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striving, or should he be enabled during his re- "
maining tenure of office to further complicate
matters, it will be impossible to estimate the ter-
rible consequences. War may be forced on us
despite the reluctance with which we should
engage in such a conflict. We could not, with•
out surrendering our position in the scale of
nations, submit patiently to the outrageous in-
sults which Gen. PrancE and his coadjutors may
think fit to offer.
Although we greatly disapproved of the Foreign
Enlistment scheme forced on us by the prevail-
ing German influence, we cannot but approve
of the very conciliatory and judicious course
adopted by Lord CLARENDON in reference to this
unfortunate question. Every apology that could
he offered, or would be sought, by men possessed
of the ordinary feelings of gentlemen has already
been tendered. But Mr. PIERCE has completely
repudiated such feelings. He has assumed the
part of the blustering bully, in the vain attempt
to humiliate a friendly Power. He has chosen
r to act on the unsupported assertions of men
whose testimony would not be considered sufficient

It was not in flesh and blood to be otherwise.
They were more : they did not sit down and
grumble about it—they were active in search of
redress. They held meetings, devised an im-
proved route, offered to subscribe half the expen-
diture of the required service, and sent a deputa-
tion over to this country to plead their just
claims, and set forth their wishes at head-quarters.
Unfortunately, under our blessed form of aristo-
cratic Government—under that regime of routine
and incompetency which is doing us such vital
injury—the fate of the poor colonists isto wait, and
HEAVEN and themselves know with what patience.

purposo with the omnipotent mob. Of all judges
in the land none ought to be further from the
reach of personal considerations than the man who
has to decide whether peace or war be best for
his country ; or how he can most impartially do
justice between embittered domestic parties.
At the present time the American PRESI-
DENT, on the testimony of Americans themselves,
and we implicitly believe them, is embroiling, and
jeopardising the domestic and foreign relations
of his country purely for electioneering pur-
The slavery party had enslaved
North, and domineered over every
class in the Union. PIERCE, therefore,
swore allegiance to all the brutalities of " invo-
luntary servitude," used his utmost official efforts
to remove further north the lice beyond which
slavery might not be carried ; and, successful in
that infernal project, he was determined it should
not remain a dead letter. Kansas becomes peopled
with freemen—a minority of slaveholders occupy
it temporarily to set up a slave legislature—and
President PIERCE abets the nefarious violence of
these men, adopts the governor of their nomina-
tion, threatens the anti-slavery men with the
military, thwarts by all means in his power a
Commission of Congress itself, and is endeavour-
ing by force to convert an immense territory into
a new slave state. Already Kansas is upon the

poses.
the

Whether anything has been decided on by

Government in their case or not we are ig-
norant to this hour. To the best of our

to warrant a hostile verdict against a previously
convicted pickpocket at the Old Bailey, and that
in opposition to the solemn declarations of four
English Gentlemen of untainted character and
reputation. He has attempted to put the lies on
Mr. CRAMPTON, but the arrow will recoil against
himself, and he will suffer far more severely than
the object of his insane fury.
The time is, however, rapidly approaching when
he will no longer be enabled to play such " fan-
tastic tricks before high HEAVEN." His brief
authority is rapidly waning, and we hope and
believe that he will soon have to retire into the
obscurity for which he is best suited. If, there-
fore, a crisis can be averted, until after the com-
pulsory abdication of General PIIIRCE, all will be
well. If not, we must patiently abide the result.
We shall not be the chief sufferers. We do not
wish to speak on this point, for General PIERCE
has placed the character of Bobadil in too humi-
liating a point of view to induce any persons of
ordinary understanding to wish to become in-
volved in the same category.
With our transatlantic brethren we are anxious
to remain on the most friendly terms. Nothing
could cause deeper regret than any quarrel. But
ve have already done our part to avert the evil.
The conciliatory—we may almost say "apolo-
getic"—tone adopted by the Government has been
thoroughly approved by the people. If the
PALMERSTON Administration had acted towards
any other Government in the same way which
that of General PIERCE has done to it, there
would be an unequivocal expression of public
opinion that would speedily drive the delinquents
from place and power. We know that the better
class of American citizens are unwilling to descend
into the political arena—that they keep them-
- selves aloof from every movement by which they
might be brought into collision with the ready
nob. But we submit that the time has
arrived when the policy of abstention is no longer
practicable—when it is the duty of every patriotic
citizen to reveal his real sentiments, and to evince
his absolute disapproval of the conduct of the
temporary Government. If this be done we are
convinced that the difficulty will be speedily and
satisfactorily removed. If not, we must be con-
tented to prepare ourselves for the desperate
struggle, for which we shall have at least the
satisfaction of knowing that neither the Govern-
- :vent nor the people of Great Britain are respons-
ible.

verge of civil war.
His bullying arrogance towards this country is
known to every one. On the enlistment question,
as each phase of his complaints vanishes he pre.
seats another ; spontaneous abandonment of the
scheme—apologies for everything which only
seemed irritating to Messrs. PIERCE and MARCY
—denials of all intention on the part of our Go-
vernment to annoy the Americans, denials by Mr.
CRAMPTON and the Consuls of all that was im-
puted to them everything that any man pre-
tending to the character of a gentleman would
deem satisfactory was freely offered. But no ;
a quarrel the blustering President and his Secre-
tary must have, and will have ; Fillibusters and
Caucuses must be gratified at all costs by a Presi-
dent Candidate, and Messrs. PIERCE and MARCY
will show to their admiring constituents that they
are men great enough to send home a British Minis.-
ter. What American would not vote for a man who
could help to seize Mexican territory, extend the
territories of slavery, and give a British represen-
tative the sack !
Great exploits these ; but no President can-
didate has yet other claims on the free and inde-
pendent electors. The CLAYTON-BULWER Treaty
is understood in one sense by Mr. Marx; in an-
other by Lord CLARENDON—the latter, on the
part of England, suggests friendly arbitration.
Mr. COBDEN rejoices, but his joy is short. Arbi-
tration ? No, indeed ! America is right, must
be right—" there is nothing to arbitrate about,'
which is true enough when one party determines
to be his own arbiter. Even France is under the
rod. of the President Candidate. Three of his
officers were uneourteously treated by one of the
Emperor's, when the former were travelling in
the capacity of private gentlemen, and forthwith
a French complication is trumpeted about as one
of Mr. PIERCES achievements. His last feat is
the reception of an envoy from Walker and his
buccaneers, as the representative of a de facto
Government of Nicaragua, and this open fraud
on the rights of an independent State is the sub-
j"ct of an elaborate brief in his own cause to the
Senate.

It really seems as if the excesses of German
despots on the one hand, and American Presidents
on the other, were intended to deepen our attach-
ment to our own limited and hereditary Monarchy.
The prize of the first position amongst twenty or
thirty millions of people seems too great a one
for the virtue of most. We have just now before
us the miserable spectacle of the ruler of a great
people, driven to the most undignified party
quarrels, and quarrels with yet greater na-
tions, to purchase the votes of the worst part of
the community. There are considerable numbers
of intelligent and sensible men in America who
see all this and regret it, but who think it useless
to contend with a PRESIDENT and a mob of Fitli-
busters too, so they leave politics and the Admi-
nistration to the political " roughs." The result
is the mob rules Mr. PrEno; Mr. PIERCE rules
America, and all who have to treat with her must
deal with a PRESIDENT who retains or forfeits his
throne at the bidding of a Prletorian mob.
Strongly as we disapproved the whole Foreign En-
listment scheme, we confess with pleasure that
Englishmen are proud of the conciliatory, yet
dignified, manner in which Lord CLARENDON has
conducted the controversy with the petulant
American Secretary. Nothing in the affair be-
came him like the ending of it; and when PIERCE
sends back Mr. CRAMPTON we shall receive him
with the same equanimity which has ch aracterised
all our conduct in this matter.

Of all theoretical absurdities that of lierodi-
Iry Monarchy seems on? of the greatest. No

:onstitutiou-uraker would have thouglit of it for

t, moment, except as an expedient suggested -oy
facts. Supreme power ought to go with supreme

wisdom ; but even common sense is too seldom
ransmitted for many generations, and often has

not an heir. Who would. &eau; then, of intrust-

Jig the chief magistracy of empires to the lottery,
)f birth ? Yet, strange to say, of all political iu-

ititutions none has been so general as that of

Monarchy. With nations ancient and modern,
iavage and civilised, from the time of the PHA.-
qlons to that of VICTORIA, in Dahomey or in
France, Hereditary Monarchy is an accepted and a
lauded form of Government. Splendid Municipal

Republics have indeed adorned the history of the
early and middle ages ; but they gave place in
nearly all iustance3 to the rule of one man, and
of one whose onTy title to govern was that he was
" his father's son."

From this supposed antiquated absurdity it
was to be the function of the United States to de-
liver us, and they were to do it by the force of
example. FRANKLIN, JEFFER3ON, and their fel-
.ows, laid down as their guiding maxim, to use
,heir own words, " that GOD had not created
some men with saddles on their backs, and others
booted and spurred to rile them." Strange lan-
guage for slaveholders, but they meant it to ap-
ply to an English Monarch and an English House
of Lords. There is, however, an old fable of the
'torso in his benevolence takiug the man on his
)wn back, and finding himself ridden further than
he wished by the rider of his own election. And
,3ertainly the model republic is doing much to
prove that an elected rider may be an infinitely
worse incumbrance than one born to the saddle.
£he latter keeps his native seat without perpetual
efforts, harassing both to himself and his steed ;
,he former sitsby constant watching and balancings
m the back of his wayward animal. It is the
,:ontrast of a cockney's and a country squire's
son when following the hounds. At the
present moment. ViCTORIA. occupies her
throne without a moment's care for its permanency,
while President PIERCE clutches the arms of his
Presidential chair with the nervousness of a fall-
:ng man. The grand-daughter of GEORGE 111.
sees the struggles of party below her with perfect
equanimity, so far as her own position and that
of her family are concerned ; the successor of
WASHINGTON watches the movements of Know-No-
things, Barnburners, Llcofocos, and Fillibusters ;
pf Slaveholders and of Abolitionists ; of Caucuses
Ind. Conventions and Mass-meetings, and trembles
or hopes over his daily stocktaking for the next
Presidential Election.
And what the harm of this ? some of our
lowever,Xlncerican fiends will say. In the eyes of others,
mischief is apparent enough. On
hundreds, perhaps thousands, of Englishmen, who
were Republicans in their youth, and who pointed
to America as the
example for the world, that
axample now produces tll3
opposite effect. The
old Tory prediction of the danger of putting up
great nation to political
the first place in a
motion soems to have obtainei its con
vincing fulfilment in President PIERCE.
ft remains, perhaps, to try the experi-
ment of lengthening the term of presidential
office, or of declaring the PRESIDENT ineligible for
re-election till after a term of years ; but the in-
tolerable nuisance of a candidate President is
become apparent to the ciri lised world. A can-
didate out of office can at the worst but make
lishonest promises, but a candidate at the very
head of the Government, in many things the
autocrat of the hour, can work all kinds of mis-
chief at home and abroad, if it will but serve his

What a future might reasonably be anticipated
for this country if the importance of our vast
colonial possessions were more generally recog-
nised ! The mind labours with the conception,
but is reluctant to dovelope it in words, lest they
should pass for exaggeration. Only let the reader
imagine, for instance, what advantages might be
derived from our Australian colonies, rich in
mines, and richer in those more reliable resources
which go to the making of a prosperous nation.
Australia, now under adverse circumstances, is
our second-best, and bids fair before long to be-
come our best, customer. What would it become
if, instead of neglecting the interests and thwart-
ing the wishes of these our colonial brethren, we
took them kindly by the hand and aided them
(it is but little help they ask) in their praise-
worthy endeavours to help themselves —in
a word, if we did our duty by them ? A
great and prosperous people possibly before
long a mighty independent nation not, as
if matters go on, they are even sooner likely
to become, nursing at their hearts the memory of
past wrongs, and charged with latent hostilitytowards
us, but full of kindly respect for the old country
and indissolubly united to it by the strongest
bonds of mutual interest. One wonders at the
infatuation that prevents both Government and
people from seeing this.
Po3tc.rity will read with wonder the story of the
treatment Australia has experienced, from the
commencement of the late war up to the present
time, in relation to the means of rapid communi-
cation with the mother country. Prior to this
period there was an indifferent steam communica-
tion, but, strange to tell, no sooner had the war
broken out than that communication, poor as it
was, was put a stop to. The vessels were wanted
for the war ! There is a volume of reproach in
the excuse. The Australians go so far, however,
as to Say that the war was only a pretext,.and
that if the steam companies had made a better
bargaiß the case would have been different. This
much is notorious : at the very time the commu-
nication in question was broken off on so miserable
a pretext, a bimonthly steam communication with
Citina(!)was decided on; our exports to China, with
its 300,000,000 of plpulation, being then just
1.16 th of thoseto Australia with its 700,000 people.
Of course our Australian brethren Were indignant.

THE SUN; LONDON; THURSDAY EVENING; JUNE 5, 1856.

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The Queer., attended by .Laciy Macdonald and Major-
General Bouveric, visited her Royal Highness the
Duchess of Gloucester, yesterday, at Gloucester House.
Her Majesty afterwards took a drive in an open landau
and four, with the Prince of Wales and the Princess
Royal, attended by the Hon. Mary Bulteel.
Their Royal Highnesses Prince Albert, the Regent
of Baden, and Prince Frederick William of Prussia,
went yesterday morning to the Oxford University. In
attendance were Lieutenant-General Baron do Schreck-
enstein, Baron do Moltke, Colonel Baron Scatter, Col.
the Hon. C. B. Phipps, Baron de Geinmingto, Captain
the Hon. D. de Ros, Captain Heinz, I.,eutonant de
Schreckenstein, Dr. Ullman, and Dr. Wegner.
The royal party left Buckingham Palace, soon after
eight o'clock, in three carriages and four, for the termi-
nus of the Great Western Railway at Paddington, and
travelled by a special train to Oxford.
The Royal party returned to Buckingham Palace at a
quarter past seven o'clock.
The Prince of Wales rode on horseback in the fore- ,
noon, and Prince Ai thnr, with the Princesses Helena
and Louisa, took a drive in an open carriage and four.
Her Majesty had a dinner party in the evening. The
company included their Royal Highnesses the Duchess
of Kent, the Princess Royal, the Regent of Baden, and
Prince Frederick William of Prussia ; the. Prussian
Minister and Countess Bernstcff, the Earl and Countess
of Westmoreland, the Earl of Aberdeen, the Earl and
Countess of Clarendon, Lady Anna Maria Dawson,
Baroness de Speth, Lord and Lady Wodehouse, the
R:ght Hon. Sir George and Lady Grey, Colonel Steele
(Coldstream Guards), Lieutenant-General Baron de
Schreckenstein, Baron Moltke, Colonel Baron Scutter,
Baron de Gemmingen, Captain Heinz, Lieutenant de
I Schreckenstein, Dr. Ullman, and Dr. Wegner.
The band of the Scots Fusilier Guards was in attend•
ance and played during dinner.
Her Majesty's private band afterwards attended in the
Palace, and performed the following compositions :
Overture, " Pastorale"
Andantino and Scherzo
Coro, " La Traviata" Verdi.
March Spohr.

belief nothing. Government, we suppose,
mean to follow the old plan, and wait till there is
imminent danger of the Australian colonies taking
more than they askdd for.
The blame, however, does not rest wholly with
Government. The people are to blame, if by
suffering their servants to be masters, their work
is ill done—and so long as the people are apa-
thetic, and do not bestir themselves, so long will
the colonies be neglected. Believing this, we are
happy to perceive another symptom of interest in
the subject of steam communication with Aus-
tralia, in the promised adjourned meeting, to hear
the explanations of Commodore MERITON, as to his
proposed route from Biackwall to Port Philip. This
gallant officer lays claim to the honour of being
the founder of the colony of South Australia, has
been upwards of 50 years connected with the
maritime service, and is reputed to be well versed
in the various characteristics of an Australian
route. His scheme may therefore fairly be expected
to be deserving, at least, of an attentive hearing
and of thoughtful consideration. With its precise
nature we are unacquainted. According to his
statement, however, it involves a large saving of
time. Instead of the 60 or 80 days occupied in
the suspended postal service, and the 80 to 90
days required by the L)ndou and Liverpool ships,
he proposes to accomplish on an average of 48 days,
the distance being reduced by his route to 11,864
miles. Six steamers would be required to keep
up a regular monthly mail, and the cost of these be
mnput es at 150,0001., witha probable net profit of
5,0001. or 6,0001. for each steamer, making three
voyages annually. On the relative metits of his
scheme we cannot, of course, be expected to ex -
press an opinion. Our only object in calling
attention to it is to insure a full meeting,
to which one so well qualified to speak may offer
his explanations—satisfied that the more the sub•
ject is mooted, the mare likely will become a speedy
determination on the part of Government.

The Committee of the Lords of the Privy Council,
which sat on Tuesday respecting the Oxford Statutes,
had a meeting, yesterday, in the Council Chamber,
Whitehall. Present—the Lord President, Sir George
Grey, the Right Hon. T. Pemberton Leigh, the Right
Hon. Spencer Walpole, the Right Hon. Dr. Lushington,
the Right Hon. M. T. Baines, and the Right Hon. Sir
James Graham.
A deputation, on the Coal Whippers' Bill, had an in-
terview with Lord Stanley of Alderley and the Right
Hon. R. Lowe, yesterday, at the office of the Board of
Trade. The deputation consisted of Lord Louvaine,
M.P., Mr. Liddell, M.P,, Mr. Ridley, M.P., Mr.
Beaumont, M.P., Mr. Foster, M P., Mr. Ingham, M.P.,
Mr. Fenwick, M.P., Sir James Duke, M.P., Mr. Mow-
bray, M.P., Mr. Headlam, M.P., Messrs. Peter Davey,
Thomas Williams, N. Wood, jun., George Smith, Ed-
mund Lucas, and William Mitnes.

Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent went to
Frogmore yesterday, attended by Lady Anna Maria
Dawson, Baroness de Speth, and Lord James Murray.
Her Royal Highness returned to her residence, Clarence
House, St. James's, in the afternoon.
The Marquis of Dalhousie is expected in town, to-day,
from Brighton.
Despatches for the Governors of the Australian colo-
nic: were sent, last evening, from the Colonial-office.
Viscount Cranley is suffering from severe indisposition
at Brighton.
Lord and Lady Greenock have arrived at Maurigy's
Hotel, from Wood End, near Tbirsk, Yorkshire.
Mrs. Barnett and Mre. Josceline have arrived at
Maurigy's Hotel from Kennett Hall, Newmarket.
The Viscountess Cumbermere received a very nume-
rous circle of the cope diploinatique and aristocracy at
the family mansion in Belgrave-sq care, last evening.
The names of Viscount and Viscountess Newport,
Hon. Colonel Forester, M.P., and Mrs Buckley and
Miss Georgiana Buckley, were by accident omitted in
the company at the French Embassy on Tuesday night.
Sir Frederick and Lady Hervey Bathurst and Miss
Hervey Bathurst have arrived at Maurigy's Hotel from
Clareedon Park, Wiltshire.
Tie Earl of Mount-Edgcnmbe arrived at the Queen's
Ho+el, Upper Norwood, on Monday evening, from Ply-
mond). His lerlship bas taken the south wing of the
hotel for one month. Viscount Valletort has also ar-

rived at the hotel.
A letter jest received from Galez states that the
Plenipotentiaries charged with the regularisation of the
frontier of Bessarabia have not only arrived in that town
but have already had too preliminary conferences.
OPPOSITION TO THE CITY CORPORATION BILL.—The
Recorder, on the motion for the second reading, to•
m irrow, of the City Corporation Bill, in the House of
Oen:along, will move that it be read that day six months.
Lord Careen, Lord-Lieutenant of the county of Wex-
ford, and a Knight of the Or:er of St. Patrick, died on
Monday last, at Castleboroueb, his seat in Wexford.
His lordship was born in March, 1787, and was first re 7
turned for Wexford in 1812, which county he repre-
sented in the House of Commons for upwards of 20
years. He is succeeded by his eldest son, the Hon.
Robert Shapland Carew, colonel of the Wexford Militia,
who was born in 1818.
DECEASE, OP LIEUT -COL. CAMERON. —We have to
announce the death of Lieut.-ail. William Gordon Ca-
meron, of Tea House, who expired on the 26th ult. He
was the eldest son of General Cameron, of the East India
Company's Service, and was born at Counar, on the
14th of June, 1790. Entering the array early in life,
he served in the Grenadier Guards during the latter
years of the Peninsular War, and was wounded at Be.
rossa. Colonel Cameron had the honour of being at-
tached to the staff of the Great Duke at Waterloo, and,
on that memorable day, lost his right arm, and received
other severe wounds, which incapacitated him Lorn
further active exertion in the military service of his
country.
We regret to announce the sudden demise of Mr.
Richard Gardner, M.P. for Leicester, which ine'ancholy
event took place at his residence in Eaton-square. Mr.
Gardner had for some little time been suffering from
what was supposed to be but a slight and passing india
position, and danger was not apprehended. Disease
of the heart proved, however, to be the malady under
which the hon. member suffered, and which ended fatally
yesterday morning. A vacancy in the representation
of Leicester is thus created. Mr. Gardner leaves a
young family by his wife, daughter of Count de Man-
delsloh, formerly Minister Plenipotentiary at this Court
from Wurtemburg. Mr. Gardner's sudden call is a
striking instance of the futility of human foresight and
arrangements, as we understand that so little was an
idea entertained of the lion. gentleman's trus state of
health that Mrs. Gar lner had issued cards for a con-
cert to take place tow arde the middle of the month.
LORD PALMERSTON.—Somo statements have recently
been made in the newspapers to the effect that Lord
Palmerston's health had suffered rather seriously from
the severe labour to which he had been recently sub-
jected. We are enabled, however, to state, on the best
authority, a fact which seems to prove that his lordship
has still, to use a common phrase, "some work in him."
On Wednesday week he rode on horseback from his official
residence in town to Epsom Downs, saw the races, and
rode back—a feat which not many men of 72 years of
age would he very willing to undertake.
A PASSENGER LINE OF BALLOONS —Wilson, the
aeronaut, proposes to the people of California to run a
line of balloons between San Francisco and St. Louis,
to depend on the great easterly current of the upper or
return trades for its propulsion. He says—" Thirty
miles an hour, without delay from station or break of
gauge—no fear of collision—and no possibility of running
off the track—will bring a balloon, in three days, from
the shores of the Sacramento to the foot of the Alle
ghanies, and land her freight and passengers, fresh and
healthy, almost at the very threshold of their homes.—
New York peeper.
LIVERPOOL CORPORATE ADDRESS TO THE QUEEN. —The
address prepared by a committee of the Liverpool cor-
poration, congratulating the Queen upon the restoration
of peace, was read yesterday at the meeting of the Li-
verpool Town Council. It particularly alludes to and
commends the agreement cerue to be all the leading na.
tions of Europe to abolish the practice of privateering in
all future wars. The document, together with a letter
from Sir G. Grey, intimating her Majesty's most graci-
ous reception of the address, was directed to be entered
upon the minutes of the Council proceedings,
EMIGRATION TO THE WESTERN CONTINENT.—Liver-
pooI, Wednesday.—The Canadian screw steam-ship
Anglo Saxon, Cept. M`Master, sailed from the Mersey
this forenoon, at 10.30, for Quebec and Montreal, with
the. Cauadlan mails, about 200 passengers, and a Lull
cargo of merchandise on freight. About the same hour
the iron screw steamer, City of Baltimore, Cept. Robt.
Leitch, took her departure-for Philadelphia, with a large
cargo of merchandise and 180 passengers on board. She
also carried a small mail.
LICENSED VICTUALLERS' SCHOOL ANNIVERSARY FES-
TIVAL.—We have much gratification in announcing that
a Deputation from the Governor and Committee of this
Institution, yesterday waited upon John Walker, Esq ,
of the eminent firm of Messrs. Taylor, Walker, and Co.,
of Limehouse, to request the favour of his presiding at
the ensuing Anniversary Festival, and that the result of
the interview was most satisfactory, Mr. Walker having
expressed his deep interest in the welfare of the Charity,
and having in the most handsome manner acceded to
the request of the Deputation. The dinner is appointed
to take place on Wednesday, the 15th of July next, at
Ashburnham Park Grounds, adjoining Creniorne Gar-
dens, Chelsea, in the recently erected Pavilion, which is
350 feet in length, and capable of accommodating up-
wards of 4,000 persons. The day's proceedings are ex-
pected to prove highly beneficial to the funds of the
School.—Morniny Advertiser.
CONFESSION OF A MunnEe.—Considerable sensation
was caused on Tuesday, in Plymouth, in consequence of
a rumour, which proved to be true, that a marine in the
military prison at Davenport had confessed to having
taken part in the murder of Mary White, of the village
of Milton, in the parish of Buckland Monachoram,
about four year; since, with the man Caber, who was
tried at the time, but acquitted for want of sufficient evi-
dence. The marine in question is named James Craze,
and has been confined in the military prison for several
weeks, having enlisted into the marines, and being re-
cognised, was apprehended as a deserter from the Royal
Artillery. He has appeared for some time to be labour-
ing under a depression of spirits, and on Tuesday morn.
ing he burst into tears, and confessed to the Governor
that be participate d with Caber i s the oammission of the
murder—Craze holding the woman, whilst Caber cut
her throat, Her money, amounting to about £5O, they
divided between them, and he Eyed upon his half of the
spoil for some time, and then enlisted in the Artillery,
The confession is believed to be true, and we understand
immediate steps will be taken with a view to a further
investigation of the matter.