgiving from Mr. Smith,
the meeting separated. It is understood that the same
crew have received the sum of two pounds each from
the Board of Trade, on the repOrt of Captain Sheer',
R.N., for this service, and that a medal will be most
likely accorded to the master by The Fisherman and
Mariner's Shipwreck Society. This is as it should be.
'too great publicity and encouragement cannot be given
to such cases as the one here mentioned.

EXTRAORDINARY SUICIDE.—On Thursday an inquest
was held by Mr. W. S. Rutter, county coroner of Lan-
cashire, on the body of Mr. John Hobler, aged 21,-- a
young gentleman of highly respectable connexions in
London, who had been studying the profession of a
machinist and tool maker at the works of Messrs.
Whitworth and Co., of Manchester. The deceased re-
sided with Dr. Clay, of Manchester, a relative, and ab-
sented himself in the month of January, leaving letters
behind him stating his intention to destroy himself. Of
course his absence created much alarm and uneasiness,
and his friends advertised him, and through the
police, with a view to discover his retreat, but
in this were unfortunately not successful. On Wed-
nesday his dead body was discovered in a copse or
plantation called Cheetham'a-close, in Turton, near Bol-
ton, in a road but little frequented ; and, from the state
of decomposition it was in, the body had probably been
there for some weeks. An empty phial and wine glass
were found near the 'body, leading to the supposition
that the unhappy gentleman had poisoned himself. The
body was discovered by a boy in company with Mr.
Kay, of Turton Tower, the owner of the property,
while in search of game.' In one of deceased's pockets
was found a letter with this address outside :—" The
finder of this body, particularly addressel to the police,
inquisitiveness being their misfortune." The letter
was as follows :—" If they make it a case of tem-
orary insanity it will be so—on the part of the
liury. Dearly beloved cave or coves, now that you
have found this body do not be an idiot or idiots, and,
get up an inquest t..) talk about what they know nothing
about ; but somewhere in my pockets you will find
ed., with which get a gill. After that, stick my Lady in
a hole somewhere. You need not read over it any ser-
vice, as I read it myself before starting ; and by selling
my clothes you will be able to pay yourself for your
trouble. ~After which, go away; and above all things
do not try to find out who I am, &c., as you will not be
able, but do as I say, and the Lord will reward you ac-
cordingly. Yours truly. The verdict must be that, in
great consideration for some person or persons, be des
stroyed himself to save them the trouble." At the time
the inqhest was commenced the name of the deceased
had not been ascertained, but Dr. Clay, of Manchester,
afterwards identified the body, and the jury agreed to a
verdict to the effect that the deceased bad destioyed him-
self while labouring under temporary insanity. Dr. Clay
stated that, before leaving Manchester, Mr. Nobler was
in a low and desponding utate of mind, brought on by
over.atudy.