The Sun.
London, England, 1856-02-25 00:00:00

THE AMERICAN MAILS.

LIVERPOOL, Saturday.—The British and North Ame-
rican Royal Mail stsam-ship Africa, Captain Neil
Shannon, saded from the Mersey this forenoon at half
past 11 o'clock, for New York, with the usual mail/
for the United States and British North American pa'
,essions, 50 passengers, and a fug cargo on freight.

THE AUGELEY•P,'ISONING CASES.

We stated in our last that it was intended to institute
a fresh inquiry into one or more of these case., before
the county magistrates, with the special object of making
the accused acquainted with the additional evidence
which would be brought against hun on his trial. V"
understand that Government has approved of that course
being taken, and had instructed Mr. Bodkin, the erei•
nent criminal barrister, to attend and conduct the eel
for the prosecution. ,J. H. rfatton, Esq., the obi°
constable, had, we believe, visited several parts of the
kingdom to apprise the additional witnesses that the,'
would be summoned, and the day had actually been
fixed for the hearing to commence—viz., Tuesday next;
c,
Yesterday, however, a telegraphic mesae was receive,'
by the chief constable, to the effect that the bearing We
postponed ; and we understand it is now probable that
any additional inquiry before the magistrates will be It
together abandoned, and nothing more will be done till
the trials commence. The Trial of Offences Bill, with
amendments, was reparted in the House of Lords on
Thursday last ; and this bill, our readers are aware, has
been introduced with a view to remove such cases 0
that of W. Palmer for trial from any place where an en•
favourable prejudice may be supposed to exist to the
Central Criminal Court in London. There, in due time.,
a full investigation of these extraordinary cbarges
take place before a tribunal the competency of whice
cannot be disputed, and whose freedom from prejudice
may be fully relied op.—Staffordshire Advertiser.

On Friday a petition before the Lords Justices 0'36
called on for hearing, appealing from the decision of Mr'
CorninisFioner Balguy, of the Birmingham District Court,
who had refused to adjudicate, William Palmer, surgeon,
of Rugeley (now in Stafford Gaol on a charge of reur'
der), a bankrupt, on the ground that an imprisontneo!
of 21 days at the suit of Mr. Pad wick on a ca. ea., and
on a charge of murder, did not constitute an act of hank"
ruptcy. Against this decision the petitioning creditor°
had appealed. Lord Justice Knight Bruce started an
objection to the jurisdiction of the Court. There WO
no order from the commissioner. Mr. Daniel submitted
that the Court had a general jwisdiction. The attorney
for the petitioning creditor said it was arranged that tb°
question should ''be discussed. Lord Justice Knight
Bruce said that the Court of Review had all the power!
of a commissioner, but he was not aware that the act:
under which they now sat gave the Court any sue°
power. The case must go bask, unless Mr, Do Gea
who appeared for William Palmer, would consent. kW'
De Gex replied that the attorney who instructed ,him
was only the agent in the matter, and could net consent.
Mr. Daniel asked the Court to let the case stand for the
next petition day ; all that was to be done was to get s'
formal order from the commissioner. Lord Justice°
Knight Bruce said it might be done in as inexpeosire
a way as possible ; but at present the Court without a
consent had no jurisdiction to hear the matter. The
case accordingly stands over.

A Ca'einet Council was held on Saturday afternoohr
at the Foreign-office. The Ministers present were Vie;
count Palmerston, the Lord Chancellor, the Marquis 0,
Lansdowne, En.' Granville, the Earl of Harrowby, Sir
G. Grey, Mr. Secretary Labouchere, Lori Panmure, the
Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir C. Wood, the Right
Hon. R. Vernon Smith, Lord Stanley of Alderley, the
Right Hon. M. T. Baines, and the Duke of Argyll. The
Council sat three huurs and a quarter.
THE SPEAKEE'i PARLIAMENTARY DINNER.--The
Right Hon. the Speaker's third Parliamentary dinner
took place on Saturday. The following members were
present : —Lord Harry Vane, Lord H. ChohnondeleY,
Right Hon. Lord R. Grosvenor, Hon. George Byh4t
Right Hon. Sir F. Baring, Bart., Right Hon. W. 1-3'
Gladstone, Right Hon. Edward Cardwell, Sir Williari
Heathcote, Bart., Slr James Weir Hogg, Bart., Mr
Thomas Baring, Colonel Deedes' Mr. Robert Palma,'
Mr. Thomas Greene, Mr. Henry Drummond, Mr. Net
ward Egerton, Mr. William Beckett, Mr. Henry H.
bert, Mr. Bonham Carter, Mr. Braniston, Mr. Thorn'
ley, Mr. Baxter, Mr. E. Lockhart, Mr. Glyn, and Mr-
Wrightson. The Secretary (Mr. Lefroy) and the Be"•
Mr. Gamier were present. The following members were
absent from town :—The Right Hon. Sir James Gr 3"
ham, Bart., Right Hon. Lord John Manners, Right
Hon. Sidney Herbert, and Colonel Wilson Patten
(through death of a relation). The right hon. gentleman
will hold his first levee on Saturday next, March 1, at
ten p.m.
A ,ieputation, consisting of Mr. R. Currie, ALP.'
Mr. Warner, M.P., Mr. Margetson, Captain Shuttle-
worth, Mr. Morrison, and Mr. Laming, had an inter'
view with Lord Stanley of Alderley, and the Right
Hon. R. Lowe on Saturday.
The Right Hon. T. M. Gibson, M.P., Mr. Hadfiel6
M.P., together with Sir E. Armitage, Aldermen Shuttle'
worth and Watkins, the Town Clerk of Manchester,
and Mr. Wyatt (Parliamentary agent) bad an intervie°
with the Right Hon. R. Lowe on Saturday at the
Board of Trade.

Baron Videl has arrived at the Clarendon Hotel, from
Paris.
The Queen has created the Earl of Kenmare in the
peerage of Ireland a Baron of the United Kingdom, V
the title of Baron Keninnrelf Castle Rosse, in the count/
of Sorry!