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THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, `DECEMBER 8, 1856

heroism. Think of Clocinna.tus, Hannibal, Cato, Ern:
minonda,, Belisarius ; compa.:e them with Marlborough.
Wellington, Blenheim, Strathfieldsaye It was w; h
lifliculty that Burns could. he prevailed upon to accept
money as the wages of inepirati on ; but Scott set up
Pegasus to auction. Contempt of riches, contentment
with scanty appliances, the philosophy of the great men
of old, elevated them to a level beyond the, reach of
worldly conilions, made wealth be held r..t its proper
vAlue, raised man above money. John,.crsing in the wil-
d erness, faring on its fruits and r;l,34;theu meanly, was so
r eceived by the people as to be I.r.na'Alable to Herod. The
-tpostles, fishermen, tent-mr.kers—their Master, the
carpenter—wielded the "d Jmocratis" and fulmio'd
' over Greece." Even now the secret of the social power
of the Romish priesthood., or of the Free Kirk ministers,
is that they prove that they prefer their Master's work
to their worldly wages. We gabble about the influence
of capital ; we rant Red Republicanism and denounce
the " money power"—what is its power but the homage
we have the folly to pay to it ? How can we wonder at
fraud, forgery, embezzlement, when society places men
in the scale of distinction in the ratio of their incomes ;
when any knave or fool may, by swindling or stagging,
or gambling, or cooking accounts, thrust himself above
the best citizen and the wisest man ; and when any
honest man who values money no more than its true
wort:h is thought eccentric, looked down upon, and made
of r o :Account. Redpatb, in the eyes of the nobleman
who grasped his hand and called him " my dear fellow,"
stns "the best soul living," solely by his good dinners
laid his splendid furniture.
Let men respect themselves--dare to be poor—weigh
nobody by their purse, but only by their worth and
wisdom, and at last the world will come to do so too.
It is time that all good men set themselves resolutely to
discountenance the worship of the golden calf ; to con-
temn by precept and example the sumptuary spirit of
the age, and the sordid grovelling soul of modern soci-
ety. Do this, and the world will be guided by the wisest
and governed by the best ; do it not, and Robsons, and
Redisaths, and "the almighty dollar" will overwhelm
the nation in a chaos of masterful dishonesty, and the
growing triumph of successful fraud.

MR. BUCHANAN'S PROBABLE POLICY,

FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC.

(From the Nee York Prepaid.)
Our independent newspapers are beginning to specu
late pretty freely upon the prospects of Mr. Buchanan's
Administration, his probable policy, foreign and do-
mestic, the composition of his Cabinet, and his dis-
tribution of the spoils. Our democratic organs, North
and South, deprecate these speculations as intrusive
and impertinent ; but the various factions and cliques
of the party are none the less interested or active on
that account in reference to the controlling principles
and influences •f the incoming Administration. The
ultra Southern disunion clique, here and there, arethrow-
ing out their reminders of " pledges" and " obliga-
tions," and their hints of rule or ruin, while the opposi-
tion anti-slavery ultras of the North are preaching the
border ruffianism of poor Pierce, and the filibustering of
the Ostend manifesto and the Cincinnati platform as the
inevitable charts and compass of Mr. Pierce's democratic
successor. The Northern conservative wing of demo.
cracy, on the other hand, in view of the heavy and sug-
gestive popular Northern vote for Fremont, are inclined
to the opinion that Mr. Buchanan, in order to restore his
party to a respectable footing in the Northern States,
will studiously avoid those slavery extending schemes of
the Southern disunion nigger drivers upon which poor
Pierce has has so ignominiously foundered.
In these various conjectures and speculations there are
certain things which are pretty clear, and others which
are not so very transparent. For our part we feel assured
that it is the present intention of Mr. Buchanan to give
the country a conservative and conciliatory administra-
tion in his domestic and foreign policy, and not a career
of lawless border ruffianism at home and reckless filibus-
tering abroad, for the purpose of extending the area of
Southern States and the political power of the South in
Congress. We have no doubt of the lawful and honour-
able inclinations of Mr. Buchanan, for we fully believe
that he will endeavour from the outset to take that
course best calculated to allay our domestic sectional
excitements upon slavery, and best adapted, in our fo-
reign relations, to secure the respect and confidence of
foreign Powers, American and European.
The especial subject which trenches most prominently
upon the misgivings of all parties and factions is the
Kansas imbroglio, and the important question whether
the destiny of Kansas under Mr. Buchanan's Adminis-
tration will be her admission into the Union as a free

State or slave State. Our Southern ultras of the dis.

union and Southern Confederacy scheme of Jefferson
Davis—Mr. Pierce's Secretary of War—of Atchison,

Governor Wise, Senators Mason, Slidell, and others,
whose policy is rule or ruin, expect confidently the issue
in Kansas to result in favour of slavery, in the fulfilment
of the coercive measures against the Free-state settlers,
thus far pursued by Mr. Pierce and his ruffian officials
and mercenaries.

In this view, the first duty of Mr. Buchanan will be
the repudiation of this Southern disunion faction, which,
in rising to the control of the democratic party under
Pierce, has within three short years brought it to the
verge of destruction. In dismissing this disunion and
demoralising faction Mr. Buchanan will but, imitate the
example of General Jackson in 1329 against Mr. Cal-
houn and his mischict-scheming nullification clique of
that day. This step taken, the next will be a practical
suspension of the ruffian policy of Pierce in Kansas, in
an honest enforcement of the organic law of the terri-
tory. Tinder this law it is open to settlers of all sec-
tions, all nations, and all opinions, slavery or anti-sla-
very ; and it is ordained that when these settlers shall
proceed to organise a State constitution, it shall rest with
them to determine upon the establishment of slavery in,
or its exclusion from, the commonwealth.
The policy of Mr. Buchanan, therefore, upon this
subject is so plain and simple that he can hardly fail to
adopt it. We feel perfec.iy satisfied, from the number of
free state settlers iu Kansas, in spite of all Mr. Pierce's
coercive efforts to expel or exterminate them—from the
superior fe.ciliies which the unencumbered Free state
emigrant possesses over the emigrant embarrassed with
his slaves—from the geographical situation, climate, and
productions of the territory, and from the extensive orge-
nisation of the Northern Kansas aid societies--that it
will only require an honest enforcement of the Kansas
organic law again t all impertinent border ruffians and
outside interferences to secure the destiny of Kansas in
behalf of free labour, and in the decisive exclusion of the
Southern institution of slavery. The South, having ac-
cepted this issue upon these terms, cannot object to its
legitimate solution should it go against them. Undoubt-
edly the disunion clique of Davis, Wise, Atchison, and
Co. would raise a violent howling over the result ; but
in being dismissed from their late despotic position in the
Democratic party their howling would be as impotent as
that of a snarling cur with his teeth extracted. On the
other hand, this solution of the Reuses question would
put an end to the present powerful Northern Republican
party, and do much to re-establish the Northern de-
mocracy upon their ancient footing of strength and
respectability.
In reference to Cuba, we stand entirely prepared for
such an interpretation of the Ostend manifesto of Mr.
Buchanan as will speedily quiet the fears of Spain asd her
allies and the uneasiness of our commercial conservatives.
Undoubtedly Mr. Buehanan, like every other president,
from J. Quincy Adams down, will consider the acquisi-
tion of the island of Cuba as a most desirable thing. He
regards that island, as we all regard it, as the key of the
Gulf of Mexico, and as the natural lock and key of our
Southern commerce and our Southern Gulf coast. But
Mr. Buchanan will be in no hurry to seize this desirable
possession by a filibustering foray, nor by any of those
dexterous expedients of unprincipled propagandists of
liberty or slavery that would imperil the peace or the
honour of the country. And so in reference to Mexico
and Central America. Towards the former we have every
reason to expect that Mr. Buchanan will seek rather to
restore the confidence we have lost than to widen the
breach by licences to filibusters cr insidious diplo
mats of the filibustering sort. In regard to Central
America we have the same confidence in the honourable
and pacific inclinations of the President elect. We think
he will find some other medium for the interpretation of
the Monroe doctrine than Gen. Walker or Pierre Soule,
Walker's ultra-Southern confidential prime Minister.
Such are. our views of the probable domestic and fo-
reign policy of Mr. Buchanan upon the prominent issues
of the day. Nor do we speak altogether at random.
Our impressions are derived from our knowledge of the
man, and from other sources of informatfon entitled to
respect. In advance, however, of any official definition
of his policy, he will be called upon to designate his
Cabinet, and this task he will delay until the electoral
C dleges shall have officially declared his election, and
_settled it beyond the possibility of a doubt from
Southern disunion intrigues to dragoon him into sub-
mission. But with the official determination of his
eie:ltion, Mr. Buchanan will deliberately proceed to the
responsible duties of his great office in the appointment
of a Cabinet which, in itself, will be the interpreta•
tion of his whole policy and the key to his success or his
humiliation and the final destruction of his party. His
Cabinet must be a unit, and a Conservative unit, and the
instant he shall discover an intriguing border ruffian or
filibuster among them, or that cliques and coteries are
at
folly in the submssie unreonf
work with them in the kitchen, it wiil be his duty to
follow the, example of Jackson, and try a new set of
men. Prom Van Buren down
pntroesidieernct to Pierce, the
intriguing
lessons of
Ministry are too fresh in the memory of Mr. Buchanan
to suppose that lee will not profit by them.
With these impressionsr touching the incoming Admi-
meadtilarepared to give it a fair and liberal
nistration, vie
trial. The im
cliaate breakers which threaten it are
whichr?anising
Southernor rum • but, according to the latest news
nionista and their wild piratical
the
policyse of rule
from Wheatland, this'diso faction has already
is auspicious of still better
things to come.
received a caution,

TESTIMONIAL TO THE BISHOP OeP.GRAHAM'S ToWN.—
intend presenting to
The students of Brighton College
eelipltrresent, as a mark of
their late Principal a very
g 0;-p,stece for a table,
their esteem. It consists of a silver
CorinthianB -roilsentwined
of a tripod form, the base consist
leaves,
with roses, from which rises a pillar of
t the
. base
supporting a bowl for flowers. it is ornamenatnedd
much enhancedrwt;
with three female figures offering flowers
the
effect of the dead silver figures being
the burnished ground. One one side of the base is
by
is
motto of the college, in Greek, " Let the good prevail .tih.?,
on another side, the arms of the new Bishop ; and n'
the front, the inscription :—" Presented to the Rev.
Henry Cotterill, D.D., late Principal of Brighton col-
lege, in commemoration of his elevation to the See of
Graham's Town, and as a testimonial of respect en.
tertained by the students for the able manner in which,
for several years, he discharged his arduous duties as
Principal of a public school. December, 1856." The
weight of the article is 161 oz.—Brig/Win OaZate.

THE PARLIAMENT-STREET MURDEF.

Since the condemnation of the wretched man, Robert
Marley, for the murdir of Richard Cope, in Parliament-
street, he has conducted himself in a very satisfactory
manner, and apreirs quite resigned to his fate, which he
seems all along to have considered inevitable. The
culprit appears to have received a good education, and
to havo been connscted with a family of very great re-
spectability, but in consequence of his wild habits they
were compelled to discard him, and he enlisted in the
7th Hussars, served with that regiment in the Kaffir
war, and evinced great bravery upon several occasions
when before the enemy. He was visited on Tuesday by
a female relative, a married sister. The interview was
very short, and for obvious reasons need not be further
alluded to. Marley was long known to the police. He
was originally convicted summarily by a magistrate at
one of the police courts, and was subsequently tried for
housebreaking, and sentenced to be transported, but sub-
sequently obtained his liberty under the ticket-of-leave-
system, but he states he had no chance of obtaining any
employment, even if he bad been disposed to work, and
he was compelled again to resort to his evil courses to
obtain a subsistence.

In all the conversations Marley has had with the offi-
cials of the gaol of Newgate, be has on every occasion
expressed his satisfaction with the manner in which his
trial was conducted, and also that Mr. Sleigh, the gen-
tleman who was assigned to act as his counsel by the

humanity of the Sheriffs, did everything that waspos-
sible for him, but he says that he felt his case was hope-
less, and that he was not at all surprised at the verdict
that was delivered by the jury, and that as he had been
the means of destroying life he was prepared to sacri-
fice his owi in return. It should not be inferred that
there is any bravado exhibited by the culprit ; on the
contrary, his demeanour is very decorous, but he is
evidently a determined man, who has calmly weighed
all the circumstances, and who is prepared for the
worst. It has been stated that immediately after the
sentence the prisoner's clothes were taken off him,
and the prison dress substituted, but there is no truth in
this statement. The gaol authorities have the power to
take this step if they consider it necessary but it is never
resorted to unless, as in the case of Palmer, there is a
suspicion that poison may be secreted about the gar-
ments, and Marley still retains the same dress he wore at
the trial. During the day one officer is in the cell with
him, and at night there are two. He converses freely,
and from his tone and demeanour no one would imagine
that he was under sentence of death, and that his days
were nambered.

It is almost needless to state that the prisoner, not-
withstanding the ingenious manner in which his learned
counsel argued the question at the trial, has never for a
single moment since his conviction attempted to deny
that his was the hand that inflicted the deadly injuries
upon the poor man Cope, but he persists in asserting
that he had no accomplices whatever in the matter, the
whole affair was entirely unpremeditated, and that he
had no thought of being concerned in such an affair a
quarter of an hour before the occurrence took place. It
will be remembered that the principal witness, Lerigo,
while passing the shop, heard groans from the inside,
and saw two or three men standing close by, and when
he inquired what was the matter, they told him it was
only a man and wife quarrelling, apparently to throw
him off his guard and induce him not to interfere ; and
these men subsequently rendered no assistance to appre-
hend the prisoner, and from these circumstances it was
very naturally inferred that they were concerned with
the prisoner in the outrage. Marley, however, declares
positively that this was not the case, and states that he
alone was concerned in the affair, and that accidentally
passing by and seeing that it was a small shop
with no one in it but the deceased, who was appa-
rently a weak and diminutive man, the thought
struck him that it was a good opportunity to com-
mit a robbery, and he went in with that intention,
but he declares most solemnly that he never intended to
use any more ♦iolence than would be necessary to render
Cope helpless, and to enable him to escape with his ex-
pected booty. He admits that having made some inquiry
of the unfortunate deceased to take off his attention, be
suddenly struck him with the life-preserver ; but the
blow did not have the intended effect, and as he was
fearful that the alarm raised by Cope would cause his
detection, he was induced to give him several other vio-
lent blows before his victim was reduced to unconscious-
ness, and there is no doubt that it was the last blow so
inflicted that fractured the skull and depressed the bone,
and was the cause of the fatal result. The culprit states
that in the excitement of the moment, be had no oppor-
tunity of making very close observation, and seeing the
basket—which, it will be remembered, contained a cod-
fish, and which had been placed in a blue bag—he sup-
posed it to contain some valuable property, and snatched
it up and made off with it ; but finding it impeded his
flight, he threw it away shortly before he arrived at
Bridge-street and he asserts that there is no foundatio❑
for the supposition that it was handed by him to an ac-
complice. With regard to the fact or the possession of
such an instrument as a life preserver, the prisoner says
that it is no indication of an intention to destroy life, as
such weapons are constantly carried by persons who are
in the habit of committing offenses of this class, that he
had it always about him, and that the only use for it was
to stun the person intended to-be robbed.
The execution will take place on Monday next, the
15th instant.

IN,3OLVENT DEBTORS' COURT.—Dec. 6.

necessary. Ido not believe the child had any disease of
the heart or lungs. A large proportion of children die
wider one year of age, and cceasionally of marasmus.
Ophthalmia will sometimes cause the loss of sight, even
where there is medical care. Occasionally the mother's
milk will not agree with the child. Sometimes, but not
frequently, wetnurses aro recommended on that account.
Ido not in general approve of wetnurses. When milk
exists at all, I believe that is the proper food.
Re-examined—l have been in practice since 1840.
Milk-and-water is a good substitute for mother's mile,
By the Judge—lf I had opened tho body I should
not have found anything to alter my opinion, I believe.
I should not have found any evidence of marasmus which
I did not see on the exterior. The symptom of maras-
mus in this case was emaciation. Tho child sank gra-
dually. A child might have life enough to Jive for nine
days, and yet not be brought round by good treatment.
I don't believe the mesenteric g'ands were affected, be-
cause the idly was not swollen. That disease causes
emaciation, and is constitutional in tome children. The
ophthalmia of infects is not constitutional. Tue prison-
er's state of intellect is peculiar. The state of her mind
is not such as to warrant sending her to an asylum, but
she is not fit to have the care of her family.
Patience Witts said—l live in the North Quay-road at
Tewkesbury. I have known the prisoner two yearse I
knew her when she lived in Wilks'e-alley, before the child
Diana was born. I saw the child six weeks after it was
born. Her husband is a chairmaker. The child was in a
very filthy state when I saw it. It was very low. I
washed some things for her, and told her to wash the
child. She said she would. The next week I saw the
child ;it seemed lower. She said she had no milk. I
told her she was serving that as she had served the other.
She said "No, she would do better by it." I washed
some more clothes and took them heme. She was feeding
the child. I saw the child's eyes bad. She said she
washed the child's eyes with some lotion she had been
begging. The child was getting lower. I said I should
tell Mr. Prior she was using that baby the same as she
did the other. She said she did not care it I told 20 Mr.
Priors. I did not see then whether she had any milk.
I saw the child when she removed to Nelson's-alley.
It was very filthy. The child's person was in holes from
filth and neglect. I considered the prisoner was not so
right at some points as she should be. She had a simple
way of talking and doing things. She did not know how
to manage a child. She did not know how to dress it,
or to wash it, and was afraid to put pins for fear of hurt-
ing it. She once said she wished them both dead, for
she could not bear the sight of them.
Cross-examined— Her temper was very impatient.
She ran aground all her neighbours, as she has done me
for doing good to her child.
Charlotte Hampton said I live in Nelson-alley,
Tewkesbury. I first saw the prisoner when the baby
was crying. I pile the baby to her breast. When I
went away the child began to cry. I went back and
said " If you won't suckle it why don't you feed it ?"
She said she had no victuals. I gave her a can of victuals,
but I saw it again in the same state. She began to
wash the child, and rubbed it so hard that I took it
and washed it. It was in such a dirty state it was
not fit to touch. She said she was washing it,
because the neighbours had made a stir about it. I
sometimes could not make out what she said. I should
not think she was able tll3 take care of a child ; she
rubbed it as she would a floor.
Mr. Prior recalled—The prisoner has had two chil-
dren. She has acted as a married woman in the ma-
nagement of her household. She has conversed ration.
ally with me. When I have told her what to do she
would do it. I foresaw this, and therefore I advised
that an inquest should be held.
Cross-examined—She had no power to bring up a
family. It is not imbecility, but weakness of mind. She
would be deficient in arrangement and foresight. She
had no tenacity of purpose.
By the Judge—ln signing a certificate you must
assign some delusions.
Thomas Hicks said—l am the surgeon at the Glou-
cester Gaol. I have seen the prisoner every day since
her committal. I always considered that she knew
right from wrong.
Mr. Baron Bramwell here observed that the govern.
ment of lunatic asylums was founded on the patients to
some extent knowing right from wrong.
Witness continued—She appeared to have a certain
degree of intellect. She is of weak intellect and obsti-
nate temper, a person yon could neither lead nor drive.
She was capable of knowing that the deprivation of food
would kill a child, and was wrong. She made inquiries
atter her child, and seemed to feel an interest in it for
some reason ; I don't know for what reason.
During the progress of this case the learned judge ex-
pressed his opinion that the evidence would not support
the charge of murder. The only question would be,
whether the prisoner had been guilty of manslaughter.
His lordship thought there was great difficulty in the
case, arising from the prisoner's peculiar state of mind.
Mr. Skinner, in addressing the jury, contended, first,
that the child might have died of natural disease ; and,
secondly, that there was no" wroegful neglect in the
prisoner, as she was manifestly incapable of taking care
of a child.
Mr. Baron Bramwell, in summing up the evidence,
said the case was one of some difficulty. His lordship
told the jury that if they were of opinion the child died
from the prisoner's neglect, they must then consider whe-
ther or not she knew that that neglect was wrong, and,
further, whether the prisoner knew the nature and coa-
-1 sequences of her omission.
The jury found that the child died by the prisoner's
neglect, but they said they could not agree as to whether
she knew that that neglect was wrong.
Mr. Baron Bramwell told the jury they must make up
their minds on that point. If the prisoner knew that
the neglect eves wrong she was guilty of manslaughter ;
but, though she knew it was wrong, yet, if she did not
know the nature and consequences of the neglect, the
jury should acquit her, on the ground of insanity.
The jury found the prisoner not guilty, on the ground
of insanity.
Mr. Skinner, for the prisoner, claimed her acquittal on
another indictment, which charged her with the man-
slaughter of her stepson, George Yarnell, a child seven
yearseef age, by kicking it on the back.
Mr. Powell said he could not consent to that course ;
he was willing that the indictment should not be tried.
Mr. Baron Bramwell said, perhaps the case had better
be tried.
It was then proved by the witness Patience Witts that
in the beginning of September last she saw the prisoner
kick the child on the loins, saying it was naughty. The
child was taken to the workhouse on the 6th of Sept.,
afflicted with curvature of the spine, and died ou the 3d
of October. On a postmortem examinaticn it was found
that one of the ribs was broken, and turned in upon the
lungs, which were much inflamed. The surgeon said the
child died of inflammation of the lungs, but he could not
say positively- whether the disease was caused by the
kick or by natural causes.
The jury ultimately acquitted the prisoner.
Mr. Baron Bramwell ordered the prisoner to be de-
tained iu custody during her Majesty's pleasure.
This case concluded the business of the assizes for
this county at a quarter to 2 p.m.
QONSPIRACY TO MURDER THE GOVERNOR OF THE BRISTOL
GAOL.
Some sensation was created during these assizes by
the discovery of a conspiracy, formed among some of
the Bristol prisoners, to murder the governor, Mr. Gard-
ner, on his return with them from Gloucester to Bristol.
It appeared that previous to leaving the gaol at Bristol
the prisoners had all been strictly searched, to see
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which
his prisoners in the carriage, he makes it a rule
never to carry the keys.
Vowles (who was a ticket-of-leave man) pleaded guilty
to a charge of burglary committed in conjunction with
his father,
some .beuahrieHlcdhinieendsgu:swas going
Mr. Baron Bramwell, before passing sentence, exa-
mined Mr. Gardner upon the facts above stated, and
then sentenced the prisoner to be transported for life,

NORTHERN CIRCUIT.— DUnHAM, DEC, 4.

John, Brown was indicted for rape.
The Hon. A. Liddell prosecuted ; Mr. Price appeared
for the prisoner.
The proseoutrix, who gave her evidence in a very clear
and modest manner, is a married woman, but at the time
of this offence, the 17th of September, owing to her
husband being in
the hospitol, was living alone in a'
roadside cottage about five miles from Darlington, on
the Staindrop road, known as the Killerby-tollbar. She
went to bed about 10 o'clock with her children, and
about an hour afterwards the prisoner broke into the
house by pricing open the door with a rail, and com-
mitted the offence with which he was charged.
Mr. Price having subjected the proseeutrix to a very
severe cress-examination, but failed to shake her testi-
mony in the slightest degree, declined to address the
jury ; who at once found the prisoner guilty ; and
He was sentenced to be transported for life.

FACTO AHOITT THE AMERICAN PRESIDENTS.—Four of
the first seven were from Virginia. Two of the same
name were from Massachusetts, and the seventh was
from Tennessee. All but ono were 66 years old on
leaving office, having served two tc:ms ; and one of
them, who had served but one term, would have been
66 years old at the end of another. Three of the seven
died on 4th July, and two of them on the same day and
year. Two of them were on the snh-committee of three
that drafted the Declaration of Independence, and these
two died on the same day and year, andon the anniversary
of the Declaration of In dependence, and just half-a•centnry
from the day of declaration. The names of three of the
seven ended in son, yet neither of thus transmitted his
name to a son. In respect to the names of all, it may
be said, in conclusion, the initials of two of the seven
were the same ; and of two others, that they were the
same ; and the initials of still two others, that they were
the earr® The remaining one, who stands alone in this
particular, stands alone also in the love and admiration
of his countrymen and the civilised world—Washington.
10f the first five only one bad a son, and that son was
also president.