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London, England, 1856-07-09 00:00:00

TWILSTif N _LON DON._ WEDNEYOAT EVENING.; JULY 9,111 UP

Napier, Mr. Whiteside, and Mr. Craufurdloi* part,
The house divided, when there appeared—
For going into committee
Against it
Majority for going into committee —s
Mr. VANCE then moved the adjournment of the
debate.
The house again divided, when there appeared—
For the adjournment - . 63
Against it . . 73
_ - - -Majority against it —lo

74
... 69

Mr.-WHITESID-E aPpealed tio Mr. Craufrud to per-
severe with the bill during the present session.
The LORD ADVOCATE hoped that hon. gentlemen
opposite would allow the bill to go into committee.
He thought the bill was a very useful one.
It was to permit English judgments to be en-
forced in Ireland and Scotland, and vice versa
with respect to the Scotch and Irish judgments.
Mr. FRENCH addressed the lioume until a quarter
to six, when the debate in conformity with the standing
orders was adjourned.
RAILWAYS' ACT (IRELAND)
_BILL.
This bill was read a vecond time.
CUSTOMS' BILL.
On the motion of Mr. WILSON, the order for the
second reading was discharged, and leave given to bring
in a new bill with an amended title.
The other orders were then disposed of, and the house
adjourned at six o'clock.

CRIMINAL COURT.—(This Day).

OLD COURT.
(Before Mr. Justice Coleridge.)
THE ATTEMPT TO WIEDER IN TUE HOUSE OF

CORRECTION.

John Wilson, 28, a sullen, determined-looking man,
was charged with the capital offence of cutting and
wounding William Middleton, with intent to murder
him.

In other counts the intent of the prisoner was laid to
do grievous bodily harm.
The prisoner, it will be remembered, was confined in
the House of Correction, Coldbath Fields, under a
sentence of this Court, and the prosecutor, who is
a warder in the prison, had him under his
charge. On the 21st of June, it appeared that the
prisoner complained to Middleton that he did not re-
ceive his full allowance of bread, and that he picked out
the smallest loaves for him. The prosecutor denied that
he bad done what the prisoner stated, and told him he
might see the governor, and he took the loaf from the
prisoner, weighed it, and locked it up. Oa the fallow-
ing morning tho prisoner was taken before the governor
of the prison, and he there stated that the officers of the
prison had an antipathy to him, and repeated his com-
plaint about the bread. The governor said he considered
the prisoner's complaint was a frivolous one and to punish
him for making it he was ordered to be deprived of a
portion of his dinner. The prisoner was then taken back
to the dormitory, which it was his duty! it appeared to
assist in cleaning, and he was locked in for nearly two
hours. When Middleton returned, and upon his un-
locking the door, the prisoner rushed at him and stabbed
him on the forehead, and also cut him on the hand with
a knife, which it appeared he had obtained possession of
by breaking open a box belonging to one of the warders
that was in the dormitory. It was proved that this
knife, which was an ordinary round-pointed dinner
knife, had been sharpened to a point, and a
quantity of tow bad been tied round the handle,
in order to afford a firmer grasp to the hand. The pro-
secutor succeeded in getting away from the prisoner
after he had made the attack upon him, and locked him
in the cell ; and upon the chief warder going there shortly
afterwards the prisoner quietly gave himself up, and
handed over the kniife with which the injury bad been
inflicted, at the same time observing that the prosecutor
was a very lucky fellow.

The prisoner, when called upon for his defence, said
that Middleton had caused him to be punished without
any cause, and he intended to retaliate upon him, but
not to take his life.

The learned judge having summed up, the jury found
the prisoner guilty of cutting and wounding, with intent
to do grievous bodily harm.
Mr.. Bodkin informed the Court that the prisoner had
been three times convicted of burglary, and during his
imprisonment he had twice stabbed the turnkeys who
had him in charge.
The prisoner was sentenced to be transported for 20
years.

THE ROYAL VISIT TO ALDERSHOT.

ADDRESS OF HER MAJESTY TO THE
TROOPS.

Yesterday morning the whole of the Crimean regi-
ments in camp at Aldershot were under arms at an early,
hour, and marched direct to the review ground on Al-
dershot common, where the main body of all the troops
were drawn up in line, under the ridge of bills which
skirt this portion of the field. Immediately in front of
the line the officers of each regiment, with a certain
number of privates, selected fromamongst the oldest and
most gallant men -in each regiment, formed in square,
from the upper centre of which her Majesty addressed
them in the following terms :
" Officers, Non-commissioned Officers, and Soldiers,—
I wish personally to convey, through you, to the regi-
ments assembled here this day, my hearty welcome on
your return to England in health and full efficiency.
Say to them that I have watched anxiously over the
difficulties and hardships which they have so nobly
borne; that I have mourned with deep sorrow for the
brave men who have fallen for their country ; and that
I have felt proud of that valour which, with their gal-
lant allies, they have displayed on every field. I thank
God that your dangers are over, whilst the glory of
your deeds remains. But I know that, should your
services be again required, you will be animated with
the same devotion which in the Crimea has rendered
you invincible."

The Queen spoke from an open carriage. She was in
a riding habit, and wore a round hat.
Prince Albert, the King of the Belgians, the Prince
of Wales, Prince Oscar, the Duke of Cambridge, and
Lord Panmure were on horseback by the royal carriage.
Her Majesty spoke with a clearness of enunciation
which rendered her words distinctly audible throughout
the whole square. At the close of her address the Queen
bowed graciously to the several corps, and at the call of
General Knollys the officers and men acknowledged the
distinguished compliment paid to them by three rounds
of hearty cheers.

ATTACK ON THE LIBERTY OF. THE
PRESS IN HO, STEIN.

KIEL, July 4.—The state of affairs in the duchies is
beginning to assume a very threatening appearance, for
the breach between the Danish Government and the
German population is widening every day. It was in
consequence of the generally expressed wish of the in-
habitants of Holstein for a revision of "the joint consti-
tution for the whole monarchy," that Baron von Scheel-
Plessen brought forward in the Reichsrath at Copen-
hagen his motion on the subject, which brought down
on him his summary dismissal from the important post
be held, as civil governor (Oberpresident) of Altona, in
which he is succeeded by Herr von Thaden, hitherto
the Burgermeister of that city.
It being a matter of great importance that the facts
of the case, and his own con.luct in the affair, should
he generally known, in order to be appreciated, the
Baron had the debates in the Diet on the question re-
printed from the official Danish "Hansard," and pub-
lished in the form of a pamphlet by the bookseller
Schewers, of this town, and I may add that the Baron
purposely abstained from expressing his own opinions
on the subject, but confined himself to writing a short
introduction containing nothing but the historical
facts and dates to enable his readers to draw their
own inference. This pamphlet is entitled, " Report
of the Debates in the Reichsrath on the Motion of the
Civil Governor of Altona, Baron von Scheel-Plessen, fur
a Revision of the Constitution for the whole Danish
Monarchy ;" but scarcely was it published before orders
were sent from Copenhagen to the police here to seize
and confiscate all the copies that could be found in circu-
lation.

It is scarcely necessary to state that this act has pro-
duced a most painful impression throughout the duchy,
and may lead to the most important results. The indig-
nation of the Holsteiners hai received fresh fuel from
this gratuitous attack on their privileges and breach of
theirconstitutional rights, which, if persisted in, threatens
to break out into open hostilities at no distant period.

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Thomas Rolt, son of Mr. Rolt, M.P. for Greenwich.
Mr. W. S. Lindsay has organised n. new monthly line
of auxiliary screw•steamers to the Cape of Good Hope
and Calcutta. Three new vessels, the England, Scot-
land, and Ireland, have been built for the purpoie, with
all the modern improvements, and these with two others
will constitute the fleet. They will be of 1,150 tons,
and 150-horse power, and a calculation is given that
they will reach the Cape in 35 days, and Calcutta in 70
to 75. The England, the first of the line, is to sail on
the Ist of August, calling at Dartmouth o.i the sth.
TYE BOAT ACCIDENT AT NEWCASTIE-ON-TYNE.
The bodies of seven of the unfortunate persons drowned
by the upsetting of a sailing boat upon the Tyne, near
Newcastle, on Sunday night, have beeii recovered ; five
of them were removed to the dead.house, the other two
were taken to their homes. Tte ac,!ident appears to
have been caused by those having cb.arge of the boat
allowing too many persons to get int() IL The boat had
been with her gunwale nearly level in the water, and as
soon as the women rose to their feet, when the swell of
the steamer came into her, she bad up set. The screams
and cries of the nnfertunate people, drowning in the
water had been fearful in the extreme, and great credit
is given to the old scullerman, William Cooper, who
succeeded in bringing five persons ashore, for he ap-
pears to have been the only person in the craft upon the
river who attempted to save the unfortunate people
from perishing.